• Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.143-174
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• 2018

A cultural exchange program widens the horizons of students. It gives them the opportunity to associate with other societies and learn their cultures at the same time. This program also serves as a training ground where students enhance their skills, acquire learnings, and gain experiences that will help them in their future careers and make them more competitive than others. Hence, the objective of this study is to come up with an output from a set of guidelines established and gathered from the different "work and travel" experiences of the participants. This study adopted the phenomenological and was conducted in places that are relatively quiet for recording, and suitable and convenient for both the researchers and participants. The researchers gathered data through in-depth interviews of samples gathered through snowball sampling. Cellphones were used to record interviews. At the end of the thematic analysis of information, the researchers came up with three major categories which included: (1) 'having the opportunity to know the industry well and improve one's capability', 'undergoing different cultural exchange experiences for better development', and 'being able to practice intercultural immersion'. Some of the researchers' recommendations would be to institute a feedback mechanism such as personal interviews, monitoring visits, etc. and use the output, a set of guidelines, that would help the future 'work and travel' participants to prepare and anticipate the program they would undergo.

• Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.18-30
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• 2018

Patients with advanced cancer cope with various issues, especially psychological symptoms, such as anxiety about death. Previous research from various countries indicates that most advanced cancer patients perceive distress before death, which means they cannot accept death peacefully. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors associated with death acceptance of Thai patients with advanced cancer. The participants were 242 adult patients with advanced cancer from three tertiary hospitals in Bangkok, Thailand. The research instruments consisted of 7 questionnaires: a personal information questionnaire, the death anxiety questionnaire, Buddhist beliefs about death questionnaire, the unfinished task questionnaire, general self-efficacy scale, family relationship questionnaire, and death acceptance scale. These instruments were tested for their content validity by a panel of experts. All instruments except the first one were tested for reliability, and their Cronbach's alpha coefficient were .86, .72, .74, .74, .89, and .70, respectively. Descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation, Point-biserial correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression were used to analyze the data. The results revealed that a total of 42% of variance of death acceptance among Thai patients with advanced cancer was explained by death anxiety, Buddhist beliefs about death, and self-efficacy. Knowing these factors provides further information for nurses to help patients to cope with their death. From this crucial knowledge, nurses can develop interventions in decreasing or controlling anxiety about death, promoting Buddhist beliefs about death, and enhancing self-efficacy of advanced cancer patients. Therefore, a better quality of life and good death can be achieved.

• 한국기록관리학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.229-236
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• 2020

코로나바이러스감염증은 인류사회가 경험하지 못한 커다란 충격과 생활양식의 급속한 변화를 만들고 있다. 비대면 사회는 감염병 확산을 예방하기 위한 과정에서 보편화된 사례이다. 코로나바이러스감염증으로 인한 사회적 영향은 광범위하다. 정부의 정책, 개인 정보보호, 정보기술 등 다양한 이슈가 사회 전반에 영향을 주고 있다. 동시에 관련 사건과 이슈가 신속하고 빠르게 변하기 때문에 사실 정보를 추적하고 기록하는 것이 어렵다. 코로나-19와 실시간성 정보를 효과적으로 기술하기 위한 방안은 무엇일까? "코로나-19:우리의 기억" 프로젝트는 코로나바이러스감염증에 대한 사회문화적 영향을 가치중립적으로 기록하기 위한 시도이다. 주요 사건과 이슈를 분야별로 수집하고, 중립적인 관점으로 핵심이벤트를 기록하며, 모든 기록을 탐색할 수 있도록 디지털 아카이브로 구축한다. 프로젝트를 통해 수집, 구축한 모든 데이터, 소스코드, 시각화를 포함하는 애플리케이션은 모두 공개하여 새로운 협업을 이끌어내고 있다.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2012년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.1321-1322
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• 2012

