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Effect of Repeated Lumbar Sympathetic Ganglion Block with Triamcinolone on Complex Regional Pain Syndrome of Vascular Origin -A case report- (혈관성 원인의 복합부위통증증후군에서의 Triamcinolone을 사용한 반복적 요부교감신경절차단의 효과 -증례 보고-)

  • Jung, Sung-Mee;Han, Kyung-Ream;Ock, Kyung-Jong;Park, Soo-Kyeong;Kim, Chan;Kim, Jin-Soo;Hwang, Hyuk-E
    • The Korean Journal of Pain
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.118-122
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    • 2001
  • Complex regional pain syndrome type I of vascular origin is difficult to detect unless the classic symptoms and signs exist and/or overt extremity trauma has precipitated the pain. The diagnosis is confirmed by relief of pain following a sympathetic nerve blockade. A 36-year-old woman with arterial occlusive disease of the right lower extremity presented with burning pain and hyperesthesia after sprain had occurred which was accompanied by motor weakness of right ankle. A lumbar sympathetic ganglion blockade with 2% lidocaine 10 ml and triamcinolone 80 mg produced prompt improvement of the pain and motion.

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Fast Inter Mode Decision Algorithm Based on Macroblock Tracking in H.264/AVC Video

  • Kim, Byung-Gyu;Kim, Jong-Ho;Cho, Chang-Sik
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.29 no.6
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    • pp.736-744
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    • 2007
  • We propose a fast macroblock (MB) mode prediction and decision algorithm based on temporal correlation for P-slices in the H.264/AVC video standard. There are eight block types for temporal decorrelation, including SKIP mode based on rate-distortion (RD) optimization. This scheme gives rise to exhaustive computations (search) in the coding procedure. To overcome this problem, a thresholding method for fast inter mode decision using a MB tracking scheme to find the most correlated block and RD cost of the correlated block is suggested for early stop of the inter mode determination. We propose a two-step inter mode candidate selection method using statistical analysis. In the first step, a mode is selected based on the mode information of the co-located MB from the previous frame. Then, an adaptive thresholding scheme is applied using the RD cost of the most correlated MB. Secondly, additional candidate modes are considered to determine the best mode of the initial candidate modes that does not satisfy the designed thresholding rule. Comparative analysis shows that a speed-up factor of up to 70.59% is obtained when compared with the full mode search method with a negligible bit increment and a minimal loss of image quality.

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A BLMS Adaptive Receiver for Direct-Sequence Code Division Multiple Access Systems

  • Hamouda Walaa;McLane Peter J.
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.243-247
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    • 2005
  • We propose an efficient block least-mean-square (BLMS) adaptive algorithm, in conjunction with error control coding, for direct-sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) systems. The proposed adaptive receiver incorporates decision feedback detection and channel encoding in order to improve the performance of the standard LMS algorithm in convolutionally coded systems. The BLMS algorithm involves two modes of operation: (i) The training mode where an uncoded training sequence is used for initial filter tap-weights adaptation, and (ii) the decision-directed where the filter weights are adapted, using the BLMS algorithm, after decoding/encoding operation. It is shown that the proposed adaptive receiver structure is able to compensate for the signal-to­noise ratio (SNR) loss incurred due to the switching from uncoded training mode to coded decision-directed mode. Our results show that by using the proposed adaptive receiver (with decision feed­back block adaptation) one can achieve a much better performance than both the coded LMS with no decision feedback employed. The convergence behavior of the proposed BLMS receiver is simulated and compared to the standard LMS with and without channel coding. We also examine the steady-state bit-error rate (BER) performance of the proposed adaptive BLMS and standard LMS, both with convolutional coding, where we show that the former is more superior than the latter especially at large SNRs ($SNR\;\geq\;9\;dB$).

