• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• v.80 no.4
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• pp.392-400
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• 2017

Background: Most patients with influenza recover spontaneously or following treatment with an anti-viral agent, but some patients experience pneumonia requiring hospitalization. We conducted a retrospective review to determine the incidence and risk factors of pneumonia in hospitalized patients with influenza A or B. Methods: A total of 213 patients aged 18 years or older and hospitalized with influenza between January 2012 and January 2015 were included in this study. A reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction assay was used to detect the influenza A or B virus in the patients' sputum samples. We collected demographic and laboratory data, combined coexisting diseases, and radiologic findings. Results: The incidence of pneumonia was higher in patients in the influenza A group compared to those in the influenza B group (68.6% vs. 56.9%), but this difference was not statistically significant. The presence of underlying respiratory disease was significantly associated with pneumonia in the influenza A group (adjusted odds ratio [OR], 3.975; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.312-12.043; p=0.015). In the influenza B group, the white blood cell count (adjusted OR, 1.413; 95% CI, 1.053-1.896; p=0.021), platelet count (adjusted OR, 0.988; 95% CI, 0.978-0.999; p=0.027), and existence of an underlying medical disease (adjusted OR, 15.858; 95% CI, 1.757-143.088; p=0.014) were all significantly associated with pneumonia in multivariate analyses. Conclusion: The incidence of pneumonia was 65.7% in hospitalized patients with influenza A or B. The risk factors of pneumonia differed in hospitalized patients with influenza A or B.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.111-118
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• 2015

Entity linking is to link entity's name mentions occurring in text to corresponding entities within knowledge bases. Since the same entity mention may refer to different entities according to their context, entity linking needs to deal with entity disambiguation. Most recent works on entity disambiguation focus on semantic relatedness between entities and attempt to integrate semantic relatedness with entity prior probabilities and term co-occurrence. To the best of my knowledge, however, it is hard to find studies that analyze and present the pure effects of semantic relatedness on entity disambiguation. From the experimentation on Korean Wikipedia data set, this article empirically evaluates entity disambiguation approaches using semantic relatedness in terms of the following aspects: (1) the difference among semantic relatedness measures such as NGD, PMI, Jaccard, Dice, Simpson, (2) the influence of ambiguities in co-occurring entity mentions' set, and (3) the difference between individual and collective disambiguation approaches.

• KOREAN JOURNAL OF PACKAGING SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.51-61
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• 1995

This paper is discussed on the prospects of packaging industry and technologies of Japan for comming 21th century. It is clear that packaging industry depends on living style and social mechanizms. A trends of numerical consumption, amounts of money and composisition of packaging materials are one of a measure of development of packaging industry. Total consumption of packaging materials in Japan of 1965, 1980 and 1993 were $6,344.5{\times}10^3,\;15,898.7{\times}10^3\;and\;21,603.3{\times}10^3$ tons respectively and also, shipping money of packaging materials were $7,073{\times}10^{11},\;45,421{\times}10^{11}\;and\;63,902{\times}10^{11}$ yen, respectively. It is estimated from these data that the packaging industry is also increasing in future according of GNP of country. Compositions of packaging materials from 1965 to 1993, however, are somewhat changing according to development of new materials or social conditions such as platics packaging or wooden packaging materials. Technical forcasts of packaging industry are shown from view point of national living style, energy and resorces as well as environment of world based on forcasting committee of pulp & paper in Japan, report of research committee for the 21th packaging in JPI and materials of symposium in Kanagawa University in this paper. As a my conclusion, many functional packaging materials shall be developed in the future and accordingly Life Cycle Assesment plays a important role of packaging fields. Furthermore, I am estimating in future the new cellulosic materials such as nonwood fiber resources instead of paper, board, wooden containers and a part of plastic packaging materials shall be developed. This paper is constructed by three items as follow:

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• v.55 no.4
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• pp.185-189
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• 2014

