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K-means based Clustering Method with a Fixed Number of Cluster Members

  • Yi, Faliu;Moon, Inkyu
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.17 no.10
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    • pp.1160-1170
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    • 2014
  • Clustering methods are very useful in many fields such as data mining, classification, and object recognition. Both the supervised and unsupervised grouping approaches can classify a series of sample data with a predefined or automatically assigned cluster number. However, there is no constraint on the number of elements for each cluster. Numbers of cluster members for each cluster obtained from clustering schemes are usually random. Thus, some clusters possess a large number of elements whereas others only have a few members. In some areas such as logistics management, a fixed number of members are preferred for each cluster or logistic center. Consequently, it is necessary to design a clustering method that can automatically adjust the number of group elements. In this paper, a k-means based clustering method with a fixed number of cluster members is proposed. In the proposed method, first, the data samples are clustered using the k-means algorithm. Then, the number of group elements is adjusted by employing a greedy strategy. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed clustering scheme can classify data samples efficiently for a fixed number of cluster members.

The Effect of Prosocial Story Telling and Disscussion on Children's Prosocial Behavior and Prosocial Reasoning (그림동화책 읽어주기와 토의가 유아의 친사회적 행동 및 추론에 미치는 영향)

  • Choi, Yun Jeong;Lee, Kee Sook
    • Korean Journal of Child Studies
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.275-291
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    • 1999
  • The effect of prosocial story telling and discussion on the development of children's helping and sharing behaviors and prosocial reasoning was studied. Subjects were 36 five-year-old kindergarten children assigned to control or experimental groups. The research design consisted of a pre-test and pre-observation, 6 week intervention, and post-test and post-observation. Data were collected by means of a video camera and analyzed by adjusted means and ANCOVA, using the SPSS/PC+. Both children's helping behavior and prosocial reasoning was higher in the group exposed to prosocial story telling with discussion as compared with the group with story telling only and the control group.

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A Study on a Standardized Scoring System of Selected Subjects for College Entrance Examination (대학입시에서의 선택과목 점수 표준화에 관한 연구)

  • 박성현;김춘원;박준오
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.124-132
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    • 2000
  • A selected subject and a standardized scoring system were newly enforced at college entrance examination from 1999. A selected subject system means each student can select one subject in addition to common subject in the field of mathematical research II and a standardized scoring system means we standardize the score of each field as mean 50 and standard deviation 10 in order to adjust the degree of difficulty between fields. In the field of mathematical research II, there may exist not only difference of the degree of difficulty but also that of general studying ability between groups of selected subjects. So when we standardize score, we have to consider them. So far a linear equating which is a parametric method and an equi-percentile equating which is a nonparametric method have been published, but both of them supposed that the general studying ability between groups was equal. So in this paper an adjusted linear and percentile equating method which seems to be adequate to our entrance examination is suggested and is investigated by computer simulation.

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Fuzzy-Neural Networks by Means of Division of Fuzzy Input Space with Multi-input Variables (다변수 퍼지 입력 공간 분할에 의한 퍼지-뉴럴 네트워크)

  • Park, Ho-Sung;Yoon, Ki-Chan;Oh, Sung-Kwun;Ahn, Tae-Chon
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1999.11c
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    • pp.824-826
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    • 1999
  • In this paper, we design an Fuzzy-Neural Networks(FNN) by means of divisions of fuzzy input space with multi-input variables. Fuzzy input space of Yamakawa's FNN is divided by each separated input variable, but that of the proposed FNN is divided by mutually combined input variables. The membership functions of the proposed FNN use both triangular and gaussian membership types. The parameters such as apexes of membership functions, learning rates, momentum coefficients, weighting value, and slope are adjusted using genetic algorithms. Also, an aggregate objective function(performance index) with weighting value is utilized to achieve a sound balance between approximation and generalization abilities of the model. To evaluate the performance of the proposed model, we use the data of sewage treatment process.

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Effect of Antenatal Education on Pregnant Women (임부들을 대상으로 한 산전교육의 효과)

  • Park, Choon-Hwa;Lee, Chae-Un
    • Women's Health Nursing
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.34-54
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    • 2002
  • This study was conducted to assess the knowledge and educational need of pregnant women relating to antepartum, delivery, puerperium period and to identify the variables which influenced their knowledge and educational need. The study subjects were 77 antepartum women who had antenatal educations and 106 antepartum women who did not have antenatal education. Number of total antepartum women were 183. Data were collected from women who visited for antenatal care at general hospitals and public health centers in Pusan and Kyungnam area using qestionnaires from Feb. 1. 1998 to Apr. 20. 1998. SAS/PC program was used for data analysis. ; Chi-square test, t-test, Pearson's Correlation Coefficient, ANOVA(Duncan procedure) and MANOVA. The results of this study were as follows: 1. Relating to the antepartum period between two groups, the knowledge about the number of antenatal care was low, relating to labor the knowledge about the time fix the fetal position and relating to postpartum, the knowledge about the change of blood pressure and body temperature was low. 2. The comparision means of knowledge were adjusted by social demographic characteristics related to knowledge. There were statistically significant differences in total mean score of knowledge about pregnancy, delivery and postpartum between two groups. In full marks 19, the mean scores of the educational group and non-educational group were 13.08 and 11.74 respectively (P=.000). In resultly, there are statistically significant differences between two groups. The effectiveness of antenatal education group was very high and showed its importance. 3. The comparision means of educational need were adjusted by social demographic characteristics related to educational need. The mean scores of educational need were statistically significantly different in pregnancy, delivery and puerperium period. 4. There were positive correlations between the knowledge and educational level, duration of marriage and total numbers of pregnancy. There were negative correlation between the educational need and age, educational level, duration of marriage and total number of pregnancy. The above results showed the effects of antenatal education.

