• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.145-164
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• 2015

Bridge scour is the predominant cause of overwater bridge failures in North America and around the world. Several sensing systems have been developed over the years to detect the extent of scour so that preventative actions can be performed in a timely manner. These sensing systems have drawbacks, such as signal inaccuracy and discontinuity, installation difficulty, and high cost. Therefore, attempts to develop more efficient monitoring schemes continue. In this study, the viability of using optical dissolved oxygen (DO) probes for monitoring scour depths was explored. DO levels are very low in streambed sediments, as compared to the standard level of oxygen in flowing water. Therefore, scour depths can be determined by installing sensors to monitor DO levels at various depths along the buried length of a bridge pier or abutment. The measured DO is negligible when a sensor is buried but would increase significantly once scour occurs and exposes the sensor to flowing water. A set of experiments was conducted in which four dissolved oxygen probes were embedded at different soil depths in the vicinity of a mock bridge pier inside a laboratory flume simulating scour conditions. The results confirmed that DO levels jumped drastically when sensors became exposed during scour hole evolution, thereby providing discrete measurements of the maximum scour depth. Moreover, the DO probes could detect any subsequent refilling of the scour hole through the deposition of sediments. The effect of soil permeability on the sensing response time was also investigated.

• 한국보육지원학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.175-201
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• 2019

Objective: This study aims to develop and validate the musicality level of an individual child, based on the on performance tasks rubrics. Methods: The survey was conducted on 284 children(ages 3-5years old from kindergartens and day care centers), their parents, and their 51 teachers. The collected data were calculated and analyzed using SPSS 22.0 and AMOS 22.0. Results: Consisted of two components, two task types, 17 performance tasks, and 41 items in three dimensions. Rubrics were determined and based on the child's best performance, and categorized into five levels. Lastly, the item difficulty and item discriminating power were defined in order to comprehend the item quality analysis, which showed that average scores varied depending on the performance. Conclusion/Implications: The musicality rating scale for young children is significant in order to comprehend musicality levels through the performances of children aged three to five. This study has educational implications in that teachers can connect the results of the ratings to curriculum and promote the development of teaching and learning methodologies based on the musicality levels of individual children.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.396-406
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• 2006

In this study, elementary school students' science learning characteristics together with the levels of inquiry requirement in elementary school science experiment instruction were investigated in terms of the affective domain. We divided seventy-three students of the fifth ade into two groups according to the levels of inquiry requirement. After each instruction had been implemented, the characteristics of the students' learning in terms of the affective domain were compared and analyzed within the context of the levels of inquiry requirement. There were no significant differences between Level 1(LL) and Level 2(HL) groups in terms of the affective characteristics. These results may be caused by the burden imposed by the difficulty in thinking through and setting up the experimental methods. However, the HL group students' levels of interest in science experiments was higher than that of the LL group. In conclusion, the HL instruction contributed little to the improvement of affective characteristics. Some possible reasons might be that students felt difficulties with the somewhat unfamiliar instructions which required them to design and perform experiments. Higher levels of interest in science experiments amongst HL students' implies that well-organized and continuous exercises involving the design and performance of experiments could improve students' scientific affective characteristics.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈A:수학교육
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• 제50권3호
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• pp.263-284
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• 2011

We took note of the fact that there were not many studies on improvement of mathematics learning in the field of statistics for the minority students from the families who belonged to the Low-SES. This study was to help them understand the concepts and principles of mathematics, motivate them for mathematics learning, and have them feel familiar with it. The subjects were 12 students from the low-SES families among the sophomores of 00 High School in Gyeonggi-do. Although it could not be achieved effectively in the short-term of learning for the slow learners, their understanding of basic concepts and confidence, interests and concerns in statistical learning were remarkably changed, compared to their work in the beginning period. Our discourse classes using various topics and examples were well perceived by the students whose performance was improved up to the 3rd thinking level of Mooney's framework. Also, a meaningful instructional model for slow learners(IMSL) was found through the discourse.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.227-239
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• 2020

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to introduce the improving attorney system. It was confirmed by document writing that the staff in the field in Korea had the most difficulty in the Quality circle activities. The reform improving attorney is a quality expert at the Quality Secretariat and assists them in their documentation. Methods: Just as a patent attorney helps to get a patent, an improving attorney system helps document the improvement results of the field Quality circle and even standardizes the company. The process of introducing an improving attorney includes the declaration of an improving attorney are 11 levels of work. Results: An improving attorney was conducted in 600 organizations for 18 months. As a result of the comparison of the number of cases before and after the introduction of the improving attorney, the number of solution problem was lowered to 9 before 2016 and 8 in 2017, but after the introduction, it increased exponentially to 181 in 2018 and 162 in August 2019. In 2016 and 2017, only one standard was registered, but 64 standards were registered in 2018 and 71 in 2019. Conclusion: In this case, the improving attorney system was found to be helpful in activating the Quality circle. It is expected to revitalize Korea's Quality circle by spreading the improving attorney system to many companies.

