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Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach to Estimate Weights of Evaluation Categories for School Food Service Program in Korea (계층적 분석 과정을 이용한 학교급식 운영 품질 평가 분야의 중요도 분석)

  • Lee Min-A;Yang Il-Sun;Yi Bo-Sook;Kim Hyun-Ah;Park So-Hyun
    • Journal of Nutrition and Health
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    • v.39 no.1
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    • pp.74-83
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    • 2006
  • The purposes of this study were to (1) identify the evaluation categories, areas, attributes, and criteria of the school food service program using both a qualitative and a quantitative analyses, (2) define the relative importance of the evaluation categories, areas, attributes, and criteria of the school food service program using analytic hierarchy process, (3) organize the evaluation system to improve quality of the school food service in Korea. A survey was conducted from August to October 2004 to collect data from 172 dietitians, 15 school food service officials at the educational board, 10 professionals of school food service. Statistical analyses were performed on the data utilizing the SPSS 12.0 for Windows and Excel, such as Descriptive statistics and analytic hierarchy process was performed. The result of the analytic hierarchy process indicated that relative importance of evaluation category was 0.4319 (food service manage ment), 0.2369 (nutrition education), 0.1455 (satisfaction) and 0.0912 (parent involvement program). 'Sanitation, safety and facility (0.1739)' was the most important area among the subcategories of food service management, followed by nutrition management (0.1581), procurement (0.1375), production (0.1345), organization and personnel management (0.0662), planning (0.0644), food service evaluation (0.0585), financial accountability (0.0555), and information management (0.0554). There existed a relative importance on the three areas of the nutrition program and satisfaction evaluation category: students (0.5281, 0.6221), parents (0.1812, 0.1491), and teachers (0.1838, 0.1618). In the parent involvement program evaluation category, relative importance of committee and monitoring management was 0.4658 and information communication was 0.3724. The quality of food and service to school children can be improved by the appropriate application of the developed evaluation tool for the school food service program.

The Japan Health Physics Society Guideline on Dose Monitoring for the Lens of the Eye

  • Yokoyama, Sumi;Tsujimura, Norio;Hashimoto, Makoto;Yoshitomi, Hiroshi;Kato, Masahiro;Kurosawa, Tadahiro;Tatsuzaki, Hideo;Sekiguchi, Hiroshi;Koguchi, Yasuhiro;Ono, Koji;Akiyoshi, Masahumi;Kunugita, Naoki;Natsuhori, Masahiro;Natsume, Yoshinori;Nabatame, Kuniaki;Kawashima, Tsunenori;Takagi, Shunji;Ohno, Kazuko;Iwai, Satoshi
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.47 no.1
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2022
  • Background: In Japan, new regulations that revise the dose limit for the lens of the eye (hereafter the lens), operational quantities, and measurement positions for the lens dose were enforced in April 2021. Based on the international safety standards, national guidelines, the results of the Radiation Safety Research Promotion Fund of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, and other studies, the Working Group of Radiation Protection Standardization Committee, the Japan Health Physics Society (JHPS) developed a guideline for radiation dose monitoring for the lens. Materials and Methods: The Working Group of the JHPS discussed the criteria of non-uniform exposure and the management criteria set not to exceed the dose limit for the lens. Results and Discussion: In July 2020, the JHPS guideline was published. The guideline consists of three parts: main text, explanations, and 26 examples. In the questions, the corresponding answers were prepared, and specific examples were provided to enable similar cases to be addressed. Conclusion: With the development of the guideline on radiation dose monitoring of the lens, radiation managers and workers will be able to smoothly comply with revised regulations and optimize radiation protection.

