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Social Constructivism Revisited Focusing on the Controversies with History of Technology (사회구성주의의 재검토: 기술사와의 논쟁을 중심으로)

  • Song Sung-Soo
    • Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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    • v.2 no.2 s.4
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    • pp.55-89
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this article is to examine and assess the main issues in social constructivism with reference to the history of technology. Social constructivism, as an alternative explanation to technological change, has developed its points actively responding to various criticisms. Historians of technology have joined in dialogues with social constructivists through controversies about narrative vs theory, reliability vs performance, and evolution of bicycle. Social constructivists tend to use new jargons excessively, don't deal historical materials rigorously, and don't consider content-dependency sufficiently. To apply social constructivism to Korean cases many problems should be identified including the deficiency of historical materials, the importance of technological learning, and the peculiarity of relevant social group.

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Multi Domain Dialog State Tracking using Domain State (도메인 상태를 이용한 다중 도메인 대화 상태 추적)

  • Jeon, Hyunmin;Lee, Geunbae
    • Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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    • 2020.10a
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    • pp.421-426
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    • 2020
  • 다중 도메인 목적 지향 대화에서 기존 딥 러닝을 이용한 대화 상태 추적(Dialog state tracking)은 여러 턴 동안 누적된 사용자와 시스템 간 대화를 입력 받아 슬롯 밸류(Slot value)를 추출하는 모델들이 연구되었다. 하지만 이 모델들은 대화가 길어질수록 연산량이 증가한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 다중 도메인 대화에서 누적된 대화의 history 없이 슬롯 밸류를 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 하지만, 단순하게 history를 제거하고 현재 턴의 발화만 입력 받는 방법은 문맥 정보의 손실로 이어진다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 도메인 상태(Domain state)를 도입하여 매 턴 마다 대화 상태와 함께 추적하는 모델을 제안한다. 도메인 상태를 같이 추적함으로써 현재 어떠한 도메인에 대하여 대화가 진행되고 있는지를 파악한다. 또한, 함축된 문맥 정보를 담고 있는 이전 턴의 대화 상태와 도메인 상태를 현재 턴의 발화와 같이 입력 받아 정보의 손실을 줄였다. 대표적인 데이터 셋인 MultiWOZ 2.0과 MultiWOZ 2.1에서 실험한 결과, 대화의 history를 사용하지 않고도 대화 상태 추적에 있어 좋은 성능을 보이는 것을 확인하였다. 또한, 시스템 응답과 과거 발화에 대한 의존성을 제거하여 end-to-end 대화 시스템으로의 확장이 좀 더 용이할 것으로 기대된다.

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Development of a Scaling Factor Prediction Method for Radioactive Composition in Low-level Radioactive Waste

  • Park, Jin-Beak;Lee, Kun-Jai
    • Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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    • 1995.05b
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    • pp.833-838
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    • 1995
  • This study presents a method to predict plant-specific and operational history dependent scaling factors. Realistic and detailed approaches are taken to find scaling factors at reactor coolant. This approach begins with fission product release mechanisms and fundamental release properties of fuel-source nuclide such as fission product and transuranic nuclide. Scaling factors at various waste streams are derived from the predicted reactor coolant scaling factors with the use of radionuclide retention and build up model. This model makes use of radioactive material balance within the radioactive waste processing systems. According to input parameters of plant operation history, scaling factors predicted at reactor coolant and waste streams are well brought out the effects of plant operation history.

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High-frequency Back-scattering Cross Section Analysis of Rotating Targets (회전 표적의 고주파수 후방산란단면적 해석)

  • Kim, Kook-Hyun;Cho, Dae-Seung;Kim, Jin-Hyeong
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.16-24
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    • 2007
  • The high-frequency analysis method of back-scattering cross section spectrum of rotating targets is established. The time history of the back-scattering cross section is calculated using a quasi-stationary approach, based on a physical optics and a physical theory of diffraction, combining an adaptive triangular beam method to consider the shadow effect. And the spectra of back-scattering cross section by the Doppler effect are analyzed applying a simple fast Fourier transform method to its time history. The numerical calculation for rotating targets, such as rotating metal plates and underwater propeller, are carried out. The time history appears to be periodic with respect to the number of wings. The backscattering cross section spectrum level and its frequency shift are dependent on the rotating speed, direction, and the shape of the targets.

Retrieving the Time History of Displacement from Measured Acceleration Signal

  • Han, Sangbo
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.197-206
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    • 2003
  • It is intended to retrieve the time history of displacement from measured acceleration signal. In this study, the word retrieving means reconstructing the time history of original displacement signal from already measured acceleration signal not just extracting various information using relevant signal processing techniques. Unlike extracting required information from the signal, there are not many options to apply to retrieve the time history of displacement signal, once the acceleration signal is measured and recorded with given sampling rate. There are two methods, in general, to convert measured acceleration signal into displacement signal. One is directly integrating the acceleration signal in time domain. The other is dividing the Fourier transformed acceleration signal by the scale factor of - $\omega$$^2$and taking the inverse Fourier transform of it. It turned out both the methods produced a significant amount of errors depending on the sampling resolution in time and frequency domain when digitizing the acceleration signals. A simple and effective way to convert the time history of acceleration signal into the time history of displacement signal without significant errors is studied here with the analysis on the errors involved in the conversion process.

Sharing CAD Models Based on Feature Ontology of Commands History

  • Seo, Tae-Sul;Lee, Yoon-Sook;Cheon, Sang-Uk;Han, Soon-Hung;Patil, Lalit;Dutta, Debasish
    • International Journal of CAD/CAM
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.39-47
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    • 2005
  • Different CAx systems are being utilized throughout the product lifecycle due to the practical reasons in the supply chain and design processes. One of the major problems facing enterprises of today is how to share and exchange data among heterogeneous applications. Since different software applications use different terminologies, it is difficult to share and exchange the product data with internal and external partners. This paper presents a method to enhance the CAD model interoperability based on feature ontology. The feature ontology has been constructed based on the feature definition of modeling commands of CAD systems. A method for integration of semantic data has been proposed, implemented, and tested with two commercial CAD systems.

Herpetic Esophagitis in Immunocompetent Child

  • Altamimi, Eyad M.;Alorjani, Mohammed S.;Alquran, Wejdan Y
    • Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.298-302
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    • 2019
  • A previously healthy 2.5-year-old male child presented with vomiting, diarrhea, and fever. During hospitalization he developed odynophagia and refusal to eat. His symptoms did not respond to acid suppressant therapy. He underwent upper endoscopy which showed severe inflammation, ulcerations and abundant necrosis. Histopathological features and serological testing were consistent with herpetic esophagitis. He had no history of recurrent infections or history of sick contacts. His immunological work up showed normal level of immunoglobulins and his White Blood Cells subpopulations were normal. His HSV serology was positive. The patient was started on acyclovir 5 mg/kg q 8 hours. He resolved his symptoms within 24 hours of treatment.

Co-existence of History of Mathematics and Modern Mathematics

  • Banihashemi, Saied Seyed Agha
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society of Mathematical Education Conference
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    • 2010.04a
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    • pp.261-267
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    • 2010
  • Both history of mathematics and education of mathematics is old subject. The question arises wether can these two important subjects can help each other or not. Unfortunately this idea made mathematics society into two groups; one has idea that history of mathematics can help education of mathematics and other group has idea that not only history of mathematics can not help education of mathematics but also it makes some confusion. In this article the author is going to do some comparison and take some conclusion that history of mathematics can make education of mathematics so active and interesting.

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