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The Effects of Functional Task Training on Activities of Daily Living in the Fall Experienced Elderly (기능적 과제훈련이 낙상경험노인의 일상생활수행능력에 미치는 영향: 단일대상연구)

  • Woo, Ji Hee;Park, Hae Yean;Kim, Jong Bae
    • Therapeutic Science for Rehabilitation
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.43-54
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    • 2016
  • Objective : The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of occupational therapeutic intervention including functional task training on activities daily living of falls experienced elderly. Methods : This study used a single subject experimental design with alternating treatment and reversal design. One participant who have had falls experience among the community-dwelling elderly completed. This study a total of 18 sessions were conducted. Fall Efficiency Scale(FES), Berg Balance Scale(BBS) and task modification scale were used to assess the activities of daily living during each session, and Canadian Occupational Performance Measure(COPM) and Assessment of Home-based Activities(AHA) were used to evaluate the activities of daily living at pre-and post-test. Results : The participant showed significant improvements in the FES, BBS scores. However, the improvement was greater when progressive resistance exercise was practised along with functional task training. COPM and AHA scores improved at post-test. Conclusions : These findings provide evidence for occupational therapeutic intervention for falls-experienced elderly.

Evaluation of the Humpty Dumpty Falls Scale: An Analysis of Electronic Medical Records (소아 낙상위험 측정도구 (Humpty Dumpty Falls Scale) 평가: 전자의무기록을 이용하여)

  • Cho, Yun Hee;Kim, Young Ju
    • Journal of Korean Clinical Nursing Research
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.142-150
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    • 2019
  • Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of the Humpty Dumpty Falls Scale as one of the falls risk assessment tools, and also to evaluate risk factors as predictors of falls in pediatric patient populations. Methods: In a retrospective, case-control design with data from the electronic medical records of 13 pediatric patients who fell and 1,941 who did not fall before matching and 429 who did not fall after matching by gender, age, diagnosis, and length of stay. Results: All the variables showed no significant differences after matching. At the cutoff score of 13, sensitivity, specificity, negative and positive predictive values were 92.3%, 37.1%, 99.9%, and 0.01%, respectively. The area under the Receiver Operating Characteristics was 0.597. The results from the logistic regression showed that the pediatric inpatient population who had higher risk scores was significantly associated with falls. The odds ratios ranged from 1.31 to 4.71 with 90% confidence interval. Conclusion: The saturation impairments criterion as one of the diagnostic parameter was negatively associated with falls, but the relative risk score was higher than the other criteria. Therefore, it seems that the diagnostic parameter seems to be required to verify results through large sample studies.

A Study on TCP Efficiency Improvements from Network Mobile Environment (네트워크 이동 환경에서의 TCP 성능 향상에 관한 연구)

  • Cho, Hyun-Seob
    • Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.375-378
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    • 2011
  • Measurement of network traffic have shown that the self-similarity is a ubiquitous phenomenon spanning across diverse network environments. In previous work, we have explored the feasibility of exploiting the long-range correlation structure in a self-similar traffic for the congestion control. We have advanced the framework of the multiple time scale congestion control and showed its effectiveness at enhancing performance for the rate-based feedback control.

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Development of Safety Strap to Prevent Fall Accidents (추락 사고 방지를 위한 안전대 개발)

  • Lim, kyeongmin;Jang, Myunghoun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2021.05a
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    • pp.159-160
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    • 2021
  • Every year on a construction site safety scale of the crash of an accident, but the large and small, accounting for more than half. In Construction Field wearing safety belts for their safety, but the impact of fracture, including the risk of injury occurs. Accordingly, the death as well as by the crash, injuries that can reduce the size of the invention was driven by safety belts.

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Control of Turbid Water Transport with Filamentous Mat in Lake (섬모상 매트에 의한 저수지와 댐에서 탁수확산차단 기술의 개발)

  • Yi, Qitao;Yu, Jianghua;Park, Sung-Soon;Kim, Young-Chul
    • Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.888-890
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    • 2009
  • This study presented a lab-scale apparatus for turbidity control in the lakes or reservoirs. Overall, the filamentous mat had a capture efficiency of 70~90% compared with the control group. Generally, the capture efficiency decreased with improved input turbidity flux. However, the attachment and sedimentation were thought to be the main processes for turbidity water retention and removal. Thus, the increase of hydraulic detention time in the mat zone is very important to improve the capture efficiency of the turbidity water.

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A Study of the Indoor Air Quality Improvement for Large Scale Assembly Facilities (건축물의 대공간 집회시설의 실내공기질 개선방안에 관한 연구)

  • Lim, Tae-Sub;Kang, Seung-Mo
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.183-190
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    • 2011
  • Lately majority of churches have preferred to enlarge their worship area to both horizontal and vertical axis. According to expand their area which brings more devotees to the limited service area. Transform from a small church into a large church is no longer unprecedented issue in South Korea. As the size of church getting bigger, many unexpected issues become matters. One of the significant problem is that the number of people have experienced either fall a sleep or feel a doziness during their service period. Due to the limited condition for the specific building type such as religion facility(church), IAQ improvements is seriously concerned. Therefore, we are going to examine by using simulation tool, CF, a difference of ventilation efficiency about the location and number of windows, and find the best way of the ventilation efficiency in a multi-stories type church by changing the exhaust pipes location and size. Furthermore, in this thesis, by changing a ceiling height from the existing building to confirm that $CO_2$ have been satisfied for both the ventilation efficiency and IAQ.

