• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.55-61
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• 2014

In sleep monitoring system, polysomnography (PSG) is the gold-standard but previous studies revealed that attaching numerous amount of sensors disturb sleep during the test which is the fundamental disadvantage of PSG. We suggest an unconstrained rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep monitoring method measured with polyvinylidene (PVDF) film-based sensor for the normal and the obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients. Nine normal subjects and seventeen OSA patients have participated in the study. During REM sleep, rate and variability of respiration are known to be greater than in other sleep stages. Based on this phenomena, respiratory signals of participants were unconstrainedly measured using the PVDF-based sensor with the PSG and REM sleep were extracted from the average rate and variability of respiration. In epoch-by-epoch REM sleep detection, proposed method classified REM sleep with an average sensitivity of 72.3%, specificity of 92.5%, accuracy of 88.9%, and kappa statistic of 0.60 compared to the results of PSG. Student's t-test showed no significant difference between the results of normal and OSA group. This method is potentially applicable to REM sleep detection in homing environment or ambulatory monitoring.

• 천문학회보
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.52.1-52.1
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• 2013

We present preliminary results of the photometric variability analysis in SDSS r, i and z bands for a newly confirmed FU Orionis-type object, HBC 722. We observed HBC 722 from 2011 April to 2012 November, with Camera for Quasars in Early uNiverse (CQUEAN) attached to the 2.1m Otto Struve telescope at McDonald Observatory, USA. The rapid cadence monitoring observations (minute timescale) were conducted in chosen photometric nights during observation campaigns to get adequate number of samples for short term period analysis. As this object is in active state, temperature at the inner disk/stellar surface can be characterized by the colors between r, i and z bands. Also, It is theorized that a sudden cataclysmic accretion associated with FU Orionis-type outburst can give rise to detectable "hot spots" on the central star and rotational asymmetries in the disk instability region. Thus the periodic variabilities of three bands would trace the stellar rotation or Keplerian rotation at the instability region of the inner accretion disk. Additionally, the range of instabilities could be estimated on the assumption of a temperature distribution for the HBC 722 disk. This analysis can provide a clue for understanding enhanced disk accretion of Class II young stellar object.

• 한국운동역학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.51-59
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• 2005

To examine the influence of aging on the mechanism of muscle fatigue, we compared the magnitude of central and peripheral fatigue in young and old women before, during and after a sustained submaximaI isometric contraction of elbow flexor muscles. Twelve women (6 young. $20.7{\pm}1.2$ years and 6 old, $68.8{\pm}29$ years) performed a contraction at 20% of maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) torque with their non-dominant arm. The old women were weaker than the young women, however their endurance time for the 20% contraction was longer compared with the young women ($1822{\pm}444$ vs. $1061{\pm}678$ sec, P <. 05). Both groups had a similar reduction in voluntary activation ratio (VA) during and after the fatiguing contraction. However, the old women showed much greater variability in VA before and after the contraction ($91.61{\pm}4.54%$ and $76.70{\pm}19.55\;%$ range of $79{\sim}99$ to $87{\sim}99%$ respectively) compared with the young women ($95.71{\pm}1.86\;%$ and $83.46{\pm}7.57\;%$ range of $39{\sim}75$ to $69{\sim}90%$, respectively). Furthermore, the EMG activity of the elbow flexor muscles and triceps brachii was greater for the old women compared with the young women throughout the fatiguing contraction, indicating different activation strategies with age. Indices of peripheral fatigue including twitch properties, showed that fatigue within the muscle was more rapid for the young women compared with the old women. These results suggest that although old women are weaker than young women, they have greater endurance due to mechanisms within muscle. Furthermore, old women showed great variability in their ability to optimally activate all muscle fiber compared with young women for an isometric contraction.

