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New treatment method for pain and reduction of local anesthesia use in deep caries

  • Yun, Jihye;Shim, Youn-Soo;Park, So-Young;An, So-Youn
    • Journal of Dental Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.277-285
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    • 2018
  • Chemo-mechanical caries removal methods are known to be more effective compared with conventional methods in pain reduction. $Carie-care^{TM}$, a chemo-mechanical caries removal agent, was introduced in 2010 but a systematic review of its efficacy has not yet been performed. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of $Carie-care^{TM}$ on the outcomes of treatment of caries in children and adolescents. The primary outcome was pain while the secondary outcomes included complete caries removal (CCR), time, need for local anesthesia and behavioral response changes. A Comprehensive literature search was performed in PubMed, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library up to 30 September 2018. The following keywords were used in the search: 'chemo-mechanical caries removal agent', 'dental caries', 'Carie-care', 'chemo-mechanical caries removal', 'chemo-mechanical caries excavation', other related keywords, and their combinations. From 942 studies identified, 16 were analyzed. Finally, 4 studies met the eligibility criteria and 260 teeth in 120 children and adolescents were included in this review. This review showed that $Carie-care^{TM}$ reduces pain during caries treatment but requires a longer time for effective treatment than conventional methods. Local anesthesia was not required in the Chemo-mechanical caries removal (CMCR) group. In addition, dental anxiety decreased compared to the control group, and co-operation was more positive. Therefore, it may be a useful alternative to conventional methods in children and adolescents, but further verification through additional studies is needed.

Principles and Methods for Critical Mathematics Education: An Explorative Study of a Program (비판적 수학교육의 원리와 방법 탐색: 프로그램 개발을 위한 기초연구로서)

  • Song, Ryoon-Jin;Ju, Mi-Kyung
    • Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.857-888
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    • 2017
  • Due to globalization, diversification, and informatization, modern society confronts change and crisis in a variety of areas such as economy, politics, and culture. In that context, mathematics educators seek for how to reform school mathematics for democratic and just society. This research proposes critical mathematics education as an alternative model of school mathematics for democratic society. In particular, this research is an explorative study to construct a model of critical mathematics education program. For the purpose, we conducted a comprehensive literature review to identify goals, contents, and methods of teaching and learning, and method of assessment for critical mathematics education. We checked the validity of the model by using the cases of critical mathematics education. Since this research is explorative in the regard that the model is based on theoretical literatures, further research is necessary to extend the model through design research in school context.

Methods for Decision making model in Apartment development projects using on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP기법을 이용한 공동주택 개발 사업 의사결정 평가 모델 개발)

  • Kim, Man-Jang;Lee, Jae-Seob
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.95-103
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    • 2008
  • In recent years, there has been more reconstruction and redevelopment of apartments rather than efforts to consider alternative to extend the life time oh the apartments. It is essential to try to develop ways to adequately maintain and to use the apartment facilities efficiently in order to preserve earth environment and the limited resource. However, lacking research on the effects obtained through remodelling and maintenance have interfered with the vitalizing of the market. The objective of this study is to propose criterions and methods with which to evaluate adequacy of developing method. A survey was performed to investigate important evaluating methods in order to obtain advices that can smoothly progress improve apartment developing method. This study applied AHP(Analytical Hierarchy Process) methods for reasonable dependancy of developing in apartment. Through this study, the flow of apartment market is elevated to reaching the level in advanced nation.

An Efficient One Class Classifier Using Gaussian-based Hyper-Rectangle Generation (가우시안 기반 Hyper-Rectangle 생성을 이용한 효율적 단일 분류기)

  • Kim, Do Gyun;Choi, Jin Young;Ko, Jeonghan
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.41 no.2
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    • pp.56-64
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    • 2018
  • In recent years, imbalanced data is one of the most important and frequent issue for quality control in industrial field. As an example, defect rate has been drastically reduced thanks to highly developed technology and quality management, so that only few defective data can be obtained from production process. Therefore, quality classification should be performed under the condition that one class (defective dataset) is even smaller than the other class (good dataset). However, traditional multi-class classification methods are not appropriate to deal with such an imbalanced dataset, since they classify data from the difference between one class and the others that can hardly be found in imbalanced datasets. Thus, one-class classification that thoroughly learns patterns of target class is more suitable for imbalanced dataset since it only focuses on data in a target class. So far, several one-class classification methods such as one-class support vector machine, neural network and decision tree there have been suggested. One-class support vector machine and neural network can guarantee good classification rate, and decision tree can provide a set of rules that can be clearly interpreted. However, the classifiers obtained from the former two methods consist of complex mathematical functions and cannot be easily understood by users. In case of decision tree, the criterion for rule generation is ambiguous. Therefore, as an alternative, a new one-class classifier using hyper-rectangles was proposed, which performs precise classification compared to other methods and generates rules clearly understood by users as well. In this paper, we suggest an approach for improving the limitations of those previous one-class classification algorithms. Specifically, the suggested approach produces more improved one-class classifier using hyper-rectangles generated by using Gaussian function. The performance of the suggested algorithm is verified by a numerical experiment, which uses several datasets in UCI machine learning repository.

