• 한국수정란이식학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.109-114
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• 2008

This study examined pregnancy and fetal loss rates according to different estrus synchronization protocols and injection of gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) after transfer of Korean Native Cattle embryos to Holstein recipients. In Experiment 1, recipients received no treatment (Control, n = 119); two injections of prostaglandin$F_{2{\alpha}}$ ($PGF_{2{\alpha}}$ ) 11 days apart (PGF group, n = 120); GnRH (day 0)-$PGF_{2{\alpha}}$ (day 7)-GnRH (day 9) (Ovsynch group, n = 120); and CIDR (day 0)-$PGF_{2{\alpha}}$ and CIDR removal (day 7)-GnRH (day 9) (CIDR group, n = 110). In Experiment 2, the control group was received no treatment of GnRH. The treatment groups were received GnRH at embryo transfer (ET) (day 0), 7 days later, 14 days later, ET and 7 days later, 7 and 14 days later, or ET, 7 and 14 days later. Recipients were assigned to treatment randomly and received two in vitro produced blastocysts. Pregnancy was diagnosed at day 60 by palpation per rectum. Fetal loss to term was determined by palpation every 90 days thereafter. In Experiment 1, the pregnancy rate in the CIDR group (59.1%) were higher than in the Control group (42.0%) (p<0.01); fetal loss rates were similar for all groups (12.0 to 18.5%). In Experiment 2, the pregnancy rate in Day 0+7+14 group was higher (60.2%) than the control (40.2%) (p<0.01) and resulted in a lower fetal loss (p<0.05) than the control (4.6 vs. 11.4%). There were no significant difference between other treatment and the control (p>0.05). These results show that pregnancy rates of bovine embryos can be enhanced by CIDR insertion or GnRH $3{\times}$ treatment. Additionally, fetal loss may be reduced with GnRH treatment after ET.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제47권11호
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• pp.812-820
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• 2019

한국형발사체에 탑재되는 위성항법수신기는 발사체의 실시간 항법정보와 함께 정확한 시간정보를 제공한다. 한국형발사체에 탑재된 다른 시스템간의 시각동기나 온보드 측정데이터의 정확한 측정시간 분석 및 온보드와 지상국간의 시각동기 등에 활용하기 위해 제공되는 위성항법수신기의 시각동기신호에는 UTC(Coordinated Universal Time)에 동기된 1PPS(One Pulse Per Second) 신호와 직렬시각코드인 IRIG-B(Inter-Range Instrumentation Group Time Code B) 신호 및 제공되는 시각동기신호의 유효성을 알려주는 신호가 있다. 본 논문에서는 한국형발사체 위성항법수신기에서 제공되는 시각동기신호와 그에 대한 성능 평가에 대하여 설명한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제27권8B호
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• pp.809-818
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 3GPP 표준인 WCDMA 시스템에 호환성을 유지하면서 적용될 수 있는 새로운 셀 탐색 알고리즘을 제안한다. 기존 WCDMA 시스템에서는 2개의 동기 채널(P-SCH 및 S-SCH)을 이용하여 셀 탐색을 수행하는데 반해 제안하는 셀 탐색 알고리즘은 하나의 동기 채널만을 이용하여 슬롯 동기와 프레임 동기 그리고 코드 그룹 아이디를 획득할 수 있다. 이를 위하여 제안하는 알고리즘에서는 기존 WCDMA의 P-SCH에 극성 코드를 이용한 극성 변조를 수행함으로써 스크램블링 코드의 그룹핑 정보를 전송한다. 제안하는 셀 탐색 알고리즘은 기존 WCDMA 셀 탐색 알고리즘에 비해 하나의 동기 채널만을 이용하기 때문에 기지국에서 송신 신호의 이득을 얻을 수 있으며 동시에 수신기의 복잡도를 줄일 수 있는 특징을 갖는다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 특히 SNR 좋지 못한 채널 환경에서 기존 셀 탐색 알고리즘에 비하여 셀 탐색 시간면에서 우수한 성능을 보임을 시뮬레이션을 통하여 검증하였다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.194-199
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• 2007

Effects of recombinant bovine somatotropin (bST) on plasma hormonal concentration, embryo quality, and pregnancy rate were examined during the superovulation and synchronization treatment in donor and recipient cows. Hanwoos (Korean native beef cattle) were treated with controlled internal drug release (CIDR) combined with bST (CIDR+bST) or without bST (CIDR) as donor cows. The embryos recovered from donors were transferred into Holstein recipient heifers treated with bST (CIDR+bST) or without bST (CIDR) for synchronization. The correlation between IGF-I and P4 showed a positive pattern in the CIDR+bST group (r=0.44, p<0.01), but a negative pattern was shown in the CIDR group (r = -0.59, p<0.02) at day 7 of estrous cycles. Although the number of recovered, transferable, and degenerated embryos was not different, quantities of grade 1 (excellent) embryos in CIDR+bST group were significantly higher than those of the CIDR group (p<0.01). The pregnancy rate was higher in the CIDR+bST recipient group compared to CIDR group (p<0.05), when the embryos were recovered from the donors treated with CIDR. However, the pregnancy was maintained highly in both recipient groups, when the embryos were produced by CIDR+bST treated donors. It can be concluded that bST administration combined with CIDR is an effective method for superovulation and synchronization treatment to stabilize plasma hormonal levels, to obtain excellent quality of embryos, and to get higher pregnancy rate.

• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.1031-1041
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• 2018

Objective: To compare image quality and radiation dose of high-pitch dual-source spiral cardiothoracic computed tomography (CT) between non-electrocardiography (ECG)-synchronized and prospectively ECG-triggered data acquisitions in young children with congenital heart disease. Materials and Methods: Eighty-six children (${\leq}3$ years) with congenital heart disease who underwent high-pitch dual-source spiral cardiothoracic CT were included in this retrospective study. They were divided into two groups (n = 43 for each; group 1 with non-ECG-synchronization and group 2 with prospective ECG triggering). Patient-related parameters, radiation dose, and image quality were compared between the two groups. Results: There were no significant differences in patient-related parameters including age, cross-sectional area, body density, and water-equivalent area between the two groups (p > 0.05). Regarding radiation dose parameters, only volume CT dose index values were significantly different between group 1 ($1.13{\pm}0.09mGy$) and group 2 ($1.07{\pm}0.12mGy$, p < 0.02). Among image quality parameters, significantly higher image noise ($3.8{\pm}0.7$ Hounsfield units [HU] vs. $3.3{\pm}0.6HU$, p < 0.001), significantly lower signal-to-noise ratio ($105.0{\pm}28.9$ vs. $134.1{\pm}44.4$, p = 0.001) and contrast-to-noise ratio ($84.5{\pm}27.2$ vs. $110.1{\pm}43.2$, p = 0.002), and significantly less diaphragm motion artifacts ($3.8{\pm}0.5$ vs. $3.7{\pm}0.4$, p < 0.04) were found in group 1 compared with group 2. Image quality grades of cardiac structures, coronary arteries, ascending aorta, pulmonary trunk, lung markings, and chest wall showed no significant difference between groups (p > 0.05). Conclusion: In high-pitch dual-source spiral pediatric cardiothoracic CT, additional ECG triggering does not substantially reduce motion artifacts in young children with congenital heart disease.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권6호
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• pp.1689-1706
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• 2012

The preservation of temporal dependencies among a group of processes that exchange continuous media at runtime is a key issue for emerging mobile distributed systems (MDS), such as monitoring of biosignals and interactive multiuser games. Although several works are oriented to satisfy temporal dependencies, most of them are not suitable for MDSs. In general, an MDS is characterized by the absence of global references (e.g. shared memory and wall clock), host mobility, limited processing and storage capabilities in mobile hosts, and limited bandwidth on wireless communication channels. This paper proposes an asymmetric synchronization protocol to be used at runtime in an MDS without using a common reference. One main aspect of our synchronization protocol is that it translates temporal constraints to causal dependencies of the continuous media data as seen by the mobile hosts. We simulate the protocol by considering a cellular network environment and by using MPEG-4 encoders. The simulation results show that our protocol is effective in reducing the synchronization error. In addition, the protocol is efficient in terms of processing and storage costs at the mobile devices, as well as in the overhead attached per message across the wired and wireless channels.

• 한국수정란이식학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.255-260
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• 2016

