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The Development and Effect-Evaluation of Nutrition Education Program for Preschool Children in Children Centers (탁아기관 유아를 위한 영양교육 프로그램의 개발 및 효과평가)

  • 양일선;김은경;채인숙
    • Journal of Nutrition and Health
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.61-70
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    • 1995
  • This study was designed to : (a) develop the nutrition education program for preschool children (b) actually apply the program in the child-care center and evaluate its educational effects by a Non-equivalent control group design. Nutrition education program was developed on the basis of the conceptual framework which consisted of nutrition nutrients. food handling, life cycle and social.psychological needs. Also the program was devised to contribute children's motor, social, emotional and sensory developments. Nutrition achievement test(NAT) based on the table of specifications coinciding with the conceptual framework and was utilized to evaluate the nutrition education program. Subjects consisted of 42 preschool children, with 22 in control group and 20 in treatment group. All the subject completed a pretest and a posttest and the posttest means between control and treatment groups were compared. The control group had a score of 15.08 and the treatment group, 16.76 and the difference was not significant The treatment group's pre and post test means were 14.20 and 16.76, and showed the difference to be significant (p$\leq$0.05).

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Experimental Study on Combined Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion with Waste Heat of Power Plant

  • Jung, Hoon;Jo, Jongyoung;Chang, Junsung;Lee, Sanghyup
    • KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.215-222
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    • 2019
  • This work is experimental study of 10 kW specialized Combined Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion. We propose a C-OTEC technology that directly uses exhaust thermal energy from power station condensers to heat the working fluid (R134a), and tests the feasibility of such power station by designing, manufacturing, installing, and operating a 10 kW-pilot facility. Power generation status was monitored by using exhaust thermal energy from an existing power plant located on the east coast of the Korean peninsula, heat exchange with 300 kW of heat capacity, and a turbine, which can exceed enthalpy efficiency of 45%. Output of 8.5 kW at efficiency of 3.5% was monitored when the condenser temperature and seawater temperature are $29^{\circ}C$ and $7.5^{\circ}C$, respectively. The evaluation of the impact of large-capacity C-OTEC technology on power station confirmed the increased value of the technology on existing power generating equipment by improving output value and reducing hot waste water. Through the research result, the technical possibility of C-OTEC has been confirmed, and it is being conducted at 200 kW-class to gain economic feasibility. Based on the results, authors present an empirical study result on the 200 kW C-OTEC design and review the impact on power plant.

Protocol for testing of cold-formed steel wall in regions of low-moderate seismicity

  • Shahi, Rojit;Lam, Nelson;Gad, Emad;Wilson, John
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.4 no.6
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    • pp.629-647
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    • 2013
  • Loading protocols have been developed for quasi-static cyclic testing of structures and components. However, it is uncertain if protocols developed for conditions of intense ground shaking in regions of high seismicity would also be applicable to regions of low-moderate seismicity that are remote from the tectonic plate boundaries. This study presents a methodology for developing a quasi-static cyclic displacement loading protocol for experimental bracing evaluation of cold-formed steel stud shear walls. Simulations presented in the paper were based on conditions of moderate ground shaking (in Australia). The methodologies presented are generic in nature and can be applied to other regions of similar seismicity conditions (which include many parts of China, Korea, India and Malaysia). Numerous response time histories including both linear and nonlinear analyses have been generated for selected earthquake scenarios and site classes. Rain-flow cycle counting method has been used for determining the number of cycles at various ranges of normalized displacement amplitude. It is found that the number of displacement cycles of the loading protocol increases with increasing intensity of ground shaking (associated with a longer return period).

A case on the Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Model based Configuration Management System for Small/ Medium-Sized Plant (모델 기반 중소형 플랜트 형상관리 시스템의 효과성 평가 사례)

  • Ha, Ga Yeon;Kim, Jinil;Shin, Junguk;Yeom, Choong Sub
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.107-113
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    • 2021
  • Plant Configuration Management(CM) is an activity to maintain consistency of design requirements, physical configuration, facility configuration information throughout the life cycle of the plant by systematically managing changes that occur during the plant design and operation process. Conformity between information must be ensured not only in the design stage, but also in the case of design changes in the operation and maintenance stages, and thus a computer system capable of efficiently managing them is required. In particular, in consideration of an application to small and medium-sized domestic plants, a computer system that can support configuration management at a low cost is needed. Accordingly, in this study, a configuration management system has been developed to support the management of plant design information and change procedures in the operation stage of small and medium-sized plants. Here, a case for quantitatively evaluating the effectiveness of the developed system is described.

