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Safety and outcomes of subconjunctival allogenic mesenchymal stem cell transplantation in canine experimental corneal defects

  • Kim, Ju-Won;Lee, So-Young;Park, Hee-Myung
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Research
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    • v.52 no.3
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    • pp.157-162
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    • 2012
  • Corneal injury is very common clinical condition in veterinary medicine and delayed or incomplete corneal healing has the potential of vision loss due to the loss of corneal transparency. For the reconstruction of corneal epithelium, tissue graft and cell transplantation have been prosperously investigated. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical value and short-term safety of application of cultured allogenic mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in the treatment of canine experimental corneal defect. Corneal defects were surgically generated in the central corneas of healthy beagle dogs and cultured canine allogenic MSCs were transplanted via subconjunctival injection. Although mean healing time, the rate of epithelial regeneration, and the degree of corneal transparency were not significantly improved after MSC transplantation, significant immune reaction or incompatibility reaction was not detected except transient local irritation. These results propose the possibility of MSC application as a new regenerative medicine in canine ocular disorders.

Adaptation Experiences in South Korea of Men defecting from North Korea (북한이탈 남성주민의 남한 사회에서의 적응경험)

  • Kim, Kyoung Mi;Kim, Miyoung
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.43 no.3
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    • pp.431-441
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    • 2013
  • Purpose: The study was done to explore meanings and essence of the experience in South Korea of men defectors from North Korea. Methods: Data were collected from March, 2011 to May, 2012, through in-depth interviews with ten men defectors. Data analysis was conducted using the process of hermeneutic phenomenological reflection. Results: Eight essential themes were extracted; 'buoyant expectation for a new life', 'feeling guilty about family left behind in North Korea', 'inability to become acclimatized due to communication difficulties', 'inability to socialize with South Koreans due to different lifestyles', 'finding strength through trustworthy acquaintances', 'continuing reconciliation with oneself while trying to assimilate into South Korean culture', 'self-realization of one's original self', and 'continuing to feel out the possibility of a future in South Korea'. Conclusion: The findings indicate that North Korean men who defect to South Korea shape their identity through three phases: forming self-image during escape from North Korea, trying to become accustomed to South Korean society, and finding their own identity by self-realization of their original self. Eventually, the whole process enables them to recover their identity, to feel a sense of belonging, and to discover possibilities for a better future.

A Study on the Hydrothermal Synthesis of Clay Mineral (III) -Scale up Test for the Hydrothermal Synthesis of Clay Mineral from Anorthite and the Automatic Control System Development- (수열반응에 의한 인공점토의 합성연구(III) -경남 산청산 회장석으로부터 교반식 수열 반응장치에 의한 인공점토의 대량생산 실험 및 수열반응의 자동 조절 제어장치 개발-)

  • ;;Kunio Kimura
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.32 no.7
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    • pp.777-782
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    • 1995
  • The scale up production test for the hydrothermal synthesis of clay mineral from the anorthite, which is distributed in San Chung-District of Korea and called as the ground rock for halloysite-kaolin, has been investigated by using the gaitator type reactor. The automatic control system has been developed and applied for the more effective producibility and the reduction in the defect of this intermittent batch processing property, and finally for the feasibility of this system in actual use. It was observed that this agitator type reactor can reduce the synthesis reaction tme from 5 days to 3 days, only with the condition of 20rpm. The automatic control system could regulate the vessel temperature and pressure precisely at an optimum condition during the treatment. Therefore, from these test results the application-possibility for this system was found to be feasible in actual use.

