• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.183-202
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• 2001

Traditionally the women have had responsibility for homework, blinding-up of the children and caring of the aged in the family. But in models society the women would like to take jobs much more than in the past, and therefore women who have jobs are in the condition of mental and physical stress very heavily. So it is urgently needed of the social-political arrangements for caring-worker in the family (generally the women). This paper examines this problem, especially problem of the nursing of the aged in the family, and compares the political arrangements between in Korea and Germany.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Postharvest Science and Technology of Agricultural Products Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.73-81
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• 2003

의료기술 및 생활수준의 향상과 함께 우리나라의 평균수명은 꾸준하게 늘어 2026년에는 65세 이상 인구가 전체의 20% 넘을 것으로 예상되고 있다. 이러한 노인인구의 증가와 더불어 노인성 치매는 오늘날의 고령화 사회에서 높은 발병율(65세 이상 인구의 10%, 75세 이상 인구의 25%, 85세이상 인구의 50%에서 발생)을 보이고 있어 심각한 사회문제의 하나로 대두되고 있다. 또한 우리나라 치매노인의 증상은 가벼운 경우가 59.2%, 중등정도 27.2%, 아주 심한 경우가 13.6%이며 이중 치료를 통해 완치되는 경우는 겨우 14%에 불과하며 85% 이상이 치료불가능으로 보고되고 있다. 이와 같이 노인성 치매는 일단 발병하면 완전 치료가 거의 불가능할 뿐만 아니라 심하면 한가정의 파탄을 초래하기도 할만큼 치매간호에 소요되는 정신적, 육체적, 경제적 고통은 막대하다. 따라서 의 \ulcorner 약학계에서도 치매치료제에 대하여 다각도로 연구하고 있으나 지금까지 개발된 화학적 합성 의약품은 그 효능여부와 부작용 등의 논란이 크게 대두되고 있으며 또한 치매는 어떠한질 병보다 예방의 중요성이 인식되고 있는 만큼 이러한 부작용을 최소화 할 수 있는 예방 또는 개선차원의 식품소재개발이 중요하다고 하겠으며 이에 대한 연구자의 관심이 집중되고 있다. 본고에서는 현재 치매예방 및 치료제의 개발현황을 살펴보고 한약재를 이용한 치매예방 및 치료소재의 연구동향을 소개하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the ESK Conference
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• 1997.04a
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• pp.95-99
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• 1997

Most studies in manual material handling (MMH) have paid more attention to single MMH activities-lifting, lowering, carrying, holding, pushing or pulling and have ignored combined activities. Also, many studies have been involved with two-handed MMH activities rather than to one-handed MMH activities. Very few studies are reported on the determination of workers' capacities for combinations of one-handed MMH activities (e.g. lifting a box, then carrying the box, and lowering the box). The objective of this study was to utilize the psychophysical approach to examine the combinations of lifting, carrying and lowering activities from a simulated industrial task involving one- handed and two-handed combined tasks and to develop mathematical models for combined tasks. Ten male students served as subjects for the study. The capacities that were determined as the maximum acceptable weight workloads for 1 hr work period for one-handed and two-handed combined tasks-lifting a box from floor to knuckle height, carrying the box for 4.3 m, and lowering the box form knuckle to floor height -were determined psychophysically under three frequencies: six handlings per minute, one handling per minute and one handling per five minutes. Combined MMH capacities models for one-handed tasks were developed. Te advantages and disadvantages of different models are discussed.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.206-211
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• 2017

The most of the elders or patients that use common walkers do not have enough physical strength in the legs and cannot walk for a long time where they want to go. So it is necessary to take rests and highly required to develop a multi-function walker that can guide walking safely for weak elders or patients with IT application products at the same time. This study is focused on the walkers for elders with bent back and the design to grant new values for elders to overcome limitations of existing walkers.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.61-69
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• 1991

The relationships between nutrients intake, physical activity and bone mineral density were investigated in 19 elderly men aged 71-80 years. A trained nutritionist interviewed usual dietary intake and daily activity with a questionnaire, and bone mineral density was measured at the lumbar spine and three regions of the proximal femur (femur neck, Ward's triangle and trochanter) with a Luna DP3 dual photon absorptiometry. The correlations between dietary calcium intake and bone mineral density at the lumbar spine and trochanteric region were significant at P<0.05 and P<0.01 level respectively. the significant correlations were also found between vitamin A(P<0.005), riboflavin(P<0.01), and ascorbic acid(P<0.05) intake and bone mineral density at these sites. Higher physical activity was associated with greater bone mineral density of four sites, but this was not significant. But there were significant relationships between total energy expenditure and bone mineral density of the lumbar spine(P<0.01), femur neck (P<0.05) and Ward's triangle(P<0.05). In this study the results revealed that bone mineral density of the lumbar spine and trochanteric region were associated with dietary calcium intake. And bone mineral density of the femur neck and Ward's triangle were related to physical activity but not to nutrients intake. In conclusion, dietary calcium intake seems to be a important factor for greater bone mineral density. Further evidence will be needed that physical activity protects against bone fracture and osteoporosis in the edlerly.

