• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.83 no.2
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• pp.304-316
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• 2022

Purpose To evaluate the effect of the emergence of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) on pediatric intussusception. Materials and Methods Patients (< 18 years) who were diagnosed with intussusception and received enema reduction from 2011 to 2020 were included. We reviewed the demographics, yearly/monthly/seasonal incidence of intussusception, method and failure rate of enema reduction, recurrence rate of intussusception, surgical record, and pathologic report. Subsequently, we investigated the differences in mean age, failure rate of enema reduction, and recurrence rate of intussusception between the cases in 2020 and those in the period from 2011 to 2019. Results A total of 859 enema reductions were performed during the past decade, more in males and in the age < 1 year (mean age, 22.2 months). The yearly incidence was highest in 2014 and lowest in 2020, and the monthly incidence was highest on December and September. The cases in 2020 (n = 27) had a lower mean age (18.1 months vs. 22.8 months), higher failure rate of enema reduction (7.4% vs. 2.4%), and higher recurrence rate of intussusception (14.8% vs 7.3%) compared with those that occurred between 2011 and 2019 (n = 832). However, these results did not show statistical significance (p = 0.07, p = 0.15, p = 0.14, respectively). Conclusion With the emergence of COVID-19, the number of enema reductions was remarkably decreased with a lower mean age, higher failure rate, and higher recurrence rate.

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.1-32
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• 2011

This paper explores the effect of relative age at elementary school entry, which is determined by birth date and school entrance law, on college entrance. First, I compare the college entrance rate between students born in January or February and those born in other months. Second, I estimate the effect of age at school entry on college entrance. Relatively older students at school entry are likely to have better educational outcomes during the first college entrance. However, these differences in educational outcomes seem to decrease the more that younger students repeat taking the college entrance exam.

• Korean Journal of Adult Nursing
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.193-204
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• 2003

Purpose: Perceived barriers to exercise were investigated for adults. Method: A total 1266 subjects were selected by a quota sampling method with age, gender, and residence. Perceived barriers were categorized under 4 groups: knowledge, psychological, physical, and external factors. All 23 items of perceived barriers were responded on a dichotomous (yes/no) scale. Result: Mean number of perceived barriers was 4.61 and 87.9% subjects perceived at least one barrier which prevented involvement in exercise. External barriers ranked highest, followed in order by psychological, knowledge, and physical barriers. Most factors of perceived barriers were found to be different by age, gender, and residence, in that, the younger, female, living in Daejeon subjects were found to respond with more barriers than the older, male, living in Chungju or Seoul. Conclusion: Perceived barriers to exercise are differenct by age, gender, and residence. Therefore, it is recommended that age, gender, and residence of subjects must be considered in order to develop exercise programs and public campaigns.

• Proceedings of The Korean Society of Health Promotion Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.83-83
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• 2009

본 연구는 한국인 노년층이 대표적으로 섭취하는 강도별 음식을 조사하고 각 음식별로 씹어 먹을 수 있는 음식들이 무엇인지를 조사하여 자신이 보유하고 있는 자연치아수와의 상관관계를 알아보아 자연치아의 건강도를 유지, 관리, 예방하는데 하나의 지표로 사용하고 더 나아가 국민구강건강향상에 이바지 하고자 실시되었다. 전국의 60세 남 녀 586명을 대상으로 치과의사와 치과위생사가 구강검사와 면접법으로 설문내용을 기록하는 방식으로 진행하였다. 수집된 자료는 SPSS WIN 14.0 프로그램을 이용하여 분석하였다. 분석기법으로는 잔존치아수와 저작능력간의 관계를 상관계수와 회귀분석으로 분석 검증을 실시하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 1. 저작능력과 구강상태와는 치석, 동요도, 충전점수, 우식경험점수, 발거치아수, 임플란트 수, 자연치아수와 나이, 고혈압, 당뇨병, 기타질환, 흡연이 유의한 것으로 나타났다(p<0.05). 2. 회귀분석 결과 나이가 높을수록 저작능력이 감소하며, 자연치아수가 많을수록 저작능력이 높은 것으로 나타났으며 회귀방정식은 저작능력=79.417-(연령$\times$0.281)+3.813$\times$치아수와 같았다(p<0.05). 3. 회귀분석결과 저작능력점수와 자연치아수와의 관계가 가장 높은 것으로 나타났고 회귀방정식은 저작능력=3.817$\times$자연치아+58.694와 같았다(p<0.05). 4. 자연치아로 식사를 하기 위해서는 한국 노인의 주식인 밥과 김치정도를 잘 씹어 먹으려면 잔존 자연치아수가 18개 정도는 있어야 아주 잘 씹어 먹을 수 있고, 잘 먹으려면 12개의 자연치아가 있어야 하며, 육류를 잘 먹기 위해서는 최소한 18개는 있어야 잘 먹을 수 있고, 25개가 있으면 아주 잘 씹어 먹을 수 있다는 연구결과가 나왔다.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• v.50 no.6
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• pp.857-864
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• 2008

