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An Analysis of Effective Factors to Skin Types and Sensitivity in the 20's female using Statistical Approach (20대 한국 여성의 피부 타입과 민감성에 대한 통계적 방법을 통한 영향 요인 분석)

  • Ryu, Jin-Sun;Park, Young-Seok;Kim, Sun-Ok;Park, Jeong-Ki;JIN, Hoon
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2014.11a
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    • pp.833-836
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    • 2014
  • 화장품산업의 세계적 트렌드는 기능성화장품에서 개인별 맞춤 화장품 시장으로 발전하고 있다. 해외 유명 브랜드 제품들이, 발 빠른 대처로 보다 세분화되고 기능성을 갖춘 화장품을 생산하면서, 고가로 출시하고 있으나 개인의 다양한 피부 특성과 기호에 상응하는 맞춤 제품을 제공하진 못하고 있는 실정이다. 이러한 환경에K-Beauty의 영향을 고려하여 개인별 피부특성과 요구사항을 반영한 맞춤화장품 개발을 위해 국내에 거주하는 전국의 20대 여성들을 주 대상으로 자가 설문과 피부측정을 통해 피부특성을 분석하고 이에 따른 중요 요인들을 찾고자 하였다. 결과를 통해 국내의 20대 여성들은 지성타입의 피부와 민감성에 많은 분포를 가진 것으로 확인되었고, 선행연구의 내용과 상응하는 결과 외에 피부 타입과 민감성에는 적극적인 피부 관리를 위한 생활습관 등이 중요한 영향을 미치고 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

Future Challenges and Perspectives of Digital Dance Interventions for Depression in Older Adults

  • Zhiting Zhang;Qingfeng Zhang
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.72-89
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    • 2024
  • Depression is a common disorder among the elderly, significantly affecting their quality of life. Traditional dance interventions, although beneficial, have limitations in convenience, personalization, and retention. With the advent of digital technology, digital dance interventions have emerged as a potential solution to these limitations. This paper involves an extensive review of literature on digital dance interventions. Research databases were searched for studies that focus on the use of digital dance in treating depression among older adults. The review also includes analyses of the advancements in digital dance technology, its application in therapeutic settings, and the evaluation of its efficacy. The paper identifies three main challenges in the current digital dance intervention research: real-time dynamic assessment, multimodal dance generation, and improving compliance. Despite these challenges, digital dance interventions show promise in addressing the limitations of traditional dance therapy. The research suggests that the integration of human-computer interaction and personalized approaches in digital dance interventions could significantly improve outcomes in elderly patients with depression. Digital dance interventions represent a novel and promising approach to treating depression in older adults. Future research should focus on overcoming the identified challenges and enhancing the effectiveness of these interventions.

Effects of Neurofeedback Training and Computer-Assisted Cognitive Rehabilitation on Cognition and Upper Extremity Function in PostStroke. (신경되먹임 뇌파 훈련과 컴퓨터보조 인지 재활훈련이 뇌졸중 환자의 인지와 상지기능에 미치는 영향)

  • Jung, Min-Woo;Shim, Sun-Hwa
    • Therapeutic Science for Rehabilitation
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.57-70
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    • 2012
  • Objective : This study was to evaluate the effects of a Neurofeedback(NFB) and Computer Assisted Cognitive Rehabilitation(CACR) training to improve on cognition and affected arm function in stroke subjects. Methods : Participants were randomly allocated to three groups: NFB(n=14), CACR(n=14) and control(n=16). All groups received occupational therapy and physical therapy for 5 session 30 minutes per week during 6 weeks. Also NFB and CACR group practiced additional NeuroComp training and RehaCom training for 30 sessions 30 minutes during 6 weeks. Results were evaluated by cognition, affected arm function. Results : There were significantly increased by CACR training that outcomes of MMSE-K(p<.05). And there weren't significantly difference by NFB and CACR training that outcomes of the affected arm function. And a difference between three groups wasn't found. Conclusion : The NFB and CACR training improves cognitive function. These results suggest that NFB and CACR training is feasible and suitable for individuals with stroke.

