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Moon Jae-in Government's Plan for Benefit Expansion in National Health Insurance (문재인 정부의 건강보험 보장성 강화대책)

  • Park, Eun-Cheol
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.191-198
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    • 2017
  • Moon Jae-in Government announced the Government's 5-Year Plan on July 19, 2017, President Moon directly announced the Government's Plan for Benefit Expansion in National Health Insurance on August 7, 2017. The main contents of the announced expansion include benefit coverage for all medically necessary services with control over non-covered service occurrence, a decrease in the cost-sharing upper limit, and monetary support for catastrophic medical costs. Although past governments have been continuously striving for benefit expansion in the last 15 years, this plan has its breakthrough aspect in that all medical services will be covered by the National Health Insurance. In alignment, there are important tasks to solve: attaining a proper fee schedule, reforming the healthcare delivery system, and improving healthcare quality. This plan is a symptom oriented action in that it is limited in reducing patients' out-of-pocket money, unlike the systematic approach of the National Health Insurance. The sustainability of the National Health Insurance is being threatened due to South Korea's low birth rate, rapidly aging society, and low economic growth, in addition to the unification issue of the Korean Peninsula, medical utilization of the elderly, management of non-communicable diseases, and so on. Therefore, the Government needs to plan the National Health Insurance system reformation including actions addressed toward medical consumers.

Pangasiid Catfish Pangasius hypophthalmus Farming in Bangladesh: a Rural Survey in the Mymensingh Region

  • Sarkar, Reaz Uddin Md.;Khan, Saleha;Haque, Mahfuzul Md.;Khan, Mohammed Nurul Absar;Choi, Jae-Suk
    • Journal of Marine Bioscience and Biotechnology
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.94-101
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    • 2007
  • The status of recently expanded exotic pangasiid catfish Pangasius hypophthalmus, Pangasiidae farming in rural Bangladesh has been studied for finding research needs, through knowing the culture methods, associated activities and problems, to make the farming sustainable. Data were collected using participatory rural appraisal (PRA) tools in nine villages in three upazilas (sub-district) of Mymensingh district. The farmers have not got any formal training and have developed their knowledge on farming the fish through practice over years and sharing of knowledge among fellow farmers. Linked industries, e.g. hatcheries, nurseries, feed mills, trading of feed and fish etc. have developed that created employment opportunities. Most of the farmers produce two crops a year. About 90% of the farmers were found to practice mono culture of pangasiid catfish at high stocking density. The feeding rates started from 10-15% of the body weight per day at fingerling stage that reduced to 4-6% with growth. The average yield was found to be 25 tonslha/year. The livelihood of the farmers has been improved through farming the fish. Women and children were rarely engaged in the activities. The identified major problems in farming the fish were water quality deterioration, high feed costs and declining consumer demand and market price.

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A Study on Shared House Living Conditions and Needs for Young Single-Person Household's Housing Welfare: Focus on the Resident and Potential Consumer for College Student of a Shared House (청년 1인 가구의 주거복지를 위한 쉐어하우스 거주 실태와 요구도: 입주자와 잠재 수요자 대학생을 중심으로)

  • Jee, Eun Young
    • Human Ecology Research
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    • v.54 no.6
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    • pp.589-598
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    • 2016
  • The study finds a constructive way to improve shared houses by analyzing shared house living conditions, satisfaction of the residents and potential consumer's needs. For this, a survey of 179 single-person university residents and interviews with seven young adults residing in shared house was conducted. The results showed that shared house tenants had high satisfaction in regard to bedrooms, common spaces, and rental costs. They successfully adapted to community life by frequently using the living, dining spaces, and common spaces with respect and consideration towards other tenants by following rules. Single-person university household should prefer single rooms and the biggest consideration when they move into a shared house is rent. Affordable rates were 300,000 to 350,000 Korean Won per month (40.5%) and deposit of 3 million won or less (64.3%). Results also showed a need for a professional manager residing in the house with a cleaning service for common spaces and a want to share hobbies with other tenants (3.25/5 point scale). It is very important in a housing welfare perspective that one experiences the value of living and emotional sharing to heighten the satisfaction through shared houses. It is essential to put effort into developing a service that reflects consumer's needs for shared houses to continue as a housing alternative model for young adults.

A Study on the Fundraising and Sponsorship for the Library (도서관의 후원기금에 관한 연구)

  • 노문자
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.175-212
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    • 1999
  • All the libraries are facing major financial problems due to a variety of reasons such as non growing or even decreasing appropriations from their administration, continuing inflationary increases for journal and library materials, needs for new or improved facilities. increased costs for new technologies and networks and more demands for services. To address these financial problems, library administrators need to find ways to supplement their budgets through existing as well as new creative external funding strategies including grants, fundraising. sponsorship. resource sharing fees and others. This paper is drawing fundraising and sponsorship. But this financial aid is not an Aladin's lamp which, if rubbed three times, will give you three wishes and all the money you want. So this study is reviewed the history of fundraising, environmental situation in connecting with library law, status-quo, practical process for fundraising and existing sponsorship methods.

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Development of CAE Data Translation Technique for a Virtual Reality Environment (가상현실 환경을 위한 해석데이터 변환 기술 개발)

  • Song, In-Ho;Yang, Jeong-Sam;Jo, Hyun-Jei;Choi, Sang-Su
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.334-341
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    • 2008
  • Computer-aided engineering (CAE) analysis is considered essential for product development because it decreases the simulation time, reduces the prototyping costs, and enhances the reusability of product parts. The reuse of quality-assured CAE data has been continually increasing due to the extension of product lifecycle management; PLM, which is widely used, shortens the product development cycle and improves the product quality. However, less attention has been paid to systematic research on the interoperability of CAE data because of the diversity of CAE data and because the structure of CAE data is more complex than that of CAD data. In this paper, we suggest a CAE data exchange method for the effective sharing of geometric and analysis data. The method relies on heterogeneous CAE systems, a virtual reality system, and our developed CAE middleware for CAE data exchange. We also designed a generic CAE kernel, which is a critical part of the CAE middleware. The kernel offers a way of storing analysis data from various CAE systems, and, with the aid of a script command, enabling the data to be translated for a different system. The reuse of CAE data is enhanced by the fact that the CAE middle-ware can be linked with a virtual reality system or a product data management system.

