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Development and Application of the Measuring Instrument for the Analysis of Science Classroom Culture from the Perspective of 'Community of Practice' ('실행공동체' 관점에서 과학교실문화 분석을 위한 조사도구의 개발 및 적용)

  • Chun, Eunkyum;Na, Jiyeon;Joung, Yong Jae;Song, Jinwoong
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.131-142
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    • 2015
  • The purposes of this study are to develop a measuring instrument for the analysis of science classroom culture from the perspective of Community of Practice (CoP) and to confirm its feasibility. We set the structural factors of CoP and developed preliminary questions through literature review. The validity and reliability of the instrument were examined and modified through the pilot survey participated by a total of 219, 4th, 6th, and 8th grade students. The modified instrument consisted of 5 factors of 'responsibility for learning', 'common interest', 'mutual relationships', 'open participation', and 'practice', comprising a total of 27 items. As the main survey, confirmatory factor analysis and reliability analysis of the instrument were carried out with a total 706 students of the 4th and 6th grade. This measuring instrument was validated and used for analyzing the culture of science classroom CoP of elementary school by comparing the data from the main survey in terms of structural factors, grade, gender, and teacher type. The measuring instrument is expected to be used not only for analyzing science classroom culture from the perspective of CoP, but also for offering implications for the desirable science classroom culture.

Study on the Chemical Change of General Composition, Fatty Acids and Minerals of Rapeseed during Germination (발아에 의한 유채의 일반성분, 지방산 및 무기물의 조성변화)

  • Kim, In-Sook;Kwon, Tae-Bong;Oh, Sung-Ki
    • Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.188-193
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    • 1988
  • The objective of this study was to investigate the technical feasibility of producing toxicant-free rapeseed by germination. To this end, rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) was germinated at $25^{\circ}C$ for 120 hours, and the compositional changes of fatty acids and minerals were determined in every 24 hours during germination. Repeseed slightly decreased it's fat content during germination, whereas it showed a tendency to increase protein content. The contents of oleic, erucic, linoleic, linolenic, stearic, palmitic and arachidic acids in rapeseed before germination were found to be 24.6, 15.5, 10.6, 9.5, 1.0, 2.4 and 5.3% respectively. They were gradually decreased until 96 hours and showed a slight increase in 120 hours during germination. However, there was no significant difference in the variation of fatty acids composition in rapeseed during gemination. The content of minerals-phosphorous, calcium, magnesium, zinc, manganese, copper and iron-in rapeseed before germination were 6367, 3068, 2667, 80.3, 26.5, 15.9, and 94.4 ppm respectively and sodium was detected in trace. The mineral contents in rapeseed were gradually decreased in the early period of germination, but showed a slight increase in 120 hours.

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Development of an Imaging Based Gang Protection System

  • Grimm, M.;Pelz, M.
    • International Journal of Railway
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    • v.1 no.4
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    • pp.149-156
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    • 2008
  • During maintenance or construction works in or at the tracks of railways, high risks for passengers and railway staff, especially for the workers on the construction site exist. The high risks result out of the movement of rail vehicles, like trains or construction vehicles, which must be faced by using any available technical and operational technologies for securing them against the environment. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate the level of protection continuously and to identify new and innovative methods and technologies for the protection of the gang (construction worker, machines and material). Especially on construction sites at line sections with two or more parallel tracks but also with single tracks, there are still a lot of incidents and accidents mostly with seriously injured persons or fatalities. These were mainly gang members that breach the railway-loading gage. By using proper warning or protection systems, the avoidance of such accidents must be achieved. The latest developments. in gang protection systems concern on the one hand fixed barriers in the middle between the construction site and the operated track and on the other hand construction vehicles equipped with automatic warning systems. The disadvantage of such protection methods is that the gang can be warned against an approaching train but a monitoring of the gang members cannot be performed. Only one part of a potential dangerous situation will be detected. If the gang members will overhear the acoustic warning signal of the security staff and the workers will not leave the danger zone in the track, the driver of the approaching train had no chance to react to the dangerous situation. An accident is often inevitable. While the detection of acoustic warning signals by the gang members working on a construction site is very difficult, the acoustical planning of an automatic warning system has to be designed for an acoustic short range level of one meter besides the construction vehicle. The decision about the use of today's technical warning system (fixed systems, automatic warning systems, etc.) must be geared to the technical feasibility and the level of safety which is needed. Criteria for decision guidance to block a track should be developed by danger estimation and economical variables. To realize the actual jurisdiction and to minimize the hazards of railway operations by the use of construction vehicles near the tracks further developments are needed. This means, that the warning systems have to be enhanced to systems for protection, which monitor the realization of the warning signal as a precondition for giving a movement authority to a train. This method can protect against accidents caused by predictable wrongdoing. The actual state of the art technique of using a collective warning combined with additional security staff is no longer acceptable. Therefore, the Institute of Transportation System of the German Aerospace Center in Braunschweig (Germany) will develop a gang warning and protection system based upon imaging methods, with optical sensors such as video in visible and invisible ranges, radar, laser, and other. The advantage of such a system based on the possibility to monitor both the gang itself and the railway-loading gauge either of the parallel track or of the same track still in use. By monitoring both situations, the system will be able to generate a warning message for the approaching train, that there are obstacles in the track, so that the train can be stopped to prevent an accident. And also the gang workers will be warned, while they breach their area.

