• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.484-494
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• 2000

Objective : To evaluate the relative benefits and the costs associated with the introduction of the new pharmaceutical provision called 'Mandatory Prescription System' which separates the role of physicians from that of pharmacists with respect to the prescription and dispensation of from the perspective of consumers (i.e., patients). Methods : The costs of the system were measured by considering both direct and indirect costs. Direct costs included additional payments for ambulatory care and dispensing fees that occurred under the new system. indirect costs consisted of transportation expenses and costs related to time spent for physician consultation, waiting for the prescriptions to be filled, and extra traveling. Benefits identified in this study were the reduction of drug misuse and overuse, and the overall decrease in drug consumption among the Korean population. Sensitivity analysis was peformed for the inclusion of benefits for outpatients of hospitals, price elasticity, and increased fees for established patients. Results : The net benefit was estimated to be about minus 1,862 billion won and the benefit-cost ratio was 0.478. This indicates that the costs of 'Mandatory Prescription' outweigh its benefits, relative to the previous system. The sensitivity analysis results for all the variables considered in this study consistently showed the benefit-cost ratio to be less than 1. Conclusion : The results of this study suggest that implementing Mandatory Prescription System in Korea might be inefficient from the consumer's perspective. The results of this study do not coincide with the results of previous studies, presumably because of the differences in study design and in which items of costs and benefits were considered.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.119-135
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• 2005

Design of location erea(LA) in a cellular network is to partition the network into clusters of cells so as to minimize the cost of location updating and paging. Most research works dealing with the LA design problem assume that the call. arrival rate and mobile flow rate are fixed parameters which can be estimated independently. In this aspect, most Problems addressed so far are deterministic LA design problems(DLADP), known to be NP hard. The mobile flow and call arrival rate are, however, varying with time and should be treated simultaneously because the call arrival rate in a cell during a day is influenced by the change of a population size of the cell. This Paper Presents a new model on IA design problems considering the time-dependent call arrival and mobile flow rate. The new model becomes a stochastic LA design problem(SLADP) because It takes into account the possibility of paging waiting and blocking caused by the changing call arrival rate and finite paging capacity. Un order to obtain the optimal solution of the LA design problem, the SIADP is transformed Into the DLADP by introducing the utilization factor of paging channels and the problem is solved iteratively until the required paging quality is satisfied. Finally, an illustrative example reflecting the metropolitan area, Seoul, is provided and the optimal partitions of a cell structure are presented.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.77-88
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• 2006

본 연구는 복합교통망의 실시간적 운영전략에 활용 가능한 동적 K최소시간경로탐색알고리즘을 제안하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 이를 위해 정적 K경로탐색에 적용되었던 전체경로삭제방안을 동적 최적경로탐색알고리즘에 확장 적용함으로써 복합교통망에서 시간종속적으로 변화하는 수단-링크 통행시간과 수단-링크간의 환승비용에 기초하여 경로를 순차적으로 탐색하는 K경로알고리즘을 제시하였다. 특히, 링크기반동적표지를 적용함으로써 수단간 환승시 발생되는 환승이동, 환승대기 및 기타 환승행태를 용이하게 모사하면서 최적해를 도출하도록 하였다. 최적식과 함께 제시된 알고리즘은 복잡도계산을 통해 효율성을 살펴보았으며. 버스와 지하철로 구성된 소규모 가상네트워크에 대해 적용해 봄으로써 알고리즘의 검증 및 활용성을 검토해 보았다.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.77-85
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• 2010

