• 제목/요약/키워드: Percent improvement

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아토피피부염 환자 511명의 장기간의 한의학적 치료효과에 대한 후향적 연구 (Retrospective Study about the Effectiveness of a long-term Korean Medicine Treatment on 511 Atopic Dermatitis Patients)

  • 한수련;박건;한명화;서산;조재곤;고영협;정창환;이정환;장진영
    • 한방안이비인후피부과학회지
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    • 제26권3호
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    • pp.65-76
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    • 2013
  • Objective : The purpose of this study is to report the effectiveness of a long-term Korean Medicine Treatment on 511 atopic dermatitis patients. Methods : Total 511 atopic dermatitis patients, who has visited oriental medical clinics from 2011.1.9 to 2012.1.31 and continued treatment 3 month to 9 month were analyzed by Objective SCORAD Index(OSI). Subanalysis of OSI were done according to gender, age, treatment period, and intensity. Results : 1. Male and female percent was 42.5:57.5. Age percent was 0 to 11:12 to 18:above 19=30:16.6:53 and 41.9% was steroid users. 2. OSI Improvement rate was significantly higher in women than men after 3 month of treatment, but not significant after 6, 9 month of treatment. 3. There was no improvement difference of OSI among the age. 4. OSI was significantly lower after 3, 6, 9 month of treatment. Average post-treatment score was lowest in 9 month treatment group. 5. 86.7% of total patients reported decrease in OSI score at the final visit. 6. 85.9% was severe, 13.5% was moderate, and 0.6% was mild by OSI intensity assessment at initial visit. The percent changed at final visit to 37% severe, 54.2% moderate, and 8.8% mild. 7. Patient diagnosed as OSI intensity severe at first visit, their average treatment period was 6.58 months and final improvement rate was 36.27%. Conclusion : A significant percent of Atopic dermatitis patients who were treated with Korean Medicine Treatment reported decrease in OSI. There was significant decrease in OSI before and after 3, 6, 9 month treatment. The difference increased with the treatment period.

Compensating time delay in semi-active control of a SDOF structure with MR damper using predictive control

  • Bathaei, Akbar;Zahrai, Seyed Mehdi
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • 제82권4호
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    • pp.445-458
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    • 2022
  • Some of the control systems used in engineering structures that use sensors and decision systems have some time delay reducing efficiency of the control system or even might make it unstable. In this research, in addition to considering the effect of the time delay in vibration control process, predictive control is used to compensate the time delay. A semi-active vibration control approach with the help of magneto-rheological dampers is implemented. In addition to using fuzzy inference system to determine the appropriate control voltage for MR damper, structural behavior prediction system and specifying future responses are also used such that the time delays occurring within control process are overcome. For this purpose, determination of prediction horizon is conducted for one, five, and ten steps ahead for single degree of freedom structures with periods ranging from 0.1 to 4 seconds, subjected to twenty earthquake excitations. The amount of time delay applied to the control system is 0.1 seconds. The obtained results indicate that for 0.1 second time delay, average prediction error values compared to the case without time delay is 3.47 percent. Having 0.1 second time delay in a semi-active control system reduces its efficiency by 11.46 percent; while after providing the control system with structure behavior prediction, the difference in the results for the control system without time delay is just 1.35 percent on average; indicating a 10.11 percent performance improvement for the control system.

Mechanical and durability properties of fluoropolymer modified cement mortar

  • Bansal, Prem Pal;Sidhu, Ramandeep
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • 제63권3호
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    • pp.317-327
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    • 2017
  • The addition of different types of polymers such as SBR, VAE, Acrylic, etc. in concrete and mortar leads to an increase in compressive, tensile and bond strength and decrease in permeability of polymer modified mortar (PMM) and concrete (PMC). The improvement in properties such as bond strength and impermeability makes PMM/PMC suitable for use as repair/retrofitting and water proofing material. In the present study effect of addition of fluoropolymer on the strength and permeability properties of mortar has been studied. In the cement mortar different percentages viz. 10, 20 and 30 percent of fluoropolymer by weight of cement was added. It has been observed that on addition of fluoropolymer in mortar the workability of mortar increases. In the present study all specimens were cast keeping the workability constant, i.e., flow value $105{\pm}5mm$, by changing the amount of water content in the mortar suitably. The specimens were cured for two different curing conditions. Firstly, these were cured wet for one day and then cured dry for 27 days. Secondly, specimens were cured wet for 7 days and then cured dry for 21 days. It has been observed that compressive strength and split tensile strength of specimens cured wet for 7 days and then cured dry for 21 days is 7-13 percent and 12-15 percent, respectively, higher than specimens cured one day dry and 27 days wet. The sorptivity of fluoropolymer modified mortar decreases by 88.56% and 91% for curing condtion one and two, respectively. However, It has been observed that on addition of 10 percent fluoropolymer both compressive and tensile strength decreases, but with the increase in percentage addition from 10 to 20 and 30 percent both the strengths starts increasing and becomes equal to that of the control specimen at 30 percent for both the curing conditions. It is further observed that percentage decrease in strength for second curing condition is relatively less as compared to the first curing condition. However, for both the curing conditions chloride ion permeability of polymer modified mortar becomes very low.

