• Development and Reproduction
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.9-18
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• 2008

All the organisms on the earth are affected by the repeating signals from the ambient environment caused by the movements of the sun and the earth. Their physiological and behavioral activities such as reproduction, functional pathway of various molecules, and developmental stage, are reflected by the cyclicity whether it is daily(circadian) or annual rhythms. An essential function of circadian rhythms is to provide an internal estimate of the external local time, thereby allowing the organism to program its activities so that they occur at an appropriate time in the daily environment. Of many rhythmic patterns, the circadian rhythms are considered in this review, focusing on the limit cycle, which is a model to investigate the entrainment.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.293-303
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• 1994

The purpose of this study was to find the effect of molecular movement model based instruction on high school students' conceptions of diffusion and osmosis. The study was composed of two groups, the traditional instruction group in which the so-called traditional instruction was performed, and the other group in which interventions by researchers were made. The subjects of the traditional instruction group consisted of a total of 242 high school students from Seoul, Gwangju and Mokpo. The subjects of the model based instruction group consisted of 177 first-year high school students in Mokpo. The study was focused on the use of the term of 'molecular movement' in their explanation of diffusion and osmosis in the correct contexts. In general, students who got the molecular movement model based instruction showed more frequent use of the terms of 'molecular movement' in the correct contexts than the control group students did. It was found that misconceptions including teleological explanations changed into scientific explanations by the intervention. It seemed that the molecular movement model led students to make scientific explanations on natural phenomena. A further research is recommended to assess the improvement of teleological explanation and scientific attitude by the molecular movement model.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.1-8
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• 2004

This study investigated the effect of visual learning preference levels in computer assisted instruction (CAI) using static graphics and animations on students' conceptual understandings, application abilities and learning motivations. Fifty-nine seventh graders were selected from a middle school in seoul, and they were taught about the motion of molecule for 4 class hours. Two-way ANCOVA results revealed that the scores of the conception test of the animations group, regardless of student's visual learning preference levels, were significantly higher than those of the static graphics group. However, there were no differences between the two groups in the scores of application test and learning motivation test.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.266-274
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• 1999

This study investigated the effects of cooperative and individual computer-assisted instructions upon middle school students' science conceptions, achievement, perception of learning environment, and motivation. The cooperative, individual, and traditional learning groups were selected from a middle school, and taught about the motion of molecule for 5 class hours. Data analyses indicated that the students with cooperative computer-assisted instruction scored significantly higher than those with traditional instruction in the tests of conceptual understanding, perception of learning environment and motivation. Better understanding of the cooperative learning group was also found in a retention test of conceptions. In addition, there were significant interactions between the instruction and the level of prior achievement in the tests of retention of conceptions and motivation. Educational implications are discussed.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.97-107
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• 1992

Strichartz and Richie have suggested that the mechanism of sodium donductance block of local anesthetics involves their interaction with a specific binding site within the sodium channel. However, there is evidence that local anesthetics can interact electrostatically with membrane proteins as well as membrane lipids. Whether or not all actions of local anesthetics are mediated by common site remains unclear. Thus, it can not be ruled out that local anesthetics concurrently interact with neuronal membrane lipids since sodium channels were found to be tightly associated with membrane lipids through covalent or noncovalent bonds. In summary, it is strongly postulated that local anesthetics, in addition to their direct interaction with sodium channels, concurrently interact with membrane lipids, fluidize the membrane, and thus induce conformational changes of sodium channels, which are known to be tightly associated with membrane lipids.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1102-1107
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• 2005

The analysis of the thermal boundary resistance is very important in the both cases of microscale and macroscale systems because it plays a role of thermal barrier against a heat flow. Especially, since fairly large heat energy is generated in microscale or nanoscale systems with electronic chips, the thermal boundary resistance is a key factor to guarantee the performance of those devices. In this study, the transfer of the oscillator's motion information with 2 degrees of freedom is investigated for clarifying the mechanism of a thermal boundary resistance. We found that the transfer of the oscillator's motion information is defined as a cross-correlation coefficient and the magnitude of it determines the temperature jump over a solid interface. That is, the temperature jump over an interface increases as the magnitude of a cross-correlation coefficient decreases and vice versa.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.258-261
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• 2011

