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An Analytical Study on the Influence of Resistance Factors in Adoption and Diffusion of Innovation as for Introducing ERP Systems into Universities (전사적자원관리(ERP) 시스템의 조직 내 확산에 대한 저항요인 분석)

  • Kim, Hyeon-Jeong;Kim, Young-Hee;Kim, Moon-Sun
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.129-146
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    • 2013
  • This paper focuses on the systematic approach to handle possible resistance by the members of an organization which adopts ERP system. We also analyze various factors that affect the members' receptivity to the new system. The analytic result from the data of 169 universities shows that emotional factors such as fear and doubt play a significant role, while other factors such as relative advantages of efficiency, relative advantages of system and technology support does not. This research demonstrates both the psychological and behavioral aspects of resistance to technology, and then provides a new perspective on the adoption and diffusion of technological innovation in an organization by systematically analyzing the possible negative consequences while the majority of existing research emphasizes on the rosy prospects of the innovation.

Identifying the Relative Importance of Service Quality Attribute for Developing an Operation Proposal on Hypothetical College Foodservice Approached to Conjoint Analysis (신설 대학급식소 운영 계획을 위한 서비스 품질 속성의 상대적 중요도 규명: conjoint 분석의 활용)

  • Park, Mun-Gyeong;Kim, Chang-Jun
    • Journal of the Korean Dietetic Association
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.390-403
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    • 2006
  • The purposes of this study were to : (a) examine the using pattern of college foodservice and off-campus restaurant and identify the important service quality attributes and levels for conjoint analysis, (b) investigate the demographic factor and the lunch behavior of "S" college's foodservice customer (c) search the optimum moving time to the college foodservice by cumulative graph, (d) identify the relative importance of the service quality attributes and level at college foodservice by conjoint analysis, and (e) provide the basic data for establishing new college foodservice. Questionnaire developed were conducted with 305 daytime students. A total of 284 were usable and the data was analyzed by the SPSS(ver. 11.0) for the descriptive analysis and conjoint analysis. ‘Low price’ was the reason for using college union foodservice, and the advantages of college union the foodservice were reported to be 'speediness', 'low price', 'near distance', 'wide space' and etc in a college. For off-campus restaurant, the using reasons were mentioned 'near distance', 'menu variety', 'kindness', and 'better taste and quality' and the using advantage found out 'inexpensive and enjoyable food with friends', and 'good taste'. An optimum time required for moving to the college foodservice was calculated 9 min by cumulative graph. As the relative important attributes on college foodservice were identified in the order of the ‘price range', the 'time required for the movement' and the 'food taste', and the level were analyzed the location requiring 6~10 minutes for the movement, the price range of 2,100~2,500 won, and the providing tasty foods by conjoint analysis. As "S" college will be established a new college foodsrevice suggested by the this study result, there should be expected the increasing salse and the college student's satisfaction on campus foodservice.

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Restoration of Mandibular Edentulous Patient By Dental Implant: Case Report

  • Kwon, Ji-Yung;Kim, Yung-Soo
    • The Journal of Korean Academy of Prosthodontics
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    • v.38 no.3
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    • pp.360-365
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    • 2000
  • The completely edentulous patient has few treatment options in conventional dentistry. When implants are considered, treatment plans range from a 2-implant overdenture to a completely implant-supported prosthesis. Fixed prosthesis is often the preferred selection of the edentulous patient. fixed full-arch cert amo-metal restorations can be a predictable implant treatment modality for the edentulous patient. Implant-supported fixed prosthesis has several advantages: predictability, fixedness, retrievability, improved function, lower maintenance of prosthesis, long-term published success. Edentulous patients with a severely resorbed mandible often experience problems with their dentures. Treatment concepts involving two to four implants for the support of an overdenture have been proposed. There seems to be no need to insert more than two endosteal implants to support an overdenture, however, long-term prospective studies are needed to support this notion. Using short endosseous implants and an overdenture in the extremely resorbed mandible is a justified treatment option because of the relative simplicity and low morbidity of this treatment strategy. Implant-supported overdenture has several advantages: Cost, retrievability, hygiene access, profile and contour control, increased retention and stability, implant installed in a predicted region(ant. mandible).