Implementation of Dynamic Situation Authentication System for Accessing Medical Information (의료정보 접근을 위한 동적상황인증시스템의 구현)

  • Ham, Gyu-Sung;Seo, Own-jeong;Jung, Hoill;Joo, Su-Chong
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.31-40
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    • 2018
  • With the development of IT technology recently, medical information systems are being constructed in an integrated u-health environment through cloud services, IoT technologies, and mobile applications. These kinds of medical information systems should provide the medical staff with authorities to access patients' medical information for emergency status treatments or therapeutic purposes. Therefore, in the medical information systems, the reliable and prompt authentication processes are necessary to access the biometric information and the medical information of the patients in charge of the medical staff. However, medical information systems are accessing with simple and static user authentication mechanism using only medical ID / PWD in the present system environment. For this reason, in this paper, we suggest a dynamic situation authentication mechanism that provides transparency of medical information access including various authentication factors considering patient's emergency status condition and dynamic situation authentication system supporting it. Our dynamic Situation Authentication is a combination of user authentication and mobile device authentication, which includes various authentication factor attributes such as emergency status, role of medical staff, their working hours, and their working positions and so forth. We designed and implemented a dynamic situation authentication system including emergency status decision, dynamic situation authentication, and authentication support DB construction. Finally, in order to verify the serviceability of the suggested dynamic situation authentication system, the medical staffs download the mobile application from the medical information server to the medical staff's own mobile device together with the dynamic situation authentication process and the permission to access medical information to the patient and showed access to medical information.

Dose Characteristics of Stereotactic Radiosurgery in High Energy Linear Accelerator Proton Beam (고에너지 선형가속기에 의한 입체방사선수술의 선량특성)

  • Choi, Tae-Jin;Kim, Ok-Bae
    • Radiation Oncology Journal
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.137-145
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    • 1992
  • Three-dimensional dose calculations based on CT images are fundamental to stereotactic radiosurgery for small intracranial tumor. In our stereotactic radiosurgery program, irradiations have been performed using the 6 MV photon beam of linear accelerator after stereotactic CT investigations of the target center through the beam's-eye view and the coordinates of BRW frame converted to that of radiosurgery. Also we can describe the tumor diameter and the shape in three dimensional configuration. Non-coplanar irradiation technique was developed that it consists of a combination of a moving field with a gantry angle of $140^{\circ}$, and a horizontal couch angle of $200^{\circ}C$ around the isocenter. In this radiosurgery technique, we provide the patient head setup in the base-ring holder and rotate around body axis. The total gantry moving range shows angle of 2520 degrees via two different types of gantry movement in a plane perpendicular to the axis of patient. The 3-D isodose curves overlapped to the tumor contours in screen and analytic dose profiles in calculation area were provided to calculate the thickness of $80\%$ of tumor center dose to $20\%$ of that. Furtheremore we provided the 3-D dose profiles in entire calculation plane. In this experiments, measured isodose curves in phantom irradiation have shown very similiar to that of computer generations.

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Development of Target-Controlled Infusion System in Plasma Concentration. PART1 : Establishment of Pharmacokinetic Model and Verification (혈중 목표 농도 자동 조절기(TCI) 개발 PART1 : 약동학적 모델의 수립과 검증)

  • 안재목;길호영
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.341-349
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    • 2002
  • The target controlled infusion(TCI) pump system is a logical approach to the development of improved administration techniques of an intravenous anaesthetic agent. The principle of TCI system is based on an understanding of the pharmacokinetic properties, three or four compartment model. The TCI system is optimal and flexible control of the plasma drug concentration. But the clinical goal is always to achieve a therapeutic drug effect, not a therapeutic concentration. So we developed the algorithm to target the concentration at the site of drug effect rather than the concentration in the plasma. If impulse drug is inputted into body, the decline of plasma concentration with time is shown, resulting in the expression of the differential equation. Therefore, we must reformulate our three-compartment model as four-compartment model with the effect compartment. And we tested plasma targeting and effect targeting algorithm by computer simulation using four-compartment model. So we developed the TCI capable of applying all intravenous drugs by adjusting individual pharmacokinetic parameters independently.

The Protective Effects of IGF-1 on Different Subpopulations of DRG Neurons with Neurotoxicity Induced by gp120 and Dideoxycytidine In Vitro

  • Lu, Lin;Dong, Haixia;Liu, Guixiang;Yuan, Bin;Li, Yizhao;Liu, Huaxiang
    • Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.532-539
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    • 2014
  • Peripheral neuropathy induced by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and antiretroviral therapy is not only difficult to distinguish in clinical practice, but also difficult to relieve the pain symptoms by analgesics because of the severity of the disease at the later stage. Hence, to explore the mechanisms of HIV-related neuropathy and find new therapeutic options are particularly important for relieving neuropathic pain symptoms of the patients. In the present study, primary cultured embryonic rat dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons were used to determine the neurotoxic effects of HIV-gp120 protein and/or antiretroviral drug dideoxycytidine (ddC) and the therapeutic actions of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) on gp120- or ddC-induced neurotoxicity. DRG neurons were exposed to gp120 (500 pmol/L), ddC ($50{\mu}mol/L$), gp120 (500 pmol/L) plus ddC ($50{\mu}mol/L$), gp120 (500 pmol/L) plus IGF-1 (20 nmol/L), ddC ($50{\mu}mol/L$) plus IGF-1 (20 nmol/L), gp120 (500 pmol/L) plus ddC ($50{\mu}mol/L$) plus IGF-1 (20 nmol/L), respectively, for 72 hours. The results showed that gp120 and/or ddC caused neurotoxicity of primary cultured DRG neurons. Interestingly, the severity of neurotoxicity induced by gp120 and ddC was different in different subpopulation of DRG neurons. gp120 mainly affected large diameter DRG neurons (> $25{\mu}m$), whereas ddC mainly affected small diameter DRG neurons (${\leq}25{\mu}m$). IGF-1 could reverse the neurotoxicity induced by gp120 and/or ddC on small, but not large, DRG neurons. These data provide new insights in elucidating the pathogenesis of HIV infection- or antiretroviral therapy-related peripheral neuropathy and facilitating the development of novel treatment strategies.

