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Digital Health Care based in the Community (지역사회기반 디지털 헬스케어)

  • Han, Jeong-won;Jung, Ji-won;Yu, Ji-in;Kim, Ji-hyun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2022.10a
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    • pp.511-513
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    • 2022
  • Digital Health Care is the convergence of ICT and (non)medical technology, emphasizing the importance of prevent and monitoring health management in terms of new challenging medical paradigm: predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory. Beyond the limited medical industry of long-term care insurance, it is emerging that AI, IoT, Big Data related new services with new technologies in the 4th revolution era. It is also noted that business field based on test bed is emergent; Caring Robot, wearable devices need to be launched in the market. Diverse service is possible with Big Data and AI etc.

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Anticancer Drugs at Low Concentrations Upregulate the Activity of Natural Killer Cell

  • Hyeokjin Kwon;Myeongguk Jeong;Yeeun Kim;Go-Eun Choi
    • Biomedical Science Letters
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.178-183
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    • 2023
  • Natural killer (NK) cells are innate cytotoxic lymphoid cells that actively prevent neoplastic development, growth, and metastatic dissemination in a process called cancer immunosurveillance. Regulation of the cytotoxic activity of NK cells relies on integrated interactions between inhibitory receptors and numerous activating receptors that act in tandem to eliminate tumor cells efficiently. Conventional chemotherapy is designed to produce an anti-proliferative or cytotoxic effect on early tumor cell division. Therapies designed to kill cancer cells and simultaneously maintain host anti-tumor immunity are attractive strategies for controlling tumor growth. Depending on the drug and dose used, several chemotherapeutic agents cause DNA damage and cancer cell death through apoptosis, immunogenic cell death, or other forms of non-killing (i.e., mitotic catastrophe, senescence, autophagy). Among stress-induced immunostimulatory proteins, changes in the expression levels of NK cell activating and inhibitory ligands and tumor cell death receptors play an important role in the detection and elimination by innate immune effectors including NK cells. Therefore, we will address how these cytotoxic lymphocytes sense and respond to high and low concentrations of drug-induced stress to the drug cisplatin, among the various types of drugs that contribute to their anticancer activity.

A Study on the Cause Analysis of Human Error Accidents by Railway Job

  • Byeoung-Soo YUM;Tae-Yoon KIM;Sun-Haeng CHOI;Won-Mo GAL
    • Journal of Wellbeing Management and Applied Psychology
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.27-33
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    • 2024
  • Purpose: This study investigates human error accidents in the Korean railway sector, emphasizing the need for systematic management to prevent such incidents, which can have fatal consequences, especially in driving-related jobs. Research design, data and methodology: This paper analyzed data from the Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board and the Korea Transportation Safety Authority, examining 240 human error accidents that occurred over the last five years (2018-2022). The analysis focused on accidents in the driving, facility, electric, and control fields. Results: The findings indicate that the majority of human error accidents stem from negligence in confirmation checks, issues with work methods, and oversight in facility maintenance. In the driving field, errors such as signal check neglect and braking failures are prevalent, while in the facility and electric fields, the main issues are maintenance delays and neglect of safety measures. Conclusions: The paper concludes that human error accidents are complex and multifaceted, often resulting from a high workload on engineers and systemic issues within the railway system. Future research should delve into the causal relationships of these accidents and develop targeted prevention strategies through improved work processes, education, and training.

The Relationship between Sleep Duration and Number of Remaining Teeth in the Elderly: Use of the 8th National Health and Nutrition Survey

  • Ho-Jin Jeong;Jung-Hwa Lee
    • Biomedical Science Letters
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.49-55
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    • 2024
  • This study uses the 9th 1st year (2022) National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to analyze the relationship between sleep time and the number of existing teeth for the adult population aged 19 or older to provide basic data on related dental development. There is a purpose. This program is designed to improve sleep quality and maintain the number of viable teeth in the future. The subjects were 53,220 people who answered the questions. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS (ver 21.0) program using complex samples, and chi-square analysis and logistic return analysis were performed. As a result, it was found that 2.537 times more existing teeth remained when sleep time was 9 hours or more than when sleep time was 6 hours or less, and there was a statistically significant difference. In conclusion, it is necessary to recognize the importance of the number of remaining teeth and to make efforts to manage personal immunity, such as sleep management for adults, and to promote and prevent oral care and oral health education in order to maintain the number of remaining teeth.

