Athletic Training for Korean EFL Learners’ Anxiety Resistance, Pragmatic Awareness, and Motivation for English Learning

"Salim Bullen", "Young Woo Cho" 培材大學校 人文科學硏究所 2015 人文論叢 Vol.32 No.-

This study investigated whether athletic training, in the form of soccer, may improve Korean college-level EFL learners’ anxiety resistance, pragmatic awareness, and motivation. Fifty-six Korean college students divided into two groups (control and treatment) completed a questionnaire on their self-evaluations of anxiety, pragmatic ability, and motivation. The treatment group (n=28) participated in a soccer training program for two months led by the researcher, who was a native speaker of English, and a bilingual Korean/English speaking assistant. The control group (n=28) received no athletic training during the same period, but practiced English in their regular English courses. At the completion of the program, both groups completed the same questionnaire. Results from ANCOVA analyses showed significant improvements in the two areas: anxiety resistance and pragmatic awareness for the treatment group. However, no significant improvement was found in motivation. These results suggest that athletic training may be used as part of regular EFL instruction to help L2 learners lower anxiety and raise pragmatic awareness. However, motivation is a more complex issue that needs to be addressed from a broader perspective. 운동훈련은 제2언어학습과 커뮤니케이션을 보조할 수 있는 독특한 언어학습 도구이다. 운동훈련을 통하여 제2언어학습자들은 교실 밖 환경에서 실시간으로 의사소통을 하는데 필요한 의사소통 기술을 발달시킬 수 있으며 이를 통하여 영어를 통한 의사소통이 더 의미 있게 된다. 그러나 운동과 제2언어학습 및 의사소통을 통합했을 때 얻을 수 있는 유익을 반영하는 기존연구는 없었다. 따라서 본 연구는 운동의 한 형태로서 축구를 사용하여 제2언어학습자들의 불안에 대한 저항력과, 학습동기, 화용적 인식을 강화할 수 있는 가능성을 탐색하는 것을 목적으로 하였다. 대학 영어강좌를 수강하는 56명의 한국 성인 영어학습자들이 본 연구에 참여하였다. 학습자들은 처치집단과 통제집단 두 집단으로 나뉘어 연구가 시작되기 전 학습불안과, 화용능력, 학습동기에 관한 스스로의 인식에 관한 설문지를 작성하였다. 처치집단(n=28)은 원어민인 연구자와 한국어/영어 이중언어를 구사하는 연구보조원이 이끄는 축구훈련 프로그램에 두 달 동안 참여하였다. 통제집단(n=28)은 같은 기간 어떤 종류의 운동훈련도 받지 않았으며 정규영어강좌에서 학습하였다. 프로그램 종료 후 두 집단은 처음과 동일한 설문지를 작성하였다. 두 집단의 응답을 비교했을 때 처치집단이 학습불안에 대한 저항력과 화용적 인식에서 통제집단보다 더 높은 수준의 유의미한 향상이 있음이 나타났다. 그러나 학습동기에서는 유의미한 향상에 관한 차이점이 발견되지 않았다. 이 결과들은 운동을 통하여 제2언어학습자들이 영어사용자들과 의사소통할 때 느끼는 불안감을 완화시킬 수 있고 화용적 인식을 증대시킬 수 있지만 운동과 제2언어학습동기와의 관계를 더 잘 이해하기 위해서는 추가적인 연구가 필요함을 시사한다.

Contribution to Improve Database Classification Algorithms for Multi-Database Mining

Salim Miloudi,Sid Ahmed Rahal,Salim Khiat 한국정보처리학회 2018 Journal of information processing systems Vol.14 No.3

Database classification is an important preprocessing step for the multi-database mining (MDM). In fact,when a multi-branch company needs to explore its distributed data for decision making, it is imperative toclassify these multiple databases into similar clusters before analyzing the data. To search for the bestclassification of a set of n databases, existing algorithms generate from 1 to (n2–n)/2 candidate classifications. Although each candidate classification is included in the next one (i.e., clusters in the current classification aresubsets of clusters in the next classification), existing algorithms generate each classification independently,that is, without taking into account the use of clusters from the previous classification. Consequently, existingalgorithms are time consuming, especially when the number of candidate classifications increases. Toovercome the latter problem, we propose in this paper an efficient approach that represents the problem ofclassifying the multiple databases as a problem of identifying the connected components of an undirectedweighted graph. Theoretical analysis and experiments on public databases confirm the efficiency of ouralgorithm against existing works and that it overcomes the problem of increase in the execution time.

