• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.338-344
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to determine the optimal number of excitations(NEX) of diffusion weighted imaging(DWI) which is clinically useful in patients with musculoskeletal diseases while the scan time is relatively long. In this study, 30 patients underwent knee MRI using diffusion weighted image sequence using b values targeted on the bone and muscle. The NEX were varied from 1 to 5 and the ADC values were measured and analyzed. As a result of the study, 4 NEX and 2 NEX showed an statistically identical effect with the existing NEX on the bone and muscle diffusion weighted images, respectively. Also, it proved that the scan time could be significantly reduced by 21.2 % and 59.6 % compared to the established NEX which meant the optimal NEX could replace the existing NEX. In conclusion, applying the optimal NEX on the musculoskeletal bone and soft tissue DWI could improve the problems caused by the long scan time.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.9-14
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• 2021

Recently, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which can acquire images with good contrast without exposure to radiation, has been widely used for diagnosis. However, noise that reduces the accuracy of diagnosis is essentially generated when acquiring the MR images, and by adjusting the parameters, the noise problem can be solved to obtain an image with excellent characteristics. Among the parameters, the number of excitation (NEX) can acquire images with excellent characteristics without additional degradation of image characteristics. In contrast, appropriate NEX setting is required since the scan time increases and motion artifacts may occur. Therefore, in this study, after fixing all MRI parameters through the MRiLab simulation program, we tried to evaluate the tendency of image characteristics according to changing NEX through quantitative evaluation of brain T2 weighted images acquired by adjusting only NEX. To evaluate the noise level and similarity of the acquired image, signal to noise ratio (SNR), contrast to noise ratio (CNR), root mean square error (RMSE) and peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) were calculated. As a result, both noise level and similarity evaluation factors showed improved values as NEX increased, while the increasing width gradually decreased. In conclusion, we demonstrated that an appropriate NEX setting is important because an excessively large NEX does not affect image characteristics improvement and cause motion artifacts due to a long scan.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.171-174
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• 2010

무선 통신 환경에서 간섭과 잡음으로 인한 채널 추정 오류는 데이터 검출을 위한 등화 성능을 현저하게 저하시킨다. 포스트 프로세싱은 채널 추정 이후에 이러한 추정 오류를 줄이기 위한 작업이며, 여기서는 소수의 채널 계수만이 무선 채널의 다중 경로에 의한 신호 성분을 갖는 무선 채널의 특성을 이용하여 신호 성분을 포함하지 않은 계수를 선별하고 이를 제거함으로써 채널 추정 오류를 줄이는 방법을 위한 순환 알고리즘을 제안한다. 기존 알고리즘은 잡음 분산을 기준으로 문턱값을 결정하고, 그 문턱 값보다 작은 계수는 신호성분을 포함하지 않는다고 간주하여 이를 제거하였다. 제안된 순환 알고리즘은 잡음 분산의 추정치를 반복이 진행됨에 따라 갱신하여 이를 기준으로 구한 문턱값을 이용한 포스트 프로세싱을 반복함으로써 채널 추정 성능을 개선시킨다. 제안된 방법은 기존의 방법과 유사한 복잡도를 갖는 반복 횟수를 적용하는 경우에 월등히 성능이 개선되며, 특히 반복 횟수를 조절함으로써 처리 시간과 채널 추정 성능을 최적화할 수 있는 유연성을 갖고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1997.06a
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• pp.9-12
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• 1997

대부분의 음성 파？너 추정 기법은 통신 채널의 주파수 응답에 의해 쉽게 영향을 받는다. 이 논문에서 우리는 음성에서 그러한 안정상태의 스펙트럼 계수에 있어서 좀더 강인한 기법인 RASTA-PLP 방법을 적용하여 파라미터를 추출하고 그 파라미터를 연속 HMM 인식기의 입력으로 사용하여 문맥독립 음소 모델을 훈련하는 과정에서 최적의 모델을 찾게 된다. 여기서는 ETRI 445 DB에 RASTA-PLP를 적용하였을 때 가장 좋은 성능을 나타내는 재추정 횟수와 mixutre 수를 찾는 데 목표를둔다. 문맥독립음소모델은 한국어의 발성학적 근거를 토대로 하고 여기에 묵음(silence)을 추가하여 총 40개로 정의하였다. 문맥독립 음소모델은 3개의 상태를 가지는 전형적인 left-to right CHMM(Continuous Hidden Markov Model)을 이용하여 훈련한다. 그리고 훈련시간을 줄이기 위해 Viterbi beam 탐색법을 적용한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.24-31
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• 1993

