Increasingly the institutional theory has been an important theoretical view of decision making process and IT adoption in many academic researches. This study used the institutional theory as a lens through which we can understand the factors that enable the effective appropriation of advanced information technology. It posits that mimetic, coercive, and normative pressures existing in an institutionalized environment could influence the participation of top managers or decision makers and the involvement of users toward an effective use of IT in their tasks. Since the introduction of IT, organizational members have been using IT in their daily tasks, creating and recreating rules and resources according to their own methods and needs. That is to say, the adaptation process of the IT and outcomes are different among organizations. The previous studies on a diverse use of IT refer to the appropriation of technology from the social technology view. Users appropriate IT through not only technology itself, but also in terms of how they use it or how they make the social practice in their use of it. In this study, the concepts of institutional pressure, appropriation, participation of decision makers, and involvement of users toward the appropriation are explored in the context of the appropriation of the mobile electronic medical record system (M-EMRS) in particularly a hospital setting. Based on the conceptual definition of institutional pressure, participation and involvement, operational measures are reconstructed. Furthermore, the concept of appropriation is measured in the aspect of three sub-constructs-consensus on appropriation, faithful appropriation, and attitude of use. Grounded in the relevant theories to appropriation of IT, we developed a research framework in which the effects of institutional pressure, participation and involvement on the appropriation of IT are analyzed. Within this theoretical framework, we formulated several hypotheses. We developed a second order institutional pressure and appropriation construct. After establishing its validity and reliability, we tested the hypotheses with empirical data from 101 users in 3 hospitals which had adopted and used the M-EMRS. We examined the mediating effect of the participation of decision makers and the involvement of users on the appropriation and empirically validated their relationships. The results show that the mimetic, coercive, and normative institutional pressure has an effect on the participation of decision makers and the involvement of users in the appropriation of IT while the participation of decision makers and the involvement of users have an effect on the appropriation of IT. The results also suggest that the institutional pressure and the participation of decision makers influence the involvement of users toward an appropriation of IT. Our results emphasize the mediating effect of the institutional pressure on the appropriation of IT. Namely, the higher degree of the participation of decision makers and the involvement of users, the more effective appropriation users will represent. These results provide strong support for institutional-based variables as predictors of appropriation. These findings also indicate that organizations should focus on the role of participation of decision makers and the involvement of users for the purpose of effective appropriation, and these are the practical implications of our study. The theoretical contribution of this study is lies in the integrated model of the effect of institutional pressure on the appropriation of IT. The results are consistent with the institutional theory and support previous studies on adaptive structuration theory.
