• Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.282-290
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• 2019

Characterizing inflammation and fibrosis in Crohn's disease (CD) is necessary to guide clinical management, but distinguishing the two remains challenging. Novel ultrasound (US) techniques: contrast-enhanced US (CEUS) and shear wave elastography (SWE) offer great potential in evaluating disease activity in pediatric patients. Three patients ages 16 to 20 with known CD underwent CEUS and SWE to characterize bowel wall inflammation and fibrosis. Magnetic resonance enterography, endoscopy, or surgical pathology findings are also described when available. The patients' disease activity included acute inflammation, chronic inflammation with stricture formation, and a fibrotic surgical anastomosis without inflammation. CEUS was useful in determining the degree of inflammation, and SWE identified bowel wall fibrosis. Used together these techniques allow for better characterization of the degree of fibrosis and inflammation in bowel strictures. With further validation CEUS and SWE may allow for improved characterization of bowel strictures and disease flares in pediatric patients suffering from CD.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.57-63
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• 2008

Recently, OGC(Open Geospatial Consortium) take the lead in SWE(Sensor Web Enablement) research that collection various context information from sensor networks and show it on map by web. OGC SWE WG(Working Group) defines a standard encoding about realtime spatiotemporal appear geographical feature, sensing data and support web services. This paper proposes a visualization scheme of sensing data based location on 2D maps. We show realtime sensing data on moving node that mapping GPS data on map. First, we present an algorithm and procedure that location information change to position of maps for visualization sensing data based on 2D maps. For verifying that algorithm and scheme, we design and implement a program that collecting GPS data and sensing data, and displaying application on 2D maps. Therefore we confirm effective visualization on maps based on web which realtime image and sensing data collected from sensor network.

• Herbal Formula Science
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.21-28
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• 2023

Objective : Scolopendra, a dried body of Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans, is one of Korean medicine. Several reports revealed that Scolopendra has therapeutic effects for arthritis, neuroinflammatory diseases and neuropathic pain. However, the fetal adaptive response or teratogenicity associated with administration of Scolopendra is unclear. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the fetal toxicity effects that were induced following oral administration of Scolopendra water extract (SWE) in pregnant mice. Methods : The pregnant mice were administrated SWE at dosed of 0, 100, 500 and 1000 mg/kg/day during gestation day 0-18. The mortality, body weight and clinical signs of pregnant mice were observed throughout experimental period. Also, the mortality and malformations in foetus were examined. Results : No meaningful changes were observed in the mortality and clinical signs of pregnant mice between the normal control group and SWE administrated groups. Additionally, there are no significant changes in fetal mortalities, and malformations by SWE administration. conclusion : These results suggest that oral exposure to SWE during pregnancy at oral dosages up to 1000 mg/kg/day did not induce teratogenic toxicity in regard to fetal mortality and morphology.

• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• v.21 no.9
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• pp.1045-1054
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• 2020

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic value of combining the quantitative parameters of shear wave elastography (SWE) and superb microvascular imaging (SMI) to breast ultrasound (US) to differentiate between benign and malignant breast masses. Materials and Methods: A total of 200 pathologically confirmed breast lesions in 192 patients were retrospectively reviewed using breast US with B-mode imaging, SWE, and SMI. Breast masses were assessed based on the breast imaging reporting and data system (BI-RADS) and quantitative parameters using the maximum elasticity (Emax) and ratio (Eratio) in SWE and the vascular index in SMI (SMI_VI). The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) value, sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, negative predictive value, and positive predictive value of B-mode alone versus the combination of B-mode US with SWE or SMI of both parameters in differentiating between benign and malignant breast masses was compared, respectively. Hypothetical performances of selective downgrading of BI-RADS category 4a (set 1) and both upgrading of category 3 and downgrading of category 4a (set 2) were calculated. Results: Emax with a cutoff value of 86.45 kPa had the highest AUC value compared to Eratio of 3.57 or SMI_VI of 3.35%. In set 1, the combination of B-mode with Emax or SMI_VI had a significantly higher AUC value (0.829 and 0.778, respectively) than B-mode alone (0.719) (p < 0.001 and p = 0.047, respectively). B-mode US with the addition of Emax, Eratio, and SMI_VI had the best diagnostic performance of AUC value (0.849). The accuracy and specificity increased significantly from 68.0% to 84.0% (p < 0.001) and from 46.1% to 79.1% (p < 0.001), respectively, and the sensitivity decreased from 97.6% to 90.6% without statistical loss (p = 0.199). Conclusion: Combining all quantitative values of SWE and SMI with B-mode US improved the diagnostic performance in differentiating between benign and malignant breast lesions.