Development of a Korean roadmap for technical issue resolution for fission product behavior during severe accidents

  • Kim, Han-Chul;Ha, Kwang Soon;Kim, Sung Joong;Seo, Miro;Kang, Sang-Ho;Lee, Doo Yong;Song, Yong-Mann;Lee, Jongseong;Im, Hee-Jung;Cho, Chang-Sok;Yeon, Jei-Won;Kim, Sung Il;Cho, Song-Won;Song, Jinho;Ryu, Yong-Ho
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.49 no.8
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    • pp.1575-1588
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    • 2017
  • In order to develop a domestic research roadmap for severe accidents, a special committee was established by the Korean Nuclear Society. One of the subcommittees discussed the characteristics and the relevant technical issues in the stages of fission product release and physical forms of radionuclide release and transport. The group members developed a tree to identify fission product release phenomena by tracing failures of individual defense-in-depth barriers and added possible countermeasures against failure. For each elemental issue, they searched for technical problems by examining the phenomena, accident management actions, and regulatory aspects relevant to the mitigation features for containment, including mitigation strategies against containment bypass accidents. Regulatory concerns, including the source term and the acceptance criteria for radionuclide release, were also considered. They identified further research needs regarding important technical issues based on the degree of the current knowledge level in Korea and in foreign countries, looking at the significance and urgency of issues and the expected research period required to reach an advanced level of knowledge. As a result, the group identified the 12 most important and urgent issues, most of which were expected to require mid-term and long-term research periods.

Adding AGC Case Studies to the Educator's Tool Chest

  • Schaufelberger, John;Rybkowski, Zofia K.;Clevenger, Caroline
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2022.06a
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    • pp.1226-1236
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    • 2022
  • Because students majoring in construction-related fields must develop a broad repository of knowledge and skills, effective transferal of these is the primary focus of most academic programs. While inculcation of this body of knowledge is certainly critical, actual construction projects are complicated ventures that involve levels of risk and uncertainty, such as resistant neighboring communities, unforeseen weather conditions, escalating material costs, labor shortages and strikes, accidents on jobsites, challenges with emerging forms of technology, etc. Learning how to develop a level of discernment about potential ways to handle such uncertainty often takes years of costly trial-and-error in the proverbial "school of hard knocks." There is therefore a need to proactively expedite the development of a sharpened intuition when making decisions. The AGC Education and Research Foundation case study committee was formed to address this need. Since its inception in 2011, 14 freely downloadable case studies have thus far been jointly developed by an academics and industry practitioners to help educators elicit varied responses from students about potential ways to respond when facing an actual project dilemma. AGC case studies are typically designed to focus on a particular concern and topics have thus far included: ethics, site logistics planning, financial management, prefabrication and modularization, safety, lean practices, preconstruction planning, subcontractor management, collaborative teamwork, sustainable construction, mobile technology, and building information modeling (BIM). This session will include an overview of the history and intent of the AGC case study program, as well as lively interactive demonstrations and discussions on how case studies can be used both by educators within a typical academic setting, as well as by industry practitioners seeking a novel tool for their in-house training programs.

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A Study on Establishing a Standardized Process for the Development and Management of Food Safety Health Indicators in Korea (우리나라 식품안전보건지표의 개발 및 운용과정 정립에 대한 연구)