Recently, intelligent traffic information systems have enabled people to forecast traffic conditions before hitting the road. These convenient systems operate on the basis of data reflecting current road and traffic conditions as well as distance-based data between locations. Thanks to the rapid development of ubiquitous computing, tremendous context data have become readily available making vehicle route planning easier than ever. Previous research in relation to optimization of vehicle route planning merely focused on finding the optimal distance between locations. Contexts reflecting the road and traffic conditions were then not seriously treated as a way to resolve the optimal routing problems based on distance-based route planning, because this kind of information does not have much significant impact on traffic routing until a a complex traffic situation arises. Further, it was also not easy to take into full account the traffic contexts for resolving optimal routing problems because predicting the dynamic traffic situations was regarded a daunting task. However, with rapid increase in traffic complexity the importance of developing contexts reflecting data related to moving costs has emerged. Hence, this research proposes a framework designed to resolve an optimal route planning problem by taking full account of additional moving cost such as road traffic cost and weather cost, among others. Recent technological development particularly in the ubiquitous computing environment has facilitated the collection of such data. This framework is based on the contexts of time, traffic, and environment, which addresses the following issues. First, we clarify and classify the diverse contexts that affect a vehicle's velocity and estimates the optimization of moving cost based on dynamic programming that accounts for the context cost according to the variance of contexts. Second, the velocity reduction rate is applied to find the optimal route (shortest path) using the context data on the current traffic condition. The velocity reduction rate infers to the degree of possible velocity including moving vehicles' considerable road and traffic contexts, indicating the statistical or experimental data. Knowledge generated in this papercan be referenced by several organizations which deal with road and traffic data. Third, in experimentation, we evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed context-based optimal route (shortest path) between locations by comparing it to the previously used distance-based shortest path. A vehicles' optimal route might change due to its diverse velocity caused by unexpected but potential dynamic situations depending on the road condition. This study includes such context variables as 'road congestion', 'work', 'accident', and 'weather' which can alter the traffic condition. The contexts can affect moving vehicle's velocity on the road. Since these context variables except for 'weather' are related to road conditions, relevant data were provided by the Korea Expressway Corporation. The 