• 제목/요약/키워드: Component Effect

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국민식생활(國民食生活) 향상(向上)을 위(爲)한 곡류제품(穀類製品)의 경제적( 經濟的) 영향강화(營養强化)에 관(關)한 연구(硏究) (A Study on the Economical Nutrition Supplement of Cereal Food for Improvement in our National Eating Habits)

  • 주진순;유종열;김숙희;이기열;한인규
    • Journal of Nutrition and Health
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    • 제6권1호
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 1973
  • I. Subject of the Study: Studies on the economical nutrition supplement of cereal foods for the improvement in our notional eating habits. II. Purpose and Importance of the Study: 1. Our nation is confronted with the situation that the rice, a principal food, short of some essential amino acids, lysine and threonine, leads to imbalanced meals insufficient in the nutrient of protein, to bring many difficulties in the elevation of our national physique. 2. The shortage of even the rice imperfect in the nutrient of protein makes the import of lots of foreign rice inevitable. It is considered that the protein supplement and decrease in the consumption amount, of rice, is a serious key to the solution of our food difficulty, and then a way of the proetin supplement of rice through the addition of essential amino acid is to be rarely applied in the view of the our present finance and situation. 3. In the present experiment, therefore, it aims to the suggestion of an aspect of the improvement in our national eating habits guiding in the nutrition elevation which our nation can afford economically through the development of first, a way of the protein supplement by the mixture of cereals producted plentifully in our country, and second, a way of the decrease in the consumption amount and the improvement in the nutrition of rice through the substitution of the other cereals for rice. III. Contents of Scope of the Study: 1. Objects of the study: Objects of the study are the following three items; a) The nutrition supplement of rice through the mixture of cereals. Our nation makes mainly rice as a principal food, but practically many kinds of cereal are produced in our country. They contain different levels and qualities of each nutrient and they are different from one another in the kinds of essential amino acid consisting protein. For that reason, the mutual complement efficeincy of insufficient nutrients is observed through the mixture of cereals. b) The nutrition supplement of rice through the addition of superior protein sources to rice, a principal food. The development of rice as superior foods in the sense of nutrition is conducted through the risement in protein quality by the addition of protein sources in good quality, for example, fish flour (anchovy flour), egg powder, milk powder, and so on, and through the supplement of vitamins and minerals. c) The decrease in the consumption amount of rice through the substitution of the other cereals for rice, as a principal food. The compensation for the short amount of rice is made by the reduction in the consumption of rice through the discovery of a way of substitution of the other cereals for rice, as a principal food and of the settlement of problems in nutrition and finance subsequent to this. 2. Contents of the study: a) An ideal mixture-ratio of cereals is established for rats by feeding mixed foods(rice-barely or rice-wheat) containing 5%, 15%, 25%, 35% and 45% level of either barely or wheat. b) The nutritive value is determined in the whole subsititution of other foods for rice, and then, a way of the complement of over and under nutrients is devised. c) The ideal combination is investigated for rats through feeding mixed foods of main food, rice and supplement foods of protein sources, soy bean, fish flour, egg powder and milk Powder. d) According to results from the above three experiments, the concise functional test for men and the examination of economical property are made. 3. Scope of the study: a) The observation of the effect of each diet on the growth rate for rats. The growth rate of rats was observed for 15 groups of mixed foods of a main food, rice, and wheat flour, barley powder or soy bean powder, respectively, and 12 groups of wheat flour diets supplemented with $1{\sim}3%$ milk powder, and rice or wheat flour diets supplemented with 5% of milk powder, egg powder, fish flour or soy bean powder, respectively. b) The determination of food consumption. The food consumption was determined at weekly intervals for 27 kinds of diet described in a) item. c) The determination of food efficiency rate. The food efficiency rate for each diet was determined by calculation from the gained body weight and the food consumption amount at the same intervals described in b) item. d) The determination of protein efficiency rate. The protein efficiency rate for each diet was determined by calculation form gained body weight and the protein amount of the food consumption amount at the same intervals described c) item. e) The determination of the body component. The hematocrite and hemoglobin levels in the blood, total nitrogen in the serum, blood sugar, and lipids and glycogen in the liver were determined. f) The observation of nitrogen balance. As a means of the observation of nitrogen balance, the total nitrogen in the urine was determined. g) The analysis of economical property. The economical property was analyzed as the gained body weight to the amount equivalent to one won through the conversion of the food consumption amount into money. h) The functional test for men. The concise functional test for men was made in order to establish if the best diet for experimental animals can be applied to men. IV. Results of the Study: The national food product plan, nationwide nutritive enlightment and the improvement activities in our country eating habits, especially, mixed and powder food problems are to be significantly referred, and the following results must be applied. a) In the mixed foods of cereals, the mixed food of the rice-barley containing $5{\sim}15%$ level of barley is best in terms of nutrition. b) The addition of superior protein sources, egg, Bilk, soy bean, or fish, respectively to either rice or wheat flour makes a great risement in the nutritive value. c) The animal protein is more effective in the elevation of nutritive value of cereals. d) Rice takes the most nutritive operation and has the highest preference, among rice, wheat flour and barley. e) Wheat flour is more economical than rice in evaluation of the gained body weight to the regular money, and the addition of fish or soy bean is more economical than that of any other supplement food. But the above results are true of the range of nutrition and economical property. f) The study on the nutrition composition and barley will lead to the improvement in our national eating habits as mixed food of the rice-barley containing $5{\sim}15%$ level of barley is more nutritive. g) This study on the nutrition only for the growing animal can not be considered as a perfect and entire evaluation. Consequently, the perfect data for our national nutrition can be obtained from the experiment similar to this for the much longer period examining, in details, the growth rate, change of physical strength, mental and bodily change, average life span, and resistance ability to infectious diseases.

