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A Case Report of Advanced Gastric Cancer Patient Treated with Bojungikgi-tang Gamibang (절제불가능한 위암의 위장관 출혈에 대한 보중익기탕 가미방 투여 1례)

  • Lee, Hyun-Il;Jerng, Ui-Min;Jeong, Jong-Soo;Lee, San-Hun;Choi, Won-Cheol;Yoon, Seong-Woo
    • Journal of Korean Traditional Oncology
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.29-35
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    • 2009
  • Approximately 10 percent of advanced stomach cancer patients have internal bleeding in their stomach. It is crucial to treat internal bleeding since it severely deteriorates patient's condition, and disturbs process of chemotherapy. There are hemostatic agents and dressing, radiotherapy, endoscopic ligation and coagulation, surgical methods to treat bleeding. However, these methods cannot be executed in some cases in which patient is in terminal stage or not in desirable condition to take these treatments. We are going to introduce a case of advanced gastric cancer patient having stomach bleeding who made a choice to take oriental medical treatments. The patient was on third stage of stomach cancer, had 3200cc of blood transfusion for five times. After diagnosed as not being able to have resection, he started to oriental medical treatments to stop bleeding. From March 28, 2009 to April 16, 2009, we administer 120cc Bojungikgi-tang gamibang to the patient in 90minutes after each meal. During 19days of having Bojungikgi-tang gamibang, we observed that the patient needed significantly lower amount blood transfusion, to 640cc. The patient improves in performance, and was able to eat more. Despite of short period of observation, this case indicates that Bojungikgi-tang gamibang treatment to the patient could work as hemostat, further improved quality of patient's life.

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Direction for Improving the Educational Environment of Rural School Students in Korea (농촌학교학생의 교육환경조성 개선방향)

  • Cheong, Ji Woong
    • The Journal of Sustainable Design and Educational Environment Research
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.1-14
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    • 2003
  • This study attempts to review the present situations of rural schools in South Korea, to analyze problems regarding the educational environments for their students, and to present direction for improving toward better educational environments. All the data and information are based on using avaiable documents and personal macro observation and insights. The sharp decrease of rural population for recent decades has made lots of public schools unexceptionall much smaller by school number and students' number. Nearly five thousands of rural small schools have already been abolished and the rest are also endangered to be dosed. In order to tackIe such problem, the Government has been trying to provide rural students with better educational environment, but failed to attract them to stay in rural schools. Most of rural school students have poorer family environment, underprivilged school learning environment, and less civilized community environment. Those normal parents living in rural areas are likely to send their kids to urban schools for prior opportunities to enter better quality of higher level of schools and then the remained attending rural schools are those who live with grand parents or whose parents are very disadvantaged. The rural school teachers are teaching much less number of students compared to urban teachers, but their students are less achieved learners. Notwithstanding their abudant natural community learning environments, the rural school students are less making use of those resources and less benefited from more civilized life due to their underdeveloped community conditions. In order to improve such educational environments, incentives for young couples to safely reside in rural communities, incentives for better qualified teachers to preferably work for rural schools, better learning facilities for rural school students and for better vocational experiences, lifelong learning opportunities for all community people, and increased public support to rural development for rural people not to worry about their rural lives, need to be guarantyed.

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Research on Natural Medicine for Wellness and Oral Health (웰니스 및 구강질환억제를 위한 천연물 유래물질 연구)

  • Park, Hae-Ryoung;Hong, Suk-Jin
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.357-363
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    • 2015
  • This study investigated the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of Galla Rhois (Rhus verniciflua) on LPS (lipopolysaccharide)-stimulated human osteoblastic cells (MG-63). The aim of this study was to evaluate the LPS induced nitric oxide (NO) production and antioxidant radical in human osteoblast-like MG-63 cells. Therefore, the present work indicate that Galla Rhois extracts may be an ideal candidate for further research into their use for dental caries prevention component as well as, natural plant-based products. This suggested that 80% methanol and hexane extracts of Galla Rhois were inhibited NO generation and 1,1-diphenyl-2-pirylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical. Therefore, 80% methanol and hexane extracts of Galla Rhois may be utilized as a good source of protection against inflammation and oxidative stress. This study is intended to pursue wellness convergence in quality of life in the excavations in natural ingredients to create a variety of oral products with fewer side effects, cheap oral products for the dental treatment.

