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Older Adults' Experiences of Living with and Using Diapers for Urinary Incontinence in Long-term Care Facilities (시설거주 노인의 요실금과 기저귀 착용 경험)

  • Lim, Kyung-Choon;Kim, Myoungsuk
    • Journal of muscle and joint health
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.90-101
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    • 2019
  • Purpose: This study was aimed to describe older adults' experiences of living with urinary incontinence and using diapers for its management in long-term care facilities. Methods: Qualitative data were collected through in-depth interviews with 22 participants in long-term care facilities. Content analysis was used to analyze the data. Results: Three themes and six categories were emerged. Participants navigated through those three categories as stages, including the initial stage of confronting the unacceptable reality, transitional stage of physical and emotional suffering, and adaptive stage of accepting the diaper usage as a part of life and hoping improvement. Six categories were feeling terrible with unavoidable use of diapers, being frustrated by nursing staff shortage and unsatisfactory care for urinary incontinence, physical discomfort from of wearing diapers and remaining unchanged, emotional difficulties due to using diapers, accepting and adapting to diaper usage as a part of life, hope for gender-specific quality care for urinary incontinence. Conclusion: The findings suggest that using diapers should not be mandatory to manage older adults' urinary incontinence in long-term care facilities. It is also critical to establish policies to address issues of nursing shortage and financial support for qualitative care to manage urinary incontinence in long-term care settings.

Exploring Nurses' Experience in Long-term Care: Focusing on Role Adaptation and Barriers (노인장기요양분야 간호사의 역할 경험 탐색: 역할적응과 장애요인을 중심으로)

  • Yi, Kyunghee;Park, Bohyun;Seo, Sukyong
    • Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.212-226
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore nurses' experience of the role adaptation process and barriers in long-term care (LTC) facilities including nursing homes, daycare centers, and home visit nursing centers. Methods: After in-depth interviews with 13 nurses who were working at the LTC facilities in G province, the data were analyzed using Colaizzi's phenomenological methodology. Results: 17 themes with 6 theme clusters, and 2 categories emerged: nursing role adaptation process in the LTC (role expectation and readiness, role perception and performance, limits of role performance), and barriers to nursing role adaptation in the LTC facility (organizational, situational, and institutional-environmental barriers). Conclusion: The results showed that it is critical to establish the nurses' role in caring for the health of the elderly and maintaining the quality of care in the LTC facilities. In response to the growing demand for quality care in the LTC facilities, more institutional and environmental changes are needed to address the current barriers that prevent nurses from performing their appropriate roles.

Enhancing on Security Monitoring & Control Redundancy Facilities Config uration & Operation in the COVDI-19 Pandemic Environment (코로나19 환경에서 무중단 보안관제센터 구성 및 운영 강화 연구)

  • Kang, Dongyoon;Lee, Jeawoo;Park, Wonhyung
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.25-31
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study was to keep the Security Control Center, which operates under a shift system, uninterrupted during the COVID-19 virus epidemic. Security facilities responding to cybersecurity threats are essential security facilities that must be operated 24 hours a day, 365 days a day in real time, and are critical to security operations and management. If security facilities such as infectious disease epidemic, system failure, and physical impact are closed or affected, they cannot respond to real-time cyberattacks and can be fatal to security issues. Recently, there have been cases in which security system facilities cannot be operated, such as the closure of facilities due to the COVID-19 virus epidemic and the availability of security systems due to the rainy season, and other cases need to be prepared. In this paper, we propose a plan to configure a security system facility as a multiplexing facility and operate it as an alternative in the event of a closed situation.

Development of Model for Estimation of Green-Tourism Revenue on Rural Village by Factor Analysis (요인분석에 의한 농촌마을의 그린투어리즘 수익 추정 모형 개발)

  • Um, Dae-Ho;Kim, Tai-Cheol;Gim, Uhn-Soon
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.12 no.4 s.33
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    • pp.23-32
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    • 2006
  • Recently, Owing to booming of leisure activities and national enforcement of 5-day workweek system, Korean government has been promoting rural tourism policy of which operating project's title is Green Rural Experience Village, Rural Traditional Theme Village, etc. In this study, ken investigation result on Green Rural Experience Village sites, an estimation model of returns by green-tourism activities was developed. The model was constructed through factor analysis and regression analysis method. Regression model developed can estimate green-tourism revenue by investment budget, homepage preengagement sales, homepage visitors, capacity of eating and drinking facilities, capacity of lodging facilities. The model developed was applied in sample villages. With these results, estimation revenue was recorded average 138.3% of survey revenue, and statistical significance was good(correlation coefficient $R^2$ = 0.8255, level of significance : 0.000), and the range of relative error was recorded largely from -7.1% to 158.6%, and average relative error was 38.3% and good. And, the model developed in this study have the critical point in aspects of insufficient data, but the results will be used in green-tourism policies and projects, and revenue estimation about each village in the present and future is limited, but in province or the whole country the application is good.

