• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.472-484
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• 2012

보행자의 안전한 보행을 위해 점자형 또는 일반 보도블록이 널리 쓰이고 있다. 불량한 시공 및 유지상태와 장애물은 보행자의 사고를 유발한다. 본 연구는 안전한 보행을 위해 영상에서 가시거리에 위치한 블록의 형태 패턴과 텍스처 특징을 분석하여 보도블록을 검출하는 방법을 제안한다. 보도는 특정모양의 블록이 일정 간격에 반복 배치되어 규칙성을 띄며, 주변 환경 또는 용도에 따라 그 형태는 다양하다. 높은 빈도를 띄는 단일 모양의 다각형을 분석하여 형태 패턴을 추출한다. 일부영역은 이물질 또는 조각난 블록이 원래의 형태를 왜곡시켜 검출되지 않는다. 이 문제는 텍스처 특징벡터 값을 분석하여 해결한다. 앞서 검출된 모든 영역에 대해 분석된 텍스처 특징벡터는 가우시안 분포를 나타내고, 미검출 영역에 대해 분석한 텍스처 특징벡터가 가우시안 분포를 만족하는지 판단한다. 만족된 영역은 보도블록으로 검출한다. 본 실험은 다양한 형태의 보도블록을 인식하였고 95.9%의 정확성을 보였다.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.62-69
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 열형광선량계에 대한 전자선에너지 보정인수를 구하여 이온함을 이용한 물 흡수선량과 상호 비교 분석하여 열형광선량계를 이용한 전자선의 품질보증 프로그램을 개발하고자 한다. 열형광물질은 분말형태인 $^7LiF$을 사용하였고 판독기는 Fimel사의 PCL-3 모델을 사용하였으며 전자선 선량측정에 이용되는 홀더는 PMMA 재질로 제작하였다. 열형광선량계는 선형가속기(Varian CL 2100C)에서 방출되는 전자선 에너지 6, 9, 12, 16, 20 MeV를 이용하여 각 에너지에 해당하는 기준깊이 $Z_{ref}$에 위치시켰으며 물 흡수선량 2 Gy가 되도록 조사하였다 이때 기준선량은 IAEA TRS-398 프로토콜에서 권고하고 있는 절차에 따라 식품의약품안전청에서 교정 받은 Roos형 평행평판형이온함을 사용하여 결정하였다. 열형광선량계의 물 흡수선량을 결정하기 위해 열형광선량계의 교정계수 및 선량 반응도에 대한 보정인수, 퇴색보정인수, 에너지보정인수 등을 산출하였다. 또한 본 연구를 통해 결정된 교정계수 및 각각의 보정인수의 정확도를 검증하기 위해 백지정사(blind test)를 실시하였으며 그 결과, 에너지 9, 16, 20 MeV전자선에서 상대 표준편차가 각각 $2.98\%,\;3.39\%$ 그리고 $0.01\%$로 나타났다 이는 전자선의 허용수준인 $\pm5\%$이내 포함되는 결과로 향후 국내 의료기관에서 사용하고 있는 전자선의 출력 선량측정에 대한 주기적인 품질보증을 위해 열형광선량계가 적극 활용될 것으로 기대한다.

• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.240-244
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• 2004

A recent randomized and double-blind placebo-controlled clinical study bas indicated that Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides (GLP) decrease blood glucose in patients with type II diabetes. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the GLP extract in alloxan-induced diabetic rats. Oral administration of GLP at 0.25, 0.5 and 1.0 g/kg for 4 weeks resulted in a reduction of blood glucose levels by 12.5, 18.7 and 33.7% respectively, while glibenclamide treatment brought the hyperglycemic value down to normal. The hyperglycemic effect was supported by a significant decrease in glycosylated haemoglobin and increased plasma insulin levels (p<0.01) in a dose- and time-dependent manner. This study showed that GLP has similar hypoglycemic effects as glibenclamide in alloxan-induced diabetic rats.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제67권2호
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• pp.202-208
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• 2024

Objective : Failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) is a common long-term complication following spine surgeries characterized by chronic persistent pain; different strategies of management were employed to deal with it. This clinical trial aims to compare the efficacy of Pregabalin and Gabapentin in the management of this condition. Methods : A double-blind, randomized, comparative study (clinical trial registry NCT05324761 on 11th April 2022) with two parallel arms with Pregabalin and Gabapentin were used in arms one and two, respectively. Visual analog scale was used for basal and endpoint assessment of pain. T-test and analysis of covariance were used to deal with different variables. A pairwise test was used to compare pairs of means. Results : Of 66 patients referred to the trial, 64 were eligible, with 60 patients completing the 30 days trial. Both pregabalin and gabapentin effectively reduce pain, with significant p-values of 0.001 for each group. However, the pregabalin group was superior to gabapentin in pain reduction (p=0.001). Gender was an insignificant factor (p=0.574 and p=0.445 for the pregabalin and gabapentin groups, respectively, with a non-significant reduction (p=0.393) for both groups in total. Location of stenosis before surgery and type of surgery performed show non-significant effect on pain reduction for both groups. Conclusion : Both pregabalin and gabapentin effectively and safely relieve neuropathic pain associated with FBSS; pregabalin was significantly more effective irrespective of the patients' gender.

