• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제57권4호
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• pp.389-402
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• 2024

본 연구는 고구마와 참마 추출 혼합물의 항산화능을 평가하였으며, 에탄올로 유도된 급성 위염 동물모델에서 HCl/ethanol로 유도된 위염 억제 효과 여부를 검증하였다. 총 폴리페놀 및 총 플라보노이드 함량, DPPH 및 ABTS 라디칼 소거활성은 고구마나 참마의 단독 사용보다 추출 혼합물에서 높았다. 알코올성 급성 위염에 있어서도 단독 사용보다 추출 혼합물이 임상적 행동 점수 및 위액량, 위 점막 손상면적, TNF-α 수치 등에서 유의적인 감소를 확인하였다. 이러한 결과는 고구마와 참마 추출 혼합물이 항산화능이 뛰어나며 위 점막 보호 효과가 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. 따라서 고구마와 참마 추출 혼합물은 알코올성 급성 위염에 있어 위 보호효과를 기대할 수 있으며, 지역 소재의 기능성 발굴에 가능성이 있음을 시사한다.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.647-657
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• 2024

Gefitinib is the well-tolerated first-line treatment of non-small cell lung cancer. As it needs analgesics during oncology treatment, particularly in the context of the coronavirus disease, where patients are more susceptible to contract high fever and sore throat. This has increased the likelihood of taking both gefitinib and antipyretic analgesic acetaminophen (APAP). Given that gefitinib and APAP overdose can predispose patients to liver injury or even acute liver failure, there is a risk of severe hepatotoxicity when these two drugs are used concomitantly. However, little is known regarding their safety at therapeutic doses. This study simulated the administration of gefitinib and APAP at clinically relevant doses in an animal model and confirmed that gefitinib in combination with APAP exhibited additional hepatotoxicity. We found that gefitinib plus APAP significantly exacerbated cell death, whereas each drug by itself had little or minor effect on hepatocyte survival. Mechanistically, combination of gefitinib and APAP induces hepatocyte death via the apoptotic pathway obviously. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation and DNA damage accumulation are involved in hepatocyte apoptosis. Gefitinib plus APAP also promotes the expression of Kelch-like ECH-associated protein 1 (Keap1) and downregulated the antioxidant factor, Nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2), by inhibiting p62 expression. Taken together, this study revealed the potential ROS-mediated apoptosis-dependent hepatotoxicity effect of the combination of gefitinib and APAP, in which the p62/Keap1/Nrf2 signaling pathway participates and plays an important regulatory role.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.457-491
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• 2008

무대장치 및 특수조명서비스 수출시장은 대기업들로서는 관심이 소홀한 틈새시장이 될 수 있다는 점에서 중소기업에게는 유리하다는 측면이 있다. 현실적으로 글로벌 대기업들은 대형 건설 프로젝트에 관심을 집중하는 성향이었으므로 중소형 규모로 시행되는 무대장치 및 특수조명서비스 공사의 경우는 중소기업에 적합할 수 있다는 것이다. 그러나 문제는 해외의 광활한 시장에 중소기업이 뛰어들어 제조-서비스 연계형 수출을 실행할 수 있는 능력이 있는지 그 여부에 있으며, 실제 이러한 수출경험은 거의 축적되어 있지 않다는 점이 우려스러운 것이다. 한국경제의 특성상 글로벌 틈새시장 하나라도 긴요하지 않을 수 없는 것이 현실이므로 무대장치 및 특수조명서비스의 결합형 수출프로세스에 대한 지원제도 구축이 시급한 이유가 바로 여기에 있는 것이다. 본 연구는 지금까지 국내시장에 주력하고 있는 무대장치 및 특수조명서비스 관련 산업에 대하여 수출상품화의 필요성을 강조하고 우리나라의 제조업 위기를 보완할 수 있는 성장동력화의 가능성을 분석해 보았다. 현재는 한국의 수출산업이 나아가야 할 글로벌 틈새시장으로만 보이지만 소득증가에 따른 문화산업의 발전가능성이 예견되고 있으므로 이 분야의 관련 산업들은 향후 더욱 성장할 것으로 판단된다. 한국의 플랜트 수출이 현재 활황기에 있는 사례를 면밀히 분석하여, 중소기업의 해외진출 업종으로 적합한 무대장치 및 특수조명서비스를 틈새시장에서 출발하여 주력시장으로 성장시킬 수 있 도록 교훈을 얻고 제조-서비스 연계형 수출모델을 구상하여 해외진출을 추진할 필요가 있다. 이와 같은 한국경제 및 수출환경의 배경에서 본 연구는 제조-서비스 연계형 수출상품화 모델을 개발함으로써 한국수출의 한계를 극복하는 데에 도용을 줄 수 있는 대안을 모색하고자 시도되었다. 그 동안 극소수의 해외진출 중소기업이 있었으나 글로벌 시장에의 적응력 부족 및 문화적 차이의 숙지 미흡 등 이 분야의 수출산업화 경험부족으로 실패한 사례가 있다. 그러나 점점 가시화되고 있는 한국 제조업의 한계를 방치할 수는 없으므로 보완책을 마련하는 일이 시급하며, 그 대안적 역할을 수행할 수 있는 분야로 서비스수출을 제안할 수 있다. 본 연구의 결과 무대장치 및 특수조명서비스 분야의 제조-서비스 연계형 수출 모델은 마래 성장가능성이 높은 분야로 예상될뿐더러 제조부문 및 서비스부문의 시너지 효과를 기대할 수 있다는 점을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 실행전략의 골격은 제조 및 서비스 산업의 두 축을 결합, 복합, 융합함으로써 다양한 수출상품을 파생시켜 나갈 수 있다는 강점을 기대할 수 있다는 점도 동 부문의 연계형 수출모델의 성공가능성을 높여주고 있다. 본 연구의 결과는 동 부문에 관련된 산업의 해외시장 진출 기회를 적극적으로 모색할 수 있도록 동기부여의 효과를 제공할 것으로 기대된다. 또한 글로벌 틈새시장의 해외진출을 가속화시킬 계기마련과 아울러 이 분야의 수출진흥을 위한 정책적 제도마련의 기회도 될 것으로 확신한다 또한 연구의 진행 방법과 관련하여 본 과제의 수행으로 산학협력 관계를 긍정적으로 이해하고 이를 활성화시킬 수 있는 계기가 될 수 있음을 확신한다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.29-52
