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A HISTOLOGICAL STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF SEVERAL HEMOSTATIC PULPOTOMY PROCEDURES (지혈적 치수 절단술의 효과에 관한 조직학적 연구)

  • Choi, Jang-Kyu;Kim, Jong-Yeo;Kim, Jong-Soo;Kim, Yong-Kee
    • Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.19-37
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    • 1998
  • The efficacy of several pulpotomy methods were evaluated histologically on animal model using 6 beagles. At 1, 4, 6 weeks after pulpotomy, animals were sacrificed by perfusion method, Histomorphometric analysis was performed using computerized image analyzing system. Statistical comparisons were done using SPSS program. The following results were obtained: 1. Tissue responses after ferric sulfate treatment mainly consisted of fibrous surface layer with the underneath pulpal tissue layer containing well-preserved odontoblasts. 2. Bleeding, fibrosis and necrosis are the main reactions obsereved in electrosurgical pulpotomy and the normal pulpal tissues were limited to the apical portion. 3. In the aspect of preserving the normal pulpal tissue, ferric sulfate pulpotomy was evaluated to be superior to formocresol or electrosurgical pulpotomy.

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INVESTIGATION OF DRAG REDUCTION MECHANISM BY MICROBUBBLE INJECTION WITHIN A CHANNEL BOUNDARY LAYER USING PARTICLE TRACKING VELOCIMETRY

  • Hassan Yassin A.;Gutierrez-Torres C.C.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.38 no.8
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    • pp.763-778
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    • 2006
  • Injection of microbubbles within the turbulent boundary layer has been investigated for several years as a method to achieve drag reduction. However, the physical mechanism of this phenomenon is not yet fully understood. Experiments in a channel flow for single phase (water) and two phase (water and microbubbles) flows with various void fraction values are studied for a Reynolds number of 5128 based on the half height of the channel and bulk velocity. The state-of-the art Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV) measurement technique is used to measure the instantaneous full-field velocity components. Comparisons between turbulent statistical quantities with various values of local void fraction are presented to elucidate the influence of the microbubbles presence within the boundary layer. A decrease in the Reynolds stress distribution and turbulence production is obtained with the increase of microbubble concentration. The results obtained indicate a decorrelation of the streamwise and normal fluctuating velocities when microbubbles are injected within the boundary layer.

Comparison of the Monitored Forests Results from EO-1 Hyperion , ALI and Landsat 7 ETM+

  • Tan, Bingxiang;Li, Zengyuan
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.1307-1309
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    • 2003
  • The EO-1 spacecraft, launched November 21, 2000 into a sun synchronous orbit behind Landsat 7, hosts advanced technology demonstration instruments, whose capabilities are currently being assessed by the user community for future missions. A significant part of the EO-1 program is to perform data comparisons between Hyperion, ALI and Landsat 7 ETM+. In this paper, a comparison of forest classification results from Hyperion, ALI, and the ETM+ of Landsat-7 are provided for Wangqing Forest Bureau, Jilin Province, Northeast China. The data have been radiometrically corrected and geometrically resampled. Feature selection and statistical transforms are used to reduce the Hyperion feature space from 86 channels to 14 features. Classes chosen for discrimination included Larch, Spruce, Oak, Birch, Popular and Mixed forest and other landuses. Classification accuracies have been obtained for each sensor. Comparison of the classification results shows : Hyperion classification results were the best, ALI's were much better than ETM+.

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Saddlepoint Approximation to the Distribution of General Statistic (일반적 통계량의 분포함수에 대한 안부점 근사)

  • 나종화
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.287-302
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    • 1998
  • Saddlepoint approximation to the distribution function of sample mean(Daniels, 1987) is extended to the case of general statistic in this paper. The suggested approximation methods are applied to derive the approximations to the distributions of some statistics, including sample valiance and studentized mean. Some comparisons with other methods show that the suggested approximations are very accurate for moderate or small sample sizes. Even in extreme tail the accuracies are also maintained.

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Evaluation of Ultra-high and High Degree Geopotential Models for Improving the KGEOID98

  • Yun, Hong-Sic
    • Korean Journal of Geomatics
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.7-15
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    • 2002
  • Recent development of ultra-high and high degree Earth geopotential model opens new avenues to determine the Earth gravity field through spectral techniques to a very high accuracy and resolution. However, due to data availability, quality, and type, the performance of these new EGMs needs to be validated in regional or local scale geoid modeling. For establishing the best reference surface of geoid determination, recent geopotential models are evaluated using GPS/Leveling-derived geometric geoid and the Korean gravimetrical GEOID (KGEOID98) developed by National Geography Institute in 1998. Graphical and statistical comparisons are made for EGM96, GFZ97, PGM2000A and GPM98A models. The mean and standard deviation of difference between geometric height and geoid undulation calculated from GFZ97 are $1.9\pm{46.7}\;cm$. It is shown that the GFZ97 and the GPM98A models are better than the others in the Korean peninsula because the GFZ97 has a smaller bias. It means that the KGEOID98 needs some improvement using the GFZ97 instead of EGM96.

