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This study aimed to investigate the levels of fatigue, social support, spiritual well-being, and distress of female cancer survivors at the workplace, and identify factors associated with distress.One hundred and eighty-two working female cancer survivors participated from the outpatient ward in two medical institutions in South Korea and they completed questionnaires assessing their general characteristics, fatigue, social support (colleagues and superiors), and spiritual well-being distress (existential and religious well-being). The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, T-test, one-way ANOVA, correlation, and multiple linear regression with SPSS /WIN18 version.Most of the participants were breast and thyroid cancer (78.5%), married (46.2%), working periods below 10 years (62.7%) and the average age was 49.7 years. Distress positively correlated with fatigue and significant predictors of distress were "type of work" and "main source of household income" among general characteristics, fatigue, religious well-being, and existential well-being.Our findings suggest that integrated program including educational and practical factors to reduce fatigue and increase spiritual well-being (i.e., peace, faith, meaning, et al.) can decrease distress. Whereas, the "ambivalence" of God accompanied by high religious well-being (i.e., punishment, abandon, blame, and so on) can rather increase distress. The development of an integrated management system of distress at work can be applied as a practical factor to improve job satisfaction, organizational performance, and quality of life.

This paper examines the effect of local religiosity on employee treatment, proxied by workplace safety incidents. Using the establishment-level data compiling on the incidents of work-related injuries, we find that employees of the establishments in more religious counties get less injured than those in less religious counties. We further find that a reduction in occupational accidents is more evident for establishments in counties dominated by one religious denomination, strengthening our argument on community solidarity and homophily stemming from religious networks. Firms whose establishments are located in high religiosity counties are less likely to violate workplace conduct and more likely to take workplace safety measures. Moreover, firms with more work-related injuries exhibit poorer firm performance. Overall, our findings suggest that local religiosity has a value implication through human capital protection.

We described the effects of straw mat cover and soil amendments on runoff, agricultural non-point source nNPS) pollution and crop yield on sloping alpine fields in Korea. Two sandy loam field plots were prepared. One was a control plot and the other (SPG) was an experimental plot treated with rice straw, polyacrylamide (PAM) and gypsum (rice straw mat (3,300 kg/ha) + PAM (5 kg/ha) + gypsum (1 ton/ha)). Chinese cabbage was cultivated in the plots and seven rainfall-runoff events were monitored during the growing season in 2012. Less runoff and a lower NPS pollution load were measured from the SPG plot, compared to those from the control plot. The SPG plot had 29.4% less runoff and the pollution load was reduced by 86.6% for suspended solids, 34.7% for total nitrogen and 39.1% for total phosphorus. The Chinese cabbage yield at the SPG plot was 39,600 kg/ha, which was about 40% higher than that at the control plot. These results indicated that the SPG treatment could not only reduce runoff and agricultural NPS pollution but also increase crop yield and be a best management practice for sandy loam sloping fields in Korea. © 2016 The Authors. Irrigation and Drainage Published by John wiley & Sons Ltd.

Previous literature finds a positive association between short-term changes in institutional holdings (especially those of local institutions) and subsequent short-term stock performance. We contribute by investigating the importance of geographical proximity under policy uncertainty. We show that the short-term informational advantage of local institutions only thrives in areas that are either politically closely aligned with the president or where the state government (governorship and legislature) is under the control of one party. Our findings are important in understanding the avenues through which geographical proximity may provide the basis for exploitable informational advantages.

The objective of this paper was to quantit atively analyze the effect of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO) NPS pollu tion on a small watershe dwater quality. Monitoring was conducted from March to October, 2013. Monthly flow rate and selected water quality at each monitoring site were measured during dry days. Rainy day monitori ng also was conducted. Modeli ng was conducted to evaluate the effect of CAFO NPS po llution on the wate rquality at the watershed outlet. The highest and mean concentration of se lected water quality indices during rainy days were hi gher than those in dry daysin general. The highest TN concentration measured at the CAFP pollution discharge point was 237.831 mg/L. The results revealed that the CAFO NPSpollution sources could be equally blamed for the water quality degradation of the stream. However, the effect of the NPS pollut ion from CAFOs seeme dnot to be very influential to the watershed water quality at the outlet. SWAT modeling revealed that the TN load was reduced by 18.95 %, 23.39 % and30.53 % at the watershed outlet if the TN load at the CAFO NPS pollution discharge point reduced by 20 %, 40 % and 60 %, respec tively. It was though tthat the natural attenuation processes play ed an important role. The modeling was based only on the assumption of the load redu ction and not verified bythe monitored data. Therefore, it was suggested that a long term monitoring studies for the evaluation of the impact of CAFO NPS pollution on the watershed water quality be conducted.Keywords:Livestock; NPS Pollution; Pollution Load; SWAT*

