• Advances in nano research
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.33-49
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• 2024

Using the mechanical treatments for mechanical properties improvement was rarely in the development scope before. This research approves through analytical ways that surface impacts can improve the quality of the surface significantly. This fact is approved for deposited titanium on silicone substrate. The new algorithm called minimum resultant error method (MREM) which is a direct combination of nanoindentation, FEM and dimensional analysis through a reverse method is utilized to extract the mechanical characteristics of the coating surface before and after impact. This method is extended to the time dependent behavior of the material to obtain strain rate coefficient. To implement this new approach, a new analysis technic is developed to define the residual stress field caused by surface impact as initial condition for nanoindentation. Analyzing the model in micro and macro scale at the same time was one of the main resolved challenges in this study. The result was obtaining of the constants of Johnson-Cook constitutive equation. Comparing the characteristics of the coating surface before and after impact shows high improvement in yield stress (34%), Elastic modulus (7.75%) and strain hardening coefficient (2.8%). The main achievement is that the strength improvement in titanium thin layer is much higher than bulk titanium. The yield strength shows 41.7% improvement for coated titanium comparing with 24% for bulk material. The rate of enhancement is about 6 times when it comes to the Young's modulus.

• Clinical and Experimental Vaccine Research
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.132-145
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• 2024

Purpose: Enterovirus 71, a pathogen that causes hand-foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is currently regarded as an increasing neurotropic virus in Asia and can cause severe complications in pediatric patients with blister-like sores or rashes on the hand, feet, and mouth. Notwithstanding the significant burden of the disease, no authorized vaccine is available. Previously identified attenuated and inactivated vaccines are worthless over time owing to changes in the viral genome. Materials and Methods: A novel vaccine construct using B-cell derived T-cell epitopes from the virulent polyprotein found the induction of possible immune response. In order to boost the immune system, a beta-defensin 1 preproprotein adjuvant with EAAAK linker was added at the N-terminal end of the vaccine sequence. Results: The immunogenicity of the designed, refined, and verified prospective three-dimensional-structure of the multi-epitope vaccine was found to be quite high, exhibiting non-allergenic and antigenic properties. The vaccine candidates bound to toll-like receptor 3 in a molecular docking analysis, and the efficacy of the potential vaccine to generate a strong immune response was assessed through in silico immunological simulation. Conclusion: Computational analysis has shown that the proposed multi-epitope vaccine is possibly safe for use in humans and can elicit an immune response.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.229-235
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• 2024

최근 몇 년 동안 인공지능과 기계 학습 분야에서 대량의 데이터를 효율적으로 처리하고 해석하는 방법에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 이러한 데이터 처리 기술 중 하나인 벡터 기호 아키텍처(Vector Symbolic Architecture, VSA)는 고차원 벡터를 이용하여 복잡한 기호와 데이터를 표현하는 혁신적인 접근법을 제시한다. VSA는 특히 자연어 처리, 이미지 인식, 로봇 공학 등 다양한 응용 분야에서 주목받고 있다. 본 연구는 VSA 방법론들의 특성과 성능을 정량적으로 평가하기 MNIST 데이터셋에 5가지 VSA 방법론을 적용하여 인코딩 속도, 디코딩 속도, 메모리 사용량, 복원 정확도와 같은 주요 성능 지표를 벡터 길이별로 측정하였다. 인코딩 속도와 디코딩 속도에서 BSC와 VT가 상대적으로 빠른 성능을 보였으며, MAP과 HRR은 상대적으로 느렸다. 메모리 사용량에서는 BSC가 가장 효율적이었고, MAP이 가장 많은 메모리를 사용하였다. 복원 정확도는 MAP이 가장 높았으며, BSC가 가장 낮았으며 연구 결과는 적용 영역에 따라 적절한 VSA 방법론을 선택할 수 있는 기준을 제시할 수 있다.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.127-134
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• 2008

울진원전 3,4 호기의 가상적 중대사고로 인한 종합적인 경제적 리스크를 평가하였다. 이 연구의 목적을 위해 방사능 구름이 내륙을 향하는 것으로 가정하였다. 평가과정에서 불확실한 인자의 정량화에는 전문가 판단 및 의견도출에 유용한 것으로 알려진 델파이 기법을 이용하였다. 종합적인 경제적 리스크는 직접영향 비용과 간접영향 비용으로 구분되므로, 먼저 직접영향에 대한 비용을 평가하고, 예측된 가중치들 이용하여 직접영향 대비 간접영향 비용을 평가하였다. 행동학적 접근방법인 델파이 문제점을 보완하기 위해 수학적 접근방법인 베이지안 기법을 자료처리 과정으로 하는 모형을 적용하여 간접영향에 대한 경제적 충격량을 예측하였다. 1D 몬테칼로분석(MCA)으로 평가한 간접피해에 대한 가중치는 평균 2.59, 중앙값 2.08로 OECD/NEA에서 제시하는 가중치 1.25보다 높게 나타났다. 작은 국토나 방사선에 민감한 대중 성향과 같은 인지들이 패널의 판단에 영향을 미쳤을 수 있다. 직접피해 평가모델의 모수를 U형과 V형으로 구분하고 2D MCA를 사용한 종합적 경제적 리스크는 중앙값의 50%ile을 기준으로 2006년 국내총생산의 3.9%에 해당되었으며, 직접피해 영향이 가장 큰 자산 및 전력손실 비용을 제외하면 총 경제적 리스크는 국내총생산의 2.2% 수준이었다. 이 결과는 원전 비상계획과 대응태세 준비에 대한 투자 정당화에 참조 자료로 이용될 수 있다.

