• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.174-175
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 가정용 TV 환경에서 실감효과를 향상시키기 위한 정면 수직음상정위에 기반한 오디오 시스템을 제안하고 이를 구현한다. 제안된 시스템은 가정용 대형 TV 환경에서 TV 하단에 배치된 오디오 시스템으로 인해 음상이 TV 의 하단에 맺히게 되어 재생되는 영상과 위치적인 불일치 문제를 해결하기 위하여, 오디오 신호에 정면 수직음상정위 기법을 적용하여 고도감이 향상된 신호를 생성해 준다. 본 논문에서의 정면 수직음상정위 기법은 청취자의 신체적 특성을 반영하기 위한 머리전달함수 모델, 고도에 따라 달라지는 주파수 특성을 반영하기 위한 spectral notch 및 특정 주파수 대역 boosting 으로 구성된다. 제안된 오디오 시스템의 정면 수직음상정위 기법의 성능을 평가하기 위하여 원음과 이 원음에 정면 수직음상정위 기법을 적용하여 생성한 음원을 TV 오디오 시스템으로 재생한 후의 청취 선호도 조사를 수행하였으며, 그 결과 정면 수직음상정위 기법을 포함하는 제안된 오디오 시스템을 통해 청취한 음원에 대한 선호도가 높았다.

• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.164-167
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• 1995

Stellate ganglion block(SGB) is a widely used sympathetic block to diagnose or treat various painful conditions. We experienced a rare case who exhihited a contralateral Horner's syndrome following SGB. A 64-year-old female patient suffering from postherpetic neuralgia on mandibular branch of trigeminal nerve visited our pain clinic. She complained of severe burning and shooting pain on right side lower lip, ear and temporal area. We modified her previous medications and performed repeated right SGB daily, in combination with mandibular or mental and auriculotemporal nerve blocks twice a week. Her symptoms were progressively improved. A contralateral Horner's syndrome occured after the thirteenth SGB, which was performed under several attempts in the same manner and the same physician. She had no evidence of subarachnoid or brachial plexus blocks. She did not need any special treatment and returned home 2 hours later. Subsquent blocks were followed on ipsilateral Horner's syndromes.

• The Korean Journal of Zoology
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.545-553
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• 1994

척추동물의 초기 발생에 관여하는 물질로 알려져 있는 retinoic acid(RA)를 Xenopus 배(embryo)에 처리한 결과, 체절의 형성에 이상 발생이 나타났다 즉 낭배 초기에 RA에 노출된 개체의 체절은 대조군의 화살머리 모양((((() 대신 기등 모양(1111)을 형성하고 있었으며, 고농도일수록 직선에 가까운 모습을 하고 있었다. 신경배 시기에 노출된 개체의 체절은 정상적인 분절이 이루어지지 않았으며, 이들 이상 체질의 위치는 처리 시기에 따라 다르게 나타났으나 농도에는 영향을 받지 않았다. 그러나 분절 과정중 일어나는 체절 세포들의 회전은 RA에 의해 억제되지 않았다. 이와 같은 결과는 체절의 형성에 분절 이전의 세포의 행동을 주도하는 프로그램과 분절을 주도하는 프로그램이 분리되어 있음을 암시한다. 한 가지 특이한 사항은 열처리 등으로 유발된 혼란이 수 개의 체절에 국한되어 나타나는 점과는 달리 RA의 처리는 어느 지점 이 후부터 모든 체절에 혼란을 야기시킨다는 점이다. 이와 같은 연속적인 분절의 흔란 현상은 RA가 다른 저해제에 의해 영향을 받는 유전자의 활동을 조절하는 전 단계의 유전자에 영향을 주기 때문인 것으로 사료된다. 또한 신경배 시기에 RA에 노출된 배의 a-cardiac actin은 정상적으로 발현되는데 비해 낭배 초기에 RA에 노출된 배는 감소된 양의 a-cardiac actin myNA의 축적을 보였다. 그러나 EFI-u은 RA의 처리 시기와는 무관하게 정상적으로 발현되었다.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.1607-1612
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• 2004

Numerical simulations are performed to investigate the characteristics of flow past a sphere in uniform shear. The Reynolds numbers considered are Re=300, 425 and 480 based on the inlet center velocity and sphere diameter. The non-dimensional shear rate K of the inlet uniform shear is varied from 0 to 0.15. At Re=300, the head of the hairpin vortex loop always locates on the high-velocity side in uniform shear, and the flow maintains the planar symmetry. At Re=425 and 480, the irregularity in the location and strength of the hairpin vortex appearing in uniform inlet flow is much reduced in uniform shear, but the flows still keep the asymmetry for most inlet shear rates. However, in the cases of K=0.075 and 0.1 at Re=425, the flows become planar symmetric and their characteristics of the evolution of the hairpin vortex loops are different from those of asymmetric flows. A hysteresis phenomenon switching from the planar symmetry to the asymmetry (or vice versa) depending on the initial condition is also observed at Re=425.

