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The Effects of Self-Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, and Academic Self-Efficacy on Adjustment to College Life of Nursing College Students (간호 대학생의 셀프리더십, 감성지능, 학업적 자기효능감이 대학생활 적응에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Jong-Im
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.253-262
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    • 2018
  • This study was conducted to investigate the effects of self-leadership, emotional intelligence, and academic self-efficacy on adjustment to college life among nursing college students. The subjects included 207 nursing college students in C City. Collected data were analyzed based on descriptive statistics, t-tests, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation, and stepwise multiple regression. Self-leadership, emotional intelligence, and academic self-efficacy had significant effects on student adjustment to college life with an explanatory power of 26.2%. Moreover, relationships between student's general characteristics and adjustment to college life revealed differences in self-leadership according to grades and marks, in emotional intelligence according to the grades and hours on the internet, in academic self-efficacy according to hours on the internet, and in adjustment to college life according to grades. Adjustment to college life was highly positively correlated with self-leadership and emotional intelligence. In short, the findings demonstrate that self-leadership and emotional intelligence had important effects on adjustment to college life among nursing college students and reveal a need to reinforce the development of programs designed to improve self-leadership and emotional intelligence to facilitate adjustment to college life.

Life in Old Age and Intergenerational Dependency: An Exploration of Aging Humanities (노년의 삶과 세대의존: 노년인문학의 탐색)

  • Kim, Ilgu
    • English & American cultural studies
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.27-50
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    • 2018
  • Old age is often compared as climbing mountains which requires walking out of breath, yet with wider vision. And it is also likened to the estuary where the river flows slowly and broadly into the open sea. Socially, old age has been regarded as a symbol of wisdom and reflection, and elderly people often take the role of sage who leads the community. On the other hand, the dementia, gray hair and wrinkles of old age were sometimes perceived as the decline of intellect and vitality. Especially, in the digital age in which technology makes people more sensitive to physical artificiality, the evaluation of the old age becomes more complex and obscure. In other words, some elderly people can not escape from Confucious convention of the elders first, which causes the denouncement by younger generations. On the other hand, some elderly people are becoming more adaptable to the trend of young people, emerging as the new elderly people. The anti-aging movement, early adaptation of IT, bioengineering regimen also strong for the advanced age. However, as the new elderly people are active in many fields of society, they also face intergenerational conflicts in some areas where remains the overlap between young people and them due to the limited openings in economy and culture. This study is a transdisciplinary research which can be called old age humanities. First of all, this paper looks at the aspects of lifestyles and intergeneration conflicts in old age in four Korean and Western literary works about the old people, and also searches how to improve the quality of the later life of old people, Overall, this paper aims to explore the way the old people can achieve the full life with the help of intergenerational dependency through building aging humanities and new communities for old people.

A study on the Experience of Nursing Department Mature-age students Major Course (간호학과 만학도의 전공 과정 경험 연구)

  • Kim, Mi–Hwa;CHO, Eun Ha
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.19-26
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    • 2022
  • The purpose is a qualitative study that explores the essential meaning of problems in the academic performance process with respect to college life targeting Nursing students in Mature-age students. The participants of this study were 15 students who were 4th graders from a university in K city, Gyeongsangbuk-do, and who had passion for learning and had an awareness of it. As for the data collection, the experiences related to the life of Mature-age students were written through interviews and self-reports within 48 hours of asking questions as a student. The collected data were analyzed using Krippendorff's phenomenological method. As a result of analyzing the experiences of Nursing students in Mature-age students, 34 meaningful statements in 4 categories and 14 topics were derived. The four categories were derived as 'endless hardship', 'the reason for being with them even at the end of the school year', 'the confidence to find slowly', and 'learning life in the academic process'. As a result of this study, it is expected that Adult Learners nursing students will be used as basic data for a program useful for stable and smooth college adaptation and nurturing healthy nursing professions in the future.

