• 한국안전학회지
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.64-69
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• 2022

The study measured a subway construction worker's Macpa stress by Heart Rate Variability measuring instrument and conducted a survey of Korean job stress from subway construction workers. Also, the study analyzed the relationship between Macpa stress index and Korean job stress result and suggested managing stress method for each item. According to National Statistical Office data, the first line subway in Seoul was started to open in 1974. The extended total length is 996 kilometers until 2019. Many aged workers are currently working at subway construction sites due to the avoidance of young workers since the past until now. It means that the elderly has a substantial portion among subway construction workers. The productivity has been adversely affected by health problems due to the aging of workers, job stress due to heavy work, and personal health problems. So, the regulation and policies on job stress health management are being strengthened. The data were measured Macpa stress by machine measuring heart rate variability and conducted Korean job stress survey(shortened) from Sa-sang to Ha-dan line Busan subway construction workers for analyzing the relationship. Independent variable were age, job duration, job position, employment type, working type in this study. Macpa's dependent variable was stress index and Korean job stress survey(shortened)'s dependent variables were job requirements, job autonomy, relationship conflict, job instability, organizational structure, inappropriate compensation, working place culture, and total score. SPSS 12.0 K Statistics Program was used for statistical analysis. Kruskal-wallis test, a nonparametric statistical analysis, was used because the data are difficult to be assumed as normal distribution. As a result, the paper indicated the significant correlation between Macpa stress index and Korean job stress(short version). The elderly workers presented higher Macpa index and higher job stress due to aging and heavy-duty work. The majority workers were daily workers who had unstable working condition and uncertainty about the future. The study suggested a manual that could reduce job stress for subway construction workers and future study deriving management tool through analyzing job stress factor is necessary.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제47권5호
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• pp.345-351
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• 2010

Objective : In this study, the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program was applied to patients presenting with depression and anxiety after surgery from spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and the effects were assessed. Methods : The subjects were patients admitted for cerebral aneurysm rupture and treated by means of surgery from March to December, 2007. More than 6 months had passed after surgery, without any special lesions showing up on computed tomography (CT), and the Glasgow outcome scale (GOS) was 5 points. Among patients with anxiety and depression symptoms, 11 patients completed the program. The MBSR program was conducted once a week, 2.5 hours each, for 8 weeks. The evaluation criteria were : 1) the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI): it measures the type and level of depression, 2) the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory : the anxiety state of normal adults without mental disorder, and 3) Heart Rate Variability (HRV) : the influence of the autonomous nervous system on the sinoarterial node varies continuously in response to the change of the internal/external environment. Results : The BDI value was decreased from 18.5 ${\pm}$ 10.9 to 9.5 ${\pm}$ 7.1 (p = 0.013) : it was statistically significant, and the depression level of patients was lowered. The state anxiety was decreased from 51.3 ${\pm}$ 13.9 to 42.3 ${\pm}$ 15.2; the trait anxiety was reduced from 50.9 ${\pm}$ 12.3 to 41.3 ${\pm}$ 12.8, and a borderline significant difference was shown (p = 0.091, p = 0.056). In other words, after the treatment, although it was not statistically significant, a decreased tendency in anxiety was shown. In the HRV measurement, standard deviation normal to normal (SDNN), square root of the square root of the mean sum of squared differences between adjacent normal to normal intervals (RMSSD), and total power (TP) showed significant increase, Physical Stress Index (PSI) showed a significant reduction, and thus an improvement in the homeostatic control mechanism of the autonomic nervous system was ween. Conclusion : The MBSR program was applied to the patients showing anxiety and depression reaction after SAH treatment, and a reduction in depression symptoms and physiological reactions were observed. The application of the MBSR program may be considered as a new tool in improving the quality of life for patients after surgery.

• 감성과학
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.145-158
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• 2018

본 연구의 목적은 정신 질환을 진단받지 않은 일반인들이 양극성 장애 경향성에 따라 변화하는 시공간 주의집중력과 정서 지각 능력을 탐구하는 것이다. 양극성 장애 경향성을 측정하기 위해 한국형 자기보고형 양극성 장애 검사(K-MDQ)를 사용하였고, 시공간 주의집중력와 정서 지각 능력을 측정하기 위해서는 시공간 주의 과제(useful field of view task)와 정서 지각 과제(emotional perception task)를 사용하였다. 또한 본 연구에는 정신 질환 혹은 기타 의학적 문제가 없는 참가자들만 참여하였고 K-MDQ 점수에 따라 세 집단으로 나뉘어졌다. 시공간 주의 과제 수행 결과, K-MDQ 점수가 높은 집단이 다른 집단들에 비해 수행 수준이 낮았다. 이는 양극성 장애 경향성이 높은 일반인은 시공간 주의집중력의 저하가 나타난 것을 의미했다. 또한 정서 지각 과제 수행 결과, K-MDQ 점수가 높은 집단이 다른 집단들에 비해 부정적 정서 지각 편향성이 높게 나타났다. 이는 양극성 장애 경향성이 높은 일반인은 부정적 정서 지각 편향성이 높게 나타났으며 즉, 양극성 장애 경향성이 높은 일반인은 정서 지각 능력이 저하되었음을 의미했다. 이러한 결과는 양극성 장애 환자가 아닌 일반인이 양극성 장애 경향성이 높아지면 양극성 장애 환자에게 나타난 시공간 주의집중력과 정서 지각 능력의 저하가 점진적으로 나타난다는 것을 함의한다.

