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An Estimation for VMS Message Reading Time Considering Traffic Condition and Human Factor (교통상황 및 인적요소를 고려한 도로전광표지 판독소요시간 추정)

  • Hyun, Moon-Kook;Kim, Seung-Ji;Kim, Byoung-Jong;Kim, Won-Kyu
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.13-27
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    • 2012
  • According to the development of Intelligent Transportation System technology, VMS(Variable Message Signs) are operating on highway. But, VMS display information which don't reflect traffic condition and driver's human factor. So driver can't read VMS message during limited time, it makes to reduce VMS's reliability. This paper presents a model for VMS message reading time and distance considering traffic condition and human factor. We built driving simulator by Winroad package which is able to copy real driving condition. Subjects were comprised of 20 people who reflect domestic driver's condition such as sex. We did regression analysis with experiment results and draw the model. The model could be possible to develop message- set considering traffic condition and human factor.

Development of Risk Assessment by Ergonomics for Conscious Reform : Focused on the Semiconductor Industry (의식개혁을 위해 인간공학에 의한 위험성 평가 기법 개발 : 반도체 산업을 중심으로)

  • Kang, Young-Sig;Park, Peom;Yoon, Yong-Gu
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.101-106
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    • 2009
  • The unsafe act and unsafe condition is due to human error that experience 80% of safety accidents. Accordingly, one of the most important issues to reduce industrial accidents as a whole, is how to reduce the accident rate by the human error. Therefore, this paper describes the development of quantitative risk assessment (QRA) model by ergonomics for reform of safety consciousness on the semiconductor industry. Unconsciousness, disregard, ignorance, recklessness, and stress among the human factors are selected for conscious reform. Finally, the QRA model is efficiently expected to contribute towards improving continuous self-safety and health and safety culture campaign in order to prevent industrial accidents.

Efficacy of Human Placental Extract Pharmacopuncture into Kwanwon on Fatigue in Students (관원혈에 대한 자하거 약침 요법이 수험생의 피로 개선에 미치는 효과)

  • Cho, Tae-Hwan;Park, Sun-Seob;Park, Kyeong-Mee
    • The Journal of Korean Medicine
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.29-34
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    • 2013
  • Objectives: This report aimed to demonstrate effect of human placental extract (HPE) pharmacopuncture in students suffering fatigue due to hard work and mental stress. Methods: Thirty-four college students, preparing for the final-term exam, received pharmacopuncture of HPE into Kwanwon (CV4) subcutaneously twice a week for 7 weeks. After every pharmacopuncture of HPE, degree of fatigue was surveyed by questionnaire including physical condition, physical endurance, concentration and memory. Results: Pharmacopuncture of HPE into CV4 gently improved physical condition, physical endurance, concentration and memory. Improvement of physical condition was especially positively correlated with the increasing number of pharmacopuncture of HPE into CV4 as confirmed by calculation of Pearson coefficient. Conclusions: Pharmacopuncture of HPE into CV4 alleviated fatigue in the students from hard work and mental stress.

Establishing Unmanned Aircraft System(UAS)-based Facility Condition Monitoring Process through Benchmarking Analysis (벤치마킹 분석을 통한 무인항공시스템 기반 시설물 상태 모니터링 프로세스 수립 연구)

  • Kwon, Jin-Hyeok;Kim, Sungjin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2022.11a
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    • pp.101-102
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    • 2022
  • The current facility condition monitoring has disadvantages such as a slow inspection cycle, a risk of human casualties, and the need for a lot of time and money as the size of the structure is larger, because human access is required with limited use. Drones can reduce the risk of human casualties due to their good accessibility, and can compensate for the shortcomings of the current method by enabling monitoring on a wide scale. The goal of this study is to provide the current domestic monitoring process through benchmarking according to the recent research case of the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to suggest a process suitable for the domestic situation and the direction of future improvement measures.

