• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제50권2호
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• pp.75-80
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• 2011

Objective : Leukoaraiosis (LA) has been suggested to be related to the poor outcome or the occurrence of symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage (sICH) after acute ischemic stroke. We retrospectively investigated the influences of LA on long-term outcome and the occurrence of sICH after thrombolysis in acute ischemic stroke (AIS). Methods : In this study, we recruited 164 patients with AIS and magnetic resonance image (MRI)-detected thrombolysis. The presence and extent of LA were assessed using the Fazekas grading system. The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score was used to assess the baseline measure of neurologic severity, and the modified Rankin Scale score assessment was used up to 1 year after thrombolysis. Results : Of 164 subjects, 56 (34.2%) showed LA on MRI. Compared to the 108 patients without LA, the patients with LA were of much older age (p<0.01), had a higher prevalence of hypertension (p<0.01), and had a much poorer outcome at 90 days (p=0.05) and 1 yr (p=0.01) after thrombolysis. There were no significant differences in sICH between patients with and without LA on MRI. In univariate analysis for the occurrence of poor outcome at 90 days after thrombolysis, the size of ischemic lesion on diffusion weighted images (DWI), [odds ratio (OR), 1.03; 95% confidence interval (95% CI), 1.01-1.04; p<0.01], recanalization (OR, 0.03; 95% CI, 0.01-0.10; p<0.01), sICH (OR, 12.2; 95% CI, 1.54-95.8), neurologic severity (OR, 1.17; 95% CI, 1.09-1.25; p<0.01), blood glucose level (OR, 1.01; 95% CI, 1.00-1.02; p=0.03), and the presence of LA on MRI (OR, 2.01; 95% CI, 1.04-3.01; p=0.04) were statistically significant. In multivariate analysis, neurologic severity (OR, 1.14; 95% CI, 1.04-1.24; p<0.01), recanalization (OR, 0.03; 95% CI, 0.01-0.11; p<0.01), lesion size on DWI (OR, 1.02; 95% CI, 1.01-1.03; p=0.02), serum glucose level (OR, 1.01; 95% CI; 1.01-1.02; p=0.03), and the presence of LA on MRI (OR, 3.2; 95% CI, 1.22-8.48; p<0.01) showed statistically significant differences. These trends persisted up to 1 yr after thrombolysis. Conclusion : In this study, we demonstrated that the presence of LA on MRI might be related to poor outcome after use of intravenous tissue plasminogen activator in AIS.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.1462-1470
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• 2015

컨테이너 BIC-code란 국제 운송 및 복합적인 운송환경에서의 편의성을 위해 사용하고 있는 약속된 규약이다. BIC-code는 해상운송 컨테이너의 식별 부호이며 국가 code와 다양한 조작 등의 내용을 포함하고 있다. 해가 거듭될수록 항공, 해양을 통한 물류운송은 계속 증가하고 있으며 이에 따라 해당 물류를 처리하는 항만에서는 신속하고 정확한 처리가 요구되고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 컨테이너의 BIC-code를 다중 이진화를 통해 영역을 추출하고 개별 code를 인식하는 방법을 제안한다. 코드 인식에 있어서, 기후 요소, 빛, 카메라 위치, 컨테이너의 색과 같은 다양한 요인으로 인해 고정된 임계값을 사용할 수 없다. 따라서 제안된 방법에서는 각 영상에 대해 다양한 임계값으로 인식을 수행하여 가장 우수한 인식 결과를 선택한다. 각 임계값에 대한 이진화, 레이블링, close연산을 통해 BIC-code의 가로, 세로 여부를 판단하여 잡음을 제거하고, 개별 code를 분리한다. 분리된 개별 code는 데이터베이스의 기본 자료와 템플릿 매칭을 통해 인식한다. 각 임계값에 대한 인식결과의 신뢰도를 측정하여 가장 신뢰도가 높은 결과를 선택하게 된다. 실험 결과를 통해 제안한 방법이 조명상황에 관계없이 컨테이너 BIC-code를 효과적으로 추출하고 인식함을 보인다.

