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Leverage Strategy to National R&D Investment in Korea: A System Dynamics Approach (국가 연구재발 투자시스템의 레버리지 전략: 시스템 다이내믹스 접근)

  • 박헌준;오세홍;김상준
    • Proceedings of the Korean System Dynamics Society
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    • 2004.02a
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    • pp.19-52
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    • 2004
  • This study aims to grasp invisible yet dynamic systemic structure that influences the general procedure of national R&D investment system in Korea using "system dynamic methods and to suggest policy lever. Various conflicting situations, 'R&D investment paradoxes' in myopia investment and principal-agent problems etc, arise when the government decides R&D investment area and makes indispensable choice. Difficulty in the decision can be amplified due to misalignments among decision on adequate amount of R&D investment ("strategic loop"), R&D system ("structural loop") and acceptance and realization by R&D laboratories and theirs researcher ("efficacy loop"). Results of modeling and simulation of korea national R&D investment system with consideration of three causal loops show the switching pattern dynamically, in which form of technologies shifts from one to another stage like paradigm shift, when the R&D investment reaches a certain stork. R&D investment increases are directly not liked to R&D productivities because of delays and side effects during transition periods between different stages of technology development. Thus, It is necessary to develope strategies in order to enhance efficiency of technological development process by perceiving the switching pattern.

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Prevalence and trends of pain associated with chronic diseases and personal out-of-pocket medical expenditures in Korea

  • Shin, Sun Mi
    • The Korean Journal of Pain
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.142-150
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    • 2017
  • Background: There have been few studies about pain using a big data. The purpose of this study was to identify the prevalence of pain, and trends of pain associated with chronic diseases and personal out-of-pocket medical expenditures over time. Methods: Subjects were 58,151 individuals, using the Korea Health Panel from 2009 to 2013. Chi-square and multinomial logistic regression were conducted to identify the prevalence and odds ratios (ORs) of pain. Repeated measures ANOVA was used to find the trend over these 5 years. Results: Prevalence of mild and severe pain was 28.1% and 1.7% respectively. The ORs of mild and severe pain were 1.6 and 1.4 in females compared with males. From 2009 to 2013, numbers of chronic diseases producing mild pain were 2.1, 2.4, 2.8, 2.9, and 3.1 and those producing severe pain were 3.0, 3.4, 3.9, 4.2, and 4.4, respectively. After applying the average South Korean inflation rate by year over 5 years, the annual, personal out-of-pocket medical expenditures (unit: ₩1,000) for mild pain were 322, 349, 379, 420, and 461, and those for severe pain were 331, 399, 504, 546, and 569, respectively (P < 0.0001). Conclusions: The pain prevalence was 29.8%. The numbers of chronic diseases and the personal out-of-pocket medical expenditures revealed increasing trends annually, especially in those with pain. Therefore, to eliminate and alleviate the pain, there needs to be further study for developing a systemic approach.

A Study on the Utilization of Open Source Hardware Platform for Convergence IT Education

  • Kim, Seong-Yeol
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.143-151
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, we suggest a method utilizing OSHW(Open Source HardWare) in order to raise up students who are competent in IT convergence and integration as a basic research to improve the university software education. Software education cannot be too much emphasized in the age of big change of Fourth Industrial Revolution. It hardly seems to have changes in the software education area of university where has to train competent technicians to be deployed into the industrial field, although software education is planned even in elementary, middle, and high school. In this situation, we expect that utilizing OSHW in software education can result in gaining a meaningful effect. However, we don't have various and systemic approach which use it as a education system component, unlike the response and necessity OSHW market. Therefore in this paper we suggest models which constitute software education environment based on OSHW and exemplify how to use it in each model. In addition, we compare and analyze each model in order to give a criteria to choice one of them according to the condition.

