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A Study on the Ecologic Design for Urban Collective Dewelling (생태학적 개념을 적용한 도심형 공동주택 공간디자인 연구)

  • Kyonne, Jin-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.83-92
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    • 2007
  • The past concept of constructing houses was focused on how to overcome the limitation of consuming natural resources such as energy and materials, which increased the official cost and the environmental pollution. On the other hand, the echo-friendly concept has considered the harmony between human being and nature more critically and has applied the characteristics of natural environment into a unique dwelling design by developing constructs and materials adjusted to the particular climate, making them into a unit of impacting positively the complicated system. The current environmental issue is how a dwelling adapts into a given climate in which the design is applied by ecology without damaging the natural environment. In another word, the main issue in the twenty first century will be how we meet the human needs to dwellings applied by the residential environment. Therefore, we have to provide a hospitable place for residents' mental and physical health through "Green Design", emerging as the critical design of urban collective dwellings. Based on these conceptions, the purpose of this study is to suggest the way of designing the urban collective dwelling applied by ecology, proffering wealthy life style to residents with the preservation of natural environment as applying an ecological concept into the design of collective dwellings that represent a contemporary housing type for urban residents.

PEC: A Privacy-Preserving Emergency Call Scheme for Mobile Healthcare Social Networks

  • Liang, Xiaohui;Lu, Rongxing;Chen, Le;Lin, Xiaodong;Shen, Xuemin (Sherman)
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.102-112
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving emergency call scheme, called PEC, enabling patients in life-threatening emergencies to fast and accurately transmit emergency data to the nearby helpers via mobile healthcare social networks (MHSNs). Once an emergency happens, the personal digital assistant (PDA) of the patient runs the PEC to collect the emergency data including emergency location, patient health record, as well as patient physiological condition. The PEC then generates an emergency call with the emergency data inside and epidemically disseminates it to every user in the patient's neighborhood. If a physician happens to be nearby, the PEC ensures the time used to notify the physician of the emergency is the shortest. We show via theoretical analysis that the PEC is able to provide fine-grained access control on the emergency data, where the access policy is set by patients themselves. Moreover, the PEC can withstandmultiple types of attacks, such as identity theft attack, forgery attack, and collusion attack. We also devise an effective revocation mechanism to make the revocable PEC (rPEC) resistant to inside attacks. In addition, we demonstrate via simulation that the PEC can significantly reduce the response time of emergency care in MHSNs.

Recognition and Preference of Korean Traditional Boyangsik (보양식에 대한 인지도 및 선호도)

  • Lee, Haeng-Soon;Shin, Min-Ja
    • Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.684-691
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this study was to analyse the recognition and preference level associated with the preservation of Korean traditional health food. Self-administered questionnaires were collected from 289 individuals. The data was statistically analysed using I-test as well as the one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). We studied whether or not respondents had the constitutional cuisine before Ed-comments : Please complete the sentence. Before what?. Twenty-two kinds of Korean traditional foods were randomly selected based on old cookbooks, and then recognition and preference of Korea traditional constitutional cuisine were asked. The tasting experience in the constitutional cuisine affected recognition and preference significantly. The coefficients of recognition and preference were the highest in Junbokjoog ($4.20{\pm}1.00$), Yookgejang ($4.18{\pm}1.03$), Jangagui ($4.05{\pm}1.17$), Origui ($3.97{\pm}1.19$) and Samgeitang ($3.94{\pm}1.15$). Ed-comment : Please check if this value is correct. There are two decimal points. Bosintang ($1.81{\pm}1.60$) showed a low preference compared to high recognition, and was therefore considered to be enthusiasts' cuisine only. It is believed that promoting the greater awareness of Korean traditional constitutional cuisine through the mass media would result in a higher recognition and preference of the same.

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The Construction of Initial Analytical Models Structural Health Monitoring of a Masonry Structure

  • Kim, Seonwoong;Kim, Ji Young;Hwang, In Hwan
    • International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.191-198
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    • 2015
  • It is important to accurately predict structural responses to external excitations such as typhoons and earthquakes when designing structures for serviceability. One of the key procedures to predict reliable vibration responses is to evaluate accurate structural dynamic properties using finite element (FE) models, which properly represent the realistic behavior of buildings. In the case of historic masonry buildings, structural damage could also be caused by ambient vibrations or impacts. Therefore, the preservation plans of historic buildings for low-level vibrations or impacts should be provided by analyzing structural damages within serviceability levels. For this purpose, it is required to provide FE model construction and response analysis methods verified with field measurement data. In this research, long-term field measurement was performed for a cathedral and its dynamic properties were evaluated using measured data. Then, the model was calibrated based on the measured dynamic properties and an overall construction method for the masonry cathedral was proposed. Using the measured accelerations, the vibrations of the belfry were analyzed using the calibrated FE model and finally, the FE model for the cathedral was verified by comparing the measured accelerations with the modeled results.

