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IoT data analytics architecture for smart healthcare using RFID and WSN

  • Ogur, Nur Banu;Al-Hubaishi, Mohammed;Ceken, Celal
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.135-146
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    • 2022
  • The importance of big data analytics has become apparent with the increasing volume of data on the Internet. The amount of data will increase even more with the widespread use of Internet of Things (IoT). One of the most important application areas of the IoT is healthcare. This study introduces new real-time data analytics architecture for an IoT-based smart healthcare system, which consists of a wireless sensor network and a radio-frequency identification technology in a vertical domain. The proposed platform also includes high-performance data analytics tools, such as Kafka, Spark, MongoDB, and NodeJS, in a horizontal domain. To investigate the performance of the system developed, a diagnosis of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome by logistic regression is discussed. The results show that the proposed IoT data analytics system can successfully process health data in real-time with an accuracy rate of 95% and it can handle large volumes of data. The developed system also communicates with a riverbed modeler using Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) to model any IoT-enabling technology. Therefore, the proposed architecture can be used as a time-saving experimental environment for any IoT-based system.

Determination of safe levels and toxic levels for feed hazardous materials in broiler chickens: a review

  • Jong Hyuk Kim
    • Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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    • v.65 no.3
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    • pp.490-510
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    • 2023
  • Feed safety is needed to produce and provide safe animal feeds for consumers, animals, and the environment. Although feed safety regulations have been set for each country, there is a lack of clear feed safety regulations for each livestock. Feed safety regulations are mainly focused on heavy metals, mycotoxins, and pesticides. Each country has different safe levels of hazardous materials in diets. Safe levels of hazardous materials in diets are mostly set for mixed diets of general livestock. Although there is a difference in the metabolism of toxic materials among animals, the safe level of feed is not specific for individual animals. Therefore, standardized animal testing methods and toxicity studies for each animal are needed to determine the correct safe and toxic levels of hazardous materials in diets. If this goal is achieved, it will be possible to improve livestock productivity, health, and product safety by establishing appropriate feed safety regulations. It will also provide an opportunity to secure consumer confidence in feed and livestock products. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a scientific feed safety evaluation system suitable for each country's environment. The chance of outbreaks of new hazardous materials is increasing. Thus, to set up appropriate toxic levels or safe levels in feed, various toxicity methods have been used to determine toxic levels of hazardous materials for humans and animals. Appropriate toxic testing methods should be developed and used to accurately set up and identify toxicity and safe levels in food and feed.

IoMT Technology and Medical Information Security (IoMT 기술과 의료정보 보안)

  • Woo, SungHee;Lee, Hyojeong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2021.05a
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    • pp.641-643
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    • 2021
  • The Internet of Things (IoT) connects all markets and industries, enabling new business models for a variety of services and service providers. The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) not only accelerates medical advances, but also enables treatment with a more human approach. In addition, it improves treatment methods and quality of precision medical care through data, enables timely treatment, and improves operational productivity of medical institutions through a simplified workflow. However, since the medical field directly affects human health and life, securing security has become an issue above all else, and is a target for hackers trying to exploit it. Therefore, in this study, IoMT technology and security threats and countermeasures in the medical field are analyzed.

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Development of PCM Color Coated Steel Sheets with Excellent Antiviral and Antimicrobial Properties

  • Du-Hwan Jo;Seongil Kim;Jinkyun Roh;Doojin Paik;Myungsoo Kim
    • Corrosion Science and Technology
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.139-144
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    • 2024
  • Recently, due to the rapid spread and continuation of COVID-19, customer demand for health and hygiene has increased, requiring the development of new products that express antiviral and antibacterial properties. In particular, viruses are much smaller in size than bacteria and have a fast propagation speed, making it difficult to kill. POSCO has developed eco-friendly PCM color coated steel sheets with excellent antiviral properties by introducing inorganic composite materials to the color coating layer on the surface of Zn-Al-Mg alloy plated steels. The virus is not only destroyed by adsorption of metal ions released from the surface of the coating film, but is also further promoted by the generation of reactive oxygen species by the reaction of metal ions and moisture. As a result of evaluating the developed products under the International Standard Evaluation Act, the microbicidal activity was 99.9% for viruses, and 99.99% for bacteria and 0% fungi. In particular, excellent results were also shown in the durability evaluation for life cycle of the product. The developed product was applied as a wall of school classrooms and toilets and ducts for building air conditioning, resulting in excellent results. Developed products are being applied for construction and home appliances to practice POSCO's corporate citizenship.

