• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권18호
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• pp.8479-8486
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• 2016

Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer globally. In Jordan, it is the number one cancer among men and the second most common cancer among women, accounting for 15% and 9.4% respectively of all male and female diagnosed cancers. This study aimed to evaluate the knowledge and perceptions about colorectal cancer risk factors, signs and symptoms in Jordan and to provide useful data about the best modes of disseminating preventive messages about the disease. Materials and Methods: A stratified clustered random sampling technique was used to recruit 300 males and 300 females aged 30 to 65 years without a previous history of CRC from four governorates in Jordan. A semi-structured questionnaire and face to face interviews were employed. Descriptive and multivariate analysis was applied to assess knowledge and perceptions about CRC. Results: Both males and females perceived their CRC risk to be low. They had low knowledge scores about CRC with no significant gender association (P=0.47). From a maximum knowledge score of 18 points, the median scores of males and females were 4 points (SD=2.346, range 0-13) and 4 points (SD=2.329, range 0-11) respectively. Better knowledge scores were associated with governorate, higher educational level, older age, higher income, having a chronic disease, having a family history of CRC, previously knowing someone who had CRC and their doctor's knowledge about their family history of CRC. Conclusions: There is a low level of knowledge about CRC and underestimation of risk among the study participants. This underlines the need for public health interventions to create awareness about the illness. It also calls for further research to assess the knowledge and perceptions about CRC early detection examinations in Jordan.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.72-77
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• 2016

Background: This study aimed to determine the prevalence and factors related to needle stick injuries (NSIs) and to assess related safety measures among a sample of Iranian nurses. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, a random sample of 168 registered active nurses was selected from different wards of one of the hospitals of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (SUMS). Data were collected by an anonymous questionnaire and a checklist based observational method among the 168 registered active nurses. Results: The prevalence of NSIs in the total of work experience and the last year was 76% and 54%, respectively. Hollow-bore needles were the most common devices involved in the injuries (85.5%). The majority of NSIs occurred in the morning shift (57.8%) and the most common activity leading to NSIs was recapping needles (41.4%). The rate of underreporting NSIs was 60.2% and the major reasons for not reporting the NSIs were heavy clinical schedule (46.7%) and perception of low risk of infection (37.7%). A statistically significant relationship was found between the occurrence of NSIs and sex, hours worked/week, and frequency of shifts/month. Conclusion: The study showed a high prevalence of NSIs among nurses. Supportive measures such as improving injection practices, modification of working schedule, planning training programs targeted at using personal protective equipment, and providing an adequate number of safety facilities such as puncture resistant disposal containers and engineered safe devices are essential for the effective prevention of NSI incidents among the studied nurses.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.929-943
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 인지 화질을 고려하기 위해 S-JND 모델 기반의 율 제어 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 율 제어 알고리즘은 인간이 가지는 시각 시스템의 특징을 반영하기 위하여 시각적 민감도와 시각적 관심도를 동시에 반영할 수 있도록 제작된 S-JND (Saliency-Just Noticeable Difference) 모델을 사용한다. 율 제어 알고리즘을 통해 비트를 분배하는 과정에서 픽쳐 내에 존재하는 각 CTU (Coding Tree Unit)가 가지는 S-JND threshold를 구한다. 각 CTU의 threshold는 적응적으로 적절한 비트를 분배하는데 사용되고, 따라서 제안하는 비트 분배 모델은 인지 화질을 향상 시킬 수 있다. 제안하는 방법의 성능 검증을 위해서 제안하는 방법을 HM 16.9에 구현하였으며, CTC (Common Test Condition) RA (Random Access), Low-delay B와 Low-delay P의 경우에 Class B와 Class C 영상들에 대해 실험 하였다. 실험 결과, 제안하는 방법은 기존 율 제어 알고리즘 대비 평균 2.3%의 비트율이 감소했고 BD-PSNR은 약 0.07dB 향상이 있었으며 비트 정확도 또한 0.06% 정도 증가하였다. DSCQS (Double Stimulus Continuous Quality Scale) 방법으로 측정한 결과, 제안하는 방법은 기존 방법 대비 0.03 MOS (Mean Opinion Score) 향상을 보였다.

