• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.77-109
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• 2013

The global diffusion of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) is changing the landscape of medicine and the healthcare system. STS scholars have shown how EBM works when put into practice. In continuing to add to the literature of previous scholars, this paper traces the historical process and debate over Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) testing as an early screening test for prostate cancer in the U.S. This study will reveal that both pros and cons of the testing using EBM as a crucial resources of the debate, and in the process both 'flexibly' interpret and mobilize the hierarchy of scientific evidence for EBM despite the fact the hierarchy is imagined to being scientific criteria that is rigid. Furthermore, this paper will argue that this phenomenon, for which EBM currently seems to support the cons side of PSA screening, was constructed in the context of appraisal of the value 'quality of life' in the EBM system. This case study proposes that those who study the debate of medical technology in the EBM era should contextualize and analyze EBM as part of this debate rather than simply taking EBM for granted.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.84 no.4
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• pp.784-791
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• 2023

Based on statistics available in Korea, trauma centers play a critical role in treatment of patients with trauma. Interventional radiologists in trauma centers perform various procedures, including embolization, which constitutes the basic treatment for control of hemorrhage, although interventions such as stent graft insertion may also be used. Although emergency interventional procedures have been used conventionally, rapid and effective hemorrhage control is important in patients with trauma. Therefore, it is important to accurately understand and implement the concept of damage control interventional radiology, which has gained attention in recent times, to reduce preventable trauma-induced mortality rates.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.167-187
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• 2019

Information behavior (IB) research in LIS and Health Information Seeking Behavior (HISB) in Health Medicine are two subject areas of research that have matured in the past few decades. This research aimed to compare these two research areas using a bibliometric approach. To conduct this study two distinct datasets were created using the Scopus database: a) bibliographic records of IB in the LIS domain, and b) bibliographic records of the HISB domain. The bibliometric analysis was performed according to the following criteria: published papers, citations, journal articles, author keywords, unique words in the title, words preceding "information" in the title, words preceding "study" in the title, and author keywords along with index keywords. As a result, the major differences in the two IB research areas were evident in terms of definitions, main focus, and general demographic groups. These varying types of differences suggest that researchers of the two areas should have flexibility when examining issues related to IB by considering the context and the unique distinction between the two fields.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.153-160
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• 2021

Goal of this study is to introduce newly developed Oral Motor Facilitation Technique(OMFT), to identify effect of oral motor therapy on oral praxis and oral function of Down syndrome child. OMFT is comprehensive oral motor therapy for improving sensory adaptation, oral sensori-motor function, oral motor coordination of oro-facial structure by therapist's direct manual stroking. Subject was 10years old down syndrome boy. Treatment was practiced 8 times, 15minutes per time, from May to July, 2020. Oral praxis, drooling, quality of chewing ability were tested before and after treatments. Every single items of Oral Praxis Test was increased. Severity and frequency of drooling were decreased. Quality of chewing ability is improved. Through this case study, we can find the positive effect of OMFT on oral praxis, drooling, chewing ability of Down syndrome child.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.31-34
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 임상 의사 결정 지원을 위한 UMLS와 위키피디아를 이용하여 지식 정보를 추출하고 질의 유형 정보를 이용한 LDA 기반 질의 확장 방법을 제안한다. 질의로는 해당 환자가 겪고 있는 증상들이 주어진다. UMLS와 위키피디아를 사용하여 병명과 병과 관련된 증상, 검사 방법, 치료 방법 정보를 추출한다. UMLS와 위키피디아를 사용하여 추출한 의학 정보를 이용하여 질의와 관련된 병명을 추출한다. 질의와 관련된 병명을 이용하여 추가 증상, 검사 방법, 치료 방법 정보를 확장 질의로 선택한다. 또한, LDA를 실행한 후, Word-Topic 클러스터에서 질의와 관련된 클러스터를 추출하고 Document-Topic 클러스터에서 초기 검색 결과와 관련이 높은 클러스터를 추출한다. 추출한 Word-Topic 클러스터와 Document-Topic 클러스터 중 같은 번호를 가지고 있는 클러스터를 찾는다. 그 후, Word-Topic 클러스터에서 의학 용어를 추출하여 확장 질의로 선택한다. 제안 방법의 유효성을 검증하기 위해 TREC Clinical Decision Support(CDS) 2014 테스트 컬렉션에 대해 비교 평가한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.7-8
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• 2018

