• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.151-157
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• 2014

Objective: To evaluate the association between the severity of endometriosis and the preoperative neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and serum level of cancer antigen 125 (CA 125). Methods: Data were obtained from the medical records of 419 patients who underwent laparoscopic conservative surgery for ovarian endometrioma between April 2005 and March 2013. Each patient's preoperative complete blood count was recorded and the endometriosis score was assessed. Results: The endometriosis score was not associated with either the NLR or the serum level of CA 125. The endometriosis score was negatively related to preoperative hemoglobin, hematocrit, mean corpuscular volume, mean corpuscular hemoglobin, and mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration. The only positive association was between NLR and the patients' age. NLR and preoperative serum anti-M$\ddot{u}$llerian hormone level were found to be negatively related. Conclusion: The severity of endometriosis was not associated with the serum level of CA 125 or the NLR. The presence of a negative correlation between the severity of endometriosis and red blood cell dynamics needs further investigation.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2007

This paper proposes a technique for principal component analysis (PCA) to raise the recognition rate of a front face in a low dimension by hierarchical image and parallel processing structure. The conventional PCA shows a recognition rate of less than 50% in a low dimension (dimensions 1 to 6) when used for facial recognition. In this paper, a face is formed as images of 3 fixed-size levels: the 1st being a region around the nose, the 2nd level a region including the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the 3rd level image is the whole face. PCA of the 3-level images is treated by parallel processing structure, and finally their similarities are combined for high recognition rate in a low dimension. The proposed method under went experimental feasibility study with ORL face database for evaluation of the face recognition function. The experimental demonstration has been done by PCA and the proposed method according to each level. The proposed method showed high recognition of over 50% from dimensions 1 to 6.

• 한국어병학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.31-36
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• 2000

양식 농어에 있어서 연속 채혈 스트레스는 혈장내 glucose 농도의 뚜렷한 증가 및 말초 혈액내 식세포의 chemiluminescent 반응을 유의적으로 감소시켰다. 실험어는 연속적인 스트레스에 대해 축적적인 반응을 나타내었으며, 혈장내 glucose의 농도는 스트레스 부과 시간간격에 의존하는 것으로 나타났다. 혈장내 glucose의 농도와 chemiluminescent 반응간에는 통계적으로 유의적인 (P<0.05) 음의 상관관계를 나타내었다.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.53-64
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• 2008

This study was to investigate the learning motive types and degree of psychological well-being of middle-aged married women attending the Korea National Open University and to examine the difference in their psychological well-being according to the types of learning motives. For these purposes, a survey was conducted to 263 middle-aged married women from 36 to 60 at the Korea National Open University. The findings were as follows: First, learning motive types of middle-aged women could be classified into 3 types; a non-oriented type, an activity and goal-oriented type and a multi-oriented type. A multi-oriented types were the most popular among those. Second, the overall level of self-respect was above the median, but the life satisfaction level was below the median. Third, there was difference in their self-respect level according to the learning motive types. That is, students who had a multi-oriented learning motive were higher self-respect level than those who had an activity and goal-oriented learning motive. Therefore, lifelong education is very significance in these days when average life span is prolonged.

• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.51-55
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• 1991

There is a variety of therapeutic modality for herniated nucleus pulposus. Recently the low level laser has come into use for treatment for it. We treated two patients suffered from herniated nucleus pulposus of the central type of $L_{3,4}$ level, with He-Ne, $CO_2$ and Ga Al As laser simultaneously daily under hospitalization. In order to determine the efficacy of treatment, we used the "visual analogue scale" and its improvement rate. The results were as follows; Case I complained of gait disturbance, and hypoesthesia on the lateral side of the left lower leg, as and as low back pain. At the 15th day after treatment, VAS improvement rate was 40%, and the gait disturbance and hypoesthesia were markedly improved. 35th days after tratement, VAS improvement rate was 80%. Case II complained only of low back pain. At the 15th day after treatment, the VAS improvement rate was 68%, and at 20 days after treatment it was 84%. We sugsest that, using the low level laser for treatment of herniated nucleus pulposus increased the cartilage entrophism, and inhibitory effects of the inflammatory materials such as acid glycosaminoglycan by its anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.16-21
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• 2003

