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Conventional Anchorage Reinforcement vs. Orthodontic Mini-implant: Comparison of Posterior Anchorage Loss During the En Masse Retraction of the Upper Anterior Teeth

  • Baek, Seung-Hak;Kim, Young-Ho
    • Journal of Korean Dental Science
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.5-10
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    • 2010
  • This study sought to compare the amounts of posterior anchorage loss during the en masse retraction of the upper anterior teeth between orthodontic mini-implant (OMI) and conventional anchorage reinforcement (CAR) such as headgear and/or transpalatal arch. The subjects were 52 adult female patients treated with sliding mechanics (MBT brackets, .022" slot, .019X.025" stainless steel wire, 3M-Unitek, Monrovia, CA, USA). They were allocated into Group 1 (N=24, Class I malocclusion (CI), upper and lower first premolar (UP1LP1) extraction, and CAR), Group 2 (N=15, Cl, UP1LP1 extraction and OMI), and Group 3 (N=13, Class II division 1 malocclusion, upper first and lower second premolar extraction, and OMI). Lateral cephalograms were taken before (T0) and after treatment (T1). A total of 11 anchorage variables were measured. Analysis of variance was used for statistical analysis. There was no significant difference in treatment duration and anchorage variables at T0 among the three groups. Groups 2 and 3 showed significantly larger retraction of the upper incisor edge (U1E-sag, 9.3mm:7.3mm, P<.05) and less posterior anchorage loss (U6M-sag, 0.7~0.9mm:2mm, P<.05; U6A-sag, 0.5mm:2mm, P<.01) than Group 1. The ratio of retraction amount of the upper incisor edge per 1 of anchorage loss in the upper molar made for the significant difference between Groups 1 and 2 (4.6mm:7.0mm, P<.05). Group 3 showed a relatively distal inclination of the upper molar (P<.05) and the intrusion of the upper incisor and first molar (U1E-ver, P<.05; U6F-ver, P<.05) compared to Groups 1 and 2. Although OMI could not shorten the treatment duration, it could provide better maximum posterior anchorage than CAR.

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Micromachined Millimeter-Wave Cavity Resonators

  • Song, K.J.;Yoon, B.S.;Lee, J.C.;Lee, B.;Kim, J.H.;Kim, N.Y.;Park, J.Y.;Kim, G.H.;Bu, J.U.;Chung, K.W.
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.27-36
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    • 2001
  • In this paper, micromachined millimeter-wave cavity resonators ar presented. One-port and two-port cavity resonators at Ka-band are designed using 3D design software, HP $HFSS^{TM}$ ver. 5.5 Cavity resonators are fabricated on Si substrate, which is etched down for the cavity, bonded with a Quartz wafer in which metal patterns for the feeding line coupling slot are formed. One-port resonator shows the resonant frequency of 39.34 GHz, the return loss of 14.5 dB, and the loaded $Q(Q_{L})$ of 150. Two-port cavity resonator shows the resonant frequency of 39 GHz, the insertion and return losses of 4.6dB and 19,9dB, the loaded($Q_{L}$) and unloaded $Q(Q_{U})$) of 44.3 and 107, respectively.

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A Compact UWB Planar Antenna with WLAN Band-Notch Characteristic

  • Park, Dong-Kook;Kwak, Byung-Haw
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.31 no.7
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    • pp.857-862
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    • 2007
  • A novel compact ultra wideband(UWB) antenna for UWB application is proposed in this paper. The proposed antenna with $22mm{\times}26mm{\times}1.6mm$ covers the entire UWB bandwidth and has band notch characteristic for the frequency band of $5.15{\sim}5.825GHz$ limited by WLAN. The antenna has a concaved ground plane and staircase shape patch to achieve the wide bandwidth, and has an U shape slot with $\lambda/4$ length to notch the band. The return loss and group delay of the proposed antenna are measured.

Experimental Verification of the Structural Damage Identification Method Developed for Beam Structures (보 구조물에 대한 손상규명기법의 실험적 검증)

  • Cho, Kook-Lae;Shin, Jin-Ho;Lee, U-Sik
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.26 no.12
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    • pp.2574-2580
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, an experimental verification has been conducted for the frequency response function (FRF)-based structural damage identification method (SDIM) proposed for beam structures. The FRF-based SDIM requires the natural frequencies and mode shapes measured in the intact state and the FRF-data measured in the damaged state. Experiments are conducted for the cantilevered beam specimens with one slot and with three slots. It is shown that the proposed FRF-based SDIM provides damage identification results that agree quite well with true damage state.

An RFID Tag Using a Planar Inverted-F Antenna Capable of Being Stuck to Metallic Objects

  • Choi, Won-Kyu;Son, Hae-Won;Bae, Ji-Hoon;Choi, Gil-Young;Pyo, Cheol-Sig;Chae, Jong-Suk
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.216-218
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    • 2006
  • This letter presents the design for a low-profile planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) that can be stuck to metallic objects to create a passive radio frequency identification (RFID) tag in the UHF band. The designed PIFA, which uses a dielectric substrate for the antenna, consists of a U-slot patch for size reduction, several shorting pins, and a coplanar waveguide feeding structure to easily integrate with an RFID chip. The impedance bandwidth and maximum gain of the tag antenna are about 0.3% at 914 MHz for a voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) of less than 2 and 3.6 dBi, respectively. The maximum read range is about 4.5 m as long as the tag antenna is on a metallic object.

