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A Research on Using Satisfaction and Situation Survey of Common Meal Facilities for Seniors in Rural Areas - Focusing on the Pilot Project of Common Facilities for Rural Seniors from 2014 to 2015- (농촌고령자 공동급식시설의 현황 및 이용 만족도 연구 - 2014~15년 농촌고령자 공동시설지원 시범사업을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Seung-Geun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.41-51
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    • 2016
  • This The purpose of this study is to evaluate user satisfaction with village bathhouses, selected from a two-year pilot project of common facilities for senior in rural areas from 2014 to 2015. A survey was conducted using a questionnaire to evaluate user satisfaction, and 135 questionnaires were collected from 18 common meal facilities. User satisfaction was evaluated in five categories with a five-point scale: location and spatial composition; emotions and intimacy; safety; nutrition; and maintenance and management. The results are as follows. First, when overall user satisfaction was evaluated on a five-point scale, the average score stood at 4.24 out of five points and 90.03 out of 100 points. These findings suggest that users were generally satisfied with the common meal facilities. Among five categories, scores except safety stood at four points or higher, indicating higher user satisfaction. Second, communal meal in rural areas have been carried out already but the environment for communal meal like cooking equipment, wastewater disposal, and space have been poor. However, the environment is improved through this pilot project, which has a positive effect to user satisfaction. Third, space planning for barrier-free or sanitary in storage of food containers are not adequate, which is necessary to detailed planning and concrete guideline.

A Study on Luminance Contrast Criteria for Tactile Walking Surface Indicators (시각장애인 점자블록의 휘도대비 기준에 대한 연구)

  • Shin, Dong-Hong;Park, Kwang-Jae;Kim, Sang-Woon
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.7-15
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: There are the number of color tactile walking surface indicators installed in Korea, because of indefinite regulation in blind and vision-impaired persons' tactile walking surface indicators. In case of yellow tactile walking surface indicators, it shows a deviation severe color. In this study, the researchers suggested color and brightness reference for helping blind and vision-impaired persons' walking through analyzing the color references of tactile walking surface indicators and the color luminance between tactile walking surface indicators and sidewalk currently used. Method: Reasonable luminance contrast criteria is suggested by examining ways of improving the recognition and recognition of objects according to color contrast visually impaired through literature review and analyzing standards of tactile walking surface indicators and the Europe, Japan and Australia of color and luminance contrast criteria. And by examining the color of the tactile walking surface indicators reported in Korea currently used to derive the problem presented by the luminance contrast in the reference and comparison. Finally, the visually impaired tactile walking surface indicators is set for color selection criteria for the recognition rate improves. Results: In order to improve the recognition rate to be tactile walking surface indicators of the contrast of the visually impaired and the environment than the color of the tactile walking surface indicators itself to secure always a certain level or more of brightness contrast values in the set of the color of the tactile walking surface indicators so important. Implication: In order to set the blind tactile walking surface indicators color recognition based on the verification of the real pedestrian based on the results presented in this paper it is required. It is to be understood as an element of the barrier free configuration for securing the walking pedestrian safety.

A Study on the Application of Universal Design according to Room Types of Accommodation - Through classification and analysis of room types and FGI (숙박시설의 객실 유형에 따른 유니버설디자인 적용 방안에 대한 연구 - 장애인객실과 일반객실 유형비교·분석 및 FGI를 통하여)

  • Ryu, Sang-oh;Kim, In-soon
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.29-37
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    • 2017
  • Purpose : Due to the shortage of the room for the disabled, it may be difficult to use the accommodation for the disabled (especially wheelchair users). The purpose of this paper is to propose a universal design(UD) application for all rooms to solve the problems caused by the shortage and the decrease of the usage rate of the rooms for the disabled. Methods : Classify and analyze the type of room and bathroom according to the survey. The space of the room is classified into six types mainly based on the relation and location among the entrance, the bathroom, and the bedroom. Also, the bathroom is classified into 20 types considering the positional relationship with the entrance and between sanitary fixture. By using these types, FGI survey will be conducted and the application of UD will be reviewed and presented. Results : We analyzed by using the types of the room and the bathroom. One of majority type in the actual research and two of UD applicable types from FGI, are shown UD application. In addition, the bathroom were analyzed about four types from FGI. The room were shown about the activity space and the furniture layout for UD. The bathroom were shown about the space for the entrance, the internal activitiy space and the arrangement of the sanitary fixture. Implications : By comparing and analyzing through type classification, it was found that universal design can be applied to all rooms. Therefore, it is expected that the UD will be activated in all rooms of the accommodation.

