• 대한치과교정학회지
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• 제46권5호
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• pp.323-330
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• 2016

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine whether the results of fractal analysis can be used as criteria for midpalatal suture maturation evaluation. Methods: The study included 131 subjects aged over 18 years of age (range 18.1-53.4 years) who underwent cone-beam computed tomography. Skeletonized images of the midpalatal suture were obtained via image processing software and used to calculate fractal dimensions. Correlations between maturation stage and fractal dimensions were calculated using Spearman's correlation coefficient. Optimal fractal dimension cut-off values were determined using a receiver operating characteristic curve. Results: The distribution of maturation stages of the midpalatal suture according to the cervical vertebrae maturation index was highly variable, and there was a strong negative correlation between maturation stage and fractal dimension (-0.623, p < 0.001). Fractal dimension was a statistically significant indicator of dichotomous results with regard to maturation stage (area under curve = 0.794, p < 0.001). A test in which fractal dimension was used to predict the resulting variable that splits maturation stages into ABC and D or E yielded an optimal fractal dimension cut-off value of 1.0235. Conclusions: There was a strong negative correlation between fractal dimension and midpalatal suture maturation. Fractal analysis is an objective quantitative method, and therefore we suggest that it may be useful for the evaluation of midpalatal suture maturation.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37권6C호
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• pp.462-468
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• 2012

본 논문은 SDR(software-defined radio)기반 무선 통신장비를 위한 디지털 AGC(Automatic Gain Control) 알고리즘에 대한 것이다. 수신신호는 무선 채널 구간에서 발생하는 경로 감쇄 및 수신단 front-end 동작에 의해 시간에 따라 변하는데, 신뢰성 있는 신호 복호를 위해서는 빠르고 정확한 AGC 기술이 적용되어야 한다. 또한, 하나의 수신기에서 다양한 웨이브폼을 수신하는 SDR 통신장비를 위해서는 적응적인 AGC 기술이 필요하다. 본 논문에서 다양한 웨이브폼에 대해 적용하기 위한 2단계로 구성된 적응적 구조를 제안한다. 제안한 적응적 구조는 수신신호 크기에 따라 이득값(gain) 선택 단계를 선택, 변경함으로써 빠르고 안정적인 이득값 조절을 가능하게 한다. 컴퓨터 모의실험을 통하여 제안하는 방식의 수렴속도 및 안정화 정도를 검증하고, 기존 방식과 비교하여 빠른 수렴 속도를 보임을 확인한다.

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.125-134
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• 2014

본 논문은 에이전트들 간의 긴밀한 협력을 위해 신속한 메시지 통신을 필요로 하는 응용 분야들을 지원하기 위한 다중 에이전트 메시지 전송 구조를 제안한다. 제안하는 구조는 FIPA(Foundation of Intelligent Physical Agents) 표준 에이전트 플랫폼 규격에서 에이전트들에게 메시지 전송 서비스를 제공하는 요소인 ACC(Agent Communication Channel)를 MTSA(Message Transfer Service Agent)라는 에이전트들의 집합으로 표현한다. MTSA는 비동기 메시지 통신을 지원하며, 메시지 수신을 효율적으로 처리하기 위해 반응자 패턴(reactor pattern)을 사용하며, 메시지 송신 에이전트와 수신 에이전트의 상대적 위치 관계에 따라 에이전트들 간에 최적의 통신 수단을 선택하여 메시지를 전송하여 에이전트들 간의 긴밀한 협력이 가능하도록 한다. 제안된 메시지 전송 구조에 따라 구현된 다중 에이전트 프레임워크 SMAF(Small Multi-Agent Framework)는 잘 알려진 에이전트 프레임워크 JADE(Java Agent Development Environment)와 비교하였을 때 향상된 메시지 전송 능력을 보인다. 다중 에이전트 구조의 메시지 통신 속도가 고속화되면 될수록 그 다중 에이전트 구조는 더 다양한 응용 분야들에 적용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.55-61
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• 2007

This paper describes the procedure and calculation results of basic design and transient variation of performance of 1 MWe large scale solar thermal power plant (STPP) by using the commercial software of THERMOFLEX and TRNSYS, respectively. In order to simulate the transient variation of STPP, the results of basic design are necessary. The design standard of the STPP is 1 MWe generation with solar only at high DNI condition and then 0.6 MWe output power for 1 hour using stored energy when the DNI becomes lower unable to operate normally. The results of basic design show the important design data of flow rates, water/steam conditions at each equipments and the estimated efficiency of STPP. In addition, dynamic simulation results of STPP are predicted and plotted for one year and three different days weather data of Daejeon.

• Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.246-252
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• 2011

Background : The objective of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic efficiency of the Comprehensive Attention Test (CAT) by comparing the results of the continuous performance test (CPT) and the CAT in children and adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Method : A total of 110 children and adolescents with ADHD (mean age : 11.2${\pm}$2.9 years, 76 boys) and 36 children and adolescents without ADHD (mean age : 12.0${\pm}$2.7 years, 25 boys) completed the CAT. We compared the specificity and sensitivity of the CPT and CAT at two different cut-off points via the McNemar test. The areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUC) between the two groups were compared using Medcalc software. Results : The sensitivity and specificity of the CPT were .419 and .806, respectively. The sensitivity of the CAT was .827, which was significantly higher than that of the CPT (p<.001), and the specificity of CAT is .444, which was significantly lower than that of CPT (p<.001). The AUC of the CPT and CAT was .664 and .692, respectively, and there were no significant difference between the two groups on the paired comparison (p=.513). Conclusions : The results of this study suggest that the CAT has moderate specificity and high sensitivity. The CAT can be used as a useful tool to evaluate the neuropsychological function of children and adolescents with ADHD.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제15권10호
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• pp.952-960
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• 2004

다양한 디지털 변복조 기술 중에서 PSK(Phase Shift Keying) 변조방식은 보편적으로 사용되는 송신 방식이다. 특히 CDMA 시스템에 이용되는 PSK 방식은 부호 오율 및 대역폭 양면에서 우수하다. 본 연구에서 사용하는 DSP 기술은 소프트웨어만을 이용하는 기술로 부가적인 하드웨어 없이 새로운 여러 가지의 송수신모드를 제공할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 복잡한 아날로그 회로를 이용한 PSK계열의 BPSK복조기와 QPSK복조기 대신, DSP 기술을 기반으로 한 M-ary PSK(M=2, 4)복조기를 구현한다. 또한, 기존의 PSK복조기의 경우 아날로그 PLL의 동기포착 회로를 이용하여 동기를 확보하였으나, 동기회로 없이 프로그램을 사용하여 PSK신호를 복조하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. DSP는 TMS320C6203을 이용하였으며, DSP 장비에 프로그램을 에뮬레이션 시킨 후의 결과 파형을 DSP 개발툴인 code builder를 사용하여 graph view 창을 통해 확인했다. 그 결과 복조파형은 기존의 복잡한 아날로그 회로와 동일한 성능으로 정확히 신호를 복조할 수 있으며, 어떠한 주변장치를 사용하지 않고, 소프트웨어만으로 다양한 레벨의 변조파형을 복조함을 확인한다.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2006년도 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS Vol.1
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• pp.165-170
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• 2006

In the Civil Aviation field, the international trend (through ICAO, EUROCONTROL) is to adopt one positioning system that allows to follow more flight phases. This will allow to release themselves by ground installations and optimize the traffic flows following the aRea Navigation (RNAV) concept. In order to realize this goal the European Scientific Community are focusing on Augmentation Systems based on Satellite infrastructure (SBAS - Satellite Based Augmentation System) and on Ground based ones (GBAS - Ground Based Augmentation System). The goal of this work is to present some results on SBAS and GBAS performances. Regarding SBAS, the Department of Applied Sciences of Parthenope University, after the acquisition of a Novatel OEM4 SBAS receiver has created a monitoring station that reflect as much as possible a standardized measure environment for EGNOS Data Collection Network (EDCN), established by Eurocontrol. The Department of Applied Science has decided to carry out a own monitoring survey to verify the performance of EGNOS that can be achieved in South Europe region, a zone not very covered by official (EDCN) monitoring network. Regarding GBAS, we started from a data set of measurements carried out at the GBAS of Milan-Linate airport where we work on a ground installation (GMS - Ground Monitoring Station) that supervises the GBAS signal and that represent, for our purposes, the Aircraft subsystem. So the set of data collected is to be considered in RTK mode and after the measures session we processed them with the software PEGASUS v 4.11. Both experiences give us the possibility to evaluate the GNSS1 performance that can be achieved.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2006년도 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS Vol.1
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• pp.171-174
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• 2006

