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Study on the Recognition and Purchase Status of Eco-Friendly Oral Hygiene Products

  • Su-min Jeon;Do-Seon Lim;Jae-kyeong Kim;Jae-ui Lee;Su-hyeon Lee;Seong-eun Park;Im-hee Jung
    • Journal of dental hygiene science
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.241-248
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    • 2022
  • Background: Plastic waste generates pollutants in the process of incineration or landfilling, and accumulates in water or marine organisms, causing adverse effects on the environment and the human body. Recently, various eco-friendly oral hygiene products (Eco-OHPs) such as bamboo toothbrushes and biodegradable plastic toothbrushes have been developed. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the current level of awareness and purchasing status of eco-OHPs among adults who are interested in eco-friendly products. Methods: This study included adults aged >19 years who regularly visited eco-friendly shops and online sites; the online survey links were distributed during their visits to eco-friendly Internet cafés and companies. Of the 22 questions, seven assessed the participants' general characteristics, three assessed the general oral hygiene care products used, six assessed the level of awareness of Eco-OHPs, and six assessed the purchasing status of Eco-OHPs. Frequency analysis, chi-square test, and regression analysis were performed using SPSS software. Results: Among the respondents, 108 (51.4%) were aware of Eco-OHPs, and 79 (37.6%) had experience purchasing Eco-OHPs. The most common reason for not purchasing was the lack of information about related brands or products (74, 56.5%). The most common platform used in obtaining information was the Internet (general: 31.5%, eco-friendly: 46.3%), such as Social Network Service, Internet cafes, and blogs. The experience in purchasing Eco-OHPs was affected by whether the respondents recognized the possibility of contributing to environmental preservation, availability of vendors, product safety, and the number of eco-friendly products purchased. Conclusion: In order to expand the use of Eco-OHPs, various efforts such as promotion of eco-friendly characteristics, determination of related vendors, reliable analysis of product safety, and expansion of product experience opportunities are required.

A Study on the Interior Design of a Dog-Friendly Hotel Using Deepfake DID for Alleviation of Pet loss Syndrome

  • Hwang, Sungi;Ryu, Gihwan
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.248-252
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    • 2022
  • The environment refers to what is surrounded by something during human life. This environment is related to the way humans live, and presents various problems on how to perceive the surrounding environment and how the behaviors that constitute the environment support the elements necessary for human life. Humans have an interest in the supportability of the environment as the interrelationship increases as humans perceive and understand the environment and accept the factors supported by the environment. In space, human movement starts from one space to the next and exchanges stimuli and reactions with the environment until reaching a target point. These human movements start with subjective judgment and during gait movement, the spatial environment surrounding humans becomes a collection of information necessary for humans and gives stimulation. will do. In this process, in particular, humans move along the movement path through movement in space and go through displacement perception and psychological changes, and recognize a series of spatial continuity. An image of thinking is formed[1]. In this process, spatial experience is perceived through the process of filtering by the senses in the real space, and the result of cognition is added through the process of subjective change accompanied by memory and knowledge, resulting in human movement. As such, the spatial search behavior begins with a series of perceptual and cognitive behaviors that arise in the process of human beings trying to read meaning from objects in the environment. Here, cognition includes the psychological process of sorting out and judging what the information is in the process of reading the meaning of the external environment, conditions, and material composition, and perception is the process of accepting information as the first step. It can be said to be the cognitive ability to read the meaning of the environment given to humans. Therefore, if we can grasp the perception of space while moving and human behavior as a response to perception, it will be possible to predict how to grasp it from a human point of view in a space that does not exist. Modern people have the theme of reminiscing dog-friendly hotels for the healing of petloss syndrome, and this thesis attempts to approach the life of companions.

