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Offline Shopping During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Between Need and Fear

  • USMAN, Hardius;PROJO, Nucke Widowati Kusumo;CHAIRY, Chairy
    • Fourth Industrial Review
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.25-37
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    • 2022
  • Purpose - The purposes of this research are: (1) Building and testing a research model that integrates Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) with fear, perceived risk, and health protocols; (2) Examining the impact of compliance with health protocols on consumer behavior when offline shopping. Research design, data, and methodology - The data collection uses the self-administered survey method, and the questionnaire is distributed online. A total of 504 Indonesian population aged 18 years old or more participate in this research. Data are analyzed using factor analysis, multiple regression, and multiple regression with interaction. Result - This study reveals several findings: (1) Attitude and subjective norm have a significant effect on offline shopping behavior; (2) fear has a direct and indirect effect on offline shopping behavior; (3) the effect of perceived risk on the intensity of offline shopping is determined by compliance with health protocols. Conclusion - This paper discusses the direct influence of attitudes and subjective norms on behavior. This research also integrates fear, perceived risk, and health protocol factors in TRA, which may not have been done much, especially in the COVID-19 pandemic context.

An Exploration of Learning Environmental Factors Affecting Student Cognitive Engagement: Implications for Instructional Design Research

  • LEE, Sunghye
    • Educational Technology International
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.143-170
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    • 2014
  • As it was argued that students' cognitive engagement can be, at least in part, modified by individual or learning environmental factors, prior studies have attempted to identify the factors explaining the variability of students' cognitive engagement. This literature review has shown that students' cognitive engagement can be altered by various elements in the learning environment design such as factors related students' perceptions of teaching quality, characteristics of tasks and learning activities, teachers' behaviors during instruction, classroom goal structures, the integration of student oriented learning, action learning, problem-based learning, and constructivist learning, and academic disciplines. Based on the review, this study suggests that more studies are required to focus on understandings how the integration of instructional design principles into courses and the levels of student cognitive engagement in these courses are related. Also, an investigation of direct and indirect effect of learning environments taking into account students' personal factors would provide a more accurate picture of the relationship between learning environmental factors and students' cognitive engagement.

Health-Promoting Behaviors of the Women Workers at the Manufacturing Industry -Based on the Pender's Health Promotion Model- (제조업 여성 근로자의 건강증진행위 관련 요인 분석 -Pender의 건강증진모형 적용-)

  • Yun, Soon Nyoung;Kim, Jeong Hee
    • Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.130-140
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    • 1999
  • The purpose of this study was to identify health promoting behaviors(HPBs) and the related determinants affecting to women workers health based on the New Health Promotion Model by Pender(1996). Data were collected by self-reported questionnaires from 208 women workers at the 8 electronic manufacturing factories under the permission of data collection and cooperation with health managers in the factories during the period from September to October 1999. For data analysis. Descriptive statistics, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation and Stepwise multiple regression with SPSS/PC+7.5 version were used. The results were as follows : 1. The average score for the HPBs, consisted of 6 subdimensions was 2.05. The highest mean score was 2.29 in 'Spiritual growth' and the lowest one was 1.66 in 'Physical activity'. 2. No significant difference between general charateristics and HPBs were found. 3. HPBs were positively related to 'Prior related behavior'(r=0.369, p<0.1), 'Perceived self-efficacy'(r=0.340, p<.01), 'Activity-related affect'(r=0.252, p<.01). 'Social support'(r=0.350, p<.01). 'Commitment to a plan action'(r=0.374, p<.01). There was no significant correlation between perceived health status, perceived barriers to action and HPBs. 4. The most important variable in HPBs was 'Commitment to a plan action'. It was explained 14.0% out of the total variance of HPBs. 'Commitment to a plan action', 'Prior related behavior', 'Social support', 'Self-efficacy' and 'Perceived barriers to action' explained 23.0%. According to the results of this study, the suggestions were as follows: 1. It is necessary to develop program for improving the physical activity and health responsibility of women workers at the manufacturing industry. 2. To facilitate and maintain HPBs of women workers, nurses may enhance and plan mutually interactive active HPBs with women workers. 3. Social support at the level of individual workers, supervisors, and the organization is required in order to conduct health promotion program at the factories. 4. Significantly related variables to HIPBs should be identified the direct and indirect paths among them further more.