This study was conducted to identify various habits of stable vices and its occurring frequency in racing horses, currently managed in Korea, through categorizing the total 1,386 head of racing horses in Seoul Racing Park into sex, age and years of stabling. Among the 1,386 horses, 524 heads(37.8%) have shown habits of stable vices and its appearances rate according to each category is as following; While 40.7% of stallions showed the highest appearances rate of stable vices by sex, it was 50%, 44.2%, and 53% for the age of 2, 6 and 4, respectively by age, it was 41%, 40.6% and 39.1% for the years of stabling of 2, 4 and 3, respectively. For the appearances rate of individual stable vices, 7.0% of mares showed the highest appearances rate of ‘kicking at walls’, 12.9% of stallions showed ‘biting habit’ and 5.7% of castrated horses showed ‘weaving’ when grouped by sex. According to age, 8.3%, and 6.1% of horses of age 2 showed ‘kicking at walls’, ‘wind-sucking’ and ‘pawing’, respectively while 4.9% of horses of age 3 showed ‘pawing’, 6.4% of horses of age 4 showed ‘kicking at walls’, 6.8% of horses of age 5 showed ‘kicking at walls’ and ‘biting habit’ and 8.7% of horses of age 6 showed ‘weaving’ and ‘biting habit’. By the year of stabling, 6% of horses for 1 year had ‘pawing habit’, 7% og horses for 2 years had ‘kicking at walls’, 7.4% of horses for 3 years had ‘biting habit’ and it was 6.9% and 10.6% for ‘weaving’ for 4 and 5 years of stabling, respectively. In conclusion, the racing horses in Korea seemed to show high rate of appearance rate of stable vices and it is considered to be necessary to improve stable equipments and management skills to reduce the appearance rate of stable vices.

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.23-23
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• 2003

천체의 거리는 다양한안 방법을 사용하여 직접 혹 간접적으로 측정되어왔다. 특히 우주배경복사를 측정하는 인공위성 관측의 정밀도가 혁명적으로 향상됨에 따라 우주의 나이는 수 % 이내의 정밀도로 결정할 수 있는 수준으로 발전하였다. 우주의 규모가 구체적으로 정의되는 가운데 우주의 절대적인 크기를 제시하기 위하여 천체의 거리를 측정하는데 사용되는 표준등불로 세페이드 변광성 이외에 식쌍성이 새롭게 대두되었다. 이 논문에서는 식쌍성이 거리척도의 표준등불이 될 수 잇는지 검증하기 위하여 광도곡선과 시선속도곡선이 잘 알려진 알골형 쌍성 식쌍성 RY Aqr, RX Gem, RS Vul을 선정하여 거리를 산출하였다. 별을 선정한 기준은 2색 이상의 광도곡선이 발표되고, 이중 분광쌍성으로 시선속도곡선이 각 성분별로 잘 관측되어 발표되고, IUE 관측 자료가 있는 알골형 쌍성이다. 거리 산출과정에서 간접적으로 유추하여 얻는 인자를 줄이기 위하여, 광도곡선으로부터 별의 상대적인 크기를 구하고, 시선속도곡선으로부터 공전궤도의 장반경을 구하고, 별의 에너지 분포 곡선으로부터 별의 온도를 측정하였다. 위 3종류의 관측 결과를 종합하여 식쌍성의 물리적 인자와 거리를 구하였다. 이와 같은 방법으로 구한 거리는 히파크러스를 이용하여 관측한 시차와 비교하였다.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.209-221
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• 2017

