• 대한치과기공학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.179-198
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• 2000

Since dental prosthesis is made possible only when dental technicians give themselves to the study of knowledge and the acquisition of updated skills, continuing education is of great importance in that it makes up for the efforts of dental technicians. Accordingly, continuing education relates to a system designed to contribute to the enhancement of the talents of dental technicians and the dental health of the nation. Specialized knowledge and information may work as the best weapon to preserve their jbs. This is true of this modern society where no one can expecth to survive without acquiring knowledge and information constantly for work is getting more classified and more divirsifide. This paper is dedicated to take a look at the current condition of the continuing education of dental technicians and to come up with measure to make general evaluation and to improve continuing education. This research resorts to 609 questionnaires among 6433 copies save unfaithfully responded 34 copos with 6.431 dental technicians as the subjects enrolled in the Dental technician Association. The collected questionnaires consist of 365 dental technicians living in Seoul and of 244 ones, Which account for 11.8 percent of dental technicians enrolled in the association. Because dental technicians live more in local areas than Seoul, the generalization of this survey leaves something to be desired. I have come up with the following findings. 1. 6,431 dental technicians, or 36.3 percent of an total of 14,956 licensed dental technicians, were admitted as numbers of the Dental Tachnician Association as of October 31, 1999. In the '98 continuing education. 4,141 dental technicians among 4,711 dental technicians got relevant training, and in the '99 continuing education, 4,075 technicians, or 75.9 percent of 5,365 technicians got relevant training while 1,290 technicians or 24.2 percent, fail to get relevant training. 2. The survey has it that 38.1 percent of dental technicians are ignorant of the laws on continuing education, and that technicians staying in local communities(146 persons, or 61.6%) take more part in education than those living in the capital of Korea(159 persons, or 146%), and that the older they are, the more money they earn, the more carrer they have, the higher position they hold, the more part they take in education 3. According to the survey, those who have the experience of getting training more than three times account for 52 persons(16.8%) in Seoul and 47 persons(22.4%) in local districts(p<0.01). In terms of sanctions in relation to continuing education, 26 dental technicians(4.6%) say that they have ever gotten sanctions, and 533 dental technicians(95.4%) say that they haven't. And those who were absent from continuing education(72 technicians : 13.51%) didn't get any sanction. 4. In terms of the degree of understanding continuing education, local technicians(46.8% : 110 persons) have a higher understanding of continuing education than their countparts staying in Seoul(36.0% : 130). Continuing education is not the ultimate goal itself. It should be changed to motivate those who get education to be willing to take part in contunuing education, and to help dental technicians in a practical and specific way. And the branch societies should be developde to engage in more specialized and classified expert fields. Of course, the curriculum should be so selected that the conceptions of dental technicians may be reflected to the maximum extent, and the ultimate effores should be made to effect diversity in the ways of educational methods and to perfect the preparation of continuing education on the part of instructors. Regulations should be established in relation to continuing education with a veiew to enhancing the participation of continuing education and its effectiveness. The supervision of the Ministry of Health and Welfare is of great importance in this context. The regulation of continuing education is not administrative regulation, but the expression of national will to guarantee the medical service of the nation at highest level. Therefore, it is necessary that the Ministry of Health and Welfare should change their understanding of the needs for the continuing education of dental experts, and that the expertise of government employees in charge of continuing education should be expanded. It goes without saying that the government should suppory continuing education in a financial way so as to supply the person in charge of public welfare and control the quality of national medicine.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.109-117
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• 2011

전시 공간에서 전시 제공자는 자신의 마케팅 정보를 원활하게 제공하고 관람객의 반응을 실시간으로 확인하기를 원한다. 또한 전시 관람객은 자신이 가장 관심 있어 하는 분야의 부스를 관람하고 그 분야에 대한 정보를 얻고 싶어한다. 그런데 전시장을 방문하는 관람객들에게 상호 작용적 맞춤 개인화 마케팅 서비스를 관람객의 단말기를 통해 제공하게 된다면 전시 제공자와 관람객 모두의 요구를 충족하게 될 것이다. 이러한 서비스를 제공하기 위해서는 사용자의 의도를 인지할 수 있어야 하고 그 인지된 정보를 기준으로 해서 선별적인 서비스를 제공해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 전시 공간에서 관람객 개개인의 선호도와 상황을 인식하고 인식된 정보를 기본으로 해서 관람객 개인별로 가장 적합한 전시 참가 업체의 마케팅 정보나 부스 정보를 관람객이 소유한 스마트폰을 통해 제공하는 지능형 개인화 서비스 어플리케이션을 설계하였다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.195-221
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• 2009

