• Child Health Nursing Research
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.215-224
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• 2014

Purpose: This study was conducted to identify risk factors in hospitalized children, and to develop and validate a fall-risk assessment tool for hospitalized children. Methods: A retrospective chart review was performed at one university children's hospital, and an analysis was done of the characteristics of all patients who fell during a 44-month period (n=48). These patients were compared with another 149 hospitalized children who did not fall. Results: Significant predictors of falls as identified in a multivariate logistic regression analyses were age of less than 3 years old, neurological diagnosis including epilepsy, children's dependency of ADL, physical developmental delay, multiple usage of fall-risk-increasing drugs. The respective odds ratios ranged from 2.4 to 7.1 with 95% confidence interval (p<0.05). Accordingly, defining patients with either 5 risk factors as fall-prone hospitalized children provided a sensitivity of 93.6% and specificity of 16.2%. Conclusion: The results show that this tool has an acceptable level of sensitivity to assess the risk factors of fall in hospitalized children even though the specificity was low, suggesting that this tool may enable nurses to predict the risk level of childhood falls, and develop preventive strategies against pediatric falls in children's units.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.50-55
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• 1995

진동하는 경계면의 진동장 및 음장을 재구성하기 위하여 음장측정치 및 경계요소법을 이용한 음향 홀로그래피 방법을 연구하였다. 특히, 측정잡음 및 전달행렬의 특이성에 의해 발생하는 재구성 오차에 대하여 고찰하였다. 재구성의 정확도를 나타내기 위하여 전달행렬의 특이인자를 도입하였다. 예제로 한면이 진동하는 직육면체 상자를 고려하였다. 결과로부터 매우 작은 측정잡음에 대해서도 전달행렬의 특이성 재구성 오차가 크게 발생하며, 측정위치에 따라 전달행렬의 특이성이 크게 영향 받음을 확인하였다. EfI방법을 이용하여 최적의 측정점을 선택한 결과 전달행렬의 특이성을 크게 줄일 수 있었으며 이때 측정점의 위치는 가진주파수에 관계없이 큰 음장이 형성되는 소음원의 근접장에 위치함을 알 수 있다. 또한 저주파 가진에 비해 고주파 가진이 작은 특이인자값을 나타내며, 따라서 재구성 오차가 작음을 알 수 있었다. 재구성장의 정밀도를 향상시키기 위하여, 부가적으로 진동장의 norm을 제한하는 적절화방법을 도입하였다. 모델의 최소자승오차를 최소화 하는 최적의 적절화변수를 추정하여 이로부터 재구성 오차를 줄일 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.89-101
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• 1995

선형 탄성 등방성 물체 내에 있는 일반적인 복합모드 크랙 문제들을 해석하기 위한 이중 경계적분방정식의 일반식과 계산해법이 제시되었다. 크랙면이 포함된 물체 해석에 있어서 유일한 해를 얻기 위하여, 한 면상의 점에는 변위 경계적분방정식이 적용되었고 마주하고 있는 상대면 상의 점에는 인력 경계적분방정식이 적용되었다. 인력 및 변위 경계적분방정식의 강특이해 및 초특이해 적분항들은 수치해법을 적용하기 전에 정상화되었다. 정상화과정 중 보정되는 강특이적분항이 상대 크랙면 상의 특이해 요소를 따라 직접 적분되는 것을 격리시키기 위하여, 특이해 적분 경로를 완만한 곡면으로 우회시킨 가상의 비특이해 보조경계로 대치하여 적분값을 계산하였다. 제시된 해법의 정확성과 효율성을 예시하기 위하여, 2차원 및 3차원 크랙 문제의 변형 후 모습과 응력강도계수 계산 결과를 보였다.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.435-443
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• 2022

In this paper, using Covid-19 diagnostic data provided by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), we examine the probability of confirmed cases and the probability of actually being confirmed when the rapid test is negative according to the sensitivity and specificity of the rapid diagnostic kit. When we know the conditional probability of confirmation given a positive test, we induce the relationship between sensitivity and specificity, and compute the actual sensitivity of the rapid diagnosis kit based on the data of KDCA.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.155-165
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• 2018

Outliers and influential observations often distort many numerical measures for data analysis. Jang and Anderson-Cook (Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 30, 1409-1425, 2014) proposed a graphical firework plot method for exploratory analysis purpose to provide a possible visualization of the trace of the impact of the possible outlying and influential observations on the univariate/bivariate data analysis and regression. They developed 3-D plot as well as pairwise plot for the appropriate measures of interest. We use firework plots as a graphical exploratory data analysis tool to detect outliers and evaluate the impact of outliers in statistical inference.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.9-20
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• 1999

