• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.46-51
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• 2013

Objectives: Load carrying tasks are recognized as one of the primary occupational factors leading to slip and fall injuries. Nevertheless, the mechanisms associated with load carrying and walking stability remain illusive. The objective of the current study was to apply local dynamic stability measure in walking while carrying a load, and to investigate the possible adaptive gait stability changes. Methods: Current study involved 25 young adults in a biomechanics research laboratory. One tri-axial accelerometer was used to measure three-dimensional low back acceleration during continuous treadmill walking. Local dynamic stability was quantified by the maximum Lyapunov exponent (maxLE) from a nonlinear dynamics approach. Results: Long term maxLE was found to be significant higher under load condition than no-load condition in all three reference axes, indicating the declined local dynamic stability associated with load carrying. Conclusion: Current study confirmed the sensitivity of local dynamic stability measure in load carrying situation. It was concluded that load carrying tasks were associated with declined local dynamic stability, which may result in increased risk of fall accident. This finding has implications in preventing fall accidents associated with occupational load carrying.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제61권4호
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• pp.542-549
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• 2023

대안 모델링에 대한 관심이 커진 이후 데이터 기반의 기계학습을 이용하여 비선형 화학 공정을 모사하고자 하는 연구가 지속되고 있다. 그러나 기계 학습 모델의 black box 성질로 인하여 모델의 해석 가능성에 한계는 산업 적용에 걸림돌이 되고 있다. 따라서, 모델의 정확도가 보장된 상태에서 해석력을 부여하는 개념인 설명 가능한 인공지능(explainable artificial intelligence, XAI)을 이용하여 화학 공정 분석을 시도하고자 한다. 기존의 화학 공정 민감도 분석이 변수의 민감도 지수를 계산하고 순위를 매기는 데에 그쳤다면, XAI를 이용하여 전역적, 국소적 민감도 분석뿐만 아니라 변수들 간의 상호작용에 대하여 분석하여 데이터로부터 물리적 통찰을 얻어내는 방법론을 제안한다. 사례 연구의 대상공정인 암모니아 합성 공정에 대하여 첫번째 반응기로 향하는 흐름에 대한 예열기(preheater)의 온도, 세 반응기로 향하는 cold-shot의 분배 비율을 공정 변수로 설정하였다. Matlab과 Aspen plus를 연동하여 공정 변수를 바꿔가면서 암모니아의 생산량과 세 반응기의 최고 온도에 대한 데이터를 얻었으며, tree 기반의 모델들을 훈련시켰다. 그리고 성능이 좋은 모델에 대하여 XAI 기법 중 하나인 SHAP 기법을 이용하여 민감도 분석을 수행하였다. 전역적 민감도 분석 결과, 예열기의 온도가 가장 큰 영향을 미쳤으며 국소적 민감도 분석 결과에서 생산성 향상 및 과열 방지를 위한 공정 변수들의 범위를 규정할 수 있었다. 이처럼 화학 공정의 대안 모델을 구축하고 설명 가능한 인공지능을 이용해 민감도 분석을 진행하는 방법론을 통해 공정 최적화에 대한 정량적, 정성적 피드백을 제안하는 데 도움을 줄 것이다.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2008년도 정기 학술대회
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• pp.307-312
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• 2008

Local damage may cause sequential collapse of structure, which is called progressive collapse. Current progressive collapse analysis is based on the mean value of design variables. This deterministic approach has a low reliability as it doesn't consider uncertainty of variables. In this study the sensitivity of design variables for progressive collapse of structure is evaluated by Monte Calro simulation and Tornado diagram. The analysis results show that the behaviour of model structures is highly sensitive to variation of the yield force of beams and the structural damping ratio.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.373-381
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• 2013

In this paper, the effects of phase noise on the radar system were analyzed in terms of 3 point of view. The impact(s) on the compressed pulse waveform, the FMICW(Frequency Modulated Interrupted Continuous Wave) radar performance and the receiver sensitivity were investigated. From the investigation, it was indicated that the phase noise over 10 kHz offset frequency makes the side lobe level of compressed pulse worse. Also it was founded that the FMICW radar performance, especially at the noise level of range profile, is related to the phase noise. Finally, the investigation showed that the phase noise at local oscillator affects the receiver sensitivity.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.45-51
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• 1983

본 논문에서는 대규모 시스템을 위한 준최적 저감도성 비집중형 제어기를 설계하기 위하여 준최적 이득 행렬을 구하기 위한 필요조건과 알고리즘을 유도하였다. 또한 감도를 고려하지 않은 종래의 비집중제어기와의 비교를 위하여 수치적 예를 들어 보였다.

