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Chronic suppurative osteomyelitis with proliferative periostitis related to a fully impacted third molar germ: a report of two cases

  • Park, Joonhyoung;Myoung, Hoon
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
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    • v.42 no.4
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    • pp.215-220
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    • 2016
  • In prolonged chronic osteomyelitis, chronic inflammation and low-grade infections can result in new periosteal bone formation. Chronic osteomyelitis with proliferative periostitis (traditionally termed $Garr{\acute{e}^{\prime}s$ sclerosing osteomyelitis) mainly affects children and young adults. Here, we present two rare cases of an 11-year-old and a 12-year-old patient with suppurative chronic osteomyelitis with proliferative periostitis without any definitive infection source, such as dental caries or periodontitis. The source of infection was likely to be related to the development of a lower right third molar germ with follicular space widening. Management involved antibiotics and the removal of the third molar germ and surgical debridement. Disease remission and a normal appearance was observed at the six-month follow-up visit.

A New Pruning Method for Synthesis Database Reduction Using Weighted Vector Quantization

  • Kim, Sanghun;Lee, Youngjik;Keikichi Hirose
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.20 no.4E
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    • pp.31-38
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    • 2001
  • A large-scale synthesis database for a unit selection based synthesis method usually retains redundant synthesis unit instances, which are useless to the synthetic speech quality. In this paper, to eliminate those instances from the synthesis database, we proposed a new pruning method called weighted vector quantization (WVQ). The WVQ reflects relative importance of each synthesis unit instance when clustering the similar instances using vector quantization (VQ) technique. The proposed method was compared with two conventional pruning methods through the objective and subjective evaluations of the synthetic speech quality: one to simply limit maximum number of instance, and the other based on normal VQ-based clustering. The proposed method showed the best performance under 50% reduction rates. Over 50% of reduction rates, the synthetic speech quality is not seriously but perceptibly degraded. Using the proposed method, the synthesis database can be efficiently reduced without serious degradation of the synthetic speech quality.

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A Study on the Current Operation and Activation of Online Alternative Dispute Resolution (온라인 ADR의 운영현황과 활성화 방안에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Seok-Beom
    • Journal of Arbitration Studies
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.91-116
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    • 2008
  • E-Commerce constitutes an important part of all commercial activities. Online Alternative Dispute Resolution(Online ADR) or Online Dispute Resolution(ODR) is a new method of dispute, resolution which, is provided online. Most Online ADR services are alternatives to litigation. In this respect, they are the online transposition of the methods developed in the ADR movement such as negotiation, mediation and arbitration. But there are also online courts which are really normal courts in which the contesting parties communicate essentially online. This paper deals with the current operation of Online ADR and the ways to, activate it. They include (1) die establishment of legal stability regarding Online ADR, (2) the enhancement of system security in providing Online ADR services, (3) the introduction of Online ADR service platform for providing the various services through single window on a national, or global basis, and (4) the introduction of Online ADR online monitoring system for systematic dispute resolution services.

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Finite Element Formulation for the Distortion Analysis of Steel Box Girders (강상자거더의 뒤틀림해석에 관한 유한요소 정식화)

  • 최영준;정래영;황선호;강영종
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 1999.04a
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    • pp.327-334
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    • 1999
  • Steel box girders are popular to the Practicing engineers for the its large Pure torsional constant. But closed box girders at-e susceptible to the eccentric loading due to the distortion of the cross section. Distorton of the box girder develops the warping normal stress and transverse flexural stress in the cross section and their magnitudes can be large unless internal diaphragms are installed sufficiently. In this study, stiffness matrix and equivalent nodal force vector are formulated on the basis of displacement method. Shape functions are directly derived from the homogeneous solution of the governing differential equation of the distortion. New finite element formulations were coded into a computer program. Several numerical examples were presented to show the validity of developed program.

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A study on heat capacity of oxide and nitride nuclear fuels by using Einstein-Debye approximation

  • Eser, E.;Duyuran, B.;Bolukdemir, M.H.;Koc, H.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.52 no.6
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    • pp.1208-1212
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    • 2020
  • Knowledge on fuel enthalpy and its temperature derivative, the heat capacity, are important quantities in determination of fuel behavior in normal reactor operation and reactor transients. The aim of this study is to compare the heat capacity of oxide and nitrite fuels by using Einstein-Debye approximation. A simple analytical expression was performed to calculate the heat capacity of fuels. To test the validity and reliability, the calculated formulas were compared to published results for various nuclear fuels including UO2, ThO2, PuO2 and UN. Calculated formulas yielded results in consistent with literature.