• 한국근적외분광분석학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국근적외분광분석학회 2001년도 NIR-2001
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• pp.1246-1246
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• 2001

The quality of meat is highly variable in many properties. This variability originates from both animal production and meat processing. At the pre-slaughter stage, animal factors such as breed, sex, age contribute to this variability. Environmental factors include feeding, rearing, transport and conditions just before slaughter (Hildrum et al., 1995). Meat can be presented in a variety of forms, each offering different opportunities for adulteration and contamination. This has imposed great pressure on the food manufacturing industry to guarantee the safety of meat. Tissue and muscle speciation of flesh foods, as well as speciation of animal derived by-products fed to all classes of domestic animals, are now perhaps the most important uncertainty which the food industry must resolve to allay consumer concern. Recently, there is a demand for rapid and low cost methods of direct quality measurements in both food and food ingredients (including high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), thin layer chromatography (TLC), enzymatic and inmunological tests (e.g. ELISA test) and physical tests) to establish their authenticity and hence guarantee the quality of products manufactured for consumers (Holland et al., 1998). The use of Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy (NIRS) for the rapid, precise and non-destructive analysis of a wide range of organic materials has been comprehensively documented (Osborne et at., 1993). Most of the established methods have involved the development of NIRS calibrations for the quantitative prediction of composition in meat (Ben-Gera and Norris, 1968; Lanza, 1983; Clark and Short, 1994). This was a rational strategy to pursue during the initial stages of its application, given the type of equipment available, the state of development of the emerging discipline of chemometrics and the overwhelming commercial interest in solving such problems (Downey, 1994). One of the advantages of NIRS technology is not only to assess chemical structures through the analysis of the molecular bonds in the near infrared spectrum, but also to build an optical model characteristic of the sample which behaves like the “finger print” of the sample. This opens the possibility of using spectra to determine complex attributes of organic structures, which are related to molecular chromophores, organoleptic scores and sensory characteristics (Hildrum et al., 1994, 1995; Park et al., 1998). In addition, the application of statistical packages like principal component or discriminant analysis provides the possibility to understand the optical properties of the sample and make a classification without the chemical information. The objectives of this present work were: (1) to examine two methods of sample presentation to the instrument (intact and minced) and (2) to explore the use of principal component analysis (PCA) and Soft Independent Modelling of class Analogy (SIMCA) to classify muscles by quality attributes. Seventy-eight (n: 78) beef muscles (m. longissimus dorsi) from Hereford breed of cattle were used. The samples were scanned in a NIRS monochromator instrument (NIR Systems 6500, Silver Spring, MD, USA) in reflectance mode (log 1/R). Both intact and minced presentation to the instrument were explored. Qualitative analysis of optical information through PCA and SIMCA analysis showed differences in muscles resulting from two different feeding systems.

• 지역연구
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• 제40권2호
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• pp.107-130
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• 2024

도시의 지표면 기온 변화는 도시민의 열 쾌적성, 에너지 소비, 나아가 건강에 영향을 미치는 주요한 환경요인이다. 많은 연구가 도시 지표면 기온과 도시 건조환경(built-environment) 형태 간의 관계를 탐색해 왔으나 대부분 극궤도위성 자료를 사용해 정오 시간대 기온만을 분석하였다. 본 연구는 다양한 시간대 지표면 기온을 관측하는 ECOSTRESS 위성 자료를 활용하여 서울시 여름철 지표면 기온의 주간 변동을 탐색하였으며 기온 변동이 건조환경 유형별로 차별적으로 나타나는지 분석하였다. ECOSTRESS는 2018년 발사된 NASA 위성으로 점진 변화 궤도를 운항하며 다양한 시간대 지표면 온도를 70m 고해상도로 관찰한다. 본 연구는 2019~2022년 이른 오전(6:25AM)과 늦은 오후(5:26PM)에 걸친 자료를 수집하여 서울시 지표면 온도의 시계열 자료를 구축하였다. 환경 특성을 반영하는 녹지, 수면, 건축 형태(건폐율, 용적률, 높이) 데이터를 기반으로 계층적 군집분석을 실시해 8가지 건조환경 유형을 도출하였으며, 유형별 온도변동 특성을 비교하였다. 각 유형은 저층고밀거주지(low-rise compact), 저밀아파트단지(low-BCR Apt.), 강변 중고층 주거단지(Riverside Mid-rise Apt.), 중고층 용도혼합지역(mid-to-high-rise mixed use), 고층고밀지역(high-rise compact), 초고층빌딩(skyscrapers), 산림, 수면(하천)을 나타내었다. 분석 결과, 지표 기온의 공간적 격차는 새벽 이후 증가하여 정오(12:04)에 극대화된 뒤 다시 감소하였으며, 기온 변화가 급격한 지역과 안정적인 지역이 구분되었다. 저층 고밀 거주지와 고층 고밀지역의 경우 기온이 빠르고 높게 증가하여 기온변동성이 높았고, 저밀 아파트단지는 기온이 온화하고 완만하게 증가하며 기온 변동성이 낮았다. 건조환경 유형 간 평균기온의 서열은 시간별로 변화하지 않고 유지되었다. 이러한 결과는 폭염과 일교차 증가에 적응할 수 있는 도시형태에 시사점을 제공한다.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.101-119
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• 2018

