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Paternal Behaviors and Adolescents' Academic Motivation at Low, Moderate, and High Levels of Students' Achievement in Mainland China

  • Cho, Won Jee;Bush, Kevin R.;Xia, Yan;Wilson, Stephan M.;Li, Wenzhen;Peterson, Gary W.
    • Child Studies in Asia-Pacific Contexts
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.95-108
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study was to examine group differences in paternal behaviors (i.e., paternal connection, paternal punitiveness, and paternal knowledge) within and across three academic achievement levels-low, moderate, and high, and to explore the effects of paternal behaviors on the academic motivation of Chinese adolescents within these three achievement groups. Analyses of variance (ANOVAs) indicated that adolescents with low achievement perceived their fathers as more punitive than teens with moderate and high academic achievement. Regression analyses also revealed that paternal punitiveness (negative) and paternal knowledge (positive) were significant predictors of academic motivation for teens with low levels of academic achievement; while paternal punitiveness was a significant negative predictor of academic motivation among adolescents with moderate achievement. In contrast, for adolescents with high achievement, paternal connection was a positive significant predictor of academic motivation. The present findings provide some evidence that the impact of parental behaviors on teen's motivation varies across adolescent academic achievement levels, which may prove useful for professionals working with fathers to help target the most effective parenting behaviors to foster academic motivation.

An integrated system of nominative signatures and undeniable signatures (수신자 지정 서명방식과 부인 방지 서명방식의 통합 시스템)

  • 김승주;박성준;원동호
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.1266-1273
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    • 1996
  • The nice concept of undeniable signatures was presented by Chaum and van Antwerpen. Briefly, an undeniable signature is signature which cannot be verified withoug the help of the signer. They are therefore less personal than ordinary signatures in the sense that a signature cannot be related to the signer without his help. On the other hand, the signer can only repudiate an alleged signature by proving that it is incorrect. Boyar, Chaum, damgard and Pedersen introduce convertible undeniable signatures. In this schemes, release of a single bit string by the signer turns all of his signatures, which were originally undeniable signatures, into ordinary digital signatures. And, S.J.Kim, S.J.Park and D.H.Won propose a new kind of signature scheme, called "nominative signatures:, that is the dual scheme of undeniable signatures. nominative signatures acheieve theses objectives:Only nominee can verify the nominator(signer)' signature and if necessary, only nominee can prove to the third party that the signature is issued to him(her) and is valid. In this paper we present an efficient integrated system of nominative signatures and (convertible) undeniable signatures. i.e. we show how nominative signature scheme can be changed into a (convertible) undeniable signatures.ures.

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A Study on Reliability Improvement of a Fault Tolerant Digital Governor (내고장성 디지털 조속기의 신뢰성 향상에 관한 연구)

  • Sin, Myeong-Cheol;Jeon, Il-Yeong;Jo, Seong-Hun;Lee, Seong-Geun;Kim, Yun-Sik
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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    • v.51 no.5
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    • pp.175-181
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, fault tolerant digital governor is designed to realize ceaseless controlling and to improve the reliability of control system. Designed digital governor huts duplex I/O module and triplex CPU module and also 2 out of 3 voting algorithm and self diagnostic ability. The Processor module of the system(SIDG-3000) is developed based on 32 Bit industrial microprocessor, which guaranteed high quality of the module and SRAM for data also SRAM for command are separated. The process module also includes inter process communication function and power back up function (SRAM for back-up). System reliability is estimated by using the model of Markov process. It is shown that the reliability of triplex system in mission time can be dramatically improved compared with a single control system Designed digital governor system is applied after modelling of the steam turbine generator system of Buk-Cheju Thermal Power Plant. Simulation is carried out to prove the effectiveness of the designed digital governor system

Design of GA-LQ Controller in SVC for Power System Stability Improvement (전력시스템 안정도 향상을 위한 SVC용 GA-LQ 제어기 설계)

