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Creating Makerspaces in Nigerian Public Libraries as a Strategy for Attaining National Integration and Development

  • Aiyeblehin, James Afebuameh;Onyam, Ijeoma Dora;Akpom, Chinwendu Chizoba
    • International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.19-31
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    • 2018
  • The recognition of public libraries as development partners places an onus on public libraries to provide services that will enhance national integration and development. Whereas libraries have been known to provide information resources in various formats, recent developments around the world have shown that it is no longer enough to provide information to users. Users are being encouraged to become knowledge producers and not just consumers. In this regard, libraries are rethinking their strategies. One of the consequences of this, is the creation of makerspaces: a space for creating things within the library. This paper explores the prospects of makerspaces in Nigerian public libraries. The paper identified how makerspaces could lead to national development by providing access to technology, providing opportunity for users to work together thereby promoting unity and togetherness among the citizenry of a given society as well as providing an enabling environment for people to be creative. The paper argued that makerspaces in Nigerian public libraries will lead to increased patronage and users' satisfaction, change in perception of librarians by the public, promote synergy among citizens and result in economic development.

A Study on Costume Culture Interchange Resulting from Economic Factors

  • Yu, Ju-Ri
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.71-85
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study is to prove that interchange is the a key factor in costume style changes through case analysis in costume culture interchange, and further, to assist in gaining understanding of costume style changes of the present and the future. Study findings show that the pattern of acceptance of costume interchange was mostly integration, though it was influenced by the method of transmission. The integration is a process in which a foreign costume culture is constructively mixed into the existing one, and a factor that changes the existing costume culture.

An Integration of Spatial and Temporal Relationship Operators for Spatiotemporal Data (시공간 데이터를 위한 공간 및 시간 관계 연산자의 통합)

  • Lee, Jong-Yeon;Ryu, Geun-Ho
    • The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.21-31
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    • 1999
  • In this paper we study on an interface connection between spatial operators and temporal operators to support the unified operations for spationtemporal data. The integration development of the spatiotemporal operations will be defined as a common use of spatiotemporal relationship operators by spatiotemporal referencing macros. additionally we propose an integration algorithm of a history operator and temporal relationship operators. Then the proposed system will be implemented on the commercial GIS software and evaluated by examples of spatiotemporal query expressions. Here, our integration of spatial and temporal operators will provide spatiotemporal query expressions with a useful framework.

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Symmetric Position Drift of Integration Approach in Pedestrian Dead Reckoning with Dual Foot-mounted IMU

  • Lee, Jae Hong;Cho, Seong Yun;Park, Chan Gook
    • Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.117-124
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    • 2020
  • In this paper, the symmetric position drift of the integration approach in pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) system with dual foot-mounted IMU is analyzed. The PDR system that uses the inertial sensor attached to the shoe is called the IA-based PDR system. Since this system is designed based on the inertial navigation system (INS), it has the same characteristics as the error of the INS, then zero-velocity update (ZUPT) is used to correct this error. However, an error that cannot be compensated perfectly by ZUPT exists, and the trend of the position error is the symmetric direction along the side of the shoe(left, right foot) with the IMU attached. The symmetric position error along the side of the shoe gradually increases with walking. In this paper, we analyze the causes of symmetric position drift and show the results. It suggests the possibility of factors other than the error factors that are generally considered in the PDR system based on the integration approach.

An International Comparative Study on the Elementary Social Studies Curriculum and Textbooks (초등학교 사회과 교육과정과 교과서의 통합 편성에 관한 국제 비교 연구: 한국, 미국, 영국을 중심으로)

  • Park, So-Young;Kim, Dae-Hyun
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.168-183
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this paper was to compare and analyze the elementary curriculum and textbook integration of social studies in Korea, USA, and England in terms of content integration and to make suggestions for the improvement of Korean social studies curriculum and textbooks. For this study, social studies curriculum and textbooks of three different countries were analyzed according to the three criteria: sequence, types and focus of integration. In this comparative study, five suggestions were made for the improvement of the Korean elementary social studies curriculum and textbooks. First, Korean social studies curriculum should have a subject focus at each grade level. Second, it is recommended that Korean social studies curriculum should present clear interrelations among geography, history, and civics at each grade level. Third, Korean social studies curriculum needs to have diverse criteria on which to select and organize themes. Fourth, Korean social studies textbooks need to have increased number of interdisciplinary large units. Fifth, it is necessary that the authors of Korean social studies textbooks integrate contents in consideration of students' life context in order to raise the relevance of the contents of history and geography.

