• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.69-83
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• 1998

Sea transportation has long been a vital component of the transport systems of the world. The great majority of imports and exports to and enlarge their national merchant marines. This effort is meant partly to arrest earlier trends of having their trade carried by ships from outside the region and partly to promote regional integration and improve the national balance of payments. However, sea transportation has been exposed to various types of threats on the high seas, in coastal waters and in port areas. Piracy is any robbery or other violent action, for private ends and without authorization by public authority, committed on the seas. Because piracy has been regarded as an offense against the law of nations, the public vessels of any state have been permitted to seize a pirate ship, to bring it into port, to try the crew(regardless of their nationality or domicile), and, if found guilty, to punish them and to confiscate the ship. Piracy has occurred in all stages of maritime history. The increased size of merchant vessels, the improved naval patrolling of most ocean highways, the regular administration of most islands and land areas of the world, and the general recognition by governments of piracy as an international offense resulted in a great decline in piracy in the 19th and 20th centuries. Piracy has, however, occurred in the 20th century, and the practice of hijacking ships has developed into a new form of piracy. The number of incidents of sea piracy against ships reported was 229 in 1997. Since 1991, 1,051 such acts have been reported. The purpose of this research is to examine the origin and development of the piracy to understand the current situation of such violence on the seas. In addition, what should be done by international community will be presented to prevent the piracy in the future.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.508-513
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• 2015

A capacitive-type touch screen panel (TSP) composed of silver nanowire (AgNW) crossing electrodes and transparent bridge structures was fabricated on a polycarbonate film. The transparent bridge structure was formed with a stack of Al-doped ZnO (AZO) electrodes and SU-8 insulator. The stable and robust continuity of the bridge electrode over the bridge insulator was achieved by making the side-wall slope of the bridge insulator low and depositing the conformal AZO film with atomic layer deposition. With an extended exposure time of photolithography, the lower part of the SU-8 layer around the region uncovered by the photomask can be exposed enough to the UV light scattered from the substrate. This leads to the low side-wall slope of the bridge insulator. The fabricated TSP sample showed a large capacitance change of 22.71% between with and without touching. Our work supplies the technological clue for ensuring long-term reliability to the highly flexible and transparent TSP made by using conventional fabrication processes.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.368-375
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• 2008

Approximately 120 UDP-glycosyltransferases (UGTs), which are classified into 14 distinct groups (A to N), have been annotated in the Arabidopsis genome. UGTs catalyze the transfer of sugars to various acceptor molecules including flavonoids. Previously, UGT71C1 was shown to glycosylate the 3-OH of hydroxycinnamates and flavonoids in vitro. Such secondary metabolites are known to play important roles in plant growth and development. To help define the role of UGT71C1 in planta, we investigated its expression patterns, and isolated and characterized a loss-of-function mutation in the UGT71C1 gene (named ugt71c1-1). Our analyses by quantitative real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR), microarray data mining, and histochemical detection of GUS activity driven by the UGT71C1 promoter region, revealed the tissue-specific expression patterns of UGT71C1 with highest expression in roots. Interestingly, upon treatment with methyl viologen (MV, paraquat), ugt71c1-1 plants displayed enhanced resistance to oxidative stress, and ROS scavenging activity was higher than normal. Metabolite profiling revealed that the levels of two major glycosides of quercetin and kaempferol were reduced in ugt71c1-1 plants. In addition, when exposed to MV-induced oxidative stress, eight representative ROS response genes were expressed at lower levels in ugt71c1-1 plants, indicating that ugt71c1-1 probably has higher non-enzymatic antioxidant activity. Taken together, our results indicate that ugt71c1-1 has increased resistance to oxidative stress, suggesting that UGT71C1 plays a role in some glycosylation pathways affecting secondary metabolites such as flavonoids in response to oxidative stress.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제46권6호
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• pp.132-145
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 임의의 조명 상황에서 왜곡된 영상을 JND(Just noticeable difference)와 경계 보호 평탄화 필터(edge-preserving smoothing filter)를 사용하여 자동적으로 휘도 및 색상을 복원하는 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 최적의 휘도 보상, 선명한 색상 복원, 휘도 보상 시 발생되는 여러 가지 문제점의 최소화, 자동화된 매개변수 추정 그리고 하드웨어 구현을 위한 고속화 등을 목적으로 하고 있다. 이를 위하여 본 논문에서는 후광효과(HALO)나 노이즈 증폭 등의 눈에 거슬리는 결함을 제거하기 위하여 경계 보호 평탄화 필터의 효용성에 대해 보인다. 또한 제안된 색상 복원 함수는 인간시각에 근거해 자연스러운 색상의 복원과 왜곡된 색상의 보정을 수행한다. 자동화된 처리를 위하여 영상의 통계적 분석과 JND를 이용해 적합한 매개변수를 찾으며 모든 상수는 미리 정의되어 사용된다. 또한 터치스크린 카메라를 이용한 관심영역(ROI : Region of Interest) 기반 매개변수 추정기법을 사용하여 역광 사진 보정을 좀 더 효율적으로 수행한다. 객관적 평가를 위해 CMC, CIEde2000, PSNR, SSIM, 그리고 3D CIELAB 색역을 기존의 연구나 상업 제품들과 비교하였다.

