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The Effects of Yoga Exercise on Stress and Health status in Clinical Nurses (요가운동이 간호사의 스트레스와 건강상태에 미치는 효과)

  • Cho, Hak-Soon
    • The Korean Journal of Rehabilitation Nursing
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.15-23
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this study was to verify the effects of Yoga exercise as one way of the nursing intervention on stress and health status. This study was a quasi-experimental design with a non-equivalent control group pretest and posttest design. The study subjects were clinical nurses at K University hospital, in J city. Fifty one nurses were selected with 26 to a experimental group and 25 to a control group. The study data were collected from November, 2002 to January, 2003. During this period Yoga exercise was given to experimental group three times per week(one hour every time) for twelve weeks and no program was given to control group. The degree of general stress, job stress, health perception and health status was measured before and after experiment. The data were analyzed using SAS 8.1 program to obtain chi-square, paired, unpaired t-test. The results of this study are as follows. 1. After the experiment, the degree of general stress increased (t=-3.61, p=0.001) in experimental group, but in control group. There was significant difference between two groups (t=-2.10, p=0.041). However there was no significant difference in job stress between two groups and in each group (p=0.001), 2. After the experiment, the degree of health perception in experimental group increased (t=2.13, p=0.043) in control group. There was no significant difference between two groups. Health status in experimental group increased (t=3.14, 0.004) but in control group after the experiment. There was no significant difference between two groups. From the results, we are convinced that Yoga exercise is the nursing intervention that could decrease stress and promote health status in clinical nurses. Therefore Yoga exercise could be largely applied as one way of health care for nurses.

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Control Efficacy of Milk Concentration Against Powdery Mildew of Strawberry

  • Nam, Myeong-Hyeon;Lee, Won-Keun;Lee, Sok-Su;Kim, Nam-Gyu;Kim, Hong-Gi
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.270-274
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    • 2005
  • The aim of this study was to determine the effect of milk as one of the environmental friendly materials that substitute chemical fungicides for control powdery mildew (Sphaerotheca aphanis) of strawberries $(Fragaria{\times}ananassa\;Duch.)$. 'Maehyang' and 'Akihime' varieties planted in greenhouses were evaluated for the control of powdery mildew. Applications of $5\%,\;10\%\;and\;20\%$ milk had much better effects on controlling powdery mildew. In particular, $10\%$ milk showed a higher efficacy than other concentrations applied onto straw­berry in greenhouse experiments. Foliar spray application of $10\%$ milk was effective for powdery mildew, whereas drench application was not. Also, foliar spray of $10\%$ milk was able to accelerate more firmness and calcium contents of strawberry fruits than the non-treated. The $10\%$ milk applied with fertilizer salts $(Ca(H_2PO_4)_2-H_2O\;and KH_2PO_4)$ showed there was a similar efficacy to $10\%$ milk alone in greenhouse experiments. White crystals and cracks on strawberry fruits appeared by $20\%$ milk. This result indicated that $10\%$ milk was a useful substitute for fungicides to control powdery mildew of strawberry.

Eco-friendly Control of Whiteflies by Two-Fluid Fogging System with Natural Substances in Greenhouses (이류체 포그시스템 및 천연물을 이용한 친환경적 가루이 방제)

  • Kim, Sung-Eun;Lee, Sang-Don;Lee, Moon-Haeng;Kim, Young-Shik
    • Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.114-119
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    • 2012
  • We have conducted 4 experiments to develop the most environmental and effective use of the two-fluid fog system to prevent and exterminate whiteflies in tomato cultivation. In particular, these experiments used Vitamini tomatoes grown in stand-alone greenhouses at Buyeo Tomato Experiment Station as subjects. Each experiment utilized the fog system in a different way. The first experiment provided the control group, which was subject to the two-fluid fog system without additional humidity control. In the second experiment, the two-fluid fog system controlled the humidity level to be above 70%. The third and the fourth experiment utilized natural substances, which were 1.5 mg/L of Neem Oil and 2 mg/L of Oleic acid respectively, without additional humidity control. From the first experiment, we could observe that a simple use of the two-fluid fog system decreased the density of whiteflies in the greenhouses. This impact of the fog system on whiteflies was greater in the second experiment. By comparing the first and the second experiment, we concluded that whiteflies are more effectively prevented by maintaining a higher humidity level via the fog system's smaller water droplets that float in the air for longer time than the standard fog system in rather dry condition. In the third and the fourth experiments, the extermination level was 78% and 76.4% respectively, comparing only 53% in the first experiment without the humidity control. Therefore, using the natural substances in addition to the humidity control increases the extermination effectiveness. Considering the similar results from the 3rd and the 4th experiments, Oleic acid has a greater appeal for its lower price. Using the two-fluid fog system to both control the humidity on a daily basis and spray the substances for occasional extermination would reduce labor cost and increase production in an environmental way.

Instantaneous Following Control of Half-Bridge DC-DC Converter (하프브리지 DC-DC 컨버터의 순시추종제어)

  • Ra B.H.;Lee H.W.;Kim S.D.;Kim K.T.
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2003.07a
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    • pp.54-57
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    • 2003
  • A new non linear, mean value, instantaneous following control technique to design half bridge converter is proposed in witch control principle uses characteristic that reset time of analog integrator is inverse proportion In input voltage. It is Important characteristic that compensation and follow-up control time are same with switching frequency. Is completed in one cycle that base control frequency. Have excellence characteristic that follow in order instruction value exactly stationary state as well as transient state. Half bridge converter that apply this control principle can know that have stabilize and excellence characteristic. This technique is verified through an experiment, and know that experiment result and theory agree well.