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• 2012

Consumers differ in the way they make a purchase. An audio mania would willingly make a bold, yet serious, decision to buy a top-of-the-line home theater system, while he is not interested in replacing his two-decade-old shabby car. On the contrary, an automobile enthusiast wouldn't mind spending forty thousand dollars to buy a new Jaguar convertible, yet cares little about his junky component system. It is product involvement that helps us explain such differences among individuals in the purchase style. Product involvement refers to the extent to which a product is perceived to be important to a consumer (Zaichkowsky, 2001). Product involvement is an important factor that strongly influences consumer's purchase decision-making process, and thus has been of prime interest to consumer behavior researchers. Furthermore, researchers found that involvement is closely related to perceived risk (Dholakia, 2001). While abundant research exists addressing how product involvement relates to overall perceived risk, little attention has been paid to the relationship between involvement and different types of perceived risk in an electronic commerce setting. Given that perceived risk can be a substantial barrier to the online purchase (Jarvenpaa, 2000), research addressing such an issue will offer useful implications on what specific types of perceived risk an online firm should focus on mitigating if it is to increase sales to a fullest potential. Meanwhile, past research has focused on such consumer responses as information search and dissemination as a consequence of involvement, neglecting other behavioral responses like online merchant selection. For one example, will a consumer seriously considering the purchase of a pricey Guzzi bag perceive a great degree of risk associated with online buying and therefore choose to buy it from a digital storefront rather than from an online marketplace to mitigate risk? Will a consumer require greater trust on the part of the online merchant when the perceived risk of online buying is rather high? We intend to find answers to these research questions through an empirical study. This paper explores the impact of enduring product involvement and perceived risks on required trust level, and further on online merchant choice. For the purpose of the research, five types or components of perceived risk are taken into consideration, including financial, performance, delivery, psychological, and social risks. A research model has been built around the constructs under consideration, and 12 hypotheses have been developed based on the research model to examine the relationships between enduring involvement and five components of perceived risk, between five components of perceived risk and required trust level, between enduring involvement and required trust level, and finally between required trust level and preference toward an e-tailer. To attain our research objectives, we conducted an empirical analysis consisting of two phases of data collection: a pilot test and main survey. The pilot test was conducted using 25 college students to ensure that the questionnaire items are clear and straightforward. Then