Clinical Evaluation of Dose Distribution in High Dose Rate Intracavitary Irradiation in the Treatment of Cervical Cancer (고선량 강내 조사법을 이용한 자궁 경부암의 방사선 치료 계획에 대한 임상적 고찰)

  • Shin, Sei-One;Kim, Myung-Se
    • Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.87-98
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    • 1989
  • Clinical estimation of bladder and rectal doses from high dose rate intracavitary irradiation in carcinoma of the cervix uteri has been initiated on a routine basis in an effort to obtain the optimum radiotherapeutic dose. Simulation films with contrast media are used to image the bladder and rectum, and dose rates are estimated at various interesting points with the aid of treatment planning computer, NEC Therac-2300. Fifty-three patients have been reviewed in order to ascertain the correlation between radiation dose at interesting points in the bladder and rectum and the dose at Point A and B. The dose ratio between doses at Point A 'and interesting points is an important clinical factor in evaluating the treatment planning. This also serves as documentation of the dose to normal structures within the treatment volume. Authors conclude that obtained data are within acceptable ranges and routine simulation films of the bladder and rectum after administration of contrast media with dose calculations at interesting points provide important information for optimizing radiotherapy planning in the treatment of cervical carcinoma without increased time and effort or patient's discomfort.

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The Effect of White Noise on Memory and Attention of Local Community Elderly during Computer-Based Cognitive Rehabilitation Program (컴퓨터 기반 인지재활 프로그램 적용 시 백색소음이 지역사회 노인의 기억력과 주의력에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Gi-Di;Heo, Myoung
    • Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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    • v.13 no.8
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    • pp.627-633
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of white noise on memory and attention of local community elderly during computer-based cognitive rehabilitation program(COMCOG). 30 elderly subjects were recruited and conveniently allocated into experimental and control group. Experimental group subjects carried out COMCOG with white noise. Control group subjects received COMCOG for 30 minutes, 3 times per week for 6 weeks. Neurocognitive funtion test(CNT) were used to evaluate memory and attention during pre and post. The most CNT outcome at post was significantly improved than the pre outcome in the both group(p<.05). And the experimental group showed significantly difference from control group(p<.05). The result of this study show that the COMCOG with white noise may be appropriate for improving memory and attention in elderly. This will enable the application of COMCOG with white noise in cognitive rehabilitation therapy of local elderly and it will help guide the selection of the therapist as one therapeutic basis

Implicit Motor Sequence Learning During Serial Reaction Time Tasks Induced by Visual Feedback in Patients With Stroke (편측 뇌손상 환자에서 시각적 정보에 의한 운동 순서의 내잠 학습에 대한 분석)

  • Lee, Mi-Young;Park, Rae-Joon;Kwon, Yong-Hyun;Park, Ji-Won;Jang, Sung-Ho
    • Physical Therapy Korea
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.24-32
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    • 2006
  • Theoretical framework of motor learning is used to enhance perceptual motor skill in physical therapy intervention, which can be subdivided into two main types-explicit and implicit. The purpose of this study was to examine whether stroke patients with unilateral brain damage learn implicitly a motor skill using the arm ipsilateral to the damaged hemisphere. Speculation then followed as to the formation of therapeutic plans and instructions provided to patients with stroke. 20 patients with stroke and 20 normal participants were recruited. All the subjects practiced serial reaction time tasks for 30 minutes a day and retention tests on the following day. The tasks and tests involved pressing the corresponding buttons to 4 colored circles presented on a computer screen as quickly and accurately as possible. Patients with stroke responded more slowly than controls. However, both groups showed decreased reaction time in the experimental and retention periods. Also, there was no significant difference between both groups regarding explicit knowledge of consecutive order. Therefore, patients with stoke had the ability to learn implicitly a perceptual motor skill. Prescriptive instruction using implicit and explicit feedback may be beneficial for motor skill learning in physical therapy intervention for patients with brain damage.

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