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Modularity and Modality in ‘Second’ Language Learning: The Case of a Polyglot Savant

  • Smith, Neil
    • Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.411-426
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    • 2003
  • I report on the case of a polyglot ‘savant’ (C), who is mildly autistic, severely apraxic, and of limited intellectual ability; yet who can read, write, speak and understand about twenty languages. I outline his abilities, both verbal and non-verbal, noting the asymmetry between his linguistic ability and his general intellectual inability and, within the former, between his unlimited morphological and lexical prowess as opposed to his limited syntax. I then spell out the implications of these findings for modularity. C's unique profile suggested a further project in which we taught him British Sign Language. I report on this work, paying particular attention to the learning and use of classifiers, and discuss its relevance to the issue of modality: whether the human language faculty is preferentially tied to the oral domain, or is ‘modality-neutral’ as between the spoken and the visual modes.

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Study of High Precision Mechanism For Loading/Unloading of Material (소재의 정밀 Loading/unloading 기술 개발)

  • Choi Hyeun-Seok;Tak Tae-Yul;Han Chang-Soo;Lee Nak-Kyu;Choi Tae-Hoon;Lee Hye-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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    • 2005.05a
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    • pp.419-423
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    • 2005
  • In microfactory, loading/unloading mechanism supply the row material to processing machines for manufacturing process such as pressing, cutting, plastic deformation. This mechanism for rnicrofactory is designed as modularity robot. Microfactory system have to be flexible structure for variety product item. For system flexibility, applied mechanisms are developed as moduality. Robot moduality needs the specific characteristics which are different from one of macro, typical robot system. In this paper, we discussed about the modularity robot. and proposed the loading/unloading mechanism for working in microfactory system.

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A Study of Modularity in the Perspective of Standardization: A Comparative Analysis of Electronic and Automotive Industries (표준화 정책 측면에서 모듈성 연구: 전자 산업과 자동차 산업 비교 분석)

  • Kim, Dong-hyu;Kang, Byung-Goo;Kim, Chulsik
    • Journal of Technology Innovation
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.169-199
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    • 2015
  • Information and communication technologies (ICT) have been combined with products from other industries to provide new functionality, as recently shown in the cases of Internet of Things (IoT). Modularity assumes a crucial role in such technological convergence, and has impacts on the relationship between organizations as well as competition within an industry. Interface standards, which ensure the connectivity between modules, serve as a critical factor in the process by which modularity affects organization systems and industry structure. To understand the aforementioned phenomenon, we studied modularity and interface standards with a focus on the interaction between technology and organization systems and subsequent changes in industrial dynamics. This paper examines previous literature on modularity and interface standards in the aspects of product architecture, organization systems, and institutional factors. With this analytical framework, we conducted a comparative analysis of electronic and automotive industries to derive implications for standardization policy. This research has shown the significance of external open interface standards in shaping an industrial landscape where a variety of module producers horizontally compete. It also advises that policymakers take into account product characteristics, engagement of leading firms in an industry, and institutional factors such as WTO law in the design of standardization policy.

QUANTUM MODULARITY OF MOCK THETA FUNCTIONS OF ORDER 2

  • Kang, Soon-Yi
    • Korean Journal of Mathematics
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.87-97
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    • 2017
  • In [9], we computed shadows of the second order mock theta functions and showed that they are essentially same with the shadow of a mock theta function related to the Mathieu moonshine phenomenon. In this paper, we further survey the second order mock theta functions on their quantum modularity and their behavior in the lower half plane.

Temperature network analysis of the Korean peninsula linking by DCCA methodology (DCCA 방법으로 연결된 한반도의 기온 네트워크 분석)

  • Min, Seungsik
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.29 no.7
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    • pp.1445-1458
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    • 2016
  • This paper derives a correlation coefficient using detrended cross-correlation analysis (DCCA) method for 59 regional temperature series for 40 years from 1976 to 2015. The average temperature, maximum temperature, and minimum temperature series for 4 year units are analyzed; consequently, we estimated that a temperature correlation exists between the two regions during the unit period where the correlation coefficient is greater than or equal to 0.9; subsequently, we construct a network linking the two regions. Based on network theory, average path length, clustering coefficient, assortativity, and modularity were derived. As a result, it was found that the temperature network satisfies a small-worldness property and is a network having assortativity and modularity.

