• Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.35-38
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• 2018

Recently assessment of suppression of tumorigenicity 2 (ST2) level has become a useful cardiac biomarker in human medicine. This study compared serum ST2 levels and N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) levels between healthy dogs and dogs with chronic mitral valve disease. Twenty client-owned dogs were investigated. Dogs were divided into normal, asymptomatic, and symptomatic groups. Serum samples were used to measure levels of NT-proBNP and ST2. Samples for NT-proBNP were sent to IDEXX laboratory for analysis while ST2 levels were measured by using a canine interleukin 33 receptor ELISA kit. There was a significant difference in NT-proBNP levels between asymptomatic and symptomatic groups (P < 0.01), and between normal and symptomatic groups (P < 0.01). In contrast, ST2 levels were not relatively different between asymptomatic and symptomatic groups (P > 0.05). There was no significant difference was observed among all groups in ST2 study. The usefulness of measuring NT-proBNP level as a cardiac biomarker in dogs with chronic mitral valve disease was confirmed, but usefulness of the ST2 level was not observed. Further investigations are needed to evaluate the potential usefulness of ST2 level as a cardiac biomarker in canines.

• Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.445-453
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• 2002

Purpose: This study has been designed to evaluate occupational health services on workers with hypertension Method: Study participants were 108 workers having a diagnosed hypertension. The instrument used for this study was the questionnaire developed by Cho(1998). Analysis of the data was done with SPSS Win 10.0 for descriptive statistics, Correlation coefficient. Results: 1. The mean score of process domain was $3.77\pm.43$ The score of process domains were usefulness of health management$(3.98\pm.49)$, education or counselling$(3.87\pm.53)$, follow up in medical examination$(3.79\pm.58)$, usefulness of providing materials$(3.53\pm.62)$, perception of medical examination $(3.37\pm.80)$ 2. The mean score of outcome domain was $3.47 \pm.44$ The score of outcome domains were obstructiveness of social life$(3.90\pm.78)$, habits of living $(3.41\pm.76)$, blood pressure change $(3.25\pm.81)$, perception of seriousness$(3.02\pm.88)$. 3. Blood pressure change was significant correlated with education or counselling(r=.31) and usefulness of providing materials(r=.28).

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.41-47
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• 2013

Purpose -This paper aims to understand how easy and convenient it is for consumers to use mobile services. A mobile service combines hardware and software with information technology. To specifically meet the needs of users of mobile applications, the context of usability was identified in consumer mobile services. Research Design, Data, and Methodology - For usability measurement and evaluation, appliances and software were the main target: this applied to an expanding range, such as a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), mobile phones, and wired and wireless integrated services. This study extended the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) by examining the roles of two characteristics of mobile applications'usage: usability and usefulness. Results - The study tested the research model using a structural equation modeling (SEM) technique. Results showed no significant differences between the two models. Usability comprised learnability, efficiency, memorability, errors, and satisfaction: the motivation for using a mobile application was understood as being the usefulness and easy-of-use of the mobile application. This empirical study validated the proposed research model and hypotheses, and found that the hypotheses could be supported. Finally, the phenomena derived from the causal relationships in usability were identified, and their implications considered.

• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.75-82
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• 2012

Compared to off-line, on-line word-of-mouth has fast dissemination speed and extensive effects based on interactive features. Moreover, in the age of Web 2.0, on-line media has made consumers evolve from simple purchasers to producers, who intervene into product manufacturing through on-line WOM. According to this, this study is conducted to clarify how consumer's prosumer propensity affects WOM in detail when purchasing fashion products on-line through website interactivity and perceived usefulness of WOM. The results are as follows. 1. Consumer's prosumer propensity is classified in four dimensions: the propensity to participate, the propensity to relate, the propensity to amuse and the propensity to create. 2. The sample has shown low prosumer propensity overall, and there were no gender differences. 3. Testing structural equation model, it was clarified that the higher the consumer's prosumer propensity, the higher the consumer's evaluation of website interactivity and thus the greater the WOM effect through its perception of usefulness. 4. There were some differences in the path of structural equation model according to consumer's prosumer propensity. From the results, it can be concluded that consumer's prosumer propensity is a key factor in the on-line WOM. Therefore fashion businesses should actively utilize consumer's prosumer propensity to apply their opinion in the product planning stage or use it as the means of company-friendly viral marketing.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.197-214
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• 2017

