• 한국정보과학회논문지:데이타베이스
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.217-231
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• 2007

이동 컴퓨팅(Mobile Computing)환경에서 빈번한 접속 단절은 클라이언트의 캐시 일관성(Consistency)문제로 직결된다. 이러한 캐시 일관성 문제를 해결하기 위해 무효화 보고(Invalidation Report)에 관한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 그러나 기존의 무효화 보고 기법은 서버 측의 데이타의 수가 많아지거나, 갱신(Update)되는 데이타의 양이 증가하게 되면 무효화 보고 기법의 크기의 증가 및 캐시 효율성의 저하를 가지고 온다. 또한 캐시 전체의 무효화를 확인하는 보고 기법은 선택적 청취(Selective tuning)를 지원하지 못한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 기존 방식의 문제점을 해결하며 효율성을 개선한 무효화 보고 기법으로써 TTCI(Timestamp Tree-based Cache Invalidation scheme)를 제안한다. 갱신된 데이타의 타임스탬프를 이용하여 타임스탬프 트리를 구성하고 데이타의 아이디를 갱신된 순서대로 나열하여 무효화 보고를 만든다. 이를 활용하게 되면 각 클라이언트는 자신의 단절(Disconnect)된 시점에 맞는 정보를 확인하여 캐시의 이용률을 증가 시킬 수 있다. 또한 트리 구조를 이용하여 선택적 청취를 가능하게 함으로써 클라이언트의 자원 소비를 줄일 수 있다. 이러한 본 구조의 효율성을 검증하기 위해 기존의 기법인 DRCI(Dual-Report Cache Invalidation)와 성능비교를 실시한다.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.13-18
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• 2018

본 연구에서는 여러 매의 렌즈들로 구성된 광학계의 색수차 보정을 위해 색수차 보정 지도에서 대칭 그래픽 방식을 제시한다. 광학계를 구성하는 렌즈의 공기간격과 매수를 고려하여 대칭 그래픽 방식을 적용하기 위해 각 렌즈에서 근축광선의 상대적인 높이 비와 등가 단일렌즈 개념을 이용한다. 임의의 광학계를 여러 종류의 이중렌즈 광학계들로 변경한 다음, 소재선택과 굴절능재분배를 통해 색수차 보정에 가장 효과적인 이중렌즈를 선택한다. 이러한 설계방법을 가시광선 영역의 어안렌즈 설계에 적용한 결과 색수차가 보정된 광학계를 효과적으로 얻을 수 있었다.

• 가정의학회지
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• 제39권6호
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• pp.355-359
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• 2018

Background: Body image is associated with the perception of people on themselves. Influencing factors are generated internally and/or externally. The most common issue pertaining to body image is body weight and weight loss. This study aimed to determine the association between body weight perception and weight loss practices among college students. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted involving 297 college students from private nursing colleges in the state of Kelantan, Malaysia. A self-administered questionnaire was used to assess sociodemographic characteristics, body weight perception, and weight loss methods. Weight and height were measured, and body mass index (BMI) was calculated based on weight and height measurement. The World Health Organization BMI cutoffs were applied in the study. Results: More than half (54.2%) of college students perceived their weight correctly as per actual measured BMI. A total of 51.5% of participants had tried various methods to reduce their weight. Body weight perception is associated with weight loss practices (odds ratio, 0.31; 95% confidence interval, 0.19-0.50; P<0.001) adjusted for sex, marital status, and status of having obese family members. Those who had correct body weight perception were less likely to engage in weight loss practice. Food intake restriction (42.4%) is the most popular weight reduction method among students in nursing colleges. Over a quarter of the participants chose physical exercise (25.3%) to reduce their weight, and a small number engaged in unhealthy weight loss practices. Conclusion: Body weight perception is an important factor that influences the practice to reduce weight especially among young adult group and college students.

• Knee surgery & related research
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.293-302
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• 2018