• The Korea Journal of Herbology
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.67-74
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• 2005

Objectives : This study was carried out to determine if Scutellariae Radix have protective effect against cell injury induced by various toxic agents in rat kidney slices. Methods : Water(SWe) and methanol(SMe) extracts were prepared for this experiment. Cell injury was estimated by measuring lactate dehydrogenase(LDH). Lipid peroxidation was examined by measuring malondialdehyde. Results : SMe prevented the LDH release by CCl4, menadione, tert-butyl hydroperoxide and mercury treatment in vitro in kidney slices, but SWe prevented the LDH release by CCl4 and mercury. SMe also prevented reduction in GSH by CCl4 and lipid peroxidation induced by mercury. Conclusions : Thus, SMe may have more powerful efficacy on anti-oxidative effects when compared with SWe. And further studies have to be followed concerned with procedure of extraction of SMe and its change of effects.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.63-66
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• 2012

최근 기후변화와 관련하여 수많은 자연재해 현상이 빈번하게 발생하고 있다. 특히 국지적인 폭설과 관련한 자연재해는 재산상의 피해뿐만 아니라 수많은 인명피해를 야기하고 있다. 또한 적설은 단순히 방재 차원을 넘어서 물의 순환과정을 해석하는 데에도 중요한 부분으로 인식되고 있다. 특히 수문학적 측면에서 적설은 인근 하천유량 및 토양수분에 영향을 미치는 주요한 인자로서 이에 관한 세밀한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 따라서 기존의 접근 방식을 넘어서 더욱 능동이고 즉각적인 형태의 적설 관측의 필요성이 대두 되고 있는 시점이다. 지점 관측의 한계성을 보완하기 위해 인공위성에 탑재된 마이크로파 센서를 활용한 적설 관측시스템이 제안되어 이에 대한 검증도 활발히 진행되고 있다. NASA의 Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-Earth Observing System (AMSR-E)는 마이크로파 센서로서 전 지구적인 물과 에너지 흐름에 관한 다양한 정보를 제공하고 있으며, 이중에는 적설 관측을 위하여 AMSR-E의 SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT PRODUCT (SWE)를 이용한 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 한반도내에서의 관측소 실측 자료를 바탕으로 AMSR-E SWE에 대한 검증작업을 실시하였으며, 현재 인공위성을 활용한 적설관측 체계의 오차를 유발하는 요인에 대해 분석했다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.733-735
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• 2011

최근 센서를 이용한 모니터링 시스템 구축에 대한 관심이 높아지고 그 활용가치도 높아짐에 따라 다양한 분야에서의 센서네트워크 망 구축의 수요가 많아지고 있다. 각각 독립적은 구조를 가지는 센서 네트워크 망의 통합적이고 확장 가능한 형태의 모니터링과 제어를 위하여 OGC 에서는 Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) 표준을 제안하였다. 하지만 국내에서는 이를 적용한 사례가 없다. 또한 따라서 본 논문에서는 OGC 에서 제안한 국제표준인 SWE 에 대해 분석하고 실제 서비스 제공 가능한 형태로 구축하였다. 본 구축은 MVC 모델을 기반으로 오픈 플랫폼으로 개발 되었다. 또한 클라이언트를 플렉스로 개발하여 플래시를 지원하는 다양한 브라우저에서 사용 가능하도록 구현하였다.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.56 no.12
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• pp.939-953
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• 2023

Shallow water equations (SWE) serve as fundamental equations governing the movement of the water. Traditional numerical approaches for solving these equations generally face various challenges, such as sensitivity to mesh generation, and numerical oscillation, or become more computationally unstable around shock and discontinuities regions. In this study, we present a novel approach that leverages the power of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) to approximate the solution of the SWE. PINNs integrate physical law directly into the neural network architecture, enabling the accurate approximation of solutions to the SWE. We provide a comprehensive methodology for formulating the SWE within the PINNs framework, encompassing network architecture, training strategy, and data generation techniques. Through the results obtained from experiments, we found that PINNs could be an accurate output solution of SWE when its results were compared with the analytical method. In addition, PINNs also present better performance over the Artificial Neural Network. This study highlights the transformative potential of PINNs in revolutionizing water resources research, offering a new paradigm for accurate and efficient solutions to the SVE.

• The Korea Swine Journal
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• v.18 no.5 s.201
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• pp.135-139
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• 1996

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.774-780
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• 2010

USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Network) is a core infrastructure that u-life use to enable the realization in the ubiquitous society through various services of area such as u-city, u-Health. Therefore, we need a research for domestic standards to establish USN technique. Currently, status of USN standards is most standard and research that it is a technology for sensor node implementation and a protocol for energy-efficient communication and interlock with existing network. But, Standard and research for sensor network and integration management of heterogeneous sensor networks for USN application and sensing data management and USN database structure definition such as application and middleware is weak level. In this paper, we researched for standard development of domestic a sensor network and the relevant standard analysis to configure SWE(Sensor Web Enablement) of OGC(Open Geospatial Consortium) for standarded plattform technology. Also we researched that it's a connection between domestic ITA(Telecommunications Technology Association) standards and SWE Standard.