• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2001년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.442-445
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• 2001

The sustaining driver for color ac plasma display panel should provide alternating high voltage pulses and recover the energy discharged from the intrinsic capacitance between the scanning and sustaining electrodes inside the panel. In this paper, a novel efficient energy recovery circuit employing boost-up function is proposed to achieve a faster rise-time and in order to obtain a stable sustain voltage. The principle of operation, features, and simulated results are illustrated and verified on an equivalent capacitance, which is equals In that of 40-inch-panel, 200 (kHz).

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제49권4호
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• pp.467-477
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• 2021

Staphylococcus aureus is a well-known pathogen that can cause diseases in humans. It can cause both mild superficial skin infections and serious deep tissue infections, including pneumonia, osteomyelitis, and infective endocarditis. To establish host infection, S. aureus manages a complex regulatory network to control virulence factor production in both temporal and host locations. Among these virulence factors, staphyloxanthin, a carotenoid pigment, has been shown to play a leading role in S. aureus pathogenesis. In addition, staphyloxanthin provides integrity to the bacterial cell membrane and limits host oxidative defense mechanisms. The overwhelming rise of Staphylococcus resistance to routinely used antibiotics has necessitated the development of novel anti-virulence agents to overcome this resistance. This review presents an overview of the chief virulence determinants in S. aureus. More attention will be paid to staphyloxanthin, which could be a possible target for anti-virulence agents.

• International Journal of Stem Cells
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.15-29
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• 2024

The development and differentiation of endothelial cells (ECs) are fundamental processes with significant implications for both health and disease. ECs, which are found in all organs and blood vessels, play a crucial role in facilitating nutrient and waste exchange and maintaining proper vessel function. Understanding the intricate signaling pathways involved in EC development holds great promise for enhancing vascularization, tissue engineering, and vascular regeneration. Hematopoietic stem cells originating from hemogenic ECs, give rise to diverse immune cell populations, and the interaction between ECs and immune cells is vital for maintaining vascular integrity and regulating immune responses. Dysregulation of vascular development pathways can lead to various diseases, including cancer, where tumor-specific ECs promote tumor growth through angiogenesis. Recent advancements in single-cell genomics and in vivo genetic labeling have shed light on EC development, plasticity, and heterogeneity, uncovering tissue-specific gene expression and crucial signaling pathways. This review explores the potential of ECs in various applications, presenting novel opportunities for advancing vascular medicine and treatment strategies.

• BMB Reports
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• 제48권4호
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• pp.223-228
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• 2015

The Drosophila lymph gland is the hematopoietic organ in which stem-like progenitors proliferate and give rise to myeloid-type blood cells. Mechanisms involved in Drosophila hematopoiesis are well established and known to be conserved in the vertebrate system. Recent studies in Drosophila lymph gland have provided novel insights into how external and internal stresses integrate into blood progenitor maintenance mechanisms and the control of blood cell fate decision. In this review, I will introduce a developmental overview of the Drosophila hematopoietic system, and recent understandings of how the system uses developmental signals not only for hematopoiesis but also as sensors for stress and environmental changes to elicit necessary blood responses. [BMB Reports 2015; 48(4): 223-228]

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.374-385
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• 2003

The growing interest towards ultra-wideband (UWB) communications stems from its unique features such as baseband operation, ample multipath diversity, and the potential of enhanced user capacity. But since UWB has to overlay existing narrowband systems, multiple access has to be achieved in the presence of narrowband interference (NBI). However, existing baseband spreading codes for UWB multiple access are not flexible in handling NBI. In this paper, we introduce two novel spreading codes that not only enable baseband UWB multiple access, but also facilitate flexible NBI cancellation. We construct our codes using a single carrier or multiple carriers (SC or MC), which can be implemented with standard discrete-cosine transform (DCT) circuits. With our SC/MC codes, NBI can be avoided by simply nulling undesired digital carriers. Being digital, these SC/MC codes give rise to multiband UWB systems, without invoking analog carriers. In addition, our SC/MC codes enable full multipath diversity, and maximum coding gains. Equally attractive is their capability to reduce the number of interfering users, with simple matched filter operations. Comprehensive simulations are also carried out to corroborate our analysis.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.1485-1491
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• 2012

In this paper, we address the problem of fast handover support for future internet networks. The current mobility support protocols, for example Proxy Mobile IPv6, follow a centralized architecture in which a mobility controller is used to manage intra-network handovers that gives rise to high handover latency. To handle this problem, we propose a novel distributed mobility control architecture in which gateways in the network can exchange user information with neighbour gateways to support intra-network handovers, the mobility controller is only needed in case of inter-network handovers. Simulation results show that our architecture reduce approximately 20% intra-network handover latency than Proxy Mobile IPv6.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제51권3호
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• pp.731-737
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• 2019

