• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.375-383
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• 2023

Objectives: Coal-fired power plants feature diverse working conditions, including multi-layered employment structures and irregular work cycles due to outsourcing and non-standardized tasks. The current uniform occupational environment measurement systems have limitations in accurately assessing and evaluating these varied conditions. This study aims to propose alternative measurement and assessment strategies to supplement existing methods. Methods: Major domestic coal-fired power plants were selected as the study targets. To prepare for the study and establish strategies, work processes were identified and existing occupational environment measurement results were compared and analyzed. The study proceeded by employing three strategies: specific exposure groups (SEGs) measurement, continuous monitoring, and supplementary measurements, which were then compared and discussed. Results: Previous exposure index evaluations (5,268 cases) indicated that crystalline silica, a type of respirable particulate matter, had detection limits below the threshold (non-detectable) in 82.6% (4,349 cases) of instances. Exposures below 10% of the exposure limit were observed at a very low concentration of 96.1%. Similar exposure group measurements yielded results where detection limits were below the threshold in 38.2% of cases, and exposures below 10% of the limit were observed in 70.6%. Continuous monitoring indicated detection limits below the threshold in 12.6% of cases, and exposures below 10% of the limit were observed in 75.6%. Instances requiring active workplace management accounted for more than 30% of cases, with SEGs at 11.8% (four cases), showing a higher proportion compared to 3.0% (four cases) in continuous monitoring. For coal dust, exposures below 10% of the limit were highest in legal measurements at 90.2% (113 cases), followed by 74.0% (91 cases) in continuous monitoring, and 47.0% (16 cases) in SEGs. Instances exceeding 30% were most prevalent in SEGs at 14.7% (five cases), followed by legal measurements at 5.0% (eight cases), and continuous monitoring at 2.4% (three cases). When examining exposure levels through arithmetic means, crystalline silica was found to be 104.7% higher in SEGs at 0.0088 mg/m³ compared to 0.0043 mg/m³ in continuous monitoring. Coal dust measurements were highest in SEGs at 0.1247 mg/m³, followed by 0.1224 mg/m³ in legal measurements, and 0.0935 mg/m³ in continuous monitoring. Conclusions: Strategies involving SEGs measurement and continuous monitoring can enhance measurement reliability in environments with irregular work processes and frequent fluctuations in working conditions, as observed in coal-fired power plants. These strategies reduce the likelihood of omitting or underestimating processes and enhance measurement accuracy. In particular, a significant reduction in detection limits below the threshold for crystalline silica was observed. Supplementary measurements can identify worker exposure characteristics, uncover potential risks in blind spots of management, and provide a complementary method for legal measurements.

• 척추신경추나의학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.117-127
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• 2015

Objectives : Most of pains are important symptoms caused by cancer transpered to spine. Harpagophyti Radix Pharmacopuncture is highly effective in reducing fever, pain, inflammation but was never used to reduce pain from cancer transpered to spine. So I intended to use Harpagophyti Radix Pharmacopuncture to control pain. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the clinical application of Harpagophyti Radix Pharmacopuncture for Bone Metastasis of Breast Cancer and Spinal Stenosis. Methods : We examined patient with Bone Metastasis of Breast Cancer and Spinal Stenosis who admitted Jaseng Korean Medicine Hospital. The patient was treated by Korean Medicine treatment and Harpagophyti Radix Pharmacopuncture. This case was assessed by Numerical Rating Scale(NRS), Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Index(ODI), Short-Form 36 Health Survey(SF-36), ROM(Range of Movement) and Special Test. Results : In this study, the patient's pain was controlled and NRS, ODI were decreased. I could identify the improvement in life quality from the positive change of SF-36 and also found out that treatment was successful from the improvement of ROM, Special test. Conclusions : Harpagophyti Radix Pharmacopuncture with Korean Medicine treatment for Bone Metastasis of Breast Cancer and Spinal Stenosis was proved to be useful to the pain relief and function recovery, but further research should take place for clear understanding of the exact amount of dosage and safety. Moreover it must be accompanied by long term follow up research.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.556-567
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• 2019