Reaction of Drugs with Sodium Nitroprusside as a Source of Nitrosamines

  • Park, Jeen-Woo;Gary E. Means
    • Archives of Pharmacal Research
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.118-123
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    • 1991
  • Potentially dangerous nitrosamines have been shown to result from the reaction of sodium nitrogusside with several drugs under physiological conditions (pH 7.3 and $37^\circ{C})$. In each case the products were identical to those produced upon reaction with nitrous acid at much lower pH values. Reaction rates were shown to reflect a first order dependence on both amine and nitroprusside concentrations and to increase at higher pH values, approximately in proportion to concentrations of unprotonated amine. Fast reactions of sodium nitroprusside with reduced glutathione, cysteine, and ascorbate suppress but do not prevent the conversion of amines into N-nitrosamines. These results show sodium nitroprusside to be very potent nitrosating agent under physiological conditions and suggested nitrosamines may be formed during its normal pharmacological administration.

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Automatic Detection of Intonational and Accentual Phrases in Korean Standard Continuous Speech (한국 표준어 연속음성에서의 억양구와 강세구 자동 검출)

  • Lee, Ki-Young;Song, Min-Suck
    • Speech Sciences
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.209-224
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    • 2000
  • This paper proposes an automatic detection method of intonational and accentual phrases in Korean standard continuous speech. We use the pause over 150 msec for detecting intonational phrases, and extract accentual phrases from the intonational phrases by analyzing syllables and pitch contours. The speech data for the experiment are composed of seven male voices and two female voices which read the texts of the fable 'the ant and the grasshopper' and a newspaper article 'manmulsang' in normal speed and in Korean standard variation. The results of the experiment shows that the detection rate of intonational phrases is 95% on the average and that of accentual phrases is 73%. This detection rate implies that we can segment the continuous speech into smaller units(i.e. prosodic phrases) by using the prosodic information and so the objects of speech recognition can narrow down to words or phrases in continuous speech.

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A Swing Characteristics and Application Condition of the V type Suspension String Set (V련 현수애자장치의 횡진특성과 실선로 적용)

  • Sohn H.K.;Lee H.K.;Keum E.Y.;Min B.W.;Choi J.S.;Choi I.H.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • summer
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    • pp.627-629
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    • 2004
  • V type suspension string sets prevent instabilities from swing motion by the horizontal angle and by wind pressure. These installation conditions are controled mainly 3 items - normal swing angle by horizontal angle of line, unusual swing angle by strong wind, minimum vertical loads. We calculated and analysed that factors for the 765kV transmission line condition. And we were tested swing characteristics of V-string sets in real size test situation. So, we find to installation condition for the V type suspension string sets. This results will be used to design of V type suspension string set and to decision of the installation condition.

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Verification of Hybrid Real Time HVDC Simulator in Cheju-Haenam HVDC System

  • Yang Byeong-Mo;Kim Chan-Ki;Jung Gil-Jo;Moon Young-Hyun
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.23-27
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    • 2006
  • In this paper a Hybrid Real Time HVDC Simulator fur both operator Training and Researching in the Cheju-Haenam HVDC System is proposed and its performance is studied by means of RTDS (Real Time Digital Simulator), EMTDC (Electro-Magnetic Transients system for DC), PSS/E (Power System Simulator for Engineering), and experienced scenarios. The objective of this paper is to represent the strategy in development for KEPCO's hybrid HVDC simulator for the Cheju-Haenam HVDC system. This simulator consists of two DC stations, DC cables, external digital/analog controllers, monitoring systems and control desk for education, and AC networks. Its suitability for operator's education is tested during startup/shutdown and normal state operations. Dynamic performances of it are also verified.

Sl Transitions in BSCCO Mixed Crystal Thin Films

  • Ahn, Joon-Ho;Yi, Keon-Young;Park, Yong-Pil
    • Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.20-23
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    • 2002
  • Temperature (T) dependence of the sheet resistance (R$\_$$\square$/) has been investigated an the c-axis oriented thin films of the (Bi2212/Bi2201) mixed crystal with different molar fractions. The R$\_$$\square$/-T superconducting characteristic deteriorated with reduction of the Bi2212 fraction, and almost disappears at 48 mol% where a superconductor-to-insulator transition too k place, with the resistance on the normal state, R$\_$N/, reaching 4.1 kΩka at 80 K. This R$\_$$\square$/ value is close to the universal quantum number, h/(2e)$_2$≡ 6.5 kΩ predicted by the Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) transition theory. The R$\_$$\square$/-T characteristics of the 48 mol% thin film can be elucidated as a competitive process of KT transition brought about by charge or vortex in the two-dimensional layer structure.