• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.43-51
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• 2013

English native listeners have a tendency to treat strong syllables in a speech stream as the potential initial syllables of new words, since the majority of lexical words in English have a word-initial stress. The current study investigates whether Korean (L1) - English (L2) late bilinguals perceive strong syllables in English continuous speech as word onsets, as English native listeners do. In Experiment 1, word-spotting was slower when the word-initial syllable was strong, indicating that Korean listeners do not perceive strong syllables as word onsets. Experiment 2 was conducted in order to avoid any possibilities that the results of Experiment 1 may be due to the strong-initial targets themselves used in Experiment 1 being slower to recognize than the weak-initial targets. We employed the gating paradigm in Experiment 2, and measured the Isolation Point (IP, the point at which participants correctly identify a word without subsequently changing their minds) and the Recognition Point (RP, the point at which participants correctly identify the target with 85% or greater confidence) for the targets excised from the non-words in the two conditions of Experiment 1. Both the mean IPs and the mean RPs were significantly earlier for the strong-initial targets, which means that the results of Experiment 1 reflect the difficulty of segmentation when the initial syllable of words was strong. These results are consistent with Kim & Nam (2011), indicating that strong syllables are not perceived as word onsets for Korean listeners and interfere with lexical segmentation in English running speech.

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제2권8호
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• pp.527-534
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• 2013

소프트웨어는 업무의 변화 및 사용자의 요구사항에 따라서 변경이 수반되므로, 내부 복잡도가 증가하고 비용이 발생한다. 이러한 과정이 반복되면 어느 시점에서는 유지보다는 교체가 더욱 효율적이다. 본 연구에서는 업무단위의 소프트웨어 그룹별로 사용자에게 제공하는 서비스 불만 지수와 교체점 평가 지수에 따라 교체시기를 예측하였다. 첫째, 퍼지추론을 이용하여 서비스 수준의 사용자 불만족도를 평가하기 위한 방법과 지표를 개발하였고 둘째, 소프트웨어의 품질, 비용, 신기술을 반영한 교체점 평가 방법을 수립하였으며 셋째, 사용자 서비스 측정값과 교체점 평가 값과의 간격에 따라 교체시기를 예측하는 기법을 제시하였다. 본 연구에서 제시하는 예측기법의 타당성을 검증하기 위하여 3개 조직의 업무솔루션을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 서비스 불만 지수는 약 16% 하락하였으며 교체점 평가 지수는 약 9% 상승하였다.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.426-438
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• 2015

철도에서 신호 장치는 지상신호 장치에서 차상신호 장치로 전환되고 있다. 기관사들은 현재까지의 지상신호 장치나 과거의 차상신호 장치의 경우 차내 신호에 현재속도보다 낮은 속도가 현시되거나 운행선로의 속도가 낮아질 경우 선로변 표지를 기준으로 제동제어 시점을 결정하였다. 그러나 최근 도입된 차상신호 시스템에서는 선로변 표지를 참고하지 못하고 차상신호 현시 값에 의해, 적정 제동시점을 찾기 어려웠다. 본 논문에서는 최근에 철도에서 사용되어지는 차상신호 시스템에서 기관사들의 제동제어 시점 및 방법을 연구하여 신호 system의 제동제어 감속도를 simulation하여 최적 제동제어 시점을 설정하고 그 점을 중심으로 가우시안 분포(Gaussian Distribution)를 이용하여 제동거리의 오차 범위가 안전거리 내에 있음을 증명하고 평가하였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.2378-2387
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• 2017

Violinists learn to make better sounds by hearing and evaluating their own playing though numerous practice. This study proposes a new method of auditory feedback, which mimics this violinists' step and verifies its efficiency using experiments. Making the desired sound quality of a violin is difficult without auditory feedback even though an expert violinist plays. An algorithm for controlling a robot arm of violin playing robot is determined based on correlations with bowing speed, bowing force, and sound point that determine the sound quality of a violin. The bowing speed is estimated by the control command of the robot arm, where the bowing force and the sound point are recognized by using a two-axis load cell and a photo interrupter, respectively. To improve the sound quality of a violin playing robot, the sounds information is obtained by auditory feedback system applied Short Time Fourier Transform (STFT) to the sounds from a violin. This study suggests Gaussian-Harmonic-Quality (GHQ) uses sounds' clarity, accuracy, and harmonic structure in order to decide sound quality, objectively. Through the experiments, the auditory feedback system improved the performance quality by the robot accordingly, changing the bowing speed, bowing force, and sound point and determining the quality of robot sounds by GHQ sound quality evaluation system.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.2505-2510
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• 2013

