• 실내환경 및 냄새 학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.47-53
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• 2017

Mold is one of the important bio-aerosols affecting human health in the indoor environment. To manage mold contamination, it is necessary to use an appropriate method for its detection and enumeration. Recently, the impaction method of ISO 16000-18 has been established as one of methods to detect and enumerate molds in air. To investigate the general use of the impaction method for mold detection in domestic indoor environments, the suitability of the method was assessed using different antibiotics, media and air samplers. All of the three antibiotics tested - ampicillin, chloramphenicol and streptomycin - showed inhibitory effects on bacterial colony formation on MEA and DG-18 media, without inhibiting mold growth. Of these three antibiotics, ampicillin was the most effective. There was no statistical difference between MEA and DG-18 media in the measurement of mold concentration. The formation of discriminative colony morphology was more apparent in DG-18 media. No significant difference in the measurement of mold concentration was found between Andersen samplers and MAS-100NT samplers, which are two major samplers introduced in Korea.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제29권10호
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• pp.1522-1542
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• 2019

To adapt to environmental changes and to maintain cellular homeostasis, microorganisms adjust the intracellular concentrations of biochemical compounds, including metal ions; these are essential for the catalytic function of many enzymes in cells, but excessive amounts of essential metals and heavy metals cause cellular damage. Metal-responsive transcriptional regulators play pivotal roles in metal uptake, pumping out, sequestration, and oxidation or reduction to a less toxic status via regulating the expression of the detoxification-related genes. The sensory and regulatory functions of the metalloregulators have made them as attractive biological parts for synthetic biology, and the exceptional sensitivity and selectivity of metalloregulators toward metal ions have been used in heavy metal biosensors to cope with prevalent heavy metal contamination. Due to their importance, substantial efforts have been made to characterize heavy metal-responsive transcriptional regulators and to develop heavy metal-sensing biosensors. In this review, we summarize the biochemical data for the two major metalloregulator families, SmtB/ArsR and MerR, to describe their metal-binding sites, specific chelating chemistry, and conformational changes. Based on our understanding of the regulatory mechanisms, previously developed metal biosensors are examined to point out their limitations, such as high background noise and a lack of well-characterized biological parts. We discuss several strategies to improve the functionality of the metal biosensors, such as reducing the background noise and amplifying the output signal. From the perspective of making heavy metal biosensors, we suggest that the characterization of novel metalloregulators and the fabrication of exquisitely designed genetic circuits will be required.

• Journal of Ubiquitous Convergence Technology
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.18-26
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• 2008

The invariance relation existing in the non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is used for constructing robust image hashes in this work. The image is first re-scaled to a fixed size. Low-pass filtering is performed on the luminance component of the re-sized image to produce a normalized matrix. Entries in the normalized matrix are pseudo-randomly re-arranged under the control of a secret key to generate a secondary image. Non-negative matrix factorization is then performed on the secondary image. As the relation between most pairs of adjacent entries in the NMF's coefficient matrix is basically invariant to ordinary image processing, a coarse quantization scheme is devised to compress the extracted features contained in the coefficient matrix. The obtained binary elements are used to form the image hash after being scrambled based on another key. Similarity between hashes is measured by the Hamming distance. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme is robust against perceptually acceptable modifications to the image such as Gaussian filtering, moderate noise contamination, JPEG compression, re-scaling, and watermark embedding. Hashes of different images have very low collision probability. Tampering to local image areas can be detected by comparing the Hamming distance with a predetermined threshold, indicating the usefulness of the technique in digital forensics.

