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Effects of Nursing Intervention of Mutual Goal Setting on Gastrectomy Patients According to Health Locus of Control (위절제술환자의 건강통제위에 따른 상호목표설정 간호중재의 효과)

  • Jang Eun-Hee
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Fundamentals of Nursing
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.107-124
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    • 1998
  • Based on King's goal attainment theory, this research deals with applying nursing intervention of mutual goal settings to gastrectomy patients. It tests the effects of nursing intervention, according to the patients' health locus of control, suggested as external boundary criteria for the theory by employing a quasi-experimental design which consists of a pretest-posttest non-equivalent control and experimental groups. The subjects of this research were 62 gastrectomy patients hospitalized at Y medical center and the experimental and control groups consisted of 31 subjects. The experimental group received nursing intervention at the mutual goal setting of 5 times from the day before the surgery to the 5th day after the surgery, while the control group received only routine nursing care. Recovery indicators of both groups were measured and compared. Measurement variables included patients' characteristics, health locus of control, forced vital capacity, forced expiratory volume in one second, peak expiratory flow, bowel movement recovery, mobility recovery, level of pain, patients' stress and patients' satisfaction. Data were analyzed using SPSS statistical package and the hypotheses were tested by ANOVA and ANCOVA. Results of the analyses are summarized as follows : 1) Internal health locus of control had higher effects of the nursing intervention of mutual goal setting than external health locus of control on pulmonary ventilatory functions of forced vital capacity, forced expiratory volume in one second, and peak expiratory flow. 2) There was no statistically significant difference in the effects of nursing intervention of mutual goal setting on the bowel movement recovery between the internal and external health locus of control. 3) There was no statistically significant difference in the effects of nursing intervention of mutual goal setting on the mobility recovery between the internal and external health locus of control. 4) There was no statistically significant difference in the effects of nursing intervention of mutual goal setting on the level of pain between the internal and external health locus of control. 5) There was no statistically significant difference in the effects of nursing intervention of mutual goal setting on the level of stress between the internal and external health locus of control. 6) There was a statistically significant difference in the effects of nursing intervention of mutual goal setting on the level of satisfaction with provision of nursing information between the internal and external health locus of control, and there was no statistically significant difference in the effects of nursing intervention of mutual goal setting on the level of satisfaction with outcome of nursing between the internal and external locus of control. On the basis of the research results, the following are recommended : 1) Repeated research on responses to health locus of control is necessary. 2) Not only the effectiveness of nursing intervention in acute recovery periods, but also the long term effects are to be investigated. 3) The development of instruments is needed to accurately measure mutual goal setting regarding postoperative deep breath, coughing, early ambulation, etc. so that the relationship among the postoperative recovery indicators may be explored. 4) It is required that an instrument be developed to measure perception which facilitates goal attainment in the interactive setting between patients and nurses.

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Nonhomogeneity of the Electrical Properties with Deposition Position in an ITO Thin Film Deposited under a Given R.F. Magnetron Sputtering Condition (동일 증착 조건의 스퍼터링에 의해서 제작된 Indium Tin 산화물 박막의 증착위치에 따른 전기적 특성의 불균질성)

  • 유동주;최시경
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.38 no.11
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    • pp.973-979
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    • 2001
  • Tin-doped indium oxide (ITO) thin films were deposited using r.f. magnetron reactive sputtering and the electrical properties, such as the resistivity, carrier concentration and mobility, were investigated as a function of the sample position under a given magnetron sputtering condition. The nonhomogeneity of the electrical properties with the sample position was observed under a given magnetron sputtering condition. The resistivity of ITO thin film on the substrate which corresponded to the center of the target had a minimum value, 2∼4$\times$10$\^$-4/$\Omega$$.$cm, and it increased symmetrically when the substrate deviated from the center. The density measurement result also showed that ITO thin film deposited at the center has a maximum density of 7.0g/cm$^3$, which was a relative density of about 97%, and the density decreased symmetrically as the substrate deviated from the center. The nonhomogeneity of electrical properties with the deposition position could be explained with the incidence angle of the source beam alpha, which is related with an atomic self-shadowing effect. It was confirmed experimentally that the density in film affect both the carrier mobility and the conductivity. In the case where the density of ITO thin film is 7.0g/cm$^3$, the magnitude of the mean free path was identical with that of the grain size(the diameter of column). However, in the other cases, the mean free path was smaller than the grain size. These results showed that the scattering of the free electrons at the grain boundary is the major factor for the electrical conduction in ITO thin films having a high density, and there exists other scattering sources such as vacancies, holes, or pores in ITO thin films having a low density.ing a low density.

