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Control of Microbial Shelf Life of Perishable Food by Real-Time Monitoring of $CO_2$ Concentration of its Package (변패성 식품의 포장 내 $CO_2$ 농도의 실시간적 측정에 의한 미생물적 저장수명 제어)

  • Kim, Hwan-Ki;An, Duck-Soon;Lee, Hyuk-Jae;Lee, Dong-Sun
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF PACKAGING SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.33-37
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    • 2011
  • Real time control logic of microbial shelf life of a perishable food, seasoned pork meat has been formulated which exploits monitoring of $CO_2$ concentration of the package. The potential of the proposed logic was examined for storage at dynamic temperature conditions. The start of increase in $CO_2$ production rate from the food or rate of package $CO_2$ concentration change was found to coincide with the point of microbial quality limit and could be used as an index of microbial shelf life determination. This also corresponded to lag time of $CO_2$ concentration change or time for the $CO_2$ concentration to reach a certain value. The application potential of the proposed logic was confirmed for a sensor system to measure on real time and transmit the $CO_2$ concentration wireless to the computer system.

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Current Status of High Dose Rate Brachytherapy in Cervical Cancer in Korea and Optimal Treatment Schedule (자궁 경부암 고선량율 강내조사 치료의 국내 현황과 적정 치료방법)

  • Huh, Seung-Jae
    • Radiation Oncology Journal
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.357-366
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    • 1998
  • Brachytherapy is an essential part of radiotherapy for uterine cervical cancer. The low dose rate (LDR) regimen has been the major technique of intracavitary therapy for cervical cancer. However, there has been an expansion in the last 20 years of high dose rate (HDR) machines using Ir-192 sources. Since 1979, HDR brachytherapy has been used for the treatment of uterine cervical cancer in Korea. The number of institutions employing HDR has been increasing, while the number of low dose rate system has been constant. In 1995, there was a total 27 HDR brachytherapy units installed and 1258 cases of patients with cervical cancer were treated with HDR Most common regimens of HDR brachytherapy are total dose of 30-39 Gy at point A with 10-13 fractions in three fractions per week. 24-32 Gy with 6-8 fractions in two fractions per week, and 30-35 Gy with 6-7 fractions in two fractions per week. The average fractionation regimen of HDR brachytherapy is about 8 fractions of 4.1 Gy each to Point A. In Korea, treatment results for HDR brachytherapy are comparable with the LDR series and appears to be a safe and effective alternative to LDR therapy for the treatment of cervical carcinoma. Studies from the major centers report the five-year survival rate of cervical cancer as. 78-86$\%$ for Stage 1, 68-85$\%$ for stage 11, and 38-56$\%$ for Stage III. World-wide questionnaire study and Japanese questionnaire survey of multiple institutions showed no survival difference in any stages and dose-rate effect ratio (HDR/LDR) was calculated to be 0.54 to 0.58. However the optimum treatment doses and fractionation schemes appropriate to generate clinical results comparable to conventional LDR schemes have yet to be standardized. In conclusion, HDR intracavitary radiotherapy is increasingly practiced in Korea and an effective treatment modality for cervical cancer. To determine the optimum radiotherapy dose and fractionation schedule, a nation-wide prospective study is necessary in Korea. In addition, standardization of HDR application (clinical, computer algorithms, and dosimetric aspects) is necessary.

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Development of Prediction Techniques of Water Pollution Sources for the Management of Total Maximum Daily Load - Population Prediction of Pollution Sources from Human Living - (수질오염총량관리를 위한 오염원 예측기법 개발 - 생활계 오염원 인구 예측 -)

  • Park, Jundae;Park, Juhyun;Lee, Suwoong;Jeong, Donghwan;Rhew, Doughee
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.561-567
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    • 2007
  • It is necessary to predict future water pollution sources in the establishment of Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) plan for watershed management. There are some difficulties and limits in estimating the pollution sources accurately since the prediction method is not firmly established. This study reviewed the existing methods of prediction and developed a technique characteristics. The characteristics were obtained by analyzing the change pattern of pollution sources by region and incorporated in the technique. A distinctive feature of the technique is to eliminate the influences of land use change included in the pollution source data of a region. The technique has been applied and tested. The test result showed the improvement on the prediction accuracy. A computer program was also developed for the easy application of the technique.

