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소비자 감성 기반 뷰티 경험 패턴 맵 개발: 화장품을 중심으로 (Development of Beauty Experience Pattern Map Based on Consumer Emotions: Focusing on Cosmetics)

  • 서봉군;김건우;박도형
    • 지능정보연구
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    • 제25권1호
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    • pp.179-196
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    • 2019
  • 최근의 '똑똑한 소비자(Smart Consumer)'라 불리는 소비자가 많아지고 있는데, 이들은 제조사나 광고를 통해 전달되는 정보에 의존하지 않고, 기존 사용자나 전문가들의 후기, 여러 과학 지식을 획득하여 제품에 대한 이해를 높이고, 본인 스스로가 직접 판단하여 구매하고 있다. 특히나 화장품 분야는 인체 유해성과 같은 부정적인 요소에 대한 민감도가 높고, 자신의 고유한 피부 특성과의 조화도 고려되어야 하기 때문에, 전문적인 지식과 타인의 경험, 본인의 과거 경험 등을 종합적으로 생각하여 구매 의사결정을 내려야 하고, 이에 대해서 적극적인 소비자가 많아지고 있다. 이러한 움직임은 '셀프 뷰티' 와 같은 '셀프' 문화의 열풍과 함께, 문화 현상인 '그루밍족'의 등장, 사회적 트렌드인 'K-뷰티' 와도 동행한다고 할 수 있다. 맞춤형 화장품에 대한 관심의 급부상도 이러한 현상 중 하나라 볼 수 있다. 소비자들의 맞춤형 화장품의 니즈를 충족시키기 위해, 화장품 제조사나 관련 기업들은 ICT기술과의 융합을 통하여 프리미엄 서비스를 중심으로 소비자의 니즈에 대응하고 있다. 그러나 기업 및 시장 현황이 맞춤형 화장품을 향해 진화하고 있지만, 소비자의 피부 상태, 추구하는 감성, 실제 제품이나 서비스까지 소비자 경험을 전체적으로 완전하게 다루는 지능형 데이터 플랫폼은 부재한다. 본 연구에서는 소비자 경험에 대한 지능형 데이터 플랫폼 구축을 위한 첫 단계로 소비자 언어 기반의 화장품 감성 분석을 수행하였다. 소비자들 개인의 선호나 취향이 분명한 앰플/세럼 카테고리를 중심으로 매출 순위 1위에서 99위까지의 99개 제품을 선정하여, 블로그와 트위터 등의 SNS 상에 언급되는 후기 내에 화장품 경험에 대한 소비자 감성을 수집하였다. 총 357개의 감성 형용사를 수집하였고, 고객 여정 워크샵을 통해 유사 감성을 합치고, 중복 감성을 통합하는 작업을 수행하였으며, 최종 76개 형용사를 구축했다. 구축한 형용사에 대한 SOM 분석을 통해 화장품에 대한 소비자 감성에 대한 클러스터링을 실시했다. 분석 결과, 총 8개의 클러스터를 도출했고, 클러스터 별 각 노드의 벡터 값을 기준으로 소비자 감성 Top 10을 도출했다. 소비자 감성을 기준으로 클러스터별 소비자 감성에 서로 다른 특징이 발견됐으며, 소비자에 따라 다른 소비자의 감성을 선호, 기존과는 다른 소비자 감성을 고려한 추천 및 분류 체계가 필요함을 확인했다. 연구 결과를 통해 감성 분석의 활용 도메인이 화장품만이 아닌 다양한 영역으로 확장될 수 있음 확인했으며, 감성 분석을 통한 소비자 인사이트를 도출할 수 있다는 점을 시사했다. 또한, 본 연구에서 활용한 디자인 씽킹(Design Thinking)의 방법론의 적용하여 화장품 특화된 감성 사전을 과학적인 프로세스로 구축했으며, 화장품에 대한 소비자의 인지 및 심리에 대한 이해를 도울 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

각인각색, 각봇각색: ABOT 속성과 소비자 감성 기반 소셜로봇 디자인평가 모형 개발 (Different Look, Different Feel: Social Robot Design Evaluation Model Based on ABOT Attributes and Consumer Emotions)

