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Developing Experiential Exhibitions Based on Conservation Science Content of Bronze Mirror

  • Jo, Young Hoon;Kim, Jikio;Yun, Yong Hyun;Cho, Nam Chul;Lee, Chan Hee
    • Journal of Conservation Science
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.362-369
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    • 2021
  • In museums, exhibition content focuses mostly on cultural heritage's historical values and functions, but doing so tends to limit visitors' interest and immersion. To counter this limitation, the study developed an experiential media art exhibition fusing bronze mirrors' traditional production technology and modern conservation science. First, for the exhibition system, scientific cultural heritage contents were projected on the three-dimensional (3D) printed bronze mirror through interactions between motion recognition digital information display (DID) and the projector. Then, a scenario of 17 missions in four stages (production process, corrosion mechanism, scientific analysis and diagnosis, and conservation treatment and restoration) was prepared according to the temporal spectrum. Additionally, various media art effects and interaction technologies were developed, so visitors could understand and become immersed in bronze mirrors' scientific content. A user test was evaluated through the living lab, reflecting generally high levels of satisfaction (90.2 points). Qualitative evaluation was generally positive, with comments such as "easy to understand and useful as the esoteric science exhibition was combined with media art" (16.7%), "wonderful and interesting" (11.7%), and "firsthand experience was good" (9.2%). By combining an esoteric science exhibition centered on principles and theories with visual media art and by developing an immersive directing method to provide high-level exhibition technology, the exhibition induced visitors' active participation. This exhibition's content can become an important platform for expanding universal museum exhibitions on archaeology, history, and art into conservation science.

Probiotic Bacillus amyloliquefaciens B-1895 Improved Growth of Juvenile Trout

  • Elena N. Ponomareva;Marina N. Sorokina;Vadim A. Grigoriev;Mariya Mazanko;Vladimir A. Chistyakov;Dmitry V. Rudoy
    • Food Science of Animal Resources
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    • v.44 no.4
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    • pp.805-816
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    • 2024
  • The aim of this study was to evaluate a new Bacillus amyloliquefaciens B-1895 probiotic as a feed additive for farmed trout. Final weight, absolute and average daily gain of fish, and average daily growth rate were higher in the group that received the probiotic than in the control group (p<0.05). Moreover, the probiotic-fed trout had more intense growth rates than the control group (higher by 15.7%; p<0.05). A decrease in feed ratio was also observed in the group that received probiotic (25% decrease; p<0.05), indicating more efficient digestion and assimilation of feed. In general, the introduction of probiotic in the feed did not adversely affect the functional status of the fish. In young trout of the control group, when assessing the general chemical composition of the organism in the muscle tissue revealed significantly (p≤0.001) higher level of moisture content by 5.1% and lower by 11.0% dry matter content. In muscle, the protein content was higher by 1.33% (p≤0.001) and fat content by 2.1% (p≤0.001) in experimental fish. Generally, Lactobacilli, Enterococcus, Vibrio, Bacillus, and coliform bacteria were found in the intestinal samples of rainbow trout. Significant reliable difference (p≤0.05) between the samples of experimental and control groups was noted in the content of Bacillus bacteria. In the control group, 5.0±0.4×103 CFU/g was detected, while in the experimental group 8.4±0.8×104 CFU/g. Overall, the data indicate that probiotic bacteria B. amyloliquefaciens B-1895 has no adverse effect on selected microorganisms in the study fish.

A Study on Scientific Article Recommendation System with User Profile Applying TPIPF (TPIPF로 계산된 이용자프로파일을 적용한 논문추천시스템에 대한 연구)

  • Zhang, Lingling;Chang, Woo Kwon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.317-336
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    • 2016
  • Nowadays users spend more time and effort to find what they want because of information overload. To solve the problem, scientific article recommendation system analyse users' needs and recommend them proper articles. However, most of the scientific article recommendation systems neglected the core part, user profile. Therefore, in this paper, instead of mean which applied in user profile in previous studies, New TPIPF (Topic Proportion-Inverse Paper Frequency) was applied to scientific article recommendation system. Moreover, the accuracy of two scientific article recommendation systems with above different methods was compared with experiments of public dataset from online reference manager, CiteULike. As a result, the proposed scientific article recommendation system with TPIPF was proven to be better.

