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ALARA for Nuclear Power Plant Operation (원자력발전소가동(原子力發電所稼動)에 대한 ALARA)

  • Knapp Peter James
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.29-35
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    • 1979
  • Comparison of the risk of death due to radiation exposure with the same risk due to occupational hazards in other safe industries underlines the importance of the ALARA principle. The outlined responsibilities and listed examples presented here can serve as a basis for expanding and developing the concepts necessary for its successful application.

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A Principle of Laser Therapy and it's Application (레이저 치료의 원리와 응용)

  • Choi, Houng-Sik;Yoon, Chang-Goo;Song, Sun-Dal
    • Journal of Korean Physical Therapy Science
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.1047-1054
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    • 1996
  • We discuss the simple concepts of laser physics, absorption of laser radiation by tissue and current application in medical and physical therapy field. The continuing development in the field of laser technology has encouraged collaboration between clinician and physicist. This can be reached through more. exactly controlled and regulated laser systems for human. In medicine, surgery and physical therapy a laser should be used when it can be shown clearly established techniques. The purpose of this article is to provide the connection between pure laser physics and the other clinical application.

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Pre-service Science Teachers' Understanding of Students' Misconceptions in Physics and Perceptions on "Teacher as a Researcher" through the Research Experience (예비 과학교사의 연구 수행 경험이 학생의 물리 오개념에 대한 이해 및 '연구자로서의 교사'에 대한 인식에 미치는 영향)

  • Ko, Yeonjoo;Lee, Hyunju
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.34 no.5
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    • pp.449-457
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    • 2014
  • Recent studies have shown that teachers should have be aware of and understand students' misconceptions, which is one of the major components of PCK. However, teachers often have difficulties in understanding misconceptions and in applying appropriate instructional strategies to change misconceptions. Thus, we designed a method course for pre-service teachers (PSTs) adapting the concept of "teacher as researcher". In the course, PSTs conducted research to investigate students' misconceptions in physics. Twenty-five female PSTs participated in the study. They went through the research process including creating question items, administering items to their target populations, collecting and analyzing student responses, and writing a research paper. Data source included individual interviews with the PSTs, field notes during classroom observation and PSTs' research papers. The results were as follows. First, the PSTs confirmed students' misconceptions and learning difficulties in physics. They experienced discrepancies between their conjecture and research findings. Second, PSTs developed the sophisticated understanding of students' misconceptions and appropriate teaching strategies. Third, the research experience provided the PSTs opportunities to reexamine their physics content knowledge while creating items and explaining scientific concepts. They realized that physics teachers should develop sound understanding of physics concepts for guiding students to have less misconception. Lastly, they realized the necessity of being a teacher as a researcher.

The High School Students' Problem Solving Patterns and Their Features in Scientific Inquiry (고등학생의 탐구 사고력 문제 해결 과정에 나타난 유형과 특징)

  • Kim, Ik-Gyun;Hwang, Yu-Jeong
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.152-162
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    • 1993
  • The high school students' problem solving patterns and their features in scientific inquiry, especially on controlling variables and stating hypothesis have been investigated. The 8 problems on controlling variables and stating hypothesis were selected out of the scientific inquiry area in the experimental tryout of Aptitude Assessment for College Education, and had been used to find the patterns and their features. The results of findings are as follows: There were seven patterns in the process of solving problems. Five of seven patterns were found in right answers and four patterns in wrong answers. Two patterns were found in both right and wrong answers. Some students could solve the problems even though they did not understand the elements of the scientific inquiry, controlling variables and stating hypothesis. The false application of physics concepts, misunderstanding about the elements of the scientific inquiry and using unrelated experience and conjectures were the features of students' wrong answers. On the other hand, the right application of physics concepts, understanding and applying the elements right, infering answers from the tables and figures on statements of suggested problems were the features of right answers. The further studies on this kind may helpful to find the higher mental abilities related to scientific inquiry and to develop tools for testing students' scientific inquiry thinking skills.

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Construction of the Concept-Based Faceted Framework for Thesaurus Integration (시소러스 통합을 위한 개념기반 패싯 프레임워크 구축)

  • Lee, Seung-Min
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.41 no.3
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    • pp.269-290
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    • 2010
  • Applying one specific thesaurus might cause several problems because each thesaurus has its own characteristics inherited from its construction process. Therefore, integration of thesauri can be an appropriate approach to overcome the difficulties. This current research selected physics as a domain and two thesauri in the domain: PACS and PIRA. By integrating these two heterogeneous thesauri, this research could construct a conceptual structure that covers the whole concepts related to physics. By constructing the conceptual structure with the use of facet analysis from integrated thesaurus, it provides knowledge base with hierarchical structure and clear relationships between concepts. It can be an alternate approach to effective and efficient information retrieval and knowledge discovery.

