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Sensibility Estimation Analysis about Treatment Circumstance of Children with Autism (자폐성 장애아동 치료환경에 대한 감성평가분석)

  • Cho, Myoung-Min;Jung, A-Young;Kong, Soon-Ku
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.86-95
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    • 2014
  • This study verified a hypothesis "treatment circumstance that considers character of children with autism has an effect on emotion stability", and I set the final aim to suggest emotional design elements according to treatment program and also to construct basic data about study of treatment circumstance of children with autism. So I conduct a survey of teachers of nine centers for the disabled about "satisfaction about treatment circumstance, importance of design elements of treatment circumstance that increase children's with autism stability, sensibility estimation about treatment circumstance" and committed statistical analysis. As the results, emotional design elements that have to be improved are the wall finishing material, the color of the wall, and the artificial lighting. The color of the wall has an effect on importance of treatment circumstance and emotional design elements influence 47% to satisfaction of treatment circumstance. It get the positive result about the hypothesis "treatment circumstance that considers character of children with autism has an effect on emotion stability".

데침과 열수 침적의 병용 열처리와 trehalose 첨가가 오이 김치의 저장중의 효소 활성의 변화와 관능 검사에 미치는 효과

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    • Proceedings of the Korean Journal of Food and Nutrition Conference
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    • 2001.12a
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    • pp.131-131
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    • 2001
  • The enzyme activity and organoleptic properties of Korean pickled cucumber were studies for their changes during fermentation. The Korean pickled cucumber were prepared by blanching and high temperature soaking in salt solution and trehalose treatment The results shelved that the effect of combined heat and trehalose treatment significantly reduced the fermentation rate and softening rate of texture while a rather rapid fermentation was for those pleserved with salt. The effect of trehalose treatment enhenced fermentation and it was significantly reduced softening rate of texture by 2% treatment. The sensory evaluation of Korean pickled cucumber was found that combined heat treatment with blanching and hot solution had a positive effect for reduction of softening of cucumber tissue, however, odor and taste were not significantly affected. This study suggested that combined heat and trehalose treatment might have potential for affording protection against softness of cucumber tissue during the fermentation time.

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Oriental-western Cooperative Treatment Clinical Sudy of Side Effect after Filler Injection Glabella Region (필러시술이후 발생한 부작용의 한.양방 병행치료 1례)

  • Kim, Bong-Hyun;Nam, Hae-Jeong
    • The Journal of Korean Medicine Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology and Dermatology
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.79-86
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    • 2011
  • Objective : The purpose of this study is to report the oriental-western cooperative treatment on opthalmic and dermatologic disease caused by adverse effect of filler injection galbella region. Method : After filler injection, a patient suffers from spontenous blineness and palsy of oculomotor and trochlear nerve on right eye and erythema on glabella and nasal region. She is admitted to kyung-hee oriental hospital for 2 weeks with oriental(herbal-medicine, acupunture and nega treatment) and western(department of opthalmology, dermatology and plastic surgery measurement) treatment. Result & Conclusion : Nerve palsy was recovered near to normal. And skin legion was proceeded to recovery period without any complication. This recovery speed with oriental-western cooperative treatment is much faster than usual treatment.

Statistical implications of extrapolating the overall result to the target region in multi-regional clinical trials

  • Kang, Seung-Ho;Kim, Saemina
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.341-354
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    • 2018
  • The one of the principles described in ICH E9 is that only results obtained from pre-specified statistical methods in a protocol are regarded as confirmatory evidence. However, in multi-regional clinical trials, even when results obtained from pre-specified statistical methods in protocol are significant, it does not guarantee that the test treatment is approved by regional regulatory agencies. In other words, there is no so-called global approval, and each regional regulatory agency makes its own decision in the face of the same set of data from a multi-regional clinical trial. Under this situation, there are two natural methods a regional regulatory agency can use to estimate the treatment effect in a particular region. The first method is to use the overall treatment estimate, which is to extrapolate the overall result to the region of interest. The second method is to use regional treatment estimate. If the treatment effect is completely identical across all regions, it is obvious that the overall treatment estimator is more efficient than the regional treatment estimator. However, it is not possible to confirm statistically that the treatment effect is completely identical in all regions. Furthermore, some magnitude of regional differences within the range of clinical relevance may naturally exist for various reasons due to, for instance, intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Nevertheless, if the magnitude of regional differences is relatively small, a conventional method to estimate the treatment effect in the region of interest is to extrapolate the overall result to that region. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects produced by this type of extrapolation via estimations, followed by hypothesis testing of the treatment effect in the region of interest. This paper is written from the viewpoint of regional regulatory agencies.

