• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.25 no.10
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• pp.773-778
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• 2012

A road energy harvester was designed and fabricated to convert mechanical energy from the vehicle load to electrical energy. The road energy harvester is composed of 16 piezoelectric cantilevers. We fabricated prototypes using a vehicle load transfer mechanism. Applying a vehicle load transfer mechanism rather than directly installing energy harvesters under roads decreases the area of road construction and allows more energy harvesters to be installed on the side of the road. The power generation amount with respect to the vehicular velocity change was assessed by installing the vehicle load transfer mechanism form and underground form. The energy harvester installed in the underground form generated power of 4.52 mJ at the vehicular velocity of 50 km/h. Also, power generation of the energy harvester installed in the vehicle load transfer mechanism form was 48.65 mJ at the vehicular velocity of 50 km/h.

• Analytical Science and Technology
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.289-295
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• 2007

A simple electric circuit of an infrared photodiode electrode (IPDE) was utilized to monitor iron using square-wave (SW) anodic stripping voltammetry (SV) and cyclic voltammetry (CV). The optimum analytical conditions were determined and were compared with those of common working electrodes. The comparison showed that CV is more sensitive and convenient to use than the common voltammetry methods. At the optimized conditions, the working ranges of 0.1- to 0.8- and 0.85- to 6.0 mg/L iron was obtained. Relative standard deviation of 15 measurements of iron (0.4 mg/L) was 0.09%. The analytical detection limit was found to be $80{\pm}0.6ug/L$, which was applied to iron in waste water.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.10 no.3 s.36
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• pp.407-421
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• 1998

The purpose of this paper is to provide and verify an analytical method, based on the spline finite strip method, which can be used to investigate the buckling mode and stress of thin-walled steel sections. Geometric imperfection and initial stress of plates and plate assemblies, which are resulted from various preloadings and may cause prebuckling deformations before buckling, are included in the analysis. Material nonlinearity and residual stress are also considered. It can be applied to sections with simple or non-simple boundary conditions and arbitrary loading. The method has been applied to investigate the buckling behavior of plates and plate assemblies which are subjected to compression with initial imperfections and residual stresses.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.641-648
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• 2009

Currently several kinds of sensor localization methods have been developed for terrestrial wireless sensor networks. This study, in order to extend the field to underwater environments, a localization technique is studied for UWSNs (Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks). In underwater environments, RF (Radio Frequency) signal is not suitable for underwater usage because of extremely limited propagation. Because of that reason UWSNs should be constituted with acoustic modems. But, to realize underwater application, we can borrow many design principles from ongoing research for terrestrial environments. So, in this paper we introduce the modified localization algorithm using ToA method which is based on the terrestrial research. First of all, we study the localization techniques for terrestrial environments where we investigate possible methods to underwater environment. And then the appropriate algorithm is presented in the underwater usage. Finally the proposed underwater based localization algorithm is evaluated by using computer.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.59 no.4
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• pp.715-721
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• 2010

This paper deals with the design and characteristic analysis of electro-magnet/permanent-magnet (EM-PM) hybrid levitation and propulsion device for high-speed magnetically levitated (maglev) vehicle. The machine requires PMs with high coercive force in order to levitate the vehicle by only PMs, and propulsion force is supplied by long-stator linear synchronous motor (LSM). The advantages of this configuration are an increasing levitation airgap length and decreasing total weight of the vehicle, because of the zero-power levitation control. Several design considerations such as machine structure, manufacturing, and control strategy are described. Moreover, the levitation and propulsion device for high-speed maglev vehicle has been designed and analyzed usign the electromagnetic circuit and FE analysis. In order to verify the design scheme and feasibility of maglev application, 3-DOF static force test set is implemented and tested. The obtained experimental data using the static tester shows the validity of the design and analysis approaches.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.86-91
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• 2007

Contact material is widely used as electrical parts. Ag-CdO has a good wear resistance and stable contact resistance. But the disadvantages of Ag-Cd alloy are coarse Cd oxides and harmful metal, Cd. Then Ag-Sn alloy that has stable and fine Sn oxide at high temperature has been developed. In order to investigate the effect of Te additional that affects the formation of the oxide layer on the surface and the formation of oxide in matrix Ag, we studied the microstructures and properties of Ag-Sn-In(-Te) material fabricated by rapid solidification process. The experimental procedure were melting using high frequency induction, melt spinning, and internal oxidation. Specimens were examined and analyzed by Transmission electron microscopy(TEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy(EDS) and Vickers hardness. As a result, internal oxidation was completed even at $600^{\circ}C$. Te forms coarse $In_{2}TeO_{6}$ phase and makes fine and well dispersed $SnO_{2}$ Phase. 0.3 wt% Te shows favorable properties.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Plant Pathology Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.139.2-140
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• 2003