According to an industry report, a large number of organizations have invested in Organizational Information System(OIS) in the past few years. Several research results indicate that successful investments in OIS lead to productivity enhancement, while failed ones result in undesirable consequences such as financial losses and dissatisfaction among employees. In spite of huge investments, however, many organizations have failed in achieving the hoped-for returns from OIS. Thus, understanding user acceptance, adoption, and usage of new IS(Information Systems) is an important issue for IS practitioners. Indeed, study of the user acceptance of new information system has been one of the most important research topics in the contemporary IS literature. Several theoretical models are tested to examine 'user acceptance' and 'usage behavior' in IS context. While many research models incorporate 'ease of use' or 'usefulness' as important factors in explaining user acceptance, Technology Acceptance Model(TAM) has been one of the most widely applied models in user acceptance and usage behavior. Even in recent IS studies that employ theories of innovation diffusion in the area of IS implementation, a major focus has been on the user's perception of information technologies. In this research, we study 'voluntariness' as an important factor in IS acceptance by users. Voluntariness is defined as "the degree to which the use of the innovation is perceived as being voluntary, or of free will" When examining the diffusion of accepting OIS, a thoughtful consideration should be given to 'perceived voluntariness.' Current article has following research questions: 1) What models are appropriate to explain the success of OIS? and 2) How does the 'voluntariness' affect the success of OIS? In order to answer these questions, a research model is proposed to describe the detailed nature of association among three independent variables (IT usage level, task interdependency, and organizational support), a mediating variable (IS usage), a dependent variable (perceived performance), and a moderating variable(perceived voluntariness). The central claim of this article is that organizations hardly realize expected returns from OIS investments unless perceived voluntariness is effectively managed after operating OIS. As an example of OIS in this study we have selected the Intranet of Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF). ROKAF has implemented the Intranet in an attempt to improve communication and coordination within the organization. To test our research model and hypotheses, survey questionnaires were first sent out to 400 Intranet users. With the assistance of ROKAF, Intranet users were initially identified among its members, and subjects were randomly drawn from the pool. 377 survey responses were finally returned. The unit of measurement and analysis in this research is a personal level. Path analysis based on structural equation modeling was used to test research hypotheses. Construct validity represents accordance between the theoretical base concept of constructs and its measurement items. Tests for the reliability and discriminant validity are accepted, thus verifying our survey instrument. In this research, we have proposed a conceptual framework to highlight the importance of perceived voluntariness after organization deploys OIS. The results of our analysis present several key finding. First, all three independent variables (IT usage level, task interdependency, and organizational support) have significant effects on IS usage, which will eventually improve performance. Thus, IS usage plays a mediating role between antecedent variables (IT usage level. task interdependency, and organizational support) and performance improvement. Second, the effect of the task dependency was the highest for IS usage among the three antecedent variables. This is highly plausible since one of the Intranet's major capabilities is to facilitate communication among members within an organization. Accordingly, we conclude that the higher the task dependency, the higher Intranet usage. The effect of user's IT usage level was the second, while the effect of the organizational support was the third. Finally, the perceived voluntariness plays a pivotal role in enhancing perceived performance in personal level after launching the Intranet. Relationships among investigated variables were significantly different between groups with a high level and a low level of voluntariness. The impact of the Intranet usage on the performance was greater in the higher level voluntariness group than in the lower one. For the lower level voluntariness group, the user's IT usage had the highest effect on the Intranet usage among the three antecedent variables. In short, our study suggests that the higher the perceived voluntariness is the more IS usage will be. Perceived voluntariness was found to have a moderating effect on the relationships among user IT usage level, task interdependency, IS usage, and perceived performance, supporting all the hypotheses on the moderating effect. Most of all, user IT usage level has the strongest influence on IS usage, indicating that users with superior IT usage are more likely to enjoy a high level of perceived performance.

• 법제연구
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• 제41호
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• pp.87-123
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• 2011

평균수명의 증가 및 출산율의 저하와 함께 수반되는 급격한 인구고령화는 단기간에 우리나라의 경제 사회 문화 전 분야에 걸쳐 중대한 변화를 야기하고 있다. 단순히 노인의 비율이 늘어나는 것뿐만 아니라 평균수명이 계속해서 증가하여 많은 국민들이 장기간의 노후생활을 영위해야 하는 상황이다. 이와 같은 배경에서 노인들이 인간으로서의 존엄과 가치를 유지하면서 품위 있게 인생을 마무리할 수 있도록 노인복지 관련법제의 역할과 기능이 특별히 강조될 수밖에 없으며, 사회보험 및 공공부조와 기능적 연계성을 토대로 사회복지서비스를 목적으로 하는 노인복지법의 역할도 점차 중요해지고 있다. 노인복지법은 노인을 위한 사회복지서비스의 내용을 제시하고 있는데, 그중에서도 소득보장, 보건의료서비스, 요양 및 주거복지를 중심으로 하는 복지조치 그리고 일자리 등 사회참여지원 등을 핵심요소로 하며, 그와 같은 복지서비스의 유기적 결합을 통하여 노인이 살아가는데 적합한 생활조건을 실현할 수 있게 된다. 이를 위하여 노인복지법은 기초노령연금법과 노인장기요양보험법 등 관련법제와 밀접한 규범적 네트워크를 형성하면서 효율적인 노인복지시스템을 구축하게 된다. 그러나 우리 현행 노인복지법 및 관련법제는 21세기의 고령사회, 장수사회를 대비하는데 여전히 미흡하다고 하지 않을 수 없다. 노후소득보장과 다양하고 수준 높은 노인의 사회참여의 결합, 보건 의료와 요양의 효율적 연계 및 국가 또는 지방자치단체의 비용부담수준, 복지조치의 효과성 제고를 통한 품위 있고 존중받는 노인복지의 실현을 위해 더 많은 노인들을 포괄할 수 있는 다양하고 구체적인 개선방안이 마련되어야 할 것이다.

