• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.305-312
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• 2011

A primary interest of this work is to develop an efficient and powerful repetitive pulser system for the application of ultra wide band generation. The important component of the pulser system is a small-sized coaxial type spark gap with planar electrodes filled with SF6 gas. A repetitive switching action by the coaxial spark gap generates two consecutive pulses in less than a microsecond with rise times of a few hundred picoseconds (ps). A set of several parameters for the repetitive switching of the spark gap is required to be optimized in charging and discharging systems of the pulser. The parameters in the charging system include a circuit scheme, circuit elements, the applied voltage and current ratings from power supplies. The parameters in the discharging system include the spark gap geometry, electrode gap distance, gas type, gas pressure and the load. The characteristics of the spark gap discharge, such as breakdown voltage, output current pulse and recovery rate are too dynamic to control by switching continuously at a high pulse repetition rate (PRR). This leads to a low charging efficiency of the spark gap system. The breakthrough of the low charging efficiency is achieved by a parallel operation of two spark gaps system. The operational behavior of the two spark gaps system is presented in this paper. The work has focused on improvement of the charging efficiency by scaling the PRR of each spark gap in the two spark gaps system.

• Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.1031-1036
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• 2003

To certify the protective effect of herbal medicine against oxygen free radical-induced myocardiotoxicity, cytotoxicity was measured using TBARS assay and Beating rate in the presence of Tongryeong-san(TRS) extracts or single constituents of this prescription. Myocardial toxicity was evaluated in neonatal rat myocardiocytes in cultures. In the present study, xanthine oxidase/hypoxanthine (XO/HX) resulted in a increase in lipid peroxidation and decreases in beating rate in cultured myocardial cells. In the effect of TRS extract, it showed the prevention from the XO/HX-induced cardiotoxicity by the increases of beating rate as well as the decrease of lipid peroxidation, In the protective effect of Faeces Trogopterori(FT), Pollen Typhae(PT), Caulis Akebiae(CA) and Radix Paeoniae Rubra(PRR), all the extracts were significantly effective in the protection of XO/HX-induced cardiotoxocity in cultured myocardial cells by the increase of beating rate as well as th decrease of lipid peroxidation. From these results, they show that XO/HX is cardiotoxic in cultured myocardial cells derived from neonatal rat, and it suggests that TRS, FT, PT, CA and PRR extracts are positively effective in the blocking in XO/HX-induced cardiotoxicity.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.1229-1242
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• 2017

In this paper, an interference aware distributed multi-channel MAC (IDMMAC) protocol is proposed for wireless sensor and actor networks (WSANs). The WSAN consists of a huge number of sensors and ample amount of actors. Hence, in the IDMMAC protocol a lightweight channel selection mechanism is proposed to enhance the sensor's lifetime. The IDMMAC protocol divides the beacon interval into two phases (i.e., the ad-hoc traffic indication message (ATIM) window phase and data transmission phase). When a sensor wants to transmit event information to the actor, it negotiates the maximum packet reception ratio (PRR) and the capacity channel in the ATIM window with its 1-hop sensors. The channel negotiation takes place via a control channel. To improve the packet delivery ratio of the IDMMAC protocol, each actor selects a backup cluster head (BCH) from its cluster members. The BCH is elected based on its residual energy and node degree. The BCH selection phase takes place whenever an actor wants to perform actions in the event area or it leaves the cluster to help a neighbor actor. Furthermore, an interference and throughput aware multi-channel MAC protocol is also proposed for actor-actor coordination. An actor selects a minimum interference and maximum throughput channel among the available channels to communicate with the destination actor. The performance of the proposed IDMMAC protocol is analyzed using standard network parameters, such as packet delivery ratio, end-to-end delay, and energy dissipation, in the network. The obtained simulation results indicate that the IDMMAC protocol performs well compared to the existing MAC protocols.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.109-112
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• 2006

최근 대용량 추천시스템에 대한 필요성이 증가하고 있고, 특히 대규모 인터넷 쇼핑몰을 위한 개인화 추천 시스템 구조에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 k-means 클러스터링과 순차 패턴 기법을 이용한 인터넷 쇼핑몰 상품 추천 시스템을 설계 및 구현한다. 사용자 정보의 일괄처리와 카테고리의 계층적 특성을 반영하면서 데이터 마이닝 기법을 활용하여 개인화된 추천 엔진을 대형 시스템에서 동작하도록 설계 하였다. 설계 구현한 시스템의 평가를 위해, 대형 쇼핑몰의 데이터를 이용하여 추천 예측 정확율(PRP: Predictive Recommend Precision), 추천 예측 재현율(PRR: Predictive Recommend Recall), 정확도 인수(PF1 : Predictive Factor One-measure)를 구하였다.

