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Current Systems in the Adjacent Seas of Jeju Island Using a High-Resolution Regional Ocean Circulation Model (고해상도 해양순환모델을 활용한 제주도 주변해역의 해수유동 특성)

  • Cha, Sang-Chul;Moon, Jae-Hong
    • Ocean and Polar Research
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    • v.42 no.3
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    • pp.211-223
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    • 2020
  • With the increasing demand for improved marine environments and safety, greater ability to minimize damages to coastal areas from harmful organisms, ship accidents, oil spills, etc. is required. In this regard, an accurate assessment and understanding of current systems is a crucial step to improve forecasting ability. In this study, we examine spatial and temporal characteristics of current systems in the adjacent seas of Jeju Island using a high-resolution regional ocean circulation model. Our model successfully captures the features of tides and tidal currents observed around Jeju Island. The tide form number calculated from the model result ranges between 0.3 and 0.45 in the adjacent seas of Jeju Island, indicating that the dominant type of tides is a combination of diurnal and semidiurnal, but predominantly semidiurnal. The spatial pattern of tidal current ellipses show that the tidal currents oscillate in a northwest-southeast direction and the rotating direction is clockwise in the adjacent seas of Jeju Island and counterclockwise in the Jeju Strait. Compared to the mean kinetic energy, the contribution of tidal current energy prevails the most parts of the region, but largely decreases in the eastern seas of Jeju Island where the Tsushima Warm Current is dominant. In addition, a Lagrangian particle-tracking experiment conducted suggests that particle trajectories in tidal currents flowing along the coast may differ substantially from the mean current direction. Thus, improving our understanding of tidal currents is essential to forecast the transport of marine pollution and harmful organisms in the adjacent seas of Jeju Island.

The Application of Elimination Method for Teaching the Cube-Accumulation (쌓기나무 지도를 위한 부분제거법의 적용)

  • Chang, Hye-Won;Kang, Jong-Pyo
    • Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.425-441
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    • 2009
  • The cube-accumulation is a new theme included in the 7th elementary mathematics curriculum for improving children's spatial ability. One activity of the cube-accumulation is to recognize the configuration of accumulated cube given three plane figures in the directions of the above, the front and the side, respectively. The approach to this activity presented in the mathematics textbook is more or less intuitive and constructive, and difficult to some children. So we suggest an alternative, more analytic method, 'elimination method', that is eliminating unnecessary parts from $n{\times}n{\times}n$ whole cubes. This method was adopted to the 32 sixth graders, in special five applicants among them. Their responses and activities were analyzed. We confirm that we can teach the cube-accumulation by the elimination method, and some children prefer this method. 13u1 this method requires more exercises to be executed skillfully.

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Effects of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Enhancement of Cognitive Function in Focal Ischemic Stroke Rat Model (국소 허혈성 뇌졸중 모델 흰쥐의 인지기능에 반복경두개자기자극이 미치는 효과)

  • Lee, Jung-In;Kim, Gye-Yeop;Nam, Ki-Won;Lee, Dong-Woo;Kim, Ki-Do;Kim, Kyung-Yoon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Physical Medicine
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.11-20
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    • 2012
  • Purpose : This study is intended to examine the repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on cognitive function in the focal ischemic stroke rat model. Methods : This study selected 30 Sprague-Dawley rats of 8 weeks. The groups were divided into two groups and assigned 15 rats to each group. Control group: Non-treatment after injured by focal ischemic stroke; Experimental group: application of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation(0.1 Tesla, 25 Hz, 20 min/time, 2 times/day, 5 days/2 week) after injured by focal ischemic stroke. To assess the effect of rTMS, the passive avoidance test, spatial learning and memory ability test were analyzed at the pre, 1 day, $7^{th}$ day, $14^{th}$ day and immunohistochemistric response of BDNF were analyzed in the hippocampal dentate gyrus at $7^{th}$ day, $14^{th}$ day. Results : In passive avoidance test, the outcome of experimental group was different significantly than the control group at the $7^{th}$ day, $14^{th}$ day. In spatial learning and memory ability test, the outcome of experimental group was different significantly than the control group at the $7^{th}$ day, $14^{th}$ day. In immunohistochemistric response of BDNF in the hippocampal dentate gyrus, experimental groups was more increased than control group. Conclusion : These result suggest that improved cognitive function by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation after focal ischemic stroke is associated with dynamically altered expression of BDNF in hippocampal dentate gyrus and that is related with synaptic plasticity.

