• 대한임상검사과학회지
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.156-160
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• 2007

We evaluated the newly developed plastic sodium citrate tubes for routine coagulation test by direct comparison with glass citrate theophylline adenosine dipyridamole (CTAD) tubes. Blood was drawn from 100 patients into glass CTAD tubes and plastic sodium citrate tubes. After collection, samples were centrifuged at 1500 ${\times}$g for 15 min at $22^{\circ}C$. Prothrombin time (PT), activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT), fibrinogen were measured by using the Coagrex-800 (IRC, Japan). We used comparison plot by linear regression model and difference plot graphs to compare the results of the independent measurements of PT, aPTT, fibrinogen between glass CTAD tubes and plastic sodium citrate tubes. On the comparison study between glass CTAD tubes and plastic sodium citrate tubes, the correlation coefficients (R) were 0.99 for PT, 0.97 for aPTT and 0.97 for fibrinogen. This results implicated good correlation of each parameter between two tubes. Although the difference plot graph analysis showed statistically significant differences between glass and plastic tubes for PT, aPTT and fibrinogen, the range of difference was acceptable according to the CLSI/NCCLS guideline. The plastic sodium citrate tubes showed good correlation with the glass CTAD tubes, so it can substitute glass citrate tube for routine coagulation tests.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.439-455
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• 2016

This paper presented solutions of displacement and stress for a circular opening which is reinforced with grouted rock bolt. It satisfies the Mohr-Coulomb (M-C) or generalized Hoek-Brown (H-B) failure criterion, and exhibits elastic-brittle-plastic or strain-softening behavior. The numerical stepwise produce for strain-softening rock mass reinforced with grouted rock bolt was developed with non-associative flow rules and two segments piecewise linear functions related to a principle strain-dependent plastic parameter, to model the transition from peak to residual strength. Three models of the interaction mechanism between grouted rock bolt and surrounding rock proposed by Fahimifar and Soroush (2005) were adopted. Based on the axial symmetrical plane strain assumption, the theoretical solution of the displacement and stress were proposed for a circular tunnel excavated in elastic-brittle-plastic and strain-softening rock mass compatible with M-C or generalized H-B failure criterion, which is reinforced with grouted rock bolt. It showed that Fahimifar and Soroush's (2005) solution is a special case of the proposed solution for n = 0.5. Further, the proposed method is validated through example comparison calculated by MATLAB programming. Meanwhile, some particular examples for M-C or generalized H-B failure criterion have been conducted, and parametric studies were carried out to highlight the influence of different parameters (e.g., the very good, average and very poor rock mass). The results showed that, stress field in plastic region of surrounding rock with considering the supporting effectiveness of the grouted rock bolt is more than that without considering the effectiveness of the grouted rock bolt, and the convergence and plastic radius are reduced.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.213-226
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• 2020

The present study covenants with the static and free vibration behavior of nanocomposite sandwich plates reinforced by carbon nanotubes resting on Pasternak elastic foundation. Uniformly distributed (UD-CNT) and functionally graded (FG-CNT) distributions of aligned carbon nanotube are considered for two types of sandwich plates such as, the face sheet reinforced and homogeneous core and the homogeneous face sheet and reinforced core. Based on the first shear deformation theory (FSDT), the Hamilton's principle is employed to derive the mathematical models. The obtained solutions are numerically validated by comparison with some available cases in the literature. The elastic foundation model is assumed as one parameter Winkler - Pasternak foundation. A parametric study is conducted to study the effects of aspect ratios, foundation parameters, carbon nanotube volume fraction, types of reinforcement, core-to-face sheet thickness ratio and types of loads acting on the bending and free vibration analyses. It is explicitly shown that the (FG-CNT) face sheet reinforced sandwich plate has a high resistance against deflections compared to other types of reinforcement. It is also revealed that the reduction in the dimensionless natural frequency is most pronounced in core reinforced sandwich plate.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.111-116
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• 2013