We have collected eight high-level streptomycin-resistant strains of Pseudomonas marginalis and P. syringae pv. actinidiae which were isolated from kiwifruit orchards in Korea and Japan, The molecular mechanisms of resistance were investigated by the PCR, susceptibility tests, and nucleotide sequence analysis. Of the eight high-level streptomycin-resistant strains, four harbored strA-strB genes, which encode streptomycin-inactivating enzymes. While the three Korean strains of R marginalis did not have plasmid and carried the resistant genes in the chromosomes, the Japanese strain of P. syringae pv. actinidiae had a plasmid containing strA-strB genes. The myomycin susceptibility test demonstrated that the high-level resistance to streptomycin of the remaining four strains is associated with mutations in the rpsL gene. Nucleotide sequence analyses revealed that they contain a single base-pair mutation in codon 43 of their rpsL gene.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.464-473
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• 2016

이산화탄소의 배출 증가와 지구온난화, 엘리뇨 현상, 라니냐 현상 등과 같은 이상기후 현상의 발생빈도 증가로 인하여 전 세계적으로 내륙과 해안의 온도가 상승하고 있다. 지구온난화로 인한 바닷물의 열팽창 그리고 빙하의 해빙 등으로 인한 지구의 해수면은 매년 2.0mm/yr(전 세계 평균값)의 속도로 상승하고 있다. 그러나 해안에 인접한 수리구조물 혹은 해안 수리구조물을 설계할 시 기준이 되는 설계조위는 과거 관측된 조위 값으로부터 4대 분조 및 조화상수를 분석하거나 수치모형 실험에 의해 결정된다. 따라서, 설계조위는 구조물의 설계빈도에 상응하는 해수면의 상승속도를 감안해야 할 필요가 있다고 사료된다. 본 연구에서는 국립해양조사원(Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Administration; KHOA)에서 운영하고 있는 46개소의 조위관측소를 대상으로 관측개시일부터 2015년까지 시단위로 조위자료를 수집하였다. 우리나라를 크게 남해동부, 남해서부, 동해남부, 동해중부, 서해남부, 서해중부, 제주로 총 7개의 해역으로 구분하여 월별, 연별 변동추이 및 연평균 상승률 분석을 수행하였다. 향후 국지적 해수면상승의 원인규명 및 설계조위 고려 시 기초자료로 활용가능 할 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.141-148
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• 2016

There exists required safety integrity level (SIL) to assure safety in accordance with international standards for every electrical / electronics / control equipment or systems with safety related functions. The SIL is allocated from lowest level (level 0) to highest level (level 4). In order to guarantee certain safety level that is internationally acceptable, application of methodology for SIL allocation and demonstration based on related international standards is required. Especially, in case of the SIL allocation method without determining of quantitative tolerable risk, the additional review is needed to check whether it is suitable or not is required. In this study, the quantitative risk reduction model based on the safety integrity allocation results of railway platform screen door system using Risk Graph method has been examined in order to review the suitability of quantitative risk reduction according to allocated safety integrity level.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1039-1043
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• 2005

Despite the many significant advances made in robot architecture, the basic approaches are deliberative and reactive methods. They are quite different in recognizing outer environment and inner operating mechanism. For this reason, they have almost opposite characteristics. Later, researchers integrate these two approaches into hybrid architecture. In such architecture, Reactive module also called low-level motion control module have advantage in real-time reacting and sensing outer environment; Deliberative module also called high-level task planning module is good at planning task using world knowledge, reasoning and intelligent computing. This paper presents a framework of the integrated planning and control for mobile robot navigation. Unlike the existing hybrid architecture, it learns topological map from the world map by using MST (Minimum Spanning Tree)-based SOFM (Self-Organizing Feature Map) algorithm. High-level planning module plans simple tasks to low-level control module and low-level control module feedbacks the environment information to high-level planning module. This method allows for a tight integration between high-level and low-level modules, which provide real-time performance and strong adaptability and reactivity to outer environment and its unforeseen changes. This proposed framework is verified by simulation.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.164-173
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• 2015

There exists required safety integrity level (SIL) to assure safety in accordance with international standards for every electrical / electronics / control equipment or systems with safety related functions. The SIL is allocated from lowest level (level 0) to highest level (level 4). In order to guarantee certain safety level that is internationally acceptable, application of methodology for SIL allocation and demonstration based on related international standards is required. However, application standard differs from every industry in domestic or international for application on mythology for allocation and demonstration of SIL. Application or assessment is not easy since absence on clear criteria or common definition. This research studied not only fundamental concept of SIL required to guarantee safety in accordance with international standards for safety related equipment and system, but different types of methodologies for SIL allocation. Specifically, SIL allocation for Platform Screen Door system of railway is studied applying methodology of severity of accidents and risk graph among different methodologies for SIL allocation.