• Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
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• v.71 no.6
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• pp.467-475
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• 2018

Background: The Quality of Recovery-40 (QoR-40) is a widely-used, self-rated, and self-completed questionnaire for postoperative patients. The questionnaire is intended to elicit information from each patient regarding the quality of recovery during the postoperative period. It is noteworthy, however, that an official Korean version of the QoR-40 (QoR-40K) has not been established. The purpose of this study was to develop the QoR-40K by translation and cultural adaptation process and to evaluate the validity and reliability of the QoR-40K. Methods: After pre-authorization from the original author of the QoR-40, the translation procedure was established and carried out based upon Beaton's recommendation to create a QoR-40K model comparable to the original English QoR-40. Two hundred surgical patients were enrolled, and each completed the questionnaire during the preoperative period, on the third day, and 1 month after surgery. The QoR-40K was compared with the visual analogue scale (VAS) and another health-related questionnaire, the Short-form Health Survery-36 (SF-36). The method of validation for QoR-40K included test-retest reliability, internal consistency, and level of responsiveness. Results: Spearman's correlation coefficient for test-retest reliability was 0.895 (P < 0.001), and Cronbach's alpha of the global QoR-40K on the third day after surgery was 0.956. A positive correlation was obtained between the QoR-40K and the mental component summary of SF-36 (${\rho}=0.474$, P < 0.001), and a negative correlation was observed between QoR-40K and VAS (${\rho}=-0.341$, P < 0.001). The standardized responsive mean of the total QoR-40K was 0.71. Conclusions: The QoR-40K was found to be as acceptable and reliable as the original English QoR-40 for Korean patients after surgery, despite the apparent differences in the respective patients' cultural backgrounds.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Integrative Medicine
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.209-219
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• 2022

Purpose : The purpose of this study was two-fold: to investigate the effects of uncertainty and depression on the quality of life (QoL) of elderly people with chronic diseases and to provide basic data on the physical, emotional, and psychological factors affecting their QoL in the field of physical therapy. Methods : A questionnaire covering uncertainty, depression, and QoL was distributed among 320 elderly people. Pearson's correlation analysis was performed to examine the correlation between uncertainty (ambiguity, complexity, inconsistency, and unpredictability), depression, and QoL (physical, psychological, social, and living environment domains) of the respondents; furthermore, multiple regression analysis was performed to identify the factors affecting the QoL of the respondents with a chronic disease. Results : The sub-factors of uncertainty and QoL-"complexity and social domain" (r=-.295, p<.001), "complexity and living environment domain" (r=-.302, p<.001), and "inconsistency and living environment domain" (r=-.360, p<.001)-showed a negative (-) correlation, as did depression and the sub-factors of QoL-"depression and physical domain" (r=-.782, p<.001), "depression and psychological domain" (r=-.876, p<.001), "depression and social domain" (r=-.668, p<.001), and "depression and living environment domain" (r=-.731, p<.001). The factors affecting QoL were complexity (𝛽=-.122, p<.001), inconsistency (𝛽=-.102, p=.002), unpredictability (𝛽=.112, p<.001), and depression (𝛽=-.850, p<.001). The relative influence of the independent variables was in the order of depression, complexity, unpredictability, and inconsistency, and the explanatory power was 77.1 % (F=215.853, p<.001). Conclusion : It is important to help the elderly with chronic diseases reduce the negative impact on their quality of life by helping them gain support from their families and medical professionals and by increasing their understanding through communication so that they can transition from negative emotions to positive emotions of opportunity.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.692-702
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• 2012

Supporting quality of service (QoS) guarantees for diverse multimedia services are the primary concerns for WiMAX (IEEE 802.16) networks. A scheduling scheme that satisfies QoS requirements has become more important for wireless communications. We propose a downlink scheduling scheme called adaptive priority-based downlink scheduling (APDS) for providing QoS guarantees in IEEE 802.16 networks. APDS comprises two major components: Priority assignment and resource allocation. Different service-type connections primarily depend on their QoS requirements to adjust priority assignments and dispatch bandwidth resources dynamically. We consider both starvation avoidance and resource management. Simulation results show that our APDS methodology outperforms the representative scheduling approaches in QoS satisfaction and maintains fairness in starvation prevention.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.55-56
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• 2007