'weather'-related data were attained from the Korea Meteorological Administration. The aware contexts are classified contexts causing reduction of vehicles' velocity which determines the velocity reduction rate. To find the optimal route (shortest path), we introduced the velocity reduction rate in the context for calculating a vehicle's velocity reflecting composite contexts when one event synchronizes with another. We then proposed a context-based optimal route (shortest path) algorithm based on the dynamic programming. The algorithm is composed of three steps. In the first initialization step, departure and destination locations are given, and the path step is initialized as 0. In the second step, moving costs including composite contexts into account between locations on path are estimated using the velocity reduction rate by context as increasing path steps. In the third step, the optimal route (shortest path) is retrieved through back-tracking. In the provided research model, we designed a framework to account for context awareness, moving cost estimation (taking both composite and single contexts into account), and optimal route (shortest path) algorithm (based on dynamic programming). Through illustrative experimentation using the Wilcoxon signed rank test, we proved that context-based route planning is much more effective than distance-based route planning., In addition, we found that the optimal solution (shortest paths) through the distance-based route planning might not be optimized in real situation because road condition is very dynamic and unpredictable while affecting most vehicles' moving costs. For further study, while more information is needed for a more accurate estimation of moving vehicles' costs, this study still stands viable in the applications to reduce moving costs by effective route planning. For instance, it could be applied to deliverers' decision making to enhance their decision satisfaction when they meet unpredictable dynamic situations in moving vehicles on the road. Overall, we conclude that taking into account the contexts as a part of costs is a meaningful and sensible approach to in resolving the optimal route problem.
자연은 잘 이용하면 자원이지만 잘못하면 재해가 되는 이중성을 갖는다. 작목선택, 작부체계, 비배관리에 기후, 토양, 물자원 등 환경정보 활용이 필수이며, 환경정보를 잘 활용하면 자원 활용도를 높여 수량과 품질 개선, 자연재해-에너지소비-오염 경감에 기여한다. 이러한 관계를 잘 알고 있기 때문에 어느 나라에서나 환경정보를 관리하는 부처가 존재한다. 시민생활의 안전과 행복을 위한 일기예보를 위시하여 산업, 교통, 국방을 위한 특수한 기상정보가 기상청에 의해 제공되나, 식량간보와 국토보전의 막중한 임무를 띤 농업분야의 특화된 기상정보는 없다. 이러한 현실인식을 바탕으로 농림부는 '전자기후도 기반 유역단위 농업기상 예보시스템' 사업을 2006년부터 4년간 경희대학교와 한국농림수산정보센터가 공동으로 수행하도록 지원하고 있다. 이 사업은 지난 수년간 크게 발전한 공간정보기술과 소기후추정기술을 이용하여, 1) 전국 840개 표준유역별로 30m 해상도의 전자기후도를 제작함으로써 농업기후자원을 필지단위로 정확히 파악하며, 2)기상청 디지털예보를 기반으로 농업기상예보 해상도를 영농규모 수준으로 높여서, 3) 적지적작, 적지적수 및 유역규모 생태계관리의 의사지원수단을 제공함을 목적으로 한다. 사업성과는 기상청-산림청-농촌진흥청 합동조직인 국가농업기상센터에서 활용하며 시군 자치단체는 한국농림수산정보센터의 기술이전에 의해 독자적인 시스템을 구축할 수 있다. 모든 정보는 초고속인터넷, 휴대폰, 위성통신 등을 통해 수요자에게 배포될 것이며, 이를 통해 우리의 농업기상서비스는 전통적인 발전단계를 뛰어넘어 단번에 선진국 수준에 도달하게 될 것으로 기대된다.공하는 과정에서도 관리를 철저히 하도록 해야 한다. 4. 뽕가지의 항산화능은 춘기, 추기 모두 뽕잎에 비해 상당히 낮은 항산화능을 보였으나, 항산화식품 소재로서 뽕가지를 이용할 경우 5월 하순
