• 식품과학과 산업
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• 제49권3호
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• pp.55-61
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• 2016

Even though the food safety system in the United States is one of the best in the world, many millions of people become sick and thousands die from foodborne illnesses caused by any of a number of microbial pathogens and other contaminants. Large recalls of United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food Drug and Administration (US FDA)-regulated food products due to findings of E. coli O157:H7, Listeria, Salmonella, and other problems occur each year. As the US FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) passed in 2011, FSMA will require food processing, manufacturing, shipping, and other regulated entities to conduct an analysis of the most likely safety hazards and to design and implement risk-based controls to reduce or eliminate these hazards. FSMA also mandates increased scrutiny of food imports, which account for a growing share of U.S. food consumption; food import shipments will have to be accompanied by documentation showing that they can meet safety standards that are at least equivalent to those in the U.S. On September 17, 2015, the US FDA published final rules for Preventive Controls for Human and Animal Food and, continuing into 2016, the US FDA intends to finalize the remaining five rules it has proposed to implement FSMA. Among these rules, this article will review and discuss Preventive Controls for Human Food Rule and its components, and suggest how to comply with these FSMA rules as foreign human food and ingredients suppliers to the US.

• 대한정형외과 초음파학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2008

목적: 중수지 관절부 신전건 탈구에서 동적 초음파의 진단적 가치에 대해 알아보고자 하였다. 대상 및 방법: 2007년 1월부터 10월까지 본원에서 중수지 관절부 신전건 탈구로 진단받은 6예에 대해 평균 5개월(2~10개월)간 추시하였다. 3예에서 10-MHz 선형 진동자를 이용하여 초음파를 시행하였으며, 동적 초음파를 동시에 실시하였다. 원인은 5예가 외상에 의한 발생이었고, 1예는 선천적 발병이었다. 결과: 임상적으로 진단이 불가능했던 3예에 대해서만 초음파 검사와 동적 초음파 검사를 시행하였고, 모두에서 신전건 탈구를 관찰하였다. 수술 소견상 4예는 시상대 파열 소견을 보였고, 1예에서는 관절낭의 이완 소견, 나머지 1예에서는 시상대가 얇아진 소견을 보였다. 4예에서 시상대 봉합술을 시행하였고, 1예에서는 관절낭 보강술 시행하였다. 선천적 발병으로 생각된 1예에서는 우측 2, 3, 4, 5 수지 신전건 탈구 가운데 증상을 동반한 제 2수지에 대해서만 시상대 봉합술 및 시상대를 이용한 고리 보강술을 시행하였다. 최종 추시상 모든 예에서 탈구의 재발은 없었고 관절 운동범위는 정상이었다. 결론: 중수지 관절부에서 신전건 탈구에서 초음파 검사는 임상적으로 저명한 탈구가 없는 경우에 의의가 크며, 특히 동적 초음파는 자기공명영상 촬영에 비해 우수하다고 할 수 있다.

• Advances in pediatric surgery
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.16-22
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• 2002

초음파 검사는 수술 전 탈장 진단을 위한 안전하고 간편한 진단방법으로 본 연구에서는 서혜부 탈장의 진단 시 초음파 검사의 정확도와 잠복 탈장에 대한 초음파의 진단적 의의를 확인하고자 하였다. 1999년 3월부터 2000년 1월까지 경북대학교 일반외과학 교실에서 이학적 검사상 서혜부 탈장이 의심되어 술 전 확인을 위해 초음파 검사를 실시한 82명의 남아 (편측성 70예, 양측성 12예)를 대상으로 하였다. 서혜부 탈장 확진을 위한 초음파 검사의 진단 기준은 1)장관 탈장, 2)교통성 음낭수종, 3)초상돌기 확장, 즉 내서혜륜 부위에서 초상돌기의 너비가 4 mm 이상되는 경우로 하였다. 서혜부 탈장의 임상적 증상이 있었던 94개서의 서혜부에 대한 초음파 검사 결과, 장관 탈장 31개 (33%), 교통성 음낭수종 18개 (19%), 초상돌기 확장 38개 (41%), 탈장이 없는 경우가 7개 (7%)였다. 임상적 증상이 없었던 70개소의 서혜부는 초음파 검사상 장관 탈장 4개 (6%), 5개 (7%), 교통성 음낭수종, 초상돌기 확장 11개 (16%), 탈장이 없는 경우가 50개 (70%) 였다. 편측성 탈장의 증상을 가진 환아 중 20예 (28%) 가 초음파 검사에서 이학적 검사상 발견되지 않은 반대측 탈장이 발견되었으며 이들 중 5 개 (7%)는 탈장 없는 것으로 진단되었다. 양측성 탈장을 가진 12예 중 2예가 초음파 검사상 편측성 탈장으로 진단되었다. 초음파 검사상 서혜부 탈장으로 진단된 모든 예에서 서혜부 탈정 교정수술을 시행하였다. 164개소의 서혜부 중 이학적 검사에 의해 137개가 정확하게 진단되었으며 27개가 오진이었으므로 이학적 검사의 정확도는 83.5%였다. 탈장 교정수술을 시행한 107개의 서혜부 중 초음파 검사상 탈장으로 정확하게 진단된 경우는 104개이고 오진된 경우는 3예로 초음파 검사의 정확도는 97.2% 였다. 초상돌기 확대의 경우는 탈장의 증상이 있었던 38개소 중 36개, 증상이 없었던 11개 중 10개로 잠복 탈장의 경우 초음파 진단의 민감도는 93.8%였다. 서혜부 탈장의 진단에 있어 초음파 검사는 비침습적이며 높은 정확도를 가진 진단 방법으로 이미 임상적 검사상 확진된 탈장의 경우 간과하고 지나갈 수 있는 반대측 서혜부 탈장의 진단에 유리하며 본 연구와 같이 내서혜륜의 정상 직경의 상한을 4 mm로 정하면 술 전에 잠복 탈장을 비교적 쉽게 진단할 수 있어 불필요한 반대측 탈장 교정 수술을 줄일 수 있는 장점이 있다. 이에 서혜부 탈장이 의심되는 환아에 있어 상용 검사로 초음파 검사를 제안하는 바이다.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.97-99
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• 2001