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Development of Pose-Invariant Face Recognition System for Mobile Robot Applications

  • Lee, Tai-Gun;Park, Sung-Kee;Kim, Mun-Sang;Park, Mig-Non
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.783-788
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, we present a new approach to detect and recognize human face in the image from vision camera equipped on the mobile robot platform. Due to the mobility of camera platform, obtained facial image is small and pose-various. For this condition, new algorithm should cope with these constraints and can detect and recognize face in nearly real time. In detection step, ‘coarse to fine’ detection strategy is used. Firstly, region boundary including face is roughly located by dual ellipse templates of facial color and on this region, the locations of three main facial features- two eyes and mouth-are estimated. For this, simplified facial feature maps using characteristic chrominance are made out and candidate pixels are segmented as eye or mouth pixels group. These candidate facial features are verified whether the length and orientation of feature pairs are suitable for face geometry. In recognition step, pseudo-convex hull area of gray face image is defined which area includes feature triangle connecting two eyes and mouth. And random lattice line set are composed and laid on this convex hull area, and then 2D appearance of this area is represented. From these procedures, facial information of detected face is obtained and face DB images are similarly processed for each person class. Based on facial information of these areas, distance measure of match of lattice lines is calculated and face image is recognized using this measure as a classifier. This proposed detection and recognition algorithms overcome the constraints of previous approach [15], make real-time face detection and recognition possible, and guarantee the correct recognition irregardless of some pose variation of face. The usefulness at mobile robot application is demonstrated.

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Method for Joining Mobile Nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks using Dynamic Hysteresis (무선 센서 네트워크에서 동적 히스테리시스 특성을 이용한 이동 노드의 가입 방법)

  • Lee, Jae-Hyung;Lee, Eung-Soo;Kim, Dong-Sung
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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    • v.48 no.4
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    • pp.68-76
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, we propose a method for joining mobile nodes in wireless sensor networks using hysteresis features. It is possible to use static hysteresis, whereby joining and withdrawal are carried out repeatedly when a mobile node is located at boundary points. The energy consumption of the nodes can be effectively managed by a decrease in the response packets of the neighbors under the joining requests of the mobile nodes. However, static hysteresis causes a decrease in the joining rate. In order to increase the joining rate, dynamic hysteresis is used. To evaluate the performance of the proposed technique, the joining rate is investigated and analyzed. Simulation results show that the proposed method enables efficient joining according to the mobility of nodes in wireless sensor networks.

Mobile IP local pre-registration scheme for accommodating real-time data traffics in cdma2000 Networks (cdma2000 네트워크에서 실시간 데이터 트래픽을 수용하기 위한 Mobile IP 지역내 사전등록 기법)

  • 박민철;임재성
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.28 no.7A
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    • pp.493-502
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, to solve some problems of the Mobile IP and local registration strategy we propose a method that can effectively support real-time traffics sensitive to delay time and packet loss. The proposed method reduces the registration time after a Mobile Node's movement between networks by carrying out the pre-registration for the domain which it will move into the network information of the link layer of cdma2000 system, at the boundary cell's handoff zone. Through the cost analysis and simulation it is shown that the proposed scheme yield a better performance compared with the Mobile IP and local registration strategies in terms of packet loss for parameters; variation of the velocity of a Mobile Node, and a distance between the Mobile Node and home networks, etc.

Breakthrough Curves and Miscible Displacement of Cadmium Through Double-Layered Reclaimed Soils Amended with Macroporous Granule

  • Kim, Hye-Jin;Ryu, Jin-Hee;Kim, Si-Ju;Park, Mi-Suk;Chung, Doug-Young
    • Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.15-21
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    • 2011
  • Transport of heavy metals such as Cd is affected by several rate-limiting processes including adsorption and desorption by exchange reactions in soils. In this study, column transport and batch kinetic experiments were performed to assess Cd mobility in a double-layered soil with a reclaimed saline and sodic soil (SSS) as top soil and macroporous granule (MPG) as a bottom layer. For individual soil layer having different physical and chemical properties, Cd was considered to be nonlinear reactivity with the soil matrix in layered soils. The dispersive equation for reactive solutes was solved with three types of boundary conditions for the interface between soil layers. The adsorption of Cd with respect to the saline-sodic sandy loam and the MPG indicated that the nature of the sites or the mechanisms involved in the sorption process of Cd was different and the amounts of Cd for both of samples increases with increasing amounts of equilibrium concentration whereas the amount of Cd adsorbed in saline-sodic sandy loam soil was higher than that in MPG. The results of breakthrough curve indicating relative Cd retardation accompanied by layer material and sequence during leaching showed that the number of pore volumes to reach the maximum relative concentration of 1 increased in the order of MPG, SSS, and double layer of SSS-MPG. Breakthrough curves (BTCs) from column experiments were well predicted with our double-layered model where independently derived solute physical and retention parameters were implemented.

