• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.727-732
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• 2005

The treatment of wounds of the lower extremity caused by diabetes or vascular dysfunction remains a difficult problem for the plastic surgeon. The use of negative pressure in wound healing is a relatively new method to facilitate chronic wound healing by secondary healing. The use of vacuum-assisted closure(VAC) system is purposed to reduce local edema, increase regional blood flow, enhance epithelial migration, preserve a moist wound environment, reduce bacterial colonization, promote granulation tissue formation, and mechanically enhance wound closure. The VAC also can be used as a dressing for anchoring an applied split thickness skin graft. We reviewed the data from 20 consecutive patients with non-healing wound in lower extremity at Dong-A University from March 2002 to December 2004. We used the VAC in 20 patients and compared the results with the control group. In the VAC using group, mean application duration was about 3 weeks and dressing change was done every other day. The follow-up period of patients ranged from 3 months to 30 months with a mean of 17 months. The points of comparison with control group are wound size, granulation tissue proliferation rate, operation method, preoperative time, postoperative healing time, complication, and cost. With those points, we propose to approve the efficiency of the VAC in non-healing wound. As a result, the VAC used in non-healing wound decrease wound size, accelerate granulation tissue formation, do a wound closure with less invasive operation method, make less postoperative complication, can make operation time shorter. Therefore it is cost effect. Our results demonstrate the usefulness of VAC as an adjunct in management of chronic wounds with other extrinsic factors.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.79-89
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• 2012

본 논문은 터널 굴착시 막장면 안정성 확보를 위한 막장폐합비에 따른 막장면 응력 및 지반거동을 분석하기 위해 실내모형실험 및 수치해석적 분석을 실시하였다. 실내모형실험에서는 터널막장면의 폐합비와 토피고에 따른 막장면 응력 및 지반의 거동을 실험하였다. 실내모형실험 결과를 검증하기 위하여 2차원 수치해석을 실시하였으며 이들 서로의 결과들을 비교 분석하였다. 그 결과 막장 폐합비가 증가할수록 터널 막장면 안정성 확보가 가능할 것으로 판단되며 막장 폐합비가 80% 이상일 경우에는 막장 안정성에 큰 문제가 없는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 연구결과는 향후 경제적인 터널 막장폐합시스템을 개발하는데 매우 유용할 것으로 기대된다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.433-445
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• 2021

Artificial ground freezing (AGF) is a commonly used geotechnical support technique that can be applied in any soil type and has low environmental impact. Experimental and numerical investigations have been conducted to optimize AGF for application in diverse scenarios. Precise simulation of groundwater flow is crucial to improving the reliability these investigations' results. Previous experimental research has mostly considered horizontal seepage flow, which does not allow accurate calculation of the groundwater flow velocity due to spatial variation of the piezometric head. This study adopted vertical seepage flow-which can maintain a constant cross-sectional area-to eliminate the limitations of using horizontal seepage flow. The closure time is a measure of the time taken for an impermeable layer to begin to form, this being the time for a frozen soil-ice wall to start forming adjacent to the freeze pipes; this is of great importance to applied AGF. This study reports verification of the reliability of our experimental apparatus and measurement system using only water, because temperature data could be measured while freezing was observed visually. Subsequent experimental AFG tests with saturated sandy soil were also performed. From the experimental results, a method of estimating closure time is proposed using the inflection point in the thermal conductivity difference between pore water and pore ice. It is expected that this estimation method will be highly applicable in the field. A further parametric study assessed factors influencing the closure time using a two-dimensional coupled thermo-hydraulic numerical analysis model that can simulate the AGF of saturated sandy soil considering groundwater flow. It shows that the closure time is affected by factors such as hydraulic gradient, unfrozen permeability, particle thermal conductivity, and freezing temperature. Among these factors, changes in the unfrozen permeability and particle thermal conductivity have less effect on the formation of frozen soil-ice walls when the freezing temperature is sufficiently low.

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제4권5호
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• pp.225-230
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 키 프레임 영상과 SURF 특징점 기반의 시각 단어들을 이용한 효과적인 실시간 시각 루프 결합 탐지기 VILODE를 제안한다. 시각 루프 결합 탐지기는 과거에 지나온 위치들 중 하나를 다시 재방문하였는지를 판단하기 위해, 새로운 입력 영상을 이미 지나온 위치들에서 수집한 과거 영상들과 모두 비교해보아야 한다. 따라서 새로운 위치나 장소를 방문할수록 비교 대상 영상들이 계속해서 증가하기 때문에, 일반적으로 루프 결합 탐지기는 실시간 제약과 높은 탐지 정확도를 동시에 만족하기 어렵다. 이러한 문제점을 극복하기 위해, 본 시스템에서는 입력 영상들 중에서 의미 있는 것들만을 선택해 이들만을 비교하는 효과적인 키 프레임 선택 방법을 채택하였다. 따라서 루프 탐지에 필요한 영상 비교를 대폭 줄일 수 있다. 또한 본 시스템에서는 루프 결합 탐지의 정확도와 효율성을 높이기 위해, 키 프레임 영상들을 시각 단어들로 표현하고, DBoW 데이터베이스 시스템을 이용해 키 프레임 영상들에 대한 색인을 구성하였다. TUM 대학의 벤치마크 데이터들을 이용한 실험을 통해, 본 논문에서 제안한 시각 루프 결합 탐지기의 높은 성능을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.25-34
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• 2010

