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Mediating Effect of Grit in the Relationship between Body Image and Health Promotion Lifestyle of Nursing Students (간호대학생의 신체이미지와 건강증진생활양식: 그릿의 매개효과)

  • Kim, Eun-A;Ha, Hey-Jin
    • The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.29-39
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    • 2021
  • Purpose: This study aims to investigate the mediating effect of grit in the relationship between body image and health promotion lifestyle for nursing students. It was implemented to present basic data for the development of educational programs to establish the health promotion lifestyle of nursing students. Methods: The participants of this study were 169 nursing students in three universities in G City, J Province. Data were descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation analysis. Also mediation analysis was performed according to the Baron and Kenny method and Sobel test. Results: Health promotion lifestyle is positively correlated with body image(r=.53, p<.001), grit (r=.37, p<.001), and body image is positively correlated with grit(r=.33, p<.001). The grit showed a partial mediating effect between the body image and the health promotion lifestyle(Z=3.21, p<.001), the positive the body image(β=.46, p<.001), the higher the grit(β=.22, p<.001), the healthier the health. The level of health promotion lifestyle increased, and the explanatory power to explain the health promotion lifestyle was 33%. Conclusion: Therefore, in order to improve the health promoting lifestyle level of nursing students, it is important to change their perception so that they can view their body image positively. In addition, it suggests that nursing students need to cultivate grit so that they can continuously pay attention to and strive for their health promotion lifestyle.

Multiple-Parallel Mediation Effects of Depression·Anxiety and Anger in the Relationship between Anger-out and Interpersonal Problems in Men (성인 남성의 분노 표출과 대인관계 문제와의 관계에서 우울·불안과 분노감의 다중병렬매개효과)

  • Ha Seo Kim;Byoung-Hee Lee
    • Journal of Korean Physical Therapy Science
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.53-69
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    • 2024
  • Background: This study aims to examine the multiple-parallel mediation effects of depression, anxiety, and anger in the relationship between anger-out and interpersonal problems in men. In addition, the purpose of this study was provide a basis for supporting psychological services alongside therapeutic services as a way to increase the overall interpersonal relationship of men. Design: Survey. Methods: This study targeted 208 adult men aged 20 to 59 years. Participants were recruited through online cafe postings, and data were collected by running an online survey link. Based on the collected data, correlations between variables were investigated, and multiple parallel mediation analysis was performed using the model (Model 4) presented by SPSS PROCESS Macro. In addition, the significance of statistics was confirmed by applying the bootstrapping method, and the significance of the indirect effect was confirmed by the Sobel Z test. Results: First, Anger-out in men is related to interpersonal problems(β=.614, P<.001). Second, it can see that anger-out not only increases depression·anxiety, but also increases anger. Third, Anger-out has been shown to increase depression, anxiety, and anger, leading to increasing interpersonal problems. Anger-out had a significant effect on depression, anxiety(β=.324 P<.001), and anger(β=.551, P<.001), and depression, anxiety(β=.239, P<.001), and anger (β=.318, P<.01) had a significant effect on interpersonal relationship problems. Lastly, it can be seen that men's anger-out is experienced more as anger than depression or anxiety. Conclusion: When providing medical services to men, I believe that if externally expressed anger is addressed along with therapeutic treatment, invisible depression can also be intervened and a more positive prognosis can be expected

The Effect of Job Resources of Hospital Workers on Presenteeism: The Mediating Effect of Job Embeddedness (병원 종사자의 직무자원이 프리젠티즘에 미치는 영향: 직무착근도의 매개효과)

  • Tae-In Ha;Duk-Young Cho;Sang-Sik Lee
    • Journal of Industrial Convergence
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.65-73
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    • 2024
  • The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of job resources of hospital workers on presenteeism and to verify the mediating effect of job embeddedness based on this. Participants included 301 hospital workers form hospitals located in B city. Date was collected form July 10 to August 10, 2023. The collected data were analyzed by frequency analysis, descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation coefficient, Baron and Kenny's three-step hierarchical regression and Sovel's test method using the SPSS 26.0 program. In this study, it was found that there was a correlation between job resources, job embeddedness and presenteeism of hospital workers, job resources and job embeddedness influenced negatively on presenteeism, and it was confirmed that job embeddedness partially mediated in the relationship between job resources and presenteeism. Based on this, in order to reduce presenteeism of hospital workers. it was suggested to improve job integrity by providing sufficient job resources institutionally an administratively and providing continuous educational opportunities.

