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A study on the financial structure of low-fertility household (저출산가계의 재무구조분석)

  • Park, Jin-Yeong
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.679-692
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    • 2008
  • The goal of this study is to analyze one-child households' financial structure. The data from 1022 more than two children households and 236 one-child households were taken from the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study(2004). This study compared demographic, socioeconomic and marital characteristics between one-child households and more than two children households. A chi-square test, t-test and multiple regression analysis were used. The major findings were as follows: One-child households were different from more than two children households in demographic socioeconomic characteristics and financial structure. In one-child households, the variable that significantly influenced on consumption expenditures was monthly income and the variables that significantly influenced on private education expenditures were householder's age, home-ownership, monthly income.

A Study on the Economic Well-Being of Housewives (주부의 경제적복지에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Kyung-Ok
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.903-915
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    • 2004
  • Now in Korea, many factors-for example, unemployment rate rise, consumer prices, corporate restructuring, etc.-are threatening family economy. Thus many households are faced with an economic crisis. In this circumstances, it is the role of households as a subsystem of family system to keep family and household economy stable for the sake of family growth and development. Economic well-being is differentiated by criterion of household economic status. But it has a large scale of spectrum: household income, asset, consumption, debt and the like. Moreover, these indices have been understood and measured differently by many researchers. In this thesis, we made efforts to distinguish subjective satisfaction from objective satisfaction, and then focus on the former. The data were collected from 399 housewives living in Pusan through questionnaires.

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Method of Using Human Visual Characteristics Based Optimized LED Backlight Control for Power Saving LED TV (시각 인지 적응 기반의 저전력 LED TV의 백라이트 구동 최적화 설계 기술)

  • Jung, Hye-Dong
    • 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.08a
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    • pp.86-87
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    • 2009
  • LED backlight for LCD TV is a great alternative to CCFL backlight due to its low power consumption and flexible arrangement. Various LED backlight configurations are being used to control the backlight locally in order to achieve both power efficiency and high contrast. However, the relatively small spatial resolution of the backlight system results in showing artifacts of backlight control that is acknowledgeable to human vision. Moreover, such artifacts get worse between temporal frames. In this paper we present a method of decreasing such temporal artifacts with a Human Visual System(HVS) approach to minimize distortion caused by local backlight dimming.

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Communicating clinical research to reduce cancer risk through diet: Walnuts as a case example

  • Toner, Cheryl D.
    • Nutrition Research and Practice
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.347-351
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    • 2014
  • Inflammation is one mechanism through which cancer is initiated and progresses, and is implicated in the etiology of other conditions that affect cancer risk and prognosis, such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and visceral obesity. Emerging human evidence, primarily epidemiological, suggests that walnuts impact risk of these chronic diseases via inflammation. The published literature documents associations between walnut consumption and reduced risk of cancer, and mortality from cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, particularly within the context of the Mediterranean Diet. While encouraging, follow-up in human intervention trials is needed to better elucidate any potential cancer prevention effect of walnuts, per se. In humans, the far-reaching positive effects of a plant-based diet that includes walnuts may be the most critical message for the public. Indeed, appropriate translation of nutrition research is essential for facilitating healthful consumer dietary behavior. This paper will explore the translation and application of human evidence regarding connections with cancer and biomarkers of inflammation to the development of dietary guidance for the public and individualized dietary advice. Strategies for encouraging dietary patterns that may reduce cancer risk will be explored.

New platinum-complex compounds with reduced nephrotoxicity discovered in long term histoculture of human renal cortex

  • Chang, S-G.;Jung, J.C.;Rho, Y.S.;Kwon, D.U.;Hoffman, R.M.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Applied Pharmacology
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    • 1995.04a
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    • pp.124-124
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    • 1995
  • Cisplatinum is often effective in cancer treatment, but potent nephrotoxicity limits its clinical use. We have, therefore, developed new anticancer drugs that contain platinum. We have synthesized six new platinum compounds based on Figure 1. Drugs were initially administrated at 5${\times}$10$\^$-4/M with 48 hours exposure in monolayer cultures of primary rabbit proximal tubular cells and human renal cortical cells with the M.T.T. endpoint to measure toxicity. Drug concentrations of 10$\^$-3/M, 10$\^$-4/M, and 10$\^$-5/M with 72 hours exposure were used for human renal cortical tissues in 7 weeks histoculture with toxicity measured by the glucose-consumption endpoint. From these studies, we determined that the new platinum drugs have lower nephrotoxicity than cisplatinum. Drugs D, E, and H. have lower nephrotoxicity than the other new drugs. We are currently measuring the anticancer efficacy of drugs D, E, and H.

