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A qualitative study on the case managers' experiences of implementing Assertive Community Treatment model in Korea (한국에서의 ACT(Assertive Community Treatment) 적용에 대한 사례관리자의 경험에 관한 연구)

  • Ha, kyung-hee
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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    • v.41 no.3
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    • pp.107-133
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    • 2010
  • The attention of case management currently has been highlighted and its importance has been highly emphasized in mental heath field. At this point, We conducted a qualitative study on the experience of case managers from the Suwon Community Mental Health Center where it has implemented the ACT model. Through the result of this study, we verified feasibility of ACT model into Korea. and it has shown that assertive service and team approach has been a critical ingredients of ACT and it extended case manager's ability and brought improvement in relationship between clients and them. the clients has brought a positive changes. However case managers have experienced the dilemma between experts initiatives and clients dependency, and they empathised the importance of the familism and mental health system in Korea. In order to implement ACT extensively, we suggested several implications.

A Case of Pelvic Actinomycosis Superimposed in IUD Carrier (자궁내 피임장치와 동반된 골반방선균증 1례)

  • Kang, Jung-Woon;Kim, Won-Cheol;Park, Yeun-Hee;Park, Gee-Hong;Shin, Meun-Woo
    • Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.183-186
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    • 1993
  • Pelvic actinomyces, usually a complication of an intrauterine device, is uncommon and may present a diagnostic dilemma because of an atypical clinical presentation. This organism is very difficult to culture, and most actinomyces is actually identified by histologic feature in pathologic specimens. Authors have experienced a case of pelvic actinomycosis associated with an intrauterine device and reported with a review of literatures.

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Antidepressant-induced Burning Mouth Syndrome - A Unique Case

  • Raghavan, Shubhasini Attavar;Puttaswamiah, Rajiv Nidasale;Birur, Praveen N.;Ramaswamy, Bhanushree;Sunny, Sumsum P.
    • The Korean Journal of Pain
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.294-296
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    • 2014
  • Burning Mouth Syndrome (BMS) is defined as a chronic orofacial pain syndrome, without evidence of mucosal lesions and other clinical signs of disease or laboratory abnormalities. Patients with BMS complain of burning pain in the mouth, xerostomia and taste disturbances. It is more common among women and the median age of occurrence is about 60 years. BMS may be primary or secondary to other diseases. The mainstay in the treatment of BMS includes antidepressants, benzodiazepines, and anticonvulsants. A few cases of BMS caused due to medication have been reported. The causative drugs include angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, anticoagulants, antipsychotics, antiretrovirals, and benzodiazepines. This is a case report of a patient on antidepressants who developed symptoms of BMS thereby causing a dilemma in management.

Soft Systems are Ubiquitous-Defenses are Rare: A Case for Contingent Outsourcing of Patch Management

  • Arnett Kirk P.
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.23-30
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    • 2005
  • Computer attacks on vulnerable software are ubiquitous. Today's attacks on client PCs can be used to create armies of zombie computers that are capable of wide reach attacks on high profile businesses and governments. The simple act of patching software vulnerabilities will certainly mitigate this problem, but patching has its own set of problems. Further, it is frequently the case that patches which are available to mitigate vulnerabilities are not being made on a timely basis and sometimes are not being made at all. One solution to the patch management dilemma is outsourcing. This paper notes that outsourcing is not a carte blanche decision that can be made based on dollars, but rather that a contingency decision matrix can provide guidance on outsourcing solutions for patch management and other security components as well. The matrix recognizes that IS staff expertise and employee security awareness are two important factors in the outsourcing decision.