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The Design of an Extended Complex Event Model based on Event Correlation using Aspect Oriented Programming

  • Kum, Deuk-Kyu
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.22 no.10
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    • pp.109-119
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    • 2017
  • In recent through development of IOT owing to that mass stream data is being generated in variety of application complex event processing technology is being watched with keen interest as a technology to analyze this kind of real-time continuous data. However, the existing study related with complex event processing only comes to an end at simple event processing based on low-level event or comes to an end at service defect discovery with providing limited operator and so on. Accordingly, there would be limitation to provide useful analysis information. In this paper in consideration of complex event along with aspect-oriented programming an extended complex event model is provided, which is possible to provide more valuable and useful information. Specifically, we extend the model to support hierarchical event structures and let the model recognize point-cuts of aspect-oriented programming as events. We provide the event operators designed to specify the events on instances and handle temporal relations of the instances. It is presented that syntax and semantics of constructs in our event processing language including various and progressive event operators, complex event pattern, etc. In addition, an event context mechanism is proposed to analyze more delicate events. Finally, through application studies application possibility of this study would be shown and merits of this event model would be present through comparison with other event model.

Some Considerations on the On-site Applicability of PSA(Pulse Sequence Analysis) as a Partial Discharge Analysis Method (부분방전 해석 방법으로 PSA(Pulse Sequence Analysis)의 현장 적용성에 대한 고찰)

  • Kim, Jeong-Tae;Lee, Ho-Keun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.484-489
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    • 2005
  • Because of its effectiveness for the PD(Partial Discharge) pattern recognition, PSA(Pulse Sequence Analysis) has been considered as a new analytic method instead of conventional PRPDA(Phase Resolved Partial Discharge Analysis). However, it is generally thought that PSA has some possibility to misjudge patterns in case of data-missing resulting from poor sensitivity because it analyses the correlation between sequential pulses, which leads to hesitate to apply it to on-site. Therefore, in this paper, the problems of PSA such as data-missing and noise-adding cases were investigated. for the purpose, PD data obtained from various defects including noise-adding data were used and analyzed. As a result, it was shown that both cases could cause fatal errors in recognizing PD patterns. In case of the data missing, the error was dependant on the kinds of defect and the degree of degradation Also, it could be noticed that the error due to adding noises was larger than that due to some data missing.

FABRICATION OF NEO-OSSEOUS FLAP USING DEMINERALIZED ALLOGENEIC BONE (탈회동종골을 이용한 신혈류화골판 형성에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jong-Ho;Kim, Hyeon-Tae
    • Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.253-263
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    • 1995
  • Microsurgical vascularized bone transfer has the disadvantages of limitation of available donor sites, loss of donor function, and the possibility of donor site defects or deformity. To overcome these shortage of current microsurgical tissue transfer, the method of creating the neovascularized free flap has been introduced. Potentially, this technique must be an innovation in providing the free vascularized bone grafts that are not limited by natural vascular anatomy. But, as could be imagined technique resulted in unavoidable donor bone defect and additional operation for harvesting the autologous bone. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of demineralized allogeneic bone as a possible substitute for autologous bone in fabricating the neo-osseous flap. By histologic, microangiographic and radioisotope method, the viability and vascularity of neo-osseous flap, which has been fabricated using allogeneic bone or autologous bone, was assessed in rat model. After 6 weeks, demineralized allogeneic bone showed consistent bone formation and neovascularization. The clinical and microscopic findings of demineralized allogeneic bone group were inferior to those of autogenous bone with regard to bone regeneration. The amount of bone blood floow per dry weight of demineralized allogeneic bone group was significantly higher than that of autogenous bone, even higher that of control intact iliac bone. In conclusion, findings supported that allogeneic bone could be the potential substitute for autologous bone source in creating a prefabricated neo-osseous flap.

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Defect Genesis and Fatigue Failure Behaviour of Bearing Metal in Manufacturing Processes (제조 공정에 따른 베어링메탈의 결함발생 및 피로파괴거동)

  • Kim, Min-Gun
    • Journal of Industrial Technology
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    • v.31 no.A
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    • pp.45-51
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    • 2011
  • A study has been made on defects which are formed in manufacturing processes of engine bearing and also on fatigue crack growth behavior in each step of bearing metal manufacturing. After the first step (sinter brass powder on steel plate ; Series A) many voids are made on brass surface and its size is decreased at the second step (rolling process of sintered plate ; Series B). After the third step (re-sintering step of brass powder and rolling ; Series C) the number of voids is decreased and its type shows line. The time of fatigue crack initiation and the growth rate of fatigue crack are in order of Series A, Series B, Series C. These reasons are that void fosters the crack initiation and growth, and residual stress made by rolling process affects on the crack growth rate in Series B, C. In forming and machining processes by use of final bearing metal, crack was observed at internal corner of flange and peeling off was observed at interface between steel and brass. Owing to the above crack and peeling off, it is considered that there is a possibility of fatigue fracture during the application time.