the main survey was conducted using 295 college students at a major university for nine days between December 13, 2010 and December 21, 2010. The measures employed to test the model included eight constructs: (1) enduring involvement, (2) financial risk, (3) performance risk, (4) delivery risk, (5) psychological risk, (6) social risk, (7) required trust level, (8) preference toward an e-tailer. The statistical package, SPSS 17.0, was used to test the internal consistency among the items within the individual measures. Based on the Cronbach's ${\alpha}$ coefficients of the individual measure, the reliability of all the variables is supported. Meanwhile, the Amos 18.0 package was employed to perform a confirmatory factor analysis designed to assess the unidimensionality of the measures. The goodness of fit for the measurement model was satisfied. Unidimensionality was tested using convergent, discriminant, and nomological validity. The statistical evidences proved that the three types of validity were all satisfied. Now the structured equation modeling technique was used to analyze the individual paths along the relationships among the research constructs. The results indicated that enduring involvement has significant positive relationships with all the five components of perceived risk, while only performance risk is significantly related to trust level required by consumers for purchase. It can be inferred from the findings that product performance problems are mostly likely to occur when a merchant behaves in an opportunistic manner. Positive relationships were also found between involvement and required trust level and between required trust level and online merchant choice. Enduring involvement is concerned with the pleasure a consumer derives from a product class and/or with the desire for knowledge for the product class, and thus is likely to motivate the consumer to look for ways of mitigating perceived risk by requiring a higher level of trust on the part of the online merchant. Likewise, a consumer requiring a high level of trust on the merchant will choose a digital storefront rather than an e-marketplace, since a digital storefront is believed to be trustworthier than an e-marketplace, as it fulfills orders by itself rather than acting as an intermediary. The findings of the present research provide both academic and practical implications. The first academic implication is that enduring product involvement is a strong motivator of consumer responses, especially the selection of a merchant, in the context of electronic shopping. Secondly, academicians are advised to pay attention to the finding that an individual component or type of perceived risk can be used as an important research construct, since it would allow one to pinpoint the specific types of risk that are influenced by antecedents or that influence consequents. Meanwhile, our research provides implications useful for online merchants (both online storefronts and e-marketplaces). Merchants may develop strategies to attract consumers by managing perceived performance risk involved in purchase decisions, since it was found to have significant positive relationship with the level of trust required by a consumer on the part of the merchant. One way to manage performance risk would be to thoroughly examine the product before shipping to ensure that it has no deficiencies or flaws. Secondly, digital storefronts are advised to focus on symbolic goods (e.g., cars, cell phones, fashion outfits, and handbags) in which consumers are relatively more involved than others, whereas e- marketplaces should put their emphasis on non-symbolic goods (e.g., drinks, books, MP3 players, and bike accessories).