웹 정보가 폭발적으로 증가하는 정보의 바다 한 가운데에서 이러한 웹 정보를 구조화하는 문제는 매우시의성이 크다. 본 연구는 웹을 노드와 링크로 구성된 그래프로 인식함을 그 출발점으로 한다. 이때 노드는 각 웹 페이지를 나타내고, 링크는 각 페이지를 연결하는 하이퍼텍스트 링크 즉, URL을 나타낸다. 그러면 웹은 웹 페이지와 그들 간의 링크로 연결된 유방향 그래프의 집합이 되는 것이다. 그러나 문제는 이러한 웹 정보가 지수적으로 증가하면서 웹 그래프 역시 지나치게 복잡해짐으로 인해 사용자 즉, 사람 및 검색로봇이 웹 정보를 파악하고 검색함에 있어 복잡성으로 인한 혼란이 야기된다는 것이며, 이를 이름하여 웹 공간에서의 위치혼란(lost in cyber space)라고 부른다. 따라서 이를 적절히 및 추상화하여 방향성(orientation)을 제시하고 전체적으로 웹 공간의 정보를 일목요연하게 표현하는 노력이 필요한 것이다. 이것을 위하여 웹 페이지를 계량적 수치로 나타내야할 필요가 있으며 여기서는 tf-idf를 그 방법론으로 삼았다. tf-idf란 빈도 및 반빈도(term frequency/inverse document frequency)곱을 일컫는 것으로서, 웹 페이지를 용어(keyword)의 벡터로 인식하고, 사용자가 제시하는 용어와의 상관성을 거리공간 벡터값으로 계산하는 과정을 의미한다. 이렇게 웹 정보를 계량화하는 것을 의미적 표현(semantic representation)이라 하고, 그것을 구조화하는 것을 의미적 접근경로라고 하였다. 본 연구의 목표는 궁극적으로는 웹 정보를 의미적 접근경로를 포함하는 계층적 형식(Hierarchical Structure)으로 축약하여 사용자로 하여금 웹 정보 검색의 차원을 혁신코자 하는 것이다. 식 재하도록 하였다. 소단 내 수목식재에 있어서는 교목식재가 가능한 한 남측 사면은 20m 간격으로 교목 2열 교호식재를 하며, 소단상부는 각 구간별로 계절감을 연출할 수 있는 식물을 도입하는 방안을 제안하였다. 제작된 보정물에 대해서는 무게가 너무 가벼워 모든 피험자들이 양 쪽 가슴의 균형이 잘 맞지 않는다고 답하였으며 특히, 운동을 즐기고 활동이 많은 피험자의 경우 스펀지로 제작된 보정물에 대해 큰불만을 표시하였다. 바람직한 자녀의 인성발달 및 여러 영역에 걸친 발달을 위하여 항상 애정과 관심을 가지고 적극적으로 참여해야 할 것이다. 자녀양육은 더 이상 어머니 혼자의 역할이 아닌 부모 둘 다의 몫이며 교임이므로 부모들은 좋은 가정을 만들고 좋은 부모가 되기 위해서 끊임없이 자신을 갈고 닦으며 노력을 기울여야 할 것이다.서 이들 4개 지표로서 전체의 927%를 설명할 수 있다. 7. 자치구별 평가는 모든 음식점에서 식재료 보관시설(냉장, 냉동), 불량부정식품 사용여부, 남은 반찬의 폐기, 식당상태 등에서는 비교적 양호하였으나, 주방의 청결상태, 식재료 창고의 관리 및 주방 근무직원의 위생상태는 열악하였다. 평가 지표 14개의 총 평가결과가 가장 우수한 자치구는 동작구였으며, 다음으로 서대문구, 금천구, 성동구, 마포구의 순서이었다. 나머지 20개 자치구는 모두 보통이상으로 평가되었다. 8. 음식점 업태 별로 주방과 식당의 청결도 평가에서 가장 중요한 요인은 주방의 내부설비(바닥, 벽면, 천장, 환풍기, 기구 등) 또는 주방종업원의 근무 환경(주방의 환기설비, 설치 및 쾌적한 환경상태유지)이었다. 그러나 음식점 유형에 관계없이 주방과 식당의 청결도 평가에 가장 큰 영향을 주는 인자는 주방종업원의 근무환경이었다. 우리나라의 2002년도 섭취장소별
업무 과정에서 생산되는 모든 기록들은 대부분 종이 형태로 작성, 관리해 왔다. 그러나 최근에는 전자적 형태의 기록이 종이를 대신하는 추세이다. 전자기록은 종이기록과 달리 생산과 보관의 편리성을 갖고 있어서 업무 효율성 극대화에 기여한다. 그러나 종이기록처럼 원본과 사본의 뚜렷한 구분이 어렵고 전자적 환경에서 외부 영향에 의해 변경, 훼손될 수 있으며 S/W, H/W 환경이 변화할 때 마다 즉각적인 조치를 취함에 있어 어느 경우에는 막대한 인력과 비용이 발생하기도 한다. 그럼에도 불구하고 업무의 편리성과 생산비용의 효율성으로 인해서 현재 업무 환경에서 전자기록 생산이 차지하는 비중은 날로 높아지고 있다. 이에 정부와 민간, 학계에서는 전자적 형태의 기록이 가지고 있는 장점을 극대화하면서 위험을 최소화할 수 있는 방안 마련에 노력하고 있다. 그 방법 중의 하나가 본 글에서 소개하고 있는 공인전자문서 보관소 사업(이하 공전소 사업)이다. 원활한 공전소 사업를 위해서 행정적으로는 전자기록의 법적 효력 보장과 기술적으로는 전자기록의 신뢰성, 진본성 보장을 우선적으로 확보해야 했다. 그래서 공전소 사업 주체인 산업자원부와 한국전자거래진흥원은 2005년 전자거래법 개정을 통해서 전자기록의 법적 효력 보장 규정을 보완하고 2006년에는 공전소 이용자의 요구인 전자기록의 장기보존과 신뢰성 확보를 위한 연구가 진행됐다. 이러한 공전소의 목적 달성을 위해 공전소 전자문서 정보패키지 연구에서는 디지털 형태의 장기보존을 위한 표준인 ISO 14721 정보패키지 모델을 적용하여, 전자기록이 생산 시점의 SIP, 보관 시점의 AIP, 이용자 활용 시점의 DIP 메타데이터 기능을 마련하고 이들이 공전소 정책에 따라 구현될 수 있도록 정보패키지를 생성, 관리하는 프로세스를 제시하고 있다. 이에 본 글에서는 그동안 진행되었던 연구 내용을 바탕으로 공전소 전자문서 정보패키지의 생성, 진행 과정과 적용 방법, 패키지 간의 흐름도를 소개하고 이를 바탕으로 기록관리 영역에서 지속적으로 연구해야 할 이슈에 대해 제시하고자 한다.
음악은 인간의 감성을 소리로 표현하는 창조적 예술 행위이다. 음악은 사람들의 기분을 우울하게 혹은 기쁘게 변화시킬 수 있다. 따라서 음악을 감상하는 데 있어 감성은 소비자에게 적합한 음악을 찾고 들려주는 데 매우 중요한 요소인데, 다양한 음원 서비스에서 제공하는 추천 알고리즘은 사용자의 기본적인 정보(성별, 나이, 감상 횟수 등)와 사용자의 플레이 기록에 기반한 음악 추천 방식을 주로 사용하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 음악을 감상하는 개인의 감성을 고려하여 각 음원이 가지는 고유의 감성을 기본으로 한 음악 추천 알고리즘을 제안해 보고자 한다. 구체적으로, 사용자들이 자주 듣는 음악과 그렇지 않은 음악을 기준으로 '감정 패턴'을 추출 후 상관관계를 확인하고자 하며, 앞선 결과를 기반으로 사용자들이 원하는 노래에 대한 검색과 사용자 감성 기반 추천 방법을 도출해내보고자 한다. 이를 위해 본 연구에서는 사례기반추론 기법을 이용하여 사람들이 주로 듣는 음악과 비슷한 '감성 패턴'을 갖는 특정한 곡을 추천해주는 알고리즘을 개발하였다. 먼저, 분석에 필요한 감정 형용사를 정리하여 변수화 시키고, 의미 있는 것끼리 묶어 음악 감성지수를 개발하였고, 분석의 대상이 될 음원에 대해 고유의 감성지수 점수를 측정하였다. 마지막으로 도출된 점수의 결과를 통해 유사한 감정 패턴이 나오는 곡들을 유사 곡 리스트로 분류하고 사용자들에게 추천하는 과정을 거친다. 앞선 일련의 과정을 거처 도출된 결과는 음원 추천 시스템뿐만 아니라, 인기 있는 곡과 아닌 곡에 영향을 미치는 변수 도출 및 음원 출시 전, 해당 곡의 스트리밍 수 예측 모형 구축 등 다양한 용도로 사용될 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.
