• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.103-115
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• 1997

The purpose of this study was to examine the amount of $\beta-endorphin$ and pain threshold according to time sequences in applying experimented TENS and MENS(pre treatment, posttreatment, 25 minutes after the treatment). This test was to aim at showing the effects of the experimental $\beta-endorphin$ and pain threshold applied to the randomly selected twenty healthy men in their twenties. The subjects were divided into two group(ten for TENS and the other ten MENS). The results obtained are as follows : 1. There was no significant difference in the $\beta-endorphin$ between TENS and HENS(p>0.05). There was no difference in the pain threshold at pretreatment and posttreatment(p>0.05), but there was some difference at 25 minutes after the treatment(p<0.05). 2. The group of TENS in the experimental $\beta-endorphin$ had the highest level of $14.40{\pm}3.098$ at posttreatment, but the level decreased a little according to time passed. And in the experimental pain threshold, the level went to the highest plateau of $2.92{\pm}0.483$ at 25 minutes after the treatment. 3. The group of MENS in the experimental $\beta-endorphin$ had the highest plateau of $14.20{\pm}3.967$ at posttreatment, but the level decreased a bit according to time passed also. And in the experimental pain threshold, the level went to the highest plateau of $2.49{\pm}0.617$ posttreatment. 4. There were some differences of the experimental $\beta-endorphin$ in TENS group at pretreatment and posttreatment(p<0.05). There were some differences in the experimental pain threshold between pretreatment and posttreatment as well as between pretreatment and 25 minutes after the treatment(p<0.05) MENS did not influence the experimental $\beta-endorphin$ and pain threshold. This experiment showed that TENS increased the levels of the experimental $\beta-endorphin$ at posttreatment and increased the levels of the experimental pain threshold untill 25 minutes after the treatment. Therefore, the time of sustaining pain in TENS group was longer than that of MENS group. Also, MENS showed that it increased each level of the experimental $\beta-endorphin$ and pain threshold, but these levels were not statistically meaningful.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제16권5호통권98호
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• pp.48-57
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• 1999

Applications of thresholding technique are based on the assumption that object and background pixels in a digital image can be distinguished by their gray level values. For the segmentation of more complex images, it is necessary to resort to multiple threshold selection techniques. This paper describes a new method for multiple threshold selection of gray level images which are not clearly distinguishable from the background. The proposed method consists of three main stages. In the first stage, a probability distribution function for a gray level histogram of an image is derived. Cluster points are defined according to the probability distribution function. In the second stage, fuzzy partition matrix of the probability distribution function is generated through the fuzzy clustering process. Finally, elements of the fuzzy partition matrix are classified as clusters according to gray level values by using max-membership method. Boundary values of classified clusters are selected as multiple threshold. In order to verify the performance of the developed algorithm, automatic inspection process of ball grid array is presented.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.361-366
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• 2009

We propose the performance enhancing method optimization of an asynchronous 2.5 Gbps/1.25 Gbps optical subscriber network with inverse RZ (Return to Zero) coded downstream and NRZ (Non Return to Zero) upstream re-modulation by adjusting threshold level control of a receiver. We theoretically analyze the BER (Bit Error Rate) performance by modeling the occurrence of BER by simulation with MATLAB according to the types of downstream data. The results have shown that the normalized threshold level in an optical receiver could be saturated at 1/3 as the SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) increases. The needed SNR for obtaining the BER $10^{-9}$ can be reduced by $\sim$5 dB by optimizing the normalized threshold level at 1/3 instead of by using the conventional receiver with threshold level of 0.5. The proposed system can be a useful technology for asynchronous optical access networks with asymmetric upstream and downstream data rates, because the improved minimum receiving power could replace a light source with a source with lower power and lower cost in an OLT (Optical Line Termination).

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.287-299
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• 2013

본 연구의 목적은 기록된 관측가뭄자료를 이용하여 수문기상 기반의 국내 가뭄판단기준을 제시하는데 있다. 과거 1991년에서 2009년까지 기록된 가뭄사례를 수집한 후, 관측기상정보와 LSM(Land Surface Model)으로부터 생산된 수문정보를 이용하여 백분위 해석을 수행하였다. 기간별 가뭄판단기준을 도출하기 위해 객관적 가뭄평가 기법인 ROC(Relative Operating Characteristics) 분석을 이용하였다. 국내 가뭄기준은 대표적으로 강수 및 유출이 지속기간 3개월에 평년대비 35% 이하, 토양수분이 지속기간 2개월의 35% 이하 그리고 증발산량이 지속기간 3개월에 65% 이상으로 나타났다. 가뭄판단기준의 적용성 평가를 위해 SPI (3)와의 ROC 분석을 수행한 결과 SPI (3)에 비해 적용성이 높은 것으로 나타났다. 또한 가뭄판단기준에 대한 지역별 분석을 수행한 결과 공간적으로 가뭄상황을 적절히 반영하는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37A권10호
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• pp.809-814
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• 2012

