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An Explorative Study on Development Direction of a Mobile Fitness App Game Associated with Smart Fitness Wear (스마트 피트니스 웨어 연동형 모바일 피트니스 앱 게임의 개발 방향 탐색)

  • Park, Su Youn;Lee, Joo Hyeon
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.19 no.7
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    • pp.1225-1235
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    • 2018
  • In this study, as a part of practical and customized smart contents development planning research related to smart fitness contents associated with smart wear that can monitor physical activity, we investigated the potential needs for smart fitness contents through research. As a result, the potential needs for smart fitness contents is 'accessibility to use', 'inducement of interest', 'diverse story line' were derived at the stage of 'before exercise', 'Real - time voice coaching', 'accurate exercise posture monitoring', and 'personalized exercise prescription' were derived at the stage of 'during exercise'. At the stage of 'after exercise', 'substantial reward system', 'grading system', 'body figure change monitoring' and 'everyday life monitoring' were derived. At the stage of 'connection to the next exercise', 'triggering exercise motivation', 'high sustainability' wear derived.

Rasch Rating Scale Modeling of the Disability Identity Scale (장애 정체감 척도의 Rasch 모형 적용)

  • Lee, Ick-Seop;Hong, Se-Hee;Shin, Eun-Kyoung
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.59 no.4
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    • pp.273-296
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    • 2007
  • In this Study, to reconstruct the disability identity scale(Lee and Shin, 2006)), Rasch rating scale model was applied to the four sub-dimensions of the Disability Identity Scale in a sample of spinal cord injuries(N=397). The Disability Identity Scale was verified by explorative factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. However, factor analytic procedures can't evaluate item-fit indices, item difficulty, and appropriate scale category. A number of limitations posed by confirmatory factor analytic procedures can be averted with the use of Rasch rating scale model which is in the item response theory(IRT). So in this study, Rasch model was applied to the Disability Identity Scale. Results revealed that (A) 20 items were selected from Rasch model, (B) the difficulty level of the Disability Identity Scale was the average level, (C) 4-point rating scale was appropriate for the Disability Identity Scale. Finally, we could suggest that the sub-dimensions concepts of the disability identity became clearer and items were to the good fitting.

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Health Behavior and Perception of Therapeutic Restrictions in Chronically Ill Children and Their Parents (만성질환 아동과 부모의 치료적 제한에 대한 인식과 건강행위)

  • Park, Eun-Sook;Im, Yeo-Jin;Im, Hye-Sang;Oh, Won-Oak
    • Child Health Nursing Research
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.405-416
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    • 2006
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore health behavior and perception of therapeutic restrictions in chronically ill children and their parents in Korea. Method: Nine children with chronic disease and of six of their parents were interviewed using semi-structured a questionnaire. The data were analyzed using explorative content analysis. Results: Health behaviors related to therapeutic restrictions was classified into four domains, and the perceptions of therapeutic restrictions into two domains. The domains regarding compliance in health behavior with therapeutic restrictions included control-centered restrictions (maintaining food limitations, avoiding harmful environments, restriction on physical activity, restriction on social activity, restriction on learning activity), and everyday pursuit of balance(preference for healthy diet, maintaining a regular life style, maintaining a standard body weight, pursuing psychological well-being, family participation). Domains regarding perception of therapeutic restrictions included obstacles to growth and development (bridled life, opportunity deprivation, prevented from playing proper role), origin of conflict (tenacity, conflict, stressor, cover-up), task for normal life (doing proper duty), and everyday affairs (becoming ordinary, familiarity). Conclusion: This study will help to enhance understanding the behavior and perception of therapeutic restrictions by chronically ill children and their families and to establish educational programs and counseling for these children and their families.

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An Explorative Study on the Purchase Decision-Making Process of Sustainable Shoes Consumers (지속가능한 신발 소비자의 구매의사결정과정에 관한 탐색적 연구)

