• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.87-94
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• 2019

In the study, we show the annual average increasing rate of death bodies in the capital area was 2.1% while the annual average increasing rate of cremated bodies was 4.5%. As the annual average increasing rate of cremated bodies was about 2.1 times higher than the annual average increasing rate of death bodies, the increase rate of cremated bodies contrast to the increase rate of death bodies was relatively high. Also, the cremation rate of the capital area was increased by 9.5% from 80.3% in 2011 to 89.8% in 2017 while the increase rate of cremated bodies was 27.2%(N=21,694 people) from 79,866 people in 2011 to 101,560 people in 2017. Thus, the increase rate of cremated bodies contrast to the increase of cremation rate of the capital area was relatively very high. On the basis of 2017, the utilization rate of public cremation facilities in by capital area was 94.5% in Incheon Metropolitan City, 91.1% in Seoul Metropolitan City, and 20.9% in Gyeonggi-do, which showed huge differences in the utilization rate of public cremation facilities in the jurisdiction area of by capital area. Focusing on the actual state shown in the results of this study above, it would be necessary for Seoul Metropolitan City to carry forward a supply & demand policy of cremation facilities through the extension of cremation furnaces, for Gyeonggi-do to carry forward a policy to build the public cremation facilities focusing on the basic local government in the jurisdiction area, and for Incheon Metropolitan City to enforce the measures for the joint use of cremation facilities with the basic local government in the adjacent Gyeonggi-do jurisdiction area in order to improve the efficiency of the operation of cremation facilities.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.40-48
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• 2012

심하게 소손된 화재현장은 남아 있는 잔존물만으로 초기 화재의 유형을 판단하기 곤란할 때가 많다. 화재로 인해 사람이 사망하였을 경우 혈중 헤모글로빈(Hb)-일산화탄소(CO) 농도는 생존 당시의 화재의 유형을 가늠할 수 있으며 촉진제를 사용한 급격한 화재의 경우 열기와 유독가스로 인해 재실자의 생존은 화재진행속도와 비례되어 체내 Hb-CO 농도는 낮았으며, 훈소와 같이 서서히 진행되는 연소의 경우 오랜 시간 호흡하면서 체내에 축적되는 CO 농도는 증가하였다. 이러한 인체의 Hb-CO 농도를 분석하면 생존 시 어떠한 형태의 화재에 노출되었는지 알 수 있다. 휘발유로 분신한 자살의 경우를 포함해 훈소성 화재사에 이르기까지 Hb-CO 농도는 3 %에서 최고 93 %로 다양한 농도를 보였다.

• 분석과학
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.170-179
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• 2023

Starvation, diabetes, alcoholism and hypothermia cause ketoacidosis in the human body; therefore, the cause of death can be determined by analyzing ketone bodies in the blood of the deceased. In the case of decomposition of the cadaver, however, since collecting intact blood is impossible, ketone body analysis is performed using the spleen. However, the index for diagnosing ketoacidosis is based on blood concentration, and its correlation with ketone bodies present in the spleen remains unknown. In particular, since decomposition proceeds rapidly during summer, when temperature and humidity are high, understanding the correlation between ketone bodies in the blood and spleen is important to estimate the state at the time of death from a decaying body. Therefore, in the present study, the correlation between ketone bodies in the blood and spleen of the deceased was explored. Ketone bodies (beta-hydroxybutyric acid [BHB] and acetone) in the blood and spleen were analyzed and compared from autopsies (>100 mg·L^-1 BHB, blood basis) conducted at the Daejeon Forensic Research Institute from June to December 2021. Moreover, the concentration of ketone bodies in the spleen juice and tissues was compared assuming the scenario of extreme decomposition. Ketone retention concentration in the blood and spleen was positively correlated, and the ratio of BHB concentration in the spleen to BHB concentration in the blood ranged from 0.52 to 1.08 (mean = 0.85 ± 0.12), although the ratio may vary depending on the degree of decomposition of the corpse.

