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Structural Studies by NMR (Ⅰ). Conformations and Configurations of ${\alpha},{\beta}$-Unsaturated Phenylhydrazones (NMR에 의한 입체구조에 관한 연구 (제1보). ${\alpha},{\beta}$-Unsaturated Phenylhydrazones의 Conformation과 Configuration에 대하여)

  • Lee Hak-ki;Lim Yong Jin;Choi Jung Do
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.215-220
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    • 1974
  • Conformations and cofigurations were studied for some ${\alpha},{\beta}$-unsaturated phenylhydrazones which have similar structures to the stucture of butenedial bistosylhydrazone, a precursor of tetrahedrane, by the analysis of their nmr spectra. The chemical shift difference between two solvents, benzene and aliphatic solvents, was applied for the assigning syn and anti structures of phenylhydrazone isomers as a convenient method. In this work, it was found that the phenylhydrazones have syn configurations and also found that the dihedral angles of $CH_a-CH_b$ are around $150^{\circ}$ at room temperature from the the interpretation of the vicinal spin-spin coupling constants. These results were discussed in concerning with their conformations.

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Exposure to Noise on Railroad Operators (철도 차량 운전원의 소음노출 특성)

  • Lee, Sang-Yun;Choi, Sang-Jun
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.153-160
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    • 2008
  • Personal noise exposure was assessed in railroad operators working in 40 operation units including the Gyeongbu line, Honam line, and Janghang line between 2004 and 2006. 8-hour TWA were assessed based on the MOL (Ministry of Labor) guideline on noise evaluation, and 17% of these measurements exceeded 85 dBA while 70% were over 80 dBA. When the ACGIH TLV is adopted, 40% of measurements were over TLV (85 dBA). The noise exposure risk of railroad operators was higher for diesel locomotive operation and longer operational distances; in addition, the risk was higher for passenger car operation compared to freight car driving. Given that in Korea, over the past 30 years diesel locomotives have provided most of the railway's motive power and that hearing protective equipment is not likely to be used by workers during operation, railroad operators are at a high risk of noise-induced hearing loss. The result of audiometric test among 568 railroad operators showed that 32.6% of those tested had a hearing threshold shift of more than 40 dB. In conclusion, this study calls for more fundamental measures including noise control countermeasures within the operation areas, development of equipment that generates less noise and adopting limitation on the operation distance for a work shift.

Blind symbol timing offset estimation for offset-QPSK modulated signals

  • Kumar, Sushant;Majhi, Sudhan
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.42 no.3
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    • pp.324-332
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    • 2020
  • In this paper, a blind symbol timing offset (STO) estimation method is proposed for offset quadrature phase-shift keying (OQPSK) modulated signals, which also works for other linearly modulated signals (LMS) such as binary-PSK, QPSK, 𝜋/4-QPSK, and minimum-shift keying. There are various methods available for blind STO estimation of LMS; however, none work in the case of OQPSK modulated signals. The popular cyclic correlation method fails to estimate STO for OQPSK signals, as the offset present between the in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) components causes the cyclic peak to disappear at the symbol rate frequency. In the proposed method, a set of close and approximate offsets is used to compensate the offset between the I and Q components of the received OQPSK signal. The STO in the time domain is represented as a phase in the cyclic frequency domain. The STO is therefore calculated by obtaining the phase of the cyclic peak at the symbol rate frequency. The method is validated through extensive theoretical study, simulation, and testbed implementation. The proposed estimation method exhibits robust performance in the presence of unknown carrier phase offset and frequency offset.

