• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.132-137
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• 2010

Interleaving techniques are widely used to reduce input/output ripples and to increase the power capacity of boost converters operating in critical conduction mode. Two types of phase-shift control schemes are studied in this paper, the turn-on time shifting method and the turn-off time shifting method. It is found that although the turn-off time shifting method exhibits better performance, it suffers from sub-harmonic oscillations at high input voltages. To solve this problem, an intensive quantitative analysis of the sub-harmonic oscillation phenomenon is made in this paper. Based upon that, a novel modified turn off time shifting control scheme for interleaved boost converters operating in critical conduction mode is proposed. An important advantage of this scheme is that both the master phase and the slave phase can operate stably in critical conduction mode without any oscillations in the full input voltage range. This method is implemented with a FPGA based digital PWM control platform, and tests were carried out on a two-phase interleaved boost PFC converter prototype. Experimental results demonstrated the feasibility and performance of the proposed phase-shift control scheme.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제34권9호
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• pp.60-66
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• 2006

현재 개발 중인 통신해양기상위성은 남쪽면에만 태양전지판이 장착되어 있기 때문에 태양복사압에 의하여 누적되는 모멘텀을 줄이기 위해 휠오포로딩을 정기적으로 수행해야 한다. 일반적으로 정지궤도 위성은 경도와 이심률을 보정하기 위해서 2번의 위치유지 기동을 매 주기마다 수행하는데, 본 논문에서는 기상센서와 해양센서의 충분한 관측시간을 확보하기 위해서 2번의 동서위치보정 기동 중 1번의 기동을 휠오포로딩과 동시에 수행될 수 있다. 선형 궤도기동 방정식을 적용하여 기동시각과 기동크기를 얻었다. 이렇게 구한 기동을 적용하여 수치적분으로 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다. 또한 이를 휠오프로딩과 동시에 수행하지 않는 일반적 방법과 비교 검토 하였다.

• 산업공학
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.414-423
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• 1999

A nuclear power plant requires a huge amount of initial investment and long construction lead time. As we expect that there may exist a relationship between investment and construction lead time, a number of researchers have reported that nearly a half of investments is incurred due to time factors such as the time value of money and inflation or escalation rates. Therefore, we investigated in this paper a relationship between the initial investment and the construction lead time of a nuclear power plant construction, and proposed a method for a trade-off analysis between the annual equivalent worth and the investment alternatives to reduce the construction lead time. Finally, we presented a real case to numerically explain the steps of the method presented in this paper.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• 제32권1_2호
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• pp.129-136
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• 2014

One of the fundamental issues in the design of dynamic spectrum access policy is the modeling of the dynamic behavior of channel occupancy by primary users. Under a Markovian modeling of channel occupancy, a periodic sensing and greedy access policy is known as one of the simple and practical dynamic spectrum access policies in cognitive radio networks. In this paper, the primary occupancy of each channel is modeled as a discrete-time alternating renewal process with generally distributed on- and off-periods. A periodic sensing and greedy access policy is constructed based on the general channel occupancy model. Simulation results show that the proposed policy has better throughput than the policies using channel models with exponentially distributed on- or off-periods.

• 한국초전도ㆍ저온공학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.17-20
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• 2014

We have investigated the effect of temperature and bias current on the stability of the inverse spin-switch effect in Permalloy(Py)/Nb/Permalloy pseudo spin-valves. The inverse spin-switch operates between two orientations of the ferromagnetic moments of Py layers; parallel (ON) and antiparallel-domain (OFF) state. Measuring time scans of the resistance changes between the ON and OFF state, ${\Delta}R_{ON-OFF}$, while alternating magnetic fields between the two states at various temperatures and bias currents, revealed that enhancement of ${\Delta}R_{ON-OFF}$ is a key factor to achieve successful operation of superconducting spin switch.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.79-86
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• 1995