• 한국해양환경ㆍ에너지학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.43-51
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• 2001

현재 우리 나라 해양 환경 오염의 실태는 매우 심각하다. 또한 이로 인한 피해가 수산 양식 및 선박의 안전 운항에 많은 지장을 초래하고 있다. 그 동안 이를 해결하기 위한 대책의 일환으로 오염원인 해양 폐기물을 수거하여 소각한 후 매립하는 방법을 주로 사용하여 왔다. 하지만 이 방법에는 몇 가지 문제점들이 있다. 먼저 해양 폐기물 중에서 가연성 물질의 대부분은 고분자 화합물로서 이를 소각하기 위해서는 별도로 고안된 장치가 필요하고 배기에 의한 대기 오염의 우려가 있다. 또한 매립은 폐기물 그 자체가 자연분해가 거의 불가능하며 침출수에 의한 토양 오염이 우려된다. 따라서 최근에는 이러한 고분자 폐기물을 열분해하여 오일을 회수함으로써 자원을 재활용하고 2차 오염도 일으키지 않는 처리 방법에 대한 연구가 활발하게 수행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 고분자 해양 폐기물을 열분해하여 오일을 회수하기 위한 장치를 개발하기 위하여 폐기물의 물리적ㆍ화학적 특성 및 승온 속도 변화가 폐기물의 감량특성에 미치는 영향 등을 조사하였다. 그리고 폐기물을 승온 속도 변화에 따라 열분해하여 회수된 오일과 비응축 가스의 비율을 실험함으로써 가장 많은 오일이 회수되는 조건을 밝혀내기도 하였다. 끝으로 열분해 오일 회수 장치에 대한 경제성 논란을 검증하기 위하여 이 장치에 대한 경제성 평가를 수행함으로써 개발의 성공 여부를 확신할 수 있게 되었다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.310-315
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• 2017

대규모 건설공사 현장에서는 발파공사에 대한 표준발파패턴과 시험발파패턴의 발파진동추정식의 상이에 따른 설계변경의 반영 문제로 시공사, 건설사업관리자, 발주처간의 갈등요인을 해소하기 위한 체계적인 자료의 수집 및 분석 과정을 통하여 효율적인 대책수립이 필요한 실정이다. 발파진동에 의한 인접 구조물에 미치는 영향을 여러 각도로 평가하려는 연구들은 계속 되어 왔으나, 노천발파를 수행하면서 현장계측의 진동파형을 분석하여 인접 건축물의 안전성을 확보하고 현장여건에 적합한 발파공법을 연구한 사례는 미미한 실정이다. 따라서 현장여건에 적합하고 경제적이며 효율적인 발파작업을 수행할 수 있도록 시험발파를 통하여 발파패턴 선정의 개선방안을 제시하는 것이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 실제 도로확장공사 현장에서 시험발파를 통한 표준발파공법 및 진동규제기준별로 적용되는 이격 거리를 기준으로 노천 발파작업을 수행하여 발파진동 값을 계측하고 이를 통한 발파공법별 진동예측식을 회귀분석 전산프로그램을 이용하여 신뢰수준 95%의 K, n, R등을 산출하였다. 시험발파 대상지역의 발파허용진동기준을 0.3cm/sec로 설정하고 노천발파지침의 발파진동추정식과 시험발파의 발파진동추정식에 따른 이격 거리별 장약량과 발파공법을 비교분석한 결과 사업비가 증가하는 요인을 도출할 수 있었다. 또한, 노천발파 작업 중 인접 구조물에 대한 계측 및 분석을 수행하고 노천발파지점과 가장 인접한 구조물을 선정하여 발파진동 계측 및 평가를 시행하여 노천발파공사를 완료하는 과정에서 나타난 노천발파 설계 시공 지침에서의 시험발파 절차 및 해석방법에 대한 문제점을 분석하여 개선방안을 제시하였다.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제13권11호
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• pp.69-77
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• 2015

