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The Effects of Vitamin C Supplementation and Yoga on the Improvement of Serum Lipid Peroxidation in Middle-aged Women (비타민 C 보충과 요가가 중년여성의 혈청 지질과산화물가 개선에 미치는 영향)

  • Kang, Yeong-Soo;Lee, Sang-Ho;Baek, Yeong-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.38 no.1
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    • pp.47-51
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of vitamin C supplementation and yoga practice on total antioxidant status (TEAC), lipid peroxidation, and blood lipid profiles of middle-aged women. Thirty two women ($53.34{\pm}5.08$ years old) in B city volunteered and the signed consents were received before the study. Experimental groups were normal (n=8), vitamin C intake group (n=8), yoga group (n=8), and vitamin C intake with yoga group (n=8). Total experimental period was 12 weeks. Yoga group practiced yoga 3 times a week for 12 weeks with intensity of RPE $13{\sim}15$. Each practice was 60 minutes. Vt. C group was instructed to take 1 g of Vt. C every day after dinner meal. Changes in TEAC after 12 weeks were 28.23% for the normal group, 30% for Vt. C group, 26.58% for yoga group, and 43.66% for Vt. C with yoga group; the increases in TEAC among groups were not significantly different. Serum malondialehyde (MDA) concentration of the normal group increased by 10% during 12 weeks of experiment while that for the Vt. C, yoga, and Vt. C with yoga group were significantly decreased by 25%, 32.14%, and 33.87%, respectively (p<0.05) compared with the normal group. Neither yoga, Vt. C supplementation nor combined program for 12 weeks were effective enough to change the serum lipid profiles compared with the normal group. In conclusion, Vitamin C supplementation or regular yoga practice seems to have health promoting effects of retarding the oxidative stress by decreasing lipid peroxidation in middle-aged woman.

Implantable low-power Pacemaker for Heart Disease Therapy (심장질환 치료를 위한 체내삽입형 저전력 Pacemaker에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Kyo-Seok;Lee, Sang-Won;Cho, Jun-Dong
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2007.10a
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    • pp.473-474
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    • 2007
  • 본 연구는 체내 이식형 Pacemaker를 연구하면서 심장 질환을 Therapy 해 주는 방법에 대해 저전력 및 성능향상에 중점을 두고 연구 및 실험을 하였다. 우선적으로 심장의 심박동을 연산량이 적은 Peak_detection에서 체크하여 전력소모를 줄이고 나오는 각 심실 및 심방의 Interval을 Disease_episode 에서 받는다. 여기서 5가지 심실 및 심방에 관한 질환들 (VF : Ventricular Fibrillation, VT : Ventricular Tachycardia, FVT : Fast Ventricular Tachycardia, FAT_AF : Fast Atrial Tachycardia/Atrial Fibrillation, AT_AF : Atrial Tachycardia AT_AF : Atrial Fibrillation)을 판별한 후 각 병증에 맞는 Therapy 값을 출력하게 하였다. 그 외에 남아있는 병증에 대해서도 Therapy가 저전력 및 성능향상 되도록 설계하였다. 기존에 적용되어 있는 Detection 기법에서는 각각의 병증에 대해서 각 Detection이 있어 VF와 VT 사이에 있는 FVT와 같은 병증을 치료할 때 FVT 같은 경우에는 VF와 VT사이에 있는 질병이기 때문에 FVT_VF 및 FVT_VT와 같이 각각의 Detection을 두어 전력 소모가 있었다. 심장에서는 여러 질병이 한번에 나을 수 없다는 것에 착안하여 (심박동 Interval에 의해 질병이 판단되므로) 다른 병증이지만 같은 진단 기준을 쓰는 Detection을 통합함으로써 하나의 모듈로 구성하여 Gate수를 줄이고 저전력을 구현하였다. 또한 병증을 판별하는 진단 기준 모듈 중 Onset_Criterion 재설계하여 좀더 성능 향상에 중점을 두었다.

