• Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.107-114
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• 2003

This study was performed to develop the plantable concrete block using rice straw ash and apply for inclined plane. For the planting, plantable concrete block needs infiltration of water and air through void of block. The materials used for plantable concrete block are cement, rice straw ash, and coarse aggregate (5-10, 10-20 mm). Plantable block size is $23\times23\times4$ cm, and species of planting are Tall fescue, Lespedeza cyrtobotrya and Lespedeza cuneata. At the 6 months after seeding, germination ratio and grown-up length of Tall fescue, Lespedeza cyrtobotrya and Lespedeza cuneata are shown in 90%, 60%, 50%, and 40~50 cm, 90~120 cm, 60~75 cm, respectively.

• Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.52-58
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• 1998

The objective of this study was to develop a polymer mortar protection block with high strength and durability using unsaturated polyester resin to complement defects of conventional cement mortar protection block. Physical and mechanical properties of the polymer mortar protection block were also investigated. Low absorptivity, high impact strength, and great bending strength of the polymer mortar protection block was compared with those of the conventional cement protection block. In conclusion, the polymer mortar protection block is excellent and useful as industrial products for erosion control works.

• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.99-102
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• 1995

Psoas compartment block has been used to provide anesthesia for orthopedic surgical procedures and postoperative pain control. Nowadays this block is advocated for the management of pain in the thighs, legs and lumbar area for various reasons. To relieve pain in the thigh and leg, 21 times of block were performed and observed clinically in the 17 patients at our hospital. The results were excellent for the relief of pain in metastatic cancer patients. And this block is satisfactory in the thigh pain but not in the leg pain. So we recommend psoas compartment block as a useful and simple method for the relief of pain in metastatic cancer pain in the thigh.

• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.171-176
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• 1988

It is well known that the celiac plexus block is specially useful for relieve intractable upper abdominal pain caused by upper abdominal visceral malignancy or upper abdominal metastasis from distant organs. But in cases of lower abdominal or pelvic metastasis from upper abdominal malignancy, the lower abdominal intractable pain is remained after the successful celiac plexus block. We have reported 7 cases of celiac plexus block combined with lumbar sympathetic ganglion block, among the 305 cases of the celiac plexus block from 1968 to Nov. 1987, performed in patients with lower abdominal or back pain due to carcinomatosis of lower abdominal metastatic malignancy, that their results were excellent for pain relief.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.29-30
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• 2018

Recent impervious pavements on roads and sidewalks cause rainwater to not penetrate into the ground, deplete groundwater, or flood the rivers, causing urban flood damage. In order to solve these problems, the amount of installed pitcher block is increasing, but the existing pitcher block is made with cement base and causes many problems. In the cement permeable block, the efflorescene phenomenon occurs due to the acid component, and the pore of the permeable block is clogged and the permeability is lost. As a result, the service life of the pitcher block is shortened and the replacement period is shortened. The purpose of this study is to analyze the basic properties of polymer concrete by replacing cement with polymer in order to solve the problem of cement - based concrete permeable block.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.51 no.6
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• pp.235-240
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• 2002

This paper presents a new method for estimating the block pulse series coefficients by using the Lagrange's second order interpolation polynomial. Block pulse functions have been used in a variety of fields such as the analysis and controller design of the systems. When the block pulse functions are used, it is necessary to find the more exact value of the block pulse series coefficients. But these coefficients have been estimated by the mean of the adjacent discrete values, and the result is not sufficient when the values are changing extremely. In this paper, the method for improving the accuracy of the block pulse series coefficients by using the Lagrange's second order interpolation polynomial is presented.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.28B no.5
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• pp.318-326
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• 1991

A Quantizer reconstruction level control method for block artifact reduction in DCT image coding is described. In our scheme, quantizer reconstruction level control is obtained by adding quantization level step size to the optimum quantization level in the direction of reducing the block artifact by minimizing the mean square error(MSE) and error difference(EDF) distribution in boundary without the other additional bits. In simulation results, although the performance in terms of signal to noise ratio is degraded by a little amount, mean square of error difference at block boundary and mean square error having relation block artifact is greatly reduced. Subjective image qualities are improved compared with other block artifact reduction method such as postprocessing by filtering and trasform coding by block overlapping. But the addition calculations of 1-dimensional DCT become to be more necessary to coding process for determining the reconstruction level.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.145-167
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• 2015

Digital simulation has recently become the preferred method for designing complex and dynamic systems. Simulation packages provide interactive, block-diagram environment for modeling and simulating dynamic models. The block diagrams in simulation models are flowcharts which describe the components of dynamic systems and their interaction. This paper is the first part of the study for determining the seismic behavior of soil systems. The aim of this part is to present the constructed block diagrams for discrete-time analysis of seismic site amplification in layered media for vertically propagating shear waves. Detailed block diagrams are constructed for single and multiple soil layers by considering wave propagation with and without damping, respectively. The block diagrams for recursive filter to model attenuation in discrete-time form are also constructed. Finite difference method is used for strain calculation. The block diagrams are developed by utilizing Simulink which is a software add-on to Matlab.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.11-16
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• 2003

In this paper, a Fast Block Sum Pyramid Algorithm (FBSPA) is presented for motion estimation in video coding. PBSPA is based on Block Sum Pyramid Algorithm(BSPA), Efficient Multilevel Successive Elimination Algorithms for Block Matching Motion Estimation, and Fast Algorithms for the Estimation of Motion Vectors. FBSPA reduces the computations for motion estimation of BSPA 29％ maximally using partial distortion elimination(PDE) scheme.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.07a
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• pp.7-10
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• 2000

Fast block motion estimation technique is proposed to reduce the computational complexity in video coding. In the conventional methods the size of search region is fixed. For small motion regions like background the small size of sea of search region is enough to find a block motion. But for active motion regions the large size of search region is preferred to figure out the accurate motion vector. Therefore, it is reasonable that a block motion is estimated in the variable search region (both the size and the position of it). That is to say, the search region varies according to the predicted motion characteristics of a block. The block motion in video frames has temporal continuity and then the search region of a current block is predicted using the block motion of previous blocks. The computational complexity of the proposed technique is significantly reduced with a good picture quality compared to the conventional methods.