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Perceptions and Attitudes of Americans in Korea toward Edible Insect-based Pet Food (식용곤충 함유 반려동물 식품에 대한 국내거주 미국인 소비자 인식 및 태도 연구)

  • Kim, Seo-Young;Bae, Ga-Eun;Yang, Hee
    • Korean journal of applied entomology
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    • v.60 no.4
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    • pp.493-502
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    • 2021
  • We examined American consumers' perceptions and attitudes toward edible insect-based pet food. In this study, 16 Americans in Korea who owned dogs were categorized into two groups, and focus-group discussions were conducted under three conditions. First, we observed the free association perception of edible insect-based pet food, and attitudes were analyzed after providing a newspaper article related to it. Finally, consumer attitude was examined in the context of purchasing. The study found that the participants had high awareness of the eco-friendliness of edible insects and showed a positive attitude toward news articles related to it. However, when it came to purchasing, they considered nutritional and health functional values compared to environmental values. Meanwhile, the rejection of insects was nevertheless the most important negative factor in pet food, as in general food. The results are significant in confirming the possibility of using insect-based pet food by examining the perceptions and attitudes toward the environmental, nutritional, and health functional values of edible insects under three conditions for American consumers.

A Study on the Feasibility of Special Classes Evaluation in General Schools in Three aspects of Curriculum and Class-Evaluation Integration (교육과정-수업-평가 일체화의 세 가지 측면에 근거한 일반학교 특수학급 학업성취도 평가의 타당성 고찰)

  • Shin, Seoyoung;Park, Changun
    • Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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    • v.9 no.7
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    • pp.175-185
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    • 2019
  • In order for learners with different characteristics to reach meaningful learning, the curriculum - class-assessment must be integrated. In this study, we classified the integration into three aspects: content compatibility, operator convergence, and institutional connectivity, and looked at the status of unifying special classes in general schools from each perspective. As a result of the study, in terms of content suitability, adjustment of the curriculum to those subject to special education-professorial revision-assessment adjustment was not performed well except for subjects where individualization professors were conducted. From an actor's perspective, the ambiguity of the roles of general and special teachers resulted in the inability of curriculum coordinators, educators, evaluators and others to agree or even minimal consultations. In terms of institutional linkage, the authority and role of curriculum coordination, professorial revision, and assessment coordination were unclear except for subjects where individualization professors were conducted. As an alternative to discuss and remedy these problems, it proposed increasing awareness of individualized education, compulsory consultation and institutional readjustment.

Analysis of Factors Affecting Hand Hygiene Practices in Seafarers (선원들의 손위생 수행에 영향을 미치는 요인 분석)

  • Hwang, Jeong-Hee;Park, Eun-Kee;Yu, Byeng-Chul;Lee, Hu-Jang
    • Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.73-86
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    • 2019
  • Seafaring is an important occupation that requires stringent hand hygiene practices as a basic method for preventing food-borne illness and infectious diseases when the diseases occur on board. The purpose of this study is to provide fundamental data for the prevention of food-borne illness and infectious disease on the ship by investigating the level of hand hygiene practices and influencing factors. A total of 222 seafarers were surveyed at a seafarers' educational institution between July and August 2017. Their hand hygiene practice were examined by a modified method using the guidelines which are recommended by the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Hand Hygiene Australia. The mean of hand hygiene practice was 47.97 out of 75 points. By category, the most frequent hand hygiene practice was measured as 4.04 on a 5-point scale as 'after working'. Factors affecting hand hygiene practices were ship tonnage relating to in job characteristics, exercise in health-related characteristics, and soap in relation to the characteristics of the hand hygiene environment on board. To improve hand hygiene among seafarers, it is necessary to raise awareness of hand hygiene among seafarers who work on small ships in particular, and to improve the systems of hand hygiene on ships with continuous education, hygiene practice evaluation and feedback.

