• Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.17-23
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• 1987

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the sealing properties of endodontic cavity filling materials according to the time intervals after filling. Access cavities were prepared in extracted human premolar or molar teeth and filled with caviton, zinc oxide eugenol cement, zinc oxide eugenol cement with a base of gutta percha stopping and gutta percha stopping. After filling at the intervals of immediate, 2 days and 2 weeks the teeth were immersed for 2 weeks in 1% methylene blue solutions. Longitudinal sections were obtained from approximately center of teeth and the depth of dye penetration into the access cavities were observed by 10${\times}$macrolens. The following results were obtained. I. All the materials experimented showed varying depth of dye penetration. 2. Of the material tested, caviton showed the best marginal sealing qualities regardless of the time intervals after filling and the sealing properties of the gutta percha stopping was the worst. 3. Both in zinc oxide eugenol cement and zinc oxide eugenol cement with a base of gutta percha stopping, the fillings allowed to mature for 2 days in normal saline solution showed the best sealing properties and those with no maturing time revealed the worst sealing qualities. 4. The sealing qualities of zinc oxide eugenol cement with a base of gutta percha stopping revealed slightly lower depth of dye penetration than that of zinc oxide eugenol cements.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.10
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• pp.1531-1536
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• 2022

This paper considers a problem to find a set of intervals containing all the points for the given n points and m intervals on a line, This is a special case of the set cover problem, well known as an NP-hard problem. As optimization criteria of the problem, there are minimizing the number of intervals to cover the points, maximizing the number of points each of which is covered by exactly one interval, and so on. In this paper, the intervals have weights and the sum of weights of intervals to cover a point is defined as a membership of the point. We will study the problem to find an interval cover minimizing the maximum of memberships of points. Using the dynamic programming method, we provide an O(m²)-time algorithm to improve the time complexity O(nm log n) given in the previous work.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.46-52
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• 2005

In this paper, we present a temporal association rule based on item time intervals. A temporal association rule is an association rule that holds specific time intervals. If we consider itemset in the frequently purchased period, we can discover more significant itemset satisfying minimum support. Because the previous study did not consider the time interval between purchased item, it could find itemset that did not satisfy the minimum support in case some item was frequently purchased in a specific period and rarely or not purchased in other period. Our approach uses interval support which is counted by period with support and confidence in the association rule to discovery large itemset.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.53-64
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• 1998

Recently, it is of great interest among engineers and reliability scientists to consider a statistical model to describe the failure times of various types of repairable systems. The main subject we deal with in this paper is the power law process which is proved to be a useful model to describe the reliability growth of the repairable system. In particular, we derive the bootstrap confidence intervals of the mean time between two successive failures of a repairable system using the time truncated data. We also compare our bootstrap confindence intervals with Crow's (1982) confidence interval.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1988.11a
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• pp.394-398
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• 1988

In this paper, the time-averaged behavior of the three-phase Inductor-Converter Bridge (ICB) circuit has been analyzed by using the state-space averaging method. The results are in closed form far from the results obtained by using the Fourier series. Therefore, the computational difficulties of the infinite Fourier series can be avoided and the results derived in this paper are available especially in real time control. Unlike the SFC, $S^{4}LCL$, DFC and other circuits which have time varying switching intervals for a constant time-averaged value of coil voltage, the ICB circuits operate with a clock-driven sequence of gate pulses which have constant switching intervals.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.372-380
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• 2003

Temporal databases support time-varying events so that conventional aggregate functions are extended to be processed with time for temporal aggregate functions. In the previous approach, it is done repeatedly to find time intervals and is calculated the result of each interval whenever target events are different. This paper proposes a method which processes temporal aggregate function queries using time point sequence. We can make time point sequence storing the start time and the end time of events in temporal databases in advance. It is also needed to update time point sequence due to insertion or deletion of events in temporal databases. Because time point sequence maintains the information of time intervals, it is more efficient than the previous approach when temporal aggregate function queries are continuously requested, which have different target events.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.1-7
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• 2002

