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Brand Switching Motives of Blue Jean Consumers (청바지 소비자의 상표전환동기에 관한 연구)

  • Ha, You-Sun;Chung, Sung-Jee;Kim, Dong-Geon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.33 no.10
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    • pp.1673-1682
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of the study was to investigate differences in: 1) importance of buying motives including external stimuli and sales promotional stimuli among groups according to levels of diversity orientation; 2) importance of buying motives including external stimuli and sales promotional stimuli among their subordinate factors. Questionnaires were distributed 340 women who aged between 20 and 30. A sample of 317 women responded to the questionnaire. Using SPSS/PC version 12.0, factor analysis reliability analysis, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), and Repeated measure ANOVA were used for the data analysis. As results, there were significant differences in importance of buying motives including external stimuli and sales promotional stimuli among groups according to levels of diversity orientation. Also, there were significant differences in importance of external stimuli and sales promotional stimuli among their subordinate factors.

A study on re-use intention through external stimuli and infection control of dental office perceived by medical consumer (의료소비자가 인식하는 치과의원의 감염관리와 외부자극을 통한 재이용의사에 관한 연구)

  • Cho, Min-Jeong
    • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.571-580
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    • 2011
  • Objectives : This study focused on examine the relevance between behavioral changes of customers and re-use intention on medical institution after experiencing infection control through external stimuli. Methods : This research was based on self-standing survey conducted from August to November 2010, 214 people who randomly selected from five dental clinics located in Busan were analyzed as the final group. Collected data were performed using SPSS 12.0 for Window. Results : 1. 82.8% of those surveyed who experienced external stimulation have changed their behavior on hospital environments and facilities, and 80.5% of them answered the stimuli influenced their re-use intention on medical institution. 2. There were no significant differences between participants by general characteristics on 'The reason why medical team wear sanitary appliances'. In age group 30~39, 85.4% of participants chose the answer so the difference were statistically significant(p<.001). Result by household income showed significant difference in group over $1,000 to $2,000 as 82.7% response(p<.05). 3. 94.4% of participants chose 'Required' for both surgical suits and gloves in research of 'The necessity level of personal sanitary appliances' which medical teams wear for treatment and 79.4% agreed that medical teams need to change their medical gloves whenever treating each patients. 4. The survey revealed that the most important appliance in patient's awareness were surgical gloves and protective goggles has chosen as the least important one. Conclusions : Patients as medical consumer were highly noticed of importance of the infection control in dental clinic and necessity of personal sanitary appliances. The patients who has accessed dental infection control information by external stimuli in advance showed objectival changes of their visit and behavioral changes with bringing medical environments together. This aspects influenced those patient's re-use intention in conclusion.

Audiogram in Response to Stimulation Delivered to Fluid Applied to the External Meatus

  • Geal-Dor, Miriam;Chordekar, Shai;Adelman, Cahtia;Kaufmann-Yehezkely, Michal;Sohmer, Haim
    • Journal of Audiology & Otology
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.79-84
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    • 2020
  • Background and Objectives: Hearing can be elicited in response to vibratory stimuli delivered to fluid in the external auditory meatus. To obtain a complete audiogram in subjects with normal hearing in response to pure tone vibratory stimuli delivered to fluid applied to the external meatus. Subjects and Methods: Pure tone vibratory stimuli in the audiometric range from 0.25 to 6.0 kHz were delivered to fluid applied to the external meatus of eight participants with normal hearing (15 dB or better) using a rod attached to a standard clinical bone vibrator. The fluid thresholds obtained were compared to the air conduction (AC), bone conduction (BC; mastoid), and soft tissue conduction (STC; neck) thresholds in the same subjects. Results: Fluid stimulation thresholds were obtained at every frequency in each subject. The fluid and STC (neck) audiograms sloped down at higher frequencies, while the AC and BC audiograms were flat. It is likely that the fluid stimulation audiograms did not involve AC mechanisms or even, possibly, osseous BC mechanisms. Conclusions: The thresholds elicited in response to the fluid in the meatus likely reflect a form of STC and may result from excitation of the inner ear by the vibrations induced in the fluid. The sloping fluid audiograms may reflect transmission pathways that are less effective at higher frequencies.

