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A convergence Study on Associated Factors on Metabolic Syndrome among Inpatients with Schizophrenia (조현병 입원환자의 대사증후군 관련요인에 대한 융복합연구)

  • Oh, Eunjin;Gang, Monnhee;Kim, Myoungsook
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.16 no.10
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    • pp.313-321
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    • 2018
  • Purpose: The purpose of the study was to identify the associated factors on the metabolic syndrome among inpatients with schizophrenia. Methods: The participants were 127 inpatients with schizophrenia from G mental hospital in G city. Collected data were analized with SPSS 22.0 using descriptive statistics, ${\chi}^2$-test, t-test and logistic regression. Results: Metabolic syndrome prevalence of the participants was 46.5%. There were statistically significant differences according to physical disease (${\chi}^2=11.51$, p<.001), body mass index (${\chi}^2=13.59$, p<.001), perception of obesity (${\chi}^2=8.38$, p<.001), and taking olanzapine (${\chi}^2=6.31$, p<.05). Conclusion: Based on the study results, the nursing intervention for prevention and management of metabolic syndrome is needed to develop and provide to schizophrenia patients.

Fostering Entrepreneurship by Maker Education: A Case Study in an Higher Education (메이커 교육(Maker Education)을 통한 기업가정신 함양:대학교 사례연구)

  • Kang, In-Ae;Kim, Yang-Soo;Yoon, Hyea-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.8 no.7
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    • pp.253-264
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    • 2017
  • The advent of the $4^{th}$ industrial Revolution requires entrepreneurship to the student as one able to produce creative solutions of complex problems embedded in society with active engagement. Maker Education indicates a new educational approach in which students produce a tangible output as a concrete solution to their problems, experiencing spirits of productive failure, sharing and openness with others during the process due to its educational values and effects which are well-matched with entrepreneurship. This study, in this context, aimed to verify the effect of the maker education in the sense of cultivating entrepreneurship: For this purpose, this study conducted a case study of Maker Education to 56 university students during 7 weeks (14 hours) in K university. The results based upon data analysis collected from reflective journals and interviews showed attitude change of the students in terms of entrepreneurship characterized as self-directedness, risk-taking, and creativity. For more active practices of Maker Education in higher education, both instructors' role as the facilitator, and easily and freely accessible Maker Space should be considered.

Effect of a Dose-Escalation Regimen for Improving Adherence to Roflumilast in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

  • Hwang, Hyunjung;Shin, Ji Young;Park, Kyu Ree;Shin, Jae Ouk;Song, Kyoung-hwan;Park, Joonhyung;Park, Jeong Woong
    • Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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    • v.78 no.4
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    • pp.321-325
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    • 2015
  • Background: The adverse effects of the phosphodiesterase-4 inhibitor roflumilast, appear to be more frequent in clinical practice than what was observed in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) clinical trials. Thus, we designed this study to determine whether adverse effects could be reduced by starting roflumilast at half the dose, and then increasing a few weeks later to $500{\mu}g$ daily. Methods: We retrospectively investigated 85 patients with COPD who had taken either $500{\mu}g$ roflumilast, or a starting dose of $250{\mu}g$ and then increased to $500{\mu}g$. We analyzed all adverse events and assessed differences between patients who continued taking the drug after dose escalation and those who had stopped. Results: Adverse events were reported by 22 of the 85 patients (25.9%). The most common adverse event was diarrhea (10.6%). Of the 52 patients who had increased from a starting dose of $250{\mu}g$ roflumilast to $500{\mu}g$, 43 (82.7%) successfully maintained the $500{\mu}g$ roflumilast dose. No difference in factors likely to affect the risk of adverse effects, was detected between the dose-escalated and the discontinued groups. Of the 26 patients who started with the $500{\mu}g$ roflumilast regimen, seven (26.9%) discontinued because of adverse effects. There was no statistically significant difference in discontinuation rate between the dose-escalated and the control groups (p=0.22). Conclusion: Escalating the roflumilast dose may reduce treatment-related adverse effects and improve tolerance to the full dose. This study suggests that the dose-escalated regimen reduced the rate of discontinuation. However, longer-term and larger-scale studies are needed to support the full benefit of a dose escalation strategy.

