• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권11호
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• pp.3925-3934
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• 2023

The importance of fast neutron detection for nuclear safeguards purposes has increased due to its potential advantages such as reasonable cost and higher precision for larger sample masses of nuclear materials. Pulse-shape discrimination (PSD) is inevitably used to discriminate neutron- and gamma-ray- induced signals from organic scintillators of very high gamma sensitivity. The light output (LO) threshold corresponding to several MeV of recoiled proton energy could be necessary to achieve fine PSD performance. However, this leads to neutron count losses and possible distortion of results obtained by neutron multiplicity counting (NMC)-based nuclear material accountancy (NMA). Moreover, conventional PSD techniques are not effective for counting of neutrons in a high-gamma-ray environment, even under a sufficiently high LO threshold. In the present work, PSD performance (figure-of-merit, FOM) according to LO bands was confirmed using a conventional charge comparison method (CCM) and compared with results obtained by convolution neural network (CNN)-based PSD algorithms. Also, it was attempted, for the first time ever, to reject fake neutron signals from distorted PSD regions where neutron-induced signals are normally detected. The overall results indicated that higher neutron detection efficiency with better accuracy could be achieved via CNN-based PSD algorithms.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 1999년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.704-707
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• 1999

Partial discharge(PD) in air insulated electric power systems is responsible for considerable power lossesfrom high voltage transmission lines. PD in air often leads to deterioration of insulation by the combined action of the discharge ions bombarding the surface and the action of chemical compounds that are formed by the discharge and may give rise to interference in ommunication systems. PD can indicate incipient failure. Thus understanding and classification of PD in air is very important to discern source of PD. In this paper, we investigated PD in air by using statical method. We classified air discharge with corona, surface discharge and cavity discharge by source of discharge. we used the mean pulse-height phase distribution $H_{qmean}(\psi)$, the max pulse-height phase distribution $H_{qmax}(\psi)$ , the pulse count phase distribution $H_n(\psi)$ and the max pulse height vs. repetition rate $H_{q}(n)$ for analysis PD pattern. We used statistical operators, such as skewness(S+. S-1, kurtosis(K+, K-), mean phase(AP+. AP-), cross-correlation factor(CC) and asymmetry from the distribution.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2002년도 International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.211-214
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• 2002

We present gray scale implementation method based on QMA driving technique. We clarified the mechanism of wall charge quantization through discharge current measurement. We used three wall charge states to implement gray scale. The cells would be one of fully-ON, half-On, and OFF states. We built a five sub-fields 243 level gray scale with sustain pulse count of 2, 6, 18, 54, and 162.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.23-30
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 LCD TV의 인치에 따라 다르게 적용되는 기존의 PID(Power-Integrated Drive)시스템과 PSD(Power-Separated Drive)시스템을 검토하여, 두 시스템의 장점만을 모아 LCD TV 전원 시스템의 표준화가 가능한 새로운 방식의 구동 전원 통합 시스템을 제안한다. 제안 시스템은 가격 및 효율이 우수한 2단 구성으로 이루어져 있고, 안전규격을 만족하기 위하여 1:1 트랜스포머를 사용하였다. 인버터 부의 최적 동작을 위해 인버터 구동신호의 주파수와 시비율을 고정하고 펄스 개수를 제어하는 Pulse Count Modulation(PCM)방식을 채용 하였다. 제안 시스템의 인버터 단은 전 부하 범위에서 영전압 스위칭이 가능하여 스위치의 발열이 우수하고, 별도의 전류 평형 트랜스포머가 필요치 않으므로 Balance Coil의 삭제가 가능하다. 이로 인해 신뢰성이 높은 제품 구성이 가능하고, PCB Size 축소 및 제작 원가가 낮아지는 장점을 갖는다. 최종적으로 제안 시스템을 기존 시스템과 비교 및 실험적 검증을 통하여 제안 시스템의 우수성을 확인한다.

• 정보처리학회논문지C
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• 제11C권3호
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• pp.395-400
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 급증되는 무선통신 서비스의 요구에 맞추어 제안된 UWB 시스템 중 반송파를 사용하지 않은 단일 밴드 UWB 시스템용 임펄스를 제안하였다. 기존의 UWB 시스템의 펄스로 제안된 펄스들의 특성과 문제점을 분석하였고, 이를 토대로 펄스폭의 감쇄기술 없이 초광대역의 신호를 발생시키는 TDMG(Time Delay Multiple Gaussian) 펄스를 제안하였다. 제안한 펄스를 수학적으로 전개하였고, 이를 바탕으로 단일밴드 UWB 시스템용 TDMG 펄스 발생기의 하드웨어 구조를 모델링 하였다. 제안한 TDMG 펄스는 컴퓨터 모와 실험을 통해 기존에 제안되었던 펄스의 성능과 비교하였다. 그 결과 기존의 펄스보다 TDMG 펄스가 중심주파수는 약 1GHz이상 높은 대역으로 이동하였고, l0dB fractional bandwidth는 약 1GHz 이상 넓어졌다. 또 n차로 미분한 경우에도 TDMG 펄스의 중심주파수가 각각 1GHz정도 높은 대역으로 이동하였고, 10dB fractional bandwidth도 각각 1GHz 이상 넓어졌다. 즉 기존에 제안된 펄스보다 TDMG 펄스가 주파수 특성도 우수하고, FCC가 권고한 주파수 대역과 스펙트럼 특성을 만족함으로서 다른 이동 무선 통신시스템과의 간섭이 감소한 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 1997년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.381-384
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• 1997

