• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.4719-4722
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• 2015

Background: This study aimed to determine the utility and a cut-off level of serum squamous cell carcinoma antigen (SCC-Ag) to predict lymph node metastasis in locally advanced cervical cancer cases. We also investigated the correlation between SCC-Ag level and lymph node status. Materials and Methods: From June 2009 to June 2014, 232 patients with cervical cancer stage IB2-IVA, who were treated at Ramathibodi Hospital, were recruited. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were used to identify the best cut-off point of SCC-Ag level to predict lymph node metastasis. Quantile regression was performed to evaluate the correlation between SCC-Ag levels and pelvic lymph node metastasis, paraaortic lymph node metastasis, and parametrial involvement as well as tumor size. Results: Pelvic lymph node metastasis and paraaortic lymph node metastasis were diagnosed in 46.6% and 20.1% of the patients, respectively. The median SCC-Ag level was 6 ng/mL (range, 0.5 to 464.6 ng/mL). The areas under ROC curves between SCC-Ag level and pelvic lymph node metastasis, paraaotic lymph node metastasis, parametrial involvements were low. SCC-Ag level was significantly correlated with paraaortic lymph node status (p=0.045) but not with pelvic lymph node status and parametrial involvement. SCC-Ag level was also related to the tumor diameter (p<0.05). Conclusions: SCC-Ag level is not a good predictor for pelvic and paraaortic lymph node metastasis. However, it is still beneficial to assess the tumor burden of squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.23-37
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• 2002

절취 사면에서의 파괴는 사면의 내부 또는 외부 요인들의 결합에 의해 발생한다. 내부 요인은 사면 자체의 지질 또는 형상 조건과 관련된 파괴 요인이며, 외부 요인은 자연적 또는 인위적으로 사면에 가해지는 파괴 요인이다. 각 요인에 의한 사면 파괴에 기치는 영향의 정도는 사면을 구성하는 지반 조건에 따라 다르며, 사면의 거동 특성에 의해 제어된다. 이 연구에서는 사면의 지반 조건을 거동 특성에 따라 구분하는 기준으로 토층심도율(SR), 블록크기비(BR) 및 암석강도를 사용하였다. 이런 기준에 의하면 사면의 지반 조건은 불연속체적 절리 암반과 연속체적 토상 지반, 파쇄 암반, 괴상 암반으로 구분된다. SFi-system은 이와 같이 구분된 지반 조건에 따라 내부 파괴 요인과 외부 파괴 요인을 평가함으로써 사면 파괴 지수(SFi)를 결정하는 평가 시스템이다. 이 평가 시스템을 실제적으로 사면에 적용한 결과, 사면 파괴 지수는 사면 파괴의 가능성 및 규모와 밀접한 관련이 있음을 보여준다. 따라서 SFi-system은 사면의 파괴 예측과 그 특성 분석을 위한 효과적인 도구로 사용될 수 있다.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.51-59
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• 1996

평면 광도파로 렌즈는 집적광학회로에 널리 사용된다. 본 논문에서는 새로운 형태의 평면 광도파로 렌즈를 제안하고 제작하여 기존의 볼록-평면렌즈와 그 특성을 비교하였다. 제안한 볼록-오목형 렌즈는 원형의 경계를 가지며 선형경계를 가지는 볼록-평면 렌즈에서 발생하는 구면 수차를 제거할 수 있다. Y-cut LiNbO$_{3}$ 기판 위에 Ti-내부확산 양자교환방식을 이용하여 제안한 볼록-오목 렌즈와 기존의 볼록-평면 렌즈에 비해 초점에서의 spot의 크기를 약 59% 정도 줄일 수 있었다.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.85-90
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• 2008

