• Advances in nano research
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.213-221
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• 2022

Silicon carbide (SiC) is a binary carbon-silicon compound. In its two-dimensional form, monolayer SiC is composed of a monolayer carbon and silicon atoms constructed as a honeycomb lattice. SiC has recently been receiving increasing attention from researchers owing to its intriguing electronic properties. In this present work, SiC nanoribbons (SiCNRs) are modelled and simulated to obtain accurate electronic properties, which can further guide fabrication processes, through bandgap engineering. The primary objective of this work is to obtain the electronic properties of monolayer SiCNRs by applying numerical computation methods using nearest-neighbour tight-binding models. Hamiltonian operator discretization and approximation of plane wave are assumed for the models and simulation by applying the basis function. The computed electronic properties include the band structures and density of states of monolayer SiCNRs of varying width. Furthermore, the properties are compared with those of graphene nanoribbons. The bandgap of ASiCNR as a function of width are also benchmarked with published DFT-GW and DFT-GGA data. Our nearest neighbour tight-binding (NNTB) model predicted data closer to the calculations based on the standard DFT-GGA and underestimated the bandgap values projected from DFT-GW, which takes in account the exchange-correlation energy of many-body effects.

• Journal of Dental Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.377-385
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• 2022

Background: Postoperative endodontic pain is an enigma for the dentist. This study aimed to evaluate the analgesic effect of 300 mg gabapentin or 75 mg pregabalin in reducing postoperative endodontic pain compared with a placebo. Methods: Ninety patients who needed root canal treatment with an initial numerical rating scale (NRS) pain score of > 4 (T0) were randomly divided into three groups (n=30). Patients were then administered either 300 mg gabapentin (group A), 75 mg pregabalin (group B), or a placebo (group C) 30 min prior to the start of endodontic treatment. A single operator performed single-visit endodontics, and pain was evaluated immediately after endodontic treatment (T1) and at 4 h (T2), 8 h (T3), 12 h (T4), 24 h (T5), 48 h (T6), and 72 h (T7) using the NRS. Ibuprofen/paracetamol (400 mg/325 mg) was administered as a rescue dose if needed. Results: Pregabalin performed significantly better when compared with gabapentin at all time points except at 72 h after treatment (P=0.170). The placebo group showed significantly higher pain scores than the other two groups. The percentage of pain relief was maximum for pregabalin (92.1%), followed by gabapentin (87.6%) and placebo (69.1%) at 72 h after treatment completion. Conclusion: This study showed that pretreatment with a single dose of pregabalin and gabapentin both had greater analgesic effects than a placebo. They can be effectively used to reduce postoperative endodontic pain.

• 한국염색가공학회지
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.272-283
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• 2022

In this study, the flat-section monofilaments of PBT for artificial eyelashes was developed, and the physical properties of the circular cross-section of artificial eyelashes were compared and observed, and the main performance of the artificial eyelash prototype was observed through processing for artificial eyelashes. In addition, a satisfaction survey of the prototype was conducted through a survey of consumers and artificial eyelash operators. It was found that the bending stiffness value of the monofilaments increased significantly as the thickness increased. As a result of measuring the bending properties of the flat-section PBT monofilaments, the bending stiffness was significantly lower than that of the circular-section PBT specimens of the same thickness. The deformed cross-section PBT monofilaments with flat cross sections developed in this study showed a light weight factor of less than 50% compared to the existing circular cross-section PBT ones. The adhesive strength of the developed PBT artificial specimens was greater than that of the existing circular cross-section yarn. It was also observed that the curl stability over time was excellent. As a result of the consumer survey, it was possible to obtain more than 85% of positive answers in the case of consumer subjects, and it was possible to investigate that the satisfaction of the operator subjects was more than 80% compared to the existing round-section eyelashes.

• Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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• 제35권
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• pp.52.1-52.13
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• 2023

Background: In 2019, the International Agency for Research on Cancer re-evaluated the carcinogenicity of night-shift work and reported that there is limited evidence that night-shift work is carcinogenic for the development of prostate cancer. Therefore, in 2020 and 2021, the Korean Epidemiologic Investigation Evaluation Committee concluded that 2 cases of prostate cancer were occupational diseases related to the night-shift work. Here, we report the 2 cases of prostate cancer in night-shift workers which were first concluded as occupational diseases by the Korean Epidemiologic Investigation Evaluation Committee. Case presentation: Patient A: A 61-year-old man worked as a city bus driver for approximately 17 years, from 2002 to 2019, and was exposed to night-shift work during this period. In March 2017, the patient was diagnosed with high-grade prostate cancer through core-needle biopsy after experiencing stinging pain lasting for 2 months. Patient B: A 56-year-old man worked as an electrician and an automated equipment operator in a cement manufacturing plant for 35 years from 1976 to 2013 and was exposed to night-shift work during this period. In 2013, the patient was diagnosed with high-grade prostate cancer through core needle biopsy at a university hospital because of dysuria that lasted for 6 months. Conclusions: The 2 workers were diagnosed with high-grade prostate cancer after working night shifts for 17 and 35 years respectively. Additionally, previous studies have reported that high-grade prostate cancer has a stronger relationship with night-shift work than low or medium-grade prostate cancer. Therefore, the Korean Epidemiologic Investigation Evaluation Committee concluded that night-shift work in these 2 patients contributed to the development of their prostate cancer.

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.131-142
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• 1999

목적: 휴식 부하 심근관류 SPECT로 관상동맥질환을 진단하고 관상동맥협착을 찾을 때 게이트 SPECT 방법과 감쇠보정 후 관류 SPECT를 사용하면 특이도가 올라가서 진단 성능이 향상된다는 보고가 있다. 이 연구는 임상적으로 중간 정도의 관상동맥질환 유병 가능성을 보이는 환자에서 게이트 SPECT가 진단 성능을 향상시키는지 게이트 감쇠보정 SPECT를 시행하여 조사하였다. 대상 및 방법: 휴식기 T1-201 디피리다몰 부하 Tc-99m-MIBI SPECT를 할 때 둘 다 감쇠보정 영상을 얻고 Tc-99m-MIBI SPECT는 게이트 SPECT로 얻어 검사성능을 비교하였다. 혈관조영술로 진단된 단일 혈관질환 13명, 두 혈관질환 18명, 세 혈관질환 8명과 정상임을 확인한 29명을 합한 모두 68명의 환자에서 세 판독자가 독립적으로 각 동맥의 협착 유무와 질환 유무를 5 등급으로 점수화하여 수신자 특성 곡선을 그렸다. 결과: Hanley와 McNeil의 방법으로 곡선 아래 면적을 구하고 비교하여 유의한 차이가 있는지 보았으나 판독자나 어느 동맥영역인지에 상관없이 유의한 차이를 찾지 못하였다. 등급 3보다 큰 등급을 지정한 경우 검사 양성으로 보아 계산한 예민도와 특이도도 유의하게 차이 없었다. 결론: 우리는 이 결과를 보고 관상동맥질환의 검사 전 가능성이 중간 정도인 환자에서는 판독자나 동맥에 상관없이 게이트 SPECT를 더하거나 감쇠보정 SPECT를 더하여 보아도 진단 성능이 향상되지 않는다고 생각하였다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제19권8호
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• pp.78-85
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• 2018

본 연구에서는 2017년 20건의 화재가 발생한 냉동창고 화재사례중 발화원인의 판정에 다수의 의견이 존재하였던 사례에 대해 연구하였다. 연구 방법론은 NFPA 921 CODE에서 규정하고 있는 과학적 화재조사 방법이다. 과학적 화재조사 방법은 가설설정을 통한 논리적 추론에 의한 화재조사 방법으로 발화원인 판단에 오류를 최소화 시킨다. 반면에 비과학적 화재조사 방법은 발화원인의 판단에 주관적 추측, 추론적 판단 등의 비합리적 요소의 개입으로 많은 오류를 발생시킨다. 이는 결국 인적, 물적 책임의 문제 및 학문적 퇴보를 가져온다. 특히 목격된 화재(Sighted fire)에 비해 목격되지 않는 화재(Fire not seen)의 경우 원인조사에 있어서 더 많은 발화원인 의 오류를 만든다. 본 연구에서는 2017년 **시 **마트에서 발생한 냉동창고 정온전선의 화재사례에 대해 화재조사 보고서의 검토, 현장조사를 바탕으로한 가설A 와 가설B의 설정하였다. 설정된 가설은 NFPA 921 code 규정하고 있는 연역적 검정 방법중 실험으로 검정하였다. 이러한 분석방법은 향후 목격되지 않는 화재(Fire not seen) 및 원인 불명 화재의 발화원인 판단에 NEW Paradigm의 구축 할 것이다. 또한 본 연구의 실험 자료는 냉동창고 제조사 및 운영사에 통보, 화재 예방을 위한 기초 자료로 활용 될 것이다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.2430-2434
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• 2005

