• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.38-41
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• 2010

We design and fabricate a widely tunable laser diode made of InGaAsP-InP. The diode is monolithically integrated with a wavelength-selective coupled-ring reflector and semiconductor amplifiers. For realization of a compact size device, deeply etched multi-mode interference couplers and square ring resonators composed of total-internal-reflection mirrors are adopted and fabricated using a self-aligned process. It is demonstrated that the laser diode exhibits single mode operation and 16 nm tuning range with side-mode-suppression-ratio exceeding 20 dB.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.92-100
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• 2018

This paper presents a link adaptation scheme for adaptive full duplex (AFD) systems. The signal modulation levels and communication link patterns are adaptively selected according to the changing channel conditions. The link pattern selection process consists of two successive steps such as a transmit-receive antenna pair selection based on maximum sum rate or minimum maximum symbol error rate, and an adaptive modulation based on maximum minimum norm. In AFD systems, the antennas of both nodes are jointly determined with modulation levels depending on the channel conditions. An adaptive algorithm with relatively low complexity is also proposed to select the link parameters. Simulation results show that the proposed AFD system offers significant bit error rate (BER) performance improvement compared with conventional full duplex systems with perfect or imperfect self-interference cancellation under the same fixed sum rate.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권7호
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• pp.199-205
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• 2022

The extensive growth in data rate demand by the smart gadgets and mobile broadband application services in wireless cellular networks. To achieve higher data rate demand which leads to aggressive frequency reuse to improve network capacity at the price of Inter Cell Interference (ICI). Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) has been recognized as an effective scheme to get a higher data rate and mitigate ICI for perfect geometry network scenarios. In, an irregular geometric multicellular network, ICI mitigation is a challenging issue. The purpose of this paper is to develop distributed dynamic power allocation scheme for FFR based on game theory to mitigate ICI. In the proposed scheme, each cell region in an irregular multicellular scenario adopts a self-less behavior instead of selfish behavior to improve the overall utility function. This proposed scheme improves the overall data rate and mitigates ICI.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제38A권12호
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• pp.1039-1044
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• 2013

선택적 감쇄채널 환경에서 분산안테나 간 주파수 오차에 의한 부반송파 간 간섭을 효율적으로 제거하는 알라무티부호화 직교주파수분할다중방식(Alamouti coded OFDM) 기반 간섭제거 기법을 제안한다. 일반적으로 간섭제거 방식에서는 초기검출 심볼로부터 간섭신호를 추정하고 추정한 간섭신호를 원래 수신 신호에서 제거함으로써 성능을 개선시킨다. 이때 초기 검출 심볼의 정확도가 높을수록 제거되는 부반송파간 간섭량 또한 증가하므로 간섭제거 방식에서 초기 검출심볼의 정확도는 매우 중요하다. 제안하는 방식은 초기 검출심볼을 얻는 과정에서 주파수 오차에 의한 부반송파간 간섭의 일부를 자체제거하는 알라무티부호화 직교주파수분할다중방식을 사용함으로써 그 정확도를 높인다. 따라서, 제안하는 방식은 단 1회의 제거과정을 수행함에도 수회의 반복연산을 필요로 하는 기존의 알라무티부호화 직교주파수분할다중방식을 사용한 간섭제거 방식에 비해 개선된 성능을 가진다.

• Perspectives in Nursing Science
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.18-28
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• 2018

Purpose: This study was designed to explore the levels of physical activity and fatigue among nurses and to identify the relationship between these variables. Methods: Participants were 89 nurses working at an intensive care unit and an operating room in a children's hospital. Data were collected using self-reported questionnaires including the International Physical Activity Questionnaire and Brief Fatigue Inventory. Results: Most of the nurses' physical activity was work related, and there was a significant difference according to the working unit. Nurses with higher work stress and lower job satisfaction showed higher levels of fatigue than their counterparts did. Work-related physical activity and the interference of fatigue with relationships were related positively, whereas transport and leisure time physical activity were negatively related to usual fatigue and the interference of fatigue with life enjoyment. Conclusion: The levels of physical activity and fatigue of nurses were higher than those observed among other populations. The appropriate level of physical activity for these nurses needs to be investigated carefully. Also, in the intervention for nurses' fatigue, their level of work-related and leisure-time physical activity should be considered separately, and their work environment and psychological satisfaction level should be included.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.410-416
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 통신의 보안성과 수신 성능 향상을 위해서 역지향성 안테나를 이용한 CDSK 변조 방식을 제안한다. 카오스 신호는 신호의 비주기성과 비예측성으로 향상된 보안성을 제공한다. 그러나 카오스 변조 방식은 자기 신호와 간섭 신호로 인해서 수신 성능 열화가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 카오스 신호 기반 CDSK 변조 방식을 사용하면서도 수신 성능을 유지할 수 있도록 역지향성 안테나를 적용한 카오스 통신 시스템의 성능을 분석한다. 시뮬레이션 결과, 5개의 배열 안테나 소자를 사용하여 역지향성 안테나를 구성할 경우, 제안한 시스템은 향상된 보안성을 제공하며, BPSK 변조를 사용한 통신 시스템과 동일한 수신 성능을 얻는 것을 확인할 수 있다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.1067-1072
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• 2013

