• Biomedical Engineering Letters
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.345-353
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• 2018

This study suggested a new EMG-signal-based evaluation method for knee rehabilitation that provides not only fragmentary information like muscle power but also in-depth information like muscle fatigue in the field of rehabilitation which it has not been applied to. In our experiment, nine healthy subjects performed straight leg raise exercises which are widely performed for knee rehabilitation. During the exercises, we recorded the joint angle of the leg and EMG signals from four prime movers of the leg: rectus femoris (RFM), vastus lateralis, vastus medialis, and biceps femoris (BFLH). We extracted two parameters to estimate muscle fatigue from the EMG signals, the zero-crossing rate (ZCR) and amplitude of muscle tension (AMT) that can quantitatively assess muscle fatigue from EMG signals. We found a decrease in the ZCR for the RFM and the BFLH in the muscle fatigue condition for most of the subjects. Also, we found increases in the AMT for the RFM and the BFLH. Based on the results, we quantitatively confirmed that in the state of muscle fatigue, the ZCR shows a decreasing trend whereas the AMT shows an increasing trend. Our results show that both the ZCR and AMT are useful parameters for characterizing the EMG signals in the muscle fatigue condition. In addition, our proposed methods are expected to be useful for developing a navigation system for knee rehabilitation exercises by evaluating the two parameters in two-dimensional parameter space.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제86권1호
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• pp.49-68
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• 2023

This study investigates the static and dynamic structural analysis of symmetrical and asymmetrical coupled shear walls using the continuous and modified transfer matrix methods by idealizing the coupled shear wall as a three-field CTB-type replacement beam. The coupled shear wall is modeled as a continuous structure consisting of the parallel coupling of a Timoshenko beam in tension (with axial extensibility in the shear walls) and a shear beam (replacing the beam coupling effect between the shear walls). The variational method using the Hamilton principle is used to obtain the coupled differential equations and the boundary conditions associated with the model. Using the continuous method, closed-form analytical solutions to the differential equation for the coupled shear wall with uniform properties along the height are derived and a numerical solution using the modified transfer matrix is proposed to overcome the difficulty of coupled shear walls with non-uniform properties along height. The computational advantage of the modified transfer matrix method compared to the classical method is shown. The results of the numerical examples and the parametric analysis show that the proposed analytical and numerical model and method is accurate, reliable and involves reduced processing time for generalized static and dynamic structural analysis of coupled shear walls at a preliminary stage and can used as a verification method in the final stage of the project.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제89권3호
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• pp.239-252
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• 2024

Steel plate shear walls (SPSWs) are classified as lateral load-resisting systems. The feasibility of openings in the steel plate is a characteristic of SPSWs. The use of openings in SPSWs can lower the load capacity, stiffness, and energy dissipation. This study proposes a novel form of SPSWs that provides convenient access through openings by combining steel plates and eccentrically braced frames (EBFs). The proposed system also avoids a substantial reduction in the strength and stiffness. Hence, various geometric forms were analyzed through two different structural approaches. Groups 1, 2, and 3 included a steel EBF with a steel plate between the column and EBF in order to improve system performance. In Group 4, the proposed system was evaluated within an SPSW with openings and an EBF on the opening edge. To evaluate the performance of the proposed systems, the nonlinear finite element method (NL-FEM) was employed under cyclic loading. The hysteresis (load-drift) curve, stress contour, stiffness, and damping were evaluated as the structural outputs. The numerical models indicated that local buckling within the middle plate-EBF connection prevented a diagonal tension field. Moreover, in group 4, the EBF and stiffeners on the opening edge enhanced the structural response by approximately 7.5% in comparison with the base SPSW system.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 1999년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.183-192
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• 1999