Purpose - Economic status at an early stage of life after one's retirement is often determined by the long-term sacrifice of one's earlier consumption tendencies. In general, the first and foremost way to secure income after retirement is through annuity savings. People sign up for personal annuity savings in order to guarantee a stable economic life upon retirement, and such actions may be heavily influenced by self-efficacy. Confidence in current economic activity is a source of rational decision-making. Inability to achieve self-control can lead to reckless spending and the eventual hindering of proper investment for the future. This paper examines how self-efficacy and self-control affect the intention and action of enrolling in an annuity savings plan in relation to one's level of financial literacy. Research design, data, and methodology - To analyze the proposed model, this study investigates financial consumers over the age of 20. The data were collected from 511 respondents and analyzed with SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 21.0. First, for the one-dimensional test and to measure the convergent validity of each structure, we use the scale purification process. The results of the test and the confirmatory factor analysis ensure the focus of the validity of the single dimension for each structure. In addition, the validity of the measurement was guaranteed from the results of correlation analysis. Results - First, self-efficacy and self-control have positive effects on the purchasing intention of the personal annuity savings plan. Second, purchasing intention positively affects purchasing behavior. Lastly, self-control has a positive effect on purchasing intention among the low financial literacy group, whereas self-efficacy does not have this effect in the high financial literacy one. Conclusions - The time of product benefit is different with age. The younger group would be granted the savings after several decades once they enroll, whereas the older group would wait for a relatively shorter period of time. Therefore, further research should be conducted in order to verify such a difference. However, this study has value through its confirmation that the roles of self-efficacy and self-control play a part in leading to the enrollment in annuity savings plans and by verifying different effects based on levels of financial literacy. Such results suggest a number of implications in a real life setting. First, banks need to put greater emphasis on the stability of annuity savings in general. Second, customers with relatively low levels of financial literacy are able to control their finances through annuity savings, but find self-efficacy difficult due to a lack of financial understanding. Therefore, such customers should be approached from an invest-effectiveness comparison method. Third, customers with high financial literacy tend to put more value in rational economic decision-making and behavior than in self-efficacy. Therefore, such customers should be approached by promoting the reliability of annuity savings and the excellence of the specific bank's annuity savings plan in comparison to those of other financial institutions.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제10권12호
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• pp.35-43
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• 2012

Purpose - This study analyzes the effects of types of leadership on the employees of Italian restaurants, its efficacy, and organizational citizenship behavior, utilizing a causal assessment model. In this study, independent variables such as the type of leadership perceived in the manager or chef by an Italian restaurant's employees, and its efficacy were parameters, and the organizational citizenship behavior and organizational effectiveness were the variables representing the results in the hypothesis. The study aimed to draw implications by verifying the leadership via efficacy and the impact on organizational citizenship behavior of Italian restaurants. Research design, data, methodology - For the purpose of this analysis, specific questionnaire items were configured according to the theory and efficacy of the study. From a questionnaire used in organizational citizenship behavior comprising 22 questions, six were modified to suit the research purpose of this study. The configured questionnaire comprised 5 parts and 40 items. A Likert (Likert) 5-point scale was utilized to measure responses to the questionnaire items from the employees of an Italian restaurant in Seoul who participated in the survey. For data collection, 400 questionnaires were distributed, and 344 collected. Factor analysis and reliability verification were conducted using SPSS18.0 and AMOS18.0. A covariance structure analysis was conducted to test the research hypotheses. Results - Based on the results of the analyses, the summary and suggested implications of the research are as follows: The covariance structure analysis used to analyze the kind of effect transformational and transactional leadership styles in Italian restaurant employees had on self-efficacy, group-efficacy, and organizational citizenship behavior, indicated that among the characteristics of transformational leadership (such as, idealized influence, inspirational motivation, individual consideration, and intellectual stimulation), idealized influence and individual consideration had a positive influence on self-efficacy. Idealized influence, individual consideration, conditional reward, and management by exception also positively influenced self-efficacy and altruistic and conscientious behavior (organizational citizenship behavior). Conclusions - Results suggest that with regard to self-efficacy and group efficacy, managers in different departments and chefs should provide team members with a vision for the future, increase their confidence in their abilities, and build their trust in the organization. By evaluating employee performance and experiences, management can demonstrate leadership and encourage organizational citizenship behavior through enjoyable, voluntary participation. Transformational and transactional leadership is effective in group processes that include social-exchange relationships, self-efficacy and group efficacy, and organizational citizenship behavior. However, as this research study utilizes only self-reported data, it has several limitations, such as a vulnerability of errors caused by the various experiment types. A significant limitation of this study is the lack of potential for the duplication of results. The covariance structure analysis, however, provides complementation to limit the impact of errors from self-reporting studies. A future study can extend this research by utilizing different data collection methods.