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NCAR-TIEGCM을 이용한 이온권과 열권의 상호작용 연구: 행성간 자기장(IMF)에 따른 고위도 하부 열권의 운동량 강제에 대한 연구 (A STUDY ON THE IONOSPHERE AND THERMOSPHERE INTERACTION BASED ON NCAR-TIEGCM: DEPENDENCE OF THE INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELD (IMF) ON THE MOMENTUM FORCING IN THE HIGH-LATITUDE LOWER THERMOSPHERE)

  • 곽영실;;안병호;원영인
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • 제22권2호
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    • pp.147-174
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    • 2005
  • 본 연구에서는 미 국립대기연구소(NCAR)의 열권-이온권 전기역학적 대순환 모델(TIEGCM)을 이용하여 행성간 자기장(IMF)의 방향과 세기 그리고 고도에 따라 여름철 남반구 고위도 하부 열권의 바람에 작용하는 운동량 강제력을 정량적으로 구하였다. 그리고 이들을 서로 비교 분석함으로써 IMF 조건과 고도에 따른 고위도 하부 열권의 풍계(wind system)를 유지시켜주는 주된 물리적인 과정을 살펴보았다. 고위도 하부 열권(<180km)에서 양($B_y$ > 0.8|$\overline{B}_z$|)또는 음($B_y$ < -0.8|$\overline{B}_z$|)의 IMF By 조건인 경우에 운동량 강제력 차이, 즉 IMF 기준치 ${\neq}$ 0 일 때와 IMF 기준치=0 일 때의 운동량 강제력 차이(difference momentum force)는 자기위도 -80$^{\circ}$에서 최대값을 가지면서 극관과 오로라 영역에 국한된 단순한 형태의 분포를 보인다. 그리고 IMF $B_z$ 성분이 양과 음일 때 강제력 차이의 세기는 비슷하지만 분포양상은 반대방향을 취한다. 한편 IMF $B_z$가 양($B_z$ > 0.3125|$\overline{B}_y$|) 또는 음($B_z$ < -0.3125|$\overline{B}_y$|)인 조건인 경우에는 강제력 차이가 아오로라(subauroral) 위도까지 분포하며 IMF $B_z$가 양 또는 음의 조건일 때 보다 복잡한 구조를 보인다. 그리고 IMF $B_z$가 음인 경우의 강제력 차이가 양인 경우보다 더 크며 반대방향으로 작용한다. 125km 보다 더 높은 고도(>125km)에서 바람차이를 결정하는 주된 강제력은 기압경도력, 전향력, 수평이류 그리고 비발산 성분이 강한 Pedersen 이온항력인 것으로 확인되었다. 고도 약 125km 에서는 이 네 가지 힘에 더불어 비회전 성분이 강한 Hall 이온향력과 극관내 의 연직 이류가 지역과 시간에 따라 바람차이의 형성에 작용한다. 한편 고도 108-125km 에서는 IMF $B_z$ 조건일 경우의 극관영역을 제외하고는 기압경도력, 전향력 그리고 Hall 이온항력이 이 고도에서의 바람차이를 유발시키는 주된 강제력으로 작용한다. 고도 108km 이하에서는 기압경도력과 전향력이 균형을 이루어 지균 운동을 유지시킨다. IMF-$\overline{B}_y$의존 MLT 평균 운동량 강제력들은 이온항력을 제외한 다른 모든 남북성분이 동서성분에 비해 더 강하게 중성대기에 작용하는 것으로 확인되었다. 108-125km의 고도에서 IMF B?가 음인 경우에 이온항력은 하강운동 및 단열압축가열과 관련된 시계방향의 온난순환(warm circulation)을 극관 내에 형성시킨다. 반면 IMF $B_y$가 양인 경우에는 극관 내에 상승운동 및 단열팽창냉각과 관련된 반시계방향의 한랭순환(cold circulation)을 형성시킨다. 이온항력은 IMF $B_z$가 음인 경우에는 새벽영역에 상승운동과 관련된 반시계방향의 한랭순환을, 반면에 IMF $B_z$가 양인 경우에는 새벽영역에 하강운동과 관련된 시계방향의 온난순환을 형성시킨다.

폐상피세포 장벽에 대한 $H_2O_2$의 영향 (Effect of $H_2O_2$ on Alveolar Epithelial Barrier Properties)

  • 서덕준;조세헌;강창운
    • Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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    • 제40권3호
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    • pp.236-249
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    • 1993
  • 연구배경 : 정상 폐상피세포에서는 항상 생성되고 있는 활성산소(oxygen radical)에 의한 유해작용에 노출되어 있고, 이들 유해 산소들은 폐기종과 같은 폐질환의 원인 기전으로 생각되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이 방법을 이용하여 만든 폐상피세포 단일막에서 전기생리학적인 관점에서 물질의 이동지표인 short-circuit current(Isc)와 조직저항(R)에 대한 활성산소의 하나인 $H_2O_2$(hydrogen peroxide)가 어떤 영향을 미치는지를 연구함으로서 세포생리학적 기전을 구명하고자 한다. 방법 : Tissue culture-treated polycarbonant membrane filter 에서 배양시킨 쥐 제 2 형 폐상피세포 배양 단일막에서 $H_2O_2$의 능동적 이온 이동 (Isc) 과 수동적 용질이동에 대한 조직저항(R)에 미치는 효과를 관찰하였다. 배양 제 3 일과 제 4 일째 단일막을 수정된 Ussing chamber에 설치하고 막 양측에 HEPES-buffered Ringer 용액으로 incubation 하였다. 외부에서 0~100 mM 농도의 $H_2O_2$를 apical 또는 basolateral side에 작용시켜 Isc와 R의 변화를 관찰하였다. 폐상피세포 장벽이 외부의 $H_2O_2$에 대하여 방어작용을 가지는 세포내 catalase 활성도를 측정하고, catalase 억제제인 aminotriazol(ATAZ) 20 mM의 효과도 함께 관찰하였다. 결과 : 이 단일막은 형태학적으로 보아서 in vivo 에서의 포유류 제 1 형 폐상피세포 장벽의 특성을 나타내고 세포들 사이는 tight junction을 이루며(조직저항 R: 2,000 ohm-$cm^2$ 이상) sodium ion의 능동적 이동 (Isc: 5 ${\mu}A/cm^2$)을 보였다. $H_2O_2$는 dose-dependent 양식으로 Isc와 R 모두 감소시켰다. Apical side에 작용하는 $H_2O_2$에 있어서는 60분에 50% 억제하는 농도인 $ED_{50}$는 Isc와 R은 약 4mM 이었으나 basolateral side의 경우는 약 0.04mM 로서 그 작용 강도는 apical에 비하여 약 100배 정도 더 컸다. ATAZ 존재시 apical side의 $ED_{50}$는 0.4mM로 감소하였으나 basolateral side의 경우 변화가 없었다. $H_2O_2$의 제거율은 apical 또는 basolateral side 어느 쪽에 존재하든 같았으며, 세포내 catalase 활성도는세포배양기간이 길어짐에 따라 증가함을 보였다. 결론 : 이상의 실험결과는 basolateral side에 작용하는 $H_2O_2$는 세포내 막구성성분 중 basolateral 측에 존재하는 곳에(예, $Na^+,\;K^+$-APTase) 직접 장애를 미칠 것으로 생각된다. 한편 apical side에 작용하는 $H_2O_2$는 막성분에 도달하기 전에 세포내에 존재하는 catalase에 의하여 대부분 그 작용을 잃게 된다. 결론적으로 Isc와 R로 측정된 폐상피세포 장벽의 특성은 $H_2O_2$에 의하여 손상을 받고 apical side 보다는 basolateral side 측정이 더 손상을 잘 받게 된다.

