• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권10호
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• pp.2448-2463
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• 2013

The traditional block-based motion compensation methods in frame rate up-conversion (FRUC) only use a single uniquely motion vector field. However, there will always be some mistakes in the motion vector field whether the advanced motion estimation (ME) and motion vector analysis (MA) algorithms are performed or not. Once the motion vector field has many mistakes, the quality of the interpolated frame is severely affected. In order to solve the problem, this paper proposes a novel joint overlapped block motion compensation method (8J-OBMC) which adopts motion vectors of the interpolated block and its 8-neighbor blocks to jointly interpolate the target block. Since the smoothness of motion filed makes the motion vectors of 8-neighbor blocks around the interpolated block quite close to the true motion vector of the interpolated block, the proposed compensation algorithm has the better fault-tolerant capability than traditional ones. Besides, the annoying blocking artifacts can also be effectively suppressed by using overlapped blocks. Experimental results show that the proposed method is not only robust to motion vectors estimated wrongly, but also can to reduce blocking artifacts in comparison with existing popular compensation methods.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.1449-1454
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• 2014

The co-sensitization of N719 with a cyclic thiourea functionalized organic dye, coded AZ5, for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) was demonstrated. Due to its intensive absorption in ultraviolet region, AZ5 could compensate the loss of light harvest induced by triiodide, thereby the short-circuit photocurrent density ($J_{sc}$) was increased for co-sensitized (N719+AZ5) DSSC. Moreover, the electron recombination and dye aggregation were retarded upon N719 cocktail co-sensitized with AZ5, thus the open-circuit voltage ($V_{oc}$) of co-sensitized device was enhanced as well. The increased $J_{sc}$ (17.9 $mA{\cdot}cm^{-2}$) combined with the enhanced $V_{oc}$ (698 mV) ultimately resulted in an improved power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 7.91% for co-sensitized DSSC, which was raised by 8.6% in comparison with that of N719 (PCE = 7.28%) sensitized alone. In addition, co-sensitized DSSC exhibited a better stability than that of N719 sensitized device probably due to the depression of dye desorption.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.297-311
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• 2018

Plate and shell structure is widely applied in engineering, i.e. building roofs, aircraft wings, ship platforms, and satellite solar arrays. Its vibration problem has become increasingly prominent due to the tendency of lightening, upsizing and flexibility. As a new smart material with great actuating force and toughness, macro-fiber composite (MFC) is composed of piezoelectric fiber and epoxy resin basal body, which can be directly pasted onto the surface of plate and shell and is suitable for vibration control. This paper deduces the actuation equation of MFC coupled plate in different boundary conditions, an equivalent finite element modeling method is proposed which uses MFC actuating force as the applied excitation, and on this basis the active control simulation and experiment of MFC over plate and shell structure vibration are accomplished. The results indicate that MFC is able to implement effective control over plate and shell structure vibration in multi-band range. The comparison between experiment and simulation proves that the actuation equation deduced herein, effective and practicable, can be applied into the simulation calculation of MFC vibration control over plate and shell structure.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권9호
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• pp.4334-4356
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• 2017

In orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, phase noise introduced by the local oscillators can cause bit error rate (BER) performance degradation. To solve the phase noise problem, a novel orthogonal-polarization-based phase noise self-cancellation (OP-PNSC) scheme is proposed. First, the efficiency of canceling the phase noise of the OP-PNSC scheme in the AWGN channel is investigated. Then, the OP-PNSC scheme in the polarization-dependent loss (PDL) channel is investigated due to power imbalance caused by PDL, and a PDL pre-compensated OP-PNSC (PPC -OP-PNSC) scheme is proposed to mitigate the power imbalance caused by PDL. In addition, the performance of the PPC-OP-PNSC scheme is investigated, where the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) and spectral efficiency (SE) performances are analyzed. Finally, a comparison between the OP-PNSC and polarization diversity scheme is discussed. The numerical results show that the BER and SINR performances of the OP-PNSC scheme outperform the case with the phase noise compensation and phase noise self-cancellation scheme.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.453-462
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• 2015

Body area networks (BANs) have emerged as an enabling technique for e-healthcare systems, which can be used to continuously and remotely monitor patients' health. In BANs, the data of a patient's vital body functions and movements can be collected by small wearable or implantable sensors and sent using shortrange wireless communication techniques. Due to the shared wireless medium between the sensors in BANs, it may be possible to have malicious attacks on e-healthcare systems. The security and privacy issues of BANs are becoming more and more important. To provide secure and correct association of a group of sensors with a patient and satisfy the requirements of data confidentiality and integrity in BANs, we propose a novel enhanced secure sensor association and key management protocol based on elliptic curve cryptography and hash chains. The authentication procedure and group key generation are very simple and efficient. Therefore, our protocol can be easily implemented in the power and resource constrained sensor nodes in BANs. From a comparison of results, furthermore, we can conclude that the proposed protocol dramatically reduces the computation and communication cost for the authentication and key derivation compared with previous protocols. We believe that our protocol is attractive in the application of BANs.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.316-325
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• 2012

