• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.97-102
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• 2011

Electroglottography (EGG) is a common method for providing non-invasive measurements of glottal activity. EGG has been used in vocal pathology as a clinical or research tool to measure vocal fold contact. This paper presents the results of pitch, jitter, and closed quotient (CQ) measurements in electroglottographic signals of young (mean = 22.7 years) and elderly (mean = 74.3 years) male and female subjects. The sustained corner vowels /i/, /a/, and /u/ were measured at around 70 dB SPL since the most notable among EGG variables is the phonation intensity, which showed positive correlation with closed phase. The aim of this paper was to measure EGG data according to age and gender. In CQ, there was a significant difference between young and elderly female subjects while there was no significant difference between young and elderly male subjects. The mean value for young males was higher than that for elderly males while the mean value for young females was lower than that for elderly females. Thus, it can be said that in mean values, increased CQ was related to decreased age for females, while CQ decreased for males as the speaker's age decreased. Although the laryngeal degeneration due to increased age seems to occur to a lesser extent in females, the significant increase of CQ in elderly female voices could not be explained in terms of age-related physiological changes. In standard deviation of pitch and jitter, the mean values for young and elderly males were higher than that for young and elderly females. That is, male subjects showed higher in mean values of voice variables than female subjects. This result could be considered as a sign of vocal instability in males. It was suggested that these results may provide powerful insights into the control and regulation of normal phonation and into the detection and characterization of pathology.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.57-68
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• 2014

로봇 개발에서 하드웨어를 개발한 후에 테스트하면 많은 시행착오를 겪게 되어 많은 비용이 소요된다. 로봇이 현장과 동일한 로봇 시뮬레이션을 사용하여 로봇을 개발하면 소프트웨어 및 하드웨어의 병행 개발 및 테스트를 통해 개발결과를 예측할 수 있고 비용을 절감할 수 있다. 로봇 시뮬레이션 플랫폼인 마이크로소프트의 로보틱스 개발자 스튜디오(MSRDS)는 하드웨어 로봇이 없이도 기본적인 로봇 프로그래밍을 할 수 있는 시뮬레이션 로봇과 환경을 제공한다. 본 논문에서는 MSRDS에서 LRF센서, Bumper센서, IR센서, Sonar센서의 성능을 비교분석하기 위하여 미로 찾기를 수행한다. 센서의 성능을 분석하기 위하여 동일한 조건으로 실험한다. 4가지의 센서중에서 LRF센서가 주행시간, 방향전환횟수, 장애물 충돌횟수면에서 우수한 성능을 보인 반면에 범퍼센서는 가장 성능이 낮았다. IR센서와 Sonar센서는 방향 전환횟수면에서 LRF센서 보다는 낮은 성능을 보였다.

• 한국디지털건축인테리어학회논문집
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.15-21
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• 2008

The district unit planning (DUP) in Korea is a planning instrument. One of the key methods is the incentive system focused on the mitigation of the financial charge of business proprietors with use of various planning deregulation. Here in this paper, it is examined whether the incentive system is indiscriminately applied not only in the metropolitan cities but also in the rural cities. The analysis is carried out with six indicators in relation to the effect on the incentive system on the market of Apartment Housing Development. The indicators are a. the building-to-land ratio(BLR), b. the floor area ratio(FAR) c. the publicly assessed value of land(PAVL), d. the sale price of land(SPL), e. the sale/lease price of apartment house(SLPH) and f. the ratio of housing subscription(RHS). The final result is that the incentive system has different effects between metropolitan cities and rural cities. One of reasons lies on the too high FAR in rural cities to be given basically. Another reason lies on the difference between the cost for purchasing public installation and the profit of the sale & lease price of apartment house. In rural cities their difference becomes much narrow. Finally, the low ratio of housing subscription(RHS) in rural cities makes the effect of the incentive system nearby meaningless.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2020