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Alleviating Effects of Vitamin C on the Gramoxone Toxicity in the Total Lipid Contents, Lipid Peroxidation and Protein Patterns of Rat Liver (흰쥐 간 지질함량, 과산화지질 및 단백질양상에 미치는 제초제 Gramoxone 독성에 대한 비타민 C의 완화효과)

  • 조운복;김성로;최병태
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.823-832
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    • 1993
  • This study was made to determine alleviating effects of vitamin C(Vt C) on the gramoxone toxicity in rats with respect to the growth gain, feed effeciency ratio, total lipid contents, lipid peroxication and protein patterns in rat liver. Growth gain, feed efficiency ratio and liver weight in the gramoxone group were decreased significantly as compared with the control group, while those values obtained in the gramoxone-Vt C group were increased as compared with the gramoxone group. Lipid contents and TBA value of rat liver of the gramoxone group were increased significantly as compared with the control group. However, those values of the gramoxone+Vt C group were decreased as compared with the gramoxone group. No significant differences were observed in the liver protein patterns between the gramoxone and the control group. The contents of liver protein were decreased significantly in the gramoxone group fed for 2 weeks as compared with the control group. The change of the liver protein patterns, such as the decrease of high molecular weight protein and the increase of low molecular weight protein were observed in the gramoxone+Vt C group.

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Visual Tactile Attributes in Online Product Presentations for Improving Purchase Intention

  • Suh, YouHyun;Kim, Songmi;Kim, Wonjoon
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.7-15
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    • 2018
  • Online shopping is increasing worldwide. Providing customers actual feeling of the product is essential in online shopping. Various technological aids can be used to support visual feeling. When delivering visual tangibility, it is important to study which attributes are significant in product presentations that best portray the actual tactileness. In this perspective, we suggest 'visual tactility' (VT) as a parameter for delivering tangibility in visual presentation. By measuring visual tactility in different product types, latent factors of visual tactility were identified and their influence on purchase intention was determined in this study. We defined material properties of touch such as surface texture, hardness, temperature, and weight as Visual Tactility (VT), the influential factor of tactility. We investigated the influence of VT on product purchase intention and analyzed tactileness within four online product presentations: single static picture, multi static pictures, zoom, and video. Our purpose was to investigate underlying effects of visual tactile attributes on touch and determine their influences according to online product presentation formats. Our results showed that visual tactility positively affected purchase intention and that each attribute differed in importance according to product type. Moreover, this study revealed a strong relation between online product presentation and VT attributes. These results provide a guide when selecting which presentation is optimal for delivering a product's tactility in online shopping situation.

Extracting Fuzzy Rules for Classifying Ventricular Tachycardia/Ventricular Fibrillation Based on NEWFM (심실빈맥/심실세동 분류를 위한 NEWFM 기반의 퍼지규칙 추출)

  • Shin, Dong-Kun;Lee, Sang-Hong;Lim, Joon-S.
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.179-186
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    • 2009
  • This paper presents an approach to classify normal and Ventricular Tachycardia/Ventricular Fibrillation(VT/VF) from the Creighton University Ventricular Tachyarrhythmia DataBase(CUDB) using the neural network with weighted fuzzy membership functions(NEWFM). In the first step, wavelet transform is used for producing input values which are used in the next step. In the second step, two numbers of input features are extracted by phase space reconstruction method and peak extraction method using coefficients produced by wavelet transform in the previous step. NEWFM classifies normal and VT/VF beats using two numbers of input features, and then the accuracy rate is 90.13%.

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Effects of Voluntary Tutoring and Mandatory Tutoring on Academic Performance

  • Eun Hye KWON;John SMITH;Sukho LEE
    • Journal of Sport and Applied Science
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.27-35
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    • 2023
  • Purpose: Providing tutoring services may be one of the most effective practices for improving academic performance and student retention. However, there is little information on the difference between mandatory tutoring (MT) and voluntary tutoring (VT) on the impact of student academic performance. This investigation compared the effectiveness of VT and MT services in the three upper level undergraduate classes. Research design, data, and methodology: Baseline data were collected in a spring semester where no tutoring of any kind was offered (control group (CG), n=78). The MT (n=104) was required in the following fall semester, and in the next spring semester only VT (n=97) was offered. Descriptive statistics and One-way ANOVA using IBM SPSS v23 (Chicago, IL) were used to analyze the final grades of the courses to identify differences in final grades between semesters. Results: Although final grades averaged from three classes were highest in the MT group, there were no statistical differences between the MT and VT groups, F(2, 292) = 1.150, p =.318. Conclusion: This study indicates there was no significant difference in academic performance between the two tutoring types, but that both tutoring services can be effective.

