• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.211-220
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• 2017

For areas with the diverse contamination sources, the change of 4-nitrophenol contamination and impact of potential contamination sources have been evaluated using monitoring data and a numerical model (HydroGeoSphere). The model considered several parameters including land cover, precipitation, and flow rate. And, the model has been performed to investigate the effect of decay rate of 4-nitrophenol. The results of the simulations showed that the influence on 4-nitrophenol in downstream was mainly greater than that in upstream, and the tributaries did not significantly affect the mainstream because of their low flow rates. In addition, the effect of contamination sources was simulated for each section, then the measured data were higher than the corresponding simulated data in most sections of the Geumho river. In particular, the impact of the potential contamination sources in the upstream area was much higher than that in the other area, thus more monitoring data for the upstream area is required.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권3호
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• pp.119-128
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• 2014

본 논문은 먼지, 물방울, 안개 등과 같이 빛의 산란 및 감쇄를 발생시키는 외부요인에 의해 열화된 영상의 화질을 향상시키기 위한 새로운 방법을 제시한다. 기존의 안개제거 방법들은 전역대기 산란광의 오추정 및 매개체 전달량 오류로 인하여 영상을 복원하였을 때 명암대비가 낮거나 일부 영역에서 색이 왜곡되는 문제가 발생한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이를 개선하기 위해 강인한 전역대기 산란광 추정방법과 국부영역 색포화 평가방법을 통한 매개체 전달량 추정방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 전역대기 산란광 오추정에 기인하여 발생하는 매개체 전달량 오류와 색포화 문제를 개선하였으며, 이를 통해 복원영상의 화질을 향상시켰다. 제안하는 방법과 기존 방법과의 비교 실험결과는 전역대기 산란광 추정의 정확성과 복원된 영상의 객관적, 주관성 성능 향상을 보여준다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.121-127
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• 2017

자기베어링이 장착된 고속 회전기계의 상용화 관점에서 볼 때, 반경방향 자기베어링의 기계적중심과 자기적 중심 간의 중심 오차를 관리하고 대응하는 것이 매우 중요하다. 중심 오차를 측정하는 기존의 방법은 부상 제어기에서 제어 명령의 불균형을 최소화하는 자기적 중심 위치를 실험적으로 찾는 것인데, 이는 조립 단계에서 사용할 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 회전축의 위치를 측정하는 변위센서와 베어링 코일에 전류를 공급하는 전원만으로 중심 오차를 추정할 수 있는 새로운 방법을 제시한다. 회전축의 위치와 코일 전류에 따른 자기력 모델을 기반으로 당기기 시험에서의 접촉각과 중심 오차 간의 관계를 정립하고, 시험을 통해 측정한 접촉각과 모델 기반 접촉력 각도 간의 차이를 최소화함으로써 중심 오차를 추정한다. 유한요소해석을 이용하여 방법을 수치적으로 검증하고, 실험을 통해 추정 방법의 가능성을 확 인하였다.

• 성인간호학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.275-288
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• 2013

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to perform an economic analysis and estimate the fee for the practices that carried out by Emergency Nurse Practitioner (ENP) using relative value scale (RVS) and its conversion factor. Methods: First, we developed ENP's RVS for 25 advanced nursing services based on ENP's workload and its time spent by survey. A cost analysis was performed to evaluate the conversion factor of ENP's RVS. The share of ENP's contribution to fee-for-service in emergency setting was also analyzed. Results: Calculation of the RVS of 25 advanced nursing practices showed a range of points from 73.4 to 296.3 and an average of 145.1 points. The relevant conversion factor for advanced nursing practices among ENP was estimated at 12.2~15.9 won. The contribution rate of ENP's advanced nursing practices in the relative value scale of the national health insurance was estimated at 13.1~17.0%. Conclusion: The practices of ENP are not compensated separately and its reimbursement is usually included in physician fee. An estimation of nursing fee and an independent fee related to ENP's services shows the contribution rate to total revenue. It suggests that emergency nurse practitioners be considered as a revenue source the in emergency room.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제50권4호
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• pp.589-598
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• 2018

To maintain safety and reliability of reactors, redundant sensors are usually used to measure critical variables and estimate their averaged time-dependency. Nonhealthy sensors can badly influence the estimation result of the process variable. Since online condition monitoring was introduced, the online cross-calibration method has been widely used to detect any anomaly of sensor readings among the redundant group. The cross-calibration method has four main averaging techniques: simple averaging, band averaging, weighted averaging, and parity space averaging (PSA). PSA is used to weigh redundant signals based on their error bounds and their band consistency. Using the consistency weighting factor (C), PSA assigns more weight to consistent signals that have shared bands, based on how many bands they share, and gives inconsistent signals of very low weight. In this article, three approaches are introduced for improving the PSA technique: the first is to add another consistency factor, so called trend consistency (TC), to include a consideration of the preserving of any characteristic edge that reflects the behavior of equipment/component measured by the process parameter; the second approach proposes replacing the error bound/accuracy based weighting factor ($W^a$) with a weighting factor based on the Euclidean distance ($W^d$), and the third approach proposes applying $W^d$, TC, and C, all together. Cold neutron source data sets of four redundant hydrogen pressure transmitters from a research reactor were used to perform the validation and verification. Results showed that the second and third modified approaches lead to reasonable improvement of the PSA technique. All approaches implemented in this study were similar in that they have the capability to (1) identify and isolate a drifted sensor that should undergo calibration, (2) identify a faulty sensor/s due to long and continuous missing data range, and (3) identify a healthy sensor.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.340-350
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• 2014

