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Comparison of elementary school students in atopy-friendly and general schools for their knowledge about environmentally-friendly produces and practice levels for dietary guidelines (아토피친화학교와 일반학교에 재학 중인 초등학생들의 친환경농산물에 대한 지식도와 식생활 지침 실천도 비교)

  • Lee, Sang-Mi;Kim, Hoikyung
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.733-742
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    • 2014
  • Atopic dermatitis is a chronic relapsing inflammatory skin disease. In the past years, numbers of children with atopic dermatitis has increased all over the world. Objective of this study was to evaluate awareness of students in atopy-friendly elementary schools about environmentally-friendly grown agricultural products and their practice levels for dietary guidelines. This study was conducted by using a questionnaire on 116 students from three atopy-friendly schools in Jin-an, Jeong-eup, and Gwang-ju and 124 students from general elementary schools. According to the results, the numbers of children who suffer from atopic dermatitis between atopy-friendly schools and general schools were not significantly different. Among, students with atopic dermatitis, more students in atopy-friendly school, compared to general school, restricted foods. Since different school feeding services have been provided, students in atopy-friendly schools generally get more information about the environmentally-friendly agricultural products through nutrition education. However, most results did not show differences in knowledge levels and practice levels for dietary guidelines for children between students in atopy-friendly schools and general schools about environmentally-friendly produces. However, students in atopy-friendly schools less frequently eat cookies, soda drinks, or fast foods. In conclusion, appropriate program for nutrition education should be provided to elementary school students with atopic dermatitis.

Experimental Investigation of the Sound Absorption Capability of Wood Pellets as an Eco-Friendly Material

  • JANG, Eun-Suk
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • v.50 no.2
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    • pp.126-133
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    • 2022
  • In this study, I used wood pellets as an eco-friendly sound-absorbing material. The aim of the research was to analyze the effect of the filling height of wood pellets on sound absorption. This was done using two types of wood pellets of different lengths (A group: 1.5-3 cm, B group: less than 1.5 cm). With increasing filling height of the wood pellets, the optimum sound absorption shifted towards a lower frequency. The group B wood pellets had better sound absorption capacity than the group A ones. The optimum sound absorption coefficient of group A filled to a height of 7 cm was 0.722 at 864 Hz. On the other hand, that of group B filled to a height of 7 cm was 0.764 at 862 Hz, 5.82% higher than that of group A. While wood pellets are used as an eco-friendly fuel, the results of this study suggest the possibility of using wood pellets as an eco-friendly sound-absorbing material.

A Study of Minimalism in Environment-Friendly Fashion (환경 친화적 시각에서 본 패션 미니멀리즘에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Ha-Na;Lee, Min-Sun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.59 no.7
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    • pp.154-171
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze minimalism in the environment-friendly aspect and to suggest methodology of environment-friendly fashion design. The results of this study are as follows. First, it is possible to create newly fashion-designed goods by re-arranging used goods. This method is environment-friendly, in that it recycles resources and simplifies production process. It can also meet the sense of beauty of consumers by reviving the intrinsic beauty of the used goods. Second, When we produce brand new fashion-designed goods with used goods as raw materials, the new ones reflect specific characters of the used goods which originate from their own times and regions. In this way, this method can be a fashion design which accommodate multi-cultural trends. Third, it is possible to produce goods designed by inspiration from a human body. This fashion-design method includes several ways, such as usage of human body silhouette, composition of colors using natural dyeing, and usage of natural materials. Recognizing a human being as a creature interacting with the nature can broaden range of imagination in design methodology.