• 한국지리정보학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.61-74
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• 2016

본 연구에서는 LANDSAT 8호, KOMPSAT 2호 위성영상과 1/25,000 수치지형도를 기반으로 작성된 음영기복도를 이용하여 2007년 1월 20일 오대산 지역에서 발생한 약 4.8의 중규모 지진과 선구조선의 관계를 분석하였다. 대부분의 선행연구는 지체구조와 관련된 선구조선 분석 연구를 하였으며, 주로 2차원의 위성영상과 음영기복도를 활용하였기에 지형의 기복 등에 대한 판독이 어려워 선구조선 추출이 제한적이었다. 본 연구에서는 이를 보완하기 위해 수치표고모델(Digital Elevation Model; DEM)을 기반으로 작성한 3차원 입체 영상과 수계망 분석을 통해 지형의 기복, 수계의 연결성 등을 판독해 선구조선을 추출하여, 2차원 영상에서 나타나는 시각적인 판독에 의한 오류를 최소화한 선구조선 판독도를 작성하였다. 또한 진앙에 대한 선구조선의 통계 요소별 밀도를 추정하기 위해 spline 내삽법을 이용하여 선구조선의 빈도, 교차점, 길이에 대한 밀도를 계산하였다. 그리고 진앙에서의 선구조선 밀도가 얼마나 밀집되어 있는지 정량적으로 표현하기 위하여 각 격자 내의 선구조선 밀도에 대해 최대 선구조선 밀도로 나누는 상대밀도 값(Value of the Relative Density; VRD)을 계산하는 알고리즘을 개발하여 밀도도(density map)를 작성하였다. 각 영상의 진앙에서의 VRD는 최소 약 0.60에서 최대 약 0.90으로 나타났지만, 각 영상별 광원의 고도각과 방위각이 차이가 있어 영상별 VRD보다 통계 요소별 VRD의 평균치를 사용하였다. 그 결과, 빈도의 평균 VRD는 약 0.85로 교차점과 길이의 평균 VRD보다 약 21% 높게 나타나, 선구조선의 빈도 요소가 진앙의 위치와의 관계가 가장 밀접함을 확인하였다. 이와 같이 3차원 영상의 선구조선 추출을 통한 밀도 분석 기술은 향후 지진 발생 가능 지역 분석에 기초자료로써의 의미가 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국입자에어로졸학회지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.153-169
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• 2018

기존 대기 에어로졸에서의 유기성분 분석은 분석 기기로 파악한 피크 가운데 동정 가능한 성분 개수에 제한이 있었다. 이 문제를 극복하는 방법의 하나로 2DGC를 활용하여 보다 많은 성분을 동정하고, 이들 성분들의 특성 파악을 용이하게 하기 위해 검출된 피크들을 휘발도에 따라 3개, 극성도에 따라 2개로 분리하여 총 6개의 그룹으로 구분하고, 각 그룹의 피크를 정성/정성 분석하여 화학 특성에 따른 클래스로 구분하는 방법론을 제시하였다. 제시한 방법론을 서울에서 2013년 여름과 2014년 겨울에 측정한 대기 에어로졸의 유기 성분을 2DGC로 분석한 결과에 적용하여 특성 파악 연구를 수행하였다. 정성/정량 분석 결과 유기 성분을 8개의 클래스로 구분할 수 있었다. 이 성분들은 계절별 유사성과 차별성을 보여주었다. 한 예로 고극성-휘발성유기화합물(HP-VOC)의 정성분석 결과 여름에는 furanone 성분이 대부분이었으나, 겨울에는 furanone 성분이 검출되지 않았다. 저극성 반휘발성유기화합물(LP-SVOC)의 정성적 특징은 VOC와 OVOC가 대부분을 차지하고 있는 것이었으며 OVOC가 VOC보다 더 많은 종류로 검출되었다. 그러나 상대적 정량분석에서는 반대로 OVOC보다 VOC가 두 배 더 많은 양을 차지하고 있었다. 즉 LP-SVOC에서 OVOC는 더 다양한 종류가 발견되나 정량적으로 봤을 때는 VOC가 대부분을 차지하고 있다고 할 수 있다. 이러한 분석 결과는 보다 다양한 성분의 유기성분 분석과 함께 정성/정량 분석의 통합적 활용이 필요함을 보여주고 있다. 이 연구에서 2DGC 시스템 결과를 6개의 그룹으로 구분하여 미지 성분 피크를 그 그룹의 특성을 가진 것으로 정성/정량 분석하여 어느 정도 결과를 도출하였다. 그러나 각 그룹의 경계에 있는 성분들이 비슷한 특성을 갖는 경우가 나타났고, 정량 분석에는 아직도 미흡한 부분이 있는 제한점을 보였다. 이 부분에 대한 보다 심도 깊은 연구가 필요하다. 또한 2DGC 시스템은 단일 GC 시스템보다 검출 한도가 높은 제한점을 가지고 있으며, 정량이 아직 확실하지 않은 단점이 있다. 이들 문제점을 해결하기 위해서는 분석 시스템 자체에 대한 심도 깊은 연구가 필요하다.

