• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.132-146
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• 1995

Even though Korean medical law stipulates that number of patients attended by a nurse is 2.5 for hospitalization and 30 for ambulatory care, the number of patients cared by a nurse per day is much greater than the standard prescribed by the medical law. Current productivity of nurses is not desirable unless the quality of care is considered. And nursing manpower staffing based on neither current nurses' productivity nor standard of medical law cannot respond properly to dynamic situation of the medical services. Under this background, the necessity of more efficient management of nursing manpower occupying 1/3 of total hospital workers has been recognized by many nursing administrators. Many nursing researchers have studied to foretell the nursing manpower objectively on the basis of measured nursing workload according to patient classification as well. Most of These researches, however, have been conducted in the tertiary hospitals, so it is imperative to conduct other researches to predict necessary nursing manpower in the secondary and the primary hospitals. The study was performed to measure nursing workload and predict pertinent nursing manpower to a secondary hospital with 400beds. Nursing workload was surveyed using measuring tool for direct and indirect care hours in a surgical unit and a medical unit. Survey was conducted from Sep.10 to Sep.16 and from Oct.5 to Oct.11, 1994 respectively by two skilled nurses, Subjects were patients, patients' family members and nursing personnels. Results are follows : 1. Patient classification distributed as 22% of class I (mildly ill patient), 57% of class II (moderately ill patient), and 21% of class III (acutely ill patient) in the medical nursing unit, while 23% of class I, 29% of class II, 12% of class III, and 36% of classIV (critically ill patient) in the surgical nursing unit. There was no difference of inpatient number between weekday and weekend. Bed circulation rate was 89% in both units and average patients number per day was 37.4 (total 42beds) in the medical nursing unit, 32.9 (total 37beds) in the medical nursing unit. 2. Direct care hours per day measured as 2.8hrs for class I, 3.3hrs for class II, and 3.5hrs for class III in the medical nursing unit, while 3.1hrs for class I, 3hrs for class II, 2.7hrs for class III, and 2.2hrs for classIV in the surgical nursing unit. Meanwhile, hours for nursing assistant activities per patient by patients' family members were 11mins and 200mins respectively. Direct care hour rate by shift was day 36%, evening 25%, and night 39% in the medical nursing unit, while 40%, 29%, and and 31% respectively in the surgical nursing unit. 3. Measurement and observation activity held 44.2% of direct care activities of nurses and medication 36.7%, communication 11.7%, exercise 1.8%, treatment 1.3%, hygiene 1.3%, elimination and irrigation 1.1%, suction 1%, nutrition 0.5%, thermotherapy 0.3%, oxygen therapy 0.1% in order. 4. Indirect care hours per day were 294.2mins in the medical nursing unit, and 273.9mins in the surgical nursing unit. By shift, evening was the highest in both units. Indirect care hours for each patient were 44.5mins in the medical nursing unit and 46mins in the surgical nursing unit. 5. checking activities including doctor's order, medication, and delivering patients to the next shift occupied 39.7% of indirect care activities, and preparation 26%, recording 23.8%, communication and conference 6.7%, managing equipments 2.1%, messenger activity 1.7% in order. 6. On the ground of these results, nursing manpower needed in a secondary hospital was estimated ; 27 nursing personnels for the medical nursing unit of 37beds, and 20 nursing personnels for the surgical nursing unit of 33beds.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.13-15
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• 2006

When we use multilayer perceptron model for pattern classification probmems, we allocate one output node for each class. In this paper, we increase the number of output nodes for each class and investigate the performance of multilayer perceptrons through the simulation of isolated-word recognition problems.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.40 no.2
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• pp.243-251
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• 2003

This note Presents sufficient conditions for Lyapunov's stability and instability of a class of nonlinear nonautonomous second-order ordinary differential equations. Such a class includes as particular cases a remarkably large number of differential equations with specific physical applications. Two successive nonlinear transformations are applied to the original differential equation in order to convert it into a more convenient form for stability analysis purposes. The obtained stability / instability conditions depend closely on the parameterization of the original differential equation.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.1045-1056
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• 2007

We consider M/M/1 feedback queues with multi-class customers. We assume that different classes of customers have different arrival rates, service rates and feedback probabilities. Using the h-transforms of McDonald(999) we derive an importance sampling estimator for an overflow probability that the total number of customers in the system reaches a high level before emptying.

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.50 no.2
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• pp.237-253
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• 2010

It is shown that an appropriate combination of methods, relevant to operational calculus and to special functions, can be a very useful tool to establish and treat a new class of Hermite and Konhauser polynomials. We explore the formal properties of the operational identities to derive a number of properties of the new class of Hermite and Konhauser polynomials and discuss the links with various known polynomials.

• The Pure and Applied Mathematics
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.79-87
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• 2013

In this paper we study the infniteness of Hilbert 2-class field towers of inert imaginary quadratic function fields over $\mathbb{F}_q(T)$, where $q$ is a power of an odd prime number.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.77-80
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• 2006

Let K be a number field, $K_n$ its ray class field with conductor n and L a Galois extension of K containing $K_n$. We prove that $L/K_n$ has a relative integral basis (RIB) under certain simple condition. Also we reduce the problem of the existence of a RIB to a quadratic extension of $K_n$ under some condition.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.715-723
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• 2023

In this paper, we construct explicitly an infinite family of primes P with h^±_P ≡ 0 (mod q^{deg P}), where h^±_P are the plus and minus parts of the divisor class number of the P-th cyclotomic function field over 𝔽_q(T). By using this result and Dirichlet's theorem, we give a condition of A, M ∈ 𝔽_q[T] such that there are infinitely many primes P satisfying with h^±_P ≡ 0 (mod p^e) and P ≡ A (mod M).

• The Pure and Applied Mathematics
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.61-69
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• 2001

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the Nielsen root number for the complement N(f:X-A,c) which shares such properties with the Nielsen root number N(f;c) as lower bound and homotopy invariance.

• Korean Journal of Mathematics
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.227-233
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• 1999

Let $k$ be a real abelian field and $k_{\infty}={\bigcup}_{n{\geq}0}k_n$ be its $\mathbb{Z}_p$-extension for an odd prime $p$. For each $n{\geq}0$, we denote the class number of $k_n$ by $h_n$. The following is a well known theorem: Theorem. Suppose $p$ remains inert in $k$ and the prime ideal of $k$ above $p$ totally ramifies in $k_{\infty}$. Then $p{\nmid}h_0$ if and only if $p{\nmid}h_n$ for all $n{\geq}0$. The aim of this paper is to generalize above theorem: Theorem 1. Suppose $H^1(G_n,E_n){\simeq}(\mathbb{Z}/p^n\mathbb{Z})^l$, where $l$ is the number of prime ideals of $k$ above $p$. Then $p{\nmid}h_0$ if and only if $p{\nmid}h_n$. Theorem 2. Let $k$ be a real quadratic field. Suppose that $H^1(G_1,E_1){\simeq}(\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z})^l$. Then $p{\nmid}h_0$ if and only if $p{\nmid}h_n$ for all $n{\geq}0$.