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A NEW METHOD FOR NORTH-SOUTH ASYMMETRY OF SUN SPOT AREA ANALYSIS

  • Chang, Heon-Young
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.261-268
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    • 2007
  • We have studied the temporal variation in the North-South asymmetry of the sunspot area during the period from 1874 to 2007. Though the 9-year periodicity is commonly reported, shorter periodicities is still under study. We employ the cepstrum analysis method to analyze the noisy power spectrum of the North-South asymmetry. We demonstrate that the cleaned power spectrum shows reduction of the spurious back-ground noise level. Some of short period peaks in the power spectrum disappear after deconvolution. It should be, however, pointed out that power spectrum might look less noisy because of a filtering process during deconvolution. We conclude by pointing out that a more sophisticate filtering algorithm is required to produce a precise and reliable periodicity estimate.

Lung mucus: A clinician′s view

  • Kim, Won-Dong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Applied Pharmacology
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    • 1996.04a
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    • pp.45-52
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    • 1996
  • In ancient times, respiration's perceived purpose was only to cool the blood, and nasal mucus was thought to be a discharge from the brain. Later it was demonstrated that fluids cannot travel from the brain to the nose. It appears that credit for pointing out the medical significance of bronchial secretions and the biological value of the exocrine function of the lungs belongs to Laennec. He described the “chronic idiopathic pituitous catarrh” known today as bronchorrhea, which is characterized by paroxysms of expectoration. The importance of all this is that airway secretions, and their alterations, became one of the cardinal signs of many respiratory diseases (1).

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A Study of the Scale to Measure Health Status of the Elderly - In Regard to Measures of Physical Functioning- (노인의 건강사정도구에 대한 일고찰 - 신체기능 측정도구를 중심으로 -)

  • Rhee Seonja;Oh Jin-Joo
    • Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.11-20
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    • 1992
  • The major goal of caring the elderly is not to cure the patient, but rather to improve or maintain the individual functional ability. With the aged population increases, there is increasing consensus among health care workers about the importance of developing a tool to measure and evaluate the health status of the elderly. As many writers is pointing out, care of the elderly embraces the spectrum of physical-social-psychological problems and an enormous number of variables could be introudeced into the health worker's routine measurement. But such an expansive approach to measurement could have disadvantages. The purpose of this study is to introduce the measurement tools of physical functioning, perhaps the most important measure required in long-term care, which are separated into three categories of measures; general physical health, ADL, IADL. It is important that all health workers who provide care to the elderly incorporate the concepts of functional health status into the routine assessments. And continuous study about reliability and validity is needed to apply those foreign tools to Korea.

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A Robust Watermarking Technique Using Affine Transform and Cross-Reference Points (어파인 변형과 교차참조점을 이용한 강인한 워터마킹 기법)

  • Lee, Hang-Chan
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.56 no.3
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    • pp.615-622
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    • 2007
  • In general, Harris detector is commonly used for finding salient points in watermarking systems using feature points. Harris detector is a kind of combined comer and edge detector which is based on neighboring image data distribution, therefore it has some limitation to find accurate salient points after watermark embedding or any kinds of digital attacks. In this paper, we have used cross reference points which use not data distribution but geometrical structure of a normalized image in order to avoid pointing error caused by the distortion of image data. After normalization, we find cross reference points and take inverse normalization of these points. Next, we construct a group of triangles using tessellation with inversely normalized cross reference points. The watermarks are affine transformed and transformed-watermarks are embedded into not normalized image but original one. Only locations of watermarks are determined on the normalized image. Therefore, we can reduce data loss of watermark which is caused by inverse normalization. As a result, we can detect watermarks with high correlation after several digital attacks.

An application of BP-Artificial Neural Networks for factory location selection;case study of a Korean factory

  • Hou, Liyao;Suh, Eui-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.351-356
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    • 2007
  • Factory location selection is very important to the success of operation of the whole supply chain, but few effective solutions exist to deliver a good result, motivated by this, this paper tries to introduce a new factory location selection methodology by employing the artificial neural networks technology. First, we reviewed previous research related to factory location selection problems, and then developed a (neural network-based factory selection model) NNFSM which adopted back-propagation neural network theory, next, we developed computer program using C++ to demonstrate our proposed model. then we did case study by choosing a Korean steelmaking company P to show how our proposed model works,. Finnaly, we concluded by highlighting the key contributions of this paper and pointing out the limitations and future research directions of this paper. Compared to other traditional factory location selection methods, our proposed model is time-saving; more efficient.and can produce a much better result.

