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Lessons from the Application of GIS for Local Government - Some Examples from Korea and Australia - (지방자치단체에서의 GIS 활용에 대한 제언 - 한국과 호주에서의 사례연구를 중심으로 -)

  • Peterson, Jim;Kim, Chang Hwan;Yoo, Jae Yong
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.107-117
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    • 2002
  • Public policy responses to the digital/information revolution and the micro-economic reforms that it facilitates have inspired exploration of the scope for local government implementation of digital spatial data handling(DSDH) of information relating to, among other things, asset inventory, environmental and utility management, address management, and planning. The results from these explorations are such that few doubt the value of bringing the public policies to practice, but diffusion rate and pattern of the approaches demonstrated by the scoping experiments will reflect institutional/cultural matters, indicators of the relative significance of which might be at least partly predicted from appraisal of case studies. This argument is exemplified by reference to case studies in adoption of DSDH by local government organizations in Korea and in Australia.

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Effects of Dietary Education on Low-sodium Diet Adaptation (식생활교육이 저나트륨식 적응에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Hae Young;Kim, Juhyeon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.212-221
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    • 2014
  • Korean style DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) and a dietary education program for sodium reduction were developed. Reduced sodium diets (15 and 30% reductions) were developed from general diets for 3 consecutive weeks from Monday through Saturday. Subjects (19 total) were classified into two groups according to dietary education. Experimental period was from June 24 to July 23, 2012. Total sum of adaptation scores for low sodium diets significantly increased in the group that underwent dietary education compared to that without (p<0.05). After the experiment, both groups showed significantly increased values in terms of food group balance, sodium-related nutrition knowledge, attitude, and practice by paired t-test. Especially, group that underwent dietary education showed significantly higher values for attitudes by ANCOVA pre-test as a variation (p<0.01). For the results of the nutrient intake survey, group that underwent dietary education showed significantly increased values for dietary fiber (p<0.01), vitamin A (p<0.001), vitamin K (p<0.001), vitamin C (p<0.01), Folic acid (p<0.001), vitamin B12 (p<0.01), calcium (p<0.01), iron (p<0.05), and zinc (p<0.05) and significantly decreased values for sodium (p<0.05) and chloride (p<0.005). Subjects adapted to reduced sodium diets showed apparent improvements in sodium-related knowledge, attitude, practice and intake of nutrient, and these improvements were even higher in the group that underwent dietary education compared to that without. Thus, adaptation to low sodium diet combined with dietary education can improve dietary habits.

Impact of Self-Citations on Impact Factor: A Study Across Disciplines, Countries and Continents

  • Pandita, Ramesh;Singh, Shivendra
    • Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.42-57
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    • 2015
  • Purpose. : The present study is an attempt to find out the impact of self-citations on Impact Factor (IF) across disciplines. The study examines the number of research articles published across 27 major subject fields covered by SCImago, encompassing as many as 310 sub-disciplines. The study evaluates aspects like percentage of self-citations across each discipline, leading self-citing countries and continents, and the impact of self-citation on their IF. Scope. : The study is global in nature, as it evaluates the trend of self-citation and its impact on IF of all the major subject disciplines of the world, along with countries and continents. IF has been calculated for the year 2012 by analyzing the articles published during the years 2010 and 2011. Methodology/Approach. : The study is empirical in nature; as such, statistical and mathematical tools and techniques have been employed to work out the distribution across disciplines. The evaluation has been purely under-taken on the secondary data, retrieved from SCImago Journal and Country Ranking. Findings. : Self-citations play a very significant part in inflating IF. All the subject fields under study are influenced by the practice of self-citation, ranging from 33.14% to 52.38%. Compared to the social sciences and the humanities, subject fields falling under the purview of pure and applied sciences have a higher number of self-citations, but a far lesser percentage than the social sciences and humanities. Upon excluding self-citations, a substantial amount of change was observed in the IF of subject fields under study, as 18 (66.66%) out of 27 subjects fields faced shuffle in their rankings. Variation in rankings based on IF with and without self-citation was observed at subject level, country level, and continental level.

Factors Influencing Organizational Socialization of Nursing Students (간호대학생의 조직사회화에 미치는 영향요인)

  • Semi Lim;Young-Ran Yeom
    • Journal of Industrial Convergence
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    • v.21 no.11
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    • pp.97-105
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    • 2023
  • The purpose of this study is to confirm the relationship between emotional intelligence, self-leadership, and organizational socialization of nursing students who have experienced clinical practice, and to identify factors that affect organizational socialization. From May 4, 2023 to June 10, 2023, 226 3rd year nursing students attending two universities located in G city were enrolled. Data were analyzed by t-test, ANOVA, Scheffé test, Games-Howell test, Pearson's correlation, and Stepwise multiple regression. Statistically, organizational socialization showed a significantly positive correlation with emotional intelligence (r=.61, p<.001) and self-leadership (r=.64, p<.001). The factors influencing organizational socialization were self-leadership (β=.407, p<.001), emotional intelligence (β=.320, p<.001), and better interpersonal relationships (β=.139, p=.004). followed by religion (β=.103, p=.030), explaining 51.1% of the total variation. Based on the results of this study, self-leadership, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal relationship improvement programs are needed to improve organizational socialization of nursing students.

