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The Verification of Photoplethysmography Using Green Light that Influenced by Ambient Light (녹색광을 이용한 반사형 광용적맥파측정기의 주변광 간섭시 신호측정)

  • Chang, K.Y.;Ko, H.C.;Lee, J.J.;Yoon, Young Ro
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.35 no.5
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    • pp.125-131
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study is to verify the utility of reflected photoplethysmography sensor using two green light emitting diodes that influenced by ambient light. Recently it has been studied that green light emitting diode is suitable for light source of reflected photoplethysmography sensor at low temperature and high temperature. Another study showed that, green light is better for monitoring heart rate during motion than led light. However, it has a bad characteristic about ambient light noise. To verify the utility of reflected photoplethysmography sensor using green light emitting diode, this study measures the photoplethysmography signal that is distorted by ambient light and will propose a solution. This study has two parts of research method. One is measurement system that composed sensor and board. The sensor is made up PE-foam and Non-woven fabric for flexible sensor. The photoplethysmography signal is measured by measurement board that composed high-pass filter, low-pass filter and amplifier. Ambient light source is light bulb and white light emitting diode that has three steps brightness. Photoplethysmography signal is measured with lead II electrocardiography signal at the same time and it is measured at the finger and radial artery for 1 minute, 1000 Hz sampling rate. The lead II electrocardiography signal is a standard signal for heart rate and photoplethysmography signal that measured at the finger is a standard signal for waveform. The test is repeated 3 times using three sensor. The data is processed by MATLAB to verify the utility by comparing the correlation coefficient score and heart rate. The photoplethysmography sensor using two green light emitting diodes is shown better utility than using one green light emitting diode and red light emitting diode at the ambient light. The waveform and heart rate that measured by two green light emitting diodes are more identical than others. The amount of electricity used is less than red light emitting diode and error peak detectability factor is the lowest.

Determination of N,N-Dimethylformamide in Ambient Air Using Adsorption Sampling and Thermal Desorption with GC/MS Analysis (흡착-열탈착-GC/MS를 이용한 환경대기 중 N,N-Dimethylformamide 농도 측정)

  • Seo, Young-Kyo;Hwang, Yoon-Jung;Lee, Soon-Jin;Lee, Min-Do;Han, Jin-Seok;Baek, Sung-Ok
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.357-366
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study is to evaluate a method for the measurement of N,N-Dimethylformamide (DMF) and to apply the method to the ambient air samples. For the determination of DMF together with other general VOCs (e.g., benzene, toluene, and xylenes), adsorption sampling and thermal desorption with GC/MS was used in this study. The sampling and analytical approaches tested in this study showed a good repeatability and linearity with lower detection limits of less than 0.35 ppb. Field measurements were carried out at three industrial sites (Daegu-Seongseo, Siwha and Banwall industrial complexes) and one residential site in Daegu city during a period from October 2006 to November 2008. DMF was detected in 71.8% of the total samples from the Seongseo industrial complex, well known for textile industry. In contrast, DMF was detected in only 20.4% and 12.9% of all the samples from the other two sites in Banwall and Siwha industrial complexes, respectively. This implies that sources of DMF should be strongly associated with textile industry. The mean concentration of DMF also appeared to be the highest in Seongseo site (5.95 ppb), followed by a residential site in Daegu (3.28 ppb), Banwall (0.88 ppb) and Siwha (0.55 ppb). In this study, we demonstrated the environmental significance of DMF in urban ambient air. To our knowledge, the DMF measurement introduced in this paper is the first case of an official report in Korea.

Effect of Environmental Conditions on Estimation of Ambient Temperature for Minimum Postmortem Interval (PMI) in Korea (사후 경과시간 추정을 위한 현장 대기온도 예측에 국내 환경 조건이 미치는 영향)

  • Jeong, Su Jin;Park, Ji Eun;Lee, Hyo Jung;Park, Seong Hwan;Shin, Sang Eon;Lee, Jae Won
    • Journal of Science Criminal Investigation
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.178-185
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    • 2017
  • It is one of the most important factors to statistical estimation of ambient temperature for accumulated degree day (ADD) and minimum postmortem interval (PMI) in the incident scene. Until now, we applied the temperature of the nearest weather stations, adjusted temperature, or estimated the temperature by the linear regression analysis to estimate the temperature of the incident site. At this time, the estimated temperature may be changed according to the method of temperature estimation. And The accuracy of the estimated value may also vary depending on the environmental factors such as capacity, wind speed, humidity, and rainfall, which may affect measurement conditions and temperature. Therefore, we studied the effect of various environmental factors and measurement conditions for ambient temperature in Korea.

