• Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Science
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.98-104
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• 2020

Objective: The shoulders are a particularly an important body part for elite boxers. The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics of the upper trapezius (UT), infraspinatus (IS) muscle tone, pain, and isokinetic muscle function of shoulder movements such as external rotation, internal rotation, protraction, and retraction according to the scapular position of elite boxers of the Korean national team. Design: Cross-sectional study. Methods: Using the double square method, the scapular position was measured and divided into the forward scapular position group (n=8) with a measurement distance of 135 mm or more, and the normal scapular position group (n=10) with a measurement distance of less than 135 mm. Through the numeric rating scale of the subject, the pain value displayed during movement was measured. The muscle tone of the subjects' UT and IS were measured. The isokinetic muscle function of ER, IR, protraction, and retraction were measured using isokinetic exercise equipment. Results: The results of this study showed statistically significant differences when comparing muscle tone of the UT and IS, shoulder pain, isokinetic function of ER and IR, protraction, and retraction according to scapular position (p<0.05). Conclusions: The findings of this study were that shoulder muscle tone, pain, and isokinetic muscle function were affected according to the scapular position of elite boxers. In the future, this information may be a useful indicator when studying the effects of medium and long-term intervention in elite boxers who possess these characteristics.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권10호
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• pp.3571-3587
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• 2021

For accurately analysing and forecasting the social networks of China's political, economic and social power elites, it is necessary to develop a database that collates their information. The development of such a database involves three stages: data definition, data collection and data quality maintenance. The present study recommends distinctive solutions in overcoming the challenges that occur in existing comparable databases. We used organizational and event factors to identify the Chinese power elites to be included in the database, and used their memberships, social relations and interactions in combination with flows data collection methodologies to determine the associations between them. The system can be used to determine the optimal relationship path (i.e., the shortest path) to reach a target elite and to identify of the most important power elite in a social network (e.g., degree, closeness and eigenvector centrality) or a community (e.g., a clique or a cluster). We have used three social network analysis tools (i.e., R, UCINET and NetMiner) in order to find the important nodes in the network. We compared the results of centrality rankings of each tool. We found that all three tools are providing slightly different results of centrality. This is because different tools use different algorithms and even within the same tool there are various libraries which provide the same functionality (i.e., ggraph, igraph and sna in R that provide the different function to calculate centrality). As there are chances that the results may not be the same (i.e. centrality rankings indicating the most important nodes can be varied), we recommend a comparison test using different tools to get accurate results.

• Acta Via Serica
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.37-60
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• 2021

Before the tenth century, the dress of elite women in and around China often reflected "Han" Chinese fashions and preferences. In funerary paintings and relief sculptures of Sogdian and Xianbei couples from the sixth century, for example, women wear "Han" Chinese-style clothing. Even in the Tang dynasty (ca. 618-907), when exchange with Central Asia via overland Silk Road trade impacted the styles and patterning of elite dress and men incorporated clear Central Asian attributes into their dress, elite women in the Tang sphere wore recognizably Tang fashions. Chinese-style dress in these centuries clearly conveyed cultural import and, likely, political power, especially after the founding of the Tang dynasty. However, the straightforward borrowing of Tang women's dress shifted in the Khitan Liao dynasty (ca. 907-1125). The Liao, in contrast to other states that shared a border with China in previous centuries, saw themselves as political equals to the Song dynasty (ca. 960-1278) court in the south. The Liao court was interested in Song customs and culture and incorporated artistic motifs and practices from the Song court. However, the Liao courtly idiom was never fully subsumed into the greater world of the Song - rather, the Liao used facets of Song courtly culture for their own ends. One way this is manifested is through the dual administrative system, a bureaucratic organization that, among other things, regulated and distinguished between who was permitted to wear Khitan and non-Khitan dress. In this paper, I will examine the material evidence from funerary contexts for how the dress of elite Liao women both engaged with the dress of the Song, while also maintaining a certain amount of cultural autonomy. Through their dress, elite Liao women signaled clear messages about their status, identity, and difference to their Song counterparts.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2009년도 제40회 하계학술대회
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• pp.1353_1354
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• 2009

The OTFT devices had inverted staggered structures of Au/pentacene/ppMMA/ITO on PET substrate. The overall device performances of the flexible devices such as the operating voltage, the field effect mobility, the on/off ratio and the off current are somewhat worse than those of devices fabricated on glass substrates. Pentacene/ppMMA OTFT benchmarks (mobility, sub-threshold slope, on/off ratio) were comparable to that of solution cast PMMA, but below average when compared to other polymer gate dielectrics. However, threshold and drive voltages were among the lowest reported for a polymer gate dielectric, and surpassed only by ultra-thin SAM gate dielectrics.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제59권4호
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• pp.671-682
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• 2016

In this paper, a new analytical approach has been presented for solving nonlinear conservative oscillators. Variational approach leads us to high accurate solution with only one iteration. Two different high nonlinear examples are also presented to show the application and accuracy of the presented approach. The results are compared with numerical solution using runge-kutta algorithm in different figures and tables. It has been shown that the variatioanl approach doesn't need any small perturbation and is accurate for nonlinear conservative equations.

