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Effects of Knee Extension Exercise Using Blood Flow Restriction on the Thickness and Balance Ability of Tendons

  • Park, Jae-Cheol;Kim, Yong-Nam
    • The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.41-46
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    • 2018
  • Purpose: This study examined the effects of knee extension exercise using blood flow restriction on the changes in the thickness and static balance ability of the tendon of the rectus femoris muscle and achilles tendon. Methods: A total of 30 subjects was were divided into two groups of 15 subjects each. The changes in the thickness and balance of their tendons were measured by ultrasonography and balance equipment. The measurements were taken three times: before the experiment, 4 weeks after, and 8 weeks after. The results were analyzed by repeated measure ANOVA, one-way ANOVA was conducted in cases where there were time-to-group interactions in the intra-individual effects test. Results: Significant differences in the thickness of the tendon of the rectus femoris muscle and Achilles tendon were found between the groups, over time, and in the time-to-group interactions (p<0.05). The changes in balance in both feet when the supporting positions between eye-open and eye-closed states were significantly different in the time-to-group interactions (p<0.05), but were not different between the groups (p>0.05). Conclusion: Knee extension exercise using blood flow restriction leads to significant differences in the increase in tendon thickness and changes in balance, indicating that the results of this study can be utilized as basic data for future studies and for rehabilitation treatment at clinics.

The Effects of Regular Resistive Exercise on Cardiopulmonary Ability and Cerebral Blood Flow Velocity (규칙적인 저항 운동이 심폐 능력과 뇌혈류 속도에 미치는 영향)

  • Yu, Jae-Ho;Lee, Suk-Min
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Physical Medicine
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.255-264
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    • 2010
  • Purpose : The purpose of this study is to analysis effects of resistive exercise on cardiopulmonary fitness and cerebral artery blood flow velocity. Methods : Ten healthy university students had done resistive exercise without aerobic exercise over one year participated resistive exercise group and ten general university students, then were calculated oxygen consumption ($VO_2$) and respiratory exchange rate($VO_2/VCO_2$). After a week, they were measured Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography(TCD) at moderate exercise(HRmax 50%), maximal exercise (HRmax 100%) for taking cerebral blood flow velocity. Results : In the comparison between groups, resistive exercise group showed significant higher oxygen consumption and lower respiratory exchange than controls(p<0.05). In resistive exercise group, oxygen consumption was significant negative correlation with cerebral artery pulsatory index(p<0.05). but, oxygen consumption was significant positive correlation with systolic blood flow velocity in controls(p<0.05). Conclusions : After considering all the factors, important value in resistive exercise is regular participation and help us increasing contingency response ability.

Measurement of Flow Velocity and Flow Visualization with MR PC Image (MR PC 영상을 이용한 유체 흐름 분석)

  • Kim, S.J.;Lee, D.H.;Min, B.G.
    • Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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    • v.1997 no.05
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    • pp.127-130
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    • 1997
  • Phase-contrast(PC) methods have been used for quantitative measurements of velocity and volume flow rate. In addition, phase contrast cine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) combines the flow dependent contrast of PC MRI with the ability of cardiac cine imaging to produce images throughout the cardiac cycle. In this method, the through-plane velocity has been encoded generally. However, the accuracy of the flow data can be reduced by the effect of flow direction, finite slice thickness, resolution, pulsatile flow pattern, and so on. In this study we calculated the error caused by misalignment of tomographic plane and flow directon. To reduce this error and encode the velocity for more complex flow, we suggested 3 directional velocity encoding method.

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Development of Three Dimensional Groundwater Flow Program (3차원 지하수 흐름해석 프로그램 개발에 관한 연구)

  • 박준모;장연수;김홍석;이두화
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2001.03a
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    • pp.577-584
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    • 2001
  • For construction and design of tunnels, groundwater flow models are used to find the influence of groundwater to the stability of tunnels considering the geological condition around the tunnels and the materials used in tunnel linings. For the analysis of tunnel flow, some commercial programs, e.g. MODFLOW, SEEP/W etc., are used. These programs have limitations that MODFLOW could not define curved surface smoothly in three dimensional flow media and SEEP/W is the 2-dimensional flow model. In this paper, the ability of a finite element program developed for analyzing 3-dimensional groundwater flow is examined. Confined steady state groundwater flow solution in non-homogeneous media is obtained using isoparametric element with eight trilinear hexahedron nodes and is compared with the result of MODFLOW. It was found that the solution yielded a good result with the three dimensional flow studied.

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Flowing Ability and Mechanical Properties of Polypropylene Fiber Reinforced High Performance Concrete

  • Kim, Young-Ik;Sung, Chan-Yong
    • Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.45 no.7
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    • pp.27-37
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    • 2003
  • This study was performed to examine the flowing ability and filling ability of polypropylene fiber reinforced high performance concrete. The slump flow was decreased with increasing the polypropylene fiber content, rapidly. At the box-type filling ability, the difference of box height was increased with increasing the fiber content and the box-type passing ability was closed in fiber content 1 %. The final flowing distance of L-type was decreased with increasing the fiber content. Also, it was decreased above 0.75% of polypropylene fiber content, rapidly. The filling ability of L-type was badly showed above polypropylene fiber content 0.75%. Also, the compressive strength was decreased with increasing the fiber content, but the flexural strength was shown higher than that of the concrete without fiber. At the impact resistance, drop numbers for reaching in final fracture were increased with increasing the fiber content. Also, the drop numbers for reaching initial fracture of 1mm were increased with increasing the fiber content. At the acid resistance, the percent of original mass was decreased with increasing the fiber content.

