• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2007

This study investigated the concept of fashion as art by examining whether or not university students, rather than professional art critics, consider fashion to be art. The survey subjects were 146 university students, randomly chosen from textiles and clothing-related classes offered in 4 different universities in Seoul. A survey with the following 3 questions was conducted between September 2005 and June 2006: 1. What is art? 2. Is fashion art? 3. Explain the reason why fashion is, or is not, art. Morris Weitz's open concept of art is applied to discuss whether fashion can be classified as art. According to Weitz, there are no universal commonalities among arts. Therefore, art can be defined based on similarities among preexisting art forms and movements. As a result, respondents mentioned the following as characteristics of art: expressiveness, creativity, influence on viewers' emotion, tendency to make life bountiful, particular behaviors or objects, something valuable, formalities, etc. These answers parallel the features of art discussed by professional art critics. In addition, 12 of the 146 respondents considered fashion was not art, 20 placed it on the border while the remaining 114 affirmed a positive relation. Respondents who considered fashion to be art or placed it on the border listed the similar features mentioned in the answers to the first question as similarities between fashion and art. On the other hand, features of fashion such as commercial, whimsical, impermanent and utilitarian properties were answered as dissimilarities between fashion and art. However, these dissimilarities do not serve as obstacles for considering fashion as art, since Weitz's open concept of art does not assume the existence of universal traits of art. Therefore, referring to Weitz's open concept of art, fashion can be considered as art, since reasonable similarities between fashion and art were designated by the majority of respondents.

• Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.144-153
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• 2012

This study analyzed and investigated problems of local safety experience halls' spatial structure and media status. Improvements would be suggested after comprehending the need to execute safety education based on citizen's satisfaction and requests. Contents of safety experience space concept, display characteristics and types applied to local institution were analyzed. Safety experience centers with systemized protocols that opened after 2003 and were bigger than $5,000m^2$ were selected. We had three candidates and they were Seoul Gwangnaru Safety Experience Center, Boramea Safety Experience Center and Daegu Safety Theme Park. Going through checklists and interviewing official institutions that were in charge of safety hall educations helped comprehension of sample space status and detailed experimental presentation media. A survey was created based on this study and was distributed to users and non-users of safety experience halls. The survey consisted of general questions covering situations, awareness, level of interests, frequency and satisfaction level. The results were extracted with SPSS 18.0 through frequency analysis and cross tabulations. This research improvements through synthesized contemplation. For the resuits First, various experimental programs need to be supplemented in order to prevent accidents. Second, vivid experimental spaces need to be planned for active participation and users should be fully aware of safety hazard through education. Third, there weren't enough institutions compared to the education needs. Promoting and building more safety experience halls are dire. Finally, these suggestions of the results will be distributed in the planning of the exhibit hall.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.537-545
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• 2009

Though there were many research and development about telemedicine on land recently, not yet applied to that on the shore. In this paper, when emergency clinic situation were generated in a ship on shore, the telemedicine system was designed and implemented for transfer and clinic service to doctors on the land by measuring basic body signals of patients. Presently, wireless communication and inmarsat telephone are usually used by simple questions and clinic consults to remote doctors when emergency situation were happened in the ship. In this paper, the telemedicine system on the shore were developed for improving this problems by measuring patient's fundamental conditions such as the blood pressure, pulse, the respiratory condition, electrocardiogram, body temperature, patient image and sending these information to remote doctors on land for more accurate prescription. The developed system can supply the high level clinic service to emergency patients on the shore and cope with the emergency situation in ship.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.12 no.1 s.28
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• pp.3-10
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• 2004

These days GIS have rapidly deployed as input and solutions to marketing decision making problems and corresponding decision support systems in many countries including Korea. Its powerful spatial analysis tools along with data integration and graphic display capabilities let many retailers and manufacturers in fashion industry to accept GIS as a useful mean for their decision making systems. At this moment, this paper presents many facets of discussions on how GIS be applied to fashion marketing decision making problems. From provoking several questions on current fashion marketing decision making system to explaining multiattribute decision making and multiobjective decision making as tools for decision making analysis and discussing some implementation issues, this paper revealed many aspects of GIS and fashion marketing decision support system from integration point of view.

• Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.80-88
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• 2009

This study basically aims to examine how the GBCC system, which has been implemented since 2005 regarding school facilities, is actually being applied to schools and to survey students' satisfaction and awareness of school facilities. Ultimately, this study is to contribute to improving environment-friendly certification indexes and promoting the system. When it comes to research methods, a school with the green building certification and a school without it were selected for comparison, the two schools were visited for the investigation of their actual conditions, and then, based on the results, a survey was conducted for the students of both schools on their satisfaction(POE) of the school facilities, and finally, the results of the two schools were compared with each other and analyzed. The results of this study shows that the facilities of the school with the green building certification are much superior to those of the school without the certification as well as the former has more various facilities then the latter Nonetheless, facilities with the green building certification were found to miss something in terms of maintenance and management. Most of the survey questions show that students of the school with green building certification have higher satisfaction and awareness levels for school facilities than those of the other school students without the certification. However, the difference was a merely relative one, with most students of the school with the certification answering "so so" for their school facilities in terms of absolute evaluation.

• The Journal of the Society of Korean Medicine Diagnostics
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.110-120
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• 2010

Objective: To relate with significant relationship between symptoms and Five Zhang(五臟)symptoms in Five Woon Constitutions and to characterize Five Woons of Asian women who live at Los Angeles area in U.S.A. Methods: 19 diagnostic questions were given to 286 Asian females subjects who were treated for their symptoms at an Asian medical clinic near Los Angeles in USA. The participants were given their constitutions, one of the Five Woons based on their birthdays. The Cross tabulation analysis was also applied to look for the effectiveness of Five Woons on the symptoms. Results: 1. The cross tabulation analysis showed the significant effectiveness of the Five Woons on the five symptoms including dizziness, hot and cold, lower body edema and face fever(p<0.1). 2. The dizziness and the hot and cold were related with Liver diseases, the lower body edema was related with Kidney diseases and the face fever was related to Heart diseases. Conclusions: This study can explain the relationship between the significant symptoms of Five Woons and Five Zhang(五臟)symptoms with reference which is the book by Yoon, ChoChang who lived 1700 years. Further clinical research is necessary to develop more delicate questionnaires and look for ways of characterizing the Five Woons. The diagnosis and corresponding treatment based on the Five Woons should be further studied in view of the Asian medicine.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.307-319
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• 2013

With the rapid accumulation of microarray data, it is a significant challenge to integrate available data sets addressing the same biological questions that can provide more samples and better experimental results. Sometimes, different microarray platforms make it difficult to effectively integrate data from several studies and there is no consensus on which method is the best to produce a single and unified data set. Methods using median rank score, quantile discretization and standardization (which directly combine rescaled gene expression values) and meta-analysis (which combine the results of individual studies at the interpretative level) are reviewed. Real data examples downloaded from GEO are used to compare the performance of these methods and to evaluate if the combined data set detects more reliable information from the separated data sets or not.

• Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.273-278
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• 2006

This survey was accomplished in order to find out the necessity of creation of Korean standard differentiation of the symptoms and signs for the stroke(KSDS) in clinical practice. The survey questions were developed by the consensus from the professors who major in internal traditional Korean medicine(TKM). May 11th to July 31th 2005, the questionnaire was given to 800 TKM doctors in the whole country of Korea listed on the National Korean Medical Hospital Associations address book dy postal mail. Total of 358(44.7%) questionnaires were retrieved out of the 800 subjects. The 311 (86.9%) of 358 TKM doctors given an answer to the survey responded to need development of KSDS, and 176(56.6%) of 311 TKM doctors who answered to need development of KSDS responded to have to consider consensus of clinical experts on the stroke for creation of KSDS. These results support a role for new KSDS might be usefully applied in diagnosis and treatment of the stroke.

• Journal of Information Management
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.95-108
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• 2002

Recently, interest in HCI has increased domestically among the workers in the Internet business as Internet has entered into its maturing stage in which the focus has been moved from quantitative expansion of web sites to qualitative improvement. However, answering questions like "how HCI can optimize user experience, generally accepted as the ultimate goal of Internet service" seem still difficult to achieve, because the theories and research methodology of HCI has not been well informed to the Internet-related workers. For HCI to set ground in the actual business sector, its value should be translated into financial terms and the top management should be persuaded to support it. This paper deals with what benefits HCI can give to the Internet companies, how HCI can help user interface design with its research findings, what kind of research method can be applied in the business sector with actual examples.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.239-247
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• 2004

When the concrete is subjected to chloride attack or carbonation, the passive steel normally initiate corrosion. By product of corrosion make volume of concrete expand 3 to 8 times and induce the stress which lead cracking and spalling of concrete. It result in the loss of the integrity of the concrete structures. Several corrosion inhibitors imported from America, Japan and Europe are currently being used to repair the concrete structures in Korea. However, questions has been raised for protective effect of the corrosion inhibitors which applied in steel reinforced concrete structures. Therefore, we investigated the influence of type and amount of corrosion inhibitors through the tests immersing in salty water. In addition, we developed the corrosion inhibitive agent treating to surface of concrete structures for improving resistance to penetration and corrosion of the steel reinforcement.