• 복식
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• 제58권8호
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• pp.106-119
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• 2008

This study explores grotesque characteristics that were raised as the Aesthetics of the Ugly and how it was featured in Alexander McQueen's arts. In a methodological approach, the study attempted the analysis of historical literature that was published both nationally and internationally, along with justifiable investigation using fashion/collection magazines such as Vogue, Gap and Internet search. The scope of this study ranges from 1996's Haute Couture and Pret-a-porter collection pieces modern, to date The results of this study are summarized as follows: The first grotesque characteristic present throughout Alexander Mcqueen's arts is that it featured horrifying images or evil motives with pointy heads or horns, dark colored dresses, silver accessories, Dracula, witches, skulls, soldiers of evil, death and sickness. Second, aversion was realistically portrayed by frightening objects, extreme intimacy and motives that signify death and closely relative to cruelty to human bodies. It also became visible with physical destruction of the bodies and dissecting of internal organs, etc. Thirdly, its expression of humor is out of common sense with distorted human bodies by intentionally overemphasizing certain portion of the clothes or body parts. It also featured strangely deformed bodies by ignoring the typical shapes of clothes, vague definition of gender and using of unusual objects. Forth, half-man and half-beast images are portrayed using various types of bird species or animals to Identify disparity. It further defined this image in the form of non-human cyborg by incorporating technology.

• 수완나부미
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.229-246
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• 2022

Gabriel García Márquez's short story "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" ["El ahogado más hermoso del mundo," 1968] and the novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold [Crónica de una muerte anunciada, 1981] and Merlinda Bobis's novel Fish-Hair Woman (2012) and short story "O Beautiful Co-Spirit" (2021) feature unusual scenarios of death: the arrival of a drowned man's corpse at an island; the inaction of the community to stop the foretold death of a supposedly-innocent man; a woman with long hair that can fetch dead bodies at the bottom of the village river; and a Filipino Catholic and a Malaysian Muslim working together to prepare an Italian Catholic's corpse for a funeral. These narratives demand critical attention as all deaths make the community's existence meaningful as they alter its social reality. Looking into the works of the aforementioned Colombian writer and Filipino writer and unveiling how death affects the community, this paper relies on Jean-Luc Nancy's theory on death and inoperative community.

• Journal of Oral Medicine and Pain
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.27-40
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• 1987

When the men die, uniform changes progress. Many investigators have studied about the time after death, but it's very difficult to measure the time elapsed since death, particularly in highly decomposed or probably skeletonized bodies. But the teeth are very stable to the changes of physical and chemical properties and their changes are very slow. At this point of view, the author studied this theme as one of the pioneers in our country. In this study, the author observed the degree of the dentinal expansion and the crack of enamel and cementum of the teeth which had been extracted from December, 1983 to September, 1987. The teeth were extracted from the male and female who was 18 to 85 year old. The results are followed; 1. The degree of dentinal expansion increased rapidly until 7 months with high degree and then decreased slowly. 2. The equation of regression for representing x as the degree of the dentinal expansion and y as the time elapsed since death, is y = 29.43-1.13x (p<0.05) 3. The crack of the enamel surface seemed to begin at 1 year from extraction and to increase apparently before or after 20 months. 4. The crack of the cementum began at 3 months from extraction and dendrite crack began at 16 months from extraction. After this, the crack increase continuously and the rate of cracking were more rapid as compared with that of enamel. 5. It seems to be useful to measure the time elapsed since death using the degree of dentinal expansion and the crack of enamel and cementum, particularly in the old bodies after death.

• 대한임상검사과학회지
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.154-158
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• 2013

The unnatural dead body refers to a corpse which is suspicious of unusual death and the dead case has been occurred more than 20 thousands times every year during the recent five years and most of them are found decayed. Police Scientific Investigators investigate unnatural dead bodies and its surroundings in all-around way and determine whether the death is involved with a crime, and most of the Scientific Investigators are exposed to a danger to get infected with pathogenic bacteria which are generated during the decaying process of dead body and are mostly to cause serious injuries on human beings. In line with the fact, the present study conducted a bacterial analysis by collecting excretions from 60 dead bodies and culturing the bacteria to evaluate infection risk of the police agents. The study cultured bacteria from 60 bodies and classified pathogenic bacteria of 108 strains, and its main bacteria are found to be them (; Acinetobacter baumannii 20 strains (19%), Pseudomonas aeruginosa 19 strains (18%), E. coli 18 strains (17%), Klebsiella pneumoniae 11 strains (10%), Proteus mirabillis 10 strains (9%), Enterococcus faecium 10 strains (9%), Staphylococcus aureus 9 strains (8%), Bacillus spp. 5 strains (5%), Streptococcus pneumoniae 3 strains (3%), Candida albicans 2 strains (2%), Mycobacterium tuberculosis 1 strains (1%)). The study results are expected to be used as educational data for preventing the Police Scientific Investigator from infections with bacteria or as a minimum data for improving work environment of the agents.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.265-275
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• 2017

