• Annals of Clinical Neurophysiology
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.21-26
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• 2010

Background: Although quantitative sensory test (QST) is being used with increasing frequency for measuring sensory thresholds in clinical practice and epidemiologic studies, there has been no age-matched normative data in Korean adults. The objective of this study is to evaluate the value of QST in diabetic polyneuropathy with normal range in Korean adults. Methods: The Computer Aided Sensory Examination IV 4,2 (WR Medical Electronics Co., Stillwater, Minnesota, U.S.A.), with 4,2,1 stepping algorithm was used to determine vibration and cold perception threshold in 70 normal controls and 19 patients with diabetic polyneuropathy aged from 21 to 79 years. The data were used to define age-matched upper and lower normal limits and normal range of side to side difference. We also evaluated the duration of diabetes, serum HbA1C level, and findings of nerve conduction study (NCS) and QST in patients with diabetic polyneuropathy. Results: In normal adults, sensory thresholds slightly increased with age, and a slight side-to-side difference was observed. The diagnostic sensitivity of QST was not higher than NCS in patients with diabetic polyneuropathy (36.8% vs. 42.1%, p=0.716), especially among elderly patients. Conclusions: QST might be used as a complementary test for NCS in the diagnosis of diabetic polyneuropathy. Although the QST is a simple method for the evaluation of peripheral nerve function, there are some limitations. Most of all, because the QST measuring is dependent on the subjective response of patients, the degree of concentration and cooperation of the patients can significantly affect the result. And thus, attention should be paid during the interpretation of QST results in patients with peripheral neuropathy.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.103-112
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• 1991

본(本) 연구(硏究)는 일정균등(一定均等)한 열적(熱的) 특성(特性)을 가지고 있으며 상변화(相變化) 없는 등방(等方) 이질성(異質性)의 3차원(次元) 대수층계(帶水層系)의 열(熱)흐름과 정상상태(定常狀態)의 지하수(地下水)흐름을 모의발생(模擬發生)할 수 있는 유한차분(有限差分) 모형(模型)을 확립(確立)한 것이다. 이 모형(模型)은 대규모(大規模) 지하수(地下水) 흐름체계(體系)에서 폐기물(廢棄物)의 지하저류시(地下貯溜時) 지하수(地下水) 흐름과 발생(發生) 혹은 주입(注入)된 열(熱)의 흐름을 예측(豫測) 분석(分析)하기 위하여 확립(確立)된 것이다. 이러한 대수층계(帶水層系)의 지하수(地下水) 흐름에 작용(作用)하는 조건(條件)으로는 강우주입(降雨注入)으로 인한 수문학적(水文學的) 조건(條件)과 고정(固定)된 수리수두(水理水頭) 경계조건(境界條件) 등(等)이 포함(包含)되고, 열(熱)흐름에는 지열(地熱)의 흐름, 지표면(地表面)으로의 전도(傳導), 주입(注入)에 의한 이류(移流), 고정(固定) 수두경계(水頭境界)로 향(向)한 또는 고정수두경계(固定水頭境界)로 부터의 이류(移流) 등(等)이 포함(包含)된다. 본(本) 모형(模型)에서는 지하수(地下水)흐름과 열(熱)흐름 방정식(方程式)을 번갈아 푸는 교대반복과정(交代反復過程)을 사용(使用)하고, 두 방정식(方程式)의 계산(計算)에는 직접해법(直接解法)을 사용(使用)한다. 이동시간(移動時間)은 모형공간(模型空間)에서 입자추적(粒子追跡)으로 결정(決定)되며, 분할(分轄)된 구역내(區域內)의 지하수(地下水) 유속(流速)은 구역내(區域內)의 유속(流速)을 선형(線形)으로 보간(補間)하여 계산(計算)한다. 본(本) 모형(模型)을 경상북도(慶尙北道) 영일군(迎日郡) 송라면(松羅面) 지경리(地境里) 일대(一帶)의 지하수계(地下水系)에 적용(適用)하여 이 일대(一帶) 지하(地下) 암반층(岩盤層)의 수두분포(水頭分布), 유동로(流動路), 이동시간(移動時間) 및 지하수온분포(地下水溫分布)를 계산(計算)하여 지하수(地下水) 유동체계(流動體系)를 분석(分析)하였다.