Seven vegetables were planted in green houses to compare their yields and damages by insect pests based on three treatments, green music (GM), ultra sonic (US) and control. The vegetable yields of GM treatment were increased by an average of 17.81% than that of control for two years. There was a remarkable statistic difference in the yield between GM and respective controls such as radish, young radish, cucumber, spinach and Brassica oleracea var. acephala. There was no notable yield difference between US and controls for the semen vegetables within two years. The population densities of the insect pests in GM and US treatments were lower than controls. Only a few insect pests of some vegetables in GM and US treatments injured more seriously than in control.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.151-162
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• 2010

Recent developments in financial market liberalization and information technology are accelerating the interdependence of national stock markets. This study explores the information spillover effect of the US stock market on the overnight and daytime returns of the Korean stock market. We develop a profitable intra-day trading strategy based on the information spillover effect. Our study provides several important conclusions. First, an information spillover effect still exists from the overnight US stock market to the current Korean stock market. Second, Korean investors overreact to both good and bad news overnight from the US. Therefore, there are significant price reversals in the KOSPI 200 index futures prices from market open to market close. Third, the overreaction effect is different between weekdays and weekends. Finally, the suggested intra-day trading system based on the documented overreaction hypothesis is profitable.

• Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Science
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.155-161
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• 2016

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the reliability and validity of a personal computer-based muscle viewer (PC-BMW) compared with that of a portable ultrasound (P-US) for measuring upper trapezius (UT) and transversus abdominis (TrA) muscle thickness at rest and during contraction. Design: Observational inter-rater reliability study. Methods: Fifty-five healthy participants (25 men, 30 women) participated in this study. PC-BMW and P-US were randomly measured at the UT and TrA muscles. Two examiners randomly obtained the images of all participants in 3 test sessions lasting 2 days. Intra-class correlation coefficients (ICCs), standard error of measurement, contraction ratio, and correlation were used to estimate reliability and validity. Pearson's correlation coefficients were used to analyze the relationship between muscle thickness measures taken from PC-BMW and P-US. Results: The intra-rater reliability ICCs of UT and TrA muscle thickness for the PC-BMW were >0.995, indicating excellent reliability. Inter-rater reliability ICCs for the PC-BMW ranged from 0.963 to 0.987. The P-US also exhibited high reliability. A high correlation was found between the measurements of the two muscles in PC-BMW and P-US (p<0.01). Conclusions: PC-BMW provides clear and excellent images, is pocket-sized and less expensive than a conventional ultrasound imaging system. PC-BMW can be utilized variously and has the advantage of rehabilitative ultrasound imaging. More research is needed to evaluate the utility of PC-BMW for rehabilitation.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.421-426
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• 1994

