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A Study on the Actual Conditions of Children's Lifestyles and the Design Guidelines for Children-Friendly Residential Community Environments: Using Small Group Workshop Panel Method (주거커뮤니티내 아동생활 현황과 아동친화적 디자인지침에 대한 연구 - 소집단 워크샵 패널 방법을 이용하여 -)

  • Chong, Kyong-Suk;Lee, Yeun-Sook
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.127-135
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    • 2008
  • Due to the increasing social participation of women and the decrease in the size of the typical family, childre's environments have become increasingly more important. In fact, children are one of the main groups who use the community environments. However, children as a group have not been considered in the planning of residential neighborhood environments. A child's spiritual, psychological and physical health develops upon their interaction with the surrounding environment. Residential community should therefore be planned in a child-friendly way. The aim of this study is to introduce possible criteria for developing design guidelines for Children-friendly residential environments. The principal objective is to investigate the actual conditions of children's lifestyles in residential environments and the exploration of design guidelines for children. In this study, a small group workshop panel method was used. The subjects were 4 panel groups which was consisted of households with children. Each of the panel included 2 consecutive workshops. In this study, a list of valuable criteria for design guidelines was identified. In addition, the current residential community environment was found to be inadequate to accommodate for children's lifestyles and children had different housing needs according to their ages. In conclusion, the design guidelines should be developed to provide children with developmentally appropriate community environments.

Community Composition and Adapted Environment of Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia) in Koppler Moor, Austria (Austria Koppler Moor에 서식하는 끈끈이주걱(Drosera rotundifolia)의 군란형성과 적응환경)

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    • Journal of Life Science
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.169-176
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    • 2000
  • At Koppl area, undamaged natural habitat of sundew, I have analysed interspecific affinities and community composition through mathematical method and important environmental factors. Interspecific affinities of the species with frequency of more than 5% in vegetation table were analysed through chi-square test and showed obvious group of Drosera rotundifolia, Vaccinium uliginosum, Calluna vulgaris, Eriophorum angustifolium and 21 species. The result of ordination anlysis using DECORANA of VESPAN II showed eigenvalue of 0.6047 for axis I, 0.2024 for axis II and 0.0763 for axis Ⅲ. And it divided into 4 groups of quadrat number 1-5 for Sphagnum squarrosum-community, 6-10 for Crepis paludosa-community. 11-25 for Carex panicea-community and 26-35 for Scorpidium scorpioides-community. By the classification using TWINSPAN, the 7 areas divided into 2 groups of 1-10 and 11-35 at first level of division with high eigenvalue of 0.588 and indicator was Sphagnum squarrosum. At second level of division it divided into 4 groups as the results of DECORANA with eigenvalues of 0.268 and 0.423 and indicators were Pinguicula vulgaris and Scorpidium scorpioides. Microclimatic environment of studied area was low in temperature and high in humidity and soil environment showed high in field moisture capacity, acid, high organic matter content, low NO3 and K2O content, compare to normal soil, and high ground water level.

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Modified SPaC Algorithm Using the Community Computing Network in huge area Community Computing Environment (광범위 Community Computing 환경에서의 Community Computing Network를 이용한 수정된 패킷 결합 알고리즘)

  • Song, Jwa-Hee;Choi, Jung-Dae;Chang, Hoon;Kim, Seok-Yoon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.163-167
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    • 2008
  • 본 논문에서는 광범위 Community Computing 환경에서의 Community Computing Network의 에너지 효율과 신뢰성을 높이기 위한 수정된 SPaC(Simple Packet Combining)를 제안한다. 제안하는 수정된 SPaC는 같은 패킷을 두 개 이상의 오류가 있는 패킷을 이용하여 에러를 복구하는 기존의 SPaC를 수정하여 특정 threshold 값을 사용하여 감청 시 CPU의 처리량을 줄이고 패리티 패킷을 이용하여 높은 신뢰성과 보다 향상된 에너지 효율을 가진다.