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of vitamin or mineral supplements on the conception rates of dairy heifers when replacing the last injection of GnRH with hCG in ovsynch protocol (experiment 1) and also to investigate whether the estrus synchronization treatment in the heifer stage affects the conception rates after $1^{st}$ parturition (experiment 2). In experiment 1, 50 heifers were randomly assigned into 3 groups: 20 heifers each in groups 1 and 2, and 10 in group 3. All three groups were treated with an intramuscular injection of GnRH on day 0 (day 0 = the day of program start), $PGF_{2{\alpha}}$ on day 7 and hCG on day 9, and were inseminated on day 10, 12~16h after hCG injection. In group 1 (vitamin group), the heifers were treated with an intramuscular injection of 5 ml of vitamin-ADE $500^{(R)}$, and group 2 (mineral group) was treated twice with an intramuscular injection of 30 ml of mineral supplement-LAPTOVET$^{(R)}$ on a one-week interval beginning on the day of hormone treatment (day 0 and day 7 respectively). Group 3 (control) was treated only with hormones. Pregnancy diagnosis was performed by ultrasonography through a rectal probe. First service conception rates (FSCR) and average services per conception (ASPC) were recorded for all subjects. Of the total 50 heifers, 6 (2 in group 1, 3 in group 2, and 1 in group 3) heifers were eliminated due to accidents during experiment 1. FSCRs were 58.8% (10/17), 66.7% (12/18) and 44.4% (4/9) in groups 1, 2 and 3, respectively. ASPCs were $1.53{\pm}0.72$, $1.27{\pm}0.59$ and $1.63{\pm}0.74$ in groups 1, 2 and 3, respectively. Although there were no significant difference between the groups, relatively good results (higher FSCR and lower ASPC) were obtained in both group 1 and 2. In experiment 2, 11 primiparous cows from group 2 of experiment 1 in heifer stage which had been treated both with the hormones for estrus synchronizing and mineral supplements (ES group), and 12 primiparous cows treated only with minerals (non-ES group) were compared to examine the effects of estrus synchronization program on conception rates after $1^{st}$ parturition. Following the examination, postpartum ASPCs were $1.55{\pm}0.82$ and $2.17{\pm}1.47$ in ES group and non-ES group, respectively. The postpartum average days open (ADO) were $116{\pm}56$ and $197{\pm}93$ in ES group and non-ES group, respectively. Although there were no significant difference between the two groups, desirable results (lower ASPC and shorter ADO) were found in ES group after $1^{st}$ parturiton. In conclusion, experiment 1 indicates that vitamin or mineral supplement with ovsynch protocol may have some positive effect on FSCR and ASPC of dairy heifers, and in experiment 2, ES program in heifer stage had a positive effect on ASPC and ADO following $1^{st}$ parturition.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권9A호
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• pp.656-663
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• 2009

3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) LTE (Long Term Evolution) 시스템의 하양링크에서는 초기 동기화 및 셀 탐색 과정을 수행하기 위해 PSS (primary synchronization signal) 와 SSS (secondary synchronization signal) 시퀀스를 사용한다. 단말기는 PSS를 이용하여 슬롯 타이밍과 주파수 동기, 그리고 셀 ID를 획득한 후 SSS를 검출해야 하는데, 3GPP LTE에서 지원되는 2 종류의 CP (Cyclie Prefix) 길이로 인해 2번의 FFT를 수행하여 SSS reference 신호와의 cross-correlation을 이용해 무선 프라밍 타이밍과 셀 그룹 ID를 획득한다. 본 논문에서는 단말기의 셀 탐색기에서 SSS 검출 시 복잡도를 최소화하기 위해 extended CP로 전송한 경우 CP 길이를 선 결정하여 FFT와 cross-correlation의 계산 복잡도를 최대 50%까지 감소시키는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 컴퓨터 모의실험을 통해 매우 작은 성능 열화를 가지면서, 복잡도는 크게 감소하는 결과를 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.505-512
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 인터넷 환경에서 VOD(Vedeo On Demand)서비스를 위한 적응적 멀티미디어 동기화 방식을 제안하였다. 제안된 방식은 MPEG (Moving Picture Expert Group)시스템 시트림의 특징을 고려하여 팩(pack) 계층에서 미디어 내 동기화를 제어하며, 패킷(packet) 계층에서 미디어간 동기화를 제어한다. 망의 상태에 따른 패킷 손실과 지연에 대해서 각각 적응적으로 서버의 전송률과 클라이언트의 재생예정시간을 조절한다. 그리고 망에서 발생하는 손실뿐만 아니라, 클라이언트의 재생 처리능력을 동시에 고려한 선택적 픽처 폐기를 통하여 서버의 전송률을 조절한다. 성능 평가를 통해 제안된 방식이 기존 방식보다 더 나은 서비스 품질을 제공함을 알 수 있었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권8호
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• pp.3121-3135
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• 2015

Owing to the increase in consumption of multimedia content and the improvement of device capacity, user demand for high-quality content has increased. However, it is difficult to transport such large amounts of content over the existing broadcasting network with limited bandwidth. To provide high-definition broadcasting, some studies suggest methods of transporting multimedia over heterogeneous networks after encoding content hierarchically. MPEG Media Transport (MMT), standardized by Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), is a solution that enables large-volume media transport over heterogeneous networks such as digital broadcasting networks and packet-switched networks. In the case of delivering a scalable encoded video over different networks, synchronization of each stream is an important issue. MMT defines a synchronization scheme, but does not contain sufficient functions to implement it. In this paper, we propose a synchronization scheme for media streams that are encoded hierarchically, divided into layers, and transported over heterogeneous networks. We implement our scheme using MMT and HTTP, and experimented using three encapsulated video streams with different durations. As a result, we show that the proposed scheme can reduce the waiting time to display high-quality video, relative to Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP-Scalable Video Coding (DASH-SVC) by requesting segments of enhanced layers after calculating the transmission time. Additionally, we find out that the selection of durations have a relation to the characteristics of the video.