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Effects of organic germanium and caffeic acid phenethyl ester on immune system of BALB/c mice following a 14-day oral exposure

  • Park, Jae-Hyun;Lee, Jong-Kwon;Kim, Hyung-Soo;Chung, Seung-Tae;Eom, Jun-H;Kim, Kyung-A;Paik, Soon-Young;Oh, Hye-Young
    • 대한약학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한약학회 2003년도 Proceedings of the Convention of the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea Vol.1
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    • pp.173.1-173.1
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    • 2003
  • The present study was conducted to determine the effects of bis-carboxyethyl germanium sesquioxide(Ge-132) and caffeic acid phenethyl ester(CAPE) on immune system in female BALB/c mice. The mice were orally exposed continuously to Ge-132 (0, 50, 100, or 200mg/kg), or CAPE (0, 5. 10, or 20mg/kg) for 14 days. Immunomodulatory activity was evaluated by assessment of body and organ weight, lymphocytes blastogenesis, (omitted)

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A Scrutiny of the Essence of Business Incubators in the Distribution Sector

  • ERESIA-EKE, Chukuakadibia;IWU, Chux Gervase;JAIYEOLA, Afeez Olalekan;MUSIKAVANHU, Tichaona Buzy
    • 유통과학연구
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    • 제17권6호
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    • pp.5-13
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    • 2019
  • Purpose - The potential for small businesses in the distribution sector to contribute to socio-economic development remains largely inert due to a litany of challenges that they face. Incubators have emerged as the 'silver bullet' for most of the problems but the extent to which they are effectively helping small business overcome their challenges remains debatable. This study seeks to determine the core reasons why respondents enrolled in an incubator, the essence of the incubator and the extent to which the incubator performance is satisfactory. Research design, data, and methodology - A positivist philosophical approach was adopted for the study. This quantitative study used a survey method to collect data from incubatees in a cross-sectional manner. The data were subsequently analysed to generate necessary insights. Results - Results reveal that the gender composition of incubatees is severely skewed in favour of males. Also, most incubatees enrolled in the incubators with a hope that it would ease their pathway to big businesses, financiers and business registration institutions, and it is not. Conclusion - Incubators are mostly inward-looking and are adept at offering training interventions. To improve the effectiveness of incubators, it is necessary to invest efforts in attracting more females and building networks with key external stakeholders that could possibly assist the incubatees establish and grow their businesses.

Testing the Andrews Framework of Strategy Formulation and Implementation: Case Study of the University of Cape Coast Digital Library in Ghana

  • Adzobu, Nesba Yaa Anima
    • International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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    • 제4권2호
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    • pp.49-65
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    • 2014
  • This paper investigates how strategy formulation and implementation processes used by the University of Cape Coast (UCC) in building its digital collections compare with the Andrew's strategic formulation and implementation theoretical framework. Theory-testing case study methodology was used. The data collection instruments were the key informant interview technique and document reviews. During the formulation phase, two aspects (resources and aspirations of senior management) were emergent. During the implementation phase, five aspects (achieving results, processes and behaviour, standards, motivation, personal) were emergent. All other elements of building the UCC digital collections were planned during both the formulation and implementation phases. Although the emphasis on students and learning is laudable and apt, there seems to be lack of focus on research support beyond digital collection building, despite the fact that research excellence is one of the UCC's key priorities. Opportunities exist for improving feedback mechanisms between the users, digital library staff and the university management; and inclusion of social media tools in the digital library project. Since only the experience of a single institution of higher learning is considered, it cannot be definitively stated that strategy formulation and implementation will be similar in every institutional context. However, the results provide a basis for academic digital libraries to draw lessons from this case. In African public universities, there is little earlier research on strategy formulation and implementation in digital library management. Strategy formulation and implementation is a critical issue for higher education academic libraries especially in developing countries like Ghana, due to limited financial resources and the rapid change in the information environment during the last several decades.

Repeat Auditing of Primary Health-care Facilities Against Standards for Occupational Health and Infection Control: A Study of Compliance and Reliability

