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Analysis of Utilization and Perception of Special Weather Reports for Climate Change Adaptation: Focus on Dryness Advisory and Warning (기후변화적응을 위한 기상특보 인지도 및 활용도 분석: 건조특보를 중심으로)

  • Choi, Su-Jin;Kim, Eun-Byul;Jung, Woo-Sik;Kim, Baek-Jo;Park, Jong-Kil
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.1121-1130
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    • 2014
  • This study aims to find the perception and utilization of the citizen about the dryness watch warning (DWW) among special weather reports. For this we have made up a descriptive questionnaire including the perception, utilization of special weather reports. Using the SPSS 17.0 program, descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA and Scheffe test were used to analyze the collected data. The results are as follows; The perception of DWW is measured by 4 point Likert scale and the average is $15.97{\pm}3.70$ (percentile=57.0). This value shows that the awareness level is not that high and according to the occupation, college students show the lowest awareness and housewives show the highest awareness. According to the age, the teens and twenties show the lowest awareness and fifties and sixties show the highest awareness. Although the perception of the teens and college students are rather poor, there were many positive answers that it is necessary to establish the advanced disaster prevention plan according to the questionnaire about the utilization of DWW. Therefore, if we come up with an effective plan to improve the perception than we can expect a large-effect in terms of fire and forest fire prevention. The perception of DWW can be improved by providing weather information and weather related education program on TV or internet which have the high level of preference. Also, it is necessary to provide online and offline program of advertising education and disaster management education through the weather forecast bureau which is the host organization of delivering weather information.

The Effect of the Clothing Benefits Sought on the Enviromental Awareness and Environment-Friendly Consuming Behavior (의복추구혜택이 환경의식과 환경친화적 소비행동에 미치는 영향)

  • Jung, Yu-Jung;Park, Ok-Lyun;Ha, Jong-Kyung
    • Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.639-646
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study is to examine clothing benefits seeking and buying behavior depending on the level of environmental awareness. The results showed a significant relationship between the level of environmental awareness and the factors of demographic characteristics, such as age, marital status, educational status, and type of housing, occupation, and average household income. However, there was no significant difference between those by gender. In relationship between the level of environmental awareness and clothing benefits seeking behavior, there were significant differences between the following groups. such as social stability-oriented, brand-oriented, individuality-oriented, and comfort-oriented group. With regard to the relationship between environment-friendly consuming behavior and demographic characteristics, there were significant differences in all factors of the demographic characteristics. Buying behavior showed a significant relationship with all factors of demographic characteristics except type of housing. Using behavior matched a significant relationship with all factors of demographic characteristics. Disposition behavior demonstrated a significant relationship with all factors except marital status. In terms of the effect of clothing benefits sought on the environment-friendly consuming behavior, the results suggested a significant relationship of brand-oriented, individuality-oriented, comfort-oriented, and price-oriented factors. Buying behavior showed a significant relationship with brand-oriented, comfort-oriented, and price-oriented factors. Using behavior demonstrated a strongly significant relationship with comfort-oriented factor while disposition behavior suggested a strong relationship with price-oriented factor.

The Development of Modular Program for Environmental Values Education (환경가치교육을 위한 모듈식 프로그램 개발)

  • Park, Mie-Jeong;Choi, Byung-Mo
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.51-64
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    • 2003
  • The ultimate objective of environmental education is to develop characteristics of the affective domain being the basis for environmental behavior. As this need, the researchers developed a modular program for environmental values education suited elementary school's actuality. In practice of program development, researchers analyzed the contents of environmental education in current curriculum. Researchers set up development principles of modular program according to the level of elementary moral development. The system of this modular program consists of three levels like environmental awareness, environmental literacy, environmental responsibility, and each module is made up of three subjects representing these levels. So this modular program is classified with three level's modular group like low grade, center grade, and high grade. And set in array after selecting value strategies suited each grade level. The expectant effects of this program for environmental values education are as follows: Students form sound environmental values and attitudes for environment through various strategies that develop environmental awareness and environmental literacy. And those strategies provides various experiences to construct knowledge, value, and attitude about environment by oneself working together with teacher. So teacher and students can utilize easily at school or in nature. Besides, since it relates with single environmental problem from awareness to participation about environment, teachers can conduct elementary environmental curriculum more systematically and effectively.

