• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제11권9호
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• pp.1665-1671
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• 2007

무선 Ad-hoc 네트워크는 기지국이나 중앙 집중관리가 없는 영역에서 다수의 노드들 간에 무선데이터 통신 연결이 자율적으로 설정되는 네트워크이다. Ad-hoc 네트워크는 노드의 이동과 전원의 제약 때문에 네트워크 위상(network topology)이 자주 변화할 수 있다. 라우팅 경로를 찾는 과정에서 가장 신뢰성이 있는 경로를 선택하는 것은 Ad-hoc 네트워크 성능을 향상시키기 위해서 아주 중요하다. 본 연구에서, 우리는 수신신호 세기의 변이를 감시해서 AODV 기반의 강화된 라우팅 프로토콜을 제안하였다. 노드의 이동성과 경로의 흡수로 구성된 새로운 매트릭 함수는 라우팅 경로 결정에 이용된다. NS-2를 이용한 폭넓은 실험에서, 제안된 라우팅 기법의 성능은 AODV 프로토콜에 비하여 향상되었다.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제12권9호
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• pp.31-37
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• 2021

최근들어 가전시장에서 융합기술을 이용한 제품 차별화는 소비자로부터 많은 호응을 얻고 있다. 그러나 에어컨 제품은 기계적 운영에서 센서와 플랫폼이 결합된 인공지능을 위한 융합기술이 적용하는 초기단계에 있어서 많은 연구개발이 필요한 분야이다. 본 논문에서는 IR-UWB 기술을 이용한 비접촉 방식의 생체신호(호흡수, 이동) 수집기술을 개발하였다. 생체신호를 이용하여 사용자의 위치에 따라 에어컨 방향을 제어한다. 또한 최적의 수면 환경을 제공하기 위해 수면상태를 모니터링 한다. 감성조명과 ASMR은 안락하고 감성적인 삶의 공간을 제공하기 위해 개발되었다. 그리고 개발된 융합기술을 기반으로 편리하고 안락한 휴식공간을 제공하는 지능형 스마트 에어컨 서비스 플랫폼을 제안하였다.

• Journal of Clinical Nutrition
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.38-44
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• 2018

Purpose: Parenteral nutrition (PN) is known to provide therapeutic beneficial improvements in malnourished patients for whom enteral nutrition is not feasible. The objective of this study was to investigate the current clinical characteristics and utilization of PN in Korea. Methods: We analyzed the Health Insurance Review Agency National Inpatients Sample database from 2014 to 2016, which included 13% of all hospitalized patients in Korea. Adult patients aged 20 years or older and receiving premixed multi-chamber bag containing PN were included for this study. Patient characteristics, admission type, primary diagnosis, and hospital demographics were evaluated. SAS version 9.4 was used for data analysis. Results: From 2014 to 2016, 149,504 patients received premixed PN, with 226,281 PN prescriptions being written. The mean patient age was 65.0 years, and 81,876 patients (54.8%) were male. Premixed 3-chamber bag and 2-chamber bag PN solutions were utilized in 131,808 (88.2%) and 32,033 (21.4%) patients, respectively. The number of patients hospitalized through the emergency department were 70,693 (47.3%), whereas 43,125 patients (28.8%) were administered PN in intensive care units. In the adult PN patients, the highest primary diagnosis was malignant neoplasm of the stomach (8,911, 6.0%), followed by organism unspecified pneumonia (7,008, 4.7%), and gastroenteritis and colitis of unspecified origin (6,381, 4.3%). Overall, 34% of adult PN patients were diagnosed with malignancies, the most common being neoplasm of the stomach (17.7%), neoplasm of bronchus/lung (11.2%), neoplasm of colon (11.1%), and neoplasm of liver/intrahepatic bile ducts (10.0%). PN solutions were most frequently administered in the metropolitan area (55.0%) and in hospitals with more than 1,000 beds (23.6%). Conclusion: PN was commonly administered in older patients, with primary diagnosis of malignancy in a significant number of cases. This study is the first large-scale description of PN-prescribing patterns in real-world clinical practice in South Korea.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.352-359
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• 2018

