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Preliminary Report of Validity for the Infant Comprehensive Evaluation for Neurodevelopmental Delay, a Newly Developed Inventory for Children Aged 12 to 71 Months

  • Hong, Minha;Lee, Kyung-Sook;Park, Jin-Ah;Kang, Ji-Yeon;Shin, Yong Woo;Cho, Young Il;Moon, Duk-Soo;Cho, Seongwoo;Hwangbo, Ram;Lee, Seung Yup;Bahn, Geon Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.16-23
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    • 2022
  • Objectives: Early detection of developmental issues in infants and necessary intervention are important. To identify the comorbid conditions, a comprehensive evaluation is required. The study's objectives were to 1) generate scale items by identifying and eliciting concepts relevant to young children (12-71 months) with developmental delays, 2) develop a comprehensive screening tool for developmental delay and comorbid conditions, and 3) assess the tool's validity and cut-off. Methods: Multidisciplinary experts devised the "Infant Comprehensive Evaluation for Neurodevelopmental Delay (ICEND)," an assessment method that comes in two versions depending on the age of the child: 12-36 months and 37-71 months, through monthly seminars and focused group interviews. The ICEND is composed of three parts: risk factors, resilience factors, and clinical scales. In parts 1 and 2, there were 41 caretakers responded to the questionnaires. Part 3 involved clinicians evaluating ten subscales using 98 and 114 questionnaires for younger and older versions, respectively. The Child Behavior Checklist, Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, Infant-Toddler Social Emotional Assessment, and Korean Developmental Screening Test for Infants and Children were employed to analyze concurrent validity with the ICEND. The analyses were performed on both typical and high-risk infants to identify concurrent validity, reliability, and cut-off scores. Results: A total of 296 people participated in the study, with 57 of them being high-risk (19.2%). The Cronbach's alpha was positive (0.533-0.928). In the majority of domains, the ICEND demonstrated a fair discriminatory ability, with a sensitivity of 0.5-0.7 and specificity 0.7-0.9. Conclusion: The ICEND is reliable and valid, indicating its potential as an auxiliary tool for assessing neurodevelopmental delay and comorbid conditions in children aged 12-36 months and 37-71 months.

Development of Medical Image Quality Assessment Tool Based on Chest X-ray (흉부 X-ray 기반 의료영상 품질평가 보조 도구 개발)

  • Gi-Hyeon Nam;Dong-Yeon Yoo;Yang-Gon Kim;Joo-Sung Sun;Jung-Won Lee
    • KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.243-250
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    • 2023
  • Chest X-ray is radiological examination for xeamining the lungs and haert, and is particularly widely used for diagnosing lung disease. Since the quality of these chest X-rays can affect the doctor's diagnosis, the process of evaluating the quality must necessarily go through. This process can involve the subjectivity of radiologists and is manual, so it takes a lot of time and csot. Therefore, in this paper, based on the chest X-ray quality assessment guidelines used in clinical settings, we propose a tool that automates the five quality assessments of artificial shadow, coverage, patient posture, inspiratory level, and permeability. The proposed tool reduces the time and cost required for quality judgment, and can be further utilized in the pre-processing process of selecting high-quality learning data for the development of a learning model for diagnosing chest lesions.

Research on the Development of Big Data Analysis Tools for Engineering Education (공학교육 빅 데이터 분석 도구 개발 연구)

  • Kim, Younyoung;Kim, Jaehee
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.22-35
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    • 2023
  • As information and communication technology has developed remarkably, it has become possible to analyze various types of large-volume data generated at a speed close to real time, and based on this, reliable value creation has become possible. Such big data analysis is becoming an important means of supporting decision-making based on scientific figures. The purpose of this study is to develop a big data analysis tool that can analyze large amounts of data generated through engineering education. The tasks of this study are as follows. First, a database is designed to store the information of entries in the National Creative Capstone Design Contest. Second, the pre-processing process is checked for analysis with big data analysis tools. Finally, analyze the data using the developed big data analysis tool. In this study, 1,784 works submitted to the National Creative Comprehensive Design Contest from 2014 to 2019 were analyzed. As a result of selecting the top 10 words through topic analysis, 'robot' ranked first from 2014 to 2019, and energy, drones, ultrasound, solar energy, and IoT appeared with high frequency. This result seems to reflect the current core topics and technology trends of the 4th Industrial Revolution. In addition, it seems that due to the nature of the Capstone Design Contest, students majoring in electrical/electronic, computer/information and communication engineering, mechanical engineering, and chemical/new materials engineering who can submit complete products for problem solving were selected. The significance of this study is that the results of this study can be used in the field of engineering education as basic data for the development of educational contents and teaching methods that reflect industry and technology trends. Furthermore, it is expected that the results of big data analysis related to engineering education can be used as a means of preparing preemptive countermeasures in establishing education policies that reflect social changes.