  • 하상집;이준식;유인진;박도형
    • 지능정보연구
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    • 제27권2호
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    • pp.55-78
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    • 2021
  • 최근 인간과 상호작용할 수 있는 '소셜로봇'을 활용하여 복잡하고 다양한 사회문제를 해소하고 개인의 삶의 질을 제고하려는 시도가 주목받고 있다. 과거 로봇은 인간을 대신해서 산업 현장에 투입되고 노동력을 제공해주는 존재로 인식되었다. 그러나 오늘날의 로봇은 각종 산업분야를 관통하는 핵심 키워드인 'Smart'의 등장을 기점으로 인간과 함께 공존하며 사회적 교감이 가능한 '소셜로봇(Social Robot)'으로 그 개념이 확장되고 있다. 구체적으로 고객을 응대하는 서비스 로봇, 에듀테인먼트(Edutainment) 성격의 로봇, 그리고 인간과의 교감, 상호작용에 주목한 감성로봇 등이 출시되고 있다. 그러나 4차 산업혁명을 계기로 ICT 서비스 환경이 급격한 발전을 이룬 현재까지 소셜로봇의 대중화는 체감되지 않고 있다. 소셜로봇의 핵심 기능이 사용자와의 사회적 교감임을 고려하면, 소셜로봇의 대중화를 촉진하기 위해서는 기기에 적용되는 기술 이외의 요소들도 중요하게 고려할 필요가 있다. 본 연구는 로봇의 디자인 요소가 소셜로봇에 대한 소비자들의 구매를 이끌어내는데 중요하게 작용할 것으로 판단한다. 로봇의 외형이 유발하는 감성은 사용자의 인지, 추론, 평가와 기대를 형성하는 과정에서 중요한 영향을 미치며 나아가 로봇에 대한 태도와 호감 그리고 성능 추론 등에도 영향을 줄 수 있다. 그러나 소셜로봇에 대한 기존 연구들은 로봇의 개발방법론을 제안하거나, 소셜로봇이 사용자에게 제공하는 효과를 단편적으로 검증하는 수준에 머무르고 있다. 따라서 본 연구는 소셜로봇의 외형으로부터 사용자가 느끼는 감성이 소셜로봇에 대한 사용자의 태도에 미치는 영향을 검증해보고자 한다. 이때 서로 다른 출처의 이종 데이터 간 결합을 통하여 소셜로봇 디자인평가 모형을 구성한다. 구체적으로 소셜로봇의 외형에 대하여 사전에 구축된 ABOT Database로부터 다수의 소셜로봇에 대한 세 가지 정량적 지표 데이터를 확보하였다. 소셜로봇의 디자인 감성은 (1) 기존의 디자인평가 문헌과 (2) 소셜로봇 제품 후기와 블로그 등의 온라인 구전, (3) 소셜로봇 디자인에 대한 정성적인 인터뷰를 통해 도출하였다. 이후 사용자 설문을 통하여 각각의 소셜로봇에 대해 사용자가 느끼는 감성과 태도에 대한 평가를 수집하였다. 세부적인 감성 평가항목 23개에 대하여, 차원 축소 방법론을 통해 6개의 감성 차원을 도출하였다. 이어서 도출된 감성 차원들이 사용자의 소셜로봇에 대한 태도에 미치는 영향을 검증하기 위해 회귀분석을 수행하여 감성과 태도 간의 관계를 파악해 보았다. 마지막으로 정량적으로 수집된 소셜로봇의 외형에 대한 지표가 감성과 태도 간의 관계에 영향을 줄 수 있음을 검증하기 위해 조절회귀분석을 수행하였다. 기술적인ABOT Database 속성 지표들과 감성 차원들 간의 순수조절효과를 확인하고, 도출된 조절효과에 대한 시각화를 수행하여 외형, 감성, 그리고 태도 간의 관계를 다각적인 관점에서 해석하였다. 본 연구는 이종간 데이터를 연결하여 소셜로봇의 기술적 속성과 소비자 감성, 태도까지 변수 간 관계를 총체적으로 실증 분석했다는 점에서 이론적 공헌을 가지며, 소셜로봇 디자인 개발 전략에 대한 의사결정을 지원하기 위한 기준으로 소비자 감성의 활용 가능성을 제안하였다는 실무적 의의를 가진다.

의료기관별 분만관리 양상의 비교 분석 (Comparative Analysis of Delivery Management in Various Medical Facilities)

