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Facilitating Factors of and Barriers to Performance Improvement of Small Scale Enterprise Occupational Health Personnel in Korea (소규모 사업장 산업보건인력의 업무수행 분석)

  • June, Kyung Ja;Paek, Do Myung;Kim, Eun Hee;Kim, Ji Yong;Ha, Eun Hi;Kim, Sun Mean;Park, Hea Sook;Jung, Hea Sun
    • Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.156-167
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    • 1997
  • In Korea, based on the Revised Law of Occupational Safety and Health a new entity of institution was set up in 1990 to provide occupational health services to SSE in which three sorts of personnel as a team have to be involved. These institutions, in charge of scores to hundreds of workplace area-wide, have been providing occupational health services without payment from employers or employees, and government reimburses through the Occupational Injury Prevention Insurance since 1993. As a service provider, a team is composed of doctors, nurses and industrial hygienists. Undergraduate and postgraduate educations for the SSE occupational health are not specified and the question on the performance of the personnel has been raised. This study was designed to analyze the facilitating factors of and barriers to the performance and its improvement of these personnel. In 1997, the survey was conducted with all 58 institutions. Structured questionnaires were mailed to 200 personnel who were providing the occupational health service for SSE. The response rate was 51.7% for doctors, 58.6% for nurses, and 60.3% for industrial hygienist, respectively. Results are as follows : 1) There is a guideline for occupational service mandated by the government. Under the guideline, the minimum frequency of visiting workplace is assured with six times of doctors, 17 times for nurse and industrial hygienist in a year. There are one doctor for every 200 factories, one nurse and one hygienist for every 100 factories. 2) All respondents have basic qualification for occupational health service. About 16.7%. of doctors are certified in industrial medicine or preventive medicine, and 64.7% of industrial hygienists had first grade certification. Totally 66.7% of personnel have been involved in occupational health for more than one year. 3) As a support system for the performance improvement, 66.3% respond that they have been provided with educational materials, advice related to industrial environment and guidance of MSDS from Korea Industrial Safety Corporation. Most respondents indicate the lack of concern of employers and employees as a main barrier to the improvement of the service. Also they are in the need of the training opportunity more focused on SSE. The Governments policy for SSE is a principal facilitating factor. Training program focused on SSE situation, manpower, technical support, etc. are areas to be improved to have a better occupational health service for SSE in Korea.

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Prediction of Long Term Performance and Creep of Laminated Natural Rubber Bearings(NRB) (적층 천연고무 면진장치의 장기성능과 크리프에 대한 예측)

  • Hwang, Kee Tae;Seo, Dae Won;Cho, Sung Gook
    • Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.117-125
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    • 2013
  • Seismic isolation has been considered and utilized in various industries as a way to prevent huge damage on to structures by large earthquakes in various industries. The laminated Laminated rubber bearings is are most frequently used in seismic isolation systems. The structural Structural safety could not be assured unless the performance of the rubber bearing is not guaranteed for the life time of the structure under the consideration that the bearing is a critical structural member to sustain vertical loads in the seismically isolated structure. However, there are few studies on the deterioration problems of rubber bearings during their service life. The long term performance of the rubber bearings was not considered in past designs of seismically isolated structures. This study evaluates the long term performance and creep characteristics of laminated natural rubber bearings that are used in seismically isolated buildings. For the this study, a set of accelerated thermal aging tests and creep tests are were performed on real specimens. The experimental results show that the natural rubber bearings would have a stable change rate of change for durability under severe environmental conditions for a long time.

Nondestructive Evaluation of the Defects in Composite-sintered Bushes Using Ultrasonics

  • Im, Kwang-Hee;Kim, Ki-Youl;Shin, Ki-Taek;Lee, Han-Hee;Jung, Il-Woong;Kang, To;Cho, Hyun-Joon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.1013-1017
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    • 2012
  • Advanced composite-sintered bushings are widely utilized in the areas of excavators and injection molding machines as a journal bearing. Since the bearings are mainly used under high loads, service life should be long and the stored oil of inner bushings has to be continually fed into the bearing. The composite-sintered bushings are consisted of the two different materials; outer steel materials and inner porous sintered materials respectively. High temperature diffusion bonding has been applied for holding the both materials of the bushing together. Therefore, it is very important that the bonding reliability has to be assured and evaluated in manufacturing process. Finite element method (FEM) is performed in order to evaluate the minimum allowable flaw sizes that are possibly generated in the composite-sintered bushings. Additionally, the composite-sintered bushings were undergone ultrasonic C-scan tests to find out the size of inherent flaws through artificially simulated UT signal analysis.

