• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.39-69
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• 2012

With the advent of communication technologies including electronic collaborative tools and conferencing systems provided over the Internet, virtual collaboration is becoming increasingly common in organizations. Virtual collaboration refers to an environment in which the people working together are interdependent in their tasks, share responsibility for outcomes, are geographically dispersed, and rely on mediated rather than face-to face, communication to produce an outcome. Research suggests that new sets of individual skill, knowledge, and ability (SKAs) are required to perform effectively in today's virtualized workplace, which is labeled as individual virtual competence. It is also argued that use of online social networking sites may influence not only individuals' daily lives but also their capability to manage their work-related relationships in organizations, which in turn leads to better performance. The existing research regarding (1) the relationship between virtual competence and task performance and (2) the relationship between online networking and task performance has been conducted based on different theoretical perspectives so that little is known about how online social networking and virtual competence interplay to predict individuals' task performance. To fill this gap, this study raises the following research questions: (1) What is the individual virtual competence required for better adjustment to the virtual collaboration environment? (2) How does online networking via diverse social network service sites influence individuals' task performance in organizations? (3) How do the joint effects of individual virtual competence and online networking influence task performance? To address these research questions, we first draw on the prior literature and derive four dimensions of individual virtual competence that are related with an individual's self-concept, knowledge and ability. Computer self-efficacy is defined as the extent to which an individual beliefs in his or her ability to use computer technology broadly. Remotework self-efficacy is defined as the extent to which an individual beliefs in his or her ability to work and perform joint tasks with others in virtual settings. Virtual media skill is defined as the degree of confidence of individuals to function in their work role without face-to-face interactions. Virtual social skill is an individual's skill level in using technologies to communicate in virtual settings to their full potential. It should be noted that the concept of virtual social skill is different from the self-efficacy and captures an individual's cognition-based ability to build social relationships with others in virtual settings. Next, we discuss how online networking influences both individual virtual competence and task performance based on the social network theory and the social learning theory. We argue that online networking may enhance individuals' capability in expanding their social networks with low costs. We also argue that online networking may enable individuals to learn the necessary skills regarding how they use technological functions, communicate with others, and share information and make social relations using the technical functions provided by electronic media, consequently increasing individual virtual competence. To examine the relationships among online networking, virtual competence, and task performance, we developed research models (the mediation, interaction, and additive models, respectively) by integrating the social network theory and the social learning theory. Using data from 112 employees of a virtualized company, we tested the proposed research models. The results of analysis partly support the mediation model in that online social networking positively influences individuals' computer self-efficacy, virtual social skill, and virtual media skill, which are key predictors of individuals' task performance. Furthermore, the results of the analysis partly support the interaction model in that the level of remotework self-efficacy moderates the relationship between online social networking and task performance. The results paint a picture of people adjusting to virtual collaboration that constrains and enables their task performance. This study contributes to research and practice. First, we suggest a shift of research focus to the individual level when examining virtual phenomena and theorize that online social networking can enhance individual virtual competence in some aspects. Second, we replicate and advance the prior competence literature by linking each component of virtual competence and objective task performance. The results of this study provide useful insights into how human resource responsibilities assess employees' weakness and strength when they organize virtualized groups or projects. Furthermore, it provides managers with insights into the kinds of development or training programs that they can engage in with their employees to advance their ability to undertake virtual work.

• 한국작물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국작물학회 2017년도 9th Asian Crop Science Association conference
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• pp.8-9
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• 2017

