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Comparison of Role Conflict, Self-Efficacy, Job Satisfaction, and Job Involvement between Nutrition Teachers and Dietitians at School Food Service in Incheon Metropolitan City - Focusing on the Interactions between Nutrition Teachers and Dietitians - (학교급식 영양교사와 영양사의 역할갈등, 자기효능감, 직무만족 및 직무몰입 비교 - 영양교사와 영양사의 상호작용을 중심으로 -)

  • Chin, Jeong-Hee;You, Jeong-Soon;Chang, Kyung-Ja
    • Journal of Nutrition and Health
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.64-79
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study was to compare differences in role conflict, self efficacy, job satisfaction, and job involvement perceived by school nutrition teachers and dietitians. A total of 335 female school nutrition teachers and dietitians from Incheon area were surveyed by a self-report questionnaire in November 2010. Collected data were processed using SPSS 15.0. The reliability of the questionnaire was tested and differences between the two groups were analyzed using the Student's t-test, the chi-square test, and a two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The job satisfaction level of nutrition teachers was higher than that of dietitians. The effect of role conflict and job satisfaction for nutrition teachers and dietitians was different according to age. In addition, self-efficacy, job satisfaction, and job involvement of nutrition teachers and dietitians were influenced by their annual salaries. The frequency of meals served also affected role conflict, job satisfaction, and job involvement of the nutrition teachers and dietitians, and the effect of job involvement by the nutrition teachers and dietitians was different according to meal service type. Therefore, it is necessary to establish strategies for resolving role conflicts among school foodservice specialists and improve their self-efficacy for enhancing consumer's satisfaction with the general quality of school food service. These efforts may contribute to job satisfaction and job involvement of food service specialists and ultimately to the productivity of food service and the establishment of food service specialist roles.

Distribution and Risk Assessment of Perfluorinated Compounds (PFCs) in Major Drinking Water Treatment Plants, Korea (국내 주요 정수장의 과불화화합물 분포 및 위해성 평가)

  • Son, Boyoung;Lee, Leenae;Yang, Mihee;Park, Sangmin;Pyo, Heesoo;Lee, Wonsuk;Park, Juhyun
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.31 no.6
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    • pp.491-499
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    • 2017
  • The chemical structures of perfluorinated compounds(PFCs) have unique properties such as thermal and chemical stability that make them useful components in a wide variety of consumer and industrial products. Two of these PFCs, perfluorooctane sulfonate(PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid(PFOA), have received attention and were the most commonly detected. In this study it was analyzed the concentrations of 8 PFCs in samples were collected from drinking water treatment plants for 5 years(2012-2016). PFOS and PFOA were also high concentration and frequency. The mean concentrations of PFOA and PFOS were detected $0.0026-0.0069{\mu}g/L$ and $0.0009-0.0024{\mu}g/L$ in samples from drinking water treatment plants. These were relatively lower or similar compared to PFOS concentrations in Osaka(Japan). In general, these levels are below health-based values set by international authoritative bodies for drinking water. These results will be serve as the first monitoring data for PFCs in drinking water and be useful for characterizing the concentration distribution and management of PFCs in future studies.

A Study to Develop a Leisure Program Combining Yoga and Tea Meditation on the Mood States and Happiness of Middle-aged Working Wives - Focus on Elementary Workers in Their 50's - (중년취업주부의 정서 상태 및 행복감에 미치는 요가와 차 명상 복합 여가프로그램 개발 연구 - 50대 단순노무직 취업주부를 중심으로 -)

  • Ju, Young-Ae;Choi, Bae-Young;Kim, Hyun-Kyung;Lee, Seong-Keon;Yook, Young-Sook
    • Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.57-84
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    • 2013
  • The aim of this study was to develop a leisure program that combines yoga and tea meditation affects the positive mood states and happiness of elementary working wives in their 50's. For this study, a pre and posttest control group design was used. A total of 46 subjects were allocated equally to the experimental group and the control group. A pretest, comprising 13 sessions of treatment, and a posttest were conducted. Of the 23 subjects in the experimental group, 16 were selected as interviewees and underwent in-depth interviews. The main results of this study are as follows: First, the experimental group of middle-aged working wives showed higher positive mood states(t=-3.494, p<.01) and higher levels of happiness(t=2.236, p<.05) after the program compared to the control group. Second, after participating in the study, those who had undergone in-depth interviews indicated that their lives had changed to become more confident, happy, comfortable, and self-directed, and that this change had positively impacted their relationships. In conclusion, in a situation where the lives, leisure and happiness of middle-aged working wives is becoming a social problem and a topic of discussion for national policies, it would be beneficial to develop and establish leisure programs for this population in order to promote health and happiness.