• Journal of Photoscience
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.457-459
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• 2002

Sunlight causes various types of adverse skin changes on the sun-exposed areas of the skin, in which the most hazardous one is the induction of malignant skin tumours. FT -IR spectra were obtained from specimens excised from normal skin, BCCs, SCCs, MMs, nevi, lesions of solar keratosis and Bowen's disease. Tissue samples from freshly frozen specimens were cut into 2 sections in strictly sequential order to be stained with H & E for histopathological analysis, and then to be air-dried on CaF$_2$ slide glasses for further spectral data acquisition from defined area of interest. Intra- and inter-sample variations were estimated within grouped lesion categories according to each skin component. Mean spectra for each type of tissue pathology in the 800-1800 $cm^{-1}$ / region was interpreted using the classical group frequency approach that showed the most visible differences in spectra of benign, premalignant and malignant changes directly related to protein conformation and nucleic acid bases. The relative intensity of the nucleic acid peak was increased with progression to malignancy. In addition, PCA was able to evaluate and maximise the differences in the spectra by reducing the number of variables characterizing each patient and pathology category. This type of approach to non-destructively estimate the complexity of IR-spectra of inhomogeneous samples such as skin demonstrates the advantage of FT -IR microspectroscopy to be able to observe diseased states (benign, premalignant, malignant) and distinguish them from normal against a huge background of inter- and intra-subject variability.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.346-355
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• 2017

Atrial fibrillation (AF) and Congestive heart failure (CHF) are increasingly widespread, costly, deadly diseases and are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. In this study, we analyzed three statistical methods for automatic detection of AF and CHF based on the randomness, variability and complexity of the heart beat interval, which is RRI time series. Specifically, we used short RRI time series with 16 beats and employed the normalized root mean square of successive RR differences (RMSSD), the sample entropy and the Shannon entropy. The detection performance was analyzed using four large well documented databases, namely the MIT-BIH Atrial fibrillation (n=23), the MIT-BIH Normal Sinus Rhythm (n=18), the BIDMC Congestive Heart Failure (n=13) and the Congestive Heart Failure RRI databases (n=25). Using thresholds by Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves, we found that the normalized RMSSD provided the highest accuracy. The overall sensitivity, specificity and accuracy for AF and CHF were 0.8649, 0.9331 and 0.9104, respectively. Regarding CHF detection, the detection rate of CHF (NYHA III-IV) was 0.9113 while CHF (NYHA I-II) was 0.7312, which shows that the detection rate of CHF with higher severity is higher than that of CHF with lower severity. For the clinical 24 hour data (n=42), the overall sensitivity, specificity and accuracy for AF and CHF were 0.8809, 0.9406 and 0.9108, respectively, using normalized RMSSD.

• 한방안이비인후피부과학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.142-153
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• 2008

Objective : Etiologically, stress is a important factor to immune system and skin disease. Human body is controled to keep his homeostasis from stress by autonomic nerve system. So we investigated autonomic nerve balance and stress level of patients with skin disease by heart rate variability(HRV) test. Research Methods and Procedures : Fifty two patient(from 15 years old to 35 years old) who visited Dept. of Oriental medical Dermatology, Kyunghee university at first and had an examination by HRV test, were selected as the subject of our study. We checked items of HRV test(such as SDNN, RMSSD, VLF, LF, HF, TP, norm-LF, norm-HF, LF/HF ratio, LnHF and LnHF), and analyzed time and frequency domain by sex, age, onset, color on end of patient's tongue, sweating and sleep condition. Results and Conclusion : Men showed significant higher SDNN, RMSSD, LF, norm-LF, norm-HF, LF/HF ratio, LnLF and LnHF than women(p <0.05). Patients who were attacked by skin disease within 6 months, showed significant higher TP and VLF than over 6 months(p <0.05). Patients with normal color on the end of their tongue showed significant higher TP and VLF than with flare color. We analyzed correlation to color on the end of tongue and RMSSD. Prevalence risk(RMSSD <20ms) in the case of normal color on the end of tongue was 5 times as high as in the case of flare color(p <0.1). And we analyzed correlation to age and LF/HF ratio. Prevalence risk(LF/HF ratio <1) of patients from 15 years old to 25 years old was 1.467 times as high as from 26 years old to 35 years old(p <0.1).

