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A Construction of Web-based Decision Making Support System for Artificial Ground Greening (인공지반녹화의 웹 지원 의사결정지원시스템 구축)

  • Lee, Dong-Kun;Park, Chan;Kim, Jae-Uk;Yoon, So-Won;Jang, Seong-Wan;Shin, Sang-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.62-71
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    • 2008
  • Recently, the expansion of housing developments has reduced green areas in cities. The reduction of green areas caused many negative effects on human beings. For functional improvement of ecosystem, government focuses on artificial ground greening because it gives improving microclimate and saving energy consumption. This research aims to develop the system to support decision making of greening for artificial ground greening. This system consist of rooftop greening, wall greening, and street greening system which can suggest proper type of greening and calculate the effect of the greening considering the proponents inputs. It presents social, economic, and ecological value such as cost, energy saving, and temperature reduction. As it is web-based system users can easily access with internet. This system provides automatic selection modes.As a result, with this developed web-based system, decision makers can evaluate the effect of artificial ground green easily and the support to such movement will increase.

Nutritional Status and Related Factors of the Elderly in Longevity Areas - III. Relation among Self-rated Health, Health-related Behaviors, and Nutrient Intake in Rural Elderly - (고령인구 비율이 높은 지역 장년, 노년층의 건강.영양상태 및 이에 영향을 미치는 인자에 관한 연구 - III. 농촌노인의 주관적 건강평가와 건강관련행동 및 식이섭취와의 관련성 -)

  • Choe Jeong-Sook;Kwon Sung-Ok;Paik Hee-Young
    • Journal of Nutrition and Health
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    • v.39 no.3
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    • pp.286-298
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    • 2006
  • The study aimed to identify major factors related to global self-rated health of the community-dwelling elderly people in rural areas. Interviews were conducted with 433 persons over 65 years of age. The socio-economic characteristics, chronic disease status, measures of functional and mental health, life satisfaction, health-related behaviors including smoking, drinking, exercise, social activity, dietary habit, and food intakes were analyzed to determine their influence on self-rated health index. Data on food intake were obtained through the 24-hour recall method. The self-rated health of rural elderly was poor or very poor as reported by 42.6% and 52.4% of the men and women, respectively. Poor self-rated health was found to be related to elderly aged $65{\sim}74$, female, absence of work, more chronic diseases, dependence on Instrumental Activity Daily Living (IADL), higher mental unhealthy days, lower current life satisfaction, less social activity, lower dietary habit scores, lower intake of total food, fruit, eggs, fishes & shell fishes, vitamin C (%RDA), and Nutrient Adequacy Ratio (NAR). The results of the multiple regression analysis showed that poor self-rated health index is significantly associated with more chronic diseases, mental unhealthy days, gastrointestinal disease, musculoskeletal disease, less social activity, and lower intake of fruits. The results also suggested that improving the nutritional status and functional ability, and reducing the burden of chronic diseases are beneficial to the self-rated health index of the elderly.

Study on Topsoil Erosion Indices for Efficient Topsoil Management (효율적 표토 관리를 위한 표토침식지표 연구)

  • Jung, Younghun;Kum, Donghyuk;Han, Jeongho;Jang, Chunhwa;Yang, Jay E;Lim, Kyoung Jae;Kim, Ki-Sung
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.31 no.5
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    • pp.543-555
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    • 2015
  • The existing standard for soil erosion risk assessment has limitations in sustainable topsoil management since the fixed criteria are applied to determination of soil erosion risk areas regardless of land use types. It may not be necessary to apply soil erosion best management practices to agricultural areas with high potential of soil erosion because human or economic damage derived from soil erosion might be tiny in that region. Furthermore, the fixed criterion with absolute values can select too many hot spots of soil erosion to conduct efficient soil erosion management. Thus, objective of this study was to suggest the relative criteria using statistical analysis for efficient soil erosion management. In future, the relative indices for soil erosion prevention should be improved to provide a priority of soil erosion management considering economic damage from soil erosion or functional values of soil with quantitative soil erosion. Additional researches will be needed to reflect a regional characteristics and to consider various land use types and different criteria.

SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF METALLURGY--FACING THE WORLD

  • He, L.;Fu, L.P.
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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    • v.4 no.S2
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    • pp.20-23
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    • 1995
  • Shanghai Institute of Metallurgy(SIM), Chinese Academy of Sciences is a multioriented applied science reaearch institution that was founded in 1928. The current principal research activities of SIM cover three areas, namely, microelecronics, functional materials and devices, corrosion and protection of metals. The general information of SIM, includes history, personnel, organization, etc., is provided. The main research laboratories and R&D themes are introduced also. SIM has made great contributions to the economic construction and development of science and technoloty of the nation. China is facing a golden opportunity for development and SIM is playing an important role in translating research results into large-scale, commercial productions. Several successful examples are shown. SIM has been active in promoting international collaboration in research and development. The international cooperative projects in SIM are reviewed. SIM is facing the world, and going toward the 21st century.

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Analysis on Social Area of Taegu (대구시의 사회지역분석)

  • Choi, Seok-Joo
    • Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.209-225
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    • 1997
  • Today, rapid progress of urbanization is discovered commonly in many countries, especially in developing countries, which has led to spatial order and development process of city. Historically, Taegu was a walled city and formed mono-nucleus which was restricted by the castle. As the city grew gradually, the castle was removed as a result of diversification in traffic network, change of socio-economic environment, formation of industrial base and functional distribution. According to reconstruction maps of residential patterns, there was distinctive residential segregation among ethnic groups. Koreans in Taegu in 1939, aggregated densely in the southern and western parts of the city. The Japanese were concentrated densely in the northern and eastern parts of Taegu. And the street pattern within residential areas of the Korean people was shaped like a maze type in contrast with Japanese residential areas, which showed grid pattern of streets. This is another general pattern of almost all colonial cities, especially in Asia. Through this process, today it appears that, out of overall residential areas which occupy the highest ratio in urban land use, those for eminent people influence the functional development of urban spatial structure very heavily as a key point in urban residetial structure. Truly, residential segregation can be seen as the spatial manifestation of uneven distribution of such important scarce resources as housing and residential environment. In this study, the characteristics of locational distribution of the eminent people show their socially and economically stabilized standing in Taegu, taking the aforesaid situation as a background of the study. And the process of this study is as follows ; to examine the forming process of residential areas in the city as a theoretical supporting, to put in order on classical interpretation to formation of residential areas, and general type modern residential areas formation, and economic decision factor of land use. Therefore, this study aims to examine growth and development of eminent persons' residential areas and, at the same time, extract locational characteristics through the pattern of eminent persons' location and predict changes in the future.

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Unmet Healthcare Needs due to the Economic, Physical, and Time Burden among Older People with Chronic Diseases (만성질환 노인의 경제적 부담, 물리적, 시간적 제약으로 인한 미충족 의료 요인)

  • Bicna Lee;Seok-Jun Yoon
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.389-399
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    • 2023
  • Background: The purpose of this study is to analyze the factors affecting the unmet healthcare needs of older people with chronic diseases in Korea and provide a basic research report to strengthen their access to medical care. Methods: In the 2020 older people survey data, 8,182 older people aged 65 or older who were diagnosed with one or more chronic diseases were the final subjects of the study. According to Andersen's behavioral model used in unmet healthcare needs, independent variables were composed of predisposing factors, possible factors, and necessary factors, and whether or not unmet healthcare needs was set as dependent variable. Results: Of the older people with chronic diseases, 1.6% experienced unmet healthcare needs, of which 55.9% experienced unmet healthcare needs for reasons related to economic burden, 31.6% physical constraints, and 12.5% time constraints. As a result of the analysis, older people with chronic diseases were more likely to experience unmet healthcare needs if they were relatively low in age, low in education level, no spouse, low in household income, poor subjective health, complex chronic diseases, and functional restrictions. However, by major reasons for experiencing unmet healthcare needs, living in rural areas were more likely to experience unmet healthcare needs due to physical constraints, and those who participated in economic activities and who had were more likely to experience unmet healthcare needs due to time burden. These results were not derived when only unmet healthcare needs was set as the dependent variable. Conclusion: This study emphasizes the need for an approach by cause of unmet medical occurrence by suggesting that there are differences in influencing factors by reason for experiencing unmet healthcare needs.