Xylanase has been used extensively in the industrial and agricultural fields. However, the low-yield production of xylanase from native species cannot meet the increasing demand of the market. Therefore, improving the heterologous expression of xylanase through basic gene optimization may help to overcome the shortage. In this study, we synthesized a high-GC-content native sequence of the thermostable xylanase gene xynB from Streptomyces olivaceoviridis A1 and, also designed a slightly AT-biased sequence with codons completely optimized to be favorable to Pichia pastoris. The comparison of the sequences' expression efficiencies in P. pastoris X33 was determined through the detection of single-copy-number integrants, which were quantified using qPCR. Surprisingly, the high GC content did not appear to be detrimental to the heterologous expression of xynB in yeast, whereas the optimized sequence, with its extremely skewed codon usage, exhibited more abundant accumulation of synthesized recombinant proteins in the yeast cell, but an approximately 30% reduction of the secretion level, deduced from the enzymatic activity assay. In this study, we developed a more accurate method for comparing the expression levels of individual yeast transformants. Moreover, our results provide a practical example for further investigation of what constitutes a rational design strategy for a heterologously expressed and secreted protein.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제62권3호
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• pp.235-242
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• 2018

본 연구는 우리나라와 뉴질랜드의 화학 교육과정을 비교 분석하였다. 양국은 교육과정을 통해 핵심 역량을 기르고자 함을 명시하고 있으며, 총론에서 제시한 핵심 역량이 서로 유사하였다. 우리나라는 과학 교과의 핵심 역량을 제시하였는데, 뉴질랜드가 과학의 본성 영역에서 제시한 4가지 성취 목표와 유사하였다. 특징적으로, 뉴질랜드는 교육과정 성취기준과 NCEA 성취 기준에서 핵심 역량을 함양할 수 있는 성취기준들이 별도로 제시하고 이를 내적 평가를 통해 학생들을 평가하고 있었다. 우리나라와 뉴질랜드의 고등학교 화학 과목에서 다루고 있는 개념은 유사하였는데, 화학I 과목의 경우 뉴질랜드의 교육과정 7단계에, 화학II 과목의 경우 뉴질랜드의 7~8단계에 해당하는 것으로 나타났다. 양국이 다루는 화학 내용에서 차이가 있는 개념은 탄화수소, 이상 기체 방정식, 총괄성, 분광학 데이터의 이해 등이었다.

• BMB Reports
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.439-444
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• 2004

Double stranded targets on the cDNA microarray contain representatives of both the coding and noncoding strands, which will introduce hybridization competition with probes. Here, the effect of double and single strands of targets on the signal intensity and the ratios of Cy5/Cy3 within the same slide were compared. The results show that single stranded targets can increase the hybridization efficiency without changing the Cy5/Cy3 ratio. Based on these results, a new strategy was established by generating cDNA targets with asymmetric PCR, instead of conventional PCR, to increase the sensitivity of the cDNA microarray. Furthermore, the feasibility of this approach was validated. The results indicate that the cDNA microarray system based on asymmetric PCR is more sensitive, with no decrease in the reliability and reproducibility as compared with that based on conventional symmetric PCR.

• 컴퓨터교육학회논문지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.111-124
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• 2006

오늘날 인터넷상에서 멀티캐스트 서비스가 급속도로 증가하고 있으며 이에 따라 멀티캐스트 통신의 보안을 유지하는 것이 중요하다. 그룹의 멤버가 제거되면 새로운 그룹키를 생성하여 그룹의 나머지 모든 멤버들에게 전달되어야 한다. 새로운 키를 생성하여 분배하는 것은 많은 연산을 요구하므로 rekey하기 위하여 보내는 메시지의 수와 복합키를 생성하기 위한 연산비용을 최소화하는 것은 키 관리기법을 평가하는 중요한 기준이다. 주기적인 일괄제거는 멤버를 순차적으로 1개씩 제거하는 것보다 rekey에 대한 메시지의 수와 복합키의 연산 비용을 줄일 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 그룹에서 제거될 멤버들간의 해밍거리가 임계치보다 작은 멤버들만 동시에 제거된다. 여러 개의 멤버를 제거할 때 라운드 조정 알고리즘을 수행하면 rekey를 위하여 메시지의 수와 복합키를 생성하기 위한 연산의 비용을 줄이며 공모공격의 가능성이 제거되는 이점이 있다. 시뮬레이션을 통하여 라운드 조정알고리즘을 적용한 결과의 성능을 평가하며 기존의 기법과 비교를 하여 본 논문에서 제안하는 기법이 우수함을 보인다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.766-776
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• 2017

In modern power systems, high penetration of distributed generators (DGs) results in high stress on system stability. Apart from the intermittent nature of DGs, most DGs do not contribute inertia or damping to systems. As a result, a new control method named virtual synchronous machine (VSM) was proposed, which brought new characteristics to inverters such as synchronous machines (SMs). In addition, different active power droop controls for VSMs are being proposed in literatures. However, they are quite different in terms of their dynamic characteristics despite of the similar control laws. In this paper, mathematical models of a VSM adopting different active power droop controls are built and analyzed. The dynamic performance of the VSM output active power and virtual rotor angular frequency are presented for different models. The influences of the damping factor and droop coefficient on the VSM dynamic behaviors are also investigated in detail. Finally, the theoretical analysis is verified by simulations and experimental results.