• 임상간호연구
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.1-19
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• 2013

Purpose: This study was conducted to develop standards to ensure nursing process-based care of oxygen therapy and airway suctioning and to develop a performance measurement tool to evaluate the care applied according to the standards, and finally to determine validity of the standards and the tool. Methods: The standards and the tool were reviewed by a panel of experts and refined based on the panel's suggestions. Validity of the standards and the tool were examined through surveying a total of 366 hospital nurses. Results: The mean validity scores of the performance measurement standards and the tool were 3.58 and 3.55, respectively, out of 4.00. So the performance measurement standards and the tool in this study were found to be acceptable in evaluating quality of nursing care provided at patient admission and discharge. Conclusion: This result indicates that the performance measurement standards and the tool developed in this study are valid instruments to monitor and improve quality of nursing care for oxygen therapy and airway suctioning.

• 임상간호연구
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.13-28
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• 2012

Purpose: This study was conducted to develop standards ensuring nursing process-based fluid intake/output and tube care, and to develop a performance measurement tool evaluating the level of care according to the standards, and finally to determine validity of the standards and the tool. Methods: The standards and the tool were reviewed by a panel of experts and refined based on the panel's suggestions. Validity of the standards and the tool were examined using a survey of 293 hospital nurses. Results: The mean validity scores of the performance measurement standards and the tool were 3.86 and 4.02, respectively, out of 5.00. So the performance measurement standards and the tool in this study were found to be acceptable in evaluating quality of nursing care for fluid intake/output and tubes. Conclusion: This result indicates that the performance measurement standards and the tool developed in this study are valid instruments to monitor and improve quality of nursing care for fluid intake/output and tube interventions, such as intravenous catheters, nasogastric tube and urinary catheters.

• 임상간호연구
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.123-137
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• 2011

Purpose: This study was conducted to develop standards ensuring nursing process-based care of patient admission and discharge, to develop a performance measurement tool evaluating the care applied according to the standards, and finally to determine validity of the standards and the tool. Methods: The standards and the tool were reviewed by a panel of experts and refined based on the panel's suggestions. Validity of the standards and the tool were examined through surveying a total of 302 hospital nurses. Results: The mean validity scores of the performance measurement standards and the tool were 4.11 and 4.09, respectively, out of 5.00. So the performance measurement standards and the tool in this study were found to be acceptable in evaluating quality of nursing care provided at patient admission and discharge. Conclusion: This result indicates that the performance measurement standards and the tool developed in this study are valid instruments to monitor and improve quality of nursing care for patient admission and discharge.

• PNF and Movement
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2024

Purpose: The prevalent use of mobile devices may contribute to musculoskeletal disorders, such as forward head posture (FHP), among users. The measurement of the craniovertebral angle (CVA) using photographic images is frequently employed in assessing FHP. Although manual CVA measurement using photographic images is reliable in clinical settings, computer programs or mobile applications to support tele-physical therapy are not yet fully developed. Therefore, in the current study, we propose an automatic method for extracting CVA from photographic images of FHP subjects to facilitate tele-physical therapy. Methods: To develop the automatic CVA measuring computer program, photographic images were obtained from 10 FHP participants. The location information obtained from the markers attached to the tragus and the spinous process of the seventh cervical vertebra were used as coordinates. Using these coordinates, straight line 1 was generated by connecting the seventh spinous process of the cervical vertebra and the tragus, while straight line 2 was drawn parallel to the coordinate obtained from the seventh spinous process of the cervical vertebra. The arc tangent function was used to calculate the angle between the two straight lines. The automatic CVA measurement computer program utilizing photographic images was developed using MATLAB (ver. 2016b). Results: The results showed that the automatic CVA measurement computer program demonstrated stable repeatability and high accuracy. Conclusion: The proposed approach was able to automatically estimate the CVA using photographic images. The developed computer program can potentially be used for easier and more reliable clinical assessment of FHP.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.440-445
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• 2005

비구면 평가를 위한 자동무수차점 널 렌즈 광학계에서, 널 렌즈간 거리를 정렬의 조정 인자로 사용하는 방식과 널 렌즈간 거리를 경통으로 고정 하는 방식에 대해 측정 정밀도의 한계 및 신뢰도를 연구하였다. 먼저 널 렌즈간 거리를 정렬의 조정 인자로 사용하는 방식에 있어서는, 널 렌즈의 제작오차에 의해 유기되는 전체 널 렌즈 광학계의 파면수차가 보상되는 특성이 나타나고 이로 말미암아 시험 비구면의 모호성(측정오차)이 발생하게 되어 측정의 신뢰도가 저하되는 결과가 초래되었다. 그리고 널 렌즈간 거리를 경통으로 고정하는 방식은, 널 렌즈계의 제작오차에 의해 유기되는 파면수차가 보상 되지 않기 때문에 측정오차가 발생하지 않았다. 즉, 이로부터 널 렌즈 광학계는 측정오차가 제거될 수 있는 경통고정방식으로 구성되어야 함을 알 수 있었다. 또, 본 연구에서는 널 렌즈와 시험 비구면간의 원거리 정렬을 제어하기 위해 시험 비구면 상에 정렬구경이라는 개념을 제안하였고, 정렬구경을 사용한 자동무수차점 방식의 측정 정밀도 한계도 이론적으로 분석하여 보았다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.2463-2482
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• 2016

