Preliminary Review on Main Reasons for Staying at Temporary Housing in Early Old Stage in North America

Choon Seek Rim,In Soo Lee,Jong Pil Kim 한국노인복지학회 2014 노인복지연구 Vol.0 No.64

In this study, we reviewed primary motives of early older adults why they m move into senior zone, or so called elderly concentrated zones in American and Canada. The temporary residence in early old age is defined as a complex cluster for the moved old active group declaring a district or entire small city a special place of intensified aged population and thereafter offering safety and welfare measures for the outnumbered elderly. First of all, senior concentrating small cities along rural counties are final destination of retiring people who have been working on labor-intensified farms and mechanical shops in rural communities. We reviewed related literatures and qualitative interviews for major motives for movement into cottage complex in small cities in rural counties in Canada, regarding health care and welfare benefits. That will be the very center of new life in senior living after residential relocations. As a conclusion, moving into a cottage space at a rural town with age concentrated zones, later life is safer, more active than in urban building, and more accessible to social support network. Because they spent middle lives working heavily without adequate income and culture social activities, nearby small cities with social supports and policy considerations are affordable and satisfiable places. Above all, if an elderly couple or a single old person stay at a cottage near senior zone, their health care and activities are more open, easily accessible to social support network, and offered at lower cost. Overall, we propose a low cost complex type for the future.

공기 중 바이러스 포집 장비의 효율성 평가

하태환,이인복,권경석,이성복,송상현,윤순식,Ha, Tae-Hwan,Lee, In-Bok,Kwon, Kyeong-Seok,Lee, Sung-Bok,Song, Sang-Hyeon,Bitog, Jessie. P.,Yoon, Soon-Seek 한국농공학회 2012 한국농공학회논문집 Vol.54 No.1

In livestock industry, damage caused by the epidemic diseases such as Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD), Highly-Pathogenic-Avian-Influenza (HPAI) and Porcine-Reproductive-and-Respiratory-Syndrome (PRRS) was very serious. The financial loss incurred from FMD alone which occurred on Nov. 2011 in Korea was estimated at 3 billion won, 23 % of annual livestock industry production. The livestock industry in Korea has greater risk of disease infection because of high density production, etc. Investigating the spread of livestock diseases should consider both direct and indirect contact as well as other various factors including airborne. Airborne infection of livestock disease was first hypothesised in the early 1900s, however, field experimental studies are still limited. Furthermore, no protocol is available in detecting airborne viruses in the field. In this study, effective virus samplers were investigated by comparative analysis of the type of samplers used detect to airborne virus. Laboratory experiments were conducted to compare virus samplers such as Bio-sampler, Dust-sampler, Compact-Cascade-Impactor (CCI) and Microflow in detecting PRRSV. Samples were analyzed by Reverse-Transcription PCR to assess the efficiency of the instrument in detecting the airborne virus. First, samples were classified into five levels according to light intensity of gel images and then the classified results were normalized. In every case, Bio-sampler and Dust-sampler were comparable with each other and have shown to be more effective than CCI and Microflow samplers.

A Study of Health and Welfare Motives for Moving into Cottages in Elderly Concentrated Rural Towns in Canada

Choon Seek Rim,In Soo Lee 한국노인복지학회 2013 노인복지연구 Vol.0 No.61

This study was performed to analyze the major motives for movement into cottage complex in small cities in rural counties in Canada, regarding health care and welfare benefits. We reviewed primary motives of early older adults move into senior zone, or so called elderly concentrated zones in American and Canada. The Senior Zone is defined as declaring a district or entire small city a special place of intensified aged population and thereafter offering safety and welfare measures for the outnumbered elderly. First of all, senior concentrating small cities along rural counties are final destination of retiring people who have been working on labor-intensified farms and mechanical shops in rural communities. Because they spent middle lives working heavily without adequate income and culture social activities, nearby small cities with social supports and policy considerations are affordable and satisfiable places. Above all, if an elderly couple or a single old person stay at a cottage near senior zone, their health care and activities are more open, easily accessible to social support network, and offered at lower cost. That will be the very center of new life in senior living after residential relocations. As a conclusion, moving into a cottage space at a rural town with age concentrated zones, later life is safer, more active than in urban building, and more accessible to social support network.

