• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.423-429
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• 1998

Human pharynx is unique, acting as a complex interchange between the oral cavity and esophagus, and between the nasal cavity and lungs. It is actively involved in the transport of food and liquid, producing the forces that guide that bolus into the upper esophagus and away from the adjacent larynx and lungs. This study intended to develop a biomechanical model of the human pharynx, utilizing Finite Element Method(FEM). Within each model changes in cross sectional intralumenal area were calculated and compared with the area from the computer-generated FE model. Area matching allowed estimation of intraluminal pressure gradients during swallow. The estimated pharyngeal pressure gradient varies from one region to another. The estimated pharyngeal pressure gradients showed different patterns for upper four levels and lower four levels. The contraction velocity for upper four levels is much higher than lower four levels. The higher contraction velocities and pressure gradients in the upper levels are consistent with the bolus velocities required for efficient swallow.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.1381-1388
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• 1993

This paper presents a method for the simultaneous optimal design of structural and control systems. Sensitivities of performance index with respect to structural design variables are analyzed. The structural design variables are optimized to minimize the performance index by use of conjugate gradient method. The method is applied to a half model of an active vehicle suspension system with elastic body moving on a randomly profiled road. The suspension control force of an optimally controlled system in the presence of measurement errors are calculated by use of linear quadratic Gaussian control theory and Kalman filter theory. The performance index contains ride comfort, road holding and working space of suspension. The structural design variables taken are stiffness, daming properties and the position of the suspension system. The random road profile considered as colored noise is shaped from white noise by use of shaping filter. The performance of an optimal simultaneous structure/control system is compared with that of an optimal controlled system.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.11
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• pp.1397-1403
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• 2015

A named entity(NE) dictionary is an important resource for the performance of NE recognition. However, it is not easy to construct a NE dictionary manually since human annotation is time consuming and labor-intensive. To save construction time and reduce human labor, we propose a semi-automatic system for the construction of a NE dictionary. The proposed system constructs a pseudo-document with Wiki-categories per NE class by using an active learning technique. Then, it calculates similarities between Wiki entries and pseudo-documents using the BM25 model, a well-known information retrieval model. Finally, it classifies each Wiki entry into NE classes based on similarities. In experiments with three different types of NE class sets, the proposed system showed high performance(macro-average F1-score of 0.9028 and micro-average F1-score 0.9554).

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.522-533
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• 2019

The compressive sensing model for range-Doppler estimation can be expressed as an under-determined linear system y = Ax. To find the solution of the linear system with the compressive sensing method, matrix A should be sufficiently incoherent and x to be sparse. In this paper, we propose a transmission waveform design method that maintains the bandwidth required by the sonar system while lowering the mutual coherence of the matrix A so that the matrix A is incoherent. The proposed method combines two methods of optimizing the sensing matrix with the alternating projection and suppressing unwanted frequency bands using the DFT (Discrete Fourier Transform) matrix. We compare range-Doppler estimation performance of existing waveform LFM(Linear Frequency Modulated) and designed waveform using the matched filter and the compressive sensing method. Simulation shows that the designed transmission waveform has better detection performance than the existing waveform LFM.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.115-122
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• 2013

Disease diagnostics based on medical imaging is getting popularity day by day. Presence of the atherosclerosis is one of the causes of narrowing of carotid arteries which may block partially or fully blood flow into the brain. Serious brain strokes may occur due to such types of blockages in blood flow. Early detection of the plaque and taking precautionary steps in this regard may prevent from such type of serious strokes. In this paper, we present an automatic image segmentation technique for carotid artery ultrasound images based on active contour approach. In our experimental study, we assume that ultrasound images are properly aligned before applying automatic image segmentation. We have successfully applied the automatic segmentation of carotid artery ultrasound images using snake based model. Qualitative comparison of the proposed approach has been made with the manual initialization of snakes for carotid artery image segmentation. Our proposed approach successfully segments the carotid artery images in an automated way to help radiologists to detect plaque easily. Obtained results show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.39 no.9
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• pp.28-36
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• 2002

As cross-coupling capacitance generated in transmission line has been an important issue in VLSI world, a couple of ATPG algorithms has been proposed. However they were studied only for a simple single-line effect problem, so it cost so much time for an unsatisfying test generation efficiency. In this paper, we studied a noise model for multiple affected lines and generated test patterns in a short time. This paper proposes a crosstalk model affected by multiple tranmission lines and implemented an ATPG algorithm for detection of crosstalk noise faults. We modeled the crosstalk noise by multiple transmission line and made a truth table for this. We implemented an ATPG algorithm based on PODEM and revealed the results.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.113-118
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• 2007