Automatic FPC punching instrument for the improvement of working condition and cost saving is introduced in this paper. FPC(flexible printed circuit) is used to detect the contact position of K/B and button like a cellular phone. Depending on the quality of the printed ink and position of reference punching point to the FPC, the resistance and current are varied to the malfunctioning values. The size of reference punching point is 2mm and the above. Because the punching operation is done manually, the accuracy of the punching degree is varied with operator's condition. Recently, The punching accuracy has deteriorated severely to the 2mm punching reference hall so that assembly of the K/B has hardly done. To improve this manual punching operation to the FPC, automatic FPC punching system is introduced. Precise mechanical parts like a 5-step stepping motor and ball screw mechanism are designed and tested and low cost PC camera is used for the sake of cost down instead of using high quality vision systems for the FA. 3D Mechanical design tool(Pro/E) is used to manage the exact tolerance circumstances and avoid design failures. Simulation is performed to make the complete vision based punching machine before assembly, and this procedure led to the manufacturing cost saving. As the image processing algorithms, dilation, erosion, and threshold calculation is applied to obtain an exact center position from the FPC print marks. These image processing algorithms made the original images having various noises have clean binary pixels which is easy to calculate the center position of print marks. Moment and Least square method are used to calculate the center position of objects. In this development circumstance, Moment method was superior to the Least square one at the calculation of speed and against noise. Main control panel is programmed by Visual C++ and graphical Active X for the whole management of vision based automatic punching machine. Operating modes like manual, calibration, and automatic mode are added to the main control panel for the compensation of bad FPC print conditions and mechanical tolerance occurring in the case of punch and die reassembly. Test algorithms and programs showed good results to the designed automatic punching system and led to the increase of productivity and huge cost down to law material like FPC by avoiding bad quality.

• 핵의학기술
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.73-77
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• 2010

핵의학 기술학의 발전은 많은 변화를 가져왔다. 하드웨어적인 발전이 많이 있었고 또한 소프트웨어의 발전도 핵의학 기술학 발전에 지대한 공을 세웠다. 소프트웨어의 발전으로 그 동안 수동으로 설정해야 했던 많은 ROI를 자동으로 설정할 수 있게 되었다. automated ROI가 manual ROI와 어떠한 정량분석의 차이를 가지고 있는지 알고자 한다. 분석은 3가지의 분석을 통해 결론을 도출하고자 하였다. 분석 1은 신장 automated ROI와 신장 manual ROI를 비교하였다. 분석 2는 threshold의 크기변화에 따른 차이를 조사하였다. 육안적 판단으로 신장의 외곽선보다 큰 threshold ROI(이하 A threshold), 외곽선과 일치하는 threshold ROI(이하 B threshold), 외곽선보다 작은 threshold ROI(이하 C threshold)를 설정하여 신장의 기능 값을 구하여 이를 비교 하였다. 분석 3은 automated background ROI를 세 가지 full, half, quarter로 분류하여 이에 따른 기능값의 차이를 분석하였다. 분석 1에서 신장 automated ROI와 신장 manual ROI간에 통계적으로 유의한 차이는 보이지 않았다. 그러나 분석 2에서 C threshold는 각 A threshold와 B threshold 간에 유의한 차이 (p<0.01)를 보였다. 분석 3은 분석 1을 통해 얻어진 결론을 토대로 시행되었다. 각 3가지 형태의 background에서 full background가 통계적으로 유의한 차이를 보였다(p<0.05). automated ROI가 manual ROI와 유의한 차이를 보지 않아 입증된 결과는 사용자의 편의와 객관성이 증대될 것으로 기대된다. 분석 2에서는 신장의 외곽선보다 작게 설정된 threshold는 신장의 외곽선보다 크게 설정된 threshold보다 큰 오차를 가질 수 있다는 것을 예상할 수 있다. 분석 3은 신장 주변의 간과 비장에 background가 증가되어 초래된 결과로 예상한다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:데이타베이스
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.420-436
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• 2007