• 대한약침학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.26-34
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• 2018

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy and safety of spinal-Z, derived from Peganum harmala seeds and Dracocephalum Kotschyi Boiss leaves, in patients with esophageal and stomach adenocarcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus. Methods: Sixty-one patients with malignancies of the upper gastrointestinal tract were randomly assigned to one of two groups (treatment or control) in a double-blind fashion. Six capsules of Spinal-Z were prescribed to the patients with the regimen of 600 mg/m2/day, and placebo to the control group, for six months. Results: There were no significant differences between the two groups with regard to age, sex, duration of cancer, type of cancer and family history of cancer. There were significant differences in abdominal pain, heartburn, constipation and vomiting between the two groups, following spinal-Z therapy. Evaluation of drug side effects showed no difference in cough or other respiratory symptoms, itching, headache or dizziness between the two groups, both before and after treatment. Conclusion: This study indicates that Spinal-Z is safe and efficacious in the management of patients with upper gastrointestinal tract cancers.

• 대한치과기공학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.77-85
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• 1999

When producing partial denture using a Chrome-cobalt alloy being used universally, 45 pattern of them to compare casting characters according to 5 burying methods(special ring method, plastic ring method, general metal ring method) and 5 casting directions(straight, upper, lower, left and right directions) were compared and evaluated. The results were as follows : 1. The comparison of casting characters in accordance with burying type shows that the special ring method to install blind air vent using utility wax was the highest rate of 76.9%, followed by 69.1% of the plastic ring to cast without ring and 61.1% of the metal ring method being used universally respectively. Namely the special ring method was best. The significant level was P<0.05 statistically. 2. The comparison of casting character in accordance with casting directions shows that the straight casting was the highest of 77.9%, and followed by right casting of 74.2%, left casting of 66.7%, upper casting of 63.5%, and lower casting of 62.9% respectively, Namely the straight casting was best.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.399-418
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• 2015

Automated damage detection through Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) techniques has become an active area of research in the bridge engineering community but widespread implementation on in-service infrastructure still presents some challenges. In the meantime, visual inspection remains as the most common method for condition assessment even though collected information is highly subjective and certain types of damage can be overlooked by the inspector. In this article, a Frequency Response Functions-based model updating algorithm is evaluated using experimentally collected data from the University of Central Florida (UCF)-Benchmark Structure. A protocol for measurement selection and a regularization technique are presented in this work in order to provide the most well-conditioned model updating scenario for the target structure. The proposed technique is composed of two main stages. First, the initial finite element model (FEM) is calibrated through model updating so that it captures the dynamic signature of the UCF Benchmark Structure in its healthy condition. Second, based upon collected data from the damaged condition, the updating process is repeated on the baseline (healthy) FEM. The difference between the updated parameters from subsequent stages revealed both location and extent of damage in a "blind" scenario, without any previous information about type and location of damage.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.167-172
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• 2006

In this paper, the issue of blind detection of Alamouti-type differential space-time (ST) ${\pi}/2$-shifted BPSK modulation in static Rayleigh fading channels is considered. We introduce a novel transformation to the received signal from each receiver antenna such that this binary ST modulation, which has a second-order transmit-diversity, is equivalent to QPSK modulation with second-order receive-diversity. The pre-detection combining of the result of transformation allows us to apply a low complexity detection technique specifically designed for receive-diversity, namely, scalar multiple-symbol differential detection (MSDD). With receiver complexity proportional to the observation window length, our receiver can achieve the performance 1.5dB better than that of conventional differential detection ST and 0.5dB worse than that qf a coherent maximum ratio combining receiver (with differential decoding) approximately.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.645-650
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• 2015

영상 획득 시 렌즈의 부정확한 초점이나 영상 획득 시스템의 흔들림 등으로 인해 영상 복원이 요구된다. 이런 영상 복원 문제는 하나의 열화 영상에서 원 영상을 추출해야 하는 부적절하게 정립된 역 문제 (ill-posed reverse problem)이다. 본 논문은 기준 영상을 도입하여 기존의 영상 복원 방법과 비교할 때 복원 영상의 신호잡음비를 유사하게 유지하면서 계산 속도를 향상시키는 방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법은 새로운 비용 함수를 통해 영상과 커널을 몇 단계의 갱신을 통해 영상 열화에 사용되었다고 추정되는 커널을 얻는다. 위너 필터는 전 단계에서 구한 커널과 기준 영상을 이용하여 원 영상의 추정치를 구하였다.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제46권sup1호
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• pp.22-27
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to examine the beneficial effects of a new cognitive intervention program designed for the care and prevention of dementia, namely Learning Therapy. The training program used systematized basic problems in arithmetic and Japanese language as training tasks. In study 1, 16 individuals in the experimental group and 16 in the control group were recruited from a nursing home. In both groups, all individuals were clinically diagnosed with senile dementia of the Alzheimer type. In study 2, we performed a single-blind, randomized controlled trial in our cognitive intervention program of 124 community-dwelling seniors. In both studies, the daily training program using reading and arithmetic tasks was carried out approximately 5 days a week, for 15 to 20 minutes a day in the intervention groups. Neuropsychological measures were determined simultaneously in the groups both prior to and after six months of the intervention. The results of our investigations indicate that our cognitive intervention using reading and arithmetic problems demonstrated a transfer effect and they provide convincing evidence that cognitive training maintains and improves the cognitive functions of dementia patients and healthy seniors.