• Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.517-523
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• 2000

Nasopharyngeal closure is a sphincter mechanism between the activities of the soft palate, lateral pharyngeal wall and the posterior pharyngeal wall, which divides the oral cavity and the nasal cavity. It participates in physiological activities such as swallowing, breathing and pronunciation. In case of an error in this mechanism, it is called a nasopharyngeal incompetence. The causes of this error are defects in (1) length, function, posture of the soft palate (2) depth and width of the nasopharynx, (3) activity of the posterior and lateral pharyngeal wall. The purpose of this study is to analyze the nasopharynx of cleft palate patients using lateral cephalograms and at the same time, evaluate the degree of hypernasality of each vowels to find its relationship with nasopharyngeal incompetence. The following results were obtained: 1. The length of the soft palate was markedly short than normal. 2. The adequate ratio was smaller than the normal value. 3. As the adequate ratio decreased, when articulating vowels, anatomic mVPI increased. 4. When articulating each vowels, anatomic VPI was in proportion with the degree of hypernasality. 5. The degree of hypernasality was greater in high vowels(/i/, /u/) than low vowel(/a/). From the above results, it can be concluded that in cleft palate patients, lateral cephalograms can be used effectively in diagnosing and evaluating nasopharyngeal incompetence. The anatomic structure of the nasopharynx has close relation to the degree of hypernasality.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.849-864
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• 2022

In case of a specific sector being divided into sub-sectors, this study presents a process for estimating an input-output table, which is frequently used as basic data in fields of energy and environment economics. RAS method, which is universally used for this case, requires information on production, intermediate input sum, and intermediate demand sum for each sector in the new table. But in many cases, it is difficult to secure information on intermediate demand sum by sector. This study suggests a process for estimating a new input-output table without using information of intermediate demand sum in the case of sector separation, under the assumption that information of production value and intermediate input sum by sector are available. The key idea is that the values of many elements in the input-output table after disaggregation are the same as those in the table before disaggregation and that the sum of the elements after disaggregation, equals the values of the elements before disaggregation. The process of estimating the intemediate transaction matrix or the input coefficient matrix is presented by using these information instead of intermediate demand sum information. A small-scale simulation shows that the average error rate of the process proposed in this study is about 11.23% in estimating input coefficients, which is smaller than the 11.30% estimation error of RAS using the information of intermediate demand sum. However, since it is known in the literature that using additional information does not always improve estimation performance compared to not using it, additional research on various simulations is needed to apply the method of this study to reality.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.453-460
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• 2013

This study proposes a framework that enables efficient integration and usage of enterprise data using semantic based concept net. Integration of enterprise information that has been increasing geometrically in cloud environment. The concept net is very similar in approaching way to existing ontology. However, it builds correlation between object and concept to help user's information integration retrieval more efficiently. In this study, concept nets are divided into 3 kinds and are applied to the proposed framework independently. The concept net in this study is built in ontology format based on master information concept net, keyword concept net and business process concept net. This concept net enables retrieval and usage of data based on correlation among data according to user's request. Then, through combination of master information concept and keyword concept, it provides frequency trace of keyword and category thus improving convenience and speed of retrieval.

• Biomedical Science Letters
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.159-166
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• 1996

In order to investigate the recycling of the pulmonary surfactant in association with morphological changes in macrophage after interleukin-1 $\alpha$ (IL-1) induced lung injury, an acute lung injury was induced by instillation of IL-1 into the trachea. Numbers of neutrophils and phospholipid content were increased significantly(P<0.01) in IL-1 treated BAL(brochoalveolar lavage) compared to control rat. By increased phagocytosis, the lamellar structures in the macrophges of IL-1 treated rats' BAL were increased and the compositions of the cellular organelles were changed in comparison to control rat. This difference in compositions of cellular organelles denotes difference of functions in macrophages between control and IL-1 treated rats. As macrophages have been said to implicate (in the difference in the recycling of pulmonary surfactant, it is highly probable that the difference in compositions of cellular organelles is closely related to the recycling of pulmonary surfactant. In the present study circular structures were synthesized in the cytoplasm of the macrophages in BAL of normal rats. Based on these experimental results, it is suggested that macrohages might synthesize during recycling of surfacuant in the lung.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.42 no.9
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• pp.739-744
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• 2014

