• Animal cells and systems
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.11-14
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• 2008

Finding a way to strengthen human cognitive functions, such as learning and memory, has been of great concern since the moment people realized that these functions can be affected and even altered by certain chemicals. Since then, plenty of endeavors have been made to look for safe ways of improving cognitive performances without adverse side-effects. Unfortunately, most of these efforts have turned out to be unsuccessful until now. In this study, we examine the effect of a natural compound, idesolide, on hippocampus-dependent recognition memory. We demonstrate that idesolide is effective in the enhancement of recognition memory, as measured by a novel object recognition task. Thus, idesolide might serve as a novel therapeutic medication for the treatment of memoryrelated brain anomalies such as mild cognitive impairment(MCI) and Alzheimer's disease.

• 재활간호학회지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.134-140
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• 2007

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to find out relation of general characteristics and memory performance of old adults. Method: The subjects consisted of 160 old adults over the age 60 who living in Seoul. Data were collected by the interview method, using a structured questionnaire and the testing method on the memory performance. Data were analyzed by SPSS PC. Result: The level of memory performance is 63.0 points in the 84 point scale, immediate recall is 7.8 points in the 12 point scale, delayed recall is 7.6 points in the 12 point scale, word recognition is 16 points in the 24 point scale, & face recognition is 16 points in the 24 point scale, & face recognition is 26.8 points in the 40 point scale. Analysis of memory performance according to general characteristics showed that there were statistically differences for age, sex, religion and alcohol. Memory performance showed a significantly negative correlation with age and alcohol, but positive correlation with sex. The significant variables to predict old adults'memory performance are age and alcohol. Conclusion: The findings of this study give useful information for constructing an memory performance improving program based on general characteristics in old adults.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.562-571
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• 2007

많은 연구들을 통해 수행 속력, 효율성, 용이성, 안전성을 위하여 메모리 관리 기법들을 개선시켰다. 그러한 방법들 중에서 지역별 메모리 관리 기법은 각각의 객체 할당 위치에서 따라 정해진 지역에 할당 시키고 그 지역이 제거된다면 그 곳에 할당된 모든 객체의 메모리를 반환하는 방법이다. 본 논문에서는 메모리 제약적인 환경에서 힙 메모리 사용량을 줄이기 위해 로컬 지역을 재사용하는 방법을 제시한다. 기본 아이디어는 현재 함수가 수행될 동안 사용하지 않는 상위 로컬 지역을 재사용하는 것이다. 이러한 방법을 사용함으로써 메모리 제약적인 환경에서 메모리의 한계를 극복할 수 있을 것이다.

• 정보과학회 논문지
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.124-131
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• 2017

고성능 컴퓨팅 환경을 위해서 최근 등장한 차세대 매니코어 프로세서는 전통적인 구조의 메모리와 함께 고대역 온-패키지 메모리를 장착하고 있다. Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing(KNL) 프로세서의 온-패키지 메모리인 Multi-Channel DRAM(MCDRAM)은 기존의 DDR4 메모리보다 이론적으로 네 배 높은 대역폭을 제공한다. 본 논문에서는 MCDRAM을 이용하여 MPI 노드 내 통신 성능을 향상시키기 위한 방안을 제안한다. 실험 결과, 제안된 기법을 사용할 경우 DDR4를 사용하는 경우와 비교해서 MPI 노드 내 통신 성능을 최대 272% 향상시킬 수 있음을 보인다. 또한 MCDRAM 활용 방법에 따른 성능 영향뿐만 아니라 프로세스의 코어 친화도에 따른 성능 영향을 보인다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.537-541
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• 2008

