• 한국보건간호학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.5-15
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• 2006

Purpose: The objectives of this study was to measure the outcomes of interventions on the health and social welfare of the elderly in a rural community in Korea. The project involved integrating services of one public health center with that of one social welfare agency, which were under different administrative structures. Method: A single group pretest-posttest design was used for this research. Seventy-five elderly residents living alone in a rural community participated in the study. All of them had coverage of free basic medical care and social welfare services by the government. Major activities for the intervention included: developing partnerships among community leaders/institutes; forming committees of community residents; educating care providers and volunteers; developing 8 integrated service programs and instruments; and organizing the networks. The 20-month intervention was care-managed by a public health nurse whom collaborated with social worker, and was assisted by volunteers. The t-test was utilized to analyze the outcome variables including the elder's health, social welfare and quality of life. A major limitation of this study was the lack of a control group. Results: The outcome of the intervention was shown by improved elder's health, social welfare needs, and quality of life. Integrating the services of public health centers with those of social welfare agencies is an effective way to improve the health of the elderly in the community. Conclusion: Developing community capacity with such integrated services will pay an important role in improving the health of the elderly who live alone.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.345-359
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• 2011

Decode-and-forward relaying is a promising enhancement to existing radio access networks and is already standardized in 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) as a part of long term evolution (LTE)-Advanced Release 10. Two inband operation modes of relay nodes are supported, namely type 1 and type lb. Relay nodes promise to offer considerable gain for system capacity or coverage, depending on the deployment prioritization, in a cost-efficient way. Yet, in order to fully exploit the benefits of relaying, the inter-cell interference which is increased due to the presence of relay nodes should be limited. Moreover, large differences in the received power levels from different users should be avoided. The goal is to keep the receiver dynamic range low in order to retain the orthogonality of the single carrier-frequency division multiple access system. In this paper, an evaluation of the relay based heterogeneous deployment within the LTE-Advanced uplink framework is carried out by applying the standardized LTE Release 8 power control scheme both at evolved node B and relay nodes. In order to enhance the overall system performance, different power control optimization strategies are proposed for 3GPP urban and suburban scenarios. A comparison between type 1 and type 1b relay nodes is as well presented to study the effect of the relaying overhead on the system performance in inband relay deployments. Comprehensive system level simulations show that the power control is a crucial means to increase the cell edge and system capacities, to mitigate inter-cell interference and to adjust the receiver dynamic range for both relay node types.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.481-493
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• 2018

Ultrasonic guided waves have attracted increasing attention for non-destructive testing (NDT) and structural health monitoring (SHM) of bridge cables. They offer advantages like single measurement, wide coverage of acoustical field, and long-range propagation capability. To design defect detection systems, it is essential to understand how guided waves propagate in cables and how to select the optimal excitation frequency and mode. However, certain cable characteristics such as multiple wires, anchorage, and polyethylene (PE) sheath increase the complexity in analyzing the guided wave propagation. In this study, guided wave modes for multi-wire bridge cables are identified by using a semi-analytical finite element (SAFE) technique to obtain relevant dispersion curves. Numerical results indicated that the number of guided wave modes increases, the length of the flat region with a low frequency of L(0,1) mode becomes shorter, and the cutoff frequency for high order longitudinal wave modes becomes lower, as the number of steel wires in a cable increases. These findings were used in design of transducers for defect detection and selection of the optimal wave mode and frequency for subsequent experiments. A magnetostrictive transducer system was used to excite and detect the guided waves. The applicability of the proposed approach for detecting and locating wire breakages was demonstrated for a cable with 37 wires. The present ultrasonic guided wave method has been found to be very responsive to the number of brokenwires and is thus capable of detecting defects with varying sizes.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.108-116
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• 2015

