• 한국인구학
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.1-30
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• 2003

이 연구는 거주지역의 생태학적 환경과 사회경제적 요인이 사망력 수준에 미치는 영향력을 확인하고 그 변화 추이를 파악하기 위한 것이다. 이를 위해 1990년, 1995년, 2000년 세 시점의 인구센서스 자료와 동태통계 원자료, 그리고 각 시$.$군별 통계자료를 활용하였다. 사망력의 지표로는 조사망률, 표준화사망률과 장수비율을 사용하였다. 이 논문은 우선 GIS를 이용하여 세 시점의 시$.$군별 사망률 지도와 장수 지도를 제시하였다. 그리고 거주지역의 생태학적 환경과 사회경제적 요인들이 사망력의 지표들에 미치는 영향력에 대한 일반화된 설명을 위해 분산분석과 회귀분석을 실시하였다. 이 연구에서 사망률 지도와 장수 지도를 비교한 결과. 전라남도 남서해안지역에서 조사망률, 표준화사망률과 장수비율이 모두 높은 것으로 확인되었다. 반면 수도권과 부산권역에서는 사망력의 세 지표가 모두 낮게 나타났다. 표준화사망률과 장수비율의 지역별 편차는 1990년 이후 점차 줄어드는 추세를 보인다. 또한 표준화사망률과 장수비율 간에는 의미 있는 선형관계가 나타나지 않았으며, 그 인과구조가 서로 다른 것으로 확인되었다. 사망력의 지역별 편차를 분석한 결과, 산간과 농촌이라는 입지조건을 지닌 시$.$군들의 조사망률과 표준화사망률이 대체로 높으며, 해안과 농촌지역에서는 장수비율이 높아지는 경향이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 이러한 분석결과는 교육, 소득, 혼인상태, 의료수준, 보건수준 등 사회 경제적 요인들의 영향력을 통제하는 과정에서 대체로 약화되는 것으로 드러났다. 이는 특히 표준화사망률의 경우에 그러하였다. 거주지역의 입지조건에 따른 사망력 수준의 편차는 사회경제적인 요인은 물론 지난 40여 년간의 인구이동으로 인한 인구연령구조의 차이와도 관련이 있는 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국작물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국작물학회 2017년도 9th Asian Crop Science Association conference
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• pp.8-9
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• 2017

Soybean yield has been low and unstable in Japan and other areas in East Asia, despite long history of cultivation. This is contrasting with consistent increase of yield in North and South America. This presentation tries to describe perspective of breaking stagnation of soybean yield in East Asia, considering the factors of the different yields between regions. Large amount of rainfall with occasional dry-spell in the summer is a nature of monsoon climate and as frequently stated excess water is the factor of low and unstable soybean yield. For example, there exists a great deal of field-to-field variation in yield of 'Tanbaguro' soybean, which is reputed for high market value and thus cultivated intensively and this results in low average yield. According to our field survey, a major portion of yield variation occurs in early growth period. Soybean production on drained paddy fields is also vulnerable to drought stress after flowering. An analysis at the above study site demonstrated a substantial field-to-field variation of canopy transpiration activity in the mid-summer, but the variation of pod-set was not as large as that of early growth. As frequently mentioned by the contest winners of good practice farming, avoidance of excess water problem in the early growth period is of greatest importance. A series of technological development took place in Japan in crop management for stable crop establishment and growth, that includes seed-bed preparation with ridge and/or chisel ploughing, adjustment of seed moisture content, seed treatment with mancozeb+metalaxyl and the water table control system, FOEAS. A unique success is seen in the tidal swamp area in South Sumatra with the Saturated Soil Culture (SSC), which is for managing acidity problem of pyrite soils. In 2016, an average yield of $2.4tha^{-1}$ was recorded for a 450 ha area with SSC (Ghulamahdi 2017, personal communication). This is a sort of raised bed culture and thus the moisture condition is kept markedly stable during growth period. For genetic control, too, many attempts are on-going for better emergence and plant growth after emergence under excess water. There seems to exist two aspects of excess water resistance, one related to phytophthora resistance and the other with better growth under excess water. The improvement for the latter is particularly challenging and genomic approach is expected to be effectively utilized. The crop model simulation would estimate/evaluate the impact of environmental and genetic factors. But comprehensive crop models for soybean are mainly for cultivations on upland fields and crop response to excess water is not fully accounted for. A soybean model for production on drained paddy fields under monsoon climate is demanded to coordinate technological development under changing climate. We recently recognized that the yield potential of recent US cultivars is greater than that of Japanese cultivars and this also may be responsible for different yield trends. Cultivar comparisons proved that higher yields are associated with greater biomass production specifically during early seed filling, in which high and well sustained activity of leaf gas exchange is related. In fact, the leaf stomatal conductance is considered to have been improved during last a couple of decades in the USA through selections for high yield in several crop species. It is suspected that priority to product quality of soybean as food crop, especially large seed size in Japan, did not allow efficient improvement of productivity. We also recently found a substantial variation of yielding performance under an environment of Indonesia among divergent cultivars from tropical and temperate regions through in a part biomass productivity. Gas exchange activity again seems to be involved. Unlike in North America where transpiration adjustment is considered necessary to avoid terminal drought, under the monsoon climate with wet summer plants with higher activity of gas exchange than current level might be advantageous. In order to explore higher or better-adjusted canopy function, the methodological development is demanded for canopy-level evaluation of transpiration activity. The stagnation of soybean yield would be broken through controlling variable water environment and breeding efforts to improve the quality-oriented cultivars for stable and high yield.

