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Literacy and Breast Cancer Prevention: a Population-Based Study from Iran

  • Harirchi, Iraj;Azary, Saeedeh;Montazeri, Ali;Mousavi, Seyed Mohsen;Sedighi, Zahra;Keshtmand, Gelavizh;Zarinkolah, Zahra;Soltani, S.M. Amin Khalifeh
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • 제13권8호
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    • pp.3927-3930
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    • 2012
  • Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide and the leading cause of death from cancer among women. Evidence suggests that early diagnosis and screening interventions might help to improve outcomes. This population-based study was conducted to determine breast cancer awareness and screening behavior among Iranian women and to examine its association with women's literacy. The study was carried out in two provinces, with 1,477,045 population, located in central and eastern part of Iran. Overall, 770 women were studied. Of these, 482 (62.7%) were literate and 287 (37.3%) were not. The results obtained from the data analysis indicated that there was a significant difference between literate and illiterate women. Further analysis of the data using logistic regression showed that literacy was an important contributing factor for breast cancer prevention behavior. The findings suggest that in order to improve women's health and breast cancer outcomes providing equal educational opportunities for women seems necessary.

신경계물리치료에서의 근거중심실기(2) -지속가능한 EBP 수행을 위한 정보검색 기술- (Evidence-Based Practice in Neurological Physical Therapy (2) -Information Research Technology for Sustainable Practice of EBP-)

  • 이문규;김태윤;임재헌
    • PNF and Movement
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    • 제15권2호
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    • pp.115-124
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    • 2017
  • Purpose: Researchers found that blocks of evidence-based practice (EBP) implementation lacked opportunities for EBP education. The study found that physical therapists had negative views of research as well as their roles in EBP, lacked confidence in EBP, and had limited access to web-based materials. The purpose of this study was to highlight the importance of information research technology for efficient EBP in a clinical environment. Methods: The web-based information research technologies that should be used for sustainable EBP include: the clinical practice guideline (CPG) and PubMed's My NCBI service. Journal mailing services and other academic information sources should also be used to gather information from RSS feeds. An EBP library or archive must be created. A site that provides EBP-specific information is also needed. Results: We should usually do EBP. Practitioners must learn and use information technologies that will help them improve their EBP skills. Conclusion: Facilitating EBP implementation and building an EBP system require related education as well as a practical work environment and equipment. However, the highest priority is individual efforts and trial. Information technology will complement the lack of time. It is important to use information research technology to overcome real obstacles. Lasting EBP must use a number of web-based information research technologies to overcome the practical challenges encountered in EBP implementation.

SWOT 분석을 통한 환경보건 연구의 동향과 전망 고찰 (Trends and Prospective of Environmental Health Research through SWOT Analysis)

  • 신지훈;나진성;김기태;이종대;양원호
    • 한국환경보건학회지
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    • 제48권5호
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    • pp.255-265
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    • 2022
  • Background: Research in environmental health (EH) is of crucial strategic importance for contemporary society. It is becoming even more critical in light of the increasingly rapid pace of environmental changes, opportunities, and threats. Objectives: This study aimed to identify trends and the prospective of environmental health research using SWOT analysis. Methods: The trends in environmental health research were reviewed in previous studies and reports. Reviewed manuscripts were searched for using the keywords of 'environmental health' and 'environmental hygiene' in the KCI (Korean Journal of Citation Index), KISS (Korean Academic Information), PubMed, and Google Scholar. Results: It is essential to center the EH research agenda around key priorities focusing on technological innovation, job creation, and the increasingly prominent role of the private sector. Given the rapidly evolving global sustainability agenda, greater clarity on the ever-increasing sources of complexity and growing expectations of the public might be needed. This requires the identification of criteria to identify EH research priorities with the ultimate goal of maximizing societal benefit. Public health relevance, such as extent and severity of health impact, level of exposure, and inequalities of effects, could be included. Conclusions: Considering the recent interest in and importance of environmental health, a comprehensive approach to environmental health research should be required through the application of the latest science and technology, citizen participation, and environmental health surveillance systems.

