• Journal of Korean Biological Nursing Science
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.62-69
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• 2019

Purpose: Purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of stress, social support, and lifestyle on health-related quality of life among middle-aged women. Methods: One hundred forty three-middle aged women were recruited and completed questionnaires regarding their stress, social support, lifestyle and health-related quality of life. Data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, and multiple regression. Results: Regression model was statistically significant (F= 24.80, p< .001) with 46% of adjusted $R^2$. Stress showed to be a major factor influencing health-related quality of life in middle-aged women (p< .001) and the presence of chronic illness (p= .011) was noted as next in the result of a multiple regression analysis. Conclusion: The results suggest that nursing professionals should include strategies to reduce stress and to consider helping women with chronic illness when developing a health promotion program to increase health related quality of life for middle-aged women.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.121-134
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• 2020

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to investigate consumer's satisfaction with the attractiveness, reliability, and professionalism that are characteristics of social influencers, and to investigate the impact of influencer characteristics on consumers' continuous use intention through satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach - A total of 293 questionnaires on independent samples were used for this study. Collected data were analyzed by SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 24.0 program and frequency analysis, reliability analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, correlation analysis and structural equation model analysis were performed. Findings - The findings demonstrated the followings: First, the attractiveness, reliability and professionalism of influencer had a positive effect on satisfaction. Second, the attractiveness and reliability of influencer had a positive effect on continuous use intention. However, professionalism did not have a significant impact. Third, user satisfaction with social media (channel of influence) had a positive effect on continuous use intention. Research implications or Originality - In doing so, this study was able to provide an in-depth understanding of the key characteristics of influencers and their roles, and contributed to ongoing research by providing suggestions for future studies.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.27-44
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• 2020

Purpose - This study examines the factors that influence the performance of contract farming by agricultural cooperatives from the agency theory and resource-based view of the firm. Design/methodology/approach - This study collected 1,090 data related to a sample of contract information between agricultural cooperatives and producers from national agricultural cooperatives federation. In order to examine the performance of contract farming, we use the multiple regression analysis. Findings - Incentives may reduce agency problems by increasing producers' motivation and discouraging their opportunistic behavior. Total asset size and education expenses function like resources that lessen the risks coming from environment uncertainty, and also facilitate the contract farming between producers and agricultural cooperatives. Research implications or Originality - By analyzing the factors that influence on the performance of contract farming between producers and agricultural cooperatives, we propose that incentives, and resources may improve the performance of contract farming between agricultural cooperatives and producers. Overall, the contract farming can co-create the economic efficiency and effectiveness while minimizing risks and uncertainty.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.41-50
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• 2021

This study was conducted with the aim of exploring ways to more effectively manage related courses by checking the educational effects of the operation of engineering liberal arts courses operated for the development of communication skills of engineering students by detailed factors of communication skills. To achieve the purpose of the study, literature review and survey methodologies were used. A survey was conducted before and after class targeting four class students of the engineering college of D University in Gyeonggi-do. As a result of comparing the results of the pre-test before class through this class and the results of the post-test conducted at the end of the class, it was confirmed that speaking ability, reading ability, and communication ability were improved at a statistically significant level. In addition, as a result of analyzing differences in communication competencies for each individual variable, it was found that there were statistically significant differences according to gender, students' major field, and grade. Based on such research results, several educational proposals were presented to increase the effectiveness of the management of courses operated to develop communication skills.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.35-42
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• 2021

The college English teaching-learning model in this study is intended to effectively apply dictogloss activities to enhance competencies such as communication, self-directedness, and cooperation by upgrading the utilization of various online platform functions. Dictogloss is a language teaching and learning activity that combines four functions (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) of communication. College English classes in this study focus on communication-oriented integrated English education. In this study, the teaching and learning is an online-based English integrated teaching-learning method based on constructivism theory. The model presented the roles of learners and teachers according to the seven procedures.

