Improvement of the items of the Korea nurse assistant licensing examination through a job analysis of nurse assistants

김명성,남영희,이윤현 사단법인 대한보건협회 2022 대한보건연구 Vol.48 No.1

Background: It aimed to analyze the duties of nurse assistants and to provide recommendations for improving the Korea Nurse Assistant Licensing Examination (KNALE). Methods: In order to understand the job characteristics, job content and requirements and KNALE topics were reviewed. Furthermore, the experts’ opinions concerning nurse assistants (specialized high school teachers, nursing and health professors, nursing academy directors, physicians, and oriental medicine doctors) were assessed. A seminar for convergence, a focused group interview with 10 nurses and 7 health scientists, was done. The online questionnaire for 265 nurses, nurse assistants, health science majors, and medicine majors were also conducted. Results: The survey from experts and nurse assistants revealed that the job characteristics of a nurse assistant are diverse and that the KNALE is structured in a way that does not match the professionalism required on the field. The job-based exam items should be included to improve the KNALE. Specifically, the number of practice-based items should be greater than that of theory-based items and should emphasize on “infection and injury” and “emergency response” areas. The inclusion of a former nurse assistant who can contribute to items production and item review is highly favored to improve the items’ suitability to nurse assistant’s job. Conclusion: It is necessary to improve the examination items by placing a greater emphasis on areas of “infection and injury” and “emergency response,” because a high level of such knowledge is demanded from nurse assistants who work in hospitals.

[특집] 시대별 탈북 변천사와 고위층 대량탈북

김명성 북한연구소 2016 北韓 Vol.- No.538

지난 8월 태영호 주영 북한대사관 공사의 망명 소식은 한반도와 전세계를 뜨겁게 달궜다. 태영호 공사는 김정은 집권 이후 망명한 북한 외교관 가운데 최고위급 인사다. 태영호 공사를 비롯해 김정은 집권 이후 최근 2년간 국내에 들어온 북한의 당·정·군 간부급만 20여명이 넘는 것으로 전해졌다. 김정일시대에는 일반 주민의 탈북이 많았던 반면 엘리트층은 단결했다. 김정은시대는 이와 반대로 일반 주민의 탈북은 줄었지만 엘리트층이 북한체제를 떠나고 있다.

Adaptive Statistical Iterative Reconstruction and Bismuth Shielding for Evaluation of Dose Reduction to the Eye and Image Quality during Head CT

김명성,최지원,김선영,권대철 한국물리학회 2014 THE JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY Vol.64 No.6

There is a concern regarding the adverse effects of increasing radiation doses due to repeatedcomputed tomography (CT) scans, especially in radiosensitive organs and portions thereof, such asthe lenses of the eyes. Bismuth shielding with an adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction (ASIR)algorithm was recently introduced in our clinic as a method to reduce the absorbed radiation dose. This technique was applied to the lens of the eye during CT scans. The purpose of this study wasto evaluate the reduction in the absorbed radiation dose and to determine the noise level whenusing bismuth shielding and the ASIR algorithm with the GE DC 750 HD 64-channel CT scannerfor CT of the head of a humanoid phantom. With the use of bismuth shielding, the noise level washigher in the beam-hardening artifact areas than in the revealed artifact areas. However, with theuse of ASIR, the noise level was lower than that with the use of bismuth alone; it was also lowerin the artifact areas. The reduction in the radiation dose with the use of bismuth was greatest atthe surface of the phantom to a limited depth. In conclusion, it is possible to reduce the radiationlevel and slightly decrease the bismuth-induced noise level by using a combination of ASIR as analgorithm process and bismuth as an in-plane hardware-type shielding method.

Colorblind Racism and Herrenvolk Republicanism: Contesting American Democracy in Octavia Butler’s Kindred

김명성 한국영어영문학회 2022 영어 영문학 Vol.68 No.3

This article explores the racialized historical continuity between the colorblind racist culture of the post-civil rights era and the formation of American democracy in the antebellum nineteenth century in Octavia Butler’s Kindred. The novel represents the 1970s as a culture where colorblind, neoliberal market universalism is prevalent and the 1830s as a germinal era of Herrenvolk republicanism. While the novel’s antebellum scenes correspond to the time when the political meaning of race underwent significant changes in American history, the 1970s alludes to the outset of the new racial system, a new political invention in the post-Civil Rights Movement United States. Such historical references to race and American democracy represented in Kindred illuminate the contradictory nature of American democracy and its political doctrine that have persisted throughout US history. Dana’s time travel is a rhetorical device to disclose the invisible continuity between these historical eras, illuminating the racist nature of American democracy and allegedly post-racial society. Through the alignment of democratic nation-building in the antebellum nineteenth century and its colorblind re-regimentation in modern US culture, the time travel in Kindred racializes the post-racial America where white supremacist polities have invented new meanings of race in order to maintain color lines. This trans-historical space shares with the novel’s literary ancestors, Richard Wright’s Native Son and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, a common concern for the adequacy of the novel genre in representing racial experience, locating itself within the formal tradition of modern African American literature.

