• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.658-665
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• 2014

The neural stimulators have been employed to the visual prostheses system based on the functional electrical stimulation (FES). Due to the size limitation of the implantable device, the smaller area of the unit current driver pixel is highly desired for higher resolution current stimulation system. This paper presents a 16-channel compact current-mode neural stimulator IC with digital to analog converter (DAC) sharing scheme for artificial retinal prostheses. The individual pixel circuits in the stimulator IC share a single 6 bit DAC using the sample-and-hold scheme. The DAC sharing scheme enables the simultaneous stimulation on multiple active pixels with a single DAC while maintaining small size and low power. The layout size of the stimulator circuit with the DAC sharing scheme is reduced to be 51.98 %, compared to the conventional scheme. The stimulator IC is designed using standard $0.18{\mu}m$ 1P6M process. The chip size except the I/O cells is $437{\mu}m{\times}501{\mu}m$.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.545-565
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• 2018

A numerical code is developed based on potential flow theory to investigate nonlinear sloshing in rectangular Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) tanks under forced excitation. Using this code, internal free-surface elevation and sloshing loads on liquid tanks can be obtained both in time domain and frequency domain. In the mathematical model, acceleration potential is solved in the calculation of pressure on tanks and the artificial damping model is adopted to account for energy dissipation during sloshing. The Boundary Element Method (BEM) is used to solve boundary value problems of both velocity potential and acceleration potential. Numerical calculation results are compared with published results to determine the efficiency and accuracy of the numerical code. Sloshing properties in partially filled rectangular and membrane tank under translational and rotational excitations are investigated. It is found that sloshing under horizontal and rotational excitations share similar properties. The first resonant mode and excitation frequency are the dominant response frequencies. Resonant sloshing will be excited when vertical excitation lies in the instability region. For liquid tank under rotational excitation, sloshing responses including amplitude and phase are sensitive to the location of the center of rotation. Moreover, experimental tests were conducted to analyze viscous effects on sloshing and to validate the feasibility of artificial damping models. The results show that the artificial damping model with modifying wall boundary conditions has better applicability in simulating sloshing under different fill levels and excitations.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.286-299
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• 2006

모델링 시뮬레이션 그리고 센서 장비 기술의 지속적인 발전으로 최근에 매우 높은 해상도를 갖는 방대한 크기의 볼륨 데이타들이 일반화되고 있다. 과학적 가시화 분야에서, 이러한 데이타를 고성능 병렬 컴퓨터를 사용하여 효과적으로 가시화하기 위한 다양한 대화식 실시간 기법들이 제안되어 왔다. 본 논문에서는 모바일 클라이언트, 게이트웨이, 병렬 렌더링 서버로 구성되는 모바일 볼륨 가시화 시스템의 개발에 관해 설명한다. 모바일 클라이언트는 병렬 렌더링 서버에게 전달할 렌더링 / 뷰잉 파라미터를 설정할 수 있는 기능뿐만 아니라, 관심이 있는 특정 영역을 점진적으로 높은 해상도의 영상을 이용해 탐색할 수 있는 기능을 제공한다. 게이트웨이는 안정적인 서비스를 위해 모바일 클라이언트와 병렬 렌더링 서버 사이에서 주고받는 요청과 응답을 관리하는 역할을 한다. 병렬 렌더링 서버는 클라이언트로부터 전달받은 렌더링 컨텍스트를 이용하여 정의된 특정 부분 볼륨을 가시화하고, 고해상도의 최종 영상을 클라이언트에게 되돌려 주는 작업을 수행한다. 제안된 시스템은 PDA를 갖고 있는 여러 사용자가 협력작업(CSCW) 모드를 통해 동시에 볼륨 데이타 가운데 공통으로 관심을 갖는 특정 부분, 렌더링 컨텍스트, 그리고 최종 영상을 공유할 수 있도록 설계되었다.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.117-134
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• 2006

