BACKGROUND: To analyze orthographic and regulatory mistakes in manuscripts contributed to the Journal of Korean Neurological Association (KNA), and thus to improve the quality of the articles. METHODS: Twenty-one original contributions written in Korean were reviewed and analyzed. They reached me from January to July in 2002 and were at the final editing stage just before being publicated. I analyzed their mistakes according to the Hangul orthographic guidelines and the contribution regulations of KNA. RESULTS: Among the total of 4,586 errors, 3,268 (71.3%) were ortho-graphic and 1,318 (28.7%) regulatory. Orthographic mistakes were mainly in the use of parentheses, selection of terms, and misspelling in the decreasing order. Violations of the contribution regulations were found mainly in tables, references, and figures rather than the body of the articles. CONCLUSIONS: Editorial Committee should make more efforts in the education of Hangul orthography for KNA members. And KNA members should pay particular attention to the mistakes in the orthographic and regulatory aspects to enhance the completeness of the articles.
Education ; Social Control, Formal

The possibility of applying a bi-axial flexure strength test on composite resin was examined using three point and bi-axial flexure strength tests to measure the strength of the light-cured resin and to compare the relative reliability using the Weibull modulus. The materials used in this study were light-curing restorative materials, MICRONEW(TM), RENEW(R) (Bisco, Schaumburg, USA). The bi-axial flexure strength measurements used the piston-on-3-ball test according to the regulations of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 6872 and were divided into 6 groups, where the radius of the specimens were 12 mm (radius connecting the 3-balls: 3.75 mm), 16 mm (radius connecting the 3-balls: 5 mm), and the thickness were 0.5 mm, 1 mm, 2 mm for each radius. The bi-axial flexure strength of the MICRONEW(TM) and RENEW(R) were higher than the three point flexure strength and the Weibull modulus value were also higher in all of the bi-axial flexure strength groups, indicating that the bi-axial strength test is relatively less affected by experimental error. In addition, the 2 mm thick specimens had the highest Weibull modulus values in the bi-axial flexure strength test, and the MICRONEW(TM) group showed no significant statistical difference (p > 0.05). Besides the 2 mm MICRONEW(TM) group, each group showed significant statistical differences (p < 0.05) according to the thickness of the specimen and the radius connecting the 3-balls. The results indicate that for the 2 mm group, the bi-axial flexure strength test is a more reliable testing method than the three point flexure strength test.
Radius ; Social Control, Formal

To evaluate,the differences of benzidine exposure patterns of the workers in two benzidine-based dye manufacturing factories, the concentration of benzidine: in. air, blood, and urine were measured. The air levels of benzidine dihydrochloride and benzidine-based dye were measured by high performance liquid chromatography with ultraviolet detector. Blood samples were collected at 3 hours after exposure and urine samples were collected at the end of shift. Blood and urine samples were analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography with electrochemical detector. The level of benzidine in reaction process (input, diazotization, and coupling); was 0.381+/-7950 g/m3. The blood benzidine was deteced in 25 workers among 38 in reaction process and their mean levels were 0.0153?0376 ng/mg Hb. The urinary benzidine was detected for 11 workers among 38 workers in the reaction process. The level of benzidine-based dye in drying and packing process was 52.1748+/-4.4111g/m3. The blood benzidine was deteced in 6 workers among 38 in drying and packing process and their mean levels was 0.0062+/-0274 ng/mg Hb. The urinary benzidine was detected for 1 worker among 38 workers exposed to benzidine-based dye. The blood and urinary benzidine were detected in workers exposed to benzidine-based dye. Such results suggested that some part of benzidine-based dye was metaboized to benzidine. Therefore, some regulations for manufacturing and use of the benzidine-based dye are needed to prevent its hazards in industries.
Chromatography, Liquid ; Social Control, Formal

There were many problems related to the regulations of speech and writing, words, meanings, sentences, expressions and paragraphs in the textbooks and papers of the neuropsychiatric community. The Korean orthography, particularly spacing words, the rules of spelling loan word and romanization of Korean were often violated in those literatures. In the aspects of words and meanings, the cases with inappropriate selection of words and vagueness in the sentential meanings were found. Especially, redundant expressions, overuse of the foreign languages and loan words, and unnecessary causative expressions were often found. And also omissions of indispensable constituents, disagreements among the constituents, inappropriate connections occurred in the sentences. The expressions were unnatural because of the overuse of noun phrases and metaphrastic styles, also there were many paragraphs lacking of unity, closeness, and completeness. These problems cause the difficulties in understanding the contents of the writing and deteriorate the credibility of the writing, so the author should improve his abilities to understand and use properly Korean language.
Linguistics* ; Social Control, Formal ; Writing