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Diazepam 전투여와 Lidocaine 투여용량이 혈중농도 및 심혈역학적 변화에 미치는 영향 (The Effect of Lidocaine Dose and Pretreated Diazepam on Cardiovascular System and Plasma Concentration of Lidocaine in Dogs Ansthetized with Halothane-Nitrous Oxide)

  • 이경숙;김세연;박대팔;김진모;정정길
    • Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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    • 제10권2호
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    • pp.451-474
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    • 1993
  • 전신마취, 부위 또는 국소 마취시, 그리고 향부정맥제로 술중 및 중환자실에서 흔히 쓰이는 lidocaine의 용량과, 국소 마취제로 인한 중추 신경계의 독성을 예방 또는 중단시키기 위해 사용되는 diazepam의 전투여시 이로 인한 심혈관계 변화 및 lidocaine의 혈중농도를 관찰, 측정하여 환자의 관리 및 치료에 도움을 얻고자 본 실험을 하였다. Nitrous oxide, halothane으로 마취된 개에서 근육이완제 사용 후 조절호흡하에서 혈중 이산화탄소를 35-45mmHg로 유지하면서 국소 마취체인 lidocaine의 용량을 100 mcg/kg/min, 200 mcg/kg/min, 300 mcg/kg/min로 각각 30분간 지속적 침제하면서, diazepam 전투여 유무에 따른 심혈 역학치의 변화 및 lidocaine의 혈중농도를 측정하고, 억제된 심혈관계에 $CaCl_2$를 투여하여 회복 정도를 관찰하였던 바 아래와 같은 결과를 얻었다. Lidocaine의 지속적 침제량이 증가됨에 따라 심혈관계의 억제가 심하게 나타났으며 평균 동맥압, 심장지수, 일회 박출지수, 좌심실 박출 작업지수, 우심실 박출 작업지수 등은 감소하였고 (p<0.05), 폐동맥 쐐기압, 중심 정맥압, 전신혈관 저항지수 등은 증가하였으나 (p<0.05), 심박동수, 평균 폐동맥압, 폐혈관 저항지수의 변화는 거의 없었다. Lidocaine 100 mcg/kg/min 지속적 침제시는 diazepam을 투여한 II군에서만 평균 동맥압의 의의있는 감소를 보였으며 (p<0.05), lidocaine의 혈중농도는 diazepam투여하지 않은 I군에서는 $3.97{\pm}0.22$에서 $4.48{\pm}0.36$ mcg/ml 범위였고 II 군에서는 $3.70{\pm}0.32$에서 $4.10{\pm}0.22$ mcg/ml범위였다. Lidocaine 200 mcg/kg/min의 지속적 침제시는 I군에서는 평균 동맥압의 감소, 중심정액압의 증가를 나타내었고 (p<0.05), II 군에서는 심장지수의 감소, 폐동백 쐐기압의 증가를 나타내었으며 (p<0.05), lidocaine의 혈중농도는 I군은 $7.50{\pm}0.66$에서 $7.91{\pm}0.77$ mcg/ml, II군에서는 $7.64{\pm}0.79$에서 $8.23{\pm}1.18$ mcg/ml범위로 증가하였다. Lidocaine 300 mcg/kg/min의 지속적 침제시는 I군에서는 평균동맥압, 일회 박출지수, 좌심실 박출 작업지수의 감소가 있었고 (p<0.05), 폐동맥 쐐기압, 중심 정맥압, 전신혈관 저항지수의 증가를 나타내었다 (p<0.05). II군에서는 심장지수, 일회 박출지수, 좌심실 박출 작업지수의 감소가 있었으며 (p<0.05), 폐동맥 쐐기압, 중심 정맥압, 전신혈관 저항지수의 증가를 나타내었다 (p<0.05). 그러나 심박동수, 폐동맥압의 변화는 거의 관찰할 수 없었다. 또한 이때의 혈중 lidocaine의 농도는 I군에서는 $11.30{\pm}2.11$에서 $11.83{\pm}0.59$ mcg/ml범위 로, II군에서는 $12.95{\pm}0.71$에서 $13.79{\pm}0.82$mcg/ml의 범위로 나타내었다. $CaCl_2$ 투여 후는 억제된 심장지수, 일회 박출지수, 전신혈관 저항지수, 폐혈관 저항지수, 좌심실 박출작업지수 및 우심실 박출 작업지수는 회복시켰으나 (p<0.05), 폐동맥 쐐기압, 중심정맥압 등은 오히려 억제시켰다 (p<0.05). 이상에서 자율신경계에 손상이 없으며 산혈증 및 과탄산증이 없는 개에서는 lidocaine의 높은 혈중 농도치에서도 혈역학에 내성이 있었으며, ljdocaine의 중추신경계 독성의 예방 및 치료 목적으로 사용되는 diazepam의 전투여 시에도 추가적인 심혈관계의 억제가 없음을 알 수 있었다. 그러나 자율신경계 이상이 있거나 자율신경계를 억압할 수 있는 약을 사용할 때 또는 산혈증, 과탄산증 및 저산소증이 동반된 환자에 사용할 때에는 세심한 주의가 요할 것으로 생각된다.

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소셜 미디어에서 정보공유를 위한 애착의 매개역할: 사회적 자본이론 관점 (Mediating Roles of Attachment for Information Sharing in Social Media: Social Capital Theory Perspective)

