• KSBB Journal
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.287-294
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• 2013

Stained and discolored hair will be damaged by the shampooing, daily UV disposal, and the use of hair dryer. Thus many studies about the effect of various natural substances on the re-secure the skin and scalp are recently reported. This study was carried out to investigate the effect of green tea (Camelloia sinensis) seed oil on colored (dyed) and decolored (bleached) hair. The beneficial effects of green tea seed oil are already well known, but little research has been done about the hair treatment and fade-resistant effect. Dyed and bleached hair was pretreated with green tea seed oil to determine the tensile strength and elongation of the hair, to analyze the hair surface using SEM, and to compare the color fade using spectrocolormeter. The results showed that the tensile strength increased with green tea seed oil pretreatment samples for virgin, dyed, and bleached hairs. Elongation showed the reverse results showing the presence of hair treatment effect. The results of the surface pre-treatment in all groups analyzed by SEM, the hair cuticle became sharper, so coating effect were identified with all samples. The value of the $L^*$, $a^*$, $b^*$ decreased with washed hairs damaged by UV irradiation and the values were decreased also in dyed and bleached hair. In summary, green tea seed oil prevent reinjury to the heat and UV rays for colored and decolored hairs. Cosmetic practice effects of the oil were identified in the field to be appropriate to the customer's skin and scalp that natural cosmetic oils would like to offer.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.58-64
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• 2006

We successfully isolated human anagen hair follicles from human scalp skin by microdissection and tried to culture them under various conditions. First we confirmed negative effect of serum on human hair follicle organ culture. As a next step serum-free medium compositions, Philpott medium, IMDM, and DHGM (Dongguk hair growth medium) were tried. Philpott medium is a general medium for hair organ culture based on Williams' E medium and DHGM is a special self-developed medium containing high amino acids and vitamins (B group) composition. As results, hair follicle in Philpott medium and IMDM showed anagen phase morphological structure, but rapid loss of hair elongation, low alkaline phosphatase expression, and very low expression of CK19. It is thought these hair follicles rapidly regressed from apoptosis. However, hair follicles in DHGM showed long term anagen phase morphological structure, continuous hair elongation, high alkaline phosphatase, and CK19 expression. These results demonstrate that high amino acids and vitamins (B group) composition are essential to in vitro long term human hair follicle organ culture and this culture medium will be useful in basic study of hair biology or application study to the development of alopecia treatment drugs.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Emergency Medicine
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.649-655
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• 2018

Objective: This paper reports the possibility of using of a locking horizontal mattress suture technique in repairing lacerations that are difficult to suture with staples. Methods: Data were collected retrospectively over a 6-month period regarding the routine repair of scalp lacerations: those in areas injured by a high energy blunt mechanism, continued to bleed after pressure, nonlinear or damaged skin repaired with a locking horizontal mattress technique, and simple interrupted technique. The effects of the two techniques used to repair scalp lacerations on wound healing, complication rate, and patient satisfaction were examined. The categorical variables are expressed as the number and percent. A Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test was used for statistical analysis. A P-value less than 0.05 was considered significant. Results: Thirty-seven consecutive patients with scalp lacerations presented for care. Wound closure was accomplished with the locking horizontal mattress sutures in 40.5% (n=15) (median length, 5.0 cm; interquartile range [IQR], 4.0-7.0 cm). Simple interrupted sutures (median length, 4 cm; IQR, 3.0-5.0 cm) were used in 59.5% (n=22) (P=0.015). The frequency of additional bandage compression (P=0.008), frequency of exudative hemorrhage (P=0.018), and suture mark frequency at suture removal (P=0.047) were significantly lower in the locking horizontal mattress group. Conclusion: The locking horizontal mattress suture, which has the advantage of a horizontal mattress suture, may be one of the ways that can be used alternatively to treat scalp lacerations that difficult to suture with staples.

