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Development of Vehicle Oriented Black Box System Based on U-Healthcare and Human-Free Guard Functions

  • Lee, Dong-Myung
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.36-40
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    • 2010
  • The vehicle oriented block box system based on the u-healthcare and the human-free guard functions is developed in this paper. We also suggested the design philosophies, ideas, and analyzed the performance of the suggested system. The developed vehicle oriented black box system has some characteristics such as; 1) detects the dangerous situation by ultrasonic sensor in advance, and stores the situation information of the neighborhood of the vehicle to the imbedded SD memory card if the dangerous situation may be occurred in the parked vehicle; 2) detects the present location and speed information of the vehicle by GPS receiver and 3-axes acceleration sensor, and stores the information to the SD memory card periodically if the vehicle is running; 3) measures the dioxide carbon in the vehicle inside using $CO_2$ sensor, and forces the ventilation motor of the vehicle to operate and maintains the driver's health if the measured level is more than standard health requirements; 4) provides the stored vehicle's operating information to the driver by GUI (Graphical User Interface) based touch LCD monitor.

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Well-being Lifestyle Measurement Development (웰빙 라이프스타일 측정도구 개발과 타당도 검증)

  • Hong, Hee-Sook;Koh, Ae-Ran
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.55-67
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study is to develop well-being lifestyle measurement. Data were collected from a total of 251 Korean females ranging from 20 to 50 years old. The measurement items were developed by focus group interview to well-being consumers. Through a series of exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis, the 7 sub-factors and 14 items that construct final measurement model of well-being lifestyle were identified: Health oriented eating habits, social welfare oriented consumption, interest in health policy, self-esteem enhancement, sports activity, volunteer for local community, use of cosmetics made of natural components. Fitness of measurement model and reliability and discriminant validity of measurement variables were accepted as a good level.

Differences in Life Satisfaction by Leisure Participation Types of the Elderly (노인의 여가참여유형에 따른 생활만족도의)

  • Kim, Oi-Sook
    • Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.23-42
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study was to explore a typology of leisure participation, investigate determinants of leisure participation types, and analyze differences in life satisfaction by the types of leisure participation of the elderly. The data source for this research was the 2014 Time Use Survey conducted by the Korea National Statistical office (KNSO). The statistical methods for the analysis were mean, standard deviation, ANOVA, Duncan test, cluster analysis, and logistic regression analysis. Leisure participation were classified into five types based on five categories; social activities, religious activities, media, sports, time-spending activity. The five types were named "general", "insufficient", "religious oriented", "media oriented", and sports oriented" type. Gender, health condition were identified as important determinants for the types. Life satisfaction was different according to leisure participation type of the elderly. Religious oriented type showed the highest score of life satisfaction and media oriented type showed the lowest.

Impact of Pro-environmental Behavior on Dysmenorrhea (친환경행위가 월경곤란증에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Hyun-Kyoung
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.41 no.2
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    • pp.236-244
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    • 2011
  • Purpose: In this study the impact of pro-environmental behavior, well-being oriented behavior, and use of cloth menstrual pads on dysmenorrhea in Korean female adults was examined according to the theory of reasoned action. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 195 Korean female adults. Data were collected from June to August, 2010 using self-report questionnaires. Data were analyzed using t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients, multiple regression, and logit regression with STATA 10.0. Results: Pro-environmental behavior explained 48% of well-being oriented behavior. Well-being oriented behavior explained 10% of cloth pad use. Use of cloth pad explained 4% of dysmenorrhea and 5% of menstrual pain. The path through well-being oriented behavior had a significant effect from pro-environmental behavior to cloth pad use. Conclusion: Use of cloth pad was significantly related with well-being oriented behavior, pro-environmental behavior, social influence, dysmenorrhea, and menstrual pain. The results of this study suggest that pro-environmental strategies can help health care providers diminish clients' menstrual symptoms. Nursing intervention can support pro-environmental behavioral strategies.