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A Study of Test Method for Position Reporting Accuracy of Airborne Camera (항공기 탑재용 카메라 위치출력오차 측정방안 연구)

  • Song, Dae-Buem;Yoon, Yong-Eun
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.646-652
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    • 2013
  • PRA(Position Reporting Accuracy) for EO/IR(Electro-Optic/Infrared) airborne camera is an important factor in geo-pointing accuracy. Generally, rate table is used to measure PRA of gimbal actuated camera like EO/IR. However, it is not always possible to fix an EUT(Equipment for Under Test) to rate table due to capacity limit of the table on the size and weight of the object(EUT). Our EO/IR is too big and heavy to emplace on it. Therefore, we propose a new verification method of PRA for airborne camera and assess the validity of our proposition. In this method we use collimator, angle measuring instrument, 6 dof motion simulator, optical surface plate, leveling laser, inclinometer and poster(for alignment).

Study on Gravitational Torque Estimation and Compensation in Electrically Driven Satellite Antenna System (전기식으로 구동하는 위성안테나 시스템의 중력토크 추정 및 보상에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Gwang Tae
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.33 no.10
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    • pp.789-796
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    • 2016
  • The weight of an antenna system pointing satellite on the mobile platform is restricted by the weight limit of the mobile platform. The maximum power of the actuator driving the antenna system is thus limited because a high power actuator needs a heavier weight. Thus, a drive system is designed to have a low torque requirement by reducing the gravitational torque depending on gravity or acceleration of the mobile platform, including vibration, shock, and accelerated motion. To reduce the gravitational torque, the mathematical model of the gravitational torque is preferentially obtained. However, the method to directly estimate the mathematical model in an antenna system has not previously been reported. In this paper, a method is proposed to estimate the gravitational torque as a mathematical model in the antenna system. Additionally, a method is also proposed to calculate the optimal weight of the balancing weight to compensate for the gravitational torque.

Attitude Control System Design & Verification for CNUSAIL-1 with Solar/Drag Sail

  • Yoo, Yeona;Kim, Seungkeun;Suk, Jinyoung;Kim, Jongrae
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.579-592
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    • 2016
  • CNUSAIL-1, to be launched into low-earth orbit, is a cubesat-class satellite equipped with a $2m{\times}2m$ solar sail. One of CNUSAIL's missions is to deploy its solar sail system, thereby deorbiting the satellite, at the end of the satellite's life. This paper presents the design results of the attitude control system for CNUSAIL-1, which maintains the normal vector of the sail by a 3-axis active attitude stabilization approach. The normal vector can be aligned in two orientations: i) along the anti-nadir direction, which minimizes the aerodynamic drag during the nadir-pointing mode, or ii) along the satellite velocity vector, which maximizes the drag during the deorbiting mode. The attitude control system also includes a B-dot controller for detumbling and an eigen-axis maneuver algorithm. The actuators for the attitude control are magnetic torquers and reaction wheels. The feasibility and performance of the design are verified in high-fidelity nonlinear simulations.

An Experimental Study on the Vibration Absorber for Vibration Attenuation of Cantilever Beam Structure (외팔보 구조물의 진동감쇠를 위한 동흡진기의 실험적 연구)

  • Kwag, Dong-Gi;Bae, Jae-Sung;Hwang, Jai-Hyuk;Kim, Hun-Soo
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.21 no.11
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    • pp.991-996
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    • 2011
  • This study was carried out vibration attenuation of vibration absorber attached to the cantilever beam structure. Modern tank guns are stabilized to allow fire on the move while traversing uneven terrain. However, as the length of the barrel is extended, to meet required muzzle exit velocities, the terrain induced vibrations lead to increased muzzle pointing errors. Thus, reducing these vibrations should lead to increased accuracy. The vibration absorber includes a compliant energy storage device, such as a spring, and a mass secured to the energy storage device. In this study, it accomplished a research in about gun barrel vibration attenuation using tuned mass damper. The barrel was hung from a bungee cord for free-free condition. It accomplished a vibration experiment for verified attenuation efficiency.

The Development of an Object-linked Broadcasting System

  • Kanatsugu, Yasuaki;Misu, Toshihiko;Takahashi, Masaki;Gohshi, Seiichi
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.102-109
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    • 2004
  • We have proposed an Object-linked Broadcasting Service that displays various data related to the object onscreen. In thls paper, we describe the structure of the Object-linked Broadcasting System that will enable our proposal to be realized, and report new techniques that we have developed to create the system. We have carried out the experiment to confirm the system performance as well as execution of each technology assembling the system. We have confirmed that the performance of the system we developed satisfies the proposed specification based on user requirements and current technology.