• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.107-110
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• 2005

An optical method of measuring hematocrit noninvasively is presented. An LED Light with multiple wavelengths was irradiated on fingernail and transmitted light from the finger was measured to predict hematocrit. A finger probe contained an LED array and detector. Our previous experience showed that prediction accuracy was sensitive to reliability of the finger probe hardware and we optimized the finger probe parameters such as the internal color, detector area and the emission area of a light source based on Design of Experiment. Using the optimized finger probe, we developed a hematocrit monitoring system and tested with 549 persons. For the calibration model with 368 persons, a regression coefficient of 0.74 and a standard deviation of 3.67 and the mean percent error of $8\%$ were obtained. Hematocrits for 181 persons were predicted. We achieved a mean percent error of $8.2\%$ where the regression coefficient was 0.68 and the standard deviation was 3.69.

• 대한소아치과학회지
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.499-507
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• 2018

이 연구의 목적은 고등학교를 졸업한지 10년 이내의 성인을 대상으로 구강보건교육 경험과 인식을 조사하여 소아와 청소년의 구강보건교육을 제고할 방안을 찾기 위함이다. 412명의 성인에게 설문지를 배포 후 회수된 설문지 중 기준에 부합하는 388명을 선정하였다. 설문 내용은 학령기 구강보건교육 경험과 인식, 구강건강에 대한 인식, 구강건강 행동과 태도에 대한 항목을 포함하였다. 설문조사 결과, 효과적인 구강보건교육 시기는 초등학교로 인식되었다. 가장 선호하는 구강보건교육 방법은 치과의사의 구강검진 및 대면 설명이었고 구강건강 지식은 주로 웹 검색을 통해 습득하는 것으로 조사되었다. 불소와 홈메우기의 치아우식 예방 효과에 대한 인식은 다소 부족하였다. 이 연구를 통해 향후 소아와 청소년의 구강보건교육에 치과의사의 역할을 확대하고 웹 검색을 활용하는 것이 효율성 제고에 도움이 될 것으로 사료된다.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.1-24
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• 1998

There exists a general consensus in Korea that patients tend to concentrate in large hospitals and this tendency is partly responsible for inefficiency in health services. The process of choosing a medical care provider for health care services and evaluating the provider after utilization seems to involve many diverse factors to become very complex. Therefore a systemsatic study is needed to achieve sufficient understanding of the proeess. For this point of view, this study investigates patient's selection of medical care institution for delivery care services and their evaluation of the institution after delivery. In more specific, the objectives of the study are twofold: 1) to identify the factors associated with expectant mothers' choice of type of medical care institution for delivery among tertiary hospitals, general hospitals, small hospitals, and clinics: and 2) to understand the factors affecting patient evaluation of the medical care institution after delivery. The data used for the analysis were collected through face-to-face interviews with those women who had childbirth during the period from January 1, 1996 to the date of interview in February 1998. The survey was conducted using preqared structured questionnaire in Seoul. The sample was drawn from each of arbitrarily defined four regions of Seoul, Northeast, Northwest, Southeast and Southwest, in proportion to the number of births reported in 1996 in each of them. The distribution of the interviewed women by educational level was made similar to that of mothers of new babies reported in 1996. The sample size was planned to be about 300, but ended up with analytical sample of 319. Major conclusions emerged from the analysis can be summarized as follows: 1) Large hospitals were evaluated as much better for technical quality than other types of institutions, whereas they were compared similar to or worse for other attributes. And it was found that technical quality of care is considered as the most important condition of medical care institution for delivery, while the amount of direct cost is considered as the least important one. Taken together, the utilization of large hospitals is not likely to decrease even though they cannot give satisfaction to patients in other aspects than technical quality. 2) The activeness in the search for information affected the respondents' evaluation of medical care institutions, which would influence their later decision or recommendation to other persons as to the choice of source of health care services. Therefore, increased efforts should be directed to improving availability of useful and correct information for patients in relation to the utilization of health care services. 3) Since the findings of this study were obtained from the analysis of delivery care services, their applicability to other kinds of services may be limited. Thus it would be useful to conduct a comparative study of several kinds of services explicitly taking into account the characteristics of those services in the analysis.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제17권8호
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• pp.3809-3816
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• 2016

