• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.94-101
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• 1977

Noise pollution, both in the environment and in the workplace, has been recognized as a major health hazard -one that can impair not only a person's hearing but also his physical and mental well-being. As industrialization progresses, the prevalence rate of occupational diseases is increasing, especially hearing loss, which has the highest prevalence rate among the occupational diseases. The major cause of noise is the construction of various large industries without any regulation of noise sources. Therefor, we must establish an enactment to control mechanical noise sources. as soon as possible. For the purpose of controlling the noise source, we must have exact data about such things as the sound level, the frequency of the peak sound and the revolutions per minute (r.p.m.) of the machine (a measure of the power of its motor). This study was undertaken in order to define the noise characteristics, the power of the machine's motor, the change of the sound level and the peak sound as the r.p.m. increases, and the permissible exposure time. The sample size of this study was 74 machines at 11 plants in 6 industries. The results are as follows; 1. The breakdown of the types of mechanical noise noted was : 63.6% continuous normal sound, 26.9% intermittent sound, 4.7% continuous repeating sound and 4.6% impulsive sound. 2. With respect to the type of industry, the overall sound level was the highest in the mechanical industry, with $103.8{\pm}2.8dB(A)$, and lowest in the textile industry, with $89.2{\pm}1.43dB(A)$. 3. With respect to the type of machine, the highest sound level was 124 dB(A) caused by Gauzing(II), in the mechanical industry, and the lowest was 76 dB(A) caused by Attachment (Jup Chack) (I) in the timber industry. 4. The shortest permissible exposure time to Gauzing(II) in the mechanical industry was less than 15 minutes. 5. Among 74 machines, 68.2% of the peak sound was situated in the high frequency range (52.7% at 2 KHz, 4.1% at 4 KHz and 1.4% at 8 KHz). 41.8% of the peak sound was in the middle frequency range (4.1% at 250Hz, 14.8% at 500Hz and 22.9% at 1KHz). 6. If one machine had two motors or more, the peak sound was shifted to the low frequency range. 7. As the r.p.m. increased, the overall and peak sound levels were increased without any change of the frequency of the peak sound. 8. Whenever the machines had the same kind and the same r.p.m., the overall and peak sounds were changed by the physicochemical characteristics of the raw materials and the management.

• 한국작물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국작물학회 2001년도 추계 학술대회지
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• pp.72-90
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• 2001

Environment agriculture carried out from 1999 in Daeho reclaimed saline area, located in central east cost of Choongnam Korea, resulted in dramatic reduction of amount of nitrogen fertilizer and application times and amount of pesticides. The ecological status of Daeho reclaimed saline area was considered to still very sound from the results of ecological survey on flora and fauna. However, it was desirable to adapt precision agriculture for production of high eating quality of rice and preservation of Daeho ecosystem. Especially, precise application of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer was recommendable for prevention of water pollution in environment rice cultivation by duck or mud snail or crab. The bioefficacy of Scirpus maritimus and Echinochloa crus-galli in paddy field of environment rice cultivation by duck or mud snail or crab in Daeho reclaimed saline area was revealed very low. Therefor, it was concluded that the pre-measures of reduction of natural weed population were necessary for successful environment agriculture. The most desirable and ideal environmentally sound agriculture in Daeho reclaimed saline area was performance of crop rotation, introduction of legume crops and green manure crops, and also, simultaneous management of crop production and animal husbandry for smooth flow of energy cycle within the closed Daeho ecosystem.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제29권7호
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• pp.836-842
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• 2023

「장애인복지법」에 따라 국가 자격시험은 장애인과 비장애인이 동일한 시험에 응시할 수 있도록 하고 있으며, 청각장애는 동력수상레저기구 면허취득 결격사유에 해당하지 않아 청각장애인도 면허취득을 할 수 있다. 선박이나 동력수상레저기구에서는 해상에서 충돌위험이 있을 때 조종신호, 경고신호 등의 위험신호를 음향신호를 통해 상대에게 알려 주위의 위험 상황을 발견하지 못하여 발생할 수 있는 사고를 예방하도록 하고 있다. 하지만, 청각장애인의 레저활동 중 주위 선박이나 동력수상레저기구의 소리를 통한 위험신호를 청각장애로 인해 위험신호를 확인하지 못해 발생할 수 있는 해양사고를 방지할 수 있는 방안이 필요하다. 음향수신장치(Sound Reception System)는 선교가 완전히 폐위된 선박에 설치하여 외부 소리의 증폭과 소리의 수신 방향을 화면상에 표시하는 장치로서, 청각장애인의 동력수상레저기구에 선박 음향수신장치를 활용하여 청각장애로 인해 청취할 수 없는 위험신호와 같은 음향신호의 유무 및 방향을 동력수상레저기구의 화면상에 시각적 표시를 통해, 청각장애인의 레저활동 중 음향신호를 확인하지 못하여 발생할 수 있는 해양사고를 예방하기 위한 개선방안을 제시하였다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘텐츠학회 2009년도 춘계 종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.185-190
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• 2009