The derivative equation measured of a MV=Kp8{(EVn-EVn-1)+Ki/S/1* EVn+(Kd/s)*(2PVn-1-{PVn-PVn-1)}(원문이미지참조) is used on the machine apparatus of industrial field, but this par doesn\`t able to educate now, because we didn\`t have the implementation device of PID module, so the principle implementation system of the PID Module is manufactured and developed. Through this system, the implementation system of PID Module is practiced with that the SV and the set of P, I, D is set on the derivative equation measured of PID. A things to be known of this experiment result is flow. 1)PID module is known that had to be used with the module of A/D and D/A. 2) In process of PV is approached to the SV to follow Kp, Ti and Td to cause a constant of set value on the MVp=Kp*EV, Mv=Ki/1 EVdt, MVd+tDBT/D EV(원문이미지참조) the variable rate of E and Kp, Td, Ti in that table 1 is analysed, is same as flow. ①If Kp is high, PV is near fast to the SV, but Kp is small, PV is near slowly to the SV. ②If Ki is shot, PV is close fast to the SV, but Ti is high, PV is close slowly to the SV ③If Td is high, the variable rate of E press hardly when because it doesn\`t increase, but Td is small, the variable rate of E press not hardly, upper with 1),2), PID module is supposed that be able to do the A/S and an implementation of that apparatus, and getting a success of aim that an engineer want, on control of temperature, tension, velocity, amount of flow, power of wind end so on, to get the principle of automatic implementation in industrial field with cooperation of A/D and D/A module.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.452-464
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• 1990

It is well known that extracellular Calcium plays a very important role in several steps of smooth muscle excitability and contractility, and there have been many concerns about factors influencing the distribution of extracellular Ca++ and the Ca++ flux through the cell membrane of the smooth muscle. Based on the assumption that Mg++ may also play an important role in the excitation and contraction processes of the smooth muscle by taking part in affecting Ca++ distribution and flux, many researches are being performed about the exact role of Mg++, especially in the vascular smooth muscle. But yet the effect of Mg++ in the smooth muscle activity is not clarified, and moreover the mechanism of Mg++ action is almost completely unknown. Present study attempted to clarify the effect of Mg++ on the excitability and contractility in the multiunit and unitary smooth muscle, and the mechanism concerned in it. The preparations used were the guinea-pig aortic strip as the experimental material of the multiunit smooth muscle and the rat uterine strip as the one of the unitary smooth muscle. The tissues were isolated from the sacrificed animal and were prepared for recording the isometric contraction. The effects of Mg++ and Ca++ were examined on the electrically driven or spontaneous contraction of the preparations. And the effects of these ions were also studied on the K+ or norepinephrine contracture. All experiments were performed in tris-buffered Tyrode solution which was aerated with 100% 02 and kept at 35oC. The results obtained were as follows: 1] Mg++ suppressed the phasic contraction induced by electrical field stimulation dose-dependently in the guinea-pig aortic strip, while the high concentration of Ca++ never recovered the decreased tension. These phenomena were not changed by the a - or b - adrenergic blocker. 2]Mg++ played the suppressing effect on the low concentration [20 and 40 mM] of K+-contracture in the aortic muscle, but the effect was not shown in the case of 100mM K+-contracture. 3] Mg++ also suppressed the contracture induced by norepinephrine in the aortic preparation. And the effect of Mg++ was most prominent in the contracture by the lowest [10 mM] concentration of norepinephrine. 4] In both the spontaneous and electrically driven contractions of the uterine strip, Mg++ decreased the amplitude of peak tension, and by the high concentration of Ca++ the amplitude of tension was recovered unlike the aortic muscle. 5] The frequency of the uterine spontaneous contraction increased as the [Ca++] / [Mg++] ratio increased up to 2, but the frequency decreased above this level. 6] Mg++ decreased the tension of the low[20 and 40mM] K+-contracture in the uterine smooth muscle, but the effect did not appear in the 100mM K+-contracture. From the above results, the following conclusion could be made. 1] Mg++ seems to suppress the contractility directly by acting on the smooth muscle itself, besides through the indirect action on the nerve terminal, in both the aortic and uterine smooth muscles. 2] The fact that the depressant effect of Mg++ on the K+-contracture is in inverse proportion to an increase of K+ concentration appears resulted from the extent of the opening state of the Ca++ channel. 3] Mg++ may play a depressant role on both the potential dependent and the receptor-operated Ca++ channels. 4] The relationship between the actions of Mg++ and Ca++ seems to be competitive in uterine muscle and non-competitive in aortic strip.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제27권8호
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• pp.103-110
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• 2022

