• Journal of Acupuncture & Meridian Studies
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.361-366
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• 2018

Anxiety is a common preoperative problem in cesarean section candidates. Nonpharmacologic anxiety control has been demonstrated to be more suitable in pregnant women. The current study was a randomized, single-blind clinical trial which evaluated the effect of acupressure on preoperative C-section anxiety. In this study, 60 patients facing surgery were randomly divided into two groups of 30 patients each. Those patients in the intervention group received simultaneous acupressure at the Yintang and HE-7 acupoints for 5 minutes before surgery, and patients in the control group received intervention at a sham acupoint. The anxiety level of patients was preoperatively assessed twice using the Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. The mean anxiety scores of the two groups were shown to be insignificantly different before the intervention (p = 0.859), whereas a significant difference between the mean anxiety scores of the two groups was observed after the intervention (p = 0.001), suggesting that acupressure reduced the anxiety of patients before surgery.

• Journal of Acupuncture & Meridian Studies
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.343-354
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• 2018

Auriculotherapy has been extensively used for chronic spontaneous urticaria in China. However, the evidence of its effectiveness and safety for the treatment of chronic spontaneous urticaria is insufficient. Hence, we conducted this study to compare auriculotherapy or auriculotherapy joint treatment with Western medicine for the cure of chronic spontaneous urticaria. This meta-analysis of seven randomized controlled trials showed that auriculotherapy or auriculotherapy joint treatment was significantly superior to Western medicine in curing clinical signs and symptoms of chronic spontaneous urticaria [odds ration (OR), 2.61; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.54-4.43; p = 0.0004) and also better in total effect rate (OR, 3.81; 95% CI, 2.07-7.01; p<0.0001). But, auriculotherapy or auriculotherapy joint treatment was similar to Western medicine in improving clinical signs and symptoms of chronic spontaneous urticaria (OR, 0.74; 95% CI, 0.35-1.56; p = 0.42). Auriculotherapy or auriculotherapy joint treatment was safer than Western medicine for curing chronic spontaneous urticaria (OR, 0.26; 95% CI, 0.09-0.80; p = 0.02). Auriculotherapy alone or auriculotherapy joint treatment appears to be more effective and safer than Western medicine that contains antihistamines in the treatment of chronic spontaneous urticaria. However, these findings should be interpreted with caution due to the unclear risk bias of methodological quality, and further studies with large-scale, better, and more rigorously designed protocol are necessary to prove these findings.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.617-630
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• 2019

Currently most of the vision-based structural identification research focus either on structural input (vehicle location) estimation or on structural output (structural displacement and strain responses) estimation. The structural condition assessment at global level just with the vision-based structural output cannot give a normalized response irrespective of the type and/or load configurations of the vehicles. Combining the vision-based structural input and the structural output from non-contact sensors overcomes the disadvantage given above, while reducing cost, time, labor force including cable wiring work. In conventional traffic monitoring, sometimes traffic closure is essential for bridge structures, which may cause other severe problems such as traffic jams and accidents. In this study, a completely non-contact structural identification system is proposed, and the system mainly targets the identification of bridge unit influence line (UIL) under operational traffic. Both the structural input (vehicle location information) and output (displacement responses) are obtained by only using cameras and computer vision techniques. Multiple cameras are synchronized by audio signal pattern recognition. The proposed system is verified with a laboratory experiment on a scaled bridge model under a small moving truck load and a field application on a footbridge on campus under a moving golf cart load. The UILs are successfully identified in both bridge cases. The pedestrian loads are also estimated with the extracted UIL and the predicted weights of pedestrians are observed to be in acceptable ranges.

• 식품보건융합연구
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.11-17
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• 2022

Emergency transport is directly related to the life of the patient, and rapid transport to the hospital is crucial. However, external environmental factors such as traffic or weather, interfere with hospital transport. In this study, we investigated the external environment affecting hospital transport time. We examined the transfer time and patient treatment time of emergency patients in an area of northern Gyeonggi-do from 2018 to 2020. Diagnosis after arrival at the hospital was used, and on-site treatment time was measured from paramedic arrival time at the scene to departure. Furthermore, we examined whether there was a correlation between the time paramedics left the scene and hospital arrival time through the reason for the delay as recorded in the emergency log. Traffic jams had the greatest impact on patient transport, while transport delays occurred due to heavy rain, but not snow. Among injured patients, electrical accidents were the most problematic in terms of on-site treatment time. This was because a lot of first aid is needed in electrical accidents. It must be necessary to mobilize two ambulances in an emergency through the expansion of infrastructure, prepare a plan for rapid transport in heavy rain, and implement strong laws against transport obstruction.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.4573-4594
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• 2020

Announcement protocol in Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is an intelligent application to enhance public safety, alleviate traffic jams and improve transportation quality. It requires communication between vehicles, roadside units and pedestrian to disseminate safety-related messages. However, as vehicles connected to internet, it makes them accessible globally to a potential adversary. Safety-related application requires a message to be reliable, however it may intrude the privacy of a vehicle. Contrarily, if some misbehaviour emerges, the malicious vehicles must be able to traceable and revoke from the network. This is a contradiction between privacy and accountability since the privacy of a user should be preserved. For a secure communication among intelligent entities, we propose a novel announcement protocol in IoV using group signature. To the best of our knowledge, our work is the first comprehensive construction of an announcement protocol in IoV that deploys group signature. We show that our protocol efficiently solves these conflicting security requirements of message reliability, privacy and accountability using 5G communication channel. The performance analysis and simulation results signify our work achieves performance efficiency in IoV communication.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.121-128
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• 2021