Soybean yield has been low and unstable in Japan and other areas in East Asia, despite long history of cultivation. This is contrasting with consistent increase of yield in North and South America. This presentation tries to describe perspective of breaking stagnation of soybean yield in East Asia, considering the factors of the different yields between regions. Large amount of rainfall with occasional dry-spell in the summer is a nature of monsoon climate and as frequently stated excess water is the factor of low and unstable soybean yield. For example, there exists a great deal of field-to-field variation in yield of 'Tanbaguro' soybean, which is reputed for high market value and thus cultivated intensively and this results in low average yield. According to our field survey, a major portion of yield variation occurs in early growth period. Soybean production on drained paddy fields is also vulnerable to drought stress after flowering. An analysis at the above study site demonstrated a substantial field-to-field variation of canopy transpiration activity in the mid-summer, but the variation of pod-set was not as large as that of early growth. As frequently mentioned by the contest winners of good practice farming, avoidance of excess water problem in the early growth period is of greatest importance. A series of technological development took place in Japan in crop management for stable crop establishment and growth, that includes seed-bed preparation with ridge and/or chisel ploughing, adjustment of seed moisture content, seed treatment with mancozeb+metalaxyl and the water table control system, FOEAS. A unique success is seen in the tidal swamp area in South Sumatra with the Saturated Soil Culture (SSC), which is for managing acidity problem of pyrite soils. In 2016, an average yield of $2.4tha^{-1}$ was recorded for a 450 ha area with SSC (Ghulamahdi 2017, personal communication). This is a sort of raised bed culture and thus the moisture condition is kept markedly stable during growth period. For genetic control, too, many attempts are on-going for better emergence and plant growth after emergence under excess water. There seems to exist two aspects of excess water resistance, one related to phytophthora resistance and the other with better growth under excess water. The improvement for the latter is particularly challenging and genomic approach is expected to be effectively utilized. The crop model simulation would estimate/evaluate the impact of environmental and genetic factors. But comprehensive crop models for soybean are mainly for cultivations on upland fields and crop response to excess water is not fully accounted for. A soybean model for production on drained paddy fields under monsoon climate is demanded to coordinate technological development under changing climate. We recently recognized that the yield potential of recent US cultivars is greater than that of Japanese cultivars and this also may be responsible for different yield trends. Cultivar comparisons proved that higher yields are associated with greater biomass production specifically during early seed filling, in which high and well sustained activity of leaf gas exchange is related. In fact, the leaf stomatal conductance is considered to have been improved during last a couple of decades in the USA through selections for high yield in several crop species. It is suspected that priority to product quality of soybean as food crop, especially large seed size in Japan, did not allow efficient improvement of productivity. We also recently found a substantial variation of yielding performance under an environment of Indonesia among divergent cultivars from tropical and temperate regions through in a part biomass productivity. Gas exchange activity again seems to be involved. Unlike in North America where transpiration adjustment is considered necessary to avoid terminal drought, under the monsoon climate with wet summer plants with higher activity of gas exchange than current level might be advantageous. In order to explore higher or better-adjusted canopy function, the methodological development is demanded for canopy-level evaluation of transpiration activity. The stagnation of soybean yield would be broken through controlling variable water environment and breeding efforts to improve the quality-oriented cultivars for stable and high yield.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.229-242
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• 1998

농촌의 전통적인 사회조직망을 반영해주는 변수들과 고혈압과의 관련성을 규명하기 위해 달성군 60-64세 노인을 대상으로 1996년 4월부터 9월까지 일대일 면담방법으로 조사를 실시하였다. 사회조직망을 반영해주는 변수로 결혼, 규칙적인 종교행사 참석, 친한 친구 및 친척 수, 구성원으로 있는 모임 수, 자식 및 손주 수 그리고 형제 수 등이 선정되었다. 고혈압은 고혈압력을 가진 자, 수축기 혈압이 100 mmHg 이상 또는 이완기 혈압이 95 mmHg 이상의 기준 중 최소한 하나의 기준을 만족하는 자로 정의하였다. 최종 자료 분석에 이용된 대상자는 총 958명으로 남자 440명, 여자 518명이었다. 남자의 당일지수 분석에서 친구가 없는 자에 비해 1-4명 가진 자가 0.43배 (95% 신뢰구간 0.19-0.96) 더 고혈압일 확률이 더 낮았으며, 자식이 0-1명인 자에 비해 2-3명, 4명, 5명 이상에 따라 비차비가 각각 0.21 (95% 신뢰구간 0.06-0.72), 0.14 (95% 신뢰구간 0.04-0.49), 0.24(95% 신뢰구간 0.07-0.82)로 고혈압일 확률이 더 낮았다. 반면에 여자에서는 통계적으로 유의한 사회조직망 구성 변수는 없었으며 손주가 없는 자에 비해 5-9명 가진 자의 비차비가 0.42 (95% 신뢰구간 0.17-1.02)로 경계성 유의성을 나타내었다. 연령, 교육수준, 비만도, 흡연 및 음주를 다중지수회귀분석으로 통제를 한 후 비차비의 변화를 관찰하였다. 남자에서 단일변수 분석에서처럼 친구 수와 자식 수가 통계적으로 유의한 비차비를 나타내었으며 단일연수 분석의 결과에 비해 상관의 강도가 더 높아졌다. 특히 친척 수는 통계적인 유의성을 획득하였으며 친척이 없는 자에 비해 가진 자는 0.44-0.50의 비차비를 나타내었다. 여자에서 대체로 단일변수 분석에서와 같은 결과를 나타내었으나 손주 수는 없는 자에 비해 5-9명을 가진 자의 비차비자 0.42에서 0.37 (95% 신뢰구간 0.14-0.95)로 상관성이 더 높아졌으며 통계적인 유의성 역시 경계선에서 유의성을 획득하였다. 이러한 결과는 사회조직망 중 일부 특정한 구성요소가 고혈압과 관련이 있으며 남녀간에 관련 구성 요소가 서로 차이가 남을 시사한다.

