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일차 선별검사로서 자궁경부 세포진 검사의 유용성 (The Usefulness of Cervicovaginal Cytology as a Primary Screening Test)

  • 박재홍;하승연;조현이;정동해;김나래;박상희
    • 대한세포병리학회지
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    • 제19권2호
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    • pp.107-110
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    • 2008
  • We evaluated the usefulness of cervicovaginal cytology as a primary screening test by analyzing the cytologic and histological diagnoses of 2,254 women. Cervicovaginal cytology had 93.0% sensitivity, 86.1% specificity, 88.2% positive predictive value, and 91.7% of negative predictive value. Cervicovaginal cytology as a primary screening test showed much higher specificity but slightly lower sensitivity than HPV DNA testing. However, the sensitivity of cervicovaginal cytology will be improved continuously due to the development of liquid-based cytology. We regard cervicovaginal cytology as a good primary screening test for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia or carcinoma.

M-Learning Systems Usage: A Perspective from Students of Higher Educational Institutions in Sri Lanka

  • SHAMEEM, Aliyar Lebbe Mohamed Abdul;SANJEETHA, Mohamed Buhary Fathima
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • 제8권8호
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    • pp.637-645
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    • 2021
  • Mobile devices have become attractive learning devices for education. The digitalization of the higher education system in Sri Lanka by 2020 is part of the government's effort to modernize and enhance the country's overall education system particularly in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. Theoretically, this study contributes to the M-Learning model in higher education institutions via the integration of literature on technology adoption (TAM and UTAUT) with the variables of Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, Attitude, Effort Expectancy, Social Influence, and Facilitating Condition. The attitude towards M-Learning amongst higher education students was gauged via an online questionnaire survey. The convenience sample comprised 344 students from the Advanced Technological Institutes (ATI) in Batticaloa District, Sri Lanka. Descriptive statistics, a measurement, and structural model, and hypotheses testing were used to analyze the derived data. The findings indicate that mobile learning is significantly affected by perceived ease of use, social influence, effort expectancy, and facilitating condition, but negatively affected by attitude and perceived usefulness. The exhaustive literature review revealed that there are very few M-Learning studies related to digital learning in the context of higher education in the Batticaloa district.

Analysis of Online Reviews on Hotel Booking Intention: An Empirical Study in Indonesia

  • Hendro, WIDJANARKO;Farhvisa Muzakka, ABDILLAH;Dyah, SUGANDINI
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • 제10권2호
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    • pp.83-90
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    • 2023
  • This study aims to determine the direct effect of positive online reviews, negative online reviews, the usefulness of online reviews, reviewers' expertise, timeliness of online reviews, the volume of online reviews, and comprehensiveness of online reviews on accommodation booking intentions and also the indirect effect of positive online reviews on the intention of booking accommodations through trust as mediation. Research respondents are users of the accommodation booking application in Yogyakarta. Hypothesis testing was carried out using SEM (Partial Least Square). Data was collected by distributing questionnaires to 135 respondents. The results of this study indicate that the Usefulness of Online Reviews, Volume of Online Reviews, and Comprehensiveness of Online Reviews have a direct positive and significant influence on the accommodation booking Intention of booking application users in Yogyakarta. The variables of Negative Online Reviews and Timeliness of Online Reviews have negative and significant influences on the accommodation booking Intention of booking application users in Yogyakarta. Positive Online Reviews and Reviewer Expertise variables are not significant in this study. At the same time, the Trust variable has a full mediation relationship in an indirect relationship between the Positive Online Reviews variables and the accommodation booking Intention of booking application users in Yogyakarta.

Antecedents of Consumer Participation in Sharing Economy at Distribution Markets

  • CAI, Yunwei;CHOI, Nak-Hwan
    • 유통과학연구
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    • 제20권9호
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    • pp.127-139
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: As sharing economy is becoming increasingly relevant to people's lives, we want to understand why people participate in the sharing economy. We propose and validate three factors that are likely to influence consumers' choice of participating in the sharing economy at distribution market. Also, we found antecedents that affect these variables. These antecedents include appointment and return convenient, extended operating time, variety-seeking need, usage irregularity, other's clean usage, and feeling of membership between users. Research design, data, and methodology: This research collected 341 questionnaire data from participants in China. These participants were asked about the usage of DiDi, the most popular shareware in China. The data analysis and hypothesis testing were conducted using SPSS and Amos. Results: Usage convenience, usefulness of short-term usage, and trust in other users were found to have a positive impact on consumers' intention to participate in the sharing economy. In addition, we found that all the antecedents affect these variables positively. Conclusions: This research provides new driving factors for consumer participation in the sharing economy. Moreover, these findings will help managers develop marketing strategies for inducing the consumers to participate in the sharing economy.