  • Cloete, Brynt;Yassi, Annalee;Ehrlich, Rodney
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • 제11권1호
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    • pp.10-18
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    • 2020
  • Background: The elevated risk of occupational infection such as tuberculosis among health workers in many countries raises the question of whether the quality of occupational health and safety (OHS) and infection prevention and control (IPC) can be improved by auditing. The objectives of this study were to measure (1) audited compliance of primary health-care facilities in South Africa with national standards for OHS and IPC, (2) change in compliance at reaudit three years after baseline, and (3) the inter-rater reliability of the audit. Methods: The study analyzed audits of 60 primary health-care facilities in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Baseline external audits in the time period 2011-2012 were compared with follow-up internal audits in 2014-2015. Audits at 25 facilities that had both internal and external audits conducted in 2014/2015 were used to measure reliability. Results: At baseline, 25% of 60 facilities were "noncompliant" (audit score<50%), 48% "conditionally compliant" (score >50 < 80%), and only 27% "compliant" (score >80%). Overall, there was no significant improvement in compliance three years after baseline. Percentage agreement on specific items between internal and external audits ranged from 28% to 92% and kappa from -0.8 to 0.41 (poor to moderate). Conclusion: Low baseline compliance with OHS-IPC measures and lack of improvement over three years reflect the difficulties of quality improvement in these domains. Low inter-rater reliability of the audit instrument undermines the audit process. Evidence-based investment of effort is required if repeat auditing is to contribute to occupational risk reduction for health workers.

False Sleeves의 유형분석과 복식사적 고잘 (The Analysis of Types and Historical Review of False Sleeves)

  • 권수현;강순제
    • 복식
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    • 제60권10호
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    • pp.163-179
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    • 2010
  • False sleeves are 'the sleeves that are attached to clothes but exist just as a part without any function to put arms in them.' They are different from sleeves to put arms in them and are to follow the trend or a way of wearing clothes. They are mostly found in medieval Europe's decorative sleeves named 'Hanging sleeves', but they are also found in Eastern region, too. They are found in sleeves that attached women's headgear in East and Middle Asia, and also in high-class male caftan in Ottoman Turk in the 16th and 17th century. False sleeves can be divided into two kinds by shapes. The first ones are the decorative sleeves of which trunk-shaped sleeves hang around the whole or part of the arm hole but have no function to put arms in them; this is called as 'sleeve-shaped False sleeves'. These sleeves are found in women's headgear in medieval Europe, Ottoman Turk, and East and Middle Asia. False sleeves in Europe and Ottoman Turk played a role in showing wealth and power while those in East and Middle Asia had a great role in highlighting the costume's decorative effect. The second ones are the sleeves hanging down from the arms by attaching long cloth to the arm hole, in design; these are named as 'cape-shaped False sleeves.' This style is found only in medieval Europe, and presumably, these cape-shaped false sleeves may have played a role in boasting of one's wealth and power.

An Assessment of the Multiple Challenges Associated with Student's Access to Electronic Resources at a Public University Library in Ghana

  • Armah, Nesba Yaa Anima Adzobu;Cobblah, Mac-Anthony
    • International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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    • 제11권1호
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    • pp.65-84
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    • 2021
  • Our understanding of how barriers to access systematically varies with the compositional and contextual characteristics of users is incomplete. Using a public university library in Ghana, this study assessed the heterogeneous barriers or constraints students encounter in accessing electronic resources based on their demographic and contextual attributes. A descriptive survey design was adopted and structured questionnaires were administered randomly to 558 students in the four constituent colleges of the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. Data were collected and analysed using SPSS and descriptive statistics were generated. The results revealed that students faced six key challenges in accessing electronic information resources in the library namely delays in download of information, poor internet connectivity, and limited accessibility of university portal, inadequate computers in the library, poor lighting and limited ancillary services (on the spot printing facilities), with differences based on gender, academic level, and college affiliation. Only 24% males and 26% females had no challenges or problems with delays in download of electronic information. About three-fourth of all users had poor internet connectivity and complained about inadequate computers associated with accessing electronic resources. 40% percent of undergraduate students in the Colleges of Education Studies, Agriculture and Natural Sciences, and Humanities and Legal Studies each encountered four to six simultaneous challenges. Irrespective of gender, first year undergraduate students in all the four colleges were the least likely to report multiple challenges. This suggests the need for targeted and context-specific interventions to address the identified challenges.

모음 유형과 표준문단의 문장 위치가 음성장애 환자의 청지각적 및 켑스트럼 및 스펙트럼 분석에 미치는 효과 (Effects of vowel types and sentence positions in standard passage on auditory and cepstral and spectral measures in patients with voice disorders)