• 대한영상의학회지
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• 제83권5호
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• pp.1032-1045
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• 2022

말초동맥질환은 고령의 환자들에게서 흔하게 발생하며, 하지 동맥 단층촬영 혈관조영술은 말초동맥질환을 발견하고 치료 계획을 세우는데 유용하다. 특히, 이중에너지 단층 촬영을 통해 낮은 kiloelectron volt (이하 KeV) 영상부터 높은 KeV 영상까지 단일 에너지 영상을 재구성하면, 말초동맥질환을 정확하게 평가하는데 도움이 된다. 일반적으로 낮은 KeV 영상은 높은 대조도를 제공해 주지만, 낮은 KeV 영상은 높은 KeV 영상보다 더 심한 잡음을 제공한다는 단점도 있다. 최근에 낮은 KeV 영상에서 잡음을 극복하기 위해 Mono+ 기술이 도입되었다. 따라서, 본 임상 화보에서는 Mono+ 기법으로 시행한 하지동맥 단층촬영 혈관조영술에서의 말초동맥질환의 영상 소견을 보여주며 낮은 KeV 영상과 높은 KeV 영상의 특성이 어떻게 다른지 비교하여 보여주고자 한다. 많은 사례에서, 전체적인 영상의 질과 말초동맥질환을 평가하고자 하는 구간에서의 영상의 질은 모두 높은 KeV에서 더 좋았고, 금속 인공물과 정맥 오염은 높은 KeV 영상에서 감소했다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제16권7호
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• pp.4381-4387
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• 2015

선체의 외판은 복잡한 곡면 형상이며 대부분의 조선소에서는 이의 제작을 위해 가스 토치를 이용한 선상 가열 방법을 사용하고 있다. 가스 토치를 이용한 전통적인 선상 가열 방법은 입열량의 제어가 어려울 뿐만 아니라 고압의 가스 분출에 따른 소음과 대기 오염 등 열악한 작업 환경의 문제점을 안고 있다. 최근에는 입열량의 제어가 비교적 용이하고 친환경적인 고주파 유도 가열에 주목하여 이를 가열 열원으로 하는 강판의 성형 자동화 연구들이 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 강판의 곡면 성형을 위한 유도 가열 시뮬레이션 방법을 개발하였으며 유도 가열 실험 결과와 비교하여 그 유효성을 검증하였다. 개발된 유도 가열 시뮬레이션 방법은 효율적인 유도 가열 코일 설계와 최적 성형 조건 산출 등 유도 가열을 이용한 선체 외판의 곡가공 자동화 시스템 개발에 유용한 해석적 툴로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.404-414
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• 2008

A Transient Differential Mobility Particle Spectrometer (TR-DMPS) with a short response time was recently developed to monitor high concentration of ultrafine particles emitted from vehicles. To investigate the availability of the TR-DMPS for monitoring transient roadside aerosols, the number size distribution of ultrafine particles was monitored at the Cheongnyangni roadside in Seoul on March 23, 2007 together with a Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer (SMPS). The roadside aerosols were monitored every 5 min and 0.1 sec by using the SMPS and the TR-DMPS, respectively. The concentration of ultrafine particles at the roadside was highly fluctuated for a short duration. From the comparison of particle number concentrations and size distributions between two instruments, it was confirmed that the SMPS provided fairly good time-averaged number size distribution although it did not follow rapid change of particle number concentration at the roadside. The TR-DMPS quickly responded to a rapid change of particle number concentration due to abrupt traffic flow. However, the TR-DMPS frequently showed electrical noise events, resulting in underestimated particle contamination. A more stable operation of the TR-DMPS is needed in application of roadside aerosol monitoring.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제43권5호
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• pp.30-36
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• 2006

변형된 면적기반영역선별 기법으로 문자영상 속에 내재되어 있던 영역 분할을 회복하는 새로운 기법을 제안한다. 정보영역과 바탕영역으로 양분되어 있는 이진 원영상에 비해 오염 및 훼손으로 관측영상은 얼룩점과 잡음이 전체 영상에 섞여 다수의 크고 작은 영역들이 혼재된 그레이스케일 형태가 된다. 이러한 영상을 종래의 문턱치 처리나 확률적 기법으로 영역 분할하려면 이진영상으로 전환시킴에 의한 영역 형태 변형 문제가 발생한다. 이 문제를 최소화하기 위해 마름모꼴 블록을 채택한 반복조건부양식(iterated conditional mode, ICM) 기법으로 이진 영상을 구현하여 일차적으로 영역들의 집합으로 분류하였다. 그 다음 현재고려중인 화소에서 화소의 영역형성 판별과 영역의 면적을 산출하였다. 이를 전체 화소에 걸쳐 순차적으로 확산하여 해당영역들의 정보영역으로의 귀속 여부를 선택적으로 판정 분할함으로 정보영역 본래 형태를 복원하였다. 이 때 지정 영역들의 산출 면적들은 하나의 집합으로 배속 정렬되며 확률처리로 얻은 판별 파라미터 값에 의해 선별된다. 그레이스케일 탁본영상을 대상으로 종래의 문턱치 영역분할 기법과 ICM 기법도 함께 실험하였다. 그 결과 종래의 기법에 비해 우수한 영역분할 효과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.739-744
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• 2010