High Concentration of Red Clay as an Alternative for Antibiotics in Aquaculture

  • Jung, Jaejoon;Jee, Seung Cheol;Sung, Jung-Suk;Park, Woojun
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.130-138
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    • 2016
  • The use of antibiotics in aquaculture raises environmental and food safety concerns because chronic exposure of an aquatic ecosystem to antibiotics can result in the spread of antibiotic resistance, bioaccumulation of antibiotics in the organisms, and transfer of antibiotics to humans. In an attempt to overcome these problems, high-concentration red clay was applied as an alternative antibiotic against the following common fish pathogens: Aeromonas salmonicida, Vibrio alginolyticus, and Streptococcus equinus. The growth of A. salmonicida and V. alginolyticus was retarded by red clay, whereas that of S. equinus was promoted. Phase contrast and scanning electron microscopy analyses confirmed the attachment of red clay on cell surfaces, resulting in rapid gravitational removal and cell surface damage in both A. salmonicida and V. alginolyticus, but not in S. equinus. Different cell wall properties of grampositive species may explain the unharmed cell surface of S. equinus. Significant levels of oxidative stress were generated in only the former two species, whereas significant changes in membrane permeability were found only in S. equinus, probably because of its physiological adaptation. The bacterial communities in water samples from Oncorhynchus mykiss aquacultures supplemented with red clay showed similar structure and diversity as those from oxytetracycline-treated water. Taken together, the antibiotic effects of high concentrations of red clay in aquaculture can be attributed to gravitational removal, cell surface damage, and oxidative stress production, and suggest that red clay may be used as an alternative for antibiotics in aquaculture.

Effect of Insulin Resistance on the Metabolism of Periparturient Dairy Cattle (분만전후기 젖소에서 insulin resistance의 대사적 작용)

  • Kim, Jin-Wook
    • Journal of agriculture & life science
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    • v.44 no.5
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    • pp.65-74
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    • 2010
  • Dairy cow undergoes major adaptations in glucose and lipid metabolism to meet fetal and mammary nutrient requirements during the periparturient period. These adaptations are characterized by major changes in response to the homeostatic signal of insulin. In response to insulin, fatty acids are mobilized to meet energy demand. And cow develop insulin resistance during the late prepartum period to facilitate glucose sparing for the fetus and mammary gland. Insulin resistance is an important adaptation and may be partly responsible for the large increase in plasma nonesterified fatty acid (NEFA) that occurs prior to parturition and coincides with the characteristic decrease in dry matter intake (DMI). Modulation of insulin resistance by administration of thiazolidinedione (TZD) during the periparturient period, likely through the activation of $PPAR{\gamma}$, has substantial potential to minimize energy and immune-related metabolic disorders, and thus may result in increased productivity and improved health of dairy cows.

Protecting Privacy of User Data in Intelligent Transportation Systems

  • Yazed Alsaawy;Ahmad Alkhodre;Adnan Abi Sen
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.163-171
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    • 2023
  • The intelligent transportation system has made a huge leap in the level of human services, which has had a positive impact on the quality of life of users. On the other hand, these services are becoming a new source of risk due to the use of data collected from vehicles, on which intelligent systems rely to create automatic contextual adaptation. Most of the popular privacy protection methods, such as Dummy and obfuscation, cannot be used with many services because of their impact on the accuracy of the service provided itself, they depend on changing the number of vehicles or their physical locations. This research presents a new approach based on the shuffling Nicknames of vehicles. It fully maintains the quality of the service and prevents tracking users permanently, penetrating their privacy, revealing their whereabouts, or discovering additional details about the nature of their behavior and movements. Our approach is based on creating a central Nicknames Pool in the cloud as well as distributed subpools in fog nodes to avoid intelligent delays and overloading of the central architecture. Finally, we will prove by simulation and discussion by examples the superiority of the proposed approach and its ability to adapt to new services and provide an effective level of protection. In the comparison, we will rely on the wellknown privacy criteria: Entropy, Ubiquity, and Performance.

Overcoming Experiences of Family Members Caring for Elderly Patients with Dementia at Home (재가 치매 노인환자를 돌보는 가족원의 극복 경험)

  • Sung, Mi Ra;Yi, Myungsun;Lee, Dong Young;Jang, Hye Young
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.43 no.3
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    • pp.389-398
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    • 2013
  • Purpose: The purpose of the study was to understand and describe the overcoming experiences of family members caring for elderly patients with dementia at home. Methods: Data came from autobiographies on the overcoming experiences of caregiving from 31 participants, who had submitted the autobiographies to a public contest held by the Seoul Metropolitan Center for Dementia in 2012. Data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Results: Four overcoming stages emerged from the analysis: confronting stage; challenging stage; integrating stage; and transcendental stage, representing transformation of experiences from frustration and suffering to happiness and new hope in life. The confronting stage illustrates severe negative feelings and exhaustion occurring after the diagnosis of dementia. The challenging stage signifies major driving forces in taking good care of their patients. It includes tender loving memories about the patients as well as family and social supports. The integrating stage shows genuine empathy for the patients' situation and the happiness of 'here and now', while the transcendental stage represents new hope in the future. Conclusion: Health professionals need to support caregivers to find true meaning of caring and happiness in everyday life, while providing specific information on dementia care and relieving various negative feelings.