The Improvement Proposal of Rural Community Centers : by the Case Studies of 30 Centers in Samnangjin-eup, Miryang City (농촌 마을회관의 현황과 개선방안 연구 -밀양시 삼랑진읍을 대상으로-)

  • Kim, Seong-Ho;Lee, Yoo-Jick
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.57-68
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    • 2012
  • This study is to suggest the improving methods for rural community centers by analysis of 30 community centers in Samnangjin-eup, Miryang city, Gyeongnam. To fulfill this purpose, the facilities, usable condition and management system were examined. The user needs and level of satisfaction were also investigated through the interviews with 858 citizens. The average size of the centers is $96m^2$, and 73% of them are one-story buildings. Women use the community center more frequently than men in ratio of 6:4. 43.4% of interviewees visit the center 1 or 2 times a month, but on the other hand 27.4% of them use the center almost every day. Recess is surely the main purpose, and health care and community meeting are next two reasons. 67.8% and 72.4% of them are not satisfied with the inside and outside of the community center respectively. The interview results demonstrate that the most important issue is the lack of facilities. To improve the community centers in Samnangjin-eup, first of all, various kinds of indoor and outdoor facilities must be equipped. Secondly, considering the center is the core of rural community life, the qualitative improvement in accommodation is also needed as well as facility diversification. The efficiency of space utilization is another issue. A small piece of land or abandoned space must be utilized. Moreover, it is very critical that the users are mostly seniors and elders, so improvements of facilities will be executed in terms of safety and convenience. Finally, administrative and financial support should be made for the people, so as to maintain the the rural community center on their own.

A Study on the Method of Vulnerability Analysis of Critical Infrastructure Facilities (공개 데이터를 활용한 제어시스템 취약점 분석 방안 연구)

  • Shin, Mi-joo;Yoon, Seong-su;Euom, Ieck-chae
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.243-253
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    • 2022
  • Recently, cyber attacks on national infrastructure facilities have continued to occur. As a result, the vulnerabilities of ICS-CERTs have more than doubled from last year, and the vulnerabilities to industrial control systems such as nuclear facilities are increasing day by day. Most control system operators formulate vulnerability countermeasures based on the vulnerability information sources of industrial control systems provided by ICS-CERT in the United States. However, it is difficult to apply this to the security of domestic control systems because ICS-CERT does not contain all relevant vulnerability information and does not provide vulnerabilities to domestic manufacturer's products. In this research, we will utilize publicly available vulnerability-related information such as CVE, CWE, ICS-CERT, and CPE to discover vulnerabilities that may exist in control system assets and may occur in the future. I proposed a plan that can predict possible vulnerabilities and applied it to information on major domestic control systems.

Study on the Oxidation Treatment of Nanoparticles for the Critical Heat Flux (임계열유속 향상을 위한 나노물질의 산화처리에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, Woo-Joong;Jeon, Yong-Han;Kim, Nam-Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.37 no.6
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    • pp.39-49
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    • 2017
  • Pool boiling, one of the key thermal-hydraulics phenomena, has been widely studied for improving heat transfer efficiencies and safety of nuclear power plants, refrigerating systems, solar-collector heat pipes, and other facilities and equipments. In the present study, the critical heat flux (CHF) and heat-transfer coefficients were tested under the pool-boiling state using graphene M-5 and M-15 nanofluids as well as oxidized graphene M-5 nanofluid. The results showed that the highest CHF increase for both graphene M-5 and M-15 was at the 0.01% volume fraction and, moreover, that the CHF-increase ratio for small-diameter graphene M-5 was higher than that for large-diameter graphene M-15. Also at the 0.01% volume fraction, the oxidized graphene M-5 nanofluid showed a 41.82%-higher CHF-increase ratio and a 26.7%-higher heat-transfer coefficient relative to the same nanofluid without oxidation treatment at the excess temperature where the CHF of distilled water occurs.