MIT PEBBLE BED REACTOR PROJECT

  • Kadak, Andrew C.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.39 no.2
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    • pp.95-102
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    • 2007
  • The conceptual design of the MIT modular pebble bed reactor is described. This reactor plant is a 250 Mwth, 120 Mwe indirect cycle plant that is designed to be deployed in the near term using demonstrated helium system components. The primary system is a conventional pebble bed reactor with a dynamic central column with an outlet temperature of 900 C providing helium to an intermediate helium to helium heat exchanger (IHX). The outlet of the IHX is input to a three shaft horizontal Brayton Cycle power conversion system. The design constraint used in sizing the plant is based on a factory modularity principle which allows the plant to be assembled 'Lego' style instead of constructed piece by piece. This principle employs space frames which contain the power conversion system that permits the Lego-like modules to be shipped by truck or train to sites. This paper also describes the research that has been conducted at MIT since 1998 on fuel modeling, silver leakage from coated fuel particles, dynamic simulation, MCNP reactor physics modeling and air ingress analysis.

Framework for Component-based Modeling/Simulation of Discrete Event Systems

  • Cho, Young-Ik;Kim, Jae-Hyun;Kim, Tag-Gon
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.484-484
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    • 2001
  • The sophistication of current software applications results in the increasing cost fur software development time. The component-based software development framework is proposed to overcome the difficulty and time-consuming requirements by modularity and reusability. As is the general software case, a component-based simulation framework encourages the reusability of the real system model based on the modularity of the applied simulation methodology. This paper presents a component-based simulation environment that is based on the DEVS/COM run-time infrastructure. The DEVS (Discrete Event System Specification) formalism provides a formal modeling and simulation framework for the generic dynamic systems [1] and Microsoft's COM (Component Object Model) is one of the strongest competitor fur the component standard. The reusability by the DEVS/COM simulation environment saves model development time remarkably and component technology make simulator itself to be a subparts of real application.

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Agent-based approach for the construction of a design support system for conceptual chemical process synthesis

  • Han, Chonghun;Stephanopoulos, George
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1995.10a
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    • pp.328-331
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    • 1995
  • A successful, computer-aided design support system can help a process designer focus on making effective design decisions, not merely tedious routine calculations. Such a system is essential to enhance quality of design in terms of economics, environmental benignity, reliability, robustness, and operability. Such a statement is even more accepted when applied to conceptual design problems, where gross design specifications are given while a combinatorial number of design alternatives exists. This paper presents an agent-based approach as a systematic and efficient way to design a design support system for the synthesis of conceptual chemical processes. An agent-based approach allows us to handle design knowledge as an object and thus greatly improve the modularity and reusability of that knowledge. Such modularity and reusability lead to the increased productivity in the development of a design support system and the increased ease in the relaxation of design decisions and the generation of design alternatives, both of which functions are critically important in dealing with the complexity and uncertainty of conceptual design problems.

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An Architecture of Scalable ATM Switching System and Its Call Processing Capacity Estimation

  • Kim, Young-Boo;Lee, Soon-Seok;Oh, Chang-Hwan;Kim, Young-Sun;Han, Chi-Moon;Yim, Chu-Hwan
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.107-125
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    • 1996
  • In this paper, we define the general requirements of ATM switching systems such as scalability, distributed fashion, and modularity. Also we propose a practical implementation of a scalable ATM switching system whose capacity can be easily expanded. Firstly, the architecture of the system is discussed with an emphasis on system scalability, modularity of subsystems and the simple control network of the design requirements. Secondly, we suggest the three types of distributed call/connection control schemes that are suitable for our switching system. We also estimate their call processing capacity on the average and make a comparison of them under the various system architectures. Since our scalable switching system can be constructed to perform the call processing functions on the various levels of the system capacity, it has much adaptability at the various evolution phases or regions of the network environment.

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