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Effects of Self-care Program Using SMS, E-mail, or Telephone Call on Self-care Compliance and Nutritional Status in Hemodialysis Patients (혈액투석환자에서 문자메시지(SMS), 이메일 및 전화를 이용한 자가간호 프로그램이 자가간호 이행과 영양 상태에 미치는 효과)

  • An, Gyeong-Ju
    • Journal of Korean Biological Nursing Science
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.157-166
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    • 2009
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of self-care program using Short message service (SMS), e-mail, or telephone call on self-care compliance and nutritional status in maintenance of hemodialysis patient. Methods: Nonequivalent pretest-posttest control experimental design was used. Ninety-six patients were allocated to control (n=24), SMS (n=24), e-mail (n=24), or telephone (n=24) group from four hospitals. Experimental groups received self-care program about hemodialysis diet, drug administration, exercise, and fistula care by SMS, e-mail, or telephone call respectively at 3 times a week for 4 weeks. Results: Subjective self-care compliance, and objective self-care compliance including interdialytic weight of SMS and telephone groups were significantly increased than those of control groups. However, nutritional status of SMS and e-mail groups were significantly improved than those of control groups in albumin and protein level. Conclusion: Self-care program using SMS and telephone call were effective on promoting self-care compliance, while SMS and e-mail were effective on improving nutritional status. The pop-up remaining effect and easy accessible effect of SMS message in busy daily life was considered as an alarm to control fluid and diet.

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Turn signal lamp jacket to prevent accident of bicycles

  • Saxena, Tarika
    • Korean Journal of Artificial Intelligence
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.4-7
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    • 2016
  • These days, citizens have made change of food life to take Western style food and to suffer from diabetes because of excessive nutrition taking, less exercise, stress and other environmental factors. They may suffer from diabetes because of genetic defect, surgery of pancreas, disinfection and medicine and others. One of ten Koreans may have symptom of diabetes to be popular. The diabetes that is a kind of metabolic disease has high blood sugar at disorder of hyper insulinism and/or defect of insulin action. Long time high blood sugar may produce chronic disease of kidney, eyes, nerve, heart and blood vessel and others. The purpose of health care of diabetes patient was to reach target blood sugar by diet, physical exercise and medicine and to prevent and delay complication. Diabetes patient shall control blood sugar to keep healthy. The blood sugar control requires time and effort, and all of the patients are difficult to make effort and to spend time. You can control blood sugar by the application. The application allows patients to control blood sugar and to save time and efforts and to make small sized input and automation of remaining area. The service was limited to blood sugar graph, and user carries smart phone to conduct test and to have difficulty. Further study needs to solve the problems and to investigate blood sugar testing not carrying smart phone and to make application of easy control of blood sugar.

Effects of the m-VALS on the Mobile Shopping Acceptance Incentive and Consistent Use Intention

  • Yang, Hoe-Chang;Kim, An-Sik
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.12 no.10
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    • pp.19-28
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    • 2014
  • Purpose - This study intends to verify if the m-VALS developed to help the establishment of the mobile shopping vitalization strategy is classified as the same type as it is in the adult customers. Research design, data, and methodology - A total of 84 valid copies of the questionnaire were used. Factor analysis was performed first, as well as performing reliability and validity analysis after deducing the factors, and the simple regression analysis and multiple regression analysis techniques were employed. Results - The m-VALS needs verification through various groups and the delicateness of the questions needs to be ensured; further, for all the lifestyle types in relation to the mobile shopping acceptance incentives, all the remaining lifestyle types excepting the sociability-oriented type had a positive effect on consistent use intention. Conclusion - It is implied that the charm of the mobile shopping App should be enhanced and that, when establishing the mobile shopping mall with which the positive frequent and interactive communication is possible along with the opportunity to be together, the positive achievement can be obtained.

Durability Prediction for Concrete Structures Exposed to Carbonation Using a Bayesian Approach (베이지안 기법을 이용한 중성화에 노출된 콘크리트 구조물의 내구성 예측)

  • Jung, Hyun-Jun;Kim, Gyu-Seon;Ju, Min-Kwan;Lee, Sang-Cheol
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.275-276
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    • 2009
  • This paper provides a new approach for predicting the corrosion resistivity of reinforced concrete structures exposed to carbonation. In this method, the prediction can be updated successively by a Bayesian theory when additional data are available. The stochastic properties of model parameters are explicitly taken into account into the model. To simplify the procedure of the model, the probability of the durability limit is determined from the samples obtained from the Latin hypercube sampling technique. The new method may be very useful in designing important concrete structures and help to predict the remaining service life of existing concrete structures which have been monitored.

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Evaluation of Material Degradation Using Electrical Resistivity Method (전기비저항법을 이용한 재료열화 평가)

  • Seok, Chang-Seong;Kim, Dong-Jung;Bae, Bong-Guk
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.24 no.12
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    • pp.2995-3002
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    • 2000
  • The remaining life estimation for the aged components in power plants as well as chemical plants are very important beacuse mechanical properties of the components are degraded with time of service exposure in high temperature. Since it is difficult to take specimens from the operating components to evaluate mechanical properties of components nondestructive techniques are needed to estimate the degradation. In this study, test materials with 4 different degradation levels were prepared by isothermal aging heat treatment at 630$\^{C}$. And the DC potential drop method and destructive methods such as tensile, K(sub)IC and hardness tests were used in order to evaluate the degradation of 1-Cr-1Mo-0.25V steels. The objective of this study is to investigate the possibility of the application of DCPD method to estimated the material degradation, and to analyse the relationship between the electrical relationship between the electrical resistivity and the degree material degradation.