System Reliability Analysis of Rack Storage Facilities (물류보관 랙선반시설물의 시스템신뢰성 해석)

  • Ok, Seung-Yong;Kim, Dong-Seok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.116-122
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    • 2014
  • This study proposes a system reliability analysis of rack storage facilities subjected to forklift colliding events. The proposed system reliability analysis consists of two steps: the first step is to identify dominant failure modes that most contribute to the failure of the whole rack facilities, and the second step is to evaluate the system failure probability. In the first step, dominant failure modes are identified by using a simulation-based selective searching technique where the contribution of a failure mode to the system failure is roughly estimated based on the distance from the origin in the space of the random variables. In the second step, the multi-scale system reliability method is used to compute the system reliability where the first-order reliability method (FORM) is initially used to evaluate the component failure probability (failure probability of one member), and then the probabilities of the identified failure modes and their statistical dependence are evaluated, which is called as the lower-scale reliability analysis. Since the system failure probability is comprised of the probabilities of the failure modes, a higher-scale reliability analysis is performed again based on the results of the lower-scale analyses, and the system failure probability is finally evaluated. The illustrative example demonstrates the results of the system reliability analysis of the rack storage facilities subjected to forklift impact loadings. The numerical efficiency and accuracy of the approach are compared with the Monte Carlo simulations. The results show that the proposed two-step approach is able to provide accurate reliability assessment as well as significant saving of computational time. The results of the identified failure modes additionally let us know the most-critical members and their failure sequence under the complicated configuration of the member connections.

Study on Analysis of Difference in Preference of Stakeholders in Port Gyeongin Using Conjoint Analysis (컨조인트 분석을 활용한 경인항 이해관계자의 선호도 차이분석에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Jong-Min;YANG, Tae-Hyeon;Park, Sung Hoon;Yeo, Gi-Tae
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.10-19
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    • 2020
  • Port Gyeongin was developed as a multi-functional port equipped with container and general port facilities and could be linked with nearby tourist attractions. However, it has experienced difficulties from the limitation of being a small port, duplicating functions, and lacking an interlink with nearby ports. Nonetheless, resident companies that need logistics facilities in Port Gyeongin or nearby ports process specific import and export goods such as wood, steel, and industrial products through Port Gyeongin because of the characteristics of the port. From this perspective, it is critical to establish a measure to promote Port Gyeongin through utility analysis of the stakeholders in Port Gyeongin. In this regard, the purpose of this study was to analyze the preference of stakeholders in Port Gyeongin using conjoint analysis and propose a difference in the preference of the stakeholders. Study results show that the terminal group, shippers, and tenant companies considered the berthing capacity, incentive scale, and port logistics cost as the most critical matters, respectively. The stakeholders in Port Gyeongin should recognize the difference in critical matters, and be equipped with shipper discovery and institutional arrangement according to the characteristics of Port Gyeongin such as cooperation with related institutions and inter-collaboration between operating companies to promote Port Gyeongin.

A Study on Reliability Analysis of Electric Railway Catenary System using FMECA (FMECA를 통한 전차선로 가선시스템의 신뢰도 분석에 관한 연구)

  • Youn, Eung-Kyu;Choi, Kyu-Hyoung
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.64 no.11
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    • pp.1618-1625
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    • 2015
  • The reliability of catenary system is very important for uninterrupted train operation as it supplies electric power to train without redundant facilities. This paper provides a systematic approach to the reliability analysis of the catenary system based on FMECA procedures defined by global standards such as MIL Std 1692a and IEC 60812. Field failure data collected from the operation and maintenance of high-speed railway catenary system for 9 years are used to derive critical failure modes and to evaluate the criticality of the failure modes. Evaluation of the criticality are carried out by quantitative procedures defined by MIL Std 1692a and by criticality matrix defined by IEC 60812. FMECA results suggests that three critical failure modes should be checked carefully during maintenance work, which include strand break of dropper and voltage equalizing wire, power supply failure of feeder. Maintenance procedure of catenary system in order of importance is suggested too. These results can be applied to maintenance planning and design of catenary system to improve the reliability of electric railway system.