  • 정남호;한희정;구철모
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • 제22권4호
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    • pp.101-123
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    • 2012
  • Currently, Social Media, it has widely a renown keyword and its related social trends and businesses have been fastly applied into various contexts. Social media has become an important research area for scholars interested in online technologies and cyber space and their social impacts. Social media is not only including web-based services but also mobile-based application services that allow people to share various style information and knowledge through online connection. Social media users have tendency to common identity- and bond-attachment through interactions such as 'thumbs up', 'reply note', 'forwarding', which may have driven from various factors and may result in delivering information, sharing knowledge, and specific experiences et al. Even further, almost of all social media sites provide and connect unknown strangers depending on shared interests, political views, or enjoyable activities, and other stuffs incorporating the creation of contents, which provides benefits to users. As fast developing digital devices including smartphone, tablet PC, internet based blogging, and photo and video clips, scholars desperately have began to study regarding diverse issues connecting human beings' motivations and the behavioral results which may be articulated by the format of antecedents as well as consequences related to contents that people create via social media. Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, or Cyworld users are more and more getting close each other and build up their relationships by a different style. In this sense, people use social media as tools for maintain pre-existing network, creating new people socially, and at the same time, explicitly find some business opportunities using personal and unlimited public networks. In terms of theory in explaining this phenomenon, social capital is a concept that describes the benefits one receives from one's relationship with others. Thereby, social media use is closely related to the form and connected of people, which is a bridge that can be able to achieve informational benefits of a heterogeneous network of people and common identity- and bonding-attachment which emphasizes emotional benefits from community members or friend group. Social capital would be resources accumulated through the relationships among people, which can be considered as an investment in social relations with expected returns and may achieve benefits from the greater access to and use of resources embedded in social networks. Social media using for their social capital has vastly been adopted in a cyber world, however, there has been little explaining the phenomenon theoretically how people may take advantages or opportunities through interaction among people, why people may interactively give willingness to help or their answers. The individual consciously express themselves in an online space, so called, common identity- or bonding-attachments. Common-identity attachment is the focus of the weak ties, which are loose connections between individuals who may provide useful information or new perspectives for one another but typically not emotional support, whereas common-bonding attachment is explained that between individuals in tightly-knit, emotionally close relationship such as family and close friends. The common identify- and bonding-attachment are mainly studying on-offline setting, which individual convey an impression to others that are expressed to own interest to others. Thus, individuals expect to meet other people and are trying to behave self-presentation engaging in opposite partners accordingly. As developing social media, individuals are motivated to disclose self-disclosures of open and honest using diverse cues such as verbal and nonverbal and pictorial and video files to their friends as well as passing strangers. Social media context, common identity- and bond-attachment for self-presentation seems different compared with face-to-face context. In the realm of social media, social users look for self-impression by posting text messages, pictures, video files. Under the digital environments, people interact to work, shop, learn, entertain, and be played. Social media provides increasingly the kinds of intention and behavior in online. Typically, identity and bond social capital through self-presentation is the intentional and tangible component of identity. At social media, people try to engage in others via a desired impression, which can maintain through performing coherent and complementary communications including displaying signs, symbols, brands made of digital stuffs(information, interest, pictures, etc,). In marketing area, consumers traditionally show common-identity as they select clothes, hairstyles, automobiles, logos, and so on, to impress others in any given context in a shopping mall or opera. To examine these social capital and attachment, we combined a social capital theory with an attachment theory into our research model. Our research model focuses on the common identity- and bond-attachment how they are formulated through social capitals: cognitive capital, structural capital, relational capital, and individual characteristics. Thus, we examined that individual online kindness, self-rated expertise, and social relation influence to build common identity- and bond-attachment, and the attachment effects make an impact on both the willingness to help, however, common bond seems not to show directly impact on information sharing. As a result, we discover that the social capital and attachment theories are mainly applicable to the context of social media and usage in the individual networks. We collected sample data of 256 who are using social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Cyworld and analyzed the suggested hypotheses through the Structural Equation Model by AMOS. This study analyzes the direct and indirect relationship between the social network service usage and outcomes. Antecedents of kindness, confidence of knowledge, social relations are significantly affected to the mediators common identity-and bond attachments, however, interestingly, network externality does not impact, which we assumed that a size of network was a negative because group members would not significantly contribute if the members do not intend to actively interact with each other. The mediating variables had a positive effect on toward willingness to help. Further, common identity attachment has stronger significant on shared information.

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기관지 반응성의 임상적 의의 및 메타콜린으로 유도된 천식 발작시 폐기능 변화와의 관계 (Clinical Impact of Bronchial Reactivity and Its Relationship with Changes of Pulmonary Function After Asthmatic Attack Induced by Methacholine)

  • 류연주;최영주;곽재진;이지아;남승현;박창한;천선희
    • Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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    • 제52권1호
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    • pp.24-36
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    • 2002
  • 연구배경 : 기관지 반응성은 기관지 수축제의 연속적인 흡입에 따르는 기도 수축반응의 증가로서 용량-반응곡선의 기울기로 표현되고 기관지 감수성과 더불어 기관지 천식의 가장 중요한 특정인 기관지 과민성을 구성하는 요소이다. 그러나 일반적으로 기관지 수축 유발 검사 시에는 기관지 감수성만을 측정하고 있으며, 기관지 반응성에 대해서는 아직까지 정립된 이론이 없다. 이에 본 연구에서는 기관지 감수성과 기관지 반응성의 관계와 임상증상과의 관련성, 치료경과 및 폐기능 변화와의 관계를 비교 분석하여 기관지 반응성의 임상적 유용성 및 의의를 밝히고자 하였다. 대상 및 방법 : 천식의 중증도 분류에서 중증군을 제외한 경증 간헐성, 경증 지속성, 중등증의 천식 환자들과 기침형 천식환자, 총 116명을 대상으로 하였다. 모든 환자에서 기저 메타콜린 천식유발검사로 $FEV_1$이 비교 기준치보다 20% 이상 감소하는 메타콜린 PC20에 도달하면, 메타콜린 농도를 1회 더 높여 흡입시켜 $FEV_1$을 측정하여, log 용량-반응곡선을 그려서 PC40를 구했고, PC20와 PC40를 연결한 기울기로 기관지 반응성을 측정했다. 이 중에 43예 에서는 메타콜린 천식유발검사 전후에 body plethysmography와 single breath for DLCO를 시행하였다. 결 과 : 1) 지관지 반응성은 각각 경증 간헐성군 $38.0{\pm}18.16$, 경증 지속성군 $49.8{\pm}9.77$, 중등증군 $61.0{\pm}13.07$, 기침형 천식군에서 $43.8{\pm}3.73$ 이었다. 2) 기관지 감수성과 기관지 반응성은 경미한 역 상관관계를 보였다(r=-0.34, p<0.01). 3) 기저 폐기능이 유사하면서 기관지 감수성이 비슷한 환자들에서 기관지 반응성이 큰 군이 작은 군에 비해 증상의 경중도와 임상경과가 심한 경향을 보였다. 4) 기저 폐기능과 기관지 반응성과는 sGaw, Raw, $FEV_1$/FVC, MMFR 순으로 유의한 상관관계를 보였다. 5) 메타콜린으로 유도한 천식 발작 후의 폐기능 변화량과 기관지 감수성 사이에는 유의한 관계를 찾아 볼 수 없었으나, 기관지 반응성은 PEF, $FEV_1$, DLCO 순으로 유의한 상 관관계를 보였다(p<0.05). 결 론 : 기관지 반응성은 기관지 감수성과 경미한 역 상관관계를 보였으며, 기관지 감수성에 비하여 임상증상의 정중도와 더 관련이 켰다. 기관시 감수성은 메타콜린으로 유도한 천식발작시 폐기능의 변화정도와 유의한 상관성이 없었으나, 기관지 반응성은 메타콜린으로 유도한 기관지 폐색과 유의한 상관관계를 보였다. 따라서, 기관지 반응성과 기관지 감수성은 서로가 보완적이며 독립적인 기관지 과민성의 구성요소로서, 천식환자의 진단을 위한 메타콜린 천식 유발검사시에 PC20와 함께 기관지 반응성을 측정하는 것이 환자의 임상적 평가와 치료경과 및 예후 판정에 도움이 될 것으로 생각하며, 반응성을 측정하는 못하는 경우 sGaw의 측정이 도움이 될 것으로 사료된다.

