• 보건교육건강증진학회지
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.201-210
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• 2013

Objectives: The public relies on the news media to understand health risks. To examine the surveillance function of Korean health journalism, this study compared the rank-order of the 10 most frequently diagnosed cancers with that of the 10 cancers most frequently covered by three major Korean newspapers. Methods: News stories published between 1999 and 2010 by the Chosun-Ilbo, Joong-Ang-Ilbo, and Dong-A-Ilbo were examined. Data on cancer incidence were collected using the epidemiological data published by a governmental public health institution. To compare the level of the crude rates and the amount of news coverage, rank-order correlation tests and regression analyses were employed. Results: A reduction in the rank-ordered correlation coefficient was observed despite an increase in the overall number of cancer news stories released. The significance of the correlation disappeared after 2006. The big difference of the rank order between the crude rate and the amount of news coverage was observed in the cancer of breast, uteri, thyroid, and gallbladder/biliary. Finally, the three newspapers did not follow the amount change in stomach, lung, liver, and uterine cervix cancer. The four cancers' rank orders of crude rate were lowering, signifying a reduction of the comparative dangerousness of the four cancers. Conclusions: The news media's customization of news content and the negative bias in journalism are suggested as possible influences on the news media's inaccurate representation of cancer risk.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권1A호
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• pp.80-86
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• 2010

본 논문은 게이트 채널 길이 0.13 [${\mu}m$]의 p-MOS 트랜지스터에서 음 바이어스 온도 불안정(NBTI) 전류 스트레스 인가에 의한 게이트유기 드레인 누설(GIDL) 전류를 측정 분석하였다. NBTI 스트레스에 의한 문턱전압의 변화와 문턱전압아래 기울기와 드레인 전류 사이에 상관관계로부터, 소자의 특성 변화의 결과로 열화에 대한 중요한 메카니즘이 계면 상태의 생성과 관련이 있다는 것을 분석하였다. GIDL 전류의 측정 결과로부터, NBTI 스트레스에 기인한 계면상태에서 전자-정공 쌍의 생성이 GIDL 전류의 증가의 결과를 도출하였다. 이런 결과로 부터, 초박막 게이트 산화막 소자에서 NBTI 스트레스 후에 증가된 GIDL 전류를 고려해야만 한다. 또한, 동시에 신뢰성 특성과 직류 소자 성능의 고려가 나노 크기의 CMOS 통신회로 설계의 스트레스 파라미터들에서 반드시 있어야 한다.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.257-269
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• 2017

The study has piloted to find the Pattern of species distribution along environmental variables and disturbance in Raghunandan Reserve Forest. Shaltila and Shahapur beat of Raghunandan Hill Reserve Forest are situated in Chunarughat sub-district of Habiganj district between $24^{\circ}5^{\prime}-24^{\circ}10^{\prime}N$ and $91^{\circ}25^{\prime}-91^{\circ}30^{\prime}E$ under the Sylhet Forest Division. The Environmental variable and vegetation data were collected from 30 sample plots from each forest beat by using arbitrary sampling without preconceived bias. 51 species were found from Shaltila and 34 species found in Shahapur forest beat. Thus the dataset continued with total 85 species in 60 samples. To determine the relationships between tree species distribution and environmental variables, Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) ordination method were performed separately for two forest beat. In CCA ordination, tree species showed significant variation along environmental gradients in terms of soil organic matter and disturbances (p<0.05) in the case of Shaltila forest. Potassium has a significant relationship with axis 1 and axis 2 in this forest. But Shahapur forest showed no significant relationship between species and environmental variables. Phosphorus has a significantly negative relationship with axis 2 in this forest. Disturbance played as a critical role of this forest thus influencing the distribution of species. The study showed that the distributions of tree species are strongly influenced by disturbance and organic matter in Shaltila and Shahapur forest beat showed no significant relationship between species and environmental variables. Future research should be included more environmental variables with larger study area that identify the most important environmental forces which will drive by species distribution findings in this forest.

• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.3-12
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• 2020

Neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury (SCI) has a significant negative impact on the patients' quality of life. The objective of this systematic review is to examine the safety and efficacy of pregabalin (PGB) and gabapentin (GBP) in the treatment of neuropathic pain due to SCI. PubMed, the Cochrane Library, Embase, Scopus, and the Web of Science were searched up to December 2018. The reference lists of key and review studies were reviewed for additional citations. The quality of the studies was evaluated using the Cochrane Collaboration's tools for assessing the risk of bias. A meta-analysis was performed for primary and secondary outcomes. Eight studies were eligible for inclusion. Meta-analysis of PGB vs. placebo showed that PGB was effective for neuropathic pain (standardized mean difference [SMD] = -0.40; 95% confidence interval [CI]: -0.78, -0.01), anxiety (MD = -0.68; 95% CI: -0.77, -0.59), depression (mean difference [MD] = -0.99; 95% CI: -1.08, -0.89), and sleep interference (MD = -1.08; 95% CI: -1.13, -1.02). Also, GBP was more effective than a placebo for reducing pain. No significant difference was observed between the efficacy of the two drugs (MD = -0.37; 95% CI: -1.67, 0.93). There was no significant difference between the two drugs for discontinuation due to adverse events (risk ratio = 3.00; 95% CI: 0.81, 11.15). PGB and GBP were effective vs. placebos in decreasing neuropathic pain after SCI. Also, there was no significant difference between the two drugs for decreasing pain and adverse events.

• 한국표면공학회지
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.296-300
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• 2003

Extended cylindrical magnetron sputtering system with rotating 600-mm long and 90-mm diameter graphite cathode and pulsed power supply voltage generator were developed and fabricated. Time-dependent Langmuir probe characteristics as well as carbon films thickness were measured. It was shown that ratio of ions flux to carbon atoms flux for pulsed magnetron discharge mode was equal to $\Phi_{i}$ $\Phi$sub C/ = 0.2. It did not depend on the discharge current in the range of $I_{d}$ / = 10∼60 A since both the plasma density and the film deposition rate were found approximately proportional to the discharge current. In spite of this fact carbon film structure was found to be strongly dependent on the discharge current. Grain size increased from 100 nm at $I_{d}$ = 10∼20 A to 500 nm at $I_{d}$ = 40∼60 A. To deposit fine-grained hard nanocrystalline or amorphous carbon coating current regime with $I_{d}$ = 20 A was chosen. Pulsed negative bias voltage ($\tau$= 40 ${\mu}\textrm{s}$, $U_{b}$ = 0∼10 ㎸) synchronized with magnetron discharge pulses was applied to a substrate and voltage of $U_{b}$ = 3.4 ㎸ was shown to be optimum for a hard carbon film deposition. Lower voltages were not sufficient for amorphization of a growing graphite film, while higher voltages led to excessive ion bombardment and effects of recrystalization and graphitization.

• Electronic Materials Letters
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.669-677
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• 2018

In this work, the high ${\kappa}$ $Zr_xAl_{1-x}O_y$ films with a different Zr concentration have been deposited by atomic layer deposition, and the effect of Zr concentrations on the structure, chemical composition, surface morphology and dielectric properties of $Zr_xAl_{1-x}O_y$ films is analyzed by Atomic force microscopy, X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and capacitance-frequency measurement. The effect of Zr concentrations of $Zr_xAl_{1-x}O_y$ gate insulator on the electrical property and stability under negative bias illumination stress (NBIS) or temperature stress (TS) of ZnSnO (ZTO) TFTs is firstly investigated. Under NBIS and TS, the much better stability of ZTO TFTs with $Zr_xAl_{1-x}O_y$ film as a gate insulator is due to the suppression of oxygen vacancy in ZTO channel layer and the decreased trap states originating from the Zr atom permeation at the $ZTO/Zr_xAl_{1-x}O_y$ interface. It provides a new strategy to fabricate the low consumption and high stability ZTO TFTs for application.

• 사회복지연구
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.5-30
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• 2013

본 연구는 한국복지패널 7차년도를 이용하여 공공임대주택거주가 우울에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 공공임대주택거주가 개인의 선택에 의해 이루어지는 과정에서 발생가능한 선택 편의를 줄이기 위해 PSM(propensity score matching)을 활용하였으며, 최종적으로는 우울에 영향을 미치는 다른 변수들을 통제하기 위해 PSM의 매칭결과와 회귀분석을 결합하였다. 분석결과 단순비교(independent t-test)에서는 통계적으로 유의미하였던 공공임대주택거주자와 일반주택거주자간의 우울의 차이가 PSM매칭과 회귀분석을 결합하였을 때는 유의미성이 사라졌다. 이는 공공임대주택거주자의 높은 우울정도는 공공임대주택거주의 독립적인 효과라기보다는 공공임대주택거주자가 가지고 있는 본래적인 인구학적인 속성 혹은 소득에 기인하였을 가능성을 보여준다. 본 연구는 공공임대주택거주가 개인에게 부정적인 영향을 미치지 않음을 확인하였다는 점에서 공공임대주택 공급에 대한 정책적 근거를 제공하고 있다. 동시에 긍정적인 영향도 확인할 수 없었다는 점에서, 저소득층에 한정하지 않은, 국민 대다수를 위한 임대주택정책을 제안하였다.

