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This study investigated the correlation between knowledge and performance of radia-tion protection among operating room nurses. The research design was a descriptive survey. Data were collected by using a questionnaire from August 24 to September 7, 2015. The participants were 184 operating room nurses. The average score for radiation protection knowledge was 8.68(SD=2.65). The average score for the performance of radiation protection behaviors was 3.16(SD=0.67). There were no significant differences in knowledge of radiation protection according to general and occupational characteris-tics. However, there were significant differences in performance of radiation protection according to gender, age, education, and special health screening. Knowledge and per-formance of radiation protection had a significant positive correlation (r=.23, p<.01). This study concluded that educational programs are needed to improve performance of radiation protection among operating room nurses.

This paper presents the development of a virtual patient simulation by a 3D talking head and its use by pharmacy students as a training aid for patient consultation. The paper concentrates on the virtual patient modeling, its synthesis with a speech engine and facial expression interaction. The virtual patient model is developed in three stages: building a personalized 3D face model; animation of the face model; and speech driven face synthesis. The model is used in conjunction with a training artificial intelligence module that creates several scenarios in which the student oral interview ability is assessed. The final evaluation phase is a randomized controlled trial at three partner universities: The University of Newcastle, Monash University and Charles Stuart University. It shows the potential to revolutionize the way pharmacy students’ training is conducted.

Childhood apraxia of speech(CAS) is considered as an impairment of purposeful speech movements and is generally defined as a disorder of motor planning or motor programming. There have been a variety of studies about CAS and the diagnostic criteria were set up in English-speaking countries, but studies about diagnostic criteria of CAS for Korean speakers are needed. The purpose of the study was to examine voice onset time (VOT) and its variability in children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) compared to typically developing children. Twelve children with CAS aged 9-12 years old and 20 children who were age-matched participated in the study. This study measured VOT and variabilities of VOT during the production of /p' a/, /t' a/, /k' a/. For variability measures of VOT, each participant was asked to repeat speech tasks three times and the average value of the rates and its standard deviation were obtained The verification of the hypotheses was tested by using T-test of the significance level of 0.05.The results showed that the variability of VOT in CAS group was more significantly higher than control group. But VOT of /p' a/, /t' a/, /k' a/ between the experimental group and the control group was not significantly different. The results suggested that variability of VOT might be more distinctive speech feature to children with CAS than the VOT. This study is meaningful because of two points; one is that it was conducted to fit the characteristics of Korea language while English cases are revitalized in the domestic situation, and the other is that it could be utilized as a resource for subsequent studies.

To compare Vestibular-CNS function on the HF and HB condition confirmed to balance normal state of a posture. The vestibular and CNS displacements analyzed at the five ranges from the H-FB: Head of forward and backward. Vestibule-CNS function (VeC) shows the vestibular variation appear to through the CNS from the spinal cord. The average different outputs obtained greatest the perturbations: VeHB-CNO-B displacement at 10.88±2.71, VeHB-CNC-B displacement at 10.76±2.68, VeHB-CNO-A displacement at 10.077±2.33, VeNC-CNC-A displacement at 10.58±2.72. Our results will be to show an impact of at least postural control by the H-FB function. CHF-CNC-A and CHB-CNC-A displacement of the moment identified to inertia from CNS. The Vestibular HF-HB was affected to maintain for the balance by the CNS of HF-HB.

This paper presents a high performance Two-stage operational amplifier for biomedical applications. This Two-stage is designed for low noise, low power, high PSRR and high CMRR. The Miller compensation technique (Cc) is used with a nulling active resistance (Rz) implemented using Transmission gate transistors for stable operation in feedback mode. The operational amplifier was manufactured in a SPECTRE using GPDK 0.90-um CMOS technology with threshold voltages of a 0.17 V and - 0.14 V achieve a low power 2.6uW, high CMRR up to 130dB and PSRR up to 70dB at 1V power supply.

The increasing number of people with hearing-impaired in Malaysia attracts to produce a variety of technologies, which can assist the deaf people in carrying out their tasks in everyday life as normal people. New technology can help to decrease the difficulty that hearing-impaired people faces in daily life to use the information services like normal people. Thus, this paper focuses on: i) developing a new multimedia courseware for pre-school students with hearing problem, and ii) comparing the deaf student’s learning performance before and after using the courseware. Four modules were developed for e-MSL courseware consist of alphabets, numbers, words and quizzes with colorful text, animation, sounds, video and pictures using Malaysian Sign Language (MSL). Sekolah Rendah Pendidikan Khas (SRPK) Indera Mahkota II, Kuantan has been chosen as the case study for data collection and for investigating the student learning performance on the courseware. The survey results show that 100% of the respondents have agreed that using e-MSL courseware managed to reduce the student learning time more than 80%. The result has indicated that students have shown better learning performance using e-MSL compared to traditional learning.

