• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.573-583
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• 2015

Objectives: This study was carried out to evaluate the effect of noise exposure and aging on changes in hearing threshold level and the relationship between age and noise. Materials: The author selected 274 male shipyard and assembly line workers as the noise exposed group and 582 males not exposed to noise as the general population group. Data were collected from five years of consecutive annual audiometric tests performed from 2008 to 2012. Results: In the general population and noise exposed groups, there was a reverse phenomenon that hearing threshold level for 2009 was lower than that of 2008, which seemed to be due to the learning effect, but from 2010 hearing threshold level increased. In the noise exposed group, the mean hearing threshold level in the left ear was significantly higher than that for right ear. In the general population group, the older was the age, the higher was the hearing threshold level, especially at 4000 Hz. In the general population and noise exposed groups, frequency, age group and noise exposure independently affected hearing threshold level, and there was no relationship between age and noise exposure. Over all frequencies, the change of hearing threshold level was larger in the noise exposed group than in the general population group. In the noise exposed group below thirty years old, the change at 4000 Hz was remarkable. Conclusions: Age and noise exposure seem to affect hearing threshold level independently and contribute to an additive effect on hearing threshold level.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권5호
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• pp.51-57
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 M-ary 홀로그래픽 데이터 저장장치에 적용 가능한 진화 연산 알고리즘 기반 적응적 문턱치 검출 기법을 제안한다. 전통적으로 유전 알고리즘은 생명체의 유전자 진화과정에 근간하여 최적 혹은 준최적 문제와 데이터 추정을 위해 사용되는 매우 유용한 기법이다. 본 연구에서는 픽셀 어긋남이 심화되는 2차원 홀로그래픽 채널 환경에서 데이터의 검출 성능을 향상시키기 위해서, 각 데이터 검출 영역의 문턱 값(threshold value)을 유전 알고리즘의 인구 집합(population set)의 해로 간주하여 비트 검출 영역을 적응적으로 선택하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법의 성능을 평가하기 위해 픽셀 어긋남 현상이 심화된 4-ary 멀티레벨 입력의 홀로그래픽 채널 환경을 고려하고 모의실험을 수행하여 진화 연산의 세대수에 따른 비트오율 성능을 측정한다. 성능평가를 통해 기존의 비트 검출 기법과 비교함으로써 제안 기법의 우수성을 확인하였다.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.195-210
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• 2016

본 연구는 고온에 취약한 그룹의 특성에 대한 이해를 증진하고 고온으로 인한 사망자를 줄이는데 기여하기 위하여 사회 경제적 요인과 사망자 임계기온의 관계를 연구하였다. 연구 지역은 서울이며 연구 기간은 2000~2010년으로 선정하였다. 연구 결과, 고령 인구 비율이 높은 지역과 낮은 지역에서 사망자 임계기온은 각각 $27.6^{\circ}C$와 $27.9^{\circ}C$이었다. 고학력자 비율이 높은 지역과 낮은 지역에서 사망자 임계 기온은 각각 $27.7^{\circ}C$와 $27.4^{\circ}C$이었다. 기초생활수급자 비율에 따른 지역 구분에서는 임계기온의 차이가 나타나지 않았다. 하지만 고령 인구 비율이 높고 기초생활수급자 비율이 높은 지역에서 사망자 임계기온은 다른 지역에 비해 $0.7^{\circ}C$ 낮았다. 고령 인구 비율이 높고 고학력자 비율이 낮은 지역에서 사망자 임계기온도 상대적으로 $0.7^{\circ}C$ 낮았다. 이는 서울에서 저소득 고령층이 고온에 취약하다는 것을 보여준다. 따라서 본 연구의 결과는 고온으로 인한 사망자를 줄이기 위하여 저소득 고령 인구에 대한 정책을 우선 수립할 필요성이 있음을 시사한다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.57-66
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• 2008

The frequency analysis and the probability plot were applied to heavy metal contents of soils collected from the Goseong Cu mine area as a statistic method for the determination of the threshold value which was able to partition a population comprising largely dispersed heavy metal contents into the background and the anomalous populations. Almost all the heavy metal contents of soil showed a positively skewed distributions and their cumulative percentage frequencies plotted as a curved lines on logarithmic probability plot which represent a mixture of two or more overlapping populations. Total Cu, Pb and Cd data and extractable Cu and Pb data could be partitioned into background and anomalous populations by using the inflection in each curve. The others showed a normally distributed population or an largely overlapped populations. The threshold values obtained from replotted frequency distributions with the partitioned populations were Cu 400 mg/kg, Pb 450 mg/kg and Cd 3.5 mg/kg in total contents and Cu 40 mg/kg and Pb 12 mg/kg in extractable contents, respectively. The thresholds for total contents are much higher than the tolerable level of soil pollution proposed by Kloke(Cu 100 mg/kg, Pb 100 mg/kg, Cd 3 mg/kg), but those for extractable contents are not exceeded the worrying level of soil pollution proposed by Ministry of Environment(Cu 50 mg/kg, Pb 100 mg/kg). When the threshold values were used as the criteria of soil pollution in the study area, $9{\sim}19%$ of investigated soil population was in polluted level. The spatial distributions of heavy metal contents greater than threshold values showed that polluted soils with heavy metals are restricted within the mountain soils in the vicinity of abandoned mines.

