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Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Using the Gail Model: a Turkish Study

  • Erbil, Nulufer;Dundar, Nursel;Inan, Cigdem;Bolukbas, Nurgul
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.303-306
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    • 2015
  • Purpose: This study was conducted to determine risk of developing of breast cancer among Turkish women. Materials and Methods: Using a descriptive and cross-sectional approach, data were collected from 231 women. Breast cancer risk was calculated using the National Cancer Institute's on-line verson of called as the Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool or the Gail Risk Assesment Tool. Results: The average age of women was $45.0{\pm}8.06$ years. It was revealed that 6.1% of participants reported having first degree relatives who had had breast cancer, with only four women having more than one first-degree relative affected (1.7%). The mean five-year breast cancer risk for all women was $0.88{\pm}0.91%$, and 7.4% of women had a five-year breast cancer risk >1.66% in this study. Mean lifetime breast cancer risk up to age 90 years was $9.3{\pm}5.2%$. Conclusions: The breast cancer risk assessment tool can help in the clinical management of patient seeking advice concerning screening and prevention. Healthcare providers in Turkey can use this approach to estimate an individual's probability of developing breast cancer.

Investigation on the Meridian-Muscle Therapy for Myogenic Nerve Entrapment Syndrome (경근요법(經筋療法)을 통한 근원성 신경 포착 증후군의 치료)

  • Heo, Su-Young;Choi, Jin-Man;Seo, Hae-Kyung
    • The Journal of Korea CHUNA Manual Medicine
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.43-50
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    • 2001
  • Objectives : Scalenus anticus syndrome and Piriformis syndrome is representative of myogenic Nerve entrapment syndrome, and their clinical symptoms are similar to HIVD(herniated Intervertebral disc) of cervical or lumbar spine. But, distinguished by muscle test, these syndrome apply to Meridian-muscle therapy. Methods : Meridian-muscle therapy consists of Ashi(阿是)-point therapy, taping therapy, myofascial release technique, manipulation, their based on the traditional meridian-muscle theory. This theory is similar to myofascial pain syndrome in western medicine. The study population consisted of 9 patients who were already diagnosed as Nerve entrapment syndrome with radiological examination & physical examination and muscle test. The evaluation of clinical outcome was done by Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and Pain Assesment Questionnaire(PAQ). Results and Conclusions : After treatment, All patient's VAS is decreased as $2.11{\pm}1.59$ and the evaluation of clinical effect was excellent(6 cases) or good(3 cases) according to PAQ. Conclusively, Meridian muscle therapy is efficacious against Nerve entrapment syndrome.

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A Development of Consumer General Education Program for University Students through Assessment of Need and Actual Condition (대학 소비자교육 교양강좌의 실태조사와 요구도 조사를 통한 교과모형개발)

  • Lee, Kyoung-Ok;Kim, Young-Sook
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.363-379
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study is to provide a meaningful thought to professionals and administrators of Korea working for Consumer General Education development at their Universities. Also, tips for organizing and meaning Consumer General Education Curriculum effectively are provided. Finally, the study suggests essential elements to improve qualities of Consumer General Education in Korea Universities. This study's method are content analysis through web site and survey. The subjects of this survey were 257 students. The data were collected by questionnaire developed by researcher and analyzed by frequencies, correlation Analysis, One Way Anova, Duncan Test, Factor Analysis, Multiple Regression Analysis. The major findings were as follows: University students's satisfaction level about General Education was low and the needs level about Consumer General Education was high. And the education service quality showed factors to be administrative service element, professor service element, classroom environment element, communication element. And Multiple Regression Analysis on each of the education service quality factors had been significant effects for find out the differences in the degree of satisfaction.

Integrating Video Image into Digital Map (동영상과 수치지도의 결합에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Yong-Il;Pyeon, Mu-Wook
    • Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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    • v.4 no.2 s.8
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    • pp.161-172
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    • 1996
  • The objective of this research is to develope a process of integrating video image into digital map. In order to reach the research objective, the work includes the development of georeferencing technique for video images, the development of pilot system and the assesment process. Georeferencing technique for video images is composed of DGPS positioning, filtering of abnormal points, map conflation, indexing locations for key frames via time tag and indexing locations for total frames. By using the proposed building process, we could find the result that the accuracy of image capturing test points is $92.8%({\pm}2\;frames)$. The eventual meaning of this study is that it is possible to find a new conception of digital map, which overcomes a limitation of exiting two dimensional digital map.

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Recursive Probabilistic Approach to Collision Risk Assessment for Pedestrians' Safety (재귀적 확률 갱신 방법을 이용한 보행자 충돌 위험 판단 방법)

  • Park, Seong-Keun;Kim, Beom-Seong;Kim, Eun-Tai;Lee, Hee-Jin;Kang, Hyung-Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.475-480
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, we propose a collision risk assesment system. First, using Kalman Filter, we estimate the information of pedestrian, and second, we compute the collision probability using Monte Carlo Simulations(MCS) and neural network(NN). And we update the collision risk using time history which is called belief. Belief update consider not only output of Kalman Filter of only current time step but also output of Kalman Filter up to the first time step to current time step. The computer simulations will be shown the validity of our proposed method.

