• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.95-99
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• 1997

Irreparable obstructive azoospermic patients can be treated successfully with microsurgical epididymal sperm aspiration(MESA) or testicular sperm extraction (TESE) by intracytoplasmic sperm injection(ICSI). Obstructive azoospermic patients generally have normal spermatogenesis. The aim of this study was to see if any spermatozoa could be retrieved from non-obstructive azoospermia and to assess the efficacy of ICSI with TESE in germinal failure. 42 non-obstructive azoospermic patients revealed no spermatozoa at all in their ejaculates, even after centrifuge. The histology of 42 patients revealed 15 Sertoli cell only Syndrome, 4 maturation arrest and 23 severe hypospermatogenesis. All patients underwent extensive multiple testicular biopsy for sperm retrieval. These patients were scheduled for ICSI using testicular spermatozoa. In 25 out of 42 non-obstructive azoospermic patients, spermatozoa were recovered from multiple testicular biopsy specimen and 11 ongoing pregnancies were achieved. There are usually some tiny foci of spermatogenesis which allow TESE with ICSI in non-obstructive azoospermia. Also these patients may have sufficient sperm in the testes for ICSI, despite extremely high FSH level and small testes.

• 한국축산식품학회지
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.628-635
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• 2020

The objective of this study was to detect three non-halal meat products consisted of dog, pork, and rat species in meatball using novel multiplex-PCR with 12S rRNA gene as target sites. A total of 33 self-made meatballs were used, and they were grouped into eleven types of meatball based on meat species origin contained in the meatballs. Each type consisted of three meatballs. Extraction of genomic DNA from the meatballs was used as a DNA template for simplex-, duplex-, and multiplex-PCR processes. The result of simplex-PCR, duplex-PCR, and multiplex-PCR showed that the 12S rRNA primer gene successfully amplified DNA for each species bovine, dog, pig, and rat, which are respectively indicated by 155, 244, 357, and 491 bp of DNA bands. In addition, multiplex-PCR with 12S rRNA gene primers can be uniquely and accurately used for detection bovine, dog, pig, and rat species on beef meatball in one reaction.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.106-113
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 구형 도파관의 협벽에 이중 슬롯을 가진 비공진형 슬롯 도파관 안테나를 설계하였다. 설계된 협벽 슬롯 도파관 안테나는 슬롯의 기울임 각도에 의해 복사되는 에너지가 결정되기 때문에, 요구되는 부엽 크기를 만족시키는 복사에너지의 크기 분포가 나오도록 각 슬롯의 기울임 각도를 조정하였다. 기울임 각도의 조정은 기존의 슬롯 도파관 안테나의 설계에서 주로 사용되는 슬롯 컨덕턴스 추출 방법이 아닌, 개개의 슬롯 개구면 필드를 푸리에 변환하여 원전계 복사 패턴을 계산하고, 원전계 복사 패턴으로부터 최대 크기의 분포를 산출하는 방법을 사용하였다. 제안된 방법으로 비공진형 이중 슬롯 도파관 안테나를 설계하고, 실제 제작하여 안테나 성능을 측정, 비교하였다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.17-37
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• 2014

In this study, four widely accepted and used variants of Evolution Strategies (ES) are adapted and applied to the output-error state-space identification problem. The selection of ES is justified by prior strong indication of superior performance to similar problems, over alternatives like Genetic Algorithms (GA) or Evolutionary Programming (EP). The ES variants that are being tested are (i) the (1+1)-ES, (ii) the $({\mu}/{\rho}+{\lambda})-{\sigma}$-SA-ES, (iii) the $({\mu}_I,{\lambda})-{\sigma}$-SA-ES, and (iv) the (${\mu}_w,{\lambda}$)-CMA-ES. The study is based on a six-degree-of-freedom (DOF) structural model of a shear building that is characterized by light damping (up to 5%). The envisaged analysis is taking place through Monte Carlo experiments under two different excitation types (stationary / non-stationary) and the applied ES are assessed in terms of (i) accurate modal parameters extraction, (ii) statistical consistency, (iii) performance under noise-corrupted data, and (iv) performance under non-stationary data. The results of this suggest that ES are indeed competitive alternatives in the non-linear state-space estimation problem and deserve further attention.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제31권10호
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• pp.1412-1417
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• 2004

전체관적인 표현방법인 희소 코딩 또는 독릴 성분 분해(ICA)는 이전의 청각의 처리와 소리 분류의 작업을 해명하는데 성공적으로 적용되었다. 반대로 부분 기반 표현법은 뇌에서 물체를 인식하는 방법을 이해하는 또 다른 방법이다. 이 논문에서, 우리는 소리 분류의 작업에 부분기반 표현법을 학습시키는 비음수화 행렬 분해(NMF)(1) 방법을 적용하였다. 잡음이 존재할 때와 존재하지 않을 때 두 가지 상황에서, NMF를 이용하여 주파수-시간영역의 소리로부터 특징을 추출하는 방법을 설명한다. 실험결과에서는 NMF에 기반을 둔 특징이 ICA에 기반을 두어 추출한 특징보다 소리 분류의 성능을 향상시킴을 보여준다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.255-261
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• 2005

