• 지역사회간호학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.162-172
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• 2011

Purpose: This study was conducted to evaluate differences in pain, pain interference, and fatigue, according to the level of physical activity in the elderly with chronic pain. Methods: Data were collected between January and March 2011 from 116 elders with chronic pain living in community settings. The data were analyzed using the SPSS/WIN 17.0 program for descriptive statistics, $x^2$ test, t-test, ANOVA and ANCOVA. The reliability of the instruments was tested with Cronbach's ${\alpha}$ coefficient, which ranged from .91 to .93. Results: The results were as follows. The mean total physical activity was 2287.4 MET-min/week, and 41.4% of the investigated subjects were classified into the low physical activity group. After adjusting for age and sex, the moderate and high physical activity groups were significantly lower in pain (F=6.33, p=.002), pain interference (F=11.57, p<.001), and fatigue (F=3.16, p=.046) than the low physical activity group. Conclusion: Results from this study suggest that the level of physical activity can influence pain, pain interference and fatigue. Therefore, incorporating more physical activities into daily routines, inactive elderly individuals may improve their pain, pain interference and fatigue.

• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.175-181
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• 2014

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of interference current therapy and laser therapy on functional recovery after total knee arthroplasty by measuring the Berg balance scale and range of motion. Methods: Subjects were 30 patients who were admitted to G Hospital after total knee arthroplasty. They were randomly assigned to experimental group I in which interference current therapy was applied (n=10), experimental group II in which laser therapy was applied (n=10), or the control group (n=10). The Berg balance scale and range of motion of the subjects were measured before, after 2 weeks, and after 4 weeks of therapy. Results: There was a statistically significant change (p<0.05) in the Berg balance scale and range of motion before and after therapy intervention among the laser therapy group and the interference current therapy group. There was also a significant change between the groups in the Berg balance scale and range of motion. Tukey's post hoc comparison showed a statistically significant difference between the control group and experimental group I and between the control group and experimental group II (p<0.05). Conclusion: The application of interference current therapy and laser therapy resulted in a significant change in both the Berg balance scale and range of motion among patients with total knee arthroplasty. The findings of this study can be used as preliminary clinical data in evaluating functional recovery in patients with total knee arthroplasty in a post-clinic setting.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.1028-1033
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• 2020

기존의 동일대역 간섭저감 방법은 무선기기 사이에 물리적인 이격거리를 지정하는 것으로 이격거리를 통해서 간섭을 억제한다. 만약 무선기기에서 동일대역 간섭을 저감할 수 있다면 물리적인 이격거리에 마진을 줄 수 있고, 수신기의 동작영역을 확장시키는 효과가 있으므로 간섭 대응 및 개선에 활용도가 크다. 본 논문에서는 동일대역 아날로그 간섭저감기의 구조를 제안하였고, 제안한 아날로그 간섭저감기의 설계와 구현에 대해서 기술하였다. 아날로그 간섭저감기를 설계하기 위해서 아날로그 간섭저감기의 성능에 영향을 미치는 지연(delay) 불일치, 위상오차 그리고 지연선로의 수에 따른 간섭저감 성능을 시뮬레이션 하였다. 16개의 지연선로로 구성된 아날로그 간섭저감기를 제작하였으며, 구현한 간섭저감기는 3.32㎓의 중심주파수에서 40MHz 대역폭을 갖는 5G(NR-FR1-TM-1.1) 신호에 대해서 약 10dB의 간섭저감 성능을 갖는다. 본 논문에서 제안한 아날로그 간섭저감기는 동일대역 간섭저감기로 활용가능하다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.439-449
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• 2015

Human body communication (HBC) is being recognized as a new communication technology for mobile and wearable devices in a body area network (BAN). This paper presents co-channel interference experienced by HBC supporting the physical layer in the IEEE 802.15.6 BAN standard. To analyze the co-channel interference, a co-channel interference model is introduced, and space-domain and time-domain parameters representing an interference environment are generated using the co-channel interference model. A new signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) parameter depending on the peak amplitudes of the data signals causing co-channel interference is defined; co-channel interference can be easily analyzed and modelled using the newly defined SIR. The BER degradation model derived using the co-channel interference model and SIR in this paper can be effectively used to estimate the performance.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.518-528
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• 2023

As an effective means of remotely detecting the spectral information of the object, the spectral calibration for the Savart polarization interference imaging spectrometer (SPIIS) is a basis and prerequisite of information quantification, and its experimental calibration scheme is firstly proposed in this paper. In order to evaluate the accuracy of the spectral information acquisition, the linear interpolation, cubic spline interpolation, and piecewise cubic interpolation algorithms are adopted, and the precision of the quadratic polynomial fitting is the highest, whose fitting error is better than 5.8642 nm in the wavelength range of [500 nm, 820 nm]. Besides, the inversed value of the spectral resolution for the monochromatic light is greater than the theoretical value, and the deviation between them becomes larger with the wavelength increasing, which is mainly caused by the structural design of the SPIIS, together with the rationality of the spectral restoration algorithm and the selection of the maximum optical path difference (OPD). This work demonstrates that the SPIIS has achieved high performance assuring the feasibility of its practical use in various fields.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.258-267
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• 2008

