• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.75-83
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• 2007

Why do some countries walk on the right and others on the left? People have a dominant hand which leads to a natural tendency to favor one side of the road or another depending on the means of transportation being used. The primary objective of this study was to investigate the stereotype of Korean regarding preferred walking direction in encountering various facilities and provide the appropriate information to traffic policy makers. Six hundred Korean male and female subjects aging from 12 to 83 were selected to investigate the various statistics about their preferred walking direction and their employment characteristics on walking diverse facilities. The walking directions of eleven different facilities were asked along with other relative subjects' characteristics(e.g., age, gender, hand and foot dominance) to determine the relationship among these obtained data. The descriptive statistics showed that 73.7% and 26.3% were preferred walking right and left direction respectively. Moreover, various statistical analysis revealed that general tendency of walking direction was varied by hand and foot dominances. There were strong tendency that right-handed people prefer walking right side of the road and vise versa, hence this should be considered in setting up traffic policies. As a concluding remark, it is better to design traffic policies and regulations in the way that peoples' preference and expectation.

• 대한족부족관절학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.30-39
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• 2022

Purpose: This study aimed to report the current trends in the management of diabetic foot over the last few decades through a survey of the Korean Foot and Ankle Society (KFAS) members. Materials and Methods: A web-based questionnaire containing 40 questions was sent to all KFAS members in September 2021. The questions were mainly related to the demographics of patients with diabetic foot, diagnostic tools, and multidisciplinary treatment. Answers with a prevalence of ≥50% of respondents were considered a tendency. Results: Seventy-eight of the 550 members (14.2%) responded to the survey. The most common demographic factors of diabetic foot patients were male dominance with a high percentage in the 60- to 70-year-old. Although the need for multidisciplinary treatment is highly recognized in the treatment of diabetic foot patients, the actual implementation rate is about 39%. The contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (88.5%) was reported to be the most used tool for the diagnosis of osteomyelitis of the diabetic foot. It was reported that the use of antibiotics was started empirically and then changed based on bacterial culture tests in 82.1% of patients. Simple wound dressing and antibiotic treatment were most frequently reported for mild ulcers. Conclusion: This study provides updated information on the current trends in the management of a diabetic foot in Korea. Both consensus and variations in the approach to patients with diabetic foot were identified by this survey study. Further efforts are required for better access to a multidisciplinary approach, such as appropriate insurance payment policies and patient education.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제33권10호
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• pp.1014-1022
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• 2009

A biped robot in locomotion can be regarded to be kinetically redundant in that the link-chain from its foot on the ground to its swing foot has more degrees of freedom that needed to realize stable bipedal locomotion. This paper proposes a new method to generate a trajectory for bipedal locomotion based on this redundancy, which directly generates a locomotion trajectory at the joint level unlike some other methods such as LIPM (linear inverted-pendulum mode) and GCIPM (gravity-compensated inverted-pendulum mode), each of which generates a trajectory of the center of gravity or the hip link under the assumption of the dominance of the hip-link inertia before generating the trajectory of the whole links at the joint level. For the stability of the trajectory generated in the proposed method, a stability condition based on the ZMP (zero-moment point) is used as a constraint as well as other kinetic constraints for bipedal motions. A 6-DOF biped robot is used to show how a stable locomotion trajectory can be generated in the sagittal plane by the proposed method and to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method.