  • Sora Yim;Eunjung Shin;Ae-Ran Koh
    • Human Ecology Research
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    • v.61 no.3
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    • pp.389-399
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    • 2023
  • Sustainable fashion products have different characteristics from typical fashion products. Therefore, this study focuses on shoes while exploring the expansion and development of sustainable fashion consumption as well as consumers' perceptions of the sustainability approaches practiced by shoe companies. In-depth interviews were conducted with 24 consumers, who had purchased sustainable shoes, in order to understand their purchase decision-making process and consumption characteristics, using the seven stages of the EBM model. In the "need recognition" stage, the survey participants' social background and family influences were categorized as macro factors, while their personal background influences were categorized as micro factors. In the "evaluation of alternatives" stage, participants reconfirmed whether or not to make a purchase based on the product's properties, such as price, brand value, and offered services. In the "purchase" stage, participants' purchase channels were determined according to their preferences as well as the selection pattern they followed until the final purchase within the chosen channel. In the "consumption" stage, the start of product ownership coincides with the start of using the products after making a purchase. In the "post-purchase assessment" stage, higher positive experiences led to a higher repurchase intention of sustainable shoes, while negative experiences caused participants to defer consumption and made them experience a sense of guilt for failing to consume sustainably. During the "post-purchase behavior" stage, which focused on the categories that the customers prioritized, many participants spread information about sustainable fashion to specific individuals through active online WOM behavior.

Two-year survival analysis of twisted wire fixed retainer versus spiral wire and fiber-reinforced composite retainers: a preliminary explorative single-blind randomized clinical trial

  • Sobouti, Farhad;Rakhshan, Vahid;Saravi, Mahdi Gholamrezaei;Zamanian, Ali;Shariati, Mahsa
    • The korean journal of orthodontics
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    • v.46 no.2
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    • pp.104-110
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    • 2016
  • Objective: Traditional retainers (both metal and fiber-reinforced composite [FRC]) have limitations, and a retainer made from more flexible ligature wires might be advantageous. We aimed to compare an experimental design with two traditional retainers. Methods: In this prospective preliminary clinical trial, 150 post-treatment patients were enrolled and randomly divided into three groups of 50 patients each to receive mandibular canine-to-canine retainers made of FRC, flexible spiral wire (FSW), and twisted wire (TW). The patients were monitored monthly. The time at which the first signs of breakage/debonding were detected was recorded. The success rates of the retainers were compared using chi-squared, Kaplan-Meier, and Cox proportional-hazard regression analyses (${\alpha}=0.05$). Results: In total, 42 patients in the FRC group, 41 in the FSW group, and 45 in the TW group completed the study. The 2-year failure rates were 35.7% in the FRC group, 26.8% in the FSW group, and 17.8% in the TW group. These rates differed insignificantly (chi-squared p = 0.167). According to the Kaplan-Meier analysis, failure occurred at 19.95 months in the FRC group, 21.37 months in the FSW group, and 22.36 months in the TW group. The differences between the survival rates in the three groups were not significant (Cox regression p = 0.146). Conclusions: Although the failure rate of the experimental retainer was two times lower than that of the FRC retainer, the difference was not statistically significant. The experimental TW retainer was successful, and larger studies are warranted to verify these results.

Effect of individuality-relatedness and well-being of the youth on creativity (청소년의 개별성-관계성과 안녕감이 창의성에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Ji-Hye;Lee, Chang-H.
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.2087-2098
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    • 2011
  • This study was conducted as an explorative effort to know significant variables on creativity. Particularly, with interest in individuality-relatedness and well-being, it is investigated that how those affect creativity of the youth. For this, a questionnaire measuring integrative creativity, individuality-relatedness and integrative well-being is given to 836 middle and high school students in Seoul and investigate relationship among variables. The results show higher individuality, relatedness and well-being tend to induce higher creativity. Each of individuality, relatedness and creativity has different influences on creativity. Over the whole creativity, explanation gets higher in order of individuality, well-being and relatedness. When creativity and well-being are classified into a sub-category, creative motivation has a high explanation in order of individuality, psychological well-being and relatedness. And creative attitude has a high explanation in order of individuality, relatedness and psychological well-being. About creative ability, all the predictors are explained in order of individuality, psychological well-being, relatedness, emotional well-being and social well-being.

Comparison of Professional Self-Concepts and Care Perceptions between Emergency Medical Technician Trainees and Emergency Medical Technician Basics (2급응급구조사 교육생과 2급응급구조사의 전문직 자아개념 및 응급환자 돌봄 지각의 비교)

  • Lee, Chang-Hee;Jung, Jun-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.13 no.12
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    • pp.5826-5838
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    • 2012
  • This study is explorative survey carried out to examine differences in professional self-concepts and emergency patient care perceptions between emergency medical technician trainees (namely, EMT-basic trainees or trainees) and emergency medical technicians basic (namely, EMT-basic or technicians). The subjects are some trainees and technicians. The trainees included 95 fire fighters who had enrolled educational programs for emergency medical technicians basic at K and A Fire Academy while the technicians were 78 fire fighter gathering from all regions of the country who had enrolled a short expertise program for emergency medical technicians basic at S University in C City.

