• Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.34-40
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• 2012

Objectives: The aim was to confirm the stem cell-like properties of the dental pulp stromal cells and to evaluate the morphologic changes during in vitro chondrogenesis. Materials and Methods: Stromal cells were outgrown from the dental pulp tissue of the premolars. Surface markers were investigated and cell proliferation rate was compared to other mesenchymal stem cells. Multipotency of the pulp cells was confirmed by inducing osteogenesis, adipogenesis and chondrogenesis. The morphologic changes in the chondrogenic pellet during the 21 day of induction were evaluated under light microscope and transmission electron microscope. TUNEL assay was used to evaluate apoptosis within the chondrogenic pellets. Results: Pulp cells were CD90, 105 positive and CD31, 34 negative. They showed similar proliferation rate to other stem cells. Pulp cells differentiated to osteogenic, adipogenic and chondrogenic tissues. During chondrogenesis, 3-dimensional pellet was created with multi-layers, hypertrophic chondrocyte-like cells and cartilage-like extracellular matrix. However, cell morphology became irregular and apoptotic cells were increased after 7 day of chondrogenic induction. Conclusions: Pulp cells indicated mesenchymal stem cell-like characteristics. During the in vitro chondrogenesis, cellular activity was superior during the earlier phase (within 7 day) of differentiation.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.135-140
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• 2015

Background: A leaf cuticle has different structures and functions as a barrier to water loss and as protection from various environmental stressors. Methods: Leaves of Panax ginseng were examined by scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy to investigate the characteristics and development of the epicuticular structure. Results: Along the epidermal wall surface, the uniformly protuberant fine structure was on the adaxial surface of the cuticle. This epicuticular structure was highly wrinkled and radially extended to the marginal region of epidermal cells. The cuticle at the protuberant positions maintained the same thickness. The density of the wall matrix under the structures was also similar to that of the other wall region. By contrast, none of this structure was distributed on the abaxial surface, except in the region of the stoma. During the early developmental phase of the epicuticular structure, small vesicles appeared on wallecuticle interface in the peripheral wall of epidermal cells. Some electron-opaque vesicles adjacent to the cuticle were fused and formed the cuticle layer, whereas electron-translucent vesicles contacted each other and progressively increased in size within the epidermal wall. Conclusion: The outwardly projected cuticle and epidermal cell wall (i.e., an epicuticular wrinkle) acts as a major barrier to block out sunlight in ginseng leaves. The small vesicles in the peripheral region of epidermal cells may suppress the cuticle and parts of epidermal wall, push it upward, and consequently contribute to the formation of the epicuticular structure.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.13-21
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 시간지연과 입력포화를 갖는 카오스 시스템에 대한 퍼지 모텔 기반의 동기화 기법을 제안한다. 시간지연을 갖는 카오스 마스터 시스템과 슬레이브 시스템을 모델링하기 위해 Takagi-Sugeno(T-S) 퍼지 모델을 이용한다. 특히 슬레이브 시스템은 제어 입력이 제한되는 입력포화 특성을 갖는다고 가정한다. 선형 오차 피드백과 병렬 분상 보상(PDC) 방법에 따라 퍼지 카오스 동기화 시스템을 설계하고 동기화 오차 시스템의 국소 안정도 조건을 해석한다. 신호 전송 채널에는 시간지연이 항상 존재하므로 채널 시간지연 또한 고려한다. 입력포화와 시간지연을 갖는 퍼지 동기화 시스템의 국소 안정도에 대한 충분 조건은 Lyapunov-Krasovskii 이론을 적용하여 선형 행렬 부등식 (LMI) 문제의 해를 통해 얻어진다. 제안된 동기화 기법의 효과를 확인하기 위해서 모의 실험을 수행한다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제21권12호
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• pp.1447-1453
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 두 개의 이중 모드 공진기를 이용하여 이중 대역 통과 필터를 구현하였다. 단락 스터브를 이용한 이중 모드 공진기는 inter-digital 커패시터와 계단형 임피던스를 이용하여 소형화 되었다. 두 개의 이중 모드 공진기는 각 통과 대역의 중심 주파수에서 동작하도록 설계되었다. 전송 영점이 통과 대역의 상측이나 하측에 위치하여 차단 특성을 향상시킬 수 있다. 이중 대역 동작을 위해 이중 급전 구조를 이용하였다. 제안된 구조는 WLAN 대역인 2.45/5.25 GHz에서 동작하도록 설계 제작되었다. 제안된 이중 대역 통과 필터의 크기는 $10.83\;mm{\times}5.3\;mm$이다.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.469-478
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• 1994