본 연구는 영화의 현장감, 사실감을 주기 위해서 많이 사용되는 롱테이크 촬영 기법에 대한 대학생의 인식에 대한 논문으로 대학생 92명에게 롱테이크 영상에 대한 인식부터 영상 시청 후 느낌, 만족도, 전망 등 13개의 설문을 실시하였다. 설문 참여자는 보건계열 23명, 자연계열 16명, 예체능계열 41명, 공학계열 13명으로 구성되었다. 설문 결과 롱테이크 영상에 대한 인지는 68.8%가 "알고 있다"였으며, 롱테이크 영상 시청 후의 느낌은 현장감(사실감) 68.8%, 긴장감 16.1%, 지루함 15.1% 순으로 나타났다. 롱테이크 영상 만족도는 "매우 만족" 16.1%, "만족" 31.2%로 나타났다. 롱테이크 영상에 대한 전망은 "매우 발전할 것이다" 17.2%, "발전할 것이다" 48.4%로 높게 나타났다. 롱테이크 영상과 일반 영상에 대한 선호도는 "롱테이크 영상" 67.7%, "일반 영상" 32.3%로 롱테이크 영상에 대한 선호도가 높게 나타났다. 향후 연구과제로는 20대 영화 및 영상 전공자들을 대상으로 하여 좀 더 심도 있는 설문을 하고자 한다. 그리고 국내 영화에서 스토리의 전개 과정에 따라 사용된 롱테이크 영상의 분석을 해 보고자 한다.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제14권8호
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• pp.37-44
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• 2013

지압형 앵커는 일본, 유럽 등에서 1950년대부터 안정성 및 경제성의 우수함이 인식되어 왔다. 하지만 국내에서 적용하고 있는 지압형 앵커는 쐐기체의 확장에 의한 지반의 마찰력만으로 설계 인장력을 발휘하는 구조적인 문제점을 지니고 있으며 공벽에 밀착시키는 방법이 마땅치 않아 지압력을 확인하기가 어려운 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 지압력을 최대한 발휘할 수 있도록 확공지압형 앵커시스템을 개발하였다. 또한, 확공지압형 앵커의 인발특성을 평가하고 지압력에 의한 정착장 감소효과를 검증하기 위하여 현장시험을 수행하였다. 확공지압형 앵커에 대한 현장시험은 그라우팅 이전 가인장 상태와 그라우팅 후 본인장 상태에 대한 인발시험을 각각 수행하여 인발저항력을 확인하였으며 이를 마찰형 앵커의 인발시험 결과와 비교 분석하였고, 범용 유한요소해석 프로그램인 PLAXIS-2D를 이용한 정착부 상세 모델링을 통하여 가인장 시 정착부에서의 지압효과에 대한 검증을 수행하였다.

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.112-117
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• 2019

Background and Objectives The purpose of this study was to develop the differential diagnosis scale containing items from adductor spasmodic dysphonia (ADSD) to muscle tension dysphonia (MTD) and the determine clinical utility of newly developed items. Materials and Method The four parts of pitch, redirected phonation, automatic speech and voiced sound were selected for analyzing the characteristics of ADSD in the literature. One part of tense voiceless sound was developed according to the Korean manner of articulation. The content validity was evaluated based on 5 scales (1-5 point) analysis from 30 experts. One hundred patients (50 ADSD and 50 MTD) were recorded in reading a sentence and sustained phonation. The two speech language pathologist evaluated recorded voices through a blind test using 4 scales (0-3 point) for newly developed items. Results As a result of verifying the content validity of items with experts, it was identified that the differentiated items were valid with 4.2 out of 5. Through the differential diagnosis between two groups according to the items, the correlation between sub-domains and total scores was shown as higher than 0.710. The result of analyzing the reliability on each diagnosis domain was 0.840-0.893, which showed the internal consistency of items was great. Newly developed five parts of ADSD were significantly higher than those of MTD with strong correlation (p<0.01). The reliability among the evaluators was analyzed as high with 0.892. Conclusion In this study, the differential diagnosis scale of ADSD was revealed as having validity and reliability. It is considered that it will be useful for differentiating ADSD and MTD in the clinical field.