• 헤리티지:역사와 과학
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• 제39권
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• pp.351-378
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• 2006

매체의 발달과 함께 무형문화재에 대한 기록도 여러 가지 방법으로 시도되고 있는데, 과거에는 문자 기록에만 의존하던 것에서 최근에는 사진, 음원 및 영상 등을 많이 활용하게 되었고, 그 방식에 있어서도 아날로그 방식에서 디지털 방식으로 이행하고 있는 추세이다. 이러한 변화의 과정에서 모션캡쳐를 이용한 무형문화재의 기록은 3차원적 기록을 필요로 하는 무용종목 등에서 주목을 받고 있다. 모션캡쳐란 움직이는 물체에 공간상의 위치를 표시하는 센서를 부탁시키고 시간의 흐름에 따라 센서의 위치를 컴퓨터의 좌표공간에 치환하여 기록하는 시스템으로, 모션캡쳐를 이용한 무형문화재의 기록은 형체가 없이 사람의 기예에 의해서 전승되고 있는 무형문화재의 신체적 표현을 디지털화 된 데이터로 나타내줌으써 무형문화재의 보존을 위한 과학적 자료를 제공해 준다. 국립문화재연구소는 멀티미디어 및 디지털 시대에 대응하기 위해 무형문화재에 대한 새로운 기록방안 개발을 목적으로 영화 및 게임 등의 CG제작 현장에서 널리 사용되고 있는 모션캡쳐(Motion Capture) 장비를 이용하여 국가지정의 중요무형문화재에 대한 기록 작업을 실시하고 있다. 본 사업은 복권기금을 사용하여 2005년부터 2007년까지 3개년에 걸쳐서 국가지정의 중요무형문화재 중 신체적 동작이 중요하게 표현되고 있는 무용 7개 종목 11건의 모션캡쳐 작업을 실시할 예정이다. 이미 1차 년도인 2005년에는 승무, 살풀이춤, 태평무 등 기술적 난이도가 낮은 독무(獨舞)를 중심으로 데이터 축적작업을 실시하였고, 2차 년도인 2006년에는 진주검무, 승전무, 처용무 등 군무(群舞)의 데이터를 축적할 예정이며, 3차 년도인 2007년에는 학연화대합설무의 데이터 축적과 함께 축적된 데이터를 이용한 무형문화재의 비교 분석 및 전승을 위한 교육용 프로그램과 대국민 서비스를 위한 3차원 콘텐츠 등을 개발할 계획이다. 본 보고서에서는 사업 초년도인 2005년도에 실시된 보유자 이매방, 이애주, 정재만의 승무, 이매방의 살풀이춤, 강선영의 태평무 등의 모션캡쳐 작업에 대하여 기술하고 있다. 이를 통하여 무형문화재에 대한 새로운 기록 방안을 모색하기 위한 시도를 소개하려고 한다. 이번 사업에서는 기술적으로 다음과 같은 두 가지 문제가 제기되었다. 첫 번째, 장시간(20~30분 가량)의 보유자의 춤을 끊김 없이 모션캡쳐 받을 수 있는가라는 문제였다. 수 차례의 사전 모의테스트를 통해 사업수행 적합성 판단을 마쳤고, 결국 사업수행을 무사히 마칠 수 있었다. 두 번째, 리타겟팅(RE-Targeting)이 없이 정확한 모션캡쳐 동작을 가공해 낼 수 있는가라는 문제였다. 모션캡쳐 데이터에서 국내 최초로 보유자의 골격구조 역추출 방식을 도입하여 최대한 정확한 보유자의 춤 동작을 구현해낼 수 있었다. 이번 작업에서는 이매방, 이애주, 정재만, 강선영 네 보유자의 전신 삼차원 스캔을 통해 정확한 삼차원 신체 모델링을 얻었고, 보유자 본인의 춤사위 동작을 그대로 모션캡쳐에 적용함으로써 최대한 정확도를 유도할 수 있었다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.81-99
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• 2010

Lately, in consumers' markets the number of new items is rapidly increasing at an overwhelming rate while consumers have limited access to information about those new products in making a sensible, well-informed purchase. Therefore, item providers and customers need a system which recommends right items to right customers. Also, whenever new items are released, for instance, the recommender system specializing in new items can help item providers locate and identify potential customers. Currently, new items are being added to an existing system without being specially noted to consumers, making it difficult for consumers to identify and evaluate new products introduced in the markets. Most of previous approaches for recommender systems have to rely on the usage history of customers. For new items, this content-based (CB) approach is simply not available for the system to recommend those new items to potential consumers. Although collaborative filtering (CF) approach is not directly applicable to solve the new item problem, it would be a good idea to use the basic principle of CF which identifies similar customers, i,e. neighbors, and recommend items to those customers who have liked the similar items in the past. This research aims to suggest a hybrid recommendation procedure based on the preference boundary of target customer. We suggest the hybrid recommendation procedure using the preference boundary in the feature space for recommending new items only. The basic principle is that if a new item belongs within the preference boundary of a target customer, then it is evaluated to be preferred by the customer. Customers' preferences and characteristics of items including new items are represented in a feature space, and the scope or boundary of the target customer's preference is extended to those of neighbors'. The new item recommendation procedure consists of three steps. The first step is analyzing the profile of items, which are represented as k-dimensional feature values. The second step is to determine the representative point of the target customer's preference boundary, the centroid, based on a personal information set. To determine the centroid of preference boundary of a target customer, three algorithms are developed in this research: one is using the centroid of a target customer only (TC), the other is using centroid of a (dummy) big target customer that is composed of a target customer and his/her neighbors (BC), and another is using centroids of a target customer and his/her neighbors (NC). The third step is to determine the range of the preference boundary, the radius. The suggested algorithm Is using the average distance (AD) between the centroid and all purchased items. We test whether the CF-based approach to determine the centroid of the preference boundary improves the recommendation quality or not. For this purpose, we develop two hybrid algorithms, BC and NC, which use neighbors when deciding centroid of the preference boundary. To test the validity of hybrid algorithms, BC and NC, we developed CB-algorithm, TC, which uses target customers only. We measured effectiveness scores of suggested algorithms and compared them through a series of experiments with a set of real mobile image transaction data. We spilt the period between 1st June 2004 and 31st July and the period between 1st August and 31st August 2004 as a training set and a test set, respectively. The training set Is used to make the preference boundary, and the test set is used to evaluate the performance of the suggested hybrid recommendation procedure. The main aim of this research Is to compare the hybrid recommendation algorithm with the CB algorithm. To evaluate the performance of each algorithm, we compare the purchased new item list in test period with the recommended item list which is recommended by suggested algorithms. So we employ the evaluation metric to hit the ratio for evaluating our algorithms. The hit ratio is defined as the ratio of the hit set size to the recommended set size. The hit set size means the number of