김정은식 공포정치와 체제 불안정

김명성 북한연구소 2015 北韓 Vol.- No.522

상품문화와 계급불안, 전통적 귀족사회의 해체: 루돌프 발렌티노를 원형으로 읽는 『위대한 개츠비』

김명성 한국중앙영어영문학회 2018 영어영문학연구 Vol.60 No.1

When Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker hear “The Sheik of Araby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald constructs a substantial identification between Rudolph Valentino’s feminized male eroticism and Jay Gatsby’s exoticness as a modern dandy in The Great Gatsby. The song was composed about a movie The Sheik (1921) where Valentino performed a young head of an Arabian clan. In constructing Gatsby’s ethnicity and sexuality in the novel, Fitzgerald alludes to the Italian-born actor Valentino who gained success through the erotic commodification of his unmarked transvestism and hyper-manhood, which laid him open to xenophobic attack in the early-twentieth-century U.S. culture. The implicit presence of Valentino, whose commodified ethnicity agitated the sense of class security of mainstream white aristocracy, shapes Tom’s xenophobia against Gatsby’s ethnicity in The Great Gatsby. The prototypal construction of Valentino places the novel in the historical era when a profitable but unassimilable commodity in an industry built on ethnic success infiltrated into the market-driven culture. In this cultural milieu, Gatsby’s willingness to commodify himself opens up new ways to penetrate the class barrier not through traditional class struggle but through self-reinvention.

화물 상차 로봇 시스템의 안전성 확보를 위한 신뢰성 기반 MTTF 도출 및 부품소요량 예측 연구

김명성,김영민 대한안전경영과학회 2023 대한안전경영과학회지 Vol.25 No.1

In modern society, the delivery service market has grown explosively due to rapid changes in social structure and the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, various problems such as injury to workers and an increase in human accidents are occurring due to the loading and unloading of parcels. In order to solve this problem, domestic company n is developing a “robot-based cargo loading and unloading system”. In developing a new technology system, quantitative reliability targets should be set for efficient operation and development. In this paper, reliability analysis was conducted through field data for the pneumatic gripper of the “robot-based cargo loading system”. The reliability of the failure data was analyzed to estimate the distribution parameters and MTTF. Random data was derived for the probability of occurrence of a failure with the estimated value. By repeating the simulation to predict the number and year of failures according to the estimated parameters of the probability distribution, it was proposed as a method that reflects realistic probabilities rather than calculating with simple arithmetic using the average MTTF previously used in the field.

김정은의 통치자금, 해외 북한식당

김명성 북한연구소 2016 北韓 Vol.- No.532

예비역·복학생학우들의 소중한 대학생활을 위하여

김명성 한국외국어대학 학도호국단 1990 외대 Vol.27 No.1

[특집] 국경지역 탈북민 유린과 정치범수용소

김명성 북한연구소 2017 北韓 Vol.- No.542

김정은 집권후 정치범수용소 탈북민 수감 증가 북한에서 김정은 집권 이후 정치범수용소와 북·중 국경지역 탈북민들에 대한 인권유린행위가 심각한 것으로 나타났다. 북한인권단체 관계자들에 따르면 북한은 김정은 집권 이후 정치범수용소에서 일정한 기간이 지나면 출감이 가능한 ‘혁명화구역’을 폐쇄하고, 종신수용소인 ‘완전통제구역’으로 만들었다고 한다. 북한 정치범수용소 경비병 출신인 안명철 NK워치 대표는 지난 1월 12일 “혁명화구역이 완전통제구역으로 바뀌면서 최근 5년간 국내에 입국한 정치범수용소 출신 탈북민이 한명도 없다”면서 “앞으로 정치범수용소 출신 탈북민을 보기 힘들 것 같다”고 말했다. 그는 “혁명화구역은 완전 통제구역에 비하면 나갈 수 있다는 희망이라도 존재하지만 완전통제구역은 철저하게 희망의 싹이 잘린 곳”이라고 했다. 완전통제구역은 한번 들어가면 죽을 때까지 겨우 목숨만 부지할 정도의 최소한의 식량을 제공받으면서 평생 강제노동을 강요당하는 곳으로 알려졌다.