Child abuse is a serious social problem in contemporary Korean society. Health care providers have an important role to play in combatting this problem. However, the reality is that the reporting rate of child abuse among health care providers is very low. This survey, which was conducted during two weeks in June 2013 sought to investigate the knowledge, attitudes, and experiences about child abuse among workers in hospital emergency rooms. A total of 103 out of 112 people (92.0%) targeted subjects answered a questionnaire concerning subjects’ characteristics, education concerning child abuse, awareness, knowledge, attitudes in reporting suspected cases, and the ability to recognize signs of abuse. Approximately 54.4% of subjects reported they did not receive enough training concerning child abuse, only 26.2% claimed to know how to report child abuse, and 4.9% had any experience in reporting abuse. The reason cited most often (75.7%) for not reporting suspected abuse was the fear of asking the child’s parents. Approximately 67.9% of respondents did not know that they can be punished for failing to report suspected abuse. This study found that there are many obstacles to the proper reporting of child abuse. Health care providers working in emergency rooms must uphold their ethical and legal responsibilities when they suspect that abuse has occurred. For this purpose, education as well as legal and social support is needed.
The artificial upwelling of deep seawater increases primary production. This study conducted a lab-scale experiment to investigate the growth of phytoplankton with the mixing ratio of deep and surface seawater. The chlorophyll content in the sample of pure deep seawater was highest, regardless of the phytoplankton groups. Nutrients contained in the deep seawater positively influenced the growth of phytoplankton. The optimum mixture to apply in an artificial upwelling system was a 1:1 ratio of deep and surface seawater. An experiment considering other environmental conditions, such as luminance and specific gravity, should be performed.
Recently, smartphone spyware resembles various types of virus components in PCs and has trends getting more and more severe. Users do not perceive the risk factors severely even if smartphone security is very vulnerable in spite of the smartphone spyware growth. Thus, this study observes the influence of information security in selecting smartphone based on the personal inclinations and spyware perceptions. The main variables of study model are such as the degree of personal risk-accepting and the risk of smartphone spyware as independent variables and smartphone purchasing intention as a dependent variable. The model is tested using SPSS 21 packages on the effective 200 samples gathered through questionnaire survey on the present smartphone users. As a result, the two main hypotheses which are "the degree of personal risk-accepting will influence on the perceiving risk of smartphone spyware" and "the perceiving risk of smartphone spyware will influence on smartphone purchasing intention" were significant statistically. Therefore, we could find out information security's influence on the selecting smartphone.
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