An Explorative Study on the Difference between Smartphone Application Selection Factors and Purchase Factors (스마트폰 앱 선택요인과 구매요인의 차이에 대한 탐색적 연구)

  • Oh, Sunju
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.129-144
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    • 2013
  • This research focuses on the relationship between influencing factors of users' smartphone application download and consumers' purchase. The results show that there is some difference between them. The factors influencing mobile application download include word of mouth, usability, ease of use, functionality, enjoyment, interoperability, design, and experience while the factors influencing purchase are word of mouth, usability, ease of use, cost, functionality, enjoyment, interoperability, design, experience. An experience factor impacts on both download and purchase. Specially, enjoyment, usability, and functionality have strong effects on purchase. We also found out that mobile application type such as hedonic or utilitarian application also impacts on purchasing application. For utilitarian application, functionality impacts on purchase intension. Therefore this fact suggests that it is very important to understand the accurate purchasing influence of its consumer when setting up the marketing strategy of mobile application.

Quality and Probiotic Lactic Acid Bacteria Diversity of Rabbit Meat Bekasam-Fermented Meat

  • Wulandari, Eka;Yurmiati, Husmy;Subroto, Toto;Suradi, Kusmajadi
    • Food Science of Animal Resources
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    • v.40 no.3
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    • pp.362-376
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    • 2020
  • Rabbit meat bekasam is a traditional fermentation product from Indonesia. This study aimed to determine the chemical and microbiological characteristics of rabbit meat bekasam during the fermentation process in order to isolate, characterize (in vitro and in vivo), and identify lactic acid bacteria (LAB) as the probiotic candidate. The chemical contents of bekasam on 7-day fermentation were investigated in explorative and experimental methods in a completely randomized design. A proximate analysis reported a decrease in the moisture content, fat and carbohydrate content, and an increase in protein content. Also, lactic acid content was increased from 0.48% to 1.12%, and pH was decreased from 5.3 to 4.3. Other properties indicated different values, such as bacteria (2.75×106 to 4.45×107 CFU/g), total LAB (3.82×106 to 4.67×108 CFU/g), total yeast (9.89×106 to 3.82×108 CFU/g) and total mould (4.34×101 to 4.86×103 CFU/g). The experiment produced nine LAB isolates, including two probiotics subjected to further 16S rRNA gene analysis, which indicated that Lactobacillus buchneri was the potential probiotic isolate. After being tested on BALB/c mice, L. buchneri could improve the immune system by inhibiting the growth of Coliform and Salmonella.

Implications of Five Laws of Library Science on Dr. S. R. Ranganathan's Colon Classification: An Explorative Study

  • Kumar, S.K. Asok;Babu, B. Ramesh;Rao, P. Nageswara
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.45 no.4
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    • pp.309-326
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    • 2011
  • There have been several milestones in the history of library classification but most of the schemes failed to meet the new challenges in the organisation of information. Dr. S. R. Ranganathan tried to revolutionise the whole thinking on classificatory approach, when he devised the Colon Classification (CC) in 1933. He developed the Colon Classification scheme with a sound theoretical background based on normative principles, Five laws of Library science, canons, etc. One important feature of CC is that, its use is not confined to information storage and retrieval alone. This paper presents an over view of different editions of the CC highlighting the salient features of the editions. Further the implication of Five Laws of Library Science has been described. The authors stressed that the features of such as greater hospitality, specificity and mixed notation has paved the way to design and develop the depth schedules on various micro level subjects and so far about 130 micro schedules have been published. The impressions by the leading LIS professionals during and after Ranganathan's time have been highlighted. The authors expressed the fear that when the library world would see the complete version of the seventh edition of CC? It may be due to lack of institutional support engaging in the research or financial constraints. The authors are of the opinion that any scheme to flourish needs a sound research body to bring out the revised editions as done in the case of Dewey Decimal Classification. The relevance of the CC in the contemporary world of Librarianship is discussed. Finally concludes that CC needs to be resuscitated as it is a precious national heritage; and still a force for the management of libraries.