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Effect of Miniscalpel-Acupuncture for Hand Osteoarthritis: Case Report (도침 치료를 통한 손가락 관절염 치료: 증례 보고)

  • Jeong, Ji-Cheol;Yoon, Sang-Hoon;Kim, Shin-Ae
    • Journal of Korean Medicine Rehabilitation
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.125-130
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    • 2018
  • This case report was conducted to introduce the use of miniscalpel-acupuncture for the treatment of hand osteoarthritis. A-76-year old female patient who had pain on both hands due to osteoarthritis was treated with miniscalpel-acupuncture for 7 weeks. The main outcome were the Numeral Rating Scale (NRS) and the grip strength by dynamometer. After miniscalpel-acupuncture treatment, NRS was decreased and the strength of grasp was increased. The result of this study suggests that the treatment of miniscalpel-acupuncture may be effectively used to decrease pain and increase grip strength of patients who suffer from hand osteoarthritis. Further research is necessary by the reason of the limited sample size of this study.

The Effect of Replacement Level of Recycled Aggregate on the Properties of High-Performance Concrete (고성능 콘크리트의 특성에 미치는 재생골재 치환율의 영향)

  • Yang Keun-Hyeok;Kim Yong-Seok
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.181-184
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    • 2004
  • The objective of this experimental study is to grasp the effect of replacement level of high-quality recycled aggregate on the properties of high-performance concrete. The mixing types were divided into two series based on containing $0\%\;and\;15\%$ fly-ash. Replacement level of recycled aggregate ranged from $0\%\;to\;100\%$. Test results showed that the initial slump and the fluid velocity were independent on the replacement level of recycled aggregate, and the loss of compressive strength was almost $20\%$ with the recycled aggregate only.

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An Experimental Study on Flexural Strength of Inverted T-shaped Composite Beams encased with concrete (매립형 역T형 합성보의 휨내력에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Jang, Hee-Sung;Jeong, Jae-Hun;Kim, Jin- Moo;Joo, Kyong-Jae
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.145-152
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    • 2000
  • In simply supported composite beams, the neutral axis of the composite cross section is usually located near the top flange of the steel H-shape, so that the top flange does not impart much strength to the member. This suggests that omitting the top flange entirely could be a means to lower the cost of the beam without greatly reducing the strength. However, It is not easy for inverted T-shaped composite beam to construct and to apply continuous beam which has negative bending moment. As a result, it would get more workability and decrease capability of lateral buckling and local buckling, if the bottom flange of inverted T-shaped steel used as a form. Therefore. the objectives of this study are to investigate strength and behaviors of inverted T-shaped composite beam which web is encased by concrete and to grasp bending capacity and efficiency of composite by comparing and analyzing in test piece.

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A Study on the Elasto-Plasticity Behaviour According to the Yield Strength of a Ship's Plate (항복강도에 따른 선체판의 탄소성거동에 관한 연구)

  • 고재용;박주신
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.27-31
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    • 2003
  • Recently, buckling is easy to happen as that High tensile steel that is the thin plate absence is used comprehensively for the structure. Specially, buckling is getting into important design standard in hull construction which use High tensile steel. Therefore, that grasp conduct exactly after buckling is important in stability of hull structure. In this study, examined closely about conduct and secondary buckling after initial buckling of thin plate structure which receive compressive load according to various kinds yield strength under simply supported condition that make by buckling strength formula standard in each payment in advance rule to place that is representative construction of hull in this research. Analysis method is F.E.M by ANSYS and complicated nonlinear behaviour to analyze such as secondary buckling in used arc-length method.

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Effects of Metallic Parameters for Distribution of Fatigue Crack Growth Rate - Dependence of Grain Size -; (피로크랙진전속도의 분포에 대한 금속학적 인자의 영향 - 결정입자 의존성 -)

  • Yoon, Han-Yong
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.20 no.7
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    • pp.2141-2147
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    • 1996
  • The strength of material is scattered owing to the inhomogenity of microstructure, in spite of the same material. Therefore, in order to design the mechanical structure with the reliability engineering, it is important to grasp the statistical nature of material strength. In this paper, effects of grain sezes for the statistical nature of the fatigue crack growth was discussed. And the statistical nature of mechanical properties was compared with the statistical nature of the fatigue crack growth rate.

The Study on the Properties of Calcined Oyster Shell & Hwang-To Powder (황토를 혼합 소성한 굴패각 미분말의 물성에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Joo-hyung;Park, Min-Soo;Jung, Min-Soo;Kim, Hyo-Youl;Kang, Byung-Hee
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.41-44
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    • 2007
  • Recently, the strenuous industrial waste is scattered and one of the oyster also make the serious environmental contamination. The purpose of this study is investigating an utilization ability as calcium binder of the oyster with Hwang-To according to a rate(10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%). This study grasp physical properties of the oyster powder, bake production of the paste, and conduct the flow test, stiff time test and strength test. According to baking condition, strength of $1000^{\circ}C$(120minutes, rate 30%) is higher than any other condition. The oyster powder from above $900^{\circ}C$ seem possibility as binder hereafter. It is thought that the continuous research will be necessary.

