• Journal of Embryo Transfer
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.245-252
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• 2012

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of IFN-${\tau}$ on prostaglandin synthesis, cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) gene expression in vitro and concentration of progesterone (P4) in endometrial cells. Epithelial and stromal cells cultured in vitro were isolated from bovine endometrium and stimulated with increasing doses of IFN-${\tau}$ (0, 0.02, 0.2 and 2 ug/ml). Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG, 1.5 IU/ml) was used as a positive control. Prostaglandin $E_2$ and $F_{2{\alpha}}$ levels in the culture media were analyzed by enzyme immunoassays and total RNA was extracted from the cells for RT-PCR. P4 concentrations of blood samples were assayed by chemiluminescent immuno assays system. In epithelial cells, COX-2 gene expression was increased in the presence of IFN-${\tau}$ (p<0.05), but it was not significantly different in all groups of stromal cells except for 2 ug/ml IFN-${\tau}$ group (p<0.05). Although IFN-${\tau}$ did not affect $PGE_2$ and $PGF_{2{\alpha}}$ production in epithelial cells, it decreased $PGE_2$ and $PGF_{2{\alpha}}$ production significantly in stromal cells (p<0.05). In vivo experiment, blood concentration of P4 was significantly increased after addition of IFN-${\tau}$ (1 ug/ml). The results indicate that PG production was mediated by COX-2 expression in stromal cells but it was not affected in epithelial cells and this suggest that treatment of IFN-${\tau}$ could improve the implantation environment of uterine by maintenance of high P4 concentration.

• Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.1-14
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• 1984

Analyses of an integrated form $N(\tau)={\int}_{\tau}^{\infty}n(\tau)d{\tau}$ of the distribution of cluster ages, rather than its differential form $n(\tau)$, demonstrate that the observed distribution has clusters older than about 500 million years in a significant excess over theoretical model distributions. Considerations on cluster disruption processes show that a single disruption time-scale, frequently employed by current theoretical models, is no longer an adequate parameter for describing survival probability of clusters over wide age range, because different initial conditions of these clusters produce corresponding spreads in their lifetimes. To take into account for the spread in initial conditions, we have introduced an age-dependent disruption time, and deduced its age-dependence from the present-day age distribution of clusters. Results show a distinct two-stage variation: The newly introduced disruption time stays constant at about 50 million years for clusters younger than about 100 million years, while for clusters older than that it increases monotonically with the cluster age. This leads us to conclude that clusters experience different types of disrupting causes as they get old.

• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.383-389
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• 2003

Clay minerals show a distinct induced-polarization phenomenon, which is one of the most important factors for predicting groundwater flow and contaminant transport. This paper presents a step-by-step process to estimate Cole-Cole parameters from spectral induced-polarization (IP) data measured on the surface of three-dimensional earth. First, the inversion of low-frequency resistivity survey data is made to identify the dc resistivity ${\rho}_dc$ of a volume having IP effects. The other parameters, chargeability m, time constant $\tau$, and frequency dependence c, are sought for the polarizable volume. Next, using multi-frequency data, c can be obtained as high or low asymptotes of the slope of log phase vs. log frequency. Further, for low m, intrinsic $\tau$ is approximated by apparent one, ${\tau}_a$, which is derived from the relation ${{\omega}{\tau}}_a$=1 at an angular frequency $\omega$, where the imaginary component of spectral IP data has an extreme value. Finally, to obtain intrinsic m a two-step linearized procedure has been derived. For a body of given $\tau$ and c, forward modeling with a progression of m values yields a plot of observed vs. intrinsic imaginary components for a frequency. Since this plot is essentially linear, to extract the intrinsic imaginary component is quite simple with an observed value. Using the plot of intrinsic imaginary component vs. m, intrinsic m is determined. We present a synthetic example to illustrate that the Cole-Cole parameters can be recovered from spectral IP data.

• The Korean Journal of Rehabilitation Nursing
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.14-25
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• 2003

Purpose: To investigate nutritional status of inpatients by using subjective, and objective evaluation methods and to find the relationship between them. Method: The subjects were 101 inpatients with medical health problems at a university hospital. Nutritional status was evaluated by the Subjective Global Assessment(SGA) and physical assessment including percentage of weight loss, serum albumin, hemogloin, and hematocrit. Data were analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean, Kendall's tau. Results: Grouping by the SGA, 61.4% were classified as severe malnutrition group. When applying the objective methods(physical assessment), 1.9~42.6% were diagnosed as malnutrition each item. The percentage of weight loss during previous 1~6month(${\tau}=.43{\sim}.54$, P=.0001), serum albumin(${\tau}=-.26$, P=.0003), hemoglobin of male(${\tau}=-.38$, P=.0001), and hematocrit of male(${\tau}=-.34$, P=.0001) were significantly correlated with SGA score. The coincidence rate of nutrition evaluation between the objective methods and SGA were 27.7~35.6%, 20.8%, 47.5%, 58.4% in percentage of weight loss, albumin, hemoglobin, and hematocrit. Conclusion: These findings showed a majority of inpatients were exposed to the risk of malnutrition. We recommend to evaluate inpatients' nutritional status periodically and to develop nursing intervention to solve their nutritional problems.

• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.145-158
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• 2001

In this paper we investigated a replacement model with two types of repairs. Repairs are classified into minimal and perfect repair. An operating unit is completely replaced whenever it reaches age ${\tau}({\tau}>0)$(planned replacement). If it fails at age $t<{\tau}$, it is either restored by a entire unit with probability p(t)(perfect repair), or it undergoes minimal repair with probability $\bar{p}(t)=1-p(t)$. After a planned replacement, the procedure is repeated.

• Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.175-181
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• 1996

We show that $\frac{{\partial}x}{{\partial}{\gamma}}(t,{\tau},{\gamma},{\lambda},{\varepsilon})$ is a fundamental matrix of the variational system $\dot{y}=fx(t,x(t,{\tau},{\gamma},{\lambda},{\varepsilon}),{\lambda},{\varepsilon})y$ corresponding to the solution $x(t,{\tau},{\gamma},{\lambda},{\varepsilon})$ of $\dot{x}=f(t,x,{\lambda},{\varepsilon})$.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.31 no.1_2
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• pp.65-77
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• 2013

In this paper, we develop the operational Tau method for solving nonlinear Volterra integro-differential equations of the second kind. The existence and uniqueness of the problem is provided. Here, we show that the nonlinear system resulted from the operational Tau method has a semi triangular form, so it can be solved easily by the forward substitution method. Finally, the accuracy of the method is verified by presenting some numerical computations.

• Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.11-17
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• 1995

Let ${\tau}_a$ be the first time that a perturbed random walk with extended real-valued independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) random variables crosses a constant boundary $a{\geq}0$. For the stopping times ${\tau}_a$ we investigate some basic properties and obtain its limiting distribution as $a{\rightarrow}{\infty}$ and an upper bound of the expected stopping times E(${\tau}_a$).

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.515-526
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• 2006

In this paper, we give a characterization of hyperbolic linear dynamical systems via the notions of various inverse shadowing. More precisely it is proved that for a linear dynamical system f(x)=Ax of ${\mathbb{C}^n}$, f has the ${\tau}_h$ inverse(${\tau}_h-orbital$ inverse or ${\tau}_h-weak$ inverse) shadowing property if and only if the matrix A is hyperbolic.

• 한국데이터정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.04a
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• pp.25-29
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• 2005

We analyze an M/G/1 queueing system under $P_{\lambda,\tau}^M$ service policy. By using the level crossing theory and solving the corresponding integral equations, we obtain the stationary distribution of the workload in the system explicitly.