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Exploring the Meaning of College Students' Leisure Activity: Means-end Chain Analysis of Social Network Game Playing

  • Han, Ju Hyoung
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.18-22
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    • 2014
  • Social network games (SNGs), a rapidly growing online game genre, are built and played on social network sites. SNGs provide an online world for enjoying leisure time and interpersonal communication, and an increasing numbers of college students are involved in such game-playing as a leisure time activity. Despite the popularity, relatively few studies have been conducted to investigate the nature of game players, especially the meaning of such leisure time behavior by college students. This paper's aim was to explore a subjective meaning structure of online social network game play. The means-end chain model was used to link attributes of SNGs to the underlying values of game playing as a leisure activity. The results revealed two emerging end-values: the need for bridging and a sense of belonging. This study sheds light on the meaning of college students' leisure activities when playing social network games.

The Development of a Cyber World Culture Expo and Electronic Tourism Market System (가상 경주세계문화엑스포와 전자관광시장의 개발)

  • 주재훈
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.87-108
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    • 2000
  • The tourist industry is expecially one of the successful areas for the application of electronic commerce because it is an information-intensive and consumer-oriented industry where information and services play a large part in transaction processes. A electronic tourism market which integrates tourist information systems, reservation systems, and real-time broadcasting systems based on the Internet Web was developed by a collaborative team of Dongguk University and Daou Tech. Inc. with sponsorship of Kyongbuk province and Minister of Information Communications of Korea. Based on the development case of the system, this paper proposes development and operations strategies of electronic market in the tourist industry. The paper reviews the development strategies in the perspective of potential travelers, technology, cooperation among players, and development methodology. The paper also discusses strategies which are able to be employed as the guideline in order to operate the system.

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The Development of the East Asian Observatory

  • Ho, Paul
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.27.3-27.3
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    • 2015
  • The East Asian Observatory (EAO) was established in 2014 by the East Asian Core Observatories Association (EACOA). The goal of the EAO is to build and operate world-class facilities on behalf of the East Asian regions, as a counterpart to the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Leading astronomical facilities such as ALMA, TMT, GMT, and SKA are mega projects which require enormous economic resources. It is difficult for any observatory or any country to fund such facilities on its own. EAO intends to combine the resources and manpower in our East Asian regions, in order to play a leading role in the next generation frontier instruments. The EACOA institutes: NAOC, NAOJ, KASI, and ASIAA, have authorized the EAO to take on the operations of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) on Mauna Kea as their first joint venture. In this talk, we will report on the development of EAO, our current operations of JCMT, and our future aspirations.

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Volleyball: Shoulder Injuries and Rehabilitation (배구: 견관절 손상과 재활)

  • Moon, Young-Lae;Han, Jae-Suk
    • Clinics in Shoulder and Elbow
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.63-68
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    • 2002
  • Volleyball has become one of the world's most popular participatory sports in recent years. There are many dynamic skills and movements needed to play the game. As a result, many acute and overuse injuries to the shoulder may occur. This article addresses the common injuries and rehabilitation recommendations for the shoulder injuries in the volleyball players. The glenohumeral instability, primary or secondary impingement, internal impingement, labral injuries, and suprascapular nerve lesions are common problems in volleyball players. A basic knowledge of the biomechanics and volleyball maneuvers (blocking, serving, and spiking) can help in the development of appropriate trainging and reha- bilitation protocols. Special emphasis must be placed on the knowledge of muscular patterns involved in serving and spiking, because they typically require a strenuous unilateral action of the dominant shoulder. It is therefore impera- tive to include adequate stretching and muscular training programme for the prevention, as well as for therapy, of shoulder pain in volleyball players.

A Knowledge Integration Model for Corporate Dividend Prediction

  • Kim, Jin-Hwa;Won, Chae-Hwan;Bae, Jae-Kwon
    • 한국경영정보학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.129-134
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    • 2008
  • Dividend is one of essential factors determining the value of a firm. According to the valuation theory in finance, discounted cash flow (DCF) is the most popular and widely used method for the valuation of any asset. Since dividends play a key role in the pricing of a firm value by DCF, it is natural that the accurate prediction of future dividends should be most important work in the valuation. Although the dividend forecasting is of importance in the real world for the purpose of investment and financing decision, it is not easy for us to find good theoretical models which can predict future dividends accurately except Marsh and Merton (1987) model. Thus, if we can develop a better method than Marsh and Merton in the prediction of future dividends, it can contribute significantly to the enhancement of a firm value. Therefore, the most important goal of this study is to develop a better method than Marsh and Merton model by applying artificial intelligence techniques.