Analysis of DOA Estimation and Adaptive Beam-forming of MIMO between Linear-circular Array Antennas (선형-원형배열 안테나에 따른 MIMO의 DOA 추정과 적응 빔성형 분석)

  • Yang, Doo-Yeong;Lee, Min-Soo
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.2777-2784
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, DOA(direction of arrival) of multiple incident signals received from linear array antenna and circular array antenna, which is based on nonparametric estimation algorithm, and adaptive beam-forming algorithm are studied and analyzed. In nonparametric estimation algorithm, we minimize a regularized objective function for finding a estimate of the signal energy as a function of angle, using nonquadratic norm which leads to supper resolution and noise suppression. And then, DOA is estimated by the signal and noise spatial steering vector, and adaptive beam-forming pattern is improved by weight vectors obtained from the spatial vector. Especially, the discrimination ability of DOA and the adaptive beam-forming ability according to antenna array methods and the number of array elements are compared and considered.

Analysis of Business Strategy and Industrial Policy Based on the Characteristics of ITS Industry (ITS산업의 특성에 따른 기업전략 및 산업정책 분석)

  • Lee, Young-Man;Lee, Bong-Gyou
    • Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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    • v.3 no.1 s.5
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    • pp.109-116
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    • 2001
  • ITS industry has general characteristics of Information Economy such as network externality and information duplex. It also has characteristics exclusive to ITS including timing and locality of information, spontaneous monopolist ability, public use, and system integration. Due to its characteristics ITS industry demands different business strategies and industrial policies from past economy. Reflecting on network externality, it would be more effective to open and mutually share or build a strategic coalition among the competitors and share the market, standardization at early stage is necessary for the market maturation. Reflecting its coexistent characteristics of spontaneous monopolistic ability, public use and profitability in ITS industry it is desirable to make determination on supply source and financial funding source for each system after reviewing public usage and profitability. ITS industry characteristics in Information Economy and the effects of these characteristics on business strategy and industrial policy are analyzed in this research.

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A Study on Stochastic Simulation Models to Internally Validate Analytical Error of a Point and a Line Segment (포인트와 라인 세그먼트의 해석적 에러 검증을 위한 확률기반 시뮬레이션 모델에 관한 연구)

  • Hong, Sung Chul;Joo, Yong Jin
    • Spatial Information Research
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.45-54
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    • 2013
  • Analytical and simulation error models have the ability to describe (or realize) error-corrupted versions of spatial data. But the different approaches for modeling positional errors require an internal validation that ascertains whether the analytical and simulation error models predict correct positional errors in a defined set of conditions. This paper presents stochastic simulation models of a point and a line segm ent to be validated w ith analytical error models, which are an error ellipse and an error band model, respectively. The simulation error models populate positional errors by the Monte Carlo simulation, according to an assumed error distribution prescribed by given parameters of a variance-covariance matrix. In the validation process, a set of positional errors by the simulation models is compared to a theoretical description by the analytical error models. Results show that the proposed simulation models realize positional uncertainties of the same spatial data according to a defined level of positional quality.

Spatial Autocorrelation within a Korean Population of Alnus hirsuta (한국내 물오리나무(Ainus hirsuta) 집단의 공간적 상관관계)

  • Park, Joo-Soo
    • Journal of Life Science
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.345-350
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    • 2004
  • The present study was investigated microgeographic variations to spatial autocorrelation in the Korean alder, Alnus hirsuta. Separate counts of each type of join (combination of genotypes at a single locus) for each allele, and for each distance class of separation, were tested for significant deviation from random expectations by calculating the Standard Normal Deviation (SND). Moran's I was significantly different from the expected value in 24 of 120 cases (20.0%). 17 of these values (14.2%) were significantly negative, indicating genetic dissimilarity among pairs of individuals in the ten distance classes. Many Korean populations of alder are small and are distributed by men for firewood. This occasional cutting of seed-bearing stems may bring a high level of gene flow. In addition, stump sprouting ability also may contribute to the fact that the Chengkwang population at Gijang is unusual in lacking spatial genetic structure.

