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Residents' Preference for Spatial Features in Sitting Areas at Assisted Living Facilities - Focused on direct or indirect social interaction for older adults -

  • Lee, Min-Ah;Rodiek, Susan D.
    • International Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.87-102
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    • 2013
  • This study investigated residents' preferences for spatial features of sitting areas in assisted living facilities, and provides recommendations for planning sitting areas to support residents' spatial preferences and social interaction. The study participants were 69 residents of eight assisted living facilities (30+ resident capacity), located in south central Texas. A photographic comparison method was used, in which residents were shown 20 matched pairs of photos, with a single feature digitally modified in each pair, and asked to select which environmental representation they preferred. The hypothesized spatial characteristics were identified in practice based literature as those that may encourage usage of sitting areas: viewability, variety, homelikeness, and privacy. Most of the hypothesized features were preferred by participants, with the highest preference found for non-institutional furniture arrangements and naturalness, followed by increasing enclosure and variety of seating. Preference was less significant for domestic cues such as carpeted floors, divided light windows, and boundaries defined by different colored material or columns, possibly due to their physical impairments or preference for visual openness. Participants' level of mobility assistance was significantly related to their preference for some features, such as seating with people-watching capability, and carpeted floors. The findings have implications for facility architects and administrators engaged in resident-oriented spatial planning.

Comparative Analysis on the Types of Representation to Communicate in Elementary Science and Mathematics Textbooks - In Case of the Sixth Grade 1st Semester - (초등 과학·수학 교과서의 의사소통 표현 방식에 따른 유형 비교 분석 - 6학년 1학기를 중심으로 -)

  • Jang, Mikyung;Shin, Youngjoon
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.256-272
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this research is to study and learn more features how this type of distribution for communication in $6^{th}$ grade first semester elementary science and mathematics according to communicative expression by 2009 revised curriculum. For this study, based on an analysis standard presented in previous research on the types of communication. The results of this research are as follows. First, because the mathematics presents the number of ways to communicate twice more than science, mathematics go through with much more problems to solve than science. Second, in mathematics, spoken method and written method have similar proportion, less in physical activity method. Third, Science showed balanced proportion among four areas; earth, life, energy, and material. On the other hand, mathematics only showed small numbers in the area of geometry but similar numbers in number and operations, regularity, measurement. Fourth, there is no common feature or relevance about communicative approach for convergence thinking in 2009 revised curriculum, it seems that it doesn't consider it as a revised.

Postmodern Feminism Expressed in the Fashion of Modern Consumer Society (현대(現代) 소비사회(消費社會)의 패션에 표현(表現)된 포스트모던페미니즘)

  • Park, Mi-Ryung
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.26-36
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of this study is to examine the concept of modern consumer society and to analyze how the meaning of postmodern-feminism is consumed into what image of preference in fashion. The function of modern society has changed into the system which is centered around consumption from the one that emphasizes labor and production of mass consumption age by mass production. In this consumer society, consumption means just not to waste of production but to consume the commodity sign reflected on the desire of a moderner. In other words, it means what is consumed will be the meaning, preference, symbol, and image mood not goods itself with physical feature. Existing feminism has affected by postmodernism. Due to that, postmodern-feminism has developed, taking to pieces the paternal argument since the late 1960s. It has tried to give up hope this idea, regarding sex distinction as a socially organized category contrary to women's identity of biological aspect suppressed in the paternal system of value. Especially it has demanded only one type on sex should be translated into a distinctive quality, multiple meaning, and sex. Accordingly in modern fashion, this aspect is expressed like the followings : distinction into women's image evaded fixation, multiple meaning into image of androgyny, multiple sex into that of mixture. And this is used as the image of symbolic goods, also the purpose of brand difference.

Design and Implementation of Polymer-Light Emitting Diodes by using Nanocantact Printing (나노접촉 인쇄공정을 이용한 폴리머 유기정보표시소자 설계 및 구현)

  • Jo Jeong-Dai;Kim Kwang-Young;Lee Eung-Sug;Choi Byung-Oh
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.1511-1513
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    • 2005
  • The polymer-light emtting diodes(PLEDs) were comprised a design of OLED array, process develop by using ITO thin glass, and fabrication of PDMS stamp by using nanocontact printing. In the study, we describe a different approach for building OLEDs, which is based on physical lamination of thin metal electrodes supported by a PDMS stamp layer against an electroluminescent organic. We develop that devices fabricated in this manner have better performance than those constructed with standard processing techniques. The lamination approach avoids forms of disruption that can be introduced at the electrode organic interface by metal evaporation and has a reduced sensitivity to pinhole or partial pinhole defects. Also, it is easy to build patterned PLED with feature sizes into the nanometer regime. This method provides a new route to PLED for applications ranging from high performance displays to storage and lithography systems, and PLED can used for organic electronics and flexible display.

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The Development of the Automatic Discharge Acquisition & Management System (ADAMS) using Ubiquitous Technique

  • Park, Jae-Young;Oh, Byoung-Dong;Jeon, Seon-Mee;Kim, Jae-Bok
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.488-493
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    • 2006
  • Accurate river discharge is the most important factor in managing river basins and for successfully maintaining total maximum daily loads in Korea. It is not easy to measure the discharge directly in large rivers owing to physical and environmental constraints, even after investing much time and money. Recently, to overcome these historical drawbacks in river discharge measurement, we have developed the Automatic Discharge Acquisition & Management System (ADAMS) that scans the river cross-section and measures each cell $(1m{\times}1m)$ velocity using HADCP. The hardware system is composed of an HADCP sensor and winch, as well as a PC and software system for the discharge calculation module and hardware control module. It is controlled remotely via the internet and uses the velocity-depth integration method and the velocity-contour method for calculating river discharges. The characteristics of ADAMS are a ubiquitously accessible system, featuring real time automatic discharge measurement, remote control via the internet. The results using ADAMS at the Jindong stage site show less than 5% uncertainty and are 4 times more efficient than the ADCP & Q-boat system. This system can be used to measure any large river, river mouth or tributary river affected by backwater, all of which have a very difficult measuring real time discharge. The next generation of ADAMS will feature an upgrade to increase portability and GPS integration.