Purpose: High tibial valgus osteotomy (HTO) is a well-established surgical procedure for patients with medial compartment osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. The hybrid closed-wedge HTO (CWHTO) procedure permits extensive correction in patients with severe deformities or patellofemoral joint OA. The aim of this study was to report the short-term results in a consecutive series of patients treated with hybrid CWHTO. Materials and Methods: We retrospectively evaluated the clinical outcomes and radiographic parameters in 29 consecutive knees that underwent hybrid CWTHO to correct medial compartment OA at an average follow-up of 52.6 months. Clinical outcomes were assessed using the Lysholm score and knee scoring system of the Japanese Orthopedic Association (JOA). The Kellgren-Lawrence grading system and pre- and postoperative mechanical axis (MA), femorotibial angle (FTA), posterior tibial slope, and patella height were assessed. Results: The FTA and MA significantly changed from $180.7^{\circ}$ to $170.4^{\circ}$ and from $22.0^{\circ}$ to $60.2^{\circ}$, respectively. No significant differences were observed between the mean pre- and postoperative posterior tibial slope, Insall-Salvati ratio, or Caton-Deschamps index. The postoperative JOA and Lysholm scores significantly improved from 76.7 to 95.8 and from 58.8 to 90.2, respectively. Conclusions: Satisfactory outcomes can be achieved with hybrid CWHTO in patients with medial OA.

• 청정기술
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.348-356
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• 2018

분자전산 모사 방법에 의하여 슬릿 기공과 무작위 에칭 흑연(randomly etched graphite, REG) 기공을 가지는 탄소계 흡착제에서 산소, 질소 그리고 아르곤에 대한 흡착 평형을 계산 하였다. 흡착량 계산에서 흡착제와 흡착질의 신뢰할 만한 모델은 공업적 흡착 분리 공정의 정확한 설계에 매우 중요하다. $5.6{\AA}$의 가장 작은 물리적 기공 크기에서 오직 산소만이 기공의 중심에 흡착하였으며, $5.9{\AA}$부터 질소와 아르곤이 흡착을 시작하였다. 균일한 표면을 가지는 슬릿기공이 결함 기공의 불용 부피와 접근이 불가능한 부피로 인하여 표면에 이질성을 가지는 REG 기공보다 더 높은 흡착 능력을 보였다. 탄소계 흡착제의 경우 질소보다 산소가 높은 흡착량을 보였으며, 기공이 큰 경우 산소와 아르곤의 흡착량은 동일함을 보였다. 298 K에서 흡착 등온선 계산으로부터 압력이 증가할수록 질소에 대한 산소의 흡착량의 비율이 높아짐을 보였다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.143-151
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• 2021

The enormous prevalence of transferring official confidential digital documents via the Internet shows the urgent need to deliver confidential messages to the recipient without letting any unauthorized person to know contents of the secret messages or detect there existence . Several Steganography techniques such as the least significant Bit (LSB), Secure Cover Selection (SCS), Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and Palette Based (PB) were applied to prevent any intruder from analyzing and getting the secret transferred message. The utilized steganography methods should defiance the challenges of Steganalysis techniques in term of analysis and detection. This paper presents a novel and robust framework for color image steganography that combines Linear Congruential Generator (LCG), simulated annealing (SA), Cesar cryptography and LSB substitution method in one system in order to reduce the objection of Steganalysis and deliver data securely to their destination. SA with the support of LCG finds out the optimal minimum sniffing path inside a cover color image (RGB) then the confidential message will be encrypt and embedded within the RGB image path as a host medium by using Cesar and LSB procedures. Embedding and extraction processes of secret message require a common knowledge between sender and receiver; that knowledge are represented by SA initialization parameters, LCG seed, Cesar key agreement and secret message length. Steganalysis intruder will not understand or detect the secret message inside the host image without the correct knowledge about the manipulation process. The constructed system satisfies the main requirements of image steganography in term of robustness against confidential message extraction, high quality visual appearance, little mean square error (MSE) and high peak signal noise ratio (PSNR).

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.349-358
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• 2021

The Brazilian test has been widely used to determine the indirect tensile strength of rock, concrete and other brittle materials. The basic assumption for the calculation formula of Brazilian tensile strength is that the elastic moduli of rock are the same both in tension and compression. However, the fact is that the elastic moduli in tension and compression of most rocks are different. Thus, the formula of Brazilian tensile strength under the assumption of isotropy is unreasonable. In the present study, we conducted Brazilian tests on flat disk-shaped rock specimens and attached strain gauges at the center of the disc to measure the strains of rock. A tension-compression bi-modular model is proposed to interpret the data of the Brazilian test. The relations between the principal strains, principal stresses and the ratio of the compressive modulus to tensile modulus at the disc center are established. Thus, the tensile and compressive moduli as well as the correct tensile strength can be estimated simultaneously by the new formulas. It is found that the tensile and compressive moduli obtained using these formulas were in well agreement with the values obtained from the direct tension and compression tests. The formulas deduced from the Brazilian test based on the assumption of isotropy overestimated the tensile strength and tensile modulus and underestimated the compressive modulus. This work provides a new methodology to estimate tensile strength and moduli of rock simultaneously considering tension-compression bi-modularity.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.155-170
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• 2022

