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A Site Environment Analysis of NDGPS Reference Stations Co-operating for SBAS (NDGPS 기준국의 SBAS 기준국으로의 공동 활용을 위한 기준국 환경 분석)

  • Han, Young-hoon;Park, Sul-gee;Park, Sang-hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.20 no.9
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    • pp.1696-1703
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, it verifies site environment aspect that NDGPS (Nationwide Differential Global Positioning System) operated by MOF (Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries) will be used as the same site of reference stations for SBAS (Satellite Based Augmentation System). In order to prove this feasibility, we analyze the site environment requirements for SBAS reference stations, as well as we establish the procedure for the verification of the site environment requirements. With this procedure of the site environment survey, we perform site survey in the real field and analyze the results. We select interim candidate sites for survey which currently operating 17 NDGPS reference stations. This paper could be utilized in the process of selection or installation of reference stations in the field of GNSS(Global Navigation Satellite System) and the drawing the consideration which NDGPS reference stations will be co-operated as SBAS reference stations.

The Treatment of Uterine Cervical Cancer Using High Dose Rate Co-60 Sources (고선량율(高線量率) 강내조사법(腔內照射法)을 이용(利用)한 자궁경암(子宮頸癌) 방사선(放射線) 치료(治療))

  • Kim, G.E.;Suh, C.O.;Lee, D.H.;Park, C.Y.
    • Radiation Oncology Journal
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.95-102
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    • 1983
  • The radical treatment of uterine cervical cancer by interacavitary radium or cesium, in combination with teletherapy are well known. Although the result of such treatment should not give rise to complacency, problem of radiation exposure to medical staff had not been resolved. Fortunately, many attempts have been made to reduce this hazard, most of which take the form of afterloading applicators with a suitably shielded radioisotope. In order to avoid hazardous radiation exposure to staffs concerned with brachytherapy, RALS using high intensity source of Co-60, have been employed at Yonsei Cancer Center since May, 1979. It allows rectal and bladder doses to be kept low, while maintaining a satifactory usual dose distribution of the other type of applicators, and the short treatment time allow four or five patients to be treated per hour. It also removes much patient's discomfort and the difficulties of nursing these patients. Since the first introduction in Korea, over seven hundred cases with various stage of uterine cervical cancer have been treated on a radical basis at this center last 4 years. These authors have strongly attracted attention to the results in terms of local control rate, survival s and morbidity compared with those of conventional low dose rate radiotherapy. Retrospective interim analysis of data was preliminarily accomplished through the labored follow-up study of 340 cases treated during initial 2 years and the radiobiologic standpoint of high dose rate intracavitary irradiation will be discussed.

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A Study on the Improvement of Industry-Academia Technology Holding Company (산학협력기술지주회사의 운영현황과 개선방안 연구)

  • Do, Kyehoon;Um, Ikcheon
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.367-389
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    • 2013
  • The Industry-Academia Technology Holding Company has been established and operated in universities for supporting technology transfer and promoting commercialization since 2008. In the meantime, necessity for operating and methods for vitalizing of the Industry-Academia Technology Holding Company, reviews for legal and institutional requirements and case studies have been performed in various ways. However, a comprehensive actual survey for overall operation of the Industry-Academia Technology Holding Company was insufficient for researchers of universities who were participating in National R&D programs and the projects for the S&T policy. In particular, this is the very time for an interim and overall review now that it has been 5 years since the Industry-Academia Technology Holding Company was introduced. Accordingly, the comprehensive surveys and interviews were conducted on the status of driving the project by the Industry-Academia Technology Holding Company in this study. Based on this analysis result, we have suggested the improvement of Industry-Academia Technology Holding Company in three different ways - (1) expanding the basement of technological business development in universities (2) improving legal and institutional support system, and (3) expanding elites of organizations and securing responsibilities.

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Hypofractionated radiotherapy for early glottic cancer: a retrospective interim analysis of a single institution

