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Optimal Underwater Coverage of a Cellular Region by Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Using Line Sweep Motion

  • Choi, Myoung-Hwan
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.7 no.6
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    • pp.1023-1033
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    • 2012
  • An underwater planar covering problem is studied where the coverage region consists of polygonal cells, and line sweep motion is used for coverage. In many subsea applications, sidescan sonar has become a common tool, and the sidescan sonar data is meaningful only when the sonar is moving in a straight line. This work studies the optimal line sweep coverage where the sweep paths of the cells consist of straight lines and no turn is allowed inside the cell. An optimal line sweep coverage solution is presented when the line sweep path is parallel to an edge of the cell boundary. The total time to complete the coverage task is minimized. A unique contribution of this work is that the optimal sequence of cell visits is computed in addition to the optimal line sweep paths and the optimal cell decomposition.

A Study on Design and Implementation of a Programming Teaching Model Using Emotional Intelligence

  • Bae, Yesun;Jun, Woochun
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.125-132
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, we design a programming education model that uses emotional intelligence and apply the model to programming education in elementary school. In our previous work, we found that there is a meaningful correlation between emotional intelligence and programming ability. In this paper, as a follow-up study, we design a programming education model based on a storytelling model and emotional intelligence. In order to test the performance of the proposed model, we applied our proposed model to the 5th grade elementary school students who have no programming experience. Based on extensive survey work and statistical analysis, we found that the experimental group by the programming education using the emotional intelligence got a statistically significant higher achievement than the comparative group by the traditional programming education. We hope that our model will be helpful in programming education in schools.

Flexoelectric effect on buckling and vibration behaviors of piezoelectric nano-plates using a new deformation plate theory

  • Bui Van Tuyen;Du Dinh Nguyen;Abdelouahed Tounsi
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.48 no.6
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    • pp.709-725
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    • 2023
  • This paper uses a new type of deformation theory to establish the free vibration and static buckling equations of nanoplates resting on two-parameter elastic foundations, in which the flexoelectric effect is taken into account. The proposed approach used in this work is not only simpler than other higher-order shear deformation theories but also does not need any shear correction coefficients to describe exactly the mechanical responses of structures. The reliability of the theory is verified by comparing the numerical results of this work with those of analytical solutions. The results show that the flexoelectric effect significantly changes the natural frequency and the critical buckling load of the nanoplate compared with the case of neglecting this effect, especially when the plate thickness changes and with some different boundary conditions. These are new results that have not been mentioned in any publications but are meaningful in engineering practice.

The Effect of Work-Family Balance on Job Satisfaction : The Mediating Effect of Family Supportive Organizational Culture (일·가정 균형이 직무만족에 미치는 영향 : 가족친화문화의 매개효과)

  • Park, Jeong-Min;Choi, Do-Lim;Lee, Sun-Ho
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.20 no.8
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    • pp.262-273
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of work-family balance on job satisfaction and the mediating effect of family supportive organizational culture in the relationship. For this purpose, the 6th data of the Women's Family Panel was used to analyze 2,016 married female workers who are currently employed among respondents aged 19 to 64. According to the analysis, First, work-family balance was found to have a positive effect on job satisfaction, and second, family supportive organizational culture had a mediating effect between work-family balance and job satisfaction. These results are meaningful in that they reaffirmed the emotional connection between work and family areas, suggesting that not only an institutional approach for work-family balance but also a cultural approach such as family-supportive organizational culture need to be considered.

The study about 'receptive appreciation' of Chinese classic literature (중국(中國) 고전문학(古典文學)의 '수용적 감상'에 관한 소고(小考))

  • Moon, hae jeong
    • (The)Study of the Eastern Classic
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    • no.43
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    • pp.155-181
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    • 2011
  • This thesis investigates characteristics and factors of 'receptive appreciation' which leads Chinese classic literature to high level. Receptive appreciation is literally appreciation method that appreciator accepts literary work in his position. In other words, it is to internalize literary work and to elicit his feeing. This receptive appreciation has two characteristics. One is that appreciator's feeling varies according to his circumstances and personality, the other is that the value of literary work is rediscovered by appreciator. Variation is the meaningful factor of literary work and know-how that literary work is called classic. Appreciator must have some conditions for receptive appreciation ideally. Writer's values reflected in the literary work, understanding of historical background, excellent eye supported by appreciator's various experience, comprehensive and neutral thinking are important premises. This study about receptive appreciation of Chinese classic literary work helps that appreciators have eyes for it.

The Influence of Hospice Volunteering and Death Education on High School Students' Attitude toward Death and Meaning of Life (고등학생의 호스피스자원봉사 경험자와 비경험자의 죽음에 대한 태도와 삶의 의미 비교)

  • Ryoo, Chung-Ja
    • Journal of the Korean Society of School Health
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.310-317
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: This descriptive research was carried out to identify how high school students' attitude to death and their meaning of life were affected by hospice volunteering and death education. Methods: This study is based on a structured questionnaire designed for 180 high school students who were given death education while doing volunteer work at non-profit hospice hospitals and another 288 high school students not doing any hospice volunteer work. The collected data was processed by the SPSS 20.0 program and then analyzed by $x^2$ test, t-test and ANOVA test. Results: High school students' attitude to death and their meaning of life showed significant differences depending on whether or not they had volunteered at hospice hospitals. The group with hospice volunteering experience tended to be more negative about death and have a higher meaning of life compared to those without hospice volunteering experience. Students with proper hospice recognition made up 52.4%, those who expressed hopes to receive hospice-care themselves if necessary accounted for 70.5%, and those who said they would like to take care of their family members either at home or at a hospice center if any of them got incurably sick comprised 59.0%. Those who thought dignified death is to be with one's family or any other meaningful person were 47.6% and 18.5% of the students thought that 'thinking they had led a meaningful life' was the core of a dignified death. Conclusion: Given the above results, it became clear that hospice volunteering and death education can affect high school students' meaning of life and their attitudes toward death.