Methods for improving efficiency in Apartment Maintenance Management using on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP 기법을 이용한 공동주택 유지관리 효율성 제고 방안)

  • Lee, Jeong-Bok
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.7 no.4 s.32
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    • pp.69-77
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    • 2006
  • In recent years, there has been more reconstruction and redevelopment of apartments rather than efforts to consider alternative to extend the life time of the apartments. It is essential to try to develop ways to adequately maintain and to use the apartment facilities efficiently in order to preserve earth environment and the limited resource. However, tacking research on the effects obtained through remodelling and maintenance have interfered with the vitalizing of the market. The objective of this study is to propose criterions and methods with which to evaluate adequacy of maintenance management. A survey was performed to investigate important maintenance methods in order to obtain advices that can smoothly progress improve apartment maintenance management. This study applied AHP(Analytical Hierarchy Process) methods for reasonable maintenance in apartment. Through this study, the flow of apartment maintenance market is elevated to reaching the level in advanced nation.

Effectiveness of Situational Crime Prevention Methods to Deter Shoplifting in the Private Security (상점절도 방지를 위한 상황적 경비기법의 효과성)

  • Kang, Min-Wan
    • Korean Security Journal
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    • no.27
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    • pp.7-30
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    • 2011
  • Shoplifting causes serious losses to not only stores but also to consumers and society as a whole. There need to be effective society-wide measures to control shoplifting due to its characteristic of playing the role as a stepping stone to induce more serious crimes. However, there is a lack of research on shoplifting in Korea, especially the research analyzing situational factors to suggest effective alternative measures for shoplifting prevention. Therefore, the current study surveyed teenagers, the group known to be the most frequent shoplifters, to see their perception of effectiveness of the situational crime prevention methods used in stores. The result showed that the teenagers found only some of the prevention methods effective, including CCTV, Electronic Article Surveillance(EAS), minimization of blind areas, and watchful clerks. However, factors such as the number of doors and their accessibility and presence of security guards were not perceived to be very effective. Using the result of the survey, this study suggests ways to utilize situational crime prevention methods more effectively to deter shoplifting.

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Study on Clinical Operating Measures of Authentic Therapy and Supplementary Therapy in Oriental Medicine (한의학 정통요법과 보조요법의 임상적 운용방안)

  • Lee Jae-Soo;Kwon Young-Kyu;Yang Chae-Ha;Kim Kwang-Joong
    • Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.215-223
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    • 2006
  • This research surveyed oriental medicine therapies currently used in oriental medicine circles by referring to oriental medicine books-based existing traditional authentic therapies, as well as market-sold supplementary therapy-related ordinary health books and Internet information, and supplementary therapy-related dissertations, reviewed the fundamental operating significance of these therapies, and pursued their clinical operating measures based on their clinical information as follows Various therapies currently used in oriental medicine circles are categorized into authentic therapies and supplementary therapies in oriental medicine. Authentic therapies in Oriental medicine are based on bodily self-vitality abilities, pursue positive methods of treating diseases, and include medication therapies, acupuncture therapies, and external therapies. Supplementary therapies in oriental medicine are based on bodily self-vitality abilities, pursue indirect methods of treating diseases, and consist of lifestyle therapy and body management therapy. Authentic and supplementary therapies in Oriental medicine are used either separately or together according to clinical treatment methods. In treating diseases, clinical operating methods exclusively based on traditional authentic therapies and supplementary therapies include Donguibogam (anthology of ancient oriental medicine), Uihakipmun (introduction to medicine), Somun school, and bodily acupuncture according to diagnoses of symptoms, as well as sasangbang (prescription based on four types of bodily constitution), myeongribang prescription, hyeongsangbang prescription, and bodily constitution-based acupuncture according to diagnoses of bodily constitutions. In clinical operation of Oriental medicine, supplementary therapies are parity duplicated dy alternative medicine. However, given patients' needs and clinical practicality, Oriental medicine circles should establish a system based on the fundamental viewpoint of Oriental medicine theories, and corresponding policies should also be researched.

