• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
• /
• 제31권3호
• /
• pp.210-216
• /
• 2010

This study is vestibular electric stimulation applied between the mastoids during quiet standing elicits postural sway. The aim of this study was to characterize the postural sway response to continuous sinusoidal vestibular electric stimulation across various stimulus frequencies and amplitudes. Binaural bipolar sinusoidal vestibular electric stimulation was applied to the skin overlying the mastoid processes of 10 subjects while they stood on a force plate. The position of the center of pressure(COP) and signals at the feet are obtained on an force plate, while the head and whole body center of mass(COM) was measured with motion analysis system. The stimulus conditions included eight frequencies (1/64, 1/32, 1/16, 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 1, and 2Hz) and six peak amplitudes (0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 0.7, 1 and 2mA). Each subject experienced one trial at each amplitude-frequency pair. The stimuli elicited sway in lateral plane in all subjects, as evidenced by changes in the stimulus frequency. Our results demonstrate that the vestibular system is sensitive to vestibular electric stimulation intensity changes and responds by altering the magnitude of the response accordingly.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
• /
• 제9권10호
• /
• pp.249-257
• /
• 2009

사상의학은 체질에 따라 치료하는 방법을 달리하므로, 체질진단의 객관화가 절실히 요구되고 있다. 본 연구는 맥파를 이용하여 사상체질을 객관적으로 진단함에 있어서, 정확도가 높으면서 실용적인 체질분류 방법을 탐색하는 것이 목적이다. 한방병원에 건강검진을 목적으로 내원한 2848명의 피험자를 대상으로 전문의가 진단한 체질, 체질량지수, 혈압, 맥파 자료를 입수하였다. 자료의 선별과정을 통하여 최종적으로 1635명의 자료를 분석에 사용하였다. 판별분석, 회귀분석, 의사결정나무, 신경망으로 체질을 예측하고 전문의가 진단한 결과와 비교하여 분류방법의 정확도를 비교하였다. 판별분석은 체질별로 공분산 행렬이 동일해야 한다는 가정을 만족시키기 어려웠으며, 체질량지수를 고려하지 않은 의사결정나무와 신경망 분석의 결과는 분석표본의 변동에 민감했다. 체질분류에 결정적인 영향을 미치는 변수인 체질량지수가 고려된 로지스틱 회귀분석 또는 의사결정나무 방법이 체질분류 방법으로 추천할 만하다.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology
• /
• 제24권1호
• /
• pp.171-180
• /
• 1990

In 19 cats anesthetized with ${\alpha}-chloralose$ effects of taurine and ${\beta}-alanine$ on the responses of wide dynamic range (WDR) cells to mechanical, chemical and thermal stimuli were investigated in the lumbar spinal cord of the cat. Also studied was an interaction of strychnine with taurine in affecting the activities of WDR cells. Following intravenous administration of taurine, the responses of WDR cells to all types of mechanical stimuli were markedly enhanced, demonstrating that the response to pressure was most sensitive to taurine action. When the receptive field was exposed to thermal stimuli ($50^{\circ}C$) for 20 sec. taurine increased activity of WDR cell to 169.5% of the control value. The $K^{+}$-induced activation of WDR cells was invariably suppressed after taurine administration. Intravenously administered strychnine remarkably reduced the enhanced response of WDR cell to natural stimuli resulting from intravenous administration of taurine. Also ${\beta}-alanine$ markedly activated the response of spinal dorsal horn cell to natural mechanical stimuli. These findings suggest that neutral amino acid and its derivative such as ${\beta}-alanine$ and taurine can enhance the response of WDR cells to different stimuli in cats.

