• 제목/요약/키워드: Individual measurements

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우리나라 주요수종의 Allometry와 개체목 흉고단면적 생장모델 개발 (Development of Allometry and Individual Basal Area Growth Model for Major Species in Korea)

  • 최정기
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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    • 제27권1호
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    • pp.47-54
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    • 2011
  • Allometry and basal area equations were developed with various tree measurement variables for the major species; Quercus variabilis, Quercus mongolica, Pinus koraiensis and Larix leptolepis in Korea. For allometry models, the relationships between total height-DBH, crown width-DBH, height to the widest portion of the crown-total height, and height to base of crown-total height were investigated. Multiple regression methods were used to relate annual basal area growth to tree variables of initial size (DBH, total height, and crown width), relative size (relative diameter and relative height) as well as competition measures (competition index, crown class, and live crown ratio).

Ultrasonography for Facial Nerve Palsy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocol

  • Seojung Ha;Bo-In Kwon;Joo-Hee Kim
    • Journal of Acupuncture Research
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    • 제41권1호
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    • pp.63-68
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    • 2024
  • Background: Facial nerve palsy presents a significant healthcare challenge, impacting daily life and social interactions. This systematic review investigates the potential utility of ultrasonography as a diagnostic tool for facial nerve palsy. Methods: Electronic searches will be conducted across various databases, including MEDLINE, EMBASE, CENTRAL (Cochrane Central register of Controlled Trials), CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), KMBASE (Korean Medical Database), ScienceON, and OASIS (Oriental Medicine Advanced Searching Integrated System), up to February 2024. The primary outcome will focus on ultrasonography-related parameters, such as facial nerve diameter and muscle thickness. Secondary outcomes will encompass clinical measurements, including facial nerve grading scales and electrodiagnostic studies. the risk of bias in individual study will be assessed using the Cochrane Risk of Bias assessment tool, while the grading of recommendations, assessment, development, and evaluations methodology will be utilized to evaluate the overall quality of evidence. Conclusion: This study aims to review existing evidence and evaluate the diagnostic and prognostic value of ultrasonography for peripheral facial nerve palsy.

Long term activity measurement of the primary circuit water on the LVR-15 research reactor

  • Ladislav Viererbl;Vit Klupak;Hana Assmann Vratislavska
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제56권4호
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    • pp.1250-1253
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    • 2024
  • Activity measurement of the primary circuit water of fission reactors is one method that can provide early detection of a damaged fuel assembly in the reactor core. This is an important aspect in the safe operation of the reactor and for radiation protection of staff. Radionuclides in the primary circuit water are produced by the activation of stable nuclides and the fission of fissile nuclides, mainly the isotope 235U. In the LVR-15 research reactor, measurement of the activity of the primary circuit water has been regularly undertaken since 1996. A water sample is taken from the primary circuit every week and the activities are measured four days later using gamma spectrometry. The results of these long-term measurements from 1996 to 2022 are presented. The activity time dependences of the individual radionuclides are discussed in relation to fuel assembly damage and for events connected to contamination of the water by objects inserted into the primary circuit during experiments carried out near the reactor core.

치아크기 계측오차에 관한 연구 (A study on the error of tooth size measurements)