In this work, a noble walkway approach suitable for Saudi Arabia (SA) towards its aim to develop a wide range of smart cities is considered scientifically. This work intends to minimize the errors at each level by testing the events that take place in the walkway environment. similarly, the minimum requirements to develop a walkway to the additional features to be considered while designing a walkway are discussed in this paper with sensitive areas such as environmental factors, healthcare issues, patients visiting the walkways, etc. The applications of different monitoring devices such as CCTV's, global positioning systems (GPS), etc. are carefully addressed to help the proposed method for improving the monitoring activities of a variety of events that possibly cause problems to a common man. The ultimate goal of this work to ensure a safe and satisfied journey of pedestrians while they come for a walk with all suitable safety measures. The safety measures included in this work are for pollution, noise, temperature, humidity and traffic jams on the roads. To improve the accuracy and to test the proposed approach some polices are defined and will be tested for the consistency of the proposed system. The obtained accuracy of the proposed system is proved to be far better with an accuracy of 93% improvement in the results.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.35-47
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• 2023

Deformability of road pavements in the form of ruts represent a safety risk for road users. In the procedures for dimensioning the pavement structure, the requirement that such deformations do not occur is imperatively included, which results in the appropriate selection of elements (material, geometry) of the pavement structure. Deformability and functionality, will depend of the correct design of pavement structure during exploitation period. Nevertheless, there are many examples where deformations are observed on the pavement structure, in the form of rutting at parts of the road with relatively short length, realised in the same climatic and the same geoenvironmental conditions. The performed analysis of deformability led to the conclusion that the level of deformation is a function of the speed of traffic. This effect is observed on city roads, but also outside of urban areas at roads with speed limits are significant, due to the traffic management, traffic jams (intersections, etc.). Still, the lower speed cause greater deformations. The authors tried to describe the deformability of flexible pavement structures, from the aspects of geotechnical problems, as a function of driving speed. Outcome of the analysis is a traffic load correction coefficient, in terms of using the existing methods of flexible pavement structures design.

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.60-69
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• 2019

세계 여러 기업에서는 교통체증이라는 심각한 사회 문제를 해결하기 위해 개인용 항공기 PAV(Personal Air Vehicle) 개발이 활발히 이루어지고 있다. PAV는 사람이 탑승하는 유인운송수단이므로 반드시 감항인증이 요구된다. 항공기와 마찬가지로 PAV의 안전 운항에서 치명적인 위협을 가하는 요소는 고온의 열과 자기장을 동반한 낙뢰이다. 현재 PAV 관련 낙뢰 인증 기술, 지침 및 요건 개발이 미비한 실정이기 때문에 PAV 낙뢰 인증은 더욱 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 미연방항공청(FAA)에서 인정하는 국제 표준 인증지침서인 SAE ARP를 분석하여 낙뢰 인증지침을 PAV에 접목하였다. PAV의 낙뢰에 대한 영향성을 전산 소프트웨어를 통해 분석하였고 향후 추진될 PAV 낙뢰 인증을 위한 실무지침 수립의 근거를 제시하고자 한다.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.95-101
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• 2016

차량통신시스템은 차량/도로기술과 정보통신기술을 접목하여 다양한 안전 메세지를 전송하거나 지능형 교통시스템에 적용이 가능한 시스템이다. 최근 차량용 센서와 통신 기술의 발달로 길안내와 교통체중 알림 서비스뿐만 아니라 주변 차량의 주행 정보, 도로 상태정보, 차량 간 긴급 메시지 전달 등과 같은 다양한 ITS 서비스가 가능해졌다. 일반적으로 차량통신은 WAVE라고 알려져 있는 IEEE 802.11p/1609표준을 채택하여 차량간 통신 및 차량-노변기지국간 통신에 이용된다. 본 논문에서는 WAVE 통신 표준에 대하여 설명하고 신호 특성을 소개하였다. 또한 V2X 통신을 위해 실제 구현된 노변 기지국(RSS), 차량통신장치(OBE)의 소프트웨어 및 하드웨어의 특성을 분석하였다. 실제 WAVE 통신의 성능 평가를 위해 시험도로에서 시험차량의 통신장치의 수신 신호 세기 지수(RSS)를 측정하였다. 측정된 WAVE 통신 성능은 ITS 서비스에 충분히 가능함을 실제 시험을 통하여 입증하였다.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.89-97
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• 2007

고도의 산업화와 경제발전으로 인한 자동차 의존적인 교통체계는 도심의 교통혼잡, 에너지소비, 대기오염과 소음, 교통사고 등과 같은 많은 문제를 유발하고 있는 실정이다. 특히, 도심에서 자동차로 인한 대기오염은 과거 산업활동에 의해 발생된 공해문제보다 더욱 심각한 수준에 이르고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 미시적 시뮬레이션을 이용하여 자동차 배출가스 저감 효과를 파악하고 경제성 분석을 통해 도심지에서 대기오염을 최소화 하면서 차량 소통을 원활히 할 수 있는 교통정책이 무엇인지를 파악하였다. 그 결과, 차량 요일제가 투자비용이 없어 가장 효과적인 방법인 것으로 나타났으나 시민들에게 강제성을 부여함으로써 자동차 수요를 억제시키기 때문에 시민들과의 공감대 형성이 무엇보다 중요하며, 다른 대안들과 병행하여 추진하는 것이 효과적일 것이라는 결론을 얻었다. 향후 연구과제는 선호의식 조사를 통해 시민들이 생각하는 자동차 배출가스의 대기오염 영향을 조사하고 본 연구 결과를 통해 나타난 차량 요일제 도입시 참여 의사를 조사하여 실제 교통정책 도입 가능성 등을 파악하는 연구를 진행 해야겠다.