• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.54 no.8
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• pp.504-509
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• 2005

This paper presents a new method for obtaining the noninvasive and unrestrained blood pressure readings noninvasively and unrestrainedly using based on reflected wave arrival time(RAT) in the volume of pulse. Since this new method employs only volume pulse, is more rapider and simpler than the method using pulse transit time(PTT) because it only employs the volume of pulse. Blood pressure, PTT and RAT were acquired from 15 healthy subjects. Each subjects were performed forty trials of each measurement. As a result of those trials, the mean error between oscillometric and RAT measurements for systolic blood pressure was $4.55\pm5.64mmHg$. This result showed quite equal with the mean error between oscillometric and PPT measurf:ments, $4.22\pm5.30mmHg$, However, it was not obtained a satisfactory result in the relativity of oscillometric to both RAT and PPT measurements for diastolic blood pressure because of personal difference. To conclude, the method of systolic blood pressure estimation noninvasively and unrestrainedly using by RAT may be used as the method by PTT. Nevertheless, additional studies would be necessary for the RAT/PTT estimation of diastolic blood Pressure measurement.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.1-5
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a subject-independent regression model to estimate systolic blood pressures (SBP) conveniently and continuously. There have been several researches on estimating SBP with pulse transit time (PTT) and they showed promising results. However, previous studies used only PTT as the estimation parameter, and their models were generated with just one person's PTT data which is not applicable to estimating other person's SBP. Therefore, we collected several additional biometric parameters with 202 healthy subjects. After statistical analysis of measured biometric parameters with SBP, we chose final estimating parameters including PTT to generate a multiple linear regression model for estimating SBP. Comparing the results of our study with approvable standards of automated sphygmomanometers developed by Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation and approved by American National Standards Institute (ANSI/AAMI) indicates that our proposed method for continuously blood pressures monitoring gives an acceptable error.

• Korean Journal of Clinical Laboratory Science
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.156-160
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• 2007

We evaluated the newly developed plastic sodium citrate tubes for routine coagulation test by direct comparison with glass citrate theophylline adenosine dipyridamole (CTAD) tubes. Blood was drawn from 100 patients into glass CTAD tubes and plastic sodium citrate tubes. After collection, samples were centrifuged at 1500 ${\times}$g for 15 min at $22^{\circ}C$. Prothrombin time (PT), activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT), fibrinogen were measured by using the Coagrex-800 (IRC, Japan). We used comparison plot by linear regression model and difference plot graphs to compare the results of the independent measurements of PT, aPTT, fibrinogen between glass CTAD tubes and plastic sodium citrate tubes. On the comparison study between glass CTAD tubes and plastic sodium citrate tubes, the correlation coefficients (R) were 0.99 for PT, 0.97 for aPTT and 0.97 for fibrinogen. This results implicated good correlation of each parameter between two tubes. Although the difference plot graph analysis showed statistically significant differences between glass and plastic tubes for PT, aPTT and fibrinogen, the range of difference was acceptable according to the CLSI/NCCLS guideline. The plastic sodium citrate tubes showed good correlation with the glass CTAD tubes, so it can substitute glass citrate tube for routine coagulation tests.

• The Korean Journal of Mycology
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.13-18
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• 2019

A fungal strain, designated PTT-2, was isolated from the bark of the trunk of a persimmon (Diospyros kaki) tree in Cheongdo, Korea. The isolate showed morphological similarities with Leptosphaerulina saccharicola. Strain PTT-2 had more rapid growth on potato dextrose agar medium than on oatmeal agar, malt extract agar, and synthetic nutrient poor agar media, with colony sizes of 53.8 mm, 49.8 mm, 48.4 mm, and 28.1 mm after 7 days at $25^{\circ}C$ temperature, respectively. Strain PTT-2 produced ascospores, which had irregular wavy edges, oblong to ellipsoidal shape, hyaline appearance and $23.6{\times}10{\mu}m$ size. The black ascomata were developed on PDA medium, and asci were recorded. A BLAST search of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region, TEF1-${\alpha}$ and RPB2 gene sequences revealed that strain PTT-2 showed more than 99% nucleotide similarity with a strain of Leptosphaerulina saccharicola previously reported from Thailand. A neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree was constructed by concatenating the above-mentioned sequences, and showed that strain PTT-2 clustered in the same clade with L. saccharicola. Based on these findings, this is the first record of Leptosphaerulina saccharicola occurring in Korea.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.411-412
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• 2007