화자들 사이의 워핑특성을 알아보기 위해 비정형 워핑함수를 도출하는 실험을 수행하였다. 이를 위해 모음의 MFCC와 LP 스펙트럼을 이용하여 화자별, 음소별 대표 스펙트럼을 선정한 다음 음소별 기준 스펙트럼을 선택하였다. 기준 스펙트럼과 대표 스펙트럼을 스펙트럼의 전체대역에서 DTW로 비교하여 화자별 워핑함수를 구한 다음, 이들을 clustering함으로써 비정형 워핑함수의 집합을 도출하였다. 이 함수집합에서 남성화자와 여성화자의 함수들이 각각 구간선형함수와 파워함수와 유사함을 관찰할 수 있었으며, 이를 근거로 이 함수들을 조합한 하이브리드 워핑함수집합을 정의하였다. 음소단위의 인식 실험을 통하여 새로 정의된 함수들의 인식률을 시험하였으며 두 함수집합 모두에서 개선된 인식률을 얻을 수 있었다.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제55권11호
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• pp.495-501
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• 2006

Diagnostics of unborn baby is mainly aimed at prediction and detection of occurrence of intrauterine hypoxia. Consequences resulting from fetal hypoxia appear in its heart activity. In this study, we have developed a new non-invasive system for fetal hypoxia diagnosis which provides systolic time interval(STI) parameters on the basis of analysis of electrical and mechanical heart activity together. For this we have worked on 1) the proper lead system for the acquisition of abdominal ECG, 2) the independent component analysis based signal processing and fetal ECG separation, 3) the development of a hardware which consists of an abdominal ECG amplifying module and an ultrasound module and 4) the detection of characteristic points of FECG and Doppler signal and the extraction of diagnostic parameters. The developed system was evaluated by the clinical experiments in which 33 subjects were participated. The acquired STI by the system were distributed within the ranges from the well-established invasive results of other researchers. From this, we can conclude that the developed non-invasive fetal hypoxia diagnosis system is useful.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.493-504
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• 2010

This study proposes a classification method based on an automated training extraction procedure that may be used with very high resolution (VHR) images of non-accessible areas. The proposed method overcomes the problem of scale difference between VHR images and geographic information system (GIS) data through filtering and use of a Landsat image. In order to automate maximum likelihood classification (MLC), GIS data were used as an input to the MLC of a Landsat image, and a binary edge and a normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) were used to increase the purity of the training samples. We identified the thresholds of an NDVI and binary edge appropriate to obtain pure samples of each class. The proposed method was then applied to QuickBird and SPOT-5 images. In order to validate the method, visual interpretation and quantitative assessment of the results were compared with products of a manual method. The results showed that the proposed method could classify VHR images and efficiently update GIS data.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제47권2호
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• pp.303-309
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• 2019

Earlier studies by our group revealed that gallic acid in phytochemicals stimulated biofilm production in epiphytes, while caffeic acid in phytochemicals inhibited biofilm production in non-epiphytes. It is well documented that antimicrobial secretion by some epiphytic bacteria inhibits non-epiphytic bacterial growth on leaf surfaces. These selection criteria help plants choose their microbial inhabitants. Calcium and iron in phytochemicals also stimulate biofilm formation and thus, may be selection criteria adopted by plants with respect to their native epiphytic population. Furthermore, the processing of leaves during phytochemical extraction impacts the composition of the extract, and therefore its ability to affect bacterial biofilm formation. Computation of the Hurst exponent using biofilm thickness data obtained from the Ellipsometry of Brewster Angle Microscopic (BAM) images is an efficient tool for understanding the impact of phytochemicals on epiphytic and non-epiphytic populations when compared to fluorescent microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and staining techniques. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report that uses the Hurst exponent to elucidate the mechanism involved in plant microbe interaction.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제77권3호
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• pp.355-368
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• 2021

The time-varying mean (TVM) component of non-stationary wind speeds is commonly extracted utilizing empirical mode decomposition (EMD) in practice, whereas the accuracy of the extracted TVM is difficult to be quantified. To deal with this problem, this paper proposes an approach to identify and extract the optimal TVM from several TVM results obtained by the EMD. It is suggested that the optimal TVM of a 10-min time history of wind speeds should meet both the following conditions: (1) the probability density function (PDF) of fluctuating wind component agrees well with the modified Gaussian function (MGF). At this stage, a coefficient p is newly defined as an evaluation index to quantify the correlation between PDF and MGF. The smaller the p is, the better the derived TVM is; (2) the number of local maxima of obtained optimal TVM within a 10-min time interval is less than 6. The proposed approach is validated by a numerical example, and it is also adopted to extract the optimal TVM from the field measurement records of wind speeds collected during a sandstorm event.