• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제41권6호
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• pp.173-181
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• 2017

Background: This study was undertaken to analyze the distribution and ecological characteristics of invasive alien plant species on Jeju Island, and to provide basic data for their management and control. Results: A field research was conducted at 436 locations on Jeju Island. The field research identified nine species of invasive alien species growing on Jeju Island. Based on the distribution pattern, Hypochaeris radicata L., Rumex acetosella, and Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. were found to be distributed horizontally throughout Jeju Island, with vertical growth in two or more vegetation zones, from warm temperate to the subalpine zone. Widely distributed species penetrate various habitats, such as grasslands, ranches, roadsides, farmlands, and empty lots, and have an immensely negative impact on the ecosystem, including declining biodiversity on Jeju Island. Paspalum distichum var. indutum Shinners, Paspalum distichum L., Solanum carolinense L., and Aster pilosus Willd. were distributed in some areas as a biased distribution species, whereas Lactuca scariola L. and Solidago altissima L. were found only in certain areas as centralized distribution species. Conclusions: The centralized distribution species and biased distribution species of the invasive plants in the ecosystem of Jeju Island should be physically eliminated, keeping in mind the short- and mid-term perspectives and monitoring, and by considering expansion of additional distribution areas. Due to limitations of physical/chemical elimination, time, and cost, widely distributed species require to be eliminated and managed, mainly to restore the integrity of the ecosystem, by planting native species to reestablish the habitat.

• 방사성폐기물학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.167-172
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• 2010

CANDU 사용후핵연료는 핵분열성 핵종의 농도가 비교적 낮아 장기적인 관리 방법으로서 재활용보다는 직접 처분을 고려하고 있으나 처분 부지 확보가 어려워 중간저장 정책이 단기적으로 고려되고 있다. 이와 관련하여 중간저장시설의 운영기간과 최적의 처분 착수시기에 대한 검토가 필요하다. 처분시점의 결정 요인으로는 크게 안전성, 경제성, 수용성을 설정하였다. 안전성은 크게 붕괴열과 핵비확산성 측면에서, 경제성은 각 시설의 관리비용 측면에서, 수용성은 회수성 개념 및 세대 간 책임 윤리 측면으로 나누어 검토하였다. 본 논문에서는 처분시점 결정 요인 분석 결과를 바탕으로 3가지 대안을 비교하고 최적 안을 제시하였다. 중요한 핵심 내용으로는 기술적 측면과 안전성 측면에서는 처분 시점이 빠를수록 좋다는 것과, 최적 CANDU 사용후핵연료 처분시점으로서 2041년 경을 제안하였다.

• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• 제47권1호
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• pp.20-25
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• 2020

Background Ultrasonic dissection devices cause less thermal damage to the surrounding tissue than monopolar electrosurgical devices. We compared the effects of using an ultrasonic dissection device or an electrocautery device during prosthetic breast reconstruction on seroma development and short-term postoperative complications. Methods We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of patients who underwent implant-based reconstruction following mastectomy between March 2017 and September 2018. Mastectomy was performed by general surgeons and reconstruction by plastic surgeons. From March 2017 to January 2018, a monopolar electrosurgical device was used, and an ultrasonic dissection device was used thereafter. The other surgical methods were the same in both groups. Results The incidence of seroma was lower in the ultrasonic dissection device group than in the electrocautery group (11 [17.2%] vs. 18 [31.0%]; P=0.090). The duration of surgery, total drainage volume, duration of drainage, overall complication rate, surgical site infection rate, and flap necrosis rate were comparable between the groups. Multivariate analysis revealed that the risk of seroma development was significantly lower in the ultrasonic dissection device group than in the electrocautery group (odds ratio for electrocautery, 3.252; 95% confidence interval, 1.242-8.516; P=0.016). Conclusions The findings of this study suggest that the incidence of seroma can be reduced slightly by using an ultrasonic dissection device for prosthesis-based breast reconstruction. However, further randomized controlled studies are required to verify our results and to assess the cost-effectiveness of this technique.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.35-43
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• 2020