A Study on the Development Direction for the Education for Sustainable Development of the Ecologically-oriented Alternative Elementary School (생태지향형 초등대안학교의 지속가능발전교육을 위한 발전방안 연구)

  • Shin, Ji-Yeon;Choi, Don-Hyung
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.272-289
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study is to compare and analyze the educational philosophy, goal, method, content, and environment of ecologically-oriented alternative elementary schools and suggest several practical methods for alternative education. Both ecologism and alternative education pursue sustainable values. The educational content of ecologically-oriented alternative elementary schools, analyzed from the view of sustainable development, focuses most on the natural resources, biodiversity, and sustainable food production, and also include human rights, peace and security, unification, cultural diversity, and health food in terms of the social sustainability and sustainable production and consumption concerning economic sustainability. This study should help environmental education become establish its possibility and position as alternative education and be recognized of its educational value. Furthermore, based on the cases of ecologically-oriented alternative elementary schools that are becoming 'garden of environmental education' as sustainable development education, it should lead to 'education communicating with environmental education at schools'.

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A Study of Factors Affecting the Purchases of Well-Being Tea Drinks (웰빙 차(茶) 음료 구매 영향요인에 관한 연구)

  • Moon, Su-Jung;Joung, Soon-Hee
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.71-82
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this study was to identify factors affecting the purchases of well-being tea drinks based on the analysis of demographic characteristics, well-being oriented consumer behaviors, and consumer consciousness toward well-being tea drinks. The subjects of this study were undergraduates and graduate students in Seoul. The findings were summarized as follows: 1. Well-being oriented consumer behavior patterns were categorized in three factors; non-dietary life, selective dietary life, and regular/temperate behavior and consumer consciousness toward well-being tea drinks were categorized in two factors; habit/ familiarity and health/ economical efficiency. 2. Multiple regression analysis was used for finding out factors affecting the purchases of well-being tea drinks; independent variables were demographic characteristics(sex, monthly average family income and the amount of personal expenditure), well-being oriented consumer behavior factors and consumer consciousness factors toward well-being tea drinks. Weekly purchase frequency of well-being tea drinks was defined as a dependent variable. As a result, the purchases of well-being tea drinks were influenced in order of regular/temperate behavior, the consciousness of health/ economical efficiency, the amount of personal expenditure and the consciousness of habit/ familiarity. Especially, regular/temperate behavior negatively affected the purchases of well-being tea drinks.

A Case Study on the Improvement of Risk Assessment by Worker-Oriented Safety Circle Discussion in Construction Industry by the Survey (설문조사에 의한 근로자 중심의 안전분임토의를 통한 건설업 위험성 평가 개선방안 사례연구)

  • Kim, Jeung Hun;Oh, Tae Keun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.31 no.5
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    • pp.82-88
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    • 2016
  • The current risk assessment system do not reflect workers' various opinion. However, the worker actually are in the center of work field and are exposed to accidents. In this regard, this study suggests enhanced risk assessment by 'safety circle discussion' on workers' hand. The self-administered surveys on supervisors and workers were done for the effect analysis of the safety circle discussion. According to the question investigation, even though the current risk assessment causes difficulties in preventing accidents by unsafe behaviors, the worker-oriented safety circle discussion establishing measures for risk factors of each work type will be able to prevent accidents more effectively. Also, it can positively contribute to safety health awareness, industrial accident prevention, accurate recognition on risk factors, improving safety facilities/work conditions, workers' compliance to safety health rules. Lastly, most respondents agreed that it is necessary to form organic relationship through circle discussion and deriving safety inspections that workers participate.

