• Childhood Kidney Diseases
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.150-156
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• 2008

Purpose : Many results have reported a correlation between the spot urine protein/creatinine ratio(P/C ratio) and 24-hour urinary protein(24UP) amount. This study was designed to evaluated correlation between 24UP amounts and P/C ratio in children and to find the factors that affect this correlation. Methods : 210 patients who visited the Department of Pediatrics in Busan Paik Hospital from september 2003 to december 2007 were included in this study. All the patients were divided into I, II, III/A, B, C group[I:24UP(mg/$m^2$/day)]<100, II: 100$\leq$24UP<1,000, III: 24UP$\geq$1,000, A: Cr excretion(mg/kg)<15, B: 15$\leq$Cr excretion<25, C: Cr excretion$\geq$25)]. Pearson correlation analysis was performed between 24UP and P/C ratio to evaluate the relationship. We defined fractional difference between 24UP and P/C ratio, and then performed multiple regression analysis. Results : There was a strong positive linear correlation between 24UP and P/C ratio in all patients, and the correlation was also good in each group. The factors affecting accurate quantitation of proteinuria using spot urine P/C ratio was creatinine excretion. Conclusion : Spot urine P/C ratio is a useful test to predict proteinuria roughly. Therefore, we expect that urine P/C ratio can be used as parameter instead of 24UP, if we set cutoff value of P/C ratio considered to creatinine excretion according to age and sex in large pediatric population.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.477-486
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• 1998

In this paper, we implemented the urine analysis system capable of measuring a qualitative and semi-quantitative and assay using strip. The analysis algorithm of urine analysis was adopted a fuzzy logic-based classifiers that was robust to external error factors such as temperature and electric power noises. The spectroscopic properties of 9 pads In a strip were studied to developing the urine analysis system was designed for robustnesss and stability. The urine analysis system was consisted of hardware and software. The hardware of the urine analysis system was based on one-chip microprocessor, and Its peripherals which composed of optic modulo, tray control, preamplifier, communication with PC, thermal printer and operating status indicator. The software of the urine analysis system was composed of system program and classification program. The system program did duty fort system control, data acquisition and data analysis. The classification program was composed of fuzzy inference engine and membership function generator. The membership function generator made triangular membership functions by statical method for quality control. Resulted data was transferred through serial cable to PC. The transferred data was arranged and saved be data acquisition program coded by C+ + language. The precision of urine analysis system and the stability of fuzzy classifier were evaluated by testing the standard urine samples. Experimental results showed a good stability states and a exact classification.

• Childhood Kidney Diseases
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.127-131
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• 2013

Urinomas can occur after renal trauma or perforation of the collecting system during an endosurgical procedure. However, spontaneous urinomas are very rare. Here we report a case of a spontaneous perinephric urinoma following the removal of a Foley catheter in an 18-year-old girl with acute kidney injury caused by septic shock. The patient had been treated for septic shock, acute kidney injury, and acute respiratory distress syndrome, and had a Foley catheter in place for seven days. After Foley catheter removal, the patient complained of consistent voiding difficulty. An abdominal computed tomography scan showed a large amount of left perinephric fluid, and the aspirated fluid included urothelial cells, confirming the diagnosis of a urinoma. The urinoma was successfully treated by insertion of a double-J stent into the left ureter. This report discusses the available literature on urinomas, and their clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.1319-1325
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• 2006

Urine analysis is basic test in clinical medicine using visual examination by expert nurse. Recently, this test is measured by automatic urine analysis system. But, this system has different results by each instrument. So, a new classification algorithm is required for accurate classify and urine color collection. In this paper, a intelligent color classifier of urine analysis system was designed using neural network algorithm. The input parameters are three stimulus(RGB) after preprocessing using normalization. The fuzzy inference and neural network ware constructed for classify class according to 9 urine test items and $3{\sim}7$ classes. The experiment material to be used a standard sample of medicine. The possibility to adapt classifier designed for urine analysis system was verified as classifying measured standard samples and observing classified result. Of many test items, experimental results showed a satisfactory agreement with test results of reference system.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.219-230
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• 2009

The purpose of this research was to investigate the success factors of the foodservice franchise business. This study examined relevant literatures, set up some hypotheses to solve main questionable consideration and made a corresponding empirical analysis. For the empirical analysis, a questionnaire survey was applied to ttotal 120 franchisers who have operated franchise business around Seoul. The result from the multiple regression model shows that the success of the franchise business is influenced by the operating system, the brand system, the educational system, and the franchisees' activities. As mentioned in the literature review and empirical analysis, it is found that the above mentioned four systems are equally affected by franchisers' success factors. The limits of this study include the fact that it has selected and researched around Seoul and four factors. Future research should be done from the perspective of such factors as culture, economy, region, menu, service and so on.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.73-84
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• 2010

