• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.206-210
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• 2015

Background: Fatigue has a strong impact on workers' performance and safety, but expedient methods for assessing fatigue on the job are not yet available. Studies discuss posturography as an indicator of fatigue, but further evidence for its use in the workplace is needed. The purpose of the study is to examine whether posturography is a suitable indicator of fatigue in clerical workers. Methods: Thirty-six employees (${\emptyset}$ 34.8 years, standard deviation = 12.5) participated in postural tasks (eyes open, eyes closed, arm swinging, and dual task) in the morning and afternoon. Position of their center of pressure (COP) was registered using a Nintendo Wii Balance Board and commercial software. From registered COP time series, we calculated the following parameters: path length (mm), velocity (mm/s), anterior-posterior variance (mm), mediolateral variance (mm), and confidence area ($mm^2$). These parameters were reduced to two orthogonal factors in a factor analysis with varimax rotation. Results: Statistical analysis of the first factor (path length and velocity) showed a significant effect of time of day: COP moved along a shorter path at a lower velocity in the afternoon compared with that in the morning. There also was a significant effect of task, but no significant interaction. Conclusion: Data suggest that postural stability of clerical workers was comparable in the morning and afternoon, but COP movement was greater in the morning. Within the framework of dynamic systems theory, this could indicate that the postural system explored the state space in more detail, and thus was more ready to respond to unexpected perturbations in the morning.

• 한국해안해양공학회지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.115-124
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• 1997

동일지점에 투하한 여러개 표류부표 사이의 이격거리 관측방법을 사용하여 한국 연안 여러곳에서 와동확산의 분산을 측정하고 ‘확산계수’를 산정하였다. 시간이 경과함에 따라 와동확산의 분산은 ｔ$^{m}$ 에 비례하여 증가 하였는데, 여기서 시간지수승 m은 1.5와 3.5범위의 비정수 값으로 나타났다. 실측된 분산의 시간지수승 관계는 와동확산계수를 상수로 두는 확산모델링 방법에서는 재현되지 않는다. 본 논문에서는 프랙탈 이론을 도입하여 와동확산에 에 따른 분산의 지수승 관계를 시뮬레이트하였다. 본 논문의 프랙탈 확산모델에서는 가우스소음 대신에 프랙탈 가우스소음(fGn)을 와동확산에 따른 임의행보 과정에 적용하였다. 이 모델에서 프랙탈 브라운운동(fBm)으로 표현되는 와동확산의 분산은 시간 ｔ에 대하여 ｔ$^{2H}$와 같이 나타났는데, 여기서 H는 허스트 지수(Hurst exponent)이다. 본 논문의 프랙탈 확산모델은 시간지수승이 1과 2범위인 와동확산 분산을 잘 재현하였지만, 시간지수승이 2가 넘는 경우는 재현되지 않는다. 시간지수승이 2이상인 경우는 평균류의 유속전단(velocity shear)에 기인한다.다.

• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.37-42
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• 1999

The purpose of this study was to determine whether percutaneous interferential current stimulation on thoracic sympathetic ganglia with amplitude modulated frequency (AMF) $90\~100$ bps and subthreshold of muscle contraction for 10 minutes on peripheral blood flow velocity in healthy subjects. Thirty-seven healthy volunteers were assigned randomly into an experimental group (n=25) and a control group (n=12). the experimental group received interferential current stimulation with subthreshold of the muscle contraction of current at AMF $90\~100$ bps on $1st\~5th$ thoracic sympathetic ganglial region for 10 minutes. The control group received same handling and electode placement, but no current was applied. Using a Doppler blood flow meter, the radial arterial blood flow velocities and the pulse raters were determined for two-way analysis of variance for repeated measures on time and group. There were no significant difference between the two groups with respect to the changes in arterial blood flow velocity and pulse rate over the four measurement times. Interferential current stimulation did not change in mean blood flow velocity and pulse rate. We conclude that interferential current stimulation on the thoracic sympathetic ganglia, as used in this study, did not dilate peripheral artery. This results suggests that interferential current stimulation dose not alter the activtiy of sympathetic nerve.

• Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering
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• 제35권11호
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• pp.2321-2326
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• 2018

We evaluated the optimal conditions for fluidization of nickel oxide (NiO) and its reduction into high-purity Ni during hydrogen reduction in a laboratory-scale fluidized bed reactor. A comparative study was performed through structural shape analysis using scanning electron microscopy (SEM); variance in pressure drop, minimum fluidization velocity, terminal velocity, reduction rate, and mass loss were assessed at temperatures ranging from 400 to $600^{\circ}C$ and at 20, 40, and 60 min in reaction time. We estimated the sample weight with most active fluidization to be 200 g based on the bed diameter of the fluidized bed reactor and height of the stocked material. The optimal conditions for NiO hydrogen reduction were found to be height of sample H to the internal fluidized bed reactor diameter D was H/D=1, reaction temperature of $550^{\circ}C$, reaction time of 60 min, superficial gas velocity of 0.011 m/s, and pressure drop of 77 Pa during fluidization. We determined the best operating conditions for the NiO hydrogen reduction process based on these findings.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.11-18
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• 2011