Turbidity has various effects on the water quality and ecosystem of a river. High turbidity during floods increases the operation cost of a drinking water supply system. Thus, the management of turbidity is essential for providing safe water to the public. There have been various efforts to estimate turbidity in river systems for proper management and early warning of high turbidity in the water supply process. Advanced data analysis technology using machine learning has been increasingly used in water quality management processes. Artificial neural networks(ANNs) is one of the first algorithms applied, where the overfitting of a model to observed data and vanishing gradient in the backpropagation process limit the wide application of ANNs in practice. In recent years, deep learning, which overcomes the limitations of ANNs, has been applied in water quality management. LSTM(Long-Short Term Memory) is one of novel deep learning algorithms that is widely used in the analysis of time series data. In this study, LSTM is used for the prediction of high turbidity(>30 NTU) in a river from the relationship of turbidity to discharge, which enables early warning of high turbidity in a drinking water supply system. The model showed 0.98, 0.99, 0.98 and 0.99 for precision, recall, F1-score and accuracy respectively, for the prediction of high turbidity in a river with 2 hour frequency data. The sensitivity of the model to the observation intervals of data is also compared with time periods of 2 hour, 8 hour, 1 day and 2 days. The model shows higher precision with shorter observation intervals, which underscores the importance of collecting high frequency data for better management of water resources in the future.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.59-66
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• 2019

New and renewable energy forecasts are key technology to reduce the annual operating cost of new and renewable facilities, and accuracy of forecasts is paramount. In this study, we intend to build a model for the prediction of short-term solar power generation for 1 hour to 3 hours. To this end, this study applied two time series technique, ARIMA model without considering seasonality and SARIMA model with considering seasonality, comparing which technique has better predictive accuracy. Comparing predicted errors by MAE measures of solar power generation for 1 hour to 3 hours at four locations, the solar power forecast model using ARIMA was better in terms of predictive accuracy than the solar power forecast model using SARIMA. On the other hand, a comparison of predicted error by RMSE measures resulted in a solar power forecast model using SARIMA being better in terms of predictive accuracy than a solar power forecast model using ARIMA.

• 우주기술과 응용
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.137-152
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• 2024

현재 마이크로중력 환경을 활용한 과학실험은 초 단위 정도의 짧은 시간 동안 실험이 수행 가능한 낙하 탑부터 시간제한이 없는 우주정거장 등 여러 분야에서 수행되고 있다. 하지만 과학 실험에 필요한 긴 시간이 확보된 마이크로중력 환경을 구현하기 위해서는 적지 않은 개발비용과 시간이 소모된다. 따라서 고비용이 수반되는 마이크로중력 환경 실험을 큐브위성에서 수행한다면 저비용 고효율의 이점으로 과학 실험의 다양성과 시간의 제약에서 자유도가 더욱 높아질 것으로 판단된다. 이러한 특장점을 살린 KMSL(Korea Microgravity Science Laboratory) 큐브위성은 마이크로중력 환경에서의 과학 임무를 수행하였던 위성이다. KMSL 위성은 2021년 3월 22일 카자흐스탄 바이코누르 발사기지에서 Soyuz2.1a 발사체에 의해 발사되었고, 약 2개월간 정상적으로 임무를 수행하였다. 본 논문에서는 KMSL 위성의 운영 경험과 발생한 문제에 대한 분석을 바탕으로 마이크로중력 환경에서의 과학 임무를 성공적으로 수행하기 위한 해결책과 교훈을 제시하고자 한다.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제54권3호
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• pp.311-328
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• 2024

