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Detection and Distribution of the Pathogenic Bioagent Aeromonas (Gamma-Proteobacteria) in Water Supplies of Seoul (서울시 상수계통에서 병원성균 Aeromonas (감마-프로테오박테리아) 분포연구)

  • Lee, Eun-Sook;Lee, Mok-Young;Han, Sun-Hee;Ka, Jong-Ok
    • Korean Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.43 no.2
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    • pp.106-110
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    • 2007
  • The detection and distribution of Aeromonas in water supplies were investigated by using the USEPA Method 1605. Water samples were collected from the Han River, finished waters and tap waters supplied from Water Treatment Plants in Seoul monthly from July 2002 to December 2003. Aeromonas species in each water sample were quantified based on the development of yellow colonies on the surface of membrane filter using a selective medium (Ampicillin-Dextrin Agar with Vancomycin). The Quality Control (QC) for this study met the acceptance criteria of Method 1605. The concentrations of Aeromonas species in surface water samples ranged from $1.0{\times}10^{0}\;to\;9.8{\times}10^{3}\;CFU/ml$. Aeromonas species were found only in one tap water sample with concentration of 1 CFU/500 ml. No Aeromonas species were found in any finished water samples. Aeromonas species detected here were identified as A. salmonicida(51%), A. caviae(4.7%), A. schubertti(3.4%), A. sobria(3.8%), A. hydrophila(2.1%), and A. ichithiosmia(0.4%). A. salmonicida was the dominant species, which is of no significance to human health. Chlorine resistance of A. salmonicida was evaluated and as a result, 99.99% of A. salmonicida decreased after 30 seconds exposure at residual free chlorine 0.2 mg/L. These suggest that the waters supplied in Seoul may be safe against the pathogenic agent Aeromonas.

The Effects of Smartphone Use on Spouse Relationship Satisfaction, Children Relationship Satisfaction, and Satisfaction with Social Acquaintance Relationship among Older Adults (노인의 스마트폰 이용이 배우자관계 만족도, 자녀관계 만족도 및 사회적 친분관계 만족도에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Myoung-Yong
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.219-228
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    • 2018
  • This study examines the influence of smartphone use in old age on satisfaction with relationships with spouse, children and social acquaintances among Korean older adults. Data on older adults aged 60 and over, who live in Seoul, was collected through a questionnaire survey and 674 cases were analyzed. The effects of smartphone use on satisfaction with these three types of inter-personal relationships was tested using a multiple regression analysis, controlling for sex, age, marital status, education, employment status, income and health. The results showed that the smartphone use of older adults did not affect spouse relationship satisfaction, but positively affected both children relationship satisfaction and satisfaction with social acquaintance relationship in old age. This suggests that the positive effects of smartphone use on inter-personal relationships in old age work only to improve relationships with children and social acquaintances, but not to enhance the relationship with one's spouse. This study implies that practical efforts to enhance the smartphone use and the level of informatization among older adults are needed to improve the inter-personal relationships and quality of life in old age.

Studies on Circumstances of Agricultural Water Quality (농업용수(農業用水)의 수질환경(水質環境) 조사분석(調査分析))

  • Suh, Seung Duk;Kim, Tae Han;Yoon, Kyung Duk
    • Current Research on Agriculture and Life Sciences
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    • v.1
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    • pp.85-93
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    • 1983
  • Total annual water requirements for agricultural use are exceedingly large. In many areas of the country, particularly in the arid regions, irrigation water requirements comprise the bulk of the total developed water supply. On the other hand, we are, at present, poorly prepared to evaluate the hazards of many substances in the water phase of the agricultural environments. This study is to survey the water quality phase of agricultural conditions and to give some ideas to prevent disasters from the environmental hazards such as PH, Electric Conductivity, BOD, DO, Cu, Pb, and Cd. In the analysed results, mean PH was 6.5 to 7.8, maximum EC was $200{\mu}{\Omega}/cm$ at $25^{\circ}C$, the maximum BOD was less than 10 ppm (standard value), the DO was 4.2 to 12.0 mg/L (standard value is more than 2.0 mg/L) and the Cu, Pb, Cd were estimated in scope of safety value respectively. Especially BOD is gradually closed with the hazardous point in the few places. At present, the hazardous environmental conditions originated from the municipal sewage, industrial waste, and human and domestic animals excrements etc. have to strongly be improved much better than before.

