• Journal of the Korean Arthroscopy Society
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.33-39
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• 1998

This study was done to compare the results of the one-incision technique and the conventional two incision technique for the arthroscopic treatment of the posterior cruciate ligament injury. Fifty-five patients with the posterior cruciate ligament injury underwent the arthroscopic posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using bone-patellar tendon-bone(BTB) graft. Patients with combined ligament injuries requiring concomitant operative treatment were excluded in this study. The conventional two-incision technique was performed in ten patients(Group I) and the one-incision technique in forty-five patients(Group II). The average duration of follow-up was 45 months in Group I(range, 40 to 50 months) and 36 months in Group II(range, 24 to 68 months). Auto BTB grafts were utilized for all patients in Group I. In Group II, 34 BTB autografts and 11 BTB allografts were utilized. The functional results were evaluated according to the Lysholm Knee Scoring scale and the Hospital for Special Surgery(HSS) knee ligament rating form. The postoperative posterior laxity was measured with a KT 1000 or 2000 arthrometer. Lysholm postoperative mean values were 90.0 in Group I and 90.6 in Group II. HSS mean values were 87.7 in Group I and 92.6 in Group II. HSS postoperative mean value showed better results in Group II(p=0.037). The average side-to-side difference of the posterior translation measured by the KT 2000 arthrometer were 2.10 mm(range, 1 to 4 mm) in Group I and 2.38 mm(range, 0 to 5 mm) in Group II. But there was no statistically significant difference. In Group II, the results of the autograft and allograft showed no significant difference. The arthroscopic posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using one-incision technique showed good results comparable to the conventional two-incision technique. This technique minimizes potential injury to the extensor mechanism, especially vastus medialis obliquus, and scar formation over the medial femoral condyle. The operation can be finished within one tourniquet time by using only one-incision.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.19-26
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• 1986

A titanium oxide thin films were prepared by air oxidation and vapour oxidation and a $TiO_2$ single crystal was reduced by heating in an argon atmosphere. All the electrode characteristics of the Ti$O_{2-x}$, thin films are not different from those of slightly reduced single crystal rutile. In cyclic voltammogram of oxygen containing electrolyte solution at Ti$O_{2-x}$ electrodes, cathodic peaks were observed at between -0.8V and -1.0V vs. SCE. The cathodic current near 0V vs. SCE in saturated solution with nitrogen was observed to be greater than in saturated solution with air. The chronoamperogram was represented by the equation of i = $i_0e^{-kt}$, when the rate constant k was represented by the equation of k =$k_0{[H^+]}^nexp(A{\eta}+E_a/RT)$ The values of activation energy $E_a $were found to be 4.6~4.8kcal/mole in overpotential range of 0.035∼0.145 V and 1.6kcal/mole in overpotential range of 0.2∼0.5V. The values of n and A were found to be 0. 1 and 5.4~5.6/V in range of 0.035~0.145V, and in range of 0.2~0.5V, to be 0.04 and 1.3/V, respectively. This can be interpreted as an totally irreversible reduction of oxygen.

• Journal of the Korea Fashion and Costume Design Association
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.125-138
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• 2008

For physical and hand property evaluation of fabrics, the knitted fabrics from 11 types of machines knitting fancy yarns, boucle (M1), knot (M2), snarl (M3), and slub (M4), tamtam (M5), tubular (M6), fur 1 (M7), bead (M8), fur 2 (M9), fur 3 (M10), and ladder (M11) yarns, were prepared with 7-10 G plain stitch. Washing test and pilling test had also been carried out. For hand properties by objective sensibility evaluation, 17 items of sir mechanical properties using KES-FB (Kawabata Evaluation System) had been measured. Then hand values of knitted fabrics were calculated with a calculation formula, namely KN-402-KT. Finally the total hand values were obtained through KN-301-WINTER. As a result of physical properties and objective evaluation for machines knitting fancy fabrics, most of them shrank in the direction of wale and course after the washing test, in which their shrinkage rate had a maximum of 3.5%. Therefore, the washing test indicated that the shrinkage ratio of knitted fabrics had a minor change. The results of the pilling test are mostly 4-5th grade, and all of the machines knitting fancy fabrics showed good results in the pilling resistance. In hand properties and objective sensibility evaluation, twisted fancy yarns, such as boucle (M1), knot (M2), snarl (M3), and slub (M4), were superior to bonding rigidity (B) and shear rigidity (G). The surface property between course and wale differs in all samples and course direction is tougher than wale direction. FUKURAMI (fullness and softness) of all samples have high values, besides NUMERI (smoothness) of tamtam (M5) and boucle (M1), which were rather good. Most samples except fur 1 (M7) had low KOSHI (stiffness) value. The total hand value (THV) of twisted yarns was low. This study proves that manufacturers, who plan knitting yarn products and knit fashion, can apply these data to develop machines knitting yarns and knits that fit the consumers' demands.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Heat Treatment
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.312-317
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• 2005

The precipitation process in Cu-0.2 wt.%Cr-0.05 wt.%Zr alloys has been studied by electrical electrical resistivity measurements. The kinetics of precipitation could be well described by Johnson-Mehl-Avrami equation, $f(t)=1-\exp(-kt^n)$. The values of n were found to be in the range of 0.36~0.42 at first stage and 1.3~1.6 at second stage. The activation energy was determined by cross-cut method and was 80~89 kJ/mol. The value is similar to the energy for the migration of either a vacancy or a vacancy-solute complex through the lattice.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Heat Treatment
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.305-311
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• 2005