Background: Increasing knowledge and awareness of cancer screening significantly influence health promotion behavior which could markedly reduce incidence rates. In many countries, health care providers are the principal source of information concerning cancer screening. This study was carried out to assess the level of knowledge concerning cancer screening among medical students, house officers and residents and to explore their attitude towards cancer screening practices. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in Kasr Al Ainy Medical School at Cairo University in Egypt, with 300 undergraduate medical students and 150 postgraduates (interns and residents) enrolled. A pre-tested self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data from the study participants regarding personal and education-related information, knowledge about cancer screening and its sources, and attitude towards cancer screening. Results: More than 64% of participants had knowledge scores of ${\leq}10$ points (out of 24). The total knowledge score (out of 6 points) for breast cancer screening increased from $1.9{\pm}1.0$ to $2.3{\pm}1.2$ and $2.4{\pm}1.1$ for $4^{th}$, $5^{th}$ and $6^{th}$ year respectively, interns showed the highest score of $2.6{\pm}1.1$, P= 0.001. Year of enrollment at medical school was a significant positive predictor of acquiring knowledge about cancer screening (post graduate vs. undergraduate students) (OR= 1.30, C.I =1.01-1.63), lack of or none receiving of orientation/training about cancer screening was the sole negative significant predictor for proper knowledge about cancer screening (OR=0.50, C.I=0.31-0.82). Over 92% of students agreed that they had insufficient knowledge about cancer screening, 88.2% appraised the need to have enough knowledge in order to direct/advice patients, relatives and friends, and 93.7% required that the faculty should emphasize the importance of cancer screening in the delivered curricula at medical school. Conclusions: A relatively low to moderate level of knowledge about cancer screening was detected among the selected medical students regardless of their year of enrollment at medical school or their graduation status, which may implicate a negative impact on early cancer detection especially in a low resource country like Egypt.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.161-172
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• 2005

Children regard newspapers and magazines as the important source of information. Because informations about diet in the newspaper and magazines are regarded as good, it is necessary to find out whether informations provided to children are correct. Thus, this study shows the present situation of informations on diet by monitoring 3 newspapers (Kids. Chosun, Kids. Donga, Kids. Hankook) and 2 magazines (Earinee - Dongsan, Sae-But) for children. This study focused on the quantitative and the qualitative analysis for articles and advertisements. For the quantity, rate and number were calculated. For the quality, the accuracy was analyzed. Result of this study were as follow; Analyzed the number of articles and advertisements on diet, there are 2 times more number of advertisements (339 cases) than that of articles (180 cases) in the newspaper. There are slightly more number of advertisements (24 cases) than that of articles (18 cases) in the magazine. Most of advertisements are about processed foods and children' favorite foods. Especially, the advertisement of processed foods are ranked first by the quantity with 245 cases (75%) in the newspaper. In the magazine, 10 cases (42%) are about processed foods. About source of advertisements on diet informations in the newspaper, there are 300 cases (86.7%) without evidence based data and 34 cases (9.8%) of interview with entertainers, from the total 346 cases. In the magazine, there are high rate of cases without evidence based data and interview with entertainers. For the evaluation of the information about diet in the newspaper, there are 148 cases (19.7%) with no clear guidance and position, some cases with advertisements for specific products and etc. Discordance between subjects and contents, and emphasis of specified field or some parts are found from the total 750 cases. About the accuracy of contents, from the total 180 cases in the newspaper, 99 cases (55%) are inappropriate and 19 cases (10.6%) are appropriate. In magazines from the total 18 cases, 7 cases (38.9%) are inappropriate and 11 cases (61.1 %) are appropriate. With these results, we can conclude that informations about diet in newspapers and magazine for children needs improvement. Therefore, for newspapers and magazines contents should be reported scienifically by inspecting contents and by taking professional advice, in order to spread the accurate information about diet. Also, there are need to manage the systematic monitoring, for children. (Korean J Nutrition 38(2): 161～172, 2005)

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제12권12호
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• pp.702-713
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• 2012

본 연구는 아동의 발열 및 발열관리에 대해 부모들에게 정보를 제공하는 인터넷 사이트의 질을 평가하기 위한 연구이다. 아동의 발열과 발열관리에 대한 국내 사이트 총 48개를 분석에 포함하였다. 인터넷 사이트의 최신성, 개발자, 자료의 원출처, 목적성 및 정확성을 평가하였다. 정보의 정확성은 아동의 발열관리 지침과 최신의 근거를 사용하여 검토하였다. 정보의 내용은 전반적으로 미비했고 최신의 근거를 반영하지 못하고 있었다. 본 연구의 결과 국내 인터넷 사이트의 발열관리 정보의 정확성과 일관성은 매우 취약하여 부모들이 정보의 근원으로 인터넷 사이트를 활용할 때 주의를 기울여야 함을 알 수 있었다. 건강관리자들은 발열관리 인터넷 사이트 정보의 현황을 인식하고 임상실무와 부모 교육 시 정확하고 일관성 있는 정보를 활용하기 위해 노력을 하여야 할 것이며, 아동 발열관리에 대한 인터넷 사이트 정보의 질을 향상시킬 필요성이 있다.