The wall shear stress in the vicinity of end-to end anastomoses under steady flow conditions was measured using a flush-mounted hot-film anemometer(FMHFA) probe. The experimental measurements were in good agreement with numerical results except in flow with low Reynolds numbers. The wall shear stress increased proximal to the anastomosis in flow from the Penrose tubing (simulating an artery) to the PTFE: graft. In flow from the PTFE graft to the Penrose tubing, low wall shear stress was observed distal to the anastomosis. Abnormal distributions of wall shear stress in the vicinity of the anastomosis, resulting from the compliance mismatch between the graft and the host artery, might be an important factor of ANFH formation and the graft failure. The present study suggests a correlation between regions of the low wall shear stress and the development of anastomotic neointimal fibrous hyperplasia(ANPH) in end-to-end anastomoses. 30523 T00401030523 ^x Air pressure decay(APD) rate and ultrafiltration rate(UFR) tests were performed on new and saline rinsed dialyzers as well as those roused in patients several times. C-DAK 4000 (Cordis Dow) and CF IS-11 (Baxter Travenol) reused dialyzers obtained from the dialysis clinic were used in the present study. The new dialyzers exhibited a relatively flat APD, whereas saline rinsed and reused dialyzers showed considerable amount of decay. C-DAH dialyzers had a larger APD(11.70
We frequently use search engines to find relevant information in the Web but still end up with too much information. In order to solve this problem of information overload, ranking algorithms have been applied to various domains. As more information will be available in the future, effectively and efficiently ranking search results will become more critical. In this paper, we propose a ranking algorithm for the Semantic Web resources, specifically RDF resources. Traditionally, the importance of a particular Web page is estimated based on the number of key words found in the page, which is subject to manipulation. In contrast, link analysis methods such as Google's PageRank capitalize on the information which is inherent in the link structure of the Web graph. PageRank considers a certain page highly important if it is referred to by many other pages. The degree of the importance also increases if the importance of the referring pages is high. Kleinberg's algorithm is another link-structure based ranking algorithm for Web pages. Unlike PageRank, Kleinberg's algorithm utilizes two kinds of scores: the authority score and the hub score. If a page has a high authority score, it is an authority on a given topic and many pages refer to it. A page with a high hub score links to many authoritative pages. As mentioned above, the link-structure based ranking method has been playing an essential role in World Wide Web(WWW), and nowadays, many people recognize the effectiveness and efficiency of it. On the other hand, as Resource Description Framework(RDF) data model forms the foundation of the Semantic Web, any information in the Semantic Web can be expressed with RDF graph, making the ranking algorithm for RDF knowledge bases greatly important. The RDF graph consists of nodes and directional links similar to the Web graph. As a result, the link-structure based ranking method seems to be highly applicable to ranking the Semantic Web resources. However, the information space of the Semantic Web is more complex than that of WWW. For instance, WWW can be considered as one huge class, i.e., a collection of Web pages, which has only a recursive property, i.e., a 'refers to' property corresponding to the hyperlinks. However, the Semantic Web encompasses various kinds of classes and properties, and consequently, ranking methods used in WWW should be modified to reflect the complexity of the information space in the Semantic Web. Previous research addressed the ranking problem of query results retrieved from RDF knowledge bases. Mukherjea and Bamba modified Kleinberg's algorithm in order to apply their algorithm to rank the Semantic Web resources. They defined the objectivity score and the subjectivity score of a resource, which correspond to the authority score and the hub score of Kleinberg's, respectively. They concentrated on the diversity of properties and introduced property weights to control the influence of a resource on another resource depending on the characteristic of the property linking the two resources. A node with a high objectivity score becomes the object of many RDF triples, and a node with a high subjectivity score becomes the subject of many RDF triples. They developed several kinds of Semantic Web systems in order to validate their technique and showed some experimental results verifying the applicability of their method to the Semantic Web. Despite their efforts, however, there remained some limitations which they reported in their paper. First, their algorithm is useful only when a Semantic Web system represents most of the knowledge pertaining to a certain domain. In other words, the ratio of links to nodes should be high, or overall resources should be described in detail, to a certain degree for their algorithm to properly work. Second, a Tightly-Knit Community(TKC) effect, the phenomenon that pages which are less important but yet densely connected have higher scores than the ones that are more important but sparsely connected, remains