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Blockchain technology usage on health equity: Is Blockchain technology a panacea for global health equity issues? (건강정보에 대한 블록체인 기술 응용: 블록체인 기술은 글로벌 건강 정보 이슈에 대해 만병 통치약이 될 수 있는가?)

  • Zaya, Sukhbat;Choi, Jaewon
    • Knowledge Management Research
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.187-201
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    • 2018
  • This paper explores the potential of Blockchain technology in enabling a panacea for health equity. Since Satoshi Nakamoto first described Blockchain technology in 2008 pseudonymous paper, that distributed ledger system is empowered and ranging from finance to law to another sector and beyond. Also impacting healthcare sector and life science. In other words, there are many usage cases being researched in healthcare and Blockchain has shown its considerable special side in recent years. But this paper aims to the distributed ledger that is the special side of Blockchain technology is potentially can panacea for some global health equity issues such as patient data, counterfeit drug and hospital payment management.

Protecting Copyright Owners in Nigeria: A Panacea for Intellectual Development

  • Owushi, Emmanuel
    • International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.21-34
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    • 2020
  • The paper looks at protecting copyright owners in Nigeria: a panacea for intellectual development. A descriptive survey design was adopted in carrying out the study. The sample size for the study was 112. Three research objectives guided the study. The study utilized a self-developed questionnaire for data collection. A total of 112 copies of the questionnaire were distributed to librarian and lecturers, out of which 108 copies were duly filled and returned, representing 96.4%. The collected data was arranged in frequency and analyzed using percentage and mean score. The findings revealed that protection of copyright will encourage creators of intellectual works, and that if authors are well remunerated there is likelihood of adequate availability of various publications to meet information needs of Nigerians. The result showed that the right to intellectual properties is one of the ways to encourage intellectual development. The finding revealed that copyright protection provides security for intellectual product and does not negatively affect the availability of intellectual materials. Based on the research findings, it was recommended that owners of intellectual property deserve good earnings for their intellectual works in order to promote Knowledge proliferation and availability so as to meet the reading needs of the citizens at the various levels. The study also recommended that all cases relating to copyright violation in our courts should be summarily dealt with. The study advocated that the provision on the punishment should be reviewed such that it could deter people from infringing on authors rights.

Study on the Korean wild ginseng(SANSAM) in cosmetics

  • Lee, C. W.;Lee, K. W.;K. K. Bae;Kim, C. H.
    • Proceedings of the SCSK Conference
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    • 2003.09b
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    • pp.26-31
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    • 2003
  • Korean Ginseng is a medicinal herb which grows naturally in korea. an ancient country situated in north-eastern Asia. Its medical use was already well known to herb doctors in this region about five thousand years ago since the effectiveness of korean ginseng has been recognized through practical use for a long time. Korean Ginseng has always been regarded as a devine cure. The name "Ginseng" can be found in various medicinal books. many of which were written as early as B.C. 100. In the records of many chinese medical books. dating from the inception of publishing, it was noted that Korean Ginseng was of the highest level of quality. Korean Ginseng originally grew in the mountains of korea. However, this wild Korean Ginseng(js called SANSAM) could not meet the ever-increasing demands. and from the 16th century. it has been cultivated on farms for mass processing and supplying in korea(js called INSAM). It was already recognized in korea a long time ago(B.C. 57 - A.D. 668) that Korean Ginseng possessed the qualities of panacea, tonic and rejuvenator, and had other medicinal properties as well. The effectiveness of Korean Ginseng is widely recognized among south-eastern Asians as well as Chinese. As its effect has been proved scientifically. Korean Ginseng is now becoming the ginseng for all human beings in the world. Korean ginseng is differently called according to processing method. Dried thing is Insam(white ginseng), boiled or steamed is Hongsam(red ginseng). 장뇌삼(long headed ginseng) is artificially grown in the mountain no in field for a long time. So the body is thin and some long. but ingredients are concentrated. Korean wild ginseng(SANSAM) is rare in these days but we developed cosmetic ingredient. The scientific name of Korean Ginseng is Panax Ginseng. It has acknowledge as a natural mysterious cure among the notheastern peoples. because of its broad medicinal application. The origin of the word" Panax" derived from panacea. a Greek word meaning cure-all. According to the classification method of herb medicines in the Chinese medicinal book. "God-Farmer Materia Medica(A.D. 483-496) korean Ginseng was described as the superlative drug: panacea. tonic and rejuvenator. We studied skin immunological effect. collagen synthesis. cell growth and whitening effect of SANSAM extract. IN cosmetics.. SANSAM extract had skin fibroblast cell growth effect. recover damaged skin in the sun and protect fine wrinkle. Also. In hair product.. inhibits hairless, white hair.its hairless, white hair.

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The Major Issues on Pension Privatization: Lessons from Latin American Cases (연금 민영화에 관한 쟁점들: 남미 국가들의 사례를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Sin-Yeong
    • 한국사회복지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.04a
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    • pp.457-473
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    • 2004
  • This study purports to contribute to existing literatures and debates about the future of Korean public pension system by introducing the cases of pension privatization in eight Latin American countries. Following the Chilean reform in 1981, many Latin American nations to a varying degree replaced their public pension system with private one, and the performance of those private systems started to emerge. Overall, pension privatization does not appear to be the panacea that some of its advocates have argued. While it seems to remedy existing problems, it is creating new ones. As an unprecedented policy experiment, the pension privatization in many Latin American countries implies that there are a number of risks in the path of privatization.

