Background: Technological developments have led to the creation of a mechanical device capable of providing a representative massage as a passive treatment. The use of mechanical massage offers the distinct advantage of being user-friendly and available for use at any given time. Objectives: To investigated present the outcomes of utilizing a massage bed on the range of motion (ROM) and pressure pain threshold (PPT) in patients diagnosed with chronic low back pain. Design: ABA design of a single case study. Methods: To measure the ROM of the subject's trunk flexion, extension, lateral flexion, and rotation, a tape measure and goniometer were utilized. Furthermore, PPT was measured using an electronic pressure pain meter. Baseline A and Baseline A’ periods were conducted for 5 consecutive days without intervention. Following the baseline periods, a massage bed intervention was administered for 1 hour daily for a total of 10 days during the Intervention B period. Daily assessments were performed, and the Intervention B period was conducted after the intervention. Results: The ROM effect was confirmed in trunk lateral flexion and rotation, while the PPT was effective in both L1, right L2, left L4, and left L5. Conclusion: The results of this study confirmed that the use of a massage bed improved the ROM and PPT in patients suffering from chronic back pain. Further randomized controlled trials involving a larger sample size are necessary to validate these findings.

The surface of carbon films deposited with inverted plasma fireballs is analysed in this paper. Measurements were conducted with Raman spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy and nanoindentation. The latter was used to obtain Young’s modulus as well as Martens and Vickers hardness. The roughness of the film was measured by atomic force microscopy and its thickness was measured. It was shown with Raman spectroscopy that the films are homogeneous in terms of atomic composition and layer thickness over an area of about 125 × 125 mm. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that inverted plasma fireballs are a viable tool for obtaining homogeneous, large area carbon films with rapid growth and very little energy consumption. The obtained films show very low roughness.

목적: 본 논문의 목적은 연구 문헌 중 요통 환자에게 보행운동을 적용한 무작위 대조군 실험설계를 메타 분석을 하여 통증과 장애지수에 대한 효과를 알아보고자 하였다. 방법: 본 논문은 다음 데이터베이스에서 검색하였다: Google scholar, PubMed, Sciencedirect, KISS, RISS, NDSL. 지난 10년간 영어나 한국어로 된 논문 중, 요통이 있는 환자들이 보행운동을 하였을 때, 통증과 장애지 수를 연구한 논문들을 검색하였다. 이 논문에는 (1) 요통이 있는 환자, (2) 중재에는 보행운동이 포함되며, (3) 평가 지표에는 통증과 장애지수가 포함되었다. 최종 결과로 35개의 논문을 확인하였고, 그중 15개의 논문이 충족되었다. 결과: 본 논문은 요통 환자를 대상으로 보행운동을 중재로 주었을 경우의 논문 15편을 최종적으로 선정하 였고 분석하였다. 통증과 장애지수와 관련되어 각각 12개의 논문을 분석하였다. 통증과 관련된 12개의 논문의 효과 크기는 중간의 효과 크기나 나타났고, 장애지수와 관련된 12개의 논문의 작은 효과 크기가 있었다. 결론: 보행운동은 요통 환자들의 통증을 감소시키고 장애지수를 줄이는데 유의미한 효과가 있다. 따라서 보 행운동은 요통을 지닌 사람들에게 긍정적인 영향을 미칠 것으로 사료된다.

The second generation of stars in the globular clusters (GCs) of the Milky Way (MW) exhibit unusually high N, Na, or Al, compared to typical Galactic halo stars at similar metallicities. The halo field stars enhanced with such elements are believed to have originated in disrupted GCs or escaped from existing GCs. We identify such stars in the metallicity range −3.0 < [Fe/H] < 0.0 from a sample of ∼36,800 giant stars observed in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope survey, and present their dynamical properties. The N-rich population (NRP) and N-normal population (NNP) among our giant sample do not exhibit similarities in either in their metallicity distribution function (MDF) or dynamical properties. We find that, even though the MDF of the NRP looks similar to that of the MW’s GCs in the range of [Fe/H] < −1.0, our analysis of the dynamical properties does not indicate similarities between them in the same metallicity range, implying that the escaped members from existing GCs may account for a small fraction of our N-rich stars, or the orbits of the present GCs have been altered by the dynamical friction of the MW. We also find a significant increase in the fraction of N-rich stars in the halo field in the very metal-poor (VMP; [Fe/H] < −2.0) regime, comprising up to ∼20% of the fraction of the N-rich stars below [Fe/H] = −2.5, hinting that partially or fully destroyed VMP GCs may have in some degree contributed to the Galactic halo. A more detailed dynamical analysis of the NRP reveals that our sample of N-rich stars do not share a single common origin. Although a substantial fraction of the N-rich stars seem to originate from the GCs formed in situ, more than 60% of them are not associated with those of typical Galactic populations, but probably have extragalactic origins associated with Gaia Sausage/Enceladus, Sequoia, and Sagittarius dwarf galaxies, as well as with presently unrecognized progenitors.

