• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.13-20
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• 2007

LLC resonant converters display many advantages over the conventional LC series resonant converter such as narrow frequency variation over wide range of load and input variation and zero voltage switching even under no load conditions. This paper presents analysis and design consideration for the half bridge LLC resonant converter. Using the fundamental approximation, the gain equation is obtained, where the leakage inductance in the transformer secondary side is also considered. Based on the gain equation, the practical design procedure is investigated to optimize the resonant network for a given input/output specifications. The design procedure is verified through an experimental prototype of the 115W half-bridge LLC resonant converter.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.20-28
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• 2015

General purpose computing applications have not yet been thoroughly explored in procedure level speculation, especially in the light-weighted profiling way. This paper proposes a light-weighted profiling mechanism to analyze speculative parallelism characterization in several classic general purpose computing applications from SPEC CPU2000 benchmark. By comparing the key performance factors in loop and procedure-level speculation, it includes new findings on the behaviors of loop and procedure-level parallelism under these applications. The experimental results are as follows. The best gzip application can only achieve a 2.4X speedup in loop level speculation, while the best mcf application can achieve almost 3.5X speedup in procedure level. It proves that our light-weighted profiling method is also effective. It is found that between the loop-level and procedure-level TLS, the latter is better on several cases, which is against the conventional perception. It is especially shown in the applications where their 'hot' procedure body is concluded as 'hot' loops.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.77-97
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• 2007

When assessing buildings that may collapse during a large earthquake, conventional rapid visual screening procedures generally provide good results when identifying buildings for further investigation. Unfortunately, their accuracy at identify buildings at risk is not so good. In addition, there appears to be little room for improvement. This paper investigates an alternative screening procedure based on fuzzy logic and artificial neural networks. Two databases of buildings damaged during the Athens earthquake of 1999 are used for training purposes. Extremely good results are obtained from one database and not so good results are obtained from the second database. This finding illustrates the importance of specifically collecting data tailored to the requirements of the fuzzy logic based rapid visual screening procedure. In general, results demonstrate that the trained fuzzy logic based rapid visual screening procedure represents a marked improvement when identifying buildings at risk. In particular, when smaller percentages of the buildings with high damage scores are extracted for further investigation, the proposed fuzzy screening procedure becomes more efficient. This paper shows that the proposed procedure has a significant optimisation potential, is worth pursuing and, to this end, a strategy that outlines the future development of the fuzzy logic based rapid visual screening procedure is proposed.

• 대한치과기공학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.57-67
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• 2000

The 2 key bridge system has been developed to make crownless bridges without damaging sound teeth. Strong bridge work of single or multiple pontics is possible for replacing both anterior and posterior teeth. It is incresingly considerde to be unacceptable, by dentists as well as patients, to fully grind down healthy elements in order fit a conventional bridges. Because this technique uses a combination of hole and adhesive fitting, it has a number of adventages over etched bridges and conventional bridges: - In comparison with conventional bridges, hardly and healthy dental tissue is sacrificed - Due to the lack of crown edges there is no periodontal pressure, as is the case with conventional bridges - The treatment procedure is straight forward and involves less time than conventional bridges. - The treatment is largely resiverable and repairable

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.186-192
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• 2011

본 논문은 선형예측부호의 개선을 위한 새로운 과정을 제안한다. 코딩에 따른 오차를 줄이기 위하여, 신호에 윈도우를 적용하는 과정과 선형예측 과정의 순서를 바꾸었다. 이 처방은 윈도우를 적용한 자기상관을 이용하여 선형예측부호를 추출하는 것에 해당한다. 기존의 방법에서는 보다 적은 파라미터에 대해 레빈슨-더빈의 재귀적 계산법을 적용하는 것이 가능한 반면, 본 논문에서 제안된 방법에서는 더 많은 작업 파라미터에 대한 역행렬 계산이 필요하므로, 보다 긴 계산 시간이 요구된다. 하지만, 여러 음성 음소에 대해 테스트한 결과, 제안된 방법에 의하면 기존의 기술에 비해 약 5 % 적은 파워 왜곡이 얻어짐이 밝혀졌다. 따라서 부호화의 신뢰성에 관한 한, 기존의 기술에 비해 본 논문에서 제안된 방법이 더 나은 것으로 사료된다. 40명에 의해 발성된 50 고립단어에 대한 화자종속 음성인식 시험에서도 제안된 방법이 보다 우수한 성능을 보여주었다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제62권4호
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• pp.507-517
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• 2017

