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The Influence of Consumer Technology Readiness on Service Quality and Satisfaction in Internet Shopping of Clothing Product (소비자의 기술준비성이 의류제품의 인터넷 쇼핑 서비스품질과 만족도에 미치는 영향)

  • 홍금희
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.27 no.8
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    • pp.913-923
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    • 2003
  • This study divides consumers into groups according to the TRI(technology readiness index) in order to (md out the characteristics of each consumer group, and attempts to examine how the frequency of shopping and the TRI affect service quality of and satisfaction at the internet apparel shopping sites. An on-line survey was made to collect data, and the replies from 785 people, who had an experience of apparel shopping apparel on line, were used in the analysis. The research results are as follows: 1. The four factors of optimism, innovativeness, discomfort, and insecurity were identified from the TRI factor analysis, and the total variance was 58.88%. 2. The male group showed the higher TRI than the female group. Especially the factor of innovativeness was higher in the male group, indicating the male group's activeness in the use of technology. 3. Consumers were classified into five types in terms of the TRI: explorers, pioneers, skeptics, paranoids, and laggards. 4. Service quality had the greatest influence on consumers’satisfaction with the apparel shopping sites, and the frequency of purchase, optimism, and discomfort ranked next to service quality.

Successful Treatment of Infantile Fibrosarcoma Spinal Metastasis by Chemotherapy and Stereotactic Hypofractionated Radiotherapy

  • Lo, Cheng-Hsiang;Cheng, Shin-Nan;Lin, Kuen-Tze;Jen, Yee-Min
    • Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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    • v.54 no.6
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    • pp.528-531
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    • 2013
  • We report a case of infantile fibrosarcoma in an 8-month-old boy manifested as a right-sided lower leg mass. Repeated local recurrence and distant metastasis were noted during the following three-year period. Whole body fluoro-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography scan revealed an asymptomatic metastasis involving the fourth lumbar vertebrae. The patient received chemotherapy (VAC regimen) with Cyberknife$^{(R)}$ stereotactic hypofractionated radiotherapy (26 Gy; 4 fractions). This treatment reduced tumor size by 23% without acute radiation toxicity even after 33 months. This case suggests that combining chemotherapy and this form of radiotherapy may be safe and effective against childhood spinal metastasis.

Post-Traumatic Cerebral Infarction Following Low-Energy Penetrating Craniocerebral Injury Caused by a Nail

  • Chen, Po-Chuan;Tsai, Shih-Hung;Chen, Yu-Long;Liao, Wen-I
    • Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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    • v.55 no.5
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    • pp.293-295
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    • 2014
  • Post-traumatic cerebral infarction (PTCI) is a secondary insult which causes global cerebral hypoxia or hypoperfusion after traumatic brain injury, and carries a remarkable high mortality rate. PTCI is usually caused by blunt brain injury with gross hematoma and/or brain herniation. Herein, we present the case of a 91-year-old male who had sustained PTCI following a low-energy penetrating craniocerebral injury due to a nail without evidence of hematoma. The patient survived after a decompressive craniectomy, but permanent neurological damage occurred. This is the first case of profound PTCI following a low-energy penetrating craniocerebral nail injury and reminds clinicians of possibility this rare dreadful complication for care of head-injured patients.

Molecular Identification of Diphyllobothrium latum from a Pediatric Case in Taiwan

  • An, Yu-Chin;Sung, Chia-Cheng;Wang, Chih-Chien;Lin, Hsin-Chung;Chen, Kuang-Yao;Ku, Fu-Man;Chen, Ruei-Min;Chen, Mei-Li;Huang, Kuo-Yang
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • v.55 no.4
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    • pp.425-428
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    • 2017
  • Human diphyllobothriasis is a parasitic disease caused by ingestion of larvae (plerocercoids) in raw or undercooked fish and commonly found in temperate areas. Rare cases were reported in tropical or subtropical areas especially in children. The first documented case of pediatric diphyllobothriasis in Taiwan had been reported 11 years ago. Here, we report another 8-year-old girl case who presented with a live noodle-like worm hanging down from her anus, with no other detectable symptoms. We pulled the worm out and found the strobila being 260 cm in length. Examination of gravid proglottids showed that they were wider than their lengths, containing an ovoid cirrus sac in the anterior side and the rosette-shaped uterus. Eggs extracted from the uterus were ovoid and operculated. Diphyllobothrium latum was confirmed by molecular analysis of the mitochondrial DNA cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (cox1) gene. The girl was treated with a single oral dose of praziquantel, and no eggs or proglottids were observed from her stool in the subsequent 3 months. The reemergence of human diphyllobothriasis in non-endemic countries is probably due to prevalent habit of eating imported raw fish from endemic areas. This pediatric case raised our concern that human diphyllobothriasis is likely underestimated because of unremarkable symptoms.

