• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.269-280
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• 2018

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the change in the posture of dental hygiene students and clinical dental hygienists when implementing dental scaling before and after posture correction training using the rapid upper limb assessment (RULA) method and 3D motion analysis. Methods: Thirty-two healthy volunteers performed dental scaling to remove artificial calculus on dental manikin. The movement and angle of the joints were verified by RULA and 3D motion analysis during the procedure. The subjects were also photographed for 1 minute during the procedure for 10 minutes while the calculus was removed. After the removal of the calculus, the subject and the instructor checked the video together. Posture correction training was conducted by the instructor so that the subject could perform the calculus removal operation in the correct posture. Artificial calculus of the adjacent teeth was then removed for the same period of time, and the change in posture was reviewed. Results: The total score of the posture change using RULA was $5.72{\pm}0.58$ before training and $4.31{\pm}0.10$ after training, showing a significant decrease after training (p<0.001), and upper arm, lower arm, wrist position, neck and waist position showed significant decrease after training. The three-dimensional motion analysis showed significant differences according to the criteria measured at all measurement sites except the left shoulder (p<0.05) Conclusions: It was confirmed through RULA and 3D motion analysis that postural correction training using calculus removal images was effective, and that correct postural education is essential to preventing musculoskeletal diseases caused by removal of calculus.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.114-121
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• 2013

Objectives : The purpose of the research is to measure Dental Hygiene students' level of musculoskeletal pain before and after receiving scaling training which involves repetitive operations and examine effects the operations have on the students' grip and pinch strength. Methods : 15 subjects in Dental Hygiene at Y university located in Chungbuk were tested on November 2, 2011. Results : 12 students had a musculoskeletal pain before receiving scaling training. However, all the 15 students had a musculoskeletal pain after the training. Body part the largest number of the students complained of the pain on was shoulders(37.9%) followed by neck(20.8%), waist(13.9%), wrists(10.3%), then back(6.9%) before receiving the training. Then the result showed that shoulders are where the largest number of students(24.1%) felt the pain, followed by neck(17.2%), wrists and fingers(13.8%), waist(12.1%), back and lower arms(6.9%), then palms(5.2%) after the training. Visual Analogue Scale(VAS) increased to $6.35{\pm}2.09$ after receiving the training from $3.31{\pm}3.38$ and this shows statistically significant difference(p<.001). Upon inspection, average grip strength decreased to $23.23{\pm}5.79kg$ from $25.00{\pm}4.51kg$ after receiving the training and this shows statistically significant difference(p<.05). Key pinch was the strongest among the three pinch strengths followed by tripod pinch then tip pinch. Average of all the three pinch strengths showed to have statistically significant difference before and after the training(p<.05); Tip pinch from $6.53{\pm}1.36$ to $5.87{\pm}1.3$, key pinch from $13.47{\pm}2.5$ to $12.53{\pm}2.30$, and tripod pinch from $9.27{\pm}3.04$ to $8.03{\pm}2.72$. Conclusions : The result showed that scaling training has effects on Dental Hygiene students' musculoskeletal subjective symptoms and their grip and pinch strength changes after receiving the training.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.133-146
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• 2008

Purpose: This research aims to investigate into company workers' awareness of scaling and related factors and provide basic materials for setting up appropriate policies to improve the hygiene of the mouth of industrial workers and developing training programs for the worker's hygiene of their mouth, as part of researches to establish schemes for improving the workers's hygiene of their mouth. Method: Questionnaire was conducted by convenience sampling for 220 office workers belonging to H Group located in Seoul Metropolitan city over about 5 weeks between December 17, 2007 and January 20, 2008. The questionnaire for this study was constructed in consideration of general characteristics of the subjects, behaviors of the dental management. and scaling. The collected questionnaires were electronically processed using SPSS 12.0. Result: The followings are the findings of this research. First, in general, scaling is experienced by male unmarried worker in their 40s. whose monthly average income is 1.00-1.99 million won and have little interest in the hygiene of their mouth and, consequently. whose hygiene of the mouth is not good. Second, scaling is experienced once every six months by the worker in their 50s or older, who are college graduates and have much interest in the hygiene of their mouth and, consequently. whose hygiene of the mouth is good. Third. scaling is not periodically conducted because of high costs of it in terms of almost every parameter of general characteristics. Fourth, they have correct knowledge of scaling since they regard it as 'removing of plaque and tartar' in terms of every parameter of general characteristics. Fifth, the workers' sex (pE0.05), hygienic condition of the mouth (pE0.05) and knowledge of scaling (pE0.001) have a significant effect on their scaling experience. Conclusion: It is considered that dental health management should be continued by training of the importance of prevention through scaling as measure for dental health promotion of workers.

• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.45-51
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• 2008

Purpose: We evaluated the physical stress and pain to the musculoskeletal system of a dental practitioner when engaging in a dental scaling training exercise to prevent the development of musculoskeletal injuries. Methods: The 18 female (average age: 21$\pm$1 years) subjects were voluntarily picked from a group of juniors who have completed a one-and-a-half year training course that includes training exercises on the dentiform and on live subjects (other trainees). The test is done by measuring pain, activity, grip strength, and finger dexterity for each subject's hand and wrist. Before the test all subjects were confirmed to be right-handed and were informed of the study and its objective. Measuring was done before and after each subject performed dental scaling for one hour using the scaler and the curet. Results: Pain levels increased for both hand and shoulders, but hand pain was often greater than shoulder pain. Grip strength significantly declined in the right hand but not the left. For joint mobility, the flexion and the extension for the shoulder joint did not change; but the range of motion for both wrist joints significantly increased. For the dexterity test, both hands showed increased dexterity after the exercise. Conclusion: Dental scaling can affect the shoulders and wrists/hands. Therefore, a musculoskeletal injury prevention program for dental practitioners, which may include encouraging them to assume correct body posture when at work, must be sought. This study evaluated only the shoulders, wrists, and hands; but future studies should include areas such as the cervical area, the back, and the lower limbs.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.790-809
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• 2019

The design of an efficient scaler to enhance the edge data is one of the most important issues in video signal applications, because the perceptual quality of the processed image is sensitively affected by the degradation of edge data. Various conventional scaling schemes have been proposed to enhance the edge data. In this paper, we propose an efficient scaling algorithm for this purpose. The proposed method is based on the discrete cosine transform-based interpolation filter (DCT-IF) because it outperforms other scaling algorithms in various configurations. The proposed DCT-IF incorporates weighting parameters that are optimized for training data. Simulation results show that the quality of the resized image produced by the proposed DCT-IF is much higher than that of those produced by the conventional schemes, although the proposed DCT-IF is more complex than other conventional scaling algorithms.

• 대한치과의료관리학회지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.21-28
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• 2019

The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between wrong postures and pain during scaling and encourage dental hygienists and students to exercise scaling in a good position. After obtaining informed consent, 107 students (3rd and 4th grade students) who had an experience with scaling practice were enrolled. The questionnaire included three general items, four items related to the posture during scaling, and nine items related to pain management (total 16 items), for which the five-point Likert scale was used. Through the questionnaire, we examined the preference of posture during scaling, posture education during scaling, pain in each part during scaling, pain management, and pain management method. In the scaling exercise, 86.3% of the subjects were instructed on the correct posture, and 87.9% of the subjects perceived the possibility of inducing musculoskeletal disorders based on the scaling posture. The percentage of subjects who responded that they performed scaling in the correct posture was 33.6% and that of subjects who answered that they bowed or turned their head by more than 15° was 64.4%. Further, 45.7% of the subjects answered that they bent their shoulders, and 29.9% of the subjects answered that their postures were not parallel to the floor. Pain during scaling was still higher when they bent their head, they bent their waist, and they bent their wrist (p<0.05). During scaling, pain was most frequent in the fingers and hands (15%), followed by the neck (14%), shoulders (11.2%), waist (9.3%), and feet and legs (2.8%). The percentage of subjects who performed regular exercise (or stretching) to prevent pain was 29.9% and that of subjects who managed pain after scaling was 12.1%. Further, exercise (24.6%) and self-massage (20.3%) were highly used as the pain management methods, and the school practice was preferred to education media for pain management (79.4%). In the scaling practice, there was a training on pain management, but the frequency of practicing in the wrong posture was high. Moreover, pain increased upon practicing in an incorrect posture. Therefore, more in-depth and systematic education on the necessity and method of musculoskeletal disease management during scaling is required.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.619-624
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• 2024

스케일링 작업은 치과 잇몸치료 가운데 가장 기본적인 작업 중 하나로 치아에 붙어 굳은 치석을 제거하는 것이다. 그러나 미숙하고 전문적이지 못한 치석 제거로 잇몸에 손상을 입어 피가 다량 발생하거나, 치아에 타격을 줄 수도 있다. 이러한 이유로 스케일링의 경우 다양한 사람들의 잇몸 구조에 따라 섬세하게 작업해 주어야 하며, 충분한 실습이 이루어져야 한다. 대학의 관련 학과에서는 스케일링 실습을 진행하고 있다. 하지만, 충분한 실습을 해보지 못한 학생들의 관점에서 대상자를 선정하여 실습을 진행하는 일이 결코 쉬운 일이 아니며, 실습 대상자 역시 불편하고 불안하여 실습 참여를 피할 수 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 가상현실을 이용해 실제 대상자가 아닌 가상의 환자를 제작하여 다양한 잇몸의 형태를 단계별로 구현하여 반복적인 실습과 다양한 스케일링 경험을 쌓을 수 있도록 가상현실 실습 시스템을 설계 및 구현하였다.

