• The Journal of Korea CHUNA Manual Medicine
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.55-65
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• 2000

The present study retrospectively investigated clinical outcome at patients with low back pain or sciatica during Chuna treatment (flexion-distraction technique). The study population consisted of 29 patients. Discogenic group consisted of 21 patients who were already diagnosed as HNP of lumbar spine with serial MRIs(magnetic resonance imaging) or CTs(computerized tomography). Simple LBP group consisted of 8 patients with low back pain & sciatica who were non-specific disorder on radiologic examination. All patients were treated with flexion-distraction technique, one of Chuna technique, under analysis of Moire Topography. And the evaluation of clinical outcome was done twice during this study by Moire Topography Analytic Point and Low Back Pain Assesment, Visual Analogue Scale. The results were summarized as follows; Total improvement rate of Moire Topography was $25.8{\pm}17.8%$, and the rate of Low Back Pain Assesment was $56.5{\pm}23.0%$, Visual Analogue Scale of post-treatment was $32.6{\pm}22.5$ Between Improvement rate of Moire Topography and improvement rate of Low Back Pain Assesment, significant correlation was proved(Person's coefficient was 0.381, p<0.05). After all, it is certain improvement of Moire Topography represents symptom's improvement.

• Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.406-415
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• 2010

Purpose: The secondary correction of cleft lip nasal deformity still presents a difficult surgical problems. The present study was aimed to investigate the usefulness of Bardach's technique for secondary correction of cleft lip nasal deformity. Materials and Methods: The subjects were eight patients with unilateral and bilateral cleft lip nasal deformity, who had secondary correction by using Bardach's rhinoplasty technique. Age range was from 2 to 21 years and mean age was 10.6 years. There were 3 boys and 5 girls. Six patients had bilateral and two patients had unilateral cleft lip. Facial photographs were taken before and twenty days after the operation. By using Adobe photoshop, the columella height and the nostril width were measured from the facial frontal photograph and Worm's eye view. The degree of improvement was calculated and statistically analyzed. Results: The degree of improvement of the columella length and the nostril width after Bardach's technique was $70.39{\pm}50.14%$ and $-22.93{\pm}0.15%$ respectively. Bardach's technique resulted in projecting the nasal tip, lengthening the columella, medially advancing the alar bases, restructuring the lower lateral cartilages, and changing orientation of the nostrils from horizontal to oblique. The profile view shows projection of the nasal tip, lengthening of the columella, and the change in the nasolabial angle. The scars remained at the philtrum were matter little in compared with improvement of the nasal appearance. Conclusion: These results indicate that Bardach's technique is an useful surgical technique for secondary correction of cleft lip nasal deformity.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.132-139
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• 1999

A cell-entrapment technique using compressed air was applied to Bifidobacterium longum KCTC 3128 for the improvement of bifidobacteria viability. The main cell-entrapment matrix used was alginate, and viability improvement of the B. longum entrapped in alginate lattices was monitored along with the effects of other additional biopolymers. A prerequisite for acquiring consistent results was the uniformity of bead size and cell distribution which was achieved by using compressed air and mixing the cell suspension with sterilized alginate powder, respectively. The viability losses of the B. longum entrapped in alginate beads in the presence of three different substances logarithmically increased in relation to the reaction time, and proportionately decreased with an increased alginate concentration and bead diameter. The strongest improvement in B. longum viability was exhibited with a bead containing 3％ alginate and 0.15％ xanthan gum.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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• v.35C no.3
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• pp.16-23
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• 1998

In this paper, we present a fast and efficient Iterative Improvement Partitioning(IIP) technique for VLSI circuits and hybrid bucket structures on its implementation. The IIP algorithms are very widely used in VLSI circuit partition due to their time efficiency. As the performance of these algorithms depends on choices of moving cell, various methods have been proposed. Specially, Cluster-Removal algorithm by S. Dutt significantly improved partition quality. We indicate the weakness of previous algorithms wjere they used a uniform method for choice of cells during for choice of cells during the improvement. To solve the problem, we propose a new IIP technique that selects the method for choice of cells according to the improvement status and present hybrid bucket structures for easy implementation. The time complexity of proposed algorithm is the same with FM method and the experimental results on ACM/SIGDA benchmark circuits show improvment up to 33-44%, 45%-50% and 10-12% in cutsize over FM, LA-3 and CLIP respectively. Also with less CUP tiem, it outperforms Paraboli and MELO represented constructive-partition methods by about 12% and 24%, respectively.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.67-74
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• 2007

