• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.5-9
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• 2018

Many developing countries have attempted to depreciate their currencies in order to make their products cheaper, stimulate exports, shift aggregate demand to the right, and increase aggregate output. However, currency depreciation tends to increase import prices, raise domestic inflation, reduce capital inflows, and shift aggregate supply to the left. The net impact is unclear. The paper incorporates the monetary policy function in the model, which is determined by the inflation gap, the output gap, the real effective exchange rate, and the world real interest rate. Applying an extended IS-MP-AS model (Romer, 2000), the paper finds that real depreciation raised real GDP during 1997.Q1-2005.Q3 whereas real appreciation increased real GDP during 2005.Q4-2017.Q2. In addition, a higher government debt-to-GDP ratio, a lower U.S. real federal funds rate, a higher real stock price, a lower real oil price or a lower expected inflation rate would help increase real GDP. Hence, real depreciation or real appreciation may increase or reduce aggregate output, depending upon the level of economic development. Although expansionary fiscal policy is effective in stimulating the economy, caution needs to be exercised as there may be a debt threshold beyond which a further increase in the debt-to-GDO ratio would hurt economic growth.

• 대한치과보철학회지
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• 제57권2호
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• pp.118-126
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• 2019

목적: 상악 전치부에 대한 심미적 요소들에 대하여 조사하고 남녀 간 차이 및 개인 심미적 인식도와의 연관성이 있는 지에 대해 분석하고자 한다. 대상 및 방법: 치주적으로 건강한 25 - 35세의 전남대학교 치의학전문대학원생 70명을 대상으로 상악 모형을 제작하였고 디지털 카메라를 이용하여 표준화된 사진을 촬영하고 계측 프로그램을 이용하여 상악 전치의 근 원심 최대 시각적 폭경과 치은 정점의 수직적 위치, 중절치의 최대 높이를 계측하였고 중절치의 치관 형태를 분류하였다. 참가자들의 심미 인식도 평가를 위해 설문조사를 시행하였다. 통계분석은 SPSS program을 이용하여 시행하였다. 결과: 상악 전치 시각적 폭경 비율의 경우 우측은 1.38:1:0.78, 좌측은 1.41:1:0.81의 평균값을 가졌고 황금 비율과는 차이가 있었다. 중절치관의 폭경 대 장경 비율의 경우 우측은 0.84, 좌측은 0.83의 평균값을 가졌다. 치은 정점의 위치의 경우 중절치는 원심측, 측절치는 중심, 견치는 원심측에 주로 위치하였다. 상악 전치부 시각적 폭경 비율, 중절치 폭경 대 장경 비율, 치은 정점 위치, 치관 형태, 미소시 치은 노출 정도는 남녀 간 차이가 없었고 이런 요소들과 안모의 형태와 참가자들의 심미적 인식도와는 관련성이 없었다. 결론: 참가자들은 상악 전치 시각적 폭경의 황금비율 및 중절치 치관의 이상적 폭경 대 장경 비율과는 일치하지 않았지만 상악 전치부 심미성에 대한 만족도가 높았다. 심미적 인식은 참가자들의 수치화된 객관적 지표보다는 주관적 판단이 더 중요함을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한임상검사과학회지
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• 제48권4호
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• pp.378-387
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• 2016

