• Title/Summary/Keyword: Environments Changes

Search Result 1,458, Processing Time 0.029 seconds

A study on re-use intention through external stimuli and infection control of dental office perceived by medical consumer (의료소비자가 인식하는 치과의원의 감염관리와 외부자극을 통한 재이용의사에 관한 연구)

  • Cho, Min-Jeong
    • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
    • /
    • v.11 no.4
    • /
    • pp.571-580
    • /
    • 2011
  • Objectives : This study focused on examine the relevance between behavioral changes of customers and re-use intention on medical institution after experiencing infection control through external stimuli. Methods : This research was based on self-standing survey conducted from August to November 2010, 214 people who randomly selected from five dental clinics located in Busan were analyzed as the final group. Collected data were performed using SPSS 12.0 for Window. Results : 1. 82.8% of those surveyed who experienced external stimulation have changed their behavior on hospital environments and facilities, and 80.5% of them answered the stimuli influenced their re-use intention on medical institution. 2. There were no significant differences between participants by general characteristics on 'The reason why medical team wear sanitary appliances'. In age group 30~39, 85.4% of participants chose the answer so the difference were statistically significant(p<.001). Result by household income showed significant difference in group over $1,000 to $2,000 as 82.7% response(p<.05). 3. 94.4% of participants chose 'Required' for both surgical suits and gloves in research of 'The necessity level of personal sanitary appliances' which medical teams wear for treatment and 79.4% agreed that medical teams need to change their medical gloves whenever treating each patients. 4. The survey revealed that the most important appliance in patient's awareness were surgical gloves and protective goggles has chosen as the least important one. Conclusions : Patients as medical consumer were highly noticed of importance of the infection control in dental clinic and necessity of personal sanitary appliances. The patients who has accessed dental infection control information by external stimuli in advance showed objectival changes of their visit and behavioral changes with bringing medical environments together. This aspects influenced those patient's re-use intention in conclusion.

Quality Control Methods for CTD Data Collected by Using Instrumented Marine Mammals: A Review and Case Study (해양포유류 부착 CTD 관측 자료의 품질 관리 방법에 관한 고찰 및 사례 연구)

  • Yoon, Seung-Tae;Lee, Won Young
    • Ocean and Polar Research
    • /
    • v.43 no.4
    • /
    • pp.321-334
    • /
    • 2021
  • 'Marine mammals-based observations' refers to data acquisition activities from marine mammals by instrumenting CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth) sensors on them for recording vertical profiles of ocean variables such as temperature and salinity during animal diving. It is a novel data collecting platform that significantly improves our abilities in observing extreme environments such as the Southern Ocean with low cost compared to the other conventional methods. Furthermore, the system continues to create valuable information until sensors are detached, expanding data coverage in both space and time. Owing to these practical advantages, the marine mammals-based observations become popular to investigate ocean circulation changes in the Southern Ocean. Although these merits may bring us more opportunities to understand ocean changes, the data should be carefully qualified before we interpret it incorporating shipboard/autonomous vehicles/moored CTD data. In particular, we need to pay more attention to salinity correction due to the usage of an unpumped-CTD sensor tagged on marine mammals. In this article, we introduce quality control methods for the marine mammals-based CTD profiles that have been developed in recent studies. In addition, we discuss strategies of quality control specifically for the seal-tagging CTD profiles, successfully having been obtained near Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea, Antarctica since February 2021. It is the Korea Polar Research Institute's research initiative of animal-borne instruments monitoring in the region. We anticipate that this initiative would facilitate collaborative efforts among Polar physical oceanographers and even marine mammal behavior researchers to understand better rapid changes in marine environments in the warming world.