• 지능정보연구
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.153-169
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• 2012

전시회는 새로운 상품이나 서비스를 현재 고객들과 미래의 잠재고객들에게 홍보하기 위해 개최하는 효과적인 마케팅 수단으로 중요하다. 기업들은 전시회에 참여를 통해 현재 고객 및 잠재고객들과 대면접촉을 함으로써 기업의 이미지 제고 및 새로운 판로를 확보할 수 있다. 이처럼 전시회의 경제적 중요성이 커짐에 따라, 전시주최자들은 참여기업 및 참관객을 유치하기 위하여 새로운 IT 기술을 전시회에 적용하고 있을 뿐만 아니라 연구자들 또한 참관객의 관람패턴을 분석하기 위하여 다양한 연구를 시도하고 있다. 최근에는 스마트 기술이 발전함으로써 전시 공간 내에서 참관객의 활동을 실시간으로 모니터링 할 수 있어 온라인 전시환경처럼 오프라인 전시회를 방문한 참관객의니즈를 실시간으로 추론하여 참관객의 선호에 적합한 서비스를 제공하기 위한 부스 추천시스템에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 그러나 새로운 기술 개발 측면에서 시스템의 성능을 개선하려는 연구는 지속적으로 진행되어 왔으나 향후 시스템의 개발 방향 및 보급 활성화에 영향을 미치는 요인에 관한 연구들이 부족한 실정이다. 부스 추천시스템은 스마트 전시환경에서 새로 도입되는 기술로 부스 추천시스템에 대한 참관객의 수용 후 재사용 의도는 TAM 관점보다는 부스 추천시스템이 참관객의 선호에 적합한 추천정보를 제공하는가에 초점을 맞출 필요가 있다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 기존 문헌 고찰을 통해 전시환경에서의 부스 추천시스템에 대한 참관객의 만족 및 재사용 의도에 영향을 주는 요인을 도출하여 연구모형을 설계하였다. 이를 통해 향후 스마트 전시환경에서 부스 추천시스템의 개발과 보급 전략에 있어 유용한 시사점을 제공하고자 하였다. 이러한 연구목적을 달성하기 위하여 2011년 11월 DMC 컬처 오픈 행사에서 부스 추천시스템을 사용한 참관객을 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하였고 회귀분석을 통해 가설을 검증하였다. 그 결과, 참관객의 만족에 영향을 미치는 요인은 부스 추천시스템의 효과성, 편의성, 추천품질, 의외성으로 나타났다. 또한, 부스 추천시스템에 대한 참관객의 만족은 재사용 의도 형성에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 본 연구가 가지는 의의는 다음과 같다. 먼저, 본 연구결과를 토대로 스마트 전시환경에서 부스 추천시스템에 대한 참관객의 지속적인 서비스 이용을 유도하기 위한 전략을 수립할 때 고려해야 할 주요한 요인을 실증연구를 통해 구체화시켰다는데 의의가 있다. 또한, 스마트 전시환경에서 부스 추천시스템이 성공적으로 도입 및 활용되기 위해서는 참관객의 수용 전후 차별화된 관리가 필요함을 본 연구결과를 통해 제시하였다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.53-84
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• 2013

With rapid development of ICT (Information and Communications Technology), new services by the convergence of mobile network and application technology began to appear. Today, smart phone with new ICT convergence network capabilities is exceedingly popular and very useful as a new tool for the development of business opportunities. Previous studies based on Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) suggested critical factors, which should be considered for acquiring new customers and maintaining existing users in smart phone market. However, they had a limitation to focus on technology acceptance, not value based approach. Prior studies on customer's adoption of electronic utilities like smart phone product showed that the antecedents such as the perceived benefit and the perceived sacrifice could explain the causality between what is perceived and what is acquired over diverse contexts. So, this research conceptualizes perceived value as a trade-off between perceived benefit and perceived sacrifice, and we need to research the perceived value to grasp user's continuous intention to use of smart phone. The purpose of this study is to investigate the structured relationship between benefit (quality, usefulness, playfulness) and sacrifice (technicality, cost, security risk) of smart phone users, perceived value, and continuous intention to use. In addition, this study intends to analyze the differences between two subgroups of smart phone users by the degree of personal innovativeness. Personal innovativeness could help us to understand the moderating effect between how perceptions are formed and continuous intention to use smart phone. This study conducted survey through e-mail, direct mail, and interview with smart phone users. Empirical analysis based on 330 respondents was conducted in order to test the hypotheses. First, the result of hypotheses testing showed that perceived usefulness among three factors of perceived benefit has the highest positive impact on perceived value, and then followed