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Influencing Factors of Behavior of Reducing Exposure to Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Pregnant Women (임부의 내분비계 장애물질 노출저감화행동의 영향요인)

  • Um, Jiyoun;Jun, Eun-Young
    • Journal of Home Health Care Nursing
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.202-215
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    • 2023
  • Purpose: This study attempted to determine the factors related to behaviors of reducing exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (BRE to EDCs) in pregnancy, based on the PRECEDE model. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted with participants (N=239) who met the medical records and eligibility criteria from the Women's Hospital and Public Health Center. Data were collected using a specially-designed questionnaire based on the PRECEDE model and included BRE to EDCs predisposing factors, reinforcing factors, and enabling factors. The data were analyzed using the chi-square test, independent t-test, one way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficients and a hierarchical multiple regression analysis. Results: In Model I it was found that participation in prenatal education influenced the BRE to EDCs significantly; and a regression showed that the determinant variables accounted for 3.4%. In Model II, the predisposing factors of perceived barriers of BRE to EDCs and environmental self-efficacy were added. It was shown that they significantly influenced BRE to EDCs in the order named, and a regression revealed that increases in the determinant variables accounted for 22.5%. In Model III, to which enabling factors were added, the information acquisition experience of BRE to EDCs interacted significantly with BRE to EDCs and a regression showed an increase in the determinant variables accounting for 25.3%. Conclusion: The results of this study, the content of endocrine disruptors must be included in the prenatal care education program for pregnant women, and it should be composed of contents that can reduce the perceived obstacle to BRE to EDCs, enhance the environmental self-efficacy, and provide the information in regard to reducing exposure to EDCs.

An Analysis on the Change of Existing Building-related System in Urban Parks (도시공원 내 기존 건축물 제도의 변천 과정 분석)

  • Oh, Chang-Song;Sim, Ji-Soo
    • Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Planning & Design
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    • v.35 no.10
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    • pp.115-126
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    • 2019
  • Existing buildings in urban parks are a kind of thing that has been settled and occupied on the site of an unexecuted park. The aim of this study is to identify nature by analyzing the causality and path-dependency through the transformation of the relevant system. The scope of the study was set up as a system for the occupancy of urban parks from 1934 when the building restriction system was established to 2000 when purchase claim (매수청구권) was introduced. The method of study was to get correlation by harmonizing the external and internal mechanisms affecting the relevant institution. The related system showed a modest change in the fourth stage, polymerizing the initial system. In the 1950s and 1960s, the existing buildings in urban parks were 'disguised' by government and the 'regulation' principle was applied since 1967. In the 1980s, the principle of 'protection' and 'support' for parks was added, but in the 1990s, the principle of regulation began to be lifted as the long-term unexecuted urban park (장기미집행 도시공원) problem continued for more than 60 years. Although the public concept of land ownership (토지공개념) has worked strongly for nearly 30 years since 1960, the system has developed into a form of deregulation since 1980. The nature of the relevant institution is first, dependent on the higher-level system and vertical. Second, it implies a conflict of restrictions and acceptance. Third, it is a temporary measure of the park problem. Therefore, the relevant system has long been enhancing the encroachment requirements on urban parks, so fundamental readjustment is needed in the future.

Analyzing on the cause of downstream submergence damages in rural areas with dam discharge using dam management data

  • Sung-Wook Yun;Chan Yu
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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    • v.50 no.3
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    • pp.331-347
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    • 2023
  • The downstream submergence damages caused during the flood season in 2020, around the Yongdam-dam and five other sites, were analyzed using related dam management data. Hourly- and daily-data were collected from public national websites and to conduct various analyses, such as autocorrelation, partial-correlation, stationary test, trend test, Granger causality, Rescaled analysis, and principal statistical analysis, to find the cause of the catastrophic damages in 2020. The damage surrounding the Yongdam-dam in 2020 was confirmed to be caused by mis-management of the flood season water level. A similar pattern was found downstream of the Namgang- and Hapcheon-dams, however the damage caused via discharges from these dams in same year is uncertain. Conversely, a different pattern from that of the Yongdam-dam was seen in the areas downstream of Sumjingang- and Daecheongdams, in which the management of the flood season water level appeared appropriate and hence, the damages is assumed to have occurred via the increase in the absolute discharge amount from the dams and flood control capacity leakage of the downstream river. Because of the non-stationarity of the management data, we adapted the wavelet transform analysis to observe the behaviors of the dam management data in detail. Based on the results, an increasing trend in the discharge amount was observed from the dams after the year 2000, which may serve as a warning about similar trends in the future. Therefore, additional and continuous research on downstream safety against dam discharges is necessary.

