• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.13-18
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• 2019

Comorbidity isthe simultaneous presence of two chronic diseases or conditions in a patient. As part of a larger research study, the aims of this study were to explore comorbid conditions in intensive care unit (ICU) patients and to compare the comorbidity across different demographic groups, and to determine what comorbid health problems coexisted in the patients with hospital-acquired pressure injury (HAPI). The average number of comorbid conditions was 6.4 with range from 0-20 in the ICU patients. African American patients had significantly more comorbid health problems than other race/ethnicity groups. Asian and Hispanic female patients showed higher comorbidity than male patients across age. The patients with HAPIs had significantly more comorbid health problems than the patients without HAPIs -- the average numbers were almost two-fold. We found comorbid health problems that existed with HAPI in ICU patients. 'Other diseases of lung' and 'Disorders of fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balance' were most frequently coexisting health problems in the ICU patients with HAPI. Exploratory plots are helpful to discover patterns or hypotheses relevant to clinical management in critical care. Inclusion of patients' comorbid health problems to ICU HAPI risk assessment may be helpful. Identification of patients at a high risk for the development of HAPI and the early preventative interventions can help reduce length of stay as well as costly complications.

• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.84-103
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• 2020

Spurred by the ongoing globalization, an increase in mobility has diversified migrant categories and strengthened intercultural rapport. Alongside the "traditional" migrants, "White" (Caucasian) individuals are coming into greater focus of migration studies as "lifestyle migrants". Although White migrations are not a new phenomenon, the deep-seated idea of White supremacy continues to play an important role in contemporary intercultural communication, awarding Whites across communities a "cosmopolitan" status of highly educated cultural elites. As such, the focus of this research is on highly skilled White European migrants, on their subjective experiences of integration in Japan, and whether they perceive Whiteness as an obstacle or an advantage in this process, if integration is desired at all. To discern the connection between race and integration, this research investigates the non-White majority society of Japan as it has established racial hierarchies according to the Western models, consequently influencing the status of its contemporary White immigrants. Privileged, yet singled out as racial and cultural role models, White Europeans' integration seemingly becomes nearly impossible. The data obtained in fifteen semi-structured interviews confirms that Whiteness grants advantages when entering the Japanese job market, but remains an obstacle in everyday community integration. European professionals do not feel accepted and abandon efforts to integrate, if such were made, retreating into "cosmopolitan islets" wherein they renegotiate their White European identities.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권9호
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• pp.301-311
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• 2021

Most leadership styles are generally designed to enhance the cognitive and behavioral skills of leaders with the implicit assumption that this would ultimately translate into high performance. As we are moving towards Industry 4.0, organizations must employ leadership styles that will help the organization succeed. Thus, the objective of this paper is to confirm the determinant factors for Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) leadership attributes in Malaysian manufacturing companies. Stratified sampling was used to select the sample. Data was collected using the online survey method, where the response rate was 43 percent. The respondents consisted of respondents aged from 31-40 years old, with 69 respondents. In terms of race, the highest number of respondents are the Malays. Questionnaires were distributed to middle and top-level managers from manufacturing companies which were listed in the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM). Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was used to confirm the reliability and validity of the construct. Based on the analysis, 66 items could be used to measure the 4IR leadership attributes. The validation of 4IR leadership can also provide predictive implications on improving leaders' performance, given the different attributes confirmed by the findings.

