• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.2739-2742
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• 2013

Background: This survey aim was to evaluate the epidemiology and outcomes of neuroblastoma patients in one the most important children referral hospitals in Iran as a model from developing countries. Materials and Methods: This retrospective, non-randomized analytic study was conducted on 219 newly diagnosed neuroblastoma cases. Results: The age of patients ranged from 1-156 months with the average of $40.5{\pm}2.44$, with a male/female ratio of 1.9/1. Of the total, 172 (78.5%) were children and 47 (21.5%) were infants The adrenals were the most common primary site (60%). Stage 4 at diagnosis accounted for about 54% of all enrolled patients. Infants had significantly better cumulative survival ($85{\pm}8%$) than children ($33{\pm}7%$) during the follow up period and the survival rate improved from $33{\pm}7%$ in 1974-1994 to $58{\pm}9%$ in 1995-2005. Conclusions: This study indicates that our patient population with neuroblastomas tends to have more advanced disease, perhaps with poor biologic markers, but our analysis shows that the outcomes have improved over 32 years although the overall survival of Iranian neuroblastoma patients is still lower than developed countries. Late diagnosis, inability to determine risk group during the years of study and using single protocol for all enrolled patients can be the reasons of lower survival rate.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권11호
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• pp.331-337
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• 2022

Smart learning is augmented with digital, context-aware, and adaptable technologies to encourage students to learn better and faster. To ensure that digital learning is successful and that implementation is efficient, it is critical that the dimensions of digital learning are arranged correctly and that interactions between the various elements are merged in an efficient and optimal manner. This paper builds and discusses a basic framework for smart learning in the digital age, aimed to improve students' abilities and performance in learning. The proposed framework consists of five dimensions: Teacher, Technology, Learner, Digital content, and Evaluation. The Teacher and Learner dimensions operate on two levels: (a) an abstract level to fit in knowledge and skills or interpersonal characteristics and (b) a concrete level in the form of digital devices used by teachers and learners. Moreover, this paper proposes asynchronous online course delivery model. An Arabic smart learning platform has been developed, based on these smart learning core dimensions and the asynchronous online course delivery model, because despite the official status of this language in many countries, there is a lack of Arabic platforms to teach Arabic. Moreover, many non-native Arabic speakers around the world have expressed an interest in learning it. The Arabic digital platform consists of over 70 lessons classified into three competence levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced, delivered by Arabic experts and Arabic linguists from various Arab countries. The five dimensions are described for the Arabic platform in this paper. Learner dimension is the Arabic and non-Arabic speakers, Teacher dimension is Arabic experts and Arabic linguistics, Technology dimension consists of technology for Arabic platform that includes web design, cloud computing, big data, etc. The digital contents dimension consists of web-based video, records, etc. The evaluation dimension consists of Teachers rating, comments, and surveys.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제14권9호
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• pp.133-138
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• 2016

경제다각화와 경제성장에 있어 아랍에미레이트는 그동안 괄목할 만한 성장을 보여주었으며 특히, 물류분야에 있어서는 글로벌 비즈니스 경쟁력을 높이기 위한 물류 클러스터 또는 허브의 하나로서 성공적인 행보를 기록해왔다. 그러나 중동지역의 폐쇄성으로 인해 아직까지 물류 비즈니스 관련 세부적인 데이터 및 자료 등이 매우 부족한 것이 사실이다. 또한 아랍에미레이트 물류 비지니스 산업의 경쟁력에 대한 실증분석도 거의 이루어져 오지 않았다. 이에 본 연구는 포터의 다이아몬드 모델을 적용하여 아랍에미레이트 국가와 타 중동국가들과의 물류 비즈니스 경쟁력 분석을 실시하고, 더 나아가 글로벌 경쟁 환경 안에서 아랍에미레이트 물류 비즈니스 경쟁력을 비교 검토하였다. 중동국가간의 경쟁력 분석결과 UAE는 생산요소조건에서 가장 높은 점수를 얻었으며 그 다음으로 물류여건, 관련 및 지원 산업, 수요조건 순으로 나타났다. 글로벌 경쟁 환경 안에서의 경쟁력 분석 결과에서는 수출입 물류프로세스의 비용과 시간을 감소시켜야 하며, 국제선적의 용이성, 물류역량 그리고 물류의 적시성 수준을 높일 필요가 있는 것으로 분석되었다. 본 연구에서 적용한 국제기구에서 발표된 물류 관련 데이터 집합체들은 향후 물류 허브국가들의 물류경쟁력을 분석하는데 일조할 수 있으리라 기대된다.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.135-142
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• 2016

