• 대한방사선치료학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.75-90
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• 2001

Although it is presumed that cancer patients take various alternative therapies, the present status is not well recognized. The purpose of this study is to survey alternative therapies used by cancer patients receiving radiation therapy and then, find associated factors of taking alternative therapies. The study subjects were composed of those who receiving radiation therapy in the department of radiation oncology in 5 hospitals located at Extended Busan city and who were on follow-up after medical cure. They were 394 male and female patients over 20 years old. The mean age of the subjects was 53.2 years old and the age ranged from 23 to 83 years old. 188 patients($47.7\%$) used alternative therapies. Total 68 different kinds of alterative therapies were used, average 7.3 kinds per patient were experienced, and average total cost expenditure was 2,830,000 won. Among the alternative therapies, black bean($38.8\%$) was the most commonly used and brown rice($38.3\%$), ganoderm lucidum($37.8\%$), elm tree($33.5\%$), and phellinus linteus($30.8\%$) were followed in order of frequency. However in considering the time, cost and effort spent, phellinus linteus was the first. In terms of cost, phellinus linteus was the highest with average expenditure of 2,740,000 won. Among the motivation of using alternative therapies, expecting auxiliary help for the hospital therapy was the highest ($31.4\%$). About half of users($56.9\%$) of alternative therapies were recommended by their relatives to use alternative therapies. In comparing the characteristics of experienced and unexperienced groups, alternative therapy was experienced significantly more in patients of younger age(p=0.001), in patient of higher educational level(p=0.001), and in patients of higher income(p=0.030) The proportion of using alternative therapies was significantly higher in the group treated with chemotherapy(p=0.005), and in the patients who did not satisfy with radiation therapy(p=0.001). The frequency of drinking was significantly higher tendency in the inexperienced group(p=0.046), There was no significant difference in marital status, job, religion, other disease, surgical operation of the cancer and smoking staus between the two groups. Among the unexperienced group, $34.0\%$ of the patients did not take the alternative therapies because they did not have know]edge for the alternatives, and $22.3\%$ worried about negative effects on hospital-based therapy $58.7\%$ of them were willing to take the alternative therapies if the effects and safety were proven by the government or research institutes. $21.9\%$ of the patients wanted to take the alternatives if they were affordable. $72.3\%$ of the patients was willing to take them if their families recommend, but $27.2\%$ responded they would not take them in any situation. Conclusively, various kinds of alternative therapies which were not proved medically were exposed to patients, In these circumstances, it is required to investigate, study and evaluate the medical effects and safety of the alternative therapies.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.162-167
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 적외선 파장대에서 렌즈의 변조전달함수(MTF)를 칼날 주사방식으로 측정하는 적외선 MTF 측정장치를 구성하고 평가하였다. 측정장치는 물체부, 평행광을 만들어주는 시준부, 형성된 상을 분석하는 분석부로 나뉜다. 광원으로는 텅스텐 필라멘트 광원을 사용하였으며 중적외선 영상을 검출하기 위해 MCT를 사용하였다. 이 장치를 사용하여 ZnSe 재질의 f 수가 5인 표준렌즈의 MTF를 중적외선 파장대인 $3{\sim}5{\mu}m$에서 측정하고 Zemax 프로그램을 통해 계산한 이론값과 측정값 차이를 비교하여 차단주파수(Cut-off frequency)인 50 1/mm까지 전구간에서 ${\pm}0.035$이내임을 확인하였다. 또한 측정값의 신뢰도를 확인하기 위한 A형 측정불확도를 계산한 결과 MTF의 대표 공간 주파수인 20 1/mm에서 0.002으로 동일한 조건 하에서 측정 시 측정값의 변화가 거의 없음을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한공간정보학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.45-53
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• 2013

