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A simple technique to fabricate a surgical obturator restoring the defect in original anatomical form

  • Shambharkar, Vaibhao I.;Puri, Santosh B.;Patil, Pravinkumar G.
    • The Journal of Advanced Prosthodontics
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.106-109
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    • 2011
  • Oral cancer treatment involves the surgical removal of all or part of the maxilla, leaving the patient with a defect that compromises the integrity and function of the oral cavity. The postoperative restoration of esthetics, deglutition, and speech shortens recovery time in the hospital and expedites the patient's return to the community as a functioning member. The surgical obturator is the proven treatment option in such situations. This article describes a simple technique to fabricate a surgical obturator that restores patient's original dentition and facial and palatal tissue form. The obturator fabricated with this technique utilizes the vacuum formed index of patient's original tissue form and duplicated partly in heat and partly in auto polymerizing acrylic resin. Duplication of the original tissue form helps patient to minimize the immense physiological trauma immediately after the surgical resection. The obturator fabricated with this technique supports soft tissues after surgery and minimizes scar contracture and disfigurement, and thus may have a positive effect on the patients' psychology.

Non-invasive different modalities of treatment for temporomandibular disorders: review of literature

  • Abouelhuda, Amira Mokhtar;khalifa, Ahmad Khalifa;Kim, Young-Kyun;Hegazy, Salah Abdelftah
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
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    • v.44 no.2
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    • pp.43-51
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    • 2018
  • Temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) are diseases that affect the temporomandibular joint and supporting structures. The goal of treatment for TMDs is elimination or reduction of pain and return to normal temporomandibular joint function. Initial treatment for TMDs is non-invasive and conservative, not surgical. Oral and maxillofacial surgeons should fully understand and actively care about non-invasive treatments for TMDs. The purpose of this study is to review the validity and outcomes of non-invasive and surgical treatment modalities for TMDs.

An alternative method for estimation of annual extreme wind speeds

  • Hui, Yi;Yang, Qingshan;Li, Zhengnong
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.169-184
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    • 2014
  • This paper presents a method of estimation of extreme wind. Assuming the extreme wind follows the Gumbel distribution, it is modeled through fitting an exponential function to the numbers of storms over different thresholds. The comparison between the estimated results with the Improved Method of Independent Storms (IMIS) shows that the proposed method gives reliable estimation of extreme wind. The proposed method also shows its advantage on the insensitiveness of estimated results to the precision of the data. The volume of extreme storms used in the estimation leads to more than 5% differences in the estimated wind speed with 50-year return period. The annual rate of independent storms is not a significant factor to the estimation.

The question at issue of connector wire in High Speed Railway Catenary System of France (프랑스 고속철도 전차선로 시스템에서 균압선의 문제점)

  • 안영훈
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.636-651
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    • 2000
  • In these days, SNCF replace the connector wire (M-T type) with a dropper has a equivalent role and function of the one in general lines of TGV, and change the connector wire (T-T-M-M-T-T, T-T-M-M-T type, etc) into a New one has more flexible cable in parallel lines (air section air joint, etc) of TGV. The Connector wire has many problems according to a flow of excessive circulation current (or traction current) and a sudden rise of temperature on catenary when electric locomotive is running in high speed. To solve the question at issue of the connector wire in high speed railway catenary system of Fiance, SNCF return their operating experience in TGV lines to design and execution of catenary system Therefore, we have to deal with the question in design and execution of catenary system for kyoungbu HSR line because we will spend a lot of time and more money for maintenance than for construction of that.

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Public Vehicle Routing Problem Algorithm (공공차량 경로문제 해법연구)

  • 장병만;박순달
    • Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.53-66
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    • 1989
  • The Public Vehicle Routing Problem (PVRP) is to find the minimum total cost routes of M or less Public-Vehicles to traverse the required arcs(streets) at least once, and return to their starting depot on a directed network. In this paper, first, a mathematical model is formulated as minimal cost flow model with illegal subtour elimination constraints, and with the fixed cost and routing cost as an objective function. Second, an efficient branch and bound algorithm is developed to obtain an exact solution. A subproblem in this method is a minimal cost flow problem relaxing illegal subtour elimination constraints. The branching strategy is a variable dichotomy method according to the entering nonrequired arcs which are candidates to eneter into an illegal subtour. To accelerate the fathoming process, a tighter lower bound of a candidate subproblem is calculated by using a minimum reduced coast of the entering nonrequired arcs. Computational results based on randomly generated networks report that the developed algorithm is efficient.

