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Factors Influencing Health Promotion Behavior in Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis (폐결핵 환자의 건강증진행위와 관련요인)

  • Kim, Soon-Mi;Seo, Nam-Sook
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.129-136
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    • 2019
  • This study was conducted to identify the health promotion behavior of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and examine the factors influencing this behavior. The subjects were 152 outpatients who were treated for pulmonary tuberculosis at the national tuberculosis hospital located in M City. Data were collected from July to September, 2016 and analyzed using the t-test, ANOVA, Duncan's test, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and multiple regression analysis. Health promotion behavior was negatively correlated with physical symptoms, perceived barriers, and depression, but positively correlated with self-efficacy. The most powerful variable influencing health promotion behavior was depression and the model showed an explanatory power of 63.5%. The results of this study suggest that it is necessary to employ a variety of strategies to practice and maintain the health promotion behavior of pulmonary tuberculosis patients to decrease their depression and provide psychological support.

The Growth and Locality of Mahan(馬韓) Seen through the Pottery in Tombs (분묘 출토 토기로 살펴본 마한의 성장과 지역성)

  • Kim, Nak Jung
    • Korean Journal of Heritage: History & Science
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    • v.49 no.4
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    • pp.126-155
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    • 2016
  • This article deals with some issues with respect to the Mahan pottery excavated from the tombs. Pedestal jars with cover, small round-bottom jars, cylindrical pottery etc. had appeared in the interaction with the northern region in the dimension of the southern Korean peninsula. Especially, these relics had an important role at the route connecting the midwest region, Chungcheong(忠淸) inland and Yeongnam(嶺南) region. By this stage, the iron culture was similar to each other in the southern Korean peninsula. In addition to the inland route, the coastal passage along the west coast seems to have been used. Such signs are found in cylindrical pottery and Pedestal jars with cover. It was probably a natural phenomenon that the most powerful forces of Mahan appeared at this crossroad of cultural exchange. The unique style of Mahan pottery such as double-rim pottery had been established since the third century. After the third century, Mahan pottery varied by region depending on the tomb style. The difference roughly matches with the variations of the tomb style. But at the region of Bungumyo(mounded tomb), specific pottery such double-rim pottery had been prevalent than in other regions. And a specific style had been used in a narrow range. The pottery spread to the neighboring regions in the course of interaction and were also used in ritual practices.

Development and Application of a Science History Role-Playing Game for High School Students' Understanding of Nature of Science: Focus on Storytelling of the Continental Drift Theory (고등학생의 과학의 본성 이해를 위한 과학사 롤플레잉게임(SHRPG) 개발 및 적용 -대륙이동설 스토리텔링을 중심으로-)

  • Shim, Eun-Ji;Choe, Seung-Urn;Kim, Chan-Jong
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.39 no.1
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    • pp.45-57
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    • 2019
  • NOS education through the history of science is regarded effective. However, science teaching has been criticized for not considering the interest of the learners enough and providing the context of learning themes that hinder the understanding of NOS. This study intends to convey the NOS element through the rich context of storytelling. The theme of the story is the history of continental drift, in which, the debate of many scientists and Wegener's creativity are prominent. Of the various media that deliver storytelling, the most powerful medium that leads to personal immersion is computer games, and among many kinds of games, the main genre of storytelling is role-playing games (RPGs). We developed the science history role-playing game (SHRPG) focusing on continental drift. The game development procedure followed Kim's 4F process (2017), which consists of the Figure Out, Focus, Fun Design, and Finalize. The story was constructed based on the NOS elements of Lederman et al. (2002), namely creativity and imagination demand, subjectivity, socio-cultural personality and tentativeness, which are all present in the story of the continental drift theory. The mechanics and rules of the RPG included quests, rewards, quizzes, NOS scores, and rankings. In the final phase of development, the game developed was pilot tested four times. The results of the tests showed that students' understanding of NOS through SHRPG has increased, especially in the creativity domain. The students' satisfaction with the fun, sympathy, and immersion during the game was very high.

Current Status and Prospect of Wheat Functional Genomics using Next Generation Sequencing (차세대 염기서열분석을 통한 밀 기능유전체 연구의 현황과 전망)

  • Choi, Changhyun;Yoon, Young-Mi;Son, Jae-Han;Cho, Seong-Woo;Kang, Chon-Sik
    • Korean Journal of Breeding Science
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    • v.50 no.4
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    • pp.364-377
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    • 2018
  • Hexaploid wheat (common wheat/bread wheat) is one of the most important cereal crops in the world and a model for research of an allopolyploid plant with a large, highly repetitive genome. In the heritability of agronomic traits, variation in gene presence/absence plays an important role. However, there have been relatively few studies on the variation in gene presence/absence in crop species, including common wheat. Recently, a reference genome sequence of common wheat has been fully annotated and published. In addition, advanced next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology provides high quality genome sequences with continually decreasing NGS prices, thereby dawning full-scale wheat functional genomic studies in other crops as well as common wheat, in spite of their large and complex genomes. In this review, we provide information about the available tools and methodologies for wheat functional genomics research supported by NGS technology. The use of the NGS and functional genomics technology is expected to be a powerful strategy to select elite lines for a number of germplasms.

