• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.57-62
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• 2014

Background Achieving symmetry is a key goal in breast reconstruction. Anatomically shaped tabbed expanders are a new tool in the armamentarium of the breast reconstruction surgeon. Suture tabs allow for full control over the expander position and thus inframammary fold position, and, in theory, tabbed expanders mitigate many factors responsible for poor symmetry. The impact of a tabbed expander on breast symmetry, however, has not been formally reported. This study aims to evaluate breast symmetry following expander-implant reconstruction using tabbed and non-tabbed tissue expanders. Methods A chart review was performed of 188 consecutive expander-implant reconstructions that met the inclusion criteria of adequate follow-up data and postoperative photographs. Demographic, oncologic, postoperative complication, and photographic data was obtained for each patient. The photographic data was scored using a 4-point scale assessing breast symmetry by three blinded, independent reviewers. Results Of the 188 patients, 74 underwent reconstruction with tabbed expanders and 114 with non-tabbed expanders. The tabbed cohort had significantly higher symmetry scores than the non-tabbed cohort ($2.82/4{\pm}0.86$ vs. $2.55/4{\pm}0.92$, P=0.034). Conclusions The use of tabbed tissue expanders improves breast symmetry in tissue expander-implant-based breast reconstruction. Fixation of the expander to the chest wall allows for more precise control over its location and counteracts the day-to-day translational forces that may influence the shape and location of the expander pocket, mitigating many factors responsible for breast asymmetry.

• 산업공학
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.646-657
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• 2000

We developed an efficient small sized weather condition forecasting system (WFS). A cheap NT-server was utilized for handling a large amount of data, while traditional WFS has conventionally relied on Unix based workstation server. The proposed WFS contains automatic weather observing system (AWS). AWS was designed for collecting weather conditions automatically, and it was linked to WFS in order to provide various weather condition information. The existing two phase scheme and chain code algorithm were used for transforming AWS's data into WFS's data. The WFS's data were mapped into geometric information system using various display techniques. Finally the transformed WFS's data was also converted into JPG (Joint Photographic Group) data type, and the final JPG data could be accessible by others though Internet. The developed system was implemented using WWW environment and has provided weather condition forecasting information. Real case is given to show the presented integrated WFS with detail information.

• 한국정보보호학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보보호학회 1994년도 종합학술발표회논문집
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• pp.193-202
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• 1994

In this paper, we investigate possible scrambling methods for the JPEG(Joint Photographic Export Group) still image compression standard. In particular, we compare the conventional line rotation and line permutation methods to the DCT block scrambling in terms of the number of bits to be increased and the easiness of buffer control. Computer simulation results show that the DCT block scrambling method is suitable for both data security and buffer control in one-chip JPEG applications.

• Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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• 제41권
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• pp.6.1-6.10
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• 2019

Background: Osteomyelitis is an intraosseous inflammatory disease characterized by progressive inflammatory osteoclasia and ossification. The use of quantitative analysis to assist interpretation of osteomyelitis is increasingly being considered. The objective of this study was to perform early diagnosis of osteomyelitis on digital panoramic radiographs using basic functions provided by picture archiving and communication system (PACS), a program used to show radiographic images. Methods: This study targeted a total of 95 patients whose symptoms were confirmed as osteomyelitis under clinical, radiologic, pathological diagnosis over 11 years from 2008 to 2017. Five categorized patients were osteoradionecrosis, bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of jaw (BRONJ, suppurative and sclerosing type), and bacterial osteomyelitis (suppurative and sclerosing type), and the control group was 117 randomly sampled. The photographic density in a certain area of the digital panoramic radiograph was determined and compared using the "measure area rectangle," one of the basic PACS functions in INFINITT PACS^® (INFINITT Healthcare, Seoul, South Korea). A conditional inference tree, one type of decision making tree, was generated with the program R for statistical analysis with SPSS^®. Results: In the conditional inference tree generated from the obtained data, cases where the difference in average value exceeded 54.49 and the difference in minimum value was less than 54.49 and greater than 12.81 and the difference in minimum value exceeded 39 were considered suspicious of osteomyelitis. From these results, the disease could be correctly classified with a probability of 88.1%. There was no difference in photographic density value of BRONJ and bacterial osteomyelitis; therefore, it was not possible to classify BRONJ and bacterial osteomyelitis by quantitative analysis of panoramic radiographs based on existing research. Conclusions: This study demonstrates that it is feasible to measure photographic density using a basic function in PACS and apply the data to assist in the diagnosis of osteomyelitis.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.103-113
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• 2012

