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An Empirical Study on Burnout in Clinical Nurses: Focused on Bullying and Negative Affectivity (종합병원 간호사의 소진에 관한 연구: 직장 내 약자 괴롭힘과 부정적 감정성향 중심으로)

  • Han, Jung Hee;Yang, In Soon;Yom, Young-Hee
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.578-588
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    • 2013
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of bullying, negative affectivity and burnout in the nurses. Methods: The sample consisted of 389 nurses. Data were analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA, Scheff$\acute{e}$, Pearson Correlation Analysis and Hierarchical Multiple Regression. Results: The control variables of age, marital status, education level, current position, health status and work unit explained 30.2%(F=28.9, p<.001) of variance in burnout. The control variables, bullying and negative affectivity collectively explained 49.7% of variance in burnout. Conclusion: The results indicate that the demographic factors influencing burnout are age, education level, health status, work unit, while bullying and negative affectivity in the work places are factors that influence burnout. These findings can be utilized to develop strategies to reduce bullying and negative affectivity.

The Role of High-throughput Transcriptome Analysis in Metabolic Engineering

  • Jewett, Michael C.;Oliveira, Ana Paula;Patil, Kiran Raosaheb;Nielsen, Jens
    • Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.385-399
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    • 2005
  • The phenotypic response of a cell results from a well orchestrated web of complex interactions which propagate from the genetic architecture through the metabolic flux network. To rationally design cell factories which carry out specific functional objectives by controlling this hierarchical system is a challenge. Transcriptome analysis, the most mature high-throughput measurement technology, has been readily applied In strain improvement programs in an attempt to Identify genes involved in expressing a given phenotype. Unfortunately, while differentially expressed genes may provide targets for metabolic engineering, phenotypic responses are often not directly linked to transcriptional patterns, This limits the application of genome-wide transcriptional analysis for the design of cell factories. However, improved tools for integrating transcriptional data with other high-throughput measurements and known biological interactions are emerging. These tools hold significant promise for providing the framework to comprehensively dissect the regulatory mechanisms that identify the cellular control mechanisms and lead to more effective strategies to rewire the cellular control elements for metabolic engineering.

Impact of Inquiry-Based Teaching on Student Attitude toward Mathematics

  • Kim, Taik-H.;Pan, Wei
    • Research in Mathematical Education
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.249-262
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    • 2010
  • Large Midwest university faculty members proposed the Science and Technology Enhancement Program Project (STEP) to improve students' learning in the secondary mathematics classroom using modules of inquiry-based teaching. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of the STEP Project on students' attitude toward mathematics. Hierarchical linear models (HLM) were used to evaluate the impact of the STEP Project. The sample group for the study was 130 ninth grade students enrolled in Integrated Algebra I in a large urban school district. The school was one of eight secondary schools that participated in the STEP Project. The classes in the treatment group were three of five classes ordered in terms of the highest, middle, and lowest mean GPA. The control group consisted of two other middle GPA classes. The classes had an average of 25 students. Teachers who previously had been involved in the STEP Project taught all treatment and control classes. The inquiry-based teaching activities provided by the project were confined to the treatment classes. The survey measuring students' attitudes toward mathematics were obtained for both groups of students. The inquiry-based teaching affected students' attitudes toward mathematics (p < 0.07, ES = 3.07). Especially, students who had preexisting low attitudes toward mathematics were significantly affected by treatment (p < 0.02, ES = 0.02), while the treatment positively affected African American students overall at p < 0.08 (ES = 0.58).

The Performance-ability Evaluation of an UML Activity Diagram with the EMFG (EMFG를 이용한 UML 활동 다이어그램의 수행가능성 평가)

  • Yeo Jeong-Mo;Lee Mi-Soon
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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    • v.13D no.1 s.104
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    • pp.117-124
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    • 2006
  • Hardware and software codesign framework called PeaCE(Ptolemy extension as a Codesign Environment) was developed. It allows to express both data flow and control flow which is described as fFSM which extends traditional finite state machine. While the fFSM model provides lots of syntactic constructs for describing control flow, it has a lack of their formality and then difficulties in verifying the specification. In order to define the formal semantics of the fFSM, in this paper, firstly the hierarchical structure in the model is flattened and then the step semantics is defined. As a result, some important bugs such as race condition, ambiguous transition, and circulartransition can be formally detected in the model.

LCU-Level Rate Control for HEVC Considering Hierarchical Coding Structure (HEVC 의 계층적 부호화 구조를 고려한 LCU 단위의 비트율 제어 기법)

  • Park, Dong Il;Kim, Jae-Gon;Jeong, Dae-Gwon;Kim, Jongho;Kim, Hui-Yong;Choi, Jin Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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    • 2011.07a
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    • pp.199-201
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    • 2011
  • 본 논문에서는 현재 표준화가 진행중인 HEVC 의 고정 비트율(CBR) 부호화를 위한 비트율 제어(rate control) 기법을 다룬다. HEVC 의 임의접근(Random Access: RA) 부호화 모드는 계층적-B 부호화 구조를 통해 높은 부호화 효율을 제공할 수 있다. 기존의 HEVC 를 위한 비트율 제어 방식으로는 2 차 비트율-왜곡 모델 기반의 시간계층 및 프레임 타입에 따른 비트율 특성을 반영한 프레임 레벨의 비트율 제어 기법이 제시되었다. 이 같은 기존의 프레임 레벨의 비트율 제어 기법은 임의접근 모드의 계층적-B 구조에서 동작성능이 확인되었으나, HEVC 의 기본적인 부호화 단위(Coding Unit: CU)의 특성이 반영되지 않아 비트율 제어의 정확성이 제한되었다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 계층적 부호화 구조를 고려한 프레임 레벨의 비트율 제어 기법을 확장한 CU 레벨에서의 비트율 제어 기법을 제시하고 모의실험을 통해 제시된 기법의 비트율 제어 성능을 확인한다.