An accurate method is presented for flexural vibrations of rhombic plates having all combinations of clamped and free edge conditions. The prime focus here is that the analysis explicitly considers the bending stress singularities that occur in the two opposite, clamped-free corners having obtuse angles of the rhombic plates. Accurate non-dimensional frequencies and normalized contours of the vibratory transverse displacement are presented for rhombic plates having a large enough obtuse angle of 165$^{\circ}$, so that a significant influence of clamped-free corner stress singularities may be understood.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.1787-1793
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• 2008

Fingerprint Recognition System is made up of Off-line treatment and On-line treatment; the one is registering all the information of there trieving features which are retrieved in the digitalized fingerprint getting out of the analog fingerprint through the fingerprint acquisition device and the other is the treatment making the decision whether the users are approved to be accessed to the system or not with matching them with the fingerprint features which are retrieved and database from the input fingerprint when the users are approaching the system to use. In this paper, we propose a new data structure, called Union and Division, for processing binarized digital fingerprint image efficiently. We present a minutiae extraction algorithm that is using Union and Division and consists of binarization, noise removal, minutiae extraction stages.

• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.60-64
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• 2010

Purpose: Until now the general study for breast cancer patient has been mammography, breast sonography for anatomic diagnostics and $^{18}F$-FDG whole body PET for functional one. But the PEM (Positron Emission Mammography) was developed to increase sensitivity, specificity and accuracy to improve the disadvantage of each study. Therefore this present study aims to describe availability of PEM for improving diagnosis of breast cancer. Materials and Methods: During 3 months from January in 2010, PEM was performed on 100 patients who had history of breast cancer. Using Naviscan's PEM Flex Solo II scanner, PEM images of breast were acquired. And then we evaluated sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of PEM data by comparing results of PEM images with postoperative pathologic finding. Results: On the 100 patients, it could reveal 89 true positive, 9 false positive, 7 false negative and 87 true negative. Thus the results of sensitivity, specificity and accuracy for PEM was evaluated 92.7%, 90.6% and 91.7%. Conclusion: The sensitivity, specificity and accuracy have been reported 83.7%, 68.5% and 77.1% in mammography, and that was 89.1%, 79.1% and 83.4% in breast sonography. However the results of PEM were more increased than others. Therefore the results of this study will be available that PEM used diagnosis with breast cancer, used preoperative operation plan and helps to discovery of a part recurrence.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06c
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• pp.309.1-312
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• 1998

일반적으로 음향 문제에 상용되는 경계요소법은 Kirchhoff-Helmholtz 적분 방정식에 약특이성과 강특이성의 커널을 갖고 있어, 경계면에 매우 근접한 음장을 해석할 때 수치 적분 과정에서 큰 오차를 유발한다. 본 연구에서는 평면파 성분을 이용하여 약특이성 방정식 및 특이성이 제거된 음장 음압의 과도한 오차는 약특이성 경계 적분 방정식의 적용으로 제거될 수 있었다. 부드러운 경계면을 가진 경우는 모든 특이성의 제거가 가능하여 특이성 처리를 위한 특별한 처리가 불필요하게 되었다. 제안된 방법을 검증하기 위하여 몇 가지 단순한 모델에 대하여 경계 요소 계산을 수행하였고, 경계면 부근의 근접 음장에서 음압 예측의 정확도가 향상되는 결과를 얻었다.

• Journal of radiological science and technology
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.239-243
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• 2010

Even though clinical use DRE, PSA and TRUS for screening while diagnosing prostate cancer early, however, we cannot achieve to diagnose it accurately by one method. Thus, mutual supplements are strongly required in diagnosis. It means that we should identify relationship between prostate volume and serum PSA under different ages for better diagnosis. The subjects(405 men) visited the department of diagnostic radiology in a general university hospital from January 2008 to December 2008, who was going to take the prostatic evaluation by TRUS. 13 men, who did definite diagnosis of prostate cancer before through biopsy, were excluded in this study. All data were expressed as mean and standard deviations by using SPSS 14.0 package programs and were analyzed by using one-way ANOVA to evaluate the effect of different ages. And Scheffe Post hoc comparison is accomplished in order to make significant difference in prostate volume, PSA and PSAD according to ages. Pearson correlation was used for ages, prostate volume, PSA and PSAD. According to examination, the subjects' prostate volume and serum PSA level increase as person's age. We can see significant difference between group over 70 years and group from 40 and 50 years. Moreover, age, prostate volume and serum PSA have significant positive correlation. Even though we can get variations in serum PSA level by changing prostate volume according to ages, it is worthwhile to mention that more strong association for prostate volume is observed than ages in elevation of serum PSA. Therefore, it is strongly recommended to consider prostate volume weightly when it comes to evaluate for men with elevated PSA level. Finally, TRUS is an excellent extra equipment to diagnose prostate cancer because it can contribute to early diagnose and pertinent treatment of prostate cancer.