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The Phenomenological Study on the Male Immigrant Workers' Lives after Undergoing the Industrial Accidents (남성 이주노동자의 산업재해 후 삶에 대한 현상학적 연구)

  • Ro, Ji hyun
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.68 no.1
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    • pp.23-52
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    • 2016
  • This study aims to reveal the meaning and essence of male immigrant workers' life who underwent industrial accidents through specific experiences. This study is based on the Van Manen(1990)'s lived experience phenomenological method, which actively describes the experiences about the industrial accidents in the perspective of male immigrant worker. The in-depth interviews were carried out with the thirteen male immigrant workers participants who underwent the industrial accidents. Through the interview, 121 meaning units and 38 disclosed themes were constructed. The following is the summarized results as 9 essential themes: < the oppression of the Industrial accident compensation insurance's hospitals to the aliens >, < being treated like the surplus man who lost the labor force >, < the class rank below despite undergoing the industrial accidents >, < survival having resistance sentiments >, < living at the anonymous lands as the Homo sacer >, < the stratified strategies between the immigrant workers >, < the origins as the bodiless shadow >, < struggling to escape the present conditions >, < present circumstances tied by the past experiences without hope >, researcher sought the essential meaning structure about the four Life-world Existentials (Body, The other, Space and Time) of constructing human's live-world. Based on the study results, some suggestions were made to restore the male immigrant workers' damaged quality of their lives who experienced industrial accidents and to contribute the social integration in view of the social welfare.

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Ordinary Life Plays as Musical Activities - Objectives and Methods (음악활동으로서의 일상생활놀이 - 교육목표 및 방법)

  • Rho, Joohee
    • Journal of Music and Human Behavior
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.47-65
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    • 2005
  • One of important goals for early childhood music learning program is to build a positive attitude toward music. Positive attitude toward music is a basic condition on effective music education for all ages of children including early childhood. Although scholars realize such importance of positive music attitude, much research for creating educational environment to foster a positive music attitude has not been performed. Edwin E. Gordon who found a music learning theory for early childhood emphasized the importance of enriched musical environment. Very young children should be provided best quality of music in an interactive way. Audie's important method of education is to provide young children with a variety of musical activities containing the materials in the ordinary life. Through this method, children accept music as close as friends who are always beside themselves, which naturally builds a solid foundation for audiation for children.

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A Study on the Necessity of Verification about depot level maintenance plan through the Weapons System cases analysis (무기체계 사례 분석을 통한 창정비개발계획안 검증 필요성 연구)

  • Ahn, Jung-Jun;Kim, Su-Dong
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.76-82
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    • 2019
  • This study has done to search for a solution to remove risk limitedly caused by separating weapon system acquisition from operation and maintenance at the view point of Logistic Commander who's responsible for stable operation and maintenance after acquiring weapon system. At the System development stage, unverified overhaul development plan may cause additional manpower and costs after the development, and furthermore it is likely to have risk to lower reliability of the military. Thus, research and development agency should write overhaul development plan at the System development stage, and it should be verified through evaluation and verification test. Secondly, during research and development, institutional supplementation is needed to calculate human and material resources writing overhaul development plan. Thirdly, it should be able to analyze proper operation & maintenance plan and cost for overhaul plan at the pre-investigation stage. Fourthly, the base which can develop overhaul concept and overhaul factors should be included in the need and need determination document. Lastly, for the weapon system which has small amount of high power figure, project management should be performed to be able to specify at the each acquisition level of weapon system to realize Article 28, clause 3 and 4 of Defense business law.

A Study on the Patient-centered Medical Delivery System -Focusing on EU examples of strengthening primary care- (환자 중심의 의료전달체계 구축에 관한 연구 -일차 의료 강화와 관련된 유럽연합의 예를 중심으로-)

  • Kim, Yong-Min
    • The Korean Society of Law and Medicine
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.235-262
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    • 2019
  • While traditionally threatening human infectious diseases are decreasing, chronic diseases such as cancer and diabetes, including cardiovascular diseases, are spreading rapidly. Reflecting the characteristics of chronic diseases that are difficult to treat, the management of risk factors and the preparation of health promotion policies corresponding to them have emerged as important concerns around the world. Providing so-called multi-sector approach such as health promotion and disease prevention policy and solution for community response, The value of primary care is once again highlighted in the changed medical environment. As the existing medical delivery system has become difficult to cope with the people's desire for rapid aging, disease paradigm change, and quality of life improvement, European Union countries have made various efforts to improve the quality of their primary medical system, which provides continuous, com- prehensive and coordinated management. This paper examines the current status and problems of the healthcare delivery system in Korea, draws implications from the European Union examples related to the strengthening of primary care, and discusses the plans for establishing a patient-centered future medical delivery system.