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The Chinese Black Box - A Scientific Model of Traditional Chinese Medicine

  • Theodorou, Matthias;Fleckenstein, Johannes
    • Journal of Acupuncture Research
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2019
  • Models of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) are still difficult to grasp from the view of a Western-cultural background. For proper integration into science and clinical research, it is vital to think "out of the box" of classical sciences. Modern sciences, such as quantum physics, system theory, and information theory offer new models, that reveal TCM as a method to process information. For this purpose, we apply concepts of information theory to propose a "Chinese black box model," that allows for a non-deterministic, bottom-up approach. Considering a patient as an undeterminable complex system, the process of getting information about an individual in Chinese diagnostics is compared to the input-process-output principle of information theory and quantum physics, which is further illustrated by Wheeler's "surprise 20 questions." In TCM, an observer uses a decision-making algorithm to qualify diagnostic information by the binary polarities of "yang" (latin activity) and "yin" (latin structivity) according to the so called "8 principles" (latin 8 guiding criteria). A systematic reconstruction of ancient Chinese terms and concepts illuminates a scattered scientific method, which is specified in a medical context by Latin terminology of the sinologist Porkert [definitions of the Latin terms are presented in Porkert's appendix [1] (cf. Limitations)].

Analysis of Elementary Pre-Service Teacher's Difficulties in Conceptual Understanding and Instructional Planning of Light Refraction (빛의 굴절에 대한 초등예비교사의 개념이해와 지도계획의 어려움 분석)

  • Lee, Jiwon
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.11-18
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the questions generated by elementary school pre-service teachers when reading the teacher's guide for the refraction of light, and to analyze the difficulties in understanding the concept and in making instructional plans. A total of 592 meaningful questions were generated by 283 elementary school pre-service teachers after reading the teacher's guide of 'light and lens' unit in the 6th grade of the 2015 revised curriculum. Of these, 306 questions are for understanding the concept of physics and 286 are pedagogical questions. As a result of the analysis, in terms of understanding the concept of physics, the elementary school pre-service teachers encounter difficulties in understanding the concept of the 'cause' of the phenomenon suggested in the textbook, such as the cause of refraction, the reason for scattering light, and the cause of the image change depending on the focal length of the convex lens. In terms of instructional planning, it was followed by questions about how to explain concepts, questions about not being able to explain concepts to elementary school students and having to teach only phenomena, specific explanation methods for specific concepts, and experimental methods. Although the teacher's guide contains various explanations and supplementary materials to help teachers understand the concept, it can be seen that there are many elementary pre-service teachers who cannot answer questions about some concepts even after reading the guide. For concepts with a high frequency of questions, it is necessary to prepare a tutorial that is more understandable. In the instructional plan, there were many questions about teaching methods and experimental methods, so it is necessary to provide more examples and specific experimental methods for explaining concepts in the teacher's guide.

The Changes of Architectural Design Concept by the Paradigm of Modern Physics (현대물리학의 패러다임과 건축 디자인의 개념 변화)

  • Lee, Seung-Yong
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.425-430
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    • 2012
  • By the theories of the physics, the phenomena in the world are understood. And also these theories gave the influence to design the architecture. In this research, the contents which the thought of the physics gives a influence a building design is considered, and try to suggest the interrelation between the physics and architectural design. As the result, the architectural design on the influence of classical physics is based on the homogeneous space and the design focus on the style or form of the building with a geometry plan which is not concerned of the place. On the other hand, contemporary architectural design is based on the thought of the modern physics. By this concepts, the architecture is understood as the area contain the conditions of the circumstance and by interaction between buildings and the environment and by various viewpoints like cubism. And the architecture which is settled recently is shown of the diversity and atypical form.

An embodiment of e-Science for High Energy Physics (고에너지물리 e-Science 연구환경의 구현)

  • Cho, Kihyeon;Kim, Hyunwoo
    • Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.231-233
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    • 2007
  • The e-Science for High Energy Physics is to study high energy physics anytime and anywhere even if we are not on-site of accelerator latboratories. The concepts are 1) data production, 2) data processing and 3) data publication. The data production is to do remote control and take shifts remotely. The data processing is to run jobs anytime, anywhere with grid farms. The data publication is to work together to publish papers using collaborative environment such as EVO (Enabling Virtual Organization) system. We apply this concept to high energy physics, espessically, CDF experiment and show the results.

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