The European Paradigm of Health Investment: Focusing on the Model and Policy Content, and Their Transformation (유럽의 건강투자 패러다임: 모델과 정책 콘텐츠 및 그것의 전환을 중심으로)

  • Park, Seung-Min
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.22 no.10
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    • pp.83-92
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    • 2022
  • The purpose of this research is to analyze the European paradigm of health investment and its implication. Conventional content analysis of WHO/EU(/EC)/European countries' policy data, and articles shows that the European paradigm of health investment is consist of the basic and extended models, twelve life-course-based health investment policies, and SROI evaluation method. The analyses and discussion points provide policy implications for making virtuous cycle of Korean sustainable healthcare system with economic development in the post Covid-19 era.

Radiological Safety Assessment for a Near-Surface Disposal Facility Using RESRAD-ONSITE Code

  • Jang, Jiseon;Kim, Tae-Man;Cho, Chun-Hyung;Lee, Dae Sung
    • Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT)
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.123-132
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    • 2021
  • Radiological impact analyses were carried out for a near-surface radioactive waste repository at Gyeongju in South Korea. The RESRAD-ONSITE code was applied for the estimation of maximum exposure doses by considering various exposure pathways based on a land area of 2,500 ㎡ with a 0.15 m thick contamination zone. Typical influencing input parameters such as shield depth, shield materials' density, and shield erosion rate were examined for a sensitivity analysis. Then both residential farmer and industrial worker scenarios were used for the estimation of maximum exposure doses depending on exposure duration. The radiation dose evaluation results showed that 60Co, 137Cs, and 63Ni were major contributors to the total exposure dose compared with other radionuclides. Furthermore, the total exposure dose from ingestion (plant, meat, and milk) of the contaminated plants was more significant than those assessed for inhalation, with maximum values of 5.5×10-4 mSv·yr-1 for the plant ingestion. Thus the results of this study can be applied for determining near-surface radioactive waste repository conditions and providing quantitative analysis methods using RESRAD-ONSITE code for the safety assessment of disposing radioactive materials including decommissioning wastes to protect human health and the environment.

Development and validation of fuel stub motion model for the disrupted core of a sodium-cooled fast reactor

  • Kawada, Kenichi;Suzuki, Tohru
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.53 no.12
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    • pp.3930-3943
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    • 2021
  • To improve the capability of the SAS4A code, which simulates the initiating phase of core disruptive accidents for MOX-fueled Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors (SFRs), the authors have investigated in detail the physical phenomena under unprotected loss-of-flow (ULOF) conditions in a previous paper (Kawada and Suzuki, 2020) [1]. As the conclusion of the last article, fuel stub motion, in which the residual fuel pellets would move toward the core central region after fuel pin disruption, was identified as one of the key phenomena to be appropriately simulated for the initiating phase of ULOF. In the present paper, based on the analysis of the experimental data, the behaviors related to the stub motion were evaluated and quantified by the author from scratch. A simple model describing fuel stub motion, which was not modeled in the previous SAS4A code, was newly proposed. The applicability of the proposed model was validated through a series of analyses for the CABRI experiments, by which the stub motion would be represented with reasonable conservativeness for the reactivity evaluation of disrupted core.

