• 대한치과기공학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.83-93
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• 2002

This study was performed to evaluate the importance of parents, knowledge, cognition and behaviour about dental health care on the development of dental caries in preschoolers. Subjects were comprised of 170 preschoolers collected from three preschoolers placed in Pusan and Kimhae area and study period were 6 months from January, 2000. Examination on the preschoolers' dental health and questionnarie survey on parents' knowledge, cognition and behaviour about dental health care were conducted. Collected data were analyzed by chi-square test and t-test using SAS program. Dental caries was so prevalent as the rate of 73.5%. And, the rate was different by the area(p=0.001), and increased with preschooler's age(P=0.004). The parents gain the knowledge about dental health care mainly from dentist or dental hygienist(32.9%), newspaper, magazine booklets(26.5%), TV and VTR tape(20.0%), etc, but rarely from school health education(4.7%). Caries prevalence was significantly lower in case of regular brushing than that of insufficient brushing(p=0.002) and in case of consistently informing brushing time to their children(p=0.014). This results showed that the dental health care for preschoolers is insufficient and the most important factor for caries prevention is regular brushing. And it seemed that the parent's concern and knowledge play an important role for the prevention of preschooler's dental caries. Dental health education would be focused on the parents, especially for the practice of preventive behavior by preschoolers themselves.

• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.274-281
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• 2016

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: The accumulation of amyloid-${\beta}$ ($A{\beta}$) in the brain is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and plays a key role in cognitive dysfunction. Perilla frutescens var. japonica extract (PFE) and its major compound, rosmarinic acid (RA), have shown antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities. We investigated whether administration of PFE and RA contributes to cognitive improvement in an $A{\beta}_{25-35}$-injected mouse model. MATERIALS/METHODS: Male ICR mice were intracerebroventricularly injected with aggregated $A{\beta}_{25-35}$ to induce AD. $A{\beta}_{25-35}$-injected mice were fed PFE (50 mg/kg/day) or RA (0.25 mg/kg/day) for 14 days and examined for learning and memory ability through the T-maze, object recognition, and Morris water maze test. RESULTS: Our present study demonstrated that PFE and RA administration significantly enhanced cognition function and object discrimination, which were impaired by $A{\beta}_{25-35}$, in the T-maze and object recognition tests, respectively. In addition, oral administration of PFE and RA decreased the time to reach the platform and increased the number of crossings over the removed platform when compared with the $A{\beta}_{25-35}$-induced control group in the Morris water maze test. Furthermore, PFE and RA significantly decreased the levels of nitric oxide (NO) and malondialdehyde (MDA) in the brain, kidney, and liver. In particular, PFE markedly attenuated oxidative stress by inhibiting production of NO and MDA in the $A{\beta}_{25-35}$-injected mouse brain. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that PFE and its active compound RA have beneficial effects on cognitive improvement and may help prevent AD induced by $A{\beta}$.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.73-84
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• 2005

도로기하구조 설계기준은 운전자의 안전성 향상과 원활한 주행능력을 제공할 수 있도록 마련되었으나 지형조건이 열악한 우리나라의 경우 부득이 설계기준이 의도하는 방향과 운전자가 인지하는 특성에 차이를 보임으로써 안전성에 문제점이 있는 경우가 많다. 이러한 교통사고의 위험성을 감소시키기 위한 대책 중에 하나로 도로안전시설물을 설치하지만 설치한 안전시설물에 대한 평가는 제대로 이루어지지 않고 있으며, 특히 도로환경적 요인과 인적요인과의 관련성에 대한 연구는 상당히 미흡한 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 도로 이용자들이 종단선형구간에서 느끼는 도로안전성 요인을 파악하기 위하여 차량시뮬레이터(Driving Simulator)와 3D 그래픽 화면으로 종단선형구간을 재현하고 도로안전시설물의 설치 유, 무에 따라 운전자가 느끼는 안전성의 변화와 도로 이미지를 조사하였다. 조사된 데이터를 바탕으로 수량화 제II류에 의한 정준상관분석을 실시하여 도로 안전성의 영향 요인을 분석하였으며 수량화제 I류에 의한 모형화를 실시하여 안전성을 예측한 결과 도로안전시설물과 운전자가 느끼는 안전성과의 관계를 명확히 규명할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.55-61
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• 2016

