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Studies on Post Contract Schedule Analysis (준공현장의 분쟁해결방안으로서의 사후적 공정분석에 관한 연구)

  • KIHYUK, KO;SUNGPIL, PARK;YONGKIL, KIM
    • Journal of Arbitration Studies
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.103-141
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    • 2022
  • Traditionally, schedule analysis in Korea has been used, mainly through the Critical Path Method, to evaluate the claim for extension of time and/or the amount of liquidated damages for delay. Critical path method, however, cannot identify the delay event and its impact occurred in non-critical path especially in multi facility projects. In multi facility projects that comprise several independent but related facilities or structures, each facility has its own facility critical path the duration of which will be impacted by facility specific critical delays. Thus, only through the non-critical delay analysis along with the critical delay analysis damages not attributable to contractors may be remedied in full. Because all the records and pictures can reveal what has actually happened in post contract review, only the retrospective analysis rather than the prospective analysis based on the assumptions can establish the cause and allocate the each parties' responsibilities appropriately.

A Cross-Cultural Study on Student Engagement and Resistance to Critical Literacy in a TESOL MA Classroom

  • Pederson, Rod
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.36
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    • pp.175-209
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    • 2014
  • This paper reports on a qualitative examining the cross-cultural reasons for student engagement and resistance to critical literacy in a three week summer TESOL MA course that was part of a Korean/American university faculty exchange program. Of particular interest was the unique diversity of the class which consisted of 13 subjects from 9 different nations. Using student and instructor reflective journals, field notes on classroom observations, and the course terminal paper on student's philosophies of education as research corpora, results of the study revealed that students resisted instruction in critical literacy for ideological and epistemological reasons. Nonetheless, the data also showed that while all students resisted some theories in critical literacy, all students nonetheless engaged the course content in meaningful ways.

Ubiquitous Crisis and Renormalization Approach for e-commerce : Critical Phenomena and Emergence of Phase Transition ; Logarithmic convergence

  • Ito, Ken;Kazuomi;Fukuta, Takanari
    • Proceedings of the CALSEC Conference
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    • 2004.02a
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    • pp.89-97
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    • 2004
  • 1. Introduction; Fundamental Difference between conventional old commerce and e-commerce? 2. "Quantity changes into Quality"; Phase transition and Critical phenomena Logarithmic Convergence and Emergence of Quality 3. Networked Small World; Indications from Genomics; Power-Law Ordered Plain Structure of Super-Complex System ⇔ The Structure of e-Biz. 4. Uniquitous Crisis to Ubiquitous Critical Points for the Emergence of Qualified Business with e-strucrure

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The Concept of the Public as Agreement-oriented Discursive Political Participants and Critical Communication Studies in South Korea (동의에 지향된 담론적 정치 참여자로서의 공중 개념과 한국의 비판적 커뮤니케이션 연구)

  • Kim, Jeongho
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.70
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    • pp.189-218
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    • 2015
  • This article examines not the term "the public" or "publics"-which has various meanings-but its particular meaning, which is a group of citizens who engage in political discussion and debate with fellow citizens in order to form shared understandings and common judgments with regard to contemporary affairs and public issues. The goal of this article is to show the importance of this concept in critical studies of media and society and to analyze how this concept has been accepted in South Korean critical communication studies. In this article, critical communication studies refer to communication studies that aim to explore social meanings of communication phenomena. This article argues that little attention has been paid to the concept of the public as agreement-oriented discursive political participants in South Korean critical communication studies.

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A Critique on the Critical Communication Studies and Journalism Focused on the Neoliberalism in Korea (신자유주의에 대한 언론과 비판언론학 비판)

  • Sohn, Seok-Choon
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.45
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    • pp.49-76
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this essay explores a critical review of the critical communication studies and Journalism focused on the neoliberalism in Korea. The majority of social member in Korea does not know the concept of neoliberalism, and just recognize it as a 'global standard.' This essay is analyzing Korean journalism which causes this phenomenon primarily. Nonetheless, the critical communication studies was negligent in criticism on journalism. Any research paper in was not analyzed the connection between neoliberalism and journalism At last this essay proposed that the critical communication studies should establish their identity themselves to critically analyze the journalism trying to protect the neoliberalism in one way, and become more critical to the press itself to raise the relationship with journalism spot.

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근거 중심 치의학 - 2. 근거 수준과 비판적 평가

  • Hong, Soon-Min
    • The Journal of the Korean dental association
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    • v.45 no.3 s.454
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    • pp.169-181
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    • 2007
  • In this second part of series report on evidence-based dentistry, the level of evidence and the methods for critical appraisal are discussed. The epidemiologic studies, namely clinical studies have some bias per se, and the degree of bias is somewhat predetermined by the study design. The level of evidence can be defined as the reliability of the clinical study and it is dependent on the degree of bias. Thus, it is important to determine the type of the study and to understand its structure before critically appraising them. Systematic reviews of primary studies, randomized controlled trials, nonrandomized clinical trials, cohort studies, case-control studies, and case reports / series constitute the clinical studies and the level of evidence follows the order of the studies listed above. Critical appraisal is the most important procedure in evidence-based dentistry. It is done to determine the credibility of research papers and their usefulness in the clinician s own practice. Critical appraisal is consisted of multiple questions that are helpful for evaluating validity and usefulness of the studies concerning therapy, diagnosis, prognosis, and causation.