• 폴리머
• /
• 제38권4호
• /
• pp.491-495
• /
• 2014

UV조사에 의한 2-EHA(ethylhexyl acrylate)/AA(acrylic acid) 점착제를 제조하고 이때 첨가되는 광 개시제의 종류가 점차제의 접착물성에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. Irgacure$^{(R)}$651(benzyldimethyl ketal)과 Irgacure$^{(R)}$184(1-hydroxy-cyclohexylphenyl ketone) 광 개시제를 도입한 점차제의 경우 UV램프의 방출 스펙트럼 근처에서의 높은 흡수율과 단량체 혼합물과의 상용성에 기인하여 우수한 접착물성을 나타낸 반면 Irgacure$^{(R)}$819(bisacylphosphine oxides) 광 개시제를 도입한 경우 사용된 UV램프의 방출 스펙트럼과 가장 겹치는 흡수 파장대를 가짐에도 불구하고 고농도에서 박리 시 응집파괴가 일어났으며 이것은 높은 함량에서 광 개시제 일부가 산소와 반응하고 이것이 수소 공여체 역할을 하여 추가적인 라디칼 형성을 일으키기 때문으로 생각된다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
• /
• 제16권7호
• /
• pp.3051-3056
• /
• 2015

Background: Skin self-examination (SSE) may facilitate early diagnosis of melanoma at a potentially curable stage. Little data are available concerning the SSE frequency and knowledge about the symptoms of melanoma in non-patient populations. The aim of our study was to assess the performance of skin self-examination, recognition of potential melanoma symptoms as well as behavior related to sun exposure among web users in Poland. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among readers of a scientific portal. Invited respondents were asked to complete an online questionnaire. Finally, statistical analysis was conducted on 4,919 surveys towards potential clinical signs of melanoma and SSE performance. Results: Approximately 60% of respondents had ever performed SSE in their life. Only 18.4 % declared performance on a regular, monthly, basis. Factors promoting this activity were established to be bigger place of residence, higher education and sensitive skin phototype, higher level of knowledge concerning melanoma, safe tanning rules and, especially, past surgical excision of naevi. Declared longer use of tanning beds was linked to understanding better the importance of clinical features of melanoma. Awareness of hazardous behavior during sunbathing is associated with the attempts to change them. Conclusions: Regular SSE is not a common practice, whilst the knowledge about the clinical features of melanoma is varied. Therefore, constant pressure should be put on promotion of regular skin self-examination and teaching its proper techniques, including familiarity with the ABCD (asymmetry; border; color; diameter) rule and its extension of "EFG" (elevated, firm, progressive growth) criteria.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
• /
• 제52권3호
• /
• pp.575-580
• /
• 2020

We have developed a position-sensitive Parallel Plate Avalanche Counter (PPAC) to detect the fission fragments and reconstruct the fission reaction plane in the experiment of studying nuclear equation of state (nEOS) by means of heavy ion collision (HIC). This experiment put forward high requirements for the performances of PPAC, such as the time resolution, efficiency and position resolution. According to these requirements we designed the PPAC with an active area of 240 mm × 280 mm working at low gas pressure. The results show that time resolution could be less than 300 ps. Position resolution is consistent with the theoretical calculation about 1.35 mm. Detection efficiency could be approaching 100% gradually with the voltage increasing in different gas pressures. The performances of PPAC have also been verified in beam experiment. Each set of anode wires can be accurately separated in the position spectrum. In the beam experiment, we also got the back-to-back correlation of fission fragments which is one of the direct signals characterizing binary decay.

• 한국공간구조학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국공간구조학회 2008년도 춘계 학술발표회 논문집
• /
• pp.15-18
• /
• 2008

대공간 구조는 3차원적인 힘의 흐름과 면내력에 의해 외부하중에 대한 저항능력을 확보하는 형태 저항형 구조로서, 구조물 자체의 곡률을 이용하여 면외방향으로 작용하는 외력을 주로 면내력으로 저항할 수 있게한 구조시스템이다. 그러므로, 연성구조물의 일종인 막구조물은 대공간 구조물을 보다 효과적으로 구축할 수 있다. 이러한 막구조물은 지진이나 고정하중에 의한 영향보다 바람의 의한 영향이 매우 중요하다고 볼 수 있다. 또한, 풍하중은 주변 환경 및 구조물의 형태에 따라 그 크기가 매우 다르게 나타난다. 본 논문에서는, 우리나라에서 풍하중의 영향을 가장 많이 받은 지역들 중에 건설된, 2개 경기장의 설계 풍하중과 풍동실험 결과값들을 비교 검토해 보고자 한다.

