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Evidence based practice within the complementary medicine context

  • McLean, Lisa;Micalos, Peter Steve;McClean, Rhett;Pak, Sok Cheon
    • CELLMED
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.15.1-15.4
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    • 2016
  • Evidence based practice (EBP) is a system of applying the most current and valid high quality evidence to support clinical decision making in a healthcare setting. In the twenty five years since its inception, EBP has become the accepted benchmark for excellence in healthcare. Although the system emerged within the biomedical sciences, in the years since EBP has become normative across all healthcare modalities from dentistry, allied health to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Practicing evidence based medicine within any modality potentially offers the patient the best available care based on high quality evidence. Yet it is the nature of the evidence that provokes some questions about the suitability of EBP across all modalities of healthcare. The meta analysis of randomized controlled trial (RCT) stands at the pinnacle of the hierarchy of evidence in EBP. This forms a challenge to CAM due to the difficulty in reducing the elementals of a holistic naturopathic assessment of a patient into an answerable question to be tested within a RCT. On one level this makes EBP paradigmatically incompatible with CAM, yet on another level it presents the opportunity to redefine the parameters of what is considered high level evidence. EBP has become a tool, and at times a weapon wielded by governments and health insurance companies to direct healthcare funding and policy. The implications of the nature of accepted evidence are becoming far reaching. The pursuit of the best available healthcare for each individual is the focus of EBP. However, the injudicious use of this system to direct health policy is fraught with biomedical bias and dominance. This issue raises the challenge to CAM to present high level evidence according to the rules of evidence, or face the annihilation of centuries of empirical knowledge.

The Method of Value System Management to support decision-making of Urban Regeneration Project (도시재생사업의 의사결정 지원을 위한 가치체계 관리 방안)

  • Kang, Hyun-Koo;Yu, Jung-Ho;Kim, Chang-Duk;Son, Bo-Sik
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.139-150
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    • 2009
  • Objective of Urban regeneration is a recovery of urban utilities through a physical, environmental, cultural, industrial and economic regeneration. The current paradigm of urban regeneration is not a simple redevelopment as physical redevelopment or improvement. This study is proposed that value system management applied the benefit management, value system, Quality Function deployment for a value conflict of urban regeneration. There is a reason to conflict value that value system is unstructured. Because this study is proposed to establish the process of value system, and applied this process to Se-woon 4th area urban regeneration project. This study is analyzed to divide value system of urban regeneration program into city level, district level, zone level in district. An analysis of value system obtained through '2020 urban master plan', 'the downtown recreate a comprehensive plan', 'Se-woon New town plan'. It is proposed that value system management method through Between values correlation analysis and the order of priority deduction. These are obtained to use Delphi technique and Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP)

A Comparison between the Fashion Marketing Field in University Curricula and in Research Published in the Journal of the Korean Society of Costume (패션마케팅 분야의 4년제 대학 교육과정과 "복식"지 연구동향 비교)

  • Lee, Yu-Ri;Lee, Mi-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.57 no.5 s.114
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    • pp.123-139
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    • 2007
  • Since the late 1980's, the number of research papers published in the Journal of the Korean Society of Costume(JKSC) has increased. The JKSC is usually known for its focus on issues relevant to the aesthetics of dress, fashion design, and the history of Western or Oriental dress. The main goal of this paper is to link the academic importance of the fashion marketing field to the expansion of the journal and society. First, we defined the scope of the fashion marketing field, based on a literature review and general practices of other competitive societies and journals. First, we reviewed the curricula of the fashion marketing field from 49 universities in Korea. Next, we examined the research topics and methodology of 271 papers in the fashion marketing field published in JKSC since its first issue in 1977. By comparing the findings from the curricula and research, we drew conclusions for the fashion marketing field of the journal and society. We found that the approximately 80% of the fashion marketing courses provided at the undergraduate level are related to merchandise planning and selling processes from the company perspective. However, in more than 85% of the research papers, consumer characteristics and decision-making processes were the main focus and were used as key variables. These findings imply that more various methodological approaches are required for the research to enrich the theoretical background which, in turn, can support curricular development in fashion marketing field. The fashion marketing field in JKSC and society should make the most of accumulated knowledge in product design, symbolic aspects of fashion, and the qualitative approach in the research topics of the JKSC and society.

A Study on the Application of GSIS for the Simulation of Stream Water Quality (하천수질모의를 위한 GSIS적용 연구)

  • 최연웅;성동권;전형섭;조기성
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.253-261
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    • 2001
  • Nowadays, various water quality prediction models have been studied, then these models can support the method which evaluate the effect of various alternative water quality management by simulation without experimentation. But, It is necessary to create complex input data file for applying these water quality model and even though the appropriate result is extracted, it is impossible to use as decision making data effectively because of the limitation of expression of model itself. As this study is about the stream water quality modeling, for overcoming the model's above limitation, by developing an interface which can calculate the pollutant load of watershed, I could create a input data file and visualize the simulation result so that I was going to integrate water quality model and GSIS using Flexible coupling applied to GSIS in the pre-process and post-process on model. The QUAL2E model, used in this study, is verified by stream water quality model in previous various results of study and has many examples through previous study, because that is appropriate to water quality model, especially in Korea, and comparatively accurate and their usage is quite simple.