A Study on Infra-Technology of RCP Mobility System

  • Kim, Seung-Woo;Choe, Jae-Il;Im, Chan-Young
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.1435-1439
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    • 2004
  • Most recently, CP(Cellular Phone) has been one of the most important technologies in the IT(Information Tech-nology) field, and it is situated in a position of great importance industrially and economically. To produce the best CP in the world, a new technological concept and its advanced implementation technique is required, due to the extreme level of competition in the world market. The RT(Robot Technology) has been developed as the next generation of a future technology. Current robots require advanced technology, such as soft computing, human-friendly interface, interaction technique, speech recognition, object recognition etc. unlike the industrial robots of the past. Therefore, this paper explains conceptual research for development of the RCP(Robotic Cellular Phone), a new technological concept, in which a synergy effect is generated by the merging of IT & RT. RCP infra consists of $RCP^{Mobility}$ $RCP^{Interaction}$, $RCP^{Integration}$ technologies. For $RCP^{Mobility}$, human-friendly motion automation and personal service with walking and arming ability are developed. $RCP^{Interaction}$ ability is achieved by modeling an emotion-generating engine and $RCP^{Integration}$ that recognizes environmental and self conditions is developed. By joining intelligent algorithms and CP communication network with the three base modules, a RCP system is constructed. Especially, the RCP mobility system is focused in this paper. $RCP^{Mobility}$ is to apply a mobility technology, which is popular robot technology, to CP and combine human-friendly motion and navigation function to CP. It develops a new technological application system of auto-charging and real-world entertainment function etc. This technology can make a CP companion pet robot. It is an automation of human-friendly motions such as opening and closing of CPs, rotation of antenna, manipulation and wheel-walking. It's target is the implementation of wheel and manipulator functions that can give service to humans with human-friendly motion. So, this paper presents the definition, the basic theory and experiment results of the RCP mobility system. We confirm a good performance of the RCP mobility system through the experiment results.

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A Study on the Educational Problems for the Eco-friendly Development (환경친화적 개발을 위한 교육문제에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Haeng-Jo
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.6 no.6
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    • pp.939-950
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    • 2011
  • Eco-friendly development is inevitable for eradicating poverty in developing countries. In order to make Eco-friendly development a worldwide movement, we have to provide education for Eco-friendly development. There are, however, many problems in achieving education for Eco-friendly development. In conducting human education, there should be a certain philosophy as a foundation. The Earth charter, which people from various countries have developed since the World Summit on Eco-friendly Development and on which they have gained an international consensus, including consensus from NGOs, should serve as a foundation to conduct education for peace, human rights and environment. In this paper, I have discussed first the loss of Sustainability, second the loss of the view that human development is the basis for education, third the decline of literacy, fourth the decline of education for women, fifth excessive emphasis on knowledge and rote learning, and sixth the deviation from quality-of-life education.

A study on the consumers' attitudes toward pro-environment and purchasing behavior of eco-friendly fashion products for green marketing strategy (그린 마케팅 전략을 위한 친환경 패션제품에 대한 소비자의 태도와 구매행동에 관한 연구)

  • Ju, Seong-Rae;Chung, Myung-Sun
    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.511-525
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    • 2014
  • This study set out to investigate consumers' attitudes toward pro-environment, and their actual purchasing behavior. It aimed to empirically examine the effects of the consumers' attitudes toward pro-environmental products, the importance of the product attributes and the perceived value of the companies' environmental activities, on their purchasing behavior of eco-friendly fashion products, including their satisfaction, trust, and repurchase intention. The questionnaires were administered on 304 married women with previous experience of buying eco-friendly fashion products. The results were as follows. First, the consumers' behavioral patterns in terms of environmental concerns and the purchasing of eco-friendly household items were significantly positive in relation to the purchasing behaviors of eco-friendly fashion products. Second, the importance of eco-friendly attributes was significantly positive in relation to the purchasing behaviors of eco-friendly fashion products. Third, the perceived value of corporate environmental activity was not related to the purchasing behaviors of eco-friendly fashion products. Finally, the purchasing behavior of eco-friendly fashion products was significantly positive in relation to the satisfaction with eco-friendly fashion products as well as the trust and repurchase intention, and satisfaction and trust positively affected the repurchase intention. The implication of the research and direction for future study were discussed.