A missile defense system is composed of radars detecting incoming missiles aiming at defense assets, command control units making the decisions on weapon target assignment, and artillery batteries firing of defensive weapons to the incoming missiles. Although, the technology behind the development of radars and weapons is very important, effective assignment of the weapons against missile threats is much more crucial. When incoming missile targets toward valuable assets in the defense area are detected, the asset-based weapon target assignment model addresses the issue of weapon assignment to these missiles so as to maximize the total value of surviving assets threatened by them. In this paper, we present a model for an asset-based weapon assignment problem with shoot-look-shoot engagement policy and fixed set-up time between each anti-missile launch from each defense unit. Then, we show detailed linear approximation process for nonlinear portions of the model and propose final linear approximation model. After that, the proposed model is applied to several ballistic missile defense scenarios. In each defense scenario, the number of incoming missiles, the speed and the position of each missile, the number of defense artillery battery, the number of anti-missile in each artillery battery, single shot kill probability of each weapon to each target, value of assets, the air defense coverage are given. After running lpSolveAPI package of R language with the given data in each scenario in a personal computer, we summarize its weapon target assignment results specified with launch order time for each artillery battery. We also show computer processing time to get the result for each scenario.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권3A호
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• pp.254-266
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• 2006

최근에 OFDM 기반 셀룰러 시스템의 Throughput 및 셀 커버리지를 향상시키기 위하여 SDMA(Spatial Division Multiple Access) 방식을 적용하는 자원 할당 방식에 대한 연구가 시작되고 있으나, 대부분의 OFDM/SDMA 기반 자원 할당 방식에 대한 연구는 시스템 Throughput 만을 최적화시키거나 단일 셀 환경에서만 적응이 가능한 한계가 있다. 본 논문에서는 사용자가 요구하는 트래픽 특성에 맞는 High Layer QoS(Quality of Service) 파라미터를 고려하면서, 시스템의 Throughput의 손실을 최소화하고 인접 셀 간 간섭을 고려하여 다중 셀 환경에서도 적용이 가능한 하향 링크 OFDM/SDMA 기반 자원할당 알고리즘을 제안하고, Ped A 및 다중 안테나 채널모델인 SCME (Spatial Channel Model Extensions) 채널에서 제안된 알고리즘 성능을 분석한다.

• 정보처리학회논문지D
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• 제17D권1호
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• pp.41-52
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• 2010

생성된 테스트 케이스와 요구사항과의 연관관계가 중요하지만, 모델을 이용한 테스트 케이스 자동생성에서는 모델이 요구사항과 m:n의 관계를 맺기 때문에 테스트 케이스와 요구사항과의 관계도 매우 복잡해진다. 본 논문에서는 1:1 모델링 도구인 REED(REquirement EDitor)를 이용하여 테스트 케이스를 생성하는 방법에 대하여 기술한다. 테스트 케이스는 커버리지 타겟 생성, IORT(Input Output Relation Tree) 생성, 테스트 케이스 생성의 3단계를 거치며, 모든 단계는 자동으로 진행된다. 생성된 테스트 케이스는 하나의 요구사항에서 생성될 수 있으며 실제 시스템에 적용한 결과, 온도조절장치 경우는 5,566개, 버스카드 단말기의 경우는 3,757개, 굴착기 제어기는 4,611개의 테스트 케이스가 생성되었다.

• Archives of Reconstructive Microsurgery
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.108-111
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• 2010

Purpose: In reconstructing a defect on the dorsum of the hand, there are many cases of extensor tendons exposed or even missing. The repaired or reconstructed tendons need relevant gliding environment for good functional recovery. The anterolateral thigh flap offers a vascular fascial component with large amounts that can be used for covering exposed tendons and we report a unique case of single-stage hand dorsum and gliding surface reconstruction. Methods: A 35-year-old man had severe post-traumatic scarring in his left dorsal hand and coverage of the flap with split-thickness skin graft has been done before. After scarred skin excision and extensor tendon graft for missed part, a free anterolateral thigh adipofascial flap was used to resurface the hand dorsum and to reconstruct a two-layer gliding surface of the extensor tendons. The extensor tendons were wrapped in the fascial component with the fat layer inside. Results: He had an uneventful postoperative course without infection, dehiscence and flap necrosis. Good overall functional recovery and tendon excursion were observed. He was also satisfied with postoperative appearance. Conclusion: A free anterolateral thigh adipofascial flap was used successfully for reconstruction of a two-layer tendon gliding surface to treat a patient with severe scarring in the dorsal hand.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제32권12호
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• pp.1816-1825
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• 2019