Background: The purpose of this study is to propose an analysis of trends and characteristics of high-cost patients who take over 40% of total national health insurance medical expenses. Methods: It has been analyzed the tendency of high-cost patients by open data based on the medical history information of 1 million people among national health insurance subscriber from 2002 to 2015. To conduct detailed study of characteristics of high-cost patients, multiple regression has been performed by sex, age, residence, main provider, and admission status based on the top 5% group. Results: The amount of medical expenses and the number of high-cost patients have gradually increased in decades. The number of high-cost patients for Korean won (KRW) 5,000,000 category has increased by 7.6 times, KRW 10,000,000 category has increased by 14.1 times in comparing of year 2002 and 2015. Top 5% medical expenses have increased by 4.6 times. In consideration of the characteristics of patients, the incidence of high medical expenses has been higher in female patients than male ones, the older patients than in the younger. Patients residence in Gyeonsang or Jeonla province have had a high incidence of medical expenses than other area. The disease including dementia, cerebral infarction, and cerebrovascular disease for high-cost patients has been also increased. Conclusion: The major increase factor for high medical expenses is the aging of population. The elderly population receiving inpatient care residing in the province that increases high medical costs have to management. There is an urgent need to develop a mechanism for predicting and managing the cost of high-cost medical expenses for patients who have a heavy financial burden.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.897-906
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 LoRa 네트워크의 신뢰성과 처리율을 향상시킬 수 있는 다중 게이트웨이의 수신 응답 조화 전송 기법 HAT-LoRa를 제안한다. LoRa 네트워크는 알로하류의 매체 접근 제어를 사용하여 충돌에 매우 취약한데, 데이터 패킷은 여러 게이트웨이가 수신하여 전달률을 일정 부분 보장할 수 있지만 수신응답 패킷은 단일 게이트웨이를 통해서만 이루어진다. HAT-LoRa는 LoRaWAN의 여러 확산 인자로 동시에 패킷을 수신할 수 있는 특성을 이용하여 다중 게이트웨이가 다른 논리채널을 이용해 수신응답을 동시에 전송하여 증가된 수신 기회를 제공한다. 제안 기법은 단일 게이트웨이와 이중 게이트웨이 환경에서 수신 응답의 기대 전송 시간이 각각 최대 55%와 60%, 평균 35%와 40% 줄어드는 결과를 보인다. 특히, 단말과 여러 게이트웨이와의 거리가 비슷한 환경에서 높은 성능을 나타낸다.

• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제24권7호
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• pp.29-37
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• 2020

Purpose - This paper empirically investigates the relationship between country governance quality and worker remittances from foreign countries. Because remittances can be a source of funds for economic development and smoothing economic crises in developing countries, the related topic has been a concern for policy-makers and academic researchers. This paper divides the motives of remittances into altruistic and investment motives through existing papers, and then considers the governance quality the remittance receiving country as one of the determinants of remittances. Design/methodology - Our empirical model considers whether governance quality can affect the volume of remittances, and uses altruistic and investment factors studied in the literature. To do this, a two-step approach is taken. First, the panel data are examined via pooled OLS, random effects, and Tobit estimation. Second, the paper reduces six governance indicators into one variable, Governance, using the principal component technique (PCA) for a robustness check. Findings - The main findings can be summarized as follows. The negative governance variable in the estimation results shows a lower governance quality that induces workers to send savings to their home countries. This means that a country with poor governance quality seems to have more remittance inflows from abroad. It also reveals that poor governance quality is more relevant to an altruistic motive rather than an investment motive, in general. The positive per capita GDP variable shows the investment motive for developed countries. Originality/value - Existing papers have focused on various factors related to the motives of remittances. However, governance quality effects on remittance inflows have not been fully studied so far. This paper considers governance quality in an estimation equation explicitly as one of the determinants of remittances. This area of study is needed, in theory and empirically, in order to fully understand the relationship between governance and remittances.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.171-182
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• 2022