by perceived playfulness and perceived quality. Second, the result of hypotheses testing showed that perceived cost among three factors of perceived sacrifice has significantly negative impact on perceived value, however, technicality and security risk have no significant impact on perceived value. Also, the result of hypotheses testing showed that perceived value has significant direct impact on continuous intention to use of smart phone. In this regard, marketing managers of smart phone company should pay more attention to improve task efficiency and performance of smart phone, including rate systems of smart phone. Additionally, to test the moderating effect of personal innovativeness, this research conducted multi-group analysis by the degree of personal innovativeness of smart phone users. In a group with high level of innovativeness, perceived usefulness has the highest positive influence on perceived value than other factors. Instead, the analysis for a group with low level of innovativeness showed that perceived playfulness was the highest positive factor to influence perceived value than others. This result of the group with high level of innovativeness explains that innovators and early adopters are able to cope with higher level of cost and risk, and they expect to develop more positive intentions toward higher performance through the use of an innovation. Also, hedonic behavior in the case of the group with low level of innovativeness aims to provide self-fulfilling value to the users, in contrast to utilitarian perspective, which aims to provide instrumental value to the users. However, with regard to perceived sacrifice, both groups in general showed negative impact on perceived value. Also, the group with high level of innovativeness had less overall negative impact on perceived value compared to the group with low level of innovativeness across all factors. In both group with high level of innovativeness and with low level of innovativeness, perceived cost has the highest negative influence on perceived value than other factors. Instead, the analysis for a group with high level of innovativeness showed that perceived technicality was the positive factor to influence perceived value than others. However, the analysis for a group with low level of innovativeness showed that perceived security risk was the second high negative factor to influence perceived value than others. Unlike previous studies, this study focuses on influencing factors on continuous intention to use of smart phone, rather than considering initial purchase and adoption of smart phone. First, perceived value, which was used to identify user's adoption behavior, has a mediating effect among perceived benefit, perceived sacrifice, and continuous intention to use smart phone. Second, perceived usefulness has the highest positive influence on perceived value, while perceived cost has significant negative influence on perceived value. Third, perceived value, like prior studies, has high level of positive influence on continuous intention to use smart phone. Fourth, in multi-group analysis by the degree of personal innovativeness of smart phone users, perceived usefulness, in a group with high level of innovativeness, has the highest positive influence on perceived value than other factors. Instead, perceived playfulness, in a group with low level of innovativeness, has the highest positive factor to influence perceived value than others. This result shows that early adopters intend to adopt smart phone as a tool to make their job useful, instead market followers intend to adopt smart phone as a tool to make their time enjoyable. In terms of marketing strategy for smart