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An Evaluation of Food Safety Sanitation Management Practices of Food Manufacturing Companies that Supply Foods to School Foodservice (학교급식 식재료 제조.가공업체의 위생관리 실태 조사)

  • Kim, Yun-Hwa;Lee, Yeon-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.39 no.10
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    • pp.1535-1544
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    • 2010
  • This study was conducted to evaluate the sanitation management practices in food manufacturing companies that supply food and food ingredients to school foodservice operations. Subjects consisted of 34 food manufacturing factories located in the Daegu and Gyeongbuk areas. Sanitation performance was self-evaluated using a Likert 5-point scale. The total mean score for factory sanitation performance was 4.72. Scores for perceived sanitation management performance in the factories were as follows: management of material (4.90); personal hygiene (4.78); management of work (4.71); management of workplace and vicinity (4.68); and food and raw material transportation (4.67). Participating companies that had HACCP certification programs scored high on the following sanitation inspection items: washing and sanitation guides, adequate equipment for correct hand washing, and sanitation of raw material delivery vans. The mean frequency for employee sanitation education was 2.8 times per month. Factory managers believed that their sanitation management programs kept their food safe and that the food was produced and delivered with a high degree of safety. However, they thought that food sanitation standardization was needed in order to supply high-quality and safe food items. In terms of traceability, 58.8% of the raw materials were traceable and 61.8% of the manufactured products were traceable. Sanitation management performance scores for the participating food manufacturing companies were high, although the soybean sprouts processing companies had comparatively low scores. Management reinforcement of employee sanitation education and a sense of duty and pride among factory employees will promote adequate and appropriate sanitation management performance for food safety and quality in factories that supply food and ingredients to school foodservice operations.

The Role Behaviors of Oncology Nurse Specialist (종양전문간호사의 역할규명을 위한 연구)

  • Kim, Min-Young;Park, Sung-Ae
    • Asian Oncology Nursing
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.24-44
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    • 2003
  • The purposes of this study was to identify and propose the expected role of the oncology nurse specialist by embodying role theory to oncology nurse specialist. The subjects of this study were 149 persons in 14 hospitals, who were classified to 4 groups, oncology nurse specialists(ONS) group, head nurses and charge nurses(HN & CN) group in hemato-oncology ward, registered nurses(RN) group in hemato-oncology ward, and hematologists & oncologists(H&O) group. The questionnaire which was consisted of 89 items for role of oncology nurse specialist, was made by researcher with a field study and literature review about role of oncology nurse specialist and verified by matrix delphi technique about content validity and construct validity. The data were collected from October 22, 2002 to November 5, 2002. All 4 groups proposed that ONS should perform an expert practitioner role first of all. But ONS group, RN group and H&O group proposed orderly expert practitioner, educator, researcher, consultant, and administrator & change agent, but HN & CN group did expert practitioner, educator, consultant, researcher, administrator & change agent. Expert practitioner had the most highest necessary degree in all groups and most highest performance degree in ONS group. That was consistent with results that all groups proposed role of expert practitioner at first. 4 items out of 20 items showed the meaningful differences between groups. For role of educator, oncology nurse specialist group proposed necessary degrees over 4.0 point out of 5.0 in all items. 4 items out of 18 items showed the meaningful differences between groups. For role of researcher, 3 nurses groups proposed a high necessary degree, but performance of ONS group was most lowest among 5 roles. 6 items out of 14 items showed the meaningful differences between groups. The role of consultant had high necessary degree in some items related to hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. 2 items out of 17 items showed the meaningful differences between groups. In nursing behaviors of administrator & change agent, those items about enacting principle, cost development and participation of professional academy had a high necessary degree. 4 items out of 18 items showed the meaningful differences between groups. Oncology nurse specialists group performed 5 roles orderly, expert practitioner, consultant, educator, administrator & change agent, researcher. This result was different from expected role of themselves as well as the other groups. There was a different necessary degree between role and embodied nursing behaviors of role. ONS group and RN group proposed orderly educator, researcher, administrator & change agent, expert practitioner, consultant, but the other groups did educator, expert practitioner, researcher, consultant, administrator & change agent. The expected standards of oncology nurse specialist in this study were usually master's degree, total career of 5-7 years, oncology career of 3-5 years and certification. But for the post, qualification and qualification institution, various opinions were suggested. In the conclusion, there was a different necessary degree between role and embodied nursing behaviors of role. All groups proposed expert practitioner at first in abstract role, but educator at first in embodied nursing behaviors of role. So we have to consider this difference carefully in the future research. ONS acted the role of expert practitioner first of all, but we should develope and expand the roles of researcher, and administrator & change agent. We should enact roles by role behaviors induced from mutual agreements in necessary degree and performance degree, and bargain the role behaviors that showed the meaningful differences between groups But, we should consider carefully which group's opinion we have to select. I suggested 36 items out of 89 items, in which ONS proposed necessary degree over 4.0 out of 5.0 and half of them performed as the nursing behaviors of oncology nurse specialist that did not induce role stress. For the future, We should role bargain the role with other groups based on these items.