Comparison of Related Characteristics between Unplanned and Planned Extubation of Patients in Medical Intensive Unit (내과계 중환자의 비계획적 기관내관 발관과 계획적 기관내관 발관의 관련 특성 비교)

  • Cho, Hyo Im;Lee, Young Whee;Kim, Hwa Soon;Sim, Bo-Yun
    • Korean Journal of Adult Nursing
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.509-519
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    • 2012
  • Purpose: This retrospective study was designed to examine the frequency of unplanned extubation, and to identify the related factors of unplanned extubation in medical intensive care unit patients. Methods: Data were collected from medical records of patients who received intubation in a medical intensive care unit. One hundred eighteen patient charts were selected for the study. The Patient Severity Classification Scale and unplanned extubation risk factors were examined. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, $x^2$-test, Fisher's exact test and Mann-Whitney U test. Results: The incidence of unplanned extubation was 11 (9.32%) out of 118 patients who had undergone intubation. There were statistically significant differences between the unplanned extubation and work shift ($x^2$=61.52, p=.001), ventilation mode (p=.001), number of days of ventilator application (U=366.00, p=.038) and administration of sedatives (p=.025). Conclusion: Unplanned extubation is affected by the following variables: a) whether a nurse is in night shift, b) whether ventilation is mandatory, c) duration of ventilation use and d) administration of sedatives.

Analysis of Diagnosis and Failsafe Algorithm Using Transmission Simulator (변속기 시뮬레이터를 이용한 진단 및 안전작동 알고리즘 분석)

  • Jung, Gyuhong
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.89-97
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    • 2014
  • As the digital control technologies in automotive industry have advanced, electronic control units(ECUs) play a key-role to improve system performance. Transmission control unit(TCU) is a shifting controller for automatic transmission of which major functions are to determine the shift and manage the shifting process considering the various sensor signal on transmission and driver's commands. As with any ECU in vehicle, TCU performs complex algorithms such as shift control, diagnostic and failsafe functions. However, firmware design analysis is hardly possible by the reverse engineering due to code protection. Transmission simulator is a hardware-in-the-loop simulator which enables TCU to work in normal mode by simulating the electrical signal of TCU interface. In this research, diagnosis and failsafe algorithm implemented on commercialized TCU is analyzed by using the transmission simulator that is developed for wheel loader construction vehicle. This paper gives various experimental results on the proportional solenoid current trajectories for different operating modes, error detection criterion and limphome mode gears for all the possible cases of clutch malfunction. The derived results for conventional TCU can be applied to the development of inherent TCU algorithms and the transmission simulator can also be utilized for the test of TCU to be developed.

A Study on the Relationship between Working Patterns and Health Conditions and Eating Habits of Workers in the Gyeongnam Area (경남지역 일부 직장인들의 근무형태와 건강상태, 식습관의 관련성 연구)

  • Seo, Eun Hee
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.266-278
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    • 2020
  • This study was conducted with 375 workers in Changwon to examine the effects of working patterns on dietary habits and health. A self-administered questionnaire was conducted July 22 October 30, 2019. According to the results of the dietary habits and health related factors analysis, non-shift administrative workers showed significantly higher rates of green tea intake (p<0.05), and shift production workers showed significantly higher smoking rates (p<0.001) and waist circumferences (p<0.01). According to the results of the Pearson's correlation coefficient analysis, work hours showed negative correlations with job satisfaction (r=0.22, p<0.01) and positive correlations with perceived stress level (r=0.14, p<0.01). Temporary workers showed negative correlations with feel job satisfaction(r=0.14, p<0.01), perceived stress level (r=0.12, p<0.05), and concern about health (r=0.13, p<0.05). Diabetes showed positive correlations with hypertension (r=0.20, p<0.01), low HDL cholesterolemia (r=0.22, p<0.01), abdominal obesity (r=0.13, p<0.05), and hypertriglyceridemia(r=0.22, p<0.01). Based on these results, this researcher proposes that continuous attention and support of industries and communities are necessary for nutritional education and counseling relative to improving workers' dietary lives as well as disease prevention and control.