• 한국전문물리치료학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.40-48
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• 2014

Differential item functioning (DIF) based on Rasch model can be used to examine whether the items function similarly across different groups and identify items that appear to be too easy or difficult after controlling for the ability levels of the compared groups. The Oswestry low back pain disability (Oswestry) has traditionally been proved as an effective instrument measuring disability resulting from low back pain (LBP). In this study, DIF method was used to explore whether items on the Oswestry perform similarly across two different groups (participants with LBP and no LBP). A series of Rasch analyses on the 10 items of the Oswestry were performed using Winsteps$^{(R)}$ software. Forty-two participants with back pain were recruited from 3 rehabilitation hospitals in Gainesville, Florida. Another 42 participants with no LBP were recruited from several public places in the rehabilitation hospitals. Based on the DIF analysis across the two groups, several items were found to have an uniform DIF. Participants with no LBP had more difficulty on lifting and personal care items and participants with LBP had more difficulty on sleeping and social life items. For non-LBP group, a high ceiling effects (83% of participants with non-LBP) was detected, which was not be able to be effectively measured with the Oswestry items. Although 4 items of the Oswestry function differently across the two groups, all items of the Oswestry were well targeted the LBP group.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.159-166
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• 2023

Due to the aging workforce in the construction industry in South Korea, the accident rate has been increasing. The cognitive abilities of older workers are closely related to both safety incidents and labor productivity. Therefore, there is a need to improve cognitive abilities through personalized training based on cognitive assessment results, using cognitive training content, in order to enable safe performance in labor-intensive environments. The provided cognitive training content includes concentration, memory, oreintation, attention, and executive functions. Difficulty levels were applied to each content to enhance user engagement and interest. To stimulate interest and encourage active participation of the participants, the difficulty level was automatically adjusted based on feedback from the MMSE-DS results and content measurement data. Based on the accumulated data, individual training scenarios have been set differently to intensively improve insufficient cognitive skills, and cognitive training programs will be developed to reduce safety accidents at construction sites through measured data and research. Through such simple cognitive training, it is expected that the reduction of accidents in the aging construction workforce can lead to a decrease in the social costs associated with prolonged construction periods caused by accidents.

• 한국건축시공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국건축시공학회 2021년도 봄 학술논문 발표대회
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• pp.265-266
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• 2021

Recently, the importance of disaster prevention has emerged as serious accidents have occurred frequently, in which workers died or seriously injured at industrial sites. In response, the government enacted the 'Act on the Punishment of Major Disasters' to strengthen the responsibility, punishment intensity, and regulation of business owners for accidents at the site. In particular, the construction industry accounts for a large proportion of serious accidents, so safety levels need to be raised through on-site management. This study aims to reduce the occurrence of disasters at construction sites and to improve the work efficiency of safety managers. To derive detailed elements of the safety manager's work, domestic and overseas cases were investigated. The derived items were analyzed for the difficulty and preventive effects of the work through a survey of experts, and they will contribute to disaster prevention by presenting tasks to be focused and suggesting ways to improve inefficient tasks.

• 과학교육연구지
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.293-302
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• 2012

이 연구는 중학교 1학년 과학과 총괄 지필평가 출제경향을 조사하기 지필평가 문항의 행동영역, 내용영역, 문항유형, 난이도에 대하여 조사 분석하였다. 10개의 중학교의 1차와 2차 지필평가 문항의 총 645개를 연구대상으로 하여 분석하였다. 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 지필평가 문항의 행동영역은 '지식, 이해' 수준으로 편중되어 있으며, 적용, 분석, 종합, 평가 영역의 문항은 거의 출제가 되고 있지 않았다. 둘째, 내용영역은 기존의 연구의 결과에 비해 과학적 탐구과정의 출제 빈도수가 많아졌지만, 여전히 과학지식을 묻는 문항이 과학적 탐구과정의 문항과 비교하여 두 배 이상의 비율로 출제되고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 셋째, 문항유형은 선다형 문항 중심으로 출제 되고 있는 것으로 조사되었다. 넷째, 정답률을 기준으로 문항의 난이도를 분석한 결과, 전체적인 빈도수에서 '상'에 해당하는 문항의 비율은 교사가 목표로 하는 난이도 비율보다 낮았으며, '중'의 비율은 교사가 생각하는 난이도 비율보다 높은 것으로 조사되었다. 과학학습에 대한 다양한 영역의 총체적인 평가를 위해서는 교사의 평가 및 문항 개발의 전문성 신장에 대한 노력이 이루어져야 할 것이다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.38-46
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• 2009

웹 문서 수가 급격히 증가함에 따라 인터넷을 검색할 때마다 발생하는 정보의 과부하 문제가 심각하게 부각되었다. 이러한 문제를 경감시키기 위해 사용자의 선호도에 부합하는 웹 환경을 조성하여 주는 등의 개인화 작업이 주목을 받고 있으나, 대부분의 검색 엔진은 사용자 질의어에만 초점을 두어 응답결과를 산출하고 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 사용자의 이해수준에 따른 개인화된 검색 결과를 추출하는 방식에 대해 연구한다. 기존 연구와 차별화된 특징은 사용자 이해 수준을 고려하여 그에 맞는 난이도의 문서들이 우선적으로 검색되게 하는 것이다. 문서에 접근한 사용자들의 이해수준을 바탕으로 문서난이도를 변경시켜 주고, 사용자의 이해수준은 사용자가 접근한 문서 난이도를 바탕으로 주기적으로 변경시켜, 문서 난이도와 사용자 이해수준이 상호 연계되며 변경되도록 하였다. 본 논문의 결과를 적용한 웹 검색 시스템은 다양한 연령충의 웹 사용자들에게 매우 유익한 결과를 가져다 줄 것이다.