• 산경연구논집
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.67-76
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• 2018

Purpose - With the worldwide aging problem and the development of globalization, customers prefer to seek affordable medical services with the higher quality overseas. This new trend has urged some destination countries to improve their services for the more competitive advantages over other countries. Literature research indicate that medical quality and cost may be the key factors influencing global patients' decisions. In the international environment, however, medical tourism destinations are selected due to cultural similarity between the hosting country and the customers' own country. The more similarity perceived between the two countries leads foreign patients to choose the considering country as the destination for medical tourism. However, little research has been conducted on this topic. Thus, we empirically investigate how cultural similarity influences Chinese medical customers' choice of the destinations. We also consider the factors related to medical competency and travel attribute which might affect customers' decisions along with some moderating roles of disease types. Research design, data, and methodology - We proposed a research model in order to confirm the relations among different variables of cultural similarity, medical competency, travel attractiveness, disease types, and destination choice. The questionnaire survey is processed in the more economically developed regions of China such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Jiangsu. Conditional logit regression is applied to analyze the data of 881. Results - Results indicate that cultural similarity is the important predictor of Chinese customers' decision to select a medical country. However, the effects of cultural similarity vary according to the disease types. We also find that medical competency and travel attractiveness influence their decisions with the moderating role of disease types. Conclusions - Cultural similarity is the important factor that influences Chinese potential medical tourists' decisions to select a destination. Marketing managers should consider the effects of cultural similarity when developing strategies for attracting Chinese medical tourists. Since medical competency and travel attractiveness are still the critical key elements for them to evaluate the destination countries, it is necessary to continuously improve medical service quality and facilities. The results also recommend that medical managers should sharpen their marketing strategies by segmenting Chinese potential customers in terms of disease types.

• 한국체육학회지인문사회과학편
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• 제55권2호
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• pp.111-121
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• 2016

본 연구의 목적은 문화경쟁력 제고를 위한 스포츠 문화콘텐츠 분류체계를 정립하는 것이다. 이를 위한 주요 연구방법은 문헌연구에 기반을 둔 델파이조사이다. 문헌연구를 통한 스포츠 문화콘텐츠에 대한 정의와 국내외 산업 분류체계를 분석하였으며 델파이 조사에서는 패널 총 25을 구성하여, 개방형을 포함한 총 2라운드에 걸쳐 실시하였다. 그 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 스포츠 문화콘텐츠는 창의성과 예술성을 포함하며 대중에게 전달 가능한 가공형태를 가지며 스포츠 활동을 조직화하고 관련 콘텐츠, 서비스를 고부가가치화하기 위한 기술로 분류된다. 둘째, '문화' 대분류 항목의 경우, 다시 문화유산, 문화예술을 포함한다. '미디어' 대분류 항목의 경우 시간적 개념을 중요성 인정하여 전통 미디어와 뉴미디어로 분류하였다. '이벤트' 대분류의 항목의 경우 국내외 스포츠 경기와 축제로 분류되며, '서비스' 대분류 항목은 복지, 케어, 교육 서비스로 구분되었다. 마지막으로 '기타' 대분류는 저작권 항목을 포함한다.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.7-14
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• 2024

본 연구의 목적은 인공지능을 어떻게 이해하고 받아들이는지를 바탕으로 문화산업 종사자들과 예술가들이 인공지능 발전에 대응하기 위한 구체적 지원 방안을 마련하는 것이다. 이를 위해, 기술 수용 이론을 기반으로 문화산업 종사자들의 인공지능 기술에 대한 수용 태도를 확인하였다. 연구 결과, 첫째, 영향 요인인 개인 특성과 서비스 특성은 인공지능 서비스 이용에 지각된 유용성, 지각된 용이성, 사용 의도에 영향을 제공하였다. 둘째, 인공지능 서비스에 용이성과 유용성이 지각된 경우 혁신적이고 효능감이 있는 개인 특성은 인공지능 서비스 사용 의도를 강화하는 것으로 조사되었다. 본 연구가 인공지능 기술 관련 문화 예술인 지원 정책 수립 시에 참고 자료로 활용될 수 있기를 기대한다.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.91-96
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• 2017

Trees at farm are considered as one of the option to reduce poverty of smallholders by contributing to livelihood security and resilience to climate change. A perception based study was conducted to assess the cultural importance of tree species suitable for practicing agroforestry in randomly selected agroforestry-dominated villages in Alaknanda valley of Western Himalayas during 2015-16. Semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect primary data on the provisioning services of major agroforestry tree species in randomly surveyed 87 households. Based on cultural importance (CI) index value, the most suitable agroforestry tree species was Morus alba (3.32) followed by Celtis australis (3.22), Mangifera indica (3.01), Grewia optiva (2.79), Toona ciliata (2.22), Bauhinia variegata (2.08), Leucaena leucocephala (1.76) and Emblica officinalis (1.74). The preference of use has also been governed based on their indigenous knowledge. This study will also facilitate in evaluating the importance of provisioning services of agroforestry tree species in improving livelihood as well as facilitates smallholder's resilience to climate change in Western Himalayas.

