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Analysis of Perception on the Bioequivalence-assured Generic Drugs (생물학적동등성 인정 제네릭의약품에 대한 인식도 분석)

  • Lee, Eui-Kyung;Kim, Dong-Sook
    • Korean Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.139-146
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    • 2006
  • Objectives: Bio-equivalence(BE) test is important not only to ensure the quality of generic drugs, but also to promote drug substitution under the separation of prescribing and dispensing practice(SPD). This study was intended to investigate the perception of consumers, doctors, and pharmacists on the confidence of bio-equivalence(BE) assured drugs. Methods: Nation-wide telephone interview survey was conducted for 1,018 consumers, 800 doctors, and 806 pharmacists from September to October in 2003. Descriptive analysis and ${\chi}^2$ analysis were conducted. Results: Even though people showed higher confidence level for the Bioequivalent drugs compared with Bio-inequivalent drugs, the confidence was generally low. Among those asked about the therapeutic substitutability of original drugs by BE versions, 95.78% of pharmacists responded "positive", while only 39.33% of consumers and 31.13% of doctors said so. The elderly, the less educated, who takes chronic disease medicine, pays high cost of prescription drugs, and are in the low income responded less aware of that. Also most consumers got information such as effect of drugs from either media or doctors. Conclusions: In order for people to believe that BE drugs and original drugs are equivalent, we need to strengthen health education, and to clarify any misunderstanding. It is also necessary for the national policy to provide accurate information about drugs to the public.

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An Anti-Overload Model for OpenStack Based on an Effective Dynamic Migration

  • Ammar, Al-moalmi;Luo, Juan;Tang, Zhuo
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.10 no.9
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    • pp.4165-4187
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    • 2016
  • As an emerging technology, cloud computing is a revolution in information technology that attracts significant attention from both public and private sectors. In this paper, we proposed a dynamic approach for live migration to obviate overloaded machines. This approach is applied on OpenStack, which rapidly grows in an open source cloud computing platform. We conducted a cost-aware dynamic live migration for virtual machines (VMs) at an appropriate time to obviate the violation of service level agreement (SLA) before it happens. We conducted a preemptive migration to offload physical machine (PM) before the overload situation depending on the predictive method. We have carried out a distributed model, a predictive method, and a dynamic threshold policy, which are efficient for the scalable environment as cloud computing. Experimental results have indicated that our model succeeded in avoiding the overload at a suitable time. The simulation results from our solution remarked the very efficient reduction of VM migrations and SLA violation, which could help cloud providers to deliver a good quality of service (QoS).

Context-aware U-VR Simulator for Linking Real and Virtual Environments (현실환경과 가상 환경을 연동하는 맥락 인식 기반 U-VR 시뮬레이터)

  • Oh, Yoo-Soo;Kang, Chang-Gu;Woo, Woon-Tack
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.02a
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    • pp.310-314
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    • 2009
  • In this paper we propose the U-VR Simulator which seamlessly connects entities in real and virtual environments by exploiting context, based on the concept of ubiquitous virtual reality. Using the U-VR Simulator, a smart home environment can be simulated and new virtual entities such as sensors, actuators, and services can be added to existing real entities. The proposed approach is fast and cost-effective because the simulator effectively utilizes both existing and simulated devices. In addition, our approach allows application developers to rapidly develop U-VR applications and extend them to relevant domains. As a future work, we will expand our simulator to intelligently augment virtual entities into real environments.

