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Does the time interval after bleaching influence the adhesion of orthodontic brackets?

  • Nascimento, Glaucia Cristina Rodrigues;Miranda, Cyndi Albuquerque De;Machado, Sissy Maria Mendes;Brandao, Gustavo Antonio Martins;Almeida, Haroldo Amorim De;Silva, Cecy Martins
    • The korean journal of orthodontics
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    • v.43 no.5
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    • pp.242-247
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    • 2013
  • Objective: To test the null hypothesis that no difference exists between the effects of at-home bleaching and in-office bleaching on shear bond strength (SBS) with bracket bonding at 4 different time intervals after dental bleaching. Methods: Ninety extracted human premolars were randomly divided into 9 groups (n = 10) according to the bleaching methods used (at-home bleaching and in-office bleaching) and the storage time in artificial saliva (30 min, 1 day, 2 weeks, and 3 weeks before bonding). The control group was stored in artificial saliva for 7 days. Brackets were bonded with the Transbond XT adhesive system, and SBS testing was performed. The adhesive remnant index (ARI) was used to assess the amount of resin remaining on the enamel surfaces after debonding. The SBS data were analyzed by analysis of variance (ANOVA) and the Tukey test. For the ARI, the Kruskal-Wallis test was performed. Significance for all statistical tests was predetermined to be p < 0.05. Results: The SBS of the unbleached group was significantly higher (p < 0.05) than that of the bleached groups (except for the group bonded 30 min after at-home bleaching). Conclusions: The null hypothesis was not totally rejected. All bleaching groups tested had decreased SBS of the brackets to the enamel, except for the group bonded 30 min after at-home bleaching. The SBS returned to values close to those of the unbleached enamel within 3 weeks following bleaching.

Analysis of E-learning Acceptance in Vietnam-Korea Friendship Information Technology College (베트남-한국 우호 정보기술대학 이러닝 수용성 분석)

  • Van, Hung Trong;Ko, JinSeok;Rheem, JaeYeol
    • The Journal of Korean Institute for Practical Engineering Education
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.45-51
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    • 2013
  • To improve the e-learning education quality in VietHanIT College (Vietnam-Korea Friendship Information Technology College), e-learning acceptance was evaluated based on the well-known Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Quantitative data of the questionnaire survey were gathered from 158 lecturers and staffs of VietHanIT College and analyzed by using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). While designing the questionnaire various previous studies were considered and hypotheses and models of the study were set up accordingly. As the results, success model of e-learning system was built up and important factors were identified. And most of lectures and staffs in VietHanIT College were aware of the benefits of e-learning system and they were ready to apply e-learning method for their training and teaching.

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Reduction Potential for Thermal Load by Extensive Green Roofs (경량형 옥상녹화에 따른 열부하 저감 잠재성 연구)

  • Kim, Yeon Mee;Nam, Mi A;Jang, Dae Hee;Kim, Hyeon Soo;Kim, Hyun Ok
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.67-77
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    • 2013
  • Based on the increasing demand for a solution to reduce thermal load, extensive green roofs have great opportunity for application to existing roofs due to their light-weight and easy maintenance. The present study delivers data regarding thermal behavior and heat reduction potential in relation to vegetation coverage between green roof types. 1) In the hottest hour in a day, green roofs showed considerable potential to mitigate heat load in roof environments, which can be up to $10^{\circ}C$ difference. 2) Compared to conventional cement roofs, the extensive green roofs only have a slight potential to cool the air over green roofs. By statistical analysis of linear regression, green coverage has little to do with the reduction of air temperature; the cooling effect was proven only in nighttime. 3) Green roofs act as an insulating roof membrane, the inner substrate of green roofs remained cooler than cement roof surfaces in the daytime, but in the nighttime the green roofs generally were warmer than the cement roof surfaces. 4) The variable of vegetation coverage resulted in no significant difference in thermal behavior in the air, but had the greatest effect in keeping the substrate cool in the daytime. The high vegetation coverage also hindered the rapid cooling of the substrate in the nighttime, and therefore was warmer than other measured temperatures. In order to draw a clear conclusion to combat urban heat island effect with extensive green roofs, the experiment needs to be applied on a larger scale.

