• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.9-15
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a method to extract the external oblique muscle of abdomen images that is often excluded by previous method due to image distortion. In the preprocessing phase of the proposed method, we emphasize the brightness contrast with Ends-in search stretching algorithm after removing noise from the initial ultrasonic images. Then we apply average binarization in vertical direction to extract candidate fascia areas. After removing other areas than fascia with morphological characteristics, the lost part in the fascia during the process is restored with such characteristic information and location information. Then the skin area is also removed with information from the arc appearing in convex filming and the candidate muscle areas are extracted by overlapping two results two way up-down search algorithm. Another noise removing process is done to determine the muscle area. In case of obtaining obscure result, after restoring the muscle area by smearing method, the thickness of the muscle is measured by min square method. The experiment verifies that the proposed method is sufficiently effective to analyze the size and shape of muscles in abdomen in ultrasonography than previously used methods.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.26-32
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• 2020

In this study, a facility was constructed to supply liquid nitrogen to simulate combustion instability in a liquid rocket combustor. The pressurization and supply performances were predicted and verified through different experiments. The liquid nitrogen supply system was composed of a pressurized supply system, and a dome regulator was used to adjust the pressure of the pressurant. A cavitation venturi was used to control the mass flow rate of liquid nitrogen. The condition of liquid nitrogen supply was a mass flow rate of 2.55 kg/s and the venturi inlet pressure was above 100 bar. Based on the initial experiment, it was observed that the predicted amount of the pressurant was not sufficiently supplied and the target pressure was not supplied due to a drop in tank pressure. Through the modification of the established facilities, the target mass flow rate was successfully supplied and the cryogenic liquid nitrogen supply facility was verified.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.38 no.11
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• pp.819-826
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• 1994

This study described a simple, rapid and cost effective analytical technique for the ultra-trace analysis of dioxins in environmental samples. Liquid-Liquid extraction methods were used for the initial extraction and enrichment of the analyte. Subsequent clean-up procedures were achieved by using strong cation exchanger, silica and Florisil cartridges. Extracts were analysed by HRGC/HRMS-SIM. The efficiency of these analytical methods was tested by recovery and selectivity for elimination of interferences such as phenols, pesticides and PCBs in each step. The mean recovery of 1,2,3,4-TCDD spiked at 10 ppt in sea water was about 92(${\pm}$1.6)%. This analytical method was applied to Kwangyang sea water and 4.5pg/L of 2,3,7,8-TCDD was determined.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.479-493
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• 2020

Outbreak of COVID-19 originated from China resulted significantly high casualties and social and economic damages. Currently the major countries see importance of accurate prediction of originating trend to prevent the spread of infectious disease and AI is actively utilized when establishing the system. Therefore this study has comprehended the status of utilizing the AI in overseas and made comparison and analysis with domestic status. It derived the necessity to establish national control tower based on One Health to respond to infectious disease to effectively utilize AI and suggested to establish higher organization, Medical Big Data Governance, to respond to the infectious disease. It is necessary to conduct further study to utilize the results and suggestions derived from this study into the policy and if the suggestions are reflected to improve institutional imperfection, it will be positively used for prevention of the spreading infectious disease and utilizing medical Big Data.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.36-41
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• 2002

Generally, cartoon images are simple and involve a small number of colors and often include large homogeneous regions with same color or gradient. In this paper, effective compression method for complementary quadtree was suggested for cartoon images, by using those properties. And with progressive transmission, this method involves a progressive increase in the image resolution at the receiver from a lower to a higher resolution during the transmission of data. This is an effective way of using a limited transmission channel, because, after estimating the value of the data in the early transmission period, a decision can be made whether or not to proceed with the transmission of the remaining part. Since the proposed method is lossless and involves progressive transmission, it was compared with progressive PNG and progressive GIF, which had same functions.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.34-39
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• 2015

KCG, responsible Agency of maritime SAR operation has been known to address the marine casualties well, however, it was criticized because KCG failed to take prompt and effective response to the recent Ferry disaster at the very early stage. In this regards, the authors analyze the characteristics of marine incident with historical data, and also review and examine the national SAR system focusing on SAR coordination and human resources to make recommendation and suggestion in order to minimize the loss of lives to future marine incidents. As a result, KCG shall augment its capabilities, inter alia, fast libeboats and rescue helicopters for prompt response to marine incidents at the coastal waters, and KCG shall re-adjust the establishment of Rescue Coordination Center to improve operational problems of current system in accordance with IMO guidance, KCG is required to introduce mandatory training, qualification and certificate system to enhance the professionalism of SAR personnel.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.535-543
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• 2015

Recently, NAND flash based storage devices are being used as a storage device in various fields through hiding the limitations of NAND flash memory and maximizing the advantages. In particular, those storage devices contain a software layer called Flash Translation Layer(FTL) to hide the "erase-before-write" characteristics of NAND flash memory. FTL includes the metadata for managing the data requested from host. That metadata is stored in internal memory because metadata is very frequently accessed data for processing the requests from host. Thus, if the power-loss occurs, all data in memory is lost. So metadata management scheme is necessary to store the metadata periodically and to load the metadata in the initialization step. Therefore we proposed the scheme which satisfies the core requirements for metadata management and efficient operation. And we verified the efficiency of proposed scheme by experiments.