  • 박정한;유영숙;김장락
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • 제22권4호
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    • pp.555-577
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    • 1989
  • 각급 의료기관에서 정상분만 개조와 제왕절개 분만시 시행하는 임상병리 검사 와 시술 그리고 투약의 종류, 입원기간, 의료비를 비교하여 봄으로써 적정진료에 대한 평가와 적정의료비에 대한 연구의 방향 설정에 필요한 자료를 얻고저 1989년 1월 15일부터 2월 15일 사이에 1개직할시내 2개 대학병원, 2개 종합병원, 3개 병원, 2개 개인산부인과의원 그리고 2개 조산소에서 분만한 산모 789명을 대상으로 의무기록지와 의료비 계산서를 이용하여 임상병리검사, 투약, 입원기간, 입원비 등을 비교분석 하였다. 총 분만건수 중 정상분만은 606명(76.8%)이었고 제왕절개분만은 183명 (23.2%)이었다. 정상분만의 경우 CBC, Hb/Hct, 혈액형검사, 매독검사(VDRL), B형 간염 항원 및 항체검사, 그리고 소변검사는 각 의료기관에서 일률적으로 시행하였으나 개인의원과 조산소에서는 B형간염 검사와 Hb/Hct 검사를 전혀 하지 않은 곳도 있었다. 그 외 1개 대학병원에서는 71.4%에서 초음파 검사를 하였고 또 1개 종합병원에서는 76.7%에서 간기능 검사를 시행하였다. 제왕절개분만의 경우는 정상분만시 실시하는 검사 이외에 대부분 흉부X-선 촬영과 출혈시간 및 혈액응고시간 그리고 간기능 검사를 일률적으로 시행하였다. 시술에 있어서는 각 의료기관이 정상분만시 97.2%에서 회음부절개를 시행하였다. 정상분만 및 제왕절개분만시 투여한 수액과 항생제의 종류와 기간에도 의료기관 사이에 큰 차이를 나타내었다. 즉, 어떤 대학병원은 제왕절개 분만 후 전혀 항생제를 쓰지 않는 반면 어떤 종합병원과 병원에서는 모든 환자에게 1-2종의 항생제를 평균 1주일 정도 투여하였다. 또 어떤 의원에서는 제왕절개 분만시 모든 환자에게 전혈을 수혈하는 곳도 있었다. 이 외에도 의료기관에 따라 비타민제제, 지혈제, 자궁수축제, 진통제, 해열제, 소염제, 진정진경제, 소화제, 변비완화제, 항히스타민제, 이뇨제 등을 투여하는 빈도와 약품종류가 다양하였다. 입원기간에 있어서는 정상분만의 경우 평균 입원기간이 초산은 2.6일, 경산은 2.4일로 초산이 경산보다 약간 길었으며 어떤 병원에서는 3.5일로서 약간 긴 경우도 있었으나 대체로 비슷한 양상이었다. 제왕절개 분만에 있어서는 평균 입원기간이 초산 7.5일, 경산 7.6일로 별다른 차이는 없었다. 그러나 의료기관에 따라 가장 짧은 것은 6.5일에서 가장 긴 것이 9.4일로 차이가 났다. 평균 입원비는 일반환자인 경우 정상분만의 초산 비용은 182,100원이었고, 경산은 167,300원이었다. 의료보험인 경우 본인 부담액이 초산은 82,400원, 경산은 75,600원이었으며 제왕절개분만은 일반환자 초산인 경우 946,500원, 경산은 753,800원이었고, 의료보험인 경우 초산은 256,200원, 경산은 253,700원이었다. 대학병원간에도 정상분만 비용이 268,000원과 350,000원으로 큰 차이를 보이며 제왕절개 분만의 경우에도 각 의료기관별로 차이를 나타내고 있다. 이와 같이 의료기관에 따라 정상분만과 제왕절개분만시 임상병리검사, 투약 등에 큰 차이를 나타내고 입원기간에도 차이가 있어 결과적으로 의료비에도 큰 차이를 나타내고 있으며 어떤 기관에서는 포괄수가제를 적용하고 있는 곳도 있었다. 따라서 적정의료 제공을 위해 진료의 내용을 어느 정도 표준화 할 필요가 있다고 생각한다.

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지속적 관여도 및 인지된 위험이 소비자의 온라인 상인선택 프로세스에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구: 요구신뢰 수준 개념을 중심으로 (How Enduring Product Involvement and Perceived Risk Affect Consumers' Online Merchant Selection Process: The 'Required Trust Level' Perspective)

