• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.11-22
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between the strength of the tongue/lip strength and speech production for dysarthric adults with cerebral palsy. The maximal tongue and lip strengths of 22 normal adults, 27 dysarthric adults (10 adults with mild dysarthria, 10 adults with moderate dysarthria, and 7 adults with severe dysarthria) were measured with Iowa Oral Performance Instrument (IOPI). The percentage of correct consonants (PCC) and speech intelligibility were calculated from the words and sentences spoken by the subjects. The results of the study are as follows: First, both the maximal tongue and the maximal lip strength differed significantly between the control group and the group with dysarthria. While the group with mild dysarthria did not show meaningful difference in maximal tongue and lip strengths from the control group, the group with moderate and severe dysarthria showed significantly weaker tongue and lip strength than the control group and the group with mild dysarthria. Second, the current study suggests the existence of a significant correlation between the maximal tongue and lip strength and the PCC and speech intelligibility within all subjects with dysarthria. These findings can serve as an effective foundation to diagnose dysarthria quickly and accurately. The results of this study also indicate that in addition to the maximal tongue strength, the maximal lip strength can prove to be an important index in predicting the speech intelligibility of dysarthric adults with cerebral palsy.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Physical Medicine
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.33-38
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• 2015

PURPOSE: Although the abdominal drawing-in maneuver is commonly used in clinical training for trunk stability, performing this procedure in stroke patients is difficult; instead, maximal expiration can be much easily performed in stroke patients. In the present study, we first aimed to demonstrate the effects of the abdominal drawing-in maneuver and maximal expiration on trunk stability in stroke patients. Moreover, we compared the thickness of the transverse abdominal, internal oblique, and external oblique muscles on the paretic and non-paretic sides. METHODS: We used ultrasonography to measure the change in the thickness of the transverse abdominal, internal oblique, and external oblique muscles on the paretic and non-paretic sides at rest, while performing the abdominal drawing-in maneuver, and while performing maximal expiration in 23 stroke patients. The ratio of muscle thickness between different conditions was estimated and included in the data analysis (abdominal drawing-in maneuver / at rest and, maximal expiration / at rest). RESULTS: The ratio of the thickness of the transverse abdominal, internal oblique and external oblique muscles during maximal expiration was significantly different on the paretic side (p < 0.05). The ratio of muscle thicknesses on the non-paretic side was greater during maximal expiration than during the abdominal drawing-in maneuver, although this difference was not significant (p > 0.05). CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that maximal expiration more effectively increased the abdominal muscle thickness on the paretic side. Hence, we recommend the application of maximal expiration in clinical trunk stability training on the paretic side of stroke patients.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.45-52
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• 1968

Maximal oxygen uptake was measured in twenty-eight middle-aged men aged 45.0 (range: 40.3-50.7) years and fourteen middle-aged women aged 40.5 (range: 34.3-47.5) years by means of a treadmill test. The physique of subjects were:mean skinfold thickness at 4 sites, namely, back, arm, waist and abdomen was 7.59 mm in men and 14.5 mm in women; total body fat estimated from the mean skinfold thickness, 11.9% fat in men and 25.5% fat in women. The detailed observations are as follows: 1. Maximal oxygen uptake expressed on any reference unit in men was greater than that of women. The values of men to women were: 2.61 to 1.92l/min., 45.1 to 37.0 ml/min./kg, 51.8 to 46.5 ml/min./kg lean body mass (LBM), 15.7 to 12.6 ml/min./cm body height. 2. Maximal pulmonary ventilation in men was 80.2 l/min. and 63.5 l/min. in women. 3. There was a correlation of fairly high degree between maximal oxygen uptake and body weight, namely, r=0.56 in men and r=0.79 in women. The correlation between maximal oxygen uptake and lean body mass also was fairly high, namely, r=0.58 in men and r=0.69 in women. 4. The correlation between maximal pulmonary ventilation and body weight or lean body mass was r=0.51 and r=0.25 in middle-aged men and r=0.41 and r=0.19 in middle-aged women, respectively. 5. Maximal heart rate in men was 176.4 beat/min. and it was 183.9 beat/min. in women. 6. Maximal oxygen pulse in men was 14.6 ml/beat and 9.5 ml/beat in women. 7. Aerobic work capacity of korean middle-aged men and women maintained the same level as that of young men and women, respectively, as shown by maximal oxygen uptake expressed ml/min./kg or ml/min./kg lean body mass.

