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Design of a combined cartilage graft crusher, morselizer and holder for use in rhinoplasty

  • Rojdmark, Jonas;Cheema, Mubashir
    • Archives of Plastic Surgery
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    • v.46 no.3
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    • pp.282-284
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    • 2019
  • A combined cartilage holder and crusher is described that allows the surgeon to hold, crush, morselize, and suture a single piece or stack of cartilage graft without letting it slip. The customized slit-shaped jaws allow adequate room for the suture needle, while the serrated surfaces hold the cartilage firmly. The use of this instrument is advocated primarily in rhinoplasty for manipulating and suturing a small cartilage graft or a stack of grafts. The use of this instrument may be extended to aesthetic or reconstructive cases where cartilage grafts need to be sutured or shaped, as in eyelid, ear, and nipple reconstruction.

Design of Robust Controller and Virtual Model of Remote Control System using LQG/LTR (LQG/LTR 기법을 적용한 원격제어시스템의 가상모델과 강건제어기의 설계)

  • Jin, Tae-Seok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.25 no.2_2
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    • pp.193-198
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    • 2022
  • In this paper, we introduce the improved control method are communicated between a master and a slave robot in the teleoperation systems. When the master and slave robots are located in different places, time delay is unavoidable under the network environment and it is well known that the system can become unstable when even a small time delay exists in the communication channel. The time delay may cause instability in teleoperation systems especially if those systems include haptic feedback. This paper presents a control scheme based on the estimator with virtual master model in teleoperation systems over the network. As the behavior of virtual model is tracking the one of master model, the operator can control real master robot by manipulating the virtual robot. And LQG/LTR scheme was adopted for the compensation of un-modeled dynamics. The approach is based on virtual master model, which has been implemented on a robot over the network. Its performance is verified by the computer simulation and the experiment.

Spatial Multicriteria Decision Analysis: A Powerful Tool for Participatory Decision-Making in Community-based Tourism Research

  • Kim, Jinwon
    • Journal of Smart Tourism
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    • v.1 no.4
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    • pp.3-7
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    • 2021
  • Although Geographic Information Systems (GISs) have commonly been employed as powerful tools for manipulating and displaying spatial data in community-based tourism, a variety of GIS functions still lack the capabilities required to assist multiple decision makers to come to consensual decisions. In this study, I propose an alternative approach: spatial multicriteria decision analysis (SMCDA) that could reflect diverse decision makers' preferences by integrating GISs and multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA). I review the small number of case studies that have employed SMCDA, with a focus on the roles of GISs and MCDA. The methodological integration of GISs and MCDA into multi-spatial decision support systems offers the potential to implement participatory decision-making to solve complex spatial problems in community-based tourism planning, development, and management.

Strategies for Manipulating T Cells in Cancer Immunotherapy

  • Lee, Hyang-Mi
    • Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.299-308
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    • 2022
  • T cells are attractive targets for the development of immunotherapy to treat cancer due to their biological features, capacity of cytotoxicity, and antigen-specific binding of receptors. Novel strategies that can modulate T cell functions or receptor reactivity provide effective therapies, including checkpoint inhibitor, bispecific antibody, and adoptive transfer of T cells transduced with tumor antigen-specific receptors. T cell-based therapies have presented successful pre-clinical/clinical outcomes despite their common immune-related adverse effects. Ongoing studies will allow us to advance current T cell therapies and develop innovative personalized T cell therapies. This review summarizes immunotherapeutic approaches with a focus on T cells. Anti-cancer T cell therapies are also discussed regarding their biological perspectives, efficacy, toxicity, challenges, and opportunities.

Finite motion analysis for multifingered robotic hand considering sliding effects

  • Chong, Nak-Young;Choi, Donghoon;Suh, Il-Hong
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1992.10b
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    • pp.370-375
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    • 1992
  • An algorithm for the notion planning of the robotic hand is proposed to generate finite displacements and changes in orientation of objects by considering sliding effects between the fingertips and the object at contact points. Specifically, an optimization problem is firstly solved to find minimum contact forces and minimum joint velocities to impart a desired motion to the object at each time step. Then the instantaneous relative velocity at the contact point is found by determining velocities of the fingertip and the velocity of the object at the contact point. Finally time derivatives of the surface variables and contact angle of the fingertip and the object at the present time step is computed using the Montana's contact equation to find the contact parameters of the fingertip and the object at the next time step. To show the validity of the proposed algorithm, a numerical example is illustrated by employing the robotic hand manipulating a sphere with three fingers each of which has four joints.

