• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.29-36
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• 2004

Purpose: A quantitative descriptive study aimed to identify the relationships between spiritual well-being and perception attitudes of death in nursing students. Methods: A survey was conducted and 175 data were collected. Collected data were computed and analyzed using SPSS10.0 for Win. 1) Descriptive statistics were used to identify demographic data, and 2) both t-test and ANOVA statistics were used to figure out the relationships between spiritual well-being /or perception attitudes of death and demographic data of the participants. 3) Pearson's correlation coefficient was used to identify the relationships between the two main variables. Results: 1) The mean of spiritual well-being score of the participants was $50.9943{\pm}10.7235$. Significant relationships between religion /or doing economic activity and spiritual well-being were found. 2) The mean of perception attitudes of death was $20.4914{\pm}2.6280$. There were significant relationships between gender /or age and perception attitudes of death among participants. 3) A strong positive relationship between spiritual well-being and perception attitudes of death of participants was also found(r=.261, P=.000). Conclusion: The study results shows that spiritual well-being of nursing students as caregivers of terminal patients is important when the perception of death of terminal patients is considered. Previous studies indicate that caregivers' perception attitudes impact on those of terminal patients. Therefore, it is suggested that not only perception attitudes of death and spiritual well-being in terminal patients, but also those of caregivers are importantly required to consider in educational programs in relation to spiritual care of terminal patients.

• Korean Journal of Clinical Laboratory Science
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• v.54 no.3
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• pp.192-200
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• 2022

The association between heavy metals in the blood and obesity has been examined in many studies. However, inconsistencies have been observed in the results from these studies. The present study was conducted using data from 119,181 participants of the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) for 11 years in 2005 and between 2008 and 2017. The subjects with missing heavy metal blood tests, health interview data, and health examination data were excluded from the study. The study population comprised 1,844 individuals (972 men, 872 women) who were eligible for inclusion. It was found that obesity and abdominal obesity were associated with an increase in both blood mercury (P<0.001) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) (P<0.001). After adjusting the confounding factors, those with concurrent high levels of ALT and the highest tertile of mercury showed an increased risk of obesity (odds ratio 4.46, 95%, confidence interval 2.23~8.90, P<0.001) as well as abdominal obesity (odds ratio 5.36, 95%, confidence interval 2.57~11.17, P<0.001). The interrelationship of mercury and ALT with the parameters of body mass index (P for interaction=0.009) and waist circumference (P for interaction=0.012), respectively, have been observed to be significant, suggesting that the reciprocal relationship could contribute to obesity and abdominal obesity.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.19-29
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• 2008

The main purpose of this study is to introduce Hauer's(2004) approach that overcomes current accident prediction models' limitation and to apply this approach to Korean situation using fatal accident data on motorways. After developing accident prediction models according to this approach, it is found that AADT and vertical grade could improve fitness of the model, whereas a radius of roads is not related to the number of accidents. The advantage of Hauer's approach is to reduce possibility to eliminate critical variables and to keep uncritical variables when we consider many variables to develop accident prediction models.

• Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.90-97
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• 2005

Objectives : The present study was conducted to investigate a correlation of ADS and KEDI-WISC measures. Methods : The data of 91 children were used. On KEDI-WISC, PIQ, VIQ, and 11 subtest measures, and on ADS, 4 variables (ommission error rate, commission error rate, response time mean, and response time deviation) were analyzed. Results : The correlations of Ommission Error Rate and Coding, Digit Span, and Arithmetic, the correlations of Commission Error Rate and Object assembly, Picture Completion, Arithmetic, Digit Span, and Coding, the correations of Response Time Mean and Coding, and the correlations of Response Time Deviation and PIQ, and Coding were significant. Conclusion : ADS variables and several IQ scores are significantly related.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.729-741
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• 2018

On June 24, 2015, the Financial Services Commission (Financial Services Commission) completely abolished the security review process, and said that it would substitute self-security review obligations with self-security reviews. Security officials at financial institutions conduct security reviews based on CIA security grade when they conduct security reviews for secure electronic financial transactions. However, the recent security review for Internet and mobile electronic financial transactions has carried out a security review, either by checking separate processes or by referring to new technologies and data related to security. This paper proposes the CIAAP security gradesl with the addition of certification and privacy protection indicators to the CIA based security grades, especially through the security review of electronic financial transactions.

