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Structural Equation Modeling of Quality of Work Life in Clinical Nurses based on the Culture-Work-Health Model (Culture-Work-Health 모델에 근거한 임상간호사의 직장 삶의 질 구조모형 구축)

  • Kim, Miji;Ryu, Eunjung
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.45 no.6
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    • pp.879-889
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    • 2015
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to construct and test a structural equation model of quality of work life for clinical nurses based on Peterson and Wilson's Culture-Work-Health model (CWHM). Methods: A structured questionnaire was completed by 523 clinical nurses to analyze the relationships between concepts of CWHM-organizational culture, social support, employee health, organizational health, and quality of work life. Among these conceptual variables of CWHM, employee health was measured by perceived health status, and organizational health was measured by presenteeism. SPSS21.0 and AMOS 21.0 programs were used to analyze the efficiency of the hypothesized model and calculate the direct and indirect effects of factors affecting quality of work life among clinical nurses. Results: The goodness-of-fit statistics of the final modified hypothetical model are as follows: ${\chi}^2=586.03$, ${\chi}^2/df=4.19$, GFI=.89, AGFI=.85, CFI=.91, TLI=.90, NFI=.89, and RMSEA=.08. The results revealed that organizational culture, social support, organizational health, and employee health accounted for 69% of clinical nurses' quality of work life. Conclusion: The major findings of this study indicate that it is essential to create a positive organizational culture and provide adequate organizational support to maintain a balance between the health of clinical nurses and the organization. Further repeated and expanded studies are needed to explore the multidimensional aspects of clinical nurses' quality of work life in Korea, including various factors, such as work environment, work stress, and burnout.

Development of a Height Adjustment Method of Prefabricated Individual Footing for the Leveling of Unit Modular Structural System (유닛모듈러 건축구조물의 수평 정밀도 확보를 위한 Pre-Fab 독립기초 높이조절 공법 개발)

  • Jun, Young-hun;Kim, Kyoon-Tai;Chae, Myung-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.631-639
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    • 2015
  • In the unit modular construction, the unit module prefabricated in a factory with a high level of accuracy does not fit completely onto the ground-joint junction due to the low accuracy of the ground work. This difference in the level of accuracy can cause diverse problems, such as twisting the upper unit modules and loosening the connection between the module and the footing. On this background, the aim of this study is to develop a technique for adjusting the height of the prefabricated individual footing. To accomplish the aim, a height adjustment method using bolts and nuts is proposed, and a shop drawing and the construction sequence are also presented in this study. The structural safety is verified through a structure simulation. In the future, research will be conducted on a mock-up test of the height adjustment method developed in this study, and an analysis of economic feasibility will be performed in order to verify its constructability and usability.

A Structural Equation Model of Professional Quality of Life for Nurses Working in Small and Medium Hospitals Who Have Experienced Violence (폭력을 경험한 중소병원 간호사의 전문직 삶의 질 구조모형)

  • Kang, Ae Jeong;Jeon, Mi yang
    • Journal of Korean Academic Society of Home Health Care Nursing
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.29-41
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    • 2020
  • Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the influence of post-traumatic stress on professional quality of life as mediated by cognitive emotion regulation among nurses working in small and medium hospitals who have experienced violence and to develop and test a structural equation model of that professional quality of life. Methods: Participants were 215 nurses who had experienced violence working in medium and small hospitals. They were surveyed using a structured questionnaire. Results: The final model was shown to have good fit with χ2 (2.83), GFI (.90), TLI (.90), and CIF (.90). Therefore, the model was selected as the final model, supporting 7 of the 11 hypotheses. Post-traumatic stress, adaptive emotional regulation, and maladaptive emotional regulation had significant impacts on empathy satisfaction (professional quality of life subscale) and empathy fatigue (subscale of professional life quality) among nurses who had experienced violence, and the explanatory power of these variables was 28.7% and 38.6%, respectively. Conclusion: In the development of nursing intervention programs to improve the professional quality of life of nurses who have experienced violence, factors such as post-traumatic stress and cognitive emotion regulation (adaptive and maladaptive) should be considered as they were identified in this study as influencing the professional quality of life of such nurses in medium and small hospitals.

The Relationship between Students' Exercise Ability Beliefs, Academic engagement and Self-Handicap in Physical Education Class (체육수업에서 학생들의 운동능력믿음, 학업열의 및 자기핸디캡의 관계)

  • Kim, Seung-Yong;Song, Ki-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.303-310
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study was to verify the relationship between students' exercise ability beliefs, academic engagement and self-handicap in physical education class. To this end, this study selected a total of 437 copies of questionnaires as final valid samples using the convenience sampling method targeting middle school students at 4 schools in metropolitan area. For data processing, this study confirmed the goodness of fit test of the whole model using SPSS 20.0 and AMOS 20.0, and then did hypothesis testing; the study results are as follows: First, the increased belief of exercise ability beliefs was shown to have a static effect on the academic engagement, and a fixed belief did not have a significant effect on the academic engagement. Second, the increased belief was shown to have no significant effect on self-handicap, while the fixed belief had a static and significant effect on self-handicap. Third, the students' academic engagement has been confirmed to have a negative effect on self-handicap.

