• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2007

To determine the effect of posture change on autonomic activity and to investigate valid parameters to reflex the autonomic activity from time-series pupil size data, a posture-related experiment was performed with 15 subjects, which involved measuring their electrocardiograms and pupil sizes. The experimental procedure consisted of three-sequence postures-supine, sitting and upright-for 5 minutes each, with rest sessions between postures. The subjects were notified of the entire experimental procedure. The parameters of the subjects' heart rate variability showed significant differences between the postures (heart rate: 63-70-80 beat, normalized low frequency power: 28-50-75, normalized high frequency power: 72-49-25 and ratio: 0.5-1.2-4.4 in supine-sitting-upright position respectively) as did the parameters of their mean pupil sizes (41300-53900-53700 pixels respectively) and the major frequencies (the third trend: 0.23-0.2-0.18 Hz respectively) of their pupil size variability according to changes in their autonomic activities induced by posture change. The experiment thus proved that posture change affects autonomic activity and that such activity can be estimated by the parameters of pupil size as similar as heart rate variability.

• 한국전문물리치료학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.40-46
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to determine which spatiotemporal gait parameters obtained during hemiplegic walking could be a predictive factor for the Timed Up and Go test (TUG). Two hundreds nine subjects who had suffered a stroke were recruited for this study. They were participated in two assessments; the TUG test and gait analysis. The relationship between the TUG test and spatiotemporal parameters was analyzed using Pearson's correlation coefficients. In addition, to predict the spatiotemporal gait parameters that correlated most with the TUG scores, we used multiple linear regression analyses (stepwise method). The results show that the normalized velocity was strongly correlated with the TUG performance (r=-.72, p<.001). Additionally, single support percentage (SSP), double support percentage (DSP), step time difference (STD), and step length difference (SLD) significantly were correlated with the TUG test. Normalized velocity, STD, DSP of affected side, and SSP of non-affected side explained 53%, 8%, 3%, 2%, of variance in the TUG test respectively. In conclusion, an increase in gait velocity and a decrease in STD would be effective indicators of improvement on the functional mobility in the stroke rehabilitation.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권4호
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• pp.1571-1584
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• 2023

In this study, a numerical analysis was performed as part of an international joint research project to reproduce a real cable tray fire that occurred in the heater bay area of the turbine building of a nuclear power plant. A sensitivity analysis was performed on various input parameters to derive results consistent with the sprinkler activation time obtained from the fire event analysis. For all sensitive parameters, the normalized sprinkler activation time correlated well with the power function of the normalized sprinkler height. A correlation equation was developed to identify the sprinkler activation time at any location when determining the slope or fire growth rate under the conditions assuming a linear or t-squared heat release rate (HRR) time curve. Various cable fire growth assumptions were used to determine which assumption was better to provide the prediction coincident with the information given from the fire event analysis in terms of the sprinkler activation time and total energy generated from cables damaged by fire. In the comprehensive analysis of all the sensitive parameters, the standard deviation of the input parameters increased as the sprinkler height decreased. Within the range of the sensitivity parameter values given in this study, when considering all sprinkler heights, the standard deviation of the cable model change was the largest and that of the overhang position change was the smallest.

• 한국터널지하공간학회 논문집
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.23-35
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• 2012

RMR은 평가방법의 수월성으로 인해 터널과 사면 등 토목공사 현장에서 암반평가 방법으로 널리 활용되고 있는 만큼 좀 더 쉽고 신뢰성 있는 수정 RMR법을 찾기 위한 연구는 꾸준히 진행되어 왔다. 그만큼 RMR에 대한 다수의 연구들이 여러 가지 통계적 분석 및 평가기법에 의해 변수의 개수나 배점을 조정한 수정 RMR법 제시에 치중된 측면도 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 정규화한 RMR변수들의 평가 경향 분석을 통하여 기 연구들에서 중요 평가 변수들을 공통적으로 포함하면서도 다양한 변수조합의 수정 RMR법들이 제안될 수 있었던 당위성에 대하여 고찰하였다. 나아가 변수들의 분포경향으로부터 현장에서의 평가경향에 대해서도 역 추론 하였다. 약 2000개의 현장 측정 데이터들에 대해 정규화한 후 RMR과 각 변수들의 1:1 평가를 실시한 결과 일정한 패턴의 상관관계와 평가경향이 나타났다. 정량적 평가 변수인 일축압축강도와 RQD는 RMR 기준선 대비 항시 상향 분포 추세로 나타나 RMR 값들을 평가절상 하는 역할을 하는 반면, 정성적 평가 성향이 큰 절리 상태와 지하수는 기준선 대비 대부분 하향 분포 추세로 나타나 RMR 값들을 평가절하 하는 역할을 하는 것으로 판단된다. 이를 통해 정량적인 변수들과 정성적인 변수들을 적절히 조합하면 어려운 통계분석 없이도 수정 RMR법을 제시할 수 있음을 알 수 있다. 또한 정성적인 변수에 대한 현장 엔지니어의 보수적인 암반평가 경향도 추론할 수 있다.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.311-317
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 SEPP-LCC형 부하 공진 고주파 인버터의 한 회로형식을 제안하고, 그 동작원리에 관해서 명확히 하였다. 제안한 인버터는 스위칭 소자 양단에 병렬로 커패시터를 추가함으로써 스위칭 소자의 턴-온과 턴-오프시에 발생하는 스위칭 손실, 노이즈, 스트레스 등을 줄일 수 있다. 범용성 있는 회로해석을 위하여 무차원화 파라미터를 도입하였고, 동작특성 및 평가를 통하여 얻은 특성치를 이용하여 회로를 설계하였다. 또한, 실험을 통하여 이론해석의 정당성을 입증하였다.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제14권10호
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• pp.1151-1158
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• 2000

