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A Study on the Behaviour Mechanism of Jacket Anchor (자켓앵커 거동특성에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Dong-Hee;Kim, In-Chul;Kong, Hyun-Seok;Lee, Woo-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2008.03a
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    • pp.1240-1249
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    • 2008
  • Jacket anchor was developed to increase the pullout resistance of general ground anchor in soft ground, and the mechanism of pullout resistance of jacket anchor was analyzed. Also, the ultimate bond stress of jacket anchor was estimated by ultimate resistance which is determined by field tests. Grout milk was injected into the jacket to make grout bulb of jacket anchor. The formation of grout bulb of jacket anchor increases the diameter of grout bulb, ground strength and confining pressure between anchor grout and soil. From the twelve field test results, it was observed that the pullout resistance of jacket anchor is 15.38~295.02%(average 83.53%) greater than that of general ground anchor, and plastic deformation of jacket anchor is 20.78~1,496.45%(average 288.78%) smaller than that of general ground anchor at the same load cycle. Especially, it was investigated that the increase of ultimate resistance over 200% and the reduction of plastic deformation over 600% was obtained in gravel layer. It means that the jacket anchor is superior to the general ground anchor in gravel layer. Finally, the ultimate bond stress was proposed to design jacket anchor.

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Contemporary Concept for Prevention and treatment of MRONJ (Medication Related Osteonecrosis of Jaw) (MRONJ 예방과 치료를 위한 최신지견)

  • Park, Jung-Hyun;Kim, Sun-Jong
    • The Journal of the Korean dental association
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    • v.54 no.4
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    • pp.274-283
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    • 2016
  • Bisphosphonates are widely used mainly for the treatment of osteoporosis and bone metastasis of malignancy. Since the first report of MRONJ, there have been many studies associated, however the pathogenesis of MRONJ is not yet clear. Medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaws (MRONJ) is a serious complication associated with long-term medication therapy. It is characterized by exposed necrotic bonein the jaw, which has persisted for more than 8weeks despite continuous treatment by dentist. The mechanism of development of MRONJ is still unclear and there is no definitive standard treatment for MRONJ. The purpose of this study is to investigate the jaw bone destruction mechanism of accumulated bisphosphonates, so that we can develop therapeutic method to repair the defect and stop the destruction process. The authors performed simultaneous application of PRF(Platelet rich fibrin) and BMP-2(Bone morphogenetic protein-2) to stimulate not only soft tissue healing but also osseous regeneration. Our case series demonstrate that simultaneous application of platelet rich fibrin and bone morphogenetic protein-2 can be a treatment of choice for MRONJ.

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An Emission-Aware Day-Ahead Power Scheduling System for Internet of Energy

  • Huang, Chenn-Jung;Hu, Kai-Wen;Liu, An-Feng;Chen, Liang-Chun;Chen, Chih-Ting
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.13 no.10
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    • pp.4988-5012
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    • 2019
  • As a subset of the Internet of Things, the Internet of Energy (IoE) is expected to tackle the problems faced by the current smart grid framework. Notably, the conventional day-ahead power scheduling of the smart grid should be redesigned in the IoE architecture to take into consideration the intermittence of scattered renewable generations, large amounts of power consumption data, and the uncertainty of the arrival time of electric vehicles (EVs). Accordingly, a day-ahead power scheduling system for the future IoE is proposed in this research to maximize the usage of distributed renewables and reduce carbon emission caused by the traditional power generation. Meanwhile, flexible charging mechanism of EVs is employed to provide preferred charging options for moving EVs and flatten the load profile simultaneously. The simulation results revealed that the proposed power scheduling mechanism not only achieves emission reduction and balances power load and supply effectively, but also fits each individual EV user's preference.

Structural Performance Enhancement of Seismic Retrofitted Column Using New Reinforcing Materials (신보강재로 보수 보강한 기둥의 구조 성능 개선)

  • Oh, Chang-Hak;Han, Sang-Whan;Lee, Li-Hyung
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.121-128
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    • 2001
  • Reinforced concrete frame buildings in regions of low to moderate seismicity are typically designed only for gravity loads with non-seismic detailing provisions of the code. These buildings possess strong beam-weak column, which brings about the brittle structural performance like the column sidesway failure mechanism during the strong lateral load. The objective of this paper is to enhance the column strength and deformation capacity for reconfiguring the structural failure mode by averting a column soft-story collapse and moving to a more ductile beam-sides way mechanism suing new reinforcing materials. Aramid fiber sheet and reinforcing rod-composite materials was used for this purpose. The column was modeled by the 2/3 scale experimental specimen retested. According to the concept of the capacity design, the damaged column was strengthened by the column jacketing using new reinfocing materials such as rod-composite materials. In conclusion, the improvement of the flexural strength is observed and the capacity of the energy dissipation and the ductility is enhanced, too.