• 대한치과교정학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.197-204
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• 1996

이 연구는 악안면 영역의 심미적 개선에 필요한 미소의 형태에 대한 기준을 설정하기 위하여 시행하였다. 성인 정상교합자 62명(남자;30명, 평균연령;22.7세, 여자;32명, 평균연령;21.8세)을 대상으로 안정위시와 미소시의 얼굴 정면 사진을 촬영하였고, 미소시 입술의 형태변화, 그리고 입술과 치아와의 관계를 계측, 분석하였다. 이 연구로 부터 얻어진 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 하순 상연의 만곡과 상악 절단연과의 평행관계인 smile line ratio는 0.09이었고, buccal corridor ratio는 0.63, smile symmetry ratio는 0.96이었다. 2. 미소시 양 구각주 간의 거리는 안정위시 구각부 간 거리의 1.31배였으며, 얼굴 폭의 0.48배였다. 3. 미소시 상순의 수직길이는 안정위시 길이의 0.69배였고, 하순의 수직길이는 안저위시 길이의 0.96배였다. 4. 상악 전치의 노출량은 9.96mm이었고, 상악 전치의 노출은 미소시 상순의 수직길이의 변화율이 었고, 미소시 구각부 길이의 비, buccal corridor ratio등과 관계 깊었다.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2008년도 춘계 학술발표회 제20권1호
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• pp.513-516
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• 2008

본 연구는 부식생성물의 공극충전에 의한, 부식 반응량 및 이산화탄소의 확산속도 변화를 고려한 철분혼입 콘크리트의 염화물이온침투 예측모델에 관한 연구이다. 본 모델은 염화물이온 침투영역에서 염화물이온과 철이온의 반응 및 염화물이온의 확산에 기초한다. 또한 본 모델은 콘크리트 조직이 부식 생성물로 인해 치밀해져, 콘크리트의 염화물이온 침투저항성이 억제되는 것에 대해서도 해석이 가능하다. 모델에 의한 예측치와 철분을 혼입한 콘크리트에 있어서의 실측값은 잘 일치하였고, 재령이 경과함에 따라 철분무혼입 콘크리트에 비해 염화물이온 침투속도가 상당히 늦어지는 것으로 나타났다. 결론적으로 본 모델은 대기중에 노출된 콘크리트의 물시멘트비 및 철분 혼입 유무와 혼입율에 따른 염화물이온 침투 예측이 가능하였다.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제35권8호
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• pp.757-762
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 표면에 사인주기의 온도변화를 주었을 때 인체피부 조직의 온도변화에 대해 연구 하였다. 표피, 진피 및 피하조직으로 이루어진 피부 각 층의 서로 다른 물성치의 영향을 Pennes 열전달 방정식을 이용한 수치해석방법으로 풀이하여 조사하였다. 각 조직의 서로 다른 물성치가 온도분포에 미치는 영향에 대해 조사하였다. 또 물성치 변화의 영향을 많이 받는 진피부분에 대해서 관류율의 영향을 조사하였다. 해석 결과 동일한 물성치를 사용한 경우와 달리 서로 다른 물성치를 사용하였을 때, 피부깊이에 따른 온도분포가 불연속적으로 나타났다.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제50권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2013

