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The moderating effect of social supports and cultural identity on the relationships of reverse culture shock, and subjective well-being (재문화충격과 주관적 안녕감 간 관계에서 지지체계와 문화정체성의 조절효과)

  • Seung-Min Lee;Eunjoo Yang
    • Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.45-66
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    • 2015
  • This study explored the moderating effects of social supports (family support, home friends support, foreign friends support) and cultural identity (home identity, foreign identity) on the relationships of reverse culture shock and subjective well-being. Participants were 157 returnees who left home-country prior to the age of 19 and resided in the foreign-country for more than three years. The results of hierarchical regression analyses on two-way interaction effect between reverse culture shock and each hypothesized moderator (e.g., family support, home friends support, foreign friends support, home identity, foreign identity) indicated that reverse cultural shock and subjective well-being was negatively related and their relationship was moderated only by family support. Specifically, the relationship between reverse culture shock and subjective well-being was weaker when the level of family support was higher. Subsequently, three-way interaction among reverse culture shock, one of the social support factors, and one of the cultural identity factors was investigated using hierarchical regression analyses. The results showed that the three-way interaction among reverse culture shock, family support, and home identity was significant. The slope difference tests yielded that the relationship between reverse culture shock and subjective well-being was stronger when both levels of family support and home identity were lower compared to when either level of family support or home identity was higher. These results imply that environmental factors such as family support and intrapsychic factor such as home identity might function as a buffer against the negative consequences of reverse culture shock experience.

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Comparisons of Reverse Osmosis and Pervaporation Membrane Processes I. Theoretical Interpretations

  • Rhim, Ji-Won;Lee, Kew-Ho;Huang, Y.M.
    • Proceedings of the Membrane Society of Korea Conference
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    • 1991.10a
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    • pp.47-48
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    • 1991
  • The pressure in RO leads to a concentration difference across the membrane, while the concentration difference in PVAP across the membrane is achieved by applying a vacuum to the downstream compartment. Therefore, it could be possible to compare this two processes using the solution-diffusion mechanism.

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THE THREE DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF STRESS ACCORDING TO IMPLANT THREAD DESIGN UNDER THE AXIAL LOAD (수직력하에서 임프란트 나사형태에 따른 응력의 3차원 유한요소법적 분석)

  • Kim, Woo-Taek;Cha, Yong-Doo;Oh, Se-Jong;Park, Sang-Soo;Kim, Hyun-Woo;Park, Yang-Ho;Park, Jun-Woo;Rhee, Gun-Joo
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.111-117
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    • 2001
  • There are three designs of thread form in screw type implants: V-thread, Reverse buttress thread and Square thread. The purpose of this study was to find out how thread form designs have an influence on the equivalent stress, equivalent strain, maximum shear stress and maximum shear strain and which design of thread form generates more maximum equivalent stress and strain. 3-D finite element analysis was used to evaluate the stress and strain patterns of three tread types. The results of this study were as follow. 1. Under the 200N of axial load, the value of maximum equivalent stress is smallest in square thread and there is no significant difference between that of V thread and reverse buttress thread. 2. Under the 200N of axial load, the value of maximum equivalent strain is largest in V thread and smallest in square thread. 3. Under the 200N of axial load, the value of maximum shear stress is smallest in square thread and there is no significant difference between that of V thread and reverse buttress thread. 4. Under the 200N of axial load, the value of maximum equivalent strain is largest in V thread and there is no significant difference between that of square thread and reverse buttress thread. 5. Above results show that the square thread has special advantages in stress and strain compared with other thread types, especially in shear stess which is most determinant to implant-bone interface. Considering the superior biomechanical properties of square form implant, we presume that square form implant has better clinical results than the other types of implants in the same clinical conditions.