• Journal of the Society of Cosmetic Scientists of Korea
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.269-276
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• 2023

Recently, there has been a growing interest in the development of safer and more effective soothing materials to calm skin that has become sensitive to various external factors. The aim of this study was to investigate the skin soothing and anti-inflammatory effects of COMPAREX compared to Portulaca Oleracea extract. The results showed that COMPAREX significantly inhibited LPS-induced NO production and the expression of inflammatory factors iNOS, COX-2, TNF-α, and IL-6 more than P. oleracea extract. In addition, COMPAREX has been confirmed to have a more effective sedative effect by further inhibiting the gene and protein expression of IL-1α against SDS stimulation than the Portulaca Oleracea extract. Furthermore, COMPAREX inhibited the expression of inflammatory factors COX-2 and IL-8 increased by PM_2.5 and suppressed H₂O₂-mediated carbonylated protein in hair cell. These results suggest that COMPAREX has shown the potential to be used as an improved natural soothing material over P. oleracea extract, and it is expected to be used as a derma cosmetic material in the future.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.366-372
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• 2002

EEG is the electrical signal, which is occurred during information processing in the brain. These EEG signal are measured by non-invasive method. EEG has many useful information for brain activity, but artifacts which are included in EEG prevents EEG analysis, so many efforts are devoted to remove these artifacts in EEG. However, this study is going to analysis the feature of the EEG mixed with artifacts in forward-looking way, by using this way, we have found the possibility that is actually applicable to system such as control system. We have made feature difference after the linear as well as nonlinear analysis regarding EEG including typical artifacts, eye-blinking, eye rolling, muscle, and so forth.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.427-432
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• 2003

EEG is an electrical signal, which occurs during information processing in the brain. These EEG signals have been used clinically, but nowadays we ate mainly studying Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) such as interfacing with a computer through the EEG, controlling the machine through the EEG. The ultimate purpose of BCI study is specifying the EEG at various mental states so as to control the computer and machine. This research makes the controlling system of directions with the artifact that are generated from the subject s will, for the purpose of controlling the machine correctly and reliably We made the system like this. First, we select the particular artifact among the EEG mixed with artifact, then, recognize and classify the signals pattern, then, change the signals to general signals that can be used by the controlling system of directions.

• Korean Journal of Head & Neck Oncology
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.178-184
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• 1995

Melanoma of the scalp is rare condition and seems to be to have a poor prognosis than melanoma of other portion of the body. We had 2 patients suffering from malignant melanoma of scalp. Their charts were reviewed for epidemiologic data, location, Breslow thickness, lymph node involvement and outcome. The therapeutic treatment was wide excision and skin grafting or free flap reconstruction. The early recognition of all the nevi at scalp and proper follow-up of the lesion are key stones to eradicating the changing mole and to preventing this thread to life.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.02a
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• pp.455-458
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• 2009

The statistical wisp model for hairstyle generation was introduced in [1]. It provided a program to load human models, set parameters, generate wisps and strands, and make constraints. However, the program used hard-coded human models and prescribed constraints so that it was hard to change different models and manipulate constraints. Hence we provide a simple interface by drawing maps and constraints. Also, we can increase the speed of computation by using GPU acceleration.

• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.117-120
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• 2006

Atretic cephalocelces are defined as skin-covered midline subscalp lesions that contain meninges and rest of glial and/or central nervous system tissue. When the straight sinus is absent or rudimentary, the falcine sinus can be recanalized to enable venous drainage. Although the atretic cephalocele or persistent falcine sinus has largely been described in the pediatric population, it is a rarely observed in the adult population. We report a unique case of spontaneously involuted atretic cephalocele coexistent with persistent falcine sinus in an adult. MR images and MR venography were useful for diagnosis and accurate anatomical depiction.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.56 no.7
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• pp.1331-1338
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• 2007

A new method for detecting and eliminating the Electrocardiogram(ECG) artifact from the scalp Electroencephalogram(EEG) is proposed. Based on the single channel EEG, the proposed method consists of 4 procedures: emphasizing the R-wave of ECG artifact from EEG using the least squares acceleration(LSA) filter, detecting the R-wave from the LSA filtered EEG using the phase space method and R-R interval, generating the delayed impulse synchronized to the R-wave and elimination of the ECG artifacts based on the adaptive digital filter using the impulse and raw EEG. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated in the two separating parts of R-wave detection and, ECG estimation and elimination from EEG. In the R-wave detection, the proposed method showed the mean error rate of 6.285(%). In the ECG estimation and elimination using simulated and/or real EEG recordings, we found that the ECG artifacts were successfully estimated and eliminated in comparison with the conventional multi-channel techniques, in which independent component analysis and ensemble average method are used. From this we can conclude that the proposed method is useful for the detecting and eliminating the ECG artifact from single channel EEG and simple for ambulatory/portable EEG monitoring system.