Study of Developing SOP for Extracting Stable Vocal Features for Accurate Diagnosis (음성의 안정적 변수 추출을 위한 SOP 개발 연구)

  • Kim, Keun-Ho;Jang, Jun-Su;Kim, Young-Su;Kim, Jong-Yeol
    • Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.1108-1112
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    • 2011
  • Voice can be widely used to classify the four constitution types and to recognize one's health condition from extracting meaningful features as physical quantity in traditional Korean medicine or Western medicine. In this paper, we proposed the method to update the standard operating procedure (SOP) to acquire and record voices for extracting stable vocal features since they are sensitive to the variation of a subject's utterance. At first, we obtained pitch frequencies from vowels and the sentence and intensity form the sentence as features with voices acquired under subjects' utterance conditions and then the deviation ratios of features from median values according to the utterance conditions were obtained and the condition to minimize the ratio was selected as a new SOP. As a result, we decided the SOP for a subject to utter vowels with the length of 2s~1s and sentences with over 2s interval between them after practice, in consideration of the deviation and qualitative requirements. Stable voice features obtained from updated SOP produce accurate diagnosis, which will be developed and simplified for using in the u-Healthcare system of personalized medicine.

Effects of an Inverted Position on EEG and Heart Rate Variability before and after Qi-gong Training (어깨지지형 도립위(倒立位)가 기공수련(氣功修鍊) 전후(前後)의 뇌파(腦波) 및 심박변이도(心搏變移度)에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Sang-Nam;Kwon, Young-Kyu
    • Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.918-929
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    • 2008
  • This study investigated the effects of inverted position on EEG and heart rate variability before and after Bang song gong. BSG is a training method using in qi-gong and meditation to give a convergence of consciousness on body segments in order and take a silent speech of 'song'. The subjects were the 14 university students(n=7 per group) who had not experienced any medical problem and had not practiced BSG. They took a practice of the two way of BSG training program for 30 minutes every other day for two weeks. During practicing BSG, A group took sitting position and lean sitting position by turns, B group took inverted and lean sitting position in the same way. Statistical analysis conducted by two-way ANOVA($2groups^{\ast}2periods$) with p<0.05 for average difference of EEG and HR according to position change in each group before and after BSG. In A group, EEG and HR were changeless irrespective of the change of position and BSG. On the other hand, in B group, significant changes were observed in EEG(p<0.05). ${\alpha}$ wave of inverted position were on the increase, ${\beta}$ and ${\delta}$ wave of inverted position showed smaller power after two weeks training. In the variation of HR, there were smaller variation according to the position change after BSG compared to before BSG(p<0.05). The results suggested that an inverted position may make the depth of meditation deeper, and is likely to be effective for decreasing tension of brain and the sleepiness during qi-gong training. In addition to, an inverted position seemed to promote control of blood pressure of brain. So the application of an inverted position to 'BSG' will be very helpful to achieve deeper relaxation and to obtain the desired effect from qi-gong training.

CHANGES OF SERUM ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE AFTER ENUCLEATION OF CYSTS IN THE JAWS (낭종 수술 전후에 있어서 혈중 Alkaline Phosphatase의 변화에 대한 연구)

  • Eune, Jung-Ju;Lee, Eui-Seok;Rim, Jae-Suk;Jang, Hyon-Seok;Woo, Hyon-Il
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
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    • v.31 no.5
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    • pp.417-421
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    • 2005
  • This study was to analyze the changes of levels of alkaline phosphatase before and after enucleation of jaw cysts combined with bone grafting, and to evaluate biochemically the effectiveness of the early detection of bone healing and infection as a prognostic marker. Eighteen patients (13 males, 5 females) with cystic lesions of the jaws were divided into two groups. The bone graft group underwent enucleation and bone graft. The control group underwent only enucleation. Both groups were measured levels of ALP before surgery, and plus-minus 4 weeks postoperatively. The more discriminating results were obtained in the bone graft group. The results were as follows : 1. Levels of ALP after enucleation of jaw cysts were decreased in all patients with and without bone graft. 2. The bone graft group showed more marked decrease in variation of levels of ALP than the control group.(p=0.008) This should be considered as a result of increased osteoblastic activity and new bone formation. 3. Such variation could be used as a prognostic marker for bone healing after cyst operation. In the cost/benefit ratio, measurement of ALP activity could be useful as a convenient procedure in routine clinical practice.