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Effect of Preoperative Fatty Degeneration of the Deltoid and the Teres Minor Muscles on the Clinical Outcome after Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty

  • Moon, Sung-Hoon;Nam, Woo-Dong;Rheu, Chang-Hyun;Lee, Jae-Woo
    • Clinics in Shoulder and Elbow
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.138-143
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    • 2015
  • Background: To evaluate the effect of preoperative fatty degeneration of deltoid and teres minor muscles on the clinical outcome in patient with reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (RTSA). Methods: Nineteen patients with RTSA were enrolled. The mean follow-up period was 16.1 months. The fatty degeneration of three distinct parts in each deltoid and the teres minor muscle was measured using a preoperative magnetic resonance imaging. Postoperatively, the muscle strengths for forward elevation (FE), abduction (Abd), and external rotation (ER) were measured using a myometer at the last follow-up. The parameters for clinical outcome were Constant Score (CS) and Korean Shoulder Score (KSS). Results: The number of cases was 10 in group 1 and 9 in group 2. The strength of FE and Abd were significantly higher in group 1 (p<0.001 and p<0.001, respectively), and the strength of ER was not different significantly between two groups (p=0.065). For the clinical outcome, both CS and KSS were higher in group 1 (p=0.002 and p=0.002, respectively). The number of patients in group A was 11, and group B was 8. Although there was not a significant difference in terms of FE and Abd between group A and B (p=0.091, p=0.238), ER was significantly higher in group A (p=0.012). We did not find a significant difference in the clinical scores (CS, p=0.177 and KSS, p=0.238). Conclusions: These findings suggest the importance of a preoperative evaluation of the fatty degeneration of deltoid and teres minor muscles for predicting postoperative strength and clinical outcome.

Analysis of Flow Reversal by Tidal Elevation and Discharge Conditions in a Tidal River (감조하천에서 조위 및 유량조건에 따른 역류 분석)

  • Song, Chang Geun;Kim, Hyung-Jun;Rhee, Dong Sop
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.29 no.6
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    • pp.104-110
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    • 2014
  • The Han River is the only waterway in Korea where estuary is not blocked by dykes so that tidal water is flowing in and out through the tidal reach. The extreme tidal range in the Yellow Sea causes an intense flood current, stretching over horizontal extents of tens of kilometers into the rivers. To elucidate the flow reversal by discharge conditions and transient tidal level in the Han river, numerical simulations were conducted under 7 boundary conditions for two days with 10 minute time step. As the flow conditions changed from low discharge and high tidal difference to high discharge and low tidal difference, the flow reversals became weaker and the velocity of forward flow direction became higher due to the increased flow momentums and decreased tidal differences. In the case of normal flow, the maximum reverse velocity was 0.4 m/s, which was equivalent to the maximum forward velocity. In addition, the pattern of the development and decay of forward and reverse flow was presented.

Evaluation of FO membrane performance for each type of pre-treatment from WWTP secondary effluents (하수방류수의 전처리 조건별 FO막의 운전성능평가)

  • Jeong, Junwon;Kim, Jihoon;Kim, Geonyoub;Park, Junyoung;Kim, Hyungsoo;Kim, Hyungsook
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.131-137
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    • 2016
  • The development of alternative water resources has emerged as an effective method for solving drought of water resources due to extreme weather and increase in water consumption. Recently, in Korea, there has been active research on reverse osmosis desalination technology, wastewater reuse using forward osmosis membranes, and the forward osmosis(FO)-reverse osmosis(RO) hybrid process combining these two technologies. In this study, the basic performance of FO membranes manufactured by three domestic and international manufactures such as Microfilter Co., Ltd., Toray Chemical Korea Inc., and Hydration Technologies Inc., were investigated for wastewater reuse. In addition, as an experiment to select feed solution, the selected membranes were operated 48 consecutive hours using three secondary effluents pretreated by the UF membrane with a pore size of $0.1{\mu}m$ and auto strainer with pore sizes of $1{\mu}m$ and $100{\mu}m$ as feed solution. Although there was not much difference in the operating performance. Thus, the treated water using the $100{\mu}m$ auto strainer was selected as feed solution applied to the assessment.