A Study on Advertising Future Development Roadmap in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Era

  • Ahn, Jong Bae
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
    • /
    • v.12 no.2
    • /
    • pp.66-76
    • /
    • 2020
  • We The 4th industrial revolution, the core characteristics of super-intelligence, hyper-connective, and ultrareality, has been actualized. New technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, the Internet of Things, and high-tech video have begun to be applied to media and advertising. With the introduction of new technologies in the advertising field, innovative changes in advertising types, advertising effects, advertising methods, and advertising contents are expected. Accordingly, We intends to design a future advertising roadmap development by predicting how future advertising will change and develop through future technologies in the 4th industrial revolution era. To design the roadmap, this study analyzes changes in advertising technology, consumer, and media as changes in the advertising environment in the 4th industrial revolution era, and identifies the core changing trends, advertising factors in future advertising through the Delphi Survey on experts in advertising and future fields. We identifies how the future advertising technology, types, media, effects, and fields are developed by the changes of future advertising environments, including technology, consumers, and media in the 4th industrial revolution era. Hence it is expected to help the advertising industry and experts to prepare for future changes.

Structural Changes of the Spinach Photosystem II Reaction Center After Inactivation by Heat Treatment

  • Jang, Won-Cheoul;Tae, Gun-Sik
    • BMB Reports
    • /
    • v.29 no.1
    • /
    • pp.58-62
    • /
    • 1996
  • The structural changes in the electron donor side of the PSII reaction center have been monitored since heat treatment ($45^{\circ}C$ for 5 min) of thylakoids is known to decrease the oxygen evolving activity. In heat-treated spinach chloroplast thylakoids, the inhibitory effect of 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (DCMU) on the electron transport activity of the PSII reaction center from diphenyl carbazide to dichlorophenolindophenol became reduced approximately 3.8 times and [$^{14}C$]-labeled DCMU binding on the D1 polypeptide decreased to 25~30% that of intact thylakoid membranes, implying that the conformational changes of the DCMU binding pocket, residing on the D1 polypeptide, occur by heat treatment. The accessibility of trypsin to the $NH_2$-terminus of the cytochrome b-559 ${\alpha}$-subunit, assayed with Western blot using an antibody generated against the synthetic peptide (Arg-68 to Arg-80) of the COOH-terminal domain, was also increased, indicating that heat-treatment caused changes in the structural environments near the stromal side of the cytochrome b-559 ${\alpha}$-subunit, allowing trypsin more easily to cleave the $NH_2$-terminal domain. Therefore, the structural changes in the electron donor side of the PSII reaction center complexes could be one of the reasons why the oxygen evolving activity of the heat-treated thylakoid membranes decreased.

  • PDF

Study of Urban Land Cover Changes Relative to Demographic and Residential Form Changes: A Case Study of Wonju City, Korea

  • Han, Gab-Soo;Kim, Mintai
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
    • /
    • v.31 no.4
    • /
    • pp.288-296
    • /
    • 2015
  • In many very high density cities in Asia in which there is limited area to expand, growth is forced upward as well as outward. Densely packed detached houses and low-rise buildings are replaced by lower density high-rises, leaving open spaces between high-rise buildings. Through this process, areas that formerly did not have much green space gain valuable green spaces, and new ecological corridors and patches are created. In this study, the demographic and housing-type changes of Wonju City were delineated using land use maps, aerial images, census data, and other administrative data. Green area changes were calculated using land cover data derived from multi-year Landsat TM satellite imagery. The values were then compared against demographic and housing-type changes for each administrative unit. The overall results showed a decrease of forested area in the city and an increase of developed area. Urban sprawl was clearly visible in many of the suburban areas. However, as expected, we also detected areas in which greenness did not decrease when the population greatly increased. These areas were characterized by residential building complexes of ten or more stories. If an equal number of housing units had been built as detached houses, these areas would not have kept as much green space. Our research result showed that high-density and high-rise residential structures can offer an alternative means to protect or create urban green spaces in high-density urban environments.

Scene Recognition based Autonomous Robot Navigation robust to Dynamic Environments (동적 환경에 강인한 장면 인식 기반의 로봇 자율 주행)

  • Kim, Jung-Ho;Kweon, In-So
    • The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
    • /
    • v.3 no.3
    • /
    • pp.245-254
    • /
    • 2008
  • Recently, many vision-based navigation methods have been introduced as an intelligent robot application. However, many of these methods mainly focus on finding an image in the database corresponding to a query image. Thus, if the environment changes, for example, objects moving in the environment, a robot is unlikely to find consistent corresponding points with one of the database images. To solve these problems, we propose a novel navigation strategy which uses fast motion estimation and a practical scene recognition scheme preparing the kidnapping problem, which is defined as the problem of re-localizing a mobile robot after it is undergone an unknown motion or visual occlusion. This algorithm is based on motion estimation by a camera to plan the next movement of a robot and an efficient outlier rejection algorithm for scene recognition. Experimental results demonstrate the capability of the vision-based autonomous navigation against dynamic environments.