독일, 프랑스, 영국 등 유럽 국가에서는 오래전부터 휴양을 통해 심신을 치유하는 휴양의학이 발달하였으며 휴양의학의 한 활동으로 해양의 자원과 기후환경을 활용한 해양치유산업이 발달하였다. 최근에는 국내에서도 고령화 시대가 도래함에 따라 해양치유산업에 대한 관심이 높아 지고 있으며, 정책적으로 해양치유산업 활성화를 위한 연구가 진행 중에 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 정책에 맞춰 해양헬스케어산업을 해양분야 신산업으로 육성하기 위한 기초연구로 유럽의 해양치유단지 및 센터에서 실행하는 해양치유 활동 및 활용가능한 해양치유자원에 대한 조사와 분석을 바탕으로 해양핼스케어산업화에 대한 방안을 제시하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.40 no.2
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• pp.389-414
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• 2006

This paper analyzes the current status of open access policies, publishing, and archiving in the field of medicine. Journals indexed in SCI are published by open access publishers such as BMC Ltd. and PLoS and then the research articles in those journals are archived in PMC and BMC. Also, funding institutions participate in developing open access as a new scholarly communication model and governments or independent funding institutions outside the country make policies for open access. But scholary communities in Korea do not develop their services in the level of a new scholarly communication model even though they open their journal articles on the homepages. This paper suggests several plans for the open access scholarly communication in the field of medicine in Korea.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.69-73
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• 2002

Exposure measurement data with parallel plate ionization chambers were known to depend on the polarity ($k_{pol}$) effect. In this work, the polarity effect were investigated for three parallel plate ionization chambers with different volume. The ionization chamber was fabricated using acrylic plate for the chamber medium and printed circuit board for electrical configuration. The various sizes of the sensitive volumes designed so far were 0.9, 1.9, and 3.1 co. High voltage generator was fabricated using the conventional 9 V batteries to apply the high voltage (300-500 V) to the electrode of the parallel plate ionization chamber. The gap between two electrodes ranged from 3, 6, and 10mm. As the result of our experiment, the polarity effect was within 0.5% in photon beam and 1% to 3.5% in the electron beams. Among electron beams, 16 MeV beam, which had highest energy, showed less polarity effect than electron beams with other energies.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.449-454
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• 2006

최근 PC 클러스터를 이용한 초고해상도 영상표현 시스템(예: PowerWall$^{TM}$) 혹은 몰입형 가상환경 표현시스템 (예: CAVE$^{TM}$, RealityCenters$^{TM}$) 등과 같은 멀티프로젝션 디스플레이 시스템은 산업, 군사, 과학, 의학 등에 널리 활용되고 있다. 하지만, 이와 같은 멀티프로젝션 디스플레이 시스템은 다수의 PC 클러스터와 프로젝터의 연결에 의해 구성이 되기 때문에 그 제어 방법은 각각의 PC 및 프로젝터의 프로그램과 동작을 반복적으로 실행하여야 한다. 이에 PC 클러스터 및 프로젝터의 직관적인 제어가 가능하고 일괄적으로 운용할 수 있는 환경이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 멀티프로젝션 디스플레이 시스템의 PC 클러스터 및 프로젝터의 제어와 운용에 관한 것으로, PC 클러스터에 필요한 응용프로그램 일괄실행, 일괄 power 처리와 프로젝터에 필요한 일시중지(Mute), 입력소스선택, 일괄 power on/off 수행 등에 관한 효과적인 인터페이스의 구현 및 제어 방법을 제시하고자 한다.

• Philosophy of Medicine
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• v.15
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• pp.3-37
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• 2013

George Canguilhem(1904-1995) is one of the rare French philosophers of the 20th century to develop an approach that was shaped by a medical education. For him, medicine is considered as "a technique or an art at the junction of many different sciences, rather than a proper science." The thesis that medicine is a technique is presented not at a practical level, but on an axiological horizon which reflects the totality of humanity. This character of medicine became a motive that concretized Canguilhem's philosophical thinking. Medical knowledge is not an application of physiology, but is derived from clinical observations which are based on the personal experiences of each patient. If medicine were based on scientific knowledge and its practice the very application of this pure knowledge, the patient might be a passive object. However, the patient doesn't remain passive, but reacts to the menace of disease according to attitude that the patient developed over the course of his or her life. Canguilhem characterizes this point as 'normativity', the core of individual life, which eludes positivist medicine. Here appear the essential contents of his vitalism. Although they emphasized the activity of individual living being, other modern French vitalists didn't consider this dimension of norms. Since the normativity in Canguilhem concerns the subjectivity of the first person, it avoids a mechanical form of explanation. Thus Canguilhem's originality is found in his derivation of the essence of medicine from individuality, values and norms.