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Effectiveness of strake installation for traffic signal structure fatigue mitigation

  • Wieghaus, Kyle T.;Hurlebaus, Stefan;Mander, John B.
    • Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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    • v.1 no.4
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    • pp.393-409
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    • 2014
  • Across-wind response is often the cause of significant structural vibrations that in turn cause fatigue damage to welded and other connections. The efficacy of low-cost helical strakes to mitigate such adverse response is presented for a traffic signal structure. Field observations are made on a prototype structure in a natural wind environment without and with helical strakes installed on the cantilevered arm. Through continuous monitoring, the strakes were found to be effective in reducing across-wind response at wind speeds less than 10 m/s. Estimates of fatigue life are made for four different geographical locations and wind environments. Results for the class of traffic signal structure show that helical arm strakes are most effective in locations with benign wind environments where the average annual wind speed is not more than the vortex shedding wind speed, which for this investigation is 5 m/s. It is concluded that while strakes may be effective, it is not the panacea to mitigating connection fatigue at all locations.

Use of Mobile Devices in the Performance of Group Decision-Making under Contextual Pressure

  • Kwon, Oh-Byung;Kim, Tae-Kyung;Kim, Choong-Rhyun
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.64-72
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    • 2007
  • Mobile technology appears promising as a method to promote group performance in circumstances dependent on time, but not member proximity. However, the success of mobile technology in group decision-making situations has not yet been proven. This paper aims to see how mobile technology affects the performance of group decision-making tasks that should be resolved urgently and/or sources of idea are disconnected with on-line network. Laboratory experiment was used to investigate the effects of mobile factors on group decision-making. The results from the experiment supported the proposition that pressures of time and location play a significant role in the assessment of group decision performance measures. We found that the adoption of mobile technology to group decision-making procedures might be competitive when group decision-making tasks are urgent and sources of idea are disconnected with on-line network, even though mobile technology is not a panacea on which to depend when designing group decision-making.

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN FOR PORT INVESTMENT ANALYSIS: A CASE STUDY IN A BULK TERMINAL (항만투자분석을 위한 실험계획법 : 산물터미널에서의 사례연구)

  • Chang, Young-Tae
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.72-76
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    • 2001
  • Experimental design in simulation provides an efficient way of economizing simulation runs since a considerable number of simulation runs that originally were planned can be reduced by this approach. This experimental design method is an active area of research together with the output analysis and so no single panacea seems to exist so far. Thus, selection of techniques of experimental design and output analysis more lithely depends upon the objective of simulation analysis, budget constraint and sometimes the analysts subjective judgment. This paper attempts to describe an experimental design methodology for port investment analysis using a case study in a bulk terminal in Korea. Detailed display will be focused on simulation period, warm-up period, the number of replications needed in production runs after brief explanation on the system configuration.

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3 Months Repeated Dose Toxicity Studies of the Bamboo Salt(Jukyum) in Rats (죽염에 대한 3개월 반복투여 독성시험연구)

  • 김준규;서경원;이봉훈;박미경;박창원;신동환;홍충만;한범석;김윤정
    • Toxicological Research
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.149-157
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    • 2002
  • Though the bamboo salt, called as "JUKYUM" has been widely used in Korea as panacea, it's toxicity was not screened completely. To investigate the toxicity of bamboo salt, we compared with the toxicity of crude salt and reagent-grade NaCl by performing repeated dose (3 month's) oral toxicity test in SD rats. Crude salt, natural sun-dried salt (crude salt) production, was purchased from the western seashore of Korean peninsular and reagent-grade NaCl was purchased from Sigma company. Results of repeated dose oral toxicity tests for 3 months (bamboo salt; 750, 1500, 3000 mg/kg/day, crude salt : 3000 mg/kg/day, reagent-grade NaCl; 3000 mg/kg/day) suggested that the bamboo salt treated group show no significant toxicological findings with body weights and organ weighs changes, and hematological, serum bio-chemical and histopathological findings compared with other groups.er groups.

Experimental Design for Port Investment Analysis : A Case Study in a Bulk Terminal (항만투자분석을 위한 실험계획법 : 산물터미널에서의 사례연구)

  • Chang, Young-Tae
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2002
  • Experimental design in simulation provides an efficient way of economizing simulation runs since a considerable number of simulation runs that originally were planned can be reduced by this approach. This experimental design method is an active area of research together with the output analysis and so no single panacea seems to exist so far. Thus, selection of techniques of experimental design and output analysis more likely depends upon the objective of simulation analysis, budget constraint and sometimes the analyst's subjective judgment. This paper attempts to describe an experimental design methodology for port investment analysis using a case study in a bulk terminal in Korea. Detailed display will be focused on simulation period, warm-up period, the number of replications needed in production runs after brief explanation on the system configuration.

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Fully connecting the Observational Health Data Science and Informatics (OHDSI) initiative with the world of linked open data

  • Banda, Juan M.
    • Genomics & Informatics
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.13.1-13.3
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    • 2019
  • The usage of controlled biomedical vocabularies is the cornerstone that enables seamless interoperability when using a common data model across multiple data sites. The Observational Health Data Science and Informatics (OHDSI) initiative combines over 100 controlled vocabularies into its own. However, the OHDSI vocabulary is limited in the sense that it combines multiple terminologies and does not provide a direct way to link them outside of their own self-contained scope. This issue makes the tasks of enriching feature sets by using external resources extremely difficult. In order to address these shortcomings, we have created a linked data version of the OHDSI vocabulary, connecting it with already established linked resources like bioportal, bio2rdf, etc. with the ultimate purpose of enabling the interoperability of resources previously foreign to the OHDSI universe.