로그 구조 파일 시스템(Log-Structured File System, LFS)은 변경된 데이타를 메모리에 충분히 모아서 한번에 순차 쓰기로 디스크에 기록함으로써 높은 쓰기 성능을 실현한 파일 시스템이다. 그러나 실제 시스템에서는 여전히 디스크와 메모리 상의 일관성을 위해서 동기화가 발생하며 변경된 데이타를 충분히 메모리에 모으지 못한 채 디스크로 쓰기가 발생하는 모습을 보인다. 자주 발생되는 쓰기는 클리너의 오버헤드를 증가시키고, 더 많은 메타데이타를 기록하게 한다. 본 연구에서는 비휘발성 메모리를 이용해서 동기화를 없애고, 작은 단위의 쓰기를 효과적으로 활용하도록 LFS와 운영체제의 관련된 서브 시스템들을 변경하였다. 이를 통하여 DRAM만 있는 LFS에 비해서 256M의 NVRAM을 가진 시스템에서 약 2.5배의 성능 향상을 보였다.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.59-67
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• 2009

This paper proposes a improved bitmap routing protocol, which finds the best energy efficient routing path by minimizing the network overheads and prolongs the overall network lifetime. Jung proposed a bitmap scheme for sensor networks. His scheme uses a bitmap table to represent the connection information between nodes. However, it has a problem that the table size is depends on the number of nodes in the sensor networks. The problem is very serious in the sensor node with a limited memory. Thereby, this paper proposes a improved bitmap routing protocol to solve the problem in Jung's scheme. Proposed protocol over the memory restricted sensor network could optimize the size of bitmap table by applying the deployed network property. Proposed protocol could be used in the diversity of sensor networks due to it has minimum memory overheads.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.15-22
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• 2017

Although there are many efficient techniques to minimize the speed gap between processor and the memory, it remains a bottleneck for various commercial implementations. Since secondary memory technologies are much slower than main memory, it is challenging to match memory speed to the processor. Usually, hard disk drives include semiconductor caches to improve their performance. A hit in the disk cache eliminates the mechanical seek time and rotational latency. To further improve performance a divided disk cache, subdivided between metadata and data, has been proposed previously. We propose a new algorithm to apply the SSD that is flash memory-based solid state drive by applying FTL. First, this paper evaluates the performance of such a disk cache via simulations using DiskSim. Then, we perform an experiment to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm.

• 아동학회지
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.161-174
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• 2007

To analyze the effect of reminder type on the development of time-based prospective memory of children, 270(90 each 5-, 7-, and 9-year old) participants were randomly divided by age group into three subgroups : self-cued reminder, other-cued reminder, and control groups. Results showed that the performance of time-based prospective memory significantly increased with age, and the presentation of reminders was effective for improving the performance of time-based prospective memory. For younger children the presentation of other-cued reminder was more effective than self-cued reminder, but for the older children, presentation of self-cued reminder was more effective than other-cued reminder.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.330-338
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• 2016

Phase change memory (PCM) has been studied as an emerging memory technology for last-level cache (LLC) due to its extremely low leakage. However, it consumes high levels of energy in updating cells and its write endurance is limited. To relieve the write pressure of LLC, we propose a delta value indicator (DVI) by employing a small cache which stores the difference between the value currently stored and the value newly loaded. Since the write energy consumption of the small cache is less than the LLC, the energy consumption is reduced by access to the small cache instead of the LLC. In addition, the lifetime of the LLC is further extended because the number of write accesses to the LLC is decreased. To this end, a delta value indicator and controlling circuits are inserted into the LLC. The simulation results show a 26.8% saving of dynamic energy consumption and a 31.7% lifetime extension compared to a state-of-the-art scheme for PCM.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.478-481
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• 2012

Testing memory and repairing faults have become increasingly important for improving yield. Redundancy analysis (RA) algorithms have been developed to repair memory faults. However, many RA algorithms have low analysis speeds and occupy memory space within automatic test equipment. A fast RA algorithm using simple calculations is proposed in this letter to minimize both the test and repair time. This analysis uses the grouped addresses in the faulty bitmap. Since the fault groups are independent of each other, the time needed to find solutions can be greatly reduced using these fault groups. Also, the proposed algorithm does not need to store searching trees, thereby minimizing the required memory space. Our experiments show that the proposed RA algorithm is very efficient in terms of speed and memory requirements.