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Asan Medical Center Laboratory Information System (R) Information Communication System for Routine Hematology Using a Down-Sized Computer - (서울중앙병원 임상병리과 정보관리시스템(III))

  • 민원기;최윤미
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.333-340
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    • 1994
  • 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 16 MB 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 two complete blood count analyzers (Sysmex WE-8000 and Coulter STKS) for unidirectional data transmission 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.

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Simple Digital EEG System Utilizing Analog EEG Machine (아날로그 뇌파기를 응용한 간단한 디지털 뇌파 시스템)

  • Jung, Ki-Young;Kim, Jae-Moon;Jung, Man-Jae
    • Annals of Clinical Neurophysiology
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.8-12
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    • 2000
  • Purpose : The rapid development and wide popularity of Digital EEG(DEEG) is due to its convenience, accuracy and applicability for quantitative analysis. These advantages of DEEG make one hesitate to use analog EEG(AEEG). To assess the advantage of DEEG system utilizing AEEG(DAEEG) over conventional AEEG and the clinical applicability, a DAEEG system was developed and applied to animal model Methods : Sprague-Dawley rat as status epilepticus model were used for collecting the EEG data. After four epidural electrodes were inserted and connected to 8-channel analog EEG(Nihon-Kohden, Japan), continous. EEG monitoring via computer screen was done from two rats simultaneously. EEG signals through analog amplifier and filters were digitized at digital signal processor and stored in Windows-based pentium personal computer. Digital data were sampled at a rate of 200 Hz and 12 bit of resolution. Acquisition software was able to carry out 'real-time view, sensitivity control and event marking' during continuous EEG monitoring. Digital data were stored on hard disk and hacked-up on CD-ROM for off-line review. Review system consisted of off-line review, saving and printing out interesting segment and annotation function. Results: This DAEEG system could utilize most major functions of DEEG sufficiently while making a use of an AEEG. It was easy to monitor continuously compared to Conventional AEEG and to control sensitivity during ictal period. Marking the event such as a clinical seizure or drug injection was less favorable than AEEG due to slowed processing speed of digital processor and central processing unit. Reviewing EEG data was convenient, but paging speed was slow. Storage and management of data was handy and economical. Conclusion : Relatively simple digital EEG system utilizing AEEG can be set-up at n laboratory level. It may be possible to make an application for clinical purposes.

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Efficient Page Allocation Method Considering Update Pattern in NAND Flash Memory (NAND 플래시 메모리에서 업데이트 패턴을 고려한 효율적인 페이지 할당 기법)

  • Kim, Hui-Tae;Han, Dong-Yun;Kim, Kyong-Sok
    • Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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    • v.37 no.5
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    • pp.272-284
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    • 2010
  • Flash Memory differs from the hard disk, because it cannot be overwritten. Most of the flash memory file systems use not-in-place update mechanisms for the update. Flash memory file systems execute sometimes block cleaning process in order to make writable space while performing not-in-place update process. Block cleaning process collects the invalid pages and convert them into the free pages. Block cleaning process is a factor that affects directly on the performance of the flash memory. Thus this paper suggests the efficient page allocation method, which reduces block cleaning cost by minimizing the numbers of block that has valid and invalid pages at a time. The result of the simulation shows an increase in efficiency by reducing more block cleaning costs than the original YAFFS.

Evaluation of Machining Characteristics and Performance Analysis of Air-Lubricated Dynamic Bearing (공기동압베어링의 성능 해석 및 가공특성 평가)

  • Baek, Seung-Yub;Kim, Kwang-Lae
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.12 no.12
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    • pp.5412-5419
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    • 2011
  • The need is growing for high-speed spindle because various equipment are becoming more precise, miniaturization and high speed with the development of industries. Air-lubricated dynamic bearings are widely used in the optical lithographic manufacturing of wafers to realize nearly zero friction for the motion of the stage. Air-lubricated dynamic bearing can be used in high-speed, high-precision spindle system and hard disk drive(HDD) because of its advantages such as low frictional loss, low heat generation, averaging effect leading better running accuracy. In the paper, numerical analysis is undertaken to calculate the performance of air-lubricated dynamic bearing with herringbone groove. The static performances of herringbone groove bearings which can be used to support the thrust load are calculated. Electrochemical micro machining($EC{\mu}M$) which is non-contact ultra precision machining method has been developed to fabricate the air-lubricated dynamic bearing and optimum parameters which are inter electrode gap size, concentration of electrolyte, machining time are simulated using numerical analysis program.

Search Performance Improvement of Column-oriented Flash Storages using Segmented Compression Index (분할된 압축 인덱스를 이용한 컬럼-지향 플래시 스토리지의 검색 성능 개선)

  • Byun, Siwoo
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.393-401
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    • 2013
  • Most traditional databases exploit record-oriented storage model where the attributes of a record are placed contiguously in hard disk to achieve high performance writes. However, for search-mostly datawarehouse systems, column-oriented storage has become a proper model because of its superior read performance. Today, flash memory is largely recognized as the preferred storage media for high-speed database systems. In this paper, we introduce fast column-oriented database model and then propose a new column-aware index management scheme for the high-speed column-oriented datawarehouse system. Our index management scheme which is based on enhanced $B^+$-Tree achieves high search performance by embedded flash index and unused space compression in internal and leaf nodes. Based on the results of the performance evaluation, we conclude that our index management scheme outperforms the traditional scheme in the respect of the search throughput and response time.

