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Geographic information system analysis on the distribution of patients visiting the periodontology department at a dental college hospital

  • Jeong, Byungjoon;Joo, Hyun-Tae;Shin, Hyun-Seung;Lim, Mi-Hwa;Park, Jung-Chul
    • Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science
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    • v.46 no.3
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    • pp.207-217
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: The aim of this study is to analyze and visualize the distribution of patients visiting the periodontology department at a dental college hospital, using a geographic information system (GIS) to utilize these data in patient care and treatment planning, which may help to assess the risk and prevent periodontal diseases. Methods: Basic patient information data were obtained from Dankook University Dental Hospital, including the unit number, gender, date of birth, and address, down to the dong (neighborhood) administrative district unit, of 306,656 patients who visited the hospital between 2007 and 2014. The data of only 26,457 patients who visited the periodontology department were included in this analysis. The patient distribution was visualized using GIS. Statistical analyses including multiple regression, logistic regression, and geographically weighted regression were performed using SAS 9.3 and ArcGIS 10.1. Five factors, namely proximity, accessibility, age, gender, and socioeconomic status, were investigated as the explanatory variables of the patient distribution. Results: The visualized patient data showed a nationwide scale of the patient distribution. The mean distance from each patient's regional center to the hospital was $30.94{\pm}29.62km$ and was inversely proportional to the number of patients from the respective regions. The distance from a regional center to the adjacent toll gate had various effects depending on the local distance from the hospital. The average age of the patients was $52.41{\pm}12.97years$. Further, a majority of regions showed a male dominance. Personal income had inconsistent results between analyses. Conclusions: The distribution of patients is significantly affected by the proximity, accessibility, age, gender and socioeconomic status of patients, and the patients visiting the periodontology department travelled farther distances than those visiting the other departments. The underlying reason for this needs to be analyzed further.

Land Use Feature Extraction and Sprawl Development Prediction from Quickbird Satellite Imagery Using Dempster-Shafer and Land Transformation Model

  • Saharkhiz, Maryam Adel;Pradhan, Biswajeet;Rizeei, Hossein Mojaddadi;Jung, Hyung-Sup
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.15-27
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    • 2020
  • Accurate knowledge of land use/land cover (LULC) features and their relative changes over upon the time are essential for sustainable urban management. Urban sprawl growth has been always also a worldwide concern that needs to carefully monitor particularly in a developing country where unplanned building constriction has been expanding at a high rate. Recently, remotely sensed imageries with a very high spatial/spectral resolution and state of the art machine learning approaches sent the urban classification and growth monitoring to a higher level. In this research, we classified the Quickbird satellite imagery by object-based image analysis of Dempster-Shafer (OBIA-DS) for the years of 2002 and 2015 at Karbala-Iraq. The real LULC changes including, residential sprawl expansion, amongst these years, were identified via change detection procedure. In accordance with extracted features of LULC and detected trend of urban pattern, the future LULC dynamic was simulated by using land transformation model (LTM) in geospatial information system (GIS) platform. Both classification and prediction stages were successfully validated using ground control points (GCPs) through accuracy assessment metric of Kappa coefficient that indicated 0.87 and 0.91 for 2002 and 2015 classification as well as 0.79 for prediction part. Detail results revealed a substantial growth in building over fifteen years that mostly replaced by agriculture and orchard field. The prediction scenario of LULC sprawl development for 2030 revealed a substantial decline in green and agriculture land as well as an extensive increment in build-up area especially at the countryside of the city without following the residential pattern standard. The proposed method helps urban decision-makers to identify the detail temporal-spatial growth pattern of highly populated cities like Karbala. Additionally, the results of this study can be considered as a probable future map in order to design enough future social services and amenities for the local inhabitants.

