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Prescription Drug Use in Primary Health Care Posts and Its Improvement Scheme (보건진료소 처방의약품 사용실태 및 개선안)

  • Kim, Chun Mi;Song, Yeon Yi;June, Kyung Ja;Hyeon, Sa Saeng;Shin, Hyun Ju
    • Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.123-134
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    • 2013
  • Purpose: The prescription drug list for primary treatment by community health practitioners has been maintained for 30 years without any modification. Thus, this study will suggest an improvement scheme of prescription drug list for primary health care posts through an analysis of drug use in those posts. Methods: A questionnaire survey was implemented with community health practitioners from April to June in 2012. A total of 1,249 copies were analyzed. As for the databases of drug use in the integrated information, a total of 154,229 diagnoses selected in the method of stratified cluster sampling from 39 primary health care posts' data were analyzed. We consulted some experts about the prescription medication list, and referred to the medication information on-line home page for up-to-date drug information. Results: This study ultimately suggests 77 prescription drug items for primary health care posts by eliminating 35 items and replacing 1 item from the original list, and adding 4 items to it. Conclusion: This study will provide basic data for revising the prescription drug list in primary health care posts by periodically reflecting adverse effects in the existing drugs, demographic and environmental changes, and development of new drugs.

A Study on Knitwear Image Preference and Purchasing Behaviors by Benefit Sought in Clothing of Male University Students (남자 대학생의 의복추구혜택에 따른 니트웨어 선호이미지와 구매행동 연구)

  • Lee, Mi-Sook;Suh, Seo-Young
    • Journal of the Korea Fashion and Costume Design Association
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.51-67
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    • 2011
  • The purposes of this study were to segment male university students on the basis of benefit sought in clothing, and to investigate knitwear image preference and purchasing behaviors of each segmented market. The research method was a survey and subjects were 249 male university students in Daejeon and Chungnam province. The questionnaire consisted of measurement items for benefit sought in clothing, knitwear image preference, knitwear purchasing behaviors, and subject's demographic attributions. The data were analyzed by Cronbach's ${\alpha}$, factor analysis, cluster analysis, ${\chi}^2$ test, ANOVA and Scheffe test. The results were as follows. First, male university students were segmented into 6 consumer types (practicality pursuit, individuality pursuit, comport pursuit, brand pursuit, social status pursuit, and unconcern type) by benefit sought in clothing. Second, male university students generally preferred dandy image and causal image, however, brand pursuit type more preferred trendy image, and practicality pursuit type more preferred active image than other consumer types. Third, the segmented markets showed many differences on knitwear purchasing behaviors. On clothing selection criteria, practicality pursuit type considered resonable price as important, whereas brand pursuit type considered brand reputation. On fashion information source, individuality pursuit type considered store display and other people's clothing, while unconcern type considered advice from friend and family. On main purchasing place, individuality pursuit type more used speciality store with no brand, whereas brand pursuit type more used department store and brand store than other consumer types. The results of this study supported that benefit sought in clothing can be useful as an effective variable for market segmentation.

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Fashion Leadership and Expected Values of Appearance Management According to Individualism-collectivism Orientation (개인주의-집단주의 성향에 따른 유행선도력과 외모관리 기대가치)

  • Park, Eun-Hee
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.85-99
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study was to classify individualism-collectivism orientation into groups and analyze the difference of fashion leadership and expected values of appearance management by the groups. Questionnaires were administered to 376 adults in 20's and 30's living in Deagu and Kyungbook area through June 10~June 20, 2013. Frequency, factor analysis, reliability analysis, cluster analysis, correlation analysis, ANOVA, Duncan-test, t-test, and $X^2$-test were used for data analysis. Survey method was used to collect data for this study and the measures such as individualism-collectivism orientation, fashion leadership and expected values of appearance management consisted of 5-point Likerties scale. Individualism-collectivism orientation was categorized into collectivism, competition consciousness, love of family, and individual focus. Fashion leadership were found as opinion leadership, double leader, and innovator. Expected values of appearance management were found as pleasure/individuality, other consciousness, and conformity. This indicates that women showed high opinion leader, double leader, and innovator of fashion leadership and pleasure/individuality, and conformity of expected values of appearance management while men care more about competition consciousness, love of family, and individuality focus of individualism-collectivism orientation. Individualism-collectivism orientation showed significant correlation with the sub-variable of fashion leadership and expected values of appearance management. Individualism-collectivism orientation were classified into three groups such as competition collectivism, individuality, and low individual-collectivism. A test of significance in groups was determined by demographic variables like gender, age, occupancy and monthly income. Groups showed significant difference in fashion leadership and expected values of appearance management.