success of recommendations in our experiment, and the test set size means the number of purchased items during the test period. Experimental test result shows the hit ratio of BC and NC is bigger than that of TC. This means using neighbors Is more effective to recommend new items. That is hybrid algorithm using CF is more effective when recommending to consumers new items than the algorithm using only CB. The reason of the smaller hit ratio of BC than that of NC is that BC is defined as a dummy or virtual customer who purchased all items of target customers' and neighbors'. That is centroid of BC often shifts from that of TC, so it tends to reflect skewed characters of target customer. So the recommendation algorithm using NC shows the best hit ratio, because NC has sufficient information about target customers and their neighbors without damaging the information about the target customers.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제26권
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• pp.465-485
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• 2012

Instructing "History of Spanish Literature" class faces various types of limits and obstacles, just as other foreign language literature history classes do. Majority of students enter the university without having any previous spanish learning experience, which means, for them, even the interpretation of the text itself can be difficult. Moreover, the fact that "History of Spanish Literature" is traced all the way back to the Middle Age, students encounter even more difficulties and find factors that make them feel the class is not interesting. To list several, such factors include the embarrassment felt by the students, antiquated expressions, literature texts filled with deliberately broken grammars, explanations written in pretentious vocabularies, disorderly introduction of many different literary works that ignores the big picture, in which in return, reduces academic interest in students, and finally general lack of interest in literate itself due to the fact that the following generation is used to visual media. Although recognizing such problem that causes the distortion of the value of our lives and literature is a very imminent problem, there has not even been a primary discussion on such matter. Thus, the problem of what to teach in "History of Spanish Literature" class remains unsolved so far. Such problem includes wether to teach the history of authors and literature works, or the chronology of the text, the correlations, and what style of writing to teach first among many, and how to teach to read with criticism, and how to effectively utilize the limited class time to teach. However, unfortunately, there has not been any sorts of discussion among the insructors. I, as well, am not so proud of myself either when I question myself of how little and insufficiently did I contemplate about such problems. Living in the era so called the visual media era or the crisis of humanity studies, now there is a strong need to bring some change in the education of literature history. To suggest a solution to make such necessary change, I recommended to incorporate the visual media, the culture or custom that students are accustomed to, to the class. This solution is not only an attempt to introduce various fields to students, superseding the mere literature reserch area, but also the result that reflects the voice of students who come from a different cultural background and generation. Thus, what not to forget is that the bottom line of adopting a new teaching method is to increase the class participation of students and broaden the horizon of the Spanish literature. However, the ultimate goal of "History of Spanish Literature" class is the contemplation about humanity, not the progress in linguistic ability. Similarly, the ultimate goal of university education is to train students to become a successful member of the society. To achieve such goal, cultural approach to the literature text helps not only Spanish learning but also pragmatic education. Moreover, it helps to go beyond of what a mere functional person does. However, despite such optimistic expectations, foreign literature class has to face limits of eclecticism. As for the solution, as mentioned above, the method of teaching that mainly incorporates cultural text is a approach that fulfills the students with sensibility who live in the visual era. Second, it is a three-dimensional and sensible approach for the visual era, not an annotation that searches for any ambiguous vocabularies or metaphors. Third, it is the method that reduces the burdensome amount of reading. Fourth, it triggers interest in students including philosophical, sociocultural, and political ones. Such experience is expected to stimulate the intellectual curiosity in students and moreover motivates them to continues their study in graduate school, because it itself can be an interesting area of study.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.1-8
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• 1985

