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Re-engineering Adult Education Programme-an Online Learning Curricular Perspective

  • Mathai, K.J.;Karaulia, D.S.
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.685-697
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    • 2003
  • The Web based multimedia programmes/courses are becoming widely available in recent years. Most of these courses focus on Behaviorist way of learning, which does not promote deep learning in any way. For Adults this approach further incapacitated, as it does not satisfy Andragogical needs. The search for Constructivist way of learning through the web applied to Indian conditions led to need for developing a curriculum development approach that would promote construction of knowledge through web based collaboration. This paper attempts to reengineer existing curriculum development processes and lays out a framework of‘Problem Based Online Learning (PBOL)’curriculum design. In this context, entire curriculum development life cycle is evolved and explained. This is a part of doctoral work (Ph.D), which is in progress and being undertaken by K.James Mathai, and guided of Dr.D.S.Karaulia.

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Collaborative filtering by graph convolution network in location-based recommendation system

  • Tin T. Tran;Vaclav Snasel;Thuan Q. Nguyen
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.18 no.7
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    • pp.1868-1887
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    • 2024
  • Recommendation systems research is a subfield of information retrieval, as these systems recommend appropriate items to users during their visits. Appropriate recommendation results will help users save time searching while increasing productivity at work, travel, or shopping. The problem becomes more difficult when the items are geographical locations on the ground, as they are associated with a wealth of contextual information, such as geographical location, opening time, and sequence of related locations. Furthermore, on social networking platforms that allow users to check in or express interest when visiting a specific location, their friends receive this signal by spreading the word on that online social network. Consideration should be given to relationship data extracted from online social networking platforms, as well as their impact on the geolocation recommendation process. In this study, we compare the similarity of geographic locations based on their distance on the ground and their correlation with users who have checked in at those locations. When calculating feature embeddings for users and locations, social relationships are also considered as attention signals. The similarity value between location and correlation between users will be exploited in the overall architecture of the recommendation model, which will employ graph convolution networks to generate recommendations with high precision and recall. The proposed model is implemented and executed on popular datasets, then compared to baseline models to assess its overall effectiveness.

The transformative impact of large language models on medical writing and publishing: current applications, challenges and future directions

  • Sangzin Ahn
    • The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.393-401
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    • 2024
  • Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly transforming medical writing and publishing. This review article focuses on experimental evidence to provide a comprehensive overview of the current applications, challenges, and future implications of LLMs in various stages of academic research and publishing process. Global surveys reveal a high prevalence of LLM usage in scientific writing, with both potential benefits and challenges associated with its adoption. LLMs have been successfully applied in literature search, research design, writing assistance, quality assessment, citation generation, and data analysis. LLMs have also been used in peer review and publication processes, including manuscript screening, generating review comments, and identifying potential biases. To ensure the integrity and quality of scholarly work in the era of LLM-assisted research, responsible artificial intelligence (AI) use is crucial. Researchers should prioritize verifying the accuracy and reliability of AI-generated content, maintain transparency in the use of LLMs, and develop collaborative human-AI workflows. Reviewers should focus on higher-order reviewing skills and be aware of the potential use of LLMs in manuscripts. Editorial offices should develop clear policies and guidelines on AI use and foster open dialogue within the academic community. Future directions include addressing the limitations and biases of current LLMs, exploring innovative applications, and continuously updating policies and practices in response to technological advancements. Collaborative efforts among stakeholders are necessary to harness the transformative potential of LLMs while maintaining the integrity of medical writing and publishing.

