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Evaluation of Influence of Anesthetics on Canine Stroke Volume and Feasibility of ACT Using Echocardiography (개에서 심초음파 검사시 마취제가 일회심박출량에 미치는 영향과 ACT법의 적용가능성 평가)

  • Park, Ki-Tae;Lee, Eun-Sung;Jung, Dong-In;Yeon, Seong-Chan;Lee, Hee-Chun
    • Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.264-267
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    • 2013
  • Stroke volume (SV) is an important parameter for monitoring of a critically ill animal and is echocardiographically measured using the modified Simpson's method, automated contour tracking (ACT) method and left ventricular outflow method. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of anesthesia (isoflurane) on the SV during echocardiographic examination and to evaluate the feasibility of ACT method for measuring the stroke volume without anesthesia (conscious state). Ten clinically healthy adult Beagle dogs (3 male and 7 female, weighing 6.6-10.8 kg, aged 2-3 years old) were enrolled. Our study found that the dogs anesthetized have a significantly lower SV, compared to the SV of dogs unanesthetized, regardless of methods measuring SV. In addition, in the dogs without anesthesia, the SV measured by ACT method was significantly lower than the other two methods. This result implies that the anesthesia may significantly lower the SV. Thus, the measurement of SV under anesthesia may not be adequate in veterinary field. Furthermore because the ACT method measured SV significantly lower than other two methods, this method may be inappropriate for measuring SV in even conscious dogs.

Comparative Evaluation of Cardiac Output using Echocardiography in Beagle Dogs (비글견에서 심초음파를 이용한 심박출량 측정에 관한 비교 연구)

  • Park, Kitae;Yeon, Seongchan;Lee, Heechun
    • Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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    • v.29 no.5
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    • pp.384-390
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    • 2012
  • Echocardiographic measurements of cardiac output, including the modified Simpson's method, Automated Contour Tracking(ACT) method, and left ventricular outflow method are well described methods of evaluating cardiac function due to its reliability and the benefits of its non-invasive technique in human medicine. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of an echocardiography estimate of cardiac output in isoflurane-anesthetized beagle dogs and was to compare the ACT method to the other methods used in measurement of cardiac output. In healthy beagle dogs, cardiac output results by echocardiography estimate methods showed an excellent correlations with those by the thermodilution method (The modified Simpson's method : r = 0.815, $r^2=0.665$, y = 0.434x + 0.311 ; ACT method : r = 0.86, $r^2=0.748$, y = 0.391x + 0.242 ; ventricular outflow method : r = 0.691, $r^2=0.478$, y = 0.593x + 0.242). Among the results obtained, the ACT method showed the highest correlation coefficient. In conclusion, our study demonstrated that echocardiography estimate methods did not prove to be suitable in accurately measuring absolute cardiac output values but showed an excellent correlation with thermodilution method. Therefore, by using the measurement of cardiac output as supplemental data, echocardiography estimate methods can be used for detection and correction of hemodynamic disturbances during emergency and anesthesia in veterinary practice.

Adaptive Congestion Control for Effective Data Transmission in Wireless Sensor Networks (센서네트워크에서의 효율적인 데이터 전송을 위한 적응적 혼잡 제어)

  • Lee, Joa-Hyoung;Gim, Dong-Gug;Jung, In-Bum
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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    • v.16C no.2
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    • pp.237-244
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    • 2009
  • The congestion in wireless sensor network increases the ratio of data loss and causes the delay of data. The existing congestion protocols for wireless sensor network reduces the amount of transmission by control the sampling frequency of the sensor nodes related to the congestion when the congestion has occurred and was detected. However, the control method of sampling frequency is not applicable on the situation which is sensitive to the temporal data loss. In the paper, we propose a new congestion control, ACT - Adaptive Congestion conTrol. The ACT monitors the network traffic with the queue usage and detects the congestion based on the multi level threshold of queue usage. Given network congestion, the ACT increases the efficiency of network by adaptive flow control method which adjusts the frequency of packet transmission and guarantees the fairness of packet transmission between nodes. Furthermore, ACT increases the quality of data by using the variable compression method. Through experiment, we show that ACT increases the network efficiency and guarantees the fairness to sensor nodes compared with existing method.