• 한국가금학회지
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.157-167
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 국립축산과학원에서 보유하고 있는 토종닭 순계 12계통에 대한 계통 간 스트레스 반응 정도를 비교 분석하고자 하였다. 개체 별 스트레스 반응 정도 분석은 혈액으로부터 열 스트레스 단백질인 HSP-70, HSP-$90{\alpha}$, HSP-$90{\beta}$ 및 hydroxyl-3-methyl-glutaryl coenzyme A reductase(HMGCR)의 유전자 발현율과 텔로미어 함량을 반응 대상 표지로 하여 총 1,101수에 대해 정량 실시간 중합효소 연쇄반응법(real-time PCR)으로 분석하였다. 분석 결과 계통 간 HSP-70, HSP-$90{\alpha}$, HMGCR의 유전자 발현율과 텔로미어 함량의 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났으며, 암수 간에 있어서도 HSP-$90{\alpha}$, HSP-$90{\beta}$ 및 HMGCR의 발현율 차이를 나타내었다. 뿐만 아니라 닭의 연령 간에도 HSP-70 및 HSP-$90{\beta}$의 유전자 발현율과 텔로미어 함량의 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 계통 간 HSP 유전자 발현율과 텔로미어 함량 분석의 결과에 따라 공시 계통들 중 R, L, Y 계통들이 상대적으로 외부 스트레스에 강한 계통으로 보여지고, 반면 S, O, W 계통들은 스트레스에 민감한 계통들로 판단된다. 암수 간 스트레스 반응 정도에 있어 열 스트레스 단백질의 표지들 중 일부가 성 간 유의적 차이가 나타나지만 표지들 간 서로 상반된 결과를 보이고 또한 계통과 성 간의 상호작용이 있음에 따라 닭의 암수 간 스트레스 반응 정도의 차이는 없는 것으로 판단된다. 더불어 연령 간에도 일부 열 스트레스 유전자 발현도의 유의적 차이가 있었지만 표지들 간에 일관성이 없어 닭의 연령 간 스트레스 반응 정도의 차이는 없는 것으로 사료된다.

• 벤처창업연구
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.15-26
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• 2015

