• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.92-98
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• 2021

Purpose: This study automatically discriminates homogeneous and structure edge regions on computed tomography (CT) images, and it evaluates the noise level and edge preservation ratio (EPR) according to the different types of iterative reconstruction (IR). Methods: The dataset consisted of CT scans of 10 patients reconstructed with filtered back projection (FBP), statistical IR (iDose⁴), and iterative model-based reconstruction (IMR). Using the 10th and 85th percentiles of the structure coherence feature, homogeneous and structure edge regions were localized. The noise level was estimated using the averages of the standard deviations for five regions of interests (ROIs), and the EPR was calculated as the ratio of standard deviations between homogeneous and structural edge regions on subtraction CT between the FBP and IR. Results: The noise levels were 20.86±1.77 Hounsfield unit (HU), 13.50±1.14 HU, and 7.70±0.46 HU for FBP, iDose⁴, and IMR, respectively, which indicates that iDose⁴ and IMR could achieve noise reductions of approximately 35.17% and 62.97%, respectively. The EPR had values of 1.14±0.48 and 1.22±0.51 for iDose⁴ and IMR, respectively. Conclusions: The iDose⁴ and IMR algorithms can effectively reduce noise levels while maintaining the anatomical structure. This study suggested automated evaluation measurements of noise levels and EPRs, which are important aspects in CT image quality with patients' cases of FBP, iDose⁴, and IMR. We expect that the inclusion of other important image quality indices with a greater number of patients' cases will enable the establishment of integrated platforms for monitoring both CT image quality and radiation dose.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.784-794
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• 2009

Objectives : This study was to prepare basic data about middle and high school students' school loss due to oral diseasea and to investigate the relevant factors. Methods : The survey is conducted for 575 middle school students in Busan and Gyeongnam. School loss was investigated based on the experiences of absences and leaving school early, which had happened from oral diseasea. The independent variables were oral health behaviors and sociopeconomic factors such as sex, age of their parents, educational level of their parents, family income. Factors related with school loss was analyzed by the multiple logistic regression method. Results : The experience ratio of leaving school early to the dental clinic or having difficulty in studying was higher in the case of high school student than in middle school student case. The parameters related with absence or leaving school early for oral disease were the education level, the distinction of sex, fear about medical examination and the standard of living. The reasons of absence or leaving early for visiting the dental clinic were related with education level, the distinction of sex, fear about medical examination, distrust of oral care and the satisfaction of oral health. The parameters having effect on school performance were education level, sex, fear about medical examination, distrust of oral care, cost burden, interests in oral health by the parents and school record. Conclusions : The oral health promotion should be developed to decrease school loss for students.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제55권1호
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• pp.112-123
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• 2011

화학은 단계별로 개념이 연계 발전되는 학문 체계를 가지므로 고등학교의 화학 I II의 교육 내용은 대학 일반화학과 연계성 측면에서 매우 중요하다. 현재 고등학교 학생들은 심화 선택 최상위 과목인 화학II를 배우지 않고도 이공계 대학에 진학하는 것이 가능하다. 따라서 이러한 학생들이 일반화학을 수강하면서 얼마나 어려움을 겪는지 알아보기 위해 일반화학과 고등학교 화학교재의 내용 연계성 및 학생들의 인식을 조사했다. 연구 결과, 화학I에서는 일반화학 필수 개념의 약 27%밖에 소개하고 있지 않지만, 화학II에서는 약 62%의 내용이 일반화학과 연계되었다. 전남 M대학의 학생들 중 화학II를 배우지 않은 약 70%의 학생들은 일반화학을 배울 때 상대적으로 더 어려워했고, 학업성취도도 상대적으로 낮았을 뿐 아니라, 화학에 대해 흥미도도 낮게 조사되었다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제16권7호
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• pp.127-135
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• 2011

이러닝 시스템에서 학습자에게 적합한 콘텐츠 선택을 돕기 위한 콘텐츠 추천 시스템은 필수적이다. 학습자의 선호도를 통한 콘텐츠 추천은 협업 필터링 추천 방법과 내용 기반 추천 방법이 가장 많이 사용되고 있다. 그러나 기존추천 방법들은 학습자의 학습수준을 고려하지 않고 다른 사용자의 선호도를 기반으로 학습 콘텐츠를 추천한다. 따라서 상대적으로 콘텐츠를 학습한 학습자가 적은 경우 추천의 효율성이 떨어지고, 새로운 아이템이 추가될 경우 추천이 쉽지 않은 단점이 있다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위해 우리는 학습 콘텐츠의 유사도와 난이도에 기반한 콘텐츠 추천 방법을 제안한다. 학습 콘텐츠의 두 특성을 반영한 추천함수에 의해 선행학습 성취도가 낮은 학습자에게는 난이도가 낮고 유사도가 높은 콘텐츠를 추천하고, 성취도가 높은 학습자에게는 난이도가 높고 유사도가 낮은 콘텐츠를 추천한다. 이와 같이 다른 학습자의 선호도와는 무관하게 학습자의 성취도에 따라 가장 적합한 콘텐츠를 추천할 수 있다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제10권7호
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• pp.244-252
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• 2010