  • 홍일유;이정민;조휘형
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • 제22권1호
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    • pp.29-52
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    • 2012
  • Consumers differ in the way they make a purchase. An audio mania would willingly make a bold, yet serious, decision to buy a top-of-the-line home theater system, while he is not interested in replacing his two-decade-old shabby car. On the contrary, an automobile enthusiast wouldn't mind spending forty thousand dollars to buy a new Jaguar convertible, yet cares little about his junky component system. It is product involvement that helps us explain such differences among individuals in the purchase style. Product involvement refers to the extent to which a product is perceived to be important to a consumer (Zaichkowsky, 2001). Product involvement is an important factor that strongly influences consumer's purchase decision-making process, and thus has been of prime interest to consumer behavior researchers. Furthermore, researchers found that involvement is closely related to perceived risk (Dholakia, 2001). While abundant research exists addressing how product involvement relates to overall perceived risk, little attention has been paid to the relationship between involvement and different types of perceived risk in an electronic commerce setting. Given that perceived risk can be a substantial barrier to the online purchase (Jarvenpaa, 2000), research addressing such an issue will offer useful implications on what specific types of perceived risk an online firm should focus on mitigating if it is to increase sales to a fullest potential. Meanwhile, past research has focused on such consumer responses as information search and dissemination as a consequence of involvement, neglecting other behavioral responses like online merchant selection. For one example, will a consumer seriously considering the purchase of a pricey Guzzi bag perceive a great degree of risk associated with online buying and therefore choose to buy it from a digital storefront rather than from an online marketplace to mitigate risk? Will a consumer require greater trust on the part of the online merchant when the perceived risk of online buying is rather high? We intend to find answers to these research questions through an empirical study. This paper explores the impact of enduring product involvement and perceived risks on required trust level, and further on online merchant choice. For the purpose of the research, five types or components of perceived risk are taken into consideration, including financial, performance, delivery, psychological, and social risks. A research model has been built around the constructs under consideration, and 12 hypotheses have been developed based on the research model to examine the relationships between enduring involvement and five components of perceived risk, between five components of perceived risk and required trust level, between enduring involvement and required trust level, and finally between required trust level and preference toward an e-tailer. To attain our research objectives, we conducted an empirical analysis consisting of two phases of data collection: a pilot test and main survey. The pilot test was conducted using 25 college students to ensure that the questionnaire items are clear and straightforward. Then the main survey was conducted using 295 college students at a major university for nine days between December 13, 2010 and December 21, 2010. The measures employed to test the model included eight constructs: (1) enduring involvement, (2) financial risk, (3) performance risk, (4) delivery risk, (5) psychological risk, (6) social risk, (7) required trust level, (8) preference toward an e-tailer. The statistical package, SPSS 17.0, was used to test the internal consistency among the items within the individual measures. Based on the Cronbach's ${\alpha}$ coefficients of the individual measure, the reliability of all the variables is supported. Meanwhile, the Amos 18.0 package was employed to perform a confirmatory factor analysis designed to assess the unidimensionality of the measures. The goodness of fit for the measurement model was satisfied. Unidimensionality was tested using convergent, discriminant, and nomological validity. The statistical evidences proved that the three types of validity were all satisfied. Now the structured equation modeling technique was used to analyze the individual paths along the relationships among the research constructs. The results indicated that enduring involvement has significant positive relationships with all the five components of perceived risk, while only performance risk is significantly related to trust level required by consumers for purchase. It can be inferred from the findings that product performance problems are mostly likely to occur when a merchant behaves in an opportunistic manner. Positive relationships were also found between involvement and required trust level and between required trust level and online merchant choice. Enduring involvement is concerned with the pleasure a consumer derives from a product class and/or with the desire for knowledge for the product class, and thus is likely to motivate the consumer to look for ways of mitigating perceived risk by requiring a higher level of trust on the part of the online merchant. Likewise, a consumer requiring a high level of trust on the merchant will choose a digital storefront rather than an e-marketplace, since a digital storefront is believed to be trustworthier than an e-marketplace, as it fulfills orders by itself rather than acting as an intermediary. The findings of the present research provide both academic and practical implications. The first academic implication is that enduring product involvement is a strong motivator of consumer responses, especially the selection of a merchant, in the context of electronic shopping. Secondly, academicians are advised to pay attention to the finding that an individual component or type of perceived risk can be used as an important research construct, since it would allow one to pinpoint the specific types of risk that are influenced by antecedents or that influence consequents. Meanwhile, our research provides implications useful for online merchants (both online storefronts and e-marketplaces). Merchants may develop strategies to attract consumers by managing perceived performance risk involved in purchase decisions, since it was found to have significant positive relationship with the level of trust required by a consumer on the part of the merchant. One way to manage performance risk would be to thoroughly examine the product before shipping to ensure that it has no deficiencies or flaws. Secondly, digital storefronts are advised to focus on symbolic goods (e.g., cars, cell phones, fashion outfits, and handbags) in which consumers are relatively more involved than others, whereas e- marketplaces should put their emphasis on non-symbolic goods (e.g., drinks, books, MP3 players, and bike accessories).

