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Effect of Trunk Inclination Angles on Trunk Muscle Activity and Subjective Difficulties During Supine Bridge Exercise with a Suspension Device

  • Kim, Jwa-Jun;Park, Se-Yeon
    • PNF and Movement
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.315-321
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    • 2020
  • Purpose: Recent studies have indicated that applying different inclination angles and suspension devices could be a useful way of performing exercises that include the co-activation of the trunk muscles. Present study was to examine the influences of changes in the inclination angle during trunk muscle activity while engaging in a bridge exercise with a suspension device. Methods: 18 healthy, physically active male volunteers completed three trunk inclination angles (15°, 30°, and 45°) for bridge exercise variations. The surface electromyography responses of the rectus abdominis, internal oblique (IO), erector spinae (ES), and rectus femoris (RF), as well as the subjective difficulty (Borg RPE score), were investigated during these bridge exercises. Results: The bridge with a 45° inclination angle suspension significantly increased the muscular activities of the RA and RF and increased the Borg RPE scores (p<0.05). The bridge with a 15° suspension significantly elevated the ES activities when compared to the other conditions. Conclusion: The present study demonstrated that a higher inclination angle could not activate the overall trunk muscles during the bridge exercise. The RA and RF produced greater activation during the bridge exercise with the higher inclination angle. On the other hand, the activities of the erector spine were greater during the bridge exercise with the lower inclination angle. The present study suggests that applying a low trunk inclination angle for the supine bridge exercise is suitable for activating the erector spine muscles.

Analysis of Drone Surveying Using a Low-Cost PPK Kit (PPK Kit를 활용한 드론 측량 분석)

  • Park, Junho;Kim, Taerim
    • Journal of The Geomorphological Association of Korea
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.41-52
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    • 2021
  • With the popularization of drones and the ease of use of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), drone photogrammetry for terrain information has been widely used. Drone photogrammetry enables the realization of high-accuracy three-dimensional topography for the entire area with less effort and time compared to the past direct survey using GNSS or total station. From 3-D topographic data, various topographical analysis is possible. To improve the accuracy of drone photogrammetry, direct GCP surveying in the field is essential, and the numbers and reasonable positioning of GCPs are very important. In the case of beaches or tidal flats on the west coast of Korea, the numbers and location of GCPs are important factors in efficient drone photogrammetry because of the size of the area, difficulties of movement, and the risk from tides. If the RTK (Real-time kinematic) or PPK (Post-processed kinematic) method is used, the increased accuracy of the drone's location enables high-accuracy photogrammetry with a small number of GCPs. This study presents an efficient drone photogrammetry method in terms of time and economy by comparing and analyzing the results of drone photogrammetry using Non-PPK with low-cost PPK-Kit, based on the tests of various numbers and locations of GCPs in the university field including various slopes and structures like coastal terrain.

Federated Learning Based on Ethereum Network (이더리움 네트워크 기반의 연합학습)

  • Seung-Yeon Hwang;Jeong-Joon Kim
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.191-196
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    • 2024
  • Recently, research on intelligent IoT technology has been actively conducted by various companies and research institutes to analyze various data collected from IoT devices and provide it through actual application services. However, security issues such as personal information leakage may arise in the process of transmitting and receiving data to use data collected from IoT devices for research and development. In addition, as data collected from multiple IoT devices increases, data management difficulties exist, and data movement is costly and time consuming. Therefore, in this paper, we intend to develop an Ethereum network-based federated learning system with guaranteed reliability to improve security issues and inefficiencies in a federated learning environment composed of various devices.

Visitor Circulation in Leisure Spaces using Space Syntax - Focusing on Ouam Traditional Folk Village - (공간구문론을 활용한 전통마을 여가공간의 보행동선 분석 - 외암민속마을을 사례로 -)

  • Song, Na-Guen;Yeo, Jeong-Tae;Ko, Dong-Wan
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2009
  • User movement is an important factor in determining the amount of the acquired knowledge and information about space contexts. A reasonable circulation plan affects the spatial usage, space revitalization, and activity satisfaction, and is ultimately a means to increase spatial usefulness. On the other hand, a disorderly circulation system causes negative experiences due to difficulties in wayfinding. This research identified the importance of a pedestrian circulation system analyzing the correlation between the spatial configuration index and pedestrian movement, and visitors' movement in the leisure space by using Space Syntax. The research area, Ouam-ri, where numerous guests visit this designated folk village, is a typical case in which a settlement space is used as a leisure space. There was a great deal of risk that visitors would get lost while wandering through the space. Also, it is difficult to induce visitors to tour economically even though the pedestrian circulation configuration of Ouam-ri forms the natural moving line because of its typical tree structure. Additionally adjusting and to supplementing the pedestrian system is required in order for the traditional village, a settlement space, to be used as a leisure space.