A Scheme to Support a Low-delay Multicast Service on Differentiated Services Network (차별화 서비스 망에서 low-delay 멀티캐스트 서비스 제공 방안)

  • 문영성;조승윤;정병철
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.23-36
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    • 2001
  • To support real-time multicast, the existing DS network may use the EF PHB for transmission, However, because of the dynamic characteristics of the multicast flow and the features of the EF PHB. it is very difficult to make a provision of resources or to manage the network when EF multicast flows increase, Also, the existing LBE PHB can not guarantee the transmission delay bounds required for the real-time multicast traffic, In this paper. a new concept of PHB. namely, low-delay multicast PHB, that may guarantee approximately the per-hop delay is proposed, For the low-delay multicast PHB, router architectures are devised, The queue management algorithm on a low-delay multicast queue and a scheduling method are also devised. This new architecture of the LDM AF class is simple to be implemented.

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A Novel Scheme of Providing Mobile IPv6 between the UMTS and Heterogeneous Networks (UMTS와 이기종망 사이의 Mobile IPv6 지원방안)

  • Cha, Seung-Bum;Min, Sang-Won;Kim, Yong-Jin
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.30 no.11A
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    • pp.1012-1020
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, we propose a novel applying method of Mobile IPv6 service into the UMTS to solve the mapping problems in the GGSN TFT packet filter. The mobility management tables or the GGSN should be maintained as the same as the MN and the CN. Our proposed scheme copes with the problem when the RO procedure is not normally performed by using Mobile IPv6 signaling packets in the GGSN and adding a function block in the UMTS. To show the performance of our proposed algorithm, we accomplish the simulations of measuring the delay time in the cases of success and failure of the RO procedure. Also, the amount of transmission is observed when the packet transmission is assured in the case of the successful RO procedure.

Unethical Network Attack Detection and Prevention using Fuzzy based Decision System in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

  • Thanuja, R.;Umamakeswari, A.
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.2086-2098
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    • 2018
  • Security plays a vital role and is the key challenge in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET). Infrastructure-less nature of MANET makes it arduous to envisage the genre of topology. Due to its inexhaustible access, information disseminated by roaming nodes to other nodes is susceptible to many hazardous attacks. Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IDPS) is undoubtedly a defense structure to address threats in MANET. Many IDPS methods have been developed to ascertain the exceptional behavior in these networks. Key issue in such IDPS is lack of fast self-organized learning engine that facilitates comprehensive situation awareness for optimum decision making. Proposed "Intelligent Behavioral Hybridized Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IBH_IDPS)" is built with computational intelligence to detect complex multistage attacks making the system robust and reliable. The System comprises of an Intelligent Client Agent and a Smart Server empowered with fuzzy inference rule-based service engine to ensure confidentiality and integrity of network. Distributed Intelligent Client Agents incorporated with centralized Smart Server makes it capable of analyzing and categorizing unethical incidents appropriately through unsupervised learning mechanism. Experimental analysis proves the proposed model is highly attack resistant, reliable and secure on devices and shows promising gains with assured delivery ratio, low end-to-end delay compared to existing approach.

An Adaptive Drop Marker for Edge Routers in DiffServ Networks

  • Hur, Kyeong
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.411-419
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, we propose an Adaptive Regulating Drop (ARD) marker, as a novel dropping strategy at the ingressive edge router, to improve TCP fairness in assured services (ASs) without a decrease in the link utilization. To drop packets pertinently, the ARD marker adaptively changes a Temporary Permitted Rate (TPR) for aggregate TCP flows. The TPR is set larger than the current input IN packet rate of aggregate TCP flows while inversely proportional to the measured input OUT packet rate. To reduce the excessive use of greedy TCP flows by notifying droppings of their IN packets constantly to them without a decrease in the link utilization, the ARD marker performs random early fair remarking of their excessive IN packets to OUT packets at the aggregate flow level according to the TPR. In addition, an aggregate dropper is combined to drop some excessive IN packets fairly and constantly according to the TPR. Thus, the throughput of a TCP flow no more depends on only the sporadic and unfair OUT packet droppings at the RIO buffer in the core router. Then, the ARD marker regulates the packet transmission rate of each TCP flow to the contract rate by increasing TCP fairness, without a decrease in the link utilization.

