• Journal of Gastric Cancer
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.34-43
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• 2013

Purpose: The intracorporeal reconstruction after laparoscopic gastrectomy can minimize postoperative pain, and give better cosmetic effect, while it may have technical difficulties and require the learning curve. This study aimed to analyze the surgical outcome of intracorporeal reconstruction according to the surgeon's experience comparing with extracorporeal procedure. Materials and Methods: From January 2009 to September 2011, intracorporeal reconstruction in laparoscopic surgery for gastric cancer was performed for 71 patients (Intra group). During same period, 231 patients underwent laparoscopy-assisted gastrectomy (Extra group). These patients were classified into initial (1st to 20th case of intra group), intermediate (21th to 46th case), and experienced (after 47th case) phases. Results: Intracorporeal procedures included 35 cases of Billroth-I, 30 Billroth-II and 6 Roux en Y reconstructions. In the initial phase, operation time (P=0.022) were significantly longer for the patients of intra group than them of extra group. Although the difference was not significant, the length of hospital stay was longer and complication rate was higher in the intra group. In intermediate and experienced phases, there was no difference between two groups in operation time and hospital stay. In these phases, complication rate was lower in the intra group than the extra group (3.9% versus 9.7%). The pain scale was significantly lower post operation day 5 in the intra group. Conclusions: Intracorporeal reconstruction after laparoscopic distal gastrectomy was feasible and safe, and the technique was stabilized after 20th case if the surgeon has sufficient experiences when we compared it with extracorporeal reconstruction.

• Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.51 no.4
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• pp.89-110
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• 2018

Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) variability can be used to study the physics of the region in the vicinity of the central black hole. In this paper, we investigated intra-night optical variability of AGN in the COSMOS field in order to understand the AGN instability at the smallest scale. Observations were performed using the KMTNet on three separate nights for 2.5 to 5 hours at a cadence of 20 to 30 min. We find that the observation enables the detection of short-term variability as small as ~ 0.02 and 0.1 mag for R ~ 18 and 20 mag sources, respectively. Using four selection methods (X-rays, mid-infrared, radio, and matching with SDSS quasars), 394 AGN are detected in the $4deg^2$ field of view. After differential photometry and ${\chi}^2$-test, we classify intra-night variable AGN. The fraction of variable AGN (0-8%) is statistically consistent with a null result. Eight out of 394 AGN are found to be intra-night variable in two filters or two nights with a variability level of 0.1 mag, suggesting that they are strong candidates for intra-night variable AGN. Still they represent a small population (2%). There is no sub-category of AGN that shows a statistically significant intra-night variability.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.1-5
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• 2020

최근 MPEG-I 그룹에서는 표준화가 진행중인 몰입형 미디어(Immersive Media)에 대한 압축 성능 탐색이 이루어지고 있다. 몰입형 비디오는 다수의 시점 영상과 깊이 맵을 통한 깊이 맵 기반 이미지 렌더링(DIBR)을 바탕으로 제한적 6DoF 을 제공하고자 하는 기술이다. 현재 MIV(Model for Immersive Video) 기술에서는 바탕 시점(Basic View)과 각 시점의 고유한 영상 정보를 패치 단위로 모아둔 추가 시점(Additional View)으로 처리하는 모델을 채택하고 있다. 그 중에서 추가 시점은 일반적인 영상과는 달리 시간적/공간적 상관성이 떨어지는 분절적인 형태로 이루어져 있어 비디오 인코더에 대해 최적화가 되어 있지 않으며, 처리 방법의 특성에 따라 자기 유사적인 형태를 지니게 된다. 따라서 MIV 에서 스크린 콘텐츠 코딩 성능과 함께 화면 내 블록 카피(IBC: intra block copy) 기술에 대한 성능을 분석 결과를 제시한다. IBC 미적용 대비 최대 7.56%의 Y-PSNR BD-rate 감소가 가능함을 확인하였으며, 영상의 특성에 따라 IBC 의 선택 비율을 확인하여 추가 시점의 효율적인 압축 형태를 고찰한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.3286-3300
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• 2016

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Standard, as the latest coding standard, introduces satisfying compression structures with respect to its predecessor Advanced Video Coding (H.264/AVC). The new coding standard can offer improved encoding performance compared with H.264/AVC. However, it also leads to enormous computational complexity that makes it considerably difficult to be implemented in real time application. In this paper, based on machine learning, a fast partitioning method is proposed, which can search for the best splitting structures for Intra-Prediction. In view of the video texture characteristics, we choose the entropy of Gray-Scale Difference Statistics (GDS) and the minimum of Sum of Absolute Transformed Difference (SATD) as two important features, which can make a balance between the computation complexity and classification performance. According to the selected features, adaptive decision trees can be built for the Coding Units (CU) with different size by offline training. Furthermore, by this way, the partition of CUs can be resolved as a binary classification problem. Experimental results have shown that the proposed algorithm can save over 34% encoding time on average, with a negligible Bjontegaard Delta (BD)-rate increase.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.4 no.6
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• pp.422-433
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• 2015

