• Clinical Pain
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.121-125
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• 2019

Arthritis of hip joints deteriorates the quality of life in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients. Secondary to the articular inflammatory process, the shortened hip-girdle muscles contribute to the decreased joint mobility which may lead to the functional impairment. As the limitation of range of motion (ROM) usually progress slowly, clinicians regard it as a chronic condition and prescribe long-term therapy. However, by short-term intensive multimodal treatment, a 20-year-old man diagnosed as AS with severely limited hip joint ROM who relied on crutches doubled the joint angle and could walk independently only within 2 weeks. The combination included intra-articular steroid injection, electrical twitch obtaining intramuscular stimulation, extracorporeal shock wave therapy, heat, manual therapy, and stretching exercises. The management focused on the relaxation of hip-girdle muscles as well as the direct control of intra-articular inflammation. Hereby, we emphasize the effectiveness of intensive multimodal treatment in improving the function even within a short period.

• Clinics in Shoulder and Elbow
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.193-197
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• 1998

Frozen shoulder is known as a self-limited disease. But, its long duration and pain nature can make the patients debilitative. And most patients cannot tolerate a chronically painful extremity and are concerned about the possibility of developing permanent dysfunction. In painful phase of frozen shoulder, some aggressive mordalties as like trigger point injection or suprascapular nerve block can beneficial to: reduce discomfort and pain. In order to document clinical results, we evaluated the results of 134 frozen shoulders treated with trigger point injection and/or suprascapular nerve block at Kyungpook National University Hospital, from January 1995 to April 1997. The treatment group was divided into 3 modalities: 17 cases in trigger point injection(TPI), 39 cases in suprascapular nerve block(SSB), and 78 cases in both methods. The supportive treatment including oral medication, heat and stretching exercise was also applied. The average age at the time of diagnosis was 57 years old and average follow-up time was 18 months. The results were as follows: Average time of significant improvement in pain was 9 days. Eighty-eight percent (119 cases) was improved in pain and range of motion after injecllion treatments; 82%(14/17) with TPI, 85%(33/39) with SSB, and 92%(72/78) with both. Early improvement of paih within 1 week was 72% in the treatment-responsive group, in which TPI group has 100% response(14/14) and sse has 94% response(31/33)

• 자원환경지질
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.269-279
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• 1996

Dehydroxylation and mullitization of primary and secondary kaolins were investigated in order to compare and understand the differences in thermal behaviours by DTA and TG up to $1,100^{\circ}C$. Chemical analyses and EPMA of the samples revealed nearly ideal unit-cell formulae of kaolins. The weight losses of dickite and halloysite are 14% and 12.5% on the average, respectively. The activation energies of dehydroxylation of kaolin minerals were calculated according to Kissinger's approach which uses various heating rates in DTA to estimate the activation energy of thermal reactions. The activation energies of dehydroxylation of halloysites from Daemoung and Buksam mines are about $163kJmor^{-1}$ (white), $168kJmor^{-1}$ (pink), and $176kJmor^{-1}$ respectively. The activation energies of dickites collected from Sungsan and Ogmae mines are about $166kJmor^{-1}$ and $387kJmor^{-1}$. The asymmetric shape of endothermic peak in DTA, the relative intensities of OH-stretching bands in FTIR spectroscopy and the existence of residual XRD peaks of the samples which were heated at $550^{\circ}C$ for 2 hours indicate that Sungsan dickite may be more disordered than Ogmae dickite. The new phase formed in thermally treated samples in the range of $900^{\circ}C$ to $1,100^{\circ}C$ was identified as mullite by XRD on the basis of disappearing of the characteristic peaks of kaolins and increasing of amorphous background upon heat treatment. On further heating, loss of more water from dehydroxylate resulted in the formation of mullite and the characteristic X-ray diffraction patterns of mullite began to appear at about $900{\sim}1,000^{\circ}C$ in kaolins.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권8호
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• pp.371-379
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• 2022

