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Health education-communication approaches in health examinations for risk behavior modification

  • Yoo, Seung-Hyun
    • Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.83-98
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    • 2001
  • Although periodic health examination has been one of the most common practices of preventive medicine, its effect on modification of risk behavior has been seldom assessed. Thus, this study attempted to demonstrate the influence of a health examination on modification of cardiovascular disease related health risk behaviors such as smoking, physical inactivity, and obesity. Data of 893 adults were derived from two types of a popular and highly acclaimed health examination program. With a conceptual model constructed using Persuasive Communication variables, McNemar tests examined Source-Outcome association, hypothesizing that different health examination programs would yield different levels of behavior change in smoking, physical inactivity, and obesity. No significant behavior change was found in any of the two health examination programs. Instead, previously established Receiver-Outcome relationship was reconfirmed by logistic regression modeling where gender was the most prominent predictor of all three behaviors. Men were more likely to be current smokers (OR=0.029), exercisers (OR=2.629), and obese (OR=0.237). The importance of followups after health examination is highly stressed as well as that of gender-specific health education strategies. This study recommends applying the social-ecological approaches in health examination, which emphasizes the support and collaboration at individual, family, organizations, community, and policy level to improve health. Long term and qualitative evaluation of health examination may provide more foundation for increasing the effectiveness of health education and communication in health examinations.

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Si-Containing Nanostructures for Energy-Storage, Sub-10 nm Lithography, and Nonvolatile Memory Applications

  • Jeong, Yeon-Sik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2012.08a
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    • pp.108-109
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    • 2012
  • This talk will begin with the demonstration of facile synthesis of silicon nanostructures using the magnesiothermic reduction on silica nanostructures prepared via self-assembly, which will be followed by the characterization results of their performance for energy storage. This talk will also report the fabrication and characterization of highly porous, stretchable, and conductive polymer nanocomposites embedded with carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for application in flexible lithium-ion batteries. It will be presented that the porous CNT-embedded PDMS nanocomposites are capable of good electrochemical performance with mechanical flexibility, suggesting these nanocomposites could be outstanding anode candidates for use in flexible lithium-ion batteries. Directed self-assembly (DSA) of block copolymers (BCPs) can generate uniform and periodic patterns within guiding templates, and has been one of the promising nanofabrication methodologies for resolving the resolution limit of optical lithography. BCP self-assembly processing is scalable and of low cost, and is well-suited for integration with existing semiconductor manufacturing techniques. This talk will introduce recent research results (of my research group) on the self-assembly of Si-containing block copolymers for the achievement of sub-10 nm resolution, fast pattern generation, transfer-printing capability onto nonplanar substrates, and device applications for nonvolatile memories. An extraordinarily facile nanofabrication approach that enables sub-10 nm resolutions through the synergic combination of nanotransfer printing (nTP) and DSA of block copolymers is also introduced. This simple printing method can be applied on oxides, metals, polymers, and non-planar substrates without pretreatments. This talk will also report the direct formation of ordered memristor nanostructures on metal and graphene electrodes by the self-assembly of Si-containing BCPs. This approach offers a practical pathway to fabricate high-density resistive memory devices without using high-cost lithography and pattern-transfer processes. Finally, this talk will present a novel approach that can relieve the power consumption issue of phase-change memories by incorporating a thin $SiO_x$ layer formed by BCP self-assembly, which locally blocks the contact between a heater electrode and a phase-change material and reduces the phase-change volume. The writing current decreases by 5 times (corresponding to a power reduction of 1/20) as the occupying area fraction of $SiO_x$ nanostructures varies.

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A study on Artistic Regeneration of Idle Spaces focused on the Relational Aesthetics (관계미학을 중심으로 본 유휴공간의 예술적 재생에 관한 연구)

