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A modified charcoal kiln was developed for both thermal therapy and charcoal production. The design of a modified kiln for thermal therapy focused on safety and cleanliness, plus the production of good quality charcoal. Two entrances in the kiln were designed for convenient charcoal production and thermal therapy. A barrier wall designed for noxious gases was installed between the adjoining charcoal kilns for safe thermal therapy. Additionally, a fine dust collector was installed to remove the fine dust generated during charcoal production. To verify the safety of the kiln, fine dust and harmful gases, such as carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and radon (Rn), were measured after the charring process. The quality of the charcoal produced in the thermal therapy kiln was also examined. To evaluate charcoal quality, some physical properties and results from a proximate analysis were evaluated using Korean standards. The measurements of harmful substances and fine dust in the modified charcoal kiln met the criterion of the Ministry of Environment Clean Air Conservation Act in Korea. In addition, there were no noticeable differences in the monthly charcoal characteristics prepared from the thermal therapy kiln, and the charcoal characteristics also met the reference values of the Korea Forest Service.

Objective The risk of complications is high for patients with a large cranial defect and hydrocephalus, undergoing cranioplasty and ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt operation. The purpose of this study is to examine retrospectively such cases with complications and contrive an operative technique to reduce complications. Methods Nineteen patients underwent cranioplasty and VP shunt operation due to large cranial defects and hydrocephalus. These patients were divided into two groups: Group A with 10 patients who underwent staged-operations, and Group B with 9 patients who underwent one-stage operation. Their complications in each group were retrospectively reviewed. Another five patients underwent a one-stage operation with temporary occlusion of the distal shunt catheter to improve on the technique and were categorized as Group C. Complications in these groups were compared and analyzed. Results The results of the data analysis revealed that complications related to anesthesia (40%) and those related to antibiotic prophylaxis (30%) were high in Group A, while non-infectious delayed complications (45%) and perioperative complications such as intracranial hematoma (33%) were high in Group B. However, for patients in Group C, it showed less complication with the operative technique devised by these authors, as opposed to two previous procedures. Conclusion In patients with hydrocephalus and a large cranial defect, complications arising from existing one-stage operation or staged-operations can be reduced by implementing the technique of "one-stage operation with temporary occlusion of the distal shunt catheter."

Owing to the focal wall defect covered with thin fibrous tissues, an aneurysm arising from the dorsal wall of the internal carotid artery (ICA) is difficult to manage either surgically or endovascularly and is often associated with high morbidity and mortality. Unfortunately, the definitive treatment modality of such highly risky aneurysm has not yet been demonstrated. Upon encountering the complex intracranial pathophysiology of such a highly precarious aneurysm, a neurosurgeon would be faced with a challenge to decide on an optimal approach. This is a case of multiple paraclinoid aneurysms including the ICA dorsal wall aneurysm, presented with spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage. With respect to treatment, direct clipping with a Sundt graft clip was performed after multiple endovascular interventions had failed. This surgical approach can be a treatment modality for a blood blister-like aneurysm after failed endovascular intervention(s).

The management guideline for traumatic brain injury (TBI) recommends high-dose barbiturate therapy to control increased intracranial pressure refractory to other therapeutic options. High-dose barbiturate therapy, however, may cause many severe side effects; the commonly recognized ones include hypotension, immunosuppression, hepatic dysfunction, renal dysfunction, and prolonged decrease of cortical activity. Meanwhile, dyskalemia remains relatively uncommon. In this study, we report the case of a hypokalemic patient with severe rebound hyperkalemia, which occurred as a result of barbiturate coma therapy administered for TBI treatment.

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) has replaced its predecessor, Double Encryption Standard (DES), as the most widely used encryption algorithm in many security applications. Up to today, AES standard has key size variants of 128, 192, and 256-bit, where longer bit keys provide more secure ciphered text output. In the hardware perspective, bigger key size also means bigger area and power consumption due to more operations that need to be done. Some companies that employ ultra-high security in their systems may look for a key size bigger than 256-bit AES. In this paper, 128 and 256-bit AES hardware, as well as two variants of an AES encryption algorithm for 512-bit and 1024-bit key size, are implemented and compared in terms of power consumption and area. The experiment is done in 45 nm CMOS technology at 1.1 V using a Synopys DC Compiler and Modelsim and total power consumption and area results are presented and graphically compared.

The effects of Mg and Si contents on the microstructure and mechanical properties in Al-Mg alloy (ALDC6) were investigated.The results showed that phase fraction and size of Mg 2 Si and Al 15 (Fe,Mn) 3 Si 2 phase in the microstructure of Al-Mg alloy wereincreased as the Mg and Si contents were raised from 2.5 to 3.5wt%. With Si content of 1.5wt%, freezing range of the alloy wassignificantly reduced and solidification became more complex during the final stage of solidification. While there was no significantinfluence of Mg contents on mechanical properties, Si contents up to 1.5wt%, strongly affected the mechanical properties. Espe-cially elongation was reduced by about a half with more than 1.0wt%Si in the alloy. The bending and impact strength weredecreased with increased amount of Si in the alloy, as well. The lowered mechanical properties are because of the growth of particleshaped coarse Mg 2 Si phase and precipitation of the needle like β -AlFeSi in the microstructure at the last region to solidify due topresence of excess amount of Si in the alloy.Key words : Al-Mg alloy, Die casting, Mechanical property, Microstructure, Thermodynamic simulation, Alloying element effect.