  • Byun, Garam;Choi, Giehae;Lee, Jong-Tae
    • Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.217-226
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    • 2015
  • This study was conducted to establish a standardized process for developing food safety health indicators. With this aim, we proposed a standardized process, accessed the validity of the suggested process by performing simulations, and provided a method to utilize the indicators. Developing process for domestic environmental health indicators was benchmarked to propose a standardized process for developing food safety health indicators, and DPSEEA framework was applied to the development of indicators. The suggested standardized process consists of an exploitation stage and a management stage. In the exploitation stage, a total of 6 procedures (initial indicators suggestion, candidate indicators selection, data availability assessment, feasibility assessment, pilot study, and final indicator selection) are conducted, and the indicators are routinely calculated and officially announced in the management stage. The exploitation stage is operated by an interaction between a task force team who manages the overall process, and an advisory committee (minimum of 4 in academia, 2 in research, 4 in specialists of Ministry of Food and Drug Safety) who reviews and performs evaluations on the indicators. The standardized process was simulated with 45 initial indicators, and total of 4 indicators (17 detailed indicators) were selected: 'Proportion of domestic fruit/vegetable receiving 'acceptable' in the evaluation of pesticide/herbicide residues', 'Food-borne disease outbreaks', 'Food-borne legal infectious disease incidence', 'Salmonellosis incidence'. Synthetic food safety health index was derived by calculating percent difference with the data from 2010 to 2012. Results showed that when comparing the year 2010 to 2011, and 2011 to 2012, the overall food safety status improved by 10.37% and 9.87%, respectively. In addition, the contribution of indicators to the overall food safety status can be determined by looking into the individual indicators, and the synthetic index may be illustrated to enhance the ease of interpretation to the public and policy makers. In overall, food health safety indicators can be useful in many ways and therefore, attention should be drawn to conduct further studies and establish related legislations.

Arsenic Speciation and Risk Assessment of Miscellaneous Cereals by HPLC-ICP-MS (HPLC-ICP-MS를 활용한 잡곡의 비소 화학종 및 위해 분석)

  • An, Jae-Min;Hong, Kyong-Suk;Kim, Sung-Youn;Kim, Dae-Jung;Lee, Ho-Jin;Shin, Hee-Chang
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.119-128
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    • 2017
  • BACKGROUND: Miscellaneous cereal have been largely consumed in Korea as due to their physiological functions beneficial to human health. The cereals are currently a social concern because they have been found to contain heavy metals. Thus, monitoring heavy metals in the cereals is an important requirement for food safety analysis. In this study, we determined arsenic concentration in the cereals randomly harvested from different markets. METHODS AND RESULTS: Inorganic arsenic was determined by ICP-MS coupled with HPLC system. The HPLC-ICP-MS analysis was optimized based on the limit of detection and recover test to reach $0.13-1.24{\mu}g/kg$ and 94.3-102.1%, respectively. The concentrations of inorganic arsenic equivalent to daily exposure were levels of $19.91{\mu}g/day$ in mixed grain, $1.07{\mu}g/day$ in glutinous rice, $0.77{\mu}g/day$ in black brown rice, $0.13{\mu}g/day$ in barley and $0.11{\mu}g/day$ in soybeans. CONCLUSION: The levels of arsenic in miscellaneous cereals were found lower than the recommended The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) levels, suggesting that the cereals marketed in Korea are not potential concern in risk assessment.

Design and Implementation of a Copyright Protection System base on the Program on-line Registration System (프로그램 온라인 등록 시스템기반의 저작권 보호시스템 설계 및 구현)

  • Jang Jae-Hyeok;Lee Jong-Sup;Choi Yong-Rak
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.11 no.2 s.40
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    • pp.275-283
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    • 2006
  • Writers enroll their outcome to Program Deliberation & Mediation Committee and get the copyright preserved for the protection of IPR. The program registration is conducted through off-line and on-line methods, and especially on-line registration provides program registrants convenience along with the safety of property from external copyright invaders. However, it is a shortcoming that the integrity and confidentiality of the enrolled program cannot be guaranteed in case of internal factors such as system errors, administrator's illegal access and revision. This paper proposes the reliable system, ensuring programs and offering convenience of Digital signature management from the system errors and intruding factors by internal administrator, using the security of confidentiality, integrity and Multi-Signature Scheme for program.

