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Perception for the Frontier Science of Teachers and Children in Elementary Schools, and Analysis of Corresponding Contents in Textbooks (첨단 과학에 대한 초등 교사와 학생의 인식 및 교과서 내용 분석)

  • Kim, Jin-Wha;Park, Il-Woo
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.390-403
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    • 2009
  • We have examined the perception of teachers and students in elementary schools toward the frontier science and analyzed corresponding contents in science textbooks in Korea and the U. S. in order to promote a good guidance for the frontier science education. We prepared separate questionnaires for teachers and children, respectively, and analyzed the responses obtained from 244 teachers and 1,000 students in five elementary schools. For the analysis of how to introduce the frontier science, we investigated textbooks such as Science, Society and Practical Arts of Korean elementary school, and an American science textbook published by Scott Foresman. This study revealed that teachers are well aware of the importance of the frontier science, however, they are inactive in conducting the subject in class rooms because of their insufficient scientific knowledge and poor environment for teaching. It has been found that children had strong interest in the frontier science, however, opportunities to learn the topic are not properly provided. The frontier science m the American science textbook turned out to be more systematically introduced than that in Korean ones.

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Elementary Teachers' Perceptions of Frontier Science Teaching and their Teaching Efficacy (초등교사의 첨단과학기술 교수에 대한 인식 및 교수효능감 조사)

  • Park, HyunJu;Baek, Yoon Su
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.3-9
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    • 2017
  • This study examined 39 elementary teachers' perceptions on the frontier science teaching and their teaching efficacy. The results showed: elementary teachers were interested in and were well aware of the importance of the frontier science in human life and in this society. They also agreed with the necessity of teaching frontier science in elementary school. They, however, had perceptions that frontier science may not be appropriate for the level of elementary students. Moreover, the poor educational environment may act as constraints for frontier science teaching. The change of elementary teachers' teaching efficacy(t=-13.67, p<.01) was statistically significant after their participation of developing STEAM program on frontier science and practicing its lessons.

An Overview of New Progresses in Understanding Pipeline Corrosion

  • Tan, M. YJ;Varela, F.;Huo, Y.;Gupta, R.;Abreu, D.;Mahdavi, F.;Hinton, B.;Forsyth, M.
    • Corrosion Science and Technology
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.271-280
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    • 2016
  • An approach to achieving the ambitious goal of cost effectively extending the safe operation life of energy pipeline to 100 years is the application of health monitoring and life prediction tools that are able to provide both long-term remnant pipeline life prediction and in-situ pipeline condition monitoring. A critical step is the enhancement of technological capabilities that are required for understanding and quantifying the effects of key factors influencing buried steel pipeline corrosion and environmentally assisted materials degradation, and the development of condition monitoring technologies that are able to provide in-situ monitoring and site-specific warning of pipeline damage. This paper provides an overview of our current research aimed at developing new sensors and electrochemical cells for monitoring, categorising and quantifying the level and nature of external pipeline and coating damages under the combined effects of various inter-related variables and processes such as localised corrosion, coating cracking and disbondment, cathodic shielding, transit loss of cathodic protection.

Superconducting Tunnel Junction Detectors for Mass Spectrometry

  • Ohkubo, M.;Zen, N.;Kitazume, T.;Ukibe, M.;Shiki, S.;Koike, M.
    • Progress in Superconductivity
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.77-81
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    • 2012
  • With conventional mass spectrometry (MS), ions are separated according to mass/charge (m/z) ratios. We must speculate the z values to obtain the m values. Superconducting tunnel junction (STJ) detectors can solve this problem, and true mass spectrometry becomes possible instead of m/z spectrometry. The STJ detectors were installed in MS instruments with a variety of ion sources. As an example, we report fragmentation analysis of a non-covalent protein complex of hemoglobin.

The Effects of Human Resource Factors on Firm Efficiency: A Bayesian Stochastic Frontier Analysis

  • Shin, Sangwoo;Chang, Hyejung
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.292-302
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    • 2018
  • This study proposes a Bayesian stochastic frontier model that is well-suited to productivity/efficiency analysis particularly using panel data. A unique feature of our proposal is that both production frontier and efficiency are estimable for each individual firm and their linkage to various firm characteristics enriches our understanding of the source of productivity/efficiency. Empirical application of the proposed analysis to Human Capital Corporate Panel data enables identification and quantification of the effects of Human Resource factors on firm efficiency in tandem with those of firm types on production frontier. A comprehensive description of the Markov Chain Monte Carlo estimation procedure is forwarded to facilitate the use of our proposed stochastic frontier analysis.