• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.467-476
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• 1997

This paper presents a designing of a digital hearing aid processor (DHAP) chip being operated by a dedicated DSP core. The DHAP for hearing aid devices must be feasible within a size and power consumption required. Furthermore, it should be able to compensate for wide range of hearing losses and allow sufficient flexibility for the algorithm development. In this paper, a programmable 16-bit fixed-point DSP core is employed thor the designing of the DHAP. The designed DHAP performs a nonlinear loudness correction of 8 frequency bands based on audiometric measurements of impaired subjects. By employing a programmable DSP, the DHAP provides all the flexibility needed to implement audiological algorithms. In addition, the chip has low-power feature and $5, 500\times5000$$\mu$$m^2$ dimensions that fit for wearable hearing aids.

• Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.349-354
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• 1997

Myotibrillar ATPase activity, thermostability and composition of muscle protein were investigated to elucidate biochemical properties regard with rearing period and sex of olive flounder. Myofibrillar ATPase activity of male olive flounder reared for 6, 12 and 20 months was stronger than that of female one. $Mg^{2+}\;(+Ca^{2+})-ATPase$ activity of both female and male fish decreased with the elapse of rearing period, and the activity of male was higher than that of female far beyond the rearing periods. The high correlationship between the weight gain and myofibrillar ATPase activity was observed. The thor mostability of male myofibrillar protein was higher than that of female. Subunit composition of the myofibrillar and sarcoplasmic protein did not show difference between the both sex of the fish.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.29-44
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• 1981

Nursing role tends to be more complex then before because of the increased number of health professionals and of the health needs of patient. Accordingly, nursing role expectations are various and sometimes conflict by its role set. There are various literatures on role conflict of nurses and discussed how to eliminate the conflict in order to improve nursing service particularly in the hospital organization. This study was designed to determine if role conflict exist among nurses who work in a hospital and if so what resolution were most frequently selected by the nurses to the role conflict. The study population was fifty six registered nurses of K university hospital. The fifty six was defined and selected by nonproportional stratified sampling method to obtain subjects who are from uniform role set. A questionnaire, a list of role connect, stimulated by the literature review, knowledge based on several years' experience in nursing was formulated by the author and administered to the study population. The questionnaire included twenty nine closed question items of role conflict and classified according to the intra sender conflict, intersender conflict, person conflict and interperson conflict. The response choices to the questions range on a scale continuum with degrees of conflict from one to five: never - 0, seldom - 1, occasionally - 2, frequently - 3, and mostly -4. Per cent, means, standard deviation, and x² -test were used to analyze data. The findings of the study could be summarized as follows. 1. General characterstics of the study population: Most of the population were between the age of 22-27 and are not married. 2. Analysis of Role conflict Existence of Role conflict of nurses was found by the total mean conflict score, 2.06. Inter Sender Role conflict revealed the most high mean conflict score and the lowest one was inter person role conflict. Among the five role senders of nurses: Physician, patient and hi9 family, peer and superior, nursing students and hospital administrator, nurses showed the highest conflict mean score for physicians and the lowest score for Nursing student. 3. Analysis of role conflict resolution. Compromise through discussion with the role sender was the most frequently selected method by the respondents. The result also showed that the respondents tend to resolve the conflicting situation created by patient or his family by persuation. On the o thor hand, Avoidance and ignorance was frequently chosen for the conflicting role expectations from the hospital administrator.

