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Tourniquet-Free Hand Surgery Using the One-per-Mil Tumescent Technique

  • Prasetyono, Theddeus O.H.
    • Archives of Plastic Surgery
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.129-133
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    • 2013
  • Background A pneumatic tourniquet is generally used to achieve a bloodless operation field in hand surgery. However, this has changed with tumescent solution-based wide-awake surgery. This study is a preliminary prospective case series study to elaborate the formula and indications of the tumescent technique in hand surgery without a tourniquet. Methods Seven patients (age range, 4 months to 37 years) underwent hand or upper extremity surgery for conditions such as nerve palsy, electric burn defect, fingertip injury, contracture, constriction ring syndrome, or acrosyndactyly. A "one-per-mil" tumescent solution (epinephrine 1:1,000,000+20 mg lidocaine/50 mL saline) was used to create a bloodless operating field without a tourniquet. Observation was performed to document the amount of solution injected, the operation field clarity, and the postoperative pain. Results The "one per mil" epinephrine solution showed an effective hemostatic effect. The tumescent technique resulted in an almost bloodless operation field in the tendon and in the constriction ring syndrome surgeries, minimal bleeding in the flap and contracture release surgeries, and acceptable bleeding in acrosyndactyly surgery. The amount of solution injected ranged from 5.3 to 60 mL. No patient expressed significant postoperative pain. Flap surgeries showed mixed results. One flap was lost, while the others survived. Conclusions Epinephrine 1:1,000,000 in saline solution is a potential replacement for a tourniquet in hand surgery. Further studies are needed to delineate its safety for flap survival.

Obtaining the zwitterionic form of L-lysine from L-lysine monohydrochloride by electrodialysis

  • Aghajanyan, A.E.;Tsaturyan, A.O.;Hambardzumyan, A.A.;Saghyan, A.S.
    • Membrane and Water Treatment
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2013
  • The process of electromembrane transformation of L-lysine monohydrochlorides into their zwitterionic form in four- and two-chamber electrodialysis apparatus was investigated. The process of transformation at various concentrations of lysine monohydrochloride (0.1-0.6 mol.L-1) was studied and it was established that at the optimum density of current optimal concentrations of lysine hydrochloride during electrodyalisis was in the range of 0.2-0.4 mol.L-1. It was determined that the process of total transformation was accomplished when pH of the lysine solution achieved 10. Changes of concentrations of $Cl^-$ ions and lysine diffused into the neighboring chamber were determined depending on the time. The method developed by us allows adjusting the removal coefficient of $Cl^-$ ions during transformation to a maximal value, the losses of lysine diffused into the next chamber after its return to the technological cycle being less than 1.0 %. The specific energy consumption during the process of transformation in two- and four-chamber electrodialyzers was 0.19 and 0.205 A.h.kg-1 and the current efficiency was 75.9 and 73.1 %, correspondingly. Study of the process of electromembrane transformation allowed obtaining zwitterionic form of L-lysine from L-lysine monohydrochloride with minimal reagent and energy consumption.

Monolayer Rotating Ball Electronic Paper Display

  • Lee, Hwan-Su;Cha, Hye-Yeon;Lee, Chung-Hui;Lee, Sang-Mun;Gwak, Jeong-Bok;Kim, Sang-Jin;Lee, Yeong-U;Park, Jeong-Min;O, Yong-Su
    • Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.20.1-20.1
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    • 2010
  • 'Electronic paper (EP)' provides desirable viewing characteristics of paper with being thin, lightweight, flexible, and recordable with minimal power consumption. Currently, a number of different technologies to realize the EP are actively competing. Here we demonstrate a newly developed monolayer rotating ball (MRB) electronic paper display where optically anisotropic rotating balls were disposed in a monolayer, and controllably closely packed with respect to one another. The close packed monolayer configuration provides high brightness and improved contrast with better electrical and optical features in comparison with the typical (Gyrion) rotating ball display. In this talk, we present characteristics of the MRB display in terms of performance, with particular emphasis on the response time as a function of the electric field.