The Effects of School Health Education on Health Promotion Behavior Among Selected High School Students (일부 고등학생들의 학교보건교육이 건강증진행위에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee Chang Gug;Lee Myung Sun;Suh Seung Hee;Han Seung Hyun
    • Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.17-40
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    • 2005
  • This study was aimed to analyze the status of the a health education and the health behavior, and to identify the effected factors of health promotion behavior based on Green's PRECEDE Model among high school students The data was collected by interview survey with self-administration questionnaire from the selected high school students during the end of the second semester, 2001, and 1,591 students are analyzed. The statistical method of the analysing for effected factors of health promotion behavior was used the Multiple Linear Regression Analysis by SPSS package program. The results of this study are as fellows. 1. The index of the health educational contents shows the 18.14 points per 86 points, 18.96 points in girl students, 17.53 points in boy students. 2. In the index of health promotion behaviors was 84.9 points per 140 full points in all average; 61 points per 100 points. The experienced rate of smoking was $35\%$ of all students, $38.5\%$ of boy students, $30.6\%$ of girl students each. The experienced rate of drinking was $62.2\%$ of all students, $61.6\%$ of boy students, $69.4\%$ of girl students. 3. The effected factors of the health promotions behaviors to analyse by multiple linear regression model was sports activity, the degree of satisfaction of their school life, the academic records of school, the present health conditions, their awareness for hazard of smoking for their health, the experiences of the smoking, their stresses(R$^2$ =0.174). and the factors as the experiences of drinking, their stresses, and the indexes for the health education contents in their school were added in girls students.

Research on the total quality management of the general hospitals (의료기관의 종합적 품질경영(TQM)에 관한 연구)

  • Tak, Ki-Chun
    • Korea Journal of Hospital Management
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.26-58
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    • 2003
  • This research first finds out the resources, activities, and effectiveness of quality management effort and the resulting customer satisfaction when the total quality management is lacking in most Korean medical agencies today. Then, it analyzes the relationship among the factors mentioned earlier. This paper utilizes actual data and presents a theoretical model which explains that the resources of quality management affect the activities and that the fruit of the quality management effort benefits the customers in the end. In addition, this study conducts a corroborative analysis through executing a survey, getting a descriptive statistical result on the subjects' characteristics and the research variables using SPSS 9.0 WIN PROGRAM, and the model is approved through analyzing its make-up using LISREL 8.12 WIN PROGRAM. The study's finding is the following: First, the management leadership affects the worker's, educational training, the quality of medical service, and the survey of customer satisfaction positively. However, it does not affect the quality of work positively. Second, the internal customer satisfaction affects the worker's participation, educational training, the quality of medical service, and the survey of customer satisfaction positively. Third, the quality of medical service and the survey of customer satisfaction affects the result of quality management positively, but the worker's participation, educational training, and the quality of work do not affect the result of quality management positively. Fourth, the management leadership does not appear to affect the result of quality management positively. Fifth, the internal quality management appears to affect the result of quality management positively. Sixth, the external customer satisfaction appears to affect the result of quality management positively. In conclusion, the findings in this study indicate that medical agencies need to utilize the active variables of quality management in order to successfully establish a total quality management.

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A Study on the Effects of Smoking Habit to Health Status in Some Male Employees (일부 남성 직장인에서 관찰된 흡연행태가 건강상태에 미치는 성향연구)

  • 한영미;이시백
    • Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.54-63
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    • 1990
  • This study aims to find out the prevalence of smoking, and to analyze the effect of smoking for health status, and then to emphasize the necessity of stop smoking. The data used in this study are obtained from periodic health care programe at Health Care Center in a suburban hospital, and selected 435 males who have occupation. The independent varibles chosen for the analysis are general charactersitic variables and smoking habit. The dependent variables are designed to cover the health status of individual cases, and include blood pressure, blood cholesterol level with HDL-cholesterol and blood triglyceride level, recent symptoms and recently being managed diseases. The result of this study are summarized as follows. 1) Percentage of smoker by the age groups is highest in 4th decade, being 71.1%. The second and third ranks are 6th and 7th decades, being 53.5% and 44.4%, respectively. 2) In the view of socio-economic levels, smoking rate is higher in the groups who live at rural area and whoes occupation is labor or merchant. Smoking rate is significantly higher in the heavy drinking group. 3) Among the atherosclerotic risk factors, which include hypertension, HDL-cholesterol by total cholesterol ratio lower than 0.2 and triglyceride level higher than 200gm/dl, hypertension was not statistically associated with smoking, but others revealed statistically high association with smoking. 4) The groups who have the symptoms of severe fatigue, gastrointestinal symptoms, pulmonary symptoms, palpitation and chest tightness havepositive association with smoking. 5) The groups who have hypertension with cardiovascular diseases and gastrointestinal diseases showed highly significant association with non-smoking. 6) In relation of the smoking habit to the atherosclerotic risk factor index, smokers have more atherosclerotic risk factors, but that is not statistically significant. 7) In relation of the smoking habit to the recent symptom index, smokers have more symptoms than non-smokers with statistical significance. In conclusion, smokers have worse health status than non-smokers especially in the atherosclerotic risk factors such as hypertension or abnormal blood lipid status and have more symptoms such as severe fatigue, gastrointestinal symptoms, pulmonary symptoms, palpitation and chest tightness. And the campaingn against smoking should direct for the male in 4th decade because they have highest smoking rate.

