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Studies on the Antibacterial Activity of Wet-tissue Saturated with Electrolytic Water of NaCl Solution (소금물의 전기분해수가 첨가된 물티슈의 항균력 연구)

  • Seo, Jin Ho;Lee, Dong Jin;Lee, Myoung Ku;Oh, Deog Hwan
    • Journal of Korea Technical Association of The Pulp and Paper Industry
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    • v.47 no.6
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    • pp.147-153
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    • 2015
  • Wet-tissue has been used for baby wipe, cleansing pads, industrial wipes, pain relief, personal hygiene, pet care, and healthcare at home, care facilities, restaurant, and hospital. Raw materials of wet-tissue are mainly natural fibers and synthetic fibers such as cotton, rayon, PET (polyethylene terephthalate) and so on. In this study, electrolytic water of NaCl solution was used as fluid in wet-tissue, and the effect of raw materials on antibacterial rate of wet-tissue was investigated. Rayon (100%) showed an excellent antibacterial rate compared with cotton (100%) and rayon:PET (50:50). Antibacterial rate increased as Cl concentration of electrolytic water increased. Absorption of rayon:PET (50:50) was uneven and antibacterial rate of wet-tissue slightly increased by increase of Cl concentration. Antibacterial rate of wet-tissue was 100% under the conditions of more than 1.5 mL of electrolytic water dosage, and dropped under 50% after storage period of 48 hours.

A Survey on Eating Behaviors of Preschool Children for Development Snack (학령전 아동의 간식 개발을 위한 식품섭취 실태 조사)

  • Park, Hye-Jin;Park, Seon-Min;Lee, Jong-Mee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.151-159
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    • 2003
  • This study was conducted to investigate eating behaviors of preschool children for development their snack. Eating habit, preference and nutritional state were investigated using a questionnaire answered by teachers of day-care centers, 548 preschool children(aged 4 to 6 years old) and their mothers. It was found that 93.6% of subjects thought children need to eat snacks not only at day-care center but also at home. For children, snacks clearly played an important role in dietary nutritional intake The frequency and rate of consuming Milk as snack were high$(1.51\;times\;per\;a\;day,\;459.8{\mu}l)$, 53.2% of calcium intake from Milk. The most favorite snack foods of children were fresh fruits, milk, yoghurt, juice. The correlation between frequency of eating food as snack and children's preference for food was low; because choosing food as children's snack was not by themselves but by their mothers and teachers, and variety of food(a taste, kinds) as snack was very weak. Subjects showed rather dissatisfactory view about commercial snack, and wanted new development of nutritionally balanced and natural-tasted snack for preschool children; they preferred dducks, biscuits and snacks as the form of newly-developed snack for preschool children.

A Mixed Methods Study of the Successful Aging of Older Adults in Korea

  • Kim, Eun-Ha;Kim, Kye-Ha
    • Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.47-57
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study was to understand experiences of successful aging of community-dwelling elderly living in the Korean community using mixed methods. This study is a mixed methods research using convergent parallel design. 483 elderly people living in the 2 cities were selected as subjects to collect quantitative data. For qualitative data collection, 6 elderly people participated. The level of successful aging for elderly people living at home scored an average of 4.30 ± .59 out of 5 points (4.46 ± .64 for self-efficacy, 4.31 ± .65 for good self-control, 4.29 ± .70 for satisfaction with children's success, and 4.26 ± .61 for partnership with spouses). The main themes of successful aging derived by interview were as follows: 1) fulfill responsibilities of raising children as parents, 2) establish a stable life to overcome difficulties, 3) accept the body being different from the past, and 4) live in harmony with people around them. Based on these results, it is necessary to provide useful health care services that can be used in the local community and to provide service utilization information through various routes in order to achieve a successful aging.