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Stress delivery mechanism of Top Bases (팽이기초의 하중전달 메커니즘)

  • Chung, Jin-Hyuck;Do, Jun-Ki;Lee, Song
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2009.09a
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    • pp.430-440
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    • 2009
  • Top-Base Foundation(TBF) was developed in Japan as a factory made concrete product. It is actively used in 6,000 sites by the end of 1980s in Japan and applied for a domestic patent in 1985. It is a shallow foundation whose effectiveness is proven by many relevant researchers and engineers. TBF was introduced to Korea in 1991 and has been applied mainly to architectural structures to date. Currently, the effectiveness in bearing capacity and settlement of TBF is being underestimated for civil engineering structures. Characteristics of Top-Base Foundation studied in Japan and Korea is known as follows: (1) as concrete part and crushed stone behave together, they perform the function of rigid mat; (2) the conical part and pile part of TBF disperses load by interaction with the crushed stone; (3) by preventing lateral strain and differential settlement on lower ground, it improves bearing capacity and constrains settlement at the same time. In Korea, it is used mostly in clayey soft grounds. The formula of bearing capacity and settlement of TBF suggested in Japan give the values of the underestimated. bearing capacity while its settlement is overestimated in comparison with the values measured from the field loading test. Therefore, in this study, the stress delivery mechanism of Top-Base Foundation developed in Japan and Floating Top Base developed in Korea is investigated through numerical analysis and laboratory model test.

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A review of pathophysiological mechanism of Bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (임상가를 위한 특집 1 - 비스포스포네이트 관련 골괴사의 병태생리학적 기전에 대한 검토)

  • Kwon, Tae-Geon
    • The Journal of the Korean dental association
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    • v.52 no.4
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    • pp.192-202
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    • 2014
  • Bisphosphonate(BP) significantly influence the hone remodeling process. Increasing number of patients with osteoporosis and metastatic bone disease need high dose or long term bisphosphonate therapy. Major adverse effect is jaw bone necrosis and now the bisphosphonate-related necrosis of the jaw(BRONJ) is the major concern of dental practitioner. This study intended to perform the review of the current understandings concerning the pathophysiology of BRONJ. Even though pathophysiological mechanism of BRONJ is not clearly elucidated but now suggested as largely two different concepts; so-called "inside-out" or "outside-in" theory. Inside-out theory emphasize the osteonecrosis of the jaw is the initial major event and subsequent infection and inflammation is the second event that accompanies bone exposure and death of overlying mucosa. However, in "outside-in" theory, infection or inflammation initiated by traumatized oral epithelium is the major event of BRONJ. Both theory would be partially explain BRONJ. Recent research reveals the immune modulating effect and influence of microcrack accumulation by BP. These findings and those of others might explain the missing part of outside-in theory.

Binomial Distribution Based Reputation for WSNs: A Comprehensive Survey

  • Wei, Zhe;Yu, Shuyan
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.15 no.10
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    • pp.3793-3814
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    • 2021
  • Most secure solutions like cryptography are software based and they are designed to mainly deal with the outside attacks for traditional networks, but such soft security is hard to be implemented in wireless sensor networks to counter the inside attacks from internal malicious nodes. To address this issue, reputation has been introduced to tackle the inside malicious nodes. Reputation is essentially a stimulating mechanism for nodes' cooperation and is employed to detect node misbehaviors and improve the trust-worthiness between individual nodes. Among the reputation models, binomial distribution based reputation has many advantages such as light weight and ease of implementation in resource-constraint sensor nodes, and accordingly researchers have proposed many insightful related methods. However, some of them either directly use the modelling results, apply the models through simple modifications, or only use the required components while ignoring the others as an integral part of the whole model, this topic still lacks a comprehensive and systematical review. Thus the motivation of this study is to provide a thorough survey concerning each detailed functional components of binomial distribution based reputation for wireless sensor networks. In addition, based on the survey results, we also argue some open research problems and suggest the directions that are worth future efforts. We believe that this study is helpful to better understanding the reputation modeling mechanism and its components for wireless sensor networks, and can further attract more related future studies.