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The influence of university students' openness to diversity upon career preparation behavior and mediating effect of unlearning (대학생의 다양성수용도가 진로준비행동에 미치는 영향과 폐기학습의 매개효과)

  • Lee, Hyo-Seon
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.205-212
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study is to examine an influence of university students' openness to diversity on career preparation behavior, unlearning, and the mediating effect of unlearning. The survey questionnaire was distributed to 258 university students and SPSS 22.O program was used for statistical analysis of the data. The results of this study are as follows: First, openness to diversity has a positive effect on career preparation behavior and unlearning. Second, unlearning also has a positive effect on career preparation behavior. Third, unlearning has a partial mediating effect between openness to diversity and career preparation behavior. These results show that the more students enhance their openness to diversity and unlearning, the more students develop their career preparation behavior.

Study on the Characteristics of PM Distribution in Coastal and Inland Cities Correlation and Its Correlation (해안 및 내륙도시 내 토지이용도별 미세먼지 분포 특성 및 상호 관련성에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Seung-Wook;Lee, Soon-Hwan;Lee, Hwa-woon
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.24 no.11
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    • pp.1513-1523
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    • 2015
  • In order to clarify the characteristics of PM10 in coastal and inland cities and their variation statistical analysis were carried out using environmental and meteorological data observed at Busan and Daegu metropolitans during 4 year from 2010. Averaged PM10 concentration was higher in industrial area than any other land-use sites, and its maximum value reach on over $50{\mu}g/m^3$ at Jangrim site in Busan. Temporal and spatial variations of PM10 concentration in Busan were more sharply, since topograph and mesoscale wind pattern in Busan is more complicated than those in Daegu. Correlation of PM10 concentrations between sites within Daegu appeared strongly and maximum values $R^2$ is about 0.8. This indicate that because wind pattern induced by mesoscale forcing in Daegu are well unified, the variation of PM10 concentration tends to be similar in all sites within Daegu. However, due to complicate wind pattern induced by topography and coastal line, PM10 correlation of sites within Busan was weaker in comparison with in Daegu. And correlation of PM10 at same lane-use in Busan and Daegu tend to be related to the intensity of meteorological forcing, which can decide the intensity of wind pattern.

The Level of Knowledge Required to Fulfill the Task of Fashion Design -A Cross-cultural Study between South Korea and the United States - (패션디자이너 직무수행을 위해 필요한 지식수준에 관한 연구 - 한국과 미국을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Ji-Young
    • Journal of the Korea Fashion and Costume Design Association
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.191-200
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    • 2014
  • Employees overseas have a need to prepare according to the different environments and industrial structures between countries. Therefore, to investigate qualities for fashion designers to possess when they work abroad, especially in the United States, this study compared the level of knowledge required to fulfill the work of fashion design in both South Korea and the United States. Responses from workers who are engaged to fashion design from the representative online career information systems of two countries, 'Worknet' in South Korea and '$O^*Net$' in the United States, were used as data. Looking at the result derived from the analysis of this study, first by comparing various statistical indicators, results showed the difference between knowledge level required to fashion designer in South Korea and in the United States. Even with the same type of job, because environments and industrial structures of each country are dissimilar, a different level of knowledge will be required in order to perform their tasks. Second, fashion designers in both South Korea and the United States required a high level of knowledge in the 'fine arts', 'administration and management', 'production and processing', and 'design' to perform their duties as a fashion designer. As a result, both countries have similarities that fashion designers need to possess a high level of the knowledge in areas such as 'production of products' as well as 'sales of products'. Furthermore, human relationship field of knowledge such as 'counseling', 'psychology', and 'communication' appeared to be more necessary to fashion designers in South Korea than those in the United States. On the other hand, higher degree of knowledge of 'machines and tools', ' fine arts', and 'transportation' appeared to be more necessary to fashion designers in the United States than those in South Korea.

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The Influence of Consumption Values for Western Salad on Functional Attitude and Consumer Satisfaction (양식샐러드 메뉴에 대한 소비가치가 태도 및 고객만족에 미치는 영향)

  • Jung, Jin-Woo
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.222-233
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    • 2016
  • Current study analyzed the influence of social consumption values for the western salad on the functional attitude and the consumer satisfaction. To verify the purpose of this study data were collected from consumers who have experience in western style restaurants of five hotels located in Seoul, total 330 questionnaires were distributed and 322 examples were employed for statistical analysis. By using SPSS 18.0 program present study derive following conclusions. The consumption values such as rarity value, social value, emotional value and functional value have significantly influence on the functional attitude. Especially, the social value, among the consumption values, has the most significant factor. In addition, the all consumption values of salad have a significant antecedent of the consumer's satisfaction. Furthermore, the functional attitude has affect the consumer's satisfaction as well. Therefore, this study clarify the influences among the social consumption values for the western salad on the functional attitude and the consumer's satisfaction.