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Worker's Health Management and Health Promotion of General Hospitals in Korea (우리나라 종합병원 사업장의 근로자 건강관리 현황 분석)

  • Kim, Gwang Suk;Lee, Chung Yul;Kang, Hee Cheol;Won, Jong Uk;Kim, Bong Jeong;Cho, Yoon Hee
    • Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.166-179
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    • 2008
  • Purpose: This study was conducted to understand the situation of general hospital worker's health management and health promotion. Methods: To investigate the current situation of health management in the hospital, structured questionnaires were sent to 122 occupational health providers by post. About 79% hospitals returned questionnaires. The data were analyzed using descriptive analysis, ${\chi}^2$-test by SPSS 12.0 program. Results: A quarter hospitals responded set up separated health care office for workers, 87.5% provided health educations, and 56.5% operated health promotion projects. In the contents of health promotion program embraced both health behavior practice and disease prevention, musculoskeletal disease control, infection control, smoking cessation, and exercise program were most commonly provided to the workers in order. Occupational health care provider chose the item such as budget limitation, manager's apathy, lack of employee's participation, cooperation provider, and so on as the reason of difficulty to run health promotion program in the hospital setting. Conclusion: Hospital managers need to construct infra to manage and promote worker's health. For example, establishing Industrial safety and health committee in hospital and arranging nurses who being fully responsible to worker's health. And occupational health care provider should advertise health promotion projects both managers and workers actively.

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Purification process and reduction of heavy metals from industrial wastewater via synthesized nanoparticle for water supply in swimming/water sport

  • Leiming Fu;Junlong Li;Jianming Yang;Yutao Liu;Chunxia He;Yifei Chen
    • Advances in nano research
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.441-449
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    • 2023
  • Heavy metals, widely present in the environment, have become significant pollutants due to their excessive use in industries and technology. Their non-degradable nature poses a persistent environmental problem, leading to potential acute or chronic poisoning from prolonged exposure. Recent research has focused on separating heavy metals, particularly from industrial and mining sources. Industries such as metal plating, mining operations, tanning, wood and chipboard production, industrial paint and textile manufacturing, as well as oil refining, are major contributors of heavy metals in water sources. Therefore, removing heavy metals from water is crucial, especially for safe water supply in swimming and water sports. Iron oxide nanoparticles have proven to be highly effective adsorbents for water contaminants, and efforts have been made to enhance their efficiency and absorption capabilities through surface modifications. Nanoparticles synthesized using plant extracts can effectively bind with heavy metal ions by modifying the nanoparticle surface with plant components, thereby increasing the efficiency of heavy metal removal. This study focuses on removing lead from industrial wastewater using environmentally friendly, cost-effective iron nanoparticles synthesized with Genovese basil extract. The synthesis of nanoparticles is confirmed through analysis using Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) and X-ray diffraction, validating their spherical shape and nanometer-scale dimensions. The method used in this study has a low detection limit of 0.031 ppm for measuring lead concentration, making it suitable for ensuring water safety in swimming and water sports.

Metadata production system based on MPEG-21 IPMP for protection and management of The Digital contents (디지털 콘텐츠 보호 관리를 위한 MPEG-21 IPMP 기반의 메타데이터 저작 시스템)

  • Ryu Kwang-Hee;Hong Hyen-Woo;Kim Kwang-Yong;Kim Jae-Gon;Jung Hoe-Kyung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.577-580
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    • 2006
  • The rapidly growth of Internet is main factor that activates the Digital Contents market. However imprudent Digital Contents market could be shrunk by imprudent illegal copy and delivery. MPEG(Moving Picture Experts Group) proposed MPEG-21 Multimedia frameworks in order to solve these problem. IPMP is parts of MPEG-21 Multimedia Frameworks, when Digital Contents goes through production delivery consumption, which defines standard to keep the Digital Contents in safety. Currently IPMP defined by FCD(Final Committee Draft) level. Therefore development of system which applied to latest standard to protect and manage the Digital Contents is required. and the system consists of fourth organizations which means Metadata Production server, Tool server, License server, Consumption server. In this Paper, we made production server to parse REL(Rights Expression Language) document that has right information for content from license server, and create metadata based on MPEG-21 IPMP about the content that applied to watermark. then, after it do remuxing, transmit the protected data to consumption server.

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