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Strengthened connections between engrams encode specific memories

  • Kim, Ji-il;Choi, Dong Il;Kaang, Bong-Kiun
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.51 no.8
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    • pp.369-370
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    • 2018
  • In previous studies, memory storage was localized to engram cells distributed across the brain. While these studies have provided an individual cellular profile of engram cells, their synaptic connectivity, or whether they follow Hebbian mechanisms, remains uncertain. Therefore, our recent study investigated whether synapses between engram cells exhibit selectively enhanced structural and functional properties following memory formation. This was accomplished using a newly developed technique called "dual-eGRASP". We found that the number and size of spines on CA1 engram cells that receive inputs from CA3 engram cells were larger than at other synapses. We further observed that this enhanced connectivity correlated with induced memory strength. CA3 engram synapses exhibited increased release probability, while CA1 engram synapses produced enhanced postsynaptic responses. CA3 engram to CA1 engram projections showed strong occlusion of long-term potentiation. We demonstrated that the synaptic connectivity of CA3 to CA1 engram cells was strengthened following memory formation. Our results suggest that Hebbian plasticity occurs during memory formation among engram cells at the synapse level.

The Physical and Shear Strength Properties of the Weathered Limestone Soils in Changsung and Hwasun Area of Chonnam Province, Korea (전라남도 장성과 화순에 분포하는 석회암풍화토의 물성 및 전단 특성)

  • 김해경
    • The Journal of Engineering Geology
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.335-344
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    • 2003
  • This study is focused to the physical and shear strength properties of the weathered limestone soils distributed in Changsung and Hwasun area, Chonnam province. Disturbed soil was used as soil samples. To grasp the physical and shear strength properties of weathered limestone soil, specific gravity test, atterberg limit, grain size distribution and direct shear test were conducted in the laboratory. The physical and shear strength properties of the weathered limestone soil in the study areas are as follows. The range of specific gravity (Gs) is 2.78 to 2.80, liquid limits (LL) 37 to 38 (%), plasticity index (PI) 13.7 to 15.4, and soil classification CL. The range of strength parameters by direct shear test (vd, $1.5t/\textrm{m}^3$) is 3.07 to 4.4 ($t/\textrm{m}^2$) of cohesion and 34.8 to $42.4^{\circ}$ of internal friction angle in unsaturated soils. As a result of comparing with the weathered granite soils (Yang, 1997: Mun, 1998: Park, 1998), it is considered that physical properties of the weathered limestone soils in this study are different from the weathered granite soils. On the other hand, internal friction angle of shear parameters is found to be similar.

Nondestructive Assessment of Compressive Strength of Construction Materials Using Impact-Echo Response Signal (임팩에코 응답신호를 적용한 건설재료 비파괴 압축강도 산정)

  • Son, Moorak;Kim, Moojun
    • Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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    • v.18 no.8
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    • pp.17-21
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    • 2017
  • This paper is to grasp the use of impact-echo response signal induced from impacting an object for the assessment of compressive strength of construction materials nondestructively and to propose the test results. For this study, an impact device was devised and used for impacting an object by an initial rotating free falling impact and following repetitive impacts from the rebound action which eventually disappears. Concrete test specimens which had been mixed for different strengths were tested and the impact echo response signal was measured for each test specimen. The total sound signal energy which is assessed from integrating the impact-echo response signal was compared with the directly measured compressive strength for each specimen. The comparison showed that the total sound signal energy has a direct relationship with the directly measured compressive strength and the results clearly indicated that the compressive strength of construction materials can be assessed nondestructively using total sound signal energy which is assessed from integrating the impact-echo response signal induced from impacting an object.

An experimental study of scale effect on the shear behavior of rock joints

  • Lee Tae-Jin;Lee Sang-Geun;Lee Chung-In;Hwang Dae-Jin
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.156-161
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    • 2003
  • Mechanical behavior of rock joints usually can be characterized by small-scale laboratory shear tests due to economical and technical limitations, but their applicability to the behaviour of rock mass has been always questioned by a number of researchers because of scale effect. Though there have been several researches regarding the scale effect, it has been a controversial problem how to apply the result of small-scale laboratory shear test directly to field design from different conclusions among researchers. In order to grasp the trend of scale effect of shear behavior, a series of direct shear tests on replicas of natural rock joint surfaces made of gypsum cement with different size and roughness were conducted and analyzed. Result showed that as the size of the specimen increased, average peak shear displacement increased, but average shear stiffness and average peak dilation angle decreased. As for the dependency of scale on shear strength, the degree of scale effect was dependent on normal stress and roughness of rock joint. For the condition of low normal stress and high roughness, decrease of average peak shear strength with increasing size of joint was evident.

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