Construction of Large Library of Protein Fragments Using Inter Alpha-carbon Distance and Binet-Cauchy Distance (내부 알파탄소간 거리와 비네-코시 거리를 사용한 대규모 단백질 조각 라이브러리 구성)

  • Chi, Sang-mun
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.19 no.12
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    • pp.3011-3016
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    • 2015
  • Representing protein three-dimensional structure by concatenating a sequence of protein fragments gives an efficient application in analysis, modeling, search, and prediction of protein structures. This paper investigated the effective combination of distance measures, which can exploit large protein structure database, in order to construct a protein fragment library representing native protein structures accurately. Clustering method was used to construct a protein fragment library. Initial clustering stage used inter alpha-carbon distance having low time complexity, and cluster extension stage used the combination of inter alpha-carbon distance, Binet-Cauchy distance, and root mean square deviation. Protein fragment library was constructed by leveraging large protein structure database using the proposed combination of distance measures. This library gives low root mean square deviation in the experiments representing protein structures with protein fragments.

Isolation and Charaterization of the Fibrinolytic Enzyme Producing Bacterium isolated from Naturally Fermented Chungkookjang (청국장에서 분리한 혈전용해효소 생산세균의 분리 및 동정)

  • Sohn Byung-Hee;Oh Kye-Heon
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.476-482
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    • 2006
  • The aim of this work was to perform the screening and identification of the bacterium, MK-15 having the activity of fibrinolytic enzyme for the commercial use. Initially, strain MK-15 was enriched and isolated from naturally fermented soybean. Morphological and various physiological characteristics of the strain MK-15 was examined. The activity of fibrinolytic enzyme derived from supernatants of test culture MK-15 was performed by fibrin plate method for solid fibrinolytic activity. As the result, the fibrinolytic activity of MK-15 grown on the soybean media was about 2.7 times greater than that of plasmin used as stardard. 16S rRNA analyses revealed that strain MK-15 was 99.9% similar to Bacillus subtilis species cluster, and the bacterium was designated as Bacillus sp. MK-15. Strain MK-15 was registered in GenBank as [DQ163021].

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An Implementation of the Linear Scheduling Algorithm in Multiprocessor Systems using Genetic Algorithms (유전 알고리즘을 이용한 다중프로세서 시스템에서의 선형 스케쥴링 알고리즘 구현)

  • Bae, Sung-Hwan;Choi, Sang-Bang
    • Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.135-148
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    • 2000
  • In this paper, we present a linear scheduling method for homogeneous multiprocessor systems using genetic algorithms. In general, genetic algorithms randomly generate initial strings, which leads to long operation time and slow convergence due to an inappropriate initialization. The proposed algorithm considers communication costs among processors and generates initial strings such that successive nodes are grouped into the same cluster. In the crossover and mutation operations, the algorithm maintains linearity in scheduling by associating a node with its immediate successor or predecessor. Linear scheduling can fully utilize the inherent parallelism of a given program and has been proven to be superior to nonlinear scheduling on a coarse grain DAG (directed acyclic graph). This paper emphasizes the usability of the genetic algorithm for real-time applications. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm rapidly converges within 50 generations in most DAGs.