금강하구언 담수방류와 춘계 식물플랑크톤 군집의 단주기 변동 (Semiweekly variation of Spring Phytoplankton Community in Relation to the Freshwater Discharges from Keum River Estuarine Weir, Korea)

  • 이원호;명금옥;유영두;김영길;정해진
    • 한국해양학회지:바다
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    • 제10권3호
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    • pp.154-163
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    • 2005
  • 1988년에 완공하여 1994년 8월부터 수문을 작동한 금강 하구언으로 인해 금강 하구역 환경은 크게 변하였다. 수문을 통해 담수를 불규칙하게 방류하면, 극심한 염분 저하와 함께 수중 무기영양염 농도가 급변한다. 이와 같이 환경 스트레스가 큰 금강 하구 내측에서 춘계 식물플랑크톤 군집의 단주기 변동을 연구하기 위하여, 2004년 2월 중순부터 4개월 동안 2개의 고정점에서 약 2일 간격으로 고조 때에 현장조사와 시료채취를 실시하였다. 하구언에 근접한 정점에서는 정점2(도선장 부근 정점)에 비해 염분 측정치의 변동계수가 2배에 이르러, 정점1에서 시간에 따른 염분의 변동이 극심함을 반증하였다. 용존 무기영양염 가운데, 질소계 영양염($NO_3^-,\;NO_2^-$$NH_4^+$)의 농도가 정점2에 비해 정점1에서 뚜렷이 높게 나타나, 수문 작동에 따라 그 농도가 부정기적으로 급변할 수 있는 환경임을 확인하였다. 식물플랑크톤 군집을 구성하는 주요 분류군은 규조류로서 출현종의 수나 생물량 모두 최고치를 기록하였다. 이 가운데 단독성 중심 규조 Cyolotella meneghiniana와 사슬형 중심 규조 Skeletonema costatum은 조사기간 전반부에 차례대로 5-6주 동안씩(천이 구간 I 및 II)절대 우점하여, 수온 $10^{\circ}C$의 시점을 중심으로 뚜렷한 천이현상을 보여 주었다. 천이구간 III(4월 중순-5월 말)은 대량 방류된 담수와 함께 하구역에 유입된 담수 녹조종인 남세균 Aphanizomenon flos-aquae와 Phormidium sp. 등이 매우 높은 구성비를 나타낸 시기이다. 이 기간에는 극저염-고염의 극심한 변동으로 인하여 낮은 수준의 생물량을 기록한 규조 Cyclotella meneghiniana와 Skeletonema costatum 외에는 담수종들이 전적으로 우점하였다. 천이구간 IV에서는 수온이 $18^{\circ}C$ 이상으로 상승하면서, 규조 Guinardia delicatuia가 단일 시료 내 최고 우점도 $75^{\circ}C$를 기록하며 약 일주일간 우점하였다. 즉, 조사기간 중에는 수온 $18^{\circ}C$ 미만의 극심한 염분 변동기(천이구간 III)를 제외한, 전 기간 중에 규조가 절대 우점하며 춘계 식물플랑크톤 우점종의 천이를 주도하였다. 천이구간 III에서도, 만약 담수방류의 규모와 빈도를 적절히 조절하였더라면, 주요 우점종이 담수 남세균이 아닌 하구성 규조로 바뀔 수도 있었을 것이다. 본 연구에 적용한 격일간 현장조사는 불규칙한 담수방류가 불가피한 반일주조 하의 하구역 환경에서 식물플랑크톤 종의 천이현상을 규명하기 위한 최소한의 필요조건으로 판단된다.

인터넷쇼핑몰의 VMD 구성요인에 대한 탐색적 연구 (An Exploratory Study on the Components of Visual Merchandising of Internet Shopping Mall)

  • 김광석;신종국;구동모
    • 마케팅과학연구
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    • 제18권2호
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    • pp.19-45
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    • 2008
  • 본 연구는 인터넷쇼핑몰 비주얼 머천다이징의 주요차원을 고객이 쇼핑몰에 진입한 후 정보탐색과 대안평가를 거치는 등의 쇼핑과정을 토대로 AIDA모형 관점에서 점포, 제품, 촉진에 초점을 맞추었다. VMD의 주요차원(primary dimensions)으로는 점포디자인, 머천다이징, 그리고 머천다이징단서로 구분하였다. 선행연구 결과를 토대로 점포다자인의 하위차원으로는 차별성, 간결성, 위치확인성을, 머천다이즈의 하위차원으로는 제품구색, 명성, 정보성을, 그리고 머천다이징단서의 하위차원으로는 제품추천 및 링크를 설정하여 VMD태도와의 관계를 탐색적으로 조사하였다. 연구결과 이들 세 차원은 종속변수에 유의한 정의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다.

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창업보육서비스에 따른 입주기업의 창업보육센터 의존도에 관한 연구 (A Study on Startups' Dependence on Business Incubation Centers)

  • 박재성;리철;김재전
    • 중소기업연구
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    • 제31권2호
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    • pp.103-120
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    • 2009
  • 창업보육센터는 창업을 준비하는 예비창업자 및 신규 창업자에게 사업을 영위하는데 필요한 자원 및 서비스를 제공하고, 사업을 수행하는 과정에서 발생되는 다양한 문제의 해결에 도움을 주고 있다. 그러나 이러한 지원은 상황에 따라 기업의 자생력을 높이기보다는 창업보육센터에 대한 의존도를 높이는 경향이 있다. 본 연구는 창업보육서비스를 제공형태에 따라 인프라 지원, 네트워크 연계 지원, 직접 지원으로 분류한 후에 이들 서비스의 제공이 입주기업의 창업보육센터 의존도에 미치는 영향관계를 살펴보고, 아울러 입주기간에 따른 조절효과를 살펴보았다. 연구결과 세 가지 보육서비스 모두 의존도에 영향을 미치는 것으로 파악되었으며, 입주기간에 따른 조절효과는 기간이 늘어날수록 네트워크 연계 지원서비스에 정의 효과가 있는 반면 직접 지원서비스는 부의 효과가 있는 것으로 파악되었다. 이러한 결과는 입주기간이 늘어감에 따라 직접 지원서비스의 경우에는 입주기업이 센터의 자원을 흡수하여 기업의 역량으로 만들어 가지만, 네트워크 연계 지원서비스는 기업의 센터에 대한 의존도를 높이고 있다는 것을 보여준다. 따라서 신생기업이 자생력을 갖기 위해서는 보육서비스를 보육기간에 따라 차별적으로 제공해야 한다는 시사점을 제시하고 있다.

