• Computers and Concrete
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.151-161
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• 2023

This paper presents an investigation of variables that cause spurious cracking in numerical modeling of concrete fracture. Spurious cracks appear due to the approximate nature of numerical modeling. They overestimate the dissipated energy, leading to divergent results with mesh refinement. This paper is limited to quasi-static loading regime, homogeneous models, cracking as the only nonlinear mode of deformation and cracking only due to tensile loading. Under these conditions, some variables that can be related to spurious cracking are: mesh alignment, ductility, crack band width, structure size, mesh refinement and load increment size. Case studies illustrate the effect of each variable and convergence analyses demonstrate that, after all, load-increment size is the most important variable. Theoretically, a sufficiently small load increment is able to eliminate or at least alleviate the detrimental influence of the other variables. Such load-increment size might be prohibitively small, rendering the simulation unfeasible. Hence, this paper proposes two alternatives. First, it is proposed an algorithm that automatically find such small load increment size automatically, which not necessarily avoid large computations. Then, it is proposed a double simulation technique, in which the crack is forced to propagate through the localization zone.

• 대한통합의학회지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.67-74
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• 2017

Purpose : Forward head posture is typical neck disorders occur in all people. And this attitude causes a shortening and weakening of the muscles in the body. It also causes excessive extension acts as a reward. This attitude has to change if the pain occurs around the neck and shoulders, and are subjected to unusual stress. Patients with chronic neck pain associated with forward head posture was found to be the more severe the fall of the respiratory, forward head posture poor quality of much breath. The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of changes in forward head posture and neutral head posture on respiratory. Method : Forty volunteers were participated in study and divided into two groups [forward head posture group (n=20) and neutral head posture group (n=20)]. We measured cervical alignment with global postural system to find out a forward head posture. Respiratory function was measured with a SPIROVIT SP-1 equipment and we found out a forced vital capacity (FVC), forced expiratory volume at one second (FEV1) and FEV1/FVC. A pared t-test was used to determine a statistical significance for the pulmonary function variation and a independent t-test was used to determine a statistical significance in the two groups. Results : In the experimental group, FVC and FEV1 were significantly higher in the artificial neutral head posture than in the forward head posture. In the control group, FVC and FEV1 were significantly higher in the neutral head posture than in the forward head posture. FVC, FEV1, and FEV1/ FVC were significantly higher in the neutral head posture of control group than the artificial neutral head posture of experimental group and higher in the artificial forward head posture of control group than the forward head posture of experimental group. Conclusion : In conclusion, neutral head posture is considered to be an important factor in correct posture and improvement of lung function and continuous study of posture correction program for posture imbalance will be needed.

• Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.177-185
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• 1998

치주염환자에서는 치아의 회전이나 순측경사등으로 인한 상악 정중부 이개 등의 심미적, 기능적 문제들이 자주 수반되어 후속 적인 교정치료를 요하는 경우가 많다. 이러한 경우 보조적인 교정치료로도 치료가 가능한데, 안정된 후방구치에서는 교정력을 가하지 않고 고정 원으로써 작용하게 하고 해당 치아만을 이동시켜야만 한다. 그러나 성인교정에서는 제한점들이 많기 때문에 비교정전문의에게는 섣불리 교정치료를 하기가 어렵다. 더구나 정확히 브라켓을 장착하는 것이 중요한데 간단한 문제는 아니다. Silverman등이 indirect bonding technique을 소개하면서 이런 문제점들을 해결하는데 도움을 주게 되었다. 그후 여러 사람 들에서 다양한 방법들이 소개되었지만 기본적인 원리는 구강 외에서 이상적인 위치에 브라켓을 위치시키고 tray를 이용해서 구강내 치아면에 재현하는 방법이다. 이런 방법을 이용함으로써 molar uprighting, forced eruption, 악교정술시 surgical arch wire 장착, 설측교정술 등에도 쉽게 적용할 수 있다. 이러한 관점에서, 비교정전문의들도 보다 쉽고, 정확하게 브라켓을 위치시킬 수 있는 indirect bonding technique를 이용한다면 보조적인 교정치료 뿐만 아니라 포괄적인 교정치료도 가능하리라 사료된다.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.13-17
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• 2013

