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A Study on the Ontology-Based Context Aware System for MBAN (MBAN(Medical Body Area Network)에서의 온톨로지 기반 상황인지 시스템 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Wang, Jong Soo;Lee, Dong Ho
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.19-29
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    • 2011
  • The u-Healthcare system, a new paradigm, provides healthcare and medical service anytime, anywhere in daily life using wired and wireless networks. It only doesn't reach u-Hospital at home, to manage efficient personal health in fitness space, it is essential to feedback process through measuring and analyzing a personal vital signs. MBAN(Medical Body Area Network) is a core of this technology. MBAN, a new paradigm of the u-Healthcare system, can provide healthcare and medical service anytime, anywhere on real time in daily life using u-sensor networks. In this paper, an ontology-based context-awareness in MBAN proposed system development methodology. Accordingly, ontology-based context awareness system on MBAN to Elderly/severe patients/aged/, with measured respiratory rate/temperature/pulse and vital signs having small variables through u-sensor network in real-time, discovered abnormal signs and emergency situations which may happen to people at sleep or activity, alarmed and connected with members of a family or medical emergency alarm(Emergency Call) and 119 system to avoid sudden accidents for early detection. Therefore, We have proposed that accuracy of biological signal sensing and the confidence of ontology should be inspected.

Study on Recognition of Dream in Oriental and Western Medicine (꿈에 대한 동서의학적 인식)

  • Kang, Dong-Yun;Kim, Byung-Soo;Kang, Jung-Soo
    • Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.878-883
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    • 2005
  • The dream is a well-known experience in the routine life. It is the image and thought being occurred during the sleep, and the complex reaction of our mental world to the event of everyday. In particular, there are so many opinions of the reason why people have a dream and this thesis is telling about the physical and pathological changes in the human as one of that various opinions. The aspects of this thesis are often founded in the diverse texts of oriental Medicine, including the Internal Classics(내경), and there were some cases that regarded the dream as diagnostic object and put to clinical uses. These attempts were not only tried out by particular orient thoght, also the ancient Greeks thought that the dream would represent important informations about the health. But, these ideas have been treated lightly by the impacts of the western medicine since the modern age. Straightforwardly, before the psycho-analytics was not development, most of the doctors and scientists regarded the dream as things like dregs of mind. The central operating bodies of the dream are the Spirit(신) and Hon and Beak(혼백), and the Spirit(신) is more essential part between the two.

A study on the Diagnostic Test for the Somatic Signs of the Internet Addiction Syndrome (인터넷 중독자의 신체적 이상 증상에 대한진단도구 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Ji-Whan
    • The Journal of Korean Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapy
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.51-56
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    • 2001
  • The purpose of this study is to make a new diagnostic test model for the physical disturbance signs for the overuser or addiction persons in internet. Variations of Somato-diagnostic testR for Internet Addiction Syndrome(Park V1.0) are follows ; 1. Are you hurt in your elbow or shoulder? 2. Do you feel stiffness in your neck? 3. Do you feel numbness of wrist on drive? 4. Are you hurt in your fingers on touch a keyboard or mouse? 5. Are you hurt in your back? 6. I feel taut on my legs sometimes. 7. I feel dim or bloodshot in my eyes. 8. I feel dry in my eyeball. 9. I feel heavy and ache on my head. 10. I can't sleep very well. 11. I have a digestive upset often. 12. My hand's full with sweat on computing. 13. I feel tremble or heavy in my heart. 14. I'm tired easily. 15. I'm not concerned about a sex impulse at all.

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Perceived Family Support and Quality of Life Patients with Cancer (암 환자가 지각한 가족지지와 삶의 질)

  • Kim, Kyung-Hae;Chung, Bok-Yae;Kim, Kyung-Duck;Byun, Hye-Sun
    • Asian Oncology Nursing
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.52-59
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    • 2009
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate perceived family support and quality of life in patients with cancer. Method: Data were collected from 83 cancer patients in the 3 cities of Korea. Family support was measured using the Tae's Family Support Scale and quality of life was measured using Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G). Results: The mean scores of family support and quality of life were 30.48 and 53.04 respectively. Family support was significantly different according to marital status, education level, income, living together, helper, type of treatment, and weight change. Quality of life was significantly different according to the purpose of treatment, weight change, performance status, exercise, and sleep. There was a positive correlation between family support and quality of life (r=0.499, p<0.000). Conclusion: The study results underscore the importance of family support in improving the quality of life of patients with cancer.