• 산업공학
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.161-169
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• 1995

In this paper, a threshold policy is considered for the Markovian queueing system with server vacations. The threshold policy considered in this paper has the following form: "when the number of customers present in the system increases to N, the server is turned on and serves customers until the system becomes empty". In this paper, we show how the finite capacity or finite population queueing system under a threshold policy can be modeled by the stochastic Petri net. The performance evaluation of the model is carried out using the software called "SPNP". Some examples are also presented in which it is shown that how the optimal threshold policies can be obtained under a linear cost structure.

• 대한수학회지
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.71-82
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• 2009

In this paper, a stage-structured predator-prey system with impulsive perturbations and time delays is presented to investigate the ecological problem of how a pest population and natural enemy population can coexist. Sufficient conditions are obtained using a discrete dynamical system determined by a stroboscopic map, which guarantee that a 'predator-extinction' periodic solution is globally attractive. When the impulsive period is longer than some time threshold or the impulsive harvesting rate is below a control threshold, the system is permanent. Our results provide some reasonable suggestions for pest management.

• 한국연초학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.58-66
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• 2006

Threshold limit value (TLV) test between expert and consumer panel was conducted about absolute, recognition and difference threshold respectively. And we tried to suggest appropriate and minimum acceptable menthol concentration level by consumer panel. Determination of threshold value was based on ASTM E 679-79 method by forced-choice ascending concentration series. In addition, a semi-ascending paired difference method was referred to conduct test. The group threshold value was determined as the value of geometric mean individual threshold. The smokers were dividend by two groups, trained and consumer panel. Trained panel was selected according to sensitivity to menthol discrimination. Consumer panel wasrecruited in proportion as population ratios including female smokers. They were all over twenty years old volunteers and summed up thirty four persons. In terms of sensor evaluation, overall difference test with seven-category scale by both trained and consumer panelists were done. On judging correct or incorrect answer, two by three cut-off levels applied to. Every test was conducted with two sessions, before smoking and during smoking period. And, only two samples served each paneI per test with regard to sensory fatigue and reliable results. All tests were replicated, and in total 32 times per panelist. In conclusion, the recognition threshold about consumer and expert panel was 358 ppm/cig. and 276 ppm/cig. in separately. Besides, absolute and difference thresholds were obtained also. And, we conduct difference threshold test with two different ways, upward and downward. And, The results of each method were 246, 195 ppm/cig., 1414, 1336 ppm/cig. and 1047, 972 ppm/cig.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.203-211
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• 2020

Turkey is located in one of the most seismically active regions of in Europe. The majority of the population living in big cities are at high seismic risk due to insufficient structural resistance of the existing buildings. Such a seismic risk brings the need for a comprehensive seismic evaluation based on the risk analysis in Turkey. Determining the seismic resistance level of existing building stock against the earthquakes is the first step to reduce the damages in a possible earthquake. Recently in January 2020, the Elazig earthquake brought the importance of the issue again in the public. However, the excessive amount of building stock, labor, and resource problems made the implementation phase almost impossible and revealed the necessity to carry out alternative studies on this issue. This study aims for a detailed investigation of residential buildings in Antalya, Turkey. The approach proposed here can be considered an improved state of building survey methods previously identified in Turkey's Design Code. Antalya, Turkey's fifth most populous city, with a population over 2.5 Million, was investigated as divided into sub-regions to understand the vulnerability, and a threshold value found for the study area. In this study, 26,610 reinforced concrete buildings between 1 to 7 stories in Antalya were examined by using the rapid visual assessment method. A specific threshold value for the city of Antalya was determined with the second level examination and statistical methods carried out in the determined sub-region. With the micro zonation process, regions below the threshold value are defined as the priority areas that need to be examined in detail. The developed methodology can be easily calibrated for application in other cities and can be used to determine new threshold values for those cities.

• 한국동물학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.19-27
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• 1978

서울, 강남구 서수동 일대가 격리된 集團이기 때문에 ankyloglossia가 높은 빈도로 나타났는지를 간접적으로 究明하고저 실시한 연구에서 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 이 集團의 PTC 味覺　値에 관한 分布相은 他集團과 대개 일치하였다. 그러나 味盲者의 빈도는 남자가 여자보다 有意하게 높았으며 ankyloglossia가 남자에서 많이 발생한 현상과 비슷하였다. 그러나 味盲과 anakyloglossia가 어떤 상호관계가 있는지는 알 수 없었다. 舌運動의 rolling과 folding과 되는 경우는 서울의 他集團과 비교할 때 그頻度가 낮은 편이었다. twisting이 되는 경우는 남녀에 따라 차이가 심하였다. 色感異常의 頻度는 6.21%로 다른 集團보다 약간 높았다. 이와같은 결과로 보아 이 集團은 遺傳的으로 격리된 集團으로 추측되며, 舌動的, PTC 味覺 및 ankyloglossia 사이의 관계와 ankyloglosia의 遺傳樣式등은 앞으로 더 追究해야 할 문제로 생각된다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제18권12호
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• pp.1669-1674
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• 2005

Maximum likelihood methodology was applied to analyze the efficiency and statistical power of interval mapping by using a threshold model. The factors that affect QTL detection efficiency (e.g. QTL effect, heritability and incidence of categories) were simulated in our study. Daughter design with multiple families was applied, and the size of segregating population is 500. The results showed that the threshold model has a great advantage in parameters estimation and power of QTL mapping, and has nice efficiency and accuracy for discrete traits. In addition, the accuracy and power of QTL mapping depended on the effect of putative quantitative trait loci, the value of heritability and incidence directly. With the increase of QTL effect, heritability and incidence of categories, the accuracy and power of QTL mapping improved correspondingly.