• 한국노년학
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.529-546
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• 2009

노인우울은 유병율이 높을 뿐만 아니라 상당히 심각한 신체적, 심리사회적, 경제적 부담을 초래함에도 불구하고, 노화의 과정으로 또는 신체질환의 일부로 여겨지는 가운데 개입이 지연되고 있다. 건강문제를 해결하기 위한 시도가 일반적으로 당사자나 주변인들의 문제 인식에서 비롯되는 점에 비추어 볼 때, 우울증상에 대한 정확한 식별은 자기 자신은 물론 주위 노인들의 증상에 대한 조기발견과 개입을 촉진하는데 도움이 될 수 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 대도시에 거주하는 노인 104명에 대한 면접 설문조사를 통해 우울증상에 대한 노인들의 식별력과 증상의 개념화 방식을 탐색하고 이에 영향을 미치는 요인들에 대한 분석을 실시했다. 연구결과, 우울증상을 식별할 수 있었던 노인은 전체 응답자의 14%에 불과했으며, 그 밖에는 외로움, 정서적 문제, 경제적 문제 등으로 인식했다. 75세 이상의 나이, 주된 정신건강정보원이 대중매체인 경우 식별력이 감소하는 것으로, 정신건강 지식이나 정보의 주된 원천이 정신건강 관련교육인 경우 식별력 증진에 도움이 되는 것으로 나타났다. 이와 같은 결과에 기초할 때, 노인의 우울증상 식별력을 증진시키기 위한 전략으로 정보지 비치나 일회성 행사위주의 정보전달보다 면대면의 구체적 정보제공과 상담 방식이 효과적일 것으로 보이며, 대중매체의 정신건강 및 질환 콘텐츠에 대한 면밀한 검토에 초점을 둔 후속 연구도 필요할 것이다.

• Mycobiology
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.100-102
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• 2007

Pet dogs have been considered to be involved in the contamination of indoor air by serving as a source of providing molds at houses. Currently, information on the molds originated from pet dogs is rarely available in Korea. The present study was carried out to obtain basic information on the fungi present on pet dogs. For this, fungal isolation was performed to the skin and hairs of 70 pet dogs at different houses and veterinary hospitals. A total of 44 fungal isolates were obtained from skin (27 isolates) and hairs (17 isolates) of the dogs investigated. Based on the observation of microstructures and colony morphology, and the ITS rDNA sequence analysis, the fungal isolates were identified at the level of genus. The identified isolates belong to the genera of Alternaria, Aspergillus, Beauveria, Chrysosporium, Cladosporium, Penicillium, Scopulariopsis, and Trichoderma. Among these genera, Aspergillus (25%), Cladosporium (23%) and Penicillium (20.5%) were 3 major genera. 63% of the 44 isolates showed color changes on dermatophyte test medium (DTM). When we tested the growth ability of 44 isolates at $37^{\circ}C$, 45% of the isolates were able to grow. These results show that pet dogs could carry fungi having a potentiality of affecting on human health.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권16호
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• pp.6477-6483
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• 2014

Background: Shammah is a traditional form of chewing tobacco [smokeless tobacco, (ST)] that is commonly used in the Middle East especially in Saudi Arabia (KSA), Yemen and Sudan. The Substance Abuse Research Centre (SARC) at Jazan University noted that no adequate research and information on the prevalence of shammah use in the province of Jazan, and KSA as well, has been provided in the scientific literature. Materials and Methods: An intensive systematic review of online databases was performed, including AMED (The Allied and Complementary Medicine Database), Biological Abstracts, Cochrane Collection Plus, Dentistry and Oral Sciences Source, E-Journals Database, EBSCO Discovery Service, MEDLINE, PEMSoft, PEP Archive, PsycARTICLES, scopus, Sciencedirect and Google Scholar. Results: Shammah is a mixture of powdered tobacco, lime, ash, black pepper, oils and flavorings. ST in KSA is placed in the buccal or lower labial vestibule of the mouth. The user (or dipper) spits out insoluble debris. The importation of ST products is prohibited in KSA. Accessible information on legislative action to control the use of ST in KSA appeared in 1990. The actual percentage use may be higher, than reported since shammah is illegal in KSA and there may be some reluctance to admit to its use. Conclusions: This review paper is an initial step in a funded research project by SARC to understand the pattern of use of shammah and provide adequate epidemiological data. One goal of this review is to generate further data for public health education.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.11-25
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• 2023

With the increasing advancement of VLSI technology, health care system is also developing to serve the humanity with better care. Therefore, biomedical implantable devices are one of the amazing important invention of scientist to collect data from the body cell for the diagnosis of diseases without any pain. This Biomedical implantable transceiver circuit has several important issues. Oscillator is one of them. For the design flexibility and complete transistor-based architecture ring oscillator is favorite to the oscillator circuit designer. This paper represents the design and analysis of the a 9-stage CMOS ring oscillator using cadence virtuoso tool in 180nm technology. It is also designed to generate the carrier signal of 403.5MHz frequency. Ring oscillator comprises of odd number of stages with a feedback circuit forming a closed loop. This circuit was designed with 9-stages of delay inverter and simulated for various parameters such as delay, phase noise or jitter and power consumption. The average power consumption for this oscillator is 9.32㎼ and average phase noise is only -86 dBc/Hz with the source voltage of 0.8827V.