Effect of Cr contents(Cr: 0.27, 0.45 and 0.65wt.%) on precipitation process has been studied by electrical resistivity measurements, hardness and scanning electron microscope. The first stage of the process consists of the formation of Cr-rich particles, the second stage consists of the competitive growth of these particles. The kinetics of precipitation could be described by Johnson-Mehl-Avrami equation, $f(t)=1-\exp(-kt^n)$. The values of n were found to be in the range from 0.17 to 0.39 at the first stage and from 1.0 to 1.5 at the second stage. The activation energies of Cu-Cr alloys were determined by Cross-Cut method and were 90~136 kJ/mol. The maximum hardness value of $H_RB$ 84 was obtained in Cu-0.65wt.%Cr alloy.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.976-990
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• 2020

The k-means algorithm is widely used in academia and industry due to easy and simple implementation, enabling fast learning for complex datasets. However, k-means struggles to classify datasets without prior knowledge of specific domains. We proposed the repulsive k-means (RK-means) algorithm in a previous study to improve the k-means algorithm, using the repulsive force concept, which allows deleting unnecessary cluster centroids. Accordingly, the RK-means enables to classifying of a dataset without domain knowledge. However, three main problems remain. The RK-means algorithm includes a cluster repulsive force offset, for clusters confined in other clusters, which can cause cluster locking; we were unable to prove RK-means provided optimal convergence in the previous study; and RK-means shown better performance only normalize term and weight. Therefore, this paper proposes the advanced RK-means (ARK-means) algorithm to resolve the RK-means problems. We establish an initialization strategy for deploying cluster centroids and define a metric for the ARK-means algorithm. Finally, we redefine the mass and normalize terms to close to the general dataset. We show ARK-means feasibility experimentally using blob and iris datasets. Experiment results verify the proposed ARK-means algorithm provides better performance than k-means, k'-means, and RK-means.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.176-177
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• 2005

In this paper, in order to develop low temperature sintering $PbTiO_3$-system piezoelectric ceramics for thickness-vibration-mode piezoelectric transformer, $Pb_{0.76}Ca_{0.24}[(Mn_{1/3}Sb_{2/3})_{0.04}Ti_{0.96}]O_3$ ceramics using $0.25wt%CaCO_3$ and 0.2wt%$Li_2CO_3$ as sintering aids were manufactured according to the variation of poling field. Specimens could be sintered at the sintering temperature of $930^{\circ}C$. The piezoelectric properties increased according to the increase of poling field and showed the maximum values (kt=0.49, Qmt=1816, and $d_{33}$=81.4pC/N) under 6.5kV/mm.

• Natural Product Sciences
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.95-99
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• 2011

A monoterpene-neolignan, piperitylmagnolol (1), was isolated from the stem bark of Magnolia officinalis, together with syringaresinol (2), caffeic acid (3), and sinapaldehyde (4). The isolated compounds were established on the basis of spectroscopic and physicochemical analyses including 1D- and 2D-NMR techniques, as well as on comparing the spectral data with those in the literature and of authentic samples. Compounds 1 - 4 were tested for their cytotoxic activity against the HeLa, K562, A549, and HCT116 cancer cell lines in vitro. Of the isolates, piperitylmagnolol (1) exhibited cytotoxic activity against the tested cancer cell lines with $IC_{50}$ values of 7.7 - 9.5 ${\mu}g/ml$.

• Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.207-211
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• 2000

The objective of this work is to investigate the effect of molecular weight of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) and release medium on the release of nifedipine (NP) from PEO tablets containing NP and to get some mechanistic insights into the release of NP. The tablets containing NP were prepared by direct compression, using a flat-faced punch and die. The molecular weights of PEOs used were 200K, 900K, 2000K and 7,000K. The release kinetics were studied for 24 hours in aqueous ethanol solution, using a dissolution tester at $36.5^{\circ}C$ and 100 rpm. Drug release rate increased, as the concentration of ethanol in the dissolution medium increased, due to the increased solubility of NP. As the molecular weight of PEO increased, release rate decreased, due to the slower swelling and dissolution of PEO. The power values obtained by fitting data to the power law expression $(M_t/M_{\infty}=kt^n)$ indicated that, at low ethanol concentration, the release of NP is governed by anomalous diffusion. However, as the ethanol concentration increases, diffusional release becomes to prevail over anomalous or zero-order release. Overall, these results provided some insights into the release of NP from PEO tablet.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.44 no.4
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• pp.479-482
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• 1995

In this study, to improve sintering condition, anisotropic properties ( $k_{t}$/ $k_{p}$) of electromechanical coupling coefficient and piezoelectric constant $d_{h}$ and $g_{h}$, Mn $O_{2}$ impurity was added to the (P $b_{0.76}$C $a_{0.24}$)[( $Co_{1}$2/ $W_{1}$2/)$_{0.04}$ $Ti_{0.96}$] $O_{3}$ ceramics for application to hydrophone devices. Electromechanical coupling coefficients of the specimen with 1.5 [mol%] Mn $O_{2}$ sintered at 1150.deg. C were $k_{t}$=49% and $k_{p}$ = O, which exibited the highest value in piezoelectric anisotropic properties (kt/kp). Without relations with sintering temperature, the highest value of hydrostatic piezoelectric constant $d_{h}$ & $g_{h}$ were shown at the specimen with 1.5 [mol%] Mn $O_{2}$. Accordingly, the best addition amount of Mn $O_{2}$ was 1.5 [mol%] and proper sintering temperature was 1150.deg. C. Hydrostatic piezoelectric constant values of $d_{h}$=64.52[10$^{-12}$ C/N], $g_{h}$=35.92[10$^{-3}$ Vm/N] in the above condition were effectiely extended for hydrophone applications.pplications.ons.