• 성인간호학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.296-305
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• 2002

Purpose: The purpose of this research was to describe how nurses in intensive care units (ICU) work. Method: A total of 18 ICU nurses participated in the research. The data was collected through individual in-depth interviews and analyzed by grounded theory method using NUDIST 4.0 software program. Results: Three different patterns regarding nursing performance among ICU nurses were identified. These are 1) nursing performance of nurses who perform excellently, 2) nursing performance of nurses who do not perform well because of their lack of experience, and 3) nursing performance of nurses who do not perform well in spite of their good years of experience. These three different nursing performances were described in terms of seven different categories; 1) assessing and monitoring nursing problems, 2) clinical decision making, 3) interpersonal relationships, 4) holistic care, 5) technical skills, 6) problem solving, 7) working independently and creatively. This study also identified two intervening factors that influenced the advancement of their expertise. Conclusion: The results of this study might help nurse managers in developing continuing educational programs for inexperienced nurses or those nurses not performing well to become experts by a deeper understanding of the nature of nursing performance and the factors that influence nursing performance in ICU settings.

• 한국조경학회지
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.21-28
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• 2008

This study deals with the participatory design process of renovating a children's park. The process should proceed with two major elements. Firstly, the children's park should be designed from the perspective of children. Secondly, it should be designed in consideration of the context of the community. This study is divided into two parts. First is the review of theory concerning the meaning and roles of the children's park as a community space, the importance of children's participation in the design and the participatory method of the children. The second is the case study. The site for the case study is Ssial Park in Nowon-Gu, Seoul. The entire process of the case study is with community participation, from identifying the park's problems to the actual construction. At every step, through the participatory programs, the community participates in the decision making. In addition, mutual understanding among participants is pursued through diverse means of communication. The following results of the case study were found. Firstly, diverse participatory programs and the active trial to enable the community to communicate contribute to the sense of ownership and responsibility concerning the park Secondly, the community can negotiate the differences in opinions without needing the help of experts. Of course, there are limits in the case study, such as the fact that the community organization, which is the core of communication and maintenance concerning the park, is not organized through the process of a case study. Another is that more diverse methods, which inform all community members of the participatory process, should have been used.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:시스템및이론
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• 제27권8호
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• pp.730-740
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• 2000

고가용성 다중계 시스템의 소프트웨어 재활 기법은 시스템의 결함 발생 이후에 수동적으로 대처하기보다는 결함이 발생하기 전에 이를 미연에 방지하는 능동적 차원의 결함 허용 방법이다. 특히 멀티미디어 이동 컴퓨팅에서 사용되는 소프트웨어는 통신 단절, 데이터 유실 등으로 인한 노화 진행이 일반 소프트웨어보다 상당히 빠르게 진행되기 때문에 소프트웨어 재활에 의한 결함 예방 방법은 대규모 멀티미디어 이동 컴퓨팅 시스템에 사용될 가능성이 높다고 볼 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 서버에서 수행되는 소프트웨어의 재활 주기, 재활 소요시간, 서버의 고장률, 수리률, 동시에 가동되는 서버의 수, 서버의 가동 기간 및 가동 방식 등의 시스템 운영 파라미터에 기초하여, 소프트웨어 재활 정책에 대한 평가를 위한 평형 상태에서의 확률, downtime, 가용도, 손실 비용 등을 계산하였다 수학적 분석을 통해 구한 재활 모델의 closed-form 해는 다양한 시스템 운영 상태에 대한 실험을 통해 검증하였으며, 소프트웨어 재활을 통한 예방적 결함허용 기법의 적용 가능성이 높다는 것을 확인하였다. 또한 서버의 고장률 및 불안정률이 소프트웨어 재활 정책 결정에 중요한 요소임을 파악하였다.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.87-99
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• 2003