  • PDF

An Overview: Current Control Technique for Propulsion Motor for EV (전기자동차 구동용 모터를 위한 전류 제어 기술)

  • Lee, Hee-Kwang;Nam, Kwang-Hee
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
    • /
    • v.21 no.5
    • /
    • pp.388-395
    • /
    • 2016
  • Electric vehicles (EV) and hybrid EVs (HEV) are designed and manufactured by GM, Toyota, Honda, and Hyundai motors. The propulsion system design process for EV requires integrating subsystem designs into an overall system model to maximize the performance of a given propulsion architecture. Therefore, high-power density and high-torque density are important attributes required for EV applications. To improve torque and power density, propulsion motors are designed for saturation during high-torque operation. The nonlinearity associated with core saturation is modeled by incorporating the cross-coupling inductances, which also behave nonlinearly. Furthermore, in EV environments, the battery is directly connected to the DC link, and the battery changes depending on the state of charge. It will be onerous if as many optimal current commands as different $V_{dc}$ were made. This paper presents the optimal current commands in the various operating condition and the current control technique in EV environments.

Variation of Viability and Infectivity of Cryptosporidium Exposed to River Environments During Winter (동절기 자연수계 환경에 노출된 크립토스포리디움의 활성 및 감염성 변화)

  • Park, Sang-Jung;Jung, Il-Jin
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
    • /
    • v.34 no.5
    • /
    • pp.382-386
    • /
    • 2008
  • This study was designed to establish the time frame of viability and infectivity of Cryptosporidium, when the Cryptosporidium is discharged to the aquatic environment. Changes in viability and infectivity of Cryptosporidium in relation to temperature and pH were investigated during winter (Dec 05-Feb 06) using semipermeable cellulose tubes containing infective Cryptosporidium. Infectivity was maintained at 50% after 30 days and almost completely lost after 50 days. It was also established that viability was maintained at about 8% after 90 days.

Workflow based storing and reconstructing model for XML documents (워크플로우 기반의 XML문서의 변경저장 및 재생성모델)

  • 배혜림;허원창;강석호
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
    • /
    • 2003.11a
    • /
    • pp.53-56
    • /
    • 2003
  • Recent business environments require a company to communicate frequently with other companies. This makes it essential to use XML (extensible Markup Language) documents. Especially in e-Business environments, change management of documents is important to record and trace the history of the documents. It is also important to reconstruct a certain version of documents that are exchanged among companies. In this paper, we propose a new method of storing a document by detecting changes automatically and reconstructing the document version when a user requests. A prototype system is implemented on top of a workflow system. Our approach provides efficiency of storage space and convenient management of documents.

  • PDF

Design of Filament Wound Composite Tubes under Thermal Contraction (열수축을 하는 필라멘트 와인딩 복합재료 관의 설계)

  • 정태은;신효철
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
    • /
    • v.17 no.10
    • /
    • pp.2407-2417
    • /
    • 1993
  • Thermal deformations and stresses due to temperature changes are the serious problems in cryogenic structures such as the torque tube in a superconducting generator, In this paper, the equations of thermal expansion coefficients expressed only by material properties and winding angles are derived for the filament wound composite tubes. The experimental results of thermal contraction of CFRP tubes are compared with those from theoretical approach. Composite tubes with optimally regulated thermal expansion coefficient are designed on the basis of the study for the torque tube in the superconducting generator with temperature distributions varying from 300K to 4.2 K. The filament winding angle of composites resisting thermal stresses properly is sought by the finite element method using layered shell elements. The results show that the composite tubes designed for the requirements in cryogenic environments can effectively cope with the thermal stress problem.