The urban representative landscapes play a leading role in establishing city identity via a symbol of the city and a mediator to make the city all the more worthy of being peculiarized. The study aims at evaluating the perceptive factors in the representative landscapes around the metropolitan Seoul derived from the preliminary researches through questionnaire surveying, in an attempt to analyze their characteristics by type and reason, while further proposing progressive management plans. This study was mostly focused on the visibility factor, activity factor, aesthetic factor and cultural factor influencing on the cognition of urban representative landscapes. The important findings discovered in this research are as follows. First, it was found that people were being interested more on the cultural factors and the activity factors these days rather than visibility factors in the cognition of urban representative landscapes. Second, it was found that the priority rank of urban representative landscapes revealed in this study based on the total account of more diverse perceptive factors, showed so much alteration compared to the previous researches focused mostly upon the visual image.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Dyers and Finishers Conference
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• 2012.03a
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• pp.72-72
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 친환경 리싸이클 섬유산업의 활성화를 위해 대학생들의 리싸이클 폴리에스터 섬유에 대한 인식도를 분석해 보고자 하였다. 측정 문항은 섬유전문가 3인의 검토를 거쳐 타당성을 확보하였으며, 조사는 질문지법으로 2011년 9월 1일부터 9월 10일까지 대전 거주 대학생을 대상으로 진행하였으며, 회수된 설문지 196부를 자료 분석에 이용하였고, SPSS 19 통계 패키지를 이용하여 자료를 통계분석하였다. 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 친환경적 의생활 실태 조사를 실시한 결과, 리싸이클 PET섬유에 대해 들어본 적이 있는 사람은 조사대상자의 27.6%로 나타났고, 그 정보원으로는 인터넷을 가장 많이 이용하는 것으로 나타났다. 2. 섬유소재별 친환경성에 대한 인식도를 조사한 결과, 대학생들은 리싸이클 PET섬유가 천연섬유보다 덜 친환경적이나, 인조섬유보다는 더 친환경적이라고 인식하는 것으로 나타났다. 3. 리싸이클 PET섬유에 대한 인식도를 요인분석한 결과, <친환경성 요인>, <촉감 요인>, <내구성 요인>, <기능성 요인>, <공정 요인>, <글로벌 경쟁력 요인>및 <부가가치성 요인> 등 7개의 요인이 도출되었는데 이는 대학생들은 리싸이클 PET섬유에 대해 친환경성, 촉감, 내구성, 기능성, 공정, 글로벌경쟁력, 부가가치성순으로 중요하게 인식하는 것으로 해석된다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.786-796
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to search for approaches towards the improved the job performance of the community child center workers, by analyzing relations between their job performance and its concerned variables. For that purpose, the investigator searched the characteristics of variables and relations among the variables and empirically analyzed the factors affecting the job performance. As a result, there were significant differences in job performance according to the empowerment, network and job characteristics. The results of hierarchical regression analysis reveal that changes to each of the models were checked by introducing a new group of variables in each stage. Then the influences of the variables including the empowerment, network and job characteristics on job performance were tested through the influence and significance of the variables and the changing explanatory power of the entire models.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.12
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• pp.1058-1068
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to analyze the role of physical education to solve school violence. In order to do this, we took a sample size of 590 middle school students from city D by using the simple random sampling, allowed them to answer open questions recognizing the relationship between physical education and school violence, and then conducted an inductive category analysis of the data. As a result, it was found that there are both positive and negative reponses towards physical education and school violence. First, the positive responses were classified into 8 subcategories and 4 major categories(the social factors, psychological factors, physical factors, and environmental factors). On the contrary, the negative responses were classified into 6 subcategories and 4 major categories(personal experience, structural elements, cognitive factors, and environmental factors).

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.9
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• pp.160-169
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• 2016

Self-Compassion(SCS) Scale is developed by Neff(2003a) and translated by Kim, Lee, Cho, Chae, Lee(2008). But, there is the limitation with validation SCS and Korean version Self-Compassion(K-SCS) performed in college students and the incoherence for the results of the scale's factor analysis in other countries. Therefore, this study examined the validity of factor structure in SCS based on data in 435 adult aged from 18 to 79. For this, we conducted exploratory factor analysis(EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis(CFA), and we examined the each adequacy of two-factor, tree-factor and six-factor model. The result of EFA supported six-factor and the result of CFA was the six factor model best as well.