• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제28권3E호
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• pp.109-117
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• 2009

Identity recognition in real environment with a reliable mode is a key issue in human computer interaction (HCI). In this paper, we present a robust person identification system considering score-based optimal reliability measure of audio-visual modalities. We propose an extension of the modified reliability function by introducing optimizing parameters for both of audio and visual modalities. For degradation of visual signals, we have applied JPEG compression to test images. In addition, for creating mismatch in between enrollment and test session, acoustic Babble noises and artificial illumination have been added to test audio and visual signals, respectively. Local PCA has been used on both modalities to reduce the dimension of feature vector. We have applied a swarm intelligence algorithm, i.e., particle swarm optimization for optimizing the modified convection function's optimizing parameters. The overall person identification experiments are performed using VidTimit DB. Experimental results show that our proposed optimal reliability measures have effectively enhanced the identification accuracy of 7.73% and 8.18% at different illumination direction to visual signal and consequent Babble noises to audio signal, respectively, in comparison with the best classifier system in the fusion system and maintained the modality reliability statistics in terms of its performance; it thus verified the consistency of the proposed extension.

• Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Science
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.139-145
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• 2018

Objective: Older persons with diabetes mellitus (DM) are particularly more likely to have fallen in the previous year than those without DM. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the risk of falls and type 2 DM in older adults who are 65 years of age or above. Design: A systematic review. Methods: PubMed and other two databases were searched up to August 2, 2018. Observational and cohort studies evaluating fall risk in people who are 65 years of age or above with DM were included. This review extracted the following information from each study selected: first author's surname, year of publication, country, average follow-up period, sex, age at enrollment, study population, measurement variables, relative risk, 95% confidence intervals and controlled variables. Results: This review involved nine cohort studies with 3,765 older adults with DM and 12,989 older adults without DM. Six studies compared with or without DM and two studies compared fallers with non-fallers with DM. Risk factors for falls included impaired cognitive function, diabetes-related complications (peripheral nerve dysfunction, visual impairment), and physical function (balance, gait velocity, muscle strength, and severity of physical activities). Conclusions: People who are 65 years of age or above with DM have increased risk of falling caused by impaired cognitive function, peripheral nerve dysfunction, visual impairment, and physical function in community-dwellers. For adults who are 65 years of age or older with DM, research fields and clinical settings should consider therapeutic approaches to improve these risk factors for falls.

• 한국조리학회지
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.99-118
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• 2000

This study attempts to identify the level of conflicts occurring between foreign and domestic chefs, and to suggest the way of controlling those conflicts in order to well manage human resources, foreign chefs. Based on the empirical research, the research findings shows that in terms of targeting and achieving objectives different level of conflicts are experienced when age, hotel type, position varies. For example. purchasing excessive foreign foods may cause undesirable stock which will lead to considerable loss. In order to overcome this problem the advantages of the chain-operated and the independent hotel's food purchasing system must be incorporated. Secondly, another conflicts arise when the architecture and system of a kitchen is different from what foreign chefs are familiar with. Kitchen architecture and system should be well-designed in terms of delivery channel, sanitation, safety, food control, banquet etc.. In developing menu, chefs often have different criteria in the scale of sweet and salt of a particular dish. Foreign chefs often blame his subordinates for not meeting his requirements without proper training or education. Finally, because of the different culture, communication as well as the lack of mutual understanding problem occur. Even though today is called global town. some chefs do not seem to open their minds to learn other developing countries' culture. In diversity management aspect, chefs need to put much effort to be aware of other countries' culture, history, political and economic situation. In prior to employing foreign chefs, the job enrollment and description must be prepared so as to minimize the conflicts, which otherwise will create poor job performance.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.613-623
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• 2007