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Pharmacological Action of Ginseng (인삼의 약리작용)

  • 홍사악;임정규;박찬웅;차인준
    • Journal of Ginseng Research
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.66-93
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    • 1979
  • Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer, which has been known for more than EWO years. occupies a Particular prince in folk medicine as so called tonic remedy. The pharmacolgical investigations of ginseng, based on the scientific concepts and methodology, have been performed by many researchers through the past 50∼60 years at different parts of the world. The pharmacological action of Panax ginseng compiled from the numerous reports can be summarized as follows: 1. On central nervous system, the effect of Panax ginseng is timulatory in smaller doses and somewhat depressive in larger doses. From the psychopharmacological aspect, ginseng seems to increase the mental efficiency of man. 2. Ginseng has the effect tending to Protect organism from various physical and chemical stresses. 3. The growth and basal metabolic rates of experimental animals are stimulated by ginseng. Ginseng also prolongs the survival time of animals under adverse influences. 4. Increasing the physical and mental efficiency, ginseng postpones the onset of fatigue and increases the working capacities. 5. In the case of the intravenous administration of ginseng, a transitory and slight hypotensive effect is observed. These hypotensive effects seems to include that of a direct action and actions related to the release of histamine and/or serotonin by ginseng. 6. It is Presumed that ginseng lowers the elevated bleed ingar and cholesterol level. 7. Ginseng tends to increase the gastrointestinal motizity and tone 8. It is presumed that ginseng Promotes the iron metabolism and activates the hematopoietic factors. 9. Ginseng tends to stimulate the biosynthesis of nucleic acid and release of histamine and serotonin. 10. The toxicity end adverse reactions of ginseng appear to be nothing that warrants apprehension. 11. Anticancer erects of ginseng seem to be due to indirect action rather than direct action on cancer cell, by improving the host condition 12. Recent clinical trials of ginseng harts obtained sent good results, but Present trial is still limited in its range, so it is necessary to broaden the scope of trial covering many kinds of organs and diseases. From the above, although it appears that substantial advancements have been achieved in the studies on the Pharmacological actions of Panax ginseng there are many discrepancies noticed in the reported data. Furthermore the precise mechanisms of actions of ginseng are sometimes obscure, even unknown in other actions as the students stand now. The main reasons for this are considered to be that even though saponin has been identified at one of the active substances of ginseng, other components have not fully been identified and that the experimental approaches of the investigations varied with different researchers. Thus a thorough analysis of the chemical components and newer standardized concepts and metohds appear to be the pre-requisites for further study of the pharmacolgical effects and mechaisms of Panax ginseng.

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Software Component Reusability Metrics (소프트웨어 컴포넌트 재사용성 측정 메트릭)

  • 박인근;김수동
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.31 no.6
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    • pp.760-772
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    • 2004
  • Component Based Development(CBD) Methodology is widely used in software development lifecycle to improve software quality. The Component Based Development(CBD) results to improve software reusability and reduce development term and cost. For this reason, lots of Enterprises are trying to make their processes to components. But, there has been few quality assurance or reusability testing action to those components. Most software component users can not know how their components are reusable and what extent their components satisfy to th eir quality requirements. For this reason, this paper suggests that software components can be measured their reusability by metrics proposed by this paper. We propose that in measuring software component reusability, there are direct metrics and indirect metrics. The results made by direct metrics are suggested to measure indirect metrics, so results to obtain reusability metrics.

