• 유통과학연구
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.97-104
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• 2015

Purpose - This study examines the positive impact of the social distance between producers and users of online content, investigating and analyzing the most popular Web content. In addition, it tries to elicit the matching effect that appears when the individuals'cultural background is consistent with social distance. Research design, data, and methodology - We collected and analyzed actual data about 4,981 videos clips on YouTube, looking at six countries in order to verify the content of this study. Based on the results of the data analysis, the study conducted behavioral measurements on popularity, social distance, culture, and user engagement. The unit of analysis was the content and we collected information about the content producers and the content records. We controlled the views, comments, likes, calendar dates, and ages in the empirical models. The data was collected in 2011, with the records coming from South Korea, Japan, China, U.S., German, and France. A total of 4,980 elements were analyzed in the model. The empirical model estimated is the bivariate negative binomial distribution (NBD) model. Results - It turns out that there is a possibility that the matching effect can be diminished by variables that reflect the psychological involvement of user engagement. This study proposes academic and practical implications based on these research results. This research shows the positive effect of social distance between users and producers on the increased performance of the online content. We find the effect of social distance to be a stronger tendency in collectivism. The collectivists follow their sense of friendship and intimacy in their culture and, the social congruence effect can be found there as well. The effect, however, could erode in a social case where users are motivated by strong intrinsic and psychological factors. In addition, user engagement complicates the process of user decision making regarding the information. Conclusions - This study examines how the differential effects of social distance caused by culture could disappear through user commitment as a complicated user motivation. Some potential implications are as follows. First, a firm in the collectivism culture has to communicate based on the social distance. In fact, most online channels do not have a function that indicates the social distance as measured by favorites or subscribers. This function could help increase the performance of the content in online channels, but this increasing effect can only be found in a collectivist culture. Based on this, the firms have to communicate and announce to users the actual social distance between users and producers. Second, firms should develop a system that discovers the social distance and culture and shows these measures to users and producers, since the congruence effect between social distance and culture is found only for low user engagement. The firms can take the advantage of the congruence effect only for the development of the social distance and culture visualized system.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.1013-1024
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• 2017

Objectives: The study investigated health professionals working in the metropolitan area and Jeolla-bukdo, South Korea, from April 30 to May 17, 2017 to understand their views on the issue of including dental hygienists in the scope of medical personnel of South Korea. Methods:A total of 270 surveys were analyzed in this study. The survey consists of 5 questions on general issues; 10 on the awareness of present work of dental hygienist; and 1 on opposition or approval about including dental hygienist in medical personnel. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS for Windows 18.0, as well as frequency analysis, cross analysis and logistic regression analysis. Statistical significance level (${\alpha}$) is 0.05. Results: 1. Broken down by gender, male subjects showed more oppositions against including dental hygienists in the category of medical personnel while female subjects showed more favorable opinions (p<0.05). In terms of academic background, those who had graduated from graduate school or higher showed a higher propensity for opposition while those who had graduated from a 3-year college showed a higher tendency for approval on the idea (p<0.05), In terms of occupational type, health professionals showed more opposing views whereas medical technologists showed more approvals than others (p<0.001). 2. With respect to the awareness of work specialty and proficiency of dental hygienist according to general characteristics, the higher the age, the higher the awareness level was. In terms of the occupational type, medical technologists were found to have higher awareness level than health professionals (p<0.001). 3. With respect to the relationship between general characteristics and view on including dental hygienists in medical personnel, the occupational type of health professional was found to have 6.33 times more oppositions than medical technologists. When the awareness level on proficiency of dental hygienist was low, opposition was 6.52 times more frequent (p<0.05). Conclusions: Based on the findings above, the inclusion of dental hygienists in medical personnel seems necessary in properly establishing the specialty and role of dental hygienist in the dentist medical environment of the country in order to enhance national oral health related preventive dental service and expand the demand. To this end, it is necessary to provide nationwide promotion, work to change the awareness of health professionals in other occupational types, and facilitate public promotion for legal ground establishment.

• 감성과학
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.65-74
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 현대 사회의 주요 흐름인 '발전과 진화'의 방향성에서 한발 물러나, '지우는' 경험과 그 감성에 대한 연구 가능성을 탐색하고자 하였다. 이를 위해, 지금까지 많은 주목을 받지 못한 키워드인 지우는 경험에 대한 통합적 문헌조사를 우선적으로 수행하였으며, 이를 토대로 실제 사용자들을 대상으로 하는 맥락 질문법을 진행하였다. 맥락 질문법의 경우, 아날로그적인 연필-지우개 사용맥락, 디지털의 대표적인 맥락인 컴퓨터-키보드 사용맥락, 마지막으로 최근 활발한 활용을 보이는 Tablet PC 사용맥락에 따른 사용자들을 모집한 후, 각각의 사용맥락에 대한 In-depth한 정성적 인터뷰 및 정량적 자료 수집을 진행하였다. 결과적으로, 지우는 맥락에서는 특정 내용을 잘 지워내는 상황적 효용뿐만 아니라 이를 수행하는 사용자에게도 정서적으로 만족스러운 경험을 제공해야함을 확인할 수 있었다. 해당 연구에서 진행된 탐험적 시도 및 실증적 결과들은 향후 연구들에 대한 학술적 접근과 함께 실용적 관점에서의 디자인 함의를 제공할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.117-144
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• 2008