The objective of this research is to select the most effective technique among task related techniques(motion & time study, job redesign, physical environment improvement) for improving work efficiency in shipbuilding enterprise. This study consists of several principal steps. The first step is to design critical criteria in evaluating work efficiency in ship-building enterprises. The second step is to develop sub-criteria of the critical criteria. The third step is to develop a four level AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process) structure using the critical criteria, sub-criteria and techniques among task related techniques. The fourth step is to develop the pairwise comparison matrix at each level of AHP structure, which was based on survey data collected at the H heavy industry. And the last step is to select the most effective technique among task related techniques using AHP analysis. The result of AHP analysis has shown clear difference in priority among task related techniques in terms of work efficiency of the shipbuilding enterprise: The reduction of normal time is more important than the reduction of allowance time in improving of the work efficiency. Motion & time study is the most important technique for the reduction of normal time, and physical environment improvement is the most important technique for the reduction of allowance time as well.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.445-452
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• 1997

In this paper, twicing technique for the improvement of asymptotic boundary bias in nonparametric regression is considered. Asymptotic mean squared errors of the nonparametric regression estimators are derived at the boundary region by twicing the Nadaraya-Waston and local linear smoothing. Asymptotic biases of the resulting estimators are of order$h^2$and$h^4$ respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.80-90
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• 1993

This study was a case about improvement and system of management in park of Japan. Technique of Maintenance make a rapid progress. In the other hand, management was fall behind. Because of, its was not accept change of consciousness and variety of social factor. That is, not make clearly system of administration(organization, budget, etc.) for qualitative improvement of park. Besides, not make accumulation data of management and technique of maintenance. In future, need many study about system of management.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.10 no.16
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• pp.107-112
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• 1987

This paper is to present the problem of ＱC technique usage and improvement alternative in the ＱC circle. First, in the selection theme, it must have easy relations of tangible/intangible effects through simple theme's title. And contents development most be consistency in tangible/intangible effects. Second, in the usage of ＱC technique, it is necessary to strengthen QC circle activity through ＱC circle education. So in the aspects of long-term period. Internal instruction is strengthened and, in the aspects of short-term period, internal evaluation is established.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.35-37
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• 2004

A new power and bandwidth efficient modem technique-Correlative Encoded FSK (CEFSK) is proposed. CEFSK has a spectral efficiency comparable to Gaussian filtered FSK (GFSK), and it achieves 0.7db Eb/N0 improvement at bit error rate (BER) of 1 * 10 -4 over GFSK in an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel and 3.0dB improvement in a Rayleigh fading channel

• Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.24-34
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• 2015

The complexity arises in defining the construction quality due to its perception, based on inherent market conditions and their requirements, the diversified stakeholders itself and their desired output. A quantitative survey based approach was adopted in this constructive study. A questionnaire based survey was conducted, for the assessment of construction quality perception and expectations in the context of quality improvement technique. The survey feedback of professionals, from the leading construction organizations/companies of Pakistan were analyzed. The financial capacity, organizational structure, and construction experience of the construction firms formed basis for their selection. After statistical analysis of survey feedback it was found reliable and valid for the inferential purpose to the target population of construction professionals. The quality perception was found to be project scope oriented, considered as an excess cost for a construction project and keeping the rework minimum by qualifying the required quality tests, keeping the defects minimum by ensuring the specifications of supplied material. Any quality improvement technique was expected to address the financial aspects of the construction project for the employer and contractor, by increasing the profitability through reduction in overall cost, reduction in time, reduction in defects and improving the productivity in a construction project. The study is beneficial for the construction professionals to assess the prevailing construction quality perception and the expectations from implementation of any quality improvement technique in construction projects.