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A Biomechanical Comparative Analysis of the Multi-Radius Total Knee Arthroplastry System for Go up Stair and Go down Stair (계단 오르기와 내리기 동안 다축범위(multi-radius) 무릎인공관절 수술자의 운동역학적 비교분석)

  • Jin, Young-Wan;Yoo, Byung-In;Kawk, Yi-Sub
    • Korean Journal of Applied Biomechanics
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.31-41
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    • 2006
  • The primary purpose of a TKA is to restore normal knee function Therefore, ideally, a TKA should: (a) maintain the natural leverage of the knee joint muscles to ensure generating adequate knee muscle moments to accomplish daily tasks such as rising from climbing stairs; (b) provide adequate knee joint stability. A 16-channel MyoResearch XP EMG system was used to collect the differential input surface electromyography signals VM, VL, RF, BF, ST during climbing/descending stair tests. A Peak Motion Measurement System was used to collect the kinematic and kinetic data. AKIN-COM Ill isokinetic dynamometer was used for EMG of VM, VL, RF, BF and ST during maximal voluntary contraction. I Quadriceps EMG results for the VM of the passed 1year group limb demonstrated significant less RMS EMG than that of the passed 3year group limb $60^{\circ}-15^{\circ}$ of knee flexion(p<0.05). The VL of the passed 1year group limb also demonstrated significants less RMS EMG than that of the passed 3year group limb from $60^{\circ}-45^{\circ}$ of knee flexion(p<0.05). Similar to the VM and VL, the RF of the passed 1year group limb showed less RMS EMG than that of the passed 3year group limb from $60^{\circ}-30^{\circ}$ do knee flexion(p<0.05). Hamstring EMG results for the BF of the passed 1year group limb demonstrated less RMS EMG than that of the passed 3year group limb from $75^{\circ}-15^{\circ}$ of knee flexion(p<0.05). The passed 1year group limb tended to have less ADD displacement(p<0.071) than that of the passed 3year group limb. There was no significant difference of the ABD displacement between the passed 1year group and the passed 3year group limbs(p<0.73). The passed 3year group used compensatory adaptation movement strategies to compensate for the strength deficit of passed 3year group limbs. The passed 3year group limb also increased the quadriceps muscle activation level to produce more knee extension moment to compensate for the short quadriceps moment arm. The passe 3year group limb might have an unstable knee joint in the medio-Iateral direction during the climbing/descending by showing a tendency of more ADD displacement and greater hamming co-activation EMG than the passed 1year group limbs. The TKA design was not able to help the knee joint to produce adequate knee extension moment with less quadriceps muscle effort. I think that old man needs continuous exercise for muscle strength.

A Design of Wireless Sensor Node Using Embedded System (임베디드 시스템을 활용한 무선 센서 노드설계)

  • Cha, Jin-Man;Lee, Young-Ra;Park, Yeon-Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.623-628
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    • 2009
  • The emergence of compact and low-power wireless communication sensors and actuators in the technology supporting the ongoing miniaturization of processing and storage allows for entirely the new kinds of embedded systems. These systems are distributed and deployed in environments where they may have been designed into a particular control method, and are often very dynamic. Collection of devices can communicate to achieve a higher level of coordinated behavior. Wireless sensor nodes deposited in various places provide light, temperature, and activity measurements. Wireless sensor nodes attached to circuits or appliances sense the current or control the usage. Together they form a dynamic and multi-hop routing network connecting each node to more powerful networks and processing resources. Wireless sensor networks are a specific-application and therefore they have to involve both software and hardware. They also use protocols that relate to both applications and the wireless network. Wireless sensor networks are consumer devices supporting multimedia applications such as personal digital assistants, network computers, and mobile communication devices. Wireless sensor networks are becoming an important part of industrial and military applications. The characteristics of modem embedded systems are the capable of communicating adapting the different operating environments. In this paper, We designed and implemented sensor network system which shows through host PC sensing temperature and humidity data transmitted for wireless sensor nodes composed wireless temperature and humidity sensor and designs sensor nodes using embedded system with the intention of studying USN.

Simulation Implementation of Fossil Power Plant Condensate Pumps' Rotation Operation Logic Using MATLAB/Simulink (MATLAB/Simulink를 이용한 화력발전소 복수펌프 순환기동로직 시뮬레이션 구현)

  • Yoon, Chang-Sun;Hong, Yeon-Chan
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.693-699
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    • 2016
  • The simulators for pump operation developed by domestic or overseas research have been developed for dynamic analysis or operator training purposes. However, previous developed simulators focused on the operators so they are unsuitable for logic designers or commissioning engineers who need to change the operation conditions or logics arbitrarily. In addition, the simulator for two or more condensate pumps' operation, which can be used easily by plant designers or operators, has not been developed. Accordingly, this paper suggests a simulation method that can be used easily for plant designers or operators using MATLAB Simulink. This suggestion helps users who can use MATLAB to implement ANSI/ISA S5.2, which is applied mainly for DCS (Distributed Control System). In addition, to implement the logics specified in the CODE, Sub-Systems were created for the block and evaluated to determine if they can be used in the simulator. In the working level stage using the suggested method, all error possibilities that might occur during the three pumps' rotation operation could be verified with the suggested simulator during the design stage or before operation.