phone company, marketing managers should pay more attention to identify their customers' lifetime value by the phase of smart phone adoption, as well as to understand their behavior intention to accept the risk and uncertainty positively. The academic contribution of this study primarily is to employ the VAM (Value-based Adoption Model) as a conceptual foundation, compared to TAM (Technology Acceptance Model) used widely by previous studies. VAM is useful for understanding continuous intention to use smart phone in comparison with TAM as a new IT utility by individual adoption. Perceived value dominantly influences continuous intention to use smart phone. The results of this study justify our research model adoption on each antecedent of perceived value as a benefit and a sacrifice component. While TAM could be widely used in user acceptance of new technology, it has a limitation to explain the new IT adoption like smart phone, because of customer behavior intention to choose the value of the object. In terms of theoretical approach, this study provides theoretical contribution to the development, design, and marketing of smart phone. The practical contribution of this study is to suggest useful decision alternatives concerned to marketing strategy formulation for acquiring and retaining long-term customers related to smart phone business. Since potential customers are interested in both benefit and sacrifice when evaluating the value of smart phone, marketing managers in smart phone company has to put more effort into creating customer's value of low sacrifice and high benefit so that customers will continuously have higher adoption on smart phone. Especially, this study shows that innovators and early adopters with high level of innovativeness have higher adoption than market followers with low level of innovativeness, in terms of perceived usefulness and perceived cost. To formulate marketing strategy for smart phone diffusion, marketing managers have to pay more attention to identify not only their customers' benefit and sacrifice components but also their customers' lifetime value to adopt smart phone.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제56권2호
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• pp.125-138
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• 2023

수계 내 세슘(cesium: Cs)을 제거하기 위하여 개발된 대부분의 기존 Cs 흡착제들은 원재료 값이 고가라는 단점과, 해수와 같이 높은 이온 강도와 낮은 Cs 농도를 가지는 대규모의 오염수를 실질적으로 정화하는데 한계를 가지고 있었다. 본 연구에서는 석탄광산배수를 처리하는 과정에서 생성되는 슬러지(CMDS)에 Na와 S를 첨가하여 친환경적이고 높은 Cs 제거 효율을 가지는 Cs 흡착제를 개발하였다. Fe 및 Ca 함량이 풍부한 CMDS를 1차 소재로 사용하였고, 열처리 과정으로 Na와 S를 첨가하여 새로운 Cs 흡착제를 제조하였다(이하 본 연구에서 개발한 흡착제는 Na-S-CMDS라 명명함). Na-S-CMDS의 Cs 흡착능 및 흡착 기작을 평가하기 위해 실험실 규모의 실험과 흡착 동역학 및 등온 모델링 연구를 수행하였으며, XRF, XRD, SEM/EDS, XPS 등의 분석을 통해 Na-S-CMDS의 물리화학적, 광물학적 특성을 조사함으로써 Cs 흡착 기작을 규명하였다. 흡착 배치 실험 결과, Cs은 빠르게 Na-S-CMDS에 흡착되어 1시간 내 평형에 도달하였으며, 낮은 Cs 농도(0.5 mg/L) 조건에서도 높은 Cs 제거 효율(> 90.0%)을 보였다. 흡착 등온 모델링 결과, 단일 흡착을 가정하는 Langmuir 흡착 등온 모델에 대응되는 경향을 보였으며, 흡착 동역학 모델링 결과 흡착 경향이 유사 2차 속도(pseudo second order kinetic) 모델과 일치하는 경향을 보였고, 이러한 결과는 단순한 물리적 흡착보다 이온 교환과 같은 화학적 흡착이 우세함을 의미한다. 고농도의 Cs 용액으로 반응시킨 Na-S-CMDS의 XRF/XRD 분석 결과, Na-S-CMDS 내 Na 함량은 감소하고 흡착 전 존재하던 erdite (NaFeS₂·2(H₂O))가 관찰되지 않는 것을 통해, Na⁺과 Cs⁺ 사이에서 활발한 이온 교환 반응이 진행되었음을 알 수 있었다. XPS 분석 결과, Na-S-CMDS에서 Cs와 S 사이의 강한 결합 작용이 관찰되었으며, 이러한 Cs와 S(또는 S-복합체)내 결합에너지 감소도 Na-S-CMDS의 Cs 흡착능을 증가시키는 요인으로 판단되었다. 본 연구를 통해 기존에 폐기물로 처리되었던 석탄광산배수슬러지를 개량하여 제조한 Na-S-CMDS는 기존의 Cs 흡착제보다 제조 비용이 저렴하고, 해수 및 지하수와 같이 이온 강도는 높지만 Cs 농도가 낮은 대규모 오염 수계에서도 Cs 흡착능이 높게 유지되어, 현장에서 효과적인 Cs 흡착제로 사용할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.127-134
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• 2008