In this paper, we demonstrate inter-layer prediction tools for scalable video coders. The proposed scalable coder is designed to support not only spatial, quality and temporal scalabilities, but also view scalability. In addition, we propose quad-tree inter-layer prediction tools to improve coding efficiency at enhancement layers. The proposed inter-layer prediction tools generate texture prediction signal with exploiting texture, syntaxes, and residual information from a reference layer. Furthermore, the tools can be used with inter and intra prediction blocks within a large coding unit. The proposed framework guarantees the rate distortion performance for a base layer because it does not have any compulsion such as constraint intra prediction. According to experiments, the framework supports the spatial scalable functionality with about 18.6%, 18.5% and 25.2% overhead bits against to the single layer coding. The proposed inter-layer prediction tool in multi-loop decoding design framework enables to achieve coding gains of 14.0%, 5.1%, and 12.1% in BD-Bitrate at the enhancement layer, compared to a single layer HEVC for all-intra, low-delay, and random access cases, respectively. For the single-loop decoding design, the proposed quad-tree inter-layer prediction can achieve 14.0%, 3.7%, and 9.8% bit saving.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10b
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• pp.101-103
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• 1999

Decentralized 정보는 여러 도메인에 대한 heterogeneous한 독립적인 정보가 자율적으로 존재하며 이들 정보간의 관계성의 고려한 전체에 대한 global view가 존재하지 않기 때문에 inter-domain에 대한 마이닝을 수행하는데 어려움이 있다. 본 연구에서는 intra-domain knowledge discovery, intra 및 inter-domain problem solving method라는 접근방법으로, decentralized 데이터 환경에서 문제 해결에 필요한 정보 추출을 위한 데이터 tailoring과 분산 데이터에 대한 목표-지향 데이터마이닝(goal-oriented data-mining)을 통해 문제 해결을 위해 필요한 지식을 생성하고 이들 간의 관련 정보를 탐색하여 문제를 해결하는 프레임워크를 제안한다. 특히, 생성된 지식간의 협동 문제 처리를 멀티 에이전트 패러다임을 이용하기로 한다. 제안 프레임워크는 산재되어 있는 데이터들로부터 문제 해결에 유용한 지식 차원의 정보를 추출해내고 생성된 지식을 바탕으로 각 도메인 정보에 대한 개별적인 사용뿐 만 아니라 서로 cooperation을 통한 문제 해결을 지원함으로써, 개방된 분산 환경하에 decentralized 되어 있는 여러 도메인 정보를 보다 효율적으로 활용할 수 있는 새로운 형태의 문제 해결 방법이라고 할 수 있다.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.39-49
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• 2008

This research reports on a qualitative analysis of email facilitated reflective dialogue with seven college students whose parent dies. The study was exploratory in considering cultural values on intact family and asked the question: What do children experience after parental death in terms of the relationships with intra and extrafamily systems? Young adult children of single parent family expressed that they felt social pressure to practice filial piety toward their single parent. They made efforts to fulfill the social expectation and to achieve social desirability. Social stigma from extrafamily systems affected the experiences of the bereaved children. In terms of intrafamily system, young adult children tend to idealize their deceased parent. Single parents depended on the young adult children, which made parent-child relationship enmeshed or conflicting. The holistic view of the study highlights the importance of interactions between individuals and the intra and extra family systems when understanding family loss experience of the bereaved young people.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Studies
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.221-256
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• 1995

This paper compares the intra-day patterns on the NYSE and AMEX of volatility, trading volume and bid-ask spreads for European and Japanese dually-listed stocks with American stocks of comparable average trading volume and volatility. It is shown that the intra-day patterns for these stocks are remarkably similar even though public information flows differ markedly across these stocks during the trading day. In the early morning, all stocks have higher volatility than later in the day, but this phenomenon is most pronounced for Japanese stocks and affects American stocks the least. We argue that these patterns are consistent with markets reacting to the overnight accumulation of public information but are inconsistent with the view that early morning volatility can be attributed to monopolistic specialist behavior.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.45 no.9
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• pp.103-109
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• 2008

This paper presents the architecture and design of intra prediction circuit for H.264 decoder. There are a total of 17 operational modes in the intra prediction of H.264- nine modes for a luma $4\times4$ block, four modes for a luma $16\times16$ block and four modes for a chroma $8\times8$ block. We extracted common operations included in all prediction modes and defined the common operations unit to perform those operations. The proposed circuit architecture sharing this unit in all prediction modes is systematic from the design point of view and efficient in terms of circuit size.

• Journal of Korean Foot and Ankle Society
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.55-59
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• 2009

Purpose: We tried to evaluate the usefulness of the arthroscopy in the operative treatment of intra-articular calcaneal fracture. Materials and Methods: Between March 2005 and May 2008, 9 patients with intra-articular calcaneal fractures（Tongue type or Sanders type IIC) were treated with arthroscopically assisted percutaneous reduction and screw fixation. American orthopedic foot and ankle society (AOFAS) ankle-hindfoot score, visual analogue scale (VAS), preoperative and postoperative Bohler's angle and the rate of complication were evaluated. Results: AOFAS score at postoperative 1 year was 88.2 (range, 71-92), and mean VAS score was 2.8 (range, 1-4). Bohler angle was improved from preoperative mean $16.2^{\circ}$ to postoperative mean $29.7^{\circ}$. There were no complications such as wound problem, infection or nerve injury. Conclusion: Subtalar arthroscopy provides precise view of posterior facet during the operation. Therefore, it can be a useful tool in treating intra-articular calcaneus fractures, especially tongue type and Sanders type IIC fractures.