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A Study of Facilitation Therapy (촉진치료에 관한 연구)

  • Bae, Sung-Soo;Han, Jin-Tae;Lee, Myung-Hee;Lee, Sang-Youl;Choi, Yong-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Physical Medicine
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.21-25
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    • 2008
  • Purpose : The objective of this study was conducted to find out the facilitation therapy. Therapeutic exercise concepts are changed from classical therapeutic exercise and neurophysiolosical approach to facilitation therapy. Methods : This is literature study with books and PNF international course books. Results : Facilitation concepts are changed. Complex movements are the result of spinal reflex-mechanism. It was changed the to reflex-reponses are variable and organization of complex movements are determined by the necessity to move. Therefore therapy goals and concepts of spasticity have to change. Conclusion : Facilitation therapy approach by use input systems, which are needed to interact with environmental and task demands. The systems are visual, tactile, propriocepsis, vestibular, acoustical and olfactory. Facilitation therapy need these system all together with shaping.

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Treatment of Patients With Elephantiasis Lymphedema - Case Report - (상피성 임파부종 환자의 치료 -증례보고-)

  • Kim, Seng-Jung
    • Physical Therapy Korea
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.110-120
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    • 1999
  • Lymphedema, regardless of etiology, is essentially incurable but different treatment approaches which serve to contain swelling exist. The objectives of treatment are to reduce swelling, restore shape, educate about the self-maintenance methods, and prevent inflammatory episodes, eg, recurrent cellulitis. The purpose of this report is to provide therapists and other medical staff with a general guideline through the example treatment procedure of two patients with lymphedema admitted to Samsung Medical Center. This study demonstrates the effects of the various treatments used and how they helped to achieve improvement in mobility and reduction in swelling of the lower limbs. The basic conservative treatments were sequential intermittent pneumatic pumps, elevation, and CDP (complex decongestive physiotherapy). The surgical procedures (Homan's operation) were carried out after maximal volume reduction through conservative programs. In these cases, we can see greater than 50% reduction in the lymphedema in those treated by conservative and surgical procedures. This presents a simple, reliable, variable method yielding satisfactory cosmetic and functional results for patients suffering from chronic both-leg lymphedema. Futhermore, I suggest that the outcomes are best when treatment is administered by a multidisciplinary team including a physiotherapist, surgeon, nurse, et al.

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Nonlinear analysis of the effects on the brain waves of the stimulation on specific area of the sole of the foot (발바닥 특정 부위 자극이 뇌파에 미치는 효과에 대한 비선형 분석)

  • Oh, Yeong-seon;Oh, Min-seok;Song, Tae-won
    • Journal of Haehwa Medicine
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.365-374
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    • 2001
  • The brain is one of the most complex systems in nature. Brain waves, or the "EEG", are electrical signals that can be recorded from the brain, either directly or through the scalp. The kind of brain wave recorded depends on the behavior of the animal, and is the visible evidence of the kind of neuronal (brain cell) processing necessary for that behavior. But, EEG had been considered as a virtually infinite-dimensional random signal. However, nonlinear dynamics light on dynamical aspects of the human EEG. The methods of nonlinear dynamics provide excellent tolls for the study of multi-variable, complex system such as EEG. In this study, 20 persons seperated in 2 groups were examined with EEG, one group stimulated on specific area of the sole of the foot with footbed inside the shoes. This experiment resulted in at the group stimulated on specific area of the sole of the foot correlation dimension of P4 and O1 channels increased significantly. Therefore. we obserbed that stimulation on specific area of the body had a constant effections on the specific channels.

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Determinants of Quality of Life, Depending on the Presence or Absence of Asthma in Adults, Based on the 6th Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (제6기 국민건강영양조사 자료에 기초한 성인의 천식 유무에 따른 삶의 질 영향요인)

  • Jo, Eun-hee;Lee, Su-jin
    • The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.127-136
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    • 2019
  • Objectives: This study examined the determinants of quality of life, depending on the presence or absence of asthma in adults, based on secondary wave data. Methods: Among the 21,724 people participating in the 6th Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey as it was conducted from the first to third period, 495 participants who were aged 19 or older and responded to the question of the presence or absence of asthma were included in the final analysis. Demographic characteristics were examined using the SPSS/WIN 23.0 software tool for analysis of complex sample survey data. Health-related characteristics were presented using descriptive and multivariate analysis of data. Rao_Scott ${\chi}^2$ was used for the analysis of differences in quality of life, and multiple regression analysis of complex sample survey data was used to analyze factors affecting quality of life. Results: The variable factors negatively influencing quality of life were aging, cognition of their ill health, and limited activities. Conclusions: Based on the analysis, the study suggests that practical and ongoing nursing intervention proposals to improve the quality of life of asthmatic patients should be implemented not only for physical limitations and aging but also for psychological factors that reflect subjective health statuses.