Properties and SPICE modeling for a Schottky diode fabricated on the cracked GaN epitaxial layers on (111) silicon

  • Lee, Heon-Bok;Baek, Kyong-Hum;Lee, Myung-Bok;Lee, Jung-Hee;Hahm, Sung-Ho
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.96-100
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    • 2005
  • The planar Schottky diodes were fabricated and modeled to probe the device applicability of the cracked GaN epitaxial layer on a (111) silicon substrate. On the unintentionally n-doped GaN grown on silicon, we deposited Ti/Al/Ni/Au as the ohmic metal and Pt as the Schottky metal. The ohmic contact achieved a minimum contact resistivity of $5.51{\times}10.5{\Omega}{\cdot}cm^{2}$ after annealing in an $N_{2}$ ambient at $700^{\circ}C$ for 30 sec. The fabricated Schottky diode exhibited the barrier height of 0.7 eV and the ideality factor was 2.4, which are significantly lower than those parameters of crack free one. But in photoresponse measurement, the diode showed the peak responsivity of 0.097 A/W at 300 nm, the cutoff at 360 nm, and UV/visible rejection ratio of about $10^{2}$. The SPICE(Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis) simulation with a proposed model, which was composed with one Pt/GaN diode and three parasitic diodes, showed good agreement with the experiment.

Optical, Thermal and Dielectric Properties of $B_2O_3-Al_2O_3$-SrO Glasses for Plasma Display Panel (플라즈마 디스플레이 패널을 위한 $B_2O_3-Al_2O_3$-SrO계 유리의 물리적 특성)

  • Hwang, Seong-Jin;Lee, Jin-Ho;Lee, Sang-Wook;Kim, Hyung-Sun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.33-33
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    • 2007
  • In PDP industry, the dielectrics and barrier ribs have been required with low dielectric constant, low melting point and Pb-free composition due to the low power consumption, low signal delay time and the environment restriction. We were studied with $B_2O_3-Al_2O_3$-SrO glass systems about optical, thermal and dielectric properties. The glass forming region of the $B_2O_3-Al_2O_3$-SrO glass systems was narrow due to the amount of the glass former $(B_2O_3)$. The glass transition temperature (Tg) of the glasses was at $550{\sim}590^{\circ}C$. The glasses have 6~8 for the dielectric constant. Furthermore, the transmittance of the glasses was over 80% on the range of the visible ray. From the results, the glasses of the $B_2O_3-Al_2O_3$-SrO glass systems should enable to be a good candidate of the PDP devices for information display with low dielectric constant. The aim of this study is to give a fundamental result of new glass system for low dielectric constant in the information display.

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A Study on Preference of Wheelchair Users to Toilet Approach Way - Focused on Wheelchair Users' Disability Types and Their Wheelchair Types (휠체어 사용자의 대변기 접근 방식 선호도 분석에 관한 연구 - 휠체어 사용자의 장애 유형 및 휠체어 종류를 중심으로)

  • Bae, Yoongho;Lee, Gyeongseong
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.17-27
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    • 2020
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify the difference in toilet approach way by wheelchair users according to the direction of the door and to suggest the layout of the toilet rooms most accessible to the wheelchair users. Methods: Survey to wheelchair users about approach to toilet have been conducted for the data collection. 90 answers have been analyzed statistically by SPSS 19.0 program. Results: The conclusions of this study are as follows. Firstly, spinal cord disorders prefer diagonal approach and lateral approach to the toilet, but brain lesions prefer diagonal approach and frontal approach to toilet. Secondly, the manual wheelchair users prefer the diagonal approach and the lateral approach to the toilet, and the electric wheelchair users has a different approach way to the toillet depending on the direction of the door. Finally, the layout of accessible toilets have to be designed for the diagonal approach to toilet, which is most preferred by wheelchair users. Implications: The toilet approach varies according to the disability types and the wheelchair types. Therefore, the size of accessible toilets should be larger than now considering the access of variety wheelchair users.

Improvement of Permeation of Solvent-free Multi-Layer Encapsulation of thin films on Ethylene Terephthalate(PET) (고분자 기판위에 유기 용매를 사용하지 않은 다층 박막 Encapsulation 기술 개발)

  • Kang, Hee-Jin;Han, Jin-Woo;Kim, Jong-Yeon;Moon, Hyun-Chan;Choi, Sung-Ho;Park, Kwang-Bum;Kim, Tae-Ha;Kim, Hwi-Woon;Seo, Dae-Shik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2006.04a
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    • pp.56-57
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, the inorganic multi-layer thin film encapsulation was newly adopted to protect the organic layer from moisture and oxygen. Using the electron beam, Sputter, inorganic multi-layer thin-film encapsulation was deposited onto the Ethylene Terephthalate(PET) and their interface properties between inorganic and organic layer were investigated. In this investigation, the SiON SiO2 and parylene layer showed the most suitable properties. Under these conditions, the WVTR for PET can be reduced from a level of $0.57\;g/m^2/day$ (bare subtrate) to 1*10-5 g/$m^2$/day after application of a SiON and SiO2 layer. These results indicates that the PET/SiO2/SiON/Parylene barrier coatings have high potential for flexible organic light-emitting diode(OLED) applications.