In this paper, we examine what changes the next-generation wireless communication systems will experience in terms of the technologies, services, and networks and, based on that, we investigate how the inter-cell interference management should evolve in various aspects. We identify that the main driving forces of the future changes involve the data-centric services, new dynamic service scenarios, all-IP core access networks, new physical-layer technologies, and heavy upload traffic. We establish that in order to cope with the changes, the next-generation inter-cell interference management should evolve to 1) set the objective of providing a maximal data rate, 2) take the form of joint management of power allocation and user scheduling, 3) operate in a fully distributed manner, 4) handle the time-varying channel conditions in mobile environment, 5) deal with the changes in interference mechanism triggered by the new physical-layer technologies, and 6) increase the spectral efficiency while avoiding centralized coordination of resource allocation of the users in the uplink channel.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.254-260
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• 2018

In this study, we suggest an emulator for generating multiple heterogeneous interference signals in the Korean radio frequency identification/ubiquitous sensor network (RFID/USN) frequency band. The proposed emulator uses only one universal software radio peripheral to generate multiple heterogeneous interference signals more economically. Moreover, the physical and media access control parameters can be adjusted in real time using the LabVIEW program, thereby making it possible to create various time-varying interference environments easily. As an example showing the capability of the proposed emulator, multiple interference signals consisting of a frequency-hopping RFID signal and two LoRa signals with different spreading factors were generated. The generated signals were confirmed in both frequency and time domains. From the experimental results, we verified that our emulator could successfully generate multiple heterogeneous interference signals with different frequency and time domain characteristics.

• 정보과학회 컴퓨팅의 실제 논문지
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• 제22권9호
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• pp.473-478
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• 2016

가상화 기술은 한정된 물리자원을 추상화하여 다수의 가상 자원 형태로 사용자에게 제공하는 기술로써 자원 활용률을 높이고 유동적으로 서비스를 제공할 수 있다는 장점이 있다. 하지만 한정된 물리자원을 다수의 가상머신이 공유하는 가상화 기술의 특성상, 자원 공유로 인한 성능 간섭 현상이 발생하는 문제가 있다. 이는 호스트 운영체제의 CPU 스케줄러가 가상머신에서 실행중인 프로세스의 특성을 고려하지 않고 스케줄링 하기 때문이다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 다양한 연구들이 진행되었지만 실제 근본적인 성능 간섭의 원인 분석에 대해서는 다루고 있지 않다. 본 논문에서는 KVM 기반 가상화 환경에서 가상머신의 성능 간섭의 원인을 분석하기 위해 다양한 시나리오에서의 프로파일링을 수행하고, 그 결과를 분석하여 CPU 스케줄링 관점에서 성능 간섭 현상의 원인과 그 해결 방안을 제시한다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.411-419
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• 2016

This article investigates the problem of distributed channel selection in opportunistic spectrum access networks from a perspective of interference minimization. The traditional physical (PHY)-layer interference model is for information theoretic analysis. When practical multiple access mechanisms are considered, the recently developed binary medium access control (MAC)-layer interference model in the previous work is more useful, in which the experienced interference of a user is defined as the number of competing users. However, the binary model is not accurate in mathematics analysis with poor achievable performance. Therefore, we propose a real-valued one called stochastic MAC-layer interference model, where the utility of a player is defined as a function of the aggregate weight of the stochastic interference of competing neighbors. Then, the distributed channel selection problem in the stochastic MAC-layer interference model is formulated as a weighted stochastic MAC-layer interference minimization game and we proved that the game is an exact potential game which exists one pure strategy Nash equilibrium point at least. By using the proposed stochastic learning-automata based uncoupled algorithm with heterogeneous learning parameter (SLA-H), we can achieve suboptimal convergence averagely and this result can be verified in the simulation. Moreover, the simulated results also prove that the proposed stochastic model can achieve higher throughput performance and faster convergence behavior than the binary one.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.43-50
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• 2007

A range-frequency interference pattern is analyzed in the course of the propagation of ship noise in shallow water. It has been shown to exhibit striated bands of intensity maxima and minima in the spectrogram. The slope of the striations is an invariant of the modal interference and is described by a waveguide invariant parameter $\beta$. It turns out that this interference pattern is useful for identifying the physical properties of the waveguide such as seabed properties. In this article, the interference pattern is analyzed using image processing techniques to produce the distribution of the beta and the effects of sediment types and geoacoustic parameters on beta distribution are examined and characterized by moments of the distributions.