The Situations and Its Challenge for Rural Elderly Welfare Program on Extension Education in North Dakota, USA (미국 노스다코타주 농촌지도사업에 있어서 노인복지 프로그램의 현황과 전망)

  • Park, Duk-Byeong
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.153-166
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    • 2003
  • The objective of this study is to explore the situations and extension roles for rural elderly welfare program in North Dakota, USA. With a growing older population, aging has become an important issue for extension. Services for rural elderly available in North Dakota were adult day care, home health care, senior insurance counseling, nutrition and medication assistance programs, support groups, legal assistance, meals on wheels, nursing homes and more. With a growing older population, aging has become an important issue for extension. Extension provides programs and services for rural elderly. This study was conducted by literature review. First, many rural elderly Americans are actively engaged in volunteer work and have made substantial contributions to their communities. Second, extension educators from interdisciplinary areas should work together to develop programs. Extension programs can include intergenerational programs to help younger generations learn about the issue. Third, extension can collaborate with other agencies and groups to offer support groups. Offering educational programs is a key to empowering older people. Fourth, elderly residents may be the only increasing natural resource for volunteering in general, and for participation in community improvement in particular. Fifth, extension educators should be proactive in working with agencies to provide social access and in helping older people be actively engaged in their lives, especially in rural areas.

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Historical Transition and Future Task of Pharmacist License Examination in Korea (우리나라 약사면허 국가시험제도 변천과정과 향후과제)

  • Yoo, Bong Kyu
    • Korean Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.71-79
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    • 2014
  • Objectives of this study are to investigate transition history of pharmacist license examination in Korea and to compare three suggestions for new examination system proposed by National Health Personnel Licensing Examination Board, Korean Association of Pharmacy Education, and Korean Pharmaceutical Association. Future task to help the examination system meet global standard is also discussed. Regulations on the examination system were retrieved from the sources posted in Ministry of Government Legislation homepage. Efforts devoted by the three organizations to make amendment on the regulations were collected from reports, official documents, minutes, and handout materials issued by the organizations. Ministry of Health and Welfare made amendment on the examination system in 2013 by rearranging the existing natural science-based eleven subjects to two subjects along with addition of a new subject named clinical-practical pharmacy. Unfortunately, however, the amendment stipulates that the new subject should include manufacturing and quality control of pharmaceuticals as part of contents in the examination. It is strongly urged that the contents of the examination should focus on professional competency as pharmacist in clinical situation. Future task to make revision on this issue is warranted to help new pharmacist enable to provide pharmaceutical care service to patients.

Hair Growth Activity and Melanogenic Activity of Oriental Medical Prescription (한방복합처방단의 발모효과 및 멜라닌 생성 촉진효과)

  • Im, Kyung-Ran;Kim, Mi-Jin;Yoon, Kyung-Sup
    • Journal of the Society of Cosmetic Scientists of Korea
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.161-169
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    • 2011
  • To develop a new natural cosmetic hair care product for scalp treatment, we investigated the effect of enzyme modified (Viscozyme, Pectinex) oriental medical prescriptions on hair growth and melanogenesis. Enzyme modified oriental medical prescriptions showed the antioxidative effect, inhibitory effects on lipoxygenase activity and $5{\alpha}$-reductase activity and melanogenic activity. In human irritation test, they did not show any adverse effect. Based on these results, we suggest that enzyme modified oriental medical prescriptions may potentially be used in a cosmeceutical hair care product for scalp treatment.

A Study on the Application of Landscape Elements in Interior Space design - A Design of P Resort Inner Theme Garden - (랜드스케이프 요소의 실내공간디자인 적용에 관한 연구 - P리조트 실내 테마정원 계획안 -)

  • Kwak, Koung-Suk
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.216-219
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    • 2007
  • New paradigm of modern society today - environmentally sound and sustainable development - led to the attempt on the introduction of natural elements in various spaces by people's interest in the quality of life. As one of the distinguished space marketing in designing the outer space of resort, this plan attempts to limit artificial boundary within open scenery, thus creating nature within nature - interior theme garden. In addition, this plan is aimed to obtain location property of inner garden through limited boundary, to promote the identity of resort by endowing it with new values in space and to form emotion care garden and culture garden for users. The plan has proceeded under the following concepts. 1) Differentiation from outer space has been made by creating a theme garden with unique theme garden - landscape elements and an attempt have been made to increase the values of interior garden through the introduction of new species of plants and the state-of-the-art facilities. 2) Emotion care garden - The garden has been created to get emotion purified systematically within nature and let people take a rest and enjoy their spare time. 3) Culture garden - The garden has been planned where culture could be created through various experience activities as a space with education and entertainment by providing a variety of interesting elements.