A Comparative Study of Regional Medical Information Protection Act and Privacy Act (국가별 개인정보보호법 및 의료정보보호법의 비교연구)

  • Bang, Yun-Hui;Rhee, Hyun-Sill;Lee, Il-Hyun
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.14 no.11
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    • pp.164-174
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study is to explore ways to resolve the conflicting issues that are currently applied in medical Act and medical privacy Act through the comparative Analysis of the Privacy Act and the Medical Information Protection Act foreign. the results run to establish the Public Health Act coming for the protection of health information is a characteristic of many countries, France in Europe, the United States and Canada had been running an independent medical information laws are enacted. Prescribes penalties of up to a fairly systematic method from the case records of patients would not have occurred in the management and implementation of the law and the protection of the author of the book focuses on the subject of medical records and physician records between patient confidentiality and privacy it can be seen that the method defined in. This indicates the need for the establishment of an independent medical information laws to protect all records relating to the patient systematically Korea also.

Study on Method Constructing Dialog Act Tagged Corpus for Dialog System in Car (차량용 대화 시스템을 위한 Dialog Act 태깅 코퍼스 구축 방법 연구)

  • Choi, Sung-Kwon;Kwon, Oh-Woog;Kim, Young-Gil
    • Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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    • 2012.10a
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    • pp.181-184
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    • 2012
  • 본 논문에서는 한국전자통신연구원 언어처리연구팀에서 개발하고 있는 차량용 대화 시스템을 위한 Dialog Act 태깅 코퍼스 구축 방법에 대해 기술하는 것을 목표로 한다. 차량용 태깅 코퍼스 구축 방법은 크게 차량용 대화 코퍼스 수집과 수집된 대화 코퍼스에 Dialog Act를 반자동으로 태깅하는 방법으로 나눌 수 있다. 차량용 대화 코퍼스 수집은 1) 대화플랜 맵 구축, 2) 표준대화 구축, 3) 자유대화 구축, 4) 사용자 발화에 패러프래징 발화 구축의 순으로 구축되었다. Dialog Act 태깅은 수집된 대화코퍼스로부터 슬롯 후보를 추출하여 슬롯 체계를 구축한 후 반자동 슬롯 태깅을 실시하고, 슬롯 태깅 결과와 Dialog Act Type을 조합하여 Dialog Act 태깅 코퍼스를 구축하였다. 이렇게 구축된 Dialog Act 태깅 코퍼스는 차량 공조시스템(에어컨, 히터 등) 및 차량 응급 조치 정보 서비스와 같은 차량용 대화 시스템에 적용 중에 있다.

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A study on Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (미국 통일전자거래법(UETA)에 관한 고찰)

  • Han, Byoung-Wan
    • THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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    • v.16
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    • pp.331-359
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    • 2001
  • Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (1999) Drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. The Act allows the use of electronic records and electronic signatures in any transaction, except transactions subject to the Uniform Commercial Code. The fundamental purpose of this act is to remove perceived barriers to electronic commerce. The Act's a procedural statute. It does not mandate either electronic signatures or records, but provides a means to effectuate transactions when they are used. The primary objective is to establish the legal equivalence of electronic records and signatures with paper writings and manually-signed signatures. With regard to the general scope of the Act, the Act's coverage is inherently limited by the definition of "transaction." The Act does not apply to all writings and signatures, but only to electronic records and signatures relating to a transaction, defined as those interactions between people relating to business, commercial and governmental affairs. The exclusion of specific Articles of the Uniform Commercial Code reflects the recognition that, particularly in the case of Articles 5, 8 and revised Article 9, electronic transactions were addressed in the specific contexts of those revision processes. In the context of Articles 2 and 2A the UETA provides the vehicle for assuring that such transactions may be accomplished and effected via an electronic medium. At such time as Articles 2 and 2A are revised the extent of coverage in those Articles(Acts) may make application of this Act as a gap-filling law desirable. Similar considerations apply to the recently promulgated Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA). Another fundamental premise of the Act is that it be minimalist and procedural. The general efficacy of existing law, in an electronic context, so long as biases and barriers to the medium are removed, confirms this approach. The Act defers to existing substantive law. Specific areas of deference to other law in this Act include: i) the meaning and effect of "sign" under existing law, ii) the method and manner of displaying, transmitting and formatting information in section 8, iii) rules of attribution in section 9, and iv) the law of mistake in section 10.

