• 경영과정보연구
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.121-139
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• 2015

본 연구는 연구문제 1로 소비자-브랜드 상호의존성, 소비자-브랜드 동일시, 브랜드향수, 브랜드 사랑의 4개 항목으로 크게 나누어 브랜드 신뢰 및 충성도와 항목의 중복성을 검토하였다. 고유값(eigen-value) 1이상을 기준으로 요인분석을 실시한 결과 예상했던 것과 달리 요인은 6개가 아니라 4개로 분류되었다. 이는 이전 연구에서 제시되었던 브랜드 체험, 소비자-브랜드 관계, 브랜드 사랑 등 매우 정교화된 항목으로 나누어진 변수들이 여러 논문에서 검증되는 과정을 거치다보니 타당성 평가결과 상당히 중복되거나 기존 논문의 결과와 다른 항목들이 수렴되는 경우가 많이 존재했듯이 본 연구에서도 비슷한 결과를 보였다. 연구문제 2에서는 브랜드 사랑은 브랜드 충성도 보다 더 달성하기 힘든 개념이라는 것을 결론적으로 제시하였다. 단순한 관계, 즉 브랜드 신뢰${\rightarrow}$소비자-브랜드 관계를 검증하였던 모형 1은 적합도가 매우 낮게 나타나 새로운 모형을 만들어 검증하였는데 대체로 본 연구는 브랜드 동일시${\rightarrow}$브랜드 신뢰${\rightarrow}$브랜드 충성도${\rightarrow}$브랜드 사랑의 과정으로 구성된 모형이 가장 적합한 모형임을 밝혔다. 무생물인 브랜드를 인간과 같이 사랑한다는 것은 반복적 구매의지를 나타내는 기존의 행동적 충성도 보다 더욱 달성하기 어려운 개념이 될 수도 있다는 것이다.

• 한국건설관리학회논문집
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.46-54
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 국내외 경영성과 관련 연구문헌을 분석하고 설문조사와 전문가 면담을 통해 경영성과 영향요인을 재무적, 비재무적 분야로 나누어 도출하였다. 도출된 요인들과 건설기업 경영성과와의 상관관계분석을 위해 국내 증시에 상장된 건설기업의 사업보고서 자료를 활용하였다. 실증분석은 가설을 설정하여 업종간 비교분석으로 차이점을 알아보았다. 분석 결과 건설기업의 경영성과에 가장 많은 영향을 미치는 것으로 분석된 비재무적 요인들은 복리후생비, 교육훈련비, 인건비, 자사주 지분율, 재무적 요인들은 부채비율, 유동비율, 총자산증가율, 총자본회전율로 도출되었다. 두 업종간 경영성과 영향요인의 차이점은 재화 생산을 위하여 설비투자가 필요한 제조업과 달리 보유한 자금의 효율적인 운용이 건설업의 경영성과에 상당히 유의한 것을 확인하였다. 또한 설문조사에서 경영성과에 가장 많은 영향을 미치는 것으로 도출된 영업비 요인은 실증분석 결과 경영성과에 영향을 미치지 않는 정반대의 결과가 확인되었다. 실증 분석을 통해 재무적 요인의 유동비율과 총자본회전율은 경영성과에 긍정적인 영향을 끼쳤고, 비재무적 요인의 영업비 증가는 경영성과에 통계적 유의성을 가지지 못하는 것으로 나타났다. 연구 결과를 통해 우리나라 건설업이 국가 경제발전을 주도하는 산업으로 도약하려면 기술개발에 의한 경쟁력 강화와 내실있는 경영, 다양한 인적자원 역량 강화 및 글로벌 스탠다드화를 이루어야 할 것이다. 또한 급변하는 경영환경과 치열한 글로벌 경쟁상황에 대비할 수 있는 경영성과 지표를 총망라한 연구가 진행된다면 경영전략 수립에 시사하는 바가 크다고 판단된다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제29권8A호
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• pp.918-927
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• 2004