A Review on the Field Activities for the Human Error Prevention in a Semiconductor Company (반도체 회사의 인적 오류 예방 활동 사례 및 검토)

  • Lee, Yong-Hee;Lee, Yong-Hee;Ruy, Jae-Seng
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.117-125
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    • 2011
  • While human error happens repeatedly in the semiconductor industry in Korea, which has brought a tremendous loss from manpower, welfare etc., there are limitations to human error prevention activities. When a semiconductor company introduces new machines and facilities from Japan or Germany, the companies often do not consider human factors in the design. Also, semiconductor companies are so occupied with promoting increased productivity, their attention to human errors has been pushed aside. Negative aspects of technical exchange associated with safety management are one aspect of the industry's nature. A semiconductor company recently began acknowledging on the back of TQM(Total Quality Management) that human error has a decisive effect on the safety. There are a number of uncontrollable and hard to handle event sets because the nature of these events with a human error may often be threatened or very intensive. It is strongly required that systemic studies should be performed to grasp the whole picture of a current situation for hazard factors. This study aims to examine the human error approach through the case of human error prevention field activities in a semiconductor industry compared with the activities and experience in nuclear power plants.

A Study of Contents in Sijo Recitation (시조 낭송의 콘텐츠화 연구)

  • 이찬욱
    • Sijohaknonchong
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.5-35
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    • 2003
  • A usual approach of lyric poetry education emphasizes musicality of prosody that takes the format of singing lyric poem or reciting that involves reading with one's eyes and contemplating through one's consciousness, both with are quite remote from reality. In order to achieve an effective education, traditional lyric poetry education should focus on the recitation format that involves natural respiration. The current study specified theoretically the A study of contents in traditional Korean lyric poetry recitation. recitation. method through understanding rhythm and prosody that are basic principles of recitation. The study also attempted creating contents through three-dimentional image built on a theoretical foundation of systemic poetry recitation method in order to amplify the impression and creation of the traditional Korean lyric poetry. This was done as an effort to manifest an aesthetic nature of traditional lyric poetry and also as an effort to advance one more step in public understanding and appreciation of traditional poetry.

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A Case of Wegener's Granulomatosis (Wegener씨 육아종증 1례)

  • 박성준;권평중;김중환
    • Proceedings of the KOR-BRONCHOESO Conference
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    • 1981.05a
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    • pp.13.5-14
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    • 1981
  • Wegener's granulomatosis is characterized by 3 criteria: 1. Necrotizing granulomas with vasculitis of upper and lower respiratory tracts 2. A systemic vasculitis 3. Focal necrotizing glomerulitis. This disease is one of the nonhealing disease in the otolaryngologic and ophthalmologic fields. A 48years old Korean male patient was seen with the complaints of nasal discharge, foul odor and frequent nasal bleeding. The patient was admitted after biopsy of the nasal cavity which diagnosed tuberculous granuloma, for biopsy of the maxillary sinus. After biopsy by Caldwell-Luc's approach this patient was complained with severe headache, visual impairment and cough. And so this patient was readmitted for further evaluation. Generally, the diagnosis was made after autopsy sometimes several years later after reevaluation of the case. Tuberculous granuloma was the pathological diagnosis on the basis of resected material in various cases. The correct diagnosis was made at autopsy occasionally. It is our intention to present this case with. literature review.

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Percutaneous Retrogasserian Ethanol Gangliolysis of Management of Maxillary Sinus Cancer Pain (삼차신경절 파괴술을 이용한 상악동암의 통증관리)

  • Chang, Won-Young;Choe, Kun-Chun
    • The Korean Journal of Pain
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.100-104
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    • 1993
  • Malignant tumors of the paranasal sinuses are quite rare entity, with maxillary neoplasms accounting for less than 1 percent of all head and neck malignancies. When considering the paranasal sinuses alone, 77 percent of cancers arise in the maxillary sinuses. There is no situation more frustrating than the management of the patients with chronic facial pain due to cancer. The initial step in managing patients with cancer pain is the use of oncologic therapy in the form of radiotherapy, surgery, chemotherapy, alone or combined, either to effect a cure or decrease the size of the tumor and thus decrease or eliminate the pain. When oncologic therapy is ineffective in providing relief, the pain must be treated by one or more of the followings: Systemic analgesics and adjuvant drugs, psychologic techniques of analgesia, neurostimulating techniques, neuroablative surgical procedures, regional analgesia with local anesthetics or neurolytic blocks. An 82-year old patient had severe pain of the orbital and infraorbital region due to squamous cell carcinoma of the maxillary sinus. We successfully treated this patient with the percutaneous retrogasserian ethanol gangliolysis by a H$\ddot{a}$rtel approach, and the analgesia lasts until the death of the patient.