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The Effect of PAA on the Characterization of PVA/SSA ion Exchange Membranes (Poly(vinyl alcohol)/sulfo-succinic acid 이온교환막에 poly(acrylic acid)첨가에 따른 특성 연구)

  • 임지원;천세원;홍상혁;황호상;정성일
    • Membrane Journal
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.118-124
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    • 2003
  • The ion exchange membranes prepared from the reaction between poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) which is known as the good methanol barrier in pervaporation membrane processes and sulfo-succinic acid (SSA) was used as the basic membranes. In order to improve the ion exchange capacity, poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) was added to this ion exchange membranes. The methanol permeabilities, ion conductivities, water contents and ion exchange capacity were measured for the resulting membranes with varying PAA contents. In general, methanol permeability and ion conductivity of PVA/SSA/PAA membranes were less than those of PVA/SSA membranes due to the reduction of free volumes resulted from crosslinking. The vehicle mechanism could be more dominant than jump mechanism for membranes in question.

Impact of Online Learning in India: A Survey of University Students during the COVID-19 Crisis

  • Goswami, Manash Pratim;Thanvi, Jyoti;Padhi, Soubhagya Ranjan
    • Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.331-351
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    • 2021
  • The unprecedented situation of COVID-19 caused the government of India to instruct educational institutions to switch to an online mode to mitigate the losses for students due to the pandemic. The present study attempts to explore the impact of online learning introduced as a stop-gap arrangement during the pandemic in India. A survey was conducted (N=289), via Facebook and WhatsApp, June 1-15, 2020 to understand the accessibility and effectiveness of online learning and constraints that students of higher education across the country faced during the peak times of the pandemic. The analysis and interpretation of the data revealed that the students acclimatized in a short span of time to online learning, with only 33.21% saying they were not satisfied with the online learning mode. However, the sudden shift to online education has presented more challenges for the socially and economically marginalized groups, including Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Other Backward Class (OBC), females, and students in rural areas, due to factors like the price of high-speed Internet (78.20% identified it as a barrier to online learning), insufficient infrastructure (23.52% needed to share their device frequently or very frequently), poor Internet connectivity, etc. According to 76.47% of respondents, the future of learning will be in "blended mode." A total of 88.92% of the respondents suggested that the government should provide high-quality video conferencing facilities free to students to mitigate the division created by online education in an already divided society.

Assessment of Universal Design for Seoullo 7017 in Seoul, Korea - Using a New Seven Universal Design Principles -

  • Yoo, Jieun;Kim, Jin-Oh
    • Journal of recreation and landscape
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.35-44
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this research is to evaluate Seoullo 7017 based on Universal Design (UD) principles and guidelines. To derive UD principles applicable to the site context, we used the 2017 Seoul Universal Design Guideline and assessment index provided by the Universal Design Research Center and established 11 evaluation criteria. With respect to research methods, a literature review and on-site field survey were applied, through which we derived UD principles and evaluation criteria to identify UD problems. The 11 evaluation criteria consist of pedestrian space, facilities, access, main entrance, parking lots, trails, restrooms, convenience facilities, information facilities, rest areas, and playgrounds, and these were associated with UD principles for evaluation. As a result, the main entrance had the highest UD score, while parking lots had the lowest in terms of equity, safety, simplicity, and accessibility. Restrooms received a lower UD score because of poor conditions of security and alert systems. Rest areas were found to be uncomfortable for disabled people. With respect to the internal trails, we found the lack of braille block and irregular placement of planting pots made blind people uncomfortable when walking. In terms of UD principles, flexibility received the highest score, followed by amenity, equity, simplicity, tolerance, accessibility, and safety. Flexibility received the highest score, owing to the provision of proper information about convenience facilities and trails, while safety received the lowest, based on poor access to parking lots, inadequate paving materials and colors, and a lack of 24-hour security systems. We hope this research contributes to improving the universal design, so that people are not discriminated against in the use of the park in terms of age, sex, or physical disability. We expect the study to help facilitate empirical studies to verify UD principles and provide improved quality of UD for Seoullo 7017.