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Feasibility Study of a Small Field Detector Based on a Microfluidic Calorimeter
The widespread proliferation of modern external beam radiotherapy devices employing small or non-standard fields has created a number of challenges for accurate reference dosimetry measurements based on ioniza...
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Impact of health care–associated community-onset cellulitis in Korea: a multicenter study
We conducted a multicenter study to determine the clinical and microbiological characteristics of health care–associated (HCA) cellulitis in Korea. We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of patients w...
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Open AccessAtg7-dependent canonical autophagy regulates the degradation of aquaporin 2 in prolonged hypokalemia
Prolonged hypokalemia induces a decrease of urinary concentrating ability via down-regulation of aquaporin 2 (AQP2); however, the precise mechanisms remain unknown. To investigate the role of autophagy in the ...
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Open AccessAutophagy attenuates tubulointerstital fibrosis through regulating transforming growth factor-β and NLRP3 inflammasome signaling pathway
Renal fibrosis is the final common pathway of various renal injuries and it leads to chronic kidney disease. Autophagy is a cellular process of degradation of damaged cytoplasmic components and regulates cell ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Study on the Recovery Method of PPG Signal for IPI-Based Key Exchange
Various studies have been conducted on secret key exchange using IPI (Inter Pulse Interval) extracted from a pulse wave. The IPI-based key exchange method uses a point where the body can measure IPI of similar...
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Development of a Physical Security Gateway for Connectivity to Smart Media in a Hyper-Connected Environment
Due to the rapid technological growth of smart media and the rapid spread of convenience through increased convenience, most individuals have smart media, and many person information is stored on a server conn...
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GEANT4-based Monte Carlo Simulation of Beam Quality Correction Factors for the Leksell Gamma Knife® Perfexion™
With the publication of TRS-483 in late 2017 the IAEA has established an international code of practice for reference dosimetry in small and non-standard fields based on a formalism first suggested by Alfonso et ...
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Improved 3D Printing Plastic Scintillator Fabrication
3D printing techniques can be widely used for various applications owing to their fast speed, convenience, and customized shape output. The 3D printing technique is applicable to plastic scintillator fabricati...
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Open AccessThe effects of external shocks on the Korean economy: CGE model-based analysis
The trend of low commodity prices looks to continue. Such a trend will affect small open economies that are heavily commodity import dependent, such as the economy of South Korea. Hence, it is of interest to s...
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Effect of cerebral embolus size on the timing of cardiac surgery for infective endocarditis in patients with neurological complications
The optimal timing of cardiac surgery remains unclear for patients with neurological complications of infective endocarditis (IE). However, neuroimaging findings may allow more refined clinical decision-making...
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Focusing Events in the Power-Law Distribution
A focusing event that persuades the public, the government, and the media to significantly alter their currently held norms and perceptions comes along rarely; however, when they do, they move mountains. There...
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An Implementation of Unidirectional Security Gateway to Guarantees Inter-VTS Exchange Service Security
The IVEF service developed by IALA provides a common framework for the exchange of vessel traffic information. But, it does not have a secure transmission function. When one VTS center is hacked, other VTS cen...
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Disaster Theory
To find a conclusive definition for contemporary purposes and uses, we look at many of the various definitions of disasters through cataclysmic events, historical records, public policies, laws, and organizati...
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Disaster Resilient Future in Korea
The Republic of Korea has not only monumentally progressed socially, economically, and politically since 1948, but has taken the arduous undertaking of reforming the way it reduces disaster risk, mitigates the...
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Overview and Historical Review
This book investigates and scrutinizes the lessons learned in the Republic of Korea during a five-decade swath of disasters – from 1948 to 2015 – and results in the disaster response policy change model in the...
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Disasters from 1948 to 2015 in Korea and Power-Law Distribution
The Korean peninsula is no stranger to disaster, experiencing natural disasters such as severe downpours, floods, and typhoons and human-caused disasters such as industrial accidents, building collapses, and i...
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Disaster Response Policy Change in the Wake of Major Disasters, Labeled Focusing Events
Responding to the will of the people or the will of the government after a focusing event is complex and fraught with perils; this is none more so than after a major disaster that has brought on the sudden dea...
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Organoid cystogenesis reveals a critical role of microenvironment in human polycystic kidney disease
Tissue mimics are of great interest in understanding diseases. Here, organoids were developed that resemble polycystic kidney disease cysts and it was demonstrated how material environment and adhesion can aff...
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Open AccessThe impact of preload on 3-dimensional deformation parameters: principal strain, twist and torsion
Strain analysis is feasible using three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography. This approach provides various parameters based on speckle tracking analysis from one full-volume image of the left ventricle; however...
