• 유통과학연구
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.65-76
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• 2015

Purpose - This article aims to present and test a model regarding franchisors' supporting activities that may positively influence franchisees' attitude toward the franchising headquarter and their own business performance. Moreover, the authors examine the moderating effect of competitive intensity between franchisee attitude and business performance. Most previous research focused on behavioral performance measurements such as satisfaction, trust, and commitment. There are few empirical studies that focus on financial performance data because it is difficult to determine a relational mechanism between behavioral and financial performance. Moreover, financial data is confidential and difficult to collect in many cases. However, this study measures financial performance (e.g., sales revenue per square meter) differently than most previous research, which is mostly focused on the behavioral performance measurements. Research design, data, and methodology - To test our hypotheses, we selected 137 franchisee managers who are running chains of one of the foremost bakery franchise brands in South Korea. This study carefully investigated the reliability, content validity, convergent validity, and discriminant validity of the proposed instrument by analyzing the data obtained from the samples. The data was analyzed using the AMOS structural equation modeling program. Results - The results indicated that: non-financial support activities (e.g., information exchange and communication) had a positive impact on the franchisee attitude toward the franchising headquarter. The franchisee attitude in turn had a positive effect on the headquarters' business performance. Furthermore, competitive intensity could enhance the relationship between franchisee attitude toward franchising headquarter and business performance in a local franchise market. However, financial support activities (e.g., rewards and promotional support) and training had no relationship with either franchisee attitude or business performance. Conclusions - This study provides some practical implications to franchisors in terms of franchise operation and store opening strategies. With respect to the franchise operation strategy, franchisors need to focus on non-financial rather than financial support. Most franchisees consider the necessity of financial support activities and not their sufficiency because these activities are specified in their franchise contract. In addition, it is important for franchisees to maintain a positive attitude for the franchise headquarters. The franchisees with a positive attitude for the franchisor can show a high degree of solidarity for various support activities, and it consequently determines franchisees' sales performance. In terms of franchise store opening strategy, this study suggests an additional criterion that can be considered in determining the location of direct and non-direct management stores (e.g., franchisees' stores). In this research, franchise stores located within high level of competitive intensity are shown to have a high relationship between franchisee attitudes of franchisor support activities and business performance compared to the franchisees located within low competitive intensity level. This result shows that opening non-direct franchise stores is more effective than direct stores in higher competitive market situations. Research contribution, implications, and further research directions are discussed at the end of the paper.

• 한국게임학회 논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.69-76
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• 2018

HMD의 대중적 도입으로 인해 가상현실에 대한 관심이 커지고 있다. 이런 가상현실에서의 활동은 현실과는 다른 효과들 가져올 것으로 예상되어 가상현실과 현실 간 비교 효과연구가 필요하다. 특히 가상현실에서의 교육적 효용성은 여러 연구에서 입증하고 있으나, 아직 특수교육의 경험적 맥락에 그치고 있다. 이 연구는 가상현실의 환경 안에서 교육게임콘텐츠의 기억 습득이 이루어 질 때 나타나는 장기기억효과에 대한 실증적 연구를 실시하였다. 가상현실이 아닌 e-러닝 조건과 가상현실조건 e-러닝 두 조건 내에서 학습기억실험을 실시하여 장기기억 감소율의 차이에 대한 평균차이를 검증한 결과 가상현실그룹에서 보다 낮은 기억감소율이 나타났다. 또한 배경의 유무에 따라 차이를 확인한 결과 가상환경배경이 제시된 경우에만 유의미한 차이가 나타나 가상현실의 가상환경이 장기기억의 중요한 요인임을 확인하였다.