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Qualitative Study on the Perception of Community Food-accessibility Environment among Urban Older Adults (도시지역 일부 노인에서 지역사회 식품의 접근성 측면에서의 식품환경 인식에 대한 질적 연구)

  • Yang, Narae;Kim, Kirang
    • Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.137-149
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    • 2020
  • Objectives: This study explored the community food environmental factors affecting food purchasing using a qualitative research methodology for the elderly as well as the various food environments under their socioeconomic diversity. Methods: For the qualitative data collection, this study interviewed 20 elderly people aged 65 years or more, who participated in a public health program or lunch services operated by the senior welfare center in Seoul. Five dimensions, such as availability, physical accessibility, affordability, acceptability, and accommodation suggested in previous studies, were used to identify the community food environmental factors. Results: The elderly participants showed overall similarities to the concepts derived from existing studies on the five dimensions of food accessibility environment. In addition, other important food accessibility environmental factors that were not present in previous studies, such as acceptability for a product of domestic origin, delivery service to home, and small-packaged food sales, were derived. On the other hand, the concept of some subjects differed depending on the household income and specifically for the physical accessibility concept. This showed that the close distance factor from a grocery store at home might not apply to older adults in low-income households in Korea. Conclusions: This study found that five dimensions of the food environment suggested by previous studies could also be applied to vulnerable older adults in Korea. On the other hand, the socioeconomic characteristics of individuals and households would affect the perspectives of their local food environments differently. The findings of this study could help in the development of tools for evaluating the community food environment.

Effects of Physical Living Environment on the Social Interaction and Perceived Sense of Community among Students in University Dormitory (대학기숙사 물리적 주거공간환경이 기숙사 거주학생들간 인지된 공동체의식 및 사회적 교류에 미치는 영향 연구)

  • Kim, Won-Pil
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.3-10
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    • 2015
  • College students living in university dormitory continuously experience unique physical and social living conditions, being away from their hometown and loving families. Most college students has engaged in a very limited social activities in dormitory area. Studies have shown that sense of community(SOC) is closely related to students' social activities. However, few research have examined the relationship between physical environment and sense of community. Therefore, this research aims to evaluate the effects of physical environment of dormitory on students' perceived sense of community and their social interaction. Extensive literature review found that developing social interaction and building a sense of student community improve students' overall residential satisfaction with dormitory and personal academic growth. Survey on A university dormitory and Chi square analysis (${\chi}^2$) indicated that each group's individual characteristics such as gender, grade, living period, and personality were statistically significant on the level of SOC at the level of p=.01. Individual analysis of SOC showed that sense of belonging was higher than shared emotional connection, which means certain level of intervention is needed. Pearson correlation analysis validated that there exists statistically significant relationship between physical environment and SOC. Further it also found that the most important predictor in facilitating social interaction were comfortable, quiet, and enough social space around the dormitory.

Bacterial Community Shift during the Startup of a Full-Scale Oxidation Ditch Treating Sewage

  • Chen, Yajun;Ye, Lin;Zhao, Fuzheng;Xiao, Lin;Cheng, Shupei;Zhang, Xu-Xiang
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.141-148
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    • 2017
  • The oxidation ditch (OD) is one of the most widely used processes for treating municipal wastewater. However, the microbial communities in the OD systems have not been well characterized, and little information about the shift of bacterial community during the startup process of the OD systems is available. In this study, we investigated the bacterial community changes during the startup period (over 100 days) of a full-scale OD. The results showed that the bacterial community dramatically changed during the startup period. Similar to the activated sludge samples in other studies, Proteobacteria (accounting for 26.3%-48.4%) was the most dominant bacterial phylum in the OD system, but its relative abundance declined nearly 40% during the startup process. It was also found that Planctomycetes proliferated greatly (from 4.79% to 13.5%) and finally replaced Bacteroidetes as the second abundant phylum in the OD system. Specifically, some bacteria affiliated with genus Flavobacterium exhibited remarkable decreasing trends, whereas bacterial species belonging to the OD1 candidate division and Saprospiraceae family were found to increase during the startup process. Despite of the bacterial community shift, the organic matter, nitrogen, and phosphorus in the effluent were always in low concentrations, suggesting the functional redundancy of the bacterial community. Moreover, by comparing with the bacterial community in other municipal wastewater treatment bioreactors, some potentially novel bacterial species were found to be present in the OD system. Collectively, this study improved our understandings of the bacterial community structure and microbial ecology during the startup of a full-scale wastewater treatment bioreactor.