• 한국건설관리학회논문집
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.12-21
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• 2017

1960년대 이후 인구의 급격한 도시집중으로 인한 주택부족 문제를 해소하기 위해 정부에서는 공동주택을 대량으로 건설하였다. 하지만 이러한 주택정책은 공급에만 치우쳐져 공동주택의 노후화에 따른 유지관리 문제는 소홀하게 다루어져 왔다. 그러나 "도시 및 주거환경정비법"의 제정으로 재건축 허용 경과년수가 증가됨에 따라 공동주택의 유지보수가 중요하게 되었고, 주거공간으로서 기능을 유지하기 위해서는 공동주택의 장기적인 유지관리계획수립이 필요하게 되었다. 이에 따라 정부에서는 "주택법"을 통해 장기수선계획과 이를 위한 장기수선충당금의 적립을 의무화하였고, 이를 3년마다 조정하도록 의무규정을 두었다. 이에 따라 장기간의 수선비용을 계획하면, 계획기간 동안 동일한 비용을 적립하게 된다. 이는 형평성을 고려한 계획으로 보일 수 있지만, 화폐의 시간적 가치를 생각한다면, 초기시점에 입주한 입주자들이 후기시점에 입주한 입주자들에 비해 더 많은 금액을 납부하는 결과를 가져온다. 또한 계획한 수선비와 실제 수선비 사이에 차이가 발생할 경우 이를 반영하여 장기수선충당금 산정할 수 있는 기준이 부족한 상황이다. 이와 같은 장기수선계획으로 인하여, 수선비 부족은 적시에 유지보수가 이루어지지 못하여 향후 공동주택 노후화에 대응하기 어려우며, 과다한 장기수선비의 적립은 입주자들의 반발로 이어질 수 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 장기수선계획 시 화폐의 시간적 가치를 고려함과 동시에 계획대비 실제 수선비용의 오차를 지속적으로 반영할 수 있는 장기수선충당금 산정 및 조정모델을 제시하였다. 이를 통해 보다 합리적이며 유연한 장기수선충당금 산출방안을 제시하여, 입주자들 간의 형평성을 도모하고, 향후 장기수선충당금의 불필요한 적립과 부족현상을 방지할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.167-172
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• 2008

최근 한양대학교에서는 고해상도 연속절단면 컬러해부영상자료를 이용하여 표준한국인 성인남성 체적소 모델 HDRK-Man을 개발하였다. HDRK-Man 은 기존의 다른 모델들과 마찬가지로 누워있는 인체의 영상을 사용하여 제작하였기 때문에 등과 엉덩이 부분이 납작하다는 문제가 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 본 연구에서는 HDRK-Man 체적소 모델을 변형이 용이한 면(surface) 모델로 변환하였고 전신외형을 보정한 후 외형 보정이 선량 계산에 미치는 영향을 평가하였다. 면 모델로의 변환 작업은 상용 소프트웨어인 $3D-DOCTOR^{TM}$, $Rapidform^{(R)}$2006, $Rhinoceros^{(R)}$4.0을 사용하였고, 전신외형의 보정작업은 $MAYA^{(R)}$8.5을 사용하였다. 면의 형태로 변환된 모델은 곧바로 몬테칼로 선량계산에 사용한 수 없으므로, 다시 체적소 모델로 변환하여 선량계산을 수행하였다. MCNPX 몬테칼로 코드를 이용하여 보정 전후의 유효선량을 계산하여 비교해 본 결과 전체적으로 큰 차이는 없었으며, 예상대로 전 (AP), 좌(LLAT), 우(RLAT) 방향에 비하여 후 (PA)방향에서 상대적으로 가장 큰 차이를 보였다. 본 연구를 통하여 변환된 면(surface) 모델은 방사선 방호 분야에서 활용할 수 있는 다양한 자세를 갖는 변형된 인체모델 개발에 사용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.27-36
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• 2013