Stratton-Chu 공식을 이용한 측정된 근거리장에서 원거리장으로의 변환에 관한 연구 (A Study on Near-Field to Far-Field Transformation Using Stratton-Chu Formula)

  • 이정석;송태림;두진경;구태완;육종관
    • 한국전자파학회논문지
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    • 제24권3호
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    • pp.316-323
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    • 2013
  • 본 논문에서는 안테나의 원거리장 특성 및 Electromagnetic Compatibility(EMC) testing을 위한 근거리 원거리장 변환에 대한 연구이다. EMC testing은 광대역 신호 및 거대 구조에 대한 원거리장 측정과 같은 복잡한 과정이 필요하다. EMC 측정 문제를 해결하기 위해, Stratton-Chu 공식을 이용하여 간단하고 직접적인 방법으로 원거리장을 예측하였다. 특히 Stratton-Chu 공식을 이용한 예측은 자유 공간상의 평면파를 통해 해석값을 비교하여 유효성을 검증했다. 패치 안테나의 근거리장 추출과 원거리장 확인을 위해, full-wave 시뮬레이션을 이용하여 Stratton-Chu 계산 결과를 비교 및 검증하였으며, 6 % 이내의 오차로 원거리장의 크기를 예측했다.

조합된 서비스의 성능 평가를 위한 Aspect 기반 테스팅 프레임워크 (An Aspect-based Testing Framework for Performance Evaluation of Composite Service)

  • 김종필;홍장의
    • 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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    • 제1권3호
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    • pp.149-158
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    • 2012
  • 최근 서비스 기반의 소프트웨어 개발이 사용자의 다양한 요구를 충족시킬 수 있는 하나의 솔루션으로 부각되면서, 안정적인 서비스의 조합을 통하여 보다 큰 서비스를 제공하려는 시도가 증가하고 있다. 그러나 조합된 서비스의 개발시 고려되어야 하는 사항중의 하나는 사용자의 입장에서 서비스의 정확성과 함께 신속성을 제공해야 한다는 것이다. 왜냐하면 사용자가 서비스의 요청 과정에서 늦은 응답으로 인하여 실행 버튼을 중복적으로 클릭하는 행동을 보이기 때문이다. 본 논문에서는 조합된 서비스의 성능을 측정하기 위한 테스팅 프레임워크를 제시한다. 즉, 조합된 서비스의 실행 시간을 측정함으로써, 개발자에게 서비스의 성능을 분석할 수 있는 도구를 제공한다. 이러한 실행시간 측정을 위하여 본 연구에서는 Aspect 컴포넌트를 이용하는 타이머 서비스를 개발하여 기존 웹 서비스들과 연동할 수 있도록 하였다. 또한 몇 실험을 통하여 조합된 서비스의 성능 테스트가 가능함을 확인하였다. 제시한 프레임워크는 조합된 서비스를 구성하는 단위 서비스 중에서 가장 많은 시간이 소요되는 서비스를 식별하고 필요에 따라 다른 서비스로 대체할 수 있는 서비스 개발을 가능하게 한다.

스마트폰의 지각된 가치와 지속적 사용의도, 그리고 개인 혁신성의 조절효과 (An Empirical Study on Perceived Value and Continuous Intention to Use of Smart Phone, and the Moderating Effect of Personal Innovativeness)