Early Diagnosis of anxiety Disorder Using Artificial Intelligence

  • Choi DongOun;Huan-Meng;Yun-Jeong, Kang
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.242-248
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    • 2024
  • Contemporary societal and environmental transformations coincide with the emergence of novel mental health challenges. anxiety disorder, a chronic and highly debilitating illness, presents with diverse clinical manifestations. Epidemiological investigations indicate a global prevalence of 5%, with an additional 10% exhibiting subclinical symptoms. Notably, 9% of adolescents demonstrate clinical features. Untreated, anxiety disorder exerts profound detrimental effects on individuals, families, and the broader community. Therefore, it is very meaningful to predict anxiety disorder through machine learning algorithm analysis model. The main research content of this paper is the analysis of the prediction model of anxiety disorder by machine learning algorithms. The research purpose of machine learning algorithms is to use computers to simulate human learning activities. It is a method to locate existing knowledge, acquire new knowledge, continuously improve performance, and achieve self-improvement by learning computers. This article analyzes the relevant theories and characteristics of machine learning algorithms and integrates them into anxiety disorder prediction analysis. The final results of the study show that the AUC of the artificial neural network model is the largest, reaching 0.8255, indicating that it is better than the other two models in prediction accuracy. In terms of running time, the time of the three models is less than 1 second, which is within the acceptable range.

Calculation of the Quality Additional Rate of Clinical Laboratory Test and Review of Application Criteria (임상병리검사 질 가산율 산출 및 적용기준의 검토)

  • Yang, Byoung Seon;Park, Sang Muk;Bae, Hyung Joon;Kim, Won Shik;Park, Hun Hee;Lim, Yong;Kim, Yoon Sik;Choi, Se Mook;Bae, Do Hee;Park, Ji Ae
    • Korean Journal of Clinical Laboratory Science
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    • v.52 no.3
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    • pp.261-270
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    • 2020
  • This study reviewed the quality addition rate, calculation, and application criteria needed to identify the possibility of additional medical technologists in the field for new certification and professional manpower to provide a superior laboratory. The six institutions that participated in the study were the size of large hospitals with more than 1,000 beds, with an average of five full-time laboratory physicians (also called clinical pathologists) and an average of 53 medical technologists, with 10.6 per laboratory physician. An analysis of the time required for each activity category of medical technologists revealed decreasing behavior during the analysis. In contrast, the ratio of the comprehensive pre-analysis activities was high due to the strengthening of laboratory operations and quality control. During the analysis, the proportion of biochemistry tests was high, and post-analysis of most of the results was performed. Hence, improving the quality of sample testing requires significant time, and appropriate personnel are required. In conclusion, the recruitment of medical technologists is also a key component to improving the sample quality, and corresponding personnel regulations are necessary.

Studies on the Substance of Migration for Retort Pouch Packaging Materials for Various Condition (레토르트 파우치 포장재의 사용조건에 따른 이행물질의 조사)

  • Lee, Man-Sul;Song, Beum-Ho;Park, Sun-O;Lee, Bu-Young;Lee, Young-Za;Youn, Hey-Kyung;Eum, Mi-Ok;Seung, Ju-Heung;Jeun, Dae-Hoon
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF PACKAGING SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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    • v.13 no.3_4
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    • pp.107-112
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    • 2007
  • The effect of microwave heat to retort pouches and microwavable packages was examined. 186 products were collected, but packages were consisted of five package materials such as PET, Aluminum foil, Nylon, EVOH, and polypropylene. The results showed that all packages did not exceed the limits of current packaging regulation on consumption weight of $KMnO_4$, TDI(Toluene diisocyanate), and Caprolactam. Safety control on heat resistant packages considered satisfactory, but investigation on new substances should be continued for preventing any possible migration problems of packaged foods.

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A Study on Development of Robot for Mutual Communication and Education of Students with Health Impairments (건강장애 학생의 상호소통 및 교육을 위한 로봇 개발에 대한 연구)

  • Ryu, Gun Jae;Kang, Jung Bae;Kim, Chang Geol;Kim, Kyung Sik;Song, Beong Seop
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.15-24
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    • 2014
  • In 2005, there was a partial revision of the Act on the Promotion of Education for the Handicapped people, so that students with health impairments would be able to receive special education support. Since the amendment of the bill, to support them classified into weak people in education, education support systems have been proposed and settled so that they may receive the support for free. According to the pre-study, after the amendment of this bill, there has been many studies on the form of educational service to support them, and recently, there have been a lot of researches to investigate their satisfaction with the current services and draw its problems. And yet these studies have been carried out by the preceeding researchers at the drawing of problems, but have a limitation to present fundamental countermeasures to the problems. Therefore, this study attempted to understand the meaning of health impairment through the pre-study and investigate the forms of the services currently supporting them and analyze the problem of each service. In addition, to solve the identified problems, a new support system was proposed. In order to confirm the performance of the system, we design the user satisfaction survey composed of a Likert 5-point scale per each question, and to make the task, comparing stories and clapping for increasing quality of their subjective evaluation about the image and voice transmission when the user uses it. As a result, in the overall evaluation of the robot system, the average score of each question was recorded to 4.31 points, and through the two tasks, it was found that there were effective data transmission of image and voice.