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A Design of UHF Sensor using Partial Discharge Measurement in GIS (부분방전 측정용 UHF센서의 설계)

  • Park, K.S.;Kim, J.B.;Song, Y.P.;Kim, D.S.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2002.11a
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    • pp.28-30
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    • 2002
  • The PD in GIS leads to a charge transfer and a voltage drop across the discharge area. They cannot be measure directly but we can measure electromagnetic wave made by PD. In generally, compared with VHF band, electromagnetic waves of UHF band have a low noise therefore, we can detect the real defect with several pC in GIS using UHF method. In this paper, the U-slot microstrip patch antenna for measuring PD signal in GIS is presented. the proposed UHF sensor are designed to have large band characteristics and unaffected structure for GIS operation.

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Hybrid MAC(HMAC) Protocol Considering Throughput in Wireless Sensor Networks (전송 효율을 고려한 무선센서 네트워크에서의 Hybrid MAC(HMAC) 프로토콜)

  • Lee, Jin-Young;Kim, Seong-Cheol
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.11 no.7
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    • pp.1394-1399
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    • 2007
  • In this paper we propose a Hybrid MAC(HMAC) to enhance the transmission throughput in Wireless Sensor Networks(WSNs). In the proposed HMAC, sender nodes send transmission request packets to the receiver nodes using CSMA/CA MAC protocol. And the receiver node assigns slots according to the network topology and the amount of traffics using TDMA. Using HMAC we get the enhanced throughput by lowering the duplicated slot assignment.

The Analysis of Wideband Microstrip Slot Antenna with Cross-shaped Feedline (십자형 급전선을 갖는 광대역 마이크로스트립 슬롯 안테나의 특성 분석)

  • Jang, Yong-Ung;Han, Seok-Jin;Sin, Ho-Seop;Kim, Myeong-Gi;Park, Ik-Mo;Sin, Cheol-Je
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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    • v.37 no.3
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    • pp.35-42
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    • 2000
  • A cross-shaped microstripline-fed printed slot antenna having wide bandwidth Is presented in this paper. The proposed antenna is analyzed by using the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method. It was found that the bandwidth of the antenna depends highly on the length of the horizontal and vertical feedline as well as the offset position of the feedline. The maximum bandwidth of this antenna is from 1.975 GHz to 4.725 GHz, which is approximately 1.3 octave, for the VSWR $\leq$ 2. Experimental data for the return loss and the radiation pattern of the antenna are also presented. and they are in good agreement with the FDTD results.e FDTD results.

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Development of an Optimal Design Program for a Triple-Band PIFA Using the Evolution Strategy (진화 알고리즘을 이용한 삼중 대역 PIFA 최적 설계 프로그램의 구현)

  • Ko, Jae-Hyeong;Kim, Koon-Tae;Kim, Dong-Hun;Kim, Hyeong-Seok
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.20 no.8
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    • pp.746-752
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, we deal with the development of an optimal design program for a triple-band PTFA(Planar Inverted-F Antenna) of 433 MHz, 912 MHz and 2.45 GHz by using evolution strategy. Generally, the resonance frequency of the PIFA is determined by the width and length of a U-type slot used. However the resonance frequencies of the multiple U slots are varied by the mutual effect of the slots. Thus the optimal width and length of U-type slots are determined by using an optimal design program based on the evolution strategy. To achieve this, an interface program between a commercial EM analysis tool and the optimal design program is constructed for implementing the evolution strategy technique that seeks a global optimum of the objective function through the iterative design process consisting of variation and reproduction. The resonance frequencies of the triple-band PIFA yielded by the optimal design program are 430 MHz, 910.5 MHz and 2.458 GHz that show a good agreement to the design target values.

Study on Coupling Characteristics between TE01δ Mode Dielectric Resonator and Coplanar Waveguide Structure (TE01δ 모드 유전체 공진기와 코플래나 웨이브가이드 구조들과의 결합 특성 연구)

  • Kim, Jong-Hyuk;Kim, Ihn S.
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.147-155
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, we propose that three uniform coplanar waveguides(CPWs), such as a conventional, finite grounded(FG), and grounded(G) CPWs, can be coupled with a $TE_{01{\delta}}$ mode dielectric resonator(DR) for a parallel resonant characteristic as a microstrip line coupled with the DR. Coupling characteristics have been investigated by placing the DR on a dielectric support above the CPWs and by moving the DR away from the center of a slot of the CPWs to the ground plane. FEM simulation(HFSS) results in terms of S-parameters agree well with measurement results. Finally, unloaded Q values of the DR coupled with the three uniform CPWs are compared with those of the DR coupled with a microstrip line. The comparison shows that the DR coupled with the three CPWs has higher unloaded Qs than that coupled with a microstrip line and that the GCPW case has the highest unloaded Qs.

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