This paper describes the method of diagnosing the degradation by void defects of insulator inside in operation. Needle-shape void specimens, made from LDPE, were used to generate an electrical tree under ac voltage. The method uses a neural network system with input signal of AE patterns. AE pattern consists of the pulse count and average amplitude according to the phase angle. After the learning process was over, unknown emission patterns were put into the network. It was shown that the network discriminates the void deflects well. The effectiveness of the neural network system for partial discharge recognition was shown.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.97-103
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• 2019

An automated signal-acquisition method for the NASA's space geodesy satellite laser ranging (SGSLR) system is described as a selection of two system parameters with specified probabilities. These parameters are the correlation parameter: the minimum received pulse number for a signal-acquisition and the frame time: the minimum time for the correlation parameter. The probabilities specified are the signal-detection and false-acquisition probabilities to distinguish signals from background noise. The steps of parameter selection are finding the minimum set of values by fitting a curve and performing a graph-domain approximation. However, this selection method is inefficient, not only because of repetition of the entire process if any performance values change, such as the signal and noise count rate, but also because this method is dependent upon system specifications and environmental conditions. Moreover, computation is complicated and graph-domain approximation can introduce inaccuracy. In this study, a new method is proposed to select the parameters via a conditional equation derived from characteristics of the signal-detection and false-acquisition probabilities. The results show that this method yields better efficiency and robustness against changing performance values with simplicity and accuracy and can be easily applied to other satellite laser ranging (SLR) systems.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1994년도 하계학술대회 논문집 C
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• pp.1540-1542
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• 1994

This paper describes an experimental study of pattern recognition of partial discharge for three different discharge sources by using neural network(NN) system. The NN system is three layer feedforward connections and its learning method is a backpropagation algorithm incorporating an external teacher signal. Input information for NN is a statistical parameters of a discharge magnitude and the number of pulse count. After learning three typical input patterns, NN system offers good discrimination between different defects.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.114-126
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• 2006

Purpose: This study was performed to evaluate the pre-emptive analgesic effects of a small dose of intravenous ketamine on postoperative pain in patients undergoing a hysterectomy. Method: Sixty patients undergoing a hystrectomy under general anesthesia were randomly allocated to 2 groups. The experimental group(30 patients) received 0.3mg/kg of ketamine after induction of anesthesia, approximately 5 min prior to surgery, but the control group(30 patients)did not receive ketamine. Data was collected in a double-blind manner from April 1st, to October 30th, 2004. Postoperatively, the patients used a patient-controlled analgesia(PCA) pump. Blood pressure, pulse rate, pain, anxiety, count of times pressing the PCA button, administeration of additional analgesics and side effects of ketamine were measured at 1 hour, 3 hours, 6 hours and 24 hours after the operation. Result: There were no statistical differences in blood pressure, pulse rate, pain and anxiety between the experimental and control groups. There were statistical differences in blood pressure, pulse rate, pain and anxiety during the 24 hours postoperatively. In the experimental group, the number of times pressing the PCA button and administering additional analgesic drugs were significantly lower than those of the control group. Conclusion: A 0.3 mg/kg dose of ketamine given at approximately 5 min before surgery resulted in decreasing the number of times pressing the PCA and the administration of additional analgesics.

• 분석과학
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.65-72
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• 2016

액체섬광계수기(Liquid Scintillation Counter, LSC)를 이용한 토양 중 ²²⁶Ra 분석 방법에 대해 연구하였다. 용융법으로 토양에서 Ra을 추출하고, Ba(Ra)SO₄로 침전시켜 방해핵종과 Ra을 분리하였다. Ba(Ra)SO₄를 산에 녹을 수 있는 Ba(Ra)CO₃로 변환시키고, 라돈 가스를 포집할 수 있는 소수성 섬광용액과 혼합한 다음, LSC로 분석하였다. ²²⁶Ra과 ⁹⁰Sr 표준시료를 이용하여 최적의 PSA(Pulse shape analysis, 파형분석) 준위를 설정하였다. FOM(Figure of merit, 성능지수)이 최대이고 알파선 중첩정도가 최소로 나타나는 PSA 80을 최적값으로 결정하였다. Glass vial을 사용했을 때 계측 효율은 243±2% 이다. 본 연구에서 개발한 분석법은 IAEA-312, IAEA-314, IAEA-315를 이용하여 그 신뢰도를 평가를 하였다. 회수율은 60~82% 이며, 측정값과 참고값과의 상대편의가 10 % 이내였다. 최소검출농도는 토양 1 g, 바탕 계수율 0.02 cpm일 때, 회수율 70 %, 계측시간 30 분을 기준으로 2.1 Bq kg⁻¹ 이다.