Sensory Information Processing

  • Yoshimoto, Chiyoshi
    • 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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    • 제6권2호
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 1985
  • The wall shear stress in the vicinity of end-to end anastomoses under steady flow conditions was measured using a flush-mounted hot-film anemometer(FMHFA) probe. The experimental measurements were in good agreement with numerical results except in flow with low Reynolds numbers. The wall shear stress increased proximal to the anastomosis in flow from the Penrose tubing (simulating an artery) to the PTFE: graft. In flow from the PTFE graft to the Penrose tubing, low wall shear stress was observed distal to the anastomosis. Abnormal distributions of wall shear stress in the vicinity of the anastomosis, resulting from the compliance mismatch between the graft and the host artery, might be an important factor of ANFH formation and the graft failure. The present study suggests a correlation between regions of the low wall shear stress and the development of anastomotic neointimal fibrous hyperplasia(ANPH) in end-to-end anastomoses. 30523 T00401030523 ^x Air pressure decay(APD) rate and ultrafiltration rate(UFR) tests were performed on new and saline rinsed dialyzers as well as those roused in patients several times. C-DAK 4000 (Cordis Dow) and CF IS-11 (Baxter Travenol) reused dialyzers obtained from the dialysis clinic were used in the present study. The new dialyzers exhibited a relatively flat APD, whereas saline rinsed and reused dialyzers showed considerable amount of decay. C-DAH dialyzers had a larger APD(11.70$\pm$1.32mmHg/min)compared to CF dialyzers(4.32$\pm$0.55mmHg/min)(p<0.05). However, there was no observable difference in the UFR between the two dialyzers. Neither APD nor UFR showed any significant increase with an increasing number of reuses for up to more than 20reuses. A substantial number of failures observed in APD(larger than 20mmHe/min)on the reused dialyzers(2 out of 40 CP and S out 26 C-DAK) were attributed to the Possible damage on the fibers. The CF 15-11 HFDs which failed APD test did not show changes in the UFR compared to normal dialyzers indicating that APD is a more sensitive test than UFR test to evaluate the integrity of the fibers. 30527 T00401030527 ^x For quantitative measurement of reflected light from a clinical diagnostic strip, a prototype old reflectance photometer was designed. The strip loader and cassette were made to obtain more accurate reflectance parameters. The strip was illuminated at 45˚c through optical fiber and the intensity of reflected light was determined at rectanguLat angle using a photodiode. The kubelka-munk coefficient and reflection optical density were determined ar four different wavelengths(500, 550, 570 and 610nm) for blood glucose strip. For higher concentration than 300mg/41 about glucose, a saturation state of abforbance was observed at 500, 550 and 570nm. The correlation between glucose concentration and parameters was the best at 610nm. 30535 T00401030535 ^x Radiation-induced fibrosarcoma tumors were grown on the flanks of C3H mice. The mice were divided into two groups. One group was injected with Photofrin II, intravenously (2.5mg/kg body weight). The other group received no Photofrin II. Mice from both groups were irradialed for approximately 15 minutes at 100, 300, or 500 mW/cm2 with the argon (488nm/514.5 nm), dye(628nm) and gold vapor (pulsed 628 nm) laser light. A photosensitizer behaved as an added absorber. Under our experimental conditions, the presence of Photolfrin II increased surface temperature by at least 40% and the temperature rise due to 300 mW/cm2 irradiation exceeded values for hyperthermia. Light and temperature distributions with depth were estimated by a computer model. The model demonstrated the influence of wavelength on the thermal process and proved to be a valuable tool to investigate internal temperature rise. 30536 T00401030536 ^x We investigated the structural geometry of thirty-eight Korean femurs. The purpose of this study is to identify major geometrical differences between Korean femurs 3nd others that we believe belong to Caucasians so that we would be able to get insights into the femoral component design that fits Asians including Koreans. We utilized computerized tomography (CT) images of femurs extracted from cadavers. The CT images were transformed into bitmap data by using a film scanner, and then analyzed by using a commercially available software called Image v.1.0 and a Macintosh IIci computer.The resulting data were compared with already published data. The major results show that the geometry of the Korean femurs is significantly different from that of Caucasians: (1) the anteversion angle and the canal flare index are greater by the amount of approximately 8˚ and 0.5, respectively, (2) the shape of the isthmus cross section is more round, and (3) the distance between the teaser trochanter and the proximal border of the isthmus is shelter by about 15 mm. The results suggested that the femoral component suitable for Asians should be different from the currently-used components designed and manufactured mostly by European or American companies. 30537 T00401030537 ^x It is well known that nonlinear propagation characteristics of the wave in the tissue may give very useful information for the medical diagnoisis. In this paper, a new method to detect nonlinear propagation characteristics of the internal vibration in the tissue for the low frequency mechanical vibration by using bispectral analysis is proposed. In the method, low frequency vibration of f0( = 100Hz) is applied on the surface of the object, and the waveform of the internal vibration x (t) is measured from Doppler frequency modulation of silmultaneously transmitted probing ultrasonic waves. Then, the bispectra of the signal x (t) at the frequencies (f0, f0) and (f0, 2f0) are calculated to estimate the nonlinear propagation characteristics as their magnitude ratio, w here since bispectrum is free from the gaussian additive noise we can get the value with high S/N. Basic experimental system is constructed by using 3.0 MHz probing ultrasonic waves and the several experiments are carried out for some phantoms. Results show the superiority of the proposed method to the conventional method using power spectrum and also its usefulness for the tissue characterization. 30541 T00401030541 ^x This paper describes the implementation of a computerized radial pulse diagnosis by aids of a clinical expert. On this base, we composed of the radial pulse diagnosis system in korean traditional medicine. The system composed of a radial pulse wave detection system and a radial pulse diagnosis system. With a detection system, we detected Inyoung and Cheongu radial pulse wave and processed it. Then, we have got the characteristic parameters of radial pulse wave and also quantified that according to the method of Inyoung-Cheongu Comparison Radial Pulse Diagnosis. We defined the jugement standard of radial pulse diagnosis system and then we confirmed the possibility for realization of automatic radial pulse diagnosis in korean traditional medicine. 30545 T00401030545 ^x Microspheres are expected to be applied to biomedical areas such as solid-phase immunoassays, drug delivery systems, immunomagnetic cell separation. To synthesize microspheres for biomedical application, "two stage shot growth method" was developed. The uniformity ratio of synthesized microspheres was always smaller than 1.05. And the surface charge density (or the number of ionizable functional groups) of the microspheres synthesized by "two stage shot growth method" was 6~13 times higher than that of the microspheres synthesized by conventional seeded batch copolymerization. As a previous step for biomedical application, adsorption experiments of bovine albumin on microspheres were carried out under various conditions. The maximum adsorbed amount was obtained in the neighborhood of pH 4.5. Isoelectric point of bovine albumin is pH 5.0, so experimental result shows that it shifted to acid area. The adsorption isotherm was obtained, the plateau region was always reached at 2.Og/L (bulk concentration of bovine albumin).The effect of the kind and the amount of surface functional group was also examined. 