• Mycobiology
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.17-25
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• 2010

The common split-gilled mushroom, Schizophyllum commune is found throughout the world on woody plants. This study was initiated to evaluate conditions for favorable vegetative growth and to determine molecular phylogenetic relationship in twelve different strains of S. commune. A suitable temperature for mycelial growth was obtained at $30^{\circ}C$. This mushroom grew well in acidic conditions and pH 5 was the most favorable. Hamada, glucose peptone, Hennerberg, potato dextrose agar and yeast malt extract were favorable media for growing mycelia, while Lilly and glucose tryptone were unfavorable. Dextrin was the best and lactose was the less effective carbon source. The most suitable nitrogen sources were calcium nitrate, glycine, and potassium nitrate, whereas ammonium phosphate and histidine were the least effective for the mycelial growth of S. commune. The genetic diversity of each strain was investigated in order to identify them. The internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions of rDNA were amplified using PCR. The size of the ITS1 and ITS2 regions of rDNA from the different strains varied from 129 to 143 bp and 241 to 243 bp, respectively. The sequence of ITS1 was more variable than that of ITS2, while the 5.8S sequences were identical. A phylogenetic tree of the ITS region sequences indicated that the selected strains were classified into three clusters. The reciprocal homologies of the ITS region sequences ranged from 99 to 100%. The strains were also analyzed by random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD) with 20 arbitrary primers. Twelve primers efficiently amplified the genomic DNA. The number of amplified bands varied depending on the primers used or the strains tested. The average number of polymorphic bands observed per primer was 4.5. The size of polymorphic fragments was obtained in the range of 0.2 to 2.3 kb. These results indicate that the RAPD technique is well suited for detecting the genetic diversity in the S. commune strains tested.

• 콘크리트학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.241-249
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• 1999

실제 구조물의 정확하고 합리적인 압축강도 추정을 위해서는 통계학적으로 많은 실험데이타가 필요하다. 그러나, 실제로 압축강도 자료가 제한되어 있기 때문에 추정에 어려움이 있다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 적은 자료를 가지고 콘크리트의 실제적인 압축강도 추정을 위해 합리적인 베이시안 기법을 도입하여 콘크리트 강도추정 방법을 제시하였다. 여기서, 콘크리트의 평균 압축강도는 확률변수로 고려한다. 콘크리트 압축강도의 베이시안 업데이팅을 위해 사전확률분포는 기존의 자료를 반영하여 표현하며, 우도함수는 측정치의 특성을 반영하였다. 사후확률분포는 사전확률분포와 우도함수를 조합하여 나타내었다. 콘크리트 교량 현장에서 제작한 실린더 공시체로부터 측정한 자료를 이용하여 수치해석을 수행하였다. 수치해석결과는 상대적으로 적은 개수의 측정자료를 사용하고도 실제에 가까운 사후확률분포를 추정할 수 있는 것을 보여 주고 있다. 또한, 우도함수 분포의 신뢰구간에 대한 사전확률분포의 신뢰구간의 상대적인 크기는 사후확률분포의 결정에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 본 논문에서 제시된 방법은 적은 현장측정자료를 가지고도 합리적인 강도추정이 가능함을 보여주고 있으며, 실제에 유용하게 활용될 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.139-148
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• 2010

기존의 센서 네트워크 보안에 대한 연구는 인증과 비밀성, 무결성, 이용성 등을 제공하는 보안 서비스에 관심이 집중되어 왔으나 최근 센서 노드의 실제 ID의 노출 문제에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있다. 센서 노드의 실제 ID가 외부 공격자에게 노출되는 것을 방지하기 위해서는 실제의 ID를 사용하지 않고 동적인 가명을 사용하는 것이 일반적이다. 그러나 가명을 생성하는데 사용되는 비밀키(또는 해쉬키)와 현재의 가명(또는 난수)이 공격자에게 노출되었을 경우에 공격자는 쉽게 가명을 생성하는 문제가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 센서 노드들에 대한 강한 익명성이 보장되는 구조를 제안한다. 제안된 구조는 가명을 생성하는데 사용되는 비밀정보들이 공격자에게 공모되었다고 하더라도 공격자가 해당 노드의 가명 ID들을 생성할 수 있는 확률이 매우 낮다. 그리고 보안 분석을 통해 제안된 구조가 무선 센서 네트워크에 적합함을 증명한다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제61권11호
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• pp.1758-1764
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• 2012