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A Study on the Development of GIS-based Complex Simulation Prototype for Reducing the Damage of Chemical Accidents (화학사고 피해저감을 위한 GIS 연계 복합시뮬레이션 프로토타입 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Eun-Byul;Oh, Joo-Yeon;Lee, Tae Wook;Oh, Won Kyu;Kim, Hyun-Joo;Lim, Dong-yun
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.36 no.5_4
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    • pp.1255-1266
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    • 2020
  • In this study, a complex simulation prototype was developed for rapid and accurate prediction of chemical dispersion range in order to reduce human casualties caused by chemical accidents. Complex simulation considered the leakage momentum during the near-field dispersion to take into account the leakage characteristics of the chemical. In the far-distance dispersion process, the wind distribution of the existing model, which was presented uniformly, was improved using weather and topographical information around the accident site, to realize a wind field similar to the actual one. Finally, the damage range was more precise than the existing model in line with the improved near- and far-distance dispersion process. Based on the results of damage range prediction of the complex simulation, it is expected that it will be highly utilized as a system to support policy decision-making such as evacuation and return of residents after a chemical accident.

Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing in Soil Science (GIS와 원격탐사를 활용한 토양학 연구)

  • Hong, Suk-Young;Kim, Yi-Hyun;Choe, Eun-Young;Zhang, Yong-Seon;Sonn, Yeon-Kyu;Park, Chan-Won;Jung, Kang-Ho;Hyun, Byung-Keun;Ha, Sang-Keun;Song, Kwan-Cheol
    • Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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    • v.43 no.5
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    • pp.684-695
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    • 2010
  • Geographic information system (GIS) is being increasingly used for decision making, planning and agricultural environment management because of its analytical capacity. GIS and remote sensing have been combined with environmental models for many agricultural applications on monitoring of soils, agricultural water quality, microbial activity, vegetation and aquatic insect distribution. This paper introduce principles, vegetation indices, spatial data structure, spatial analysis of GIS and remote sensing in agricultural applications including terrain analysis, soil erosion, and runoff potential. National Academy of Agricultural Science (NAAS), Rural Development Administration (RDA) has a spatial database of agricultural soils, surface and underground water, weeds, aquatic insect, and climate data, and established a web-GIS system providing spatial and temporal variability of agricultural environment information since 2007. GIS-based interactive mapping system would encourage researchers and students to widely utilize spatial information on their studies with regard to agricultural and environmental problem solving combined with other national GIS database. GIS and remote sensing will play an important role to support and make decisions from a national level of conservation and protection to a farm level of management practice in the near future.

Integration Model for Urban Flood Inundation Linked with Underground Space Flood Analysis Model (지하공간 침수해석모형과 연계한 도시침수해석 통합모형)

  • Lee, Chang-Hee;Han, Kun-Yeun
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.40 no.4
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    • pp.313-324
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    • 2007
  • An irregular cell-based numerical model was developed to analyze underground space flooding. In this model, the flow characteristics in underground space were computed by link-node system. Also, the model can simulate the underground flood flow related to the influence of stairs and wall-structures. Empirical discharge formula were introduced to analyze weir-type flow for shopping mall, and channel-type flow for subway railroad respectively. The simulated results matched in reasonable range compared with the observed depth. The dual-drainage inundation analysis model and the underground space flood analysis model were integrated using visual basic application of ArcGIS system. The developed model can help the decision support system of flood control authority for redesigning and constructing flood prevention structures and making the potential inundation zone, and establishing flood-mitigation measures.

The Paradigm Shift of Intelligence Information Society: Law and Policy (지능정보사회에 대한 규범적 논의와 법정책적 대응)

  • Kim, Yun-Myung
    • Informatization Policy
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.24-37
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    • 2016
  • An Intelligent information society means intelligent superconducting society that goes beyond information society where information is centered. Now that artificial intelligence is specifically discussed, it is time to start discussing the laws and systems for intelligent information society, where artificial intelligence plays a key role. At some point it may be too late to cope with singularity. Of course, it is not easy to predict how artificial intelligence will change our society. However, there are concerns on what kind of relationship should humans build with AI in the intelligent information society where algorithms rule the world or at least support decision making of humans. What is obvious is that humans dominating AI or ruling out AI will not be the answer. Discussions for legal framework to respond to the AI-based intelligent information society needs to be achieved to a level that replaces the current human-based legal framework with AI. This is because legal improvement caused by the paradigm shift to the intelligent information society may assume emergence of new players-AI, robots, and objects-and even their subjectivation.

The Characteristics of Coastal Zone Management Methods in U.S.A -Focus on Zoning & Integrated Methods of Different Kind Data- (미국 연안구역(Coastal Zone) 관리수단의 특성 -조닝방식과 이종 데이터 간 통합방법을 중심으로-)

  • Oh, Ji-Hoon;Lee, Seok-Hwan;Lee, Hee-Won
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.11 no.9
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    • pp.3590-3598
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    • 2010
  • It is necessary to collect the coastal zone data, to prepare the objective analysis methods, and to build the scientific and technical support system for the efficient management of coastal zone in local aspect. This study analyzes the coastal zoning methods and the integrated methods of different kind data by case study of U.S.A coastal zone. The characteristics of coastal zone management methods in U.S.A are as follows; the concrete indices and methods of establishing coastal zone which can respond to the local values and land use, related data analysis methods for supporting spatial decision making, and establishment and administration of bureau for the spatial information construction and integration of coastal zone. This study suggest the technical implications which can build the domestic coastal zone management in local level on the basis of the common values of the coastal zoning methods and integrated methods of heterogeneous data in U.S.A.

A Study on the Improvement of Specification in connection with Construction Lessons Learned Database (건설공사 지식데이터베이스 연계를 통한 시방서 개선방안)

  • Song Jae-Young;Lee Tai-Sik;Choi Jae-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • autumn
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    • pp.511-514
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    • 2002
  • Nowadays, domestic construction companies make an effort to share knowledge and experience accumulated while conducting a project. One way of improving knowledge sharing is to develop specifications which are linked to the expert's knowledge and experience based on the specification classification. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to review the current domestic specification system and develop the specification linked to the construction lessons learned database. It is expected that the proposed specification system will support the decision making process by effectively providing the knowledge and solution.

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