• Korean Journal of Mathematics
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.101-114
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• 2007

For an $m$ by $n$ nonnegative real matrix A, the maximal column rank of A is the maximal number of the columns of A which are linearly independent. In this paper, we analyze relationships between ranks and maximal column ranks of matrices over nonnegative reals. We also characterize the linear operators which preserve the maximal column rank of matrices over nonnegative reals.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.395-404
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• 2012

Our first aim of this paper is to define maximal operators a-quadratic variation and of a-conditional quadratic variation for vectorvalued tree martingales and to show that these maximal operators and maximal operators of vector-valued tree martingale transforms are all sublinear operators. The second purpose is to prove that maximal operator inequalities of a-quadratic variation and of a-conditional quadratic variation for vector-valued tree martingales hold provided 2 ${\leq}$ a < $\infty$ by means of Marcinkiewicz interpolation theorem. Based on a result of reference [10] and using Marcinkiewicz interpolation theorem, we also propose a simple proof of maximal operator inequalities for vector-valued tree martingale transforms, under which the vector-valued space is a UMD space.

• Korean Management Science Review
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.197-208
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• 2009

In this paper, we study stochastic maximal covering location problem considering floating population. Traditional maximal covering location problem assumed that number of populations at demand point is already known and fixed. In this manner, someone who try to solve real world maximal covering location problem must consider administrative population as a population at demand point. But, after observing floating population, appliance of population in steady-state is more reasonable. In this paper, we suggest revised numerical model of maximal covering location problem. We suggest heuristic methodology to solve large scale problem by using genetic algorithm.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.97-106
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to (1) establish a Korean adult normative data for Iowa Oral Performance Instrument, (2) investigate the characteristics of maximal tongue and lip strength and tongue endurance scores according to age and gender, and (3) examine the correlation of those scores. The results showed that there were no significant differences of gender in maximal tongue strength and tongue endurance scores. But there were significant differences of age in maximal tongue and lip strength and tongue endurance scores. The data will provide an important database for speech language pathology with the purpose of diagnosis and treatment of tongue and lip dysfunction.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.58 no.2
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• pp.277-303
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• 2021

Under the rough kernels Ω belonging to the block spaces B0,qr (Sn-1) or the radial Grafakos-Stefanov kernels W����(Sn-1) for some r, �� > 1 and q ≤ 0, the boundedness and continuity were proved for two classes of rough maximal singular integrals and maximal operators associated to polynomial mappings on the Triebel-Lizorkin spaces and Besov spaces, complementing some recent boundedness and continuity results in [27, 28], in which the authors established the corresponding results under the conditions that the rough kernels belong to the function class L(log L)α(Sn-1) or the Grafakos-Stefanov class ����(Sn-1) for some α ∈ [0, 1] and �� ∈ (2, ∞).

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.11-19
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• 2023

Let 𝓗₀ be the set of rings R such that Nil(R) = Z(R) is a divided prime ideal of R. The concept of maximal non φ-chained subrings is a generalization of maximal non valuation subrings from domains to rings in 𝓗₀. This generalization was introduced in [20] where the authors proved that if R ∈ 𝓗₀ is an integrally closed ring with finite Krull dimension, then R is a maximal non φ-chained subring of T(R) if and only if R is not local and |[R, T(R)]| = dim(R) + 3. This motivates us to investigate the other natural numbers n for which R is a maximal non φ-chained subring of some overring S. The existence of such an overring S of R is shown for 3 ≤ n ≤ 6, and no such overring exists for n = 7.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.361-370
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• 1998

A condition for a certain maximal operator to be of weak type (p, p) is studied. This operator unifies various maximal operators cited in the literatures.