The Effect of Denture Care Skills Education Program on Denture Self-care, Denture Satisfaction and Oral Health-related Quality of Life (OHIP-14) among the Elderly (의치관리 실습프로그램이 노인의 의치자가관리, 만족도 및 구강건강관련 삶의 질에 미치는 효과)

  • Jang, In Sun;Park, Seungmi
    • Journal of Korean Biological Nursing Science
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.239-246
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of denture care skills education program on denture self-care, denture satisfaction and subjective oral status among the elderly. Methods: The research design for this study was a non-equivalent control group quasi-experimental design. Total 61 elderly who visited a seniors center, Seoul, Korea, participated in this study. Participants were 31 elderly for the experimental group and 30 elderly for the control group. The experimental group received a lesson in denture care skills education program which was developed by the researchers. Using a structural questionnaire, the elderly's perception about denture self-care, denture satisfaction and subjective oral status were measured before and after the intervention. Descriptive statistics, independent t-test, chi-square test, and ANCOVA test were performed using SPSS WIN 21.0. Results: The experimental group showed significantly higher scores in denture satisfaction(p<.001), QOL of oral health(<.001), concern for oral health(p=.005), subjective oral health status(p<.001), bad breath(p=.010), oral dryness(p<.001) and number of denture clearing(p<.001). Conclusion: The results suggest that the denture care skills education program for elderly at a senior center was effective. Further work is required to develop more effective denture care skills education programs and an oral health promotion program to improve the health status of the elderly.

Comparison of the Graduate Medical School Student's Perception Structure about 'Happy Doctor' by Clerkship Experience (임상실습 경험에 따른 의학전문대학원생들의 '행복한 의사' 개념 인식 비교)

  • Yoo, Hyo-Hyun;Shin, Sein;Lee, Jun-Ki
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.262-269
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study is to provide direction of medical education by analysing medical school student's perception structure about 'happy doctor'. In particular, this study compared perception structure between two groups of students before clerkship and after clerkship. The subject of this study were 1~4 academic year students in medical school. Students' text about 'happy doctor' were collected by open-ended questionnaire and analyzed by using sematic network analysis. Based on the result of network analysis, perception structure of each groups were confirmed. The network of each groups have 'Professionalism' group including words such as 'patient', 'treatment', 'worthwhile' in common. Three groups, 'Professionalism', 'Quality of life' and 'Self-realization' constituted the before clerkship network. And five groups, 'Professionalism', 'Time with family', 'Balance between work and household', 'Interpersonal relationship', 'Physical and psychological health' constituted the after clerkship network. The results of this study is expected to contribute for developing the basic medical education curriculum for 'happy doctor'.

Analysis of Association Relationship Between A16 Acupuncture Point and Heart Function Using Voice Signals (음성신호를 이용한 A16 혈자리와 심장 기능의 연관관계 분석)

  • Kim, Bong-Hyun;Cho, Dong-Uk
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.35 no.11B
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    • pp.1651-1658
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    • 2010
  • As indicators of life quality have recently shown great improvement, early stage medical examination and health care patterns are usually preformed before diseases occur. Thus, hand acupuncture, as an alternative medicine to reflect these movements of preventative work and health care, is widely used these days. Therefore, in this paper, we measured the change of voice signals elements associated with heart by stimulating the heart A16 acupuncture point, and then we investigated possible improvements of cardiac function through analysis of cross-comparisons between measurements of cardiac changes. With this in mind, we collected voice samples associated with heart before and after stimulating the corresponding A16 acupuncture point, and we performed an experiment by applying the second formant bandwidth and Jitter. As result, stimulating the A16 acupuncture point results to lowering the second formant bandwidth and Jitter. The result has proven that using voice signal processing technology can help improvement of heart function.

