영상실감을 위한 시각과 청각의 이용은 많은 발전을 이루어 왔다. 그러나 후각을 이용한 영상의 실감증대는 기술적 한계와 기초연구의 부족으로 구현되지 못하고 있다. 특히 다양한 영상에 필요한 냄새를 각각 구현하는 것은 반드시 해결해야하는 과제이다. 한 가지 방법은 유사한 냄새들의 군집을 발견하여 각 군집의 대표냄새를 사용하는 것이다. 이를 해결하기 위한 한 가지 방법은 서로 유사한 다양한 냄새를 포괄하는 냄새군집을 발견하 여 각 군집의 대표냄새를 사용하는 것이다. 이를 위해 본 연구에서는 냄새 간 쌍유사성 평정에 근거하여 영상에 빈번하게 등장하는 냄새의 군집을 탐색하였다. 먼저 300개의 다양한 냄새를 수집하여 11개의 범주로 구분한 후 각 범주별로 빈도, 선호도, 구체성에 근거하여 152개의 냄새를 선별하였다. 참가자들은 선별된 냄새로 구성 가능 한 1,018개의 냄새쌍에 대해 유사성 평정을 실시하였고 이 결과는 다차원척도법(multi-dimensional scaling, MDS) 으로 분석하였다. 냄새들의 구체성이 낮을수록 대표냄새의 사용이 용이할 것이라는 판단 하에 MDS 결과를 냄새 구체성이 낮은 순서부터 높은 범주순서로 제시하였다. 즉 꽃, 식물, 과일, 채소범주는 냄새 구체성이 낮아 대표냄 새 사용이 용이할 것 같은 범주로 (그림 1), 화학제품, 개인생활용품, 생리적 냄새, 일상적 장소는 구체성이 높은 것과 낮은 것이 섞여 있어 대표냄새 사용에 신중해야하는 범주로 (그림 2), 식재료, 음료, 음식은 구체성이 높아 대표냄새 사용에 어려운 범주로 (그림 3) 분류하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 냄새제작 비용과 시간을 줄이고 소비자 에게 합리적인 가격의 실감서비스를 제공하는데 기여할 수 있을 것이다.

Near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) has become increasingly used as a rapid and accurate method of evaluating some chemical compositions in forages and feedstuff. This study was carried out to explore the accuracy of near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) for the prediction of chemical parameters of fresh whole crop barley silages. A representative population of 284 fresh whole crop barley silages was used as a database for studying the possibilities of NIRS to predict chemical composition. Samples of silage were scanned at 1 nm intervals over the wavelength range 680~2,500 nm and the optical data were recorded as log 1/Reflectance (log 1/R) and were scanned in fresh condition. NIRS calibrations were developed by means of partial least-squares (PLS) regression. NIRS analysis of fresh whole crop barley silages provided accurate predictions of moisture, acid detergent fiber (ADF), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), crude protein (CP) and pH, as well as lactic acid content with correlation coefficients of cross-validation (R2cv) of 0.96, 0.81, 0.79, 0.84, 0.72 and 0.78, respectively, and standard error of cross-validation (SECV) of 1.26, 2.83, 2.18, 1.19, 0.13 and 0.32% DM, respectively. Results of this experiment showed the possibility of the NIRS method to predict the chemical parameters of fresh whole crop barley silages as a routine analysis method in feeding value evaluation and for farmer advice.

We have estimated the fractal dimension of the molecular clouds associated with the H ΙΙ region Sh 156 in the Outer Galaxy. We selected the 12CO cube data from the FCRAO CO Survey of the Outer Galaxy. Using a developed code within IRAF, we identified slice-clouds (2-dimensional clouds in velocity-channel maps) with two threshold temperatures to estimate the fractal dimension. With the threshold temperatures of 1.8 K, and 3 K, we identified 317 slice-clouds and 217 slice-clouds, respectively. There seems to be a turn-over location in fractional dimension slope around NP (area; number of pixel) = 40. The fractal dimensions was estimated to be D = 1.5 ∼ 1.53 for NP ≥ 40, where P ∝ AD/2 (P is perimeter and A is area), which is slightly larger than other results. The sampling rate (spatial resolution) of observed data must be an important parameter when estimating fractal dimension. Fractal dimension is apparently invariant when varying the threshold temperatures applied to slice-clouds identification.

A 63-year-old woman with a history of nephrolithiasis and long-term hemodialysis (HD) presented with abdominal pain. Abdominal computed tomography (CT) showed urinoma induced by renal forniceal rupture, and three causative calculi. No active stone growth or new stones were observed when compared with previous CT, however, fragmentation and migration of an existing stone was observed. After ureteroscopic lithotripsy and stenting with a double-J catheter, the patient made a full recovery. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of spontaneous renal forniceal rupture in an anuric HD patient caused by calculi. Renal forniceal rupture can occur, even in anuric HD patients.

Cerebral infarction is one of the leading causes of death worldwide and the most common cause of death from a singledisease in South Korea. Each year, 795,000 people in the U.S. experience a new or recurrent stroke. Approximately 15-30% of cerebral infarctions are of embolic origin related to cardiac abnormalities. Because determination of the etiology of cerebral infarction is crucial to acute management and future prevention, clinicians should pay attention to finding the cardiac source of embolism in patients with cerebral infarction. We report on a case of cerebral infarction by a small papillary fibroelastoma on the mitral valve. The patient was treated with open heart surgery and closure of the patent foramen ovale to prevent further embolic events.

Global positioning system (GPS) is widely used to measure the position of a vehicle. However, the accuracy of the GPS can be severely affected by surrounding environmental conditions. To deal with this problem, the GPS and odometry data can be combined using an extended Kalman filter. For stable navigation of an outdoor mobile robot using the GPS, this paper proposes two methods to evaluate the reliability of the GPS data. The first method is to calculate the standard deviation of the GPS data and reflect it to deal with the uncertainty of the GPS data. The second method is to match the GPS data to the traversability map which can be obtained by classifying outdoor terrain data. By matching of the GPS data with the traversability map, we can determine whether to use the GPS data or not. The experimental results show that the proposed methods can enhance the performance of the GPS‐based outdoor localization.