• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.1149-1154
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• 2010

Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry using isotope dilution method has been established as a primary method for the measurement of cortisol in human serum. Verification of this method was accomplished by the participation in Consultative Committee for Amount of Substance-Metrology in Chemistry (CCQM) pilot study. Two levels of cortisol certified reference materials were prepared and certified by the established method. They were used as sample materials for the proficiency testing. The expanded uncertainty in the measurement of cortisol in human serum was approximately 1.2% at 95% confidence level. The results of the proficiency testing showed a good precision among the participants, but some bias to the certified values. This means that commercial field laboratories should keep traceability chain to SI unit through available reference measurement procedures and/or available reference materials.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.47-58
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• 2013

Objective: The aim of this study is to review the job stress measurement for applying in nuclear power plants(NPPs). Background: The standard and guideline to evaluate and manage the job stress is insufficient in NPPs. Although job stress might have a negative effect on task performance particularly it can be related with human error in NPPs. Method/Results: This paper considered the objective and subjective stress measurements. One of the questionnaire(Korean Occupational Stress Scale) and the experiment method was investigated to apply in NPPs. KOSS was analyzed about the inter item consistency and correlation with the workload, and relative importance. In the objective evaluation considered the experiment method for the physical and mental job stress and analyzed from the phased point of view. Conclusion/Application: The measurement and criteria to evaluate job stress for operators must be complemented on the job characters and environments in NPPs. This study may support to confirm and manage the job stress in NPPs. The study of more specific methodology on job stress in NPPs is required on the basis of this paper.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.184-192
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• 2016

Recently, studies on reducing mercury have been actively conducted worldwide, which include the current status of mercury emissions and mercury control technology. Among the control technology, Sorbent Trap measurement method has been aggressively developed due to its reliability, easiness in measurement and analysis. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the applicability of the new international measurement method; Sorbent Trap. For this, the study compared the Sorbent trap method (US EPA Method 30B) and the Korean Standard Method for Examination of Air (ES 01408.1) to evaluate their reliability, and developed mercury emission factors. As the result, the relative standard deviations (% RSD) of the two methods were 3.5~13.4% at Coal-fired Power Plants (CPP), 4.0~18.4% at Cement Kilns (CK), and 3.0~11.3% at Medical Waste Incinerators (MWI). The emissions factors were developed as 14.50 kg/ton at CPP, 45.10 kg/ton at CK, and 1,290.2 kg/ton at MWI.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.497-500
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• 2004

In this paper, we present a novel idea to integrate a low cost inertial measurement unit (IMU) and Global Positioning System (GPS) for land vehicle localization. By taking advantage of positioning data calculated from an image based on photogrammetry and stereo-vision techniques, errors caused by a GPS outage for land vehicle localization were significantly reduced in the proposed bimodal approach. More specifically, positioning data from the photogrammetric approach are fed back into the Kalman filter to reduce and compensate for IMU errors and improve the performance. Experimental results are presented to show the robustness of the proposed method, which can be used to reduce positioning errors caused by a low cost IMU when a GPS signal is not available in urban areas.

• 복식
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• 제55권5호
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• pp.55-64
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• 2005

The concern with three-dimensional measurement has been growing in recent years. And over the last few years, several studies have been made on three-dimensional measurement. Some of the studies using a three-dimensional measurement have focused on type of form of human body and evaluation of fitness. But there has been no study about applications of three-dimensional measurement system for shape analysis. So, the purpose of this study was to investigate about application of three-dimensional mea-surement system lot shape analysis. The instrument and tools for three-dimensional measurement was Whole Body 3D scanner(model name: Exyma-WBS2H). Analysis program used in experiment is Rapid Form 2004 PPI (INUS technology, Int, Korea). The following results were obtained; 1. The point data using three-dimensional measurement system built 3D model. 2. The three-dimensional data were used to analyze length and curvature of shape. 3. The shape using three-dimensional measurement system could be used in variety field.

• Applied Microscopy
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.315-323
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• 2001

Kaolinite분말 시료를 이용한 TEM 직접 가열 실험에서 얻은 결론은 아래와 같다. (1) Gatan사의 가열 시료지지대에서 사용하고 있는 증류수 순환장치는 $500^{\circ}C$이상의 가열 실험에서 시료의 유동을 막는 필수적인 장비이다. (2) $600^{\circ}C$이하의 가열 실험에서는 분말의 두께에 따른 상전이 진행정도의 차이가 나타나기 때문에 앙은 시편과 두꺼운 시편을 고루 관찰하는 노력이 필요하다. (3) $900^{\circ}C$ 이상의 고온 가열 실험에서는 융점이 높은 Mo-grid의 사용이 필수적이다. 전체적으로 온도 상승률이나 온도 지속 시간이 상전이 과정에 미치는 영향이 증가하기 때문에 이들의 정량적인 제어가 가능한 자동제어방식의 사용이 필요하다. (4) 단면 관찰을 위해 고온용 epoxy에 포매된 kaolinite분말의 TEM가열 실험은 고온 가열시 epoxy의 유동 문제를 극복할 새로운 방법의 개발이 필요하다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.138-142
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• 2016