지구통계학적 접근법은 지역화 변수를 모델링하기 위한 방법으로서, 제한된 공간 샘플 자료로부터 불확실성을 평가하고 추정하기 위한 효과적인 방법론이다. 본 연구에서는 추정문제에서 사용할 수 있는 크리깅 기법과 지구통계학적 시뮬레이션에 대해 이론적으로 비교 검토하였다. 시뮬레이션과 달리, 크리깅은 자료의 통계량과 공간 구조를 유지할 수 없으며, 불확실성의 측도를 제공하기 어렵다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 불확실성 평가를 위한 지구통계학적 시뮬레이션의 과정을 제시하였으며, RMR의 공간 분포 파악 및 그 불확실성의 평가 과정을 현장 적용을 통해 살펴보았다. 지구통계학적 시뮬레이션은 지반공학적 변수들의 공간 불확실성을 정량적으로 표현할 수 있는 효과적인 방법임을 확인할 수 있었다. 따라서, 지구통계학적 시뮬레이션 결과는 다양한 지질학적조건 및 시공 계약 조건하에서 설계자의 의사결정을 위한 유용한 정보로서 활용할 수 있다.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.15-21
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• 2003

이 논문은 펜실베니아 주립대학에서 실시된 수업개선에 관한 것으로 그 내용은 디자인 프로젝트를 재료역학 수업에 응용한 결과이다. 전통적인 강의를 활용한 수업과는 달리 학생들은 기계역학 디자인의 기초와 재료, 표준, 경제적인 요소, 제작상의 특성, 환경문제, 법 및 안전과 관련된 제반 문제들 등이 서로 연관되어 있음을 학습하도록 격려되었다. 협동학습 디자인 프로젝트를 통해 강사들은 학생들이 팀 단위의 의사결정, 평가기준의 설정과 통합, 현실적인 대안의 발견, 현실적인 제한점들에 대한 고려 등의 보다 고차원적인 내용을 학습할 수 있도록 도왔다. 새로운 수업개선이 학생들의 학습에 미친 영향을 알아보기 위해 1998년 가을학기에 설문조사를 실시하였다. 이 설문조사 결과에 따르면 학생들은 재료역학 입문수업에 대해 높은 가치를 부여하였다. 그러나 디자인 프로젝트에 대한 가치점수는 낮게 나타났고 오히려 전통적인 강의에 높은 가치를 부여했다. 더불어 이전 선수과목에서 높은 점수를 받았던 학생들이 디자인 프로젝트에 대해 낮은 가치를 보고했다. 공학교육자들을 위한 시사점과 향후 연구과제에 대한 제

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제57권1호
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• pp.59-67
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• 2015

Because reservoirs that supply irrigation water play an important role in water resource management, it is necessary to evaluate the vulnerability of this particular water supply resource. The purpose of this study is to provide water supply risk maps of agricultural reservoirs in South Korea using irrigation vulnerability model and cluster analysis. To quantify water supply risk, irrigation vulnerability indices are estimated to evaluate the performance of the water supply on the agricultural reservoir system using a probability theory and reliability analysis. First, the irrigation vulnerability probabilities of 1,346 reservoirs managed by Korea Rural Community Corporation (KRC) were analyzed using meteorological data on 54 meteorological stations over the past 30 years (1981-2010). Second, using the K-mean method of non-hierarchical cluster analysis and pre-simulation approach, cluster analysis was applied to classify into three groups for characterizing irrigation vulnerability in reservoirs. The morphology index, watershed area, irrigated area, and ratio between watershed and irrigated area are selected as the clustering analysis parameters. It is suggested that the water supply risk map be utilized as a basis for the establishment of risk management measures, and could provide effective information for a reasonable decision making on drought risk mitigation.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.49-64
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• 2016

What government does/fails to do is conveyed to the public largely by records and information of various types in the public service, without which there will be no government. When records are poorly managed, much time is involved in sorting and locating needed information from large volumes of records. The rate of records misplaced or lost from which useful information for decision making is usually obtained makes it difficult to provide concise and up-to-date records of both past and present operations, raising the challenge of effective record-keeping. Thus this study examined records management practices in selected local government councils in Ogun State, Nigeria, adopting the descriptive survey research method using questionnaires for data collection. Its population comprised 415 records of personnel in the selected councils, of which 208 were sampled using simple random technique. From the 208 copies of the questionnaire administered on the registry personnel, 150 copies were useable, with a 72.12% response rate. Descriptive statistics were used for the analysis. The results indicated a prevalence of paper as the dominant medium for recording/conveying information in the councils with most of these being either in active state, semi-active, and vital and were kept and maintained in the registry, while in-active records were kept in the records store. Storage facilities for record-keeping were insufficient. Security measures against unauthorized access to records were by restrictions and subject users to managerial clearance. The study concluded that council records were in chaos and recommended the formulation of coherent records management policy, adequate budgetary provision, and adequate finance.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.7-17
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• 2017

