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Analysis of Education Materials on Sexuality (초·중·고등학교 성교육 교재 분석에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Mi-Ju
    • Journal of the Korean Society of School Health
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.137-156
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    • 1997
  • Most education materials on sexuality developed in the past 10 years have not been thoroughly evaluated. This study provides results from a content analysis of 5 education materials for primary, middle and high school student. The results of this study were as follows: The Analysis Framework was developed to measure content in the education materials. It was organized into six domains. They are "Human Development", "Relationship", "Personal Skills", "Sexual Behavior", "Sexual Health", "Society and Culture". Each was associated topics and age appropriate developmental guides. The standard for analysis was the developmental guide suggested by the analysis framework. Each education material was assessed for developemtal guidance and its appropriateness for primary, middle and high school students. The total number of "being" responses to each developmental guidance equaled the score the material earned. These scores then were judged as to how well each education materials was comprehensive. 3 of 5 education materials were addressed as less than half the developmental guidline. Certain education materials were less comprehensive than others. I want to know 'Sexuality' covered the fewest developmental guidliness (34.6%). Interstingly, certain domains received much more coverage across all education materials than others. Most education materials provided instruction concerning "Human Development" (62.6%), "Sexual Health" (61.0%). However, topics such as "Personal Skills" (16.2%), "Relationship" (44.1%), "Sexual Behavior" (46.8%), "Society and Culture" (48.6%) were rarely addressed. Three topic, "negotiation", "sexual fantasy", "sexual dysfunction", were never addressed by most of the materials. Because several of the education material contained gender and sexual orientation biases. Certain topics such as "sexual identity and orientation" and "Gender role" were not adequately addressed by most of the material. Unfortunately, the overall findings of this study revealed that most of the education materials were considered insufficient for students. Because this study focused on whether or not the education materials addressed the developmental guidlines, further research is recommended to evaluate and addressed each developmental guidline.

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GPS water vapor estimation modeling with high accuracy by consideration of seasonal characteristics on Korea (한국의 계절별 특성을 고려한 고정확도 GPS 수증기 추정 모델링)

  • Song, Dong-Seob
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.27 no.5
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    • pp.565-574
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    • 2009
  • The water vapor weighted vertically mean temperature(Tm) models, which were developed by the consideration of seasonal characteristics over the Korea, was used in the retrieval of precipitable water vapor (PWV) from GPS data which were observed at four GPS permanent stations. Since the weighted mean temperature relates to the water vapor pressure and temperature profile at a site, the accuracy of water vapor information which were estimated from GPS tropospheric wet delay is proportional to the accuracy of the weighted mean temperature. The adaption of Korean seasonal weighted mean temperature model, as an alternative to other formulae which are suggested from other nation, provides an improvement in the accuracy of the GPS PWV estimation. Therefore, it can be concluded that the seasonally appropriate weighted mean temperature model, which is used to convert actual zenith wet delay (ZWD) to the PWV, can be more reduced the relative biases of PWV estimated from GPS signal delays in the troposphere than other annual model, so that it would be useful for GPS PWV estimation with high accuracy.

A High-Resolution Agro-Climatic Dataset for Assessment of Climate Change over South Korea (남한지역 기후변화량 평가를 위한 고해상도 농업기후 자료)

  • Hur, Jina;Park, Joo Hyeon;Shim, Kyo Moon;Kim, Yong Seok;Jo, Sera
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.128-134
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    • 2020
  • The daily gridded meteorological information and climatology with high resolution (30m and 270m) was produced from 94 Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) of Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) for the past 50 years (1971-current) by different downscaling methods. In addition, the difference between daily meteorological data and the mean state of past 30 years (1981-2010) was calculated for the analysis of climate change. These datasets with GeoTiff format are available from the web interface (https://agecoclim. agmet.kr). The performance of the data is evaluated using 172 Automatic Weather S tation (AWS ) of Rural Development of Administration (RDA). The data have biases lower than 2.0, and root mean square errors (RMSE) lower than 3.8. This data may help to better understand the regional climatic change and its impact on agroecosystem in S outh Korea.

