• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제46권4호
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• pp.359-367
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• 2020

Objectives: Exposure to mold is strongly associated with adverse health effects (development or exacerbation of allergic diseases). We reviewed the health effects of mold exposure and explored to determine the annual distribution of indoor mold in facilities with susceptible populations. Methods: The health effects of mold exposure were mainly summarized by reviewing related papers and WHO research reports. We selected 10 facilities, including daycare centers, postpartum care centers, medical institutions, and elderly care facilities within the Seoul Metropolitan. Mold sampling was performed once every week or once every quarter from February 2016 to 2017. In addition, fungal species analyses was performed, and distribution status by month and facility was analyzed in the same manner as concentration. Results: Adverse health effects attributed to fungal exposure are largely divided into allergic symptoms, toxic effects, and infectious effects. Monthly mean concentrations of mold indoors and outdoors was 368.8 CFU/㎥ (geometric mean 213.4 CFU/㎥) and 496.0 CFU/㎥ (327.9 CFU/㎥), respectively. The indoor concentration has begun to increase in February, peaked in July, declined in August, increased again until October, and then decreased in November. About 36 genera of indoor fungal species were found in each facility. Cladosporium sp., Penicillium sp., Fusarium sp., Aspergillus sp., Alternaria sp., and Arthrinium sp. were observed as the dominant species. Conclusions: Our findings showed that the overall level of indoor mold was below the 500 CFU/㎥ level recommended by the Ministry of Environment. The development of DNA-based assessment and expanding facilities to be monitored for mold would be necessary for preventive aspects.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.831-841
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• 2006

The study on school indoor air quality was carried out at classrooms, computer-rooms, laboratories and play- grounds for carbonyl compounds including formaldehyde during the winter time from November to December 2004 and during the summer time from June to July 2005. The sampling was conducted under the general school condition without any artificial intervention such as the sealing, ventilating or heating at indoor environments. The concentrations of formaldehyde at all types of indoor environments were lower than air quality standard of $120{\mu}g/m^3$ for public facilities. The mean concentrations of formaldehyde at indoors were $4.5{\sim}6.1$ times higher than those at outdoors. From the comparison between two year and one year old schools after construction, the concentrations of formaldehyde in two year old school were $30{\sim}38%$ lower than those in one year old school measured at classrooms and laboratories.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제51권1호
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• pp.45-57
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• 2013

This study explores the types of daily routines in child care centers based on the time planned for indoor free choice activities, outdoor activities, group activities and nap/rest. The daily routine plans of 63 classes of 0 to 2-year-olds and 51 classes of 3 to 5-year-olds were cluster analyzed. Also, openness and closeness of child care programs as well as the most participated indoor/outdoor activities were examined using questionnaires developed for teachers. The results were as follows: First, teachers planned the most time for free play choice activity and comparatively less time for outdoor play during the day. Time for rest and naps were planned more for 0-2 year-olds whereas group activities were planned more for the 3-5 year-olds. Second, 3 daily routine types were found in the daily plans of child care centers, such as "Low-Activity Oriented," "Free Choice Activity Oriented" and "Group Activity Oriented" in 0 to 2-year-old classes and 3 to 5-year-old classes. Also, "Group Activity Oriented" type in 0 to 2-year-old classes showed more "closed" child care programs than the "Free Choice Activity Oriented" type. However, no difference was shown among the 3 types of daily routines in the openness and closeness of 3 to 5-year-old child care programs. Finally, all children, regardless of the types of daily routine, participated most in block activity and role play indoors and fixed-play equipment, sand play and free play outdoors.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.336-344
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• 2019

