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A Study on the Certification System in Electromic Commerce (전자상거래(電子商去來)의 인증체계(認證體系)에 관한 고찰(考察))

  • Ha, Kang Hun
    • Journal of Arbitration Studies
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.367-390
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    • 1999
  • The basic requirements for conducting electronic commerce include confidentiality, integrity, authentication and authorization. Cryptographic algorithms, make possible use of powerful authentication and encryption methods. Cryptographic techniques offer essential types of services for electronic commerce : authentication, non-repudiation. The oldest form of key-based cryptography is called secret-key or symmetric encryption. Public-key systems offer some advantages. The public key pair can be rapidly distributed. We don't have to send a copy of your public key to all the respondents. Fast cryptographic algorithms for generating message digests are known as one-way hash function. In order to use public-key cryptography, we need to generate a public key and a private key. We could use e-mail to send public key to all the correspondents. A better, trusted way of distributing public keys is to use a certification authority. A certification authority will accept our public key, along with some proof of identity, and serve as a repository of digital certificates. The digital certificate acts like an electronic driver's license. The Korea government is trying to set up the Public Key Infrastructure for certificate authorities. Both governments and the international business community must involve archiving keys with trusted third parties within a key management infrastructure. The archived keys would be managed, secured by governments under due process of law and strict accountability. It is important that all the nations continue efforts to develop an escrowed key in frastructure based on voluntary use and international standards and agreements.

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FEDERAL DISABILITY LAW AND ITS IMPACT ON HEALTH CARE FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN THE UNITED STATES (미국 연방 장애법과 동법이 장애인의 의료서비스에 미친 영향)

  • Song, Se-Jin
    • The Journal of Korea Assosiation for Disability and Oral Health
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.17-30
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    • 2006
  • Federal disability law has evolved from several laws geared to protect people with disabilities since the late 1960s and early 1970s. When U.S. Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990, no federal statute prohibited the majority of employers, program administrators, owners and managers of places of public accommodation and others from discriminating against people with disabilities. Toward the ends to assure equality of opportunity, full participation, independent living, and economic self-sufficiency for individuals with the disabilities, the ADA pursues three major strategies: Title I addresses inequality in employment, Title II, inequality in public services, and Title III, inequality in services and accommodations offered by private entities. The purposes of the study were to analyze the impact of the ADA on health care for persons with disabilities and to review the ongoing health policy reforms at the federal and state governments. Essential remedies that the ADA contemplates are based on two principles, simple discrimination and reasonable accommodation, which significantly improved access to quality care, especially long-term care, by persons with disabilities. However, the ongoing Medicaid policy reforms to control rising health care costs in the U.S. could threaten the access to care by persons with disabilities in optional groups and to optional care services by persons with disabilities in mandatory groups.

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Application Strategies of Geospatial Service Registry for SOA in GIS Web Services (GIS 웹 서비스에서 SOA를 위한 공간정보 레지스트리 적용 전략)

  • Ha, Su-Wook;Park, Jong-Min;Nam, Kwang-Woo
    • Spatial Information Research
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.121-128
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, we propose the application models and strategies of geospatial services registries for SOA in GIS web services. Recently. a number of SOA/web services are being developed for various commercial or public applications. However, geospatial SOA services are less used than general purpose SOA services, because GeoSpatial service registries has been neglected in many GIS applications even though GeoSpatial registries are essential component for open geospatial services. These problems are due to lack of researches for GIS registry usages. In this paper, we define the role player ill GIS SOAs, and develop the various GIS web service models among the players. Besides, we suggest the applications strategies of GeoSpatial services registries in the service models.

Public Key Encryption with Equality Test for Heterogeneous Systems in Cloud Computing

  • Elhabob, Rashad;Zhao, Yanan;Sella, Iva;Xiong, Hu
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.13 no.9
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    • pp.4742-4770
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    • 2019
  • Cloud computing provides a broad range of services like operating systems, hardware, software and resources. Availability of these services encourages data owners to outsource their intensive computations and massive data to the cloud. However, considering the untrusted nature of cloud server, it is essential to encrypt the data before outsourcing it to the cloud. Unfortunately, this leads to a challenge when it comes to providing search functionality for encrypted data located in the cloud. To address this challenge, this paper presents a public key encryption with equality test for heterogeneous systems (PKE-ET-HS). The PKE-ET-HS scheme simulates certificateless public encryption with equality test (CLE-ET) with the identity-based encryption with equality test (IBE-ET). This scheme provides the authorized cloud server the right to actuate the equivalence of two messages having their encryptions performed under heterogeneous systems. Basing on the random oracle model, we construct the security of our proposed scheme under the bilinear Diffie-Hellman (BDH) assumption. Eventually, we evaluate the size of storage, computation complexities, and properties with other related works and illustrations indicate good performance from our scheme.

