• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.581-582
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• 1996

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.253-256
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• 1999

• The Korean Journal of Blood Transfusion
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.169-172
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• 2012

Lutheran a antigen ($Lu^a$) is detected in 6 to 8% of Caucasians and Africans. In Korean and other Asian populations, it is very rare or nearly absent. Therefore, although $Lu^a$ has a considerable immunizing capacity, sensitization to $Lu^a$ is a rare event. Here we report on a rare case of anti-$Lu^a$ in a 70 year-old female patient with Lu (a-/b+) phenotype and review the relevant literature. Due to the paucity of $Lu^a$ positive panel cells in antibody screening and identification tests, detection of this rare antibody to $Lu^a$ antigen is not feasible. Therefore, we should keep in mind the possibility of the misleading false negative result in detection of antibody to this low incidence antigen.

• Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.86-93
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• 2018

Objectives : The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between the insulin resistance and depressive mood, suicidal ideation, psychological stress, and quality of life in general Korean population. Methods : We selected 3,613 subjects from the third year's data of 6th Korean National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey. Insulin resistance was evaluated with Homeostatic Model Assessment of Insulin Resistance. Questionnaires on depressive mood, suicidal ideation and psychological stress were conducted. The quality of life was assessed with the EuroQol-5 dimension index. We used correlation and regression analysis for analysis. Results : The risk of depressive mood and suicidal ideation was significantly higher in the insulin resistance group than in the control group. The risk of psychological stress was significantly higher in the male group with insulin resistance. The EuroQol-5 dimension index showed a negative correlation with insulin resistance. After adjusting for age, sex and body mass index, increased risk of suicidal ideation was identified only. Conclusions : We confirmed that insulin resistance is associated to mental health problems related with depression in Korean adults.

• Annals of Clinical Microbiology
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.23-27
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• 2014

Rapidly growing mycobacteria are ubiquitous in the environment and are increasingly being recognized as opportunistic pathogens. Recently, a new species, Mycobacteium conceptionense, has been validated from the Mycobacterium fortuitum third biovariant complex by molecular analysis. However, there are few reports, and postsurgical wound infection by this species is rare. We report a case of postsurgical wound infection caused by M. conceptionense in an immunocompetent patient that was identified by a sequencing analysis of 16S rRNA, hps65, and rpoB genes.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.81 no.1
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• pp.190-196
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• 2020

Xanthogranulomatous inflammation is a rare inflammatory reaction, characterized by lipid-laden macrophages, known as xanthomas, in histopathologic examination. Aggressive xanthogranulomatous inflammation often manifests as local infiltration but does not affect distant organs unless combined with rare systemic diseases. We report a case of focal xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis (XGP) associated with severe xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis. Focal XGP was suspected in radiologic examination that showed a cystic lesion with an infiltrative margin, which were surgically resected and confirmed in pathologic examination. To our knowledge, this is the first report of focal xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis associated with xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis. Moreover, we found peripheral hypointensity around the cystic lesion in the T2-weighted image, probably reflecting hemorrhage and fibrosis of the xanthogranulomatous inflammation.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.81 no.2
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• pp.428-435
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• 2020

Herein, we report a case of synchronous bilateral triple negative invasive ductal breast carcinoma in a patient with discrepant pathologic response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Right and left breast cancer stages at the initial diagnosis were T1cN0M0 and T4dN3aM0, respectively. The patient was identified as a BRCA1 mutation carrier and treated with four cycles of adriamycin and cyclophosphamide, followed by four cycles of docetaxel. Bilateral breast cancer stages decreased with the first regimen. However, the bilateral breast cancers showed discrepant responses to chemotherapy with docetaxel. The right breast cancer showed a continuous tumor volume reduction while the left breast cancer showed marked progression. Finally, the tumor size was 0.3 cm and 12 cm in the right and left mastectomy specimens, respectively. As bilateral breast cancers of the same subtype may show discrepant responses to neoadjuvant chemotherapy, close monitoring and follow-up imaging are required to avoid delayed surgery.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.635-639
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• 2021

As times goes by, a ton of electric devices have been developing. Nowadays, there are many personal electric goods that are connected each other and have important private information such as identification, account number, passwords, and so on. As many people own at least one electric device, security of the electric devices became significant. To prevent leakage of the information, study of Chaotic TRNG, "Chaotic True Random Number Generator", protecting the information by generating random numbers that are not able to be expected, is essential. In this paper, A chaotic TRNG is introduced is simulated. The proposed Chaotic TRNG is simulated with Virtuoso &, a circuit design program of Cadence that is a software company. For simulating the mentioned Chaotic TRNG, setting values, 0V low and 3V high on Vpulse, 1.2V on V-ref, 3.3V on VDD, and 0V on VSS, are used.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2020.06a
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• pp.142-142
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• 2020

하천에서의 화학사고는 자연적 및 인위적인 원인으로 인해 발생할 수 있으며, 대량의 화학물질이 하천으로 유입되는 것을 말한다. 이러한 화학사고는 수환경의 변화를 야기해 생태계나 인간에게 악영향을 초래하여 심각한 문제가 발생 될 수 있다. 하천으로 유입된 화학물질의 정량적 평가에 대한 연구는 활발하게 진행되고 있지만, 화학사고 초기 대응을 위한 하천에서의 화학물질 감지에 대한 연구는 미비한 실정이다. 한국 하천의 주요 지점에는 pH 및 EC 등을 실시간으로 측정하는 자동측정망을 운영하고 있기 때문에 이러한 측정항목들을 활용하여 화학물질을 감지하거나 식별 가능성에 대한 평가 연구는 하천 화학사고 대응을 위한 중요한 기초자료로 활용될 수 있다. 또한 분석된 결과를 바탕으로 미지의 화학물질을 다른 용매에 적용 시켰을 때 변화되는 pH 및 EC 결과와 통계적 수치비교를 통해 미지의 화학물질 식별 가능성을 평가하였다. 이를 통해 본 연구에서 선정한 pH 및 EC 항목이 화학물질 감지 및 식별을 위한 대체지표로써의 활용 가능성을 실험적 연구를 통해 평가하고자 하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 현장에서 쉽고, 신속하게 화학물질 감지 및 식별을 위한 정보를 제공할 수 있다는데 의미가 있으며, 화학사고의 신속한 대응을 위한 기초자료로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2021.11a
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• pp.60-62
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• 2021

항로표지는 해상상황 정보를 수집하고 선박들의 항해에 안전을 도모하기 위해 설치 및 운용되고 있다. 관련해 개별 지방청에서 운영되는 데이터를 빅데이터 형태로 활용하고자 하는 경우 수집된 데이터의 품질에 대한 평가가 이루어져야 한다. 본 논문에서는 수집된 항로표지 데이터의 누락 정보를 중심으로 데이터 수집에 있어 장애 생성의 주된 원인을 찾고자 하였다. 수집된 데이터의 분석 결과 기상악화와 표지의 전압이 하락한 날에 데이터 결측 발생률이 톺음을 확인할 수 있었다. 이를 통해 기상 상황, 표지의 전압 상태 그리고 수집된 데이터 개수의 비교를 통해 기상악화가 영향을 미쳤을 수 있음을 확인하였다.