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Permutation Test for the Equality of Several Independent Cronbach's Alpha Coefficients

  • Um, Yonghwan
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.159-164
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    • 2019
  • The statistical inference of Cronbach's alpha measure of internal reliability is known to be inaccurate when sample size is small and the assumption of normality is violated. In this paper, we describe the permutation method in which we compute resampling p-values for testing the difference between two or more independent Cronbach's alpha coefficients. When the over-all permutation test is significant, we also make pairwise post-hoc comparisons using permutaion method. The permutation tests for the equality of two independent Cronbach's alpha coefficients and three independent Cronbach's alpha coefficients are illustrated with an example analysis of survey data.

Thermodynamic Properties of the Polymer Solutions

  • Lee, Woong-Ki;Pak, Hyung- Suk
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.6 no.6
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    • pp.337-343
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    • 1985
  • A statistical mechanical approach to elucidate the solvent effects on the high polymer solutions has been carried out on the basis of the simple model of liquids improved by Pak. In our works, the partition function of the polymer solutions is formulated by the lattice model and our simple treatment of liquid structures. For the ideal polymer solutions proposed by Flory, thermodynamic functions of the polymer solutions are obtained and equations of mixing properties and partial molar quantities are derived from the presented partition function of the polymer solutions. Partial molar quantities are calculated for the rubber solutions in carbon disulfide, benzene and carbon tetrachloride. Comparisons have been made between our equations and those of Flory's original paper for partial molar properties of the rubber-benzene system. Comparing the experimental data of the osmotic pressure of polystyrene-cyclohexane system with our calculated values and those of Flory's, our values fit to the agreeable degrees better than those of Flory's.

STOCHASTIC SCHEDULING CONSIDERING INTERDEPENDENT ACTIVITY DURATIONS

  • I-Tung Yang
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.791-795
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    • 2005
  • A simulation model is proposed to evaluate the effect of correlations between activity durations on the overall project duration. The proposed model incorporates NORTA, a recent developed statistical method, into the simulation process to allow arbitrarily specified marginal distributions for activity durations and any desired correlation structure. The generality is of practical value when systematic data is not available and planners have to rely on arbitrary experts' estimation, which may involve a mixed situation when some activity durations are continuously distributed whereas others are discrete outcomes. The proposed model is validated by showing that the correlation coefficients of the simulation results are close to the originally specified ones. The simulation results are compared to two conventional approaches: PERT and simulation without correlation. The comparisons illustrate that the proposed model can provide important management information, which would otherwise be distorted due to the neglect of the correlations between activity durations.

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A Statistical Approach to Paired versus Group Comparisons (쌍체비교와 독립비교에 대한 통계적인 고찰)

  • Kim Tae-Min;Kim Sang-Boo
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.231-240
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    • 2006
  • It is well understood that a paired comparison (paired t test) provides better precision than a group comparison (two-sample t test), when the pairing is effective (the variation within a pair is small). However, when the variation among the pairs is sufficiently small, the group comparison is likely to yield a better result. To get a statistical explanation of this, we examine the two methods through an analogy to one-way and two-way analysis of variance. We introduce a new measure, R statistic, which is the ratio of their confidence interval lengths, as a quantitative criterion for comparing the two methods. The distribution of the Rf statistic is described by t and F distribution functions. Through this characterization, we show that the paired comparison can be better than group comparison when the variation among the pairs is statistically significantly large.

Comparisons of C-kit, DOG1, CD34, PKC-θ and PDGFR-α Expressions in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors According to Histopathological Risk Classification

  • Kim, Ki-Sung;Song, Hye-Jung;Shin, Won-Sub;Song, Kang-Won
    • Korean Journal of Clinical Laboratory Science
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    • v.43 no.2
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    • pp.48-56
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    • 2011
  • Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is a mesenchymal tumor and is associated with a specific immunophenotype index. It is very important to identify the specific immunophenotype and the diagnosis for the treatment GIST patients. Ninety two cases of GIST analyzed in this study were immuno-stained for c-kit, DOG1, CD34, PKC-${\theta}$, PDGFR-${\alpha}$. The rate of positive staining and statistical significance were then compared. In addition, the GISTs were analyzed as followings: very low risk, low risk, intermediate risk and high risk according to tumor size and nuclear division, and later correlated with clinical parameters. The results of the GIST positive stainings were: DOG1 (95.7%), PKC-${\theta}$ (90.2%), PDGFR-${\alpha}$ (88.0%), c-kit (87.0%) and CD34 (71.7%). Only DOG1 staining showed a statistical significance of p<0.05. It was identified in the classification system of histologic risk that staining expression of DOG1, PKC-${\theta}$, PDGFR-${\alpha}$ were significantly increased as histologic risk increases (p<0.05). However, clinical parameters such as age and sex of patients have no correlations with the classification system of histologic risk (p>0.05). Therefore, in this study, the expression of DOG1 showed statistical significance and DOG1, PKC-${\theta}$, PDGFR-${\alpha}$ staining increased significantly as the histologic risk increases in histologic classification system. Taken together, the DOG1 staining should be very effective for the diagnosis of GIST patients.

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