The purpose of this study is to analyze the correlation between the stature and the muscle performance ratings and the subjective discomfort rations at performing lower arm's pronation and supination according to change sin the height of working table for more efficient performance at designing a working table and performing a work. For the purpose, this study conducted an experiment targeting 40 people in their 20s, who were classified into 4 groups each group composing 10 people at intervals of 5cm from the standard stature of 166.5cm. The experiment measured the maximum isometric pronation and the supination muscular power, and at measuring the factors, the heights of working tables were set as 800mm, 850mm, and 900mm. From the measurement results, it was found that the stature and the maximum muscular power was correlated. That is, as the experiment groups's average stature is higher, the maximum muscular power was higher. For the correlation between the motion patterns(pronation and supination) and the maximum muscular power, it was seen that the maximum muscular power was higher at performing the pronation than the supination. In the correlation between motion patterns and the subjective discomfort ratings, it was seen that the subjective discomfort rating was higher at performing the supination than the pronation. For the correlation between height adjustment and the subjective discomfort ratings, as the height of working table was lower, the subject discomfort rating was lower. Therefore there was no difference in the maximum muscular power according to the height changes of working table, but it was found that as the working table was higher, the user felt more comfortable.
Metastatic spread to cervical lymph nodes(LNs) is a major determinant of outcome in oral squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). To provide an useful method for the detection of lymph node micrometastases, we fulfilled the histopathological examination and reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction(RT-PCR) using the paraffin-embedded LNs of oral SCC patients. In this study, 78 LNs from 12 patients with primary oral SCC were analyzed. Metastases in the regional LNs were evaluated by RT-PCR for squamous cell carcinoma antigen(SCCA) and cytokeratin 5(CK5). Detectability of metastatic LNs by RT-PCR was compared with histopathological examination. Of 78 LNs, CK5 and SCCA mRNA were detected in 32(41.0%) and 8(10.3%), respectively. Histopathologically, 10(12.8%) of 78 LNs were positive. CK5 mRNA was detected in all 10 histopathologically positive LNs. In contrast, SCCA mRNA was detected in 5 of 10 histopathologically positive LNs. These findings suggest that genetic diagnosis by RT-PCR based on CK5 mRNA expression may be sensitive and clinically useful technique to detect the presence of metastatic carcinoma cells in regional lymph nodes of oral SCC.
A new light green seed coat Azuki bean cultivar, "Yeonkeum" was developed at the National Institute of Crop Science(NICS) and the Yeongnam Agricultural Research Institute (YARI) in 2005. Yeonkeum was selected from the cross between Jaja-sodun and "IT12099