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Sexual Knowledge of the Male High School Students in a Rural Area of Gangwon Province (강원도 일개 군 지역 남자 고등학생의 성지식)

  • Song Byung-Sun;Sung Myung-Sook;Kim Chun-Gill
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Fundamentals of Nursing
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.374-381
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    • 2005
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the level of sexual knowledge of male high school students. Method: The Participants were 503 male students from a high school in one county of Gangwon Province. The data were collected from May 1 to May 30, 2004. Collected data were analyzed using SPSS program to investigate the responses to the structured questionnaires used in the study. Results: The level of sexual knowledge of high school students was 10.25(range 0 to 17). In terms of response distribution of sexual knowledge by items, the correct response rate was highest for 'wet dream is discharge of semen during sleep', and the wrong response rate was lowest in 'gonorrhea occurred most frequency in 15-25 year old adolescents'. General characteristics showed significant differences in sexual knowledge depending on grade(grade 3 :10.45, grade 2: 10.40, grade1: 9.88). Depend on the sexual impulse and the solutions to sex problems, there were significant differences in sexual knowledge with respect to sexual characteristics. Conclusion: As a whole the sexual knowledge of the male high school students was low, sexual education programs for high school students should focus on sexually transmitted diseases and contraception.

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Performance Evaluation of Exposed Aggregate Texturing in Concrete Pavement Based on In-Situ Noise Measurements

  • Moon, Han-Young;Ha, Sang-Wook
    • Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.504-511
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    • 2003
  • Environmental noise at high intensities directly affects human health by causing hearing loss. Although scientific evidence currently is not conclusive, noise is suspected of causing or aggravating other diseases. Environmental noise indirectly affects human welfare by interfering with sleep, thought, and conversation. Noise emission from motorized vehicle includes power unit noise, tire/pavement noise and aerodynamic noise. Among them, tire/pavement noise is noise emission from interaction of the tire and road surface when the vehicle cruises over the surface of pavement. In general, portland cement concrete(PCC) pavement is known to create more noise than asphaltic surfaces though it has the advantage of durability and superior surface friction. However, the results of preliminary laboratory test showed exposed aggregate concrete(EAC) has and effect on reducing tire/pavement noise. Based on the laboratory test. pilot construction of exposed aggregate concrete pavement was completed and series of in-situ measurements were conducted for noise analysis including the pass-by noise measurement and the close-proximity method. Conclusively, it is expected that tire/pavement noise represent significant portion of noise levels at higher frequencies and it would be reduced on special textures of pavement such as exposed aggregate concrete.

Development of a Home-Based Multimedia Tutoring System for Postpartum Depression Management (산모의 산후우울 간호관리를 위한 멀티미디어 재택관리 시스템 개발)

  • 배정이
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.9-20
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    • 1999
  • Postpartum depression is one of the most serious problems in maternal health because it affects not only the mother but also her family. Postpartum depression disturbs maternal -infant interaction and attachment. However, most postpartum depression patients ignore this problem and do not seek treatment. Thus this study in conducted to development of a Home-Based Multimedia Tutoring System for postpartum depression management. With this computerized system, mothers in the postpartum periods can check the level of postpartum depression using a personal computer. This system will go through each mother's data and screen those who have abnormal values. In addition this system includes intervention programs -education for nutrition, hygiene care, sleep, postpartum exercise, methods of relaxation, deep breathing, visualization, music therapy and family therapy-to relieve postpartum depression. Using this system, a mother who has a minor level of depression can manage it by herself. Computer language used in this study were html 3.2, OS used was Microsoftware NT Server 4.0, the graphic tool was Adobe Photoshop 4.0, and the Webpage tool was Notepade. The results of this study are show at internet “URL : http : //203.241.225.42/”. Finally, the author suggests that this system could be adequately applied to assessing postpartum depression and as a intervention strategy for mothers during the postpartum period. Further this study contributes to designing an appropriate postpartum depression prevention strategy.

