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Semantic Network Analysis of 2019 Gangwon-do Wild Fire News Reporting: Focusing on Media Agenda Analysis (2019년 강원도 화재 보도에 대한 언어망 분석: 미디어의제 분석을 중심으로)

  • Lee, Jeng Hoon
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.19 no.11
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    • pp.153-167
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    • 2019
  • This study aims to identify the media agenda and to compare each media agenda by media and by time period, analyzing the news about 2019 Gangwon-do's wild fire reported by 37 Korean news media. Using the topic modeling algorithm and semantic network analysis, this study inspected the configuration of the network media agenda and examined the intermedia agenda setting effect by using QAP correlation analysis. Results showed that the sensational media agenda with the attributes such as victim aid and political conflict and the similarity of each media agenda for this disaster reporting.

Study on a seismic slit shear wall with cyclic experiment and macro-model analysis

  • Jiang, Huanjun;Lu, Xilin;Kwan, A.K.H.;Cheung, Y.K.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.371-390
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    • 2003
  • The concept of the seismic slit shear wall was proposed in the early 1990's. A series of experimental and theoretic studies on the wall with reinforced concrete short connecting beams cast in the slit were carried out. In this paper another type of slit shear wall is studied. It is one with vertical slit purposely cast within the wall, and the rubber belt penetrated by a part of web shear reinforcement as seismic energy-dissipation device is filled in the slit. Firstly, an experiment under cyclic loading was carried out on two shear wall models, one slit and the other solid. The failure mechanism and energy-dissipation capacity are compared between the two different models, which testifies the seismic performance of the slit wall improved significantly. Secondly, for engineering practice purpose, a macroscopic analytical model is developed to predict the nonlinear behavior of the slit shear wall under cyclic loading. The mechanical properties of each constituent elements of this model are based on the actual behavior of the materials. Furthermore, the effects of both the axial force and bending moment on the shear behavior are taken into account with the aid of the modified compression-field theory. The numerical results are verified to be in close agreement with the experimental measurements.

A Numerical Study on the Formation Mechanism of a Mesoscale Low during East-Asia Winter Monsoon

  • Koo, Hyun-Suk;Kim, Hae-Dong;Kang, Sung-Dae;Shin, Dong-Wook
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.613-619
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    • 2007
  • Mesoscale low is often observed over the downstream region of the East Sea (or, northwest coast off the Japan Islands) during East-Asia winter monsoon. The low system causes a heavy snowfall at the region. A series of numerical experiments were conducted with the aid of a regional model (MM5 ver. 3.5) to examine the formation mechanism of the mesoscale low. The following results were obtained: 1) A well-developed mesoscale low was simulated by the regional model under real topography, NCEP reanalysis, and OISST; 2) The mesoscale low was simulated under a zonally averaged SST without topography. This implies that the meridional gradient of SST is the main factor in the formation of a mesoscale low; 3) A thermal contrast ($>10^{\circ}C$) of land-sea and topography-induced disturbance served as the second important factor for the formation; 4) Paektu Mountain caused the surface wind to decelerate downstream, which created a more favorable environment for thermodynamic modification than that was found in a flat topography; and 5) The types of cumulus parameterizations did not affect the development of the mesoscale low.

A Study on Safe Hiking According to Caution Against Cardiac Arrest That Occurs Unexpectedly during Mountaineering (등산 중 발생하는 심정지 주의에 따른 안전산행 연구)