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe the operation, staffing, and services provided at adult day care centers in Korea. Methods: The study was a cross-sectional descriptive survey. The subjects were 209 centers among 280 centers registered in Korea (response rate 74.6%). The data was collected from August to December in 2006. Results: 48.8% of centers were located in a city area. The centers were based on the Social Model 65.5% of the centers were open Monday to Friday, an average of $7{\sim}8$ hours per day Dementia, stroke or frail elderly could use the center, and 57.4% of centers were used for dementia and stroke elderly together. The enrollment of elderly was 13.5. The number of total staff was 8.27, the number of RN's and social workers was 0.67, and 2.54 respectively. The social services(Meal preparation 98.6%, Special event 98.1%, Transportation, 97.1%) were provided more than the health services(Physical therapy 98.1%, ADL training 95.2%, Counseling 84 7%, Vaccination 82.8%, Health monitoring 78.9%, Health education 78.5%, Bathing 66.1%, and Speech therapy 28.2%). Conclusion: These results suggest we have to develop a health-focused adult day health care model based on the needs of elderly and their families. Nurses will have an important role in adult day health care.

• 한국지역사회생활과학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.45-54
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to identify the relationships between early childhood socioemotional development and day care experience and daycare quality. The subjects were 116 children, age 5 years old, from 17 daycare centers. The teachers at the 17 daycare centers rated the quality of their facility while the mothers of the 116 children assessed their children's socioemotional development. Daycare experience was composed of: the time period, hours per day, and the child's starting age at enrollment in daycare. Daycare quality was measured by questionnaire developed by Park(1995). Children's socioemotional development was rated by K-CBCL (Oh et al. 1997). The results were as follows. First, starting daycare experience less than 2 years of age, attending more than 6 days per week, and attending more than 8 hours per day of daycare experience were negatively related with children's development. Second, quality of daycare such as child-centered curriculum, abundant interaction between teachers and parents, opportunity for continuing education of teachers, higher levels of rewards and incentives for teachers, and the provision of nutritious food were positively related to the children's development.

• 대한한의학회지
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• 제28권3호통권71호
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• pp.116-125
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• 2007

Objective : To overview the protocols of clinical acupuncture research on cancer in the USA. Methods : Using 'acupuncture' and 'cancer' as keyword search terms in Clinical Trials. gov, 28 clinical studies were found. Three studies by non-American institutions were excluded and 25 studies were analyzed. Analytic parameters were cancer condition, primary outcome, research institution, study design, and acupuncture intervention. Results : Breast cancer was the most frequent single condition in the searched protocols. Pain and quality of life were the primary outcomes in many studies. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centerin New York has performed the largest number of acupuncture cancer studies. The majority of studies were randomized controlled trials with active controls or placebo/sham controls. Total enrollment varied between the range of 10 and 700 subjects and ages of these subjects were at least above 18 years old (except one protocol). Most protocols had strict exclusion criteria for acupuncture needling such as bleeding disorders, infection, heart disorder, and central nervous system disorder. Conclusions : Clinical acupuncture studies for cancer patients have focused on pain, quality of life, and side effects induced by anti-cancer therapies. Re-evaluation and cautions for strict exclusion criteria in foreign countries are required to perform multi-national acupuncture trials.

• 한국도서관정보학회지
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.5-25
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• 2010

미국 RCPL과 전주시립도서관의 여러 측면들을 비교 분석한 결과 RCPL이 예산, 직원수 등이 훨씬 많고 정보 매체의 양과 질, 이용횟수, 홍보 등 거의 모든 면에서 우수한 것으로 나타났다. 특히 전주시립도서관의 '지역민의 회원수 비율', 정보 매체의 질과 양, 대출건수, 독서회 참가자수, 홍보 등이 RCPL에 비하여 크게 부족한 것으로 나타났다. 다만 자원봉사자의 수는 전주시립도서관이 많았고 인구를 감안하지 않은 연간 방문자 수도 전주시립도서관이 더 많은 것으로 나타났다. 예산이나 인력이 제한되어 있는 상황에서 서비스의 질적 향상은 한계가 있으므로 도서관 관계자들은 더 많은 예산과 인력의 확보를 위하여 고민하여야 할 것이다. 더 많은 예산과 인력을 지원받기 위해서는 현재 전주시립도서관에서 실시하고 있는 서비스가 시민들에게 얼마나 많은 혜택을 주고 있는지 구체적 서비스의 내용을 시민과 행정당국에게 잘 홍보하여야 한다. 더불어 향후에 공공도서관에서도 기부금 모집 등록을 통하여 기부금을 활용할 수 있도록 적극적인 활동이 필요할 것으로 보인다.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2003년도 추계학술발표논문집 (상)
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• pp.523-526
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• 2003

