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Screening and broadening effects on the mobilities for p-type Si and Ge (Screening 현상 및 broadening 현상이 p형 Si과 Ge의 이동도에 미치는 효과)

  • 전상국
    • Electrical & Electronic Materials
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.581-588
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    • 1997
  • The ionization energy and degree of ionization for Si and Ge with boron doping are calculated. The hole mobilities are then calculated as a function of doping concentration using the relaxation time approximation. When the screening effect is taken into account, the reduction of ionization energy results in the increase of degree of ionization. As a result, the calculated Si mobility becomes closer to the experimental data, whereas the calculated Ge mobility is almost independent of the screening effect. The inclusion of the broadening effect in the mobility calculation overestimates the ionized impurity scattering. As compared with the experiment, the screening effect is not avoidable to calculate Si and Ge mobilities, and the broadening effect must accompany with the hopping process.

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Developing a Computerized Reminder System and Evaluating the Effects on the Improvemtent of Cancer Screening (지역사회 주민의 정기적 암검진 수검율 향상을 위한 정보시스템 구축 및 효과평가)

  • 정인숙;천동환;김일;배은숙;최은옥
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.400-411
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    • 2004
  • Purpose: This study was aimed to develop a computerized reminder system and evaluate it's effect in terms of percent age change of screening, and satisfaction. Method: It was conducted through 6 phases: Analyzing the job and defining the basic input data, developing the information system, collecting and inputting data, testing the system, working with the system, and evaluating it's effect. Participants were 787 people (female 30-69 years, and males 40-49 years) in 2 dong of Suyoung gu, Busan, who haven't had cancer screening for the stomach, breast, or cervix since Dec. 2000. There were three experimental groups: a letter; calling and calling after the letter reminder, and a non-equivalent control group. To determine whether services were obtained, a telephone survey was done after two months of follow-up. Result: A cancer screening information system with five DB modules was developed. Overall compliance with screening was not statistically significantly changedbefore and after applying computerized reminders for all three screening sites. Only 16% were satisfied with the reminder. Conclusion: This data didn't show that a reminder effort was effective of screening. However, because the evaluation interval was too short to find a difference in screening rate, we recommend additional longer prospective follow up studies.

Parthenolide-Induced Apoptosis, Autophagy and Suppression of Proliferation in HepG2 Cells

  • Sun, Jing;Zhang, Chan;Bao, Yong-Li;Wu, Yin;Chen, Zhong-Liang;Yu, Chun-Lei;Huang, Yan-Xin;Sun, Ying;Zheng, Li-Hua;Wang, Xue;Li, Yu-Xin
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.15 no.12
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    • pp.4897-4902
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    • 2014
  • Purpose: To investigate the anticancer effects and underlying mechanisms of parthenolide on HepG2 human hepatocellular carcinoma cells. Materials and Methods: Cell viability was assessed by MTT assay and cell apoptosis through DAPI, TUNEL staining and Western blotting. Monodansylcadaverin(MDC) and AO staining were used to detect cell autophagy. Cell proliferation was assessed by Ki67 immunofluorescence staining. Results: Parthenolide induced growth inhibition in HepG2 cells. DAPI and TUNEL staining showed that parthenolide could increase the number of apoptotic nuclei, while reducing the expression of the anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-2 and elevating the expression of related proteins, like p53, Bax, cleaved caspase9 and cleaved caspase3. Parthenolide could induce autophagy in HepG2 cells and inhibited the expression of proliferation-related gene, Ki-67. Conclusions: Parthenolide can exert anti-cancer effects by inducing cell apoptosis, activating autophagy and inhibiting cell proliferation.

Studies on the in vitro SPF Assay and Application of Cosmetic Formulation of Methoxycinnamidopropyl Polysilsesquioxane with a New UV-screening Agent (신규 자외선차단제로서 메톡시신나미도프로필폴리실세스퀴옥산의 in vitro SPF 평가 및 화장품에의 적용성에 대한 연구)

  • Jung, Taek-Kyu;Kim, Young-Back;Yoon, Tae-Jin;Yoon, Kyung-Sup
    • Journal of the Society of Cosmetic Scientists of Korea
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.47-55
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    • 2010
  • UV-screening agents have some adverse effects that raise consumers' concern. The organic agents often cause irritation and may penetrate into human body while the inorganic agents raise aesthetic issues because they often turn opaque. Organic agents with high molecular weights and nano-sized inorganic agents have been developed respectively to minimize transdermal intrusion into human body and suppress turning opaque. Recently, we reported preparation of powdery UV-screening agents made of polysilsesquioxane, an organic-inorganic hybrid material. Powders would not penetrate into epidermis and organic-inorganic hybrid nature would suppress the opaqueness problem. In this study, we continued our research on this powdery polysilsesquioxane UV-screening agent, SESQUV, regarding its chemical composition, its synergic UV-screening effects when mixed with other organic agents, and its applicability in practical formulation. Results showed SESQUV was promising UV-screening agents useful in sunscreen formulation.