With the advance of Information Technology (IT) and dynamic requirements, diverse application services have been provided for end users. With huge volume of these services and information, users are required to acquire customized services that provide personalized information and decision at particular extent of time. The case is more appealing in healthcare, where patients wish to have access to their medical record where they have control and provided with recommendation on the medical information. PHR (Personal Health Record) is most prevailing initiative that gives secure access on patient record at anytime and anywhere. PHR should also incorporate decision support to help patients in self-management of their diseases. Available PHR system incorporates basic recommendations based on patient routine data. We have proposed decision support service called "Smart CDSS" that provides recommendations on PHR data for diabetic patients. Smart CDSS follows HL7 vMR (Virtual Medical Record) to help in integration with diverse application including PHR. PHR shares patient data with Smart CDSS through standard interfaces that pass through Adaptability Engine (AE). AE transforms the PHR CCR/CCD (Continuity of Care Record/Document) into standard HL7 vMR format. Smart CDSS produces recommendation on PHR datasets based on diabetic knowledge base represented in shareable HL7 Arden Syntax format. The Smart CDSS service is deployed on public cloud over MS Azure environment and PHR is maintaining on private cloud. The system has been evaluated for recommendation for 100 diabetic patients from Saint's Mary Hospital. The recommendations were compared with physicians' guidelines which complement the self-management of the patient.

• Human Ecology Research
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• 제60권4호
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• pp.549-564
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• 2022

This study aimed to develop an e-mentoring youth financial education program and verify its effectiveness for promoting financial empowerment and establishing financial capabilities among independent consumers. A four-session, eight-hour "Youth Financial Empowerment Mentoring Program" was developed. This program dealt with financial literacy and financial psychology factors in an integrated fashion. We used the nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design to evaluate the program's effectiveness. Specifically, by using Zoom, a virtual conference platform, four mentors of college students were trained for four sessions over two weeks. Meanwhile, four groups were formed with four mentors and 18 high school mentees to implement a four-week e-mentoring program. As a result of the analysis of covariance, significant differences were found between the two groups in all financial psychology factors and financial literacy variables. In addition, the score of the experimental group was higher than that of the control group. As a result of qualitative evaluation through FGI for mentees and mentors, mentees experienced positive changes in financial behavior, beliefs, attitudes, and personal relationships, as well as increased financial knowledge. Meanwhile, mentors experienced positive changes in their introspection into financial behavior and consumption. Considering these results, we can conclude that this program effectively induces participants to learn and reflect on their initiative, which is in line with the original goal of "improving financial empowerment".

• Strategy21
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• 통권34호
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• pp.93-127
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• 2014

During the four years following the sinking of the Cheonan frigate in 2010, the South Korean public opinion has seen changes in four basic ways. First, public polls with respect to the cause of the sinking show that 70% of the people consider North Korea as the culprit, while 20% maintain that it was not an act carried out by North Korea. Second, the opinions relative to the cause of the incident seem to vary according to age difference, generational difference, and educational difference. From 2011, people in their 20s showed 10% increase in regarding North Korea as the responsible party. People in their 30s and 40s still have a tendency not to believe the result of the investigation carried out by the combined military and civilian group. Third, the most prominent issue that arose aftermath of the Cheonan incident is the fact that political inclination and policy preference are influencing the scientific determination of the cause. In other words, scientific and logical approach is lacking in the process of determining the factual basis for the cause. This process is compromised by the inability of the parties concerned in sorting out what is objective and what is personal opinion. This confused state of affairs makes it difficult to carry on a healthy, productive debate. Fourth, rumors, propaganda, and disinformation generated by pro-North Korea Labor Party groups in the internet and SNS are causing considerable impact in forming the public opinion. Proposed Strategy 1. The administration can ascertain public trust by accurately determining the nature of the provocation based on accurate information in the early stages of the incident. 2. Education in scientific, logical, rational methodologyis needed at home, school, and workplace in order toenhance the people's ability to seek factual truths. 3. In secondary education, the values of freedom, human rights, democracy, and market economy must be reinforced. 4. It is necessary for the educational system to teach the facts of North Korea just as they are. 5. Fundamental strength of free democratic system must be reinforced. The conservative, mainstream powers must recognize the importance of self-sacrifice and societal duties. The progressive political parties must sever themselves from those groups that take instructions from North Korea's Labor Party. The progressives must pursue values that are based on fundamental human rights for all. 6. Korean unification led by South Korea is the genuine means to achieve peace in a nuclear-free Korean peninsula. The administration must recognize that this unification initiative is the beginning of the common peace and prosperity in the Far East Asia, and must actively pursue international cooperation in this regard.

