• Title/Summary/Keyword: Behavioral Observation

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Behavioral Item List for Korean Infants by Naturalistic Observation (한국인 영아의 행동 관찰 목록)

  • Han Kyung-Ja;Bang Kyung-Sook;Whang In-Ju
    • Child Health Nursing Research
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.285-293
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    • 2003
  • Purpose: This study was conducted to identify behavioral items for Korean infants under 24months by naturalistic observation. These items will be the basis for developmental scale for Korean infants. Method: Data were collected by observing and interviewing fifty one infants and their mothers during the period from November 15 to December 14, 2003. Raw data in descriptive form were obtained by unstructured naturalistic observation, and were reformed to behavioral items through discussion with professors in pediatric nursing and experienced nurses in child care department. Also, behavioral items were classified into five developmental areas. Result: Total number of behavioral items was two hundreds and thirty eight. 52 items for motor development, 66 items for personal-social, 40 items for hearing and speech, 41 items for eye-hand coordination, and 39 items for performance. Conclusion: This is meaningful that fundamental items for Korean developmental scale for infants were identified by observing behaviors of Korean infants. On the basis of these items, average age will be calculated for passing each item by testing Korean infants. We hope to develop Korean infant developmental scale as a final outcome in the future research.

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Development of Evaluation Metrics for Pedestrian Flow Optimization in a Complex Service Environment Based on Behavior Observation Method

  • Bahn, Sang-Woo;Lee, Chai-Woo;Kwon, Sang-Hyun;Yun, Myung-Hwan
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.647-654
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    • 2010
  • In a service environment, the spatial layout is an important factor that has a great impact on customers' behavioral characteristics including wayfinding and purchasing. Previous studies have shown a gap between marketing, focusing solely on profitability and satisfaction, and architecture, looking only into efficiency of pedestrian flow. To balance such disparity, this study suggests an integrated approach for assessing behavioral patterns in complex service environments. With the objective that complex service environments should aim to increase its profitability and efficiency while guaranteeing customer satisfaction, quantitative metrics was developed for evaluation. The metrics was defined to use data from behavior observation including path tracking, population counting, and gaze analysis, while previous studies have relied on abstract survey methods that were prone to sampling errors and loss of data. For validation of the metrics in a real world setting, a case study was conducted at 4 train stations in Korea. In the case study, experiments were conducted to gather the required data in all 4 train stations, while their physical layouts were also analyzed. With the results from the case study, comparative evaluation of the 4 train stations in terms of behavioral efficiency was possible, together with a discussion on the effect of their physical settings.

Effect of Ginseng Saponin on the General Behavior in Rats (인삼(人蔘)의 중추신경계(中樞神經系)에 대(對)한 작용(作用) -인삼(人蔘) Saponin이 흰쥐 일반활동(一般活動)에 미치는 영향(影響)-)

  • Sim, Sang-Jung;Oh, Jin-Sup
    • The Korean Journal of Pharmacology
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.9-16
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    • 1973
  • It is said that the chinese medicine, Ginseng root has some effects on the central nervous system . Ginseng saponin was prepared from Ginseng methanol extract and its effect on general behavioral activity was studied in rats. Each experimental group was composed of 8 rats. The behavioral activity of rats was observed in terms of 7 components i.e. sleeping, lying, grooming, rearing, walking, eating and drinking. In each group, total duration of behavior-observation was 2 hours, which were devided into four 30 min-intervals. The behavior-observation was done 10 times for each interval, so total number of observation was 40 times throughout 2 hours. Ginseng sapoain showed central nervous system stimulant action in reduced sleeping component and in increased activity components. From the results of this study, it is suggested that Ginseng saponin inhibits the extrapyramidal action of chlorpromazine.

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Analysis of Seafarers' Behavioral Error on Collision Accidents (충돌사고에 대한 해기사의 행동오류 분석)

  • Yim, Jeong-Bin
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.43 no.4
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    • pp.237-242
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    • 2019
  • Behavioral errors of the seafarers are one of the major causes of collisions and are usually corrected through education and training. To correct this behavioral error, the structure in which the behavioral error occurs needs to be identified and analyzed. For this purpose, behavior observation data were obtained through ship maneuvering simulation for collision encounters. The 9-state behavior classification frame proposed by Reason was used for the behavior observation and 50 university students were involved in the experiment. Behavioral analysis used the behavioral model of collision avoidance success and failure, which was developed from the 9-state Left-to-Right Hidden Markov modeling technique. As a result of the experiment, the difference between behaviors of success and failure of collision avoidance was clearly identified, and the linkage between 9-state behaviors, required to prevent collision, was derived.