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Isolation and Characterization of a Phenol-Degrading Strain Acinetobacter sp.GEM2 (Phenol을 분해하는 Acinetobacter sp. GEM2의 분리 및 특성)

  • Lee, Chang-Ho;Oh, Hee-Mock;Kwon, Tae-Jong;Kwon, Gi-Seok;Lee, Sung-Gie;Suh, Hyun-Hyo;Yoon, Byung-Dae
    • Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.692-699
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    • 1994
  • A bacterial strain which formed a distinct colony on agar plate containing phenol as a vapor phase and grew well in a liquid minimal medium was isolated and identified as Acinetobac- ter sp. GEM2. The optimal temperature and initial pH for the growth of Acinetobacter sp. GEM2 were 30$\circ$C and 7.0, respectively. Cell growth was inhibited by phenol at the concentration over 1500 ppm. Cell growth dramatically increased from 10 hours after cultivation and almost showed a stationary phase within 24 hours at which 95% of phenol was concomitantly degraded. Acinetobac- ter sp. GEM2 was capable of growing on aromatic compounds, such as benzoic acid, phenol, m- cresol, o-cresol, P-cresol, catechol, gentisic acid, and toluene, but did not grow on benzene, salicylic acid, p-toluic acid, and p-xylene. By the analysis of catechol dioxygenase, it seemed that catechol was degraded through both meta- and ortho-cleavage pathway. The growth-limiting log P value of Acinetobacter sp. GEM2 on organic solvents was 2.0.

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Numerical Study of Regular Start and Unstart Process of Superdetonative Speed Ram Accelerator (초폭굉속도 램 가속기의 정상발진 및 불발과정의 수치적 연구)

  • Moon, G.W.;Jeung, I.S.;Choi, J.Y.
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.31-41
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    • 2000
  • A numerical study was conducted to investigate the combustion phenomena of regular start and unstart processes based on ISL#s RAMAC 30 experiments with different diluent amounts in a ram accelerator. The initial projectile launching speed was 1800m/s which corresponded to the superdetonative speed of the stoichiometric $H_2/O_2$ mixture diluted with $5CO_2\;or\;4CO_2$. In this study, it was found that neither shock nor viscous heating was sufficient to ignite the mixture at a low speed of 1800m/s, as was found in the experiments using a steel-covered projectile. However, we could succeed in igniting the mixtures by imposing a minimal amount of additional heat to the combustor section and simulate the regular start and unstart processes found in the experiments with an aluminum-covered projectile. The numerical results matched almost exactly to the experimental results. As a result, it was found that the regular start and unstart processes depended on the strength of gas mixture, development of shock-induced combustion wave stabilized by the first separation bubble, and its size and location.

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우리말 동철이음어 구별표기안 - IPA, 로마자, 한글표기를 나란히 견주어 -

  • Yu Man-Geun
    • MALSORI
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    • no.31_32
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    • pp.51-82
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    • 1996
  • The purpose of this paper is to gather pairs of heteronyms in Modem Korean and to propose that all of them should be differentiated in both the Hanngul orthography and Romanization as well as in the IPA transcription. More than a quarter of the whole Korean vocabulary consists of words with a long vowel and the number of minimal pairs distinguished only by the chroneme reaches nearly ten thousand (ie. twenty thousand words). It is suggested here that the letter s in Hanngul and the letter 'h' in the Roman alphabet be used to represent the long vowel. Another factor which brings forth lots of heteronyms in Korean is the lacking of enough indication as to non-automatic reinforcement in the initial consonant o( a word (or a morpheme) when following another within a phrase (or a word). It is proposed here that the non-automatincally rienforced word-initial consonant should be written with the letter h (like ㅺ, ㅼ, ㅽ, ㅾ) and an apostrophe (like 물'새 or 밭'이랑, 물'약) in Hanngul, and with the letter c and an apostrophe (like c'g-, c'd-, c'b-, c'j- ) in the Roman alphabet The morpheme-initial reinforced consonant within a word is written with the letters k, 1, p and cz for ㅺ, ㅼ, ㅽ, and ㅾ respectively. The contrasted pronunciations of pairs of heteronyms beginning with ㅁ/m sound are transcribed here for exemplification in the IPA, Roman alphabet and Hanngul.

