• Journal of Nutrition and Health
• /
• 제25권3호
• /
• pp.221-232
• /
• 1992

This study was intended to figure out the interrelationship among body fat distribution serum insulin and lipids levels. One hundred forty four adult female from Chinju area were participated in this study. The survey was conducted between December 17, 1990-February 27, 1991, . The results are as follows : Wiast/hip girth ratio(WHR) and waist/thigh girth ratio(WTR) were increased with age and positively correlated with body mass index(BMI). It appeared that the prevalence of obesity in terms of BMI was higher in upper body type than intermediate or lower body type women. Correlation analyese indicated that serum triglyceride level seemed to be more closely associated with BMI and other body fat distribution indices. Analyses of the anthropometric data serum lipids and insulin were carried out by dividing the sample into three body type groups-upper body type women(WHR$\geq$0, .87) intermediate body type women(0.82$\leq$WHR$\leq$0.86) and low body type women(WHR$\leq$0.81) Age weight BMI RBW percentage of body fat serum insulin triglyceride cholesterol level of upper body type women were significnatly higher than that of intermediate or lower body type women(p<0.05) HDL-cholesterol was significantly lower in upper body type women. These results suggested that body fat distribution would be relevant to chronic metabolic diseases.

• 복식문화연구
• /
• 제19권6호
• /
• pp.1359-1371
• /
• 2011

The purpose of this paper is to compare two avatars made using direct and manual methods and to evaluate the fit and appearance of two virtual garments on the direct and manual avatars. In this study, two subjects were measured by $[TC]^2$ body scanner and the avatars and virtual garments were created by OptiTex software. The direct avatar was made by the direct importation of 3D body scan data and the manual avatar was made by manual input from extracted body measurement. Two virtual garments in a tank-top were evaluated by distance, transparency, and stretch maps. In the results of comparing difference of the direct and manual avatars, the bust and back of the manual avatar are protruded slightly more than that of the direct avatar and the manual avatar is slightly larger dimensions at the bust, waist, abdomen, and hip area in the side view in case of subject 1 and 2. In the results of comparing difference of the fit and appearance of two virtual garments on the direct and manual avatars, in case of subject 1 and 2, the back of the virtual garment on the manual avatar are protruded more than that of the direct avatar. Also, the ease in the bust area of the virtual garment on the manual avatar with a projected bust area was smaller than that of the virtual garment on the direct avatar and the stretch of that of the manual avatar was also high in the bust area. The results of this study are expected to be used as basic information in the apparel industry using virtual try-on technology.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
• /
• 제7권5호
• /
• pp.1036-1057
• /
• 2013

Wireless body area network (WBAN) is a promising candidate for future health monitoring system. Nevertheless, the path to mature solutions is still facing a lot of challenges that need to be overcome. Energy efficient scheduling is one of these challenges given the scarcity of available energy of biosensors and the lack of portability. Therefore, researchers from academia, industry and health sectors are working together to realize practical solutions for these challenges. The main difficulty in WBAN is the uncertainty in the state of the monitored system. Intelligent learning approaches such as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) were proposed to tackle this issue. A Markov Decision Process (MDP) is a form of Markov Chain in which the transition matrix depends on the action taken by the decision maker (agent) at each time step. The agent receives a reward, which depends on the action and the state. The goal is to find a function, called a policy, which specifies which action to take in each state, so as to maximize some utility functions (e.g., the mean or expected discounted sum) of the sequence of rewards. A partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDP) is a generalization of Markov decision processes that allows for the incomplete information regarding the state of the system. In this case, the state is not visible to the agent. This has many applications in operations research and artificial intelligence. Due to incomplete knowledge of the system, this uncertainty makes formulating and solving POMDP models mathematically complex and computationally expensive. Limited progress has been made in terms of applying POMPD to real applications. In this paper, we surveyed the existing methods and algorithms for solving POMDP in the general domain and in particular in Wireless body area network (WBAN). In addition, the papers discussed recent real implementation of POMDP on practical problems of WBAN. We believe that this work will provide valuable insights for the newcomers who would like to pursue related research in the domain of WBAN.