음향 시스템의 지향성 제어기술은 음향의 품질 향상을 위한 핵심 기술이다. 음향 시스템에서 점 음원이 아닌 선음원을 제공하면 원거리에서 감쇠 간섭의 영향을 줄일 수 있기 때문에, 고품질의 음향을 제공할 수 있다. 특히, 라인 어레이(line-array) 스피커 시스템을 이용하면 원거리까지 균일한 고품질의 음향을 제공할 수 있다. 그러나, 고음은 파장이 짧기 때문에 라인 어레이 시스템의 스피커간의 거리가 짧아야 하지만 물리적인 한계가 있다. 본 논문에서 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 웨이브 가이드를 설계하고 스피커 유닛에 장착하였다. 개발된 스피커의 성능 확인을 위해 다양한 음향특성을 측정하고 테스트 하였다. 그 결과 개발된 스피커를 이용하여 라인 어레이 음향 시스템을 구성하면 고음 영역을 포함한 모든 영역에서 선 음원을 제공할 수 있기 때문에 단일 확장 음원과 같은 효과를 얻을 수 있고, 원거리까지 고품질의 음향을 제공할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Radiation Oncology Journal
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.141-145
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• 1986

1981년 1월부터 1985년 12월까지 서울대학교병원 치료방사선과에서 운2명의 극소적으로 절제 불가능한 췌장암 환자를 방사선과 악물요법으로 치료하였다. 방사선은 2주의 간격을 두고 2000cGy씩 총 4000cGy를 조사하였으며 5-FU (5-fluorouracil)는 방사선 조사의 각 course의 첫 3일에 걸쳐 주입하였다. 방사선치료 종료 4주 후부터 FAM (5-FU, Adriamycin, Mitomycin)을 지속요법으로 사용하였다. 통증 완화는 $22\%(4/18)$에서 완전관해를, $39\%(7/18)$에서 부분관해를 보였다. 생존기간의 중앙치는 31주였으며 치료 전 Performance status가 중요한 예후인자였다. 국소적으로 절제불가능한 췌장암의 치료에 있어서 방사선과 FAM regimen의 병용은 통증완화 및 생존기간의 연장에 기여할 수 있는 바 이에 대한 보다 많은 연구와 고찰이 없어야 차겠다.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.99-104
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• 2019

신속한 화재 진압을 목표로 가스계 소화 시스템에서 소화약제는 일반적으로 섭씨 $21^{\circ}C$에서 약 28 MPa의 고압으로 저장되며, 방출시 감압밸브와 오리피스를 지나면서 약 8 MPa의 압력으로 방출한다. 때문에 방출시 약 140 dB 이상의 소음이 발생하게 되는데, 이로 인하여 hard disk drive (HDD)와 같은 전자 부품들이 손상되기도 한다. 따라서 소음문제는 가스계 소화 시스템에 있어서 중요한 문제점으로 대두되고 있다. 소음문제 해결방안으로는 일반적으로 흡음재를 부착하여 소음을 저감시키는 방안이 있으며, 본 연구에서는 흡음재의 두께를 설계 변수로 선정하여 유동소음을 저감하는 방안을 고찰하였다. 관측점에서의 소음도와 노즐내부 유로에 나타나는 유동특성은 상용 코드인 ANSYS CFX ver. 18.1을 이용하여 수치적으로 계산하여 분석하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권7호
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• pp.2455-2475
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• 2021

Patient Navigation Program (PNP) is considered as an important implementation of health care systems that can assist in patient's treatment. Due to the feasibility of PNP implementation, a systematic reuse is needed for a wide adoption of PNP computerized system. SPL is one of the promising systematic reuse approaches for creating a reusable architecture to enabled reuse in several similar applications of PNP systems which has its own variations with other applications. However, stakeholder decision making which result from the imprecise, uncertain, and subjective nature of architecture selection based on quality attributes (QA) further hinders the development of the product line architecture. Therefore, this study aims to propose a quality-driven approach using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) techniques for Software Product Line Architecture (SPLA) to have an objective selection based on the QA of stakeholders in the domain of PNP. There are two steps proposed to this approach. First, a clear representation of quality is proposed by extending feature model (FM) with QA feature to determine the QA in the early phase of architecture selection. Second, MCDA techniques were applied for architecture selection based on objective preference for certain QA in the domain of PNP. The result of the proposed approach is the implementation of the PNP system with SPLA that had been selected using MCDA techniques. Evaluation for the approach is done by checking the approach's applicability in a case study and stakeholder validation. Evaluation on ease of use and usefulness of the approach with selected stakeholders have shown positive responses. The evaluation results proved that the proposed approach assisted in the implementation of PNP systems.

