• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.45 no.6
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• pp.418-420
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• 2012

Pectus excavatum is rare, but it is the most common type of sternal congenital disorder. There are many surgical methods to correct pectus excavatum such as the Ravitch method, Wada method, Silastic mold method, and the Nuss operation. We report a case of minimal invasive surgery for pectus excavatum using a polyvinyl alcohol sponge.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.32A no.10
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• pp.81-92
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• 1995

In this paper, we present a high-level synthesis system that generates area-efficient RT-level datapaths with multiport memories. The proposed scheduling algorithm assigns an operation to a specific control step such that maximal sharing of functional units can be achieved with minimal number of memory ports, while satisfying given constraints. We propose a measure of multiport memory cost, MAV (Multiple Access Variable) which is defined as a variable accessed at several control steps , and overall memory cost is reduced by equally distributing the MAVs throughout all the control steps. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. When compared with previous approaches for several benchmarks available from literature, the proposed algorithm generates the datapaths with less memory modules and interconnection structures by reflecting the memory cost in the scheduling process.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.165-173
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a new minimum resources allocation algorithm for optimal design automation. In the proposed algorithm, the operation are allocated to functional units so that the number of interconnection wires between functional units can be minimized. The registers are allocated to the maximal clusters generated by the minimal cluster partitioning algorithm. Finally, the interconnection is minimized by removing the duplicated inputs of multiplexers and exchanging the inputs across multiplexers. The efficiency of the proposed allocation algorithm is shown by experiments using benchmark examples.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.743-751
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• 2016

An ongoing research project is devoted to the design and implementation of a satellite based asset tracking for supporting emergency management in crisis operations. Due to the emergency environment, one has to rely on a low power consumption wireless communication. Therefore, the communication hardware and software must be designed to match requirements, which can only be foreseen at the level of more or less likely scenarios. The latter aspect suggests a deep use of a simulator (instead of a real network of sensors) to cover extreme situations. The former power consumption remark suggests the use of a minimal computer (Raspberry Pi) as data collector.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.997-1005
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• 2003

In this paper, the problem of determining optimal burn-in time is considered under a general failure model. There are two types of failure in the general failure model. One is Type I failure (minor failure) which can be removed by a minimal repair and the other is Type II failure (catastrophic failure) which can be removed only by a complete repair. In this model, when the unit fails at its age t, Type I failure occurs with probability 1 - p(t) and Type II failure occurs with probability p(t), $0{\leq}p(t)\leq1$. Under the model, the properties of optimal burn-in time maximizing mean time to the catastrophic failure during field operation are obtained. The obtained results are also applied to some illustrative examples.

• Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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• 2006.03a
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• pp.687-696
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• 2006

Slope failure triggered by rainfall produces severe effects on the serviceability and stability of railway. Therefore slope stability problem is one of the major concerns on the operation of railway. In this study we collected rainfall data when and where slope failures were observed. The collected data show that the range of cumulative rainfall is from 150 to 500mm and the rainfall duration is about 3 to 24 hours. By using the collected rainfall information, slope stability analysis considering infiltration was carried. The analyses employs multiple sliding surfaces to find the minimal factor of safety in the infinite slope condition. This approach show more reasonable results than the results from analysis following the design code which assumes that groundwater level and the slope surface are equal.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.265-270
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• 2003

When designing an engine part the designer has to choose the proper material and to define the dimensions of the part. in the most rudimentary case he has available as guidelines the collective experience from similar applications. The performance of the part is tested on occasion of the trial runs for the full system, and possibly occurring deficiencies are corrected until a satisfactory usable life and safety of operation is achieved. This procedure is time consuming and costly, and the learning effect is minimal. These requirements have to be condensed into characteristic values ameanable to computation. Since testing and computation are complementary we have to look at the currently existing mathematical models for engine bearing performance.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.67-72
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• 1989

In nuclear power plants, nondestructive examinations(NDE) plays an important role in ensuring the integrity and reliability operation. As the number of plants and operational time increased, manual handling of voluminous data associated with PSI/ISI(preservice/inservice inspection) could result in many errors or mistakes in writing the examination plan or other reports. Several new approaches to process the data have been attempted and DBMS(Data Base Management System) has been well known concept with a faster and more accurate data processing. This paper proposes an application program, called NDTSYS designed with DBMS in micro computer. The program could be used for a tool to add new records to a data base, change existing records, delete records and request reports with the data base. It would be helpful to the user who manage the PSI/ISI data with minimal time and effort.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.161-164
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• 2002

Polycrystalline and epitaxial heterostructure films of $La_{0.5}Sr_{0.5}CoO_{3}/Pb(Nb_{0.04}Zr_{0.28}Ti_{0.68})O_{3}/La_{0.5}Sr_{0.5}CoO_{3}$ (LSCO/PNZT/LSCO) capacitors were evaluated in terms of low voltage and high speed operation in high density memory, using TiN/Pt conducting barrier combination. Structural studies for a high density ferroelectric memory process flow, which requires the integration of conducting barrier layers to connect the drain of the pass-gate transistor to the bottom electrode of the ferroelectric stack, indicate complete phase purity (i.e. fully perovskite) in both epitaxial and polycrystalline materials. The polycrystalline capacitors show lower remnant polarization and coercive voltages. However, the retention, and high-speed characteristics are similar, indicating minimal influence of crystalline quality on the ferroelectric properties.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 1991.10a
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• pp.145-149
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• 1991

In this paper, an algorithm is proposed to analyze the approximating reliability of the capacity considered communication networks. In the case ofthe former methods to evaluate the source-to-termianl node reliability, it is very difficult to contract and delete the jointed terms in the simple path group. Therefore, the reliability bounds are used and compared to the exact reliability by TURBO PROLOG, the natural lanquage of artficial intelligence. In the reliability bounds, the upper bound used the valid cutset that isthe group of simple path and the lower bound used the minimal cutset by complement operation and the esact reiability is compared to this reliability bounds.