Design and Development of IoT-based Indoor Environment Management Platform (IoT 기반의 실내환경 관리 플랫폼 설계 및 개발)

  • Lee, Wan-Jik;Kim, Se-Jin;Yoon, Jun-Keun;Jeong, Ja-Woon;Heo, Seok-Yeol
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.654-661
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    • 2021
  • Air pollution caused by industrial development has become a level that can seriously threaten human health. In general, indoor air pollution is considered to be lower than outdoors, but modern people live indoors most of the time, thus it is essential to keep the indoor air quality comfortable in order to take care of one's own health and improve the quality of life. Therefore, the development of an indoor environment management platform using Internet of Things and data processing technology, which is currently drawing attention, is considered a very meaningful study. In this paper, we designed an IoT-based management platform that can remotely monitor and control indoor environments. In addition, the functions of the IoT terminal, gateway, and data server constituting the platform were implemented using open source and open libraries, and all functional operations were also verified. In particular, the IoT terminal and the gateway in this paper exchange data using BLE communication, so they can operate with relatively low power and since the gateway uses the BLE Advertising mode, it has the advantage of automatically recognizing IoT terminals that have not been previously configured.

The Synesthetic Presence and Physical Movement of Nong-ak as Seen Through Affect Theory (정동 이론으로 본 농악의 공감각적 현존과 신체 운동)

  • Kwon, Eun-Young
    • (The) Research of the performance art and culture
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    • no.40
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    • pp.5-35
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    • 2020
  • Affect is intensity and quality that are generated as the physical body senses the outside world. Of experienced affect, notions that are granted meaning and interpretation are emotions. Affect theory distinguishes emotion and affect and by focusing on affect, it provides methods with which to analyze physical body responses and changes and it presents new possibilities to performing arts research that uses the physical body as a medium. Nong-ak is art that concentrates mainly on the occurrence of affect rather than 'representation'. Nong-ak is a performance type in which sound, color, texture, and physical movement overlap and exist in a synesthetic way. Here, physical things such as instruments, props, costumes, and stage devices are gathered together with non-physical things such as rhythm, mood, and atmosphere around human bodies. The physical body is stimulated by these things, displays tendencies that suit performances, and becomes 'the body without an image' as it immerses itself into the performance, acting while displaying 'quasi-corporeality'. The body, which moves automatically as if without consciousness, appears more easily within groups. To transition individuals of everyday life to 'the body without an image', Nong-ak executes the group physical exercise of 'Jinpuri'. Such physical exercise builds up affect by increasing nonverbal communion and communication and brings out the creativity of individuals within mutual trust and a sense of belonging. Affect and emotion stirred up by Nong-ak act as confirmation and affirmation of the existence, vitality, and ability of one's self and groups. Such affirmation recalls Nong-ak as a meaningful and important value from group dimensions and perceives it as a performance form that should be preserved and passed on.

Visible Light Communication Based Wide Range Indoor Fine Particulate Matter Monitoring System (가시광통신 기반 광역 실내 초미세먼지 모니터링 시스템)

  • Shakil, Sejan Mohammad Abrar;An, Jinyoung;Han, Daehyun;Chung, Wan-Young
    • Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.16-23
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    • 2019
  • Fine particulate matter known as PM 2.5 refers to the atmospheric particulate matter that has a diameter less than 2.5 micrometer identified as dangerous element for human health and its concentration can provide us a clear picture about air dust concentration. Humans stay indoor almost 90% of their life time and also there is no official indoor dust concentration data, so our study is focused on measuring the indoor air quality. Indoor dust data monitoring is very important in hospital environments beside that other places can also be considered for monitoring like classrooms, cements factories, computer server rooms, petrochemical storage etc. In this paper, visible light communication system is proposed by Manchester encoding technique for electromagnetic interference (EMI)-free indoor dust monitoring. Important indoor environment information like dust concentration is transferred by visible light channel in wide range. An average voltage-tracking technique is utilized for robust light detection to eliminate ambient light and low-frequency noise. The incoming light is recognized by a photo diode and are simultaneously processed by a receiver micro-controller. We can monitor indoor air quality in real-time and can take necessary action according to the result.