STEPSTONE: An Intelligent Integration Architecture for Personal Tele-Health

  • Helal, Sumi;Bose, Raja;Chen, Chao;Smith, Andy;De Deugd, Scott;Cook, Diane
    • Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.269-281
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    • 2011
  • STEPSTONE is a joint industry-university project to create open source technology that would enable the scalable, "friction-free" integration of device-based healthcare solutions into enterprise systems using a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Specifically, STEPSTONE defines a first proposal to a Service Oriented Device Architecture (SODA) framework, and provides for initial reference implementations. STEPSTONE also intends to encourage a broad community effort to further develop the framework and its implementations. In this paper, we present SODA, along with two implementation proposals of SODA's device integration. We demonstrate the ease by which SODA was used to develop an end-to-end personal healthcare monitoring system. We also demonstrate the ease by which the STEPSTONE system was extended by other participants - Washington State University - to include additional devices and end user interfaces. We show clearly how SODA and therefore SODA devices make integration almost automatic, replicable, and scalable. This allows telehealth system developers to focus their energy and attention on the system functionality and other important issues, such as usability, privacy, persuasion and outcome assessment studies.

Sustainable Meal Practices of Middle Aged Women at Home According to Their Lifestyles (중년 여성의 라이프스타일에 따른 가정내 지속가능한 식생활 실천)

  • Chang, Hye-Ja
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2018
  • Sustainable meal management at home will be affected by the lifestyle of the housewife. This study examined the lifestyle of middle aged women and identified their practice levels of sustainable meal management at home. A total of 438 women, aged 35 to 59, managing the family's dietary life at home and living in Seoul, Gyeonggi Province, Daejeon, and Chonnan area participated in the survey. The middle aged women showed a higher performance level of hygiene-oriented (4.15) and health-oriented dietary life (3.59), but a less convenience-oriented dietary life (2.57). Based on their lifestyle, 3 clusters were extracted: Low-interest dietary life meal manager, health and quality pursuit meal manager, and convenience and eating-out pursuit active meal manager. Among them, the cluster of health and quality pursuit meal manager showed the highest sustainable practices in 7 dimensions of sustainable practices in the home except for the saving practices (p<0.001). The criteria suggested from the study can be applicable to the guidelines of sustainable meal management at home. The study can also be helpful for educators to identify the education themes for improving housewife's sustainable meal practices, having different lifestyle and sustainable meal practices.

University Students's Life Styles and Preferences for Ubiquitous Residential Functions (대학생의 라이프스타일과 유비쿼터스 주거 기능 선호 - 광주광역시 대학생을 대상으로 -)

  • Kim, Mee-Shil;Kim, Mi-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2009
  • This paper documents research carried on the University students who are potential residents of the city to find out their preference for the ubiquitous residential functions, and categorize based on the life style to find out difference of their preference on ubiquitous residential functions. A survey was conducted on 324 university students in Gwangju city. The students were selected through purposive sampling and quota sampling by self-administered questionnaire sheets. The analysis analyzing methods using SPSS/PC 12.0 are frequency, percentage, factor analysis, cluster analysis, $x^2$(chaisquare)-test and one-way ANOVA (analysis of variance). For the survey, lifestyle types were categorized as: These are classified based on the analysis of facts regarding characteristics of student's lifestyles that are divided into nine types of facts and then make the four types through the cluster analysis as below. Energetic life type, Inactive life type, Family-oriented life type, Thrifty and Personality-oriented life type. The residential function of Ubiquitous is classified as Safety, Convenience, Comfortableness, Information, Health, Leisure and the residential space is divided into bedroom, livingroom, kitchen, bathroom. Considering the preference aspects for Ubiquitous residential function, among the bedroom, living room, kitchen, and bathroom, University student seek for safety from the living room, Convenience from the kitchen and Comfortableness from the living room, bedroom and kitchen. For Information, bedroom is most preferred among the bedroom, living room, and kitchen. For Health and Leisure, bedroom is preferred between bedroom and living room. In terms of the difference about the preferences for ubiquitous functions based on the four types of lifestyles; The Thrift-oriented type is commonly preferred to the Inactive type among the bedroom, living room and kitchen. The Family-oriented and the Thrift-oriented type were preferred to the Energetic and Inactive types in the bathroom. Also, in the entire residential space, the Ubiquitous functions is most preferred by the Thrifty and Personality-oriented life type.