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Entrepreneurship Perception and Needs Analysis of Entrepreneurship Education for Female Engineering Students Using an Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA 기법을 활용한 공학계열 여대생의 기업가정신 인식 및 교육 요구도 분석)

  • Kim, Se Young;Yoon, Seonghye;Lim, Ji Young;Jang, JeeEun;Kang, Min Jeng;Park, Hyeon Kyeong
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.43-51
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    • 2017
  • As the need for entrepreneurship to create new values and innovate in the rapidly changing social environment is emerging, education for entrepreneurial is emerging in university education. The purpose of this study is to understand the current status of entrepreneurship education and to derive the priority of education based on actual indicators of importance-performance. For this study, we surveyed 227 female college students in E Woman's University by using the Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) method for entrepreneurship factors. The result showed that the means of importance of all factors and sub-factors of entrepreneurship were higher than the means of performance of them, and the difference was statistically significant except for the determination. In addition, the results of the IPA matrix analysis showed that the factors that needed urgent improvement in self-confidence, future-orientation, active/innovative activities, and proactivity. Based on the results of this study, the implications of the development of entrepreneurship curriculum for college students in engineering field were discussed. This study is meaningful that it provided practical basic information of curriculum design leading to the manifestation of entrepreneurship of women in engineering field by analyzing entrepreneurship of female engineering students and deriving priority factors of educational treatment.

Food Allergy-related Awareness and Performance of Dietitians at Children's Hospitals in Korea: Comparison of Certificate Possession among Clinical Dietitians (전국 아동병원 영양사의 식품알레르기 관련 인식도 및 수행도: 임상영양사 자격증 유무에 따른 비교)

  • Shin, Hye-Ran;Kim, Sook-Bae
    • Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.512-524
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    • 2019
  • Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine the food allergy-related knowledge, awareness, and performance of dietitians at children's hospitals, depending on whether or not they have a clinical dietitian certificate. Methods: A questionnaire survey was administered to 41 dieticians at children's hospitals registered as a part of the Korean Hospital Association. The survey consisted of questionnaires examining general characteristics, nutritional counseling-related characteristics, and food allergy-related characteristics (food allergy-related knowledge, awareness, and performance). We examined differences according to the status of clinical dietitian certification. Results: The proportion of subjects who were holders of clinical dietitian certificates was 48.8%. There were differences between holders of clinical dietitian certificates and non-holders as follows. Regarding nutritional awareness and performance, 'needs to provide nutrition counseling in children's hospitals', 'providing nutrition counseling services in working hospitals', and 'whether there is a nutrition counseling room' scored higher among holders of clinical dietitian certificates than non-holders. Holders of clinical dietitian certificates showed higher scores for knowledge of food allergy symptoms and food allergy management than non-holders. For food allergy awareness and performance, 'self-assessment of food allergy knowledge understanding level', 'awareness of open oral food challenge (OFC)', 'recognition of the need for education and counseling on food allergy for patients / guardians', and 'food allergy related educational experience' scored higher among holders of clinical dietitians certificates than in non-holders. Conclusions: Children's hospital dietitians with a clinical dietitian certificate showed high knowledge, awareness, and performance related to food allergies. It is thus necessary to employ a clinical dietitian for food allergy management in children's hospitals. In addition, training and conservative education are necessary for the management of food allergies for children's hospital dietitians.

The Impact of the Perceived Level of Problem Solving on the Performance of Project Completeness in Programming Education (EPL을 활용한 프로그래밍 교육에서 문제해결 수준이 프로젝트 완성도에 미치는 영향)

  • Jang, Yun-Jae;Kim, Ja-Mee;Lee, Won-Gyu
    • The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.41-51
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    • 2011
  • Informatics curriculum has been revised for informatics principles and concepts to effectively teach. According to the revised curriculum, researches are verifying the educational effects of algorithmic thinking and problem-solving abilities using programming language by applying it to various area. However, researches in programming education considering the level of student are yet incomplete. This research has analyzed the impact of the perceived level of problem solving on the performance of project completeness. As results of difference of project completeness, a high perceived level of problem solving group's performance of project completeness was higher than a low perceived level of problem solving group's one. Analysis of the impact of the perceived level of problem solving on the performance of project completeness, 'problem finding' factor had a significant impact. This research suggested the importance of 'problem finding' and self-reflecting introspective 'reviewing' stages in problem solving process using programming language.abstract of your study in English. This space is for the abstract of your study in English. This space is for the abstract of your study in English.