A large number of wire rope has been used in various inderstiries as Cranes and Elevators from expanding the scale of the industrial market. But now, the management of wire rope is used as manually operated by rope replacement from over time or after the accident.It is caused to major accidents as well as economic losses and personal injury. Therefore its time to need periodic fault diagnosis of wire rope or supply of real-time monitoring system. Currently, there are several methods has been reported for fault diagnosis method of the wire rope, to find out the feature point from extracting method is becoming more common compared to time wave and model-based system. This method has implemented a deterministic modeling like the observer and neural network through considering the state of the system as a deterministic signal. However, the out-put of real system has probability characteristics, and if it is used as a current method on this system, the performance will be decreased at the real time. And if the random noise is occurred from unstable measure/experiment environment in wire rope system, diagnostic criterion becomes unclear and accuracy of diagnosis becomes blurred. Thus, more sophisticated techniques are required rather than deterministic fault diagnosis algorithm. In this paper, we developed the fault diagnosis of the wire rope using probability density estimation techniques algorithm. At first, The steady-state wire rope fault signal detection is defined as the probability model through probability distribution estimate. Wire rope defects signal is detected by a hall sensor in real-time, it is estimated by proposed probability estimation algorithm. we judge whether wire rope has defection or not using the error value from comparing two probability distribution.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.167-175
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• 2009

An exploratory study was conducted in Juri Forest Range-2, a proposed biodiversity conservation area of Bangladesh to explore the present growing stock of tree, regeneration condition and status of non-timber forest products (NTFPs). This conservation area contains both natural and artificial plantation was selected by using multistage random sampling method. For determination of plot size and sampling methods, the quadrate size ($10m{\times}10m$) for tree stock measurement, ($2m{\times}2m$) for regeneration survey, ($20m{\times}20m$) for NTFPs survey was determined. Regarding tree stock survey, 14 species under eight families were found where Tectona grandis shows average number of stem/ha was 624 and basal area/ha was (10.36 $m^2/ha$) followed by Acacia auriculiformis (0.2 $m^2/ha$ and 637 stem/ha), Gmelina arborea (0.2 $m^2/ha$ and 600 stem/ha). In regeneration survey, 14 species were found belonging to 9 families where Alstonia scholaris shows highest (3,750) seedling per hectare. Regarding NTFPs, bamboo and cane are the most common resources. In last ten years, the total timber output was 1,28,596.14 cubic feet and total amount of revenue was 4,64,434 US$. The vacant area is 1,335.5 acre which contains 14% of total area. If this vacant area is planted with suitable species and take proper steps for appropriate management of this species it will be a good biologically diversified area.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.208-216
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 X-형 모노펄스 축 곡조를 가지는 도파관 광벽 슬롯 배열 모노펄스 안테나의 설계 방법을 제안하고, 제작을 통하여 방법의 타당성과 안테나 특성을 검증하였다. 본 논문에서의 안테나는 크기가 작아서 연속 함수의 복사면 분포함수가 부적합하며, 모노펄스 축 구조가 X-형이기 때문에 안테나 자 분면이 대칭적이지 않다. 또한 도파관 높이가 0.1파장 정도로 매우 낮기 때문에 일반적인 경우와 같이 슬롯 특성을 쉽게 모델링 하기가 어렵다 이러한 이유 때문에, 본 논문에서는 무작위수를 이용하여 복사면 분포를 최적화하고, 이 과정에서 안테나 각 분면의 출력 파워가 같도록 복사 분면 가중치를 조절하였다. 또한 내삽법을 이용해서 모멘트 행렬의 일부를 미리 계산해서 사용함으로써 계산 속도를 높이고. 배열 합성 프로그램의 부프로그램으로 첨부하여 필요할 때마다 직접 계산해서 사용될 수 있도록 하였다. 이러한 방범으로 설계된 안테나를 직접 제작하여 28 ㏈i의 이득을 확인하였으며, 안테나 빔폭, 효율, 부엽준위도 설계치와 유사한 특성을 보였다.

• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.109-115
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• 2016

Purpose: Sinus elevation procedures have become a routine and reliable way to gain bone volume in the edentulous maxilla for dental implant placement. Presence of bony septations and pathology in the maxillary sinus often cause complications leading to graft or implant failure or both. The aim of this study was to retrospectively evaluate the prevalence of pathology, direction of the septa, and sinus width measured at 2 mm, 5 mm, and 10 mm from the sinus floor in maxillary sinuses using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). Materials and Methods: Seventy-two sinuses from 36 random preoperative CBCT scans referred for implant therapy were retrospectively evaluated for the number, prevalence, and direction of bony septations and presence of pathology. Width of the sinus was also measured at 2 mm, 5 mm, and 10 mm from the sinus floor to account for the amount of bone available for implant placement. Results: Maxillary sinus septa were found in 59.7%. Presence of a single septum was noted in 20 sinuses (27.7%), followed by two septa in 17 sinuses. The most common direction of the septum was the transverse direction. Retention pseudocyst and mucosal thickening were the most commonly seen abnormality/pathology. Conclusion: Based on the high prevalence of septa and sinus pathology in this sample, a preoperative CBCT scan might be helpful in minimizing complications during sinus augmentation procedures for dental implant therapy.