• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.9-13
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• 2003

An assist device was developed to identify the epidural space by continously monitoring the air-filled catheter pressure. The pressure signal appropriately amplified and filtered enabled to alarm the needle introduction into the epidural space by thresholding detection. Ten LEDs provided a visual change of catheter pressure before alarming for user convenience. Clinical trials were performed in 30 patients with 83% success rate at the first trial. When failed, the second trial was enough for successful anesthesia. The air volume introduced during each anesthesia was less than 1ml, causing side effects. Air filling of the catheter could also minimize infection possibility. Therefore, the present device guarantees safe anesthesia with user convenience.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.43-50
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• 2007

Korea actively endeavors to improve the national marine environmental laws and regulations. Along with the growing global concern on the importance of marine environment, the concern is also increasing nationwide in Korea. These institutional changes in Korea have implications in that it has started to internalize the Sustainable Development Principle and the Precautionary Principle in the form of 'law' and 'policy.' The enactment efforts for conservation and sustainable use of marine environment will continue as the legal demand of public for coastal erosion prevention and climate change mitigation increases. This calls for robust revision for more logical framework and coherence of marine environment laws and regulations as well as efficient implementation of policies. In addition, it is strongly required that the systematical research and survey as well as the robust reversion of laws and policies should be taken accordingly for the effective conservation of marine environment.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.111-115
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• 2002

To produce yellow pigment selectively, mutants were induced from Monascus anka Nakazawa et Sato IFO 4478 (KCCM 11832 strain), and their characteristics were evaluated. Five kinds of auxotrophic mutants which required amino acids for growth and pigmentation, were isolated through a series of mutagenic treatments. Especially, asparagine auxotroph Y7 produced high ratio of yellow pigment. This mutant showed all the morphological characteristics of Monascuceae but the shape of colony and the diameter of conidia. Mutant Y7 was propagated by sexual reproduction more often than asexual reproduction, which could be effective in production of pigments. Yellow pigment produced extracellularly by the mutant Y7 was more soluble in polar solvents such as ethanol and water than in nonpolar solvents. Its productivity of yellow pigment was 2.2 times higher in the mutant Y7 than in parents. In addition, its yellow pigment showed characteristics of maximum absorption at 373 nm. Moreover, the hue of pigment produced by the mutant Y7 was bright yellow, and it was stable through the subculture over 10 generations.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.169-178
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• 2008

Cancer patients have been suffered from the instability of mind/body and unbalanced homeostasis because of cancer progression and medical treatment such as chemotherapy, It is very important that appropriated actions can be promptly taken by monitoring cancer patients' mental conditions. For this reason, it is crucial to develop a monitoring method which is convenient and not harmful to their body. Brain-computer-interface(BCI) system is introduced for the purpose in this paper. Prefrontal brain waves of cancer patients and control groups have been measured by a portable neurofeedback(NF) system based on self-regulation of the human electroencephalogram(EEG). The NF system consists of the portable EEG amplifier and a headband with dry electrodes placed on Fp1 and Fp2 sites. Patterns of the prefrontal brain waves taken by computer are correlated to brain quotients by EEG-analysis program. Basic rhythm quotient, attention quotient, emotional quotient, anti-stress quotient and correlation quotient of control group have shown high significant level compared with the cancer patients group. On the other hand, the EEG patterns analysis is shown its possibility to be an important methodology of monitoring cancer patients' condition.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.1363-1373
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• 2009

In a ubiquitous computing environment, people more and more become to use multiple displays. When using such ubiquitous displays, it is needed for users to seamlessly interact with the displays for a certain content. In this paper, we propose a seamless interface that allows users to see photos across multiple displays. Many photos can be displayed on a screen at the same time because they are shown in 3D space. And a group of photos is represented using a cube metaphor. A user can manipulate photos directly using a touch screen and also see the photos continuously using PDAs when the user moves to other places. In addition, the user can interact with the photos seamlessly using another display. The developed system was designed to interact according to user's movements and not to draw user's attention too much as a kind of ambient display. Using RFID and ultrasonic sensors it recognizes a user and the user's proximity to the display, and then automatically determines the screen image and the user interface accordingly.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.128-137
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• 2011

The shut-in pressure calculated in common hydrofracturing test for vertical borehole equals generally to the minimum horizontal principal stress, so it should be considered as an essential parameter for determining the in-situ stress regime around the rock mass. It shows usually an ambiguous value in pressure-time history curves, however, because of the relationship between the behavior of hydraulic fractures and the condition of remote stress regime. In this study, a series of numerical analyses have been carried out to compare several methods for determining the shut-in pressure during hydrofracturing. The hydraulic-mechanical coupling has been applied to numerical analysis for simulating the fracture propagation by hydraulic pressure, and the different discontinuity geometry has been considered in numerical models to examine the effect of numerical element shape on fracture propagation pattern. From the numerical simulations with the four different discontinuity geometries, it was revealed that the shut-in pressure obtained from graphical methods rather than statistical method was relatively small. Consequently a care should be taken in selecting a method for determining the shut-in pressure when a stress anomaly around borehole and a fracture propagation with complicate mechanism are considered.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.9 no.2 s.32
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• pp.77-87
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• 2007

