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Changes in the Comfort and Image Quality of the Patient According to the Application of Air Mattresses in the Computed Tomography Table (전산화단층촬영 테이블의 에어 매트리스 적용에 따른 환자의 편안함과 화질 변화)

  • Young-Hee, Lee;Yong-Ki, Lee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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    • v.16 no.7
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    • pp.889-896
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    • 2022
  • This study attempted to evaluate the usefulness of the air mattress by analyzing the subjective comfort of the patient due to the application of the air mattress to the table of computed tomography through a questionnaire and analyzing the change in image quality through quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the patient's clinical images. The subjects who participated in the study were 221 men and 229 women, and the age range was from 18 to 86. To evaluate the change in image quality, a total of 150 patients, 50 patients per group, were selected for quantitative evaluation, and 20 patients per group, a total of 60 patients were selected for qualitative evaluation. As a result of this study, the subjective comfort of patients increased due to air mattresses, and there was no difference in image quality as a result of quantitative and qualitative evaluation of clinical images. From the above results, it is believed that the air mattress can be usefully applied in a way that can increase the subjective comfort of the patient without any harm to the diagnostic image.

The Relationship Between Evaluation Criteria of Structure and Process in Evaluation of an Emergerncy Medical Services (응급의료기관 평가에서 구조영역과 과정영역의 평가기준 관계 분석)

  • Kim, Minji;Lee, Sunhee;Jung, Yumin;Lee, Sujung
    • Korea Journal of Hospital Management
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.1-15
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    • 2018
  • Recently, the importance of emergency medical services has emerged, as rapid advances in urbanization and industrial development. Accordingly, the need for effective emergency medical services is increasing, and the evaluation of an emergengy medical services centers is conducted to meet these policy needs. The purpose of this study was to analyse the relationship between the structure and the process domain of the evaluation of an emergency medical services center based on the Donabedian's model and to verify the validity as an index of quality evaluation through the results. As a result of the analysis, there were some indicators that showed a different direction than expected, but generally there was a significant correlation between the structure and process domains of the evaluation of an emergency medical services center. This suggests that the process can be improved by improving the structure. In conclusion, as structure and process indicators in evaluation of an emergency medical services center show significant relationship, it can be evaluated as validity as a tool to measure the quality of emergency medical services.

The Evaluation Model for Knowledge Assets on Medical Devices Industry (의료기기산업의 지식자산 평가모형)

  • Kim, Mahn-Sool;Lee, Jong-Moo
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.251-258
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    • 2011
  • The existing evaluation systems based on financial performance summarize the information about past results and focus on short-term performance, and so they have the limits to explain the future value of firms and to make a long-term strategic performance. By this reason, as a way to increase the future value, the development of the integrated performance evaluation system with which we may manages financial performance and knowledge assets together has been required recently. This study puts together various researches for the evaluation of knowledge assets, and analyzes the existing studies for the domestic medical devices industry and the tendency of introduction for business practice. Under this analysis, this study develops the knowledge asset evaluation indexes for medical devices industry by using the Balanced Score Card (BSC) of Kaplan & Norton(1992), and then presents the evaluation model by applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) of Saaty(1980) to get the weight for each index. With the final evaluation model, we can calculate the evaluation score combined with both the quantitative indexes and the qualitative indexes at once.

When Evaluated Using CT Imaging Phantoms AAPM Phantom Studies on the Quantitative Analysis Method (AAPM Phantom을 이용한 CT 팬텀 영상 평가 시 정량적 분석 방법에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Young-Su;Ye, Soo-Young;Kim, Dong-Hyun
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.16 no.8
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    • pp.592-600
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    • 2016
  • AAPM CT performance for special medical equipment quality control checks using a standard phantom for evaluation, using the evaluator's subjective assessment as to minimize errors due computerized assessment program to evaluate their usefulness. Phantom for evaluation AAPM CT Performance Phantom: was used, the default shooting conditions are the same as quality control checks. And, we use IMAGE J to evaluate the program. Quantitative evaluation with CT attenuation coefficient and the noise measurement, the uniformity measurement, the slice thickness measurement, contrast resolution of the measurement, a phantom image of the spatial resolution determined by the evaluation program is evaluated as self-extracting the result after processing the image, CT uniformity measurement for the evaluation that was smaller and the standard deviation of a video image processing more uniform slice thickness measurements it is difficult to evaluate due to the difference of the ratio of the measured value of the phantom image. Contrast resolution was measured cylindrical diameter 6th evaluate the shape of a circle obtained a mean value and a standard deviation of diameters, the spatial resolution of the group of source, including acceptance criteria automatically extracted result as a result of both the number of the extracted circularIt appeared. Evaluate the source image and video processing, and video to qualitative evaluation by gross were processed video image is shown excellent results. If the evaluators in order to minimize the errors of subjective judgment based on the results of the above should be done with a quantitative evaluation and qualitative evaluation utilizes a computerized assessment program is considered that further evaluation be made more efficient.