  • 한준형;강성배;문태수
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • 제23권4호
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    • pp.53-84
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    • 2013
  • With rapid development of ICT (Information and Communications Technology), new services by the convergence of mobile network and application technology began to appear. Today, smart phone with new ICT convergence network capabilities is exceedingly popular and very useful as a new tool for the development of business opportunities. Previous studies based on Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) suggested critical factors, which should be considered for acquiring new customers and maintaining existing users in smart phone market. However, they had a limitation to focus on technology acceptance, not value based approach. Prior studies on customer's adoption of electronic utilities like smart phone product showed that the antecedents such as the perceived benefit and the perceived sacrifice could explain the causality between what is perceived and what is acquired over diverse contexts. So, this research conceptualizes perceived value as a trade-off between perceived benefit and perceived sacrifice, and we need to research the perceived value to grasp user's continuous intention to use of smart phone. The purpose of this study is to investigate the structured relationship between benefit (quality, usefulness, playfulness) and sacrifice (technicality, cost, security risk) of smart phone users, perceived value, and continuous intention to use. In addition, this study intends to analyze the differences between two subgroups of smart phone users by the degree of personal innovativeness. Personal innovativeness could help us to understand the moderating effect between how perceptions are formed and continuous intention to use smart phone. This study conducted survey through e-mail, direct mail, and interview with smart phone users. Empirical analysis based on 330 respondents was conducted in order to test the hypotheses. First, the result of hypotheses testing showed that perceived usefulness among three factors of perceived benefit has the highest positive impact on perceived value, and then followed by perceived playfulness and perceived quality. Second, the result of hypotheses testing showed that perceived cost among three factors of perceived sacrifice has significantly negative impact on perceived value, however, technicality and security risk have no significant impact on perceived value. Also, the result of hypotheses testing showed that perceived value has significant direct impact on continuous intention to use of smart phone. In this regard, marketing managers of smart phone company should pay more attention to improve task efficiency and performance of smart phone, including rate systems of smart phone. Additionally, to test the moderating effect of personal innovativeness, this research conducted multi-group analysis by the degree of personal innovativeness of smart phone users. In a group with high level of innovativeness, perceived usefulness has the highest positive influence on perceived value than other factors. Instead, the analysis for a group with low level of innovativeness showed that perceived playfulness was the highest positive factor to influence perceived value than others. This result of the group with high level of innovativeness explains that innovators and early adopters are able to cope with higher level of cost and risk, and they expect to develop more positive intentions toward higher performance through the use of an innovation. Also, hedonic behavior in the case of the group with low level of innovativeness aims to provide self-fulfilling value to the users, in contrast to utilitarian perspective, which aims to provide instrumental value to the users. However, with regard to perceived sacrifice, both groups in general showed negative impact on perceived value. Also, the group with high level of innovativeness had less overall negative impact on perceived value compared to the group with low level of innovativeness across all factors. In both group with high level of innovativeness and with low level of innovativeness, perceived cost has the highest negative influence on perceived value than other factors. Instead, the analysis for a group with high level of innovativeness showed that perceived technicality was the positive factor to influence perceived value than others. However, the analysis for a group with low level of innovativeness showed that perceived security risk was the second high negative factor to influence perceived value than others. Unlike previous studies, this study focuses on influencing factors on continuous intention to use of smart phone, rather than considering initial purchase and adoption of smart phone. First, perceived value, which was used to identify user's adoption behavior, has a mediating effect among perceived benefit, perceived sacrifice, and continuous intention to use smart phone. Second, perceived usefulness has the highest positive influence on perceived value, while perceived cost has significant negative influence on perceived value. Third, perceived value, like prior studies, has high level of positive influence on continuous intention to use smart phone. Fourth, in multi-group analysis by the degree of personal innovativeness of smart phone users, perceived usefulness, in a group with high level of innovativeness, has the highest positive influence on perceived value than other factors. Instead, perceived playfulness, in a group with low level of innovativeness, has the highest positive factor to influence perceived value than others. This result shows that early adopters intend to adopt smart phone as a tool to make their job useful, instead market followers intend to adopt smart phone as a tool to make their time enjoyable. In terms of marketing strategy for smart phone company, marketing managers should pay more attention to identify their customers' lifetime value by the phase of smart phone adoption, as well as to understand their behavior intention to accept the risk and uncertainty positively. The academic contribution of this study primarily is to employ the VAM (Value-based Adoption Model) as a conceptual foundation, compared to TAM (Technology Acceptance Model) used widely by previous studies. VAM is useful for understanding continuous intention to use smart phone in comparison with TAM as a new IT utility by individual adoption. Perceived value dominantly influences continuous intention to use smart phone. The results of this study justify our research model adoption on each antecedent of perceived value as a benefit and a sacrifice component. While TAM could be widely used in user acceptance of new technology, it has a limitation to explain the new IT adoption like smart phone, because of customer behavior intention to choose the value of the object. In terms of theoretical approach, this study provides theoretical contribution to the development, design, and marketing of smart phone. The practical contribution of this study is to suggest useful decision alternatives concerned to marketing strategy formulation for acquiring and retaining long-term customers related to smart phone business. Since potential customers are interested in both benefit and sacrifice when evaluating the value of smart phone, marketing managers in smart phone company has to put more effort into creating customer's value of low sacrifice and high benefit so that customers will continuously have higher adoption on smart phone. Especially, this study shows that innovators and early adopters with high level of innovativeness have higher adoption than market followers with low level of innovativeness, in terms of perceived usefulness and perceived cost. To formulate marketing strategy for smart phone diffusion, marketing managers have to pay more attention to identify not only their customers' benefit and sacrifice components but also their customers' lifetime value to adopt smart phone.

연속 잡음 음성 인식을 위한 다 모델 기반 인식기의 성능 향상에 대한 연구 (Performance Improvement in the Multi-Model Based Speech Recognizer for Continuous Noisy Speech Recognition)

  • 정용주
    • 음성과학
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    • 제15권2호
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    • pp.55-65
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    • 2008
  • Recently, the multi-model based speech recognizer has been used quite successfully for noisy speech recognition. For the selection of the reference HMM (hidden Markov model) which best matches the noise type and SNR (signal to noise ratio) of the input testing speech, the estimation of the SNR value using the VAD (voice activity detection) algorithm and the classification of the noise type based on the GMM (Gaussian mixture model) have been done separately in the multi-model framework. As the SNR estimation process is vulnerable to errors, we propose an efficient method which can classify simultaneously the SNR values and noise types. The KL (Kullback-Leibler) distance between the single Gaussian distributions for the noise signal during the training and testing is utilized for the classification. The recognition experiments have been done on the Aurora 2 database showing the usefulness of the model compensation method in the multi-model based speech recognizer. We could also see that further performance improvement was achievable by combining the probability density function of the MCT (multi-condition training) with that of the reference HMM compensated by the D-JA (data-driven Jacobian adaptation) in the multi-model based speech recognizer.