  • 심은주;황현식;문재동
    • 대한치과교정학회지
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    • 제29권4호
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    • pp.491-501
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    • 1999
  • 본 연구는 석고모형 분석 중 치아크기 측정시 발생할 수 있는 오차를 줄이고 측정의 재현도와 정확성을 향상시키는데 도움이 될 수 있는 방안을 모색하고자 시행되었다. 치아밀집 치열 특징을 지닌 상하악 20조의 석고모형을 대상으로 하여, 5명의 조사자가 각 치아의 근원심 폭경을 디지털 버니어 캘리퍼스를 사용하여 2주 간격으로 3회 측정하여 실험측정치를 얻은 다음, 측정에 이용된 석고모형을 근원심 접촉점 부위에서 개개 치아로 분리한 후, 마이크로미터를 이용하여 측정한 표준치와 비교$\cdot$분석하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 1. 3회 측정에 따른 재현도는 조사자별 치아별로 큰 차이를 나타내지 않았다. 2. 표준치와 비교한 계측오차는 조사자별 또는 치아별로 차이를 보였다. 3. 표준치와의 오차는 전치에서 구치로 갈수록 증가하여 제1대구치에서 가장 큰 차이를 나타내었다. 4. 표준치와 비교시 전반적으로 작게 측정하는 경향을 보였으며 이에 대한 치아별, 조사자별 차이가 두드러졌다. 5. 전반적인 오차 발생 정도는 치아밀집 정도와 유의한 상관성을 보이지 않았다. 이상의 결과는 교정증례 분석시 치아크기 계측오차 발생 가능성의 고려가 필요함을 시사하였다.

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Effect of Feeding Cyanidin 3-glucoside (C3G) High Black Rice Bran on Nutrient Digestibility, Blood Measurements, Growth Performance and Pork Quality of Pigs

  • Kil, D.Y.;Ryu, S.N.;Piao, L.G.;Kong, C.S.;Han, S.J.;Kim, Y.Y
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • 제19권12호
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    • pp.1790-1798
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    • 2006
  • Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of feeding cyanidin 3-glucoside (C3G) high black rice bran on nutrient digestibility, blood measurements, growth performance and pork quality of pigs. In Exp. I, a total of fifteen pigs (19.91${\pm}$1.80 kg, average initial body weight) were used in assay of nutrient digestibility and blood measurements. All pigs were allotted to 5 treatments with 3 replicates according to a completely randomized design (CRD) in an individual metabolic crate. Treatments included 1) CON: basal diet, 2) BRB-2: basal+brown rice bran 2%, 3) BRB-4: basal+brown rice bran 4%, 4) CRB-2: basal+C3G high black rice bran 2% and 5) CRB-4: basal+C3G high black rice bran 4%. The digestibility of dry matter (DM), crude protein (CP), crude fat (CF), crude ash (CA) and crude fiber (CF) was not affected by dietary treatments. Serum triglyceride (TG) and high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol concentrations were not affected by addition of C3G high black rice bran. However, at the end of experiment, pigs fed rice bran showed decreased tendency in total cholesterol concentration. Especially pigs fed C3G high black rice bran showed significantly lower total cholesterol concentration compared to pigs fed brown rice bran (p<0.03). There was numerically lower total cholesterol concentration with increasing levels of black rice bran in the diet. In terms of serum glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase (GOT) and glutamate pyruvate transaminase (GPT), there were no significant differences among treatments, even though pigs fed CRB-4 showed the lowest GOT concentration compared to other pigs. In Exp. II, sixteen finishing pigs (average initial body weight 89.96${\pm}$0.35 kg) were divided into 4 treatments to investigate the effect of feeding C3G high black rice bran on growth performance and pork quality. There were no significant differences in average daily gain (ADG), average daily feed intake (ADFI) and feed conversion ratio (FCR) among the treatments. Pigs fed C3G high black rice bran showed numerical decrease in ADG and increase in FCR while not effecting feed intake. There was no significant difference in live weight, carcass weight, carcass rate, backfat thickness and carcass grade. However, pigs fed C3G high black rice bran tended to show lower backfat thickness than pigs fed basal diet. Pigs fed C3G high black rice bran showed a tendency of decreased TBA value than pigs fed basal diet, although there was no overall significant difference among treatments. In conclusion, nutrient digestibility, blood measurements, growth performance and pork quality were not significantly affected by feeding C3G high black rice bran to pigs. However, C3G high black rice bran might have an effect on lowering serum total cholesterol and decrease the TBA value in pork compared to control group and these effects might be due to high concentration of antioxidative compounds in C3G high black rice bran.

