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Effects of driving style and bedding in pigs transported to slaughterhouse in different temperatures

  • Dongcheol Song;Jihwan Lee;Kangheung Kim;Minho Song;Hanjin Oh;Seyeon Chang;Jaewoo An;Sehyun Park;Kyeongho Jeon;Hyeunbum Kim;Jinho Cho
    • Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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    • v.65 no.4
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    • pp.878-889
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    • 2023
  • Animal welfare during transport became an largely issue because of increasing demand for improved animal welfare standards. Most studies on the animal welfare during transportation have concentrated on the atmosphere and the temperature of the truck compartments. Thus, the objective of study was to collect and quantify three axis acceleration and determine the effect of bedding for transporting pigs from farm to slaughterhouse. A total of 2,840 crossbred fattening pigs with a live weight of approximately 115 kg were used. They were raised in the same commercial farms and transported to the same commercial slaughterhouse. A 3×2×2 completely randomized factorial design was used to investigate effects of rubber type bedding (bedding or non-bedding) and two levels of driving style (aggressive or normal) in three different time periods with different outside temperatures. Air temperature treatments were as follow: high temperature ([HT] higher than 24℃); low temperature ([LT] lower than 10℃); normal temperature ([NT] 10℃ to 24℃). In our experiment, pigs transported under aggressive driving style showed lower (p < 0.05) pH and water holding capacity (WHC) than those transported under normal driving style. Pigs transported under normal driving style showed a lower percentage of drip loss (DL) (p < 0.05) than those transported with an aggressive driving style. Also, transported with bedding showed higher (p < 0.05) lying behavior but lower (p < 0.05) sitting behavior than those transported without bedding. Pigs transported under normal driving style showed lower (p < 0.05) cortisol level than those transported under aggressive driving style. In conclusion, aggressive driving style cause acute stress in pigs, while bedding helps alleviate acute stress in pigs during transportation in LT.

A Comparative Study on the Design Guidelines of the Elderly Housing (국내 노인주택의 설계기준 비교 연구)

  • Hwang, Eun-Kyoung;Jeon, Myung-Hwa
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.152-155
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    • 2007
  • Although the population of the elderly has grown rapidly, their residential environment is not supported appropriately. The elderly are hard to adapt a new environment, so the concept of 'aging in place' is on the rise. For these reasons, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Ministry of Construction and Transportation, and Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy suggested each a design guideline for the elderly housing. In this study, we made a comparative analysis on these guidelines. Each guideline has something common but has some differences. So they needs of their integration after this.

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Mechanism and Scenario Design of an Intelligent Arm-Wrestling Machine System

  • Kang, Chul-Goo;Ryu, Ki-Seon;Kim, Y.W.;Sohn, I.S.;Park, E.J.
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.1153-1157
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    • 2004
  • The report of the Korean National Statistics Office shows that Korea has been emerging as an elderly society rapidly, and it will burden the Korean society with excessive social welfare cost for the aged in the near future. If we can help the aged to live healthy in some ways, the social burden for the health care of the aged will be lessened. In order to help physical and mental health of the elderly person, we have developed an exercise apparatus called intelligent arm wrestling machine system. This paper presents the mechanism and scenario of the proposed intelligent arm wrestling machine system. The proposed mechanism and scenario are peculiar. In particular, the proposed scenario determines randomly who will win between the man and the robot and generates a game process that the arm-wrestler cannot predict in advance.

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Exploring the Meanings of Usage about Onomatopoeia and Mimetic Words in a Child Play Situation (유아 놀이에서 의성어·의태어 사용 의미 탐구)

  • Kim, Yoon Mi;Yun, Eunju
    • Korean Journal of Child Studies
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    • v.38 no.1
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    • pp.63-76
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    • 2017
  • Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the meanings of onomatopoeia and mimetic words contextually used contextually when children play together. Methods: The participants included 40 children (ages 3-5 years) attending "M Daycare Center" in Seoul and "S Daycare Center" in Seongnam (a city in Gyeonggi-do). Twenty rounds of play observations were conducted at the centers. Once per week from May to October 2015. Results: The onomatopoeia and mimetic words observed were primarily relate to physical movements, sounds, and shapes. These types relate to Max van Manen's life-world existentials, correlating with spatiality, corporeality, and relationality. The characteristics of onomatopoeic and mimetic words used were additive and were used by the children to refine and diversify their language skills and enrich their linguistic imaginations. Conclusion: Onomatopoeic and mimetic words help children design their own play situations based on their creativity and help them share the play with their peers.

Exchange Rate Pass-through, Nominal Wage Rigidities, and Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy

  • Rhee, Hyuk-Jae;Song, Jeongseok
    • East Asian Economic Review
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.337-370
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    • 2018
  • This paper discusses the design of monetary policy in a New Keynesian small open economy framework by introducing nominal wage rigidities and incomplete exchange rate pass-through on import prices. Three main findings are summarized. First, with the existence of an incomplete exchange rate pass-through and nominal wage rigidities, the optimal policy is to seek to minimize the output gap, the variance of domestic price and wage inflation, as well as deviations from the law of one price. Second, the CPI inflation targeting Taylor rule is welfare enhancing when there is a technological shock to the economy. The exception occurs when there is a foreign income shock, which minimizes welfare losses under the domestic inflation targeting Taylor rule. Last, two stylized Taylor rules turn out to be a bad approximation, but the modified Taylor rules that respond to the unemployment gap rather than the output gap are a closer approximation to the optimal policy.

