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Trends of Domestic Research on Home Modification for the Elderly (고령자 주택개조에 관한 국내 선행연구 경향)

  • Park, Ji-Seon;Jang, Mi-Seon;Lee, Yeun-Sook
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.25-32
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    • 2017
  • As the elderly population increases rapidly, existing houses many elderly reside are under poor conditions that they work as a factor to impede on the independent living of elderly people. Thus, improving existing housing environment to suit the needs of elderly life has been required. Academics has been continuously researched on the field considering the importance of elderly housing modification and the importance on the research of this field is projected to be greater with the coming of aging society. Hence, this study has a purpose on analyzing trends of previous studies related to housing modification for the elderly published in Korean academic journals in depth. This study is a content analysis study and analyzed the trend of previous studies with academic journal field, purpose of study, research subject, research area, research method, research content as analysis categories. As a result, previous studies was published the most in natural science academic journals and main stream of research was to suggest direction of housing modification by conducting surveys on actual conditions and needs of single elderly families and to suggest improving the directions of policies related to modification. On the other hand, empirical studies needed to execute housing modification such as standard and method of housing modification and supporting tools are still at minimal level that researches on this field should be conducted additionally. This study is expected to be used as basis to examine the current state of previous studies on housing modification for the elderly and to seek further research directions.

Development and Implementation of Dam Safety Management System (댐 안전관리 시스템의 개발 및 운용)

  • Jeon, Je Sung;Lee, Jong Wook;Shin, Dong Hoon;Park, Han Gyu
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.121-130
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    • 2008
  • Recently, we can see an increasing amount of dam damage or failure due to aging, earthquakes occurrence and unusual changes in weather. For this reason, dam safety is gaining more importance than ever before in terms of disaster management at a national level. Therefore, the government is trying to come up with an array of legal actions to secure consistent dam safety. Other dam management organizations are also taking various institutional and technical measures for the same purpose. In this study, Dam Safety Management System, KDSMS, has developed for consistent and efficient dam safety management. The KDSMS consists of dam and reservoir data, a hydrological information system, a field inspection and data management system, a instrumentation and monitoring system including earthquake monitoring, a field investigation and safety evaluation system, and a collective information system. The KDSMS is a kind of enterprise management system which has been developed to deal with safety management of each field, research center, and headquarter office and their correlation as well as detailed safety information management.

Aging, Cracking and Deformation Characteristics of Selected Polymer-modified Asphalt Concretes (특정 개질아스팔트 혼합물의 노화, 균열 및 변형 특성)

  • Lee, Hak-I.;Kim, Hyun-H.;Park, Nam-Won;Kim, Kwang-W.
    • International Journal of Highway Engineering
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.205-219
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    • 2008
  • The polymers, low-density polyethylene (LDPE) and styrene-butadiene-styrene(SBS) -modified asphalt mixtures are advanced asphalt pavement materials in which $3{\sim}6%$ of them, and/or some other additive, by weight of total binder are added. The purpose of modifying asphalt material is to improve typical weakness such as rutting and cracking resistance of normal asphalt mixtures. These materials have been proved to show many advantages and practical applicability in the plant and field. Wet processed PMA binder and/or dry processed asphalt mixtures are developed as field products for many years. The objective of this paper is to show the characteristics of the LDPE and SBS-modified asphalt mixtures by comprehensive evaluation and comparison with those of normal asphalt mixtures.

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A Study on the Development of High-intensity focused Ultrasound Device for the Beauty Treatment Health Care (미용 치료 헬스케어를 위한 고강도 집속 초음파 장치 개발 연구)

  • Lee, Woo-Cheol;Ko, Yun-Seok
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.11 no.12
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    • pp.1259-1264
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    • 2016
  • Ultrasonic therapy has received great attention in the field of cosmetics related to the treatment of skin thickening because of its fast recovery and safety. In this study, an output circuit of a high intensity focused ultrasound system was developed for the treatment of beauty. To verify the applicability of the high intensity focused ultrasound system to the cosmetic treatment field, we measured and analyzed the 3D ultrasound intensity energy using a hydrophone. And high-intensity focused ultrasound devices were found to be useful for cosmetic treatment.

Analytical Study on Research Trends of Clothing Comfort Reported in Korean Journals (의복환경학 분야의 국내 연구동향)

  • Kweon, Sooae
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.541-554
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    • 2015
  • In this research in order to grasp the recent research trends of clothing comfort in Korea, 584 theses have been analyzed about the forms, contents and subjects of their researches which have been published in four Korean Journals from 2000 to 2012. The results are as follows: Many of the research contents were on the clothing comfort and environmental adaptation clothes in all journals. Handle, skin temperature, clothing pressure and working clothes showed the highest frequency ln the key words. The review studies were the fewest, and experimental or survey researches were largely conducted. The research forms showed the significant differences according to the research contents. The subjects were largely focused on those aged from 18 to 29, and among the research subjects on clothing comfort, female were more than male. However, in the researches on clothing quantity and clothes wearing conditions, many of them were the studies whose subjects were both men and women. The male and old subjects increased more and more. The number of the theses in the field of clothing environmentology showed the gradually increasing tendency. The most rates were the theses on clothing comfort, but as the number of those on environment adaptation clothes increased more and more, the research contents in the two fields showed much the same. Though the attention to aging and smart clothes is increasing, the research on this is very few. Therefore, it is thought that the study on this field will have to be conducted actively.

