• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.183-191
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• 2019

Some patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) present with cognitive dysfunctions. The pathophysiology underlying this complication is not well understood. Type 1 DM has been associated with a decrease in the speed of information processing, psychomotor efficiency, attention, mental flexibility, and visual perception. Longitudinal epidemiological studies of type 1 DM have indicated that chronic hyperglycemia and microvascular disease, rather than repeated severe hypoglycemia, are associated with the pathogenesis of DM-related cognitive dysfunction. However, severe hypoglycemic episodes may contribute to cognitive dysfunction in high-risk patients with DM. Type 2 DM has been associated with memory deficits, decreased psychomotor speed, and reduced frontal lobe/executive function. In type 2 DM, chronic hyperglycemia, long duration of DM, presence of vascular risk factors (e.g., hypertension and obesity), and microvascular and macrovascular complications are associated with the increased risk of developing cognitive dysfunction. The pathophysiology of cognitive dysfunction in individuals with DM include the following: (1) role of hyperglycemia, (2) role of vascular disease, (3) role of hypoglycemia, and (4) role of insulin resistance and amyloid. Recently, some investigators have proposed that type 3 DM is correlated to sporadic Alzheimer's disease. The molecular and biochemical consequences of insulin and insulin-like growth factor resistance in the brain compromise neuronal survival, energy production, gene expression, plasticity, and white matter integrity. If patients claim that their performance is worsening or if they ask about the effects of DM on functioning, screening and assessment are recommended.

• 한국지역사회생활과학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.289-300
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• 2013

The aims of this study are to investigate the differences of the preschoolers' executive function and verbal ability according to their age, and to identify whether the preschoolers' executive function is related to their verbal ability. The participants in this study are 151 children, ages 3-and 5-years old from five child-care centers located in a middle-income region of Seoul. Statistical methods used for the data analysis are the frequencies, means, standard deviations, an independent t-test, and Pearson correlation. The major findings are as follows. First, an age difference is found for children's executive function. The 5-year-olds are more likely to succeed on tasks of executive function than the 3-year-olds. Also, age difference is found for children's verbal ability. The 5-year-olds perform better on tests of verbal ability than the 3-year-olds. Last, the 3-year-olds' and 5-year-olds' executive function is related to their verbal ability. Inhibition and cognitive flexibility are significantly correlated with verbal ability. These results suggest that preschoolers' executive function and verbal ability develop during preschool age. These results also suggest that preschoolers' executive function is related to their verbal ability.

• 아동학회지
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.69-89
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• 2012

This study was conducted in order to develop a Children's Playfulness Rating Scale(CPRS) and to analyze it in terms of item discrimination, validity, and reliability. The participants in this study consisted of 861 parents whose children were aged from three to six years old. The item discrimination, determined by comparing the highest and lowest group using ${\chi}^2$, Cramer's V, was found to be satisfactory. The reliability of factors, as measured by Cronbach's ${\alpha}$, ranged from .85 to .95. The results of factor analysis identified 4 factors and 35 items were then selected from the 45 items in the original scale. The four factors identified were as follows; (1) leading participation (2) cognitive flexibility (3) expression of joy (4) voluntary full immersion. Concurrent validity was also established by using correlations between the CPRS and CPS(Children's Playfulness Scale). In conclusion, these results demonstrated that the Children's Playfulness Rating Scale is both reliable and valid.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.158-167
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• 2010

The energy efficiency of wireless infrastructure and terminals has been drawing renewed attention of late, due to their significant environmental cost. Emerging green communication paradigms such as cognitive radios, are also imposing the additional requirement of flexibility. This dual requirement of energy efficiency and flexibility poses new design challenges for implementing radio functional blocks. This paper focuses on the area vs. power trade-offs for the type of channel filters that are required in the digital frontend of a flexible, energy-efficient radio. In traditional CMOS circuits, increased area was traded for reduced dynamic power consumption. With leakage power emerging as the dominant mode of power consumption in nanoscale CMOS, these trade-offs must be revisited due to the strong correlation between area and leakage power. The current work discusses how the increased timing slacks obtained by increasing the parallelism can be exploited for overall power reduction even in nanoscale circuits. In this context the paper introduces the notion of 'area efficiency' and a metric for evaluating it. The proposed metric has also been used to compare the area efficiencies of different classes of time-shared filters.

