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MR Imaging Findings of Tamoxifen-associated Uterine Adenosarcoma: Report of Two Cases

  • Choi, Soo Yeon;Sung, Deuk Jae;Han, Na Yeon;Park, Beom Jin;Kim, Min Ju;Sim, Ki Choon;Cho, Sung Bum
    • Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.56-61
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    • 2015
  • Adenosarcoma of the uterus is a rare biphasic tumor containing benign glandular epithelial and malignant mesenchymal components. The tumor has been reported to be associated with antiestrogen therapy, particularly tamoxifen, but there have been a few case reports with MRI. We present two cases of MRI findings of uterine adenosarcoma after antiestrogen therapy, tamoxifen and toremifene in breast cancer patients. The tumor presents as a large polypoid mass occupying the endometrial cavity, and may protrude into the vagina. On MRI, the tumor typically shows solid components with scattered small cysts and heterogeneous enhancement. These findings are not significantly different from conventional adenosarcoma.

iPOJO-based Middleware Solutions for Self-Reconfiguration and Self-Optimization

  • Bellavista, Paolo;Corradi, Antonio;Fontana, Damiano;Monti, Stefano
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.5 no.8
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    • pp.1368-1387
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    • 2011
  • In recent years, ubiquitous and pervasive scenarios have emerged as a complex ecosystem where differentiated software/hardware components interoperate wirelessly and seamlessly. The goal is to enable users to continuously access services and contents, and to always get the best out of their current environment and available resources. In such dynamic and flexible scenarios, the need emerges for flexible and general solutions for continuous runtime self-reconfiguration and self-optimization of ubiquitous support software systems. This paper proposes a fully reconfigurable middleware approach that aims at reconfiguring complex software systems made up of heterogeneous off-the-shelf components from both functional and non-functional perspectives. Our middleware can also extend already existing and non-reconfigurable middleware/applications in an easy and flexible way, with no need to re-design them. The proposed design principles have been practically applied to the implementation of a runtime self-reconfigurable middleware called Off-The-Shelf Ready To Go (OTS-RTG), implemented on top of iPOJO. The reported experimental results both exhibit a limited overhead and show the wide applicability of the proposed solution to many application scenarios, including complex, industrial, Enterprise Service Bus-based ones.

Electron Microscopic Study on Extrachromosomal DNA from Splenocytes and Erythrocytes of Carassius carassius L. (붕어의 Splenocyte 및 Erythrocyte의 Extrachromosomal DNA 관찰)

  • Im, Sook-Ja;Kim, Woo-Kap
    • Applied Microscopy
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.167-176
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    • 1988
  • Extrachromosomal circular DNA complexes from erythrocytes and splenocytes isolated from Carassius carassius were examined by mica-press-absorption method. The method was described that released small polydisperse circular DNA molecules in situ from the erythrocytes and the splenocytes and that allows selective observation of the small circular DNA complexes bound to cellular components. The released polydisperse circular DNA complexes were absorbed preferentially on mica in a divalent cation-free medium then processed for electron microscopy. Small circular DNAs showed a heterogeneous size distribution of $2{\sim}10{\mu}m$ with a mean contour length of $4.3{\mu}m$ for the circulating erythrocytes and that of $0.7{\sim}3.6{\mu}m$ with a mean contour of length $2.04{\mu}m$ for the splencytes. Cells contained $100{\sim}300$ copies and $300{\sim}700$ copies obtained from the erythrocytes and the splenocytes, repectively. Possible biological functional implications for size distribution of extrachromosomal circular DNAs are discussed.

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Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology of Mantle Cell Lymphoma - A Case Report - (외투세포 림프종의 세침흡인 세포학적 소견 - 1예 보고 -)

  • Kim, Han-Seong;Park, Sung-Hye
    • The Korean Journal of Cytopathology
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.53-56
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    • 2001
  • Cytologic features of a case of mantle cell lymphoma is presented, which was obtained by fine needle aspiration cytoloby and confirmed by excisional biopsy of axillary lymph node. A 67-year-old female alleged palpable masses in both axillae for several months. Additional multiple lymphadenopathies were found in the both neck and inguinal areas. The main cytologic feature was carpeting on monotonous slightly atypical small lymphocytes without heterogeneous components. The nuclei of these lymphocytes are slightly larger than benign small lymphocyte and relatively round with some Indentation. Nucleolus was not prominent and no mitosis was found. Their cytoplasm was scanty and cyanophilic in Papanicolaou's stain. The histiocytic cells, which had bland-looking banded nuclei and abundant cytoplasm, corresponding to pink histiocytes were shown. Excisional blopsy of lymph nodes was diagnosed as mantle ceil lymphoma, diffuse type.