A Development of Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation System of Automatic Transmission for the Simulation of Shifting Characteristics (자동변속기의 변속특성시뮬레이션을 위한 HILS시스템 개발)

  • 정규홍;이교일
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.143-151
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    • 2001
  • During the past several years, the major interests of car manufacturers in development of automatic transmission were in durability and shift quality. However, a large number of researches for improving shift quality that are based on dynamic characteristics of shifting mechanism have been rarely adopted in the developing process because it is quite difficult to predict the shifting performance from the dynamics simulation. One of the important reasons for the difference between simulation results and experiments arises from the automatic transmission hydraulic system that consists of many valves with high order model and shows a lot different dynamics to temperature variation. In this work, hardware-in-the-loop simulation system for automatic transmission was developed f3r improving the accuracy of simulated result by combining the real-time simulation model with the real hydraulic system. The real-time simulation for automatic transmission model excluding hydraulic system is executed with TI's TMS320C31 DSP and the interfacing board which includes 12bit A/D, PWM signal generator and driver, serial driver ,etc is designed for acquiring the simulation data and signal interface with hydraulic system. We verified the proper operation and correctness of shifting result by comparing the off-line simulation result with that of HILS and experimental result which was performed on transmission dynamometer driven by electric motor.

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A Study on the Estimation of Carbon Dioxide Generation During High Purity Hydrogen Production According to Natural Gas Composition (천연가스 조성에 따른 수소 생산 시에 발생하는 이산화탄소 배출량 산출에 대한 연구)

  • CHO, JUNGHO;NOH, JAEHYUN;KIM, DONG SUN
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.30 no.6
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    • pp.485-489
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    • 2019
  • Hydrogen is known to be a clean fuel which does not generate a green house gas during the combustion. However, about 8 kg of carbon dioxide is generated during the course of producing 1 kg of hydrogen through reforming, water gas shift reaction and pressure swing adsorption in order to obtain a high purity hydrogen over 99.999% by volume. In this work, carbon dioxide generation is estimated according to four kinds of natural gas compositions supplied by Korea Gas Corporation and regarding natural gas as pure methane. For the simulation of the modeling, PRO/II with PROVISION V10.2 at AVEVA was utilized and Peng-Robinson equation of state with Twu's alpha function was selected.

A New Approach to On-Line Monitoring Device for ZnO Surge Arresters

  • Lee Bok-Hee;Gil Hyoung-Jun;Kang Sung-Man
    • KIEE International Transactions on Electrophysics and Applications
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    • v.5C no.3
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    • pp.131-137
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    • 2005
  • This paper describes a new approach to the algorithm and fundamental characteristics of the device for monitoring the leakage currents flowing through zinc oxide (ZnO) surge arresters. In order to obtain a technique for a new on-line monitoring device that can be used in the deterioration diagnosis of ZnO surge arresters, the new algorithm and on-line leakage current detection device for extracting the resistive and capacitive currents using the phase shift addition method were proposed. The computer-based on-line monitoring device can sense accurately the power frequency leakage currents flowing through ZnO surge arresters. The on-line leakage current monitoring device of ZnO surge arresters proposed in this work has the high sensitivity compared to the third harmonic leakage current detection devices. As a consequence, it was found that the proposed leakage current monitoring device would be useful for forecasting the defects and degradation of ZnO surge arresters.

Design and Analysis of a 7kW LDC using Coupled Inductor for Heavy Hydrogen Electric Transport Vehicle (Coupled Inductor를 사용한 대형수소전기화물차용 7kW급 저전압 컨버터의 설계 및 분석)

  • Heo, Gyeong-Hyeon;Lee, Woo-Seok;Choi, Seung-Won;Lee, Il-Oun;Song, Hyung-Suk;Lee, Jun-Young
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.37-43
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    • 2020
  • This study proposes a 7kW low-voltage DC-DC converter (LDC) using a coupled inductor (CI) for heavy hydrogen electric transport vehicles. The LDC uses a phase-shift manner for soft switching. SiC-MOSFET is used to reduce the loss of reverse recovery current through the use of a high switching frequency. LDC is require large transformer and inductor because of large output current. The size of transformer and inductor can be reduced by deviding the transformer and inductor into two pieces each. This work presents the experimental results of the proposed circuit.