• Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.226-233
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• 2008

Objectives: The purpose was to test the effect of an empowerment health management program on self-esteem and the quality of life for the elderly who live in cities. Methods: Forty-three elders were randomly assigned to either the experimental group that received the intervention to participate in one year's empowerment practice (one home visiting per week and phone counselling) (n=21) or to the control group that got home visiting only (n=22). The data was analyzed using ANCOVA. Results: There was no significant difference in the self-esteem score between the two groups after the intervention. But the quality of life score of the experimental group was significantly different from that of the control group after the intervention. Conclusions: The health management intervention using empowerment for the elderly living alone with chronic diseases in urban areas had positive effects on the quality of life. Therefore this intervention can be broadly applied to other elders living alone with chronic diseases in urban areas.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Fundamentals of Nursing
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.6-14
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• 2005

Purpose: This study was done to investigate the need to develop health promotion programs for adult women and to compare lifestyle, health status and quality of life in adult women in urban and rural areas. Method: The participants were women over 20 years old, 451 living in 3 cities and 436 living in 1 rural areas. Data collection was conducted from April 6 to August 30, 2004. Results: For lifestyle, the percentage of women having regular medical examinations, cholesterol tests, regular exercise, and high alcohol intake were significantly higher for urban women compared to the rural women. For health status, the percentage of women with health problems such as arthritic pain, urinary incontinence, pregnancy and postpartum complications, and the experience of violence were significantly higher for rural women compared to urban women. Rural women had significantly lower scores for health perception compared to urban women. For quality of life, rural women had significantly higher scores for quality of life, especially for the psychological wellbeing and stability subscales. Conclusion: The above findings indicate that it is necessary to develope a health promotion program which reinforces healthy lifestyle and health status for rural women, and quality of life, for urban women.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.11-17
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• 2007

It was announced that 'making a better wellbeing city program' is a new core quality of life policy of Roh Mu-Hyun government. The policy is comprehended as a sign of regional policy changeover, that give empathize to human ware oriented governance from hard ware oriented physical elements input policies. To be effective, It is important to introduce a institutionalization of dynamic social relations in regional community such as participations of civil society. In the case study of Jinju city, a medium scale city located in southern part of Korean peninsular, Invitation of the innovation city, initiated by the alliance of city government and growth coalition, was making progress. Through alliance of labor unions and citizen associations, the public management of public bus companies were succeeded. But the restoration of historical places were suffered a setback by conflicts of interests with development profits. In these contexts, it is insisted that the core of 'making a better welling being city program is introducing of human ware oriented regional policies, such as institutionalization of citizen associations participation.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.101-107
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• 2012

Urban area is being continuously grown traffic volume due to diverse economic activities. Especially, the traffic noise, which occurs on the road of passing by residential district, is dropping quality of life as negative element of obstructing sleep at night. This study analyzed relationship between the officially notified land price and the traffic noise in residential district by using the estimating equation of traffic noise and GIS. As a result, the officially notified land price on a parcel of residential district along the road was indicated to be higher than a parcel where is located in other place. Even traffic noise was indicated to be higher. Accordingly, a plan is judged to be necessarily arranged that can be made appraisal of the officially notified land price, which is reflected the convenience of life and the quality of life at the same time in consideration even of traffic noise together as element of appraisal given evaluating the officially notified land price in residential district where is located in the downtown.

• Journal of muscle and joint health
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.362-372
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• 2012

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the predictive factors on quality of life (QOL) in the urban residents by age. Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive design was used. A total of 592 urban residents, ages of 20 to 59, completed a self-reported questionnaire including WHO QOL Scale-Brief (WHOQOL-BREF), Health Promoting Life Style Profile II (HPLP), Personal Competence of Health Care Scale (PCHC), and self-efficacy scale. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, t-tests, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and multiple regressions by SPSS 18.0. Results: The mean scores were 53.71 in QOL, and subscales were 14.41 in physical health, 13.31 in psychological, 13.87 in social relationship, and 12.12 in environment. There were significant differences by age groups, gender, education, family income, job, and present illness in QOL. QOL were significantly associated with HPLP, PCHC, and self-efficacy. The results of multiple regression indicated that HPLP, PCHC, marital state, and self-efficacy in the 20s, HPLP, self-efficacy, age, marital state, religion, and PCHC in the 30s, HPLP, PCHC, self-efficacy, and family income in the 40s, and HPLP, PCHC, self-efficacy, and gender in the 50s were statistically significant in predicting QOL. Conclusion: It is important to develop distinct programs by age for improving of quality of life for adults.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.1292-1295
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• 2012