Lots of virtual communities and online businesses presently derive their primary sources of revenues through advertising, but nevertheless are plagued with marginal profitability though they might possess a significant user base. In the light of the need for an efficacious business model, there have been recent insights of an online community in particular reaping profits through an innovative and lucrative revenue generation method that earns by selling digital items. There have been some obvious evidences (e.g., Cyworld, SecondLife, Habo Hotel, etc.) that online communities can be profitable through their unique business model of selling digital items. However, there is lack of understanding about the motivation of purchasing digital items. This study tries to identify the main motivators of digital item purchases based on social/individual identity theory and self-presentation theory. "Digital items", otherwise known as "virtual assets", may include online avatars, accessories for the avatars, decorative ornaments like furniture, digital wallpapers, skins, background music and virtual weapons used for Internet games. These digital items are employed by users for representation and articulation in the online space, especially to create and enhance their online profiles in web pages and games. Prices for digital items typically range from a few cents to a few dollars each. Based on the theoretical framework like social identity theory and self-presentation theory, we developed the research model and proposed seven hypotheses. An analysis of 225 members of Cyworld found that digital item purchase intention in virtual world is affected by both members' need for self-presentation and need for affiliation. We also found that the need for self-presentation is significantly increased by innovativeness of members, community group norm, and community involvement. We concluded that the need for self-presentation could be a key variable for profitable business model in online community service industry. However, neither individual self-efficacy nor the need for affiliation significantly influenced the need for self-presentation which triggers purchase intention of digital items. In term of the theoretical and practical contribution, this study can be a pioneering empirical research that investigates the purchase intention of digital items based on social identity theory and self-presentation theory in the online context. Also, the findings of our study are valuable and practical for practitioners in the market who wish to adopt or improve the business model of selling digital items in an online community. From the findings, it can be seen that innovativeness of users, community group norm, and community involvement are three significant factors that influence need for self-presentation of users which ultimately leads to their intentions to buy digital items. These findings put forth that virtual community providers and online businesses selling digital items should prioritize their efforts and focus on these three factors if they want to increase the sales of these digital items and generate greater revenues. This study provides important implications for academic researchers and practitioners to understand why the community members pay money for their digital items in virtual world and how the practitioners can increase the sales of digital items in an online community. A couple of limitations of the study and future research directions are also discussed.

• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.65-73
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• 2013

본 종설의 목적은 한국 호스피스 완화의료 사회복지가 어떤 활동을 전개했고 어떤 위치에 놓여 있는지를 이해함으로써 향후 한국 호스피스 완화의료 사회복지가 해야 할 미래전략 제시한다. 문헌조사와 참여관찰을 통해 한국 호스피스 완화의료 사회복지가 전개해 온 활동을 과거, 현재, 미래전략으로 나눠서 역할 및 자격 기준, 교육, 연구, 정책 활동의 네 축을 중심으로 살펴본다. 첫째, 호스피스 완화의료 사회복지사의 역할이 명확하게 정립되어 있지 않고 자격기준이 미비하다. 사회복지사의 불명확한 역할과 미비한 자격기준은 전문성 발휘를 어렵게 한다. 미래 전략은 역할의 재정립과 인력 및 자격기준의 마련이 필요하다. 둘째, 교육에 있어서 호스피스 완화의료 사회복지사를 대상으로 하는 전문교육이 충분하지 못하다. 또한 교육자가 부족하다. 미래전략은 전문교육의 강화와 교육자 개발 교육이 마련되어야 한다. 셋째, 연구에서 사회복지사의 학술지 게재 편수가 절대적으로 부족하며 타 전문직에 비해서 학술활동의 참여도가 낮다. 미래전략은 연구 및 학술활동의 활성화와 개입효과성 증명 등 정책반영에 필요한 근거 중심의 연구가 필요하다. 끝으로 제도적으로 인력확보 및 수가인정을 받지 못하고 있다. 미래전략은 호스피스 완화의료 사회복지사의 전담 인력확보, 수가인정을 위한 적극적인 정책 활동이 필요하다. 한국 호스피스 완화의료 사회복지는 전략적인 접근을 가지고 목표를 구체적으로 정하고 이에 집중해야 한다. 또한 관련 학회, 협회, 학교와 네트워킹과 파트너십 구축을 통해 인프라를 구축하며, 실행 조직체계를 구성하고 실행 주체를 강화해야 한다.