• 산경연구논집
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.93-104
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• 2018

Purpose - This study is to investigate the relationship among emotional intelligence, self-efficacy and job stress of foreign life insurance consultants focusing on the mediating effect of self-efficacy. Regarding job security, in general foreign life insurance companies in Korea have more severe working conditions in terms of required contract performance. For foreign life insurance consultants, they are assumed to need higher level of emotional intelligence and self efficacy to meet the conditions. In this study, focus is cast on these aspects. Research design, data, and methodology - Basically the research is conducted upon questionnaires responded by foreign life insurance consultants. That is, data are collected from 255 sample of insurance consultants who work for a foreign owned life insurance company. The Questionnaire measure the level of emotional intelligence, self-efficacy and job stress of insurance consultants. The data are analyzed using pearson's correlation coefficient and hierarchical multiple regression, descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Durbin-Watson test. Results - The general characteristics of respondents are gender, age, marital status, education level, income monthly, career length, change jobs no, working day per week, call no. per week, meeting no. with client per week, contract regularity, contract no. per month and cancellation contract per year. The mean of emotional intelligence is 2.63, self-efficacy is 3.44 and job stress is 2.20. Emotional intelligence is composed with mean value of self emotion appraisal(3.93), other's emotion appraisal(3.78), regulation of emotion(3.29) and use of emotion(3.52). The mean of self efficacy is composed with mean value of self-confidence(3.41), self-regulated efficacy(3.59) and preference task difficulty(3.30). The job stress is composed with mean value of job requirement(2.61), lack of job autonomy(1.99), conflict of personal relations(1.99), job instability(2.38), organizational system(2.19) and inappropriate compensation(2.07). There is a significant positive correlation between emotional intelligence and self-efficacy. The emotional intelligence and self-efficacy are significantly negative correlation with job stress. The self-efficacy is showed a mediating variable between emotional intelligence and job stress. Conclusions - To decrease job stress level, foreign life insurance company should find the factors to improve the emotional intelligence and self-efficacy of life insurance consultants, and develop appropriate plans using a mediating role of self- efficacy between emotional intelligence and job stress.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제49권4호
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• pp.329-334
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• 2009

Aujeszky's disease (AD) is a respiratory, infectious viral illness associated with high mortality, especially in neonatal piglets and has frequently been considered an economically important disease in many endemic countries. Although AD is still occurring in a geographically defined region in Korea, little attention has been paid to the economics of AD. In this study, partial budget technique was used to develop a simulation model to measure financial losses following the disease epidemic in a swine operation utilizing stochastic or deterministic parameters from the literatures and the index case herd of AD occurred in 2005, where available and applicable. For the infected case herd with a 12500-pig, the total economic loss for this operation was estimated to be about 199 million Korean won (95% confidence interval [CI] 148,645,000-250,741,000). Given net loss due to death of a pig at sow level was 119,000 won, total loss for the case herd with 1200 sows accounted for 143 million won (95% CI 92,599,000-193,729,000). The net loss of the death of one pig at growing and fattening level resulted in loss of 46,000 won (95% CI 40,000-53,000) and 126,000 won (95% CI 122,000-131,000), respectively. Taking into account for the number of pigs raised in the case herd, total loss amounted to 8 million won (95% CI 7,167,000-9,347,000) and 12 million won (95% CI 11,959,000-12,891,000), for growers and fatteners, respectively, assuming 63% of saved feed intake when a pig dies halfway through the respective period. Under the model's assumptions, suckling pig mortality was the major factors of loss in estimating the economic consequences (approximately 71.8% of the total loss). The high economic losses of a herd infected with AD suggest that the effective and region-specific control measures should be implemented in disease endemic foci.

