• Advances in pediatric surgery
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.48-53
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• 2002

Diagnosing Hirschprungs disease (HD) is a clinical challenge to pediatric surgeons. The cardinal symptoms are failure of passage of meconium within first 24 hours of life, abdominal distension, and vomiting. The severity of these symptoms and the degree of consitpation vary considerably between patients. HD is suspected on the basis of history and clinical findings and the diagnosis is established by radiological examination, anorectal manometry, and histochemical analysis of biopsy specimens. In this review, the advantages and pitfalls of each diagnostic modality are discussed. And a diagnostic approach utilizing these diagnostic modalities in children with suspicious HD is presented.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.188-195
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• 2006

Third harmonic generation microscopy is described in the frame work of the theory of harmonic generation with Gaussian focused beams inside a bulk material as well as at the vicinity of an interface. This model is then applied to characterize different types of materials in terms of electronic third-order susceptibility. Examples of bulk glasses, poled glasses, laser-induced modifications in glasses and nanoparticles in solution are given in order to give a survey of the broad application field of THG microscopy in material characterization.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2001.02a
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• pp.4-5
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• 2001

Advent of lasers offering high intensity beam has opened the glass to the nonlinear optic (NLO). The high electric field associated with such laser beams can be so large that high order components of the glass polarization can be measured. Such development is of scientific and technological interests in particular in systems involving an intensity-dependent refractive index and/or ultra-fast response (＜10$\^$-12/s). From a scientific viewpoint the NLO response intensity must be understood as a function of the glass composition. On the other hand, large family of applications are presently under investigation in various fields of optical materials or systems e.g. laser glasses for fusion energy, soliton propagation for ultra-long distances, ultra-fast-switching, optical storage etc....(omitted)

• Journal of architectural history
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• v.1 no.1 s.1
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• pp.205-217
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• 1992

For all the variety of past studies on the pyramids of Old Kingdom of Egypt, they still basically remain in 'enigma and mystery' as Giedion rightly puts in. This paper deals directly with the three most obvious facts about the pyramids : their cardinal orientation, the varying slopes, and above all, their magnitude. The prominent triangles of their once polished faces were there to be seen from the Nile valley as they shined or shaded under the Sun. The northern faces, especially, went in and out of the Sun in accordence with the seasonal variation of the solar declination, The steeper northern faces which turned into shade in high summer noon could have been warning signs of oncoming inundation of Nile, and the milder slopes that suddenly began to shine in some early spring noons could have been the vernal alarms to awaken the peasants to their timely toil on the fresh land. Dates and hours of insolation on the northern faces of pyramids are graphically and numerically computed.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.208-215
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• 2013

Early iterations of the existing Global Positioning System (GPS)-based or radio lateration technique-based vehicle localization algorithms suffer from flip ambiguities, forged relative location information and location information exchange overhead, which affect the subsequent iterations. This, in turn, results in an erroneous neighbor-vehicle map. This paper proposes an extended information overlap measure (EIOM) algorithm to reduce the flip error rates by exchanging the neighbor-vehicle presence features in binary information. This algorithm shifts and associates three pieces of information in the Moore neighborhood format: 1) feature information of the neighboring vehicles from a vision-based environment sensor system; 2) cardinal locations of the neighboring vehicles in its Moore neighborhood; and 3) identification information (MAC/IP addresses). Simulations were conducted for multi-lane highway scenarios to compare the proposed algorithm with the existing algorithm. The results showed that the flip error rates were reduced by up to 50%.

• Sleep Medicine and Psychophysiology
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.98-106
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• 2001

Auditory hallucinations are cardinal feature of psychosis. But the mechanism of hallucinated speech is unknown. The hypothesis that these hallucinations arise from pathologically altered brain monitoring system underlying speech perception is influential. With the help of rapidly developing neuroimaging study technologies, many researchers have been finding new organic deficits in the hallucinated schizophrenic patient's brain. In this article, we reviewed the general appearance of hallucination, a computer simulation model of hallucination and several neuroimaging study findings on hallucinating schizophrenic patients. In conclusion, we presented the presumptive mechanism of hallucination based on the anatomical dysfunction of schizophrenia.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07c
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• pp.2005-2007
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• 2000

KEPCO 765 kV Transmission Lines where seasonal winds intersect to the direction of the transmission line route cause aeolian complaints from residents near the transmission lines due to 1.5 times sub-conductors numbers and about 2 times of tower height comparing 345 kV transmission lines. To decrease the wind noise generation, KEPRI developed two countermeasures. One is to install the Spiral Rod on wired 765 kV Cardinal conductor. The other method is to wire the Low Noise conductor which has salient part on the surface.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.934-936
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• 2004

• Annals of Clinical Neurophysiology
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.117-120
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• 2020

Miller Fisher syndrome (MFS) is characterized by the acute ophthalmoparesis, ataxia and areflexia. We describe the case of 70-year-old man with cardinal symptom of MFS and active pulmonary tuberculosis (Tb). A thorough evaluation led to the diagnosis of MFS and treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) was started. The complete resolution of ophthalmoparesis and ataxia was observed from the fourth day of IVIg treatment. This is the first report to describe a case of MFS that developed in patient pulmonary tuberculosis.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.60 no.2
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• pp.389-397
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• 2011

The global dynamic window approach (DWA) is widely used to generate the shortest path of mobile robots considering obstacles and kinematic constraints. However, the dynamic constraints of robots should be considered to generate the minimum-time path. We propose a modified global DWA considering the dynamic constraints of robots. The reference path is generated using A* algorithm and smoothed by cardinal spline function. The trajectory is then generated to follows the reference path in the minimum time considering the robot dynamics. Finally, the local path is generated using the dynamic window which includes additional terms of speed and orientation. Simulation and experimental results are presented to verify the performance of the proposed method.