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The purpose of this study is verifying the effectiveness of balance as a tool to correct a youth's wrong gait posture through comparative analysis of balance and gait among the youth group of normal-weight, overweight and obesity, and studying of the comparison of balance and gait with degree of obesity (Body Mass Index: BMI) and biomechanical gait analysis. There was a statistically significant difference in stability test items (p <.05). In a step width obese adolescent statistically significant difference (p < 0.001) was found. As the step width is one of gait factors, obese and overweight adolescent has large step width compare to normal adolescents. These results suggest the view, obese adolescents compared to normal weight adolescents lack balance, and step width is wider. When balance is better, step width and obesity level are reduced. When step width is shorter, the obesity level is lower. As a result, if the balance is better, the gaits close to how normal weight adolescents walk, because, in conclusion, if balance improves the gait will be corrected.

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.

The purpose of this study was to examine acculturation on stress, quality of life, self-esteem in married immigrant women in Korea. The participants included 553 married immigrant women who met the eligibility criteria and agreed to participate in the study. Participants were evaluated for subjective assessment of married immigrant-related constructs using a self-report questionnaire, for stress, self-esteem, and quality of life (QOL). Data were collected from August to December, 2014.The analysis was done using descriptive statistics, the variables, ANOVA, T-test for SPSS for Windows, version 22.0. Women who have a low educational level, poor health and are dissatisfied with their marriage showed low self- esteem, and quality of life. Quality of life had significant negative correlations with acculturation on stress and positive correlations with self- esteem. Developing nursing interventions to enhance self-esteem and to reduce acculturation on stress toward improvement of QOL among married immigrant women is recommended. And to improve the quality of life of married immigrant women, development of nursing strategies according to reducing acculturation on stress is needed.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

There is mounting evidence to suggest that the external features of a person face—shape, ears and, in particular, hair—exert a detrimental effect on the construction of a facial composite. The effect was first demonstrated for EvoFIT, a software system whereby constructors repeatedly select whole faces from arrays of alternatives, with ‘breeding’, to ‘evolve’ a face. In research by Frowd and Hepton (2009), volunteers saw a target face and, 24 hours later, were interviewed to describe the face in detail and then used EvoFIT in one of two ways: constructors saw face arrays containing hair that was either similar-to or exactly-matched hair on a target face. The study found that using exactly-matching hair promoted much-more identifiable composites than using similar hair. More recent research, however, has found that system performance is improved following use of a novel interview given to constructors. This holistic-cognitive interview prompts constructors to recall the target face in detail and then make seven personality-type judgments about it, with the aim of improving their face-recognition ability and thereby produce a better-quality composite. In the current research, we carried out a partial replication of Frowd and Hepton using the holistic-cognitive interview. It was found that identification of composites constructed in this way did not differ significantly by type of hair, and so the enhanced interview appears to mask inaccuracies in presented hair, promoting more identifiable images. Theoretical implications of the research are discussed for EvoFIT along with other system developments that have focused on the potential influence of hair.