Effective Textile Wastewater Treatment : Pilot-Scale Study (파일롯 스케일에서의 효율적인 염색폐수 처리)

  • Park, Chulhwan;Kim, Tak-Hyun;Lee, Jinwon;Kim, Seung-Wook;Kim, Sangyong
    • Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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    • 2001.05a
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    • pp.82-83
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    • 2001
  • Selected microbes was applied to the treatment of textile wastewater with support particles. To enhance the treatment efficiency, biological treatment was achieved as first process. Wastewater with a COD of 870 ppm and color of 1340 PtCo unit was continuously treated in a 1.8 ton capacity reactor. In the case of combined processes, the effluent COD concentration and color were 40 ppm (95.4% reduction) and 20 PtCo unit (98.5% reduction).

Biofiltration Modeling for Packing Media Compared To a Small-scale Operation (바이오필터 담체 모델링 및 운전자료 비교에 대한 연구)

  • Huh Nam-Soo;Cho Daechul;Kwon Sung-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.272-273
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    • 2004
  • Filter media are one of themost important choices when bilfiltration is applied. Filter media provide adsorbing microbes with available sites for residence and the residential cells grow to degrade or decompose target waste gases. Up to date, filter media were only qualitatively analyzed. As a quantitative approach to filter material for biofiltration, a simple model based on reaction kinetics and mass action law (Ottengraf's Model in 1983) was presented. Cork, zeolite, and granulated activated carbon were tested in terms of effective surface area, cell covered fraction of adsorbing sites, surface roughness, and pore size distribution. The cell covered fraction, surface roughness and hydrophilicity was found to be closely related to the efficiency of gas degradation in biofiltration. The cork was the best candidate for cell residence and growth in this work.

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Improvement of Water Treatment Efficiency by pH Decreasing Agent (H2SO4) for Droughty Seasons (갈수기 정수장운영관리 사례 - 갈수기 pH저감제(황산)투입에 의한 정수처리효율 향상)

  • Ka, Gilhyun;Kim, Yunyung;Lee, Junho;Ahn, Chihwa;Han, Ihnsup;Min, Byungdae
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.415-422
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    • 2008
  • Drinking water treatment is enhanced by coagulant dosages and chlorine injection because of pH increase in raw water in droughty seasons such as spring and fall. But water quality deterioration is occurred by increase in residual aluminium and disinfection by-products. Coagulation process can be used to control natural organic matter (NOM) during water treatment. The effect of coagulation process appeared to depend on the pH of water rather than coagulant dosages. In this study, for water treatment in high pH season $H_2SO_4$ was applied for pH adjustment at full scale. Before and after pH adjustment by $H_2SO_4$ injection, water quality of drinking water was evaluate. In the result of investigation of total organic carbon (TOC) removal in high pH season, TOC was removed approximately 30~40%, which showed decrease in water treatment efficiency. Also, it is increased both particle numbers and residual Al concentration in the water. After $H_2SO_4$ injection for adjustment to pH<7.5 in settled water, treated water turbidity decreased in 0.047 NTU from 0.059 NTU, and particle numbers of filtered water decreased in 20/mL from 90/mL. On the other side, TOC removal efficiency increased in approximately 10% after adjustment of pH. In the result of decrease in pH in raw water through more coagulants and prechlorine without $H_2SO_4$ injection, trihalomethanes (THMs) concentration increased in $16{\mu}g/L$ from $8{\mu}g/L$.

Brief Review of Silicon Solar Cells (실리콘 태양전지)

  • Yi, Jun-Sin
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.161-166
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    • 2007
  • Photovoltaic (PV) technology permits the transformation of solar light directly into electricity. For the last five years, the photovoltaic sector has experienced one of the highest growth rates worldwide (over 30% in 2006) and for the next 20 years, the average production growth rate is estimated to be between 27% and 34% annually. Currently the cost of electricity produced using photovoltaic technology is above that for traditional energy sources, but this is expected to fall with technological progress and more efficient production processes. A large scale production of solar grade silicon material of high purity could supply the world demand at a reasonably lower cost. A shift from crystalline silicon to thin film is expected in the future. The technical limit for the conversion efficiency is about 30%. It is assumed that in 2030 thin films will have a major market share (90%) and the share of crystalline cells will have decreased to 10%. Our research at Sungkyunkwan University of South Korea is confined to crystalline silicon solar cell technology. We aim to develop a technology for low cost production of high efficiency silicon solar cell. We have successfully fabricated silicon solar cells of efficiency more than 16% starting with multicrystalline wafers and that of efficiency more than 17% on single crystalline wafers with screen printing metallization. The process of transformation from the first generation to second generation solar cell should be geared up with the entry of new approaches but still silicon seems to remain as the major material for solar cells for many years to come. Local barriers to the implementation of this technology may also keep continuing up to year 2010 and by that time the cost of the solar cell generated power is expected to be 60 cent per watt. Photovoltaic source could establish itself as a clean and sustainable energy alternate to the ever depleting and polluting non-renewable energy resource.