3GPP에서 정의한 3세대 무선 이동통신 시스템인 WCDMA 시스템에서는 기지국에서 단말로 데이터를 전송하는 하향링크의 전력 제어를 위해 단말의 Target Signal-to-Interference Ratio (SIR)를 변화시키는 외부 회로 전력 제어와, 설정된 Target SIR을 통해 기지국의 전송 전력을 변화시키는 내부 회로 전력 제어를 사용한다. 그러나 기지국의 성능을 유지하기 위해 단말에게 제공하는 전력량은 제한적일 수밖에 없다. 때문에 3GPP 권고안에서는 전력 제어를 동작시키는 구간인 Power Control Dynamic Range (PCDR)을 정의한다. 본 논문에서는 기지국의 성능 향상을 위해 PCDR을 단말의 상태에 따라 적응적으로 변화시키는 Adaptive PCDR (APCDR)을 제안한다. 제안하는 APCDR 기법은 수신하는 프레임을 기반으로 측정된 SIR 값의 추이를 통해 단말의 현재 상태를 판별하며, 이를 기준으로 각 단말에게 적응적으로 전력 제어 구간을 결정해주는 방법이다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 APCDR 기법은 기지국의 용량에 큰 영향을 끼치는 최대 코드 채널 전력량을 단말의 상태에 따라 변화시킨다. 최대 코드 채널 전력량을 변화시킴으로써, 각 단말이 순간적인 채널의 상태 변화에 의해 성능이 저하되는 것을 막고 반대로 기지국에서 멀리 위치하는 단말에게는 핸드오버가 이루어지기 전까지 보다 많은 전력을 제공한다. 이를 통해 전체적인 기지국의 Quality에 이득을 얻는다. 실험 결과는 고정된 PCDR을 갖는 경우와 제안하는 APCDR을 사용했을 경우, 용량에서는 거의 손실이 없는 것에 비해 단말의 Quality를 측면에서는 훨씬 향상된 결과를 나타내었다.s toward marriage and the family that existed before the course was reduced after the course. Also, there were gender differences in the attitudes toward love, spouse, sexuality, and gender-roles before and after the course, and there were significant impacts of the course for both genders, albeit in different directions.ethanol 농도가 높을수록 흡광도가 증가되었고 유기산 중 citric acid 에서 많이 증가되었다.생각되며 이를 위해 우리 모두가 폐백음식에 대한 올바른 이해와 인식을 가지도록 개개인의 진정한 관심과 노력이 요구된다고 여겨진다.는 r=0.5937였으며, 이 값들은 모두 1%의 높은 유의성이 있었다.지닌다. 그러므로 이는 개별 여건에 알맞는 유연한 기술 적용 여부를 결정하는 IT활용시 의사 결정자을 하는 사람의 몫이 될 것이다.pplying" where the dietitian answered they applied HACCP voluntarily. The "Non-applying" didn′t have many surveyed items.난 반만 여성에서는 보행 능력, 통상적인 일, 인생을 즐김 항목과 활동성 정도간 유의한 정적 상관관계가 있었다. 결론 : 암환자의 통증정도 및 지장정도는 여성이 남성보다 높았으며, 통증과 우울 및 활동도와의 상관관계에서 차이를 보였다. 앞으로 암성통증 관리 대책 수립시 여성과 남성의 이러한

• 한국보건간호학회지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.37-55
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• 1990