A Study on Cross-sectioning Methods for Measured Point Data (측정 점데이터로부터 단면 데이터 추출에 관한 연구)

  • 우혁제;강의철;이관행
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.272-276
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    • 2000
  • Reverse engineering refers to the process that creates a physical part from acquiring the surface data of an existing part using a scanning device. In recent years, as the non-contact type scanning devices become more popular, the huge amount of point data can be obtained with high speed. The point data handling process, therefore, becomes more important since the scan data need to be refined for the efficiency of subsequent tasks such as mesh generation and surface fitting. As one of point handling functions, the cross-sectioning function is still frequently used for extracting the necessary data from the point cloud. The commercial reverse engineering software supports cross-sectioning functions, however, these are only for cross-sectioning the point cloud with the constant spacing and direction. In this paper, adaptive cross-sectioning point cloud which allow the changes of the spacing and directions of cross-sections according to the constant spacing and direction. In this paper, adaptive cross-sectioning algorithms which allow the changes of the spacing and directions of cross-sections according to the curvature difference of the point cloud data are proposed.

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Scapular spine base fracture with long outside-in superior or posterior screws with reverse shoulder arthroplasty

  • Eroglu, Osman Nuri;Husemoglu, Bugra;Basci, Onur;Ozkan, Mustafa;Havitcioglu, Hasan;Hapa, Onur
    • Clinics in Shoulder and Elbow
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.141-146
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    • 2021
  • Background: The purpose of the present study was to determine how long superior screws alone or in combination with posterior placement of metaglene screws protruding and penetrating into the scapular spine in reverse total shoulder arthroplasty affect the strength of the scapular spine in a fresh cadaveric scapular model. Methods: Seven fresh cadaver scapulas were allocated to the control group (short posterior and superior screws) and seven scapulars to the study group (spine base fixation with a four long screws, three with both long superior and long posterior screws). Results: The failure load was lower in the spine fixation group (long screw, 869 N vs. short screw, 1,123 N); however, this difference did not reach statistical significance (p>0.05). All outside-in long superior or superior plus posterior screws failed due to scapular spine base fracture; failures in the short screw group were due to acromion fracture. An additional posterior outside-in screw failed to significantly decrease the failure load of the acromion spine. Conclusions: The present study highlights the significance of preventing a cortical breach or an outside-in configuration when a superior or posterior screw is inserted into the scapular spine base.

Reverse engineering technique on the evaluation of impression accuracy in angulated implants (경사진 임플란트에서 임플란트 인상의 정확도 평가를 위한 역공학 기법)

  • Jung, Hong-Taek;Lee, Ki-Sun;Song, So-Yeon;Park, Jin-Hong;Lee, Jeong-Yol
    • The Journal of Korean Academy of Prosthodontics
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    • v.59 no.3
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    • pp.261-270
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    • 2021
  • Purpose. The aim of this study was (1) to compare the reverse engineering technique with other existing measurement methods and (2) to analyze the effect of implant angulations and impression coping types on implant impression accuracy with reverse engineering technique. Materials and methods. Three different master models were fabricated and the distance between the two implant center points in parallel master model was measured with different three methods; digital caliper measurement (Group DC), optical measuring (Group OM), and reverse engineering technique (Group RE). The 90 experimental models were fabricated with three types of impression copings for the three different implant angulation and the angular and distance error rate were calculated. One-way ANOVA was used for comparison among the evaluation methods (P < .05). The error rates of experimental groups were analyzed by two-way ANOVA (P < .05). Results. While there was significant difference between Group DC and RE (P < .05), Group OM had no significant difference compared with other groups (P > .05). The standard deviations in reverse engineering were much lower than those of digital caliper and optical measurement. Hybrid groups had no significant difference from the pick-up groups in distance error rates (P > .05). Conclusion. The reverse engineering technique demonstrated its potential as an evaluation technique of 3D accuracy of impression techniques.

A Study of Flow Analysis for a Vertical Pump with Diffuser (디퓨저를 갖는 수직펌프의 유동해석에 대한 연구)

  • Chung, Kyung-Nam;Kim, Se-Jin;Park, Pyun-Goo;Kim, Ha-Jong
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.11a
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    • pp.216-220
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    • 2001
  • Flow analysis was carried out for two vertical pumps. The geometrical difference of two pumps is the adoption of vaned diffuser. Full pump models were used to simulate the velocity fields of the pumps. Pump head and velocity field were compared to obtain the features of diffuser flow. It was shown that the discontinuity of head curve was predicted and reverse flow could be generated at impeller exit even in the rated flow condition.

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