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The Efficiency of Intelligence Quotient Test at Prevention of Mental Retardation and Dementia (신경퇴화 및 지적장애 예방에 관한 고지능검사도구 이용의 실효성 연구)

  • Yeom, Seung-Min;Jeon, Sang-Hoon;Yi, Min-Kee;Kim, Da-Eun;Yang, Dae-Wook
    • The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.101-111
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    • 2013
  • To develop the Korean-Version-Improvement program for ordinary people, we investigate how Korean-High-Intelligent people use their cognitive function, intellectual capacity and Intelligent Quotient test. Using Mensa iq test, we classify intelligent examination tool into various components; visual, geometrical component and cognitive interpretation component. Also we organized each component, got database of intelligent subjects sample, classified itemized availability. Based on these things, we prove efficiency of intelligent examination tool. We found out that high intelligent people showed high Intelligent Index using visual cognitive stimulation with cognitive function when subjects were exposed to certain situation; solving the problem. This intelligent examination tool is low price and safe and easily carrying out with personal computer. If we develop intelligence quotient examination customized with mental retardation populations, a variety of subjects will improve their cognition with efficiency and inexpensively.

Cognitive Based Context Aware Reference History Management Tool

  • Punithan, Dharani;McKay, Bob
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.02a
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    • pp.227-231
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    • 2009
  • The aim of the research is to focus on the cognitive principles and to achieve human-level intelligence in referring context based browser history and the Windows history. One of the major problems faced by today's computer users is insufficient and single exclusive context based reference of the browser history and the Windows history. Today we search for the browser history and Windows history in different places even though the context is the same. For e.g., When working on a research paper or preparing a business presentation, a user may require to refer many web sites on the internet and various documents on the local computer. The browser can provide only time based history. The windows document history is also time based and limited to list only few documents. Hence, we propose a tool "Cognitive Based Context Aware Reference History Management Tool" which helps to access the exclusive reference of context and time based history in one place. The tool also proposes to store image history with urls and classifies images of a specific topic accessed in different time, bookmarks management and cross browser history management. These features are very useful as we can access all related documents (doc, docx, ppt, pptx, pdf, txt, and html), web pages, images and bookmarks in one place. The tool uses the cognitive principles like classification and association to achieve the purpose.

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How Do Oroxylin A and Spinosin Exert Their Activities on Cognitive Function?

  • Bae, Ho Jung;Park, Ho Jae;Kim, Dong Hyun;Ryu, Jong Hoon
    • Natural Product Sciences
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2020
  • Flavonoids are mainly contained in the vegetables and medicinal herbs. Until now, over 5,000 kinds of flavonoid have been identified and their biological activities have been reported. Among them, we are interested in oroxylin A and spinosin because of their specific structures having bulky group at C-6 of ring A. Oroxylin A is contained in the Scutellaria baicalensis and exhibits cognitive enhancing activity as a GABAA receptor antagonist, which is different from those of mainly contained in the S. baicalenis, baicalein or wogonin. Spinosin is isolated from Zizyphus jujuba var. spinosa and mainly studied as a hypnotic or anxiolytic agent because of traditional knowledge about its original herb. As far as we know, the cognitive function of spinosin was first identified by our group. In this review, we discuss how such flavonoids exert their pharmacological activities associated with cognitive function based on the receptor binding study and behavioral studies. Traditional knowledge and reverse pharmacology may be addressed in the research field of phytochemical pharmacology and useful to unveil the secret of phytochemicals.