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주민(住民)의 전통의술(傳統醫術) 이용도(利用度) 조사연구(調査硏究) - 민속요법(民俗療法) 이용(利用)을 중심(中心) 으로 - (A Study on the Utilization Level of Traditional Medicine by Residents - On the basis of Use of Folk Medical Techniques -)

  • 김진순
    • 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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    • 제13권1호
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    • pp.3-18
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    • 1988
  • The general objective of this research is to study behavioral pattern of health care utilization and to measure the level of utilization of the traditional medicine. The specific objective is to study utilization pattern and content of folk medicine which is the indegenous medical technology recognized part of traditional medicine. This research was under taken to generate valid information that will provide basis data for formulating general direction for health education activities and for designing service package for general population. A social survey method was employed to obtain required information for the research activities, The survey field team consisted of 20 surveyors who all participated is an intensive 2 day training course. A total of 3091 households were visited and interviewed by the field team during the period 7 September to 6 October 1987. The major findings obtained from the information collected by the field survey are as follows ; 1) General characteristics of the study households 2562 households out of 3091 households visited were selected for final data process, 80.2 of the selected households were nuclear families ; 17.4%, extended families ; others 2.4%. Only 4.3 percent of the study population in the urban households indicated "no schooling" whereas 14.2% of the rural household members falls within this category. Study population in the urban areas are more protected against diseases by the national medical insurance system than those in rural areas. In their self appraisal of living standard, those who responded with low group are 39.6% and 50.3% respectively by urban and rural households. 2) Morbidity status Period prevalence rate for all diseases during the preceding 15 days before the date of the household interview v as 243,0 per 1,000 study population. For cases with the illness duration of within 15 days, the initial points of medical entry were diversied ; 56.9%, drug stores ; 30.9%, clinics and hospitals ; 4.6% folk medicine ; 1.7% clinics of Korean oriental medicine. Among the chronic case; with illness duration of over 90 days, 34.6% of these people utilized clinics and hospitals of modern medicine ; 31.6%, drug stores ; 18.6% clinics of Korean oriental medicine ; 6.8% folk medical techniques. Noticeable is the almost ten fold increase from the mere 0.9% in the utilization of Korean oriental medicine, whereas in the utilization of folk medicine, it is short of two-fold increase. 3) Folk medicine and its utilization Households that use folk medicine for relief and care of signs and symptoms commonly encountered in daily life, number 1969 households, which accounts for 76.9% of all the study households. This rather high level use of folk medicine is not different from rural to urban areas. The order of frequency of utilizing folk medicine among the study people are : the highest 14.3% for the relief of indigestion ; 8.6% for burns ; 5.1% for common cold ; 4.7% for hiccough ; and 4.2% for hordeolum. A present various procedures of folk medicine is being used to relieve all kinds of symptoms. 192 symptoms are identified at present. The most frequently used procedures of folk medicine appear to be based either on principles of the Korean oriental medicine or of scientific knowledge. Based on these survey findings, proposals for utilizing folk medicine are as follows First, this survey's findings will be feed back to both on the job training and on the spot guidance of community health practitioners, public health nurses and other peripheral work force in the health field, who are in daily contacts with community. This feed back will assure that the health personnel carry out their health education and information activities that are based on the utilization pattern of folk medicine as found in the survey result. Second, studies will be soon implemented that are designed to measure the efficiency and potency of these procedures and to improve these procedures of folk medicine were most frequently used by the community. Third, studies will continue to systematize medicinal plants and skills of Korean oriental medicine that are easily available at minimal cost in daily life for the prevention of diseases and management of emergency cases.

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Microbe Hunting: A Curious Case of Cryptococcus

