• Journal of the Korean Arthroscopy Society
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.159-164
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• 2006

Purpose: To evaluate the clinical stability and function after one-stage revision anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction using fresh-frozen Achilles tendon allograft Materials and Methods: Thirteen patients who underwent one-stage revision ACL reconstruction using Achilles tendon allograft could be evaluated. The average time from primary procedure to revision surgery was 61.8 months. The mean follow-up period was 38.4 months. The bone defects of pre-constructed femoral and tibial tunnels were filled with calcaneal bone attached to Achilles tendon and the new femoral and tibial tunnels were created. Evaluations included the causes of failure of primary ACL reconstruction, Lysholm knee score, Lachman test, pivot shift test and KT-1000 arthrometer measurement. Results: The most common causes of failure of ACL reconstruction were poor surgical techniques in 10 cases (76.9%). Ten patients (76.9%) were good or excellent on the Lysholm score. Twelve patients (92.3%) had negative or 1+firm end Lachman test. Eleven patients (84.6%) had negative pivot shift test. Nine patients (69.2%) had less than 3 mm difference of manual maximum by KT-1000 arthrometer. Conclusion: One-stage revision ACL reconstruction with fresh-frozen Achilles tendon allograft, creating new tunnels after filling bone defects, resulted in a reliable and predictable outcome in terms of stability.

• Journal of the Korean Arthroscopy Society
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2009

Purpose: To evaluate the 2 to 4-year follow-up results after arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction using transtibial femoral tunnel at 10 or 2 O'clock position. Materials and Methods: Eighty-six ACL reconstructions could be evaluated. Evaluations included 2000 International Knee Documentation Committee (IKDC) subjective knee score, Lachman test, Pivot-shift test, KT-1000 arthrometer measurement, 2000 IKDC knee examination and second-look arthroscopy. Results: Seventy-five patients (87.2%) had over 80 in 2000 IKDC subjective knee score. Eighty-three patients (96.5%) had 1+firm end or negative Lachmann test. Seventy-eight patients (90.7%) had a negative Pivot-shift test. Eighty-three patients (96.5%) had less than 5 mm difference by KT-1000 arthrometer. Eighty patients (93.0%) were normal or nearly normal by 2000 IKDC knee examination. Second-look arthroscopy was done in fifteen cases. Nine cases showed good synovialization, four cases showed partial synovialization, two cases showed poor synovialization and graft failure was noted in one case. Conclusion: ACL reconstruction using transtibial femoral tunnel at 10 or 2 O'clock position resulted in a good outcome in terms of rotatory stability as well as antero-posterior stability.

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.584-600
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• 2010

Aiming to reveal the employment evolution around interstate highway corridors, an extended shift-share analysis is conducted for metropolitan areas in two interstate highway corridors on the U.S. east coast: I-95 and I-85. Our focus is on knowledge service sectors, specifically finance, insurance, business services and health services for two time periods, 1977-1990 and 1990-2005. In the first period, the two corridors' metropolitan areas have outperformed their regions in terms of both output and labor productivity. But this picture turned negative in later period with some variation by industries. Also variation in performance over time was found even in metropolitan areas in the same corridor or in geographically adjacent areas.

• Health Communication
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.97-110
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• 2017

Purpose: This study is an overview of the experiences of nurses who have participated in a communication education program which was designed to develop proper change-of-shift dialogues. The goal of this program was to improve the communication competencies of outgoing and incoming nurses during handover and takeover of their shifts. Methods: The materials used in this study to analyze the experiences qualitatively were transcripts from narrative interviews with seven nurse participants. The education program consisted of two rounds of change-of-shift simulations by pairs of nurses, planning of a forthcoming change-of-shift, three lectures on ideal dialogue patterns, and time for video feedback. Afterwards the participants' experiences of the program were evaluated generally, highlighting the positive and the negative aspects, and how this educational experiences might affect their future change-of-shift activities. Results: High practicability, originality, professionalism, and effectiveness were some of the positive assessments made by the nurse participants. In addition, they pointed out that the sample video in which two professors performed an ideal handover and takeover and the paper kardex were both quite unrealistic. The location of the change-of-shift simulation was also unfamiliar so it needed to be supplemented. However, most of the nurses took for granted that such a communication education program is necessary and that it will provide a substantial help in their future job performance. In this regard they recommended the program to all related hospitals and nursing schools. Conclusion: The results of this study could be applied to other forms of communication education programs regardless of the specific area where communication takes place.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08b
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• pp.1673-1676
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• 2007