The recent trends in malwares show the most widely used for the distribution of malwares that the targeted computer is infected while the user is accessing to the website, without being aware of the fact that, in which the harmful codes are concealed. In this thesis, we propose a new malicious web page detection system based on a real time analysis of normal/abnormal behaviors in client-side. By means of this new approach, it is not only the limitation of conventional methods can be overcome, but also the risk of infection from malwares is mitigated.

The effect of the alloy systems Al-Mg alloy and Al-Si alloy in this study on the characteristics of die-casting were investigated using solidification simulation software (MAGMAsoft). Generally, it is well known that the casting characteristics of Al-Mg based alloys, such as the fluidity, feedability and die soldering behaviors, are inferior to those of Al-Si based alloys. However, the simulation results of this study showed that the filling pattern behaviors of both the Al-Mg and Al-Si alloys were found to be very similar, whereas the Al-Mg alloy had higher residual stress and greater distortion as generated due to solidification with a larger amount of volumetric shrinkage compared to the Al-Si alloy. The Al-Mg alloy exhibited very high relative numbers of stress-concentrated regions, especially near the rib areas. Owing to the residual stress and distortion, defects were evident in the Al-Mg alloy in the areas predicted by the simulation. However, there were no visible defects observed in the Al-Si alloy. This suggests that an adequate die temperature and casting process optimization are necessary to control and minimize defects when die casting the Al-Mg alloy. A Tatur test was conducted to observe the shrinkage characteristics of the aluminum alloys. The result showed that hot tearing or hot cracking occurred during the solidification of the Al-Mg alloy due to the large amount of shrinkage.

Machine Learning as network attack detection is one of the popular methods researched. Signature based network attack detection is no longer convinced the efficiency in the diversified intrusions (Limmer and Dressler in 17th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security, 2010). Moreover, as the various Zero-day attacks, non notified attacks cannot be detected (Wu and Banzhaf in Appl Soft Comput 10(1):1---35, 2010). This paper suggests an effective update method of data set on Machine Learning to detect non notified attacks. In addition, this paper compares and verifies the effects of Machine Learning Detection with updated data set to the former methods.

Knowledge of the Mg–B binary phase diagram is important in for the synthesis of superconducting MgB2 and of potential, new Mg–B alloys. However, the literature phase diagram is highly uncertain because it was originally constructed by guessing the decomposition temperatures of magnesium boride phases. We therefore utilized the CALPHAD method and ab initio calculations to compute thermodynamic model parameters to determine the decomposition temperatures of magnesium borides and re-assess the Mg–B binary phase diagram.

Since mobile application market drastically extended, there have been many problems related to proliferative malicious applications that leak user’s private information stored in own smart device. In Korea, government strives to protect smart device users from these problems and to establish legal basis through ‘Privacy Act’ as a preceding step but studies on analysis models and verification tools for mobile application have not yet much developed. The purpose of this research is to suggest an analysis system to prevent propagation of harmful applications, which compromise the user’s personal information, by extracting signatures from malicious code samples detected in Android. Maliciousness of the applications has determined by learning their parsing information on the components such as DEX, Manifest, SO etc.

Objective Our purpose of this study is to compare insertion angles and screw lengths from Roy-Camille, Magerl, and our designed method for cervical lateral mass screw fixation in the Korean population by quantitative measurement of reformatted two dimensional (2D) computed tomography (CT) images. Methods We selected thirty Korean patients who were evaluated with thin section CT scans and reconstruction program to obtain reformatted 2D-CT images of the transversal plane passing the cranio-caudal angle using three different techniques. We measured the minimum angle to avoid vertebral artery (VA) injury, the ideal angle and depth for bicortical screwing of cervical lateral mass. Morphometric measurements of the lateral masses from C3-C7 were also taken. Results In all three techniques, the mean safety angles from the VA were less than 8 degrees and the necessary depth of the screw was about 14 mm for safety to the VA and for the bicortical purchase. In our designed technique, the mean beta angles of each level from C3 to C7 were 29.0, 29.8, 29.5, 26.3, and 23.9 degrees, respectively. Conclusion Results of this study and data from the literature indicate that differences may exist between the Korean and Western people in the length and angle for ideal lateral mass screw fixation. In addition, our technique needs further cadaveric and clinical study for safety and efficacy for being performed as alternative method for cervical lateral mass fixation.

Cleidocranial dysplasia is a well-documented rare autosomal dominant skeletal dysplasia characterized by hypoplastic/aplastic clavicles, brachycephalic skull, patent sutures and fontanelles, midface hypoplasia, and abnormalities of dentition. Patients with cleidocranial dysplasia often complain about undesirable esthetic appearance of their forehead and skull. Notwithstanding many studies of molecular, genetics and skeletal abnormalities of this congenial disorder, there have been very few written reports of cranioplasty involving cleidocranial dysplasia. Thus, we report a rare case of successful cranioplasty using a modified split calvarial graft technique in patient with cleidocranial dysplasia.