• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.1301-1311
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• 2022

Global climate change brings environmental quality sensitivity, especially in developed countries. Developed countries use non-renewable energy sources intensively both in their own countries and in other countries, they make productions that cause an enormous rate of increase in CO₂ emissions and unsustainable environmental costs. This has increased the interest in environmentally friendly alternative energy sources. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of nuclear energy consumption and technological innovation on environmental quality in G7 countries using annual data over the period 1970-2015. The Panel Threshold Regression Model was used for the analysis. Empirical findings have indicated that the relationship between nuclear energy consumption and carbon emissions differs according to innovation for nuclear power plants. It was also concluded that nuclear energy consumption reduces carbon emissions more after a certain level of innovation. This result shows that the increase in innovative technologies for nuclear power plants not only increases energy efficiency but also contributes positively to environmental quality.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.61-69
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• 2009

무선 센서 네트워크에서 클러스터 기반의 계층적 라우팅 프로토콜들은 모든 노드들의 수명을 균등하게 유지하여, 센서 네트워크의 수명을 최대로 연장하는 것을 목표로 하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 임계값 기반의 클러스터 헤드 교체 전략을 보인다. 이라우팅 프로토콜은 센서 노드가 클러스터 헤드의 역할을 수행하지 않으면서 최대한 오랜 시간 동안 네트워크에 참여하기 위해 필요한 에너지의 양을 임계값으로 정의하고, 한 번 클러스터 헤드로 선출된 노드는 이 값에 도달할 때 까지 클러스터 헤드의 역할을 유지하여 빈번한 헤드 교체를 방지하도록 함으로써 전체 네트워크의 에너지 효율은 물론 네트워크의 균형이 최대한 유지되도록 한다. 또한 시뮬레이션을 통해 대표적 계층적 라우팅 프로토콜인 LEACH와 네트워크의 균형 및 에너지 소모 정도를 비교하여 본 논문이 제시하는 알고리즘의 효용성을 입증한다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.410-415
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• 1990

MN(Madland-Nix) 모형에 바탕을 둔 핵분열 즉발 중성자 에너지 스펙트럼을 핵분열 유기중성자의 에너지 함수로서 구했다. 이 중성자 스펙트럼을 $^{27}$ Al(n,$\alpha$), $^{32}$S(n,p) 및 $^{115}$ In(n,n') 발단 방사화 검출기의 여기함수에 증율시켜 평균핵반응 단면적을 계산하고 상호간의 비, 즉, 중성자 스펙트럼 지수를 구했다. 그 결과 핵분열 유기중성자의 에너지에 따라 중성자 스펙트럼은 변하며 그에 따라 중성자 스펙트럼 지수도 변함을 보였다. 이것은 곧 중성자 스펙트럼 지수를 실험적으로 결정하므로써 핵분열 즉발 중성자 에너지 스펙트럼을 결정할 수 있음을 의미한다.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제19권12호
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• pp.644-648
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• 2009

Temperature dependency of resistivity of the carbon black-polyethylene composites below and above percolation threshold is studied based on the electrical conduction mechanism. Temperature coefficient of resistance of the composites below percolation threshold changed from minus to plus, increasing volume fraction of carbon black; this trend decreased with increasing volume fraction of carbon black. The temperature dependence of resistivity of the composites below percolation threshold can be explained with a tunneling conduction model by incorporating the effect of thermal expansion of the composites into a tunneling gap. Temperature coefficient of resistance of the composites above percolation threshold was positive and its absolute value increased with increasing volume fraction of carbon black. By assuming that the electrical conduction through percolating paths is a thermally activated process and by incorporating the effect of thermal expansion into the volume fraction of carbon black, the temperature dependency of the resistivity above percolation threshold has been well explained without violating the universal law of conductivity. The apparent activation energy is estimated to be 0.14 eV.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.69-84
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• 2021

Awareness of boats is a main issue in areas of fishery management, illegal fishing, and maritime traffic, etc. For the awareness, Automatic Identification System (AIS) and Vessel-Pass System (V-PASS) have been widely used to collect the boat-related information. However, only using these systems makes it difficult to collect the accurate information. Recently, satellite-based data has been increasingly used as a cooperative system. In 2015, U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) developed a boat detection algorithm using Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day & Night Band (DNB) data. Although the detections have been widely utilized in many publications, it is difficult to estimate the night-time fishing boats immediately. Particularly, it is difficult to estimate the threshold due to the lunar irradiation effect. This effect must be corrected to apply a single specific threshold. In this study, the moon phase was considered as the main frequency of this effect. Considering the moon phase, relational expressions are derived and then used as offsets for relative correction. After the correction, it shows a significant reduction in the standard deviation of the threshold compared to the threshold of NOAA. Through the correction, this study can set a constant threshold every day without determination of different thresholds. In conclusion, this study can achieve the detection applying the single specific threshold regardless of the moon phase.

• Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Science
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.142-147
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• 2014

Objective: This study aims to investigate high energy and low energy extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) and which one is more effective for shoulder pain. Design: Single blind randomized controlled trial. Methods: Fifty two subjects with upper trapezius (UT) trigger point (TrP) participated in this study. They were allocated to high energy (n=26) and low energy group (n=26). This study applies ESWT and investigates the changes of pressure pain threshold (PPT) and visual analogue scale (VAS). The high and low energy groups received focused piezo electric type ESWT 4 Hz, 1,000 pulses and 0.351 and $0.092mJ/mm^2$ respectively. Outcome measures of PPT and pain was measured by algometer and pain VAS. These measurements were performed before and after treatment. Results: The PPT value was significantly increased in both groups after treatment (p<0.05) and VAS scores were significantly decreased after treatment in both groups (p<0.05). However, there were no significant differences between groups. Conclusions: ESWT is an effective treatment for the application of the UT TrP. Although there were significant effects of extracorporeal shock wave therapy on PPT and VAS scores, there were no signficant differences between high and low energy extracorporeal shock wave therapy.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제28권9호
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• pp.1032-1041
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• 2004

In this study we decompose the 3-dimensional velocity field of isotropic turbulent flow into the coherent and the incoherent structure using the discrete wavelet. It is shown that the coherent structure, 3% wavelet modes, has 98% energy and 88% enstrophy and its statistical characteristics are almost same as the original turbulence structure. And it is confirmed that the role of the coherent structure is that it produces the turbulent kinetic energy at the inertia range then transfers energy to the dissipation range. The incoherent structure, with residual wavelet modes, is uncorrelated and has the Gaussian probability density function but it dissipates the kinetic energy in dissipation range. On the procedure, we propose a new but easy way to get the threshold by applying the energy partition percentage concept about coherent structure. The vorticity field extracted from the wavelet-decomposed velocity field has the same structure as the result of the precedent studies which decomposed vorticity field directly using wavelet. Therefore it has been shown that velocity and vorticity field are on the interactive condition.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제48권11호
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• pp.22-27
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• 2011

스펙트럼 감지를 하기 위해 에너지 검파기는 수신 신호의 에너지를 미리 정해둔 임계값과 비교하여 1차 사용자가 면허 대역 내에서 활동을 하는 지 여부를 판단한다. 여기에서 임계값은 해당 주파수 대역에 존재하는 잡음의 전력 수준과 관련이 있다. 에너지 검파에 대한 과거의 연구 대부분은 잡음 전력을 미리 정확하게 알고 있다는 가정에 기초한 것이었다. 그러나 실제 환경에서는 잡음 전력에 대한 불확실성이 존재하기 때문에 이 가정은 현실적으로 유효하지 않다. 그러므로 잡음 전력의 불확실성이 에너지 검파기의 스펙트럼 감지 성능에 미치는 영향을 파악할 필요가 있다. 이에 이 논문에서는 유수 정리(residue theorem)에 기반을 둔 적분을 활용하여 그 영향을 수학적으로 분석하고 그 결과를 제시하고자 한다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.757-766
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• 2013

This paper deals with the estimation of the time of arrival (TOA) of ultra-wideband signals under IEEE 802.15.4a channel models. The proposed approach is based on a randomness test and consists of determining whether an autoregressive (AR) process modeling an energy frame is random or not by using a distance to measure the randomness. The proposed method uses a threshold that is derived analytically according to a preset false alarm probability. To highlight the effectiveness of the developed approach, simulation setups as well as real data experiments are conducted to assess the performance of the new TOA estimation algorithm. Thereby, the proposed method is compared with the cell averaging constant false alarm rate technique, the threshold comparison algorithm, and the technique based on maximum energy selection with search back. The obtained results are promising, considering both simulations and collected real-life data.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1989년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부
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• pp.131-135
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• 1989

Hot electron simulation of silicon using Monte Carlo method was carried out to investigate impact ionization characteristics near the drain of MOSFET's at 77 and 300K. We successfully characterized drift velocity and impact ionization at 77 and 300K employing a simplified energy band structure and phonon scattering mechanisms. Woods' soft energy threshold model was introduced to the Monte Carlo simulation of impact ionization, and good agreement with reported experimental results was resulted by employing threshold energy of 1.7 eV. It is suggested that the choice of the critical angle between specular reflection and diffusive scattering of surface roughness scattering may be important in determining the impact ionization charateristics of Monte Carlo simulation near the drain of MOSFET's.