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Measuring the Important Factors Influencing Family Restaurant Choice (대학생의 패밀리레스토랑 선택에 영향을 미치는 중요요인의 평가)

  • 강종헌;김정미
    • Korean journal of food and cookery science
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.187-195
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    • 2004
  • The aim of this study was to test the different situational characteristics of family restaurant choice. Accordingly, this study measured the important factors influencing family restaurant choice between university student's situational characteristics. In this study, the important factors were food presentation-related, facility-related, food quality & value-related and service-related factors. The findings from this study were as follows. Results of analyzing the validity and the internal consistency of important factors showed that the convergent and discriminant validitys of important factors are supported, and cronbach's alpha showed that the internal consistency of important factors is supported. It was found that groups of different situational characteristics perceived that facility factor was significantly important factor influencing their family restaurant choice. It was found that the important factor was statistically significant with regard to the difference situational characteristics. Finally, the results of the study provide seine insights into the market-oriented types of foodservice marketing strategies or tactics to enable family restaurant to effectively manage and more competitive.

Development of the Patient Caring Communication Scale (환자 돌봄 의사소통 측정 도구 개발)

  • Heo, Myoung Lyun;Im, Sook Bin
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.49 no.1
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    • pp.80-91
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    • 2019
  • Purpose: This study attempted to develop a scale that measures the level of patients' recognition of the nurses' care, based on Watson's caring theory, and confirmed its reliability and validity. Methods: The items were developed through a literature review and an expert content validity test. The questionnaires were administered to 285 inpatients of internal medicine and surgical units at two general hospitals. Construct validity was tested using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, and reliability was tested using Cronbach's alpha. Results: This process resulted in a preliminary scale composed of 34 items; We used item analysis and five exploratory factor analyses, and consequently selected 14 items composed of three factors (respect, genuineness, and relationality). The confirmatory factor analysis verified the model fit and convergent and discriminant validity of the final items; criterion validity was confirmed with the positive correlation with the measurement scale of the patient-perceived quality of nursing. The overall scale reliability had a Cronbach's alpha of .92, which indicated internal consistency and reliability. Conclusion: The developed scale showed content, construct, and criterion validity, and reliability, as well as convergent validity for each item and discriminant validity between the factors. This makes it suitable for use in a diverse range of future studies on nurse communication using structural equation models.

Development and Evaluation of Health Empowerment Scale for North Korean Women Defectors (북한이탈여성의 건강 임파워먼트 측정도구 개발 및 평가)

  • Lim, Semi;Kang, Younhee
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.52 no.1
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    • pp.80-91
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: This study developed an instrument to evaluate the health empowerment of North Korean women refugees and examined its validity and reliability. Methods: Through literature review and focused group interviews, 66 preliminary items with three constructs, including perceived control, perceived competence, and goal internalization were selected based on Menon's psychological health empowerment model. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 239 North Korean women refugees in the community from August 31 to September 4, 2020. Content, construct, convergent, and discriminative validity were evaluated. Cronbach's α was used to evaluate the reliability of scale. Results: The final instrument consisted of 31 items with three factors that were identified through confirmatory factor analysis. The convergent validity showed that the correlation coefficient was .52 (p < .001), which confirmed the validity of the developed measurement tool. Cronbach's α for all the items was .94, and Cronbach's α for the factors was .76~.91. Conclusion: This health empowerment scale has been developed to include aspects of health empowerment, provide a conceptual framework, and offer objective indicators to evaluate the effectiveness of a health education program.

A Determination of an Optimal Clustering Method Based on Data Characteristics

  • Kim, Jeong-Hun;Yoo, Kwan-Hee;Nasridinov, Aziz
    • Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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    • v.7 no.8
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    • pp.305-314
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    • 2017
  • Clustering is a method that collects data objects into groups based on their similary. Performance of the state-of-the-art clustering methods is different according to the data characteristics. There have been numerous studies that performed experiments to compare the accuracy of the state-of-the-art clustering methods by applying various kinds of datasets. A common problem of these studies is that they only consider clustering algorithms that yield the most accurate results for a particular dataset. They do not consider what factors affect the execution time of each clustering method and how they are affected. Nevertheless, execution time is an important factor in clustering performance if there is no significant difference in accuracy. In order to solve the problems of the existing research, through a series of experiments using various types of datasets, we compare the accuracy of four representative clustering methods. In addition, we perform practical clustering performance comparisons by deriving time complexity and identifying factors that influences to its performance.

Convergent Factors Affecting Depression of Drinkers by Age (연령에 따른 음주자 우울의 융합적 영향요인)

  • Kwon, Myoungjin;Kim, Jihyun;Jeong, Sunkyung
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.383-393
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    • 2019
  • The present study was conducted to determine convergent factors affecting depression in drinker by age. This was a cross-sectional secondary data analysis study that used the raw data from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in 2014 & 2016. The subjects of the present study were 4,446 middle-aged drinker. Variables related to general characteristics, physical and psychological factors were selected. After a sampling plan compound file was created using IBM SPSS 23.0 program, data were analyzed by giving weights. Depression was influenced by gender (30s, 50-60s), income (30-40s, 60s), education (30-40s), number of family members (30-60s), job (30-60s), eating level (30-40s, 60s), hypertension (40s), DM (30-40s), BMI (30-40s), smoking (30s, 50s), exercise (30s), weight control (60s), drinking binge (30-60s), subjective health (30-60s), subjective body awareness (30-50s), stress (30s-60s), quality of life (30-60s). It is required to design preventive interventions and management plans for depression, considering these factors comprehensively.