울진원전 3,4 호기의 가상적 중대사고로 인한 종합적인 경제적 리스크를 평가하였다. 이 연구의 목적을 위해 방사능 구름이 내륙을 향하는 것으로 가정하였다. 평가과정에서 불확실한 인자의 정량화에는 전문가 판단 및 의견도출에 유용한 것으로 알려진 델파이 기법을 이용하였다. 종합적인 경제적 리스크는 직접영향 비용과 간접영향 비용으로 구분되므로, 먼저 직접영향에 대한 비용을 평가하고, 예측된 가중치들 이용하여 직접영향 대비 간접영향 비용을 평가하였다. 행동학적 접근방법인 델파이 문제점을 보완하기 위해 수학적 접근방법인 베이지안 기법을 자료처리 과정으로 하는 모형을 적용하여 간접영향에 대한 경제적 충격량을 예측하였다. 1D 몬테칼로분석(MCA)으로 평가한 간접피해에 대한 가중치는 평균 2.59, 중앙값 2.08로 OECD/NEA에서 제시하는 가중치 1.25보다 높게 나타났다. 작은 국토나 방사선에 민감한 대중 성향과 같은 인지들이 패널의 판단에 영향을 미쳤을 수 있다. 직접피해 평가모델의 모수를 U형과 V형으로 구분하고 2D MCA를 사용한 종합적 경제적 리스크는 중앙값의 50%ile을 기준으로 2006년 국내총생산의 3.9%에 해당되었으며, 직접피해 영향이 가장 큰 자산 및 전력손실 비용을 제외하면 총 경제적 리스크는 국내총생산의 2.2% 수준이었다. 이 결과는 원전 비상계획과 대응태세 준비에 대한 투자 정당화에 참조 자료로 이용될 수 있다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.75-97
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• 2012

Knowledge residing in the heads of employees has always been regarded as one of the most critical resources within a firm. However, many tries to facilitate knowledge transfer among employees has been unsuccessful because of the motivational and cognitive problems between the knowledge source and the recipient. Social capital, which is defined as "the sum of the actual and potential resources embedded within, available through, derived from the network of relationships possessed by an individual or social unit [Nahapiet and Ghoshal, 1998]," is suggested to resolve these motivational and cognitive problems of knowledge transfer. In Social capital theory, there are two research streams. One insists that social capital strengthens group solidarity and brings up cooperative behaviors among group members, such as voluntary help to colleagues. Therefore, social capital can motivate an expert to transfer his/her knowledge to a colleague in need without any direct reward. The other stream insists that social capital provides an access to various resources that the owner of social capital doesn't possess directly. In knowledge transfer context, an employee with social capital can access and learn much knowledge from his/her colleagues. Therefore, social capital provides benefits to both the knowledge source and the recipient in different ways. However, prior research on knowledge transfer and social capital is mostly limited to either of the research stream of social capital and covered only the knowledge source's or the knowledge recipient's perspective. Social network theory which focuses on the structural dimension of social capital provides clear explanation about the in-depth mechanisms of social capital's two different benefits. 'Strong tie' builds up identification, trust, and emotional attachment between the knowledge source and the recipient; therefore, it motivates the knowledge source to transfer his/her knowledge to the recipient. On the other hand, 'weak tie' easily expands to 'diverse' knowledge sources because it does not take much effort to manage. Therefore, the real value of 'weak tie' comes from the 'diverse network structure,' not the 'weak tie' itself. It implies that the two different perspectives on strength of ties can co-exist. For example, an extroverted employee can manage many 'strong' ties with 'various' colleagues. In this regards, the individual-level structure of one's relationships as well as the dyadic-level relationship should be considered together to provide a holistic view of social capital. In addition, interaction effect between individual-level characteristics and dyadic-level characteristics can be examined, too. Based on these arguments, this study has following research questions. (1) How does the social capital of the knowledge source and the recipient influence knowledge transfer respectively? (2) How does the strength of ties between the knowledge source and the recipient influence knowledge transfer? (3) How does the social capital of the knowledge source and the recipient influence the effect of the strength of ties between the knowledge source and the recipient on knowledge transfer? Based on Social capital theory and Social network theory, a multi-level research model is developed to consider both the individual-level social capital of the knowledge source and the recipient and the dyadic-level strength of relationship between the knowledge source and the recipient. 