승차권 발매 유형의 다변화 및 무인 발권 비율이 증가됨에 따라 효율적 역 운영을 위해 역사내 매표창구수 최적화 문제가 제기되고 있다. 기존 선행 연구에서 고객 발권특성 및 서비스 시간 특성, 발권 현황 등에 대해 분석 제시한 바 있으나, 향후 발권 환경 변화에 따른 정책 의사결정을 위해 보다 객관적이고 신뢰할 수 있는 결과 도출이 요구되었다. 이에 본 연구에서는 현재 운영중인 주요 역의 매표창구 발권 현황 Data를 근거로 하여 역 매표창구수 최적화 및 민감도 분석을 위한 시뮬레이션을 구현하였으며, 매표창구수 변화에 따른 민감도 분석 결과 역별 발권 및 운영 특성에 따라 다소 차이는 있으나 최소 1개~7개까지 축소 운영이 가능할 것으로 검토되었다. 향후 매표창구 변화 운영에 따른 발권 실적 분석을 통해 시뮬레이션 결과에 대한 지속적 검증을 수행할 계획이며 역 매표창구에서의 고객 대기시간 최소화 및 운영비용 절감을 위한 효율적 매표창구 운영 방안 수립시 기여할 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.996-1001
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 Mobile IPTV의 서비스를 위한 네트워크 선택 알고리즘을 제안하고 처리속도가 낮은 단말기의 부하를 줄이기 위한 계층별 처리 시스템을 구현하였다. 제안한 알고리즘은 새로운 사용자가 네트워크에 접속할 때 잔여 대역폭, 네트워크 비용, 신호세기를 이용하는 계산식에서 나온 우선순위 값으로 네트워크를 선택한다. 처리속도가 낮은 단말기의 응용계층에서 네트워크 선택과 TV서비스 제공을 모두하면 시스템 부하로 서비스의 품질이 낮아지게 되므로 네트워크 선택과 TV 서비스기능을 계층별로 나누어 처리하는 시스템을 구현하였다. 실험결과 사용자가 직접 네트워크를 선택하는 방법에서는 대역폭 할당을 위한 대기시간이 존재하고, 대역폭을 모두 소진한 경우 대역폭 할당을 위한 대기 시간이 길어지는 반면 본 논문에서 제안한 우선순위를 이용한 네트워크 선택 알고리즘을 이용할 경우 여러 네트워크 중 상태가 좋은 네트워크를 선택하기 때문에 데이터 전송속도가 평균적으로 유지가 되고 대역폭 할당 대기시간이 낮아지는 것을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2003

Patients satisfaction continues to receive attention as a measure of the outcome of physical therapy intervention. This study measures patient satisfaction among physical therapists' patients and clients and to identify factors of patient satisfaction that will affect patients decision. The instrument developed by Goldstein et. al(2000) was used. PAtients' opinions of service in each domain were measured using 5-point Likert-type scales. A 20-item instrument designed to measure the domains of patient satisfaction and 8 additional items were included. Data were collected at 8 hospital in Kwang-ju city Descriptive statistics, reliability, ANOVA, cross-tabs and regression analysis were computed. A total 365 individuals completed the instrument. Waiting time, treatment and cost domain predicted the satisfaction of physical therapy

• 경영과학
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.157-165
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• 2012

This paper researches on the effective and efficient logistics policy for the parcel express company. The paper derives new policy by considering the number of used vehicles, carbon emission amount, delivery completion time, etc. The maximum waiting of delivery is considered as the time limit T day. To verify the effectiveness of the derived policy, the data of 30 days is generated, and it was shown that the derived policy is very effective compared with the conventional one.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1446-1448
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• 2004

Communication line used in the rail-road have different use from subscriber line in the public telecommunication. But, when an existing communication equipment is replaced, by applying new high-speed transfer technology, we can anticipate the increase of transmission rate and decrease of waiting time according to high-speed of communication line. cost reduction of infrastructure construction and maintenance/repair according to centralization of communication line and transmission equipment. In this study, the transmission scheme of several xDSL(Digital Subscriber Line) modems were compared and analyzed. The way of applying xDSL modem to the metal cable which is used in the JR(Japan Railroad) is analyzed. In addition, the result tested in railroad communication line was reviewed.

• 대한치과의사협회지
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• 제49권1호
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• pp.22-32
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• 2011

This paper reviewed the following subheadings and a few selected references in each section were discussed: ${\cdot}$ Sealant placed over caries; is it possible? Initial caries which is not sticky during proving is possible to be placed with sealants. ${\cdot}$ Prophylaxis of fissure; which method is most effective? Mechanical preparation with fissurotomy or resin polishing bur is one of the most effective method to clean the pit and fissure. ${\cdot}$ Glassionomer cement as a sealant; GIC, wheather it released fluoride or not, cannot be as cost-effective as resin-based sealants. ${\cdot}$ Sealant products; Color(white vs opaque), fluoride(containing vs not), filler component(filled vs non-filled) do not influenced the quality and retention of sealants. ${\cdot}$ Use of intermediate bonding agent to improve retention; Intermediate bonding may increase the retention rate of sealants ${\cdot}$ Penetration method of sealants; Several methods including waiting before light curing are recommended.

• 한국국방경영분석학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.98-109
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• 1998

This study develops a maintenance strategy for a reparable 2-unit standby system. The maintenance strategy implies the waiting time to call the repair facility when the unit-1 fails. Almeida and Souza set up the multi-attribute utility function consisting of system availability and repair cost for several maintenance strategies and decide the optimal maintenance strategy that maximize the expected value of the utility function. We decide the optimal maintenance strategy satisfying the following two criteria about the utility function : maximum variance using Almeida and Souza's utility function. It both criteria are not satisfied at the same time for every strategies, the strategy maximizing the lower confidence limit for expected utility function is regarded as an optimal one.