본 연구는 장례식장에서 사망자를 위생적으로 관리하기 위해 사망의 장소, 종류 및 원인 등 사망자들의 유형에 따라 체액 분출 등 사후 어떤 변화가 있는지 알아보고자 하였다. 사망자 858명을 대상으로 조사한 결과 평균 연령은 68.6세이며, 주요 사망의 원인은 83.0%가 병사이며, 사망 장소는 79.5%가 의료기관에서 발생되었다. 사망자에서 발생되는 체액 분출율은 전체 사망자의 46.2%에서 조사되었고, 사망의 종류에 따라서는 사고사가 78.8%로 가장 높고, 노화사는 10.8%로 가장 낮았다. 사망의 장소에 따른 의료기관 사망자는 46.3%, 주택 사망자는 38.6%인데 반해 기타 장소는 77.4%로 높았다. 사망의 원인으로 직접, 중간 및 선행 사인이 기록된 사망자 수는 크게 다르지만 체액 분출 비율은 비슷하였다. 장기 및 계통별 사망자 수는 직접, 중간 및 선행 사인 모두 호흡기질환과 심장질환 사망자 수가 가장 많고, 체액 분출은 직접 사인은 간질환 사망자가 가장 높고 소화기 및 혈액순환계 순이며, 중간 및 선행 사인에서는 기타 및 사고사가 가장 높은 비율을 보였다. 사망의 원인에 기록된 질병을 기준으로 한 사망자 수는 직접 사인은 심폐부전이 96명으로 가장 많고 폐렴 및 패혈증 순이며, 체액 분출은 사망자 수가 15명 이상 기준으로 담관암(73.3%)이 가장 높고, 췌장암, 중증뇌손상 및 간암 순으로 많았다. 따라서 사망자의 위생적 관리를 위해서는 보다 정확한 질병명과 발병기간을 명시하도록 하여야 하고, 사망자 이송과정에서는 관련 정보가 문서화 되고 체계적인 전달 시스템이 될 수 있도록 제도화 하여야 할 것이다.

• 대한기관식도과학회지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.92-95
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• 2003

Laryngeal foreign bodies are not common among the foreign bodies of aerodigestive tract. It is relatively easy to diagnose in acute phase of entry because of a readily\ulcorner available history of intake, and signs or symptoms referable to the foreign body in the highly sensitive air passage. However, on occasion, sudden death by respiratory failure occurs due to complete obstruction of airway. Therefore, it is common and safe to remove the laryngeal foreign bodies by suspension laryngoscope under general anesthesia after tracheostomy. Recently, the authors experienced a case of metallic foreign body in larynx penetrating neck, which was removed by suspension laryngoscope under general anesthesia without any life threatening complication.

• 대한기관식도과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기관식도과학회 1979년도 제13차 학술대회 연제순서 및 초록
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• pp.9.3-9
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• 1979

식도이물은 기도이물과 더불어 이비인후과영역에서 흔히 불 수 있는 질환으로서 그 발생동기가 환경 및 생활양식과 밀접한 관계가 있고 때로는 식도천공, 식도주위염, 식도주의농양, 종격동염, 기흉, 농흉 및 폐농양등의 중독한 합병증을 일으켜 생명에 위험을 초래하는 예도 적지 않다. 대부분의 식도이물은 식도경하에서 적출이 가능하지만, 이물이 식도내에 머물러 있으나 육아조직이 포위하여 식도경으로서 적출이 불가능 하든가 또는 이물이 식도벽을 뚫고 나가 형성한 농양내에 이물이 있을 매는 외과적수술에 의하여 경부나 흉부로 부터 들어가서 적출할 수 밖에 없다. 지금까지 국내외에서 식도이물에 관한 흥미로운 예나 그 종류 및 빈도에 대한 통계보고는 많았으나 이물자체로 인한 또 그 치료후에 발생한 합병증에 관한 보고는 별로 많지 않았다. 최근 저자들은 12재 남아에서 예리한 철사가 경부식도를 뚫고 나가 식도주위농양을 형성한 예와 40세 남자에서 음식물에 섞인 철사를 오연한 후 철사가 흉부식도를 뚫고 나가 식주위농양을 형성한 예를 각각 경부 및 흉부를 통한 외과적수술에 의하여 성공적으로 적출하여 완치시켰기에 문헌고찰과 함께 보고하는 바이다.