A measurement of flow noise spectrum of an axisymmetric body (축대칭 3차원 물체의 유동 소음 스펙트럼 측정)

  • Park, Yeon-Gyu;Kim, Yang-Han
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.725-733
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    • 1998
  • The pressure fluctuation on the surface of a submerged body has been recognized as a dominant noise source. There have been many studies concerning the flow induced noise on a flat plate. However, the noise over an axisymmetric body has not been well reported. This paper addresses the way in which we have investigated the mechanism of noise generation due to an axisymmetric body. The associated experiments and signal processing methods are introduced. A 3-dimensional axisymmetric body whose length and diameter were 2 m and 10.4 cm, was prepared as a test specimen. The wall pressure on the surface of the body was measured in a large scale low noise wind tunnel at KIMM(Korea Institute of Machinery and Metals). To measure the wall pressure, we used two microphone arrays which were tangential and normal to the flow. Based on the measured signal, frequency-wavenumber spectrum which explains the structure of turbulence noise, was estimated. Tangential to the flow, there exists convective ridge at a relatively higher wavenumber region; this can cause spatial aliasing. To circumvent this problem, the cross spectrum was interpolated. The interpolation has been performed by unwrapping the phase and smoothing the cross spectrum. The phase unwrapping was done based on the Corcos model; the phase of cross spectrum decreases linearly with the distance between microphones. Aforementioned signal processings are possible by employing the experimental results that the estimated wavenumber spectrum quite resembles the Corcos model. We try to modify the Corcos model which is applicable to the flat plate, by altering the magnitude of cross spectrum to fit the experimental data more accurately. We proposed that this wavenumber spectrum model is suitable for the 3-dimensional axisymmetric body. Normal to the flow, there exists a little correlation between signals of different microphones. The circumferential wavenumber spectrum contains uniform power along the wavenumbers.

Effectiveness of Repeated Examination to Diagnose Enterobiasis in Nursery School Groups

  • Remm, Mare;Remm, Kalle
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • v.47 no.3
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    • pp.235-241
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    • 2009
  • The aim of this study was to estimate the benefit from repeated examinations in the diagnosis of enterobiasis in nursery school groups, and to test the effectiveness of individual-based risk predictions using different methods. A total of 604 children were examined using double, and 96 using triple, anal swab examinations. The questionnaires for parents, structured observations, and interviews with supervisors were used to identify factors of possible infection risk. In order to model the risk of enterobiasis at individual level, a similarity-based machine learning and prediction software Constud was compared with data mining methods in the Statistica 8 Data Miner software package. Prevalence according to a single examination was 22.5%; the increase as a result of double examinations was 8.2%. Single swabs resulted in an estimated prevalence of 20.1% among children examined 3 times; double swabs increased this by 10.1%, and triple swabs by 7.3%. Random forest classification, boosting classification trees, and Constud correctly predicted about 2/3 of the results of the second examination. Constud estimated a mean prevalence of 31.5% in groups. Constud was able to yield the highest overall fit of individual-based predictions while boosting classification tree and random forest models were more effective in recognizing Enterobius positive persons. As a rule, the actual prevalence of enterobiasis is higher than indicated by a single examination. We suggest using either the values of the mean increase in prevalence after double examinations compared to single examinations or group estimations deduced from individual-level modelled risk predictions.

What Quality Factors Affect to the e-Learning Performance (e-러닝 성과에 영향을 미치는 품질요인에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Sung-Gyun;Sung, Hang-Nam;Jeong, Dae-Yul
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.201-230
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    • 2007
  • Recently, the growth of e-Learning systems and its related information technology has presented a unique challenge for both schools and industry. It would make an extremely phenomenal paradigm shift in the educational method and practice. Methods of assessing the quality of e-teaming services and contents are critical issue in both practice and research. Moreover, many researchers are interested in what qualify factors more affect to the Performance of e-Learning service. Nevertheless, service quality is a construct that is difficult to define and measure. e-Learning services are composed of many factors, and they are more complicated than the traditional education services because they we performed on the distance basis and the many platforms of IT infrastructure. The purposes of our research are to classify the e-Learning service dimension and identify their factors, to develop the measurement of the factors, and finally to test empirically their relationship between the service factors and e-Learning service performance. For the development of the service factors we considered SERVQUAL model and SERVPERF model which were developed in the service marketing area. The SERVQUAL model was more fitted to the e-Learning services than the latter. From that we derived several factors that fit to our research domain, ie, tangibles, access, reliability, credibility, security, responsiveness, assurance, empathy. We combined three factors of them(reliability, credibility, security) into a factor, system stability for the semantic simplicity, and divided responsiveness factor into system operator responsiveness and teacher responsiveness as the entity based dimension classification. In the e-Learning services research, Most researcher are mentioned the quality factors of contents, so we added to two contents quality factors, ie, contents production method and richness of contents itself. We examined the relationship between the service quality factors and e-Learning performance(student satisfaction and service reuse intention). As result three quality factors(contents production method, teacher responsiveness, empathy) significantly affected student satisfaction. To the other performance variable, ie, service reuse intention, the teacher related quality factors(such as teacher responsiveness, assurance, empathy) affected only. In conclusion, even in the on-line distance teaming, the teacher's role md earnestness is as important as ever.