Electromagnetic Tomography Using Finite Element Method (유한요소법을 이용한 전자탐사 토모그래피 연구)

  • Son, Jeong-Sul;Song, Yoon-Ho;Kim, Jung-Ho
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.06a
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    • pp.185-190
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    • 2007
  • In this study, we developed the 2.5D EM modeling and inversion algorithm for cross-hole source and receiver geometry. Considering the cross-hole environment, we use a VMD (vertical magnetic dipole) as a source and vertical magnetic fields as a measuring data. Developed inversion algorithm is tested for the isolated block model which has a conductive and a resistivity anomaly respectively. For the conductive anomaly, its size and resistivity are inverted well on the inversion results, while for the resistive anomaly, the location of anomalous block is shown on the inverted section, but its values are far from the exact value. Furthermore, artificial conductive anomalies are shown around the resistive anomalous zone. If we consider the inversion artifact shown in the test inversion of restive block, it is almost impossible to image the resistive zone. However, the main target of EM tomography in the engineering problem is conductive target such as fault zone, and contaminated zone etc., EM tomography algorithm can be used for detecting the anomalous zone.

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Spectral Efficient SF Block Coded Relay Transmission System without Cyclic Prefix for a Shadow Area (음영 지역을 위한 주기적 프리픽스 없는 주파수 효율적인 주파수 공간 블록 부호화 중계기 전송 시스템)

  • Won, Hui-Chul
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.16 no.11
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    • pp.7456-7462
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    • 2015
  • This paper proposes a spectral efficient space-frequency(SF) block coded single carrier-frequency division multiple access(SC-FDMA) transmission system in a relaying multi-path shadow area. The cyclic prefix(CP) is not used in the proposed system in order to prevent a loss of spectral efficiency due to the use of CP. The destruction of channel cyclicity due to the lack of CP is recovered at the receivers of relays and a destination station. Simulation results show that the performance of the proposed system without CP is almost same as that of the conventional system with full CP, thus increasing the spectral efficiency.

A Study on the Optimum Design of Cylinder Block in Swash Plate Type Oil Hydraulic Piston Pump

  • Baek, Il-Hyun;Cho, Ihn-Sung;Jung, Jae-Youn;Choi, Byung-In;Oh, Seok-Hyung
    • KSTLE International Journal
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.29-34
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    • 2007
  • Recently, requirements relating to performance, environment and noise in the oil hydraulic system of the heavy construction equipment have been reinforced continuously. In order to solve these technical trends, studies on the system compactness, operation under high pressure and great rotating speed, electronic control, substitute oil, and noise reduction have been progressed briskly. Among these recent studies, the system operation under high pressure is quite difficult to carry into effect due to mechanical limitations; that is, for realizing the system operation in the hydraulic pump under high pressure, the improvements or innovations on the design techniques, the manufacturing techniques, and the lubrication performance of the working oil are required. Accordingly, in this study, the stress distribution and optimum design factors under the maximum pressure were discussed by using stress analysis on the cylinder block of the hydraulic axial piston pump, which is one of the most important relative sliding regions.

Design and Implementation of the module that generate Sync-signal for Controlling Tx/Rx Antenna of 2.3-2.7GHz WiMAX TDD Repeater (2.3-2.7GHz WiMAX용 TDD 중계기의 송수신 안테나 제어를 위한 동기 신호 생성 모듈 설계 및 구현)

  • Woo, Sang-Hee
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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    • v.46 no.1
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    • pp.60-63
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, Designed and implemented about module that generate division signal for uplink section and downlink section for controlling Tx/Rx antenna of 2.3-2.7GHz WiMAX TDD repeater. It is consisted of RF block and Baseband block, and because function of this module is that synchronize with WiMAX signal and create division signal for uplink section and downlink section, this module was designed only received path. And because of manufacturing of most RF block by one chip, this module could minimize area. And in baseband block, used the WiMAX Modem to detect Preamble and DL-MAP information of WiMAX signal. This design can process about 2.3-2.7GHz WiMAX.

An Architecture of One-Dimensional Systolic Array for Full-Search Block Matching Algorithm (완전탐색 블럭정합 알고리즘을 위한 일차원 시스톨릭 어레이의 구조)

  • Lee, Su-Jin;Woo, Chong-Ho
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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    • v.39 no.5
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    • pp.34-42
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, we designed the VLSI array architecture for the high speed processing of the motion estimation used by block matching algorithm. We derived the one dimensional systolic array from the full search block matching algorithm. The data and control signals of the proposed systolic array are passed through adjacent processing element. So proposed architecture has temporal and spatial locality. The I/O ports exists only in the first and last processing elements of the array. This architecture has low pin counts and modular expandability. So the proposed array architecture can be cascaded for different block size and search range.