Traffic accidents on freeway are occurred by various factors, and driver inattention is one of the most important factors causing traffic accidents. To warn drivers about unexpected dangerous events and diminish driver inattention problems, traffic safety facilities including warning and regulatory traffic signs; delineators; rumble strips are installed. In this study, the traffic safety effect of shoulder rumble sips were investigated using "Comparison Croup (C-G)" method developed by Hauer. Through the analyses, it was found that numbers of run-off-the road crashes were reduced as 2.43 crashes per year after the installation of shoulder rumble strips on the freeway. Based on the analysis results in this study, it was concluded that shoulder rumble strips on the freeway contribute to reduce traffic accidents, especially run-off-the road crashes.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.173-183
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• 2016

Various material characteristics of HSA800 steel were examined and a quantitative criteria about the homogeneity of the strength was proposed. Whether HSA800 steel is satisfied the criteria for homogeneity of the strength or not was also examined. From the test results, the material characteristics of 1/4 point from the extreme fiber in the Z-direction satisfied the KS requirements. The excellent directional properties and impact resistance at low temperatures were also showed from the test results. HSA800 steel satisfied the criteria of homogeneity for the strength of the steel. However, it showed that some structures were banded together at 2/4 point from extreme fiber in the Z-direction from the microscopic tests and attention is needed to be paid in that point.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.131-131
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• 2002

종이가 인류의 생활에 미치는 비중은 정보의 전달을 제 l의 목적으로 사용되고 있는 인쇄용 지와 필기용지가 차지하는 것이 가장 크다. 정보전달의 매개로 사용되는 종이의 용도 이외 의 것을 살펴보면 전사지, 감압.감열지, 절연지,OMR지, 항공권지, 벽지 등과 같은 특수지와 기능지가 있다. 특히 벽지는 다양한 문양과 색감으로 인간의 미적 감각과 정신적 안정감에 미치는 영향이 크다. 벽지의 기능은 여러 가지의 목적으로 우리들의 실생활에 있어서 없어서는 안될 중요한 건축 재료로서 사용되고 있다. 가장 중요한 벽지의 목적은 앞서 언급한 바와 같이 미려한 색상과 다양한 디자인으로 도안.인쇄 및 발포 처리된 벽지를 사용하여 단순한 벽면을 개인의 취향 에 맞게 함으로써 심리적 안정감을 가져옴과 동시에 미적 가치를 증가 시켜 문화 수준의 향 상에도 영향을 미치는 것으로 알려져 있다. 그러나 종이 벽지와 종이 벽지 원지를 기저로 하여 제조된 발포 벽지는 인화성이 강하기 때 문에 이들에 대한 적절한 난연 처리가 요구 되고 있다. 매년 발생되는 다양한 형태의 화재 는 돌이킬 수 없는 인명과 재산의 손실로 귀결되어 각별한 주의가 요구되기 때문에 주거공 간과 대중의 군집이 많이 이루어지는 공공장소에서의 난연 처리된 벽지 사용에 대한 중요성 이 나날이 그 강도를 더 해가고 있는 실정이다. 난연 처리된 벽지는 통상적인 벽지에 비하 여 제조 원가의 상승에 따라 가격이 비싸기 때문에 일반인들에게 있어서 그 사용은 주목할 정도로 증가되지 못하고 있으나, 생활 수준이 향상 될수록 안전에 대한 의식 강화와 정부의 노력으로 인하여 그 사용량은 크게 늘어날 것으로 기대된다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 종이의 제조에 사용되는 원지의 충전제 종류와 양 그리고 난연 처리 된 폴리에스테르 섬유의 혼합을 달리하여 제조된 원지를 사용하여 난연 처려한 후 이들의 인화 특성에 대해 고찰 함으로써 보다 향상된 성능을 발휘 할 수 있는 난연 벽지의 제조와 개발에 보탬이 되고자 하였다.

• Water for future
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.81-91
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• 1993

In this paper, a moving storm in the real watershed was simulated using a distributed model. Macks Creek Experimental Watershed in Idaho, USA was selected as a target watershed and the moving storm of August 23, 1965, which continued from 3:30 P.M. to 5:30 P.M., was utilized. The rainfall intensity of the moving storm in the watershed was temporally varied and the storm was continuously moved from one place to the other place in a watershed. Furthermore, runoff parameters, which are soil types, vegetative cover percentages, overland plane slopes, channel bed slopes and so on, are spatially varied. The model developed in the previous paper was utilized as a distributed model for simulating the moving storm. In the model, runoff in a watershed was simulated as two parts which are overland flow and channel flow parts. The good agreement was obtained between a simulated hydrograph using a distributed model and an observed hydrograph. Also, the conservations of mass are well indicated between upstream and downstream at channel junctions.