The fast extraction of the silhouettes of a model is very useful for many applications in computer graphics and animation. In this paper, we present an efficient algorithm to compute a sequence of perspective silhouettes for a polyhedral model from a moving viewpoint. The viewpoint is assumed to move along a trajectory q(t), which is a space curve of a time parameter t. Then, we can compute the time-intervals for each edge of the model to be contained in the silhouette by two major computations: (i) intersecting q(t) with two planes and (ii) a number of dot products. If q(t) is a curve of degree n, then there are at most of n + 1 time-intervals for an edge to be in a silhouette. For each time point $t_i$ we can extract silhouette edges by searching the intervals containing $t_i$ among the computed intervals. For the efficient search, we propose two kinds of data structures for storing the intervals: an interval tree and an array. Our algorithm can be easily extended to compute the parallel silhouettes with minor modifications.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.253-261
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• 2000

Head-out water immersion induces marked increase in the cardiac stroke volume. The present study was undertaken to characterize the stroke volume change by analyzing the aortic blood flow and left ventricular systolic time intervals. Ten men rested on a siting position in the air and in the water at $34.5^{circ}C$ for 30 min each. Their stroke volume, heart rate, ventricular systolic time intervals, and aortic blood flow indices were assessed by impedance cardiography. During immersion, the stroke volume increased 56%, with a slight (4%) decrease in heart rate, thus cardiac output increased ${\sim}50%.$ The slight increase in R-R interval was due to an equivalent increase in the systolic and diastolic time intervals. The ventricular ejection time was 20% increased, and this was mainly due to a decrease in pre-ejection period (28%). The mean arterial pressure increased 5 mmHg, indicating that the cardiac afterload was slightly elevated by immersion. The left ventricular end-diastolic volume index increased 24%, indicating that the cardiac preload was markedly elevated during immersion. The mean velocity and the indices of peak velocity and peak acceleration of aortic blood flow were all increased by ${\sim}30%,$ indicating that the left ventricular contractile force was enhanced by immersion. These results suggest that the increase in stroke volume during immersion is characterized by an increase in ventricular ejection time and aortic blood flow velocity, which may be primarily attributed to the increased cardiac preload and the muscle length-dependent increase in myocardial contractile force.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.128-134
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• 2016

The ambulance service time interval, in particular the response time, has been used as an important indicator for the quality control of ambulance services in that it can be improved to increase the probability of survival and decrease the sequela-related disability. Based on the 2011~2014 Prehospital Care Reports in a metropolitan city, this study analyzed the time interval of ambulance services considering the patient's characteristics and chief complaints. If the definition of the time of ambulance services can be refined further, and a variety of economic and social factors and local characteristics would can be analyzed, the quality of the ambulance service is expected to be enhanced significantly.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.675-689
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• 2012

Most connections of steel structures exhibit flexible behaviour under cyclic loading. The flexible connections can be assumed as nonlinear rotational springs attached to the ends of each beam. The nonlinear behaviour of the connections can be considered by suitable moment-rotation relationship. Time-history analysis by direct integration method can be used as a powerful technique to determine the nonlinear dynamic response of the structure. In conventional numerical integration, the response is evaluated for a series of short time increments. The limitations on the size of time intervals can be removed by using Chen and Robinson improved time history analysis method, in which the integrated displacements are used as the new variables in integrated equation of motion. The proposed method permits longer time intervals and reduces the computational works. In this paper the nonlinearity behaviour of the structure is summarized on the connections, and the step by step improved time-history analysis is used to calculate the dynamic response of the structure. Several numerical calculations which indicate the applicability and advantages of the proposed methodology are presented. These calculations illustrate the importance of the effect of the nonlinear behaviour of the flexible connections in the calculation of the dynamic response of steel frames.