Varietal Variation in Germinative Energy, Capacity and Water Sensitivity for Malting Barley (맥주보리에서 발아세, 발아율 및 수감수성의 품종간 차이)

  • 천종은;이은섭
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.62-67
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    • 1986
  • Forty-nine malting barley varieties were tested at 3 and 8 weeks after harvest, stored in natural glasshouse so as to investigate varietal variation of germinative energy(GE), capacity(GC) and water sensitivity(WS). The differences among GE, GC, promptness index(PI), and WS on paper at two moisture levels (4$m\ell$ and 8$m\ell$ tests) were great at 3 weeks after harvest, but small at 8 weeks after harvest. Excess water depressed the germination of dormant grains. The GE of whole varieties were excellent, but WS of only two varieties, CI 12062 and CI 15631 were bad at 8 weeks after harvest. So in the case of broad germplasm to be used for crossing materials, it is suggested that WS will be tested to screen good quality malting lines. WS was highly significantly correlated with GE, GC, and PI of 8 ml test, but was not with three factors of 4 $m\ell$ test. GE and WS were various with storage period, varieties and grain plumpness, indicated that breeding good grain-filling varieties and improving production practice for good grain-filling would be studied in the future.

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Litterfall and Nutrient Dynamics in Pine (Pinus rigida) and Larch (Larix leptolepis) Plantations

  • Kim, Choonsig;Koo, Kyo-Sang;Byun, Jae-Kyung
    • Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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    • v.94 no.5 s.162
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    • pp.302-306
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    • 2005
  • Litterfall and nutrient inputs were measured in even-aged coniferous plantations (a 31-year-old Pinus rigida and a 31-year-old Larix leptolepis) on a similar site condition in the Forest Practice Research Center, Gyeonggi Province. Litterfall was collected monthly from circular littertraps (collecting area: $0.50m^2$) for three years between April 1997 and February 2000. Average total annual litterfall was significantly higher for pine (5,802 kg/ha/yr) than for larch (4,562 kg/ha/yr) plantations. Needle litter in both plantations accounted for about 63% of total litterfall. Litterfall in the larch was distributed as follows: needle > other leaf > branch > miscellaneous > bark, while it was needle > miscellaneous > other leaf > branch > bark in the pine plantation. There was no temporal variation in needle litter, other leaf and bark during the 3 year study period. The concentrations of all nutrients (N, P, K, Ca, Mg) in needle litter were significantly higher in the larch than in the pine plantations. The annual nutrient concentration of needle litter in the larch varied among the years, whereas no year variation of needle litter was in the pine except for phosphorus (P). Nitrogen (N) and P inputs by needle litter were significantly higher for larch than for pine plantations established on a similar soil. The differences in N and P inputs were attributed to lower nutrient concentration in pine needle litter compared with larch needle litter, not to total needle litter mass. Annual inputs of nutrient in both plantations were not significantly different among years except for K of the larch although there was yearly different in needlefall mass and nutrient concentration during the 3-year observed period. The results indicate that the mechanisms of litterfall and nutrient inputs vary considerably between pine and larch plantations established on a similar site condition.

The effect of feeding high fat diet to beef cattle on manure composition and gaseous emission from a feedlot pen surface

  • Gautam, Dhan Prasad;Rahman, Shafiqur;Borhan, Md Saidul;Engel, Chanda
    • Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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    • v.58 no.6
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    • pp.22.1-22.15
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    • 2016
  • Background: Dietary manipulation is a common practice to mitigate gaseous emission from livestock production facilities, and the variation of fat level in the diet has shown great influence on ruminal volatile fatty acids (VFA) and enteric methane generation. The changes in dietary fat levels influence rumen chemistry that could modify manure nutrient composition along with odor and gaseous emissions from manure management facilities. Methods: A field experiment was carried out on beef cattle feedlots to investigate the effect of four levels of dietary fat concentrations (3 to 5.5 %) on the manure composition and gaseous emissions (methane-$CH_4$, nitrous oxide-$N_2O$, carbon dioxide-$CO_2$ and hydrogen sulfide-$H_2S$) from the feedlot pen surface. The experiment was carried out over a 5-month period from June to October during North Dakota's summer-fall climatic condition. Air and manure sampling was conducted five times at a 20-30 day intervals. Results: Overall, this research indicated that fat levels in diet have no or little effect on the nutrient composition of manure and gaseous emission from the pens with cattle fed with different diet. Though significant variation of gaseous emission and manure composition were observed between different sampling periods, no effect of high fat diet was observed on manure composition and gaseous emission. Conclusions: It can be concluded that addition of fat to animal diet may not have any impact on gaseous emission and manure compositions.