The alignments of polystyrene particles of $1{\mu}m$ and $5{\mu}m$ sizes in an aqueous colloidal system were observed by varying the electric field strength, the frequency and the water flow. Spherical mono-dispersed polystyrene particles dispersed in pure water were put into a perfusion chamber; an AC electric field was applied to the Au/Cr electrodes with a 4 mm gap on the glass substrate. The mixture of the $1{\mu}m$ and $5{\mu}m$ sized polystyrene particles at 0.5 vol% concentrations for each size was set in the dielectrophoresis conditions of 1 kHz and 150 V/cm. Large particles of $5{\mu}m$ size were aligned to form chains as the result of the dielectrophoresis force interaction. On the contrary, small particles of $1{\mu}m$ size did not form chains because the dielectrophoresis force was not sufficiently large. When the electric field increased to 250 V/cm, small particles were able to form chains. After the chains were formed from both large and small particles, they began to coalescence as time passed. Owing to the electroosmotic flow of water, wave patterns along the perpendicular direction of the applied electric field appeared at the conditions of 200 Hz and 50 V/cm, when the dielectrophoresis force was small. This wave pattern also appeared for small particles at 1 kHz and 150 V/cm conditions due to the flow of solvent when water was forced to circulate.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.309-328
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• 2021

The objective of this work was to develop a methodology for geodetic monitoring on onshore wind towers, to ascertain the existence of displacements from object points located in the tower and at the foundation's base. The geodesic auscultation was carried out in the Gravatá 01 and 02 wind towers of the Eólica Gravatá wind farm, located in the Brazilian municipality of Gravatá-PE, using a stable Measurement Reference System. To verify the existence of displacements, pins were implanted, with semi-spherical surfaces, at the bases of the towers being monitored, measured by means of high-precision geometric leveling and around the Gravatá 02 tower, concrete landmarks, iron rods and reflective sheets were implanted, observed using geodetic/topographic methods: GNSS survey, transverse with forced centering, three-dimensional irradiation, edge measurement method and trigonometric leveling of unilateral views. It was found that in the Gravatá 02 tower the average rays of the circular sections of the transverse welds (ST) were 1.8431 m ± 0.0005 m (ST01) and 1.6994 m ± 0.0268 m of ST22, where, 01 and 22 represent the serial number of the transverse welds along the tower. The average calculation of the deflection between the coordinates of the center of the circular section of the ST22 and the vertical reference alignment of the ST1 was 0°2'39.22" ± 2.83" in the Northwest direction and an average linear difference of 0.0878 m ± 0.0078 m. The top deflection angle was 0°8'44.88" and a linear difference of ± 0.2590 m, defined from a non-linear function adjusted by Least Squares Method (LSM).

• 정보처리학회논문지A
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• 제16A권6호
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• pp.453-462
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• 2009

소프트웨어의 지적 재산권 보호 및 인증에 대한 관심과 중요성이 커지면서 소프트웨어에 대한 표절 탐색 및 보호, 판단에 대한 연구가 활발 하게 진행되고 있다. 지금까지 표절에 대한 연구는 주로 속성 계산, 토큰 패턴, 프로그램 파스트리, 유사도 측정 알고리즘 등을 이용해 두 프로 그램을 비교하는데 초점을 두었다. 이와 더불어, 표절과 협동(collaboration)을 구분하는 것은 표절연구에서 매우 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 극단 치 분포 확률 모델을 이용한 소스코드 클러스터링을 위한 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서는 먼저 두 프로그램 먼저 두 프로그램 $P_a$와 $P_b$ 의 유사도를 측정하는 비대칭거리측정함수 pdist($P_a$, $P_b$)를 제안하고, 모든 소스코드 쌍에 대해 pdist($P_a$, $P_b$)를 통해 측정된 유사도를 간선무게로 하는 표절방 향그래프(PDG)를 생성한다. 그리고 본 논문에서는 표절방향그래프를 굼벨거리그래프(GDG)로 변환한다. pdist($P_a$, $P_b$) 점수 분포는 극단치 확률 분포로 잘 알려진 굼벨분포(Gumbel distribution)와 매우 유사하다. 또한, 본 논문에서는 의사표절(pseudo- plagiarism)을 새롭게 정의한다. 의사표절은 프로그램의 강한 기능적 제약사항으로 인해 발생하는 가상 표절의 한 종류이다. 본 논문에서는 ICPC(International Collegiate Programming Contest)와 KOI(Korean Olympiad for Informatics) 대회에 제출된 18개 프로그램 그룹의 700개 이상의 소스코드에 대해 실험을 진행하였다. 실험결과 프로그램 그룹에 포함된 표절 프로그램들을 찾았으며, 소스코드 클러스터링 알고리즘은 의사표절과 실제표절 프로그램 그룹을 효과적으로 구분하였다.