  • Hur, D.R.;Park, I.P.;Chung, M.K.;Chung, H.H.;Ahn, B.C.;Kim, H.J.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2002.07a
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    • pp.226-228
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    • 2002
  • This paper presents a new control approach for designing a coordinated controller for static VAR compensator system. A SVC constructed by a Fixed Capacitor and a Thyristor Controlled Reactor is designed and implemented to improve the damping of a synchronous generator, as well as controlling the system voltage. A design of linear quadratic controller based on optimal controller depends on choosing weighting matrices. A coordinated optimal controller is achieved by minimizing a quadratic performance index using dynamic programming techniques. The selection of weighting matrices is usually carried out by trial and error which is not a trivial problem. We proposed a efficient method using GA of finding weighting matrices for optimal control law. Thus, we prove the usefulness of proposed method to improve the stability of single machine-infinite bus with SVC system.

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Speech Quality Measure in a Mobile Communication System Using PLP Cepstral Distance with CMS (심리 음향 켑스트럼 평균 차감법을 이용한 이동 전화망에서의 음질 평가)

  • Yun, J.J.;Park, S.W.;Park, Y.C.;Youn, D.H.;Cha, I.H.
    • Speech Sciences
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    • v.6
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    • pp.163-179
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    • 1999
  • For the set up, management and repair of a mobile communication system, continuous estimation of speech quality is required. Speech quality measurement can be conducted by listener's judgement in a subjective test such as MOS (Mean Opinion Score) test. However, this method is laborious, expensive and time-consuming, it is advisable to predict subjective speech quality via objective measures. This paper presents a robust objective speech quality measure, PLP-CMS (Perceptual Linear Predictive-Cepstral Mean Subtraction), which can predict subjective speech quality in mobile communication systems. PLP-CMS has a high correlation with subjective quality owing to PLP (Perceptual Linear Predictive) analysis and shows a robust performance not being influenced by PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) channel effects due to CMS (Cepstral Mean Subtraction). To prove the performance of our proposed algorithm, we carried out subjective and objective quality estimation on speech samples which are variously distorted in a real mobile communication system. As a result, we demonstrated that PLP-CMS has a higher correlation with subjective quality than PSQM (Perceptual Speech Quality Measure) and PLP-CD (Perceptual Linear Predictive-Cepstral Distance).

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Molecular phylogeny of parasitic Platyhelminthes based on sequences of partial 28S rDNA D1 and mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I

  • Lee, Soo-Ung;Chun, Ha-Chung;Huh, Sun
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • v.45 no.3
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    • pp.181-190
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    • 2007
  • The phylogenie relationships existing among 14 parasitic Platyhelminthes in the Republic of Korea were investigated via the use of the partial 28S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) D1 region and the partial mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (mCOI) DNA sequences. The nucleotide sequences were analyzed by length, G + C %, nucleotide differences and gaps in order to determine the analyzed phylogenie relationships. The phylogenie patterns of the 28S rDNA D1 and mCOI regions were closely related within the same class and order as analyzed by the PAUP 4.0 program, with the exception of a few species. These findings indicate that the 28S rDNA gene sequence is more highly conserved than are the mCOI gene sequences. The 28S rDNA gene may prove useful in studies of the systematics and population genetic structures of parasitic Platyhelminthes.

Study on the Damping Performance Characteristics Analysis of Shock Absorber of Vehicle by Considering Fluid Force

  • Lee Choon-Tae;Moon Byung-Young
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.520-528
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    • 2005
  • In this study, a new mathematical dynamic model of displacement sensitive shock absorber (DSSA) is proposed to predict the dynamic characteristics of automotive shock absorber. The performance of shock absorber is directly related to the vehicle behaviors and performance, both for handling and ride comfort. The proposed model of the DSSA has two modes of damping force (i.e. soft and hard) according to the position of piston. In this paper, the performance of the DSSA is analyzed by considering the transient zone for more exact dynamic characteristics. For the mathematical modeling of DSSA, flow continuity equations at the compression and rebound chamber are formulated. And the flow equations at the compression and rebound stroke are formulated, respectively. Also, the flow analysis at the reservoir chamber is carried out. Accordingly, the damping force of the shock absorber is determined by the forces acting on the both side of piston. The analytic result of damping force characteristics are compared with the experimental results to prove the effectiveness. Especially, the effects of displacement sensitive orifice area and the effects of displacement sensitive orifice length on the damping force are observed, respectively. The results reported herein will provide a better understanding of the shock absorber.

