• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• v.54 no.12
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• pp.481-488
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• 2011

In the current era of low-birth rate in Korea, it is important to improve our neonatal intensive care and to establish an integrative system including a regional care network adequate for both high-risk pregnancies and high-risk newborn infants. Therefore, official discussion for nation-wide augmentation, proper leveling, networking, and regionalization of neonatal and perinatal care is urgently needed. In this report, I describe the status of neonatal intensive care in Korea, as well as nationwide flow of transfer of high-risk newborn infants and pregnant women, and present a short review of the regionalization of neonatal and perinatal care in the Unites States and Japan. It is necessary not only to increase the number of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) beds, medical resources and manpower, but also to create a strong network system with appropriate leveling of NICUs and regionalization. A systematic approach toward perinatal care, that includes both high-risk pregnancies and newborns with continuous support from the government, is also needed, which can be spearheaded through the establishment of an integrative advisory board to propel systematic care forward.

• Journal of Haehwa Medicine
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.205-212
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• 2005

Korea has recently seen reduction in Gihyeolbujog(氣血不足)-related woman disease due to low birth rate and elevated nutritional intake. In particular Uterine Prolapse usually result from malnutrition in days of need and also from earlier resumption of social activity after childbirth. Nowadays some women still develop Uterine Prolapse, of which the reasons are earlier resumption of social activity after childbirth, malnutrition due to harsh diet, contaminated food, and Gihyeolbujog by stress. This research has determined that GamibojungiggiTang would be effective for the treatment of those diseases. This research found that the combination of BojungiggiTang with Sugjihwang(熟地黃)and Noggaggyo(鹿角膠), which were used for Sinsubujog(腎水不足) and IghyeolbojeongJe(益血保定劑). Respectively, produced satisfactory treatment outcomes for prolapse.

• The Journal of Pediatrics of Korean Medicine
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.171-180
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• 2002

Hydrocele is commonly found clinically and it is associated with patent processes vaginalis. The exact causes of this disease have no been proved up to now however monthly this disease disappears in twelve months after birth but some cases remain. For the treatment we do hydrocelectomy and although the rate of complications were low, sometimes the complications result in reoperations of children. Form the view of oriental medicine, hydrocele is included in susan(水疝) and this treatment originated from naekyung(內經). In this case, we got good results after treating a boy at the age of twenly-five months by bojungikitanggamibang therefor we want to annoume this.

• Architectural research
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.167-174
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• 2014

Smart Work is a way of working independent of time and space restrictions with the help of ICT. For past years, Korea has been promoting Smart Work to boost ICT industry, to overcome low birth rate and population ageing, and to implement Smart Korea. Three elements of Smart Work include people, technology and space. A lot of research has been performed on people and technology for Smart Work. But it is hard to find research on space. In this paper, some representative smart work centers(SWCs) in Korea were selected and analyzed from the perspective of spatial design including general characteristics, personal spaces, group spaces, and support spaces. From this research, it is observed that current SWCs in Korea are good in providing personal work spaces and simple group meeting rooms as well as ICT environments. However, they lack of openness to the public and group spaces to encourage informal communications. It is also observed that personal space plans need to be multi-functional, and that novel supporting spaces are required to improve quality of life and creativity of workers.

• Journal of Dairy Science and Biotechnology
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.143-148
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• 2005

Korea dairy market has greatly expanded recently by growing up the consumer's demands of high quality of milk products and their functionality due to expanding of well being lift trends. However, life cycle of dairy products is shorter than ever before and low birth rate is a common trend of Korean people. Moreover due to the national economy crisis, most of dairy companies are faced with the pressure of new milk products development and their sales. This paper deals with the development of Korea dairy industry by chronological order and deals with the future applicable new dairy foods and advanced dairy technology.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• v.13 no.10
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• pp.4979-4981
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• 2012

Aim: Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers of women in India with high fatality rate. Over a 1 year study period 105 consecutive biopsy or fine needle aspiration cytology confirmed breast cancer patients were interviewed by direct questionnaire method regarding risk factors attending Surgery and Radiotherapy OPD of Medical College Kolkata, West Bengal while taking other 105 patients attending Surgery Department for some other disease as controls. The data were compiled in MS Excel 2007 and analyzed by Epi info 3.5.1 software. Among the cases, rural residence, illiteracy and low socio-economic status was significantly higher than controls. Late onset of menarche, late onset of menopause, ever OCP usage, breast feeding for 1-2 years and age of 1st childbirth between 20-30 years were found to be significant protective factors. People should be made aware regarding the modifiable risk factors to prevent breast cancer.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.2332-2342
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• 2008

Railway in Japan has been changed every apr. 20 years as follows, since the war ended in 1945. Shinkansen which was the first high speed train in the world began to revenue service in 1964, and a national railway authority was privatized segmentally in 1987, and after 20 years later from then, the ticketing service using IC card was accomplished. In this research, we review these changes in Japan in the administrative aspects on railway technology, and R & D aspects of the Railway Technical Research Institute, JR East and JR West which are railway corporations. Also we introduce the present status and future of railway technologies in Japan which railway experts diagnosed. In the twenty-first century, the needs of the times for railway have been enormously changed due to a low birth-rate, an aging society, environmental pollution and energy problems and etc. Because we have very similar problems to them like Japan, we could get lessons from Japanese cases in setting the direction for the development of railway technologies.

• Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.433-448
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• 2011

In this paper, low birth rate due to aging in adramatic increase in the older population diversified modern social welfare services to meet the demand of the Ubiquitous Network approach to the introduction of social welfare through feasibility studies, modern social welfare facilities for the operation of the future direction and development of alternative to evaluate the present.

• The Journal of Sustainable Design and Educational Environment Research
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.1-8
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• 2012

Due to the fact that there are low birth rate and longer life longevity, schools have been shutting down and converted into welfare facilities. However, most of researches about utilizing closed down school are focused on case researches or architectural planning and design. Moreover, majority of existing welfare centers for the aged are not designed with the flow of human traffic in mind, which means there is no consideration of physical or psychological characteristics of elderly people. That fact leads to increasing number of shutting down welfare facilities. Therefore, this thesis will present the necessity of effective space allocation, extension and reconstruction for residents in aged care by analyzing space using index of space syntax with depth-map software.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.126-139
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• 2022

The need for synthetic automation is increasing in preparation for a gradual decrease in laboratory research manpower due to low birth rate and aging. In this study, the existing laboratory synthesis method is analyzed based on the systems engineering technique. Then, it led to the derivation of the system requirements for a fixed-based robot manipulator capable of recognition, decision and control. The robot is equipped with replaceable modular end-effectors and designed depending on the purpose and process of the synthesis. The robot with an end-effector was implemented as PoC(Proof-of-Concept), and the functions for pipetting automation was verified.