• Korean Journal of Poultry Science
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.165-169
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• 2006

The objective of this study was to elucidate the basis for the difference in sperm production of broiler breeders. Nine sexually mature Hubbard broiler breeder males, 35 weeks of age, were trained for two weeks for semen collection on alternate days by abdominal massage technique. Following the training, the breeder males were collected daily for five successive days. The males were then classified as low or high sperm producers. The mean body weights of individual males were also recorded on the basis of body weight at the start and end of the experiment. Immediately after last collection the males were slaughtered and testes biometry was determined. Daily sperm output of individual males varied from $0.21{\times}10^9\;to\;2.64{\times}10^9$ sperm. The daily sperm production of low sperm producer males was lower ($0.47{\pm}0.13\;vs.\;2.06{\pm}0.20{\times}10^9$; P<0.05) than high sperm producer males. Testes weight of low sperm producer males was lower ($6.32{\pm}1.6\;vs.\;20.33{\pm}4.76\;gm$; P<0.05) than high sperm producer males. Moreover the testis weight of high sperm producer males was 3.22 times higher than low sperm producer males. The average body weight of high sperm producer males was higher ($4,389{\pm}116.3\;vs.\;3,960{\pm}131.77\;gm$; P>0.05) than low sperm producer males. The correlation coefficients indicate significantly positive correlation of body weight (P<0.05) and testes weight (P<0.01) on semen volume, sperm concentration and daily sperm production.

• Journal of Animal Reproduction and Biotechnology
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.212-219
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• 2021

The aims of this study were to measure the ultrasonographic biometry of genitalia of the indigenous rams and observe the relationship of biometry on semen parameters. The epididymal volume was significantly reduced (p < 0.01) after semen collection compared with before collection for both left and right part in all rams. The cumulative results showed that although there was no significant difference in length, width and volume of epididymis between before and after semen collection, however the values were lower after collection. The epididymal length was significantly correlated with epididymal volume (p < 0.01), semen motility (p < 0.05) and semen morphology (p < 0.01). Epididymal width was only significantly correlated with epididymal volume (p < 0.01) not with the semen parameters. Epididymal volume had a significant correlation only with semen morphology (p < 0.01).The scrotal circumference had the significant correlation with semen density, mass activity, concentration and motility (p < 0.01). The epididymis had the similar or slightly increased echogenicity as compared to the normal testis. During whole study, some white spots were found on testis which did not affect the semen quantity and quality. Significant variation was observed only for semen concentration and motility among the rams (p < 0.05). The overall normal morphology was 90.5 ± 4.6% with highest percentage of coiled tail abnormalities.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.77-89
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• 2010

Digital holography (DH) is a potentially disruptive new technology for many areas of imaging science, especially in microscopy and metrology. DH offers a number of significant advantages such as the ability to acquire holograms rapidly, availability of complete amplitude and phase information of the optical field, and versatility of the interferometric and image processing techniques. This article provides a review of the digital holography, with an emphasis on its applications in biomedical microscopy. The quantitative phase microscopy by DH is described including some of the special techniques such as optical phase unwrapping and holography of total internal reflection. Tomographic imaging by digital interference holography (DIH) and related methods is described, as well as its applications in ophthalmic imaging and in biometry. Holographic manipulation and monitoring of cells and cellular components is another exciting new area of research. We discuss some of the current issues, trends, and potentials.

• The Korean Journal of Zoology
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.223-230
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• 1993

Three species of oxvtrichid hypotrichs collected from the Han River on Sune 6, and August 26, 1992 have been cultured at laboratory. Thev were identified as Oxvtricha hvmenostoma Stokes, .1887, 0. hoemutoplasma Blatterer and Foissner, 1990 and Tochvsomu pellionellum (Muller, 1773). These species are reported for the first time from Korea. Morphological and biometrical studies were carried out by observing both wild and cultured cells and the infraciliature of silver stained specimens. The present species were redescribed and analvzed biometricallv.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.195-196
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• 2015

태아의 소뇌는 임신주수에 따라 성장하며 소뇌횡직경 길이의 측정은 태아성장 예측의 중요한 지표로 활용하고 있다. 임신주수에 따른 태아 소뇌횡직경의 성장을 회귀곡선으로 표시하였고 선형회귀방정식에서 결정계수를 얻었다. 3차원초음파를 이용한 소뇌횡직경의 측정법은 통계적으로 유의(P<0.001)하였으며, 태령을 예측함에 유용하다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한 성장장애가 있는 태아의 경우에도 임신주수의 예측이 가능하다. 본 연구를 기초자료로 하여 지속적인 연구가 시행된다면 정확한 임신주수 예측에 유용할 것으로 기대한다.

• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• no.nspc3
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• pp.15-22
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• 1992

Some hypotrichous ciliates collected from the Han River and the Mountain Kwank were cultured at laboratory. They were identified as Paruroleptus lepisma Wenzel, 1953 and Euplotes aediculatus Pierson, 1943. These two species are reported for the first from Korea. Morphological and biometrical studies of them were carried out by observing both wild and cultured cells and the infraciliature of silver stained specimens. The two speices were redesribed and analyzed biometrically for their taxonomic characters.

• Korean Journal of Veterinary Research
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• v.53 no.2
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• pp.73-76
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• 2013

The aim of this study was to produce a simple and inexpensive technique for estimating the obturator foramen area (OFA) from young calves based on the hypothesis that OFA can be extrapolated from simple linear measurements. Three linear measurements - dorsoventral height, craneocaudal width and total perimeter of obturator foramen - were obtained from 55 bovine hemicoxae. Different algorithms for determining OFA were then produced with a regression analysis (curve fitting) and statistical analysis software. The most simple equation was OFA ($mm^2$) = [3,150.538 + ($36.111^*CW$)] - [147,856.033/DH] (where CW = craneocaudal width and DH = dorsoventral height, both in mm), representing a good nonlinear model with a standard deviation of error for the estimate of 232.44 and a coefficient of multiple determination of 0.846. This formula may be helpful as a repeatable and easily performed estimation of the obturator foramen area in young bovines. The area of the obturator foramen magnum can thus be estimated using this regression formula.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07c
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• pp.2899-2902
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• 2003

Mobile communication is one of the fastest growing industries in the world and especially in Korea, where we have well over 30 million voice subscribers. Mobile communication now offers variety of data communication services such as wireless internet, multimedia messages, and color graphic displays. Handsets also have grown to accommodate such services, thus with functionalities such as programmable virtual machines that users can download and execute their own programs. In this paper, we have demonstrated a PCS handset monitoring system which can monitor biometry signals - in this case ECG over wireless internet and wireless data network (IS95C) based on programmable virtual machine architecture. The remote client handset receives data signals from a centralized server and processes and displays them in human friendly form in real time. Since every single handset on sales in Korea has programmable virtual machine and more than 10 million handsets are in distribution already, proper applications may have substantial impact on the related fields.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.11a
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• pp.172-174
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 사용자가 자신의 움직임 및 심장 박동 상태를 모니터링 하기 위한 생체 인터넷 (Internet of Biometry: IoB) 기반의 HW/SW (hardware/software) 플랫폼 (platform)을 제안한다. 제안하는 시스템은 모션 센서 (motion sensor) 또는 심박 (heart rate) 센서와 같이 사용자의 생체 정보를 수집할 수 있는 센서를 사용한다. 또한, 마이크로프로세서 (microprocessor)를 사용하여 센서로부터 수집된 데이터를 사용자에게 필요한 생체 정보로 변환하고, 블루투스 (Bluetooth) 통신을 이용하여 사용자의 스마트폰 앱 (smartphone application)으로 변환한 생체 정보를 전달한다. 스마트폰 앱은 수신한 생체 정보를 디스플레이 (display)함으로써, 사용자가 자신의 상태를 모니터링 (monitoring) 할 수 있다. 제안한 시스템을 사용하여 해양 레포츠 (leisure sports) 등과 같은 활동을 하는 사람들이 자신의 몸 상태를 스스로 확인할 수 있고, 사고 예방의 효과를 얻을 수 있다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.398-405
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• 2017

In this paper, an artificial stereo extension method that creates stereophonic sound from a mono sound source is proposed. The proposed method first trains deep neural networks (DNNs) that model the nonlinear relationship between the dominant and residual signals of the stereo channel. In the training stage, the band-wise log spectral magnitude and unwrapped phase of both the dominant and residual signals are utilized to model the nonlinearities of each sub-band through deep architecture. From that point, stereo extension is conducted by estimating the residual signal that corresponds to the input mono channel signal with the trained DNN model in a sub-band domain. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated using a log spectral distortion (LSD) measure and multiple stimuli with a hidden reference and anchor (MUSHRA) test. The results showed that the proposed method provided a lower LSD and higher MUSHRA score than conventional methods that use hidden Markov models and DNN with full-band processing.