• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.51-65
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• 2015

Case management is becoming increasingly more important in the field of social welfare. The purpose of this study was to examine the practice of case management at community child centers and to identify factors influencing their performance. In addition, this study also analysed the performance level of case management at each stage and the factors influencing the level at each stage. For the purpose of this study, data obtained from about 181 community child center workers in Busan, Ulsan and Gyeongsangnamdo were analyzed. According to the results of the analysis, in Model 1 which represents the category of socio-demographic and personal factors, three factors namely gender, experience in case management, and interpersonal skills were found to be significantly influential and they have an explanatory power of 21.5%. Under the category of organizational factors in Model 2, four factors were found to be influential: experience in case management, interpersonal skills, availability of case management guidelines, and holding case conferences. These factors account for 33% explanatory power, 11.5% higher than that of Model 1. In Model 3 which represents the third category of community network literacy, three factors namely interpersonal skills, availability of case management guidelines, and ability to utilize networks were found to influence case management at community child centers, and they have an explanatory power of 43.4%, 10.4% higher than that of Model 2. For the practice of social welfare, these findings have the implication that community child center workers need to improve their interpersonal skills by cultivating communication skills, collaborative problem-solving skills, conflict-management skills, and other relevant skills. Furthermore, it is necessary to provide specific guidelines for case management, to have regular case conferences, to establish a community network, and to reinforce cooperation and mutual support among institutions within the network.

• 인간식물환경학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.139-148
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• 2020

Urban problems raised by the concentration of population in urban areas have caused residents to migrate to other regions while causing other problems such as deteriorated infrastructure, traffic and environmental pollution problems in existing urban areas. As an alternative to improve this phenomenon, urban regeneration has emerged, and under the assumption that creating community vegetable gardens is effective in revitalizing cities considering their physical, social and cultural environment, frequency and descriptive analyses were conducted on the vegetable gardens in Jungnosong-dong, Wansan-gu, Jeonju-si, Jeollabuk-do, Korea to examine differences in the components of the surrounding environment and the settlement, and community spirit of the two groups comprised of 30 and 35 persons who did not and did participate in gardening respectively. Regression analysis were conducted to determine whether there were changes in community spirit after participating in gardening. As a component of the surrounding environment, gardening and fence management were found to be important for both the groups, and they seemed to have high satisfaction with their residence because they wanted to continue to live in their neighborhood. Overall, the satisfaction evaluation results showed that those who participated in gardening showed a higher satisfaction level than those who did not. Based on the changes in community spirit after participating in the activity, it was found that there was a high level of perception in all the components, indicating that the gardening had a positive effect on the cultivation of community spirit. As such, the spaces called vegetable gardens are not only for doing physical activities but also as shared conversation topics, and through the activities in the gardens, changes in the awareness of local residents can be brought about through the formation of social networks and natural communication between neighbors. It can be concluded that they encourage residents to actively participate in improving the urban environment through activities such as planting.

• 한국심리학회지 : 문화 및 사회문제
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.147-164
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 자살예방을 위한 지역공동체 기반의 접근과 자살률 감소를 위한 국가전략에 대해 고찰하고 한국에서의 자살감소를 위한 제안을 하였다. 한국의 경우 여전히 자살의 이해와 예방에 대한 노력은 정신과의사, 심리학자, 정신건강관련기관, 개인기관 등과 같은 특수한 목적을 가진 집단에 의해 상호협조 없이 단독으로 이루어지고 있으며, 각 집단이 개별적으로 활동하고 있기 때문에 궁극적으로는 자살예방에 있어서 별다른 효과가 나타나지 않고 있는 상황이다. 한국에서의 자살을 예방하고 감소시키기 위해서, 지역공동체의 구성원들은 자살과 관련된 충분한 지식을 갖고 다른 영역의 전문가나 기관들과 적극적으로 협력해야 한다. 이러한 노력을 통해, 지역공동체는 정신건강을 증진시킬 수 있는 네트워크를 구축할 수 있게 된다. 자살을 예방하고 자살률을 감소시키는 가장 중요한 요소는 자살과 정신건강에 대한 오명을 제거하고, 도움추구 행동을 증가시키는 것이다. 자살은 자살하려는 사람이 해결할 수 있는 개인적인 문제가 아니라 자살의 인식, 관리 및 예방에 있어 지역공동체가 해결해야 되는 지역공동체의 문제다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.28-40
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• 2008

