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Students' Knowledge, Acceptance of Theory of Evolution and Epistemology: Cross-sectional Study of Grade Level Differences

  • Kim, Sun Young
    • 과학교육연구지
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    • 제40권1호
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    • pp.1-16
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study is to explore the variables of knowledge, acceptance of theory of evolution and epistemology that could be keys for teaching and learning the theory of evolution within school contexts, and to suggest instructional tips for teaching evolution in relation to the grade levels of education. This cross-sectional study examined the grade level differences (8th, 11th, and preservice teachers) of four variables: evolutionary knowledge; acceptance of theory of evolution; and both domain-specific epistemology (nature of science in relation to evolution) and context-specific epistemology (scientific epistemological views) and their relationships. This study, then, built conceptual models of each grade level students' acceptance of theory of evolution among the factors of evolutionary knowledge and epistemology (both domain-specific and context-specific). The results showed that the scores of evolutionary knowledge, evolution in relation to NOS, and scientific epistemology increased as the grade levels of education go up(p<.05) except the scores of acceptance of theory of evolution(p>.05). In addition, the 8th graders' and the 11th graders' acceptance of evolutionary theory was most explained by 'evolution in relation to NOS', while the preservice teachers' acceptance of evolutionary theory was most explained by evolutionary knowledge. Interestingly, 'scientific epistemological views' were only included for the 8th graders, while evolutionary knowledge and 'evolution in relation to NOS' (context-specific epistemology) were included in explaining all the level of students' acceptance of evolutionary theory. This study implicated that when teaching and learning of the theory of evolution in school contexts, knowledge, acceptance of evolutionary theory and epistemology could be considered appropriately for the different grade levels of students.

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The Limit of Gene-Culture Co-evolutionary Theory

  • Lee, Min-seop;Jang, Dayk
    • 인지과학
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    • 제28권3호
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    • pp.173-191
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    • 2017
  • The theories of cultural evolution hold subtly or clearly different stances about definition of culture, pattern of cultural evolution, biases that affect cultural evolution, and relationship between culture and organism. However, the cultural evolution theories have a common problem to solve: As the evolutionary theory of life tries to explain the early steps and the origin of life, the cultural evolution theories also must explain the early steps of the cultural evolution and the role of the human capability that makes cultural evolution possible. Therefore, explanations of the human's unique traits including the cultural ability are related to determine which one is the most plausible among many cultural evolution theories. Theories that tried to explain human uniqueness commonly depict the coevolution of gene (organism) and culture. We will explicitly call the niche construction theory and the dual inheritance theory the 'gene-culture co-evolutionary theory'. In these theories, the most important concept is the 'concept of positive feedback'. In this paper, we distinguish between core positive feedback and marginal positive feedback, according to whether the trait that the concept of positive feedback explains is the trait of human uniqueness. Both types of positive feedback effectively explain the generality of human uniqueness and the diversity of human traits driven by cultural groups. However, this positive feedback requires an end, in contrast to negative feedback which can be continued in order to maintain homeostasis. We argue that the co-evolutionary process in the gene-culture co-evolutionary theories include only the positive feedback, not covering the cultural evolution after the positive feedback. This thesis strives to define the coevolution concept more comprehensively by suggesting the potential relationships between gene and culture after the positive feedback.

Cytological Evolution in the Genus Lycoris (Amarylidaceae)

  • Tae, Kyoung-Hwan;Ko, Sung-Chul
    • Journal of Plant Biology
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    • 제39권3호
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    • pp.209-214
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    • 1996
  • Cytological characters of ten taxa of the genus Lycoris were investigated to illustrate their chromosomal evolution. The fusion theory was more appropriate than the fission theory. From the viewpoint of the fusion theory L. sanguinea group, diploids with R-shaped chromosomes was the most primitive and they might have diverged into two directions, the diploids with V+R shaped chromosomes and the triped with V+R shaped chromosomes via triploids with only R-shaped chromosomes.

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혼돈이론을 이용한 일적산 일사량의 예측 (Prediction of Daily Solar Irradiation Based on Chaos Theory)

  • 조성인;배영민;윤진일;박은우;황헌
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • 제25권2호
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    • pp.123-130
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    • 2000
  • A forcasting scheme for daily solar irradiance on agricultural field sis proposed by application of chaos theory to a long term observation data. It was conducted by reconstruction of phase space, attractor analysis, and Lyapunov analysis. Using the methodology , it was determined whether evolution of the five climatic data such as daily air temperature , water temperature , relative humidity, solar radiation, and wind speed are chaotic or not. The climatic data were collected for three years by an automated weather station at Hwasung-gun, Kyonggi-province. The results showed that the evolution of solar radiation was chaotic , and could be predicted. The prediction of the evolution of the solar radiation data was executed by using ' local optimal linear reconstruction ' algorithm . The RMS value of the predicting for the solar radiation evolution was 4.32 MJ/$m^2$ day. Therefore, it was feasible to predict the daily solar radiation based on the chaos theory.

