• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• v.58 no.10
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• pp.380-385
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• 2015

Purpose: Croup is a common pediatric respiratory illness with symptoms of varying severity. Moreover, epiglottitis is a rare disease that can rapidly progress to life-threatening airway obstruction. Although the clinical course and treatments differ between croup and epiglottitis, they are difficult to differentiate on presentation. We aimed to compare the clinical characteristics of croup and epiglottitis in Emergency Department patients. Methods: The 2012 National Emergency Department Information System database of 146 Korean Emergency Departments was used to investigate patients aged ${\leq}18years$ presenting with croup or epiglottitis. Results: We analyzed 19,374 croup patients and 236 epiglottitis patients. The male:female sex ratios were 1.9:1 and 2.3:1 and mean ages were $2.2{\pm}2.0$ and $5.6{\pm}5.8years$, respectively. The peak incidence of croup was observed in July and that of epiglottitis was observed in May. The hospitalization rate was lower in croup than in epiglottitis patients, and the proportion of patients treated in the intensive care unit was lower among croup patients. The 3 most common chief complaints in both croup and epiglottitis patients were cough, fever, and dyspnea. Epiglottitis patients experienced dyspnea, sore throat, and vomiting more often than croup patients (P<0.05). Conclusion: Both groups had similar sex ratios, arrival times, 3 most common chief complaints, and 5 most common comorbidities. Epiglottitis patients had a lower incidence rate, higher mean age of onset, and higher hospitalization rate and experienced dyspnea, sore throat, and vomiting more often than croup patients. Our results may help in the differential diagnosis of croup and epiglottitis.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.08a
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• pp.111.3-111
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• 1998

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.07c
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• pp.835-837
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• 1997

This paper presents a control system design for the STATCON of FACTS devices by LQR, LQG control scheme to enhance small-signal stability in the power system, the feature of this FACTS controller is coordinated with generator exciter controller(AVR, PSS) to improve the total power system stability and performance.

• Allergy, Asthma & Respiratory Disease
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.290-294
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• 2018

Purpose: We evaluated the clinical features of croup in children according to viral etiology. Methods: This study enrolled pediatric patients with croup, who showed positive results on respiratory virus reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction performed between January 2012 and December 2017. We retrospectively reviewed the medical records. Results: A total of 179 patients (119 boys and 60 girls) were enrolled with the mean age of $18.9{\pm}14.7$ months. The viruses commonly identified were parainfluenza, respiratory syncytial virus, rhinovirus, and influenza. Among these 4 viruses, patients with rhinovirus infection showed significantly shorter fever and admission durations. Patients with parainfluenza infection showed significantly lower incidences of epinephrine nebulization and patients with influenza infections showed significantly higher incidences of steroid treatment. Conclusion: Clinical manifestations of croup differ according to causative viruses. Further studies should be conducted to evaluate the severity and prognosis of croup according to viral etiology.

• Pediatric Infection and Vaccine
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.8-16
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• 2018

Purpose: In this study, the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of patients admitted for viral croup were analyzed to evaluate disease severity based on the organism that caused the infection. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 302 patients who were admitted to the Department of Pediatrics at the Wonju Severance Hospital between May 2013 and December 2016 for viral croup. Patients who showed positive results on multiplex polymerase chain reaction were subsequently diagnosed with respiratory virus infection. The Westley scoring system was used to evaluate the severity of viral croup. Results: Of the 302 patients, 149 were admitted due to severe viral croup, including 88 boys and 61 girls, with a boy-to-girl ratio of 1.44:1. About 110 cases of parainfluenza virus infection have been reported, which accounted for almost half of the total cases. The other identified viruses included influenza virus, human rhinovirus, and respiratory syncytial virus. Analysis of the association between severe viral croup and causative pathogen revealed that only parainfluenza type 2 virus showed a significantly high risk. Parainfluenza type 2 virus did not show an age-based difference in frequency but showed relatively a higher frequency of infections during the summer and fall. Conclusions: In this study, parainfluenza virus type 2 was the only virus associated with severe viral croup. To facilitate proper preventive management, treatment, and prognosis evaluation of viral croup, prospective and multicenter studies should assess the additional variables and the severity of the virus. Additionally, further studies should be conducted to assess age-dependent influences, as well as the regional and seasonal incidence of viral infection.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.57-60
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• 2004

To get basic information on the Korea local corn lines collected from Busan and Gyungnam Province, a total of 49 lines were classified by the principal component analysis method. The lines were classified into 4 lineal groups by the taxonomic distance. Croup I included 11 lines, and groupII, groupIII and groupIV included 20 lines, 14 lines and 4 lines, respectively. Four groups could be characterized as follows: Croup I : early maturity, short plant, small ears, small kernels, low tillering and medium yielding. Croup II : early maturity, tall plant, large ears, large kernels, multi-ears, low tillering and high yielding. GroupIII: late maturity, short plant, small ears, small kernels, high tillering and low yielding. Croup W medium maturity, tall plant, large ears, small kernels, prolific ears, high tillering and higher yielding.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.380-383
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• 1999

This paper proposes a basic framework of tight management of the group membership for Internet Multicast applications. At first, this paper describes and summary requirements for group management in multicast applications. So, tile framework model is designed to support the requirements. In the framework model, the CM (Croup Manage.) plays a main .ole. The CM has the four functionality: group creation, group announce, group query, group enroll, and group notification. Consequently, the proposed framework should support the new protocol for group management.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 2004.07a
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• pp.469-469
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• 2004

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.1071-1073
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• 2005

This paper investigates magnetic field behavior and its iron losses in the stator core using electrical steels. The analysis model is a brushless motor with the permanent magnet. The elliptical rotating and alternating flux distributions with non-sinusoidal waveforms are obtained by Finite Element Method and then their harmonic components are extracted. Based on these results, the local iron losses in the stator core caused by the harmonic flux are calculated. Furthmore, this paper explains the relation between the complex flux waveform and iron loss produced in each part of the stator core.

• The Korean Nurse
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• v.8 no.5 s.43
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• pp.49-50
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• 1969