• 한국문헌정보학회지
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.135-160
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• 2009

본 연구는 도서관의 다문화서비스 현황과 문제점을 파악하기 위하여 외국도서관과 우리나라의 다문화서비스 현황을 조사하였다. 외국도서관의 다문화서비스 현황은 다문화주의 모델, 동화주의 모델, 배제주의 모델로 구분하여 다문화 가정 대상 교육프로그램과 도서관 서비스 사례를 분석하였다. 우리나라 도서관의 다문화서비스 현황은 공공도서관의 다문화 프로그램 담당 사서, 다문화프로그램 강사, 다문화 프로그램에 참여한 이주민들과 어린이들을 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하였으며 이를 통해 다문화 가정 프로그램의 문제점 및 요구사항을 분석하였다.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.213-222
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• 2017

The advancement of ICT is changing every field of life. It becomes possible with the penetration of personalized devices, that is, smartphone. The boom of IoT will come when there exist diversified and personalized services. In general, we might admit that it is needed that the more privatized services than the overall serviced. Jeju Island is the only one special self-governing province in Republic of Korea and deserves to be proud of the unique culture from its long historical background. One of the very regional culture which performs by women divers, Haenyeo activity or culture, was registered as Intangible Cultural Heritage. When authors were researched Jeju Haenyeo as a worthy reserving service, we recognized that it has never considered to use any point of ICT/IoT yet. Because IoT holds the high potentiality to create any service scenario between interesting groups. We will design a few services for Haenyeo which covers their job territory or daily life, adopts up-to-date technology or method such as sensored network, smart contract and App/Web. In this paper, we intent to show the simplicity and easiness of the application of IoT not to much inconspicuous target. So, we suggest a specialized IoT service for the reservation and promotion of Haenyeo Culture. This service would be composed of sensors, IoT network and App/Web at home and office. This service can be used among interesting groups : Haenyeo, policy maker, manufacturer, service provider and culture consumer.

• 가족자원경영과 정책
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.185-197
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• 2005

Every one hopes for the strong or healthy families and happy society, The Healthy Families Act legislated on February 9, 2004, and three centers were appointed to perform as a model, before the law has been in force from January 1, 2005. The major services or programs at the Center performed last year were as follows; educational programs, counseling for prevention of family problems, and cultural events for strengthening the family functions. This study presented the general situations of Seoul Yongsan-gu Sookmyung Women's University Center for Healthy Families last year, evaluated the product of cultural events or programs, and proposed better ideas for managing cultural services or programs. In 'the division of Home Culture', the community networks were established, and diverse events or programs provided drew high satisfaction among attendants. In the future, some services or programs at Seoul Yongsan-gu Sookmyung Women's University Center for Healthy Families hoped to be helpful and made a basis for activating services or programs for other centers.

• 농촌계획
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.51-65
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• 2019

This study developed diagnostic system to understand the level of welfare cultural service and infrastructure in rural areas. The applicability was reviewed through the Delphi survey and the sample survey of 60 villages. The diagnostic indicators consist of three areas: the demand area, supply area, and delivery area. The demand area consists of 8 indicators, 25 indicators for welfare services and infrastructure (healthcare, social welfare) and 32 indicators for cultural services and infrastructure (culture, education, leisure sports). The service delivery area was divided into service supply area access and traffic accessibility (public transport use status and rural transport model status) by each indicator. A diagnostic system was applied to 60 villages. Services and infrastructure for rural welfare and culture were supplied more in the Si area than Gun area. The delivery area was easier to access the Gun area than Si area. In the case of traffic access, public transportation was more frequently used in the Si area than Gun area, and the rural transportation model was found to have a relatively large amount in the Gun area compared to Si area. The diagnosis system about services and infrastructure for rural welfare and culture will provide information necessary for establishment and decision making of regional development policy taking into account characteristics of rural areas in the future.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.2147-2150
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• 2013

Gynecological malignancies account for 9% of all female cancers worldwide. In the Arab countries Breast cancer is the leading cancer in women followed by cervical cancer. Ovarian cancer ranks as fourth leading cancer in women. There are huge differences in the available resources among Arab countries. However the challenges facing the provision of gynecological cancers services shared similarities like the cultural and religious background. Most of the gynecological cancers are diagnosed at a later stage in Arab countries due to the lack of reproductive health awareness especially among older women combined with the cultural stigma of seeking medical advice for gynecological symptoms. This article discusses the current situation of gynecological cancer services in Arab countries and suggests some practical solutions.

• 수산경영론집
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• 제47권3호
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• pp.53-69
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to explore the ecosystem service and benefit indicators of natural seaweed beds. Ecosystems of natural seaweed beds provide a wide range of services and benefits to human society including provisioning services, regulating services, supporting services, and cultural services. Indicators for each of the ecosystem services are chosen by marine plants ecologists and as follows. Ecosystem indicators of natural seaweed beds for provisioning services are well-being food(amount of seaweed harvested/amount of fish landed, fish biomass, area of natural seaweed beds, the number of species, contribution to the second production), raw materials(amount of biomass by breed, amount of aquaculture feed), genetic resources(amount of genetic material extracted, amount of genetic material contained by age and habitat), and medicinal resources(amount of medicinal material extracted). Ecosystem indicators of natural seaweed beds for regulating services are air purification(amount of fine dust/NOx or $SO_2$ captured), climate regulation(amount of $CO_2$ sequestered), waste treatment(amount of N, P stored, biochemical degradation capacity COD), and costal erosion prevention(length and change of natural coast line, amount of sediment prevented). Ecosystem indicators of natural seaweed beds for supporting services are lifecycle and maintenance(primary production, contribution to the second production) and gene pool protection(amount of compositional factors in ecosystem, introduced species). Ecosystem indicators of natural seaweed beds for cultural services are recreation and tourism(the number of visits of an area) and information for cognitive development(amount of time spent in education, research and individual learning about ecosystem of natural seaweed beds).