A Study of Leisure Place for the Korean Elderly

( Choon Seek Rim ),( In Soo Lee ) 한남대학교 사회과학연구소 2015 사회과학연구 Vol.24 No.-

This study had been performed to review literatures about senior people``s activities and analyze Korean elderly``s activities in their elderly respect hall. The senior citizen hall, so called Elderly Respect Hall or Kyung-no-Dang in Korea, offers a variety of activities for the elderly. The Senior Citizens Center aim to be a focal point for activities and services for all seniors and people with a disability or any past time needs. This study had been performed to review online materials about senior people``s activities and analyze Korean elderly``s activities in their elderly respect hall. In later life, there are two choices choosing their places in aging. The first is to find a group place such as retirement home, active adult life style community, assisted living units, and other group homes. The other choice is to live in a regular community with families or couple, or just alone. Of course they need leisure and activity place for their daily activities. Elderly respect hall is an example of family atmosphere small day time leisure place for Korean elderly. Up to 2012, a total of 24 types of learning materials were completed and was able to provide seniors with diverse learning materials for use in senior citizen active learning centers and related departments nationwide. Therefore in our future, a leisure place for the elderly shall be guided in educational perspectives as well as in pass time policies.

A Review on Aging Residence in New Zealand

Choon Seek Rim,Young Shin Kim,In Soo Lee 한국노인복지학회 2015 International Journal of Welfare for the Aged Vol.33 No.-

The study has been performed by reviewing and citing a number of online and off line literature resources, and housing photo review. As people grow old ,their place in aging is not only a physical enclosure but also a life-time of cherished objects that support identity and delight the senses. At this time, the old population worryingly means 10 out of 100 people are old people in our society. With nutrition and health conditions and medical technology continuously improving and therefore enhancing overall health status, our lifespan became longer from 62.3 in 1971 to 77.9 in 2005, and expected to reach up to 81 in 2020., indicating it``s urgent introducing great way to start a new old life on that path We suggest that in old life in Korea, a variety of retirement places such as retirement village, town homes, and assisted living homes are established and early pre retired young old people like late 50s can start a new active adult life style. Koreans would have access to the beautiful gardens and would be able to go on outings with other residents. Then we envision a retiring place where they are able to move her possessions into the facility before they were moved in, to make the transition easier for them.

Monitoring of Five Bovine Arboviral Diseases Transmitted by Arthropod Vectors in Korea

Shin, Yeun-Kyung,Oem, Jae-Ku,Yoon, So-Ra,Hyun, Bang-Hoon,Cho, In-Soo,Yoon, Soon-Seek,Song, Jae-Young The Korean Society for Microbiology 2009 Journal of Bacteriology and Virology Vol.39 No.4

A survey was performed in Korea to monitor the prevalence of five bovine arboviruses [Akabane virus, Aino virus, Chuzan virus, bovine ephemeral fever (BEF) virus, and Ibaraki virus] in arthropod vectors, such as Culicoides species. To determine the possible applications of survey data in annual monitoring and warning systems in Korea, we examined the prevalence of bovine arboviruses in arthropod vectors using RT-PCR. To compare the sensitivity and specificity of virus detection, nested PCR was also performed in parallel for all five viruses. Using the RT-PCR, the detection limits were at least up to $10^{1.5}$, $10^{2.8}$, $10^{2.0}$, $10^{1.8}$, and $10^{4.0}$ $TCID_{50}/ml$ for Akabane virus, Aino virus, Chuzan virus, BEF virus, and Ibaraki virus, respectively. When nested PCR was performed using $1{\mu}l$ of PCR product, the detection limits were increased, to $10^{0.05}$, $10^{1.8}$, $10^{1.0}$, $10^{0.008}$, and $10^{2.0}\;TCID_{50}/ml$ for Akabane virus, Aino virus, Chuzan virus, BEF virus, and Ibaraki virus, respectively. Thus, nested PCR increased the sensitivity of the virus detection limit by 1~2 log. We pooled 30~40 mosquitoes in one sample. We collected 113 samples in 2006, 135 samples in 2007, and 100 samples in 2008. Among these samples, Chuzan virus and BEF virus genes were detected at a range between 0.82% and 1.19%, and Akabane virus, Aino virus, and Ibaraki virus genes were detected at less than 0.20%. These data may provide some insight into future epidemiological studies of bovine arboviral diseases in Korea.