• 한국임상수의학회지
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.300-303
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• 2016

An age-unknown, 4.8 kg, male, wild, domestic short-hair cat was presented for left hindlimb lameness. A physical examination revealed a draining tract which was suspected of bite on left calcaneal bone. The left tarsal joint was markedly swollen and exudates were observed around the draining tract. Sequestrum at left calcaneus bone, and osteolysis were identified by radiography. The sequestrum and its surrounding exudative tissue were debrided during surgery and the tissue was submitted for bacterial culture and sensitivity test. The debridement caused a bone defect ($1.5cm{\times}0.5cm{\times}0.5cm$) on the medial left calcaneal bone. Plate and screw fixation was performed to the calcaneus bone as buttress plate. Recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2) loaded hydroxyapatite was implanted in the bone defect. Furthermore, Amikacin-impregnated collagen sponges were also placed around bone plate to deliver local antibiotics. A systemic antibiotic treatment regimen based on bacterial culture and sensitivity test results was administered for 4 weeks. The wound properly healed without any signs of infection, and the bone healing was confirmed by radiography. The patient showed normal weight bearing ambulation at 18 weeks after surgery. The use of rhBMP-2 and local antibiotic delivery system is a good surgical option for the one-stage treatment of chronic osteomyelitis.

• 대기
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.13-21
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• 2013

In this study, the effects of atmospheric stability and surface temperature on the microscale local airflow are investigated in a hydrological suburban area using a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model. The model domain includes the river and industrial complex for analyzing the effect of water system and topography on local airflow. The surface boundary condition is constructed using a geographic information system (GIS) data in order to more accurately build topography and buildings. In the control experiment, it is shown that the topography and buildings mainly determine the microscale airflow (wind speed and wind direction). The sensitivity experiments of atmospheric stability (neutral, stable, and unstable conditions) represent the slight changes in wind speed with the increase in vertical temperature gradient. The differential heating of ground and water surfaces influences on the local meteorological factors such as air temperature, heat flow, and airflow. These results consequentially suggest that the meteorological impact assessment is accompanied by the changes of background land and atmospheric conditions. It is also demonstrated that the numerical experiments with very high spatial resolution can be useful for understanding microscale local meteorology.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권6호
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• pp.1627-1648
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• 2012

We propose an adaptive method for detecting plagiarized pairs from a large set of source code. This method is adaptive in that it uses an adaptive algorithm and it provides an adaptive threshold for determining plagiarism. Conventional algorithms are based on greedy string tiling or on local alignments of two code strings. However, most of them are not adaptive; they do not consider the characteristics of the program set, thereby causing a problem for a program set in which all the programs are inherently similar. We propose adaptive local alignment-a variant of local alignment that uses an adaptive similarity matrix. Each entry of this matrix is the logarithm of the probabilities of the keywords based on their frequency in a given program set. We also propose an adaptive threshold based on the local outlier factor (LOF), which represents the likelihood of an entity being an outlier. Experimental results indicate that our method is more sensitive than JPlag, which uses greedy string tiling for detecting plagiarism-suspected code pairs. Further, the adaptive threshold based on the LOF is shown to be effective, and the detection performance shows high sensitivity with negligible loss of specificity, compared with that using a fixed threshold.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.787-806
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• 2015

Due to corrosion, a large number of belt conveyors support structure in industrial plants have deteriorated. Severe corrosion may result in collapse of the structures. Therefore, practical and effective structural assessment techniques are needed. In this paper, damage identification methods based on two specific local vibration modes, named periodic and isolated local vibration modes, are proposed. The identification methods utilize the facts that support structures have many identical members repeated along the belt conveyor and there exist some local modes within a small frequency range where vibrations of these identical members are much larger than those of the other members. When one of these identical members is damaged, this member no longer vibrates in those modes. Instead, the member vibrates alone in an isolated mode with a lower frequency. A damage identification method based on frequencies comparison of these vibration modes and another method based on amplitude comparison of the periodic local vibration mode are explained. These methods do not require the baseline measurement records of undamaged structure. The methods is capable of detecting multiple damages simultaneously. The applicability of the methods is experimentally validated with a laboratory model and a real belt-conveyor support structure.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.238-247
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• 2015

본 논문은 영상 신호의 방향을 고려하여 기존의 multiband energy scaling 방법의 문제점을 보완하면서 human visual system(HVS)에 적합한 영상 local contrast 향상 방법을 개발하였다. 기존의 multiband energy scaling 방법은 신호 방향에 대한 고려 없이 화질을 향상시켜 ringing artifact가 발생하였으나 본 논문에서는 block gradient를 사용하여 신호의 방향을 측정하고 측정된 신호 방향에 따라 주파수 신호를 향상시켜 ringing artifact의 발생 없이 화질을 향상시켰다. 또한 본 논문은 human visual system(HVS)은 각 신호의 값 하나하나 보다는 각 신호가 가지는 주파수에 성분에 민감하게 반응한다는 것을 이용하여 주파수 성분에 대한 인간 시각의 민감도를 모델링한 contrast sensitivity function(CSF)에 따라 영상의 화질을 향상시켰다. 결국 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법은 신호의 특성과 인간 시각의 특성을 모두 고려하여 영상의 화질을 향상시키기 때문에 기존의 화질 향상 방법들에 비해 영상 신호와 인간 시각 특성에 더욱 적합하게 화질을 향상시킬 수 있다.