On the Handover Performance of a Tri-threshold Bandwidth Reservation CAC Scheme

  • Tung, Hoi Yan;Tsang, Kim Fung;Lee, Lap To;Lam, Ka Lun;Sun, Yu Ting;Kwan, Shiu Keung Ronald;Chan, Sammy
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.113-115
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    • 2007
  • A dynamic tri-threshold call admission control scheme has been developed. This scheme supports voice, data, and multimedia services and it complies with the universal mobile telecommunications system. The performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated under varying handover rates. The QoS performance-including channel utilization, call dropping probability, and blocking probability-is investigated. The performance of the developed scheme is found to be encouraging.

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Effects of TR and Consumer Readiness on SST Usage Motivation, Attitude and Intention (기술 준비도와 소비자 준비도가 Self Service Technology 사용동기와 태도 및 사용의도에 미치는 영향)

  • Shim, Hyeon Sook;Han, Sang Lin
    • Asia Marketing Journal
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.25-51
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    • 2012
  • Researches about the relationship between SST(Self Service Technology) and TRI(Technology Readiness Index) have been carried out after TRI was developed by Parasuraman and his colleagues(2000). We hypothesize Consumer Readiness can also influence consumer's motivation, attitude, and intent to use SST. Currently, there has been no research on this subject. In this study, we investigated the relationship between TR, Consumer Readiness and SST Core Attitudinal Model which Dabholkar & Bagozzi(1994) proposed. The researchers also investigated moderating effects of consumer traits and situational factors to verify the acceptance of such forms of service delivery by all kinds of consumers and under different situational contexts. Self consciousness, the need for interaction with an employee, and the technology anxiety were used as consumer trait variables. Perceived waiting time and perceived crowding were used as situational variables. 380 questionnaires were distributed to a sample group of people in their 20's and 30's, and the data were analyzed with structural equation model using AMOS 18.0 program. All of Cronbach's alpha values representing reliabilities were satisfactory. The values of Composite Reliability(CR) and Average Variance Extracted(AVE) also showed the above criteria, thus providing evidence of convergent validity. To confirm discriminant validity among the constructs, confirmatory factor analysis and correlations among all the variables were examined. The results were satisfactory. The results of this study are summarized as follows. 1. Optimism and innovativeness of TR partially influenced the motivation to use SST. People who tend to be optimistic use SST because of ease of use and fun. The innovative however, usually use SST due to its performance. However, consumer readiness of role clarity, ability and self-efficacy influence all the components of motivation to use SST, ease of use, performance and fun. The relative effect of consumer readiness on the motivation to use SST was much stronger and more significant than that of TR. No other previous studies have examined the effects of Consumer Readiness on SST usage motivation, attitude and intention. It is academically meaningful that the researchers verified that Consumer Readiness is the important precedent construct influencing the self service technology core Attitudinal Model. Our findings suggest that marketers should consider fun and ease of use attributes to promote the use of self service technology. In addition, the SST usage frequency will rise rapidly when role clarity, ability, and self-efficacy which anybody can easily handle SST is assured. If the SST usage rate is increased, waiting times for customers could be decreased. Shorter waiting time could lead to higher customer satisfaction. It may also result in making a long-term profit owing to the reduced number of employees. Thus, presentation of using SST by employees or videos showing how to use it will promote the usage attitude and intent. 2. In SST core attitudinal model, performance and fun factors among SST usage motivation affected attitudes of using SST. The attitude of using SST highly influenced intent to use SST. This result is consistent with previous researches that dealt with the relationship between motivation, attitude and intention. Expectation of using SST could result in good performance just like the effect of ordering menu to service employees and to have fun since fun during its use could promote more SST usage rate. 3. In the relationship among motivation, attitude and intent in SST core attitudinal model, the moderating effect of consumer traits(self-consciousness, need for interaction with service employees and technology anxiety) and situational factors(perceived crowding and perceived waiting time) were tested. The results also supported the hypothesized moderating effects except perceived crowding. The highly self-conscious tended to form attitudes to use SST because of its fun compared to those who were less self-conscious because of its performance. People who had a high need for interaction with service employees tended to use SST for its performance. This result indicates that if ordering results are assured, SST is easily accessible to even consumers who have a high need for interaction with a service employee. When SST is easy to use, attitudes strengthen intent among people who had a high level of anxiety of technology. People who had low technology anxiety formed attitudes to use SST because of its performance. Service firms must ensure their self service technology is designed to be easy to use for those who have a high level of technology anxiety. Shorter perceived waiting times strengthened the attitude to use self service technology because of its fun. If the fun aspect is assured, people willing to use self service technology even perceive waiting time to be shorter than it actually is. Greater perceived waiting times form higher level of intent to use self service technology than those of shorter perceived waiting times. This implies that people view self service technology as a faster alternative to ordering service employees. The fun aspect of self service technology will attract a higher rate of usage for self service technology. 4. It has been proven that ease of use, performance and fun aspects are very important factors in motivation to form attitudes and intent to use self service technology regardless of the amount of perceived waiting time, self-consciousness, need for interaction with service employees, and technology anxiety. Service firms must consider these motivation aspects(ease of use, performance and fun)strongly in their promotion to use self service technology. Ease of use, assuring absolute performance compared to interaction with service employees', and adding a fun aspect will positively strengthen consumers' attitudes and intent to use self service technology. Summarizing the moderating effects, fun is the most valuable factor triggering SST usage attitude and intention. Therefore, designing self service technology to be fun will be the key to its success. This study focused on the touch screen self service technology in fast food restaurant. Although it has its limits due to the fact that it is hard to generalize the results to any other self service technology, the conceptual framework of this study can be applied to future research of any other service site.