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Development of Pet Dog's Dummy (애견 더미 개발)

  • Lee, Ye-Ri;Jang, Jeong-Ah
    • Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.219-225
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study is to make an ideal dummy for adult Maltese with proper investigation of its character and direct measurement of dog body-shape. The results of the study are as follows; First, there were 6 factors to affect the characteristics of Maltese body in the analysis, which are size of body, leg shape, chest shape, leg thickness, body length, length between fore-legs. In the cluster analysis with the 6 factors there were two types of Maltese body. Type 1 has body characteristics with large body, thick leg, and small distance between front legs. Type 2 has average size of all factors including body size, leg thickness, and length between fore-legs. Second, type 2 was selected as a representative one to make a dummy reflected body shape of characteristics because it took 67.71% from entire considered factors and has average value in the measured size. The first dummy pattern was planned by copying the surface area of the representative body shape with the method of surgical tape. A dummy of single body with trunk and legs was made using 30's cotton cloth, polyester inside batting, compressed form PVC and metallic wire on the joint of trunk and legs to support dummy shape. The second pattern was made by correcting size difference of the pattern and adding the pattern of neck covering plate, metal magnetic button was inserted on the center of joint area of trunk and legs to make detachable legs for easy slip on and off the pet's wear.

Analysis of dominant impurities in Cu and Ta films using SIMS and GDMS (SIMS와 GDMS를 이용한 구리와 탄탈 박막내의 주요불순물 분석)

  • ;Minoru Isshiki
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.79-85
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    • 2004
  • Secondary ion mass spectrometry(SIMS) and glow discharge mass spectrometry(GDMS) were used to determine the impurity concentrations of hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen elements in the Cu and Ta films, and the results of SIMS and GDMS analysis were carefully considered. The Cu and Ta films were deposited on Si (100) substrates at zero substrate bias voltage and a substrate bias voltage of -50 V(Cu films) or -125 V(Ta films) using a non-mass separated ion beam deposition method. As a result of SIMS with Cs+ ion beam, in the case of the Cu and Ta films deposited without the substrate bias voltage, many strong peaks were observed, which is considered to be detected as a the cluster state such as CxHx, OxHx, CxOxHx. All the peaks of SIMS results could be interpreted by the combination of these dominant impurities. Moreover, it was confirmed that the quantitative results of GDMS analysis were accordant to the SIMS results.

Effect of Plasma Density on the Tribological Properties of Amorphous Carbon Thin Films (비정질 탄소박막의 트라이볼로지 특성에 미치는 플라즈마 밀도의 영향)

  • Park, Y.S.;Lee, J.D.;Hong, B.
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.333-338
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    • 2011
  • In this work, we have fabricated the amorphous carbon (a-C:H) thin film by using unbalanced magnetron sputtering method with the magnetron source of inside/outside electromagnetic coils as the protective coating materials. We have investigated the tribological properties of amorphous carbon films prepared with various electromagnetic coil currents for the change of the plasma density, such as hardness, friction coefficient, adhesion, and surface roughness. Raman and HRTEM were used to study the microstructure of carbon films. In the result, the hardness and adhesion properties of a-C:H films were improved with increasing electromagnetic coil current due to the increase of the plasma density to the substrate. Thus, these results can be explained by the increase of $sp^2$ bonding and cluster number in the amorphous carbon film, related to the improved bombardment around substrate and the increased substrate temperature.

A Study on User's Value Consciousness toward Products and Patterns of Design Evaluation (제품에 대한 사용자의 가치의식에 따른 디자인 평가의 유형에 관한 연구)

  • Shong, Chang-Ho;Choi, Myoung-Sik
    • Archives of design research
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    • v.19 no.5 s.67
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    • pp.255-268
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    • 2006
  • This study raised a question about 'how user's psychological value consciousness influences design evaluation and evaluated 14 product samples. Three main categories were chosen to be analyzed; product evaluation by step, value consciousness toward products, and creation of shape image and design evaluation. In order to obtain results, four research hypotheses were established a and case study was conducted as part of 'conclusive research' for verification. 120 university students in their 20s majoring in product design were chosen as testees in a bid to increase the accuracy of data. With data collected, the whole flow was analyzed by simple tabulation and further analysis was carried out in three evaluation items. An analysis method was mainly quantitative, focusing on multivariate analysis like factor analysis, cluster analysis, etc. The empirical analysis of this study was verified at P<.05 significance level and SPSSWIN 12.0 program was used for statistic process. As a result, four conclusions were gained regarding 'user's value consciousness toward products and pattern of design evaluation'.

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