Ships in bad weather conditions are likely to be subjected to accidental loads, such as high bending moment, collision, and grounding. Once she has damage to her hull, her ultimate strength will be reduced. This paper discusses an investigation of the effect of collision damage on the ultimate strength of a ship structure by performing a series of collapse tests. For the experiment, five box-girder models with stiffeners were prepared with a cross section of $720mm\;{\times}\;720mm$ and a length of 900mm. Of the five, one had no damage and four had an ellipse shaped damage area that represented the shape of the bulbous bow of a colliding ship. The amount of damage size was different between models. Among the damaged models, the damage in three of them was made by cutting the plate and stiffener, and in one by pressing to represent collision damage. Experiments were carried out under a pure bending load and the applied load and displacements were recorded. The ultimate strength was reduced as the damage size increased, as expected. The one with the largest amount of damage had damage to 30% of the depth, and its ultimate strength was reduced by 19% compared to the undamaged one. The pressed one has higher ultimate strength than those that were cut. This might be due to the fact that the plate around the pressed damage area contributes to the ultimate strength, whereas the cut one has no plate to contribute.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.86-97
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• 2021

As mechatronic systems have various, complex functions and require high performance, automatic fault detection is necessary for secure operation in manufacturing processes. For conducting automatic and real-time fault detection in modern mechatronic systems, multiple sensor signals are collected by internet of things technologies. Since traditional statistical control charts or machine learning approaches show significant results with unified and solid density models under normal operating states but they have limitations with scattered signal models under normal states, many pattern extraction and matching approaches have been paid attention. Signal discretization-based pattern extraction methods are one of popular signal analyses, which reduce the size of the given datasets as much as possible as well as highlight significant and inherent signal behaviors. Since general pattern extraction methods are usually conducted with a fixed size of time segmentation, they can easily cut off significant behaviors, and consequently the performance of the extracted fault patterns will be reduced. In this regard, adjustable time segmentation is proposed to extract much meaningful fault patterns in multiple sensor signals. By considering inflection points of signals, we determine the optimal cut-points of time segments in each sensor signal. In addition, to clarify the inflection points, we apply Savitzky-golay filter to the original datasets. To validate and verify the performance of the proposed segmentation, the dataset collected from an aircraft engine (provided by NASA prognostics center) is used to fault pattern extraction. As a result, the proposed adjustable time segmentation shows better performance in fault pattern extraction.

• Clinics in Shoulder and Elbow
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.135-140
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• 2021

Background: We hypothesized in this study that the characteristics of retear cases vary according to surgeon volume and that surgical outcomes differ between primary and revision arthroscopic rotator cuff repair (revisional ARCR). Methods: Surgeons performing more than 12 rotator cuff repairs (RCRs) per year were defined as high-volume surgeons, and those performing fewer than 12 RCRs were considered low-volume surgeons. Of the 47 patients who underwent revisional ARCR at our clinic enrolled in this study, 21 cases were treated by high-volume surgeons and 26 cases by low-volume surgeons. In all cases, the interval between primary surgery and revisional ARCR, degree of "acromial scuffing," number of anchors, RCR technique, retear pattern, fatty infiltration, retear size, operating time, and clinical outcome were recorded. Results: During primary surgery, significantly more lateral anchors (p=0.004) were used, and the rate of use of the double-row repair technique was significantly higher (p<0.001) in the high- versus low-volume surgeon group. Moreover, the "cut-through pattern" was observed significantly more frequently among the cases treated by high- versus low-volume surgeons (p=0.008). The clinical outcomes after revisional ARCR were not different between the two groups. Conclusions: Double-row repair during primary surgery and the cut-through pattern during revisional ARCR were more frequent in the high- versus low-volume surgeon groups. However, no differences in retear site or size, fatty infiltration grade, or outcomes were observed between the groups.

• 한국지반공학회지:지반
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.5-16
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• 1998

공사중 터널은 막장부의 종방향 및 횡방향 아치거동에 의하여 주변 지반은 3차원적 변형거동을 보이나, 터널 안정성 해석에는 전산효율 등의 이유로 2차원 수치해석법이 일반적으로 적용되고 있다. 하중분배율은 터널의 굴진효과를 고려하기 위하여 2차원 해석에 도입된 것으로 지반변위, 숏크 리트 및 록볼트와 같은 1차 지보재의 하중 등과 같은 해석결과에 큰 영향을 미친다. 또한, 3차원 해석을 이용한 기존의 연구에 의하면, 지반의 변형특성, 터널크기, 굴진장 등이 하중분배율에 주요한 영향을 미친다는 사실이 입증되었다. 그러나, 설계조건에 대한 하중분배율의 정량적 산정법의 부재 로 인하여 실제 해석시에는 설계조건을 무시한 하중분배율이 적용되고 있는 실정이다. 이에, 본 논문에서는 기존 연구(정 대열, 1993)에서 제시한 72개의 3차원 해석결과에 대한 회귀분석을 통하여 하중분배율을 정량적으로 산정할 수 있는 방법을 제시하였다. 또한. ring-cut공법은 막장의 자립성 이 매우 불량한 조건에 적용되는 공법임에도 불구하고 기존의 2차원 해석 법으로는 막장코아의 진 지효과를 고려하지 못하는 문제점이 있었다. 따라서, 2차원 및 3차원 수치해석을 통하여 ring-cut공 법에 대한 기존 해석법의 문제점을 검토하였으며 본 공법에 대한 하중분배율의 보정치를 제시하였 다.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2007

