• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.371-376
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• 2007

Objective : Balloon kyphoplasty can effectively relieve the symptomatic pain and correct the segmental deformity of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures. While many articles have reported on the effectiveness of the procedure, there has not been any research on the factors affecting the deformity correction. Here, we evaluated both the relationship between postoperative pain relief and restoration of the vertebral height, and segmental kyphosis, as well as the various factors affecting segmental deformity correction after balloon kyphoplasty. Methods : Between January 2004 and December 2006, 137 patients (158 vertebral levels) underwent balloon kyphoplasty. We analyzed various factors such as the age and sex of the patient, preoperative compression ratio, kyphotic angle of compressed segment, injected PMMA volume, configuration of compression, preoperative bone mineral density (BMD) score, time interval between onset of symptom and the procedure, visual analogue scale (VAS) score for pain rating and surgery-related complications. Results : The mean postoperative VAS score improvement was $4.93{\pm}0.17$. The mean postoperative height restoration rate was $17.8{\pm}1.57%$ and the kyphotic angle reduction was $1.94{\pm}0.38^{\circ}$. However, there were no significant statistical correlations among VAS score improvement, height restoration rate, and kyphotic angle reduction. Among the various factors, the configuration of the compressed vertebral body (p=0.002) was related to the height restoration rate and the direction of the compression (p=0.006) was related with the kyphotic angle reduction. The preoperative compression ratio (p=0.023, p=0.006) and injected PMMA volume (p<0.001, p=0.035) affected both the height restoration and kyphotic angle reduction. Only the preoperative compression ratio was found to be as an independent affecting factor (95% CI : 1.064-5.068). Conclusion : The two major benefits of balloon kyphoplasty are immediate pain relief and local deformity correction, but segmental deformity correction achieved by balloon kyphoplasty does not result in additional pain relief. Among the factors that were shown to affect the segmental deformity correction, configuration of the compressed vertebral body, direction of the most compressed area, and preoperative compression ratio were not modifiable. However, careful preoperative consideration about the modifiable factor, the PMMA volume to inject, may contribute to the dynamic correction of the segmental deformity.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제29권11호
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• pp.61-72
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• 2013

Sabkha층 탄산질 모래의 입자파쇄발생시 이차압축특성을 파악하기 위하여 압밀시험을 수행하여 입자파쇄응력을 파악하였다. 입자파쇄 항복응력에서 순간적으로 발생한 입자파쇄 압축침하를 해석하기 위하여 이차압축률 대신 이차 파쇄압축률 $C_{{\alpha}{\epsilon}}{^*}$를 도입하였다. 입자파쇄 발생시의 간극비 $e_p{^*}$와 침하량 $H_p{^*}$가 이차압축거동의 기준점으로 사용되었다. 일차압축지수와 이차파쇄압축률을 비교한 결과 현장 Sabkha층의 경우 $C_{{\alpha}{\epsilon}}{^*}/C_c$ 값이 0.0105~0.0187로 나타났으며 일반적인 석영질 사질토에 비해 입자파쇄 발생으로 인한 이차압축거동이 매우 크게 나타났다. 동일한 재하응력에서는 Sabkha층의 심도가 깊을수록 입자파쇄침하량과 이차파쇄압축률이 증가함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.560-566
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• 2015