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A study on the spot location strategy for entry overseas of korea company (한국기업의 해외진출을 위한 현지화 전략에 관한 연구)

  • Koh, Hwan-Taek
    • Korean Business Review
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.79-97
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    • 2008
  • Between different organization, they creat competitiveness from the result of their own manufacturing and sales activity especially the manufacturing companies. This paper will focus on the spot location strategy of korea company which have oversea business and find out the relationship between the spot location strategy and the resources or competitive ability of this kind of companies. Each company has their own way to realize their overseas business expansion and creat their competitiveness in their international business. At the same time, they also have their own way to share their resources and their competitive ability. All this 3 kinds of strategies are important and the combination of them is more important for companies that have overseas business. To examine the relationship between the spot location, the resources and the competitive ability strategies, this paper developed two hypotheses and tested them. To test the hypotheses, this paper conducted a mail survey to operations managers of overseas companies in Korea and collected 102 usable responses. To simplify the responses, this paper used cluster analysis and found 3groups of spot location strategy, 2 groups of resources strategy and 2 groups of competitive abilities strategy. This paper also investigated interdependence and performance differences between these groups. From the analyses, this paper found the following results: It is important for a overseas company to make their spot location strategy to be fit for their resources strategy and competitive abilities strategy and a perfect spot location strategy can make the company gain a advantage of high level in most of time.

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A Study on the Moderating Effects of Problem-Solving Ability on the Effect of Consultant Selection Criteria on Consulting Service Repurchase Intention (컨설턴트 선정기준이 컨설팅서비스 재구매 의도에 미치는 영향에 있어서 문제해결능력의 조절효과에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Bong-Cheol;Na, Do-Sung
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.179-188
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    • 2018
  • The aim of this study was to test the effect of consultant's problem-solving ability on consulting services. A questionnaire was conducted for the staff of companies that were consulted, the research models and hypotheses were tested by structural equation. As a result of this study, the moderating effect of the consultant 's problem-solving ability and the fit of the research model were confirmed. In this study, defining the problem solving ability of the consultant as an major variable was a new attempt on the research of the consultant's competence. We expect that this study will promote various research on consultant's problem-solving ability and encourage consultants to re-recognize their problem-solving ability. We will conduct research to develop a a tool for measuring the problem-solving ability of consultants recognized as the limitation of this study.

Radiopacity of restorative composites by conventional radiograph and digital images with different resolutions

  • Dantas, Raquel Venancio Fernandes;Sarmento, Hugo Ramalho;Duarte, Rosangela Marques;Meireles Monte Raso, Sonia Saeger;de Andrade, Ana Karina Maciel;Dos Anjos-Pontual, Maria Luiza
    • Imaging Science in Dentistry
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    • v.43 no.3
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    • pp.145-151
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    • 2013
  • Purpose: This study was performed to evaluate and compare the radiopacity of dentin, enamel, and 8 restorative composites on conventional radiograph and digital images with different resolutions. Materials and Methods: Specimens were fabricated from 8 materials and human molars were longitudinally sectioned 1.0 mm thick to include both enamel and dentin. The specimens and tooth sections were imaged by conventional radiograph using #4 sized intraoral film and digital images were taken in high speed and high resolution modes using a phosphor storage plate. Densitometric evaluation of the enamel, dentin, restorative materials, a lead sheet, and an aluminum step wedge was performed on the radiographic images. For the evaluation, the Al equivalent (mm) for each material was calculated. The data were analyzed using one-way ANOVA and Tukey's test (p<0.05), considering the material factor and then the radiographic method factor, individually. Results: The high speed mode allowed the highest radiopacity, while the high resolution mode generated the lowest values. Furthermore, the high resolution mode was the most efficient method for radiographic differentiation between restorative composites and dentin. The conventional radiograph was the most effective in enabling differentiation between enamel and composites. The high speed mode was the least effective in enabling radiographic differentiation between the dental tissues and restorative composites. Conclusion: The high speed mode of digital imaging was not effective for differentiation between enamel and composites. This made it less effective than the high resolution mode and conventional radiographs. All of the composites evaluated showed radiopacity values that fit the ISO 4049 recommendations.