• 사회복지연구
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• 제37호
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• pp.171-197
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• 2008

본 연구는 국민기초생활보장법 하의 조건부 수급자가 자활직업훈련 프로그램의 참여로 인해 임금이 향상되었는지에 관해 실증적으로 분석 하였다. 분석 자료로는 한국노동연구원에서의 자활사업 참여자를 대상으로 한 '자활대상자 직업훈련 실태'조사와 한국보건사회연구원에서 실시하는 2004년 '자활패널'조사 자료를 결합하여 '자활직업훈련 실태'조사의 응답자를 실험그룹으로'자활패널'을 비교그룹으로 구성하여 분석하였으며, 기존 연구의 통계적 취약점을 극복하기 위해 Propensity Score Matching 방법을 이용하여 자활직업훈련의 임금효과를 분석하였다. 분석 결과 자활직업훈련 참가자들이 그와 비슷한 특성을 가진 비교그룹에 비해서 약 12만원 정도 소득이 낮음을 확인함으로써, 이러한 부정적인 효과가 나타난 원인과 의미에 대해서 논의하였다.

• Healthcare Informatics Research
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.381-386
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• 2018

Objectives: This study aimed to describe the process of utilizing a mobile application for ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to collect data on stress and mood in daily life setting. Methods: A mobile application for the Android operating system was developed and installed with a set of questions regarding momentary mood and stress into a smartphone of a participant. The application sets alarms at semi-random intervals in 60-minute blocks, four times a day for 7 days. After obtaining all momentary affect and stress, the questions to assess the usability of the mobile EMA application were also administered. Results: The data were collected from 97 police officers working in Gyeonggi Province of South Korea. The mean completion rate was 60.0% ranging from 3.5% to 100%. The means of positive and negative affect were 18.34 of 28 and 19.09 of 63. The mean stress was 17.92 of 40. Participants responded that the mobile application correctly measured their affect ($4.34{\pm}0.83$) and stress ($4.48{\pm}0.62$) of 5-point Likert scale. Conclusions: Our study investigated the process of utilizing a mobile application to assess momentary affect and stress at repeated times. We found challenges regarding adherence to the research protocol, such as completion and delay of answering after alarm notification. Despite this inherent issue of adherence to the research protocol, the EMA still has advantages of reducing recall bias and assessing the actual moment of interest at multiple time points that improves ecological validity.

• Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.264-271
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• 2018

Objective For patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), symptoms assessed by emergency medical services (EMS) providers have a critical role in prehospital treatment decisions. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of EMS provider-assessed cardiac symptoms of AMI. Methods Patients transported by EMS to 4 study hospitals from 2008 to 2012 were included. Using EMS and administrative emergency department databases, patients were stratified according to the presence of EMS-assessed cardiac symptoms and emergency department diagnosis of AMI. Cardiac symptoms were defined as chest pain, dyspnea, palpitations, and syncope. Disproportionate stratified sampling was used, and medical records of sampled patients were reviewed to identify an actual diagnosis of AMI. Using inverse probability weighting, verification bias-corrected diagnostic performance was estimated. Results Overall, 92,353 patients were enrolled in the study. Of these, 13,971 (15.1%) complained of cardiac symptoms to EMS providers. A total of 775 patients were sampled for hospital record review. The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of EMS provider-assessed cardiac symptoms for the final diagnosis of AMI was 73.3% (95% confidence interval [CI], 70.8 to 75.7), 85.3% (95% CI, 85.3 to 85.4), 3.9% (95% CI, 3.6 to 4.2), and 99.7% (95% CI, 99.7 to 99.8), respectively. Conclusion We found that EMS provider-assessed cardiac symptoms had moderate sensitivity and high specificity for diagnosis of AMI. EMS policymakers can use these data to evaluate the pertinence of specific prehospital treatment of AMI.