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The 29 May 2004 Offshore Southeast Coast of Korea Earthquake Sequence: Shallow Earthquakes in the Ulleung Back-arc basin, East Sea (Sea of Japan)

  • Kim, Won-Young;Noh, Myung-Hyun;Choi, Ho-Sun
    • Journal of the Korean Geophysical Society
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.249-262
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    • 2006
  • The 29 May 2004 offshore Uljin, Korea earthquake was predominantly thrust-faulting at a depth of approximately 12 (±2) km. The mainshock attained the seismic moment of M0 =5.41 (±1.87)  1016 N m (Mw = 5.1). The focal mechanism indicates a subhorizontal P-axis trending 264° and plunging 2°. The orientation of P- and T-axis is consistent with the direction of absolute plate motion generally observed within the plates, hence the cause of the May 29 shock is the broad-scale stress pattern from the forces acting on the downgoing slab along the Japan trench and inhibiting forces balancing it. The 29 May 2004 earthquake occurred along a deep seated (~12 km), pre-existing feature that is expressed on the surface as the basement escarpment along the western and southern slopes of the Ulleung basin. The concentrated seismicity along this basement escarpment suggests that this feature may qualify as a seismic zone - the Ulleung basement escarpment seismic zone (UBESZ).

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A Case Report of Juvenile Hypertrophy of the Breast in a 15-Year-Old Girl: Presented with Asymmetric Breast Enlargement and a Focal Mass-like Lesion

  • Park, Jae Yeon;Kim, Sung Hun;Jung, Na Young;Kang, Bong Joo;Lee, Ah Won;Jin, Min-Sun
    • Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.175-178
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    • 2019
  • Juvenile hypertrophy of the breast is a rare condition, leading to hyperplastic breast anomalies in adolescents. Here, we report a case involving a 15-year-old girl, presented with asymmetric enlargement of the left breast. Pronounced parenchymal thickening was found on initial ultrasonography (US). MRI and second-look US revealed a focal mass-like lesion on the left mid-lateral breast, confirmed as juvenile hypertrophy of the breast on pathology.

Design and Experimental Demonstration of Coaxially Folded All-reflective Imaging System

  • Xiong, Yupeng;Dai, Yifan;Chen, Shanyong;Tie, Guipeng
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.227-235
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    • 2019
  • With slimmer, lighter and all-reflective imaging systems in high demand for consumer and military applications, coaxially folded optical image systems are widely considered because they can extend focal length and reduce track length. Most of these systems consist of multiple surfaces, and these surfaces are machined on one element or grouping processing on two elements. In this paper, we report and first experimentally demonstrate an all-aluminum all-reflective optical system which consists of two optical elements, with two high order aspherical surfaces in each element. The coaxially folded system is designed with Seidel aberration theory and advanced optimization with Zemax. The system is made of all-aluminum material processing by single point diamond turning (SPDT). On this basis, we completed the system integration and performed an imaging experiment. The final system has the advantages of short track length and long focal length and broad application prospects in the micro-unmanned aerial vehicle field.

Circulating Permeability Factors in Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome

  • Ha, Tae-Sun
    • Childhood Kidney Diseases
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.7-21
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    • 2019
  • Nephrotic syndrome (NS) is a common chronic glomerular disease in children characterized by significant proteinuria with resulting hypoalbuminemia, edema, and hyperlipidemia. Renal biopsy findings of diffuse foot processes effacement on electron microscopy and minimal change disease, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), or diffuse mesangial proliferation on light microscopy. It has been speculated that circulating permeability factors would be implicated in the pathogenesis of NS because they have been reportedly detected in the sera of patients and in experimental models of induced proteinuria. Moreover, a substantial portion of the patients with primary FSGS recurrence shortly after transplantation. This report reviews the current knowledge regarding the role of circulating permeability factors in the pathogenesis of proteinuria in NS and suggests future targeted therapeutic approaches for NS.