본 연구는 벤처기업의 창업 성공과 관련하여 1998년부터 2014년까지 이루어진 국내 연구 논문을 대상으로 연구영역, 연구주제, 연구방법 등 연구의 기본적 분류 기준을 중심으로 분석하여 그 특징을 제시함으로써 향후 벤처기업 성공과 관련한 연구 발전에 기여하고 나아가 우리나라 벤처기업 성공을 위한 실제적 도움을 주고자 하는 목적으로 이루어졌다. 이를 위해 본 연구는 관련 분야 선행연구를 검토하여 국내 연구 논문 164편을 수집하고 이들 가운데 연구의 중복, 미발표 및 미등재 논문 등을 제외한 총 64편의 논문을 대상으로 분석하였다. 그 결과 관련 분야 연구는 동일 연구 주제에 관심을 두는 다양한 학회에서 이루어졌으나 2014년 현재는 한국벤처창업학회의 '벤처창업연구'를 중심으로 관련 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있어 이 분야의 전문적 위치를 해당 학회가 구축해 가고 있는 것으로 보였다. 다음으로 관련 분야 연구가 2012년부터 지속해서 증가하고 있어 현대 산업사회의 변화와 정부의 정책 변화에 기인하여 관련 연구들이 증가하는 추세인 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 관련 분야 연구 방법은 주로 양적 연구 방법, 그리고 그중에서도 기술연구에 편향되어 있어 향후 관련 분야 연구 발전을 위해 더욱 다양한 연구 방법의 적용이 필요한 것으로 보였다. 끝으로 연구 영역은 벤처기업의 성공 요인으로 창업자의 특성, 전략적 특성, 환경적 특성에 기반을 둔 연구가 주를 이루고 있어, 이 역시 연구의 발전과 확장을 위하여 더욱 다양한 변인의 탐색을 해야 하는 것으로 판단된다. 본 연구의 결과를 통하여 향후 벤처기업 창업, 벤처기업 창업의 성공 요인과 관련한 이론적, 실제적 측면의 정보를 제공함과 동시에 이를 기반으로 한 연구의 발전에 기여할 것이라 기대한다.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제21권12호
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• pp.715-732
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• 2009

This article reviews the papers published in the Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering during 2008. It is intended to understand the status of current research in the areas of heating, cooling, ventilation, sanitation, and indoor environments of buildings and plant facilities. Conclusions are as follows. (1) Research trends in thermal and fluid engineering have been surveyed in the categories of general fluid flow, fluid machinery and piping, new and renewable energy, and fire. Well-developed CFD technologies were widely applied in developing facilities and their systems. New research topics include fire, fuel cell, and solar energy. Research was mainly focused on flow distribution and optimization in the fields of fluid machinery and piping. Topics related to the development of fans and compressors had been popular, but were no longer investigated widely. Research papers on micro heat exchangers using nanofluids and micro pumps were also not presented during this period. There were some studies on thermal reliability and performance in the fields of new and renewable energy. Numerical simulations of smoke ventilation and the spread of fire were the main topics in the field of fire. (2) Research works on heat transfer presented in 2008 have been reviewed in the categories of heat transfer characteristics, industrial heat exchangers, and ground heat exchangers. Research on heat transfer characteristics included thermal transport in cryogenic vessels, dish solar collectors, radiative thermal reflectors, variable conductance heat pipes, and flow condensation and evaporation of refrigerants. In the area of industrial heat exchangers, examined are research on micro-channel plate heat exchangers, liquid cooled cold plates, fin-tube heat exchangers, and frost behavior of heat exchanger fins. Measurements on ground thermal conductivity and on the thermal diffusion characteristics of ground heat exchangers were reported. (3) In the field of refrigeration, many studies were presented on simultaneous heating and cooling heat pump systems. Switching between various operation modes and optimizing the refrigerant charge were considered in this research. Studies of heat pump systems using unutilized energy sources such as sewage water and river water were reported. Evaporative cooling was studied both theoretically and experimentally as a potential alternative to the conventional methods. (4) Research papers on building facilities have been reviewed and divided into studies on heat and cold sources, air conditioning and air cleaning, ventilation, automatic control of heat sources with piping systems, and sound reduction in hydraulic turbine dynamo rooms. In particular, considered were efficient and effective uses of energy resulting in reduced environmental pollution and operating costs. (5) In the field of building environments, many studies focused on health and comfort. Ventilation. system performance was considered to be important in improving indoor air conditions. Due to high oil prices, various tests were planned to examine building energy consumption and to cut life cycle costs.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.521-537
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• 2012