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A Study on Grandmothers' Subjectivity regarding Grandchild Care: an Application of Q-methodology (손자녀 돌봄에 대한 조모의 주관성 탐구: Q방법론적 접근)

  • Yi, Yeong Sug
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.205-217
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    • 2014
  • This study examined attitudes of grandmothers who had experience in grandchild care in order to explore their subjectivity. Research questions were 1) to categorize the attitudes toward grandchild care, and 2) to analyze each type's characteristics and elucidate the analyses. The results are as follows. Grandmothers' attitudes toward grandchild care were categorized into three types: (1) adjusting-to-role-change type, (2) recognizing-the-role-burdens type, (3) enjoying-the-traditional-role type. Type 1, the adjusting-to-role-change type was aware of positive facets of grandchild care, and actively accepted the caring responsibility, but did not think it was a grandmother's duty to care for the grandchildren or that it was the sole pleasure in a grandmother's life. Type 2, the recognizing-the-role-burdens type, had a negative view regarding grandchild care, perceiving the cost too high relative to the reward. On the other hand, Type 3, the enjoying-the-traditional-role type considered grandchild care as a pleasure and a duty, and downplayed negative aspects such as having no time to herself, assuming the traditional grandmother role and enjoying it. These results imply that the attitudes of grandmothers nowadays are undergoing a change from the traditional grandmother role attitude.

Review on the Approaches and Issues of the Hospice Care Program (호스피스 전개에 있어서 과제와 방향에 대한 모색 -호스피스 전개를 위한 교육적 측면에서-)

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    • Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.146-159
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    • 1994
  • The conecpt of hospice care for the terminally ill is a development of relatively modern times, although it has its origins in antiquity. The hospice will be able to handle progressively more and more patient, to the limit of its resources. The purposes of this study were to review of demand and issues of the hospice care programes and to recommand the hospice care approaches in south Korea that using the book-review method. At this point, although at present there is a general unawareness of hospice throughout Korean society, the public will become gradually aware of hospice. This will thus aid the development of hospices. Awareness will come about because of the educational efforts of medical schools, nursing schools, allied health training programs, practicing hospice care giver, universities, and others interested in hospice education. At present, there are many issues of the hospice care program that are hospice resources problems of manpower, facilities, finances, and cost of hospice services, quality of care, and ethics. Additional studies are needed to determine the most efficacious organizational hospice models for varying conditions. They will insist upon reasonable regulatory agency regulations that will promote the hospice idea and. permit adequate remuneration for services provided. More research is needed on health professionals', patients', and others' attitudes towards death.

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Systematic Literature Review on Cloud Adoption

  • Bagiwa, Idris Lawal;Ghani, Imran;Younas, Muhammad;Bello, Mannir
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.1-22
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    • 2016
  • While many organizations believe that cloud computing has the potential to reduce operational cost by abstracting capital assets like data storage center and processing systems into a readily on demand available and affordable operating expenses, still many of these organizations are not aware of the factors determining the performance of cloud computing technology. This paper provides a systematic literature review focusing on the factors determining the performance of cloud computing. In trying to come up with this review, the following sources were searched for relevant articles: ScienceDirect, Scientific.Net, ACMDigital Library, IEEE Xplore, Springer, World Scientific Journal, Wiley Online Library, Academic Search Premier (via EBSCOHost) and EdITLib (Education & Information Technology Digital Library). In first search strategy, approximately 100 keywords related to the research domain like; "Cloud Computing" and "Cloud Services" were used. In second search strategy, 65 keywords more related to the research domain were selected. In the third search strategy, the primary materials were identified and classified according to the paper types (Journal or Conference), year of publication and so on. Based on this study, twenty (20) factors were found that determine the performance of cloud computing. The IT organization needs to consider these twenty (20) factors in order to adopt cloud computing.

A Study on the Secure method of Construction Workspace by using Building Information Modeling (BIM을 활용한 작업공간 확보 방안에 관한 연구)

  • Song, Dong-Hyeon;Lee, Sang-Beom;Song, Ho-San
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.9-10
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    • 2011
  • Domestic construction industry suffered from the IMF and makes a great effort to improve in 'cost management', 'strengthening the competitiveness of the construction industry'. Therefore, the industry has become interested in improving the productivity of construction and ongoing research is being progressed in various angles. In such circumstances, the needs for a study of concepts and space of the actual construction work place is emerging. This study were utilized BIM to understand the types and causes of problems in space during the finishing work in construction and categorize importance and frequency of occurence through a survey of experts and AHP to analyze the realtive effects of importance then modeling to them to aware of issues and give direction for efficient management. This study is anylize the problem which is caused by same time process in finishing work progress of apartment applied by BIM. and categorize the type of work interference management in finishing work, and anylize by the type of occurence then predict the work interference management through in BIM 3D VIEW and suggest the solutions.