한방부인과 영역의 보험급여 현황에 대한 조사연구 -침술급여를 중심으로- (A Study on the Status of Insurance Benefits in the Oriental Medical Ob & Gy -Focusing on Acupuncture Benefits-)

  • 최민선;김동일
    • 대한한방부인과학회지
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    • 제21권3호
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    • pp.218-230
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    • 2008
  • Purpose: This study was performed to investigate the percentage of the oriental medical Ob & GY disease group in Korean Medical Health Insurance and to gain the basic data of enlargement and improvement of Acupuncture Benefits in the oriental medical Ob & Gy field. Methods: We requested data about the status of Insurance Benefits in 2005. 2006 to Health Insurance Review & Assessmenstatus Service(HIRA). And on the basis of this 2005. 2006 data, we analyzed the status of Insurance Benefits and Acupuncture Benefits in the oriental medical Ob & Gy disease group. Results: 1. Total health care benefit costs of Korean medical health insurance in 2005, 2006 took 4.38 percent and 4.25 percent of total health care benefit costs of Health insurance. 2. Total health care benefit costs of the oriental medical Ob & Gy disease group in 2005, 2006 took 0.38 percent and 0.40 percent of total health care benefit costs of Korean medical health insurance. 3. The percentage of Acupuncture benefits costs of the oriental medical Ob & Gy disease group in 2005, 2006 was merely 0.22 percent and 0.23 percent of total Acupuncture Benefits costs. 4. The main sick and wounded name of Ob & Gy diseases of Acupuncture Benefits was limited to Menstrual Disorder(K01)과- Uterus Abnormality(K13). Conclusion: The percentage of the oriental medical Ob & Gy disease group in Korean Medical Health Insurance was very low and the percentage of Acupuncture Benefits of he oriental medical Ob & Gy disease group was also very low. From now on, Searching ay of enlargement of Acupuncture Benefits in the oriental medical Ob & Gy field is required.

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Improvement of the ac PDP Performance by Simple Modification Of the Fence Electrode Structure

  • Park, Chung-Hoo;Hur, Min-Nyung;Kim, Dong-Hyun;Lim, Sung-Hyun;Lee, Ho-Jun
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국정보디스플레이학회 2002년도 International Meeting on Information Display
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    • pp.601-604
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    • 2002
  • We propose modified fence electrode structure for manufacturing of ITO-electrode-free PDP. Luminance, luminance efficiency and addressing time for the proposed structure shows performance improvement about 25 percent. Our results can be used for the reduction of manufacturing cost without degradation of PDP performance.

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NOTE - Intense Pulsed Light Was Effective for Solar Lentigines and Ephelides

  • Kameyama, Hiroko;Kawada, Akira;Sangen, Yoshiko;Wakano, Tsukasa;Aragane, Yoshinori;Tezuka, Tadashi
    • Journal of Photoscience
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    • 제10권2호
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    • pp.217-218
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    • 2003
  • A noncoherent, broadband, intense pulsed light source has been used for the symptoms of photoaging skin as a nonablative method. The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficacy and tolerability of intense pulsed light in solar lentigines and ephelides on the face. An open study was performed in patients with solar lentigines and ephelides who received three to five treatments of intense pulsed light. Forty-eight percent of patients had more than 50% improvement and 20% had more than 75% improvement. In the group of solar lentigines, 40% of patients showed more than 50% improvement and 16% did more than 75% improvement. Patients with solar 1entigines+ephelides and ephelides responded remarkably with 75% and 71 % of patients having more than 50% improvement, respectively. Intense pulsed light was well tolerated and may be a new modality for the therapy of solar lentigines and ephelides.