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Investigating the Tensile-Shear of Dissimilar Materials Joined Using the Hybrid SPR Technique (Hybrid SPR 접합을 적용한 이종소재 인장전단에 관한 연구)

  • Yu, Kwan-jong;Choi, Du-bok;Kim, Jae-yeol
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.19 no.9
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    • pp.33-39
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    • 2020
  • Self-piercing rivets are often used in the automotive industry, among other industries, as mechanical components to join multiple materials such as aluminum alloys. Self-piercing rivets have a strong sealing property, although there is considerable scope for their performance improvement. In this study, to enhance the performance of self-piercing rivets, the hybrid self-piercing riveting (SPR) technique, using the existing SPR and structural adhesive, was proposed. Moreover, heterogeneous material specimens subjected to the hybrid SPR technique were manufactured and tested. The joint strength of the test pieces of different materials was evaluated through finite element analyses.

QoE-Aware Mobility Management Scheme

  • Kim, Moon
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.137-146
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, we introduce a quality of experience (QoE)-provisioning mobility management scheme. The emphasis is on a mobility-aware QoE solution enabling network components to recognize the mobility pattern of an end-user and to prepare a handover in advance. We further focus on an energy-adaptive QoE solution based on the energy profile providing the preferred pattern of energy consumption and an energy preference check engine determining whether the provision of the service that the end-user requested is suitable to QoE or not. Lastly, we concentrate on a network-based intelligent mobility management scheme adopting the calm service and the balance. Consequently, we conclude that the proposed schemes improve the handover latency, QoE metrics, and energy efficiency simultaneously.

Introduction of RT-CORBA into Industrial Automation System

  • Kim, An-Mo;Ryou, Myung-Sun;Kwon, Wook-Hyun
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.109.6-109
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    • 2001
  • This paper suggests a new industrial automation system architecture which adopts the Real-Time CORBA as a solution for the recently emerging problems, such as cost eciency, interoperability with different networks, software productivity, etc. This paper shows how the adoption of RT-CORBA helps end-users to improve software productivity in the heterogeneous distributed system integrate eldbus with different kinds of network easily and lower the cost of hardware medication and extension, Finally, CRECO - a real- time CORBA which is in development and suited to industrial automation system - is introduced. RT-Linux and Probus - two major components while implementing the CRECO - are dealt with primarily.

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Agent-based Collaborative Simulation Architecture for Distributed Manufacturing Systems (분산 생산 시스템을 위한 에이전트 기반의 협업 시뮬레이션 체계)

  • Cha Yeong Pil;Jeong Mu Yeong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.808-813
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    • 2003
  • Maintaining agility and responsiveness m designing and manufacturing activities are the key issues for manufacturing companies to cope with global competition. Distributed design and control systems are regarded as an efficient solution for agility and responsiveness. However, distributed nature of a manufacturing system complicates production activities such as design, simulation, scheduling, and execution control. Especially, existing simulation systems have limited external integration capabilities, which make it difficult to implement complex control mechanisms for the distributed manufacturing systems. Moreover, integration and coupling of heterogeneous components and models are commonly required for the simulation of complex distributed systems. In this paper, a collaborative and adaptive simulation architecture is proposed as an open framework for simulation and analysis of the distributed manufacturing enterprises. By incorporating agents with their distributed characteristics of autonomy, intelligence, and goal-driven behavior, the proposed agent-based simulation architecture can be easily adapted to support the agile and distributed manufacturing systems. The architecture supports the coordination and cooperation relations, and provides a communication middleware among the participants in simulation.

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Development of Rapid Prototyping Technique using Projection Welding (Projection Welding을 이용한 쾌속 3차원 조형법의 개발)

  • 강상무;이상찬;양동렬
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 1997.10a
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    • pp.101-104
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    • 1997
  • The purpose of this study is the development of the extensive Rapid Prototyping Technique, which can resolve the long-term manufacturing process, shrinkage and deformation occurring rapid prototyping technique. To begin with, the various specimens for tensile and bending test were manufactured on the basis of this modeling technology. Then, many kinds of the laminate pieces for the test were made by using the sheet steels 1 mm and 2 mm thickness which is composed of the same ingredient. Not only the mechanical strength of the both of the laminate specimens by the developed Rapid Prototyping using projection welding and non-laminate specimens of 5 mm thickness were evaluated, but the mechanical strength of the specimens of the tensile and bending test composed of heterogeneous components were also estimated.

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Identification of Ferritin Using Immunodiffusion Methods (면역확산법을 이용한 페리친의 확인)

  • Ha, Kwang-Won;Cho, Jung-Hee;Kim, Do-Hoon;Kim, Young-Lim;Kim, Hong-Jin;Shim, Young-Hun
    • Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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    • v.33 no.3 s.130
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    • pp.257-261
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    • 2002
  • Each ferritin molecule consists of light subunit 19,000 dalton and heavy subunit 22,000 dalton. Twenty-four protein subunit about $440,000{\sim}500,000$ dalton apoferritin which contained $20{\sim}30%$ Fe as ferric hydroxyphosphate polymer form. Horse spleen-derived ferritin consists of 90% light subunit. These genetic characteristics of ferritin preparations were able to determine by cellulose acetate electrophoresis, but these ferritin preparations contained other components to be disturbed during refining, extraction and making finish products and have difficulties in deciding to be just. So, this study was performed to establish the scientific method for determine the quality of ferritin preparations with immunodiffusion methods which has high specificity between heterogeneous proteins.