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Study on the Method to Improve a Maritime Safety by Analysing the Distribution Characteristics of the Ships on Marine Firing Range (해상사격장 선박분포 특성 분석을 통한 해상안전 개선방안에 대한 연구)

  • Baek, Sang Hwa;Lee, Ah Yoon;Park, Ho Jun;Lee, Woo Sung;Choi, Kye Soog
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.79-85
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    • 2020
  • Ahn-heung Proving Ground(APG) of Agency for Defense Development(ADD) is the only weapon test site which has been performing firing tests for many kinds of missile, artillery and ammunition. APG has been performing the firing tests of so many times every year. The tests related to missiles, artillery and ammunitions cover 80% among the quantity of annual test events. The target area of many kinds of missile, artillery and ammunition is on the sea. Therefore, APG has its marine firing ranges which were approved by the ministry of Defense. Both weapons and ships can run into each other on the sea. APG has to monitor and detect the positions of the ships in the specific dangerous zone on the sea. The positions of the ships are detected by Scanter 2001 radar and GPS100 detection radar. Evading the time period when the ships appear very often on the sea may be a good solution to keep the maritime safety. And evading the place where the ships appear very often on the sea may be a good solution as well. This paper is to analyze the ships' distribution characteristics of marine firing range, which are to raise the efficiency of many kinds firing tests which have been performed in APG of ADD. Ship distribution data from February 2014 to December 2016 were used in this paper. Ship distribution was analyzed with monthly data, seasonal data and etc. The number of the ships in approved sea area is higher in the morning than in the afternoon, and in fall than other seasons, and from August to November, and below 0.5 m in the hight of wave. Using the these conditions, we can raise the test efficiency of many kinds firing tests and guarantee maritime safety. The number of the ships in approved sea area is entirely unrelated to visibility of the sea. The time period when the number of the ships are high on the sea is morning. The season when the number of the ships are comparatively high on the sea is fall. APG of ADD could raise the efficiency of the firing tests and improve the maritime safety, using the analysis results of the characteristics on the ship distribution.

Qualitative Verification of the LAMP Hail Prediction Using Surface and Radar Data (지상과 레이더 자료를 이용한 LAMP 우박 예측 성능의 정성적 검증)

  • Lee, Jae-yong;Lee, Seung-Jae;Shim, Kyo-Moon
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.179-189
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    • 2022
  • Ice and water droplets rise and fall above the freezing altitude under the effects of strong updrafts and downdrafts, grow into hail, and then fall to the ground in the form of balls or irregular lumps of ice. Although such hail, which occurs in a local area within a short period of time, causes great damage to the agricultural and forestry sector, there is a paucity of domestic research toward predicting hail. The objective of this study was to introduce Land-Atmosphere Modeling Package (LAMP) hail prediction and measure its performance for 50 hail events that occurred from January 2020 to July 2021. In the study period, the frequency of occurrence was high during the spring and during afternoon hours. The average duration of hail was 15 min, and the average diameter of the hail was 1 cm. The results showed that LAMP predicted hail events with a detection rate of 70%. The hail prediction performance of LAMP deteriorated as the hail prediction time increased. The radar reflectivity of actual cases of hail indicated that the average maximum reflectivity was greater than 40 dBZ regardless of altitude. Approximately 50% of the hail events occurred when the reflectivity ranged from 30~50 dBZ. These results can be used to improve the hail prediction performance of LAMP in the future. Improved hail prediction performance through LAMP should lead to reduced economic losses caused by hail in the agricultural and forestry sector through preemptive measures such as net coverings.

Detection of Quantitative Trait Loci for Growth and Carcass Traits on BTA6 in a Hanwoo Population

  • Lee, Y.-M.;Lee, Y.S.;Han, C.-M.;Lee, J.-H.;Yeo, J.S.;Kim, Jong-Joo
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.287-291
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study was to detect quantitative trait loci (QTL) for growth and carcass quality traits on BTA6 in a population of Hanwoo cattle. Three hundred and sixty one steers were produced from 39 sires that were sired by 17 grandsires in the two Hanwoo farming branches of the National Livestock Research Institute of Korea, between Spring 2000 and Fall 2002. DNA samples were collected for all of the steers, sires and grandsires, and the phenotypes for six growth and carcass quality traits were measured at 24 months of age. Twelve microsatellite markers were chosen on BTA6 and a linkage map was constructed by using seven of the twelve markers. Then, a chromosome-wide QTL scan was performed by applying an Animal Model, in which effects of QTL alleles within the grand sires were fitted as a random term. Three QTL were detected at the 5% chromosome-wise level for backfat thickness, average daily gain, and final weight. The most likely positions for the QTL were in the proximal region, i.e. 0 cM, 35 cM, and 63 cM, respectively. Also, another QTL for longissimus dorsi muscle area was detected at the 10% chromosome-wise level at 67 cM. These results were, in general, consistent with our previous report, in which candidate gene analyses showed that a SNP near ILSTS035 flanked by BM4621 (62.5 cM) and BMS2460 (81.3 cM) was associated with final weight, carcass weight, average daily gain, and longissimus dorsi muscle area in the same Hanwoo population.

