• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.114-118
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• 2021

Background: Exposure to particulate matter (PM) emitted from vehicle exhaust might disrupt systemic function and elevate the risk of cardiovascular disease. In this study, we examined the changes of cardiometabolic biomarkers among vehicle inspectors exposed daily to PM0.25 and components. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted at two vehicle inspection centers, Pulogadung and Ujung Menteng, located in East Jakarta, Indonesia. The exposed respondents were 43 workers from vehicle inspection centers, and the unexposed group consisted of 22 staff officers working in the same locations. Vehicle exhaust particulate matter was measured for eight hours using a Leland Legacy personal pump attached to a Sioutas Cascade Impactor. The used filters were 25 and 37-mm quartz filters. The particulate matter concentration was analyzed using a gravimetric method, whereas trace elements were analyzed using energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence. An EEL Smoke Stain Reflectometer analyzed black carbon. Results: The personal exposure concentrations of PM0.25 were 10.4-fold higher than those in unexposed groups. Calcium and sulfur were the major components in the obtained dust, and their levels were 3.3- and 7.2-fold higher, respectively, in the exposed group. Based on an independent-samples t-test, high-density lipoprotein, triglyceride, HbA1c, total immunoglobulin E, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, and nitric oxide levels were significantly different between the groups. Conclusions: In summary, it was suggested that PM0.25 exposure from vehicle exhaust might affect cardiometabolic biomarkers change.

• 급식외식위생학회지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.103-110
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• 2021

This study was conducted to compare and evaluate the difference in washing and disinfection when the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) protocol was applied to foodservice operations. The results of the survey were as follows: Among the 116 foodservice operations surveyed, 67.2% were HACCP-compliant and 32.8% were not HACCP-compliant. Also, 62.9% served meals once daily, and 79.3% conducted food safety education once a month. Compared to HACCP non-compliant foodservice operations, the disinfection performance of HACCP-compliant operations was significantly better concerning worktables (p<0.001), food inspection tables (p<0.001), preparation tables for distribution (p<0.01), serving tables (p<0.01), overflow and trenches(p<0.05), sinks (p<0.05), and insect attracting lamps (p<0.01). Similarly, the disinfection performance of HACCP-compliant foodservice operations was significantly better for 18 cooking utensils and personal tools such as food slicers (p<0.001), multiple cooking machines (p<0.05), tray carts (p<0.001), stainless steel tools (p<0.001), rubber gloves (p<0.05). Worktables (45.1%), serving tables (29.6%), sinks (37.0%), and scales (21.6%) were most often disinfected 'at the end of each task', while food inspection tables (36.5%), food preparation tables for distribution (31.2%), dish machines (34.2%), overflow and trenches (25.7%), and floors (25.8%) were most often disinfected 'once a day'. All cooking utensils were most often disinfected 'at the end of each task'. 'Chemical disinfection' was most frequently used in all foodservice facilities. To improve the food safety management of foodservice operations, it is necessary to apply the HACCP protocol and comply with the washing and disinfection manual.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.745-758
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• 2022

지식정보 기반 사회로의 진입이 가속화 됨에 따라 유한 자원인 전파의 활용이 국민 생활과 산업 전반에 폭발적으로 확산되고 있다. 이에, 주파수 자원의 효율적 활용과 급변하는 전파기술 환경변화에 조응하는 시장친화적인 무선국 관리제도의 중장기적 대안 마련 필요하다. 본 연구는 이동통신 무선국 허가 및 사후관리 제도 개선방안 제안을 위해 국내외 법령·제도를 문헌 조사 분석하여 무선국 포괄면허제도와 전파품질 자율규제 제도 도입 및 무선국 검사제도 개선안을 제안하였다. 본 연구를 통해 전파품질의 관리와 사업자의 자율권을 부여하는 전파관리 규제개선을 위한 법 개정 및 시행방안을 제공하는데 의의를 가진다.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 3th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.30-31
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• 2009

