• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.133-141
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• 2008

대화형 멀티미디어 기기들이 급속하게 보급되면서 리모컨이나 컴퓨터 마우스와 같은 기존의 사용자 인터페이스 방식으로는 제약이 많아 사용이 불편한 경우가 많은데, 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위한 방안으로 비전기반의 포인팅 디바이스를 소개한다. 포인팅 디바이스에 카메라를 장착하여 카메라에 입력되는 배경 동영상을 분석하면 카메라의 움직임을 추정할 수 있는데 이를 근거로 커서를 움직이는 방법을 이용한다. 동작이 실시간으로 이루어 질 수 있도록 $288{\times}208$ 화소의 저해상도의 카메라를 이용하고 여기에 입력된 스크린의 모서리 영상을 찾아 국부적으로 옵티컬 플로우(Optical flow) 방법으로 트래킹하고 스크린의 크기를 계산하면 스크린과 디바이스간 거리와 디바이스의 움직임 경로를 알아낼 수 있다. 이러한 방법으로 만들어진 포인팅 디바이스는 기존의 비전기반 다자유도 입력장치들에 비하여 어두운 환경에서 유리하고 구현이 간단하며 기존의 마우스와 같이 한 손에 쥐고 사용방법을 학습하지 않고도 직관적으로 사용가능한 장점을 갖는다.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.195-200
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• 2009

원전에서는 많은 종류의 방사성물질이 생성되어 일부는 환경으로 방사성유출물로서 배출되고 있다. 이러한 방사성유출물 중에서 탄소 동위원소인 Carbon-14는 자연에서 이미 높은 준위의 백그라운드를 형성하고 있기 때문에, 원전에서 Carbon-14가 배출되더라도 환경이나 일반인의 피폭방사선량에 미치는 영향이 미미하여 과거에는 배출감시와 환경감시를 수행하지 않았다. 그런데, 핵연료 제조기술 발달과 운전방법 개선으로 핵연료로부터 불활성기체와 입자방사성물질의 방출이 계속 감소하고 있다. 또한 방사선계측기술의 향상에 따라 삼중수소와 Carbon-14 같은 저준위 베타방사능 핵종의 검출준위가 낮아져, 이들 핵종이 일반인 선량평가에서 미치는 비율이 상대적으로 높아지고 있다. 본 논문은 원자력시설에서 발생하는 Carbon-14에 대해 미국의 기술보고서와 논문 등을 검토하여 배출관리와 환경 영향평가에 대한 방사선감시의 기술적 배경을 조사하였다. 이를 바탕으로 Carbon-14 방사성핵종의 배출감시 방안에 대한 타당성을 제시하고자 하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권10호
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• pp.2361-2369
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• 2020

Compton cameras using large scintillators have been developed for high imaging sensitivity. These scintillator-based Compton cameras, however, mainly due to relatively low energy resolution, suffer from undesired background-radiation signals, especially when radioactive materials' activity is very low or their location is far from the Compton camera. To alleviate this problem for a large-size Compton camera, in the present study, a hybrid-type shielding system was designed that combines an active shield with a veto detector and a passive shield that surrounds the active shield. Then, the performance of the hybrid shielding system was predicted, by Monte Carlo radiation transport simulation using Geant4, in terms of minimum detectable activity (MDA), signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and image resolution. Our simulation results show that, for the most cases, the hybrid shielding system significantly improves the performance of the large-size Compton camera. For the cases investigated in the present study, the use of the shielding system decreased the MDA by about 1.4, 1.6, and 1.3 times, increased the SNR by 1.2-1.9, 1.1-1.7, and 1.3-2.1 times, and improved the image resolution (i.e., reduced the FWHM) by 7-8, 1-6, and 3-5% for ¹³⁷Cs, ⁶⁰Co, and ¹³¹I point source located at 1-5 m from the imaging system, respectively.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제28권10B호
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• pp.947-956
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• 2003