Audiogram in Response to Stimulation Delivered to Fluid Applied to the External Meatus

  • Geal-Dor, Miriam;Chordekar, Shai;Adelman, Cahtia;Kaufmann-Yehezkely, Michal;Sohmer, Haim
    • Korean Journal of Audiology
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.79-84
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    • 2020
  • Background and Objectives: Hearing can be elicited in response to vibratory stimuli delivered to fluid in the external auditory meatus. To obtain a complete audiogram in subjects with normal hearing in response to pure tone vibratory stimuli delivered to fluid applied to the external meatus. Subjects and Methods: Pure tone vibratory stimuli in the audiometric range from 0.25 to 6.0 kHz were delivered to fluid applied to the external meatus of eight participants with normal hearing (15 dB or better) using a rod attached to a standard clinical bone vibrator. The fluid thresholds obtained were compared to the air conduction (AC), bone conduction (BC; mastoid), and soft tissue conduction (STC; neck) thresholds in the same subjects. Results: Fluid stimulation thresholds were obtained at every frequency in each subject. The fluid and STC (neck) audiograms sloped down at higher frequencies, while the AC and BC audiograms were flat. It is likely that the fluid stimulation audiograms did not involve AC mechanisms or even, possibly, osseous BC mechanisms. Conclusions: The thresholds elicited in response to the fluid in the meatus likely reflect a form of STC and may result from excitation of the inner ear by the vibrations induced in the fluid. The sloping fluid audiograms may reflect transmission pathways that are less effective at higher frequencies.

Development of Explosion Model of Energetic Materials Considering Shock to Detonation Transition and Damage by External Impact (외부 충격에 의한 손상을 고려한 화약과 추진제의 폭발모델 개발)

  • Kim, Bohoon;Yoh, Jai-ick
    • 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2012.11a
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    • pp.97-99
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    • 2012
  • A pressure-based BOIK model considering Shock to Detonation Transition(SDT) and damage due to external fragment or bullet stimuli impact on energetic materials and analytical approach for determination of free parameters are proposed. The rate of product mass fraction(${\lambda}$) consists of ignition term that represents the initiation due to shock compression and growth term that describes propagation of detonation wave and strain term representing the morphological deformation induced by external impact.

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Molecularly engineered switchable photo-responsive membrane in gas separation for environmental protection

  • Rosli, Aishah;Low, Siew Chun
    • Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.447-461
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    • 2020
  • In recent years, stimuli-responsive materials have garnered interest due to their ability to change properties when exposed to external stimuli, making it useful for various applications including gas separation. Light is a very attractive trigger for responsive materials due to its speedy and non-invasive nature as well as the potential to reduce energy costs significantly. Even though light is deemed as an appealing stimulus for the development of stimuli-responsive materials, this avenue has yet to be extensively researched, as evidenced by the fewer works done on the photo-responsive membranes. Of these, there are even less research done on photo-responsive materials for the purpose of gas separation, thus, we have collected the examples that answer both these criteria in this review. This review covers the utilisation of photo-responsive materials specifically for gas separation purposes. Photo-chromic units, their integration into gas separation systems, mechanism and research that have been done on the topic so far are discussed.

Correlation Analysis of Between Paranasal Sinuses and Formant Frequency According to External Stimulation (외부 자극에 따른 부비동과 포먼트주파수와의 상관성 분석)

  • Kim, Bong-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.17 no.8
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    • pp.1955-1961
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    • 2013
  • Paranasal sinuses of the empty space is filled with air that exists in the bones in the face. However, the pus becomes inflamed paranasal sinuses sinusitis onset brings the voice of change, and complained of headaches and lethargy. Therefore, in this paper, paranasal sinuses related diseases to predict voice analysis parameter as measured by changes in paranasal sinuses through external stimuli is investigated and carried out a study to analysis the function consisting of the frontal sinus, ethmoid sinus, maxillary sinus, sphenoid sinus. From this, cold pack stimulation in the paranasal sinus area for stimulation before and after voice was performed by measuring formant frequency and external stimuli through correlation analysis of the mutual impact on paranasal sinuses were analyzed.