Sign Language Avatar System Based on Hyper Sign Sentence (하이퍼 수화문장을 사용한 수화 생성 시스템)

  • Oh Young-Joon;Park Kwang-Hyun;Jang Hyo-Young;Kim Dae-Jin;Jung Jin-Woo;Bien Zeung-Nam
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.621-624
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    • 2006
  • 본 논문은 기존의 수화 발생 시스템이 갖는 처리 성능의 한계와 신체요소의 움직임에 대한 문제점을 지적하고, 이를 개선하기 위해 하이퍼 수화문장을 제안한다. 하이퍼 수화문장은 기존 수화문장의 구조를 확장하여 수화단어와 신체효소의 동작기호로 구성된 수화문장이다. 제안한 하이퍼 수화문장 생성 방법에 따라 하이퍼 수화어절을 연결하여 수화동작을 합성하고 수화문장에 대한 아바타의 움직임을 실제 수화자와 유사하게 생성하는 시스템을 보인다.

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Multi-Dimensional Complex Emotional Model for Various Complex Emotional Expression using Human Friendly Robot System (인간 친화 로봇의 다양한 복합 감정 표현을 위한 다차원 복합 감정 모델 설계)

  • Ahn, Ho-Seok;Choi, Jin-Young
    • The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.210-217
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    • 2009
  • This paper introduces a design of multi-dimensional complex emotional model for various complex emotional expression. It is a novel approach to design an emotional model by comparison with conventional emotional model which used a three-dimensional emotional space with some problems; the discontinuity of emotions, the simple emotional expression, and the necessity of re-designing the emotional model for each robot. To solve these problems, we have designed an emotional model. It uses a multi-dimensional emotional space for the continuity of emotion. A linear model design is used for reusability of the emotional model. It has the personality for various emotional results although it gets same inputs. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our model, we have tested with a human friendly robot.

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Selection of Standard Hand Posture for Graphic Hand Posture Editor (손 모양 데이터 편집기의 기준 손 모양 결정 방법)

  • Oh, Young-Joon;Park, Kwang-Hyun;Jang, Hyo-Young;Kim, Dae-Jin;Jung, Jin-Woo;Bien, Zeung-Nam
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.739-740
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    • 2006
  • 본 논문에서는 입력한 데이터를 분석하고 비교하여 손 모양 데이터 편집기의 기준 손 모양을 결정하는 방법을 제안한다. 즉, 입력한 손 모양 데이터에 대해 빈도수 혹은 평균값을 사용하여 기준 손 모양을 결정하는 방법을 제안한다. 입력한 손 모양 데이터로부터 제안한 방법을 통해 얻어진 손 모양이 실제 표현하고 자 한 손 모양과 일치하는지 실험을 통해 비교하였는데, 6,135개의 입력 데이터에 대해 두 가지 방법 모두 90.6% 일치하였다.

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A Study on the Consumption Value and Environment-FriendlyConsumption Behaviors of Adolescent Consumers (청소년소비자의 소비가치와 환경친화적 소비행동 연구)

  • Oh, Jin-Sook;Kim, Jeong-Sook
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.47 no.10
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    • pp.13-28
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze environment-friendly consumption behaviors and consumption value of adolescent consumers, and to analyze the effects of environmental knowledge, environment and experience, perception of environment, the awareness of consumption and environmental pollution, and consumption value on environment-friendly consumption behaviors of them. The data were collected by 999 adolescent consumers in Jeju Province. Data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, t-test, one-way ANOVA and Scheffe’s multiple range test using SPSS 12.0 Program . The results are as follows. Economy had the most cause and effect influence on environment-friendly purchasing behaviors, followed by experience of environmental activities, eco-friendliness, esthetic sense, enjoyment, and awareness of consumption and environmental pollution. Regarding the environmentfriendly consumer behavior, economy is the most influential factor, followed by eco-friendliness, awareness of consumption and environmental pollution, experience of environmental activities, environmental knowledge and monthly average allowance. Eco-friendliness had the most cause and effect influence on environment-friendly disposal behavior, followed by awareness of consumption and environmental pollution, economy and experience of environmental activities.