The wall shear stress in the vicinity of end-to end anastomoses under steady flow conditions was measured using a flush-mounted hot-film anemometer(FMHFA) probe. The experimental measurements were in good agreement with numerical results except in flow with low Reynolds numbers. The wall shear stress increased proximal to the anastomosis in flow from the Penrose tubing (simulating an artery) to the PTFE: graft. In flow from the PTFE graft to the Penrose tubing, low wall shear stress was observed distal to the anastomosis. Abnormal distributions of wall shear stress in the vicinity of the anastomosis, resulting from the compliance mismatch between the graft and the host artery, might be an important factor of ANFH formation and the graft failure. The present study suggests a correlation between regions of the low wall shear stress and the development of anastomotic neointimal fibrous hyperplasia(ANPH) in end-to-end anastomoses. 30523 T00401030523 ^x Air pressure decay(APD) rate and ultrafiltration rate(UFR) tests were performed on new and saline rinsed dialyzers as well as those roused in patients several times. C-DAK 4000 (Cordis Dow) and CF IS-11 (Baxter Travenol) reused dialyzers obtained from the dialysis clinic were used in the present study. The new dialyzers exhibited a relatively flat APD, whereas saline rinsed and reused dialyzers showed considerable amount of decay. C-DAH dialyzers had a larger APD(11.70$\pm$1.32mmHg/min)compared to CF dialyzers(4.32$\pm$0.55mmHg/min)(p<0.05). However, there was no observable difference in the UFR between the two dialyzers. Neither APD nor UFR showed any significant increase with an increasing number of reuses for up to more than 20reuses. A substantial number of failures observed in APD(larger than 20mmHe/min)on the reused dialyzers(2 out of 40 CP and S out 26 C-DAK) were attributed to the Possible damage on the fibers. The CF 15-11 HFDs which failed APD test did not show changes in the UFR compared to normal dialyzers indicating that APD is a more sensitive test than UFR test to evaluate the integrity of the fibers. 30527 T00401030527 ^x For quantitative measurement of reflected light from a clinical diagnostic strip, a prototype old reflectance photometer was designed. The strip loader and cassette were made to obtain more accurate reflectance parameters. The strip was illuminated at 45˚c through optical fiber and the intensity of reflected light was determined at rectanguLat angle using a photodiode. The kubelka-munk coefficient and reflection optical density were determined ar four different wavelengths(500, 550, 570 and 610nm) for blood glucose strip. For higher concentration than 300mg/41 about glucose, a saturation state of abforbance was observed at 500, 550 and 570nm. The correlation between glucose concentration and parameters was the best at 610nm. 30535 T00401030535 ^x Radiation-induced fibrosarcoma tumors were grown on the flanks of C3H mice. The mice were divided into two groups. One group was injected with Photofrin II, intravenously (2.5mg/kg body weight). The other group received no Photofrin II. Mice from both groups were irradialed for approximately 15 minutes at 100, 300, or 500 mW/cm2 with the argon (488nm/514.5 nm), dye(628nm) and gold vapor (pulsed 628 nm) laser light. A photosensitizer behaved as an added absorber. Under our experimental conditions, the presence of Photolfrin II increased surface temperature by at least 40% and the temperature rise due to 300 mW/cm2 irradiation exceeded values for hyperthermia. Light and temperature distributions with depth were estimated by a computer model. The model demonstrated the influence of wavelength on the thermal process and proved to be a valuable tool to investigate internal temperature rise. 30536 T00401030536 ^x We investigated the structural geometry of thirty-eight Korean femurs. The purpose of this study is to identify major geometrical differences between Korean femurs 3nd others that we believe belong to Caucasians so that we would be able to get insights into the femoral component design that fits Asians including Koreans. We utilized computerized tomography (CT) images of femurs extracted from cadavers. The CT images were transformed into bitmap data by using a film scanner, and then analyzed by using a commercially available software called Image v.1.0 and a Macintosh IIci computer.The resulting data were compared with already published data. The major results show that the geometry of the Korean femurs is significantly different from that of Caucasians: (1) the anteversion angle and the canal flare index are greater by the amount of approximately 8˚ and 0.5, respectively, (2) the shape of the isthmus cross section is more round, and (3) the distance between the teaser trochanter and the proximal border of the isthmus is shelter by about 15 mm. The results suggested that the femoral component suitable for Asians should be different from the currently-used components designed and manufactured mostly by European or American companies. 30537 T00401030537 ^x It is well known that nonlinear propagation characteristics of the wave in the tissue may give very useful information for the medical diagnoisis. In this paper, a new method to detect nonlinear propagation characteristics of the internal vibration in the tissue for the low frequency mechanical vibration by using bispectral analysis is proposed. In the method, low frequency vibration of f0( = 100Hz) is applied on the surface of the object, and the waveform of the internal vibration x (t) is measured from Doppler frequency modulation of silmultaneously transmitted probing ultrasonic waves. Then, the bispectra of the signal x (t) at the frequencies (f0, f0) and (f0, 2f0) are calculated to estimate the nonlinear propagation characteristics as their magnitude ratio, w here since bispectrum is free from the gaussian additive noise we can get the value with high S/N. Basic experimental system is constructed by using 3.0 MHz probing ultrasonic waves and the several experiments are carried out for some phantoms. Results show the superiority of the proposed method to the conventional method using power spectrum and also its usefulness for the tissue characterization. 30541 T00401030541 ^x This paper describes the implementation of a computerized radial pulse diagnosis by aids of a clinical expert. On this base, we composed of the radial pulse diagnosis system in korean traditional medicine. The system composed of a radial pulse wave detection system and a radial pulse diagnosis system. With a detection system, we detected Inyoung and Cheongu radial pulse wave and processed it. Then, we have got the characteristic parameters of radial pulse wave and also quantified that according to the method of Inyoung-Cheongu Comparison Radial Pulse Diagnosis. We defined the jugement standard of radial pulse diagnosis system and then we confirmed the possibility for realization of automatic radial pulse diagnosis in korean traditional medicine. 