Objectives: Mental health has been shown to be linked with certain underlying physiological mechanisms. The objective of this cross sectional study was to investigate the relationship between depressive symptoms and brachial artery reactivity (BAR) in an understudied population: police officers. Methods: Participants were 351 police officers who were clinically examined in the Buffalo Cardio-Metabolic Police Stress (BCOPS) study. BAR was performed using standard B-Mode ultrasound procedures. Depressive symptoms were measured using the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) scale. Mean values of the difference between the baseline and maximum diameters of the brachial artery were determined across three categories of CES-D score using the analysis of variance and the analysis of covariance. p-values for linear trends were obtained from linear regression models. Results: The mean age (${\pm}$ standard deviation) of all officers was $40.9{\pm}7.2$ years. Women had a slightly higher mean CES-D score than men ($8.9{\pm}8.9$ vs. $7.4{\pm}6.4$) and a slightly higher percentage increase of BAR than men (6.90 vs. 5.26%). Smoking status significantly modified the associations between depressive symptoms and BAR. Among current smokers, mean absolute values of BAR significantly decreased as depressive symptoms increased after adjustment for age, gender, race/ethnicity, hypertension, and diabetes; the multivariate-adjusted p-values were 0.033 (absolute) and 0.040 (%). Associations between depressive symptoms and BAR were not statistically significant among former smokers or never smokers. Conclusion: Depressive symptoms were inversely associated with BAR among police officers who were current smokers and together may be considered a risk factor for cardiovascular disease among police officers. Further prospective research is warranted.

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제4권6호
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• pp.253-260
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• 2015

온라인에서 물품을 구매하고자 할 때, 추천 시스템은 사용자에 맞춘 추천을 하게 되며, 사용자가 관심을 가질만한 새로운 물품까지 추천해 준다. Collaborative filtering 등, 여러 모델들이 보다 정확한 추천을 위해 제안되었으며, 활발히 연구되고 있다. 그중 Collaborative filtering은 사용자 선호도를 예측하는 데 좋은 결과를 보여주지만 사용자 개체 및 데이터가 부족한 환경에서는 사용자들끼리의 비교를 힘들게 하여 collaborative filtering이 적용되기 힘들게 한다. 새로 시작하는 시스템이거나 사용자 개체 수가 적은 경우, 문제가 발생하며, 이와 같은 상황에서는 content-based filtering이 사용된다. 하지만 content-based filtering은 비슷한 물건만 추천해주거나, 사용자 성향 변화를 제대로 반영하지 못하는 등의 여러 단점을 가지고 있다. 이러한 한계점들을 극복하기 위해서 사용자 구매 기록에 가중 윈도우를 적용하고, 사용자 구매 기록 분석을 통한 윈도우 가중치 조정을 수행하는 시스템을 제안한다. 사용자 성향의 변화에 민감하게 반응할 수 있고, 이를 기반으로 무의미한 추천을 제거하며, 사용자가 찾기 어려운 관련 물품 추천이 가능한 새로운 상품도 추천하는 시스템을 제시하며, 언급된 사용자 개체 및 데이터가 부족한 환경에서의 동작을 검증하기 위해, 스타트업 무역업체에서 제공된 상품정보 기반 실험을 통해 제안된 시스템의 동작을 검증하였다.

• 한국근적외분광분석학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국근적외분광분석학회 2001년도 NIR-2001
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• pp.1121-1121
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• 2001

