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Study of the most frequent natural tooth colors in the Spanish population using spectrophotometry

  • Gomez-Polo, Cristina;Gomez-Polo, Miguel;Martinez Vazquez de Parga, Juan Antonio;Celemin Vinuela, Alicia
    • The Journal of Advanced Prosthodontics
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    • v.7 no.6
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    • pp.413-422
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    • 2015
  • PURPOSE. To identify the most frequent natural tooth colors using the Easyshade Compact (Vita -Zahnfabrik) spectrophotometer on a sample of the Spanish population according to the 3D Master System. MATERIALS AND METHODS. The middle third of the facial surface of natural maxillary central incisors was measured with an Easyshade Compact spectrophotometer (Vita Zahnfabrik) in 1361 Caucasian Spanish participants aged between 16 and 89 years. Natural tooth color was recorded using the 3D Master System nomenclature. The program used for the present descriptive statistical analysis of the results was SAS 9.1.3. RESULTS. The results show that the most frequent dental color in the total sample studied is 3M1 (7.05%), followed by the intermediate shade 1M1.5 (6.91%) and 2L1.5 (6.02%). CONCLUSION. According to the research methodology used, and taking into account the limitations of this study, it can be proposed that the most frequent color among the Spanish population is 3M1; the most common lightness group is 2; the most frequent hue group according to the 3D Master System is M and the most frequent chroma group is 1.5.

Factors influencing Health Promoting Behaviors of Visiting Nurses in Seoul (방문간호사의 건강증진행위에 영향을 미치는 요인 - 서울시 방문건강관리사업을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Yun Su;Baek, Hee Chong
    • Journal of Korean Academic Society of Home Health Care Nursing
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.209-218
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    • 2018
  • Purpose: This study is to identify the health promoting behaviors, health belief, and self-efficacy of visiting nurses working for the Health Visiting Project in Seoul and to determine the predictors of influencing health promoting behaviors. Methods: Data were collected from an online survey of 496 visiting nurses form 25 districts in Seoul. Using SPSS ver. 24, the study performed descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, correlations, and stepwise multiple regression. Results: The mean scores for health promoting behaviors and self-efficacy were slightly higher than that of the median, whereas health belief showed in the median. The factors influencing health promoting behavior were perceived barriers, perceived sensitivity, self-efficacy, and age. These variables explained 36.0% of health promoting behaviors(F=60.62, p<.05). Conclusion: To prevent illness and to promote the health of the population, the visiting nurse mainly performs health screening, health education and counseling. To fulfill these responsibilities, the visiting nurse should be healthy and perform health promoting behaviors well, effectively serving as a model for their clients. Most of the visiting nurses were middle-aged, thus, it is necessary to strengthen health promotion activities that manage physical and psychological health at the individual level.

A Study on Attitudes toward Older Adults : Comparative Analysis of Young, Midlife, and Older Adults (청년 중년 노년세대별 노인에 대한 태도)

  • Kim, Yun-Jeong;Kang, In;Lee, Chang-Seek
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.65-75
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    • 2004
  • This study examined attitudes toward older adults among a sample of young (496 Participants), midlife (200 participants), and older adults (115 participants). The results indicate that attitudes of the three generations toward older adults were modest in score, being neither positive nor negative. The older adults' attitudes were the most positive regarding elderly people. In other words, each generation of people showed different attitudes toward older adults. There was also a significant interaction effect between generation and gender. Middle aged women were the most negative toward the elderly, yet older women were the most positive. In addition, there were differences among generations in the variables that are related with the attitudes toward older adults. The attitudes were positively correlated with relationship with their grandparents for young adults, whereas care giving stress was significantly related for midlife adults, and the level of preparedness for old age (physical, emotional and economic) was a strong predictor for older adults.

Clinical Diagnosis of Oral Cancer (구강암의 임상적 진단)