Tunable Photonic Band Gap Materials and Their Applications

  • Gang, Yeong-Jong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2010.08a
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    • pp.261-261
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    • 2010
  • Photonic band gap (PBG) materials have been of great interest due to their potential applications in science and technology. Their applications can be further extended when PBG becomes tunable against various chemical and electrical stimuli. In recent, it was found that tunable photonic band gap materials can be achieved by incorporating stimuli-responsive smart gels into PBG materials. For example, the characteristic volume phase transition of gels in response to the various external stimuli including temperature, pH, ionic strength, solvent compositions and electric field were recently combined with the unique optical properties of photonic crystals to form unprecedented highly responsive optical components. Since these responsive photonic crystals are capable of reversibly converting chemical or electrical energy into characteristic optical signals, they have been considered as a good platform for label-free chemical or biological detection, actuators or optical switches as well as a model system for investigating gel swelling behavior. Herein, we report block copolymer photonic gels self-assembled from polystyrene-b-poly (2-vinyl pyridine) (PS-b-P2VP) block copolymers. In this talk, we are going to demonstrate that selective swelling of lamellar structure can be effectively utilized for fabricating PBG materials with extremely large tunability. Optical properties and their applications will be discussed.

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A Study for the Correlation between HRV spectrum and Auditory Emotion (HRV 스펙트럼과 청각 감성과의 연관성에 대한 연구)

  • Oh, S.H.;Whang, M.C.;Im, J.J.
    • Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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    • v.1997 no.05
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    • pp.176-178
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    • 1997
  • We are exposed to the various types of external stimuli, and many researches have been conducted to analyze the emotional changes to the stimuli quantitatively. In this paper, changes of human emotion was studied by analyzing HRV from ECG signals which were varied by the auditory stimulus. Power contents for each frequency bands were calculated from HRV waveforms. Two peak values representing autonomic nervous system status, HF and LF, were used to extract the parameters. An analysis on the normalized HF/LF to the subjective rating of the subject were performed. It was assumed that the positive emotional changes evoked by the auditory stimuli, the HF values representing activation of the parasympathetic nervous system, are increased much higher than the LF values, activation of the sympathetic nervous system. Results showed that the parasympathetic nervous system works more actively than the sympathetic nervous system to the stimuli which cause the positive emotional changes.

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Nonlinear Characterization of EEG Under the Internal and External Stimuli (내·외적인 자극을 받는 뇌파의 비선형 동력학적 특징)

  • Jung, Ki-Young;Kim, Jae-Moon;Yoo, Cheol-Seung;Yi, Sang-Hoon
    • Annals of Clinical Neurophysiology
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.28-33
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    • 2002
  • Backgrounds and objective : EEG reflect dynamic changes of continuous neuronal activities by internal and external stimuli. The aim of this study is to quantify nonlinearly the local dynamic differences among EEG data corresponding to different states of brain. Methods : EEG was recorded from twelve healthy normal subjects(mean age, 29.7 years; 8 men and 4 women) using digital EEG machine. 18-channel EEG data were selected during eyes closed(EC), eyes open(EO), and mental arithmetic(MA) in each subject. Correlation dimension(D2) and largest Lyapunov exponent(LLE) were calculated from three states and average value was mapped 2 dimensionally and compared with each other. Results : The distribution of D2 was relatively symmetric and its value was higher in frontal than in parieto-occipital region during EC. These findings were reversed during EO. Bilateral centro-temporo-parietal region showed high D2 value in MA compared with those in EC, which was more prominent in left side. LLE was larger than zero in all state and showed significant differences among EC, EO and MA(p=0.000). Conclusion : These results suggest that nonlinear analysis of EEG can quantify dynamic state of brain.

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