유도초음파는 구조물의 장거리 탐상에 널리 사용되고 있으며 탐촉자의 중심주파수와 판의 두께에 따라 유도 초음파의 군속도가 바뀌는 어려움으로 인하여 최근에 많은 연구자들에 의해 유도초음파를 이용한 판과 같은 구조물 진단에 토모그래피 영상화기법에 관심을 기울이고 있다. 기존에 개발된 영상화 기법으로는 Delay and Sum영상화 기법이 있으며, 수 년간 판 구조물 영상화 기법의 알고리즘으로 이용되었다. MVDR(Minimum Variance Distortionless Response) 영상화 기법은 초음파의 산란특성을 고려한 영상화 기법으로써, 빔의 특성이 영상화 알고리즘에 적용되어 Delay and Sum 영상화 기법보다 향상된 영상을 판구조물에 존재하는 홀 결함 영상을 통해 비교 분석하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제29권11C호
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• pp.1527-1540
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• 2004

본 논문은 트래픽 정보취득을 위하여 영상의 라인 샘플링을 이용한 고속이동물체 속도 측정 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 이동물체의 트래픽 정보 취득을 위한 속도 측정은 도로에 제 1 샘플라인과 제 2 샘플라인을 설정해 놓고, 물체가 샘플라인을 통과할 때 취득된 영상의 시변환 색조 데이터와 기준영상 색조 데이터 사이에서 차영상 기법으로 자동차를 검출하고, 자동차가 두 샘플라인 사이에 거리를 통과할 때 점유하는 프레임수로 속도를 측정하였다. 제 1 샘플라인과 제 2 샘플라인에서 각각 검출된 자동차의 색조로 동일성 판별을 하였다. 제안된 방법의 타당성을 검토하기 위하여 주행하는 자동차를 대상으로 동일성 판별 및 속도 측정을 한 결과, 동일성 판별은 두 개의 샘플링 라인을 통과하는 자동차의 색조 데이터로 판별됨을 보였고, 자동차의 속도 측정은 X-밴드 속도 측정 시스템과 비교한 결과 3% 이내임을 보였다.

• 전자공학회논문지S
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• 제34S권7호
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• pp.66-77
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• 1997

This paper presents an automatic tuning method for parameters of a multivaiable self-tuning velocity-type PID controller which adapts to changes in the system parameters with time delays and noises. The velocity-type PID control structure is determined in the process of minimizing the variance of the auxiliarly output, and self-tuning effect is achieved through the recursive least square algorithm at the parameter estimation stage and also through the Robbins-Monro algorithm at the stage of optiminzing the design parameters of the controller. The proposed PID type multivariable self-tuning method is simple andeffective compared with other esisting multivariable self-tuning methods. Computer simulation has shown that the proposed algorithm is beter than the trial-and-error method in the tracking performance.

• 소음진동
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.251-259
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• 1998

The motion of an aircraft landing gear over rough runway at variable speed is nonstationary. In this paper, a method for the computation of nonstationary response variance is presented which uses a state space form for the combination of landing gear and runway excitation. The dynamic characteristics of the landing gear under nonstationary random excitations has also been analyzed using the proposed method. The formulation is for linear systems of arbitrary order and allows any deterministic velocity history. It has been found by a series of simulation that correlation parameter, damping coefficients of landing gear and tire, and velocity profiles play a prominent role on the dynamic characteristics.

• 천문학회보
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.35.3-36
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• 2016

Density and velocity perturbations in scales most relevant for the first galaxy formation are strongly affected by large-scale density perturbations, velocity-divergence perturbations and the baryon-cold dark matter (CDM) streaming velocities. Even at redshifts as high as z~200, this mode-mode coupling imprints a significant impact on the small-scale perturbations, at the wavenumber k >${\sim}100Mpc^{-1}$, as was calculated in our recent work. This implies that cosmological initial conditions based on the usual linear theory is no longer valid in these scales. We present a new cosmological initial condition generator, BCCOMICS, which generates initial conditions for the cold dark matter (CDM) and baryons in scales most relevant for the first galaxy formation. BCCOMICS is based on the linear perturbation theory including the mode-mode coupling terms, and generates cosmological initial conditions for the SPH-basded code GADGET and the AMR-based code ENZO. We also present our preliminary result on the cosmic variance of the first galaxy formation, studied by using BCCOMICS.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 1997년도 춘계학술대회논문집; 경주코오롱호텔; 22-23 May 1997
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• pp.60-68
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• 1997

The motion of an aircraft landing gear over rough runway at variable speed is nonstationary. In this paper a method for the computation of nonstationary response variance is presented which uses a state space form for the combination of landing gear and runway excitation. The dynamic characteristics of the landing gear under nonstationary random excitations has also been analyzed using the proposed method. The formulation is for linear systems of arbitrary order and allows any deterministic velocity history. It has been found by a series of simulation that correlation parameter, damping coefficients of landing gear and tire, and velocity profiles plays a prominent role on the dynamic characteristics.