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The Mediating Effect of Acceptance Action in the Relationship between Diabetes Distress and Self-stigma among Old Adults with Diabetes in South Korea

  • Kim, Hyesun;Seo, Kawoun
    • Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.446-455
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: This study investigated the mediating effects of acceptance action on the relationship between diabetes distress and self-stigma in older adults with diabetes. Methods: A descriptive research approach was adopted using 187 patients diagnosed with diabetes mellitus by an endocrinology doctor. The data were collected from 26 to 31 March, 2020 and were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient analysis, and hierarchical multiple regression. Results: The mean scores for diabetes distress, self-stigma, and acceptance action were 2.98±0.64, 2.54±0.74, and 4.16±0.35, respectively. Acceptance action partially mediated the relationship between diabetes distress and self-stigma (z=1.98, p=.024), with an explanatory power of 51.0%. Conclusion: To reduce diabetes self-stigma among old adults in diabetes distress situations, it is necessary to improve their acceptance action and develop step-by-step differentiated acceptance action enhancement programs through multidisciplinary collaborations.

Action Recognition Method in Sports Video Shear Based on Fish Swarm Algorithm

  • Jie Sun;Lin Lu
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.554-562
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    • 2023
  • This research offers a sports video action recognition approach based on the fish swarm algorithm in light of the low accuracy of existing sports video action recognition methods. A modified fish swarm algorithm is proposed to construct invariant features and decrease the dimension of features. Based on this algorithm, local features and global features can be classified. The experimental findings on the typical sports action data set demonstrate that the key details of sports action can be successfully retained by the dimensionality-reduced fusion invariant characteristics. According to this research, the average recognition time of the proposed method for walking, running, squatting, sitting, and bending is less than 326 seconds, and the average recognition rate is higher than 94%. This proves that this method can significantly improve the performance and efficiency of online sports video motion recognition.

Impact of Climate Action on Participants and Why Climate Action Education is Difficult in High Schools (기후 행동이 참여자에게 미치는 영향과 고등학교에서 기후 행동 교육이 어려운 이유)

  • Ki Rak Park
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.70-85
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    • 2024
  • The purpose of this study was to find out what impact climate action has on study participants and why climate action education is difficult in high schools. For this purpose, a basic qualitative research method was selected, and the study participants were five middle school students at the time of the activity. The results of this study are as follows. Due to the climate action in middle school, the participants' career path changed specifically and their climate literacy was cultivated. And climate action education in high schools was not enough. Environmental subjects that provide climate action education were difficult to open because they were not chosen by many students, and it was unrealistic to provide climate action education during creative experiential activities due to the burden of college entrance exams. The discussion points of this study are as follows. Climate action needs to be encouraged among middle school students because it helps shape career paths and cultivate climate literacy. Additionally, because sustainability is important in climate action, there is a need to establish specialized courses in climate action education in the curriculum of elementary, middle, and high schools so that climate literacy can be maintained consistently.

An Action Research to Improve Fundamental Nursing Practice Course: Designing College Courses Model (수업디자인 모형을 적용한 기본간호학실습 수업 개선의 실행연구)

  • Kim, Heeyoung;Kim, Yun-Hee
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Fundamentals of Nursing
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.169-179
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    • 2015
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to improve the quality of fundamental nursing practice course. Methods: Participants were 132 students who took the fundamental nursing practice course at D university in N city. The study included processes of planning, action, observation, and reflection. Quantitative data were analyzed using SPSS 20.0 program and qualitative data were evaluated through content analysis. Results: The 12-step designing college courses model by Fink was applied in the planning. In the acting stage, the course was conducted according to the instruction in designing the course, students wrote reflective journals and the professor gave feedback to the reflective journal and the class observation journal was used for lessons. In the observation stage, the course evaluation was surveyed and analyzed, evaluations were positive with 47.1% of students positively evaluating the teaching strategy. In the reflecting stage, outcomes in course improvement were reflected on and, the number of students at the lower level-of-achievement decreased. Conclusion: Action research was a useful research method that could capture the quality improvement process in college courses. Expression of effort and passion to improve quality of education through action research in various ways and to share quality improvement strategies for nursing education are important.

The division of action situation of collision avoidance in intelligent collision avoidance system

  • Zheng, Zhongyi;Wu, Zhaolin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.114-119
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    • 2001
  • Based on tole investigation on mariner’s behaviors in collision avoidance, actuality of collision avoidance at sea and the research on the uncertainty of collision avoidance behaviors adopted by two encounter vessels, and for the purpose to reduce the no-coordination action of collision avoidance between two encounter vessels, and on the base of different encounter situation in international convention for preventing collisions at sea, the concept of action situation between tee encounter vessels is proposed, and the directions for every encounter vessel to adopt course alteration to avoid collision are explained in different action situation. The mechanism of avoidance and reduction of no-coordination is established in intelligent collision avoidance system, and it is important id research on intelligent collision avoidance system.