A study on perceived value of work among the clinical dental hygienists and its determinants (임상치과위생사들의 일가치감 및 그 결정요인에 관한 연구)

  • Yoon, Hee-Suk;Kim, Young-Sun
    • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.495-508
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    • 2007
  • This study, to investigate the state of PVW among the clinical dental hygienists and its determinants, has polled 322 clinical dental hygienists working in Daegu, Kyung buk province, and Ulsan. Data were collected by self-administrated questionnaire. A SPSS 12.0 for Windows was used for statistical analysis. The obtained results were as follows: 1. The average of PVW among the respondents was 3.43. 2. The area average of PVW determinants was as follows; job significance, 3.31, process efficiency, 3.42, product usefulness, 3.32, vision realizability, 3.53, social recognition, 3.23 and the total average, 3.36. 3. The married have higher PVW than the unmarried in all areas(p=.012, p=.008, p=.036, p=.007). 4. As for working experience, in the case of perceived self value, those having 1~2 years experience have the highest PVW(p=.000), apart from perceived self value, those having over 6 years experience have the highest PVW in all areas(p=.015, p=.001, p=.002). Relating to the task, those working in the patient consulting and managing part have the highest PVW, relating to the annual salary, those having over 25 million won have the highest PVW(p=.000, p=.000, p=.001, p=.000). 5. The relationship between PVW and PVW determinants, in all respects, is meaningful, so it was found that the higher determinants are, the higher PVW is. 6. The whole explanation variate of PVW determinants was meaningful in PVW, perceived self value, value fulfillment emotion, respectively representing 38.8%, 55.6%, 61.5%(pE.001). PVW of clinical dental hygienists should be considered as a significant criterion of indivisual and organizational effectiveness. To improve effectually PVW of the clinical dental hygienists, there is need to establish culture in a system of hospital that redound to their social recognition.

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Middle School Students' Ideas about the purposes of Laboratory Work (과학 실험의 목적에 대한 중학생의 인식조사)

  • Kim, Hee-Kyong;Song, Jin-Woong
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.254-264
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    • 2003
  • Researches on laboratory work show that students often achieve little meaningful learning through laboratory work. One reason for this failure is that students often do not know the different types of laboratory work and the 'purposes' of them. Therefore, this study investigated middle school student' ideas about the purposes of laboratory work. To seventh grade students(n=147) of middle school in Seoul, Korea, we asked (Question 1) "Why do scientists do laboratory work?" and (Question 2) "Why do you do laboratory work in science classes?" It was required a short essay including the reasons and examples of them. From the results, it was found that 56.8% of the students had ideas that scientists do laboratory work for discovering new facts or inventing something, and 82.9% of the students responded that they do laboratory work for understanding and memorizing the contents of science textbook. In addition, the differences according to gender and to school achievement level, and the relationship between the ideas about scientists' laboratory work and about school science laboratory work were examined. The results showed that boys responded 'social usefulness' more frequently than girl, while girls mentioned 'personal pleasure' more frequently than boys in relation to the purposes of scientists' laboratory work(p<.05). According to the achievement level, it was founded that 'middle' level students replied 'to remember' more frequently than high and low levels in relation to school science laboratory work. Finally, students who had ideas that scientists do laboratory work for verifying a theory had the similar ideas about school science laboratory work. In conclusion, students are lack of diverse and proper views about laboratory work. It is recommended that teacher need to make clear the purpose of laboratory work and help students to understand of it.

Locating Text in Web Images Using Image Based Approaches (웹 이미지로부터 이미지기반 문자추출)

  • Chin, Seongah;Choo, Moonwon
    • Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.27-39
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    • 2002
  • A locating text technique capable of locating and extracting text blocks in various Web images is presented here. Until now this area of work has been ignored by researchers even if this sort of text may be meaningful for internet users. The algorithms associated with the technique work without prior knowledge of the text orientation, size or font. In the work presented in this research, our text extraction algorithm utilizes useful edge detection followed by histogram analysis on the genuine characteristics of letters defined by text clustering region, to properly perform extraction of the text region that does not depend on font styles and sizes. By a number of experiments we have showed impressively acceptable results.

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A Comparison between Francesco Borromini's Architectural and Structural Design - Focusing on the Churches of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza -

  • Dacarro, Fabio
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.82-92
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    • 2016
  • This study aims to contribute to better understanding of the Baroque architect Francesco Borromini, and, as a consequence, of the Baroque period itself. Recognizing that historical studies have focused mainly on the architectural (i.e., formal) aspects of Borromini's work and largely neglected the technical (i.e., structural) issues, and that the relationship between the architectural and structural worlds in Borromini's activity has consequently never been studied in depth, this research set as its objective the study of this relationship, and has developed a comparative analysis of Borromini's attitude toward architectural problems and questions of tectonics. The investigation has been conducted on two meaningful case-studies in Rome: San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza. The analysis has highlighted a strong dichotomy between Borromini as an architectural designer and Borromini as a structural designer. While Borromini's design is experimental, innovative, and nonconformist, his structures are cautious, tested, and validated by trustworthy tradition. His unprejudiced use of constructive solutions from different historical periods, regions, and cultural areas allows the definition of his approach to tectonics as "constructive eclecticism." The analysis has also highlighted the independence between the architectural and structural aspects of his work, as the two do not interfere with or limit each other. The dichotomy between form and structure in Borromini's work may reflect the "theatrical" tendency of Baroque culture, where what is shown on the face is often different from what is hidden behind.