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Comparison of sensorimotor training and cycling exercise for dynamic balance and gait function stroke patient: Single subject design (뇌졸중 환자의 동적균형 및 보행에 대한 감각운동 훈련과 사이클링 운동의 효과 비교 : 개별사례연구)

  • Yang, Hae-Duck;Oh, Duck-Won
    • Journal of Korean Physical Therapy Science
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    • v.17 no.1_2
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2010
  • Background: The objective of this study was to determine whether sensorimotor training using an unstable surface affects dynamic balance and gait function in patients with hemiparesis, and to compare the effect of sensorimotor training with that of cycling exercise. Methods: Two subjects with post-stroke hemiparesis volunteered to participate in this study. Single-subject A-B design with alternating treatment was used for this study. Baseline(A) and intervention(B) phases were performed for 7 and 8 sessions, respectively. Sensorimotor training and cycling exercise were performed for 20 minutes in randomized order. Assessment tools were made by using a step test, timed up and go(TUG) test, and 6-minute walk test(6MWT). Results: Each of the participants improved in all three tests after the two interventions. Participants 1 and 2 showed the improvement for their assessment score after sensorimotor training in the step test by 42.1%(p<.05) and 58%, in the TUG, 31% and 19.5%, and in the 6MWT test, 32.3% and 10.6%(p<.05), respectively. After cycling exercise, participants 1 and 2 also improved in the step test by 32.5% and 53.1%, in the TUG, 27.4% and 18%, and in the 6MWT test, 28.8% and 3%. In statistical analysis between the two interventions, sensorimotor training showed a significant increased values in the step test for participant 1 and the 6MWT for participant 2 as compared with those of cycling exercise. Conclusion: Sensorimotor training and cycling exercise are helpful for improving dynamic balance and gait capacity. Furthermore, sensorimotor training may be more helpful than cycling exercise.

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Cycling Characteristics of MgH2 madeby Hydriding Chemical Vapor Deposition Method (HCVD 방법으로 제조된 MgH2의 Cycling 특성)

  • Park, Kyung-Duck;Han, Jeong-Seb
    • Korean Journal of Metals and Materials
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    • v.49 no.12
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    • pp.945-949
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    • 2011
  • The cycling characteristics of $MgH_2$ made by hydriding chemical vapor deposition method have been investigated. The particle size of $MgH_2$ made by HCVD was about $1{\mu}m$. The cycling experiment was performed by measuring hydrogen quantity absorbed at 673 K and under 35 atm of hydrogen pressure for 30 min. Up to 3 cycles the hydrogen storage capacity increased, but from 4 to 6 cycles the hydrogen storage capacity decreased rapidly. During this cycling test the particle size increased gradually from $1{\mu}m$ to $6{\mu}m$. This increase was due to sintering by the high reaction temperature and the heat of reaction during hydrogen absorption. From 7 to 30 cycles, the hydrogen storage capacity was maintained at 5.8 wt%. Even after 30 cycles, the plateau pressure was constant.

A Study on Thermal Stability of Unidirectionally Solidified $Al-CuAl_2$ Eutectic Composite (일방향응고시킨 $Al-CuAl_2$공정복합재료의 열적안정성에 관한 연구)

  • Hong, Young-Hwan;Hong, Jong-Hwi
    • Journal of Korea Foundry Society
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.399-407
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    • 1990
  • The effect of thermal cycling and isothermal exposure on the high temperature microstructural stability of unidirectionally solidified $Al-CuAl_2$ eutectic composite has been studied. A coarsening procedures of lamellar eutectic structures were initiated at growth fault region because of diffusion through low angle boundary at this region. It was considered that thermally induced residual stresses produced by thermal cycling were high enough to increase the dislocation density in Al-rich matrix phase. However, it was also considered that dislocations generated by these high thermal stresses were annihilated at high temperature by stress relaxation. Consequently, the thermal cycling up to 1440 cycles between 20 and $520^{\circ}C$ did not affect the microstructural stability.

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RIX-MAC: An Energy-Efficient Receiver-Initiated Wakeup MAC Protocol for WSNs

  • Park, Inhye;Lee, Hyungkeun;Kang, Seokjoong
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.1604-1617
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    • 2014
  • This paper proposes RIX-MAC (Receiver-Initiated X-MAC), a new energy-efficient MAC protocol based on an asynchronous duty cycling. RIX-MAC improves energy efficiency through utilizing short preambles and adopting the receiver-initiated approach, where RIX-MAC minimizes sender nodes' energy consumption by enabling transmitters to predict receiver nodes' wake-up times. It also reduces receiver nodes' energy consumption by decreasing the number of control frames. We use the network simulator to evaluate RIX-MAC's performance. Compared to the prior asynchronous duty cycling approaches of X-MAC and PW-MAC, the proposed protocol shows a remarkable improvement in energy-efficiency and end-to-end delay.

