• Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association
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• v.54 no.5
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• pp.435-439
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• 2019

Purpose: This study evaluated the efficacy of blood mixed cement for osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures in reducing the complications of percutaneous vertebroplasty using conventional cement. Materials and Methods: This study was performed retrospectively in 80 patients, from January 2016 to January 2017. Porous cement was formed by mixing 2, 4, and 6 ml of blood with 20 g of cement used previously. A tube with a diameter and length of 2.8 mm and 215 mm, respectively, was used and the polymerization temperature, setting time, and optimal passing-time were measured and compared with those using only conventional cement. Radiologically, the results were evaluated and compared. Results: The polymerization temperature was 70.3℃, 55.3℃, 52.7℃, and 45.5℃ in the conventional cement (R), 2 ml (B2), 4 ml (B4), and 6 ml (B6), respectively, and the corresponding setting time decreased from 960 seconds (R) to 558 seconds (B2), 533 seconds (B4), and 500 seconds (B6). The optimal passing-time was 45 seconds (B2), 60 seconds (B4), and 78 seconds (B6) at 73 seconds (R), respectively and as the amount of blood increased, it was similar to the cement passing-time. The radiological results showed that the height restoration rates and the vertebral subsidence rates similar among the groups. Two cases of adjacent vertebral compression fractures in the R group and one in the B2 and B4 groups were encountered, and the leakage rate of the cement was approximately two times higher than that in the conventional cement group. Conclusion: In conventional percutaneous vertebroplasty, the procedure of using autologous blood with cement decreased the polymerization temperature, reduced the setting time, and the incidence of cement leakage was low. These properties may contribute to more favorable mechanical properties that can reduce the complications compared to conventional cements alone.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.151-154
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• 2006

In this work, a novel optimal multiuser detection (MUD) approach, which not only achieves the optimal maximum-likelihood (ML)-like performance but also has reasonably low computational complexity, for Space-time coded OFDM (ST-OFDM) systems is presented. In the proposed detection scheme, the signal model is firstly re-expressed into linearly equivalent one. Then, with the linearly equivalent signal model, a new jointly MUD algorithm is proposed to detect signals. The ML-like bit-error-rate (BER) performance and reasonably low complexity of the proposed detection are verified by computer simulations.

• Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.21-24
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• 1975

During April and May, 1973 rain water samples were collected five different times in nine selected areas of Seoul city. The pH factor and bacteria counts were measured. The following results were obtained. 1. The lowest pH was 6.18 at Moon Rae Dong and the highest was 6.30 at Jong Am Dong. This difference is not significant at the 0. 05 level. 2. The pH factor did not vary significantly with the time of sample collection. 3. Dae Bang Dong had the highest Total Plate Count of $1.9\times 10^3/ml$, Bo Moon Dong and An Kook Dong had the lowest Total Plate Count at $4.1\times 10^2/ml$. 4. The total plate count varied greatly according to the time of sample collection. This result can be used to remove are pollutants. 5. The Total plate Count is nearly inversely proportional to the length of time during which the sample is collected.

• The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.170-176
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• 1999

Optimum preparation conditions of Korean traditional sweet rice drink 'malt-Sikye' were 1hour of rice soaking time 30min of malt extraction time 60$^{\circ}C$ of malt extraction tem-perature 60$^{\circ}C$ of saccharification temperature 1hour of agitation interval 5hour of saccharification time 5.5 of pH 4% of malt concentration and 20% of rice content. The malt-Sikhy contained to 17.1% of total sugar 11.2% of reducing sugar o.34mg/ml of protein and 4.7${\mu}$mol/ml of amino acid. The most abundant sugar found in malt-Sikhye was maltose. The commercial amylolytic enzymes were not effec-tive in preparation malt-Sikye.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.352-357
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• 2008

We present a space-time trellis coded OFDM system in slow fading channels. Generalized principal ratio combining (GPRC) is also analyzed theoretically in frequency domain. The analysis shows that the decoding metric of GPRC includes the metrics of maximum likelihood(ML) and PRC. The computer simulations with M-PSK modulation are obtained in frequency flat and frequency selective fading channels. The decoding complexity and simulation running times are also evaluated among the decoding schemes.

• Korean Journal of Hydrosciences
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• v.2
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• pp.115-126
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• 1991

The anaerobic digester with sludge from sewage treatment plant was operated in the laboratory for two year to investigate the enumeration and activity of methanogenic microorganisms. In this experimental study, the effects of HRT on the degradation characteristics of organic materials and on the number of methanogenic bacteria produced were investigated. By making the media with the repeated wxperiment, the number and activity of methanogenic bacteria were measured. The increase of the removal rate of organic acid in the digester was oberved at HRT of 2 days. The total number of methane forming bacteria estimated by the MPN method showed 2.3 $\times$ $ at HRT of 3 days, 7$\times$$ of 5 days and 7.9$\times$$ $/ml of 10 days. The optimum incubation time for measuring the number of methanogenic bacteria was found as more than four weeks. The PMA revealed 161ml CH$/l day at HRT of 10 days and the PUA 290mg COD/l day. At the incubation time 4.3 days, the maximum value of CH$ *59.1%) was found. At this time, $ was found as 15.3% and $ 25.6%.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.541-546
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• 1988

Optimum conditions for immobilization of aminoacylase on chitosan were investigated, and the results are summerized as follows: Optimum conditions for activation of chitosan were pH 6.0, 0.2% of glutaraldehyde, and 120 minutes of reaction time. Enzyme concentration and reaction time for immobilization of aminoacylase on the activated chitosan were 80mg/20ml, and 90 minutes, respectively, and the yield of activity of the immobilized enzyme was 42.6%.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.2A
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• pp.100-107
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• 2011

Algorithms based on the QR decomposition of the equivalent space-time channel matrix have been proved useful in the detection of V-BLAST systems. Especially, the parallel detection (PD) algorithm offers ML approaching performance up to 4 transmit antennas with reasonable complexity. We show that when directly applied to STBCs, the PD algorithm may suffer a rather significant SNR degradation over ML detection, especially at high SNRs. However, simply extending the PD algorithm to allow p ${\geq}$ 2 candidate layers, i.e. p-PD, regains almost all the loss but only at a significant increase in complexity. Here, we propose a simplification to the p-PD algorithm specific to STBCs without a corresponding sacrifice in performance. The proposed algorithm results in significant complexity reductions for moderate to high order modulations.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.2A
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• pp.115-120
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• 2008

We propose a cooperative transmission scheme that uses Hurwitz-Radon space-time code for the relays which help the source to transmit signals to the destination, the full utilization here is that the destination utilizes the broadcast symbols from the source. We present the 2 transmit antennas case in detail because of its simplicity and high data rate. Analysis and simulations show that the proposed scheme achieves full diversity order of 3. The maximum likelihood receiver is also derived and the combining scheme is shown to be very simple.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.5A
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• pp.487-493
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• 2008

In this paper, we consider coded layered space-time architecture in MIMO-OFDM channels. Vertical Bell Lab Layered Space-Time(V-BLAST) scheme employing ordered successive interference cancellation(OSIC) algorithm provides very high spectral efficiency with low computational complexity. However, the error propagation is a major drawback constraining the overall performance of the V-BLAST system significantly. Based on this problem, we derive an improved detector using soft bit log-likelihood ratio(LLR) value. Simulation results show that the proposed detector outperforms the conventional V-BLAST scheme under spatially uncorrelated as well as correlated fading channels.