심혈관계 위험인자를 비침습적으로 분석할 수 있는 PWV에 관한 다수의 선행연구에서 의견이 분분하고, 결과에 대한 일관성이 부족한 부분을 재현하고자 연구에 임하였으며, 더욱이 날로 증가하고 있는 노인을 대상으로 운동참여 여부와 성별에 따른 노인의 말초동맥파속도(baPWV), 신체구성과 심혈관계 변인의 상관성 및 재변인의 차이를 검증하는데 연구의 목적이 있다. 규칙적인 운동을 수행해온 노인남성 39명(이하, 운동군M) 과 운동을 수행해 오고 있지 않은 동일 연령대의 노인남성 38명(이하, 통제군M), 규칙적인 운동을 수행해온 노인여성 40명(이하, 운동군F) 과 운동을 수행해오고 있지 않은 동일 연령대의 노인여성 37명(이하, 통제군F)을 대상으로 변인에 대한 상관성과 집단별 재변인들 간의 차이를 알아본 결과 노인남성 운동군의 baPWV range와 근육량(r=0.357, p=0.026), 수축기혈압(r=0.468, p=0.003), rbaPWV (r=0.406, p=0.010), lbaPWV (r=0.333, p=0.038)가 통계적으로 유의한 상관관계를 보였고, 노인남성 통제군의 경우는 baPWV range와 심박수(r=0.395, p=0.014), rbaPWV (r=0.598, p=0.000), lbaPWV (r=0.602, p=0.000)가 유의한 상관성을 보였다. 노인여성 운동군은 baPWV range와 진단명(r=0.321, p=0.044), 수축기혈압 (r=0.399, p=0.011), 이완기혈압(r=0.545, p=0.000), rbaPWV (r=0.648, p=0.000), lbaPWV (r=0.676, p=0.000)가 유의한 상관성을 보였고, 노인여성 통제군 경우는 baPWV range와 나이 (r=0.471, p=0.003), rbaPWV (r=0.836, p=0.000), lbaPWV (r=0.801, p=0.000)가 통계적으로 유의한 상관성을 보였다. 반면 말초동맥파속도 변인 중 통계적으로 유의한 차이를 보인 그룹은 없는 것으로 나타났고, 요둔위($F_{3,150}=9.197$, p=0.000), 근육량($F_{3,150}=74.295$, p=0.000), 체지방율($F_{3,150}=35.045$, p=0.000), 수축기 혈압($F_{3,150}=3.525$, p=0.017)이 통계적으로 유의한 차이를 나타냈다. 본 연구에서는 집단별 특성에 따라 다양한 결과가 나타난다는 사실을 알 수 가 있었으며, 신체구성 변인과 심혈관계 변인 중 수축기 혈압은 운동 여부에 따라 민감한 변화와 차이를 보인 것으로 보아 노인의 경우 운동그룹은 신체구성과 심혈관계 일부 변인에 변화를 줄 수 있다고 단정지어 볼 수 있겠으나, 위팔-발목 맥박파전파속도에 대해서는 일관된 결과가 도출되지 않아서 이에 대한 지속적인 연구가 필요한 것으로 사료된다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.393-397
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• 1998

25세된 말기 심부전 환자에게 한국에서는 최초로 광배근을 이용한 심근 성형술이 성공적으로 실시되었다. 환자는 약 심근수축력이 30%인 상태로 94년과 96년에 한차례씩 심부전으로 입원한 적이 있으며 수술직전 임상상태는 NYHA functional class III 였다. 간조직 검사상 만성 활동성 간염으로 판명되었으며 환자는 간염 항원이 양성으로 심장이식대상에서 제외되었다. 1996년 7월 30일 좌측 광배근을 이용하여 심근 성형술을 실시하였다. 측와위로 광배근을 박리한후 자극전극을 설치하였으며 흉골 정중 절개로 심장을 노출한 후 광배근으로 심장을 감싸주고 심근 전극을 설치한 후 좌상부 복부에 심장근육자극기를 설치하였다. 총 수술시간은 약 7시간 30분이 소요되었으며 환자는 수술후 일시적인 심방 조동(atrial flutter)을 보여 심도자실에서 동율동으로 환원시킨 것외에는 특별한 합병증은 없었다. 환자는 수술후 6주째 자극기의 빈도가 1:4인 상태에서 퇴원하였으며 통원치료중 1:1로 근육훈련을 마친 후 현재는 수술후 6개월째 자극빈도가 1:4인 상태에서 외래 추적중이다. 심초음파상 수축력의 차이는 없으나 환자의 임상 활동은 수술전보다 양호해진 상태이다.

• Korean Journal of Geomatics
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.69-74
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• 2001

In conventional photogrammetry, three-dimensional coordinates are obtained from two consecutive images of a stationary object photographed from two exposure stations, separated by a certain distance. However, it is impossible to photograph moving objects from two stations with one camera at the same time. Various methods to overcome this obstacle were devised e. g. taking the left and right scenes simultaneously with one camera using a beam splitter attached to the front, thus creating a stereo scene in one image. A beam splitter consists of two outer mirrors and two inner mirrors. This paper deals with research where the optical principles of the beam splitter were evaluated based on light path phenomena between the outer mirrors and the inner mirrors. A mathematical model of the geometric configuration was derived for the beam splitter. This allows us to design and control a beam splitter to obtain maximum scale and maximum base-height ratio by stepwise application of the mathematical model. The results show that the beam splitter is a very useful tool for stereophotography with one camera. The optimum geometric configurations ensuring maximum scale and base-height ratio are closely related to inner and outer reflector sizes, their inclination angles and the offsets between the outer mirrors.