A ECG Analysis with Activity Monitrong for Healthcare of Elderly Person (노인 헬스케어를 위한 ECG분석 및 활동량 모니터링 구현)

  • Bhardwaj, Sachin;Purwar, Amit;Lee, Dae-Seok;Chung, Wan-Young
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2007.06a
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    • pp.347-350
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    • 2007
  • An ECG analysis with activity monitoring for the home care of elderly persons or patients, using wireless sensors technology was design and implemented. The changes in heart rate occur before, during, or following behavior such as posture changes, walking and running. Therefore, it is often very important to record heart rate along with posture and behavior, for continuously monitoring a patient's cardiovascular regulatory system during their daily life activity. The ECG and accelerometer data are continuously recorded with a built-in automatic alarm detection system, for giving early alarm signals even if the patient is unconscious or unaware of cardiac arrhythmias. The hardware allows data to be transmitted wirelessly from on-body sensors to a base station attached to server PC using IEEE802.15.4. If any abnormality un at server then the alarm condition sends to the doctor' PDA (Personal Digital Assistant).

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Development of an Accuracy-improved Vision Inspection System for BGA Solder Ball (정확도를 향상시킨 BGA 솔더볼 외관검사 기법 개발)

  • Huh, Kyung-Moo
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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    • v.47 no.6
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    • pp.80-85
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    • 2010
  • BGA 409 chip currently the most as a visual inspection of the exterior inspection is conducted. Human depending on visual inspection of the exterior inspection of the current state of testers, depending on how the test results because the change is difficult to expect reliable results. Therefore, the challenges of visual inspection of BGA solder balls to improve the visual inspection technique was developed. However, BGA solder ball size of the microstructure and the characteristics of the distinction between hard test the accuracy of the fall orientation error has a problem. In this paper BGA solder balls exterior inspection of the accuracy to improve the edge detection algorithm, the complement of features and only the comparison proposed a pattern-matching techniques, based on the characteristics of spatial configuration of the area by improving the standard error of the orientation proposed improvements.

Detection of Yellow Sand Dust over Northeast Asia using Background Brightness Temperature Difference of Infrared Channels from MODIS (MODIS 적외채널 배경 밝기온도차를 이용한 동북아시아 황사 탐지)

  • Park, Jusun;Kim, Jae Hwan;Hong, Sung Jae
    • Atmosphere
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.137-147
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    • 2012
  • The technique of Brightness Temperature Difference (BTD) between 11 and $12{\mu}m$ separates yellow sand dust from clouds according to the difference in absorptive characteristics between the channels. However, this method causes consistent false alarms in many cases, especially over the desert. In order to reduce these false alarms, we should eliminate the background noise originated from surface. We adopted the Background BTD (BBTD), which stands for surface characteristics on clear sky condition without any dust or cloud. We took an average of brightness temperatures of 11 and $12{\mu}m$ channels during the previous 15 days from a target date and then calculated BTD of averaged ones to obtain decontaminated pixels from dust. After defining the BBTD, we subtracted this index from BTD for the Yellow Sand Index (YSI). In the previous study, this method was already verified using the geostationary satellite, MTSAT. In this study, we applied this to the polar orbiting satellite, MODIS, to detect yellow sand dust over Northeast Asia. Products of yellow sand dust from OMI and MTSAT were used to verify MODIS YSI. The coefficient of determination between MODIS YSI and MTSAT YSI was 0.61, and MODIS YSI and OMI AI was also 0.61. As a result of comparing two products, significantly enhanced signals of dust aerosols were detected by removing the false alarms over the desert. Furthermore, the discontinuity between land and ocean on BTD was removed. This was even effective on the case of fall. This study illustrates that the proposed algorithm can provide the reliable distribution of dust aerosols over the desert even at night.

