• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.499-510
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• 2015

The purpose of this research is to identify new service opportunities for enhancing driving safety of intra-city buses based on driving behavior analysis. Service opportunity identification involves finding target customers of service (to whom), motivations for service (why), service contents (what), and service delivery process (when, where). This paper presents an analysis of driving behaviors using the operational data of intra-city buses in conjunction with traffic accident data and drivers' driving history data. This paper also presents four identified service opportunities based on the data analysis results. This research would contribute to enhancing driving safety of intra-city buses in Korea and serve as a basis for developing new services for driving safety enhancement.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• v.55 no.3
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• pp.173-177
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• 2014

Neurocysticercosis is the commonest parasitic disease of the human central nervous system. The incidence of intra ventricular form of neurocysticercosis (NCC) is less common accounting 10-20% that of total central nerve system cysticercosis. Intra ventricular NCC is complicated due, to its high incidence of acute hydrocephalus caused by ball valve mechanism. The only reliable tool for diagnosis of NCC is by neuroimaging with CT or MRI. MRI preferred over CT because of its high specificity and sensitivity. In emergency situations like acute hydrocephalus one can proceed with emergency endoscopic surgery. Through the endoscopic view, intra ventricular NCC (IVNCC) has distinguished morphological features like the full moon sign. This feature not only helps in identification of IVNCC, but also guides in further endoscopic treatment strategy. Authors report two cases of 3rd ventricular NCC with acute hydrocephalus managed with emergency endoscopy. Authors have discussed the clinical features, intra operative endoscopic findings and role of endoscopy in emergency surgery for NCC with acute hydrocephalus.

• Annals of Surgical Treatment and Research
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• v.95 no.5
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• pp.258-266
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• 2018

Purpose: This study analyzes the impact of laparoscopic liver resection on intra-abdominal adhesion. Methods: Patients who underwent salvage liver transplantation after liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma from January 2012 to October 2017 at our institution were included. Information about the severity of intra-abdominal adhesions was collected from a prospectively maintained database. Intra-abdominal adhesions were graded after the agreement of 2 surgeons who participated in the salvage liver transplantation based on predetermined criteria. Adhesion severity and demographic, operative, and postoperative data were compared between the laparoscopic group and the open group. Multivariate logistic regression was performed to consider potential factors related to severe adhesion during salvage transplantation. Results: Sixty-two patients who underwent salvage liver transplantation after liver resection were included in this study. Among them, 52 patients underwent open surgery, and 10 patients underwent laparoscopy. Adhesion was significantly more severe in the open group than in the laparoscopy group (P = 0.029). A multivariate logistic regression model including potential factors related to severe adhesion showed that laparoscopy (odds ratio, 0.168; 95% confidence interval, 0.029-0.970; P = 0.048) was the only significant factor. Conclusion: Laparoscopic liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma can minimize intra-abdominal adhesion during salvage liver transplantation.

• Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.416-429
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• 2018

In social constructivist teaching, knowledge construction is achieved through learners' collective social interaction. Vygotsky argued that this process is mediated with language use, and the development of higher order thinking is realized through the transition from inter-personal psychological functions to intra-personal psychological functions. In so doing scientific concepts are internalized to learners. This study examined the third grade elementary students' inter/intra-personal psychological functions and their internalization processes during social constructivist teaching plan about strata and fossils. The lessons were designed along with Wells' dialogic inquiry and Leach and Scott's social constructivist teaching-learning sequences. Results showed that a teacher's utterances of talking with questioning to switch attention, creating cognitive disequilibrium, and expanding the width of students' opinions could make effective inter-personal psychological function. In addition, a learner's inner speech expressed into social discourse through talking about personal experiences, comparing epistemic idea with visual representation, or applying to different situation showed his/her intra-personal psychological function. Some cases of learners' internalization through language use could be at the stage of knowledge building and understanding of the spiral of knowing, but not all. Thus it is argued that a teacher's deeper insight into Vygotskian social constructivist teaching can make elementary science classroom teaching more effective in their inter/intra-psychological functions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.06a
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• pp.222-224
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• 2019

Light Field (LF) camera captures not only the light intensity but also the light direction coming to camera. While the rich information captured by LF camera enables many interesting applications such as digital refocusing, viewpoint changing, and 3D reconstruction, but it also requires powerful coding tools to reduce its large volume of data. In this paper, we investigate using the intra prediction scheme of the versatile video coding (VVC), which is the most recent video coding technology currently under developing, to compress the LF image. The Intra Block Copy (IBC) technique in VVC is exploited considering special LF image structure. The experimental result shows that VVC intra predict ion outperforms the H.265/HEVC intra coding technique in encoding LF data irrespective of using the IBC mode or not.

• Korean Journal of Head & Neck Oncology
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.37-40
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• 2023

Schwannoma is a slow growing benign tumor that can occur anywhere in our body. About 25~45% cases of schwannomas occur in the head and neck, but intra-thyroidal schwannomas are very rare, and mostly are diagnosed by post-thyroidectomy pathologic study. In this article, we present a case of intra-thyroidal schwannoma diagnosed preoperatively with core needle biopsy. The patient underwent enucleation of the thyroid tumor, and the pathology of the tumor was confirmed as schwannoma. Few cases of intra-thyroidal schwannomas have been reported in the literature, but none of them have been diagnosed through core needle biopsy preoperatively. Preoperative diagnosis of intra-thyroidal schwannoma can be helpful when determining appropriate surgical extent and avoid unnecessary thyroidectomy.

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.115-145
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• 1998

This paper analyzes the intra-organizational characteristics of the Japanese firm, Kaisha. We want to know how they have been related to the successful story of the Japanese economy, especially to their capability to make a rapid technological breakthrough during the past half century. Intra-firm characteristics will be dealt with from four different but mutually interrelated aspects, which include production organization at the workshop level, incentive system, labor-management relations, and corporate governance. Each will be discussed in turn.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.27 no.5_6
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• pp.1447-1457
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• 2009

In this paper we define intuitionistic fuzzy interior ideals in ordered semigroups. We prove that in regular(resp. intra-regular and semisimple) ordered semigroups the concepts of intuitionistic fuzzy interior ideals and intuitionistic fuzzy ideals coincide. We prove that an ordered semi group is intuitionistic fuzzy simple if and only if every intutionistic fuzzy interior ideal is a constant function. We characterize intra-regular ordered semi groups in terms of interior (resp. intuitionistic fuzzy interior) ideals.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.1-12
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• 2018

We introduce the notion of ordered intra k-regular semirings, characterize them using their ordered k-ideals and prove that an ordered semiring S is both ordered k-regular and ordered intra k-regular if and only if every ordered quasi k-ideal or every ordered k-bi-ideal of S is ordered k-idempotent.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.333-351
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• 2024

In this paper, the concept of Pythagorean fuzzy sets are used to describe in semigroups. Then, some characterizations of regular (resp., intra-regular) semigroups by means of Pythagorean fuzzy left (resp., right) ideals and Pythagorean fuzzy (resp., generalized) bi-ideals of semigroups are investigated. Furthermore, the class of both regular and intra-regular semigroups by the properties of many kinds of their Pythagorean fuzzy ideals also being studied.