Effects of National Dental Screening on Dental Caries Experience, Treatment, and Cost in Children (국가 구강검진이 어린이의 치아우식 경험, 치료 및 비용에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Jonghyung;Lee, Hangil;Son, Donghyun;Kim, Jihun
    • Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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    • v.47 no.3
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    • pp.248-256
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    • 2020
  • This study aimed to evaluate the effects of national dental screening for children in Korea in the aspects of prevention of dental caries, the number of treatments related to dental caries, and cost of dental care. The study used the national cohort data on children health screening provided by National Health Insurance Service, and analyzed 32,937 1st dental screening, 22,608 2nd dental screening, 13,708 3rd dental screening, and 241,043 cases from the dental care of 27,944 children born in year 2008 and 2009. The decayed-filled teeth index and decayed-filled person rate, calculated from the results of the 2nd and 3rd dental screening, decreased as the number of preceding dental screening increased. Glass ionomer and amalgam restoration, pulp treatment of primary teeth and extraction of primary canine and molar were shown to decrease as the number of examined dental screening increased, and the total cost of dental care covered by national health insurance also decreased as the number of dental screening increased. In conclusion, national dental screening for children is an efficient and economical oral health care method that prevents dental caries and lowers the possibility of dental caries related treatment, thereby reducing cost of dental care.

수종(數種) 한약재(韓藥材)의 항암활성(抗癌活性) 연구(硏究)

  • Gang, Tak-Rim
    • Journal of Haehwa Medicine
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.315-321
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    • 1995
  • An extensive anticancer drug screening from natural resources has been carried out primarily using murine tumor model for past fourty years. Recently a new screening program from NCI, so called disease-oriented screening system. has been estabished to detect anticancer drugs that show selective growth inhibition toward variety of tissue specific human solid tumors originated from leukemia, lung, colon, CNS, melanoma, ovarian, renal, prostate amd breast. To develope the anticancer drugs from oriental medicinal herbs, we investigated the cytotoxic effects against human tumor cell panels with 23 kinds of MeOH extract of medicinal herbs. Evodiae Fructus, Meliae Toosendan Fructus, Saussureae Radix and Pharbitidis Semen showed strong activities against several tumor cell lines.

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The Screening of Biologically Active Plants in Korea Using Isolated Organ Preparation(V) -Anticholinergic and Oxytocic Actions in Rat's Ileum and Uterus- (적출장기표본(摘出臟器標本)에 의한 국산생약(國産生藥)의 생리활성(生理活性) 검색(檢索)(V) -흰쥐의 회장(回腸) 또는 자궁(子宮)에서의 항(抗) Acetylcholine 및 Oxytocin작용(作用)-)

  • Lee, Eun-Bang;Lee, Young-Soon
    • Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.246-248
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    • 1991
  • The methanolic extracts of forty-two medicinal plants were screened for direct effects on the isolated ileum and uterus and for anticholinergic and oxytocic effects on the respective organ preparation.

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A Study on the Effects of Screening Method on High-Quality Offset Lithography (고품위 오프셋 인쇄에 미치는 스크린 방식의 영향)

  • 김성수;강상훈
    • Journal of the Korean Graphic Arts Communication Society
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.109-120
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    • 1998
  • FM screening has been praised for its apparent resolution advantage over conventional AM screening. FM screening is also known for its criticalness of film output and difficulties in the proofing stage because of the microdot formation. However, FM screening is not a well understood process from press performance point of view. This study was carried out for the purposed of introduction the availability of hifi-offset printing to domestic printing industries and evaluating the print qualities between 300pli AM screen and FM screen with the equivalent sized microdots to 4-5% dot area of the 300lpi AM screen, together with comparing with the 175lpi AM screen representing a conventional printing. Solid density, dot gain, color gamut and some other quality properties were measured and discussed.

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Re-SSS: Rebalancing Imbalanced Data Using Safe Sample Screening

  • Shi, Hongbo;Chen, Xin;Guo, Min
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.89-106
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    • 2021
  • Different samples can have different effects on learning support vector machine (SVM) classifiers. To rebalance an imbalanced dataset, it is reasonable to reduce non-informative samples and add informative samples for learning classifiers. Safe sample screening can identify a part of non-informative samples and retain informative samples. This study developed a resampling algorithm for Rebalancing imbalanced data using Safe Sample Screening (Re-SSS), which is composed of selecting Informative Samples (Re-SSS-IS) and rebalancing via a Weighted SMOTE (Re-SSS-WSMOTE). The Re-SSS-IS selects informative samples from the majority class, and determines a suitable regularization parameter for SVM, while the Re-SSS-WSMOTE generates informative minority samples. Both Re-SSS-IS and Re-SSS-WSMOTE are based on safe sampling screening. The experimental results show that Re-SSS can effectively improve the classification performance of imbalanced classification problems.

Analysis of quantitative high throughput screening data using a robust method for nonlinear mixed effects models

  • Park, Chorong;Lee, Jongga;Lim, Changwon
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.27 no.6
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    • pp.701-714
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    • 2020
  • Quantitative high throughput screening (qHTS) assays are used to assess toxicity for many chemicals in a short period by collectively analyzing them at several concentrations. Data are routinely analyzed using nonlinear regression models; however, we propose a new method to analyze qHTS data using a nonlinear mixed effects model. qHTS data are generated by repeating the same experiment several times for each chemical; therefor, they can be viewed as if they are repeated measures data and hence analyzed using a nonlinear mixed effects model which accounts for both intra- and inter-individual variabilities. Furthermore, we apply a one-step approach incorporating robust estimation methods to estimate fixed effect parameters and the variance-covariance structure since outliers or influential observations are not uncommon in qHTS data. The toxicity of chemicals from a qHTS assay is classified based on the significance of a parameter related to the efficacy of the chemicals using the proposed method. We evaluate the performance of the proposed method in terms of power and false discovery rate using simulation studies comparing with one existing method. The proposed method is illustrated using a dataset obtained from the National Toxicology Program.