Purpose: In this study a systematic review and meta-analysis investigated the impact of non-pharmacological interventions on major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in patients with coronary artery disease who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Methods: A literature search was performed using PubMed, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, and Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature databases up to November 2023. The risk of bias was assessed using the Cochrane Risk of Bias 2.0 tool. Effect sizes and 95% confidence intervals were calculated using R software (version 4.3.2). Results: Eighteen randomized studies, involving 2,898 participants, were included. Of these, 16 studies with 2,697 participants provided quantitative data. Non-pharmacological interventions (education, exercise, and comprehensive) significantly reduced the risk of angina, heart failure, myocardial infarction, restenosis, cardiovascular-related readmission, and cardiovascular-related death. The subgroup meta-analysis showed that combined interventions were effective in reducing the occurrence of myocardial infarction (MI), and individual and group-based interventions had significant effects on reducing the occurrence of MACE. In interventions lasting seven months or longer, occurrence of decreased by 0.16 times, and mortality related to cardiovascular disease decreased by 0.44 times, showing that interventions lasting seven months or more were more effective in reducing MI and cardiovascular disease-related mortality. Conclusion: Further investigations are required to assess the cost-effectiveness of these interventions in patients undergoing PCI and validate their short- and long-term effects. This systematic review underscores the potential of non-pharmacological interventions in decreasing the incidence of MACE and highlights the importance of continued research in this area (PROSPERO registration number: CRD42023462690).

• 지능정보연구
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.157-175
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• 2013

본 연구는 기존의 스마트워크 모델인 재택 근무, 스마트워크 센터, 모바일 오피스 등을 지원 및 확장할 수 있는 NFC 기반의 스마트워커 네트워킹 서비스 모델과 NFC 기반의 공간관리 서비스 모델을 제시한다. 본래 재택 근무나 원격 근무는 직원들의 생산성 제고를 위해 시행되었지만, 최근 생산성 저하와 협업의 어려움, 근태 관리의 어려움 등을 이유로 재택 근무의 실효성에 대해 부정적인 의견이 제시되고 있고, 일부 기업은 재택 근무를 폐지하고 있는 실정이다. 이에 본 논문은 직원들 간의 협업 및 커뮤니케이션을 지원하여 업무 생산성을 제고시킬 수 있는 NFC 기반의 커뮤니케이션/SNS 서비스 모델을 제시한다. 또한, NFC 기술을 이용한 지역 기반의 실시간 구인, 구직 서비스 모델을 제안하는데, 이 서비스 모델은 기존의 공유 경제 사이트와의 제휴를 통해 사용자들이 NFC 태그 터치 후 공유경제 사이트에서 필요한 인력을 구하거나, 자신의 기술이나 재능을 무료 또는 유료로 제공함으로써 효율적으로 인력이 활용되는 효과를 가져 올 수 있다. NFC 기반의 커뮤니케이션/SNS 서비스 모델은 구축비용이 낮다는 점과 종업원들의 위치 정보 제공이 가능하다는 점, 지식 축적이 가능하다는 등의 특징을 가진다. NFC 기반의 공간관리 서비스 모델은 스마트워크가 주로 시행되던 오피스 공간뿐만 아니라 그 외의 현장이나 카페 등 기존의 업무공간 이외에서도 업무를 수행할 수 있도록 지원하는 서비스 모델로 공간확장 측면에 중점을 둔 서비스 모델이다. 이 서비스 모델은 구축비용이 낮다는 점, 개인화 서비스의 제공이 가능하다는 점, 기업 외부에 시스템 구축이 가능하다는 점, 기업 내외부에 있는 종업원들의 위치 정보 파악이 가능하다는 특징을 가진다. 본 논문은 위와 같은 스마트워크 서비스 모델을 설계하기 위해 시나리오를 제시하고, 비즈니스 모델의 프로세스와 이해 관계자들의 역할 및 혜택을 검토하며, 기존의 서비스와 비교 분석하여 차별점을 도출하고 시사점을 제시한다. 본 논문이 제시하는 서비스 모델은 기존의 서비스 모델을 대체하는 것이 아니라 지원하고 확장할 수 있는 모델로, NFC라는 인식기술을 활용하여 기업이 좀 더 유연한 스마트워크 시스템을 구축할 수 있도록 한다. 기존에 대기업 위주로 스마트워크가 시행되었으나, NFC 기반의 스마트워크 서비스 모델은 스마트워크를 도입하는 기업의 범위를 확장시키고, 스마트워크 제도의 수혜를 받을 수 있는 구성원의 범위를 확장시킬 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.19-34
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• 2013