Finite element analysis(FEA) has been extensively applied in the analyses of biomechanical properties of stents. Geometrically, a closed-cell stent is an assembly of a number of repeated unit cells and exhibits periodicity in both longitudinal and circumferential directions. This study concentrates on various parameters of the FEA models for the analysis of drug-eluting biodegradable polymeric stents for application to the treatment of coronary artery disease. In order to determine the mechanical characteristics of biodegradable polymeric stents, FEA was used to model two different types of stents: tubular stents(TS) and helicoidal stents(HS). For this modeling, epigallocatechin-3-O-gallate (EGCG)-eluting poly[(L-lactide-co-${\varepsilon}$-caprolactone), PLCL] (E-PLCL) was chosen as drug-eluting stent materials. E-PLCL was prepared by blending PLCL with 5% EGCG as previously described. In addition, the effects of EGCG blending on the mechanical properties of PLCL were investigated for both types of stent models. EGCG did not affect tensile strength at break, but significantly increased elastic modulus of PLCL. It is suggested that FEA is a cost-effective method to improve the design of drug-eluting biodegradable polymeric stents.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.130-135
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 데이터 마이닝을 이용한 단기 전력 부하 예측 시스템의 새로운 설계 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 단기 부하 예측시스템은 Takagj-Sugeno (T-S) 퍼지 모델 기반 예측기와 분류기로 구성된다. 또한, 제안된 T-S 퍼지 모델 기반 분류기는 전반부 가우시안 집합과 후반부 선형화된 베이지안 분류기로 구성된다 분류기의 파라미터들은 주어진 훈련 집합의 통계적 수치로 쉽게 얻어진다. 제안된 T-S 퍼지 모델 기반 예측기는 한 가지 입력에 대한 선형 시계열 예측기의 볼록 조합 형태를 가진다. 후반부 파라미터 추정 문제는 실제 전력 부하와 예측 전력 부하의 놈(norm)을 최소화하는 볼록 최적화 문제로 간주한다. 그 문제는 선형 행렬 부등식으로 설정됨으로써 후반부 파라미터는 추정된다. 전반부 파라미터 추정문제는 선형 시계열 예측기들이 모여진 전체 T-S 퍼지 시스템의 출력과 실제 전력 부하 사이의 에러를 최소화하는 문제이다. 이 문제는 경사치 하향 기법이 적용하여 해결되었다 제안된 기법의 유용성을 검증하기 위해 본 논문은 하루 후 24시간 전력 부하 예측과 하루 후 최고 전력부하를 예측 실험을 제공한다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.215-236
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• 2014

The flexural behaviour of steel beams significantly affects the structural performance of the steel frame structures. In particular, the flexural overstrength (namely the ratio between the maximum bending moment and the plastic bending strength) that steel beams may experience is the key parameter affecting the seismic design of non-dissipative members in moment resisting frames. The aim of this study is to present a new formulation of flexural overstrength factor for steel beams by means of artificial neural network (NN). To achieve this purpose, a total of 141 experimental data samples from available literature have been collected in order to cover different cross-sectional typologies, namely I-H sections, rectangular and square hollow sections (RHS-SHS). Thus, two different data sets for I-H and RHS-SHS steel beams were formed. Nine critical prediction parameters were selected for the former while eight parameters were considered for the latter. These input variables used for the development of the prediction models are representative of the geometric properties of the sections, the mechanical properties of the material and the shear length of the steel beams. The prediction performance of the proposed NN model was also compared with the results obtained using an existing formulation derived from the gene expression modeling. The analysis of the results indicated that the proposed formulation provided a more reliable and accurate prediction capability of beam overstrength.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제19권10호
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• pp.1379-1383
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• 2006

A total of 6,804 records for Duroc breed were collected from three farms registered at the Korean Animal Improvement Association (KAIA) from 1998 to 2004 of which both records from two ultrasound modes (A and B) were analyzed to estimate the variance components of carcass traits. Three carcass traits backfat thickness (bf), loin eye muscle area (lma) and lean meat percentage (lmp) were measured. These traits were analyzed separately as bf1, lma1 and lmp1 for ultrasound mode A and bf2, lma2 and lmp2 for ultrasound mode B with multiple trait animal model by using MTDFREML (Boldman et al., 1993). All the traits revealed medium heritability values. Estimated heritabilities for bf1, bf2, lma1, lma2, lmp1 and lmp2 were 0.45, 0.39, 0.32, 0.25, 0.28 and 0.39, respectively. Estimated genetic correlations for traits bf1 and bf2, lma1 and lma2, lmp1 and lmp2 were positive but low. Specifically, genetic correlations between bf1 and bf2 was 0.30 while the estimates for lean traits between lma1 and lma2 and between lmp1 and lmp2 were 0.15 and 0.18, respectively. Conversely, high negative genetic correlations existed between bf1 and the lean traits lma2, lmp2. Likewise, the estimated genetic correlations between lma1 and lma2 and lmp1 and lmp2 were low.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.289-294
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• 1978