• The korean journal of orthodontics
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• v.35 no.2 s.109
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• pp.153-161
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• 2005

Tooth movement facilitated by corticotomy and distraction osteoseresis was discussed. In this study, a portion of cortical bone which can provide resistance to tooth movement in alveolar bone was removed Active bone deposition was thor Possible in the tension side. Teeth moved at such a speedy rate as we could not imagine from conventional orthodontic treatment. which lead to the reduction of the total treatment Period Posterior movement of the canine or molar teeth was possible without any side effects such as anchorage loss, root resorption or Periodontal breakdown.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.23 no.3 s.75
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• pp.25-33
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• 2005

This study examines socio-demographic characteristics of married couples and their desire for a second child. Questionnaires were completed by 355 married men and women who have only one child currently. The participants were classified into four groups by their desire, or a lack thereof, for a second child. Group I consisted of married people who wanted to have another child, and whose spouse wanted the same. Members of Group II were in a marriage where only the wife wanted to have another child. Members of Group III were in a marriage where only the husband wanted a second child. Group IV consisted of participants who did not want another child, and whose spouse agreed with thor The research questions were (1) how different those four groups are in terms of socio-demographic characteristics, (2) what are the reasons to stop having children and to have another child, and (3) what are the perceptions of the current low fertility rate in Korea, and the policies designed to increase birth rata The results indicate that wife' age, husband's educational level, expectant level of household economy, age at marriage, marriage duration and the time length between marriage and birth of the first child were significantly different among the four groups. The reasons to stop having children were expected constraint of privacy and time, physical and psychological burden and economic pressure. The most pronounced reason for wanting another child was the desire to give their first child a sibling. Group III had more serious disagreement about having another child than did Group II. There were significant differences among the four groups in the perceptions of possible consequences of the low birth rate. These perceptions included: undermined competitiveness of the nation and weakened family ties.

• The Journal of Korean Academy of Prosthodontics
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.577-608
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• 1997

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the stress distribution in the bone around dental implants supporting mandibular overdenture according to the number of implant and the type of attachment. Two or four implants were placed in an edentulous mandibular model and three dimensional photoelastic stress analysis was carried out to measure the fringe order around the implant supporting structure and also to calculate principal stress components at cervical area of each implant. The attachments tested were rigid and resilient type of Dolder bar, Round bar, Hader bar and Dal-Ro attchment. The results were as follows ; 1. In 2-implant supported overdenture using Round bar, Hader bar, and Dal-Ro attachment, compressive stress pattern was observed on the supporting structure of implant on loaded side, while tensile stress pattern in unloaded side. 2. In 2-implant supported overdenture using Dolder bar, the rigid Dolder bar shared the occlusal loads between 2 implants in a more favorable manner than was exhibited by the resilient type, while the resilient type placed a more stress on the distocervical area of the implant on the loaded side. But compressive stress pattern was observed in both the loaded and unloaded sides in either case. 3. In 2-implant supported overdenture, rigid and resilient type of Dolder bar exhibited more cross arch involvement than the Round bar, Hader bar, or Dal-Ro attachment. 4. In 4-implant supported overdenture using resilient Dolder bar and Hader bar, stress turned out to be distributed evenly among the implants between loaded and unloaded side, but thor was no reduction in the magnitude of the stress in the surrounding structure of implant contratry to 2-implant supported overdenture. 5. The stress pattern at cervical area of implant was different with the number of implant or the type of attachment but the overload, harmful to surrounding structure of implant, was not observed.

• Korean Journal of Veterinary Research
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.53-59
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• 1985