Recently, TMDL has been implemented to estimate the amount of pollutant loads and to establish proper mitigation strategy to decrease the pollutant loads by the Ministry of Environment. To estimate the amount of pollutant loads with reasonable accuracy, securing landcover map with periodically updating is essential. However, in reality, due to the technical and financial difficulties, the landcover map has not been updated annually. Hence, this study mainly aims to suggest an effective GIS-based updating method in order to promote utilization of landcover map in the estimation of pollutant loads. Bupyeong-gu at the City of Incheon with the total area of $31.98km^2$ was chosen for this study and spatial data including digital topographic maps, ortho aerial photo, and satellite images were collected and utilized. A total of 7,235 feature entities were newly produced through the updating process of five steps and it was revealed that the classification of landcover with the total area of $3.34km^2$ was to be changed. The validity and feasibility of the suggested method were proved with the accuracy of 97.9% from the field verification. Further study needs to be made for devising more automated method to update landcover map to facilitate TMDL for individual local governments.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제46권5호
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• pp.39-48
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• 2009

1984년 처음 SR 알고리즘이 제안된 이후, 많은 SR 복원 알고리즘이 제안되었다 SR의 접근방법 중에서도 공간적 접근방법은 저해상도 이미지의 픽셀 값을 고해상도 이미지 격자에 매핑 함으로써 이루어진다. 이때, 저해상도 이미지들 간의 각각 다른 노이즈와 다른 PSF(Point Spread Function) 함수, 왜곡으로 인해 매핑 시 문제가 된다. 때문에 저해상도 이미지들의 노이즈 성분을 최소화하는 방법이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 노이즈 성분을 최소화하는 방법으로 L1 norm의 방법을 사용하고 이와 동시에 이미지의 경계를 보완해주는 Huber norm을 사용하는 SR의 구조를 제안한다. 실험에서는 타 알고리즘과의 비교를 통해 제안한 알고리즘이 저해상도 이미지 상에 존재하는 노이즈를 줄이고 이미지 경계부분의 보완을 확인하였다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제23권10호
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• pp.1166-1172
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 상용 EM 시뮬레이션을 이용하여 안테나의 위상 응답 특성인 어레이 매니폴드를 계산하는 방법을 제안하고 실제 측정값과 비교하여 그 유효성을 검증하였다. EM 시뮬레이션을 적용하여 확보된 어레이 매니폴드는 point source에 의한 이상적인 이론값과 비교 시 안테나 자체와 안테나가 장착되는 플랫폼에 의한 영향을 정확히 계산할 수 있으며, 보정시 전계강도가 큰 주변의 FM/TV 등의 방송 신호나 다중 반사에 의한 왜곡 등을 배제시킬 수 있는 장점이 있다. 또한, 방향 탐지 시스템의 성능을 예측하기 위해서 세밀한 간격으로 수신 신호를 시뮬레이션하고 그 중 일부를 어레이 매니폴드로 적용한 후 파라볼릭 추정 방법을 이용하여 대상 신호원의 방향을 예측하는 방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법은 수신 신호의 SNR이 비교적 낮은 조건에서도 정확하게 측정 결과를 예측할 수 있어 방향 탐지 분야에 다양하게 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제98권2호
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• pp.133-141
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• 2009

This study was conducted to support for determining an efficient sampling design for forest resources assessments in South Korea with respect to statistical efficiency. For this objective, different systematic sampling designs were simulated and compared based on an artificial forest population that had been built from field sample data and satellite data in Yang-Pyeong County, Korea. Using the k-NN technique, two thematic maps (growing stock and forest cover type per pixel unit) across the test area were generated; field data (n=191) and Landsat ETM+ were used as source data. Four sampling designs (systematic sampling, systematic sampling for post-stratification, systematic cluster sampling, and stratified systematic sampling) were employed as optimum sampling design candidates. In order to compute error variance, the Monte Carlo simulation was used (k=1,000). Then, sampling error and relative efficiency were compared. When the objective of an inventory was to obtain estimations for the entire population, systematic cluster sampling was superior to the other sampling designs. If its objective is to obtain estimations for each sub-population, post-stratification gave a better estimation. In order to successfully perform this procedure, it requires clear definitions of strata of interest per field observation unit for efficient stratification.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.2257-2262
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• 2014

A series of studies have explored the role of cytosolic serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT1) C1420T polymorphism in cancer risk, but their results were conflicting rather than conclusive. To derive a more precise estimation of the association between C1420T and cancer risk, the present meta-analysis of 28 available studies with 15,121 cases and 18,023 controls was conducted. The results revealed that there was no significant association between the polymorphism and cancer risk overall. In stratified analysis by cancer type (breast cancer, gastrointestinal cancer, leukemia, lymphoma, and others), the results showed that 1420T allele was associated with decreased risk in leukemia (CT vs. CC: OR= 0.825, 95% CI =0.704-0.966; and CT+TT vs. CC: OR= 0.838, 95% CI = 0.722-0.973), but the same results were not present for other cancer types. When subgroup analysis was performed by source of control (population-based [PB] and hospital-based [HB]), a borderline inverse association was observed for the HB subgroup (CT vs. CC: OR= 0.917, 95% CI = 0.857-0.982) but not for the PB subgroup. Stratifying by geographic area (America, Asia and Europe), significant inverse association was only found in Asia subgroup (CT vs. CC: OR= 0.674, 95% CI = 0.522-0.870). In summary, the findings suggest that SHMT1 C1420T polymorphism is not associated with overall cancer development, but might decrease cancer susceptibility of Asians as well as reduce leukemia risk. Large well-designed epidemiological studies will be necessary to validate the risk identified in the current meta-analysis.