A Literature Study on Treatment of Infantile Anorexia Based on Chinese Medical Journals (소아 거식증 (Infantile Anorexia)의 한의학(韓醫學)적 치료에 관한 고찰 - 중의학(中醫學) 저널을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Hee Yeon;Seong, Woo Yong;Kim, Ki Bong
    • The Journal of Pediatrics of Korean Medicine
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.87-98
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    • 2013
  • Objectives The purpose of this study is to find a literature study of infantile anorexia clinical cases with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to utilize with Korean medicine treatment methods. Methods 5 TCM journals with the highest impact factors were searched and selected among the journals listed in www.cnki.net. The search keywords were, "Children's Anorexia", "Infantile Apositia", "Infantile Anorexia", "Anorexia Nervosa", and "child of anorexia". he search was limited to the publication date from 2000 to 2012. Results Total 20 studies were selected: Acupuncture (5), Herbal medicine (9), Complex Treatment (3), External Application (2) and Moxibustion (1). Among the Acupuncture related studies, 1 study tested the effect of Sifeng (EX-UE10, 四縫), 3 studies tested the effect of Sifeng (EX-UE10, 四縫) and other acupoints treatment together, and 1 study tested the effect of combination of other acupoints. In all these studies, the study groups showed better therapeutic effects compared to the control groups. The Herbal medicine related studies showed the improvement in appetite and weight as a result of Herbal Medicines treatment. Among the Complex Treatment related studies, 2 studies tested the effect of Acupuncture and Chiropractic co-treatment, 1 study tested the effect of Moxibustion and Herbal medicine co-treatment. In all these studies, symptoms of Infantile anorexia showed significantly improved. Other papers related to External Application and Moxibustion treatment were reported improving in appetite and had other the clinical effects as well. Conclusions Clinical studies testing the effect of TCM for the treatment of Infantile Anorexia have been conducted in small scales, and all the studies showed a certain level of symptom improvement of the patients in the study groups. These results implicate that the methods in Korean medicine can be highly potential treatment options for the treatment of Infantile Anorexia. Accurate and well-controlled studies in large scale would be required to prove the effect of Korean medicine for the treatment of patients with Infantile Anorexia.

The Influence of Paper Stock Type on Characteristics of Sizing (지료조성에 따른 종이의 사이징 특성)

  • Cheong Sang Jin;Kim Bong Yong
    • Journal of Korea Technical Association of The Pulp and Paper Industry
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    • v.37 no.2 s.110
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    • pp.11-20
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    • 2005
  • This study was carried out to investigate the influence of paper stock type and heat treatment on sizing effect. Various types of pulps were used to make handsheets sized internally with AKD(alkyl ketene dimer) and externally with CMC(carboxyl methyl cellulose). Most of the handsheets were treated with heat by dry oven $(100^{\circ}C,\;30min)$ to evaluate the effect of heat treatment on sizing development. Internal sizing development of newsprint was very bad, but the effect of heat treatment was much higher than those of NBKP, BCTMP. In case of surface sizing, newsprint was more effective compared to the other pulps. Considering above mentioned results, it seems that internal sizing slows down water into paper by molecular diffusion much more than capillary penetration, but surface sizing slows down capillary penetration. With regard to density, a higher thickness sheets showed high heat treatment effect on sizing, therefore it assumed that heat treatment effect on sizing had very close relationship with sheet density.

Estimating Average Causal Effect in Latent Class Analysis (잠재범주분석을 이용한 원인적 영향력 추론에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Gayoung;Chung, Hwan
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.27 no.7
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    • pp.1077-1095
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    • 2014
  • Unlike randomized trial, statistical strategies for inferring the unbiased causal relationship are required in the observational studies. Recently, new methods for the causal inference in the observational studies have been proposed such as the matching with the propensity score or the inverse probability treatment weighting. They have focused on how to control the confounders and how to evaluate the effect of the treatment on the result variable. However, these conventional methods are valid only when the treatment variable is categorical and both of the treatment and the result variables are directly observable. Research on the causal inference can be challenging in part because it may not be possible to directly observe the treatment and/or the result variable. To address this difficulty, we propose a method for estimating the average causal effect when both of the treatment and the result variables are latent. The latent class analysis has been applied to calculate the propensity score for the latent treatment variable in order to estimate the causal effect on the latent result variable. In this work, we investigate the causal effect of adolescents delinquency on their substance use using data from the 'National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health'.