Effect of Priming on Germination of Aged Soybean Seeds

  • Park, E.;Choi, Y.S.;Jeong, J.Y.;Lee, S.S.
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.74-77
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    • 1999
  • The object of this study is to determine the effect of priming on the germination ability and seedling emergence of aged soybean seeds in lab and field conditions. Artificial or natural procedure for seed aging was applied in this study. One seed lot was artificially aged for 3 to 5 days at 42$^{\circ}C$ with high relative humidity (nearly RH 100%), and the other one was stored at room temperature for 17 months. Aged seeds were osmoconditioned in -1.1 MPa polyethylene glycol 8000 (PEG) solution for 3 days at $25^{\circ}C$ and air-dried. When Danyeobkong was aged for 4 days average germination was 61.5%, however, this improved to 98.5% after the priming treatment. Improvement of seed germination by priming the aged seed was consistent with large seed sized Jangyeobkong cultivar, indicating that the priming was effective in enhancing seed germinability regardless of seed size. Priming aged seeds also resulted in good stand establishment in the field trials. Germination of aged seeds of Danyeobkong without priming was 17.0%, whereas that of primed ones was 66.4%.

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Characterization of electrophoretically deposited low voltage phosphors mixed with $In_2O_3$ conducting powders for field emission display

  • Seo, D.S.;Song, B.G.;Kim, C.O.;Hong, J.P.;Jin, Y.W.;Cha, S.N.;Lee, N.S.;Jung, J.E.;Kim, J.M.
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2000.01a
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    • pp.145-146
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    • 2000
  • Primary emphasis was placed on the electrophoretic deposition of low voltage phosphor to indium-tin oxide-coated glass for the application of field emission display. The phosphor deposited by various parameters, such as deposition time and applied voltages was examined in detail. In addition, a comparison was made by analyzing luminance properties of the phosphor mixed with and without conducting $In_2O_3$ powder of less than 1um size. The measurement was performed as a function of $In_2O_3$ concentration from 3% to 15% by weight. The enhanced impact of indium powder mixing on the phosphor was clearly demonstrated by aging performance curve at 1000V excitation voltages with a current density of $1\;mA/cm^2$

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Cathodoluminescence and Longevity Properties of Potential Sr1-xMxGa2S4:Eu (M = Ba or Ca) Green Phosphors for Field Emission Displays

  • Ko, Ki-Young;Huh, Young-Duk;Do, Young-Rag
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.822-826
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    • 2008
  • We report the cathodoluminescence and aging properties of a series of green phosphors of formula $Sr_{1-x}M_xGa_2S_4$:Eu (x = 0.0-1.0, M = Ba or Ca) that have potential applications in field emission displays (FEDs). The series of phosphors was synthesized via NaBr-aided solid-state reactions in a flowing $H_2S$ stream. A low level ($\sim$20%) of Ba or Ca substitution for Sr in $SrGa_2S_4$:Eu maintains the orthorhombic phase of pure $SrGa_2S_4$:Eu phosphors. Further, a low level ($\sim$20%) of Ba or Ca substitution for Sr in $SrGa_2S_4$:Eu provides various green colors and sufficient brightness for FED applications. Substitution of Ba or Ca for Sr in $SrGa_2S_4$:Eu also improved the stability of the phosphor when it was operated under electron-beam irradiation of 5 kV.

Population Structure and Reproductive Pattern of the Korean Striped Field Mouse, Apldemus agrarius

  • Yoon, Myung-Hee;Jung, Soon-Jung;Oh, Hong-Sik
    • Animal cells and systems
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.53-61
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    • 1997
  • Seasonal variation of the population structure and the reproductive pattern of the Korean striped field mouse, Apodemus agrarius, were investigated. High capture ratios in juveniles, young adult, and old adult mice were found during the period from October to November, from November to March, and from May to September, respectively, and extremely low capture ratios of old adults during the period from November to February were characteristic. It seemed that the young adults that survived during the winter might become older by summer and have been counted as the old adults. The breeding in the mice began earlier in males (from mid February or early March to late October) than in females (from mid March to late October), having a peak in August and September, and both the male and female mice weighing more than 20 g generally reached sexual maturation in general. In the breeding season, both young and old adult males had large testes with enlarged seminiferous tubules filled with numerous germ and Sertoli cells, and expanded caudal epididymides with a vast number of spermatozoa; the females had many Graafian follicles and corpora lutea in large ovaries, and developed uterine glands in the thick endometria. The lower ratios of the testis weight to the body weight in July and August in 1994 compared to 1995 seemed due to the extreme drought and considerably higher temperature in 1994, but the decrease in the ratio in mid-summer, only in the old mice, in both years might be explained partially by aging.

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An Experimental Study on Characteristic Analysis of Deflection Response of RC Structures using Measured Strain (측정변형률을 이용한 RC 구조물의 변위 응답 특성분석에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Park, Hung-Seok;Park, Ki-Tae;Lee, Kyu-Wan
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.173-180
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    • 2001
  • In the past few years, the nondestructive inspection technology has greatly developed due to the increased necessity to gain a complete understanding of the bridge behavior. Especially, the deformations of bridges contain a lot of informations about its health state. By measuring these deformations it is possible to analyze the loading and aging behavior of the structure. However, the current, methods (such as LVDT, dial gage, optical displacement transducer, etc) are often of changeable application on site and have the limitations of installation. In this paper, the classical beam theory was reviewed and the deflections of structure are estimated using measured strain which is easy to acquire. The applicability of this algorithm is verified by laboratory(simple reinforced concrete beam) and field test. By this test, we proposed correction factor to estimate deflection of reinforced concrete beam after cracking, and analyze about the generation of correction factor. Also fiber optic sensors as well as resistive strain gages were installed in the concrete beams to establish the applicability of fiber optic sensors in the field of civil engineering.

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