• 수면정신생리
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.11-17
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• 2001

In 2000, the number of people aged 65 and over increased to 3.37 million, accounting for 7.1% of the total population of South Korea. The elderly population will increase up to 19.3% in 2030. Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) seems to increase with age. More than 50-60% of old people complain of SDB-related signs and symptoms including awakening headache, excessive daytime sleepiness, fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, memory loss, personality changes, and depression. The influence of a mild degree of SDB upon the elderly is unclear, but moderate to severe SDB is well known to be associated with many diseases including hypertension, arrhythmia, myocardial infarction, stroke, dementia, and sudden death. Therefore, physicians should pay attention to elderly patients who complain of SDB related symptoms and signs that may not be normal signs of aging. Physicians need to become more sensitive to treat SDB in the elderly.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.16-30
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• 2023

The elderly population is increasing owing to a low fertility rate and an aging population. In addition, life expectancy is increasing, and the advancement of medicine has increased the importance of health to most people. Therefore, government and companies are developing and supporting smart healthcare, which is a health-related product or industry, and providing related services. Moreover, with the development of the Internet, many people are managing their health through online searches. The most convenient way to achieve such management is by consuming nutritional supplements or seasonal foods to prevent a nutrient deficiency. However, before implementing such methods, knowing the nutrient status of the individual is difficult, and even if a test method is developed, the cost of the test will be a burden. To solve this problem, we developed a questionnaire related to nutrient classification twice, based upon which an adaptive algorithm was designed. This algorithm was designed as a machine learning based algorithm for nutrient classification and its accuracy was much better than the other machine learning algorithm.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.387-395
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• 2011

Purpose: This study measured the burden of disease in Korea related to outdoor air pollution using disability-adjusted life year (DALY). Materials and Methods: As a risk factor of outdoor air pollution, particulate matter with a diameter less than 10 ${\mu}m$($PM_{10}$) was used. First, $PM_{10}$-related diseases and their relative risk (RR) were selected by means of a literature review. Second, population attributable fractions were computed by using formulae including RR and population exposure to $PM_{10}$. Third, DALYs of $PM_{10}$-related diseases in Korea were estimated. Finally, the attributable burden of disease due to $PM_{10}$ was measured as the sum of the products that multiplied the DALYs of $PM_{10}$-related diseases by their population attributable fractions. Results: The disease burden of PM10 was 6.9 DALY per 1,000 persons in 2007. The attributable burden of $PM_{10}$ was 2.68 for lung cancer, 2.41 for COPD, 0.62 for ischemic heart disease, 0.61 for pneumonia, 0.55 for asthma, and 0.03 for preterm. Conclusions: This study showed the environmental burden of disease of $PM_{10}$ and burden of $PM_{10}$-related disease through objective data. It also suggested that active efforts are needed to continuously measure and reduce the burden of environmental diseases in Korea.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.194-292
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• 2023

Background: This study aimed to update suicide-related indicators, including the number of suicidal deaths, suicide rate, and the prevalence of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts. We observed trends in suicide-related indicators based on up-to-date information. Methods: This study used five data sources to evaluate the trends of suicide-related indicators: Statistics Korea (1983-2021), Korean Wealth Panel Study (KOWEPS, 2012-2021), and Korea Health Panel Survey (KHP, 2010-2013, 2016-2019), Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination (KNHANES, 2007-2013, 2015-2021), Korean Community Health Survey (KCHS, 2008-2009, 2013, 2017, 2021). Results: The suicide rate per 100,000 population increased from 25.7 in 2020 to 26.0 in 2021. The rates of suicidal ideation from recently available data were 4.28% (KNHANES, 2021), 6.52% (KCHS, 2021), 1.61% (KOWEPS) and 7.10% (KHP, 2019). The suicidal attempts rates were 0.46% (KNHANES, 2021) and 0.34% (KCHS, 2021). The annual percentage change (APC) of suicide rate showed that suicide rates increased in the younger population (APC=9.02% in <19 years, APC=5.13 in 20-39 years) although the rates decreased in the older population (APC=-3.37 in 60-79 years, APC=-2.25 in >80 years). Conclusion: The suicide rate and related indicators increased in 2021 compared to 2020. Thus, continuous observation and appropriate suicide prevention policies as well as studies about the factors that affected the increase in 2021 are needed.

• 한국시스템다이내믹스연구
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.127-151
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to examine measures to improve government's supply oriented housing policy in population declining cities. For this purpose, system dynamics simulation method was used to build urban-housing model and different sets of housing policies were tested to see their impact on local housing problems. Simulation result shows that there is no best set of housing policies that can solve all housing problems in population declining cities. It also indicates that housing policy that solve one type of problems can worsen other type of problems. Housing policy that increases population size has negative effect of housing oversupply. It also increases proportion of old houses in population declining cities. However, housing policy that makes city younger with newer houses tends to increase housing shortage and housing price. So, policy choice needs to be made with clear understanding of trade off between different policies. The result also shows it is difficult to expect a full scale effect of housing policy on local housing problems unless it is executed with regional economic development policy because local housing problems are so closely related with local economic problem in population declining local cities.

