• The Journal of Korea Assosiation for Disability and Oral Health
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.41-44
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• 2018

McCune-Albright syndrome (MAS) is a rare disease characterized by fibrous dysplasia (FD), Cafe-au-lait spots, and endocrine disorder. A 4-year-old girl with MAS visited the clinic with a chief complaint of facial asymmetry and bruxism without any pain. Facial asymmetry and many dental problems such as midline deviation, "ground glass appearance" on the entire jaw, thinned cortical bone, loss of lamina dura and ectopic germs were found. Because of severely displaced tooth germs and FD affected jaw, there is a high possibility of malocclusion during mixed/permanent dentition. It is necessary to observe the eruption pattern periodically. If there are clinical symptoms like an abnormal eruption pattern, facial asymmetry or high caries susceptibility, appropriate interventions of dentist are required.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.2
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• pp.63-68
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• 1999

We propose a new method which can solve the difficulty of separation the character strings from the interconnected lines and the distortions of vectorization at the crossing points and the junction points for the digitized maps at the same time. After the image is thinned, the crossing points and the junction points are detected with their neighbors, which we call the uncertain areas. And then the broken lines are connected each other, and the character strings are separated at the same time. The proposed method is applied to Korean cadastral map. Usually, Korean cadastral map consists of straight lines and character strings. The experimental results show that the method is effective in separating the character strings and getting high quality vectorization for the Korean cadastral map.

• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.445-452
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• 2000

The effects of sludge and fertilizer application on germination and seedling growth of woody plants on heavy metal mine tailings were evaluated by greenhouse experiment. Two different mine tailings (Lead-zinc mine tailings from Kwangmyong, Kyonggi-do and tungsten mine tailings from Sangdong. Kangwon-do). four fertilizer treatments (N +P +K: 20, 40, 60, and 80 kg/m$^3$), and four sewage sludge treatments (5.5, 11, 22.5, and 45 Mg/m$^3$) were used in the experiment. Tested plants were Pinus densiflora, Larix leptolepis, Amorpha fruticosa, and Alnus hirsuta. There were three replicates for each treatment. In addition, vermiculite was used instead of mine tailings to determine the effect of physical amendments. Fifty seeds of a species were sown in a pot (upper diameter 13.5 cm, depth 10 cm) and seedling emergence were recorded daily for 30 days. The highest germination rate was 53% for all treatments. Germination rate of Larix leptolepis was lowest among the four species studied. One month later after seeding, seedlings were thinned and only 5 seedling were left in each pot, and fertilizer and sewage sludge were applied once again. Growth of seedlings were determined for 10 weeks since then. Most plants grew very poorly or died within 5 weeks on lead/zinc mine tailings from Kwangmyong. The analysis of heavy metal contents by the total dissolution method showed that heavy metals generally increased in the order of tungsten mine tailings from Sangdong < sewage sludge from Puchon < lead/zinc mine tailings from Kwangmyong. Growth of woody plants was improved significantly by the fertilizer treatments on tungsten mine tailings. In contrast. survival and growth of woody plants were not affected significantly by the sewage sludge treatment on both tailings. This study shows that fertilizer applied to established seeded stands may provide some benefits in terms of increased ground cover in the field. It is suggested that reclamation should be proceeded by the study of the physico-chemical and biological characteristics of mine tailings.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.82-93
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• 2002

The effects of the interaction between the flow and temperature field and a boundary layer due to a variety of the height of a vortex generator are experimentally investigated. The test facility consists of a boundary-layer wind tunnel with the vortex generator protruding from the bottom surface. In order to control the strength of the longitudinal vortices, the angle of attack and the spacing distance of the vortex generator are 20 degree and 40 mm, respectively. The height of the vortex generator (H) is 15 mm, 20 mm and 30 mm and the cord length of it is 50 mm. Three-component mean velocity measurements are made using a 5-hole probe system and the surface temperature distribution is measured by the hue capturing method using thermochromatic liquid crystals. By using the method mentioned above, the following conclusions are obtained from the present experiment. The boundary layer is thinned in the downwash region where the strong downflow and the lateral outflow of the boundary layer fluid occur and thickened in the upwash re,3ion where the longitudinal vortex sweeps low momentum fluid away from the bottom surface. In case that the height of the vortex generator increases, the averaged circulation and the maximum vorticity of the vortex pair decrease. The contours of the non-dimensional temperature show the similar trends fur all the cases (H=15 mm, 20 mm and 30 mm). The peak augmentation of the distribution of the local non-dimensional temperature occurs in the downwash region near the point of minimum boundary-layer thickness.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.3C
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• pp.359-367
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• 2004

The postprocessing to remove false minutia is important because the extraction of true minutia affects the performance as a key factor in fingerprint identification system. In this paper, we propose an efficient postprocessing algorithm for removing false minutia among the extracted candidates in a thinned image. The proposed algorithm removes false minutia in three steps by using various information in the acquired fingerprint image: the structural information of minutia (end point and bifurcation), the inherent characteristics of fingerprint, and the quality of acquired images. Under Intel Celeron processor environment with 248${\times}$292 images acquired by optic device, the experiments showed that the proposed algorithm efficiently removed false minutia while preserving true minutia. Moreover, the proposed algorithm takes 0.0154 second, which is very small compared to the time for preprocessing (0.343 second).