세계적으로 그린빌딩, 스마트빌딩 등과 같은 마이크로 워터 그리드 단위의 초고층 빌딩이 증가되는 추세로 수자원과 에너지의 수요증대 등과 같은 문제를 해소하기 위해 그린빌딩 인증 제도가 시행되고 있다. 그러나 마이크로 워터 그리드 단위의 그린빌딩 인증제도 내에서 전력과 에너지 분야는 활발한 연구개발사업이 진행되고 있는 반면 수자원의 연계·연속 활용을 통해서 물의 재이용, 물 절약 등과 같은 지속가능한 수자원의 활용에 대한 연구는 다소 미흡한 상태에 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 그린빌딩 인증제도에서 다중수원의 연계연속 활용을 위해 수자원 부문에 대한 특성과 한계점을 분석하고, 마이크로 워터 그리드 단위의 그린빌딩이나 스마트빌딩 및 복합단지 내외에서 상수, 자연 및 대체수자원 등과 같은 각종 수자원이 연계연속 활용할 수 있는 평가방법과 성능평가기준을 제시하고자 한다.

• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.102-116
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to analyze the research trends of randomized controlled trials on herbal medicine treatment for atopic dermatitis in China for the last 5 years. We searched for randomized controlled trials with the intervention of herbal medicine for the treatment of atopic dermatitis in the CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure) from January 2014 to December 2018. For the screening of the paper, we used '特应性皮炎' and '异位性皮炎' which mean atopic dermatitis and search was limited to three areas within Medicine & Public Health: Traditional Chinese Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicinal Herbs, Combination of Traditional Chinese Medicine with Western Medicine. Among the 136 searched studies, we selected a total of 34 studies and analyzed a year of publication, subject characteristics, study design and intervention, prescribed herbal medicine and herbs, pattern identification, evaluation criteria, and outcomes. Longmu decoction (龍牡湯) and Polia Sclerotium (茯笭) was the most frequently prescribed medicine and herb. The most commonly used pattern identification was Blood deficiency and Wind-dryness (血虛風燥), and among them, the most frequently prescribed herb is Rehmanniae Radix (生地黃). In most studies using the total effectiveness and SCORAD index as an outcome measure, the herbal medicine treatment group showed statistically better results than the control group. As a result of the safety assessment, the herbal medicine treatment group was reported having significantly fewer side effects compared to the control group. Hence, it was confirmed that the intervention including herbal medicine had a significant effect on atopic dermatitis. This study would be able to provide the basis of clinical research on atopic dermatitis and applied to the treatment of atopic dermatitis.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 9th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.1245-1246
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• 2022

Walkability is an indicator of how much pedestrians are willing to walk and how well a walking environment is created. As walking can promote pedestrians' mental and physical health, there has been increasing focus on improving walkability in different ways. Thus, plenty of research has been undertaken to measure walkability. When measuring walkability, there are many objective and subjective variables. Subjective variables include a feeling of safety, pleasure, or comfort, which can significantly affect perceived walkability. However, these subjective factors are difficult to measure by making the walkability index more reliant on objective and physical factors. Because many subjective variables are associated with human emotional states, understanding pedestrians' emotional states provides an opportunity to measure the subjective walkability variables more quantitatively. Pedestrians' emotions can be examined through surveys, but there are social and economic difficulties involved when conducting surveys. Recently, an increasing number of studies have employed physiological data to measure pedestrians' stress responses when navigating unpleasant environmental barriers on their walking paths. However, studies investigating the emotional states of pedestrians in the walking environment, including assessing their positive emotions felt, such as pleasure, have rarely been conducted. Using wearable devices, this study examined the various emotional states of pedestrians affected by the walking environment. Specifically, this study aimed to demonstrate the feasibility of monitoring biometric data, such as electrodermal activity (EDA) and heart rate variability (HRV), using wearable devices as an indicator of pedestrians' emotional states-both pleasant-unpleasant and aroused-relaxed states. To this end, various walking environments with different characteristics were set up to collect and analyze the pedestrians' biometric data. Subsequently, the subjects wearing the wearable devices were allowed to walk on the experimental paths as usual. After the experiment, the valence (i.e., pleasant or unpleasant) and arousal (i.e., activated or relaxed) scale of the pedestrians was identified through a bipolar dimension survey. The survey results were compared with many potentially relevant EDA and HRV signal features. The research results revealed the potential for physiological responses to indicate the pedestrians' emotional states, but further investigation is warranted. The research results were expected to provide a method to measure the subjective factors of walkability by measuring emotions and monitoring pedestrians' positive or negative feelings when walking to improve the walking environment. However, due to the lack of samples and other internal and external factors influencing emotions (which need to be studied further), it cannot be comprehensively concluded that the pedestrians' emotional states were affected by the walking environment.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.802-811
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• 2020

