• Physical Therapy Korea
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.160-168
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• 2023

Background: Individuals with scapular winging have a weak serratus anterior (SA) muscle, and to compensate, the pectoralis major (PM) and upper trapezius (UT) muscles excessively activate, which can cause upper extremity dysfunction. This study aimed to compare the effects of isometric horizontal abduction (IHA) on SA, PM, and UT muscle activity, as well as the SA/PM and SA/UT muscle activity ratios during knee push-up plus (KPP) at 90° and 120° of shoulder flexion. Objects: This study aimed to compare the effects of IHA on SA, PM, and UT muscle activity, as well as the SA/PM and SA/UT muscle activity ratios during KPP at 90° and 120° of shoulder flexion. Methods: This study, conducted at a university research laboratory, included 20 individuals with scapular winging. Participants performed KPP with and without IHA at 90° (KPP90) and 120° (KPP120) of shoulder flexion. SA, PM, and UT muscle activity were measured using surface electromyography. Results: PM activity in KPP90 with IHA was significantly lower than KPP90 and in KPP120 was significantly lower than KPP90. UT activity was significantly greater with IHA than without IHA and at 120° than 90° of shoulder flexion. SA/PM muscle activity ratio was significantly higher in KPP90 with IHA than without IHA and in KPP120 than in KPP90. SA/UT muscle activity ratio was significantly lower with IHA than without IHA. Conclusion: KPP90 with IHA and KPP120 are effective exercises to reduce PM activity and increase SA/PM muscle activity ratio. However, applying IHA in KPP90 also reduces SA/UT muscle activity ratio, implying that it would be preferable to apply KPP120 in individuals overusing their UT muscles.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.427-429
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• 2009

To establish a definite diagnosis for pulmonary hydatid disease, combination of radiology and serology is useful. In this study, 19 preoperative sera from patients with surgically confirmed pulmonary hydatidosis, 40 sera from patients with other parasitosis and pulmonary diseases, and 20 sera from healthy donors were evaluated using 4 different serological tests, i.e., the commercial ELISA (ELISA-kit) test, the ELISA (ELISA-lab) test prepared in our laboratory, the commercial indirect hemagglutination assay kit (IHA-kit) test, and the IHA test using sensitized sheep red blood cells with tannic acid (IHA-TA). The ELISA-kit was the most sensitive (84.2%) and the most specific test (100.0%). The ELISA-kit also demonstrated the highest positive (100.0%) and negative (95.2%) predictive values. The sensitivity of the ELISA-lab test, that we prepared, was found to be 73.6%, whereas the IHA-kit test and the IHA-TA test were found to be 73.6% and 68.4%, respectively. The specificity of these tests was 96.6%, 98.3%, and 83.3%, respectively. When all 4 tests were assessed together, it was found that the sensitivity had risen to 94.7%. When the ELISA-kit was assessed with the IHA-kit and IHA-TA together, it was found that the sensitivity was 89.5% and 84.2%, respectively. Likewise, the combination of the ELISA-lab and IHA-kit or IHA-TA allowed us to achieve a sensitivity of 84.2% in cases of pulmonary echinococcosis. In conclusion, the diagnosis would be imminent if least 2 tests were applied together.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.562-562
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• 2015

하천의 유황특성을 분석하는 것은 하천생태계의 변화를 파악하고 예측하는데 있어 매우 중요하다고 할 수 있다. 최근에는 수문학적인 변화과정을 통계학적 기법을 적용하여 정량적인 지표로 산정하고 분석하는 모델을 개발하여 다양한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 특히 미국 Nature Conservancy에서 개발한 수문변화지표법(IHA)은 일(daily)유출량 자료로부터 수문학적 관점에서의 특성지표와 환경유량 관점에의 변화지표를 분석함으로써 하천 유황변동을 정량화 할 수 있다. 본 연구는 기후변화가 향후 하천유황과 수생태계에 미치는 영향을 분석하기 위해 중규모 하천유역인 만경강을 대상으로 하고 RCP 8.5 기후변화시나리오를 기반으로 준분포형 모형인 SLURP 모형으로부터 일(daily)단위의 유출모의 시나리오를 작성하였다. 그리고 수문변화지표법(IHA)을 이용하여 기후변화에 따른 하천 유황과 수생태계에 미치는 영향을 정량화하였다.

