• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.153-166
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• 2023

Health monitoring of civil infrastructures, in particular, old bridges that are still in service, has become more than necessary, given the risk that a possible degradation or failure of these infrastructures can induce on the safety of users in addition to the resulting commercial and economic impact. Bridge integrity assessment has attracted significant research efforts over the past forty years with the aim of developing new damage identification methods applicable to real structures. The bridge of Ouled Mimoun (Tlemcen, Algeria) is one of the oldest railway structure in the country. It was built in 1889. This bridge, which is too low with respect to the level of the road, has suffered multiple shocks from various machines that caused considerable damage to its central part. The present work aims to analyze the stability of this bridge by identifying damages and evaluating the damage rate in different parts of the structure on the basis of a finite element model. The applied method is based on an inverse analysis of the normal stress responses that were calculated from the corresponding recorded strains, during the passage of a real train, by means of a set of strain gauges placed on certain elements of the bridge. The results obtained from the inverse analysis made it possible to successfully locate areas that were really damaged and to estimate the damage rate. These results were also used to detect an excessive rigidity in certain elements due to the presence of plates, which were neglected in the numerical reference model. In the case of the continuous bridge monitoring, this developed method will be a very powerful tool as a smart health monitoring system, allowing engineers to take in time decisions in the event of bridge damage.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.25-33
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• 2020

가뭄사상은 지속기간, 심도, 피해면적 등으로 특성화 할 수 있다. 일반적으로 가뭄사상은 관측소별로 구축된 시계열 자료를 이용하여 가뭄지수를 산정한 후, 연속이론에 따라 가뭄의 시작과 종료 시점을 파악하여 정의된다. 하지만 이와 같은 1차원적 분석방법은 가뭄의 시공간적인 발생특성 및 이동경로를 분석하는 데에는 한계가 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 단순 클러스터링 알고리즘을 활용하여 3차원(경도, 위도, 시간)적 가뭄사상을 정의하고, 가뭄의 시공간적 확장에 따른 가뭄상황을 파악할 수 있는 가뭄지도를 개발하였다. 이러한 가뭄지도는 가뭄지수를 공간적으로 표출하는 2차원적 가뭄 모니터링 정보와 비교하여 3차원적 가뭄사상에 대한 특성(지속기간, 공간적 누적심도, 가뭄의 중심)을 모두 표출하는 것이다. 그 결과 가뭄 지속기간 내 가뭄 발생면적이 최소 10 % 미만인 국소면적인 경우도 있는 반면, 최대 90 % 이상으로 확장되는 비율도 44%(25개 사상 중 11개 사상)로 확인되었다. 이는 3차원적으로 해석한 다양한 가뭄 지속기간 변화에 따른 공간적인 가뭄의 면적 변화와 심도(강도) 변화에 대한 관계는 매우 중요하다는 것을 재확인 하는 것이다. 3차원 시공간적 가뭄분석을 통한 가뭄지도 개발을 위한 연구는 미래 극한가뭄 대응 방안을 마련함에 있어서는 지역적 가뭄의 시공간적 발생특성 및 패턴을 해석하는 데 활용가능성이 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국임상약학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.230-237
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• 2018

Objective: To compare adverse event reporting patterns between ethical-the-counter and over-the-counter drugs from community pharmacies and outpatient settings. Methods: We conducted a descriptive study using the adverse event reporting database, wherein data were collected from the regional pharmacovigilance centers of the Korean Pharmaceutical Association between January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2016. The reported drugs were classified into either ethical-the-counter or over-the-counter drugs, and we compared the distribution of patient age and gender, frequent adverse events and medications, serious adverse events, and causality assessment results, where causality assessments were performed according to the World Health Organization-The Uppsala Monitoring Centre's system. Results: We included 17,570 reports (75,451 drug-adverse event pairs). Ethical-the-counter and over-the-counter drugs accounted for 81.4% and 18.6% of the total adverse event reports, respectively. The use of over-the-counter drugs was higher in females and patients aged <18 years, whereas the use of ethical-the-counter drugs was higher in those aged >65 years. Alimentary tract and metabolism drugs, and respiratory system drugs were the most frequent ethical-the-counter and over-the-counter drugs, respectively. From causality assessment results, "possible" (75.4%) was the most commonly assigned category for ethical-the-counter drugs, while "possible" (44.0%) and "unlikely" (47.7%) were the most common categories for over-the-counter drugs. The distribution of serious adverse events were similar for both ethical-the-counter and over-the-counter drugs. Conclusion: Differences were observed in age, gender, reported medications, and symptoms for both ethical-the-counter and over-the-counter drugs. Further pharmacovigilance activities considering the adverse event characteristics of over-the-counter drugs, which are comparable to ethical-the-counter drugs, should be performed.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.77-82
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• 2018

