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Muscle Contraction and Relaxation Pattern Analysis of Spinal Cord Injured Patient (척추 손상 환자의 근신호 수축 및 이완 패턴 분석)

  • Lee, Y.S.;Lee, J.;Kim, H.D.;Park, I.S.;Ko, H.Y.;Kim, S.H.
    • Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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    • v.1997 no.05
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    • pp.398-401
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    • 1997
  • The EMG signal of spinal cord injured patient is very feeble because that the information from central nervous system is not sufficiently transmitted to molter neuron or muscle fiber. Therefore the observer can not observe contraction and relaxation movement of muscle from the raw EMG signal. In this paper, we propose the muscle contraction and relaxation pattern analysis method of spinal cord injured patient whose EMG signal is composed of the sum of motor unit action potential train with additive white Gaussian noise and impulsive noise. From the EMG model, we denoise impulsive noise using median filter which is a kind of nonlinear filter and the output of median filter is transformed to wavelet transform domain for denoising additive white Gaussian noise using threshold level removal technique. As a result, we can obtain the clear contraction and relaxation pattern.

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The Effect of Workplace Noise on the Hearing Threshold of Dental Technicians

  • Lee, Ju Hee;Lee, Hye Ran;Lee, Og Kyoung
    • Biomedical Science Letters
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.201-208
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    • 2014
  • This study was conducted to investigate hypoacusis due to workplace noise among dental technicians. Pure tone audiometry, impedance audiometry and heart rate variability were measured for 60 dental technicians and office workers in D city from July to November 2013, and a survey on the effects of noise was conducted. SPSS 19.0 was used for statistical analysis. In the result for threshold of pure tone audiometry, the average hearing threshold of left ears in the air conduction (AC) test showed a statistically significant decrease (P=0.019) among dental technicians, who are frequently exposed to workplace noise. The hearing threshold in the AC test for each frequency was significantly different between the two groups at 125 Hz (P=0.012) in right ears and at 1 kHz (P=0.022), 2 kHz (P=0.040), and 8 kHz (P=0.018) in left ears. Dental technicians who had worked for 16 years or longer had a significantly higher incidence of hypoacusis in the right ear (P=0.030) and in the left ear (P=0.010). In impedance audiometry showed a tympanometry result of type A in both the dental technician group and the office worker group.

Case of track improvement in the area of redevelopment project surrounding around Seoul Metro Lin.4(R=250m) (서울지하철 4호선 R250m 인접구간 도시개발정비에 따른 궤도방진설계)

  • Kong, Sun-Yong;Kim, Sang-Jin;Yang, Tae-Kyung;Baik, Chan-Ho
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.324-329
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    • 2010
  • The surroundings around subway are becoming more lively for project of CBD (an redevelopment project), however vibrations which are made through passing train cold spread buildings around. The structure-borne noise could be generated at the same time that makes people including developers and th citizens have negative viewpoint on railway. Especially, Seoul Metro 1-4 lines ar built alongside the road nearby houses and business district. That could make plenty of public resentments because of the structure-borne noise. Seoul Metro should make active alternative plans for their future urban environment projects which will be conducted. The case was Railway Facility which were conducted to minimize structure-borne noise from sharp curved track section (4 line, Sinyongsan~Ichon, R 250m). The section is adjacent to house district as near as 6.6m related with pusing international city project, the 4th urban environment project around international building, near Yongsan station. The interval of sleepers would be downsized in half with breaking existing case, and pad stiffness is reduced 4 ton from 10 ton. That makes structure-borne noise minimized because of vibrations are lowered about 19.1-23.0db. The structure above has remained for a year and a half from October, 2008, and had not any trouble to perform excellence with 80million ton rail accumulated tonnage.

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A Study on the Modified Adaptive MMSE Filtering for Mixed-Noise Elimination in Image Signals (영상신호에서의 복합 잡음 제거를 위한 수정된 적응 MMSE 필터링에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Je-Il;Kim, Sung-Hwan
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.70-76
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    • 1996
  • In the case of an image corrupted with mixed noise, conventional MMSE filter can not remove such a mixed noise properly, because the impulse moise cause a certain bias of the minimum mean-square error estimate at regions close to outliers. In this paper, we proposed the new method or removal of mixed noise by combining MMSE filtering structure with local multi-windowing method according to directions and with ranked-order method. As a result, the improvement of the image quality with the proposed was obtained between about 9.7 and 35.2 times in the sense of NMSE(normalized mean square errors) evaluation than that of MMSE filter. Also, we could obtain the enhanced image in the mixed noisy image from visual and quantitative aspect.

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Development and Application of Trimmed Body Model for the prediction of structure-borne noise at mid-frequencies (1kHz 이하 구조기인 소음예측을 위한 트림바디 모델의 개발과 적용)

  • Yoo, Ji Woo;Chae, Ki-Sang;Charpentier, A.;Lim, Jong Yun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2013.10a
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    • pp.362-367
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    • 2013
  • Vehicle CAE models for NVH predictions are largely developed in two schemes. One is FE models generally used for below 200 Hz problems such as booming noise, and the other is SEA models for high frequencies of more than 1 kHz, representatively related to sound packages. HMC has tried to develop a CAE model for 200-1000 Hz, so-called mid-frequency region, and this paper is one of the corresponding results. The CAE model is developed based on an FE model, and then FE elements at some areas are substituted with SEA elements to reduce DOFs. SEA panels are described by modal density, radiation efficiency, stiffness and damping characteristics that are found from some numerical assessments. Sound packages are modeled similarly as a conventional SEA model. The CAE model developed in this manner, the hybrid model, was compared to experimental results. Predicted pressure and vibrational velo city generally show a good agreement. The developed CAE model and related technology are successfully being used in vehicle development process.

