• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.1479-1484
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• 2010

Photosynthesis uses light energy to drive the oxidation of water at an oxygen-evolving catalytic site within photosystem II (PSII). Chlorophyll binding by the photosystem II subunit S protein, PsbS, was found to be necessary for energy-dependent quenching (qE), the major energy-dependent component of non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) in Arabidopsis thaliana. It is proposed that PsbS acts as a trigger of the conformational change that leads to the establishment of nonphotochemical quenching. However, the exact structure and function of PsbS in PSII are still unknown. Here, we clone and express the recombinant PsbS gene from Arabidopsis thaliana in E. coli and purify the resulting homogeneous protein. We used various biochemical and biophysical techniques to elucidate PsbS structure and function, including circular dichroism (CD), fluorescence, and DSC. The protein shows optimal stability at $4^{\circ}C$ and pH 7.5. The CD spectra of PsbS show that the conformational changes of the protein were strongly dependent on pH conditions. The CD curve for PsbS at pH 10.5 curve had the deepest negative peak and the peak of PsbS at pH 4.5 was the least negative. The fluorescence emission spectrum of the purified PsbS protein was also measured, and the ${\lambda}_{max}$ was found to be at 328 nm. PsbS revealed some structural changes under varying temperature and oxygen gas condition.

• 수면정신생리
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.19-25
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• 1999

Sleep alters both breathing pattern and the ventilatory responses to external stimuli. These changes during sleep permit the development or aggravation of sleep-related hypoxemia in patients with respiratory disease and contribute to the pathogenesis of apneas in patients with the sleep apnea syndrome. Fundamental effects of sleep on the ventilatory control system are 1) removal of wakefulness input to the upper airway leading to the increase in upper airway resistance, 2) loss of wakefulness drive to the respiratory pump, 3) compromise of protective respiratory reflexes, and 4) additional sleep-induced compromise of ventilatory control initiated by reduced functional residual capacity on supine position assumed in sleep, decreased $CO_2$ production during sleep, and increased cerebral blood flow in especially rapid eye movement(REM) sleep. These effects resulted in periodic breathing during unsteady non-rapid eye movement(NREM) sleep even in normal subjects, regular but low ventilation during steady NREM sleep, and irregular breathing during REM sleep. Sleep-induced breathing instabilities are divided due primarily to transient increase in upper airway resistance and those that involve overshoots and undershoots in neural feedback mechanisms regulating the timing and/or amplitude of respiratory output. Following ventilatory overshoots, breathing stability will be maintained if excitatory short-term potentiation is the prevailing influence. On the other hand, apnea and hypopnea will occur if inhibitory mechanisms dominate following the ventilatory overshoot. These inhibitory mechanisms include 1) hypocapnia, 2) inhibitory effect from lung stretch, 3) baroreceptor stimulation, 4) upper airway mechanoreceptor reflexes, 5) central depression by hypoxia, and 6) central system inertia. While the respiratory control system functions well during wakefulness, the control of breathing is commonly disrupted during sleep. These changes in respiratory control resulting in breathing instability during sleep are related with the pathophysiologic mechanisms of obstructive and/or central apnea, and have the therapeutic implications for nocturnal hypoventilation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or alveolar hypoventilation syndrome.

• 드라이브 ㆍ 컨트롤
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2015

The stability of friction characteristics and thermal management for a dry type dual clutch transmission (DCT) are inferior to those of a wet clutch. Too high temperature resulting from frequent engagement of DCT speeds up degradation or serious wear of the pressure plate or burning of the clutch disk lining. Even though it is significantly important to estimate the temperature of a dry double clutch (DDC) in real-time, few meaningful study of the thermal model of DDC has been known yet. This study presented a thermal analytical model of lumped parameters for a DDC by analyzing its each component firstly. Then a series of experimental test was carried out on the test bench with a patented temperature telemetry system to validate the proposed thermal model. The thermal model, whose optimal parameter values were found by optimization algorithm, was also simulated on the experimental test conditions. The simulation results of DDC temperature show consistency with the experiment, which validates the proposed thermal model of DDC.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.48-56
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• 2012