• Toxicological Research
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.215-226
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• 2002

Acute or repeated physical exercise affects a large number of physiological parameters including hemodynamics, respiration, pH, temperature, gastrointestinal function and biotransformation, which determine the pharmacokinetics of drugs and chemicals. The rate and the amount of a chemical reaching the active site are altered by physical exercise, which results in significant changes in pharmacolosical/toxicological activity of the chemical. This aspect of physical exercise has vast implication in therapeutics and in safety evaluation, particularly for chemicals that have a low margin of safety. However there appears to be a wide inter- and intraindividual variation in the effects of physical exercise depend-ing on the duration, intensity and type of exercise, and also on the properties of each chemical. It is suggested that more studies need to be done to determine which factor(s) plays a major role in the disposition of chemicals in human/animals performing physical exercise. Certain chemicals induce severe toxicity due to metabolic conversion to reactive intermediate metabolites. it is suggested that repeated exercise may enhance the free radical scavenging system by increasing the activity of antioxidant enzymes. This area of research remain to be explored to elucidate the interaction of exercise and chemical on the antioxidant system.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.5 no.5
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• pp.92-99
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• 2005

It is not easy to understand that the drama with various aspects of political-economics and psychology in a certain popular cultural contents. People, however, does want to reconstruct the meaning of the real world and the hyper - reality, it means cross of oldness and newness, through the films. We try to analyze in religious/philosophical aspect with hybrid narrative, characters and condensed meaning in series. This try shows a good example way of understanding series which on the border line of newness and oldness.

• Korean Journal of Oriental Medicine
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.67-73
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• 2008

Background: Qigong is one of energy-healing intervention used to prevent and cure ailments and to improve health through regular practice. Although Qigong-neither itself nor its postulated mechanism of action-is within the paradigm of modern Western medical science, effects on the human body could be possible. Objectives: This study aims to know effect of Qigong training in a University student's physical, mental health and self-esteem. Method: There are 120 students who take a Yangsaengkigong(養生氣功) course in D University college of oriental medicine during four weeks beginning in April 10th 2008. I researched 41 of them trained about effect of Qigong training. Result: Qigong training made significant change in self-esteem measurement and SCL-90-R. And there wasn't significant change in KHP and happiness index. Conclusions: The depth study for the each Qigong is needed. Specifically, I think it should be a clinical studies and qualitative research methods for evaluation are needed.

• Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.670-678
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• 2010

Recognition thresholds for NaCl, sucrose, citric acid, and caffeine, as well as the pleasant concentration of NaCl were assessed in 176 males and 312 females aged 50-88 years. Furthermore, relationships among taste sensitivities, taste preferences, and lifestyles were examined. The taste solutions were presented one after the other in ascending order using the sip-and-spit method. For the recognition thresholds of the 4 basic tastes, women perceived significantly lower concentrations than the men. However, the pleasant concentration of NaCl did not show a gender difference. Sensitivities for the 4 basic tastes did not decrease with age in the men, but they did significantly decrease with age for the women, especially for those above 70 years. For men, regular exercise was positively correlated with sensitivities for sour taste and bitter taste, and physical activity was negatively correlated with the pleasant concentrations of NaCl. For women, who had more physical activity, sensitivities for sweet taste and sour taste were lower compared to the others. This study indicates that the sensitivities for 4 basic tastes in water diminished with age, but pleasant salt concentration did not change with age. Further research on pleasant NaCl concentration is required to determine factors affecting salt preference, in order to decrease salt intake in the elderly.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.621-627
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• 1999

본 논문은 언어장애인을 위한 통신보조기기의 구현에 관한 연구이다. 통신보조기기에 적용되는 어휘는 사용자의 환경을 고려하여 선택되어야 하며 사용자의 환경에는 연령, 교육정도, 가족관계, 자주 이용하는 장소, 장애의 종류와 정도 등 사용자의 정신적, 육체적 능력을 모두 포함하여야 한다. 본 논문에서는 손의 사용이 가능하고, 어휘와 의미심볼의 관게를 이해할 수 있으면서, 음성표현이 부자유스러운 어린이를 사용자로 한정하였다. 사용자에 의해 발훼된 어휘는 중심어휘와 특정환경을 나타내는 장소 도메인에서의 사용어휘로 나눌 수 있다. 중심어휘는 장소에 구애받지 않고 일상생활에서 널리 쓰이는 어휘를 말하며, 장소 도메인에서의 사용어휘로 나눌 수 있다. 중심어휘는 장소에 구애받지 않고 일상생활에서 널리 쓰이는 어휘를 말하며, 장소 도메인에서의 사용어휘는 특정 장소에서 빈번히 사용하는 어휘를 말한다. 발췌된 어휘는 휴대용 통신보조기기로서의 공간적 제약을 극복하기 위하여 어휘를 명사, 동사, 조사로 나누어 좀더 많은 문장을 만들 수 있도록 하였으며, 동적 시스템과 정적시스템의 장점을 고려하여 장소 도메인 별 어휘로 나누면서 의미함축의 원리를 도입하였다. 또한 어휘의 인식이 쉽도록 의미심볼과 어휘를 대응하여 표현하였고, 시스템의 기능 혹은 어휘분류에 따른 화면의 배경색을 다르게 설정하여 쉽게 사용자가 선택할 수 있도록 하였으며 , 사용자의 선택에 의해 구성된 문장은 화면표시관에 보여진 후 음성으로 표현하였다.