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Analysis of Relating Factors with Customer Loyalties in Medical Services (의료서비스에 대한 고객충성도 관련요인 분석)

  • Lee, Sun-Hee;Lee, Hye-Jean;Jung, Sang-Hyuk
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.37-52
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    • 2005
  • This study was performed to explore multidimensional customer royalties and relating factors. 900 households, $1\%$ sample were randomly selected from K city located in Kangwon province. Interview survey was performed with structured Questionnaire for the entire people, 923 persons who experienced medical service utilization during one year before survey on time, september, 2004. In comparison of customer royalties by sociodemographic characteristics, the older group showed the higher level of cognitive and attitudinal royalties significantly. Education and income level also, showed negative relationship with cognitive, attitudinal and behavioral loyalties significantly. The more being a female and a visitor at oriental medicine clinic, the higher level of attitudinal loyalties. Customer satisfaction was a critical explaining variable for cognitive, attitudinal and behavioral loyalties. In multiple regression analysis, some sociodemographic characteristics showed significant relation with customer loyalties and customer satisfaction was the strongest relating variable to customer loyalties. In conclusion, multidimensional approach for customer loyalty is useful for understanding customer behaviors comprehensively. Future studies should focus on developing the more specific and valid measurement tools for customer loyalty in medical service.

A Study on the Simultaneous Measurement of Droplet Size and Velocity in a Diesel Fuel Spray (디젤 분무(噴霧) 액적(液滴)의 크기와 속도(速度) 동시계측(同時計測)에 관한 연구(硏究))

  • Chang, Y.J.;Jeon, C.H.;Park, H.l.;Kim, H.K.;Kim, S.J.
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.2 no.5
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    • pp.11-22
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    • 1994
  • The pupose of this study is to measure droplet size and velocity simultaneously for a transient diesel fuel spray in a quiescent chamber at atmospheric temperature and pressure. Generally, diesel combustion phenomena is mainly governed by characteristics of injection system and fuel spray. Therefore we need to clarify these characteristics for developing more economical diesel systems. In this study, correlation between droplet size and velocity was measured at downstream distance from nozzle. Governing parameters are pump speed and fuel quantity for the detailed nature in this transient diesel fuel spray. It is observed effect to the droplet size and velocity distribution. Velocity(peak, mean, rms), number density and droplet size were investigated simulaneously using PDA in the spray. Various results are presented to illustrate the effects of operation factors and correlation between the droplet diameter and velocity.

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Thermal Analysis on the Engineering Model of Command and Telemetry Unit for a Geostationary Communications Satellite (정지궤도 통신위성의 원격측정명령처리기 기술모델 열해석)

  • Kim, Jung-Hoon;Koo, Ja-Chun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.32 no.9
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    • pp.114-121
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    • 2004
  • Thermal design changes and analysis on the engineering model of Command Telemetry Unit(CTU) for a geostationary communications satellite arc performed for the purpose of developing an engineering qualification model. A thermal model is developed by using power consumption measurement values of each functional board and thermal cycling test results. In modeling heat dissipated EEE parts, heat dissipation is imposed evenly on the EEE part footprint area which is projected to the printed circuit board. All the EEE parts of CTU meet the requirement of their allowable temperature range when placed on the engineering qualification level of thermal vacuum environments in accordance with the proposed thermal design changes.

A Novel Technique for Human Traffic based Radio Map Updating in Wi-Fi Indoor Positioning Systems

  • Mo, Yun;Zhang, Zhongzhao;Lu, Yang;Agha, Gul
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.1881-1903
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    • 2015
  • With the fast-developing of mobile terminals, positioning techniques based on fingerprinting method draws attention from many researchers even world famous companies. To conquer some shortcomings of the existing fingerprinting systems and further improve its performance, we propose a radio map building and updating technique, which is able to customize the spatial and temporal dependency of radio maps. The method includes indoor propagation and penetration modeling and the analysis of human traffic. Based on the combination of Ray-Tracing Algorithm, Finite-Different Time-Domain and Rough Set Theory, the approach of indoor propagation modeling accurately represents the spatial dependency of the radio map. In terms of temporal dependency, we specifically study the factor of moving people in the interest area. With measurement and statistics, the factor of human traffic is introduced as the temporal updating component. We improve our existing indoor positioning system with the proposed building and updating method, and compare the localization accuracy. The results show that the enhanced system can conquer the influence caused by moving people, and maintain the confidence probability stable during week, which enhance the actual availability and robustness of fingerprinting-based indoor positioning system.

Diagnostic Paper Chip for Reliable Quantitative Detection of Albumin using Retention Factor (체류 인자를 이용한, 알부민의 정량 분석용 종이 칩)

  • Jeong, Seong-Geun;Lee, Sang-Ho;Lee, Chang-Soo
    • KSBB Journal
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.254-259
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    • 2013
  • Herein we present a diagnostic paper chip that can quantitatively detect albumin without external electronic reader and dispensing apparatus. We fabricated a diagnostic paper chip device by printing wax barrier on the paper and wicking it with citrate buffer and tetrabromophenol blue to detect albumin in sample solution. The paper chip is so simple that we dropped a sample solution at sample pad and measure the ratio of two travel distances of the sample solvent and albumin under the name of retention factor. Our result confirmed that the retention factor was constant in the samples with same concentration of albumin and useful determinant for the measurement of albumin concentration. The paper chip is affordable and equipment-free, and close to ideal point-of-care test in accordance with the assured criteria, outlined by the World Health Organization. We assume that this diagnostic paper chip will expand the concept of colorimetric determination and provide a inexpensive diagnostic method to aging society and developing country.