A Study on Factors Affecting Public Health Center Workforce for Health Behavior based on Pender's Health Promotion Model (서울지역 일부 보건소 공무원의 지각된 건강상태와 건강행동과의 관련성 -Pender의 건강증진모델을 이용하여-)

  • Lee, Eun-Jeoung;Lee, Myung-Sun
    • The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.121-140
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    • 2014
  • Objectives: Recently, the rate of death by chronic disease, is increasing steadily. To prevent this, the public health center will have taken a leading role in the local community medical business through an establish to the national health promotion act and an amendment to the law of public health center in Korea. Results: Accordingly this research, using the Pender's health promotion model which is related with subject health behavior who government employees serve at the public health center have taken important position in the local community health promotion, have comprehended the actual condition of health behavior. For increasing the health behavior practice of subject to comprehend the factor which have effect on health behavior practice, which can be a correct role model in the local community health promotion. A survey was performed on 406 government employees who serve at five public health centers in Seoul. The period of survey was from 25th October, 2010 to 15th November, 2010. The results of this study were summarized as below. 1. Work-related stress, perceptible beneficial obstacle, and self-efficacy were composed by 5 points measure. The results show those work-related stress were $3.06{\pm}0.469$, 74perceptible beneficial obstacle were $3.74{\pm}0.471$, and self-efficacy were $3.49{\pm}0.469$. 2. As for the health behavior by general characteristic, the results have specific differences on age, education level, state of marriage, rank of the position, field of the occupation and employment forms in statics analysis. 3. As for the past health behavior by health behavior characteristic, work-related stress have specific differences on the past frequency of drinking (p<.05) in statics analysis, perceptible beneficial obstacle have specific differences on the past frequency of having breakfast(p<.05), having snacks(p<.05) and doing exercise(p<.05) in statics analysis. Self-efficacy have specific difference on the past frequency drinking(p<.01) in statics analysis. 4. According to the correlation between the factors related with health behavior and health behavior, the health behavior have specific differences on perceptible health condition(p<.01), the past health behavior and perceptible beneficial obstacle(p<.05). Work-related stress and self-efficacy don't have specific relation in health behavior practice. 5. The factors, which effect on health behavior practice have specific differences on the past health behavior, employment forms and field of the occupations. The ability of explanation occupied 54.8% what explained of the health behavior practice by general characteristic, perceptible health condition, employment forms and perceptible beneficial obstacle. Conclusions: According to the correlation between the factors related with health behavior, the health behavior have specific differences on perceptible health condition(p<.01), the past health behavior and perceptible beneficial obstacle(p<.05). The factors, which effect on health behavior practice have specific differences on the past health behavior, employment forms and field of the occupations.

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A Research on Recognition of Oral Health Based on Oral Health Education for Adolescents in Some Reformatories (일부 소년원 청소년의 구강보건교육에 따른 구강건강 인식도 조사)

