• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.431-439
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• 1996

In the process of simplifying the complex fate of the plant into a binary state, the information loss is inevitable. To minimize the information loss, the quantification of plant safety status has been formulated through the combination of the probability density function arising from the sensor measurement and the membership function representing the expectation of the state of the system. Therefore, in this context, the safety index is introduced in an attempt to quantify the plant status from the perspective of safety. The combination of probability density function and membership function is achieved through the integration of the fuzzy intersection of the two functions, and it often is not a simple task to integrate the fuzzy intersection due to the complexity that is the result of the fuzzy intersection. Therefore, a methodology based on the Algebra of Logic is used to express the fuzzy intersection and the fuzzy union of the arbitrary functions analytically. These exact analytical expressions are then numerically integrated by the application of Monte Carlo method. The benchmark tests for rectangular area and both fuzzy intersection and union of two normal distribution functions have been performed. Lastly, the safety index was determined for the Core Reactivity Control of Yonggwang 3&4 using the presented methodology.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.53-66
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• 1990

산악의 영향을 받는 지역에서 비정상성 평균을 사용하는 G.C.모델에 의하여 총강우량의 우량곡면을 구성하였다. 구성된 우량곡면에 2차원 프리에 해석을 실시하여 강우의 주기성분을 분리하였다. 강우의 지엽성분, 즉 강우잔차는 우량곡면에서 주기성분을 제거하여 얻은 강우잔차를 균일한 무작위장의 표본함수라고 가정해서 이 무작위장의 특성을 자기상관함수로 나타냈다. 자기상관함수를 변환하여 스팩트럼 밀도를 구했고, 이 결과를 토대로 한강, 금강유역의 환상스팩트럼 분포함수의 모델을 제안했다.

• 구강회복응용과학지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.179-186
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• 2007

The decrease of masticatory function caused by tooth loss leads to a decrease of cerebral blood flow volume resulting in impairment of cognitive function and learning memory disorder. However, the reduced mastication-mediated morphological alteration in the central nervous system (CNS) responsible for senile deficit of cognition, learning and memory has not been well documented. In this study, the effect of the loss of the molar teeth (molarless condition) on the hippocampal expression of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) protein was studied by immunohistochemical techniques. The results were as follows : 1. The molarless mice showed a lower density of pyramidal cells in the cornu ammonis 1 (CA1) and dentate gyrus (DG) region of the hippocampus than control mice. 2. Immunohistochemical analysis showed that the molarless condition enhanced the time-dependent increase in the cell density and hypertrophy of GFAP immunoreactivity in the CA1 region of the hippocampus. The molarless condition enhanced an time-dependent decrease in the number of neurons in the hippocampal formation and the time-dependent increase in the number and hypertrophy of GFAP-labeled cells in the same region. The data suggest a possible link between reduced mastication and histological changes in hippocampal formation that may be one risk factor for senile impairment of cognitive function and spatial learning memory.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.16-25
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• 2002

소화제인 Freon-23과 몬트리올 의정서에 의해서 규제받는 CFC의 대체 물질인 HFC-227ea의 물성(포화압력, 밀도, 점도, 엔탈피, 표면장력)에 관한 실험식을 구하였다. 문헌에서 얻은 실험값을 이용하여 다항식등의 회귀분석에 의해서 실험식을 얻었다. 포화압력은 온도에 대하여 각각 3차와 2차의 실험식으로 표시하였다. 압축인자와 포화압력을 이용하여 온도에 대한 밀도에 관한 실험식을 제시하였다. 점도는 온도에 대한 지수함수로 표시하였고, 엔탈피는 열용량과 마찬가지로 온도에 대한 2차 함수로 정의하여 나타내었다. 표면장력에 대해서는 간단한 1차 온도에 대한 선형적인 관계가 있었다.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.57-62
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• 2015

Relative entropy is a divergence measure between two probability density functions of a random variable. Assuming that the random variable has only two alphabets, the relative entropy becomes a cross-entropy error function that can accelerate training convergence of multi-layer perceptron neural networks. Also, the n-th order extension of cross-entropy (nCE) error function exhibits an improved performance in viewpoints of learning convergence and generalization capability. In this paper, we derive a new divergence measure between two probability density functions from the nCE error function. And the new divergence measure is compared with the relative entropy through the use of three-dimensional plots.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제13권7호
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• pp.679-686
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 PSK 변조 신호에 대한 위상 잡음 성능 특성을 무한 급수로 전개하여 위상 잡음 분포 함수인 Tikhonov 함수와 Gaussian 함수에 대한 오율 특성을 평가하였으며, 위상 잡음에 의한 성능 손실 분석을 통하여 Tikhonov 함수와 Gaussian 함수에 의한 위상 잡음 영향이 일치하는 복원 반송파 신호대 잡음비 범위를 고찰하였다. 그리고, 주파수 변조 신호의 변조 지수와 위상 잡음의 상관 정의에 의해 1/f$^2$특성을 갖는 위상 잡음 신호를 발생하였으며, 발생된 위상 잡음 신호를 디지털 위성통신시스템 수신기에 적용하여 측정한 위상 잡음에 의한 성능 손실과 위상 잡음 분포 함수에 의해 분석된 성능 열화를 평가하였다

