Korean editors’ and researchers’ experiences with preprints and attitudes towards preprint policies

Purpose: This study investigated editors’ and researcher’s experiences with preprints and their attitudes towards preprint policies in Korea.Methods: From December 30, 2019 to January 10, 2020, a Google Forms survey was mailed to members of the Korean Council of Science Editors and the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies. The 16 survey items included two demographic items, six items on experience with preprints, five 5-point Likert-scale items on attitudes towards preprints, and three items on advantages and disadvantages.Results: Out of 365 respondents, 56 had deposited their manuscripts on preprint servers, while 49 stated that they allowed preprints in their journals. More than half of the respondents expressed favorable attitudes towards prioritizing preprint deposition, promotion of open access, rapid feedback on preprints, earlier citations, and evidence of research work. Responders in engineering had more experience with the concept of preprints, and were more likely to have heard about preprint servers and preprint deposition by other researchers, than those in medicine. Half of the editors disagreed with the need for preprints, for reasons including a lack of scientific integrity, stealing ideas/scooping data, priority issues regarding research ideas, and copyright problems.Conclusion: The above results showed that preprints are still not actively used in Korea. Although experiences with preprints were not widespread, more than half of the respondents showed favorable attitudes towards preprints. More of a consensus should emerge for preprint policies to be accepted by editors in Korea.

DEVELOPMENT OF ADDIMAL PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION ACCORDANCE WITH MODERN LABOR MARKET REQUIREMENTS

The presented article considers topical issues of functioning and development of the system of additional vocational education, as an element of continuing vocational education, in ensuring breakthrough socio-economic development of the country in modern conditions. As part of the analysis of statistical data, priority areas of development of the DPO system were considered and the main possible consumers of this service sector, as well as the age distribution of potential consumers, were investigated. The information base of the study is the statistical data of Rosstat and the information provided by the Internet sources on the functioning of the system of additional vocational education. Within the framework of the study, the main problems and key contradictions that inhibit the development of the DPO system in the conditions of constant modernization of the education system and significant changes in the demands of the labor market for a competitive labor force were analyzed and highlighted. The results obtained in the study can be used in the development of strategic and policy documents, as well as the formation of measures for the development of the education sector, in particular the system of additional vocational education.

Efficient Design of Control Logic Block in Dual Port Memory

A dual port memory in QCA are a study of data in different ports, but the data conflicts are very difficult to identify. Dual port memory is mainly focused on the data priority. It can be generated from the design of the control logic block. Priority bit are used, where both ports access the same memory location. Dual port memory functionality can be identified with a priority bit. When the port having the same memory location, only the port having the high priority is selected and other port are discarded. But when the read operation are requested to both the ports at same locations, having no conflicts and both the ports are requested to perform read operations. Data conflicts on the SRAM cell can be overcome by discarding the lower priority completely. Priorities are defined in terms of the area and delay. The idea behind this work is to minimize the area and delay in the dual port memory and proposed a multilayer Cross-Over design to provide an efficiency to the dual port memory and simulation result of design are shown in QCA Designer Tool-2.0.