• 대한간호학회지
• /
• 제16권1호
• /
• pp.81-88
• /
• 1986

The main purpose of this study was to clarify the validity with patient's general background of Korean Pain Measurement tool. The subjects of this study were 195 patient from the 8 Med-Surgical wards in H. University Hospital in Seoul. The study was conducted over a 40 day period from Oct. 5, 1985 to Nov. 15, 1985. All patients had pain. Korean Pain Measurement tool and simple discriptive pain scale as Graphic Rating Scale were used to measure the pain, The Pearson Correlation Coefficient test was exercised to measure the correlation between the two kinds of pain tools. To clarify the Sensitivity of Korean Pain tool was used frequency with patient's response. To compare the difference in Pain levels with patient's general background, ANOVA and t-test was employed. To compare the difference in pain levels existed due to pain area of the body used mean numbers. The outcome of the study was as follows : 1. A positive correlation did exist between two pain measurement tools. (r=.2028∼.7768, p ＜0.002) 2. The sensitive subclass in Korean Pain Measurement tools was 7 subclass. The 7 subclass are inflammatory repeated pain, simple stimulating, traction pressure, dull pain, cavity pain, digestion related pain, suffering. related pain. 3. The existence of levels of pain in accordance with patient's general background, the department of hospital, pain area of the body and school age was supported. Age, sex, religion, marrital status, economic status, acute or chronic status was not supported. 4. The existence of higher pain levels of the body area was anus, chest, and lower pain levels of the body area was eye, ear, nose and throat. Based on the above results, it was found that sensitive subclasses of the Korean Pain Measurement tool was 7 subclass among all of 20 subclass. Thus it can be concluded that Korean Pain Mea-surement tool when partialy used and supplemented, can be an effective tool of pain measurement for the patient in Korea.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
• /
• 제21권2호
• /
• pp.322-332
• /
• 2017

WBAN(Wireless Body Area Networks)은 센서를 통해 사용자의 생체 정보를 수집하고 사용자가 요구하는 서비스를 제공해주는 환경을 말한다. 센서의 중요성이 점차 높아짐에 따라 WBAN 또한 주목받고 있다. WBAN은 대표적으로 의료 분야에서 사용되고 환자의 생명과 직결될 수 있다는 문제를 가지고 있기 때문에 안전성은 매우 중요하다. 또한 WBAN에서 사용되는 기기는 연산량에 제한이 있기 때문에 효율성도 매우 중요하게 고려되어야 한다. 이에 따라 WBAN 환경에서의 ID 기반 익명 인증에 관한 연구가 최근 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 최근 Wu et al.이 제안한 WBAN 환경에서의 ID 기반 익명 인증 기법이 위장 공격에 취약하다는 것을 보인다. 그리고 Wu et al. 기법 등 이전에 제안되었던 기법들에 대해서 밝혀진 공격에 안전한 새로운 ID 기반 익명 인증 기법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 기법은 이전에 제안된 기법들과 비교해서 30.6%, 7.3%만큼 연산량이 개선되었다.

• 복식
• /
• 제54권1호
• /
• pp.37-51
• /
• 2004

The purpose of this study is to measure middle-aged men's bodies around the ages of thirty-five through fifty-five, whose age-group undergoes drastic changes on their body shapes, and to reveal their physical characteristics by comparing the measurements. Sixty Body measurements were taken on 168 subjects. Statistics analysis of data used Oneway Anova, Correlation, Fator Analysis, Cluster Analysis, Crosstabs. Body shapes are grouped based on the measurements, and TypeI is characterized by small and middle-sized body shapes. Tall and obese body shapes belong to TypeII. Lastly, TypeIII is characterized by body shapes with very tall height and obesity, especially around the abdomen area.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
• /
• 제15권2호
• /
• pp.97-103
• /
• 2015

This paper investigates the effect of absorption loss by a human body to the received signal strength with respect to on-body transmitting antenna positions in on-to-off wireless body area networks. This investigation is based on measurement results obtained from experiments performed on human bodies (male and female) using planar inverted-F antennas in an anechoic chamber. The total absorption loss by the human body is also presented through the SEMCAD-X simulations. Our investigation showed that the received signal strength becomes lower when the transmitting antenna is mounted at a specific position where more absorption loss is experienced. The statistical analyses of on-to-off body channel characteristics based on the measurement results are presented.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
• /
• 제17권5호
• /
• pp.43-49
• /
• 2014

