• 한국전자거래학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.143-163
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• 2019

본 연구는 통합기술수용모델을 기반으로 반려동물 건강을 지키기 위한 반려인들의 스마트 IoT 기술 도입에 따른 수용요인과 그에 미치는 영향요인을 규명하였다. 선행 연구를 바탕으로 기술적 요인과 사회적 요인, 조절변인, 매개변인(UTAUT)으로 구성하고, 각 요인별 독립변인과 종속변인인 수용의도 사이의 경로분석을 통해 가설을 설정하고 변인들의 측정항목을 정의하여 변인들 간의 관계분석을 검증하기 위한 연구모형을 설계하였으며 494명을 대상으로 측정항목에 대한 설문을 조사하였다. 분석결과, 기술적 요인의 제품디자인, 서비스품질, 제품성능, 서비스 품질은 성과기대와 노력기대에 유의한 영향을 미쳤다. 그러나 제품안정성, 기능인지, 제품가격에서는 성과기대, 노력기대에서 유의한 영향을 미치지 못하였다. 사회적 요인에서는 인지적효과, 복지제도, 복지시설에서 유의한 영향을 미쳤다. 조절효과에서는 성별, 사용경험, 혁신성에서는 차이가 없는 것으로 나타났지만, 연령에서는 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 최종적으로, 기술적 요인과 사회적 요인을 비교분석한 결과 사회적 요인의 복지제도와 복지시설이 수용에 더 크게 영향을 미치고 있다는 것을 파악되었다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.61-95
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• 2007

Small-and-medium sized enterprises(SMEs) represent quite a large proportion of the industry as a whole in terms of the number of enterprises or employees. However researches on information system so far have focused on large companies, probably because SMEs were not so active in introducing information systems as larger enterprises. SMEs are now increasingly bringing in information systems such as ERP(Enterprise Resource Planning Systems) and some of the companies already entered the stage of ongoing use. Accordingly, researches should deal with the use of information systems by SME s operating under different conditions from large companies. This study examined factors and mechanism inducing faithful appropriation of information systems, in particular integrative systems such as ERP, in view of individuals` active feedback-seeking behavior. There are three factors expected to affect end users` feedback-seeking behavior for faithful appropriation of information systems. They are management support, peer IT champ support, and IT staff support. The main focus of the study is on how these factors affect feedback-seeking behavior and whether the feedback-seeking behavior plays the role of mediator for realizing faithful appropriation of information systems by end users. To examine the research model and the hypotheses, this study employed an empirical method based on a field survey. The survey used measurements mostly employed and verified by previous researches, while some of the measurements had gone through minor modifications for the purpose of the study. The survey respondents are individual employees of SMEs that have been using ERP for one year or longer. To prevent common method bias, Task-Technology Fit items used as the control variable were made to be answered by different respondents. In total, 127 pairs of valid questionnaires were collected and used for the analysis. The PLS(Partial Least Squares) approach to structural equation modeling(PLS-Graph v.3.0) was used as our data analysis strategy because of its ability to model both formative and reflective latent constructs under small-and medium-size samples. The analysis shows Reliability, Construct Validity and Discriminant Validity are appropriate. The path analysis results are as follows; first, the more there is peer IT champ support, the more the end user is likely to show feedback-seeking behavior(path-coefficient=0.230, t=2.28, p<0.05). In other words, if colleagues proficient in information system use recognize the importance of their help, pass on what they have found to be an effective way of using the system or correct others' misuse, ordinary end users will be able to seek feedback on the faithfulness of their appropriation of information system without hesitation, because they know the convenience of getting help. Second, management support encourages ordinary end users to seek more feedback(path-coefficient=0.271, t=3.06, p<0.01) by affecting the end users' perceived value of feedback(path-coefficient=0.401, t=6.01, p<0.01). Management support is far more influential than other factors that when the management of an SME well understands the benefit of ERP, promotes its faithful appropriation and pays attention to employees' satisfaction with the system, employees will make deliberate efforts for faithful appropriation of the system. However, the third factor, IT staff support was found not to be conducive to feedback-seeking behavior from end users(path-coefficient=0.174, t=1.83). This is partly attributable to the fundamental reason that there is little support for end users from IT staff in SMEs. Even when IT staff provides support, end users may find it less important than that from coworkers more familiar with the end users' job. Meanwhile, the more end users seek feedback and attempt to find ways of faithful appropriation of information systems, the more likely the users will be able to deploy the system according to the purpose the system was originally meant for(path-coefficient=0.35, t=2.88, p<0.01). Finally, the mediation effect analysis confirmed the mediation effect of feedback-seeking behavior. By confirming the mediation effect of feedback-seeking behavior, this study draws attention to the importance of feedback-seeking behavior that has long been overlooked in research about information system use. This study also explores the factors that promote feedback-seeking behavior which in result could affect end user`s faithful appropriation of information systems. In addition, this study provides insight about which inducements or resources SMEs should offer to promote individual users' feedback-seeking behavior when formal and sufficient support from IT staff or an outside information system provider is hardly expected. As the study results show, under the business environment of SMEs, help from skilled colleagues and the management plays a critical role. Therefore, SMEs should seriously consider how to utilize skilled peer information system users, while the management should pay keen attention to end users and support them to make the most of information systems.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.195-221