흑연과 산화알루미늄(Alucer) 표면에 흡착된 벤젠이나 p-크실렌분자가 submonolayer 영역에서 어떤 흡착상태를 이루고 있는가를 이론적으로 살펴보기 위하여, 이들 흡착질 분자를 2차원 기체와 조화진동자의 두가지 모형으로 가정하고 통계열역학적으로 흡착엔트로피를 계산하여 실험치와 비교하였다. 그 결과 벤젠은 흑연표면에서 조화진동 운동을 하며, 산화알루미늄 표면에서는 비편재된 상태에 있다는 것을 알게 되었다. 흡착제 표면에서 흡착된 분자가 조화진동 운동을 한다고 가정할 경우 조절가능한 파라미터로 도입된 분자진동수는 $10^{11}\;sec^{-1}$로서 대단히 합리적인 값을 얻었다. p-크실렌분자가 흑연이나 산화알루미늄 표면에 흡착될 때는 단분자층이 이루어지기 훨씬 전에 비정상적인 값들이 나타난다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.97-103
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• 2001

현재 HMM은 음성인식에서 가장 널리 쓰이는 방법이다. 대부분의 경우 HMM의 매개변수는 훈련데이터에 대해 최대유사도를 가지도록 훈련된다. 그러나 이러한 방법은 다른 단어들에 대한 변별력을 고려하지 않는 단점이 있다. 이 논문에서는 이러한 단점을 보완하기 위해, 유사단어에 대한 정보와 두 단어 사이에 변별력을 가지는 함수를 사용하여, 인식된 단어와 유사단어만을 대상으로 재인식하는 과정을 통해 단어를 검증하는 방법을 제안하였다. 유사단어는 각 단어의 HMM에 다른 단어의 훈련음성으로 확률값을 계산하여 가장 유사한 단어를 얻었으며, 단어간에 변별력을 가지는 인식기는 각 상태에 하중값을 가지는 인식기를 사용하여 구현하였다. 단어간에 변별력을 가지는 하중값은 유전자 알고리듬을 사용하여 얻었다. 실험에서 유사단어와 변별력을 가지는 검증기의 사용으로 오인식률이 약 22% 감소하였다.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.173-188
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• 2002

보행하중을 받는 바닥판 구조물의 진동해석을 위해서 일반적으로 계측한 보행하중을 적용하거나 Bachmann의 보행하중식을 사용하게 된다. 다양한 매개변수의 영향을 받는 보행하중은 계측이 쉽지 않으며 Bachmann 보행하중식은 보행진동수가 2.OHz와 2.4Hz로 제한적이기 때문에 다양한 보행진동수에 따른 보행하중을 적용하기가 곤란하다. 따라서 보행하중을 받는 구조물의 진동해석을 위해서 보행하중의 매개변수 분석과 다양한 보행진동수에 적용이 가능한 보행하중의 모형화가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 로드셀이 장착된 계측 플레이트를 이용하여 바닥판에 가해지는 보행하중을 직접 계측하고 매개변수를 분석하였다. 그리고 퓨리에 변환을 이용하여 계측한 보행하중을 다양한 진동수를 가지는 조화하중으로 분해하였다. 분해과정을 거쳐 얻은 조화하중의 계수들을 보행진동수에 대한 일정한 함수관계로 유도하여 보행하중을 모형화하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 보행하중식을 이용하면 다양한 보행진동수에 따라 다르게 나타나는 보행하중을 구조물의 진동해석에 용이하게 적용할 수 있다.