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Service-oriented RunTime Infrastructure on Grid (Grid에서의 서비스 기반 RTI 구현)

  • 최기영;이태동;정혜선;유승훈;장재형;임중호;정승환;정창성
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2004.10a
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    • pp.31-33
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    • 2004
  • HLA (High Level Architecture) 는 모델링과 시뮬레이션 분야에서 상호 이질적인 서비스에 따른 어플리케이션의 상호운용성(interoperability)과 재사용성(reusability)을 증진시키기 위해 필요한 infrastructure를 개발하기 위한 청사진이다. RTI(RunTime Infrastructure)는 HLA 의 소프트웨어적 도구로써 IibTRI, FedExec, RTIExec의 세 가지 컴포넌트로 구성되어 있다. RTI는 분산환경에서 동적으로 다수대다수간의 통신을 제공하는 미들웨어 (middleware)이다. 대규모의 분산 시뮬레이션의 실행은 지리적으로 퍼져있는 많은 양의 컴퓨팅 자원을 필요로 할 수 있는데 이러한 환경이 가지는 보안과 동적 자원 할당이라는 문제점을 Globus Toolkit3(GT3)안의 Open Grid Service Arcitecture(OGSA)를 사용해서 해결할 수 있는 RTI-G를 개발해 왔고 이를 service-oriented RTI-G라 부른다. 이 논문에서는 service-oriented RTI on Grid 의 구조와 앞에 제시된 문제점들의 해결방안을 제시하고 실험한다.

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Exploring Differences of Customers' Perceptions toward Mobile Services (모바일 서비스에 대한 이용자의 품질인식 차이에 관한 연구 : 한국과 미국 이용자를 중심으로)

  • Bae, Soon-Han;Lee, Seung-Hwan;Paik, Seung-Kuk;Baek, Seung-Ik
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.17-34
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    • 2011
  • Because the mobile services is composed of heterogeneous attributes, it is hard to find out customer's potential needs and more difficult to analyze customer's satisfaction factors toward mobile services. Therefore, this study approached this issue from a new viewpoint and applied Kano Model in analyzing customer's satisfaction and dissatisfaction factors toward mobile services. By using Kano Model, it tried to find out how differently customers perceive the mobile services. Firstly, we found out perception gaps of Korean and American customers toward mobile services. While Korean customers perceived most mobile services as indifferent service attributes, American customers perceived them as attractive service attributes. We could find main reasons of these perception differences from different national backgrounds and adoption rates of smart phones between two countries. Secondly, based on TRI scores, we categorized subjects into four groups and named as Pioneers, Explorers, Skeptics and Laggards. And then we examined the perception differences to mobile services among four groups. We found that there were no significant perception differences among four groups.

A Study on the development of Test Report Information Service(TRIS) by User survey analysis (사용자 설문분석을 통한 군수품 시험성적서 정보서비스 고도화 방안에 대한 연구)

  • Park, Dongsoo;Lee, Donghun
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.405-414
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    • 2017
  • In this study, a survey for a satisfaction evaluation of the Test Report Information Service (TRIS) was conducted. A survey questionnaire on modified Information System Success Model(ISSM) of Delone and Mclean was carried out by 183 users in three groups, such as munition quality assurance agency, munition corporation, and test institute. As a survey result, training on the TRIS was in strong demand in all three groups. An understanding and proficiency of the overall system were different from the work process of each user group. In addition, the munition quality assurance agency needs to enhance the system function with its characteristics. Test institute has necessity of the linkage method with the TRIS depending on the authentication system. User groups are different in the operational method of TRIS between the contractor and cooperation. Accordingly, cooperation needs to be educated continually. This study can help in the construction of a Military Quality Integration Information System to secure the reliability of munitions.

군관리자의 행태에 관한 실증적 연구

  • Kim Se-Yeong
    • Journal of the military operations research society of Korea
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.3-13
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    • 1983
  • This thesis analyzes the behavior of Korean senior officers corroboratively. The subject of research is a group of senior officers who were graduated from the Korea Military Academies of three armed forces, promoted to colonel at their first screen, and served for the duration of active duty on 18-22 years. The study reviews a correlation between the academic record and military promotion, and also between it and the duration of active service. Tri-dimensional leader effectiveness model, which P. Horsey and K.H. Blanchard developed to analyze LEAD (lead effectiveness and adaptability description), is used to evaluate the basic leader behavior styles.

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