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The Effect of Using Multimedia Material of Seasonal Change on Middle School Students' Conceptual Changes (계절의 변화 멀티미디어 자료 활용이 중학생의 개념 변화에 미치는 효과)

  • Chung, Jung-In;Shim, Ki-Chang;Kim, Hee-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.25 no.7
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    • pp.545-557
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this study is to classify types of preconception on the seasonal change to middle school students and to find out how the developed multimedia material changes their conception in the seasonal change. The questionnaire about the variation of season consisted of 10 items. Questions are given to 80 ninth graders. Control and experimental group was 23 and 57 students, respectively and they were instructed for two class periods. A learning method using multimedia was applied to the experimental group. On the other hand, traditional teaching-learning method was used for the control group. A learning method using multimedia in this study had an effect on the conceptual changes (p$<$0.01). Data in this study was divided into six levels to classify the changes of concepts in detail. As a result, it showed that a learning method using multimedia was effective for students to make progress from unscientific to scientific concepts, to build up scientific concepts, to build up scientific concepts, and to elaborate scientific concepts as compared with traditional method.

The Sources of Preservice Secondary Teachers' Explanations about Seasonal Changes Investigated with the Lakatosian Methodology (Lakatos의 방법론에 의한 예비 중등 교사의 계절 변화에 대한 설명의 근원 연구)

  • Oh, Jun-Young;Kang, Yong-Hee;Lee, Hyo-Nyong;Kim, Yong-Gi
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.374-389
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the alternative models of seasonal changes that preservice secondary teachers presented using the Lakatosian methodology. Participants included 74 undergraduate students who majored in science education within the college of education. Their responses to these questions revealed students' alternative models were inconsistent with scientific models. A great deal of this apparent inconsistency could be explained by assuming that the students used, in a consistent fashion, a alternative core belief on seasonal changes. This study also discussed the core beliefs and the possible sources held by preservice teachers in order to overcome their alternative models. The sources of alternative models may lie in the contents used in textbooks.

The Effects on Earth Science Concepts about Seasonal Changes by Generative Learning Strategy (발생학습 전략의 적용이 계절변화 관련 지구과학개념 변화에 미친 효과)

  • Jeong, Jin-Woo;Yoon, Sang-Wha;Lee, Hang-Ro
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.160-171
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    • 2003
  • This study was designed to analyze the types of concepts about earth science related to seasonal changes, so as to develop a generative learning model focused on dissolving cognitive conflicts between the aforementioned concepts through debates and using said debates to find out how effectively the model works. There are 100 types of earth science concepts concering seasonal changes, 66 of which are unscientific in nature, including misconceptions. Through a second field trial and a research and development (R&D) process, a test on these concepts was developed, consisting of 14 items. For the experimental group, a four-phase generative learning strategy that reflects the types of earth science concepts and cognitive conflicts between such concepts was developed through pre-analysis and discussion, respectively. On the other hand, a traditional teaching and teaming strategy was used for the control group. A meaningful statistic gap found between the two groups through a covariance analysis, the significance level of which was 0.05. This result may be interpreted to mean that the generative teaming strategy is a possible alternative for correcting misconceptions about scientific concepts of seasonal changes.

Seasonal Changes in Jasmonic Acid Contents of Yam Leaves

  • Chang, Kwang-Jin;Mitsuru Hayashi;Michilo Onjo
    • Plant Resources
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.49-52
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    • 1998
  • This study confirmed that the initiation time of tuberization was well consistent with the cativation time of JA. The consistency was also cinfirmed in the tuberization of yam plants under the altered condition of natural day length. The final yield of JA from 500g fresh leaves was $89.3{\mu}g$.

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Feeding Habits of Lateolabrax Japonicus in the Eelgrass ( Zostera Marina ) Bed in Kwangyang Bay (광양만 장피밭에 서식하는 농어 ( Lateolabrax Japonicus ) 의 식성)

  • Heo, Seong-Hoe;Gwak, Seok-Nam
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.191-199
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    • 1998
  • Feeding habits of Lateolabrax Japonicus collected from the eelgrass bed in Kwangyang Bay from January 1994 to December 1994 were studied. L. Japonicus was a carnivore which consumed mainly amphipods (gammarid amphipods and caprellid amphipods), crabs, caridean shrimps and copepods. Its diets included small quantities of fishes, mysids, polychaetes, tanaids and isopods. Three distinct ontogenetic feeding groups were noted : (1) 1~2 cm SL individuals preyed heavily on copepods. (2) 2~15 cm SL individuals preyed heavily on amphipods. (3) individuals over 15 cm SL preyed heavily on crabs, caridean shrimps and fishes. L. Japonicus showed seasonal changes in prey composition. These changes were not caused by seasonal changes in food availability, but by changes in the size composition of L. Japonicus occurred in the eelgrass bed.