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Anesthesia for a Jehovah's Witness Patient Experiencing Unexpected Perioperative Hemorrhage - A Case Report - (수술 중 예상치 못한 과출혈이 발생한 여호와의 증인 환자의 마취 1 예)

  • Lim, Seoung-Ki;Jee, Dae-Lim
    • Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.96-102
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    • 2006
  • Jehovah's Witnesses refuse a transfusion of blood or blood products because of religious beliefs; this refusal at times presents a dilemma for the treating physician. We report a case of a 25-year-old Jehovah's Witness patient who underwent a reoperation for a previous proximal humerus shaft fracture and experienced unexpected massive hemorrhage intraoperatively and postoperatively. The postoperative lowest hemoglobin level was 2.9 g/dl. The patient recovered from the severe anemia without any clinical sequala. We review the legal, ethical and religious issues and suggest the best possible medical care that Jehovah's Witness patient would permit.

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Invasive sphenoid sinus aspergillosis with normal findings on initial diagnostic tests that mimics Tolosa-Hunt syndrome-a diagnostic dilemma: a case report

  • Yu Hun Jeong;Jongsuk Choi;Byung-Jo Kim;Hung Youl Seok
    • Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.198-201
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    • 2023
  • Invasive sphenoid sinus aspergillosis can mimic Tolosa-Hunt syndrome (THS), leading to frequent misdiagnoses and potentially fatal consequences. We report a case of invasive sphenoid sinus aspergillosis initially misdiagnosed as THS. A 79-year-old man presented with right periorbital pain, ophthalmoplegia, and loss of vision. Initial evaluations including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), were normal. He was first diagnosed with THS based on clinical features. The disease progressed despite high-dose intravenous steroid treatment, and an enhancing mass-like lesion was found in the right orbital apex, cavernous sinus, and sphenoid sinus on follow-up MRI. Aspergillosis was eventually confirmed by sphenoid sinus biopsy. The patient developed cerebral infarction and finally died despite being treated with amphotericin B. Given that invasive sphenoid sinus aspergillosis may initially resemble THS, high suspicion and rapid histological examination are important for diagnosis.

What do Pre-service Elementary Teachers Learn from Inquiry into Science Class Dilemmas? (과학 수업 딜레마 사례에 관한 탐구를 통해 초등 예비교사는 무엇을 학습하는가?)

  • Yoon, Hye-Gyoung
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.41 no.2
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    • pp.338-355
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    • 2022
  • This study explored the effects of pre-service elementary teachers' inquiries into science class dilemmas. By closely examining the characteristics of the pre-service teachers' inquiry processes and changes in their educational decisions, the effectiveness of using dilemmas as part of teacher education was determined. Twenty fourth-year university pre-service teachers participated and conducted inquiries into science class dilemmas over seven weeks. Based on pre- and post-questionnaires, KWHL tables, inquiry reports, discussions, and group class presentations, the major factors that influence the pre-service teacher's decision-making changes were extracted. The pre-service teachers found the science inquiry process meaningful when exploring the science topics covered in the dilemmas, and claimed that elementary school students would be able to engage in meaningful science explorations if they learned science through inquiry. Furthermore, the pre-service teachers explored the thinking processes and background knowledge of the students in different ways. Documents such as teacher's guides and the curriculum were examined and the students' thought processes were identified through interviews with the teachers and students, which were found to reflect their educational decision-making. Moreover, it was recognized by the pre-service teachers that depending on the situation, alternative teaching methods were possible. The focus on the unstructured dilemma problems provided the pre-service teachers with problem-solving situations that triggered scientific inquiry and exploration of student thinking and revealed the complexity of science teaching and learning. Based on these results, the teacher education implications for using dilemma cases are discussed.