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The Analysis of Hatch Corner by the Coupling Method of F.E.M and B.E.M (유한요소법과 경계요소법의 결합해법에 의한 HATCH CORNER 해석)

  • Chang-Yull,Kim;Soo-Lyong,Lee;Jung-Sin,Che
    • Bulletin of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.25-34
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    • 1987
  • Whereas the finite element method is well established today, the boundary element method is a fairly recent development. Both are general-purpose methods for the solution of various structural analysis problem. The B.E.M has several potential advantages relative to the F.E.M. One of them is that the number of unknowns in algebraic system obtained by discretization is proportional to the number of boundary nodes. Anothor advantage is the ease of discretization and input data preparation. However, the B.E.M. always leads to a fully populated and unsymmetric system of equations. Even though the number of degree-of-freedom is reduced as compared with F.E.M, since nodes exist on the boundary only in the B.E.M, to follow that the effort to solve the equations can be greater. It has been shown also that the time spent in setting up the coefficient matrix is a significant and can, in some cases, be greater than the time required to solve the equation. Thus, one can naturally consider the idea that two methods should be coupled, then the advantages of both methods can be taken. And further, by using this coupling method the HATCH CORNER was analyzed to give initial design data.

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Optical-fiber Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometry for Quantitative Measurement of Defects on Aluminum Liners in Composite Pressure Vessels

  • Kim, Seong Jong;Kang, Young June;Choi, Nak-Jung
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.50-56
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    • 2013
  • Optical-fiber electronic speckle pattern interferometry (ESPI) is a non-contact, non-destructive examination technique with the advantages of rapid measurement, high accuracy, and full-field measurement. The optical-fiber ESPI system used in this study was compact and portable with the advantages of easy set-up and signal acquisition. By suitably configuring the optical-fiber ESPI system, producing an image signal in a charge-coupled device camera, and periodically modulating beam phases, we obtained phase information from the speckle pattern using a four-step phase shifting algorithm. Moreover, we compared the actual defect size with that of interference fringes which appeared on a screen after calculating the pixel value according to the distance between the object and the CCD camera. Conventional methods of measuring defects are time-consuming and resource-intensive because the estimated values are relative. However, our simple method could quantitatively estimate the defect length by carrying out numerical analysis for obtaining values on the X-axis in a line profile. The results showed reliable values for average error rates and a decrease in the error rate with increasing defect length or pressure.

Impacts of Relative Advantage of Fast Food Restaurant's O2O Service and Consumer Involvement on Consumer Engagement, and Store Loyalty: Focused on MZ Generationsin Untact Consumption Era

  • LEE, Young-Eun;LEE, Yong-Ki
    • The Korean Journal of Franchise Management
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.41-51
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    • 2020
  • Purpose: Fast food franchise companies are trying a variety of innovative services to increase their competitiveness in response to changes in population composition in the fast food market and rapid changes in consumption trends due to technological development. From this point of view, franchise companies that have focused on offline store operations are providing O2O (offline to online) service as a core service for customer convenience. This new attempt is a strategy to increase loyalty by applying an interaction method based on understanding the characteristics of new generation consumers. However, existing studies are focused on the relationship between O2O service and acceptance, so very little is known about how O2O service affects customer loyalty. Therefore, this study examines the impacts of customer involvement and relative advantages of fast food O2O service on customer brand engagement (cognitive and affective engagement) and store loyalty for MZ(Millennials - Z) generations. Research design, data, and methodology: In order to achieve the purposes of this research, several hypotheses were developed. The data were collected from 247 questionnaires in their 16-30s and were analyzed using SPSS 22.0 and SmartPLS 3.0 program. Measurement model analysis was carried out to assess convergent and discriminant validity. Also, common method bias was tested using the values of VIF (variance inflation factor). The hypotheses was tested using structural equation modeling. Result: First, involvement has a positive effect on cognitive and affective engagement. Second, relative advantages have has a positive effect on cognitive and affective engagement. Third, cognitive influences affective engagement. Finally, both cognitive and affective engagement affect store loyalty, but affective engagement has a stronger effect on store loyalty than cognitive engagement. Conclusions: In the process of consumer-brand interaction, it was confirmed that store loyalty was influenced by cognitive and affective engagement sequentially. However, the results show that affective engagement has a relatively stronger on store loyalty than cognitive engagement. Therefore, it is necessary to establish an O2O service strategy to maintain long-term loyal customers by inducing cognitive participation with high-involved consumer, as well as affective interaction, in order to obtain new customers and increase customer loyalty.