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Observation of Water Volume Changes of Rivers in Amazon Forests from Multi-temporal JERS-1 SAR Images

  • Takako, Sakurai-Amano;Takagi, Mikio
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.454-459
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    • 2002
  • We have developed a new method to visualize river networks in tropical rain forests from JERS-1 SAR images. This method compresses river information in an original SAR image to a small image displaying wide rivers as dark objects in real size and narrower rivers as bright objects showing brightness level as an indicator of the discharge. We applied this method to 476 images of Amazon forests, 13 observations for path 415 data and 11 observations for path 416 data between 1993 and 1997. We confirmed that a change observed in a preliminary experiment was certainly a part of seasonal changes. The changes roughly correspond to the monthly precipitation changes. Through a simple digital analysis although qualitative, we also detected subtle but consistent regional differences among minor tributaries that belong to a major tributary basin.

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Assessment of seasonal variations in water quality of Brahmani river using PCA

  • Mohanty, Chitta R.;Nayak, Saroj K.
    • Advances in environmental research
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.53-65
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    • 2017
  • Assessment of seasonal changes in surface water quality is an important aspect for evaluating temporal variations of river pollution due to natural or anthropogenic inputs of point and non-point sources. In this study, surface water quality data for 15 physico-chemical parameters collected from 7 monitoring stations in a river during the years from 2014 to 2016 were analyzed. The principal component analysis technique was employed to evaluate the seasonal correlations of water quality parameters, while the principal factor analysis technique was used to extract the parameters that are most important in assessing seasonal variations of river water quality. Analysis shows that a parameter that is most important in contributing to water quality variation for one season may not be important for another season except alkalinity, which is always the most important parameters in contributing to water quality variations for all three seasons.

Seasonal Changes of Chlorophyll Contents and Photosynthetic Rates in Four Species of Maple Trees in Korea (단풍나무속 식물 4 종에 대한 엽록소함량과 광합성율의 계절적 변화)

  • Choe, Hyun-sup;Hye-Jeong Lee
    • The Korean Journal of Ecology
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.137-146
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    • 1995
  • Acer pseudo-sieboldianum, A. ginnala, A. negundo and A. saccharinum were selected as materials for the studies on the seasonal fluctuation of chlorophyll content and photosynthetic rates. In all the four species during the growing season except in October, the principal component that determined the total chlorophyll content was chlorophyll a. Content of chlorophyll b increased with leaf age, but that of chlorophyll a decreased. In contrast to A. saccharinum and A. pseudo-sieboldianum which showed their maximum chlorophyll content in June, A. negundo, which showed the highest chlorophyll content of the four species, exhibited its maximum chlorophyll content in July, whereas September in the case of A. ginnala. The fluctuation of chlorophyll content was similar to that of air temperature, and it increased till July. But chloprophyll content showed a significant relationship in early stage of leaf development, and there could be any interdependence between them in accordance with the seasonal change, no longer. In all four species light compensation points decreased in accordance with the seasonal change, and the maximum photosynthetic rates were obtained in August. Respiratory rates were shown no significant difference among species, and they decreased according to the adbance of season.

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Seasonal acclimation in sudomotor function evaluated by QSART in healthy humans

  • Shin, Young Oh;Lee, Jeong-Beom;Kim, Jeong-Ho
    • The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.499-505
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    • 2016
  • The quantitative sudomotor axon reflex testing (QSART) is a classic test of routine postganglionic sudomotor function. We investigated sudomotor function by QSART after summer (July 2012) and winter (January 2013) seasonal acclimation (SA) in the Republic of Korea. QSART with acetylcholine (ACh) iontophoresis were performed to determine directly activated (DIR) and axon reflex-mediated (AXR1, 2) sweating rate. Onset time of axon reflex, activated sweat gland density (ASGD), activated sweat gland output (ASGO), tympanic and skin temperatures ($T_{ty}$, $T_{sk}$), basal metabolic rate (BMR), and evaporative loss volume changes were measured. Tympanic and mean body temperature (${\bar{T}}_b$; calculated from $T_{ty}$, $T_{sk}$) were significantly lower after summer-SA than that of winter-SA. Sweat onset time was delayed during winter-SA compared to that after summer-SA. BMR, AXR(1), AXR(2), and DIR sweat rates, ASGD and ASGO, and evaporative loss volume were significantly diminished after winter-SA relative to after summer-SA. In conclusion, changes in sweating activity measured by QSART confirmed the involvement of the peripheral nervous system in variation of sudomotor activity in seasonal acclimation.