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Smart Learning for National Technical Qualifications ARCS Motivation Theory is Interactive, Immersive Learning, Research Influence of Continuous use with Pleasure (국가기술자격증을 위한 스마트러닝 ARCS 동기이론이 상호작용성, 학습몰입, 즐거움을 통해 지속적 사용의도에 미치는 영향 연구)

  • Park, Dong Cheul;Hwang, Chan Gyu;Kwon, Do Soon
    • Information Systems Review
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.101-132
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    • 2015
  • National technical qualifications to enhance an individual's vocational skills, the competitiveness of companies and countries have an important function to improve. Especially 'qualifications' will have a signal function to show objectively measure an individual's ability with the 'Education' The "knowledge necessary for the performance of their duties. Technology will gain knowledge about such assessment or recognition is based on certain criteria and procedures." Learning to qualify are being made through a smart learning a lot. Due to the revolution of the Internet in recent years with the development of information and communication technologies are entering into a knowledge society, the importance of information and knowledge. This contemporary smart learning education system is continuing to rapidly growing in pace with the changing time and space constraints, without teaching and learning is taking place. The purpose of this study is the ARCS motivation theory can determine a representative theory of human motivation factors and basic psychological needs dealing with the human nature of the psychological needs Interactivity and immersive learning, and to validate the empirical causality Affecting the continued use of smart learning through fun. Specifically, attention, relevance, confidence in the ARCS motivation, see their effect on the learning flow through the satisfaction we analyze empirically. Through this national technical qualifications smart learner's learning by supporting the implicit synchronization of students in learning are the degree of continued use. Therefore, to achieve the objectives of national technical qualifications and skills through a smart learning can contribute to the activation of the development and certification of course industry.

A Study on the Necessity of Introducing Evacuation Instrument in High-rise Buildings - Focusing on Elevator Type Evacuation Instrument - (고층건축물의 피난기구 도입 필요성에 관한 연구 - 승강식피난기를 중심으로 -)

  • Choi, Kyu-Chool;Ra, Pan-Ju;Seul, Yeong-Mi
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.10-19
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    • 2014
  • The fast evacuation from fire floors to evacuation floors in high-rise building fires can minimize the human damage. In this study, an evacuation instrument, which are applicable to the high-rise buildings of adaptable escape mechanisms by the current NFSC 301 (national fire safety code 301), were selected to analyze the applicability in the high-rise buildings over 11th floor through the site adaptability test. The results of the site test were as follows. The elevator type evacuation instrument of new concept developed as a new technology by compensating the defect of evacuation instrument limiting in the high-rise buildings over 11th floor had completed the stability test and the performance certification test in fire stations, which there were no problems in the introduction of the elevator type evacuation instrument as an escape mechanism in the high-rise buildings. The elevator type evacuation instrument using escapers' weight without using electric power was an escape mechanism that many people could evacuate in a short period of time when a fire broke out in the high-rise buildings. In particular, The elevator type evacuation instrument operated by nonpower had the adaptability as a customized escape mechanism considering user characteristics in the buildings for the disabled or patients with an advanced disease.