The ButterStar Observatory at the Dongducheon High School has been working for photographic observations of the Sun since October 16, 2002. In this study, we observed the Sun at the ButterStar observatory for 3,364 days from October 16, 2002 to December 31, 2011, and analyzed the photographic sunspot data obtained in 1,965 days. The correction factor $K_b$ for the entire observing period is 0.9519, which is calculated using the linear least square method to the relationship between the daily sunspot number, $R_B$, and the daily international relative sunspot number, $R_i$. The yearly correction factor calculated for each year varies slightly from year to year and shows a trend to change along the solar cycle. The correction factor is larger during the solar maxima and smaller during the solar minima in general. This implies that the discrepancy between a relative sunspot number, R, and the daily international relative sunspot number, $R_i$, can be reduced by using a yearly correction factor. From 2002 to 2008 in solar cycle 23, 35.4% and 64.6% of sunspot groups and 35.1% and 64.9% of isolated sunspots in average occurred in the northern hemisphere and in the southern hemisphere, respectively, and from 2008 to 2011 in solar cycle 24, 61.3% and 38.7% of sunspot groups and 65.0% and 35.0% of isolated sunspots were observed, respectively. This result shows that the occurrence frequency for each type of sunspot group changes along the solar cycle development, which can be interpreted as the emerging and decaying process of sunspot groups is different depending on the phase of solar cycle. Therefore, it is considered that a following study would contribute to the efforts to understand the dependence of the dynamo mechanism on the phase of solar cycle.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제41권12호
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• pp.345-350
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• 2017

Background: Ecological research often requires monitoring of a specific individual over an extended period of time. To enable non-invasive re-identification, consistent external marking is required. Treefrogs possess lateral lines for crypticity. While these patterns decrease predator detection, they also are individual specific patterns. In this study, we tested the use of lateral lines in captive and wild populations of Dryophytes japonicus as natural markers for individual identification. For the purpose of the study, the results of visual and software assisted identifications were compared. Results: In normalized laboratory conditions, a visual individual identification method resulted in a 0.00 rate of false-negative identification (RFNI) and a 0.0068 rate of false-positive identification (RFPI), whereas Wild-ID resulted in RFNI = 0.25 and RFNI = 0.00. In the wild, female and male data sets were tested. For both data sets, visual identification resulted in RFNI and RFPI of 0.00, whereas the RFNI was 1.0 and RFPI was 0.00 with Wild-ID. Wild-ID did not perform as well as visual identification methods and had low scores for matching photographs. The matching scores were significantly correlated with the continuity of the type of camera used in the field. Conclusions: We provide clear methodological guidelines for photographic identification of D. japonicus using their lateral lines. We also recommend the use of Wild-ID as a supplemental tool rather the principal identification method when analyzing large datasets.

