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Yoga for children

  • Ganpat, Tikhe Sham;Ramarao, Nagendra Hongasandra
    • CELLMED
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.4.1-4.4
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    • 2011
  • Excessive stress is harmful to academic performance in children and may lead to dropping out of school. To meet the demands of a modern life-style which is full of speed, stress and tension, an all-round child health program is crucial. The use of yoga for children has diverse applications in maintaining and developing their physical, mental, intellectual, emotional and spiritual levels. Yoga, through its physical postures (asana), breathing practices (pranayama), cleansing techniques (kriya), meditation therapies (dhyana) and relaxation training (yoga nidra) yields a positive effect in the management of stress in children. Yoga practice benefited children by improving their eye-hand coordination, attention span, levels of concentration, competitive performance and relaxation. Visually impaired children showed a significant decrease in their abnormal anxiety levels when they practiced yoga for three weeks, while a program of physical activity had no such effect. Socially disadvantaged children in a remand home showed significant improvements in sleep, appetite and general well being, as well as a decrease in physiological arousal after yoga. In one study, it is found that a 4-week program of asana and meditation lowers the aggressive behavior of children. Meditation helped to reduce problems related to maladaptive behavior, increase emotional and physical health and psychological well-being in children. Finally, the possible role of yoga in improving the mental state and general well-being of children with cancer is being explored.

A Study on Preparation for Reduction Factors of Health Insurance in the Latest Occupational Therapy (최근 작업치료(OT)의 의료보험 삭감요인에 대한 대처방안 연구)

  • Cho, Yun-Kyoung;Choi, Byung-Ok;Kim, Jong-Dae
    • Journal of Korean Physical Therapy Science
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.226-235
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    • 2003
  • Under the present occupational therapy 6 items of overall coverage objects of health insurance are being applied and among them, only 3 items including the simple therapy, complex therapy, and special therapy can be demanded in the hospital. The treatment for Activities of Daily Living(ADL), Oral Motor Exercise and Functional Electrical Stimulation(FES) is exempted from an issue of reduction object, because it was covered 100% by the person himself. The reason why there are a lot of reduction factors is attributed mainly to vagueness of criteria and lack of exact understanding between therapists of insurance-applied hospitals. The reduction factors are characterized to confine them to only special treatment which demands the highest insurance cost claimed and to be applied without consideration of treatment times or days of hospital treatment. Moreover, the 56.38%, rate of reduction results from its uniform application based on willful convenience of health insurance not on embodiment of criteria or characteristics of various type of patients.

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Walking behaviors for stroke survivors: comparison between straight line and curved path

  • Hwang, Wonjeong;Choi, Bora;Hwang, Sujin
    • Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Science
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.141-145
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    • 2019
  • Objective: The purpose of this study was to compare walking conditions (straight line and curved path) on walking patterns in persons who had experienced hemiplegic stroke and to determine whether if they adapt their walking pattern and performances according to changes in environmental conditions. Design: Cross-sectional study. Methods: Forty-four hemiplegic stroke survivors participated in this study. This study measured walking performance in three different walking conditions, such as straight walking, the more-affected leg in the inner curve walking, and less-affected leg in the inner curve walking conditions, and a 2-dimentional gait analysis system was used as a primary measurement. This study also measured secondary clinical factors including the Timed Up-and-Go Test, the Trunk Impairment Scale, and the Dynamic Gait Index. Results: After analyzing, cadence and step length of the less-affected side, stride length in the more-affected side, and stride length in less-affected side were significantly different among the three different walking conditions in this study (p<0.05), but other temporospatial parameters were not significant. Cadence was the largest in the straight walking condition. Step length in the less-affected side, stride length in the more-affected side, and stride length in less-affected side were also the longest in the straight walking condition. Conclusions: The results of the study suggest that hemiplegic stroke survivors show walking adaptability according to changes in walking demands and conditions, and moreover, cadence and step and stride lengths were significantly different between straight and curved walking conditions.

