• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.866-878
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• 2012

The Natural Science High School is specialized in vocational education or training related to natural sciences such as biology or chemistry. Therefore, natural science high school students are expected to possess a high level of science learning motivation. This study aims to explore natural science high school students' level and structure of science learning motivation by comparing students in general high school. One hundred ninety three students from a natural science high school and 208 from a general high school participated in this study. We administered a questionnaire that consisted of seven science motivation components: 1) career motivation; 2) science grade motivation; 3) understanding the relevance of scientific knowledge; 4) need for learning science; 5) self-determination; 6) self-efficacy; and 7) attitudes toward science class. We employed independent t-test, path analysis, bivariate correlation, and stepwise multiple-regression for the statistical analyses. Our findings illustrated that the natural science high school students' levels on all seven variables were significantly lower than the general high school students.' The path analysis illustrated that career motivation and science grade motivation had relatively stronger influence on self-determination and self-efficacy in the natural science high school student sample than in the general high student sample. The explanatory powers of four independent variables (career motivation, science grade motivation, understanding the relevance of scientific knowledge, and need for learning science) predicting self-determination and self-efficacy were 30% higher in the natural science high school student sample than in the general science high student sample. These results suggested that natural science high school students' science learning motivation may be easier to change by extrinsic motivations such as career and science grade motivation.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.147-161
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to identify interdisciplinarity among eight research areas based upon the correlations between researchers' department affiliations and research areas. More specifically, eight research areas and their sub-areas, 153 sub-areas with researchers' department affiliations were analyzed in terms of Pearson correlation analyses. The findings demonstrated that there was interdisciplinarity between Social Science and Multiple Science Areas, Social Science and Medical & Pharmaceutical Area, Natural Science and Medical & Pharmaceutical Area, and Medical & Pharmaceutical Area and Agricultural Science.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Information Management Conference
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• 2016.08a
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• pp.19-22
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• 2016

본 연구는 빅데이터의 처리 저장 등과 같은 기술적 측면이 아닌 분석 활용적 측면에 초점을 맞춰 관련 학문분야를 파악하고 분야 간 지적구조를 규명하고자 하였다. 연구 결과 빅데이터 관련 연구들이 주제분야에 따라 명백한 차이를 보이고 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. 주제범주 분석을 통해 공학 기술(34.60%), 사회과학(25.24%), 자연과학(23.14%), 의학 보건학(14.85%) 등은 관련 연구가 비교적 고르게 분포되어 있지만, 인문학(1.69%)과 농업과학(0.21%)은 연구가 미비함을 알 수 있었다. 네트워크 분석 결과 사회과학 분야(31.58%)에 비해 공학 및 자연과학 분야(68.42%)의 빅데이터 연구가 더 활발함을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 공학 및 자연과학 분야 연구들은 다양한 주제분야를 다루는 반면 사회과학 분야에서는 아직 한정된 주제분야에서 연구가 진행되고 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Costume Culture Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.45-46
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• 2003

지난 30년 동안 서구과학계는 엄청난 변화의 물결이 일어났다. 과학은 무미건조하고 어떤 감동도 주지 못하며 예술과는 거리가 멀다고 생각해 왔다. 그러나 과학과 예술과 함께 자연을 경험하는 두 가지 상호 보완적인 방법의 하나로서 최근 자연 속의 복잡한 모양이 내재하는 규칙을 이해하려는 프렉탈 과학을 통하여 과학과 예술간의 실제적 접목이 여러 가지 방향으로 시도되고 있다. 우리의 미적 감각은 자연에 나타나는 질서와 무질서의 조화로운 배열에 의해서 영감을 받는다. (중략)

• Journal of Science Education
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.454-469
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• 2014

Teachers' presuppositions of nature of science, scientific causality, and nature are unconsciously constructed through interactions with his or her physical and social environment everyday and it began even before they were in any formal education. It directly influences their teaching later. Thus, this study examined what comprehensive presuppositions in nature of science, scientific causality, and nature are held by in-service secondary science teachers. For the study, Q-methodology was used. Q-sorting was done on 81 statements from three instruments: Nature statements, the Test of Preferred Explanations, and the Nature of Science Scale with twelve in-service science teachers. Teachers sorted the statements along a presented agreement scale of their viewpoint and the collected data was analyzed using recommended procedures for Q-sorts in order to group teachers with similar views. As a result, ten participants were placed in five factors based on their presuppositions of science, scientific causality, and nature and distinctive features of each factor were discovered. In addition, the study confirmed that presuppositions of science, scientific causality, and nature are interrelated. This study method will be helpful to discover more relationships regarding teachers' various viewpoints further.

• Food Science and Industry
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.70-75
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• 2012

• Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.208-223
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• 2019

In this study, it was analyzed first the views of nature of elementary and middle school students using the analysis framework of the views of nature that reflects the results of the literature analysis on the traditional views of nature that Koreans traditionally have. Next, it was analyzed characteristics of the views of nature which elementary and secondary school teachers. Finally, it was discussed the implications of the results of analysis of students' and teachers' views on science education in elementary and secondary schools. For this purpose, the framework for analysis the views of nature was reconstructed by combining the characteristics of Korean's traditional views of nature (Lee & Son, 2017) with the framework developed by Cobern and his colleagues (Cobern, Gibson, & Underwood, 1995). And in order to analyze in depth how students and teachers perceive nature, each question was asked to write a reason why they thought about their responses. According to the study, students and teachers respected nature and viewed it as a living creature, and had the view that nature was cyclical and that humans and nature interacted with each other. And they also had a traditional Korean view of nature that they consider naturalness important and nature is beautiful. It can be said that this is different from the view of Western modern science which perceives the world as a material and see nature with the view of linear time. Therefore, Korea's traditional views of natures, which students and teachers have, can be a conflict with the view of modern science in science class. Therefore, the science teaching strategy for students and teachers with different natural views will require consideration of the individual's understanding of nature and lesson strategies related to it. And it is also necessary that science textbook and science class cultures need to actively interact with teachers and students, and between students to share and understand each other's view of nature, and create a science class culture that considers the values students have and views on nature.

• The Science & Technology
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• s.477
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• pp.2-3
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• 2009

• The Science & Technology
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• v.35 no.5 s.396
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• pp.26-27
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• 2002

• Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.54 no.3
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• pp.271-279
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• 2021

Ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE) conditions, including extraction time, extraction temperature, and ethanol concentration, were optimized to increase the total flavonoid content (TFC), tyrosinase inhibitory activity (TIA), and collagenase inhibitory activity (CIA) of Spirulina platensis through central composite design (CCD). For the optimization of the three dependent variables, a quadratic regression model was derived from 17 experimental sets for the simultaneous maximization of TFC, TIA, and CIA. The predicted optimal UAE conditions were 44.0 min of extraction time, 82.8℃ of extraction temperature, and 96.0% of ethanol concentration. Under these conditions, 0.93 mg QE/g DM of TFC, 81.9% of CIA, and 92.1% of TIA were predicted. The CCD-based UAE optimization enabled an increase in TFC, CIA, and TIA, thereby confirming that the S. platensis extract can be used in the development of a cosmetic material with skin whitening and anti-wrinkle effects.