Objective : General anesthesia is often preferred for endovascular coiling of intracranial aneurysm at most centers. But in the authors' hospital, it is performed under monitored anesthesia care (MAC) using dexmedetomidine. To determine the feasibility and safety of this approach, the authors reviewed our initial experience. Methods : Retrospective data was analyzed from July 2012 to November 2012. We performed coil embolization in 28 cases using this method. Among them, for statistical significance, we analyzed 12 cases in which the procedure time exceeded an hour. Vital signs were analyzed every 10 minutes. Depth of sedation was measured according to the Ramsay sedation scale and frequency of the repeated roadmap image(s) caused by movement of the patient's head during the procedure. Results : All procedures were completed without occurrence of procedure related complications. Under MAC using dexmedetomidine, vital signs of the patients were stable, no statistical significance regarding hemodynamic and respiratory parameters was observed between time points (p>0.05). Adequate sedation was achieved. Mean Ramsay sedation scale was $3.67{\pm}1.61$ (2 to 6). Repeated roadmap image(s) due to patient's factor occurred in only one case. The mean dosage of drug for adequate sedation for the procedure was $0.65{\pm}0.12mcg/kg/hr$ without loading doses. Conclusion : To the best of my knowledge, this is the first report published in English using the method of monitored anesthesia with dexmedetomidine for intracranial aneurysm coiling. Monitored anesthesia care using dexmedetomidine without loading dose for embolization of intracranial aneurysms appeared to be a safe and effective alternative to general anesthesia.

• Korean Journal of Family Social Work
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• no.61
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• pp.137-168
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to understand deeply the experience and the meaning of mother's parenting experience on borderline intellectual functioning adolescents. The collected data through an in-depth interviews with six mothers were analyzed according to the Colaizzi's 7 procedures of analysis. This study found out 7 categories, 23 clusters of themes and 92 topics of borderline intellectual functioning adolescents parenting experience of mothers. 'On the borderline, live a life wandering off uncertain course', 'Watching precarious growth of child', 'Adolescence, reachead the limit', 'Being afraid of facing the future', 'A helpless condition', 'Pushing through struggles', 'Hoping the society where my child can live together' was found as the categories of experience of the research objects. With these findings, this study makes some recommendations and suggestions for the practice.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Child Welfare
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• no.36
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• pp.197-230
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• 2011

This study is aimed to examine the emotional experiences of parents with children who have been sexually abused by others. Five mothers whose child was sexually abused participated in this study. They were first recruited through recommendations made by social welfare agencies that provided services to these children. We conducted two or more in-depth interviews for each mother to collect the data. The mothers' emotional experiences were analyzed using phenomenology. Mothers expressed that they felt like the whole world came crashing down around them, felt "totally lost", and felt deep pain together with their children, such that "my family and I were so devastated". Nevertheless, they gradually came to believe that they could overcome this tragedy by continuously making efforts to protect their children from the dangers outside. Despite their efforts, however, they kept the feeling of "hopelessness, neglect, and their children's wounds", deep inside them. The results indicate that it is necessary to have an intervention for mothers whose child has been sexually abused from a companions' perspective within 10 days after the sexual abuse incident.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.375-375
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• 2018