• Magazine of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.117-125
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• 1995

In this study, the damage to a concrete br~dge pier due to flre caused by the fall of an oil truck were investigated by the use of FEM and by tensile tests for reinfortements. And thtse results were analyzed and compared with the measured values. In the FEM calculations, the selected variable was the fire temperature $T_a=500-800^{\circ}C$. The fixed values were the heat transition coefficient ${\alpha}=2000W/m^2{\cdot}K$. the initial temperature of concrete $T_0=5{\circ}C$ and the fire duration t=30 minutes. As the results obtained from numerical calculations, the property darrlage zone ap,)eared to be 1.5-4.1cm and the structure damage zone appeared to be 8.7- 10.1cm from the concrete surface. And this results give values very similar to those measured, nanlelv 2-4cm and 8~10cm respectively. The results frorn tensile tests give no serious loss of the tensile strength.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Studies
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.157-188
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• 2002

본 연구는 우리나라 IPO시장에서 나타나고 있는 초과수익률의 원인을 밝히고자 최근 벤처금융의 중심으로 급부상하고 있는 KOSDAQ시장의 공모 IPO를 대상으로 실증분석을 시도하였다. 연구결과 상장일 표본전체 IPO의 초과수익률(AR1)이 9.91%로 나타났으며, 벤처캐피탈투자 IPO는 5.13%, 비투자 IPO는 13.29%로 나타났다. 상한가의 행진이 종료된 날을 기준으로 한 표본전체 IPO의 초과수익률(AR2)은 30.97%, 벤처캐피탈 투자기업 IPO는 24.34%, 비투자기업 IPO는 34.67%로 나타났다. 초과수익률의 원인을 분석하기 위한 8개의 변수 중 IPO의 수요증감 척도인 KOSDAQ 지수는 초과수익률(AR)과는 양(+)의 관계로, 벤처캐피탈리스트들의 능력 및 가치책정의 행태를 엿볼 수 있는 변수인 본질가치와 공모가액의 차이는 음(-)의 관계로, 사업규모나 자본조달의 크기를 엿볼 수 있는 공모금액의 크기는 양(+)의 관계로 1% 유의수준에서 유의한 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 여타 변수들은 통계적으로 유의성을 확보하지는 못하였으나 초과수익률의 원인이론으로 '신호이론'과 '투기적 거품가설'에 의한 설명이 가능하였으며 분석결과를 다음과 같이 정리할 수 있었다. 첫째, IPO 본질가치에 대한 신뢰와 IPO의 발행규모에 대한 신뢰수준이 통계적으로 유의한 결과로 나타났는바 이러한 결과는 기업가치와 벤처 또는 사업의 계속적 수행 등에 대한 신호역할을 수행하고 있다고 할 수 있으며 상장초기 초과수익률은 주로 이러한 신호역할에 의한 수요집중으로 발생된 결과인 것으로 사료되었다. 둘째, 노련한 벤처캐피탈회사로 선정된 KTB의 투자기업들은 상장 후 4주간의 거래에 있어 AR 평균이 음(-)으로 여타 벤처캐피탈이 투자된 기업보다 손실 폭이 더욱 켰음에도 불구하고 상장일 초과수익률 AR2가 매우 높게 나타나 우리나라 IPO시장에 있어 과민반응(fads) 현상이 존재하고 있는 것으로 분석되었다. 셋째, 벤처캐피탈 투자 IPO의 초과수익률이 상대적으로 낮아 벤처캐피탈 투자여부가 IPO의 저가발행 수준을 축소하고 있어 벤처캐피탈리스트의 제 3자 보증역할이 어느 정도는 수행되고 있는 것으로 분석되었다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.203-208
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• 2015

Image degradation will occur depending on hardware characteristics according to the lapse of time between beam projectors when multivision system is installed in the Theme park/Exhibition/Science Museum. In this paper, we have researched the 10-bit High-depth and high-resolution $360^{\circ}$ projection image analysis technique to solve the problems of quality and the maintenance of the theater. The goal is to minimize the economic losses and the development of special theater calibration system that can efficiently support a quality of an image. We proposed the method of image analysis technology, and explained the detailed functions and evaluation methods for image analysis technique. Evaluation method included the performance items, and proposed reasonable value to the experimental method and the goal value.