'Cross-classified random effect model,' one of the multi-level analysis methods, is adopted to analyze the survey responses from 337 R&D employees. The results of analysis provide several findings. First, among three dimensions of the knowledge source's social capital, network centrality (i.e., structural dimension) shows the significant direct effect on knowledge transfer. On the other hand, the knowledge recipient's network centrality is not influential. Instead, it strengthens the influence of the strength of ties between the knowledge source and the recipient on knowledge transfer. It means that the knowledge source's network centrality does not directly increase knowledge transfer. Instead, by providing access to various knowledge sources, the network centrality provides only the context where the strong tie between the knowledge source and the recipient leads to effective knowledge transfer. In short, network centrality has indirect effect on knowledge transfer from the knowledge recipient's perspective, while it has direct effect from the knowledge source's perspective. This is the most important contribution of this research. In addition, contrary to the research hypothesis, company tenure of the knowledge recipient negatively influences knowledge transfer. It means that experienced employees do not look for new knowledge and stick to their own knowledge. This is also an interesting result. One of the possible reasons is the hierarchical culture of Korea, such as a fear of losing face in front of subordinates. In a research methodology perspective, multi-level analysis adopted in this study seems to be very promising in management research area which has a multi-level data structure, such as employee-team-department-company. In addition, social network analysis is also a promising research approach with an exploding availability of online social network data.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제23권9호
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• pp.1096-1103
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• 2013

만성외상성뇌병증(Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, CTE)은 운동선수와 매우 밀접하게 관련되어 있으며 장기간에 걸쳐 반복적인 외상성뇌손상(traumatic brain injury, TBI)로 인한 퇴행성뇌질환이다. 신경영양인자(neurotrophic factor)는 여러 종류가 알려져 있으며 이들은 뇌와 척수의 물리적 손상시에 신경보호효과가 있다. 따라서, 신경영양인자의 혼합물인 cebrolysin을 이용하여 CTE질환에 가장 적합하다고 여겨지는 repetitive mild TBI (rmTBI) 모델에서 cerebrolysin의 신경보호효과를 알아보고자 하였다. 실험군은 5군(groups 1 and 2: rmTBI for 4 weeks following cerebrolysin injection for 4 weeks; groups 3 and 4: rmTBI for 8 weeks with or without cerebrolysin injection for 4 weeks; group 5: control)으로 나누어 진행하였다. CTE의 가장 대표적 표시인자인 tau 단백질의 인산화를 조직학적으로 조사한 결과, 대뇌겉질과 해마내 CA3 영역에서 phospho-tau단백질의 발현이 증가되었으며 cerebrolysin ($10{\mu}l$ of 1 mg/ml)를 미정맥으로 투여시 p-tau발현이 감소되었다. CTE의 병인으로 알려진 별아교세포와 미세아교세포의 활성을 각각의 표시인인 GFAP, iba-1을 이용하여 면역조직화학염색을 시행하였다. 별아교세포의 활성은 rmTBI에 의하여 증가하였으며 cerebrolysin에 의해 회복되었으나 미세아교세포의 활성은 관찰되지 않았다. 또한 rmTBI모델에서 체내 탐식세포(macrophage)의 뇌내유입유무를 관찰하고자 CD45 염색을 시행하였으나 유의한 차이를 관찰하지 못하였다. 이상의 결과를 종합하면, cerebrolysin이 rmTBI에 의한 tau단백질의 인산화 및 별아교세포의 활성을 조절하는 것으로 사료된다. 따라서 cerebrolysin이 CTE 환자에 대한 치료 약물의 후보가 될 수 있음을 시사한다.