• 한국발생생물학회지:발생과생식
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.283-288
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• 2018

The author carried out PCR-based genetic platform to investigate the hierarchical polar dendrogram of Euclidean genetic distances of one bastard halibut population, particularly for Paralichthys olivaceus, which was further connected with those of the other fish population, by involving with the precisely designed oligonucleotide primer sets. Eight oligonucleotides primers were used generating excessively alterating fragments, ranging in size of DNA bands from larger than approximately 100 bp to less than 2,000 bp. As regards average bandsharing value (BS) results, individuals from Hampyeong population (0.810) displayed lower bandsharing values than did individuals from Wando population (0.877). The genetic distance between individuals approved the existence of close relationship in the cluster II. Relatively, individuals of one bastard halibut population were fairly related to that of the other fish population, as shown in the polar hierarchical dendrogram of Euclidean genetic distances. The points of a noteworthy genetic distance between two P. olivaceus populations demonstrated this PCR procedure is one of the quite a few means for individuals and/or populations biological DNA investigates, for species security and proliferation of bastard halibut individuals in coastal region of the Korea.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.761-773
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• 2016

이 연구는 1800년대 중반부터 대한제국까지의 시간 범위에서 한반도를 관찰한 여러 서구인들의 기록들을 인구지리학적 관점에서 고찰한 것이다. 주요 연구 내용은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 여러 서구인들에 의한 기록 중에서 한반도 인구에 관한 내용을 포함하고 있는 약 20여 편의 문헌들을 찾았고, 둘째 해당 문헌에서 한반도 인구와 관련된 서술들을 확인하였는데, 주요 내용은 한반도 전체 인구수, 지역별 인구수, 분포, 밀도, 그리고 이동에 관한 것이었다. 마지막으로 당시 그들이 인구를 매개로 한반도와 그 위의 삶의 모습들을 어떻게 인식하고 있었는지를 해석하였다.

• 한국인구학
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.131-145
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• 1988

1960년 이래 한국사회는 빠른 속도로 인구변천을 경험했다. 인구변천으로 인한 인구구조의 변화는 한국사회의 전반적인 현상이기는 하지만, 특히 이 기간중 많은 인구를 도시로 내보내지 않으면 안되었던 농촌지역에서 그 변화의 폭이 더욱 클 수밖에 없다. 이와 같은 관점에서 이 연구는 주로 최근 농촌사회에서 관찰되는 인구구조의 왜곡현상이 주로 농촌-도시로의 인구이동에 원인이 있으며, 지역단위별로 차별적인 영향을 받을 것이라는 점에 착안하여 농촌의 지역단위별 인구특성에 따른 인구분포의 변화를 비교분석하는 데 초점을 두었다. 이 연구결과 밝혀진 결과를 종합해 보면 농촌은 각 지역단위(군)별로 인구구조상의 격차가 매우 크다는 것이 확인되었다. 따라서 각 지역단위별 인구구조의 변화로 예상되는 농촌의 문제는 군부나 면부의 총괄분석을 통해 알려진 농촌 문제보다 각 지역단위별로 분석할 때 알 수 있는 농촌문제가 훨씬 더 심각함을 알 수 있었다. 이 결과는 농촌을 위한 정책수립 과정에서 지역단위별로 특수성이 고려될 수 있어야 한다는 점을 말해준다.

• 한국발생생물학회지:발생과생식
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.297-304
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• 2019

The higher fragment sizes (>2,100 bp) are not observed in the two C. spp. populations. The six oligonucleotides primers OPA-11, OPB-09, OPB-14, OPB-20, OPC-14, and OPC-18 were used to generate the unique shared loci to each tonguesole population and shared loci by the two tonguesole populations. The hierarchical polar dendrogram indicates two main clusters: Gunsan (GUNSAN 01-GUNSAN 11) and the Atlantic (ATLANTIC 12-ATLANTIC 22) from two geographic populations of tonguesoles. The shortest genetic distance displaying significant molecular difference was between individuals' GUNSAN no. 02-GUNSAN no. 01 (genetic distance=0.038). In the long run, individual no. 02 of the ATLANTIC tonguesole was most distantly related to GUNSAN no. 06 (genetic distance=0.958). These results demonstrate that the Gunsan tonguesole population is genetically different from the Atlantic tonguesole population. The potential of PCR analysis to identify diagnostic markers for the identification of two tonguesole populations has been demonstrated. As a rule, using various oligonucleotides primers, this PCR method has been applied to identify polymorphic/specific markers particular to species and geographical population, as well as genetic diversity/polymorphism in diverse species of organisms.

• 대한지리학회지
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• 제51권6호
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• pp.837-851
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• 2016

이 연구는 우리나라 대표적인 기업도시 중 하나인 광양시를 사례로 2001~2010년간 인구이동과 인구 구조의 변화를 고찰하였다. 광양시 인구는 1981년 이후 지속적으로 증가해 2001년 138,468명에서 2010년 145,512명으로 늘어났다. 인구증가로 2010년 인구구조에서 30대와 40대 비중이 전체의 35%를 차지하였다. 2001~2010년 동안 순이동은 -2,925명으로 전출초과를 보였지만, 2008년 이후에는 19세 이하 연령층을 제외한 모든 연령층에서 전입초과를 나타냈고 전입 사유는 직업(49.5%)이 가장 많았다. 광양시 인구증가와 전입 초과에 영향을 미친 요인은 광양제철소와 제철관련 기업의 입지, 광양컨테이너부두 건설과 개항, 광양만권경제 자유구역 지정과 관련된 개발사업, 이들 대형 국책사업과 연계되어 추진한 광양시의 지역정책 등이었다. 결과적으로 광양시에서 행해진 각종 지역개발사업으로 제조업 관련 사업체가 증가하였고, 사업체 증가는 젊은 전입자 증가와 출생자 증가로 전이되어 광양시 인구가 증가하였다.