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The Effects of a Literary Approach Activity Using a Game Strategy on Young Children's Phonological Awareness Abilities and Writing Abilities (게임전략을 활용한 문학적 접근활동이 유아의 음운인식능력 및 쓰기능력에 미치는 영향)

  • Jeon, Ah-Young;Choi, Mi-Sook
    • Korean Journal of Child Studies
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    • v.33 no.5
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    • pp.1-17
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the literary approach using a game strategy on young children's phonological awareness and writing abilities. The subjects were selected from two classes of 'H' and 'M' Kindergarten in G city. The research tools used were the Phonological Awareness Ability Test, which was corrected by Jo, Kim, and Jeong(2006) and used to measure young children's phonological awareness abilities, and Lindberg(1987)'s Kindergarten Writing Assessment which was adapted and used by Noh(1994) in order to assess writing abilities. The literary approach activity using a game strategy used in this study resulted in an improvement in young children's phonological awareness abilities and writing abilities. These results suggest that these activities are valuable tools and can be applied successfully in the childhood education field as teaching aids.

Metastasis Related Gene Exploration Using TwoStep Clustering for Medulloblastoma Microarray Data

  • Ban, Sung-Su;Park, Hee-Chang
    • 한국데이터정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.153-159
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    • 2005
  • Microarray gene expression technology has applications that could refine diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring as well as improve disease prevention through risk assessment and early detection. Especially, microarray expression data can provide important information regarding specific genes related with metastasis through an appropriate analysis. Various methods for clustering analysis microarray data have been introduced so far. We used twostep clustering fot ascertain metastasis related gene through t-test. Through t-test between two groups for two publicly available medulloblastoma microarray data sets, we intended to find significant gene for metastasis. The paper describes the process in detail showing how the process is applied to clustering analysis and t-test for microarray datasets and how the metastasis-associated genes are explorated.

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SONOGRAPHIC CHANGE OF MANDIBULAR DISTRACTION OSTEOGENESIS (하악골 신장술의 초음파적 변화)

  • Kim, Chul-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.297-306
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    • 2007
  • Distraction osteogenesis was pioneered by Ilizarov in the treatment of injured extremities. Its subsequent application to Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery has opened a new chapter in the treatment of facial deformity. Careful monitoring of the period of distraction and consolidation of the callus is important and has been well described. Complications, such as infection, haematoma and premature ossification, are difficult to diagnose and can compromise the outcome after the surgery. Too slow rate of distraction results in premature fusion of cortices and too rapid information of bone 'cyst' within the callus distraction. I experienced 2 patients of congenital unilateral mandibular hypoplasia, so called Hemifacial Microsomia. After distraction surgery, I evaluated callus formation of mandibular distraction with Ultrasound Sonography during distraction and consolidation period. Plain radiography, although it enables accurate measurement of the distraction gap, did not give sufficient detail to allow assessment of early stages of bone formation, But, ultrasound monitoring could enable continuous monitoring of the distraction gap without exposure to ionizing radiation and allow detection of fine detail, which may influence manipulation of the callus.

Steam Generator Management Program (원전 증기발생기 관리프로그램)

  • Cho, Nam-Cheoul;Kim, Moo-Soo;Lee, Kwang-Woo
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2003.04a
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    • pp.610-616
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    • 2003
  • Recently, the common concern of nuclear power industry in the development of technology mitigating and preventing the aging of steam generator tubes prevails, because the trends of steam generator flaws at Uljin unit #1,2 and KSNP(Korea Standard Nuclear Power Plant) impose a burden on the operation of nuclear power plant. While the regulatory agency is demanding the establishment of the advanced general performance maintenance system, the steam generator management program adapting advanced technology is being developed which may comply with EPRI PWR SG Guidelines based on NEI 97-06 ‘ General Guidelines including all the maintenance aspects consist of the tube integrity assessment criteria, repair limit, allowable leakage level, water chemistry will be composed in order to obtain the approval of regulatory agency and be applied to Nuclear power plant early 2005. This presentation is to introduce maintenance state including SG tube degradation and main contents of advanced SG management program being developed, and futhermore update present and future plan, and estimate the alternation after the completion.

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Assessment of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) revisited (최근 재증가하고 있는 미숙아망막병증의 임상 고찰)

  • Kim, Jeong Hun;Yu, Young Suk
    • Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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    • v.52 no.1
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    • pp.22-27
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    • 2009
  • Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a major cause of blindness that affects premature infants. With advances in neonatology, ROP is likely to emerge as the most serious problem of vision loss in children even in developed countries; such a situation could be called the third epidemic of ROP. However, controversy and uncertainty still surround favorable outcomes of ROP. For successfully controlling ROP, timely and accurate screening is crucial because early treatment leads to favorable outcomes. Standard guidelines, including ROP classification, have provided satisfactory instructions for the screening and treatment of ROP. To improve the structural and functional outcomes of ROP, optimizing the timing of surgical interventions including cryotherapy, laser-photocoagulation, encircling, and vitrectomy is essential; these interventions can prevent the sequelae of ROP. It is essential for the neonatologist and the ophthalmologist to cooperate extensively for the successful treatment of ROP.

