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Podcasting and Politics in Singapore: An Experimental Study of Medium Effects

  • Skoric, Marko M.;Sim, Clarice;Juan, Han Teck;Fang, Pam
    • Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.27-43
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    • 2009
  • A ban on political podcasting during the General Elections 2006 in Singapore was justified by the Singaporean government on the grounds that the new medium had a greater power to influence voters than traditional modes of political discourse. A between-subjects controlled experiment was conducted to test whether podcasts of political speeches had a greater power to influence voters' evaluations of political candidates and likelihood of voting for them than online text-based transcripts of the same speeches. The study also examined whether mere exposure to political speeches online, irrespective of the modality, had an effect on voters' more general political preferences, i.e. the likelihood of support and voting for the opposition. The findings suggest that political podcasts were no more persuasive than text-based websites and that the effects on political preferences, if any, were likely due the exposure to political content online, not because of the nature of the medium. The implications of the findings are discussed.

Growth and Differentation of Rat Mammary Epithelial Cells Cultured in Serum-free Medium

  • Kim, Dong-Yeum;Jhun, Byung-Hak;Lee, Kyung-Hee;Hong, Seung-Chul;Clifton, Kelly-H.;Kim, Nam-Deuk
    • Archives of Pharmacal Research
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.297-305
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    • 1997
  • A new serum-free defined medium was developed that supports the growth of normal rat mammary epithelial cells. Mammary organoids from the glands of female F344 rats were cultured in a serum-free medium. Monolayer culture colonies developed within a week and remained viable for months in culture. Upon subculture of one-week-old primary colonies, almost the same morphology of colonies was developed. The scrape loading/dye transfer technique showed that most of colonies that developed in a serum-free medium containing EGF, human transferrin, insulin, and hydrocortisone (basal serum-free medium, BSFM) failed to show cell-cell communication. However, colonies cultured in BSFM supplemented with prolactin, $E_2$, and progesterone (complete hormone serum-free medium, CHSFM) showed cell-cell communication at 14 days of primary culture or of subculture. By flow cytometry with FITCPNA and PE-anti-Thy-1.1 monoclonal antibody, we distinguished four RMEC subpopulations in cultures in both media: Thy-1.1+ cells, PNA+ cells, cells negative to both reagents and cells positive to both reagents. It is likely that combined prolactin, cortisol, and insulin in CHSFM stimulate terminal differentiation of clonogenic cells.

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A medium of Art as the Relational Circuit: Paul Ryan's Video Art (관계적 회로로서의 예술 미디어: 폴 라이언의 비디오아트)

  • Lim, Shan
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.101-106
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    • 2019
  • This paper considers the historicity and aesthetical implications of in the art world of Paul Ryan(1943-2013) who designed the aestheticization of relational circuit of society by realizing the value of social transformation being inherent in video with cultural practices and suggesting the interdisciplinary method of leaning and research in the early video art history. To do this, in Chapter II, I review the first artwork presented firstly in the art gallery exhibition "TV as a Creative Medium" in 1969, in which Ryan proposed a video medium as a communication system and experimented the concept of 'feedback' in Cybernetics. And Chapter III focuses Ryan's discursive activities contributed to magazine Radical Software and artist-collective Raindance Corporation with growing interest in communication technology. At this time, Ryan regarded video medium as the tool for cybernetic expansion. Finally Chapter IV deals with the development of ecological method based on "a shared perception of environmental realities" and verifies Ryan's vision that video medium would be most effective means of social change and communication.

Analyses of Crypto Module for Gbps VPN System

  • Kim, Jung-Tae;Han, Jong-Wook
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.1 no.4
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    • pp.213-216
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    • 2003
  • A VPN is widely used in a communications environment which access is controlled to permit peer connections only within a defined community of interest. It is constructed through some form of partitioning of a common underlying communication medium, where this underlying communications medium provides services to the network on a non-exclusive basis. In this paper, we have analyzed a variety of architecture to implement Giga bps VPN system. The proposed architecture will satisfy the needs of clients who adopt Giga bps VPN system in the various environments.

Energy-Efficient Cooperative Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Ahmed, Mohammad Helal Uddin;Hong, Choong-Seon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2011.06d
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    • pp.267-268
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    • 2011
  • Recent research activities in cooperative communication focus on achieving energy efficiency and reliability. Relay selection strategy for cooperative communication improves the performance significantly. However, due to imbalance consumption of power, network might die earlier and more than 90% energy remains unused. In this paper, we provide a framework of an energy-efficient medium access control protocol that minimizes these problems and improves energy efficiency.