Development and Application of a Tool for Measuring on a Scientist Image by the Semantic Differential Method (의미분석법에 의한 과학자 이미지 측정도구 개발 및 적용)

  • Youngwook Song;Hyukjoon Choi
    • Journal of Science Education
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    • v.48 no.1
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    • pp.63-73
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    • 2024
  • Knowing the learner's image of a subject-related occupation is good data for determining the direction of a teacher's teaching and learning. Existing drawing image analysis tools have the limitation that it takes a long time to analyze images and drawings of a scientist's appearance. The semantic differential method is a widely used method to analyze images of specific objects. However, research using the semantic differential method has the limitation of failing to reflect terms or factors that change over time by using the adjective pairs used in the initial study as they were in accordance with the research content. In this study, we use the semantic differential method to develop a tool to measure middle school students' scientist image and apply it to middle school students to discuss educational implications regarding the usefulness of measuring scientist image.

Evaluation of ICT Policy for the Agriculture and Rural Development in Developed Countries: A Comprehensive Lesson for Developing Countries

  • Hossain, Md. Dulal
    • Agribusiness and Information Management
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.61-80
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    • 2009
  • Information and Communication Technology is now widely accepted by developing countries as a development tool in their efforts to alleviate poverty, enhance human development, and achieve Millennium Development Goals. Recognizing this untapped potential and development strategies incorporating ICT are being increasingly promoted and launched across the developing countries requiring a comprehensive ICT policy that plays a crucial rule, in particular, in the area of agriculture and rural development. While the potential advantages of ICT for development are enormous in developed countries, national policies of developing countries are yet to adequately reflect truly comprehensive and integrated strategies for harnessing and exploiting this potential. This paper tries to provide implication of ICT policy to the agriculture and rural development in developing countries, in particular through lessons learned from European Union (EU) IT policy. Through the examination of vital projects in the agriculture and rural development sectors and case study analysis of applied policies and strategies implemented in the European Union, this paper provides tangible examples and lessons for policy-makers and practitioners involved in the field. Hence, this study provides policy-makers the necessary tools, information and knowledge to facilitate the formulation and adoption of ICT policies and strategies in the agriculture and rural development sector.

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Development of Rapid Tooling using Investment Casting & R/P Master Model (R/P 마스터 모델을 활용한 정밀주조 부품 및 쾌속금형 제작 공정기술의 개발)

  • Jeong, Hae-Do;Kim, Hwa-Young
    • Journal of Korea Foundry Society
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.330-335
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    • 2000
  • Functional metal prototypes are often required in numerous industrial applications. These components are typically needed in the early stage of a project to determine form, fit and function. Recent R/P(Rapid Prototyping) part are made of soft materials such as plastics, wax, paper, these master models cannot be employed durable test in real harsh working environment. Parts by direct metal rapid tooling method, such as laser sintering, by now are hard to get net shape, pores of the green parts of powder casting method must be infiltrated to get proper strength as tool, and new type of 3D direct tooling system combining fabrication welding arc and cutting process is reported. But a system which can build directly 3D parts of high performance functional material as metal park would get long period of system development, massive investment and other serious obstacles, such as patent. In this paper, through the rapid tooling process as silicon rubber molding using R/P master model, and fabricate wax pattern in that silicon rubber mold using vacuum casting method, then we translated the wax patterns to numerous metal tool prototypes by new investment casting process combined conventional investment casting with rapid prototyping & rapid tooling process. With this wax-injection-mold-free investment casting, we developed new investment casting process of fabricating numerous functional metal prototypes from one master model, combined 3-D CAD, R/P and conventional investment casting and tried to expect net shape measuring total dimension shrinkage from R/P pare to metal part.