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An Expert System for Design of Experiment (실험계획 전문가 시스템)

  • Kim, Sung-In;Mun, Soon-Hwan
    • IE interfaces
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.99-105
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    • 1994
  • The Artificial Intelligence Lab of Industrial Engineering Department, Korea University is continuing to develop expert systems for quality control methods such as acceptance control, process control and reliability analysis. As a series of these efforts, The Artificial Intelligence Lab of Industrial Engineering Department, Korea University is continuing to develop expert systems for quality control methods such as acceptance control, process control and reliability analysis. As a series of these efforts, this paper concerns an expert system for design of experiment. The system includes factorial experiments, response surface methodology and Taguchi method. PROLOG is used as a language with dBASE III+ for the data base management system and C for calculations and graphics. This system selecting the appropriate method and analyzing the data obtained can be implemented on an IBM PC 386 or a higher level machine.

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Development of Intelligent Landscape Lighting Power Control and Monitoring System with Solar Cell Generator Equipment (태양광발전설비와 연계한 지능형 경관조명 전력제어 및 모니터링 시스템의 개발)

  • Kim, Dong-Wan;Park, Sung-Won;Kim, Hyung-Su
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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    • v.60 no.2
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    • pp.99-104
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, the intelligent landscape lighting power control and monitoring system with solar sell generator equipment is proposed. The first, the intelligent landscape lighting power controller is designed using the fuzzy logic control method. And the fuzzy logic controller is used to save power consumption for various reference intensity of the illumination. The second, the GUI monitoring system is presented. It has control and display faculty. And the practical experiment device is used to evaluate the performance criteria of the proposed intelligent landscape lighting power control system with the solar cell power generation equipment. From the experiment results, we present the property of proposed fuzzy controller such as steady state error, the tracking and power consumption characteristic for the reference intensity of illumination. And also we show the superiority of power control as well as the characteristic of GUI monitoring system in the proposed system.

A Study on Operation of Man-Machine Interface for Tractor 3-point Hitch (트랙터 3점 히치의 인간-기계 인터페이스 동작에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, S.S.;Lee, C.H.;Lee, J.Y.;Mun, J.H.
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.32 no.5
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    • pp.284-291
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    • 2007
  • This study was to investigate performance of position, basic controls and additional control for man-machine interface on a 3-point hitch of a tractor. The developed additional control was one-touchup, backup, turnup, liftarm limited, PTO on/off and an external control. As a result of experiment, maximum steady state error of response system was lower than $0.8^{\circ}$ and this result showed the function operated normally because the dead band of system set was ${\pm}1^{\circ}$. There was no abnormal situation by switch operation and sensor signal during the performance test. The results of experiment showed the characteristics of the response was sufficient to be used as the position and additional control system for tractors.

Half Load-Cycle Worked Dual Input Single Output DC/AC Inverter

  • Chen, Rong;Zhang, Jia-Sheng
    • Journal of Power Electronics
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.1217-1223
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    • 2014
  • A novel half load-cycle worked dual input single output (DISO) DC/AC inverter is presented. The basic circuit consists of a dual buck regulator, which works in continuous current mode. The working principle of DISO DC/AC inverter has been used. The control method applied for half load-cycle worked DISO DC/AC inverter has been studied. The control effects of the open-loop proportional control and closed-loop proportional-integral control are compared by using PSIM software. The parameters are adopted in the realistic simulation and experiment test. Moreover, the waveforms, such as voltage of modulation reference signal and output voltage, were given. The simulation and experiment results proved that the half load-cycle worked DISO DC/AC inverter could achieve good performance, gain a line frequency of 50 Hz, and verify the correctness of theoretical analysis.

A New Control Algorithm of Series Active Power Filter for Harmonic Reduction in Power System (전력계통 시스템에서 고조파 저감을 위한 새로운 직렬형 능동전력필터의 제어법)

  • Lim, Seung-Won;Han, Yoon-Seok;Kim, Young-Seok;Won, Chung-Yuen;Choi, Se-Wan
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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    • v.50 no.5
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    • pp.221-228
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    • 2001
  • In this paper, a new control algorithm of series active power filter is proposed to reduce harmonic generated from nonlinear load in power system. In conventional control algorithm, harmonic current must be calculated firstly, and then compensation voltage was calculated by using the results but the proposed control algorithm can calculate compensation voltage directly. Compensating principle of proposed control algorithm is presented in detail. A combined system of series active filter and passive filter is composed in order to experiment. Experiment was carried out to verify proposed control algorithm of series active filter and experimental results are analyzed.

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Position and Vibration Control of a Spatial Redundant Flexible Manipulator by using Pseudo-inverse of Jacobian (유사 역행렬을 이용한 여유자유도 3차원 유연 매니퓰레이터의 위치 및 진동제어)

  • Kim, Jin-Su
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.18 no.12
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    • pp.66-72
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    • 2001
  • In this paper, by using pseudo-inverse matrix of the spatial redundant flexible manipulators, a position control method and its effect in vibration suppression was presented. Vibration suppression control was developed using lumped mass spring model of the flexible manipulators. With 2 elastic links and 7 rotory joint manipulator ADAM, (1)position control for no redundancy, and (2)position control for one redundant DOF(degree of freedom) were tested. The objective of this experiment is to show the effect of position control, using pseudo-inverse matrix. toward the improvement of operation, and at the same time, to reduce the vibration of the link and the magnitude of the joint torque.

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