Korean health care system introduced the reform for separation between prescribing and dispensing of drugs (SPD reform) in the latter part of the year 2000. The objective of this paper is to look at what change this reform has brought about in the financial situation of Korean public health insurance scheme, particularly in terms of insurance benefit outlay. Since the inception of the reform is a development of more than five years ago, its impact on the finance situation would now start to become apparent. Hypothesis is set in this study for each of three components of drug reimbursement in health insurance, i.e. average price level, composition of drugs and their overall volume. In terms of the classification of health care services by mode of production, the impact of the SPD reform is confined mainly to the last two among three drug reimbursement fields including inpatient department, out-patient department and pharmacy. Pure impact of the SPD reform was estimated to be more or less than 1.7 trillion won, 13.1% of the total outlay of the Nation Health Insurance in 2001, and more than 2.0 trillion won, 14.9% of the total outlay of the Nation Health Insurance in 2003. Both dispensing fees for the pharmacists, which had been newly introduced on occasion of the SPD reform, and larger share of expensive drugs in the medicines prescribed by doctors were confirmed to be main drivers of the augmentation of drug reimbursement.

• 경영과학
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.221-235
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• 2002

Many people are getting more and more interested in the value of information sharing in a supply chain in proportion to the development of information technology in these days. In spite of much interest in the value of shared information, the related studies concluded that the effect of only sharing information strategy between upper and lower level is not large However, many related companies want to link each channel members in the supply chain with on-line to expect to reduce the cost by means of information sharing. This study wants to evaluate the alternative strategy to reduce more related costs than only sharing information strategy. This paper analyzed that how much the total supply chain cost is to change in the case of a transfer of decision rights from the lower (retailers) to the upper level (depot, vendor) in a supply chain. The decision rights mean the rights of being able to decide when to order, how much to order, where to order, and what mode to transport or distribute, etc. in a supply chain. By the experimental simulation study to the simple case, the strategy to share only information took the low effect of 1～2%, but the strategy to transfer the decision lights from the lower to the upper member had larger effect of about 5%. However. for the strategies to work well, it needs to cooperate closely among each supply chain members, and the fruits from the transfer of decision rights in a supply chain are allocated to each chain members reasonably Therefore, there needs to study in the future not only the exact transfer effect of decision rights, but the reasonable allocation method of the fruits among the chain members.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.69-76
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• 2010

While increased use of motor cycles in the recent years for various demands could worsen air quality, only few studies have been conducted on estimation of emission factors and characterization of emissions from motorcycle. In this study, emissions from selected six models of motorcycle based on largest market share and production rate were investigated. To investigate gaseous and carbonaceous air pollutants, such as carbon monoxide (CO), total hydrocarbon (THC), nitrogen oxide ($NO_x$), elemental carbon (EC) and organic carbon (OC), total 124 motorcycles between 2003 and 2007 model year were tested with regulatory driving conditions, such as CVS-40 and CVS-47 mode. These motorcycles were further sub-categorized based on their displacement (< 50 cc, 50~150 cc, and $\geq$ 150 cc), type of stroke (2- and 4 strokes) and model year (2003~2005 and 2006~2007). Tested motorcycles with recent model year (2006~2007) exhibited less emissions of regulatory gaseous and carbonaceous air pollutants compared to old model year (2003~2005). Chemical analysis showed that CO present in highest concentration followed by THC and $NO_x$ for all tested motorcycles. Interestingly, two strokes motorcycle produced higher THC emission but less CO and $NO_x$ than those of four strokes. For all types of displacement and stroke, emission factors (gram per kilometer) of THC and CO except $NO_x$ with recent model year (2006~2007) showed decreased trend compared to old model year (2003~2005). In addition to this, due to mixed combustion between gasoline fuel and lubricant, two strokes motorcycle showed OC > EC emission trend.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제14권10호
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• pp.5156-5161
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• 2013

