• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.22-28
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• 2016

The monitoring and measurement of the motion of a human joint is very important in screening for degenerative brain diseases and tracking the rehabilitation process. Since there are various medical fields to benefit from angular motion measurement, the necessity for monitoring of human joint movement is increasing. In this study, the optical sensor is composed of a light emission unit with a red LED and an optical fiber, and a reception unit with an arrangement of three photodiodes. The angular detection range was widened with the use of multiple photodiodes and the developed algorithm. The result will be useful for designing an effective angular sensor with low cost and small size.

• Weed & Turfgrass Science
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.120-129
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• 2018

This experiment was conducted to find the most suitable crop establishment method and weed management practices for transplanted aman rice in Bangladesh. Rice variety Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) dhan44 was used as planting materials where three crop establishment methods ($T_1$: direct wet seeding by drum seeder; $T_2$: hand broadcasting; $T_3$: transplanting) and four weeding options ($W_1$: Hand weeding (HW); $W_2$: BRRI weeder+HW; $W_3$: Herbicide+HW; and $W_4$: no weeding) were tested. Among the crop establishment methods, the highest grain yield ($5.12t\;ha^{-1}$) was obtained with the $T_3$, while the highest benefit cost ratio (BCR) of 2.08 was found in $T_2$. In case of the weed management method, $W_1$ showed superior results on the plant $density/m^2$ (139.66) at 60 days after transplanting (DAT), grain yield ($4.97t\;ha^{-1}$), and BCR (2.03). On the other hand, the highest plant dry matter (36.20 g) at 60 DAT and the highest yield ($6.10t\;ha^{-1}$) were obtained in a $T_3W_1$ combination. The results of this study show that the productivity of rice during aman season could be most significantly increased with the use of transplanting ($T_3$) alone, hand weeding ($W_1$) alone, or a combination of the two methods ($T_3W_1$).

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.179-186
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 베이지안 알고리즘이 불균형 데이터의 학습 시 나타나는 현상을 분석하고 성능 평가 방법을 비교하였다. 사전 데이터 분포를 가정하고 불균형 데이터 비율과 분류 복잡도에 따라 발생된 분류 문제에 대해 베이지안 학습을 수행하였다. 실험 결과는 ROC(Receiver Operator Characteristic)와 PR(Precision-Recall) 평가 방법의 AUC(Area Under the Curve)를 계사하여 불균형 데이터 비율과 분류 복잡도에 따라 분석되었다. 비교 분석에서 불균형 비율은 기 수행된 연구 결과와 같이 베이지안 학습에 영향을 주었으며, 높은 분류 복잡도로부터 나타나는 데이터 중복은 학습 성능을 방해하는 요인으로 확인되었다. PR 평가의 AUC는 높은 분류 복잡도와 높은 불균형 데이터 비율에서 ROC 평가의 AUC보다 학습 성능의 차이가 크게 나타났다. 그러나 낮은 분류 복잡도와 낮은 불균형 데이터 비율의 문제에서 두 측정 방법의 학습 성능의 차이는 미비하거나 비슷하였다. 이러한 결과로부터 PR 평가의 AUC는 클래스 불균형 문제의 학습 모델의 설계와 오분류 비용을 고려한 최적의 학습기를 결정하는데 도움을 줄 수 있다.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제40권2호
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• pp.89-106
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• 2016

Many plant species have two modes of reproduction: sexual and asexual. Both modes of reproduction have often been viewed as adaptations to temporally or spatially variable environments. The plant should adjust partitioning to match changes in the estimated success of the two reproductive modes. Perennial plants showed that favorable habitats in soil nutrients or water content tend to promote clonal growth over sexual reproduction. In contrast, under high light-quantity conditions, clonal plants tend to allocate more biomass to sexual reproduction and less to clonal propagation. On the other hand, plants with chasmogamous and cleistogamous flowers provides with a greater tendency of the opportunity to ensure some seed set in any stressful environmental conditions such as low light, low soil nutrients, or low soil moisture. It is considered that vegetative reproduction has high competitive ability and is the major means to expand established population of perennial plants, whereas cleistogamous reproduction is insurance to persist in stressful sites due to being strong. Chasmogamous reproduction mainly enhances established and new population. Therefore, the functions of sexual and asexual propagules of perennial or annual plants differ from each other. These traits of propagule thus determine its success at a particular region of any environmental gradients. Eventually, if environmental resources or stress levels change in either space or time, species composition will probably also change. The reason based on which the plants differ with respect to favored reproduction modes in each environmental condition, may be involved in their specific realized niche.