Analysis and performance of offshore platforms in hurricanes

  • Kareem, Ahsan;Kijewski, Tracy;Smith, Charles E.
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.1-23
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    • 1999
  • Wind effects are critical considerations in the design of topside structures, overall structural systems, or both, depending on the water depth and type of offshore platform. The reliable design of these facilities for oil fields in regions of hostile environment can only be assured through better understanding of the environmental load effects and enhanced response prediction capabilities. This paper summarizes the analysis and performance of offshore platforms under extreme wind loads, including the quantification of wind load effects with focus on wind field characteristics, steady and unsteady loads, gust loading factors, application of wind tunnel tests, and the provisions of the American Petroleum Institute Recommended Practice 2A - Working Stress Design (API RP 2A-WSD) for the construction of offshore structures under the action of wind. A survey of the performance of platforms and satellite structures is provided, and failure mechanisms concerning different damage scenarios during Hurricane Andrew are examined. Guidelines and provisions for improving analysis and design of structures are addressed.

Evaluation of the Management of Sanitation in Food Service Establishments in Korea and Strategies for Future Improvement (국내 급식위생관리의 현황고찰 및 발전방안)

  • 김종규
    • Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.186-198
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    • 2000
  • The quality of the management of sanitation in food service establishments (school lunch programs, hospital patient food services, and commercial catering food services) in Korea was reviewed and evaluated, and ten strategies fur future improvement were suggested. They were: (1) An increase of qualified manpower and improvement of the professional training of the staff; (2) Obtaining special facilities exclusively for food service; (3) Improvement of facilities especially the kitchens; (4) Improvement of policy fur procuring raw materials and being assured of their quality by designing some standards and specifications for the raw materials to be purchased; (5) Production and use accurate and reliable kitchen apparatus and instruments; (6) An increase of the laboratory apparatus and instruments for inspection and evaluation of the sanitary level of raw materials and food service environments; (7) Enforced improvement of personal hygiene of the staff; (8) Use of a variety of methods in sanitary education and training; (9) Actively inspect the quality of imported foods; (10) Strengthening the research and accumulation of background data regarding sanitation management. There is a long process from the production of food to eating. The cooking process is the ultimate end of preparation of food before eating. This process sometimes increases the occurrence of food-borne diseases if we mishandle the food, even we obtained safe food. The process can also remove health hazards and reduce the risk from the hazards if we handle the food well although we have unsafe foods. This means the cooking process is a major key to preventing food-borne diseases. The concepts of hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP) should be applied and practiced in food service establishments in Korea as soon as possible.

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A hierarchical Xcast++ mechanism for multicast services in mobile communication environment (이동 통신망 환경에서 멀티캐스트를 제공하기 위한 계층적 Xcast++ 기법)

  • Kim Tae-Soo;Lee Kwang-Hui
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.55-70
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    • 2005
  • In order to provide mobile hosts with multicast service in mobile communication environment, we proposed a multicast mechanism named HXcast++ which is an extended version of the existing Xcast++ with hierarchical architecture, We assured that mobile hosts could get multicast service through an optimal path regardless of their location by making DR(Designated Router) join a group on behalf of the mobile hosts, In this present research we introduced hierarchical architecture in order to reduce the maintenance cost resulting from frequent handoff. We also proposed a GMA (Group Management Agent) based group management mechanism which enables the mobile hosts to join the group without waiting for a new IGMP Membership Query. A fast handoff method with L2 Mobile Trigger was, in this work, employed in order to reduce the amount of the packet loss which occurs as a result of the handoff, We also managed to curtail the packet loss caused by the latency of the group join by using a buffering and forward mechanism.

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