This article reviews the papers published in the Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering during 2011. It is intended to understand the status of current research in the areas of heating, cooling, ventilation, sanitation, and indoor environments of buildings and plant facilities. Conclusions are as follows. (1) Research trends of thermal and fluid engineering have been surveyed as groups of fluid machinery and fluid flow, thermodynamic cycle, and new and renewable energy. Various topics were presented in the field of fluid machinery and fluid flow. Research issues mainly focused on the rankine cycle in the field of thermodynamic cycle. In the new and renewable energy area, researches were presented on geothermal energy, fuel cell, biogas, reformer, solar water heating system, and metane hydration. (2) Research works on heat transfer area have been reviewed in the categories of heat transfer characteristics, pool boiling and condensing heat transfer, nanofluids and industrial heat exchangers. Researches on heat transfer characteristics included heat transfer above liquid helium surface in a cryostat, methane hydrate formation, heat and mass transfer in a liquid desiccant dehumidifier, thermoelectric air-cooling system, heat transfer in multiple slot impinging jet, and heat transfer enhancement by protrusion-in-dimples. In the area of pool boiling and condensing heat transfer, researches on pool boiling of water in low-fin and turbo-B surfaces, pool boiling of R245a, convective boiling two-phase flow in trapezoidal microchannels, condensing of FC-72 on pin-finned surfaces, and natural circulation vertical evaporator were actively performed. In the area of nanofluids, thermal characteristics of heat pipes using water-based MWCNT nanofluids and the thermal conductivity and viscosity were measured. In the area of industrial heat exchangers, researches on fin-tube heat exchangers for waste gas heat recovery and Chevron type plate heat exchanger were implemented. (3) Refrigeration systems with alternative refrigerants such as $CO_2$, hydrocarbons, and mixed refrigerants were studied. Heating performance improvement of heat pump systems were tried applying supplementary components such as a refrigerant heater or a solar collector. The effects of frost growth were studied on the operation characteristic of refrigeration systems and the energy performance of various defrost methods were evaluated. The current situation of the domestic cold storage facilities was analyzed and the future demand was predicted. (4) In building mechanical system fields, a variety of studies were conducted to achieve effective consumption of heat and maximize efficiency of heat in buildings. Various researches were performed to maximize performance of mechanical devices and optimize the operation of HVAC systems. (5) In the fields of architectural environment and energy, diverse purposes of studies were conducted such as indoor environment, building energy, and renewable energy. In particular, renewable energy and building energy-related researches have mainly been studied as reflecting the global interests. In addition, various researches have been performed for reducing cooling load in a building using spot exhaust air, natural ventilation and energy efficiency systems.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.401-410
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• 2012

본 연구는 국내 및 국외에서 생산된 다양한 벌꿀에 대한 탄소, 수소 및 산소의 안정동위원소 비율을 분석하고, 국내 유통 벌꿀의 순수 여부 등 과학적 벌꿀 관리를 위한 기초 자료를 마련하고자 수행되었다. 이를 위한 분석은 국내에서 생산 유통 중인 국내산 및 수입산 모든 벌꿀을 대상으로 하여 동위원소 비율 양상을 조사하였다. 탄소 동위원소 비율은 $C_3$ 식물군이 -27- -21‰, $C_4$ 식물군이 -19‰ 이상인 것으로 크게 양분되는 현상을 보였다. 수입산의 경우 탄소 동위원소 비율은 모두 -27- -23‰의 범위를 나타내어 수거된 제품은 모두 $C_3$ 식물군의 밀원에서 생산되어진 것으로 판단되었다. 수소 및 산소 동위원소 비율은 국내산의 경우, 각각의 밀원에 따라 결과 값의 범위가 넓어 차이가 뚜렷하지 않은 결과를 나타내었다. 또한 원산지에 따른 지역별 양상도 뚜렷한 차이가 나타나지 않았다. 수입산은 위도 차이가 넓은 지역에서는 차이가 보이나 위도 위치가 좁은 지역에서는 구분이 어려웠다. F/G 비율과 탄소 동위원소 비율을 비교 분석한 결과, 국내산은 밀감꽃을 제외한 $C_3$ 그룹이 1.3 이상으로 나타났고 $C_4$ 그룹은 1.3 이하를 나타내었다. 수입산은 다양한 밀원(초본류 및 목본류)을 가지는 경우, $C_3$ 그룹의 경우에도 1.3 이하의 경향을 나타내어 구분에 어려움이 있었다. 결론적으로 국내 유통 벌꿀의 순수 여부 판단에 탄소 동위원소 비율이 활용 가능하며, 보다 정확한 결과를 도출하기 위해 보완적으로 F/G 비율 결과를 병행하여 사용할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국조경학회지
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• 제48권4호
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• pp.41-54
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• 2020