The environment in Kosovo is a topic of concern for the citizens and the state because of the temperatures that affect the health of the citizens and the climate around the world. Kosovo's climate is related to its geographical position. Stretching in the middle latitude, Kosovo's climate depends on the amount of heat coming from the Sun, the proximity of the Adriatic Sea, the Vardar valley, the openness to the north. In order to better understand the climatic features of Kosovo, one must know the elements of the climate such as: sunshine, temperature, precipitation, atmospheric pressure, winds. The Meteorological Institute of Kosovo is responsible for measuring temperatures in Kosovo since 2014 and until now 12 meteorological stations have been operationalized with automatic measurement and real-time data transfer to the central system for data collection and archiving. The hydrometeorological institute lacks an application for measuring temperatures in all the countries of Kosovo. Software applications are generally built to suit the requirements of different governments and clients in order to enable easier management of the jobs they operate on. One of the forms of application development is the development of mobile applications based on android. The purpose of the work is to create a mobile application based on the Android operating system that aims to display information about the weather, this type of application is necessary and important for users who want to see the temperature in different places in Kosovo, but also the world. This type of application offers many options such as maximum temperature, minimum temperature, humidity, and air pressure. The built application will have real and accurate data; this will be done by comparing the results with other similar applications. Such an application is necessary for everyone, especially for those people whose daily work is dependent on the weather or even for those who decide to spend their vacations, such as summer or winter. In this paper, comparisons are also made within android applications for tablets, televisions and smart watches.

• 전기화학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2014

리튬이차전지의 고에너지 밀도화를 위해 전지 구성요소들의 무게 및 부피를 저감하려는 요구가 증가하고 있다. 분리막은 리튬이온의 이동통로를 제공할 뿐만 아니라 양극과 음극의 직접적인 접촉을 방지하는 핵심 부품이다. 본 연구에서는 연신 비율을 달리하여 습식방법을 통해 두께가 16, 12, $9{\mu}m$ 인 폴리에틸렌 분리막을 준비하였고, 각각의 기계적 강도 및 열적특성을 평가하였다. 또한 양극($LiCoO_2$), 음극(Graphite)을 사용한 Coin type full-cell을 제작하여 율속 특성 및 500cycle까지 사이클 수명특성을 평가하였다. 수명특성 평가를 통해 사용된 모든 두께의 분리막에서 500cycle 까지 큰 차이 없이 80% 정도의 용량유지 결과를 확인하였다. 율속 특성에서는 가장 얇은 $9{\mu}m$ 분리막이 가장 우수한 성능을 나타내었다. 흥미롭게도 $9{\mu}m$의 분리막이 $16{\mu}m$ 경우보다 열 수축률 평가에서 우수한 특성을 나타내었다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.329-338
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• 2018

치과위생사의 근골격계 질환을 조사하고, 통증 조절과 자기효능감이 근골격계 질환에 미치는 영향을 분석하고자, 광주지역 치과위생사 483명을 편의 추출하여 자기기입식 설문조사를 시행하고 빈도분석, 교차분석, t-검정, 다중로지스틱 회귀분석을 실시하여 분석하였다. 연구결과 연구 대상자의 지난 1년간 근골격계 통증 유병율은 83.9%이었으며, 이중 근골격계 질환이 있는 경우는 29.8%이었다. 근골격계 질환에 영향을 주는 요인을 파악한 결과, 근골격계 통증 해결 방법이었다. 통증 해결 방법에서 병가, 작업전환이라고 응답한 군에 비해 병원, 한의원, 약국치료 라고 응답한 군의 근골격계 질환 교차비(odds ratio)는 0.22(95% 신뢰구간 0.14-0.34)로 음의 관련성을 보였다. 이것은 근골격계 장애가 있는 경우 병원, 한의원, 약국치료를 더 하지 않은 것으로 사료된다. 따라서 치과위생사의 근골격계 통증 관리를 위해서는 의학적 관리(한의학적 치료, 정맥주사나 약물 치료, 열과 냉동 치료, 스테로이드 치료, 상담 치료, 척수자극을 이용한 중재적 치료, 물리 치료, 스트레칭, 재활운동치료, 도수 치료)와 작업환경 요인을 개선할 필요가 있고 근골격계질환 예방법에 대한 적절한 접근이 필요할 것으로 생각된다.