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A Study on Process Integrated Innovation System for a LNG Industry (LNG 산업의 프로세스 통합 정보망 시스템에 관한 연구)

  • Kim Chung Kyun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.6 no.1 s.17
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    • pp.59-65
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    • 2002
  • This paper presents new IT model, PIIS that integrates the safety control, construction, and operation managements in a conventional gas industry The systemic approach based on the PIIS model may reduce or increase the parameters as maximizing the safety, risk and crisis management, and increasing the cost-effective productivity The rapid synchronization and integration of the process using the PIIS model may produce more profits and satisfactions between customer and gas supplier. Thus, the PIIS model should quickly be introduced to gas industry at the beginning stage of engineering design and construction processes for maximizing production, effectiveness, and safety of the system from the exploration of a natural gas to a final consumption.

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An Exploration into Meanings of Ecological Citizenship: With Focus on the Values, Skills and Agreement Mechanisms (생태시민성 개념의 탐색적 논의: 덕성과 기능 및 합의기제를 중심으로)

  • Kim, So-Young;Nam, Sang-Joon
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.105-116
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    • 2012
  • The most necessary thing for education now, is an ecological approach to look at and be conscious of the uncertainty of nature and the structural contradiction of society. In brief, we need to make a judgment on what standard and value are required for a forming righteous relation between nature and human being, and include it in the notion of citizenship. Based on this point of view, this study extracted moral virtues, skills and agreement mechanisms of new citizenship from ecologism, environmental justice and the ecological community, and systematized them. From ecologism and environmental justice, virtues that are inner values to lead ecological citizen's act and skills as capabilities required for correcting environmental injustice, were derived. Then, workings of citizens in a community and directions of each society and education were considered from the ecological community as an utopia where ecological citizens ultimately aim for. As the result, the ecological sensitivity, freedom, creativity, a sense of justice, a sense of responsibility, caring were found to be moral virtues that ecological citizens have to have. Next, ecological thinking skills like systemic thinking, quantitative thinking and empathetic thinking, and principles of deliberation and perturbation as mechanisms to improve communication skill and environmental injustice which have been considered importantly as components of democratic citizenship, were selected as skills of ecological citizens.

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Pin and Bone Cement Fixation of Fifth-Sixth Lumbar Vertebral Fracture-Luxation in a Korean Goral (Nemorhaedus caudatus)

  • Choi, Seong-jae;Kim, Jong-taek;Oh, Yeon-su;Kang, Byung-Jae
    • Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.115-118
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    • 2017
  • A Korean goral (immature, female) was presented with paraplegia following motor vehicle trauma. The patient was diagnosed with an L5-6 vertebral fracture-luxation based on digital radiographs. Surgical reduction and stabilization of the fracture-luxation were performed via a dorsal approach to the lumbar spine. It was confirmed in surgery that the patient had L5-7 spinous process fractures, L6 bilateral articular process fractures, and an L5-6 luxation. Free fragments were removed and the luxation was reduced. During reduction, caudodorsal dislocation of the L5 caudal vertebral end plate was discovered and the displaced end plate was removed. The L5-6 vertebral luxation was stabilized using pins and bone cement. However, the presence of an intact spinal cord was not confirmed. Two weeks postoperatively the patient became dyspneic and arrested. A necropsy was performed, which revealed that the surgical stabilization was intact. Pulmonary edema was identified and the immediate cause of death was determined to be systemic inflammatory response syndrome.