• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37권1C호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2012

산업현장에서는 작업 효율을 높이기 위해 공정 과정에 자동화를 진행하고 있지만 전 공정에 자동화를 구축하기 어려운 반자동화 공간에서 작업하는 작업자들은 항상 위험에 노출되어 있다. 이러한 위험으로부터 작업자를 보호하기 위해, 본 논문에서는 Ubiquitous-Wireless Sensor Network(이하 U-WSN) 기반 위치인식 시스템을 이용한 산업현장에서의 작업자 안전관리 시스템을 연구하였다. 무선 신호를 이용하여 두 디바이스 사이의 거리를 측청하고, 3차원 삼각측량으로 작업자의 위치를 계산 할 수 있지만 무선 신호는 철과 구조물이 많은 산업현장에서는 신호의 반사, 멀티패스 등에 따라 오차가 발생하여 정확한 위치를 찾는 것에 많은 어려움이 있는 것이 현실이다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서 첫째, 작업현장에 적합한 원형편파 패치 안테나를 적용한 Line Of Sight(이하 LOS)에서 안테나 방사 패턴에 의해 발생 할 수 있는 오차를 개선한다. 둘째, 3차원에서 위치를 계산 할 수 있는 3차원 위치계산 방법과 필터링 알고리즘을 활용한 위치 정확도를 개선한다. 개발된 시스템은 항만부두 크레인에 적용하여 정확성 및 실효성을 검증 하였고 본 시스템은 산업현장에서 작업자의 안전에 크게 기여 할 것으로 기대된다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제33권8호
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• pp.2508-2512
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• 2012

Cold shock proteins (CSPs) are a family of proteins induced at low temperatures. CSPs bind to single-stranded nucleic acids through the ribonucleoprotein 1 and 2 (RNP 1 and 2) binding motifs. CSPs play an essential role in cold adaptation by regulating transcription and translation via molecular chaperones. The solution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) or X-ray crystal structures of several CSPs from various microorganisms have been determined, but structural characteristics of psychrophilic CSPs have not been studied. Therefore, we optimized the purification process to obtain highly pure Lm-Csp and determined the three-dimensional structure model of Lm-Csp by comparative homology modeling using MODELLER on the basis of the solution NMR structure of Bs-CspB. Lm-Csp consists of a ${\beta}$-barrel structure, which includes antiparallel ${\beta}$ strands (G4-N10, F15-I18, V26-H29, A46-D50, and P58-Q64). The template protein, Bs-CspB, shares a similar ${\beta}$ sheet structure and an identical chain fold to Lm-Csp. However, the sheets in Lm-Csp were much shorter than those of Bs-CspB. The Lm-Csp side chains, E2 and R20 form a salt bridge, thus, stabilizing the Lm-Csp structure. To evaluate the contribution of this ionic interaction as well as that of the hydrophobic patch on protein stability, we investigated the secondary structures of wild type and mutant protein (W8, F15, and R20) of Lm-Csp using circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy. The results showed that solvent-exposed aromatic side chains as well as residues participating in ionic interactions are very important for structural stability. Further studies on the three-dimensional structure and dynamics of Lm-Csp using NMR spectroscopy are required.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.73-77
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• 2008

Recent studies have documented that testosterone relaxes several smooth muscles by modulating $K^+$ channel activities. Smooth muscles of seminal vesicles playa fundamental role in ejaculation, which might involve testosterone. This study was aimed to assess the role of testosterone in seminal vesicular motility by studying its effects on contractile agents and on the ion channels of single vesicular myocytes in a rabbit model. The contractile responses of circular smooth muscle strips of rabbit seminal vesicles to norepinephrine ($10{\mu}M$), a high concentration of KCI (70 mM), and testosterone ($10{\mu}M$) were observed. Single vesicular myocytes of rabbit were isolated using proteolytic enzymes including collagenase and papain. Inside-out, attached, and whole-cell configurations were examined using the patch clamp technique. The applications of $10{\mu}M$ norepinephrine or 70 mM KCl induced tonic contractions, and $10{\mu}M$ testosterone (pharmacological concentration) evoked dose-dependent relaxations of these precontracted strips. Various $K^+$ channel blockers, such as tetraethylammonium (TEA; $10{\mu}M$), iberiotoxin ($0.1{\mu}M$), 4-aminopyridine (4-AP, $10{\mu}M$), or glibenclamide ($10{\mu}M$) rarely affected these relaxations. Single channel data (of inside-out and attached configurations) of BK channel activity were also hardly affected by testosterone ($10{\mu}M$). On the other hand, however, testosterone reduced L-type $Ca^{2+}$ currents significantly, and found to induce acute relaxation of seminal vesicular smooth muscle and this was mediated, at least in part, by $Ca^{2+}$ current inhibition in rabbit.