Design and Implementation of a Network Programming Language (네트워크를 고려한 프로그래밍언어의 설계와 구현)

  • Won, Yu-Hun;Han, Tae-Suk
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.26 no.11
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    • pp.1359-1371
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    • 1999
  • 대규모 네트워크 상에서 동작하는 분산 시스템의 구현을 위해 제시된 방법 중의 하나인 이동 코드 개념은 네트워크 공유 자원에 접근할 수 있는 효과적인 방법을 제시하였고 이 개념을 지원하는 많은 언어들의 개발을 가져왔다. 개발된 언어들이 가지고 있는 이동 코드를 지원하기 위한 언어 구문과 적용하려는 문제 영역의 특성을 반영한 언어 구문은 네트워크 프로그래밍을 하는데 있어서 효율과 문제 중심의 프로그램의 두 가지를 모두 가능하게 하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 현재 분산 컴퓨팅 환경에서 가장 많이 사용되고 있는 클라이언트-서버 모델을 확장하여 서버의 자원에 접근할 수 있는 또 다른 방법을 가진 모델을 제시하고, 이 모델을 표현할 수 있는 언어를 설계하였다. 설계된 언어는 이동 코드의 개념을 지원함으로써 대규모 네트워크에서 수행되는 프로그램의 작성을 가능하게 하고, 분산 범위 규칙을 채택함으로써 이동 코드의 기술을 일반 함수를 기술하듯 명확한 관점에서 할 수 있도록 하였다. 또한 네트워크 관련 자원들을 언어 구문으로 채택하여 네트워크 프로그래밍을 언어 수준에서 할 수 있도록 하였다. 언어의 이론적인 설계에 그치지 않고 설계된 언어를 수행할 수 있는 실행 시간 지원 시스템을 구현하였다. 실행 시간 지원 시스템은 언어를 해석하고 실행하는 코드 해석기와 이동 코드를 지원하는 네트워크 감독으로 구성되며 설계된 언어를 사용하여 실제로 네트워크 응용 프로그램을 작성하고 테스트 해 볼 수 있다.Abstract Some studies bring up a concept of code mobility as an innovative way to access network resources in order to develop distributed systems working on a large scale network. After that, many languages are suggested to support this concept. In these languages, language constructors for their particular application domains and mobile codes provide both problem-oriented views to the programmer and reasonable performance to the system. In this thesis, we extend the client-server model that is the most popular model in developing distributed systems these days. We propose a model to have another method to access server's resources and extend the C language to implement the proposed model for the large scale network. The new language has capability to build a software working on a large scale network by supporting mobile code and gives a consistent network programming view to the programmer by adapting distributed semantics. The language also makes network programming easy by providing network primitives at the language level. We implement a prototype of run-time system to support this language. The run-time system is composed of two major parts: code-interpreter that interprets and executes the language and network-daemon that supports mobile codes.

Reduction in Pressure Ripples for a Bent-Axis Piston Pump (사축식 액셜 피스톤 펌프의 압력맥동 감소)

  • Kim, Kyung-Hoon;Sohn, Kwon;Jang, Joo-Sup
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.109-116
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    • 2004
  • Bent-axis piston pump have been commonly used in hydraulic systems because of high pressure level, best efficiency, low shear force on pistons and low operating costs. The other side, they have a few demerits like that they have the relatively high number of moving parts and more discharge pressure ripples. Especially, the discharge pressure ripples bring about vibrations and noises in hydraulic system components such as connecting pipes and control valves, so that these deteriorate the stability and accuracy of the systems. Therefore, the hydraulic systems having the bent-axis piston pump require the methods to reduce the discharge pressure ripples. So, the purpose of this paper is to reduce the discharge pressure ripples by the phase interference of pressure wave and to develope the analysis model of the pumps to predict the discharge pressure ripples. In this paper, the analysis model of the bent-axis piston pump was developed using the AMESim software, and the reliability of that was verified by the comparison with the experimental results. The hydraulic pipeline with a parallel line was used as the method to generate the phase interference of pressure wave. the dynamics characteristics of the hydraulic pipeline with a parallel line were analyzed by a transfer matrix method. the usefulness of the phase interference of pressure wave was investigated through the experiment and simulation. The results from the experiment and simulation said that the phase interference of pressure wave by the hydraulic pipeline with a parallel line could reduce the discharge pressure wave of the pump well. The analysis model of the bent-axis piston pump developed in this paper and the method of the phase interference by the hydraulic pipeline with a parallel line are expected to be helpful to achieve the design of the pump and to reduce the discharge pressure wave of the pump effectively.

