• Journal of Haehwa Medicine
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.127-131
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• 2005

Headache is a term used to describe aching or pain that occurs in one or more areas of the head, face, mouth or neck. Headache can be chronic, recurrent or occasional. The pain can be mild or severe enough to disrupt daily activities. Headache involves the network of nerve fibers in the tissues, muscles and blood vessels located in the head and at the base of the skull. Headache also can result from syndromes involving the eyes, ears, neck, teeth or sinuses. In these cases, the underlying condition must be diagnosed and treated. Recently one patient was come with headache. The patient is a 35-year-old lady with complaints of very severe headache that strike as often as several times a week. She has the throbbing pain on the right side of her head with nausea, vomiting, fatigue, dizziness, coldness of hand and leg, or ringing in the ears sometimes etc. After treatment through Banhabaekchulcheonma-tang, most of the symptoms improved. Therefore, this application of oriental medicine is reported with a plea for further investigation.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.139-146
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• 1998

This paper proposes a regularized iterative image restoration using method of conjugate gradient considering a priori information. Compared with conventional regularized method of conjugate gradient, this method has merits to prevent the artifacts by ringing effects and the partial magnification of the noise in the course of restoring the image degraded by blur and additive noise. Proposed method applies the constraints to accelerate the convergence ratio near the edge portions, and the regularized parameter suppresses the magnification of the noise. As experimental results, I show the superior convergence ratio and the suppression by the artifacts of the proposed method compared with conventional methods.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.344-351
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• 2009

A multi-zone model was used to predict the operating range of homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine, the boundaries of the operating range were determined by knock (presented by ring intensity), misfire (presented by sensitivity of indicated mean effective pressure to the initial temperature). A HCCI engine fueled with Di-Methyl Ether (DME) was simulated under different initial temperature and equivalence ratios, and the operating range was well produced by the model. Furthermore, the model was applied to develop the operating range for thermal stratification in the preceding condition of initial temperature and equivalence ratios. The computations were conducted using Senkin application of the CHEMKINII kinetics rate code.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2000.05a
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• pp.419-425
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• 2000

This paper deals with an analysis of multipath which affect a transmission performance in underwater acoustic channel. Underwater acoustic channel with multipath structure is introduced to mathematical modelling for a basin environment. In this paper, SMR(Signal to Multipath Ratio) which is defined as a parameter of multipath's effect is presented as a mathematical equation, and the equation of SMR is simulated by MATLAB program. Furthermore, this paper is also dealt with an implementation of modulation and demodulation system for acoustic transmission Acoustic Transmission is limited by frequency bandwidth so $\pi$/4 Quadrature Phase Shift Keying) methods which is very useful at frequency limitation and FM(Frequency Modulation) are used at acoustic communication system. This implemented hybrid modulation/demodulation system is used as an analog board of image transmission system

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.27-33
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• 2010

This paper presents a bidirectional DC-DC converter suitable for low-voltage super capacitor-based electric energy storage systems. The DC-DC converter presented here consists of a full-bridge circuit and a current-fed push-pull circuit with a high frequency (HF) transformer-link. In order to reduce the device-conduction losses due to the large current of the super capacitor as well as unnecessary ringing, synchronous rectification is employed in the super capacitor-charging mode. A wide range of voltage regulation between the battery and the super capacitor can be realized by employing a Phase-Shifting (PS) Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) scheme in the full-bridge circuit for the super capacitor charging mode as well as the overlapping PWM scheme of the gate signals to the active power devices in the push-pull circuit for the super capacitor discharging mode. Essential performance of the bidirectional DC-DC converter is demonstrated with simulation and experiment results, and the practical effectiveness of the DC-DC converter is discussed.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.849-858
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• 2008

In this paper, a no-reference perceptual metric is proposed for image quality assessment. It measures the amount of overall blockiness and blurring of the image and evaluates the amount of ringing, staircase, and mosaic noises around the strong edges. Finally, the individual scores are combined by a fuzzy integral to generate the final quality score of the image. The quality scores obtained by the proposed algorithm show strong relationship with the MOS(Mean Opinion Score) values by experts.