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Height-thickness ratio on axial behavior of composite wall with truss connector

  • Qin, Ying;Shu, Gan-Ping;Zhou, Xiong-Liang;Han, Jian-Hong;He, Yun-Fei
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.315-325
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    • 2019
  • Double skin composite walls offer structural and economic merits over conventional reinforced concrete counterparts in terms of higher capacity, greater stiffness, and better ductility. This paper investigated the axial behavior of double skin composite walls with steel truss connectors. Full-scaled tests were conducted on three specimens with different height-to-thickness ratios. Test results were evaluated in terms of failure mode, load-axial displacement response, buckling loading, axial stiffness, ductility, strength index, load-lateral deflection, and strain distribution. The test data were compared with AISC 360 and Eurocode 4 and it was found that both codes provided conservative predictions on the safe side.

A Psychological Model Applied to Mathematical Problem Solving

  • Alamolhodaei, Hassan;Farsad, Najmeh
    • Research in Mathematical Education
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.181-195
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    • 2009
  • Students' approaches to mathematical problem solving vary greatly with each other. The main objective of the current study was to compare students' performance with different thinking styles (divergent vs. convergent) and working memory capacity upon mathematical problem solving. A sample of 150 high school girls, ages 15 to 16, was studied based on Hudson's test and Digit Span Backwards test as well as a math exam. The results indicated that the effect of thinking styles and working memory on students' performance in problem solving was significant. Moreover, students with divergent thinking style and high working memory capacity showed higher performance than ones with convergent thinking style. The implications of these results on math teaching and problem solving emphasizes that cognitive predictor variable (Convergent/Divergent) and working memory, in particular could be challenging and a rather distinctive factor for students.

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A Study on the Relationships among Sanitary Education, Sanitary Knowledge and Sanitary Management Performance of Cooks in Contracted Foodservices: Focusing on Busan & Gyeongnam Region (위탁급식업체 조리종사자의 위생교육과 위생지식 및 위생관리수행도 간의 영향관계에 관한 연구: 부산.경남지역을 중심으로)

  • Seoung, Tae-Jong;Choi, Sun-Kyoung;Kim, Gi-Jin
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.105-119
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    • 2014
  • This study aims to examine what influence sanitary education have on sanitary knowledge in terms of frequency, necessity, degree of satisfaction, degree of understanding, and applicability, and what influence sanitary knowledge of cooks has on sanitary management performance, targeting cooks employed by contracted foodservices. For this purpose, we conducted a survey of 31 contracted foodservice companies catering to factories, colleges, hospitals, offices, government offices located in Busan & Gyeongnam region from October 1 to 15, 2012. A total of 320 copies of questionnaire were handed out, and 302 copies (94.3%) were retrieved and 289 ones (90.3%), to the exclusion of 13 wrongly written ones, were used in the final analysis. The analysis result showed that the more necessity of sanitary education cooks perceived; the higher satisfaction with the sanitary education they felt; the higher applicability of the sanitary education, the higher level of sanitary knowledge they got. It was revealed that the degree of satisfaction with the sanitary education had the strongest influence on the improvement of sanitary knowledge compared to the other factors. In addition, It was shown that as the level of sanitary knowledge of cooks improved, their sanitary management performance also got better.

Shear strength of match-cast-free dry joint in precast girders

  • Jiang, Haibo;Feng, Jiahui;Xiao, Jie;Chen, Mingzhu;Liang, Weibin
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.161-173
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    • 2020
  • Shear keys in precast concrete segmental bridges (PCSBs) are usually match-casting which is very labour intensive. In this research, an innovative match-casting-free construction was proposed by leaving small gap between the convex and the concave castellated shear keys in the joints of PCSBs. Specimen experiment, shear strength analysis and numerical simulation were conducted, investigating the loading performance of this new type of dry joints, the gap dry joints. Compared with match-casting joint specimens, it has been found from experiment that shear capacity of gap joint specimens significantly decreased ranging from 17.75% to 42.43% due to only partially constrained and contacted in case of gap dry joints. Through numerical simulation, the effects of bottom contacting location, the heights of the gap and the shear key base were analyzed to investigate strength reduction and methods to enhance shear capacity of gap joint specimens. Numerical results proved that shear capacity of gap dry joints under full contact condition was higher than that under partial contact. In addition, left contact destroyed the integrity of shear keys, resulting in significant strength reduction. Larger shear key base remarkably increased shear capacity of the gap joint. Experimental tests indicated that AASHTO provision underestimated shear capacity of the match-casting dry joint specimens, while the numerical results for the gap dry joint showed that AASHTO provision underestimated shear capacity of full contact specimens, but overestimated that of left contact specimens.