Stress Testing and Imaging Protocols for Myocardial Perfusion Studies (심근관류영상을 위한 심근부하 방법 및 검사 프로토콜)

  • Kim, Seong-Min
    • Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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    • v.43 no.3
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    • pp.179-195
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    • 2009
  • Scince $^{201}$TI was introduced as a myocardial perfusion imaging agent in the early 1970s, scintigraphic evaluation of myocardial perfusion for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease is a valuable noninvasive diagnostic imaging modality. Stress radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging is widely accepted to have high diagnostic and prognostic use in the assessment of patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease. With wise use of this nonivasive imaging technique, more patients are referred for stress perfusion imaging. Until now various protocols for stress testing and myocardial imaging were developed and used in worldwide. This article presented various protocols of stress testing and myocardial imaging for clinical use.

Clinical Application of $^{18}F-FDG$ PET in Alzheimer's Disease (알쯔하이머병(Alzheimer's disease)에서 FDG PET의 임상이용)

  • Ryu, Young-Hoon
    • Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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    • v.42 no.sup1
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    • pp.166-171
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    • 2008
  • PET of the cerebral metabolic rate of glucose is increasingly used to support the clinical diagnosis in the examination of patients with suspected major neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease. $^{18}F-FDG$ PET has been reported to have high diagnostic performance, especially, very high sensitivity in the diagnosis and clinical assessment of therapeutic efficacy. According to clinical research data hitherto, $^{18}F-FDG$ PET is expected to be an effective diagnostic tool in early and differential diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Since 2004, Medicare covers $^{18}F-FDG$ PET scans for the differential diagnosis of fronto-temporal dementia (FTD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) under specific requirements; or, its use in a CMS approved practical clinical trial focused on the utility of $^{18}F-FDG$ PET in the diagnosis or treatment of dementing neurodegenerative diseases.

A Study on Computational Method for Fatigue Life Prediction of Vehicle Structures (차체 구조물의 피로수명 예측을 위한 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 방법에 관한 연구)

  • 이상범;박태원;임홍재
    • Journal of KSNVE
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.686-691
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    • 2000
  • In this paper a computer aided analysis method is proposed for durability assessment in the early design stages using dynamic analysis, stress analysis and fatigue life prediction method. From dynamic analysis of a vehicle suspension system, dynamic load time histories of a suspension component are calculated. From the dynamic load time histories and the stress of the suspension component, a dynamic stress time history at the critical location is produced using the superposition principle. Using linear damage law and cycle counting method, fatigue life cycle is calculated. The predicted fatigue life cycle is verified by experimental durability tests.

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Effects of Moisture Content on Non-Fracture Dynamic Properties and Fracture Quality of Pacific Whiting Surimi

  • Esturk, Okan;Park, Jae-Won;Raik, Moo-Yeol;Kim, Byung-Yong
    • Food Science and Biotechnology
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.856-859
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    • 2006
  • The effects of moisture content on non-fracture dynamic properties and fracture gel quality of Pacific whiting surimi were investigated to determine their relationships. Surimi samples were tested at various moisture contents (75, 78, and 81 %). Torsion test showed that shear stress decreased rapidly and strain values decreased gradually as moisture concentration increased. Dynamic storage modulus (G') also decreased as moisture content increased. A strong positive correlation ($R^2=0.90$ to 0.99) was found between the G' measured at temperatures between 10 and $45^{\circ}C$ and fracture stress values. The results indicate that dynamic rheological measurements could be used as a tool for early gel quality assessment.

A Study on the Structural Controllability of Chemical Processes Based on Relative Order Analysis

  • Lee, Byungwoo;Kim, Yoonsik;Chang, Tae-Suk;Yoon, En-Sup
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1999.10a
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    • pp.53-56
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    • 1999
  • The control performance of a chemical process is determined by process structure as well as the performance of controllers. Therefore, the concept of“controllability”should be introduced in the early design stage. Structural information makes controllability assessment possible by giving insights on the pathways of disturbances in the process. In this study, a simple procedure to evaluate controllability is suggested to screen out design alternatives using relative order analysis and structural decomposition. The effectiveness of the proposed method was validated by comparing the results with the case of dynamical simulation.

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