We have investigated the degradation mechanism of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a- Si:H) thin film transistors (TFTs) The threshold voltage of driving a-Si:H TFT is shifted severely by electrical bias due to a charge trapping and defect state creation. And the short channel TFTs exhibit less threshold voltage degradation than long channel TFTs. We propose the pixel circuits employing negative bias annealing scheme in order to suppression of threshold voltage shift of a-Si:H TFT.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2012.08a
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• pp.298-298
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 Bias Temperature Stress (BTS) 측정을 통한 다층세라믹커패시터(Multi-Layer Ceramic Capacitor, MLCC) 소자 분석에 대한 연구를 진행하였다. BTS 분석은 소자 내부에 존재하는 Na+, K+ 등의 mobile charge 검출을 위한 방법으로 positive bias와 negative bias stress에 따른 C-V 특성 곡선으로부터 mobile charge의 정량적 해석이 가능하다. 실험 결과 positive bias stress 후의 C-V 특성 곡선이 stress 전 C-V 특성 곡선과 비교해 negative bias 영역으로 0.0376 V 만큼 shift 하였다. 또한 수식(QM = $Cox{\cdot}{\triangle}V$)으로부터 $1.7{\times}1,011$개의 mobile charge가 존재함을 확인하였다. 본 연구는 MLCC 소자 내의 금속 오염물 존재 여부에 따른 소자의 전기적 특성 변화 분석을 위해 진행되었으며, BTS 분석은 반도체 소자 뿐 아니라 본 연구에서와 같이 커패시터 소자의 결함 여부 판단에도 이용 가능함을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Photoscience
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.149-152
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• 1998

Expression of light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-binding protein gene(cab) is repressed in the dark and activited by light. However, the detail of its regulatory mechanism is not characterized so far. To identify the interactions of cis-acting elements and trans-acting factors involvedin this regulation, nuclear extracts from the light-grown and dark-adapted Arabidopsis thaliana leaves were anlayzed for mobility shift assay against 134bp fragments had two retarded bands and one retardation band, respectively, both in light-grown and dark-adapted bands in the dark-adapted tissues. A new retardation the cab 3 expression in the dark. Several light regulatory motifs are scattered in the 146 bp region of cab 3 promoter. One of the light-regulatory motifs could be the binding site for the negative regulatory factor.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.25 no.9
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• pp.677-680
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• 2012

The dependency of annealing temperature on the electrical performances in amorphous silicon-zinc-tin-oxide thin film transistors (SZTO-TFT) has been investigated. The SZTO channel layers were prepared by using radio frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering method with different annealing treatment. The field effect mobility (${\mu}_{FE}$) increased and threshold voltage ($V_{th}$) shifted to negative direction with increasing annealing temperature. As a result, oxygen vacancies generated in SZTO channel layer with increasing annealing temperature resulted in negative shift in $V_{th}$ and increase in on-current.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.25 no.8
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• pp.580-583
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• 2012

The dependency of processing pressure on the electrical performances in amorphous silicon-zinc-tin-oxide thin film transistors (SZTO-TFT) has been investigated. The SZTO channel layers were deposited by using radio frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering method with different partial pressure. The field effect mobility (${\mu}_{FE}$) increased and threshold voltage ($V_{th}$) shifted to negative direction with increasing pressure during deposition processing. As a result, oxygen vacancies generated in SZTO channel layer with increasing partial pressure resulted in negative shift in $V_{th}$ and increase in on-current.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.280-283
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• 2012

By inserting $H_2O$ treatment steps during atomic layer deposition of a ZnO layer, the turn-on voltage shift from negative bias stress (NBS) under illumination was reduced considerably compared to that of a device that has a continuously grown ZnO layer without any treatment steps. Meanwhile, treatment steps without introducing reactive gases, and simply staying under a low working pressure, aggravated the instability under illuminated NBS due to an increase of oxygen vacancy concentration in the ZnO layer. From the experiment results, additional oxidation of the ZnO channel layer is proven to be effective in improving the stability against illuminated NBS.