• 대한약리학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.49-60
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• 1992

선천성 고혈압 흰쥐(SHR)에서 endothelin-1(ET)과 neuropeptide Y(NPY) 투여에 의한 심혈관계 반응에 미치는 enallapril 장기처치의 영향을 검토하였다. 생후 6주의 SHR에 enalapril(3 mg/kg/day)을 6주간 투여하였을 때 고혈압 발현이 현저히 억제되었다(이하 enalapril 처치군). Enalapril 처치군에서 ET 및 NPY에 의한 승압반응이 현저히 억제되었지만, ET 측뇌실투여에 의한 혈압상승 및 NPY측뇌실 투여로 야기되는 혈압하강효과에는 영향이 없었다. 뇌척수제거 흰쥐에서 전기적 자극으로 야기되는 빈맥효과는 enalapril처치나 ET투여로 억제되었는데, ET의 작은 ${\alpha}_2$-수용체 길항제인 yohimbine 전처치로 봉쇄되었다. SHR의 적출 대동맥에서 전기자극 빈도수에 따르는 수축반응이 ET 전처치로 항진되었으나 NPY 전처치로는 차이가 없었다. 전기자극 빈도수에 따른 수축반응은 enalapril투여한 군의 것이 투여하지 않은 군의 것에 비하여 약화되었다. ET투여에 의한 혈중 norepinephrine의 증가작용이 enalapril처치로 감소되었으며, 이러한 감소작용이 뇌척수제거 흰쥐에서 현저하였다. 위의 결과로 미루어 고혈압흰쥐에 enalapril을 장기처치함으로써 고혈압 발현을 효과적으로 억제할 수 있으며, 이는 ET 및 NPY에 의한 승압반응 및 교감신경말단의 신경전달과정의 억제가 관여될 수도 있을 것 같다.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제15권5호통권66호
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• pp.579-589
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• 2003

콘크리트충전 강판(CFT)기둥과 H-형강 보 접합부의 기존 보강 방식은 상 하 동일 다이아프램 형태로 처리하는 것이 일반적이지만, 우리나라와 같은 중 약진지역에서는 하부플랜지에 인장 발생률이 적으므로 하부측을 단순화시켜 경제적인 접합부를 만들 수 있다. 우선적으로 본 논문에서는 단순인장실험을 실시하여 인장거동을 파악하고, 그 결과를 확장 적용하여 하부측 단순화의 타당성을 검증하였다. 본 실험에서는 상부에 복합십자형 다이아프램(Combined Diaphragm)을 하부에는 네 가지 형식 즉, 복합십자형, 무보강, 수평 T-bar, 수직 Plate를 다아아프램으로 제작한 실대크기의 실험체를 ANSI/AISC SSPEC-2002 가력 프로그램(AISC,2002)에 따라 반복가력실험을 하였다. 하부다이아프램에 사용된 수평 T-bar와 수직 Flat bar의 스터드 볼트는 횡력에 의해 하부다이아프램에 인장력이 가해질 때 보 플랜지의 인장력을 내부 콘크리트에 전달하기 위함이다. 각각의 실험체는 하부 인장시 내력의 차이가 조금 있었으나 모든 실험체가 AISC에서 규정하고 있는 합성보통모멘트 골조인(AISC,2002) 0.01rad의 비탄성회전 능력을 발휘하였다. 하부 접합부의 거동을 분석한 결과, 단순화된 하부다이아프램은 내력과 강성뿐만 아니라 소성 변형 능력이 우수하며 현장에 사용하기에 충분한 내진성능을 나타냄을 입증하였다.