• 한국운동역학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.183-189
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• 2010

The balanced performance of dominant and non-dominant leg is very important to Taekwondo sparring. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether elite Taekwondo athletes would have balanced biomechanical performance and intra-limb coordination in executing different types of Taekwondo kicks. Twelve athletes(more than 10 year practice experience) participated in this study and performed six basic kicks(i.e., the front, roundhouse, side, back, thrashing, and turning-back kick). Results indicated no statistical difference on response time, peak kicking velocity, single limb vertical jump height, and angle-angle plot between dominant leg and non-dominant leg(p>.05). In conclusion, elite Taekwondo athletes had equivalent ability between dominant leg and non-dominant leg in performing Taekwondo kicks. This might be an advantage to elite athletes for Taekwondo sparring because they could use both leg without any restriction.

• 한국운동역학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.173-184
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• 2003

The purpose of this study was to investigate the batting characteristics in elite baseball players. Seven skilled collegiate players hit the ball which was thrown by a pitching machine linearly and strongly to the center of the field. Time, velocity, angle and pound reaction force variables were measured by using high-speed video cameras and pound reaction force analyzer. The results were as follows: 1. The elite players finished their stride performance in a short time and they stayed longer in a swing phase. The increases in the range of trunk rotation were associated with the delay of the swing phase. 2. The 'take-back' phenomenon in the trunk was showed after the stride phase. 3. The down swing demonstrated powerful line drives. 4. Equivalent body weights were placed on both feet during the ready phase. 95% of the body weights were moved to the rear foot during the stride phase, whereas the body weights were driven to the front foot during the swing phase. 95% of the body weights were placed on the front foot at impact.

• Animal cells and systems
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.69-73
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• 2003

Serum lipid and lipoprotein levels are influenced by genetic factors, and exorcise increases the concentrations of cardio-protective parameters such as high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-cholesterol) and apolipoproteinAI (apoAI) in human serum. In the present study, we tested the effect of adaptation to endurance exercise on the association of a genetic polymorphism (Pst 1 RFLP) in the apoAI gene with these biochemical parameters. The genotype and allele frequencies for the Pst 1 RFLP were not significantly different between the elite athletes and sedentary controls (P>0.05). There were also no significant associations between the Pst 1 RFLP of the apoAI gene and the biochemical parameters in elite athletic group. Thus, our results suggest that the Pst 1 RFLP of the apoAI gene was not significantly associated with the serum apoAI and HDL-cholesterol concentrations as well as athletic performance in Koreans.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.21-25
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 백색광 주사 간섭계의 측정시 외부 잡음이나 진동에 의한 간섭무늬 신호 왜곡으로 인하여 높이 영상에 발생하는 점 노이즈 제거를 위해, 데이터 처리 과정에서 높이 영상에 잡음 제거 필터를 적용하여 백색광 간섭계의 잡음 제거 성능을 향상시켰다. 백색광 간섭계의 높이 영상에 산포되어 있는 점 노이즈의 제거 방법으로 주로 사용되는 미디안(median) 필터는 점 노이즈 제거에 좋은 성능을 보이지만, 특정 경우 노이즈 제거 성능이 좋지 못하여 본 논문에서는 비교 평균 필터(Comparative Mean filter)를 제안하였다. 비교 평균 필터는 중심 화소 수치와 주변의 화소 수치를 비교하여 노이즈를 판별하고, 노이즈를 참조구간 화소 수치의 평균값으로 대체하는 필터이다. 비교평균 필터는 높이영상에서 노이즈 판별을 통한 보정과정으로 인하여 복원 영상의 선명도를 유지하면서 점 노이즈 제거에 좋은 성능을 보인다. 표면이 거칠고 굴곡이 심한 시료를 측정한 결과 후처리 하지 않은 경우와 비교하여 잡음성 화소를 약 1/3로 감소시키는 성능 향상이 있었다.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.272-275
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 백색광 간섭계(White Light Interferometry, WLI)의 데이터 처리 과정에서 가간섭 영역 외의 배경 잡음성 신호 필터링을 통하여 백색광 주사 간섭계의 성능을 향상시켰다. 광학계의 개구수(Numerical Aperture, NA)가 유한한 백색광 간섭계의 경우, 단차가 크고 표면 굴곡이 심한 시료를 측정하게 되면 유한한 초점심도(Depth Of Focus, DOF)에 의하여 배경 잡음이 발생하며, 반사가 심한 경면의 경우에는 간섭무늬 신호보다 배경 잡음의 영향을 많이 받게 된다. 따라서 배경 잡음을 제거하기 위하여 간섭무늬 신호 자체 형상에 영향을 주지 않으면서 효율적으로 배경 잡음 필터링이 가능한 전후 구간 평균법을 제시하였다. 전후구간 평균법은 원 데이터와 그 이동평균과의 차이를 이용하는 방법으로, 고속으로 대략적인 정점의 위치를 파악한 후 정밀도가 높은 가시도 정점 검출 알고리즘으로 처리하여 측정 속도와 정밀도를 높였다. 전후구간 평균법을 이용하여 배경 잡음을 제거한 경우, 제거하지 않은 경우와 비교하여 잡음 화소가 약 1/4로 감소되었다.