A pulse measurement by tonometry provides useful information for diagnosis, including not only blood pressure and heart rate but also parameters for estimating a condition of the cardiovascular system. Currently, various pulse measurement devices based on the tonometry have been developed. A reliability of these devices is determined by a positioning technic between the sensor and the blood vessel and a controlling technique of the pressurization level. An angle of the sensor for the pulse measurement seems to be highly related with a measured signal, however, the objective studies for this issue have been not published. In this paper, the variation of the pulse signals by tonometry direction was experimentally assessed according to the angle of the sensor. In order for guaranteeing the repeatability of the experiment, we used a pulse generator device, which can generate human pulse signal by using silicon tube and fluid pump, and developed a structure for precise adjustment of the angle and the pressurization level of the sensor. The angle of the sensor was acquired by an inclinometer, which was attached at the opposite side of the sensor. As results, a coefficient of variation (CV) of a maximum amplitude (MA) of the pulse wave was largely increased over the angle range of $-9{\sim}9^{\circ}$. Furthermore, the changes of the pulse shape showed different aspects according to the sign of the angle tilted along the blood vessel. It is expected that the results of this study can be helpful for developing more precise pulse measurement devices based on the tonometry and applying in clinic.

• Korean Journal of Acupuncture
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.226-233
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• 2018

Objectives : The purpose of this study was to establish an accurate and effective method of locating acupoints of the forearm by studying bone proportional measurement. Methods : A total of 60 volunteers, 30 men and 30 women, participated in this study. 7 parts of the body were measured by a soft ruler or digital vernier calipers. The cun of the upper limb was calculated and analyzed. And the results were compared with the standard cun. Results : The bone proportional cun of the forearm based on height and femur was close to 11. It was different from the standard 12.5, 12 or 10. The cun of the forearm by thumb or finger width measurement was different from the standard too. Conclusions : We suggest that locating acupoints of the forearm needs to be done based on 11 cun. The confusion on locating acupoints of the forearm will be reduced by reflecting the result of the actual measurement.

• 센서학회지
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.447-454
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• 2023

The Korea Laboratory Accreditation Scheme (KOLAS) operates accreditation programs for ensuring measurement traceability with the International System (SI) of Units - the highest calibration standard that measurements can be tested against. As of September 2023, there are 70 KOLAS-accredited laboratories in the Republic of Korea that specialize in humidity calibration. Among them, 32 KOLAS laboratories, along with one laboratory not affiliated with KOLAS, participated in the proficiency test (PM 2023-11) for relative humidity transducers in 2023. This proficiency test was conducted within a relative humidity range of 20-90% at a temperature of approximately 20 ℃, taking into consideration the calibration and measurement capability (CMC) of the participating laboratories. The primary objective of the proficiency test was to establish the measurement equivalence between each participating laboratory and the reference laboratory, by calculating the number of equivalence (En). When |En| was less than 1, the measurements from the participating and reference laboratory were equivalent. Out of the 33 participating laboratories, 32 successfully met this criterion and passed the proficiency test.

• 한국해양환경ㆍ에너지학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.216-222
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• 2015

기존의 자동음파전달속도 측정시스템을 이용하여 해양퇴적물의 음향특성을 측정하는 경우 최초도달신호시간의 결정에 발생하는 오류와 측정 절차의 번거로움 등의 몇 가지 문제점들이 존재한다. 이러한 문제점을 개선하기 위하여 PXI모듈을 이용한 LabVIEW기반의 측정 시스템을 개발하였다. 새로운 측정시스템을 검증하기 위해 동일한 시료와 실험환경에서 기존 시스템과 병행하여 측정하였다. 그 결과 1~2%의 음파전달속도 측정오차를 보였으며 음파감쇠 역시 기존 시스템과 유사한 결과 값을 도출하였다. 새로이 개발된 PXI(PCI eXtentions for Instrumentation)를 이용한 LabVIEW 기반 음향특성 측정시스템은 퇴적물의 음향특성을 보다 신속하고 효율적으로 측정할 수 있고 측정 자료뿐만 아니라 분석된 신호의 원시자료에 대해서도 지속적인 데이터베이스를 구축할 수 있다.