최근 교통정책이 '녹색교통', '저탄소 녹색성장', '지속가능 발전'이라는 주제로 혼잡감소 및 환경오염감소에 초점이 맞춰짐에 됨에 따라 철도를 포함한 친환경적인 신교통수단의 도입이 중요한 이슈로 거론되고 있다. 현재 신교통수단은 BRT시스템, 바이모달 트램, 경전철 등으로 구분되어 있으며 그 중에서도 본 논문에서는 바이모달 트램을 중심으로 BRT시스템과 비교 및 분석하여 이에 대한 연구를 진행하였다. 바이모달트램의 경우, 하이브리드 타입의 추진장치로 인해 타 신교통수단보다 매연과 소음, 진동이 작아 미래지향적이고 친환경적이며 공사비가 상대적으로 저렴할 뿐 만 아니라 철도의 정시성과 버스의 접근성을 갖춘 시스템이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 수도권과 지방 대도시권을 중심으로 도로로부터의 수단전환 교통량, 통행속도, CO2 배출량을 지표로 선정하여 타 신교통수단(BRT시스템)에 비해 바이모달 트램의 도입 적절성이 가장 높음을 제시하고자 하며, 향후 국내 도시의 다양한 기능적 측면에 부응할 수 있는 도입전략에 활용될 수 있는 방안을 모색하고자 한다.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2012

This study prepared the list of planning components required for constructing environment-friendly industrial complex and grasped major environment-friendly planning components by measuring the importance per each planning component via the survey for specialists. As a result of measuring the importance of planning component according to each field for constructing environment-friendly industrial complex, it is indicated that important planning components in natural environment field are establishing complex location plan considering its configuration and slope, excluding projects for steep slope-land, establishing countermeasures for reducing contaminants per its source, and separated location of contamination industry around living space. In living environment field, proposed planning components having relatively high importance are separated location of pollution causing industry, establishing energy saving land use plan, linking with green way, circulation network plan, lowering noise level at roadside, plan for separating between pedestrian and vehicle, securing parking space, extending green park and proper location, installing green buffer zone, conserving and forming landscapes, land use for raising energy efficiency, and expansion of energy source. In case of ecological environment, core planning components such as conserving upper class of ecological naturality degree, conserving main habitat, and biotope forming plan are suggested. This study is limited to find out planning components for constructing environment-friendly physical environment of industrial complex which is a part of non-production process. The approach to solve environmental problem by linking spatially production process and non-production process. There is a need to conduct follow-up study to constructing technique for environment-friendly industrial complex considering production & nonproduction process afterward.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제62권2호
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• pp.197-208
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• 2017

Among various retrofitting strategies, use of semi-active control for retrofitting a building structure has gained momentum in recent years. One of the techniques for such retrofitting is to connect a weaker building to an adjacent stronger building by semi-active devices, so that performances of a weaker building are significantly improved for seismic forces. In this paper, a ten storey weaker building is connected to an adjacent stronger building using magneto-rheological (MR) dampers, for primarily improving the performance of the weaker building in terms of displacement, drift and base shear. For this, a fuzzy logic controller is specifically developed by fuzzyfying the responses of the coupled system. The performance of the control strategy is compared with the passive-on and passive-off controls. Pounding Mitigation between the two buildings is also investigated using all three control strategies. The results show that there exists a fundamental frequency ratio between the two buildings for which maximum control of the weaker building response takes place with no penalty on the stronger building. There exists also a fundamental frequency ratio where control of the weaker building response is achieved at the expense of the amplification of the stronger building. However, coupling strategy always improves the possibility of pounding mitigation.