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Housing Consciousness Revealed from the Discourse of Ideal Housing since the Enlightement Era (개화기 이후 이상주거 담론에 나타난 주의식)

  • Yang, Se-Hwa;Jun, Nam-Il;Hong, Hyung-Ock;Sohn, Sei-Kwan
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.44 no.5 s.219
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    • pp.35-48
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of the study is to examine how housing consciousness has been changed through various discourse on ideal housing from opening ports to the present. Reviews of literature including newspapers, magazines, novels, advertising materials, research papers, books, and so on are mainly utilized in accomplishing the purpose. This study covers four periods such as the enlightenment era, the Japanese colonial nile, before and after the Korean war, and after the economic development to present. During the enlightenment period in which foreign culture and housing were introduced, with reconsideration on traditional housing basic physiological housing value including health and hygiene was appeared. The desires of Munhwa housing with western styles and housing improvement were emphasized due to the new cultural improvement during the Japanese colonial rule. Before and after the Korean war which was chaotic times with rehabilitation, the provision of a large amount of public housing with minimum conditions for the basic human needs was the most important. After 1960s, due to the housing policy focusing on the mass-provision of apartments and the discourse on apartment as an ideal housing for the ordinary households in Korea, apartment dwellings become structure type norms in Korea.

Prediction of Sleep Stages and Estimation of Sleep Cycle Using Accelerometer Sensor Data (가속도 센서 데이터 기반 수면단계 예측 및 수면주기의 추정)

  • Gang, Gyeong Woo;Kim, Tae Seon
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.1273-1279
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    • 2019
  • Though sleep polysomnography (PSG) is considered as a golden rule for medical diagnosis of sleep disorder, it is essential to find alternative diagnosis methods due to its cost and time constraints. Recently, as the popularity of wearable health devices, there are many research trials to replace conventional actigraphy to consumer grade devices. However, these devices are very limited in their use due to the accessibility of the data and algorithms. In this paper, we showed the predictive model for sleep stages classified by American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) standard and we proposed the estimation of sleep cycle by comparing sensor data and power spectrums of δ wave and θ wave. The sleep stage prediction for 31 subjects showed an accuracy of 85.26%. Also, we showed the possibility that proposed algorithm can find the sleep cycle of REM sleep and NREM sleep.

The Effect of Purchasing Motives and Selective Attributes of Medicinal food on Customer Attitude (약선 요리의 구매동기, 선택속성, 구매태도의 구조적 관계 연구)

  • Choi, Sung-Woong;Kim, Tea-Soon
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.204-218
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    • 2011
  • This research suggests development of medicinal food in the future, establishes a marketing strategy for securing and maintaining customers of medicinal food restaurants and proposes efficient management directions for medicinal food in the food service industry. The higher the level of medicinal food that can satisfy consumer demand for health such as prevention of adult diseases, fat content, Organic food, etc, the more the purchasing motives of medicinal food including repurchase intention and recommendation are shown. The result of the hypothesis testing shows that the purchasing motives in the influencing factors such as prevention of adult diseases, fat content, organic food, food balance have significant influence on satisfaction in the mediating factors. Based on these analysis results, this study offers useful information about medicinal food and management of a restaurant specializing in medicinal food.

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A Limit of the Prohibition of Ar ticle Type Medical Advertisement (금지되는 기사성 의료광고의 한계)

  • Yoo, Hyun Jung
    • The Korean Society of Law and Medicine
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.141-178
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    • 2012
  • Korea's medical law prohibited medical advertisements in principle and permitted them on an exceptional cases. However, the decision of the Constitutional Court of 20005. 10. 27. 20003 Heonga 3, it was changed to a negative system which allows advertisements in principle and restricted only exceptionally. Dramatic increase of medical advertisements was made after that and many argued more deregulation because there was actually heavy regulations. In particular, there is almost no actual regulation on the article type advertisement due to the reason of protection of the freedom of press, media and occupation. However, there may be an unjust result if a specific article or specialists' opinion is made using a newspaper, broadcasting or magazine as a form of article type advertisement to specific medical specialists or medical institution or medical treatment method that falsifies consumers or makes consumers confused by unjust medical expectations or reliability, that also deteriorates just competition and that causes the misrecognition of consumers. In fact, there were actual damages of article type advertisements on the eye whitening surgery not long after the transfer to a negative system of medical advertisements. Victims raised a medical proceeding against the doctor who carried out the surgery, but there is actually no systematic warranty except for the indemnity request. Thus, this case demonstrated a vulnerable result of a negative system. As such, it is problematic that there is no proper regulations defined in the current law and regulations because of the reason of the protection of the freedom of press, publication and occupation despite damages of such article type advertisements. Accordingly, it is urgent to apply the current prevention regulations on the article type advertisements strictly, and to set up specific regulations.