HCCI (Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition) hydrogen engine has relatively narrower operation range caused by knock occurrence due to the rapid pressure rising by using higher compression ratio. In this study, EGR as one of the countermeasure methods is considered to extend operation range of HCCI hydrogen engine. Also, the effects of hydrogen EGR are compared with the effects of EGR using hydrocarbon fuel. Hydrocarbon EGR is carried out by adding carbon dioxide to exhaust gas of HCCI hydrogen engine. As the results, EGR has positive effects on a HCCI hydrogen engine in reducing rate of pressure rise as same as the other engines used hydrocarbon fuels. However, the effects of hydrogen EGR are better than those of hydrocarbon EGR in decreasing minimum compression ratio and rate of pressure rise. When applying EGR to HCCI hydrogen engine by 20% rate, the rate of pressure rise decreases by 58% and it results in about 48% increase of the operation range in terms of supply energy.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제12권9호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 집적영상의 압축 방법 중에 하나인 적응적인 블록 모드 선택을 이용한 3D-DCT 기반의 압축 방법에 율-왜곡 최적화 방법을 적용하여 부호화 효율을 개선하는 방법을 제안한다. 적응적인 블록 모드 선택을 이용한 3D-DCT 기반의 압축 방법은 영상 특성에 따라 적응적으로 다양한 크기의 3D-DCT 블록을 구성한 후에 3D-DCT를 수행하는 방법이다. 제안 방법은 기존 방법에서 최적 블록 모드를 선택할 때, 율-왜곡 최적화 방법을 적용하여 부호화 효율을 개선하였다. 또한 실험을 통해 집적영상에 적합한 최적의 라그랑지 계수를 제시하였다. 제안 방법은 기존 방법과 비교해 약 5%의 비트량 절감 효과를 가진다.

• 한국연소학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.7-14
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• 2016

Evaporation and combustion characteristics of fuel droplet with carbon nanoparticle were investigated in a rapid compression machine(RCM). RCM is an experimental equipment to simulate one compression stroke of reciprocating engine. Nitrogen was charged into reaction chamber for evaporation experiment, while oxygen was charged for combustion experiment. N990 carbon black and n-heptane were used to synthesize the carbon nanofluids. Surfactant, span80, was used to make synthesis easier. The droplet pictures were taken using a high speed camera with 500 frames per second. Thermocouple, of which tip is $50{\mu}m$, was used not only to measure transient bulk temperature, but also to suspend the droplet. Reaction chamber temperature was calculated from pressure data. The evaporation rate of nanofluids was improved compared to pure fuel. The ignition delay was promoted due to the nanoparticle, but the burning rate was decreased.

• 수산해양기술연구
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• 제53권3호
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• pp.302-307
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• 2017

An electric steam boiler equipped with a condensate recovery system, which stores the condensate generated after using steam in steam washers, steam cookers, steam irons, and steam cleaners in a condensate tank and supplies compressed air to the condensate tank so that the condensate is recovered to the boiler by the pressure of the compressed air, was studied. In the results of this study, the heat energy balance between the quantity of the heat generated by the non-metallic surface heating element and the quantity of the heat absorbed by the water was good in a range of ${\pm}5%$. In addition, the heat transfer rate increased in proportion to the electric power of the surface heating element heater, the waste heat energy was normally recovered by the recovery of the condensate of the steam boiler equipped with the high compression waste heat recovery system, and the recovery rate of the waste heat exhibited 23%.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.43-49
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• 2020

본 논문은 입력 영상 데이터를 블록 적응적으로 Context Tree Weighting을 사용하여 산술 부호 기반의 무손실 영상 압축 방법을 제안한다. CTW 기법은 입력 데이터를 비트 단위로 예측 및 압축을 하는 특성을 가진다. 또한, CTW 기법은 미지의 모델 및 파라미터에 대해서도 효율적인 압축을 한다는 점에서 장점을 보여준다. 본 연구에서는 무손실 압축이 필요한 항공 및 위성 사진을 옵션 정보에 따라 분할한 다음 각각 CTW 기반의 산술 부호기를 적용하여 압축의 효율을 증대하고자 한다. 항공 및 위성 사진은 영상 내 정보의 가치가 높으므로 무손실 압축이 불가피하다. 또한, 영상 크기가 일반적인 영상에 비해 크기 때문에 고압축 역시 필요하다. 기존의 무손실 압축 기법으로는 대용량의 중요 영상을 압축하는 데에 어려움이 존재한다. 이러한 이유로, 본 논문에서는 분할하지 않은 영상을 압축할 때 보다 제안하는 방법을 통해 영상을 압축했을 때 더 높은 압축률을 보여주기 위한 실험을 제공한다. 실험을 통해 기존의 무손실 압축 기법을 사용하여 압축을 진행했을 때 보다 CTW 기법을 이용하여 분할한 영상을 압축했을 때의 압축률이 더 높음을 확인할 수 있다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.302-310
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• 1998