현재 한국은 고령사회에 진입하면서 폭넓은 분야에서 노인문제가 발생하고 있다. 본 연구는 노인문제 중 노인의 건강문제와 안전문제에 대해 연구하고자 한다. 이론적 배경으로 매슬로우의 욕구이론을 적용하였으며, 욕구 5단계 중 생리적 욕구와 안전의 욕구를 노인건강과 안전에 연관하여 새로운 이론을 설정하였다. 노인의 건강문제는 생리적 욕구에 적용하여 신체와 인지, 심리부분으로 자세히 살펴보고, 실내, 외에서 발생하는 안전사고는 안전욕구와 관련하여 알아보고자 한다. 빅데이터 포탈인 네이버 데이터랩을 통해 노인의 건강과 안전문제에 대한 버즈량이 꾸준히 증가하고 있음을 알 수 있고, 구글 트렌드를 통해 연관검색어를 설정하여 노인문제에 대한 관심사를 파악 할 수 있다. 연관검색어에 따르면 건강문제는 건강과 관련한 사회적인 부분, 안전사고 문제는 사고종류와 관련된 키워드가 상위권을 이루었다. 이러한 연구결과는 노인문제의 연구와 해결방안에 중요한 기초자료가 될 것이다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.25-44
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• 2010

With the increasing popularity of mobile devices, it has become necessary to protect private information and content in these devices. Face recognition has been favored over conventional passwords or security keys, because it can be easily implemented using a built-in camera, while providing user convenience. However, because mobile devices can be used both indoors and outdoors, there can be many illumination changes, which can reduce the accuracy of face recognition. Therefore, we propose a new face recognition method on a mobile device robust to illumination variations. This research makes the following four original contributions. First, we compared the performance of face recognition with illumination variations on mobile devices for several illumination normalization procedures suitable for mobile devices with low processing power. These include the Retinex filter, histogram equalization and histogram stretching. Second, we compared the performance for global and local methods of face recognition such as PCA (Principal Component Analysis), LNMF (Local Non-negative Matrix Factorization) and LBP (Local Binary Pattern) using an integer-based kernel suitable for mobile devices having low processing power. Third, the characteristics of each method according to the illumination va iations are analyzed. Fourth, we use two matching scores for several methods of illumination normalization, Retinex and histogram stretching, which show the best and $2^{nd}$ best performances, respectively. These are used as the inputs of an SVM (Support Vector Machine) classifier, which can increase the accuracy of face recognition. Experimental results with two databases (data collected by a mobile device and the AR database) showed that the accuracy of face recognition achieved by the proposed method was superior to that of other methods.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.27-32
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• 2007

The status of Dirofilaria immitis infection was assessed in pet dogs of Busan, Korea, and chemoprophylactic effects of microfilaricidal medication were evaluated. A total of 294 pet dogs older than 6 mo were examined, 217 of which had been maintained indoors, and 77 had been kept outdoors. The $Snap^R$ kit and direct microscopic examinations of the peripheral blood were used. The mean overall parasite positive rates were 10.2% and 6.5%, respectively. Outdoor dogs evidenced adult worm infection rate of 31.2% and microfilaria infection rate of 18.2%. The indoor dogs, however, evidenced adult worm infection rate of 2.8% and microfilaria infection rate of 2.3%. The prevalence in males was more than 2 times that of females. The changing pattern of infection rates by age evidenced a gradual increase, from 2- to 6-year-old dogs, after which, a decrease in infection rates was noted. With regard to chemoprophylaxis, the infection rates of complete and incomplete chemoprophylaxis groups were found to be 2-3 times lower than that of the non-chemoprophylaxis group. The results of the present study indicate that the risk of exposure to D. immitis in pet dogs is quite high, particularly in male outdoor dogs, and chemoprophylactic measures were quite effective.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.829-835
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• 2017

최근 미세먼지에 의해 건강이 나빠지는 문제가 빈번하게 발생하고 있다. 건강에 악영향을 끼치는 미세먼지는 실외뿐만 아니라 실내에서도 인체에 영향을 미치게 된다. 따라서 우리가 생활하고 있는 실내에서 미세먼지의 농도를 측정하여 건강에 해로운 미세먼지를 제어하는 시스템이 필요하다. 기존의 미세먼지 측정 시스템의 효율성을 상승시키기 위해서 사물인터넷(IoT) 기술을 적용하였다. 특히 양방향 통신이 가능한 환경을 위하여 무료 클라우드 서버 대신에 개별 서버를 직접 구축하여 시스템에 적용하였으며 이를 학교 실습실과 가정에서 직접 활용해 보았다. 본 논문에서 제안한 시스템을 학교 및 가정에 사용할 경우, 빠르게 실내 환경을 인지할 수 있고 이는 점진적으로 개인들의 건강에 도움이 될 것으로 판단되며, 외부에서도 서버 데이터를 확인하여 현재의 실내 상황에 대한 대처가 가능할 수 있다.