Fairy Pittas use the forest around the valley and Gotjawal as breeding places. This survey was conducted to investigate the characteristic of earthworms, specifically its population density, body size around the breeding site in Gotjawal and the forest around the valley areas from the middle of July to the end of July 2013. A total of 405 individual earthworms were collected in the 100 small established quadrats, in which 315 were found in Gotjawal and 90 were found in the forest around the valley area. The density of earthworms in Gotjawal was significantly higher compared to that forest around the valley area. It was also observed that the body size of earthworms was significantly different between Gotjawal and the forest around the valley area. Proportion of number of individuals which are larger than 7cm in body size was 43%(n=135) in Gotjawal and 84%(n=76) in the forest around the valley area, respectively. Soil area was not important factor to the density of earthworms. We suggest that Gotjawal can be considered as a suitable breeding site for Fairy Pitta because of the richness of its primary food in this area.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
• /
• 제8권2호
• /
• pp.29-45
• /
• 1985

Computed Tomography Scanner (CT) is highly expensive in operation as well as purchasing. That reason may cause not only to increase the burden of patients but also to waste the capital resources leading to financial difficulties. However the numbers of CT installed throughout the country is increasing, because of efficiency in medical care, patient's concern, competitions among the hospitals within the same area. In the non-Metropolitan area the scanners were expected to be less utilized and less profitable. Nine hospitals equipped with the CT were studied on the utilization of that equipment during the period from November 1984 to February 1985 in non-Metropolitan area and break-even point in one hospital was analyzed for estimating profitabilities. The results were as follows ; 1. Among those nine hospitals, four hospitals had less than 400 beds, which is one of the restrictive minimum standards on the installation of Whole-body Computed Tomography Scanner. 2. The operating time during the normal operation period was longer than those of any other studies, but the accumulated down time was also longer than those of any other studies. The average number of scanning per week for each CT was 45, while the estimated number of for the break-even point was 56.7 cases. 3. When the downtime was excluded in calculating the average operation would be much closer to the cases for the break-even point. Therefore the break-down of the equipment was to be a main cause of the low profitability. 4. The average scanning rate for head area was 33.6%, however three of the nine hospitals showed about 20%. 5. If scanning ratio for the body parts excepting head was increased, the number of scanning for the break-even point would be diminished. 6. The small size hospital especially located near the Metropolitan area showed largest loss in the CT operation. In purchasing the highly expensive equipments in hospitals, demand should be taken into account and planning is recommended.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
• /
• 제18권3호
• /
• pp.657-665
• /
• 2017

본 연구의 목적은 핵의학검사를 하는 수검자(환자)의 유효선량(mSv)을 손쉽게 산출할 수 있는 전용 프로그램을 제작 보급하여 핵의학검사의 피폭선량 연구와 선량정보 공개를 위해 조력하고자 한다. 프로그램은 ICRP 80, 106 Report와 추록4에 수록되어 있는 방사성의약품의 방사능당 유효선량(mSv/MBq)을 Database로 만든 다음 5가지(Area, Clark, Solomon(Fried), Webster, Young) 소아주입량 산출법과 7가지 체표면적 산출법이 적용되도록 Microsoft의 Visual Basic(In Excel)으로 제작하였다. 프로그램은 수검자의 연령, 방사성핵종, 표지화합물, 그리고 인체주입량을 입력하면 유효선량(mSv)이 산출된다. 소아의 경우 연령 입력 시 소아산출법이 활성화 되며 적용할 소아산출법을 선택하면 된다. 그리고 소아산출법 중 Area법을 선택하는 경우 체표면적산출법을 고르는 선택창이 활성화 된다. 그런 다음 성인의 주입량을 입력하면 소아의 주입량과 유효선량(mSv)이 자동으로 산출된다. 본 연구에서 제작한 핵의학검사의 환자 유효선량 계산 프로그램은 실제 계측선량이 아니지만 핵의학 검사 시 받게 되는 인체의 내부피폭선량을 가장 근접하게 산출할 수 있는 도구로서 의미가 있다. 향후 프로그램의 활용도를 높이기 위해 모바일기기에서 사용할 수 있는 애플리케이션으로 제작하여 일반인도 쉽게 접근할 수 있도록 할 것이다.