30545 T00401030545 ^x Microspheres are expected to be applied to biomedical areas such as solid-phase immunoassays, drug delivery systems, immunomagnetic cell separation. To synthesize microspheres for biomedical application, "two stage shot growth method" was developed. The uniformity ratio of synthesized microspheres was always smaller than 1.05. And the surface charge density (or the number of ionizable functional groups) of the microspheres synthesized by "two stage shot growth method" was 6~13 times higher than that of the microspheres synthesized by conventional seeded batch copolymerization. As a previous step for biomedical application, adsorption experiments of bovine albumin on microspheres were carried out under various conditions. The maximum adsorbed amount was obtained in the neighborhood of pH 4.5. Isoelectric point of bovine albumin is pH 5.0, so experimental result shows that it shifted to acid area. The adsorption isotherm was obtained, the plateau region was always reached at 2.Og/L (bulk concentration of bovine albumin).The effect of the kind and the amount of surface functional group was also examined. 30575 T00401030575 ^x A medical image workstation was developed using multimedia technique. The system based on PC-486DX was designed to acquire medical images produced by medical imaging instruments and related audio information, that is, doctors' reporting results. Input information was processed and analyzed, then the results were presented in the form of graph and animation. All the informations of the system were hierarchically related with the image as the apex. Processing and analysis algorithms were implemented so that the diagnostic accuracy could be improved. The diagnosed information can be transferred for patient diagnosis through LAN(local area network). 30592 T00401030592 ^x In the conventional infrared imaging system, complex infrared lens systems are usually used for directing collimated narrow infrared beams into the high speed 2-dimensional optic scanner. In this paper, a simple reflective infrared optic system with a 2-dimensional optic scanner is proposed for the realization of medical infrared thermography system. It has been experimentally proven that the intfrared thermography system composed of the proposed optic system has the temperature resolution of 0.1˚c under the spatial resolution of lmrad, the image matrix size of 256 X 240, and tile imaging time of 4 seconds. 30593 T00401030593 ^x In this paper, MIIS (Medical Image Information System) has been designed and implemented using INGRES RDBMS, which is based on a client/server architecture. The implemented system allows users to register and retrieve patient information, medical images and diagnostic reports. It also provides the function to display these information on workstation windows simultaneously by using the designed menu-driven graphic user interface. The medical image compression/decompression techniques are implemented and integrated into the medical image database system for the efficient data storage and the fast access through the network. 30594 T00401030594 ^x In this paper, computerized BEAM was implemented for the space domain analysis of EEG. Trans-formation from temporal summation to two-dimensional mappings is formed by 4 nearest point inter-polaton method. Methods of representation of BEAM are two. One is dot density method which classify brain electrical potential 9 levels by dot density of gray levels and the other is colour method which classify brain electrical 12 levels by red-green colours. In this BEAM, instantaneous change and average energy distribution over any arbitrary time interval of brain electrical activity could be observed and analyzed easily. In the frequency domain, the distribution of energy spectrum of a special band can easily be distinguished normality and abnormality. 30608 T00401030608 ^x Laboratory information system (LIS) is a key tool to manage laboratory data in clinical pathology. Our department has developed an information system for routine hematology using down-sized computer system. We have used an IBM 486 compatible PC with 16MB main memory, 210 MB hard disk drive, 9 RS-232C port and 24 pin dot printer. The operating system and database management system were SCO UNIX and SCO foxbase, respectively. For program development, we used Xbase language provided by SCO foxbase. The C language was used for interface purpose. To make the system use friendly, pull-down menu was used. The system connected to our hospital information system via application program interface (API), so the information related to patient and request details is automatically transmitted to our computer. Our system interfaced with fwd complete blood count analyzers(Sysmex NE-8000 and Coulter STKS) for unidirectional data tansmission from analyzer to computer. The authors suggests that this system based on down-sized computer could provide a progressive approach to total LIS based on local area network, and the implemented system could serve as a model for other hospital's LIS for routine hematology. 30609 T00401030609 ^x To develop an artificial bone substitute that is gradually degraded and replaced by the regenerated natural bone, the authors designed a composite that is consisted of calcium phosphate and collagen. To use as the structural matrix of the composite, collagen was purified from human umbilical cord. The obtained collagen was treated by pepsin to remove telopeptides, and finally, the immune-free atelocollagen was produced: The cross linked atelocollagen was highly resistant to the collagenase induced collagenolysis. The cross linked collagen demonstrated an improved tensile strength. 