A Study on the Improvement of Safety Training of Shipbuilding Industry by Analysis of Serious Accidents in Shipbuilding Industry (조선업 중대재해 분석을 통한 조선업 안전교육 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jin-Woo;Han, Cheol-Ho;Lee, Young-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.23 no.7
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    • pp.858-868
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    • 2017
  • Korea's shipbuilding industry has led the world in the technical area over the last century. Despite this commendable performance, around 2,000 workers experience accidents almost every year with 40 being killed. This raises a question of whether the safety level of our shipbuilding industry, in particular the safety of workers, is actually at the world-class level. Accordingly, this research has analyzed several types of safety training currently provided in the field through investigating statistical data of serious accidents occurring from 2006 to 2015 in the domestic shipbuilding industry, analyzing its occurrence and causes, and conducting a survey targeting employees in the shipbuilding industry. Based on this, it has investigated problems of safety training in the shipbuilding industry and suggested improvements. First, it is essential to create a standard system for safety training in the shipbuilding industry to address problems of different kinds and levels of safety training provided by each shipyard and low quality of training, and operate more organized and systemized training. Second, safety training curriculum specializing in the shipbuilding industry should continue to be developed and standardized based on a standard system for safe training to prevent serious accidents and improve safety awareness of workers. Lastly, both employers and employees should actively provide and participate in safety training to secure safety of workers through preventing serious accidents and ultimately create safety-first culture in workplace.

The effect of empathy ability of nursing college students on attitude toward mental illness (간호 대학생의 공감 능력이 정신 질환에 대한 태도에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Mi Jin
    • Journal of Industrial Convergence
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.9-15
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between empathy ability and attitude toward mental illness in nursing college students. The subjects of this study were collected in June, 2017 for the 4th grade students attending the nursing department in D city. The data were collected using the SPSS.19 program. The results showed that empathy ability of nursing college students had a significant effect on the attitude toward mentally ill patients. The explanatory power of empathy ability on each subscale was 18% for benevolence, 16% for authoritarianism, 9 % for social restrictiveness, and 4% for community mental health ideology. In conclusion, the empathy ability of nursing college students was found to affect the attitude toward the mentally ill. As the empathy increased, the authoritarianism of the mentally ill was lowered, the benevolence was increased, the social life support and community mental health ideology was positive, so the positive attitude toward mental illness was increased overall. Therefore, it is necessary to systematically train and education nursing college students to develop empathy needed for the therapeutic relationship. These efforts will contribute to the improvement of the awareness of the mentally ill.

The Relationship Between Risk Perception, Knowledge, Risk Attitude, and Health promoting Behavior for Fine Dust in Nursing College Students (간호대학생의 미세먼지에 대한 위험인식, 지식, 위험태도, 건강관리행위 간의 관계)

  • Koo, Sang-Mee;Kim, Hyun-Ji
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.20 no.7
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    • pp.78-84
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between risk perception, knowledge, risk attitude, and health promoting behaviors of nursing college students. The data were collected from 168 university students of four-year nursing college in the city of D, C. The collected data were analyzed by independent t-test, one way ANOVA and Pearson correlation coefficient using SPSS WIN 20.0 program. As a result this study knowledge of fine dust was statistically significant in respiratory disease(t=1.92, p<.001). The risk attitude toward fine dust was statistically significant in respiratory diseases(t=2.05 p=.042), subjective health status(F=3.79, p = .012). There was a significant positive correlation between risk perception of fine dust and knowledge(r=.340, p<.001), risk attitude(r=.492, p<.001), and health promoting behaviors(r=.354, p<.001). Knowledge of fine dust and risk attitude(r=.401, p<.001), health promoting behavior(r=.296, p<.001), risk attitude toward fine dust and health care behaviors(r=.550, p<.001) also showed a statistically significant positive correlation. Based on these results, it will be necessary to develop a program to improve awareness and knowledge of fine dusts in nursing college students and to improve health promoting behaviors.

Economic Value Estimation of Agricultural ODA Projects Using Contingent Valuation Method : Focused on the KOPIA of Rural Development Administration (조건부가치측정법을 활용한 공적개발원조의 경제적 가치 추정: 농촌진흥청 해외농업기술개발사업(KOPIA)을 중심으로)

  • Moon, Kwang-Min
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.548-560
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    • 2021
  • This study estimates the amount of willingness to pay of the general public by applying the contingent value method to the Korea Program for International cooperation in Agricultural technology(KOPIA), a representative project of the Rural Development Administration. Prior to measuring the amount of willingness to pay for the KOPIA project, a survey of the perception of agriculture and rural areas and respondents' basic perception of public development assistance showed a positive perception of official development assistance in general. In particular, many respondents said that aid from the international community in the past contributed to Korea's economic and social development along with the importance of the international community helping the poor in underdeveloped countries. As a result of estimating the acceptance probability regression model by including the public awareness as a variable, the higher the income of the respondents and the more positive the perception of public development aid, the higher the amount of willingness to pay. The average annual payment amount per household derived from the acceptance probability regression model was estimated to be about 30,729 won.Based on the results of this analysis, several policy implications related to the public development aid policy of Korea were presented.