• Journal of agricultural medicine and community health
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.117-123
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• 1987

Detection of IgG antibody in clonorchiasis has been accomplished through various serodiagnostic procedure including complement fixation test, gel diffusion test, indirect fluorescent antibody test, indirect hemagglutination test etc. In this report enzyme immunoassay (ELISA) and indirect hemagglutination test (IHA) were used to determine IgG serum antibody levels before and after therapy with praziquantel. Briefly, sera from 62 cases of confirmed human clonorchiasis were examined before and after treatment with praziquantel. Among 62 cases treated 25 cases were categorized as completely cured groups by formalin-ether and careful examination of 4 cellophane thick smered slides at 18 months after treatment. The sera of 25 cases of cured groups were examined again by ELISA and IHA, and com-pared to the previous data. The results obtained were as follows; 1) Sensitivity of IHA test was 83.6% when cut-off titer of 1:8 was applied. No sera obtained from 10 normal healthy control showed positive reaction. 2) Twenty cases (80.0%) out of 25 cured one showed negative results by IHA at 18 months after treatment. 3) Although 5 cases showed positive titer even 18 months after treatment 3 cases of them showed decreased antibody titer. However 2 cases did not show any response. 4) Even though almost all cases showed de- creased ELISA value, only 11 cases (44.0%) out of 25 patients showed negative results by ELISA at 18 months after treatment. In conclusion, it is suggested that, while IgG ELISA for detecting long persisting antibody was more sensitive than IHA, IHA results more conclusively indicated effective treatment in clonorchiasis by negative conversion than did the results of ELISA.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.133-138
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• 2009

When sensor networks are deployed in open environments, an adversary may compromise some sensor nodes and use them to inject false sensing reports. False report attack can lead to not only false alarms but also the depletion of limited energy resources in battery powered networks. The Interleaved hop-by-hop authentication (IHA) scheme detects such false reports through interleaved authentication. In IHA, when a report is forwarded to the base station, all nodes on the path must spend energies on receiving, authenticating, and transmitting it. An dversary can spend energies in nodes by using the methods as a relaying attack which uses macro. The Adversary aim to drain the finite amount of energies in sensor nodes without sending false reports to BS, the result paralyzing sensor network. In this paper, we propose a countermeasure using fuzzy logic from the Denial of Service(DoS) attack and show an efficiency of energy through the simulataion result.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.435-440
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• 2004

The nonlinear impacts between the Control Element Drive Mechanisms (CEDMs) seismic cap plates installed on the CEDM top of a pressurized water reactor are studied with the dynamically reduced models of the CEDM and Integrated Head Assembly (IHA). It is important to develope nonlinear models considering the gap effects between the plates. In order to simulate impacts, reduced models for the primary structures, such as CEDM and IHA, are developed through simplifying detailed models, and the nonlinear structural analysis is performed under seismic loading conditions. The responses are examined in various gap sizes depending on the reactor operating conditions.

