• Sleep Medicine and Psychophysiology
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.16-23
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• 2020

Objectives: Sleep disturbance in the elderly is associated with cognitive decline. Sleep quality is known to deteriorate with age, and prospective studies seldom have examined the relationship between sleep quality and cognitive function. This study investigates the relationship between early sleep quality and cognitive function based on six-year follow-up data of community individuals older than 60 years. Methods: The participants included 622 community elderly people older than 60 years from Jinju-Si. The final analysis comprised 322 elderly people. Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI) and the Korean version of Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD-K) were used to assess early sleep quality and cognitive function after six years. Multiple linear regression analysis was performed to investigate the association between early sleep quality and cognitive function in the elderly. Results: Early sleep quality (PSQI) was significantly associated with the results of the digit span test, clock drawing test (clox 1), and word recall test after six years. Sleep quality (PSQI) decreased significantly after six years, and lower quality of sleep (PSQI) score was associated with higher digit span test score (β = -0.167, p = 0.026) and higher clock drawing test score (β = -0.157, p = 0.031). Lower quality of sleep (PSQI) score was associated with higher word recall test (β = -0.140, p = 0.039). Conclusion: The digit span test, word recall test, and clock drawing task (CLOX 1) shown to be significantly associated to sleep quality can be performed fast and easily in clinical practice. It is important to assess early cognitive function in the elderly with poor sleep quality, and further studies could suggest that these tests may be useful screening tests for early dementia in elderly with poor sleep quality.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• 제38권7호
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• pp.455-463
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• 2001

In this Paper, an approximate processing method is proposed and tested. The proposed method uses variable CSD (VCSD) coefficients which approximate filter stopband attenuation by controlling the precision of the CSD coefficient sets. A decimation filter for Audio Codec '97 specifications has been designed having processor architecture that consists of program/data memory, arithmetic unit, energy/level decision, and sinc filter blocks, and fabricated with 0.6${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ CMOS sea-of-gate technology. For the combined two halfband FIR filters in decimation filter, the number of addition operations were reduced to 63.5%, 35.7%, and 13.9%, compared to worst-case which is not an adaptive one. Experimental results show that the total power reduction rate of the filter is varying from 3.8 % to 9.0 % with respect to worst-case. The proposed approximate processing method using variable CSD coefficients is readily applicable to various kinds of filters and suitable, especially, for the speech and audio applications, like oversampling ADCs and DACs, filter banks, voice/audio codecs, etc.

• Korean Journal of Mathematics
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.191-203
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• 2020

Any powers of 11 are easily obtained from the Pascal triangle. In this work we study powering and negative powering of any k digit integers by means of certain arithmetic tables.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 한국정보과학회 2002년도 가을 학술발표논문집 Vol.29 No.2 (2)
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• pp.481-483
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• 2002

본 논문은 숫자간 접촉이 포함된 무제약 오프라인 필기 숫자열 인식을 위한 분할 및 인식기법을 소개하고자 한다. 시스템은 숫자열에서 접촉된 성분을 추출하는 모듈, 접촉된 숫자를 분할하는 모듈과 최종적으로 분할된 결과를 조합하는 모듈로 이루어진다. 그리고, 위의 기법을 NIST 데이터에 적용하여 제안한 분할 및 인식기법의 효율성을 보여준다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• 제19권11호
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• pp.2249-2254
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• 1994

An observation which is useful for hardware implementation of programmable FIR filters with powers-of two coefficients (2PFIR filters) is made. Specifically, it is shown that the exponents of filter coefficients representable by the canonical signed digit(CSD) code with M ternary digits can be chosen from some subsets of {0, 1, $\cdots$, M-1}. This observation naturally leads to 2PFIR filters with shorter shifters whose length is strictly less than M and, as a consequence, leads to an efficient hardware structure fo programmable 2PFIR filtering. In addition, we present some experimental results indicating that the shifters of 2PFIR filters can be shortened further in some cases.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.227-236
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• 2012

New 5-digit zone code (new postcode) will replace the current 6-digit postcode which has been used for postal automation in 2014. New postcode will be used for processing various works to distinguish location and area in the entire country. For example, it new postcode will be used to denote different administration areas, firefighting and police jurisdiction, weather forecast areas, emergency medical facility areas, social welfare institution areas, election districts, school districts, statistical areas, courier and delivery business areas, and etc. Therefore, the relevant authorities must be cosider for the feasibility and applicability of assigning the new postcode. In postal service, postal process will be affected a lot by new postcode because a postcode has been related with delivery area of a postman. Therefore, we propose assignment scheme for new postcode which will impact less to postal process. Then, we present how we used geographic data for efficient assignment and analysis of the results.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.5-12
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• 1982

Through the use of energy ratio of special bandwidths of basic vowels, recognition of Korean basic spoken digit is performed in logical combination with a zero-crossing rate and an energy parameter. In the experiments for recognition of the digits, the speech signal of spoken digits is filtered by a lowpass filter of which the cutoff frequency is 10KHz, and then sampled at 20KHz of sampling rate, In the speech signal processing, we used four FIR digital filters, and the order of filter lengths is 61, 120, 25, 25respectively. The filters are designed by using Remetz exchange algorithm.[13],[14] As a result, the recognition rate of 92% for the three speakers is obstained.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.37-42
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• 2009

The digital filter is essential element in digital signal processing area. It needs a high computational burden caused by multiplying and adding. The multiplier in digital filter is a dominant element, which occupies an wide area at the field of VLSI design, needs high power-consuming and also decides critical path that affects to filter performance. In this paper we proposed the simultaneous transform method which is represented 2's complementary representation to CSD and MSD representation to solve a complexity problem and to improve a computational speed. The performance of proposed method was implemented in VHDL and applied to an digital filters, was evaluated the decreasing of critical path delay.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• 제38권11호
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• pp.810-820
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• 2001

Conventional binary adder requires a carry propagation to the most significant bit, and leads to serial addition. However, optical adder using a modified signed digit(MSD) number system has been Proposed to reduce the carry propagation chain encountered in binary adder. In this paper, in order to minimize the number of symbolic substitution(SS) rules, nine input patterns were divided into five groups of the same addition results. For recognizing the input reference patterns, serial connections of joint spatial encoded patterns and masks without any other spatial operations are used.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.211-235
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• 2007

The paper establishes a policy classification system in order to classify and evaluate the science and technological innovation policies in Korea. We rebuild an innovation system model based on the national innovation system(NIS) concept. The model consists of human capital infrastructure(HCI), institutional infrastructure(II), technological infrastructure(TI), technology market(TM), industrial organization(IO), and innovation networks(IN). We give these 6 components of the modified system 1-digit number, respectively. Then we build the sub-systems according to these components, classify the policy categories in more detail, and finally complete the 3-digit policy classification table. This policy classification table may be useful in studying the science and technological innovation policy in both theoretical and empirical aspects. For example, the table can be the tool to examine the program portfolio profile(PPP) or to implement the questionary survey on the actual policies.