A Case Study on the Correlation between the Quantitative and the Qualitative Evaluation of IT Investment Performance (IT 투자성과의 정량적 평가와 정성적 평가의 상관관계에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jae-B.;Hong, Yu-Jin;Chang, Yun-Hi
    • Information Systems Review
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.149-168
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    • 2007
  • As the need for quantitative qualities of IT investment performance heightens, numerous research organizations are developing various measurement methods for the quantitative evaluation and its currency value conversion. Corporations utilizing these methods to evaluate IT investment performance are gradually increasing. However, working-level staff in the corporations that have introduced the quantitative evaluation can not assure if the evaluation sufficiently reflects the actual effect provided by IT since the results arising from the conversion of currency value can't be visibly confirmed. This study tries to identify whether the quantitative evaluation of IT investment performance can be explained in terms of the level of consumer satisfaction proven by the qualitative evaluation by analyzing the level of consumer satisfaction and quantitative evaluation of a case company and identifying the correlation between them. As the result of the case study, the following points have been concluded. Firstly, the currency value of IT effect correlates with the level of consumer satisfaction. Secondly, in order to come up with a rational currency value of IT effect, developing an indicator as well as managing data on currency conversion that will enable the internal system's efficiency to become more quantitative is essential. Thirdly, IT ROI is not appropriate to compare the performance between systems and is utilized as a measurement standard for each system's performance and efficiency. Lastly, quantitative evaluation is still inadequate in the evaluation of the system's strategic side, and consumer satisfaction can be utilized as a supplementary method.

Topic Classification for Suicidology

  • Read, Jonathon;Velldal, Erik;Ovrelid, Lilja
    • Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.143-150
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    • 2012
  • Computational techniques for topic classification can support qualitative research by automatically applying labels in preparation for qualitative analyses. This paper presents an evaluation of supervised learning techniques applied to one such use case, namely, that of labeling emotions, instructions and information in suicide notes. We train a collection of one-versus-all binary support vector machine classifiers, using cost-sensitive learning to deal with class imbalance. The features investigated range from a simple bag-of-words and n-grams over stems, to information drawn from syntactic dependency analysis and WordNet synonym sets. The experimental results are complemented by an analysis of systematic errors in both the output of our system and the gold-standard annotations.

A Qualitative Study on University Students' Multicultural Competence - Focusing on the Cultural Cognition, Cultural Knowledge and Cultural Skill - (대학생의 다문화 역량에 관한 연구 - 문화적 인식, 지식, 기술을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Min-Kyeong
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.945-965
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    • 2010
  • The present study examined the cultural competence of university students on migrants and multicultural society in Korea. A total of 11 university students living in Seoul, Gyeonggido and Chungcheondo, were selected for the interview. The participants provided their cultural cognition, cultural knowledge and cultural skill on a variety of issues related to migrants and multicultural society in Korea. Interview results indicated that participants perceived negative and positive affects to Korean society and prejudice about immigrants, thaught economic support as a emergent policy, and didn't experience multicultural society. They wanted to take a trip and learning foreign language. On the cultural skill participants had progressive perspectives about immigrants' right, discrimination and evaluation and had a multiculturism based on assimilation. Implications of the study and directions for future research were discussed. It is needed to educations and programs for development of university students' cultural competence.

Domestic Research of Medical Students Trends Analysis (의과대학생에 관한 국내 연구동향 분석)

  • Lee, Aehwa
    • Korean Medical Education Review
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.91-102
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    • 2018
  • This study explored medical students' major research topics and research methods by analyzing 184 academic articles pertaining to the characteristics of medical students from 2007 to 2017. Results showed many papers dealing with medical students' emotional and cognitive aspects, student counseling, clinical practice education, and curriculum management. According to the medical education accreditation board, research trends were found mostly in the student and curriculum areas of learner characteristics, medical humanities, student counseling, clinical practice education, and curriculum management. Common research topics have been steadily increasing since the introduction of the evaluation accreditation standard in 2012. Medical students predominantly used quantitative research methods for the studies. In the future, it is necessary to ensure that research topics such as CQI, digital- and performance-based clinical practice, and convergent curriculum within the Fourth Industrial Revolution are being studied. In addition, it is crucial to investigate learners' unique, dynamic, and qualitative characteristics through qualitative and mixed methods.

Study on the Business Performance Evaluation with VA and EVA (부가가치와 경제적부가가치를 결합한 경영성과평가에 관한 실증적 연구)

  • 김태성;구일섭;임익성
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.153-160
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    • 2001
  • The proposed system measures business performance by considering both VA(Value-Added), which represents stakeholder's point of view and EVA(Economic Value-Added), which represents shareholder's point of view. To do so, we suggest a business performance scheme which utilizes VA per Capita (Value- Added/Workers) and EVA to Invested Capital(Economic Value-Added /Invested Capital). For effective measurement of business performance, we consider simultaneously not only quantitative financial factors such as VA, EVA and cash flow but also qualitative value drivers such as defect ratio, inventory level, customer satisfaction, enterprise culture and so on. However, we don't consider the qualitative factors due to the limited data. To demonstrate the performance of the system, we conducted a case study using financial data of Korean automobile industry over 16 years from 1981 to 1996, which is taken from database of KISFAS (Korea Investors Services Financial Analysis System).

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A Study of a Scoring Method for Evaluating the Project of Rural Well-longevity Villages (농촌건강장수마을사업 평가지수 산정방안 연구)

  • Suh, Kyo;Han, Yi-Cheol;Lee, Jeong-Jae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.436-442
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study is to develop indices and a scoring method for effectively evaluating the project of rural well-longevity villages which makes up for insufficient parts of existing projects on improving settlement foundation and production environment. Evaluating indices include qualitative factors originated from the characteristics of the project so a scoring method based on an information measure technique is used for evaluating the results from each village. Evaluating indices are provided differently depending on each purpose for evaluation. Result indices can be used for ranking project villages and fundamental indices can be used to analyze villages elaborately to improve project plans.

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