Robust Servo Design and Application for Optical Disk Drive Using Robust Control Theory : H vs. QFT (광 디스크 드라이브 서보 설계를 위한 강건 제어 이론의 적용 및 평가 : H vs. QFT)

  • Lee, Kwang-Hyun;Yang, Hyunseok;Park, No-Cheol;Park, Young-Pil;Choi, Jin-Young
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.15 no.10 s.103
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    • pp.1148-1159
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, the various uncertainties generated in an optical disk drive (ODD) and the robust servo designs considering the uncertainties are studied. First, the brief introduction an ODD and the servo error tolerance of it are discussed. Then, the classifications of uncertainty and the concept of relative stability are introduced. Considering the uncertainty of an ODD, two robust control approaches are applied: (i) mixed sensitivity approach in H$\infty$ control theory for unstructured uncertainty, (ii) QFT for structured uncertainty Finally, the designed controllers are realized by DSP, and these controllers are applied to a commercial DVD-ROM drive. From these experiments, we prove that the designed robust controllers have more good disturbance rejection performance and robustness when it is compared to the conventional lead-lag controller.

Energy-Efficient Biometrics-Based Remote User Authentication for Mobile Multimedia IoT Application

  • Lee, Sungju;Sa, Jaewon;Cho, Hyeonjoong;Park, Daihee
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.11 no.12
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    • pp.6152-6168
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    • 2017
  • Recently, the biometric-based authentication systems such as FIDO (Fast Identity Online) are increased in mobile computing environments. The biometric-based authentication systems are performed on the mobile devices with the battery, the improving energy efficiency is important issue. In the case, the size of images (i.e., face, fingerprint, iris, and etc.) affects both recognition accuracy and energy consumption, and hence the tradeoff analysis between the both recognition accuracy and energy consumption is necessary. In this paper, we propose an energy-efficient way to authenticate based on biometric information with tradeoff analysis between the both recognition accuracy and energy consumption in multimedia IoT (Internet of Things) transmission environments. We select the facial information among biometric information, and especially consider the multicore-based mobile devices. Based on our experimental results, we prove that the proposed approach can enhance the energy efficiency of GABOR+LBP+GRAY VALUE, GABOR+LBP, GABOR, and LBP by factors of 6.8, 3.6, 3.6, and 2.4 over the baseline, respectively, while satisfying user's face recognition accuracy.

ASSVD: Adaptive Sparse Singular Value Decomposition for High Dimensional Matrices

  • Ding, Xiucai;Chen, Xianyi;Zou, Mengling;Zhang, Guangxing
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.2634-2648
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    • 2020
  • In this paper, an adaptive sparse singular value decomposition (ASSVD) algorithm is proposed to estimate the signal matrix when only one data matrix is observed and there is high dimensional white noise, in which we assume that the signal matrix is low-rank and has sparse singular vectors, i.e. it is a simultaneously low-rank and sparse matrix. It is a structured matrix since the non-zero entries are confined on some small blocks. The proposed algorithm estimates the singular values and vectors separable by exploring the structure of singular vectors, in which the recent developments in Random Matrix Theory known as anisotropic Marchenko-Pastur law are used. And then we prove that when the signal is strong in the sense that the signal to noise ratio is above some threshold, our estimator is consistent and outperforms over many state-of-the-art algorithms. Moreover, our estimator is adaptive to the data set and does not require the variance of the noise to be known or estimated. Numerical simulations indicate that ASSVD still works well when the signal matrix is not very sparse.