• 한국전문물리치료학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.39-46
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of slump sitting postures on the masticatory, neck, shoulder, and trunk muscles associated with work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMD). Eleven healthy adults (age, $23.3{\pm}2.7$ yrs; height, $174.0{\pm}4.1$ cm; weight, $61.4{\pm}6.6$ kg) participated in this study. The participants were free of injury history and neurologic deficits in the masticatory, neck muscles and upper extremities at the time of participation. The subjects were asked to perform erect and slump sitting postures under the guidance of physical therapists. The surface electromyography (EMG) was recorded from the anterior temporalis, masseter, upper trapezius, serratus anterior, middle trapezius, L3 paraspinal, external abdominal oblique, gluteus maximus muscles of 11 adults as they performed visual terminal display work, which are known as the weakened and tightened muscles owing to WRMD. The recorded signals were averaged and normalized to the mean amplitude of the EMG signal obtained during submaximal reference voluntary contractions. The results of study were as follows: The masseter, upper trapezius, serratus anterior, middle trapezius, L3 paraspinal, external abdominal oblique muscles significantly differed in the slump sitting posture (p<.05). The muscle activities of the serratus anterior, middle trapezius muscle, and external abdominal oblique were significantly lower and that of the masseter, upper trapezius, L3 paraspinal muscles were significantly higher. Further research is needed to assess the motor control problems and the function of the deep muscles in posture stability of patients with WRMD.

• 천문학회보
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.47.2-47.2
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• 2014

Several studies have reported the presence of sodium excess objects having neutral atomic absorption lines at $5895{\AA}$ (NaD) and $8190{\AA}$ that are deeper than expected based on stellar population models that match the stellar continuum. The origin of these lines is therefore hotly debated. van Dokkum & Conroy proposed that low-mass stars (0.3M) are more prevalent in massive early-type galaxies, which may lead to a strong NaI 8190 line strength. It is necessary to test this prediction, however, against other prominent optical line indices such as NaD, Mgb, and Fe5270, which can be measured with a significantly higher signal-to-noise ratio than NaI 8190. We identified a new sample of roughly one thousand NaD excess objects (NEOs; ~8% of galaxies in the sample) based on NaD line strength in the redshift range 0.00$H{\beta}$ line strengths and significant emission lines, which are indicative of the presence of young stellar populations. This result implies that the presence of the interstellar medium and/or dust contributes to the increase in NaD line strengths observed for these galaxies.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제10B권5호
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• pp.491-496
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 정지 영상과 동영상 컨텐츠에 적용하기 위한 새로운 워터마크 설계 가이드라인을 제공한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 워터마크 설계 방법은 인간 시각 시스템 내의 시각 세포들의 기본적인 동작 특성인 상호간섭 및 배제 작용을 이용하여, 각각의 영상 컨텐츠의 특성을 반영하여 최대한의 워터마크 강도를 구하는데 있다. 영상 컨텐츠의 최대 워터마크를 결정할 수 있다면, 자연스럽게 워터마크의 강인성이 증가되어 일반적인 영상처리 공격이나 MPEG 공격에도 강인하게 동작한 수 있다. 정지영상에서는 여러 단계의 에지 성분이 나타나게 됨에 따라 인간 시각 시스템의 민감도가 급감하게 되고, 동영상에서는 움직임이 세밀해지고 또는 많아질수록 민감도가 급감한다는 점을 모델링하기 위해, 본 논문에서는 정지 영상에서의 엔트로피 마스킹과 동영상에서의 움직임 엔트로피 마스킹을 이용하여 민감도 저하 현상을 모델링하였다. 또한, (움직임) 엔트로피 마스킹 모델을 기존의 워터마크 기법에 적용한 결과를 통해, 일반적인 워터마크 기법에 엔트로피 마스킹을 더함으로써, 워터마크의 투명성을 늘리고, 자연스럽게 워터마크의 강건성을 늘릴 수 있음을 보였다.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.107-114
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• 2011

