• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.169-174
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• 2015

Objective: To assess compliance with Korean guidelines for embryo transfer, the possible reasons for non-compliance, and multiple pregnancies according to each specific condition in compliant cycles. Methods: A single-institution, retrospective study was conducted of 256 fresh in vitro fertilization cycles during 2012-2014. To assess compliance with Korean guidelines, the maximum recommended number of embryos transferred (according to criteria of age, transfer day, and presence of favorable conditions) was compared with the actual number of embryos transferred. Clinical pregnancy rate (PR) was assessed as the percentage of pregnant women resulting from each set of transfer conditions, including the number of embryos transferred. The multiple pregnancy rate (MPR) was calculated as the percentage of pregnant women with a multifetal pregnancy. Results: The compliance rate with the Korean guidelines was 96.5% (247/256). Non-compliance occurred in nine cycles owing to poor embryo quality, repeated implantation failure, or hostile endometrium. In compliant cycles, the PR was 31.2% (77/247), and the MPR was 27.3% (21/77; 20 twins and one triplet). Higher MPR was noted in two types of transfer conditions: transfer of three cleavage embryos in women aged 35-39 years with favorable conditions (66.7%; primarily from those aged 35-37 years) and transfer of two blastocysts in women aged ${\geq}40$ years with favorable conditions (50%). Conclusion: Under the Korean guidelines, compliance rate was high in our center. Multiple pregnancies occurred primarily in group with favorable conditions. In high-risk groups for multiple pregnancies, reducing number of embryos transferred should be considered than suggested in the guideline.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.11-24
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• 2009

In China, the oil and natural gas resources of Bohai Bay are mainly marginal oil fields. It is necessary to build both ice-resistant and economical offshore platforms. However, risk is involved in the design, construction, utilization, maintenance of offshore platforms as uncertain events may occur within the life-cycle of a platform under the extreme ice load. In this study, the optimum design model of the expected life-cycle cost for ice-resistant platforms based on cost-effectiveness criterion is proposed. Multiple performance demands of the structure, facilities and crew members, associated with the failure assessment criteria and evaluation functions of costs of construction, consequences of structural failure modes including damage, revenue loss, death and injury as well as discounting cost over time are considered. An efficient approximate method of the global reliability analysis for the offshore platforms is provided, which converts the implicit nonlinear performance function in the conventional reliability analysis to linear explicit one. The proposed life-cycle optimum design formula are applied to a typical ice-resistant platform in Bohai Bay, and the results demonstrate that the life-cycle cost-effective optimum design model is more rational compared to the conventional design.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.655-664
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• 2007

콘크리트의 인장균열에 따른 방향적 비국소 손상이라는 특징은 인장-압축을 받는 철근콘크리트 전단 부재에서 회전인장균열 특성 및 압축강도 감소 현상을 일으킨다. 본 연구에서는 인장과 압축거동에 대하여 다른 손상 모델을 사용하는 기존의 방법과는 달리, 동일한 인장균열 손상 모델을 사용하여, 인장균열거동과 압축연화거동을 나타낸다. 이러한 비국소 균열 손상의 영향을 나타낼 수 있는 소성모델을 개발하기 위하여 미소면 모델의 개념을 도입한다. 기존의 소성모델과 달리, 비국소 균열 손상을 나타내기 위하여 인장과 압축의 소성파괴면은 각 미소면에서 정의하며, 각 미소파괴면의 조합에 의하여 대표파괴면을 정의한다. 이때, 방향적 비국소 균열 손상을 나타내는 소성인장변형률의 영향에 의하여 각 미소면의 인장과 압축 소성변형률의 크기가 결정된다. 본 연구에서 개발된 소성모델은 유한요소해석에 적용되며, 다양한 전단패널의 기존 실험 결과들과 비교하여 제안된 재료 모델의 유효성을 검증한다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.235-240
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• 2013