Improving Performance of Remote TCP in Cognitive Radio Networks

  • Yang, Hyun;Cho, Sungrae;Park, Chang Yun
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.6 no.9
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    • pp.2323-2340
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    • 2012
  • Recent advances in cognitive radio technology have drawn immense attention to higher layer protocols above medium access control, such as transmission control protocol (TCP). Most proposals to improve the TCP performance in cognitive radio (CR) networks have assumed that either all nodes are in CR networks or the TCP sender side is in CR links. In those proposals, lower layer information such as the CR link status could be easily exploited to adjust the congestion window and improve throughput. In this paper, we consider a TCP network in which the TCP sender is located remotely over the Internet while the TCP receiver is connected by a CR link. This topology is more realistic than the earlier proposals, but the lower layer information cannot be exploited. Under this assumption, we propose an enhanced TCP protocol for CR networks called TCP for cognitive radio (TCP-CR) to improve the existing TCP by (1) detection of primary user (PU) interference by a remote sender without support from lower layers, (2) delayed congestion control (DCC) based on PU detection when the retransmission timeout (RTO) expires, and (3) exploitation of two separate scales of the congestion window adapted for PU activity. Performance evaluation demonstrated that the proposed TCP-CR achieves up to 255% improvement of the end-to-end throughput. Furthermore, we verified that the proposed TCP does not deteriorate the fairness of existing TCP flows and does not cause congestions.

The Development of Smart Applications for the Cognitive Enhancement of the Elderly (노인의 인지적 기능 향상을 위한 스마트 애플리케이션 개발 연구)

  • Lee, Donghun;Ko, Ho kyoung;Huh, Nan
    • Journal of Science Education
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    • v.43 no.3
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    • pp.382-399
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    • 2019
  • This study suggests how to use tablet PC application to improve the cognitive functions of the elderly. As a part of lifelong education, this study analyzes cases of developing and applying smart application programs to contribute to the enhancement of science education as an elderly education. For the research, we set the direction of the program and developed the programs 'Coloring,' 'Building lights,' 'Matching shapes,' and 'Pressing button' accordingly. As a result of applying the program to nine participants, each program has a positive effect on the improvement of cognitive function of the elderly. This shows the possibility of using smart applications as a cognitive function enhancement program for the elderly.

Ameliorating Effect of Taraxacum platycarpum Extract in the Scopolamine-induced Cholinergic Blockade Mouse Model (Scopolamine으로 유도된 콜린성 신경계 차단 동물모델에서 포공영(Taraxacum platycarpum) 추출물의 기억력 개선효과)

  • Kwon, Yubeen;Park, Ho Jae;Shin, Bum Young;Ryu, Jong Hoon
    • Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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    • v.48 no.2
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    • pp.119-124
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    • 2017
  • Taraxacum platycarpum H. Dahl. (Compositae) has been used as an anti-inflammatory or anti-cancer agent in the clinic. Although its antidepressant effect has been reported, however, its cognitive function is not investigated until yet. In the present study, we investigated whether the water extract of T. platycarpum (WETP) could improve cognitive function in cholinergic blockade-induced amnesia mouse model using the passive avoidance or Y-maze task. WETP (12.5, 25 or 50 mg/kg) significantly ameliorated the scopolamine-induced cognitive impairment both in the passive avoidance test and the Y-maze test. In addition, WETP significantly inhibited acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity measured by an ex vivo study using the mouse whole brain. These results suggest that WETP alleviates the cognitive dysfunction caused by the cholinergic blockade, in part, via AChE inhibition, and that it may be a useful for treating cognitive dysfunction.

Exploring the Epistemic Emotions of Elementary-School Students and the Cognitive Appraisal Factors Leading Their Emotions in the Process of Scientific Knowledge Exploration (과학적 지식 탐색 과정에서 초등학생들의 인식적 정서와 이를 이끄는 인지적 평가 요인 탐색)