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Evaluation of freezing and thawing damage of concrete using a nonlinear ultrasonic method

  • Yim, Hong Jae;Park, Sun-Jong;Kim, Jae Hong;Kwak, Hyo-Gyong
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.45-58
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    • 2016
  • Freezing and thawing cycles induce deterioration and strength degradation of concrete structures. This study presumes that a large quantity of contact-type defects develop due to the freezing and thawing cycles of concrete and evaluates the degree of defects based on a nonlinearity parameter. The nonlinearity parameter was obtained by an impact-modulation technique, one of the nonlinear ultrasonic methods. It is then used as an indicator of the degree of contact-type defects. Five types of damaged samples were fabricated according to different freezing and thawing cycles, and the occurrence of opening or cracks on a micro-scale was visually verified via scanning electron microscopy. Dynamic modulus and wave velocity were also measured for a sensitivity comparison with the obtained nonlinearity parameter. The possibility of evaluating strength degradation was also investigated based on a simple correlation of the experimental results.

Diagnosis of Medium Voltage Cables for Nuclear Power Plant

  • Ha, Che-Wung;Lee, Do Hwan
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.1369-1374
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    • 2014
  • Most accidents of medium-voltage cables installed in nuclear power plants result from the initial defect of internal insulators or the initial failure due to poor construction. However, as the service years of plants increase, the possibility of cable accidents is also rapidly increases. This is primarily caused by electric, mechanical, thermal, and radiation stresses. Recently, much attention is paid to the study of cable diagnoses. To date, partial discharge and Tan${\delta}$ measurements are known as reliable methods to diagnose the aging of medium-voltage cables. High frequency partial discharge measurement techniques have been widely used to diagnose cables in transmission and distribution systems. However, the on-line high frequency partial discharge technique has not been used in the nuclear power plants because of the plant shutdown risk, degraded measurement sensitivity, and application problems. In this paper, the partial discharge measurement with a portable device was tried to evaluate the integrity of the 4.16kV and 13.8kV cable lines. The test results show that the high detection sensitivity can be achieved by the high frequency partial discharge technique. The present technique is highly attractive to diagnose medium voltage cables in nuclear power plants.

TSV Formation using Pico-second Laser and CDE (피코초 레이저 및 CDE를 이용한 TSV가공기술)

  • Shin, Dong-Sig;Suh, Jeong;Cho, Yong-Kwon;Lee, Nae-Eung
    • Laser Solutions
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.14-20
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    • 2011
  • The advantage of using lasers for through silicon via (TSV) drilling is that they allow higher flexibility during manufacturing because vacuums, lithography, and masks are not required; furthermore, the lasers can be applied to metal and dielectric layers other than silicon. However, conventional nanosecond lasers have disadvantages including that they can cause heat affection around the target area. In contrast, the use of a picosecond laser enables the precise generation of TSVs with a smaller heat affected zone. In this study, a comparison of the thermal and crystallographic defect around laser-drilled holes when using a picosecond laser beam with varing a fluence and repetition rate was conducted. Notably, the higher fluence and repetition rate picosecond laser process increased the experimentally recast layer, surface debris, and dislocation around the hole better than the high fluence and repetition rate. These findings suggest that even the picosecond laser has a heat accumulation effect under high fluence and short pulse interval conditions. To eliminate these defects under the high speed process, the CDE (chemical downstream etching) process was employed and it can prove the possibility to applicate to the TSV industry.

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