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Digitization of Unknown Sculptured Surface Using a Scanning Probe (스캐닝 프로브를 이용한 미지의 자유곡면 점군 획득에 관한 연구)

  • 권기복;김재현;이정근;박정환;고태조
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.57-63
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    • 2004
  • This paper describes a method for digitizing the compound surfaces which are comprised of several unknown feature shapes such as base surface, and draft wall. From the reverse engineering's point of view, the main step is to digitize or gather three-dimensional points on an object rapidly and precisely. As well known, the non-contact digitizing apparatus using a laser or structured light can rapidly obtain a great bulk of digitized points, while the touch or scanning probe gives higher accuracy by directly contacting its stylus onto the part surface. By combining those two methods, unknown features can be digitized efficiently. The paper proposes a digitizing methodology using the approximated surface model obtained from laser-scanned data, followed by the use of a scanning probe. Each surface boundary curve and the confining area is investigated to select the most suitable digitizing path topology, which is similar to generating NC tool-paths. The methodology was tested with a simple physical model whose shape is comprised of a base surface, draft walls and cavity volumes.

Characterization of polymer surface of LCD blue color filters using SIMS, XPS and AFM (SIMS, XPS, AFM을 이용한 LCD blue color filter의 고분자 표면 연구)

  • 김승희;김태형;이상호;이종완
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.321-325
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    • 1997
  • Recently, photosensitive color filters have received much attention for their use in the liquid crystal display (LCD) industry. It is well known that chemical and physical properties of polymer surfaces can be modified by special surface treatments. In this work, we have studied the polymer surfaces of LCD blue color filters which were exposed to the UV light during photolithography. A better understanding of the irradiated polymer surfaces is required for the subsequent processes such as plasma etching, ITO electrode deposition, etc. The surface analysis has been undertaken using secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS), x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and atomic force microscopy (AFM). A significant enrichment of the pigment component and roughening of surface with bubble-like feature have been observed at the modified polymer surface.

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A Study on the Fingerprint Recognition Algorithm Using Enhancement Method of Fingerprint Ridge Structure (지문 융선 구조의 향상기법을 사용한 지문인식 알고리즘에 관한 연구)

  • 정용훈;노정석;이상범
    • Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.647-660
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    • 2003
  • The present of state is situation that is realized by necessity of maintenance of public security about great many information is real condition been increasing continually in knowledge info-age been situating in wide field of national defense, public peace, banking, politics, education etc. Also, loss or forgetfulness, and peculation by ID for individual information and number increase of password in Internet called that is sea of information is resulting various social problem. By alternative about these problem, including Biometrics, several authentication systems through sign(Signature), Smart Card, Watermarking technology are developed. Therefore, This paper shows that extract factor that efficiency can get into peculiar feature in physical features for good fingerprint recognition algorithm implementation with old study finding that take advantage of special quality of these fingerprint.

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Development of Computational Science Simulation Management Program in Heterogeneous Computing Environments (이종 컴퓨팅 환경에서의 계산과학 시뮬레이션 관리 프로그램 개발)

  • Byun, Hee-Jung;Yu, Jung-Lok
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.18 no.8
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    • pp.9-17
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    • 2018
  • Heterogeneous high performance computing systems are gaining acceptance as the environments for computational scientific simulations of various application fields. Those computing systems, however, have been mostly used with the legacy consoles, resulting in the severe decrement of accessibility and usability of heterogeneous computing assets. To solve this problem, this paper presents the design and implementation of web-based computational science simulation management program. The proposed program provides fundamental primitives including user authentication, data management, physical/virtual computing resource management, job management, etc. that can be used to manage different kinds of simulations efficiently, and also offers highly extensible feature through a modular plug-in architecture. We also present the best practical examples of applications (e.g., scientific simulation education and bio-medical) to confirm our program's effectiveness.

Wind-induced fragility assessment of urban trees with structural uncertainties

  • Peng, Yongbo;Wang, Zhiheng;Ai, Xiaoqiu
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.45-56
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    • 2018
  • Wind damage of urban trees arises to be a serious issue especially in the typhoon-prone areas. As a family of tree species widely-planted in Southeast China, the structural behaviors of Plane tree is investigated. In order to accommodate the complexities of tree morphology, a fractal theory based finite element modeling method is proposed. On-site measurement of Plane trees is performed for physical definition of structural parameters. It is revealed that modal frequencies of Plane trees distribute in a manner of grouped dense-frequencies; bending is the main mode of structural failure. In conjunction with the probability density evolution method, the fragility assessment of urban trees subjected to wind excitations is then proceeded. Numerical results indicate that small-size segments such as secondary branches feature a relatively higher failure risk in a low wind level, and a relatively lower failure risk in a high wind level owing to windward shrinks. Besides, the trunk of Plane tree is the segment most likely to be damaged than other segments in case of high winds. The failure position tends to occur at the connection between trunk and primary branches, where the logical protections and reinforcement measures can be implemented for mitigating the wind damage.