The Lines Extraction and Analysis of The Palm using Morphological Information of The Hand and Contour Tracking Method (손의 형태학적 정보와 윤곽선 추적 기법을 이용한 손금 추출 및 분석)

  • Kim, Kwang-Baek
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.243-248
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, we propose a new method to extract palm lines and read it with simple techniques from one photo. We use morphological information and 8-directional contour tracking algorithm. From the digitalized image, we transform original RGB information to YCbCr color model which is less sensitive to the brightness information. The palm region is extracted by simple threshold as Y:65~255, Cb:25~255, Cr:130~255 of skin color. Noise removal process is then followed with morphological information of the palm such that the palm area has more than quarter of the pixels and the rate of width vs height is more than 2:1 and 8-directional contour tracking algorithm. Then, the stretching algorithm and Sobel mask are applied to extract edges. Another morphological information that the meaningful edges(palm lines) have between 10 and 20 pixels is used to exclude noise edges and boundary lines of the hand from block binarized image. Main palm lines are extracted then by labeling method. This algorithm is quite effective even reading the palm from a photographed by a mobile phone, which suggests that this method could be used in various applications.

Caricaturing using Local Warping and Edge Detection (로컬 와핑 및 윤곽선 추출을 이용한 캐리커처 제작)

  • Choi, Sung-Jin;Bae, Hyeon;Kim, Sung-Shin;Woo, Kwang-Bang
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.403-408
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    • 2003
  • A general meaning of caricaturing is that a representation, especially pictorial or literary, in which the subject's distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect. In other words, a caricature is defined as a rough sketch(dessin) which is made by detecting features from human face and exaggerating or warping those. There have been developed many methods which can make a caricature image from human face using computer. In this paper, we propose a new caricaturing system. The system uses a real-time image or supplied image as an input image and deals with it on four processing steps and then creates a caricatured image finally. The four Processing steps are like that. The first step is detecting a face from input image. The second step is extracting special coordinate values as facial geometric information. The third step is deforming the face image using local warping method and the coordinate values acquired in the second step. In fourth step, the system transforms the deformed image into the better improved edge image using a fuzzy Sobel method and then creates a caricatured image finally. In this paper , we can realize a caricaturing system which is simpler than any other exiting systems in ways that create a caricatured image and does not need complex algorithms using many image processing methods like image recognition, transformation and edge detection.

Temporal and spatial Analysis of Sea Surface Temperature and Thermal Fronts in the Korean Seas by Satellite data

  • Yoon Hong-Joo;Byun Hye-Kyung
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2004.10a
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    • pp.696-700
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    • 2004
  • In the Korean seas, Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and Thermal Fronts (TF) were analyzed temporally and spatially during 8 years from 1993 to 2000 using NOAA/AVHRR MCSST. As the result of harmonic analysis, distributions of the mean SST were $10~25^{\circ}C,$ and generally SST decreased as latitude increased. SST increased in the order as following; the South Sea $(20\~23^{\circ}C),$ the East Sea $(17\~19^{\circ}C)$, and the West $Sea(13\~16^{\circ}C).$ Annual amplitudes and phases were $4\~11^{\circ}C,\;210\~240^{\circ}$ and high values were shown as following; the West Sea $(A1,\;9\~11^{\circ}C),$ the Northern East Sea $(A5,\;8\~9^{\circ}C),$ the Southern East Sea $(A4,\;6\~8^{\circ}C),$ the South Sea $(A3,\;6\~7^{\circ}C),$ the East China Sea $(A2,\;4\~7^{\circ}C)$ and phases; $A3\;(238\~242^{\circ}),\;A4\;(235\~240^{\circ}),\;A5\;(225\~235^{\circ}),\;Al\;(220\~230^{\circ}),\;A2\;(210\~235^{\circ}),$ respectively, Both of them were related inversely except the area A2, therefore the rest areas were affected by seasonal variations. TF were detected by Soble Edge Detection Method using gradient of SST. Consequently, TF were divided into 4 fronts; the Subpolar Front (SPF) based on the Cold Water Mass (low SST and salinity Subartic Water), resulting from the North Korea Cold Current (NKCC) and the East Sea Proper Cold Water in the middle and low layer, and the Warm Water Mass (high SST and salinity Subtropical Water), resulting from the Tsushima Warm Current (TWC) in area A4 and 5, the Kuroshio Front (KF) based on the Kuroshio Current (KC) and shelf waters in the East China Sea (ESC) in A2, and the South Sea Coastal Front (SSCF) based on the South Sea Coastal Water (SSCW) and TWC in A3. Also, the Tidal Front was weakly appeared in AI. TF located in steep slope of submarine topography. Annual amplitudes and phases were bounded in the same place, and these results should be considered to influence of seasonal variations.