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Analysis of Effectiveness of Traffic Safety Education on DWI(Driving While Intoxicated) Deterrence (교통안전교육의 음주운전억제 효과분석)

  • Jeong, Cheol-U;Jang, Myeong-Sun
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.21-29
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the deterrence effect of traffic safety education on DWI(Driving While Intoxicated) offenders which is proposed as a incentive policy measure. For the analysis, 3512 drivers whose licenses were suspended due to DWI offence within the jurisdiction of Seongnam city in 2003, and whose driving behavior were traced for 5 years are collected. MOEs used in the study are the number of repeated DWI offence and DWI abidance duration. The statistics of analysis of covariance are used to compare the deterrence effectiveness of traffic safety education by adjusted means between groups. The results show that compared to uneducated group, educated group reveals to make less number of repeated DWI offence with longer DWI abidance period The resulting statistic also shows that active participation in the discussion during the class is more effective than just giving lecture. The former way for education can further reduce the repeated DWI by 12% and increase DWI abidance duration by 5.7% than the latter.

Optimization of Fuzzy Set-Fuzzy Systems based on IG by Means of GAs with Successive Tuning Method

  • Park, Keon-Jun;Oh, Sung-Kwun;Kim, Hyun-Ki
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.101-107
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    • 2008
  • We introduce an optimization of fuzzy set-fuzzy systems based on IG (Information Granules). The proposed fuzzy model implements system structure and parameter identification by means of IG and GAs. The concept of information granulation was coped with to enhance the abilities of structural optimization of the fuzzy model. Granulation of information realized with C-Means clustering helps determine the initial parameters of the fuzzy model such as the initial apexes of the membership functions in the premise part and the initial values of polynomial functions in the consequence part of the fuzzy rules. The initial parameters are adjusted effectively with the help of the GAs and the standard least square method. To optimally identify the structure and the parameters of the fuzzy model we exploit GAs with successive tuning method to simultaneously search the structure and the parameters within one individual. We also consider the variant generation-based evolution to adjust the rate of identification of the structure and the parameters in successive tuning method. The proposed model is evaluated with the performance of the conventional fuzzy model.

Opera Clustering: K-means on librettos datasets

  • Jeong, Harim;Yoo, Joo Hun
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.45-52
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    • 2022
  • With the development of artificial intelligence analysis methods, especially machine learning, various fields are widely expanding their application ranges. However, in the case of classical music, there still remain some difficulties in applying machine learning techniques. Genre classification or music recommendation systems generated by deep learning algorithms are actively used in general music, but not in classical music. In this paper, we attempted to classify opera among classical music. To this end, an experiment was conducted to determine which criteria are most suitable among, composer, period of composition, and emotional atmosphere, which are the basic features of music. To generate emotional labels, we adopted zero-shot classification with four basic emotions, 'happiness', 'sadness', 'anger', and 'fear.' After embedding the opera libretto with the doc2vec processing model, the optimal number of clusters is computed based on the result of the elbow method. Decided four centroids are then adopted in k-means clustering to classify unsupervised libretto datasets. We were able to get optimized clustering based on the result of adjusted rand index scores. With these results, we compared them with notated variables of music. As a result, it was confirmed that the four clusterings calculated by machine after training were most similar to the grouping result by period. Additionally, we were able to verify that the emotional similarity between composer and period did not appear significantly. At the end of the study, by knowing the period is the right criteria, we hope that it makes easier for music listeners to find music that suits their tastes.

The Development and Effect-Evaluation of nutrition Education Program for Nutrition Support in Kindergarten (유치원 영양지원을 위한 영양교육 프로그램 개발과 효과 평가)

  • 강현주;김경미;김경자;류은순
    • Journal of Nutrition and Health
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.68-79
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    • 2000
  • This study was developed the nutrition education program for kindergarten children and was evaluated its educational effect by 'Non-equivalent control group design'. Nutrition education program was developed on the basis of the concept which consisted of nutrition, nutrients, food handling, life cycle and social$.$psychological needs. And it was developed on the basis of the theme which consisted of kind of foods, relation between food and body, importance of food, food and sanitation, food and environment, Korean traditional food and good table manners. Subjects consisted of 157 kindergarten children, with 48 in control group and 109 in treatment group. All the subjects completed a pretest and a posttest and the posttest means between control and treatment group were compared. The control group had a adjusted posttest mean score of nutrition knowledge of 50.64 and the treatment group had that of 75.19 and the difference was significant(p<0.001). The control group had a adjusted posttest mean score of food attitude of 65.49 and the treatment group had that of 85.40 and the difference was significant(p<0.001). (Korean J Nutrition 33(1) : 68-79, 2000)

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Precision in situ Measurement using Non-Contacting Capacitive Sensor with 4-Electrodes (비접촉식 4-전극형 전기용량 센서를 이용한 in situ 정밀측정)

  • Kim, Jae-Yeol;Lee, Lae-Duck;Park, Ki-Hyung;Ma, Sang-Dong;Yang, Dong-Jo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.33-38
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    • 2002
  • To establish the national standard of capacitance, four main electrodes of the cross capacitor which were evaluated to linearity and roundness less the $\pm 1 \mu m$ respectively have to be adjusted symmetrically in an inner cylinder. Four LM shafts with diameter of 5 mm were installed between main electrodes of the cross capacitor, and the electrodes were adjusted, as the first step, by means of the measured capacitance. In the second step, the symmetrical adjustment up to $\pm 1.2\mu m$ was performed by using a ball sensor, ball-type movable sensor, non-contacting capacitive sensor and upper guard sensor which were developed in this project.