이 연구에서는 고해상도 컬러 그래픽, 디지탈 영상신호처리, HDTV 등에 적합한 10비트 이상의 고해상도, 100 MHz이상의 변환 속도를 갖는 고속, 고정밀 정보처리용 D/A변환기를 설계하였다. 고속 동작을 위해 매트릭스 형태의 전류원 배열, 파이프 라인을 사용하지 않는 래치, 그리고 트랜스미션 함수 이론을 이용한 이차원 구조의 디 코더를 설계하였다. 이러한 구조는 정확성 및 선형성에서 우수한 특성을 보이며, 빠른 변환속도, 저전력 구현에 적합하다. 실리콘 면적의 소비를 줄이고 정밀도를 유지하기 위해 매트릭스 전류원을 가중 전류원과 비가중 전류원으로 분리하여 구성하였다. 고정 밀도를 얻기 위한 방안으로 글리치를 억제하는 새로운 전류원을 설계하고, 선형성을 개선하기위한 방안으로, 특정 시스템에서 최적의 스위칭 순서를 결정할 수 있고, grade error, 대칭적 오차 어느 것도 최대가 되지 않도록 제한하는 새로운 스위칭 알고리즘 을 제안하였다. 설계된 회로는 5V 공급 전원에 대하여 130mW의 전력소비 특성을 보이 고, 10 비트 이상의 분해능, 100MHz 이상의 속도로 동작할 수 있다.

• 치과방사선
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.87-109
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• 1998

The present study was designed to elucidate the effects of the Co-60 γ irradiation and/or calcium­deficient diet on the dentin and cementum formation of rat molar. The pregnant three-week old Sprague­Dawley rats were used for the study. The experimental group was divided into two groups, irradiation/normal diet group and irradiation/calcium-deficient diet group. The control group was non­irradiation/normal diet group. The abdomen of the rats at the 19th day of pregnancy were irradiated with single absorbed dose of 350cGy. The rat pups were sacrificed on the 14th day after delivery and the maxillae including molar tooth germ were taken. The specimens including the 1st molar tooth germ were prepared to make tissue sections for light and transmission electron microscopy. Some of tissue sections for light microscopy were stained immunohistochemically with anti-fibronectin antibody. The results were as follows; 1. The Hertwig's epithelial root sheath cells, which are related to the differentiation of the tooth-forming cells, showed irregular cellular arrangement, decrease of intercellular junctional complex, and decreased immunoreactivity to the fibronectin after irradiation. These were more severe in the irradiation/calcium-deficient diet group. 2. The cementoblasts at the cementum-forming area showed chromatin clumpings after irradiation. The immu noreactivity to the fibronectin was weaken after irradiation, especially irradiation/calcium-deficient diet group. 3. The odontoblasts at the dentin-forming area showed increase of lysosomes in the cytoplasm and destruction of intercellular junctional complex. The irradiation/calcium-deficient diet group showed decrease of number and density of the electron dense particles and a large number of vacuoles scattered in the dentin matrix. The immunoreactivity was weaken.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.203-210
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• 2020

The corrosion behavior of super austenitic stainless steel was studied by examining the characteristics of the sigma phase formed in the steel. A range of experimental and analytical methods was employed, including potentiodynamic polarization tests, critical pitting temperature tests, transmission electron microscopy, and energy-dispersive spectroscopy. Three steel samples with different sigma phase levels were obtained by intentionally adjusting the manufacturing process. The results showed that the corrosion resistance of the samples was strongly dependent upon the size and distribution of the sigma phase precipitated in the samples. The larger the size of the sigma phase, the higher the Mo content in the sigma phase and the higher the depletion level of Mo at the interface between the matrix/sigma phase, the more samples with a coarse-sized sigma phase were susceptible to localized pitting corrosion at the interface. These results suggest that various manufacturing processes, such as welding and the post-heat treatment of the steel, should be optimized so that both the size and fraction of the sigma phase precipitated in the steel are small to improve the resistance to localized corrosion.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제25권3B호
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• pp.472-486
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• 2000