Human following of Indoor mobile service robots with a Laser Range Finder (단일레이저거리센서를 탑재한 실내용이동서비스로봇의 사람추종)

  • Yoo, Yoon-Kyu;Kim, Ho-Yeon;Chung, Woo-Jin;Park, Joo-Young
    • The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.86-96
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    • 2011
  • The human-following is one of the significant procedure in human-friendly navigation of mobile robots. There are many approaches of human-following technology. Many approaches have adopted various multiple sensors such as vision system and Laser Range Finder (LRF). In this paper, we propose detection and tracking approaches for human legs by the use of a single LRF. We extract four simple attributes of human legs. To define the boundary of extracted attributes mathematically, we used a Support Vector Data Description (SVDD) scheme. We establish an efficient leg-tracking scheme by exploiting a human walking model to achieve robust tracking under occlusions. The proposed approaches were successfully verified through various experiments.

Current Status and Food Allergy Related-Dietary Behaviors of Atopy and Asthma-Friendly Elementary School Students in the Chungnam Area (충남 지역 아토피 안심 초등학교 학생들의 식품알레르기 및 식생활 현황)

  • Jeong, Kyung Jin;Ly, Sun Yung
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.123-135
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    • 2015
  • In order to examine allergic disease experience rates of students at atopy and asthma friendly elementary schools located in Chungcheongnam-do and investigate their dietary behaviors, a survey on 250 parents of first to third grade students at four rural-type atopy and asthma friendly elementary schools was conducted. The number of students who had experienced allergic symptoms (allergic group) was 102 (40.8%). their breastfeeding duration was shorter than that of the non-allergic group (p<.001) and the former's weaning foods-feeding had started earlier than the latter's (p<.01). Regarding the eating habits, the non-allergic group was found to have breakfast and dinner better than the allergic group (p<.001). The number of students eating fruits as snacks was largest in the allergic group at 73 (71.6%), and as for the non-allergic group, their rate of eating fruits, milk and dairy products, and cookies and fries was at 25.7%, 22.3%, and 20.3%, respectively. A high percentage of the allergic group ate three times or less per month the animal food groups and dairy products (p<.001). Accordingly, for improvement in dietary behaviors of students who have allergy against food, nutrition education on regular eating, balanced intake of food, adequate intake of snacks and meals for proper growth and development and precise diagnosis of allergy-triggering food are necessary. In particular, as education on food allergy, implementation of practical education such as appropriate nutrition counseling by nutrition teachers is urgent beyond the one-way educational method of school newsletters.

Moisture Absorption and Desorption Properties of Douglas Fir, Hinoki, Larch, Plywood, and WML Board in Response to Humidity Variation

  • PARK, Hee-Jun;JO, Seok-Un
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • v.48 no.4
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    • pp.488-502
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    • 2020
  • In this study, the moisture absorption and desorption properties presented by the Health-Friendly Housing Construction Standards of South Korea were compared using the wood of three tree species (Douglas-fir, Hinoki, Larch) and two types of wood-based materials(Plywood, WML Board). The national standards for functional building materials present that the amounts of moisture absorption and desorption should be at least 65g/㎡ on average, respectively according to the test method under KS F 2611:2009. Therefore, in this study, the moisture absorption/desorption properties of materials with no treatment (Control), with punching, and with surface stain finishing and the moisture absorption/desorption property improvement effects of the treatments were compared and analyzed. According to the results of this study, it was evaluated that all five types of wood and wood-based materials tested did not satisfy the amount of moisture absorption/desorption of at least 65g/㎡, which is the performance standard for moisture absorption/desorption functional building materials, indicating that untreated wood and wood-based materials cannot be applied as functional finishing materials according to the Health-Friendly Housing Construction Standards. The surface stain finishing greatly reduced the moisture absorption and desorption rates of the materials, and the amounts of moisture absorbed and desorbed were also shown to decrease by at least two times on average. When the surfaces of the materials were punched with Ø4mm holes at intervals of 20 mm, the moisture absorption/desorption areas increased from 18% to 51%, and this increase was shown to be capable of increasing the amounts of moisture absorbed/desorbed by 29% on average at the minimum, and 81% on average at the maximum. The effects of punching were shown to be identical even in cases where the materials were stain finished. For the application of wood or wood-based materials as eco-friendly, health-friendly, and moisture absorption/desorption functional building materials hereafter, it is judged that new physical and chemical improvement studies should be conducted, and treatment methods should be developed.