A group of 80 Holstein calves, many with clinical signs of infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis in summer seasons, was assembled for bacteriologic and ophthalmologic studies at an integrated dairy farm. Observations were started from 1980 to 1984 but bacteriological study was only carried out from thor spring in 1981 and continued during the Autumn in 1981. Corneal lesions and drugs sensitivity were also observed and the results obtained were as follows: 1. Occurrences of IBK-affected cattle during the 5 years were predominent to calves in summer. 2. Among 142 eyes from 80 cattle, 53 isolates of Moraxella bovis(37.3%) were isolated from 37 cattle(46.3%). The prevalence of the infection for clinical eyes were higher than nonclinical eyes calves. 3. Miscellaneous organisms were found from age groups of 5 months to 9 months old. It were 8 hemolytic Neisseria spp., 3 Fungi, Mycoplasma sp. and 1 Pseudomonas sp., but 9 samples were unknown. 4. Prevalence of infection with M. bovis in bilateral clinical eyes were higher than unilateral eyes. 5. Incidence of corneal lesion was predominent in early stage as a watery tears(21.0%) and late stage as a leukomas of corneal opacity(22.8%). 6. The number of isolations of M. bovis and incidence of IBK varied from year to year; Higher incidence of IBK clinical signs were showed in calves from 5 months to 10 months old and the number of isolations of M. bovis was declined in order 8 months(100.0%), 4 months(75.0%), 5 months(66.6%) and 8 months(66.6%) old calves. 7. Chloramphenicol, Nitrofurantoin and Cephalothin were highly sensitive against M. bovis isolates and then Tetracycline, Neomycin, Erythromycin and Kanamycin were intermediate but low sensitive to Streptomycin, Colistin and Penicillin.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.178-178
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• 2023

Drought and flooding have historically coexisted in Korea, occurring at different times and with varying cycles and trends. The drought indicators measured were (PDSI), (SPI), and (SPEI) in order to statistically analyze the annual or periodic drought occurrence and objectively evaluate statistical characteristics such as the periodicity, tendency, and frequency of occurrence of droughts in the Doam watershed. To compute potential evapotranspiration (PET), both Thornthwaite (Thor) and Penman-Monteith (PM) parameterizations were considered, and the differences between the two PET estimators were analyzed. Hence, SPIs 3 and SPIs 6 revealed a tendency to worsen drought in the spring and winter and a tendency to alleviate drought in the summer in the study area. The seasonal variability trend did not occur in the SPIs 12 and PDSI, as it did in the drought index over a short period. As a result of the drought trend study, the drought from winter to spring gets more severe, in addition to the duration of the drought, although the periodicity of the recurrence of the drought ranged from 3 years to 6 years at the longest, indicating that SPIs 3 showed a brief time of around 1 year. SPIs 6 and SPIs 12 had a term of 4 to 6 years, and PDSI had a period of roughly 6 years. Based on the indicators of the PDSI, SPI, and SPEI, the drought severity increases under climate change conditions with the decrease in precipitation and increased water demand as a consequence of the temperature increase. Therefore, our findings show that national and practical measures are needed for both winter and spring droughts, which happen every year, as well as large-scale and extreme droughts, which happen every six years.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.293-310
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• 2024

In this paper, we propose an agent model for Language-Driven Zero-Shot Object Navigation (L-ZSON) tasks, which takes in a freeform language description of an unseen target object and navigates to find out the target object in an inexperienced environment. In general, an L-ZSON agent should able to visually ground the target object by understanding the freeform language description of it and recognizing the corresponding visual object in camera images. Moreover, the L-ZSON agent should be also able to build a rich spatial context map over the unknown environment and decide efficient exploration actions based on the map until the target object is present in the field of view. To address these challenging issues, we proposes AML (Agent Model for L-ZSON), a novel L-ZSON agent model to make effective use of AI foundation models such as Large Language Model (LLM) and Vision-Language model (VLM). In order to tackle the visual grounding issue of the target object description, our agent model employs GLEE, a VLM pretrained for locating and identifying arbitrary objects in images and videos in the open world scenario. To meet the exploration policy issue, the proposed agent model leverages the commonsense knowledge of LLM to make sequential navigational decisions. By conducting various quantitative and qualitative experiments with RoboTHOR, the 3D simulation platform and PASTURE, the L-ZSON benchmark dataset, we show the superior performance of the proposed agent model.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.244-258
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• 1995