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Turbulent Flow through a Square Straight and Curved Duct with Reynolds Stress Models (정사각 직관과 $180^{\circ}$ 곡관내 난류유동의 레이놀즈응력모형 적용)

  • Chun, Kun-Ho;Choi, Young-Don
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2000.04b
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    • pp.771-776
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    • 2000
  • Fine grid calculations are reported for the developing turbulent flow in a straight duct and a curved duct of square cross-section with a radius of curvature to hydraulic diameter ratio ${\delta}=R_c/H_H=3.357$ and a bend angle of 180 deg. A sequence of modeling refinements is introduced; the replacement of wall function by a fine mesh across the sublayer and a low Reynolds number second moment closure up to the near wall sublayer in which the non-linear return to isotropy model and the cubic-quasi-isotropy model for the pressure strain are adopted; and the introduction of a multiple source model for the exact dissipation rate equation. Each refinement is shown to lead to an appreciable improvement in the agreement between measurement and computation.

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Analysis of the Rectangular Microstrip Antenna with Parasitic Element (Parasitic element를 갖는 구형 마이크로 스트립 안테나에 대한 해석)

  • Hong, Jae-Pyo;Cho, Young-Ki;Son, Hyon
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1988.07a
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    • pp.433-434
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    • 1988
  • Rectangular microstrip antenna with parasitic element is analyzed. Radiation admittance and equivalent circuit parameters between rectangular microstrip antenna and parasitic element are obtained by using equivalent ${\pi}$-network parameters of the slit in the wall of the parallel plate waveguide filled with homogeneous dielectric. The return loss is calculated and measured as a function of frequency with gap width 0.5mm between the patch and parasitic element. The experimental results are in fairly agreement with calculated values.

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Economic Considerations for Building Automation (건물자동화(建物自動化)를 위한 경제성(經濟性) 고찰(考察))

  • Oh, I.H.;Lee, P.K.;Yoon, K.K.;Han, Y.S.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1988.07a
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    • pp.975-979
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    • 1988
  • This paper summarizes economic considerations for building automation. While the market for energy management systems(EMS) has been exploding, there are many indications that the pendulum of hight expectations may have swung too far. This is a very important reason for energy management system in both existing and new buildings. Because facilities continue to expand in size and their operations grow more complex, the use of automated systems to control and monitor both programmable and nonprogrammed function becomes an economic necessity. The following is offered as engineerings of economic consideration for building automation systems. Not only get a complete return on investment but increase profits in a few years through savings incurred in labor, utilities fuel and extended equipment life.

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A Study on the CIM Justification (CIM구축의 타당성평가에 관한 연구)

  • 한성배;이석주;이순효
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.18 no.34
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    • pp.51-60
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    • 1995
  • The key competition factor of manufacturing industries has progressively changed from cost to quality and time. Recently, the manufacturing environments more rapidly change than before. So, many companies want to introduce a advanced manufacturing system like CIMS to meet various user's needs and short delivery. But there is a considerable gap between the decision to invest and the achievement of promised benefits. Managers, generally, cannot afford CIM invesment unless they can determine beforehand that CIM will work in thier company and that will provide a coherent strategy and satisfactory return on investment In many cases, it is impossible to justify CIM investment by only economical analysis. Decision making problems like CIM investment are of a multiple objective nature. So, decision making process and multiattribute utility function are very useful methods to evaluate CIM justification In this paper, we described the key functions of CIM justification evaluation using IDEF methodology and developed the applicattion procedure of DMP and MUF method for CIM justification.

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The Clinical Experience with Computer Aided Thermography during Treatment of Bell's Palsy (안면신경마비환자의 치료경과에 대한 Computer Aided Thermogrpahy를 이용한 관찰)

  • Lee, Kyu-Chang;Lee, Jin-Kyung;Woo, Nam-Sik;Lee, Ye-Chul
    • The Korean Journal of Pain
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.47-50
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    • 1991
  • Bells palsy is a usually innocuous but psychologically distressing disease. The majority of cases are of the so-called idiopathic type, the etiology of which is unknown. This 52 year-old female patient was treated with repeated stellate ganglion bupivacaine blocks, acupuncture and transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation, with return of function. In our case studies, using thermographic images to diagnosis and to evaluate objective assessment of treatment of Bells palsy, we observed the correlation between neurologic symptoms and thermographic image.

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