원전 증기발생기의 수위제어기를 퍼지제어기로 구성하는 경우 증기발생기의 단독운전이 아닌 전체발전소의 가동중에 소속함수 조정이 이루어져야 하는 제약환경을 고려할 때 많은 반복실행횟수를 필요로 하는 임의적인 시행착오방법이나 일반화되어 있지 않은 복잡한 방법보다는 보다 간단명료하고 예측가능한 조정경로를 통해 소속함수를 조정할 필요가 있다. 여기에서는 그 방안으로서 프로세스 제어응답의 최대초과량 상승시간의 합으로 평가함수를 도입하고 descent method를 이용하여 제어응답의 결과로 얻는 평가함수의 최소점을 따라 소속함수를 조정해가는 방법을 제시하였다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.23 no.6 s.84
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• pp.115-125
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• 2005

The line planning problem is to determine the origin and destination stations of the lines with their frequencies so as to meet the OD demands. Since the advent of high speed trains, Korea railway is confronted with the urgent difficulty to reconstruct the line configuration with the frequencies of each line and each fleet type so the demands could be newly created as well as satisfied. Furthermore. the existing trains except the high speed trains suffer from a longer traveling time than before. Now, to reduce the passenger traveling time, the trains with the various halting patterns are run in the same line. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a new line planning model to consider the various halting patterns. Most of studies find the frequencies of each lines which meet the link traffic loads or minimum link frequencies. But these are based on the assumption of all stop patterns. Furthermore, it is not easy to include the actual constraints as like the minimum number of stops at a station, the maximum number of stops or a train, etc. We develop the line planning model considering not only the various halting patterns but also the actual constraints which is based on the multicommodity network flow model with the additional constraints.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.605-611
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• 1998

A computer experimental model for analyzing the microstructures and properties of vibratory deposited power compacts was developed. The effects of some significant variables such as amplitude, frequency, cycle, etc. on the change of diffraction patterns and packing densities of the deposited powder compacts were examined. In addition, the condition of phase transition from non-crystalline phase to crystalline one was determined. Data obtained from the present method quite well fitted the empirical correlations for real experimental data. In conclusion, the present model is so useful to investigate the densification and ordering of vibratory compaction.

• Korean journal of applied entomology
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.113-119
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• 1989

Larval development and adult oviposition of the Oriental tobacco budworm, Heliothis assulta were examined with tobacco leaves sprayed with aqueous or ethanolic extracts from ten selected wild plant species. High larval mortality was observed with extracts from Rhamnus davurice. Persicaria hydroPiPer, Forsythia koreana, Trifolium repens, Styrax japonica, Ginkgo bi/oba, and vilis amurensis. Most of larval mortality occurred during first and second instar, apparently due to antifeeding effects of plant extracts. These extracts also prolonged developmental period of survived larvae and increased the number of larval molts. Oviposition was not affected as much as the larval mortality, but Rhamnus davurice and Styrax jaPonica extracts reduced the number of eggs laid by more than fifty percent.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.81-92
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• 2002

In some practical circumstances, the ability of a signer should be restricted. In group signature schemes, a group member of a group may be allowed to generate signatures up to a certain number of times according to his/her position in the group. In proxy signature schemes, an original signer may want to allow a proxy signer to generate a certain number of signatures on behalf of the original signer. In the paper, we present signature schemes, called c-times signature schemes, that restrict the signing ability of a signer up to c times for pre-defined value c at set-up. The notion of c-times signature schemes are formally defined, and generic transformation from a signature scheme to a c-times signature scheme is suggested. The proposed scheme has a self-enforcement property such that if a signer generates c+1 or more signatures, his/her signature is forged. As a specific example, we present a secure c-times signature scheme $^c$DSA based on the DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm) by using a threshold scheme. Our transformation can be applied to other ElGamal-like signature schemes as well.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.223-233
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• 2023

Gauss Sieve is an algorithm for solving SVP and requires exponential time and space complexity. The terminationcondition of the Sieve is determined by the size of the constructed list and the number of collisions related to space complexity. The term 'collision' refers to the state in which the sampled vector is reduced to the vector that is already inthe list. if collisions occur more than a certain number of times, the algorithm terminates. When executing previous algorithms, we noticed that unnecessary operations continued even after the shortest vector was found. This means that the existing termination condition is set larger than necessary. In this paper, after identifying the point where unnecessary operations are repeated, optimization is performed on the number of operations required. The tests are conducted by adjusting the threshold of the collision that becomes the termination condition and the distribution in whichthe sample vector is generated. According to the experiments, the operation that occupies the largest proportion decreased by62.6%. The space and time complexity also decreased by 4.3 and 1.6%, respectively.