  • Heo, Ju-Yeon;Lee, Jeong-Wook
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.127-138
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    • 2016
  • As the dark side of society, Idle spaces, which occurred with the paradigm change due to rapid modernization and industralization, has been existing as a severed part in cities. But with the periodic change, interest in the existing place and regional regeneration, and the necessity of reconsidering about the idle spaces values of space, city environment, socio-culture, and economy was proposed. I estimated that the change of relational aesthetics aspect of modern arts resulted in the consideration of recognizing 'place' of art, through the study, it was revealed that the form of modern arts and change of enjoyment were related to space, and the fact that this had a relation with the rise of artistic regeneration of idle spaces. mutually communicative relationship formation and practical form of arts was deducted through the interpretation of relational aesthetics, Idle spaces and artistic regeneration space can be categorized into forms of experiential space, creative space, and cultural space, depending on the formation of relationship between author-art-audience. Through the comprehensive analysis, Artistic regeneration space by relationship formation is Vitalization of various forms of art and participation program eliminates the boundary between creation and enjoyment, and the space itself can be said to contain extensive, integral, and nonterritorialization meaning as a place of experiencing art. In other words, Artistic regeneration space of idle spaces forms a close relationship with the local society, and is placed within the context of daily domain as an open space, straying off from the existing separative and closed artistic space configuration. and artistic changeover of idle spaces is not only the appearance of space that simply fulfills function according to transfiguration of modern art, but signifies that art is coexisting with space as an indivisible relationship, and can be said to be the foothold of new relationship creation as the practical 'place' of art.

Numerical Study on the Thermal Control Device for Satellite Components Using the Phase Change Material Combined with Heat Pipe in Parallel (상변화물질과 열관을 병렬 조합한 위성부품 열제어장치의 수치해석적 연구)

  • Shin, Yoon Sub;Kim, Tae Su;Kim, Taig Young;Seo, Young Bae;Seo, Jung-gi;Hyun, Bum-Seok;Cheon, Hyeong Yul
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.44 no.4
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    • pp.373-379
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    • 2016
  • The thermal control device for the periodic working component combined solid-liquid phase change material (PCM) with heat pipes is designed and numerically studied. Due to high latent heat and retaining constant temperature during melting process the component peak temperature, not withstanding small radiator size, is reduced. The warm-up heater power consumption to keep the minimum allowed temperature is also cut down since the accumulated thermal energy is released through the solidification. The thermal buffer mass (TBM) made of Al can give the similar effect but the mass and power consumption of warm-up heater should increase compared to PCM. The amount of PCM can be optimized depending on the component heat dissipation and on/off duty time.

Investigation and Analysis of Shoreline Change using DGPS - Focusing on the Gangnung City Shore in Gangwondo - (DGPS를 이용한 해안선 변화 조사 및 분석 - 강원도 강릉시 연안을 중심으로 -)

  • Lee, Hyung-Seok;Kim, In-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2007
  • The tendency of erosion and accretion of the coast has occurred by the wanton development of a shore so that establishing the plans of nature preservation and development according to shoreline change is in demand. In this study, six DGPS positioning are executed in the periodic interval of about 2 months to choose coastal area of Gangnung, Gangwon-do and the observation data which is post-processed about 50cm accuracies on the Gangnung regular service is compared with digital map in 1998 and digital chart in 2006. Comparing DGPS values with shoreline of digital map, we know that erosion has occurred locally around training dike placed in Gangmun harbor and in southern Namhangjin, many accretions has happened near the breakwater of Namhangjin region and partial accretion is occurring in the other area. Therefore DGPS which is an acquisition method suitable for GIS data input is in use to collect the horizontal data and it could be used effectively to measure the shoreline change of time series through the long-term continuous observation by the coastal development.

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Thermal Vacuum Test of the Phase Change Material Thermal Control Unit Loaded on the Satellite Flight Model and Thermal Model Correlation with Test Results (위성에 탑재된 상변화물질 열제어장치 비행모델의 열진공시험 및 이를 통한 열해석 모델 보정)

  • Cho, Yeon;Kim, Taig Young;Seo, Joung-Ki;Jang, Tae Seong;Park, Hong-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.50 no.10
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    • pp.729-737
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    • 2022
  • Melting and icing process of the PCMTCU(Phase Change Material Thermal Control Unit) installed on the NEXTSat-2, which is scheduled to be launched in the second half, was investigated through the results of satellite-level TVT(Thermal Vacuum Test). As a result of the test, it was confirmed that the latent heat of PCM contributes to the temperature stabilization of the heating components. The thermal model for numerical analysis of the PCMTCU was correlated to acquire a reasonable degree of accuracy using the collected temperature measurements during TVT. The periodic temperature variation of the PCMTCU in normal on-orbit operation was predicted with the correlated thermal model, and the quantitative contribution of the PCM on the thermal energy management was evaluated with the liquid fraction. It will receive flight telemetry from the NEXTSat-2 after the launch, and complete the space verification of the PCMTCU.