최근 문화공연은 전통적인 공연예술의 틀을 벗어나 여러 장르를 도입하여 새로운 문화콘텐츠를 만들고 있으며, 특히 무대를 갖는 공연에는 영상예술과 첨단기술을 이용한 이색적인 공연이 나타나고 있다. 그 중에서도 무대 공연은 소리를 이용한 퍼포먼스가 행해지는 공연 같은 경우, 소리를 재해석하여 영상과 결합시킨 실험적인 공연이 나타나고 있다. 하지만 아직 대중 공연예술에서는 실시간 소리에 따라 영상을 시각화하는 과정이 자동화 되지 않고 있다. 이 경우 연주자와 관객이 즉흥적으로 내는 소리를 실시간으로 보여줄 수 없기 때문에 영상과 관객, 그리고 공연자의 상호교류가 이루어질 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 공연영상을 위한 실시간 사운드 시각화(Real-time sound visualization)를 실험함으로써 즉흥적인 공연 환경과 소통하는 영상 시각화를 제안한다. 영상 시각화는 공연예술에서 사용되는 악기 중 현악기를 중심으로 한다. 미디 환경을 기반으로 하는 맥스엠에스피/지터(MaxMSP/Jitter)를 이용하여 사운드 신호에 따른 영상 제어 시스템을 구축하고 코르그 나노 컨트롤(Korg Nano Kontrol) 기기를 활용하여 영상을 실험 및 제어한다. 이를 통해 공연 환경에 따라 미묘하게 달라지는 공연자의 감정과 박자감 그리고, 공연자의 행태에 따라 즉흥적으로 변화하는 실시간 인터랙티브 영상을 확인할 수 있다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.962-977
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• 2019

The human voice is a convenient method of information transfer between different objects such as between men, men and machine, between machines. The development of information and communication technology, the voice has been able to transfer farther than before. The way to communicate, it is to convert the voice to another form, transmit it, and then reconvert it back to sound. In such a communication process, a vocoder is a method of converting and re-converting a voice and sound. The CELP (Code-Excited Linear Prediction) type vocoder, one of the voice codecs, is adapted as a standard codec since it provides high quality sound even though its transmission speed is relatively low. The EVRC (Enhanced Variable Rate CODEC) and QCELP (Qualcomm Code-Excited Linear Prediction), variable bit rate vocoders, are used for mobile phones in 3G environment. For the real-time implementation of a vocoder, the reduction of sound quality is a typical problem. To improve the sound quality, that is important to know the size and shape of noise. In the existing sound quality improvement method, the voice activated is detected or used, or statistical methods are used by the large mount of data. However, there is a disadvantage in that no noise can be detected, when there is a continuous signal or when a change in noise is large.This paper focused on finding a better way to decrease the reduction of sound quality in lower bit transmission environments. Based on simulation results, this study proposed a preprocessor application that estimates the SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) using the spectral SNR estimation method. The SNR estimation method adopted the IMBE (Improved Multi-Band Excitation) instead of using the SNR, which is a continuous speech signal. Finally, this application improves the quality of the vocoder by enhancing sound quality adaptively.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.101-108
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• 2009