A Study on the Legal Aspect of the Concept for Medical Practice in Korean Medicine through Cases Analysis (판례분석을 통한 한방의료행위개념의 법적 근거 고찰)

  • Lee, Mee-Sun;Kwon, Young-Kyu
    • Korean Journal of Oriental Medicine
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.19-28
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    • 2009
  • Objectives : The lawsuits associated with medical practice in Korean medicine are increasing gradually. However, the clear definition for medical practice in Korean medicine has not been existed in Korean law. Only we may understand the concept regulated by judicial precedents of the court of justice or the authoritative interpretation by the government. Methods : For study, a database was established for medical lawsuits involving Korean medicine(1968~2009, n=130). Results : According to court rulings, the medical practice in Korean medicine is an act to diagnose a person's illness, prescribe and treat to cure based on traditional Korean medicine, to be understood as a medical care, to have some factor to create or increase danger for the preservation of health or hygiene, and to be practiced by medical specialists based on their professional knowledge. Conclusions : But, such definition is not proper and exceedingly vague. Besides medical circumstances Koreans Medicine are changing, and new precedent to the definition of the practice of medicine is establishing. Therefore the meaning and scope of the medical practice in Korean medicine should be modified and amended, reflecting these conditions.

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A Survey on Mushroom Uses (버섯의 이용실태에 관한 조사연구)

  • Kim, Jeong-Sook;Han, Jae-Sook;Lee, Jae-Sung
    • Korean journal of food and cookery science
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.291-295
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    • 1994
  • The main purpose of this research is to survey mushroom uses by housewives in Taegu metropolitan region to provide basic knowledge for the development of mushroom cooking methods. We have done statistical analyses of 472 questionnaires on mushroom uses. We found the following results: many respondents regarded mushrooms as one of natural, or health foods. The most well-known mushrooms turned out to be Pleurotus ostreatus, Dried Lentinus edodes, Ganoderma lucidum, Agaricus bisporus and Tricholoma matsutake in the order. The higher in income and year of education, the more species of mushroom are known to respondents. Anticancer effect of mushrooms are known very well and 56.4% of respondents eat Pleurotus edodes often. Preference between mushrooms and their characteristics have been turned out to be significantly different. Preferred characteristics are taste, texture and aroma: respondents preferred texture of Pleurotus ostreatus, and taste and aroma of Tricholoma matsutake. Main purchasing place for mushrooms turned out to be market. Majorproblems of mushroom uses are price, development of cooking methods, storage and preservation of mushrooms.

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The Sasang Constitutional Medicine and Allergy Disease (사상체질의학(四象體質醫學)과 Allergy 질환)

  • Song, Il-Byung
    • Journal of Sasang Constitutional Medicine
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.18-24
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    • 2002
  • This research is purposed to find methods of treatment on allergy diseases, through summarizing thought on human and etiology, classification and treatment on diseases proposed in Sasang constitutional medicine 2. Methods of Research It was researched as bibliologically with Dong-mu's chief medical writings such as ${\ulcorner}$Dongyi Soose Bowon(東醫壽世保元)${\lrcorner}$, ${\ulcorner}$Dongyi Soose Bowon Sasang Chobongyun(東醫壽世保元四象草本卷${\lrcorner}$ 3. Results and Conclusions 1. Dong mu thought that human is composed of Heart that inside preserve soul and Body that outside respond to Affairs-Objects. 3. The cause of disease is classified into interior cause and exterior cause. Interior cause could be used in cause of disease, exterior cause could be used in prevention of illness, treatment of disease and preservation of health. 4. The treatment of disease proposed in ${\ulcorner}$Dongyi Soose Bowon Sasang Chobongyun(東醫壽世保元四象草本卷${\lrcorner}$ is that it is to recover 'Essential Qi of Constitution(體質正氣)' by medicine and management of 'Mind-Body(心身)' and that chronic disease is treated chiefly by management but acute disease is treated chiefly by medicine. 5. Allergy disease should be prevented by management of 'Mind-Body(心身)'. but if we suffer from allergy disease, we should treat disease through recovering 'Essential Qi of Constitution(體質正氣)' both medicine and management of 'Mind-Body(心身)'.

