• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.79-85
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• 1993

Five hundred and fory-four women were provided government funded sterilization reversal services with technique of microsurgery at 15 reversal institutions designated by the Korean Association for Voluntary Sterilization since the inception of Female Reversal Program in 1981. A large majority of reasons for requesting reversal surgery was a loss of children, comprising 87.3%, and the mean interval between sterilization and reversal was 33.6 months. Two hundred and ninty-one of 418 women who were post-operatively followed up with the length of 11 months to 11 years, have experienced term dilivery or ,intra-uterine pregnancy, represented 69.6%. Eight cases have experienced ectopic pregnancy and 9 cases spontaneous abortion. The largest number of reversal clients were sterilized by the laparoscopic unipolar coagulation technique and the next largest group was sterilized by the laparoscopic banding technique, representing 59.8% and 28.9% respectively. The highest pregnancy rate, 80.9%, was shown in clients who had undergone laparoscopic banding technique while the lowest, 61.8%, was the group of laparoscopic bipolar coagulation. The most common site of the anastomosis was isthmic-ampullary portion and the next was isthmic-isthmic portion. The highest success rate, 77.8 %, was marked in the isthmic-isthmic anastomosis and the lowest was in the ampullary-ampullary anastomosis, representing 50.0%. A more than 60% of the clients became pregnant within 6 months of their reversal surgery, with the shortest interval being 1 month, the longest 39 months, and the mean 7.6 months. A large majority of the successful cases were pregnancy within 1 year of their reversal surgery, representing 82.1 %. The higher rate of pregnancy, 73.5%, was in the clients undergone reversal surgery within 36 months of their sterilization and the lower pregnancy rate, 64.1 %, was in the clients undergone reversal surgery longer than 37 months of their sterilization.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.190-197
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• 2006

For enhancement of flaw detactability using array transducers, focusing of ultrasonic waves on a target in an inhomogeneous medium or through a complex geometry is important. But focusing can be strongly degraded by geometrical distortion of field radiated by the array transducers or by sound speed fluctuations in the propagating medium. In recent years, the time reversal technique has been proposed. Thus, in this paper, we describe the basic principal of the time reversal technique for focusing. Then, the implementation results of the time reversal technique for ultrasonic inspections using bulk waves and guided waves generated by array transducers are presented.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.48 no.5
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• pp.33-39
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• 2011

We studied the performance of a two-user time reversal multiple input single output scheme combined with the shifted transmission technique in a variable rate back-off scenario, called shifted time reversal (TR), that minimizes both intersymbol interference and multiuser interference. We compare the bit error rate performance of the shifted TR scheme to both full-rate TR and full back-off TR schemes and demonstrate its superiority to shifted zero forcing scheme when the guard interval is larger than one.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.25-36
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• 2022

This paper proposes a random sign reversal technique in space frequency block code for single carrier modulation. The traditional space time and frequency block coding technique may be confronted with radio environments openly, severe radio hijacking problems are to be overcome. In order to avoid such an open radio issue, random coded data protection technique for space-time block code was proposed, but this algorithm can change channel combination per an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing block. This kind of slow switching increases the probability that nearby receivers will detect the transmitted data. This paper proposes a fast switching algorithm per data symbols' basis which is a random sign reversal technique in space frequency block code for Single Carrier Modulation. It is shown in simulation that the proposed one has a superior performance in comparison with the performance of the receiver which do not know the random timing sequence of sign reversal.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.452-457
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• 2000

The object of this study is to develop a reliable FEM simulation technique for the analysis of can making process using PAM-STAMP software. The processes consist of doming and necking in addition to drawing, redrawing. After body making process, this study analyzed the stability for internal pressure by simulating buckling test. Through these technique, we estimated the dome reversal pressure of steel D&I Can for various can profile and process conditions. From this study, we found the cause and mechanism of wrinkling during necking process. This mechanism is largely affected by can wall thickness and the clearance between knock out punch and necking die. The dome reversal pressure improves with increasing dome depth. These results validate the usefulness of the developed simulation technique for the analysis of body making process and optimization of the dome profile.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.64-74
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• 2010

This paper proposes a new TR-based baseline-free SHM technique in which the time-reversal (TR) property of the guided Lamb waves is utilized. The new TR-based SHM technique has two distinct features when compared with the other TR-based SHM techniques: (1) The backward TR process commonly conducted by the measurement is replaced by the computation-based process; (2) In place of the comparison method, the TOF information of the damage signal extracted from the reconstructed signal is used for the damage diagnosis in conjunction with the imaging method which enables us to represent the damage as an image. The proposed TR-based SHM technique is then validated through the damage diagnosis experiment for an aluminum plate with a damage at different locations.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.23-27
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• 2007

Rotary stages in semiconductor, display industry and many other fields require challenging accuracy to perform their functions properly. Especially, Axis of rotation error on rotary system is significant; such as the spindle error motion of the aligner, wire bonder and inspector machine which result in the poor quality products. To evaluate and improve the performance of such precision rotary stage, undesired movements on the other 5 degrees of freedom of the rotary stage must be measured and analyzed. In this paper, we have measured the three translations and two tilt motions of the worm gear type spindle with high precision capacitive sensors. To obtain the radial error motion, we have used Donaldson's reversal technique. And the axial components of the spindle tilt error motion can be obtained accurately from the axial direction outputs of sensors by Estler face motion reversal technique. Further more we have designed and developed the sensor mounting jig with standard cylinder for reversal method.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.9-16
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• 2009

The object of this study is to develop new examination technique for detecting debond in adhesive interface of different kinds of materials. Ultrasonic signal was modeled by theoretically analyzing ultrasonic propagation phenomenon of the adhesive interface and debonding interface. The test method using the phase reversal of the debonding interface applied to the FRP/Rubber test block. Aluminum/Rubber test block with the flat bottom hole was manufactured to evaluate quantitatively the minimum detection ability of defects. The pulse echo reflection method and the phase reversal method were mutually compared and it was estimated that the phase reversal method could detect the debond on the basis of the theoretically predicted ultrasonic signal and ultrasonic test data.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.53 no.12
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• pp.700-708
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• 2004

Flux-reversal machine (FRM) is a new doubly-salient stator-permanent magnet (PM) machine with flux linkage reversal in the stator concentrated windings. It can operate in both motoring and generating modes. In this paper, a novel design technique to improve the performance of FRM is proposed. Proposed techniques have a new stator winding and a magnet arrangement method. The stator and rotor shape with a concave type and a flux barrier are also proposed. According to the experimental results, it is shown that the proposed FRM have an improved performance.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.355-361
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• 2012

This paper presents an experimental study on the detection and location of nonlinear scattering source due to the presence of fatigue crack in a laboratory specimen. The proposed technique is based on a combination of nonlinear elastic wave spectroscopy(NEWS) and time reversal(TR) focusing approach. In order to focus on the nonlinear scattering position due to the fatigue crack, we employed only one transmitting transducer and one receiving transducer, taking advantage of long duration of reception signal that includes multiple linear scattering such as mode conversion and boundary reflections. NEWS technique was then used as a pre-treatment of TR for spatial focusing of reemitted second harmonic signal. The robustness of this approach was demonstrated on a cracked specimen and the nonlinear TR focusing behavior is observed on the crack interface from which the second harmonic signal was originated.