NGN(Next Generation Network)을 목표로 최근에 들어 사용자의 QoS요구 시, 다양한 QoS를 패킷네트워크에서 처리한 수 있도록 IETF에서 DiffServ, RSVP, MPLS등과 같은 패킷 QoS기법에 대한 표준화 작업이 진행중이며, 그 중에서 DiffServ네트워크가 대표적이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이 DiffServ패킷 네트워크상에서 다양하게 유입되는 트래픽의 종류에 따라 사용자의 응용에 적절히 대응하여 트래픽을 처리하는 라우팅 기법트래픽 모델 및 알고리즘을 연구하고 기존의 최선형(Best effort) 즉, 지연에 민감하지 않은 트래픽을 처리하기 위한트래픽 분산 라우팅 프로토콜(Traffic-Balanced Routing Protocol : TBRP), 최적의 중간 노드를 선택하여 유무선 통합과 높은 순위의 상호형 데이터를 처리하기 위한 계층적 라우팅 프로토콜(Hierarchical Traffic-Traffic-Scheduling Routing Protocol : HTSRP), 대화형 또는 스트리밍 패킷서비스를 위한 즉, QoS파라미터을 기반으로 엑세스 계층의 자원 활용도를 최대화하고 지연에 민감한 트래픽 처리하는 HTSRP_Q(HTSRP for QoS)를 연구하였고, 이를 기반으로 각 트래픽 모델에 대한 매핑기법과 관리기법을 연구하였다. 본 연구에서 제시한 프로토콜은 트래픽 모델은 다양한 엑세스망과 백본망에 유연한 트래픽 처리기법으로서 NGN의 효율성과 안정성에 적합하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제25권7호
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• pp.977-985
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• 2021

자율주행 차량이 주목받게 되면서 LiDAR 센서가 대두되었다. LiDAR 센서는 LASER를 이용하여 범위 내에서 특정 지점까지 측정된 거리 값을 3차원 정보로 제공한다. 3차원 거리 값인 만큼 방대한 데이터를 전송하게 되고, 차량의 메인 프로세서 등에서 다른 데이터와 같이 이를 실시간으로 처리하기에는 무리가 있다. 이러한 이슈를 해결하기 위해 통합처리 시스템을 개발하고자 한다. 시스템은 센서로부터 데이터를 받아 처리하는 client와 각 client로부터 데이터를 취합하여 이를 외부로 전송하는 server 프로세스로 구성된다. 각 프로세스의 데이터 수신 및 처리 방법, 프로세스 구동 방법을 변화시켜가며 시스템의 실시간성 확보를 위한 테스트를 진행하였다. 실험 결과, 4대의 LiDAR 센서로 데이터를 수신 받도록 하였으며, background 나 multi-core processing을 적용하여 프로세스를 동작시켰을 때, 각 client는 약 13.2 ms, server는 약 12.6 ms의 응답시간을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.185-192
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• 2023

Background: The turnover rate of nurse aides in Taiwan is high. However, the predictors of turnover behavior in the newly employed are still unclear. Objective: To examine the predictors of turnover behavior in newly employed licensed nurse aides. Methods: A longitudinal study design was used and subjects were newly employed certified nurse aides from a nurse aid training association in Taiwan. A total of five questionnaire surveys were conducted. The questionnaire was mainly used to collect information on turnover behavior, personal socioeconomic background, workplace psychosocial hazards, worker health hazards, and musculoskeletal disorders. Results: A total of 300 participants were recruited in the study. Cox regression analysis results showed that short working experience (hazard ratio [HR] = 0.21, p < 0.01), work as non-home nurse aides (HR = 0.58, p = 0.01), low monthly salary (HR = 0.68, p < 0.01), high work mental load (HR = 1.01, p = 0.01), low workplace justice (HR = 0.97, p < 0.01), high workplace violence (HR = 1.60, p < 0.01), high burnout (HR = 1.01, p = 0.04), poor mental health (HR = 1.06, p = 0.04), and high total number of musculoskeletal disorder sites (HR = 1.08, p = 0.01) contribute to a higher risk of turnover. Conclusion: The results indicated that employment period, work as a home nurse aide, monthly salary, work mental load, workplace justice, workplace violence, work-related burnout, mental health, and total number of musculoskeletal disorder sites are predictors of turnover behavior in newly employed certified nurse aides.