본 연구는 공동주택의 조경업과 관련한 공사·용역에 대한 입찰실태 분석을 통해 문제점을 파악하고, 개선 방안을 제시하여 투명하고 공정한 입찰시스템 운영을 위한 기초자료로 제공되고자 하였다. 이를 위해 공동 주택 유지관리 이력, 입찰 정보, 전자입찰제 등을 제공하는 '공동주택관리정보시스템(K-apt)'의 자료를 활용하여 조경 분야 공사·용역에 대한 낙찰현황, 낙찰금액, 연중 낙찰 규모와 동향, 공종별 사업자 선정결과 등을 살펴보았다. 그 결과, 한 해 낙찰된 총 건수(36,831건) 중 조경업에 해당하는 건은 4.4%(1,631건)를 차지하고 있으며, 평균 낙찰금액은 약 2,400만 원으로 조사되었다. 건별 낙찰금액 현황으로 조경업 관련 건 중 73%가 3백만 원에서 3천만 원 사이에서 낙찰되었으며, 공종별로는 병충해방제와 유지관리에 해당하는 건이 58.6%를 차지하였다. 월별 낙찰현황으로는 2~4월에 전체 건수의 36%가 집중되었으며, 입찰방법에서는 '일반경쟁입찰'이 59.8%를 차지하였다. 낙찰자 선정방법과 투찰방법에서는 55%가 '최저낙찰제'와 '전자입찰방식'을, 45%가 '적격심사제'와 '직접입찰방식'을 채택한 것으로 나타났다. 입찰 현황에서 도출된 문제점에 대한 개선사항으로 첫째, 현행 '전자입찰방식' 적용 규정에 관한 예외 조항을 최소화하여 전자입찰방식 전면 적용하여 공정한 입찰제도가 운용되도록 한다. 둘째, 공동주택의 녹지환경 품질에 대한 조경 관리 기준을 마련한다. 셋째, 입찰 공고 전 내역서 및 도면 등의 설계 도서를 작성하고, 기초금액을 산출하도록 하는 근거 규정을 마련하여, 사업의 내용을 구체적이고 객관적으로 특정함으로써 공정한 입찰이 가능하도록 한다. 넷째, '사업자 선정지침'의 각종 입찰조건에 대해 선택이 아닌 조건별 세부지침을 마련하여 공정성과 일관성을 확보한다. 이와 같은 연구결과는 공동주택의 조경업 사업자 선정과 조경시설 및 녹지환경 유지관리에 있어 객관적이고 합리적인 기준 마련에 활용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.577-610
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• 2014

Although service innovation is not a new concept, innovation research in general tends to focus on technological innovation by manufacturing firms. With this view, innovation studies focus on product(e.g., goods) and process(e.g., product systems) innovation, ignoring service innovation and its inherent opportunities. Since major economy has been transformed to service economy, service innovation is considered a new effective way to sustain and gain a competitive advantage. Service innovation is no longer regarded merely as a side activity to product innovation; it has become a main research topic in its own right, accompanied by an increasing focus on services. While the number of service innovation studies has increased dramatically in the past 30 years in international research, few studies have been performed in domestic studies because domestic service innovation research began from the middle of 2000. In addition, there are no comprehensive literature reviews describing the evolution of service innovation research in both international and domestic studies because of the heterogeneities of service industry and multidiscipline characteristics of service innovation studies. To bridge this research gap, the purpose of this paper is to perform an extensive literature review and synthesis to enable a critical review of extant research on service innovation and trace its evolution, which will establish a foundation for further studies. By reviewing 169 articles (136 international papers; 33 domestic papers) published between 2000 and 2014 (in past 15 years), primarily in leading service, innovation and management information systems journals, this study analyzes the progression of service innovation research according to the four aspects such as number of studies, topics, methodologies and target industries. Overall, the view of service innovation has evolved, from a complement of traditional product innovation to a multidimensional, all-encompassing concept that entails several functions, both within and outside the firms. The results showed that domestic research still stays at the formation phase of service innovation studies although international research is in the maturity or multidimensional phase. We found increasing recent activities pertaining to service innovation, resulting from the increasing interest in services innovation across various industries and the links of new topics to the service innovation concept in both international and domestic studies. However, the main focus of service innovation research showed a different propensity between international and domestic studies: the former mainly focuses on a much more diversified pattern, emphasizing the linkages between service innovation and business strategy while the latter mainly focuses on the service innovation process(system) and service design. In addition, there are many case studies in domestic studies while many empirical studies in international studies. Domestic studies should increases the understanding of the interplay between service innovation and product innovation within manufacturing firms. Furthermore, rather than focusing on intrinsic distinctions between service innovation and product innovation, researchers should strive to develop and conceptualize service innovation in domestics studies. The present research also provides useful implications for practitioners. First, this study contributes to expand the current understanding of service innovation research by performing an extensive literature review. Second, tracing and comparing the progression and trends of service innovation research between international and domestic studies, this study showed the similarities and differences between them, which provide practical guidance on future research directions and research agenda. Third, this study performed literature review establishing the analysis system in the initial stage and using them to analyze articles, which is leading to explain the research review of service innovation more systematically and objectively. Finally, this study suggests the domestic researchers their future interests and topics of service innovation research.

