• Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine
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• 제42권6호
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• pp.863-871
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• 2018

Objective To evaluate the association between progression of curvature of scoliosis, and correction for functional component in patients with juvenile idiopathic scoliosis (JIS). Methods We retrospectively reviewed medical data of patients prescribed custom molded foot orthosis (FO) to correct inequality of RCSPA (resting calcaneal stance position angle), and chose 52 patients (26 females, 26 males) with Cobb angle ${\geq}10^{\circ}$ in radiology and uneven pelvic level at iliac crest by different RCSPA (${\geq}3^{\circ}$) as a factor of functional scoliosis. They had different hump angle ${\geq}5^{\circ}$ in forward bending test, for idiopathic scoliosis component. Their mean age and mean period of wearing FO were $79.5{\pm}10.6months$ and $18.6{\pm}0.70months$. Results Cobb angle was reduced from $22.03^{\circ}{\pm}4.39^{\circ}$ initially to $18.86^{\circ}{\pm}7.53^{\circ}$ after wearing FO. Pelvis height difference and RCSPA difference, were reduced from $1.07{\pm}0.25cm$ initially to $0.60{\pm}0.36$, and from $4.25^{\circ}{\pm}0.71^{\circ}$ initially to $1.71^{\circ}{\pm}0.75^{\circ}$ (p<0.01). Cobb angle improved most in 9 months. However, there was no significant improvement for those with more than $25^{\circ}$ of Cobb angle initially. Mean Cobb angle improved in all age groups, but patients less than 6 years had clinically significant improvement of more than $5^{\circ}$. Conclusion JIS can have functional components, which should be identified and managed. Foot orthosis is useful in correcting functional factors, in the case of pelvic inequality caused by different RCSPA, for patients with juvenile idiopathic scoliosis.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.471-482
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 수계 영역의 감독 분류 성능을 향상시키기 위하여 블록 기반의 영상 분할과 수계 경계의 확장을 이용하는 수계 검출 방법을 제안한다. 초기 수계 영역을 추출하기 위하여 수계 훈련 지역의 Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) 및 Near Infrared (NIR) 밴드 영상의 분광 정보를 이용하여 Mahalanobis 거리 영상을 생성한다. Mahalanobis 거리 영상에 포함된 잡음 성분의 영향을 감소시키기 위해서 인접한 화소의 연결 강도에 의해 확산 계수가 제어되는 평균 곡률 확산을 적용한 후에 초기 수계 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 수계 영상을 같은 크기의 블록으로 분할한 후에 수계 경계에 속하는 수계 영역의 정보를 이용하여 수계 영역을 갱신한다. 수계 경계에 속하는 수계 영역과 수계 훈련 지역 사이의 통계적인 거리가 임계값 이하이면, 수계 영역 갱신을 반복적으로 수행한다. 제안한 알고리즘을 KOMPSAT-2 영상에 적용한 결과 블록 크기가 $11{\times}11$에서 $19{\times}19$사이인 경우에 overall accuracy는 99.47%에서 99.53%, Kappa coefficient는 95.07%에서 95.80%의 분류 정확도를 보였다.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제61권6호
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• pp.346-351
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• 2017

This study was planned considering the chain length, hydrophilicity, and hydrophobicity of the additives to be used in the polymerization, while various ophthalmic lenses that use various additives with similar water contents were manufactured before their optical and physical properties were compared and analyzed. With regard to the additives required for manufacturing high-, medium-, and low-water content lens groups, HEA (hydroxyethyl acrylate), PVP (polyvinylpyrrolidone), and NMV(N-methyl-N-vinylacetamide) were used as additives for preparing the high-water content lens group, HEMA(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate), HPMA(hydroxypropyl methacrylate) and BD(1,4-butanediol) were used for the medium-water content lens group. For the low-water content lens group, BMA(buthyl methacrylate), BDDA(1,4-butanediol diacrylate), and Bis-GMA(bisphenol A glycerolate diacrylate) were used, respectively. The average water content of HEA was 40.14%; that of PVP, 39.63%; and that of NMV, 40.52%. The mean of water content was 35.92% for HEMA, 35.74% for BD, and 34.62% for HPMA. For the low-water content lens group, the mean of water content was 26.69% for BMA, 27.76% for BDDA, and 26.14% for Bis-GMA. With regard to the results of the water content measurement using a moisture analyzer, the average water content of the high-water content lens group was 41.34% for HEA, 42.62% for PVP, and 42.73% for NMV. Finally, for the low-water content lens group, the average water content was 28.62% for BMA, 28.82% for BDDA, and 28.32% for Bis-GMA. The measurements of the water contents of the lenses using the two methods showed that the water content and refractive index of the lenses were similar in all the lens groups. The measurements of the contact angles, however, showed a different wettability value for each lens with a similar water content. Also, the change tendency of the lens curvature according to the change of time showed that the change amount became larger and the recovery time became longer from the lens samples with a lower water content to those with a higher water content. Based on these results that will be helpful for the study of ophthalmic lenses.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.395-403
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• 2002