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A Teacher-Initiated Action Research in a Middle School

  • Chang, Kyung-Suk;Song, Young-Ja
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.1-19
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    • 2001
  • The current status of in-service teacher development shows that teachers' awareness can be enhanced through critical reflection. This study shows how an English teacher improved her own teaching situation through action research. It reports back the action research the teacher-researcher carried out in the EFL classroom setting. Aiming to improve the pupils' English speaking ability, the teacher introduced 'Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT)' to the English class. The teacher and the pupils took part in the evaluation process of learning and teaching. It was found that the new approach to teaching speaking helped the pupils improve speaking ability and take an active role in learning process. It is further suggested that teacher-initiated action research can be done in collaboration with colleagues, administrators and researchers.

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Student Perceptions of Peer Assessment in an Action Research Context

  • Shin, Myeong-Kyeong;Yager, Robert-E.;Oh, Phil-Seok
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.129-141
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    • 2004
  • A peer assessment method was implemented as part of an action research project where the primary goal was to create constructivist science classrooms. Student reflective writings, which had been created in the process of action research, were analyzed to examine the perceptions of the students concerning the peer assessment method employed in their earth science classrooms. Five perception categories and thirteen statements were developed from the student writings. These indicated that the students appreciated the positive nature of peer assessment and the effects of it as an alternative method for promoting learning. It was also revealed, however, that some students displayed inappropriate behaviors toward peer assessment which led to negative perceptions of the new assessment method. Implications for future use of peer assessment in science classrooms are discussed. Limitations founded in the present study as well as possible solutions are provided.

An Exploratory Approach to Textile Designer's Cognition Model -focused on the Stage of Motif Development- (텍스타일 디자이너의 인지 모형에 대한 탐색적 접근 -모티브 개발 단계를 중심으로-)

  • 송승근;이주현
    • Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.55-62
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    • 2003
  • This study was an exploratory approach to the cognitive model of textile designers on the stage of motif development in textile design process. Prior to the main research, several previous studies adopting methods of video/audio protocol analysis were reviewed. On the basis of the review, the categories of design action were derived as an analysis frame by application of top-down access method, meanwhile the sub-groups of each category of design action were identified through a bottom-up access method. To summarize the research result, total three categories of textile design action appeared based on the theory of ‘Human processor’ model : ‘motor action’, ‘perceptual action’ and 'cognitive action'. In next, a new coding scheme suitably explaining these three categories of fertile design action was developed. Finally, a cognitive model of textile designer on the stage of motif development, employing the new coding scheme, was suggested in this study.

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Pharmacological Mechanism of Action of GS283 and GS386 on Human Platelet and Pig Coronary Artery (관상동맥이완과 혈소판응집에 대한 GS283과 GS386의 약리작용기전에 관한 연구)

  • CHANG, Ki Churl;LEE, Hoi Young;LEE, Goun Woo;KOO, Eui Bon;KANG, Young Jin;LEE, Young Soo
    • Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.239-245
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    • 1997
  • Trimetoquinol (TMQ) and its analogs are known to have thromboxane $A_2$ antagonistic action. We also reported that GS389, chemically similar to TMQ, has competitive antagonistic action in rat aorta and human platelets. In the present study, we investigated the pharmacological characteristics of GS283 and GS 386, analogs of GS389, using vascular smooth muscle, human platelets and rat brain homogenates. In isolated pig coronary artery (PCA), both of GS283 and GS386 relaxed U46619-contracted rings in concentration dependent manner. Pretreatment with several concentrations of GS283 and GS386 shifted the dose-response curves to the right, and reduced of maximum contration dose-dependently. Furthermore, GS283 and GS386 strongly inhibited $Ca^{2+}$ -induced contraction in the PCA. In human platelets, U46619- and A23187-induced platelet aggregation was inhibited by GS283 and GS386, concentration-dependently. Anti-platelet aggregation was related to the compound\`s ability to inhibit ATP release at each stimulation. In rat brain homogenates, receptor-binding assay resulted that both GS283 and GS386 have a relative affinity to $\alpha$-adrenergic receptor. Taken together. we concluded that the mechamism of action of GS283 and GS86 is not related with in TXA$_2$ receptor but concerned with calcium antagonistic action and a-blocking action.n.

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