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Vision Inspection for Flexible Lens Assembly of Camera Phone (카메라 폰 렌즈 조립을 위한 비전 검사 방법들에 대한 연구)

  • Lee I.S.;Kim J.O.;Kang H.S.;Cho Y.J.;Lee G.B.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.631-632
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    • 2006
  • The assembly of camera lens modules fur the mobile phone has not been automated so far. They are still assembled manually because of high precision of all parts and hard-to-recognize lens by vision camera. In addition, the very short life cycle of the camera phone lens requires flexible and intelligent automation. This study proposes a fast and accurate identification system of the parts by distributing the camera for 4 degree of freedom assembly robot system. Single or multi-cameras can be installed according to the part's image capture and processing mode. It has an agile structure which enables adaptation with the minimal job change. The framework is proposed and the experimental result is shown to prove the effectiveness.

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A Study on efficacy and safety of antibacterial(pefloxacin methanesulfonate) to cultured fish, Cyprinus caprio and Paralichthys olivaceus (양식어류(이스라엘 잉어, 넙치)에 대한 항균물질 pefloxacin의 효능 및 안전성에 관한 연구)

  • Heo, Gang-joon;Kim, Jeong-ho
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Research
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.153-163
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    • 1994
  • A study on quinolone antibacterial (pefloxacin methanesulfonate) was performed to use for the drug of fisheries. Petloxacin was proved excellent in antibacterial activity and resistance against fish pathogens when compared with the existing antibacterials. And any side effect was not observed during the period of indicated use. An outline of MIC(Minimal Inhibitory Concentration) was $1.6{\sim}6.4{\mu}g/ml$, $TLm_{48h}$ value were 380~420 ppm in Israeli carp(Cyprinus caprio) and 2100~2300 ppm in flounder(Paralichthys olivaceus). The residual time of fish body was less than 15 days. So we can treat some bacterial disease of fish by the dosage of 100 g/day/ton of fish body weight for 3 days and pefloxacin is thought to be used effectively and widely against most bacterial fish pathogens.

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Electromagnetic energy as an impact factor on life processes of a biological object of a plant origin

  • Radko, I.;Nalyvaiko, V.;Okushko, O.
    • The Korean Journal of Food & Health Convergence
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2020
  • The foremost problem in the agricultural industry in Ukraine is the issue of improving its energy resources efficiency. The existence of this problem is related to the substantial technological inferiority of the industry to those present in the developed countries, especially in terms of creation of no-waste production technologies of agricultural products. The direct effect on the solving of this issue has the necessity to ensure minimal energy costs during treatment of plant objects. This article presents the research results on the effect of electromagnetic energy on activation of plants development. It was found that each such object has its own individual energy resource and that forceful increase of the latter has specific maximum values and gives rise to the plant development process. At the same time, the implementation of the research results is hindered by some factors, among the most major of which are the following: lack of reliable and complete data on the bioenergy resources of plants, its "natural" chart; unavailability of research on the energy sources interaction processes and its effect on the physiological potential of biological objects, at least at the level of low series, absence of the appropriate electrotechnical equipment, including electromagnetic energy sources.

Characterization of Membrane-bound Nitrate Reductase from Denitrifying Bacteria Ochrobactrum anthropi SY509

  • Kim Seung-Hwan;Song Seung-Hoon;Yoo Young-Je
    • Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.32-37
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    • 2006
  • In this study, we have purified and characterized the membrane bound nitrate reductase obtained from the denitrifying bacteria, Ochrobactrum anthropi SY509, which was isolated from soil samples. O. anthropi SY509 can grow in minimal medium using nitrate as a nitrogen source. We achieved an overall purification rate of 15-fold from the protein extracted from the membrane fraction, with a recovery of approximately 12% of activity. The enzyme exhibited its highest level of activity at pH 5.5, and the activity was increased up to $70^{\circ}C$. Periplasmic and cytochromic proteins, including nitrite and nitrous oxide reductase, were excluded during centrifugation and were verified using enzyme essay. Reduced methyl viologen was determined to be the most efficient electron donor among a variety of anionic and cationic dyestuffs, which could be also used as an electron donor with dimethyl dithionite. The effects of purification and storage conditions on the stability of enzyme were also investigated. The activity of the membranebound nitrate reductase was stably maintained for over 2 weeks in solution. To maintain the stability of enzyme, the cell was disrupted using sonication at low temperatures, and enzyme was extracted by hot water without any surfactant. The purified enzyme was stored in solution with no salt to prevent any significant losses in activity levels.