  • Bartlett, Karen H.;Kidd, Sarah;Duncan, Colleen;Chow, Yat;Bach, Paxton;Mak, Sunny;MacDougall, Laura;Fyfe, Murray
    • 한국환경보건학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국환경보건학회 2005년도 국제학술대회
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    • pp.45-72
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    • 2005
  • C. neoformans-associated cryptococcosis is primarily a disease of immunocompromised persons, has a world-wide distribution, and is often spread by pigeons in the urban environment. In contrast, C. gattii causes infection in normal hosts, has only been described in tropical and semi-tropical areas of the world, and has a unique niche in river gum Eucalyptus trees. Cryptococcosis is acquired through inhalation of the yeast propagules from the environment. C. gattii has been identified as the cause of an emerging infectious disease centered on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. No cases of C. gattii-disease were diagnosed prior to 1999; the current incidence rate is 36 cases per million population. A search was initiated in 2001 to find the ecological niche of this basidiomycetous yeast. C. gaftii was found in the environment in treed areas of Vancouver Island. The highest percentage of colonized-tree clusters were found around central Vancouver Island, with decreasing rates of colonization to the north and south. Climate, soil and vegetation cover of this area, called the Coastal Douglas fir biogeoclimatic zone, is unique to British Columbia and Canada. The concentration of airborne C. gattii was highest in the dry summer months, and lowest during late fall, winter, and early spring, months which have heavy rainfall. The study of the emerging colonization of this organism and subsequent cases of environmentally acquired disease will be informative in planning public health management of new routes of exposure to exotic agents in areas impacted by changing climate and land use patterns. Cryptococcosis is an infection associated with an encapsulated, basidiomycetous yeast Cryptococcus neoformans. The route of entry for this organism is through the lungs, with possible systemic spread via the circulatory system to the brain and meninges. There are four cryptococcal serogroups associated with disease in humans and animals, distinguished by capsular polysaccharide antigens. Cryptococcus neoformans: variety grubii (serotype A), variety neoformans (serotype D), and variety gattii (serotypes B and C) (Franzot et at. 1999). C. neoformans variety gattii has recently been elevated to species status, C. gattii. C. neoformans val. grubii and var. neoformans have a world-wide distribution, and are particularly associated with soil and weathered bird droppings. In contrast, C. gattii (CG) is not associated with bird excrement, is primarily found in tropical and subtropical climates, and has a restricted environmental niche associated with specific tree species. (Ellis & Pfiffer 1990) Ellis and Pfeiffer theorize that, as a basidiomycete, CG requires an association with a tree in order to become pathogenic to mammals. In Australia, CG has been found to be associated with five species of Eucalypts, Eucalyptus camaldulensis, E. tereticornis, E. blakelyi, E. gomphocephala, and E. rudis. Eucalypts, although originally native to Australia, now have a world-wide distribution. CG has been found associated with imported eucalypts in India, California, Brazil, and Egypt. In addition, in Brazil and Columbia, where eucalypts have been naturalized, native trees have been shown to harbour CG (Callejas et al. 1998; Montenegro et al. 2000). In British Columbia, Canada, since the beginning of 1999, there have been 120 confirmed cases of cryptococcal mycoses associated with CG in humans, including 4 fatalities (data from British Columbia Centre for Disease Control), and over 200 cases in animal pets in BC (data from Central Laboratory for Veterinarians). What is remarkable about the BC outbreak of C. gattii-cryptococcosis is that all of the cases have been residents of, or visitors to, a narrow area along the eastern coast of Vancouver Island, BC, from the tip of the island in the south (Victoria) to Courtenay on the north-central island as illustrated in Figure 1. Of the first 38 human cases, 58% were male with a mean age of 59.7 years (range 20 - 82): 36 cases (95%) were Caucasian. Ten cases (26%) presented with meningitis, the remainder presented with respiratory symptoms. Cultures recovered from cases of cryptococcosis associated with the outbreak were typed as serogroup B, which is specific to CG (Bartlett et al. 2003). This was the first reported outbreak of CVG in Canada, or indeed, the world. Where infection with CG is endemic, for example, Australia, the incidence of cryptococcosis ranges from 1.8 - 4.7 per million between the southern and northern states (Sorrell 2001). However, the overall incidence of cryptococcosis in immunocompenent individuals has been estimated at 0.2 per million population per year (Kwon-Chung et al. 1984). The population of Vancouver Island is approximately 720,000,consequently, even if the organism were endemic, one would expect a maximum of 0.15 cases of cryptococcal disease annually.

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"무역상무(貿易商務)에의 역사적(歷史的) 어프로치와 무역취인(貿易取引)의 전자화(電子化)" (E-Commerce in the Historical Approach to Usage and Practice of International Trade)

  • 춘홍차
    • 무역상무연구
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    • 제19권
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    • pp.224-242
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    • 2003
  • The author believes that the main task of study in international trade usage and practice is the management of transactional risks involved in international sale of goods. They are foreign exchange risks, transportation risks, credit risk, risk of miscommunication, etc. In most cases, these risks are more serious and enormous than those involved in domestic sales. Historically, the merchant adventurers organized the voyage abroad, secured trade finance, and went around the ocean with their own or consigned cargo until around the $mid-19^{th}$ century. They did business faceto-face at the trade fair or the open port where they maintained the local offices, so-called "Trading House"(商館). Thererfore, the transactional risks might have been one-sided either with the seller or the buyer. The bottomry seemed a typical arrangement for risk sharing among the interested parties to the adventure. In this way, such organizational arrangements coped with or bore the transactional risks. With the advent of ocean liner services and wireless communication across the national border in the $19^{th}$ century, the business of merchant adventurers developed toward the clear division of labor; sales by mercantile agents, and ocean transportation by the steam ship companies. The international banking helped the process to be accelerated. Then, bills of lading backed up by the statute made it possible to conduct documentary sales with a foreign partner in different country. Thus, FOB terms including ocean freight and CIF terms emerged gradually as standard trade terms in which transactional risks were allocated through negotiation between the seller and the buyer located in different countries. Both of them did not have to go abroad with their cargo. Instead, documentation in compliance with the terms of the contract(plus an L/C in some cases) must by 'strictly' fulfilled. In other words, the set of contractual documents must be tendered in advance of the arrival of the goods at port of discharge. Trust or reliance is placed on such contractual paper documents. However, the container transport services introduced as international intermodal transport since the late 1960s frequently caused the earlier arrival of the goods at the destination before the presentation of the set of paper documents, which may take 5 to 10% of the amount of transaction. In addition, the size of the container vessel required the speedy transport documentation before sailing from the port of loading. In these circumstances, computerized processing of transport related documents became essential for inexpensive transaction cost and uninterrupted distribution of the goods. Such computerization does not stop at the phase of transportation but extends to cover the whole process of international trade, transforming the documentary sales into less-paper trade and further into paperless trade, i.e., EDI or E-Commerce. Now we face the other side of the coin, which is data security and paperless transfer of legal rights and obligations. Unfortunately, these issues are not effectively covered by a set of contracts only. Obviously, EDI or E-Commerce is based on the common business process and harmonized system of various data codes as well as the standard message formats. This essential feature of E-Commerce needs effective coordination of different divisions of business and tight control over credit arrangements in addition to the standard contract of sales. In a few word, information does not alway invite "trust". Credit flows from people, or close organizational tie-ups. It is our common understanding that, without well-orchestrated organizational arrangements made by leading companies, E-Commerce does not work well for paperless trade. With such arrangements well in place, participating E-business members do not need to seriously care for credit risk. Finally, it is also clear that E-International Commerce must be linked up with a set of government EDIs such as NACCS, Port EDI, JETRAS, etc, in Japan. Therefore, there is still a long way before us to go for E-Commerce in practice, not on the top of information manager's desk.