The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between physical and cognitive functions and depressive symptoms in elderly women with dysmobility syndrome. For this study, data on 6,070 elderly women were used and 43 of these women had dysmobility syndrome. The tools used in this study were the Physical Functioning (PF) Scale, Mini-Mental State Examination-Korean Version (MMSE-K), and the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D)-short form. The level of physical function was significantly lower in the dysmobility syndrome group than in the normal group equivalents. Depressiveepressive epressive epressive epressive symptoms symptoms symptoms symptoms symptoms were significantly negatively correlated with physical function and each of its sub-categories in the dysmobility syndrome group. Multiple regression analysis results indicated that the only predictor of depressive symptoms among elderly women with dysmobility syndrome was PF 5 (the muscle strength of the upper limbs, β = -3.031, P = 0.004), which explained 41.4% of the variance in depressive symptoms (F = 6.985, P < 0.001). The analysis of newly suggested dysmobility syndrome-related factors is expected to help assess health status of elderly people

The purpose of this study is to provide evaluation data to examine and verify the effectiveness of the materials through physiological comparison and analysis of the new prototype snowboard deck with the existing equipments. In order to achieve the purpose, blood lactate concentrations and energy metabolic variables were measured from the targeted snowboarders. Five male snowboarders (Slope-style) volunteered to participate in the experiment. The experiment was conducted in slope-style course of “W” Ski Resort located in Gangwondo, Korea. One prototype deck and two existing deck were chosen for analysis. Each subject performed three runs with each “B”, “S” and “Y” deck. Blood samples were collected twice from the finger-tip at rest and immediately after completing the run in order determine the lactate concentration. In order to analyze the energy metabolic variables i.e. heart rate (HR), oxygen uptake (VO2), metabolic equivalent (MET) and total energy consumption (TEE), portable wireless gas analyzer and Polar heart rate monitor was used at rest as well as during the run. The result obtained from the analysis showed increased blood lactate concentration as well as higher oxygen uptake (VO2) at the point of Lactate Threshold (LT) when performing runs by installing “B” and “Y” decks than “S”. Furthermore with the increase in speed, depletion of energy sources as well as increased concentration of muscle fatigue substance also appeared in “B” and “Y” deck than “S” where blood lactate concentration and oxygen uptake are indicators of mobilization capacity of lactic acid system during energy metabolism.

The purpose of this study was to develop nurse-led home visit intervention program in order to maintain and promote holistic healthcare of multi-cultural couples in farm and fishery areas. The period of research was from March 2014 to July 2014. The method was literature reviews and interviews. Firstly, through literature reviews and secondly, interviews with multi-cultural couples, the health problems and educational demands of subjects were found. Based on the findings, Nurse-led Home Visit Intervention Program was developed. The content of the program was composed of health examination and education, counseling and support, relaxation therapy, and prayer from a holistic healthcare perspective providing through home visitations and phone counseling once a week for one hour at a time under the topics of ‘healthy couples’, ‘wise and frugal couples’, ‘assimilating couples’, and ‘ happy couples’ as six sessions. And the program operation method was applying the JUMP (Joy Ultra Mom Program) operation skill, which facilitates interaction and reciprocal communication among participants, such as couples, learning from each other, opening their heart, and understanding each other. It is necessary to apply and test the effects on the holistic health of multi-cultural couples at related institutes such as multi-cultural centers and health centers, and it is also necessary to continuously develop customized health programs according to their cultural differences.

This study aims to identify the influencing factors on the preparation education for well-dying of university students. To this end, this study investigated the 162 medical science students who had attended the thanatology lecture at K-university in Daejeon Metropolitan city for 15 weeks from March 1 to August 31 2014 after excluding those non-respondents. As for the continuous variables, independent sample t-verification was performed. Also, multiple regression was conducted with the factors affecting educational contents as the dependent variables. As a result of conducting the thanatology lecture as a class of liberal studies for one semester, one lecture a week for 4 weeks to death preparation experts would be suitable(p<0.05) by making it as a regular class of university curriculum(p<0.001). Consequently, the education on death for undergraduate students of health and medical science department will lead to an increased need for understanding and death education on death by allowing them to look at their life and the phenomena related to death from the perspective of humanities and also the psychological and spiritual views. Moreover, it will be utilized as preliminary data for the development of death education program in addition to an improvement for the negative awareness of death among students.