'Media Influence' Discourses Articulated for Crowd Control in Colonial Korea (식민지 '미디어 효과론'의 구성 대중 통제 기술로서 미디어 '영향 담론')

  • Yoo, Sunyoung
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.77
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    • pp.137-163
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    • 2016
  • In the early 1900, photography, magic lantern and cinema were simultaneously introduced and experienced until the mid-1910s as mysterious and magical symbol of modern science and technology. The technology of vision, cinema in particular demonstrated its commercially expandable potentials through serial films in the mid-1910s, silent cinema in the 1920s and talkies in 1930s. I argue that a metaphor 'like a movie' which was would be spoken out by peoples as a cliche ever since the late 1910s whenever they encountered something uncanny, mysterious, and looking wholly new phenomena informs how cinematic technology worked in colonial society at the turning point to the early 20th century. Mass in colonial society accepted cinema and other visual technologies not only as an advanced science of the times but as texts of modernity that is the reason why cinema had so quickly taken cultural hegemony over the colony. Until the mid-1920s, discourse on cinema focused not on cinema itself, rather more on the theatre matters such as hygiene, facilities for public use, disturbance, quarrels and fights, theft, and etc. Since the mid-1920s and especially in wartime 1930s, discourses about negative influences and effects of cinema on behavior, mind and spirit of masses, bodily health, morality and crime were articulated and delivered by Japanese authorities and agencies like as police, newspapers and magazines, and collaborate Korean intellectuals. Theories and research reports stemming from disciplines of psychology, sociology, and mass-psychology that emphasized vulnerability and susceptibility of the crowd and mass consumers who would be exposed to visual images, spectacles and strong toxic stimulus in everyday lives. Those negative discourse on influences and effects of cinema was intimately associated with fear of the crowd and mass as well as new technology which does not allow clear understanding about how it works in future. The fact that cinema as a technology of vision could be used as an apparatus of ideology and propaganda stirred up doubts and pessimistic perspectives on cinema influence. Discourse on visual technology cinema constructed under colonial governance is doomed to be technology of mass control for empire's own sake.

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The Job Consciousness for Radiological Technologists in Korea, Canada, and Australia (한국, 카나다 및 호주 방사선사의 직업의식)

  • Han, Eun-Ok;Kwon, Deok-Mun;Park, Kwang-Hun;Choi, Seung-Yoon;Jung, Chung-Hyun;Bae, Sang-Il;Oh, Chang-Woo
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.225-234
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    • 2009
  • This study attempts to provide basic information on overseas employment to the radiological technologists and students majoring in radiology in Korea who consider the overseas employment by investigating the job consciousness for radiological technologists in Canada and Australia which have a high level of interest for overseas employment and want to compare their status with that of Korean radiological technologists. This study was performed by visiting hospitals such as Prince George Regional Hospital, 1475 Edmonton Street, Prince George, BC, Canada on August 13, 2007, Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road Melbourne 3004, Australia on August 4, 2008, and other Korea hospitals that show the similar scale as Canada and Australia on September 10, 2007. The results were summarized as follows : 1. Differences were observed in this sexual composition, such as 18 males (90%) in Korea, 14 females (73.7%) in Canada, and 25 females in Australia (86.2%). 2. The item of 'aptitude' which is one of the most important criteria, showed the highest level in Korea, Canada, and Australia, and the second most considered item was 'salary'. 3. In the values in jobs, the items of 'economic self-sufficiency', 'recognized by others', and 'establishing a social position' represented high levels in Korea, and the items of 'like the job itself', 'establishing self-actualization', 'feel the meaning of life', and 'make new friends' showed high levels in Canada and Australia. 4. Regarding the item of 'a job is important as much as a marriage', 'Yes' showed high level in Korea, and 'No' showed high levels in Canada and Australia. 5. Radiological technologists in Korea demonstrated a low level in the job consciousness compared to those of Canada and Australia. Although this study shows some limitations for showing whole idea of radiological technologists due to the lack of the scope in samples for each country as a practical manner, this study can be regarded significant to compare some countries that have interests in overseas employment.

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