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EXISTENCE OF SOLUTIONS FOR DOUBLE PERTURBED IMPULSIVE NEUTRAL FUNCTIONAL EVOLUTION EQUATIONS

  • Vijayakumar, V.;Sivasankaran, S.;Arjunan, M. Mallika
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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    • 제15권4호
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    • pp.253-265
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, we study the existence of mild solutions for double perturbed impulsive neutral functional evolution equations with infinite delay in Banach spaces. The existence of mild solutions to such equations is obtained by using the theory of the Hausdorff measure of noncompactness and Darbo fixed point theorem, without the compactness assumption on associated evolution system. An example is provided to illustrate the theory.

CIRCULAR SPECTRUM AND ASYMPTOTIC PERIODIC SOLUTIONS TO A CLASS OF NON-DENSELY DEFINED EVOLUTION EQUATIONS

  • Le Anh Minh;Nguyen Ngoc Vien
    • 대한수학회논문집
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    • 제38권4호
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    • pp.1153-1162
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    • 2023
  • In this paper, for the bounded solution of the non-densely defined non-autonomous evolution equation, we present the condition for asymptotic periodicity by using the circular spectral theory of functions on the half line and the extrapolation theory of non-densely defined evolution equation.

고등학교 생물 교과서에서의 진화내용분석 (Analysis of Evolutionary Content in High School Biology Textbook)

  • 김학현;장남기
    • 한국과학교육학회지
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    • 제23권5호
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    • pp.470-483
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    • 2003
  • 1차에서 6차에 이르기까지 13종의 교과서의 진화내용을 분석하였다. 9가지 성분으로 구분된 교과서의 내용분석은 80가지 진화내용 항목에 대해 이루어졌다. 분석결과 교과서에서 진화내용의 총량은 증가하였으나 총 진화내용 중 본논문내용이 차지하는 비중은 1차에서 6차 교육과정에 따라 개발된 교과서로 가며 점차 감소하였고 진화내용의 비중은 생물교육과정과 교과서 저자의 시각에 의해서도 영향을 받았다. 대체로 분석된 교과서에서 다루어진 진화주제는 다양성면에서 부족하였다. 어떤 주제 항목은- '집단선택', '유전자 선택', '화석 기록에서의 공백', '공진화', 단속 평형설', '혼합진화', '인류진화에 있어서의 노동의 위치', 인종의 차이', ''개체발생의 계통발생을 반복한다'에 대한 비판', '진화에 영향을 미치는 인간의 활동'-다루어지지 않았고 또 어떤 항목은-'중립설', '지질시대에서 발견되는 주요사건에 관한 설(멸종에 관한 내용 제외)', '동소적 종분화', '연속변이적 종분화 및 지역효과 종분화', '배수성과 진화', '점진주의', '연장류의 기원과 진화'-거의 언급되지 않았다. 가장 강조된 주제 항목은 '일반적인 계통학', '세포전 단계의 형성', '기타' 순으로 많이 강조되었다. 자연선택설은 진화의 중요 주제임에도 불구하고 여러진화설중의 하나로 다루어졌다. 또한 유전적 평형을 붕괴시키는 요인으로서 유전적 부동이나 이주 등도 소홀히 다루어지고 있었고 종분화의 속도와 관련된 주제도 거의 언급되지 않았다. 반면 신뢰성이 의심되는 발생반복설이 진화 증거의 하나로 교과서에서 제시되었다. 이 결과에 근거해 교과서 저자들이 진화와 진화설을 설명할 때 자연 선택설에 초점을 맞추어 보다 의미 있는 주제를 소개할 것을 제안한다.

HELMHOLTZ DECOMPOSITION AND SEMIGROUP THEORY TO THE FLUID AROUND A MOVING BODY

  • Bae, Hyeong-Ohk
    • 대한수학회보
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    • 제57권3호
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    • pp.661-676
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    • 2020
  • To understand the interaction of a fluid and a rigid body, we use the concept of B-evolution. Then in a similar way to the usual Navier-Stokes system, we obtain a Helmholtz type decomposition. Using B-evolution theory and the decomposition, we work on the semigroup to analyze the linear part of the system.

CONTROLLABILITY OF IMPULSIVE FRACTIONAL EVOLUTION INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS IN BANACH SPACES

  • Arjunan, M. Mallika;Kavitha, V.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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    • 제15권3호
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    • pp.177-190
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    • 2011
  • According to fractional calculus theory and Banach's fixed point theorem, we establish the sufficient conditions for the controllability of impulsive fractional evolution integrodifferential equations in Banach spaces. An example is provided to illustrate the theory.

EVOLUTION OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI BASED ON THE UNIFIED THEORY

  • Park, Seok-Jae;Vsihniac, Ethan T.
    • 천문학논총
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    • 제8권1호
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    • pp.179-183
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    • 1993
  • We analyze the evolution of active galactic nuclei for the decreasing accretion rate case. Our analysis is based on the unified theory of active galactic nuclei which entirely depends on the accretion rates of the central supermassive black holes. Our discussion leads us to conclude that active galactic nuclei may evolve from QSOs into the nuclei of Seyfert or radio galaxies.

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