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Relations Among Weight Control Behaviors, Health-related Lifestyles, and Diet Behaviors in Middle Aged Koreans (중년기 남녀의 체중 감량 시도 여부에 따른 건강 관련 생활습관과 식행동의 차이)

  • Choi, Yoon-Jung;Kim, Eun-Mi
    • Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.176-188
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    • 2008
  • In this study, we compared demographic anthropometric characteristic, health-related lifestyle and diet behavior among weight control behaviors of 1187 (555 male, 632 female) aged $40{\sim}69yrs$ in Ganghwa country. All the data were analyzed by chi-square test, trend test, student t-test using SPSS 12.0 version at p < 0.05. 'Attempting weight control (loss)' was more in women than that was found in men (36.6% vs 20.7%), and women attempting weight loss most were 40-50 yrs. The reasons of weight loss were 'health problem' and 'health promotion'. Physical activity and diet restriction were commonly employed as weight control methods. Both genders attempting weight loss had a higher education level, BMI, percentage of body fat, waist circumference and physical activity than those not attempting weight control (p < 0.05). In dietary habits like 'meal regularity', 'slow eating' and 'over eating', women attempting weight loss were superior than those who not attempting weight control group (p < 0.05). Eating pattern changes like 'decrease of fats and fatty foods intake', 'vegetable oil usage', 'increase of fruit and vegetables intake', 'decrease of sugar and salt intake' showed significant differences (p < 0.001) between the attempted weight control groups and nonattempted weight control groups. Salt taste was a preference in male non-attempted weight control group, while sour, hot and spicy taste were preference in female attempted weight control group (p < 0.05). Preference for processed foods, fried foods and snack were significant differences (p < 0.05) in women attempted weight control group. Those attempting weight loss tried to improve their eating patterns. However, those attempting weight loss were poorer than the others in health-related lifestyle and eating habit. Therefore, it is necessary to make an effort that improve healthrelated lifestyle and diet behavior in middle aged group.

A Study on Reliability and Validity of the Pyungweesan Patternization Questionnaire by the Pathogenesis Analysis (병인론적(病因論的) 분석(分析)에 의한 평위산변증설문지(平胃散辨證設問紙)의 신뢰도(信賴度) 타당도(妥當度) 연구(硏究))

  • Lim, Jun-Sung;Park, Young-Bae;Park, Young-Jae;Lee, Sang-Chul;Oh, Whan-Sup
    • The Journal of the Society of Korean Medicine Diagnostics
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.59-67
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    • 2007
  • Objectives: Pathogenesis treats cause of disease. Pyungweesan is pathogenic prescription of indigestion. This study researched for developing questionnaire of prescribing pyungweesan. Methods: Korean medical doctor classified the patients into two group, pyungweesan symptom group and non pyungweesan symptom group. After that, each group responsed to the questionnaire. We tested for both the reliability and validity of the questionnaire. For validity test, we compared the sum, average and standard deviation of 20 items of pyungweesan symptom group with those of non-pyungweesan symptom group through independent sample t-test, For reliability test, we computerized crohnbach's a value of the items. Results: The developed questionnaire showed remarkable reliability. (Cronbach's ${\alpha}$ =0.854) There were a significant differences on the sum of the 20 items and each 19 item's average and standard deviation, except 1 item; Do you have an irregular discharge from the womb? Conclusions: Based on the results of the above analysis, the korean medical doctor will make an effort to apply the pyungweesan questionnaire clinically. In the future, the additional research is needed.

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Numerical Simulation of Bullet Impact for Fuel Cell of Rotorcraft using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (입자법을 이용한 회전익항공기 연료셀 피탄 수치모사)

  • Kim, Hyun-Gi;Kim, Sung Chan
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.2553-2558
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    • 2014
  • Military rotorcraft should be designed taking into account the condition of the fuel cell bullet impact. The internal fluid pressure, stress of metal fitting and fuel cell, bullet kinetic energy can be included as the design factor for the fuel cell. The best way to obtain the important design data is to conduct the verification test with actual product. But, the verification test requires huge cost and long-term effort. Moreover, there is high risk to fail because of the sever test condition. Thus, the numerical simulation is required to reduce the risk of trial-and-error together with prediction of the design data. In the present study, the bullet impact simulation based on SPH(smoothed particle hydrodynamics) is conducted with the commercial package, LS-DYNA. As the result of the numerical simulation, the internal pressure of fuel cell is calculated as 350~360MPa and the equivalent stress caused by hydro-ram effect is predicted as 260~350MPa on metal fittings.