• 대한치과교정학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.75-88
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• 1993

Recent reports indicate that shorter etching times than 60 seconds can be adopted without affecting the bond strength and clinical disadvantages. The purpose of this in vitro study was to compare the shear bone strength and to measure depth of etch at different etching time length. One hundred and eight extracted bovine lower central incisors were embedded each in a tooth cup with cold-cure acrylic resin. The facial surfaces of the teeth were ground wet with 600-, 800-, 1000-, and 1200-grit Sic papers, and finally polished with a water slurry of extrafine silicon carbide powder, washed with tap water, and dried with hot air. Nine groups of nine prepared teeth were etched with a commercial($38\%$ phosphoric acid solution) for 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 60, 90, and 120 seconds, respectively, rinsed with tap water, and dried with hot air. One conditioned teeth from every group was selected randomly for the scanning electron microscopic examination, and the remaining eight teeth of the groups were used for measuring the push shear bond strength after bonding brackets and immensing them in the $36.5^{\circ}C$ water for 24 hours. Another nine groups of three teeth were used for measuring the depth of etch and surface roughness with a surface profilometer. after pieces of adhesive tape of 3mm inner diameter positioned on the ground enamel surfaces, and etched with the above mentioned. The data obtained form the above expeiments were analysed statistically with one way ANOVA and Dunkan's multiple range test with the $95\%$ confidence level. The results and conclusion of the study were as follows; 1. The results of shear bond strength for the given experimental etching times were not statistically different, but showed the tendency of decreasing shear bone strength after over 60 seconds etching times. 2. On the scanning election microscopic examination, it was observed that the morphological patterns of etched enamel surface for 5 to 20 seconds were similar and consitent, and those for 30 to 120 seconds showed increasing over-etched patterns depending on the length of etching times. 3. The depth of etch was increased almost proportionally by the length of etching times, but it was not associated with the shear bond strength. 4. The surface roughness increased depending on the length of etching times, but it was not associated with the shear bond strength. 5. This experiment indicated that proper etching time with $38\%$ phosphoric acid solution is in the range of 5 to 30 seconds.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.307-319
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• 2020

이 연구의 목적은 소집단 활동에서 의사소통 구조와 집단 내 지위에 따라 지구과학 영재들의 언어적 상호 작용에 차이가 있는지를 알아보기 위한 것이다. 이를 위하여 지구의 밀도를 측정하는 소집단 탐구 활동을 실시하였으며, 이 과정에서 소집단 간의 의사소통 구조가 서로 다른 공유형 집단 4개, 독점형 집단 4개 등 8개 소집단을 선정하였다. 이후 언어적 상호작용을 분석하기 위한 분석틀을 개발하여 소집단 간의 특성 차이를 비교하였으며, 그 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 의사소통 구조에 관계없이 모든 소집단에서 학생들은 핑퐁(pingpong)형의 단순한 의사소통 구조를 보이고 있었다. 둘째, 소집단의 의사소통 구조 및 집단 내 지위에 관계없이 모든 소집단에서 '제재', '지시', '불만', '자신감 부족'과 같은 부정적인 상호작용이 우세하게 나타났다. 셋째, 소집단 내의 방관자의 지위에 있는 학생들은 상대방에게 지시하는 행동, 상대방의 행동을 저지하는 행동, 그리고 구성원의 태도나 능력에 대한 불만 표현 등의 언어적 상호 작용을 주로 보이고 있었다. 그러므로 교사는 소집단 활동에서 학생들이 상위 수준의 언어적 상호 작용을 구사하도록 지도해야 하고, 부정적 상호 작용이 발생하지 않도록 학생들의 의사소통에 관여해야 한다. 또한 교사는 사전에 소집단 내 방관자의 지위에 있는 학생들에 대한 성취 수준을 확인하고 이들이 소집단 활동에 보다 적극적으로 참여할 수 있도록 지도할 필요가 있다. 이 연구는 학생들의 문제 해결 능력과 의사소통 능력을 향상시키기 위한 교수학습 설계에 활용될 수 있다는 점에서 의의가 있다.