The Effects of Job Types of Physical Therapists on the Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment : To center the Pusan Area (물리치료사의 직무유형이 직무만족도와 조직몰입도에 미치는 영향 : 부산지역을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Seonggu;No, Jungwoon;Park, Mingyu;Ha, Yongmok;Kim, Chihyok;Bae, Wonsik
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Integrative Medicine
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.41-48
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    • 2014
  • Purpose : The purpose of this survey was to investigate the effect on job satisfaction and organizational commitment according to the job types of Pusan area physical therapists figuring out structural causality between job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Method : This survey was conducted through structured questionnaire for the physical therapists working in Pusan area, and data from 217 therapists were utilized in the final analysis. Data collection was deployment questionnaire using Google Docs (online survey), The SPSS 21.0 program was used according to for research purposes independent t-test was used for individual and job characteristics, was used according to job types and job satisfaction and organizational commitment are logistic regression analysis, correlation analysis and chi-square test. Result : The results of this study were as follows. 1. Overall job satisfaction according to the job types was appeared musculoskeletal physical therapist more 4 times. 2. Job types according to the organizational commitment did not make direct effect. Conclusion : Number of musculoskeletal physical therapist than neurological physical therapist was fewer and there were many per day treatment of patients, but overall job satisfaction was appeared that is higher. This is thought that job types affects more than working environment.

FPGA Design of Open-Loop Frame Prediction Processor for Scalable Video Coding (스케일러블 비디오 코딩을 위한 Open-Loop 프레임 예측 프로세서의 FPGA 설계)

  • Seo Young-Ho
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.31 no.5C
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    • pp.534-539
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, we propose a new frame prediction filtering technique and a hardware(H/W) architecture for scalable video coding. We try to evaluate MCTF(motion compensated temporal filtering) and hierarchical B-picture which are a technique for eliminate correlation between video frames. Since the techniques correspond to non-causal system in time, these have fundamental defects which are long latency time and large size of frame buffer. We propose a new architecture to be efficiently implemented by reconfiguring non-causal system to causal system. We use the property of a repetitive arithmetic and propose a new frame prediction filtering cell(FPFC). By expanding FPFC we reconfigure the whole arithmetic architecture. After the operational sequence of arithmetic is analyzed in detail and the causality is imposed to implement in hardware, the unit cell is optimized. A new FPFC kernel was organized as simple as possible by repeatedly arranging the unit cells and a FPFC processor is realized for scalable video coding.

Statistical Prediction for the Demand of Life Insurance Policy Loans (생명보험의 보험계약대출 수요에 대한통계적예측)

  • Lee, Woo-Joo;Park, Kyung-Ok;Kim, Hae-Kyung
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.697-712
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    • 2010
  • This paper is concerned with the statistical analysis and development of stochastic models for the demand for life insurance policy loans. For these, firstly the characteristics of the regression trend, periodicity and dependence of the monthly demand for life insurance policy loans are investigated by a statistical analysis of the monthly demand data for the years 1999 through 2008. Secondly, the causal relationships between the demand for life insurance policy loans and the economic variables including unemployment rate and inflation rate for the period are investigated. The results show that inflation rate is main factor influencing policy loan demands. The overall evidence, however, failed to establish unidirectional causality relationships between the demand series and the other variables under study. Finally, based on these, univariate time series model and transfer function model where the demand series is related to one input series are derived, respectively, for the prediction of the demand for life insurance policy loans. A statistical procedure for using the model to predict the demand for life insurance policy loans is also proposed.

The Effects of Expected Rate for Housing Sale Price on Jeonse Price Ratio - Focused on Markets in Seoul - (매매가격에 대한 기대상승률이 전세가격비율에 미치는 영향 - 서울시를 중심으로 -)

  • Lee, Ji-Young;Ahn, Jeong-Keun
    • Journal of Cadastre & Land InformatiX
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    • v.45 no.2
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    • pp.203-216
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    • 2015
  • This study focuses on the relationship between housing sale prices and Jeonse prices, amid a recent surge of Jeonse price and Jeonse-to-housing sale price ratio. There are many studies about the relationship between house prices and Jeonse, but they couldn't fully explain what makes them spike up. In addition to this relationship, this paper deals with the difference of Jeonse system on regions and price levels. Using Granger causality and Spearman's Correlation Coefficient, the outcome is drawn. As the result, the expected rate for housing sale prices effects on the Jeonse-to-housing sale price ratio. The higher on sale price, the lower the Jeonse-to-housing sale price ratio regarding the region difference.