Development of Safety Competences, Behavioral Indicators and Measuring Methods for Preventing Human-Error in Nuclear Power Plants: A Preliminary Study (원전 인적오류 예방을 위한 안전 역량, 행동 지표 및 측정 방법 개발: 예비 연구)

  • Moon, Kwangsu;Kim, Sa Kil;Lee, Yong-Hee;Jang, Tong Il
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.132-138
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study was to develop safety competences, a set of behavioral indicators of each competence and measuring methods of behavioral indicators for preventing human error of nuclear power plants(NPPs). The safety competences and behavioral indicators were derived from the five steps consisted of derivation of preliminary competence items through literature review, content analysis, interview(FGI, BEI), examination of content validity and decision making of final indicators. The results showed that 13 core safety competences and 35 behavior indicators were derived finally. In addition, the methods of measuring safety competences or behavioral indicators such as Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale (BARS), Behavior Observation Scale (BOS) were developed and suggested.

Methodological Issues in Psychopharmacology (정신약리학(精神藥理學)의 연구방법(硏究方法)의 제문제(諸問題))

  • Chang, Hyoun-Kab
    • Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.139-148
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    • 1977
  • It is the purpose of this article to present a brief and systematical behavioral methods in recent developed behavioral pharmacology. Specifically, the present review has been organized around three major topics reflecting both current research emphasis in behavioral pharmacology and methodological applications to the study of psychopharmacological actions of crude drug or herb medicine. The first major topic focuses upon the appropriate experimental design especially in the study of psychopharmacology. A large number of factors should be controlled to have a bearing on design of studies reflecting to psychological effects of drugs. The second section presents several recent methodological developments in behavioral pharmacology involving Turner's screening methods and several types of conditioning techniques. The last section calls specific attention to the observation of behavioral development processes in relation to the activity of pharmacological agents and emphasizes critical period of drug treatment.

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The Prevalence of Behavioral Disorders in Non-racehorses at Busan Race Park (부산경남경마공원 비경주마의 행동장애 유형)

  • Yang, Jae-Hyuk;Lim, Yoon-Kyu
    • Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.23-26
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    • 2012
  • This study was conducted on 85 non-racing pleasure horses raised in Busan race park of Korea Racing Authority to investigate the prevalence of stereotypic behavioral problems in horses. the observation had been continued from March to October of 2010, and the study animals included warm-bloods, Jeju ponies and donkeys. Although there was no temperament problem detected, a wide range of well-known stable vices were observed in 15 horses. The most frequently observed stereotype was cribbing (8.2%), and it was followed by weaving (1.2%), biting (1.2%), eating too fast (1.2%), pawing (1.2%) and scraping the teeth on something (1.2%) with the equal prevalence rate. These behavioral disorders were only detected in warm-bloods, while those were absent in Jeju ponies and donkeys. In addition, primary behavioral disorders were more dominant than mimicking behaviors.

Movement Pattern Recognition of Medaka for an Insecticide: A Comparison of Decision Tree and Neural Network

  • Kim, Youn-Tae;Park, Dae-Hoon;Kim, Sung-Shin
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.58-65
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    • 2007
  • Behavioral sequences of the medaka (Oryzias latipes) were continuously investigated through an automatic image recognition system in response to medaka treated with the insecticide and medaka not treated with the insecticide, diazinon (0.1 mg/l) during a 1 hour period. The observation of behavior through the movement tracking program showed many patterns of the medaka. After much observation, behavioral patterns were divided into four basic patterns: active-smooth, active-shaking, inactive-smooth, and inactive-shaking. The "smooth" and "shaking" patterns were shown as normal movement behavior. However, the "shaking" pattern was more frequently observed than the "smooth" pattern in medaka specimens that were treated with insecticide. Each pattern was classified using classification methods after the feature choice. It provides a natural way to incorporate prior knowledge from human experts in fish behavior and contains the information in a logical expression tree. The main focus of this study was. to determine whether the decision tree could be useful for interpreting and classifying behavior patterns of the medaka.

Biological Evaluation of Korean Medicinal Plants (III)

  • Woo, Won-Sick;Lee, Eun-Bang;Han, Byung-Hoon
    • Archives of Pharmacal Research
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.127-131
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    • 1979
  • The extracts of sixty Korean plants were evaluated for their biological activities such as antitumor activities against Sarcoma 180, Leukemia SN-36 and Ehrlich ascites carcinoma, antimicrobial activities and behavioral observation in mice. The results are tabulate.

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