Early detection of schedule delay in field construction activities is vital to project management. It provides the opportunity to initiate remedial actions and increases the chance of controlling such overruns or minimizing their impacts. This entails project managers to design, implement, and maintain a systematic approach for progress monitoring to promptly identify, process and communicate discrepancies between actual and as-planned performances as early as possible. Despite importance, systematic implementation of progress monitoring is challenging: (1) Current progress monitoring is time-consuming as it needs extensive as-planned and as-built data collection; (2) The excessive amount of work required to be performed may cause human-errors and reduce the quality of manually collected data and since only an approximate visual inspection is usually performed, makes the collected data subjective; (3) Existing methods of progress monitoring are also non-systematic and may also create a time-lag between the time progress is reported and the time progress is actually accomplished; (4) Progress reports are visually complex, and do not reflect spatial aspects of construction; and (5) Current reporting methods increase the time required to describe and explain progress in coordination meetings and in turn could delay the decision making process. In summary, with current methods, it may be not be easy to understand the progress situation clearly and quickly. To overcome such inefficiencies, this research focuses on exploring application of unsorted daily progress photograph logs - available on any construction site - as well as IFC-based 4D models for progress monitoring. Our approach is based on computing, from the images themselves, the photographer's locations and orientations, along with a sparse 3D geometric representation of the as-built scene using daily progress photographs and superimposition of the reconstructed scene over the as-planned 4D model. Within such an environment, progress photographs are registered in the virtual as-planned environment, allowing a large unstructured collection of daily construction images to be interactively explored. In addition, sparse reconstructed scenes superimposed over 4D models allow site images to be geo-registered with the as-planned components and consequently, a location-based image processing technique to be implemented and progress data to be extracted automatically. The result of progress comparison study between as-planned and as-built performances can subsequently be visualized in the D4AR - 4D Augmented Reality - environment using a traffic light metaphor. In such an environment, project participants would be able to: 1) use the 4D as-planned model as a baseline for progress monitoring, compare it to daily construction photographs and study workspace logistics; 2) interactively and remotely explore registered construction photographs in a 3D environment; 3) analyze registered images and quantify as-built progress; 4) measure discrepancies between as-planned and as-built performances; and 5) visually represent progress discrepancies through superimposition of 4D as-planned models over progress photographs, make control decisions and effectively communicate those with project participants. We present our preliminary results on two ongoing construction projects and discuss implementation, perceived benefits and future potential enhancement of this new technology in construction, in all fronts of automatic data collection, processing and communication.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.449-457
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• 2010

Objectives : This study was performed to investigate the recognition of the educators in preschool education institutions on children's oral health promotion. Methods : The subjects of this study included 918 preschool teachers who have been performing an oral health education program for children at preschool centers in Seoul. For this study, the survey was conducted from September 2008 to November 2008 through a questionnaire. Results : It has been found that 58.5% of the given preschool institutions have implemented an oral health promotion program and 99.1% of the respondents recognized the importance of the oral health. 53.9% of the respondents used sweets as a reward for good deeds. Regarding the behaviors of oral health promotion, the daily tooth-brushing and the implementation of a regular oral check-up accounted for 69.0% and 59.5% respectively. The subjects recognized that they have responsibility for the tooth-brushing instruction(91.6%) and provision of an oral inspection(78.3%). It has been also found that the case of performing the oral health program with older age and higher work experiences was significantly high(p<0.05). Conclusions : The recognition and performance of kindergarten teachers on children's oral health affects daily life and healthful living habits of children. Therefore oral health education program for the teachers has to be developed.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.328-338
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• 2018

The objective of this study was to evaluate the applicability of a HSPF (Hydrological Simulation Program-Fortran) model for runoff estimation in the Namgang dam watershed. Spatial data, such as watershed, stream, land use, and a digital elevation map, were used as input for the HSPF model, which was calibrated and validated using observed runoff data from 2004 to 2015 for three stations (Sancheong, Shinan, Changchon) in the study watershed. Parameters for runoff calibration were selected based on the user's manual and references, and parameter calibration was done by trial and error. The $R^2$ (determination coefficient), RMSE (root-mean-square error), NSE (Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency coefficient), and RMAE (relative mean absolute error) were used to evaluate the model's performance. Calibration and validation results showed that annual mean runoff was within a ${\pm}5%$ error in Sancheong and Shinan, whereas there was a14% error in Changchon. The model performance criteria for calibration and validation showed that $R^2$ ranged from 0.80 to 0.92, RMSE was 2.33 to 2.39 mm/day, NSE was 0.71 to 0.85, and RMAE was 0.37 to 0.57 mm/day for daily runoff. Visual inspection showed that the simulated daily flow, monthly flow, and flow exceedance graph agreed well with observations for the Sancheong and Shinan stations, whereas the simulated flow was higher than observed at the Changchon station.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제63권1호
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• pp.61-73
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• 2021

Recently, the deterioration of water quality in Wonju stream has been reported due to the increase in diverse pollution sources along with community development and urbanization. Various types of attempts with a huge budget were made for better water quality so far, but its effectiveness is still doubted. In order to establish site-oriented measures for water quality improvement, the topographic and hydrologic factors were evaluated based on site inspection and survey. As the major streams merged into the Wonju stream, the Hwa and Heungyang streams were found to have higher pollution loads and contributions compared to other streams due to the scattered livestock farms and industries, and vulnerable land use. Notably, the discharge water from the Wonju Public Sewage Treatment Plant had the highest level of pollution load, impacting on the water quality of Wonju Stream. According to the SWAT model as water quality measures, the improvement effect of water quality in this treatment plant can be reached to the reductions in BOD 11.06%, T-N 23.56%, T-P 10.60% when the proper managements applied, whereas the improvement of water quality would be 3.89%, 1.23%, and 3.32% for BOD, T-N, T-P, respectively, for the industries. The reduction of the livestock industry was generally very high as a pollution source, but it was not much higher at the end of Wonju Stream than other measures. These results recommended that the water q uality improvement measures should be designated for each upper-middle-lower section in Wonju stream.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.84-92
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• 2020

