• Childhood Kidney Diseases
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2024

Antenatally diagnosed urinary tract dilatation (UTD), previously referred to as antenatal hydronephrosis, is the most commonly detected abnormality by prenatal ultrasonography. Several grading systems have been developed for the classification of antenatal UTD using prenatal and postnatal ultrasonography. UTD comprises a wide variety of congenital abnormalities of the kidney and urinary tract ranging from transient UTD to more significant abnormalities such as vesicoureteral reflux, ureteropelvic junction obstruction, ureterocele, ureterovesical junction obstruction, posterior urethral valves, and non-refluxing megaureter. Optimizing the evaluation of antenatally detected UTD is essential to recognize children with important disorders while avoiding excessive investigations. Conservative approach with close follow-up is increasingly accepted as an appropriate treatment option for patients with asymptomatic vesicoureteral reflux and ureteropelvic junction obstruction in recent years. However, predicting permanent kidney damage in an unselected group of children with antenatal UTD is still challenging. The management and follow-up of children with UTD should be individualized based on recommendations from a pediatric nephrologist, a pediatric urologist, or both. Future research directed at predicting long-term outcomes of children diagnosed with UTD from mild findings to severe disease is needed to refine management for those at higher risk of kidney disease progression.

• 전자공학회논문지A
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• 제31A권10호
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• pp.48-53
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• 1994

The problem of a plane wave impinging upon a semi-infinite paralle-plate waveguide is investigated. The interior fields can be analyzed by converting the initial field into vaveguide modes. Kirchhoff approximation is usually made at the waveguide aperture in the literature. In this paper, a modified approximation is made using the Uniform Gemetrical Theory of Diffraction(UTD). Numerical results show excellent agreement between UTD-supplemented mode-matching solution and UTD solution.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.109-120
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• 2014

The epothilones are a class of microtubule inhibitors that exhibit a strong antitumor activity. UTD2 is a novel epothilone analog generated by genetic manipulation of the polyketide biosynthetic gene cluster. This study investigated the effects of UTD2 on the actin cytoskeleton and its critical regulators, and the signaling pathways which are essential for cell motility, growth and survival in MCF-7 breast cancer cells. Results showed that UTD2 inhibited the cellular functions of actin cytoskeleton, such as wound-closure, migration and invasion, as well as adhesion. Our study further demonstrated that UTD2 suppressed Rac1 GTPase activation and reduced the activity of PAK1, which is a downstream effector of Rac1, while the activity of Cdc42 was not affected. Additionally, the phosphorylation of p38 and ERK were significantly inhibited, but the phosphorylation of JNK remained the same after UTD2 treatment. Moreover, UTD2 inhibited the activity and mRNA expression of MMP-2, which plays a key role in cell motility. UTD2 also reduced the phosphorylation of Akt, which is an important signaling kinase regulating the cell survival through Rac1. Furthermore, UTD2 interrupted the synergy between Rac1 and Raf in focus formation assays. Taken together, these results indicated that UTD2 exerted multiple effects on the actin cytoskeleton and signaling pathways associated with Rac1. This study provided novel insights into the molecular mechanism of the antineoplastic and antimetastatic activities of epothilones. Our findings also suggest that the signaling pathways regulated by Rac1 may be evaluated as biomarkers for the response to therapy in clinical trials of epothilones.

• 전자공학회논문지A
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• 제32A권1호
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• pp.79-88
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• 1995

A subreflector of an offset dual reflecor antenna system mounted on satelite is analyzed by Uniform Geometrical Theory of Diffraction(UTD). In order to get the total electric field at an observation point, the reflected field and the diffracted fields obtained by UTD are summed. The reflected point and the diffracted points which have to satisfy nonlinear equations are obtained by numerical methods. The numerical results show taht diffracted fields eliminate the discontinuity of reflected fields at the shadow boundary. To show the validity of our results, the field pattern of the symmetric hyperboloidal reflector is computed and compared with S. W. Lee et al.'s results. At various obsevation angles, radiation patterns of offset ellipsoidal subreflectors offseted by a circular corn and by an elliptic corn are obrained, repectivelly.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2018년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.477-479
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• 2018