Interface Treatment Effect of High Performance Flexible Organic Thin Film Transistor (OTFT) Using PVP Gate Dielectric in Low Temperature (저온 공정 PVP게이트 절연체를 이용한 고성능 플렉서블 유기박막 트랜지스터의 계면처리 효과)

  • Yun, Ho-Jin;Baek, Kyu-Ha;Shin, Hong-Sik;Lee, Ga-Won;Lee, Hi-Deok;Do, Lee-Mi
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.12-16
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    • 2011
  • In this study, we fabricated the flexible pentacene TFTs with the polymer gate dielectric and contact printing method by using the silver nano particle ink as a source/drain material on plastic substrate. In this experiment, to lower the cross-linking temperature of the PVP gate dielectric, UV-Ozone treatment has been used and the process temperature is lowered to $90^{\circ}C$ and the surface is optimized by various treatment to improve device characteristics. We tried various surface treatments; $O_2$ Plasma, hexamethyl-disilazane (HMDS) and octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS) treatment methods of gate dielectric/semiconductor interface, which reduces trap states such as -OH group and grain boundary in order to improve the OTFTs properties. The optimized OTFT shows the device performance with field effect mobility, on/off current ratio, and the sub-threshold slope were extracted as $0.63cm^2 V^{-1}s^{-1}$, $1.7{\times}10^{-6}$, and of 0.75 V/decade, respectively.

Design and Performance Analysis of Bandwidth-Efficient Handoff Scheme in Proxy Mobile IPv6 Networks (프록시 모바일 IPv6 네트워크에서 대역폭에 효율적인 핸드오프 기법의 설계 및 성능 분석)

  • Yoo, Seung-Beak;Jeong, Jongpil
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.219-236
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, we propose a novel Proxy Mobile IPv6 network bandwidth-efficient handoff scheme. MN are classified into slow and fast one. At first MN should be registered in the microcell for bandwidth efficient handoff scheme. microcell is overlapped to handle the overflow session request which is nested. Overflow session request in macrocell requests to go back from the boundary of the microcell to new microcell. If idle session traffic is in a cell, it is requested by the target microcell. Analysis model was developed, an existing session of the session blocking probability and forcing termination probability of the session request have improved considerably. If the total traffic load of the system is not very large, the proposed scheme has the best bandwidth efficiency and provides better quality of service (QoS) to MN without costs of a lot of processing on the system.

Electrical, Optical, and Electrochemical Corrosion Resistance Properties of Aluminum-Doped Zinc Oxide Films Depending on the Hydrogen Content

  • Cho, Soo-Ho;Kim, Sung-Joon;Jeong, Woo-Jun;Kim, Sang-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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    • v.51 no.2
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    • pp.116-125
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    • 2018
  • Aluminum-doped zinc oxide (AZO) is a commonly used material for the front contact layer of chalcopyrite $CuInGaSe_2$ (CIGS) based thin film solar cells since it satisfies the requisite optical and electrical properties with low cost and abundant elemental availability. Low-resistivity and high-transmission front contacts have been developed for high-performance CIGS solar cells, and nearly meet the required performance. However, the durability of the cell especially for the corrosion resistance of AZO films has not been studied intensively. In this work, AZO films were prepared on Corning glass 7059 substrates by radio frequency magnetron sputtering depending on the hydrogen content. The electrical and optical properties and electrochemical corrosion resistance of the AZO films were evaluated as a function of the hydrogen content. With increasing hydrogen content to 6 wt%, the crystallinity, crystal size, and surface roughness of the films increased, and the resistivity decreased with increased carrier concentration, Hall mobility, oxygen vacancies, and $Zn(OH)_2$ binding on the AZO surface. At a hydrogen content of 6 wt%, the corrosion resistance was also relatively high with less columnar morphology, shallow pore channels, and lower grain boundary angles.

Effect of High-Energy Ball Milling on Thermoelectric Transport Properties in CoSb3 Skutterudite (고에너지 볼 밀링이 Skutterudite계 CoSb3의 열전 및 전하 전송 특성에 미치는 영향)

  • Nam, Woo Hyun;Meang, Eun-Ji;Lim, Young Soo;Lee, Soonil;Seo, Won-Seon;Lee, Jeong Yong
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.28 no.12
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    • pp.852-856
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    • 2015
  • In this study, we investigate the effect of high-energy ball milling on thermoelectric transport properties in double-filled $CoSb_3$ skutterudite ($In_{0.2}Yb_{0.1}Co_4Sb_{12}$). $In_{0.2}Yb_{0.1}Co_4Sb_{12}$ powders are milled using high-energy ball milling for different periods of time (0, 5, 10, and 20 min), and the milled powders are consolidated into bulk samples by spark plasma sintering. Microstructure analysis shows that the high-energy ball milled bulk samples are composed of nano- and micro-grains. Because the filling fractions are reduced in the bulk samples due to the kinetic energy of the high-energy ball milling, the carrier concentration of the bulk samples decreases with the ball milling time. Furthermore, the mobility of the bulk samples also decreases with the ball milling time due to enhanced grain boundary scattering of electrons. Reduction of electrical conductivity by ball milling has a decisive effect on thermoelectric transport in the bulk samples, power factor decreases with the ball milling time.