미국의 최신 건강중심 체육교육수업의 소개 - Sports, Play, Active Recreation for Kids(SPARK) 체육프로그램 개발배경 및 사례보고 - (Introduction to a Health-related Physical Education Curriculum Model in the United States : Sports, Play, and Active Recreation for Kids (SPARK))

  • 유수진
    • 한국학교ㆍ지역보건교육학회지
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    • 제12권3호
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    • pp.101-109
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this article is to introduce the Sports, Play, and Active Recreation for Kids (SPARK) physical education curriculum. SPARK is a model for health-related, research-based and evidence-based physical education programs in the United States. The outcome of school physical education can relate to public health, but there exists few evidence-based physical education programs reporting health-related variables. School physical education can provide more opportunities for children and adolescents to be physically active and to learn more about healthy lifestyles. However, physical education programs have been cut and eliminated due to lack of funding in the U.S. as in South Korea. Although facing these problems, SPARK programs have been implemented in over 50% of schools, after school programs and coordinated school health programs in the U.S. This article reviewed: (a) background information of the SPARK program, (b) examples of effective interventions, and (c) methods of dissemination to schools nationally in the U.S. The methods showed in SPARK may use as a model for researching, developing and implementing new physical education(PE) program and after school programs in Korea.

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Nutrition-induced Changes of Growth from Birth to First Calving and Its Impact on Mammary Development and First-lactation Milk Yield in Dairy Heifers: A Review

  • Lohakare, J.D.;Sudekum, K.H.;Pattanaik, A.K.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • 제25권9호
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    • pp.1338-1350
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    • 2012
  • This review focuses on the nutritional effects from birth until age at first calving on growth, mammary developmental changes, and first-lactation milk yield in heifer calves. The advancement in the genetic potential and the nutritional requirements of the animals has hastened the growth rate. Genetic selection for high milk yield has suggested higher growth capacity and hence increasing nutritional inputs are required. Rapid rearing by feeding high energy or high concentrate diets not only reduces the age of sexual maturity but also lowers the time period of attaining the age of first calving. However, high energy diets may cause undesirable fat deposition thereby affecting future milk yield potential. Discrepancies exist whether overfed or overweight heifers at puberty can influence the mammary development and future milk yield potential and performance. The data on post-pubertal nutritional management suggested that body weight at calving and post-pubertal growth rate is important in first lactation milk yield. There is a continuous research need for strategic feeding that accelerates growth of dairy heifers without reduction in subsequent production. Nutritional management from birth, across puberty and during pregnancy is critical for mammary growth and for producing a successful cow. This review will mostly highlight studies carried out on dairy breeds and possible available opportunities to manipulate nutritional status from birth until age at first calving.

A Privacy Negotiation Algorithm for Digital Rights Management

  • Phuttharak, Jurairat;Sathitwiriyawong, Chanboon
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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    • pp.788-793
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    • 2004
  • Internet-based distribution of digital contents provides great opportunities for producers, distributors and consumers, but it may seriously threaten users' privacy. The Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems which one of the major issues, concern the protection of the ownership/copyright of digital content. However, the most recent DRM systems do not support the protection of the user's personal information. This paper examines the lack of privacy in DRM systems. We describe a privacy policy and user's privacy preferences model that protect each user's personal information from privacy violation by DRM systems. We allow DRM privacy agent to automatically negotiate between the DRM system policy and user's privacy preferences to be disclosed on behalf of the user. We propose an effective negotiation algorithm for the DRM system. Privacy rules are created following the negotiation process to control access of the user's personal information in the DRM system. The proposed privacy negotiation algorithm can be adapted appropriately to the existing DRM systems to solve the privacy problem effectively.

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Adaptive Clustering Algorithm for Recycling Cell Formation: An Application of the Modified Fuzzy ART Neural Network

  • Park, Ji-Hyung;Seo, Kwang-Kyu
    • 한국데이타베이스학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국데이타베이스학회 1999년도 춘계공동학술대회: 지식경영과 지식공학
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    • pp.253-260
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    • 1999
  • The recycling cell formation problem means that disposal products me classified into recycling part families using group technology in their end of life phase. Disposal products have the uncertainties of product status by usage influences during product use phase and recycling cells are formed design, process and usage attributes. In order to treat the uncertainties, fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic-based neural network model are applied to recycling cell formation problem far disposal products. In this paper, a heuristic approach fuzzy ART neural network is suggested. The modified fuzzy ART neural network is shown that it has a great efficiency and give an extension for systematically generating alternative solutions in the recycling cell formation problem. We present the results of this approach applied to disposal refrigerators and the comparison of performances between other algorithms. This paper introduced a procedure which integrates economic and environmental factors into the disassembly of disposal products for recycling in recycling cells. A qualitative method of disassembly analysis is developed and its ai is to improve the efficiency of the disassembly and to generated an optimal disassembly which maximize profits and minimize environmental impact. Three criteria established to reduce the search space and facilitate recycling opportunities.