A review of vibration-based MEMS hybrid energy harvesters

Mohammed Salim,Hakim S. Sultan Aljibori,Dhia Salim,M. Haris M. Khir,A. Sh. Kherbeet 대한기계학회 2015 JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Vol.29 No.11

Energy harvesters based on Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) are well known nowadays due to their small features, abilityfor monolithic integration with the integrated circuit in a single platform, robust, and easily fabricated in bulk. The piezoelectric (PZT)and the electromagnetic (EM) generators are examples of such energy harvesters. To further increase their effectiveness in harvestingambient energy, researchers started to venture into hybrid energy harvesters. Few literature reviews may be found on MEMS harvestingdevices, but not on hybrid harvesters in specific. This paper intended to further elaborate on the hybrid energy harvesters, reported Literatureon such harvesters for recent years with different architectures, models, and results are presented. Table of power comparison betweenthe reported harvesters is presented and discussed.

Contribution to Improve Database Classification Algorithms for Multi-Database Mining

Miloudi, Salim,Rahal, Sid Ahmed,Khiat, Salim Korea Information Processing Society 2018 Journal of information processing systems Vol.14 No.3

Database classification is an important preprocessing step for the multi-database mining (MDM). In fact, when a multi-branch company needs to explore its distributed data for decision making, it is imperative to classify these multiple databases into similar clusters before analyzing the data. To search for the best classification of a set of n databases, existing algorithms generate from 1 to ($n^2-n$)/2 candidate classifications. Although each candidate classification is included in the next one (i.e., clusters in the current classification are subsets of clusters in the next classification), existing algorithms generate each classification independently, that is, without taking into account the use of clusters from the previous classification. Consequently, existing algorithms are time consuming, especially when the number of candidate classifications increases. To overcome the latter problem, we propose in this paper an efficient approach that represents the problem of classifying the multiple databases as a problem of identifying the connected components of an undirected weighted graph. Theoretical analysis and experiments on public databases confirm the efficiency of our algorithm against existing works and that it overcomes the problem of increase in the execution time.

Technology Readiness Level Assignment to Industrial Plant System Life Cycle

Salim, Shelly,Jo, Raehyeok,Lee, Taekyeong,Lee, Joongyoon The Korean Society of Systems Engineering 2015 시스템엔지니어링학술지 Vol.11 No.2

During the industrial plant system life cycle, required technologies are developed and assessed to analyze their performance, risks and costs. The assessment is called technology readiness assessment (TRA) and the measure of readiness is called technology readiness level (TRL). The TRL consists of 9 levels and through the TRL assessment, the technology to be developed and its components are assigned to their appropriate TRL. TRL assessment should be performed in each life cycle stages to monitor the technology readiness and analyze the potential risks and costs. However, even though the concept of TRL has been largely adopted by numerous organizations and industry, direct and clear assignment of target TRL for each life cycle stage has been overlooked. Direct mapping/assignment of target TRL for each life cycle has benefits as follow: (1) the technical risks condition of each life cycle stage can be better understood, (2) cost incurred if the technology development is failed can be analyzed in each life cycle stage, and (3) more effective decision making because the technology readiness achievement for each life cycle stages is agreed beforehand. In this paper, we propose a steel-making plant system life cycle and TRL assignment to each of the system life cycle stage. By directly assigning target TRL for each life cycle stages, we look forward to a more coordinated (in terms of exit criteria) and highly effective (in terms of technical risks identification and eventually prevent project failure) technology development and assessment processes.

Indirect Adaptive Fuzzy Control for a Class of Nonaffine Nonlinear Systems with Unknown Control Directions

Salim Labiod,Thierry Marie Guerra 제어·로봇·시스템학회 2010 International Journal of Control, Automation, and Vol.8 No.4

This article presents an indirect adaptive fuzzy control scheme for a class of nonlinear uncertain nonaffine systems with unknown control directions. The nonlinear nonaffine system is first transformed into an affine form by using a Taylor series expansion, and then fuzzy systems are em-ployed to approximate the equivalent affine system’s unknown nonlinearities. By modifying the esti-mated input control gain and using a novel smooth robust control term, a stable well-defined adaptive controller is proposed. Simulation results are provided to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed scheme.

Molecular Types and Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Patients with Breast Cancer- While Molecular Shifting is More Common in Luminal a Tumors, The Pathologic Complete Response is Most Frequently Observed in Her-2 Like Tumors

Salim, Derya Kivrak,Mutlu, Hasan,Eryilmaz, Melek Karakurt,Musri, Fatma Yalcin,Tural, Deniz,Gunduz, Seyda,Coskun, Hasan Senol Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2014 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.15 No.21

Background: Pathologic complete response (pCR) is one of the most important target end-points of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) in patients with breast cancer (BC). In present study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between molecular subtypes and NACT in patients with BC. Materials and Methods: Using the Akdeniz University database, 106 patients who received NACT for operable breast cancer were retrospectively identified. Prognostic factors before and after NACT were assessed. According to the molecular subtypes, molecular shifting after NACT and tumoral and nodal response to NACT were analyzed. Results: The distribution of subtypes was: Luminal A, 28.3% (n=30); Luminal B, 31.1% (n=33); HER2-like, 24.5% (n=26); and basal like/triple negative (BL/TN), 16.0% (n=17). According to molecular subtypes, pCR rates in both breast and axillary were 0%, 21.4%, 36.4% and 27.3% for luminal A, luminal B, HER2-like and BL/TN, respectively (p=0.018). Molecular subtype shifting was mostly seen in luminal A type (28.6%) after the NACT. The pCR rate in breast and axillary was significantly higher in patients with HER2-like type BC. Conclusions: In patients with HER-2 like type BC, NACT may be offered in early stages. Additionally, due to molecular shifting, adjuvant treatment schedule should be reviewed again, especially in the luminal A group.