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A Design and Development of Multi Air gun for suction and shooting a jet of compressed air (압축공기의 흡입과 분사를 위한 멀티 에어건의 설계 개발)

  • Jeong, Seok-Min;Jang, Sung-Min
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.13 no.11
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    • pp.4944-4949
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this paper is concerned with a development of air gun for use at work. A air gun is the tool to remove of cutting fluid and workpiece chip in industrial field used machine tool. And it generally is used to shoot a jet of compressed air. Worker must prepare respectively air gun for suction and shooting a jet of compressed air. Therefore we has developed new air gun. In this paper we research for design and analysis of it. The air gun is composed of body, pipe, opening and shutting unit, turning unit, air tube and elements for fabrication. The developed air gun is experimented to confirm the efficiency.

Development of a Nursing Professional Values Scale (간호전문직관 측정도구 개발)

  • Yeun, Eun-Ja;Kwon, Young-Mi;Ahn, Ok-Hee
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.35 no.6
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    • pp.1091-1100
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    • 2005
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument to measure nursing professional values. Method: Forty preliminary items were selected by classifying 223 basic items extracted via a literature study and in-depth interviews of subjects and testing the relevance of their contents. In order to verify the reliability and relevance of the preliminary instrument, data was collected from 504 nurses in 3 general hospitals. Result: As a result of the item analysis, 29 items were selected from a total of 40 items. Five factors were extracted by factor analysis, and the total variance was $51.5\%$. For the explanation of variances by factors, the 1 st factor, 'self-concept of the profession' accounted for $14.8\%$, the 2nd factor, 'social awareness' $12.1\%$, the 3rd factor, 'professionalism of nursing' $9.8\%$, the 4th factor, 'the roles of nursing service' $9.1\%$, and the 5th factor, 'originality of nursing', $5.6\%$. Cronbach's Alpha of those 29 items was .9168, which was high. Conclusion: This paper is meaningful in a way that it developed a tool capable of measuring nursing professional values, which reflects the characteristics of our country. In order to re-verify the relevance and stability of this tool, it is necessary that comparative studies should be conducted.

An Implementation of a Virtual RFID Emulator System using a Commercial CAD tool (상용 CAD 툴을 이용한 RFID 에뮬레이터 시스템 구현)

  • Lim, Hyung-Mu;Bae, Sung-Woo;Jung, Myung-Sub;Jang, Byung-Jun;Kim, Jun-O;Park, Jun-Seok;Seong, Yeong-Rak;Oh, Ha-Ryoung
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.1049-1054
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    • 2005
  • With the growth of RFID market in logistics industry, such as post office, airline, shipping etc., development of RFID readers and tags becomes crucial. Especially, $860{\sim}960MHz$ RFID is worth noticing because of its long identification range and low production cost. Therefore, performance tests and verification of reader and/or tag under development are very important. In this paper, a RFID emulator system is designed and implemented using a commercial CAD tool, a signal generator and a data acquisition device. With the RFID emulator system, many parameters such as spectrum masks, transmit power levels, data waveform and other RF characteristics can be analyzed. Furthermore it can be applied to the verification of real RFID Readers or Tags.

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Development a Tool Which Can be Used in Factor Analysis of Inequality on Mathematics Scholastic Achievement (수학 학업성취의 불평등을 측정할 수 있는 도구의 개발)

  • Lee, Kang-Sup;Park, Yong-Beom
    • Communications of Mathematical Education
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    • v.21 no.2 s.30
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    • pp.321-330
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study is to develop a tool which can be used in factor analysis of inequality on mathematics education. The objectives for study are develop an index that can be used to find a deviation of objects on mathematics scholastic achievement. The results of this study are deviation index of objects on mathematics scholastic achievement which development can be applications to Gini coefficient.

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