• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.584-591
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• 2004

기존의 아날로그 점호각 제어방법은 op-amp, 저항 및 커패시터 등을 사용하였기 때문에 아날로그 회로의 특성상 온도와 소자의 경년변화에 따라 파라메타 값이 변동하며 전원전압의 노이즈에 민감하게 반응하는 단점이 있었다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 디지털 사이리스터 점호회로를 이용하여 기존의 아날로그 점호회로 장점인 선형특성, 그리고 전원전압 노이즈 온도 및 갱년변화에 의한 수동소자의 변동에 강인한 특징을 갖는다. 또한 디지털 시스템의 장점인 연산기능을 이용하여 전원전압의 불평형 발생시 디지털 시스템의 특징인 연산기능을 이용하여 전원전압의 불평형을 검지하고 보상알고리즘을 도입하여 언제나 리플이 없는 출력전압을 만들어내어 사이리스터 전력변환 시스템의 안정적인 운전이 가능하게 할 수 있는 장점이 있다.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2003년도 춘계전력전자학술대회 논문집(2)
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• pp.565-568
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• 2003

The conventional analog-based firing circuit can be implemented by comparing a linearly decreasing periodic sawtooth waveform synchronized to the ac line, with a voltage corresponding to the desired converter delay angle. This circuit requires a large number of components (resistance and capacitor) and careful adjustment of the synchronization circuity In this paper a novel firing circuit is proposed for thyristor switch is elements. The proposed circuit is implemented on the basis of the analog cosine method using FPGA and microprocessor.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.79-84
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• 1996

A number of experimental evidences suggest that the rnun ventrolateral medulla(RVLM) is the final common pathway in the regulation of arterial blood pressure. A Voup of neurons in the RVLM, called the cardiovascular neurons (UN), show spontaneous activity temporally synchronized with the periodic cardiac cycle. These neurons affect the sympathetic nerve discharge(SND), thus are believed to be responsible for blood pressure control. The present experiment identified 98 UVNs in 42 cats based on the temporal relationships between each neuron's activity with both the cardiac cycle and SWD. In 20 UWL changes of spontaneous firing rate(FR) during the somatosympathetic reflex(SSR) were studied Five different firing patterns were observed during the pressor and depressor responses of SSR, implying that they form an interconnected neuronal circuit interacting with one another to generate efferent signals for blood pressure regulation. In the following companion paper, the firing patterns of CVN are analyzed to develop a minimal neuronal circuit model explaining the present experimental outcome.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.71-80
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• 1996

A number of experimental evidences suggest that the rnun ventrolateral medulla(RVLM) is the final common pathway in the regulation of arterial blood pressure. A Voup of neurons in the RVLM, called the cardiovascular neurons (UN), show spontaneous activity temporally synchronized with the periodic cardiac cycle. These neurons affect the sympathetic nerve discharge(SND), thus are believed to be responsible for blood pressure control. The present experiment identified 98 UVNs in 42 cats based on the temporal relationships between each neuron's activity with both the cardiac cycle and SWD. In 20 UWL changes of spontaneous firing rate(FR) during the somatosympathetic reflex(SSR) were studied Five different firing patterns were observed during the pressor and depressor responses of SSR, implying that they form an interconnected neuronal circuit interacting with one another to generate efferent signals for blood pressure regulation. In the following companion paper, the firing patterns of CVN are analyzed to develop a minimal neuronal circuit model explaining the present experimental outcome.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한산업공학회/한국경영과학회 2002년도 춘계공동학술대회
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• pp.923-929
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• 2002

We discuss scheduling analysis for a discrete event system with time windows of which firing or holding time delays are subject to random variation within some finite range. To do this, we propose a modified p-lime Petri net, named p+-time Petri net. We develop a condition for which a synchronized transition does not have a dead token, that is, the firing epochs do not violate the time window constraints. We propose a method of computing the feasible range of the token sojourn time at each place based on a time difference graph. We also discuss an application for analyzing wafer residency times within the process chambers for a dual-armed cluster tool for chemical vapor deposition.

• Journal of the Korean Physical Society
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• 제73권9호
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• pp.1385-1392
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• 2018

A network with coupled biological neurons provides various forms of collective synchronous dynamics. Such phase-locking dynamics states resemble eigenvectors in a linear coupling system in that the forms are determined by the symmetry of the coupling strengths. However, the states behave as attractors in a nonlinear dynamics system. We here study the collective synchronous dynamics in a neural system by using a novel theory. We exhibit how the period and the stability of individual phase-locking dynamics states are determined by the characteristics of synaptic couplings. We find that, contrary to common sense, the firing rate of a synchronized state decreases with increasing synaptic coupling strength.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.307-314
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• 2008