Ornithogalum showing mosaic symptoms were collected from the isolated field of National Plant Quarantine Service in Sengrimmyon of Kyungnam province. Electron microscopic examination of negatively strained preparation was filamentous particle of 740nm in lenght. Indirect-ELISA determined that the virus was serologically related to potyvirus. A single major protein band of Mr 30,000 was observed after sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). Indicator plant test showed masaic, necrotic local lesion and sunken areas in leaves of Nicotiana clevelandii and Tetragonia expansa, while the others of indicator plants did not infect. An enzyme-aided purification protocal was used, which eliminated a highly viscous mucilage from extracts of the Omithogalum. Total RNA extracted from infected Omithogalum leaves were amplified of 411b.p fragment in reverse transcription (RT)-PCR when primers specilic for the coat protein gene. An isolate of Omithogalum mosaic virus (OrMV) of the genus Potyvirus was identified as the casual agent of the disease on the basis of electron microscopic, biological and serological reaction.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.175-182
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• 1997

지금까지의 한글 문자인식 후처리 연구분야에서 미등록어와 비문맥적 오류 문제는 아직까지 잘 해결하지 못하고 있는 문제이다. 본 논문에서는 단어로서 가능한지를 결정하는 기준으로 확률적 음절 결합 정보를 사용하여 형태소 분석 기법만을 사용했을 때 발생할 수 있는 미등록어 문제를 해결하고, 통사적 기능의 어말 어휘를 고려한 문맥 결합 정보를 이용함으로써 다수의 후보 어절 가운데에서 최적의 후보 어절을 선택하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 시스템은 인식기에서 내보낸 후보 음절과 학습된 혼동 음절을 조합하여 하나 이상의 후보 어절을 생성하는 모듈과 통계적 언어 정보를 이용하여 최적의 후보 어절을 선정하는 모듈로 구성되었다. 실험은 1000만 원시 코퍼스에서 추출한 음절 결합 정보와 17만 태깅된 코퍼스에서 추출한 어절 결합 정보를 사용하였으며, 실제 인식 결과에 적용한 결과 문자 단위에서는 94.1%의 인식률을 97.4%로, 어절 단위에서는 87.6%를 96.6%로 향상시켰다. 교정률과 오교정률은 각각 문자 단위에서 56%와 0.6%, 어절 단위에서 83.9%와 1.66%를 보였으며, 전체 실험 어절의 3.4%를 차지한 미등록어 중 87.5%를 올바로 인식하는 한편, 전체 오류의 20.3%인 비문맥 오류에 대해서 91.6%를 올바로 교정하는 후처리 성능을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2003.09a
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• pp.94-97
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• 2003

Various bioinformatics tools for biological data processing have been developed and most of them are available in public. Most bioinformatics works are carried out by a composite application of those tools. Several integration approaches have been proposed for easy use of the tools. This paper proposes a new multiagent system architecture to integrate bioinformatics tools in the perspective of workflow since the composite applications of tools can be regarded as workflows. For the easy integration, the proposed architecture employs wrapper agents for existing tools, uses XML-based messages in the inter-agent communication, and agents are supposed to extract necessary information from the received messages. This allows new tools to be easily added on the integration framework. The proposed method allows various control structures in workflow definition and provides the progress monitoring capability of the on-going workflows. We implemented a prototype system of the proposed architecture for annotating the genes of a bacterium called Sphingomonas Chungbukensis DJ77.

• Journal of Dental Rehabilitation and Applied Science
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.51-56
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• 2004

이번 연구의 목적은 순수 타이타늄의 표면을 양극산화법으로 표면처리하여 표면의 특성변화를 연구하고, 이에 따른 세포부착 특성의 차이를 연구하는 것이다. 원반 모양의 타이타늄을 전해질용액에서 300V - 550V의 전압을 주어 양극산화 하고 표면특성을 관찰한 결과, 전압이 높아짐에 따라 표면의 분화구 크기가 커지는 양상을 보였으며 아울러 표면 거칠기도 증가되었다. 세포 부착 실험결과 전압이 증가함에 따라 세포부착 및 증식세포수는 감소하였다. 300V 이상의 양극산화 전압은 표면의 거칠기는 증가시키지만 세포증식은 오히려 억제되는 것이 관찰되었다.