Cloud systems are popular computing environment because they can provide easy access to computing resources for users as well as efficient use of resources for companies. The resources of cloud computing are heterogeneous and jobs have various characteristics. One such issue is effective job scheduling. Scheduling in the cloud system may be defined as a multiple criteria decision model. To address this issue, this paper proposes a priority-based two-step job scheduling algorithm. On the first level, jobs are classified based on preference. Resources are dedicated to a job if a deadline failure would cause severe results or critical business losses. In case of only minor discomfort or slight functional impairment, the job is scheduled using a best effort approach. On the second level, jobs are allocated to adequate resources through their priorities that are calculated by the analytic hierarchic process model. We then analyze the proposed algorithm and make a scheduling example to confirm its efficiency.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.239-248
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• 2002

철근 콘크리트 면부재의 주기거동을 나타내기 위하여 소성모델과 손상모델의 통합구성모델을 개발하였다. 인장-압축을 받는 콘크리트의 응력은 개념적으로 콘크리트의 스트럿 작용에 의한 압축응력과 인장균열에 의한 인장응력의 합으로 정의하였다. 인장균열의 비등방손상에 의하여 영향을 받는 압축파괴의 등방손상을 나타내기 위하여 다중파괴기준을 갖는 소성모델을 사용하였으며, 다중균열 방향에서 인장응력-변형률 관계를 나타내기 위하여 다중고정균열손상모델과 인장균열의 소성유동모델의 개념을 사용하였다. 이러한 통합모델은 주기 인장-압축 상태의 철근 콘크리트의 거동측성, 즉 다중 인장균열 방향, 점진적으로 회전하는 균열 손상, 콘크리트의 압축파괴를 나타낼 수 있다. 제안된 구성모델은 유한요소해석에 적용되었으며, 주기하중을 받는 철근 콘크리트 전단패널 및 전단벽에 대한 기존의 실험결과들과의 비교를 통해 검증되었다.

• Radiation Oncology Journal
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.129-137
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• 2020

Purpose: To identify the clinical usefulness of serum M protein and to establish a rationale for regular follow-up with serum protein electrophoresis in solitary plasmacytoma. Materials and Methods: Sixty-nine patients with solitary plasmacytoma and solitary plasmacytoma with minimal marrow involvement according to the International Myeloma Working Group criteria were retrospectively reviewed. Results: At a median follow-up of 6.2 years, 5-year local control (LC), 5-year multiple myeloma-free survival (MMFS), 5-year failure-free survival (FFS), and 5-year overall survival (OS) were 82.6%, 44.1%, 41.8%, and 85.1%, respectively. Among the patients whose initial serum M protein was present or not evaluated, 37.3% of patients showed disappearance of serum M protein after various treatment. MMFS of these patients were comparable to non-secretory plasmacytoma with undetectable levels of M protein, and significantly better than patients with persistent M protein. Increase of serum M protein ≥0.1 g/dL was most predictive of treatment failure with area under the curve of 0.731. Conclusion: Patients who eventually showed persistence of serum M protein after treatment showed worse MMFS and FFS compared to those whose serum M protein disappeared or who had initially non-secretory disease. The increase of serum M protein level ≥0.1 g/dL from current nadir was predictive of treatment failure. Therefore, regular follow-up with serum M protein is highly recommended especially unless the patient had initially non-secretory disease.

• Korean Circulation Journal
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• 제48권11호
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• pp.1002-1011
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• 2018