Removal of Simultaneously Biological Organic, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus Removal in Sequencing Batch Reactors using Night-soil (연속회분식 반응기(Sequencing Batch Reactor)를 이용한 분뇨중 유기물과 질소 및 인의 동시제거)

  • 한기백;박동근
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.6 no.6
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    • pp.697-709
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    • 1997
  • Sequencing Batch Reactor(SBR) experiments for organics and nutrients removal have been conducted to find an optimum anaerobic/anoxic/aerobic cycling time and evaluate the applicability of oxidation-reduction potential(ORP) as a process control parameter. In this study, a 61 bench-scale plant was used and fed with night-soil wastewater in K city which contained TCODcr : 10, 680 mg/l, TBm : 6, 893 mg/l, $NH_4^+-N$ : 1, 609 mg/l, $PO_4^{3-}-P$ : 602 mg/l on average. The cycling time In SBRs was adjusted at 12 hours and 24 hours, and then certainly included anaerobic, aerobic and inoxic conditions. Also, for each cycling time, we performed 3 series of experiment simultaneously which was set up 10 days, 20 days and 30 days as SRT From the experimental results, the optimum cycling time for biological nutrient removal with nlght-soil wastewater was respctively 3hrs, 5hrs, 3hrs(anaerobic-aerobic-anoxic), Nitrogen removal efficiency was 77.9%, 77.9%, 81.7% for each SRT, respectively. When external carbon source was fed in the anoxic phase, ORP-bending point indicating nitrate break point appeared clearly and nitrogen removal efficiency increased as 96.5%, 97.1%, 98.9%. Phosphate removal efficiency was 59.8%, 64.571, 68.6% for each SRT. Also, we finded the applicability of ORP as a process control parameter in SBRs.

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A Comparative Study of Protein Profiles in Porcine Fetus Fibroblast Cells with Different Confluence States

  • Han, Rong-Xun;Kim, Hong-Rye;Diao, Yunfei;Kim, Myung-Youn;Park, Chang-Sik;Jin, Dong-Il
    • Reproductive and Developmental Biology
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.243-248
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    • 2009
  • To examine the differential expression of proteins during the cycling (70~80% confluences) and G0/G1 (full confluences) phases in porcine fetal fibroblast cells, we used a global proteomics approach by 2-D gel electrophoresis (2-DE) and MALDI-TOF-MS. Cycling cell were harvested at approximately 70% to 80% confluent state while cells in G0/G1 phase were recovered after maintenance of a confluent state for 48 hr. Cellular proteins with isoelectric points ranging between 3.0~10.0, were analyzed by 2-DE with 2 replicates of each sample. A total of approximately 700 spots were detected by 2.D gels stained with Coomassie brilliant blue. On comparing the cell samples obtained from the cycling and G0/G1 phases, a total of 13 spots were identified as differentially expressed proteins, of which 8 spots were up-regulated in the cycling cell and 5 were up-regulated in the G0/G1 phase. Differentially expressed proteins included K3 keratin, similar to serine protease 23 precursor, protein disulfide-isomerase A3, microsomal protease ER-60, alpha-actinin-2, and heat-shock protein 90 beta. The identified proteins were grouped on the basis of their basic functions such as molecular binding, catabolic, cell growth, and transcription regulatory proteins. Our results show expression profiles of key proteins in porcine fetal fibroblast cells during different cell cycle status.

A case study on urban regeneration based on up-cycling in and out of the country (국·내외 업사이클링(Up-cycling) 기반 도시재생 사업 사례 연구)

  • Lee, seo-yeong;Noh, hwang-woo
    • Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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    • 2018.05a
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    • pp.177-178
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    • 2018
  • 업사이클링 산업은 관련 국내 시장의 규모가 해외 시장보다 현저히 느려 미약적인 성장을 거듭하였지만 2016년 기준 약 200억원까지 달하는 것으로 분석되어 관련 사업이 지속적으로 발전할 것으로 예상된다. 역사성을 지속시키되 창의성을 더한 희소성, 친환경 의식으로 감성적 '가치소비' 트렌트와 맞물리면서 업사이클링 산업은 확산될 것으로 기대된다. 이에 따라 업사이클링 시장 환경을 되살리고 새로운 부가가치를 창출하는 새로운 신 시장으로 다가오고 있다. 이러한 배경에서 본 연구는 국 내외 업사이클링을 기반으로 한 도시재생 사례를 분석하는 연구로서 이를 통해 공공 환경 디자인에 업사이클링이 적용될 수 있는 기초 연구로서 의의가 있다.

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Development of Reliability Design Technique and Life Prediction Model for Electronic Components (취성/연성 파괴에 대한 수명예측 모델 및 신뢰성 설계)

  • Kim, Il-Ho;Lee, Soon-Bok
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.1740-1743
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    • 2007
  • In this study, two types of fatigue tests were conducted. First, cyclic bending tests were performed using the micro-bending tester. A four-point bending test method was adopted, because it induces uniform stress fields within a loading span. Second, thermal fatigue tests were conducted using a pseudo power cycling machine which was newly developed for a realistic testing condition. The pseudo-power cycling method makes up for the weak points in a power cycling and a chamber cycling method. Two compositions of solder are tested in all test condition, one is lead-free solder (95.5Sn4.0Ag0.5Cu) and the other is eutectic lead-contained solder (63Sn37Pb). In the cyclic bending test, the solder that exhibits a good reliability can be reversed depending on the load conditions. The lead-contained solders have a longer fatigue life in the region where the applied load is high. On the contrary, the lead-free solder sustained more cyclic loads in the small load region. A similar trend was detected at the thermal cycling test. A three-dimensional finite element analysis model was constructed. A finite element analysis using ABAQUS was performed to extract the applied stress and strain in the solder joints. A constitutive model which includes both creep and plasticity was employed. Thermal fatigue was occurred due to the creep. And plastic deformation is main damage for bending failure. From the inelastic energy dissipation per cycle versus fatigue life curve, it can be found that the bending fatigue life is longer than the thermal fatigue life.

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