A Basic Study on Development of Residents Emotion Index in Apartment Community (아파트 커뮤니티에서의 거주자 감정지표 개발에 관한 기초 연구)

  • Park, Ji-Hye;Cho, Sung-Heui
    • Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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    • 2011.04a
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    • pp.247-250
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this study suggests the emotion of residents as indexes in Korean housing environment for providing a fundamental guideline for precise dwelling social science and indicating the view for understanding of residents in korean housing culture in korea. So this paper explores the role of residents emotion indexes in housing environment and community. For this study, survey and depth-interview methods were used for data collection. The subjects were 514 housewives living in apartments. The statistical methods for data analysis were frequency, mean, multiple linear regression and logistic regression analysis using the SPSS 18.0 program The major findings are as follows: 1)Pride of neighborhood, pride of apartment complex and sense of superiority were important factors for residental satisfaction. 2)Conspicuous image of neighbors and active contact with neighbors were import factors for their neighborship in the apartment complex. The results develop the housing environment evaluation indexes in community through the contextual understanding of space emotion society.

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A Formal Model of Coordination for Supporting Community Computing in a Ubiquitous Environment (유비쿼터스 환경에서 커뮤니티 컴퓨팅 지원을 위한 코디네이터 개발)

  • Nam, Jin-Gyu;Kim, Hyun-Woo;Shin, Dong-Min;Park, Jae-Il;Hur, Sun
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.43-51
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    • 2008
  • Recent advances in mobile computing technologies and platform-independent information systems have enabled to realize a ubiquitous environment. Community computing has been developed as a useful tool for realizing collaborative services in a ubiquitous environment. In this paper, we present a formal model of a ubiquitous space that takes community concept into consideration and propose two management frameworks that prevent conflicts among communities. To demonstrate the validity of the proposed frameworks, an example for coordinating two communities is provided.

The Effect of Sense of Community on Learner Satisfaction in Online Learning : A Meditating Model

  • Lee, Sang-Kon;Lee, Ji-Yeon
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.153-167
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    • 2008
  • This study examines the effect of sense of community on the relationship between learner satisfaction and influencing factors related to the online learning environment. Influencing factors related to the online learning environment are derived from previous literature and classified into two groups : social dimension (leader's enthusiasm, offline activities) and system dimension (usefulness, ease of use, enjoyability). Learner satisfaction is defined as the learners' perceived learning gains from taking an online class. Study participants included 250 university students from two different institutions. The participants were divided into 43 groups and asked to complete an online TOEIC preparation module using a commercial cooperative learning system over 4 weeks. Data were collected at three points for each participant, at the beginning, 3 weeks after, and at the end of the online module. Two system factors related to the online learning environment (ease of use, usefulness) directly influenced learner satisfaction, while social factors indirectly influenced learner satisfaction through the mediating role of sense of community.

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Macrobenthic Community Changes in the Saemangeum Subtidal Area (새만금 방조제 외해역의 저서생물 군집 변화)

  • Jung, Ji-Yeon;Kwon, Hyo-Keun;Jang, Jeong-Ryeol;Choi, Kang-Won
    • KCID journal
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.42-48
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    • 2010
  • This study was carried out to investigate the changing of benthic macrobenthos community in Saemangeum subtidal area. The distribution of macrobenthic community is important to assume the benthic environment in study area. Macrobenthic community was investigated three times in 2007 (March, June and September) in the Saemangeum subtidal area. The mean density of macrobenthos was $345{\sim}838ind./m^2$ and the most dominant taxa was benthic polychaete. Opportunistic species such as E.cordatum, T.fragilis, H.filiformis, and Tharyx sp. were shown high appearance rate in study area. The dominance of these opportunistic species suggest that the benthic environment of study area was unstable due to environmental disturbance. But, there are only few point that these species were recorded high densities, and also equilibrium species was dominant, too. It means disturbance and un stability of benthic environment in Seamangeum was not serious yet. so the dynamics and trends of these opportunistic species should be concerned.

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