Design of Cooperative Communication Protocol for UWB-based Distributed MAC Systems (UWB 기반 Distributed MAC 시스템을 위한 협력 통신 프로토콜 설계)

  • Hur, Kyeong
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.460-469
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    • 2012
  • The WiMedia Alliance has specified a Distributed Medium Access Control (D-MAC) protocol based on UWB for high speed wireless home networks and WPANs. In this paper, we propose a novel cooperative communication protocol adaptive to current UWB link transmission rate. The proposed cooperative communication protocol has compatibility with current WiMedia D-MAC and Wireless USB standard and is executed at each device according to a Relay Node Selection (RNS) criterion.

A Study for Classification of Types about Museum Exhibition Medium in View of Information Design (정보디자인의 관점에서 본 박물관 전시매체의 유형분류에 관한 연구)

  • Kim Kyung-Mi
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.14 no.6 s.53
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    • pp.252-259
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    • 2005
  • A modern museum has been changed from a passive place for simply exhibiting arts and antique collections to an interactive place for learning and experiencing culture and information. Such a functional change of the modern museum requires not only reorganizing fundamental characteristics of the modern museum, but also reforming organization of management teams, changing attitudes of staffs and assigning new roles to staffs for accepting the new thought and approach of visitors. That is, the function of the modem museum is not limited to collect arts and antique collections. The fundamental change of the modern museum further requires using the collections as a tool or a medium to provide a cultural exchange between the visitors and the museum, and to give new experience and information to the visitors. After proposing discussion that ' how, what, who is related to the museum? ', the way of thinking the museum is changed from ' collection ' to ' communication '. The change of the modern museum improves an educational role of the museum, and makes the museum as a communicator exchanging information and experience with visitors. In the last analysis, the modern museum is not just an exhibition medium that simply transfers information of the exhibition mediums to public. The modem museum is also a communication medium in order to collect information and transfer the collected information to the visitors. That is, the modern museum should provide various exhibition and communication mediums to the visitors for exchanging information and cultural experience. Therefore, the modern museum requires additional functions processing information suitable to the present environment and level of the museum, and transferring the information to public.

A study on Deployment of the Optimized WBS and Effective Small and Medium Enterprise Informatization System using Standardized PSDM (표준화된 PSDM을 사용한 최적의 WBS 및 효과적인 중소기업 정보화 시스템 구축에 관한 연구)

  • Yoon, KyungBae;Kwon, HeeChoul
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.199-205
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    • 2014
  • We would like to study and develop the optimized WBS(Work Breakdown Structure) considering project's range, schedule, cost and human resources management with defining phased work in main task and preceding and escorting relationships for effective small and medium enterprises' informatization through standardized PSDM(Production System Development Methodology). For more systemic and effective system built-up, it introduces production information with WBS study which is appropriate for the small and medium enterprises with setting up management items for enhancing system's reliability, quality, productivity, smooth communication among the participated enterprises such as the small and medium enterprises, IT enterprises, and supervision enterprises, and operational support including maintenance of the built system. This study is purpose of helping a lot of the small and medium enterprises and IT enterprises to build up the systems more effective and reliable within planned schedule using the standardized methodology.

Medium Access Control Design for UWB Communication Systems: Review and Trends

  • Nardis, Luca De;Di Benedetto, Maria-Gabriella
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.386-393
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    • 2003
  • Future wireless networks are expected to achieve high bit rates at low cost, enabling multimedia and QoS-based services over the wireless medium. The impulse radio ultra-wide band (IR-UWB) technique is a promising candidate in the deployment of such networks, thanks to its potential robustness and capacity. In the past, most of the UWB research focused on hardware and physical layer aspects in order to solve the technological challenges posed by IR-UWB. UWB peculiar characteristics may, however, also stimulate innovative higher layers’ design. This work addresses MAC issues for UWB communication systems. Key areas such as medium sharing, MAC organization, packet scheduling and power control are reviewed. The impact of UWB on the above functions is discussed, and areas which require UWB specific design are identified. Finally, novel MAC functions enabled by UWB specific features, i.e., precise ranging and positioning, are presented.