  • Park, Ok-Nam;OH, Hye-Ryeong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Disaster Information Conference
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    • 2023.11a
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    • pp.129-130
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    • 2023
  • The From COVID-19 until recently, the demand for hiking has been rapidly increasing due to the popularization of mountain seekers.,On weekends and holidays, people who do not hike frequently while hiking in large and small mountains to see wildflowers and foliage in the mountains are more likely to be exposed to safety accidents due to an increase in sudden muscle use.,If you fall or get muscle damage during a hike, you can prevent a major accident with a simple treatment. In some cases, the error of first aid may permanently damage the important function of the body.,In particular, during a safety accident on a mountain, while climbing in light clothes, the body temperature rises due to the sweat that was shed at the beginning, and the blood pressure rises due to the contraction of the blood vessels due to the drop in body temperature from the top, resulting in an emergency such as cardiac arrest.,According to statistics from the National Park Service, nearly half (48%) of deaths in national parks are known to be sudden cardiac deaths.,There are many safety accidents that occur frequently in the mountains, but among them, we will study how to cope with acute diseases such as cardiac arrest due to increased blood pressure due to insufficient body temperature control, chest pain or dyspnea, and heart burden due to excessive hiking.

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Extraction of high thermally stable and nanofibrous chitin from Cicada (Cicadoidea)

  • MOL, Abbas;KAYA, Murat;MUJTABA, Muhammad;AKYUZ, Bahar
    • Entomological Research
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    • v.48 no.6
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    • pp.480-489
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    • 2018
  • Due to the increasing interest in natural biopolymers including chitin, the exploitation of economic and easily accessible chitin sources with good physicochemical properties is nowadays required. In view of this fact, in the current study chitin was extracted and physicochemically characterized from six Cicadas (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadoidea) species collected from Mediterranean region of Turkey (2014-15). Chitin was extracted using a classic extraction method that includes acid and base treatment. TGA results revealed a remarkable increase ($410-412^{\circ}C$) for all the six Cicada species compared to other chitin samples extracted from various sources. For all of the six selected species the chitin contents on the dry basis were determined as 6.7% for Cicadatra atra, 5.51% for C. hyalina, 8.84% for C. platyptera, 4.97% for Cicada lodosi, 6.49% for C. mordoganensis, and 5.88% for Cicadetta tibialis. The surface morphology of chitin isolates from Cicada species was observed to consist of nanofibers and nanopores.

Effects of Public Perception of Emergency Medical Service on Brand Equity of the Public Health System (응급의료서비스에 대한 대중의 인식이 공공의료시스템 브랜드 자산에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Ki-Young;Choi, Yunsik;Choi, Jiyeon;Choi, Sungyong
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.44 no.3
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    • pp.146-164
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    • 2021
  • This study examines the effects of the public's perception of emergency medical service (EMS) on the public health system's brand equity and the moderating effect of governance on this relationship using Keller's customer-based brand equity model. It uses four EMS functions: rescue/first-aid and transfer activities; disaster prevention, preparation, and response activities; educational activities in urgent situations; and medical treatment in emergency rooms to examine the effects of them on brand meaning of the public health system. Our findings are important for understanding the public as customers of the public health system and devising and/ or adapting healthcare policies and marketing strategies to develop brand equity and increase customers' loyalty to the public health system.

A Study on Searching for Reduction of Women EMTs's Stress (여성 구급대원의 현장 스트레스 경감방안 모색에 관한 연구)

  • Kong, Ha-Sung;Lee, Ranny;Lee, Seong-Chul
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.113-121
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    • 2013
  • The rate that women's EMTs(emergency medical technicians) in fire department occupy is increasing, but my general plan is aimed at suggesting the improving plan for the working environment of women's EMTs paying attention to the duty stresses of increasing women's EMTs, because improvement for the working environment of women's EMTs is being proceeded slowly. I suggested my improving plan for solving the working stress on the basis of a survey of the Recognition against women's EMTs as follows. Firstly, I suggested that physical strength of women's EMTs should be managed well continually via program establishment and a defined evaluation not only by employing a professional person in charge for physical strength in firehouse, but also by replenishing the suitable number for the urgent mobilization. Secondly, I suggested that the suitable number for the urgent mobilization should be increased to 3 including an ambulance driver. Thirdly, I suggested necessity such as the fruitful education and the creation of circumstances that can focus on education for improving participation rate, development of various new educational program, incentive program and penalty. finally, I suggested the fact that is related to the actual re-amendment of the concerned law and ordinance such as not only the smooth treatment of penalty for a traffic signal violation of ambulance and the legal remedy system due to aggravation of a patient's condition during a first-aid course, but also workshop and meeting among the periodical EMTs and administration of special therapy program and sufficient recess.