A Study on the Roles and Characteristics of Record Center(Jaryokwan) in Korea (한국 자료관 제도의 역할과 특징에 관한 연구)

  • Bang, Hyo-Soon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.187-205
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of this study is to seek the characteristics of Jaryokwan m Korea and suggest the direction of the development for the future, through the analysis of the work process for Record Center(Jaryokwan) regulated in the Law of Records and Archives Management(the Law). According tn the Law, Jaryokwan is supposed to cover the areas of the management of semi-current records, government publications, books, and other records. The analysis of the Law shows that Korean Jaryokwan has the characteristics of divisional management of the semi-current records of governments, pursuing the integrated records and archives management systems, tightening the control function from the current-records stage, emphasizing the protection of evidences and security, contribution to the decentralizing storage of archives and simplifying the access to semi-current records for promoting it's usage. For the future development of Jaryokwan in Korea, this study suggests the imminent needs of the development of ideal model for Korean Jaryokwan, the legal enforcement of posting an Archivist the more detailed regulation, procedures and methods of work, the close collaboration with Library and Information Science, the pursuit of developing as a regional information center, increasing the flexibility of establishing Jaryokwan.

Analysis of Archive Service Quality Dimensions of National Archives of Korea for Applying Quality Function Deployment (QFD) (품질기능전개(QFD) 적용을 위한 국가기록원 기록정보서비스 품질 차원 분석)

  • Lee, Su Jin;Oh, Hyo-Jung
    • Proceedings of Korean Society of Archives and Records Management
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    • 2019.05a
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    • pp.35-41
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    • 2019
  • Providing efficient recording information services has become vital in a utilization-oriented records management environment and further increasing the importance of the quality of the services offered. This study is a preliminary study to propose improvement measures by applying Quality Function Development (QFD), a quality control method, to the National Archives of Korea (NAK) and Records Information Service. The quality dimensions of the recording information service were analyzed, and specific user requirements were derived. Through this process, the user requirements' questionnaire was developed, reflecting the characteristics of the NAK, and the application model of QFD was designed based on its prior study. Based on the QFD application model proposed, the results obtained by performing the QFD step by step can be expressed in House of Quality (HoQ), which can be used as a basis for service design.

Analysis on NDN Testbeds for Large-scale Scientific Data: Status, Applications, Features, and Issues (과학 빅데이터를 위한 엔디엔 테스트베드 분석: 현황, 응용, 특징, 그리고 이슈)

  • Lim, Huhnkuk;Sin, Gwangcheon
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.24 no.7
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    • pp.904-913
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    • 2020
  • As the data volumes and complexity rapidly increase, data-intensive science handling large-scale scientific data needs to investigate new techniques for intelligent storage and data distribution over networks. Recently, Named Data Networking (NDN) and data-intensive science communities have inspired innovative changes in distribution and management for large-scale experimental data. In this article, analysis on NDN testbeds for large-scale scientific data such as climate science data and High Energy Physics (HEP) data is presented. This article is the first attempt to analyze existing NDN testbeds for large-scale scientific data. NDN testbeds for large-scale scientific data are described and discussed in terms of status, NDN-based application, and features, which are NDN testbed instance for climate science, NDN testbed instance for both climate science and HEP, and the NDN testbed in SANDIE project. Finally various issues to prevent pitfalls in NDN testbed establishment for large-scale scientific data are analyzed and discussed, which are drawn from the descriptions of NDN testbeds and features on them.

Quantifying and Analyzing Vocal Emotion of COVID-19 News Speech Across Broadcasters in South Korea and the United States Based on CNN (한국과 미국 방송사의 코로나19 뉴스에 대해 CNN 기반 정량적 음성 감정 양상 비교 분석)

  • Nam, Youngja;Chae, SunGeu
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.306-312
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    • 2022
  • During the unprecedented COVID-19 outbreak, the public's information needs created an environment where they overwhelmingly consume information on the chronic disease. Given that news media affect the public's emotional well-being, the pandemic situation highlights the importance of paying particular attention to how news stories frame their coverage. In this study, COVID-19 news speech emotion from mainstream broadcasters in South Korea and the United States (US) were analyzed using convolutional neural networks. Results showed that neutrality was detected across broadcasters. However, emotions such as sadness and anger were also detected. This was evident in Korean broadcasters, whereas those emotions were not detected in the US broadcasters. This is the first quantitative vocal emotion analysis of COVID-19 news speech. Overall, our findings provide new insight into news emotion analysis and have broad implications for better understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Study on the Weather Support Service for Winter Sports (동계스포츠 맞춤형 기상지원 서비스를 위한 연구)

  • Back, Jin-Ho;Panday, Siddhartha Bikram;Lee, Ju-Sung;Kang, Hyo-Min
    • Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.139-156
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study was to provide a method to support customized weather and environmental information services for the successful operation of winter sporting events. First, individual in-depth interviews and surveys were conducted with athletes, coaching staffs and experts related to the competition for 10 different winter sports for analysis of their needs. We conducted face-to-face survey and survey considering the training schedule and situation of experts. The recorded voice file was converted into word text, and extracted the weather and environmental information elements embedded in the opinions of the research participants based on literature reviews and data. The findings are expected to provide basic data on the weather conditions required to support specialized weather information for future large winter sports events, including the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.