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Technical Advances in Robotic Pavement Crack Sealing Machines and Lessons Learned from the Field (도로면 유지보수를 위한 크랙실링 자동화 로봇의 개발과 응용 -현장적용을 통한 실험 결과 분석을 중심으로-)

  • Kim Young-Suk;Carl T. Haas;Sung Baek-Jun;Oh Se-Wook
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.1 no.1 s.1
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    • pp.87-94
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    • 2000
  • Crack sealing, a routine and necessary part of pavement maintenance, is a dangerous, costly, and labor-intensive operation. Within the North America, about ${\$}200$ million is spent annually on crack sealing, with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) spending about ${\$}7$ million annually (labor alone accounts for over 50 percent of these costs). Prompted by concerns of safety and cost, the University of Texas at Austin, in cooperation with TxDOT and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has developed a unique computer-guided Automated Road Maintenance Machine (ARMM) for pavement crack sealing. In 1999, successful field tests have been undertaken in 8 States around the U.S. This paper first describes significance of the automated crack sealing and technical advances in automated crack sealers including the ARMM, developed in the U.S. It then discusses the ARMM's field implementation and performance evaluation results, and improvements and modifications suggested through the technology evaluation during the field trials. Current research efforts and future work plans in its further development are also presented in this paper.

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A Study on Estimating Construction Cost of Apartment Housing Projects Using Genetic Algorithm-Support Vector Regression (유전 알고리즘 - 서포트 벡터 회귀를 활용한 공동주택 공사비 예측에 관한 연구)

  • Nan, Jun;Choi, Jae-Woong;Choi, Hyemi;Kim, Ju-Hyung
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.68-76
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    • 2014
  • The accurate estimation of construction cost is important to a successful development in construction projects. In previous studies, the construction cost are estimated by statistical methods. Among the statistical methods, support vector regression (SVR) has attracted a lot of attentions because of the generalization ability in the field of cost estimation. However, despite the simplicity of the parameter to be adjusted, it is not easy to find optimal parameters. Therefore, to build an effective SVR model, SVR's parameters must be set properly without additional data handling loads. So this study proposes a novel approach, known as genetic algorithm (GA), which searches SVR's optimal parameters, then adopt the parameters to the SVR model for estimating cost in the early stage of apartment housing projects. The aim of this study is to propose a GA-SVR model and examine the feasibility in cost estimation by comparing with multiple regression analysis (MRA). The experimental results demonstrate the estimating performance based on the percentage of estimations within 25% and find it can effectively do the accurate estimation without through the trial and error process.

Performance Evaluation of Premier Global Construction Engineer Training Program (글로벌 건설 엔지니어링 고급인력 양성사업의 성과평가)

  • Park, Hyeon;Park, Inseok
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.97-104
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    • 2018
  • This paper aims to evaluate the performance of S University's Premier Global Construction Engineer Training Program. The net impact of the program is evaluated through a quasi-experiment design approach. The competency level of an individual participant is compared with that of a non-participating expert with similar professional background. The results show that the training program contributed to a significant improvement in the professional competencies of the participating students. The competency level was regressed on the subjects of curriculum. The achievements are attributable to a group of subjects focused on the skills for project development such as PPP, feasibility study, and project financing. Another group of subjects found to have significantly contributed to the improved competencies can be categorized as subjects focused on nurturing global perspectives. The paper shows it is possible to quantify the contribution of the program and the results provide a set of information that can be useful in designing and operating similar programs.