In this study, a new measurement method based on voltage transients in CdZnTe detectors response to low energy photon irradiations is applied to measure the electron mobility (${\mu}_e$) and electron mobility-lifetime product $({\mu}{\tau})_e$ in a CdZnTe detector. In the proposed method, the pulse rise times are derived from low energy photon response to 59.5 keV($^{241}Am$), 88 keV($^{109}Cd$) and 122 keV($^{57}Co$) ${\gamma}-rays$ for the irradiation of the cathode surface at each detector for different bias voltages. The electron $({\mu}{\tau})_e$ product was then determined by measuring the variation in the photopeak amplitude as a function of bias voltage at a given photon energy using a pulse-height analyzer. The $({\mu}{\tau})_e$ values were found to be $(9.6{\pm}1.4){\times}10^{-3}cm^2V^{-1}$ for $1000mm^3$, $(8.4{\pm}1.6){\times}10^{-3}cm^2V^{-1}$ for $1687.5mm^3$ and $(7.6{\pm}1.1){\times}10^{-3}cm^2V^{-1}$ for $2250mm^3$ CdZnTe detectors. Those results were then compared with the literature $({\mu}{\tau})_e$ values for CdZnTe detectors. The present results indicate that, the electron mobility ${\mu}_e$ and electron $({\mu}{\tau})_e$ values in CdZnTe detectors can be measured easily by applying voltage transients response to low energy photons, utilizing a fast signal acquisition and data reduction and evaluation.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.40-46
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 10개의 트랜지스터를 이용한 새로운 저전력 전가산기의 회로를 제안한다. 회로는 six-transistor CMOS XOR 회로를 기본으로 하여 XOR 출력뿐만 아니라 XNOR 출력을 생성하며, 전가산기를 구성하는 트랜지스터의 수를 줄임과 동시에 단락회로를 없앰으로써 저전력 설계에 유리하게 하였다. 실측 회로의 크기 평가를 위해서 0.65 ${\mu}m$ ASIC 공정으로 의해 레이아웃을 하고 HSPICE를 이용해서 시뮬레이션을 하였다. 제안한 가신기의 셀을 이용하여 2bit， 8bit 리플 캐리 가산기를 구성하여 소비 전력, 지연 시간, 상승시간, 하강시간에 대한 시뮬레이션 결과로 제안한 회로를 검증하였다. 25MHz부터 50MHz까지의 클럭을 사용하였다. 8bit 리플 캐리 전가산기로 구현하였을 때의 소모되는 전력을 살펴보면 기존의 transmission function full adder (TFA) 설계보다는 약 70% 정도, 그리고 14개의 transistor (TR14)[4]를 쓰는 설계보다는 약 60% 우수한 특성을 보이고 있다. 또한 신호의 지연시간은 기존의 회로, TFA, TR14 보다 1/2배 정도 짧고, 선호의 상승시간과 하강 시간의 경우는 기존 회로의 2${\sim}$3배 정도 빠르게 나타났다.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2008년도 춘계 학술발표회 제20권1호
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• pp.957-960
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• 2008

최근 급격히 진행되고 있는 도심지 구조물의 대형화, 고층화에 따른 고층건물의 해체뿐 아니라 극한 환경의 해체현장에서 기존의 해체공법은 인력+장비에 의한 해체작업을 수행하여 언제나 작업자에 대한 치명적인 위험에 노출되어 있었다. 따라서 본 연구는 낙후된 해체산업을 첨단화시키고, 안전하고 친환경적인 해체장비 및 공법을 개발하고자 한다. 이를 위해 첫 번째, 선진외국의 해체장비인 B사(社)와 국내 무인해체장비인 M사(社)의 장비 성능을 비교분석하기 위한 장비시연회를 개최하였다. 이러한 성능의 비교분석을 토대로 해체산업에서 요구되는 기능을 도출하고, 그에 적합한 햅틱장치(haptic device) 기술, 힘반향 메카니즘(force feed-back mechanism), 환경인식용 센서퓨전(sensor fusion) 기술등 첨단기능이 융합된 무인해체 장비의 요소기술을 제안하였다. 이를 토대로 먼저, 새로운 햅틱장치 (haptic device)를 고안하였다. 두 번째로 기존의 고층건물의 기계식 해체공법을 개선한 탑다운 (Top-Down) 해체장치 및 공법을 제시하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권12호
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• pp.3315-3337
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• 2012

Crowded scenes analysis is a challenging topic in computer vision field. How to detect diverse motion patterns in crowded scenarios from videos is the critical yet hard part of this problem. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to mining motion patterns by utilizing motion information during both long-term period and short interval simultaneously. To capture long-term motions effectively, we introduce Motion History Image (MHI) representation to access to the global perspective about the crowd motion. The combination of MHI and optical flow, which is used to get instant motion information, gives rise to discriminative spatial-temporal motion features. Benefitting from the robustness and efficiency of the novel motion representation, the following motion pattern mining is implemented in a completely unsupervised way. The motion vectors are clustered hierarchically through automatic hierarchical clustering algorithm building on the basis of graphic model. This method overcomes the instability of optical flow in dealing with time continuity in crowded scenes. The results of clustering reveal the situations of motion pattern distribution in current crowded videos. To validate the performance of the proposed approach, we conduct experimental evaluations on some challenging videos including vehicles and pedestrians. The reliable detection results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.