Anti-inflammatory Activities of Cold Brew Coffee Using Dry Fermentation of Lactobacillus plantarum (건식발효를 이용한 유산균 더치 커피의 항염증 효과)

  • Go, Seok Hyeon;Monmai, Chaiwat;Jang, A Yeong;Lee, Hyungjae;Park, Woo Jung
    • Food Engineering Progress
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.337-343
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    • 2018
  • Coffee is a commonly consumed beverage that contains anti-inflammatory compounds such as caffeine, chlorogenic acid, cafestol, trigonelline, and kahweol. Lactobacillus plantarum is a lactic acid bacterium most frequently used in the fermentation of food products of plant origin. L. plantarum is able to degrade some food phenolic compounds and provide high value-added compounds such as powerful antioxidants or food additives approved as flavouring agents. In this study, we investigated the anti-inflammatory effects of coffee extract fermented by L. plantarum on RAW264.7 macrophages. In lipopolysaccharide-stimulated RAW264.7 cells, these coffee extracts exhibited anti-inflammatory activities through the reduction of nitric oxide (NO) production and inducible NO synthase expression. Fermented coffee extracts significantly decreased the expression of inflammatory cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor ${\alpha}$, interleukin $1{\beta}$, interleukin 6, and interferon ${\gamma}$. Cyclooxygenase-2, which is one of the key biomarkers for inflammation, was significantly suppressed. These results might be helpful for understanding the anti-inflammatory mechanism of fermented coffee extract on immune cells and, moreover, suggest that fermented coffee extract may be a beneficial anti-inflammatory agent.

Enhanced and Practical Alignment Method for Differential Power Analysis (차분 전력 분석 공격을 위한 향상되고 실제적인 신호 정렬 방법)

  • Park, Jea-Hoon;Moon, Sang-Jae;Ha, Jae-Cheol;Lee, Hoon-Jae
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.93-101
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    • 2008
  • Side channel attacks are well known as one of the most powerful physical attacks against low-power cryptographic devices and do not take into account of the target's theoretical security. As an important succeeding factor in side channel attacks (specifically in DPAs), exact time-axis alignment methods are used to overcome misalignments caused by trigger jittering, noise and even some countermeasures intentionally applied to defend against side channel attacks such as random clock generation. However, the currently existing alignment methods consider only on the position of signals on time-axis, which is ineffective for certain countermeasures based on time-axis misalignments. This paper proposes a new signal alignment method based on interpolation and decimation techniques. Our proposal can align the size as well as the signals' position on time-axis. The validity of our proposed method is then evaluated experimentally with a smart card chip, and the results demonstrated that the proposed method is more efficient than the existing alignment methods.

Effect of Hypersonic Missiles on Maritime Strategy: Focus on Securing and Exploiting Sea Control (극초음속 미사일이 해양전략에 미치는 영향: 해양통제의 확보와 행사를 중심으로)

  • Cho, Seongjin
    • Maritime Security
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.241-271
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    • 2020
  • The military technology currently receiving the most attention is the hypersonic missile. hypersonic is faster than the speed of sound or Mach 5+. The vast majority of the ballistic missiles that it inspired achieved hypersonic speeds as they fell from the sky. Rather than speed, today's renewed attention to hypersonic weapons owes to developments that enable controlled flight. These new systems have two sub-varieties: hypersonic glide vehicles and hypersonic cruise missiles. Hypersonic weapons could challenge detection and defense due to their speed, maneuverability, and low altitude of flight. The fundamental question of this study is: 'What effect will the hypersonic missile have on the maritime strategy?' It is quite prudent to analyze and predict the impact of technology in the development stage on strategy in advance. However, strategy is essential because it affect future force construction. hypersonic missiles act as a limiting factor in securing sea control. The high speed and powerful destructive power of the hypersonic missile are not only difficult to intercept, but it also causes massive ship damage at a single shot. As a result, it is analyzed that the Securing sea control will be as difficult as the capacity of sea denial will be improved geographically and qualitatively. In addition, the concept of Fortress Fleet, which was criticized for its passive strategy in the past, could be reborn in a modern era. There are maritime power projection/defence, SLOC attack/defence in exploiting sea control. The effects of hypersonic missiles on exploiting sea control could be seen as both limiting and opportunity factors.