Calibration Update for the Measuring Total Nitrogen Content in Rice Plant Tissue Using the Near Infrared Spectroscopy

  • Kwon, Young-Rip;Song, Young-Eun;Choi, Dong-Chil;Ryu, Jeong
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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    • v.54 no.1
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    • pp.29-35
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    • 2009
  • The aim of the present study was to update the calibration that is used for the measurement of the total nitrogen content in the rice plant samples by using the visible and near infrared spectrum. Before the equation merge, correlation coefficient of calibration equation for nitrogen content on each rice parts was 0.945 (Leaf), 0.928 (Stem), and 0.864 (Whole plant), respectively. In the calibration models created by each part in the rice plant under the various regression method, the calibration model for the leaf was recorded with relatively high accuracy. Among of those, the calibration equation developed by Partial least squares (PLS) method was more accurate than the Multiple linear regression (MLR) method. The calibration equation was sensitive based on variety and location variations. However, we have merged and enlarged various of the samples that made not only to measure the nitrogen content more accurately, but also later sampling populations became more diversified. After merging, $R^2$ value becomes more accurate and significantly to 0.950 (L.), 0.974 (S.), 0.940 (W.). Also, after removal of outlier, R2 values increased into 0.998, 0.995, and 0.997. In view of the results so far achieved, Standard error of prediction (SEP) and SEP (C) were reduced in the stem and whole plant. Biases were reduced in the leaf, stem as well as whole plant. Slopes were high in the stem. Standard deviation reduced in the stem but $R^2$ was high in the stem and whole plant. Result was indicated that calibration equation make update, and updating robust calibration equation from merge function and multi-variate calibration.

Improving Estimation Accuracy of Satellite Clock Error for GPS Satellite Clock Anomaly Detection (GPS 위성 시계 이상 검출을 위한 위성 시계 오차 추정 정확도 향상)

  • Heo, Youn-Jeong;Cho, Jeong-Ho;Heo, Moon-Beom
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.39 no.3
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    • pp.225-231
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    • 2011
  • The satellite clock anomalies, one of the abnormal signal factors of the GPS satellites, can have a significant impact on the GPS measurements. However, it can be difficult to detect the anomalies of the satellites clock before the range of the satellites clock error becomes bigger than the range of the other factors, due to the measurement including error of the orbit, ionosphere delay, troposphere delay, multipath and receiver clock. In order to perform quick and accurate detection by minimization of critical range in anomalies of the satellites clock, this paper suggested a solution to detect precise anomalies of the satellites clock after application of carrier smoothing filter from measurement by dual-frequency and adjustment of errors which can be occurred by other factor and the receiver clock errors. The performance of the proposed method was confirmed by comparing to the satellite clock biases which are provided by IGS.

Performance Evaluation of the High-Resolution WRF Meteorological Simulation over the Seoul Metropolitan Area (WRF 모형의 수도권 지역 상세 국지 기상장 모의 성능 평가)

  • Oh, Jun-Seo;Lee, Jae-Hyeong;Woo, Ju-Wan;Lee, Doo-Il;Lee, Sang-Hyun;Seo, Jihyun;Moon, Nankyoung
    • Atmosphere
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.257-276
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    • 2020
  • Faithful evaluation of the meteorological input is a prerequisite for a better understanding of air quality model performance. Despite the importance, the preliminary meteorological assessment has rarely been concerned. In this study, we aim to evaluate the performance of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model conducting a year-long high-resolution meteorological simulation in 2016 over the Seoul metropolitan area. The WRF model was configured based on a series of sensitivity simulations of initial/boundary meteorological conditions, land use mapping data, reanalysis grid nudging method, domain nesting method, and urban canopy model. The simulated results of winds, air temperature, and specific humidity in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) were evaluated following statistical evaluation guidance using the surface and upper meteorological measurements. The statistical evaluation results are presented. The model performance was interpreted acceptable for air quality modeling within the statistical criteria of complex conditions, showing consistent overestimation in wind speeds. Further statistical analysis showed that the meteorological model biases were highly systematic with systematic bias fractions (fSB) of 20~50%. This study suggests that both the momentum exchange process of the surface layer and the ABL entrainment process should be investigated for further improvement of the model performance.

