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A Study on Job Hazard Factors through Analysis of Musculoskeletal Diseases and Job Stress of Teachers (교사의 근골격계 질환 및 직무 스트레스의 분석을 통한 직무 유해요인에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Seung-yeon;Jeong, Myeongjin;Seo, Ye-seul;Yoon, Eun-been
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.163-170
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study is to identify the harmful factors of teacher's job stress and occupational-related musculoskeletal diseases, and to investigate according to job types to seek solutions and improvement measures for removing harmful factors. A total of 168 elementary and high school teachers in Seoul were surveyed. As a result, the average RULA score of the teacher was 4.2 points, and the average RULA score of the teacher who did not complain of musculoskeletal diseases was 4.3 points. In addition, the average job stress score of the teacher was 58.9 points, and the stress score by factor was in the order of student guidance, work burden, loss of authority, organizational structure and curriculum, treatment and welfare, human relations. As a result of analyzing the teacher's RULA score and job stress, it was possible to derive a correlation between musculoskeletal disorders and job stress caused by occupation.

Analysis of Relationship between Construction Accidents and Particulate Matter using Big Data

  • Lee, Minsu;Jeong, Jaewook;Jeong, Jaemin;Lee, Jaehyun
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2022.06a
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    • pp.128-135
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    • 2022
  • Because construction work is conducted outdoors, construction workers are affected by harmful environmental factor. Especially, Particulate Matter (PM10) is one of the harmful environmental factors with a diameter of 10㎍/m3 or less. When PM10 is inhaled by human, it can cause fatal impact on the human. Contrary to the various analyses of health impact on PM10, the research on the relationship between construction accidents and PM10 are few. Therefore, this study aims to conduct the relative frequency analysis which find out the correlation between construction accidents and PM10, and the modified PM10 grade is suggested to expect accidents probability caused by PM10 in the construction industry. This study is conducted by four steps. i) Establishment of the database; ii) Classification of data; iii) Analysis of the Relative Frequency of accidents in the construction industry by PM10 concentration; iv) Modified PM10 groups to classify the impact of PM10 on accident. In terms of frequency analysis, the most accidents were occurred in the average concentration of PM10 (32㎍/m3). However, we found that the relative frequency of accident was increased as the concentration of PM10 increased. This means the higher PM10 concentration can cause more accidents during construction. In addition, PM10 concentration was divided as 6 groups by the WHO, but the modified PM10 grade by the relative frequency on accident was suggested as 3 groups.

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Development of Workplace Risk Assessment System Based on AI Video Analysis

  • Jeong-In Park
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.151-161
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    • 2024
  • In this paper, we develop 'the Danger Map' of a workplace to identify risk and harmful factors by analyzing images of each process within the manufacturing plant site using artificial intelligence (AI). We proposed a system that automatically derives 'the risk and safety levels' based on the frequency and intensity derived from this Danger Map in accordance with actual field conditions and applies them to similar manufacturing industries. In particular, in the traditional evaluation method of manually evaluating the risk of a workplace using Excel, the risk level for each risk and harmful factor acquired from the video is automatically calculated and evaluated to ensure safety through the system and calculate the safety level, so that the company can take appropriate actions accordingly. and measures were prepared. To automate safety calculation and evaluation, 'Heinrich's law' was used as a model, and a 5X4 point evaluation scale was calculated for risky behavior patterns. To demonstrate this system, we applied it to a casting factory and were able to save 2 people the time and labor required to calculate safety each month.

Effect of Lentinus edodes on the Growth of Intestinal Lactic Acid Bacteria

  • Bae, Eun-Ah;Kim, Dong-Hyun;Han, Myung-Joo
    • Archives of Pharmacal Research
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.443-447
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    • 1997
  • As the growth factor of lactic acid bacteria, LD (trehalose) was isolated from Lentinus edode5 by using silica gel column chromatography. LD induced the growth of Bifidobacteria breve and Lactobacillus brevis, which were isolated from human feces. LD selectively induced the growth of lactic acid bacteria among total microflora. When total intestinal microflora were cultured in the medium containing LD, it stimulated the growth of lactic acid bacteria and inhibited harmful enzymes, ${\beta}$-glucosidase, ${\beta}$-glucuronidase, and tryptophanase, of intestinal bacteria. LM, which was a monosaccharide from L. edooles, induced the growth of lactic acid bacteria but it seems to be invaluable in vivo. LH isolated from L. edodes by Sephadex G-100 column chromatography was not effective for the growth of lactic acid bacteria.

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TRANSGENIC LIVESTOCK - Review -

  • Jin, D.I.;Petters, R.M.;Im, K.S.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.1-17
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    • 1994
  • There are several gene transfer methods available to introduce foreign DNA into animal. The most common method at present is microinjection. However, the overall efficiency of producing practical application of gene transfer technology to livestock species is production of pharmaceuticals. Rare human proteins, which cannot be produced into milk of transgenic animals. Large amount of biologically active protein may be obtained from transgenic farm animals using this system. Growth-related application to livestock species using growth hormone genes or factor genes have been disappointing. There were many undesirable side effects noted in the transgenic animals. More sophisticated on or off transgene expression are needed to control expression of transgenes in the transgenic animals. Turning positive effects while circumventing potentially harmful effects.