In the accompanying paper, part I, we have presented the physical modeling and the associated numerical analysis of injection molding process with a compressible viscoelastic fluid model. In part II, the effects of compression stage in the injection/compression molding process are presented. Numerical results showed that the injection/compression molding process reduced birefringence as compared with the injection molding process. In this respect, one can conclude that the injection/compression molding process is more suitable for manufacturing the precise optical products than the injection molding process. In the distribution of birefringence, the effect of packing procedure in injection/compression molding process was found to be similar to that in injection molding process. From the numerical results, we found that birefringence becomes smaller as the melt temperature gets higher and the closing velocity of the mold gets smaller with the flow rate and the mold temperature affecting the birefringence insignificantly. As far as the distribution of density is concerned, the flow rate, the melt temperature, and the closing velocity of the mold had insignificant effect on the distribution of density in comparison with the mold temperature.

• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.265-274
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• 2000

Purpose: The aims of the present study are to determine the optimum compression rate in terms of file size reduction and diagnostic quality of the images after compression and evaluate the transmission speed of original or each compressed image. Materials and Methods: The material consisted of 24 extracted human premolars and molars. The occlusal surfaces and proximal surfaces of the teeth had a clinical disease spectrum that ranged from sound to varying degrees of fissure discoloration and cavitation. The images from Digora system were exported in TIFF and the images from conventional intraoral film were scanned and digitalized in TIFF by Nikon SF-200 scanner (Nikon, Japan). And six compression factors were chosen and applied on the basis of the results from a pilot study. The total number of images to be assessed were 336. Three radiologists assessed the occlusal and proximal surfaces of the teeth with 5-rank scale. Finally diagnosed as either sound or carious lesion by one expert oral pathologist. And sensitivity, specificity and k value for diagnostic agreement was calculated. Also the area (Az) values under the ROC curve were calculated and paired t-test and oneway ANOVA test was performed. Thereafter, transmission time of the image files of the each compression level was compared with that of the original image files. Results: No significant difference was found between original and the corresponding images up to 7% (1 : 14) compression ratio for both the occlusal and proximal caries (p<0.05). JPEG3 (1 : 14) image files are transmitted fast more than 10 times, maintained diagnostic information in image, compared with original image files. Conclusion: 1 : 14 compressed image file may be used instead of the original image and reduce storage needs and transmission time.

• 한국컴퓨터산업학회논문지
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• 제2권6호
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• pp.827-836
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• 2001

데이터는 컴퓨터 시스템에서 파일구조로 나타난다. 그러나 파일의 크기는 매우 커지고, 그것을 제어하고 전송하기에 어려운 점이 있다. 그래서 최근에 데이터 압축에 대한 새로운 알고리즘이 개발되고 있다. 그래서 본 논문에서는 허프만 압축기법의 단점을 보완하여 새로운 동적 압축 기법을 제안하고자 한다. 허프만 압축 기법에는 두 가지 단점이 있다. 첫 번째로 처음 파일내의 문자의 빈도수를 구할 때와 실제로 압축하기 위해서 동작할 때, 파일을 두 번 읽어들인다는 것과, 두 번째로, 트리에 대한 정보를 같이 저장해야되기 때문에, 그 만큼 압축 효율이 떨어진다는 것이다. 이러한 단점은 본 논문에서 제시한 방법은, 동적인 형태로 재배치된 데이터를 한번에 읽어들일 수 있고, 파이프라인 구조로 트리의 정보를 저장할 수 있기 때문에, 새로운 동적 재배치 방법으로 해결할 수 있다.