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Shallow Population Genetic Structures of Thread-sail Filefish (Stephanolepis cirrhifer) Populations from Korean Coastal Waters

  • Yoon, M.;Park, W.;Nam, Y.K.;Kim, D.S.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.170-176
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    • 2012
  • Genetic diversities, population genetic structures and demographic histories of the thread-sail filefish Stephanolepis cirrhifer were investigated by nucleotide sequencing of 336 base pairs of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region in 111 individuals collected from six populations in Korean coastal waters. A total of 70 haplotypes were defined by 58 variable nucleotide sites. The neighbor-joining tree of the 70 haplotypes was shallow and did not provide evidence of geographical associations. Expansion of S. cirrhifer populations began approximate 51,000 to 102,000 years before present, correlating with the period of sea level rise since the late Pleistocene glacial maximum. High levels of haplotype diversities ($0.974{\pm}0.029$ to $1.000{\pm}0.076$) and nucleotide diversities (0.014 to 0.019), and low levels of genetic differentiation among populations inferred from pairwise population FST values (-0.007 to 0.107), support an expansion of the S. cirrhifer population. Hierarchical analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) revealed weak but significant genetic structures among three groups ($F_{CT}$ = 0.028, p<0.05), and no genetic variation within groups (0.53%; $F_{SC}$ = 0.005, p = 0.23). These results may help establish appropriate fishery management strategies for stocks of S. cirrhifer and related species.

Adaptive Network Pricing Scheme based on the Stackelberg Model (슈타켈버그 모델을 이용한 적응적 네트워크 가격 결정 기법에 대한 연구)

  • Jung, Woo-Suk;Kim, Sung-Wook
    • Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.94-98
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, we formalize a new adaptive online price control scheme based on the Stackelberg game model. By using the hierarchical interaction strategy, control decisions in each mechanism act cooperatively and collaborate with each other to satisfy conflicting performance criteria. In addition, our dynamic online approach is practical for real network implementation. With a simulation study, the proposed scheme can adaptively adjust the network price to approximate an optimized solution under widely diverse network situations.

Handover Control for WCDMA Femtocell Networks

  • Chowdhury, Mostafa Zaman;Jang, Yeong-Min
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.35 no.5B
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    • pp.741-752
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    • 2010
  • The ability to seamlessly switch between the macro networks and femtocell networks is a key driver for femtocell network deployment. The handover procedures for the integrated femtocell/macrocell networks differ from the existing handovers. Some modifications of existing network and protocol architecture for the integration of femtocell networks with the existing macrocell networks are also essential. These modifications change the signal flow for handover procedures due to different 2-tier cell (macrocell and femtocell) environment. The handover between two networks should be performed with minimum signaling. A frequent and unnecessary handover is another problem for hierarchical femtocell/macrocell network environment that must be minimized. This work studies the details mobility management schemes for small and medium scale femtocell network deployment. To do that, firstly we present two different network architectures for small scale and medium scale WCDMA femtocell deployment. The details handover call flow for these two network architectures and CAC scheme to minimize the unnecessary handovers are proposed for the integrated femtocell/macrocell networks. The numerical analysis for the proposed M/M/N/N queuing scheme and the simulation results of the proposed CAC scheme demonstrate the handover call control performances for femtocell environment.

Hardiness as a Stress-resistance Resource and as a Determinant of Health -promoting Behavior: in a Sample of Nursing Students (강인성이 건강증진행위, 신체증상에 미치는 효과-여대생을 대상으로-)

  • Lee, Mi-Ra;So, Hee-Young;Song, Young-Sin
    • Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.21-29
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    • 1998
  • This study was undertaken in order to examine the relationship of hardiness and health-promoting behavior and the effects of hardiness on stress-related physical symptoms. The subjects were 104 female nursing students of one college in Kongju. The instruments used for this study were a survey of general characteristics, hardiness(25 items), health-promoting behavior(44 items), and physical symptoms(35 items), Analysis of data was done by use of mean, Pearson correlation coefficient, stepwise regression and a hierarchical multiple regression with an SAS program. The results of this study are as follows. 1) Significant correlations between health -promoting behavior and subscales of hardiness, that is, control(r=-.35, P<.00l), commitment(r= -.29, P<.0l), and challenge(r= -.23, p<.05) were found. 2) Control was the highest factor predicting health -promoting behavior. 3) Main and buffering effects of hardiness on current physical symptoms were not found.

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The Effects of Eating Disorder Belief and Sociocultural Attitudes towards Appearance on Female High School Students' Eating Attitude (여고생의 섭식신념과 외모에 대한 사회문화적 태도가 섭식태도에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Jung-Min;Park, Kyoung-Mi
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.65-77
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of the study is to investigate the effects of eating disorder belief and sociocultural attitudes towards appearance on female high school students' eating attitude. Questionnaires regarding eating disorder belief, sociocultural attitudes towards appearance, and eating attitude were administered to 900 1st and 2nd grade female high school students in Gyeonggi Province. Finally 875 questionnaires were collected and statistically analyzed through Cronbach's ${\alpha}$, factor analysis, Pearson's correlation analysis, and hierarchical multiple regression. The main results of the study were as follows: 1) Eating disorder belief, sociocultural attitudes towards appearance, and eating attitude revealed a positive correlation. 2) While control over eating, weight/shape as a means to acceptance, internalization, and awareness were significant predictors of drive for thinness, control over eating, internalization, and weight/shape as a means to acceptance were significant predictors of bulimia. 3) Internalization had a moderating effect on the relationship between eating disorder belief and eating attitude (drive for thinness, bulimia).