• Advances in nano research
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.567-577
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• 2023

The killing of bacteria by mechanical forces on nanopatterned surfaces has been defined as a mechano-bactericidal effect. Inspired by nature, this method is a new-generation technology that does not cause toxic effects and antibiotic resistance. This study aimed to simulate the mechano-bactericidal effect of nanopatterned surfaces' geometric parameters and material properties against three implant-derived bacterial species. Here, in silico models were developed to explain the interactions between the bacterial cell and the nanopatterned surface. Numerical solutions were performed based on the finite element method. Elastic and creep deformation models of bacterial cells were created. Maximum deformation, maximum stress, maximum strain, as well as mortality of the cells were calculated. The results showed that increasing the peak sharpness and decreasing the width of the nanopatterns increased the maximum deformation, stress, and strain in the walls of the three bacterial cells. The increase in spacing between nanopatterns increased the maximum deformation, stress, and strain in E. coli and P. aeruginosa cell walls it decreased in S. aureus. The decrease in width with the increase in sharpness and spacing increased the mortality of E. coli and P. aeruginosa cells, the same values did not cause mortality in S. aureus cells. In addition, it was determined that using different materials for nanopatterns did not cause a significant change in stress, strain, and deformation. This study will accelerate and promote the production of more efficient mechano-bactericidal implant surfaces by modeling the geometric structures and material properties of nanopatterned surfaces together.

• 한국운동역학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.173-180
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of combined exercise on injury risk factors of lower extremity during landing. Ten sports talented athletes participated in this study. Sports talented athletes participated in a combined exercise (sports talented exercise, coordination) for 16 weeks. A three-dimensional motion analysis was performed using eight infrared cameras (sampling rate of 100 Hz), one force plate, and electromyography system (sampling rate of 1000 Hz) during landing. Kinetic, and kinematics analysis including average impulsive force, angle of lower extremity, vertical stiffness, onset of muscle activation were calculated by Matlab2009a software. Paired t-test was performed at alpha=.05. The average impulsive force in landing phase was not statistically significant (t=-.748, p=.474). The hip joint angle was more decreased in post test compared to pre test (E1: t=2.682, p=.025, E2: t=5.609, p=.000, E3: t=2.538, p=.032). The knee joint (E1: t=-.343, p=.739, E2: t=1.319, p=.220, E3: t=.589, p=.570) and ankle joint (E1: t=.081, p=.937, E2: t=.784, p=.453, E3: t=.392, p=.704) angle were tended to decrease after combined exercise. The vertical stiffness was tended to decrease after combined exercise (t=1.972, p=.080). Onset of quadriceps femoris (t=.698, p=.503) and medial gastocnemius (t=1.858, p=.096) were tended to be faster than biceps femoris (t=-.333, p=.747) after combined exercise. Although thses findings were not statistically significant except on a hip joint angle, risk factors of lower extremity such as joint angle, vertical stiffness and onset of quadriceps femoris, medial gastrocnemius were positively changed after the combined exercise but an additional training for improved onset of biceps femoris would be required in the future.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.49-64
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• 2024

Rocks undergoing repeated loading and unloading over an extended period, such as due to earthquakes, human excavation, and blasting, may result in the gradual accumulation of stress and deformation within the rock mass, eventually reaching an unstable state. In this study, a CNN-CCM is proposed to address the mechanical behavior. The structure and hyperparameters of CNN-CCM include Conv2D layers × 5; Max pooling2D layers × 4; Dense layers × 4; learning rate=0.001; Epoch=50; Batch size=64; Dropout=0.5. Training and validation data for deep learning include 71 rock samples and 122,152 data points. The AI Rock Constitutive Model learned by CNN-CCM can predict strain values(ε₁) using Mass (M), Axial stress (σ₁), Density (ρ), Cyclic number (N), Confining pressure (σ₃), and Young's modulus (E). Five evaluation indicators R², MAPE, RMSE, MSE, and MAE yield respective values of 0.929, 16.44%, 0.954, 0.913, and 0.542, illustrating good predictive performance and generalization ability of model. Finally, interpreting the AI Rock Constitutive Model using the SHAP explaining method reveals that feature importance follows the order N > M > σ₁ > E > ρ > σ₃.Positive SHAP values indicate positive effects on predicting strain ε₁ for N, M, σ₁, and σ₃, while negative SHAP values have negative effects. For E, a positive value has a negative effect on predicting strain ε₁, consistent with the influence patterns of conventional physical rock constitutive equations. The present study offers a novel approach to the investigation of the mechanical constitutive model of rocks under cyclic loading and unloading conditions.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권11호
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• pp.290-296
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• 2017

