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A Study on Correlation between Therapeutic outdoor environments and Health outcomes in Geriatric Hospital (노인전문병원의 치유적 옥외환경과 이용자의 건강성과 간의 상관관계에 관한 연구)

  • Tak, YoungRan;An, JiYeon;Jung, SoYoung
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.45-52
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    • 2012
  • This study aims to examine the outdoor environment of a geriatric hospital and explore its stress-relief impact upon those who utilize it. Post Occupancy Evaluation is employed to assess the effectiveness of a healthcare setting. This study is based on survey questionnaire including the users' perception of outdoor environment, their perceived restorativeness, and quality of life. A total of one hundred and sixty individuals including patients, families and visitors, and healthcare staffs. As a result, it turns out that the therapeutic outdoor environment and its users' health outcomes, such as reststroativeness and quality of life are significantly correlated. In conclusion, the finding of this research seems to demonstrate the potential that the therapeutic outdoor environment has for the improvement of its users' health by enhancing.

Location Estimation Algorithm in Outdoor Wireless Sensor Network (무선 센서네트워크에서 실외 환경을 고려한 위치 추정 기법)

  • Oh, Cheon-In;Jeong, Wun-Cheol;Kim, Nae-Soo
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2007.07a
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    • pp.139-140
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    • 2007
  • A purpose of this paper is to research a location estimation algorithm of node which considers outdoor environments. After analyzing existing range based location estimation algorithm and their performances, we proposed a suitable algorithm to outdoor environment.

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The Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Outdoor Environments in Bundang Model Complex: With Super High-rise.High-rise.Low-rise Apartments in Hyundai Apartment Complex (분당시범단지 초고층.고층.저층단지의 옥외환경평가 : 현대아파트 단지를 중심으로)

  • 김유일;함지현;강석희
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.130-139
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    • 1999
  • The survey site, the Hyundai Apartment Complex in the Bundang Model Complex, includes three housing layout types; super high-rise, high-rise and low-rise apartment buildings. The site includes artificial ground over underground parking lots. The overall objective of this study is to evaluate social and physical factors of housing environments in each types of layout. The data has been complied from residents of apartment through questionnaire. The questionnaire include elements of neighborhood, outdoor space, parking zones, and the overall complex design in each layout types. The predictors of outdoor space satisfaction in apartment housing complex are found as follows: "abundance of trees in quantity", "the role as front yards", "harmony of buildings with landscape", "the more distance between buildings" and "maintenance quality of site". Layout of super high-rise apartment site is most satisfied. Introduction of car-free deck space is favored by resident because of safty and quiet resting area. However the low quality of green and lack of shades on the artificial land are identified as problems.on the artificial land are identified as problems.

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A Study on the Luminous Environments of Architectural Building for Improvement of Night-Scape in Coastal Resort - Focused on the Gyengpo Park - (해안 휴양지의 야간경관 개선을 위한 건축물의 조명환경 연구 - 경포도립공원을 중심으로 -)

  • Cho, Won-Seok;Kim, Heung-Gee
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.27-34
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    • 2008
  • Recently, the outdoor lighting of architectural Facade has increased for the improvement of night-scape in urban and coastal resort. The purpose of this research is to analyze lighting characteristics; Luminance, Illuminance, Color Temperature, Chromaticity in Gyengpo Park of Eastern famous coastal resort. The result of this paper is as follows: 1) The Luminance ratio was measured that compare to the 1:10 criterion(IESNA) was in excess to the most building except "K". Because of these condition, Luminance environments was injurious to visual health the overuse of the outdoor lighting or glare to the eyes. 2) The level of vertical Illuminance value was insufficient 33.3% among the cases of survey with 4Lux standard of CIE. 3) The kinds of outdoor lighting of BLDG were increased lighting emitting diode(LED), metal halide(MH) instead of reduction trend of neon, fluorescent light, halogen. As the crisis of Energy resources we will be investigate adapt method of outdoor lighting, which design is based on economical efficiency by the use of optimum lighting.