Background: Clinical practice guidelines for patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP) recommend therapeutic exercise, and recently, interventions for pain neuroscience education (PNE) are also recommended. Objectives: To investigate the effects of aquatic exercise combined with PNE on pain, disability, and fear-avoidance beliefs in patients with CLBP. Design: Randomized control trial. Methods: The 27 participants recruited in this study were randomly allocated as pain neuroscience education combined with aquatic exercise group (PAEG, n=14) and aquatic exercise group (AEG, n=13). Both groups performed aquatic exercise for 50 minutes, 3 times a week for 6 weeks, and only PAEG received additional PNE. Numeric pain rating scale (NPRS), modified oswestry disability questionnaire (MODQ), and fear-avoidance beliefs questionnaire (FABQ) were used as evaluation methods before and after intervention. Results: Statistically significant decrease in NPRS, MODQ and FABQ (physical activity and work score) before and after intervention in PAEG. However, there were statistically significant changes in NPRS, MODQ and FABQ (physical activity score) before and after intervention in AEG. PAEG and AEG before and after intervention indicated statistically significant differences in MODQ and FABQ (work score). Conclusion: Aquatic exercise combined with PNE improved disability (MODQ) and fear-avoidance beliefs (FABQ) has been shown to have additional benefits. Therefore, combining PNE as a clinical intervention for CLBP patients will enhance the therapeutic effect.

Background: Pain Neuroscience Education (PNE) is an educational approach that deals with the physiology of the nervous system as well as the pain system and refers to educating patients with chronic musculoskeletal disorders such as chronic back pain. Objectives: This study examined the effects of pain neuroscience education on patients with low back pain. Design: Systematic review. Methods: Electronic bibliographic databases of a regional information sharing system (RISS) and PubMed were searched to identify randomized controlled studies. In the final outcome, 43 publications were identified, and 13 studies met the inclusion criteria. Results: There were a total of 13 pain-related studies, including 11 studies using NPRS (VAS) and 2 studies using other pain measurement instruments. In NPRS, the effect size was 0.683, which had a medium effect size. In Roland morris disability questionnaire (RMDQ), the effect size was 0.544, which had a medium effect size. In Oswestry disability index (ODI), the effect size was 0.951, indicating a large effect size, but the confidence interval could not be obtained because there was only one study. Conclusion: Pain neuroscience education has positive effects on low back pain and disability index in related patients.

Benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes are commonly known as (BTEX) and include volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in ambient air. Exposure to some BTEX has been associated with health risks. This study aimed to reduce BTEX on the environment and human health dramatically. This research targeted decreasing the BTEX in an air environment by producing high surface area activated carbon (KA-AC) under optimized synthesis conditions from Ricinus communis as lignocellulosic waste using ZnCl2 solution, respectively. The influence of several activation parameters was investigated on the surface area, such as impregnation ratio, carbonization time, and carbonization temperature. The KA5-AC prepared under optimized conditions showed BET surface area and total pore volume of 1225 m2/ g, and 0.72 cm3/ g, respectively. The optimized synthesis conditions were as follows: 0.1, 0.5, 1, 2, and 5 M impregnation ratio, 450–950 °C carbonization temperature, and 100 min carbonization time. The characteristics of the optimized KA-AC were analyzed using nitrogen adsorption–desorption isotherm, scanning electron microscopy, and pore structural analysis. The results confirmed that the VOCs adsorption on KA-AC followed a monolayer adsorption isotherm over a homogeneous adsorbent surface. It showed the removal efficiency of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and m, p-xylene (R2 = from 0.991 to 0.997). Moreover, the KA-AC exhibited good performance without considerable loss of efficacy throughout the experiments. Accordingly, it is concluded that developing low-cost activated carbon to use BTEX vapor adsorption research could be practical and developments to overcome for utilization in air pollution control.