In this study, we analyzed long-term measurements and air quality simulation results of four criteria air pollutants ($PM_{10}$, $O_3$, $NO_2$, and $SO_2$) for 10 years, from 2006 to 2015, with emphasis on trends of annual variabilities. With the observation data, we conducted spatial interpolation using the Kriging method to estimate spatial distribution of pollutant concentrations. We also performed air quality simulations using the CMAQ model to consider the nonlinearity of the secondary air pollutants such as $O_3$ and the influence of long-range transport. In addition, these simulations are used to deduce the effect of long-term meteorological variations on trends of air quality changes because we fixed the emissions inventory while changing meteorological inputs. The nation-wide inter-annual variability of modeled $PM_{10}$ concentrations was $-0.11{\mu}g/m^3/yr$, while that of observed concentrations was $-0.84{\mu}g/m^3/yr$. For the Seoul Metropolitan Area, the inter-annual variability of observed $PM_{10}$ concentrations was $-1.64{\mu}g/m^3/yr$ that is two times rapid improvement compared to other regions. On the other hand, the inter-annual variability of observed $O_3$ concentrations is 0.62 ppb/yr which is larger than the simulated result of 0.13 ppb/yr. Magnitudes of differences between the modeled and observed inter-annual variabilities indicated that decreasing trend of $PM_{10}$ and increasing trend of $O_3$ are more influenced by emissions and oxidation states than meteorological conditions. We also found similar patterns in $NO_2$. However, $NO_2$ trends showed greater regional and seasonal differences than other pollutants. The analytic approach used in this study can be applicable to estimate changes in factors determining air quality such as emissions, weather, and surrounding conditions over a long term. Then analysis results can be used as important data for air quality management planning and evaluation of the chronic impact of air quality.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.795-806
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• 1998

토양수분은 기후, 토양 및 지표면의 조건 등에 의해 영향을 받는다. 특히, 급격한 도시화 및 산업화의 영향으로 다른 영향인 자들 보다 지표면 조건의 변화가 크게 바뀌고 있다고 할 수 있으며 본 연구에서는 이러한 지표면 조건의 변화가 토양수분에 어떻게 영향을 미칠 수 있는지를 간단한 토양수분 동역학 모형을 이용하여 평가해 보았다. 먼저, 본 논문에서는 토양수분의 시간적 공간적 통계특성을 정량화 해보기 위해 논문의 전반부를 Washita ’92 자료 및 Monsoon ’90 자료의 1차원 및 2차원의 통계적 특성을 정리하는데 할해하였으며, 논문의 후반부에서 지표면 조건의 변화를 모형 매개변수의 통계적인 특성을 변화시킴으로서 고려하고 각각의 경우 토양수분이 어떻게 반응하는가를 살펴보았다. 사용된 모형은 선형저수지의 개념에 토양상층에서의 공간적 거동을 고려하기 위하여 확산의 개념을 도입하여 구성된 모형이다. 모형의 주요 매개변수는 손실률과 확산계수로 나타나고, 이들은 관측자료의 통계특성을 이용하여 추정될 수 있다. 지표면 조건의 변화는 모형의 매개변수에 다양한 통계특성을 적용하고 고려하게 된다. 특히, 본 연구에서는 지표면 조건의 평균적인 변화보다 이의 공간적인 분산도의 변화에 초점을 맞추어 분석하였다. 이는 평균적인 지표면 조건의 변화는 선형저수지의 이론에 근거하여 그 영향을 쉽게 판단할 수 있기 때문이다. 본 연구의 결과를 정리하면 다음과 같다. (1) 지표면 상태의 분산도가 커질 경우 토양수분은 더 쉽게 손실된다, (2) 토양수분의 분산도는 모의 초기에 강우의 영향으로 크게 나타나나 시간이 경과함에 따라 감소하고 점차 지표면 상태의 분산특성를 나타내게 된다, (3) 지표면 유출이나 토양상층에서의 토양수분 이동에 따른 확산의 영향은 지표면 유출이 존재하는 강우기간으로 제한되며 전체적으로 토양수분의 변화에 미미한 영향을 미친다.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.28-42
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• 2013