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Residential Environments for the Elderly Preferred by the Middle Aged in Seoul I - The Relationship between Types of Elderly Housing and the Demands for the Residential Environments for the Elderly - (서울시 중년층이 선호하는 미래노인주거환경 I - 노인 주거 유형과 환경 요구와의 관계 -)

  • 전명숙;강순주
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.51-66
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    • 1995
  • The Purpose of this study was to examine the environmental characteristics of housing for the elderly preferred by the middle aged. The residential environments include three types of elderly housing differred in the availability of care service as well as indoor and outdoor environmental characteristics of the housing. The results of this study were as follows: The most preferred type of the elderly was the elderly housing with no care service followed by the housing with intermediated care service and dependent housing with full care service. The preferred type of housing for the elderly was significantly related to the demands for the demands for the indoor and outdoor environmental characteristics of the comimg elderly.

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Secret Key Generation Using Reciprocity in Ultra-wideband Outdoor Wireless Channels

  • Huang, Jing Jing;Jiang, Ting
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.524-539
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    • 2014
  • To investigate schemes of secret key generation from Ultra-wideband (UWB) channel, we study a statistical characterization of UWB outdoor channel for a campus playground scenario based on extensive measurements. Moreover, an efficient secret key generation mechanism exploiting multipath relative delay is developed, and verification of this algorithm is conducted in UWB Line-of-sight (LOS) outdoor channels. For the first time, we compare key-mismatch probability of UWB indoor and outdoor environments. Simulation results demonstrate that the number of multipath proportionally affects key generation rate and key-mismatch probability. In comparison to the conventional method using received signal strength (RSS) as a common random source, our mechanism achieves better performance in terms of common secret bit generation. Simultaneously, security analysis indicates that the proposed scheme can still guarantee security even in the sparse outdoor physical environment free of many reflectors.

Influence on the Indoor Air Quality by Ambient Air during the Summer Season (여름철 실외 공기가 실내 공기질에 미치는 영향)

  • 이학성;강병욱
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.6 no.6
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    • pp.637-644
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    • 1997
  • The purpose of thins study was to quantitatively determine the Indoor Infiltration of pollutants of outdoor origin. The relationship between Indoor and outdoor air is dependent, to a large extent. on the rate of k exchange between these two environments. Mean Indoor/outdoor ratios measured from thins study were: 0.70 for HNO3; 1.60 for HNO2: 0.56 far SOg: 1.30 for mf3: 0.96 for PM2.5(dP<2.5mm: 0.89 for SO4a': 0.87 for NO3· and 0.79 for NH4 'Mean Indoor concentrations for PMa s, SO4a., HNO9, NO3 and NIL' were similar to outdoor levels. Indoor HNO2 and mB3 values were h19her than outdoors. However, the Indoor level of SO2 was lower than ambient level.

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Fire Detection in Outdoor Using Statistical Characteristics of Smoke (연기의 통계적 특성을 이용한 실외 화재 감지)

  • Kim, Hyun-Tae;Park, Jang-Sik
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.149-154
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    • 2014
  • Detection performance of fire detection in the outdoor depends on weather conditions, the shadow by the movement of the sun, or illumination changes. In this paper, a smoke detection in conjunction with a robust background estimate algorithm to environment change in the outdoor in daytime is proposed. Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) is applied as background estimation, and also, statistical characteristics of smoke is applied to detect the smoke for separated candidate region. Through the experiments with input videos obtained from a various weather conditions, the proposed algorithms were useful to detect smoke in the outdoor.

Hausdorff Distance Matching for Elevation Map-based Global Localization of an Outdoor Mobile Robot (실외 이동로봇의 고도지도 기반의 전역 위치추정을 위한 Hausdorff 거리 정합 기법)

  • Ji, Yong-Hoon;Song, Jea-Bok;Baek, Joo-Hyun;Ryu, Jae-Kwan
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.17 no.9
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    • pp.916-921
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    • 2011
  • Mobile robot localization is the task of estimating the robot pose in a given environment. This research deals with outdoor localization based on an elevation map. Since outdoor environments are large and contain many complex objects, it is difficult to robustly estimate the robot pose. This paper proposes a Hausdorff distance-based map matching method. The Hausdorff distance is exploited to measure the similarity between extracted features obtained from the robot and elevation map. The experiments and simulations show that the proposed Hausdorff distance-based map matching is useful for robust outdoor localization using an elevation map. Also, it can be easily applied to other probabilistic approaches such as a Markov localization method.