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A Development of Wrist type Monitoring System for Smart Home Healthcare (스마트홈의 헬스케어를 위한 손목형 생체신호 감시 장치 개발)

  • Lee, Gun-Ki;Lee, Ju-Won;Jeong, Won-Geun;Lee, Han-Wook;Jang, Jun-Young
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.10 no.12
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    • pp.2349-2354
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    • 2006
  • Due to technological developments and the joint effect of both new social and economic needs and constraints, telemedicine is expanding rapidly through a variety of applications. Especially, owing to the rapid aging of society and increasing the wish for well being life, we take interest in health care services for people with special needs who wish to remain independent and living in their own home. We have focused on tole-monitoring to real-time medical signal and environment factor which is an influence on medical signal. We monitor the six signal(medical signal and environment factor), and transmit that signal to computer on bluetooth network. We get the information after using the some digital signal processing system, and display that information on the real-time monitoring system. We developed the measurer as portable type in older to non-restrained monitor.

An Empirical Study on the Factors and Resolution Methods of the Smart Divide of Older Adults (노년층의 스마트 정보격차 요인 및 해소방안에 관한 실증적 연구)

  • Paek, Kihun;Bong, Jinsook;Shin, Yongtae
    • Journal of KIISE
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    • v.42 no.10
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    • pp.1207-1221
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    • 2015
  • This research was conducted both to analyze the determining factors of and to suggest resolution methods for the smart divide of adults over 65 years of age in the rapidly aging society of the 2000s and the smart society of the 2010s following the information society of the 1990s. The research model based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) includes 6 determining factors derived from existing studies: Self Efficacy, Training, Accessibility, Playfulness, Cost Rationality, and Policy Support. Research data were collected through a survey given to a total of 243 older adults in 14 Senior Welfare Centers nationwide, and research hypotheses were verified by structural equation model (SEM) analysis. The results of this research that gives priority to the order of Political Support, Playfulness, Self Efficacy, Accessibility, Cost Rationality, and Training can be used to develop various resolution methods for the smart divide of adults over 65 years of age.

An analysis on the Deconstructed Visage in Fashion Illustration - Based on the Deconstructed Visage of Francis Bacon's Painting - (패션 일러스트레이션에 나타난 얼굴해체 - 프란시스 베이컨 회화의 얼굴해체를 바탕으로 -)

  • Choi, Jung-Hwa;Choi, Yoo-Jin
    • Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.874-885
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    • 2013
  • This study analyzes the visage in fashion illustration based on the deconstructed visage of Francis Bacon's paintings as well as analyzes fashion illustration works since 2000. The deconstructed visages in Francis Bacon's paintings are classified as blurring, elimination, distortion and division. The expressive methods and meanings in fashion illustration (according to categorization) are as follow. Blurring shows an ambiguous visage organ by the sweeping of the brush, removal of a boundary among the visage, body and clothes, gradation of organic line like visage shapes, stretching of the a plat combined to visage and fragmentation of visage. It represents an uncertainty of the fashion theme and image interpretation, impossibility of figure by ambiguity, fantastic effect and the induction of the uncanny. Elimination shows the background color's painting of a photo-montage, overlap of a cutting of visage's part and background of a plat, elimination of the visage and the elimination of eyes, nose or lips. It represents a weakened identity, the reinforcement of anonymity, creation of a violent image, and uncanny unfamiliarity. Distortion shows a distorted visage by free drawing, and unconscious drawing line, fluid digital body, combination of an unconscious curve, and an eccentric combination of the accidental. It represents the relief of specialty about realistic existence, hypothetical immateriality and fantasy. Division shows overlapped visages with different angles, the weird combination of a plural visage and different species and a plural breakaway of direction, and the position of several organs. It represents motion by power's trace, non-territory of species, ambiguity and uncertainty and the uncanny.