The Design and Fabrication of Capacitive Humidity Sensor Having Interdigit Electrodes and its Signal Conditional Circuitry (빗살형 전극을 가지는 정전용량형 습도센서와 그 신호처리회로의 설계와 제작)

  • Park, Se-Kwang;Kang, Jeong-Ho;Park, Jin-Su
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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    • v.50 no.3
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    • pp.144-148
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    • 2001
  • For the purpose of developing capacitive humidity sensor having interdigit electrodes, interdigit electrode was modeled and simulated to obtain capacitance and sensitivity as a function of geometric parameters like the structural gap and thichness. For the development of ASIC, switched capacitor signal conditioning circuits for capacitive humidity sensor were designed and simulated by cadence using 0.25um CMOS process parameters. The signal conditioning circuits are composed of amplifier for voltage gain control, and clock generator for sensor driving and switch control The characteristics of the fabricated sensors are; 1) sensitivity is 9fF/%R.H., 2) temperature coefficient of offset(TCO) is 0.4%R.H./$^{\circ}C$, 3) nonlinearity is 1.2%FS, 4) hysteresis is 1.5%FS in humidity range of 3%R.H. ${\sim}$ 98%R.H.. The response time is 50 seconds in adsorption and 70 seconds in desorption. Fabricated process used in this capacitive humidity sensor having interdigit electrode are just as similar as conventional IC process technology. Therefore this can be easily mass produced with low cost, simple circuit and utilized in many applications for both industrial and environmental measurement and control system, such as monitoring system of environment, automobile, displayer, IC process room, and laboratory etc..

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Factors affecting adoption of Internet Banking: A case study from India

  • Malhotra, Pooja;Kassim, Normalini Md;Ramayah, T.
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.13-24
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    • 2014
  • The objective of this research is to find out the factors affecting adoption of Internet banking in India. The data is based upon a survey of 150 bank customers using a convenience sampling technique with the aid of a structured self-administered questionnaire. The research model was analyzed using Partial Least Squares (PLS) analysis. The recommended procedures have been tested which is measurement model and structural model. Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, Perceived Risk, Image, Results Demonstrability, Perceived Behavioral Control and Subjective Norm were influence intention to use Internet banking. However, Perceived Ease of Use, Perceived Credibility and Computer Self Efficacy were not influence intention to use Internet banking. The findings of this study are expected to be of great use to the bank marketers. An understanding of the factors identified in this study allows bank managers to direct efforts and resources in the most effective and efficient way to increase bank business in the long run and encourage their bank customer's to adopt Internet banking. Moreover, this paper contributes to the empirical literature of diffusion of financial innovations, particularly Internet banking in a developing country, such as India.

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Emotion prediction neural network to understand how emotion is predicted by using heart rate variability measurements

  • Park, Sung Soo;Lee, Kun Chang
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.22 no.7
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    • pp.75-82
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    • 2017
  • Correct prediction of emotion is essential for developing advanced health devices. For this purpose, neural network has been successfully used. However, interpretation of how a certain emotion is predicted through the emotion prediction neural network is very tough. When interpreting mechanism about how emotion is predicted by using the emotion prediction neural network can be developed, such mechanism can be effectively embedded into highly advanced health-care devices. In this sense, this study proposes a novel approach to interpreting how the emotion prediction neural network yields emotion. Our proposed mechanism is based on HRV (heart rate variability) measurements, which is based on calculating physiological data out of ECG (electrocardiogram) measurements. Experiment dataset with 23 qualified participants were used to obtain the seven HRV measurement such as Mean RR, SDNN, RMSSD, VLF, LF, HF, LF/HF. Then emotion prediction neural network was modelled by using the HRV dataset. By applying the proposed mechanism, a set of explicit mathematical functions could be derived, which are clearly and explicitly interpretable. The proposed mechanism was compared with conventional neural network to show validity.

An Advanced Study on the Development of Marine Lifting Devices Enhanced by the Blowing Techniques

  • Ahn Haeseong;Yoo Jaehoon;Kim Hyochul
    • Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2004
  • High lifting devices used for control purposes have received much attention in the marine field. Hydrofoils for supporting the hull, roll stabilizer fins for developing the motion damping performance, rudders for maneuverability are the well-known devices. In the present study, the ability of the rudder with flap to produce high lift was analyzed. The boundary layer control, one of the flow control techniques, was adopted. Especially, to build the blown flap, a typical and representative type of a boundary layer control, a flapped rudder was designed and manufactured so that it could eject the water jet from the gap between the main foil and the flap to the flap surface tangentially. And it was tested in the towing tank. Simultaneously, to know the information about the 2-dimensional flow field, a fin model with similar characteristics as the rudder model applicable for the motion control was made and tested in the cavitation tunnel. In addition, local flow measurements were carried out to obtain physical information, for example, a surface pressure measurement and flow visualization around the flap. And CFD simulation was used to obtain information difficult to collect from the experiment about the 2-dimensional flow.

Study on the Development System of Rotary Atomizing Painting Equipment and Its Application (회전무화형 도장 기기의 개발체계 및 적용에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Chan;Cha, SangWon
    • Clean Technology
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.101-110
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    • 2002
  • Concurrent development system which includes design, analysis, basic experiment and performance test procedure for rotary atomizing painting equipment was established. Basic design specifications of the equipment parts were determined according to the overall design requirements of painting equipment using conceptual design model. On the basis of derived design specifications, design and analysis procedures was proposed for developing each equipment part. Also proposed are experiment and test methods to investigate the spray and transfer characteristics of designed painting equipment, and their measurement variable, process and evaluation criteria are constructed. The present development system was validated by applying its entire processes to the actual painting equipment.

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