본 논문은 QoR 방식으로 인터넷 전화간 번호이동성 구현을 위하여 망의 기능구조 및 정보흐름을 규정한다. 본 논문에서는 번호이동성 요구사항에 따라, 소요되는 망기능 및 시스템 기능을 정의하고, 이들 기능간에 주고받는 정보를 규정한다 특히, H.323 과 SIP 프로토콜을 사용하는 두 개의 시스템이 직접 연동될 경우 번호이동성 정보를 교환하기 위한 방법을 제안한다.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.08a
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• pp.242-245
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• 2002

정부는 시내전화 및 지능망서비스(080)에 대하여 2003년 상반기부터 번호이동성 서비스를 제공하도록 규정하고 있다. 번호이동성 서비스는 사업자간에는 경쟁을 활성화시키고 가입자에게는 이용의 편리함을 제공하기 위한 서비스로 서비스 유형으로는 서비스제공자 이동성(Service Provider Portability), 위치이동성(Location Portability) 및 서비스이동성(Service Portability)이 있다. 그리고 서비스 구현방식으로는 크게 교환기 기반 방식(Remote Call Forwarding)과 지능망방식(All Call Query, Query on Release)이 있다. 국내 번호이동성 서비스 적용 방식은 지능망 방식인 QoR 방식으로 결정되었으나 최근의 통신환경의 변화를 감안하여 서비스 도입 초기의 효율적인 서비스 도입을 위한 종합적인 재검토가 이루어지고 있다. 이에 따라 본 논문에서는 QoR 방식의 번호이동성 서비스를 위하여 교환기에서 필요한 필요 기능 및 기술적 문제점들을 교환계위별로 고찰하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.653-657
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• 2003

Mobile Number Portability means a network capability that users can change service provider while retaining a legacy mobile phone number. Therefore, n provides users with convenience to select service provider comparing service's quality and rate without changing a phone number. in our country, 2G MNP service of QoR method is going to serve in January, 2004. In this paper, We describe connection protocol and NMP procedure between SSP and SCP in order to provide 2G MNP service in domestic network

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2004.06a
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• pp.107-110
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• 2004

IEEE 802.15.3 is wireless Medium Access Control(MAC) and Physical Layer(PHY) specification for high rate WPAN (Wireless Personal Area Network). IEEE 802.15.3 MAC Layer provides Qos with three kinds of acknowledgements; No acknowledgement, Immediate acknowledgement, and Delayed acknowledgement. This paper presents how to improve QoS with new acknowledgement method called Delayed Negative acknowledgement. This paper describes the method of using Delayed Negative acknowledgement and presents the calculation of QoS improvement by using Delayed Negative acknowledgement.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.611-615
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• 2005

Having been multimedia services in BcN network, QoS is best important factor. This paper classify existing services and newly to be offered services, analyze quality criterion and measurement method for QoS guarantee in BcN, This paper investigate end-to-end quality criterion, classify measurement method existing and newly to be offered services, search quality criterion, introduce measurement method such as call success rate, packet loss rate, one-way delay, jitter and R-value for end-to-end quality measurement.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.17-23
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• 1969

Oxygen consumption rate $(QO_2)$ and protein content of liver and kidney of the Ehrlich ascites tumor-bearing mouse were measured from 6th till 14th day after the inoculation of $4{\times}10^6$ Ehrlich ascites tumor cells. The results thus obtained were compared with those of the groups in which; 1) Whole body x-irradiation with 400 r was done to mouse prior to the inoculation of $4{\times}10^6$ Ehrlich ascites tumor cells, 2) Same number of the irradiated tumor cells were inoculated after subjecting the tumor cells to x-irradiation with 400 r or 900 r in vitro, and 3) the normal, and the following results were obtained; 1. $QO_2$ of the liver and kidney of the tumor-bearing mouse were all lower than the normal and a gradual decrease of $QO_2$ in both liver and kidney was noted as the ascites tumor was progressively developing. 2. In the groups where whole body x-irradiation with 400 r was done, or x-irradiation of ascites tumor cells in vitro with either 400 r or 900 r, $QO_2$ of the liver and kidney were lower than the normal, and the pattern of the decrease was similar in the case of the tumor-bearing mouse. 3. Protein contents in all the groups showed lower values than the normal, and the decrease was gradual as the ascites tumor was developing. 4. $QO_2$ and protein levels in the liver were generally lower than those in the kidney. 5. A certain cancerous metabolism was, therefore, noted in the remote organs of Ehrlich ascites tumor-bearing animal.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.91-91
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• 2004