  • Lee, Jeong Won;Lee, Jeong Eun;Park, Junhee;Sohn, Jin Ho;Ahn, Dongbin
    • Radiation Oncology Journal
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.82-90
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    • 2019
  • Purpose: To evaluate the results of hypofractionated radiotherapy (HFX) for early glottic cancer. Materials and Methods: Eighty-five patients with cT1-2N0M0 squamous cell carcinoma of the glottis who had undergone HFX, performed using intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT, n = 66) and three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3D CRT, n = 19) were analyzed. For all patients, radiotherapy was administered at 60.75 Gy in 27 fractions. Forty-three patients received a simultaneous integrated boost (SIB) of 2.3-2.5 Gy per tumor fraction. Results: The median follow-up duration was 29.9 months (range, 5.5 to 76.5 months). All patients achieved complete remission at a median of 50 days after the end of radiotherapy (range, 14 to 206 days). The 5-year rates for locoregional recurrence-free survival was 88.1%, and the 5-year overall survival rate was 86.2%. T2 stage was a prognostic factor for locoregional recurrence-free survival after radiotherapy (p = 0.002). SIB for the tumor did not affect disease control and survival (p = 0.191 and p = 0.387, respectively). No patients experienced acute or chronic toxicities of ≥grade 3. IMRT significantly decreased the dose administered to the carotid artery as opposed to 3D CRT (V35, p < 0.001; V50, p < 0.001). Conclusions: Patients treated with HFX achieved acceptable locoregional disease control rates and overall survival rates compared with previous HFX studies. A fraction size of 2.25 Gy provided good disease control regardless of SIB administration.

Performance Comparison of DCT Algorithm Implementations Based on Hardware Architecture (프로세서 구조에 따른 DCT 알고리즘의 구현 성능 비교)

  • Lee Jae-Seong;Pack Young-Cheol;Youn Dae-Hee
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.31 no.6C
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    • pp.637-644
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    • 2006
  • This paper presents performance and implementation comparisons of standard and fast DCT algorithms that are commonly used for subband filter bank in MPEG audio coders. The comparison is made according to the architectural difference of the implementation hardware. Fast DCT algorithms are known to have much less computational complexity than the standard method that involves computing a vector dot product of cosine coefficient. But, due to structural irregularity, fast DCT algorithms require extra cycles to generate the addresses for operands and to realign interim data. When algorithms are implemented using DSP processors that provide special operations such as single-cycle MAC (multiply-accumulate), zero-overhead nested loop, the standard algorithm is more advantageous than the fast algorithms. Also, in case of the finite-precision processing, the error performance of the standard method is far superior to that of the fast algorithms. In this paper, truncation errors and algorithmic suitability are analyzed and implementation results are provided to support the analysis.

Feasibility Study for Detecting the Tropopause Folding Turbulence Using COMS Geostationary Satellite (천리안 위성 자료를 이용한 대류권계면 접힘 난류 탐지 가능성 연구)

  • Kim, Mijeong;Kim, Jae Hwan
    • Atmosphere
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.119-131
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    • 2017
  • We present and discuss the Tropopause Folding Turbulence Detection (TFTD) algorithm for the Korean Communication, Ocean, Meteorological Satellite (COMS) which is originally developed for the Tropopause Folding Turbulence Product (TFTP) from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-R. The TFTD algorithm assumes that the tropopause folding is linked to the Clear Air Turbulence (CAT), and thereby the tropopause folding areas are detected from the rapid spatial gradients of the upper tropospheric specific humidity. The Layer Averaged Specific Humidity (LASH) is used to represent the upper tropospheric specific humidity calculated using COMS $6.7{\mu}m$ water vapor channel and ERA-interim reanalysis temperature at 300, 400, and 500 hPa. The comparison of LASH with the numerical model specific humidity shows a strong negative correlation of 80% or more. We apply the single threshold, which is determined from sensitivity analysis, for cloud-clearing to overcome strong gradient of LASH at the edge of clouds. The tropopause break lines are detected from the location of strong LASH-gradient using the Canny edge detection based on the image processing technique. The tropopause folding area is defined by expanding the break lines by 2-degree positive gradient direction. The validations of COMS TFTD is performed with Pilot Reports (PIREPs) filtered out Convective Induced Turbulence (CIT) from Dec 2013 to Nov 2014 over the South Korea. The score test shows 0.49 PODy (Probability of Detection 'Yes') and 0.64 PODn (Probability of Detection 'No'). Low POD results from various kinds of CAT reported from PIREPs and the characteristics of high sensitivity in edge detection algorithm.

Spent Nuclear Fuel Management in South Korea: Current Status and the Way Forward (사용후핵연료 관리 현안 및 정책 제언)

  • Hwang, Yongsoo;Chang, Sunyoung;Han, Jae-Jun
    • Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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    • v.37 no.5
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    • pp.312-323
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    • 2015
  • This paper presents future directions for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste management. The successes and failures of siting nuclear waste repository experienced by the United States and other countries are reviewed with the current policy stance. Further, the needs for establishing management policy, considering the high-level radioactive waste produced by the dismantlement, nuclear security concerns, and cost-effectiveness analysis for the total nuclear fuel cycle, are emphasised. Technical discussions are organised into three main topics: interim storage, permanent disposal, and reprocessing. Licensing regimes are also investigated to suggest strategic plans for research and development programmes in the Republic of Korea.