본 연구는 인공신경망의 한 종류인 LSTM(Long Short-Term Memory) 기법을 활용하기 위하여 진행하였다. UTD(University of Texas at Dallas)가 공개한 27종 동작 데이터 중 3축 가속도 및 각속도 데이터를 기본 LSTM 및 Deep Residual Bidir-LSTM 기법에 적용하여 행동을 분류해 보았다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제47권1호
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• pp.19-24
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 OFDM 시스템 기반의 유비쿼터스 무선 광대역 억세스를 위한 단일화된 시간영역 채널추정기(UTD-CE)를 제안하였다. 유비쿼터스 서비스를 위한 소프트웨어 라디오 플랫폼(Software Radio platform)의 요소기술로서, 제안된 UTD-CE는 IEEE802.11x WiFi, IEEE802.16x WiMAX, DMB, MediaFLO, DVB-H 등의 시스템 규격에 따라 다르게 적용되는 파일럿 심볼과 파일럿 부반송파의 할당을 주요가변 파라미터로 사용한다. 파일럿 정보가 주어지면 데이터 부반송파들의 채널 주파수 응답은 UTD-CE에서 위너 필터링과 DFT기반의 인터폴레이션에 의해 유사한 방법으로 예측된다. 시뮬레이션 결과, 파일럿 정보가 변할 때, 제안한 기법이 기존의 시간영역 채널추정기에 비해 성능이 우수함을 알 수 있다.

• 전자공학회논문지A
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• 제33A권5호
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• pp.85-93
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• 1996

The far-zone scattered field patterns of a hyperbolic reflector antenna are analyzed by using uniform geometrical theory of diffraction(UTD). The main objective of this paper is to obtain the higher order diffraction contributions which provide the continuity over the shadow boundaries of the first order solution. to obtain the scattered magnetic field characteristics, the scattered field components of the secodn-order diffraction, diffraction-reflection, diffraction-reflection-diffraction terms are added to the result of the previous research. The results of the present research are compared to those of the first order solution and the method of moments. One can observe the improvemtn of the current approach over the first order solution. also, the results of the present method agree very well with those of the moment methods especially in the transition regions near the first order diffraction shadow boundaries.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.412-418
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• 1999

기하학적 균일 회절 이론 (Uniform Geometrical Theory of Diffraction)을 이용하여 옵\ulcorner 파라볼릭 안테나의 산란 특성을 분석하였다. 먼저 파추적법(Ray Tracing)에 의하여 음영경계를 나눈후, 각 영역에 존재하는 반사파와 회절파를 기하학적 균일 회절 이론을 이용해 구하였다. 또한, 옵\ulcorner 파라볼릭 안테나의 모서리(edge)의 형태가 전자파의 산란 특성에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위해 knife 모서리인 경우와 원형 캡을 부착한 경우를 분석하여 비교하였다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.359-367
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• 1999

평행평판 도파관으로부터 급전되어지는 주름진 도체판을 가지는 표면파 안테나의 해석이 고려되어진다. 해석의 단순함을 위해 원래의 문제를 3개의 영역, 즉 단락된 평행평판 도파관 내부 구조(내부 영역 1)와 주름진 격자 내부의 구조(내부 영역 2)와 도체 쇄기의 구조(외부 영역)로 나누기 위해 등가원리가 도입된다. End-fire 복사를 하는 주름진 표면과 안테나를 해석하기 위하여 하이브리드 MOM/UTD 방법이 적용되어진다. 수치해석 결과들은 이전의 실험결과들과 매우 잘 일치하며, 이전의 단순 등가전류 접근의 결과들과 비교할 때 더 나은 결과들이 얻어진다. 또한 효과적인 end-fire 주름진 표면파 안테나 설계를 위한 인자들을 얻을 수 있다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39C권11호
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• pp.1209-1215
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• 2014

기하학적 균일 회절 이론(UTD)은 특정 주파수에서 장애물에 의해 전파가 불연속적인 특성을 가질 때, 전자기학적으로 접근하여 회절 계수와 반사 계수 등을 계산하여 전파를 분석하는 기법이다. 본 논문에서는 실내 무선 채널 환경에서 사용자가 단말기 주변에 있을 때, 사용자에 의한 쉐도잉(Shadowing) 효과를 기하학적 UTD을 통하여 분석하였다. 사용자가 통화를 하고 있는 상황(Head Model)과 가슴 앞쪽에 단말기를 위치하여 사용하는 상황(Chest Model)으로 나누고, 각각에 대하여 복사 모델(Radiation Model)과 산란 모델(Scattering Model)에 적용하여 비교 및 분석하였다.