Cloud services are often provisioned to their customers using user-friendly web browsers with flexible and rich plug-in environments. Delay is one of the fundamental performance metrics of these web-based services. Commonly-used network measurement tools usually only measure network delay and it may be difficult to infer the web-delay performance using only network layer measurement approaches. In this paper, we propose to evaluate the application layer delay in a browser-based network measurement platform using engineered scripts. We conducted a delay measurement study using instrumented scripts in the proposed browser-based measurement platform. Our investigation included a comparison study of three browser-scripting delay measurement methods, including Java applet, JSP and Flash ActionScript. We developed a browser-based delay measurement testbed over the Internet so that different delay measurement tools could be evaluated in the same real network environment including typical Internet paths and the Baidu cloud. We also decomposed the components of the end-to-end delay process of the above measurements to reveal the difference and relationship between the network-layer delay and the application-layer delay. Our measurement results characterize the stochastic properties of the application-layer delay over real Internet paths, and how these properties vary from the underlying network layer delay. This browser-scripting measurement approach can be easily deployed on different cloud service platforms to inspect their application-layer delay performance between end clients and the cloud platforms. Our measurement results may provide insights into designing new cloud services with enhanced quality-of-experience perceived by cloud users.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.1131-1137
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• 2005

Methods for measuring surface roughness based on light reflectivity have advantages over methods based on light interference or diffraction, especially in in-situ, on-the-machine and in-process applications. However, measurement inconsistencies caused by changes in the specimen are still a drawback for field applications. In this study, we propose a new feedback-based algorithm to enhance the consistency against changes in the specimen. The algorithm is deduced from simulations based on light reflectance theory with typical modeled surfaces. The proposed method is similar to a digital controller and regulates the power of reflected light. Experiments varying heights and materials, verified the improvements in robustness of the method against measurement disturbances caused by specimen changes.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제39권9호
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• pp.879-884
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• 2015

인쇄전자는 필름과 같이 유연한 웹 위에 기능성 잉크를 인쇄하여 전자소자 및 회로를 만들어내는 기술로써, 대면적 및 고속 대량 생산에 적합하며 유연소재의 전자소자를 만들어 낼 수 있는 차세대 공정기술이다. 이러한 롤투롤 인쇄전자 공정의 상용화를 위해서는 웹의 정밀 위치 측정이 요구되므로 본 연구의 선행연구를 통해 수 마이크로미터 측정 정밀도를 가진 광학 측정 시스템을 제안하였다. 하지만 선행연구의 횡 방향 측정은 웹 전체가 횡 방향으로 밀림 현상이 발생한 경우 이를 인지 할 수 없는 한계를 가지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 선행연구의 이송방향 웹 위치 측정 정밀도는 유지하며 웹의 횡 방향 위치에 따라 정렬패턴에서 반사되는 광량 차이를 이용한 웹의 횡 방향 위치 측정 시스템을 제안하였고 신뢰성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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• 제23권E2호
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• pp.66-73
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• 2007

The introduction of tracer gas techniques to ventilation studies in indoor environments provides valuable information that used to be unattainable from conventional testing environments. Data acquisition systems (DASs) containing analogue-to-digital (A/D) converters are usually used to function the key role that records signals to storage in digital format. In the testing process, there exist a number of components in the measuring equipment which may produce system-based inference to the monitored results. These unwanted fluctuations may cause significant error in data analysis, especially when non-linear algorithms are involved. In this study, a pre-processor is developed and applied to separate the unwanted fluctuations (noise or interference) in raw measurements and to reduce the uncertainty in the measurement. Moving average, notch filter, FIR (Finite Impulse Response) filters, and IIR (Infinite Impulse Response) filters are designed and applied to collect the desired information from the raw measurements. Tracer gas concentrations are monitored during leakage and ventilation tests in the model test room. The signal analysis functions are introduced to carry out the digital signal processing (DSP) work. Overall the FIR filters process the $CO_2$ measurement properly for ventilation rate and mean age of air calculations. It is found that, the Kaiser filter was the most applicable digital filter for pre-processing the tracer gas measurements. Although the IIR filters help to reduce the random noise in the data, they cause considerable changes to the filtered data, which is not desirable.

• 대한공간정보학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.3-11
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• 2011

본 연구의 목적은 보행 공간 특성에 따른 보행 환경 구성요소를 정량적 지표로 단순화 시킨 보행 지수를 개발하여, 도시 전체 가로는 물론 도시 내 근린 주거 단위의 전반적인 친 보행 환경 정도(쾌적성, 미관)와 보행자의 이동 편의성을 측정하고 이의 결과 시각화 할 수 있는 웹 기반 GIS 시스템을 개발하는 것이다. 이를 위해 우선, 국내외 선행연구에서 GIS로 정량화 할 수 있는 지표를 반영하여 보행환경 평가가 가능한 지표를 개발하고 적용하였다. 또한, 평가지표 개발을 위해서는 계층분석법(AHP:Analytic Hierarchy Process)을 활용하였으며 GIS 웹 서비스 연동을 통해 연구 지역에 대한 보행환경 평가 결과를 가시화하였다. 본 논문에서 제시한 측정 모형은 실제 물리적인 보행 공간을 기반으로 가상의 시스템에 적용되어 보행 이동 패턴의 가시화, 보행 환경의 쾌적성과 편의성 평가, 예측에 활용될 수 있을 것이다.