  • Choi, Sung Weon
    • The Journal of the Korean dental association
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    • v.49 no.3
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    • pp.136-145
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    • 2011
  • Oral cavity cancer accounts for approximately 3-4% of all malignancies and is a significant worldwide health problem. The Korea Central Cancer Registry estimates that there will be approximately 1500 new cases of oral cancer in Korea. Oral cancer occurs most commonly in middle-aged and elderly individuals. The majority of oral malignancies occur as squamous cell carcinomas and despite remarkable advances in treatment modalities, the 5-year survival rate has not significantly improved over the past several decades, hovering at about 50% to 60%. The unfavorable 5-year survival rate may be attributable to several factors. First, oral cancer is often diagnosed at a late stage, with late stage 5-year survival rates as low as 22%. Additionally, the development of secondary primary tumors in patients with early stage disease has a major impact on survival. The early detection of oral cancer and premalignant lesions offers the promise to cure chance of oral cancer. The major diagnostics moddalities for oral cancer include oral cavity examination, supravital staining, oral cytology, and optical detection systems. But the clinical finding of oral mucosa is the most important key to confirm the oral cancer until now. The traditional clinical examination of oral cavity can be performed quickly, is without additional diagnostic expense to patients, and may be performed by health care professionals. Therefore, clinicians must be well-acquainted with clinical characteristics of oral cancer and practice routine screening for oral cancer in dental clinic to decrease the morbidity and mortality of disease.

Attribution of Contemporary Popular Culture through Products Design (제품디자인에 나타난 현대 대중문화의 속성)

  • 최명식;김경희
    • Archives of design research
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.19-26
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    • 2002
  • Comtemporary popular culture fosters information exchanges through the development of digital products. Digital products may lead, or may be led, by outline popular culture. However, popular culture is possible off-line as well. There are certainly diverse classes of people who use digital products; however, the major users are those who mainly use the networks. These users have ample access to information and thereby lead popular culture and also are led by it. Surely, it is not only the popular culture that digital products take into consideration. In modern times, personal computers and the Internet are changing into privately owned digital products. Amid the collective tendency of popular culture, the owned products emphasize the fact that it is ′mine only.′It would be goad if ′interesting′materials, something that teenagers like, are added to digital products. Surely, there is a limit to ′interesting′ materials, but the materials of "S or energy," which has a certain sense of humor as well as giving out fresh energy, can be considered in digital product esign. It can be considered a modern pattern, or at least the addition of a new value, and not the old-time pattern of the "Ten Long-Living Animals." More popular and diverse colors are needed in the mix of digital products used by adults who are middle-aged or elderly. If altered colors are applied to the digital products as much as popular culture changes, it can assist the elderly with their weakened physical abilities.

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A study on the Spatial Organization of Social Welfare Center in Permanent Rental Housing of Small and Middle City -Focused on the welfare facilities for aged- (중소도시 영구임대아파트 단지 내 사회복지관의 공간구성에 관한 연구 -노인복지시설을 중심으로-)

  • Park, chang-sun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.46-56
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    • 2005
  • Social welfare center is a representation agency in the local welfare system to provide the local residents with necessary services directly. The purpose of this study is to give the fundamental materials for space program in terms of planning a social welfare center by means of analyzing spatial arrangement of each section in senior welfare activity. The structure of the social welfare center should be adopted to the reality and the center of local should pay attention to enhance the quality of life in elderly. As the aspects of the programs, distinctive program should be designed. To do so, social welfare center should be adjusted to the local situation and get flexibility on operating in the local level. Each program in senior welfare activity should be connected in the spatial organization and various space should be provided in desire of elderly. So the section of dining room and medical rehabilitation is a places mostly for the elderly. Multipurpose space for the interest and leisure and the space of the senior education facility are provided in social welfare center.

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Health status of menopausal women and correlates

  • Kannur, Deepa;Itagi, Sunanda
    • The Korean Journal of Food & Health Convergence
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2018
  • The health status of menopause and its correlates among middle aged 160 rural and urban women was studied during 2015. The women who attained menopause and belonging to 40-55 years age range were selected from 8 villages of 4 talukas of Dharwad and Bagalkot Districts. The health status of women was evaluated by using standardized questionnaire, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGI). The structured interview schedule was used to collect personal information like name of the family members with their age, relationship with respondent. The Socio Economic Status (SES) of family was assessed by using Socio Economic Status scale developed by Agarwal (2005). The results revealed that 53.75 per cent respondents shown moderately affected followed by 26.25 per cent mildly affected and 20 per cent of women indicated severely affected health status. The mean value of health status in rural women is higher ($23.67{\pm}7.02$) than mean value of ($21.50{\pm}6.89$) urban women means the rural women had more health problems than urban women. Health status were high negatively significantly related with SES, education and occupation means women belonged to better SES category, literate and working women experienced less health problems compared to women who had poor SES, illiterate and non-working.