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Sexuality and Related Factors of Postmenopausal Korean Women

  • Park, Young-Joo;Kim, Hesook-Suzie;Chang, Sung-Ok;Kang, Hyun-Cheol;Chun, Sook-Hee
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.457-463
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    • 2003
  • Purpose. This cross-sectional survey was conducted to describe the sexuality of Korean women after menopause using a national sample, and to examine relationships between the sexuality and demographic, body mass index, and life style factors including smoking, alcohol use, and physical activity. Method. From Dec. 20, 1998 to April 30, 1999, 2196 naturally postmenopausal women aged between 41 and 65 years were recruited by a disproportional stratified random sampling method from 7 metropolitans and 6 provinces in Korea. The questionnaire was used to obtain information on the demographic characteristics, life style factors, body mass index, and sexual activities. Result. The findings show that the frequency of intercourse after menopause decreased among most of postmenopausal Korean women (64.5%). The frequency of women reported their sexual activity as satisfactory was higher among women doing physical activity, not smoking, with higher educational status, with middle socioeconomic status, without sleep disturbance, with lower body mass index, and with good subjective health status. Conclusion. Further studies need to be designed as the longitudinal studies with larger random samples and better measures of sexuality.

Related to research some pollutants electromagnetic wave's impact of the human body and electromagnetic wave's a specific interception by the conductibility coating with organic.inorganic composition matter (유해 전자파의 인체적 영향과 유.무기 복합 전도성 코팅제에 의한 전자파 차단 특성에 관한 연구)

  • You, Hee-Ok;Yoon, Jeong-Phil;Kang, Byung-Bok;Lim, Jung-Ryul;Cha, In-Su
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.254-257
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    • 2001
  • This paper is managing about problem and EMI by electromagnetic waves occurrence of electrical appliances and harmfulness of EMS and standard. Specially, because this paper certifies a mouse and electromagnetic waves interception effect of electricity market place which possess electromagnetic waves interception facility, there is effect that contribute in health life that do to secure safe going to sleep condition from electromagnetic waves of electricity market place that is security of computer working environment of safe state through electromagnetic waves interception and essential electric appliance of home life.

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Forecasting obesity prevalence in Korean adults for the years 2020 and 2030 by the analysis of contributing factors

  • Baik, Inkyung
    • Nutrition Research and Practice
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.251-257
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    • 2018
  • BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: There are few studies that forecast the future prevalence of obesity based on the predicted prevalence model including contributing factors. The present study aimed to identify factors associated with obesity and construct forecasting models including significant contributing factors to estimate the 2020 and 2030 prevalence of obesity and abdominal obesity. SUBJECTS/METHODS: Panel data from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and national statistics from the Korean Statistical Information Service were used for the analysis. The study subjects were 17,685 male and 24,899 female adults aged 19 years or older. The outcome variables were the prevalence of obesity (body mass index ${\geq}25kg/m^2$) and abdominal obesity (waist circumference ${\geq}90cm$ for men and ${\geq}85cm$ for women). Stepwise logistic regression analysis was used to select significant variables from potential exposures. RESULTS: The survey year, age, marital status, job status, income status, smoking, alcohol consumption, sleep duration, psychological factors, dietary intake, and fertility rate were found to contribute to the prevalence of obesity and abdominal obesity. Based on the forecasting models including these variables, the 2020 and 2030 estimates for obesity prevalence were 47% and 62% for men and 32% and 37% for women, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The present study suggested an increased prevalence of obesity and abdominal obesity in 2020 and 2030. Lifestyle factors were found to be significantly associated with the increasing trend in obesity prevalence and, therefore, they may require modification to prevent the rising trend.