본 연구의 목적은 학교구강보건실 운영 담임교사의 구강보건지식과 행태 및 구강보건실 관련 태도를 분석하여 구강보건실 발전에 기초자료로 제공하는데 있다. 연구의 방법은 울산광역시 울주군 지역에 학교구강보건실을 운영하는 8개 초등학교 담임교사 186명을 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하였다. 조사대상 학교별, 운영기간별 담임교사의 구강보건지식과 행태에서 항목별에 따른 별다른 차이를 보이지는 않았으나, 대체적으로 단기운영학교에서 구강보건지식과 행태가 높은 것으로 나타났다. 조사대상 학교별 담임교사의 학교구강보건실 추천여부에서도 선행논문에 비해 추천률이 대체적으로 높게 나타나 긍정적인 효과를 나타내었다. 학교구강보건실 운영은 학생은 물론 교사들에게도 어느 정도 영향을 미치고 있는 것으로 나타났고, 교사들의 올바른 인식 변화와 구강보건지식수준을 높여줄 구강보건교육과 선진국형 학교구강보건실 운영사업의 확대 운영을 위해서는 학교구성원의 관심 및 적극적인 참여가 필요하며 제도적 장치가 뒷받침 되어야 할 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국중재학회지:중재연구
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.47-68
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• 2004

The problems on application for custody in CIETAC Arbitration Rule are examined in this paper. First, The issue of jurisdiction for application for custody is arisen from the expansion of material jurisdiction of CIETAC. Until 1998, CIETAC had a jurisdiction only for the cases involving foreigners, but now, it has a jurisdiction not only for the cases involving foreigners but also for domestic cases. In the cases of arbitrating disputes involving foreigners, if the parties concerned apply for the preservation of property, CITEAC shall forward the application to and obtain a ruling from an intermediate people's court in the place where the object of the application resides, or where the property is located. But in the cases of arbitrating domestic disputes, if the parties concerned apply for the preservation of property, CITEAC shall forward the application to and obtain a ruling from an ground-level people's court in the place where the object of the application resides, or where the property is located. Therefore, "People's court" in article 23 of CIETAC Arbitration Rule includes both intermediate people's court and ground-level people's court in its meaning. Second, in the cases that the party concerned submits arbitration to CIETAC, it is not permitted for the party to ask the people's court for custody of property before submitting an arbitration. But there still can be the urgent cases that interests of the party concerned are at stake, and legitimate rights and interests of the party concerned may be damaged beyond remedy, if no application for custody of property is filed immediately. In that cases, even if the party may apply for custody of property with the people's court after submitting an arbitration, it might be too late to preserve property. Therefore, Chinese laws and rules have to be revised so that the party may ask the people's court for custody of property before submitting an arbitration. When revising laws and rules, according to the today's legislation trends, it must be considered that court and arbitration tribunal both have a right to decide the custody of property. When arbitration tribunal decides it, the procedural provisions executing it must be provided. It is also required that China permit to apply preservation of evidence as well as custody of property before submitting an arbitration. It is also strongly recommended that China permit custody of property or preservation of evidence even in the cases that an arbitration is submitted to the arbitration institute which is located in foreign country, not in China.

• Journal of Korean Medical Science
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• 제33권47호
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• pp.302.1-303.10
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• 2018

Background: A considerable amount of research has shown that knowledge and appropriate awareness are essential for encouraging positive behaviors and promoting health. In Korea, the roles that behavioral changes play in the prevention of cancer have been an important issue since the introduction of the 10 codes for cancer prevention in 2006. Thus, the present study investigated the associations of tobacco-related knowledge with awareness and attitudes towards positive smoking-cessation behaviors. Methods: The present study analyzed data from the 2010 national questionnaire survey (n = 1,006). This study evaluated sociodemographic characteristics, smoking status, self-rated health status, health-related interests, and the accuracy of 12 tobacco-related statements to determine knowledge level and to investigate its impact on awareness and behaviors related to smoking. These parameters were examined and staged using the Precaution Adoption Process Model. Results: A higher level of tobacco-related knowledge was significantly associated with a positive attitude towards smoking cessation (5-8 correct answers: odds ratio [OR], 2.53; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.57-4.08; ${\geq}9$ correct answers: OR, 3.90; 95% CI, 2.22-6.82; reference: ${\leq}4$ correct answers). Interestingly, among current smokers, only those who correctly responded to ${\geq}9$ of 12 tobacco-related statements were significantly associated with a positive attitude towards smoking cessation. Conclusion: This study found that having a higher level of tobacco-related knowledge had a significant impact on positive attitudes towards smoking cessation. This suggests that there is a need to disseminate appropriate knowledge to the general population to encourage positive attitudes and promote healthful behaviors in terms of smoking.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.205-218
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• 2014