Since the implementation of the national medical insurance service in 1979, it has become necessary to reconsider medical services from the geographical point of view. As more medical professionals have been concentrated in the metropolitan and urban areas, publicly hired medical practitioners have been appointed to less populated regions (e.g., farms and fisheries) and public medical service has been reinforced. During the past 10 years, the government and the ruling parties have been dragged around by strikes and collective actions of medical organizations, who have been rather dissatisfied with the new policy, namely, the separation of dispensary from medical practice. In an attempt to hold such efforts into check, the government, who has lost its "pride as a leftist," saw the needs to implement the public medical service. Consequently, new regulations were focused on the expansion of both the quantity and shares in the medical service market of the public medical service, which can be directly controlled. The government has either misunderstood the needs for urban public medical service or diverted its underlying principles. Despite some studies that reported the financial loss of urban public medical service as unavoidable, the government established seven exemplary public medical services in November 2005. The inefficiencies of such medical service were first brought to the public attention by the municipal congress of Cheonan City. Moreover, there have been some cases of distorted medical practices in the Seoul area, caused by efforts to record amplified hours of services. Owing to the financial loss and lack of effectiveness of the public medical service, such wrongful actions have been well expected. The government should first institute the underlying concepts of public medical service. The current inefficient public medical service should be scrapped, if the purpose of such service is a "public service," per se. If the public medical service only fills blanks left out by private medical service, the current public institutions have to carry out their responsibilities. The needs for current public medical service should be addressed if the quality and details of such service is to remain inferior to private medical service and keeps wasting tax.
Insurance ; Social Control, Formal ; Strikes, Employee ; Taxes

The regulation of prescription and selling medicament enclosing the resolution No 1847/2003/QD-BYT of May 28/2003 includes 4 Chapters. Chapter I: General considerations with the articles 1,2,3,4. Chapter II: Ordonnance and prescription with the articles 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13. Chapter III: Selling prescribed medicaments, articles 14,15,16,17,18,19,20. Chapter IV: Implementation – Articles 21,22,23,24
Prescriptions, Drug ; Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Social Control, Formal

A number of absurdities surrounding the humidifier disinfectant (HD) incident may have occurred because 1) a judicial system operates on the underlying false assumption that the involved parties are equals in knowledge, information and resource mobilization capabilities, regardless of respective real status as company or individual; 2) there is a lack of a system that mandates a company to prevent and actively manage possible catastrophes; 3) the regulatory scheme makes companies believe that as long as they are complying with the existing regulations, they have satisfied all of their responsibilities. I believe that this issue is an opportunity to bring about changes in the judicial redress system, the system of internal management of manufacturers, and the regulatory system of the government. The following regulation amendments are needed to move towards the changes stated above. First, legislation relating to victim relief that is applicable to the HD incident must be established. Second, a risk management system must be formed within the manufacturing company and to this end an institutional environment for the system must be established within regulatory framework. Furthermore, legislation must be passed that could punish companies themselves that have caused severe damage to individuals because they had failed to take necessary actions to avoid foreseeable harm. Finally, the framework of regulation must be changed so that the company, who has the necessary information regarding the product and the component chemicals used in the product, must self-directed experiment and assessment of the safety of their own products.
Humidifiers* ; Risk Management ; Social Control, Formal

The Act of Corpse Dissection and Preservation is the prime law related with anatomical cadaver dissection in Korea. Consider the social and cultural situation at the year of 1995 when the law established, it has much epochal contents. Now, however, it has many regulations, such as the purpose of establishment the law, object of dissection, management of cadaver after dissection, and the lack of body donation movement, which are not coincide with current anatomical dissection field. In order to supplement such insufficiencies, it is necessary to revise the Act of Corpse Dissection and Preservation as soon as possible. Furthermore, it is recommended to establish a new law supporting the body donation movement and management for activation of anatomical dissection education, which eventually extend the basis of the development of medical science.
Cadaver ; Jurisprudence ; Korea ; Social Control, Formal

Communicable Disease Control ; Humans ; Social Behavior ; Social Control, Formal

PURPOSE: This study aimed to identify the degree of accident prevention behavior, self-esteem, self-regulation ability, and social support among middle-school students, and investigate factors influencing their practice of accident prevention behaviors.METHODS: The participants were 174 students from two middle schools located in J city. Data were collected from December 28, 2017 to February 9, 2018 using self-reported questionnaires.RESULTS: The mean score were 3.08±0.37 of 4 for practice of accident prevention behaviors, 3.07±0.57 of 4 for self-esteem, 3.69±0.48 of 5 for self-regulation ability, and 3.38±0.75 of 5 for social support. Positive correlations were found among self-regulation ability, self-esteem, social support, and practice of accident prevention behaviors. The factors influencing the practice of accident prevention behaviors were personality (being ‘haste’) (β=−.20, p=.003), self- regulation ability (β=.48, p<.001), and social support (β=.23, p<.001). These factors explained 39.0% of the variance in practice of accident prevention behaviors.CONCLUSION: It was found that the middle-school students engaged in prevention behavior to an extent that was insufficient to prevent accidents. Therefore, it is necessary to develop intervention strategies to improve the practice of accident prevention behavior among middle-school students, considering self-regulation ability, social support, and personality, which affect the practice of accident prevention behaviors.
Accident Prevention ; Humans ; Self Concept ; Self-Control ; Social Control, Formal