The aim of this study is to examine the patterns of expressing contemporary beauty from the perspective of Laotzu’s philosophy in order to suggest its concept and characteristics and to suggest specific cases through cosmetics advertisement. In doing so, the study attempted to understand that contemporary beauty is more humanistic and liberal in terms of expression patterns than in any other time period. The research results are as below. The frame concept of Laotzu’s philosophy includes 1. Naturalness, 2. coexistence in Conflict, and 3. Non-otherness. The characteristics of contemporary beauty are natural and healthy, People can foresee changing beauty by the cycle of life and, by admitting this philosophy, people can understand one's individuality and discover self-esteemed beauty. Also, the results from the cases of cosmetics advertisement are as below: 1. Naturalness was remarkable. Such phenomenon was common in representative brands of the research subjects. Expression pattern was based on soft, natural make-up and hair style. 2. For conflict and coexistence, they introduced the ancient image of the situation, and the situational image using food and herbs demonstrated a functional, situational image, which was used for the cosmetics advertisement based on the mutual coexistence concept instead of dichotomy of period or material. 3. Non-otherness advertisement, of which there was none, we expected that maximized marketing effect would be achieved if non-otherness cosmetics advertisement expressed the contemporary beauty because it

Four actual cultivations were prepared and a variety of soybean was cultivated. A H-flume, an automatic water level gauge and an automatic water sampler were installed at the outlet of each plot equipped for the measurement of flow rate and its water quality. The amount of rainfall of the study area in 2013 was measured as 975.6 mm which was much lower than the annual average rainfall of 1,271.8 mm, resulting in less occurrences in rainfall-runoff events. Rainfall-runoff events were occurred three times during the rainfall event of 4~5 July, 23 and 24 August. The characteristics of NPS pollution discharge of the plots and the reduction effect of the selected BMPs were analyzed during these events. The reduction effect of straw mat and soil amendments (Polyacrylamide (PAM) and Gypsum) on runoff ratio ranged between 38.2 and 92.9% (average 71.6%). The NPS pollution load reduced between 27.7 and 95.1% (average 70.0%) by the application of rice straw mat and soil conditioner when compared with that of control plot. Soybean yield (2,133.3 kg/ha) of the straw mat covered plots increased by 14.3% when compared with control (1,866.7 kg/ha). The effect of straw mat on the yield was not economically viable if the material and accompanying labor costs were considered. The data collected and analyzed on different soil textures and crops in this study are expected to be a fundamental reference for the expansion of the results to the application nationwide and the development of NPS pollution management policies.

We investigated the effect of straw mat cover and soil amendments on the reduction of runoff, non-point source pollution load and yield of a Chinese cabbage from alpine fields. Two plots on sandy loam soil were prepared. Experimental treatments were control and rice straw mat cover (3,300 kg/ha)+Polyacrylamide (PAM) (5 kg/ha)+Gypsum (1 ton/ha) (SPG). A variety of Chinese cabbage was cultivated and runoff was monitored during a growing season in 2012. Monitoring was conducted to seven times. Runoff rate of SPG plot was lower than those of control plot. The reduction rate of runoff from SPG plot was 29.4 % compared to control plot. The reduction rate of suspended solids (SS), total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorus (TP) load of SPG plot was 86.5 %, 34.7 % and 39.1 %, respectively. Yield of a Chinese cabbage from SPG plot (39,646 kg/ha) was greater than that of control plots (28,482 kg/ha). It was concluded that the use of SPG on soil surface could not only reduce the NPS pollution loads in receiving waters but also help increase the crop yield.

This study was conducted to predict greenhouse gas (GHG) emission from paddy by future climate change scenario in Korea. Chuncheon city in Kangwon province were selected as study area. A1B Special Report on Emission Scenario (SRES) of the IPCC (Intergovernmental panel on climate change) was used to assess the future potential climate change. The rainfall and temperature was projected to increase by 8.4 % and 1.9 % (2040s), 35.9 % and 27.0 % (2060s), 19.2 % and 30.8 % (2090s), respectively, compare to the 2010s value. Under the climate change, Denitrification-Decomposition (DNDC) predicted an increase in , and emissions from paddy. The simulations resulted in annual net emissions of 0.4~2.4, 500.5~734.5 and 29.4~160.4 kg/ha/year of , and , respectively, with a cumulated global warming potential (GWP) of were affected by rainfall, temperature, manure amendment and fertilizer amount. The simulation results suggested that implementation of manure amendment or reduction of water consumption instead of increased fertilizer application rates would more efficiently mitigate GHG emissions.

