Universal Lattice

Grid was an auxiliary device used for depicting an object with perspective in the Renaissance era. However, in the 20th century’s modernist art, grid was objectified as the most basic form creating a figure rather than a device for representation. Besides, in the postmodernism, grid ‘reference absent and narrative impossible (Krauss, R. 1981)’ ensured autonomy of art freed from tradition and custom of the past. This project was planned with a view to creating a new type of dress independent of tradition and custom of dress by pleating to form a grid and repetition. Repetition performed by the grid must follow the actual and empirical surface of the work. As shown from Rosalind Krauss above, with an act of repetition or replication as the “original†occasion of its usage, the extended life of the grid in the unfolding progression of the work will be one of still more repetition (Krauss, R. 1981). This dress was designed to form a grid in the side by overlapping the radial front and the back created with sun burst pleated transparent polyester organza through a transparent dress form. Meanwhile, radial shapes on the front and the back emphasize a direction spreading to space and express sublimity and infinity

Pleated Bustle

Perspectives for ideal beauty have undergone changes according to the times but an hourglass silhouette still maximizes the beauty of a female body. New Look in 1950s expressed an aesthetic ideal of the end of the 19th century, and also a lot of designers including Christian Dior and Alexander McQueen created beautiful dresses with a fit and flare silhouette. I made an underskirt Mujigi worn to swell an outer skirt into a dress with a view to expressing the beauty of a female body only by many pleats and layers without a body-suppressing corset or a hoop. This project aimed to realize the principle of the symmetrical balance through knife pleats from polyester organza using one of design elements, line, in particular a rigid vertical line. However, a soft feeling of a curve was also expressed along with pleats naturally fallen to the front following a bodily curve. Besides, such a curve also took a bisymmetrical shape. In addition, unity, one of design principles was realized using less saturated red for the entire tone. After folding knife pleats from 44 inch wide polyester organza at an interval of 1 5/8inch, inverted pleats were made by connecting two pleats to the center with Frenchseam. At the front, inverted pleats set was overlapped fourfold and connected to an inverted shape of the Mujigi skirt, giving the breasts more volumes. The back is composed of two layers. The first layer ensures a form of the back through connecting inverted pleats made from two knife pleats to the front and the outermost layer was made to fall backward to give hips a full volume like a bustle. A shoulder strap was attached to support several layers and a sash was tied to the inside layer of the back in order to fix from the inside. An edge facing up was wrapped with a ribbon in order not to come loose

Infinite symmetry

According to art historians and philosophers, the psychological and aesthetic properties of symmetry are binding, order, law, formal rigidity, constraint, boredom, stillness, monotony, fixity, stasis and simplicity. Through my garment, I aimed to deliver those properties of symmetry with the structured and subdivided face of folding. The entire structure of the dress has complete bilateral symmetry. The shape of the sleeves was derived from the infinity symbol (∞). In order to give the feeling of the infinite distance, a vanishing point was created in the center of the round shape of the sleeves and also in between the legs. Besides, I intended to express the limitless sublime beauty to be expanded into the space by positioning shoulders opened and upward and making all edges of the skirt extended outward. Detailed observation reveals a small unit being repeated continually, which was inspired from the principle of the fractal. I used the hand-pleats technique to design a structure delicately where smaller units are repeated and expanded into a larger shape. After drawing an origami patten for folding, exquisite and beautiful pleat patterns were obtained through several times of practice. As for material, transparent and dull salmon colored polyester organza was used, emphasizing the sense of space through the attenuating distinction between dress and ground

Pronounced Illusion I

Similarities between \u2760s and 2000s and incredible modern technologies are stimulating our synesthesia and leading us to a new audiovisual experience. Based on the examination of the Psychedelic art influencing many arts including painting, music and films and its application to fashion, this research aims to provide an opportunity to look into the contemporary culture through the 60s, offering a new visual experience and expanding the range of fashion design. As for the research methodology, this study reviewed precedent research on the Psychedelic art. And this research developed a suit jacket which is integrated with a shirt and trousers using printing patterns and apparel construction methods to maximize a visual illusion effect, a representative characteristic of the Psychedelic art