A previous study (Berzaghi et al., 2001) evaluated the performance of 3 calibration methods, modified partial least squares (MPLS), local PLS (LOCAL) and artificial neural networks (ANN) on the prediction of the chemical composition of forages, using a large NIR database. The study used forage samples (n=25,977) from Australia, Europe (Belgium, Germany, Italy and Sweden) and North America (Canada and U.S.A) with reference values for moisture, crude protein and neutral detergent fibre content. The spectra of the samples were collected using 10 different Foss NIR Systems instruments, only some of which had been standardized to one master instrument. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the behaviour of these different calibration methods when predicting the same samples measured on different instruments. Twenty-two sealed samples of different kind of forages were measured in duplicate on seven instruments (one master and six slaves). Three sets of near infrared spectra (1100 to 2500nm) were created. The first set consisted of the spectra in their original form (unstandardized); the second set was created using a single sample standardization (Clone1); the third was created using a multiple sample procedure (Clone6). WinISI software (Infrasoft International Inc., Port Mathilda, PA, USA) was used to perform both types of standardization, Clone1 is just a photometric offset between a “master” instrument and the “slave” instrument. Clone6 modifies both the X-axis through a wavelength adjustment and the Y-axis through a simple regression wavelength by wavelength. The Clone1 procedure used one sample spectrally close to the centre of the population. The six samples used in Clone 6 were selected to cover the range of spectral variation in the sample set. The remaining fifteen samples were used to evaluate the performances of the different models. The predicted values for dry matter, protein and neutral detergent fibre from the master Instrument were considered as “reference Y values” when computing the statistics RMSEP, SEPC, R, Bias, Slope, mean GH (global Mahalanobis distance) and mean NH (neighbourhood Mahalanobis distance) for the 6 slave instruments. From the results we conclude that i) all the calibration techniques gave satisfactory results after standardization. Without standardization the predicted data from the slaves would have required slope and bias correction to produce acceptable statistics. ii) Standardization reduced the errors for all calibration methods and parameters tested, reducing not only systematic biases but also random errors. iii) Standardization removed slope effects that were significantly different from 1.0 in most of the cases. iv) Clone1 and Clone6 gave similar results except for NDF where Clone6 gave better RMSEP values than Clone1. v) GH and NH were reduced by half even with very large data sets including unstandardized spectra.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.113-132
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• 2007

Price rigidity involves prices that do not change with the regularity predicted by standard economic theory. It is of long-standing interest for firms, industries and the economy as a whole. However, due to the difficulty of measuring price rigidity and price adjustments directly, only a few studies have attempted to provide empirical evidence for explanatory theories from Economics and Marketing. This paper proposes and validates a research model to examine different theories of price rigidity and to predict what variables can explain the observed empirical regularities and variations in price adjustment patterns of Internet-based retailers. I specify and test a model using more than 3 million daily observations on 385 books, 118 DVDs and 154 CDs, sold by 22 Internet-based retailers that were collected over a 676-day period from March 2003 to February 2005. I obtained a number of interesting findings from the estimation of our logit model. First, quality seems to play a role-I find that both price levels as proxies for store quality, and information on the quality of a product consumers have, affect online price rigidity. Second, greater competition(i.e., less industry concentration) leads to less price rigidity(i.e., more price changes) on the Internet. I also find that Internet-based sellers more frequently change the prices of popular products, and the sellers with broader product coverage change prices less frequently, which seem due to economic forces faced by these Internet-based sellers. To the best of my knowledge, this research is the first to empirically assess price rigidity patterns for multiple industries in Internet-based retailing, and attempt to explain the variation in these patterns. I found that price changes are more likely to be driven by quality, competitive and economic considerations. These results speak to both the IS and economics literatures. To the IS literature these results suggest we take economic considerations into account in more sophisticated ways. The existence and variation in price rigidity argue that simplistic assumptions about frictionless and completely flexible digital prices do not capture the richness of pricing behavior on the Internet. The quality, competitive and economic forces identified in this model suggest promising directions for future theoretical and empirical work on their role in these technologically changing markets. To the economics literature these results offer new evidence on the sources of price rigidity, which can then be incorporated into the development of models of pricing at the firm, industry and even macro-economic level of analysis. It also suggests that there is much to be learned through interdisciplinary research between the IS, economics and related business disciplines.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권12호
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• pp.7127-7131
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• 2013

The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in ribosomal protein SA (RPSA) gene with colorectal cancer (CRC). A case-control study including 388 controls and 387 patients with CRC was conducted in a Chinese population. Information about socio-demography and living behavior factors was collected by a structured questionnaire. Three SNPs (rs2133579, rs2269349, rs7641291) in RPSA gene were genotyped by Illumina SnapShot method. Multiple logistic regression models were used for assessing the joint effects between tea consumption and SNPs on CRC. The subjects with rs2269349 CC genotype had a decreased risk for CRC (OR=0.60; 95%CI = 0.37-0.99), compared with TT/CT genotype after adjustment for covariates. A similar association of rs2269349 with rectal cancer was observed (OR=0.49; 95%CI=0.24-1.00). Further analyses indicated that this SNP could modify the protective effect of tea drinking on CRC. Among the subjects with rs2269349 TT/CT or rs2133579 AA/GA, there was a marginal significantly lower risk of CRC (OR and 95%CI: 0.63 and 0.39-1.01 for rs2269349; 0.64 and 0.40-1.02 for rs2133579) in tea-drinking subjects in comparison to non-tea-drinking subjects. Mutants in the RPSA gene might be associated with genetic susceptibility to CRC and influence the protective effect of tea consumption in the Chinese population.