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Study of oriental medical science documentory records of vertigo and dizziness (현훈(眩暈)에 관한 문헌적(文獻的) 고찰(考察))

  • Park, Eun-Sook;Yoon, Il-Ji
    • Journal of Haehwa Medicine
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.157-166
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    • 2008
  • 1. Vertigo and dizziness is also called as Mok-hyun, Hyun-mo, Pung-hyun, Du-pung-hyun-un, Du-sun. 2. Causes and processes of Vertigo and dizziness are mainly divided into external infection and internal damage. Wind, cold, dampness and summer heat are included in the one and in the other, vital energy and blood deficiency, insufficiency of the liver and kidney, retention of phlegm and fluid, emotional disorder and so on. 3. Symptoms of vertigo and dizziness are disequilibrium, nausea, inability of hearing, vomiting, sweating and syncope. 4. Treating of vertigo and dizziness are recovery of vital energy and blood deficiency, strenthening of insufficiency of the liver and kidney, drying of dampness and removing of phlegm.

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Fabrication and Vibration Characterization of a Partially Etched-type Artificial Basilar Membrane

  • Kang, Hanmi;Jung, Youngdo;Kwak, Jun-Hyuk;Song, Kyungjun;Kong, Seong Ho;Hur, Shin
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.373-378
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    • 2015
  • The structure of the human ear is divided into the outer ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear. The inner ear includes the cochlea that plays a very important role in hearing. Recently, the development of an artificial cochlear device for the hearing impaired with cochlear damage has been actively researched. Research has been carried out on the biomimetic piezoelectric thin film ABM (Artificial Basilar Membrane) in particular. In an effort to improve the frequency separation performance of the existing piezoelectric thin film ABM, this paper presents the design, fabrication, and characterization of the production and performance of a partially etched-type ABM material. $O_2$ plasma etching equipment was used to partially etch a piezoelectric thin film ABM to make it more flexible. The mechanical-behavior characterization of the manufactured partially etched-type ABM showed that the overall separation frequency range shifted to a lower frequency range more suitable for audible frequency bandwidths and it displayed an improved frequency separation performance. In addition, the maximum magnitude of the vibration displacement at the first local resonant frequency was enhanced by three times from 38 nm to 112 nm. It is expected that the newly designed, partially etched-type ABM will improve the issue of cross-talk between nearby electrodes and that the manufactured partially etched-type ABM will be utilized for next-generation ABM research.

Sign Language Recognition Using ART2 Algorithm (ART2 알고리즘을 이용한 수화 인식)

  • Kim, Kwang-Baek;Woo, Young-Woon
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.937-941
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    • 2008
  • People who have hearing difficulties use sign language as the most important communication method, and they can broaden personal relations and manage their everyday lives without inconvenience through sign language. But they suffer from absence of interpolation between normal people and people who have hearing difficulties in increasing video chatting or video communication services by recent growth of internet communication. In this paper, we proposed a sign language recognition method in order to solve such a problem. In the proposed method, regions of two hands are extracted by tracking of two hands using RGB, YUV and HSI color information from a sign language image acquired from a video camera and by removing noise in the segmented images. The extracted regions of two hands are teamed and recognized by ART2 algorithm that is robust for noise and damage. In the experiment by the proposed method and images of finger number from 1 to 10, we verified the proposed method recognize the numbers efficiently.

Protective Effect of Ursolic Acid from Corni fructus on the Hydrogen Peroxide-induced Damage of HEI-OC1 Auditory Cells (산수유로부터 추출한 ursolic acid가 과산화수소로 손상된 HEI-OC1 청각세포보호에 미치는 영향)