Loan consultants assist clients with loan application processing and loan decisions. Their duties may include contacting people to ask if they want a loan, meeting with loan applicants and explaining different loan options. We studied the efficiency of service quality of loan consultants contracted to a bank in Korea. They do not work as a team, but do work independently. Since he/she is not an employee of the bank, the consultant is paid solely in proportion to how much he/she sell loans. In this study, a consultant is considered as a decision making unit (DMU) in the DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) model. We use a principal component analysis-data envelopment analysis (PCA-DEA) model integrated with Shannon's Entropy to evaluate quality efficiency of the consultants. We adopt a three-stage process to calculate the efficiency of service quality of the consultants. In the first stage, we use PCA to obtain 6 synthetic indicators, including 4 input indicators and 2 output indicators, from survey results in which questionnaire items are constructed on the basis of SERVQUAL model. In the second stage, 3 DEA models allowing negative values are used to calculate the relative efficiency of each DMU. In the third stage, the weight of each result is calculated on the basis of Shannon's Entropy theory, and then we generate a comprehensive efficiency score using it. An example illustrates the proposed process of evaluating the relative quality efficiency of the loan consultants and how to use the efficiency to improve the service quality of the consultants.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.81-90
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• 2006

Despite the government promoting women's participation in the engineering field, some statistics show that it has yet to be achieved. Potential reasons for this phenomenon include lower level of applications by women, or inherent gender gap in the professional field. Therefore, this study attempted to find impact of gender on college admission from the Lens Model perspective and Signal Detection Theory. This study consisted of three phases: identifying the necessary cues used in the admission process, analyzing existing data, and conducting two experiments to identify the effect of gender on admission decisions. Although the college application consisted of many cues, only five cues, school ranking, GPA, SAT score, resident status, and gender, were used to capture the officers' judgment policies for engineering admissions. Two experiments were conducted to investigate the impact of the gender factor in college admission. The enrollment officers first were presented with the existing data without the gender and asked to make dichotomous judgments. Secondly, the officers were asked to perform the judgment task with the gender cue present. Results showed that the gender did not play an important role in the judgments as expected. However, ideographical analyses on judgment strategies revealed that there were significant differences between the admission officers. Possible training implications are discussed.

• 근관절건강학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.177-196
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• 1997

This study was undertaken to explore the antecedent factors and process of the treatment-seeking behaviors of medical and alternative treatments in patients with arthritis using methodological triangulation. The data were collected from 995 arthritic patients who were registered either in a center of rheumatology for medical treatment or residents of community having no treatment to classify different treatment patterns. Sixteen patients with various types of treatment only, alternative treatment only, and no treatment were selected among the total samples to identify the antecedent factors through in-depth interview. The quantitative data were analyzed by percentile, t-test, chi-square test and discrimant analysis using SAS PC program, while the qualitative data were analyzed by means of grounded theory methodology. Treatment-seeking behaviors of patients change from the early stage to the sick-role stage. At the early stage, initial characteristics of pain and acculturation of medical professionalism affect the choice of treatment patterns. The acculturation of medical professionalism is affected by health care accessibility, level of education, duration of sickness and lay referral system. At the sick-role stage, lay referral system and acculturation of medical professionalism affect the choice of treatment patterns. The acculturation of medical professionalism is affected by characteristics of symtoms, perceived treatment effects, perceived causes of diseases and socio-economic status as well as health care accessibility, level of education and lay referral system. In conclusion, different factors as well as common factors are influencing the treatment-seeking behaviors depending on the disease and treatment stages. More detailed further studies are required to explore the value system or medical acculturation of patients which is one of the most important factors in decision-making about treatment modalities.