• 지역연구
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.17-27
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• 2017

본 연구의 목적은 창업의 이론적 배경에 근거하여 산업별 창업의 결정 요인을 분석하는 것이다. 이를 위해 경기 요인, 소득 요인, 기술 혁신 요인 외에 지역 요인에도 초점을 맞춰 지역 산업구조 특성 및 지역 노동시장 구조를 고려하였다. 분석결과 산업별 창업 결정 요인에 있어서 창업의 세 가지 이론은 대체로 부합한다고 할 수 있다. 경기쇠퇴기에 오히려 창업이 증가하였고, 지역 내 소비 뿐 아니라, 1인당 지방재정지출의 경우에도 창업에 긍정적 영향을 미쳐 창업을 통한 지역경제 성장을 위해 지방정부의 역할이 보다 중요하다고 하겠다. 창업보육센터가 제조업 부문에서 창업에 긍정적 영향을 주어 중앙 및 지방정부의 창업 지원정책의 일환인 창업보육센터 외에도 다양한 산학 주도형 창업보육시설 또한 활성화되어야 할 것이다. 또한 창업에 있어서 인구증가는 잠재적 수요 창출 측면에서 볼 때 매우 중요한 요소였으며, 지역 산업구조 특성과 지역 내 인적자본의 영향은 산업별로 다르게 나타났다. 제조업의 경우 집적효과가 동(同)산업의 창업에 긍정적으로 작용하였으며, 기타 서비스업의 경우 다른 모든 조건이 일정할 때 인적자본 변수가 창업에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다.

• 대한예방한의학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.45-53
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• 2017

Background and Aim : Lately the age of competition has come among the medical service area. At the same time disputes over the medical practice related to the medical person's territory tend to increase. In part it is due to the increased medical persons but in part it is because the medical practice is not defined clearly in the Medical Service Act for the practice of each medical person. So the legal definition of medical practice will be discussed here. Materials and Method : The cases from the court have been confirmed the difference between the two medical persons regarding the actual events. Legal aspects of medical practice in Korean medicine and the related cases will be reviewed and analysed. Results : The form of medical practice consists of administrating Korean medicine treatment and providing guidance for health based on Korean medicine. For medical doctors the practice includes medical treatment and guidance for health. Circular definition in the Medical Service Act over the medical practice, medical person and medical instruments makes it difficult to understand the whole idea. Therefore, the court has a tendency to decide the medical practice of medical doctor of Korean medicine from the some reliable points which is: 1) it is based on the principle of traditional Korean Medicine, 2) it is practiced by the medical doctor of Korean Medicine, 3) it can do harm to the patient without proper involvement of the medical doctor of Korean Medicine. Now the Act on the promotion of Korean Medicine and Pharmaceuticals makes it include the concept of "scientifically applied and developed" medical practice of Korean Medicine. Conclusions : With the essential change in the Act on the promotion of Korean Medicine and Pharmaceuticals, it is expected that even slight change can be seen in the court cases. However, still the concept of medical practice in the Medical Service Act remains the same. Modernisation of Korean Medicine, enhancement of textbooks and clinical practice training and the effort to amend the law to clearly define the medical practice of Korean Medicine will contribute to the clinical and academic environment. Evidence based Korean Medicine and even the unification of east-west medicine could be considered for the situation.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.201-212
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• 2012

Objectives : The purpose of this study was to examine about workers' oral health status and oral health behavior practice. Methods : Questionnaire survey was carried out targeting 331 workers within the industrial complex of Jeonju city in 2011. As a result of surveying and analyzing workers' oral health status, habit related to oral health, activity restriction, which is oral disease phase, and oral health practice level by using SPSSWIN 12.0. Results : 1. Workers' experience of visiting dental hospital(clinic) for the past one year was indicated to be the highest with 64.9% in the working period with 10 years-under 20 years(p<0.001). Experience of scaling was indicated to be averagely 38.8%. 2. The oral health status perceived by workers was the highest with 40.5% in 'having something abnormal'. A problem was the highest with 28.0% in 'dental caries'. A cause was indicated to be 42.6% in 'because of being naturally weak in tooth or the gum.' The biggest reason for having failed to receive the dental treatment at a proper time was indicated to be the highest with 24.8% in 'because of feeling burdensome about dental expense. '3. 58.4% of male workers were smoking. The use of dental hygiene device was the highest with 40.6% in mouth-rinse. 4. Absence caused by oral disease was indicated to be the highest with 13.8% in the household income in more than 3,500,000won, thereby having shown the significant difference(p<0.05). Early leaving was indicated to be the highest 13.9% in more than 50s age, thereby having shown the significant difference(p<0.05). Also, as for factors of absence and early leaving, a pain was the highest with 64.7%. 5. Workers' oral health practice level was the highest with 2.85 points in 'Brushing teeth before going to bed'. Conclusions : Synthesizing these findings, the oral management could be known to be made negligently in the workers with the older age, the lower academic background, and the lower income. The institutional foundation is considered to be necessary for which the oral health education can be efficiently performed in addition to a need of periodic oral examination for these classes.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.229-242
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• 2006