자동음성인식 시스템을 이용하는 사용자 입장에서 보면 음성인식시스템을 사용하기 위하여 음성을 입력할 때마다 버튼을 눌러야 하는 Push-To-Talk (PTT) 방식은 여간 번거로운 일이 아닐 수 없다. 그리고 사용자가 원거리에서 음성을 입력하는 경우처럼 PTT 방식 자체가 용이하지 못 한 음성인식 응용분야에서는 Non-Push-To-Talk (NON-PTT) 방식의 필요성이 대두되게 된다. NON-PTT 방식의 음성 전처리를 위해서는 입력신호로부터 음성신호만을 구분해내는 음성판별기술이 필수적이다. 하지만 일상적인 잡음환경에서 음성신호만을 구분해내는 일은 매우 어려운 일이 아닐 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 일상적인 가정잡음환경에 강인한 음성판별방식을 제안한다. 여기서는 음성판별을 위해서 음성의 유성음 특성을 이용하였다. 즉, 일정구간 이상의 음성신호에는 일정구간이상의 유성음 구간이 존재하며 만약 잡음환경에서도 유성음 구간을 잘 검출할 수 있다면 이러한 음성의 특성을 이용하여 검출된 신호가 음성인지 아닌지를 판별할 수 있다. 이를 위하여 여기서는 가정잡음환경에서도 유성음을 잘 검출할 수 있도록 11 가지 유성음 특징들과 이를 이용한 음성판별방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법의 성능 평가를 위하여 음성의 끝점검출방법과 통합하여 음성/비음성 판별 테스트를 수행하였으며 테스트 수행결과 열악한 잡음환경에서 80%이상의 비음성을 거절하는 성능을 보였다.

• BMB Reports
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.221-226
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• 2012

Curcumin, a polyphenol responsible for the yellow color of the curry spice turmeric, possesses antiinflammatory, antiproliferative and antiangiogenic activities. However, anticoagulant activities of curcumin have not been studied. Here, the anticoagulant properties of curcumin and its derivative (bisdemethoxycurcumin, BDMC) were determined by monitoring activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT), prothrombin time (PT) as well as cell-based thrombin and activated factor X (FXa) generation activities. Data showed that curcumin and BDMC prolonged aPTT and PT significantly and inhibited thrombin and FXa activities. They inhibited the generation of thrombin or FXa. In accordance with these anticoagulant activities, curcumin and BDMC showed anticoagulant effect in vivo. Surprisingly, these anticoagulant effects of curcumin were better than those of BDMC indicating that methoxy group in curcumin positively regulated anticoagulant function of curcumin. Therefore, these results suggest that curcumin and BDMC possess antithrombotic activities and daily consumption of the curry spice turmeric might help maintain anticoagulant status.

• Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.362-367
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• 2006

This paper describes the experiments for investigating the effects of thermal stability of several commercial carpet mate materials. The melting point and thermal decomposition temperature was measured by means of a differential scanning calorimeter(DSC) in air condition. The DSC data and burning test results of nylon bulked continuous filament(N-BCF) yarn 100%, nylon(NY), polypropylene(PP), and a new material named polytrimethyleneterephthalate(PTT) were analysed to obtain the effect on their thermal stability. Conclusively, we observed that PTT and PP were approximately $380^{\circ}C$ and $240^{\circ}C$ to start the thermal decomposition, respectively. In other words, PTT is thermally the most stable material for carpet manufacturing.

• Medical Lasers
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.97-100
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• 2019

Facial pores are a visible topographic feature of skin surfaces and are generally the enlarged openings of pilosebaceous follicles. Enlarged facial pores can be a significant cosmetic problem, particularly for women. Recently, gold nanoshell-mediated photothermal therapy (PTT) has been reported to be effective in treating recurrent acne. The treatment of enlarged facial pores with gold nanoshell-mediated PTT produced excellent results with no side effects. The two cases reported here demonstrate the possibility of gold nanoshell-mediated PTT as a safe and effective treatment for enlarged facial pores.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.104-109
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• 1999

A number of leukocytes increases when infected by a germ or virus. Detection of leukocyte levels can indicate of such medical informations as urogenital tract infection or other dysfunction. In this study, pentyl-3-thiophene-carboxlyate (PTC), pentyl-8-quinolinecarboxylate (PQC), and 2-Phenyl-4(N-tosyl-alanyloxyl)-thiazole (PTT) were synthesized, and the test strips were prepared with these substrates for quantifying leukocytes in urine. Among these substrates, the PTT test strip prepared in 0.5% borate buffer pH 8.0, 0.03% PTT, 0.1-0.8% PVP, and 1% decanol showed not only better color reaction but also an excellent application possibility to be used in automatic urine analyzer.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.209-215
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• 2019

The most important personal health care in digital health care is a very important issue mainly for chronic diseases. Therefore, it is important to develop a simple wearable device for real-time health management. Existing blood pressure estimation wearable devices use PPG characteristics to analyze PTT and propose blood pressure estimation algorithms. However, the influencing factors of the algorithm such as the reproducibility of PPG, whether to apply various PTTs, and variables generated from the physical differences of the measurers are actually very complex. Therefore, in this study, the correlation between PTT, SBP, and DBP was analyzed, and it was designed to use PPG sensors for device miniaturization. The blood pressure estimation algorithm took into account differences in PPG, heart rate, and personal variables.