To understand the characteristics of low-level clouds (CLs), environmental variables are composited on each CL using individual surface observations and six-hourly upper-air meteorologies around the globe. Individual CLs has its own distinct environmental conditions. Over the eastern subtropical and western North Pacific Ocean in JJA, stratocumulus (CL5) has a colder sea surface temperature (SST), stronger and lower inversion, and more low-level cloud amount (LCA) than the climatology whereas cumulus (CL12) has the opposite characteristics. Over the eastern subtropical Pacific, CL5 and CL12 are influenced by cold and warm advection within the PBL, respectively but have similar cold advection over the western North Pacific. This indicates that the fundamental physical process distinguishing CL5 and CL12 is not the horizontal temperature advection but the interaction with the underlying sea surface, i.e., the deepening-decoupling of PBL and the positive feedback between shortwave radiation and SST. Over the western North Pacific during JJA, skyobscuring fog (CL11), no low-level cloud (CL0), and fair weather stratus (CL6) are associated with anomalous warm advection, surface-based inversion, mean upward flow, and moist mid-troposphere with the strongest anomalies for CL11 followed by CL0. Over the western North Pacific during DJF, bad weather stratus (CL7) occurs in the warm front of the extratropical cyclone with anomalous upward flow while cumulonimbus (CL39) occurs on the rear side of the cold front with anomalous downward flow. Over the tropical oceans, CL7 has strong positive (negative) anomalies of temperature in the upper troposphere (PBL), relative humidity, and surface wind speed in association with the mesoscale convective system while CL12 has the opposite anomalies and CL39 is in between.

전산유체역학을 사용하는 일반적인 선박의 저항성능 평가는 많은 시간과 비용이 필요하며, 이를 줄이기 위한 다양한 방법이 연구되고 있다. 선박의 주요 치수나 단면을 이용하는 기존의 방법들은 선형에 크게 좌우되는 저항성능을 추정하는데 한계가 있다. 본 논 문에서는 선형 격자의 기하학적 정보를 입력으로 선체 표면의 저항성능을 빠르게 추정할 수 있는 심층신경망 모델을 제안한다. Perceiver IO 기반의 제안하는 심층신경망 모델은 시간 단계별로 계산이 필요한 전산유체역학 기법과 달리 바로 저항성능 추정이 가능하며, 저속비 대선의 일종인 50K 탱커 선박을 대상으로 한 데이터집합에서 평균 1% 미만의 오차로 저항성능을 추정하는 결과를 보인다.

The characteristics of pollutant emission for non-premixed flames with LCG 8000 and LCG 6000 represented as low calorific gases were investigated by numerical simulation. Commercial software (ANSYS 16.2 - FLUENT) is used to predict 2-D pollutant emission with GRI 3.0 detailed reaction mechanism. In addition, the addition of hydrogen to LCG 6000 was also considered. As result, the flame length and temperature of LHVGs were decreased with decreasing calorific value at the same condition. In addition, NO concentration was decreased as temperature decreased. However, CO concentration for LCG 8000 predicted to be slightly higher than that for methane due to the high propane concentration. In the case of LCG 6000 with added hydrogen, the flame length was the shortest and NO concentration was the highest due to the highest flame temperature, but CO concentration decreased rapidly due to the addition of the carbon-free fuel.

본 연구는 저염분 상태에서 수온 및 사육밀도와 같은 환경요인이 흰다리새우(Litopenaeus vannamei)의 성장에 미치는 영향을 조사하기 위하여 수행하였다. 연구 결과, 흰다리새우는 저 염분 상태에서 전반적으로 수온이 높을수록 생존율이 높게 나타났고, 사육밀도가 낮을수록 생 존율이 높아졌다. 사료효율에 관한 연구에서는 수온이 높을수록 증체량(WG)이 증가하였고, 사 육밀도가 증가할수록 증체량은 감소하였다. 수온이 높을수록(수온 31℃) 성장 속도가 빨랐다. 또한 사육밀도에 따른 성장도의 평가에서도 사육밀도가 낮은 상태에서 성장 속도가 빨라지는 것을 확인하였다. 본 연구 결과를 흰다리새우의 최적 성장을 위한 적정 사육밀도 및 사육수온 의 결정에 유용하게 적용되리라 사료된다.