Design of Low Power and High Speed NCL Gates (저전력 고속 NCL 비동기 게이트 설계)

  • Kim, Kyung Ki
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.52 no.2
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    • pp.112-118
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    • 2015
  • Conventional synchronous circuits cannot keep the circuit performance, and cannot even guarantee correct operations under the influence of PVT variations and aging effects in the nanometer regime. Therefore, in this paper, a DI (delay insensitive) design based NCL (Null Convention Logic) design methodology with a very simple design structure has been used to design digital systems, which is one of well-known asynchronous design methods robust to various variations and does not require any timing analysis. Because circuit-level structures of conventional NCL gates have weakness of low speed, high area overhead or high wire complexity, this paper proposes a new lNCL gates designed at the transistor level for high-speed, low area overhead, and low wire complexity. The proposed NCL gate libraries have been compared to the conventional NCL gates in terms of circuit delay, area and power consumption using a asynchronous multiplier implemented in dongbu 0.11um CMOS technology.

Analysis on Foot Measurements of Elderly Women for Ergonomic Shoes Design (인간공학적 신발설계를 위한 노년여성 발측정치 분석)

  • Park, Soon-Jee;Chae, Hye-Seon
    • Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.83-91
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    • 2008
  • This study was designed to figure out the changes in elderly women's foot size and shape by aging, to propose size specification for elderly women's shoes, and to produce regression equations using representative measurements items to estimate other measurements usually hard to get. Subjects were 118 women of 30-59 years and the 227 elderly women over 60 years. Martin's anthropometry was done on the right foot of each subject for 25 items. And 11 indirect measurement items were measured on both foot printing sole outline and picture in profile taken by digital camera. For statistical analysis on the anthropometric measurements by SPSS program, analysis of variance, post-hoc test(SNK-test), crosstabulation, multiple correlation analysis, regression analysis were performed. The results of the study are as follows. Firstly, it was found that the foot figures of elderly women over 60 years were smaller in girth and width than those of below 60 years. In addition, it was revealed that a big toe and a little toe of elderly women showed a tendency concentrating to the central axis of feet. The foot index of elderly was smaller in width and girth. Secondly, foot size distribution table of elderly group showed wider size ranges and covered smaller sizes than the below the age of 60, meaning wide variation in foot size of elderly women. Thirdly, the multiple correlation analysis showed high correlation of foot length/girth to other measurements, suggesting these two items could be used as representative items for elderly women's shoe size specification as other age groups. Regression equations were produced using foot length/girth to estimate other measurements, suggesting such items could be estimated effectively and utilized in on/off-line shoe manufacturing shop as heel to big toe length, heel to little toe length, exterior malleouls width, instep girth, ankle girth, etc. These results imply prudent features of elderly women's foot as diversity of foot shape and wide size specification range should be applied for ergonomic shoe design for them.

Effect of Leonurus japonicus Houtt. on Scopolamine-induced Memory Impairment in Mice (Scopolamine 유발 기억 손상 마우스에서 익모초의 효과)

  • Lee, Jihye;Kim, Hye-Jeong;Jang, Gwi Yeong;Seo, Kyung Hye;Kim, Mi Ryeo;Choi, Yun Hee;Jung, Ji Wook
    • Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.81-87
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    • 2020
  • Cognitive impairment is symptoms of dementia, a degenerative brain disease that is drawing attention in a rapidly aging society. This study was conducted to investigate the improvement of cognitive function of Leonurus japonicus on scopolamine-induced memory impairment in mice and the effect and mechanism of memory recovery. In vivo studies were conducted on mice orally pretreated with L. japonicus in doses of 50, 100 and 200 mg/kg (p.o.) and scopolamine (1 mg/kg, i.p.) were injected 30 min before the behavioral task. Antioxidant activity was assessed by 2,2-diphenyl-1-picryl hydrazyl (DPPH) assay and 2,2-azino-bis (3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) (ABTS) assay, and acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibition activity evaluated by Ellman's method. In behavior studies showed that L. japonicus has an improved the memory of scopolamine-treated mice in Y-maze, passive avoidance and Morris water maze test. In addition, L. japonicus was also exerted free radical scavenging activity and inhibited acetyl cholinesterase activity. These results suggest that L. japonicus improves short-term and long-term memory in scopolamine-induced memory decline model and prevents scopolamine-induced memory impairments through in reduced oxidative stress and acetyl cholinesterase inhibition effect. Thus, L. japonicus is related to functional medicinal materials for prevention and treatment of human dementia patients.