생체정보를 이용한 보안 솔루션이 활발하게 연구되고 있는 가운데, 지문은 가장 널리 사용되고 또한 중점적으로 연구되고 있는 생체특징의 하나로 자리잡았다. 지문인식 시스템에 사용되는 지문 입력기는 광학식, 반도체식 등 다양하나 입력방식은 주로 압착날인식으로 회전식과 달리 손가락 끝을 입력창에 대어 그 순간 접촉된 면의 지문만을 입력받게 된다. 그러므로 입력된 지문영상은 전체지문과 비교했을 때 극히 일부분에 불과하여, 이러한 제한된 영역으로부터 획득된 지문영상들을 비교한다면 비록 동일 지문이라 할지라도 획득 위치의 상이함으로 인해 타인 지문으로 오인식할 소지가 있다. 또한 특징점에 기반한 지문인증 알고리즘의 경우에는 두 지문으로부터 추출된 특징점의 위치 및 상태 정보의 신뢰성에 전적으로 의존하게되므로 특징점의 오추출 및 누락이 전체 시스템 성능을 좌우하게된다. 그러므로 가능한한 넓은 영역의 지문을 사용하고 신뢰할 만한 특징 추출 결과를 얻는 것이 에러율을 개선하는데 필수적이라 하겠다. 이에, 본 논문에서는 사용자 등록시 한 지문에서 획득한 복수의 지문영상을 이용하여 정렬 및 정합 과정을 거친 후 지문영상의 영역을 확장하고 해당 지문영상에서 추출된 특징점을 비교하여 유효하지 않은 특징점을 제거하는 과정을 통하여 등록시 저장되는 특징점 템플릿의 신뢰도를 높여주는 방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리즘은 결과의 객관성을 확보하기 위하여 FVC 2002에서 제공하는 데이터베이스로 테스트한 결과 2.12%의 EER(Equal Error Rate)을 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국임상약학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.291-297
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• 2016

Background: The current educational goals and missions of pharmacy schools in Korea were analyzed to examine the current orientation and future direction of pharmaceutical education. Methods: Educational mission statements were obtained from the homepages of 35 pharmacy schools and subjected to convert into codes. Themes and categories were induced using qualitative content-analysis from the codes and compared according to location of school (capital area versus province), public versus private, and date of initial enrollment (before versus in 2011). The themes and categories were compared with "the eight-star pharmacist" suggested by World Health Organization (WHO) and International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). Results: Twelve themes, 44 categories, and 496 codes were identified. Themes included pharmaceutical expertise, professionalism, contribution to society, basic educational ideology, sphere of activity, leadership, research, dealing with future change, problem-solving ability, self-management and development, cooperation, and respect for life. Mission statements of schools that initially enrolled in 2011 cited humankind level contribution (p=0.011), patient-centered care (p=0.026), and globalization (p=0.018) more frequently than those enrolled before 2011. Most schools mentioned about care-giver, researcher, and decision-maker which were stated in "the eight-star pharmacist". Conclusion: To meet the growing social requirements of a pharmacist's roles, wide-ranging active discussion on establishing educational goals should be made.

• 지역사회간호학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.508-517
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• 2019

Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify the participation rate of the National Health Screening Program (NHSP) and its influencing factors by cognitive function level in Korean older adults. Methods: This study was a secondary analysis using data from the survey of the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging in 2016. The data were analyzed using 𝑥² test and multiple logistic regression. Results: The participation rates of the NHSP in the mild cognitive impairment group (79.6%) and the suspected dementia group (58.0%) were lower than the normal cognitive function group (88.1%). The factors influencing NHSP varied by cognitive function level. Especially, in the suspected dementia group, higher participation rates of the NHSP were associated with living in rural areas, enrollment in private health insurance, no depressive symptoms, participation in social activities, and no living with children. Depression and participation in social activities influenced participation in NHSP in all groups. Conclusion: This study suggests that interventions differentiated by cognitive function level are important for increasing the participation in the health screening.