Blue-tooth based blood sugar control application

  • Kelly, Raymond
    • Korean Journal of Artificial Intelligence
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.4-6
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    • 2015
  • These days, citizens have made change of food life to take Western style food and to suffer from diabetes because of excessive nutrition taking, less exercise, stress and other environmental factors. They may suffer from diabetes because of genetic defect, surgery of pancreas, disinfection and medicine and others. One of ten Koreans may have symptom of diabetes to be popular. The diabetes that is a kind of metabolic disease has high blood sugar at disorder of hyper insulinism and/or defect of insulin action. Long time high blood sugar may produce chronic disease of kidney, eyes, nerve, heart and blood vessel and others. The purpose of health care of diabetes patient was to reach target blood sugar by diet, physical exercise and medicine and to prevent and delay complication. Diabetes patient shall control blood sugar to keep healthy. The blood sugar control requires time and effort, and all of the patients are difficult to make effort and to spend time. You can control blood sugar by the application. The application allows patients to control blood sugar and to save time and efforts and to make small sized input and automation of remaining area. The service was limited to blood sugar graph, and user carries smart phone to conduct test and to have difficulty. Further study needs to solve the problems and to investigate blood sugar testing not carrying smart phone and to make application of easy control of blood sugar.

Time-dependent characteristics of chloride diffusion coefficient of concrete (콘크리트 염소이온 확산계수의 시간 의존적 특성)

  • Choi, Sung;Lee, Kwang-Myong;Shin, Kyung-Joon;Bae, Su-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2008.04a
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    • pp.545-548
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    • 2008
  • As the corrosion of reinforcing bar in concrete structures exposed to chloride attack is one of main factors to determine the remaining service life, marine concrete structures have to be designed to protect the chloride penetration. Among the durability design methods such as deterministic method and probabilistic method, design method based on the probabilistic theory has been widely studied. However, the most essential material, data of the material properties related to chloride diffusion, are still insufficient. In this paper, the probabilistic distribution of chloride diffusion coefficients and aging coefficients are derived by the experiment and analysis for the chloride coefficients of concrete containing pozzolans, which are generally used in marine structures.

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Condition assessment of fire affected reinforced concrete shear wall building - A case study

  • Mistri, Abhijit;Pa, Robin Davis;Sarkar, Pradip
    • Advances in concrete construction
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.89-105
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    • 2016
  • The post - fire investigation is conducted on a fire-affected reinforced concrete shear wall building to ascertain the level of its strength degradation due to the fire incident. Fire incident took place in a three-storey building made of reinforced concrete shear wall and roof with operating floors made of steel beams and chequered plates. The usage of the building is to handle explosives. Elevated temperature during the fire is estimated to be $350^{\circ}C$ based on visual inspection. Destructive (core extraction) and non-destructive (rebound hammer and ultrasonic pulse velocity) tests are conducted to evaluate the concrete strength. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM) are used for analyzing micro structural changes of the concrete due to fire. Tests are conducted for concrete walls and roof slab on both burnt and unburnt locations. The analysis of test results reveals no significant degradation of the building after the fire which signifies that the structure can be used with full expectancy of performance for the remaining service life. This document can be used as a reference for future forensic investigations of similar fire affected concrete structures.

Relevance vector based approach for the prediction of stress intensity factor for the pipe with circumferential crack under cyclic loading

  • Ramachandra Murthy, A.;Vishnuvardhan, S.;Saravanan, M.;Gandhic, P.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.72 no.1
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    • pp.31-41
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    • 2019
  • Structural integrity assessment of piping components is of paramount important for remaining life prediction, residual strength evaluation and for in-service inspection planning. For accurate prediction of these, a reliable fracture parameter is essential. One of the fracture parameters is stress intensity factor (SIF), which is generally preferred for high strength materials, can be evaluated by using linear elastic fracture mechanics principles. To employ available analytical and numerical procedures for fracture analysis of piping components, it takes considerable amount of time and effort. In view of this, an alternative approach to analytical and finite element analysis, a model based on relevance vector machine (RVM) is developed to predict SIF of part through crack of a piping component under fatigue loading. RVM is based on probabilistic approach and regression and it is established based on Bayesian formulation of a linear model with an appropriate prior that results in a sparse representation. Model for SIF prediction is developed by using MATLAB software wherein 70% of the data has been used for the development of RVM model and rest of the data is used for validation. The predicted SIF is found to be in good agreement with the corresponding analytical solution, and can be used for damage tolerant analysis of structural components.

A Survey Analysis on the Need for Expansion of Public Medical Institutions

  • CHOI, Eun-Mee;KWON, Young-Eun;KWON, Lee-Seung
    • Journal of Wellbeing Management and Applied Psychology
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.45-51
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    • 2021
  • Purpose: This aims to find a strategic plan for the feasibility study of a medical center extension project in order for local public medical institutions to obtain public interest and profitability through a survey of residents. Research design, data and methodology: The structured questionnaire was distributed at random, and a total of 219 people responded as users or patients responded to the questionnaire in a self-filling manner. Through this questionnaire, the feasibility and necessity of the extension of Gangneung Medical Center(GMC) was measured. All data processing was analyzed by applying version 26.0 of IBM SPSS statistical package program. The main contents of the questionnaire included reasons for using GMC, inconveniences, overall level of medical care, satisfaction, intention to revisit, the necessity of GMC's complex ward extension project, and GMC consisted of 8 questionnaires, including the desired service for the extension of the complex ward. Results: As for the necessity of the GMC complex ward extension project, 95.9% of residents said they wanted the complex ward extension project, 2.3% said it was not necessary, and the remaining 1.8% had other opinions. Conclusions: GMC complex ward extension project is necessary.