Every country in the world has been trying to expand the basic health right for the peoples as W.H.O has established the goal 'health for AU' by the year of 2000. Related to this goal, our government authority has establish the policy 'the insurance of health for all' into effect from July 198\). Recently hospitalshave been making a ceaseless effort for the plan for the rationalization of its management the academic World is making it a subject of discussion by doing the secure of manpower at a resonable level and the increase of productivity by the manpower. As a result of the efforts the study was established to secure the numbers of nursing manpower at a resonable level and use the unskilled persons at the utilizing field and seek the possible area of their activity for more efficient service through the investigation of ablity of simple nursing activities of regiestered nurses and nurse aides for rational function according to the educational levels and talents. The method of study was established by the registered nurses and nurse and nurse aides(R.N 229, N.A 226) who are working in 15 hospitals with over 200 beds. This surrey was conducted from Mar 29, 1989 to April 8, 1989. The method to test the degree of importance, difficulties, and the abillity of performance of a simple nursing activities was classified into 35 activities on the basis of references on this field. The degree of importance was composed from point l(Not so important) to 5(Very important). the degree of difficulties. was composed as follows; very easy - Point 1 very difficult and complicated - Point 5. and the ability of performance was composed from point 1 to 5. The materials gathered through the survey were analyzed with frequency, mean standard deviation, percentage. t-test, Anova, pearson's coefficient of correlation, stepwise multiple regression. factor analysis, discriminant analysis. The obtained results are summarized as follows: 1. The recognition values of the simple nursing activities of each group of registered nurse and nurse aides show; The degree of importance; 4.04 and 4.26 The degree of difficulties; 2.72 and 2.94 The ability of performance; 2.07 and 2.38 The brief summary shows there are little differences between who two groups the simple nursing activities turned out to be easy and simple work. 2. Regardless of the degree of importance, and difficulties, the ability of performance the important in fluencing of the degree of the simple nursing activities between the registered nurses and nurse aides was the order of educational level, hospital career, working career in wards and ages of the registered nurses and ages and hospital creer of nurse aides. The result was that the simple nursing activities could easily be familiar through the training of their working environment and period of experience. 3. Among the 35 simple nursing activities the items capable of resonable entrusting to the nurse aides are 5 that is helping bed-bathing, 8itz Bath, using bed pan, care while delivering patient, accompaying patient when visitor's check. There wasn't and differences between RN and nurse aides in performing the above 5 items. In anywhere. so we can say obviosuly that this nursing activities should be performed under the nursing system of which chief of nurse are supposed to supervise nurse aides as a possible function to be entrusted. In view of the above mentioned results, therefore, this partial functional job of the simple nursing activities can able be entrusted to the nurse aides through the regular training course. In case of these functional activities could be entrusted under, the responsibility of registered nurse, we can able suggest to for that there are the following advantages: 1.. In the nursing activities-affairs, the qualified guarantee of the nursing services can be kept and increased or promotoed with accommodation of the required nursing service and roles being expanded presently. 2. In the productivity of the hospital manpower, therefore, we have comt to view and consider in favourly that when an automational administration times would be come in the near future time to hospital affairs as a reality, to utilize the existing nures aides is better rather than investing so as to develop the other source manpowers or seek its for the efficient business management in the operational strategy or its policy.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.51-84
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• 2011

이 연구는 기업가정신이 유발하는 시장지향성이 성과를 유도한다는 기존연구를 확장하여 시장지향성을 매개변수로 하고 성과와 신뢰 요인을 도입하여, 수급사업자의 기업가정신이 원사업자와의 관계를 견인하고 협업적 네트워크를 구축하는데 필요한 수급사업자의 관계몰입을 유도하는 경로를 탐색하고 실증 분석하였다. 시장지향성이 구조적 결합요인인 거래특유자산의 투자를 촉진할 수 있고, 또 사회적 결합요인인 커뮤니케이션에 긍정적 영향을 미칠 수 있음을 식별하고, 기업가정신-시장지향성-커뮤니케이션-신뢰-관계몰입의 경로, 기업가정신-시장지향성-성과-관계몰입의 경로, 기업가정신-시장지향성-거래특유자산투자-신뢰-관계몰입의 경로를 식별하였다. 그런데 기업가정신이 원사업자의 거래특유자산투자에 대한 효과가 없는 것으로 분석되었다. 즉 수급사업자의 기업가정신은 시장지향성을 통해 관계몰입에 영향을 미치는 것으로 탐색되었다. 따라서 원사업자는 수급사업자에게 거래특유자산을 투자하고 커뮤니케이션을 통하여 신뢰를 확보해야 한다. 그리고 수급사업자는 투철한 기업가정신으로 시장지향성을 실현하고 원사업자의 거래특유자산투자와 커뮤니케이션을 유도하고, 또 이익을 실현해야 한다. 이러한 수급사업자의 이익성과와 신뢰, 그리고 원사업자의 거래특유자산투자가 B2B시장에서 원사업자에 대한 수급사업자의 관계몰입을 유도하고 유기적인 기업계열화를 촉진하는 요인이기 때문에 정부도 원사업자의 거래특유자산투자를 유도하여 원사업자와 수급사업자의 신뢰를 촉진하는 정책이 필요하다.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.223-247
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• 1996

