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Prevalence of blood parasites infection and experimental treatment in Korean native goats (재래산양에서 주혈미생물의 감염실태 및 실험적 치료시험)

  • 허부홍;전창권;이희문;김용수;김윤태;이정원;최승옥;안병목;송희종
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Service
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.42-52
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    • 1995
  • Anaplasmosis is most important tick-borne rickettsial diseases of domestic ruminant. with Anaptasma spp. as their respective causal agents. In order to the survey prevalence of anaplasmosis in Korean native goats, we examined the Giemsa's blood filrms from 552 grazing and 188 nongrazing-goats in Chonbuk area Namwon, Imsil and Sunchang. The conclusive diagnosis was made by observing the characteristic marginal or central bodies in the red blood cells. The infection rate of grazine and nongrazing-goats with Anaplasma spp. was 71.7% and 8.5%, respectively. In order to study about the therapeutic effects of drug for 40 grazing-oats infected with Anaptasma spp. in mountain-area, Berenil(diminazene acetate) was jntramuscularly injected (0.5㎖ /10kg B.W.). After 1 month, we don't detected the parasite in the blood films from 33 goats(82.5%), but no change of significant hematological values(PCV, ESR, WBC, RBC, MCH, MCHC, PLT, MPV, PDW and HB) was observed. These results indicated that the infection rate of Anaplasma spp. was higher on glazing than nongrazing-goats and Berenil as an antianaplasmal drug is recommended.

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A Study on the Financial Problems and Satisfaction of rural Housewives - Focused on middle-class households - (농가주부의 경제문제 경험과 재정만족도 - 생활수준이 중류층인 가정을 중심으로 -)

  • 최윤지;고정숙;최현자
    • The Korean Journal of Community Living Science
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.47-59
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    • 2001
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the factors affecting financial satisfaction of rural housewives. Data for this study were collected from 202 households living in 8 provinces. The results were as follows; 1) The most frequent financial problems experienced from expenditures on clothes(82.1%), lack of expense for social intercourse (61.47), and difficulty in purchasing durable goods(60.1%) in the order. 2) 44.6% of the respondents said they were satisfied with their net worth, and 21.6% of them confessed they had difficulties in debt redemption while 52.5% of them said they felt pressure about monthly payments of installments, which reveals that farm households find it hard to pay back short-term debt. 3) The path analysis was adopted to see the causal relations among the variables influenced the financial satisfaction. The variables of experiences of economic problems, educational background(graduated from middle school), saving, income, and age appeared to be important in the order of effectiveness. Among them, the variables of saying and experiences of economic problems showed a direct effect, and those of age and saving displayed an indirect effect with the experiences of economic problems as the parameter. From this findings, it is suggested that rural extension workers and educators should emphasize the importance of the financial plan in their educational programs.

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Appearance Management Experiences of Breast Cancer Patients -A Grounded Theory Approach- (유방암 환자의 외모 관리 경험에 대한 근거이론적 접근)

  • Kim, Sunwoo;Son, Hyungjin
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.41 no.3
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    • pp.556-574
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    • 2017
  • This study explored the appearance management experiences of breast cancer patients undergoing mastectomy. For data collection, one-on-one interviews were held with 18 Korean females diagnosed with breast cancer from the first stage to the third stage from 2008 to 2015. The data was analyzed through a three-step analysis of grounded theory. QSR NVivo 11.0 for Mac was applied in order to avoid biased results according to the subjective viewpoint of researchers. From open coding results, six paradigms and 15 categories were drawn. The results of axial coding showed that the psychological changes category was the central phenomenon. Additionally, three categories (skin changes, scalp/hair changes, and general reactions) were found to be causal conditions, and five paradigms (clothing behavior, skin care behavior, makeup behavior, scalp/hair-care behavior, and shopping behavior) were found to be action/interaction strategies. Last, selective coding integrated fragmented qualitative data through open coding and axial coding in order to derive explanatory narratives. A comprehensive examination of the appearance management behaviors of breast cancer patients suffering from extreme stress due to physical/psychological changes enables this study to provide a foundation for related studies to be activated in the clothing and textiles discipline.