Advanced Region Slopes Method to Reduce Code Tracking Bias in Future Global Navigation Satellite Systems (부호동기 추적편이 보상을 위한 이른영역기울기 기법)

  • Yoo, Seung-Soo;Lee, Young-Yoon;Kim, Yeong-Moon;Kim, Sun-Yong
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.34 no.10C
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    • pp.1016-1023
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, a tracking bias compensation method is proposed for future global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs). It is observed that the correlation function of a GNSS signal has many peaks and remains almost unchanged in the advanced offset region as a result of the multipath signals arriving at the receiver later than a line-of-sight signal. Based on these observations, we use the slopes in the advanced offset region to compensate for the code tracking bias, and obtain the maximum code tracking bias, which is essential to implement the proposed scheme, in static multipath environments. Finally, it is demonstrated that the proposed compensation method is very effective for the GNSS signal tracking in terms of the code tracking biases and their running averages.

Speaker Adaptation for Voice Dialing (음성 다이얼링을 위한 화자적응)

  • ;Chin-Hui Lee
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.455-461
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    • 2002
  • This paper presents a method that improves the performance of the personal voice dialling system in which speaker independent phoneme HMM's are used. Since the speaker independent phoneme HMM based voice dialing system uses only the phone transcription of the input sentence, the storage space could be reduced greatly. However, the performance of the system is worse than that of the system which uses the speaker dependent models due to the phone recognition errors generated when the speaker independent models are used. In order to solve this problem, a new method that jointly estimates transformation vectors for the speaker adaptation and transcriptions from training utterances is presented. The biases and transcriptions are estimated iteratively from the training data of each user with maximum likelihood approach to the stochastic matching using speaker-independent phone models. Experimental result shows that the proposed method is superior to the conventional method which used transcriptions only.

How do Verbal Information and Cognitive Load adjust the Anchoring Effect? (언어정보와 인지부하는 기준점설정효과를 어떻게 조정하는가?)

  • Lee, Hyun-Kyung;Kim, Gwi-Gon
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.10 no.11
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    • pp.323-329
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    • 2012
  • This study examines the anchoring effect and the adjustment process of two variables(verbal information, cognition load) with snack products. In the results of this study, 1) we found the anchoring effect because the respondents predicted more the number of real units(goraebap) on the packaging painted 25 units than 5 ones. 2) We confirmed the moderating effect of verbal information. The difference of the number of real units predicted between the two packaging was decreased when the visual information was in company with verbal information. And 3) the moderating effect of cognitive load appeared because the more cognitive load was, the less the difference of the number of real units predicted was. This study has shown that we can reduce the errors and biases by adjusting the information frame or the cognitive load. This research provides a theoretical-practical implications to the marketing staffs like packaging designers as well as scholars to study consumer psychology.

National trends in radiation dose escalation for glioblastoma

  • Wegner, Rodney E.;Abel, Stephen;Horne, Zachary D.;Hasan, Shaakir;Verma, Vivek;Ranjan, Tulika;Williamson, Richard W.;Karlovits, Stephen M.
    • Radiation Oncology Journal
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.13-21
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    • 2019
  • Purpose: Glioblastoma (GBM) carries a high propensity for in-field failure despite trimodality management. Past studies have failed to show outcome improvements with dose-escalation. Herein, we examined trends and outcomes associated with dose-escalation for GBM. Materials and Methods: The National Cancer Database was queried for GBM patients who underwent surgical resection and external-beam radiation with chemotherapy. Patients were excluded if doses were less than 59.4 Gy; dose-escalation referred to doses ≥66 Gy. Odds ratios identified predictors of dose-escalation. Univariable and multivariable Cox regressions determined potential predictors of overall survival (OS). Propensity-adjusted multivariable analysis better accounted for indication biases. Results: Of 33,991 patients, 1,223 patients received dose-escalation. Median dose in the escalation group was 70 Gy (range, 66 to 89.4 Gy). The use of dose-escalation decreased from 8% in 2004 to 2% in 2014. Predictors of escalated dose were African American race, lower comorbidity score, treatment at community centers, decreased income, and more remote treatment year. Median OS was 16.2 months and 15.8 months for the standard and dose-escalated cohorts, respectively (p = 0.35). On multivariable analysis, age >60 years, higher comorbidity score, treatment at community centers, decreased education, lower income, government insurance, Caucasian race, male gender, and more remote year of treatment predicted for worse OS. On propensity-adjusted multivariable analysis, age >60 years, distance from center >12 miles, decreased education, government insurance, and male gender predicted for worse outcome. Conclusion: Dose-escalated radiotherapy for GBM has decreased over time across the United States, in concordance with guidelines and the available evidence. Similarly, this large study did not discern survival improvements with dose-escalation.