Fabrication of Circulation Structures of Microfluidic Devices for Observation and Analysis of Micrometer-Scale Chemical Reactions (마이크로미터 단위 화학 반응 관찰 및 분석을 위한 미세 유량 제어 장치의 순환구조 제작 연구)

  • Jang, Wonjun;Lee, Namjong;Jung, Dawoon;Kim, Hong-Seok;Jung, Seung Chan;Han, Jae-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.342-347
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    • 2022
  • In-situ analyzation and detection of real-time chemical reactions can be a significant part in interpreting the underlying mechanism in very reactive chemical reactions. To do this, first we have designed a microfluidic device (MFD) pattern for observation of synthesis of hierarchical nanostructures based on graphene oxide (GO), conjugating the well-known coupling reaction by which the solution of 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl) carbodiimide (EDC)-mediated coupling is enhanced in the presence of n-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS) to make amide bonding, hereafter called as the EDC coupling. Then, we have manufactured microfluidic devices with multiple tens of micrometer-sized channels that can circulate those nanomaterials to be chemically reacted in the channels. These microfluidic devices were made by negative photo lithography and soft lithography. We showed the possibility of using Raman spectroscopy to reveal the basic mechanism of the energy storage applications.

Development of advanced technology shoes combined conical top foundation mechanism (팽이기초 메카니즘을 융합한 신개념 신발 개발 연구)

  • Kim, Yeon-Deok;Lee, Ji-Hyun;Kim, Sang-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.724-731
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    • 2016
  • This paper presents the interdisciplinary study of a combined mechanism on the interactions between ground and foot using bioengineering and geotechnical engineering. A new mechanism of advanced technology shoes, which can be made safe with a comfortable gait on both soft and hard ground, were developed combining the mechanism of conical top foundation. The experimental tests were carried out to verify the developed shoes. The prototype shoes and test grounds were designed and produced to perform the tests. The general existing shoes and advanced technology shoes were used to measure the pressures re-acting the sole during the tests by a special measurement system. The results clearly showed that the pressures acting on the sole of advanced technology shoes were distributed uniformly compared with that of the existing shoes, and were in good agreement with theoretical approach of the new mechanism. Therefore, the advanced technology shoes could allow a safe gait ergonomically by a new mechanism on any ground type. The load transfer could occur by the interaction between ground and shoes. In addition, these results are expected to be useful for the development of an interdisciplinary study of a new mechanism in the future.

Histone acetyltransferase inhibitors antagonize AMP-activated protein kinase in postmortem glycolysis

  • Li, Qiong;Li, Zhongwen;Lou, Aihua;Wang, Zhenyu;Zhang, Dequan;Shen, Qingwu W.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.30 no.6
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    • pp.857-864
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    • 2017
  • Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) activation on protein acetylation and glycolysis in postmortem muscle to better understand the mechanism by which AMPK regulates postmortem glycolysis and meat quality. Methods: A total of 32 mice were randomly assigned to four groups and intraperitoneally injected with 5-Aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide1-${\beta}$-D-ribofuranoside (AICAR, a specific activator of AMPK), AICAR and histone acetyltransferase inhibitor II, or AICAR, Trichostatin A (TSA, an inhibitor of histone deacetylase I and II) and Nicotinamide (NAM, an inhibitor of the Sirt family deacetylases). After mice were euthanized, the Longissimus dorsi muscle was collected at 0 h, 45 min, and 24 h postmortem. AMPK activity, protein acetylation and glycolysis in postmortem muscle were measured. Results: Activation of AMPK by AICAR significantly increased glycolysis in postmortem muscle. At the same time, it increased the total acetylated proteins in muscle 45 min postmortem. Inhibition of protein acetylation by histone acetyltransferase inhibitors reduced AMPK activation induced increase in the total acetylated proteins and glycolytic rate in muscle early postmortem, while histone deacetylase inhibitors further promoted protein acetylation and glycolysis. Several bands of proteins were detected to be differentially acetylated in muscle with different glycolytic rates. Conclusion: Protein acetylation plays an important regulatory role in postmortem glycolysis. As AMPK mediates the effects of pre-slaughter stress on postmortem glycolysis, protein acetylation is likely a mechanism by which antemortem stress influenced postmortem metabolism and meat quality though the exact mechanism is to be elucidated.