The Effects of Apartment Inhabitants' Life Management and Administrative Management on Housing Satisfaction (아파트 거주자의 생활 및 운영관리가 주거만족도에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Myung-Hee;Kong, Ha-Sung
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.53-60
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    • 2020
  • This study aims to find the causal relationship between the effects of apartment inhabitants' life management and administrative management on housing satisfaction. The study results are as follows. Firstly, life management showed to have a positive effect on life satisfaction. In other words, the better the management of public order and facilities, the higher the satisfaction of housing satisfaction. Thus, the principal agent of management needs to increase inhabitants' housing satisfaction through education and training on developing life management techniques. Secondly, administrative management showed to have a positive effect on life satisfaction. Thus, the more accurate the completion documents and management transfer process necessary for administrative management, the higher the cost-cutting effects of accounting, construction, and service contracts, the more transparent the resident agreement process in accordance with management policies, the more transparent the election process of building representatives and resident representatives, and the higher the effects of energy saving, the higher the housing satisfaction of inhabitants. This revealed that the principal agent of management needs to increase housing satisfaction through education and training on developing administrative management techniques because the level of administrative management had a positive effect on housing satisfaction. As a result, in order to create reliability between inhabitants and the principal agents of management, the transparency of administrative management such as document disclosure must be ensured, thus improving the housing satisfaction of inhabitants.

Dynamic Analysis of Mindfulness and Therapeutic Relationship using System Dynamics (시스템다이내믹스를 활용한 마음챙김과 치료관계 간의 동태적 분석)

  • Choi, Yeon-Hee
    • Korean System Dynamics Review
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.121-143
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study to analyze the effect of Mindfulness on the Therapeutic Relationship using System Dynamics. The biggest factor in psychotherapy's treatment outcome is the Therapeutic Relationship including the quality of the therapist (empathy, therapeutic presence) and therapy alliance. Mindfulness practice can facilitate the therapeutic relationship. In order to analyze the therapeutic relationship, I measure FFMQ(Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire), Empathy, Therapeutic presence and Therapy alliance. Participants consist of 55 mental health professionals (doctor, psychologist, psychiatrist, counselor, social worker). The result of the study will be explained. First, with the causal loop diagram research, I analyze how mindfulness can influence the quality of therapist and therapy alliance. The result of literature research indicate that mindfulness increase therapist's empathy, congruence, therapeutic presence, flow, therapy alliance. And then mindfulness reinforces the ability of therapeutic relationship. Secondly, through the real data research and simulation analysis, mindfulness practicing period (year and hour a day) of therapist is studied. The result of the therapist experiencing mindfulness practice period is over 5 years and the daily hours of practice is 2 - 2.5 hours in order to enhance the therapeutic relationship. After reviewing the result of the research it is important to understand the practicing period and daily practice of mindfulness. With daily practice and time, the level of mindfulness will increase and influence positively the therapeutic relationship between therapist and client.

A Study on the Authenticity, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, Quality of Life and Job Performance of the Business Sport Team Players

  • Min-Kyu, Choi;Kyung-Won, Byun
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.181-189
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    • 2022
  • The purpose of this study is to verify study models and examine a causal relationship among authenticity, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, quality of life and job achievement for amateur business team player. In order to achieve the purpose, this study conducted structural equation model analysis for study models consisting of extraneous variables after examining the authenticity(organization, leader) that amateur business players perceive and endogenous variables including job satisfaction, organizational commitment, quality of life, and job performance. The object of questionnaires in this study selected sports business team players nationwide as a population and 348 players were chosen as final effective samples by applying a convenient sampling method for offline and online questionnaires. The research tool for this study is a questionnaire. The two dimensions of authenticity were used by developing a scale. For all endogenous variables, the scales used in previous studies were modified and used according to the purpose of the study. This study analyzed the collected data, applying SPSS Win ver. 23.0 and AMOS 20.0 programs in order to analyze the characteristics of the study objects, describe questionnaires, and verify selected study hypothesis, individual hypothesis was verified after identifying the reliability and validity of measurement model, and the fitness verification of study models. In the results, all of the 8 hypothesis were adopted and the reciprocal relationship among each factors in the study model were observed.

A Grounded Theoretical Study on the Experience of Preventing Safety Accidents of Workers at Construction Sites (건설현장 근로자의 안전사고 예방 경험에 대한 근거이론적 연구)

  • Park, Young-Jun;Lim, Un-Na
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2020.11a
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    • pp.63-64
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study is to find out how construction sites workers experience adaptation processes in relation to the prevention of safety accidents in the workplace through the method of grounded theory. In order to understand the experience of preventing safety accidents of workers at construction sites, a grounded theory analysis method was chosen. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, the first questionnaire was sent to 17 people working in the construction site by e-mail, and the participants of the study were met one by one for in-depth interviews. As a result of this study, the paradigm model of the experience of preventing safety accidents of workers at construction sites was classified into causal conditions, contextual conditions, central phenomena, intervening conditions, action/interactions, and outcomes. The conclusions of this study are as follows. First, forming a safety culture that can improve the safety awareness of construction sites is a priority. Second, it is necessary to improve self-management capabilities so that construction workers can accurately diagnose their current state such as their own body, emotion, and cognition and provide appropriate safety education. Third, providing safety education for construction workers with negative thoughts or distorted beliefs about safety accidents needs to include psychological treatment and counseling, such as methods of emotional purification, methods of relieving and managing stress, and methods of removing trauma.