• 정신신체의학
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.212-227
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• 2000

연구목적 : 우울증 환자의 사회적 인지내용은 우울증을 치료하는 과정에서 치료목표가 될 수 있을 뿐만 아니라, 치료방법을 결정하는 초석이 된다. 또한 환자의 증상이 악화될 것인지 또는 재발할 것인지를 예측할 수 있는 좋은 지표이기도 하다. 그러나 우울증의 증상들을 평가하기 위한 척도와는 달리 아직 우리나라에서 사회적응성을 평가하기 위한 척도는 아직 소개된 바 없다. 이에 Bosc 등이 개발하였고, 유용성에 대해 이미 인정되어 있는 Social Adaptation Self-rating Scale(SASS)를 한국어로 번안한 척도에 대하여 신뢰도 및 타당도를 검증하였다. 방법 : SASS를 한국어로 번안하여 총 21문항으로 구성된 한국어판 사회적응 자기평가척도를 작성한 후 신체적, 정신적으로 건강한 정상인 291명과 우울증 환자 40명을 대상으로 시행하였다. 1) 한국어판 SASS의 신뢰도 검증결과 대상자 전원에 대한 Cronbach $\alpha$계수는 0.790. Spearman-Brown 반분신뢰도는 0.782(Guttman split-half=0.78) 이었다. 정상인 집단의 경우 Cronbach $\alpha$계수는 0.734. Spearman-Brown 반분 신뢰도는 0.619(Guttman split-ha1f=0.7318)였으며, 우울증 집단의 Cronbach $\alpha$계수는 0.8852. Spearman-Brown 반분신뢰도는 0.8852(Guttman split-half=0.8548) 이었다. 정상인 집단에서 45명을 대상으로 2주 간격으로 시행한 검사 재검사 신뢰도 검증결과는 r=0.653(p<0.01)으로서 비교적 시간적 안정성을 보였다. 2) 집단간 SASS 및 Purpsoe in Life(PIL) 검사 점수 차이의 검증에서 정상인집단의 SASS 총점 평균은 $40.12{\pm}5.27$, PIL 총점 평균은 $98.41{\pm}14.02$였고, 우울증 집단은 각각 $30.12{\pm}10.04$, $75.70{\pm}23.53$이였다. 두 점수 모두 우울증 집단에서 통계적으로 유의미하게 낮은 점수를 보였다(p<0.0l). SASS의 각 문항별 접수는 문항5, 문항 15, 문항 16, 문항 19를 제외하고 모든 항목에서 정상인 집단이 통계적으로 의미 있게 높은 점수를 나타냈다(p<0.0l). 3) 정상인 집단에서 SASS와 PIL간의 상관관계는 r=0.510으로서 통계적으로 의미 있는 상관관계를 나타냈다(p<0.0l). 우울증 집단의 경우 유병기간의 평균은 $52.17{\pm}83.86$개월로서 SASS, PIL, Beck's Depression Inventry(BDI) 및 우울증 이병기간과의 상관관계에서 SASS와 PIL는 정상인 집단과 마찬가지로 정적인(positive) 상관관계를 나타냈으나(r=.671), SASS와 BDI(r= -.609), PIL과 BDI(r= - .621) 척도간의 상관은 모두 통계적으로 의미 있는 부적인(negative) 상관을 나타내었다(p<0.01). 그러나 우울증의 이병기간과 SASS, PIL, BDI 척도간의 상관은 통계적으로 유의미한 상관을 나타내지 않았다(p>0.05). 4) SASS의 요인분석결과 정상인 집단의 경우 요인 1은 '사회활동'을 나타냈고, 요인 2는 '대인관계에 대한 적극성', 요인 3은 '자신감'을 나타냈다. 요인 4는 '외모의 중요성', 요인 5는 사회적응의 방법으로서 지적인 탐구'를 나타냈으며, 요인 6은 '사회활동에 대한 참여욕구'를 나타냈다. 우울증 집단에서는 요인 1에 SASS의 거의 모든 문항들이 해당되어 요인 1에 의한 단일 구조를 시사하였다. 요인 2는 '취미나 레저활동 욕구'가 관계되었다. 요인 3은 '가족 지향성', 요인 4, 5, 6은 '직업에 대한 흥미', '대인관계 추구', '의사소통 욕구'를 포함하고 있어 우울증 환자들이 사회적응상 가장 핵심적 문제들과 관계를 나타내었다. 결론 : 이상의 결과들로 보아 한국어판 SASS는 우울증의 사회적응성을 평가하기 위해 신뢰할 수 있고 타당한 척도라고 사료된다.