• 전자공학회논문지A
• /
• 제32A권1호
• /
• pp.152-158
• /
• 1995

Eteching characteristics of the Indium Tin Oxide (ITO), which is transparent conductor, was investigated with CH4/H2 and Ar as etching gases for the Reactive Ion Etching (RIE). With CH4/H2 for the etching gas, the highly selective etching characteristics for the ITO on GaAs was obtained. It was examined that the dominant etching parameter for the selective etchning of ITO on GaAs structure was the chamber pressure. But, the etching selectivity for ITO on InP was poor eventhough we tried systematic etching. RIE etching conditins using CH4/H2 gas was limited due to the formation of polymer on the substrates. In the case of Ar gas for the reactive gas, the selectivity of ITO on BaTiO3 was above 10. The etch rete of ITO was more sensitive to the etching parameters than that of BaTiO3, which was almost constant with different etching parameters.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
• /
• 제24권3호
• /
• pp.390-401
• /
• 2000

In this study, numerical calculation is carried out to investigate the influence of injection timing, fuel amount, intake $O_2$ concentration, and EGR on Nitric Oxide(NO) formation using a two-zone model in a diesel engine. Results can be summarized as follows. The NO formation is very sensitive to the burned gas temperature, so multi-zone model must be applied to combustion process to predict the burned gas temperature exactly. Since the burned gas temperature increases rapidly during the premixed combustion, most NO is formed within 20 crank angle degrees after ignition. As the injection timing is retarded, the combustion occurs later in the expansion process which causes the decrease of burned gas temperature and, as a result, NO formation decrease. The increase of fuel amount results in the increase of earlier formation of NO in the engine. As the intake $O_2$ concentration increases, the maximum pressure and burned gas temperature increase due to activate combustion. And, [O] mole fraction of equilibrium combustion products also increase. Therefore NO exponentially increases. If exhaust gas is recirculated, the burned gas temperature decreases which results in NO decrease. If exhaust gas is cooled, more NO can be decreased.

• Wind and Structures
• /
• 제23권2호
• /
• pp.91-107
• /
• 2016

Flow-excited acoustic resonance in ducted cavities can produce high levels of acoustic pressure that may lead to severe damage. This occurs when the flow instability over the cavity mouth, which is created by the free shear layer separation at the upstream edge, is coupled with one of the acoustic modes in the accommodating enclosure. Acoustic resonance can cause high amplitude fluctuating acoustic loads in and near the cavity. Such acoustic loads could cause damage in sensitive applications such as aircraft weapon bays. Therefore, the suppression and mitigation of these resonances are very important. Much of the work done in the past focused on the fluid-dynamic oscillation mechanism or suppressing the resonance by altering the edge condition at the shear layer separation. However, the effect of the downstream edge has received much less attention. This paper considers the effect of the impingement edge geometry on the acoustic resonance excitation and Strouhal number values of the flow instabilities in a ducted shallow cavity with an aspect ratio of 1.0. Several edges, including chamfered edges with different angles and round edges with different radii, were investigated. In addition, some downstream edges that have never been studied before, such as saw-tooth edges, spanwise cylinders, higher and lower steps, and straight and delta spoilers, are investigated. The experiments are conducted in an open-loop wind tunnel that can generate flows with a Mach number up to 0.45. The study shows that when some edge geometries, such as lower steps, chamfered, round, and saw-tooth edges, are installed downstream, they demonstrate a promising reduction in the acoustic resonance. On the other hand, higher steps and straight spoilers resulted in intensifying the acoustic resonance. In addition, the effect of edge geometry on the Strouhal number is presented.