목적 : 본 연구의 목적은 저상버스 이용현황을 파악하고, PEO 모델기반 해석 과정을 통해 개인적, 작업적, 그리고 환경적인 부분의 잠재적 문제 요인을 파악해보려고 한다. 연구방법 : 본 연구는 지체장애 및 뇌병변 장애를 경험하고 있는 48명의 대상자를 중심으로 설문조사를 실시하였 고, 장애인이 저상버스를 이용하는데 어려운 요인들을 PEO모델로 분류하여 해석하였다. 결과 : 본 연구결과, 작업과 환경요소에서는 운전자의 지원부족 및 승, 하차 과정의 작업수행문제가, 사람과 환경 요소에서는 이용자의 사회적 통합시도의 부족, 낮은 보조기기 사용률과 사회적 인식수준의 문제가, 사람과 작업 요소에서는 이용자의 건강상태 및 장애에 대한 부정적 인식과 성공적인 작업수행의 경험 부족이 잠재적인 문제 요소로 확인되었다. 결론 : 이동권 보장을 위한 서비스 개선을 위한 노력은 매우 중요할 것이며, 향후, 다각적인 분석을 통한 저상버 스 이용자의 서비스 개선을 위한 노력이 필요할 것이다.

대표적인 비구조요소인 배관의 지진에 의한 손상은 관성력과 두 지지점 사이의 위상차에 의해 작용하는 반복하중 그 리고 허용변형량을 초과하는 상대변위 등에 의해 발생할 수 있다. 특히 주요 손상모드는 큰 반복하중에 의한 저주기피로임이 많은 실험적 연구를 통하여 알려졌다. 따라서 과도한 지진변위에 의한 배관의 손상을 방지하기 위하여 지진상대변위가 발생할 수 있는 위치에 지진분리이음 또는 지진분리장치의 적용이 요구된다. 신축관이음 중 하나인 벨로우즈는 지진분리이음으로 적용 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 3ply 금속 벨로우즈 신축관이음의 온도차에 의한 내진성능의 변화를 분석하기 위한 실험적 연구를 수행하였다. 상온환경에서 점진증폭 반복하중재하실험을 수행하였으며, -20°C의 저온조건에서 동일한 실험을 수행하고 그 결과 를 비교하였다. 실험 결과로부터, -20°C의 저온환경에서 금속벨로우즈의 변위성능은 약 10% 저하될 수 있음을 확인하였다.

흰점박이꽃무지(Protaetia brevitarsis seulensis) 유충을 사육상자(가로 543 × 세로 363 × 높이 188 mm) 안에서 뽕나무 발효톱밥 기반 사료 를 이용하여 집단으로 사육할 때(25°C, 16:8 L:D), 투입될 수 있는 갓 부화한 유충의 밀도를 검토하였다. 100-175마리 투입구는 90일후 생존율 이 80% 이상으로 사육밀도 사이에 차이가 없었다. 그러나 200마리 밀도에서는 생존율이 약 10% 이상 감소하였다. 100-150마리 밀도에서 유충 평균 무게는 처리 밀도 사이에 유의한 차이가 없었으나, 175마리와 200마리 밀도에서는 100마리 밀도에 비해 유충 무게가 유의하게 낮았다. 사 육밀도가 낮을수록 유충 무게가 더 빨리 증가하였다. 이상의 결과를 종합하여 100-150마리가 처음 투입밀도로 적절하다고 판단하였다. 두 번째 실험으로, 종령 유충을 저온에 보관하는 조건을 검토하였다. 종령 유충을 4개의 무게 집단(1.8-2.0, 2.0-2.3, 2.3-2.5, 2.5 g 이상)으로 구분하여 4, 8, 10°C에 보관하였을 때, 4°C에서는 70일 보관된 유충들은 무게에 관계없이 모두 사망하였다. 그러나 8°C에서는 70일 보관집단에서 약 80%의 유충이 생존하였다. 보관하는 유충의 무게가 무거울수록 생존율이 높았다. 4°C 보관에서는 무게가 2.3 g 이상인 유충을 50일까지 보관한 후 우화 한 성충들만 적은 수의 산란을 하였다. 8°C와 10°C 처리에서는 유충 무게에 관계 없이 모두 산란을 하였다. 이상의 결과로부터 무게가 2.3 g 이상 인 흰점박이꽃무지 종령 유충을 8°C에서 30-50일 범위에서 저장할 수 있다고 판단하였다.