as problematic. Third, a resource may have a high score, not because it is actually important, but simply because it is very common and as a consequence it has many links pointing to it. In this paper, we examine such ranking problems from a novel perspective and propose a new algorithm which can solve the problems under the previous studies. Our proposed method is based on a class-oriented approach. In contrast to the predicate-oriented approach entertained by the previous research, a user, under our approach, determines the weights of a property by comparing its relative significance to the other properties when evaluating the importance of resources in a specific class. This approach stems from the idea that most queries are supposed to find resources belonging to the same class in the Semantic Web, which consists of many heterogeneous classes in RDF Schema. This approach closely reflects the way that people, in the real world, evaluate something, and will turn out to be superior to the predicate-oriented approach for the Semantic Web. Our proposed algorithm can resolve the TKC(Tightly Knit Community) effect, and further can shed lights on other limitations posed by the previous research. In addition, we propose two ways to incorporate data-type properties which have not been employed even in the case when they have some significance on the resource importance. We designed an experiment to show the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm and the validity of ranking results, which was not tried ever in previous research. We also conducted a comprehensive mathematical analysis, which was overlooked in previous research. The mathematical analysis enabled us to simplify the calculation procedure. Finally, we summarize our experimental results and discuss further research issues.
UGC(User Generated Contents) is emerging as the center of e-business in the web 2.0 era. The trend reflects changing roles of users in production and consumption of contents on websites and helps us to understand new strategies of websites such as web portals and social network websites. Nowadays, we consume contents created by other non-professional users for both utilitarian (e.g., knowledge) and hedonic values (e.g., fun). Also, contents produced by ourselves (e.g., photo, video) are posted on websites so that our friends, family, and even the public can consume those contents. This means that non-professionals, who used to be passive audience in the past, are now creating contents and share their UGCs with others in the Web. Accessible media, tools, and applications have also reduced difficulty and complexity in the process of creating contents. Realizing that users create plenty of materials which are very interesting to other people, media companies (i.e., web portals and social networking websites) are adjusting their strategies and business models accordingly. Increased demand of UGC may lead to website visits which are the source of benefits from advertising. Therefore, they put more efforts into making their websites open platforms where UGCs can be created and shared among users without technical and methodological difficulties. Many websites have increasingly adopted new technologies such as RSS and openAPI. Some have even changed the structure of web pages so that UGC can be seen several times to more visitors. This mainstream of UGCs on websites indicates that acquiring more UGCs and supporting participating users have become important things to media companies. Although those companies need to understand why general users have shown increasing interest in creating and posting contents and what is important to them in the process of productions, few research results exist in this area to address these issues. Also, behavioral process in creating video UGCs has not been explored enough for the public to fully understand it. With a solid theoretical background (i.e., theory of implementation intentions), parts of our proposed research model mirror the process of user behaviors in creating video contents, which consist of intention to upload, intention to edit, edit, and upload. In addition, in order to explain how those behavioral intentions are developed, we investigated influences of antecedents from three motivational perspectives (i.e., intrinsic, editing software-oriented, and website's network effect-oriented). First, from the intrinsic motivation perspective, we studied the roles of self-expression, enjoyment, and social attention in forming intention to edit with preferred editing software or in forming intention to upload video contents to preferred websites. Second, we explored the roles of editing software for non-professionals to edit video contents, in terms of how it makes production process easier and how it is useful in the process. Finally, from the website characteristic-oriented perspective, we investigated the role of a website's network externality as an antecedent of users' intention to upload to preferred websites. The rationale is that posting UGCs on websites are basically social-oriented behaviors; thus, users prefer a website with the high level of network externality for contents uploading. This study adopted a longitudinal research design; we emailed recipients twice with different questionnaires. Guided by invitation email including a link to web survey page, respondents answered most of questions except edit and upload at the first survey. They were asked to provide information about UGC editing software they mainly used and preferred website to upload edited contents, and then asked to answer related questions. For example, before answering questions regarding network externality, they individually had to declare the name of the website to which they would be willing to upload. At the end of the first survey, we asked if they agreed to participate in the corresponding survey in a month. During twenty days, 333 complete responses were gathered in the first survey. One month later, we emailed those recipients to ask for participation in the second survey. 