Librarians' Intention and Behaviors for Providing Podcasts and YouTube Services: An Application of Extended Technology Acceptance Model (도서관 팟캐스트와 유튜브 서비스에 대한 사서의 제공 의도와 제공 행위 연구 - 확장된 기술수용모델의 적용 -)

  • Ahn, EunJi;Oh, Sanghee
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.55 no.4
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    • pp.187-217
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    • 2021
  • This study investigated the perceptions of librarians about Podcast and YouTube services in libraries. The study was designed by applying the Extended Technology Acceptance Model. Librarian's personal, organizational, and social awareness of library Podcast or YouTube services and the degree of understanding of users and their needs on services were mediated by perceived usefulness or ease of services= and influenced to having intentions and providing the services. First, we investigated the types of Podcast and YouTueb services provided by 39 libraries in Korea. Also, we collected data using an online survey method from 181 librarians and conducted hierarchical multiple regression analysis. Findings showed that libraries are using Podcast and YouTube appropriately considering features and functions of media, mainly for library event information/promotion, library programs, book recommendations, and author (librarian) lectures or interviews. Organizational or social awareness of librarians, i.e., library educational support, human resource supports, librarian recognition, job-related features, and understanding of user perceptions and needs, influenced the intention to provide library services. Also, there was a difference in perceived usefulness and ease of services between librarians who provided Podcast and YouTube services and those who did not. We expect that findings could be used as references to understand and support various aspects of librarians in charge of developing and providing Podcast or YouTube services in libraries.

Quality Visualization of Quality Metric Indicators based on Table Normalization of Static Code Building Information (정적 코드 내부 정보의 테이블 정규화를 통한 품질 메트릭 지표들의 가시화를 위한 추출 메커니즘)

  • Chansol Park;So Young Moon;R. Young Chul Kim
    • KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.199-206
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    • 2023
  • The current software becomes the huge size of source codes. Therefore it is increasing the importance and necessity of static analysis for high-quality product. With static analysis of the code, it needs to identify the defect and complexity of the code. Through visualizing these problems, we make it guild for developers and stakeholders to understand these problems in the source codes. Our previous visualization research focused only on the process of storing information of the results of static analysis into the Database tables, querying the calculations for quality indicators (CK Metrics, Coupling, Number of function calls, Bad-smell), and then finally visualizing the extracted information. This approach has some limitations in that it takes a lot of time and space to analyze a code using information extracted from it through static analysis. That is since the tables are not normalized, it may occur to spend space and time when the tables(classes, functions, attributes, Etc.) are joined to extract information inside the code. To solve these problems, we propose a regularized design of the database tables, an extraction mechanism for quality metric indicators inside the code, and then a visualization with the extracted quality indicators on the code. Through this mechanism, we expect that the code visualization process will be optimized and that developers will be able to guide the modules that need refactoring. In the future, we will conduct learning of some parts of this process.

An Analysis of Physicians' Online Information Search Process at the Point of Care (의사의 임상질문 해결을 위한 온라인 정보검색과정 연구)

  • Kim, Soon;Chung, EunKyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.177-193
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    • 2016
  • This study aims to analyze physicians' online information search process to solve the clinical questions at the point of care. To achieve this purpose, ten university hospital-based physicians participated in-depth interviews and observation studies. Based on Wilson's problem solving process, this study analyzed the characteristics of each information search stage and efficiency of online searching. The results showed that participants tend to relatively immediately formulate their clinical questions. However, basic searching strategies were only used and a few preferred information sources were chosen. However, average satisfaction degree of online searching appeared high with 5.7 (7 Likert-scale) and problem-solving index increased after searching. As physicians are likely to use well organized and evidenced-based credible information easily, it implies the needs for an integrated search system within the electronic medical record (EMR). In addition, as other online resources' awareness is lower comparing Google and PubMed, active promotions and training of other resources are needed.