• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 1991.04a
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• pp.53-56
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• 1991

산업구조의 급속한 발전과 공업화는 사회구조의 변화 및 대도시로의 인구집 중, 고밀도화, 교통량의 증가를 초래하여 이로부터 기인한 도시지역의 환경 오염 문제는 쾌적한 인간생활을 위협하는 단계에까지 이르렀다. 그중에서 소 음에 관한 문제도 대기 및 수질의 오염과 동시에 도시생활 환경에 많은 영 향을 미치게 되었다. 도시 소음의 주 원인은 주로 도로교통소음이며 이는 기 하급수적으로 늘어가는 자동차의 양에 의해 더욱 심해지고 있다. 따라서 현 재 우리나라에서도 주거지역 및 준주거지역 등의 지역별 소음도 규제 및 신 설되는 공동주택 단지에서의 소음레벨규제등이 있긴 하나 이들은 상당히 소 극적이며 미온적일 뿐 아니라 실제 거주하는 주민들의 반응과는 상당한 차 이를 보이고 있으며 더욱이 주민의 소음에 대한 주관적 반응을 적절히 표현 할 수 있는 지표마저 명확하지 않은 실정이다. 이러한 관점에서 본 고찰에서 는 피험자들의 주관적 반응을 실험할 때 발생하는 변수요인들을 통제 할 수 있는 실험 실시행 청감실험을 실시하기에 앞서 대상지역의 도로교통소음을 여러가지 평가척도에 의해 평가한 후 그 현장에서 이 소음에 노출된 피험자 들의 반응을 파악하여 청취자들이 인지하는 소음레벨을 적절히 평가하는 지 표를 찾고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.1151-1154
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 표면 돌출형태가 상이한 작업장 피로예방용 매트를 이용하여 선자세로 작업 시, 작업자의 생리적 반응을 통하여 매트사용에 따른 그들의 피로감의 변화를 알아보았다. 실험은 건강한 성인 남자 9명을 대상으로 EEG(Fp1, Fp2), ECG, EMG, SKT, 혈류량, 주관적 평가에 대하여 2종(WSM-PA3, WSM-PB3)의 표면 돌출형태가 상이한 피로예방용 매트에서 작업 전후 10분간과 작업 중 120분간 측정하였다. 작업은 단순반복의 수작업으로 실시하였다. 그 결과, WSM-PB3에 비하여 WSM-PA3 사용 시, $\alpha$파의 좌뇌 변동리듬 경사도와 쾌적도는 유의하게 증가(p＜0.05), RRI는 유의하게 감소(p＜0.05), 척추세움근의 주파수는 소폭으로 감소, 발등부의 피부온도는 유의하게 소폭으로 증가(P＜0.05), 하퇴 후면의 혈류량은 유의하게 증가(p＜0.05)하였다. 반면, 주관적 피로감 평가에서는 조건간 유의차가 나타나지 않았다. 이상의 결과에서 WSM-PB3에 비하여 WSM-PA3 사용이 선 자세로 반복작업하는 작업자의 피로예방에 긍정적 역할을 담당하는 것으로 나타났다.

• Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.300-310
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• 2016

Purpose: Few studies have considered the psychosocial work environment factors in relation to employee health. This study explored the relationship between psychosocial work characteristics and self-rated health among Korean employees. Methods: The study population of 21,476 employees was derived from the 2014 Korean Work Environment Survey (KWES). Psychosocial work environment was measured by Copenhagen psychosocial questionnaire scales. Results: Among employees at workplaces (n=21,476), 23.3% rated their health as poor. Among 12 indicators of psychosocial work environment characteristics, 'higher emotional demand', 'demands for hiding emotions', 'work-family conflict', and 'social community at work' were independently associated with risk of poor self-rated health of Korean employees after adjustment of all sociodemographics, work condition characteristics and physical work environment exposure. In addition, higher 'possibilities for development' and 'social support from supervisor' were more likely to decrease the risk of poor health. Conclusion: We suggest that psychosocial work environment is an important determinant of employees' health. The study results provide a good starting point for developing intervention and strategies for health improvement.

• Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.363-371
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• 2020

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of information regarding health and safety risks on the subjective health status of workers using data from the Fifth Korean Working Conditions Survey. Methods: Among the survey respondents, 30,094 people classified as salaried workers, of which 8,513 (28.3%) used protective equipment. Results: Although the majority of workers using protective equipment reported being well-informed about safety and health risks, 15% of them were still insufficiently informed. Multivariate analyses have shown that the subjective health status of workers using protective equipment was significantly better if they received sufficient information. When the workers using protective equipment were classified by the kinds of hazards they were exposed to, the satisfaction of information was also significantly beneficial for the subjective health status of all groups. However, in workers who did not use protective equipment, information satisfaction did not appear to be a significant factor. Conclusion: These results suggest that when providing information on safety and health risks, it is necessary to focus on workers using protective equipment, for whom the effects of the policy are clearly expected.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.48 no.8
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• pp.13-26
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• 2010

This study tested the path model with regard to how certain variables (control attribution, demand-control-support of activity, and control strategy) affected the elderly workers' subjective well-being(swb). In the path model, the exogenous variables were internal and external control attribution. We used demand-control-support of activity, and primary and secondary control strategies as mediating variables. The endogenous variable was each elderly worker's swb. Study participants were 205 elders participating in an "education activity". We used descriptive statistical analysis, Pearson's correlation and hierarchical multiple regression to examine data collected from structured interviews with the participants. Path analysis revealed the followings: First, secondary control strategy was the strongest predictor of participants' swb but internal control attribution, demand of activity, and support of activity also positively affected participants' swb. Second, internal control attribution indirectly affected the participants' swb. Finally primary control strategy negatively affected on the participants' swb.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 1998.04a
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• pp.75-80
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• 1998