본 논문은 멀티레벨을 가지는 홀로그래픽 저장 장치에서 EM (Expectation-maximization) 알고리즘을 이용한 적응 문턱전압검출기를 제안한다. 멀티레벨을 이용한 홀로그래픽 저장 장치의 경우 DC 오프셋의 정도에 따라 비적응 문턱전압검출기의 성능에 매우 심각한 영향을 미친다. EM 방법은 채널을 통과한 데이터를 이용해 Expectation step과 maximization step을 반복하면서 평균과 분산을 추정하는 방법이다. DC 오프셋이 있는 상황에서 제안된 방법을 적용하여 문턱값을 찾아내서 검출한 결과 일정한 한도 내의 DC 오프셋의 경우는 DC 오프셋이 없는 경우와 동일한 성능을 보였다.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.7-11
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• 2020

Enormous methods have been proposed for the detection and segmentation of blur and non-blur regions of the images. Due to the limited available information about the blur type, scenario and the level of blurriness, detection and segmentation is a challenging task. Hence, the performance of the blur measure operators is an essential factor and needs improvement to attain perfection. In this paper, we propose an effective blur measure based on the local binary pattern (LBP) with the adaptive threshold for blur detection. The sharpness metric developed based on LBP uses a fixed threshold irrespective of the blur type and level which may not be suitable for images with large variations in imaging conditions and blur type and level. Contradictory, the proposed measure uses an adaptive threshold for each image based on the image and the blur properties to generate an improved sharpness metric. The adaptive threshold is computed based on the model learned through the support vector machine (SVM). The performance of the proposed method is evaluated using a well-known dataset and compared with five state-of-the-art methods. The comparative analysis reveals that the proposed method performs significantly better qualitatively and quantitatively against all the methods.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권8호
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• pp.161-173
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• 2020

This study examines the nonlinear relationship between financial development and economic growth in Pakistan using the threshold regression model for the period 1980-2017. We also employed quantile regression with 0.25, 0.50, and 0.75 quantiles of conditional distribution. The quantile regression is based on minimizing of sum of squared residuals. The result indicates that economic growth responds positively to financial development when the level of financial development surpasses the threshold value of 0.151. However, when financial development lies below the threshold value (that is, 0.151), its impact on economic growth is negative. Thus, when financial development of Pakistan surpasses the threshold level, it contributes more towards economic growth since greater level of financial development contributes more to boosts economic growth. This finding reveals that economic growth reacts differently to financial development, and the relationship between financial development and economic growth is U-shaped in Pakistan. Among the other variables, physical capital, labor force, and government expenditure exert a positive effect on economic growth. Furthermore, inflation rate and trade openness have an insignificant impact on economic growth. The results of quantile regression also confirm the non-linear relationship between financial development and economic growth in Pakistan. The finding of this study suggests revamping of financial sector policies in Pakistan.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1994년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.9-13
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• 1994

The Heat Anisotropic Diffusion Method has shown very effective for the contour detection of 2-D echocardiogram. To implement this algorithm, we have to choose the parameter C, K, and the threshold level. The choice of C and K are not very sensitive for the good edge detection of the echocardiogram, however the choice of the threshold level is very critical. Until now the threshold level is chosen by the trial and error method. In this paper, we present an automatic threshold decision method from the histogram of the gradient of boundary-like pixels.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제26권11호
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• pp.1679-1685
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• 1989

In this paper, a new design of GaAs level converter is proposed, and anlyzed wth the variation of the threshold voltage of E/D MESFETs. The threshold voltage ranges analyzed are -0.05V to 0.35V for enhancement type MESFETs and -0.3V to -0.7V for depletion type MESFETs. In this range, the variation of the input characteristics of the conventional level converter designed to convert the level of DCFL using Vss of -0.8V to that of -0.2V, is greather than 600mV, but of the level converter proposed here is less than 100mV.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.214-217
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• 2013

In this paper, we proposed an automatic threshold control method for radar warning receiver. Considering the noise level of the environment, this technique can effectively adjust sensitivity level of radar warning receiver and can offer more accurate radar information for aircraft pilot in noisy circumstances.