• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.46-56
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• 1996

Many surgeons and anesthesiologists prefer using vasoconstrictor mixed with local anesthetic agent to reduce the incidence of side effects and prolong the duration of analgesia because most local anesthetic agents, except cocaine, were believed to possess vasodilating effect. However, some investigators recently reported vasoconstricting effect of local anesthetic agents. There is still controversy on the vasoactive effect of local anesthetic agents. So this study is aimed to clarify the vasoactive effect of local anesthetics in the animal model resembling clinical settings. Rabbits were anesthesized with ketamine and haloghane, and respirations were controlled with Harvard animal ventilator. Lidocaine (0.5%, 1.0%, 1.5%) and bupivacaine (0.125%, 0.25% and 0.5%) with or without 1:100,000 epinephrine were subdermaly injected on the femoral bupivacaine of the femoral artery were measured with Doppler flow meter in vivo. The mean arterial pressure, pulse rate, arterial blood gases, pH and level of serum electrolytes were measured at every 2 minute interval for 30 minutes. Results were as follows: 1) There was no significant vasoconstriction with 0.5% lidocaine and 0.125% bupivacaine. 2) Statistically significant (p<0.05) vasodilations were observed with lidocaine (1.0~2.0%) and bupivacaine (0.25~0.5%). 3) There were no changes on the duration of vasodilation induced by local anesthetic agents of various concentrations. 4) Onset of vasodilation induced by local anesthetic agents of high concentration were faster than that of lower concentrations. 5) In the mixed injection group of epinephrine and local anesthetic agent, the vasoconstriction induced by epinephrine was completely reversed by local anesthetics, approximately 5 minutes later. In conclusion, local anesthetic agents at dose exceeding 1.0% lidocaine and 0.25% bupivacaine increase local blood flow significantly in animal study in vivo which is applicable in human clinical settings. The increase blood flow may be due to dilatation of blood vessel. Further study on the analysis of association between amount of absorbed local anesthetics in blood vessels and dilatation of blood vessels is needed.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제43권10호
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• pp.883-891
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• 2010

최근 기후변화에 기인하는 유출특성 변화와 유역 및 하도 환경 변화에 따라 하도형태가 바뀌는 경향을 보이고 있다. 특히 지속적인 성장세를 보이고 있는 하도내 국지퇴적이 전국에 걸쳐 중 대하천에서 야기되고 있다. 이 가운데 고수부지 형태로 나타나는 복단면 하도에서 홍수터가 일방향적 성장과 저수로의 저하현상이 현저한 것으로 나타나고 있다. 이와 같은 현상은홍수량 관리는 물론 하천생태관리에도 영향을 미치고 있는것으로 평가되고 있다. 본 연구에서 우리나라에서의 하도내 국지퇴적에 대해 조사한 결과, 국지퇴적 현상이 사실로 확인되었으며, 하천관리상 현실적인 당면 문제인 것으로 드러났다. 그동안 하상변동특성에 관한 주된 관심사는 저수로에 분급된 하상재료를 토대로 저수로 하상변화에 초점이 맞추어져 왔다. 그러나 본 연구의 결과에서 고수부지(홍수터)의 표층 퇴적이 지피상황 변화와 상호연관성이 높으며, 결국 하도전체의 하상변동에도 영향을 미치고 있음이 입증되었다. 하도내 국지퇴적의 대표적인 장소인 한강하구 고수부지에서의 집중조사 결과에 의하면, 고수부지에 퇴적하는 미세립토가 하천 식생의 정착 및 성장의 결정적인 원인이 되었으며, 이를 계기로 수림화를 동반하는 육역화가 진행되어 홍수 소통에 장애 요소는 물론 건전한 하천생태계에도 영향을 끼치는 것으로 확인되었다.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.46-51
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• 2013

Objectives: Load carrying tasks are recognized as one of the primary occupational factors leading to slip and fall injuries. Nevertheless, the mechanisms associated with load carrying and walking stability remain illusive. The objective of the current study was to apply local dynamic stability measure in walking while carrying a load, and to investigate the possible adaptive gait stability changes. Methods: Current study involved 25 young adults in a biomechanics research laboratory. One tri-axial accelerometer was used to measure three-dimensional low back acceleration during continuous treadmill walking. Local dynamic stability was quantified by the maximum Lyapunov exponent (maxLE) from a nonlinear dynamics approach. Results: Long term maxLE was found to be significant higher under load condition than no-load condition in all three reference axes, indicating the declined local dynamic stability associated with load carrying. Conclusion: Current study confirmed the sensitivity of local dynamic stability measure in load carrying situation. It was concluded that load carrying tasks were associated with declined local dynamic stability, which may result in increased risk of fall accident. This finding has implications in preventing fall accidents associated with occupational load carrying.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.25-32
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• 2017

Purpose - The introduction and expansion of the railway network since the 19th century brought revolutionary changes in economic activities, performance, and structure. The purpose of this study is estimating the impact of railroads on the local agricultural and manufacturing structures in the 19th century USA. Research design, data, and methodology - To identify the impact of railroads on local economic structure, county-level panel data from the U.S. census were analyzed using a panel fixed-effect differences-in-differences regression. The empirical investigation focuses on whether railroads changed the overall volume and sectoral composition of the local agricultural sector, and whether they contributed to the growth of the local manufacturing industry and its productivity. Results - The railroad introduction led to the relative decline of the agricultural sector, while encouraging the growth of market-oriented gardening. As such, manufacturing productivity increased by the introduction of railroads, although manufacturing inputs and home manufactures were unaffected. Conclusions - The findings imply that railroads contributed to the growth of market-oriented farming in rural areas, and the rise of productivity in the local manufacturing sector. Meanwhile, evidence of railroad-driven growth for the entire agricultural sector or a massive reallocation of resources from agriculture to manufacturing were not found.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제25권11호
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• pp.1531-1540
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• 2016