Effect of Ozone Injection on Dewaterability and Thickening of Sewage Sludge (하수 슬러지 농축 및 탈수성에 미치는 오존의 영향)

  • Hwang, Kyeoung-Sa;Kim, Moon-Ho;Bae, Yoon-Sun;Park, Chul-Hwi
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.800-808
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    • 2005
  • It is required to propose an alternatives for appropriate sludge treatment owing to persistent construction of sewage treatment plant and increase of sewage sludge quantity. In order to treat sludge more efficiently, the methods which reduce the cost of sludge treatment have been studied such as sludge reduction and conditioning. Especially ozone treatment reduces solid quantity and improves separation of solid-liquid at the same time. Therefore ozone treatment have a positive effect on reduction and stabilization of sludge. So, this study applied ozone to sewage sludge and induced cell destruction of sludge. By comparing with the correlation between thickening and dewatering, and evaluating moisture content and solubilization of cake, this study verificates the effect of process improvement for ozone pre-treatment. In J-STP case, according to ozone dose solid flux increased about 12 times from $1kg/m^2{\cdot}h$ to $12kg/m^2{\cdot}h$. Also this plant were capable to shorten thickening time from 40 minutes to 6~7 minutes. Thus it is expected to reduce volume and retention time of thickener. On pH effect factor, dewatering at pH4 was more than at pH11, $3.05{\times}10^{11}$ and $3.82{\times}10^{11}(m/kg)$. But effect of pH was analogous to ozone, $2.81{\times}10^{11}(m/kg)$. The effect of pH on thickening was similar to law sludge, $0.68(kg/m^2{\cdot}h)$, and the effect of ozone injection on thickening was the biggest, $3.45(kg/m^2{\cdot}h)$. The COD solubilization rate improved from about 5 to 30%. So it is judged that we are able to utilize most solubilized sludge to another sewage treatment plants.

Effect of Doctors' Patient-centered Communication on the Patient Satisfaction and Treatment Outcomes : Focusing on Mediating Effect of Patient Participation (의사의 환자중심 커뮤니케이션이 환자만족과 치료성과에 미치는 영향 : 환자참여의 매개효과를 중심으로)

  • Lee, Jong-Hak;Kim, Chan-Jung
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.13 no.11
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    • pp.249-260
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    • 2013
  • The main purpose of this study is to examine the effect of doctors' patient-centered communication on patient satisfaction and treatment outcomes, and the mediating effect of patient participation between doctors' patient-centered communication and patient satisfaction, between doctors' patient-centered communication and treatment outcomes. For the purpose of this study's goal, the 339 samples for this empirical study were collected from general hospital outpatient in C. The results of this study are as follows, First, except prohibition factor there are positive effect careful listening factor, consideration factor on patient satisfaction and treatment outcomes. Second, there are positive effects of careful listening factor, consideration factor on emotional factor and informational factor, but there are no significant effect of prohibition factor on three factors of patient. Third, There are partial mediating effects of patient participation between doctors' patient-centered communication and patient satisfaction, between doctors' patient-centered communication and treatment outcomes. Last, based on the results of this study, we suggested implications for heighten the alternatives of patient satisfaction and treatment outcomes.

Effects of I-razin in Overweight Children (과체중인 소아에 있어서 아이라진 복용의 효과)

  • Cho, Yu-Jeong;Kim, Eun-Joo;Yang, You-Jung;Song, Mi-Yeon
    • Journal of Korean Medicine for Obesity Research
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.17-25
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    • 2010
  • Objectives This study was performed to figure out the effects of I-razin in overweight children without any exercise or specific diet. Methods Twenty-eight children those who were diagnosed overweight have been recruited. They were randomly assigned treatment or control group under block randomization. Treatment group were treated with I-razin for 8 weeks, and control group were treated with placebo medication under same conditions. Anthropometry, fat computed tomography and blood test have been done before and after the treatment. Results Eleven subjects in treatment group and seventeen in control group were evaluated. BMI, waist circumference, glucose, total cholesterol, and triglyceride were decreased in the treatment group. And reduction of BMI, glucose, and triglyceride in the treatment group were greater than control group. But there was no statistically significance. No side effects have been notice during the study period and no adverse effect on liver has been observed. Conclusion This study could not demonstrate effect of I-razin compared with control group. However, treatment group has a tendency of weight loss without side effect. Additional studies with large population are thought to be necessary to clarify the effect of I-razin.