최근 중동의 주요 국가들의 경제 성장과 맞물려 우리나라와의 다양한 분야에서의 경제협력 및 교류의 가능성에도 불구하고 그동안 이 지역과 경제협력과 관련된 연구와 자료가 부족했으며 특히, 이 지역과의 교역구조 및 동향과 관련된 논문은 거의 찾아 볼 수 없었다. 이에 본 연구는 우리나라와 주요 GCC(Gulf Cooperation Council) 국가(사우디아라비아, 아랍에미레이트, 카타르) 간에 최근 5년 동안 무역결합도 지수 분석과, 무역보완도, 국별편향도 지수 분석을 통해 향후 GCC 국가로의 한국의 수출 및 교류의 확대의 가능성을 살펴보고, 더 나아가 FTA 체결에 대한 시사점을 검토해 보는 것을 목적으로 하였다. 분석결과 중동의 주요 3개 국가 모두 산업구조상 한국과 상호보완 관계가 이루어져 있어 국가 간 자본이동을 점증적으로 증가시키거나 무역장벽을 낮추도록 노력한다면 향후 무역보완도와 국별편향도를 더욱 증가 시킬 수 있을 것으로 나타났다. 특히 한국과 사우디 간의 무역 및 교역 구조는 3국 중에서 가장 상호 보완관계가 높아 미래 FTA의 체결을 통해 우리나라의 수출증대와 더불어 양국 간 교역을 활성화 할 수 있는 새로운 기회를 창출할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 시큐리티연구
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• 제10호
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• pp.409-441
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• 2005

Terrorism은 21세기 새로운 세계질서의 형성과정에서 핵심적인 가치관으로 등장하였으며 인류의 삶의 질을 결정하는 중요한 요소가 되었다. 국제 Terrorism을 리드하고 있는 중동지역 Terrorism은 인류의 수세기 동안 농축되어온 종교적 이념대립과 지역적 생존권 다툼에서 기원하며, 종교 문화적인 단층에서 발생하는 충돌양상으로 볼 수 있다. 이는 9.11 WTC Terror를 분기점으로 이슬람 원리주의 Terrorism과 미국을 중심으로 한 기독교 서방세력의 대립으로 가시화 되었으며 그 전망은 부정적이다. 미국의 Terrorism에 대한 강경한 대외정책으로 국가지원 Terrorism은 근절되겠지만 이슬람권 아랍민족의 반미감정의 결집은 전투적 이슬람 원리주의 전사들에 의한 반미 ${\cdot}$반서방 Terror를 심화시킬 것이며 현재 자생적으로 발생 진화되는 양상이 나타나고 있으며, 세계적으로 확산될 조짐이 나타나고 있다. 이는 우리나라에게도 당면한 위협이며, 이에 대한 대비는 종교, 민족 등 근본적인 문명의 괘선에 대한 접근을 통해 능동적인 국가의 대책이 필요한 시점이다.

• Korean Journal of Mathematics
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.137-159
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• 2012

영뉵 또는 영부족(盈不足)은 그 글자의 의미에서 보듯이 넘치는 것과 부족한 것에 관계된 '과부족'문제를 나타낼 때 사용되는 유용한 개념으로, 영부족술(盈不足術)은 과부족문제를 푸는 일종의 산법이다. 본 논문은 먼저 지금까지 영부족에 관하여 소개된 최근의 모든 논문을 분석하고, <구장산술 九章算術> 권칠(卷七) "영부족" 장의 대표문제를 통하여 영부족술의 내용과 산법으로써의 의미를 쉽게 이해할 수 있도록 새롭게 서술하였다. 그리고 서양에서 이중가정법(rule of double false position)으로 알려진 영부족에 관한 최근의 동서양 연구결과를 분석하여, 영부족술과 Cramer's Rule과의 관계 및 <산학보감 算學寶鑑>에 소개된 진화된 영부족술의 특징에 대하여 논하였다. 더 나아가 영부족술의 기원과 중국의 영부족술이 아랍을 거쳐 유럽으로 전파된 배경을 구체적으로 밝혔다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제17권8호
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• pp.3997-4001
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• 2016

Background: Cancer is a worldwide health problem and pain is among the most common and unpleasant effects affecting well-being of cancer patients. Accurate description of pain can help physicians to improve its management. Many English tools have been developed to assess pain. Onkly a limited number of these are applied in Arab countries. Our aim was to assess the quality, the nature and the severity of pain using the short McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ) on cancer patients in the National Institute of Oncology (NIO) in Rabat, Morocco. Materials and Methods: The tool used is the SF-MPQ inspired from the Arabic version of the MPQ. The subjects were cancer patients (N=182) attending the NIO, from 24th October 2015 to 8th January 2016, aging ${\geq}18$ years old, experiencing pain and coming to have or to update their pain medication. Results: The rate of participation was 96.3%. Eight patients had difficulties to express their pain using descriptors, but could use the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and the body diagram. The most frequent sensory descriptors were 'Throbbing', 'Shooting', 'Hot-Burning'. The most used affective descriptor was 'Tiring-Exhausting'. The mean VAS was 6.6 (2.4). The mean score of all items was 11.9 (7.8). The patients were suffering from severe pain. The internal consistency of the form was s acceptable. Conclusions: The findings indicate that most of the patients attending the pain center of the NIO could use the descriptors of the SF-MPQ to describe their pain. They indicate the usefulness of the SF-MPQ to assess the nature and the severity of pain in cancer patients. This tool should be tested in other Moroccan and Arabic contexts associated with other tools in clinical trials.

