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Ajou University
Recent research
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Effect of geometric protrusions and depressions on critical heat flux density of the heating surface
In the “Melted Reactor Retention and External Pressure Vessel Cooling (IVR-ERVC)” strategy for nuclear power plants, the Critical Heat Flux (CHF) serves as the critical limit for ensuring pressure vessel integrity. Traditional safety assessment procedures rely on an ideal flat su...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background/Objectives: Lateral compression type 1 (LC-1) injuries range from stable patterns to injuries whose instability is not evident on initial imaging. How published studies define the criteria for operative fixation has not been characterized. Methods: We systematically re...
- Health & Medicine
A grounded theory of compassionate care among clinical nurses
BackgroundCompassionate care is a core ethical obligation in nursing, yet the processes through which nurses enact and sustain it remain insufficiently theorized. Existing grounded theory models have not examined an East Asian care context in which nursing staff may assume both c...
- BiologyOpen access
Osteoporosis is a metabolic bone disorder characterized by excessive osteoclast-mediated bone resorption, which is exacerbated by inflammatory and oxidative stress-associated signaling pathways. Although anti-resorptive drugs are used to prevent excessive bone resorption, their l...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Severe mental illness (SMI) often limits participation in traditional therapy due to motivational and cognitive deficits. We examined short-term clinical changes during use of a personalized video-based mobile app ( MARO )—providing psychoeducation, emotion regulation, cognitive...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Re-evaluating versioned artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents is expensive, motivating small task panels that represent a full benchmark. We audit whether such representativeness predicts regression-screening value (a regression is a task the previous configuration solved an...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
The use of propylene (C3H6) in semiconductor manufacturing processes is increasing, and conventional 47 L cylinder supply systems are recognized as a primary source of leakage accidents associated with human error due to the need for frequent manual cylinder replacement. In this...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Purpose: To report the surgical outcomes of silicone band loop myopexy in patients with strabismus fixus associated with heavy eye syndrome (HES), highly myopic sagging eye syndrome (SES), and SES. Methods: This retrospective case series included 8 patients with strabismus fixus...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background Skeletal muscle mass and quality are critical determinants of outcomes in hip fracture patients. However, most prior studies have relied on 2D cross-sectional area measurements, which may not accurately reflect the complex 3D muscle distribution. This study aimed to qu...
- Engineering & Technology
Volatile eutectics to tailor crystallization for perovskite optoelectronics
Improvements to the radiative efficiency of halide perovskite thin films are necessary to approach fundamental solar cell performance limits. We tailored perovskite crystallization by leveraging the eutectic interaction between zinc bromide and methylammonium chloride additives....
- Engineering & Technology
Pressure-Gated Ionic Contact in Multilayered Nanomeshes Enables Strain-Insensitive Pressure Sensing
Abstract Soft robotic grippers require tactile interfaces that selectively detect contact pressure at the object–gripper interface without strain-induced artifacts from gripper deformation. Here, we report an ultrathin pressure-gated ionic-contact (PGIC) sensor for multidirection...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background: Traumatic liver injury in severe trauma and temporary abdominal closure can lead to postoperative intestinal edema and inflammation. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) may mitigate these effects by modulating inflammatory pathways. This study investigated the effects of...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background: Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) has been proposed for selected patients with low-risk papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). This study compared the effectiveness, safety, and procedural characteristics of RFA with those of surgery and other thermal ablation techniques. Met...
- Open access
Carbon dioxide‐derived polyols (CO 2 ‐polyols), synthesized via the copolymerization of CO 2 with epoxides, have emerged as a compelling sustainable alternative to petroleum‐based polyols for polyurethane (PU) manufacturing, offering the dual benefit of sequestering waste CO 2 an...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
This study examines the relationship between green transport infrastructure and indirect greenhouse gas emissions, focusing on emissions that arise not from vehicle operations themselves but from energy use, thermal demand, and waste generation associated with infrastructure main...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Low-bit quantization reduces the memory footprint of large language models (LLMs), but the accompanying loss of numerical precision perturbs internal representations and can degrade next-token prediction. We ask whether part of this lost representation fidelity can be reconstruct...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
The 2025 Korean Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation provide updated, evidence-based recommendations to optimize the transition from intrauterine to extrauterine life. While approximately 85% of term newborns initiate spontaneous breathing independently, timely interventi...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Pediatric cardiac arrest primarily arises from asphyxia in infants and trauma in older children, contrasting with adult etiologies dominated by cardiac events. This underscores prevention as the cornerstone of pediatric basic life support, through injury mitigation like child res...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
The 2025 Korean pediatric advanced life support guideline update introduces clinically important revisions emphasizing airway strategy, physiologic resuscitation targets, post-cardiac arrest hemodynamics, neuroprotection, and extracorporeal support. In out-of-hospital pediatric c...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Low-bit quantization substantially reduces the memory footprint of large language models(LLMs), but the associated loss of numerical precision can distort internal representations anddegrade downstream prediction quality. We investigate whether part of this lost representationqua...