A Study on the Visualization Method for Figurative Art of Sculptures Using Metallic Materials - Based on the purpose of displaying in the residential complex (금속재료를 활용한 조형물의 비유적 이미지 시각화 방법 연구 - 주거 단지 전시를 목적으로)

  • Ko, Seung-Geun
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.225-230
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    • 2021
  • As the quality of our life has improved, residential complexes have become more diverse now. Modern residential complexes function as a place for meeting and communication between families and neighbors, including parks, lakes, and promenades, and exhibiting sculptures in residential spaces has become an important component. This study was conducted for the purpose of researching the design development method for the sculptures displayed in the residential space in accordance with these changes and demands of the era. Through the process of visualizing the figurative arts with metal and stone used as materials, the artist's thoughts and messages were put in the sculpture and the arts were completed as the shape of the sculpture that viewers could sympathize with. This design and formative research shows the possibility that various visual elements for sympathy with the creator's thoughts can be formed in a place with the specificity of living space by using a figurative visualization method. Therefore, further researches on figurative art of sculptures are required.

Characterization of TiN Layered Substrate using Leaky Rayleigh Surface Wave (누설 레일리 표면파를 이용한 TiN 코팅 부재의 특성평가)

  • Kwon, Sung-Duk;Kim, Hak-Joon;Song, Sung-Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.7-11
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    • 2006
  • Since ceramic layers coated on machinery components inevitably experience the changes in their properties it is necessary to evaluate the characteristics of ceramic coating layers nondestructively for a reliable use of coated components and 4heir remaining life prediction. To address such a need, in the present study, an ultrasonic backward radiation technique is applied to investigate the characteristics of leaky Rayleigh surface waves propagating through the very thin TiN ceramic layers coated on AISI 1045 steel or austenitic 304 steel substrate with three different conditions of surface roughness, coating layer thickness and wear condition. In the experiments performed in the present work, the peak angle and the peak amplitude of ultrasonic backward radiation profile varied sensitively according to three specimen preparation renditions. in fact, this result demonstrates a high possibility of the ultrasonic backward radiation as an effective tool for the nondestructive characterization of the resting layers even in such a thin regime.

A study on the color trend of recent korean passenger car (최근 한국승용차의 색채경향에 관한 연구)

  • 박택용
    • Archives of design research
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    • no.16
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    • pp.53-63
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    • 1996
  • With the high level economic growth and plentiful stabl izing our I iving, our car has become indispensable necessi ties of life which was the symbol of our riches. And yet, on this changes of the times, we welcomed MY CAR epoch with an explosive increase of its demand. However, compared wi th this trend, we feel actually that our level of car development technique is beyond our capaci ty to satisfying our personal fancy I ike advanced nations for buying car in quantity and quality side. On this study, I made car body color as my studing topic which was few concerning to research. I analyzed and investigated[surveyed] the state of envi ronmental facts and recent Korean passenger- car body color trend. After this work, I found out enough to solve the problem on developing car body color. And I suggest the problem solving materials as a reference to meet with the modern's fancy in the development processing of passenger car with systematicaly and effectively.

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Use of Smartphone Applications for Satisfying Information Needs of Youth (청소년의 정보요구 해결을 위한 스마트폰 어플리케이션 이용행태)

  • Lee, SeungMin;Lee, Jongwook
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.175-196
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    • 2017
  • The number of youth smartphone users has been increasing, and they use smartphone applications to satisfy their various types of information needs. Nevertheless, few researchers have addressed youth information behavior on applications. In this study, the author examined the application use behavior of youth in response to their work- and everyday life- information needs. The author collected 114 completed questionnaires from students enrolled in a middle school and a high school. The survey results show that participants' usage and perception of smartphone applications were high, and they were using information, entertainment, and communication applications to meet their information needs. In particular, their preference for application use differed by the type of information needs. Also, participants were considering cost, easiness, privacy policy, review, information quality, providers, interface design, and recommendation to choose applications. This study confirms the role of smartphone applications as an influential information source, and it also provides useful implications for educators and for application developers.