A Review of Change Detection Techniques using Multi-temporal Synthetic Aperture Radar Images (다중시기 위성 레이더 영상을 활용한 변화탐지 기술 리뷰)

  • Baek, Won-Kyung;Jung, Hyung-Sup
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.35 no.5_1
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    • pp.737-750
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    • 2019
  • Information of target changes in inaccessible areas is very important in terms of national security. Fast and accurate change detection of targets is very important to respond quickly. Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar can acquire images with high accuracy regardless of weather conditions and solar altitude. With the recent increase in the number of SAR satellites, it is possible to acquire images with less than one day temporal resolution for the same area. This advantage greatly increases the availability of change detection for inaccessible areas. Commonly available information in satellite SAR is amplitude and phase information, and change detection techniques have been developed based on each technology. Those are amplitude Change Detection (ACD), Coherence Change Detection (CCD). Each algorithm differs in the preprocessing process for accurate automatic classification technique according to the difference of information characteristics and the final detection result of each algorithm. Therefore, by analyzing the academic research trends for ACD and CCD, each technologies can be complemented. The goal of this paper is identifying current issues of SAR change detection techniques by collecting research papers. This study would help to find the prerequisites for SAR change detection and use it to conduct periodic detection research on inaccessible areas.

Development of LabVIEW Program for Lock-In Infrared Thermography (위상잠금 열화상장치 제어용 랩뷰 프로그램 개발)

  • Min, Tae-Hoon;Na, Hyung-Chul;Kim, Noh-Yu
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.127-133
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    • 2011
  • A LabVIEW program has been developed together with simple infrared thermography(IRT) system to control the lock-in conditions of the system efficiently. The IR imaging software was designed to operate both of infrared camera and halogen lamp by synchronizing them with periodic sine signal based on thyristor(SCR) circuits. LabVIEW software was programmed to provide users with screen-menu functions by which it can change the period and energy of heat source, operate the camera to acquire image, and monitor the state of the system on the computer screen. In experiment, lock-in IR image for a specimen with artificial hole defects was obtained by the developed IRT system and compared with optical image.

Reliable Message Routing Protocol for Periodic Messages on Wireless Sensor Networks (무선센서 네트워크에서 주기적 메시지에 대해 신뢰성 있는 메시지 전송을 위한 라우팅 프로토콜)

  • Ngo, Hoai Phong;Kim, Myung-Kyun
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.190-197
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    • 2011
  • In industrial distributed control systems, sensors collect data from the physical environment periodically and transmit them to the actuators, which process the control operations based on the received data. For the effective operation of the control systems, the data transmitted by the sensors has to be delivered to the actuators reliably within the deadline, and if the message reception rate of the actuators becomes lower than a threshold, then the performance of the control systems drops greatly. This paper suggests a message routing protocol to transmit periodic messages reliably in a distributed control system based on wireless sensor networks. For reliable message transmission, the proposed protocol selects a routing path whose end-to-end message reception rate is the highest before transmitting data messages. The proposed protocol has the capability of maintaining a target message reception rate for each flow. To maintain the required target reception rate, each destination monitors the actual message reception rate periodically and transmits a feedback message to the source if it drops below the target reception rate. On receiving the feedback message, the source tries to find a new path which can satisfy the target rate. The performance of the proposed protocol has been evaluated using simulation and compared with other protocols in terms of the message reception rate, the message delay and delay jitter, and so on. The simulation results show that the proposed protocol has a higher message reception rate and comparable message delay and delay jitter to other protocols. The simulation results also show that the proposed protocol has an ability to adapt well to the dynamic network traffic change.

The quantitative analysis by the image processing of sperm changes according to the radiation irradiation of white rat testicle (흰쥐 정소의 방사선 조사에 따른 정자변화의 영상처리에 의한 정량분석)

  • Na, Soo-Kyung;Kim, Sung-In;Lee, On-Seok
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.433-438
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    • 2014
  • This study aims to get more accurate and objective result by quantifying the result for the sperm changes through the quantitative analysis by the image processing based on the image obtained microscopically for the testicle cell and sperm change appeared with the passage of time when the radiation is irradiated to the white rat testicle. This study has targeted the white rat of 8 weeks lifespan, the X-ray of 6 MV with 1 time of 2 Gy has been irradiated to the whole body. The testicles of 5 rats at each test group immediately after irradiation, after 2 hours of irradiation, 4 hours, 8 hours and 24 hours has been respectively extracted targeting all 30 white rats of normal control group not irradiated by the radiation and the test group. The state of testicle cell and sperm has been observed in the normal control group and the test group by implementing Periodic acid Schiff dyeing after extraction. 24 hours after irradiation, a gradual decrease in sperm count and testicular cells qualitatively and quantitatively that were identified as significant.