This paper analysis the performance of joint receiving structure consisting of the decorrelating multiuser detection and beamfromenr-RAKE receive for DS-CDMA communication systems. In asynchronous transmission as the number of simultaneous users increase. the capacity of CDMA system becomes severly reduced due to the nonideal orthogonality between user-assigned PN sequences and improper power control. Accordingly, the CDMA receiving system becomes vulnerable to the multiple access interferences and the near-far problem under multipath fading channel environment. To withstand these undesired performance degradations, this paper proposes the new type of multiuser detection which has a form of the hybrid structure of concatenating beamformer-RAKE receiver and decorrelating multiuser detection. the beam former-RAKE receiver performs temporal and spatial diversity combining with alleviating fading effect and suppressing undesired interferences, and the multiuser detection plays a role of making the receiver robust to the near-far problem. Regarding the individual merit on the usage of either multiuser detection or beamformer-RAKE receiver, the hybrid one is expected to produce the enhanced performance in multipath fading CDMA channel. However major drawback of using decorrelating multiuser detection for practical deployment is arised from its computational complexity , which is exponentially increased as more number of users and transmitted symbols involve. To diminish the computational complexity, this paper exploits an efficient block Toeplitz inversion technique using matrix Levinson polynomial will be introduced. And this paper provided the mathematical analysis to show the efficiency of the proposed joint structure under the multipath propagation environment. And results of a series of exhaustive computer simulations are presented in order to demonstrate the overall performance of the proposed hybrid structure in multipath fading CDMA channel.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.653-663
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• 2014

늘어나는 트래픽 양을 감당하기 위한 방안 중 하나로, 기지국 간의 간섭을 줄여 데이터 전송 속도를 최대화 시키는 방식의 연구가 활발히 진행 중이다. 본 연구에서도 간섭 제어를 위해 안테나 부 어레이를 활용하는 빔포밍을 통하여 간섭을 제어하는 두 가지 기법을 제안한다. 첫 번째 방식은 수평 빔 회전방식으로써 세 종류의 좁은 빔 패턴을 만들고, 이 빔 패턴을 시간 축에서 회전시키면서 간섭을 제어하는 방식이다. 두 번째 방식은 사용자 별 부 어레이 빔포밍 방식으로써 전송받는 사용자 위치에 맞춰 빔포밍 행렬을 적용함으로써 여타 사용자에 대한 간섭을 최소화하는 방식이다. 제안하는 방식의 활용을 통해 셀 내에서 수신 신호 세기 증가 및 외부 셀로부터의 간섭 신호를 억제하는 효과를 얻을 수 있으며, 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안하는 방식들의 성능 이득을 정량적으로 평가하여 제시한다.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제55권1호
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• pp.6-10
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• 2006

To improve mean-life and reliability of power cable, we have investigated specific heat (Cp) and thermal conductivity of XLPE insulator and semiconducting materials in 154(kV) underground power transmission cable. Specimens were respectively made of sheet form with EVA, EEA and EBA added $30[wt\%],$ carbon black, and the other was made of sheet form by cutting XLPE insulator in 154(kV) power cable. Specific heat (Cp) and thermal conductivity were measured by DSC (Differential Scanning Calorimetry) and Nano Flash Diffusivity. Specific-heat measurement temperature ranges of XLPE insulator were from $20[^{\circ}C]\;to\;90[^{\circ}C],$ and the heating rate was $1[^{\circ}C/mon].$ And the measurement temperatures of thermal conductivity were $25[^{\circ}C],\;55[^{\circ}C]\;and\;90[^{\circ}C].$ In case of semiconducting materials, the measurement temperature ranges of specific heat were from $20[^{\circ}C]\;to\;60[^{\circ}C],$ and the heating rate was $1[^{\circ}C/mon].$ And the measurement temperatures of thermal conductivity were $25[^{\circ}C],\;55[^{\circ}C].$ In addition we measured matrix of semiconducting materials to show formation and growth of carbon black in base resins through the SEM. From these experimental results, both specific heat and thermal conductivity were increased by heating rate because volume of materials was expanded according to rise in temperature.