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Contour Extraction Method using p-Snake with Prototype Energy (원형에너지가 추가된 p-Snake를 이용한 윤곽선 추출 기법)

  • Oh, Seung-Taek;Jun, Byung-Hwan
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.51 no.4
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    • pp.101-109
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    • 2014
  • It is an essential element for the establishment of image processing related systems to find the exact contour from the image of an arbitrary object. In particular, if a vision system is established to inspect the products in the automated production process, it is very important to detect the contours for standardized shapes such lines and curves. In this paper, we propose a prototype adaptive dynamic contour model, p-Snake with improved contour extraction algorithms by adding the prototype energy. The proposed method is to find the initial contour by applying the existing Snake algorithm after Sobel operation is performed for prototype analysis. Next, the final contour of the object is detected by analyzing prototypes such as lines and circles, defining prototype energy and using it as an additional energy item in the existing Snake function on the basis of information on initial contour. We performed experiments on 340 images obtained by using an environment that duplicated the background of an industrial site. It was found that even if objects are not clearly distinguished from the background due to noise and lighting or the edges being insufficiently visible in the images, the contour can be extracted. In addition, in the case of similarity which is the measure representing how much it matches the prototype, the prototype similarity of contour extracted from the proposed p-ACM is superior to that of ACM by 9.85%.

Study on the Front Detection Techniques by using Satellite Data (위성 자료를 이용한 전선 탐지 기법 연구)

  • Hwang, Do-Hyun;Bak, Su-Ho;Enkhjargal, Unuzaya;Jeong, Min-Ji;Kim, Na-Kyeong;Park, Mi-So;Kim, Bo-Ram;Yoon, Hong-Joo
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.1201-1208
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    • 2020
  • A mass of seawater with similar properties in the ocean is called a water mass, and the front is a sea area where two masses of different properties meet. The gradient algorithm is a method of extracting where the sea water temperature pixel changes rapidly assuming that the slope is large, and the place with the large slope is assumed to be a front. This method is able to process large amounts of satellite data at once. Therefore, in this study, we tried to find the front lines in the sea area around the Korean Peninsula by using a gradient algorithm. The study data used gridded sea surface temperature satellite data. The resolution was 1/4°, and the monthly average data from January 1993 to December 2018 were used. There were major five fronts representatively, China Coastal Front, South Sea Coastal Front, Kuroshio Front/ Kuroshio Extension Front, Subpolar Front and the Subarctic Front. As a result of comparing the distribution of front by season, more types of front were distributed in winter and spring than in summer and autumn, and the distribution range was wider.

Recognition of Resident Registration Card using ART2-based RBF Network and face Verification (ART2 기반 RBF 네트워크와 얼굴 인증을 이용한 주민등록증 인식)

  • Kim Kwang-Baek;Kim Young-Ju
    • Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.1-15
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    • 2006
  • In Korea, a resident registration card has various personal information such as a present address, a resident registration number, a face picture and a fingerprint. A plastic-type resident card currently used is easy to forge or alter and tricks of forgery grow to be high-degree as time goes on. So, whether a resident card is forged or not is difficult to judge by only an examination with the naked eye. This paper proposed an automatic recognition method of a resident card which recognizes a resident registration number by using a refined ART2-based RBF network newly proposed and authenticates a face picture by a template image matching method. The proposed method, first, extracts areas including a resident registration number and the date of issue from a resident card image by applying Sobel masking, median filtering and horizontal smearing operations to the image in turn. To improve the extraction of individual codes from extracted areas, the original image is binarized by using a high-frequency passing filter and CDM masking is applied to the binaried image fur making image information of individual codes better. Lastly, individual codes, which are targets of recognition, are extracted by applying 4-directional contour tracking algorithm to extracted areas in the binarized image. And this paper proposed a refined ART2-based RBF network to recognize individual codes, which applies ART2 as the loaming structure of the middle layer and dynamicaly adjusts a teaming rate in the teaming of the middle and the output layers by using a fuzzy control method to improve the performance of teaming. Also, for the precise judgement of forgey of a resident card, the proposed method supports a face authentication by using a face template database and a template image matching method. For performance evaluation of the proposed method, this paper maked metamorphoses of an original image of resident card such as a forgey of face picture, an addition of noise, variations of contrast variations of intensity and image blurring, and applied these images with original images to experiments. The results of experiment showed that the proposed method is excellent in the recognition of individual codes and the face authentication fur the automatic recognition of a resident card.

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Vehicle Detection and Tracking using Billboard Sweep Stereo Matching Algorithm (빌보드 스윕 스테레오 시차정합 알고리즘을 이용한 차량 검출 및 추적)

  • Park, Min Woo;Won, Kwang Hee;Jung, Soon Ki
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.764-781
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, we propose a highly precise vehicle detection method with low false alarm using billboard sweep stereo matching and multi-stage hypothesis generation. First, we capture stereo images from cameras established in front of the vehicle and obtain the disparity map in which the regions of ground plane or background are removed using billboard sweep stereo matching algorithm. And then, we perform the vehicle detection and tracking on the labeled disparity map. The vehicle detection and tracking consists of three steps. In the learning step, the SVM(support vector machine) classifier is obtained using the features extracted from the gabor filter. The second step is the vehicle detection which performs the sobel edge detection in the image of the left camera and extracts candidates of the vehicle using edge image and billboard sweep stereo disparity map. The final step is the vehicle tracking using template matching in the next frame. Removal process of the tracking regions improves the system performance in the candidate region of the vehicle on the succeeding frames.