30618 T00401030618 ^x This paper is a study on the design of adptive filter for QRS complex detection. We propose a simple adaptive algorithm to increase capability of noise cancelation in QRS complex detection with two stage adaptive filter. At the first stage, background noise is removed and at the next stage, only spectrum of QRS complex components is passed. Two adaptive filters can afford to keep track of the changes of both noise and QRS complex. Each adaptive filter consists of prediction error filter and FIR filter The impulse response of FIR filter uses coefficients of prediction error filter. The detection rates for 105 and 108 of MIT/BIH data base were 99.3% and 97.4% respectively. 30619 T00401030619 ^x To develop an artificial bone substitute that is gradually degraded and replaced by the regenerated natural bone, the authors designed and produced a composite that is consisted of calcium phosphate and collagen. Human umbilical cord origin pepsin treated type I atelocollagen was used as the structural matrix, by which sintered or non-sintered carbonate apatite was encapsulated to form an inorganic-organic composite. With cross linking atelocollagen by UV ray irradiation, the resistance to both compressive and tensile strength was increased. Collagen degradation by the collagenase induced collagenolysis was also decreased. 30620 T00401030620 ^x We have developed a monoleaflet polymer valve as an inexpensive and viable alternative, especially for short-term use in the ventricular assist device or total artificial heart. The frame and leaflet of the polymer valve were made from polyurethane, To evaluate the hemodynamic performance of the polymer valve a comparative study of flow dynamics past a polymer valve and a St. Jude Medical prosthetic valve under physiological pulsatile flow conditions in vitro was made. Comparisons between the valves were made on the transvalvular pressure drop, regurgitation volume and maximum valve opening area. The polymer valve showed smaller regurgitation volume and transvalvular pressure drop compared to the mechanical valve at higher heart rate. The results showed that the functional characteristics of the polymer valve compared favorably with those of the mechanical valve at higher heart rate. 30621 T00401030621 ^x Explosive evaporative removal process of biological tissue by absorption of a CW laser has been simulated by using gelatin and a multimode Nd:YAG laser. Because the point of maximun temperature of laser-irradiated gelatin exists below the surface due to surface cooling, evaporation at the boiling temperature is made explosively from below the surface. The important parameters of this process are the conduction loss to laser power absorption (defined as the conduction-to-laser power parameter, Nk), the convection heat transfer at the surface to conduction loss (defined as Bi), dimensionless extinction coefficient (defined as Br.), and dimensionless irradiation time (defined as Fo). Dependence of Fo on Nk and Bi has been observed by experiment, and the results have been compared with the numerical results obtained by solving a 2-dimensional conduction equation. Fo and explosion depth (from the surface to the point of maximun temperature) are increased when Nk and Bi are increased.To find out the minimum laser power for explosive evaporative removal process, steady state analysis has been also made. The limit of Nk to induce evaporative removal, which is proportional to the inverse of the laser power, has been obtained. 30622 T00401030622 ^x N1 and N2 gross neural action potentials were measured from the round window of the guinea pig cochlea at the onset of the acoustic stimuli. N1-N2 audiograms were made by means of regulating stimulant intensities in order to produce constant N1-N2 potentials as criteria for different input tone pip frequencies. The lowest threshold was measured with an input tone pip I5 dB SPL in intensity and 12 KHz in frequency when the animal was in normal physiological condition. The procedure of experimental measurements is explained in detail. This experimental approach is very useful for the investigation of the Cochlear function. Both noN1inear and active functions of the Cochlea can be monitored by N1-N2 audiograms. 30623 T00401030623 ^x In electrical impedance tomography(EIT), we use boundary current and voltage measurements toprovide the information about the cross-sectional distribution of electrical impedance or resistivity. One of the major problems in EIT has been the inaccessibility of internal voltage or current data in finding the internal impedance values. We propose a new image reconstruction method using internal current density data measured by NMR. We obtained a two-dimensional current density distribution within a phantom by processing the real and imaginary MR images from a 4.77 NMR machine. We implemented a resistivity mage reconstruction algorithm using the finite element method and sensitivity matrix. We presented computer simulation results of the mage reconstruction algorithm and furture direction of the research. 30624 T00401030624 ^x A new method of digital image analysis technique for discrimination of cancer cell was presented in this paper. The object image was the Thyroid eland cells image that was diagnosed as normal and abnormal (two types of abnormal: follicular neoplastic cell, and papillary neoplastic cell), respectively. By using the proposed region segmentation algorithm, the cells were segmented into nucleus. The 16 feature parameters were used to calculate the features of each nucleus. A9 a consequence of using dominant feature parameters method proposed in this paper, discrimination rate of 91.11% was obtained for Thyroid Gland cells. 