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• 2009

According to an industry report, a large number of organizations have invested in Organizational Information System(OIS) in the past few years. Several research results indicate that successful investments in OIS lead to productivity enhancement, while failed ones result in undesirable consequences such as financial losses and dissatisfaction among employees. In spite of huge investments, however, many organizations have failed in achieving the hoped-for returns from OIS. Thus, understanding user acceptance, adoption, and usage of new IS(Information Systems) is an important issue for IS practitioners. Indeed, study of the user acceptance of new information system has been one of the most important research topics in the contemporary IS literature. Several theoretical models are tested to examine 'user acceptance' and 'usage behavior' in IS context. While many research models incorporate 'ease of use' or 'usefulness' as important factors in explaining user acceptance, Technology Acceptance Model(TAM) has been one of the most widely applied models in user acceptance and usage behavior. Even in recent IS studies that employ theories of innovation diffusion in the area of IS implementation, a major focus has been on the user's perception of information technologies. In this research, we study 'voluntariness' as an important factor in IS acceptance by users. Voluntariness is defined as "the degree to which the use of the innovation is perceived as being voluntary, or of free will" When examining the diffusion of accepting OIS, a thoughtful consideration should be given to 'perceived voluntariness.' Current article has following research questions: 1) What models are appropriate to explain the success of OIS? and 2) How does the 'voluntariness' affect the success of OIS? In order to answer these questions, a research model is proposed to describe the detailed nature of association among three independent variables (IT usage level, task interdependency, and organizational support), a mediating variable (IS usage), a dependent variable (perceived performance), and a moderating variable(perceived voluntariness). The central claim of this article is that organizations hardly realize expected returns from OIS investments unless perceived voluntariness is effectively managed after operating OIS. As an example of OIS in this study we have selected the Intranet of Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF). ROKAF has implemented the Intranet in an attempt to improve communication and coordination within the organization. To test our research model and hypotheses, survey questionnaires were first sent out to 400 Intranet users. With the assistance of ROKAF, Intranet users were initially identified among its members, and subjects were randomly drawn from the pool. 377 survey responses were finally returned. The unit of measurement and analysis in this research is a personal level. Path analysis based on structural equation modeling was used to test research hypotheses. Construct validity represents accordance between the theoretical base concept of constructs and its measurement items. Tests for the reliability and discriminant validity are accepted, thus verifying our survey instrument. In this research, we have proposed a conceptual framework to highlight the importance of perceived voluntariness after organization deploys OIS. The results of our analysis present several key finding. First, all three independent variables (IT usage level, task interdependency, and organizational support) have significant effects on IS usage, which will eventually improve performance. Thus, IS usage plays a mediating role between antecedent variables (IT usage level. task interdependency, and organizational support) and performance improvement. Second, the effect of the task dependency was the highest for IS usage among the three antecedent variables. This is highly plausible since one of the Intranet's major capabilities is to facilitate communication among members within an organization. Accordingly, we conclude that the higher the task dependency, the higher Intranet usage. The effect of user's IT usage level was the second, while the effect of the organizational support was the third. Finally, the perceived voluntariness plays a pivotal role in enhancing perceived performance in personal level after launching the Intranet. Relationships among investigated variables were significantly different between groups with a high level and a low level of voluntariness. The impact of the Intranet usage on the performance was greater in the higher level voluntariness group than in the lower one. For the lower level voluntariness group, the user's IT usage had the highest effect on the Intranet usage among the three antecedent variables. In short, our study suggests that the higher the perceived voluntariness is the more IS usage will be. Perceived voluntariness was found to have a moderating effect on the relationships among user IT usage level, task interdependency, IS usage, and perceived performance, supporting all the hypotheses on the moderating effect. Most of all, user IT usage level has the strongest influence on IS usage, indicating that users with superior IT usage are more likely to enjoy a high level of perceived performance.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.1-27