Background: A number of neurological and neurodegenerative diseases share impaired cognition as a common symptom. Therefore, the development of clinically applicable therapies to enhance cognition has yielded significant interest. Previously, we have shown that activation of lysophosphatidic acid receptors (LPARs) via gintonin application potentiates synaptic transmission by the blockade of $K^+$ channels in the mature hippocampus. However, whether gintonin may exert any beneficial impact directly on cognition at the neural circuitry level and the behavioral level has not been investigated. Methods: In the current study, we took advantage of gintonin, a novel LPAR agonist, to investigate the effect of gintonin-mediated LPAR activation on cognitive performances. Hippocampus-dependent fear memory test, synaptic plasticity in the hippocampal brain slices, and quantitative analysis on synaptic plasticity-related proteins were used. Results: Daily oral administration of gintonin for 1 wk significantly improved fear memory retention in the contextual fear-conditioning test in mice.We also found that oral administration of gintonin for 1 wk increased the expression of learning and memory-related proteins such as phosphorylated cyclic adenosine monophosphate-response element binding (CREB) protein and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). In addition, prolonged gintonin administration enhanced long-term potentiation in the hippocampus. Conclusion: Our observations suggest that the systemic gintonin administration could successfully improve contextual memory formation at the molecular and synaptic levels as well as the behavioral level. Therefore, oral administration of gintonin may serve as an effective noninvasive, nonsurgical method of enhancing cognitive functions.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제27권9호
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• pp.157-167
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• 2022

본 연구는 마스크 착용이 필수가 된 시대를 살고 있는 20대를 대상으로 하여 마스크에 대해서 어떤 인식을 가지고 있는지를 조사하고 그 인식을 유형화하여 유형별 특성을 알아보고자 하였다. 연구에는 Q방법론을 활용하였다. 마스크에 대한 인식유형은 3개로 유형화되었다. 유형 1은 마스크를 늘 착용하며 마스크가 비언어적 커뮤니케이션과 착용자의 이미지에 영향을 미친다고 생각하는 '상시 착용 영향 중시형'이었다. 유형 2는 마스크를 세균을 막기 위해 착용하며 마스크가 부정적 영향이 크다고 생각하는 '기능 중시 부정 인식형'이었다. 유형 3은 얼굴을 가리기 위해 마스크를 착용하고 마스크 착용 시 사람이 젊어 보인다고 생각하는 '은폐 착용 긍정 이미지형'이었다. 소비자의 니즈를 반영한 다양한 디자인과 기능의 마스크 개발이 이루어져야 할 것으로 생각된다. 디자인, 맞음새, 기능 등 소비자가 중요하게 고려하는 사항에 따라 선택할 수 있도록 여러 가지 제품이 개발·판매되어야 할 것으로 생각된다.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.603-611
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• 2022

메타버스의 시대가 다가옴에 따라 해결해야 하는 난제가 있다. 그 중 '사이버 멀미'는 VR 기술이 주목받기 시작한 2016년부터 현재까지 VR의 대표적인 문제점이다. 감각 갈등이론에 따르면 멀미는 지각되는 운동 방향 정보와 기댓값이 같지 않을 때 유발한다. 본 논문은 뇌인지와 사이버 멀미의 상관관계에 대해 이론적으로 탐구하고, 이를 바탕으로 사용자의 몰입도가 멀미 증상에 미치는 영향에 관하여 연구하였다. SSQ 실험을 통해 카메라의 회전 값이 시청자의 사이버 멀미 증상을 악화시킨다는 점과 시청자가 해결해야 할 시각적·변속적 미션을 줌으로써 게임의 몰입도를 높여 사이버 멀미를 완화할 수 있다는 사실을 입증하였다. 본 연구는 VR 리듬 게임인 "beatale"을 개발하는 과정 중 사이버 멀미 문제를 해결하고자 진행되었으며, 해당 프로젝트 개발뿐만 아니라 향후 VR 콘텐츠 제작 시 사이버멀미를 개선하기 위한 기반이 될 것으로 기대된다.