• Journal of Korean Critical Care Nursing
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.41-49
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• 2015

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to measure the noise levels in intensive care units (ICUs) and to analyze the causes of the noise and patient perceptions of the noise. Methods: Noise levels were recorded in adult ICUs for 24 h over a week from the patients' bedside with a sound level meter. Noise sources were categorized into three groups: medical equipment, health care providers, and the environment. Noises from the environment were recorded in an empty ICUs side room. Perceptions of the noise of 125 patients admitted to the ICUs were recorded using a questionnaire. Results: The mean level of noise in the ICUs was 58.5 dBA (range: 34.2-80.2 dBA). The causes of noise higher than 70 dBA were nebulizers and infusion/syringe pumps among medical equipment, and drawer slamming, phone ringing, and stripping packages of medical fluids among environmental noises. According to the questionnaire, 64.0% of the patients responded that the ICUs were noisy and that they suffered from sleep disturbance because of the noise. Conclusion: Noise is considerably high in ICUs and is an annoying factor for the patients. Most noise sources are adjustable, and we should try to reduce noise whenever possible to make the ICUs environment more pleasant.

• Journal of ILASS-Korea
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.204-210
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• 2014

Experimental study was conducted to investigate the effect of EGR(exhaust gas recirculation) on engine noise using single cylinder combustion ignition engine. Under constant engine rotary speed of 1200 RPM, 8 mg fuel quantity was injected with 15, 18 and 21% of oxygen ratio and 1400 bar of injection pressure. Using the in-cylinder pressure data acquired by a piezoelectric transducer, the engine performance parameters were calculated. Radiated engine noise measured for 10 seconds was analyzed using spectral characteristics and sound quality metrics such as loudness, sharpness, roughness. From the obtained engine performance parameters and sound quality metrics, effect of oxygen ratio of the premixed air, start of injection timing on frequency characteristic and sound quality metrics were analyzed. Correlation analysis was conducted between MPRR(maximum pressure rise rate), RI(ringing intensity) and sound quality metrics. RI was identified as the most important factor having influence on the sound quality metrics.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.75-77
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• 2015

디스플레이 해상도가 지속적으로 고해상화가 되면서, 기존 저해상도 영상을 고해상도 디스플레이 크기에 맞춰 해상도를 키우는 기법인 초해상화(super-resolution, SR) 기법에 많은 관심이 쏟아지고 있으며 이에 대한 많은 초해상화 논문들이 게재되었다. 이 중 현재 최상 품질의 고해상도 영상을 복원하는 한 초해상화 기법은, 입력 받은 저해상도 영상을 자가 예제(self-examples)로 사용하여 선형 매핑(linear mapping)을 통해 점진적으로 여러 레벨(level)를 거쳐 조금씩 키우는 방법이다. 이때 각 레벨마다 기존 저해상도 영상 크기로 반복적으로 줄여 오차를 줄이는 역투영법(back-projection)을 사용하는데, 이 방법은 처리된 영상에 시각적 품질을 낮추는 링 아티팩트(ringing artifacts)를 생산하며, 이는 매 레벨마다 계속 누적이 되어 고해상도 결과 이미지 품질에 악영향을 미치는 단점이 있다. 이를 보완하기 위해, 본 논문에서는 저해상도 정지 영상을 고해상도 정지 영상으로 점진적으로 키울 때 일반적인 역투영법 대신 비국소적 평균법(non-local means, NLM) 기반 역투영법을 사용하는 초해상화 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 매 레벨마다 생기는 링 아티팩트를 효과적으로 제거하여 높은 시각적 품질의 고해상도 영상을 복원할 수 있게 한다. 실험을 통해 제안된 초해상화 기법을 사용 시 기존 초해상화 기법보다 향상된 고품질 고해상도 영상 복원이 가능한 것을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.23-29
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• 2002

This paper suggest the image compression that is needed to process PACS in medical information system. The image decoding method is used Linear-predictor and Lloyd-Max quantizer(quantization) in the Wavelet transform domain. Wavelet Transform Method is processed the multi-resolution by dividing image into 10 sub-bands of 3 levels. Low frequency domain that is sensitive to human visual characteristic is encoded by DPCM which is lossless encoding methods, and Lloyed-Max quantizer, the optimal quantizer for reducing ringing and aliasing in the image of inter sub-band, is used in the remaining high frequency domain of sub-band. The examination verifies that decompressed images are superior by the result that PSNR is 28.53dB on the input image, 512$\times$152 abdominal CT image and Chest image.