Development of home nursing care classification and home nursing care costs of the free-standing home nursing care agency (독립형 가정간호시범사업소의 가정간호행위분류체계 개발과 수가 연구)

  • Yun, Soon-Nyoung;Park, Jung-Ho;Kim, Mae-Ja;Hong, Kyung-Ja;Han, Kyung-Ja;Park, Sung-Ae;Hong, Jin-Eui
    • Journal of Home Health Care Nursing
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    • v.6
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    • pp.19-32
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    • 1999
  • The purpose of this study was to develop of home nursing care classification and home health care costs of the free-standing home nursing care agency. This study was done through 3 steps The First stage, home nursing care classification was identified and classified by literature, review-committee and expert meeting. The second stage, cost elements for home nursing care visit were identified and accounted. That were divided into direct nursing care cost, indirect nursing care cost, management cost and transportation cost. Third stage, total cost of per visit was produced. Data were collected from 810 visits of 120 patients received home dare and from January. 1999 to November, 1999, and analysed with EXCEL program. The obtained results are as follows : 1. Home nursing care classification was consisted of 6 high level classification domain and 10 low level classification domain and 163 home nursing care behavior. 2. The cost of home nursing care per visit was 30,638 won which were direct and indirect nursing care cost(16.305won), management cost(5,255won) and transportation cost (9,098won). In conclusion. Home nursing behavior care classification developed in this study would be used as home health care standard. And the home nursing care costs can be used as a fundamental data for the further development of home health care costs in Korea.

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Design of Fuzzy Digital PID Controller Using Simplified Indirect Inference Method (간편 간접추론방법을 이용한 퍼지 디지털 PID 제어기의 설계)

  • Chai, Chang-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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    • v.36C no.12
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    • pp.69-77
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    • 1999
  • This paper describes the design of fuzzy digital PID controller using simplified indirect inference method. First, the fuzzy digital PID controller is derived from the conventional continuous time linear digital PID controller. Then the fuzzification, control-rule base, and defuzzification using SIM in the design of the fuzzy digital controller are discussed in detail. The resulting controller is a discrete time fuzzy version of the conventional digital PID controller, which has the same linear structure, but are nonlinear functions of the input signals. The proposed controller enhances the self-tuning control capability, particularly when the process to be controlled is nonlinear. When the SIM is applied, the fuzzy inference results can be calculated with splitting fuzzy variables into each action component and are determined as the functional form of corresponding variables. So the proposed method has the capability of the high speed inference and adapting with increasing the number of the fuzzy input variables easily. Computer simulation results have demonstrated the superior to the control performance of the one proposed by D. Misir et al.

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Studies on In Vitro Fertilization and Development of Bovine Follicular Oocytes Matured In Vitro II. Effect of Anti-Cumulus Cell Antibody on In Vitro Maturation of Bovine Follicular Oocytes (체외성숙 우난포란의 체외수정과 발달에 관한 연구 II. 항란구세포 항체가 우난포란의 체외성숙에 미치는 영향)

  • 박세필;김은영;정형민;박흠대;김종배;정길생
    • Korean Journal of Animal Reproduction
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.93-100
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    • 1990
  • These experiments were carried out to investigate the effect of rabbit anti-bovine cumulus cell antibodies on in vitro maturation of bovine follicular oocytes. Antisera to bovine cumulus cell were produced Japanese Ginat rabbit by repeated immunization of intact or solubilized bovine cumulus cell and purified by ammonium sulfate precipitation and Sepharose CL-4B protein-A affinity chromatography. The bovine cumulus cell-specific antibodies were confirmed by indirect ELISA. The results obtained in these experiments were summarized as follows : 1. The titer of the antibodies to cumulus cell determined by indirect ELISA using intact or solubilized bovine cumulus cell coated plates was very high in both intact and solubilized cumulus cells. Namely, the optical density at 1:12,800 dilution of antibodies was still significantly higher than that of non-immunized control serum. 2. When the follicular oocytes were treated with antibody to intact cumulus cells, the maturation rate of cumulus compacted and removed oocytes was ranged 47.6 to 59.1%. These value is significantly lower(p<0.05) than that(78.8%) of follicular oocytes cultured without the antibody. 3. the maturation rate of cumulus compacted and removed oocytes treated with antibody to solubilized cumulus cells was ranged 46.7 to 59.1%, significantly lower(p<0.05) than that(82.1%) of ooyctes cultured in antibody free medium. From above mentioned results, it could be said that cumulus cells promote nuclear maturation of follicular oocytes and that the beneficial effect of cumulus cells to the oocyte maturation is inhibited by the action of antibody to cumulus cells.