• 대한지리학회지
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• 제40권6호
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• pp.671-693
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• 2005

이 논문은 현대 사회의 이데올로기적 바탕을 이루고 있는 자유주의적 이론에서 제시되거나 또는 함의된 환경론을 고찰하고, 특히 환경정의의 관점에서 이를 비판하고자 한다. 우선 포괄적 의미에서 자유주의적 견해에서 이해되는 환경론을 살펴보고, 다음으로 보다 심층적으로 로크 등의 근대 사상가로부터 시작되는 고전적 자유주의와 여기서 분화된 자유지상주의, 공리주의를 환경론적 관점에서 해석하고자 한다. 끝으로 자유주의에 근거한 다원주의 및 이에 대한 비판으로 제기되고 있는 다양한 대안적 다원주의들, 특히 공동체주의, 포스트모던 다원주의, 그리고 문화적 다원주의 등을 자유주의의 한계 극복과 환경(정의)론의 구축과 관련하여 고찰하고자 한다. 결론적으로 환경정의에 관한 바람직한 개념화와 환경문제에 대한 올바른 접근을 위하여 최소한 자유주의(자유주의적 다원주의를 포함)에서 비판적 다원주의로 관심을 전환해야 함을 주장하고자 한다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제17권sup2호
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• pp.19-24
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• 2016

Quitline activity in Rajasthan, India is a voluntary activity of Rajasthan Cancer Foundation (RCF) since April 2013. To kick-off, it took the benefit of the State Government- PIRAMAL SWASTHYA (PS)1 collaborative 104 Health Information Helpline that existed already in public-private partnership. It is a reactive quitline that helps callers through the counselors and nursing staff trained specifically through the weekly sessions held by the first author, the RCF resource on quitline. Besides structuring of the scripts for primary intervention and follow-ups after 1 week, 1 month, 6 months and a year, he also monitors calls, advices and coordinates with the supervisors to manage and analyze the data base, and reports to the PS lead at the Jaipur Center on overall performance and to plan strategic communication with the State Government on its outcomes. The quitline has limitations of its informal existence through a voluntary effort of RCF, no specific resource allocation, suboptimal data management, minimal awareness in the masses due to poor IEC (Information, Education and Communication; except its efforts made by RCF in last 1 year through the government-run State TV and City Radio) and staff shortage and its attrition due to lack of plan for career advancement. Despite these challenges in the year 2013, the quit line has registered a quit rate (for complete abstinence) of 19.93% amongst 1525 callers. The quit rate were 58.01% (304/ 524) among the responders at the 3rd follow-up at 18 months (in September 2014)2. In view of an increase in quit rate by 5- 9 times over the prevailing quit rate in the former ever daily users [both smokers and the users of smokeless tobacco (SLT)], efforts are being made by RCF in concurrence with PS to have this cost-effective model established formally with optimal resource allocation in collaboration with willing agencies (the State and Central Governments and the International Quitline Agencies) and its replication in 4 more states where PS is collaborating with the respective state governments similarly (Assam, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Karnataka).

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권20호
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• pp.9015-9019
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• 2014

The study aimed to compare the 2 main types of insurance used by colorectal cancer (CRC) patients in a university hospital in Thailand: universal coverage (UC) and 'Civil Servant Medical Benefit Scheme' (CSMBS) in terms of hospital expenditure and survival outcomes. CRC cases in stages I-IV who were operated on and had completed their adjuvant therapy in Songklanagarind Hospital from 2004 through 2013 were retrospectively reviewed regarding their hospital expenditure, focusing on surgical and chemotherapy costs. Of 1,013 cases analyzed, 524 (51.7%) were in the UC group while 489 (48.3%) belonged to the CSMBS group. Cases with stage IV disease were significantly more frequent in the UC group. Average total treatment expenditure (TTE) was 143,780 Thai Baht (THB) (1 US$ =~ 30 THB). The TTE increased with tumor stage and the chemotherapy cost contributed the most to the TTE increment. TTE in the CSMBS group was significantly higher than in the UC group for stage II-III CRCs. The majority of cases in the UC group (65.5%) used deGramont or Mayo as their first line regimen, and the proportion of cases who started with a capecitabine-based regimen (XELOX or $Xeloda^{(R)}$) was significantly higher in the CSMBS group (61.0% compared to 24.5% in the UC group, p-value < 0.01). On survival analysis, overall survival (OS) and progress free survival in the CSMBS group were significantly better than in the UC group. The 5-year OS in the CSMBS and UC groups were 84.3% and 74.6%, respectively (p-value < 0.01). In conclusion, the study indicates that in Thailand, the type of insurance influences resource utilization, especially the choice of chemotherapy, in CRC cases. This disparity in treatment, in turn, results in a gap in treatment outcomes.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.114-122
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• 2016