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• 2011

In an attempt to cope with widespread, dynamic, and accelerating changes in both internal and external business environments, companies often utilize information technologies such as SCM(Supply Chain Management). To date, SCM research has mainly focused on the effects of dynamic factors on SCM success and emphasized adoption strategies and critical success factors. Consequently, the effects of more static factors such as interdependency between SCM partners have been largely ignored. The purpose of this study, therefore, is to examine the effects of both dynamic and static factors on SCM performance by controlling for information quality and partnership quality. The five factors examined in this study include innovative ness, mutual dependency, quality of information, partnership quality, and SCM performance. All factors were examined from the perspective of part suppliers, except the mutual dependency which was examined from two aspects: supplier's dependency on customer and customer's dependency on supplier. Data was collected through five hundred survey questionnaires distributed to the part supplier companies that have implemented SCM systems for at least one year. As a result, a total of 170 valid responses were obtained. A structural equation research model was fitted using SAS 9.1.3 and SMART-PLS 2.0. The results of this study can be summarized as follows. First, innovativeness positively affected SCM information quality. SCM partnership quality, and ultimately SCM performance. The path coefficient between innovativeness and information quality was 0.387, with a t-value of 3.528. Innovativeness also had a positively direct effect on partnership quality. The path coefficient was 0.351 with a t-value of 3.366. The total effect of innovativeness on partnership quality was significant, although its indirect effect on partnership quality by altering information quality was negligible. The total indirect effect of innovativeness on SCM performance by affecting information quality and partnership quality was significant with a p-value of 0.014. Innovativeness played an important role in determining SCM performance. Second, mutual dependency showed no significant effect on SCM information quality. This result contradicts the earlier assertion that the more dependent two companies are, the more accurate and timely the information they exchange ought to be. This study showed that this may not be the case; a partner may provide information of poor quality even when it is strongly dependent on the other. Mutual dependency showed significant effect on partnership quality. However, when the mutual dependency perceived by suppliers was divided into two parts, one being a supplier's dependency on its customer company and the other being a customer's dependency on the supplier, the latter showed a significant impact on the perceived SCM partnership quality. This result indicates that a customer company can hardly improve the partnership quality perceived by suppliers by making them more dependent. It improves only when the suppliers perceive that their partners, typically having more bargaining power, are more dependent on them. The overall effect of mutual dependency of any kind on SCM performance, however, was not significant. Although mutual dependency has been mentioned as an important static factor influencing almost every aspect of cooperation on a supply chain, its influences may not be as significant as it was initially perceived to be. Third, the correlation between information quality and partnership quality was 0.448 with a p-value of less than 0.001. Information quality had a path coefficient of 0.256 to partnership quality with a t-value of 2.940. The quality of information exchanged between partners may have an impact on their partnership quality. Fourth, information quality also had a significant impact on SCM performance with a path coefficient of 0.325 with a t-value of 3.611. In this study, SCM performance was divided into four categories: product quality, cost saving, service quality, and order fulfillment. Information quality has Significant impacts on product quality, cost saving and service quality, but not on order fulfillment. Fifth, partnership quality, as expected, had a significant impact on SCM performance. The path coefficient was 0.403 with a t-value of 3.539. Partnership quality, like information quality, had positive impacts on product quality, cost saving and service quality, but showed no impact on order fulfillment. It seemed that order fulfillment is the hardest category of performance that SCM can satisfy. One major limitation of this study is that it surveyed only the suppliers. To better understand the dual aspects of SCM, it is important to survey both suppliers and the assemblers, especially in pairs. This research, to our best knowledge, was the first attempt to study the level of dependency between the two groups by measuring the dual aspects of SCM and studying mutual dependency from the categories of suppliers and assemblers each.. In the future, a more comprehensive and precise measurement of SCM characteristics needs to be achieved by examining from both the supplier's and assembler's perspectives.

