• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제54권3호
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• pp.186-190
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• 2021

Background: Pre-lifting of the sternum marked a major turning point in pectus excavatum repair. The author developed the crane technique in 2002 and successfully applied it to more than 2,000 cases using sternal wire stitching. However, blind sternal suturing limited the use of the wire-stitch crane. We propose a novel screw for sternal lifting as a new tool for the crane technique. Methods: We developed a screw system strong enough to withstand the pressure needed for sternum lifting. The screw was designed to have a broader thread to hold the bony tissue securely. The screw's sustaining power was tested using the torsion, driving torque, and axial pull-out tests in a polyurethane block and ex-vivo porcine sternum. Results: The screws were easily driven into the sternum, and the head of the screw was connectable to the table-mounted retractor. In the torsion test, the 2° offset torsional yield was 4.53 N·m (reference value, 1 N·m). In the polyurethane block driving torque test, the maximum torque was 0.98 N·m (reference value, 0.70 N·m). The axial pull-out test was 446 N (reference value, 100 N). The maximum pull-out resistance in the ex-vivo porcine sternum model was 1,516 N. Conclusion: The screw crane was strong enough to sustain the chest wall weight to be lifted. Thus, the screws could effectively replace the sternal wire stitching in crane pre-lifting of the sternum. We expect that application of the screw-crane will be easy and that it will improve the safety and success rate of pectus repair surgery.

• 한국의학물리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국의학물리학회 2002년도 Proceedings
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• pp.244-247
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• 2002

We examined a possibility to use inorganic plastic scintillator, which has the effective atomic number close to that of human soft tissue, for the measurement of dose distributions in a shorter time period. The method was to irradiate a block of plastic scintillator as a phantom, and to measure the distribution of the scintillation light by a wave length analyzer through a thread of plastic optical fiber. By irradiating the diagnostic x-ray, we observed the emission spectrum of the scintillation light from the scintillator. It showed a peak at around 420nm with a full width of 140 nm. The emission spectrum was integrated to determine the total number of photons. The dependences of the amount of photons on the irradiated dose were measured. The results of the experiment show that the amount of emission light is in proportional to the irradiated dose. From this fact, we conclude that the present method can be used for the measurement of the depth dose distribution of the diagnostic x-rays.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제2권6호
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• pp.974-984
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• 1995

본 논문에서는 벡타연산을 효율적으로 수행하고 대단위 병렬시스템을 지원하는 다중 스레드구조, MULVEC(MULtithreaded architecture of the VEctor Computations) 을 제시한다. MULVEC은 데이타플로우 모델에 수퍼 스칼라 RISC 마이크로 프로세서를 갖는 기존의 폰 노이만 모델을 도입하였다. 그리고 동일한 스레드 세그멘트내에 벡타 연산이 반복되는 경우에 상태필드를 이용하여 동기화의 수를 감축시켰으며, 이에 의해 문맥전환 횟수, 통신량 등을 감소시켰다. 그리고 노드 수의 변화에 대한 MULVEC의 성능평가(프로그램들의 수행시간, 프로세서들의 이용율)와 *T의 성능평가(프로그램의 수행시간)를 SPARC station 20 (super scalar RISC microprocessor)에서 시뮬레이션을 하였으며, 노드의 수, 루프의 반복홋수 등에 따라 프로그램의 수행시간이 MULVEC이 *T보 다 약 1-2배 정도 빠르다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.69-76
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• 2023

매년 수십만 개의 암호를 분실하거나 잊어버리면서 합법적인 소유자나 권한을 부여받은 법 집행 담당자가 필요한 정보를 사용할 수 없게 된다. 이러한 암호를 되찾기 위해 암호 해독(Password Cracking)이 사용된다. 암호 해독에 CPU 대신 GPU를 사용하면 복구 과정에서 필요한 많은 양의 계산을 신속하게 처리할 수 있다. 본 논문은 현재 가장 많이 사용되는 PDF 1.4 -1.6 버전의 암호 해독에 중점을 두고 CUDA를 사용하여 GPU에서 최적화한다. MD5 알고리즘의 불필요 연산 제거, RC4 알고리즘의 32비트 워드 통합 구현, 공유메모리 사용의 기법을 사용하였다. 또한 성능향상에 영향을 미치는 블록, 스레드 수 탐색을 위해 오토튠 기법을 사용하였다. 결과적으로 RTX 3060, RTX 3090 환경에서 블록 크기 65,536, 스레드 크기 96에서 31,460 kp/s(kilo passwords per second), 66,351 kp/s의 처리량을 보였으며, 기존 최고 처리량을 보여주는 해시캣의 처리량보다 각각 22.5%, 15.2%를 향상시켰다.

• 한국작물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국작물학회 2022년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.49-49
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• 2022

One of the major problems with sweetpotato (Ipomoea batats Lam.) is the tough thread tissue that occurs in the storage root, which has a negative impact on the sales of sweet potato because it impairs the texture during cooking and the processing quality. The fiber contents in storage roots of sweetpotato is affected by cultivation conditions and environment. To investigate the effect of fiber generation at different levels of irrigation, the sweetpoatoto "Hogammi" was transplanted in greenhouse. Sweetpotato was grown in styrofoam beds(W1605*D330*H300mm) to block moisture flowing from the outside. The irrigation was carried out as 3 levels (5,10, and 20 mm through drip irrigation facilities) at 20-day intervals. Five plants were harvested per plot at 90, 100 and 120 days after transplanting (DAT). The size of the storage root was large in the order of irrigation conditions 10mm>20mm>5mm treatment. And the longer cultivation period, the larger size of the storage root was observed. As a result of the analysis of the fiber content, it showed a tendency to decrease as the cultivation period increased (90days→120days). In addition, the fiber contents of sweetpotato harvested at 90, 100 and 120 DAT in the level of 5 mm irrigation plot were 351, 324 and 207 mg/100g, respectively, which were higher than those of other irrigation level plots. During all cultivation periods, the 10mm treatment group showed the lowest fiber content of 280, 228 and 127 mg/100g. At 20 mm irrigation level, the fiber content was less than that of 5mm irrigation level, but showed a tendency to increase compared to that of 10 mm irrigation level. These results suggested that drought stress or excessive-irrigation increases the fiber content of sweetpotato, which reduces their commercial value.