Objective: Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of dietary sucralose on diet preference and growth performance of weaned piglets, and a third experiment was a 28-d safety study to examine if high-dose sucralose could affect the health state of weaned piglets. Methods: In experiment one, 48 piglets had free access to a corn-soybean based diet and the same diet supplemented with 150 mg/kg sucralose for 15 d. In experiment two, 180 piglets were blocked into 5 treatments with 6 replications. They were fed basal diets supplemented with 0, 75, 150, 225, and 300 mg/kg sucralose for 28 days. In experiment three, 108 piglets were randomly assigned to 3 treatments and fed diets supplemented with 0, 150 (suitable level), and 1,500 (ten-fold suitable level) mg/kg sucralose for 28 d. Results: The experiment 1 showed that piglets preferred (p<0.05) diets containing sucralose during experimental period. In experiment 2, piglets fed a diet supplemented with 150 mg/kg sucralose had a higher average daily gain (ADG) and average daily feed intake (ADFI) than pigs in the control group and other treatment groups during the experiment period. The concentrations of sucralose over 150 mg/kg may decrease feed intake. However, no difference in feed conversion ratio was observed. In experiment 3, piglets fed diet supplemented with 150 mg/kg sucralose had a higher ADG and ADFI than that of pigs in the control group and 1,500 mg/kg treatment groups during the experiment period. Clinical blood metabolites, organ index and histological morphology were not significantly different between sucralose treatments. Conclusion: Sucralose can promote feed intake and thereby improve growth performance of weaned piglets. Moreover, inclusion of 1,500 mg/kg sucralose was demonstrated to have no observed adverse effects. Supplementing 150 mg/kg sucralose for weaned piglets is recommended in this study.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제53권3호
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• pp.313-320
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• 2021

본 연구는 일반 쿠키(NC), 통밀 쿠키(WC) 그리고 매생이 추출물이 첨가된 통밀 쿠키(WCFE)를 제조하고 4주 동안 쿠키로만 이루어진 식이를 마우스에게 제공한 뒤 혈당과 관련된 지표들의 변화를 관찰하였다. 4주 섭취 이후 NC를 섭취한 그룹과 비교하여 WC와 WCFE를 섭취한 그룹에서 단기간의 체중 증가의 감소효과를 보였으며, 매생이 추출물의 첨가는 간과 신장의 스트레스 증가에 영향이 없음을 확인할 수 있었다. 공복 혈당 수준은 WC 그룹과 WCFE 그룹에서 NC 그룹에 비해 유의적으로 감소하였다(p<0.001). 혈청 인슐린 농도는 WCFE 그룹에서 유의적인 차이를 보이며 감소하였고(p<0.05), 이를 바탕으로 인슐린 저항성 관련 지표인 HOMA-IR를 산출 시 WCFE 그룹에서 유의적인 차이를 보이며 감소함으로써(p<0.05) 매생이 추출물이 첨가되었을 때 인슐린 저항성을 개선한 것으로 판단된다. 또한, OGTT의 30분대 혈당치에서 NC 그룹 및 WC 그룹과 비교하여 WCFE 그룹에서 혈당 증가 폭이 감소하는 것을 확인할 수 있었고, WCFE 그룹에서 가장 낮은 AUC 면적 값을 나타냈다. OGTT 및 AUC 결과를 종합해볼 때 일반 쿠키와 통밀 쿠키에 비해 매생이 추출물의 첨가로 인해 내당능에 도움을 줄 수 있을 것으로 판단된다. 그러나 혈당 관련 유전자인 GLUT2와 GLUT4의 경우, 통밀에 의해 발현이 증가하는 경향은 관찰되었으나 매생이 추출물 첨가에 의한 효과는 관찰되지 않았다. 또한 IRS-1의 경우 WC 그룹에 비해 WCFE 그룹의 발현이 증가하였고 PI3K p85α 발현의 경우 WC 그룹에 비해 WCFE 그룹의 발현이 감소하는 경향을 보여, 매생이 추출물의 첨가가 혈당 관련 유전자의 발현에는 영향을 미치지 못하는 것으로 보인다. 따라서, 이러한 결과를 종합했을 때 WCFE 섭취 시, 혈당 관련 유전자 발현에는 영향을 미치지는 못하지만, 내당능 개선 효과를 가지며 인슐린 저항성 개선 효과의 가능성을 보여 혈당 항상성 개선에 기여할 것으로 판단된다.