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A Review on Measurement and Applications of Situation Awareness for an Evaluation of Korea Next Generation Reactor Operator Performance (상황인식에 대한 측정 및 차세대 원자로 운전원 성능 평가에서의 활용방법에 관한 이론 연구)

  • Lee, Dhong-Ha;Lee, Hyun-Chul
    • IE interfaces
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.751-758
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    • 2000
  • Situation awareness is defined as a person's perception of the elements of the environment within a volume of time and space, the comprehension of their meaning and the projection of their status in the near future. Situation awareness is important in attempting to evaluate human behavior in operating complex systems such as aircraft, air traffic control, and nuclear power plant systems. From the literatures this study reviews the relationship between situation awareness and numerous individual, system and environmental factors, and also reviews the methodologies for the empirical measurement of situation awareness applicable to Korea Next Generation Reactor (KNGR) design project. Attention, working memory, workload, stress, system complexity, and automation are presented as critical factors limiting operator's situation awareness. Mental models and goal-directed behavior are hypothesized as important mechanisms overcoming these limits. This study summarized hypothesized guidelines for interface design to improve situation awareness of reactor operators. Some of the guidelines should be tested in the KNGR evaluation experiments in the future.

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Implementation of a context-awareness framework and context model for ubiquitous computing environment (유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경을 위한 상황 모델 정의 및 상황 인식 프레임워크 구현)

  • Lee Jung-Eun;Park Hyun-Jung;Park Doo-Kyung;Yoon Tae-Bok;Park Kyo-Hyun;Lee Jee-Hyong
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.423-429
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    • 2006
  • The systems in the ubiquitous computing environment need to provide users with context-aware services, intelligently interacting with the surrounding environment. Therefore, the systems in the ubiquitous computing environment require context-awareness ability in order to gather and analyze context information in various situations and environments. However, existing context-aware systems lack the ability to systematically generate and handle various types of context information, and only a few systems have ability learning from environment. In this paper, a general context model is defined to describe various contexts and a context-awareness framework is implemented based in the model, which makes it straightforward to handle and generate various types of context from diverse sensor. The framework is designed to allow a system to sensed, combined, inferred, and learned context information, in order to provide users with services in dynamic environments. We have implemented the proposed framework and applied it to a u-Health management system.

A Study on the Awareness of the Middle Aged for the Digital home System and Well-being Apartment Design Elements (디지털홈 시스템과 웰빙아파트 계획요소에 대한 중년층 의식 연구)

  • Cho, Sung-Heui;Lee, Tae-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.93-103
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    • 2007
  • This study examined the awareness of the middle aged about the digital home system and well-being apartment design elements in order to suggest the design guidelines for planning of the elderly housing environment. By literature review, the concept and characteristics of the digital home system and well-being Apartment design elements were summarized the degree of satisfaction and preference of middle aged for these characteristics were investigated and analyzed. For this study, a questionnaire survey of 156 housewives living in apartment complex of Busan was carried out. The results of this study are as follows: The middle aged were generally short of recognition for digital skill and service, and also they showed positive evaluations to a few useful items of digital home system. These items belong under safety security system and interior environment control system and provided for convenient & comfortable life. Accordingly, satisfied digital home system can apply basic design element for housing for elderly. Whereas, the middle-aged were not satisfied with housework help system and cultural life system because items of these systems were not various and complicate to us. So, for the improvement of not satisfied digital home system, we needed development of digital contents and marketing & management for high accessibility and easy useability. The middle aged will concern about health & environment friendly continuously and become to stay long in their housing as the characteristics of elderly. So, It is necessary to be considered well-being apartment design elements of health & environment friendly very actively and lastingly in elderly housing environment design. Also, the awareness of middle aged for digital home system and well-being apartment design elements varied according to the background characteristics. This suggests housing environment for elderly life is considered differently as various background characteristics of middle aged.