반응표면방법론에서의 세번째 단계에서는 일차모형이 가정되고, 반응표면의 곡선효과는 중앙점과 2수준 부분실시법에서의 실험을 통해서 검토된다. 참모형이 2차 모형인 경우를 가정하자. 최적실험계획을 선택하기 위해서 Box와 Draper(1959)는 관심영역에서 예측치 y(x)의 평균제곱오차를 적분한 값인 가중평균제곱오차(AMSE)를 최소화 시키는 최적실험계획 기준을 제안하였다. AMSE는 예측치의 가중분산과 가중제곱편의 량의 합으로 분할될 수 있다. AMSE는 실험계획 적률과 참모형의 회귀계수들의 값에 종속되어서 가중평균제곱오차를 최 소화하는 실험 계획을 찾기는 불가능하다. 실용적인 대안으로 Box와 Draper(1959)는 가중제곱편의 량을 최소화하는 실험계획을 제안했고, 이 실험계획의 상자점들이 중앙점을 향해서 축소됨을 보였다. 이 논문에서는 표준화된 회귀계수들의 값에 대해서 실험계획의 최소효율을 최대화하는 강건한 실험계획을 제안한다.

• 천문학회지
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.83-92
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• 2015

Recent large scale surveys such as Sloan Digital Sky Survey have produced homogeneous samples of multiple-image gravitationally lensed quasars with well-defined selection effects. Statistical analysis on these can yield independent constraints on cosmological parameters. Here we use the image separation statistics of lensed quasars from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search (SQLS) to derive constraints on cosmological parameters. Our analysis does not require knowledge of the magnification bias, which can only be estimated from the detailed knowledge on the quasar luminosity function at all redshifts, and includes the consideration for the bias against small image separation quasars due to selection against faint lens galaxy in the follow-up observations for confirmation. We first use the mean image separation of the lensed quasars as a function of redshift to find that cosmological models with extreme curvature are inconsistent with observed lensed quasars. We then apply the maximum likelihood test to the statistical sample of 16 lensed quasars that have both measured redshift and magnitude of lens galaxy. The likelihood incorporates the probability that the observed image separation is realized given the luminosity of the lens galaxy in the same manner as Im et al. (1997). We find that the 95% confidence range for the cosmological constant (i.e., the vacuum energy density) is $0.72{\leq}{\Omega}_{\Lambda}{\leq}1.0$ for a flat universe. We also find that the equation of state parameter can be consistent with -1 as long as the matter density ${\Omega}_m{\leq}0.4$ (95% confidence range). We conclude that the image separation statistics incorporating the brightness of lens galaxies can provide robust constraints on the cosmological parameters.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.1395-1404
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• 1994

유로만곡부의 횡방향 하상경사는 하천형태학적 특성연구와 하도재해방지, 그리고 수공구조물 보호 등에 기초자료를 제공하는 중요한 연구과제이다. 본 연구에서는 연구대상유역 유로만곡부의 횡방향 하상경사를 Odgaard의 모형외 8개의 모형을 선택하여 비교분석한 후 예측하였으며 적합한 모형을 제시하였다. 본 연구에서 비교된 모든 모형들은 곡률반경과 수심에 비례하였고 모형들사이의 차이는 비례계수 K에 있으며 또한 측정된 횡방향 하상경사는 만곡부에서의 최대수심과 평균유속, 그리고 입자 Froude수와 관계가 있었다. 본 연구에서 Sacramento강 만곡부에서 이루어진 Odgaard의 실험자료를 이용하여 횡방향 하상경사모형들을 비교분석한 결과 Odgaard89모형이 실측횡방향 하상경사와 비교적 잘 일치하였다.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.6-9
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• 2008

Analyzing the characteristics of blood flow in the blood vessels is very important to diagnose the circulatory diseases. In order to investigate the hemodynamic characteristics in vivo, the measurements of blood flows inside the extraembryonic arterial and venous blood vessels of chicken embryos were carried out using an in vivo micro-PIV technique. The circulatory diseases are closely related with the formation of abnormal hemodynamic shear stress regions, thereby it is important to get blood velocity and vessel's morphological information according to the vessel configuration and the flow conditions. In this study, the flow images of RBCs in blood vessels were obtained using a high-speed CMOS camera with a spatial resolution of approximately 14.6${\mu}$m${\times}$14.6${\mu}$m in the whole circulation network of blood vessels. The blood flows in the veins and arteries show steady laminar and unsteady pulsatile flow characteristics, respectively. The mean blood flows merged (in veins) and bifurcated (in arteries) smoothly into the main blood vessel and branches, respectively, without any flow separation or secondary flow which accompanying large variation of shear stress. Vorticity was high in the inner regions for both types of vessels, where the radius of curvature varied greatly. The instantaneous flows in the arterial blood vessels showed noticeable pulsatility due to the heart beat, and the main features of the velocity waveforms, including pulsatile shape, retrograde flow, mean velocity, maximum velocity and pulsatile frequency, were significantly dependent on the pulsatile condition which dominates the arterial blood flow. In near future, these in vivo experimental results of blood flow measured in various extraembryonic blood vessels would be very useful to understand the hemodynamic characteristics of human blood flows and various blood flow researches for clinically useful hemodynamic discoveries as well.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제57권3호
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• pp.185-191
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• 2015

