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Effects of Abdominal Respiration and Self Voice Feedback Therapy on the Voice Improvement of Patients with Vocal Nodules (복식호흡 훈련과 Self Voice Feedback 프로그램이 성대결절 환자의 음성개선에 미치는 효과)

  • Kwon, Soon-Bok;Wang, Soo-Geun;Yang, Byung-Gon;Jeon, Gye-Rok
    • Speech Sciences
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.133-149
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    • 2006
  • This study attempted to compare acoustic parameters, physiological observation and perceptual evaluation values obtained from the treatment and control groups in order to find out which of the self voice feedback therapies was better and which methods to train them were more effective. The experimental group carried out various self voice feedback therapies while the control group did only vocal hygiene. The acoustic measurement and voice manipulation for providing the patients visual, auditory feedback were done by a speech analysis software, Praat. The authors designed vocal hygiene, abdominal respiration and Praat self voice feedback therapies and applied them to 15 patients while applying only one vocal hygiene to 15 of the control group. For the purpose of examining the degree of their voice improvement after the treatment, pre- mid- and final evaluations were made for the two groups at the beginning, the 6th week and immediately after the 8th treatment session. Results of this study were as follows: The treatment group showed much improvement after receiving the voice treatment. In particular, acoustical and physiological indices from the optical endoscopy, pitch variation(Jitter), amplitude variation (Shimmer), maximum phonation time(MPT), and psychoacoustic evaluation showed statistically significant improvements over the control groups.

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Effect of Self-esteem Improvement Program for Elementary School Children from Single-parent Families (한부모 가정 초등학생을 위한 자아존중감 향상 프로그램의 효과)

  • Jung, Sun-A;Hah, Yang-Sook
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.13 no.9
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    • pp.227-235
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    • 2013
  • This study aims to testify the effect of self-esteem improvement program for elementary school children from single-parent families on their self-esteem and depression. Methods: The research design used in this study was a non-equivalent control group pretest-posttest research design. The participants were divided into two groups, an experimental group(n=11) and a control group(n=13). Data were analysed by using Mann-Whinety U test, Wilcoxon Signed Ranks, Cohen's d with SPSS(PASW)18.0 program. Result: Significant differences were found in scores for self-esteem(z=-2.499, p<.012, ES(d)=0.7) and depression(z=-2.145, p<.032, ES(d)=-0.4) in experimental group. Conclusion: The results indicate that the self-esteem improvement program should be used with elementary school children from single-parent families to help them and to improve their psycho-social adaptation.

The Study on the Relation of the Telecasters's Beauty Service - Focusing on the Appearance Management Behavior, External Image, Self-efficacy - (방송인의 뷰티서비스 관계 연구 - 외모관리 행동, 외적이미지, 자기효능감을 중심으로-)

  • Kim, Min-Shin
    • Journal of the Korea Fashion and Costume Design Association
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.153-167
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study is to compare and analyze about the Telecasters's appearance management, external image & awareness on Self-Efficacy. The method of this study is carried out form 2 January 2013 until 20 January. with the 164 telecasters who announcers, voice actors, gag men, singers. The results of the research is summarized below: First, Among the telecasters, singer is the highest awareness of the beauty services importance about the fashion, makeup, hair, skin care, cosmetic surgery. Especially, about the awareness of the beauty services importance about the fashion, makeup, hair, singers> announcers> voice actors> gagmen appear one after another. Second, about the importance awareness of the beauty services importance & the relation of self-efficacy, for announcers, the more higher awareness the fashion, makeup, hair, the higher self-efficacy of the confidence, effective expression, etc.. For voice actors, the more higher awareness the hair, skin care, the fashion, make up, cosmetic surgery, the higher self-efficacy of the new image making, the confidence, task efficiency improvement, etc... For gagmen, the more higher awareness the fashion, hair, skin care, makeup, cosmetic surgery, the higher self-efficacy of the self-expression, the confidence, the new image making, task efficiency improvement, etc.. For singer, the more higher awareness the makeup, hair, cosmetic surgery, skin care, fashion, the higher self-efficacy of the task efficiency improvement, the self-expression, the confidence, the new image making, etc.. Third, about the importance awareness of the appearance management behavior, external image, about the importance awareness of the appearance management behavior, singer is the most higher awareness, announcers> voice actors> gagmen appear one after another. about the importance awareness of the external image, singer is the most higher awareness, voice actor> announcers> gagmen appear after another. The meanings of this study provide the telecasters's image's fields with the effective basic data.