• 인지과학
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.213-224
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• 2005

유연성과 광범위성을 갖는 대규모 인지 시스템의 구축을 위해서는 전문적인 지식 뿐 아니라 상식수준의 지식에 기초한 추론을 제공하는 필수 불가결하다. 본 논문에서는 정성적 추론을 이용하여 일상에서의 다양한 자연 현상에 대한 상식 추론을 제공하는 인지시스템에 대하여 소개하고자 한다. 기존의 정성적 추론은 다양한 일상의 개념과는 동떨어진 추상적인 개념에 기초하여 추론을 전개하여, 상식 추론에 이용되기에는 어려움이 있었다 본 연구에서는 기존의 정성적 추론을 범용의 대용량 Cyc 지식베이스에 접목하여, 스케치와 일상의 개념에 기초한 상식 추론을 제공하고자 하였다. 본 시스템은 구현되어 여러 예제에 적용되어 그 실효성을 입증할 수 있었다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권8호
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• pp.760-767
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• 2011

The flexibility and evolvability are critical characteristics of modern manufacturing to adapt to changes from products and disturbances in the shop floor. The technologies inspired from biology and nature enable to equip the manufacturing systems with these characteristics. This paper proposes an ant colony inspired autonomous manufacturing system in which the resources on the shop floor are considered as the autonomous entities. Each entity overcomes the disturbance by itself or negotiates with the others. The swarm of cognitive agents with the ant-like pheromone based negotiation mechanism is proposed for controlling the shop floor. The functionality of the developed system is proven on the test bed.

• Journal of Medicine and Life Science
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.51-55
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• 2018

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a functional contextual intervention approach based on the behavioral theory on human language, which views human suffering as originating in psychological inflexibility fostered by cognitive fusion and experiential avoidance. Thus, the goal of ACT is to enhance psychological flexibility using six core processes including acceptance, cognitive defusion, self-as-context, contact with present moment, values clarification, and committed action. Recent clinical trials have suggested the efficacy for ACT in the treatment of various mental illness and psychological distress. The aim of this review is to offer more knowledge and better understanding of ACT by presenting its underlying principle and an overview of the research field.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제14권8호
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• pp.505-516
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• 2014

본 연구는 국제영재교육에서 창의사고필터링모형(Creative Thinking Filtering Model : CTFM)교육프로그램 적용이 창의성의 인지적 영역(유창성, 융통성, 독창성)과 정의적 영역(독자성, 호기심, 다양성, 민감성, 유모감각, 개별성)에 어떠한 영향을 미치는 지를 규명하는데 있다. 자료처리를 위한 통계방법으로 공분산분석 (Analysis of Covariance : ANCOVA)를 실시하였으며, 그 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, CTFM을 적용한 집단이 통제집단보다 인지적 영역과 정의적 영역이 높은 것으로 나타났다. 구체적으로 인지적 영역에서는 유창성, 융통성, 독창성 3요인 모두에서, 정의적 영역에서는 민감성을 제외한 독자성, 호기심, 개별성, 다양성, 민감성, 유모감각의 5요인에서 CTFM을 적용한 학생들이 높은 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, CTFM을 적용하기 전과 적용한 후에 인지적 영역의 창의성을 분석한 결과, 인지적 영역의 3요인인 유창성, 융통성, 독창성 모두 향상되었으며, 특히 유창성이 가장 많이 향상된 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, CTFM을 적용하기 전과 적용한 후에 정의적 영역의 창의성을 분석한 결과, 정의적 영역의 6요인 중 독자성, 다양성, 유모감각, 개별성의 4요인이 향상되었으며, 특히 독자성이 가장 많이 향상된 것으로 나타났다.

• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.28-32
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• 2009

Background: Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is characterized by severe neuropathic pain and disability, which can result in psychological and behavioral dysfunction. The goal of the present study was to evaluate neurocognitive disability, and to assess the relationship between clinical variables and neuropsychological features in CRPS patients. Methods: We investigated the neuropsychological features of 15 CRPS I patients. The neuropsychological tests that we made comprised of a full intelligence quotient, memory quotient, trail-making test A, trail-making test B (TMT-B), and MMPI (Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory). Results: The results showed severe disability in performance on TMT-B. There was no significant correlation between specific cognitive variables and MMPI scales. Conclusions: Decreased performance on TMT-B which shows mental flexibility in the prefrontal lobe exists independently from depressive disorders in CRPS patients.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.161-172
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• 2005

The present study investigation the effect of a project approach program on children's cognitive styles. It examined closely the characteristics and processes of the project approach program to determine its impact on children's individual cognitive styles such as divergent thinking, field independence, and reflection. The subjects were 384-year-old children. Eighteen children were assigned to the experimental group and twenty to the control group. Pretest-treatment-posttest design was adopted for this study. Collected data were analyzed with SPSS Win 10.0 and processed statistically using average, standard deviation, and ANCOVA. For the children's divergent thinking, the children with the project approach program showed significant difference in fluency and flexibility, but no difference in originality and elaboration, compared to the children in the control group. Children with the project approach program showed more field independence than those in the control group. Children with the project approach program showed no difference in reflection. These results showed that the project approach pro!3ram partly influenced the children's cognitive styles.