• 항공우주정책ㆍ법학회지
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• 제2권
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• pp.31-67
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• 1990

One of the first issues which arose in the evolution of air law was the determination of the vertical limits of airspace over private property. In 1959 the UN in its Ad Hoc Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, started to give attention to the question of the meaning of the term "outer space". Discussions in the United Nations regarding the delimitation issue were often divided between those in favour of a functional approach ("functionalists"), and those seeking the delineation of a boundary ("spatialists"). The functionalists, backed initially by both major space powers, which viewed any boundary as possibly restricting their access to space(Whether for peaceful or military purposes), won the first rounds, starting with the 1959 Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space which did not consider that the topic called for priority consideration. In 1966, however, the spatialists, were able to place the issue on the agenda of the Outer Sapce Committee pursuant to Resolution 2222 (xxx1). However, the spatialists were not able to present a common position since there existed a variety of propositions for delineation of a boundary. Over the years, the funtionalists have seemed to be losing ground. As the element of location is a decisive factor for the choice of the legal regime to be applied, a purely functional approach to the regulation of activities in the space above the Earth does not offer a solution. It is therefore to be welcomed that there is clear evidence of a growing recognition of the defect inherent to such an approach and that a spatial approach to the problem is gaining support both by a growing number of States as well as by publicists. The search for a solution of the problem of demarcating the two different legal regimes governing the space above the Earth has undoubtedly been facilitated, and a number of countries, among them Argentina, Belgium, France, Italy and Mexico have already advocated the acceptance of the lower boundary of outer space at a height of 100km. The adoption of the principle of sovereignty at that height does not mean that States would not be allowed to take protective measures against space activities above that height which constitute a threat to their security. A parallel can be drawn with the defence of the State's security on the high seas. Measures taken by States in their own protection on the high seas outside the territorial waters-provided that they are proportionate to the danger-are not considered to infringe the principle of international law. The most important issue in this context relates to the problem of a right of passage for space craft through foreign air space in order to reach outer space. In the reports to former ILA Conferences an explanation was given of the reasons why no customary rule of freedom of passage for aircraft through foreign territorial air space could as yet be said to exist. It was suggested, however, that though the essential elements for the creation of a rule of customary international law allowing such passage were still lacking, developments apperaed to point to a steady growth of a feeling of necessity for such a rule. A definite treaty solution of the demarcation problem would require further study which should be carried out by the UN Outer Space Committee in close co-operation with other interested international organizations, including ICAO. If a limit between air space and outer space were established, air space would automatically come under the regime of the Chicago Convention alone. The use of the word "recognize" in Art. I of chicago convention is an acknowledgement of sovereignty over airspace existing as a general principle of law, the binding force of which exists independently of the Convention. Further it is important to note that the Aricle recognizes this sovereignty, as existing for every state, holding it immaterial whether the state is or is not a contracting state. The functional criteria having been created by reference to either the nature of activity or the nature of the space object, the next hurdle would be to provide methods of verification. With regard to the question of international verification the establishment of an International Satelite Monitoring Agency is required. The path towards the successful delimitation of outer space from territorial space is doubtless narrow and stony but the establishment of a precise legal framework, consonant with the basic principles of international law, for the future activities of states in outer space will, it is still believed, remove a source of potentially dangerous conflicts between states, and furthermore afford some safeguard of the rights and interests of non-space powers which otherwise are likely to be eroded by incipient customs based on at present almost complete freedom of action of the space powers.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.95-108