특정 대상에 대한 개인 수준의 문화적 성향이 사용자 경험에 미치는 조절효과에 대한 실증적 연구: 미국, 독일, 러시아의 4개 디지털 기기 사용자를 대상으로 (An Empirical Study on How the Moderating Effects of Individual Cultural Characteristics towards a Specific Target Affects User Experience: Based on the Survey Results of Four Types of Digital Device Users in the US, Germany, and Russia)

  • 이인성;최지웅;김소령;이기호;김진우
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • 제19권1호
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    • pp.113-145
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    • 2009
  • Recently, due to the globalization of the IT(Information Technology) market, devices and systems designed in one country are used in other countries as well. This phenomenon is becoming the key factor for increased interest on cross-cultural, or cross-national, research within the IT area. However, as the IT market is becoming bigger and more globalized, a great number of IT practitioners are having difficulty in designing and developing devices or systems which can provide optimal experience. This is because not only tangible factors such as language and a country's economic or industrial power affect the user experience of a certain device or system but also invisible and intangible factors as well. Among such invisible and intangible factors, the cultural characteristics of users from different countries may affect the user experience of certain devices or systems because cultural characteristics affect how they understand and interpret the devices or systems. In other words, when users evaluate the quality of overall user experience, the cultural characteristics of each user act as a perceptual lens that leads the user to focus on a certain elements of experience. Therefore, there is a need within the IT field to consider cultural characteristics when designing or developing certain devices or systems and plan a strategy for localization. In such an environment, existing IS studies identify the culture with the country, emphasize the importance of culture in a national level perspective, and hypothesize that users within the same country have same cultural characteristics. Under such assumptions, these studies focus on the moderating effects of cultural characteristics on a national level within a certain theoretical framework. This has already been suggested by cross-cultural studies conducted by scholars such as Hofstede(1980) in providing numerical research results and measurement items for cultural characteristics and using such results or items as they increase the efficiency of studies. However, such national level culture has its limitations in forecasting and explaining individual-level behaviors such as voluntary device or system usage. This is because individual cultural characteristics are the outcome of not only the national culture but also the culture of a race, company, local area, family, and other groups that are formulated through interaction within the group. Therefore, national or nationally dominant cultural characteristics may have its limitations in forecasting and explaining the cultural characteristics of an individual. Moreover, past studies in psychology suggest a possibility that there exist different cultural characteristics within a single individual depending on the subject being measured or its context. For example, in relation to individual vs. collective characteristics, which is one of the major cultural characteristics, an individual may show collectivistic characteristics when he or she is with family or friends but show individualistic characteristics in his or her workplace. Therefore, this study acknowledged such limitations of past studies and conducted a research within the framework of 'theoretically integrated model of user satisfaction and emotional attachment', which was developed through a former study, on how the effects of different experience elements on emotional attachment or user satisfaction are differentiated depending on the individual cultural characteristics related to a system or device usage. In order to do this, this study hypothesized the moderating effects of four cultural dimensions (uncertainty avoidance, individualism vs, collectivism, masculinity vs. femininity, and power distance) as suggested by Hofstede(1980) within the theoretically integrated model of emotional attachment and user satisfaction. Statistical tests were then implemented on these moderating effects through conducting surveys with users of four digital devices (mobile phone, MP3 player, LCD TV, and refrigerator) in three countries (US, Germany, and Russia). In order to explain and forecast the behavior of personal device or system users, individual cultural characteristics must be measured, and depending on the target device or system, measurements must be measured independently. Through this suggestion, this study hopes to provide new and useful perspectives for future IS research.