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are a practical application class of wireless ad hoc networks, which consist of moving vehicles equipped with radio communication capabilities that collaborate to form a temporary network. This paper addresses issues and protocols of multihop routing in such emerging networks in the context of safety and infotainment applications. Due to the highly dynamic mobility of vehicles, frequent link breakage and short connection time are inevitable and, thus, the routing is a challenging task and interest for many researchers and industrial community. The frequent and dynamic change of topology makes the topology-based routing unreliable but the position-based routing more effective. The position-based routing consists of the location service which maps a node id to a geo-graphical position and the forwarding scheme which selects the next hop based on geo-graphical information of the node, its neighbors and the destination. The routing techniques are further categorized into geographical forwarding, trajectory forwarding and opportunistic forwarding based on the forwarding scheme. In this paper, we first present the distinguished properties of VANETs and the challenges and intractable issues posed in designing the routing protocols, followed by the comprehensive survey of existing routing protocols. Then, the different routing protocols designed for VANETs are compared in terms of characteristics, performance and application domains.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.369-377
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• 2006

Recently, the metropolitan area network (MAN) has attracted much attention in telecommunication research and has emerged as one of the most important research topics in the community. Several standards representing the first step for developing metropolitan networks have been published; IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX) has taken a relevant role in reaching the goal of realizing a full-service network all over a urban and suburban area. At the same time, the wireless local area networks (WLAN) have been widely used for in-home or short range communications, mainly basing on the IEEE 802.11 (WiFi) standard. A consequence is the increasing interest in interworking technology, that allows an interconnection between different standards by maintaining certain properties, mainly in terms of quality of service (QoS). One of the major issues is to design bridging devices capable of transparently interconnect different wireless technologies. In this paper, we propose two interconnection bridging solutions between WiMAX and WiFi links; the first is more based on the concept of maintaining a certain end-to-end QoS level independently from the wireless technologies used. The second method is more devoted to the reduction of the implementation complexity at the cost of no QoS assurance. The performance of the two methods are compared by resorting to computer simulations showing the advantages of each one technique.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.93-104
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• 2007

Traffic grooming, in which low-rate circuits are multiplexed onto wavelengths, with the goal of minimizing the number of add-drop multiplexers (ADMs) and wavelengths has received much research attention from the optical networking community in recent years. While previous work has considered various traffic models and network architectures, protection requirements of the circuits have not been considered. In this paper, we consider survivable traffic grooming, or grooming traffic which contains a mix of circuits that need protection and that do not need protection. We assume a unidirectional ring network with all-to-all symmetric traffic with $t\geq1$ circuits between each node pair, of which s require protection. As it turns out, survivable traffic grooming presents a significant tradeoff between the number of wavelengths and the number of ADMs, which is almost non-existent in non-survivable traffic grooming for this type of traffic. We explore this tradeoff for some specific cases in this paper. We also present some new results and solution methods for solving certain non-survivable traffic grooming problems.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.422-429
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• 2008

Mobile peer-to-peer (P2P) systems have recently got in the limelight of the research community that is striving to build efficient and effective mobile content addressable networks. Along this line of research, we propose a new peer-to-peer file sharing protocol suited to mobile ad hoc networks (MANET). The main ingredients of our protocol are network coding and mobility assisted data propagation, i.e., single-hop communication. We argue that network coding in combination with single-hop communication allows P2P file sharing systems in MANET to operate in a more efficient manner and helps the systems to deal with typical MANET issues such as dynamic topology and intermittent connectivity as well as various other issues that have been disregarded in previous MANET P2P researches such as addressing, node/user density, non-cooperativeness, and unreliable channel. Via simulation, we show that our P2P protocol based on network coding and single-hop communication allows shorter file downloading delays compared to an existing MANET P2P protocol.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.5-23
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• 2011