실내에서 화재가 발생한 경우에 매연의 크기분포 및 형상(morphology) 변화 특성은 경보장치의 작동 및 흡입에 의한 인체피해 등과 관련되어 중요한 연구 분야이다. 이와 관련하여 많은 연구가 이루어져 왔으나 실험에 의한 연구는 각 연구마다 결과치가 정량적 또는 정성적 측면에서 많은 편차를 보이고 있고, 이론적인 연구는 몇몇 특정 조건에 대하여 제한적으로 이루어져 있어서, 실재 구획화재에 적용하는 데는 어려움이 있다. 이 연구에서는 구획화재에 대하여 발열속도이력(history of heat release rate) 및 매연발생률(soot yield) 등에 따른 매연입자의 크기분포 및 형상 변화 해석을 위한 방법을 개발하였으며, 이를 유럽표준시험화재(EN54 Part7)에 규정된 폴리우레탄폼화재(TF4)에 대하여 시험 적용하였다. 이 방법에서는 입자의 크기분포방정식(dynamic equation for the discrete-size spectrum)을 푸는데 있어서 계산시간을 줄이기 위하여 결절방법(nodal method)을 도입하였으며, 또한 실재 화재에서의 매연입자의 성장에 따른 입경범위에 맞추기 위하여 분자운동영역(free molecular region)과 연속영역(continuum region)을 포괄하는 입자크기에 적용되는 충돌빈도함수(collision frequency function)를 사용하였다.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.167-172
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• 2002

The wear behaviors of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene pins against titanium alloy and stainless steel disks moving in two different kinematic motion were investigated by conducting repeat pass rotational sliding and linear reciprocal sliding wear tests. Linear reciprocal motion wore more the polyethylene pin than did repeat pass rotational motion for both disk materials. It means that the repeated directional change of contact stresses generates more wear debris in polyethylene. For the linear reciprocal sliding tests, titanium alloy disks were damaged with some scratches after one million cycles but no surface damage was observed on the polyethylene pins. On the other hand, fur the repeat pass rotational sliding tests, all titanium alloy disks were severely abraded on the entire region of sliding track. This phenomenon can be interpreted by that stress fatigue under repeated sliding contact initiated titanium oxide layer wear particles from disk surface, and these hard particles were embedded into polyethylene pin and then they severely abraded the disk surface. From these results it can be concluded that the kinematic motion in pin-on-disk wear tests play a crucial role on the wear behaviors of UHMWPE pins against titanium alloy and stainless steef discs.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.53-58
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• 2007

In an estuary, mixing and transport of contaminant sometimes occurs in the salt finger favorable condition (Hwang ang Rehmann, 2004). Linearized theory is applied to predict flow dynamics in salt finger favorable condition. The simulated results match well with previous laboratory experiments. When the density ratio is larger than 2, the heat and salt system shows $0.55{\sim}0.57$ as Turner (1967) found, and the salt and sugar system produces 0.87 of Griffiths (1980). As the ratio of molecular diffusivities of two scalars increases, the flux ratio increases. The flux and eddy diffusivity ratios decrease with increase of density ratio, and it takes longer time for flux ratio to be steady state at the higher density ratios.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.378-382
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• 1998

A Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship of 1-phenylcyclohexyl amine(PCA) and dexoxadral as a receptor has been investigated using semiempirical PM3 MO and Hyper Chem calculation. A set of 19 analogues of PCA was chosen for the study using a selection procedure aimed at minimizing the interparameter correlations, while ensuring that the frontier orbital covered the maximum possible range of LogP. The results show that the FOS and LogP is a good structural parameter to predict the maximum electroshock effective dose ($MES\;ED_{50}$) and toxicity dose ($TD_{50}$) for PCA derivatives.