The Demands on Parish Nursing Services by Pastors in Busan (부산지역 목회자의 교구간호사업 요구조사)

  • Sohn, Sue-Kyung;Kang, Kyung-Ja;Lee, Jj-Hyun;Lee, Young-Eun;Park, Choon-Hwa
    • Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.182-196
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study was to provide the basic resources for developing a parish nursing program. We did this by investigating what demands were made on the parish nursing service by the parishes or churches under review. The subjects of this study were 96 pastors located throughout the City of Busan. NP (New paragraph) $\gg$ We conducted our research by utilizing a modified version of the study created by Hwang (2000) and by using the help of prior research and professionals gathered from the parish nurse questionnaire by Djupe (1990). The data in this study were collected from July 1 to Oct. 31, 2001, using the questionnaire method. The Data were analyzed by: (a) frequency: (b) percentage: (c) mean: (d) standard deviation, and x^2-test$ with SPSS/PC program. The study has found the follows: 1. For subjects making demands on the parish nursing service, 95.8% were in need of using the services of parish nurses. On the demands of parish nursing service for the subjects, 95.8% the necessity of parish nursing services. And they answered by their intention of asking for parish nursing service practice. 2. Of the subjects under review, 71.9% were part-time workers and 28.1% were full-time employees 71.9% of part time and 28.1% of full times duty. In terms of the method of pay for work, 41.8% were pay free or freelance while 51.2% were on salary. And engagement intention of parish nurse as preacher was 88.5%. 3. The demand for nursing services in various categories were as follows. (a) hospice care: (4.02 1.11), (b) health screening: (3.98 1.09), (c) home visiting: (3.97 1.16), (d) group health education: (3.81 1.12), (e) organization of volunteer groups: (3.75 1.12), (f) individual health education: (3.75 1.14), (g) advice on choosing hospital or hospital consultation: (3.69 1.21) and (h) individual counseling: (3.51 1.31). 4. In terms of the specific services rendered by parish nurses. our study found that services were needed for the following: physical symptom management; preparation before death in spiritual preparation for death, blood pressure check in health examination, home visiting where the patient makes phone call, management of chronic disease in group health education, disease management in individual health education, advice on choosing hospital, or hospital consultation: and physical problems in individual counseling. 5. With respect to whether there was a correlation between what church a pastor came from and the types of demands made, there was NO significant difference found. 6. In relation to the characteristics of the subjects and their church and the hope demands (duty pattern and method of payment and engagement intention of parish nurse as preacher) for parish nurses, these had non significant differences. In conclusion, the perception of parish nursing service is very high. Moreover, we found that there is a great demand for well ordered parish nursing services to promote the health of each congregation. Before doing so, it would be better to make things known and to consider the relevant characteristics shown in the researched results.

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A Case Study on Tangible Contents Development for Contactless Physical Education (비대면 체육 교육을 위한 실감 콘텐츠 개발 사례)

  • Eun, Kwang-Ha;Hur, Young
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.47-57
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    • 2022
  • Demands for tangible contents using VR/AR technologies are much bigger as contactless services such as sports, physical activity, and fitness are expanded after COVID-19. A variety of technologies such as an offer and analysis of tangible data through a sensor technology, users' physical movement sensing through a motion recognition sensor, a real-time measurement of a physical skeleton point a multiple access to a real-time video, and AI training are being utilized as main technologies. This case study utilized motion recognition technologies as the study on tangible contents necessary for indoor-based physical education, sports, and fitness in the contactless environment and suggested cases to develop the physical measurement contents by design approach for the measurement assessment necessary for the development in tangible contents. The research established lists of the measurement assessment based on professionals' consultations within the measurement assessment function through the test to plan tangible contents and developed tangible contents by reflecting them as assessment measurement elements of tangible contents. The research can be utilized as the design approach of industrial companies which intend to develop tangible contents as well as reference cases of the research on contactless tangible contents for the sports and physical education.

The Problem of Physical Therapy Educational Duality by Analyzing the Curricuium (물리치료 교육과정 분석에 의한 물리치료 교육 이원화의 문제점)