Background: Most studies on the national health insurance benefit expansion policy have focused on policy tools or decision-making process. Hence there was not enough understanding on how policies are actually implemented within the specific policy context in Korea which has a national mandatory health insurance system with a dominant proportion of private providers. The main objectives of this study is to understand the implementation process of the benefit coverage expansion policy. Unlike other implementation studies, we tried to examine both the process of implementation and decision making and how they interact with each other. Methods: Interviews were conducted with the ex-members of the Health Insurance Policy Review Committee. Medical doctors who implement the policy at the 'street-level' were also interviewed. To figure out major variables and the degree of their influences, the data were analyzed with Winter's Policy Implementation Model which integrates the decision making and implementation phases. Results: As predicted by the Winter model, problems in the decision making phase, such as conflicts among the members of committee, lack of applicable causal theories application of highly symbolic activities, and limited attention of citizen to the issue are key variables that cause the 'implementation failure.' In the implementation phase, hospitals' own financial interests and practitioners' dependence on the hospitals' guidance were barriers to meeting the policy goals of providing a better coverage for patients. Patients, the target group, tend to prefer physicians who prescribe more treatment and medicine. To note, 'fixers' who can link and fill the gap between the decision-makers and implementers were not present. Conclusion: For achieving the policy goal of providing a better and more coverage to patients, the critical roles of medical providers as street-level implementers should be noted. Also decision making process of benefit package expansion policy should incorporate its influence on the implementation phase.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 4th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management Organized by the University of New South Wales
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• pp.413-419
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• 2011

Corporate governance is a system articulating the division of responsibilities among different company members, and defining the running rules and procedures for making decisions on corporate affairs. The separation of ownership and management in modern enterprises brings agency problems to the company shareholders, and it is wildly believed that good practice on corporate governance is essential to prevent managers from taking actions by which profiteering their own benefits but compromising the interests of shareholders. This research investigates the level of companies' compliance with the corporate governance codes to find whether significant differences in corporate governance practice exist between the listed construction companies and the national leading companies in Taiwan. Further exploration focuses on the correlation between the compliance level and the industrial features. The investigation finds that: (1)Construction companies display lower levels of corporate governance compliance; (2)Construction companies display lower levels of structural board independence and respect for stakeholders; (3)Compliance levels of construction companies are correlated with the number of employees and the ownership concentration; (4)Compliance levels of the whole sample companies are correlated with the factors representing firm size, such as turnover, capital and number of employees, but are independent of profitability as well as stock price volatility. The above empirical evidence characterizes the features of corporate governance in Taiwan listed construction companies, including: (1)Large companies lurking high risk of agency problems have more willingness to conduct corporate governance and meanwhile can afford higher costs for the conduction, so that their compliance level would be higher than smaller companies; (2)Construction companies in Taiwan have higher ownership concentration, on account of the industrial tradition of family business, and therefore pay less attention to the compliance with structural board independence and respect for stakeholders. However, the conclusions indicate that further studies are essential to clarify whether the above disparities would lead to a negative cycle of corporate governance practice in construction industry. The benefits of corporate governance should unfold more evidently to convince construction companies for improving their investment environment and stimulating their healthy growth.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제54권3호
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• pp.329-337
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• 2010

본 연구는 과학 교사들에게 교과서에 실린 문항에 대한 관심을 높일 뿐 아니라 교과서 문항을 효과적으로 사용할 수 있는 기초 자료를 제공하고자 고등학교 화학II 교과서 8종의 단원 평가 문항을 블룸의 개정된 교육목표 분류틀에 따라 분석하였다. 연구 결과 블룸의 인지 영역에 따른 분류에서는 '이해(44.7%)'에 해당하는 문항이 가장 많았고, '적용(29.9%)', '지식(15.6%)', '분석(9.5%)' 순이었으며 이러한 결과는 일반화학 교재의 단원 평가 문항 분석 결과인 '적용', '분석', '이해' 순으로 되어 있는 것과 뚜렷한 차이를 보였다. 특히 '평가'에 해당하는 문항은 전체 화학II 교과서에서 단 한 문제도 발견되지 않았으며 '종합(0.3%)'에 해당하는 문항도 거의 찾아볼 수 없었다. 한편 '적용'에 해당하는 문항의 대부분이 특정한 계산을 요하는 '양적인 수행'이었으며 '이해' 및 '양적인 수행'에 해당하는 문항의 비율은 분석된 총 문항의 70%에 이르렀다.