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The impact of modern airport security protocols on patients with total shoulder replacements

  • Michael D. Scheidt;Neal Sethi;Matthew Ballard;Michael Wesolowski;Dane Salazar;Nickolas Garbis
    • Clinics in Shoulder and Elbow
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.416-422
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    • 2023
  • Background: Advancements in airport screening measures in response to 9/11 have resulted in increased false alarm rates for patients with orthopedic and metal implants. With the implementation of millimeter-wave scanning technology, it is important to assess the changes in airport screening experiences of patients who underwent total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA). Methods: Here, 197 patients with prior anatomic and reverse TSA completed between 2013 and 2020 responded to a questionnaire regarding their experiences with airport travel screening after their operation. Of these patients, 86 (44%) stated that they had traveled by plane, while 111 (56%) had not. The questionnaire addressed several measures including the number of domestic and international flights following the operation, number of false alarm screenings by the millimeter-wave scanner, patient body habitus, and presence of additional metal implants. Results: A total of 53 patients (62%) responded "yes" to false screening alarms due to shoulder arthroplasty. The odds of a false screening alarm for patients with other metal implants was 5.87 times that of a false screening alarm for patients with no other metal implants (P<0.1). Of a reported 662 flights, 303 (45.8%) resulted in false screening alarms. Greater body mass index was not significantly lower in patients who experienced false screening alarms (P=0.30). Conclusions: Patients with anatomic and reverse TSA trigger false alarms with millimeter-wave scanners during airport screening at rates consistent with prior reports following 9/11. Patient education on the possibility of false alarms during airport screening is important until improvements in implant identification are made. Level of evidence: IV.

Bioactivity Analysis of Curcuminoids from Turmeric using On-line Screening HPLC-ABTS (On-line Screening HPLC-ABTS를 이용한 강황으로부터 Curcuminoids의 생물활성 분석)

  • Choi, Sun Do
    • Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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    • v.56 no.3
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    • pp.137-139
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    • 2013
  • Free radical scavengers in the bisdemethoxycurcumin (BDMC), demethoxycurcumin (DMC) and curcumin of turmeric (Curcuma longa) were screened, identified, quantified and isolation using coupled off-line-2,2'-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzthiazoline-6-sulphonic acid) (ABTS) and on-line screening high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)-ABTS assay. There was a very small margin of error between the off-line-ABTS method and the on-line screening HPLC-ABTS method.

A Demonstrative Study on an Improvement Scheme for a Cooking Technician Screening System (조리기능사자격제도 개선방안에 관한 실증적 연구)

  • 경영일;김소미
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.114-129
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    • 2003
  • This study aimed at drawing a scheme for more developmental and rational improvement of the screening examination system to cope with the rapidly changing industrial environment positively, enhance the food service industry qualitatively, and reinforce engaged specialty of those engaged in the industry. To set a rational improvement scheme for a cook screening system, the study conducted a prior study on job analysis of those engaged in cooking, a review on relevant laws, and a theoretical research on those problems in the current cook screening examination system. On this basis, it understood the actual condition of the current cook screening system and implemented a demonstrative analysis through a survey to draw a section on a future improvement scheme. The results were analyzed largely from two viewpoints: the general condition of the cook screening system and the future improvement scheme for the system.

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The recent trend of prenatal screening (산전 검진의 최신 지견)

  • Hwang, Do-Yeong
    • Journal of Genetic Medicine
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.7-14
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    • 2008
  • Twenty years have passed since a prenatal screening for Down syndrome and neural tube defect was applied to obstetric field. The Quad test (AFP, hCG, uE3, Inhibin-A) of the second trimester and the combination test (PAPP-A, hCG, NT) of the first trimester became popular now. The recent trend of prenatal screening is to combine these two screening tests together in order to increase a detection rate of Down syndrome. Three types of screening methods are introduced as follows; integrated test, sequential test and contingent test. In addition to combination of each test, an incorporation of characteristic ultrasound findings of Down syndrome is suggested for its risk calculation. The absence of fetal nasal bone would be a very useful marker especially in the first trimester screening test. According to a change of way calculating risk of Down syndrome, obstetrician's role will be more increased not by passive participation, but by active participation using ultrasound in risk calculation.