A Conformance Testing Method and its Implementation for XML Signature Products (XML전자서명 제품의 표준적합성 시험 방법 및 구현)

  • 김지현;이광수
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.3-11
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    • 2004
  • The XML has been becoming a basis of the related application and industry standards with proliferation of electronic transactions on the web, and the standardization on XML Signature, which can be applied to the digital contents including XML objects from one or more sources, is in the progress through a joint effort of W3C(World Wide Web Consortium) and IETF(Internet Engineering Task Force). Along with this trend, the development of products implementing XML Signature has been growing, and the XML Signature products are required to implement the relevant standards correctly to guarantee the interoperability among different XML Signature products. In this paper, we propose a conformance testing method for testing the XML Signature products, which includes a testing procedure and test cases. The test cases were obtained through analysis of XML Signature standards. Finally we describe the design and uses of our XML Signature conformance testing tools which implements our testing method.

Analysis of Chemical Compounds of Gaseous and Particulate Pollutants from the Open Burning of Agricultural HDPE Film Waste

  • Kim, Tae-Han;Choi, Boo-Hun;Kook, Joongjin
    • Journal of People, Plants, and Environment
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.585-593
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    • 2021
  • Background and objective: Illegal open-air incineration, which is criticized as a leading source of air pollutants among agricultural activities, currently requires constant effort and attention. Countries around the world have been undertaking studies on the emission of heavy metal substances in fine dust discharged during the incineration process. A precise analytical method is required to examine the harmful effects of particulate pollutants on the human body. Methods: In order to simulate open-air incineration, the infrastructure needed for incineration tests complying with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Method 5G was built, and a large-area analysis was conducted on particulate pollutants through automated scanning electron microscopy (SEM)-energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS). For the test specimen, high-density polyethylene (HDPE) waste collected by the DangJin Office located in Choongcheongnam-do was used. To increase the identifiability of the analyzed particles, the incineration experiment was conducted in an incinerator three times after dividing the film waste into 200 g specimens. Results: Among the metal particulate matters detected in the HDPE waste incineration test, transition metals included C (20.8-37.1 wt%) and O (33.7-37.9 wt%). As for other chemical matters, the analysis showed that metal particulate matters such as metalloids, alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, and transition metals reacted to C and C-O. Si, a representative metalloid, was detected at 14.8-20.8 wt%, showing the highest weight ratio except for C and O. Conclusion: In this study, the detection of metal chemicals in incinerated particulate matters was effectively confirmed through SEM-EDS. The results of this study verified that HDPE waste adsorbs metal chemicals originating from soil due to its own properties and deterioration, and that when incinerated, it emits particulate matters containing transition metals and other metals that contribute to the excessive production and reduction of reactive oxygen species.

Numerical Analysis of Crash Impact Test for External Auxiliary Fuel Tank of Rotorcraft (회전익항공기용 외부 보조연료탱크 충돌충격시험 수치해석)

  • Kim, Hyun-Gi;Kim, Sungchan
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.724-729
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    • 2017
  • The crashworthiness of the fuel tank of a rotorcraft is verified through the crash impact test. The crash impact test has a high risk of failure due to the application of an excessive load, which can seriously affect the overall development schedule of the aircraft. Therefore, a lot of effort has been made to minimize the possibility of failure in the actual test by carrying out a numerical analysis of the crash impact test of the fuel tank in the initial design stage. Recently, an external auxiliary fuel tank was added to increase the cruising distance. In this study, the numerical analysis results of the crash impact test based on several different shapes of the external auxiliary fuel tank are presented, in order to evaluate its crashworthiness. For the numerical analysis, smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), which is one of the fluid-structure coupled analysis methods, is applied and the test conditions prescribed by US military standards are reflected in the analysis conditions. In addition, the material property data previously obtained by the specimen test of the actual fuel tank is applied to the numerical analysis. As a result, the equivalent stress of the fuel tank material itself and the metal fitting is provided and the possibility of acquiring data for designing the crash-worthiness of the external auxiliary fuel tank is evaluated by examining the behavior and working load of the internal mounted components.