요양보호사가 노인주거시설에서 경험한 성희롱에 관한 연구

임춘식 ( Rim Choon-seek ),이인수 ( Lee In-soo ) 한국보건사회연구원 2013 保健社會硏究 Vol.33 No.1

본 연구에서는 우리나라 5개 양로시설을 방문하여 12명의 37~47세 여성 요양보호를 대상으로 직접면담에 의해 노인으로부터 경험한 언어 및 신체적 성희롱은 어떤 것이 있으며, 이러한 상황은 결국 노인수발에 어떤 영향을 미치는가에 대해 조사하였다. 연구 결과, 젊은 연령층도 포함되는 종합사회복지시설에 비해 성희롱의 심화성은 적은 것으로 나타나고 있으나 여성의 민감한 부분을 만지거나 움켜쥐는 등 성적모욕감을 주는 행위를 경험한 사례가 나타났다. 신변위협이나 성폭력은 아니며 성욕구 충족을 위한 계획된 행동이라기보다는 친근감을 표현하는 잘못된 행동방식, 여성들이 노인에게 가까이 다가가 신체의 모든 부분을 점검하며 건강관리를 하는 과정에서 발생하는 돌발적인 상황, 무료함을 달래고 남성다움을 표현하려는 담합행동, 신체에 밀착하여 관리하는 요양보호나 간호처치를 접하면서 노인들도 신체의 모든 부분을 망설이지 않고 적나라하게 보여주는 습관, 그리고 지역사회 의료봉사활동이나 간호처치 등 정상적인 업무과정에서 서로 밀착하면서 발생하는 충동적인 상항에서 충동적으로 파생되는 것으로 나타나고 있다. 보완책으로서, 예측사회화 프로그램이 훈련되어 폭력적 성향 경험을 하면서 충격을 미리 준비하고 대처하여 좌절보다는 긍정적 수용으로 봉사에 임하도록 하는 방안이 개발되어야 할 것이다. 또한 문제행동 노인들은 사회복지사가 주기적으로 행동변화를 관찰하고 상담하며, 성희롱 행동을 했을 경우 우범행위라는 점을 명확히 경고하고 재발 시 외출이나 프로그램 참여를 제한하는 등, 노인들에게도 문제행동에 따른 엄중한 책임 이 돌아오도록 하는 조치가 마련되어야 할 것이다. This study has been performed to investigate women worker` experiences about sex-related abrupt situations in retirement residential facilities in Korea. In this study, 12 female care workers aging 37 to 47 were asked about in what circumstances and how seriously they experienced sex related verbal insults or violent harassments in 2011. Overall, the nurses experienced less violent harassment than in other social welfare institutions and nursing facilities. However, it is surprising that they were confronting unreasonable behaviors such as sex related coarse languages, aggressively showing sexual organs in the public, and touching sexually sensitive body portions during nursing measures from physically healthy elderly in early stages of cognitive impairments. In this study, it is proposed that retirement places need to be connected with nursing homes and elderly residing medical institutions so that the abrupt situations may be controlled by more medical professionals. It is also suggested that the men` military responsibilities need to be applied to assisting nurses in retirement places by health science majoring college level male volunteers.

Isolation and identification of canine adenovirus type 2 from a naturally infected dog in Korea

Yang, Dong-Kun,Kim, Ha-Hyun,Yoon, Soon-Seek,Lee, Hyunkyoung,Cho, In-Soo The Korean Society of Veterinary Science 2018 大韓獸醫學會誌 Vol.58 No.4