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Effect of Buffer Composition, Sephadex Grade and Column Size on Filtration Based Quality Improvement of Semen from Murrah Buffalo Bull

  • Maurya, V.P.;Tuli, R.K.;Goyal, R.L.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • 제16권2호
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    • pp.165-171
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    • 2003
  • Sixty semen ejaculates collected at weekly interval from four Murrah Buffalo bulls over a period of seven months (Nov.1999 to May 2000) were used in the present study. Three buffer medium (sodium citrate, TES and Tris) were used for soaking of sephadex. Three grades of sephadex (G-15,G-100, and G-200) were used for preparation of columns. Columns of three different height (one, two and three cm) were used for separation of semen. Twenty semen ejaculates were used in each project. In the first experiment each semen ejaculates was divided into four parts. One part was kept as control and other three parts were passed thought one cm column of sephadex G-15 prepared in three different buffers. There was significant (p<0.05) increase in percent progressive sperm motility and percent live spermatozoa and decrease in percent abnormal spermatozoa and percent spermatozoa with damaged acrosome as well as sperm numbers after filtration through all the three columns. Sperm quality obtained in the filtrate of column prepared in Tris buffer was better in comparison to other two buffers. So the Tris buffer was used in the second trial. Twenty semen ejaculates were used in this experiment. Each semen ejaculate was divided into four parts. One part was kept as control (non-filtered) and other three parts were passed through columns of different grade of sephadex (G-15, G-100 and G-200). Progressive sperm motility and live sperm percentage improved significantly while decline in percent abnormal spermatozoa and percent spermatozoa with damaged acrosome and sperm concentration was observed after filtration through all the columns as compared to control (non-filtered) semen. Since post filtration quality of semen was better in the sephadex G-100 column, therefore it was selected for the next experiment. In third experiment, Tris buffer and sephadex G-100 were used for preparing columns of different height (one, two and three cm) and twenty semen ejaculates were filtered. The quality characteristics of semen (percent progressive sperm motility, percent live spermatozoa and sperm concentration) after filtration through one cm column were significantly (p<0.05) higher than after filtration through columns of two and three cm height. However non -significant (p>0.05) difference due to height of columns was observed for percent abnormal and percent damaged acrosome but 1 cm column comparatively gave better result than of 2 and 3 cm column height.

신개간지(新開墾地) 인산비옥도(燐酸肥沃度) 증진에 관한 연구(硏究) -I. 흡착량기준(吸着量基準) 시용법별(施用法別) 인산시용적량결정(燐酸施用適量決定) (Improvement of the Phosphate Fertility in a Newly Reclaimed Hilly Land. -I. Sorption Technique for the Estimation of P Requirement as Related to the Application Method)

  • 유순호;이원주
    • 한국토양비료학회지
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    • 제9권4호
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    • pp.251-256
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    • 1976
  • 시험전 토양으로서 인산흡착실험을 행하고 Langmuir최대흡착량을 구하여 이의 5, 10, 20, 30%에 상당하는 인산을 야산신개간지에 전면 시비 혹은 구시비하고 대두를 재배하여 인산의 시용량 및 시용 방법과 대두 수량과의 관계를 분석하였다. 전면시비의 경우 대두의 수량은 최대시용량인 30%구까지 인산의 시용량과 더불어 증가하였다. 그러나 구시비구의 수량은 동량의 전면시비구보다 항상 높았으나 20%구에서 최대수량을 나타내었으며, 30%구에서는 다시 감소하였다. 구시비 5% 구의 수량은 전면시비 20%구의 수량과 비슷하고 구시비 10%의 수량은 전면시비 30%의 수량보다 17%나 높았다. 퇴구비를 1,000kg/10a 시용한 구시비 10%구의 수량은 퇴구비없이 인산만 시용한 구시비 10%구의 수량보다 14.6%가 높았으며 구시비 20%구의 수량과 대등하였다.