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• 1999

충북 진천, 음성, 괴산, 중원군과 충남 천원군, 그리고 경북 청도, 성주, 안동군에 분포하는 101개 연초 경작지에 대하여 토양의 화학성 및 토양도 자료들을 이용한 토양 비옥도를 평가하기 위하여 1985년부터 2년 동안포장시험이 수행되었으며 또한 동일 토양에 대한 포트시험도 병행하여 서로 비교하였다. 무비구의 연초 수량을 토양 비옥도 요인으로 고려하여 9개 화학성과 10개 토양도 자료들을 포함하는 19개 독려변수들로 평가하였다. 19개 독립변수들은 11개의 정량적 지표들과 9개의 정성적 지표들로 구분하여 BAS의 REO와 CLM model로 다중선형 회귀분석을 수행하였다. 무비구 연초 수량은 최저치와 최고치 간에 포트시험의 경우 5.0-5.5배, 포장시험의 경우 8.2-14.9배의 차이를 보여 공시토양의 다양한 비옥도 특성을 나타냈다. 무비구 수량과 밀접한 상관을 보인 화학적 지표는 포장시험과 포트시험간뿐 아니라 년차 간에도 상이하였으며, 또한 포장시험의 무비구 수량에 기여하는 정량적 지표들의 표준화 편회귀계수는 모두 1.0 미만을 보여 비옥도 평가를 위한 탄일 유효도지표의 선발이 어렵다는 것을 시사하였다. 비옥도에 대한 독립변수들의 다중선형회귀 평가는 단일 지표에 의한 평가보다 매우 양호하였으며 화학적 지표들 이외에 토양도의 정량적 및 정성적 지표들을 평가에 포함시킴에 따라 결정계수($R^2$)는 점진적으로 증가되었다. 즉 예를 들면 1985년도 무비구 수량에 대한 다중선형회귀의 결정계수는 단일지표 $NO_3-N$ 함량에 의한 평가 0.244에 비하여 화학적 지표들에 의한 평가는 0.422, 토양도의 정량적 지표들의 추가되면 0.503, 그리고 정성적 지표들을 추가하면 0.633으로 증가되었다. 따라서 토양 화학성 이외에 토양도 자료들을 포함하는 정량적 및 정성적 지표들에 의한 다중선형회귀 분석방법은 연초 경작지의 비옥도 평가를 위한 유의성 있는 모델로 추정되었다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.167-190
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• 2010

The research conducted here focuses on the effect of factors that affect the behavior of UCC (User Created Content) website users, other than user's rational recognition of how useful a UCC website can be. Most discussions in the existing literature on information systems have focused on users' evaluation how a UCC website can help to attain the users' own goals. However, there are other factors and this research pays attention to an individual's 'personality,' which is stable and biological in nature. Specifically, I have noted here that 'extroversion' and 'neuroticism,' the two common personality factors presented in Eysenck's most representative 'EPQ Model' and 'Big Five Model,' are the two personality factors that affect a site's 'usefulness,' by this I mean how useful does the user consider the website and its content. How useful a site is considered by the user is the other factor that has been regarded as the antecedent factor that influences the adoption of information systems in the existing MIS (Management Information System) research. Secondly, as using or creating a UCC website does not guarantee the user's or the creator's extrinsic motivation, unlike when using the information system within an organization, there is a greater likelihood that the increase in user's activities in relation to a UCC website is motivated by emotional factors rather than rational factors. Thus, I have decided to include the relationship between an individual's personality and what they find pleasurable in the research model. Thirdly, when based on the S-O-R Paradigm of Mehrabian and Russell, the two cognitive factors and emotional factors are finally affected by stimulus, and thus these factors ultimately have an effect on an individual's respondent behavior. Therefore, this research has presented an assumption that the recognition of how useful the site and content is and what emotional pleasure it provides will finally affect the behavior of the UCC website users. Finally, the relationship between the recognition of how useful a site is and how pleasurable it is to useand UCC usage may differ depending on certain situational conditions. In other words, the relationship between the three factors may vary according to how much users are involved in the creation of the website content. Creation thus emerges as the keyword of UCC. I analyzed the above relationships through the moderating variable of the user's involvement in the creation of the site. The research result shows the following: When it comes to the relationship between an individual's personality and what they find pleasurable it is extroverted users who have a greater likelihood to feel pleasure when using a UCC website, as was expected in this research. This in turn leads to a more active usage of the UCC web site because a person who is an extrovert likes to spend time on activities with other people, is sensitive to new experiences