• Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.310-319
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• 2021

Background: Humidifier disinfectant exposure is an ongoing issue, and there is still considerable related controversy. Various approaches are needed to secure scientific evidence on the extent of the victims' damages and for the determination of appropriate compensation. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess the association between humidifier disinfectant (HD) use and academic achievement in Korean children. Methods: This study used data from the 8th Panel Study on Korean Children in 2015. For the final study, 1,598 cases were used. T-tests and multiple linear regression analyses were conducted to determine whether the use of humidifier disinfectant is a factor that affects academic ability. Results: Children in groups using humidifier disinfectant showed statistically significantly lower scores in all areas of language, including reading, speaking and writing, and statistically lower scores in all areas of mathematics, including counting, addition and subtraction. In the multiple regression analysis results, which control for the effects of various demographic/social variables, the use of humidifier disinfectants showed statistically significant beta coefficients (β: -0.357, p<0.001), negatively affecting children's language ability. As for the 'math' variable, which was created by combining counting, addition, and subtraction scores, the use of humidifier disinfectants as independent variables also showed statistically significant beta coefficients (β: -0.200, p<0.001), negatively affecting children's math ability. Conclusions: The results of the study showed that depending on whether or not humidifier disinfectants were used, there are differences in children's language abilities, such as reading, speaking, and writing, as well as in their mathematical abilities, such as counting, adding, and subtracting numbers. These findings are thought to serve as a scientific basis for extending the perspective from health effects to more diverse areas of demographic and social impact related to humidifier disinfectant damage and compensation.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.227-237
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• 2003

Conventional studies of Computer Assisted Instruction(CAI) and Intelligent Tutoring System(ITS) have been general patterns to solve problems, so to solve specialized problems, the learner which has the attitude of passiveness should to solve problems including unnecessary processing to the need of the system. Consequently, those are not support the process of creativity and individual problems for the learner to solve the fractional number operations as this study. This study is the design and implementation of ITS on the fractional number addition and subtraction for the supplementary student. Our system can diagnosis mistakes of learning and guide the student to know their errors of learning process automatically And our system assist the learners to study with self-initiative learning, replacement their lacking of learning and control the process of fractional addition and subtraction operation with creativity according to their level. We showed that this system had improved problems of lacking care to supplementary student result in are not enough teachers involved their school and that the learner had achieved the higher learning effect according to the improved self-initiative learning causing this system.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.237-255
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to investigate elementary school students' understanding the concept and operations of decimal fraction. The survey research was performed for this study. This survey was done by selecting 156 students. Questionnaire were made in five areas with reference to the 2007 revised mathematics curriculum. Five areas were the concept of decimal fraction, the addition, the subtraction, the multiplication and the division of decimal fraction. The results of such analysis are as follow: The analyzed result of understanding about concepts and operation of decimal fraction showed a high rate of correct answer, more than 85%. Students thought that multiplication and division of decimal fraction is more difficult than addition, subtraction, concept of decimal fraction. As the learning about concepts and operation of decimal fraction progress, the learning gap is bigger. Effort to reduce the learning deficits are needed in the lower grades. Mathematics is the study of the hierarchical. Learning deficits in low-level interfere with the learning in next-level. Therefore systematic supplementary guidance for a natural number and decimal fraction in low-level is needed. And understanding concepts and principles of calculations should be taught first.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.409-435
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• 2014

This study examines relations between the 5th graders' fraction operation skills and error types on constructed-response items. As results, first, the participants have lower fraction operation skills on 'multiplication of fraction' than 'addition and subtraction of fraction'. Second, the participants have different error types depend on their constructed-response items. Most of error types which group with high ability made was 'leap of solving process', both groups error type with medium ability as well as low ability is 'misunderstanding of questions'. Third, the operation skills on 'addition and subtraction of fraction' have an influence on their operation skills on 'multiplication of fraction', and error types of 'understanding of questions' and 'understanding of solving process' have the most effects on the influence.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.32B no.3
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• pp.24-30
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• 1995