• Animal Bioscience
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.659-669
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• 2022

Objective: Thoroughbred horses have been bred exclusively for racing in England for a long time. Additionally, because horse racing is a global sport, a healthy leisure activity for ordinary citizens, and a high-value business, systematic racehorse breeding at the population level is a requirement for continuous industrial development. Therefore, we established genomic evaluation system (using prize money as horse racing traits) to produce spirited, agile, and strong racing horse population Methods: We used phenotypic data from 25,061 Thoroughbred horses (all registered individuals in Korea) that competed in races between 1994 and 2019 at the Korea Racing Authority and constructed pedigree structures. We quantified the improvement in racehorse breeding output by year in Korea, and this aided in the establishment of a high-level horse-fill industry. Results: We found that pedigree-based best linear unbiased prediction method improved the racing performance of the Thoroughbred population with high accuracy, making it possible to construct an excellent Thoroughbred racehorse population in Korea. Conclusion: This study could be used to develop an efficient breeding program at the population level for Korean Thoroughbred racehorse populations as well as others.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.177-186
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• 2020

본 논문은 차제가 조립되어 도장공장에 도착한 자동차들을 대상으로 동일한 색으로 최대한 그룹을 형성하여 도장 순서를 결정하는 자동차 페인트 순서 문제를 다룬다. 본 문제는 정확한 해를 다항시간으로 구하는 방법이 알려져 있지 않은 NP-완전으로 난제로 알려져 있다. 도장공장에서는 도장 색이 변경되면 이전 자동차 도장 색 페인트들을 완전히 제거하는 퍼징을 수행해야 하므로, 퍼징 횟수를 최소화시키는 것을 목표로 하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 버퍼에 도착한 자동차들의 이동 가능한 구간인 윈도우 개념에 기반하여 최소의 이동거리와 최소의 퍼징 횟수를 얻을 수 있도록, 자동차들을 동일 색, 도착 순서별로 정렬시키고, 구간 마라톤 경기를 수행하는데 있어 기본적으로는 연속적으로 가장 긴 구간을 차지하는 색 팀이 승리하는 방식을 적용하였다. 다만, 패자 팀이 더 이상 경기를 수행할 수 없는 구간이 존재하는 경우와 패자 팀에게 승리를 양보하고 이후의 경기에서 보다 많은 구간에서 승리하는 경우에는 승리의 우승컵을 해당 패자 팀에 게 양보하여 모든 구간에서 모든 자동차 선수들이 한 번씩은 반드시 승리하는 방식을 적용하였다. 제안된 알고리즘은 n대 자동차에 대해 O(nlogn)의 다항시간 복잡도로 간단하면서도 빠른 장점에도 불구하고, 다양한 사례들에 적용한 결과, 모든 실험 데이터들에 대해 최소의 이동거리와 최소의 퍼징 횟수를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권8호
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• pp.4577-4581
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• 2013

Background: The objective of this study was to determine the practice of skin cancer prevention among Malaysian road traffic police officers. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study involved 202 Malaysian Road Police Traffic officers. Inclusion criteria were those officers who work wearing white uniform regulating traffic. The survey took place at the Police Traffic Station, Jln Tun H.S. Lee, Kuala Lumpur, the main Head Quarters of Malaysian's Traffic Department where almost 600 police traffic officers are employed. The police traffic officers are given the task to take care of the traffic from the main office of the police station, then, according to the task, the officers drive to their given location for their duty. Each task is approved by the Chief Traffic Inspector of Kuala Lumpur. Data collected in this study were analyzed using SPSS 13, with the T-test for univariate analysis and multiple linear regression for multivariate analysis. Results: A total of 202 road traffic police officers participated. The majority were older than 30 years of age, male, Malay, married, with secondary education, with monthly income more than 2000 Ringgit Malaysia (66.3%, 91.1%, 86.6%, 84.7%, 96%, 66.3%; respectively). Regarding the practice of skin cancer prevention, 84.6% of the study participants were found to wear hats, 68.9% sunglasses and 85.6% clothing that covering most of the body but only 16.9% used a sunscreen when they were outdoors. When analysis of the factors that influenced the practice of skin cancer prevention was performed, univariate analysis revealed that gender, age and monthly income significantly influenced the practice of skin cancer prevention. For multivariate analysis, gender, monthly income and race significantly influenced the practice of using sunscreen among road traffic police officers (p<0.001, p=0.019, p=0.027; respectively). Conclusions: The practice of skin cancer prevention among the traffic police officers showed good practices in terms of wearinga hat, sun glasses and clothing that covers most of the body. However, the study revealed a poor practice of the use of sunscreen. The factors that influence the practice of sunscreen use were found to be gender, income, and race. The study suggests that more awareness campaign among traffic police officers is needed. Providing sunscreen for free for police traffic officers should be considered by the Police authorities.

