• 보건교육건강증진학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.55-65
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• 2008

Objective: This study aims to investigate the relationship between dental status and oral function by analyzing those in some long-term care elderly patients. Methods: It performed oral examination and 4 oromotor function examinations such as repeated swallowing function, correct pronunciation function, saliva secretion rate and maximum mouth opening to 91 elderly patents aged 65 and older in the municipal geriatric hospital located in Cheonan. Results: Dental status of patients such as the number of dental caries, treated teeth, retained teeth and function teeth were better in mobile elderly patients than in immobile elderly patients. Attachment rate of dental plaque and the number of teeth being extracted were more in mobile patients than in immobile patients. More retained teeth, the number of function teeth and dental caries and the score in pronunciation status test were significantly higher. With more function teeth, the score in pronunciation status test was significantly higher. As saliva secretion rate is higher, repeated swallowing function was significantly better. repeated swallowing function rate is higher pronunciation status was significantly better. Conclusions: With the results of this study, it was found that among long-term care elderly patients, oral function was worse in immobile patients than in mobile patients. Therefore, it may be necessary to plan and perform an oral function improvement program preferentially for elderly patients requiring long-term care.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제48권2호
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• pp.202-210
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• 2024

Background: Panax ginseng Meyer polysaccharides exhibit various biological functions, like antagonizing galectin-3-mediated cell adhesion and migration. Galectin-8 (Gal-8), with its linker-joined N- and C-terminal carbohydrate recognition domains (CRDs), is also crucial to these biological processes, and thus plays a role in various pathological disorders. Yet the effect of ginseng-derived polysaccharides in modulating Gal-8 function has remained unclear. Methods: P. ginseng-derived pectin was chromatographically isolated and enzymatically digested to obtain a series of polysaccharides. Biolayer Interferometry (BLI) quantified their binding affinity to Gal-8, and their inhibitory effects on Gal-8 was assessed by hemagglutination, cell migration and T-cell apoptosis. Results: Our ginseng-derived pectin polysaccharides consist mostly of rhamnogalacturonan-I (RG-I) and homogalacturonan (HG). BLI shows that Gal-8 binding rests primarily in RG-I and its β-1,4-galactan side chains, with sub-micromolar K_D values. Both N- and C-terminal Gal-8 CRDs bind RG-I, with binding correlated with Gal-8-mediated function. Conclusion: P. ginseng RG-I pectin β-1,4-galactan side chains are crucial to binding Gal-8 and antagonizing its function. This study enhances our understanding of galectin-sugar interactions, information that may be used in the development of pharmaceutical agents targeting Gal-8.

• 호남수학학술지
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.597-601
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• 2012

In this paper we study the density of imaginary cubic function fields having the infinite Hilbert 3-class field tower.

• 대한수학회논문집
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.219-226
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• 2014

In this paper we study the infiniteness of Hilbert 2-class field towers of real quadratic function fields over $\mathbb{F}_q(T)$, where q is a power of an odd prime number.

• Korean Journal of Mathematics
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.419-427
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• 2014

Let $k=\mathbb{F}_q(T)$ be the rational function field over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$, where $q{\equiv}1$ mod 3. In this paper, we determine asymptotic values of average of ideal class numbers of some family of cubic Kummer extensions of k.

• 대한수학회논문집
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.181-185
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• 2009

The Drinfeld modular function ${\mu}$ is a generator of the function field of the Drinfeld modular curve $X_0(T)$ and has an t-expansion with the integral coefficients at infinity. In this paper, we show that the coefficients of ${\mu}$ has congruence properties modulo powers of T.

• 대한수학회보
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• 제50권3호
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• pp.1049-1060
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• 2013

In this paper we study the infiniteness of Hilbert 2-class field towers of imaginary quadratic function fields over $\mathbb{F}_q(T)$, where $q$ is a power of an odd prime number.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• 제26권5_6호
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• pp.1133-1138
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• 2008

A general method of detecting outliers based on a change of likelihood by using the influence function is suggested. It can be applied to all kinds of distributions that are specified by parameters. For the multivariate normal case, specific computations are made to get the corresponding conditional influence function. A numerical example is provided for illustration.

• Korean Journal of Mathematics
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.477-483
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• 2012

In this paper we study the infiniteness of the Hilbert ${\ell}$-class field tower of imaginary ${\ell}$-cyclic function fields when ${\ell}{\geq}5$.

• 대한수학회논문집
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.163-171
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• 2007

In this paper, we determine all subfields of cyclotomic function fields with divisor class number two. We also give the generators of such fields explicitly.