The process of conventional floating-point additio $n_traction operation consists of alignment, additio $n_traction, normalization, and rounding stage. Because rounding stage needs an incrementor or adder, it occupies much time and chip area. In addition, it needs additional time and hardware for renormalization which occurs in overflow due to rounding In this paper, floating-point adde $r_tractor performing rounding and additio $n_traction in parallel is presented by using the feature of additio $n_traction and carry select adder used in additio $n_tracting stage. Proposed floating point adde $r_tractor doesn't need time and incrementor nor adder for rounding. Also, renormalization doesn't occur since rounding is performed prior to normalization.to normalization.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.961-967
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• 1986

A technique of optical image synthesis with an extended incoherent source is presented and compared with the coherent method. A holographic diffraction grating is fabricated by using Michelson interferometer, and by equalizing the 8th-order to the 2nd-order diffraction efficiency, complex amplitude addition and subtracdtion of optical images are simultaneously realized. The experiment shows that the quality of synthesized optical images in the incoherent method is improved in comparison with that of the coherent method by suppressing the coherent artifact noise.

• The Journal of Information Technology
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.39-47
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• 2009

Residue Number System is used for the purpose of increasing the speed of processing in the many application parts of Image Processing, Computer Graphic, Neural Computing, Digital Signal Processing etc, since it has the characteristic of parallelism and no carry propagation at each moduli. DRNS has the twice RNS Conversion, it is used to decreases the size of the operator in RNS. But it has a week point on the Second Residue to First Residue Conversion time. So, in this paper SRTFR(Second Residue to First Residue) Converter using MRC(Mixed Radix Conversion) is designed to decrease the size of RTB(Residue to Binary) Converter. Since the proposed SRTFR Converter using MRC(Mixed Rdix Convertion) has a pipeline processing. Also, modular operation is applied to at each partitioned SAM(Subtraction and Addition) and MA(Multiplication and addition). In the following study, the more effective design on MA is needed.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.527-540
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• 1998

In the teacher's guide of mathematics textbook for the 1st grade of the middle school, the clear and logical reason why the multiplication of negative number to negative number makes positive number, and $a^{-m}$ with a>0 and m>0, is defined by ${\frac{1}{a^m}}$ is not given. When we define the multiplication or the power by successive addition or successive multiplication of the same number, respectively, we encounter this ambiguity, in the case that the number of successive operations is negative, In this paper, we name this number, negative counting number, and we make the following more logical and intuitive definition, which is "negatively many successive operations is defined by positively many successive inverse operations." According to this new definition, we define the multiplication by the successive addition or the successive subtraction of the same number, when the multiplier is positive or negative respectively, and the power by the successive multiplication or the power is positive or negative, respectively. In addition, using this new definition and following the E.R.S Instruction strategy which revised and complemented the Bruner's E.I.S Instruction strategy, we develope new teaching model available in the 1st grade class of middle school where the concept of integers, three operations of integers are introduced.ntroduced.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.21-32
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• 2022

Minimalism is an increasingly popular lifestyle in which people deliberately seek to live with fewer possessions. However, little scientific research has been done to examine the relationships between minimalism, social value, and happiness. Two recent studies have investigated whether critical components of minimalism, such as subtraction and decluttering could lead to changes in social values and happiness. In Study 1, the participants were presented with pictures of unstable Lego structures for which they were asked to create ideas to resolve problems, either through adding new supports or removing the existing ones. Participants with a stronger tendency to use subtractive transformations reported higher happiness scores. In addition, higher scores in intrinsic value preferences were correlated with higher levels of happiness. In Study 2, cuing minimalism or consumerism using pictures led to changes in materialistic values, motivation for social engagement, and reported happiness scores. These results imply that minimalism as an alternative lifestyle can contribute to social wellbeing and increased happiness. Limitations and implications for future studies are discussed.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.1537-1545
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• 2016

In real time video sequence, object segmentation and tracking method are actively applied in various application tasks, such as surveillance system, mobile robots, augmented reality. This paper propose a robust object tracking method. The background models are constructed by learning the initial part of each video sequences. After that, the moving objects are detected via object segmentation by using background subtraction method. The region of detected objects are continuously tracked by using the HSV color histogram with particle filter. The proposed segmentation method is superior to average background model in term of moving object detection. In addition, the proposed tracking method provide a continuous tracking result even in the case that multiple objects are existed with similar color, and severe occlusion are occurred with multiple objects. The experiment results provided with 85.9 % of average object overlapping rate and 96.3% of average object tracking rate using two video sequences.