This study was conducted to find out basic information on better customer satisfaction and service by examining and analyzing in what routes patients mostly have selected their dental medical organizations and how they have reacted to their dissatisfaction. The subject of study included the patients who have come to dental clinics and dental hospitals to be treated in Cheonan City, Chungnam and the researcher of this study used a survey and analyzed its gathered data using an SPSS(Statistical Package for the Social Science) WIN 11.5 Program. As analysis methods, frequency and percentage were calculated to figure out the general characteristics of its subject. In addition, a ${\chi}^2$(Chi-square) test was performed to figure out the factors that patients have selected their dental medical organizations and the following results were obtained. 1. The largest number of patients selected their dental medical organizations by hearsay and more female and married patients selected them by hearsay than other patients, and there were significant differences(p<.05). 2. The dental patients put the priority on treatment techniques in their visiting hospitals and the patients who were more than 40 years old and married patients put more emphasis on treatment techniques in their visiting hospitals than other patients and there were significant differences(p<.05). 3. The said dental patients were not satisfied with the kindness of medical staffs in their visiting medical organizations; meanwhile, the patients who were aged below 30 and had an academic background of more than university degree and were unmarried were less satisfied with the kindness of medical staffs in their visiting medical organizations than other patients and there were significant differences(p<.05). 4. In terms of improvement methods or complaints, the largest number of them said that they just ignored and endured; meanwhile, the patients who were aged below 30 and had an education of more than university degree and were unmarried were more patient of improvement methods or complaints than other patients and there were significant differences(p<.05). 5. There were more patients who have introduced their visiting medical organizations to their neighboring people than the patients who have not done it; in the meantime, the patients who were aged over 40 and were married have introduced their visiting medical organizations to their neighboring people more than other patients(p<.05).

• 공학교육연구
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.64-75
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• 2008

본 연구는 평생학습 능력의 중심 개념인 자기주도학습의 측정을 위한 자기주도학습 준비도 검사도구(SDLRS)의 신뢰도, 타당도를 검증하여, 공학교육의 프로그램 학습성과 항목 중 평생학습 능력의 평가도구로서의 활용 가능성을 제시하고자 한다. 이를 위한 구체적인 연구목표는 다음과 같다. 즉, 자기주도학습 준비도 검사도구의 신뢰도와 타당도를 검증하고 공과대학 학생들의 개인 변인에 따른 자기주도학습 준비도의 차이를 검증하는 것이다. 연구의 목적을 달성하기 위해 문헌연구와 조사연구를 수행하였는데, 평생학습과 자기주도학습에 대한 문헌연구를 토대로 Gugliemino(1977)의 자기주도학습 준비도 검사도구를 이용하여 경기도 소재 A대학의 기계공학 전공 학생들 218명을 대상으로 조사연구를 수행하였다. 검사도구는 5점 척도로 구성되어 있으며 수집된 자료는 기술통계, 요인분석, t검증, ANOVA에 의한 F검증 등의 분석 방법이 이용되었다. 58개의 원검사 도구는 7차례에 걸친 요인분석 결과 23개 문항으로 압축되었다. 또한 학습에 대한 사랑, 학습에 대한 개방성, 자아개념, 기본학습기능과 독립성, 학습에 대한 책임수용, 주도성과 미래지향성, 독창성과 탐구적 특성의 7개 요인으로 재구조화되었으며 전체 변량의 약 58%를 설명하였으며 Cronbach $\alpha$값은 .8332이었다. 개인적 배경에 따른 자기주도학습 준비도 분석 결과 학년, 산업체 근무기간, 대학원 진학계획, 학점에 대해서는 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 있었으나, 성별, 산업체 근무여부, 부모의 학력, 가구의 소득 수준에 따라서는 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 없는 것으로 나타났다. 이상과 같은 연구를 기초로 하여 향후에는 보다 많은 모집단을 대상으로 연구를 수행함으로써 연구결과를 검증해 볼 필요가 있다. 또한, 다양한 검사도구의 적용을 통해 검사도구간의 상관관계 및 평생학습에 영향을 주는 능력과의 상관관계에 대한 후속연구를 수행함으로써 평생학습 능력을 향상시킬 수 있는 방안에 대한 연구를 보다 체계적으로 수행해야 할 것이다.