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Effectiveness of Acupuncture, Mind and Body Practices, and Natural Products for Insomnia: an overview of systematic reviews

  • Yeo, Jin Ju;Lee, Jang Won;Kim, Kyung Sik;Hyun, Min Kyung
    • Journal of Pharmacopuncture
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.186-198
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    • 2022
  • Objectives: This overview summarizes the evidence for the effectiveness and safety of complementary therapies for insomnia through systematic reviews (SRs) and meta-analyses (MAs). Methods: A comprehensive literature search on SRs and MAs for complementary therapies for insomnia was conducted using six databases. Results: This overview included 30 SRs/MAs. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) analysis of insomnia included 383 randomized controlled trials and 31,748 participants. Twenty-four SRs/MAs (80%) out of 30 SRs/MAs reported a positive result, and six SRs/MAs reported a partially positive result. The most frequently used form of acupuncture reported a positive effect in 89.5% (17/19) of SRs/MAs and a superior effect to western medicine, sham/placebo, and no treatment. The lack of protocol registration and the excluded studies list resulted in generally poor methodological and reporting quality in SRs/MAs with AMSTAR 2. Conclusion: This overview confirmed that complementary therapies positively affected the PSQI scores in patients with insomnia. However, better-designed primary studies are needed to strengthen the relevant evidence in the future. A more stringent assessment of multiple systematic reviews 2 must be followed when performing SR and MA.

Implementation Planning for Information Technology-Based Future Mail Acceptance System (정보기술 기반의 미래형 우편접수창구 구축계획 수립)

  • Jeong, Keun-Chae
    • Information Systems Review
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.141-162
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, we set up an implementation plan for the Mail Acceptance System (MAS) to be operated more effectively and intelligently. First of all, an as-is analysis for the current MAS is performed for analyzing issues and problems and obtaining user requirements. After the as-is analysis, we perform benchmarking studies on the various postal service providers of the advanced countries. Based on the results from the as-is analysis and benchmarking study, we design a conceptual model for the future MAS. The proposed conceptual model can be classified into three parts: automatic MAS, business MAS, and integrated MAS. Information and automation technologies are applied to design the proposed model for eliminating inefficiencies and inaccuracies in MAS. We identify implementation tasks for realizing the proposed MAS model, evaluate the importance and precedence relationship of the identified tasks for deciding implementation priorities, and finally set up the implementation plan for the future MAS. We can expect that the more efficient and effective MAS can be constructed in the future by performing the proposed implementation plan.

Game Theoretic Approach to MAS based Generation Bidding Model (게임이론을 이용한 MAS 기반 입찰모델링 기법 제안)

  • Kang, Dong-Joo;Kim, Hak-Man
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2007.11b
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    • pp.258-260
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    • 2007
  • MAS based market simulator has attracted the attentions of people who are interested in using or developing electricity market simulator. MAS based approach makes it possible to model each market participant's strategic behaviors. Traditional market simulators have used optimization formulation to model market operation, which has been used since vertically integrated system. Optimization mainly uses cost minimization or welfare maximization of entire system. Therefore it is somehow difficult to model the independently strategic behaviors of market participants. MAS is one of AI technology based on distributed intelligence which makes it possible to model independently acting entities in competitive market. This paper proposes the method to model strategic participants in electricity market based on MAS.

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Structural characteristics of [N(CH3)4]2CdCl4 determined by 1H MAS NMR, 13C CP/ MAS NMR, and 14N NMR

  • Lee, Seung Jin;Lim, Ae Ran
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetic Resonance Society
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.18-22
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    • 2015
  • The structural geometry of $[N(CH_3)_4]_2CdCl_4$ in a hexagonal phase is studied by $^1H$ MAS NMR, $^{13}C$ CP/MAS NMR, and $^{14}N$ NMR. The changes in the chemical shifts for $^{13}C$ and $^{14}N$ in the hexagonal phase are explained by the structural geometry. In addition, the temperature dependencies of the spin-lattice relaxation time in the rotating frame $T_{1{\rho}}$ for $^1H$ MAS NMR and $^{13}C$ CP/MAS NMR are measured.