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기상요인이 농산물 유통에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구: 배추 유통 사례를 중심으로 (A Study on the Effects of Meterological Factors on the Distribution of Agricultural Products: Focused on the Distribution of Chinese Cabbages)

  • 이현정;홍진환
    • 한국유통학회지:유통연구
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    • 제17권5호
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    • pp.59-83
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    • 2012
  • 농업은 타 산업 대비 기상환경에 큰 영향을 받는 산업이다. 기상 상태는 수시로 변화하며, 지역에 따라 서로 다른 특성을 보인다. 또한 이러한 지역적 특성은 그 지역의 농산물의 재배환경에도 영향을 주게 된다. 이러한 특성 때문에 기상이 농업에 미치는 영향에 대해서는 그동안 많은 연구가 이루어져 왔다. 그러나 대부분의 연구가 농작물의 생산에만 초점이 맞춰져, 농작물이 생산에서 유통과정에서 기상요인이 미치는 영향을 통합적으로 살펴본 연구는 매우 부족한 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 대표적인 농작물인 배추를 중심으로, 기상요인이 농산물 유통에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 배추는 우리 식탁에서 빼놓을 수 없는 식재료이면서, 기상 변화에 영향을 많이 받는 품목이다. 기상이변으로 배추의 가격이 폭등하게 되면 서민가계에 직접적으로 영향을 받게 된다. 이러한 관점에서 생산과 유통단계별로 기상요인이 배추에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 분석하였다. 본 연구에서는 배추의 재배유형별 거래량과 거래가격에 대한 실거래 데이터와 재배시기와 판매지역에 따른 기상요인에 대한 자료를 수집하여, 배추의 도매시장 거래량과 거래가격에 영향을 미치는 기상요인을 파악하고자 하였다. 연구 결과 배추의 생산지 기상요인보다 판매지역 기상요인의 영향이 배추의 거래량과 거래가격에 상대적으로 더 큰 영향을 미치는 것으로 확인되었다. 본 연구의 결과를 바탕으로, 향후 기상요인을 고려한 출하시기와 반입량에 대한 정책적 가이드라인을 제시하여 농산물 수급에 대한 선제적이고 체계적인 대응체제가 구축된다면, 기상변화에 민감한 농산물의 가격안정에 기여할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

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평형해빈단면이론을 이용한 해수면 상승에 따른 해안후퇴율 산정 (Evaluation of Shoreline Retreat Rate due to a Sea Level Rise using Theory of Equilibrium Beach Profile)