• 한국전자파학회지:전자파기술
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.46-54
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• 1994

본 논문에서는 원통변에 표면-정합된 마이크로스트럽 배열 안태나의 지향특성을 개선하기 위한 방볍을 제 시한다. 장방형 마이크로스트립 패치를 원통변에 횡방향으로 호(arc) 모양 배열하는 경우, 원통면윤 다각형의 각주로 끈사하고, 각각의 각주 평변에 임의 방향으로 주빔의 sqwnt를 가지는 Dolph - Tschebyscheff 배열, u uniform 배열 등의 부배열(sub-array)을 배치하므로써 전체 원통면 배열 안테나에 원하는 지향특성을 가지도 록 할 수 있음을 보이고, 원통면-공진기 모텔을 이용하여 복사패턴을 해석한다. 부배열의 종류에 따른 전체 배 열 얀테나의 복사패턴을 비교하고, 배열간격이 $\lambda_0$/2인 uniform 배열을 이용한 요소수 12인 원통면 배열 안테 나를 제작하여 반경이 6인 원통변에 정합시켰을 때 부엽 level -l3dB, 반전력범폭 $9^{\circ}$, 제일 null 사이각 $15^{\circ}$인 양호한 특성을 얻어 선형배열을 이용하는 경우보다 지향특성을 현저하게 개선시켰다

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제18권10호
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• pp.1150-1156
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• 2007

본 논문에서 PCS 및 cellular 망을 이용한 지하 매설물의 원격 관리에 적용이 가능한 지표면 매입형 안테나를 제안하였다. 지표면 매입형 안테나는 원형 패치 안테나를 이용하여 2중 공진이 생기도록 하여, 맨홀 뚜껑과 같은 금속에 삽입하고, 안테나 보호를 위해 몰딩 처리를 하여 제작하였다. 금속체 속에 삽입 및 몰딩으로 인해 안테나의 공진 주파수가 변화하게 되는데, 이것을 고려하여 안테나를 설계하였다. 제작된 안테나의 반사 손실 및 다이폴 안테나와의 상대적인 수신 전력 비교 측정을 통해 제안된 안테나가 PCS 및 cellular망을 이용한 지하 매설물의 원격 관리에 적용이 가능함을 확인하였다.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2002년도 학술대회지
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• pp.687-690
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• 2002