• Mycobiology
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2020

Pentraxin 3 (PTX3) is a soluble pattern recognition receptor (PRR), which is produced by several kinds of cells, such as neutrophils, dendritic cells, macrophages, and epithelial cells. PTX3 is known to play an important protective effect against Aspergillus. Genetic linkage in gene-targeted mice and human PTX3 plays a non-redundant role in the immune protection against specific pathogens, especially Aspergillus. Recent studies have shown that the polymorphism of PTX3 is associated with increased susceptibility to invasive aspergillosis (IA). In this review, we provide an overview of these studies that underline the potential of PTX3 in diagnosis and therapy of IA.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.29 no.12
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• pp.1873-1881
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• 2019

The innate immune response serves as a first-line-of-defense mechanism for a host against viral infection. Viruses must therefore subvert this anti-viral response in order to establish an efficient life cycle. In line with this fact, Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) encodes numerous genes that function as immunomodulatory proteins to antagonize the host immune system. One such mechanism through which KSHV evades the host immunity is by encoding a viral homolog of cellular interferon (IFN) regulatory factors (IRFs), known as vIRFs. Herein, we summarize recent advances in the study of the immunomodulatory strategies of KSHV vIRFs and their effects on KSHV-associated pathogenesis.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.52 no.6
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• pp.365-371
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• 2003

Input queued switch is useful for high bandwidth switches and routers because of lower complexity and fewer circuits than output queued. The input queued switch, however, suffers the HOL-Blocking, which limits its throughput to 58%. To overcome HOL-Blocking problem, many input-queued switch controlled by a scheduling algorithm. Most scheduling algorithms are implemented based on a centralized scheduler which restrict the design of the switch architecture. In this paper, we propose a simple scheduler called Pipelined Round Robin (PRR) which is intrinsically distributed by each input port. We presents to show the effectiveness of the proposed scheduler.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Quality Management Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.3-5
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 국방 분야의 생산준비검토(PRR) 체계 개발 사례를 소개한다. 생산준비검토는 생산 단계 시작 전에 개발 결과물이 생산 가능한 수준이 되었는지를 평가하는 단계를 의미한다. 생산준비검토를 통해 개발문제로 인한 생산단계의 품질문제를 사전에 예방할 수 있고, 이를 통해 효과적인 품질개선이 가능하다. 본 연구에서는 생산준비검토의 필요성에 대해 살펴보고, 생산준비검토를 위한 체계를 개발하였다. 이를 위해 생산준비검토를 위한 점검항목을 개발하고, 이를 활용하여 생산준비성을 평가할 수 있는 정보체계를 개발함으로써 효율적인 운영이 가능하도록 하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.38 no.12
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• pp.58-66
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• 2001

Input queueing is useful for high bandwidth switches and routers because of lower complexity and fewer circuits than output queueing. The input queueing switch, however, suffers HOL-Blocking, which limits the throughput to 58%. To get around this low throughput, many input queueing switches have centralized scheduler, which centralized scheduler restrict the design of the switch architecture. To overcome this problem, we propose a simple scheduler called PRR(Pipelined Round Robin), which is intrinsically distributed and presents to show the effectiveness of the proposed scheduling.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.612-619
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• 2011

This paper presents a water treatment system for leachate from sewage-filled ground that uses a pulsed-power modulator developed based on semiconductor switches in order to realize a long life, a high repetition rate, and a fast rising time. The specifications of the developed pulsed-power modulator are the pulsed output voltage, the output current, the pulse repetition rate (PRR), the pulse width, and an average output power of $60\;kV_{max}$, $300\;A_{max}$, 3000, $50\;{\mu}s$, and 15 kW, respectively. The pulsed-power water treatment system was introduced and analyzed using an equivalent electrical circuit model to optimize the output voltage waveform. The experimental results verify that the proposed water treatment system can be effectively used for industrial applications.