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Clinical Study on Phonatory Function of Pre and Post-Operative Condition of Vocal Nodules (성대결절적출전후의 음성기능에 관한 임상적 연구)

  • 문영일
    • Proceedings of the KOR-BRONCHOESO Conference
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    • 1978.06a
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    • pp.6.4-7
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    • 1978
  • The author has experienced 50 cases of vocal nodules and polyps in our department for 3 years from May 1974 to April 1977. These nodules were removed out with laryngeal forcep under indirect laryngoscopy and maximum phonation time and timbre of the voice were analyzed before and after operation. Very shortened phonation time of the patient with vocal nodule has returned to normal range (Male : 30 seconds, Female: 20 seconds) and the voice timbre has recovered to almost normal voice postoperatively. The author has made a brief literature review.

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Electroglottographic Measurements of Glottal Function in Voice according to Gender and Age

  • Ko, Do-Heung
    • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.97-102
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    • 2011
  • Electroglottography (EGG) is a common method for providing non-invasive measurements of glottal activity. EGG has been used in vocal pathology as a clinical or research tool to measure vocal fold contact. This paper presents the results of pitch, jitter, and closed quotient (CQ) measurements in electroglottographic signals of young (mean = 22.7 years) and elderly (mean = 74.3 years) male and female subjects. The sustained corner vowels /i/, /a/, and /u/ were measured at around 70 dB SPL since the most notable among EGG variables is the phonation intensity, which showed positive correlation with closed phase. The aim of this paper was to measure EGG data according to age and gender. In CQ, there was a significant difference between young and elderly female subjects while there was no significant difference between young and elderly male subjects. The mean value for young males was higher than that for elderly males while the mean value for young females was lower than that for elderly females. Thus, it can be said that in mean values, increased CQ was related to decreased age for females, while CQ decreased for males as the speaker's age decreased. Although the laryngeal degeneration due to increased age seems to occur to a lesser extent in females, the significant increase of CQ in elderly female voices could not be explained in terms of age-related physiological changes. In standard deviation of pitch and jitter, the mean values for young and elderly males were higher than that for young and elderly females. That is, male subjects showed higher in mean values of voice variables than female subjects. This result could be considered as a sign of vocal instability in males. It was suggested that these results may provide powerful insights into the control and regulation of normal phonation and into the detection and characterization of pathology.

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Measurement of Cardiac Function Improvement by Auricular Acupuncture Applying Speech Signal Analysis (음성신호 분석을 적용한 이침요법(耳針療法)에 따른 심장 기능 향상 측정)

  • Kim, Bong-Hyun;Cho, Dong-Uk;Han, Kil-Sung
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.12 no.12
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    • pp.5588-5593
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, measure of change the speech analysis parameter by stimulating ears blood points corresponding to cardiac. To do this, we collected voice of before and after a stimulation corresponding points to ears to select normal heart having 10 subjects. We analyzed changes before and after corresponding points to ear in cardiac to apply Jitter, the second zFormant Frequency Bandwidths related to heart of elements of voice analysis. As a result of us experiment, we were able to analyze correlation of voice with cardiac according to corresponding points to ears decreased values of Jitter, the Second Formant Frequency Bandwidths of 90% of subjects. Finally, the effectiveness of proposed method is demonstrated by several experiments.

Design of Smart Glasses Platform walking guide for the visually impaired (시각장애인을 위한 보행 안내 스마트 안경 플랫폼 설계)

  • Lee, Jaebeom;Jang, Jongwook;Jang, Sungjin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2021.10a
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    • pp.320-322
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    • 2021
  • As the world's elderly population increases, the proportion of visually impaired is also increasing, and there are still many restrictions on the use of outside activities, such as safety problems and lack of guidance information. To solve this problem, research on smart devices such as smart glasses with optical character recognition (OCR) function is being actively conducted. In this paper, we propose a system that recognizes obstacles ahead and informs information by voice, and also guides the way to the destination. Using the deep learning object recognition model Yolo, it let them to recognize the risk factors as obstacles such as stairs and Larva cones. and it also deliver the information with a voice. so you can expect that the visually impaired can do a lot of different activity even more now that system takes the visually impaired to the destination by using the directions API, voice recognition, TTS library.

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A Study on the development quality control by application of QFD and Stage-gate in defense system (QFD 및 Stage-gate 모델을 활용한 국방분야 개발단계 품질관리 방안 연구)

  • Jang, Bong Ki
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.42 no.3
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    • pp.279-290
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    • 2014
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study is to propose adoption of QFD and Stage-gate in order to analyze the quality of korea defense system. Methods: Drawing change data of initial production phase in korea defense system were anlayzed and a practical method was proposed. Results: The results of this study are as follows; Off line Quality Control should be introduced in development phase. Specially, in case of defense system, the best method is QFD(Quality Function Deployment) and Stage-gate process. At first, QFD 1 step defines product planning from VOC(Voice Of Customer), QFD 2 step specifies part planning from product planning, QFD 3 step defines process planning from part planning, QFD 4 step defines production planning from previous process planning. Secondly, Stage-gate process is adopted. This study is proposed 5 stage-gate in case of korea defense development. Gate 1 is located after SFR(System Function Review), Gate 2 is located after PDR(Preliminary Design Review), Gate 3 is located after CDR(Critical Design Review), Gate 4 is located after TRR(Test Readiness Review) and Gate 5 is located before specification documentation submission. Conclusion: Off line QC(Quality Control) in development phase is necessary prior to on line QC(Quality Control) in p roduction phase. For the purpose of off line quality control, QFD(Quality Function Deployment) and Stage-gate process can be adopted.