Exploring the Effects of Shared Leadership on Project Virtual Team Performance

  • Elfida Mardianita MUSTOFA;Ying-Yi Chih
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2024.07a
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    • pp.863-870
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    • 2024
  • A project virtual team in general refers to a group of geographically dispersed members who rely on communications technology to accomplish project tasks. This team structure has been increasingly utilized in project environments, especially post COVID, given its potential to accommodate flexible work arrangement, reduce project costs; and leverage knowledge and expertise from people around the world to enhance project performance. Drawing from the shared leadership literature and sixteen semi-structured interviews with practitioners involved in project virtual teams in Indonesia, we investigated how shared leadership is exercised in project virtual teams; and how it affects project performance. The results showed that shared leadership can be exercised through collaborative decision-making, collaborative task allocation/monitoring, and empowerment. In project virtual teams, shared leadership practices can trigger positive affective reactions from team members, leading to improved project delivery efficiency and better knowledge transfer. This study extends prior shared leadership literature, which predominately focuses on teams in permanent organizations, to a temporary project environment. It offers theoretical insights into the mechanism through which shared leadership affects project virtual team performance. Our findings also offer important implications for shared leadership practices in future project virtual teams.

User Experience Design for future workplace based on IoT (IoT기반의 미래 Workplace를 위한 사용자 경험 디자인 연구)

  • Park, Namchoon
    • Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.57-64
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    • 2017
  • The user-centered design paradigm shift and the emergence of user-experience design have also increased the importance of user experience with products and services in specific spaces. In addition, with the advent of IoT services, new changes in the future work environment are expected. This study aims to propose a new user experience design considering the context of future work space. First of all, we examined the concept and nature of IoT, and defined various factors that affect the future work environment and grasped the relation of each element. Next, user research in the current work environment was conducted to identify the context that affects the behavior of users in various types of work environments, and to insight the possibility of a new user experience in the future work environment. Based on the above analysis and insights, various context models for a new future work environment were constructed, and UX models and UX scenarios and alternatives were presented. This study will contribute to the diversity of UX design research by expanding the viewpoint of UX design from device to space and context, and it will contribute to the collaborative research with space design and service design, also interdisciplinary research with IoT service related field.

A network approach to local water management for building collaborative water governance: the case of Jeju special self-governing province (지방자치단체의 협력적 물 거버넌스 구축을 위한 네트워크 분석: 제주특별자치도의 물관리 사례를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Boram;Yang, Wonseok;Ahn, Jongho
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.53 no.9
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    • pp.671-680
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    • 2020
  • This study aims to explore structural properties and central actors of the local water policy system through a network approach, and to suggest practical implications for establishing collaborative water governance at the local level. Especially, this study conducts a social network analysis to empirically analyze the actors' roles and relationships of water management in Jeju Special Self-Governing Province and represent them with sociograms. In this study, the local water management network is divided into two dimensions: official work network, public-private policy network based on information-sharing and consultation. Also, the networks are divided into a whole network and two sectoral networks(water-use/water-quality). This study found some meaningful differences of structural properties and central actors not only in the official work networks and the policy networks but also in the water-use networks and the water-quality networks. Thus, public managers should diagnose and manage the relational properties among multiple stakeholders in local water sector through a network perspective. In particular, (1)co-operation between the administrative departments responsible for water-use and water-quality, and (2)information-sharing and consultation among public and private stakeholders should be improved to establish collaborative local water governance.

A Professional Nursing Practice Environment and Its Impact on Nurses' Task Motivation (전문간호실무를 위한 조직환경과 간호사의 근무의욕간의 관계)

  • Kang So-Young;Um Young Rhan;Han Sung Suk
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.353-361
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    • 2005
  • Purpose: This study was aimed at (a) describing professional nursing practice environments embedded in nursing care units and (b) examining its relationships to nurses' task motivation. Method: Using the Nursing Work Index Revised (NWI-R) and the Work Preference Inventory (WPI), a descriptive study was conducted with a sample of 320 registered nurses on 26 nursing care units in one University hospital in Korea. Result: Mean scores were 12.9 on a 5-20 score range of an autonomous environment scale, 7.3 on a 3-12 score range of a collaborative environment, and 15.8 on a 7-28 score range of control over nursing practice. Nurses' age, educational level, job position, working period at the hospital and employment status were significantly related to the degree of a professional practice environment. The extent to which a professional practice environment accounted for task motivation was $19.5\%$. Conclusion: There is a certain degree of professionalism in the workplace environment that nurses perceived within the nursing care units. When nurses care for patients, the degree of task motivation depends on the work environment supporting the professional nursing practice.