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A Study on the Differences in Learning Capability according to the Demand and the Degree of Demand of Learning Program (학습 프로그램 수요 및 요구도에 따른 학습역량 차이연구)

  • Choi, Mee Soon;Jo, Hye Young
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.21 no.11
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    • pp.795-803
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study is to verify the differences in learning capability according to the demand of learning programs. The participants of this study included 1,738 S University students. The results of the study are as follows. First, in learning capability according to participation in learning programs, we found statistically significant differences in the ability to organize information, resource utilization, self-awareness, self-improvement and sociality. Second, there were no statistically significant differences in the ability to organize information, resource utilization, self-awareness, self-improvement and sociality in participating in learning programs. Third, there were statistically significant differences in the ability to organize information, resource utilization, self-awareness, self-improvement and sociality in not participating in learning programs. Fourth, there were statistically significant differences in the ability to organize information, resource utilization, self-awareness, self-improvement and sociality in experiencing difficulties in learning. Fifth, learning capabilities in specific areas that students wanted to improve had no statistically significant differences in the ability to organize information, resource utilization, self-awareness. However, there were statistically significant differences in self-improvement and sociality.

Improvement of SOM using Stratification

  • Jun, Sung-Hae
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.36-41
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    • 2009
  • Self organizing map(SOM) is one of the unsupervised methods based on the competitive learning. Many clustering works have been performed using SOM. It has offered the data visualization according to its result. The visualized result has been used for decision process of descriptive data mining as exploratory data analysis. In this paper we propose improvement of SOM using stratified sampling of statistics. The stratification leads to improve the performance of SOM. To verify improvement of our study, we make comparative experiments using the data sets form UCI machine learning repository and simulation data.

Effects of remedial instruction to improve self-efficacy in primary English learning (초등영어과 자기효능감 개선을 위한 보충지도의 효과)

  • Kang, Sung-Woo;Ha, Joo-Young
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.139-166
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    • 2005
  • The aim of this study was to examine the effects of remedial instruction on self-efficacy improvement in elementary school students with low self-efficacy, which may have been formed through negative experience with learning such as poor performance and poor grades. Nine 6th grade students with low self-efficacy were selected for the present study. A remedial class was set up and instruction was given once a week for 14 weeks. The purpose of the remedial class was to give the students a positive experience with English learning and have students reflect on their achievement. The contents and class activities were adjusted to the subjects' English abilities and also closely related to those of the regular classes so that students could have more confidence during regular English classes. The data were collected from a test of self-efficacy in English learning, achievement tests given before and after the experiment, achievement tests after each lesson, a general self-efficacy test, a basic questionnaire, interviews, journals, and students' self-evaluation. The results showed that the remedial instruction was very successful in providing students with a sense of achievement and improving students' self-efficacy in English learning. However, this study failed to find significant improvement in general self-efficacy tests and achievement tests given before and after the experiments. A longer period of remedial instruction may have been necessary to obtain more concrete results from the variety of data collected.

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A Case Study on Self-Oriented Learning Skill through Web Material Application -Focused on the Fourth Grades in Primary School- (웹 자료 활용을 통한 자기 주도적 학습에 관한 사례 연구 -4학년을 중심으로-)

  • 이용성;박영희
    • School Mathematics
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.37-57
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this study is to review, through case study, how the use of web materials has influence on the improvement of self-oriented Learning in mathematics of primary school. This is one of the ways to improve classroom lectures suggested in the 7th National Standard of Curriculum. To accomplish this, the following three studies were conducted. First, a questionnaire concerning the improvement of self-oriented Learning Skill through the use of the materials on the web was designed and analyzed. Second, the activities of the class using the web materials were recorded and the study activities of the children were observed. Third, the process of writing notes about their study using web materials was analyzed though interviews after teaching and learning. Through these studies, it has been shown how web materials contribute to the improvement of self-oriented Learning Skill.