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Development and evaluation of continuing education course in renal nutrition

  • Karavetian, Mirey;Rizk, Rana
    • Nutrition Research and Practice
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.99-107
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    • 2016
  • BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Competent renal dietitians are crucial for better patient compliance and clinical outcomes, specifically in critical settings. The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate an evidence-based course in renal dietetics for dietitians working in health care systems where dietetic specialization is absent. SUBJECTS/METHODS: Fifteen licensed dietitians working with hemodialysis patients in Lebanon were randomly recruited to participate in the course. The latter was developed by the study's primary investigator, according to evidence-based practice guidelines, and focused on all aspects of renal nutrition. Total course duration was 28 hours spread over a 2 month period. Dietitians' knowledge in renal nutrition was tested pre- and post-training through a 23-item questionnaire; the total score was expressed in percentage (< 60% score indicated insufficient knowledge). Paired-samples t test was used for statistical analysis. RESULTS: Overall knowledge of the dietitians significantly improved post-training and reached satisfactory levels (pre: $38.75{\pm}17.20%$, post: $62.08{\pm}21.85%$). Sub-analysis of the change in the knowledge showed significant and satisfactory improvement only in 3 topics: 1) correct body weight use in calculations, 2) energy estimation method and 3) phosphorus management. Knowledge in the fluid management significantly improved but did not achieve a satisfactory level. CONCLUSION: The course significantly improved dietitians' knowledge in renal nutrition. If adopted as part of the continuing education of dietitians in countries that lack dietetic specializations, it may serve the first step towards improving health care practice.

Deep Learning-Based Model for Classification of Medical Record Types in EEG Report (EEG Report의 의무기록 유형 분류를 위한 딥러닝 기반 모델)

  • Oh, Kyoungsu;Kang, Min;Kang, Seok-hwan;Lee, Young-ho
    • KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.203-210
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    • 2022
  • As more and more research and companies use health care data, efforts are being made to vitalize health care data worldwide. However, the system and format used by each institution is different. Therefore, this research established a basic model to classify text data onto multiple institutions according to the type of the future by establishing a basic model to classify the types of medical records of the EEG Report. For EEG Report classification, four deep learning-based algorithms were compared. As a result of the experiment, the ANN model trained by vectorizing with One-Hot Encoding showed the highest performance with an accuracy of 71%.

The Wound Healing Potential of Lignosus rhinocerus and Other Ethno-myco Wound Healing Agents

  • Hui-Yeng Y. Yap;Mohammad Farhan Ariffeen Rosli;Soon-Hao Tan;Boon-Hong Kong;Shin-Yee Fung
    • Mycobiology
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    • v.51 no.1
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    • pp.1-15
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    • 2023
  • Wound care has become increasingly important over the years. Various synthetic products for wound care treatment have been reported to cause toxic side effects and therefore natural products are in significant demand as they have minimal side effects. The presence of bioactive compounds in medicinal mushrooms contributes to various biological activities which assist in the early inflammatory phase, keratinocyte proliferation, and its migration enhancement which are pertinent to wound rehabilitation. Lignosus rhinocerus (tiger milk mushroom) can reduce the inflammation phase in wound healing by fighting off bacterial infection and modulating pro-inflammatory cytokines expression in the early stage to avoid prolonged inflammation and tissue damage. The antibacterial, immunomodulating, and anti-inflammatory activities exhibited by most macrofungi play a key role in enhancing wound healing. Several antibacterial and antifungal compounds sourced from traditional botanicals/-products may prevent further complications and reoccurrence of injury to a wounded site. Scientific studies are actively underway to ascertain the potential use of macrofungi as a wound healing agent.