• Journal of East-West Nursing Research
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.53-60
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• 2010

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify and evaluate outcome measurement scales of nursing education such as communication, professionalism, leadership, and critical thinking. Methods: A methodological study design was used to evaluate the reliability and validity of the scales. Survey was done to the students (n=407) enrolled in baccalaureate nursing schools. Using convenience sampling method, we tried to include all grades of students. Internal consistency, convergent validity and group comparison were used to evaluate the reliability and validity of the scales. Results: All scales were reliable and valid. Only convergent validity of the scale to measure critical thinking was relatively low. It suggested that critical thinking skill and disposition might be measured separately. Also it was inefficient to measure the nursing education outcomes with separate scales. Conclusions: It is recommended to develop a new integrative scale to measure nursing education outcomes. Also it is necessary to set the norm of nursing students to evaluate nursing education outcomes for the quality control of nursing education.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.425-428
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• 2011

서비스 로봇과 펫 로봇 등 사람과 직접 상호작용하는 로봇기술의 필요성이 증가하고 있다. 대화시스템은 자연언어처리 기술을 활용하여 음성인식 기술과의 결합을 통해 현재 로봇에서 주로 사용되고 있는 버튼과 터치스크린 위주의 HRI(Human-Robot Interface)보다 자연스러운 HRI를 제공한다. 이러한 자연스러운 HRI를 수행할 수 있는 로봇을 구성하기 위해서는 로봇이 서비스를 제공할 실제 영역에 맞는 대화시스템의 연구가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 자질사전, 단일화 문법(unification grammar), 대화 흐름도(dialogue flow diagram)를 사용한 레스토랑 영역의 자질기반(feature-based) 대화시스템을 제시한다. 자질 정보는 형태소, 시제, 어휘의 의미구조 등을 나타내며 화행(speech act) 결정에 사용하고 문장 자질과 구문 자질을 파서에서 활용한다. 자질기반 대화시스템을 통하여 레스토랑 영역에서 사용자 화행 이해 및 주문, 안내 등의 서비스를 성공적으로 수행할 수 있음을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.28-29
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• 2020

최근 들어 정부의 적극적인 지원책에 힘입어 전통적인 축산농장의 환경을 스마트 축사로 개선하는 사업이 다양하게 추진되고 있다. 이에 축산농장의 스마트화를 위해 다양한 축산용 ICT 기기들이 개발되어 도입되고 있고, 클라우드기반의 인터넷환경까지 연결되고 있으나, 이러한 ICT 기기들을 사용하여 스마트 축사를 구축하고 운영하는데, 편의성 측면에서나 효율성 측면에서 어려움을 겪는 경우가 다수 발생하고 있다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위해, 축산 현장에서 사용자의 편의성 측면을 고려하여 축산현장 정보를 기록하는 스마트 블랙박스 시스템을 개발하고, 효율성을 고려하여 이 시스템을 위한 지능형 시스템 관제 플랫폼을 개발하였다. 그리고 현장상황에서 실증평가를 통해 축산 인들이 현장에서 축산 ICT 기기를 쉽고, 안전하게 운영하도록 하도록 사용자 환경을 구축하였다. 본 논문에서는 개발된 스마트 축산 ICT 블랙박스 시스템(Smart.Dx)과 IoT센서 수집용 게이트웨이(Smart.Dn), 그리고 클라우드 데이터 분석 솔루션(Smart.Center)을 기술한다. 이 연구내용은 또한 축산업에 종사하는 고령자나 스마트폰 환경에 익숙하지 않은 사용자 환경 특성을 고려하여, 유니버셜 디자인의 7대 원칙을 지원하고 있다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.145-153
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• 2008

This study proposes a facility location model in consideration of spatial coverage and travel cost as an effort to make objective and effective decisions of natural gas filling stations. The proposed model is developed for fixed stations and consists of two stages. The first stage employs a heuristic algorithm to find a set of locations which satisfy the spatial coverage constraints determined by the maximum travel distance between the filling stations and bus depots. In the second stage, the optimal location of filling stations is determined based on the minimum travel cost estimated by using a modified transportation problem as well as the construction and maintenance costs of the filling stations. The applicability of the model is analyzed through finding the optimal location of filling stations for the city of Anyang, a typical medium-sized city in metropolitan Seoul, based on the demand of natural gas buses. This study is expected to help promote the spread of natural gas buses by providing a starting point of a objective and reasonable methodological perspective to address the filling station location problem.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.42 no.12
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• pp.1091-1102
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• 2009

This study developed an integrated approach to climate change and urbanization impact assessment by linking models of SDSM (statistical downscaling model), HSPF (hydrological simulation program?Fortran) and ICM (impervious cover model). A case study of the Anyangcheon watershed illustrated how the proposed framework can be used to analyze the impacts of climate change and urbanization in terms of flood control, water security and water quality. The evaluation criteria were the variations of flow and pollutant concentration duration curves. In this study, nine scenarios including three climate (present condition, A1B and A2) and three urbanization scenarios were analyzed using HSPF model. As a result, climate change is a large influence on the flowrate and the urbanization affects the pollutant concentration. Therefore, the impacts of both climate change and urbanization must be included into the watershed management and water resources planning for sustainable development.