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.1437-1450
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• 1992

This paper describes the feature extraction of the interdigital regions of palm, and proposes a personal verification algorithm using the extracted features and the pattern types of those. The procedures of the feature extraction are as follows : first, the interdigital region is partitioned into several subregions, examining the phase of rigdes in each subregion, deciding the direction of that phase, and making the direction matrix of the region, we analyze this direction matrix to contain a feature pattern, and then, yield the first core. Second, applying the thinning to around the first core and tracing the thinned ridges, we yield the feature pattern types and second cores. Finally, the feature patterns coordinates included all of them are built. Then, distances and directions from each second core reaching to all the others are yielded from that coordinates. These informations are used to make a feature parameter. In our verification algorithm, such pattern types, the numbers of feature patterns, theses positions and feature parameters are used to analyze.

• KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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• v.14
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• pp.65-69
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• 1973

This experiment was carried out to determine the adequate amount of nitrogen for densely and lately seeded soybean, and the results obtained are as follows, 1) Various fertilization amounts of nitrogen did not effect the date of emergency, but the flowering and the maturing dates were delayed at the plots fertilized the nitrogen heavily. 2) In accordance with an increasing amount of nitrogen fertilization, the length of the stem and the internode was significantly elongated but the stem diameter was thinned down, and the latter was suggested to be the cause of lodging. 3) The 1, 000 grain weight and the number of pods per hill were decreased according to the increasing the amount of nitrogen fertilization. 4) A highly significant difference in grain yield was recognized between varieties but among treatments. However, in case of the extremly late cultivation, the grain yield of the early maturing variety (Choongbukbaeg) was increased at the plot of 6 kg nitrogen.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.157-168
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• 1993

In this paper, it is shown that neural networks trained with back propagation algorithm and dictionary can be applied to recognize handwritten English characters. To eliminate the useless data part and to minimize the variety of characters from the scanned image file, various preprocessings : that is, segmentation, centering, noise filtering, sealing and thinning are performed. After these, characteristic features are derived from thinned character pattern. The neural network is trained by using the extracted features for sample data, and all test data are classified into English alphabets according to their features through the neural network. Finally, the ways of reducing learning time and improving recognition rate, and the relationship between learning time and hidden layer nodes are considered. As a result of this study, after successful training, a high recognition rate has been obtained with this system for the trained patterns and about 93% for test patterns. Using dictionary, the recognition rate was about 97% for test pattern.

• Horticultural Science & Technology
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.387-391
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• 2017

Kiwifruits introduced to Korea typically have green fruit flesh, yellow flesh, or yellow flesh with red coloration around the core. Here, we describe a new cultivar called 'Redvita', the first kiwifruit cultivar of Korea with yellow flesh and red coloration around the core. A conventional field cross was conducted in 2003, and permission for the final release of 'Redvita' was obtained in 2012. 'Redvita' originates from 'Red Princess', a maternal vine known for the red coloration in its flesh. The pollinizer is 'NHK0013' (IT233175), which blooms in early May. A principal feature of 'Redvita' is its high vitamin C content, which at an average of 140 mg per 100 g of fresh weight is 2 - 4 times higher than other commercial cultivars. The average fruit weight is 97 g; bigger than that of the control cultivar 'Hongyang'. 'Redvita' blooms in mid-May and is usually harvested in early to mid-October, approximately 150 - 160 days after anthesis. 'Redvita' produces 3 or 4 flowers per fruiting shoot, with no small lateral flowers, therefore does not need to be thinned before blooming for commercial production. The cultivar is acidulous because of a high titratable acidity content (about 1.5%), which is higher than other cultivars (less than 1.0%). 'Redvita' was registered with the Korean Seed and Variety Service in 2015 for plant variety protection rights (no. 5604).

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.54-59
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• 2002

This paper describes a new process technique for batch process of SOI(Si-on-Insulator) structures with buried cavities for MEMS(Micro Electro Mechanical System) applications by SDB(Si-wafer Direct Bonding) technology and electrochemical etch-stop. A low-cost electrochemical etch-stop method is used to control accurately the thickness of SOI. The cavities were made on the upper handling wafer by Si anisotropic etching. Two wafers are bonded with an intermediate insulating oxide layer. After high-temperature annealing($1000^{\circ}C$, 60 min), the SDB SOI structure with buried cavities was thinned by electrochemical etch-stop. The surface of the fabricated SDB SOI structure have more roughness that of lapping and polishing by mechanical method. This SDB SOI structure with buried cavities will provide a powerful and versatile substrate for novel microsensors arid microactuators.