A Study on the Effects of Absorptive Capacity in SMEs on Product Competitiveness: Considering the Moderating Effect of CEO's Entrepreneurship (중소기업의 흡수역량이 제품경쟁력에 미치는 영향 및 중소기업 CEO 기업가정신의 조절효과에 관한 연구)

  • Sohn, In Bae;Huh, Chul Moo
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.61-72
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    • 2017
  • Although small and medium-size enterprises are facing the significant trends in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Open Innovation which are increasingly in need, the subjects of absorptive capacity and entrepreneurship has not been studied sufficiently in order to enhance the competitiveness of SMEs' products and cope with the current trend. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of absorptive capacity of SMEs on product competitiveness and the moderating role of CEO's entrepreneurship between the absorptive capacity and the product competitiveness. The data were collected from 313 employees of 22 SMEs in the Seoul metropolitan area, Kyunggi-do and Chung-cheong province, and analyzed using hierarchical regression analysis. As a result of the hypothesis test, both the absorptive capacity of SMEs and CEO's entrepreneurship had a positive effect on the product competitiveness. In addition, also found out the innovativeness and the proactivness out of the three entrepreneurship had the moderate roles between the potential absorptive capacity out of the absorptive capacity and the product competitiveness. On the other hand, the risk-taking out of the three entrepreneurship had the moderate roles between the realized absorptive capacity out of the two absorptive capacity and the product competitiveness. These results suggest that open innovation and technological entrepreneurship are needed to help SMEs learn external resources and information to create performance. After discussing this conclusions and implications of the study, the direction for future study was presented.

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Psychological Characteristics of Pre-founders, Characteristics of Start-up Preparations Impact on Entrepreneurship Intention (예비창업자의 심리적 특성, 창업준비 특성이 창업의도에 미치는 영향)

  • Kang, Sun Ja;Byun, Sang hae
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.85-96
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    • 2017
  • There are many people who start business because of unstable employment due to income polarization. There are many people who start business because of unstable this study is to present the necessary situation and direction for the prospective founders who are hesitant to start their own business by lacking self - confidence and information about Preparing for start-up the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of pre - founder's psychological characteristics and start - up preparation characteristics on entrepreneurship intention. In order to conduct this study, 144 male and 114 female who were temporary workers and about to retire were analyzed for validity and reliability using 258 questionnaires. As a result of analyzing the adjustment effect of entrepreneurship education as an interaction term in the psychological characteristics and the preparation characteristics of the entrepreneurship, the risk taking tendency and the preparation period for entrepreneurship were significant for entrepreneurship education. In addition, the greater the necessity and importance of entrepreneurship education, the greater the effect on entrepreneurship education. It is a meaningful study that can give confidence to the subjects who want to start a business but are afraid of failure. This study is expected to contribute to the government's start - up policy by analyzing the influence of pre - founders on the intention of start - up.

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The Shock with Bradycardia after Ingestion of Caltha palustris (동의나물 섭취 후 발생한 서맥을 동반한 쇼크 2례)

  • Park,, Chan-Woo;Ok, Taek-Gun;Cho, Jun-Hwi;Choi, Dong-Wook;Her, Ae-Young;Lee, Hee-Young;Kim,, Yong-Hoon;Cho, Byung-Ryul;Kim,, Sung-Eun;Choi, Ki-Hoon;Bae, Ji-Hoon;Seo, Jeong-Yeul;Chung, Jae-Bong
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Clinical Toxicology
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.41-44
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    • 2004
  • With a recent well-being boom, our interest in chemical-free vegetables is also increasing. So, some people are trying to take in wild plants chosen by themselves. However, others often come to their rescue in an emergency department after eating them, caused by their misunderstanding poisonous herbs as edible vegetables. We have ever seen two persons carried into the emergency department with bradycardia and shock incurred by his intake by confusion between Caltha palustris and Ligularia fischeri lately. There were symptoms such as epigastric pain, nausea, vomiting and so on in their cases, and the symptoms of bradycardia and hypotension continued. Owing to sustained bradycardia and hypotension states, we applied a dopamine to a patient, and then the in-patient left the hospital two days later. We presumed the cause of the two symptoms appeared in two cases to be a saponin in Caltha palustris. For that reason, if someone has the bradycardia and hypotension symptoms from an unknown cause after taking in wild plants, they have to consider a toxication by the Caltha palustris. Therefore, this paper focused on the issue that unexpected poisoning would have to be prevented by studying about wild plants much more and informing the toxic risk from the plants.

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The mediating effect of learning competence between the entrepreneurship and export performance of international new ventures in global trade environment (국제 통상환경에서 국제신벤처기업의 기업가정신, 수출성과 관계와 학습역량의 매개효과)

  • Cho, Yeon-Sung
    • International Commerce and Information Review
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.23-44
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    • 2014
  • This study examined the relationship between entrepreneurship, learning competence and the export performance of international new ventures that enterprises entering foreign markets immediately after starting their business in Korea, and the mediating effect of learning competence. A research framework was developed with two entrepreneurship factors(risk taking and innovativeness), learning competence factors, and export performance. Six hypotheses were proposed and tested on 115 samples using LISREL. Research findings suggest that the two entrepreneurship factors positively influenced learning competence. However, export performance was affected by only innovativeness. Also, the learning competence positively affected export performance. Learning competence was found to mediate between entrepreneurship and export performance.