Robust Reference Intervals for Serum Kappa and Lambda Free Light Chains from a Multi Centre Study Population from Hyderabad, India: Myeloma Diagnostic Implications

  • Mohammed, Noorjahan;Chandran, Priscilla Abraham;Kandregula, Madhavi;Mattaparthi, Ratna Deepika;Gundeti, Sadasivudu;Volturi, Jyotsna;Darapuneni, Radhika;Raju, Sree Bhushan;Dattatreya, Palanki Satya
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.2605-2610
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    • 2016
  • The International Myeloma Working Group considers the serum free light chain (SFLC) assay to be an adjunct to traditional tests. Apart from the FLC ratio, the absolute values of individual free light chains also are gaining importance as they appear to be more relevant in certain clinical settings. Automated assays are available for their determination. As laboratories put new test systems into use catering to different disease populations, they are required by accreditation and certification bodies to verify or establish performance specifications, including reference intervals (RIs) representative of their population. Our aim was to establish local RIs for SFLC in a multicentre representative healthy population using a robust method. There was no significant relationship between SFLC levels and age, gender and creatinine levels. The 95% RI for ${\kappa}SFLC$ was 4.81 to 33.86mg/L, for ${\lambda}$ SFLC was 5.19 to 23.67mg/L and for ${\kappa}/{\lambda}SFLC$ was 0.36 to 2.33, significantly higher than the values given by the manufacturer. The ${\kappa}/{\lambda}$ SFLC ratio at 2.23, covering 100% of the data, showed 72% sensitivity (95% CI=39.0 - 94.0), 100% specificity (95% CI=71.5 - 100.0), 100% PPV (95% CI=21.5 - 100.0), 95% NPV (95% CI=75.4 - 99.9), and 79% accuracy (95% CI=56.0 - 93.0). In the patient group, kit RI for ${\kappa}/{\lambda}$ SFLC ratio classified 45.5% (n=5) as positive vs 9.1% (n=1) positive by the study RI, while the kit RI for kappa FLC classified 90.9% (n=10) as positive vs 54.5% (n=6), indicating increased probability of false positive test results with the kit RI when applied to our patient population. Appropriate and specific reference intervals and criteria values result in fewer false-positive and false-negative results which means fewer wrong or missed diagnoses.

A Study on Takeoff Decision Speed Improvement of Air Transport Airplane (운송용항공기의 이륙단념속도 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Noh, Kun-Doo;Choi, Youn-Chul;Yoo, Kwang-Eui
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.23 no.4 s.82
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    • pp.7-16
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    • 2005
  • Rejected Takeoff Accidents are not common. but if occurred, it leads to big disaster From the year of 1959, when Jet Transport service opened, to the year of 2000, Rejected Takeoff accidents/incidents occurred total of 94 cases. All cases led to overrun, and major cause is to initiate stopping maneuvers over $V_1$, takeoff decision speed, according to National Transport Safety Board of America. Similar results are represented in Aviation Safety Reporting System of National Aeronautics and Space Administration. So I believe that it is worth studying if Airplane Flight Manual, which is the reference Performance criteria, is appropriate to operations of line pilots. The definition of $V_1$ has been revised a couple of times and Rejected Takeoff Certification Standards for Transport Airplanes was changed in 1998. It shows that up to now there are some portions unreasonable. This study focused on gathering the pilot's tendency for current Rejected Takeoff Procedures of K airlines and analyze the factors they concern. I chose B777 airplane and actually measured the recognition and reaction time of the rejected takeoff transitions through Simulators. And compared the results with the data of flight test and Airplane Flight Manual.

Design and Implementation of Compatible Certification System of International Standard based Industrial Software (산업용 소프트웨어 국제표준 적합성 인증 시스템의 설계 및 구현)

  • Yang, Hae-Sool;Choi, Min-Yong;Park, In-Soo
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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    • v.10D no.5
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    • pp.793-804
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    • 2003
  • In the latest, it's increasing an applied technology to be related with growth of industry circles. It's one of them a software to be used in industry circles. and It's most important part to apply an industrial equipment, so software to take charge of major part is indicative performance of quipment. At this time, it's inspired an evaluation and measurement of software quality to have within industrial equipment, and it's forming the research and development by the inside and outside of the country. For this, it's constructed a valuation metric to be based on ISO/IEC 12119, the International Standard for general the terms desired of quality of software and ISO/IEC 9126-2, the International Standard of the terms valuation of qualify for evaluation and measure, and for this accomplishment, It has been designed and developed industrial software international standard compatible approval system which approve a quality based on quality test result of industrial software using the ISO/IEC 14598-6 that international standard for organization of evaluation module.

