• Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.37-52
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• 2016

Objectives: This study was performed to develop an assessment tool for middle aged women's health status based on dietary patterns, which will have practical applications in the working field of health and hygiene, aiming at improving the middle aged women's quality of life through their health improvement. Methods: As a first step, a literature review was conducted and the original data of '2008~2009 Korea Health and Nutrition Examination Survey' were reanalyzed. This analysis identified 65 preliminary questions that may be relevant to the study. After verifying the content validity by experts, the 65 questions were reduced into 51 questions. In order to secure higher validity of the candidate items, verification of their clinical validity was conducted among women aged between 45 and 60 years. Finally, an assessment tool was developed by applying weight and scoring. Results: Selected 51 questions were used to verify clinical validity and the results showed that 20 questions were relevant, nine questions ('regular meal time', 'regular amount of meal', 'intake frequency of dairy products', 'intake frequency of fruits', 'intake frequency of meat products', 'intake frequency of high cholesterol foods', 'intake frequency of salty foods', 'appetite', 'eat breakfast everyday') were related to dietary life. Eleven other questions ('self-rated health status', 'deep sleep', 'smoking', 'frequency of drinking', 'stress levels', 'health-related fitness levels', 'pounding of the heart', 'strange feelings on the skin', 'interfere with daily life', 'menopause will bring you a chance to see the life in a different perspective', and 'body mass index') were selected as valid questions. For the response scale for each question, 5 point Likert scale was used to make total 100 point score. Conclusions: This study is the first attempt to develop a health status assessment tool for middle aged women based on their dietary patterns. We conclude that this tool is expected to be a useful and practical tool in the field.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.333-341
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• 2008

A remote sensing technique to identify trajectories of breaking waves in the surf zone using oblique digital nearshore videos is proposed. The noise arising from white foam induced by wave breaking has hindered accurate remote sensing of wave properties in the surf zone. For this reason, this paper focuses on image processing to remove the noise and wave trajectory identification essential for wave property estimation. The nearshore video imagery sampled at 3 Hz are used, covering length scale(100 m). Original image sequences are processed through image frame differencing and directional low-pass image filtering to remove the noise characterized by high frequencies in the video imagery. The extraction of individual wave crest features is conducted using a Radon transform-based line detection algorithm in the processed cross-shore image timestacks having a two-dimensional space-time domain. The number of valid wave crest trajectories identified corresponds to about 2/3 of waves recorded by the in-situ sensors.

• Archives of design research
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.183-190
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• 2003

It is a fundamental pre-requisite to thoroughly analyse and understand the things which are being designed in the process of industrial design. However, it is not always easy to acquire appropriate data to meet all the requirements to finally design a functionally superior products. This paper proposes an industrial design model with heightened reliability using the orthogonal array tables, which are fairly handy to apply when there are many design criteria to be considered at the onset stage Especially, in this research, the basic purpose of the orthogonal arrays that they try to compact the range of experiments and to improve the effectiveness of the experiment results is answered under average industrial design processes. At the same time, non-quantitative data of design factors are quantitative by the concurrency in design and their mutual actions are examined. This method can help industrial designers in narrowing their design possiblities by depicting more valid data, thus producing quality product designs by deriving optimal control factors.

• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.152-163
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• 2003

Pupose : The Korean cancer pain assessment tool (K-CPAT) was developed in 2003 is consisted of questions concerning the pain location, quality of pain, present pain intensity, symptoms associated with pain, and psychosocial/spiritual pain assessments. This study was done to evaluate the reliability and validity of K-CPAT. Methods : A Stratified, proportional-quota, clustered, systematic sampling has been employed. Study population (903 cancer patients) was 1% of the target population (90,252 cancer patients). A total of 314 (34.8%) questionnaires have been collected. Results : Average pain score (5 Likert scale) by cancer type and at-present average pain score (VAS, $0{\sim}10$) were correlated (r=0.56, P<0.0001), and showed a moderate agreement (kappa=0.364). Mean score of satisfaction was 3.8 ($1{\sim}5$). The average time of completion of the questionnaire was 8.9 minutes. Conclusions: The K-CAPT is a reliable and valid instrument for the assessment of Cancer Pain for Korean.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.330-340
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• 2016

This paper explains about the structure of multiple sensorial media application format (ISO/IEC 23000-17), which is newly standardized as a project of MPEG-A. This format facilitates effective storage, playing, and management of media with multiple sensorial effects. The ISO base media file format from MPEG-4 Part 12 and sensory effect metadata (SEM) from MPEG-V Part 3 are used to composed the multiple sensorial media application format. In this paper, a fragmentation method to break a SEM XML document into valid SEM samples is presented. Several binarization methods to compress the SEM samples are compared and evaluated as well. The compression ratio and processing time using the MPEG-V binary representation and the Binary MPEG format for XML (BiM) are superior to the gzip compression.