• 한국농촌계획학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농촌계획학회 1998년도 정기총회 및 춘계 학술논문발표회
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• pp.15-16
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• 1998

It was studied Horticultural field by ARC/lNFO software, applicated on GIS- management information system, which dealt with graphic and attribute data together. This result obtained was summarized as follow : 1. It would be to output about position, attribute and photographic data of this horticultural farm through AML. 2. It would be easy to use with internal interface which is composed in basic function menu and application menu. 3. It would be good to plant Water melon and Tomato in this Horticultural farm. 4. The method which applicated overlay and analysis would be need to manage farming data in this horticultural farm and to develop a dynamic decision support system interfaced with GIS.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.475-480
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• 1994

For the effective management of medical images, it becomes popular to use computing machines in medical practice, namely PACS. However, the amount of image data is so large that there is a lack of storage space. We usually use data compression techniques to save storage, but the process speed of machines is not fast enough to meet surgical requirement. So a special hardware system processing medical images faster is more important than ever. To meet the demand for high speed image processing, especially image compression and decompression, we designed and implemented the medical image CODEC (COder/DECoder) based on MISD (Multiple Instruction Single Data stream) architecture to adopt parallelism in it. Considering not being a standard scheme of medical image compression/decompression, the CODEC is designed programable and general. In this paper, we use JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) algorithm to process images and evalutate the CODEC.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2016년도 학술발표회
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• pp.375-379
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• 2016

Recently derived energy dissipation equation by Chamani(2008) and the profile function of the free overfall by Marchi(1993) were verified with present experiment data. The experiment was conducted in hydraulic laboratory, Hanyang University where the flume is 7m long and 0.44m wide, and the height of the drop structure is 0.205m. Water depth and free overfall profile data were collected using an ultra sonic distance sensor and photographic images. The time-averaged water depth data and the free overfall profile were analyzed to examine the energy dissipation pattern over the drop structure

• 한국언론정보학보
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• 제17권
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• pp.145-178
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• 2001

사진과 사진행위에 대한 부르디외의 사회학적인 분석은 $\ll$중간예술$\gg$과 $\ll$구별짓기$\gg$를 통해 발표되었다. 여러 문화적 산물들 중 사진은 사회과학에서 소홀히 다루어져 왔기 때문에 사진에 대한 부르디외의 연구는 주목할 만한 가치가 있다. 특히 $\ll$중간예술$\gg$은 거의 모든 사진 장르들을 다루면서 사회적 계급들이 사진에 대해 적용하는 규범 체계들, 사진행위의 유형들, 여러 분야의 전문 사진사들이 자신들의 직업에 대해 가지고 있는 생각들과 그들이 참조하는 미학들을 분석하고 있고 최종적으로는 그러한 분석을 바탕으로 사진에 대한 정신분석학적 분석도 시도함으로써 사진과 사진행위에 대해 체계적이고 명료하게 인식할 수 있는 기회를 제공했다는 점에서 대단히 의미가 있는 작업이라 할 수 있다. 그러나 주요 분석 대상인 사진이 급속한 기술적 변화를 겪고 있는 매체이며 경제적이고 문화적인 요인들의 변화에 따른 위상의 변화를 보이고 있는 매체라는 점에서 부르디외의 분석은 오늘날 몇 가지 수정되어야 할 부분들을 가지게 되었다. 우선 부르디외가 강조한 사진의 사회적 기능이 무척 약화되었다. 반면에 사진의 예술적 지위는 대단히 상승했다. 이에 따라, 사진과 사진행위를 둘러싼 사회적 계급간의 관계들도 변했을 것이라 가정할 수 있다. 물론 이러한 계급간의 관계의 변화는 이후의 연구들을 통해 입증되어야 할 것이지만 적어도 오늘날, 부르디외가 연구를 진행했던 시기처럼 단호하게 사진을 중간예술이라고 규정하는 것은 무리가 있어 보인다. 따라서 부르디외의 작업을 현재의 상황에 무비판적으로 적용하기 전에 그 작업을 1960년대의 프랑스라는 사회적이고 역사적인 특수성 안에 위치시키고 사회학, 심리학, 미학, 기호학이 충돌하는 지식의 장 속에서 부르디외의 역할을 살펴봄으로써 그의 연구가 갖는 특성과 한계에 대해 명확히 인식할 필요가 있다.