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Evaluation of Balance Capability in Facilities Maintenance Workers using Screening Tools (스크리닝 도구를 이용한 건물관리업 종사자의 균형감각능력 평가)

  • Choi, Hyung Jin;Kim, Jung Soo
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.81-88
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    • 2014
  • A number of screening tools have been developed to evaluate the human balance capability. Many of them were designed to identify the elderly with falling risk. Three different screening tools, which have been well used many clinical fields, were used in this study. The purpose of this study was to evaluate balance capability in facilities maintenance workers in korea. There were no statistical significance between male and female when evaluated with three different screening tools. However, significant differences were found among the age groups irrespective of gender when evaluated with three different screening tools. The results of three different screening tools in korea showed poor values compared with previous results. These results revealed that facilities maintenance workers faced more critical falling risk in korea.

DVSF: A Distributed System for Virtual Screening (DVSF: 가상 검색을 위한 분산 시스템)

  • 황석찬;최종선;이상근;임재훈;최재영;노경태;이지수
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.25-32
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    • 2003
  • As one of a new generation of industries, biotechnology is currently spotlighted, and is creating new research and industrial areas that can be readily combined with information technology. Among them, virtual screening is a method for new drug design which uses computer simulation to virtually design active drug candidates for special disease. In this paper, we present a distributed system for virtual screening, called DVSF(Distributed Virtual Screening Facilities). DVSF is designed and developed to perform virtual screening efficiently on logically distributed idle or strategic resources in a small or medium scale laboratory.

Study on junction temperature characteristics of TO-CAN laser diode for optimized screening tests (접합 온도를 고려한 TO-CAN 레이저 다이오드의 Screening 조건 연구)

  • 이동수
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.126-129
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    • 2002
  • To extract exact screening conditions of TO-CAN laser diode, junction temperature during screening was investigated. Temperature increase due to thermal resistance was measured and compared with theoretical calculation. Injection current dependence of injection temperature was derived with good agreement with experimental data and used to obtain accurate screening conditions.

Comparison between analytic and numerical approaches to calculate screening current induced field in HTS magnet

  • Bang, Jeseok;Kim, Seokho;Kim, Jaemin;An, Soobin;Im, Chaemin;Hahn, Seungyong
    • Progress in Superconductivity and Cryogenics
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.45-49
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    • 2019
  • This paper reports comparison between analytic and numerical simulation approaches for calculation of screening current and screening current induced field in a high temperature superconductor magnet. Bean slab model is adopted to calculate screening current and SCF analytically, while the finite element method numerically. A case study of screening current and SCF calculation are conducted with a magnet, a 7 T 68 mm cold-bore multi-width no-insulation GdBCO magnet built and tested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory. In this study, we assume the magnet is dunked in liquid nitrogen at 77 K. Furthermore, the simulation results are compared in terms of computation time and accuracy. Finally, discussion on the different methods together with the comparison between the calculations and experiment is provided.

Current Status of Gastric Cancer Screening (위암 선별검사 현황)

  • Sung Eun Kim
    • Journal of Digestive Cancer Research
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.107-112
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    • 2016
  • Gastric cancer is the fifth most common malignancy in the world and still remains the third and fifth leading cause of cancer death in male and female, respectively. In terms of the cancer survival, the survival of gastric cancer is low in the West with showed 5-year survival rates of 10-30%, whereas the survival rates in Asia is more than 50%. The reason of the higher survival rate from gastric cancer in Asia partially related with the availability of gastric cancer screening programs, however, the population-based screening for gastric cancer has been conducted just in Korea and Japan. Therefore, more effective method for detecting the gastric cancer is needed for countries without a population-based gastric cancer screening. Endoscopy is the most effective method for diagnosis of gastric cancer however, it requires a large infrastructure including a large number of endoscopic equipment and well-trained endoscopists. To overcome these problems, several noninvasive methods (such as serologic markers, biomarkers, cancer autoantibodies, and exhaled breath analysis) for diagnosis of gastric cancer screening are suggested. This review addresses the conventional methods and the emerging methods for gastric cancer screening.

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