지구 온난화와 이로 인한 해수면의 상승은 명백히 전 지구적으로 일어나고 있는 변화이며 해안선의 변화 또한 동반되고 있다. 해안선은 해수면의 상승뿐만 아니라 인위적인 활동에 의해서도 변화할 수 있으나 지구온난화에 의한 해안선 변화의 파악은 지구 온난화의 진행을 파악할 수 있는 지표로써 활용이 가능하다. 따라서 본 연구의 목적은 자동으로 해안선을 추출 및 변화를 파악하는 데에 있다. 본 연구에서는 자동으로 해안선을 추출하기 위해서 수분지수를 활용하여 물과 육지의 대조를 극대화하였으며, 해안선의 자동 추출이 용이하도록 하였다. 수분지수로 변환된 영상에서 자동으로 물과 육지를 분할하기 위하여 적정 임계값을 자동으로 찾을 수 있도록 영상처리 기법을 적용하였고, 경계선 검출 알고리즘을 통하여 해안선을 추출하였으며 추출된 해안선으로 변화를 탐지하는 방법론을 제시하고자 하였다. 자동으로 물과 육지를 분할하고 경계선을 찾는 영상처리 기법은 다른 자료의 도움 없이 LANDSAT 영상만을 이용하여 적용될 수 있으며 추출된 해안선 또한 기준자료로 이용된 NLCD(National Land Cover Database) 자료와의 비교를 통해 유사하다는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 지구 온난화의 지표로써의 활용 가치를 확인하기 위해 연구 대상지역을 지층의 온도가 연중 $0^{\circ}C$ 이하로 항상 얼어 있는 영구동토로 선정하여 영구동토의 해빙으로 인한 해안선 변화를 정량적으로 확인할 수 있었으며 해안선의 변화가 가속화한다는 사실을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 수산경영론집
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• 제51권2호
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• pp.51-69
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to construct an outlook model that is consistent with the "Fisheries Outlook" monthly published by the Fisheries Outlook Center of the Korea Maritime Institute(KMI). In particular, it was designed as a partial equilibrium model limited to abalone items, but a model was constructed with a dynamic ecological equation model(DEEM) system taking into account biological breeding and shipping time. The results of this study are significant in that they can be used as basic data for model development of various items in the future. In this study, due to the limitation of monthly data, the market equilibrium price was calculated by using the recursive model construction method to be calculated directly as an inverse demand. A model was built in the form of a structural equation model that can explain economic causality rather than a conventional time series analysis model. The research results and implications are as follows. As a result of the estimation of the amount of young seashells planting, it was estimated that the coefficient of the amount of young seashells planting from the previous year was estimated to be 0.82 so that there was no significant difference in the amount of young seashells planting this year and last year. It is also meant to be nurtured for a long time after aquaculture license and limited aquaculture area(edge style) and implantation. The economic factor, the coefficient of price from last year was estimated at 0.47. In the case of breeding quantity, it was estimated that the longer the breeding period, the larger the coefficient of breeding quantity in the previous period. It was analyzed that the impact of shipments on the breeding volume increased. In the case of shipments, the coefficient of production price was estimated unelastically. As the period of rearing increased, the estimation coefficient decreased. Such result indicates that the expected price, which is an economic factor variable and that had less influence on the intention to shipments. In addition, the elasticity of the breeding quantity was estimated more unelastically as the breeding period increased. This is also correlated with the relative coefficient size of the expected price. The abalone supply and demand forecast model developed in this study is significant in that it reduces the prediction error than the existing model using the ecological equation modeling system and the economic causal model. However, there are limitations in establishing a system of simultaneous equations that can be linked to production and consumption between industries and items. This is left as a future research project.

• 한국환경생태학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.308-319
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• 2016

우포늪의 목포습지에서 수심에 따른 수생식물의 분포 특성을 밝히기 위한 연구가 수행되었다. 274개 지점에서의 수심 및 식물종 분포 현황에 대한 표본조사가 이루어졌다. 선행연구에서 이루어진바 없었던 목포에 대한 상세한 수심분포 지도가 만들어졌다. 평균 수심은 77cm(${\pm}29cm$), 최대 수심은 157cm로서 가장자리는 60cm이내이며, 중심부가 120-130cm 정도의 오목한 그릇 형태를 이루고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구를 통해 침수식물 6종(검정말, 나사말, 나자스말, 말즘, 붕어마름, 실말)과 부엽식물 3종(가시연꽃, 자라풀, 마름)의 서식이 확인 되었다. 이들 수생식물들의 분포는 통계적으로 유의한 차이(${\chi}^2=982.2$, df = 8, p< 0.01)를 보여 환경조건에 따라 식물종의 분포 양상이 다른 것으로 확인되었다. 마름이 244회 출현하여 가장 높은 빈도로 출현하는 것으로 나타났으며, 말즘과 함께 수심이 깊을수록 피도가 높아지는 분포 양상을 보였다. 가시연꽃, 자라풀, 검정말, 나자스말, 붕어마름 5종은 수심이 깊을수록 피도가 낮아지는 음의 상관관계를 나타내었다. 수심에 따른 수생식물의 분포는 근본적으로 각각의 식물종이 가지는 생태적 특성에 의한 것이지만, 목포습지의 환경 특성을 반영하고 있는 것으로 나타났다.

