• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.167-174
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose and simulate an efficient interference cancellation scheme with an optimal ordering successive interference cancellation (SIC) algorithm for ultra wideband (UWB)/multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems in a wireless body area network (WBAN). When there are several wireless communication devices on a human body, multiple access interference (MAI) usually occurs. To mitigate the effect of MAI and achieve additional diversity gain, we utilize SIC with an optimal ordering algorithm. A zero correlation duration (ZCD) code with robust MAI capability is employed as a spread code for UWB systems in a multi-device WBAN environment. The performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated in terms of the bit error rate (BER). Simulation results confirm that the BER performance can be improved significantly if the proposed interference cancellation scheme and the ZCD code are jointly employed.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권11호
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• pp.181-186
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 보행자 상반신 검출기의 성능을 향상하기 위한 세그먼테이션에 기반한 특징 추출 방법을 제안한다. 상반신의 부분별 색상 분포를 활용한 멀티 파트 컬러 세그먼테이션을 사용하여 국소 특징이 갖는 한계로 인해 발생하는 오검출의 감소에 효과적인 "전역적" 윤곽 특징을 추출한다. 컬러 공간과 히스토그램 분해도에 따른 성능을 분석하였으며, 자체 구축한 보행자 상반신 영상을 사용한 실험을 통해서 제안한 방법으로 추출한 특징이 국소 특징 기반 검출기의 오검출 감소에 효과적임을 확인하였다.

• Animal Bioscience
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.500-508
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• 2024

Objective: Due to current selection practices for increased egg production and peak persistency, the production profile, age at maturity, and body weight criteria for commercial layers are constantly changing. Body weight and age at the time of photostimulation will thus always be the factors that need to be adequately addressed among various production systems. The current study was carried out to determine the effects of pullets' body weight (low, medium, and heavy) on their performance, welfare, physiological response, and hormonal profile. Methods: With regard to live weight, 150 16-week-old pullets were divided into three groups using a completely randomized design (CRD) and held until the 50th week. One-way analysis of variance was used to evaluate the data under the CRD, and the least significant difference test was used to distinguish between treatment means. Results: In comparison to the medium and light birds, the heavy birds had higher body weight at maturity, an earlier age at maturity, and higher egg weight, eggshell weight, eggshell thickness, egg yolk index, breaking strength, egg surface area, egg shape index, egg volume, and hormonal profile except corticosterone. However, the medium and light birds had lower feed consumption rates per dozen eggs and per kilogram of egg mass than the heavy birds. Light birds showed greater body weight gain, egg production, and egg specific gravity than the other categories. At 20 weeks of age, physiological response, welfare aspects, and catalase were non-significant; however, at 50 weeks of age, all these factors-aside from catalase-were extremely significant. Conclusion: The findings of this study indicate that layers can function at lower body weights during photostimulation; hence, dietary regimens that result in lighter pullets may be preferable. Additionally, the welfare of the birds was not compromised by the lighter weight group.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제22권12호
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• pp.1107-1115
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 인체부착형 Headset MIMO(Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) 안테나를 제안하고, 인체의 영향을 고려한 안테나 성능과 인체에 미칠 수 있는 영향에 대한 분석을 하였다. 제안된 MIMO 안테나는 접지면 위에 PIFA(planar inverted-F antenna) 형태의 두 안테나와 격리도 특성 개선을 위하여 안테나 사이에 위치한 isolator로 구성되어 있다. 근거리장에 인체가 존재할 때 안테나에 미치는 영향을 분석하기 위하여 시뮬레이션을 수행하고, 팬텀을 이용하여 시뮬레이션과 측정을 하였다. 측정 결과, MIMO 안테나의 성능을 평가하는 파라미터 중 하나인 상관 계수(Envelope Correlation Coefficient: ECC)는 ISM 대역에서 0.1 이하의 값을 가지므로 제안된 MIMO 안테나의 diversity 성능이 우수함을 입증하였다. 또한, 측정된 SAR(Specific Absorption Rate) 값은 공급전력 250 mW에서 안테나 1, 2 각각 0.575, 0.571 W/kg이었다. 이는 1 g 평균 전자파 흡수율을 1.6 W/kg으로 제한한 FCC의 지침을 초과하지 않음을 알 수 있다. 따라서 제안된 인체부착형 Headset MIMO 안테나는 실용이 가능할 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2007년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.1410-1414
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• 2007

In modern automobile body manufacturing, the structural adhesive bonding is recognized to one of new joining techniques for the purpose of light weight body and its application scope in the automobile body has been gradually magnified. Specially, the structural adhesives have the advantages of not only enhancing the design flexibility of automobile body, but also improving automobile performances such as stiffness, crashworthiness and durability. In order to evaluate the performance simulation of the automobile body applied with structural adhesives, it is necessary to develop modeling techniques in the structural adhesives in advance. This paper aims to investigate modeling methodology of structural adhesive junctions for body stiffness simulation. Two main modeling points are the element selection for adhesives and the connectivity between adhesives and adherends. Both of the 1D element used in classical modeling and the 3D element which are more accurate are considered for the adhesives, and the congruent and incongruent mesh models of the adherends are compared for connectivity modeling. By applying the several kinds of modeling methodology to the simple structures, the simulation results are compared and some modeling guidelines are obtained.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.335-343
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• 2012

