Online Communities and their Implementation in Language Education: Supporting Participation in Social Practice

( Mcneil,Levi ) 한국외국어대학교 외국어교육연구소 2015 외국어교육연구 Vol.29 No.2

Many teachers know that their students participate in various online communities (OCs). In OCs, popular media, such as sitcoms, books, and digital games serve as focal points for an array of complex activity, ranging from discussion and debate to user-made videos and art. What some teachers may not realize is that this type of activities can facilitate foreign-and second language learning. Thus, one goal of the current study was to describe critical features of OCs from a situated learning and a digital literacies perspective, highlighting multimodal meaning making and social practice. Additionally, to move beyond language practice and support participation as social practice, researchers are beginning to explore ways to integrate OCs into the language curriculum. However, there currently exist relatively few discussions and examples in the literature to assist teachers in implementing OCs into instruction. To address this issue, the current study drew from a technology implementation framework to propose three models to guide the use of OCs in Korean educational contexts. Each model presented was discussed in regards to four considerations-how to: (1) identify "good" online communities; (2) relate community activities to curriculum objectives; (3) encourage participation; and (4) assess community involvement and language learning. (199)

Recycled Concrete Aggregates: A Review

McNeil, Katrina,Kang, Thomas H.K. Korea Concrete Institute 2013 International Journal of Concrete Structures and M Vol.7 No.1

This paper discusses the properties of RCA, the effects of RCA use on concrete material properties, and the large scale impact of RCA on structural members. The review study yielded the following findings in regards to concrete material properties: (1) replacing NA in concrete with RCA decreases the compressive strength, but yields comparable splitting tensile strength; (2) the modulus of rupture for RCA concrete was slightly less than that of conventional concrete, likely due to the weakened the interfacial transition zone from residual mortar; and (3) the modulus of elasticity is also lower than expected, caused by the more ductile aggregate. As far as the structural performance is concerned, beams with RCA did experience greater midspan deflections under a service load and smaller cracking moments. However, structural beams did not seem to be as affected by RCA content as materials tests. Most of all, the ultimate moment was moderately affected by RCA content. All in all, it is confirmed that the use of RCA is likely a viable option for structural use.

Neuronal Autophagy: Characteristic Features and Roles in Neuronal Pathophysiology

( McNeil Valencia ),( Sung Rae Kim ),( Yeseul Jang ),( Sung Hoon Lee ) 한국응용약물학회 2021 Biomolecules & Therapeutics(구 응용약물학회지) Vol.29 No.6

Autophagy is an important degradative pathway that eliminates misfolded proteins and damaged organelles from cells. Autophagy is crucial for neuronal homeostasis and function. A lack of or deficiency in autophagy leads to the accumulation of protein aggregates, which are associated with several neurodegenerative diseases. Compared with non-neuronal cells, neurons exhibit rapid autophagic flux because damaged organelles or protein aggregates cannot be diluted in post-mitotic cells; because of this, these cells exhibit characteristic features of autophagy, such as compartment-specific autophagy, which depends on polarized structures and rapid autophagy flux. In addition, neurons exhibit compartment-specific autophagy, which depends on polarized structures. Neuronal autophagy may have additional physiological roles other than amino acid recycling. In this review, we focus on the characteristics and regulatory factors of neuronal autophagy. We also describe intracellular selective autophagy in neurons and its association with neurodegenerative diseases.

Secondary Prevention of Myocardial Infarction : Present Status of Drug Therapy

McNeil, John J. Medical Publications Korea 1988 Medical Progress Vol.10 No.6

Recycled Concrete Aggregates

Katrina McNeil,Thomas H.-K. Kang 한국콘크리트학회 2013 International Journal of Concrete Structures and M Vol.7 No.1

This paper discusses the properties of RCA, the effects of RCA use on concrete material properties, and the large scale impact of RCA on structural members. The review study yielded the following findings in regards to concrete material properties: (1) replacing NA in concrete with RCA decreases the compressive strength, but yields comparable splitting tensile strength; (2) the modulus of rupture for RCA concrete was slightly less than that of conventional concrete, likely due to the weakened the interfacial transition zone from residual mortar; and (3) the modulus of elasticity is also lower than expected, caused by the more ductile aggregate. As far as the structural performance is concerned, beams with RCA did experience greater midspan deflections under a service load and smaller cracking moments. However, structural beams did not seem to be as affected by RCA content as materials tests. Most of all, the ultimate moment was moderately affected by RCA content. All in all, it is confirmed that the use of RCA is likely a viable option for structural use.

LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

LARISA MCNEIL 계명대학교 한국학연구원 2015 Acta Koreana Vol.18 No.1

[S4-1] California Walnuts and the Industry

Michelle McNeil 한국식품영양과학회 2006 한국식품영양과학회 학술대회발표집 Vol.2006 No.10

Collaborative Computer-Mediated Reading: Documenting the Frequency, Mechanisms, and Outcomes of Peer Help

Levi McNeil,Heshim Song 한국외국어교육학회 2016 Foreign languages education Vol.23 No.2

This study investigated peer-to-peer interaction during collaborative, computer-mediated reading tasks. Fourteen university EFL students in Korea worked in pairs to complete three gapfill tasks. The transcript data from these tasks were analyzed to determine: (1) how often collaboration occurs during collaborative reading tasks, (2) the ways in which peers help each other, and (3) how successful peers are in resolving the problems they collaboratively pursue. The results showed that each of these aspects of interaction varied among sets of pairs. On average, however, the participants collaborated to jointly solve 75% of the problems they encountered. They also used a range of helping behaviors during collaboration. While the participants correctly resolved nearly half of the problems they attempted, half were incorrectly answered or unresolved. Based on these findings, pedagogical implications are offered, in addition to suggestions for future research into collaborative reading tasks.

“Square Dance” and “Trans-Pacific Express” By DJUNA

LARISA MCNEIL 계명대학교 한국학연구원 2015 Acta Koreana Vol.18 No.1

Djuna (듀나) is the pen name of film critic and science fiction writer Yi Yŏng-su. She has published under that name as well as her nom de plume, taken from American writer Djuna Barnes (1892–1982), who during the last forty years of her life, in Greenwich Village, New York City, also cultivated a persona of anonymity. Djuna began publishing film criticism and science fiction stories online in 1994. She has published in a variety of online media, and volumes of her fiction have been issued by such leading literary-fiction presses as Munhak kwa chisŏng sa (Munji), Chaŭm kwa moŭm, and Ch’angjak kwa pip’yŏng sa (Ch’angbi). Djuna is the “anonymous face” as well as the anchor of a developing science fiction genre in Korean literary fiction. Although Western science fiction has been available in Korean translation since early in the last century, only recently have Korean writers of literary fiction, including Kim Kyŏng-uk, Kim Chung-hyŏk, Pak Min-gyu, Pae Myŏng-hun, Han Yujoo, and Kim Young-Ha, begun incorporating elements of that genre in their works. Djuna’s objectives as a science fiction writer are to expand the base of Korean science fiction writing while transforming the formulae and genre clichés of classic SF writers such as Isaac Asimov into a Korean idiom. To this end she has not only published steadily but has established an online presence that includes three terms as an adjudicator of monthly science fiction submissions to the Cyber-Literature Forum hosted by the Korean Council for Culture and the Arts. Science fiction is usually understood to rest on the twin pillars of scientific knowledge and imaginative power and speculation. Both are present in Djuna’s writing. The former underlies the title story of her Pŭrok’olli p’yŏngwŏn ŭi hyŏlt’u (Mortal combat in the broccoli fields, 2011) collection and the four novellas that constitute Chejŏbel (Jezebel, 2012), and has earned her high marks from the critics. The remaining stories in the Pŭrok’olli collection, especially “Murŭmp’yo rŭl in namja” (The man who was capped with a question mark), are strong on imagination and perhaps more popular with readers. “Pŭrok’olli p’yŏngwŏn ŭi hyŏlt’u” and the Chejŏbel stories share a concern with human genetic change, which accelerates to the extent that preservation of the species, not to mention evolution, is no longer possible. In these stories humanity is subjected to a “link virus” that speeds up human genetic change to the point that future species lose the capacity for historical memory. Djuna’s stories, like much of science fiction, utilize an imagined world to invite readers to reflect on the contemporary world. “Pŭrok’olli p’yŏngwŏn ŭi hyŏlt’u,” for example, features a North Korean protagonist, not so much in order to portray life in present-day North Korea as to highlight our own views of and assumptions about that country. In this sense there is a political element to her writing—we can see in her imagined worlds points of contact with, and allegorical representations of, our present-day world. Examples are place names such as Chongno (the main east-west artery of downtown Seoul), Puch’ŏn (the satellite city of Seoul known to a generation of readers through Yang Kwi-ja’s linked-story novel Wŏnmi-dong saram tŭl [trans. Julie Pickering and Kim So-Young A Distant and Beautiful Place]), and Koryŏ (presumably echoing the kingdom of Koryŏ). Her fictional worlds are thus both familiar and unfamiliar—or in the words of a New York Times Book Review critic, commenting on the novels of Philip K. Dick, “both entirely recognizable and utterly unimaginable”—eliciting a peculiar contemporaneity, a sense of déjà vu manifested through ominous glimpses of a controlled society resting on a capitalist base. “Square Dance” first appeared in Djuna’s 1997 story collection Nabi chŏnjaeng (The butterfly wars) and was reprint...

Discussion: Statistical models and methods for dependence in insurance data

Alexander J. McNeil 한국통계학회 2011 Journal of the Korean Statistical Society Vol.40 No.2