본 연구는 얼굴근전도(facial EMG)가 다양한 시각자극에 의해서 유발된 감성을 평가할 수 있는가를 알아보고자 하였다. 특히 감성의 차원중 각성-이완차원에서의 차이를 얼굴근전도를 이용하여 객관적으로 측정할 수 있는가를 알아보았다. 사용된 자극은 15개의 시각자극이었다 . 각각의 자극은 30초씩 무선적으로 제시되었고, 각 자극의 제시사이마다 120초씩의 휴식기를 두었다. 매 자극제시후 피험자는 제시된 자극에 대해 각성-이완의 정도를 주관적으로 평가하였다. 실험참가자는 25명의 여자대학생이었으며, 왼쪽이마의 추미근(corrugator muscle)과 빰의 관골근(zygomatic muscle)의 얼굴근전도를 측정하였다. 측정된 얼굴근전도에 대해서 절대값을 취해 면적을 구하였다. 최대 각성(the most arousing stimulus), 최소 각성(the least arousing stimulus), 최소이완(the least relaxing stimulus), 최대이완(the most relaxing stimulus)이라고 피험자들마다 주관적으로 평가한 가극에 대한 얼굴근전도를 비교.분석하였다. 그 결과 이마의 추미근이 각성과 이완감성의 차이를 변별할 수 있었다. 즉 각성감성을 느낄수록 이마의 추미근의 활동이 증가함을 보였다. 또한 최대각성감성을 느낄때 이마의 추미근의 활동이 증가함을 보였다. 결론적으로, 얼굴근전도가 다양한 시각자극에 의해 유발된 감성의 각성-이완차원을 측정할 수 있는 좋은 지표가 될수 있음을 나타낸다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.7093-7100
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• 2014

This study analyzed the factors related to labor market transition of job injured workers. The Workers' Compensation Insurance Panel data ver.1, which that was surveyed by the Korean Workers' Compensation & Welfare Service in 2013, was used. Four key findings were made: first, the economically inactive populations are 7.2% and unemployed is 22.3% of occupational accident workers who finished the treatment period; second, 31.5% of laborers who returned to a new workplace went into another type of occupation; third, the results showed that socio-demographic factors, such as gender, age and education years, injury-related factors, such as the treatment period and work limitation, and workplace factors, such as company size and employment status, were associated with the return to work; and fourth, a relatively higher proportion of people who has received occupational training could not return to work and the disability grade was not associated with the return to work. These results suggest that policy makers need to understand the characteristics of labor market transition of job injured workers and develop efficient intervention programs based on the transitional labor market.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.1180-1188
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• 2013

Interpolation or super-resolution is used in order to restore degradation of image quality that appears after various transform of image. The method on subjective or objective image resolution improvement having low computation complexity has been being researched in many different ways. In this paper, image enhancement method using improved self degradation restoration(ISDR) method is proposed. The proposed method uses ISDR to estimate pixel value of missed coordinate in the process of image scaling, and combines the estimated loss information and interpolated image to generate enhanced result image. The proposed method shows that PSNR increases by 1.8dB, and subjective image quality is superior to other compared methods. The proposed method can be applied as a basis technique in variety of applications which requires image scale transform.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.21-28
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• 2007

In most of hearing aids, amplification algorithms are used to compensate hearing loss, noise and feedback reduction algorithms are used and to increase the perception of speeches contrast enhancement algorithms are used. However, acoustic masking effect is occurred between formants if contrast is enhanced excessively. To confirm the masking effect in speeches, the experiment are composed of 6 tests; test pure tone test, speech reception test, word recognition test, pure tone masking test, formant pure tone masking test and speech masking test, and for objective evaluation, LLR is introduced. As a result of normal hearing subjects and hearing impaired subjects, more making is occurred in hearing impaired subjects than normal hearing subjects when using pure tone, and in the speech masking test, speech reception is also lower in hearing impaired subjects than in normal hearing subjects. This means that acoustic masking effect rather than distortion influences speech perception. So it is required to check the characteristics of masking effect before wearing a hearing aid and to apply this characteristics to fitting curve.

• Journal of Korean Orthopaedic Sports Medicine
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.95-121
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• 2008

Purpose: The goal is to identify the effectiveness of the IKDC subjective score in the clinical outcome study after reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament. Materials and Methods: Twenty-four patients after ACL reconstructions using twelve hamstring autografts and twelve Achilles allografts were evaluated. Lysholm knee score, IKDC subjective score, Knee Outcome Survey score and Tegner activity score were evaluated for the subjective outcome value. Static instability tests, Biodex dynamometer and one-legged hop for distance tests were done for the objective outcome value. Three functional performance tests (FPTs) including Carioca test, Shuttle run test and Co-contraction test were performed for deciding the final results. Each scale was compared with FPTs results and Pearson's correlation test was used to test the correlation between the parameters. Results: IKDC subjective score, single hop test, and quadriceps power in low velocity of Biodex dynamometer tests had a positive correlation with the total FPTs results. Conclusion: IKDC subjective score can be an effective test to evaluate the functional status as well as the subjective outcome after ACL reconstruction.