Moored measurement of the ambient noise and analysis with environmental factors in the coastal sea of Jeju Island (제주 연해 수중 주변소음 계류 측정과 환경 변화에 따른 분석)

  • Jeong, Inyong;Min, Soohong;Paeng, Dong-Guk
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.39 no.5
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    • pp.390-399
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    • 2020
  • Underwater ambient noise was measured at the eastern and western costal sites of Jeju Island where the water depth was 20 m by a hydrophone moored at mid-depth (10 m) for 4 months. These eastern and western sites were selected as potential sites for offshore wind power generator and the current wave energy generator, respectively. Ambient noise was affected by environmental data such as wind and wave, which were collected from nearby weather stations and an observation station. Below 100 Hz, ambient noise was changed about 5 dB ~ 20 dB due to low and high tide. Below 1 kHz, wave and wind effects were the main source for ambient noise, varying up to 25 dB. Ambient noise was strongly influenced by wave at lower frequency and by wind at higher frequency up to over 1 kHz. The higher frequency range over 10 kHz was influenced by rainfall and biological sources, and the spectrum was measured about 10 dB higher than the peak spectrum level from Wenz curve at this frequency range.

Comparison of Measurement Methods for Volatile Organic Compounds in Ambient Air Using Adsorbent Tubes and Canisters (흡착관과 캐니스터를 이용한 대기 중 휘발성유기화합물 측정방법의 비교 평가)

  • Baek, Sung-Ok;Seo, Young-Kyo;Heo, Gwi-Seok;Jeon, Chan-Gon;Lee, Min-do;Han, Jin-Seok
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.305-319
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    • 2016
  • This study was carried out to evaluate the performance of two sampling methods, i.e., adsorbent tubes and canisters, for the measurement of ambient volatile organic compounds (VOCs). A total of 24 target VOCs were selected from a list of 48 priority hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) in Korea. The two sampling methods were investigated with a wide range of performance criteria such as repeatability, linearity, and lower detection limits. In addition, mean relative errors (MRE) and mean duplicate precisions (MDP) were estimated by inter-lab comparison studies for duplicate field samples. Precisions for the two methods appeared to be well comparable with the performance criteria recommended by USEPA TO-15 and TO-17 for canister and adsorbent methods, respectively. Correlations and variations between the VOCs concentrations determined by the two methods were generally good in most cases. However, MREs and MDPs for individual VOCs appeared to be widely ranged, depending on each VOC. This implies that the two methods have its own advantages and disadvantages in determining a variety of VOCs in ambient air, and neither of which has absolute superiority. Finally, 9 of 24 VOCs were found to be difficult to determine by either methods due to their unstability in a canister, and lack of appropriate standard materials. Thus, it is suggested that development of measurement methods for such unstable VOCs is an urgent task from a viewpoint of HAPs management.

Monitoring Method for an Ambient Gamma Exposure Rate and Its Measurement Analysis

  • Lee, Mo-Sung;Woo, Jong-Kwan
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.197-201
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    • 2006
  • Daily and seasonal variations of the ambient gamma ray exposure rates were measured by using a pressurized ion chamber from January 2003 to December 2005 in the CheongJu Regional Radiation Monitoring Post and the patterns of the distributions were studied. The annual average of the daily variation of the exposure rate was $\sim0.17{\mu}R/h$. The exposure rate was found to be maximum during 8:00 am to 9:00 am and minimum during 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. For the annual data, the exposure rate was the minimum during the month of February. The exposure rate increased from February to mid-October (except during the period from May to July with no change) and decreased from October to February. The seasonal variation was found to be about $1{\mu}R/h$. Most of the measured values (96%) of the exposure rates fell under the normal distribution with a deviation of less than 4.8% and the remaining 4% had large fluctuations caused mainly by the rainfalls.

Estimation of Damping Properties of Bridge Structures under Ambient Vibration Condition (상시진동신호를 이용한 교량의 감쇠특성 추정)

  • Kim, Sung-Wan;Park, Dong-Uk;Kim, Nam-Sik
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.93-100
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    • 2008
  • Recently, due to the advanced measurement techniques, long-term health monitoring systems have been frequently applied to existing bridges. It is known that damping ratios as one of dynamic properties would be an important parameter for evaluating the bridge condition. However, damping ratios may be normally varied depending on the external loading effects on bridges. In general, both the logarithmic decrement and the half-power band width method as a conventional method can be simply used for evaluating the damping ratios accurately when bridge response signals are measured under free vibration conditions. In this study, the Hilbert-Huang transform and the extended Kalman filter were applied to evaluate the damping ratio by using the bridge acceleration signals measured under ambient vibration condition. From the results under ambient vibration condition of bridges, it was examined that the damping ratios evaluated from both the Hilbert-Huang transform and the extended Kalman filter could be more reliable than those from conventional methods.

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Studies on Improvement of Schottky Characteristics for GaN Devices (GaN 소자의 쇼트키 특성 향상에 관한 연구)

  • 윤진섭
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.14 no.9
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    • pp.700-706
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    • 2001
  • In this paper, I have fabricated and measured the gallium nitride(GaN) based Schottky diodes, and have carried out analyses of degradation of Schottky barrier characteristics. To improve of degraded Schottky barrier characteristics, I have carried out several experiments such as N$_2$ plasma exposure, annealing in N$_2$ ambient and annealing after N$_2$ plasma exposure. In the results of these experiments, I have achieved that only annealing in N$_2$ ambient is enough to improve the Schottky barrier characteristics, are temperature of 700$\^{C}$ and time of 90 sec in N$_2$ ambient furnace. for the analysis of these experiments, I have carried out the measurement of electric characteristics and quantitative analysis of etching damage using AES(Aguger Electron Spectroscopy).

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