A single-photon laser and mid-wave infrared (MWIR) common aperture optical system was designed and developed to detect and range a long-distance civil aviation aircraft. The secondary mirror of the Ritchey-Chretien (R-C) optical system was chosen as a dichroic lens to realize the design of a common aperture system for the laser and MWIR. Point spread function (PSF) ellipticity was introduced to evaluate the coupling efficiency of the laser receiving system. A small aperture stop and narrow filter were set in the secondary image plane and an afocal light path of the laser system, respectively, and the stray light suppression ability of the small aperture stop was verified by modeling and simulation. With high-precision manufacturing technology by single point diamond turning (SPDT) and a high-efficiency dichroic coating, the laser/MWIR common aperture optical system with a 𝜑300 mm aluminum alloy mirror obtained images of buildings at a distance of 5 km with great quality. A civil aviation aircraft detection experiment was conducted. The results show that the common aperture system could detect and track long-distance civil aviation aircraft effectively, and the coverage was more than 450 km (signal-to-noise ratio = 6.3). It satisfied the application requirements for earlier warning and ranging of long-range targets in the area of aviation, aerospace and ground detection systems.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.117-123
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• 2022

인공위성 기반의 실외 측위 시스템과는 달리 실내 측위 시스템은 BLE, Wi-Fi, UWB 등 다양한 무선 기술을 활용한다. BLE 기반 비컨 기술은 일정 주기로 사전에 정의된 장치 ID와 위치 정보를 제공하고 이를 수신한 장치에서 RSSI를 활용하여 실내에서 사용자의 위치를 측정할 수 있다. 기존의 BLE 기반 실내 측위 시스템 연구들은 단일 지점에서 사용자의 실제 위치와 계산된 위치의 오차를 비교하는 연구가 많았다. 본 논문에서는 엔트로피 분석 모델을 적용하여 이동 경로나 구역에 따른 측위 정확도를 평가하는 기법을 제안하였다. 또한 시뮬레이션을 통해 서로 다른 경로에 대한 엔트로피 결과값을 추출하고 이를 비교하여 어느 경로가 더 정확한지에 대해 평가할 수 있음을 검증하였다.

• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.84-97
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• 2023

Background: The concept of high-impact chronic pain (HICP) has been proposed for patients with chronic pain who have significant limitations in work, social life, and personal care. Recognition of HICP and being able to distinguish patients with HICP from other chronic pain patients who do not have life interference allows the necessary measures to be taken in order to restore the physical and emotional functioning of the affected persons. The aim was to reveal the risk factors and predictors associated with HICP. Methods: Patients with chronic pain without life interference (grade 1 and 2) and patients with HICP were compared. Significant data were evaluated with regression analysis to reveal the associated risk factors. Receiving operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was used to evaluate predictors and present cutoff scores. Results: One thousand and six patients completed the study. From pain related cognitive processes, fear of pain (odds ratio [OR], 0.92; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.87-0.98; P = 0.007) and helplessness (OR, 1.06; 95% CI, 1.01-1.12; P = 0.018) were found to be risk factors associated with HICP. Predictors of HICP were evaluated by ROC analysis. The highest discrimination value was found for pain intensity (cut-off score > 6.5; 83.8% sensitive; 68.7% specific; area under the curve = 0.823; P < 0.001). Conclusions: This is the first study in our geography to evaluate HICP with measurement tools that evaluate all dimensions of pain. Moreover, it is the first study in the literature to evaluate predictors and cut-off scores using ROC analysis for HICP.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제61권2호
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• pp.202-207
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• 2023

태양광과 풍력발전의 잉여전기를 공급받아 수전해를 구동하는 경우 날씨 변동에 따라 구동과 정지를 반복해야한다. 수전해를 구동하다 정지하면 잔류 수소와 산소에 의해 PEM 연료전지와 같은 상태가 되고, 구동 중 형성된 수전해의 높은 전위 때문에 전극과 고분자막이 정지 중에도 열화될 가능성이 높다. 본 연구에서는 PEM 수전해가 구동/정지 반복과정에서 전극과 고분자막의 열화가 얼마나 진행되는지 확인하고자, 144시간 동안에 구동/정지 횟수를 변화시키며 성능 감소를 측정하였다. 전극 촉매 활성면적 변화와 고분자막의 수소투과도와 불소유출속도 등을 분석해 전극과 고분자막의 특성 변화를 측정했다. 전체적으로 정지 횟수가 증가할수록 PEM 수전해 성능이 감소했다. 144시간동안에 5회 정지했을 때 IrO_x 촉매 활성이 30% 이상 감소하였고, 수소투과도는 80% 증가해서 전극과 고분자막이 모두 열화됨을 확인했다.