The object of this paper is the controller for supplying stably power in a separate house in which a hybrid electrical storage system with a stand-alone photovoltaic/wind power generation system and a small generator is applied. In the photovoltaic/wind hybrid power system used in the separate house, when only the battery is used in sunless days, the capacity of the battery is become larger. In particular, as in recent days, if cloudy days are frequent due to anomaly climate, it is difficult to estimate the number of sunless days. Accordingly, it is preferable to build the electrical storage system that numbers of sunshineless days are to be controlled and a shortage amount of the power generation capacity is to be handled by a small generator system. In order to supply stably power of new renewable energy such as solar to any separate houses, it is preferable to reduce the capacity of battery by decreasing the number of sunless days when estimating the capacity of battery and to drive the small generator for compensation of the power shortage. Such system needs components including inverters for photovoltaic and wind power generation system, batteries and controllers for automatically driving the small generator, based upon the nature of the stand-alone house, and it is preferable to use the controller having a simpler and higher stability by adopting the all-in-one scheme to facilitate its maintenance.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.26-37
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 시험선 $\ulcorner$나래$\lrcorner$에 적용된 자세 제어 기술 및 그 실해역 시험 결과를 보이고자 한다. $\ulcorner$나래$\lrcorner$는 하부 몰수체와 그에 부착된 제어판을 이용하여 선체를 일정량 부상시키는 복합 지지선형을 채택하여 건조된 선박으로서, 본 연구원의 자체 설계를 거쳐 건조된 유인 시험선이다. 이러한 선형의 선박은 부상 상태에서 Heave, Pitch Roll의 3자유도에 대해 복원력이 거의 작용하지 않기 때문에 정적 불안정성을 가지며, 그에 따라 자세 제어 시스템이 필수적으로 요구된다. 시험선 $\ulcorner$나래$\lrcorner$에는 제어판 구동을 위한 유압 구동 장치 및 선체 운동의 계측을 위한 각종 계측 장비가 설치되었다. 제어기로는 PID 제어기가 사용되었으며, 실시간 제어를 위해 Pentium급 산업용 PC가 탑재되었다. 약 3개월 여에 걸쳐 부상 시험 및 조종 시험을 포함한 실해역 시험이 수행되었으며, 만족스런 제어 성능이 발휘됨을 확인하였다.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제44권7호
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• pp.368-374
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• 2007

CVD-SiC coating has been introduced as a protective layer in TRISO nuclear fuel particle of high temperature gas cooled reactor (HTGR) due to its excellent mechanical stability at high temperature. In order to prevent the failure of the TRISO particles, it is important to evaluate the fracture strength of the SiC coating layer. It is needed to develop a new simple characterization technique to evaluate the mechanical properties of the coating layer as a pre-irradiation step. In present work, direct strength measurement method with the specimen of hem i-spherical shell configuration was suggested. The indentation experiment on a hemisphere shell with a plate indenter was conducted. The fracture strength of the coating layer is related with the critical load for radial cracking of the shell. The finite element analysis was used to drive the semi-empirical equation for the strength measurement. The SiC hemispherical shells were successfully recovered from the section-grinding of TRISO coated particle and successive heat treatment in air. The strength of CVD-SiC coating layer was evaluated from the experimentally measured critical load during the indentation on SiC hemisphere shell. Weibull diagram of fracture strength was also constructed. This study suggested a new strength equation and experimental method to measure the fracture strength of CVD-SiC coating of TRISO coated fuel particles.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.823-829
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 기존의 PID 제어기의 P 부분만을 퍼지 논리제어기로 대체한 퍼지 P+ID 제어기를 제안하였으며. 제안된 퍼지 P+ID 제어기는 단지 하나의 제어파라미터만을 추가하여 기존 PID 제어기를 조절하기 때문에 쉽게 설계 할 수 있으며, PID 제어기의 구조를 유지함으로서 기존 장치의 하드웨어 부분을 수정할 필요가 없다. 또한, 퍼지 P+ID 제어기는 기존 PID 제어기와 비교해서 충분한 안정성을 보여주며, 구조가 단순하고 계산 량이 적어 제어기의 동조시간을 기존의 퍼지 제어기에 비해서 많이 줄일 수 있는 장점이 있다. 제안된 Fuzzy P+ID 제어기를 BLDC 모터에 적용하여, 시뮬레이션 및 실험을 통하여 본 논문에서 제안한 제어기가 기존의 제어기보다 제어성능이 우수함을 확인하였다.