Case Report : Botulinum Toxin Treatment in Oromandibular Dystonia (보툴리눔 톡신을 이용한 구강하악 근긴장이상증의 치료 증례)

  • Ryu, Ji-Won;Hong, Seong-Ju;Bae, Kook-Jin;Yoon, Chang-Lyuk;Ahn, Jong-Mo
    • Journal of Oral Medicine and Pain
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.421-427
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    • 2009
  • Oromandibular dystonia is a focal neurological movement disorder characterized by involuntary sustained and often painful muscle contraction, usually producing repetitive movements or abnormal positions of the mouth, jaw and.or tongue. Patients suffering from oromandibular dystonia often experience difficulties in chewing, swallowing and speaking, resulting from the impairment of mandibular movements. At present there is no etiologic treatment for oromandibular dystonia, because the pathophysiology of primary and focal dystonia is still incompletely understood. Many treatments such as medication, behavioral therapy, surgery are suggested to decrease the involuntary movements. But these success rates are relatively low and they have a lot of complications. many studies suggested that chemodenervation with botulinum toxin is the most effective treatment for oromandibular dystonia. We reported the 2 cases which were treated oromandibular dystonia with botulinum toxin and reviewed the orofacial movement disorders(especially oromandibular dystonia) and botulinum toxin treatment for oromanfibular dystonia.

The Effect of the Elderly's Ability to Perform Daily Activities on Life Satisfaction: Focusing on Mediating Effect of Depression (노인의 일상생활 동작수행이 삶의 만족도에 미치는 영향: 우울감의 매개효과 중심)

  • Yoon, Mee-Ra;Lee, Mee-Ae
    • Journal of Industrial Convergence
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    • v.20 no.10
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    • pp.187-196
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    • 2022
  • The purpose of this study is to examine the mediating effect of depression in the relationship between the performance of daily activities in the elderly and their life satisfaction. The subjects of the study were 10,097 people from the Survey on the Elderly (2020), and the SPSS 25.0 program was used for data analysis. The main research results that analyzed the elderly's daily life movement performance by dividing it into daily life discomfort and movement performance difficulty are as follows. First, it was confirmed that the effects of discomfort and difficulty in performing daily activities of the elderly on life satisfaction were significant. Second, the effects of discomfort in daily life and difficulty in motion performance in the elderly on depression were found to be at a statistically significant level. Third, the effect of depression on life satisfaction was found to be statistically significant. Fourth, the partial mediating effect of depression was examined in the relationship between the daily life discomfort and difficulty in motion performance of the elderly on life satisfaction. These results clarified that daily life discomfort, difficulty in performing movements, and depression should be reduced in order to improve life satisfaction of the elderly. Through this, a discussion was presented to increase the life satisfaction of the elderly.

Childbirth and rearing characteristics of an Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus ussuricus) with trauma disorder in the wild (외상 장애를 가진 반달가슴곰의 야생에서의 출산과 양육 특성)

  • Kim, Jeong-Jin;Kim, Tae-Wook;Choi, Ju-Yeol;Chae, Seuong-Hoon;Moon, Kwang-sun;Oh, Hong-Shik
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.467-473
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    • 2019
  • The amputation of body parts of wild animals can affect their activities in the wild and the behavior of mothers raising their cubs can cause behavioral characteristics in their offspring. In 2017, an Asiatic black bear was caught in a snare at the Jirisan National Park and had a right forefoot amputation. It was released into the wild the same year and gave birth to two cubs. The seasonal analysis of the behavioral rites of five females who gave birth in the same year as this individual showed specific home ranges, activity altitudes, and movement distances compared to other populations. Physical disabilities in the mother could lead to difficulties in food activity, hibernation, and cub-rearing, but the bear's maternal instincts helped to overcome difficulties in the wild and ensure the cubs' survival. It also became a special experience in the process of promoting the restoration of Asiatic black bears at Jirisan National Park. Although the Asiatic black bear's cubs, which grew up in difficult conditions compared to other populations, are not currently causing problems, continuous monitoring will help determine the success of the disabled mother cub-rearing study. Furthermore, these case studies will be used to establish long-term management directions and plans for conflicts with people from various perspectives.