Optimal Design of Grid Cathode Structure in Spherically Convergent Beam Fusion Device (구형 집속 빔 핵융합 장치에서 그리드 음극 구조의 최적 설계)

  • Ju, Heung-Jin;Park, Jeong-Ho;Hwang, Hwui-Dong;Choi, Seung-Kil;Ko, Kwang-Cheol
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.381-387
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    • 2008
  • Neutron production rate in spherically convergent beam fusion(SCBF) device as a portable neutron source strongly depends on the ion current and the grid cathode structure. In this paper, as the process of design and analysis, Design of Experiment(DOE) based on the results by Finite Element Method-Flux Corrected Transport(FEM-FCT) method is employed to calculate the ion current. This method is very useful to find optimal design conditions in a short time. Number of rings, radius of rings, and distance between the grid cathode and center are selected as control factors. From the results in the optimized model, the higher ion current is calculated and deeper potential well is also observed.

Phase Identification of Nano-Phase Materials using Convergent Beam Electron Diffraction (CBED) Technique

  • Kim, Gyeung-Ho;Ahn, Jae-Pyoung
    • Applied Microscopy
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    • v.36 no.spc1
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    • pp.47-56
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    • 2006
  • Improvements are made to existing primitive cell volume measurement method to provide a real-time analysis capability for the phase analysis of nanocrystalline materials. Simplification is introduced in the primitive cell volume calculation leading to fast and reliable method for nano-phase identification and is applied to the phase analysis of Mo-Si-N nanocoating layer. In addition, comparison is made between real-time and film measurements for their accuracy of calculated primitive cell volume values and factors governing the accuracy of the method are determined. About 5% accuracy in primitive cell determination is obtained from camera length calibration and this technique is used to investigate the cell volume variation in WC-TiC core-shell microstructure. In addition to chemical compositional variation in core-shell type structure, primitive cell volume variation reveals additional information on lattice coherency strain across the interface.

A Convergent Study on Seoul's Image as a Tourism Destination using V-method: Analysis of Photographs in Chinese Social Media "Renren" (V-method를 활용한 관광 목적지로서의 서울 이미지 융합 연구: 중국 소셜 미디어 "런런 (Renren)" 게시 사진 분석)

  • Feng, Ye;Kim, Chul Won
    • Korea Science and Art Forum
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    • v.22
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    • pp.393-402
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    • 2015
  • This study investigated Seoul's image as a tourism destination that Chinese tourists perceived, taking advantage of Chinese Social Media "Renren". The study used visual method (V-method) to collect images and analyzed them in terms of convergent disciplinary approach. It searched Chinese word, "首爾", in Renren social network. 526 Seoul's photos were collected from 129 users' mini-homepage. Destination planners and marketers should understand how the Chinese tourists perceive the Seoul's image and recognize the contribution factors to representations of the city. It is recommended that more cultural experience should be offered to Chinese tourists.

The Status of Handwashing with Soap and its Convergent related Factors in Korean People ; based on Korea National Handwashing Observation Survey, 2013 (한국인의 비누로 손씻기 실천율 및 융복합적 관련요인; 2013년 국민 손씻기 관찰조사)

  • Hwang, Hye-Jeong;Lee, Moo-Sik;Yang, Nam-Young;Hong, SuJin;Kim, Young-Taek
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.13 no.12
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    • pp.217-224
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    • 2015
  • OBJECTIVES Handwashing rate of Korean people was lower than the rates of people in developed countries. The purpose of this study was to investigate handwashing rate, the factors influence people's handwashing behaviors during use of public restroom. METHODS This study used the data of '2013 Korea National Handwashing Survey'. The survey was done through direct observation on the user of subway and train station restroom from September 10 to 12, 2013. RESULTS Factors influencing handwashing with soap were administrative region(OR 0.490-2.255), purpose of toilet use(urination 1.000, defecation 2.505), drying method after handwashing(OR 0.497-3.107). CONCLUSIONS The results of this study will provide the evidence data of national handwashing promotion activities for preventing and controlling communicable diseases.

Factors associated with risky drinking of adult women: Focused on convergent implications (성인 여성의 위험음주에 영향을 미치는 요인: 융복합적 함의를 중심으로)

  • Park, So-Youn;Yang, Sonam
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.16 no.7
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    • pp.469-478
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    • 2018
  • This study is aimed to examine effects of sociodemographic, social relation, and health related factors on risky drinking among early, middle, and older adulthoods. Using the sixth(2013-2016) National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, separate logistic regression analyses were conducted for women's early adulthood (n=1,143), middle adulthood (n=1,306), and older adulthood (n=875) to test factors associated with risky drinking. For study results, as for women's early adulthood, education, marital status, employment, depressive feeling, and smoking were statistically associated with risky drinking. As for women's middle adulthood, only subjective stress level and smoking were associated with risky drinking. As for women's older adulthood, education, suicidal ideation, and subjective health condition were associated with risky drinking. These results found different factors influenced risky drinking according to life stages. Based on these results, convergent implications about reducing risky drinking according to life stages of women were discussed.