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The effect of psychomotor by the emotional behavior disorder(ADHD) children on the improvement of Self-esteem, Depression or Hyperactivity in terms of convergence (심리운동프로그램의 참여가 융합적 차원에서 정서·행동장애아동의 자아존중감과 우울감 및 과잉행동에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Hae-Mi
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.13 no.11
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    • pp.571-578
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of psychomotor by the emotional behavior disorder children(ADHD) on the improvement of Self-esteem, Depression or Hyperactivity. From the results, there was no significant difference of the main effect between groups about the improvement of Self-esteem, Depression but that of Hyperactivity. About Self-esteem, Depression, Hyperactivity, there was significant difference of the main effect between prior and post and significant difference of the interaction effects between groups and periods. In conclusion, we can know psychomotor program have a positive effect on the improvement of Self-esteem, Depression or Hyperactivity for emotional behavior disorder children(ADHD). Considering that psychomotor, regarding convergence, may have a positive effect on the ADHD children's emotional development, not only motion development, we suggest the emotional behavior disorder children(ADHD) may have to continue to participate in the Psychomotor Activities.

Foodservice Satisfaction of Patients over 60 according to the Type of Foodservice Operation: The Case of B Hospital (급식운영방식에 따른 60세 이상 환자들의 급식 만족도 - B병원을 대상으로 -)

  • Lee, Shin Hey;Choi, Jung Hwa
    • The Korean Journal of Community Living Science
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.683-696
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    • 2015
  • This study measures patients' meal satisfaction according to the type of operation (self-operation and contract operation) and identifies improvement areas. A survey was conducted using 183 contract operation patients and 60 self-operation patients receiving general meals. The mean score for satisfaction for the whole sample was 3.42 (self-operation = 3.51; contract operation = 3.39), and self-operation satisfaction was significantly higher than contract operation satisfaction. Mean scores were 2.98 for food, 3.26 for menu composition, 3.57 for sanitation, 3.78 for distribution meal services, and 3.50 for menu information. Self-operation showed a higher satisfaction level than the contract operation in food and menu composition. The ccontract operation showed a higher level of satisfaction than self-operation in sanitation, distribution meal services, and menu information. In terms of feeling dissatisfaction with meal services, both groups showed the highest dissatisfaction with food and menus, and both groups agreed on food and menus that required the greatest improvement. Based on the results, contract operation managers should develop and apply menus considering their preferences. Dietitians of self-operation strengthen communication between meal service staff and patients by carrying out periodic and systematic service education on self-operation.

Application of the fashion therapy to reduce negative emotions of female patients (여성 환자의 부정적 정서 감소를 위한 패션테라피 적용)

  • Yoh, Eunah
    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.85-101
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    • 2015
  • In this study, it is explored the effect of fashion therapy on depression, positive emotion, negative emotion, appearance interest, body satisfaction, self-esteem, and self-efficacy of female patients. Eight cancer patients and 12 general patients participated in the 4-week fashion therapy program. When comparing results before and after the fashion therapy, depression and negative emotions were significantly decreased while positive emotions and self-efficacy were significantly increased. There was no significant influence on appearance interest, body satisfaction, self-esteem, and self-efficacy. In group comparison, significant changes were observed in depression, positive emotion and negative emotion regardless of groups. However, cancer patients indicated a significant improvement in self-efficacy compared to general patients who did not whereas patients with a high level of depression showed a significant enhancement on body satisfaction compared to patients with a low level of depression. Also, patients with a low level of pain indicated a significant improvement on self-esteem and self-efficacy compared to patients with a high level of pain. Perceived effect and satisfaction of the fashion therapy were relatively high. Study results may positively contribute to building a knowledge and experimental base of fashion therapy that is widely applicable to diverse parties for the future.