연구목적: 본 연구는 Little $Anne^{(R)}$, $BRAYDEN^{(R)}$, $HeartiSense^{(R)}$를 이용하여 심폐소생술 교육에 사용되는 마네킹에 따른 교육효과를 비교하고자 시행하였다. 연구방법: 연구대상자는 응급구조사가 아닌 90명의 소방관이었다. A, B, C 세 그룹으로 나누어 50분 동안 심폐소생술 이론교육을 하였고, 이후 50분간 각 그룹별로 3인 1조 실습교육을 시행 하였는데, A그룹 30명은 Little $Anne^{(R)}$를 이용 하였고, B그룹 30명은 $BRAYDEN^{(R)}$를 이용 하였고, C그룹 30명은 $HeartiSense^{(R)}$를 이용하였으며, 이후 Resusci Anne $SkillReporter^{(R)}$를 사용해 수행한 심폐소생술 결과를 출력한 후 결과를 확인하고 설문지를 작성하도록 하였다. 연구결과: 마네킹에 따른 만족지수는 $x^2=81.050$, p<.000로 유의한 차이를 보였고, 만족 이유는 $x^2=91.050$, p<.000로 유의한 차이를 보였다. 정확한 흉부압박 비율은 F=5.087, p<.004, 정확한 인공호흡 비율은 F=10.54, p<.000으로 유의한 차이를 보였다. 결론: 정확하고 효율적인 CPR 교육이 필요한 대상에게는 교육효과가 높은 실시간 시각 교정이 가능한 정보를 제공하는 마네킹이 효과적일 것으로 사료된다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.1157-1162
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• 2016

Background: Cervical cancer is known as one of the most prevalent types of cancers and a major public health problem in developing countries which can be detected by Pap test, prevented, and treated. Despite the effective role of Pap test in decreasing the incidence and mortality due to cervical cancer, it is still one the most common causes of cancer-related deaths among women, especially in developing countries. Thus, this study aimed to examine the effect of educational interventions implemented by health volunteers based on protection motivation theory (PMT) on promoting Pap test use among women. Materials and Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted on 60 health volunteers and 420 women. The study participants were divided into an intervention and a control group. Data were collected using a valid self-reported questionnaire including demographic variables and PMT constructs which was completed by both groups before and 2 months after the intervention. Then, the data were entered into the SPSS statistical software, version 19 and were analyzed using Chi-square test, independent T-test, and descriptive statistical methods. P<0.05 was considered as statistically significant. Results: The findings of this study showed that the mean scores of PMT constructs (i.e. perceived vulnerability, perceived severity, fear, response-costs, self-efficacy, and intention) increased in the intervention group after the intervention (P<0.001). However, no significant difference was found between the two groups regarding response efficacy after the intervention (P=0.06). The rate of Pap test use also increased by about 62.9% among the study women. Conclusions: This study showed a significant positive relationship between PMT-based training and Pap test use. The results also revealed the successful contribution of health volunteers to training cervical cancer screening. Thus, training interventions based on PMT are suggested to be designed and implemented and health volunteers are recommended to be employed for educational purposes and promoting the community's, especially women's, health.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제26권10호
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• pp.1446-1458
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• 2013

The study assessed the effect of dietary supplementation of leaf meal mixture (LMM) containing condensed tannins (CT) on feed intake, nutrient utilization and performance of sheep infected with Haemonchus contortus. Eighteen adult sheep of similar age and body weight ($25.03{\pm}1.52$) were included in this study and out of these, 12 sheep were infected with single dose of infective third stage larvae of H. contortus at 2,000 larvae per sheep. The experimental sheep were allocated in three different groups' i.e. negative control (NC; no infection), control (C; H. contortus infected) and treatment (T; H. contortus infected+CT at 1.5% of the DM through LMM) and the experiment was conducted for a period of 90 d. The intake of dry matter (DM), organic matter (OM) and digestibility of DM, OM, neutral detergent fibre (NDF) and acid detergent fibre (ADF) were comparable among three animal groups. However, digestibility of crude protein (CP) and ether extract (EE) were significantly (p<0.05) higher in NC group as compared to both C and T groups. Nitrogen (N) retention (g/d or % of N intake) was significantly (p = 0.038) lower in C group as compared to T and NC groups. Daily intake (g/kg $W^{0.75}$) of digestible crude protein (DCP), digestible organic matter (DOM) and total digestible nutrient (TDN) did not differ significantly (p<0.05) in the three groups. Haemoglobin (Hb) and packed cell volume (PCV) were significantly (p<0.001) higher in treatment group as compared to control. The level of Hb and PCV reduced (p<0.001) after 30 days of experimental feeding. CT significantly (p<0.001) reduced serum urea in T group as compared to NC and C groups. Serum proteins differed significantly (p<0.01) among the three groups. The activity of serum enzymes AST, ALT, ALP and LDH were also statistically non significant (p<0.05) among treatments. The weight of abomasal lymph nodes (ALN) in T group was higher (p<0.05) than in C group. Treatment group had lower (p<0.05) total worms and fecal egg count compared to control group. It may be concluded that dietary supplementation of CT through LMM significantly improved the N retention, and inhibited the different developmental stages of Haemonchus contortus in experimental sheep.