The high-skewed and/or composite propellers of current interests to reduce the ship vibration and to increase the acoustic performance are likely to be exposed to the unexpected structural problems. One typical example is that the added mass effect on the propellers working in the non-uniform wake field reduces the natural frequency of the propeller leading to the resonance with the low-frequency excitation of the external forces. To avoid this resonance problem during the design stage, the technique of fluid-structure interaction has been developed, but the higher-order effect of the blade geometry deformation is not yet considered in evaluating the added mass effects. In this paper the fluid boundary-value problem is formulated by the potential-based panel method in the inviscid fluid region with the velocity inflow due to the body deformation, and the structural response of the solid body under the hydrodynamic loading is solved by applying the finite element method which implements the 20-node iso-parametric element model. The fluid-structure problem is solved iteratively. A basic fluid-sturcture interaction study is performed with the simple rectangular plates of thin thickness with various planform submerged in the water of infinite extent. The computations show good correlation with the experimental results of Linholm, et al. (1965).

• 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국태양에너지학회 2009년도 추계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.259-264
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• 2009

Most of the fossil power plants firing lower grade coals are challenged with maintaining good combustion conditions while maximizing generation and minimizing emissions. In many cases significant derate, availability losses and increase in unburned carbon levels can be attributed to poor combustion conditions as a result of poorly controlled local fuel and air distribution within the boiler furnace. The poor combustion conditions are directly related to the gas flow deviation in upper furnace and convection tube-bank but a less reported issue related to in large-scale oppose wall fired boilers. In order to develop a on-line combustion monitoring system and suggest an alternative heat flux estimation method at tube bank, which is very useful information for boiler design tool and blower optimizing system, field test was conducted at operating power boiler. During the field test the exhaust gases' temperature and tube metal temperature were monitored by using a spatially distributed sensors grid which located in the boiler's high temperature vestibule region. At these locations. the flue gas flow is still significantly stratified, and air in-leakage is minimal which enables tracing of poor combustion zones to specific burners and over-fire air ports. Test results showed that the flue gas monitoring method is more proper than metal temperature distribution monitoring for real time combustion monitoring because tube metal temp. distribution monitoring method is related to so many variables such as flue gas, internal flow unbalance, spray etc., Heat flux estimation at the tube bank with flue gas temp. and metal temp. data can be alternative method when tube drilling type sensor can't able to use.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제62권1호
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• pp.76-82
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• 2013

The solar cell is a device to convert light energy into electric, which supplies power to the external load when exposed to the incident light. The photocurrent and voltage occurred in the device are significant factors to decide the output power of solar cells. The crystalline silicon solar cell module has photocurrent loss due to light reflections on the glass and EVA(Ethylene Vinyl Acetate). These photocurrent loss would be a hinderance for high-efficiency solar cell module. In this paper, the quantitative analysis for the photocurrent losses in the 300-1200 wavelength region was performed. The simulation method with MATLAB was used to analyze the reflection on a front glass and EVA layer. To investigate the intensity of light that reached solar cells in PV(Photovoltaic) module, the reflectance and transmittance of PV modules was calculated using the Fresnel equations. The simulated photocurrent in each wavelength was compared with the output of real solar cells and the manufactured PV module to evaluate the reliability of simulation. As a result of the simulation, We proved that the optical loss largely occurred in wavelengths between 300 and 400 nm.