지리정보시스템에서 빈번히 사용되는 공간 조인 연산자의 성능을 보장하기 위해서는 효율적인 색인 기법의 선택이 중요하며, 대표적인 색인 기법으로는 $R^*$-tree를 이용한 방법이 알려져 있다. 본 논문에서는 DOT(Double Transformation) 공간 색인을 이용한 효율적인 공간 조인 처리 기법을 제시하고 이를 $R^*$-tree를 이용한 공간 조인 처리 기법과 비교한다. DOT 공간 색인 기법은 공간 객체의 MBR 정보를 공간 순서화 곡선을 사용하여 하나의 1차원 값으로 변환한 후 그 값을 검색 키로 갖는 $B^+$-tree 색인 구조를 구성하는 방법으로서, 이를 이용하면 전통적인 데이타베이스의 주 색인을 적용할 수 있다는 중요한 특징을 가진다. 본 논문에서는 공간 객체의 MBR 정보를 하나의 1차원 값으로 변환하기 위해 사용되는 공간 순서화 곡선의 규칙성을 분석함으로써 공간 변환 연산의 횟수를 대폭 감소시킨 효율적인 DOT 색인기반의 공간 조인 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘에서는 반복적으로 수행되는 공간 변환 연산의 횟수를 줄이기 위하여 질의 영역을 공간 순서화 곡선이 연속 운행하는 가능한 최대 크기의 면적으로 분할하는 쿼터 분할 기법을 사용한다. 다양한 분포와 크기를 갖는 데이타 집합을 대상으로 $R^*$-tree를 이용한 공간 조인 처리 기법과의 비교 실험을 수행한 결과 최대 약 3배의 성능 이익을 얻을 수 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.457-463
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• 2014

Ultrasound measurements of backfat thickness (UBF), longissimus muscle area (ULMA) and marbling score (UMS) and carcass measurements of carcass weight (CW), backfat thickness (BF), longissimus muscle area (LMA), and marbling score (MS) on 7,044 Hanwoo steers were analyzed to estimate genetic parameters. Data from Hanwoo steers that were raised, finished in Hoengseong-gun, Gangwon-do (province) and shipped to slaughter houses during the period from October 2010 to April 2013 were evaluated. Ultrasound measurements were taken at approximately three months before slaughter by an experienced operator using a B-mode real-time ultrasound device (HS-2000, FHK Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) with a 3.5 MHz linear probe. Ultrasound scanning was on the left side between 13th rib and the first lumbar vertebrae. All slaughtering processes and carcass evaluations were performed in accordance with the guidelines of beef grading system of Korea. To estimate genetic parameters, multiple trait animal models were applied. Fixed effects included in the models were: the effects of farm, contemporary group effects (year-season at the time of ultrasound scanning in the models for UBF, ULMA, and UMS, and year-season at slaughter in the models for CW, BF, LMA, and MS), the effects of ultrasound technicians as class variables and the effects of the age in days at ultrasound scanning or at slaughtering as linear covariates, respectively for ultrasound and carcass measures. Heritability estimates obtained from our analyses were 0.37 for UBF, 0.13 for ULMA, 0.27 for UMS, 0.44 for CW, 0.33 for BF, 0.36 for LMA and 0.54 MS, respectively. Genetic correlations were strongly positive between corresponding traits of ultrasound and carcass measures. Genetic correlation coefficient between UBF and BF estimate was 0.938, between ULMA and LMA was 0.767 and between UMS and MS was 0.925. These results suggest that ultrasound measurement traits are genetically similar to carcass measurement traits.