Statistical Issues in the Articles Published in the Journal of Veterinary Clinics (한국임상수의학회지에 발표된 논문의 통계분석 검토)

  • Pak, Son-Il;Oh, Tae-Ho
    • Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.170-174
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    • 2010
  • With the ease availability of statistical software and powerful computers the application of statistical methods in domestic veterinary journals is on the increase. In parallel with this benefit, statistical errors are not uncommon even in renowned scientific and medical journals. These errors may lead to misinterpretation of the data, thereby, subjected to faulty conclusions. A systematic review of articles published in 8 issues of the Journal of Veterinary Clinics during 2006-2007 was performed to assess the statistical methodology and reporting. Ninety-four (72.9%) articles of the 129 original articles screened included any inferential statistical analysis in the article, including comparison of 3 or more groups (53 or 56.4%), comparison of independent 2 groups (40 or 42.6%), and paired t-test (9 or 9.6%) in order. Of the 94 articles in which statistical analysis was done 62 (or 66.0%) had at least 1 statistical error. Errors included failure to apply or incorrectly applying independent Student's t-test for paired data or vice versa, inappropriate use of t-test for more than 3 groups and failure in chi-square test to consider continuity-correction for small expected frequencies. The common errors in ANOVA were failure to validate assumption of the test, inappropriate post-hoc multiple-comparison and incorrect assumption of independence of data in repeated measures design. Reporting errors included failure to state statistical methods and failure to state specific test if more than 1 test was done. It is suggested that an editorial effort would be necessary to achieve the improvement of appropriate statistical procedures through the publication of statistical guidelines to author(s).

A Study on Computational Thinking based Test-Driven Problem Solving Learning Model (컴퓨팅 사고력 기반 테스트 중심 문제해결 학습 모형 연구)

  • Kim, Young-Jik;Kim, Seong-Sik
    • The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.43-55
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    • 2019
  • In the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a super-intelligent and super-connected society has arrived. Software is an important part of the core technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The ability to solve problems through software requires software education in that it is a core competency that everyone should have. Software education aims to improve Computational Thinking, which is the ability to solve problems through programming. Until now, most problem-solving programming learning models follow the traditional method of development: Waterfall model (Analysis-Design-Development-Test). In this model, if there is a problem in the preceding step, That could be found in the test phase. This takes a considerable amount of time and effort to find a solution to the problem and can be a burden on the programming learning. In this study, we proposed a Test-Driven Problem-Solving learning model using TDD (Test Driven Development) as Agile development method, and reviewed the appropriateness of the model through experts review. The verification results of the model showed positive evaluation results. In particular, the learning phase configuration of the model, helping in programming learning, helping of Computational Thinking improvement showed high rating, it is determined that there will be positive effects on Computational Thinking improvement through problem-solving programming learning when applying future learning.

Evaluation of the Degradation Trend of the Polyurethane Resilient Pad in the Rail Fastening System by Multi-stress Accelerated Degradation Test (복합가속열화시험을 통한 레일체결장치 폴리우레탄 탄성패드의 열화 경향 분석)

  • Sung, Deok-Yong;Park, Kwang-Hwa
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.466-472
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    • 2013
  • The use of a concrete track is gradually growing in urban and high-speed railways in many part of the world. The resilient pad, which is essentially when concrete tracks are used, plays the important role of relieving the impact caused by train loads. The simple fatigue test[1] to estimate the variable stiffness of resilient pads is usually performed, but it differs depending on the practical conditions of different railways. In this study, the static stiffness levels of used resilient pads according to passing tonnages levels were measured in laboratory tests. Also, the simple fatigue test and the multi-stress accelerated degradation test for new resilient pads were performed in a laboratory. The static stiffness of the used pad was compared with the results of tests of usage times and cycles. The results of the comparison showed that the variable static stiffness levels of the used pad were similar to results of the multi-stress accelerated degradation test considering the fatigue and heat load. With a T-NT equation related to the degree of the multi-stress accelerated degradation, a model of multi-stress accelerated degradation for a resilient pad was devised. It was found through this effort that the total acceleration factor was approximately 2.62. Finally, this study proposes an equation for a multi-stress accelerated degradation model for polyurethane resilient pads.

A Robustness Test Method and Test Framework for the Services Composition in the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA에서 서비스 조합의 강건성 테스트 방법 및 테스트 프레임워크)

  • Kuk, Seung-Hak;Kim, Hyeon-Soo
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.36 no.10
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    • pp.800-815
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    • 2009
  • Recently, Web services based service-oriented architecture is widely used to integrate effectively various applications distributed on the networks. In the service-oriented architecture BPEL as a standard modeling language for the business processes provides the way to integrate various services provided by applications. Over the past few years, some types of studies have been made on testing compatibility of services and on discriminating and tracing of the business processes in the services composition. Now a lot of studies about the services composition with BPEL are going on. However there were few efforts to solve the problems caused by the services composition. Especially, there is no effort to evaluate whether a composite service is reliable and whether it is robust against to exceptional situations. In this paper, we suggest a test framework and a testing method for robustness of the composite service written in WS-BPEL. For this, firstly we extract some information from the BPEL process and the participant services. Next, with the extracted information we construct the virtual testing environment that generates various faults and exceptional cases which may be raised within the real services. Finally the testing work for robustness of a composite service is performed on the test framework.