Effect of Node Size on the Performance of the B+-tree on Flash Memory (플래시 메모리 상에서 B+-트리 노드 크기 증가에 따른 성능 평가)

  • Park, Dong-Joo;Choi, Hae-Gi
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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    • v.15A no.6
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    • pp.325-334
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    • 2008
  • Flash memory is widely used as a storage medium for mobile devices such as cell phones, MP3 players, PDA's due to its tiny size, low power consumption and shock resistant characteristics. Additionally, some computer manufacturers try to replace hard-disk drives used in Laptops or personal computers with flash memory. More recently, there are some literatures on developing a flash memory-aware $B^+$-tree index for an efficient key-based search in the flash memory storage system. They focus on minimizing the number of "overwrites" resulting from inserting or deleting a sequence of key values to/from the $B^+$-tree. However, in addition to this factor, the size of a physical page allocated to a node can affect the maintenance cost of the $B^+$-tree. In this paper, with diverse experiments, we compare and analyze the costs of construction and search of the $B^+$-tree and the space requirement on flash memory as the node size increases. We also provide sorting-based or non-sorting-based algorithms to be used when inserting a key value into the node and suggest an header structure of the index node for searching a given key inside it efficiently.

A Recovery Scheme of SSD-based Databases using Snapshot Log (스냅샷 로그를 사용한 SSD 기반 데이터베이스 복구 기법)

  • Lim, Seong-Chae
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.85-91
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    • 2019
  • In this paper, we propose a new logging and recovery scheme that is suited for the high-performance transaction processing system base on flash memory storage. The proposed scheme is designed by considering flash's I/O characteristic of asymmetric costs between page update/read operations. That is, we substitute the costly update operation with writing and real-time usage of snapshot log, which is for the page-level physical redo. From this, we can avoid costly rewriting of a dirty page when it is evicted form a buffering pool. while supporting efficient revery procedure. The proposed scheme would be not lucrative in the case of HDD-based system. However, the proposed scheme offers the performance advance sush as a reduced number of updates and the fast system recovery time, in the case of flash storage such as SSD (solid state drive). Because the proposed scheme can easily be applied to existing systems by saving our snapshot records and ordinary log records together, our scheme can be used for improving the performance of upcoming SSD-based database systems through a tiny modification to existing REDO algorithms.

A Parallel Streaming Server for the Realtime 3D Internet Broadcasting (병렬 스트리밍 서버 기반 실시간 3D 인터넷 방송 서비스)

  • Kang, Mi-Young
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.24 no.7
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    • pp.879-884
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    • 2020
  • In the conventional video file system, videos are stored in a high performance server which has mass storage hard disks or disk arrays. For 3D internet broadcasting, real time operations are required to transmit video files to many clients. This paper describes the design of the 3D internet broadcasting system which can provide realtime streaming service to many users in the 5G environment. In reality, unicast is used to transmit multimedia contents over the internet rather than IP multicast since IP multicast has its own drawbacks in deployment, security, maintenance and so on. In addition, multimedia broadcasting service system like VoD has difficulties in applying to 3D internet broadcasting system since it requires a large amount of system and network resources. In this work, we develop a 3D internet broadcasting system which can construct effective data delivery by minimizing performance-degrading factors.

A study on an investigation procedure of digital forensics for VMware Workstation's virtual machine and a method for a corrupted image recovery (VMware Workstation 가상 머신 이미지에 대한 디지털 포렌식 조사 절차 및 손상된 이미지 복구 방안)

  • Lim, Sung-Su;Yoo, Byeong-Yeong;Park, Jung-Heum;Byun, Keun-Duck;Lee, Sang-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.61-70
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    • 2011
  • Virtualization is a technology that uses a logical environment to overcome physical limitations in hardware. As a part of cost savings and green IT policies, there is a tendency in which recent businesses increase the adoption of such virtualization. In particular, regarding the virtualization in desktop, it is one of the most widely used technology at the present time. Because it is able to efficiently use various types of operating systems in a physical computer. A virtual machine image that is a key component of virtualization is difficult to investigate. because the structure of virtual machine image is different from hard disk image. Therefore, we need researches about appropriate investigation procedure and method based on technical understanding of a virtual machine. In this research, we suggest a procedure of investigation on a virtual machine image and a method for a corrupted image of the VMware Workstation that has the largest number of users.

Successful Management of Subcutaneous Abscess in a Captive Leopard Gecko (Eublepharis macularius)

  • Win, Phyo Wai;Rhim, Haerin;Kim, Myeongsu;Gim, Seulgi;Han, Jae-Ik
    • Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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    • v.39 no.5
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    • pp.272-276
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    • 2022
  • An 8 month old leopard gecko (Eublepharis macularius) with a large nodule was referred to our hospital. During the physical examination, the nodule had an unclear boundary from the top of the left eye to the front of the left ear and prevented the opening of the left eye. A hard, cheese-like, yellow, pus-filled nodule was observed. A cytological examination of a pus swab sample revealed pyogranulomatous inflammation with rod-shaped bacteria. Ofloxacin was chosen as the empirical topical antimicrobial drug for treatment. The swab samples were inoculated in trypticase soy agar with 5% sheep blood and incubated at 37℃ for 24 h. Gram-negative bacteria were identified via Gram staining, and the Kirby-Bauer antimicrobial susceptible disk diffusion test against 24 antibiotics according to protocol M100-Ed32 of CLSI showed that the fluoroquinolone group (ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin) was susceptible to the isolated bacteria. Molecular identification based on 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing confirmed that the isolated bacteria had a 99.85% nucleotide similarity with Serratia surfactantfaciens (GenBank accession no. CP014948). After 1 week, the boundaries of the nodule became clear; thus, the abscess was physically removed by expanding the hole formed above the eye for drainage, and flushing was repeated. After another 1 week, new tissue restoration without scarring was observed. This is a rare case report of the successful management of a subcutaneous abscess and scar-free healing in a lizard.