Strategy for Advancement of Current Pre-hospital Emergency Medical Service (현 병원 전 단계 응급의료서비스의 선진화 전략)

  • Shin, Seong-Yoon;Chai, Seung-Ki;Jang, Dai-Hyunl;Park, Sang-Joon;Choi, Byeong-Seok
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.16 no.12
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    • pp.265-271
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    • 2011
  • High-quality customized services demand was growing due to the increase of aging, extremely nuclear family, disaster vulnerable of society. Ambulance service is required of fast and professional rescue and emergency service because of preventable death rate such as acute diseases, cerebral and cardiovascular diseases, suicides, etc. was higher than in developed countries. First aid will be available using patients information when emergency occurs, before arriving at the hospital. And emergency department is equipped with that patient care can be prepared in advance, increase the efficiency of emergency care. We received a variety of complex emergency call using high social awareness of 119 number and propose an efficient emergency medical service advancement strategy building an integrated response system with relevant organization.

The SAFE Management System Model Based on Context Automatic Awareness

  • Han, Kook-Hee;Liu, Yiwen;Kwon, Young-Jik;Kang, Byeong-Do
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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    • 2007.02a
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    • pp.87-96
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    • 2007
  • Ubiquitous is a Latin-derived word meaning "to exist at any time and place" like water or air. In computing, the word "ubiquitous" indicates an environment in which users have access to networks without any limitation regarding computer networks or places. Important issues in building Ubiquitous Korea (U-Korea) are the social problems appearing with a rapid increase in the old age population. Nowadays, with the rise of the nuclear family, the increase in the number of elderly people living alone, and the change in the status of women, both wives and husbands are employed outside the home, and the relatives who would be responsible for supporting the elderly sometimes are on long or short business trips, and it happens that old people can't be looked after. Therefore the government developed a wireless paging system for the sick, disabled, old and weak so that when an emergency happens, by just simply dialing 119, an emergency aid center could take prompt action. However, the present wireless paging systems composing the under-layer of the emergency aid information system have some problems, such as, a lack of reliability, problems among terminals, mobile transmitters and receiving terminals, the users' refusal to admit the need for the system and poor operational skills, administrators' perfunctory management and checks, etc. On account of these problems, the system efficiency has degraded and therefore a system upgrade is necessary. In this paper, we attempt to evaluate the newly implemented SAFE119 system, a new wireless paging system seeking to correct the problems of the current system.

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Differences in Incidence of Lower Back Pain according to Fire Fighters' Duty Type (외근직 소방공무원의 직무유형에 따른 요통발생의 차이)

  • Hong, Sung-Gi;Im, Jeong-Soo;Youn, Sung-Tae;Yim, Jun
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.99-112
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of fire fighters' duty type on occurrence and severity of low back pain. Data were collected with questionnaire to 450 fire fighters working at 119 safety center and rescue unit of 30 fire stations in Gyeonggi-do. Finally the study was analyzed for 360 persons among them. The risk of experiencing of lower back pain occurred in the order of Rescue[odds ratio(OR) 3.36, 95% confidence interval(95% CI) 1.18-9.52], Vehicle operation(OR 2.63, 95% CI 1.26-5.50), First aid(OR 2.18, 95% CI 1.03-4.59), and Putting out a fire. The risk on severity of lower back pain occurred in the order of Vehicle operation(OR 4.00, 95% CI 1.57-9.80), First aid(OR 1.88, 95% CI 1.00-4.81), Putting out a fire, and Rescue. These result suggest that duty type of fire fighters may be a prognostic factor for occurrence and severity of low back pain. The potential implications of these findings are discussed about different approach for primary and secondary prevention by duty type of fire fighters.