Development of Sensible Brassiere for Middle Aged Women -Investigation of consumer's needs and evaluation of commercial brassiere for the development of subjective measurement scale and screening of design parameters- (중년 여성의 감성 Brassiere 개발(I) -소비자 요구 분석을 기초로 한 제품 디자인 요소 추출-)

  • 김정화;이선영;홍경희
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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    • 1999.11a
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    • pp.162-166
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    • 1999
  • 30-40대 중년 여성 100명을 대상으로 Brassiere착용 상황, 요구사항을 조사, 분석하고 시판 Brassiere의 착용실험을 통해 착용감을 평가함으로써 Brassiere에 대한 소비자 요구와 착용감 평가차원을 추출하였다. 주관적 착용감 평가실험은 25명이 참여 하였으며, 실험은 온도 28$^{\circ}C$, 습도 65%RH의 인공기후실에서 실시하였다. Brassiere 착용감의 구성차원을 추출하기 위해 평가용어를 이용하여 평정한 값들을 요인분석한 결과, fit성 및 체형보정성, 심미성, 압박감, 동작에 의한 브라의 착용위치 변화의 4가지 요인으로 이루어졌음을 확인하였다. Brassiere 착용감을 예측하기 위해 평가용어를 회귀변수로 하여 회귀분석한 결과, Y=3.262+0.723X$_1$-0.646X$_2$ (Y: 착용감, X$_1$: 가슴과 컵모양이 잘 맞는다, X$_2$: 와이어 부분이 불편하다)로 나타났다. Brassiere 착용감에 대한 소비자의 정성적인 요구사항을 정량적으로 측정하기 위한 제품 디자인 요소중, 와이어와 주소재의 신축성이 착용감에 중요하게 작용하는 것으로 나타났다.

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Content Analysis of the Questionnaires Used in Dietary Surveys (식생활 조사연구에 사용된 설문지의 내용 분석)

  • 김기남;김애정;박은숙;우미경;이보경;현태선
    • Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.697-708
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    • 2000
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the contents of the questionnaires used in dietary surveys and to evaluate each item in relation to the item construction strategy. Articles of which the contents were related to food, nutrition, diet, dietary behavior, and related areas. Published from 1997 to 1999 were searched fir and a total of 121 questionnaires were collected and analyzed. The questions in the questionnaires were classified into related areas and sub-areas. Among the keywords in the title of the articles, the term 'nutritional status'(or 'dietary intake status') was most frequently used. The terms such as dietary status, obesity, health, food habit, and dietary behavior were also frequency used. Major topics of the items in the questionnaires varied according to the life cycle of the subjects of the study. The topics most frequently asked in each lift cycle were as follows : overeating, snack, and food preference for preschool- and school-aged children ; anthropometry, weight control, and snack for middle and highschool students : meal skipping, smoking, and drinking for college students : disease, smoking, drinking, and exercise for adults : and smoking, drinking, disease and perceived health for the elderly. Inappropriate questions with complicated language, typographic and grammatic errors, unnecessary words, and negative questions were found. Therefore, care should be taken to construct each question so as to avoid possible misinterpretation. Also, a standardized questionnaire be developed for survey researchers.

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Increased Rate of Palmitate Oxidation in Adults Female: Comparison with Peri-pubertal Young Female Rats

  • Lee, Se-Young;Kim, Jong-Yeon;Kim, Yong-Woon;Park, So-Young
    • The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.283-287
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    • 2006
  • Although estrogen is known to playa role in fatty acid metabolism, it remains unclear whether fatty acid oxidation in mature female rats differs from fatty acid oxidation in peri-pubertal young rats. In this study, we measured fatty acid metabolism in the skeletal muscles and livers of 5 and 50 weeks old male and female rats. The rate of palmitate oxidation in the liver and gastrocnemius red in the 50-week-old female rats were elevated as compared to the 5-week-old females, whereas there were no differences in the male rats. The rate of palmitate oxidation in the gastrocnemius red was correlated inversely with intra-abdominal fat mass in the 5-week-old male and female rats, whereas the palmitate oxidation rate was positively correlated with fat mass in the liver and gastrocnemius red in the 50-week-old rats. HOMA-IR and plasma insulin levels were positively correlated with intra-abdominal fat mass in the pooled 50-week-old male and female rats, but this correlation was not apparent in 5-week-old rats. In summary, the rate of fatty acid oxidation measured in the middle-aged adult female rats was significantly higher than those measured in the peri-pubertal young female rats. This difference may be attributed to the influence of ovarian hormones.