• Korean Journal of Applied Biomechanics
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.151-162
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• 2003

The purpose of this study was to investigate the frequency of sports injury among Korean junior elite golf players. The survey was made through the questionnaire which consist of eight categories and 280 valid answers were used to perform frequency analysis. The results indicated that 197 out of 280 participants experienced golf injuries (30%: during a game, 70%: during a practice) and 70% of them also experienced injuries within a year. The frequency analysis for the site of injury has shown that back was the most vulnerable area for all players(33%), followed by the right wrist, left shoulder and elbow for male players. Among female players, left wrist was the second weak site of injury, followed by the right wrist, right thoracic spine, and left shoulder. A few of them also have shown abnormal symptoms of ruptured lumbar disk, scoliosis, and lordosis and these injuries might be caused by the lack of flexibility and the fatigue due to over-practice. High frequency of wrist injury also demonstrated that excessive chopping or punching shot and poor environmental course conditions may cause this injury to be common. Overall, lack of warm up time, lack of strength and flexibility, and excessive amount of practice were the major reasons of injury for the junior elite golfers in Korea. The study also proved that these young Korean golfers actually had more chances to be faced with the injury than average. Thus, it is necessary to develop systematic and scientific methods of training, and prevention, treatment of these injuries with medical professionals.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.51 no.5
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• pp.344-349
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• 2018

Background: We report our surgical technique for nonintubated uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) pulmonary resection and early postoperative outcomes at a single center. Methods: Between January and July 2017, 40 consecutive patients underwent nonintubated uniportal VATS pulmonary resection. Multilevel intercostal nerve block was performed using local anesthesia in all patients, and an intrathoracic vagal blockade was performed in 35 patients (87.5%). Results: Twenty-nine procedures (72.5%) were performed in patients with lung cancer (21 lobectomies, 6 segmentectomies, and 2 wedge resections), and 11 (27.5%) in patients with pulmonary metastases, benign lung disease, or pleural disease. The mean anesthesia time was 166.8 minutes, and the mean operative duration was 125.9 minutes. The mean postoperative chest tube duration was 3.2 days, and the mean hospital stay was 5.8 days. There were 3 conversions (7.5%) to intubation due to intraoperative hypoxemia and 1 conversion (2.5%) to multiportal VATS due to injury of the segmental artery. There were 7 complications (17.5%), including 3 cases of prolonged air leak, 2 cases of chylothorax, 1 case of pleural effusion, and 1 case of pneumonia. There was no in-hospital mortality. Conclusion: Nonintubated uniportal VATS appears to be a feasible and valid surgical option, depending on the surgeon's experience, for appropriately selected patients.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2001.01a
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• pp.65-70
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• 2001

We consider a hyper-redundant system that consists of many uniform units. The hyper-redundant system has many degrees of freedom and it can accomplish various tasks. Applysing the reinforcement learning to the hyper-redundant system is very attractive because it is possible to acquire various behaviors for various tasks automatically. In this paper we present a new reinforcement learning algorithm "Q-learning with propagation of motion". The algorithm is designed for the multi-agent systems that have strong connections. The proposed algorithm needs only one small Q-table even for a large scale system. So using the proposed algorithm, it is possible for the hyper-redundant system to learn the effective behavior. In this algorithm, only one leader agent learns the own behavior using its local information and the motion of the leader is propagated to another agents with time delay. The reward of the leader agent is given by using the whole system information. And the effective behavior of the leader is learned and the effective behavior of the system is acquired. We apply the proposed algorithm to a snake-like hyper-redundant robot. The necessary condition of the system to be Markov decision process is discussed. And the computer simulation of learning the locomotion is demonstrated. From the simulation results we find that the task of the locomotion of the robot to the desired point is learned and the winding motion is acquired. We can conclude that our proposed system and our analysis of the condition, that the system is Markov decision process, is valid.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.795-797
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• 2005

During the past few years, various traffic-flow forecasting models, i.e. an ARIMA, an ANN, and so on, have been developed to predict more accurate traffic flow. However, these models analyze historical data in an attempt to predict future value of a variable of interest. They make use of the following basic strategy. Past data are analyzed in order to identify a pattern that can be used to describe them. Then this pattern is extrapolated, or extended, into the future in order to make forecasts. This strategy rests on the assumption that the pattern that has been identified will continue into the future. So ARIMA or ANN models with its traditional architecture cannot be expected to give good predictions unless this assumption is valid; The statistical models in particular, the time series models are deficient in the sense that they merely extrapolate past patterns in the data without reflecting the expected irregular and infrequent future events Also forecasting power of a single model is limited to its accurate. In this paper, we compared with an ANN model and ARIMA model and tried to combine an ARIMA model and ANN model for obtaining a better forecasting performance. In addition to combining two models, we also introduced judgmental adjustment technique. Our approach can improve the forecasting power in traffic flow. To validate our model, we have compared the performance with other models. Finally we prove that the proposed model, i.e. ARIMA + ANN + Judgmental Adjustment, is superior to the other model.

• Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.1-24
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• 2003

This research investigates how teachers evaluate the School Comprehensive Evaluation administered by KEDI from 2000 to 2001. To provide basic data for improvement of the School Comprehensive Evaluation, the following six questions were asked: 1. What are the teachers' evaluations of the School Comprehensive Evaluation? 2. What are the teachers' evaluations of the operation of the School Comprehensive Evaluation? 3. What are the teachers' evaluations of the results of the School Comprehensive Evaluation? 4. What are the teachers' evaluations of the effects of the School Comprehensive Evaluation? 5. What are the teachers' opinions regarding the problems of the School Comprehensive Evaluation and solutions to them? 6. What are the teachers' evaluations of the open classrooms and evaluators? 360 questionnaires were distributed to teachers who had been working at the Busan and Ulsan Metropolitan City schools taken the School Comprehensive Evaluation, and 258 questionnaires were processed by a SPSS WIN. The followings are major findings of the study: 1. The teachers evaluated the School Comprehensive Evaluation to be more desirable compared to the usual School Evaluation. 2. They recognized the need for preliminary training with extended time about the School Comprehensive Evaluation. They evaluated that the procedure and area of the evaluation were quite valid. 3. They evaluated the evaluation reports were objective but not leading changes in the respective schools. 4. The School Comprehensive Evaluation did not much contributed to the improvement of the schools. 5. Stress from interview and class observation was the major problem to the teachers. 6. The teachers did prepare for their open classes, but highly evaluated the evaluator's professionalism.