The development of the Ionizer using clean room (청정환경용 정전기 제거장치 개발)

  • Jeong, Jong-Hyeog;Woo, Dong Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.603-608
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    • 2018
  • Although the voltage-applied discharge method is most widely used in the semiconductor and display industries, periodic management costs are incurred because the method causes defects due to the absorption of ambient fine dust and causes emitter tip contamination due to the discharge. The emitter tip contamination problem is caused by the accumulation of fine particles in ambient air due to the corona discharge of the ionizer. Fuzzy ball generation accelerates the wear of the emitter tip and deteriorates the performance of the ionizer. Although a mechanical cleaning method using a manual brush or an automatic brush is effective for contaminant removal, it requires management of additional mechanical parts by the user. In some cases, contaminants accumulated in the emitter may be transferred to the wafer or product. In order to solve this problem, we developed an ionizer for a clean environment that can remove the pencil-type emitter tip and directly ionize the surrounding gas molecules using the tungsten wire located inside the ion tank. As a result of testing and certification by the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials, the average concentration was $0.7572particles/ft^3$, the decay time was less than two seconds, and the ion valance was 7.6 V, which is satisfactory.

Etiologic and Immunologic Characteristics of Thoroughbred Horses with Bacterial Infectious Upper Respiratory Disease at the Seoul Race Park

  • Ryu, Seung-Ho;Koo, Hye-Cheong;Park, Young-Kyung;Kim, Jun-Man;Jung, Woo-Kyung;Davis, William C.;Park, Yong-Ho;Lee, Chang-Woo
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.19 no.9
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    • pp.1041-1050
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    • 2009
  • Equine respiratory disease is a common cause of poor performance and training interruptions. The higher incidence rate of infectious upper respiratory disease (IURD) in thoroughbred racehorses at the Seoul Race Park coincided with the frequent stabling season, shorter stabling periods, and younger ages in this study. Incidence rates were also correlated with significantly lower proportions of cells expressing MHC class II-, CD2 antigen-, $CD4^+$- or $CD8^+$-T lymphocyte-, and B lymphocyte in IURD patients compared with healthy control groups in the summer and fall and in 2-and-3-year-old groups. The data suggested that movement and new environments may have resulted in immunosuppression and inappropriate responses to respiratory pathogens in IURD patients. The IURD incidence decreased with age, perhaps by the acquisition of immunity, and study results suggested that immunologic protection was associated with IURD, particularly in young thoroughbred racehorses. Streptococci isolates were identified in 11 of 72 IURD horses, and 3 of these isolates were identified as Streptococcus. equi subsp. equi. S. equi subsp. zooepidemicus was isolated from 2 of 23 IURD horses in the spring (8.7%), 5 of 23 in the summer (21.7%), and 1 of 6 in winter (16.7%). S. equi subsp. zooepidemicus (5%) was also identified in 3 of 61 isolates from clinically normal horses. Racetracks should implement anti-IURD protective measures by assessing the capacity of equine immunologic protection at the Park and by limiting the introduction of specific respiratory pathogens (such as S. equi subsp. equi) by preventing the access of infected but subclinical horses with a specified respiratory pathogen-free certification system prior to Park entry.

Dental Office Manager Current Conditions by Scale of Korean Dental Clinic (치과병(의)원의 규모에 따른 중간관리자의 현황)

  • Park, Young-Nam;Park, Keum-Ja;Oh, Sang-Hwan;Kim, Sook-Hyang
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.10 no.10
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    • pp.267-273
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    • 2010
  • The present study examined factors for current conditions of dental office manager in Korean dental clinic. 108 randomly selected members of Korean dental office manager responded to a questionnaire. A survey was conducted for a month from 1, June 2008, and the chi-square test and ANOVA were used in the statistical analysis. The findings of the study were as follows: The number of members depending on the type of occupation dental hospital was the highest number of members, members of the dental hygienist at the dental hospital number significantly higher. The career of dental office manager followed by 1-5 year in dental hospital, 5-10 year in dental network, 1-5 year in dental clinic accounting for 48%, 52.9%, 69.4%. The difficulty during duty performance are high expectation of owner in dental hospital, learning of dental office manager duty in dental clinic. The duty of dental office manager followed by customer service, appointment scheduling, telephone etiquette, treatment plan. Henceforth, it needs to standardize the Korean name of dental office manager and duty. Also, it have to an official certification system.