• 복식
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• 제45권
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• pp.85-102
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• 1999

The purpose of this study is reviewing and researching the origins of knitwear the history of patterned knits. Aithough historians know little about the origins of knitting many believe it was practiced as early as the 4th century by nomads roaming North Africa. later Arab raders adopted the craft which helped then while away the hours as they traveled across deserts in camel carabans, Its origins lie in the need for close-fitting and elasticated covering for the body in particular the head hand and feet. it first developed in the Mediterranean countries and later in Central and particularly Northern Europe. Early evidence of multicolored knitting is said to date back to the Egyptian Copts of 600-800 A.D. medieval knitting is developed through the Church and monastery. The increasing demand for knitted products already observable in the fourteenth and fifteenth centries and the number of preserved knitted articles increases inexcavated materialos from Europe. The improvements in technique stimulated the developement of the hand knitting industry in the early sixteenth century. The best-known source of production is the guild organization and their mass production consisted of the carpets cushion coverings and other small items for furnishing interiors but mainly of clothing. The demand for knitted goods was such that in the late sixteenth century it was mechanised, The knitting frame invented in 1589 by William Lee English priest was the most perfect machine of this period. The mass production of fully-fashioned and seamless garments in the late nineteenth and twentieth century was dangerously competitve to traditionally woven and sewn cloth in. As fashions changed knitwear has had an almost continuous ruse in public favour and the popularity of sports has encourage the fashion for flexible easy-fitting and absorbent garments.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권15호
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• pp.6375-6379
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• 2015

Background: Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women worldwide, with about 500,000 new cases and 270,000 deaths each year. Globally, it is estimated that over one million women currently have cervical cancer, most of whom have not been diagnosed, or have no access to treatment that could cure them or prolong their lives. In the United Arab Emirates (UAE) cervical cancer is the third most common cancer in women. Materials and Methods: A population-based cross-sectional retrospective survey of cervical smear abnormalities was conducted in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, UAE, from January 2013 to December 2013 by collecting consecutive liquid-based cytology samples from the Department of Pathology at the SKMC Hospital in Abu Dhabi city. Results: The total number of women screened for cervical cancer for the year 2013 at SKMC was 4,593, with 225 (4.89%) abnormal smears. The majority of the abnormal smear results were atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASCUS) 114 (2.48%). This study showed 60% increase in the rate of abnormal cervical smears in the UAE over the last 10 years. In this study the highest incidence of high grade abnormalities were seen in women above the age of 61years (1.73%), this might be due to the fact that this group of women missed the chance of screening of cervical cancer earlier in their lives or could be explained by the well-known second peak of HPV infection seen in many prevalence studies. Conclusions: We conclude that the rate of abnormal cervical smear in the screened Abu Dhabi women is not different from the rate in developed countries. A notable increase in both low and high grade abnormalities has occurred within the last decade.

• Pediatric Infection and Vaccine
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.131-135
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• 2015

Since April 2012, more than 1,600 laboratory-confirmed human infections with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) have been reported, occurring primarily in countries in the Arabian Peninsula; the majority in Saudi Arabia. The MERS outbreak in Korea, which began in May 2015 through the importation of a single case who had recently traveled to Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. As of November 28th, 186 secondary and tertiary cases had been reported; 38 deaths, mainly associated with underlying chronic illnesses, were reported. One case was exported to China and has been recorded as the first MERS case in China. Thirty-seven confirmed cases were associated with the index case, who was hospitalized from May 15 to May 17. Emergency room at one of the nation's largest hospitals had been affected by hospital-to-hospital and intra-hospital transmissions of MERS-CoV, resulting in an outbreak of 90 infected patients. The vast majority of 186 confirmed cases are linked to a single transmission chain associated with health facilities. The median age of patients is 55 years, with a range of 16 to 87 years. The majority (61%) of patients are men. Twenty-five (14%) of the cases involve healthcare workers. The overall median incubation period was six days, but it was four days for secondary cases and six days for tertiary cases. There has been no evidence of airborne transmission and sustained human-to-human transmission in communities. Intensified public health measures, including contact tracing, quarantine and isolation of all contacts and suspected cases, and infection prevention and control have brought the MERS-CoV under control in Korea. Since 4 July no new cases have been reported.