Treatment Pulse Application for Magnetic Stimulation

Treatment and diagnosis can be made in difficult areas simply by changing the output pulse form of the magnetic stimulation device. However, there is a limitation in the range of treatments and diagnoses of a conventional sinusoidal stimulation treatment pulse because the intensity, width, and form of the pulse must be changed according to the lesion type. This paper reports a multidischarge method, where the stimulation coils were driven in sequence via multiple switching control. The limitation of the existing simple sinusoidal pulse form could be overcome by changing the intensity, width, and form of the pulse. In this study, a new sequential discharge method was proposed to freely alter the pulse width. The output characteristics of the stimulation treatment pulse were examined according to the trigger signal delay applied to the switch at each stage by applying a range of superposition pulses to the magnetic simulation device, which is widely used in industry and medicine

Gas-Filled Phospholipid Nanoparticles Conjugated with Gadolinium Play a Role as a Potential Theragnostics for MR-Guided HIFU Ablation

To develop a long-circulating theragnostics, meaning therapeutics and diagnostics for MR-guided HIFU ablation, we designed and prepared Gd-C5F12-phospholipid nanobubbles (PLNs) 30–100 nm in diameter. The biochemical and physical characterization of Gd-C5F12-PLNs were performed. Since Gd-C5F12-PLN-50 (Φ = 50 nm) and Gd-C5F12-PLN-100 (Φ = 100 nm) enhanced the hyperthermal effect of HIFU size- and concentration-dependently in a tissue-mimicking phantom, its circulation, distribution, tumor accumulation and tumor ablation were examined in tumor-bearing mice. The plasma-half life of Gd-C5F12-PLNs was longer than 1.5 hrs. Gd-C5F12-PLNs mainly accumulated in the liver and the spleen, suggesting that they are slowly secreted through the hepatobiliary pathway. Monitored by the T1 signal intensity of MR, Gd-C5F12-PLNs accumulated in tumor tissues for 8 hours in mice. HIFU with Gd-C5F12-PLN-100 showed the increased tumor ablation area as compared with HIFU alone. The results suggest that Gd-C5F12-PLNs exhibit a potential theragnostics for MR-guided HIFU ablation

The projective cover of tableau-cyclic indecomposable Hn(0)H_n(0)-modules

Let $\alpha$ be a composition of $n$ and $\sigma$ a permutation in $\mathfrak{S}_{\ell(\alpha)}$. This paper concerns the projective covers of $H_n(0)$-modules $\mathcal{V}_\alpha$, $X_\alpha$ and $\mathbf{S}^\sigma_{\alpha}$, which categorify the dual immaculate quasisymmetric function, the extended Schur function, and the quasisymmetric Schur function when $\sigma$ is the identity, respectively. First, we show that the projective cover of $\mathcal{V}_\alpha$ is the projective indecomposable module $\mathbf{P}_\alpha$ due to Norton, and $X_\alpha$ and the $\phi$-twist of the canonical submodule $\mathbf{S}^{\sigma}_{\beta,C}$ of $\mathbf{S}^\sigma_{\beta}$ for $(\beta,\sigma)$'s satisfying suitable conditions appear as $H_n(0)$-homomorphic images of $\mathcal{V}_\alpha$. Second, we introduce a combinatorial model for the $\phi$-twist of $\mathbf{S}^\sigma_{\alpha}$ and derive a series of surjections starting from $\mathbf{P}_\alpha$ to the $\phi$-twist of $\mathbf{S}^{\mathrm{id}}_{\alpha,C}$. Finally, we construct the projective cover of every indecomposable direct summand $\mathbf{S}^\sigma_{\alpha, E}$ of $\mathbf{S}^\sigma_{\alpha}$. As a byproduct, we give a characterization of triples $(\sigma, \alpha, E)$ such that the projective cover of $\mathbf{S}^\sigma_{\alpha, E}$ is indecomposable.Comment: 41 page