Objective: We tried to analyze allele-specific expression in the pig neocortex using bioinformatic analysis of high-throughput sequencing results from the parental genomes and offspring transcriptomes from reciprocal crosses between Korean Native and Landrace pigs. Methods: We carried out sequencing of parental genomes and offspring transcriptomes using next generation sequencing. We subsequently carried out genome scale identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in two different ways using either individual genome mapping or joint genome mapping of the same breed parents that were used for the reciprocal crosses. Using parent-specific SNPs, allele-specifically expressed genes were analyzed. Results: Because of the low genome coverage (${\sim}4{\times}$) of the sequencing results, most SNPs were non-informative for parental lineage determination of the expressed alleles in the offspring and were thus excluded from our analysis. Consequently, 436 SNPs covering 336 genes were applicable to measure the imbalanced expression of paternal alleles in the offspring. By calculating the read ratios of parental alleles in the offspring, we identified seven genes showing allele-biased expression (p<0.05) including three previously reported and four newly identified genes in this study. Conclusion: The newly identified allele-specifically expressing genes in the neocortex of pigs should contribute to improving our knowledge on genomic imprinting in pigs. To our knowledge, this is the first study of allelic imbalance using high throughput analysis of both parental genomes and offspring transcriptomes of the reciprocal cross in outbred animals. Our study also showed the effect of the number of informative animals on the genome level investigation of allele-specific expression using RNA-seq analysis in livestock species.

• 한국차세대컴퓨팅학회논문지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.31-39
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• 2019

최근 클라우드 컴퓨팅이 확산되면서 주목 받고 있는 기술 중 하나는 가상화(virtualizaion) 기술이다. 가상화 기술을 이용하여 시스템을 구축할 경우 하나의 호스트 운영체제에서 복수개의 운영체제를 구동시킬 수 있으며 효율적인 컴퓨팅 자원의 관리를 용이하게 한다는 장점이 있지만 하이퍼바이저(Hypervisor) 위에서 구동하는 운영체제들이 많아질수록 가상화 시스템의 전반적인 성능을 측정하는 것이 필요하며 이는 중요한 기술로 떠오르고 있다. 본 논문에서는 가상화 시스템의 효율적인 성능측정을 위해 기존 프로파일링 도구의 주요 기능을 분석하여 가상화 시스템에서 발생할 수 있는 이벤트에 대하여 모니터링 도구들이 수행할 수 있는 프로파일링 커버리지를 측정하고 분류하였으며, 더 나아가 모니터링을 수행하는 원격 시스템에서 수신 된 정보에 따라 가상화 시스템에 성능측정이 필요할 경우 적합한 프로파일링 도구를 게스트 시스템에 적재시켜 성능측정을 할 수 있도록 하는 프레임워크를 연구하였다.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.211-223
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• 2018

릴레이 시스템은 커버리지 확장과 셀 경계(Cell-Edge)의 시스템 처리량 향상을 목적으로 4세대 이동통신 시스템에 적용되어 왔다. 릴레이 시스템은 커버리지 확장과 시스템 처리량 증대에 효과적이지만 기존 단일 홉 시스템과 달리 추가 자원을 사용하기 때문에 릴레이 시스템에 특화된 경로선택 및 무선자원 할당 알고리즘의 적용을 요구한다. 본 논문에서는 협력 통신을 이용하는 LTE-Advanced 릴레이 시스템을 위한 통합 경로선택 및 자원할당 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 라그랑지 승수 기반의 휴리스틱 알고리즘으로, 다중차원 다중선택 배낭 문제(Multi-dimensional Multi-choice Knapsack Problem)의 형태로 정의된 협력 통신 기반의 LTE-Advanced 릴레이 시스템 하향링크 처리율 최대화 문제의 근사 해를 구한다. 제안된 기법에 의해 도출된 근사 해의 성능이 최적 해의 성능에 충분히 근접할 수 있음을 시뮬레이션을 통해 보인다.