Eye Movements in Understanding Combinatorial Problems (순열 조합 이해 과제에서의 안구 운동 추적 연구)

  • Choi, In Yong;Cho, Han Hyuk
    • Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.635-662
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    • 2016
  • Combinatorics, the basis of probabilistic thinking, is an important area of mathematics and closely linked with other subjects such as informatics and STEAM areas. But combinatorics is one of the most difficult units in school mathematics for leaning and teaching. This study, using the designed combinatorial models and executable expression, aims to analyzes the eye movement of graduate students when they translate the written combinatorial problems to the corresponding executable expression, and examines not only the understanding process of the written combinatorial sentences but also the degree of difficulties depending on the combinatorial semantic structures. The result of the study shows that there are two types of solving process the participants take when they solve the problems : one is to choose the right executable expression by comparing the sentence and the executable expression frequently. The other approach is to find the corresponding executable expression after they derive the suitable mental model by translating the combinatorial sentence. We found the cognitive processing patterns of the participants how they pay attention to words and numbers related to the essential informations hidden in the sentence. Also we found that the student's eyes rest upon the essential combinatorial sentences and executable expressions longer and they perform the complicated cognitive handling process such as comparing the written sentence with executable expressions when they try the problems whose meaning structure is rarely used in the school mathematics. The data of eye movement provide meaningful information for analyzing the cognitive process related to the solving process of the participants.

Use of a Solution-Adaptive Grid (SAG) Method for the Solution of the Unsaturated Flow Equation (불포화 유동 방정식의 해를 위한 해적응격자법의 이용 연구)

  • Koo, Min-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Groundwater Environment
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.23-32
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    • 1999
  • A new numerical method using solution-adaptive grids (SAG) is developed to solve the Richards' equation (RE) for unsaturated flow in porous media. Using a grid generation technique, the SAG method automatically redistributes a fixed number of grid points during the flow process, so that more grid points are clustered in regions of large solution gradients. The method uses the coordinate transformation technique to employ a new transformed RE, which is solved with the standard finite difference method. The movement of grid points is incorporated into the transformed RE, and therefore all computation is performed on fixed grid points of the transformed domain without using any interpolation techniques. Thus, numerical difficulties arising from the movement of the wetting front during the infiltration process have been substantially overcome by the new method. Numerical experiments for an one-dimensional infiltration problem are presented to compare the SAG method to the modified Picard method using a fixed grid. Results show that accuracy of a SAG solution using 41 nodes is comparable with the solution of the fixed grid method using 201 nodes, while it requires only 50% of the CPU time. The global mass balance and the convergence of SAG solutions are strongly affected by the time step size (Δt) and the weighting parameter (${\gamma}$) used for generating solution-adaptive grids. Thus, the method requires automated readjustment of Δt and ${\gamma}$ to yield mass-conservative and convergent solutions, although it may increase computational costs. The method can be effective especially for simulating unsaturated flow and other transport problems involving the propagation of a sharp-front.

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LINGUAL FRENECTOMY UNDER ORAL SEDATION (경구 진정요법하에 시행한 설소대 절제술)

  • Jang, Yong-Gul;Park, Ho-Won;Lee, Ju-Hyun;Seo, Hyun-Woo
    • Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.568-574
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    • 2009
  • Tongue-tie is a congenital anomaly characterized by an abnormally short lingual frenum, which may restrict tongue tip mobility, In the neonate and infant, tongue-tie was said to cause difficult breast-feeding, In the older infant, toddler and young child, poor speech has been frequently listed because movement of tongue tip is limit ed. Also as a abnormal tongue position, various orthodontic problems, later mechanical and social manifestations could be developed. Treatment options such as observation, speech therapy, frenotomy and frenectomy have been suggested. The optimal timing for the surgery has not been determined, but early intervention may be appropriate for the children with significant tongue-tie who has the significant potential to speech difficulties and later social and mechanical problems. Sedation is an effective method for incapable of cooperative and the handicapped children, necessary to early intervention. We report three cases, using oral sedation for the frenectomy in young children with severe tongue-tie. After treatments, we could find out sufficient tongue movement and improved speech ability.

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