아기의 출생은 부모에게 환경적, 신체적, 정신적 부담을 준다. 이렇게 부모가 된 사람들은 부모역할 수행시 어려움을 겪고 있고, 그 중에서도 어머니가 아버지보다 역할수행시 더 많은 어려 움을 겪고 있다고 한다. 본 연구는 생후 8개월 된 아기 어머니들을 대상으로 역할이 론을 토대로 모성역할 획득에 영향을 주는 요인들로 가설적 모형을 구축하고, 이의 적합성을 검정하므로 써 어머니들의 모성역할 획득을 촉진하기 위하여 필요한 간호 정보를 제공하려고 한다. 본 연구는 문헌고찰을 통하여 모성역할 긴장과 모성역할 획득에 영향을 주는 요인으로 일상생활의 시간적 여유, 아기 기질, 사회적 지지가 포함되었고, 모성역할 긴장이 모성역할 획득에 영향을 주는 것으로 이론적 기틀을 구성하였다. 연구도구로는 모성역할 획득 중 모성 정체감을 측정하기 위해 Osgood(Walker et al., 1986a에서 인용)도구, 모성역할 수행을 측정하기 위해 수정보완 된 Gibaud-Wallston(1977)도구와 어머니가 지각한 모아 상호작용정도 도구를 이용하였고, 모성역할 긴장측정에는 수정 보완된 Hobbs(정, 1985에서 인용)도구를 이용하였다. 아기 기질은 수정 보완한 The degree of thor inventory(Mercer, 1986 에서 인용), 남편의 정신적지지 측정은Taylor(Durrett, 1986에서 인용)의 도구를 이용하였고, 일상생활의 시간적 여유, 남편의 신체적 지지 및 주위의 지지측정은 연구자가 개발한 도구를 사용하였다. 1993년 1월부터 1994년 1월까지 대전시 5개 보건소에 등록된 대상자들에게 우편으로 설문지를 보내어 221명이 회수되어 회수율이 약72%였다. 일반적인 서술적 자료 분석은 SPSS PC+ 를 이용하였고, 가설적 모형은PC-LISREL 7.13 (Joreskkog & Sorbom,1988)프로그램을 이용하여 공변량구조분석을 하였다. 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 모성역할 획득에 모성역할 긴장, 일상생활의 시간적 여유, 아기 기질, 사회적 지지가 영향을 주며, 모성역할 긴장에는 일상생활의 시간적 여유, 아기 기질, 사회적지지가 영향을 준다고 설정된 가설적 모형〈Figure 1〉의 분석 결과 전반적 지수는 자유도 23에 카이자승치 60.17, GFI와 AGFI의 값은 .944, .891였고, NFI와 NNFI의 값은 .8823, .7932 이었다. 그러나 세부적 지수 중 모성역할 긴장에서 모성역할획득으로의 경로, 일상생활의 시간적 여유에서 모성역할 획득으로의 경로, 아기 기질에서 모성역할 획득으로의 경로의 고정지수가 절대치 2에 미치지 못하여, 세 경로계수를 영(0)으로 고정시킬 필요가 있었다. 따라서 더 간명하며 부합도가 좋은 모형을 찾기 위하여 가설적모형에서 고정지수가 낮은 경로 부터 고정시켜 나가 세경로(모성 역할 긴장에서 모성역할 획득, 일상생활의 시간적 여유에서 모성역할 획득, 아기 기질에서 모성역할획득)를 고정시킨 수정 모형 의 PFI (간명도)가 .5986으로서 가설적모형의 PFI(간명도) .5636보다 커 부합도 를 손상하지 않고 더 간명한 모형으로 나타났다. 수정모형 의 고정 지수를 살펴 본 결과 절대 치 2에 미치지 못하는 경로는 나타나지 않았다. 공변량구조분석 결과 나타난 변인간의 관계를 보면 가) 모성역할 긴장은 사회적 지지가 많을수록(Lisrel Estimates=-1.591), 아기 기질이 순하다고 생각할수록(Lisrel Estimates=-.266), 일상생활의 시간적 여유가 많을수록(Lisrel Estimstes=-1.771) 낮았고, 나) 모성역할 획득은 사회적 지지가 많을수록(Lisrel Estimates=1.120) 잘 되었다.