Conceptus-related measurements at early pregnancy in Black Bengal goat: an abattoir study

  • Talukder, Anup K.;Rahman, Mohammad A.;Hoque, Mohammad N.;Islam, Mohammad T.;Rahman, Abu N.M.A.;Das, Ziban C.
    • 한국동물생명공학회지
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    • 제35권2호
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    • pp.177-182
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    • 2020
  • The present study aimed to investigate the conceptus-related changes during early pregnancy in the Black Bengal breed of goat. A total of 22 gravid genitalia of the Black Bengal goats were collected from local slaughterhouses. The crown-rump lengths (CRL) of the conceptuses were determined to estimate the gestational age (GA). The length and diameter of uterine horn and amniotic sac were measured, and volume of amniotic and allantoic fluid formed by individual conceptus were recorded. The results reveal that the CRL is positively correlated with GA of the conceptus (R2 = 0.89, p < 0.05); however, CRL was not influenced by number of conceptus. Both the left and the right uterine horn gradually increased in size with the advancement of pregnancy irrespective of conceptus number present in the horn. The size of the amniotic sac of conceptus gradually increased with the conceptus age but maintained spherical shape from 5 to 7 weeks of pregnancy. The amniotic fluid formed by individual conceptus rapidly increased from 5 weeks (3.4 ± 0.3 mL) to 7 weeks (21.0 ± 2.0 mL) and 9 weeks (111.5 ± 4.0 mL). The volume of allantoic fluid formed by individual conceptus was steadily increased until 7 weeks (60.0 ± 5.0 mL) and began to decline slowly thereafter (50.0 ± 5.0 mL at 9 weeks). Notably, there was no effect of conceptus number per pregnancy on individual amniotic and allantoic fluid volume. The cotyledons have first appeared on the allanto-chorionic surface from 4 to 5 weeks of pregnancy. The closed eye, nostril and hooves of the conceptus became visible at 7 weeks of pregnancy. The present study has shown the basic information on conceptus-related developmental changes during early pregnancy up to 9 weeks in Black Bengal goat.

Postpartum Reproductive Management Based on the Routine Farm Records of a Dairy Herd: Relationship between the Metabolic Parameters and Postpartum Ovarian Activity

  • Takagi, Mitsuhiro;Hirai, Toshiya;Moriyama, Naoki;Ohtani, Masayuki;Miyamoto, Akio;Wijayagunawardane, Missaka P.B.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • 제18권6호
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    • pp.787-794
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    • 2005
  • The aim of this study was 1) to confirm the practical efficiency of a routine milk P4 monitoring system for postpartum reproductive management of a dairy herd, and 2) to evaluate the relationship between the blood metabolic profiles, milk quality and body weight of individual cows in the farm records, which may reflect the postpartum nutritional condition, and the time of postpartum resumption of ovarian activity of dairy cows. A total of 116 Holstein cows was used in the present study. First, during the period of Experiment 1, postpartum reproductive management based on weekly measured milk P4 concentration from individual cows was conducted. Compared with the reproductive records of the past two years without P4 monitoring, although the day from calving to first AI did not change, both the number of AI until pregnant (with P4; 1.9 times vs. without P4; 2.9 times) and the days open (with P4; 95.1 days vs. without P4; 135.8 days and 133.8 days) were significantly decreased. In Experiment 2, the measurement of blood constituents such as albumin, blood urea nitrogen, packed cell volume, ammonia, glucose, total cholesterol, non-esterified, AST and $\gamma$-GTP was performed on the blood samples taken once approximately 14 days postpartum, to monitor both health and nutritional conditions. The milk constituent parameters, such as milk protein (MP), milk fat (MF), SNF and lactose, collected from the monthly progeny test of individual cows, were used to monitor the postpartum nutritional status. Furthermore, the data obtained from the routine measurements of body weight were used to calculate the rate of peripartum body weight loss. The resumption day of the postpartum estrous cycle was assumed from the milk P4 profiles of individual cows. There was no clear relationship between each parameter from blood examination and those from resumption time. However, the cows had low values of MP, and SNF, which significantly affected the resumption of the postpartum estrous cycle. Similarly, a higher rate of body weight loss indicated a significant delay (more than 1 month) in the resumption of the postpartum estrous cycle, compared with the groups that had a medium or lower rate of body weight loss. The results of the present study demonstrated that the implementation of routine milk P4 monitoring-based postpartum reproductive management, together with milk quality parameters and routine BW data available in field conditions may be utilized as a practical approach for increasing the postpartum reproductive efficiency of a high yielding dairy herd.