  • Yu, Hyeon-Hee;Seo, Se-Jeong;Hur, Jong-Moon;Park, Rae-Kil;So, Hong-Seob;Jeon, Byung-Hun;You, Yong-Ouk
    • Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.1524-1529
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    • 2006
  • The fruits of Cornus officinalis have been used in traditional Oriental medicine for treatment of inner ear diseases, such as tinnitus and hearing loss. In the present study, we showed that the ursolic acid obtained from Corni fructus protected HEI-OC1 auditory cells from hydrogen peroxide cytotoxicity in a dose-dependent fashion. In addition, to investigate the protection mechanism of ursolic acid on hydrogen peroxide cytotoxicity toward HEI-OC1, we measured the effects of ursolic acid on lipid peroxidation and activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), and glutathione peroxidase (GPX) in hydrogen peroxide treated cells. Ursolic acid (0.05 - 2 ${\mu}g/ml$) had protective effect against the hydrogen peroxide-induced HEI-OC1 cell damage and reduced lipid peroxidation in a dose-dependent manner. Pre-treatment with ursolic acid significantly attenuated the decrease in activities of CAT and GPX, but SOD activity was not affected by the ursolic acid or hydrogen peroxide. These results indicate that ursolic acid protects hydrogen peroxide-induced HEI-OC1 cell damage through inhibition of lipid peroxidation and induce the antioxidant enzymes CAT and GPX.

The Noise Level Assessment of Dental Equipment (치과 의료장비의 소음 수준 평가)

  • Lee, Jeong-Suk;Han, Ye-Seul;Cho, Young-Sik
    • Journal of dental hygiene science
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.603-611
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    • 2015
  • This research is aimed at cutting off hearing loss and other harmful factors due to noise and providing basic material for noise reduction plan. As the research method, this research assessed noise by measuring acoustic pressure level and frequency in various situation of non-treatment and treatment. As the measurement result, average noise degree of high speed handpiece of non-treatment, ultrasonic waves scaler, and low speed handpiece showed 58~66 dB(A). Average noise degree of scaling of treatment, tooth elimination, and denture adjust showed 73~81 dB(A). The result is inferior to recognized standards of noise induced hearing loss. But the result of assessing this with (noise rating) NR curve was NR-73~78, which exceeded general workplace noise standard. This level can cause hearing loss when exposed to a long time. Therefore, treatment office noise during dental treatment can cause psychological and physical damage in dental clinic employees, and it is urgently required to establish systematic and active noise reduction plan.

Specifics of Speech Development of Children with Cerebral Palsy

  • Zavitrenko, Dolores;Rizhniak, Renat;Snisarenko, Iryna;Pasichnyk, Natalia;Babenko, Tetyana;Berezenko, Natalia
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.11
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    • pp.157-162
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    • 2022
  • Cerebral palsy is one of the most serious forms of disorders of the psychophysical development of children, which manifests itself in disturbances of motor functions, which are often combined with speech disorders, other complications of the formation of higher mental functions, and often with a decrease in intelligence. The article will discuss the speech disorder in children with cerebral palsy. Emphasis is placed on some important aspects, which should bear in mind, investigating the problem of specifics of speech development of children with cerebral palsy. In particular at the heart of speech disorders in the cerebral palsy is not only damage to certain structures of the brain, but also the later formation or underdevelopment of those parts of the cerebral cortex, which are of major importance in linguistic and mental activity. This is an ontogenetically young region of the cerebral cortex, which is most rapidly developing after birth (premotor, frontal, temmono-temporal). It is important to take into account, that children with cerebral palsy have disturbances of phonemic perception. Often, children do not distinguish between hearing sounds, cannot repeat component rows, allocate sounds in words. At dysarthria, there are violations of pronunciation of vowel and consonant sounds, tempo of speech, modulation of voice, breathing, phonation, as well as asynchronous breathing, alignment and articulation. As a result, we identified the main features and specifics of the speech development of children with cerebral palsy and described the conditions necessary for the full development of language. Language disturbances in children's cerebral palsy depend on the localization and severity of brain damage. Great importance in the mechanism of speech disorders has a pathology that limits the ability of movement and knowledge of the world.