  • 최미현;최성희
    • 말소리와 음성과학
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    • 제15권4호
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    • pp.81-90
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    • 2023
  • 청지각적 평가 및 음향학적 분석은 음성평가를 위해 임상 현장에서 일반적으로 사용해오고 있다. 본 연구는 음성장애 환자의 청지각적 및 음향학적 측정 시 말 과제 효과를 조사하고자 한다. 음성장애로 진단받은 총 22명의 환자로부터 모음연장발성(/a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, /u/, /ɯ/, /ʌ/)과 연속구어('가을'표준문단의 9개 하위문장)를 녹음하였다. 음성장애 평가 및 치료 경험이 있는 2명의 음성언어치료사가 맹검 및 무작위 음성 샘플을 사용하여 GRBAS('G', 'R', 'B', 'A', 'S')척도 및 CAPE-V('OS', 'R', 'B', 'S', 'P', 'L')를 사용하여 청지각적 평가를 실시하였다. 또한, ADSV(analysis of dysphonia in speech and voice model)를 이용하여 켑스트럼 및 스펙트럼 측정치를 구하였다. 모음 유형에 따라 GRBAS 척도에서 'B'를 제외하고 청지각적 평가에 영향을 미치지 않았으나, CAPE-V에서는 'OS', 'R', 'B'에 영향을 미쳤다(p<.05). CPP 및 L/H ratio 는 모음 유형과 문장 위치의 영향을 받았다. 표준문단의 CPP값은 모든 모음에서 'G', 하위 9문장과 유의미한 부적 상관 관계가 나타났고, 특히, /e/모음(r=-.739)에서 가장 높은 상관관계를 보였다. 두 번째 문장의 CPP는 모든 모음과 높은 상관관계를 보였다. CAPE-V는 말 자극에 따라 GRBAS보다 청지각적 평가에 더 많은 영향을 받을 수 있으며, 'B' 척도, CPP, L/H ratio는 모음 유형과 자음을 포함한 문장 위치에 따라 영향을 받았다. 따라서, 음성 장애 환자의 음성 평가에서 모음을 사용할 때는 /a/뿐만 아니라 ' 기식성'음질과 음향적으로 상관성이 높은 /i/모음을 함께 사용하는 것이 유용할 수 있다. 또한 /e/모음은 한국 표준문단 '가을' 및 하위 문장들과 음향적으로 상관성이 높았으므로 문단 대신 사용할 수 있을 것이다. 또한, 음성장애 신호들이 대부분 비주기적이라는 점을 감안할 때, CPP와 함께 표준문단 중 가장 음향적으로 상관성이 높은 두 번째 문장을 사용할 수 있을 것이다. 이러한 결과는 말과제가 청지각적 평가 및 음향학적 측정에 미치는 영향에 대한 임상적 증거를 제공하며, 이는 음성장애 환자의 음성 평가에 대한 가이드라인을 제공하는 데 도움을 줄 수 있을 것이다.

우리나라 원양어선의 케이프 타운 협정 비준 영향에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Effect of Ratification of the Cape Town Agreement on Korean Deep-Sea Fishing Vessels)

  • 류경진
    • 해양환경안전학회지
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    • 제28권5호
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    • pp.773-779
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    • 2022
  • 우리나라 원양산업은 대중성 수산물 공급 및 식량안보에 중요한 역할을 하고 있다. IMO를 비롯한 각국에서는 어선의 국제적으로 통일된 안전 기준 마련을 위하여 노력하였고, '1977년 어선안전 토레몰리노스 협약' 채택을 시작으로 '2012 케이프 타운 협정' 채택을 하였으나 발효 요건을 충족하지 못하고 있다. 그러나 2019 토레몰리노스 선언으로 협정의 발효가 가시화되었고, 우리나라도 협정 비준을 앞두고 있으며 원양어선이 협정의 적용 대상이 된다. 2012 케이프 타운 협정은 적용 대상 기준을 선체의 길이 또는 총톤수를 선택할 수 있고, 현존선에 대해서도 일부 적용이 된다. 현존선에 대한 영향을 확인하기 위하여 한국원양산업협회 회원으로 등록된 원양어선 188척을 대상으로 분석한 결과 총톤수 적용이 협정 비준에 미치는 영향이 적은 것으로 나타났다. 또한 Two-way VHF, Radar transponder 등 GMDSS 설비의 강제화 및 선원들의 안전 친숙화 등의 대한 법령 개정이 필요한 것으로 식별되었다. 산업계에서는 협정에서 요구하는 설비의 비치와 어선원의 안전 친숙화가 필요하다.

OCI and ROCSAT-1 Development, Operations, and Applications

  • Chen, Paul;Lee, L.S.;Lin, Shin-Fa
    • 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한원격탐사학회 1999년도 Proceedings of International Symposium on Remote Sensing
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    • pp.330-330
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    • 1999
  • This paper describes the development, operations, and applications of ROCSAT-1 and its Ocean Color Imager(OCI) remote-sensing payload. It is the first satellite program of NSPO. The satellite was successfully launched by Lockheed Martin's Athena on January 26, 1999 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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