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Wedding Dress Design for Handicapped People (지체장애인을 위한 웨딩드레스 디자인)

  • Lee, Hyun-Jeong
    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.1254-1260
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    • 2010
  • In such special or precious occasions as a wedding ceremony, brides, handicapped or not, wish to wear a beautiful wedding dress. However, an ordinary wedding dress is not suitable nor convenient to a bride who has a bodily impediment. A one-piece type wedding dress, which even a normal bride needs assistants to help her wear, will create more inconvenience to crippled females. In this connection, this study is purposed to convert a normal ready-made wedding dress design into one suitable to the bodily handicapped females. For handicapped people on a wheelchair who generally put on and off a wedding dress while sitting on the chair, a one-piece type wedding dress is divided into the top and the skirt to make it a two-piece type wedding dress which is easy to get into and take off. The top should be separated from the skirt in such a manner that the wearer may not be aware of the division of the two pieces but easily put on and off since the sides or back of the top is opened. An opening is also given to the sides of the skirt so that handicapped people may sit on the skirt on the chair and then close the opening by themselves. Converting ready-made wedding dress design into functional clothes for handicapped people is really significant in that ready-made clothes can be recycled, their production cost reduced, and the economic burden of handicapped people relieved.

Thermal Management for Multi-core Processor and Prototyping Thermal-aware Task Scheduler (멀티 코어 프로세서의 온도관리를 위한 방안 연구 및 열-인식 태스크 스케줄링)

  • Choi, Jeong-Hwan
    • Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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    • v.35 no.7
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    • pp.354-360
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    • 2008
  • Power-related issues have become important considerations in current generation microprocessor design. One of these issues is that of elevated on-chip temperatures. This has an adverse effect on cooling cost and, if not addressed suitably, on chip reliability. In this paper we investigate the general trade-offs between temporal and spatial hot spot mitigation schemes and thermal time constants, workload variations and microprocessor power distributions. By leveraging spatial and temporal heat slacks, our schemes enable lowering of on-chip unit temperatures by changing the workload in a timely manner with Operating System (OS) and existing hardware support.

A Study on Bamboo Products in Damyang (담양 죽제품 연구)

  • Cho, Sook-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korea Furniture Society
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.145-153
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    • 2015
  • This paper or article is about bamboo products from Damyang that have been degenerated by the threat of Chinese low-cost products. Comparing the products from Damyang and China, we could point out four problems and come up with solutions. Firstly, we need strong and specific storytelling based on historical facts and various research to boost the bamboo industry. In order to introduce interesting storytelling to the public, it is also necessary to train some good-quality workers. The public would be more familiar with the bamboo products from Damyang than Chinese products. Secondly, technologies used for bamboo products from Damyang are extremely behind the times. Skill shortages for bamboo products caused to create unattractive products to the public for approximately 30 years. Thus, we need to acquire advanced technologies from abroad as well as to develop our own. Thirdly, Even though attractive bamboo products would be produced with advanced technologies, workers in bamboo industry lack knowledge of distribution channels and marketing strategy so that there is no way to introduce their products effectively to the consumers. Therefore, government agencies or marketers should educate workers to help running their business successfully. Finally, bamboo products have been fashion and living items for some specific consumers for the last years. However, we need to create variously new types of bamboo products through the collaboration with a wide range of artists to be widely appealing. In conclusion, it is important to be aware of the problems and solutions above. The 17th Bamboo Expo in Damyang will be a great opportunity to introduce Korean bamboo products in worldwide and develop the bamboo industry.