대부분의 화학공장 내 설비는 유해물질을 취급하거나, 일상적으로 접할 수 있는 온도 및 압력의 범위를 벗어난 환경에서 가동되며 이러한 응력 및 환경조건으로 인하여 노후화에 취약하다. 이러한 조건에 노출된 설비는 지속적인 손상이 누적되어 고장이 발생할 가능성이 높아짐은 물론, 정비 및 교체를 하지 않는다면 사고로 이어진다. 전세계적으로 위험성기반검사(Risk Based Inspection)라는 권고지침이 통용되고 있다. 하지만 RBI는 이미 일정시간 경과한 설비에 대해서는 한계가 존재한다. 적절한 점검을 수행하는 우리나라 울산 산업단지의 노후화 실태 조사 결과, 많은 수의 설비들이 사용기간이 20년을 경과하였다. 또한, 사고가 일어난 설비 대부분이 20년 이상 운영해 왔다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 일정 사용기간이 초과된 장치를 노후설비로 분류하는 기준을 제시하였다. 또한, 이에 대하여 정량적 위험성평가를 진행하였다. 이로 인해 도출된 해당 노후설비의 위험성을 Economic index로 표현하여 손실비용을 산정하고 Risk를 감소하기 위하여 비용편익 분석 방법을 활용한 안전투자 방법을 제안하였다. 본 연구에서 제시한 정량적 위험성 평가를 이용한 노후설비의 비용편익 분석 방법을 활용하여 노후 설비의 성능 향상 및 수명 연장, 생산 효율성 및 설비 계통 신뢰도 향상, 안전관리 비용 인식 변화, 그리고 직원의 안정감 증대, 손실비용의 감소를 기대할 수 있다.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.93-101
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• 2022

국내 RC 슬래브교의 경우 공용연수가 20년 이상인 교량이 전체의 70% 이상을 차지하며, 노후화된 구조물의 수가 증가함에 따라 구조물의 안전 진단 및 유지관리의 중요성이 증가하는 실정이다. 고속도로 교량의 경우 바닥판 균열은 열화현상의 우선적인 원인이 되며, 교량 내구성 및 사용수명 저하에 밀접한 관계가 있다. 또한 신축이음과 교량받침 등의 부재 손상으로 인한 손상 발생 비율이 약 73%로 주부재보다 높다. 따라서 본 연구에서 교량 부재 손상과 바닥판 열화가 결합된 손상 시나리오를 정의하였다. 설계하중으로는 일교차를 고려한 온도 증감과 차랑햐중을 고려하여 개별 단일 손상 및 이종손상 시나리오 발생 시 바닥판 응력 분포와 최대 응력 발생 지점을 비교 분석하였다. 또한 바닥판 열화의 주요한 원인이 되는 균열의 점검 및 진단이력데이터 기반으로 공용연수 별 손상 시나리오에 대한 손상확산 분석 및 상태등급 예측을 수행하였다. 교량부재 손상이 동반되어 발생하는 이종손상의 경우 단일손상 대비 균열 면적율과 손상확산율이 증가되며, 상태등급 C에 도달하는 시기도 매우 빠를 것으로 예측된다. 따라서 교량부재 손상이 발생하였을 때, 신속한 보수 및 교체가 이루어지지 않으면 바닥판의 손상 발생과 손상 확산으로 인한 2차 피해를 유발하는 원인이 될 수 있다. 따라서 바닥판 응답에 대한 지속적인 관찰과 대응이 필요할 것으로 판단된다.

• 대한통합의학회지
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2014

Purpose : The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of Lowenstein Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment(LOTCA) and Activities of Daily Living(ADL) by CogPack program in elderly with Alzheimer's dementia. Method : The subjects of this study, elderly diagnosed with Alzheimer's dementia, 8 patients were picked up, who were agreed with this research. Cognitive training for 6 weeks, which consisted of 3 times per week, 30 min of memory, attention and performance with cogpack program. Cognitive and ADL measured by LOTCA and FIM. The SPSS Ver. 14.0 statistical program was used for data processing. The significance level for statistical inspection was set as 0.05. Result : In comparison of LOTCA was significantly correlated in the pre and post test but FIM was not significantly correlated in the pre and post test. Conclusion : Therefore, the CogPack program is useful to improve the LOTCA in elderly with Alzheimer's dementia.