콘크리트는 경제적이며 고내구성 건설재료이지만, 염해에 노출된 경우 매립된 철근의 부식으로 인해 내구성에 대한 문제가 발생한다. 최근 들어 동절기에 제설제가 많이 사용되고 있는데, 제설제의 사용은 콘크리트 표면에 미세균열과 박리를 증가시키고 용해된 제설제는 매립된 철근의 부식을 야기한다. 기존의 염화물 지배방정식인 Fick's 2nd Law의 해석기법은 표면이 열화된 콘크리트의 염해특성을 평가하지 못하므로 이에 대한 고려가 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 콘크리트 다층구조 확산 모델과 시간의존성 염화물 확산을 이용하여 제설제에 노출된 콘크리트의 염화물 해석기법을 제안하였다. 이를 위해 18년 경과된 콘크리트 도로교의 염해실태를 분석하였으며, 역해석을 통하여 표면열화깊이 및 열화된 콘크리트 층의 증가된 염화물 확산성을 평가하였다. 제안된 기법은 30MPa 콘크리트에서 12.5~15.0mm 열화깊이와 2배 증가된 열화층의 염화물 확산성을 나타내었다. 본 해석기법은 표면열화 및 표면 강화 등 2개의 다른 확산성을 가진 콘크리트의 염화물 거동을 평가하는데 효과적으로 적용될 수 있다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제20권8호
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• pp.1460-1465
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• 2016

오늘날 많은 비용이 국가 의료보장체계의 유지를 위협하고 있다. 국가 질병 통제 및 방지 센터의 감사체계를 동반한 건강관리 역학성에 대한 연구에도 불구하고, 시간 한계, 표본 한계, 대상 질병 한계에 대한 제약이 여전히 존재하고 있다. 이러한 배경에서, 방대한 양의 전수 데이터를 활용하여, 많은 기술들이 건강의 선제적 예측이나 그 대상 질병을 확장하는 분야에 충분하게 적용되고 있다. 우리는 국민건강보험의 구조적 데이터와 소셜네트워크서비스의 비구조적 데이터를 활용하여 질병을 예측하는 모형을 설계하였다. 이 모형은 건강예보서비스를 제공함으로써, 국민건강을 증진시키고 사회적 혜택을 극대화할 수 있다. 또한, 빅데이터 분석에 근거하여, 건강보험비용의 갑작스러운 증가를 감소시키거나 적시적인 질병발생을 예측할 수도 있다. 관련된 의료 예측 사례를 살펴보았고, 제안된 모형의 검증을 위하여 시범과제를 통한 실험을 수행하였다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제25권10호
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• pp.1627-1635
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• 2001

Virtual manufacturing is a technology facilitating effective development and agile manufacturing of products via sophisticated computer models representing physical and logical schema and behavior of real manufacturing systems including manufacturing resources, environments, and products. For the successful application of this technology, a virtual plant as a well-designed and integrated environment is essential fur sharing information and engineering collaboration among diverse engineering activities. The systematic approaches and effective methods for construction and application of a virtual plant are proposed in this paper, such as a 3-D CAD modeling, cell and line simulations, databases and some information technologies. Measuring and 3-D CAD modeling technologies of many equipments, facilities and structures of the building are developed, and effective information management system managing CAD models, related files and data is implemented in WWW environments. Finally, precise simulations of unit cell lines and the whole plant are performed. For the beginning of implementing a Virtual Automotive Plant, the Virtual Plant fur the Body Shop of a Korean automotive company is constructed and implemented. We could obtain the benefit of savings in time and cost in many manufacturing preparation activities in the new car development processes.