• 드라이브 ㆍ 컨트롤
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.18-26
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• 2016

This research is conducted to develop an automatic steering system for parallel parking, and the performance of the system was evaluated by parallel parking a conventional vehicle. The automatic steering system consisted of MDPS (motor driven power steering) to control steering, ESC (electronic stability control) to acquire wheel speed, ultrasonic sensors to recognize the parking space, and a controller to communicate and handle data. The parallel parking process using the automatic steering control consisted of parking space recognition, parking path generation, and parking path tracking. The path for parallel parking was generated based on a kinematic model of a conventional vehicle, and a PI controller was used to control the steering angle for path tracking. Parallel parking using the automatic steering control was conducted according to vehicle speed conditions. The results show that the errors on the x-axis and y-axis were below 0.54 m and 0.14 m, respectively, and the error on the steering angle was less than $1^{\circ}$. Therefore, it is possible to implement parallel parking using an automatic steering control system for conventional vehicles.

• 산업노동연구
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.229-260
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• 2018

일중독은 일이 곧 자아의 중심이며 일 이외의 다른 삶은 가치가 없다고 생각하는 상태, 일이 없어지면 자신의 삶도 끝난다고 느끼는 특성을 지칭한다. 한국의 일중심 제도와 문화, 장시간 노동 관행은 근로자들을 개인, 가정, 사회, 조직의 다양한 차원에서 부정적인 일중독 위험에 노출시킨다는 우려가 존재한다. 본 연구는 한국노동패널 17차 조사가 실시한 일중독 측정 도구를 사용하여 대표성 있는 표본을 가지고 우리나라 취업자의 일중독을 측정하고 실태를 분석했다. 일중독 현상의 광범위성과 위험 집단 및 요인을 실증적으로 분석한 결과, 우리나라 취업자의 7.0%가 일중독자이며, 일중독자의 비중이 높은 집단은 남성, 엄격한 성별분업관념을 가지고 있는 근로자, 40대, 별거 이혼 사별한 사람, 주당근로시간이 길수록, 일용직과 고용주 혹은 자영업자였다. 정규 근로시간에 비해 업무량이 많다고 생각하는 사람은 그렇지 않은 집단에 비해 일중독 비중이 높았다. 이러한 결과는 회귀분석을 통해서도 재확인되었다. 연령, 성별분업 관념, 근로시간, 업무량 부하 정도, 종사상 지위는 일중독 확률을 설명하는 중요한 요인임이 확인되었다. 성별분업 인식 개선, 소득 안정성 강화, 근로시간 단축, 적정 업무량 관리를 통한 인력 운용이 일중독 위험을 낮추고 일과 생활의 균형을 도모할 수 있음을 시사한다.

• 인간식물환경학회지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.565-576
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• 2020

Background and objective: The elderly living in homeless living facilities for a long time suffer from various mental health problems. This study aims to determine the psychological, emotional, and social effects of a horticultural therapy program composed of gardening activities, which was designed based on the semantic structures of life for the homeless elderly living in the facilities for a long time. Methods: A total of 12 subjects (6 in the control group and 6 in the experimental group) participated in the study. The horticultural therapy program consisted mainly of gardening activities, and a total of 16 sessions were conducted once a week for 16 weeks, 60-90 minutes per session. The subjects were tested to evaluate their self-esteem, depression, and horticultural activities. The data were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney U test, Wilcoxon rank test, and Friedman test, which were nonparametric tests, conducted at a 95% significance level. Results: First, in the case of self-esteem, a significant difference was found between the groups, 20.00 points (SD = 5.69) in the control group, and 25.50 points (SD = 3.73) in the experimental group (p = .034). Second, in the case of depression, no statistically significant difference was found in the posttest. Finally, in the case of the horticultural activity evaluation, the scores of most variables gradually and significantly increased during the program [Verbal interaction during activity (p = .006), Self-concept and identity (p = .006), Need-drive adaptation (p < .001), Interpersonal and social relations (p < .001)]. Conclusion: These results support that the horticultural therapy program could help the elderly improve psychological relaxation, emotional stability, and social relationships. In order to generalize the results, it is suggested to increase the number of subjects or conduct additional repetitive experiments in further research.