Combustion analysis based on cylinder-pressure provides a mechanism through which a combustion researcher can understand the combustion process. The objective of this paper was to identify the most significant sources of cycle-to-cycle combustion variability in a spark ignition engine at idle. To analyse the cyclic variation in a test engine, the burn parameters are determined on a cycle-to-cycle basis through the analysis of the engine pressure data. The burn rate analysis program was used here and the burn parameters were used to determine the variations in the input parameter-i. e., fuel, air, and residual mass. In this study, we investigated the relationship of indicated mean effective pressure (IMEP), coefficient of variation (COV) of IMEP, burn angles, and lowest normalized value (LNV) in a spark ignition engine in a view of cyclic variations.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.669-678
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• 2020

This paper focuses on the free vibration analysis of axially functionally graded (FG) Euler-Bernoulli beams. The material properties of the beams are assumed to obey the linear law distribution. The complexities in solving differential equation of transverse vibration of composite beams which limit the analytical solution to some special cases are overcome using the Differential Transformation Method (DTM). Natural frequencies and corresponding normalized mode shapes are calculated. Validation targets are experimental data or finite element results. Different parameters such as reinforcement distribution, ratio of the reinforcement Young's modulus to the matrix Young's modulus and ratio of the reinforcement density to the matrix density are taken into investigation. The delivered results prove the capability and the robustness of the applied method. The studied parameters are demonstrated to be very crucial for the normalized natural frequencies and mode shapes.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제5권5호
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• pp.345-358
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• 2005

The response of single story buildings and other case studies are investigated to observe trends in response and to develop a better understanding of the impact of some design parameters on the seismic response of CBF. While it is recognized that many parameters have an influence on the behavior of braced frames, the focus of this study is mostly on quantifying energy dissipation in compression and its effectiveness on seismic performance. Based on dynamic analyses of single story braced frame and case studies, it is found that a bracing member designed with bigger R and larger KL/r results in lower normalized cumulative energy, i.e., cumulative compressive energy normalized by the corresponding tensile energy (${\sum}E_C/E_T$), in both cases.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.481-492
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• 1997

This paper presents an algorithm for recognizing surface mount device(SMD) IC pattern based on the error back propoagation(EBP) neural network and discrete cosine transform(DCT). In this approach, we chose such parameters as frequency, angle, translation and amplitude for the shape informantion of SMD IC, which are calculated from the coefficient matrix of DCT. These feature parameters are normalized and then used for the input vector of neural network which is capable of adapting the surroundings such as variation of illumination, arrangement of objects and translation. Learning of EBP neural network is carried out until maximum error of the output layer is less then 0.020 and consequently, after the learning of forty thousand times, the maximum error have got to this value. Experimental results show that the rate of recognition is 100% in case of the random pattern taken at a similar circumstance as well as normalized training pattern. It also show that proposed method is not only relatively relatively simple compare with the traditional space domain method in extracting the feature parameter but also able to re recognize the pattern's class, position, and existence.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.260-268
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 스위칭 시 발생하는 턴-온 및 턴-오프 손실을 줄일 수 있는 LS-ZVS-LSTC를 이용한 D급 SEPP형 고주파 공진 인버터에 대해서 나타내고 있다. 본 논문에서 제안한 LS-ZVS-LSTC를 이용한 고주파 공진 회로의 해석은 무차원화 파라메타를 도입하여 범용성 있게 기술하였다. 또한 제안 인버터의 운전 특성은 무파원화 제어 주파수(μ), 무차원화 부하시정수(τ), 결합계수(κ) 등의 제어 파라메타를 이용하여 특성 평가를 수행하였다. 특성 평가를 통한 특성치를 토대로 1.8[kW] D급 SEPP형 LS-ZVS-LSTC 고주파 인버터 설계 기법의 일예를 제시하였으며, 이론 해석의 정당성은 실험을 통해 입증하였다.