• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.19B no.2
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• pp.123-126
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• 2012

This paper proposed a method to separate a liver into left and right liver lobes for simple and exact volumetry of the river graft at abdominal MDCT(Multi-Detector Computed Tomography) image before the living donor liver transplantation. A medical team can evaluate an accurate river graft with minimized interaction between the team and a system using this algorithm for ensuring donor's and recipient's safe. On the image of segmented liver, 2 points(PMHV: a point in Middle Hepatic Vein and PPV: a point at the beginning of right branch of Portal Vein) are selected to separate a liver into left and right liver lobes. Middle hepatic vein is automatically segmented using PMHV, and the cutting line is decided on the basis of segmented Middle Hepatic Vein. A liver is separated on connecting the cutting line and PPV. The volume and ratio of the river graft are estimated. The volume estimated using 2 points are compared with a manual volume that diagnostic radiologist processed and estimated and the weight measured during surgery to support proof of exact volume. The mean ${\pm}$ standard deviation of the differences between the actual weights and the estimated volumes was $162.38cm^3{\pm}124.39$ in the case of manual segmentation and $107.69cm^3{\pm}97.24$ in the case of 2 points method. The correlation coefficient between the actual weight and the manually estimated volume is 0.79, and the correlation coefficient between the actual weight and the volume estimated using 2 points is 0.87. After selection the 2 points, the time involved in separation a liver into left and right river lobe and volumetry of them is measured for confirmation that the algorithm can be used on real time during surgery. The mean ${\pm}$ standard deviation of the process time is $57.28sec{\pm}32.81$ per 1 data set ($149.17pages{\pm}55.92$).

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.191-196
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• 2016

A development on the indoor positioning technologies and services has been proceeded very actively. Among the several positioning technologies, the TDOA(Time Difference of Arrival) technology using acoustic signal has the best positioning performance. Because so many people use their own smartphones, the location of the smartphone is important, and the TDOA technology should be employed to use the acoustic signal for the positioning. For the digital signal processing with the acoustic signal, the signal should be sampled, and as the sampling rate increases, the positioning accuracy could be improved instead of processing time burden. In this paper, the position estimation error according to the sampling rate is analyzed, and the appropriate sampling rate for the positioning system is proposed.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.16 no.4 s.63
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• pp.334-346
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• 2006

The discrete element code in 2-D, PFC2D, has been used as a tool to simulate various phenomena in rock mechanics and rock engineering. However, the code has an disadvantage that procedure to determine micro-parameters, namely properties of particles and contacts is repetitive and time-consuming. In this study, we analyzed the effect of micro-parameters(for generation of a contact-bonded model) on macro-properties(that were measured numerically by uniaxial compressive test). Based on the analysis, also, the time-saving and reliable method was suggested to determine a complete set of micro-parameters. In order to verify the suggested method, numerical specimens were generated in PFC2D for 10 different rock types at home and abroad. By the two trials for each specimen, in the result, the Young's modulus, Poisson's ratio and uniaxial compressive strength could be reproduced with being in relative error by about 5% to the values obtained by laboratory tests.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.115-124
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• 2001

In this paper, authors propose a new nonlinear rotor flux observer for rotor field oriented control of an induction motor which is designed based on the extended Luenberger Observer theory. Extended Luenberger Observer requires minimal solution of nonlinear partial differential equation on its coordinate transformation and linearization needed on a nonlinear observer design in general. The proposed rotor flux observer is derived from the 2 phase model of induction motor on the orthogonal coordination and it has the reduce gain matrix. Simulation and experimentation were performed under the conventional indirect vector control and direct vector control with the proposed observer at different rotor resistance. Simulation results show that the convergence of the proposed observer is influenced by the chosen eigenvalues. Experimentation results on load operation show the direct vector control with the proposed observer is better than the indirect vector control to maintain the characteristics of the vector control.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.27-33
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• 2014

Electrical resistivity of concrete can be measured in a more rapid and simple way for estimating durability of the concrete, however, carbonation causes a result of misleading for durability testing because carbonation leads to a significant reduction in the permeability and porosity of concrete. The purpose of this study is to estimate and quantify the effect of carbonation of concrete on a surface electrical resistivity measurement. Samples of three mixes with difference w/c were prepared and exposed in a carbonation chamber for 330 days. The results show that carbonation leads high electrical resistivity. The increase is substantial and has been shown to proportional to the extent of the carbonation by some of extent. The relationship between electrical resistivity and carbonation depth is taken in the study. Resistivity ratio of carbonated concrete to air concrete decreased significantly from the specific carbonation depth, however, resistivity ratio of carbonated concrete to air concrete had a linear relation with carbonation depth. From the relationship between electrical resistivity and carbonation depth, it is expected that the result should be subsequently used as a calibration curve for estimating carbonated concrete to overcome the interruption effect of carbonation on regular measurements of the electrical resistivity.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.473-498
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• 2017

This study examines the effect of environmental regulation considering the endogeneity on the productivity of Korean manufacturing industry based on the Porter hypothesis using data from the Mining and Manufacturing Survey, Survey of Research and Development in Korea, and Environmental Statistics Portal from 2003 to 2013 with fixed effect model. In order to eliminate the bias of the missing variables that may occur in the existing studies, we analyze factors affecting productivity such as market competition, R&D investment as explanatory variables. And, in order to eliminate measurement error and inverse causality, we use instrumental variable approach. The main results are as follows. First, our findings that the environmental regulation improve the productivity of Korean manufacturing in the long-run support the Porter hypothesis. Second, our findings suggest that measurement error and reverse causality are main sources of the endogeneity, while omitted variable is not. Finally, environmental technology R&D has reduced productivity in the short-run.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.91-100
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• 2016