An Analysis of Korean Middle School Students' Achievement of Scientific Inquiry and the Nature of Science in TIMSS-R (우리 나라 중학생들의 과학적 탐구 및 과학의 본성 영역에서의 국제 성취도 분석)

  • Hong, Mi-Young
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.336-344
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study was to analyse achievement of 'Scientific Inquiry and the Nature of Science' in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study-Repeat (TIMSS-R), which was performed in 1999 with 38 nations participating. Korean 8th grade students' achievement of 'Scientific Inquiry and the Nature of Science' was compared to that of other countries and other content areas in science. Average percent correct of items in each subcategory - Scientific Method, Experimental Design, Scientific Measurements, Describing and Interpreting Data - was also analysed. Although 'Scientific Inquiry and the Nature of Science' topics were not included in intended curriculum in Korea, Korean students' average scale score of 'Scientific Inquiry and the Nature of Science' was significantly higher than international average and, in comparison with other science content areas, achievement of that area was relatively high. The reasons could be that the most students studied topics related to 'Scientific Inquiry and the Nature of Science' through the implemented curriculum and that the Korean teachers recognized the importance of inquiry. According to the results to analyze subcategories, the average percent correct of Korea were higher than 50% except the 'Scientific Measurements' subcategory. However, the international average percent correct were lower than 50%. Especially, the average percent correct of Korea was the highest in 'Describing and Interpreting Data' subcategory despite there were many students who were confused at observation, hypothesis and conclusion.

A Study on the Physicochemical Characteristics of Saw Palmetto Extract (쏘팔메토(Saw Palmetto) 열매 추출물의 이화학적인 특성 연구)

  • Jeong-Eun Lee;Jung-Uk Kim;Hee-Young Lee;Ji-Hye Eom;Jong-Gil Kim;Young-Yul Lee;Hyeon-Ji Bae;Seung-Woo Kim;Ho-Jeong Yun;Su-Mi Han;Jong-Ho Koh;Moochang Kook;Young-Sang Lee
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.202-208
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    • 2023
  • FT-IR, GC/MS, and ATR-FT-IR analyses were performed to confirm the physicochemical characteristics of saw palmetto fruit (SPF) extract. FT-IR analysis of the standard product showed that the band corresponding to the carbonyl bond of free fatty acid was stronger than the band of acyl-glyceride. Sample E was identified as having the same trend as the standard sample. Fatty acid composition analysis revealed that the main fatty acids in the standard sample were lauric acid and oleic acid. The content of lauric acid ranged from approximately 30% to 38% in samples B, C, D, and E, while the content of oleic acid ranged from approximately 29% to 34%. The GC/MS analysis confirmed that the standard SPF extract consisted of fatty acids and fatty acid ethyl esters. Sample E demonstrated a similar pattern to the standard samples in terms of oleic acid, lauric acid, and fatty acid esters. ATR-FT-IR analysis indicated that only sample E was predicted to contain 100% saw palmetto extract. Therefore, these study findings can be considered fundamental data for analyzing the physicochemical characteristics of the composition of SPF extract.

Student Teachers and Beginning Teachers' Understandings of Scientific Inquiry

  • Flick, Larry;Morrell, Patricia-D.;Wainwright, Camille;Park, Young-Shin
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.160-175
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    • 2004
  • This study examined the knowledge and practices of scientific inquiry displayed by three student teachers and two beginning teachers at secondary levels. Observations using the instrument of OTOP designed by the research team of OCEPT (Oregon Collaborative for Excellent in the Preparation of Teachers) generalized similar teaching strategies of scientific inquiry between student and beginning teachers, such as using group work for students' first hand experience, using concrete materials for experimentation or visual tools for demonstration, using questions for factual knowledge mainly without opportunities to understand how scientific knowledge is constructed. Those scientific inquiry activities were very confirmative ones to follow the steps without opportunities of understanding nature of science or nature of scientific inquiry. However, all participants in this study hold knowledge of scientific inquiry envisioned by the National Science Education Standards [NSES] (NRC, 1996), where students identify their hypothesis, use critical and logical thinking, and consider alternative explanations through argumentation as well as experimentation. An inconsistent relationship between participating teachers knowledge and practices about scientific inquiry resulted from their lack of pedagogy skills of implementing it in the classroom. Providing opportunities for these teachers to reflect on their beliefs and practices about scientific inquiry was recommended for the future study. Furthermore, increasing college faculty interest in new teaching approaches for upgrading the content knowledge of student teachers and beginning teachers was recommended as a solution, since those teachers showed evidence of influence by college faculties at universities in their pedagogy skills.