Nursing Homes of the Elderly in Asia: A comparison of Korea and Japan

  • Jung, Myung-Hee
    • The Journal of Industrial Distribution & Business
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    • v.9 no.10
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    • pp.15-19
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    • 2018
  • Purpose - The purpose of this paper was to examine the views of nursing homes for the elderly in Korea and Japan. Research design, data, and Methodology - This study aims to review the past researches on the social welfare and nursing homes for the elderly in Korea and Japan. A comprehensive view is offered with comparisons on the differences between the two countries regarding the dramatic increase of the elderly population. Results - It could be seen that with the significant increase of the elderly populations, it is getting more difficult for families to take care of their elders. Thus, nursing homes offer an alternative to busy family members in the current times. Improvements are much needed in the nursing homes for the health of the elderly. Conclusions - In order to offer better quality of life for the elderly in the nursing homes, more measures need to be taken to engage the elderly into activities. The depression that can be experienced when the elderly move to the nursing homes might be alleviated with new social circles and activities in the nursing homes, as well as human interactions with the staff.

Predictors of Intention to Report Elder Abuse among Elderly Women (여성노인에서 학대 시 신고 의향에 영향을 미치는 요인)

  • Ko, Chung-Mee
    • Women's Health Nursing
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.245-254
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    • 2010
  • Purpose: This study was designed to identify the predictors of elderly women's intention to report elder abuse. Methods: A cross-sectional survey design was used. The participants were 204 elderly women aged over 60 living in Seoul. Data were collected using self-reported questionnaires by convenience sampling. Data were analyzed with frequencies, $x^2$ test, t-test and binary logistic regression. Results: Logistic regression analyses showed perception of elderly welfare law, perception of seriousness of elder abuse, subjective economic status, and exposure to elder abuse information were significant predictors of elderly women's intention to report elder abuse. Conclusions: The results of study suggest that the provision of information related to elder abuse including elderly welfare law is crucial toward elderly women in preventing elder abuse.

Home - Visiting Physical Therapy (가정 방문 물리치료)

  • Lee Han-Suk;Park Don-Mork;Kim Choung-Sik
    • The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.91-98
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    • 1996
  • It is urgent to introduce home visiting physical therapy in order to prevent the unnecessary increase of demand and extravagance for the nation-wide execution of medical insurance and for the medical demand and supply of medical delivery system. We think that it is very important for us, as a physical therapist preparing 21 centry, to clearly undersand the necessity of home visiting physical therapy, which will be needed as the new therapeutic field in the future. When the terms for a new health and medical system, that is, useful trained-manpower, well-equipped facilities, financial and legal support, well-prepared design for this project, positive cooperation between people involved in this project and rational development of the project is held and this project is settled by sieving tile expected problems, this project will give a contribution to the promotion of national health and social welfare

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From Emerging to Submerging Economies: New Policy Challenges for Research and Innovation

  • Soete, Luc
    • STI Policy Review
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2013
  • The Schumpeterian process of "creative destruction", associated with the emergence and diffusion of new radical, so-called "general purpose" technologies, has throughout history impacted wealth and income, jobs creation, jobs displacement, and the emergence and submergence of new hotspots of innovation. Emerging countries have benefited most from such a renewing of those societies' dynamics, leading them to higher levels of economic development and welfare. Doing so they have shown a remarkable capacity in moving upstream in the value chain, from outsourcing of manufacturing activities to autonomous process technology development, product development, design, and applied research. At the same time however, such Schumpeterian processes have now and then turned into exactly opposite processes of "destructive creation." Such processes seem to have become common among what could be called "submerging" economies: innovation only benefitting a few at the expense of many with as a result an opposite pattern of a long term reduction in overall welfare, productivity, and employment growth.

Optimal Monetary Policy and Exchange Rate in a Small Open Economy with Unemployment

  • Rhee, Hyuk-Jae;Song, Jeongseok
    • East Asian Economic Review
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.301-335
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, we consider a small open economy under the New Keynesian model with unemployment of Gal$\acute{i}$ (2011a, b) to discuss the design of the monetary policy. Our findings can be summarized in three parts. First, even with the existence of unemployment, the optimal policy is to minimize variance of domestic price inflation, wage inflation, and the output gap when both domestic price and wage are sticky. Second, stabilizing unemployment rate is important in reducing the welfare loss incurred by both technology and labor supply shocks. Therefore, introducing the unemployment rate as an another argument into the Taylor-rule type interest rate rule will be welfare-enhancing. Lastly, controlling CPI inflation is the best option when the policy is not allowed to respond to unemployment rate. Once the unemployment rate is controlled, however, stabilizing power of CPI inflation-based Taylor rule is diminished.