• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제43권5호
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• pp.396-402
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• 2010

Objectives: Self-reported anthropometric values, such as height and weight, are used to calculate body mass index (BMI) and assess the prevalence of obesity among adolescents. The aim of this study was to evaluate the validity of selfreported height, weight, and BMI of the Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey questionnaire. Methods: A convenience sample of 137 middle school students and 242 high school students completed a selfadministered questionnaire in 2008. Body height and weight were directly measured after self-reported values were obtained from the questionnaire survey. Sensitivity, specificity, and kappa statistics were computed in order to evaluate the validity of the prevalence of obesity (BMI $\geq$ 95th percentile or $\geq$ $25;kg/$m^2$) based on self-reported data. Results: Self-reported weight and BMI tended to be underestimated. Self-reported height tended to be overestimated among middle school females and high school males. Obese adolescents tended to underestimate their weight and BMI and overestimate their height more than non-obese adolescents. The prevalence estimate of obesity based on selfreported data (10.6%) was lower than that based on directly measured data (15.3%). The estimated sensitivity of obesity based on self-reported data was 69.0% and the specificity was 100.0%. The value of kappa was 0.79 (95% confidence interval, 0.70 - 0.88). Conclusions: This study demonstrated that self-reported height and weight may lead to the underestimation of BMI and consequently the prevalence of obesity. These biases should be taken into account when self-reported data are used for monitoring the prevalence and trends of obesity among adolescents nationwide.

• 한국연안방재학회지
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.111-120
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• 2019

In coastal morphological modelling, there are a number of input factors: wave height, water depth, sand particle size, bed friction coefficients, coastal structures and so forth. Measurements or estimates of these input data may include uncertainties due to errors by the measurement or hind-casting methods. Therefore, it is necessary to consider the uncertainty of each input data and the range of the uncertainty during the evaluation of numerical results. In this study, three uncertainty factors are considered with regard to the prediction of coastal erosion in Ilsan beach located in Ilsan-dong, Ulsan metropolitan city. Those are wave diffraction effect of XBeach model, wave input scenario and the specification of the coastal structure. For this purpose, the values of mean wave direction, significant wave height and the height of the submerged breakwater were adjusted respectively and the followed numerical results of morphological changes are analyzed. There were erosion dominant patterns as the wave direction is perpendicular to Ilsan beach, the higher significant wave height, and the lower height of the submerged breakwater. Furthermore, the rate of uncertainty impacts among mean wave direction, significant wave height and the height of the submerged breakwater are compared. In the study area, the uncertainty influence by the wave input scenario was the largest, followed by the height of the submerged breakwater and the mean wave direction.

• 해양환경안전학회:학술대회논문집
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• 해양환경안전학회 2017년도 공동학술발표회
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• pp.49-50
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• 2017

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.185-190
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• 2016

Background: In order to measure neutron energy spectra, the conventional Bonner Sphere Spectrometers (BSS) are widely used. In this spectrometer, several measurements with different size Bonner spheres are required. Operators should, therefore, place these spheres in several times to a measurement point where radiation dose might be relatively high. In order to reduce this effort, novel neutron energy spectrometer using an onion-like single Bonner sphere was proposed in our group. This Bonner sphere has multiple sensitive spherical shell layers in the single sphere. In this spectrometer, a band-shaped thermal neutron detection medium, which consists of a LiF-ZnS mixed powder scintillator sheet and a wavelength-shifting (WLS) fiber readout, was looped to each sphere at equal angular intervals. Amount of LiF neutron converter is reduced near polar region, where the band-shaped detectors are concentrated, in order to uniform the directional sensitivity. The LiF-ZnS mixed powder has an advantage of extremely high light yield. However, since it is opaque, scintillation photons cannot be collect uniformly. This type of detector shows no characteristic shape in the pulse height spectrum. Subsequently, it is difficult to set the pulse height discrimination level. This issue causes sensitivity fluctuation due to gain instability of photodetectors and/or electric modules. Materials and Methods: In order to solve this problem, we propose to replace the LiF-ZnS mixed powder into a flexible and Transparent RUbber SheeT type $LiCaAlF_6$ (TRUST LiCAF) scintillator. TRUST LiCAF scintillator can show a peak shape corresponding to neutron absorption events in the pulse height spectrum. Results and Discussion: We fabricated the prototype detector with five sensitive layers using TRUST LiCAF scintillator and conducted basic experiments to evaluate the directional uniformity of the sensitivity. Conclusion: The fabricated detector shows excellent directional uniformity of the neutron sensitivity.

• Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.213-223
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• 2023

Purpose: Pediatric patients in low-income countries are at a high risk of malnutrition. Numerous screening tools have been developed to detect the risk of malnutrition, including the Subjective Global Nutritional Assessment (SGNA), Pediatric Yorkhill Malnutrition Score (PYMS), Screening Tool for the Assessment of Malnutrition in Pediatrics (STAMP), and Screening Tool for Risk of Nutritional Status and Growth (STRONGkids). However, anthropometry remains the main tool for assessing malnutrition. We aimed to identify the value of four nutritional screening tools versus anthropometry for evaluating the nutritional status of children. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study of 1,000 children aged 1-12 years who visited the outpatient clinic of Cairo University Pediatric Hospital. Each participant was evaluated using anthropometric measurements (weight, length/height, and weight for length/height) as well as the PYMS, STAMP, STRONGkids, and SGNA screening tools. The sensitivities and specificities of these four tools were assessed using anthropometry as the gold standard. Results: Of the patients, 1.7% were underweight, 10.2% were wasted, and 35% were stunted. STRONGkids demonstrated the highest sensitivity (79.4%) and a high specificity (80.2%) for detecting malnutrition compared with weight for height, followed by STAMP, which demonstrated lower sensitivity (73.5%) but higher specificity (81.4%). PYMS demonstrated the lowest sensitivity (66.7%) and the highest specificity (93.5%), whereas SAGA demonstrated higher sensitivity (77.5%) and lower specificity (85.4%) than PYMS. Conclusion: The use of nutritional screening tools to evaluate the nutritional status of children is valuable and recommended as a simple and rapid method for identifying the risk of malnutrition in pediatric patients.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.35-40
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• 2018

This study presents a vertical-type CMOS Hall device with improved sensitivity to detect a 3D magnetic field in various types of sensors or communication devices. To improve sensitivity, trenches are implanted next to the current input terminal, so that the Hall current becomes maximum. The effect of the dimension and location of trenches on sensitivity is simulated in the COMSOL simulator. A vertical-type Hall device with a width of $16{\mu}m$ and a height of $2{\mu}m$ is optimized for maximum sensitivity. The simulation result shows that it has a 23% better result than a conventional vertical-type CMOS Hall device without a trench.

• 대한치과교정학회지
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.319-330
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• 2007

안면비대칭 환자의 진단 및 치료계획 수립 시 하악골 상행지 고경의 좌우 차이를 정확히 판정하는 것이 필요하다. 본 연구는 2차원 방사선사진에서 정면 상행지경사도 및 측면 상행지경사도를 이용하여 하악골 상행지 고경을 보정하는 방법이 비대칭 판정에 도움이 되는지 알아보고자 시행되었다. 이부 편위가 있는 안면비대칭자 40명을 대상으로 정모두부방사선규격사진을 촬영하고 좌우 각각의 하악골 상행지 고경을 측정하는 한편 정모 및 측모 방사선사진에서 계측된 정면 상행지 경사도 및 측면 상행지 경사도를 이용하여 상행지 고경을 3차원적 개념으로 보정한 후, 실제 3차원 영상에서의 비대칭 판정 결과와 비교 분석을 시행하였다. 측정결과, 정면 및 측면 상행지 경사도는 이부 편위측에 비하여 반대측에서 크게 나타났으며 보정 후 상행지 고경의 좌우 차이는 증가하는 양상을 나타내었다. 보정 전 그리고 보정 후 각각에서 상행지 고경의 좌우비대칭 여부를 판정한 후, 3차원 영상에서의 판정을 기준으로 하여 보정에 따른 sensitivity, specificity 그리고 accuracy 변화를 살펴본 결과, specificity는 44%에서 22%로 감소하였으나 sensitivity는 74%에서 94%로 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 아울러 accuracy가 보정 전 68%에서 보정 후 78%로 증가하는 것으로 나타나 정면 및 측면 상행지 경사도를 이용하여 상행지 고경을 3차원적 개념으로 보정할 경우, 이는 보다 정확한 비대칭 판정에 유용함을 보여주었다.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.887-887
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• 2004