• Journal of Acupuncture Research
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.119-135
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• 2004

Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate the mechanism and effect of moxibustion with salt objectively, to be used as the quantitative data through the measurement of temperature, and to grasp the thermodynamic characteristics of moxibustion with salt. Methods: We have selected of the moxibustion with salt of indirect moxibustion. We make a comparative study of the thermodynamic characteristics of moxibustion with salt as a kind of the 4 salt. We examined combustion times, temperatures, temperature gradients in each period during a combustion of moxa. Results: 1. We make out that it is not significantly change the time of thermal conduction of moxibustion with salt as a kind of 4 salt. 2. The heating period of Refined Salt was long and that of Sun-dried Salt was a short time respectively. The heating period of maximum tamperature is high Sun-dried Salt, Mechanical Salt and Refined Salt orderly. Maximun heating speed in the heating period was $0.151{\sim}0.184^{\circ}C/sec$ and at the same tendency of the maximum temperature in the heating period. 3. The retaining period was shorter than the heating period respectively, that is 15~24% of the combustion time of in the heating period. We make out that it is not significantly different the time of the retaining period as a kind of 4 salt. The mean temperature of retaining period was $43.2{\sim}48.1^{\circ}C$, that was extraordinarily high temperature. 4. We make out that it is not significantly different the time of the cooling period as a kind of 4 salt. The cooling period was measured 223~233sec. Beacuse the same density and size of moxa combustion was made an experiment. 5. The effective combustion time of Refined Salt is longer(259sec) than that of Sun-dried Salt(173sec). It is significantly different the time of the combustion time as a kind of 4 salt. 6. It is significantly different the Sample deviation of the combustion time as a kind of 4 salt because of the water content of the 4 salt individually. Conclusions: As the base on this study, we obtained the conclusion as the follows. The salt of moxibustion with salt was fitted for Sun-dried Salt due to making to Mechanical Salt recently. The Refined Salt is composition rate to another and small size comparatively. So It was fitted for the salt of moxibustion with salt. It is necessary to study continuously about the more suitable moxibustion with salt and quantitative analysis about the moxibustion with salt.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제29권8호
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• pp.75-84
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• 2013

지반의 동결현상은 일반적으로 대기와 지반의 온도차이로 발생하는 열흐름에 의해, 지반에 존재하는 물이 동결되어 지반의 물리적 성질이 변하는 현상을 일컫는다. 동결현상 해석에 필요한 지중온도 변화는 크게 대기와 지반의 경계층에서 발생하는 열유동과 지중 내에서 흙을 구성하는 성분들의 열전도 현상으로 설명할 수 있다. 따라서 지표면의 경계조건과 지반의 열적 특성은 동결지반 온도분포 해석에 중요한 인자들이다. 지표면 경계조건은 대기온도, 지표의 식생상태, 토질조건을 포함한 간편상수법들이 제시되어 있다. 대기온도 변화에 따른 지표의 열전달을 설명하는 대표적인 열물성 값은 지표면에서의 n-factor와 대류 열전달계수이다. 본 연구에서는 대기와 지반의 경계층을 해석하는데 필요한 지표면 n-factor와 대류 열전달계수의 적용성을 분석하고자 실내실험을 수행 하였다. 실내실험 결과를 토대로 상용 수치해석 프로그램인 TEMP/W를 이용하여 각각의 경계층 조건에 따른 지중온도 변화를 해석하고 실내실험을 통해 측정된 온도 데이터와 비교하였다. 결론적으로 n-factor보다 지표면 대류 열전달계수를 적용한 수치 해석 모델이 실내실험 결과와 유사하였다.

• Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.679-700
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• 1996

Inferior alveolar nerve dysfunction may be the result of trauma, disease, or iatrogenic injury. Inferior alveolar nerve injury is inherent risk in endodontic therapy, orthognathic surgery of the mandible, and extraction of mandibular teeth, particularly the third molars. The sensory disturbances of inferior alveolar nerve associated with such injury have been well documented clinical problem that is commonly evaluated by several clinical sensory test including Tinels sign, Von Frey test(static light touch detection), directional discrimination, two-point discrimination, pin pressure nociceptive discrimination, and thermal test. These methods used to detect and assess inferior alveolar nerve injury have been subjective in nature, relying on the cooperation of the patients. In addition, many of these techniques are sensitive to differences in the examiners experience and skill with the particular technique. Data obtained at different times or by different examiners are therefore difficult to compare. Prior experimental studies have used electro diagnostic methods(sensory evoked potential) to objectively evaluate inferior alveolar nerve after nerve injury. This study was designed with inferior alveolar nerve of rabbit. Several types of injury including mind, moderate, severe compression and perforation with 19 gauze, 21 gauze needle and 6mm, 10mm traction were applied for taking the sesory evoked ppterntial. Latency and amplitude of injury rabbit inferior alveolar nerve were investigated with sensory evoked potential using unpaired t-test. The results were as follows : 1. Intensity of threshold (T1) was $128{\pm}16{\mu}A$ : latency, $0.87{\pm}0.07$ microsecond : amplitude, $0.4{\pm}0.1{\mu}V$ : conduction velocity, 23.3 m/s in sensory evoked potential of uninjured rabbit inferior alveolar nerve. 2. Rabbit inferior alveolar nerve consists of type II and III sensory nerve fiber. 3. Latency was increased and amplitude was decreased in compression injury. The more injured, the more changed in latency and amplitude. 4. Findings in perforation injury was similar to compression injury. Waveform for sensory evoked potential improved by increasing postinjured time. 5. Increasing latency was prominent in traction injury rabbit inferior alveolar nerve. 6. In microscopic histopathological findings, significant degeneration and disorganization of the internal architecture were seen in nerve facicle of severe compression and 10mm traction group. From the above findings, electrophysiological assessment(sensory evoked potential) of rabbit injured inferior alveolar nerve is reliable technique in diagnosis and prognosis of nerve injury.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.99-107
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• 2001