• 창의정보문화연구
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.235-242
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• 2021

스마트폰은 다양한 고성능의 센서가 포함되어 있으며 센서에서 발생하는 데이터를 이용하여 인간의 활동을 분석하는 연구가 진행되어왔다. 이러한 인간 활동 인식은 생활 패턴 분석, 운동량 측정, 위험 상황 감지 등 다양한 분야에서 활용될 수 있다. 그러나 기존 연구의 경우 인간의 기본 행동의 인식에 초점을 두거나 효율적인 배터리 사용을 위해 최적의 인식 결과를 내는 방법을 연구하는 경우가 많았다. 본 논문에서는 기본 행동에 건강 관리 목적으로 실내 및 실외에서 행해지는 운동 동작을 총 10가지로 정의하여 인식하도록 하였다. 이를 위해 가속도, 자이로 및 위치 센서의 값을 수집하고 데이터 전처리 과정을 거치고, 활동을 인식하기 위해서 SVM 모델 외에 안정적인 성능을 가진 앙상블 기반의 랜덤 포레스트, 그라디언트 부스팅 모델을 결합하여 투표 기반으로 인식 결과를 결정하였다. 그 결과 높은 정확도로 정의된 활동의 인식이 가능하였으며 특히 유사한 종류의 실내 및 실외 운동 활동의 분류가 가능하였다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.47-57
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• 2013

Studies evaluating the health effects of hazardous air pollutants assume that people's exposure to typical pollutant level is the same as specific regional pollutant level. However, depending on social and demographic factors, time-activity pattern of people can vary widely. Since most people live in indoor environments over 88% of the day, evaluating exposure to hazardous air pollutants is hard to characterize. Objective of this study was to estimate the exposure levels of university students of $NO_2$, VOCs(BTEX) and $PM_{10}$ using the scenarios with time-activity pattern and indoor concentrations. Using data from time-use survey of National Statistical Office in 2009, we investigated time-activity pattern of university students and hourly major action. A total of 1,057 university students on weekday and 640 on weekend spent their times at indoor house 13.04 hr(54.32%), other indoors 7.70 hr(32.06%), and transportation 2.36 hr(9.83%). Indoor environments in which university students spent their times were mainly house and school. Air pollutants concentrations of other indoor environments except house and school such as bar, internet cafe and billiard hall were higher than outdoors, indicating that indoor to outdoor ratios were above 1. According to three types of exposure scenarios, exposure to air pollutants could be reduced by going home after school.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.64-71
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• 2017

본 논문은 저 비용, 저 소비전력으로 실내외에서 수십 cm급의 정밀한 위치인식이 가능한 IR-UWB(Impulse-Radio Ultra Wideband) Radar 시스템에서 정확한 목표물을 추정하고자 Kalman 필터 및 RRWA 알고리즘을 사용하였다. 목표물에 의해 반사된 신호에는 목표물 신호이외에 불필요한 신호들이 존재한다. 불필요한 신호들을 제거하고 정확한 목표물 신호를 도출 및 성능 향상을 위해 노력하였다. 하나의 송신 안테나와 수신안테나로 목표물들의 위치를 실시간으로 추정한다. Kalman 필터를 사용하여 배경잡음을 제거하였고 RRWA 알고리즘을 사용하여 반사파 신호를 제거하여 기존의 목표물 신호를 추정했을 때보다 더 좋은 성능을 보였다. 본 논문에서는 향후 진행 되어질 목표물 추정에 있어 정확한 거리 추정 및 추적을 하는 연구에 도움이 될 것이라 생각한다.