This paper verifies the difference of the seismic behavior and seismic damage of the neighboring two reinforced concrete piers damaged by the 1995 Hyogoken Nanbu earthquake. The two piers were almost the same size, carrying slightly different dead load, and were provided with the same reinforcement arrangement except the amount of longitudinal reinforcement at the bottom portion of the piers. The pier with more reinforcement was completely collapsed due to this near field earthquake by shear failure at the longitudinal reinforcement cut-off while the other was only damaged at the bottom by flexure even though the longitudinal reinforcement cut-off was also existed at the mid height of the pier. According to the results of the pseudo dynamic test, the seismic damage was recognized to be greatly dependent on the ground motion characteristics even though the employed ground motions had the same peak acceleration. The severe damage was observed when the test employed the seismic wave that had strong influence to the longer period range compared to the initial natural period of the pier. On the other hand, based on the similar model experiment, the defect of gas-pressure welded splice of longitudinal reinforcement was revealed to save the piers against collapse due to the so-called fail-safe mechanism contrary to the intuitive opinion of some researchers. It was concluded that the primary cause of the collapse of the pier was the extremely strong intensity and peculiar characteristics of the earthquake motion according to both the site-specific and the structure-specific effects.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제9권2호통권31호
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• pp.269-275
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• 1997

본 연구에서는 자정식 현수교 주탑의 내풍 안정성을 보기 위하여 주탑 모형 실험과 전교 모형 실험을 수행하고 그 결과를 분석하였다. 경사진 병렬 탑주를 가진 주탑의 경우에는 다양한 주파수대의 웨이크가 존재하므로 넓은 풍속대에서 진동이 발생한다는 사실을 확인하였다. 자정식 현수교의 경우에는 주형의 교축방향 지지조건에 따라 주탑 진동 모드가 매우 민감하게 변화하였다. 본 연구 대상 주탑은 면외 휨 모드와 비틈 모드의 고유진동수가 매우 근접해 있어서 넓은 범위의 풍속에서 연성진동이 발생하였다 주탑 진동을 완화하기 위한 공기역학적 수단으로 모서리 자르기를 시도하였는데, 탑주의 폭과 잘린 모서리의 비가 1/10일 때가 가장 효과적이었다.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.47-56
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• 2010

The main objectives of this comparative study were 1) to quantify the potential contribution of wood chips to revegetation on the cut slope in a constructed area, 2) to compare the floristic similarity of species composition whether existing of wood chips in the soil media or not. Wood chips were combined with soil media in the ratio of 30%. The thin layer (1 cm, 3 cm) soil media revegetation methods and the thick layer (10 cm) soil media revegetation method were constructed on the cut slopes by machineries respectively. Also, comparative experiments the existence of wood chips in the soil media were conducted to evaluate the effects of wood chips on revegetation works. The total size of quadrat was $300m^2$ ($100m^2{\times}3$). The results of monitoring for 3 years on cut slopes were as follows: 1) All the quadrat existed in the proper range for vegetation. 2) Species richness of quadrat including wood chips was 10% more than those of commercial soil medias. 3) The coverage rates of quadrat including wood chips were similar or superior to those of conventional methods. It can be concluded that the use of wood chips would be effective to promote establishment of diverse landscape and vegetation. However, it behooves to continue monitoring on succession of vegetation for ecological restoration. Finally, adequate wood chips deposit and gathering methods should be studied properly.