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Patients who Visit to Dental Clinic Utilization Behavior, Dental Fear and Oral and Maxillofacial Pain (치과내원 환자의 이용행태 및 공포와 구강악안면 통증)

  • Jung, Myung-Hee;Jun, Sung-Hee
    • Journal of dental hygiene science
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.361-367
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    • 2009
  • This study was conducted to know oral maxillofacial symptoms accroding to dental fear and dental use behavior. 334 persons Older than junior high school students in Daegu, South Korea who visited to dental clinic were targeted From March 1.2008 to March 15, 2008. Statistics tool was SPSS 12.0 for Windows. General characteristics and response degree according to oral maxillofacial symptoms was analyzed by frequency study. Fear and difference according to oral maxillofacial symptoms we re conducted by T-test and One-Way ANOVA. Correlation analysis was used to verify relation between fear and oral maxillofacial symptoms. Results are followings. 1. Women felt fear higher than men did. Persons who were older felt fear higher and these were statistically related. 2. Extraoral external was 62.9%, hightest on the symptoms response degree according to oral maxillofacial symptoms. Feeling back side of the head on the strain and neck was stiff on the items were high. 3. Oral maxillofacial symptoms were high in the case when they had regular inspection, experience of scaling, experience of anesthesia and visited to the clinic often. And. Two cases(having regular inspection and visiting to the clinic often) were statistically related. Conclusion: Each pan of oral maxillofacial symptoms in the high fear group according to oral maxillofacial symptoms and it was all statistically related. And, fear and each oral maxillofacial pains were positively related and it was statistically related.

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A Dual Charge Pump PLL-based Clock Generator with Power Down Schemes for Low Power Systems (저 전력 시스템을 위한 파워다운 구조를 가지는 이중 전하 펌프 PLL 기반 클록 발생기)

  • Ha, Jong-Chan;Hwang, Tae-Jin;Wee, Jae-Kyung
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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    • v.42 no.11
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    • pp.9-16
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    • 2005
  • This paper proposes a programmable PLL (phase locked loop) based clock generator supporting a wide-range-frequency input and output for high performance and low power SoC with multiple clock frequencies domains. The propose system reduces the locking time and obtains a wide range operation frequency by using a dual-charge pumps scheme. For low power operation of a chip, the locking processing circuits of the proposed PLL doesn't be working in the standby mode but the locking data are retained by the DAC. Also, a tracking ADC is designed for the fast relocking operation after stand-by mode exit. The programmable output frequency selection's circuit are designed for supporting a optimized DFS operation according to job tasks. The proposed PLL-based clock system has a relock time range of $0.85{\mu}sec{\sim}1.3{\mu}sec$($24\~26$cycle) with 2.3V power supply, which is fabricated on $0.35{\mu}m$ CMOS Process. At power-down mode, PLL power saves more than $95\%$ of locking mode. Also, the PLL using programmable divider has a wide locking range ($81MHz\~556MHz$) for various clock domains on a multiple IPs system.

Geological Distribution of Aquatic Invertebrates Living in Paddy Fields of South Korea (한국의 논에 서식하는 수서무척추생물의 지리적 군집 분포)

  • Kim, Myung-Hyun;Han, Min-Su;Nam, Hyung-Kyu;Kang, Kee-Kyung;Kim, Miran
    • Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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    • v.45 no.6
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    • pp.1136-1142
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    • 2012
  • The roles of paddy fields are re-evaluated as an artificial wetland. Although 44% of total aquatic invertebrates in South Korea are observed in a rice paddy, information of their distribution and characteristics of habitat use is limited yet. This study was carried out to provide information and characterizing distribution of community of aquatic invertebrates using a rice paddy through the South Korea. Aquatic invertebrates were collected at 284 sites of a rice paddy in South Korea from June to August, 2005, 2006 and 2007. We grouped sampling sites according to its species and population of aquatic invertebrates using a non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS). Total 21 orders 60 families 114 species were collected from a rice paddy. Coleoptera (25%), Heteroptera (17%), Diptera (17%) and Odonata (12%) were observed. Aquatic invertebrates were classified into three groups (Group 1: Gangwon, Gyeonggi and Chungbuk; Group 2: Chungnam, Jeonbuk, Jeonnam and Jeju; Group 3: Gyeongbuk and Kyeongnam). In Group 1, Muljarus japonicas distributed mainly Gangwondo and Chungbuk. In Group 2, Sigara nigroventralis and S. substriata were mainly observed. In Group 3, higher density of Daphnia sp. and Chironomidae gen. spp. was found in the southern part of Korea.