and stimuli and thus actively responds to these. An extroverted person accepts new UCC activities as part of his/her social life, rather than getting away from this new UCC environment. This is represented by the term 'Foxonomy' where the users meet a variety of users from all over the world and contact new types of content created by these users. However, neuroticism creates the opposite situation to that created by extroversion. The representative symptoms of neuroticism are instability, stress, and tension. These dispositions are more closely related to stress caused by a new environment rather than this creatingcuriosity or pleasure. Thus, neurotic persons have an uneasy feeling and will eventually avoid the situation where their own or others' daily lives are frequently exposed to the open web environment, this eventually makes them have a negative attitude towards the web environment. When it comes to an individual's personality and how useful site is, the two personality factors of extroversion and neuroticism both have a positive relationship with the recognition of how useful the site and its content is. The positive, curious, and social dispositions of extroverted persons tend to make them consider the future usefulness and possibilities of a new type of information system, or website, based on their positive attitude, which has a significant influence on the recognition of how useful these UCC sites are. Neuroticism also favorably affects how useful a UCC website can be through a different mechanism from that of extroversion. As the neurotic persons tend to feel uneasy and have much doubt about a new type of information system, they actively explore its usefulness in order to relieve their uncomfortable feelings. In other words, neurotic persons seek out how useful a site can be in order to secure their own stable feelings. Meanwhile, extroverted persons explore how useful a site can be because of their positive attitude and curiosity. As a lot of MIS research has revealed that the recognition of how useful a site can be and how pleasurable it can be to use have been proven to have a significant effect on UCC activity. However, the relationship between these factors reveals different aspects based on the user's involvement in creation. This factor of creationgauges the interest of users in the creation of UCC contents. Involvement is a variable that shows the level of an individual's mental effort in creating UCC contents. When a user is highly involved in the creation process and makes an enormous effort to create UCC content (classed a part of a high-involvement group), their own pleasure and recognition of how useful the site is have a significantly higher effect on the future usage of the UCC contents, more significantly than the users who sit back and just retrieve the UCC content created by others. The cognitive and emotional response of those in the low-involvement group is unlikely to last long,even if they recognize the contents of a UCC website is pleasurable and useful to them. However, the high-involvement group tends to participate in the creation and the usage of UCC more favorably, connecting the experience with their own goals. In this respect, this research presents an answer to the question; why so many people are participating in the usage of UCC, the representative form of the Web 2.0 that has drastically involved more and more people in the creation of UCC, even if they cannot gain any monetary or social compensation. Neither information system nor a website can succeed unless it secures a certain level of user base. Moreover, it cannot be further developed when the reasons, or problems, for people's participation are not suitably explored, even if it has a certain user base. Thus, what is significant in this research is that it has studied users' respondent behavior based on an individual's innate personality, emotion, and cognitive interaction, unlike the existing research that has focused on 'compensation' to explain users' participation with the UCC website. There are also limitations in this research. Firstly, I divided an individual's personality into extroversion and neuroticism; however, there are many other personal factors such as neuro-psychiatricism, which also needs to be analyzed for its influence on UCC activities. Secondly, as a UCC website comes in many types such as multimedia, Wikis, and podcasting, these types need to be included as a sub-category of the UCC websites and their relationship with personality, emotion, cognition, and behavior also needs to be analyzed.