The Effectiveness of a Forest-experience-integration Intervention for Community Dwelling Cancer Patients' Depression and Resilience (숲 체험 통합 중재가 재가 암 환자의 우울과 회복탄력성에 미치는 효과)

  • Choi, Yeon Hee;Ha, Young Sun
    • Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.109-118
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    • 2014
  • Purpose: This study examined the effectiveness of a forest-experience-integration intervention in community dwelling cancer patients. Methods: The study was done with a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. The subjects of the present study were 53 community dwelling cancer patients who were registered in a community health center in Gyeongsangbuk-do. The subjects were divided into an experimental group (n=26) who participated in the forest-experience-integration intervention and a control group (n=27) who did not participate. Data were collected from May to June in 2011. Collected data were analyzed using SPSS PC+ 19.0 through $x^2$ test, and independent t-test. Results: There were significant differences between the groups in depression (t=-4.51, p<.001), self-regulation resilience (t=6.95, p<.001), interpersonal resilience (t=10.10, p<.001), positivity resilience (t=9.67, p<.001), and total resilience (t=13.93, p<.001) measurements. Conclusion: The forest- experience-integration intervention delivered to community dwelling cancer patients was an effective method for relieving depression and enhancing self-regulation resilience, interpersonal resilience, positivity resilience, and total resilience, and can be utilized as an effective nursing intervention for community dwelling cancer patients.

Hourglass Control in Rigid-Plastic Finite Element Analysis (강소성 유한요소해석에서 Hourglass Control)

  • Gang, Jeong-Jin;O, Su-Ik
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.1290-1300
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    • 1996
  • The finite element method, based on rigid-plastic formulation, is widely used to simulate metal forming processes. In order to improve the computational efficiency of the rigid-plastic FEM, one-point integration is used to evaluate the stiffness matrix with four-node rectangular elements and eight-node brick elements. In order to control the hourglass modes, hourglass strain rate components were introduced and included in the effective strain rate definition, Numerical tests have shown that the proposed one-point integration scheme reduces the stiffness matrix evaluation time without deteriorating the convergence behavior of Newton-Raphson method. Simulations of a ring compression, a plane-strain closed-die forging and the three-dimensional spike forging processes were carried out by using the proposed integration method. The simulation results are compared to those obtained by applying the conventional integraiton method in terms of the solution accuracy and computational efficiency.

K-TIHM: Korean Technology Integration Hierarchy Model for Teaching and Learning in STEAM Education

  • Park, Chan Jung;Hyun, Jung Suk
    • Journal of Advanced Information Technology and Convergence
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.111-123
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    • 2020
  • The core competencies for the 21st century are creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication. In recent classes where ICT (information, communication, and technology) is grafted, a lot of efforts are also being made to increase such competencies. According to a research work, ICT is most often used as a communication channel between teachers and students or as an online collaboration tool among students. However, ICT has only played a role as a guideline for instruction, but not included in the curriculum until now. The research on methods how to integrate technology into teaching and learning is in full swing due to the development of technology and the advent of Covid-19. In this paper, we propose a technology integration hierarchy model, namely K-TIHM that can be combined with STEAM education. Since only learning environments have been proposed in the existing research for technology-based STEAM education, our model proposes a series of technology integration hierarchy that can be applied by school age along with STEAM. Also, we analyze the differences in among the Korea's ICT education operation guidelines, the Korea's Software education guidelines, and ours. The proposed model can help developing the primary and secondary school curriculum integrated with technology.

The Distribution of Work-Life Integration against COVID-19 and its Implications: Focusing on Remote Work in Switzerland

  • CHOI, Choongik;LEE, Kwang-Hoon
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.95-105
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    • 2023
  • Purpose: This study aims to explore the distribution of work-life integration against COVID-19 and its Implications by analyzing remote work in Switzerland. Research design, data and methodology: The study performed literature review and descriptive analyses using various data such as perception surveys, statistics, and related documents. Results: The infectious disease was a turning point for many people in Switzerland by changing where and how people want to live. Since the COVID-19 crisis demonstrated that disease could be spread by proximity, negative perception about urban areas expanded, and rural areas are increasingly preferred due to fresh and clean air and a more ecological lifestyle. In addition, increased remote work, a change brought about by COVID-19, has subsequently led to changes in household habits and needs. Distance from work is no longer an important factor when someone chooses where to live. A trend is now emerging where households wanting to improve the quality of life leave the city center and move to the suburbs. Conclusions: Paradoxically, such trend accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis has an unintendedly positive impact on the distribution of work-life integration across society while providing more flexibility in terms of place and time management and lowering the burden on roads and infrastructure.