One inevitable problem in Ad Hoc networks is the limited battery capacity, which explains why portable devices might shut down suddenly when the power of hardware is depleted. Hence, how to decrease the power consumption is an important issue in ad hoc networks. With the development of wireless technology, mobile devices can transmit voices, surf the Internet, download entertaining stuffs, and even support some P2P applications, like sharing real-time streaming. In order to keep the quality stable, the transmission must be continuous and it is thus necessary to select some managers to coordinate all nodes in a P2P community. In addition to assigning jobs to the staffs (children) when needed, these managers (ancestors) are able to reappoint jobs in advance when employees retire. This paper proposed a mechanism called Cluster-based Power Management (CPM) to stabilize the transmissions and increase Time to Live (TTL) of mobile hosts. In our new proposed method, we establish the clusters according to every node's joining order and capability, and adjust their sleep time dynamically through three different mathematical models. Our simulation results reveal that this proposed scheme not only reduces the power consumption efficiently, but also increases the total TTLs evidently.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.200-214
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• 2024

Amid the flood of data, social network analysis is beneficial in searching for its hidden context and verifying several pieces of information. This can be used for detecting the spread model of infectious diseases, methods of preventing infectious diseases, mining of small groups and so forth. In addition, community detection is the most studied topic in social network analysis using graph analysis methods. The objective of this study is to examine signed attributed social networks and identify the maximal balanced cliques that are both absolute and fair. In the same vein, the purpose is to ensure fairness in complex networks, overcome the "information cocoon" bottleneck, and reduce the occurrence of "group polarization" in social networks. Meanwhile, an empirical study is presented in the experimental section, which uses the personal information of 77 employees of a research company and the trust relationships at the professional level between employees to mine some small groups with the possibility of "group polarization." Finally, the study provides suggestions for managers of the company to align and group new work teams in an organization.

• 재활치료과학
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.81-96
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• 2023

목적 : 본 연구는 지역사회 노인의 사회적 관계망과 건강증진행동을 파악하고 사회적 관계망의 구조적, 기능적 측면이 건강증진행동에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 알아보고자 하였다. 연구방법 : 본 연구는 지역사회에 거주하는 65세 이상 노인 226명을 대상으로 사회적 관계망의 구조적, 기능적 측면과 라이프스타일 영역별 건강증진행동을 조사하였다. 사회적 관계망은 비동거 가족, 친인척, 친구, 이웃의 4가지 관계망을 대상으로, 구조적 특성인 관계망 크기와 접촉빈도, 기능적 특성인 사회적 지지를 조사하였다. 일반적 특성에 따른 건강증진행동 정도를 비교하기 위해 독립표본 T검정과 일원배치 분산분석을 실시하였다. 사회적 관계망과 건강증진행동과의 관계를 확인하기 위해 피어슨 상관분석을 실시하였고, 사회적 관계망이 건강증진행동에 미치는 영향을 확인하기 위해 위계적 회귀분석을 실시하였다. 결과 : 사회적 관계망 크기는 친구 관계망에서 가장 높았고 이웃 관계망에서 가장 낮았으며, 접촉빈도와 사회적 지지는 비동거 가족 관계망에서 가장 높았고 이웃 관계망에서 가장 낮았다. 건강증진행동은 일상생활활동 영역에서 가장 높았으며, 생산적·사회적 활동 영역에서 가장 낮았다. 일반적 특성 중 성별, 주관적 경제상태, 주관적 건강상태, 우울수준에 따른 건강증진행동은 유의한 차이를 보였다. 사회적 관계망의 구조적, 기능적 측면의 모든 하위요인들은 건강증진행동과 유의한 정적 상관관계를 보였다. 위계적 회귀분석 결과 이웃의 사회적 지지가 노인의 건강증진행동에 유의한 영향을 미치는 변인으로 나타났고, 일반적 특성 중 성별, 우울도 영향요인으로 나타났으며 이 모델은 37%의 설명력을 보였다. 결론 : 지역사회 노인의 건강증진행동 촉진을 위해서는 이웃의 사회적 지지를 중심으로 사회적 관계망을 고려한 건강증진 프로그램의 개발 및 관련 정책이 요구된다.