An innovative investigation of science content in the elementary school (국민학교 과학내용의 분석과 발전적 모색)

  • Kim, Hyo-Nam
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.23-32
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    • 1988
  • This study analyzed the specific science content involved in 'the 5th curriculum in the elementary school' in Korea and four Kinds of 'Science in the elementary school' books. And innovative science content is investigated for children's living in the scientific, technological, and informationized society. As results, biology is emphasized much more than other areas. Chemistry is less emphasized than other areas. The innovative science content should inchudethe S. T.S problems, the recent developments and the value or religious problems related to science. This study suggested several innovative science contents.

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An Analysis on the Level of Elementary Gifted Students' Argumentation in Scientific Inquiry (초등학교 영재 학생들의 탐구 활동에서 나타나는 논증 과정 평가 및 분석)

  • Lim, Jae-Keun;Song, Yun-Mi;Song, Mi-Sun;Yang, Il-Ho
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.441-450
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study was to evaluate the level of elementary gifted students' argumentation and examine the special features of argumentation founded in scientific inquiry. 28 students were selected in the special education center for the gifted in K National University. They were organized 8 groups of 3~4 students and engaged in scientific inquiry activity. The researcher wasn't involved in students' inquiry activity and argumentation except for the guiding and introducing their activity. In the first session, each group carried out the experiment 'Putting a heated can in the water' and then, the students discussed to probe their experimental results and build their explanation. In the second session, each group presented their experiment results and evidence from their experiment justifying their claims, and had questions from other groups. The protocol data during 8 groups' argumentations were analyzed using 'Rubric for Scientific Argumentation Assessment' (Yang et al., 2009) in three domains- the form, content and attitude. As a result, in form domain, almost groups were rated 2 points due to their argument without rebuttal on the subcategory of 'composition', but they got a good grade above 3 points in subcategory such as 'claim', 'ground', and 'conclusion'. In content domain, almost groups got points above 3 points. In attitude domain, there were some striking contrast between each groups. Six groups got good score more than 4 points on the subcategory of openness, but two groups, they alleged and got score below 3 point. While the 6 groups of all got 4 points in the aspect of participation, 3 groups got 3 points lower than because they only just asserted and not interact with other groups. Throughout the argumentation, two features were found that; as time goes by, arguments were refined; Students tended to use their prior to knowledge rather than evidence such as experimental data in making claims and conclusions.

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Effects of Science Classes Using Virtual Reality (VR) Contents on Elementary School Students' Spatial Ability and Scientific Attitude (가상현실(VR) 콘텐츠를 활용한 과학수업이 초등학생의 공간 감각과 과학적 태도에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Jae Byung;Kwon, Nan Joo
    • Journal of Science Education
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    • v.46 no.1
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    • pp.66-79
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    • 2022
  • This study attempts to find out how science classes using VR content affect students' scientific attitudes and spatial senses. For 4th and 5th graders of an elementary school, a comparative class and an experimental class were set up for each grade, and a total of 11 classes were conducted for each grade. Before and after class treatment, pre- and post-tests were conducted on scientific attitudes and spatial sensations, and interviews with students were conducted during class. After all the classes for the research unit were completed, a survey was conducted to find out the changes in students' perceptions. As results of this study show, it was found that science classes applying virtual reality (VR) content have positive effects on students' scientific attitudes and spatial ability.

Precise Property Control in Silicon Nitride Ceramics by $\alpha$/$\beta$ Phase Ratio Control

  • Kawaoka, H.;Kusunose, T.;Choa, Y-H.;Sekino, T.;Niihara, K.
    • Proceedings of the Korea Association of Crystal Growth Conference
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    • 2000.06a
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    • pp.59-64
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    • 2000
  • Silicon nitride ceramics with various α/β phase ratio were fabricated by controlling sintering conditions of PECS process. Mechanical properties varied systematically with α/β ratio. Young's modulus and hardness increased with α-Si₃N₄ volume fraction, and fracture strength and toughness increased with β-Si₃N₄ content.

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