As a matter of fact, it has been not allowed to modify the shape of a vehicle body skeleton since the technical definition for the structure was fixed and the corresponding molds were developed. By the way, if it is available to apply an alternative to reinforce the skeleton without changing its mold, it must be much flexible to improve the performance qualities relevant to not only NVH(noise, vibration and harshness) but also crash and durability. Recently, a solution of so-called composite body becomes available for the need. We present a design method to insert the composite body inside a vehicle body skeleton in order to improve a structure-borne noise at the idle condition. The algorithms, topology optimization and design sensitivity analysis, are applied to mainly search the sensitive structural sections in the body skeleton and to extract the target stiffness of the sections. Inserting the composite bodies into the sensitive portions, it is predicted to achieve the countermeasures which can compromize the design availability in terms of the idle noise and weight. According to the validation result with test vehicles, the concerned noise transfer function is reduced and the idle booming noise is resultantly improved.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.144-151
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 무선 인체 통신 중 off-body 채널에서 안테나 편파의 변화에 대한 영향을 알아보기 위한 실험을 수행하였다. 실험은 두 수신 안테나의 편파 조합에 따라 총 4가지로 나누었으며, Line-of-Sight(LOS)와 Non-LOS(NLOS)에 따른 영향도 조사하였다. 그리고 인체의 움직임으로 인하여 생기는 안테나 편파의 변화가 신호에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 알아보기 위해, 인체를 정지한 상태와 움직이는 상태로 나누어 신호 세기를 측정하여 비교하였다. 본 논문의 결과를 통해 수신 안테나의 편파 및 두 수신 안테나의 편파 조합에 따른 성능을 확인하였다.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.225-238
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• 2019

A spike attached to a blunt nosed body significantly alters its flow field and influences the aerodynamic coefficients at hypersonic speed. The basic body is an axisymmetric, with a hemisphere nose followed by a cylindrical portion. Five different types of spikes, namely, conical aerospike, hemisphere aerospike, flat-face aerospike, hemisphere aerodisk and flat-face aerodisk are attached to the basic body in order to assess the aerodynamic characteristic. The spiked blunt body without the aerospike or aerodisk has been set to be a basic model. The coefficients of drag, lift and pitching moment were measured with and without blunt spike body for the length-to-diameter ratio (L/D) of 0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0, at Mach 6 and angle of attack up to 8 degrees using a strain gauge balance. The measured forces and moment data are employed to determine the relative performance of the aerodynamic with respect to the basic model. A maximum of 77 percent drag reduction was achieved with hemisphere aerospike of L/D = 2.0. The comparison of aerodynamic coefficients between the basic model and the spiked blunt body reveals that the aerodynamic drag and pitching moment coefficients decrease with increasing the L/D ratio and angle of attack but the lift coefficient has increasing characteristics.

• 대한한의학회지
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.185-196
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• 2021

Objectives: Many symptoms of cold and heat patterns are related to the thermoregulation of the body. Thus, we aimed to study the association of cold and heat patterns with anthropometry/body composition. Methods: The cold and heat patterns of 2000 individuals aged 30-55 years were evaluated using a self-administered questionnaire. Results: Among the anthropometric and body composition variables, body mass index (-0.37, 0.39) and fat mass index (-0.35, 0.38) had the highest correlation coefficients with the cold and heat pattern scores after adjustment for age and sex in the cold-heat group, while the correlation coefficients were relatively lower in the non-cold-heat group. In the cold-heat group, the most parsimonious model for the cold pattern with the variables selected by the best subset method and Lasso included sex, body mass index, waist-hip ratio, and extracellular water/total body water (adjusted R² = 0.324), and the model for heat pattern additionally included age (adjusted R² = 0.292). Conclusions: The variables related to obesity and water balance were the most useful for predicting cold and heat patterns. Further studies are required to improve the performance of prediction models.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제20권A호
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• pp.229-238
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• 2000

Simulation analysis for an auto body manufacturing system has been performed in this study. The major goal is to figure out the condition yielding the production rate, 70 per hour. It is, however, very difficult to maintain this rate due to inherent system factors such as machine failure rates, machine repair rates, number of carriers between manufacturing lines(shops), carrier speed etc. We first carefully examined the system and developed a simulation model using ARENA. We then applied statistical experimental design concepts for performance analysis. Our results indicate that the buffer size of 30 and quick repair of failed robots are required for the desired production rate. Other factors, on the other hand, are seen to have minor effects on the throughput. The approach taken in this study and the results obtained may provide a practical guideline for performance analysis and thus be applied without trepidation for similar cases.