Technological development for reduction of CO2 emissions has been actively carried out globally. In buildings, windows and envelops are the parts that generate the greatest heat loss. Therefore, it is the target to improve primarily for the energy efficiency. Various techniques such as vacuum glass and heat-insulating reinforced frame have been developed to improve the thermal performance of windows, however, these techniques can be applied only for new windows. To apply these technologies, it is necessary to install them in a building on construction or to replace all of windows of existing building. In this paper, we developed the technology to improve the thermal performance of existing windows. This technology can be applied without any movement of occupants or furniture. Moreover, it is affordable, durable and available for everyone without any special expertise or tools. Another benefit of this technology is that it does not affect daylighting and view since it has a high transmittance. In order to verify the performance of it in terms of the thermal aspect, the mock-up experiment and the field test were conducted. Thermal transmittance of windows was measured and analyzed before and after improving their thermal performance with the technology. The result shows that the values of the thermal transmittance of windows have improved by 20% after application of the technology.

The dilapidated windows in old buildings lead to not only energy loss but also condensation, which can cause damages to finish materials and structures, which can adversely affect the residential environment of residents. In the research, in order to prevent the occurrence of condensation, the airtightness performance improvement technology of window(Windbreak) and the thermal insulation performance improvement technology of window(Attached glazing) were selected. Then, these two technologies were applied to real old apartment houses for performance verification. TDR (Temperature Differential Ratio) was calculated by measuring the surface temperature of the window before and after the application of the two technologies, and the quantitative evaluation was performed by comparing the measured values. As a result, the condensation prevention performance was enhanced by about 17.69% result for the installation of the attached glazing and the windbreak. Especially, it was more effective in the lower part of the glazing where condensations mainly occurs.

The objective of the research was to describe the effect of straw mat cover and soil amendments on the reduction of runoff and non-point source load from steep sloped highland agricultural fields. Four m plots on sandy loam soil with 28 % slope were prepared. Experimental treatments were bare (control), rice straw mat cover (3,000 kg/ha) (S), PAM (5 kg/ha)+Gypsum (1 ton/ha) (PG) and rice straw mat cover+PAM+Gypsum (SPG). A variety of lettuce was cultivated and runoff was monitored during a growing season in 2011. Natural monitoring was conducted to three times. Runoff rate of S, PG and SPG plots were significantly lower than those of control plot. Especially, the runoff rate is zero in SPG plot at a first rainfall events. The reduction rate of runoff from the S, PG and SPG plots was 30.8 %, 29.0 % and 81.8 % compared to control plots, respectively. The reduction rate of NPS pollution load of S, PG and SPG was ranged of 50~90 %, 30~70 % and 90~100 %, respectively. Yield of lettuce from S, PG and SPG plots was respectively 400 (567 kg/ha), 320 (453 kg/ha) and 760 (1,067 kg/ha) that of compared to control plots greater than that from control plots (140 kg/ha). We speculated that the experimental treated plots could hold more nutrients and moisture than the control and helped the crop grow healthier. When analyzing the above results, in terms of reduction of runoff and NPS pollution load and crop yields, SPG experimental treatment had the best effect. It was concluded that the use of rice straw mats cover and soil amendments on soil surface could not only reduce the NPS pollution loads in receiving waters but also help increase the crop yield.

Congenital pseudarthrosis of the tibia is one of the most frustrating conditions encountered in pediatric orthopaedics because of the difficulty in achieving healing. Numerous treatment options have been explored with varying degrees of success1-19. Although some reports have demonstrated successful healing7,9,19, it is very difficult to restore the normal structural and functional integrity of the bone such as that which occurs after treatment of other types of fractures in children4,10,16. Advances in molecular biology have provided a better understanding of the mechanisms of fracture-healing as well as possible new solutions for the problem, including the use of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)20-24. In a controlled, prospective, randomized study of 124 tibial nonunions (in 122 adult patients) treated with insertion of an intramedullary rod and recombinant human (rh) BMP-7, no significant difference (p = 0.939) was noted between the BMP group and the group that received an intramedullary rod and autogenous iliac crest bone grafts20. In a prospective, randomized, controlled, single-blind study of 450 patients with an open tibial fracture, patients who were treated with rhBMP-2 (1.50 mg/mL) had significantly (p = 0.005) superior results compared with patients who were treated with intramedullary nail fixation and routine soft-tissue management as dictated by the injury21. These two large clinical series suggest that BMPs may be a good alternative to autogenous iliac-crest bone-grafting. Bone morphogenetic proteins have shown promising results in experimental animal models, and their clinical efficacy has been shown in the treatment of adult tibial nonunions and in spinal fusion20-24. They have not been tested in children because of uncertainty as to the effect on adjacent physes and because of concern about unexpected reactions. …