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Nutritional Contents of Beverage from Lotus Root and Evaluation of its Physiological Function in Aorta Relation (연근음료의 영양학적 특징 및 흰쥐의 혈관개선에 미치는 효과)

  • Ham, Tae-Sick;Han, Jong-Hyun;Park, Sung-Hye
    • Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.490-494
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this was investigate the possibility of medicinal plants application as an edible functional food resources. We arried out to develop a beverage by using Nelumbo nucifera and we examined the nutritional characterics. Also we examined the effects of drink on physiological function in aorta relation. Thus, the effect of developed beverage on phenylephrine induced contraction of isolated rat thoracic aorta. Contractile force was measured with force displacement thansducer under 1.5g loading tension. Brix, pH and titratable acidity of developed drink were 12.25%, 4.5 and 0.092%. The approximate nutritional composition of beverage was carbohydrate, 9.40%, crude protein, 0.30%, crude fat, 0.25% and ash, 0.15%. Also insoluble fiber and soluble fiber were 1.30%, 0.80%. Developed beverage contained Na(11.45 mg%), K(6.87 mg%), Ca(2.53 mg%). The contraction forces by injection of phenylephrine in isolated thoracic aorta were significantly law in each beverage treatment groups compared with control group. These results that developed drink with medicinal plants can be used as a functional material to decrease aorta contraction.

Effects of BanhabackchulChunma-tang on the Vascular Relaxation and its mechanism (혈관 긴장성 조절에 미치는 반하백출천마탕)

  • Kim Yon Tae;Chae Jong Koo;Kim Gil Whon;Shin Heung Mook
    • Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.62-66
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    • 2002
  • Hypertension is not only a well-established cardiovascular risk factor but also increase the risk of atherosclerosis. Most studies conducted to investigate the effectiveness of treatment for cardiovascular disease such as hypertension have focused primarily on conventional drug and physiotherapeutic treatments. BanhabackchulChunma-tang(半夏白朮天麻湯:BCT) is popular herbal medicine used in clinic for the treatment of various symptoms of drulatory disorders and weakness of digestive system, including anorexa and nausea with vertigo, severe headache, vomiting and so on. However, the mechanisms underlying its efficacy are unknown. This study investigated the effects of BCT as an alternative medication on the contraction induced by phenylephrine and KCI in rat thoratic aorta. BCT revealed siginificant relaxation on phenylephrine-induced arterial contraction, but revealed noncompetitive effect on concentration responses of phenylephrine-induced contraction. Treatment of N-L/sup ω/ -argine methyl ester(L-NAME) and methylene blue(MB)(10/sup -5/M) reduced the relaxation of BCT. BCT also increased in vitro NO production. It suggest that the relaxation effect of BBT is related with NO pathway, becausse the effect of L-NAME and MB are due to inhibition of NO synthesis from endothelial cells. These results indicate that BCT would be effective in hypertension treatment and its mechanism of relaxtion on arterial contraction is likely to be related with NO production, blocking of α-receptor and signal transduction after receptor activation.

Finite Element Method for Structural Concrete Based on the Compression Field Theory (압축응력장 이론을 적용한 콘크리트 유한요소법 개발)

  • 조순호
    • Computational Structural Engineering
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.151-159
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    • 1996
  • A finite element formulation based on the CFT(Compression Field Theory) concept such as the effect of compression softening in cracked concrete, and macroscopic and rotating crack models etc. was presented for the nonlinear behaviour of structural concrete. In this category, tangential or secant material stiffnesses for cracked concrete were also defined and discussed in view of the iterative solution schemes for nonlinear equations. Considering the computational efficiency and the ability of modelling the post-ultimate behaviour as major concerns, the incremental displacement solution algorithm involving initial material stiffnesses and the relaxation procedure for fast convergence was adopted and formulated in a type of 8-noded quadrilateral isoparametric elements. The analysis program NASCOM(Nonlinear Analysis of structrual Concrete by FEM : Monotonic Loading) developed baed on the CFT constitutive relationships and the incremetal solution strategy described enables the predictions of strength and deformation capacities in a full range. crack patterns and their corresponding widths, and yield extents of reinforcement. As the verfication purpose of NASCOM, the prediction of Cervenka's panel test results including the load resistance and the deformation history was made. A limited number of predictions indicate a good correlation in a general sense.

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Numerical Investigation of Mixing Characteristics in a Cavity Flow by Using Hybrid Lattice Boltzmann Method (혼성 격자볼츠만 방법을 이용한 공동 형상 내부에서의 혼합 특성에 관한 수치적 연구)

  • Shin, Myung Seob;Jeon, Seok Yun;Yoon, Joon Yong
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.37 no.7
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    • pp.683-693
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    • 2013
  • In this study, the mixing characteristics in lid-driven cavity flows were studied numerically by using a hybrid lattice Boltzmann method (HLBM). First, we compared the numerical results from single-relaxation-time (LB-SRT) and multi-relaxation-time (LB-MRT) models to examine their reliability. In most of the cavity flow, the results from both the LB-SRT and the LB-MRT models were in good agreement with those using a Navier-Stokes solver for Re=100-5000. However, the LB-MRT model was superior to the LB-SRT model for the simulation of higher Reynolds number flows having a geometrical singularity with much lesser spatial oscillations. For this reason, the LB-MRT model was selected to study the mass transport in lid-driven cavity flows, and it was demonstrated that mass transport in the fluid was activated by a recirculation zone in the cavity, which is connected from the top to the bottom surfaces through two boundary layers. Various mixing characteristics such as the concentration profiles, mean Sherwood (Sh) numbers, and velocity were computed. Finally, the detailed transport mechanism and solutions for the concentration profile in the cavity were presented.