Full mouth rehabilitation on the patient with severe tooth wear and tooth fracture using reestabilishment of occlusal vertical dimension (심한 치아 마모 및 파절 환자의 수직고경거상을 동반한 전악 수복 증례)

  • Lee, Ho-Sun;Joo, Se-Jin;Jin, Soo-Yoon;Kang, Dong-Wan;Lee, Gyeong-Je
    • Journal of Dental Rehabilitation and Applied Science
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.224-231
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    • 2016
  • Severe dental attrition causes pathological changes of the tooth, imbalanced occlusion, and functional and aesthetic complications and can also result in a decrease in occlusal vertical dimension that can incur temporomandibular joint and muscular complications. Before restoring the vertical dimension with full-mouth prosthetic restorations, it is important to determine the amount of vertical lifting through complete diagnosis. In this study, a 59 year-old male patient with generalized attrition and fracture of teeth was treated with full-mouth zirconia prosthetic restoration in order to recover vertical dimension and aesthetics. Through the analysis of physiologic rest position and inter-canine distance, the treatment was planned for lifting 3 mm in vertical dimension. Interim crown were fabricated after full-mouth wax up, having the patient use for 6 months. The final monolithic and bilayered zirconia restorations were completed. The patient showed satisfaction in function and aesthetics for 18 months of follow-up since delivering the final restorations.

New bimaxillary orthognathic surgery planning and model surgery based on the concept of six degrees of freedom

  • Jeon, Jaeho;Kim, Yongdeok;Kim, Jongryoul;Kang, Heejea;Ji, Hyunjin;Son, Woosung
    • The korean journal of orthodontics
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    • v.43 no.1
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    • pp.42-52
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    • 2013
  • The aim of this paper was to propose a new method of bimaxillary orthognathic surgery planning and model surgery based on the concept of 6 degrees of freedom (DOF). A 22-year-old man with Class III malocclusion was referred to our clinic with complaints of facial deformity and chewing difficulty. To correct a prognathic mandible, facial asymmetry, flat occlusal plane angle, labioversion of the maxillary central incisors, and concavity of the facial profile, bimaxillary orthognathic surgery was planned. After preoperative orthodontic treatment, surgical planning based on the concept of 6 DOF was performed on a surgical treatment objective drawing, and a Jeon's model surgery chart (JMSC) was prepared. Model surgery was performed with Jeon's orthognathic surgery simulator (JOSS) using the JMSC, and an interim wafer was fabricated. Le Fort I osteotomy, bilateral sagittal split ramus osteotomy, and malar augmentation were performed. The patient received lateral cephalometric and posteroanterior cephalometric analysis in postretention for 1 year. The follow-up results were determined to be satisfactory, and skeletal relapse did not occur after 1.5 years of surgery. When maxillary and mandibular models are considered as rigid bodies, and their state of motion is described in a quantitative manner based on 6 DOF, sharing of exact information on locational movement in 3-dimensional space is possible. The use of JMSC and JOSS will actualize accurate communication and performance of model surgery among clinicians based on objective measurements.

A Study on the Motivation behind Government-funded Normal Students' Admission in China (중국 국비 사범생의 진학동기에 관한 연구)

  • Li, Xiaohui;Li, Zhangpei
    • Journal of the International Relations & Interdisciplinary Education
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.12-30
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    • 2021
  • To narrow the educational gap and balance the development of education, the Chinese Ministry of Education and various regional education offices are actively promoting government-funded normal education policies. In this study, the background, purpose, and main contents of government-funded normal education policy were identified through a literature review. Furthermore we tried to make an in-depth understanding of the motivation behind government-funded normal students' admission. The results of the analysis were classified as "unexpected motivation" at the individual level, "interim motivation" at the home and school level, and "mirror motivation" at the national policy and social level. "Parents and teachers' opinions" topped the list, followed by securing teaching positions, double-sided dailies (excluding tuition and dormitory fees, paying living allowances), teacher dominance and social status. Parents and teachers had a strong involvement in the admission of government-funded students. Economic factors are relatively more influential than the ideal job as a teacher, and it seems contrary to the original intention of the policy. In response, efforts should be made such as regarding the guidance of state-funded education policies and vocational identity education.