Factors Influencing Posttraumatic Growth in Survivors of Breast Cancer (유방암생존자의 외상 후 성장에 영향을 미치는 요인)

  • Park, Jin-Hee;Jung, Yong-Sik;Jung, Youngmi
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.46 no.3
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    • pp.454-462
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: Posttraumatic growth (PTG) is defined as 'positive psychological change experienced as a result of a struggle with highly challenging life circumstances'. The purpose of this study was to identify the level of PTG and its correlates in Korean patients with breast cancer. Methods: A sample of 120 participants was recruited from outpatients, who had successfully completed primary treatment of breast cancer at a university hospital., Data were collected from June to December, 2014 using Posttraumatic Growth Inventory, Illness Intrusiveness Rating Scale, Cancer Coping Questionnaire, Revised Life Orientation Test and The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support. Results: Total score for the PTG was $79.18{\pm}17.54$ in patients surviving breast cancer. Bivariate analyses indicated that PTG was positively associated with having a religion, perceived social support, greater optimism, cancer coping, and illness intrusiveness. Results of the regression analysis showed that cancer coping (${\beta}=.29$, p=.001), optimism (${\beta}=0.28$, p=.001) and illness intrusiveness (${\beta}=0.17$, p=.037) were statistically significant in patients' PTG. Conclusion: The research findings show that the variables of cancer coping, optimism and illness intrusiveness significantly explain PTG and these psychological variables can be used to provide improvement in PTG for patients with breast cancer.

A Study on the Windows and Doors of the Main Room by Space Organization of the Traditional Residental Architecture - Focus on the Upper Middle Class in Jeonlanamdo - (전통주거건축 공간구성에 따른 안방창호 구성에 관한 연구 - 전라남도 지역 중상류 주택을 중심으로 -)

  • Cho, Sung-Woo;Lee, Jae-Hong;Moon, Chul-Seong;Cheon, Deuk-Youm
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2014
  • Korean traditional house has inherented construction characteristics that contain human requirements with the adaptation to nature's order. As for traditional buildings, there are a lot of facilities like palaces, Buddhist temples, Confucianism architectures, government facilities, etc. Among them, housing construction is not only closely connected to our lives, but also plays an important role to connect our lives from the past to present. The master room in a traditional korean house is responsible for playing a center role of the residential life which implies the traditional values responsible for multi-functions and it is also the sphere of the living space. Therefore, this thesis considers the residential environmental adjustment method and the behaviors centered around the main buildings of Jeonnam Province. And also investigates the main reason for windows and doors formation. From this, we would like to further evaluate the master room life, and the inner space constructions following the spacial and organizational analysis of windows and doors. We would like to analyze the space organization methods, environmental adjustment methods and the usages of traditional buildings. Using the modern interpretation as basis, we would like to use the foundation materials to reflect single family housing plans.

A Study on the Structure of Peripheral Olfactory Organ in the Korean Mudskipper, Scartelaos gigas (Pisces, Gobiidae) (한국산 남방짱뚱어 Scartelaos gigas의 후각기관 구조에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hyun Tae;Lee, Yong Joo;Park, Jong Sung;Park, Jong Young
    • Korean Journal of Ichthyology
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.281-287
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    • 2014
  • An olfactory organ in Scartelaos gigas, so-called mudskipper known as adaptation to an amphibious lifestyle, was investigated anatomically and histologically. S. gigas possessed the paired olfactory organ comprising respectively the one elongated canal and two nasal sacs, lacrimal and ethmoidal nasal sac. The sensory epithelium developed partly in the canal contained four distinct types of cells: (1) receptor cell with 3 to 4 cilia in number, (2) supporting, (3) basal, (4) mucus cell. The sensory epithelium was also of transitional layer as multi cellularity structure. The non-sensory epithelium had no sensory elements. The two nasal sacs possessed typically a lot of mucin droplets. These results might be considered that anatomical structure and histological characters of the olfactory organ showing in S. gigas is adapted to semi-aquatic life associated with its ecological habit and habitat.