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Analysis of Research Studies Published in Journal of Korean Critical Care Nursing : 2008-2013 (중환자간호학회지 2008~2013년 게재 논문 분석)

  • Son, Youn-Jung;Kang, Jiyeon;Song, Hyo-Jeong;Park, Young-Rye;Lee, Yun-Mi;Park, Jin-Hee;Kim, Minju
    • Journal of Korean Critical Care Nursing
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.78-88
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    • 2013
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the trends in studies published in Journal of Korean Critical Care Nursing (JKCCN) from 2008 to 2013. Methods: A total of 65 studies published between 2008 to 2013 were reviewed using criteria developed by researchers. Results: Approximately 36% of studies were conducted with patients. Intensive care unit (ICU) was the most popular site as the study setting. Among 59 research papers, 42.4% were approved by institutional review board (IRB). Quantitative studies were 78.6%, while qualitative studies were 4.6%. The research designs for the quantitative studies were survey (52.3%), quasi-experimental (16.9%), and so on. There was no randomized controlled trial. The most frequently used methods to provide nursing intervention was education. In addition, "nurse" and "ICU" were most commonly used keyword. Conclusion: Considering the low rate of IRB approval, more stringent application of research ethics is necessary to improve the quality of JKCCN. In addition, more randomized controlled trials should be encouraged to support evidence-based practice in critical care.

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Conscientization and the Discursive Construction of Identity Across cultures: Using Literacy Autobiography as a Reflective and Analytical Tool

  • Pederson, Rod
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.20
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    • pp.149-182
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    • 2010
  • This paper reports on an ongoing study that utilizes the literacy autobiographies of 10 Asian and 10 Western graduate students from TESOL Masters programs in Korea and America as data for a cross cultural study on the discursive process of identity formation and the development of critical consciousness (Freire, 2000). While the data suggests similarities and differences between cultures in terms of the effects of education, social relationships, media, and religion, no definitive claims may be made due to the small size of the research corpus. However, analysis of the data revealed that only four of the narratives could be judged as engaging in critical introspection of individual subjects systems of knowledge, values, and beliefs, as opposed to the other narratives that were primarily descriptive of individual personal experiences. As such, this study found that while the willingness and ability to engage in the critical practices which lead to the development of a critical consciousness are similar across cultures, they may be mediated by the literacy practices inscribed in education, media, and other social practices.

A Study of the Trends in Korean Nursing Research on Critical Care in the Last 10 Years (2008-2017) Using Integrated Review and Key Word Analysis (통합적 고찰과 키워드 분석을 이용한 최근 10년(2008-2017) 동안의 국내 중환자간호 연구 동향 분석)

  • Kang, Jiyeon;Kim, Soo Gyeong;Cho, Young Shin;Ko, Hyunyoung;Back, Ji Hyun;Lee, Su Jin
    • Journal of Korean Critical Care Nursing
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.75-85
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    • 2018
  • Purpose : The purpose of this study was to examine the possible direction of critical care nursing research in the future by analyzing the trends of recent Korean studies. Method : Using a database search, we selected 263 articles on critical care nursing that were published in Korean journals between 2008 and 2017. Then, we conducted an integrative review of the contents of the selected articles and analyzed the English abstracts using the relevant packages and functions of the R program. Results : The number of studies concerning critical care nursing has increased over the 10-year period, and the specific topic of each study has diversified according to the time at which it was conducted. In terms of quality, the majority of the research was published in high-level academic journals. The key words regularly studied over the past decade were: knowledge, delirium, education, restraint, stress, and infection. Studies related to vancomycin-resistant enterococci infection, compliance, and standards have decreased, while studies related to death, communication, and safety have increased. Conclusion : Randomized controlled trials and protocol research for evidence-based critical care need to be conducted, as does research on family involvement. The key word analysis of unstructured text used in this study is a relatively new method; it is suggested that this method be applied to various critical care nursing research and develop it methodologically.

Critical Studies as Culture-based Art Education (문화중심 미술교육으로서의 비평학습)

  • Park, Jeong-Ae
    • The Journal of Art Theory & Practice
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    • no.1
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    • pp.71-92
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    • 2003
  • This study examined the condition of an educational discourse, relating the concept of creativity, culture, culture-centered, and critical thinking, to explore Culture-based Art Education(CBAE). In particular, art education practice was examined using interpretations of creativity and critical theory positions from the field of education. Discourse analysis was used as the research method to contextually situate and analyze the ways in which art education theory and practice of creativity and of critical studies encoded meanings. The study helped build an understanding that creativity was formed as a modernist discourse in the humanistic stance. In education, creativity became the fundamental concern for progressive educators who pursued innate ability of individuals. The way to enhance creative potential of students was to induce their motive, as was the same case in art education, while in artist training, free expression was its main method. In this way, as creativity was intimately connected with the concept of expression, in art education art making is the only course for enhancing creativity. However, because creative process cannot intelligently be regarded as logically distinct from the creative product, and creativity can only be said by product, it seems valid to think that creativity is the quality not to be achieved by teaching. Furthermore, its emphasis on art making resulted in unbalance of art making and art appreciation in art education. It was the late sixties when several alternatives for creative education were made their appearance. Critical studies in art adopted critical theory as its theoretical background has developed as an alternative of creative art education, when research and theory for creativity could not be adequate to deal with the problem of practice. Critical theory is a broad and diverse field of theory and practice drawing on aspects of the modernist perspective of the later Frankfurt School, feminism, Freirean pedagogy, postcolonial discourse as well as postmodernism to construct a practical approach to education. It is very this eclectic nature to provide the mosaic that need to experience cultures from different perspectives in a pluralistic society. Because one's personality is formed by multiple aspects of culture which is very complex and is made up of what we do and value, creativity cannot make part of educational discourse with the philosophy of culture centered. On the other hand, critical studies, as a school art program of critical theory, can perform the role of CBAE, because it would have to deal with the investigation of social and cultural issues form multiple personal, local, national, and global perspectives.

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