• 한국노년학
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.229-246
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• 2014

본 연구는 지역사회 내 제2형 당뇨병 노인을 대상으로 성격유형과 당뇨병 관련 스트레스에 따른 당뇨병 자기관리 행위 간의 관계를 규명하는데 목적을 두고 시행되었다. 본 연구는 서술적 조사연구로 노인복지관을 이용하는 65세 이상 노인 중 제2형 당뇨병이 있는 180명을 대상으로 실시하였다. 연구 결과, 일반적 특성과 질병 관련 특성에 따라 당뇨병 자기관리 행위의 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 대상자 성격유형에 따라 당뇨병 자기관리 행위에는 유의한 차이가 있었고(p<.001), 주도형이 안정형과 신중형보다 자기관리 행위 이행수준이 낮았다. 특히, 자기관리 행위 하위영역 중 발 관리 영역에서 성격유형별 차이가 있었는데(p<.001), 주도형이 안정형과 신중형보다 유의하게 낮았다. 그리고 주도형 성격유형, 경구 혈당강하제를 투약하는 경우, 음주를 하는 경우가 당뇨병 자기관리 행위에 영향을 미치는 주요변수로 나타났다(수정된 R²=16%). 따라서 제2형 당뇨병 노인을 대상으로 하는 자기관리 교육 중재 시 성격유형, 경구 혈당강하제 투약 여부, 음주 여부가 고려되어야 하고, 자기관리 행위 이행이 상대적으로 낮은 주도형 성향을 가지고, 경구 혈당강하제 투약을 하며, 음주를 하는 당뇨병 노인을 위한 효과적인 교육중재 프로그램 개발이 필요하다.

• 한국환경생태학회지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.68-78
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• 1991

지리산 국립공원지역에서 주연부식생구조 및 출현수종을 밝히기 위하여 1991년 8~10월 사이에 현지조사를 실시한 결과는 다음과 같다. 고지대 북동사면의 주연부로부터 삼림내부로의 거리 증가에 따라 하층수종의 상대우점치가 변화하였다. 주연부로부터 30m까지 식생구조의 변화가 있었으며, 주연부의 깊이는 15~20m 이었다. 고도, 지형적위치 및 방위요인이 주연부 수종과 출현빈도에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 특히, 주연부식생은 능선과 산록부간의 지형적 위치와 중복부 이상에서의 남향과 북향의 방위간에 심한 차이를 나타냈다. 남.북사면간의 하층식생구조를 비교해 볼 때, 개체수와 피도는 북사면에서, 반대로 수종 수, 종다양도 및 조릿대 피도는 남사면에서 더 많거나 높게 나타났다.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.25-35
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• 2015

Pennisetum aloperculoides is a key revegetation species mixed with other plants species and used for revegetating cut-slopes. The purpose of this research is to identify the effects of mixed seeding of revegetation plants on cut-slope revegetation with respect to the quantity of Pennisetum aloperculoides seeds. The coverage ratio and appearance frequency of Pennisetum aloperculoides, and other revegetation species were measured to assess the cut-slope revegetation. We divided Pennisetum treatments into four groups with different Pennisetum seed quantities of $0g/m^2$, $5g/m^2$, $10g/m^2$, and $15g/m^2$. For each treatment group, we mixed identical quantities of seeds from herbaceous flowers (bird's-boot trefoil, aster, chrysanthemums, golden coreopsis and china pink), cool-season turfgrasses, and woody plants (korean lespedeza, indigo and silk tree). The increase in the quantity of the Pennisetum seeds resulted in the higher coverage ratio for Pennisetum, but in the lower coverage ratio for herbaceous flowers, cool-season turfgrasses, and woody plants. We observed a short-term succession process in which the dominant species shifted in the following order: the initial species Pennisetum, herbaceous flowers, and then lastly woody plants. In case of the appearance frequency, we also observed the higher appearance frequency for Pennisetum and the lower appearance frequency for the other plants due to the increase in the quantity of Pennisetum seeds. Pennisetum, bird's-foot trefoil and china pink showed the tendency to decrease the appearance frequency from one month after seeding while cool-season turfgrasses became extinct due to summer drought. In the woody plants, the appearance frequencies of korean lespedeza and indigo were high due to the decrease in quantity of Pennisetum seeds. The silk trees were damaged from winter frost and none emerged at all in 2013 (the following year after the seeding). Korean lespedeza and indigo appeared to have the short-term rapid dominance over other treated revegetation plants.