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Viewpoint Model Manipulating Inconsistencies Management

  • Ahmad Dalalah;Jalawi AlShudukhi
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.96-100
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    • 2023
  • In this paper, each inconsistency management process activities was addressed. In addition, a guideline to deal with inconsistency by viewpoints method are introduced. At the end of the paper you should have clear idea to support inconsistency management in future research and having good knowledge of inconsistency management process activities and research issues. Moreover, it gives the researcher ability to design new framework by using powerful concept in inconsistency management and viewpoint techniques. The paper is organized as follows: an introduction is presented in section one, section two contains process viewpoint, while section three includes the proposed model and conclusions are in section four.

TEM sample preparation using micro-manipulator for in-situ MEMS experiment

  • Hyunjong Lee;Odongo Francis Ngome Okello;Gi-Yeop Kim;Kyung Song;Si-Young Choi
    • Applied Microscopy
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    • v.51
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    • pp.8.1-8.7
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    • 2021
  • Growing demands for comprehending complicated nano-scale phenomena in atomic resolution has attracted in-situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques for understanding their dynamics. However, simple to safe TEM sample preparation for in-situ observation has been limited. Here, we suggested the optical microscopy based micro-manipulating system for transferring TEM samples. By adopting our manipulator system, several types of samples from nano-wires to plate-like thin samples were transferred on micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS) chip in a single step. Furthermore, the control of electrostatic force between the sample and the probe tip is found to be a key role in transferring process.

Exploring the Challenges and Strategies for Combating Advertising Fraud and Preserving Brand Reputation in the Korean Advertising Landscape

  • Seung-Chul Yoo;Yoontaek Sung
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.306-311
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    • 2023
  • As digital advertising continues to dominate the advertising industry and experience substantial growth, associated criminal activities such as advertising fraud and brand safety risks have become increasingly prevalent. Despite the severity and extent of these crimes, the response in Korea has been lackluster, often perceiving them merely as losses in advertising expenses incurred by corporations. However, it is important to note that these issues have direct repercussions on the end-consumer in the form of increased prices for goods and services. Furthermore, illegal and intrusive advertisements not only cause inconvenience to the viewer, but may also indiscriminately target cognitively vulnerable groups, such as children and the elderly, with the intention of manipulating advertising metrics and artificially inflating performance indicators. In this study, we aim to explore the concept and significance of advertising fraud and brand safety, and to evaluate the current measures taken in the Korean market. Additionally, we will delve into the implications of related policies and emphasize the necessity of digital advertising literacy in addressing these issues.

Design Principles of Animated Pedagogical Agent and Instructional Message for Affective Learning

  • SON, Chanhee
    • Educational Technology International
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.1-26
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study was to develop design principles of both animated pedagogical agents as 'credible' persuasive message source and persuasive fear arousing instructional messages in order to help enhance attitude changes toward a certain issue. Based on the previous pedagogical agent research, this study drew the design principles providing ways to manipulate agent credibility level and fear arousing level of message. Consequently, it specified how to make pedagogical agents perceived less or more credible by learners by manipulating a variety of agent features. For fear arousing message, this study showed how fear arousing messages would be structured into one of three levels: non-threatening, moderately threatening, and strongly threatening. Two different agent conditions and three message conditions were actually developed and experimentally tested with the participants of 40 undergraduate students. The results showed that the agent design principles specified from the previous research worked well enough to make a distinction between the more credible agent and the less credible agent. The overall results of this study may indicate that the design strategies for fear arousing message are retained on the premise of some future refinements.

Identifying the Actual Impact of Online Social Interactions on Demand

  • Dong Soo Kim
    • Asia Marketing Journal
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.23-30
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    • 2024
  • Firms often engage in manipulating online reviews as a promotional activity to influence consumers' evaluation on their products. With the prevalence of the promotional activities, consumers may notice and discount the reviews generated by the promotional activities. Discounting the firm-generating reviews may cause systematic measurement errors in the valence variable and lead to a negative bias when estimating the effect of consumers' organic reviews on demand. To correct the bias, this study proposes including product-specific bias-correction terms representing the proportion of extreme reviews in analysis. For illustration, the proposed method is applied to a demand model for data of movies released in South Korea. The results confirm a negative bias in the estimate of the valence sensitivity of demand. The negative bias potentially leads to an underestimation of the magnitude of the contagion effect through social interactions, a key component of evaluating the value of a satisfied consumer.