30575 T00401030575 ^x A medical image workstation was developed using multimedia technique. The system based on PC-486DX was designed to acquire medical images produced by medical imaging instruments and related audio information, that is, doctors' reporting results. Input information was processed and analyzed, then the results were presented in the form of graph and animation. All the informations of the system were hierarchically related with the image as the apex. Processing and analysis algorithms were implemented so that the diagnostic accuracy could be improved. The diagnosed information can be transferred for patient diagnosis through LAN(local area network). 30592 T00401030592 ^x In the conventional infrared imaging system, complex infrared lens systems are usually used for directing collimated narrow infrared beams into the high speed 2-dimensional optic scanner. In this paper, a simple reflective infrared optic system with a 2-dimensional optic scanner is proposed for the realization of medical infrared thermography system. It has been experimentally proven that the intfrared thermography system composed of the proposed optic system has the temperature resolution of 0.1˚c under the spatial resolution of lmrad, the image matrix size of 256 X 240, and tile imaging time of 4 seconds. 30593 T00401030593 ^x In this paper, MIIS (Medical Image Information System) has been designed and implemented using INGRES RDBMS, which is based on a client/server architecture. The implemented system allows users to register and retrieve patient information, medical images and diagnostic reports. It also provides the function to display these information on workstation windows simultaneously by using the designed menu-driven graphic user interface. The medical image compression/decompression techniques are implemented and integrated into the medical image database system for the efficient data storage and the fast access through the network. 30594 T00401030594 ^x In this paper, computerized BEAM was implemented for the space domain analysis of EEG. Trans-formation from temporal summation to two-dimensional mappings is formed by 4 nearest point inter-polaton method. Methods of representation of BEAM are two. One is dot density method which classify brain electrical potential 9 levels by dot density of gray levels and the other is colour method which classify brain electrical 12 levels by red-green colours. In this BEAM, instantaneous change and average energy distribution over any arbitrary time interval of brain electrical activity could be observed and analyzed easily. In the frequency domain, the distribution of energy spectrum of a special band can easily be distinguished normality and abnormality. 30608 T00401030608 ^x Laboratory information system (LIS) is a key tool to manage laboratory data in clinical pathology. Our department has developed an information system for routine hematology using down-sized computer system. We have used an IBM 486 compatible PC with 16MB main memory, 210 MB hard disk drive, 9 RS-232C port and 24 pin dot printer. The operating system and database management system were SCO UNIX and SCO foxbase, respectively. For program development, we used Xbase language provided by SCO foxbase. The C language was used for interface purpose. To make the system use friendly, pull-down menu was used. The system connected to our hospital information system via application program interface (API), so the information related to patient and request details is automatically transmitted to our computer. Our system interfaced with fwd complete blood count analyzers(Sysmex NE-8000 and Coulter STKS) for unidirectional data tansmission from analyzer to computer. The authors suggests that this system based on down-sized computer could provide a progressive approach to total LIS based on local area network, and the implemented system could serve as a model for other hospital's LIS for routine hematology. 30609 T00401030609 ^x To develop an artificial bone substitute that is gradually degraded and replaced by the regenerated natural bone, the authors designed a composite that is consisted of calcium phosphate and collagen. To use as the structural matrix of the composite, collagen was purified from human umbilical cord. The obtained collagen was treated by pepsin to remove telopeptides, and finally, the immune-free atelocollagen was produced: The cross linked atelocollagen was highly resistant to the collagenase induced collagenolysis. The cross linked collagen demonstrated an improved tensile strength. 30618 T00401030618 ^x This paper is a study on the design of adptive filter for QRS complex detection. We propose a simple adaptive algorithm to increase capability of noise cancelation in QRS complex detection with two stage adaptive filter. At the first stage, background noise is removed and at the next stage, only spectrum of QRS complex components is passed. Two adaptive filters can afford to keep track of the changes of both noise and QRS complex. Each adaptive filter consists of prediction error filter and FIR filter The impulse response of FIR filter uses coefficients of prediction error filter. The detection rates for 105 and 108 of MIT/BIH data base were 99.3% and 97.4% respectively. 30619 T00401030619 ^x To develop an artificial bone substitute that is gradually degraded and replaced by the regenerated natural bone, the authors designed and produced a composite that is consisted of calcium phosphate and collagen. Human umbilical cord origin pepsin treated type I atelocollagen was used as the structural matrix, by which sintered or non-sintered carbonate apatite was encapsulated to form an inorganic-organic composite. With cross linking atelocollagen by UV ray irradiation, the resistance to both compressive and tensile strength was increased. Collagen degradation by the collagenase induced collagenolysis was also decreased. 30620 T00401030620 ^x We have developed a monoleaflet polymer valve as an inexpensive and viable alternative, especially for short-term use in the ventricular assist device or total artificial heart. The frame and leaflet of the polymer valve were made from polyurethane, To evaluate the hemodynamic performance of the polymer valve a comparative study of flow dynamics past a polymer valve and a St. Jude Medical prosthetic valve under physiological pulsatile flow conditions in vitro was made. Comparisons between the valves were made on the transvalvular pressure drop, regurgitation volume and maximum valve opening area. The polymer valve showed smaller regurgitation volume and transvalvular pressure drop compared to the mechanical valve at higher heart rate. The results showed that the functional characteristics of the polymer valve compared favorably with those of the mechanical valve at higher heart rate. 30621 T00401030621 ^x Explosive evaporative removal process of biological tissue by absorption of a CW laser has been simulated by using gelatin and a multimode Nd:YAG laser. Because the point of maximun temperature of laser-irradiated gelatin exists below the surface due to surface cooling, evaporation at the boiling temperature is made explosively from below the surface. The important parameters of this process are the conduction loss to laser power absorption (defined as the conduction-to-laser power parameter, Nk), the convection heat transfer at the surface to conduction loss (defined as Bi), dimensionless extinction coefficient (defined as Br.), and dimensionless irradiation time (defined as Fo). Dependence of Fo on Nk and Bi has been observed by experiment, and the results have been compared with the numerical results obtained by solving a 2-dimensional conduction equation. Fo and explosion depth (from the surface to the point of maximun temperature) are increased when Nk and Bi are increased.To find out the minimum laser power for explosive evaporative removal process, steady state analysis has been also made. The limit of Nk to induce evaporative removal, which is proportional to the inverse of the laser power, has been obtained. 