Geochemical Behavior and Pollution of Soils in Gwangju City (광주광역시 토양의 지화학적 거동 특성과 오염)

  • Shin, Sang-Eun;Kim, Joo-Yong;Oh, Kang-Ho
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.415-425
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    • 2005
  • To examine the geochemical behavior and pollution of soils in Gwangju City, an analysis was carried out for pH, on the contents of metals, and organic carbon. Soil samples were taken from environs areas, industrial areas and downtown areas. The major factor controlling the behavior of metallic elements in the soil was chemical weathering of clay mineral in the environs areas, industrialization, and urbanization. Heavy metals including Cu, Pb and Zn were highly enriched for the samples from central part of downtown area. This indicated that the urbanization and the industrialization affected soil pollution. The results show that soil pollution in a metropolitan city which is caused by harmful heavy metals is severest in the center of the city. In consequence, it is inevitable that practical measures should be taken to prevent soil pollution expansion.

Evaluation of sustainability of mobile phone case and improvement of electromagnetic shielding by nano particles (휴대폰 케이스의 지속가능성 평가 및 나노 입자를 사용한 전자기파 흡수성능 개선)

  • Kang Y.C.;Jung W.K.;Ahn S.H.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.477-480
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, the concept of sustainability was applied to mechanical design and manufacturing of mobile-phone case. A new evaluation method to find products' good and weak point for sustainability was developed. Two mobile phones were evaluated using the evaluation tool. As a result, electro-magnetic (EM) wave was considered as a harmful factor of the products, and improved front panel was made using nano particles that absorb EM waves. The EM shielding tests revealed that silver nano powders absorbed EM while MWCNT had no effect.

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Wave Field Near a Vessel in Restricted Waterway

  • Kim, Chang-Je
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.35 no.7
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    • pp.557-562
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    • 2011
  • Shipwaves can have harmful effects on people who are using riverside and cause bank erosion, bank structures destruction in restricted waterways. The wave field near a vessel is consisted of a combination of a primary and secondary wave system in a shallow or restricted waterway. The water level depression(squat) and return current beside the hull are called the primary wave system. The secondary wave system, that is the wave height originates from a local disturbance point such as the bow of the ship. This study aims at investigating the characteristics of the wave field around a vessel in a restricted water in relation to navigation experimentally and theoretically. The return current and squat with a correction factor can be newly evaluated and the almost same high-sized wave heights take place on the whole waterway in a restricted water without regard to the distance from the sailing line.

Development of Accident Taxonomy for Experimental Laboratory (연구실 사고분류 체계 개발)

  • Park, Kyoshik
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.31 no.5
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    • pp.49-53
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    • 2016
  • The goal of this study is to analyze accidents occurred at experimental laboratory and to suggest hierarchical taxonomy applicable to prepare countermeasures reducing the experimental laboratory accidents. Recent 5 years accidents were analyzed and classified according to their primary cause, facility or human. Then in case of facility, the accidents were further classified whether they can be fixed by organization or by individual. In case of human factor, they were classified into physical, chemical, or biological to prepare precise measures. Depending on the adequacy of appropriate practice, several measures were suggested such as; whether to improve training of laboratory workers, or to improve training the system, or to improve or prepare practice substantially. A new taxonomy for laboratory accident was suggested complying other governmental agencies' classification such as KOSHA and KGS. Additionally, two kinds of possibilities were suggested such as possibility of major accident and possibility of disaster which can be defined as laboratory accident causing large scale of harmful consequence to residential area or environment by fire, explosion and/or toxic release of hazardous chemicals and/or microbiology.

Acute Toxicity of CJ-50001 (rG-CSF) in Rats and Dogs (CJ-50001 (rG-CSF)의 Rat 및 Dog에서의 급성독성)

  • 임동문;조효진;김달현;이현수;고형곤;김제학;김현수
    • Toxicological Research
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.293-296
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    • 1997
  • The acute toxicity study of CJ-50001, a recombinant granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (rG-CSF), was performed in Sprague Dawley (SD) rats and beagle dogs. CJ-50001 was administered up to maximum dose 5,000 $\mu\textrm{g}$/kg (i.v.) and 10,000 $\mu\textrm{g}$/kg (p.o.) in SD rats and 5,000 $\mu\textrm{g}$/kg (i.v.) in beagle dogs. In these experiments, there were no death and harmful clinical changes which were related to CJ-50001. In conclusion, $LD_{50}$ of CJ-50001 is over 5,000 $\mu\textrm{g}$/kg, i.v. in SD rats and beagle dogs, and over 10,000 $\mu\textrm{g}$/kg, p.o. in SD rats.

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