• 한국육종학회지
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2009

This study was carried out to breed and develop high quality and functional nutrient tomato with multi disease resistance as well as a stable growing adaptation for fresh market usage under protected plastic houses cultivation. The materials were used 5 inbred lines and their 6 hybrids of large tomato group, which have been bred and developed from 1999 to 2007 in Division of Plant Resource Department of Chungnam National University. Fruit weight showed hybrid vigor effect that $F_1$ hybrids weighed more than their parent lines, fruit shape formed three type of oblate, deep oblate and globe shape, in firmness and pericarp thickness have got a high significant correlation, inbred DN611 line was measured the most firm fruit with 6.04 mm pericarp thickness. In fruit color at maturity, pink color crossed to red color appeared all red fruit color in the $F_1$ hybrids, it means red skin color is a dominant gene compared to pink skin color is a recessive gene in tomato, while between fruit skin color and shoulder part color showed no any co-relationship. The sugar content and titratable acid of $F_1$ hybrids inherited an intermediate data of their parent lines, the flavor of KP543 inbred line and the hybrid (JB535 x KP543) revealed the better taste with high brix and proper titratable acid content$^{*}$. In beta carotene content DN611 line showed 2~3 times higher than other materials so that its 3 hybrids contained an increased level of beta carotene, lycopene content was not so much difference among inbred lines and $F_1$ hybrids, of them MD508 contained higher of 8.72 mg and hybrid (JB535 x JA517) had 8.05 mg lycopene content per 100 g fruit, overall pink skin color and red skin color measured a higher lycopene content than yellow and orange skin color at ripe stage. In disease resistance test by PCR marker for Fusarium race2 (I2), Nematode (Mi1), ToMV ($Tm2^2$), Cladosporium (Cf9), (JB535 x JA517) hybrid have got multi-resistance with homozygote band in Nematode, ToMV, Cladosporium and heterozygote band in Fusarium race2. Through this breeding program we could select high quality and functional nutrient with multi resistant $F_1$ hybrids and inbred lines in tomato which are two best hybrids (JB535 x MD508), (JB535 x JA517), additionally developed high beta carotene inbred line DN611 and increased the level of lycopene inbred line MD508. These results will be very useful to make a high quality tomato variety continuously.

• 한국임상수의학회지
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.62-67
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• 2019

This study was performed to apply the measurement of heart rate and velocity in training horses for assessing race performance. Additionally, we aimed to identify parameters that can be used to evaluate the training level and exercise capacity. Eleven healthy 2- to 6-year-old Thoroughbreds were trained by the standard training program and heart rate and velocity were measured by using heart monitoring system and GPS. Regression analysis in heart rate and velocity data was performed to calculate velocity parameters. The mean maximal heart rate in gallop was $214{\pm}11bpm$. The mean $V_{140}$, $V_{180}$, $V_{200}$ and $VHR_{max}$ were $13.8{\pm}4.3km/h$, $37.5{\pm}3.8km/h$, $49.3{\pm}4.3km/h$ and $57.4{\pm}7.1km/h$ respectively. The mean $V_{140}$ of high performance racehorses was significantly higher than that of low performance racehorses (P < 0.05). Moreover, analyzing the correlation between velocity parameters and racing ability-related categories showed that $V_{140}$ was positively correlated with rating (P < 0.05), $V_{180}$ and $VHR_{max}$ were positively correlated with prize money per race (P < 0.05). Also, $V_{140}$ was significantly correlated with G1F (P < 0.05). The results of this study have shown that the measurement of heart rate and velocity during training could be useful methods to assess fitness for races or performance potential. Especially, $V_{140}$ is a good parameter to evaluate a performance of racehorses in Korea.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.125-144
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• 2023