Space exploration project usually consists of so many fields of sub projects that it has a diverse ripple effect throughout the economy. Further studies could not consider the complexity of the space exploration project because they regarded it as one project in spite of the diversity. This study found a way to consider complexity of space exploration project using the concept of WAC(weighted average coefficient). The moon exploration project (2014~2020) is the subject of this study. We classified the moon exploration project into 8 industries and calculated the WAC of production inducement coefficient, value added inducement coefficient, and employment inducement coefficient. The result of analysis using these WACs is that production inducement effect amounts to 1,229.6 billion won, value added inducement effect 324.6 billion won, employment inducement effect 4,844 men. And the linkage effect analysis shows that moon exploration project has more backward linkage effect than forward linkage effect.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.137-145
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between the two factors and the influence of Chinese cultural orientation on the change of physical dry environment in the domestic Chinese residential area. To this end, Hofsted's cultural dimension theory, which can quantitatively define and compare the national culture, is used to investigate the cultural orientation of China. The association was analyzed. Through this study, it was confirmed that the collectivist and uncertainty-avoidance tendency of the Chinese influenced the formation and change of the dry environment of the Chinese residential area in Daelim 2-dong. This study is meaningful in confirming that the cultural orientation of the migrant community affects the formation and change of collective residences, and through this, it can be used as basic data in preparing policies suitable for various migrant communities including Chinatown.

• The Journal of Bigdata
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.135-143
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• 2020

This paper proposes a pre-processing method and a dimensional reduction method in the analysis of shopping carts where there are many correlations between variables when dividing the types of consumers in the agri-food consumer panel data. Cluster analysis is a widely used method for dividing observational objects into several clusters in multivariate data. However, cluster analysis through dimensional reduction may be more effective when several variables are related. In this paper, the food consumption data surveyed of 1,987 households was clustered using the K-means method, and 17 variables were re-selected to divide it into the clusters. Principal component analysis and factor analysis were compared as the solution for multicollinearity problems and as the way to reduce dimensions for clustering. In this study, both principal component analysis and factor analysis reduced the dataset into two dimensions. Although the principal component analysis divided the dataset into three clusters, it did not seem that the difference among the characteristics of the cluster appeared well. However, the characteristics of the clusters in the consumption pattern were well distinguished under the factor analysis method.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.615-630
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• 2020

This study analyzes the difference in total cholesterol blood concentration according to dietary characteristics and health characteristics, as well as general characteristics, and the relationship between that factor and total cholesterol level according to the diagnostic criteria for dyslipidemia, and then compares and analyzes the relative risk ratio of significant factors for the occurrence of dyslipidemia. As a result, the total cholesterol blood concentration increases with age, so continuous management is necessary. Mainly, waist circumference level in early adulthood, regular exercise of appropriate intensity in late adulthood, and subjective health level management in the elderly are necessary. It was found that it was necessary to manage BMI level and eating-out level overall.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.45-49
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• 2021

Recently, as more attention has been paid to the issues of environmental pollution and animal tests, vegan beauty has become a new trend as an large axis of consumption. Therefore, this study aimed to speculate on the vegan beauty and investigate its corelation with beauty industry through a survey, giving a focus on perception, characteristics, the current status and supplementation of vegan beauty. The results of the survey were: Only 31.3% of the subjects were aware of vegan beauty; In respect to characteristics, the mean value of advantage was 3.08, which was higher than that of disadvantages, 3.04. As for the current status, the rate of purchase intention was high, 81.7% and the rate of outlook was very high, 87.3%. Although vegan beauty has not been popular yet, if price is adjusted, products are diversified and generalized, and performance is improved, it is suggested that it will present positive outlook to future development of beauty industry.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.205-215
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• 2001

The purpose of this study is to analyze the landslide susceptibility, containing the process, which reveals spatial relationships between landslides and geospatial data sets, which occurred in Janghung area in 1998. Landslide locations were detected from remotely sensed image and field survey and topography, soil, forest, and land use data sets were constructed as a spatial database in GIS. As the landslide occurrence factors, slope, aspect, curvature and type of topography, texture, material, drainage and effective thickness of soil, type, age, diameter and density of wood and land use were used. To extract the relationship between landslides and geospatial database, likelihood ratio was calculated and compared with the result of Yongin area. Also, the landslide susceptibility index was calculated by summation of the likelihood ratio and the landslide susceptibility map was generated using the index. As a result, it is expected that spatial relationships between landslides and geospatial database is helpful to explain the characteristics of lilndslide and the landslide susceptibility map is used to reduce associated hazards, and to plan land use and construction.