세계 수자원 시장은 연평균 6.5%씩 증가하고 있으며, 2025년 기준 1,038조원까지 급성장할 것으로 전문가들은 예상하고 있으나, 기후변화의 가속화로 인해 가뭄 및 홍수피해가 증가하여 수자원 관리가 더욱 어려워져지고 있다. 급속도로 변화는 환경에 대비하기 위해 국내에서는 수자원 및 기후변화에 대한 다양한 연구가 진행되고 있으나, 해외사업 진출 시에는 수자원 기초자료 수집에 대한 어려움을 겪고 있다. 이를 해결하기 위해 글로벌 수문기상자료 제공과 함께 GIS정보, 댐 및 저수지 관련 자료, 인문사회 자료, 물관련 통계자료, 물관련 재해자료 등을 웹으로 제공하는 글로벌 수자원 정보 시스템(GWB, Global World Bank)을 개발하고자 한다. 본 연구에서는 시스템의 통합 DB를 구축하고 관리방안을 도출하기 위해 수집된 메타데이터 속성 및 데이터구조를 파악하고, 세부항목별 자료 포맷을 분석 후 GIS기반 관측소 정보와 자료를 매칭하여 최종적으로 시스템 컨텐츠별로 DB를 맵핑하였다. 강수량과 기상자료는 33개국의 관측소 6,531개소의 일/월/연단위 관측자료와 10,977격자의 격자분석자료를 구축하였다. 수문자료는 33개국의 수문관측소 2,242개의 월/연단위 유량관측자료와 10,977격자의 월/연단위 직접유출, 기저유출, 잠재증발산의 격자분석자료를 구축하였다. 그리고, 수집된 강우와 기상자료는 기계 오작동, 자료 전송 오류 등으로 인한 결측치 및 이상치에 대해 자료품질분석을 통해 오자료에 대한 보정을 진행하였다. 해당자료는 MySQL를 활용하여 DB를 구축하였으며, GIS정보는 GeoServer를 활용하여 운영서버에 구축된 정보를 최종적으로 사용자에게 Web Browser로 표출하였다. 해당 시스템은 추후 전지구 수자원관련 정보를 제공하여 해외사업지역의 댐이나 보 등의 구조물 설계, 수자원산업의 해외 진출시 데이터 수집의 한계점 및 시간단축을 해결할 수 있어 수자원 분야에 기여 할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.307-316
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to obtain a comprehensive understanding of shift nurses' mealtime experience on duty. This study was explored by hermeneutic phenomenological analytic method suggested by van Manen. The participants were shift nurses at two general hospitals in Korea. Six participants were interviewed until information reached saturation point. Data was collected through individual in-depth interviews. The results of study were emerged 7 themes. Each theme was :'Forgetting hunger.', 'Fatigue takes precedence over hunger.', 'Feeling sorry and becoming conscious of other colleagues.', 'Inhale the meal in a short time.', 'Conflicting between responsibility for the patient body and my body', 'They want look for freedom and right through their mealtime.', 'Hope that mealtime is a precious time.' The results of this study are significant in providing a convergence understanding of the working environment of the shift nurses.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.52-64
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• 2019

The purpose of this study was to understand and describe the illness experience of middle-aged women who underwent craniotomy for meningioma. Data were collected through individual in-depth interviews with 7 middle-aged women who underwent craniotomy. Verbatim transcripts were analyzed using Giorgi's phenomenological analysis to uncover the meaning of the illness experience of the participants. As a results, seven themes were identified: serious attack of fear in middle age, strengthening self-confidence in healing, escape from fear of death, care for my own body, two types of conflict for family harmony and disease, nurse as a healing partner, and opening the second life. Based on the results of this study, it will be possible to plan more comprehensive nursing intervention through understanding of participants' experience. Also, the main reason of fear that participants felt was lack of information about craniotomy. Therefore, the development of educational programs to provide information and knowledge about cranial surgery is suggested.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.309-315
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• 2021

Risks and uncertainty are unavoidable problems in management of projects. Therefore, project managers should not only prevent risks, but also have to respond and manage them. Risk management has become a critical interest subject in the construction industry for both practitioners and researchers. This paper presents critical risk factors of office building projects in the construction phase in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Data was collected through a questionnaire survey based on the likelihood and consequence level of risk factors. These factors fell into five groups: (i) financial risk factors; (ii) management risk factors; (iii) schedule risk factors; (iv) construction risk factors; and (v) environment risk factors. The research results showed that critical factors affecting office building projects are natural (i.e., prolonged rain, storms, climate effects) and human-made issues (i.e., soil instability, safety behaviors, owner's design change) and the schedule-related risk factors contributed to the most significant risks for office buildings projects in the construction phase in Ho Chi Minh City. They give construction management and project management practitioners a new perspective on risks and risk management of office buildings projects in Ho Chi Minh City and are proactive in the awareness, response, and management of risk factors comprehensively.