• 대한치과보철학회지
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.287-295
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• 2002

Statement of Problem. Endodontically treated teeth frequently required posts and cores to provide retention and resistance form for crowns. In spite of excellent mechanical properties of metal post and core, its metallic color can be detected through all ceramic restorations occasionally. To solve esthetic problems of metal post and core zirconia post system has been introduced recently. Purpose. The purpose of this study was to examine the fracture strength and mode of resin root analogs restored with zirconia, gold and titanium posts with resin, ceramic and metal cores after cementation with metal crowns. Materials and methods. To avoid the morphological variations of natural teeth, 40 root analogs were fabricated with composite resin. Forty resin root analogs were randomly assigned to four groups according to post and core materials: Group A: cast gold post and core and complete cast crowns, as control. Group B: titanium posts (Parapost, Coltent/Whaledent Inc., NJ, USA) and composite resin cores. Group C: zirconia posts (Cosmopost, Ivoclar AG, Schaan/Liechtenstein) and composite resin cores Group D: zirconia posts and heat-pressed ceramic cores (IPS Empress Cosmo Ingots, Ivoclar AG) After thermocycling ($5^{\circ}C{\sim}55^{\circ}C$, 30 sec.), cyclic loading was applied at 3mm below the incisal edge on the palatal surfaces at an angle of 135 degree to the long axis (2Hz, 50N, 50000cycles). Fracture strength was measured by universal testing machine (Instron, High Wycombe, UK) and fracture pattern of restored resin root analogs was also evaluated. Results and conclusion. Within the limitations of this study following results were drawn. 1. Resin root analogs restored with zirconia posts and composite resins demonstrated lowest fracture strength among tested groups. 2. There was no significant difference in the fracture strength between zirconia posts and heat pressed glass ceramic cores and cast gold posts and cores 3. The fracture strength of resin root analogs restored with titanium posts and composite resin cores was lower than that of gold posts and cores. 4. The deep oblique fracture lines were dominantly observed in root analogs restored with cast gold post and core and zirconia post and heat-pressed ceramic core groups.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제13B권4호
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• pp.353-360
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 도로 영상으로부터 차량 번호판 영역을 분할하는 알고리즘을 제시한다. 차량의 번호판 영역이 다른 영역에 비해 차별되는 특정을 세 가지 측면으로 나누어, 1) 번호판의 내부 문자, 2) 번호판의 색상, 3) 번호판의 형태에 대해 분석한다. 전처리 과정에서는, 이와 같은 세 가지 측면을 고려하여 번호판의 내부 영역 및 크기를 판별할 수 있는 임계값들을 계산하며, 이를 위해 표본 영상에 대한 통계적 처리를 수행한다. 차량 영역 분할 알고리즘에서는 임계값들을 이용하여 입력영상 내부에서 번호판 영역이 강조되도록 영상을 이진화한다. 일정한 크기의 윈도우로 이진 영상(binary image) 전체를 탐색하여, 윈도우 내부 픽셀 값의 합이 높은 순으로 서로 중복이 없도록 후보 영역을 찾은 후, 간단한 휴리스틱을 이용하여 후보 영역들 중에서 번호판 영역을 선택한다. 이 알고리즘은 번호판의 변형 또는 색상 명암도에 차이가 있는 경우에 대해서 안정적이다. 또한 이 알고리즘은 복잡한 전처리 과정을 요구하지 않고, 적은 수의 표본 영상에 대한 통계 처리만으로도 228장의 실험 영상들에 대해 97.8% 정도의 높은 성공률을 보였다. 프로토타입 시스템을 구현한 결과는 512M 바이트 메모리를 장착한 3GHz 펜티엄4 PC에서 $1280{\times}960$ 해상도의 영상 1장당 평균 0.676초의 처리 속도를 보였다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.148-159
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• 2018