Three-dimensional Seismic Refraction Travel Time Tomography for Dipping Two Layers (경사 2층 구조를 위한 3차원 굴절탄성파 주시 토모그래피)

  • Cho Dong-heng;Cho Kwang-ho
    • Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.19-24
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    • 1998
  • This paper deals with tomographic travel time inversion of three dimensional seismic refraction survey conducted over a dipping interface. The slowness, and thus velocity as its reciprocal, distribution on the subsurface interface is to be determined applying an ART with under-relaxtion parameter. The models chosen are realistic, i.e., most likely to be met in engineering seismics, and the interface includes anomalous zones. It is found that, generally speaking, the inversion could be misleading or meaningless without the correction of the dip of the interface. This is rather surprising when we recall that usual assumption for the interpretation of refraction seismics data is the horizontal attitude of structures within the limit of $15^{\circ}$ dip or so. To make the present method tenable for a new means of routine seismics, some practical ways of identifying head wave arrivals are to be devised.

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A Study on the Effect of a Spinal Thermal Massage Device for Physical and Mental Relaxtion in Office Workers (사무직 근로자의 신체적・정신적 이완을 위한 척추온열마사지 기기의 효과 연구)

  • Mihyun Lee;Il-Young Cho
    • Journal of Industrial Convergence
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    • v.22 no.9
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    • pp.169-177
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    • 2024
  • This study investigated the effects of a spinal thermal massage device on physical and mental relaxation in office workers. Fifteen participants in their 30s and 40s used the device at home for 40 minutes, five times a week, for one month. Subjective measures, including fatigue, stress, muscle pain, blood circulation, indigestion, and insomnia, were assessed using the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) before and after the intervention. Objective measures included blood pressure (diastolic/systolic) and pulse pressure. The results showed significant reductions in fatigue (-51.5%), muscle pain (-49.6%), blood circulation difficulties (-23.1%), and stress (-20.9%), with trends suggesting reductions in insomnia (-20%) and indigestion (-7.4%). Systolic blood pressure significantly decreased, with tendencies for reductions in diastolic blood pressure and pulse pressure. In conclusion, the spinal thermal massage device appeared to promote physical and mental relaxation by combining thermotherapy and massage, likely activating the parasympathetic nervous system.

Effects of Nursing Interventions on Anxiety and / or Stress : A Meta-Analysis (불안 및 스트레스에 대한 간호중재 효과의 메타 분석)

  • 이은옥;송혜향;김주현;이병숙;이은희;이은주;박재순;전경자;정면숙
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.526-551
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    • 1992
  • The purpose of this study was to identify the commonalities of various nursing interventions and effective intervention methods in each intervention through analysis and synthesis of many accumulated research papers. The study analyzed the effects of various nursing interventions on anxiety and /or stress. For this purpose, 64 experimental studies with randomized or nonequivalent control group pre-test-posttest design were selected from journals of medical and nursing schools, the Korean Nurse, the Korean Nurses' Academic Society Journal, the Cetnral Journal of Medicine, the New Medical Journal, the Nurse Monthly, and from theses and dissertations conducted from 1970 to 1991. The selected studies nor classified according to three characteristics : 1) the research samuel, 2) types and methods of nursing interventions, and 3) statistical tests. The following analysis was done : 1) Confirmation of the accuracy of data drawn from each study by paired review, 2) Estimation of the homogenity of pre-test scores of the dependent variable between control and experimental groups warranted the effect size of post-scores, 3) If the homogenity of pre-test scores did not warrant, the change scores from pre-test to post-test were used to estimate the effect size, 4) Use of the effect size of each study among homogenious studies was tested for each intervention method, such as relaxation, information, and touch and /or support. Finally, for the studies not showing homogenity, an ANOVA test was used to identify patterns for each intervention. Some findings are summarized as follow : The effect sizes for relaxation and information were greater than those for touch and /or supportive technique. Studies using random assignment had greater effect sizes than nonrandomized sample studies using the same intervention. For healthy people, group education was more effective than individual teaching. However, for patients, relaxation and touch and /or supportive techniques given on individual basis were more effective than when given in a group situation. Measuring anxiety and stress by biological indicators was less effective than by self-report. Budzynski's relaxation method was the most effective. The more frequently the techniques applied, the larger the effect size. On the bases of these findings, the following recommendations were made : 1. A combination of information, relaxtion, and touch-supportive techniques should be used for greater effect in reducing the level of anxiety and /or stress. 2. Information is the first choice of intervention to reduce the level of anxiety and /or stress of healthy People : other interventions may be added depending on the conditions of the subjects.

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