This study sheds light on the source data quality in big data systems. Previous studies about big data success have called for future research and further examination of the quality factors and the importance of source data. This study extracted the quality factors of source data from the user's viewpoint and empirically tested the effects of source data quality on the usefulness and utilization of big data analytics results. Based on the previous researches and focus group evaluation, four quality factors have been established such as accuracy, completeness, timeliness and consistency. After setting up 11 hypotheses on how the quality of the source data contributes to the usefulness, utilization, and ongoing use of the big data analytics results, e-mail survey was conducted at a level of independent department using big data in domestic firms. The results of the hypothetical review identified the characteristics and impact of the source data quality in the big data systems and drew some meaningful findings about big data characteristics.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.104-120
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• 1983

Alternative generation and evaluation in the transportation planning process are generally considered the two most important areas of research. It is, however, unfortunate that most of Korean transportation network systems are evolved without thorough investigation of alternatives and that underplanned systems as well as over-planned systems ar blamed for the current transportation problems. This paper investigates the practical use of formal methodology of alternative generation and evaluation. The maximum possible alternative network approach and the computer oriented network evaluation method developed by KIST and applied for Pusan subway study are summarized to demonstrate their practical usefulness. The practical problems centering around the quantification of evaluation criteria ar also summarized for further studies.

• Knowledge Management Research
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.117-128
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• 2008

It is very crucial to establishing an evaluation framework for anayzing the investment effects of IT asset such as knowledge managment systems. However, evaluation by quantitative measures, in spite of its usefulness and reliability, may have weakness in examining wide range of effects of the IT investment. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to propose a novel framework to evaluate the performance in terms of wider range of informatization effects. To do so, knowledge management concepts has been adopted in the evaluation method, and Impact Of Investment(IOI) has been suggested. IOI is used to derive Value Of Investment(VOI) and then ROI.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.877-884
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• 2005

The importance and usefulness of a subjective evaluation of the sensorial properties of scoured silk fabrics is discussed. Silk fabric was treated at 12 different scouring rates and the scoured fabrics were used as specimens. Using paired comparisons, three trained subjects, evaluated seven subjective sensorial properties; softness, elasticity, drape, stiffness, crispness, and luster. A quad experimental design was adopted as an effective and reliable evaluation method. Results showed that some properties such as drape, luster were easily discriminated depending on the scouring rates whereas the smoothness was not easily discriminated. As the scouring rate increased, it was hard to discriminated the softness, drape, and stiffness, which indicates there is an optimum scouring rates to have a certain sensorial properties. It was suggested that these results should be applied to the manufacturing process.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.153-169
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• 1998

The purposes or this study were to develop the scientific experimental model, experimental guidelines for teachers, experiment planning & report form for students, and evaluation scales for the Home Economics Textiles class in high school. First, through review of literature concerned, scientific experimental model was defined, and the usefulness of this model on the teaching situation testified on other subjects such as Physics and Bilolgy, was reviewed. Secondly, scientific experimental model, experimental guidelines for teachers, experiment planning & report form for students, and evaluation scale were developer on the bases on APU evaluation model, experimental guidelines for teachers, experiment planning & report form for students, evaluation scale applicable to the teaching situation ere established by analysing the significant differences scientifically.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 1993.06a
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• pp.1226-1229
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• 1993

This paper proposes a new on-line fuzzy model identification(ONFID) algorithm in which the fuzzy model evaluation stage is incorporated. The fuzzy model evaluation is performed by the fuzzy equality index which is known to be a useful tool to evaluate the performance of the identified fuzzy model. Then the fuzzy model is updated according to the result of the evaluation. Proposed ONFID algorithm can sensibly identify to the system changes. To show the usefulness of the proposed algorithm, it is applied to the fuzzy model identification problem of the gas furnace and the output prediction problem of the flexible joint manipulator which is a nonlinear system.