Twelve cross bred cows ($300{\pm}20kg$) were fed a basal ration consisting of 1 kg concentrate and untreated or urea treated rice with or without urea-molasses-wheat bran lick block supplementation. The lick blocks were prepared locally using cement as a binding agent. The experiment lasted for 48 days consisting of a preliminary period of 14 days and a measurement period of 34 days. Daily dry ma tter intake (DMI) of straw and lick block, and daily milk yield were recorded during the measurement period. Intake of lick block when fed with untreated straw (US) was significantly higher (p < 0.01) than with urea treated (TS) straw (397 vs 307g $100kg^{-1}$), but lick block supplementation did not significantly affect the in take of US (1.80 vs 1.83kg $100kg^{-1}day^{-1}$) or TS (2.27 vs 2.17kg $100kg^{-1}day^{-1}$). Both urea treatment and lick block supplementation significantly increased (p < 0.01) the milk yield of cows, and the increase due to urea treatment was higher than that due to lick block supplementation. Benefit/cost ratio obtained for feeding US or TS with 1 kg dairy concentrate was similar (5.4), but the marginal return favours TS (5.4:1.0). The benefit/cost ratio for US and TS supplemented with lick block was 3.4 and 3.7. respectively, but the marginal return with US was higher than with TS (1.6:1.0 and 0.9:1.0, respectively).

• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제21권9호
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• pp.1045-1054
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• 2020

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic value of combining the quantitative parameters of shear wave elastography (SWE) and superb microvascular imaging (SMI) to breast ultrasound (US) to differentiate between benign and malignant breast masses. Materials and Methods: A total of 200 pathologically confirmed breast lesions in 192 patients were retrospectively reviewed using breast US with B-mode imaging, SWE, and SMI. Breast masses were assessed based on the breast imaging reporting and data system (BI-RADS) and quantitative parameters using the maximum elasticity (Emax) and ratio (Eratio) in SWE and the vascular index in SMI (SMI_VI). The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) value, sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, negative predictive value, and positive predictive value of B-mode alone versus the combination of B-mode US with SWE or SMI of both parameters in differentiating between benign and malignant breast masses was compared, respectively. Hypothetical performances of selective downgrading of BI-RADS category 4a (set 1) and both upgrading of category 3 and downgrading of category 4a (set 2) were calculated. Results: Emax with a cutoff value of 86.45 kPa had the highest AUC value compared to Eratio of 3.57 or SMI_VI of 3.35%. In set 1, the combination of B-mode with Emax or SMI_VI had a significantly higher AUC value (0.829 and 0.778, respectively) than B-mode alone (0.719) (p < 0.001 and p = 0.047, respectively). B-mode US with the addition of Emax, Eratio, and SMI_VI had the best diagnostic performance of AUC value (0.849). The accuracy and specificity increased significantly from 68.0% to 84.0% (p < 0.001) and from 46.1% to 79.1% (p < 0.001), respectively, and the sensitivity decreased from 97.6% to 90.6% without statistical loss (p = 0.199). Conclusion: Combining all quantitative values of SWE and SMI with B-mode US improved the diagnostic performance in differentiating between benign and malignant breast lesions.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.207-212
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• 2014

The national reform document, Science for All Americans (AAAS, 1990), and the Next Generation Science Standards (NRC, 2012) emphasize the importance of the nature of science in guiding science educators in accurately portraying science to students. Therefore, it is important that textbook materials convey an accurate conception of the nature of science. This study employs content analysis to examine the content of textbooks in US and Korea elementary science textbooks with regard to the four aspects of the nature of science: (a) nature of scientific knowledge; (b) nature of scientific inquiry; (c) nature of scientific thinking; and (d) nature of interactions among science, technology, and society (Chiappetta, Fillman, & Sethna, 2004). Intercoder reliability was determined by calculating Cohen's kappa (Cohen, 1960). Findings show that while US elementary science textbooks are not balanced in presenting the four aspects of the nature of science regardless of the publishing companies, the presentation of the nature of science in Korean elementary science textbooks have better balanced treatment of the four themes across the grade levels. On the other hand, both US and Korean elementary science textbooks are attempting to convey an idea of what science is by emphasizing scientific knowledge and investigation.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.633-650
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• 2014

The uncertainty of extreme wind speeds is one key contributor to the uncertainty of wind loads and their effects on structures. The probability distribution of annual extreme wind speeds may be characterized using a classical Gumbel Type distribution. The expression that establishes the relationship between the extreme wind speeds at different recurrence periods and the corresponding coefficients of variation is formulated, and its efficacy is validated. The coefficients of variation are calibrated to be about 0.125 and 0.184 according to defined Chinese and US design specifications, respectively. Based on the wind data of 54 cities in China, 49 meteorological stations in the US, 3 stations in Singapore, the coefficients span intervals of (0.1, 0.35), (0.08, 0.20) and (0.06, 0.14), respectively. For hurricanes in the US, the coefficients range approximately from 0.3 to 0.4. This convenient technique is recommended as one alternative tool for coefficient of variation analyses in the future revisions of related codes. The sensitivities of coefficients of variation for 49 meteorological stations in the US are quantified and demonstrated. Some contradictions and incompatibilities can be clearly detected and illustrated by comparing the coefficients of variation obtained with different combinations of recurrence period wind data.