• Archives of Reconstructive Microsurgery
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.92-96
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• 1999

Neuroma is formed by abnormal, incomplete nerve regeneration after nerve injury. A painful neuroma in the hand can be psychologically and physically disabling. The goal of treating painful neuroma is to relieve pain and to restore nerve function. A numerous treatment modality was reported for alleviating the problem. These treatments include crushing the neuroma, ligating it, burying in soft tissue, bone, and muscle, injecting it with alcohol, phenol, and steroid, capping it with silicone cuff. But, none of these methods has been uniformly successful, although each has its advocates. No one technique reliably prevents formation of a painful neuroma. However, the principles of treatment is resection of neuroma and proximal stump of the nerve is transposed to appropriate adjacent tissue. Our current technique was resection of neuroma with partial normal neural tissue, and then the nerve ending was transposed and sutured to the side of the proximal stump with 10-0 nylon, so end-to-side neurorrhaphy was made. The nerve ending had to be placed and fixed into the proximal nerve epineurium like as a figure of a loop. We believe this technique is another useful method for the treatment of painful neuroma.

• 한국초전도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국초전도학회 2000년도 High Temperature Superconductivity Vol.X
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• pp.145-145
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• 2000

Large area YBCO - films are series produced by thermal co-evaporation using a deposition scheme known as Garching process, which allows intermittent oxygen supply in a high vacuum ambient by an oxygen cup spaced closely underneath the moving substrates. The deposition area of 9" diameter is capable to handle very large wafers up to 8" diam. or numerous smaller wafers. The large distance between substrates and boat sources and an elaborate heater design guarantee excellent film uniformity over the entire deposition area. YBCO - films deposited by this technique are commercially fabricated for a variety of applications - the most prominent are resistive fault current limiters and microwave filters for mobile or satellite communications. IMUX and OMUX - filters are currently space qualined by Robert Bosch GmbH and are expected to be launched and installed on an experimental platform of the international space station ALPHA in 2001. Both of the above applications require quite different film specifications on the one hand, but at the same time extremely high uniformity and reproducibility on the other hand, since hundreds of YBCO - films are combined to large systems or have to be approved for manned space missions. The success of such projects is direct evidence that the technique of thermal evaporation is readily capable to meet these high demands and has become the major deposition technique to support the emerging HTS market.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.72-81
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• 2014

Even though two-hands lifting/lowering activity of manual materials handling tasks are prevalent at the industrial site, many manual materials handling tasks which require the worker to perform one-hand lifting/lowering are also very common at the industrial site, forestry, farming, and daily life. The objective of this study was to compare one-hand lowering activity to lifting activity in terms of biomechanical stress for the range of lowering heights from knuckle height to 10cm above floor level with two workload 7.5kg and 15.0kg. Eight male subjects with LMM were asked to perform lifting/lowering tasks using both a one-handed (left-hand and right-hand) as well as a two-handed technique. Spinal loading was estimated through an EMG-assisted free-dynamic biomechanical model. The biomechanical stress of one-hand lowering activity was shown to be 43% lower than that of one-hand lifting activity. It was claimed that the biomechanical stress for one-hand lifting/lowering activity is almost twice (194%) of the one for two-hands lifting/lowering activity. It was also found that biomechanical stress by one-hand lowering/lifting activity with the half workload of two-hands lowering/lifting activity was greater than that of the two-hands lowering/lifting activity. Therefore, it might be a risk to consider the RWL of one-hand lowering/lifting activity to simply be a half of the RWL of two-hands lowering/lifting activity recommended by NIOSH.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.413-420
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• 2013

Objective: The objective of this study was to compare one-hand and two-hands lowering activity in terms of biomechanical stress for the range of lowering heights from knuckle height to 10cm above floor level. Background: Even though two-hands lifting/lowering activity of manual materials handling tasks are prevalent at the industrial site, many manual materials handling tasks which require the worker to perform one-hand lifting/lowering are also very common at the industrial site and forestry and farming. Method: Eight male subjects were asked to perform lowering tasks using both a one-handed as well as a two-handed lowering technique. Trunk muscle electromyographic activity was recorded while the subjects performed the lowering tasks. This information was used as input to an EMG-assisted free-dynamic biomechanical model that predicted spinal loading in three dimensions. Results: It was shown that for the left-hand lowering tasks, the values of moment, lateral shear force, A-P shear force, and compressive force were increased by the average 6%, as the workload was increased twice from 7.5kg to 15kg. For the right-hand lowering task, these were increased by the average 17%. For the two-hands lowering tasks, these were increased by the average 14%. Conclusion: Even though the effect of workload on the biomechanical stress for both one-hand and two-hands lowering tasks is not so significant for the workload less than 15kg, it can be claimed that the biomechanical stress for one-hand lowering is greater than for two-hands lowering tasks. Therefore, it can be concluded that asymmetrical lowering posture would give greater influence on the biomechanical stress than the workload effect for one-hand lowering activity. Application: The result of this study may be used to provide guidelines of recommended safe weights for tasks involved in one-hand lowering activity.

• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• 제42권6호
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• pp.761-768
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• 2015

Background Surgical scars on the palmar surface of the hand may lead to functional and also aesthetic and psychological consequences. The objective of this study was to introduce a new incision technique for periarterial sympathectomy of the hand and to compare the results of the new two-step incision technique with those of a Koman incision by using an objective questionnaire. Methods A total of 40 patients (17 men and 23 women) with intractable Raynaud's disease or syndrome underwent surgery in our hospital, conducted by a single surgeon, between January 2008 and January 2013. Patients who had undergone extended sympathectomy or vessel graft were excluded. Clinical evaluation of postoperative scars was performed in both groups one year after surgery using the patient and observer scar assessment scale (POSAS) and the Wake Forest University rating scale. Results The total patient score was 8.59 (range, 6-15) in the two-step incision group and 9.62 (range, 7-18) in the Koman incision group. A significant difference was found between the groups in the total PS score (P-value=0.034) but not in the total observer score. Our analysis found no significant difference in preoperative and postoperative Wake Forest University rating scale scores between the two-step and Koman incision groups. The time required for recovery prior to returning to work after surgery was shorter in the two-step incision group, with a mean of 29.48 days in the two-step incision group and 34.15 days in the Koman incision group (P=0.03). Conclusions Compared to the Koman incision, the new two-step incision technique provides better aesthetic results, similar symptom improvement, and a reduction in the recovery time required before returning to work. Furthermore, this incision allows the surgeon to access a wide surgical field and a sufficient exposure of anatomical structures.

• 대한심미치과학회지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.48-57
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• 2000

Direct bonded restoration with composite resin is one of the few areas which the achievement and result are available in chair side. Especially free-hand bonding technique and incremental technique give us challengeable opportunity for restoring severely damaged anterior teeth. If clinicians have keen sense of observation to evaluate polychromatic characteristics of natural teeth, hue, chroma, value, translucency, opacity and correlate the observation result with various kinds of composite resins, they will have privilege to share joy from restoring damaged anterior teeth in chair side immediately.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권11호
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• pp.2286-2291
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• 2009

We propose a phase optimization technique for sidelobe suppression in OFDM system. The technique is based on idea that phase shift to some of the transmit symbols within the symbol constellation plane can lead to significant sidelobe suppression. The sidelobes are reduced by optimizing using iterative method the phases of some subcarriers on the left and right hand side of the used OFDM spectrum. The proposed technique requires a small amount of side information that needs to be transmitted. Simulation results show that the proposed technique can reduce the sidelobes by significant amount.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제12권9호
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• pp.4192-4198
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• 2011

지상라이다는 구조물과 자연사면의 거동이나 변화를 모니터링 할 수 있는 고정밀 측위기술이지만 측위자료를 대상으로 한 분류작업(지표면과 식생 또는 구조물과 식생)은 주관적인 수작업에 의존하게 된다. 그 결과 다양한 지형지물이 혼재해 있는 지표특성으로 인해 자료분류의 신뢰도는 떨어지며, 작업시간은 길어지는 문제가 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 지표면(식생 등)의 변화탐지 모니터링을 위한 주요한 지표로 사용되는 NDVI(Normalized Difference Vegetation Index)를 이용하여 피복을 분류하고 그 결과를 지상라이다 자료와 융합하여 항목별로 분류하는 기법을 개발하였다. 개발기법을 적용한 결과, NDVI 자료는 항목 간 경계지점에서 0.003%의 오(誤) 분류가 있었으나 약 94%의 융합 정확도를 나타내었고 기존의 수작업에 비해 자료처리 시간이 짧아지며 정확도가 높아져 다양한 분야에 활용도가 높아질 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.80-84
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• 2010

손 추적 기술은 인간과 기계와의 효율적인 의사소통을 위한 손동작 인식 기술의 핵심 기반 기술이다. 최근의 손 추적 연구는 3차원 손 모델을 이용한 연구 방향에 초점을 맞추고 있고, 기존의 2차원 손 모델을 이용한 방법보다 강인한 추적 성능을 보이고 있다. 본 논문에서는 결합된 파티클 필터에 기반한 새로운 3차원 손 추적 방법을 제안한다. 이는 전역적 손 형상과 지역적 손가락 움직임을 분리하여 추정하고, 각각의 추정 결과를 서로의 사전 정보로 이용하여 기존의 방법보다 빠르고 강인한 추적을 가능하게 한다. 또한, 추적 성능 향상을 위해 색상과 에지를 함께 고려한 다중 증거 결합 방법을 적용한다. 실험결과, 제안하는 방법은 복잡한 배경이나 동작에서도 강인한 추적 결과를 보였다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제16권9호
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• pp.1031-1043
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• 2013

영상에서 배경을 제거하고 손을 분리하는 기술은 손 인식 연구에서 가장 먼저 수행되는 기술이며, 분리된 결과 영상의 성능에 따라 이후의 인식 단계의 성능이 결정되는 중요한 기술이다. 기존의 연구는 조명 및 배경의 변화에 취약하거나 다수의 사용자와 상호작용에 한계가 있었다. 본 논문에서는 컬러 영상과 깊이 영상을 혼용하여 손을 분리하는 기술을 제안한다. 먼저 입력된 컬러 영상을 이용하여 복잡한 환경에서도 정확하게 영역 채움을 위한 초기 위치를 설정하였다. 이 위치를 기준으로 영역 채움 연산을 위한 한계 영역을 재설정하여 조명 변화로 침식된 영역을 포함하도록 하고, 깊이 영상에서 영역 채움 연산을 수행함으로써 조명과 환경의 변화에도 강인하게 손의 영역을 분리하도록 하였다. 또한, 이렇게 분리된 손의 영역을 이용하여 실시간으로 피부 모델을 학습함으로써 조명 환경에 적응적으로 피부 모델을 갱신하여 보다 강인한 인식 성능을 얻을 수 있었다. 이를 다양한 조명 및 배경 환경에서 기존의 알고리즘과 비교 실험을 수행하여 강인한 인식 성능을 확인할 수 있었으며, 특히 역광 환경과 같이 조명 변화가 극심한 환경에서 강인한 성능을 보여주었다.