• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.148-155
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• 2015

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine how wish granting influences children with life-threatening medical conditions when it comes to their adaptation to disease with a focus on the mediating effect of resilience and stress caused by disease. Methods: From January 2, 2015 through January 12, 2015, a survey was conducted on 292 children with life-threatening diseases whose wishes were granted through Make-A-Wish Korea. The data were collected using the impact of a wish scale, the Children's Adjustment to Cancer Inventory, the Childhood Cancer Stressor Inventory, and the resilience scale in children with chronic illness. The data were analyzed using SPSS/WIN 20.0 and Amos 21.0. Results: Satisfaction with the wish granting program enhances resilience, and resilience affects stress caused by medical conditions as well as adaptation to disease. Also, stress caused by medical conditions influences adaptation to disease. Conclusion: Wish granting is effective in both facilitating chronically ill children to adjust to disease and reduce their stress from disease. Thus, children with life-threatening medical conditions could be assisted or motivated to adjust to disease by improving satisfaction achieved by wish granting.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39A no.9
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• pp.519-527
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• 2014

Adaptive arrays can minimize contributions from interferences incident onto an sensor array while preserving a signal the direction vector of which corresponds to the array steering vector to within a scalar factor. If there exist errors in the steering vector, severe performance degradation can be caused since the desired signal is misunderstood as an interference by the array. This paper presents an adaptive beamforming method which is robust against steering vector errors, exploiting a range of the desired signal direction. In the presented method, an correlation matrix of array response vectors is obtained through integration over the direction range and a minimization problem is formulated using some eigenvectors of the correlation matrix such that a more accurate steering vector than initially given one can be found. The minimization problem is transformed into a relaxed SDP (semidefinite program) problem, which can be effectively solved since it is a sort of convex optimization. Simulation results show that the proposed method outperforms existing ones such as ORM (outside-range-based method) and USM (uncertainty-based method).

• The Journal of Korean Academy of Sensory Integration
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.25-33
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• 2008

Objective : To identify the effectiveness of a short-term intensive intervention program on the improvement of adaptive response of a child with mixed sensory integration disorder. Method : Four and half years old boy who has been diagnosed of PDD received 40 min of one intervention session and 50 min of 3 intervention sessions. The intervention was a part of the 2008 Sensory Integration Treatment Course developed by the Korean Academy of Sensory Integration (KASI) and all sessions were implemented under supervision by experts. Result : Adaptive responses of the child were enhanced throughout the intervention process in terms of postural response and peer interaction. His oral defensiveness is improved. As the intervention progressed, he exhibited more active movements, louder voice, and coherence within peer group. Conclusion : This case report demonstrates effectiveness of a short-term intensive intervention program in terms of improving adaptive response. To enrich the effectiveness, tt is suggested to educate parents about neurological base of the child's behaviors so the they understand the importance of various sensory experience within play.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.47 no.9
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• pp.1-6
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• 2010

H.264 video coding standard is widely used due to the high compression rate and quality. H.264 decoders usually have pipeline architecture by a macroblock or a $4{\times}4$ sub-block. The period of the pipeline is usually fixed to guarantee the operation in the worst case which results in many idle cycles and the requirement of high data bandwidth and high performance processing units. We propose adaptive pipeline architecture for H.264 decoders for efficient decoding and lower the requirement of the bandwidth for the memory bus. Parameters and coefficients are delivered using hand-shaking communication through dedicated interconnections and frame pixel data are transferred using AMBA AHB network. The processing time of each block is variable depending on the characteristics of images, and the processing units start to work whenever they are ready. An H.264 decoder is designed and implemented using the proposed architecture to verify the operation using an FPGA.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.7B
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• pp.505-516
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• 2012

According to distribute of resource of macro cell and reduce distance between transmitter and receiver, Femto cell system is promising to provide costeffective strategy for high data traffic and high spectral efficient services in future wireless cellular system environment. However, the co-channel operation with existing Macro networks occurs some severe interference between Macro and Femto cells. Hence, the interference cancellation or management schemes are imperative between Macro and Femto cells in order to avoid the decrease of total cell throughput. First, we briefly investigate the conventional resource allocation and interference cancellation scheme between Macro and Femto cells. So we found that cell throughput and frequency reuse ware decreased Then, we propose an adaptive resource allocation scheme based on the distribution of Femtocell traffic in order to increase the cell throughput and also maximize the spectral efficiency over the FFR (Fractional Frequency Reuse) based conventional resource allocation schemes. Simulation Results show that the proposed scheme attains a bit similar SINR (Signal to Interference Noise Ratio) distribution but achieves much higher total cell throughput performance distribution over the conventional resource allocation schemes for FFR and future IEEE 802.16m based Femtocell network environment.

• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.85-96
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• 2015

In Korea, modern art therapy was developed in the 1960s and 1970s in the form of supplementary activities for patients in psychiatry. Along with the foundation of the Korean Association for Clinical Art in 1982 by psychiatric doctors, the therapy involved more various arts forms such as music, art, dance, poetry therapy, and psychodrama. More organizations with specific expertise opened such as the Korean Art Therapy Association, Korean Art Therapy Association, etc. in the 1990s and the Korea Arts Therapy Institute in 2001. As of April 2015, the members of the Korean Art Therapy Association total 15,000, including 6,200 regular members. The arts in integrative arts therapy (IAT) is an individual's creative activity which is related to his inner world, and the forms of IAT include music, drawing, dance and poetry therapy. From the aspect of phenomenology, IAT is psychophysical therapy involving the arts that helps patients recognize and perceive their experiences with an aim of at a recovery of the body and creativity from the phenomenological aspect. It is also a therapeutic activity that targets growth and development of the body and mind. Meta-analysis of the effects of art therapy with a focus on that involving music, drawing, dance movement and IAT in recent years in Korea, significant effects were observed in all factors but physical function. The biggest effect was mentality adaptation followed by activity adaptation and physiology. In the run up to the implementation of the daily flat-rate system for the health insurance reimbursement for palliative care in July 2015, the Ministry of Health and Welfare is reviewing the coverage of music therapy, drawing therapy and flower therapy, which are currently practiced by 56 hospice institutes in Korea. This is a meaningful step because the coverage of hospice and palliative care came after that of art therapy for psychiatric patients was approved in 1977. Still, there is a need clarify the therapeutic mechanism by exploring causality among the treatment media, mediation type and treatment effects. To address the issue of indiscriminately issued licenses, more efforts are needed to ensure expertise and identity of the licensed therapists through education, training and supervision.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.9C
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• pp.743-747
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• 2010

This paper presents an iterative adaptive hybrid image restoration algorithm for fast convergence. The local variance, mean, and maximum value are used to constrain the solution space. These parameters are computed at each iteration step using partially restored image at each iteration, and they are used to impose the degree of local smoothness on the solution. The resulting iterative algorithm exhibits increased convergence speed and better performance than typical regularized constrained least squares (RCLS) approach.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1995.05a
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• pp.580-587
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• 1995

1979. 3.28 미국 TMI-2의 사고를 계기로 개발된 증상기준 비상운전절차서는 고리 3,4/영광 1,2호기의 경우 '92. 2에 개정된 ERG-18를 근거로 하여 각 발전소 운전담당 자들에 의하여 확인 및 검증 (Verification S Validation) 작업을 통하여 금년부터 본격적으로 적용되기에 이르렀다. 그러나 비상운전절차서의 특성상 리 발전소별 특정 설정치의 계산에서 어려움을 겪었으며 아직도 재확인 작업을 통한 최적화 여지가 상 당부분 잔존하고 있다. 여기어서는 고압발전소인 고리-3,4/영장-1,2호기 비상운전절차서에 있어서 증기발생기에 공급되는 정상 밋 비상급수의 전체 상실사고시 노심 노출 방지 및 노심 열 제거를 위해 적응되는 기능회복절차서의 "2차 열제거원 상실시 조치" 중 방출 및 충전 운전의 성공적 시작점을 계산, 개정된 비상운전절차서와 비교하여 특정 발전소의 방출 및 충전 운전 설정치를 제시하였고, 이러한 결과로부터 현재 보수적으로 설정된 값의 완화를 유도하여 방출 및 충전 운전 시작전, 운전원으로 하여금 급수확보를 시도할 수 있는 시간여유의 연장을 도출할 수 있었다.도출할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.110-112
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• 2003

This paper presents an alleviant technique for solving ill-conditioned linear systems using spectral adaptive mapping, which is based on spectral mapping theorem. The conventional approaches to solve the ill-conditioned linear systems are divided into reformulation and alleviant technique. So far, the alleviant technique is evaluated the most effective one. In this paper, an adaptive mapping of spectrum is adopted to alleviate the condition number of ill-conditioned linear systems. A shift constant, which is a dominant factor of the spectral adaptive mapping that are proposed, is assessed by the system spectrum. The proposed spectral adaptive mapping technique is tested to demonstrated the validation on several size Hilbert matrices and small scale power systems, which are provide the promising results.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.19 no.5 s.89
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• pp.107-113
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• 2004

광섬유의 분산특성에 의한 신호의 왜곡을 완화하기 위한 방법의 하나로 수신단에서 전기적 등화에 의한 분산 보상법이 개발되고 있다. 이 기술은 이미 유무선 전송에 널리 사용되었으며 근래에 고속의 광 전송에도 도입되고 있다. 본 논문은 이와 관련된 기술을 소개하고자 한다. 현재까지 비교적 구현이 용이한TF(Transversal Filter)와 DFE(Decision Feedback Equalizer)에 관한 결과가 주로 발표되었다. 전송속도는 대부분이 현재 상용화된 10Gb/s이며 40Gb/s에 관한 결과도 최근 발표되었다. 등화기의 효과적인 적응 제어 방법에 관하여도 몇 가지 기술이 제시되었다. 이 기술의 대표적인 적용분야는 단일모드 광섬유의 편광모드 분산에 대한 보상이며 그 외에 다중모드 광섬유의 모드간 분산 보상에도 활용될 수 있다. 이 기술의 사용으로 전송거리의 확장에 의한 경제성 향상을 기대할 수 있다.