• 대한청각학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.131-137
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• 2021

Background and Objectives: The current study investigates pitch coding using frequency following response (FFR) among vocalists, violinists, and non-musicians for Indian Carnatic transition music stimuli and assesses whether their listening biographies strengthen their F0 neural encoding for these stimuli. Subjects and Methods: Three participant groups in the age range of 18-45 years were included in the study. The first group of participants consisted of 20 trained Carnatic vocalists, the second group consisted of 13 trained violinists, and the third group consisted of 22 non-musicians. The stimuli consisted of three Indian Carnatic raga notes (/S-R2-G3/), which was sung by a trained vocalist and played by a trained violinist. For the purposes of this study, the two transitions between the notes T1=/S-R2/ and T2=/R2-G3/ were analyzed, and FFRs were recorded binaurally at 80 dB SPL using neuroscan equipment. Results: Overall average responses of the participants were generated. To assess the participants' pitch tracking to the Carnatic music stimuli, stimulus to response correlation (CC), pitch strength (PS), and pitch error (PE) were measured. Results revealed that both the vocalists and violinists had better CC and PS values with lower PE values, as compared to non-musicians, for both vocal and violin T1 and T2 transition stimuli. Between the musician groups, the vocalists were found to perform superiorly to the violinists for both vocal and violin T1 and T2 transition stimuli. Conclusions: Listening biographies strengthened F0 neural coding, with respect to the vocalists for vocal stimulus at the brainstem level. The violinists, on the other hand, did not show such preference.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.9-17
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• 2022

As the COVID-19 pandemic situation worsens, the time spent indoors increases, and the exposure to indoor environmental pollution such as indoor air pollution and noise also increases, causing problems such as deterioration of human health, stress, and discord between neighbors. This paper designs and implements a system that measures and monitors indoor air quality and noise, which are representative evaluation criteria of the indoor environment. The system proposed in this paper consists of a particulate matter measurement subsystem that measures and corrects the concentration of particulate matters to monitor indoor air quality, and a noise measurement subsystem that detects changes in sound and converts it to a sound pressure level. The concentration of indoor particulate matters is measured using a laser-based light scattering method, and an error caused by temperature and humidity is compensated in this paper. For indoor noise measurement, the voltage measured through a microphone is basically measured, Fourier transform is performed to classify it by frequency, and then A-weighting is performed to correct loudness equality. Then, the RMS value is obtained, high-frequency noise is removed by performing time-weighting, and then SPL is obtained. Finally, the equivalent noise level for 1 minute and 5 minutes are calculated to show the indoor noise level. In order to classify noise into direct impact sound and air transmission noise, a piezo vibration sensors is mounted to determine the presence or absence of direct impact transmitted through the wall. For performance evaluation, the error of particulate matter measurement is analyzed through TSI's AM510 instrument. and compare the noise error with CEM's noise measurement system.

• Journal of Audiology & Otology
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.131-137
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• 2021

Background and Objectives: The current study investigates pitch coding using frequency following response (FFR) among vocalists, violinists, and non-musicians for Indian Carnatic transition music stimuli and assesses whether their listening biographies strengthen their F0 neural encoding for these stimuli. Subjects and Methods: Three participant groups in the age range of 18-45 years were included in the study. The first group of participants consisted of 20 trained Carnatic vocalists, the second group consisted of 13 trained violinists, and the third group consisted of 22 non-musicians. The stimuli consisted of three Indian Carnatic raga notes (/S-R2-G3/), which was sung by a trained vocalist and played by a trained violinist. For the purposes of this study, the two transitions between the notes T1=/S-R2/ and T2=/R2-G3/ were analyzed, and FFRs were recorded binaurally at 80 dB SPL using neuroscan equipment. Results: Overall average responses of the participants were generated. To assess the participants' pitch tracking to the Carnatic music stimuli, stimulus to response correlation (CC), pitch strength (PS), and pitch error (PE) were measured. Results revealed that both the vocalists and violinists had better CC and PS values with lower PE values, as compared to non-musicians, for both vocal and violin T1 and T2 transition stimuli. Between the musician groups, the vocalists were found to perform superiorly to the violinists for both vocal and violin T1 and T2 transition stimuli. Conclusions: Listening biographies strengthened F0 neural coding, with respect to the vocalists for vocal stimulus at the brainstem level. The violinists, on the other hand, did not show such preference.