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An Investigation of Elementary School Teachers' Epistemological Beliefs about Science on the Bases of Their Strategies for Coping with Critical Incidents (위기 상황에의 대처 전략을 통한 초등교사들의 과학에 대한 인식론적 신념 연구)

  • Han, Su-Jin;Lee, In-Hye;Kang, Suk-Jin;Noh, Tae-Hee
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.61-70
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    • 2011
  • In this study, we examined the types and the characteristics of elementary school teachers' strategies for coping with critical incidents in science classes. Teachers' epistemological beliefs about science were then investigated on the bases of the types of their coping strategies. The teachers (N=107) in 23 elementary schools were asked to respond to an open-ended question about the critical incidents they had experienced in science classes and how to cope with them. Seven types of coping strategies were identified as follows: avoiding, reinterpretation, adjusting, prevaricating, justifying, exploring, and explaining. Among them, adjusting and justifying were the major strategies. In order to classify teachers' epistemological beliefs about science, their coping strategies were grouped into four categories such as transferring facts, constructing facts, transferring meanings, and constructing meanings. The results indicated that most teachers still possessed traditional epistemological beliefs about science. The potential of critical incidents as a probe for revealing teachers' epistemological beliefs about science is discussed.

Analysis of Penetration Phenomenon of High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse into Buried Facilities with Various Moisture Content and Depth (수분 함유량 및 지하 구조물 깊이에 따른 고고도 전자기파(HEMP) 투과 현상 분석)

  • Kang, Hee-Do;Oh, Il-Young;Yook, Jong-Gwan
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.644-653
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, a formulation for obliquely incident electromagnetic wave has been presented for an analysis of highpower electromagnetic pulse penetration into multilayered dispersive media. Based on generalized models of measured dielectric constants and propagation channels reflecting the Earth's general features, the propagation phenomenon of the obliquely incident early-time(E1) high altitude electromagnetic pulse(HEMP) is analyzed. In addition, the polarization and critical angle are also considered. It is found that the total reflection occurs at an incident angle of about 38 degrees at the soil-rock interface, and that the parallel-polarized E1 HEMP penetrates better than the perpendicular-polarized one. The peak level of the penetrating electric field is found to be 5.6 kV/m at normal incidence, regardless of the type of polarization, and E1 HEMP is greatly reduced near the critical angle. Moreover, the penetrating E1 HEMP is analyzed as a variation of moisture content and depth of materials, resulting E1 HEMP could be useful in determining the levels of shielding required for buried facilities.

Feasibility of the 3D Printing Materials for Radiation Dose Reduction in Interventional Radiology (인터벤션 시술 시 환자의 선량감소를 위한 3D 프린팅 재료의 적용성 평가)

  • Cho, Yong-In
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.43 no.3
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    • pp.169-176
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    • 2020
  • Interventional radiology is performed under real-time fluoroscopy, and patients are exposed to a wide range of exposures for a long period of time depending on the examination and procedure. However, studies on radiation protection for patients during an intervention are insufficient. This study aims to evaluate the doses exposed during the intervention and the applicability of 3D printing materials. The organ dose for each intervention site was evaluated using a monte carlo simulatio. Also, the dose reduction effect of the critical organs was calculated when using a shielding device using 3D printing materials. As a result, the organ dose distribution for each intervention site showed a lower dose distribution for organs located far from the x-ray tube. It was analyzed that the influence of scattered rays was higher in the superficial organs of the back of the human body where x-rays were incident. The dose reduction effect on the critical organ using the 3D printing shield showed the highest testis among the gonads, and in the case of other organs, the dose reduction effect gradually decreased in the order of the eye, thyroid, breast, and ovary. Accordingly, it is judged that the 3D printed shield will be sufficiently usable as a shielding device for the radiation protection of critical organs.

Characteristics of Gold and Silver Bimetallic Surface Plasmon Resonance Chip in Intensity Measurement Mode and Calculation of Refractive Index using Critical Angle (반사광 측정 모드에서 금과 은의 쌍금속 표면 플라즈몬 공명 칩의 특성과 임계각을 이용한 굴절률 계산)

  • Kim, Hyungjin;Lee, Sung-Youp;Kim, Hong Tak;Yang, Ki-Won;Sohn, Young-Soo
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.423-428
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    • 2015
  • A bimetallic chip made of gold and silver was investigated in intensity interrogation mode to confirm enhancement of the SPR sensor resolution. Both reflectance curves of the bimetallic chip and the conventional gold chip was acquired and compared. The line width of the reflectance curve of the bimetallic chip was narrower than that of the conventional Au chip, resulting in steeper tangential slope. The reflectance was monitored at the angle related to the steepest tangential slope. The change in reflectance of the bimetallic chip was larger than that of the Au chip. The critical angle was analyzed by differentiating the reflectance with respect to incident angle twice. Acquiring the critical angle regarding to the sample informs the refractive index of the sample. Using various concentration of Bovine Serum Albumin, we confirmed that refractive index was linearly related to variation of reflectance of the bimetallic chip.