We investigate the star formation rate, stellar mass, and gas-phase metallicity of local starburst galaxies with different star formation time scales based on their optical spectra. The observation is made using the longslit spectrograph attached to the 4K CCD on the Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory 1.8m telescope, targeting 21 Wolf-Rayet galaxies as young starbursts and 13 UV excess galaxies as slightly older starbursts. A Baldwin-Phillips-Terlevich diagram analysis shows that 50% of the observed targets are pure star-forming galaxies while only 15% are classified as Active Galactic Nuclei. Fraction of galaxies that reside in composite region is higher in UV excess galaxies than in Wolf-Rayet galaxies, suggesting that the AGN development requires extra time after the onset of the star formation. Most of the observed starburst galaxies have stellar masses of $10^{9-11}M_{\odot}$ and stellar formation rates of $0.01-100M_{\odot}yr^{-1}$, and their star formation rates are consistent with that of the SDSS star forming main sequence galaxies of similar stellar mass. There is no significant difference between Wolf-Rayet galaxies and UV excess galaxies in terms of the stellar mass and star formation rate. We also see a mass-metallicity relation for local starbursts with slightly lower metallicity for a given stellar mass, which implies the existence of a strong feedback activity due to the star formation in these galaxies.

• Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.313-321
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• 2014

Objectives: Pine needles are used as passive air samplers (PAS) of atmospheric persistent organic pollutants (POPs). This study was carried out in order to investigate whether pine needles can also be used as a PAS of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). Methods: PBDEs in one to three year-old pine needles were analyzed with HRGC/HRMS. Results: PBDEs in the atmosphere were accumulated in the pine needles. The rate of increase in concentration of lower substituted PBDEs (tri- through hepta-) in pine needles was linear. The rate of increase of the higher substituted PBDEs (octa- through deca-) was also liner, but only up to two year-old pine needles. The concentration did not increase further in older pine needles. Conclusion: Therefore, it can be concluded that young pine needles, those that are two years old or less, are recommended for use as PAS of atmospheric PBDEs.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.04a
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• pp.815-818
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• 2014

영상 분석을 통한 특징 추출은 객체의 인식이나 매칭, 인덱싱 등을 위해 수반되는 준비 단계로서 분야별로 다양한 방식을 통해 수행되어 왔다. 특히, 피부 영상 분석에 있어 주목할 만한 이슈는 피부의 노화 정도를 측정하는 것이다. 피부의 거칠기는 피부의 상태와 노화를 판단하는 중요한 근거의 하나이다. 본 논문에서는 피부 나이를 측정하기 위해 피부 현미경 영상에서 피부 거칠기를 평가하는 방법을 제안한다. 이를 위해 피부 현미경으로 촬영된 이미지에 이진화 및 질감 대비 향상, 노이즈 제거 등의 전처리 과정을 수행하고, Watershed 알고리즘과 외곽선 검출을 통해, 피부를 구성하는 셀들의 영역 정보를 획득한다. 이를 바탕으로 피부 거침의 변화량을 계산하여 거칠기를 정의한다. 제안한 방법의 효과를 검증하기 위해 다양한 연령대의 피험자로부터 피부 현미경 영상을 확보하고 실험을 통해 피부 거칠기 특징이 피험자의 연령대와 상관관계가 있음을 보인다.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.1237-1267
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• 2018

After independence in 1945, the South Korean economy rose steadily from a developing country to a developed country while, after independence in 1960, Nigeria is still a developing country with poverty on the increase, despite its large amount of natural resources. This research seeks to find a viable solution to this issue while studying the relationship that exist amongst Economic Development Plans (EDPs), National Innovation System (NIS) and economic development in Korea. The methodology used herein is a mixture of a systematic literature review and a semi-structured interview. The results of this study show that EDPs are essential to the enhancement of communication, and the flow of knowledge and innovation of the NIS. Furthermore, our result shows that the efficiency of the NIS is relevant to drive economic growth and development. Therefore, based on our analysis of the current situation in Nigeria and the development trajectory of Korea, we developed, introduced and recommended a theoretical framework called the "Multiple skipping" development trajectory as a model for development in Nigeria.