Development of Y Strainer Type Automatic Flow Rate Regulating Valve (Y 스트레이너형 자동 정유량 조절 밸브의 개발)

  • Yoon, Joon-Yong;Kwon, Woo-Chul
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.10 no.1 s.40
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    • pp.49-55
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    • 2007
  • An 'Y' strainer type automatic flow rate regulating valve, which functions are to remove impurities from hot water inside the pipe and to maintain a constant flow rate regardless of variations of the differential pressure between valve inlet and outlet at the same time, is developed for distributing hot water equally to several pipes with district heating or central heating system. Numerical analysis of the three dimensional turbulent flow field in a valve shape is carried out to confirm the flow field whether the designed regulator shape is acceptable or not. The final developed valve improves installation time and cost and maintenance ability comparing with set-up 'Y' strainer and regulator separately. Tolerance for the nominal flow rate is also satisfied within ${\pm}5%$.

A Study on the Flow Characteristics of the Spiral Flow Nozzle with the Width Change of Annular Slit

  • Kim, T.H.;Setoguchi, T.;Lee, Y.W.
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Visualization
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.14-20
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    • 2009
  • In comparison with previous researches fur swirling flow, the spiral flow self-generated in the spiral flow nozzle has some different characteristics. It is not needed a compulsive tangential momentum to get its velocity component and has long potential core, relatively low swirl ratio, and high focusing ability. In this study, the self-generated mechanism of the spiral flow was clarified and the effect on the width of annular slit on spiral flow characteristics was investigated experimentally and numerically. As a result, the existence of tangential velocity component regardless of a compulsive angular momentum is clarified and the results obtained by experiment have a satisfactory agreement with those by numerical method, quantitatively and qualitatively.

THE ISOGEOMETRIC VARIATIONAL MULTISCALE METHOD FOR LAMINAR INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW

  • Moulage, Yourself Gaffers;Ahn, Hyung-Taek
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.65-84
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    • 2012
  • We present an application of the variational multiscale methodology to the computation of concentric annular pipe flow. Isogeometric analysis is utilized for higher order approximation of the solution using Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines (NURBS) functions. The ability of NURBS to exactly represent curved geometries makes NURBS-based isogeometric analysis attractive for the application to the flow through the curved channel.

Stop-flow Analysis of the Diuretic Action of Guanethidine in the Dog (Stop-flow방법으로 분석한 Guanethidine의 이뇨작용)

  • 고석태;김성원;김성오
    • YAKHAK HOEJI
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.227-233
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    • 1975
  • The diuretic action of guanethidine was investigated in the dogs by means of the stop-flow technique. Guanethidine increased the rejection of sodium in the ascending limb of Henle's loop, as well as in the proximal and distal tubules, resulting in the decrease of the concentrating ability of the kidney, in marked natriuresis and diuresis. It was also effective during an osomotic diuresis, which was induced by infusing 10% mannitol can exhibit its effect even under the diuretic action of mercurophylline, suggesting a different mechanism from that of mercuric iuretics.

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Micro-computed tomographic evaluation of the flow and filling ability of endodontic materials using different test models

  • Torres, Fernanda Ferrari Esteves;Guerreiro-Tanomaru, Juliane Maria;Chavez-Andrade, Gisselle Moraima;Pinto, Jader Camilo;Berbert, Fabio Luiz Camargo Villela;Tanomaru-Filho, Mario
    • Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics
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    • v.45 no.2
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    • pp.11.1-11.9
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    • 2020
  • Objectives: This study compared the flow and filling of several retrograde filling materials using new different test models. Materials and Methods: Glass plates were manufactured with a central cavity and 4 grooves in the horizontal and vertical directions. Grooves with the dimensions used in the previous study (1 × 1 × 2 mm; length, width, and height respectively) were compared with grooves measuring 1 × 1 × 1 and 1 × 2 × 1 mm. Biodentine, intermediate restorative material (IRM), and mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) were evaluated. Each material was placed in the central cavity, and then another glass plate and a metal weight were placed over the cement. The glass plate/material set was scanned using micro-computed tomography. Flow was calculated by linear measurements in the grooves. Central filling was calculated in the central cavity (㎣) and lateral filling was measured up to 2 mm from the central cavity. Results: Biodentine presented the least flow and better filling than IRM when evaluated in the 1 × 1 × 2 model. In a comparison of the test models, MTA had the most flow in the 1 × 1 × 2 model. All materials had lower lateral filling when the 1 × 1 × 2 model was used. Conclusions: Flow and filling were affected by the size of the test models. Higher grooves and materials with greater flow resulted in lower filling capacity. The test model measuring 1 × 1 × 2 mm showed a better ability to differentiate among the materials.