This study was done to provide information which would lead to nursing care of the elderly being more holistically through an understanding of the phenomena of powerlessness based on the lived experience of powerlessness by the elderly, the meaning the elderly give to such phenomena, and what essence of powerlessness is. The methodology used in this study was Max Van Manen's phenomenological method based on the philosophy of Merleu-Ponty and a concerted approach was realized through the 11 steps suggested in the Van Manen's method. Data collection was done from March 2, 1995 to December 30, 1995. The subjects for this study were four elderly persons who lived with their families and who were over 60 years of age. Data were collected about the lived experience of the elderly, this researcher's experience of powerlessness, the linguistic meaning of powerlessness, idioms of the word or a feeling of powerlessness, and descriptions of powerlessness in the elderly as they appeared in the literature, are works, and phenomenological literature. All data were used to provide insights into the phenomena of powerlessness. Data about the experience of powerlessness by the elderly were collected through open interviews, participation, and observation. In the analysis of the theme of this study, the aspects of the theme, powerlessness in the elderly were clarified, thereby abstracting and finding meaningful statements by the elderly about their feeling of powerlessness, and then those significant statements were expressed as linguistic transformations. The summarized findings from the study are as follows : 1. Five meanings of powerlessness in the elderly were defined. 〈weakness〉, 〈dependence〉, 〈frustration〉, 〈worthlessness〉 and 〈giving up〉. 2. 〈Weakness〉 means that the elderly experience, not only their aging but also, their becoming weak and the loss of physical function frequently caused by diseases. 〈Dependence〉 means that the elderly experience dependence without any influence from the surroundings and that elderly patients who are hospitalized lose their autonomy, follow entirely their doctor's prescriptions, use aid equipment and directions, and depend only on those things. 〈Frustration〉 means that the elderly experience the loss of their roles from the past, there by feeling that there is no work for them to do anymore and therefore feel unable to do anything. 〈Worthlessness〉 means that the elderly experience the feeling of losing their social roles from the past, having no financial ability, thereby being a burden to their children or the people around them, and therefore regarding themselves useless. 〈Giving up〉 means that the elderly experience the feeling of closeness to death in the final stage of their lifetime, lose hope to be healed from their disease, and recognize the incontrollability of their own body. 3. From a general view of the meaning of the theme the powerlessness in the elderly-the most essential meaning of the theme is the 〈sense of loss〉. For the elderly are experiencing a sense of loss in the situation of being elderly and therefore being often hospitalized. Brief definitions of the five phenomena could be 〈weakness〉 meaning the loss of physical strength, 〈dependence〉 the loss of mentality caused by disease and hospitalization, 〈frustration〉 and 〈worthlessness〉 the loss of social performance caused by the loss of social functions from the past, and lastly 〈giving up〉 the loss of the controllability of such situations of aging and suffering disease. In light of the discussion above, it is understandable that the hospitalized elderly experience powerlessness not only as it related to their diseases but also to their normal aging, and this related to other characteristics of being elderly means that the 〈sense of loss〉 is the very essence of their powerlessness. 4. While most cases are of the normal elderly experiencing powerlessness in relation to their social network, cases of elderly who are hospitalized are of those experiencing powerlessness in relation to the loss of their physical desire. 5. The findings discussed above can serve as guidelines for nurses who take care of the ill elderly who are hospitalized and that can provide cues to appropriate nursing service, recognizing that the subjective experience of the objective age of the elderly is so important. Nurses can provide highly qualitative nursing service, based on their deep understanding of the suffering of the elderly due to feelings of powerlessness.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.45-62
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• 2011

