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Sugar Reduction Perception and Sugary Food Intake among High School Students in Incheon (인천지역 고등학생의 당류 저감화 인식 및 당 함유식품의 섭취실태)

  • Bae, Gyeong-Ja;Choi, Mi-Kyeong
    • Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.111-121
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    • 2021
  • Objectives: This study examined ways to promote desirable eating habits by choosing foods with low sugar contents and provide nutrition education in adolescents. Methods: This study was a cross-sectional survey. The sugar reduction perception and knowledge, sugary food preference, and intake frequency of 487 male and female high school students in Incheon were analyzed comparatively. Results: Approximately 94.9% and 94.5% of the subjects were unaware of the promotion of a sugar reduction policy and the sugar reduction in the basic guidelines for school meals, respectively. Approximately 95% of them had not received any sugar reduction nutrition education, and 90% were not interested in sugar reduction. The perception for sugar reduction was significantly higher in girls (3.43 out of 5 points) than in boys (3.16 out of 5 points) (P < 0.001). Knowledge about sugar was 3.65 out of 6 points in girls and 3.04 points in boys (P < 0.001). The preference and intake frequency for fruits of the total students were 4.24 out of 5 points and 2.56, respectively. For beverages, the preference was significantly higher in boys (3.97 points) than in girls (3.70 points) (P < 0.001), and the intake frequency was significantly higher in boys (2.26 points) than in girls (2.08 points) (P < 0.001). The preference for snacks was significantly higher for girls (4.19 points) than boys (4.02 points) (P < 0.01), and the intake frequency was 2.22 points in boys and 2.17 in girls, showing no significant difference. Sugar reduction perception and knowledge about sugar showed significant negative correlations with the snack intake frequency (r = -0.11, P < 0.05; -0.13, P < 0.05) after adjusting for gender, grade, and body mass index. Conclusions: The high school students' perception of sugar reduction was very low, and there was a significant correlation with sugary food intake, suggesting that the sugary food intake will decrease as the sugar reduction perception and knowledge about sugar increase.

The Relationship between Subjective Health Knowledge and Environmental Exposure Reduction Behavior among the Elderly in Gongju City (공주시 노인의 주관적 건강 지식과 환경 노출 저감 행동의 관련성)

  • Seo, Myung-Soon;Kim, Kyung-Hee;Choi, Jae-Wook
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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    • v.46 no.6
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    • pp.676-684
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    • 2020
  • Objectives: In this study, the extent of environmental exposure reduction behavior among the elderly living in Gongju City was identified according to demographic and sociological characteristics of individual health behavior and environmental factors. In addition, the relationship between subjective health knowledge and environmental exposure reduction behavior among the elderly was investigated. Methods: Demographic and sociological factors, subjective health status, environmental factors, and environmental exposure reduction behavior were investigated among 120 elderly people in Gongju City. Through multiple regression analysis, variables with significant relationships with environmental exposure reduction behavior were identified (SPSS ver. 22, IBM, Armonk, NY, USA). The survey (IRB-2018-0096) was conducted over about two weeks (from Dec. 3 to 14, 2018). Results: The extent of practicing environmental exposure reduction behavior by the elderly in Gongju City was high in terms of cleaning, ventilation when cooking food, periodic outdoor activities, and ventilation when smoking. Significant variables were gender, past smoking and current non-smoking, subjective health knowledge, and subjective health status. The most influential variable was subjective health knowledge (β= .411). Conclusion: There was a significant relationship between the level of subjective health knowledge and the level of objective education for health behavior related to the reduction of environmental exposure among the elderly.

A Note on Computing the Crisp Order Context of a Fuzzy Formal Context for Knowledge Reduction

  • Singh, Prem Kumar;Kumar, Ch. Aswani
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.184-204
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    • 2015
  • Fuzzy Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is a mathematical tool for the effective representation of imprecise and vague knowledge. However, with a large number of formal concepts from a fuzzy context, the task of knowledge representation becomes complex. Hence, knowledge reduction is an important issue in FCA with a fuzzy setting. The purpose of this current study is to address this issue by proposing a method that computes the corresponding crisp order for the fuzzy relation in a given fuzzy formal context. The obtained formal context using the proposed method provides a fewer number of concepts when compared to original fuzzy context. The resultant lattice structure is a reduced form of its corresponding fuzzy concept lattice and preserves the specialized and generalized concepts, as well as stability. This study also shows a step-by-step demonstration of the proposed method and its application.