Multimode boundary-layer transition on a NACA0012 airfoil is experimentally investigated under periodically passing wakes and the moderate level of free-stream turbulence. The periodic wakes are generated by rotating circular cylinders clockwise or counterclockwise around the airfoil. The free-stream turbulence is produced by a grid upstream of the rotating cylinder, and its intensity(Tu) at the leading edge of the airfoil is $0.5\;or\;3.5\;{\%}$. The Reynolds number ($Re_c$) based on chord length (C) of the alrfoil is $2.0{\times}10^5$, and Strouhal number ($St_c$) of the passing wake is about 0.7. Time- and phase-averaged streamwise mean velocities and turbulence fluctuations are measured with a single hot-wire probe, and especially, the corresponding wall skin friction is evaluated using a computational Preston tube method. The wake-passing orientation changes pressure distribution on the airfoil in a different manner irrespective of the free-stream turbulence. Regardless of free-stream turbulence level, turbulent patches for the receding wakes propagate more rapidly than those for the approaching wake because adverse pressure gradient becomes larger. The patch under the high free-stream turbulence ($Tu=3.5{\%}$) grows more greatly in laminar-like regions compared with that under the low background turbulence ($Tu=0.5{\%}$) in laminar regions. The former, however, does not greatly change the original turbulence level in the very near-wall region while the latter does it. At further downstream, the former interacts vigorously with high environmental turbulence inside the pre-existing transitional boundary layer and gradually lose his identification, whereas the latter keep growing in the laminar boundary layer. The calmed region is more clearly observed under the lower free-stream turbulence level and for the receding wakes. The calmed region delays the breakdown further downstream and stabilizes more the boundary layer.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.113-121
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 재구성 급전 구조를 갖는 4중 편파 안테나 시스템을 제안한다. 제안된 안테나는 4중 편파(수직/수평 선형 편파와 우선회/좌선회 원형 편파 혹은 45도 경사각을 갖는 수직/수평 선형 편파)를 갖기 위한 급전부와 그에 따른 편파 수신을 위한 패치 안테나로 구성된다. 본 안테나에서는 임의의 수신 신호에 대하여, 전기적 스위치를 통하여 재구성이 가능한 편파를 갖도록 설계되었으며, 제작된 안테나의 급전부의 삽입 손실은 약 1.2 dB이며, 안테나의 원형 편파 3 dB 축비 대역폭은 약 2 %, 안테나 이득은 약 4 dBi(c)로 측정되었다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.26-36
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 위성 통신에 이용될 수 있는 X-band원형 편파 마이크로스트립 $12\times12$배열 안테나를 설계하였다. 복사체는 대형배열에 적합한 개구면 결합형 마이크로스트립 환형 안테나를 사용하였으며, broadside 방향의 빔을 형성시키기 위해 소자간 간격은 $0.7\lambda_0$로 하였다. 또한 높은 이득과 좋은 원형 편파 특성을 위해 직-병렬 구조으1 sequential array 형태의 급전구조를 사용하였다. 제작된 안테나는 본 교의 compact range에서 측정하였 다 그 칠파 10,3 GHz에서 27.88 dB의 directivity에 대해 25.55 dB의 높은 gam을 가지며 이로써 60 %의 높은 효율을 가짐을 확인했다 또한 1.74 dB의 axial ratio와 - 13 dB의 side-lobe-level 특성을 가졌다. 그리고 VSWR 2 기준으로 볼 때 약 43 %의 넓은 반사 계수 대역폭플 가지며,16 %의 axial ratio 대역폭을 가짐을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.2045-2049
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• 2018

An antenna arrays for a satellite navigation systems require more antenna elements to mitigate multiple jamming signals. In order to maintain the small array size while increasing the number of antenna elements, miniaturization technique is essential for antenna design. In this work, an electrically small circular microstrip patch antenna with a 3 dB hybrid coupler is designed as an element antenna, where the 3 dB hybrid coupler can yield the circularly polarized radiation characteristic. The miniaturized element antenna typically has too large capacitance in GPS L1 and GLONASS G1 bands, making it difficult to match with a single stand-alone non-Foster matching circuit (NFMC) in a stable state. Therefore, we propose a new matching technique, referred to as the hybrid matching method, which consists of a NFMC and a passive circuit. This passive tuning circuit manages reactance of antenna elements at an appropriate capacitance without a pole in the operating frequency range. The antenna array is fabricated, and the measured results show a reflection coefficient of less than -10 dB and an isolation of greater than 50 dB. In addition, peak gain of the proposed antenna is increased by 22.3 dB compared to the antenna without the hybrid matching network.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.361-368
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• 1998

The spontaneous contractions of gastric smooth muscles are regulated by slow waves, which are modulated by both nervous system and humoral agents. This study was designed to examine the effects of prostaglandin $E_2$ ($PGE_2$) on the contractile and electrical activities of antral smooth muscles in guinea-pig stomach, using an intracellular recording technique. To elucidate the underlying mechanism for its effect on contractility, ionic currents were also measured using a whole-cell patch clamp method. The basal tone by $PGE_2$ was variable, whereas the magnitude of phasic contractions was reduced ($19.0{\pm}2.1%$, n=19). The resting membrane potentials were hyperpolarized ($-4.4{\pm}0.5%$ mV, n=10), and plateau potentials were lowered ($-2.9{\pm}0.5%$ mV, n=10). In most cases, however, the initial peak potentials of slow waves were depolarized more by $PGE_2$ than those of control. The frequency of the slows wave was increased from $5.7{\pm}0.2$ cycles/min to $6.5{\pm}0.2$ (n=22). Voltage-operated $Ca^{2+}$ currents were decreased by $PGE_2$ (n=5). Voltage-operated $K^+$ currents, both Ca-dependent and Ca-independent, were increased (n=5). These results suggest that $PGE_2$ plays an important role in the modulation of gastric smooth muscle activities, and its inhibitory effects on the contractility and activities of slow waves are resulted from both decrease of $Ca^{2+}$ currents and increase of $K^+$ currents.