30622 T00401030622 ^x N1 and N2 gross neural action potentials were measured from the round window of the guinea pig cochlea at the onset of the acoustic stimuli. N1-N2 audiograms were made by means of regulating stimulant intensities in order to produce constant N1-N2 potentials as criteria for different input tone pip frequencies. The lowest threshold was measured with an input tone pip I5 dB SPL in intensity and 12 KHz in frequency when the animal was in normal physiological condition. The procedure of experimental measurements is explained in detail. This experimental approach is very useful for the investigation of the Cochlear function. Both noN1inear and active functions of the Cochlea can be monitored by N1-N2 audiograms. 30623 T00401030623 ^x In electrical impedance tomography(EIT), we use boundary current and voltage measurements toprovide the information about the cross-sectional distribution of electrical impedance or resistivity. One of the major problems in EIT has been the inaccessibility of internal voltage or current data in finding the internal impedance values. We propose a new image reconstruction method using internal current density data measured by NMR. We obtained a two-dimensional current density distribution within a phantom by processing the real and imaginary MR images from a 4.77 NMR machine. We implemented a resistivity mage reconstruction algorithm using the finite element method and sensitivity matrix. We presented computer simulation results of the mage reconstruction algorithm and furture direction of the research. 30624 T00401030624 ^x A new method of digital image analysis technique for discrimination of cancer cell was presented in this paper. The object image was the Thyroid eland cells image that was diagnosed as normal and abnormal (two types of abnormal: follicular neoplastic cell, and papillary neoplastic cell), respectively. By using the proposed region segmentation algorithm, the cells were segmented into nucleus. The 16 feature parameters were used to calculate the features of each nucleus. A9 a consequence of using dominant feature parameters method proposed in this paper, discrimination rate of 91.11% was obtained for Thyroid Gland cells. 30625 T00401030625 ^x An electrical stimulator was designed to induce locomotion for paraplegic patients caused by central nervous system injury. Optimal stimulus parameters, which can minimize muscle fatigue and can achieve effective muscle contraction were determined in slow and fast muscles in Sprague-Dawley rats. Stimulus patterns of our stimulator were designed to simulate electromyographic activity monitored during locomotion of normal subjects. Muscle types of the lower extremity were classified according to their mechanical property of contraction, which are slow muscle (msoleus m.) and fast muscle (medial gastrocneminus m., rectus femoris m., vastus lateralis m.). Optimal parameters of electrical stimulation for slow muscles were 20 Hz, 0.2 ms square pulse. For fast muscle, 40 Hz, 0.3 ms square pulse was optimal to produce repeated contraction. Higher stimulus intensity was required when synergistic muscles were stimulated simultaneously than when they were stimulated individually. Electrical stimulation for each muscle was designed to generate bipedal locomotion, so that individual muscles alternate contraction and relaxation to simulate stance and swing phases. Portable electrical stimulator with 16 channels built in microprocessor was constructed and applied to paraplegic patients due to lumbar cord injury. The electrical stimulator restored partially gait function in paraplegic patients. 30626 T00401030626 ^x Two-Dimensional modelling of the Cochlear biomechanics is presented in this paper. The Laplace partial differential equation which represents the fluid mechanics of the Cochlea has been transformed into two-dimensional electrical transmission line. The procedure of this transformation is explained in detail. The comparison between one and two dimensional models is also presented. This electrical modelling of the basilar membrane (BM) is clearly useful for the next approach to the further. Development of active elements which are essential in the producing of the sharp tuning of the BM. This paper shows that two-dimension model is qualitatively better than one-dimensional model both in amplitude and phase responses of the BM displacement. The present model is only for frequency response. However because the model is electrical, the two-dimensional transmission line model can be extended to time response without any difficult. 30627 T00401030627 ^x A method has been proposed for the fully automatic detection of left ventricular endocardial boundary in 2D short axis echocardiogram using geometric model. The procedure has the following three distinct stages. First, the initial center is estimated by the initial center estimation algorithm which is applied to decimated image. Second, the center estimation algorithm is applied to original image and then best-fit elliptic model estimation is processed. Third, best-fit boundary is detected by the cost function which is based on the best-fit elliptic model. The proposed method shows effective result without manual intervention by a human operator. 30628 T00401030628 ^x The intelligent trajectory control method that controls moving direction and average velocity for a prosthetic arm is proposed by pattern recognition and force estimations using EMG signals. Also, we propose the real time trajectory planning method which generates continuous accelleration paths using 3 stage linear filters to minimize the impact to human body induced by arm motions and to reduce the muscle fatigue. We use combination of MLP and fuzzy filter for pattern recognition to estimate the direction of a muscle and Hogan's method for the force estimation. EMG signals are acquired by using a amputation simulator and 2 dimensional joystick motion. The simulation results of proposed prosthetic arm control system using the EMf signals show that the arm is effectively followed the desired trajectory depended on estimated force and direction of muscle movements. 30638 T00401030638 ^x A new neural network architecture for the recognition of patterns from images is proposed, which is partially based on the results of physiological studies. The proposed network is composed of multi-layers and the nerve cells in each layer are connected by spatial filters which approximate receptive fields in optic nerve fields. In the proposed method, patterns recognition for complicated images is carried out using global features as well as local features such as lines and end-points. A new generating method of matched filers representing global features is proposed in this network. 30659 T00401030659 ^x An implementation scheme of the magnetic nerve stimulator using a switching mode power supply is proposed. By using a switching mode power supply rather than a conventional linear power supply for charging high voltage capacitors, the weight and size of the magnetic nerve stimulator can be considerably reduced. Maximum output voltage of the developed magnetic nerve stimulator using the switching mode power supply is 3, 000 volts and switching time is about 100 msec. Experimental results or human nerve stimulations using the developed stimulator are presented. 30768 T00401030768 ^x In this paper, we describe the design methodology and specifications of the developed module-based bedside monitors for patient monitoring. The bedside monitor consists of a main unit and module cases with various parameter modules. The main unit includes a 12.1" TFT color LCD, a main CPU board, and peripherals such as a module controller, Ethernet LAN card, video card, rotate/push button controller, etc. The main unit can connect at maximum three module cases each of which can accommodate up to 7 parameter modules. They include the modules for electrocardiograph, respiration, invasive blood pressure, noninvasive blood pressure, temperature, and SpO2 with Plethysmograph.SpO2 with Plethysmograph.

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