• 시큐리티연구
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• 제1호
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• pp.283-319
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• 1997

Our society witnesses the rapid progress in the areas of politics, economy, society and culture in the process of national modernization since 1960s, which in turn as a reverse function gets to contract a societic pathology, totally lowering the security level of citizens' lives owing to various violent crimes like hostage commotions and murders with rifles and deadly weapons. what is the main reason for that? That may be partly because the chief police force concentrates on the current situation resulting in the vacuum of the public peace. However, the main reason is that the police fall short of man-power and equipments even if the whole police power were put to use in preventing and quelling the crimes. That is true not only of Korea but also of the advanced countries like the U.S.A., England and Japan. We realize that these advanced countries have higher level of security in every individual's life and property than Korea because their progress of the private guard systems can fill in a vacuum of the shortage of the police power, Therefore, we should without delay internationalize our private guard systems expecting the widely opening of the guard service markets in the age of Uruguay Round. To do this, we need to change our ideas for fostering the policy of the private guard from passive defense ideas into positive aggressive ones. Our police should urgently set up a plan to pursue the orientation of vision that we should dispatch our private guards overseas before foreign guards rush into our markets. Accordingly it goes without saying that the private guard group should distinguish their services from the public services initiating their own theory and strategy of private guard services and also readjust themselves between the public duties and the private services with the study of minimizing the reverse function of the private guard systems. The history criminal justice has always shown that the criminal system progressed at the initiative of the civil factor in case its demand and supply do not make both ends meet. Nevertheless, in the process the power of the government never weakens, rather it is built up in general. In conclusion, the necessity of the build-up of the private guard services must duly be acknowledged by the police as well as by the business which has its unique sphere within the criminal justice instead of as the suplemtary services of the simple the police power on the long-term basis. The purpose of the private guard services can be largely classified into the two categories; first it means the function to prevent the crimes against the citizens and secondly to enhance the national interest as an increasing mammoth business with a worldly competition capacity. The police has an absolute responsibility that they should protect the modem public in general from feeling the crisis of the personal threat, tension, anxiety and nervousness. In short, if we develop the complete private guard system to guarantee the societic atmosphere for all citizens, keep the public peace, and protect all citizens' lives and properties, we will sure enjoy a beautiful land, a wholesome society and a happy life in goodharmony of law and order.

• Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.228-249
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• 2018

In 2015, the population of elderly people in Thailand was 16% of the total population and is predicted to be over 20% by 2021 and nearly 28% by 2031. The increase of the elderly population in Thailand has also increased the proportion of dependent elderly people, and caring for them poses many challenges for both families and the government. This descriptive method research aimed to survey the health status of dependent older people in the rural community of Lampang province in northern Thailand. The participants consisted of 62 older people and 62 primary family caregivers from Hong Ha Health Promoting Hospital, Lampang, Thailand (totaling 124 people). The researchers assessed the health status of older people and their activities of daily living (ADL). In addition, researchers assessed the health status and stress of caregivers. All the participants were interviewed about their experiences with caregiving. The results showed that most of the older respondents were female with an average age of 78.15 years. Based on the ADL assessment, 50 of the 62 older persons were homebound while the rest were bedridden. The majority of older people had chronic or long-term conditions that required hospitalization from time to time. Their frequent health problems included oral disorders such as tooth decay or caries/gum disease/no teeth, reduced sight, psychological disorders, knee pain and risk of falling, low BMI, risk of malnutrition, and urinary leakage and incontinence (58.06%, 66.13%, 62.90%, 70.97%, 38.71%, 66.13%, and 37.10%, respectively). Usual care provided by the family members included personal hygiene care, food preparation and feeding, medication management, housekeeping and organizing necessary equipment, supply of needed equipment, prevention of falls, helping with travel for medical checkups and treatment, and providing companionship. Families experienced shortages of medical supplies, daily use equipment, lack of employment, inadequate income, and difficulty accessing health care services due to lack of transportation. Some caregivers experienced caregiving stress related to a lack of social interactions as well as routine caregiving activities. Families need different types of support in order to promote the well-being of older people and caregivers. This highlights the need for a community participation model for the care of older people in order to reflect sustainable long-term outcomes.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제97권1호
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• pp.22-29
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• 2008