Objective : In order to provide normal values of the pediatric sub-axial cervical spinal canal and vertebral body growth pattern using computed tomographic scans, a total of 318 patients less than 10 years old were included. Methods : The growth of the vertebral body and canal space was investigated using four different age groups. The Torg ratio (TR) was calculated and all patients were classified into a low TR group and a high TR group according to a cutoff value of 1.0. To account for spinal curvature, the C3-7 angle was measured. Results : Very little axial expansion and growth in height were observed (2.9 mm and 3.4 mm, respectively), and the spinal canal increments (1.8 mm) were much smaller than the dimensions of the vertebral body. The mean TR values were $1.03{\pm}0.14$ at the C3 vertebral level, $1.02{\pm}0.13$ at C4, $1.05{\pm}0.13$ at C5, $1.04{\pm}0.13$ at C6, and $1.02{\pm}0.12$ at C7 in all patients. The mean sub-axial angle (C3-7) was $7.9{\pm}10.6^{\circ}$ (range: $-17-47^{\circ}$). Conclusion : The upper sub-axial spinal canal continuously increased in size compared to the lower sub-axial spine after 8 years of age. Considerable decrements in the TR was found after late childhood compared to younger ages. Generally, there were no significant differences between boys and girls in vertical length of the cervical vertebrae. However, the axial dimension of the vertebral body and the spinal canal space varied according to gender.

• Journal of Gastric Cancer
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.278-285
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• 2015

Purpose: Gastric submucosal tumors (SMTs) located very close to the esophagogastric junction (EGJ) are a challenge for gastric surgeons. Therefore, this study reports on the experience of using endoscopic and laparoscopic full-thickness resection (ELFR) with laparoscopic two-layer suturing in such tumors. Materials and Methods: Six patients with gastric SMTs very close to the EGJ underwent ELFR with laparoscopic two-layer suturing at Kyungpook National University Medical Center. With the patient under general anesthesia, the lesser curvature and posterior aspect adjacent to the EGJ were meticulously dissected and visualized using a laparoscopic approach. A partially circumferential full-thickness incision at the distal margin of the tumor was then made using an endoscopic approach under laparoscopic guidance. The SMT was resected using laparoscopic ultrasonic shears, and the gastric wall was closed using two-layer suturing. Thereafter, the patency and any leakage were checked through endoscopy. Results: All the ELFR procedures with laparoscopic two-layer suturing were performed successfully without an open conversion. The mean operation time was $139.2{\pm}30.9$ minutes and the blood loss was too minimal to be measured. The tumors from four patients were leiomyomas, while the tumors from the other two patients were gastrointestinal stromal tumors with clear resection margins. All the patients started oral intake on the third postoperative day. There was no morbidity or mortality. The mean hospital stay was $7.7{\pm}0.8$ days. Conclusions: ELFR with laparoscopic two-layer suturing is a safe treatment option for patients with an SMT close to the EGJ, as major resection of the stomach is avoided.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2008년도 추계 학술발표회
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• pp.1404-1414
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• 2008

In the mechanistic-empirical trackbed design of railways, the resilient modulus is the key input parameter. This study focused on the resilient modulus prediction model, which is the functions of mean effective principal stress and axial strain, for three types of railroad trackbed materials such as crushed stone, weathered soil, and crushed-rock soil mixture. The model is composed with the maximum Young's modulus and nonlinear values for higher strain in parallel with dynamic shear modulus. The maximum values is modeled by model parameters, $A_E$ and the power of mean effective principal stress, $n_E$. The nonlinear portion is represented by modified hyperbolic model, with the model parameters of reference strain, ${\varepsilon}_r$ and curvature coefficient, a. To assess the performance of the prediction models proposed herein, the elastic response of a test trackbed near PyeongTaek, Korea was evaluated using a 3-D nonlinear elastic computer program (GEOTRACK) and compared with measured elastic vertical displacement during the passages of freight and passenger trains. The material types of sub-ballasts are crushed stone and weathered granite soil, respectively. The calculated vertical displacements within the sub-ballasts are within the order of 0.6mm, and agree well with measured values with the reasonable margin. The prediction models are thus concluded to work properly in the preliminary investigation.