An Analysis on the Re-visitation Choice of Rural Leisure - Focused on Buraemi, Daraengi, Byucgari region - (농촌여가 시장의 재방문 선택요인 분석 -부래미, 다랭이, 볏가리지역을 대상으로-)

  • Yun, Hee-Jeong;Im, Seung-Bin
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.33-42
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    • 2008
  • Recently, rural leisure by urban dwellers has been recognized as a catalyst for regional development or restoration. The federal government implemented several regional planning policies attempting to address this phenomenon in the late nineties. However, most of these policies focused on supply-centered planning, which caused a diverse set of problems relating to the sustainability and economic validity of the planning. Instead, this study focuses on the re-visitation one of the demand variables, with the intention of analyzing the character of rural leisure demand and its re-visitation choice attributes. For these reasons, this study investigates the character of current rural leisure demand, and develops functional equations about urban people who visit rural areas, using logit model. The results of this study can be summarized as follow: Urban people are visiting rural areas from nearby cities or metropolitan areas that are within 3 hours driving distance, and over 80% of rural visitors are one-day visitors. Therefore, most of their visitation activities should be understood as rural leisure, including rural tourism. In addition, the likelihood of the rural tourist to make a return visit is influenced by their transportation means, product purchasing, staying period and travel time. The results of such rural leisure demand can provide information for regional planning strategies, such as selection of target market, type of market segments, improvement of recognition level, activity program price, facility and space planning, produce sale and connection with tour site.

A Study on Serious Game Production Based on Jewish Play (유대인의 놀이를 주제로 한 기능성 게임 제작 방안에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, MyounJae
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.11 no.11
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    • pp.725-731
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    • 2013
  • The Jews has been cited as the most influential nations in the world of politics, economy, and culture in many areas. For these reasons, the study of Jewish economic life such as child-rearing, family life, and religious life is getting expanded to various areas. In this paper, we deal with the Jews's play for the various areas. Play is the best way to see the consciousness of a certain age on learning the structure and lifestyle. Therefore, the research is described to produce serious games based on by study of Jewish play using information in the internet, researched paper. Then, the investigated play's role of technology for production of functional game plans are discussed. As a result, the Jews play: 1) the history, traditions of wisdom, tools, 2) a medium for delivering educational messages, 3) the formation of community tools emotions 4) promise to play a role as a tool for learning. The development and Release of serious games based on Jews play can lead to a positive social learning effect.

A Study on the Geographical Distribution of Functional Classification and SWOT-PEST Analysis for China's Inland Ports (중국 내륙항의 기능적 유형화의 지리적 분포와 SWOT-PEST 분석)

  • Liu, Yanfeng;Lee, Choong-Bae
    • Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.77-92
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    • 2019
  • As China's economic growth pole has shifted from the coastal area to the Midwest and the inland since the beginning of 2000, construction of China's inland ports was promoted in the coastal area. The inland port functions as offshore port, thereby streamlining import and export logistics and customs clearance and so on. The purpose of this study is to identify the competitiveness and potential of China's inland ports via functional and geographical classification, as well as SWOT-PEST analysis. According to the results of the study, inland ports can be functionally categorized as sea port-based, industrial-based, distribution-based and customs clearance-based. The majority of the sea port-based inland ports are located in the eastern part of China while industry-based and distribution-based inland ports are situated in the Midwest. On contrast, the inland ports in Northwest mainly perform the function of customs clearance to promote international trade with neighbouring countries. The inland ports in the eastern region have high competitiveness owing to a large volume of international trade in the region, whereas those in the Midwest have high potential. The 'One Belt to One Road' initiative proposed by the Xi's Government is expected to play a significant role in promoting the development of inland ports in the Midwest and border areas.

Functional Health Status and Medical Service Utilization Pattern of General and Vulnerable Older People in Community (지역사회 일반 및 취약계층 노인의 건강기능상태와 의료서비스 이용 행태)

  • Oh, Doonam;Jeong, Hyoseon;Hwang, Jeonghae
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.404-414
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    • 2021
  • This study was to investigate the differences of functional health status and medical service experience and needs between general and vulnerable older people in community. This study is a cross-sectional descriptive research. The data obtained through direct visit surveys from November to December 2016. The target population of the study was older people over 65 years old, the final study subjects were 444 older people residing in one district of Seoul. The chi-square test was conducted to confirm the difference in their functional health areas and medical service experiences, and the necessity of medical service utilization in accordance to the social class. In the experience of abnormality in functional health, the vulnerable older people had higher experience in cognitive function, nutrition, hydration, pain, and falling than the general older people. The rate of experience of using medical service to solve the cognitive function problem for general older people was 31.9%, higher than that of the vulnerable older people. In contrast, the medical service utilization needs of the vulnerable older people in the pain management category was significantly higher than that of the general older people. In setting policy of public medical service programs for general and vulnerable older people in community may be differentially developed based on this study. In order to improve the medical accessibility of the vulnerable older people, public medical institutions should be actively supported to overcome obstacles to medical use due to economic barriers.