The Standardization Direction on the Metadata of Agricultural Product Distribution (농산물 유통 메타데이터 표준개발 방향)

  • Min, J.H.;Huh, M.Y.;Park, J.Y.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.607-610
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    • 2015
  • Agricultural product distribution means all economic activities ranging from farmers(agricultural products producers) to consumers. In general, as the domestic agricultural product distribution channel is complicated and many distribution agents are involved in the distribution process, it takes a lot of distribution costs and is characterized by a relatively high distribution margin. Therefore distribution agents involved in the distribution channel requires an integrated, unified information system based on an accurate and seamless information exchange and mutual information sharing to integrally manage information. In this paper, we propose a standardization plan for database structures to use and share the distribution information among distribution agents and to implement an integrated distribution information system.

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The Effect of Copayment on Medical Aid Beneficiaries in Korea

  • Oh, Jin-Joo;Choi, Jeong-Myung;Lee, Hyun-Joo
    • Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.11-17
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    • 2015
  • Purpose: This study was to ascertain whether there are differences in health care utilization and expenditure for Type I Medical Aid Beneficiaries before and after applying Copayment. Methods: This study was one-group pretest posttest design study using secondary data analysis. Data for pretest group were collected from claims data of the Korea National Health Insurance Corporation and data for posttest group were collected through door to-door interviews using a structured questionnaire. A total of 1,364 subjects were sampled systematically from medical aid beneficiaries who had applied for copayment during the period from December 12, 2007 to September 25, 2008. Results: There was no negative effect of copayment on accessibility to medical services, medication adherence (p=.94), and quality of life (p=.25). Some of the subjects' health behaviors even increased preferably after applying for copayment including flu prevention (p<.001), health care examination (p=.035), and cancer screening (p=.002). However, significant suppressive effects of copayment were found on outpatient hospital visiting days (p<.001) and outpatient medical expenditure (p<.001). Conclusion: Copayment does not seem to be a great influencing factor on beneficiaries' accessibility to medical services and their health behavior even though it has suppressive effects on outpatients' use of health care.

Why Healthy Workplaces Matter

  • Best, Robert S.
    • International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.297-300
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    • 2017
  • Employers are realizing that workplaces have an immense impact on productivity. And, because people typically represent about 90% of a company's costs, even a slight improvement in productivity hits the bottom-line in a very big way. The focus is shifting away from saving money by reducing space needs or cutting energy requirements, and moving toward making the workplace friendlier and healthier. What is a healthy workplace, exactly? The answer should be clear by now. Mountains of research have expounded on this very topic, and then news outlets cover the latest discoveres ad infinitum. The problem is, research is rather dense, while the news isn't comprehensive. Office managers trying to improve workplace wellness want neither a 55-page report nor a half dozen articles to convince their landlord that their space can do better. Recognizing this gap, Harvard researchers have released a concise-yet-complete list of healthy building features. Here, we're sharing these nine features with a few insights of our own on the value of being healthy and productive. Find out: ${\bullet}$ What makes a healthy building and why is it so important ${\bullet}$ How to improve the health of your own office ${\bullet}$ What happens for your people and your bottom line when you make health a priority.

Study on Intrusion Detection System under Cloud Computing Environment (클라우드 컴퓨팅 환경을 위한 침입탐지시스템 특징 분석)

  • Yang, Hwan-Seok;Lee, Byoung-Cheon;Yoo, Seung-Jea
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.59-65
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    • 2012
  • Clouding computing which is developing newly as IT and network technology develops become changed to internet and service environment of company. Especially, it can lend IT resource at low costs and no need to build up infra. Clouding computing environment become popular more and more because various computing environment using virtualization is provided. The attack threat range also becomes wider in proportion to broaden various connection ways and service supply range at these clouding computing. Therefore, intrusion detection system which can protect resource from various attack having malignant attempts is necessary. In this study, we analyzed about characteristic of intrusion detection system at cloud computing environment having big damage than other computing environment when intrusion happen by sharing of resource and virtualization.

Video-Induced Visit to a Destination: The Psychological Mechanism and the Role of Video Sharing Sources

  • Wang, Erin Yirun;Luo, Sara Yushan;Fong, Lawrence Hoc Nang;Law, Rob
    • Journal of Smart Tourism
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    • v.1 no.3
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    • pp.7-16
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    • 2021
  • Promotional videos have been increasingly adopted in social media marketing. Given that video production incurs high costs, evaluating the effectiveness of promotional videos is necessary. This research examines the effect of promotional video on visit intention through affective and cognitive destination images, respectively. Furthermore, grounded in the theoretical reasoning of social ties and persuasive intent, the effects of promotional videos disseminated by different sources (i.e., unknown users, friends, and marketers) are compared. Two experimental studies were carried out with 200 participants in Study 1 and 243 participants in Study 2. Study 1 revealed that the presence of promotional video induces visit intention through affective and cognitive destination images. Study 2 found that promotional videos disseminated by friends (versus unknown users) are more effective to induce visit intention because of positive cognitive destination image, while the video effects are indifferent between marketers and users. Meaningful implications are provided for destination marketers.