Mainstreaming of Health Equity in Infectious Disease Control Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic Era

  • Choi, Hongjo;Kim, Seong-Yi;Kim, Jung-Woo;Park, Yukyung;Kim, Myoung-Hee
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • v.54 no.1
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2021
  • The Korean government's strategy to combat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has focused on non-pharmaceutical interventions, such as social distancing and wearing masks, along with testing, tracing, and treatment; overall, its performance has been relatively good compared to that of many other countries heavily affected by COVID-19. However, little attention has been paid to health equity in measures to control the COVID-19 pandemic. The study aimed to examine the unequal impacts of COVID-19 across socioeconomic groups and to suggest potential solutions to tackle these inequalities. The pathways linking social determinants and health could be entry points to tackle the unequal consequences of this public health emergency. It is crucial for infectious disease policy to consider social determinants of health including poor housing, precarious working conditions, disrupted healthcare services, and suspension of social services. Moreover, the high levels of uncertainty and complexity inherent in this public health emergency, as well as the health and socioeconomic inequalities caused by the pandemic, underscore the need for good governance other than top-down measures by the government. We emphasize that a people-centered perspective is a key approach during the pandemic era. Mutual trust between the state and civil society, strong accountability of the government, and civic participation are essential components of cooperative disaster governance.

Study on the Improvement of Digital Information Center Services at Public Librayies : Through Survey of Banbat Libyary Users (공공도서관 디지털정보센터 서비스 개선에 관한 연구 - 한밭도서관을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Young-Shin
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.38 no.2
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    • pp.125-146
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    • 2007
  • In the previous surveys conducted on the users of digital multimedia centers at major public libraries, their facilities, contents, staffs and operating system have been found to be the most significant factors for determining the user's satisfaction. The purpose of this study is to seek practical ways of improving digital information services at public libraries by surveying Hanbat Library Users' satisfaction on these four factors. The statistical analysis of the surveyed data has shown that the general satisfaction with the digital service was relatively good: 4.68 out of the maximum scale of 7, that their satisfaction with the facilities were increased but those with staffs and operating system were decreased, and that 69.7% of the users were not willing to learn how to use contents mainly because they do not trust the staffs' ability to teach. Therefore, it was confirmed that the continuous reeducation of staffs and the expansive recruiting of professionals are essential for improving digital information services.

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Necessity of Grade Designation for Location Information (위치정보 등급제 도입의 필요성)

  • Kim Tae-Sung;Yoo Hye-Won;Nam Kwang-Woo
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.31 no.2B
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    • pp.164-173
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    • 2006
  • It is essential to ensure public use of and privacy of location information for promoting the location based services. The grade designation for location information is required to accomplish them. The grade designation for location information can increase the reliability of location information and reinforce the right of choice for user. Therefore the institution of grade designation for location information should be introduced rapidly to keep up with the growth of the location based services industry.

Do We Really Need More Medical Schools or Doctors in Korea? (과연 의과대학 증원이 필요한가?)

  • Seog-Kyun Mun
    • The Korean Journal of Medicine
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    • v.99 no.1
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    • pp.1-3
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    • 2024
  • Recently, several social issues have raised public concerns about a deficiency of doctors. The government says it will solve the problem by increasing the number of doctors, saying essential medical service is collapsing. However, the medical community argues that there is a fundamental problem with Korea's health care delivery system. The government needs to take advice from the medical community to make policies in the right direction. And the press should no longer provide the public with misinformation that doctors and the public are opposed to. In this article, I would like to mention problems among current medical services and suggest healthcare policies for them.

Comparison of resource allocation criteria and status of 119 emergency medical services in South Korea and Japan: exploring optimal resource allocation strategies for regional EMS (한국과 일본의 119구급자원 배치 기준 및 현황 비교: 지역별 119구급자원의 적정 배치 방안 모색을 중심으로)

  • Hyeji Kwon;Hyungsub Kim;Youngjeon Shin
    • The Korean Journal of Emergency Medical Services
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.91-111
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    • 2023
  • Purpose: This study aims to compare 119 emergency medical services (EMS) in South Korea and Japan to provide essential data for EMS improvement in South Korea. Methods: Recent data and regulations on firefighting and EMS in South Korea and Japan were analyzed and compared. Results: South Korea follows a centralized approach to EMS, whereas Japan operates with autonomous bodies that establish their own criteria. Japan considers more regional variables than South Korea. In South Korea, there are shortages in fire station deployment among the 119 emergency medical resources in certain regions, leading to significant regional disparities. South Korea has a larger population served by its 119 emergency medical resources with a higher workload and dispatch numbers than Japan. The percentage of non-transported patients among the total number of dispatches was higher in South Korea. Conclusion: Increasing the number of medical professionals and ambulances per population to the level of Japan to reflect local conditions and include various underlying variables such as daytime population, aging, and emergency dispatch conditions in the deployment of 119 emergency resources, and to reduce the deployment gap between regions, will contribute to improving the performance of the South Korea EMS system.

Positive or negative? Public perceptions of nuclear energy in South Korea: Evidence from Big Data

  • Park, Eunil
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.51 no.2
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    • pp.626-630
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    • 2019
  • After several significant nuclear accidents, public attitudes toward nuclear energy technologies and facilities are considered to be one of the essential factors in the national energy and electricity policy-making process of several nations that employ nuclear energy as their key energy resource. However, it is difficult to explore and capture such an attitude, because the majority of prior studies analyzed public attitudes with a limited number of respondents and fragmentary opinion polls. In order to supplement this point, this study suggests a big data analyzing method with K-LIWC (Korean-Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count), sentiment and query analysis methods, and investigates public attitudes, positive and negative emotional statements about nuclear energy with the collected data sets of well-known social media and network services in Korea over time. Results show that several events and accidents related to nuclear energy have consistent or temporary effects on the attitude and ratios of the statements, depending on the kind of events and accidents. The presented methodology and the use of big data in relation to the energy industry is suggested as it can be helpful in addressing and exploring public attitudes. Based on the results, implications, limitations, and future research areas are presented.