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불량탄 안전사고 예방을 위한 탄약 수명 예측 연구 리뷰 (A Review on Ammunition Shelf-life Prediction Research for Preventing Accidents Caused by Defective Ammunition)

  • 정영진;홍지수;김솔잎;강성우
    • 대한안전경영과학회지
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    • 제26권1호
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    • pp.39-44
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    • 2024
  • In order to prevent accidents via defective ammunition, this paper analyzes recent research on ammunition life prediction methodology. This workanalyzes current shelf-life prediction approaches by comparing the pros and cons of physical modeling, accelerated testing, and statistical analysis-based prediction techniques. Physical modeling-based prediction demonstrates its usefulness in understanding the physical properties and interactions of ammunition. Accelerated testing-based prediction is useful in quickly verifying the reliability and safety of ammunition. Additionally, statistical analysis-based prediction is emphasized for its ability to make decisions based on data. This paper aims to contribute to the early detection of defective ammunition by analyzing ammunition life prediction methodology hereby reducing defective ammunition accidents. In order to prepare not only Korean domestic war situation but also the international affairs from Eastern Europe and Mid East countries, it is very important to enhance the stability of organizations using ammunition and reduce costs of potential accidents.

지각된 유용성과 사용용이성이 기업 이러닝 교육의 학습전이에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구 -자기효능감과 업무환경의 매개효과를 중심으로- (The Effects of Learning Transfer on Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use in Enterprise e-Learning - Focused on Mediating Effects of Self-Efficacy and Work Environment -)

  • 박대범;구자원
    • 경영과정보연구
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    • 제37권3호
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    • pp.1-25
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    • 2018
  • 본 연구는 이러닝 학습 경험이 있는 국내외 기업 종업원 390명을 대상으로 지각된 유용성, 사용용이성, 자기효능감 및 업무환경이 학습전이에 미치는 영향을 실증 분석하였다. 또한 각 요인의 학습전이에 대한 직접효과와 더불어 자기효능감과 업무환경의 매개효과를 분석하였다. 분석결과 이러닝 학습자의 지각된 유용성과 사용용이성은 자기효능감에 유의미한 정(+)의 영향을 보였으며, 상사 및 동료 지원과 조직 분위기에도 유의미한 정(+)의 영향을 갖는 것으로 분석되었다. 자기효능감은 학습전이에 유의미한 정(+)의 영향을 보였으며, 상사 및 동료 지원과 조직 분위기도 학습전이에 유의미한 정(+)의 영향을 갖는 것으로 나타났다. 지각된 유용성 또한 학습전이에 유의미한 영향을 갖는 것으로 분석되었다. 하지만 지각된 사용용이성은 학습전이에 유의미한 영향을 미치지 않았다. 매개효과 분석결과 자기효능감과 업무환경은 각각 지각된 유용성, 지각된 사용용이성과 학습전이에 대해 모두 매개효과를 갖는 것으로 분석되었다. 본 연구에서 제시한 시사점은 첫째, 기업교육에서 보편화된 이러닝에 대해 기술수용 단계를 벗어나 수용 후 실질적인 학습전이 효과에 대한 영향요인을 반영한 새로운 연구 모형을 제시하였다. 기술수용모델에서 외부 특성요인에 대한 매개변수로 사용되는 지각된 유용성과 지각된 사용 용이성을 독립변수로, 외부 특성요인으로 연구되었던 자기효능감과 조직 환경을 매개변수로 사용한 연구모형을 도출하였다. 둘째, 기술수용과 학습전이에 관한 연구는 단일국가를 대상으로 한 연구들이 대부분이다. 26개 국가의 표본을 대상으로 다양한 샘플을 사용하여 연구 모형을 검증함으로써 신뢰성을 높였다. 셋째, 기존의 연구에서 지각된 유용성과, 사용용이성을 수용의향 및 학습전이의 주요 결정요인으로 고려하였다. 본 연구는 수용된 정보기술에 대해 학습자 및 환경 요인의 매개효과를 탐색하여 지각된 유용성, 사용용이성의 학습전이에 대한 경로를 강화하고 보완하였다. 본 연구에서 활용된 다양한 국가의 표본 분석을 기반으로 향후 국제비교연구도 가능할 것으로 기대된다.