• 한국컴퓨터그래픽스학회논문지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.49-59
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 규칙 기반의 동시조음 모델을 통해 한국어에 특화된 스피치 애니메이션을 생성하는 모델을 제안한다. 음성에 대응되는 입 모양 애니메이션을 생성하는 기술은 영어를 중심으로 많은 연구가 진행되어 왔으며, 자연스럽고 사실적인 모션이 필요한 영화, 애니메이션, 게임 등의 문화산업 전반에 널리 활용된다. 그러나 많은 국내 콘텐츠의 경우, 스피치 애니메이션을 생략하거나 음성과 상관없이 단순 반복 재생한 뒤 성우가 더빙하는 형태로 시각적으로 매우 부자연스러운 결과를 보여준다. 또한, 한국어에 특화된 모델이 아닌 언어 비의존적 연구는 아직 국내 콘텐츠 제작에 활용될 정도의 퀄리티를 보장하지 못한다. 따라서 본 논문은 음성과 텍스트를 입력받아 한국어의 언어학적 특성을 반영한 자연스러운 스피치 애니메이션 생성 기술을 제안하고자 한다. 한국어에서 입 모양은 대부분 모음에 의해 결정된다는 특성을 반영하여 입술과 혀를 분리한 동시조음 모델을 정의해 기존의 입술 모양에 왜곡이 발생하거나 일부 음소의 특성이 누락되는 문제를 해결하였으며, 더 나아가 운율적 요소에 따른 차이를 반영하여 보다 역동적인 스피치 애니메이션 생성이 가능하다. 제안된 모델은 유저 스터디를 통해 자연스러운 스피치 애니메이션을 생성함을 검증하였으며, 향후 국내 문화산업 발전에 크게 기여할 것으로 기대된다.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 1996년도 10월 학술대회지
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• pp.246-246
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• 1996

Purpose: Some of the properties of the prosodic phrasing and some acoustic and phonological effects of contrastive focus on the tonal pattern of Seoul Korean is explored based on a brief experiment of analyzing the fundamental frequency(=FO) contour of the speech of the author. Data Base and Analysis Procedures: The examples were chosen to contain mostly nasal and liquid consonants, since it is difficult to track down the formants in stops and fricatives during their corresponding consonantal intervals and stops may yield an effect of unwanted increase in the FO value due to their burst into the following vowel. All examples were recorded three times and the spectrum of the most stable repetition was generated, from which the FO contour of each sentence was obtained, the peaks with a value higher than 250Hz being interpreted as a high tone (=H). The result is then discussed within the prosodic hierarchy framework of Selkirk (1986) and compared with the tonal pattern of the Northern Kyungsang dialect of Korean reported in Kenstowicz & Sohn (1996). Prosodic Phrasing: In N.K. Korean, H never appears both on the object and on the verb in a neutral sentence, which indicates the object and the verb form a single Phonological Phrase ($={\phi}$), given that there is only one pitch peak for each $={\phi}$. However, Seoul Korean shows that both the object and the verb have H of their own, indicating that they are not contained in one $={\phi}$. This violates the Optimality constraint of Wrap-XP (=Enclose a lexical head and its arguments in one $={\phi}$), while N.K. Korean obeys the constraint by grouping a VP in a single $={\phi}$. This asymmetry can be resolved through a constraint that favors the separate grouping of each lexical category and is ranked higher than Wrap-XP in Seoul Korean but vice versa in N.K. Korean; $Align-x^{lex}$ (=Align the left edge of a lexical category with that of a $={\phi}$). (1) nuna-ka manll-ll mEk-nIn-ta ('sister-NOM garlic-ACC eat-PRES-DECL') a. (LLH) (LLH) (HLL) ----Seoul Korean b. (LLH) (LLL LHL) ----N.K. Korean Focus and Phrasing: Two major effects of contrastive focus on phonological phrasing are found in Seoul Korean: (a) the peak of an Intonatioanl Phrase (=IP) falls on the focused element; and (b) focus has the effect of deleting all the following prosodic structures. A focused element always attracts the peak of IP, showing an increase of approximately 30Hz compared with the peak of a non-focused IP. When a subject is focused, no H appears either on the object or on the verb and a focused object is never followed by a verb with H. The post-focus deletion of prosodic boundaries is forced through the interaction of StressFocus (=If F is a focus and DF is its semantic domain, the highest prominence in DF will be within F) and Rightmost-IP (=The peak of an IP projects from the rightmost $={\phi}$). First Stress-F requires the peak of IP to fall on the focused element. Then to avoid violating Rightmost-IP, all the boundaries after the focused element should delete, minimizing the number of $={\phi}$'s intervening from the right edge of IP. (2) (omitted) Conclusion: In general, there seems to be no direct alignment constraints between the syntactically focused element and the edge of $={\phi}$ determined in phonology; all the alignment effects come from a single requirement that the peak of IP projects from the rightmost $={\phi}$ as proposed in Truckenbrodt (1995).