어선 제작시 어선의 고속화 및 어로작업 등에 의한 내구성을 향상시키기 위해 선각재질이 가볍고, 강도, 화재 및 해수의 부식 등에 뛰어난 재료의 사용이 요구되어지고 있다. 이러한 어선으로서는 크게 FRP어선과 Al어선으로 대별할 수 있다. 그러나 FRP어선은 가볍고 강도는 우수하나 인화성이 높아서 열에 매우 약하고 선박 제작 과정에 있어 인체에 해로운 유해성분이 발생할 뿐만 아니라, 폐선의 경우 산업폐기물로써 환경 오염에 큰 영향을 미치고 있다. 그런 반면에, Al어선은 FRP어선의 단점을 보완할 수 있는 재료로써, 고강도 및 경량화의 효과를 낼 수 있고, FRP어선보다 인화성이 낮아서 열에 강하고, 내구성이 높아 해수의 부식방지에 뛰어나므로 Al 어선의 개발이 시급한 실정이다. 그러나, 알루미늄 합금은 용접성이 좋지 않고 용접변형 및 균열이 발생하고, 건조 비용이 비싸다는 단점이 있다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 Al 합금 접합시의 문제점 해결방안으로 용접이음부의 새로운 형상을 개발하고 개발한 신형상에 대한 역학적 거동을 규명하고자 하였다. 이를 위해, 먼저 평판 이론을 이용하여 구조부재를 단순화하여 평판, 보강판, 신형상에 대하여 해석함으로써 강도를 비교 검토하고, 이러한 결과를 토대로 자체 개발된 용접열전도 및 용접열응력 수치해석 프로그램을 사용하여 평판과 신형상의 온도분포, 용접잔류응력, 인장, 압축시의 강도를 수치시뮬레이션을 통하여 비교, 검토하였다. 또한, 인장 시험편을 제작하여 실험을 통하여 강도를 비교함으로써 신형상에 대한 적용 가능성 및 역학적 우수성을 입증하고자 하였다.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.497-508
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• 2013

이 논문에서는 화재 발생에 따른 구조물의 성능 변화를 평가하기 위한 철근콘크리트 부재의 수치해석모델이 제안되었다. 화재 발생 시 유발되는 전도, 대류 및 복사열의 효과를 고려한 비정상 열전달 해석을 수행하였으며 이를 통해 단면 내 온도분포를 결정하였다. 또한, 적층섬유단면을 적용하여 온도증가로 인해 단면 내 위치에 따라 달라지는 재료의 비선형성을 고려하였다. 이 때, 온도변화에 따라 유발되는 열팽창 변형률, 비정상상태 변형률, 크리프 변형률 등의 비역학적 변형특성을 단면 내 각 섬유에 대해 고려함으로써 화재 발생 시의 극심한 온도증가를 고려한 비선형 해석을 수행하였다. 제안된 해석모델의 타당성을 입증하기 위하여 철근콘크리트부재의 표준화재실험으로부터 얻어진 실험결과와 해석결과를 비교하였으며, 특히, 화재 시간에 따른 저항능력의 변화를 살펴봄으로써, 철근콘크리트 부재의 거동특성을 평가하고 이를 설계규준에서 제시하는 단면 및 저항능력과 비교하였다.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제11권10호
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• pp.889-894
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• 2001