인구 과밀화 및 급격한 도시 팽창은 지상공간에서 거주하는 인간 삶의 질을 위협하고 있다. 따라서 지상공간의 개발을 억제하여 환경을 보호하고 도시 공간 이용의 효율성을 최대화하기 위해 지하 공간을 개발하고자 하는 움직임이 활발하다. 자연환경으로부터 격리된 구조인 지하공간은 지상공간에 비해 실내 공기 질을 쾌적한 상태로 유지하기 어려운 밀폐된 환경이므로 오랜 시간동안 상주하는 거주자 및 한시적 이용자들의 건강에 영향을 미치는 온도, 습도, $CO_2$, 먼지 등의 환경을 제어하기 위한 기술 개발이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 지하공간의 쾌적도 향상을 위해 온 습도 및 $CO_2$, 먼지센서를 이용한 통합 센서를 제작하여 현재 지하공간의 환경정보를 실시간 모니터링하고 실내공간의 쾌적 지표를 기반으로 환풍기, 송풍기 등의 디바이스를 제어하기 위한 USN 기반의 환경제어시스템을 구현한다. 제안한 시스템을 통해 지하공간의 환경을 개선할 뿐만 아니라 고가의 계측 장비로 인한 비용 절감 및 이동성과 확장성 등의 부가적인 효과를 기대한다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Disaster and Security
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.15-22
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• 2018

Smart City is a sustainable city that provides a variety of city services to cities that are built with a mix of construction, information and communication technologies, etc. to improve the competitiveness and quality of life of the city. In this paper, we analyze trends of domestic and foreign smart cities and the smart city organization of local governments, and describe the direction of local government's smart city organization system to realize sustainable smart city.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.52-61
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• 2007

The u-City is next generation IT-City which is to enhance the quality of life and convenience of life base on merger up-to-date communication infrastructure with u-IT services. To realize u-City, intelligent building is built for citizens to make a space of comfortable life. The intelligent building is possible to be constructed by communication infrastructure for various U-services. This paper mentions the ranges of communication infrastructure and shows how to construct it each range through regulation, law and technical. Lastly, the topics are suggested to build successfully u-City constructions in Korea.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.179-184
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• 2012

The ultimate purpose of cities is 'the enhancement of quality of life in city'. In order to achieve this, it is required to optimize the Ontology-driven ubiquitous services included in the U-City and UIS of regions and communities and so on. Almost U-Service's contents are related to spatial or temporal extent. So it is important to design Spatio-temporal event schema for efficient access to U-City. There is a rapid change into an urban society in the shape of Ontology-driven ubiquitous services in which a content on a region or an incident is newly reconstructed through various ideas with the influence of the ubiquitous environment.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.1580-1584
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• 2008

친수환경으로서의 수변공간의 활용은 위락공간 및 자연환경으로서 도시민의 삶의 질 향상에 매우 큰 의미를 지닌다. 서울시민의 대표적인 친수환경 공간인 한강시민공원은 조성 이후 이용자에게 위락 및 자연공간으로서 그 역할을 다하여 왔으나 최근에 급증하고 있는 이상기상현상과 국지적 집중호우의 증가에 따라 도시지역 및 상류지역의 홍수 발생시에는 한강시민공원의 폐쇄와 함께 이용자의 접근을 사전통제하거나 신속하게 대피시켜 안전을 도모하여야 한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 한강시민공원이 침수되는 상황을 모의분석하기 위해 필요한 각종 기본 자료와 매개변수에 대한 고찰을 실시하였고, 팔당댐 방류량에 따른 1차원 및 2차원 수치모형을 통한 한강시민공원의 홍수위 영향을 분석하였다. 본 연구에서 분석한 결과는 홍수 발생시 한강시민공원의 합리적인 이용 및 관리와 이용자의 안전 및 비상대처계획 등의 수립에 있어서 중요한 자료로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.