A study on protection technology and scope about information Privacy in ubiquitous Sensing Network Environment (A focus on context awareness system and personal information) (유비쿼터스 센싱 네트워크 환경 하에서 정보 프라이버시의 보호 기술과 영역에 관한 연구 (상황인식시스템과 개인정보를 중심으로))

  • Kang, Jang-Mook;Bang, Kee-Chun
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.301-308
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    • 2006
  • There are some technologies such as USN, RFID, Home-network to advance the ubiquitous era. Those technologies embody Context-Awareness System. To Context-Awareness System is that human, objects and environment supply information with cable and wireless at real time. So private information, information privacy, a wide sense privacy will be faced on serious menace. In this article, I analyze threat of private information in Context-Awareness System under USN(ubiquitous Sensing Network) surroundings and present technology to protect private information. Each technology can apply subdivided protection province information privacy. I expect definition of information privacy, insight through technological presentation and total solution in this article.

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The effects of store attributes on brand equity of and brand attitude toward Korean SPA brands (한국형 SPA브랜드의 점포속성, 브랜드 자산 및 브랜드 태도와의 영향관계)

  • Wu, Hui Qing;Kim, Mi Sook
    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.640-653
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of store attributes on brand equity of and brand attitude toward Korean SPA brands. Data were collected from women living in Seoul in ages from 18 to 39 with purchasing experience at Korean SPA brands. A total of 554 questionnaires were used in the statistical analysis including factor analysis and structure equation analysis. The results were as follows: For store attributes, 8 factors were extracted: product assortment, fashionability, price, quality, store environment, service, convenience in location and advertisement. Two factors, brand awareness, brand image were extracted for brand equity, and brand attitude was derived as a single dimension. Product-related store attributes such as product assortment, price, quality have positive effects on brand awareness, brand image and brand attitude. Other attribute such as store environment has positive effect on brand awareness and brand image, Attribute such as advertisement has positive effect on brand awareness and service, convenience in location have positive effect on brand attitude. Moreover, brand image and brand awareness have positive effect on brand attitude. These results indicate the product-related attributes are important factors to consider for improving brand equity and brand attitude for Korean SPA brands.

A Study on the Safety Perception, Ethical Awareness, and Safety Activities of Nursing Students

  • Keum-Bong Choi
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.407-417
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    • 2023
  • The purpose of this study is to identify the level of safety perception, ethical awareness, and safety activities of nursing students for patients, and to identify the correlation and impact between them. The research design is a descriptive survey study, and the subject of the study were 197 nursing college students in G City. Safety perception, ethical awareness, and safety activity tools were used for, and the data collection period was from October 17 to 28 in 2022. T-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient, Regression analysis were used to analyze data. The result of the study indicated that the average level of safety perception of nursing students was 3.72 points, the average ethical awareness of patients, professional work, and cooperators perceived by nursing students was 3.04 points, and the safety activities of nursing students were 4.20 points. In the case of safety awareness and ethics awareness, r=.327, a significant positive correlation, in the case of safety awareness and safety activities, r=.399, significant positive correlation, ethics awareness and safety activities as r=.296. And so on these results showed that high safety perception increases safety activities, and high ethical awareness increases safety activities. Therefore, we need practical and step-by-step convergence education to equip nursing students with patient safety nursing capabilities. To this end, a safer environment will be created if the social support network for the systematic application of safety education is well formed.

Linkage between Public Policy, Green Technology and Green Products on Environmental Awareness in the Urban Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • Saifullah, Md. Khaled;Kari, Fatimah Binti;Ali, Md. Arphan
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.45-53
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    • 2017
  • The main purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that have an impact on public policy, green products and technology in Kuala Lumpur, given government initiatives to boost the environment awareness. The data used in this study was collected by distribution questionnaires randomly in six areas of Kuala Lumpur and 400 respondents were interviewed. Based on a literature review, three hypotheses were stated and tested using structural equation modeling (SEM). SEM is a statistical analysis method that involved two or more variables in analyzing structural relationships among the variables. The SEM model shows that green products and government policies have a direct influence on environmental awareness. However, green technology does not have a direct influence on environmental awareness. Since, knowledge on green technology does not have a significant impact on raising environmental awareness among the public, a much more pragmatic awareness campaign needs to be put in place to use green technology as a part of modern living. The study suggests that the urban population needs to be more aware of the environmental issue as cities tend to have better infrastructure to raise public awareness on green issues. Moreover, the government should increase the environmental awareness among younger generation through workshops, seminars, campaigns, and pamphlets.