The areal density of the hard disk drive(HDD) has been increased due to technological advances recently. To achieve the high areal density magnetic recording requires an extremely small gap between the air-bearing surface (ABS) and disk. At the same time, the slider mass and size should be reduced to minimize the physical contact under the operational and environmental conditions. Almost all of 2.5＂HDD companies will get ready for adoption of FEMTO slider and already utilized the small slider. FEMTO and small size slider will be mainstream in the 2.5" and other small form factor HDD in the near future. In this study, the flying characteristic of FEMTO slider was examined. Based on the simulation, FEMTO slider is very stable in flying dynamic under the disk modulation, however the flying height sensitivity of the manufacturing tolerances is much bigger than PICO slider. And the other characteristics like impulse response and load/unload dynamic were also examined in this study.tudy.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.63-66
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• 2008

2010년 5월에 발사 예정인 KOMPSAT-5(KOrea Multi-Purpose SATellite-5)는 KOMPSAT-1, 2호에 탑재된 광학센서와는 달리 기상상태와 태양고도에 제약을 받지 않고 자료 획득이 가능한 SAR 시스템이 탑재된다. 본 연구에서는 KOMPSAT-5의 SAR 시스템으로부터 radargrammetry 기법을 적용하기 위해 위성의 궤도와 영상 모드를 분석하였다. Radargrammetry 적용을 위한 SAR 영상 pair의 parallax의 height sensitivity를 이론상으로 계산하였다. 그리고 STK 소프트웨어를 사용하여 대전과 남극 세종기지에서의 최적 조건을 각각 예시하였다. 입사각이 20$^{\cric}$-45$^{\cric}$가 되는 nominal mode의 descending pass만을 사용하여 height sensitivity가 0.5-0.75 사이의 영상 조합을 찾았다. 그 결과 Pass Number 쌍으로서, 대전은 5-4, 7-5, 8-5의 영상 조합을 하였을 때 radargrammetry 적용이 용이하고, 남극 세종기지는 8-6, 9-7, 10-7, 11-8, 12-8, 13-9, 14-9, 15-9, 15-10, 15-11의 영상 조합을 하였을 때 radargrammetry 적용이 가능한 것으로 예측되었다.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 1989

The sensitivity analysis is a method to quantify to what extent the output of a model changes with the values of input parameters. This will lead to increase model accuracy through measurement validation. Three line source air quality models, HIWAY 2, PAL, and CALINE 3 were selected for this study. The input parameters analysed included wind speed, wind direction, stability, emission rate, mixing height, receptor distance, initial dispersion coefficient, surface roughness, and averaging time. It turned out that PAL model generally showed higher concentration than other two models, and that between CALINE 3 and HIWAY 2, CALINE 3 showed higher concentration than HIWAY 2 model near the line sources, but beyond a certain downwind distances HIWAY 2 model showed higher concentration. The modesl were very sensitive to wind speed especially in the range of 0 $\sim$ 1 m/s and to wind direction near the parallel wind to streets. In case of emission rate, the output concentration was directly proportional to these input parameters. And the sensitivity of the input parameters such as stability, mixing height, initial dispersion coefficient, surface roughness, and averaging time were not very significant.