Background: The study describes the changes resulted from imposition on tertiary hospital outpatient coinsurance rate rise policy and in tertiary or general hospital drug coverage rise policy on healthcare service utilization. Methods: Accordingly, the hypothesis about outpatient healthcare utilization after rise policy in outpatient coinsurance rate and drug coverage was established, using interrupted time-series analysis and segmented regression analysis to test the hypothesis. 5-year analysis period (2007. 3-2012. 3) from the outset year was designated, the data about most common 10 high-ranking of the main diseases targeting visiting patient from age of 6 to 64 were collected. Results: The summary on the major research is followed. First, the medical expense and duration of treatment tends to be increased in case of imposition about rise policy in outpatient coinsurance rate in the tertiary hospital under the interrupted time-series analysis. It showed temporary increase and slow down on account of influenza A even after the policy enforcement. In segmented regression analysis, duration of visit and medical expense in the tertiary hospital increased temporally right after the policy implementation and the decreased rapidly depends on period. Both rise and fall is statistically significant. The second, In case of tertiary or general hospital outpatient drug coverage rise policy, all of the tertiary hospital healthcare service utilization variables by the interrupted time-series analysis, drug coverage policy in the general hospital deeply declined according to decreasing trend before policy implementation. The third, in case of segmented regression analysis, the visit duration and medical expense statistically declined right after the policy implementation in both the tertiary and general hospital. Meanwhile, administration day was statistically meaningful only for the decrease right after the policy implementation. Otherwise, general hospital changes are not statistically meaningful. And the medicine cost was statistically, meaningfully decreased after the increase in drug coverage. Conclusion: Finally, the result demonstrated according to the analysis is only 1 hypothesis is denied, the other 2 are partially supported. Then, tertiary hospital outpatient coinsurance rate increase policy comparatively makes decrease effect on long-term healthcare utilization, and tertiary or general hospital outpatient drug coverage policy showed partially short-term effect is assured.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.51-57
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• 2016

Purpose - In the year of 2015 and 2016, one of the items that got attention in CES was a drone. It has been 100 years since a drone emerged, but most were used for military purposes. As its use became diverse as of 2010, it got attention of the general public. In Korea, it was in 2011 that a drone was known to the public through an aerial video shooting for television program. This study tried to come up with suggestions by comparing domestic with overseas cases, and tried to consider the related technologies and systems with applying the role of drones in logistics service. Research design, data, and methodology - The overseas cases were regarded as drone's logistical purpose. The Prime Air service by US Amazon is still not commercialized and under pre-testing due to Federal Aviation Regulations, although it started in 2013. In Germany, DHL succeeded in delivering service testing which is called Parcelcopter, but it is not commercialized yet. Other than these, there are more attempts to prepare logistics service in China with Taobao, in France with Geopost's test, and in Africa. In Korea, CJ Korea Express tested delivery with a self-developed drone Results - In order to study for utilizing drones for logistics as the prerequisites, some overseas and domestic cases, which are currently considered, were reviewed. Also, the technologies and institutional requirements to commercialize drones for logistical purpose were reviewed. The reasons for using drones in logistics is to ensure the price competitiveness by reducing cost. The empirical test also will be needed because drone pilot areas are designated by ministry of land, infrastructure and transport. Conclusions - In order to utilize drones in logistics and foster the industry, this study would like to suggest the followings. First of all, size of drones for logistics needs to be fixed and their operating system should be standardized. Centralized investment resources are needed through standardization to ensure the market occupancy. Secondly, it is necessary to get the converged businesses that do research, develop and commercialize drones with the investment of private sector. Example can be found in Korea aerospace Industries. We can respond to the rapid growth of the market with intensive investing by integrating the private sector investment. Thirdly, institutional arrangements are needed to be established quickly. In the case of high-technologies like drones, institutional support often does not follow the rapid development of the technology. The problems can be found in securing drones-only airspace, creating drone-specialized pilot's license, matters related to remote controller and complementary regulations for drones in Aviation Act. If these regulations are not prepared or complemented at the right timing, technologies cannot be commercialized even though the development is completed. Fourthly, there is a need to secure the transparency regarding possible privacy and personal information protection problem while operating drones. Finally, in order to foster this new industry, government should focus on supporting R&D more in the long term than short term outcomes.