Frequency response method is used to design hydraulic servo systems and improve its performance. In this study a method is proposed to get simply the frequency response of the electro-hydraulic servo system which use PWM controlled high-speed on-off valves. Firstly, the describing function of the PWM element is derived and tested. It is found that the character- istic of PWM element could be approximated to a saturation characteristic in the range of allowable frequency. And the dynamic characteristic of the valve-cylinder system could be negligible. The working characteristic of high-speed on-off valve is considered as time delay. So simulation is performed in the basis of the reconstructed block diagram. And this method is verified by experiments.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.26-31
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• 1998

For the semiactive vibration control, a variable damper and proper control systems are essential. In this research, a controllable damper was designed using the MR fluids and its mechanical properties such as damping constant and response time were measured. Since the response time of the MR damper was much longer than nominal MR fluid response time, the time delay of the damper should be considered in the design of controllers. It is shown that the advanced On/Off vibration control which includes the damper time delay performs more effectively than the conventional one.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제57권3호
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• pp.272-280
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• 2024

Background: The phenomenon known as the "weekend effect" impacts various medical disciplines. We compared outcomes between regular hours and off hours to investigate the presence of the weekend effect in extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR). Methods: Between January 2018 and December 2020, 159 patients at our center were treated with veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for cardiac arrest. We assessed the time required for ECMO preparation, the rate of successful weaning, and the rate of in-hospital mortality. These factors were compared among regular hours ("daytime": weekdays from 7:00 AM-7:00 PM), off hours on weekdays ("nighttime": weekdays from 7:00 PM-7:00 AM), and off hours on weekends and holidays ("weekend": Fridays at 7:00 PM to Mondays at 7:00 AM). Results: The time from the recognition of cardiac arrest to the arrival of the ECMO team was shortest for the daytime group and longest for those treated over the weekend (daytime, 10.0 minutes; nighttime, 12.5 minutes; weekend, 15.0 minutes; p=0.064). The time from the ECMO team's arrival to ECMO initiation was shortest for the daytime and longest for the nighttime group (daytime, 13.0 minutes; nighttime, 18.5 minutes; weekend, 14.0 minutes; p=0.028). No significant difference was observed in the rate of successful ECMO weaning (daytime, 48.3%; nighttime, 39.5%; weekend, 36.1%; p=0.375). Conclusion: In situations involving CPR, the time to arrival of the ECMO team was longer during off hours. Furthermore, ECMO insertion required more time at night than during the other periods. These findings warrant specific training in decision-making and emergent ECMO insertion.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.186-194
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• 2014

Establishment of adhesion strength measurement procedure for marine epoxy coatings was conducted in order to ensure reliability of the test results. It was found that (1) the increase in thickness of the substrates would induce increase of pull-off strength. Especially, the increase in adhesion strength with the substrate thickness increment was attributed to the transition of stress mode to the pure tensile mode excluding bending effect. (2) The longer curing time, the higher pull-off strength. It may be due to higher cross-linking density of the coating (3) The pull-off strength increases as coating thickness increases due to the diminishment of bending effect (4) The longer drying time after water immersion, the higher pull-off strength. It may be due to the evaporation of water molecule at the coating-substrate interface.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권5B호
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• pp.247-256
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 무선 센서 네트워크를 위한 위치 정보의 시간차를 이용한 라우팅 프로토콜(Geo-Back)을 제안한다. Geo-Back은 기존의 위치 기반 라우팅 알고리즘과 달리 주기적인 이웃 노드들의 위치 정보 혹은 하나의 홉 내에 있는 이웃 노드들 수의 정보를 이용하지 않고, 오직 소스와 목적지 노드의 위치 정보만을 이용하며, 최적의 back-off 시간 메커니즘을 사용하여 패킷 전송을 결정한다. 빈번한 토폴로지 변화 환경 하에서, 제안하는 Geo-Back 프로토콜은 업데이트를 위한 브로드캐스트 알고리즘을 사용하지 알고 빠르게 목적지까지 전송하기 위한 최적의 다음 홉을 찾을 수 있으며, 분석 결과 밀집 환경의 무선 센서 네트워크에서 확장성과 향상된 성능을 확인 하였다.