• 한방비만학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.125-135
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• 2022

Objectives: A restrospective chart review were conducted to investigate the overall weight loss effect of the integrated Korean medicine treatment on obese patients (body mass index [BMI] ≥25 kg/m²) in Korean medicine clinic and analyze the difference in the effect according to lifestyle behaviors. Methods: The medical records of 43 obese patients were retrospectively analyzed including body weight, BMI, waist circumference, hip circumference, and body composition who received integrated Korean medicine treatment for 4 weeks at 24 Korean medicine clinics in Daejeon metropolitan city. All outcome measures were evaluated again 8 weeks after the end of treatment at week 12 for follow-up. EuroQol-5D (EQ-5D), the Korean version of the obesity-related quality of life scale (KOQOL) and patient's satisfaction were also evaluated. The analysis was divided according to the treatment period and observation period, and subgroup analysis was performed according to drinking and exercise habits. Results: Body weight, body fat, waist circumference, hip circumference, body fat were significantly reduced at week 4 and week 12. Theses weight reduction effects were significantly greater within treatment period (0 to 4 week) than observation period (4 to 12 week). Especially in the non-exercise group, the changes in body fat mass and body fat percent showed a significant difference between the treatment period and the observation period. KOQOL were also significantly improved at 12 week, but not in EQ-5D. No severe adverse events were observed. Conclusions: The integrated Korean medicine treatment could be effective to treat obesity including weight loss. It is necessary to prevent additional weight regain through regular exercise even after Korean medicine treatment.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.209-220
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• 2022

최근 다양한 사회 경제 이슈가 사회적인 화두로 떠오르고 있으며, 지역 경제 상황을 빠르게 판단하고 정책을 수립하기 위한 경기종합지수의 중요성이 대두되고 있다. 이에 따라 해외 연구자들은 지역 경제활동과 밀접하게 연관된 실시간성 교통 빅데이터를 이용하여 빠른 경제 상황 진단과 맞춤형 정책 방향의 수립을 고려하고 있다. 본 연구의 주요 목적은 울산광역시를 기종점으로 하는 TCS 데이터를 여객·화물통행, 단거리·장거리통행으로 구분하고, 각각의 통행량을 이용하여 지역경기진단이 가능한 경기종합지수들을 선정한 후 각 지수들의 경기변동 특징인 선행, 동행, 후행성을 교차 상관함수(Cross-Correlation Functions) 분석을 통하여 정의하는데 있다. 연구 결과로부터 TCS 교통량의 추이와 상관관계가 높은 경기 종합지수들은 서비스업 생산지수, 도매 및 소매업, 숙박 및 음식점업 등으로 나타났다. 이 중 화물, 여객, 단거리 목적 통행은 도매 및 소매업, 숙박 및 음식점업에 대해 선행성을 가지는 것으로 도출되었다.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.169-175
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• 2022

본 연구는 호흡기 또는 비말 전파 바이러스 감염자의 흉부 X-선 검사 시 바이러스 차단설비를 갖춘 촬영실을 구상해 보았고, 설계과정에서 바이러스를 차단역할을 하는 검증된 차단제 중 X-선의 출력 및 화질의 저하가 가장 적은 재질과 두께를 찾기 위해 실험해 보았다. 그 결과 아크릴 1 cm 적용 시 X-선 출력은 차단제 없을 시 보다 약 3.27 % 감소 되었고, SNR은 40.7, CNR은 30.9로 분석되었고 SSIM 지수 분석결과 0.891로 분석되어 원본 영상과 비교하여 가장 유사한 영상으로 구현되는 것으로 분석되었다. 연구방법에서 적용한 차단제는 식약처 허가 등을 받은 제품을 사용했다는 점에서 객관성이 있었으며 향후 호흡기 관련 바이러스 발생 시 감염환자의 진단 및 치료 시설 설비 시 본 연구결과는 유용한 정보를 제공할 것으로 사료된다.