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A Study on the Satisfaction and Repurchase Intention on Social Commerce of University Students (대학생 소비자의 소셜커머스 만족도와 재구매의도에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Kyoung Ok
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.1111-1128
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    • 2012
  • Many social commerce companies are being established and the market for social commerce is also developing quickly. In this study, the utilization, satisfaction, repurchase and recommendation intentions of social commerce consumption were studied, followed by an analysis of different factors that influence repurchase and recommendation intentions. The results of this study are as follows: first, the satisfaction of social commerce products was in the mid-range, with results being consistent across the range of social commerce companies. Secondly, there was a correlation between satisfaction associated with social commerce and repurchase and recommendation intention. Thirdly, there was a correlation between the level of satisfaction and demographic characteristics. Based on the research findings, suggestions are presented for improving consumer policy and education.

Textiles, Clothing & the Human Element

  • Hawley, Jana M.
    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.286-293
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    • 2012
  • Years ago, anthropologists gave no attention to clothing and dress; but in the 1980s, a new research agenda was created placing the body surface at center stage (Tranberg-Hansen, 2004). Now culture is seen as a process created through agency, practice, and performance-no doubt, clothing very much has a human element. Just as important, we now understand that the globalization process has both local and global impact. Highest on this local/global interaction is the process of consumption. Certainly we are not surprised by this when we know that clothes may be inspired from France, tech-packed from New York, sourced from all over the world, produced in China, and sold in shops on the other side of the globe.

A Study on Space Design of the LOHAS Concept (로하스(LOHAS)개념의 공간 디자인 연구)

  • Kim, Sang-Ok;Yim, Eun-Young
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.130-133
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    • 2005
  • The ecological environment planning begins with the awareness that human are a part of ecological system. A recent issue, LOHAS (Lifestyle of Health and Substantiality), will be defined as a consumption trend which values highly health, social justice, economy, self development and sustainable life. LOHAS aims at coexistence with human and nature, pursue a sustainable development and it could be an alternative for SHS(Sick House Syndrome). This research tries to show the case analysis in coexistence in human and nature which LOHAS aims at. The design space applied the concept of LOHAS(renewing, reusing and recycling) will maintain healthy lives of the present and the future. In this context, it tries to solve the problems in architectural space and show the new possibilities in it

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PERI-AND POSTNATAL STUDY OF RECOMBINANT HUMAN INTERFERON alphaA (LBD-007) IN RATS

  • Chung, Moon-Koo;Kim, Sung-Hoon;Roh, Jung-Koo
    • Toxicological Research
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.107-118
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    • 1993
  • LBD-007, a newly developed recombinant human interferon alphaA, was at dose levels of 0.3 $\times$$10^6$ , 6 $\times$ $10^6$ and 12 $\times$ $10^6$ IU/kg/day administered subcutaneously to pregnant and subsequent delivered SpragueDawley rats from day 17 of gestation through day 21 of lactation. Effects of test substance on dams and growth, behaviour and mating performance of F1 offspring were examined. 1. No treatmene-related changes in clinical signs, food consumption, body weight, pregnant period and necropsy findings were observed in dams.

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FERTILITY STUDY OF RECOMBINANT HUMAN INTERFERON alphaA (LBD-007) IN RATS

  • Chung, Moon-Koo;Kim, Sung-Hoon;Roh, Jung-Koo
    • Toxicological Research
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.73-82
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    • 1993
  • LBD-007, a newly developed recombinant human interferon alphaA, was at dose levels of 0, 3$\times$$10^6$, 6$\times$ $10^6$ and 12$\times$1$10^6$ IU/kg/day administered subcutaneously to Sprague-Dawley male rats from premating to mating period and to females from premating to early gestation period. Effects of test agent on reproductive performance of both sexes and embryonic development were examined. 1. No treatment-relared changes in food consumption, body weight and necropsy findings were observed in parent animals.

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