국내에서 LM 작물의 재배는 승인 된 바 없으나 식품용 및 사료용으로 LM 작물이 수입되고 있으며 LM 작물의 국내 수입량은 꾸준히 증가하고 있는 추세이다. 본 연구는 2014년 경기 지역의 LM 옥수수 유출여부를 모니터링 하기 위해 수행되었으며 채집된 의심시료는 단백질 검정 분석법과 중합효소 연쇄반응을 통해 분석하였다. 경기 지역의 항만, 운송로, 사료공장 및 축산농가 등 총 169개 지점을 조사하였고 총 44개의 LM 옥수수 의심시료를 채집하였다. 단백질 검정 분석법으로 4개의 양성반응 시료를 확인하였고 동일지점의 시료는 혼합하여 총 3개의 시료에 대해 프로모터 스크리닝과 이벤트 특이적 프라이머를 이용한 중합효소 연쇄반응을 실시하여 의심시료 모두 LM 옥수수로 확인하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 국내 자연환경에서 LM 옥수수의 유출 현황 파악과 자연 생태계로 LM 옥수수의 유출을 예방하기 위해 자연생태계 모니터링이 매우 중요하다는 것을 뒷받침한다.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.40-50
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• 2012

Increase in the number of older people due to demographic changes poses great challenges to the social healthcare systems both in the Western and as well as in the Eastern countries. Support for older people by formal care givers leads to enormous temporal and personal efforts. Therefore, one of the most important goals is to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of today's care. This can be achieved by the use of assistive technologies. These technologies are able to increase the safety of patients or to reduce the time needed for tasks that do not relate to direct interaction between the care giver and the patient. Motivated by this goal, this contribution focuses on applications of acoustic technologies to support users and care givers in ambient assisted living (AAL) scenarios. Acoustic sensors are small, unobtrusive and can be added to already existing care or living environments easily. The information gathered by the acoustic sensors can be analyzed to calculate the position of the user by localization and the context by detection and classification of acoustic events in the captured acoustic signal. By doing this, possibly dangerous situations like falls, screams or an increased amount of coughs can be detected and appropriate actions can be initialized by an intelligent autonomous system for the acoustic monitoring of older persons. The proposed system is able to reduce the false alarm rate compared to other existing and commercially available approaches that basically rely only on the acoustic level. This is due to the fact that it explicitly distinguishes between the various acoustic events and provides information on the type of emergency that has taken place. Furthermore, the position of the acoustic event can be determined as contextual information by the system that uses only the acoustic signal. By this, the position of the user is known even if she or he does not wear a localization device such as a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제36권5호
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• pp.360-372
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• 2010

Concentrations of ambient air particles such as total suspended particulates (TSP), particulate matter $(PM)_{10}$, and $PM_{2.5}$, were monitored simultaneously from May to June, 2007, at four locations at Alashan and Beijing in China, and Seoul and Gosan in South Korea. These monitoring sites are in the pathway of Asian dust (AD) storms traveling from China to the Korean peninsula. An AD event was observed in the Korean peninsula on May 25-26. During the sampling period, the average concentrations of TSP and PM10 were each higher than $150\;{\mu}g/m^3$ in Alashan and Beijing, but not in Seoul and Gosan. The concentration of TSP in Alashan (where the dust storm originated) on the day of the AD event reached $1824.7\;{\mu}g/m^3$, this being the highest concentration of air particles observed during the sampling period. The level was decreased to 15% of this ($274.7\;{\mu}g/m^3$) in Seoul and to 8.7% ($159.0\;{\mu}g/m^3$) in Gosan when the AD was observed two days later in Korea. Gosan, a representative background site in East Asia, displayed the lowest concentration of particles, with this maximal TSP concentration of $159\;{\mu}g/m^3$. Inorganic element contents in the air particles were also measured, and the concentrations in the four different regions compared. Concentrations of anthropogenically-enriched heavy metals in $PM_{10}$ and $PM_{2.5}$, such as lead, arsenic, cadmium, and mercury, were higher in the metropolitan cities of Beijing and Seoul compared to non-industrialized regions of Alashan and Gosan. However, the concentrations of inorganic soil elements including iron, magnesium, aluminum sodium, and manganese, were higher in Alashan compared to those in other sampling sites.