Correlations Among the Berg Balance Scale, Gait Parameters, and Falling in the Elderly (노인에서 Berg 균형 척도, 보행 변수, 그리고 넘어짐과의 관계)

  • Lee, Hyun-Ju;Yi, Chung-Hwi;Yoo, Eun-Young
    • Physical Therapy Korea
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.47-65
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    • 2002
  • This study examined the correlations among the Berg Balance Scale, which is a clinical tool used to evaluate balance ability, spatiotemporal parameters of gait, and falling; determined the parameters most closely related to falling; and identified a discriminatory parameter and its predictability. Thirty-four subjects aged 72 to 92 years participated in this study. Following a questionnaire survey about falling, the Berg Balance Scale and spatiotemporal parameters of gait were measured. The results revealed that the incidence of falls increased with aging and an accompanying reduction in the flexion range of motion of the hip joint. The gait characteristics of elderly people who fell easily included a slower walking speed, shorter stride, and longer stance time than other elderly. When the cutoff score was set at 45, the Berg Balance Scale was able to identify correctly those individuals who truly have experience of falling than when the cutoff score was set at 39. But when the cutoff score was set at 39, the scale's specificity identifying correctly those individuals who truly have not experience of falling was higher than at the cutoff score of 45. Therefore, the Berg Balance Scale is an appropriate screening method in a clinical setting for the early detection of elderly people at risk of falling. In conclusion, elderly people with a Berg Balance Scale score. below 45 are the most likely to fall owing to their decreased balance ability.

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The Effect of Knee Strategy on Limits of Stability in Standing Balance (기립균형시 슬관절 전략이 안정성 한계에 미치는 영향)

  • Kwon, Hyuk-Cheol;Jeong, Dong-Hoon
    • Physical Therapy Korea
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.11-21
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    • 1999
  • Human balance is maintained through a complex process involving sensory detection of body motions, integration of sensorimotor information within the central nervous system, and execution of appropriate musculoskeletal responses. The basic task of balance is to position the body center of gravity (COG) over some portion of the support base. When the COG extends beyond the base of support, the person has exceeded the limits of stability (LOS). At this point, a step or stumble is required to prevent a fall. Automatic postural responses operate to keep the COG over the base of support. They are a set of functionally organized, long-loop responses that act to keep the body in a state of equilibrium. There are four commonly identified automatic postural responses, or strategies. These are ankle strategy, hip strategy, suspensory (knee) strategy, and stepping strategy. Thus, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the LOS using various knee strategies. Forty subjects participated in this study. The subjects were comprised of 20 males and 20 females who were without neurologic, orthopaedic or balance performance impairments. The LOS was measured with a Balance Performance Monitor (BPM) Dataprint Software Version 5.3. The results of this study were as follows: 1) Knee joint angle which is to increase stability of standing balance with using knee strategy was at mid-range. 2) There were statistically significant differences in anteroposterior LOSs according to the knee strategy. 3) There were no statistically significant differences in mediolateral LOSs according to the knee strategy. 4) There were statistically significant differences of anteroposterior LOSs with using knee strategy according to gender. 5) There were no statistically significant differences in mediolateral LOSs with using knee strategy according to gender.

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Preprocessing Algorithm of Cell Image Based on Inter-Channel Correlation for Automated Cell Segmentation (자동 세포 분할을 위한 채널 간 상관성 기반 세포 영상의 전처리 알고리즘)

  • Song, In-Hwan;Han, Chan-Hee;Lee, Si-Woong
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.84-92
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    • 2011
  • The automated segmentation technique of cell region in Bio Images helps biologists understand complex functions of cells. It is mightly important in that it can process the analysis of cells automatically which has been done manually before. The conventional methods for segmentation of cell and nuclei from multi-channel images consist of two steps. In the first step nuclei are extracted from DNA channel, and used as initial contour for the second step. In the second step cytoplasm are segmented from Actin channel by using Active Contour model based on intensity. However, conventional studies have some limitation that they let the cell segmentation performance fall by not considering inhomogeneous intensity problem in cell images. Therefore, the paper consider correlation between DNA and Actin channel, and then proposes the preprocessing algorithm by which the brightness of cell inside in Actin channel can be compensated homogeneously by using DNA channel information. Experiment result show that the proposed preprocessing method improves the cell segmentation performance compared to the conventional method.

The Convergent Influence of the Incidence of Delirium in Patients after Arthroplasty (인공관절치환 수술 후 발생하는 섬망에 따른 융복합적 영향)

  • Kim, Young-Hee;Kwon, Young-Chae
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.14 no.11
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    • pp.369-377
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    • 2016
  • This study examined artificial joint replacement surgery for early intervention and prevention of the occurrence of delirium surgery. Data of study were analysed using the sample through the EMR (Electronic Medical Record) and after surgery to provide basic data. The subjects were elderly aged 60 years or more and the number of the sample was 821. Data were analysed by using SPSS 20.0 with t-test, $x^2$-test and multiple logistic regression analysis. The study results showed patients with artificial joint replacement surgery incidence of delirium was 13.5%, findings of these variables insisted that the main influencing factors of delirium were caused by age, fall history, physical activity, emotional status, body mass index (BMI) before surgery. The study suggested that the above findings are required for early intervention, early detection and prevention of delirium.