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The Effects of Neighborhood and Mass Media Experience on the Prosocial Behavior of Children - Focusing on the Mediating Effect of Empathy (이웃 및 대중매체경험이 아동의 친사회적 행동에 미치는 영향 - 공감능력의 매개효과를 중심으로)

  • Hwang, Hyewon
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.615-625
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study were to examine the effects of neighborhood and mass media experience on the prosocial behavior of children and to verify the mediating effect of empathy. For this purpose, 419 5th and 6th elementary students living in Chungbuk area were included in this study. The data were analysed using SPSS and the main results of this study are as follows: First, the levels of positive mass media experience, empathy, and prosocial behavior were significantly higher in girls than boys and children who perceive their economic status as high showed higher satisfaction on their community environment, empathy, and prosocial behavior than the others. Also, neighborhood and mass media experience had significant effects on the empathy and prosocial behavior of children. Especially positive mass media experience was the most powerful predictor of empathy and prosocial behavior. Finally, the satisfaction of their community and the positive mass media experience had direct effects on the prosocial behavior of children and had indirect effects through empathy. That is, the partial mediating effects of empathy were verified. Based on the results, several practical intervention strategies for improving empathy and prosocial behavior of children were presented.

Understanding Over The Top(OTT) and Continuance Intention to Use OTT: Impacts of OTT Characteristics and Price Fairness (Over The Top(OTT)의 지속이용의도에 대한 이해: OTT 특성과 가격공정성의 영향)

  • Park, Hyunsun;Kim, Sanghyun;Sohn, Changyong
    • Knowledge Management Research
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.203-225
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    • 2022
  • Competition in the OTT (Over the Top) service market is getting fiercer since global OTT services enter the domestic market and existing platforms are actively reorganized. As powerful competitors with ultra-luxurious content continue to enter the marke with diversity required by users, various efforts are required for OTT service platforms to prevent subscriber churn in order to generate continuous revenue. Thus, this study tried to examine the effect of OTT service characteristics on continuous use intention through an empirical analysis based on Expectation-Confirmation Model(ECM). A total of 386 responses were collected from individuals who have experience or are currently using OTT service and analyzed using AMOS 24. Results show that content curation, content richness, and audience activity had a significant effect on expectation confirmation. Also, expectation confirmation had a significant effect on perceived usefulness and user satisfaction while perceived usefulness had a significant effect on user satisfaction, significantly influencing continuous intention to use OTT. Finally, price fairness was found to strengthen all proposed relationships. The findings are expected to provide useful information for service and content development for subscriber retention, which has the most direct impact on revenue generation of OTT service providers.

Interactive UI for Smartphone/ Web Applications and Impact of Social Networks

  • Malik, Hafiz Abid Mahmood;Mohammad, AbdulHafeez;Mehmood, Usman;Ali, Ashraf
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.189-200
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    • 2022
  • In today's digital world, smartphones and web-based applications have gained remarkable importance throughout the globe. These smart applications are playing a very significant role in maintaining a powerful business. As well as, they are helping a lot to expand these businesses via social networks. Social media networks such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are playing a prominent role to promote the companies. In the hospitality sector, most of the companies are running their hotel booking systems by utilizing mobile applications and a web-based infrastructure, but usability issues still exist. This study has been conducted specifically to tackle the usability issues of hotel booking systems and the best utilization of social networks to promote the business. TripAdvisor was selected as an authentic source for selecting those systems and two international hotels are selected for this study. The first step is to identify different hotel booking systems. In the second step, the user's satisfaction level was measured for the selected systems by performing the System Usability Scale (SUS, Quick & Dirty) approach. Additionally, by which source (social media or personal relations) they found these hotels. It is found that the SUS rating for both systems is below the acceptable level of usability. The Mean SUS for hotel 1 is found at 55.25 and 51.2 for hotel 2. The third step was to identify the user interface (UI) issues, and heuristic evaluation is performed for this. The experts identified the UI issues on the basis of their experience. The major issues were related to the visibility of system status, error prevention, flexibility and efficiency of use. Depending upon the identified issues, an interactive UI (prototype) for the selected web-based applications was proposed. This prototype is mainly based on the user's perspective. This prototype can be used for improving the UI of the selected systems which is based on the user's perspective. During the process of verifying the satisfaction level, it is revealed that the targeted audience is not able to use these systems efficiently and effectively. The reason behind this is the negligence of usability guidelines throughout the process of design and development of these hotel booking systems. Therefore, it is highly recommended that the usability of these systems should be evaluated and redesigned, based on expert opinions. It has also been observed that the reviews/ feedback of customers has spread a negative impact through social networks.