점토지반에서 횡방향하중을 받는 불균질말뚝과 균질말뚝의 거동에 영향을 미치는 인자를 파악하고 개발된 해석기법을 적용하여 매개변수 연구를 수행하였다. 매개변수연구에서 고려한 2개의 균질말뚝에 있어 말뚝 근입깊이에 따른 매개변수는 휨강성이 클수록 크게 계산되었다. 불균질말뚝에 대한 매개변수는 재료경계점에서 멀어짐에 따라 동일한 휨강성을 갖는 균질말뚝의 매개변수에 수렴하였다. 균질말뚝과 유사한 하중지지능력을 발휘할 수 있도록 하는 적절한 불균질말뚝의 상부길이를 결정하기 위해서는 균질말뚝과 불균질말뚝의 매개변수 변화양상과 해석을 통해 얻는 횡방향변위 및 부재력 등을 종합적으로 비교해야 한다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.569-577
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• 2010

Nonplanar surface geometries of components are frequently encountered in real ultrasonic inspection situations. Use of rigid array transducers can lead to beam defocusing and reduction of defect image quality due to the mismatch between the planar array and the changing surface. When a flexible array is used to fit the complex surface profile, the locations of array elements should be known to compute the delay time necessary for adaptive heam focusing. An alternative method is to employ the time reversal focusing technique that does not require a prior knowledge about the properties and structures of the specimen and the transducer. In this paper, a time reversal method is applied to simulate beam focusing of flexible arrays and imaging of point-like defects contained in specimens with nonplanar surface geometry. Quantitative comparisons are made for the performance of a number of array techniques in terms of the ability to focus and image three point-like reflectors positioned at regular intervals. The sinusoidal profile array studied here exhibits almost the same image quality as the flat, reference case.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권3C
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• pp.264-270
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose the modified display color control system using white point line, boundary lines and S-shaped curves to emphasize blue and red tone colors on CIE1931 diagram. The proposed system divides RGB gamut into movable area and non-movable area by using boundary lines. The colors in movable area are moved into right side or left side along quadratic curve to change the bluish (or reddish) color to more bluish (or more reddish), while those in non-movable area are excepted from color control to prevent skin color from changing. The loci of the quadratic curves are very similar to the arc of the white-point line which connects all points that represent the chromaticities of a black body radiator at different temperatures and is also called the black body locus. The RGB gamut extension by movement of chromaticity coordinate can improve color reproducibility. Therefore in the case of application to LCD, the display shows excellent performance because the LCD's color reproducibility is comparatively lower than that of other display systems. The proposed system is also experimentally demonstrated with Xilinx Virtex FPGA XCV2000E- 6BG560 and the TV set.

• 신재생에너지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.51-57
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• 2013

The Grid code is being strengthen as increase of renewable energy ratio. Especially, the grid connection regulations are continuously being updated for stable operation of power grids. Static grid support and Dynamic grid support must make an accurate measure at Grid connected point because they needs control algorithm individually. It has to exactly measure voltage including switching ripple at the output of the inverter generating system. In addition, it is necessary to have an accurate voltage measurement when the situation rapidly changing the grid impedance is caused by the input of serial impedance of transformer and line impedance as well as Grid Fault Device. In this paper, We propose a new detection method of grid voltage to calculate accurately the r.m.s voltage of the grid connection point along the standard required by the low voltage regulation. We verified performance through simulation grid fault device.

• 대한치과기공학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.33-41
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• 2002

In dental prosthetics, the application of metal-ceramic restorations has steadily increased since their introduction. This is due to excellent esthetics in combination with high mechanical stability. In order to optimum bond strength between metal and ceramics, controlled oxidation of metal substructure is essential factor. Beryllium containing and beryllium free Ni-Cr alloys for metal-ceramic restorations were evaluated for the metal-ceramic bond strength by changing heat treatment for oxide formation. A mechanical three-point bending test was employed to evaluate the interfacial bond strength of metal-ceramic. In each metal, plate type specimens were used for mechanical three-point bending test. With Ni-Cr alloys for metal ceramics, mechanical three-point bending test showed that double degassing was more available preheat treatment method than another. It was found that beryllium containing Ni-Cr alloys are more effective than beryllium-free for metal-ceramic bond strength.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제60권11호
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• pp.2064-2075
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• 2011

In this paper, robust multi-level perturbation and observation (MLPO) maximum power point tracking (MPPT) control are presented of the environmental change including the solar radiation and temperature. Because the maximum power point of the Photovoltaic (PV) is changing according to the solar radiation and temperature, the technology which traces the maximum power point in order to increase the power efficiency is recognized as the very important part. The general requirement for the MPPT is that system is simple, the cost is inexpensive, the PV tracking function and output change are small. Conventional perturbation and observation (PO) method is a simple system but there is the disadvantage that an efficiency of system becomes low. In addation, the incremental conductance (IC) control is required expensive CPU because of a large of calculations. In order to solve this problem, in this paper, the MLPO MPPT control using the method diversifying the step size according to the environment condition is presented. The validity of the MLPO method presenting from this paper is proved through analyzing the solar power generation output error at the steady state.