Neuroprotective Effects of Treatment with Aloesin in Rat Model of Permanent Focal Cerebral Ischemia

  • Cho, Eun-Young;Lee, Moon-Jung;Lee, Yong-Ha;Jung, Kyung-Ja;Song, Yun-Seon;Jin, Chang-Bae
    • Proceedings of the PSK Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.304.1-304.1
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    • 2002
  • Brain injury resulting from cerebral ischemia remains a major public health problem. Aloesin. main component of aloe possesses various biological activities such as wound healing, anti-gastric ulcer, and chemopreventive activity. In this study we investigated whether treatment with aloes in could protect brain injury induced by permanent focal cerebral ischemia in rats. We also compared aloes in with other neuroprotective. drugs such as MK801 and ebselen. (omitted)

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An Exploratory Research on MNC Parents' Motivation to Facilitate Reverse Knowledge Transfer (다국적기업 본사의 역지식이전 동기요인에 대한 탐색적 연구)

  • Hong, Sung-Jin;Yang, Oh-Suk
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.53-67
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    • 2019
  • Reverse knowledge transfer has been an important research theme in the literature on multinational corporations (MNCs). This paper proposes major determinants of MNC headquarters' willingness to adopt and use marketing knowledge from their subsidiaries. We argue that the willingness will be jointly determined by both the headquarter's absorptive capacity and the focal subsidiary's transfer capacity and willingness to transfer. In addition, we argue that these capability and motivation effects are moderated by (1) institutional distance between home and the focal host country, (2) the need to unlearn existing routines, and (3) types of entry modes. This paper contributes to the reverse knowledge transfer literature by proposing the argument that both motivational and capability factors are likely to determine the MNC parents' willingness to adopt and use marketing knowledge from their subsidiaries.

Alignment of Schwarzchild-Chang Off-axis Telescope with a Shack-Hartmann Wavefront Sensor and Sensitivity Table Method

  • Lee, Sunwoo;Park, Woojin;Kim, Yunjong;Kim, Sanghyuk;Chang, Seunghyuk;Jeong, Byeongjoon;Kim, Geon Hee;Pak, Soojong
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.44 no.2
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    • pp.79.1-79.1
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    • 2019
  • The Schwarzchild-Chang telescope is a confocal off-axis two mirror telescope with D = 50 mm, F = 100 mm and FOV = 8 ° × 8 °. Unlike common off-axis telescopes, the mirrors of the Schwarzchild-Chang telescope share their focal points to remove the linear astigmatism. In this poster, we show the alignment process of the Schwarzchild-Chang telescope with wavefront measurement and the sensitivity table method. Wavefront is measured using the Shack-Hartmann sensor, and Zernike polynomials are obtained from measured wavefront. Sensitivity table method is to calculate alignment errors from the Zernike coefficients. As a result, we evaluate tilt, decenter, and despace of each mirror of linear astigmatism-free con-focal off-axis system.

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Automatic crack detection of dam concrete structures based on deep learning

  • Zongjie Lv;Jinzhang Tian;Yantao Zhu;Yangtao Li
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.32 no.6
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    • pp.615-623
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    • 2023
  • Crack detection is an essential method to ensure the safety of dam concrete structures. Low-quality crack images of dam concrete structures limit the application of neural network methods in crack detection. This research proposes a modified attentional mechanism model to reduce the disturbance caused by uneven light, shadow, and water spots in crack images. Also, the focal loss function solves the small ratio of crack information. The dataset collects from the network, laboratory and actual inspection dataset of dam concrete structures. This research proposes a novel method for crack detection of dam concrete structures based on the U-Net neural network, namely AF-UNet. A mutual comparison of OTSU, Canny, region growing, DeepLab V3+, SegFormer, U-Net, and AF-UNet (proposed) verified the detection accuracy. A binocular camera detects cracks in the experimental scene. The smallest measurement width of the system is 0.27 mm. The potential goal is to achieve real-time detection and localization of cracks in dam concrete structures.

Assessment of Local Tumor Progression After Image-Guided Thermal Ablation for Renal Cell Carcinoma

  • Byung Kwan Park
    • Korean Journal of Radiology
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.33-42
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    • 2024
  • Focal enhancement typically suggests local tumor progression (LTP) after renal cell carcinoma is percutaneously ablated. However, evaluating findings that are false positive or negative of LTP is less familiar to radiologists who have little experience with renal ablation. Various imaging features are encountered during and after thermal ablation. Ablation procedures and previous follow-up imaging should be reviewed before determining if there is LTP. Previous studies have focused on detecting the presence or absence of focal enhancement within the ablation zone. Therefore, various diagnostic pitfalls can be experienced using computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging examinations. This review aimed to assess how to read images during or after ablation procedures, recognize imaging features of LTP and determine factors that influence LTP.