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A Study on Legislation Related to Noise Countermeasures in Military Airfield (군용비행장 소음대책 관련 입법안에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, Yong-Hun;Hawng, Ho-Won
    • The Korean Journal of Air & Space Law and Policy
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.355-384
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    • 2017
  • In Korea, a Law on Airport Noise Prevention and Noise Control Area Support has been in effect since 2010. And also, airport noise measures project and residents support project conducted following the Law on Airport Noise Prevention and Noise Control Area Support. However, a Law on Airport Noise Prevention and Noise Control Area Support does not apply to military airfield. Many city residents already complain about military airport noise, but there are no countermeasures. They claim the noise from the military airfield is an intrusion on their lives, and some people brought a class action against the government. In the 20th National Assembly, some congressmen already proposed some legislations that aims to support residents adjacent to the military airfield. Nevertheless, relevant legislations are currently pending at the 20th National Assembly. Legislation preventing aircraft noise and providing support measures is essential to residents life who near by military airfield. At first, this study looked at legislations proposed by congressmen in the 20th National Assembly. And also, this study looked at A Law on the Improvement of Living Environment around the Defence Facilities of Japan. Based on this study, we did an analysis of the problem of legislation and proposed improvement suggestion. I hope so that this study could someday help congressmen make a legislation about military airfield noise. We hope the 20th National Assembly will pass the legislation finally to help the residents who near by military airfield relieve their pain by noise and restore their human dignity.

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A study on measures to place an order for selection of tailor-made rolling stock systems for Gimpo urban transit (김포도시철도 맞춤형 차량시스템 선정을 위한 발주방안 검토)

  • Choi, Si-Haeng;Lim, Byeong-Gok;Jeon, Seo-Tak;Park, Jong-Hyuk
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.816-822
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    • 2010
  • A comprehensive review for the selection of urban rail vehicle systems that best suit Gimpo railway line is taking place with consideration of the project area characteristics in light of line planning, passenger demand, supply of rolling stock, and railway construction and operation. Various aspects of vehicle systems including passenger demand on concerned lines, regional characteristics, vehicle types, and railway construction and operational settings should be taken into consideration. In addition, request for the introduction of customized vehicle systems reflecting the convenience of transit users such as wide and hospitable inner space, low noise, flexible operation of 2 to 4 car train-set and eye catching slim bridge piers is increasing. A study on alternatives to place an order to opt for optimum rolling stock systems considering line characteristics of Gimpo City's urban railway and future passenger demand while meeting the needs of Gimpo City has been conducted.

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A study on the Development of Purge Burner for City Gas (도시가스용 퍼지 버너 개발에 관한 연구(II))

  • Lee, Hyun-Chan;You, Hyun-Seok;Lee, Joong-Seong
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2000.04b
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    • pp.175-179
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    • 2000
  • A combustion project was completed regarding the development of a high-flow-rate purge burner in cooperation with three city gas companies(Pusan, Taegu, Samchulli). The project, started in May 1991, aimed at purging the line-packed-gas safely and quickly before getting into gas pipe working or relocation. According to the results, the purging noise is less than 80dB due to silencer screen. multi-nozzle and outlet inserted tube employed. In addition, the developed burner shows an increased work efficiency of 40-50% more as compared to the performance of conventional purge equipments. The project result is regarded as the first high-flow-rate purge burner developed within Korea. contributing to shortening purge hours, safe field work and easiness of purge site selection.

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Feasibility of Alternative Physical Parameters by Subjective Evaluation for Urban Environmental Sounds (도시 환경음의 쾌적성 평가를 통한 새로운 지수 적용가능성 분석)

  • Park, Hyeon-Ku;Jang, Gil-Soo
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.31-36
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    • 2008
  • For the comfortable housing life, comfortable and pleasant urban environment should be created for the people living in house and in city. There are lots of environmental conditions in city affecting house and life. Also most of all the noise pollution have been become major factor that makes people's life uncomfortable. Recently soundscape researches have been performed to create comfortable urban environment and various studies on the evaluation of urban environmental sounds are now undergoing. This study aimed to analyse the subjective characteristics through the subjective evaluation to the sounds measured with physical parameters and eventually to find out alternative evaluation method for urban environmental sounds. Adjectives applied to previous studies were used for the subjective evaluation and sound sources recorded in specific places were presented with picture at the same time. As a result, new physical parameters such as Lmax, Unbiased Annoyance, G, N and EmT have a feasibility to evaluation of urban environment sounds in terms of acoustic comfort.

A STOCHASTIC EVALUATION OF ACTUAL SOUND ENVIRONMENT BASED ON TWO TYPE INFORMATION PROCESSING METHODS--THE USE OF EXPANSION SERIES TYPE REGRESSION AND FUZZY PROBABILITY

  • Ikuta, Akira;Ohta, Mitsuo
    • Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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    • 1994.06a
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    • pp.698-703
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    • 1994
  • In the actual sound environment, the random signal often shows a complex fluctuation pattern apart from a standard Gaussian distribution. In this study, an evaluation method for the sound environmnetal system is proposed in the generalized form applicable to the actual stochastic phenomena, by introducing two type information processing methods based on the regression model of expansion series type and the Fuzzy probability. The effectiveness of the proposed method are confirmed experimentally too by applying it to the observed data in the actual noise environment.

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