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Food Ethics Approach Improves the Effectiveness of Dietary Education (음식윤리 접근에 의한 식생활교육 효과 증진)

  • Kim, Sukshin;Choi, Eunjung;Lee, Mihye
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.333-340
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    • 2021
  • This study was performed to improve the effectiveness of dietary education using a food ethics approach. Dietary education is a way of practicing food ethics based on Korean culture. The core values of dietary education and the keywords related to food ethics can be combined into environment·life, health·wisdom, and consideration·happiness. Sustainable dietary life comprises the value system of dietary education based on core values. To reach the ultimate goal of food ethics-sustaining the survival of the human race, the coexistence of humans and nature, the coexistence of humans and humans, and the fulfillment of food requirements are needed. These needs yield certain core principles, including respect for life, environmental preservation, justice, the priority of consumers, dynamic equilibrium, and the priority of safety. The extended ethical matrix with six core principles and three interest groups can be used for an ethical analysis either qualitative or quantitative. It is believed that if food ethics are introduced into dietary education programs, the effectiveness of education can be improved.

FTIR study of gamma and electron irradiated high-density polyethylene for high dose measurements

  • Al-Ghamdi, Hanan;Farah, Khaled;Almuqrin, Aljawharah;Hosni, Faouzi
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.54 no.1
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    • pp.255-261
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    • 2022
  • A reliable and well-characterized dosimetry system which is traceable to the international measurement system, is the key element to quality assurance in radiation processing with cobalt-60 gamma rays, X-rays, and electron beam. This is specifically the case for health-regulated processes, such as the radiation sterilization of single use medical devices and food irradiation for preservation and disinfestation. Polyethylene is considered to possess a lot of interesting dosimetric characteristics. In this work, a detailed study has been performed to determine the dosimetric characteristics of a commercialized high-density polyethylene (HDPE) film using Fourier transformed infrared spectrometry (FTIR). Correlations have been established between the absorbed dose and radiation induced infrared absorption in polyethylene having a maximum at 965 cm-1 (transvinylene band) and 1716 cm-1 (ketone-carbonyl band). We have found that polyethylene dose-response is linear with dose for both bands up to1000 kGy. For transvinylene band, the dose-response is more sensitive if irradiations are made in helium. While, for ketone-carbonyl band, the dose-response is more sensitive when irradiations are carried out in air. The dose-rate effect has been found to be negligible when polyethylene samples are irradiated with electron beam high dose rates. The irradiated polyethylene is relatively stable for several weeks after irradiation.

Current methodologies in construction of plant-pollinator network with emphasize on the application of DNA metabarcoding approach

  • Namin, Saeed Mohamadzade;Son, Minwoong;Jung, Chuleui
    • Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.46 no.2
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    • pp.126-135
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    • 2022
  • Background: Pollinators are important ecological elements due to their role in the maintenance of ecosystem health, wild plant reproduction, crop production and food security. The pollinator-plant interaction supports the preservation of plant and animal populations and it also improves the yield in pollination dependent crops. Having knowledge about the plant-pollinator interaction is necessary for development of pesticide risk assessment of pollinators and conservation of endangering species. Results: Traditional methods to discover the relatedness of insects and plants are based on tracing the visiting pollinators by field observations as well as palynology. These methods are time-consuming and needs expert taxonomists to identify different groups of pollinators such as insects or identify flowering plants through palynology. With pace of technology, using molecular methods become popular in identification and classification of organisms. DNA metabarcoding, which is the combination of DNA barcoding and high throughput sequencing, can be applied as an alternative method in identification of mixed origin environmental samples such as pollen loads attached to the body of insects and has been used in DNA-based discovery of plant-pollinator relationship. Conclusions: DNA metabarcoding is practical for plant-pollinator studies, however, lack of reference sequence in online databases, taxonomic resolution, universality of primers are the most crucial limitations. Using multiple molecular markers is preferable due to the limitations of developed universal primers, which improves taxa richness and taxonomic resolution of the studied community.