A New True Ortho-photo Generation Algorithm for High Resolution Satellite Imagery

  • Bang, Ki-In;Kim, Chang-Jae
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.347-359
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    • 2010
  • Ortho-photos provide valuable spatial and spectral information for various Geographic Information System (GIS) and mapping applications. The absence of relief displacement and the uniform scale in ortho-photos enable interested users to measure distances, compute areas, derive geographic locations, and quantify changes. Differential rectification has traditionally been used for ortho-photo generation. However, differential rectification produces serious problems (in the form of ghost images) when dealing with large scale imagery over urban areas. To avoid these artifacts, true ortho-photo generation techniques have been devised to remove ghost images through visibility analysis and occlusion detection. So far, the Z-buffer method has been one of the most popular methods for true ortho-photo generation. However, it is quite sensitive to the relationship between the cell size of the Digital Surface Model (DSM) and the Ground Sampling Distance (GSD) of the imaging sensor. Another critical issue of true ortho-photo generation using high resolution satellite imagery is the scan line search. In other words, the perspective center corresponding to each ground point should be identified since we are dealing with a line camera. This paper introduces alternative methodology for true ortho-photo generation that circumvents the drawbacks of the Z-buffer technique and the existing scan line search methods. The experiments using real data are carried out while comparing the performance of the proposed and the existing methods through qualitative and quantitative evaluations and computational efficiency. The experimental analysis proved that the proposed method provided the best success ratio of the occlusion detection and had reasonable processing time compared to all other true ortho-photo generation methods tested in this paper.

Creating damage tolerant intersections in composite structures using tufting and 3D woven connectors

  • Clegg, Harry M.;Dell'Anno, Giuseppe;Partridge, Ivana K.
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.145-156
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    • 2019
  • As the industrial desire for a step change in productivity within the manufacture of composite structures increases, so does the interest in Through-Thickness Reinforcement technologies. As manufacturers look to increase the production rate, whilst reducing cost, Through-Thickness Reinforcement technologies represent valid methods to reinforce structural joints, as well as providing a potential alternative to mechanical fastening and bolting. The use of tufting promises to resolve the typically low delamination resistance, which is necessary when it comes to creating intersections within complex composite structures. Emerging methods include the use of 3D woven connectors, and orthogonally intersecting fibre packs, with the components secured by the selective insertion of microfasteners in the form of tufts. Intersections of this type are prevalent in aeronautical applications, as a typical connection to be found in aircraft wing structures, and their intersections with the composite skin and other structural elements. The common practice is to create back-to-back composite "L's", or to utilise a machined metallic connector, mechanically fastened to the remainder of the structure. 3D woven connectors and selective Through-Thickness Reinforcement promise to increase the ultimate load that the structure can bear, whilst reducing manufacturing complexity, increasing the load carrying capability and facilitating the automated production of parts of the composite structure. This paper provides an overview of the currently available methods for creating intersections within composite structures and compares them to alternatives involving the use of 3D woven connectors, and the application of selective Through-Thickness Reinforcement for enhanced damage tolerance. The use of tufts is investigated, and their effect on the load carrying ability of the structure is examined. The results of mechanical tests are presented for each of the methods described, and their failure characteristics examined.

Actual Measurement Study on Use of Bone Proportional Cun and Finger-Breadth Cun in Locating Acupoints at Head in Korean Adults (두부 경혈 취혈에서 골도분촌법(骨度分寸法)과 일부법(一扶法) 사용에 대한 한국인 성인에서 실측 연구)

  • Kang, Su-Bin;Kim, Jee-Won;Lee, Ji-Young;Park, Hyun-Chul;Kim, Lakhyung
    • Journal of Oriental Neuropsychiatry
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.321-328
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    • 2021
  • Objectives: To compare bone proportional cun and finger-breadth cun in the head area to clearly distinguish the anterior hairline. Methods: In this study, the head area was measured for 50 adult males and females in their 20s with normal hair condition. We compared bone proportional cun and finger-breadth cun in the head area and calculated the error by analyzing the difference between the actual location of the anterior hairline and the location measured with the two methods. Results: There was a significant difference between bone proportional cun and finger-breadth cun in the head area. The two methods showed significant difference from the actual location of the anterior hairline. In addition, as a result of calculating the error between the actual location of the anterior hairline and the location measured by the two methods, the finger-breadth cun had fewer errors than the bone proportional cun. Conclusions: The finger-breadth cun is better than the bone proportional cun as an alternative when it is difficult to find the anterior hairline.