• 항공우주정책ㆍ법학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.311-336
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• 2015

본 논문은 무인항공기 관련 현행 국제법을 국제항공공법과 국제항공사법의 관점에서 조사하고, 무인항공기관련 현행 호주 국내법과 입법 예고된 호주 국내법을 무인항공기 운항에 따른 위험요소 (민사책임, 안전, 사생활보호)에 중점을 두면서 검토한다. 현재 전체 상업용 비행에서 무인항공기 운항이 차지하는 비율은 미미한 수준이지만, 상업용 목적의 국제무인항공비행은 현실이 될 것이다. 무인기 관련산업이 빠르게 발전하고 있으므로, 빠른 시일 내에 정책적인 해결방안이 연구되어야만, 무인항공기관련 위험요소들이 실제로 일어났을 때 적절하게 대응할 수 있는 법규범이 만들어 질 수 있을 것이다. 호주의 무인항공기관련 성공적인 국내입법에서 보듯이, 국내법적 또는 지역단위의 접근이 무인항공기 관련 문제를 주도하고 있고, 계속해서 주도할 것이다. 안전문제는 호주의 현행 입법 예고된 무인항공기관련 법규에 가장 중요한 요소이고, 국제적으로도 마찬가지이다. 안전관련 법규를 만드는 것은 매우 중요하고, 민사책임 관련법규를 만드는 것보다 선행되어야 한다. 그 이유는 안전관련 법규를 만드는 것이 민사책임 법규가 적용되는 사고의 발생위험 자체를 줄일 수 있기 때문이다. 무인항공기 운항자에 대한 구속력 있는 감항기준이 구비되어 있지 않다는 점은, 운항자의 엄격책임이 적용되는 민사책임 체계가 무인항공기 분야에는 적절하지 않다는 주장을 가능하게 할 수 있다. 이에 대한 해결책으로 ICAO 지침개정과 무인기 안전 및 감항관련 SARPs 개정, 또한 잠재적으로는 민사책임 (참가자, 승객, 지상손해 대상)관련 문제들을 포함하는 SARPs 개정의 필요성을 제안한다. 이러한 ICAO지침은 적절한 절차를 거쳐서 각국의 국내법으로 차용될 수 있을 것이고, 이럴 경우 국제협약을 제정하고 발효까지 필요한 행정적 부담과 시간을 피할 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.149-163
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• 1976

우리나라는 경지당인구(耕地當人口)가 많기 때문에 급증(急增)하는 인구(人口)와 이것에 대처(對處)하는 식량문제(食糧問題)는 지식인(知識人)의 최대관심사(最大關心事)이며, 오늘날 우리는 수량(收量)이 높은 신품종(新品種)으로 녹색혁명(綠色革命)을 굳게 다짐하고 있으나 다수확(多收穫) 품종(品種)의 이점(利點)은 시비량(施肥量)의 증가(增加)에서만 이루어질 수 있다. 따라서 녹색혁명(綠色革命)을 이룩하기 위하여는 무엇보다도 많은 비료(肥料)가 필요(必要)하다. 비료(肥料)의 소비량(消費量)은 주(主)로 농업기술(農業技術)의 발달, 비료(肥料)의 가격(價格), 식량증산(食糧增産)을 위한 정부(政府)의 시책(施策) 등(等)에 크게 영향(影響)을 받으나, 비료(肥料)의 수요량(需要量)은 농민(農民)에 의하여 쓰여지는 비료량(肥料量)이 아니라 농작물(農作物)의 생산(生産)을 위하여 실제(實際) 필요(必要)한 최적(最適)의 비료량(肥料量)이다. 그러므로 동란(動亂)이나 자원고갈(資源枯渴)과 같은 특별(特別)한 변동(變動)이 없는 한 우리나라의 비료수요량(肥料需要量)은 2000년대(年代)에 적정시비량(適正施肥量)의 한계(限界)에 도달(到達)하리라고 생각(生覺)된다. 여기서 두가지의 방만법(方万法)으로 장래(將來)의 비료수요량(肥料需要量)을 추정하였다. I. 과거(過去) 10년간(年間)(1966~75)와 비료소비추세(肥料消費趨勢)에 근거(根據)한 비료수요량(肥料需要量) : 과거(過去) 10년간(年間) 우리나라의 비료소비추세(肥料消費趨勢)는 년평균(年平均) 8.7%였으며 (표(表) 1) 최근(最近) 수년간(數年間)의 삼요소소비비율(三要素消費比率)은 균형시비(均衡施肥)에 가까와지고 있고, 경지당(耕地當) 시비량(施肥量)도 다른나라보다 많으므로(표(表) 5) 앞으로의 비료소비추세(肥料消費趨勢) 약간 둔화(鈍化)될 것으로 추산(推算)되며, 년도별(年度別) 증가율(增加率)이 1980년(年)까지는 7%, 그후(後) 1990년까지는 2.5%, 그후(後) 2000년(年)까지는 1.5%씩 각각(各各) 증가(增加)되어 비료(肥料)의 총수요량(總需要量)은 1980년(年)에 1,208,000M/T, 1990년(年)에 1,547,000M/T, 2000년(年)에 1,795,000M/T으로 추정(推定)된다(표(表) 16). II. 작물별(作物別) 적정시비량(適正施肥量)에 근거(根據)한 비료수요량(肥料需要量) 과거(過去) 12년간(年間)(1965~76)의 주요작물별(主要作物別) 비료수요량(肥料需要量)의 추이(推移)는 작물(作物)에 따라 0.94배(培)에서부터 5.49배(培)까지 증가(增加)하였으며(표(表) 7), 1976년도(年度)의 작물별(作物別) 비료수요량(肥料需要量)(표(表) 11)은 표준시비추천량(標準施肥推薦量)(표(表) 8)보다 낮다. 따라서 농작물(農作物)의 생산성(生産性)을 높이기 위하여 장래(將來)의 비료시용량(肥料施用量)은 증가(增加)되어야하며 비료(肥料)의 총수요량(總需要量)은 1980년(年)에 1,229,000M/T 1990년(年)에 1,489,000M/T 2000년(年)에 1,895,000M/T으로 되리라고 추정(推定)된다.(표(表) 16).