Wavelet Analysis of Ultrasonic Echo Waveform and Application to Nondestructive Evaluation (초음파 에코파형의 웨이브렛 변환과 비파괴평가에의 응용)

  • Park, Ik-Keun;Park, Un-Su;Ahn, Hyung-Keun;Kwun, Sook-In;Byeon, Jai-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.501-510
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    • 2000
  • Recently, advanced signal analysis which is called "time-frequency analysis" has been used widely in nondestructive evaluation applications. Wavelet transform(WT) and Wigner Distribution are the most advanced techniques for processing signals with time-varying spectra. Wavelet analysis method is an attractive technique for evaluation of material characterization nondestructively. Wavelet transform is applied to the time-frequency analysis of ultrasonic echo waveform obtained by an ultrasonic pulse-echo technique. In this study, the feasibility of noise suppression of ultrasonic flaw signal and frequency-dependent ultrasonic group velocity and attenuation coefficient using wavelet analysis of ultrasonic echo waveform have been verified experimentally. The Gabor function is adopted the analyzing wavelet. The wavelet analysis shows that the variations of ultrasonic group velocity and attenuation coefficient due to the change of material characterization can be evaluated at each frequency. Furthermore, to assure the enhancement of detectability and naw sizing performance, both computer simulated results and experimental measurements using wavelet signal processing are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the noise suppression of ultrasonic flaw signal obtained from austenitic stainless steel weld including EDM notch.

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A Tag Clustering and Recommendation Method for Photo Categorization (사진 콘텐츠 분류를 위한 태그 클러스터링 기법 및 태그 추천)

  • Won, Ji-Hyeon;Lee, Jongwoo;Park, Heemin
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2013
  • Recent advance and popularization of smart devices and web application services based on cloud computing have made end-users to directly produce and, at the same time, consume the image contents. This leads to demands of unified contents management services. Thus, this paper proposestag clustering method based on semantic similarity for effective image categorization. We calculate the cost of semantic similarity between tags and cluster tags that are closely related. If tags are in a cluster, we suppose that images with them are also in a same cluster. Furthermore, we could recommend tags for new images on the basis of initial clusters.

Power and Location Information based Routing Protocol Design in Wireless Sensor Networks (무선 센서 네트워크에서 전력과 위치정보 기반 라우팅 프로토콜 디자인)

  • Son Byung-Rak;Kim Jung-Gyu
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.48-62
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    • 2006
  • In recent years, wireless sensor networks(WSNs) have emerged as a new fast-growing application domain for wireless distributed computing and embedded systems. Recent Progress in computer and communication technology has made it possible to organize wireless sensor networks composed tiny sensor nodes. Furthermore, ad-hoc network protocols do not consider the characteristics of wireless sensor nodes, making existing ad-hoc network protocols unsuitable for the wireless sensor networks. First, we propose power-aware routing protocols based on energy-centered routing metrics. Second, we describe power management techniques for wireless sensor nodes using the spatial locality of sensed data. Many nodes can go into a power-down mode without sacrificing the accuracy of sensed data. Finally, combining the proposed techniques, we describe an overall energy-efficient protocol for data collection. Experimental results show that the proposed routing protocol can extend the routing path lifetime more than twice. The average energy consumption per sensing period is reduced by up to 30%.

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Lip-reading System based on Bayesian Classifier (베이지안 분류를 이용한 립 리딩 시스템)

  • Kim, Seong-Woo;Cha, Kyung-Ae;Park, Se-Hyun
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.9-16
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    • 2020
  • Pronunciation recognition systems that use only video information and ignore voice information can be applied to various customized services. In this paper, we develop a system that applies a Bayesian classifier to distinguish Korean vowels via lip shapes in images. We extract feature vectors from the lip shapes of facial images and apply them to the designed machine learning model. Our experiments show that the system's recognition rate is 94% for the pronunciation of 'A', and the system's average recognition rate is approximately 84%, which is higher than that of the CNN tested for comparison. Our results show that our Bayesian classification method with feature values from lip region landmarks is efficient on a small training set. Therefore, it can be used for application development on limited hardware such as mobile devices.