Management of Traumatized Gingival Wound Using Tissue Adhesivein Dental Hygiene Practice (치위생 임상에서 조직접착제를 활용한 외상성 치은열창의 처치)

  • Chung, Won-Gyun;Noh, Hie-Jin;Jang, Sun-Ok
    • Journal of dental hygiene science
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.1-4
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of this paper is to present the potential application of tissue adhesive in the management of traumatized gingival wound in clinical dental hygiene practice. Cyanoacrylate adhesive has been used for closure of superficial laceration without suturing, which is available in periodontal and oral surgery. Small gingival or mucosal lacerations may occur by improper or excessive instrumentation of the dental hygienist during scaling and root planing procedure. In this circumstances, tissue adhesive is very effective, simple, and convenient method as an alternative to conventional wound closure by suturing. The tissue adhesive consists of monomeric n-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate, which polymerizes quickly in contact with tissue fluid. The sutureless treatment of gingival laceration with tissue adhesive has advantages of good esthetic results, less trauma, time saving, antibacterial and hemostatic effects. In addition, local anesthesia as well as re-visit for dressing and removal of suture are not required. Use of tissue adhesive could be beneficial to both dental hygienist and patient in the management of procedural error.

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Comparative study on Dental fees of Korea, Japan, Germany and United States (국내외 치과 의료수가 비교현황 : 한국, 일본, 독일, 미국을 중심으로)

  • Ryu, Jae-In;Kim, Chul-Shin;Jung, Se-Hwan;Shin, Bo-Mi
    • The Journal of the Korean dental association
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    • v.53 no.4
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    • pp.266-274
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    • 2015
  • The price for health service are decided by very complicated process because many of factors are related with them. The RBRVS(resource-based relative value scale) were used to calculate the Korean health service fees including dental fees. This study aimed to compare dental fees of Korea with other countries, such as Japan, Germany, and the US for evaluating the adequacy. Dental fees were categorized as oral evaluation and imaging, dental treatment including restorative, periodontal, and surgical work, and preventive treatment and compared by each country. The official documents about dental fees were collected from Korea, Japan, Germany, and the US. Each fee was presented as their own currency at first. Then they were converted into Korean won (KRW) by applying the market exchange rates at a specific point of time. Finally the fees were adjusted by purchasing power parities (PPPs) which equalize the different currencies. In general, the level of Korean fees were markedly low compared to those of Japan, Germany, and the US. German fees were similar or higher than that of Japan, and the US. The Korean fees were lower than three other countries 1.2~4.1 times for oral evaluation and 2.2~7.3 times lower for panoramic radiography. The endodontic fees of Japan, Germany, and the US were higher 1.8~15.3 times and 4.0~35.9 times for the deciduous teeth extraction compared to the Korean. In Japan the prophylaxis was 3.2 times more priced than the Korean fee. Exceptionally, the fees for re-evaluation, amalgam filling, and scaling were lower priced in Japan than other countries. This study has limitations on the items in definition and contents of dental practices units which were not exactly comparable and differently determined by countries. However, this study is meaningful because it surveyed the price levels to compare four different countries and then applied PPPs adjustment. This finding can be used to develop the dental RBRVs of Korean national health insurance and will contribute to improving the payment systems of health care.

Evaluation of Flood Vulnerability in Taehwa River Basin Using Flood Factors (홍수 인자를 활용한 태화강 유역 홍수 취약성 평가)