Classification of Vocabulary for Evaluation on Machine Noise at High Noisy Workshop (고소음 작업장 기계소음 평가를 위한 어휘의 유형화)

  • Yun, Jae-Hyun;Kim, Jae-Soo
    • Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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    • v.33 no.10
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    • pp.748-755
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    • 2011
  • After the Industrialization of 1960s, while it has greatly contributed to the industrial development owing to acceleration of mechanization, but it is real situation that the countermeasure to noise damage generating at the loud noise workshop is scarcely made. Especially, the machine noise made at factory and workplace is so shocking and repeatedly reiterating terrible noise that most of the spot workers are forcedly imposing such dangers as the severe unpleasant feeling and hearing impairments. On such point of view, this research has attempted to extract the proper rating vocabulary in order for evaluation on machine noise made at the high noisy workshop, therefore it is considering that those extracted vocabularies could be utilized as the useful psycho-acoustic experiment for evaluation on machine noise, also for establishment of regulation standard in domestic high noisy workshop.

Landscape Analysis on simulation studies are used to deliberation landscape - Focuse on the Apartment Gyeonggi-do landscape simulation analysis - (경관심의에 사용되는 경관시뮬레이션 실태분석 연구 - 경기도 공동주택사업 경관시뮬레이션 분석을 중심으로 -)

  • Lee, Im Jung;Choi, Joo Young
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.69-79
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    • 2014
  • Adverse effects resulting from the development of the environment and to minimize damage to the natural environment and the desire for pleasant scenery and the sense of raising more awareness about May 17, 2007 in accordance with the scenery method is established by each municipality landscape management and landscape planning committee Configure the district planning officer for development projects, including enhancing deliberation scenery method 7 February 2014 and revised in urban areas is more than $30,000m^2$ urban planning landscape projects are all considered by a committee mandated to landscape receive a defined landscape plan for the development was enhanced. Gyeonggi Province in 2007 after the enactment of the scenery method for district planning and landscape planning by strengthening the district planning consideration during deliberations landscape simulation by selecting the view that the proposed mandatory hearing officer from the Joint Committee on Urban construction was done. In this study, Gyeonggi-do district planning business point of view the characteristics of the landscape planning and landscape planning of the center of analysis and as a basis for the evaluation presented.

A Study on Actual Condition of the Noise in a Factory (일 제조업체의 작업장 소음실태에 관한 연구)

  • Shin Soo Ok
    • Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.43-51
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    • 1995
  • Many poeple has been engaged in industry is aware of the dangers from exposure to high intensity nose levels. The exposure to high intensity noise is encountered in a large number of situations. Laws governing the safety and health of employed people being to create a suitable working environment and eliminate unsafety practices and processes. Work areas should be designed and laid out so that they are satisfactory both from the environmental and safety points of view. In this connection safety also implies that noise is kept at a level which is not likety to cause hearing damage. This study was performed to measure the noise of press and assembly process in an automobile factory. and suggested the method of noise control. Consequently the effect ways of reducing level in working environment are as follows; 1. Changes to machines which would reduce noise generation. 2. Alteration of equipment to avoid impact in machinery and handing materials. 3. Enclosure of noisy machines or machine parts. 4. Mounting of attenuators on gas and air outlets as well as ventilation ducts. 5. Erection of sound absorbing screens. linings. and baffles in work areas. 6. The personal ear protectors can be chosen to protect the workers.

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A Study on the Noise Characteristics of noise occurred when medical examination in dental clinic

  • Ji, Dong-Ha;Lee, Yong-Gyoo
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.23 no.12
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    • pp.163-170
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    • 2018
  • This study was conducted to investigate the effects of noise from dental clinics on workers and to establish a reduction plan. The noise generated by the treatment instrument(Ultrasonic scaler, Hand piece, 3-way syringe, Suction, Compressor) was measured in order to determine the characteristics(level, frequency) of the noise during medical treatment(Oral prophylaxis, Conservation treatment, Prosthesis treatment, Implant Scaling, Tooth eliminating). We also assessed the noise levels in dental clinic using evaluation indicators such as NR-curves and NRN. The results of the analysis showed that the noise generated during the treatment was 85dB(A) ~ 70dB(A) and that the high frequency component was dominant, which would affect the workers working at the dental clinic. The NR-curve analysis showed NR-67 to NR-83 and the high frequency components of 4kHz to 8kHz were predominant and far exceeded noise levels in the workplace. To minimize the noise damage of workers and to provide high quality medical service, it is necessary to establish countermeasures such as wearing a soundproof and periodic hearing tests.