2wt% $Al_2O_3-doped$ ZnO (AZO) thin films were deposited on sapphire (0001) single crystal substrate by parellel type rf magnetron sputtering at 55$0^{\circ}C$. The as-grown AZO thin films was polycrystalline and showed only broad deep defect-level photoluminescence (PL). In order to examine the change of PL property, AZO thin films were annealed in $N_2$ (N-AZO) and $H_2$ (H-AZO) at the temperature of $600^{\circ}C$~$1000^{\circ}C$ through rapid thermal annealing. After annealed at $800^{\circ}C$, N-AZO shows near band edge emission (NBE) with very small deep-level emission, and then N-AZO annealed at $900^{\circ}C$ shows only sharp NBE with 219 meV FWHM. In Comparison with N-AZO, H-AZO exhibits very interesting PL features. After $600^{\circ}C$ annealing, deep defect-level emission was quire quenched and NBE around 382 nm (3.2 eV) was observed, which can be explained by the $H_2$passivation effect. At elevated temperature, two interesting peaks corresponding to violet (406 nm, 3.05 eV) and blue (436 nm, 2.84 eV) emission was firstly observed in AZO thin films. Moreover, peculiar PL peak around 694 nm (1.78 eV) is also firstly observed in all the H-AZO thin films and this is believed good evidence of hydrogenation of AZO. Based on defect-level scheme calculated by using the full potential linear muffin-tin orbital (FP-LMTO), the emission 3.2 eV, 3.05 eV, 3.84 eV and 1.78 eV of H-AZO are substantially deginated as exciton emission, transition from conduction band maximum to $V_{ Zn},$ from $Zn_i$, to valence band maximum $(V_{BM})$ and from $V_{o} to V_BM}$, respectively.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.460-466
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• 1999

The deep level electron traps in AP-MOCVD GaAs/undoped Al\ulcornerGa\ulcornerAs/n-type GaAs heterostructures have been investigated by means of Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy DLTS). In terms of the experimental procedure, GaAs/undoped Al\ulcornerGa\ulcornerAs/n-type GaAs heterostructures were deposited on 2" undoped semi-insulating GaAs wafers by the AP-MOCVD method at $650^{\circ}C$ with TMGa, AsH3, TMAl, and SiH4 gases. The n-type GaAs conduction layers were doped with Si to the target concentration of about 2$\times$10\ulcornercm\ulcorner. The Al content was targeted to x=0.5 and the thicknesses of Al\ulcornerGa\ulcornerAs layers were targeted from 0 to 40 nm. In order to investigate the electrical characteristics, an array of Schottky diodes was built on the heterostructures by the lift-off process and Al thermal evaporation. Among the key results of this experiment, the deep level electron traps at 0.742~0.777 eV and 0.359~0.680 eV were observed in the heterostructures; however, only a 0.787 eV level was detected in n-type GaAs samples without the Al\ulcornerGa\ulcornerAs overlayer. It may be concluded that the 0.787 eV level is an EL2 level and that the 0.742~0.777 eV levels are related to EL2 and residual oxygen impurities which are usually found in MOCVD GaAs and Al\ulcornerGa\ulcornerAs materials grown at $630~660^{\circ}C$. The 0.359~0.680 eV levels may be due to the defects related with the al-O complex and residual Si impurities which are also usually known to exist in the MOCVD materials. Particularly, as the Si doping concentration in the n-type GaAs layer increased, the electron trap concentrations in the heterostructure materials and the magnitude of the C-V hysteresis in the Schottky diodes also increased, indicating that all are intimately related.ated.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제48권5호
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• pp.1273-1279
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• 2016

Production of iodine-131 by neutron activation of tellurium in tellurium dioxide ($TeO_2$) material requires a target that meets the safety requirements. In a radiopharmaceutical production unit, a new lid for a can was designed, which permits tight sealing of the target by using tungsten inert gaswelding. The leakage rate of all prepared targets was assessed using a helium mass spectrometer. The accepted leakage rate is ${\leq}10^{-4}mbr.L/s$, according to the approved safety report related to iodine-131 production in the TRIGA Mark II research reactor (TRIGA: Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics). To confirm the resistance of the new design to the irradiation conditions in the TRIGA Mark II research reactor's central thimble, a study of heat effect on the sealed targets for 7 hours in an oven was conducted and the leakage rates were evaluated. The results show that the tightness of the targets is ensured up to $600^{\circ}C$ with the appearance of deformations on lids beyond $450^{\circ}C$. The study of heat transfer through the target was conducted by adopting a one-dimensional approximation, under consideration of the three transfer modes-convection, conduction, and radiation. The quantities of heat generated by gamma and neutron heating were calculated by a validated computational model for the neutronic simulation of the TRIGA Mark II research reactor using the Monte Carlo N-Particle transport code. Using the heat transfer equations according to the three modes of heat transfer, the thermal study of I-131 production by irradiation of the target in the central thimble showed that the temperatures of materials do not exceed the corresponding melting points. To validate this new design, several targets have been irradiated in the central thimble according to a preplanned irradiation program, going from4 hours of irradiation at a power level of 0.5MWup to 35 hours (7 h/d for 5 days a week) at 1.5MW. The results showthat the irradiated targets are tight because no iodine-131 was released in the atmosphere of the reactor building and in the reactor cooling water of the primary circuit.