• Toxicological Research
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.255-263
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• 1992

SKI 2053R and SKI 2053R-human serum albumin(HSA) mixture were examined for their antigenicity in Hartley guinea pigs as well as C57BL/6 mice in comparison with distilled water (DW), HSA and DW-HSA conjugate. Several antigenicity tests, including acitive systemic anaphylaxis(ASA), passive systemic anaphylaxis (PSA), passive cutaneous anaphylaxis (PCA) and indirect hamagglutination test (IHA), were performed according to the Established Regulations of National Institute of Safety Research. The results were as follows: 1. When guinea pigs were sensitized with SKI2053R or SKI2053R-HSA emulsified with complete Freund's adjuvant(CFA), these animals showed negative reactions in ASA and PSA. 2.No blue spot was observed on the back skin of guinea pigs in the PCA test. 3. Sera from guinea pigs revealed a negative reaction in IHA. 4.Guinea pigs were sensitized by HSA emulsified with CFA as a positive control, and these animals showed positive reactions in ASA, PSA, PCA, and IHA. As shown above, SKI2053R was considered to possess neither antigenic, nor haptenic properties, and confirmed not to have the haemagglutinating activity.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.73-87
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• 2009

A hybrid system is a dynamical system in which states can be changed continuously and discretely. Simulation based on numerical methods is the widely used technique for analyzing complicated hybrid systems. Numerical simulation of hybrid systems, however, is subject to two types of numerical errors: truncation error and round-off error. The effect of such errors can make an impossible transition step to become possible during simulation, and thus, to generate a simulation behavior that is not allowed by the model. The possibility of an incorrect simulation behavior reduces con.dence in simulation-based analysis since it is impossible to know whether a particular simulation trace is allowed by the model or not. To address this problem, we define the notion of Instrumented Hybrid Automata (IHA), which considers the effect of accumulated numerical errors on discrete transition steps. We then show how to convert Hybrid Automata (HA) to IRA and prove that every simulation behavior of IHA preserves the discrete transition steps of some behavior in HA; that is, simulation of IHA is sound with respect to HA.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.48-52
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• 1997

The antigenic potential of CFA-001, cefazolin, a cephalosporin derivative produced by an enzy-matic semisynthesis, was determined in Hartley guinea pigs. A battery of tests employed consisted of active systemic anaphylaxis (ASA), passive cutaneous anaphylaxis (PCA), and indirect hemagglutination test (IHA). The results were as follows: 1) In ASA, no signs attributable to anaphylaxis was observed in guinea pigs sensitized with CFA-001, whereas OVA-sensitized animals induced severe anaphylactic symptoms; 2) guinea pigs did not produce antibodies against CFA-001 when sensitized with or without Freund's complete adjuvant (FCA) in homologous PCA tests. Meanwhile, antibodies against ovalbumin (OVA) were clearly detected; 3) No CFA-001-specific hemagglutination was observed in the IHA using sera obtained from CFA-001- sensitized guinea pigs. These results suggest that CFA-001 has no antigenicity potential in guinea pigs.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.134-138
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• 2009

물 순환과정의 핵심요소로 설명되는 유출량은 용수 공급과 가뭄재해에 대한 이수, 홍수 대비 및 관리는 물론, 하천생태계 유지를 위한 환경에 영향을 미치게 된다. 특히, 유출량의 규모(quantity)와 시간(timing)은 용수공급, 수질과 하천 시스템의 생태학적 교류에 중요한 요소로(Poff 등, 1997) 하천 유황의 5가지 요소(규모, 빈도, 지속시간, 시간과 변화율)는 수중 생태계에 직 간접적인 영향을 미친다(Karr, 1991; Poff 등, 1997). 최근 기후변화 현실화로 강우 발생 시기와 패턴이 변화하면서 유역에 따라 유황이 변화하고 있는 실정이다. 이에 본 논문은 기후변화가 향후 하천 유황과 수생태계에 미치는 영향을 분석하기 위하여 한강 유역을 대상유역으로 선정하고 기상청(Korea Meterological Administration, KMA)에서 제공하는 A2 기반의 고해상도 RCM 모형($27km{\times}27km$)으로부터 일(daily)단위의 기후변화시나리오를 작성하였다. 그리고 준분포형 모형인 SLURP 모형으로부터 유출 변화를 모의한 후 수문변화지표(indicator of Hydrologic Alteration, IHA)를 이용하여 기후변화에 따른 하천 유황과 수생태계에 미치는 영향을 정량화하였다.