• 한국응용곤충학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.235-239
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• 1977

선발에 의하여 얻은 벼 흰빛잎마름병균 Xanthomonas oryzae의 Streptomycin 내성균에 대하여 병원성, 배지내에서의 생장량 및 자외선 감수성에 대한 변이성을 조사하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. (1) SM 내성균은 Wase-Aikoku-3, Rant Emas-2 황옥 및 Kimmase의 4개 판별품종에 대한 병원성 비교에서 75-6의 내성균주가 황옥에 대하여 감수성 반응이 모균과 달리 중정도의 저항성을 나타내었다. 2) SM-내성균은 정상배지에서 모균보다 약간 높은 생장량을 보였고 100ug/ml Agrepto 첨가 배지에서는 접종후 60시간까지 생장이 조지되었으나 70시간 이후에는 모균의 생장량을 능가하였다. (3) SM-내성균은 254mu 파장의 자외선 조사에서 모균과 동일한 감수성을 나타내어 내성인자는 안정된 것으로 생각되었다.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.3-13
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• 1999

본 연구에서는 공간 분포의 해석을 위하여 일반적으로 사용되어 오던 Thiessen 또는 Kriging 법들을 대체할 수 있는 새로운 모형인 SANN(Spatial-Analysis Neural-Network)을 소개한다. 이 모델은 신경망 기법을 이용한 비매개 변수법의 일종으로 미측정 기점의 평균값 뿐만 아니라 분산, 왜도 등의 고차 통계치를 제공하여 준다. 또한 어떤 기점에서의 공간변수의 값이 그 심각도에 따른 미리 지정된 여러 분류들 중 각각의 분류에 속할 확률값과 전체 공간을 각 분류에 따라 가장 최적하게 분류경제(class boundary)를 선정하여줄 수 있는 Bayesian 계급분류기(Classifier)를 제공하는 의사결정(decision-making) 역할도 수행할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 제안된 SANN모형의 외삽기(interpolator)를 사용하여 관측 기점의 연평균 강우량을 대상 유역 전체의 공간적으로 분포시키고 또한 각 지점의 예측 오류를 산정하며, Bayesian 분류기를 사용하여 대상유역을 가장 적절하게 건조, 보통, 습윤 지역으로 분류하는 방법을 제시하여 본다. 본 연구에서는 39개 강우 계측 지점을 이용하여 우리나라의 연평균 강우의 공간 해석에 응용하여 본다. 결과적으로 연평균 강우량의 공간 분포, 표준편차, 그리고 확률도를 얻었다. 더불어 우리나라 전역을 건조, 보통, 습윤 지역으로 분류하여 보았다.

• International Journal of Safety
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.36-42
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• 2002

This paper is aimed at predicting the life of rubber insulating gloves under normal operating stresses from relatively rapid test performed at higher stresses. Specimens of rubber insulating gloves are subject to multiple stress conditions, i.e. combined electrical and thermal stresses. Two modes of electrical stress, step voltage stress and constant voltage stress are used in specimen aging. There are two types of test for electrical stress in this experiment: the one is Breakdown Voltage (BDV) test under step voltage stress and thermal stress and the other is lifetime test under constant voltage stress and temperature stress. The ac breakdown voltage defined as the break-down point of insulation that leakage current excesses a limit value, l0mA in this experiment, is determined. Because the very high variability of aging data requires the application of statistical model, Weibull distribution is used to represent the failure times as the straight line on Weibull probability paper. Weibull parameters are deter-mined by three statistical methods i.e. maximum likelihood method, graphical method and least squares method, which employ SAS package, Weibull probability paper and FORTRAN, respectively. Two chosen models for predicting the life under simultaneous electrical and thermal stresses are inverse power model and exponential model. And the constants of life equation for multistress aging are calculated using numerical method, such as Gauss Jordan method etc.. The completion of life equation enables to estimate the life at normal stress based on the data collected from accelerated aging test. Also the comparison of the calculated lifetimes between the inverse power model and the exponential model is carried out. And the lifetimes calculated by three statistical methods with lower voltage than test voltage are compared. The results obtained from the suggested experimental method are presented and discussed.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제50권3호
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• pp.3-15
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• 2008

North Korea is one of the vulnerable countries facing the threat of a drought, so that it is unavoidable to experience fatal damage when drought is occurred, and it is necessary to improve the drought response capability of water resources systems. However, it is still difficult to find research efforts for drought characteristics and drought management in North Korea. This study is to quantify drought duration and magnitude and to analyze drought characteristics in North Korea. In order to quantitatively identify historical drought conditions and to evaluate their variability, drought indices are commonly used. In this study, drought indices including dry-day index, deciles of normal precipitation, Phillips drought index, standardized precipitation index and Palmer drought severity index are calculated and compared monthly using the weather data for the twenty one meteorological stations in North Korea. The indices compared with the drought damage records that have reported from 1990 to present to understand how the indices can explain the drought. A comparative study was also conducted to evaluate the relative severity of the significant droughts occurred during 2000 and 2001 which were reported as the worst drought in North Korea. Drought indices calculated from this study demonstrated that those can be the effective tools in quantitatively evaluating drought severity and measures of drought. Thus it is recommended the distributed trend of drought be considered when the plan or measures for drought in North Korea are established.