• 지구물리와물리탐사
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.83-87
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• 2000

송신원의 파워 증가가 제한되고 인공잡음이 존재하는 지역에서 양질의 탄성파 자료를 획득하기 위하여 근/원기준점(reference)을 이용한 탄성파 잡음예측필터를 개발하였다. 잡음예측필터에 사용된 방법은 backpropagation 알고리즘을 이용한 3층의 인공신경망(neural network)으로서, 훈련자료(training data) 및 검증자료(testing data)에 훈련된 잡음예측필터를 적용시 신호대잡음비(signal-to-noise ration)를 약 3배 정도 증가시켰다. 그러나, 일반적으로 전기, 전자탐사 자료의 질을 향상하기 위해 사용되는 스케일링(scaling)기법으로는 전혀 탄성파의 잡음을 제거할 수 없었다.

• 한국방사성폐기물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방사성폐기물학회 2003년도 가을 학술논문집
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• pp.534-538
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• 2003

Final disposal of radioactive waste generated from Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) requires the detailed knowledge of the natures and quantities of radionuclides in waste package. Many of these radionuclides are difficult to measure and expensive to assay. Thus it is suggested to the Indirect method by which the concentrations of DTM (Difficult-to-Measure) nuclide is decided using the relation of concentrations (Scaling Factor) between Key (Easy-to-Measure) nuclide and DTM nuclide with measured concentrations of Key nuclide. In general, scaling factor is determined by using of log mean average (LMA) and regression. These methods are adequate to apply most corrosion product nuclides. But in case of fission product nuclides and some corrosion product nuclides, the predicted values aren't well matched with the original values. In this study, the models using artificial neural network (ANN) for C-14 and Sr-90 are compared with those using LMA and regression. The assessment of models is executed in the two parts divided by a training part and a validation part. For all of two nuclides in the training part, the predicted values using ANN are well matched with the measured values compared with those using LMA and regression. In the validation part, the accuracy of the predicted values using ANN is better than that using LMA and is similar to or better than that using regression. It is concluded that the predicted values using ANN model are better than those using conventional model in some nuclides and ANN model can be used as the complement of LMA and regression model.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.847-856
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 Liu 등의 학습 알고리즘과 Wu와 Zhang의 초기 가중값의 범위 설정, 그리고 Gunaseeli와 Karthikeyan의 초기 가중값에 관한 연구 결과를 이용하여 일반화 네트워크를 구할 수 있는 개선된 학습을 제안하고, 최적화된 신경망 학습률들을 이용하여 개선된 학습 과정의 학습효율등을 비교해 본다. 제시된 알고리즘을 이용한 학습에서 학습 초기에는 가장 단순한 학습 패턴과 은닉층으로부터 학습을 시작한다. 신경망 학습과정 중에 지역 최소값에 수렴되는 경우에는 가중값 범위 조정을 통하여 지역 최소값 문제를 해결하고, 지역 최소값으로부터 탈출이 용이하지 않으면 은닉노드를 점차적으로 하나씩 추가하면서 학습한다. 각 단계에서 새롭게 추가된 노드에 대한 초기 가중값의 선택은 이차계획법을 이용한 최적 처리절차를 이용한다. 최적 처리절차는 은닉층의 노드가 추가된 후의 새로운 네트워크에서 학습회수를 단순히 증가시키지 않아도 주어진 학습 허용오차를 만족시킬 수 있다. 본 연구에서 적용한 개선된 알고리즘을 이용하면서 초기 가중값들에 관한 기존 연구들을 적용하면 신경망 학습시의 수렴 정도를 높여주고 최소한의 단순 구조를 갖는 일반화 네트워크로 추정할 수 있게 된다. 이러한 학습률들을 변화시키는 모의실험을 통하여 기존의 연구 결과와의 학습 효율을 비교하고 향후 연구 방향을 제시하고자 한다.