• 한국작물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국작물학회 2022년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.272-272
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• 2022

Water and phosphorus (P) fertilizer are two of the most critical inputs in rice cultivation. Under climate change scenarios and urbanization, irrigation and fertilizer are becoming limiting factors often leading to significant decrease in yield whenever supplied scarcely. It has been shown that the Pup1 QTL confers tolerance to P starvation and improved early-stage root vigor in indica rice grown in the tropics. However, whether the QTL works in japonica rice genetic background grown in temperate regions remains to be elucidated. Here, we have introgressed the Pup1 QTL into three temperate rice varieties MS11, TR22183, and Dasan using marker-assisted backcrossing and next generation sequencing. The selected lines all harbored the full Pup1 QTL with recurrent parent genome recovery rates ranging from 66.5% to 99.8%. Evaluation of the introgression rice lines grown in South Korea under low inputs of P and water revealed early vegetative growth advantage relative to that of the recurrent parents. Under rainfed condition, Pup1 introgression lines had yield advantage ranging from 7.2 to 19.9% and 24 to 26% in P non-supplied soil and P-supplied soil, respectively compared to that of the recurrent parents suggesting that Pup1 confers enhanced yield under low P and water inputs in temperate rice genetic background grown in temperate climate. In terms of early vegetative growth, temperate Pup1 introgression lines showed a similar trend on the extent to which Pup1 promotes yield advantage in temperate rice in comparison with indica control Pup1 introgression line IR64-Pup1.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.53-62
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• 2015

Background: Supplier induced demand (SID) indicates the case when doctors increase the demand of the patients, following their (physicians') own best interests rather than patients'. This may occur when asymmetry of information exists between suppliers and consumers. This study aims to confirm whether SID exists in the Korean setting, particularly by dividing SID into both 'induced demand effect' and 'availability effect.' Methods: Induced demand effect and availability effect are differentiated following Carlsen & Grytten's theoretical frame which divides doctor density regions into high and low ones. Results: Positive correlation between doctors' density and utilization of their services was found, which could be interpreted as 'availability effect.' Conclusion: The result suggests that additional medical use for additional doctor, particularly in the area of low doctor density, can be interpreted to occur to meet the basic medical need of the people rather than as a result of unnecessary induced demand. It is important to make more medical doctors provided and to distribute them appropriately across the region in such a country like Korea where doctor's density is relatively low.

• 한국전문물리치료학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.72-79
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• 2016

Background: Increased foot pronation causes biomedchanical changes at the lower limbs, which may result in musculoskeletal injuries at the proximal joints. Pronation rear-foot leads to plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendonitis, and posterior tibial tendonitis pathologically. According to the recent meta-analysis, They showed that therapeutic adhesive taping is more effective than foot orthoses and motion control footwear, low-Dye (LD) taping has become the most popular method used by physiotherapists. Objects: The purpose of this study was to determine the immediate effects of LD taping results in different ankle motion and ground reaction force (GRF) as before and after applied LD taping on pronated rear-foot during gait. Methods: Twenty-four participants were recruited for this study. The gait data were recorded using an 8-camera motion capture system and two force platforms. At first, the experiments were carried out that participants walked barefoot without LD taping. And then they walked both feet was applied LD taping. Results: The ankle inversion minimum was significantly greater after LD taping than before LD taping (p=.04); however, in the GRF, there were no significant differences in the inversion maximum or total motion of the stance phase (p=.33, p=.07), or in the vertical (p=.33), posterior (p=.22), and lateral (p=.14) peak forces. Conclusion: The application of taping to pronation rear-foot assists in increased ankle inversion.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2005년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2005
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• pp.241-244
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• 2005

Many building detection methods mainly rely on line segments extracted from aerial or satellite imagery. Building detection methods based on line segments, however, are difficult to succeed in high resolution satellite imagery such as IKONOS imagery, for most buildings in IKONOS imagery have small size of roofs with low contrast between roof and background. In this paper, we propose an efficient method to extract line segments and group them at the same time. First, edge preserving filtering is applied to the imagery to remove the noise. Second, we segment the imagery by watershed method, which collects the pixels with similar intensities to obtain homogeneous region. The boundaries of homogeneous region are not completely coincident with roof boundaries due to low contrast in the vicinity of the roof boundaries. Finally, to resolve this problem, we set up snake model with segmented region boundaries as initial snake's positions. We used a greedy algorithm to fit a snake to roof boundary. Experimental results show our method can obtain more .correct roof boundary with small size and low contrast from IKONOS imagery. Snake algorithm, building roof detection, watershed segmentation, edge-preserving filtering