전기를 이용한 신 교통 시스템인 무인궤도차량은 도심교통 완화, 관광지 교통지원, 공항 및 고속철도와 거점지역을 연결하는 목적을 가지고 있다. 무인궤도차량의 무인 운용에 따른 안전성과 신뢰성 보장을 위해 안전장치의 개발을 필요로 하고 있다. UWB 레이더는 낮은 전력소모와 낮은 간섭 및 높은 정밀도의 장점을 가지고 있어 무인궤도차량에 적합한 시스템이다. 본 논문에서는 무인궤도차량의 안전한 운행을 위한 필수 요소인 레이더에 적합하고, 다양한 잡음환경에서 개선된 성능을 보이는 적응형 CFAR 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안된 CFAR 알고리즘은 Mean Level 계열의 CFAR 알고리즘에 비하여 균질한 잡음상황과 다중표적상황에서 개선된 성능을 보였으며, 기존의 VI-CFAR이 가진 다중 표적 상황에서 성능저하를 개선하였다.

• Animal cells and systems
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.309-312
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• 2001

Allozyme studies have been widely used to estimate genetic variation and to describe genetic structure in natural populations. In many cases, the genetic diversity of recently established populations is generally lower than that of central populations. In addition, the genetic composition of an invasive species is influenced by its History of introduction as well as its ecological characters. Ageratina altissima (L.) R. King & H. Robinson (white snakeroot) is a perennial herb native to the eastern United States and Canada, and is currently receiving much attention for its rapid invasion of the Korean forests. Starch gel electrophoresis was used to assess the genetic variability at 11 putative loci in seven introduced populations of A. altissima in Seoul. Populations of A. altissima maintained lower levels of allozyme diversity (expected heterozygosity = 0.063) than those reported for other taxa with similar ecological traits. The degree of differentiation observed among A. altissima populations was considerably low. It is suggested that the populations were recently established from only a few founders via dispersal by human activities, resulting in the loss of genetic variation.

• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.67-87
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• 2005

Impaired sensorimotor function of the hand ipsilateral to a unilateral brain damage has been reported in a variety of motor task. however, it is still the controversial issue because of the difficulty of detection in clinical situation, patients' variability(time after onset, contralateral upper extremity severity, other cognitive functions including apraxia), and the performed various motor task. The purpose of this study is to determine the presence of ipsilateral motor deficit following unilateral brain damage in three different specific tasks(hand tapping, visual tracking and coin rotation) compared with healthy age-sex matched control group using the same hand and to investigate the lateralized motor control in each hemispheric function. Findings revealed that stroke patients with unilateral brain damage experienced difficulties with rapid-simple repetitive movement, visuomotor coordination, complex sequencing movement on ipsilateral side. Also, Comparison of the left-hemispheric stroke groups and the right-hemispheric stroke groups revealed that patients with a left-hemisphere damage tended to be more variable in performing all of the three tasks. These results show that stroke patient with left hemisphere damage has more ipsilateral motor deficit, and the left hemisphere contributes to the processing of motor control that necessary for the executing actions with ipsilateral hand.