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A Study of Burn Accidents in Children towards Developing a Program for Prevention (어린이 화상사고의 실태와 예방대책 프로그램 개발에 대한 연구)

  • Han, Jeong-Seok;Seo, Mi-Hye
    • The Korean Nurse
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.61-74
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    • 1997
  • This study is a descriptive study which was done to examine the circumstances surrounding burn accidents in children in order to develop a burn prevention program. The subjects for the study were the mothers of 107 children admitted to two burn specialty hospitals in seoul and the mothers of 172 healthy children attending day care or kindergarten. The tool used in the study was developed by the researchers, pretested and refined. Cronbach's alpha was 0.72. Data collection was done between November 1995 and April 1996. Statistically analysis was done using SAS Version 6.04 and the data was analyzed using test, chi square, regression and logistic analysis. A suumary of the results shows the following : Eighty percent of the children in both groups lived in nuclear families but comparatively more of the children with burn accidents lived in apartments. More of the parents in the group of healthy children had university education and held white collar or professional jobs, while the parents of the children with burn accidents were slightly younger than the parents of the healthy children. but not significantly younger. A significantly greater number of families of children with burn accidents had more than one child and the characteristics of the children with burn accidents that they were more frequently boys, either first or last born and very active. Most of the burn accidents occurred in fall or winter. sometime between noon and midnight and the majority occurred in the home and were caused by hot liquid. In 86% of the cases emergency care was not given at home but the child was brought to the hospital emergency unit. Most of the burns were second degree or greater. involved the arms or legs. required admission, and 41.5% occurred when the parents were preparing or eating meals. In a test of knowledge of preventive measures, the mothers of children who had suffered burn accidents scored slightly higher than the mothers who had no experience with burn accidents, but this was not statistically significant. As to what to do in the case of a fire, the mothers of the healthy children had more knowledge about who to notify. but 70% of the mothers in both groups did not know how to escape from the house if it was of fire. 80 to 96% did not know what do to in case of a fire, such as rolling if clothes were on fire. 80% did not know what emergency care to give for a burn, and 74 to 87% did not know when it is appropriate to try to put out a fire. It can be concluded from this study that. since the results show that the most frequent situation which resulted in burn accidents was when the parents were not aware of the danger of burns or were not paying attention to the child. and when there were no protective devices to prevent burns. and that accidents most frequently occurred at home. the most effective way of preventing accidents is to develop in the parents a "safety mind", Since burn accidents in children are usually more severe than in adults. the physical. emotional. psychological and social damage is greater. In order to develop and awareness of this in the general public. the use of mass media. books and pamphlets and other educational media that provide education on prevention of burn accidents need to be utilized.

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Development of Lighting Compressed by Injection Yellow Ocher Soil

  • Kwak, Woo-Seob
    • Journal of the Korea Furniture Society
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.452-459
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    • 2008
  • The compressed injection yellow ocher soil is the process-technology by drying the product through sunshine, not by firing like pottery and ceramic ware. It is the technology of development being able to achieve the far infrared ray and humidity adjustment by adding recycling paper, Korean paper and bamboo salt, and it corresponds with the construction enforcement ordinance 2007 as an interior-finishing product which is fire-resistant. In case that the yellow ocher soil would be used as lighting device and interior-finishing material and decoration, it could contribute to an improvement of National Health by avoiding the sick house syndrome and adding humidity adjustment, and it has more efficient economic effect due to using recycle-available additives. Through such developments of the yellow ocher soil products the domestic market of lighting device and construction material can be advanced and the replacement effect of imported goods & also export effect can be expected accordingly.

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An Experimental Study on the Load Delivery Characteristics of Hybrid Energy System with Geothermal and Solar Heat Sources (지열-태양열원 복합시스템의 부하추종특성에 관한 실험 연구)

  • Hwang, In-Ju;Woo, Nam-Sub
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Geothermal and Hydrothermal Energy
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2006
  • The objective of the present study is to investigate the load delivery characteristics of a hybrid-renewable energy system with geothermal and solar heat sources for hot water, heating and cooling of a residential house in Korea. The hybrid energy system consists of ground source heat pump of 2 RT for cooling with a 150 m vertical U-bend ground heat exchanger, solar collectors of 4.8 m2 and gas fired backup boiler. The averaged coefficient of performance of geothermal module during cooling and heating seasons are evaluated as about 4.5 and 3.8, respectively.

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A study on the malodor exhaust in a water closet system (악취 배출 양변기 시스템에 관한 고찰)

  • Kim, Jong-Ho;Suh, Kee-Won;Son, Jong-Won
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2009.06a
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    • pp.471-477
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    • 2009
  • This study investigated automatic malodor exhaust ventilating methods in a water closet system. Even though these days advanced equipment has been applied into the toilet in a building or house, the odor due to the evacuating the bowels should be carefully removed to maintain clean and pleasant toilet. Therefore, this study thoroughly considered the main causes of the malodor problems and suggested the best applicable methods to the closet system.