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Humanized (SCID) Mice as a Model to Study human Leukemia

  • Lee, Yoon;Kim, Donghyun Curt;Kim, Hee-Je
    • Biomedical Science Letters
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.51-59
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    • 2015
  • A humanized mice (hu-mice) model is extremely valuable to verify human cell activity in vivo condition and is regarded as an important tool in examining multimodal therapies and drug screening in tumor biology. Moreover, hu-mice models that simply received human $CD34^+$ blood cells and tissue transplants are also overwhelmingly useful in immunology and stem cell biology. Because generated hu-mice harboring a human immune system have displayed phenotype of human $CD45^+$ hematopoietic cells and when played partly with functional immune network, it could be used to evaluate human cell properties in vivo. Although the hu-mice model does not completely recapitulate human condition, it is a key methodological factor in studying human hematological malignancies with impaired immune cells. Also, an advanced humanized leukemic mice (hu-leukemic-mice) model has been developed by improving immunodeficient mice. In this review, we briefly described the history of development on immunodeficient SCID strain mice for hu-and hu-leukemic-mice model for immunologic and tumor microenviromental study while inferring the potential benefits of hu-leukemic-mice in cancer biology.

Diagnosis of Office Occupant's Adaptation Level for Thermal Environment (사무실 근무자의 온열환경에 대한 적응수준 진단)

  • Kim, Yang-Weon
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.747-754
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    • 2003
  • The actual clothing conditions were surveyed to diagnose clothing condition of Korean female in the view point of the adaptation to the thermal environment according to seasonal changes. Then, clothing microclimate, physiological responses, and subjective sensation were investigated through wearing trials on human body in climatic chamber based on the results from the survey. Factors to evaluate validity of clothing condition were clothing weight, clothing microclimate, physiological response of human body, and subjective sensation. The results were as follows: 1. Clothing weight per body surface area of the season was $856g/m^{2}$, $439g/m^{2}$ in summer, $630g/m^{2}$ in fall, and $1184g/m^{2}$ in winter. Cold - resistance of Korean female in office was superior to Japanese, inferior to residents of rural areas of Korea, and similar to male in office. However, in heat - resistance, female in office was inferior to residents of rural areas of Korea. 2. In spring, fall, winter, clothing microclimate temperature was a little higher than that in summer. Therefore, it was not a desirable wearing condition even though the clothing microclimate was comfortable zone. 3. Mean skin temperature of female in office was including within the range of Winslow's comfortable zone, but the range of comfortable zone in mean skin temperature of female was more narrow than Winslow's. Thus, it has problem for female to adaptation to thermal environment.

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A SQUID MEG Study on the Auditory Primary Response induced by Acupuncture on TE5 (Waiguan).GB43 (Xiaxi) (외관(外關)(TE5).협계(俠谿)(GB43) 자침이 SQUID로 측정한 뇌 청각영역의 뇌자도(腦磁圖) 변화에 미치는 영향)

  • Choi Chan-Hun;Ra Ki-Uung;Jang Kyeong-Seon;Na Chang-Su
    • Korean Journal of Acupuncture
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.135-145
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    • 2006
  • Objectives and Methods : Using the 2-channel DROS SQUID (Korea Research Institute of Standards of Science, 1999), the present study was carried out to record changes elicited in the auditory cortex by acupuncture stimulus on right TE5 (Waiguan) and GB43 (Xiaxi). Needle-retention stimulation of TE5 and GB43 were done for acquiring the brain activities changed by acupuncture. Acupoint TE5 and GB43 is known to be effective for the treatment of ear-related disease, such as deafness and tinnitus, and to be suspected to be related to the auditory cortex. Auditory evoked magnetic fields were recorded hem the left hemisphere of five subjects, in response to contralateral ear stimulation by irregularly spaced 170 msec long 1kHz tone busts (Korea Research Institute of Standards of Science) Results and Conclusions : The result as follows. The latency and amplitude of SQUID MEG responses at the human auditory cortex changed by needle-retention condition on TE5 were 4msec and 9.2 fT, respectively, which were slower and smaller than those of no-acupuncture condition. The latency and amplitude of SQUID MEG responses at the human auditory cortex changed by needle-retention condition on GB43 were 7.2 msec and 1.6 fT, respectively, which were slower and larger than those of no-acupuncture condition. The latency of SQUID MEG responses at the human auditory cortex changed by needle-retention condition on GB43 condition was slower than that of TE5 acupuncture condition.