Design and Sensitivity Analysis of Design Factors for Induction Heating System (수치해석을 통한 유도가열 코일의 설계 및 설계인자의 민감도 해석)

  • Oh, Dong-Wook;Kim, Tae Hoon;Do, Kyu Hyung;Park, Jang Min;Lee, Jungho
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Heat Treatment
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.233-240
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    • 2013
  • Rapid and homogeneous heating in heat treatment has been a challenging engineering issue throughout a heating temperature over $1,000^{\circ}C$. Induction heating has been widely used in field of heat treatment compared with conventional heating system. Advantages in homogeneous heating, simple fabrication, and repeatable use can be efficiently made with the induction heater. In this paper, numerical analysis of an induction coil system for heat flux gauge heating is performed. The effect of configuration on the heating performance was considered in various cases of the coil radius, distance between the winding, relative height difference between the heat flux gauge and the coil, and the applied current frequency. Temperature distribution within the heat flux gauge at frequency-steady state was calculated with a finite element method. Sensitivity analysis was also performed and the relative importance of 2 key parameters; coil radius, distance between the winding, were taken as main contributors for induction heating.

The Emission Characteristics of Bio-Diesel Fuel in Heavy-Duty Engine (바이오 디젤 적용에 따른 대형엔진의 배출가스 특성)

  • Kim, Sun-Moon;Eom, Myoung-Do;Hong, Ji-Hyung
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.499-506
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    • 2010
  • Recently, a great deal of attention have been directed to the use of alternative fuels as a means to reduce vehicular emissions. As one of the promising alternative fuels, bio-diesel has advantages of a wide adaptability without retrofit of diesel engine. It is also effective enough to reduce CO, THC, $SO_x$, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and PM. In this study, we investigated the emission characteristics of biofuels between different operating conditions, i.e., engine speed (1,400 rpm and 2,300 rpm), engine load (10% and 100%), bio-diesel blending (BD0, BD5 and BD20), and recirculation (EGR) rate of exhaust gas (0% and 20%). Relative performance of the system was evaluated mainly for the greenhouse gases ($CH_4$, $N_2O$ and $CO_2$). In addition, emission characteristics of ND-13 mode were also tested against both greenhouse gases and other airborne pollutants under emission regulation. The relative composition of bio-diesel has shown fairly clear effects on the emission quantities of CO, THC, and PM emission, although it was not on $NO_x$ and greenhouse gases. EGR rate has shown trade-off characteristics between $NO_x$ and PM.

Study of Rehabilitation Priority Order of Pipes for Water Distribution Systems using Utopian Approach (Utopian Approach를 이용한 상수관망 개별관로 개량우선순위 산정에 관한 연구)

  • Yoo, Do-Guen;Jun, Hwan-Don;Kim, Joong-Hoon
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.183-193
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    • 2010
  • Well planned rehabilitation order of pipes is essential for efficient maintenance and management of Water Distribution Systems. In this study, not only deterioration rate of pipes but also structural and nonstructural failure which causes abnormal condition of WDS is considered to determine rehabilitation order. Probabilistic Neural Network is used for calculating deterioration rate at present and the importance of pipes is computed under structural and nonstructural failure by using Pipe by Pipe Failure Analysis and Effect Index. Utopian Approach, one of the Multi-Criteria Decision Making methods, is used for assessment of final rehabilitation order based on distance measure between utopian point and alternative one. Developed model in this study shows that it gives more reliable results than existing methods considering hydraulic relative importance does in application to real networks. In this point, the newly developed model, which gives advantages over existing models, can make a credible decision and simple application.

Application of Radio Frequency Microwave Technique for Glucose Detection (포도당 검출을 위한 라디오 주파수 마이크로파의 적용)

  • Kim Tae-Woo;Park Byoung-Soo;Cho Dong-Uk;Han Khil-Sung;Cho Tae-Kyung
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.171-178
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    • 2004
  • Radio frequency (RF) microwave can be used to predict glucose concentration in a sample. This paper presents preliminary results in determining the concentration by measuring relative permittivity in the solutions of distilled water, saline, human serum, and human blood containing glucose. It was shown that the microwave method has larger penetration depth of about 100times of NIR, than NIR technique in measuring glucose concentration for the tissue like a human muscle. The larger penetration depth of the method has advantages because it is more useful to detect glucose in a human body non-invasively. In the experiments, sensitivity for detecting glucose concentration in blood solutions was almost 57mg/dl at the frequency of approximately 5.8GHz.

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