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Reconsideration of the Public Diplomacy Act in Korea and a Few Suggestions

  • Park, Jongho;Kim, Ho
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.154-161
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    • 2022
  • The Korean government has recently invigorated the activities of public diplomacy. It is based on the Public Diplomacy Act enacted in 2016. However, there is a widespread concern that it was belatedly enacted and showed necessity to a revision. We believe that this paper contains three contributions which were not sufficiently addressed before. First, we identify the current state of public diplomacy-related legislation in Korea. Second, we argue the necessity to critically review the legal adequacy of Public Diplomacy Act with a consideration of rapidly changing external environment. Lastly, we propose several ways of revision for the future development of public diplomacy in Korea. When revising the Act, it is necessary to make clear a legal connection between the general law and the special law as in the case of the Korea Foundation Act and the Public Diplomacy Act. In this regard, it is worth examining the relationship between the Framework Act on International Development Cooperation and related norms. In addition, the role of the private sector and subnational governments should be expanded. For this purpose, a method and level of cooperation with the private sector should be clearly defined.

A Study on the Efficient Countermeasure of the Serious Accidents Punishment Act in the Small Businesses: On the Basis of the Serious Industrial Accidents (소규모 사업장의 중대재해처벌법 효율적 대응방안 연구 - 중대산업재해 중심)

  • Lee, Byoung-Lim;Choi, Yu-Jung;Yoo, Sam-Yeol;Choi, Jae-Wook
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.507-519
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: This study propose efficient and practical measures to comply with the duty to secure safety and health of the Serious Accidents Punishment Act at small businesses. Method: Based on literature review and previous studies, a plan to comply with the Serious Accidents Punishment Act was reviewed by the link with the safety and health management system and using the process approach method, etc. Result: It was confirmed that if the safety and health management system is faithfully implemented, it is possible to comply with the duty to secure safety and health under the Serious Accidents Punishment Act. In addition, a methodology for fulfilling and inspecting the duty to secure safety and health was presented. Conclusion: If the safety and health management system is operated actively by utilizing the process approach and implementation inspection checklist, it is judged that it will be possible to comply with the Serious Accidents Punishment Act as well as to continuously improve the safety and health management system.

The Protecton of Privacy on Secondary Use of Personal Health Imformation (의료기관 개인건강정보의 이차적 이용)

  • Kim, Jang-Han
    • The Korean Society of Law and Medicine
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.117-143
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    • 2010
  • Along with the development of digital technologies, the information obtained during the medical procedures was working as a source of valuable assets. Especially, the secondary use of personal health information gives the ordeal to privacy protection problems. In korea, the usage of personal medical information is basically regulated by the several laws in view of general and administrative Act like Medicine Act, Public institutions' personal information protection Act, Information-Network Act etc. There is no specific health information protection Act. Health information exchange program for the blood donor referral related with teratogenic drugs and contagious disease and medical treatment reporting system for income tax convenience are the two examples of recently occurred secondary use of health information in Korea. Basically the secondary use of protected health information is depend on the risk-benefit analysis. But to accomplish the minimal invasion to privacy, we need to consider collection limitation principle first. If the expected results were attained with alternative method which is less privacy invasive, we could consider the present method is unconstitutional due to the violation of proportionality rule.

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