An accurate analysis of structures supported on soft soils and subjected to seismic loading requires the consideration of the soil-foundation-structure interaction. An important aspect of this interaction lies with the energy dissipation due to soil material damping. Unlike advanced constitutive models that can induce energy loss, the use of simple elastoplastic constitutive models requires additional damping. The frequency dependent Rayleigh damping is a formulation that is frequently used in dynamic analysis. The main concern of this formulation is the correct selection of the target damping ratio and the frequency range where the response is frequency independent. The objective of this study is to investigate the effects of the Rayleigh damping parameters in soil-pile-structure and soil-inclusion-platform-structure systems in the presence of soft soil under seismic loading. Three-dimensional analyses of both systems are carried out using the finite difference software Flac3D. Different values of target damping ratios and minimum frequencies are utilized. Several earthquakes are used to study the influence of different excitation frequencies in the systems. The soil response in terms of accelerations, displacements and strains is obtained. For the rigid elements, the results are presented in terms of bending moments and normal forces. The results show that when the frequency of the input motion is close to the minimum (central) frequency in the Rayleigh damping formulation, the overdamping amount is reduced, and the surface spectral acceleration of the analyzed pile and inclusion systems increases. Thus, the bending moments and normal forces throughout the piles and inclusions also increase.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.1421-1430
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• 2022

The computation of the solid angle and the detector efficiency is considering to be one of the most important factors during the measuring process for the radioactivity, especially the cylindrical γ-ray NaI(Tl) detectors nowadays have applications in several fields such as industry, hazardous for health, the gamma-ray radiation detectors grow to be the main essential instruments in radiation protection sector. In the present work, a generic numerical simulation method (NSM) for calculating the efficiency of the γ-ray spectrometry setup is established. The formulas are suitable for any type of source-to-detector shape and can be valuable to determine the full-energy peak and the total efficiencies and P/T ratio of cylindrical γ-ray NaI(Tl) detector setup concerning the truncated conical radioactive source. This methodology is based on estimate the path length of γ-ray radiation inside the detector active medium, inside the source itself, and the self-attenuation correction factors, which typically use to correct the sample attenuation of the original geometry source. The calculations can be completed in general by using extra reasonable and complicate analytical and numerical techniques than the standard models; especially the effective solid angle, and the detector efficiency have to be calculated in case of the truncated conical radioactive source studied condition. Moreover, the (NSM) can be used for the straight calculations of the γ-ray detector efficiency after the computation of improvement that need in the case of γ-γ coincidence summing (CS). The (NSM) confirmation of the development created by the efficiency transfer method has been achieved by comparing the results of the measuring truncated conical radioactive source with certified nuclide activities with the γ-ray NaI(Tl) detector, and a good agreement was obtained after corrections of (CS). The methodology can be unlimited to find the theoretical efficiencies and modifications equivalent to any geometry by essential sufficiently the physical selective considered situation.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제64권5호
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• pp.9-16
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• 2022

Syngas, also known as synthesis gas, synthetic gas, or producer gas, is a combustible gas mixture generated when organic material (biomass) is heated in a gasifier with a limited airflow at a high temperature and elevated pressure. The present research was aimed at modifying the existing LPG engine generator for fully operated syngas. During this study, the designed gasifier-powered woodchip biomass was used for syngas production to generate power. A 6.0 kW LPG engine generator was modified and tested for operation on syngas. In the experiments, syngas and LPG fuels were tested as test fuels. For syngas production, 3 kg of dry woodchips were fed and burnt into the designed downdraft gasifier. The gasifier was connected to a blower coupled with a slider to help the air supply and control the ignition. The convection cooling system was connected to the syngas flow pipe for cooling the hot produce gas and filtering the impurities. For engine modification, a customized T-shaped flexible air/fuel mixture control device was designed for adjusting the correct stoichiometric air-fuel ratio ranging between 1:1.1 and 1.3 to match the combustion needs of the engine. The composition of produced syngas was analyzed using a gas analyzer and its composition was; 13~15 %, 10.2~13 %, 4.1~4.5 %, and 11.9~14.6 % for CO, H₂, CH₄, and CO₂ respectively with a heating value range of 4.12~5.01 MJ/Nm³. The maximum peak power output generated from syngas and LPG was recorded using a clamp-on power meter and found to be 3,689 watts and 5,001 watts, respectively. The results found from the experiment show that the LPG engine generator operated on syngas can be adopted with a de-ration rate of 73.78 % compared to its regular operating fuel.