KPCS internal antenna in this paper, is designed and fabricated using the theory based on the folded monopole antenna. I propose folded monopole internal antenna which has high gain low profile structure with easy installation into the handset of mobile phone. Design frequency is 1.8 GHz that is a center frequency of Korea PCS frequency band, and the impedance variances due to change of antenna structure as a length and width are simulated. Measurements show that input VSWR range under 2:1 is 1.72 - 1.88 GHz, and radiated H-plane pattern is omnidirectional under passive state. Active sensitivities and output power of phone applied antenna are $-105\;{\sim}\;-108\;dBm$ and $22.5\;{\sim}\;23.6\;dBm$ max., respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.269-272
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• 2004

비즈니스 프로세스 관리(BPM)는 프로세스의 모델링, 분석, 실행에 이르는 비즈니스 프로세스 전 라이프 사이클을 지원하고자 하는 개념으로, 급변하는 경영 환경의 변화에서 기업의 경쟁력을 재고하기 위하여 필요로 되는 새로운 기업 컴퓨팅 패러다임이다. 비즈니스 프로세스 관리의 개념을 도입함으로써 기업들은 조직의 프로세스를 능동적이고 빠르게 (재)설계하고 수행할 수 있으며, 기업간 M&A 및 전략적 제휴를 효율적으로 수행할 수 있다. 기업간 협업이 이루어지기 위해서는 그들 간의 프로세스의 교류 및 통합이 필수적이다. 통합의 한 수단으로 여러 프로세스에 관련된 Data들을 Rule의 형태로 표현하여 관리할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 워크플로, BPMS 등의 환경에서 비즈니스 Rule을 포함하는 비즈니스 프로세스 수행시에 관리해야 할 제약조건을 통합 관리할 수 있는 방법론을 제시한다. 비즈니스 프로세스를 수행하면서 체크해야 할 제약조건들을 규명한후 이들을 표현할 수 있는 프로세스 기반의 트리거 모델을 제시한다. 또한 본 방법론의 실현 가능성을 보여주기 위해 예제와 함께 프로토타입 시스템을 구현하였고 Performance 측면에서는 제한적이기는 하지만 DB에 기반한 제약조건 관리방법과의 비교를 통해서 본 연구에서 제안하고 있는 방법의 우수성을 보여준다. 본 연구에서 제안하는 방법론은 Workflow 및 BPMS와 같은 프로세스 관리 시스템에서 통합의 수단으로 사용되고 있는 EAI 등을 보완해 줄수 있는 툴로써 활용가능하리라 기대된다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.18-23
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• 1996

Fluctuation statistics of scattering strength are not only important because they impact the performance of active sonar systems, but also because they may provide insight into the major scattering process. In this article, analysis of the statistical characteristics of bottom backscattering, measured in shallow water, are presented. The slowly moving experimental sonar was operated at 30kHz to gather data over the bottom. Spatial and temporal correlation functions of the signal amplitudes were measured. The distribution function and probability of false alarm function of the detected envelope of widebeam and narrowbeam signals were measured. An attempt was made to compare the results with existing theoretical models. The result suggests that the statistical characteristics of bottom backscattering fluctuation of moving source is differ from that of fixed source.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.235-242
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• 2017

A driving controller for active destruction protections can be applied to machinery, aerospace and military fields. In particular, this controller can be used to track and attack enemy flying objects through the active control. It is important to ensure reliability of the driving controller since its operation should be kept with precision to the target point. The temperature of the environment where the driving controller is used is about -32 C ~ 50 C (241~323 ). Heat generated in the driving controller should be maintained below a certain threshold (85 C (358 )) to ensure reliability; therefore, the study and analysis of the heat flow characteristics in the driving controller are required. In this research, commercial software Solid-Works Flow Simulation was used for the numerical simulation assuming a low Reynolds number turbulence model and an incompressible viscous flow. The goal of this paper is to design the driving controller safely by analyzing the characteristics of the heat flow inside of the controller composed of chips or boards. Our analysis shows temperature distributions for boards and chips below a certain threshold.