Fuzzy matching is proposed to make propensities of two groups similar with their propensity scores and a way to select control variable to make propensity scores with a process that shows how to acquire propensity scores using logic regression analysis, is presented. With such scores, it was a method to obtain an experiment group and a control group that had similar propensity employing the Fuzzy Matching. In the study, it was proven that the two groups were the same but with a different distribution chart and standardization which made edge tolerance different and we realized that the number of chosen cases decreased when the edge tolerance score became smaller. So with the idea, we were able to determine that it is possible to merge groups using fuzzy matching without a precontrol and use them when data (big data) are used while to check the pros and cons of Fuzzy Matching were made possible.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.983-983
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• 2012

EFDC의 수질모형인 HEM3D는 국내 해양수질모델링에는 적용된 사례가 많지만 담수에 적용된 사례는 거의 없으며, 우리나라 환경부 수질측정항목과 수질 INPUT 자료가 달라서 모델의 적용이 힘들었다. 그러나 HEM3D는 EFDC 수리모델을 연계하는 WASP에 비해 자체 3차원 수리동역학 모델이 있어 셀 개수의 제한이 없고 계산속도 또한 WASP 보다 2~3배 빠른 것으로 알려져 있다. 그러나 현재 우리나라의 수질측정항목은 HEM3D의 수질모의항목과 다소 차이가 있다. 특히 Carbon계열에서 실측수질항목은 BOD, COD인 반면 HEM3D의 모의가능항목은 RPOC, LPOC, DOC, COD로 바로 적용을 하기는 어렵다고 판단하였다. 따라서 환경부 수질자료를 HEM3D에 적용하기위해 문헌자료를 참고한 수질항목간의 분율을 사용하여 필요한 자료를 산출하였고, 환경부 수질자료의 HEM3D적용 결과를 알아보고 현재 자료 사용 시의 문제점과 향후 개선방안을 알아보고자 하였다. HEM3D의 모의 결과 TN, TP 보정에는 큰 문제가 없었으나 $BOD_5$와 세부수질항목의 영향을 많이 받는 조류 등의 항목 보정결과는 성공적이지 못했다. 이것은 분율을 적용해 각 유입지천의 세부항목별 수질 자료를 산출할 때 낙동강 전체 평균을 사용했기 때문에 조류성장에 직접적으로 영향을 받는 세부 항목별 영양염에 대한 실제 값과 산출된 농도 값 사이의 오차가 가장 큰 원인으로 판단된다. 한편 전체 대상지역중 일부구간에 대하여 동일한 수질입력자료를 이용하여 HEM3D와 WASP을 동시 적용하였다. 자료의 변환과정에서의 오차와 입력형태 및 각 모델 변수형태의 차이 등의 한계로 결과값에 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났으며, 본 연구결과 현재 확보된 수질측정망의 수질자료를 이용하여 HEM3D를 구축하는 것은 Carbon 계열과 조류(부영양화)모의에서 문제가 발생할 것으로 판단되며 추가 자료 확보가 필요할 것으로 보인다. 또한 필요한 입력자료가 충분히 확보가 된다면 추가연구결과에서 볼 수 있듯이 미국공변단과 미국 환경부수질모델 모두 동시적용이 가능하다고 판단되며 목적과 편의에 따라 선택적 모의가 가능하다고 판단된다.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.119-130
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• 2001

At-site and regional frequency analyses of annual maximum 1-, 2-, and 3-days rainfall in Han River basin was performed and compared based on the regional L-moments algorithm. To perform regional frequency analysis, Han River basin was subdivided into 3 sub-basins such as South Han River, North Han River, and downstream regions. For each sub-basin, the discordancy and homogeneity tests were performed. As the results of goodness of fit tests, lognormal model was selected as an appropriate probability distribution for both South Han River and downstream regions and gamma-3 model for North han River region. From Monte carlo simulation, RBIAS and RRMSE of the estimated quantiles from regional frequency analysis and at-site frequency analysis were calculated and compared each other. Regional frequency analysis shows less RRMSE of the estimated quantiles than at-sites frequency analysis in overall return periods. The differences of BRMSE between two approaches increase as the return period increases. As a result, it is shown that regional frequency analysis performs better than at-site analysis for annual maximum rainfall data in Han River basin.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.200-206
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• 2019

The most frequent type of safety-accident in industry is the overturning of forklift. The leading cause of this accident is overload in forklift. Thus, it is needed to measure the weight on board of forklift. The most common method is based on load cell, and this method has the merit of high accuracy. However, high price is the disadvantage of this method. In this paper, we propose the new measurement system of the weight on board of forklift based on the strain gauge sensor, which has the disadvantage of low accuracy. The differentiation of the proposed system is that the shape of the strain gauge sensor customized for anchor bolt of forklift in order to improve the accuracy and durability. In system four strain gauge sensors are inserted into four anchor bolts. The test result shows that 1% error of measurement is obtained in the proposed anchor bolt type strain gauge sensors.