Improved Classification of Fire Accidents and Analysis of Periodicity for Prediction of Critical Fire Accidents (초대형화재사고 예측을 위한 화재사고 분류의 개선 및 발생의 주기성 분석)

  • Kim, Chang Won;Shin, Dongil
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.56-65
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    • 2020
  • Forecasting of coming fire accidents is quite a challenging problem cause normally fire accidents occur for a variety of reasons and seem randomness. However, if fire accidents that cause critical losses can be forecasted, it can expect to minimize losses through preemptive action. Classifications using machine learning were determined as appropriate classification criteria for the forecasting cause it classified as a constant damage scale and proportion. In addition, the analysis of the periodicity of a critical fire accident showed a certain pattern, but showed a high deviation. So it seems possible to forecast critical fire accidents using advanced prediction techniques rather than simple prediction techniques.

A Study on the Standardization of Test Method of Flat-Plate Liquid-heating Solar Collectors (액체식 평판형 태양열 집열기 성능 실험의 표준화에 관한 연구)

  • 윤석범
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.27-32
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    • 1990
  • Standardization of solar collector test method is desirable for improvement solar collector quality and Valuation of collector thermal performance. In the present work, test loop proposed by Chun, is modified for convenience of test and obtained accurate collector thermal performance. An experimental investigation hat been carried out with a modified collector test loop under a real sun condition in order to confirm the utility of modified test loop and study the effect of variation of flow rate on thermal efficiency, the range of optimum flow rate and critical incident angle.

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Improvement of light extraction efficiency of display devices by using sub-wavelength scale structure

  • Kwon, Oh-Yung;Whang, Ki-Woong
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.10a
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    • pp.1412-1414
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    • 2009
  • It is suggested that the light extraction efficiency of the display device can be improved by adoption of periodic array of sub-wavelength scale structures. The relief of the total reflection has been investigated using the rigorous coupled wave analysis (RCWA). Various shape of the sub-wavelength scale structure allowed to have non vanishing transmittance for the light rays with the incident angle bigger than the critical angle.

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Developing the Measurement Model of Service Quality in the Public Sector (공공부문의 서비스품질 측정모형 개발)

  • Rha, Jun-Young;Rhee, Seung-Kyu
    • IE interfaces
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.339-352
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    • 2007
  • Beyond SERVQUAL-based service quality research, we develop a measurement model of public service quality that would provide researchers and practitioners in the public sector with a foundation for systematic investigation and implementation. Firstly, we explore the attributes of public service quality that lead to customer satisfaction by using the critical incident technique (CIT). We identified four dimensions of public service qualities. We also found that the critical attributes of service quality differ according to the types of customers. Secondly, to achieve a high degree of empirical confidence, we conduct statistical tests and analyses on the classification scheme and on the attributes of service quality that we derived from the CIT analysis. Through these analyses, we could remove the redundancy among attributes and group the attributes into new constructs, which are mutually exclusive and exhaustive; we built a more sophisticated measurement model of service quality.

Hydrogen concentration and critical epitaxial thicknesses in low-temperature Si(001) layers grown by UHV ion-beam sputter deposition.

  • Lee, Nae-Eung
    • Journal of Korean Vacuum Science & Technology
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.139-144
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    • 1999
  • Hydrogen concentration depth profiles in homoepitaxial Si(001) films grown from hyper-thermal Si beams generated by ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) ion-beam sputtering have been measured by nuclear reaction analyses as a function of film growth temperature and deposition rate. Bulk H concentrations CH in the crystalline Si layers were found tio be below detection limits, 1${\times}$1019cm-3, with no indication of significant H surface segregation at the crystalline/amorphous interface region. This is quite different than the case for growth by molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) where strong surface segregation was observed for similar deposition conditions with average CH values of 1${\times}$1020cm-3 in the amorphous overlayer. The markedly decreased H concentrations in the present experiments are due primarily to hydrogen desorption by incident hyperthermal Si atoms. Reduced H surface coverages during growth combined with collisionally-induced filling of interisland trenches and enhanced interlayer mass transport provide an increase in critical epitaxial thicknesses by up to an order of magnitude over previous MBE results.

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Diffraction of water waves by an array of vertical barriers and heterogeneous bottom

  • Mondal, R.;Alam, Md. Mahbub
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.33-41
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    • 2019
  • The interaction of head waves with an infinite row of identical, equally spaced, rectangular breakwaters is investigated in the presence of uneven bottom topography. Using linear water wave theory and matched eigenfunction expansion method, the boundary value problem is transformed into a system of linear algebraic equations which are numerically solved to know the velocity potentials completely. Utilizing this method, reflected and transmitted wave energy are computed for different physical parameters along with the wave field in the vicinity of breakwaters. It is observed that the wave field becomes more complicated when the incoming wavelength becomes smaller than the channel width. A critical ratio of the gap width to the channel width, corresponding to the inflection point of the transmitted energy variation, is identified for which 1/3 of the total energy is transmitted. Similarly, depending on the incident wavelength, there is a critical breakwater width for which a minimum energy is transmitted. Further, the accuracy of the computed results is verified by using the derived energy relation.