Efficiency of Marker Assisted Selection(MAS) over The Phenotypic Selection for Economic Traits in Economic Animals (경제동물의 주요 경제형질에 대한 표지인자를 이용한 선발(MAS)의 효율성)

  • Jeon, Gwang-Joo
    • Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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    • v.44 no.6
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    • pp.669-676
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    • 2002
  • The efficiency of marker assisted selection(MAS) over conventional selection index based sorely on phenotypic records was studied by deterministic simulation model. Parameter combination of heritability and amount of genetic variation due to the markers included in the index was employed. For the index with own phenotypic information vs. the index with own phenotypic plus marker information, the relative efficiency of MAS over the selection with phenotypic records was about 38% high when heritability was low(0.05). However, when heritability was high(50%), the relative efficiency of MAS was vary low and almost negligible. For more practical situation of selection index which included information on own, sire and dam, MAS was less effective than when selection criteria was only on own performance.

7Li MAS NMR studies of Li4P2O7 and LiFePO4 materials (LiFePO4와 Li4P2O77Li MAS NMR 특성 연구)

  • Han, Doug-Young;Park, Nam-Sin;Lee, Sang-Hyuk;Lee, Hak-Man;Kim, Chang-Sam
    • Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.15-20
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    • 2011
  • [ $^7Li$ ]Magic Angle Spinning (MAS) NMR spectroscopy has been used to study the lithium local environments in $Li_4P_2O_7$ and$LiFePO_4$ materials. The purpose of this study was to know the structure of the solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) in lithium ion cells composed of $LiFePO_4$ as cathode material. $Li_4P_2O_7$ and $LiFePO_4$ were prepared by a solid-state reaction. The $^7Li$ MAS NMR experiments were carried out at variable temperatures in order to observe the local structure changes at the temperatures in $Li_4P_2O_7$ system. The $^7Li$ MAS NMR spectra of in $Li_4P_2O_7$ indicate that the lithium local environments in $Li_4P_2O_7$ were not changed in the temperature range between $27^{\circ}C$ and $97^{\circ}C$ Through this work, we confirmed that the small amount of $Li_4P_2O_7$ less than 5.0 wt% in $LiFePO_4$ could be clearly measured by the $^7Li$ MAS NMR spectroscopy at high spinning rate over than 11 kHz.

The Laccase Activity of Trametes versicolor during Cultivation on Acetylated Wood and 13C-CP/MAS NMR Study (아세틸화 처리 목재에 배양시킨 Trametes versicolor의 Laccase활성과 13C-CP/MAS NMR 분석)

  • Son, Dong-Won;Lee, Dong-Heub
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.60-66
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    • 2001
  • For examine anti-degradation factors of acetylated wood, acetylated wood was incubated on Trametes versicolor. The laccase activity was examined in broth culture and solid fermentation that contain acetylated chips. The change of acetyl groups and chemical composition in the acetylated wood having massloss analysed by $^{13}C$-CP/MAS NMR. The laccase activity was detected in broth culture. When the T. versicolor contact to acetylated wood directly, the laccase activity was very low and couldn't maintain during test periods. Through the analysing of $^{13}C$-CP/MAS NMR, the acetylation took place carbohydrates as well as lignin and hydroxyl group of amorphous region was more easily substituted that of crystalline region The spectral analyses of $^{13}C$-CP/MAS NMR were shown that introduced acetyl bond was stable against fungal attack.

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The Design of low-cost SIMD MAC/MAS for Embedded Systems (임베디드 시스템을 위한 저비용 SIMD MAC/MAS 블록 설계)

  • Lee Yong Joo;Jung Jin Woo;Lee Yong Surk
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.29 no.10C
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    • pp.1460-1468
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    • 2004
  • In this paper, we developed a low-area and low-cost SIMD MAC/MAS(Single Instruction Multiple Data Multiply and ACcumulate/Multiply And Subtract) for multimedia that is used much in real life. We compared the result of this research with a previously developed more large and high performance SIMD MAC/MAS. This paper is consist of 5 parts, which are an introduction, the contents of designing SIMD MAC/MAS hardware, a special qualities for previous works, the result of synthesis and conclusion. The design result reduced by size 32% of whole hardware than 64 bit SIMD MAC/MAS block of designed for high performance. This improved ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) to be suitable to embedded DSP(Digital Signal Processor), and shortened bit range of 64-bit data to 32-bit and implement more optimally.