• Advances in pediatric surgery
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.131-135
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• 2004

The purpose of this retrospective study was to evaluate the effects of diagnostic sonography in pediatric patients with inguinal hernias. The patients were classified into two groups. Group A included the patients who had been operated upon for inguinal hernia in 1980's, when diagnostic sonography was not available. Group B included the patients, operated upon for inguinal hernia from 2001 to 2002, when inguinal sonography was employed to detect potential bilateral hernias. The age distribution, sex ratio, laterality, bilaterality, and concomitant symptoms were compared between group A and group B. There were 296 cases in group A and 377 cases in group B. The prevalent age group was from 1 to 5 years. There was no difference in age group distribution between both groups. The male to female ratio was 5.3:1 in group A and 3.5:1 in group B. The ratio of unilateral to bilateral hernia was 5:1 in group A and 3:1 in group B. In cases with a unilateral hernia, the ratio of right to left was 1.5:1 in group A and 1.8:1 in group B. In cases with bilateral hernia, the simultaneous bilateral hernia was 33 cases (67.4 %) in group A and 75 cases (80.6 %) in group B. The sequential bilateral hernia was 16 cases (32.7 %) in group A and 18 cases (19.4 %) in group B. Although the ratio of bilateral hernia was increased in group B, the portion of the sequential bilateral hernia was significantly decreased in group B. In conclusion, there were no differences in the age distribution and the laterality between group A and B. The ratio of female patients and the incidence of bilateral hernia were increased in group B even though the portion of the sequential bilateral hernia was decreased. This result shows that the preoperative inguinal sonography in unilateral hernia with potential bilateral hernia is useful in early detection of the sequential contralateral hernia.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.511-515
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• 1984

In this study, 213 cases of the spontaneous pneumothorax experienced at the department of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, Chungnam National University Hospital during from April, 1977, till Dec, 1983 were reviewed. 1.Sex ratio of the studied patients was 7.19;1 showing high incidence male patients. The incidence according to the age group showed that 20.2%, 18.3% of the patients belong to the age group 6th, 5th decade respectively. 2.The etiologic factors were as follows, tuberculous origin in 50.2%, unknown origin in 28.2%, COPD in 3.3%, bullae in 8.5%. The site was right in 47.9% and left in 44.1%, bilateral in 8%. 3.The clinical symptoms were frequently dyspnea in 35%, chest pain in 27.5%. 4.The employed method of treatment were as follow, bed rest with oxygen inhalation in 1.9%, closed thoracostomy in 95.8%, open thoracotomy in 7.98%, which bullectomy was performed in 12 cases and pneumonectomy in 3 cases and lobectomy in 1 case and decortication with simple closure of bleb was performed in remaining 1 case. 5.The duration of closed thoracostomy was longer in tuberculosis, which average duration was 11.28 days. 6.The overall recurrent rate was 12.3%.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.1213-1220
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• 1990

During the period of January 1979 to December 1988, 220 patients with empyema thoracis were treated in the department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Chonnam National University Medical School Hospital. There were 167 males[75.9%] and 53 females[24.1%] ranging from 18 days to 76 years of age. Occurrence ratio of left and right empyema was 1 : 1.9. The underlying pathologic lesions of empyema were pneumonia[30.9%], pulmonary tuberculosis[22.7%], chest trauma[8.6%] and postoperative complications. In bacteriologic study, staphylococcus, pseudomonas and streptococcus accounted for 26.4%, 11.8% and 9% respectively, and 25% were not identified. Surgical treatment modalities were thoracentesis[10 patients, 4.5%], closed thoracostomy[132, 60%], closed rib resection drainage[4.2, 6%], modified Eloesser’s operation[37, 16.8%], decortication[27, 12.3%], decortication with pulmonary resection[6, 2.7%], thoracoplasty[2, 0.9%], muscle flap closure [1, 0.5%], and staged pneumonectomy[1, 0.5%], The mortality rate was 2.3% and the complications were sepsis[9 patients]. acute renal failure[4], and paralytic ileus[3].

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2001년도 ICCAS
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• pp.181.2-181
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• 2001

Stereo PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) is not available yet because of some limitations of medical stereo image software and viewing devices. As a stereo PACS viewer, we designed two functions. One is selecting and viewing a multiplexed stereo image directly, and the other is selecting a stereo pair image (left and right sides both) and merging the stereo pair image into a multiplexed image in software. For the medical image compression of 3-D stereo endoscopic images, we used JPEG and Wavelet compression and to determine an acceptable compression rate using PSNR (Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio). As a result, we got the conclusion that medically acceptable image compression rate should have the PSNR of above about 40[dB] (JPEG (5:1), Wavelet (10:1)).

• 국제물리치료학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.1158-1162
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• 2017

The purpose of the study was to investigate the strength of sokinetic muscle by the position of a volleyball players. Analysis and comparison of shoulder dynamic stability will be conducted according to rotational movement of the shoulder during spiking and serving amongst the various positions. Fifty professional Korean female volleyball players (age: 20~30), all different positions - attacker (left and right), center, setter, and libero were The concentric peak torque, strength ration of the internal and external rotation of the shoulder girdle for both dominant and non-dominant arms. Firstly, there were significant differences found for the strength ratio between the setter and the other positions in the dominant arm. On a second note, there was a significant decrease in shoulder dynamic stabilization for both the attacker and center in the dominant arm. However, there were no significant differences for the setter or the libero. This study suggests that the isokinetic muscle strengths of the volleyball players are different from each other.