최근 ChatGPT 등 거대언어모델(Large Language Models)의 활용은 대화형상거래, 모바일금융 서비스 등 다양한 분야에서 사용이 증가하고 있다. 그러나 주로 기존 문서를 학습하여 만들어진 거대언어모델은 문서에 내재된 인간의 다양한 편향까지도 학습할 수 있다. 그럼에도 불구하고 거대언어모델에 편향과 차별의 양상에 대한 비교연구는 거의 이루어지지 않았다. 이에 본 연구의 목적은 거대언어모델안에 9가지 차별(Age, Disability status, Gender identity, Nationality, Physical appearance, Race ethnicity, Religion, Socio-economic status, Sexual orientation)의 존재유무 또는 그 정도를 점검하고 발전 방안을 제안하는 것이다. 이를 위해 차별 양상을 특정하기 위한 도구인 BBQ (Bias Benchmark for QA)를 활용하여 ChatGPT, GPT-3, Bing Chat 등 세가지 거대언어모델을 대상으로 비교하였다. 평가 결과 거대언어모델에 적지 않은 차별적 답변이 관찰되었으며, 그 양상은 거대언어모델에 따라 차이가 있었다. 특히 성차별, 인종차별, 경제적 불평등 등 전통적인 인공지능 윤리 이슈가 아닌 노인차별, 장애인차별에서 문제점이 노출되어, 인공지능 윤리의 새로운 관점을 찾을 수 있었다. 비교 결과를 기반으로 추후 거대언어모델의 보완 및 발전 방안에 대해 기술하였다.

• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제40권6호
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• pp.1580-1588
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• 2023

피부가 맑고 깨끗하기를 바라는 것은 남녀 모두가 원하는 바이며 여성들은 피부를 아름답고 투명한 피부를 위해 파운데이션의 도움을 받는다. 파운데이션은 백인이라 밝은 색을, 동양 인이라 중간색을, 흑인이라 어두운색을 사용하는 것이 아닌 인종의 피부와 상관없이 개인의 피부색과 피부톤에 따른 차이로 파운데이션 선택이 이루어진다고 판단된다. 따라서 인종차별에 따른 파운데이션 색상 사용의 고정관념을 뛰어넘어야 할 필요성이 요구된다. 이에 이 연구의 목적은 각각의 촬영과 환경 그리고 장비에 영향받은 한국, 중국, 일본, 미국, 프랑스, 영국의 화장품 브랜드를 임의로 선정하고 웹사이트에 등장하는 파운데이션 광고 모델 이미지에 따른 피부톤의 차이를 파악하는 데 목적이 있다. 브랜드별 RGB로 파운데이션의 색상 값을 분석해 본 결과 한국의 경우 8.75R, 1.25YR, 2.5YR, 3.75YR, 5YR, 6.25YR로나타났으며 중국 브랜드는 2.5YR, 3.75YR, 5YR, 6.25YR, 10YR로 한국과 유사함을 알 수 있다. 일본의 브랜드는 7.5R, 8.75R, 10R, 5YR, 6.25YR, 7.5YR로 나타났으며, 미국의 브랜드는 6.25R, 8.75R, 10R, 2.5YR, 3.75YR, 5YR, 6.25YR, 7.5YR, 10YR로 나타났다. 프랑스 브랜드는 10R, 1.25YR, 3.75YR, 5YR로 나타 났으며, 영국 브랜드는 2.5YR, 3.75YR, 7.5YR로 YR색상 분포를 보이고 있다. 후속 연구로는 시대에 따른 파운데이션의 재형 및 색상변화에 관한 연구가 깊이 있게 이루어지길 바라며 이 연구가 화장품 회사의 마케팅에 필요한 기초자료 및 전략 수립에 활용되어 국내·외 색조 화장품 시장의 발전에 기여하길 기대해 본다.