Water cycle evaluation of Bioretention based on hydrologic model (수문모형을 기반으로 한 식생저류지 물순환 평가)

  • Kim, Jae Moon;Baek, Jong Seok;Jang, Young Su;Shin, Hyun Suk
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2021.06a
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    • pp.290-290
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    • 2021
  • 급격한 도시화 및 기후변화로 인한 물순환체계가 왜곡됨에 따라 자연수재해 피해가 급증하고 있어 대응방안으로 저영향개발(Low Impact Development, LID) 기법이 대두되고 있다. LID 요소 기술 중 하나인 식생저류지는 도시 유역내에서 발생하는 유출수를 저류 및 침투하여 우수유출수와 비점오염원으로 인한 오염저감 효과를 지니고 있는 LID 요소이다. 본 연구에서는 식생저류지의 우수유출수의 정량적 저감효과를 분석하기 위해 수문해석 프로그램인 K-LIDM(Korea Low Impact Development Model)을 이용하여 유역 내 식생저류지 배열과 저류용량에 따른 유출저감 효과를 분석하였다. 강우시나리오는 부산지점의 10년, 30년 발생빈도에 대하여 60분, 120분, 180분 확률강우시나리오를 선정하여 적용하였다. 모델링 분석결과 식생저류지 배치에 따라 5 ~ 15 % 이상의 유출저감효과가 산정되었으며, 식생저류지 저류용량에 따라 20 % 이상의 유출저감 효과가 산정되었다. 첨두유출 도달시간은 1.13 ~ 1.86배를 지연하는 결과가 산정되었다. 결과를 통해 식생저류지의 배열과 저류용량에 따라 유출량 저감효과와 첨두유출 도달시간에 영향을 미침을 알 수 있었다. 추후에 다른 매개변수인 식생저류지의 저류깊이, 지반의 침투능 및 유출부의 직경 등 여러 매개변수들을 고려한 연구를 수행한다면 식생저류지의 정량적 물순환 평가가 수행될것으로 사료된다.

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Smart Tourism Capability Maturity Framework : A Design Science Research Approach

  • Chaeyoung Lim;Kazuki Baba;Junichi Iijima
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.503-523
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    • 2019
  • Many cities in the world have increased initiative to realize smart tourism. There are unexplored challenges for the people which lead and manage smart tourism projects and realize its value in tourism (we call them as 'Smart tourism initiatives'), such as orchestrating of tourism complexity, developing and sharing tourism strategy, sustaining tourism projects and innovation. Concerning these challenges, we aim to design a holistic capability maturity model for sustainable and smart tourism governance enabling sustainable tourism innovations via tackling the challenges above. We adopted Dynamic capability theory as a theoretical lens and introduced Design science research methodology in order to develop a new capability maturity governance model as a design artifact. As a result of the study, we could synthesize findings from iterations of the design research cycle based on the IT Capability Maturity Model. Our result proposes a potential capability maturity model supporting effective communication and strategic alignment for the initiatives with illuminating future paths with evaluation methods on tourism capabilities for the initiatives. Throughout this study, we contribute to the body of knowledge as well as practice by proposing a new tourism capability governance model.

Evaluation of Toothbrush Bristles' Wear Index and Wear Rate Used by Preschool Children (일부 어린이집 유아의 칫솔 마모도 및 마모율 평가)

  • Kim, Sun-Ju
    • Journal of dental hygiene science
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.151-157
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the toothbrush bristles' wear index and wear rate used by preschool children to provide information on the establishment of criteria for toothbrush replacement cycle for preschool children. One thousand twenty-two toothbrushes were collected from September 20 to November 16, 2012 was analyzed. The findings of the study were as follows: 1. As a result of analyzing the toothbrush wear index, 48.5% of the collected toothbrushes was above 0.400, and the average wear index was $0.421{\pm}0.239$. 2. As a result of analyzing the wear rate of the toothbrushes, score 2 and 3 accounted for 70.4%, and the average wear rate stood at $1.936{\pm}0.848$. 3. As a result of analyzing the state of toothbrush management, the most common average toothbrush replacement cycle was one or two months (63.9%). Concerning the method of toothbrush replacement, the largest group (52.7%) replied they changed toothbrushes based on the abrasivity of toothbrush bristles, and 16.7 percent did that at the request of parents. Given the above-mentioned findings of the study, preschool teachers and parents should be educated to ensure the successful management of preschool children toothbrushes. In addition, it's required to set evident criteria for the right toothbrush replacement cycle for preschool children, and how to provide oral health education in an efficient way should be considered as well.