• 한국빅데이터학회지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.169-186
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• 2024

본 연구는 중소기업의 AI 도입 확대를 위한 수용요인을 분석하고 실무적, 정책적 시사점을 도출하는 것이다. 이를 위해 전국에 소재한 제조, 서비스, 정보통신 분야 등 다양한 업종의 중소기업 315명을 대상으로 AI 수용요인을 실증 분석하였다. UTAUT를 기반으로 의사결정 신뢰성, 지각된 인식, 정책지원, 교육훈련, 인지된 비용, 지각된 위험성, 시스템 복잡성의 영향력을 검증한 결과, 의사결정 신뢰성은 성과기대와 사회적 영향에 긍정적인 영향을, 지각된 인식은 성과기대와 노력기대에 긍정적인 영향을, 정책지원은 사회적 영향과 촉진조건에 긍정적 영향을 교육훈련은 노력기대 및 촉진조건에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 인지된 비용은 사회적 영향과 촉진조건에 부정적 영향을 미치며 지각된 위험성은 성과기대와 사회적 영향에 부정적인 영향을 미쳤다. 시스템 복잡성은 노력기대에 부정적인 영향을 미쳤으나 촉진조건에는 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 산업계의 AI 확산을 위한 기초 연구로 폭넓게 활용되고, 중소기업의 AI 도입을 촉진할 수 있도록 실무적, 정책적 시사점을 제공하기를 기대한다.

• 만화애니메이션 연구
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• 통권43호
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• pp.363-386
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• 2016

본 연구는 대학의 미술 디자인계열 전공 실습 교과목의 실습수업을 위한 이러닝 교수학습법을 개발하기 위해 기본 틀이 될 프레임워크를 디자인하는 연구이다. 특히 일방향적인 이러닝 교육방식에서 탈피하여 증강현실(AR)의 콘텐츠 재현 과정을 학습방법으로 적용함으로써 가상적 상황을 현실상황에 증강시켜 학습자로 하여금 학습환경에 대한 현실감을 높이는 데에 초점을 두고 있다. 본 프레임워크 구축 과정 및 교수학습법 개발은 이전에 발표된 "증강현실을 이용한 대학 e-Learing 실습교육"의 학습효과 실험연구를 위한 증강현실 기반의 실습교육 교수학습법 개발 과정에 관한 논문으로써 시기적으로는 이전 논문의 선행연구임을 밝히며, 기 발표 논문과 본 논문을 기반으로 본격적인 학습효과 실험에 들어가기 위한 교과과정 개발에 목적을 둔다. 학습방식에 따른 구분은 기본 학습유형에 따라 대면학습(FFL), 블랜디드학습(BL), 완전이러닝(EL), 그리고 증강현실 기반 이러닝(AREL) 4개 교수 학습방법으로 구분한다. 본 연구를 위해 FFL, BL, EL의 각 교수학습 프레임을 비교 분석하고 AREL의 교수학습유형과 비교분석 및 종합적 결합을 통해 효과적인 증강현실 기반의 교수학습 프레임워크 구축하였다. 또한 향후 학습효과 실험을 위한 AREL 실습교과목 교수학습 과정 설계 틀을 제시함으로써 연구를 마친다.