A large number of service providers in countries all over the world have established GNSS reference station networks in the last years and are using network software today to provide a correction stream to the user as a routine service. In current GNSS network processing, all the geometric related information such as ionospheric free carrier phase ambiguities from all stations and satellites, tropospheric effects, orbit errors, receiver and satellite clock errors are estimated in one centralized Kalman filter. Although this approach provides an optimal solution to the estimation problem, however, the processing time increases cubically with the number of reference stations in the network. Until now one single Personal Computer with Pentium 3.06 GHz CPU can only process data from a network consisting of no more than 50 stations in real time. In order to process data for larger networks in real time and to lower the computational load, a federated filter approach can be considered. The main benefit of this approach is that each local filter runs with reduced number of states and the computation time for the whole system increases only linearly with the number of local sensors, thus significantly reduces the computational load compared to the centralized filter approach. This paper presents the technical aspect and performance analysis of the federated filter approach. Test results show that for a network of 100 reference stations, with the centralized approach, the network processing including ionospheric modeling and network ambiguity fixing needs approximately 60 hours to process 24 hours network data in a 3.06 GHz computer, which means it is impossible to run this network in real time. With the federated filter approach, only less than 1 hour is needed, 66 times faster than the centralized filter approach. The availability and reliability of network processing remain at the same high level.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제41권10호
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• pp.1190-1196
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 VSAT 기반 위성통신 시스템에서 효율적인 인터넷 서비스 제공을 위한 계층 간 프로토콜 연동 구조 모델을 제시하고 이를 구현하여 제안된 모델의 동작을 검증한다. VSAT 기반 위성통신 시스템은 대부분 DVB-S2 표준을 사용한다. 그러나 DVB-S2는 방송 서비스 중심으로 설계되었기 때문에 IP 기반 인터넷 프로토콜을 지원하기에는 비효율성이 많이 존재한다. 이를 해결하기 위해 계층 2 프로토콜인 generic stream encapsulation (GSE)가 제정되었다. 본 논문은 IP 프로토콜과 GSE 프로토콜과의 연동, GSE 프로토콜과 DVB-S2와의 연동 방법에 대해 제안한다. 또한 컴퓨터 소프트웨어를 이용하여 제안된 계층 간 연동 프로토콜을 구현하고 NI사의 universal software radio peripheral (USRP) 및 상용 DVB 수신기를 통해 구현된 내용의 동작을 검증한다.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제85권4호
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• pp.349-357
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• 2022

Background: The most consistently identified mortality determinants for the new coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) infection are aging, male sex, cardiovascular/respiratory diseases, and cancer. They were determined from heterogeneous cohorts that included patients with different disease severity and previous conditions. The main goal of this study was to determine if activities of daily living (ADL) dependence measured by Barthel's index could be a predictor for COVID-19 mortality. Methods: A prospective cohort study was performed with a consecutive sample of 340 COVID-19 patients representing patients from all over the northern region of Portugal from October 2020 to March 2021. Mortality risk factors were determined after controlling for demographics, ADL dependence, admission time, comorbidities, clinical manifestations, and delay-time for diagnosis. Central tendency measures were used to analyze continuous variables and absolute numbers (proportions) for categorical variables. For univariable analysis, we used t test, chi-square test, or Fisher exact test as appropriate (α=0.05). Multivariable analysis was performed using logistic regression. IBM SPSS version 27 statistical software was used for data analysis. Results: The cohort included 340 patients (55.3% females) with a mean age of 80.6±11.0 years. The mortality rate was 19.7%. Univariate analysis revealed that aging, ADL dependence, pneumonia, and dementia were associated with mortality and that dyslipidemia and obesity were associated with survival. In multivariable analysis, dyslipidemia (odds ratio [OR], 0.35; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.17-0.71) was independently associated with survival. Age ≥86 years (pooled OR, 2.239; 95% CI, 1.100-4.559), pneumonia (pooled OR, 3.00; 95% CI, 1.362-6.606), and ADL dependence (pooled OR, 6.296; 95% CI, 1.795-22.088) were significantly related to mortality (receiver operating characteristic area under the curve, 82.1%; p<0.001). Conclusion: ADL dependence, aging, and pneumonia are three main predictors for COVID-19 mortality in an elderly population.