A Moral Approach of Yulgok Philosophy on Environmental Issue (환경문제에 대한 율곡철학의 도덕론적 접근)

  • Jeong, Won-Gyo
    • The Journal of Korean Philosophical History
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    • no.43
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    • pp.33-53
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    • 2014
  • It's the situation that modern technological civilization shakes the life environment fundamentally without a serious reflection on the dangers. The sense of crisis' brought the rise of modern Ecology in awareness of survivability of the humanity. Because the serious reflection is not just a campaign for environmental protection, but is to establish the values which is possible to coexist and to make harmony between the nature and man, man and man, and to form a healthy relationship through philosophical thought and practice has intrinsic value for human and nature. Under these circumstances, if Yulgok lives now and he is questioned by the ecological theorists of the 21st century that "What do you think about the serious environmental problem of present times?", what really would be his explanation? In the presentation methods of the explanation, will question first what contents western ecologists who study Theory of the environment in technology, Deep Ecology, and Social Ecology propose, then will compare and introduce what similarities and differences from theirs. As a result, we'll be found that Yulgok's thought, moral consciousness, about the nature and humanity as a confucian scholar.

A Study on Information Security Policy in the era of Smart Society (스마트시대 정보보호정책에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Dong-Wook;Sung, Wook-Joon
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.883-899
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    • 2012
  • This study will propose the policy priorities of cyber information security by AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process) survey. The policy categories for AHP survey consist in the foundation of information security and activity of information security(1st hierarchy). In the second hierarchy, the foundation of information security was classified into laws-system, human resources, h/w-s/w technology and sociocultural awareness. And the activity of information security was divided into infrastructure protection, privacy protection, related industry promotion, and national security. Information policy alternatives were composed of 16 categories in the third hierarchy. According to the AHP result, in the perspective of policy importance, the modification of related laws was the first agenda in the policy priority, better treatment of professionals was the second, and the re-establishment of policy system was the third. In the perspective of policy urgency, the re-establishment of policy system was the first item, the modification of related laws was the second, and better treatment of professionals is the third.

A Study on Placement, Management, and Utilization Improvement of the Automatic External Defibrillator in Ships (선박 내 자동심장충격기 설치 및 관리와 활용개선에 관한 연구)

  • Hwang, Jeong-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.26 no.7
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    • pp.820-829
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    • 2020
  • Because ships have limited support from land, it is necessary to equip them with automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) in preparation for the incidences of cardiac arrest patients and to properly place and manage AEDs. The seafarer must have the ability to use the AEDs. This is a study to identify the placement and management of AEDs in order to increase the utilization of AEDs in ships, analyze the ability of seafarers to use AEDs and their intention to use it, and suggest improvement plans. The study was conducted from September 9, 2019, to February 20, 2020, and a total of 244 ships and 244 seafarers were surveyed. The data were analyzed by the frequency, percentage, and chi-square test using SPSS WIN 23.0 program. As a result, most of the ships with one AED number were identified, and some ships with insufficient AED placement and management were also identified. A total of 142 seafarers (58.2 %) had experience in participating in AED education; 136 seafarers (55.7 %) had intention to use AEDs; and the most barrier factor was "I don't know how to use" (63.0 %). The intention to use AEDs was high among seafarers in the position of the captain, navigator, and deck department personnel, and when they had an experience in AED training and the training period was less than six months, they were active in using AEDs. In addition, efforts to raise an awareness and education of AEDs are required for occupational groups other than navigators who are not willing to use AEDs in ships, and it is necessary to review appropriate retraining cycles through an evaluation of the seafarer's ability to use AEDs.