The notion of information systems (IS) continuance has recently emerged as one of the most important research issues in the field of IS. A great deal of research has been conducted thus far on the basis of theories adapted from various disciplines including consumer behaviors and social psychology, in addition to theories regarding information technology (IT) acceptance. This previous body of knowledge provides a robust research framework that can already account for the determination of IS continuance; however, this research points to other, thus-far-unelucidated determinant factors such as habit, which were not included in traditional IT acceptance frameworks, and also re-emphasizes the importance of emotion-related constructs such as satisfaction in addition to conscious intention with rational beliefs such as usefulness. Experiences should also be considered one of the most important factors determining the characteristics of information system (IS) continuance and the features distinct from those determining IS acceptance, because more experienced users may have more opportunities for IS use, which would allow them more frequent use than would be available to less experienced or non-experienced users. Interestingly, experience has dual features that may contradictorily influence IS use. On one hand, attitudes predicated on direct experience have been shown to predict behavior better than attitudes from indirect experience or without experience; as more information is available, direct experience may render IS use a more salient behavior, and may also make IS use more accessible via memory. Therefore, experience may serve to intensify the relationship between IS use and conscious intention with evaluations, On the other hand, experience may culminate in the formation of habits: greater experience may also imply more frequent performance of the behavior, which may lead to the formation of habits, Hence, like experience, users' activation of an IS may be more dependent on habit-that is, unconscious automatic use without deliberation regarding the IS-and less dependent on conscious intentions, Furthermore, experiences can provide basic information necessary for satisfaction with the use of a specific IS, thus spurring the formation of both conscious intentions and unconscious habits, Whereas IT adoption Is a one-time decision, IS continuance may be a series of users' decisions and evaluations based on satisfaction with IS use. Moreover. habits also cannot be formed without satisfaction, even when a behavior is carried out repeatedly. Thus, experiences also play a critical role in satisfaction, as satisfaction is the consequence of direct experiences of actual behaviors. In particular, emotional experiences such as enjoyment can become as influential on IS use as are utilitarian experiences such as usefulness; this is especially true in light of the modern increase in membership-based hedonic systems - including online games, web-based social network services (SNS), blogs, and portals-all of which attempt to provide users with self-fulfilling value. Therefore, in order to understand more clearly the role of experiences in IS continuance, analysis must be conducted under a research framework that includes intentions, habits, and satisfaction, as experience may not only have duration-based moderating effects on the relationship between both intention and habit and the activation of IS use, but may also have content-based positive effects on satisfaction. This is consistent with the basic assumptions regarding the determining factors in IS continuance as suggested by Oritz de Guinea and Markus: consciousness, emotion, and habit. The principal objective of this study was to explore and assess the effects of experiences in IS continuance, with special consideration given to conscious intentions and unconscious habits, as well as satisfaction. IN service of this goal, along with a review of the relevant literature regarding the effects of experiences and habit on continuous IS use, this study suggested a research model that represents the roles of experience: its moderating role in the relationships of IS continuance with both conscious intention and unconscious habit, and its antecedent role in the development of satisfaction. For the validation of this research model. Korean university student users of 'Cyworld', one of the most influential social network services in South Korea, were surveyed, and the data were analyzed via partial least square (PLS) analysis to assess the implications of this study. In result most hypotheses in our research model were statistically supported with the exception of one. Although one hypothesis was not supported, the study's findings provide us with some important implications. First the role of experience in IS continuance differs from its role in IS acceptance. Second, the use of IS was explained by the dynamic balance between habit and intention. Third, the importance of satisfaction was confirmed from the perspective of IS continuance with experience.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.79-96
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• 2008

One of the roles of the Semantic Web services is to execute dynamic intra-organizational services including the integration and interoperation of business processes. Since different organizations design their processes differently, the retrieval of similar semantic business processes is necessary in order to support inter-organizational collaborations. Most approaches for finding services that have certain features and support certain business processes have relied on some type of logical reasoning and exact matching. This paper presents our approach of using imprecise matching for expanding results from an exact matching engine to query the OWL(Web Ontology Language) MIT Process Handbook. MIT Process Handbook is an electronic repository of best-practice business processes. The Handbook is intended to help people: (1) redesigning organizational processes, (2) inventing new processes, and (3) sharing ideas about organizational practices. In order to use the MIT Process Handbook for process retrieval experiments, we had to export it into an OWL-based format. We model the Process Handbook meta-model in OWL and export the processes in the Handbook as instances of the meta-model. Next, we need to find a sizable number of queries and their corresponding correct answers in the Process Handbook. Many previous studies devised artificial dataset composed of randomly generated numbers without real meaning and used subjective ratings for correct answers and similarity values between processes. To generate a semantic-preserving test data set, we create 20 variants for each target process that are syntactically different but semantically equivalent using mutation operators. These variants represent the correct answers of the target process. We devise diverse similarity algorithms based on values of process attributes and structures of business processes. We use simple similarity algorithms for text retrieval such as TF-IDF and Levenshtein edit distance to devise our approaches, and utilize tree edit distance measure because semantic processes are appeared to have a graph structure. Also, we design similarity algorithms considering similarity of process structure such as part process, goal, and exception. Since we can identify relationships between semantic process and its subcomponents, this information can be utilized for calculating similarities between processes. Dice's coefficient and Jaccard similarity measures are utilized to calculate portion of overlaps between processes in diverse ways. We perform retrieval experiments to compare the performance of the devised similarity algorithms. We measure the retrieval performance in terms of precision, recall and F measure? the harmonic mean of precision and recall. The tree edit distance shows the poorest performance in terms of all measures. TF-IDF and the method incorporating TF-IDF measure and Levenshtein edit distance show better performances than other devised methods. These two measures are focused on similarity between name and descriptions of process. In addition, we calculate rank correlation coefficient, Kendall's tau b, between the number of process mutations and ranking of similarity values among the mutation sets. In this experiment, similarity measures based on process structure, such as Dice's, Jaccard, and derivatives of these measures, show greater coefficient than measures based on values of process attributes. However, the Lev-TFIDF-JaccardAll measure considering process structure and attributes' values together shows reasonably better performances in these two experiments. For retrieving semantic process, we can think that it's better to consider diverse aspects of process similarity such as process structure and values of process attributes. We generate semantic process data and its dataset for retrieval experiment from MIT Process Handbook repository. We suggest imprecise query algorithms that expand retrieval results from exact matching engine such as SPARQL, and compare the retrieval performances of the similarity algorithms. For the limitations and future work, we need to perform experiments with other dataset from other domain. And, since there are many similarity values from diverse measures, we may find better ways to identify relevant processes by applying these values simultaneously.

• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제25권7호
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• pp.613-622
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• 2024

Objective: In Korea, radiology has been positioned towards the early adoption of artificial intelligence-based software as medical devices (AI-SaMDs); however, little is known about the current usage, implementation, and future needs of AI-SaMDs. We surveyed the current trends and expectations for AI-SaMDs among members of the Korean Society of Radiology (KSR). Materials and Methods: An anonymous and voluntary online survey was open to all KSR members between April 17 and May 15, 2023. The survey was focused on the experiences of using AI-SaMDs, patterns of usage, levels of satisfaction, and expectations regarding the use of AI-SaMDs, including the roles of the industry, government, and KSR regarding the clinical use of AI-SaMDs. Results: Among the 370 respondents (response rate: 7.7% [370/4792]; 340 board-certified radiologists; 210 from academic institutions), 60.3% (223/370) had experience using AI-SaMDs. The two most common use-case of AI-SaMDs among the respondents were lesion detection (82.1%, 183/223), lesion diagnosis/classification (55.2%, 123/223), with the target imaging modalities being plain radiography (62.3%, 139/223), CT (42.6%, 95/223), mammography (29.1%, 65/223), and MRI (28.7%, 64/223). Most users were satisfied with AI-SaMDs (67.6% [115/170, for improvement of patient management] to 85.1% [189/222, for performance]). Regarding the expansion of clinical applications, most respondents expressed a preference for AI-SaMDs to assist in detection/diagnosis (77.0%, 285/370) and to perform automated measurement/quantification (63.5%, 235/370). Most respondents indicated that future development of AI-SaMDs should focus on improving practice efficiency (81.9%, 303/370) and quality (71.4%, 264/370). Overall, 91.9% of the respondents (340/370) agreed that there is a need for education or guidelines driven by the KSR regarding the use of AI-SaMDs. Conclusion: The penetration rate of AI-SaMDs in clinical practice and the corresponding satisfaction levels were high among members of the KSR. Most AI-SaMDs have been used for lesion detection, diagnosis, and classification. Most respondents requested KSR-driven education or guidelines on the use of AI-SaMDs.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.819-823
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• 2014

Objective: The aim was to evaluate roles of vitamin D3 (VD3) and beta-carotene (BC) in the development of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) in a high-risk area, Huai'an District, Huai'an City, China. Methods: 100 new ESCC diagnosed cases from 2007 to 2008 and 200 residency- age-, and sex-matched healthy controls were recruited. Data were collected from questionnaires, including a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) to calculate the BC intake, and reversed phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) was used to measure the serum concentrations of BC and VD3. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated in conditional logistic regression models. Results: The average dietary intake of BC was $3322.9{\mu}g$ (2032.4-5734.3) in the case group and $3626.8{\mu}g$ (1961.9-5827.9) in control group per capita per day with no significant difference by Wilcoxon test (p>0.05). However, the levels of VD3 and BC in the case group were significantly lower than in the control group (p<0.05). The OR values of the highest quartile and the lowest quartile of VD3 and BC in serum samples were both 0.13. Conclusion: Our results add to the evidence that high circulating levels of VD3 and BC are associated with a reduced risk of ESCC in this Chinese population.