  • Her, Min Ah;Oh, Phil Seok;Han, Moonhyun
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.38 no.4
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    • pp.496-509
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    • 2019
  • This study explores the types of epistemic emotions that elementary-school students experience in science classes and the cognitive appraisal factors that affect these emotions. Thirty-two fourth-grade students of an elementary school in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, participated in 20 science periods and wrote emotional diaries at the end of each class. In addition, the researcher conducted follow-up interviews to investigate the types of cognitive appraisal factors that caused the students to experience specific epistemic emotions that were recorded in their emotional diaries. The emotional diaries and interview data were analyzed using the constant comparative method of qualitative analysis. As a result, it was found that students experienced various positive and negative epistemic emotions. In addition, the cognitive appraisal factors experienced by the students were categorized into curriculum knowledge, experimental materials, experimental content, students, teachers, themselves, and integrated factors. We discussed that students' epistemic emotions are constructed cognitively and socially and that students inevitably experience negative epistemic emotions during science classes.

An Analysis of Structural Features, Contents, and Cognitive Levels of Questions of Korea and Secondary Textbooks in the Evolution Unit

  • Park, Sung-Il;Kang, Nam-Ha
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.28 no.7
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    • pp.697-712
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this study was to seek strengths and weaknesses from analyzing Korea and U.S. science textbooks in terms of general structural features, contents, cognitive levels of questions and the purpose of questions used in science textbooks. This provided insight into improvement of textbooks that can effectively assist teaching and learning. To investigate organization of unit in textbooks in-depth, the evolution unit was selected and scrutinized as one example. The results showed that the number of pages, activities, vocabulary words, and vocabulary lists are considerably different between Korean and the U.S. Commonly, U.S. textbooks were more laden with information and lacking in coherence than those of the Korean textbooks. The findings on the cognitive levels of questions showed that the majority of questions in both nations are concerned with knowledge. However, the difference between the two nations is great in the ratios of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation questions. Questions are concentrated in review section (45% of Korean and 60.6% of U.S.) in textbooks. It suggested that well-planned questions in a review section can provide the basic guidance for strength in a science classroom.

Effects of Silver-Care-Robot Program on Cognitive Function, Depression, and Activities of Daily Living for Institutionalized Elderly People (실버케어로봇 프로그램이 시설노인의 인지기능, 우울, 일상생활수행능력에 미치는 효과)

  • Oh, Jin-Hwan;Yi, Yeo-Jin;Shin, Chul-Jin;Park, Cheonshu;Kang, Sangseung;Kim, Jaehong;Kim, In-Sook
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.45 no.3
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    • pp.388-396
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    • 2015
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the effects on cognitive function, depression, and activities of daily living of Silver- Care-Robot Program for institutionalized elders. Methods: This study was a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. The participants were 42 institutionalized elders (17 in the experimental group and 25 in the control group). The Silver-Care-Robot Program was provided as an intervention which was conducted twice a week for 5 weeks. The Silver-Care-Robot Program is an integrated entertainment program to help the mental, emotional, and physical health of elderly people. Pre-test was conducted on the two groups, and, in order to examine the effects of intervention, a post-test was conducted after 5 weeks. Results: There were significant differences in cognitive function and ADL (activities of daily living) between two groups after the program. But the difference in depression in the institutionalized elders was not statistically significant between the two groups. Conclusion: The Silver-Care-Robot Program should be considered as a regular program for cognitive function and activities of daily living for institutionalized elders.

A Study on Cognitive Characteristics of Information Gifted Children (정보영재아들의 인지적 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Kapsu
    • Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.191-198
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    • 2013
  • There are many studies about cognitive and non-cognitive characteristics of gifted children in the areas of math and science until now. Also, there is a lot of research for about cognitive and non-cognitive characteristics of gifted children. But, it lacks a lot of research on the characteristics of gifted children for information science area. So, characteristics of gifted children in the areas of information science are defined as structured information recall ability, regularization ability, reasoning ability, efficiency ability, structured ability, generalization ability, and abstract ability. And real problems for each ability are proposed. To make the evaluation questions proposed in this study on the cognitive gifted characteristics when compared with student achievement and prove that there is a correlation. The results of this study can be utilized in the evaluation of information giftedness children and can be utilized in the development of gifted education programs.

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