A Study on the Convergence Education Process for the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Healing Bio Sciences Consortium Convergence Healing Major Focus - (4차 산업혁명을 대비하는 융합교육과정에 관한 연구 : 힐링바이오공유대학 융합치유전공 중심으로)

  • Lee, Jin-Hong;Song, Deok-Geon;Kwon, Hyuk
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.28-39
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    • 2019
  • In order to improve this, Korean universities should reorganize their curriculum such as job system research and job - based program development according to the demand of industry in order to improve their working ability due to the decrease of the school - age population and the youth unemployment rate. In this study, first, conceptualization of friendly education and definition of industry - university cooperation and analysis of cases related to friendly - educational cooperation between industry and academia, second, analysis of fusion healing majors in Healing Bio - I want to conduct research. Konkuk University Healing Bioresource College conducted a survey based on demand such as experts and industry for the development of industry - academic cooperation - friendly curriculum. As a result of this process, I developed a curriculum development committee to study the internal and external environment through the literature survey, focus group interviews, and Delphi research. The purpose of this study is to develop competitiveness curriculum reflecting competitiveness of human resource development in Korea, to develop competitiveness curriculum that reflects customized opinions of societal demand, to organize systematic curriculum to have practical ability, to strengthen the employment link through development of curriculum in accordance with the direction of human resources development, We will make contribution to build the system of operation from the center to the consumer center, evaluation of the practical ability through the curriculum and the feedback system.

A Study on the Pattern of Consumption Behavior of Environmentally-friendly Agricultural Products by Housewives and an Assessment of the Need for Environmentally-friendly Agricultural Products in Childcare Centers in Jeonju (전주지역 유아기 어머니의 친환경 농산물 이용실태 및 보육시설에서의 친환경 급식 요구도 조사)

  • Rho, Jeong-Ok;Kim, Hyun-Jin
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.215-223
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    • 2012
  • The principal objective of this study was to evaluate the consumption behavior of housewives in the Jeonju area with respect to their use of environmentally-friendly agricultural products(EAPs) and to assess the need for EAPs in childcare centers also in the Jeonju area. Self-administered questionnaires were given to and collected from 278 housewives 42.4% of whom employed and 57.6% were unemployed. Statistical data analysis was performed on the data collected using SPSS v. 12.0. The average score of awareness about EAPs was $3.57{\pm}0.56$. The percentage of subjects who purchased EAPS was 76.3% regularly. On this group, 40.3% purchased EAPs 1~2 times in week. Unemployed housewives purchased more than employed housewives by a statistically significant margin(p<0.05). The most-purchased EAPs were vegetables. The average satisfaction score that housewives reported in relation to foodservice provided in childcare centers was $3.66{\pm}0.58$. About 65% of the respondents felt that the EAPs-foodservice in childcare centers was an important factor for them in choosing of a childcare centers. Approximately 42% of the housewives responded that EAPs-foodservice in childcare centers was needed to improve the safety of foodservice provided in chidcare centers. The percentage of subjects who wanted to expand EAPs-foodservice in childcare centers even though the parents would have to bear some of the financial burden was 42.5%. A higher proportion of employed housewives wanted to expand EAPs-foodservice in childcare centers more than unemployed housewives, and this finding was statistically significant(p<0.05).