Compensating algorithm of the secondary voltage for CCVT considering the hysteresis of a iron core (철심의 히스테리시스 특성을 고려한 CCVT 2차 전압 보상방법)

  • Kang, Y.C.;Lee, B.E.;Zheng, T.Y.;Lee, J.H.;Kim, Y.H.;Park, J.M.;So, S.H.;Jang, S.I.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2005.11b
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    • pp.261-263
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    • 2005
  • In the extra and ultra high voltage system, the coupling capacitor voltage transformer (CCVT) measures the primary voltage with a small scale of voltage transformer (VT). However, the CCVT generates errors caused by the hysteresis characteristics of iron core and by the ferroresonance, inevitably. This paper proposes a compensation algorithm for the secondary voltage of a CCVT considering the hysteresis characteristics of an iron core. The proposed algorithm calculates the seconda교 current of a VT by summing the current flowing the ferroresonance circuit and the burden current; it estimates the secondary voltage of a VT; then the core flux is calculated by integrating of the secondary voltage of a VT, then estimates the exciting current using ${\lambda}-i$ characteristic of the core. The method calculates a primary voltage of a VT considering the estimated primary current. Finally, the correct voltage is estimated by compensating the voltage across the inductor and capacitor. The performance of the proposed algorithm was tested in a 345kV transmission system. The test results show that the proposed method can improve the accuracy of the seconda교 voltage of a CCVT.

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Unspecified Event Detection System Based on Contextual Location Name on Twitter (트위터에서 문맥상 지역명을 기반으로 한 불특정 이벤트 탐지 시스템)

  • Oh, Pyeonghwa;Yim, Junyeob;Yoon, Jinyoung;Hwang, Byung-Yeon
    • KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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    • v.3 no.9
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    • pp.341-348
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    • 2014
  • The advance in web accessibility with dissemination of smart phones gives rise to rapid increment of users on social network platforms. Many research projects are in progress to detect events using Twitter because it has a powerful influence on the dissemination of information with its open networks, and it is the representative service which generates more than 500 million Tweets a day in average; however, existing studies to detect events has been used TFIDF algorithm without any consideration of the various conditions of tweets. In addition, some of them detected predefined events. In this paper, we propose the RTFIDF VT algorithm which is a modified algorithm of TFIDF by reflecting features of Twitter. We also verified the optimal section of TF and DF for detecting events through the experiment. Finally, we suggest a system that extracts result-sets of places and related keywords at the given specific time using the RTFIDF VT algorithm and validated section of TF and DF.

Comparison of Balance and Fall Efficacy of Virtual Reality Program in Elderly Women with Fall Experience

  • Park, Seong-Doo;Kim, Jin-Young;Yu, Seong-Hun;Yang, Kyung-Hee;Song, Hyun-Seung
    • The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.430-435
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    • 2014
  • Purpose: The objective of this study was a virtual reality-based balance training program effective for improvement in physical function, examined the balance ability and fall efficacy of elderly women with experienced falls, intending to examine the program's usefulness as an exercise program to prevent the recurrence of a fall. Methods: The participants were 30 elderly women aged 65 or older who met the conditions. The participants were randomly assigned to either a balance training group (BT) or a virtual reality-based balance training group (VT) and received the training three times per week, 30 minutes per day, for six weeks. To measure static balance, the Tetrax Portable Multiple System (Tetrax Ltd, Israel) were used. To measure dynamic balance, the Berg Balance Scale (BBS) and functional reach test (FRT) was used, and regarding fall efficacy, the Korean Fall Efficacy Scale (K-FES) was used. Results: Tetrax significantly improved after the intervention in both the BT group and the VT group (p<0.05). The comparison between the two groups was not significantly. BBS and FRT result significantly improved after the intervention in both the BT and VT groups (p<0.001), while K-FES was significantly ameliorated in the VT group only (p<.05). Comparing the groups, there were more significant changes in the BBS (p<0.05) and FRT (p<0.01) result of the VT group than the BT group. Conclusion: A virtual reality-based balance training program is considered to be usable as an exercise program to prevent recurrence of falls in elderly women.

Analysis of the Influence of the Address Electrode Width on High-speed Addressing Using the Vt Close Curve and Dynamic Vdata Margin

  • Kim, Yong-Duk;Park, Se-Kwang
    • KIEE International Transactions on Electrophysics and Applications
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    • v.5C no.5
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    • pp.183-190
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    • 2005
  • In order to drive the high-density plasma displays, a high-speed driving technology must be researched. In this experiment, the relationship between the width of the address electrode and high-speed driving is analyzed using the Vt close curve and the panel structure for high-speed driving is proposed. In addition we show that the wider the width of the address electrode is, the narrower the width of the scan pulse becomes. Therefore, we could achieve the minimum data voltage of 50.1V at a scan pulse width of $1.0/{\mu}s$ and a ramp voltage of 210V at an address electrode width of $180/{\mu}m$ for the high-speed driving 4-inch test PDP.