  • Kim, Min Kuk;Seol, Myung Sue;Park, Jun Sue;Lee, Jae Yung;Lee, Chung Dae
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2020.06a
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    • pp.390-390
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    • 2020
  • 자연재해 중 홍수의 경우 단기간에 발생하며, 큰 인명 및 금전적 피해를 가져오는 재해이다. 1970년~2017년 국내 홍수 피해 분석결과 사상자(총 8,152명)는 점차 줄어드는 추세를 보이지만, 반대로 피해액(총 17조5,000억원)은 증가하는 것으로 나타났다(wamis, 국가수자원관리종합정보시스템). 이러한 국내 홍수 피해를 최소화하기 위해서는 각 유역 또는 지역별 특성을 고려한 홍수 취약성 평가가 필요하다. 홍수 취약성은 대상 지역의 기상, 지형, 인문학적 상황에 따라 상이하게 나타나며, 홍수 취약성을 평가하는 인자의 선정 또한 매우 중요하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 홍수 피해 자료와 홍수 인자간의 인과관계를 분석하여 홍수 취약성 지표 선정 및 취약성 평가를 실시하였다. 홍수 취약성 평가를 위해 홍수 피해 자료와 대상 인자간의 상관성 분석을 통해 상관계수 값이 상대적으로 높게 나온 인자를 선정하였다. 대상 인자는 크게 기상학적 인자, 지형학적 인자, 사회·인문학적 인자로 구분하였다 선정된 인자 간 서로 높은 상관성을 보일 시 공선성이 존재함을 의미하며, 이러한 공선성을 방지하기 위해 VIF (Variance Inflation Factor, 분산팽창계수)를 통한 공선성 검토를 적용하였다. 또한 각 인자 간 에는 서로 다른 단위 및 범위를 가진다. 이러한 경우 특정 인자들의 증감을 취약성 평가에 반영하기에 어려움이 있으며, 유역별 평가 시 신뢰성이 낮아진다. 따라서 Re-scaling 방법을 통해 각 인자의 단위 및 범위를 표준화 후 동일가중치 법을 적용하였다. 본 연구에서는 전체 유역 중 홍수피해가 가장 크게 발생하는 낙동강 태화강 유역을 연구 대상 지역으로 선정하였다. 태화강은 도심지의 중심부를 흐르는 하천이며, 산지의 고도가 높은 지형적 특성을 가지고 있어 홍수에 대한 취약성이 높은 것으로 나타났다(wamis, 국가수자원관리종합정보시스템). 태화강 유역 홍수 취약성 평가결과 유역별 기상, 지형, 인문학적 특성에 따라 홍수 취약성이 높게 나타나는 결과를 보였다. 이와 같은 결과는 유역 내 도심지 비율, 인구밀도, 토지피복 특성에 의한 것으로 주로 지형학적 인자로 인해 취약성이 높게 나타났다. 본 연구에서 활용한 홍수 취약성 평가 방법은 향후 홍수피해 대책 수립에 사용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

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Perceptional Change of a New Product, DMB Phone

