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Application of Membrane Technology in Japan

  • Minami, Katsuyoshi
    • Proceedings of the Membrane Society of Korea Conference
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    • 1995.10a
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    • pp.58-73
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    • 1995
  • Membrane filtration is a promising technology for efficient solid/liquid separation in water purification. In FY 1991, the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Japanese Government launched a comprehensive research project "MAC 21" for development of membrane technology and its application to public water supply. The project was conducted by the Water Purification Process Association (WPPA), under the supervision of the Institute of Public Health. By the research project from FY 1991 to FY 1993, we confirmed that microfiltration (MF)/ultrafiltration (UF) technology was applicable to water purification and MF/UF was a effective method for the removal of such contaminants as particulate matter and coliforms. The Guideline Committee organized under the Technical Committee prepared a the guidelines on application of membrane system to small-scale public water supplies, based on the results as written above. The guidelines has been published in Dec., 1994 by WPPA.4 by WPPA.

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An Overview of HRQOL (Health Related Quality of Life) Instrument and Application in Oriental Medicine (삶의 질 측정도구의 개괄 및 한의학에서의 이용)

  • Jeong, Tae-Young;Cho, Jung-Hyo;Son, Chang-Gue
    • The Journal of Korean Medicine
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.64-70
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    • 2010
  • Objective: This study aimed to construct an overview of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) scales for application in studies of traditional Korean medicine (TKM). Methods: We analyzed all HRQOL scales from the PROQOLID web site (www.proqolid.org) regarding to classification, application purposes, and translation to Korean version. We also searched clinical studies focused on "Quality of Life" using TKM. Results: A total of 660 HRQOL instruments were analyzed; 99 were for general condition while 559 were disease-specific. Twenty clinical studies for TKM were conduced using HRQOL scales. Conclusion: The adaptation of the international HRQOL instrument is strongly recommended in TKM-associated clinical study, and development of a TKM-specific HRQOL scale is needed for globalization of TKM.

Application of System Dynamics in Nursing Research (시스템 다이내믹스의 간호학에의 활용)

  • Kwak, Chan-Yeong
    • Korean System Dynamics Review
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.73-83
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    • 2009
  • Systemic Dynamics has been widely used as a method for studies in the areas of education, health care, and behavioral sciences. This paper discussed the SD application in nursing research by illustrating examples of published articles in nursing discipline, which can be classified into physiologic, socio-psychological, and health policy fields. It also identified the limitations of SD use in nursing and suggests strategies in order to facilitate a SD method for nursing research: 1) systematic introduction of SD in nursing research fields; 2) Interest about SD as an innovative research method; 3) researcher's efforts to understand the SD method in academic settings.

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Factors Increasing the Satisfaction with learning in Dental Morphology Class Using the Mobile Apps (모바일 앱 활용 치아형태학 수업에서의 학습 만족도 제고 요인)

  • Lee, Seung-Hee;Jung, Hyo-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.869-880
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    • 2022
  • This study was conducted on 54 freshmen of the department of dental technology in D University to examine the effect of dental morphological practice mobile application utilization on the students' perception of class and satisfaction with learning. Major results of the study showed that satisfaction and utility towards functions of mobile application strengthened positive perception of dental morphology class, leading to improvement of satisfaction with learning, which suggested that functional convenience and utility in the use of applications were the effective factors for increasing the satisfaction with learning. Those results need to be given important consideration in designing the class using the mobile applications.

A Study on the Application of Facility Standard of Rural Public Health Center to city Public Health Center with a Focus on Area Ratio (면적구성을 중심으로 한 농어촌 보건소 표준시설 기준의 도시 보건소 적용에 관한 연구 - 대구광역시 보건소를 중심으로 -)

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    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • no.40
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    • pp.102-108
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    • 2003
  • Currently, there is no facility standard for a city public health center. The facility standard of rural public health center is referred to architectural plan of city public health center. This study is about architectural plan of the city public health center and have been in 7 public health centers in Daegu investigated. Conclusions can be summarized as follows: 1) The Mother and child hygienic section, area ratio which is presented by the facility standard of rural public health center must be increased in case of city public health center since function-reinforcement of the mother and child hygienic section is required. 2) Business section, the area ratio which is presented by the facility standard of rural public health center must be diminished for city public health center because it has been excessively allocated.

The Effects of ESWT and US on Muscle Power, Pain and Muscle Tension at Trigger Point of the Scapular Inter Angle (견갑골 내측 상부의 발통점에 체외충격파와 초음파 적용시 통증과 피부두께, 근력변화에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Seung-Hyub;Pi, Eo-Ra;Jung, Ha-Ney;Lee, Ho-Seok;Joo, Da-Sol;Lee, Seung-Hee;Choi, Min-Hee;Choi, Hyun-Ji;Hong, Young-In;Kim, Ji-Eun;Han, Sang-Wan
    • Journal of the Korean Academy of Clinical Electrophysiology
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.29-34
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    • 2009
  • Purpose : This study aims to investigate into the change in muscle power, pain and muscle tension upon application of extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) and ultrasound (US) at trigger point (TrP) of the Scapular inter angle. Methods : In total of 24 human subjects that experience pain upon stimulation at the scapular inter angle were recruited. They were divided into three groups: control, ESWT and US group. Each group was subjected to appropriate stimulation three times per week for four weeks except the control group which had no restrictions in lifestyle. The ESWT group was subjected to Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy with a 2 $cm^2$ head, 20 times at speed of application of 60 pulses/min and depth of intrusion of 25 mm Whereas the US group was subject to Ultra sound therapy with 1$cm^2$ head, 1 MHz in frequency, 1.5 W/$cm^2$ of strength with five minutes of continuous application. Measurements were performed immediately prior to and at the end of the experiment. Results : There was no statistical significance in the change in muscle tension and muscle power as well as the difference between both groups before and after the experiment. VAS and VRS, all of which indicates changes in pain level, had statistically significant differences between them in pretest posttest comparisons. However, ESWT was superior to US in terms of decreasing muscle tension and pain while increasing muscle power. Conclusion : This study has made it evident that ESWT is far more reasonable to apply to TrP.