Study on improvement of graphic motion editor for sign language (수화 동작 그래픽 편집기 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Oh, Young-Joon;Park, Kwang-Hyun;Jang, Hyo-Young;Kim, Dae-Jin;Jung, Jin-Woo;Bien, Zeung-Nam
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.02a
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    • pp.976-981
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    • 2006
  • 수화는 청각장애인이 사용하는 시각적인 언어이다. OpenGL 기반의 가상 현실 공간에서 수화 동작을 표현하기 위해서는 수화 동작 데이터를 삽입하고 수정하는 편집 프로그램이 필요하다. 하지만, 기존의 수화 동작 편집기는 수화를 잘 이해하지 못하는 일반 사용자가 손 모양을 정확하게 편집하거나 얼굴 표정을 표현하는데 어려움이 있다. 또한, 수화 사전에 포함되는 각 수화 단어의 데이터 수가 많기 때문에 이를 효율적으로 생성하고 저장하는 프로그램이 절실히 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 사용자의 편의성을 높이기 위해 수화 동작 그래픽 편집기를 개선하는 방법을 제안한다. 이를 위해 각 손 모양에 대해 21 개의 파라마터로 구성된 데이터를 손가락 별로 분류한 후, 손가락 고유 기호로 변환하고, 손 모양 이름과 일련 번호를 부여하여 손 모양 데이터를 얻었으며, 유사한 손 모양을 그룹으로 묶은 손 모양 그룹 데이터를 구성하여 손 모양 데이터 사전을 구축하였다. 구축된 손 모양 사전을 수화 동작 편집기에 적용함으로써 사용자는 손 모양 그룹과 손 모양 이름, 일련번호를 선택하여 손의 각 관절 움직임을 쉽게 편집할 수 있으며, 이를 가상현실 공간에서 움직여 볼 수 있다. 또한, 얼굴 표정과 안색을 편집할 수 있는 기능을 추가함으로써 수화 동작 중에 얼굴 표정을 쉽게 표현할 수 있도록 하였다.

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A Study on the Characteristics of Modern Fashion Design for Digital Nomadic Culture (디지털 유목민 문화를 위한 현대 패션디자인의 특성 연구)

  • Kim, Jee-Hee
    • Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.6-14
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study was to delve into what type of expression mode of fashion design could suit the life style of digital nomads, as the appearance of nomadic life style was concurrent with people's modified way of thinking and sociocultural changes in today's digital society. It's basically meant to define the roles of fashion design, which was discussed as a way of improving the quality of life as a sort of 'culture,' and to suggest some of the right directions for fashion design in the future. The culture of today's digital era is marked by a pursuit of high mobility and high speed, and by nomadic disposition that is built on flexible thinking. The kind of design that lets people carry nomadic things with them and thereby improve their mobility can satisfy their needs for mobility, and body-friendly design that functions as a device of information in itself can meet their needs for mobility as well. The leading example of the latter is a wearable computer, and wearable scientific technology will be taken to another level, thanks to the advance in digital technology. In the future, that will be more accessible to people in general, and subminiature digital equipment will gain popularity in fashion industry as part of textiles and clothing or as an accessory. And specific kinds of design will be widespread, including variable design, multi-functional design and modular design. The first serves as a tool to protect the human body and to facilitate the adaptability of it to the given circumstances, and the second is characterized by a superb physical and psychological protectability. The third lets wearers bring design to completion at their own option, owing to an increase in the number of open-minded people and the development of interactive media. All these types of design could be called a wearer-friendly, human-oriented design that is specifically appropriate for the digital age. Wearers can actively be involved in design process as productive consumers, which is expected to help increase opener practices in fashion design sector.

A Study on Distributed Processing of Big Data and User Authentication for Human-friendly Robot Service on Smartphone (인간 친화적 로봇 서비스를 위한 대용량 분산 처리 기술 및 사용자 인증에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Okkyung;Jung, Wooyeol;Lee, Bong Gyou;Moon, Seungbin
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.55-61
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    • 2014
  • Various human-friendly robot services have been developed and mobile cloud computing is a real time computing service that allows users to rent IT resources what they want over the internet and has become the new-generation computing paradigm of information society. The enterprises and nations are actively underway of the business process using mobile cloud computing and they are aware of need for implementing mobile cloud computing to their business practice, but it has some week points such as authentication services and distributed processing technologies of big data. Sometimes it is difficult to clarify the objective of cloud computing service. In this study, the vulnerability of authentication services on mobile cloud computing is analyzed and mobile cloud computing model is constructed for efficient and safe business process. We will also be able to study how to process and analyze unstructured data in parallel to this model, so that in the future, providing customized information for individuals may be possible using unstructured data.