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The influence of internal ring beams on the internal pressure for large cooling towers with wind-thermal coupling effect

  • Ke, Shitang;Yu, Wei;Ge, Yaojun;Zhao, in;Cao, Shuyang
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.1-17
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    • 2019
  • Internal ring beams are primary components of new ring-stiffened cooling towers. In this study, numerical simulation of the internal flow field of a cooling tower with three ring beams under wind-thermal coupling effect is performed. The studied cooling tower is a 220-m super-large hyperbolic indirect natural draft cooling tower that is under construction in China and will be the World's highest cooling tower, the influence of peripheral radiators in operating cooling tower is also considered. Based on the simulation, the three-dimensional effect and distribution pattern of the wind loads on inner surface of the cooling tower is summarized, the average wind pressure distributions on the inner surface before and after the addition of the ring beams are analyzed, and the influence pattern of ring beams on the internal pressure coefficient value is derived. The action mechanisms behind the air flows inside the tower are compared. In addition, the effects of internal ring beams on temperature field characteristics, turbulence kinetic energy distribution, and wind resistance are analyzed. Finally, the internal pressure coefficients are suggested for ring-stiffened cooling towers under wind-thermal coupling effect. The study shows that the influence of internal stiffening ring beams on the internal pressure and flow of cooling towers should not be ignored, and the wind-thermal coupling effect should also be considered in the numerical simulation of cooling tower flow fields. The primary conclusions presented in this paper offer references for determining the internal suction of such ring-stiffened cooling towers.

A study on the action mechanism of internal pressures in straight-cone steel cooling tower under two-way coupling between wind and rain

  • Ke, S.T.;Du, L.Y.;Ge, Y.J.;Yang, Q.;Wang, H.;Tamura, Y.
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.11-27
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    • 2018
  • The straight-cone steel cooling tower is a novel type of structure, which has a distinct aerodynamic distribution on the internal surface of the tower cylinder compared with conventional hyperbolic concrete cooling towers. Especially in the extreme weather conditions of strong wind and heavy rain, heavy rain also has a direct impact on aerodynamic force on the internal surface and changes the turbulence effect of pulsating wind, but existing studies mainly focus on the impact effect brought by wind-driven rain to structure surface. In addition, for the indirect air cooled cooling tower, different additional ventilation rate of shutters produces a considerable interference to air movement inside the tower and also to the action mechanism of loads. To solve the problem, a straight-cone steel cooling towerstanding 189 m high and currently being constructed is taken as the research object in this study. The algorithm for two-way coupling between wind and rain is adopted. Simulation of wind field and raindrops is performed with continuous phase and discrete phase models, respectively, under the general principles of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Firstly, the rule of influence of 9 combinations of wind sped and rainfall intensity on flow field mechanism, the volume of wind-driven rain, additional action force of raindrops and equivalent internal pressure coefficient of the tower cylinder is analyzed. On this basis, the internal pressures of the cooling tower under the most unfavorable working condition are compared between four ventilation rates of shutters (0%, 15%, 30% and 100%). The results show that the 3D effect of equivalent internal pressure coefficient is the most significant when considering two-way coupling between wind and rain. Additional load imposed by raindrops on the internal surface of the tower accounts for an extremely small proportion of total wind load, the maximum being only 0.245%. This occurs under the combination of 20 m/s wind velocity and 200 mm/h rainfall intensity. Ventilation rate of shutters not only changes the air movement inside the tower, but also affects the accumulated amount and distribution of raindrops on the internal surface.