Location-Based Service(LBS) is a service that provides a variety of convenience in life using location information that can be obtained by mobile communication network or satellite signal. In order to provide LBS precisely and efficiently, we need the location determination technology, platform technology and server technology. In this study, we studied on how we can reduce the error on location determination of objects such people and things. Fingerprint location determination method was applied to this study because it can be used at current wireless communication infrastructure and less influenced by a variety of noisy environment than other location determination methods. We converted the probability value to logarithmic scale value because using the sum of k probability values is not suitable to be applied to weight determination. In order to confirm the performance of suggested method, we developed location determination test program with Visual Basic 6.0 and performed the test. According to indoor and outdoor test results, the suggested stochastic method reduced the distance error by 17%, 18% and 9% respectively at indoor environment and 25%, 11% and 4% at outdoor environment compared with deterministic NN, kNN and kWNN fingerprint methods.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권1C호
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• pp.23-33
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• 2007

고용량 고화질 동영상의 빠르고 효율적인 전송을 위해 압축은 반드시 필요한 기술이다. 이를 위해 사용되는 움직임 추정 기술은 동영상을 고효율로 압축할 수 있는 가장 중요한 기술의 하나이다. 제안한 방법은 다이아몬드 탐색 기법을 기반으로 하여 개선하였으며 탐색 패턴에 있어서 분할하거나 혹은 회전하는 다이아몬드의 형태를 갖고 있다. 제안한 방법은 특히 카메라의 이동을 따라 방향성을 갖는 움직임이 큰 영상의 경우에 있어 보다 좋은 화질 향상의 결과를 가지며 움직임이 적은 영상의 경우께 있어서는 보다 적은 탐색 점수로 움직임 추정을 가능하게 함으로서 계산량을 상당수 감소시킬 수 있다. 또한 초기 탐색 점수를 달리하여 화질과 속도 면에 있어서의 비교 우위에 따른 임의의 선택을 가능하게 하였다. 실험 결과 제안한 방법은 다이아몬드 탐색 기법(DS), 육각 탐색기법(HEXBS)과 비교하여 더 좋은 화질을 유지하면서 보다 적은 탐색 점수를 갖고 움직임 추정을 할 수 있으며 기존의 알고리즘과 비교하여 영상의 움직임의 적고 많음에 따라 적응적으로 탐색 점수를 줄이거나 늘리면서 보다 우수한 성능으로 탐색을 가능하게 한다.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2016

최근의 건축물은 복합적인 기능과 형태를 보이고 있으며, 크기가 거대해짐에 따라 구조물 건전성 감시(Structural Health Monitoring)기술의 수요 또한 증가하고 있다. 구조물마다 고유한 동특성을 가지고 있으며, 다양한 외력의 영향을 받기 때문에 구조물의 건전성을 평가하는 다양한 방법들이 연구되고 있다. 전문가에 의지하여 접근 가능한 지점에 대한 육안 검사 및 비파괴 검사를 벗어나 사각지대가 없는 온라인 계측 시스템의 구비와 함께 자동으로 위험요소를 검출하는 시스템이 요구되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 비선형적인 구조물의 응답을 고려하기 위해 관리도 기법, 평균제곱근편차, 일반 극치 분포 등과 같은 통계적 기법을 이용하여 이상거동을 판별에 활용할 수 있는 신호 특징 추출과 적응형 임계치 설정 알고리즘을 제안하였으며, 강제진동 실험과 실제 운용중에 있는 구조물의 지진 계측 시스템의 가속도 응답을 이용하여 성능을 검증하였다.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.98-104
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• 2004

지역 여건상 ILS나 VOR/DME 등 항행안전시설을 이용한 착륙이 곤란한 활주로에서는 조종사가 직접 눈으로 확인하여 착륙하는 선회비행방식이 이용되고 있는 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 김해공항 북측 활주로와 같이 항행안전시설을 설치하지 못하는 공항에 대하여 선회착륙하는 항공기가 악천후등으로 최종적으로 선회해야하는 지점을 발견하지 못하고 통과하여 사고가 발생하는 것을 막기 위하여 선회지점을 벗어난 지점에 무선전파의 전파막, 즉 마커신호로 조종사에게 위험신호를 알려주는 역할을 하는 장비를 개발하기로 한다. 이 경우 항공기에는 별도의 장비를 갖추지 않고 조종사가 별도의 조작을 하지 않아도 경보가 울리도록 하여 조종사의 부담을 최대한으로 줄여야 한다. 이를 만족하기 위해서 ILS의 구성장비로 사용중인 마커를 기반으로 하고, 현재 마커에 사용중인 송신기의 주파수 및 변조방식등을 그대로 이용하고, 변조주파수 및 신호만을 바꾸고, 안테나를 특수한 형태로 개발하기로 한다. 또한 안테나의 방사패턴의 크기를 시뮬레이션하고, 경보후의 비행경로를 계산하여 시스템의 유효성을 검증한다.