The Association between Maternal Nutrition Knowledge, Dietary attitudes, and Dietary Behaviors Related to Sugar Intake, and Sugar Intake Reduction in Preschool Children (어머니의 당류 섭취에 대한 영양지식, 식태도 및 식행동과 유아 자녀의 당류 섭취 저감도와의 관련성)

  • Myeong, Ho Sun;Yeon, Jee-Young;Kim, Mi-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Dietetic Association
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.127-142
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    • 2022
  • This study was undertaken to investigate the association between maternal nutrition knowledge, dietary attitudes, and behaviors related to sugar intake and sugar intake reduction in preschool children. Eighty-three children aged 5 to 6 years attending kindergartens in Hongseong and their mothers participated in this study from October 2020 to February 2021. The average age of the mothers was 38.7 years, and 53.0% of the children were male. As child age increased, nutrition knowledge of sugar intake reduction increased, but no relation was found between age and, dietary behavior and preference related to sugar intake reduction. For children whose mothers perceived that their child's sugar preference was high, the behavioral score of sugar intake reduction was low. The more mothers allowed their children to eat sweet food; the higher was their child's preference for sweet food, which was also significantly associated with an increased risk of high sugar intake. When mothers were provided education that encouraged reducing children's sugar intakes, knowledge about reducing sugar intake in children was significantly increased. The study emphasizes the importance of the roles of mothers and primary caregivers regarding reducing the sugar intakes of preschool children.

Effects of Steric Hindrance of 2-Hydroxyphenyl Diazonium Derivatives in the Reductive Reaction by Using Sodium Hydrogensulfite (Sodium Hydrogensulfite를 이용한 환원반응에서 2-Hydroxyphenyl Diazonium 유도체의 입체장애에 관한 연구)

  • Kwon, O-Zoon;Kim, Jieun;Park, Se-Min;Kim, Keun-Sik;Yoon, Soon-Do
    • Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.509-511
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    • 2019
  • Hydrazine derivatives used in fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics can be synthesized by reduction reaction from diazonium derivatives. The reduction method using $SnCl_2$ facilitates the reaction conversion, but the use of $SnCl_2$ is limited when residual heavy metals are issued in the final product. For the conversion of protected (2-hydroxyphenyl)diazonium derivatives into its hydrazine derivatives in Ramalin preparation process, the reduction method was developed by using $NaHSO_3$. In this study, the effect of steric hindrance according to the protected 2-hydroxygroupinphenyldiazonium derivatives was found, and linear C1~C5 alkyl groups for the hydroxy protection were preferable during the diazonium reduction reaction. Considering the economical efficiency and industrial production for the preparation of Ramalin, a variety of protecting groups were investigated. As a result, 2-(allyloxyphenyl)hydrazine was obtained with 85% yield and 99.7% purity when the hydroxy protecting group was used as an allyl group that could be easily deprotected.

The Effect of international management activity and e-business on knowledge management (국제경영활동과 e-비즈니스가 지식경영에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Seong Ho;Hong, Ho Yeol
    • Knowledge Management Research
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.33-69
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    • 2005
  • Recently, knowledge management and E-business are very important issues in academic and business fields. Research questions related with these issues are which factors stimulate knowledge management. Another question is whether knowledge management is related to E-business. To answer these questions a research model was proposed. The data were collected from 90 manufacturing firms in Korea. Appropriate research methodologies were employed for analysis. Results found that the degree of firm's internalization, diversity of domestic management activities and learning orientation affect knowledge aquisition and transfer. Knowledge aquisition and transfer facilitate knowledge application, resulting in new product development, cost reduction and technology differentiation. Knowledge management is a kind of process. This result, therefore, confirms what previous literature predicted.

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Development and Evaluation of Nutrition Education Program for Sodium Reduction in Foodservice Operations (단체급식소 나트륨 섭취감소를 위한 영양교육 프로그램 개발 및 효과 평가)