Canine adenovirus type 2 (CAV-2) infection results in significant respiratory illness in dogs. Isolating and culturing CAV-2 allows for investigations into its pathogenesis and the development of vaccines and diagnostic assays. In this study, we successfully isolated a virus from a naturally infected dog in Gyeonggi-do, Korea. The virus was propagated in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) and Vero cells and showed a specific cytopathic morphology that appeared similar to a bunch of grapes. The virus was first confirmed as CAV-2 based on these cytopathic effects, an immunofluorescence assay, hemagglutination assay, and electron microscopy. The viral titer of the isolate designated APQA1601 reached $10^{6.5}$ 50% tissue culture infections dose per mL in MDCK cells and exhibited no hemagglutination units with erythrocytes from guinea pig. The virus was also confirmed by polymerase chain reaction and next-generation sequencing. The APQA1601 strain had the highest similarity (~99.9%) with the Toronto A26/61 strain, which was isolated in Canada in 1976 when the nucleotide sequences of the full genome of the APQA1601 strain were compared with those of other CAV strains. Isolating CAV-2 will help elucidate the biological properties of CAV-2 circulating in Korean dogs.

Short-term Efficacy and Safety of Intravitreal Brolucizumab Injection for Treatment-Naive Exudate Age-related Macular Degeneration: A Multicenter Study

Juno Kim,Sung Jin Lee,Tae Kwann Park,Hae Jung Sun,Hoon Dong Kim,In Hwan Cho,Jung Woo Han,Kyung Seek Choi 대한안과학회 2023 Korean Journal of Ophthalmology Vol.37 No.5

Purpose: To compare short-term efficacy and safety of intravitreal brolucizumab injection with aflibercept in treatment-naive neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) patients. Methods: A total of 59 eyes from 59 treatment-naive nAMD patients in three hospitals were retrospectively reviewed. Of which, 27 patients underwent intravitreal brolucizumab injections and 32 received aflibercept. After monthly consecutive three injections, best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA; in logarithm of minimal angle of resolution [logMAR]), central macular thickness (CMT), dry macula achievement rate, and intraocular inflammation (IOI) incidence were compared. Results: After loading-phase treatment, BCVA was significantly increased from 0.48 ± 0.30 logMAR at baseline to 0.33 ± 0.21 logMAR at 3 months in the brolucizumab group (p = 0.002) and 0.40 ± 0.39 logMAR at baseline to 0.33 ± 0.36 logMAR at 3 months in the aflibercept group (p = 0.007). But there was no significant difference in BCVA improvement at 3 months between the two groups. CMT significantly decreased from 429.67 ± 250.59 μm at baseline to 210.67 ± 93.53 μm at 3 months in the brolucizumab group and from 346.69 ± 159.09 μm to 234.52 ± 83.42 μm in the aflibercept group (both p < 0.001). The amount of CMT reduction was significantly greater in the brolucizumab group after 3 months (p = 0.036). In typical AMD eyes, brolucizumab showed similar BCVA improvement but better CMT reduction at 3 months (p = 0.018). Dry macula achievement rate was not significantly different between the two groups. One IOI was observed in the brolucizumab group. Conclusions: Intravitreal injections of brolucizumab and aflibercept showed similar anatomical and functional outcomes. But CMT reduction was greater in the brolucizumab group. One IOI was identified, which was tolerable for topical agents. These results suggest that brolucizumab could be a novel first line treatment option for treating naive nAMD patients.

Matrix Pencil Method 기반의 부엽차단기 성능분석 연구

여민영(Min-Young Yeo),이강인(Kang-In Lee),양훈기(Hoon-Gee Yang),박규철(Gyu-Churl Park),정용식(Young-Seek Chung) 대한전기학회 2017 전기학회논문지 Vol.66 No.8

In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for the performance analysis of the sidelobe blanker (SLB) in radar system, which is based on the matrix pencil method (MPM). In general, the SLB in radar is composed of the main antenna, the auxiliary antenna, and the processing unit. The auxiliary antenna with wide beamwidth receives interference signals such as jamming or clutter signals. The main antenna with high gain receives the target signal in the main beam and the interference signals in the sidelobe. In this paper the Swerling model is used as the target echo signal by considering a probabilistic radar cross section (RCS) of the target. To estimate the SLB performance it needs to calculate the probability of target detection and the probability of blanking the interference by using the signals received from the main and auxiliary antennas. The detection probability and the blanking probability include multiple summations of infinite series with infinite integrations, of which convergence rate is very slow. Increase of summation range to improve the calculation accuracy may lead to an overflow error in computer simulations. In this paper, to resolve the above problems, we used the MPM to calculate a summation of infinite series and improved the calculation accuracy and the convergence rate.