The Application of Ryodoraku in the U-health Care System (유헬스케어(U-health Care)에서 양도락의 활용 방안)

  • Song, Ho-Sueb
    • Journal of Acupuncture Research
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    • v.27 no.6
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    • pp.115-122
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    • 2010
  • Objectives : The purpose of this study was to propose the utilization plan of Ryodoraku in the U-health care systems. Methods : Computerized literature searches were performed for Ryodoraku related articles using the following databases: KISS, RISS, DBPIA, NDSL from 1990 to Oct 2010. Search terms were '양도락' or 'Ryodoraku' or 'U-health'. Due to Ryodoraku coming from Japan, additional literature review(articles published by 2008) on Japanese journal of Ryodoraku medicine was done for compensation. Results : 1. Introduction of U-health : As rapid progress of population aging and strong interest in health, the demand for the traditional Korean medical service is increasing. Until now healthcare service has provided post treatment by face-to-face manner. But according to related researches, proactive treatment is resulted to be more effective for preventing diseases. Particularly, the existing healthcare services have limitations in preventing and managing chronic geriatric degenrative diseases such as metabolic syndrome, CVA, coronary heart diseases, parkinson's diseases, degenerative joint disease, spondylosis, etc., because the cause of the above is complex and even related to life habit. As the advent of ubiquitous technology, patients with the chronic geriatric degenrative diseases can improve life habit such as poor eating habits and physical inactivity without the constraints of time and space through u-healthcare service. Therefor, lots of researches for u-healthcare service focus on providing the personalized healthcare service for preventing and managing that. To cope with this situations, The concept of u-healthcare service should be adopted in the traditional korean medicine and diagnostic devices suitable for it should be also devised and developed based on traditonal korean medine. 2. Review of existing Ryodoraku related articles for applying to U-health : articles investigating feasibility applying Ryodoraku to meridian diagnosis and raising problems of it, articles providing recent research trends of Ryodoraku, Ryodoraku related articles considering usefulness for U-health, and articles confirming the repeatability and reproducity of Ryodoraku were included. Based on the review of the above Ryodoraku related articles, several application of Ryodoraku in the U-health care system. Conclusions : To make preparations for the increasing need of traditional Korean medicine due to rising morbidity rate of chronic geriatric degenerative diseases, it is necessary to appropriately apply Ryodoraku to the U-health care system. The application of Ryodoraku is as follows. 1. To use Ryodoraku additionally to the established diagnostic device of metabolic syndrome, CVA, coronary heart diseases, parkinson's diseases, degenerative joint disease, spondylosis. 2. To apply Ryodoraku to the symptoms or diseases having a tendency to be diagnosed by correlation between the affected meridian and the lesion such as headache, nuchal pain, shoulder pain, low back pain, sciatica, HNP, etc. 3. To secure the repeatability and reproducity of Ryodoraku. 4. To devise and develop Ryodoraku appliance in order to overcome the known drawbacks and to improve error of measurement.

The study on convergence technology for sports related health (건강관련 스포츠 융합 기술 연구)

  • Kang, Seungae
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.15 no.7
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    • pp.119-124
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the current status and future prospects through the Classification of sports and ICT convergence technology for the health. Sports and ICT convergence technology could be classified into three types-sports and virtual reality, wearable devices, application and platforms. First, the application of virt ual reality technology gives a user the feeling of reality, fun, and flow through the sensing technology. And this was extended to 'Gamification' concept, gamification of the Nike Plus has become a catalyst in the spread of wea rable devices market. Second, the fastest growing sector in the wearable device area is the health and sports. Chin ese and start-up companies as well as global ICT companies is competing for expanding the pool by releasing the fitness-related wearable devices. Third, the building of platform that can utilize the health and exercise-related dat a collected through the application is expanding.

Perception of smartphone applications for oral health care education in infants and toddlers (영유아를 위한 스마트폰 어플리케이션에 관한 인식 조사 (구강보건교육 매체를 중심으로))

  • Kim, Gyoung-Hoe;Lee, Kyeong-Hee
    • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.987-1001
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    • 2018
  • Objectives: This study aimed to provide basic data for future development and promotion of oral health care educational material. We examined the perception of teachers and parents on the use of smartphone applications as educational materials and the factors affecting the intent to use such materials in infants and toddlers. Methods: Teachers and parents of children enrolled in educational institutions in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province, Korea, participated in this study for a one-month period starting from August 2018. Results: The intent to use a freely available smartphone application for oral health education in infants and toddlers was high for both parents and teachers at 81.7% and 78.4%, respectively. The intent to use increased 10.089-fold when a child had unrestricted access to mobile devices, and 4.435-fold when the execution path required modification; however, the ease of use was not compromised. Additionally, the intent to use also increased 2.488-fold when a child had used an educational oral healthcare material that is currently available, and by 2.431-fold and 2.219-fold when a child had previous experiences with an educational mobile application developed for infants and toddlers. Conclusions: Our findings showed that the teachers and parents had a positive perception towards the use of mobile applications for oral health care education in infants and toddlers. We recommend the development and promotion of mobile-based educational applications on oral health care, which are tailored to the needs and oral characteristics of infants and toddlers to help develop good oral care habits.