A Case Study of Discontinuous Innovation Based on Cusp Catastrophe Model : Implications for Predictive Risk Management (첨점 격변 모형에 기반 한 불연속 혁신의 유형별 사례 연구: 예측적 위기관리 측면)

  • Kim, Sung-Cheol;Shin, Minsoo
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.2140-2149
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    • 2013
  • Managing uncertainty or discontinuity in an innovation is still a challenge to most companies. For sustainable corporate survival over the long term, one of the problems caused by discontinuous innovation is the innovator's dilemma. In specific, the dynamics between discontinuous innovation and incumbents inspires the interestof researchers and managers. This paper employs catastrophe theory as a theoretical basis to explain the driving force of new discontinuous change. In other words, we extract the control variables overcoming innovation dilemma by interpreting the dynamics of corporate strategy for discontinuous innovation from the perspective of catastrophe theory. First, we define four types of discontinuity such as technology discontinuity, product discontinuity, business discontinuity, and consumer preference discontinuity. Second, we analyze the dynamics of the competition between companies by interpreting the cases of discontinuous innovation. This analyzing process enables us to identify the control variable which can, in advance, respond to the discontinuous situation.

The Identity of Morisco in Don Quijote de La Mancha (『돈키호테』에 나타난 모리스꼬의 정체성을 중심으로)

  • LIM, Juin
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.38
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    • pp.265-295
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    • 2015
  • This article is concerned about a reason for which Cervantes participates an arabic author named Benengeli and morisco translator in his work instead of christian author. From the multi-cultural point of view, the time in which Don Qujote was published, belongs to the Golden Age. In other words, the society can not be supported by the ideology of Purity of Blood in that the morisco, converso (Christian Jewish) have been permitted to coexist in the name of christian proselyte or New Christian despite of invisible discrimination. An invisible discrimination is based on the prejudice and negative stereotype of Old Christian against the New Christian. Cervantes offers an o open space for readers to participate in the creative reading, giving up the absolute authority of author named Benengeli. The deep-rooted prejudice against morisco or muslim author makes the readers of Don Quijote do reinterpret the contents and have question about his sincerity. This disbelief is partly on the basis of hypothesis that Don Quijote would be passed on orally by an arabic or morisco. Leaving the hypothesis alone, Romance, festival performances of morisco or the aljamia literature in the Iberian Peninsula have the chivalry or knights of the Occident. The chivalry in Romance of morisco means that morisco would seek assimilation into the mainstream of Occidental Christian community. At the same time, morisco would be faced with the dilemma of loss of religious identity. But Taqiyya, islamic doctrine, offsets the dilemma between yearning to assimilate into mainstream and religious conscience of morisco in that Taqiyya permits morisco to convert to Christianity in case that they are in danger of life or the following risk. From this point of view, There is no room for doubt about the fact that Taqiyya contributed to social assimilation or multicultural society of the Iberian Peninsula. It has been a long time since a narrow-minded religious dogma and ideology became a anachronistic relic in multicultural society of Spain such as the Purity of Blood. From a relative viewpoint, Don Quijote provides a ground for the collective intelligence among christian, muslim(morisco) and converso through a liberal community between readers and authors who form a pluralistic society.

Research on Non-Union Representation for Contingent Worker's Representation Mechanism : Focusing on CSO's Representation Mechanism in Civil Society (비정규 노동자 이해대표 기제로서 비노조 이해대표에 관한 연구 : 시민사회진영 내 CSO를 통한 이해대변 기제를 중심으로)

  • Sohn, Jeong-soon
    • Korean Journal of Labor Studies
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.61-94
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    • 2018
  • While the unionization of contingent workers is at a standstill, the newly emerging peripheral workers' representation mechanism is CSO(Civil Society Organization). Unlike trade union's representation based on coercive collective bargaining and agreements CSO represents the interests of marginal workers through counseling, advocacy, public relations, and education. In the case of Korea, since the 2000s, labor CSOs, called "contingent centers", have started to spread. As a result of the survey, contingent centers which are contracted out by local governments show the possibility that the representation activities are restricted, because most of their resources are covered from the local government. This is because CSOs have limitations due to a dilemma in the process of representing funders and the represented. Nevertheless, the contingent workers' CSO in Korea shows the possibility of supplementing and supporting the role of trade unions' representation. In this regard, through the solidarity of trade unions and CSOs, it will be possible to expand the representation of unorganized and contingent workers in Korean society.