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A Study on the Reduction Characteristics of Floor Impact Sound Insulation Due to the Ceiling Frame Structures in Apartment Houses (공동주택의 천장틀구조 변화에 따른 바닥충격음 차음특성 연구)

  • 정환욱;기노갑;송민정;김선우
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.12 no.8
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    • pp.573-580
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    • 2002
  • Generally the ceiling frame of apartment house is made of wood. But the wood frame has several problems due to the natural properties such as distortion by shrink, low fire resistance and material loss in the construction field. And it has some defections in sound insulation performance. Therefore it is necessary to develop a new method that can be used as a ceiling frame. This study aims to analyze and to compare the sound insulation characteristics against the floor impact sound between wood ceiling frame and M-bar frame which is made of steel. The results of this study are like these. M-bar frame is more effective than wood ceiling frame in sound insulation. And sound absorbing or sound insulation materials which can be Put on gypsum board are helpful to improve floor impact sound insulation performance.

Study on the Horizontally Installed Emergency Exit in Apartment Houses (아파트 하향식 피난구에 대한 고찰)

  • Yeo, In-Hwan;Min, Byung-Yeol
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2010.05b
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    • pp.91-93
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    • 2010
  • Recently, the regulation about HEE(horizontally installed emergency exit) established at upper 4story in apartment houses was introduced by revising enforcement degree of Building Act. HEE is a facility for egress to lower story through floor breach and ladder system so that it gives a useful evaquation way directly to an individual household in apartment when they failed to evacuate through the entrance door. HEE may offer an opportunity to optain two way egress path ways instead of evacuation space at balcony and through path way to adjacent household in building and that might be an big strengh. but it needs to guarantee for against the crime, getting detailed reviews for being security and supplementation of fire test methods.

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Strength properties of inorganic adhesives using dead burned magnesia and phosphate according to addition ratio of borax (사소마그네시아와 인산염을 활용한 무기접착재의 붕사첨가율에 따른 강도특성)

  • Kim, Dae-Yeon;Pyeon, Su-Jeong;Lim, Jeong-Jun;Lee, Sang-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2018.11a
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    • pp.48-49
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    • 2018
  • Recently the old buildings have been increasing and increasing reconstruction. As a result, the frequency of use of architectural adhesives has increased. Adhesives are not only used for bonding but also for building materials used in various fields. However, since the adhesive is made of an organic material, it causes various skin diseases and sick house syndrome, and when a fire occurs, harmful substances are generated, and incomplete combustion may cause personal injury. Therefore, in this study, to solve the disadvantages of conventional adhesives, we tried to develop inorganic adhesives using inorganic materials.

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Strength properties of magnesium oxide matrix according to type of phosphate (인산염 종류에 따른 산화마그네슘 경화체의 강도 특성)

  • Lim, Jeong-Jun;Pyeon, Su-Jeong;Kim, Dae-Yeon;Lee, Sang-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2018.11a
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    • pp.79-80
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    • 2018
  • Recently, the interest in remodeling of new and old buildings is increasing worldwide. As a result, the frequency of use of architectural adhesives has increased. Currently, adhesives used in buildings are made of organic materials in most cases, and epoxy resin adhesives are most widely used. However, epoxy resin adhesives contain formaldehyde and VOCs in the room during construction, which can cause sick house syndrome. In case of building fire, it may cause damage due to carbon monoxide generated from organic materials. It is urgent to study the problem of epoxy fill adhesive made of such organic materials. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the adhesion of epoxy resin adhesive, which is a problem of epoxy resin adhesive, which is an existing organic adhesive by using inorganic materials such as magnesia and phosphate, And the inorganic adhesive which does not emit the release amount as an inorganic material.

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The Changes of Temperature for Embedded Duct Ventilation System in Ondol (바닥온돌 매립형 환기덕트시스템의 온도변화에 대한 고찰)

  • Kim, Ok;Park, Jin-Chul;Kim, Nam-Gyu;Oh, Jae-Keun
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.375-380
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    • 2006
  • Embedded Duct Ventilation System in Ondol is embedded supply duct in Ondol. This system allows heat up outside air to inside temperature with out using heat exchanger and electric heating coiling in winter season. In this research, we measured temperature of inside and surface of Ondol, supply duct, and supply air temperature incorporate embedded duct ventilation system in Ondol in model house($110m^2$) & one room($23m^2$)

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Estimation of The Global Warming Potential of Fluorinated Green House Gases (불화온실가스의 흡수단면적 측정을 통한 지구온난화지수의 추정)

  • Kim, Jihye;Lee, Jeongsoon
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.387-397
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    • 2014
  • This work aims at estimating global warming potentials (GWP) of $CF_3Br$ and HFC-134a among green house gases. It has been reported that they have much higher GWP than $CO_2$ in the atmosphere. $CF_3Br$, halon 1301 which is well known to be a fire extinguisher, as one of the bromine-containing halons has been banned since 2003 due to destruction of ozone. HFCs, a kind of chiller which replaced chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are one of greenhouse gases regulated by the Kyoto Protocol. In this study, we produced GWPs of $CF_3Br$ and HFC-134a by calculating a life time and measuring an absorption cross section to obtain a radiative forcing (RF). Their absorption cross sections were measured by using Fourier-transformed infrared spectroscopy (FTS) with a gas cell filled with their certified reference materials at room temperature. As a result, the RFs of $CF_3Br$ and HFC-134a were 0.32 and $0.168Wm^{-2}ppb^{-1}$, respectively and the GWPs were calculated as 7989, 6076, 3903 for $CF_3Br$ and 3855, 1300, 656 for HFC-134a for the time horizon of 20, 100, 500 years, respectively. Overall, uncertainty of the estimated GWPs can be estimated to be about 2.6%. Our results were compared with those proposed by the previous studies (IPCC, 2007; WMO, 1999).