Development of Guidelines for Setting Up Sensory Integration Rooms in Korea Using the Delphi Method (국내 감각통합치료실 구성을 위한 가이드라인 개발: 델파이 연구)

  • Lee, Chan-Hwa;Hwang, Sun-Mi;Park, Seo-Yul;Chae, Song-Eun;Kim, Jung-Ran
    • The Journal of Korean Academy of Sensory Integration
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.1-14
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    • 2020
  • Objective : This study presents guidelines for setting up a sensory integration room by applying the Delphi method. Methods : The Delphi method was applied in a survey of 22 expert panels asked to review sensory integration therapy from May to June 2020 to collect expert opinions. The survey was conducted in two rounds. The first round involved the collection of opinions based on prior research that used a total of 40 assessment tools, 23 closed questions about treatment tools, and 10 questions about the physical environment. Based on the results of the first round, the second was conducted using a process of item deletion and modification. Results : A total of 59 items were selected in the first round of the survey. In the second the contents of these 59 items were analyzed: each item scored .42 or higher, so no items were deleted. The stability of the survey was also calculated and found to be less than 0.5, so no further testing was required. The average content feasibility ratio of the final Delphi survey was .92, stability .15, convergence .36, and consensus .80, showing high agreement. Conclusion : This study is expected to help institutions and clinical therapists who want to create a sensory integration therapy room in their facilities by examining the physical environment, treatment tools, and evaluation tools used in sensory integration therapy rooms and understanding the views on such environments obtained from the clinical site to sensory integration therapists.

Model Based Approach to Estimating Privacy Concerns for Context-Aware Services (상황인식서비스를 위한 모델 기반의 프라이버시 염려 예측)

  • Lee, Yon-Nim;Kwon, Oh-Byung
    • Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.97-111
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    • 2009
  • Context-aware computing, as a core of smart space development, has been widely regarded as useful in realizing individual service provision. However, most of context-aware services so fat are in its early stage to be dispatched for actual usage in the real world, caused mainly by user's privacy concerns. Moreover, since legacy context-aware services have focused on acquiring in an automatic manner the extra-personal context such as location, weather and objects near by, the services are very limited in terms of quality and variety if the service should identify intra-personal context such as attitudes and privacy concern, which are in fact very useful to select the relevant and timely services to a user. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to propose a novel methodology to infer the user's privacy concern as intra-personal context in an intelligent manner. The proposed methodology includes a variety of stimuli from outside the person and then performs model-based reasoning with social theory models from model base to predict the user's level of privacy concern semi-automatically. To show the feasibility of the proposed methodology, a survey has been performed to examine the performance of the proposed methodology.

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Design of Intrusion Detection System to be Suitable at the Information System Organized by Homogeneous Hosts (동질형 호스트들로 구성된 정보시스템에 적합한 침입탐지시스템의 설계)

  • 이종성;조성언;조경룡
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.267-282
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    • 2000
  • With the development of computer&network technology and the growth of its dependance, computer failures not only lose human and material resources but also make organization's competition weak as a side-effect of information society. Therefore, people consider computer security as important factor. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) detect intrusions and take an appropriate action against them in order to protect a computer from system failure due to illegal intrusion. A variety of methods and models for IDS have been developed until now, but the existing methods or models aren't enough to detect intrusions because of the complexity of computer network the vulnerability of the object system, insufficient understanding for information security and the appearance of new illegal intrusion method. We propose a new IDS model to be suitable at the information system organized by homogeneous hosts and design for the IDS model and implement the prototype of it for feasibility study. The IDS model consist of many distributed unit sensor IDSs at homogeneous hosts and if any of distributed unit sensor IDSs detect anomaly system call among system call sequences generated by a process, the anomaly system call can be dynamically shared with other unit sensor IDSs. This makes the IDS model can effectively detect new intruders about whole information system.

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Study of the standardization of mobile laboratories by comparative analysis (이동식 측정분석차량 비교분석을 통한 표준화 방안 연구)

  • Ahn, Sung-Ryoung;Kim, Sungbum;Cho, Munsik;Chun, Kwangsoo;Kwon, Yongho;Seok, Gwangseol
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.282-289
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    • 2013
  • Mobile laboratory in the country (BL3 class) for research and technological development there has been continuous attempts . However, primarily as a feasibility problem and apply production techniques to move outside the laboratory by introducing the entire vehicle or domestic supply parts manufactured outside the shelter to the body in a way that introduces two special vehicles have been produced . Shelter in car parts production technology of positive pressure and negative pressure to secure perspective, and specific features of each facility through the analysis to find out the localization and standardization strategy direction and enhancements Check the current issue of the existing equipment was introduced and the internal structure of special vehicles the comparison function production technology at home and abroad through the analysis confirm and secure by applying advanced technology equipment and positive pressure inside the shelter facility that can be applied to the localization of the structure plan seeks to move existing analytical laboratory, equipped with the specifications of equipment Also introduced in the present state of the domestic vehicle production as portable measurement and analysis is to look for.