Hiwi, a human homologue of the Piwi family, plays an important role in stem cell self-renewal and is overexpressed in various human tumors. This study aimed to determine whether an RNA interference-based strategy to suppress Hiwi expression could inhibit tumor growth in a xenograft mouse model. A rare population of $SSC^{lo}\;Alde^{br}$ cells was isolated and identified as lung cancer stem cells in our previous study. Plasmids containing U6 promoter-driven shRNAs against Hiwi or control plasmids were successfully established. The xenograft tumor model was generated by subcutaneously inoculating with lung cancer stem cell $SSC^{lo}\;Alde^{br}$ cells. After the tumor size reached about 8 mm in diameter, shRNA plasmids were injected into the mice via the tail vein three times a week for two weeks, then xenograft tumor growth was assessed. In nude mice, intravenously delivery of Hiwi shRNA plasmids significantly inhibited tumor growth compared to treatment with control scrambled shRNA plasmids or the vehicle PBS. No mice died during the experiment and no adverse events were observed in mice administered the plasmids. Moreover, delivery of Hiwi shRNA plasmids resulted in a significant suppressed expression of Hiwi and ALDH-1 in xenograft tumor samples, based on immunohistochemical analysis. Thus, shRNA-mediated Hiwi gene silencing in lung cancer stem cells by an effective in vivo gene delivery strategy appeared to be an effective therapeutic approach for lung cancer, and may provide some useful clues for RNAi gene therapy in solid cancers.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제20권8호
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• pp.1422-1430
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• 2016

전송되는 정보들의 가로채기 확률을 감소시키기 위한 피감청 기술 중 대표적인 대역확산통신 기법을 적용함으로써 통신 성능에 미치는 영향을 분석하고, 이를 통해 최적의 은밀 수중음향통신 시스템의 모델을 제안한다. 대역확산 통신 된 신호의 레벨이 낮아져 주변의 배경소음과 같은 레벨로 전송하기 때문에 피탐지 확률이 감소하고 은밀성의 특징을 갖게 된다. 본 논문에서는 BCJR(Bahl, Cocke, Jelinek, Raviv) 복호방법과 대역 확산 기법 중 직접 수열 대역 확산 기법을 적용하였으며, 은밀 수중 통신에서 고려되는 송수신 모델은 크게 두 가지로 나뉘는데, 경판정 기반의 송수신 모델과 반복기반의 터보 등화 모델의 성능을 시뮬레이션과 호수 실험을 통해 성능을 비교 분석하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.711-732
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• 2019

Many unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications have been employed for performing data collection in facilitating tasks such as surveillance and monitoring objectives in remote and dangerous environments. In light of the fact that most of the existing UAV relaying applications operate in conventional half-duplex (HD) mode, a full-duplex (FD) based UAV relay aided wireless network is investigated, in which the UAV relay helps forwarding information from the source (S) node to the destination (D). Since the activated UAV relays are always floating and flying in the air, its channel state information (CSI) as well as channel capacity is a time-variant parameter. Considering decode-and-forward (DF) relaying protocol in UAV relays, the cooperative relaying channel capacity is constrained by the relatively weaker one (i.e. in terms of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) or signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR)) between S-to-relay and relay-to-D links. The channel capacity can be optimized by adaptively optimizing the transmit power of S and/or UAV relay. Furthermore, a hybrid HD/FD mode is enabled in the proposed UAV relays for adaptively optimizing the channel utilization subject to the instantaneous CSI and/or remaining self-interference (SI) levels. Numerical results show that the channel capacity of the proposed UAV relay aided wireless networks can be maximized by adaptively responding to the influence of various real-time factors.

• Journal of Oral Medicine and Pain
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• 제47권3호
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• pp.117-125
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• 2022

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate whether and how the biopsychosocial features of myofascial pain (MFP) differ from those of local myalgia (LM) in temporomandibular disorder (TMD). Methods: Patients with TMD were retrospectively evaluated using the Diagnostic Criteria for TMD. All patients completed a series of self-administered questionnaires on pain severity and pain interference (Brief Pain Inventory, BPI), pain disability (Graded Chronic Pain Scale, GCPS), psychological distress (Symptom Check List-90-Revised, SCL-90R), pain cognition (Pain Catastrophizing Scale, PCS), and subjective sleep quality (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, PSQI). Among all the TMD diagnoses, muscle pain was classified into the MFP group and LM group. Results: This study included 917 patients with myalgia (MFP: 266, LM: 651). Significant differences were observed in the female ratio (78.9% for MFP, 60.9% for LM, p<0.001) and the mean pain duration (MFP: 25.3 months, LM: 15.8 months, p=0.001) between the two groups. Patients with MFP exhibited higher pain severity (p=0.003) and pain interference (p<0.001) of BPI than those with LM. Furthermore, the global scores of the PCS (p<0.001) and PSQI (p<0.001) were higher in the MFP group than in the LM group. The MFP group had higher global symptom index (p=0.017) and five subscales of the SCL-90R than the LM group. Compared with the LM group (33.4%), the greater proportion of high disability of GCPS was observed in the MFP group (44.9%) (p<0.001). Multiple regression analysis revealed that sex (p=0.002), pain duration (p=0.019), pain disability (p=0.010), and subjective sleep quality (p=0.008) significantly differed between the two groups. Conclusions: The findings of this study indicated that MFP presents a higher biopsychosocial burden than LM in TMD.