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제17권9호
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• pp.4517-4525
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• 2016

Background: Sperm DNA damage is underlying aetiology of poor implantation and pregnancy rates but also affects health of offspring and may also result in denovo mutations in germ line and post fertilization. This may result in complex diseases, polygenic disorders and childhood cancers. Childhood cancer like retinoblastoma (RB) is more prevalent in developing countries and the incidence of RB has increased more than three fold in India in the last decade. Recent studies have documented increased incidence of cancers in children born to fathers who consume alcohol in excess and tobacco or who were conceived by assisted conception. The aetiology of childhood cancer and increased disease burden in these children is lin ked to oxidative stress (OS) and oxidative DNA damage( ODD) in sperm of their fathers. Though several antioxidants are in use to combat oxidative stress, the effect of majority of these formulations on DNA is not known. Yoga and meditation cause significant decline in OS and ODD and aid in regulating OS levels such that reactive oxygen speues meditated signal transduction, gene expression and several other physiological functions are not disrupted. Thus, this study aimed to analyze sperm ODD as a possible etiological factor in childhood cancer and role of simple life style interventions like yoga and meditation in significantly decreasing seminal oxidative stress and oxidative DNA damage and thereby decreasing incidence of childhood cancers. Materials and Methods: A total of 131 fathers of children with RB (non-familial sporadic heritable) and 50 controls (fathers of healthy children) were recruited at a tertiary center in India. Sperm parameters as per WHO 2010 guidelines and reactive oxygen species (ROS), DNA fragmentation index (DFI), 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxy guanosine (8-OHdG) and telomere length were estimated at day 0, and after 3 and 6 months of intervention. We also examined the compliance with yoga and meditation practice and smoking status at each follow-up. Results: The seminal mean ROS levels (p<0.05), sperm DFI (p<0.001), 8-OHdG (p<0.01) levels were significantly higher in fathers of children with RB, as compared to controls and the relative mean telomere length in the sperm was shorter. Levels of ROS were significantly reduced in tobacco users (p<0.05) as well as in alcoholics (p<0.05) after intervention. DFI reduced significantly (p<0.05) after 6 months of yoga and meditation practice in all groups. The levels of oxidative DNA damage marker 8-OHdG were reduced significantly after 3 months (p<0.05) and 6 months (p<0.05) of practice. Conclusions: Our results suggest that OS and ODD DNA may contribute to the development of childhood cancer. This may be due to accumulation of oxidized mutagenic base 8OHdG, and elevated MDA levels which results in MDA dimers which are also mutagenic, aberrant methylation pattern, altered gene expression which affect cell proliferation and survival through activation of transcription factors. Increased mt DNA mutations and aberrant repair of mt and nuclear DNA due to highly truncatred DNA repair mechanisms all contribute to sperm genome hypermutability and persistant oxidative DNA damage. Oxidative stress is also associated with genome wide hypomethylation, telomere shortening and mitochondrial dysfunction leading to genome hypermutability and instability. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to report decline in OS and ODD and improvement in sperm DNA integrity following adoption of meditation and yoga based life style modification.This may reduce disease burden in next generation and reduce incidence of childhood cancers.