항공 라이다데이터를 이용한 개별수목탐지 및 평균수고추정 (Detection of Individual Trees and Estimation of Mean Tree Height using Airborne LIDAR Data)

  • 황세란;이미진;이임평
    • Spatial Information Research
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    • 제20권3호
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    • pp.27-38
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    • 2012
  • 산림의 보존과 관리에 대한 필요성이 점차 증가하면서 항공 라이다데이터를 이용한 산림연구가 활발히 수행되고 있다. 이러한 산림연구에서 수목고도는 정량적인 산림측정을 위한 중요한 변수로 이용된다. 이에 본 연구는 항공 라이다데이터로부터 수목고도 추정을 위한 대표적인 두 종류의 방법을 적용하고 그 결과를 비교분석한다. Local maximum 필터링에 기반한 개별수목탐지 방법으로 개별수목의 수, 위치, 높이 및 평균수고를, 수목고도모델 또는 히스토그램을 이용한 평균수고 추정방법으로 개별격자 또는 전체영역에 대한 최대, 평균수고, 평균 수관고를 추정한다. 현장에서 실측한 검증데이터와 비교한 결과 개별 수목은 76.6%의 정확도로 탐지되었으며 개별수고는 전체 수종의 경우 1.91m, 침엽수종에 대해서는 0.75m의 RMSE로 추정되었다. 반면 수목고도모델을 이용하여 추정된 평균수고는 약 1~2m의 RMSE를 보였으며, 히스토그램을 이용하여 추정된 평균수고는 약 0.6m 과소 추정되었다. 정확하고 다양한 산림정보 추출을 위해 수종 및 추정인자에 따라 적합한 상호보완적인 방법을 선택하고 융합하는 것이 필요하다.

스플라인 함수를 이용한 한국인 키 기준 성장 곡선 구성과 최종 키 예측 연구 (Construction of a reference stature growth curve using spline function and prediction of final stature in Korean)

  • 안홍석;이신재
    • 대한치과교정학회지
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    • 제37권1호통권120호
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    • pp.16-28
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    • 2007
  • 본 연구는 청소년의 교정 치료 시 중요한 교정 환자의 성장 평가 및 잔여 성장량 예측 방법을 개발하기 위하여 시행되었다. 이를 위하여 한국인의 전국적 표본 자료 중에서 $2\;{\sim}\;20$세 남자 4,893명, 여자 4,987명의 키 자료를 이용하여 성별 연령별 키에 대한 성장 곡선을 3차 스플라인 함수(NCSF)로 구현하였다. 이후 성장 예측 알고리즘을 개발하고 이를 임의로 선택된 200명의 종단 성장 자료를 이용하여 검증하였다. 검증에는 최종 키 예측 정확성과 검증 표본의 모든 연령에 대한 키 예측 오차 분석 및 NCSF 성장 곡선의 적합성 검사가 포함되었다. 그 결과 NCSF 성장 곡선은 기준 성장 곡선을 표현하는데 매우 적합한 것으로 나타났으며 최종 키 예측 정확성도 높았다. 또한 예측 정확성은 남자 보다 여자가 유의하게 높았다. 이러한 결과에도 불구하고 검증 표본의 모든 연령에 대한 키 예측 오차의 양상이 독립성과 정규성이 부족한 단점도 나타났다. 결론적으로 본 연구 결과 도출된 NCSF 성장 곡선을 이용한 성장 예측 방법의 높은 정확성에도 불구하고 개인의 종단 성장에 좀 더 적합한 성장 모형의 개발이 필요할 것으로 생각되었다.