This study aims to design ergonomic warning sound that is not confusing and enhancing preference. Four factors of the warning sound represented as interval, chord, reverberation and pitch were selected as independent variables. And, perceived urgency, perceived criticality, degree of confusion and user preference are measured as dependent variables. An experiment was conducted in silent lab environment. Warning sounds were given in 90dB constantly to subjects through stereo speakers. A statistical analysis revealed that interval was significant for perceived urgency; also interval and chord were both effective for perceived criticality. Pitch, interval, chord and the interaction between pitch and chord were effective in degree of confusion, so were reverberation, the interaction between reverberation and pitch and the interaction between reverberation and chord for preference. This study characterized the situation under which warning sounds are required into three types in terms of urgency and criticality; and found the right warning sound that the subjects perceived to best represent the situation through the validation study. These findings are expected to help the designer choose the right warning sound according to the situational contexts in which such warning sounds are implemented.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2007년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.488-492
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• 2007

Since Equipment-Noises occurring in machine room penetrate wall-body and travel to the adjacent room in the form of air-borne sound and structure-borne sound, it is appearing as the main factor that injures a peaceful residential environment, and due to this, such noise-damage is currently increasing rapidly. Consequently, despite the measures for sound-insulation and soundproof against the equipment-noise penetrated wall-body is urgently required, but as the subjective evaluation considered for psychological response about the equipment-noise was not practiced, many dissatisfactions are still raising even after some measure was taken. On such point of view, this Research, at the spot, has actually measured the equipment-noise that had permeated various wall-bodies, and examined its physical characteristics, thence based upon this, has conducted Psycho-Acoustics Experiment and investigated the interrelation between the physical evaluation value and psychological reaction value. It is considered that such study result could be utilized as the useful material at the time of establishment of the Grading Standard for the insulation performance against the Architectural Plumbing Noise, in the future.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제21권11호
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• pp.1059-1066
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• 2011

The micro-perforated panel absorber(MPPA) is one of promising noise control elements because of its applicability to extreme environments where general porous materials cannot be used. Since the MPPA is inherently non-porous sound absorber, it can be a good candidate of acoustic protection system of a space launcher. The overall sound pressure level inside payload fairings of commercial launch vehicles is so high(around 140 dB OASPL) that the conventional linear impedance model cannot be directly applied to the design of the acoustic protection systems. In this paper an acoustic impedance models of a micro-perforated panel absorber at high sound pressure environment were reviewed and the use of the impedance on the practical design of MPPAs was addressed. The variation of absorption characteristics of MPPA was discussed according to the design parameters, e.g., perforation ratio, the minute hole diameter, the thickness of MPP and the incident sound pressure level.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제20권4E호
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• pp.52-60
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• 2001

This paper describes real time implementation of subband sound localization system on a floating-point DSP TI TMS320C31. The system determines two dimensional location of an active speaker in a closed room environment with real noise presents. The system consists of an two microphone array connected to TI DSP hosted by PC. The implemented sound localization algorithm is Subband CPSP which is an improved version of traditional CPSP (Cross-Power Spectrum Phase) method. The algorithm first split the input speech signal into arbitrary number of subband using subband filter banks and calculate the CPSP in each subband. It then averages out the CPSP results on each subband and compute a source location estimate. The proposed algorithm has an advantage over CPSP such that it minimize the overall estimation error in source location by limiting the specific band dominant noise to that subband. As a result, it makes possible to set up a robust real time sound localization system. For real time simulation, the input speech is captured using two microphone and digitized by the DSP at sampling rate 8192 hz, 16 bit/sample. The source location is then estimated at once per second to satisfy real-time computational constraints. The performance of the proposed system is confirmed by several real time simulation of the speech at a distance of 1m, 2m, 3m with various speech source locations and it shows over 5% accuracy improvement for the source location estimation.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.50-58
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• 1992

국내 공동주택에 있어서 실내주거환경의 질을 향상시키기 위해서는 우리시정에 적합한 차음성능 평가방법과 기준의 설정이 필요하며, 이에 따른 차음성능 개선방안의 수립이 절실하게 요구된다. 본 연구에서는 실간차음성능의 기준설정을 위한 기초단계로서 국내공동주택의 단위 세대내 내부소음원의 특성을 조사분석하고 간막이벽을 중심으로한 실간차음성능 실태를 파악하였다. 또한 실태조사결과에 의한 자료를 토대로 평면유형별 차음지수의 차이와 그 원인을 조사${\cdot}$분석하였으며, 현행 간막이벽 구조의 차음성능 개선방안을 모색하기 위하여 차음성능 영향요인 및 결정요인을 분석평가하였다.