• PNF and Movement
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.401-409
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• 2019

Purpose: This study investigated the muscular activity of abdominal muscles during a variety of plank exercises following changes in the leg and head positions. Methods: Thirty healthy individuals participated in this study. They performed six variations of plank exercises, including three changes in head position and two changes in leg position. Each plank was defined as head neutral-leg neutral, head up-leg neutral, head down-leg neutral, head neutral-leg wide, head up-leg wide, and head down-leg wide. During the plank excises, the muscle activities of the rectus abdominis, internal oblique, erector spinae, and upper trapezius were measured. Results: The head down position significantly increased the rectus abdominis activity compared to other head positions (p<0.05). On the other hand, the upper trapezius muscle activity was significantly higher with the head up position compared to other head positions (p<0.05). Regardless of head positions, both the rectus abdominis and internal oblique muscles were significantly activated with leg wide position compared to the leg neutral position (p<0.05). Conclusion: Head and leg positions could change the muscular activities of abdominal muscles during plank exercises. For example, the head down position is effective for activating the rectus abdominis while the leg wide position could be advantageous for enhancing the internal oblique and rectus abdominis.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.671-676
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• 2006

A convolution with HRTF DB and the original sound is generally used to make the method of sound image localization for virtual speaker realization. But it can decline localization by the confusion between up and down or front and back directions due to the non-individual HRTF depending on each listener. In this paper, we study a virtual speaker using a new HRTF, which is grouping the HRTF around the virtual speaker to improve localization between up and down or front and back directions. To effective HRTF grouping, we decide the location and number of HRTF using informal listening test. A performance test result of virtual speaker using the grouped HRTF shows that the proposed method improves the front-back and up-down sound localization characteristics much better than the conventional methods.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.1067-1075
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• 2006

This paper proposes a advanced representation method of hand motion by cheremes analysis in korean sign language. The proposed method is the representation method which apply to the hand motion used in KSL(Korean Sign Language) to represent rich and united hand motion. Words or sentences in KSL are completed by combination of elements called as Cheremes, that is, a hand movement orientation, a finger shape, a hand position, etc. In this paper, Cheremes composing the KSL is divided and represented by 5 elements: the hand movement orientation(HMO), finger shape(FS), hand orientation(HO), hand position(HP) and number of using hand (HN). Each cheremes is expressed by more various characteristics. For example, The hand movement orientation means orientations which the hand move while the sign language is done and can be expressed by 17orientation components. The finger shape means various shapes which fingers can take and represented by 17 components. The Orientation of hand is expressed by 2 characteristics according to whether we use the palm of the hand or the back. The position of hand means specific regions in body which hand(s) is placed while the sign language is done and divided by 8 regions. Finally, the number of hand means whether use only one hand or both hands and is expressed by 2 characteristics. The proposed method has been tested with KSL words and sentences and the results have shown that they can be expressed completely by the proposed representation method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.2C
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• pp.246-253
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• 2010

In this paper, a method of removing the space skew and cross-talk cancellation is proposed where the self-generated signals from the subject are used to obtain the subject's location. In the proposed method, the good spatial sound image is maintained even when the listener moves from the sweet spot. Two major parts of the proposed method are as follows: listener position tracking using the stimuli from the subject and removal of the space skew and cross-talk signals. Listener position tracking is achieved by estimation of the time difference of arrival (TDoA). The position of the listener is then computed using the Talyer-series estimation method. The head-related transfer functions (HRTF) are used to remove the space skew and cross-talk signals, where the direction of the HRTF is given by the one estimated from the listener position tracking. The performance evaluation is carried out on the signals from the 100 subjects that are composed of the 50 female and 50 male subjects. The positioning accuracy is achieved by 70%~90%, under the condition that the mean squared positioning error is less than $0.07m^2$. The subjective listening test is also conducted where the 27 out of the 30 subjects are participated. According to the results, 70% of the subjects indicates that the overall quality of the reproduced sound from the proposed method are improved, regardless of the subject's position.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.38 no.6
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• pp.637-650
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• 2019

This paper analyzes the limitations of binaural sound that is reproduced with headphones based on Ambisonics for Virtual Reality (VR) audio. VR audio can be provided with binaural sound that compensates head rotation of a listener. Ambisonics is widely used for recording and reproducing ambient sound fields around a listener in VR audio, and the First order Ambisonics (FOA) is still being used for VR audio because of its simplicity. However, the maximum frequencies with this order is too low to perfectly reproduce ear signals, and thus the binaural reproduction has inherent limitations in terms of spectrum and sound localization. This paper investigates these limitations by comparing the signals arrived at ear positions in the reference field and the reproduced field. An incidence wave is defined as a reference field, and reproduced over virtual loudspeakers. Frequency responses, inter-aural level differences, and inter-aural phase differences are compared. The results show, above the maximum cut off frequency in general, that the reproduced levels decrease, and the horizontal localization can be provided only around the forward direction.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.84 no.1
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• pp.197-211
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• 2023

Purpose To evaluate the circuit patency after nitinol bare-metal stent (BMS) placement according to the type of access and location of the stent in dysfunctional hemodialysis access. Materials and Methods Between January 2017 and December 2019, 159 patients (mean age, 64.1 ± 13.2 years) underwent nitinol BMS placement for dysfunctional access. The location of stents was as follows: 18 brachiocephalic vein, 51 cephalic arch, 40 upper arm vein, 10 juxta-anastomotic vein, 7 arteriovenous (AV) anastomosis, and 33 graft-vein (GV) anastomosis. Circuit patency was evaluated by the Kaplan-Meier method, and cox regression model. Results A total of 159 stents were successfully deployed in 103 AV fistula (AVF) and 56 AV graft (AVG). AVG showed lower primary and secondary patency at 12-months compared with AVF (primary patency; 25.0% vs. 44.7%; p = 0.005, secondary patency; 76.8% vs. 92.2%; p = 0.014). Cox regression model demonstrated poorer primary patency at 12 months after stenting in the cephalic arch and GV anastomosis compared with the other sites. Conclusion AVF showed better primary and secondary circuit patency at 12 months following the placement of BMS compared with AVG. Stents in the cephalic arch and GV anastomosis were associated with poorer primary patency at 12 months compared to those in other locations.