• 의료ㆍ복지 건축 : 한국의료복지건축학회 논문집
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.49-55
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• 2014

Purpose: AIn recent years, the rapid progress of aging and the increase in the elderly people with dementia is becoming a big social issue. Therefore, this paper studies the development of therapeutic environmental rating scales for the elderly people with dementia in korean nursing homes. Methods: We identify the development process and structure of TESS-NH and understand the details of its nature and features. Then, based on the detailed items, we provide major scale factors which do influence on therapeutic environmental rating scales using PCA. Results: In the results, TESS, in the case of the initial stage of TESS-NH, has an advantage to evaluate on physical environments for a short period of time. TESS-2 + sets a large rage of activities of the elderly people with dementia, and tries to evaluate ongoing cares. TESS-NH has a complete set of well-thought-out assessment features for improving quality of care (Quality of Care) On the other hand, the main factors affecting the therapeutic environmental rating scales in nursing homes are "a consideration for facility management (Care for facilities' maintenance)", "a consideration for spatial cognition (Care for spatial cognition) ", and "a consideration for the safety (Care for safety)". Implications: In the future, to develop the therapeutic environmental rating scales on Korea's dementia nursing home, we should actively consider cares of spaces and facility utilization which the residents (the elderly people with dementia) are more secure and comfortable.

• 시큐리티연구
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• 제8호
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• pp.65-83
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• 2004

In modern society, the enterprises or the public organization have devised consistent means and methods with keen competition in high intelligence, high specialization and high competition for surviving in the struggle for existence. In the rapidly changing modern society like that, guard services are not free any more in the simple business. It will be survived only with consistent self-development and various abilities. Recently, it is on a trend that the enterprise including venture business requires the man of ability having many-sided thought, knowledge and capacity. That is, the era of a man with multi-function has come. The guards engaged in their present posts have to make efforts self-development consistently. And they have to work for self-development with theoretical knowledge acquirement about the expert knowledge escaping from simple function and business. The constitution including universities that train the guard should not adjust to the demand of quantitative manpower required in the enterprise organization with the training of the guard with simple functions only. It needs settlement as a curriculum with technology like ideology and knowledge breaking from short curriculum centered on function only in order to come to stay the recognition about guard services as expert services that the industrial society requires. The education centered on simple function should be replaced in the use of a high school, private academy and special guard institution. In addition, it requires a quality as the auxiliary, division, decision-making and spokesman according to the business role. Also, it requires the martial arts capacity, the communicative capacity, the sports or reports capacity, the guard driving capacity, the policy and assistant capacity and the information and analysis capacity, etc in individual. Lastly, it need each guard's change of cognition most of all. As part of the guard's adaptive plan according to the social change, it was enumerated like the mentioned above. It is important for the guard to prepare for the change of era and to build up quality and capacity before anything else.

• 감성과학
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.55-62
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• 2003

본 연구는 비디오/오디오 프로토콜 분석 방식을 이용해서 텍스타일 디자인 프로세스 중 모티브 개발 단계에서의 디자이너의 인지 모형을 분석하기 위한 탐색적 연구이다. 텍스타일 디자인 프로세스에 대한 프로토콜 분석을 위해 선행 연구를 고찰하여 디자인 행동 범주의 틀을 하향식(top-down)방식으로 설정하고 실제 행동 프로토콜(action protocol) 분석을 통해 상향식(bottom-up)방식으로 세부 디자인 행동을 분석하였다. 본 연구에서는 모델 휴먼 프로세서(Model Human Processor)이론에 기초하여 텍스타일 디자인 행동을 모터 행동(motor action), 지각 행동(perceptual action), 인지 행동(cognitive action)의 세 가지 범주로 나누었으며 이를 토대로 하여 텍스타일 디자인 프로세스에 적합한 코딩 스킴(coding scheme)을 개발하였다. 본 연구에서는 이 새로운 코딩 스킴을 토대로 하여 모티브 개발 단계에서의 텍스타일 디자이너의 인지 모형을 제시하였다.

• Journal of Acupuncture Research
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.205-213
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• 2008

The purpose of this case is to report the improvement after treatment on the patient who has development disabilities with Goldenhar's syndrome. We treated the patient with acupuncture treatment from 10th November 2006 to 22nd May 2008. We checked the patient with Goldberg's Developmental Milestone. After treatment developmental levels of cognition, motion, language and sociability were improved. This case shows oriental medical treatment has useful effect on development disabilities.