  • Kim, Ju-Young;Ko, Deok-Im
    • Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.59-88
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    • 2008
  • Digital Convergence means integration between industry, technology, and contents, and in marketing, it usually comes with creation of new types of product and service under the base of digital technology as digitalization progress in electro-communication industries including telecommunication, home appliance, and computer industries. One can see digital convergence not only in instruments such as PC, AV appliances, cellular phone, but also in contents, network, service that are required in production, modification, distribution, re-production of information. Convergence in contents started around 1990. Convergence in network and service begins as broadcasting and telecommunication integrates and DMB(digital multimedia broadcasting), born in May, 2005 is the symbolic icon in this trend. There are some positive and negative expectations about DMB. The reason why two opposite expectations exist is that DMB does not come out from customer's need but from technology development. Therefore, customers might have hard time to interpret the real meaning of DMB. Time is quite critical to a high tech product, like DMB because another product with same function from different technology can replace the existing product within short period of time. If DMB does not positioning well to customer's mind quickly, another products like Wibro, IPTV, or HSPDA could replace it before it even spreads out. Therefore, positioning strategy is critical for success of DMB product. To make correct positioning strategy, one needs to understand how consumer interprets DMB and how consumer's interpretation can be changed via communication strategy. In this study, we try to investigate how consumer perceives a new product, like DMB and how AD strategy change consumer's perception. More specifically, the paper segment consumers into sub-groups based on their DMB perceptions and compare their characteristics in order to understand how they perceive DMB. And, expose them different printed ADs that have messages guiding consumer think DMB in specific ways, either cellular phone or personal TV. Research Question 1: Segment consumers according to perceptions about DMB and compare characteristics of segmentations. Research Question 2: Compare perceptions about DMB after AD that induces categorization of DMB in direction for each segment. If one understand and predict a direction in which consumer perceive a new product, firm can select target customers easily. We segment consumers according to their perception and analyze characteristics in order to find some variables that can influence perceptions, like prior experience, usage, or habit. And then, marketing people can use this variables to identify target customers and predict their perceptions. If one knows how customer's perception is changed via AD message, communication strategy could be constructed properly. Specially, information from segmented customers helps to develop efficient AD strategy for segment who has prior perception. Research framework consists of two measurements and one treatment, O1 X O2. First observation is for collecting information about consumer's perception and their characteristics. Based on first observation, the paper segment consumers into two groups, one group perceives DMB similar to Cellular phone and the other group perceives DMB similar to TV. And compare characteristics of two segments in order to find reason why they perceive DMB differently. Next, we expose two kinds of AD to subjects. One AD describes DMB as Cellular phone and the other Ad describes DMB as personal TV. When two ADs are exposed to subjects, consumers don't know their prior perception of DMB, in other words, which subject belongs 'similar-to-Cellular phone' segment or 'similar-to-TV' segment? However, we analyze the AD's effect differently for each segment. In research design, final observation is for investigating AD effect. Perception before AD is compared with perception after AD. Comparisons are made for each segment and for each AD. For the segment who perceives DMB similar to TV, AD that describes DMB as cellular phone could change the prior perception. And AD that describes DMB as personal TV, could enforce the prior perception. For data collection, subjects are selected from undergraduate students because they have basic knowledge about most digital equipments and have open attitude about a new product and media. Total number of subjects is 240. In order to measure perception about DMB, we use indirect measurement, comparison with other similar digital products. To select similar digital products, we pre-survey students and then finally select PDA, Car-TV, Cellular Phone, MP3 player, TV, and PSP. Quasi experiment is done at several classes under instructor's allowance. After brief introduction, prior knowledge, awareness, and usage about DMB as well as other digital instruments is asked and their similarities and perceived characteristics are measured. And then, two kinds of manipulated color-printed AD are distributed and similarities and perceived characteristics for DMB are re-measured. Finally purchase intension, AD attitude, manipulation check, and demographic variables are asked. Subjects are given small gift for participation. Stimuli are color-printed advertising. Their actual size is A4 and made after several pre-test from AD professionals and students. As results, consumers are segmented into two subgroups based on their perceptions of DMB. Similarity measure between DMB and cellular phone and similarity measure between DMB and TV are used to classify consumers. If subject whose first measure is less than the second measure, she is classified into segment A and segment A is characterized as they perceive DMB like TV. Otherwise, they are classified as segment B, who perceives DMB like cellular phone. Discriminant analysis on these groups with their characteristics of usage and attitude shows that Segment A knows much about DMB and uses a lot of digital instrument. Segment B, who thinks DMB as cellular phone doesn't know well about DMB and not familiar with other digital instruments. So, consumers with higher knowledge perceive DMB similar to TV because launching DMB advertising lead consumer think DMB as TV. Consumers with less interest on digital products don't know well about DMB AD and then think DMB as cellular phone. In order to investigate perceptions of DMB as well as other digital instruments, we apply Proxscal analysis, Multidimensional Scaling technique at SPSS statistical package. At first step, subjects are presented 21 pairs of 7 digital instruments and evaluate similarity judgments on 7 point scale. And for each segment, their similarity judgments are averaged and similarity matrix is made. Secondly, Proxscal analysis of segment A and B are done. At third stage, get similarity judgment between DMB and other digital instruments after AD exposure. Lastly, similarity judgments of group A-1, A-2, B-1, and B-2 are named as 'after DMB' and put them into matrix made at the first stage. Then apply Proxscal analysis on these matrixes and check the positional difference of DMB and after DMB. The results show that map of segment A, who perceives DMB similar as TV, shows that DMB position closer to TV than to Cellular phone as expected. Map of segment B, who perceive DMB similar as cellular phone shows that DMB position closer to Cellular phone than to TV as expected. Stress value and R-square is acceptable. And, change results after stimuli, manipulated Advertising show that AD makes DMB perception bent toward Cellular phone when Cellular phone-like AD is exposed, and that DMB positioning move towards Car-TV which is more personalized one when TV-like AD is exposed. It is true for both segment, A and B, consistently. Furthermore, the paper apply correspondence analysis to the same data and find almost the same results. The paper answers two main research questions. The first one is that perception about a new product is made mainly from prior experience. And the second one is that AD is effective in changing and enforcing perception. In addition to above, we extend perception change to purchase intention. Purchase intention is high when AD enforces original perception. AD that shows DMB like TV makes worst intention. This paper has limitations and issues to be pursed in near future. Methodologically, current methodology can't provide statistical test on the perceptual change, since classical MDS models, like Proxscal and correspondence analysis are not probability models. So, a new probability MDS model for testing hypothesis about configuration needs to be developed. Next, advertising message needs to be developed more rigorously from theoretical and managerial perspective. Also experimental procedure could be improved for more realistic data collection. For example, web-based experiment and real product stimuli and multimedia presentation could be employed. Or, one can display products together in simulated shop. In addition, demand and social desirability threats of internal validity could influence on the results. In order to handle the threats, results of the model-intended advertising and other "pseudo" advertising could be compared. Furthermore, one can try various level of innovativeness in order to check whether it make any different results (cf. Moon 2006). In addition, if one can create hypothetical product that is really innovative and new for research, it helps to make a vacant impression status and then to study how to form impression in more rigorous way.

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