비선형 이력거동을 가지는 교량 구조계에 지진하중이 작용하였을 때 파괴확률을 추정할 수 있는 기법을 제시하였다. 교량 구조계는 지진하중이 작용할 때 이중선형 이력거동을 보이는 단자유도 진동계로서 모델링하였다. 교량의 파괴는 상단의 변위 응답이 지진 지속시간 동안 정해진 한계 상태 값을 최초로 넘어설 때 발생하는 것으로 정의하였다. 지진하중에 대한 비선형 구조계의 최초통과확률을 추정하기 위하여, 단위시간 동안 한계상태를 넘어서는 빈도수를 계산하는 crossing theory를 적용하였다. 단위시간 동안의 한계상태 초과 빈도수 추정을 위하여 필요한, 비선형 구조계의 응답과 응답의 미분값 간의 결합확률밀도함수를 추정하기 위한 기법으로서, Non-Gaussian closure 기법을 제시하였다. 다양한 지반운동 특성을 가지는 다수의 인공지진 가속도 시간이력을 생성하여 교량의 동적 특성에 따른 파괴확률을 추정하였다. 제시된 기법을 사용한 결과 얻어진 파괴확률 값을 crude Monte-Carlo 시뮬레이션을 통하여 얻어진 정해 및 기존의 방법을 적용하여 얻어진 파괴확률 값과 비교함으로써 제시된 파괴확률 추정 기법의 정확성과 효율성을 검증하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.406-414
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• 2002

In TSPA of long-term post closure radiological safety on permanent disposal of HLW in Korea, appropriate management of input and output data through QA is necessary. The robust QA system is developed using the T2R3 principles applicable for five major steps in R&D＇s. The proposed system is implemented in the web-based system so that all participants in TSPA are able to access the system. In addition, the internet based input database for TSPA is developed. Currently data from literature surveys, domestic laboratory and field experiments as well as expert elicitation are applied for TSPA.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• 제25권1_2호
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• pp.283-291
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• 2007

A simple graph G is said to be fractional n-factor-critical if after deleting any n vertices the remaining subgraph still has a fractional perfect matching. For fractional n-factor-criticality, in this paper, one necessary and sufficient condition, and three sufficient conditions related to maximum matching, complete closure are given.

• 소음진동
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.1041-1047
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• 2000

The main objectives of this study are to examine the random response of a vibration absorber system with autoparametric coupling in the neighborhood of internal resonance by Gaussian closure and to compare the results with those obtained by Monte Carlo simulation. The numerical simulation is found to support the main features of the nonlinear modal interaction in the neighborhood of internal resonance conditions. While the Gaussian closure exhibits regions of multiple solutions in the neighborhood of internal resonance, the numerical simulation gives only one solution depending on the assigned initial conditions. The on-off intermittency phenomena of the cantilever mode is observed in the Monte Carlo simulation over a small range of parameter.

• 펄프종이기술
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.35-43
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• 2004

Reduction of fresh water consumption and effluent discharge provide diverse advantages in raw materials and energy savings. Papermaking system closure, however, reduces the efficiency of additives, decreases retention and dewatering, and causes many other Problems in papermaking. Accumulation of inorganic and organic substances in the process white water is the prime cause of these problems. Understanding of the accumulation phenomena of the detrimental substances in the papermaking process is of great importance for papermaking system closure. In this study a process simulation method was employed to analyze the accumulation phenomena of anionic starch in the process white water as the reuse rate of dry broke and pick up of surface sizing agent is increased. Steady state simulation studies were carried out based on the model developed in previous study. The variation of dissolved starch concentration in each process unit was monitored as a function of reuse rate of dry broke and surface sizing agent pick up rate. The result showed that dissolved starch concentration Increased as reuse rate of dry broke and surface sizing agent pick up rate was increased.

• 전자공학회논문지A
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• 제32A권4호
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• pp.15-23
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• 1995

In this paper, we evaluate the performance of a transient queueing approximation when it is applied to modeling computer communication networks. An operational computer network that uses the ISO IS-IS(Intermediate System-Intermediate System) routing protocol is modeled as a Jackson network. The primary goal of the approximation pursued in the study was to provide transient queue statistics comparable in accuracy to the results from conventional Monte Carlo simulations. A closure approximation of the M/M/1 queueing system was extended to the general Jackson network in order to obtain transient queue statistics. The performance of the approximation was compared to a discrete event simulation under nonstationary conditions. The transient results from the two simulations are compared on the basis of queue size and computer execution time. Under nonstationary conditions, the approximations for the mean and variance of the number of packets in the queue erer fairly close to the simulation values. The approximation offered substantial speed improvements over the discrete event simulation. The closure approximation provided a good alternative Monte Carlo simulation of the computer networks.