The Eum-Yang Body-Function Perspective(陰陽體用觀) in the Saenggitongcheonron Chapter of the "Hwangjenaegyeong"(${\ll}$黃帝內經素問.生氣通天論${\gg}$) (${\ll}$ 제내경소문(黃帝內經素問).생기통천론(黃帝內經素問)${\gg}$의 음양체용관(陰陽體用觀)에 대한 시론(試論))

  • Jang, Woo-Chang
    • Journal of Korean Medical classics
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.73-85
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    • 2010
  • The chapter holds great importance in understanding the fundamental aspect of disease occurrence, for it contains key concepts of disease of Naegyeong medicine. For this reason, prominent doctors from Jang Gyeong-ak(張景岳) of Ming to Lee Gyujun (李奎晙) of late Josun have based their Yang Gi-centered medical theories on this chapter. However, doctors such as Ju Jinhyeong(朱震亨) who have stressed the importance of Eum, also used the contents of this chapter to support their perspective on disease, which means that the main voice of this chapter is still unclear. Based on the previous chapter, it is valid to say that uses the Eum-Yang Body-Function Perspective(陰陽體用觀) to establish the fundamentals of life and parallels the uniqueness of each kind of Gi, Eum and Yang, in leading Gi activity in mankind. This philosophy based on the uniqueness of the activity of Eum/Yang Gi expands its target from human to disease in general, becoming actualized as a theory of external/internal body-function perspective. Cultivation methods based on this uniqueness is also being suggested.

Preliminary Results of Clinical Application with a New Temporary Vocal Fold Injection Material : Radiesse Lite (새로운 임시적 성대 주입물 : Radiesse Lite에 대한 예비 임상실험)

  • Kwon, Tack-Kyun;Jackie, Gartner-Schmidt;Rosen, Clark A.
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Laryngology, Phoniatrics and Logopedics
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.87-91
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    • 2004
  • Background and Objectives : Temporary vocal fold injection is not only performed to restore the laryngeal function in temporary unilateral vocal fold paralysis or paresis, but also performed as a test injection prior to the permanent injection. Gelfoam has been safely used for the past several decades for the temporary vocal fold augmentation. Recently, we found a new material, called Radieses Lite, may be used as a temporary injection material. Material and Methods : We report preliminary results of 11 patients who had Radiesse Lite injection with a variety of pathologies. Results : Based on the results from the 6 patients who completed follow-up, the duration of effectiveness of Radiesse Lite seems to be from 2 to 3 months depending on the injection amount. Radiesse Lite satisfies several requirements of the ideal temporary vocal fold injection material in terms of injectability, convenience, duration of effectiveness and safety. Conclusion : The authors concluded that Radiesse Lite might be a good option for temporary vocal fold injection especially in the office setting.

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End-to-end Transmission Performance of VoIP Traffics based on Mobility Pattern over MANET with IDS (IDS가 있는 MANET에서 이동패턴에 기반한 VoIP 트래픽의 종단간 전송성능)

  • Kim, Young-Dong
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.9 no.7
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    • pp.773-778
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    • 2014
  • IDS(Intrusion Detection System) can be used as a countermeasure for blackhole attacks which cause degrade of transmission performance by causing of malicious intrusion to routing function of networks. In this paper, effects of IDS for transmission performance based on mobility patterns is analyzed for MANET(Mobile Ad-hoc Networks), a suggestion for effective countermeasure is considered. Computer simulation based on NS-2 is used in performance analysis, VoIP(Voice over Internet Protocol) as an application service is chosen for performance measure. MOS(Mean Opinion Score), call connection ratio and end-to-end delay is used as performance parameter.

The Rule of Korean Pitch Variation for a Natural Synthetic Female Voice (자연스러운 여성 합성음을 위한 한국어의 피치 변화 법칙)

  • Kim, Chung-Won;Park, Dae-Duck;Kim, Boh-Hyun;Kwon, Cheol-Hong
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.26-32
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    • 1996
  • In this paper we make a rule of pitch variation for a natural synthetic female voice. Intonation phrase, which is the basic unit the rule is applied to, mostly consists of a syllable or syllables. The pitch values of the first, second, and final syllables make up the pitch contour of the intonation phrase. Those of the first and second syllable are determined by the initial consonants of the respective syllables, and that of the final syllable by the type of the function word. There are two kinds of boundaries between intonation phrases. One is a boundary with pause, and the other is a boundary without pause. The pitch contour of the intonation phrase with the boundary phenomena determines the pitch pattern of a sentence.

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A Study on Context-aware Beacon Services Connecting Smart TV (Smart TV 상황 인지형 Beacon서비스 연구)

  • Nam, Kang-Hyun
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.499-504
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    • 2016
  • The Service had a purpose to be heard through the Smart Phone APP and Smart TV Broadcasting Contents to Foreigner's Language in The Asia Culture Center. This Paper explained how to realize foreigner with Beacon's Signal and IoT gateway provided the voice service with selected his language using AllJoyn Protocol Interface function. IoT Service Platform received the Registration of foreigner's identifier, there sent messages to all devices, which were all IoT gateways, IoT gateway could connect to foreigner's Smart Phone App and heard the Broadcasting contents. If a foreigner went out of Beacon's management distance, the voice App service were released.