The Psychological Impact in the Repetition Style in the Poetry of Nazik Al-Malaika

( Salim Al Tie ) 한국외국어대학교 중동연구소 2011 중동연구 Vol.30 No.2

When you read Nazik Al-Malaika s`poetry, you will find psychological effects of the poet, especially in the way of repetition. Therefore, I think that is the phenomenon of psychological style of angelic poetry for Nazik, and form of the various levels is an important tributary tagged at the level of poetic texts, such as stress, attention, pleasure and emotion. It stimulated the poetic imagination to fly through the passages of graphic correlation depends on the other collected by repeating asymmetric units. The repetition in the texts of the poet is a technology that psychological constructions of each word contained in the style of repetition it was charged with the dimensions of semantic psychological and clear, and to highlight aspects of the dominant idea and the situation on the emotional content of poetic texts. As in the repetition in its methods of different nuclei of key experiences of poetry to express the intended rhetorical as the big energy rhythmic, as an expression taking into account the emotions and feelings with appropriate music poetry even counting integral part of the technical architecture of the text, which attracts the senses of hearing and sight to the receiver of sympathy with the poet and the impact of her mental condition; And work to raise the level of feeling in the poem, in addition to the rhythmic role, which was a rewind or resonance to the voice of the poet internal emotion generated from the depths of the same before the explosion.

Reversible Color and Gray-scale Based Images in Image Hiding Method Using Adding and Subtracting Operations

Salim Muhsin Wadi,Nasharuddine Zainal 한국산학기술학회 2014 SmartCR Vol.4 No.3

A new reversible high capacity hiding algorithm using decomposition and simple arithmetic operations is proposed in this paper for hiding gray-scale and RGB images. Generally, the three factors that should be taken into account in hiding algorithms are the capacity, security, and invisibility of secret information. The Least Significant Bit method is a popular technique to hide operations in the spatial domain. A number of methods were proposed to enhance the performance of the Least Significant Bit method. However, the capacity and security levels of those algorithms are low. The target of the proposed algorithm is implementing hiding capacity about 75% (6 bits per pixel) to hide an image in another image of the same size and type. In this paper, we use an encrypted image as a cover image to reduce the effects of distortion. The bit planes that result from decomposing the secret image will be reordered and scrambled before the hiding operation to make it invisible. Also, the hiding operation is achieved by subtracting or adding numbers to the host pixel value based on the value of the secret pixel to increase the security level. Experimental results show that the capacity of the proposed method is perfect with a high quality of the extracted image, which is strong against many attackers.

Stacked insecticidal genes in potatoes exhibit enhanced toxicity against Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

Salim Muhammad,Bakhsh Allah,Gökçe Ayhan 한국식물생명공학회 2021 Plant biotechnology reports Vol.15 No.2

The present study was performed to express stacked insecticidal genes in potato cv. Lady Olympia and Agria to encode resistance against Colorado potato beetle (CPB), Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say). Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) gene (cry3A), synthetic hybrid (SN-19) and plant proteinase inhibitor Oryza cystatin II (OCII) cloned in pCAMBIA1301 binary vector in two diferent combinations as of DS-1 (cry3A+SN-19 genes) and DS-2 (OCII+SN-19 genes) constructs and further transformed to two potato cultivars using Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. All molecular analyses confrmed gene integration and expression in a total of 27 primary transformants in both Agria and Lady Olympia. Insecticidal efects of T0 progeny transgenic potato plants were tested against CPB under laboratory conditions. Transgenic plants of Agria and Lady Olympia transformed with DS-1 and DS-2 constructs caused 100% mortality to all larval stages and adults of CPB. However, 100% mortality of tested insects took a longer time in the adult stage (10–14 days) compared to larval stages (2–6 days). Foliage consumption by L2-L4 larval stages and adults of CPB was signifcantly reduced in Agria and Lady Olympia plants transformed with DS-1 and DS-2 constructs, as compared to their control plants. Lower foliage consumption of transgenic plants by L1 larval stages was also observed, but the reduction was only statistically signifcant for some of the tested plants. These promising results indicate that the transgenic potato plants exhibit a high potential in controlling CPB population and are a useful tool in the management of imidacloprid-resistant CPB.