The improve of hemiplegic patients functional ambulation profile by forceful respiratory exercise (노력성 호흡운동을 통한 편마비환자의 기능적 보행지수 개선)

  • Kim Byung-jo;Bae Sung-soo;Hwang-bo Gak
    • The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.32-48
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this study was to evaluate the change of functional ambulation profile(FAP) and temporal-spatial gait parameters in hemiplegic patient by forceful respiratory exercise. 28 Hemiplegic patients due to stroke was randomized in 3 groups, forceful expiratory training(FET), forceful inspiratory training(FIT) and control group. In the experimental groups, ordinary physical therapy with forceful expiratory training and forceful inspiratory training for 20 minutes duration 3 times per week for 6 weeks were respectively performed. In the control group, only ordinary physical therapy was done. FAP and temporal-spatial gait parameters was measured at before and after experiments. The results of this experimental study were as follows : 1. In comparison of FAP before and after experiment, the FAP was significantly increased in the FET and FIT group (p<.01). In comparison of difference of FAP among 3 groups, there was the significant difference between the FIT group and the control group (p<.05). 2. The results of temporal-spatial gait parameters are as follows : 1) In comparison of gait velocity before and after experiment, the gait velocity was significantly increased in the FET and FIT group (p<.05). In comparison of difference of the gait velocity among 3 groups, there was the significantly difference between the FIT group and the control group (p<.05). 2) In comparison of gait cadence before and after experiment, the gait cadence was significantly increased in FIT group (p<.05). In comparison of the difference of the gait cadence among 3 groups, there was no significant difference between the FIT group and the control group (p>.05). Based on these results, it is concluded that the forced respiratory exercise program for 6 weeks can be improve the FAP and temporal-spatial gait parameters in hemiplegic patients. Therefore, the forced respiratory exercise is useful to improve the walking ability in hemiplegic patients.

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Research on the Association Between Emotional Perception Bias and Deteriorated Visuospatial Attention Allocation Ability in Increasing the Level of Social Phobia (사회공포증 수준의 증가에 따라 나타난 정서지각 편향성과 시공간 주의배분능력 저하 간의 관련성 연구)

  • Kim, Sang-Yub;Jung, Jae-Bum;Nam, Ki-Chun
    • Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.35-50
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    • 2020
  • This study aimed to investigate the changes of emotional perception biases according to the level of social phobia and the relationship with visuospatial attention allocation ability. This study used the Korean self-report assessment test (Korean version of social avoidance and distress, K-SAD) to measure the level of social phobia. Moreover, the emotional perception and useful field of view (UFOV) tasks were employed for measuring emotional perception biases and visuospatial attention allocation ability, respectively. A total of 118 participants participated in this experiment, and only 107 (males: 94, females: 13) data were analyzed due to the exclusion of response errors and other statistical problems. The average age of the participants used in the analysis was 21 years (SD: 3.64), and those participants were divided into three groups according to the K-SAD scores. Consequently, all experimental groups showed negative emotional perception biases in the emotional perception task, but the magnitudes of the biases of each group were not significantly different. Furthermore, the positive emotional perception biases were higher at higher levels of social phobia, which could be related to the tendency of interpreting positive stimuli negatively. In the UFOV task, the higher the level of social phobia, the lower the visuospatial attention allocation ability. These results suggest that the deterioration of visuospatial attention allocation ability potentially contributes to the increase of positive emotional perception biases by being difficult to perceive external stimuli. Thus, this paper discusses the potential contribution of visuospatial attention allocation ability to the increased perceptual biases of positive emotions as the level of social phobia increases.

Effects of Young Children's Social Development and Picture Representation Ability On Wordless Picture Books Activities (글 없는 그림책 활동이 유아의 그림 표상능력과 사회성 발달에 미치는 영향)

  • Kang, Kyoung-Hee;Choi, Gee-Youn;Min, Sun-Hee;Kim, Young-Sook
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.19 no.8
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    • pp.441-448
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    • 2018
  • This study examined the effects of Children's Social Development and Picture Representation Ability on Wordless Picture Books Activities. The study subjects were 30 children aged 3 years in K kindergarten: 15 in the experimental group and 15 in the comparative group. The experimental group was exposed to Wordless Picture Books Activities for 8 weeks. Image representation ability and social development test were conducted in both groups before and after the study. The after Wordless Picture Books Activities were found to be effective in linking various colors, detailed descriptions, harmonious spatial representations, various shapes, subject-related representations, uniqueness of representations, completeness of figure representations, and language representations. These study results are expected to validate the educational value of the wordless picture books meaningfully as teaching-learning materials in the field of early childhood education.