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Status of vacuum technique in KSTAR (KSTAR 토카막 장치 진공 기술 현황)

  • Kim, Kwang-Pyo;Kim, Hyun-Seok
    • Vacuum Magazine
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.16-23
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    • 2017
  • Recently, KSTAR, Korea's superconducting fusion energy research and development device, has succeeded in driving the high performance plasma for 70 seconds for the first time in the world. Continuous plasma operation technology is an essential factor for commercialization of fusion energy power generation. Therefore, this achievement is expected to play a major role in the research of fusion technology required for future fusion power plants. In order to operate the KSTAR, the discharge process in which the neutral gas is turned into the plasma should be preceded in the start-up (breakdown) phase of tokamak operation. This process essentially involves the vacuum environment in the tokamak device. KSTAR has successfully operated a vacuum pumping system to achieve the target level of the vacuum environment through a high temperature baking operation, a discharge cleaning process and boronization.

TRENDS AND ISSUES IN TELEMATICS STANDARDIZATION

  • Kim Kyong-Ho;Han Eun-Young;Jang Jung-A
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.745-748
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    • 2005
  • These days, vehicle is evolving from the isolated space of transportation to the third digital life space connected to the information world via wired and wireless internet and in which the various activities are possible. According to this trend, the speed of growth in the development of Telematics technology and standard is being accelerated due to the government's IT839 strategy and market needs in Korea. ETRI, TTA, and the Telematics Standardization Forum play key role in developing domestic Telematics standard of core technology needed by industry in relation with each other. The international standards are mainly developed by de-facto standardization organizations such as OSGi, OMA, ERTICO, etc. currently. In this paper, we discuss the trends and issues in Telematics standardization and future strategy.

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Study on Terms of Each Type with Contemporary Household Furniture (현대 가정용 가구의 종류별 명칭연구)

  • Cho, Sook-Kyung;Moon, Sun-Ok
    • Journal of the Korea Furniture Society
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.432-438
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    • 2010
  • The study aimed at investigating the terms for each type of the current household furniture and at analyzing a standard based on those terms researched for the furniture, not including kitchen and child furniture. The study was conducted in sales and R&D division of major furniture brands such as Jang-In Gagu, Borneo, and Livart by surveying their staffs, and then, the investigated names were classified according to similar criteria and it was finally analyzed by the definite standard of the names made. In the results, the following 5 standards largely play roles for the naming. First, name according to requirements, second, construction of door, third, materials, fourth, shapes, and lastly, function. Except for the terms of "Sobari" expressed only as Japanese and "living room cabinet of Extension-type" using Korean and English along, most of the names show furniture in detail, and the names from Hangeul, Korean alphabet and from the English have recently and drastically increased with the lifestyle change influenced from Western world.

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Analysis on the Choice of Subjects of University Students Using QFD(II) (QFD를 이용한 대학생들의 전공과목 선택에 관한 분석 (II))

  • 임영문;이정기
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.153-164
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    • 2000
  • QFD (Quality Function Deployment) was defined by the American Supplier Institute in 1987 as a system for translating consumer requirements into appropriate company requirements at every stage, from research, through product design and development, to manufacture, distribution, installation, and marketing, sales and services. Although QFD has complex and tedious procedure to complete, it has now been in use in the world for at least 15 years because QFD enables us to catch a lot of fruitful information on the given system. The objective of this paper is to provide and analyze the trend on the choice of subject courses of university students using QFD. The data are collected by questionnaires. The samples for this study are randomly chosen from the universities in Seoul, Kangnung, and Samchok during 3 months (2000. 3∼2000.5). The results of this study will play an important role not only for service of students but also for opening of courses.

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A Review of Relief Supply Chain Optimization

  • Manopiniwes, Wapee;Irohara, Takashi
    • Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.1-14
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    • 2014
  • With a steep increase of the global disaster relief efforts around the world, the relief supply chain and humanitarian logistics play an important role to address this issue. A broad overview of operations research ranges from a principle or conceptual framework to analytical methodology and case study applied in this field. In this paper, we provide an overview of this challenging research area with emphasis on the corresponding optimization problems. The scope of this study begins with classification by the stage of the disaster lifecycle system. The characteristics of each optimization problem for the disaster supply chain are considered in detail as well as the logistics features. We found that the papers related to disaster relief can be grouped in three aspects in terms of logistics attributes: facility location, distribution model, and inventory model. Furthermore, the literature also analyzes objectives and solution algorithms proposed in each optimization model in order to discover insights, research gaps and findings. Finally, we offer future research directions based on our findings from the investigation of literature review.