Automatic Tuning Architecture of RC Time-Constant due to the Variation of Integrated Passive Components (집적된 수동 소자 변동에 의한 RC 시상수 자동 보정 기법)

  • Lee, Sung-Dae;Hong, Kuk-Tae;Jang, Myung-Jun;Chung, Kang-Min
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.115-122
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    • 1997
  • In this paper, on-chp atomatic tuning circuit, using proposed integration level approximation technique, is designed to tuning of the variation of RC time-constant due to aging or temperature variation, etc. This circuit reduces the error, the difference between code values and real outputs of integrator, which is drawback of presented dual-slope tuning circuit and eliminates modulations of processing signals in integrated circuit due to fixed tuning codes during ordinary operation. This system is made up of simple integrator, A/D converter and digital control circuit and all capacitors are replaced by programed capacitor arrays in this system. This tuning circuit with 4 bit resolution achieves $-9.74{\sim}+9.68%$ of RC time constant error for 50% resistance variation.

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Development of Structure Dynamic Characteristics Analysis System Prototype using Image Processing Technique (영상처리기법을 이용한 구조물 동특성 분석 시스템 프로토타입 개발)

  • Jo, Byung-Wan;Lee, Yun-Sung;Kim, Jung-Hoon;Kim, Do-Keun;Yoon, Kwang-Won
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.11-21
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    • 2016
  • Recently, structure safety management techniques using cutting-edge technology(Displacement senor, sensor of acceleration) has emerged as an important issue owing to the aging of infrastructure such as bridge and building. In general, the structural monitoring system for structure safety management is based on IT technology and it is expensive to install. In this paper developed an image-based structure dynamic characteristic analysis system prototype to assess the damage of structure in a more cost-effective way than traditional structure health monitoring system. The inspector can take a video of buildings or other structures with digital camera or any other devices that is passible to take video, and then using NCC calculation for image processing technique to get natural frequency. This system is analysis of damage of the structure using a compare between the frequency response ratio and functions when problems are occurs send alarm to administrator. This system is easier to install and remove than previous monitoring sensor in economical way.

A Study on Deep Learning Binary Classification of Prostate Pathological Images Using Multiple Image Enhancement Techniques (다양한 이미지 향상 기법을 사용한 전립선 병리영상 딥러닝 이진 분류 연구)

  • Park, Hyeon-Gyun;Bhattacharjee, Subrata;Deekshitha, Prakash;Kim, Cho-Hee;Choi, Heung-Kook
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.539-548
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    • 2020
  • Deep learning technology is currently being used and applied in many different fields. Convolution neural network (CNN) is a method of artificial neural networks in deep learning, which is commonly used for analyzing different types of images through classification. In the conventional classification of histopathology images of prostate carcinomas, the rating of cancer is classified by human subjective observation. However, this approach has produced to some misdiagnosing of cancer grading. To solve this problem, CNN based classification method is proposed in this paper, to train the histological images and classify the prostate cancer grading into two classes of the benign and malignant. The CNN architecture used in this paper is based on the VGG models, which is specialized for image classification. However, color normalization was performed based on the contrast enhancement technique, and the normalized images were used for CNN training, to compare the classification results of both original and normalized images. In all cases, accuracy was over 90%, accuracy of the original was 96%, accuracy of other cases was higher, and loss was the lowest with 9%.

Development of Wireless Gantry Loader System (무선 갠트리 로더 시스템 개발)

  • Kang, Dong-Bae;Ahn, Joong-Hwan;Son, Seong-Min
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.12 no.10
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    • pp.4296-4301
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    • 2011
  • Gantry loader which is also called as gantry robot is a kind of cartesian coordinate robot with two or more linear motions. A conventional gantry system has cableveyor for protecting power and signal cables, but the use of cableveyor makes a delay of work due to frequent repairing for its aging. This study reports that a wireless gantry loader is able to be operated without a power line for power transmission or a signal cable for motion control. The wireless gantry loader enables a convenient maintenance and a stable productivity by the reduction of wire broken from fatigue. The developed loader system is controlled by PC-based motion controller and is communicated by wireless LAN devices. The line from a power source to the loader system was substituted by attaching trolley bar on the traveling beam. The loader system was designed to be moved with high speed and high repeatability, and the motion was observed continuously by monitoring system in the PC-based controller. The maximum speed and the repeatability for the transferring and loading axes are 200 m/min, 60 mm and 100 m/min, 40 mm respectively.