Background and Objectives: The prognostic impact of left axis deviation (LAD) on clinical outcomes in acute heart failure syndrome (AHFS) with left bundle branch block (LBBB) is unknown. The aim of this study was to determine the prognostic significance of axis deviation in acute heart failure patients with LBBB. Methods: Between March 2011 and February 2014, 292 consecutive AHFS patients with LBBB were recruited from 10 tertiary university hospitals. They were divided into groups with no LAD (n=189) or with LAD (n=103) groups according to QRS axis <-30 degree. The primary outcome was all-cause mortality. Results: The median follow-up duration was 24 months. On multivariate analysis, the rate of all-cause death did not significantly differ between the normal axis and LAD groups (39.7% vs. 46.6%, adjusted hazard ratio, 1.01; 95% confidence interval, 0.66, 1.53; p=0.97). However, on the multiple linear regression analysis to evaluate the predictors of the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), presence of LAD significantly predicted a worse LVEF (adjusted beta, -3.25; 95% confidence interval, -5.82, -0.67; p=0.01). Right ventricle (RV) dilatation was defined as at least 2 of 3 electrocardiographic criteria (late R in lead aVR, low voltages in limb leads, and R/S ratio <1 in lead V5) and was more frequent in the LAD group than in the normal axis group (p<0.001). Conclusions: Among the AHFS with LBBB patients, LAD did not predict mortality, but it could be used as a significant predictor of worse LVEF and RV dilatation (Trial registry at KorAHF registry, ClinicalTrial.gov, NCT01389843).

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.345-356
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• 2010

직접전단과 불균형모멘트를 재하받는 슬래브-기둥 내부 접합부에 대한 대체설계방법이 개발되었다. 슬래브-기둥 접합부는 뚫림전단파괴에 앞서서 휨균열에 의해서 손상을 받으므로, 이 연구에서는 위험단면의 압축대에서 대부분의 전단저항이 발휘된다고 가정하였다. 뚫림전단강도의 산정을 위하여, 슬래브 휨모멘트와 불균형모멘트에 의해서 유발되는 압축수직응력의 영향을 고려하였다. 압축수직응력과 전단응력 사이의 상관관계를 고려하기 위하여, Rankine의 콘크리트 재료파괴기준을 사용하였다. 제안된 강도모델은 실험 결과와의 비교를 통하여 검증하였다. 검증 결과, 제안된 설계방법은 ACI 318과 Eurocode 2 보다 우수한 강도추정능력을 가지고 있으며 직접전단 또는 직접전단-불균형모멘트 복합하중을 재하받는 슬래브-기둥 접합부의 설계에 사용될 수 있다는 점이 밝혀졌다.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.354-364
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 석회암 지반에서 광산개발이나 토목공사를 수행할 때 데이터베이스로 활용될 수 있는 암석의 기초 물성들을 파악하기 위하여, 제천지역 석회암을 대상으로 수많은 실내 역학시험을 실시하여 암석의 단위중량, 흡수율, 간극률, 탄성파 속도, 쇼어경도, 일축압축강도, 인장강도, 영률, 포와송비, 점착력, 내부마찰각 등의 각종 물리적 성질을 조사하였다. 연구 지역에 분포하는 회색석회암과 이질석회암의 역학적 특성을 비교 검토하였으며, 이질석회암은 회색석회암에 비하여 단위중량은 작고 간극률과 흡수율은 크게 나타나 각종 역학적 특성은 상대적으로 작게 평가되었다. 또한 Mohr-Coulomb 파괴기준과 Hoek-Brown 파괴기준을 적용하여 제천 석회암의 파괴조건을 해석하였으며, 여러 가지 물성간의 단순회귀분석과 다중회귀분석을 통해 물성 상호간의 관련성을 알아보았다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권7호
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• pp.1585-1609
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• 2013

Over recent years, enormous amounts of research in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been conducted, due to its multifarious applications such as in environmental monitoring, object tracking, disaster management, manufacturing, monitoring and control. In some of WSN applications dependent the energy-efficient and link reliability are demanded. Hence, this paper presents a routing protocol that considers these two criteria. We propose a new mechanism called Reliable Routing Scheme for Energy-Balanced (RRSEB) to reduce the packets dropped during the data communications. It is based on Swarm Intelligence (SI) using the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) method. The RRSEB is a self-adaptive method to ensure the high routing reliability in WSNs, if the failures occur due to the movement of the sensor nodes or sensor node's energy depletion. This is done by introducing a new method to create alternative paths together with the data routing obtained during the path discovery stage. The goal of this operation is to update and offer new routing information in order to construct the multiple paths resulting in an increased reliability of the sensor network. From the simulation, we have seen that the proposed method shows better results in terms of packet delivery ratio and energy efficiency.