  • Shin, Eun-Kyung;Lee, Hye-Jin;Jun, So-Yoon;Park, Eun-Jung;Jung, Yun-Young;Ahn, Moon-Young;Lee, Yeon-Kyung
    • Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.216-227
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this study was to develop a nutrition education program for dietary salt reduction using various nutrition education materials. The effect of a 5-week nutrition education program on salty taste assessment, nutrition knowledge, salt attitude for a high-salt diet, salt content in food, and individual satisfaction with the salt concentration of meals during the education period was evaluated. Nutrition education materials included two animations, a pamphlet, panels, and a website, as well as other training resources. Subjects participating in this study were 335 employees (164 male, 171 female) at 15 foodservice operations in Daegu. Preference for higher levels of salty taste and food containing higher amounts of salt were lowered. Knowledge regarding the necessity for dietary salt reduction was higher (p < 0.001) than before nutrition education, and salt content in a meal was reduced. As the program progressed, average salt concentrations of soups were significantly lowered (p < 0.05), and there was greater satisfaction with the lower concentration (p < 0.001). This was a positive indication of the program's success. In addition, it was found that subjects who participated in the program several times have changed their preference to lower levels of salty taste and have increased their nutrition knowledge (p < 0.05, p < 0.001). Thus, the positive effect of this 5-week nutrition education program developed for, and applied to, foodservice employees, concerning dietary salt reduction was confirmed.

Multiple Perspectives on Knowledge Management : Social Network, Resource Dependency, and Institutionalization Theories (지식경영에 대한 제 접근 : 사회적 네트워크, 자원의존 및 제도화 이론을 중심으로)

  • Moon, Gyewan;Kim, Kiwhan;Choi, Sukbong
    • Knowledge Management Research
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.43-60
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    • 2009
  • The current study attempts to provide the field of knowledge management with theoretical grounds from the perspective of social network, resource dependency, and institutional theory. Social network theory considers that knowledge management plays a critical role in organizational innovation through the process of knowledge sharing/creation, communication systems, and a cooperative culture and trust, whereas resource dependency perceives knowledge management as contributing to cost reduction through the process of knowledge capture/storage, database systems, and reward/incentive systems. Plus, from the perspective of institutionalization, this study discusses that organizations can not benefit from knowledge management if it is adopted with the motive of isomorphic change. Finally, this study compares and integrates the three perspectives, and discusses the implications and limitations.

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The Effectiveness of Na Education Program in Elementary School - Six Month Follow-up Study - (초등학생 Na 교육 효과에 관한 연구 - 사전, 사후, 추후 검증을 통한 교육효과 비교 -)

  • Lee, Young-Mee;Park, Hyun-Nae
    • Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.603-613
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    • 2010
  • Nutrition education in elementary school is confronted with the present problem, as a legal basis about obligation of nutrition education in school was clarified. Moreover, it's also important for providing evidence based scientific resources to make a study of evaluating the education effectiveness. Most studies of the nutrition education effectiveness have evaluated the changing dietary attitude and nutritional knowledge score before and after the nutrition education, and suggested the effectiveness of intervention as changing between pre- and post-treatment. Nutrition education, however, purposing long-term changes, follow-up evaluation process about the learned attitude and knowledge of nutrition education were requested. For these reasons, this study attempted to fulfilled standardized nutrition education program which use "Na Story and Food World" and "Na Story for Me", a textbook for the 1st-3rd grade and 4th-6th grade designed by KFDA, and analyzed the changes about the effectiveness of nutrition education happened over a period of time. In this study, each student was assessed their dietary attitude and nutritional knowledge by four periods, before the education, right after the education, after 3 months, and after 6 months. As a result, an average score of nutritional knowledge before the education, $70.08{\pm}17.91$, were changed significantly higher right after the education to $85.69{\pm}15.05$ (p < 0.001), but it lowered to $84{\pm}15.56$ after 3 month. After the nutrition education, students in all grades had positive dietary attitude to Na reduction (p < 0.001). However, the healthy eating attitude about Na reduction had been unable to maintain after 3 and 6 months. Therefore, the systematic reeducated program in elementary school was positively necessary to reinforce children's learning and cognitive skills to maintain healthy eating knowledge and attitude toward Na reduction.

A Development of Efficient Power Conversion Technology for Reduction of Power Equipment (전원설비 저감을 위한 고효율 전력변환기술 개발)

  • Koo, Myoung-Wan;Lee, Woo-Won;Lim, Kye-Young
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.142-144
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    • 2008
  • The Former High Efficiency Inverter(the power restoration process) system process has advantage which is the energy reduction rather than the Former Inverter(the resistence damping process), However, under repair and remodeling, the power facilities capacity is not easy to increase that the former High Efficiency Inverter needs to increase the Power Facilities Capacity of 20~30% than the Inverter(the resistence damping process) so Therefore we are going to suggest the system which is not going to make an increase the power facilities capacity and is applicable the High Efficiency Inverter.

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