30625 T00401030625 ^x An electrical stimulator was designed to induce locomotion for paraplegic patients caused by central nervous system injury. Optimal stimulus parameters, which can minimize muscle fatigue and can achieve effective muscle contraction were determined in slow and fast muscles in Sprague-Dawley rats. Stimulus patterns of our stimulator were designed to simulate electromyographic activity monitored during locomotion of normal subjects. Muscle types of the lower extremity were classified according to their mechanical property of contraction, which are slow muscle (msoleus m.) and fast muscle (medial gastrocneminus m., rectus femoris m., vastus lateralis m.). Optimal parameters of electrical stimulation for slow muscles were 20 Hz, 0.2 ms square pulse. For fast muscle, 40 Hz, 0.3 ms square pulse was optimal to produce repeated contraction. Higher stimulus intensity was required when synergistic muscles were stimulated simultaneously than when they were stimulated individually. Electrical stimulation for each muscle was designed to generate bipedal locomotion, so that individual muscles alternate contraction and relaxation to simulate stance and swing phases. Portable electrical stimulator with 16 channels built in microprocessor was constructed and applied to paraplegic patients due to lumbar cord injury. The electrical stimulator restored partially gait function in paraplegic patients. 30626 T00401030626 ^x Two-Dimensional modelling of the Cochlear biomechanics is presented in this paper. The Laplace partial differential equation which represents the fluid mechanics of the Cochlea has been transformed into two-dimensional electrical transmission line. The procedure of this transformation is explained in detail. The comparison between one and two dimensional models is also presented. This electrical modelling of the basilar membrane (BM) is clearly useful for the next approach to the further. Development of active elements which are essential in the producing of the sharp tuning of the BM. This paper shows that two-dimension model is qualitatively better than one-dimensional model both in amplitude and phase responses of the BM displacement. The present model is only for frequency response. However because the model is electrical, the two-dimensional transmission line model can be extended to time response without any difficult. 30627 T00401030627 ^x A method has been proposed for the fully automatic detection of left ventricular endocardial boundary in 2D short axis echocardiogram using geometric model. The procedure has the following three distinct stages. First, the initial center is estimated by the initial center estimation algorithm which is applied to decimated image. Second, the center estimation algorithm is applied to original image and then best-fit elliptic model estimation is processed. Third, best-fit boundary is detected by the cost function which is based on the best-fit elliptic model. The proposed method shows effective result without manual intervention by a human operator. 30628 T00401030628 ^x The intelligent trajectory control method that controls moving direction and average velocity for a prosthetic arm is proposed by pattern recognition and force estimations using EMG signals. Also, we propose the real time trajectory planning method which generates continuous accelleration paths using 3 stage linear filters to minimize the impact to human body induced by arm motions and to reduce the muscle fatigue. We use combination of MLP and fuzzy filter for pattern recognition to estimate the direction of a muscle and Hogan's method for the force estimation. EMG signals are acquired by using a amputation simulator and 2 dimensional joystick motion. The simulation results of proposed prosthetic arm control system using the EMf signals show that the arm is effectively followed the desired trajectory depended on estimated force and direction of muscle movements. 30638 T00401030638 ^x A new neural network architecture for the recognition of patterns from images is proposed, which is partially based on the results of physiological studies. The proposed network is composed of multi-layers and the nerve cells in each layer are connected by spatial filters which approximate receptive fields in optic nerve fields. In the proposed method, patterns recognition for complicated images is carried out using global features as well as local features such as lines and end-points. A new generating method of matched filers representing global features is proposed in this network. 30659 T00401030659 ^x An implementation scheme of the magnetic nerve stimulator using a switching mode power supply is proposed. By using a switching mode power supply rather than a conventional linear power supply for charging high voltage capacitors, the weight and size of the magnetic nerve stimulator can be considerably reduced. Maximum output voltage of the developed magnetic nerve stimulator using the switching mode power supply is 3, 000 volts and switching time is about 100 msec. Experimental results or human nerve stimulations using the developed stimulator are presented. 30768 T00401030768 ^x In this paper, we describe the design methodology and specifications of the developed module-based bedside monitors for patient monitoring. The bedside monitor consists of a main unit and module cases with various parameter modules. The main unit includes a 12.1" TFT color LCD, a main CPU board, and peripherals such as a module controller, Ethernet LAN card, video card, rotate/push button controller, etc. The main unit can connect at maximum three module cases each of which can accommodate up to 7 parameter modules. They include the modules for electrocardiograph, respiration, invasive blood pressure, noninvasive blood pressure, temperature, and SpO2 with Plethysmograph.SpO2 with Plethysmograph.