• 대한물리의학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.209-217
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• 2013

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical availability of the pendulum test (through reliability and validity) using a NK table attached electrogoniometer for spasticity measurement in patients with brain lesions. METHODS: Thirty-one stroke and traumatic brain injury subjects participated in the study. Intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was used to verify the test-retest reliability of spasticity measures of the pendulum test. Pearson's product correlation coefficient was used to examine the validity of the pendulum test through the amplitude of the deep tendon reflex (DTR) test known for objective and quantitative measure of spasticity. RESULTS: In these results, the test-retest reliability was showed significantly high correlation between pendulum tests (ICCs=.95~.97, p<.01). There were significant negative correlations between the amplitude of the DTR test and all measures of spasticity of the pendulum test(r=-.77~-.85, p<.01). CONCLUSION: Thus, it is possible to use the pendulum test using a NK table as an objective measure of spasticity, rather than other expensive equipment, which is more complicated to use. Further studies are needed to explore the therapeutic effects of spasticity using a newly designed pendulum test equipment in this study.

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.123-127
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• 2008

Background and Objectives: Smoking has been identified as one of the main determinants of negative changes on the larynx histology. The purpose of this study is to investigate the voice characteristics and correlation between voice parameters of the smokers with vocal polyp or nodule or both of them. Materials and Method: MPT, $F_0$, jitter, shimmer, NHR of Korean /a/ vowel from 54 smokers and 50 nonsmokers diagnosed as vocal polyp or nodule were analyzed. A Computerized Speech Lab (4400) was for the analysis of each voice sample and statistical analysis was done by one-way ANOVA and Pearson correlation coefficient. Result and Conclusion: It showed that we can find difference between smokers and nonsmokers group in MPT, $F_0$, jitter, shimmer were different except NHR. each group shows difference in correlation coefficient between MPT, $F_0$, jitter, shimmer.

• 한방비만학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2012

Objectives The purpose of this study was to examine the quality of life of overweight & obese women using SF-36 Methods We studied 244 patients visiting Gangdong Kyung Hee University Hospital from 1st April 2011 to 30th November 2011. The subjects were categorized in two groups, normal group(n=158) and overweight & obesity group(n=86). We studied the difference of SF-36 scores between two groups by independent samples t-test and correlation between anthropometry and SF-36 scores by Pearson's correlation coefficient test using SPSS for windows(version 13.0). Results Overweight & obesity group significantly showed lower quality of life in the domains of physical functioning, bodily pain, and social functioning than normal group. Some of body weight, fat mass, body mass index, percent body fat, fat distribution and quality of life in the domains of physical functioning, role-physical, bodily pain, general health, social functioning, role-emotional significantly showed negative correlation coefficient. Conclusions The results suggest that overweight and obese women tend to show lower quality of life.

• 음성과학
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.189-200
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• 2003

The objective of this study was to examine two new parameters by which we could screen people with malignant vocal folds. The new parameters were the difference sums and Pearson correlation coefficients between adjacent pairs of intensity level matrices of narrow-band spectra. Audio files from the Korean Disordered Speech Database were analyzed by Praat, a speech analysis software, to obtain matrices of 400 intensity levels at 16 time points of each sustained vowel spectra. We limited our study to 12 normal subjects and 20 patients with malignant vocal folds who recorded at least three Korean vowels at a sound-proofed booth in Busan National University Hospital. Results indicated that the average coefficients of the abnormal subjects were much lower than those of the normal subjects while the average difference sums of the patients were much higher than those of the normal ones. Also, we found that the degree of the malignancy of the vocal folds was related to the coefficients and sums. However, some subjects at the initial stages of cancerous vocal folds yielded almost comparable coefficients and difference sums to those of the normal speakers. Further studies on larger databases will be desirable to set certain criteria or threshold levels for screening people with vocal fold diseases.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권5호
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• pp.1050-1056
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• 2009

Heart Rate Variability(HRV) is a parameter that represents monitoring variability of time intervals between R-peak in electrocardiography. HRV serves to various applications, such as indices of autonomic functions, prediction of cardiac sudden death, assessment of stress and emotional, etc. However, as measuring R-peak in ECG needs at least 3-electrodes, and it is inconvenient for end users. In this paper, we suggested the modified laplacian electrodes for measuring HRV at one-point, which are producted by MEMS fabrication and have the two circular electrodes on the pad. For optimal position and direction, we performed an experiment that compared with pearson correlation coefficient and the amplitude of signals, between standard lead II and proposed electrodes. We analyzed the HRV parameters, such as standard deviation of the NN interval(SDNN), high frequency(HF), low frequency(LF), LF/HF ratio. The result showed that the average correlation coefficient and amplitude are 0.967 and 0.685 mVpp at the position 2. The coeffiecient correlation between the standard HRV and proposed electrode-HRV is 0.999

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.30-39
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• 1993

This study examined the relationship between marital cohesion adaptability and marital communication and especially tested the linear versus curvilinear hypothese with Circumplex Model. The subjects were 142 couples living in Pusan./ The data were analyzed using frequency one-way ANOVA and Pearson's correlation coefficient The major finding of this study were as follows: The relationship between the dimensions of cohesion adaptability and communica-tion was linear than curvilinear. High cohesion and high adaptability spouses were more effective communication than low cohesion and low adaptability.

• 지역사회간호학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.580-581
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• 1989

본 연구의 목적은 전라북도 지역내 양호교사의 업무수행 실태를 파악하고 이에 영향을 주는 요인을 분석함으로써 학교 간호업무수행상의 개선점을 모색하기 위한 기초자료를 제공하고자 함이다. 조사 대상은 전라북도내 양호교사 143명 중 설문에 답한 87명으로 하였다. 수집된 자료는 spss를 이용하여 평균, 백분율, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient를 적용하였다. 분석된 주요 결과 및 결론은 다음과 같다.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.77-86
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• 2006

This study is to investigate the error of prediction value with related variables from the recommended system and to examine the error of prediction value with related variables. To decrease the error on the collaborative recommended system on user based, this research explored the effects on the prediction related response pair between raters' demographic variables and Pearson's coefficient and sparsity. The result shows comparative analysis between existing error of prediction value and conditioned one.

• 음성과학
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.143-150
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• 2004

This study was done to compare thresholds between those of Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) with clicks or tonebursts and Multiple Auditory Steady-State Response (MASTER). The results would give a promising tool for evaluating frequency-specific hearing sensitivity in infants or young children. The correlation coefficient value between the click ABR thresholds and MASTER thresholds at carrier frequencies, 500, 1,000, 2,000 Hz, and 4,000 Hz was obtained at Pearson 0.91, 0.94, 0.93, and 0.91.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.25-33
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• 1998

We review a multivariate version of Kendall's tau based on direction vectors of observations. And with this statistic we propose an analog of the forward variable selection method which selects a set of independent variables for further studies to build the eventual predicting model. This method does not assume the distributions of observations and the linear model and it is strong to the outliers with high asymptotic efficiencies relative to the parametric Pearson's correlation coefficient.