185 of the 333 recipients (about 56 percentages) answered in the second survey. Personalized questionnaires were provided for them to remind the names of editing software and website that they reported in the first survey. They answered the degree of editing with the software and the degree of uploading video contents to the website for the past one month. To all recipients of the two surveys, exchange tickets for books (about 5,000~10,000 Korean Won) were provided according to the frequency of participations. PLS analysis shows that user behaviors in creating video contents are well explained by the theory of implementation intentions. In fact, intention to upload significantly influences intention to edit in the process of accomplishing the goal behavior, upload. These relationships show the behavioral process that has been unclear in users' creating video contents for uploading and also highlight important roles of editing in the process. Regarding the intrinsic motivations, the results illustrated that users are likely to edit their own video contents in order to express their own intrinsic traits such as thoughts and feelings. Also, their intention to upload contents in preferred website is formed because they want to attract much attention from others through contents reflecting themselves. This result well corresponds to the roles of the website characteristic, namely, network externality. Based on the PLS results, the network effect of a website has significant influence on users' intention to upload to the preferred website. This indicates that users with social attention motivations are likely to upload their video UGCs to a website whose network size is big enough to realize their motivations easily. Finally, regarding editing software characteristic-oriented motivations, making exclusively-provided editing software more user-friendly (i.e., easy of use, usefulness) plays an important role in leading to users' intention to edit. Our research contributes to both academic scholars and professionals. For researchers, our results show that the theory of implementation intentions is well applied to the video UGC context and very useful to explain the relationship between implementation intentions and goal behaviors. With the theory, this study theoretically and empirically confirmed that editing is a different and important behavior from uploading behavior, and we tested the behavioral process of ordinary users in creating video UGCs, focusing on significant motivational factors in each step. In addition, parts of our research model are also rooted in the solid theoretical background such as the technology acceptance model and the theory of network externality to explain the effects of UGC-related motivations. For practitioners, our results suggest that media companies need to restructure their websites so that users' needs for social interaction through UGC (e.g., self-expression, social attention) are well met. Also, we emphasize strategic importance of the network size of websites in leading non-professionals to upload video contents to the websites. Those websites need to find a way to utilize the network effects for acquiring more UGCs. Finally, we suggest that some ways to improve editing software be considered as a way to increase edit behavior which is a very important process leading to UGC uploading.
The wall shear stress in the vicinity of end-to end anastomoses under steady flow conditions was measured using a flush-mounted hot-film anemometer(FMHFA) probe. The experimental measurements were in good agreement with numerical results except in flow with low Reynolds numbers. The wall shear stress increased proximal to the anastomosis in flow from the Penrose tubing (simulating an artery) to the PTFE: graft. In flow from the PTFE graft to the Penrose tubing, low wall shear stress was observed distal to the anastomosis. Abnormal distributions of wall shear stress in the vicinity of the anastomosis, resulting from the compliance mismatch between the graft and the host artery, might be an important factor of ANFH formation and the graft failure. The present study suggests a correlation between regions of the low wall shear stress and the development of anastomotic neointimal fibrous hyperplasia(ANPH) in end-to-end anastomoses. 30523 T00401030523 ^x Air pressure decay(APD) rate and ultrafiltration rate(UFR) tests were performed on new and saline rinsed dialyzers as well as those roused in patients several times. C-DAK 4000 (Cordis Dow) and CF IS-11 (Baxter Travenol) reused dialyzers obtained from the dialysis clinic were used in the present study. The new dialyzers exhibited a relatively flat APD, whereas saline rinsed and reused dialyzers showed considerable amount of decay. C-DAH dialyzers had a larger APD(11.70