Purpose: Unmanned air vehicle (UAV) remote sensing was applied to test various vegetation indices and make prediction models of protein content of rice for monitoring grain quality and proper management practice. Methods: Image acquisition was carried out by using NIR (Green, Red, NIR), RGB and RE (Blue, Green, Red-edge) camera mounted on UAV. Sampling was done synchronously at the geo-referenced points and GPS locations were recorded. Paddy samples were air-dried to 15% moisture content, and then dehulled and milled to 92% milling yield and measured the protein content by near-infrared spectroscopy. Results: Artificial neural network showed the better performance with $R^2$ (coefficient of determination) of 0.740, NSE (Nash-Sutcliffe model efficiency coefficient) of 0.733 and RMSE (root mean square error) of 0.187% considering all 54 samples than the models developed by PR (polynomial regression), SLR (simple linear regression), and PLSR (partial least square regression). PLSR calibration models showed almost similar result with PR as 0.663 ($R^2$) and 0.169% (RMSE) for cloud-free samples and 0.491 ($R^2$) and 0.217% (RMSE) for cloud-shadowed samples. However, the validation models performed poorly. This study revealed that there is a highly significant correlation between NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index) and protein content in rice. For the cloud-free samples, the SLR models showed $R^2=0.553$ and RMSE = 0.210%, and for cloud-shadowed samples showed 0.479 as $R^2$ and 0.225% as RMSE respectively. Conclusion: There is a significant correlation between spectral bands and grain protein content. Artificial neural networks have the strong advantages to fit the nonlinear problem when a sigmoid activation function is used in the hidden layer. Quantitatively, the neural network model obtained a higher precision result with a mean absolute relative error (MARE) of 2.18% and root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.187%.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.147-153
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• 2001

Objective: The present study was performed to investigate the efficiency of partial laser assisted hatching (p-LAH; lased 1/2 ZP width from ZP edge) on hatching of mouse blastocysts. Methods: We used non-contact $1.48{\mu}m$ diode laser (MTM, Switzland) to create a precise hole on zona pellucida. 2-cell embryos were collected from the mouse (ICR) oviduct at 48 hours after hCG administration. Collected 2-cell embryos were cultured in the P-1 medium supplemented with 0.4% BSA. For experiments, embryos at 8-cell stage were used after $20{\sim}22$ hours in culture. After conventional (c-LAH) or partial laser assisted hatching, the embryos were further cultured in P-1 medium supplemented with 0.4% BSA for 3 days. To compare efficiency of complete and partial laser assisted hatching, hatching rate, hatching time and blastocyst diameter and zona pellucida thickness at hatching time were investigated. Embryos were examined every 12 hours. Blastocyst diameter and zona pellucida thickness at hatching time were measured with an ocular micrometer. Results: Hatching rates of p-LAH group (84.2%) was significantly higher than that of control group (39.3%), but there was no difference between the p-LAH (84.2%) and c-LAH (91.2%). p-LAH group was hatched 12 hours earlier than control group, but hatched 12 hours later than c-LAH group. The diameter of blastocyst at hatching time of p-LAH group ($113.1{\pm}6.4{\mu}m$) was smaller than that of control group ($122.2{\pm}5.0{\mu}m$), but larger than that of c-LAH group ($102.2{\pm}2.7{\mu}m$). Zona pellucida thickness at hatching time of p-LAH group ($6.4{\pm}0.9{\mu}m$) was thicker than that of control group ($4.5{\pm}1.5{\mu}m$), but thinner than that of c-LAH group ($10.0{\pm}0.8{\mu}m$). Conclusion: These results suggest that p-LAH may maintains the cell arrangement of early embryos to ensure successful development and prevent precocious hatching of blastocyst when compare to c-LAH and conventional (acidic tyrode) AH. Thus, p-LAH may provide a valuable and effective AH technique for human ART program.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.1585-1593
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• 2015

3차원 구조 알루미늄 판재(엠보싱 판재)는 표면적이 증가되어 방열효과가 뛰어나고 가공경화에 의해 굽힘강성 증가효과가 있으므로 자동차 열차단 부품에 널리 사용된다. 그러나 엠보싱 판재는 평판의 판재와 비교하면 기계적 특성이 상이하고 또한 3차원 형상으로 인해 프레스 가공에 있어서 많은 제약이 따른다. 본 연구에서는 프레스 가공공정을 대신하여 최근 신제품의 디자인 검증과 시생산에 널리 채용되고 있는 점진성형공정을 대상으로 엠보싱된 판재의 성형특성을 평가하였다. 본 연구에서 채용한 공구형상을 이용한 사각 원뿔의 점진성형 결과, 엠보싱된 판재의 경우가 평판의 경우보다 더 큰 기울기를 갖는 사각 원뿔을 파단없이 성형할 수 있음을 보였다. 이는 점진성형공정에서 CNC 공구의 이동경로(tool path)하에서 공구가 엠보싱 판재의 산과 골을 눌러 복원시키면서 재료의 소성변형을 증가시키기 때문이다. 또한 공구의 이동경로가 내향 경로보다 외향 경로인 경우가 보다 큰 기울기의 제품을 성형할 수 있지만 스프링 백의 발생으로 제품의 표면품질은 열세에 있음을 보였다.