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서울지구 소아재활원 실태조사 (A STUDY ON THE ACTUAL CONDITIONS OF CHILDREN′S REHABILITATION CENTERS IN SEOUL)

  • 김계숙
    • 대한간호학회지
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    • 제4권1호
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    • pp.64-80
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    • 1974
  • The social understanding of the rehabilitation and welfare work for the handicapped children is nearly devoid in Korea. Especially the medical rehabilitation or nursing for them is left ign. ored as well as the literature preferential to this study is wanted. For the purpose of conducting the study of this thesis Sam Yook Children's Rehabilitation Center, Inc. and Crippled Children's Center, Yonsei University Medical center sampled out; covering three months from Aug. 1 to Oct. 30, 1973, the problems of children's rehabilitation, the characteristics of the children, the medical rehabilitation, nursing, education, and vocational rehabilitation were interviewed and widely grasped. This thesis aimed at developing the rehabilitation, the professional nursing and especially aimed at contributing to the improvement of welfare for the handicapped by analysing, observing the result of this study. The result is as follows: 1. Sam Yook Children's Rehabilitation Center, Inc. has, since its establishment, contributed to the advancement of the crippled children and its purpose consists in implementing services, medical rehabilitation, nursing, education and vocational training. Crippled Children's Center, Yonsei University Medical Center is, being based on Christianity, aiming at the medical treatment and education for the crippled children. 2. All of the children admitted in the children's rehabilitation centers are the crippled children. The ratio of boys io girls is three to two. Boys are more than girls. Orphan formed 55.2 per sent of them. About 60 per cent of them is receiving medical attention free of charge. But there is no orphan in Crippled Children's Center, Yonsei University Medical Center. 3. 15.7 per cent of them have received the previous medical attention before their admitting in the centers; in Sam Yook Children's Rehabilitation Center 8.6 percent, Crippled Children's Center, Yonsei University Medical Center 50 percent; there is remarkable difference between the two. 4. On the standpoint of period of being in the centers, the children who have been over three years in Sam Yook Children's Rehabilitation Center formed 48.7 per cent; in Crippled Children's Center, Yonsei University Medical Center 2.6 percent; there is also considerable difference between the two; they couldn't discharge from the centers owing to the economic conditions and being orphan. 5. Among the diagnosis of the crippled children, poliomyelitis formed highest 51.7 percent of them ; cerebral palsy formed 30 percent secondly in order. Environmental factors (67.8 percent formed about three times of congenital factors (23.7 percent). 6. The children who are capable of doing independently activity of daily living formed 87.9 percent; 73.2 percent can walk about 300 m by wearing brace and so on. The ratio of wearing brace or leg prosthesis formed 47.4 per cent: crutch 44.3 per cent. The medical rehabilitation service and education for the crippled, are comparatively well carried out. But it is desired to improve and cultivate the vocational training, vocational guidance and special nursing to the insufficiency of their implementation. In the tendency that the rehabilitation and welfare for the handicapped are today emphasized, International Handicapped Rehabilitation Association, declaring that 1970s are the decade of rehabilitation, urged to improve positively the policy of rehabilitation and welfare for the handicapped. But here in korea the handicapped, being the object of social prejudice, ignorance, disdain lives in obscurity. Therefore the government or the community should draw up countermeasure on social under-standing, financial support, and rehabilitation services for the handicapped as well as should endeavor to make them participate in social activities as the productive total- person though they are physically imperfect.

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제주지역 농가부채의 구조 분석과 개선방안에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Current State and Improvement Schemes of Farm Household Debt in Jeju Province)

  • 고성보
    • 농촌계획
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    • 제14권2호
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    • pp.85-97
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this paper is to review current state of farm household's debt which is considered as one of the biggest problem in the rural community, to analyze the cause of farm household debt rising in Jeju province, and to make improvement schemes on how this problem of farm household debt could be alleviated. In order to achieve these objectives, raw data are collected from the interviews with 400 farming households in Jeju region. The results of the study are as follows; An average amount of total farm households debt was 42,000 thousand won in 2005, but an average of farm households debt excluding no debt farm households was increased by 10,000 thousand to 51,750 thousand won. But the debt properties are variable according to the farm type. Non-citrus farmers, younger farmers, rural area resident farmers hold more debt problems than other type. Among total farm households, 30 percent showed over 40 percent leverage ratio(debt/total assets), which is considered as risky or heavily indebted. Therefore, I designed a workout program and a program of land liquidation for heavily indebted farm households in Korea.