OPTIMISING CALIBRATION TRANSFER TO MEASURE DEGRADABILITY PARAMETERS OF HAYS AND DEHYDRATED FORAGES

  • Andueza, Donato;Munoz, Fernando;Martinez, Adela;De La Roza, Begona
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Near Infrared Spectroscopy Conference
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    • 2001.06a
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    • pp.1268-1268
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    • 2001
  • The availability of in vivo and in sacco degradability values are limited because those methods require work with fistulated animals and are rather complicated, labour intensive and expensive. That is to say, the dynamics and logistics of the methodology result in considerable work, due to limitations on the amount of samples, number of bags that can be placed in an animal and different time intervals to perform kinetic studies. Therefore, a simpler method is necessary to estimate the degradation characteristics of the feed. In this way, near infrared reflectance spectroscopy has been used to predict degradation characteristics of forages. In other hand, the possibility of achieving successful transfer of spectra and equations between instruments is closely related. The objective of this study was to confirm the potential of NIR to optimize work conditions to avoid duplicated efforts in collaborative trials on animal feeds evaluation between research institutions. For this purpose, one set with forty hays and dehydrated forages samples from SERIDA and ten samples with the same characteristics from SIA, were be used to create a spectral database. A calibration was developed using samples from degradation essays made in SERIDA to predict dry matter and crude protein degradability. With the addition of five samples from SIA in original calibration set, the effect of different origin and location was compensated.

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BioPlace: A Web-Based Collaborative Environment for Effective Genome Research

  • Ahn, Geon-Tae;Kim, Jin-Hong;Kang, Kyung-Mi;Lee, Myung-Joon;Han, In-Seob
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.1081-1085
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    • 2004
  • Genome research has become very popular in most nations. In order to enhance the efficiency of collaboration among genome research groups, ways to store and share data, communicate with each other, be guided through right research strategies, and to easily use well-established databases. In addition, since techniques and softwares for genome research groups are well established, a similar research road map could commonly be applied. In this study, we developed a web-based work place for effective genome research, named 'BioPlace.' From the beginning of writing a proposal, research members can work on the same environment with convenient aid to share files or data. BioPlace provides various ways of collaboration methods among genome researchers. The BioPlace system supports two types of workplaces, namely 'Personal Workspace' and 'Team Workspace.' For each BioPlace user, a Persona] Workspace is provided, while a Team Workspace is provided for each group with the same purpose. In addition, BioPlace provides a 'General Research Road Map' for genome research, and several Korean user interfaces for BLAST, PDB, and Primer3. We expect that BioPlace may facilitate collaboration of genome research among the experienced scientists and help beginners in many different ways as well.

Change of Paradigm of Research about Workplace in Organization and Architecture Area in 20th Century (20세기 기업조직과 건축분야에서의 업무공간연구 패러다임의 변화)

  • 박영기;조지연
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • no.41
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    • pp.96-103
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    • 2003
  • The historical separation between organization studies and architecture area created a design environment in which wort processes are evaluated separately from setting where they occur. The impact of separation has been parallel yet disconnected development in th two disciplines in which the advance in one arena have not precipitated advances in the other. This is the unfortunate loss as each discipline has the potential to contribute directly to the other. With the emergence of new economy the opportunity to realign the tow disciplines is once again presented as new ways of working have enhanced this opportunity. It is important to revisit the historical development of the tow disciplines and to discuss how the misalignment of their respective concerns contributed to the establishment of our current situation. What happened to create an environment in which organizations assume that one of their largest capital expenditures the cost of providing work spaces for employees is unrelated to their work process\ulcorner what recent developments offer opportunities to rectify this dilemma\ulcorner In this study it is presented a historical review of organization studies and architecture. Through examination of these areas across time it becomes quite apparent that it is now appropriate to pose new questions about organization and their architecture. The comparison of two parallel developments explains how the current design environment is separated from organization studies and offers compelling evidence for why it is important to revisit this separation in light of contemporary theories on collaborative work, organizational learning and communities of practice.