• 대한간호
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.76-87
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• 1992

The purposes of study was: 1. To identify the direction and scope of research activities in Korean Nursing. 2. To discuss the unique problems present in Korea that warrant nursing research. 3. To delineate the factors that facilitate and/or hinder nursing research in Korea. This study was conducted at six colleges of nursing in Korea. The schools which were selected had doctoral programs at the time, the data were collected in 1990. Four of the schools were located in the metropolitan area of the capital city, Seoul, and two were in two other cities similar in size. The total population of the study was 283 nurses. The instrument for the research was the English version of Research Profile Questionnaire which was translated into Korean by the researchers and was validated in its translation by two professors. A pretest procedure was done before the data collection process. Of the population of 283, 210 subjects received the questionnaire and 150 subjects responded(71.4%). Excluding incomplete questionnaires, 141 questionnaires were utilized for data analysis. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Responses to open-ended questions were content analyzed for themes and categories. Results of the study were as follows : Respondents currently , involved in nursing research numbered 108(76.6%), but 33(23.4%) did not have any research experience. The inexperienced respondenLs tended to be younger than the experienced subjects and most( 60.6%) were employed in hospitals, while 82.4 percent of the experienced nurses were employed in nursing schools. Among the respondents with research experience, 68.5 percent were involved in one to three projects and 31.5 percent were engaged in four or more projects. The experienced nurses indicated that nursing research in Korea is active. On the other hand, the responses of the inexperienced were that nursing research is not active. The most frequently selected research subjects were patients(76.9%, 83 respondents) followed by nurses, healthy persons and nursing students. The relatively high percentage of healthy persons as study subjects, could be explained as a concern of nurses for healthy persons as well as for ill patients. The aforememioned literature review showed a dramatic change in the kinds of study subjects; approximately 33 percent were patients but 25 percent were healthy subjects of various ages. The hospital was the prevailing research setting(67.6%) but at the same time various community settings were used. This is a changing phenomena in nursing research of Korea. Current research designed to build on previous studies amounted to 75 percent; about 39.8 percem were theory and hypothesis generated. Over 65 recommended additional research focusing on hypothesis-testing 0:' theory building. The previously quoted literature review found that only 4.0 percent of the study quescions were developed from a theoretical framework. The most frequently listed current major focus of nursmg research was stress and adaptation. Patients with cancer, pain, social support and care of the elderly were the next most frequently reported. These concerns may reflect problems associated with a technological and industrializing societyl. The most frequently identified problem was lack of clinical research. The need for replication research and research that contributes to the accumulation of nursing knowledge were found to be rare in Korean research. A need for theory testing and theory construction research was also identified. Although advanced statistical methods were often utilized in nursing research, the results were frequently considered by the interviewers not to be applicable in practice, and readers had difficulty in comprehending the findings. Even though the number of clinical nurses involved in research is increasing, it is still considered inadequate. Among 108 respondents, 83(76.9%) gave lack of time as a barrier to conducting nursing research. Over fifty percent of the respondents reported lack of funding or, personally, low confidence in research skills as barriers. The respondents offered 183 suggestions for future emphasis in nursing research. Among the 51 areas of emphasis, clinical research received the highest number and nursing intervention was next. The findings suggested that nursing research should be based on theory, be related to practice and relevant to the situation of a unique Korean culture.