  • Hong, Song-Hee
    • Journal of dental hygiene science
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.187-191
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    • 2007
  • In this study a research was conducted with 108 adolescents sent to three reformatories in D city to investigate their recognition of oral health so that they could assess their knowledge of oral health and improve oral health through correct oral health education. For this purpose, after the primary survey from June 13 to 28, 2006, oral health education was implemented through audio-vidual teaching aids and tooth-brushing training using one toothbrush per person, followed by the secondary survey using the same questionnaire. The research obtained the following results. 1. As for recognition of the concept of dental caries, the answer that it was a disease developing on teeth increased from 75.0% before oral health education to 82.4% after the education, which showed statistically significant differences (p < 0.001). 2. As for recognition of a preventive agent for dental caries, the answer that it was fluorine increased from 34.3% before oral health education to 75.0% after the education, which showed statistically significant differences (p < 0.001). 3. As for recognition of a good tooth-brushing method, the answer that it was a rotating method increased from 21.3% before oral health education to 95.4% after the education. 4. As for recognition of the amount of time for tooth-brushing, the answer that it was three minutes increased from 58.3% before oral health education to 88.9% after the education, which showed statistically significant differences (p < 0.001). 5. As for recognition of effects of smoking on oral health, the answer that it was bad increased from 65.7% before oral health education to 93.5% after the education. 6. As for recognition after oral health education for improving oral health, "completely agree" (78.7%) comprised the largest percentage (p < 0.001) for "teeth are important for health"; "completely agree" (76.9%) comprised the largest percentage (p < 0.001) for "correct tooth-brushing serves to prevent an oral disease"; "completely agree" (37.0%) comprised the largest percentage (p < 0.001) for "scaling is necessary to prevent a gingival disease"; "completely agree" (77.8%) comprised the largest percentage (p < 0.001) for "non-smoking is good for dental health"; "completely agree" (62.0%) comprised the largest percentage (p < 0.001) for "a seasonal medical check-up should be taken by all means".

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The Improvement System of Safety Consulting Engineering for Construction Calamity Prevention (건설재해예방 기술지도의 효과 증진방안)

  • 이찬식;이민우;안홍섭;김일수
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.155-162
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    • 1999
  • Small and medium-sized construction sites are most serious in Occupational Safety and Health in the construction industry. The safety consulting engineering has been launched, in 1995, to improve the safety environments and prevent serious injuries and fatalities accidents. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of the safety consulting engineering for small and medium-sized construction sites. This study conducts a number of interviews with experienced contractors, consulting engineers, etc. And the questionnaire survey was peformed with 111 respondents. This paper presents several improvements to increase the efficiency of the safety consulting system.

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A study of an environmental radiation monitoring system(ERMS) using digital single channel analyzer(SCA) and dose conversion unit(DCU) (디지털 SCA와 DCU를 이용한 환경방사선 감시기에 관한 연구)

  • 오길환;우희곤;이쾌희;하달규
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1996.10b
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    • pp.1372-1375
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    • 1996
  • In this paper, we developed and ERMS, which monitors radiation continuously in the vicinity of the nuclear power plant not only to intend health and security of the adjacent residents but also to prevent environmental pollution. Especially, applying digital DCU and SCA which are easy to control and accurate, we obtained good results.

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Provision for Earthquake with Tie up Device in X-ray Equipment (지진을 대비한 방사선기기의 고정방법)

  • Kim, Jung-Min;Miyamoto, Tadao
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.39-48
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    • 2002
  • Earthquake are not frequent in korea but exist. The purpose of this study is to make a fixation(tie up) device against earthquake for radiologic department installation. It is considered that the device will prevent the X-ray equipment fall down, slip, Jumping therefor save the X-ray equipment itself and making possible to examine patients even when occuring earthquake, Discussion on how to make and how to set up was researched.

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Report on the Improvement of PSM(Process Safety Management) System for the Prevention of Industrial Accident (산업재해예방을 위한 PSM 제도의 개선에 관한 소고)

  • Char, Soon-Chul
    • Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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    • v.38 no.4
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    • pp.19-22
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    • 2005
  • Since 1996, like other countries the PSM(Process Safety Management) System has been applied into chemical plant in Korea in accordance with the Occupational Safety & Health Law section 49 paragraph 2. This report is to point out the status and the area of concern, further suggest alternative measures along with the wide and in-depth idea of improvement and recommendation to prevent from industrial accident.

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