• Survey Research
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.1-31
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• 2012

Demographic Analysis(DA) as well as Post Enumeration Survey(PES) are typical methods for evaluating completeness of census and vital statistics. In spite of its popularity, DA has never been attempted in Korea, while other international journals of demography have pointed out the backwardness of death registration in Korea in terms of DA approach. This paper introduces various DA methods and modifies them to be adequate for Korea census and vital statistics. Our method are also applied to reconstruct year-age-sex specific population and estimate their omission rates for year and age. Empirical analysis of census and vital statistics of Korea from 1985 to 2010 demonstrates high completeness of death registration in Korea, contrary to existing literatures. We also investigates abnormal patterns in census by comparing with reconstruction data in view of cohort, sex ratio and age ratio.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• autumn
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• pp.78-84
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• 2002

In VE(Value Engineering) process, function analysis technique is utilized as a stepping stone to induce creative idea. However, function analysis is regarded as the most difficult job for VE team to undertake. For this reason, the function analysis is not properly applied or even omitted in construction VE studies. The current problems of function analysis in construction VE are following: 1) lack of basic understanding of the function analysis as problem solving technique, 2) the sequential step-by-step analysis process, 3) lack of interrelationship between function analysis and other phase in th VE process, 4) lack of time, experience, training, and quantitative data etc. The existing function analysis is faultiness theoretically. However, it is not enough for efficient use in practice, Thus The study aims to suggest an function analysis application method and to develop a computerized FAST(function Analysis System Technique) diagramming model, called Easy-FAST, for the efficient and effective function analysis on construction VE projects.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.40-45
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• 2000

In speech corpus generation and speech recognition, it is sometimes needed to segment the input speech data without any prior knowledge. A method to accomplish this kind of segmentation, often called as blind segmentation, or acoustic segmentation, is to find boundaries which minimize the Euclidean distances among the feature vectors of each segments. However, the use of this metric alone is prone to errors because of the fluctuations or variations of the feature vectors within a segment. In this paper, we introduce the principal component analysis method to take the trend of feature vectors into consideration, so that the proposed distance measure be the distance between feature vectors and their projected points on the principal components. The proposed distance measure is applied in the LBDP(level building dynamic programming) algorithm for an experimentation of continuous speech segmentation. The result was rather promising, resulting in 3-6% reduction in deletion rate compared to the pure Euclidean measure.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.159-168
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• 2010

Due to the trend of shift to digitalization of the storyboard in 1990's, many a number of storyboard related softwares were born. With this change of trends, however, there was an undeniable lack of tangible data showing the advantage of such digitalization of the storyboard using software technology over conventional methods of doing the same job. In this study, therefore, we have selected the top five storyboard software suits in terms of their frequency in use and a sample group of 85 people to give an analysis on their usability. The result of this analysis revealed two underlying tendencies regarding this issue. Firstly, all of the five softwares selected lacked interactive presentational features, suggesting the directives for the next phase of software development. Secondly, our experiments in this study showed that the most prominent benefit of using the softwares is the higher efficacy in delivering necessary information through real-time based replays, rather than the digitalization of the contents themselves. We expect that the findings of our study would serve as a new model for future software enhancement for the developers. And for the users of such softwares, too, the findings of this study is expected to help them understand what kind of benefits they can expect as they use these storyboard softwares.

• Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.719-730
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to verify the effects of motive for Rowing Academy participation on satisfaction and continuance intention. The participants were from general population who had experience of using Rowing Academy. A total of 230 questionnaires were distributed from Aug. 1 to Sep. 30, 2017 and, after excluding 29 questionnaires that had missed or inappropriate answers thus low reliability, 201 questionnaires were included in effective sample. The collected data were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics 21 and IBM AMOS 21, and frequency analysis, exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis, confirmative factor analysis, association analysis, path analysis through structural equation modelling analysis were performed. The results, based on them, are as follows: First, the health orientation factor, the family orientation factor, the social relationship orientation factor, the leisure orientation factor from motive for Rowing Academy participation had significant effect on satisfaction. Second,, the satisfaction with Rowing Academy participation had effect on continuation intention.