분산 공간 데이터 스트림 처리에서는 분산 노드의 활용도를 높이고 고장이 발생한 경우 신속하게 시스템을 복구하기 위해 하위 노드에서 처리된 튜플에 대해 상위 노드로 데이터를 백업한다. 그러나 데이터의 유입량이 증가하고 노드의 연산 결과를 다수의 하위 노드들과 공유할 때 튜플 처리가 지연되면 상위 노드의 삭제 지연으로 인해 백업 데이터의 손실을 야기할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 노드들의 데이터 유입량과 하위 노드의 연산 처리율을 분석하고 적응적 업스트림 백업 방법을 적용하여 노드의 평균 부하율을 감소시키고, 노드 연산 결과의 공유에 따른 데이터 손실을 최소화하는 방법을 제안한다. 그리고 실험에서는 제안 기법을 통해 데이터 손실을 방지하고, 노드 모니터링에 소요되는 CPU 사용률을 평균 20% 감소시키는 결과를 나타낸다.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.663-670
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 적응적 상호작용 기반의 동영상 강의계획서 템플릿을 정의하고 있다. 대학에서의 강의계획서는 교수학습 설계도로서 매우 중요한 의미를 가지고 있으나 단편적인 구조내용, 타서비스 연계 부족, 재사용성 부족 등으로 형식적인 문서로 여겨지고 실제로는 단순한 조회에 그치고 있다. 본 논문에서는 교수학습과 관련된 실질적인 정보를 제공하고 교수자와 학습자의 상호학습 정보공유가 가능한 입체적인 강의계획서를 설계한다. 제안하는 기법은 강의계획서의 계층구조 정의, 학습자의 선호도에 맞는 미디어 콘텐츠 적용, 정보전달의 실시간 변동 기능 등을 포함하여 교수학습 중심의 강의계획서 서비스를 가능하게 한다. 실제 LMS를 통해 제공된 동영상 강의계획서는 편의성을 강화해서 사용자들의 활용도를 높이고 교수학습의 유용성과 신뢰성을 보인다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.179-191
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• 2018

This study is aimed at investigating the dynamic performance of a composite building structure under seismic ground motions. The building structure is an official fire department building located in southern Taiwan. It is composed of a seven-story reinforced concrete (RC) and an eight-story steel reinforced concrete (SRC) frame. Both frames share a common basement and are separated by expansion joints from the first to the seventh floor. Recorded floor accelerations of the building structure under eight earthquakes occurring during the period from 2011 to 2013 were examined in this paper. It is found that both frames had similar floor acceleration amplifications in the longitudinal direction, while the SRC frame revealed larger response than the RC frame in the transverse direction. Almost invariant and similar fundamental periods under the eight earthquakes in both directions were obtained from their transfer functions. Furthermore, numerical time-history simulations were carried out for the building structure under the most intensive earthquake. It is realized that the seismic response of the composite building was dominated by the first translational mode in each horizontal direction. Higher modes did not significantly contribute to the structural response. The conventional Rayleigh damping model could be appropriately applied to the time-history simulations under bi-directional excitations. Approximate floor acceleration envelopes were obtained with a compound RC and SRC structural model by using the average damping ratios determined from the different structural arrays.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권9호
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• pp.4109-4114
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• 2015

Background: Full-field digital mammography (FFDM) with dense breasts has a high rate of missed diagnosis, and digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) could reduce organization overlapping and provide more reliable images for BI-RADS classification. This study aims to explore application of COMBO (FFDM+DBT) for effect and significance of BI-RADS classification of breast cancer. Materials and Methods: In this study, we selected 832 patients who had been treated from May 2013 to November 2013. Classify FFDM and COMBO examination according to BI-RADS separately and compare the differences for glands in the image of the same patient in judgment, mass characteristics display and indirect signs. Employ Paired Wilcoxon rank sum test was used in 79 breast cancer patients to find differences between two examine methods. Results: The results indicated that COMBO pattern is able to observe more details in distribution of glands when estimating content. Paired Wilcoxon rank sum test showed that overall classification level of COMBO is higher significantly compared to FFDM to BI-RADS diagnosis and classification of breast (P<0.05). The area under FFDM ROC curve is 0.805, while that is 0.941 in COMBO pattern. COMBO shows relation of mass with the surrounding tissues, the calcification in the mass, and multiple foci clearly in breast cancer tissues. The optimal sensitivity of cut-off value in COMBO pattern is 82.9%, which is higher than that in FFDM (60%). They share the same specificity which is both 93.2%. Conclusions: Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) could be used for the BI-RADS classification in breast cancer in clinical.