  • 강태순;조광우;이종섭;박원경
    • 한국해안·해양공학회논문집
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    • 제26권4호
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    • pp.197-206
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    • 2014
  • 본 연구의 목적은 해수면상승에 따른 연안침식을 평가하는 데 있으며, 미래 해수면상승에 따른 해안후퇴율을 산정하였다. 해안후퇴율은 23개 사빈해안(동해안 12개소, 남해안 5개소, 서해안 6개소)에 대하여 각 해안별 3개의 단면자료를 이용하여 평가하였다. 본 연구에 적용한 방법은 평형해빈단면이론이며, 우리나라 해안에서의 적용성을 파악하기 위하여 15개 해빈단면에서 검토하였다. 미래 해수면상승의 4가지 시나리오는 38 cm, 59 cm, 75 cm 그리고 100 cm가 적용되었다. 결과적으로 우리나라 해안에 대한 해안후퇴율은 38 cm 해수면상승시 43.7%, 59 cm일 경우 60.3%, 75 cm일 경우 69.2%, 그리고 100 cm일 경우에는 80.1%로 나타났다. 동해안의 해안후퇴율은 38 cm 해수면상승시 29.6%, 59 cm 상승시 45.1%, 75 cm 상승시 56.0%, 그리고 100 cm 상승시 69.9%로 나타나 남해안(51.9%, 67.6%, 77.2%, 87.3%)과 서해안(53.8%, 71.0%, 78.5%, 86.4%)의 해안후퇴율 보다 상대적으로 낮게 나타났다. 우리나라의 모든 사빈해안은 해수면상승이 증가함에 따라 취약해지는 것으로 평가된다. 본 연구의 평가결과는 미래 기후 시나리오와 마찬가지로 평가모델의 한계, 해빈단면의 시공간적 자료부족 등의 불확실성을 내포하고 있다. 따라서, 우리나라 사빈해안의 특성을 파악하기 위한 지속적이고 통합적인 모니터링과 더불어 해안침식에 대한 과학적 불확실성을 줄이는 연구들이 지속적으로 이루어져야 할 것으로 사료된다.

국립병원 간호사의 직무만족과 관련요인 연구 (A Study of Job Satisfaction and Related Factors of the National Hospital Nurses)

  • 서길희;김옥희
    • 한국보건간호학회지
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    • 제7권2호
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    • pp.53-66
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    • 1993
  • By this time, a few of previous studies of factors related to separation from their jobs and job satisfaction only have dealt with the separation rate. the cause of separation and related factors that induce job satisfaction and incentive factors, the actualities of morale some suggestions for reduction of the separation rate. This study is attempted to determine factors that have effect on job satisfaction of national hospital nurses. and to proide information and materials for the development of the administration of nursing through the appreciation of factors influencing on job satisfaction between isolated ward nurses and general ward nurses working at national hospitals. 185 nurses of national hospitals responsed th this study, and were divided into two groups. Group 1: 57 nurses working at isolated wards for tuberculosis patients and Group 2 : 128 nurses at general wards. Relevant data were collected from August, 5, 1992 through August 20, 1992. The questionnaire consisted of 8 genalized items and 4 items concerning job satisfaction. The collected data were processed with SPSS, and the relationship among vaviables was analyzed by means of $X^2-test$, Pearson Correlation, Multiple Regression. The results of this study are as follows: 1. There is no significant difference between two groups in terms of generalized items. Age distributions show $44.3\%$ under the category of less than 34. and $55.7\%$ under the category more than 35, $19.3%$ was single and $74.6\%$ was married respectively. 2. $79.4\%$ of the nurses have the desire to have in-service education under the satisfactory physical environments such as welfare system, accommodating structures and facilities, instruments or management systems of the hospital, but under the category of unsatisfactory circumstances, $60.3\%$ have the intention of having in- service education. The concern in terms of in-service education shows statistically significant difference between two groups $(X^2=8.85,\;p<0. 05)$. This result accepts the hypothesis that good physical environments could intensify interests in service education. 3. The extent of satisfaction related to psychological environments is heightend according to good physical environments. In result, the hypothesis that the extent of satisfaction in terms of physical environments could raise satisfaction about psychological environment is accepted. 4. In the light of the extent of satisfaction about physical environments, $33.3\%$ of isolated ward nurses are satisfied with physical environments, but only $11.7\%$ of general ward nurses are satisfied. $(X^2=10.88,\; p<0.01)$. This result shows that the satisfaction degree about phusicalenvironments of isolated war nurses was higher than that of general ward nurses in spite of high physical and psychological risks due to exposure to infection. Consequently. the hypothesis was rejected that the satisfaction degree about physical environments would be lower in isolated ward nurses than in general ward nurses. 5. The fact that $87.7%$ of isolated ward nurses took interest in service education and $53.19\%$ of general ward nurses took interest in service education demonstrats that isolated ward nurse have more interest in service education than gerneral ward nurses. The result shows that the hypothesis is accepted that isolated ward nurses would have mor interests in service education than general ward nurses. 6. In the extent of satisfaction about physical environments such as morale human relationship promotion, there is no significant difference between two groups in terms of statistics. The hypothesis is rejected that satisfaction about psychologic environments would be high in isolated ward nurses than in general ward nurses. In conclusion. factors influencing on job satisfaction are considered to have effect on. another, and also interdisciplinary amelioration of factors accompanied with systematic inter cooperative investigation is necessary.

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