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A Survey of Ecosystem Structure in the Watershed of the Seom River and Hoengseong Reservoir, Kangwon Province, Korea (강원도 섬강 (횡성호) 유역의 하천생태계 조사)

  • Shin, Jae-Ki;Kim, Youngsung;Hwang, Soon-Jin
    • Korean Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.49 no.2
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    • pp.130-141
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    • 2016
  • This study was conducted to elucidate the structure of river ecosystem in the watershed of the Seom River and Hoengseong Reservoir located in Hoengseong of Kangwon Province from February to October 2007. Topics of the survey were mainly rainfall, discharge, water quality in abiotic factors and attached algae, benthic macroinvertebrates, fish, birds and mammals of flora and fauna in a biotic factors, respectively. Specifically, the Seom River could be seen as a typical flow rate of the stream is controlled to the effect of the dam. Basic water qualities were great to seasonal effects, it was relatively clean. Diatom Achnanthes, Cymbella, Gomphonema, and Navicula were distributed predominantly in the periphytic algae. Benthic macroinvertebrates were mostly aquatic insects and freshwater shellfish, the aquatic insects were abundant Ephemeroptera and Trichoptera. Freshwater fish was the dominant Zacco platypus, fish species varied toward the downstream. Birds were mainly observed in four species, and species Egretta garzetta, which was distributed in a wide area of the Seom River. In mammals, Lutra lutra of Mustelidae was identified that the number of inhabit widely. In aspects of the ecological trophic level, the Seom River was maintained at a relatively stable state in the producer and the consumer relationship. The results of this study will expected to be utilized as a useful data for understanding the structure and function of the lotic and lentic ecosystems.

Hanwoo Usage Survey and Menu Development using Lean Cut Hanwoo for Restaurants (외식업체 한우 이용 실태조사를 통한 저지방 부위 한우 이용 메뉴 개발)

  • Jeong, Hee-Sun;Joo, Nami;Yoon, Ji-Young
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.650-659
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study was to analyze Hanwoo usage in restaurants and to develop menus of lean cut Hanwoo. Restaurant served customers Hanwoo menus, with the exception of broiled or roasted meat, mainly to provide various menus to customers (4.14), due to customer needs (3.87) and utilizing stocks (3.59). On the other hand, the reason for not providing Hanwoo menus, with the exception of broiled or roasted meat was manpower shortage (3.63), lack of popularity (3.58), low profit (3.29), preservation of Hanwoos' original flavors (3.28) and complex cooking methods (3.22). Concomitantly, the restaurant owners' intentions to apply new menus with lean cut Hanwoo was 73.4%, showing an interest in developing new menus and recipes using lean cut Hanwoo suitable to the changing owner awareness of customer health and trends. This study has established a standard for developing cooking methods and developed menus according to classified recipes for lean cut Hanwoo, based on the survey of restaurants' current status of using Hanwoo and the owners' opinions. 20 menus using lean cut Hanwoo (rump or shank) were developed by $1^{st}$ and $2^{nd}$ cooking experiments, and in-depth interview of experts-groups. Of these, 12 menus suitable for the restaurant were finally selected based on the results of consumer's evaluation using JARS. Structured recipe flow diagram and recipe instructions were developed for future semi-processed or processing foods. Diverse recipe methods using lean cut Hanwoo were obtained from the study, however aggressive public relations work is required for promoting the developed menus.

Quality of Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Juice produced with Low-Speed and High-Speed Juicers (저속 압착 방식의 착즙기와 고속 파쇄 방식의 블랜더를 사용한 주스의 품질 변화에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, Youngsung
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.568-577
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    • 2017
  • Vegetables and fruits contain a great deal of vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber and phytochemicals. Therefore, healthconcious consumer prefer beverage made from fresh fruits and vegetables due to their health benefits. This study was conducted to investigate differences in nutritional composition and sensory characteristics of juices depending on the apparatus used: either a low-speed juicer or high-speed blender. All ingredients could be made into juice without addition of water using the low speed juicer. However, addition of water was necessary to produce juice with the high-speed blender. Phenol and flavonoid content, were higher in juice made with the low-speed juicer than that produced with the high-speed blender and were correlated with DPPH radical scavenging ability. Protease activity of pineapples juices was not significantly different for the two methods, but protease activity of kiwi juice was about 8 times higher in juice made with low-speed juicer than that made with the high-speed blender. SOD activity also tended to be higher in the juice made with low-speed juicer. The concentration of dissolved oxygen in the juice made with high-speed blender was higher than that of juice made with a low-speed juicer and was correlated with color change. In addition, the high-speed blender caused an increase juice temperature, but temperature was not changed during use of the low-speed juicer. The noise level of the low-speed juicer was low, but the high-speed blender had high noise intensity comparable to that of railway or aircraft noise. In the sensory evaluation of juice, juice made with the low-speed juicer was preferred over juice made with the high-speed blender. As a result, the overall quality of the juice produced using the low-speed juicer was superior.