  • Jang, Su-Gyeong
    • Journal of Korean Physical Therapy Science
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.71-85
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    • 1996
  • The Quality of physical therapy school system has conflicts between physical therpist, and reduces the opportunity of seguential education. So this study was investigated in order to made concrete the problems of educational duality, set up the direction of the school system's improvement, as like the four-year system and recognized the necessity. The curriculums of 13 colleges and 5 universities was analyzed. The curriculum analysis was made up the comparison and the analysis by a liberal arts point, a major point, a clinical practice point, total opening subjects, and so on. The analyzing results were as follows. 1. The average rates of a liberal arts vs. a major opening point are 17:83 in college, and are 27:73 in university. 2. It is a serious problem that college are lower than university in a liberal arts. The best method that can solve it is lengthen the number of school years. 3. There is no difference between college and university in a major subject. Rather college has the more subject's numbers than university. 4. There is no difference between college and university in a clinical practice. Above results suggests that there is not different between college and university in a major subject except for a liberal arts point. It is proper that one should be unificate the curriculum according to the sameness between a state examination and a license. Therefore, it is necessary for graduates from college that provides the opportunity of proceeding to a higher school, demands the seguential system of study cultivating and producing a bachelor, and requires the continual education in a clinical field, a bachelor admitting system of continual education, and clinical therapist's qualification. The present physical therapy educational systems should be unificated because of many right reasons. On the other hand, the follw-up study that improving the school system about the four-years and the more physical therapy should be continue from the viewpoint of education.

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A Study on the Background and Characteristics of Multi-sected University Campuses (대학 캠퍼스에서의 다분할화의 배경과 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Sang-Jin;Kim, Gi-Soo;Cho, Yong-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.34-41
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    • 2006
  • A multi-sected campus can be explained as an university to be consisted of several campuses, which are physically separate, but are functionally interconnected. The basic structure of university campuses started with a single-nuclei structure of which the facilities were layed out around a single campus core, and it has been changed to multi-nuclei layout, where a single campus core was subdivided into several service cores due to increased service demands. The limitation on the expansion of campuses due to urbanization of surroundings leads to the physical separation of the campuses, and the development of information technology made it possible to connect physically-separate campuses to form the multi-sected campus. The three general characteristics of multi-sected campuses were found; 1) the need for programatic specialization of each individual campus, 2) the need for representative imageability for each campus, 3) necessity for physical connectivity between campuses and functional independency for each campus.

Cost-Efficient Virtual Optical Network Embedding for Manageable Inter-Data-Center Connectivity

  • Perello, Jordi;Pavon-Marino, Pablo;Spadaro, Salvatore
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.142-145
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    • 2013
  • Network virtualization opens the door to novel infrastructure services offering connectivity and node manageability. In this letter, we focus on the cost-efficient embedding of on-demand virtual optical network requests for interconnecting geographically distributed data centers. We present a mixed integer linear programming formulation that introduces flexibility in the virtual-physical node mapping to optimize the usage of the underlying physical resources. Illustrative results show that flexibility in the node mapping can reduce the number of add-drop ports required to serve the offered demands by 40%.

Design of an Effective Human Sensibility Ergonomic Interior Design Analysis Tool (효율적인 감성공학적 인테리어 디자인 분석 도구의 설계)

  • Seo, Hyung-Soo
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.16 no.2 s.61
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    • pp.314-321
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    • 2007
  • The statistical method of human sensibility ergonomics is widely used for analyzing interior design because it has standard processes and it can help to get quantifiable results. However applying this method demands repeated intense work and great time and effort is required. In this study, a tool applying Web and virtual reality techniques for statistical human sensibility ergonomic interior design analysis is proposed and the key parts of the tool including database and interface are implemented. The database contains the sensibility adjective table and the physical interior design factor table for analyzing the relationship between human sense and physical design factors. Interface of the tool is implemented using Web technologies, so testers can evaluate interior design samples via standard Web browsers. The 3D control which is an important component of the interface is also implemented. Employing the suggested tool can reduce effort and time for evaluating human sense in Interior design field.

The Feasibility Study on the Monte Carlo Based RTP Commissioning

  • Kang, Sei-Kwon;Cho, Byung-Chul;Park, Suk-Won;Oh, Do-Hoon;Park, Hee-Chul;Bae, Hoon-Sik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Medical Physics Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.43-46
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    • 2004
  • The commissioning of a treatment planning system of model-based dose calculation algorithm requires a lot of parameters to be selected to fit measured data, in which process physical insights for the parameters are often forgotten. We present the photon beam commissioning of Pinnacle$^3$ with the help of Monte Carlo (MC) simulation and evaluate the parameters Pinnacle$^3$ demands. Even though the MC calculation produces reasonable values for the commissioning, the thorough physical basis of the Pinnacles$^3$'s commissioning process is needed to use the MC derived parameters directly.

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