• 전자공학회논문지A
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• 제29A권7호
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• pp.64-72
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• 1992

VLSI 전송선로의 커패시턴스를 3차원으로 계산하였다. Green's function과 표면전하밀도의 곱의 형태로 주어지는 적분식을 풀어서 커패시턴스를 구하였다. 이때, 표면전하밀도는 도체의 표면을 균일한 면적을 갖는 미소 면적소로 나누어 주었을 때 각각의 면적소 내에서는 일정한 상수값을 갖는다고 가정하였다. 지금까지의 Green's function을 이용한 적분방법에서는 적분식의 계산을 Fourier 적분의 형태로 변환하여 계산하였기 때문에 계산과정에서 어느정도의 오차가 있을 수 밖에 없었지만, 본 논문에서는 Fourier 적분을 사용하는 대신에 이중 적분을 직접적으로 적분할 수 있는 방법을 제시하였다. 이 방법을 사용하여 적용한 결과를 기존의 결과들과 비교를 함으로써, 이의 정확성을 입증하였다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제36권5호
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• pp.561-573
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• 2010

The potential of the liquid column vibration absorber (LCVA) as a seismic vibration control device for structures has been explored in this paper. In this work, the structure has been modeled as a linear, viscously damped single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) system. The governing differential equations of motion for the damper liquid and for the coupled structure-LCVA system have been derived from dynamic equilibrium. The nonlinear orifice damping in the LCVA has been linearized by a stochastic equivalent linearization technique. A transfer function formulation for the structure-LCVA system has been presented. The design parameters of the LCVA have been identified and by applying the transfer function formulation the optimum combination of these parameters has been determined to obtain the most efficient control performance of the LCVA in terms of the reduction in the root-mean-square (r.m.s.) displacement response of the structure. The study has been carried out for an example structure subjected to base input characterized by a white noise power spectral density function (PSDF). The sensitivity of the performance of the LCVA to the coefficient of head loss and to the tuning ratio have also been examined and compared with that of the liquid column damper (LCD). Finally, a simulation study has been carried out with a recorded accelerogram, to demonstrate the effectiveness of the LCVA.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제77권3호
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• pp.355-368
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• 2021

The time-varying mean (TVM) component of non-stationary wind speeds is commonly extracted utilizing empirical mode decomposition (EMD) in practice, whereas the accuracy of the extracted TVM is difficult to be quantified. To deal with this problem, this paper proposes an approach to identify and extract the optimal TVM from several TVM results obtained by the EMD. It is suggested that the optimal TVM of a 10-min time history of wind speeds should meet both the following conditions: (1) the probability density function (PDF) of fluctuating wind component agrees well with the modified Gaussian function (MGF). At this stage, a coefficient p is newly defined as an evaluation index to quantify the correlation between PDF and MGF. The smaller the p is, the better the derived TVM is; (2) the number of local maxima of obtained optimal TVM within a 10-min time interval is less than 6. The proposed approach is validated by a numerical example, and it is also adopted to extract the optimal TVM from the field measurement records of wind speeds collected during a sandstorm event.

• 천문학회보
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.53.2-53.2
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• 2021

Quasar luminosity function (QLF) shows the active galactic nucleus (AGN) demography as a result of the combination of the growth and the evolution of black holes, galaxies, and dark matter halos along the cosmic time. The recent wide and deep surveys have improved the census of high-redshift quasars, making it possible to construct reliable ultraviolet (UV) QLFs at 2 < z < 6 down to M1450 = -23 mag. By parameterizing these up-to-date observed UV QLFs that are the most extensive in both luminosity and survey area coverage at a given redshift, we show that the UV QLF has a universal shape, and their evolution can be approximated by a pure density evolution (PDE). In order to explain the observed QLF, we construct a model QLF employing the halo mass function, a number of empirical scaling relations, and the Eddington ratio distribution. We also include the outshining of AGN over its host galaxy, which made it possible to reproduce a moderately flat shape of the faint end of the observed QLF (slope of ~ -1.1). This model successfully explains the observed PDE behavior of UV QLF at z > 2, meaning that the QLF evolution at high redshift can be understood under the framework of halo mass function evolution. The importance of the outshining effect in our model also implies that there could be a hidden population of faint AGNs (M1450 > -24 mag), which are buried under their host galaxy light.