Due to the discontinuous nature of uncertainty quantification in conventional evidence theory(ET), the computational cost of reliability analysis based on ET model is very high. A novel ET model based on fuzzy distribution and the corresponding combination rule to synthesize the judgments of experts are put forward in this paper. The intersection and union of membership functions are defined as belief and plausible membership function respectively, and the Murfhy's average combination rule is adopted to combine the basic probability assignment for focal elements. Then the combined membership functions are transformed to the equivalent probability density function by a normalizing factor. Finally, a reliability analysis procedure for structures with the mixture of epistemic and aleatory uncertainties is presented, in which the equivalent normalization method is adopted to solve the upper and lower bound of reliability. The effectiveness of the procedure is demonstrated by a numerical example and an engineering example. The results also show that the reliability interval calculated by the suggested method is almost identical to that solved by conventional method. Moreover, the results indicate that the computational cost of the suggested procedure is much less than that of conventional method. The suggested ET model provides a new way to flexibly represent epistemic uncertainty, and provides an efficiency method to estimate the reliability of structures with the mixture of epistemic and aleatory uncertainties.

• Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.10-17
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• 2002

Quality attributes of apple are greatly affected by the cooling rate and environmental conditions during storage. Studies were conducted to evaluate the effect of cooling rate on different quality attributes of apple. The effect of $O_2$ pulldown rate of the CA chamber on the quality of apple was also determined. Two methods were used viz. conventional CA procedure and rapid CA procedure. Apples stored by medium and slow cooling methods lost its flesh firmness significantly from an initial level of 4.55 kg to 2.83 kg and 2.27 kg, respectively on 35 days after storage whereas, in rapid cooling, the firmness level changed from 4.55 kg to 3.20 kg on 35 days after storage. At the end of 35 days of storage, titratable acidity decreased insignificantly from an initial value of 0.24l% to 0.239% in the case of rapid CA whereas in the case of conventional CA it dropped significantly to 0.215% from its initial level. The initial flesh firmness of 4.55 kg also changed significantly to 4.05 kg on 35 days after storage in conventional CA whereas in rapid CA it changed to 4.36 kg, which was found to be non-significant at 5% level of significance. Total soluble solids increased from an initial level of $12.43^{\circ}$Bx to $12.60^{\circ}C.$ Bx on 35 days after storage in rapid CA whereas it increased to $13.07^{\circ}$ Bx in conventional CA. Ascorbic acid content of apple juice decreased insignificantly from 6.67 mg/100 mL to 5.87 mg/100 mL on 35 days after storage in rapid CA whereas in conventional CA, it decreased significantly to 5.27 mg/100 mL from its initial level.

• 대한치과보철학회지
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.389-400
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• 2007

Statement of problem. Use of the conventional dental impression procedure is problematic in patients who have difficulty opening their mouth, difficulty breathing through their nose or tendency to gag. Purpose. It is necessary to make individual trays more comfortable for patients during impression taking procedure. It was reported at the KAP Annual Meeting 2001 Seoul that an improved impression technique was suitable for this purpose. In this study, the accuracy of the improved dental impression method for implant was compared with the conventional dental impression method. Material and methods. An oral simulator was made from clear acrylic resin block which had similar form of edentulous ridge. For setting up the standard, five fixtures were installed on it. Study casts were made using two kinds of impression techniques. One was the conventional method that was taken using silicone impression material and an individual resin tray under connection of inter-fixture relation. The other was the improved method in which was the connection of the impression coping and the thermoformed polymethyl methacrylate tray. In addition, two different study casts were made from the improved impression body. The coordinates of the fixture on the study model were measured by three-dimensional coordinate measuring equipment. Then the distances between each fixture were calculated and compared with that of oral simulator. Accuracy of the each impression method was also assessed. Results. The differences of inter-fixture dimension between study casts and simulator in the improved impression technique showed $0.014{\pm}0.016mm$ and $0.017{\pm}0.022mm$, respectively and that of the conventional method was $0.017{\pm}0.014mm$. There was no significant difference between the improved impression technique and conventional method. Conclusion. The improved impression technique is useful for multiple support implants.

• Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.283-293
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• 2005

본 연구는 합착 술식에 따른 레진 합착제의 상아질에 대한 미세전단결합강도를 비교 연구하여 이중 접착 술식의 유용성을 평가하고자 시행되었다. 합착 술식은 전통 합착 술식과 이중 접착 술식, 임시 합착제는 Propac과 Freegenol, 상아질 접착제는 All-Bond 2, One-Step, Clearfil SE Bond를 사용하였다. 이중 접착 술식을 적용한 군에서만 상아질 접착제 처리 후, 모든 시편에 임시 합착제를 도포하였다. 이후 임시 합착제를 제거하고 상아질 접착제 적용 후 유리봉에 레진 합착제를 도포하여 상아질 면에 접착하였다. 미세전단결합 강도를 측정하고 접착 계면을 주사전자현미경으로 관찰하였다. 1. 전통 합착 술식이 이중 접착 술식보다 높은 미세전단결합강도를 보였으나 통계학적 유의 차가 없었다. 2. Freegenol이 Propac보다 높은 미세전단결합강도를 보였으나 유의차가 없었다. 3. 미세전단결합강도는 이중 접착 술식 을 적용한 경우 Clearfil SE Bond가 One-step, All-Bond 2보다 유의성 있게 높았으나(p<0.05) One-step, All-Bond 2 간 유의차는 없었다. 4. 전자현미경 소견에서 All-Bond 2와 One-Step을 사용한 군은 길고 수많은 resin tag가 관찰되었다. 본 연구 결과 전통 합착 술식과 비교하여 이중 접착 술식의 우수함을 확인하지 못하였다.

• 한국식품위생안전성학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.150-158
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• 2015

본 연구는 다양한 식재료가 섞여있는 식품으로부터 노로바이러스를 효과적으로 검출하기 위한 시험법 개발에 관한 것이다. 각 식품이 가진 매트릭스가 매우 다르므로 모든 식품에 공통적으로 적용할 수 있는 표준화된 검출법이 현재로서는 없다. 본 연구에서는 발효식품(농후발효유, 된장), 절임식품(깻잎장아찌, 단무지)과 생식제품을 대상으로 실험을 진행하였다. PBS, beef extract, 아미노산-NaCl 용액 등을 이용하여 바이러스에 오염된 대상식품들로 부터 바이러스의 탈리율을 비교하였다. 이로부터 다양한 매트릭스가 혼합된 식품들에 적용 가능한 탈리용액을 선별하였다. 식품의약품안전처가 제안하여 현재 국내에서 굴, 야채, 과일 등을 대상으로 바이러스 농축에 널리 사용되고 있는 식중독 바이러스 검출법인 EPCP공정(탈리-PEG 침전-클로르포름 처리-PEG 침전)과 PEG 침전과정을 한번으로 줄인 수정된 ECP공정(탈리-클로르포름 처리-PEG침전)의 효능을 비교해 본 결과 ECP공정은 EPCP공정과 비슷하거나 나은 효율로 바이러스를 농축할 수 있었다. 또 바이러스 농축 후 QIAamp$^{(R)}$ Viral RNA Mini kit를 이용하여 RNA를 추출할 경우 식품에 존재하는 RT-PCR방해 물질들이 효과적으로 제거되어 추가적인 처리가 더 필요하지 않음을 알 수 있었다. 수정된 공정을 이용하여 무를 추가한 6가지 식품을 대상으로 검출한계를 조사해 본 바 10-25 g 식품으로부터 3.125-12.5 RT-PCR unit까지 검출이 가능하였다. 이는 기존에 보고된 방법들의 검출한계보다 더 우수한 것으로 장차 다양한 식품을 대상으로 효과적인 바이러스 검출이 가능할 것으로 기대된다.