Outcomes after rib fractures: more complex than a single number

  • Kristin P., Colling;Tyler, Goettl;Melissa L., Harry
    • Journal of Trauma and Injury
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.268-276
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: Rib fractures are common injuries that can lead to morbidity and mortality. Methods: Data on all patients with rib fractures admitted to a single trauma center between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2018 were reviewed. Results: A total of 1,671 admissions for rib fracture were examined. Patients' median age was 57 years, the median Injury Severity Score (ISS) was 14, and the median number of fractured ribs was three. The in-hospital mortality rate was 4%. Age, the number of rib fractures, and Charlson Comorbidity Index scores were poor predictors of mortality, while the ISS was a slightly better predictor, with area under the receiver operating characteristic curve values of 0.60, 0.55, 0.58, and 0.74, respectively. Multivariate regression showed that age, ISS, and Charlson Comorbidity Index score, but not the number of rib fractures, were associated with significantly elevated adjusted odds ratios for mortality (1.03, 1.14, and 1.28, respectively). Conclusions: Age, ISS, and comorbidities were independently associated with the risk of mortality; however, they were not accurate predictors of death. The factors associated with rib fracture mortality are complex and cannot be explained by a single variable. Interventions to improve outcomes must be multifaceted.

Comparative analysis of model performance for predicting the customer of cafeteria using unstructured data

  • Seungsik Kim;Nami Gu;Jeongin Moon;Keunwook Kim;Yeongeun Hwang;Kyeongjun Lee
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.485-499
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    • 2023
  • This study aimed to predict the number of meals served in a group cafeteria using machine learning methodology. Features of the menu were created through the Word2Vec methodology and clustering, and a stacking ensemble model was constructed using Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, and CatBoost as sub-models. Results showed that CatBoost had the best performance with the ensemble model showing an 8% improvement in performance. The study also found that the date variable had the greatest influence on the number of diners in a cafeteria, followed by menu characteristics and other variables. The implications of the study include the potential for machine learning methodology to improve predictive performance and reduce food waste, as well as the removal of subjective elements in menu classification. Limitations of the research include limited data cases and a weak model structure when new menus or foreign words are not included in the learning data. Future studies should aim to address these limitations.

Performance Evaluation of Unimodular and Non-unimodular Transformation (Unimodular 및 Non-unimodular 변환의 성능평가)

  • Song Worl-Bong
    • Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.365-372
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    • 2005
  • Generally, In a application program the core part for parallel processing is a loop. therefore exist data dependencies between the array index variables of a loop. The data dependence relations between statements which from variable or constant dependence distance are specially complex. Therefore extracting parallelism for those statements at compile time is very difficult. in this paper, among the proposed methods of extracting parallelism, analysis the unimodular method and non-unimodular method and grasping the merits and demerits of them. hereafter, this method will go far toward solving the effectively extracting parallelism of the loop.

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A Software Maintenance Cost Estimation Model based on Real Maintenance Efforts (투입노력 양에 기반한 소프트웨어 유지보수 비용산정 모형)

  • Jeong, Eun-Joo;Yoo, Cheon-Soo
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.181-196
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    • 2012
  • The cost of software maintenance occupies about two thirds in the software lifecycle. However, it is not easy to estimate the cost of software maintenance because of various viewpoints about software maintenance, unclear estimation methods, and complex procedures. Until now, the cost estimation model has used compensation factors for software characteristic and environment on the basis of program size. Especially, most of existing models use maintenance rate of total software cost as a main variable. This paper suggests the software maintenance cost estimation model that uses the result of calculating real maintenance efforts. In this paper, we classify functional maintenance and non-functional maintenance as software maintenance activity type. For functional maintenance, present function point of target software is needed to evaluate. The suggested maintenance cost evaluation model is applied to a software case in public sector. This paper discusses some differences between our model and other modes.

A model-based fault diagnosis in uncertain systems

  • Kwon, Oh-Kyu;Sung, Yul-Wan
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1990.10b
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    • pp.1210-1215
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    • 1990
  • This paper deals with the fault diagnosis problem in uncertain linear systems having undermodelling, linearization errors and noise inputs. The new approach proposed in this paper uses an appropriate test variable and the difference between system parameters which are estimated by the least squares method to locate the fault. The singular value decomposion is used to decouple the correlation between the estimated system parameters and to observe the trend of parameter changes. Some simulations applied to aircraft ergines show good allocation of the fault even though the system model has significant uncertainties. The feature of the approach is to diagnose the uncertain system through simple parameter operations and not to need complex calculations in the diagnosis procedure as compared with other methods.

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Moving image coding with variablesize block based on the segmentation of motion vectors (움직임 벡터의 영역화에 의한 가변 블럭 동영상 부호화)

  • 김진태;최종수
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.469-480
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    • 1997
  • For moving image coding, the variable size of region coding based on local motion is more efficient than fixed size of region coding. It can be applied well to complex motions and is more stable for wide motions because images are segmented according to local motions. In this paper, new image coding method using the segmentation of motion vectors is proposed. First, motion vector field is smoothed by filtering and segmented by smoothed motion vectors. The region growing method is used for decomposition of regions, and merging of regions is decided by motion vector and prediction errors of the region. Edge of regions is excluded because of the correlation of image, and neighbor motion vectors are used evaluation of current block and construction of region. The results of computer simulation show the proposed method is superior than the existing methods in aspect of coding efficiency.

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