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The Analysis of Structural Relationships Among Self-Efficacy, Perceived Usefulness, Supervisor and Peer Support, Satisfaction, and Transfer Intentions in Corporate Mobile-Learning (기업 모바일러닝에서 자기효능감, 지각된유용성, 상사 및 동료지원, 만족도, 전이동기 간의 구조적 관계 분석)

  • Chung, Ae-Kyung;Hong, Yu-Na;Kang, Jeong-Jin
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.189-196
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the causal relationships among self-efficacy, perceived usefulness, supervisor and peer support, satisfaction, and transfer intentions in the corporate mobile learning. For this study, the web survey was administered to 302 mobile learning learners of the A domestic corporation in South Korea. Structural equation modeling(SEM) analysis was conducted in order to examine the causal relationships among the variables. The results indicated that first, self-efficacy, perceived usefulness, and supervisor and peer support had positive effects on satisfaction. Second, supervisor and peer support and satisfaction had positive effects on transfer intentions. Third, satisfaction mediated the relationship between self-efficacy and perceived usefulness, while it did partially the relationship between supervisor and peer support and transfer intentions. Based on the result of the research, the study proposes organizational environment with cooperative supervisor and peer support should be made in order to improve the level of learners' transfer intentions. In addition, learning strategies that facilitate learners' self-efficacy and mobile information technology acceptance are needed to develop for enhancing the learners' satisfaction.

The Influence of Background Music of TV Home Shopping on Purchase Intent of Customers (TV홈쇼핑 배경음악이 소비자의 구매의사에 미치는 영향)

  • Lim, Ji Hyun;Park, Seung Ho
    • Design Convergence Study
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.277-292
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    • 2015
  • Recently, as TV home shopping has entered into the stage of stability, competition between the same lines of business has become more intense. Thus, this research goals have been determined in order to analyze the purchase intent of customers related with the genre and tempo of background music of TV home shopping by different types of products. In order to achieve the research goals, thorough research on related literatures have been conducted and found out about the background music. Furthermore, the characteristics of background music of actual TV home shopping broadcasting have been analyzed, focusing on the genre and tempo of the music. In addition, a survey has been conducted in order to verify what kind of music genre and tempo of the background music has an influence on the highest purchase intent of the chosen three products(sportswear, household appliances, fresh and processed foods). This study investigated the influence of background music of TV home shopping in relation to the purchase intent of customers. Also, this study has significance in the sense that it analyzed the causal relationship between the background music of home shopping and reactions of customers by categorizing products in details and using the music genre and tempo as the independent variables that affect the purchase intent of customers.

An Evaluation on Visitor Satisfaction in Waterfront Park (수변공원의 이용 만족도 평가)

  • Chang, Min-Sook;Chang, Byung-MKoon
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.38 no.3
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    • pp.41-52
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this paper is to evaluate visitor satisfaction(VS) in waterfront parks in terms of resources, facilities, embodiment of theme(ET), site composition(SC), relaxation activity space(RAS), and dynamic activity space(DAS), which are supply-side components in the planning process of waterfront parks, in order to answer the research question; 'How is visitor satisfaction of waterfront parks determined?' After reviewing the literature on parks and the building process of waterfront parks in Korea, we constructed a conceptual framework and have ascertained a research hypothesis. We had obtained data through a questionnaire survey from 327 visitors at waterfront parks, based on the quota sampling method. We have analyzed the data using the path analysis method. We found that: 1) The direct effects of resources and facilities on VS turned out to be 0.273 and 0.306, respectively while the indirect effects are 0.114, 0.170, respectively. 2) The direct effects of SC, as a component of the planning process on VS, turned out to be 0.243 while that of ET had no affect on VS. The indirect effect of ET and SC on VS turned out to be 0.059 and 0.018, respectively. 3) The direct effects of RAS on VS turned out to be 0.129 while the indirect effects of RAS and DAS on VS turned out to be 0.002 and 0.017, respectively. 4) The size of causal effect, in order, were facilities, resources, SC, RAS, ET, and DAS. 5) Resources and facilities, as a park foundation, compose 64.84 percent of total causal effect while ET and SC have 24.04 percent and RAS and DAS have 11.12 percent, respectively. These research results imply that: 1) Existing waterfront parks should be regenerated with the embodiment of water related theme and with improved facilities for RAS and visitor programs and/or facilities for DAS. 2) The relationship among ET, SC, RAS and DAS should be increased for a significant improvement of VS, and 3) A process-oriented approach turned out to be highly useful for the development of substantive theory and methodology. It is recommended that a structural equation model on waterfront parks be developed using more empirical data and this approach be widely applied for testing its validity.