이 연구는 주요 산림정책사업 중 하나인 임도사업의 집행분석을 통하여 효율적인 집행전략 수립에 필요한 정보를 얻고자 수행되었다. 분석에 필요한 자료는 대구경북, 울산, 부산지역의 정책집행 담당자를 대상으로 하는 설문조사를 통하여 수집되었다. 이 평가모형에서는 정책집행요인, 정책환경요인, 정책내용요인을 독립변수로, 정책결과를 종속변수로 하는 회귀식이 추정되었고 다시 정책결과를 독립변수로 정책효과를 종속변수로 하는 회귀식을 추정하였다. 그러나 이와 같은 변수들은 직접측정이 불가능한 잠재변수(latent variable)로서 이의 측정을 위한 측정지표를 설정하였다. 잠재변수들과 이들 변수들 간의 관계를 측정지표를 통하여 계량화 하고 분석하기 위하여 LISREL(Linear Structural Relationship)분석방식을 사용 하였다. LISREL 분석결과 정책결과변수는 정책집행변수, 정책내용변수와 통계적으로 유의한 관계가 있음을 확인하였다. 당초 평가모형에 포함된 정책주체요인 변수는 정책결과와는 유의성 있는 관계가 나타나지 않았고 정책효과와 유의성 있는 관계가 있는 것으로 추정되었다. 또한 정책결과는 정책효과와 유의성 있는 관계가 있는 것으로 추정되었다. 즉 임도건설은 임업기반조성, 산촌지역주민에 대한 편의 제공, 지역균형발전을 위한 유효한 정책수단임을 확인하였다. 다만, 정책결과가 측정지표의 평가에서 보는바와 같이 만족할 만한 수준에 있지 못한바, 이의 개선을 위하여 정책내용의 개선이 필요하며, 특히 적정단비의 확보와 노선의 선정, 시공방법 등에 있어서 현장집행요원의 의견이 실질적으로 반영될 수 있도록 하는 제도의 개선이 요구된다.

• 시큐리티연구
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• 제54호
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• pp.9-35
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• 2018

제 4차 산업혁명이 도래하고 있는 오늘날, 사이버공격은 초국가적인 형태로 민간과 공공 구분 없이 동시다발적으로 일어나고 있으며, 지난 2009년의 DDOS 사건을 포함하여 청와대, 언론, 금융기관 전산 시스템 마비 등 사이버 위협은 갈수록 심각성을 더하고 있다. 그러나 현재 우리나라는 사이버안보와 관련된 기본법이 존재하지 않고, 국내의 여러 법률에 관련 내용이 산재되어 있는 형편이다. 이는 사이버안보와 관련된 내용의 법 적용 및 판단 근거에 혼선을 초래할 수 있다. 이러한 상황을 극복하기 위해 2006년 '사이버위기 예방 및 대응에 관한 법률안'이 발의되었지만 폐기되었고, 이후 꾸준히 발의되었지만 기존 법률과의 중복문제 및 개인정보침해우려 등으로 번번이 통과가 무산되었다. 가장 최근 발의안은 '국가사이버안보법안'으로 2017년 1월 정부가 발의하였다. 이 법안은 사이버안보와 관련된 기본법의 부재를 해결하고, 사이버안보위기시의 대응 능력 강화 및 안보력 함양 등을 주요 내용으로 하고 있다. 따라서 본 연구는 '국가사이버안보법안'을 사이버안보와 관련된 국내의 기존법과 비교 분석을 통해 그 필요성을 고찰하고, 개선점을 제언함으로써 사이버안보 기본법으로서의 '국가사이버안보법안'의 올바른 제정에 기여하고자 한다.