Retinal prostheses are being developed to restore vision for the blind with retinal diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP) or age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Among the many issues for prosthesis development, stimulation encoding strategy is one of the most essential electrophysiological issues. The more we understand the retinal circuitry how it encodes and processes visual information, the greater it could help decide stimulation encoding strategy for retinal prosthesis. Therefore, we examined how retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) in in-vitro retinal preparation act together to encode a visual scene with multielectrode array (MEA). Simultaneous recording of many RGCs with MEA showed that nearby neurons often fired synchronously, with spike delays mostly within 1 ms range. This synchronized firing - narrow correlation - was blocked by gap junction blocker, heptanol, but not by glutamatergic synapse blocker, kynurenic acid. By tracking down all the RGC pairs which showed narrow correlation, we could harvest 40 functional connectivity maps of RGCs which showed the cell cluster firing together. We suggest that finding functional connectivity map would be useful in stimulation encoding strategy for the retinal prosthesis since stimulating the cluster of RGCs would be more efficient than separately stimulating each individual RGC.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.165-181
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• 2024

The slow and regular pacemaking activity of midbrain dopamine (DA) neurons requires proper spatial organization of the excitable elements between the soma and dendritic compartments, but the somatodendritic organization is not clear. Here, we show that the dynamic interaction between the soma and multiple proximal dendritic compartments (PDCs) generates the slow pacemaking activity in DA neurons. In multipolar DA neurons, spontaneous action potentials (sAPs) consistently originate from the axon-bearing dendrite. However, when the axon initial segment was disabled, sAPs emerge randomly from various primary PDCs, indicating that multiple PDCs drive pacemaking. Ca²⁺ measurements and local stimulation/perturbation experiments suggest that the soma serves as a stably-oscillating inertial compartment, while multiple PDCs exhibit stochastic fluctuations and high excitability. Despite the stochastic and excitable nature of PDCs, their activities are balanced by the large centrally-connected inertial soma, resulting in the slow synchronized pacemaking rhythm. Furthermore, our electrophysiological experiments indicate that the soma and PDCs, with distinct characteristics, play different roles in glutamate-induced burst-pause firing patterns. Excitable PDCs mediate excitatory burst responses to glutamate, while the large inertial soma determines inhibitory pause responses to glutamate. Therefore, we could conclude that this somatodendritic organization serves as a common foundation for both pacemaker activity and evoked firing patterns in midbrain DA neurons.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제25권8호
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• pp.45-50
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• 2008

An ink jetting measurement system has been developed such that the velocity as well as the volume of ink droplets can be measured. In order to measure the ink droplet, a strobe LED light was synchronized to the droplet firing signal in order to obtain frozen droplet images. Then, a LabVIEW based software was developed for the analysis of the droplet image. For the efficient droplet analysis, a user generated rectangular shaped ROI (Region of Interest) was used. By using ROI, the ink droplet image can be easily isolated from the other structures such as printhead and the processing area can be minimized.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.228-236
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• 2004

망막의 신경절세포는 눈에 가해진 시각 정보를 흥분파의 형태로 변환하여 시신경을 통하여 대뇌의 시각피질까지 전달한다. 과거에 사용하여 왔던 방법은 단일 전극을 단일 뉴론의 세포내, 외에 삽입함으로써 특정 시간대에 특정 뉴론만을 기록하는 방법이었으므로 신경망 전체를 통하여 처리되어 나오는 정보를 알아보기에는 적합하지 않다. 다행히 최근에 다채널 전극을 사용하여 여러 신경세포에서 나오는 신호를 동시에 기록할 수 있는 다채널기록법(multichannel recording) 이 개발되었으므로 본 연구에서는 8행 ${\times}$ 8열의 다채널전극을 사용한 다채널기록법을 이용하여 망막신경절세포 군집의 흥분파를 기록, 분석함으로써 단일 신경세포가 아닌 망막 신경망을 거쳐 최종적으로 나오는 신호에 대해서 연구하였다. 전극에 부착된 망막 절편에 2초 동안 빛을 가하고 5초 동안 빛이 차단되는 자극을 반복적으로 인가한 후, PSTH 분석방법으로 망막 신경절세포를 ON 세포, OFF세포, ON/OFF세포의 세가지 유형으로 분류할 수 있었으며, ON 세포: 35.0$\pm$4.4%, OFF 세포： 30.4$\pm$1.9%, ON/OFF 세포： 34.6$\pm$5.3% (전체 망막절편수=8)로 분포되어 있음을 확인하였다. 또한 상호상관(Cross-Correlation) 분석방법을 통해서 인접한 세포들끼리 매우 짧은 시간대에(<1 ms) 동기화된 흥분을 발사함을 확인할 수 있었고, 동기화된 흥분은 6～8개의 세포로 구성된 세포 클러스터에서 일어남을 확인하였다. 즉 개개의 신경절세포들이 빛 자극을 처리함에 있어 독립적으로 작용한다는 기존의 가정과는 달리 인접한 세포끼리는 동기화된 흥분을 보이는 것을 확인하였으며, 이러한 방식은 시세포 수와 신경절세포 수의 불균형으로 인해 초래되는 병목현상을 완화할 수 있는 효과적인 기전으로 생각된다.