Optimal State Feedback Control of Container Crane Using RCGA Technique (RCGA 기법을 이용한 컨테이너 크레인의 최적 상태 피드백 제어)

  • Lee, Yun-Hyung;Yoo, Heui-Han;Cho, Kwon-Hae;So, Myung-Ok
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.31 no.3 s.119
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    • pp.247-252
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    • 2007
  • The container crane is one of the most important equipments at container terminal. If its working time in cycle could be reduced then container terminal efficiency and service level can be increased. So there are many i1forts to reduce working time of container cranes. It means how to design the controller with good performance which has small overshoot and swing motion of container crane. We, in this paper, present a state feedback controller based on LQ theory incorporating a RCGA which means real-coded genetic algorithm RCGA can search state feedback gains under given objective function. A set of simulation works are carried out in order to prove the control effectiveness of the proposed methods.

Design of VCO(Voltage Controlled Oscillator) for mobile communication with a built-in voltage regulator (전압 레귤레이터를 내장한 이동통신용 VCO(Voltage Controlled Oscillator) 설계)

  • Cho, Hyon-mook
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.76-84
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    • 1997
  • In this paper, one of the core components of a mobile communication system, VCO(Voltage Controlled Oscillator) IC is designed. The VCO IC was designed, have realized as LC turned oscillator using varicap. LC sinusoidal tuned oscillator generally requires external inductors and thus remainding circuit is implemneted in monolithic IC. The circuit is fabricated using an 15 mask IC process and has a die size of 1150um${\times}$780um. The tests showed that VCO was operated at frequencies in the regions between 880MHz-915MHz in the control voltage range of 1V to 3V at 5V supply voltage and as the power supply was varied from 4.5V to 5.5V, the frequency varied 425KHz/V. The VCO IC has frequency shift of 1.97MHz/T, carrier level of -7dBm and power consumption of 16.7mA. Also it has phase noise of -80dBc/Hz, offset at 50KHz and harmonic response of center frequency is -41dBm. For the future development of the transceiver 1 chip, the previously mentioned external devices need to be incorporated into Si MMIC.

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A Study on Cell Planning for High-Speed Portable Internet (휴대인터넷 시스템 셀 설계 방식에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Myoung-Min;Hong, Een-Kee
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.71-78
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    • 2005
  • Nowadays, the demand of HPI(High-speed Portable Internet) has been gradually increased to support the various services of high speed wire line internet such as xDS. HPI can support high speed internet in anyplace, anytime. For successful development of HPI, the performance should be evaluated according to the cell size and/or the number of users and cell design should be carried out based on these criteria. The previous cellular systems using CDMA technique focus on the establishment of link based on power control but HPI systems consider the QoS (Quality of Service) and its performance based on the scheduling technique. The results from the system level simulation show that the throughput is sensitive to the cell size and the number of users has little impact on it. Moreover, the variation of service delay is more sensitive to the number of users but less to the cell size.

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Development of Liquid Metal Passive Cooling Flow Simulation System (액체금속 피동냉각유동모사 실증설비의 개발)

  • Ryu, Kyung-Ha;Kim, Jae-Hyoung;Lee, Tae-Hyun;Lee, Sang-Hyuk;Bahn, Byoung-Min
    • Transactions of the KSME C: Technology and Education
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.257-264
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    • 2015
  • To maintain sustainability of nuclear energy as an important energy source, both safety problem and Spent Nuclear Fuels(SNFs) problem should be solved. In case of Gen-IV reactors such as fast reactor, SNFs can be used as fuels by using fast neutrons. It can be a suitable treatment method of high-level waste in near future. Liquid metals such as Sodium or Lead-Bismuth Eutectic (LBE) can be possibly used as a coolant to use fast neutrons. In this paper, it was described that natural circulation parameter studies, design analyses, material selections and a completion of facilities. To develop a natural circulation facility, thermal hydraulic analyses were performed. Installation technique of liquid metal natural circulation were secured.

Esthetic Restoration of Complicated Crown-Root Fractures Utilizing Orthodontic Extrusion (복합 치관-치근 파절의 교정적 정출술을 이용한 심미적 수복)

  • Kim, Minji;Kim, Jinyoung;Kim, Suhyun;Lim, Sumin
    • Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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    • v.43 no.1
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    • pp.60-69
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    • 2016
  • Complicated crown-root fracture of permanent incisors cause esthetic, functional, and psychological problems to patients. Therefore, treatment is important and multidisciplinary treatment is required. This case report describes the clinical procedures involved in the treatment of trauma-induced complicated crown-root fractures in the maxillary incisor of two young patients. Conventional root canal treatment and apexification were performed in each patient. To expose the fracture margins to the supragingival level and to reestablish the biologic width, orthodontic extrusions with fixed appliances were performed followed by a retention period. During the retention period, fiber-optic posts and cores were built up and provisional crowns were placed. Finally, ceramic crowns manufactured using a computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) system were placed. In both patients, the teeth presented satisfactory functional and esthetic outcomes without relapse. The periodontal tissues were healthy.