This research was intended to provide a method to improve competitiveness, based on the integration of basic municipalities by assessing changes in their population and local industry Municipalities were integrated based on the addressing system 市(Shi), 町(Chome), 村(Village) of Japan. As a result, an actual increase of the population could not be seen in the new municipalities formed by the integration of the basic municipalities. It is also found that the shipping volumes, number of companies, and the number of people employed by local industry, attracted by such municipalities, has steadily decreased. However, even though the proportion of industry-sharing in the local municipalities is not significant, it was found that the number of tourists has increased. Therefore, it is concluded that the strengthening of the connectivity between local industry and the tourism industry can be one of the principal methods to strengthen the competitiveness of these municipalities. In addition, it has been found that scientific research from a variety of perspectives and verification of data related to the effectiveness of integration of local municipalities is necessary.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제44권4호통권316호
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• pp.78-85
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• 2007

영역들로 구성된 영상의 국부정규화처리 알고리즘에 내재된 분할 구도를 소개한다. 이동창에서 산출되는 국부통계치에 근거한 정규화적 접근은 선형 또는 비선형함수를 발생시켜 잡음 오염된 영역들의 화소분포와 근접유사 유형을 변형한다. 현재와 정규화된 영상신호 사이의 최근접 화소 이격거리에 대하여 평균과 표준편차를 조정하고 국부통계치와 파리미터 변동을 연계하여 영역간 분할 상태를 변화시킨다. 이러한 특성에 대하여 기존의 정규화 기법들과 본 연구에서 새로 고안한 국부정규화 기법이 비교 고찰된다. 그리고 실험결과는 국부정규화처리 실현에 의한 영역분할 성능을 보였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.1264-1274
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• 2015

Human action recognition received many interest in the computer vision community. Most of the existing methods focus on either construct robust descriptor from the temporal domain, or computational method to exploit the discriminative power of the descriptor. In this paper we explore the idea of using local action attributes to form an action descriptor, where an action is no longer characterized with the motion changes in the temporal domain but the local semantic description of the action. We propose an novel framework where introduces local action attributes to represent an action for the final human action categorization. The local action attributes are defined for each body part which are independent from the global action. The resulting attribute descriptor is used to jointly model human action to achieve robust performance. In addition, we conduct some study on the impact of using body local and global low-level feature for the aforementioned attributes. Experiments on the KTH dataset and the MV-TJU dataset show that our local action attribute based descriptor improve action recognition performance.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제27권B호
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• pp.229-233
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• 2007

This research investigated the way of generating the flowing of water in case of artificial fluctuation of river width by the unidimensional numerical analysis in order to reconstruct vertical and expanse features of flowing, and the problem of existing numerical analysis in accordance with local enlargement and reduction of river through hydraulic model experiments with results of numerical analysis. The result revealed that when the local section change in the same river is exist, it showed 0.93m in the case of no change of local section in the hydraulic model experiments and numerical analysis, however, it presented 1.645m on the occasion of local section changes in the hydraulic model experiments and numerical analysis. In other words, there was a significant difference in the existing numerical analysis, when there was a local section change. As a result of the experimental section for the enlargement and reduction of local river width, due to the sensitive change for fluctuation of flood discharge, there was a significant difference between numerical analysis and hydraulic model experiments. In addition, the result of comparison between the enlargement and reduction of local river width confirmed that the result of numerical analysis with hydraulic model experiments showed larger generation of deviation in case of enlargement of section than in case of reduction of section.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.29-35
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 위치 측위의 정확도를 높일 수 있는 방안으로 KNN(K-Nearest Neighbor)과 Local Map Classification 및 Bayes Filter를 융합한 기법을 제안한다. 먼저 이 기법은 Local Map Classification이 실제 지도를 여러 개의 Cluster로 나누고, 다음으로 KNN으로 Cluster들을 분류한다. 그리고 Bayes Filter가 획득한 각 Cluster의 확률을 통하여 Posterior Probability을 계산한다. 이 Posterior Probability으로 로봇이 위치한 Cluster를 검색한다. 성능 평가를 위하여 KNN과 Local Map Classification 및 Bayes Filter을 적용하여서 얻은 위치 측위의 결과를 분석하였다. 분석 결과로 RSSI 신호가 변하더라도 위치 정보는 한 Cluster에 고정되면서 위치 측위의 정확도가 높아진다는 사실을 확인하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제51권7호
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• pp.1853-1859
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• 2019

The two-thermocouple method was investigated experimentally to evaluate its accuracy for the measurement of local wall temperature and heat flux on a heat transfer tube with an electric heater rod installed in an annulus channel. This work revealed that a thermocouple flush-mounted in a surface groove serves as a good reference method for the accurate measurement of the wall temperature, whereas two thermocouples installed at different depths in the tube wall yield large bias errors in the calculation of local heat flux and wall temperature. These errors result from conductive and convective changes due to the fin effect of the thermocouple sheath. To eliminate the bias errors, we proposed a calibration method based on both the local heat flux and Reynolds number of the cooling water. The calibration method was validated with the measurement of local heat flux and wall temperature against experimental data obtained for single-phase convection and two-phase condensation flows inside the tube. In the manuscript, Section 1 introduces the importance of local heat flux and wall temperature measurement, Section 2 explains the experimental setup, and Section 3 provides the measured data, causes of measurement errors, and the developed calibration method.