A study on speech analysis of person with presbycusis (노인성 난청인의 음성특성에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, S.M.;Song, C.G.;Woo, H.C.;Lee, Y.M.;Kim, W.K.
    • Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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    • v.1997 no.11
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    • pp.67-70
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    • 1997
  • In this paper, we evaluated the character of speech of hearing impaired person (HIP) who acquire his hearing loss after the youth. It is usually observed that severe HIP decreased not only speech perception but also vocalization. so there is a need for sensitive and quantitative measures or the assesment of the speech of the HIP to serve both diagnostic and prognosic purposes, 7 HIP and 12 normal hearing person(NHP) were studied with pure tone test and speaking test using word/sentence table which consists of vowel(a:), mono and two syllables and a sentence. we analyzed formant frequency, pitch, sound intensity, speech duration of HIP and NHP speech. According to the results, in the HIP's speech we find that formant frequency was shifted, first-formant prominence was reduced, the dynamic range of sound intensity was decreased, speech duration was prolonged. In the next, we expect the correlation between hearing and speech character of HIP is cleared through analysis of more acoustic parameters and precise selection of HIP group.

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Fire Risk Assessment for Subway Station According to Supply and Exhaust Conditions (지하철 승강장 급배기 조건에 따른 화재 위험성 평가)

  • Kim, Ha-Young;Rie, Dong-Ho;Kim, Jung-Yup
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.29-34
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    • 2008
  • In this research, to establish the emission for the people who are clearing out, through the numerical analysis using the CFD model, the dangerousness has been investigated in the various emission conditions in a station platform. As a result of research, it is found out that the temperature variation falls between 65.37% and 74.97% to compare without installation of platform screen doors. In the addition, with the supply mode or push-pull mode, the warm current is generated in the platform so the temperature and the layer of smoke are stirred up and felled off. It will make the dangerousness when the people escape. Therefore, when the capacity of emission and the space of platform is set up, the design regards the properties of the fire emission.

Effectiveness of Gait Training Using an Electromechanical Gait Trainer Combined With Simultaneous Functional Electrical Stimulation in Chronic Stroke Patients (기능적 전기 자극을 적용한 전동식 보행 훈련이 편마비 환자의 보행에 미치는 영향)

  • An, Seung-Hun;Lee, Yun-Mi;Yang, Kyung-Hee
    • The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.41-47
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    • 2008
  • Purpose: This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of gait training with the use of an electromechanical gait trainer with functional electrical stimulation (FES) for patients that had undergone subacute stroke. Methods: The study subjects included nine subacute stroke patients of the Korea National Rehabilitation Center in Seoul, Korea. Outcome was measured using the timed Up and Go test, Fugl-Meyer-L/E assesment, with determination of the comfortable maximal gait speed, composite spasticity score, functional ambulatory category and Berg balance scale. All measured scores were recorded before, during, and after rehabilitation and at an eight-week follow-up. Results: Patients who received electromechanical-assisted gait training in combination with FES after subacute stroke were more likely to achieve independent walking, functional activities, balance and gait speed. Conclusion: The outcome of our gait-training program demonstrates that it may be practical to integrate FES into electromechanical gait training without any adverse effects. However, further randomized controlled studies are needed to evaluate if patient outcome after combined training is superior to outcome after the use of electromechanical gait trainer treatment alone or conventional gait training alone.

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Assesment of soil pollution by Abandoned Mines wastes

  • Kim Hee-Joung;Yang Jae-E.;Lee Jai-Young;Park Beang-Kil;Kong Sung-Ho;Jun Sang-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment Conference
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    • 2005.04a
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    • pp.363-370
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    • 2005
  • There are approximately 2,000 metallic mines which have been abandoned in Korea. Most of the mines are located in the watershed area, which is main source of drinking water for Seoul Metropolitan area. Untreated mining wastes are remained around abandoned mines in study area. These mining wastes, flowing into farmland and stream in the downstream of abandoned mines, would cause water and soil pollution. The mining waste samples from Guedo mine, Manjung mine and Joil mine recently abandoned were collected for the evaluation of the potential of water pollution by mine waste. Index of geoaccumulation($M\"{u}ller$, 1979), fractional composition and removal efficiency of some heavy metals by different concentration of HCl treatment were analyzed. Index of geoaccumulation of Cd, Pb, Zn, Cu, Ni and Cr are 6, $4{\sim}6,\;0{\sim}6,\;4{\sim}5$, 2 and 0 respectively. Index of geoaccumulation of Cd, Pb, Zn and Cu reveals the mining wastes has high pollution pottential in the area. Organic fraction of Cu, reducible fraction of Pb, residual fraction of Ni and Zn were the most abundant fraction of heavy metals in mining wastes.

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Case Report of the Neurogenic Bladder after Spine Surgery (수술 후 발생한 신경인성 방광 환자에 대한 치험 1례)

  • Shim Ha-Na;Kim Yu-Hyung;An Ki-Young;Kim Sang-Woo;Song Bong-Keun;Park Hyoung-Jin
    • Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.1685-1688
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    • 2005
  • We treated a 51 year-old female patient of neurogenic bladder. The patient complained of urinary incontinence, lack of urine sense, loss of right leg sense etc. The symptoms developed right after spinal stenosis surgery. The symptoms didn't show any improvement continually. But after admission and treatment in our hospital, symptoms were improved from severe to mild and the score of Assesment of Bladder function got better. We continued to prescribe the herbal medicine over 8 weeks and could observe that symptoms were improved. This result suggests that oriental medical therapy is useful enough to treat the neurogenic bladder. Therefore further study of the approach and application of this treatment for neurogenic bladder would be necessary.