Performance of Support Vector Machine for Classifying Land Cover in Optical Satellite Images: A Case Study in Delaware River Port Area

  • Ramayanti, Suci;Kim, Bong Chan;Park, Sungjae;Lee, Chang-Wook
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.38 no.6_4
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    • pp.1911-1923
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    • 2022
  • The availability of high-resolution satellite images provides precise information without direct observation of the research target. Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite (KOMPSAT), also known as the Arirang satellite, has been developed and utilized for earth observation. The machine learning model was continuously proven as a good classifier in classifying remotely sensed images. This study aimed to compare the performance of the support vector machine (SVM) model in classifying the land cover of the Delaware River port area on high and medium-resolution images. Three optical images, which are KOMPSAT-2, KOMPSAT-3A, and Sentinel-2B, were classified into six land cover classes, including water, road, vegetation, building, vacant, and shadow. The KOMPSAT images are provided by Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), and the Sentinel-2B image was provided by the European Space Agency (ESA). The training samples were manually digitized for each land cover class and considered the reference image. The predicted images were compared to the actual data to obtain the accuracy assessment using a confusion matrix analysis. In addition, the time-consuming training and classifying were recorded to evaluate the model performance. The results showed that the KOMPSAT-3A image has the highest overall accuracy and followed by KOMPSAT-2 and Sentinel-2B results. On the contrary, the model took a long time to classify the higher-resolution image compared to the lower resolution. For that reason, we can conclude that the SVM model performed better in the higher resolution image with the consequence of the longer time-consuming training and classifying data. Thus, this finding might provide consideration for related researchers when selecting satellite imagery for effective and accurate image classification.

Effects of a Commercial Extruded Pellet on Growth Performance and Water Quality in Growing Olive Flounder Paralichthys olivaceus (육성기 넙치 배합사료의 성장 및 수질 평가)

  • Kim, Kang-Woong;Kim, Kyoung-Duck;An, Cheul-Min;Son, Maeng-Hyun;Lee, Bong-Joo;Han, Hyon-Sob
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.602-608
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    • 2012
  • This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of commercial extruded pellet (EP) diet on the growth and water quality compared with a raw fish moist pellet (MP) diet for flounder on field feeding experiments. Three replicate groups of 130 fish per each tank (initial weight of 380 g) were fed one of the EP and Moist pellet (MP) for 7 months. In field feeding experiment, no significant difference was observed in final mean weight of fish fed the experimental EP (1,233 g) and MP (1,237 g), and any noticeable problem caused by feeding the experimental EP was not found during the whole period of feeding trial. Feed efficiency of fish fed the experimental EP was higher than that of MP, and there was no significant difference in survival between the fish fed experimental EP and MP. The concentrations of SS, COD, TN and TP of seawater in tanks of MP groups were 1-5 times higher than those of EP groups. Therefore, these results strongly suggest that diet EP could be developed to replace MP diet for the marketable size of production for flounder without adverse effects on growth performance and water quality.

Analysis of Relative Job Performance Efficiency of Nurses in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (신생아집중치료실 간호사의 상대적 간호업무효율성 분석)

  • Kim, Hyoyeong;Lee, Hyejung;Min, Ari
    • Korea Journal of Hospital Management
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.57-69
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    • 2019
  • Purpose: This study aimed to analyze the job performance efficiency of nurses in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) by using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Additionally, the study aimed to provide a detailed method to improve the currently inefficient way in which nurses perform their jobs by differentiating the reference group of more efficient nurses, and to compare the characteristics of the more efficient group of nurses to those of the less efficient group of nurses. Methodology: This study evaluated the relative job performance efficiency of nurses by applying DEA to 43 nurses in the NICU. The input variables for the efficiency analysis were working career (years), time spent in direct nursing care (hours), overtime (hours), and job-related training (hours); the output variables were the job performance scores of professional practice, research, leadership, and education. Data were analyzed using SPSS IBM 23.0 and Open Source DEA (OSDEA). Findings: The relative job performance efficiency of the 43 nurses was 0.933, and 20 nurses were evaluated as more efficient. In addition, the study confirmed the possibility of improving the overall job performance efficiency by improving leadership, while controlling the current input variables. Lastly, the more efficient nurses had significantly higher job performance scores for research (t=2.028, p=0.049), leadership (t=2.036, p=0.048), and education (t=2995, p=0.005) than those who were less efficient. Practical Implications: It is suggested that job performance be evaluated using DEA to improve the overall job performance efficiency of NICU nurses. The analysis results from DEA for nurses becomes evidence in support of establishing individualized goals for each nurse, thus resulting in a foundation for systematic human resource management of nurses, and ultimately contributing to increase in the job performance efficiency of nurses.