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Influence of Entrance Examinees' Eating Behavior on their Health Condition. (대입수험생의 식사행동이 그들의 건강상태에 미치는 영향)

  • Cho, Jin-Suk;Kim, Ki-Nam
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.25-31
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    • 1993
  • The purpose of this study was to find out the influence of Entrance Examinees' Eating Behavior on their health condition. The examinees for Chungbuk National university in 1992 were asked to fill out the questionnaire(The total number was 1054 ; 537 males, 517 females). The statistics used for data analysis were frequency, percentage, Crosstabs, Chi-square, t-test, one-way Anova, and Multiple Regression using SPSS/PC+ Program. The results are as follows. 1. Health condition due to an eating attitude: 1) As to health condition due to the food intake freguency, those who intaked fish or meat 3-5 days a week had the best heal th condition, but those who hardly intaked fish and meat or intaked them almost everyday had rather poor health condition. Those who intaked fried foods 1-2 days a week had the best health condition. The higher the freguency intaking such food or instant food was, the worse health condition was. 2) In view of health condition according to an eating attitude, it led to very good health condition to have breakfast & supper, to eat regularly, to select the nutritious foods, and to have a balanced diet. Overeating before sleeping and no meal or overeating before exam made their health very bad. Alcohol drinking & cigarrette smoking as favorite foods appeared significantly high in the boys. The more frequently they drinked alcohol and smoked cigarrette the worse their health condition was. Those who enjoyed milk, soya milk, and korean tea as favorite beverages had the better health condition than those who enjoyed coffee and soft drinks. 2. Influence of Eating Behavior on Health Condition. 1) The food intake freguency and the eating attitude influenced each other. The higher the score of food intake frequency was, the better the eating attitude appeared. 2) As a result of this study for eating behavior influencing on their health condition, the eating attitude influenced health condition, and the higher the eating attitude score was, the better heal th condition could be.

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The Effect of Organizational Influence on Precondition for Unsafe Acts in Pilots - Focused on HFACS - (조직영향이 조종사들의 불안전행위의 전제조건에 미치는 영향 - HFACS를 중심으로)

  • Yu, TaeJung;Song, Byeong-Heum
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.161-169
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    • 2017
  • The Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) is a general human error framework originally developed and tested within the U.S. military as a tool for investigating and analyzing the human causes of aviation accidents. Based upon Reason's (1990) model of latent and active failures, HFACS addresses human error at all levels of the system, including the condition of aircrew and organizational factors. As a result, this study aims to examine the influence between the latent conditions based on HFACS. This study seeks to verify the factors of "Organizational Influence" effecting the "Precondition for Unsafe Acts" of HFACS. The results of empirical analysis demonstrated that the organizational influence had a positive influence on precondition for unsafe act, especially the "Organizational Climate" of organizational influence had even greater influence on precondition for unsafe acts.

Association among Religiosity, Self-Esteem and Life Satisfaction of the Elderly (노인의 종교성, 자아존중감과 생활만족도간의 관계)

  • Jeon, Young-Ja;Park, Kyung-Rhan
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.239-249
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship among religiosity, self-esteem, and life satisfaction of the elderly. The subjects of this study are 228 elders living in Busan and Gyeongnam areas, who have religions such as Christianity or Catholicism. The main results of this study are as follows: 1) Elders' health condition, starting age of religion, and social religious activity are revealed to be significant variables which influence their self-esteem. 2) Self-esteem, individual religious activity, and health condition are revealed to be significant variables which influence their life satisfaction.

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