• International journal of thyroidology
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.130-136
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• 2018

Background and Objectives: Intraoperative neural monitoring (IONM) of recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) in thyroid surgery has been employed worldwide to identify and preserve the nerve as an adjunct to visual identification. The aims of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of IONM and difficulties in the learning curve. Materials and Methods: We studied 63 patients who underwent thyroidectomy with IONM during last 2 years. The standard IONM procedure was performed using NIM 3.0 or C2 Nerve Monitoring System. Patients were divided into two chronological groups based on the success rate of IONM (33 cases in the early period and 30 cases in the late period), and the outcomes were compared between the two groups. Results: Of 63 patients, 32 underwent total thyroidectomy and 31 thyroid lobectomy. Failure of IONM occurred in 9 cases: 8 cases in the early period and 1 case in the late period. Loss of signal occurred in 8 nerves of 82 nerves at risk. The positive predictive value increased from 16.7% in the early period to 50% in the late period. The mean amplitude of the late period was higher than that of the early period (p<0.001). Conclusion: IONM in thyroid surgery is effective to preserve the RLN and to predict postoperative nerve function. However, failure of IONM and high false positive rate can occur in the learning curve, and the learning curve was about 30 cases based on the results of this study.

• Journal of the Korean Physical Society
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• 제73권9호
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• pp.1393-1398
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• 2018

In conventional single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), only the photoelectric events in the detectors are used for image reconstruction. However, if the $^{131}I$ isotope, which emits high-energy radiations (364, 637, and 723 keV), is used in nuclear medicine, both photoelectric and Compton scattering events can be used for image reconstruction. The purpose of our work is to perform simulations for Compton SPECT by using the Geant4 application for tomographic emission (GATE). The performance of Compton SPECT is evaluated and compared with that of conventional SPECT. The Compton SPECT unit has an area of $12cm{\times}12cm$ with four gantry heads. Each head is composed of a 2-cm tungsten collimator and a $40{\times}40$ array of CdZnTe (CZT) crystals with a $3{\times}3mm^2$ area and a 6-mm thickness. Compton SPECT can use not only the photoelectric effect but also the Compton scattering effect for image reconstruction. The correct sequential order of the interactions used for image reconstruction is determined using the angular resolution measurement (ARM) method and the energies deposited in each detector. In all the results of simulations using spherical volume sources of various diameters, the reconstructed images of Compton SPECT show higher signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) without degradation of the image resolution when compared to those of conventional SPECT because the effective count for image reconstruction is higher. For a Derenzo-like phantom, the reconstructed images for different modalities are compared by visual inspection and by using their projected histograms in the X-direction of the reconstructed images.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.143-151
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• 2021

The enormous prevalence of transferring official confidential digital documents via the Internet shows the urgent need to deliver confidential messages to the recipient without letting any unauthorized person to know contents of the secret messages or detect there existence . Several Steganography techniques such as the least significant Bit (LSB), Secure Cover Selection (SCS), Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and Palette Based (PB) were applied to prevent any intruder from analyzing and getting the secret transferred message. The utilized steganography methods should defiance the challenges of Steganalysis techniques in term of analysis and detection. This paper presents a novel and robust framework for color image steganography that combines Linear Congruential Generator (LCG), simulated annealing (SA), Cesar cryptography and LSB substitution method in one system in order to reduce the objection of Steganalysis and deliver data securely to their destination. SA with the support of LCG finds out the optimal minimum sniffing path inside a cover color image (RGB) then the confidential message will be encrypt and embedded within the RGB image path as a host medium by using Cesar and LSB procedures. Embedding and extraction processes of secret message require a common knowledge between sender and receiver; that knowledge are represented by SA initialization parameters, LCG seed, Cesar key agreement and secret message length. Steganalysis intruder will not understand or detect the secret message inside the host image without the correct knowledge about the manipulation process. The constructed system satisfies the main requirements of image steganography in term of robustness against confidential message extraction, high quality visual appearance, little mean square error (MSE) and high peak signal noise ratio (PSNR).