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Bayes Stopping Rule for MAC Scheme Wireless Sensor Networks (무선 센서 망에서 MAC 방식을 위한 Bayes 중지 규칙)

  • Park, Jin-Kyung;Choi, Cheon-Won
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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    • v.45 no.7
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    • pp.53-61
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    • 2008
  • Consider a typical wireless sensor network in which stem nodes form the backbone network of mesh topology while each stem node together with leaf nodes in its vicinity forms a subnetwork of star topology. In such a wireless sensor network, we must heed the following when we design a MAC scheme supporting the packet delivery from a leaf node to a stem node. First, leaf nodes are usually battery-powered and it is difficult to change or recharge their batteries. Secondly, a wireless sensor network is often deployed to collect and update data periodically. Late delivery of a data segment by a sensor node causes the sink node to defer data processing and the data segment itself to be obsolete. Thirdly, extensive signaling is extremely limited and complex computation is hardly supported. Taking account of these facts, a MAC scheme must be able to save energy and support timeliness in packet delivery while being simple and robust as well. In this paper, we propose a version of ALOHA as a MAC scheme for a wireless sensor network. While conserving the simplicity and robustness of the original version of ALOHA, the proposed version of ALOHA possesses a distinctive feature that a sensor node decides between stop and continuation prior to each delivery attempt for a packet. Such a decision needs a stopping rule and we suggest a Bayes stopping rule. Note that a Bayes stopping rule minimizes the Bayes risk which reflects the energy, timeliness and throughput losses. Also, a Bayes stopping rule is practical since a sensor node makes a decision only using its own history of delivery attempt results and the prior information about the failure in delivery attempt. Numerical examples confirm that the proposed version of ALOHA employing a Bayes stopping rule is a useful MAC scheme in the severe environment of wireless sensor network.

THE TYPES AND CONTENTS OF SWEETENERS IN LIQUID ORAL MEDICINES (경구용 액체약에 함유된 감미제의 종류와 함량)

  • Hwang, Min-Sung;Kim, Jung-Wook;Lee, Sang-Hoon
    • Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.661-667
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    • 2001
  • Though a consensus seems to exist about the regulation of the use of sugar-containing food, however. an unrecognized and significant supply of cariogenic carbohydrate remains in the form of sugar-containing liquid oral medicine to prevent dental caries. children who are taking long-term sugar-containing liquid medicine have an increased risk of developing dental caries. The aim of this study is to get the information about the sugars in liquid medicines prescribed for the children. To get the information, the number and date of all prescriptions of liquid medicines for one month at pediatric hospital of Seoul National University Hospital were investigated. From that data, the most frequently used pediatric oral liquid medicine is presented. Then, for the information of the type and contents of sweeteners in that preferred medicines, the manufacturers of each medicines were asked for the data of sugar types and contents, and the informations about the medicine contents were collected via facsimile. The most frequently used pediatric oral liquid medicine were followed as expectorant, purge, antibiotic, drug for iron deficiency anemia, sedative, antihistamine, anticonvulsant, NSAIDs in order. The mean value of sweetener content in liquid medicines was $52.3{\pm}22.4g/100ml$ and most frequently used sweetener is sucrose.

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A study on the effect of entrepreneurship and CEO competency on management performance of SME managers in the service economy era (서비스경제시대 중소기업 경영자의 기업가지향성과 CEO역량이 경영성과에 미치는 영향 연구)

  • An, Sehong;Kim, Hyunsoo
    • Journal of Service Research and Studies
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.81-101
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    • 2020
  • Humanity has reached the age of service economy. A new economy requires new management. The chief executive of new management is the CEO. The results of management decision-making are reflected in the company's performance, and are the basis for future growth engines. This study empirically analyzed the effect of CEO competence, corporate orientation, and management performance of small and medium-sized mid-sized business managers on each other. In the study, a hypothesis was established between eight variables. In addition, the relationship between corporate orientation and CEO competency, which has not been studied, was also identified. Set personal effectiveness, willingness to innovate, opportunity recognition, information perception, relationship formation, business management, leadership, organizational culture, and human resource management as measures of CEO competency. After defining the operation in accordance with this study, the analysis was conducted. As a result of the analysis, corporate orientation did not produce a meaningful result in management performance. And CEO competency showed a positive (+) effect on management performance. It can be judged that the CEO variable, a management variable, had a positive effect on management performance. Also, there was a significant result in the relationship between corporate orientation and CEO competency. Innovativeness, initiative, and risk-taking have positive implications for CEO competency. Lastly, corporate orientation showed statistically significant results on management performance through the mediation of CEO competency. It is worth noting the results of this study in that the time of the study was the timing of the global pandemic (fendermic) of the COVID19 virus. In the future, in-depth research is needed on the relationship between CEO-related factors and management performance in a more changed economic environment.