• 지구물리와물리탐사
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.177-188
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• 2022

최근 이산화탄소 지중저장 모니터링 기술 중 하나인 미소진동 모니터링 기술에 대한 관심이 증가하면서 과거에 주로 사용되었던 지오폰이나 지진계가 아닌 분포형 광섬유 센서(distributed acoustic sensing, DAS)의 적용도 증가하고 있다. 특히 DAS를 이용하여 모니터링을 수행하면 시×공간적으로 거의 연속된 자료가 기록되게 되어 자료의 양이 방대해지게 되고 빠르고 정확한 자료 처리가 중요하게 된다. 자료처리 중 이벤트 탐지 및 위상 발췌는 가장 기초적인 과정으로 모든 자료에 대해 필수적으로 수행되어야 한다. 이 논문에서는 기계학습 기반의 P, S파 위상 발췌 알고리즘을 개발하여 전통적인 위상 발췌 방법의 한계를 보완하고, 전이학습 방법을 이용하여 신호 대 잡음비가 낮은 단일 성분 자료만 존재하는 DAS 자료에도 적용이 가능하도록 하였다. 사용된 기계학습 모델은 위상 발췌에 뛰어난 성능을 보이는 합성곱 신경망 기반의 EQTransformer를 ResUNet의 특성을 포함하도록 수정하여 구성하였다. 훈련자료는 전세계적으로 기록된 지진파형 자료인 STEAD자료를 이용하였고 학습 자료에 포함되지 않은 특성들에 대해서도 좋은 성능을 보이도록 기본 자료를 다양하게 변형시킨 자료도 학습에 사용하였다. 개발된 알고리즘은 학습자료와 다른 특성을 갖는 K-net 및 KiK-net 자료에 의해 성능이 검증되었다. 또한, 전이 학습을 통해 DAS 자료의 특성에 맞게 변형시킨 후 포항 장기분지에서 측정된 DAS자료에 적용시켜 그 성능을 검증하였다.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.432-438
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 반도체 장비의 상황을 인지하는 시스템을 제안하고 이에 대한 성능을 평가하였다. 제안하는 시스템은 반도체 장비 주변에 배치된 클라이언트 노드의 가속도, 압력, 온도, 가스 센서로부터 정보를 획득하고 서버로 데이터를 전송한다. 서버로 전송된 데이터는 다중 이벤트 및 단일 이벤트의 상황인지 알고리즘을 통해 알람을 3단계로 발생시키게 된다. 제안한 상황인지 시스템의 동작 실험결과에 따른 상황인지 알고리즘을 사용하지 않은 경우보다 알람이 약 80% 정도 적게 발생하여 정보의 신뢰성 및 효율성을 향상시켰으며, 다수의 클라이언트 노드로부터 주위의 정보를 습득할 수 있으므로 반도체 장비의 효과적인 상태감시가 가능함을 확인하였다.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.309-316
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• 2013

The Non-Point Sources shows different characteristics over a wide area depending on basin situation and rainfall events etc. In addition, Among various land uses in the urban areas, runoff appears high in the paved area, though small in its size, during a heavy rain than in other land use owing to its high impervious rate, and pollutants become severly accumulated owing to continual transportation of vehicles, characteristically showing high concentrations of runoff in the early stage. As a result, several advanced countries including USA give a special emphasis on the paved area as a target for supervision. In view of these aspects, the research is not only required to consider separated sub-basins which are distributed according to land uses, but also needed to develop a suitable monitoring which is reflected rainfall-runoff relation. The on-site monitoring has been performed to collect data in object watershed as well.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.1689-1696
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• 2017

In recent academic and industrial circles of the Republic of Korea, the securement of available reactive power reserve against the line faults is at issue. Thus, simulations have been performed for the securing of effective reactive power reserve (effective Q) to prepare for the line faults and improve reactive power monitoring and control methods. That is, a research has been conducted for the fast-decoupled Newton-Raphson method. In this study, a method that distinguishes source and sink regions to carry out faster provision of information in the event of line fault has been proposed. This method can perform quantification with the formula that calculates voltage variations in the line flow. The line flow and voltage changes can be easily induced by the power flow calculation performed every second in the operation system. It is expected that the proposed method will be able to contribute to securement of power system stability by securing efficient reactive power. Also, the proposed method will be able to contribute to prepare against contingencies effectively. It is not easy to prepare quickly for the situation where voltage drops rapidly due to the exhaustion of reactive power source by observing voltage information only. This paper's simulation was performed on the large scale Korean power system in steady state.