Design and Application of XTML Script Language based on XML (XML을 이용한 스크립트 언어 XTML 의 설계 및 응용)

  • Jeong, Byeong-Hui;Park, Jin-U;Lee, Su-Yeon
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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    • v.5 no.6
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    • pp.816-833
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    • 1999
  • 스타일 정보를 중심으로 하는 기존의 워드 프로세서의 출력 문서들을 차세대 인터넷 문서인 XML문서방식에 따라서 표기하고 또한 제목, 초록, 장 및 단락 등과 같은 논리적인 구조를 반영할 수 있도록 구조화함으로써 문서들의 상호교환뿐만 아니라 인터넷에서 유효하게 사용할 수가 있다. 본 논문에서는 스타일 또는 표현 속성 중심으로 하는 다양한 문서의 평면 구조를 XML의 계층적인 논리적인 구조로, 또한 다양한 DTD(Document Type Definition)환경하에서 변경시킬 수가 있는 변환 스크립트 언어를 표현할 수 있도록 하기 위하여 XTML(XML Transformation Markup Language)을 DTD형식으로 정의하고 이를 이용하여 변환 스크립트를 작성하였으며 자동태깅에 적용하여 보았다.XTML은 그 인스턴스에 해당하는 변환 알고리즘의 효과적인 수행을 위하여 즉 기존의 XML문서를 효과적으로 다루기 위하여 문서를 GROVE라는 트리 구조로 만들어 저장하고 또한 이를 조작할 수 있는 기능 및 다양한 명령어 인터페이스를 제공하였다. Abstract Output documents of existing word processors based on style informations or presentation attributes can be structured by converting them into XML(Extensible Markup Language) documents based on hierarchically logical structures such as title, abstract, chapter and so on. If so, it can be very useful to interchange and manipulate documents under Internet environment. The conversion need the complicate process calling auto-tagging by which elements of output documents can be inferred from style informations and sequences of text etc, and which is different from various kinds of simple conversion.In this paper, we defined XTML(XML Transformation Markup Language) of DTD(Document Type Definition) form and also defined the script language as instances of its DTD for the auto-tagging. XTML and its DTD are represented in XML syntax.Especially XTML includes various functions and commands to generate tree structure named as "GROVE" and also to process, store and manipulate the GROVE in order to process efficiently XML documents.documents.

Automatic Moving Object Segmentation using Robust Edge Linking for Content-based Coding (내용 기반 코딩을 위한 강력한 에지 연결에 의한 움직임 객체 자동 분할)

  • 김준기;이호석
    • Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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    • v.31 no.5_6
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    • pp.305-320
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    • 2004
  • Moving object segmentation is a fundamental function for content-based application. Moving object edges are produced by matching the detected moving edges with the current frame edges. But we can often experience the object edge disconnectedness due to coincidence of similarity between the object and background colors or the decrease of movement of moving object. The edge disconnectedness is a serious problem because it degrades the object visual quality so conspicuously That it sometimes makes it inadequate to perform content-based coding. We have solved this problem by developing a robust and comprehensive edge linking algorithm. And we also developed an automatic moving object segmentation algorithm. These algorithms can produce the completely linked moving object edge boundary and the accurate moving object segmentation. These algorithms can process CIF 30 frames/sec in a PC. These algorithms can be used for the MPEG-4 content-based coding.

Image Similarity Retrieval using an Scale and Rotation Invariant Region Feature (크기 및 회전 불변 영역 특징을 이용한 이미지 유사성 검색)

  • Yu, Seung-Hoon;Kim, Hyun-Soo;Lee, Seok-Lyong;Lim, Myung-Kwan;Kim, Deok-Hwan
    • Journal of KIISE:Databases
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    • v.36 no.6
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    • pp.446-454
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    • 2009
  • Among various region detector and shape feature extraction method, MSER(Maximally Stable Extremal Region) and SIFT and its variant methods are popularly used in computer vision application. However, since SIFT is sensitive to the illumination change and MSER is sensitive to the scale change, it is not easy to apply the image similarity retrieval. In this paper, we present a Scale and Rotation Invariant Region Feature(SRIRF) descriptor using scale pyramid, MSER and affine normalization. The proposed SRIRF method is robust to scale, rotation, illumination change of image since it uses the affine normalization and the scale pyramid. We have tested the SRIRF method on various images. Experimental results demonstrate that the retrieval performance of the SRIRF method is about 20%, 38%, 11%, 24% better than those of traditional SIFT, PCA-SIFT, CE-SIFT and SURF, respectively.