Case of Suspected Drug-Induced Liver Injury after Intravenous Wild Ginseng Pharmacopuncture (산삼약침 시술 후 발생한 것으로 의심되는 약인성 간손상 : 증례 보고)

  • Jo, Hee Guen;Jung, Pil Sun;Kim, Hee Young;Bae, So Yeon;Jo, Mi Jin;Shin, Jun Huk;Han, Sae Huk;Na, Jae Il;Sul, Jae Uk;Lee, Sang Young
    • Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.102-106
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    • 2014
  • Wild ginseng pharmacopuncture is a partly used Traditional Korean Medicine's therapy with no previously well documented hepatotoxicity. We report the the first case of suspected drug-induced liver injury (DILI) after intravenous Wild ginseng Pharmacopuncture therapy. Our clinical observation based on patient's laboratory studies, medical history, detailed drug history and ruling out other possible causes. Our patient's suspected diagnosis was wild ginseng pharmacopuncture-induced liver injury with correlation between detailed drug history and laboratory studies. This diagnosis was supported by the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences-Roussel Uclaf Causality Assessment Method(RUCAM). This report represents the first documented cases of suspected DILI after intravenous wild ginseng pharmacopuncture therapy, highlighting the need for future research regarding potential hepatotoxicity of Wild ginseng Pharmacopuncture.

A Study on the Estimation of Character Value in Media Works: Based on Network Centralities and Web-Search Data (미디어 작품 캐릭터 가치 측정 연구: 네트워크 중심성 척도와 검색 데이터를 활용하여)

  • Cho, Seonghyun;Lee, Minhyung;Choi, HanByeol Stella;Lee, Heeseok
    • Knowledge Management Research
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.1-26
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    • 2021
  • Measuring the intangible asset has been vigorously studied for its importance. Especially, the value of character in media industry is difficult to quantitatively evaluate in spite of the industry's rapid growth. Recently, the Social Network Analysis (i.e., SNA) has been actively applied to understand human usage patterns in a media field. By using SNA methodology, this study attempts to investigate how the character network characteristics of media works are linked to human search behaviors. Our analysis reveals the positive correlation and causality between character network centralities and character search data. This result implies that the character network can be used as a clue for the valuation of character assets.

The impact of market fear, uncertainty, stock market, and maritime freight index on the risk-return relationship in the crude oil market (시장 공포, 불확실성, 주식시장, 해상운임지수가 원유시장의 위험-수익 관계에 미치는 영향)

  • Choi, Ki-Hong
    • Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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    • v.38 no.4
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    • pp.107-118
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    • 2022
  • In this study, daily data from January 2002 to June 2022 were used to investigate the relationship between risk-return relationship and market fear, uncertainty, stock market, and maritime freight index for the crude oil market. For this study, the time varying EGARCH-M model was applied to the risk-return relationship, and the wavelet consistency model was used to analyze the relationship between market fear, uncertainty, stock market, and maritime freight index. The analysis results of this study are as follows. First, according to the results of the time-varying risk-return relationship, the crude oil market was found to be related to high returns and high risks. Second, the results of correlation and Granger causality test, it was found that there was a weak correlation between the risk-return relationship and VIX, EPU, S&P500, and BDI. In addition, it was found that there was no two-way causal relationship in the risk-return relationship with EPU and S&P500, but VIX and BDI were found to affect the risk-return relationship. Third, looking at the results of wavelet coherence, it was found that the degree of the risk-return relationship and the relationship between VIX, EPU, S&P500, and BDI was time-varying. In particular, it was found that the relationship between each other was high before and after the crisis period (financial crisis, COVID-19). And it was found to be highly associated with organs. In addition, the risk-return relationship was found to have a positive relationship with VIX and EPU, and a negative relationship with S&P500 and BDI. Therefore, market participants should be well aware of economic environmental changes when making decisions.