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병원의 인터넷 마케팅을 위한 간호부서의 웹사이트 분석 (An analysis of Web Sites on the Nursing Departments for Hospital Internet Marketing)

  • 정면숙
    • 간호행정학회지
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    • 제7권3호
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    • pp.531-543
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    • 2001
  • Purpose : The purpose of this study was exploring current status of having home page on the hospitals which have more than 500 beds and analyzing web site on the Nursing Department among them. Method : Cases under analyzing were 92 hospitals which have their own home pages. And then, content analysis with 33 cases was used to evaluate web site of Nursing Department. Results : 1. There are 85(92.4%) home pages in the hospitals among 92 hospitals. 2. There are 33(35.9%) web pages on the Nursing Home page in the 85 hospitals which has hospital home pages. 3. The contents of web pages were 'Introduction of Nursing Department' (78.8% of Nursing Department), 'Home health care'(39.4%), 'Areas of Nursing department'(36.4%), 'Educational Opportunities'(36.4%), 'Research activities'(30.3%), 'Interaction'(27.3%), 'E-mail'(18.2%), 'Information providing to consumer'(15.2%), 'Hospice'(15.2%), 'Hot line, consultation'(12.1%) respectively. Conclusion : The results showed that most web sites of Nursing Department were consist of simple contents with simple purpose. Therefore, in this informational world, Nursing Departments have to try using internet marketing with well developed client centered web site.

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멀티 클라우드 기술 개요 및 연구 동향 (Multi-cloud Technology Introduction and Research Trends)

  • 김병섭;정영우;오병택;김수영;손석호;서지훈;배승조;이규철;강동재
    • 전자통신동향분석
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    • 제35권3호
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    • pp.45-54
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    • 2020
  • The cloud computing industry has focused on establishing a cloud-based business environment for enterprises with efforts to convert using their own on-premise computing infrastructures to using cloud services. With these efforts, using cloud services has become natural, especially for the IT industry. The cloud computing industry is moving toward proliferation of the cloud computing environment into various evolving industries. Along with industrial trends, new technical trends such as edge computing and multi-cloud are emerging. These trends are expected to create new business models and develop related service ecosystems, providing new opportunities for service providers and new experiences for users. A mong those emerging technologies, multi-cloud technology is expected to realize unlimited global cloud computing resources by unifying cloud resources from multiple public cloud service providers. In this paper, we introduce the concept and related trends of multi-cloud technology. Subsequently, we analyze the main functionalities and several use cases of multi-cloud technology. Finally, we summarize the effects and usefulness of multi-cloud technology in the domestic cloud industry.

Using ICT for Mongolia's sustainable development in energy industry

  • Tungalag, Azjargal;Kim, Yun Seon
    • Asia Pacific Journal of Business Review
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    • 제2권1호
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    • pp.21-52
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    • 2017
  • Nowadays every technology is becoming smarter. Consequently, intensive use of ICT in the whole industries and cities enables a sustainable approach to meet enormous productivity, efficiency, transparency and conservation of natural recourses. Likewise, the role of ICT in terms of controlling, monitoring in the energy industry allows integrating potential renewables, bulk energy conservation and reliable optimized operation in the entire system. In this paper outlines challenging issues in renewable energy integration in Mongolia and proposes potential recommendations and conclusions. The author investigated the main technologies used in energy industry mainly smart grid, challenges and policy aspect in Mongolian energy sector by using the primary and secondary approach with case studies and literature based methodologies. Based on the policy aspect and current implementation of smart grid, the paper tries to address the readiness for the main application and future potential ICT driven applications. Furthermore, it concluded that ICT convergence is demanded to overcome the current vulnerabilities and significant momentum to leave behind by using its potential energy recourses and favorable geographical state. Policymakers may find this study useful, as it answers the question of whether ICT investment can ultimately reduce energy consumption and may aid in future planning. Even tough, in order to develop a smart grid and integrating renewables firstly set an appropriate market structure, ICT will key enabler to make energy system more profitable and sustainable. Regarding the result of this study, ICT deployment contribution is a huge demand for future opportunities energy in Mongolia.