Minsoo Kang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3799824 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Minsoo Kang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Minsoo |
| FAMILY NAME | Kang |
| SIGNATURE | KANG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mississippi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9225-1004 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Online coupling of an urban canopy model with trees and a mesoscale atmospheric model to assess the cooling effects of trees under different urban configurations and varying soil dryness
Urban canopy model incorporating in-canyon trees is coupled with the WRF model. • The coupled model is evaluated and shows reasonable performance. • Trees in narrower and deeper canyons show stronger cooling. • Cooling effects of trees diminish as soil moisture decreases. • However, cooling effects persist in very dry conditions due to tree shading. Urban trees play a crucial role in mitigating heat stress. Accurately representing the physical pr…
Investigating the moderating effects of momentary leisure activities in the stress-buffering model
This study examined the momentary buffering effects of leisure activities on the relationship between perceived stress and positive affect (PA) valence in daily life. Using ecological momentary assessment, 132 Taiwanese adults completed smartphone surveys three times daily for seven days. Multilevel modeling revealed that momentary perceived stress was negatively associated with PA valence, while momentary leisure participation was positively ass…
Willingness to use PrEP among PrEP naïve men who have sex with men
The Importance of an Organization’s Reputation
Crises are unavoidable in the sport world, and their relationship with reputation is inextricable. Protecting its reputation is a top priority for a sport organization in a crisis; thus, developing a valid and reliable instrument should be a precedent. In this study, Rasch analysis was applied to evaluate a 10-item Organizational Reputation Scale (ORP), extensively used in general and sport communication research, but whose development was made u…
Vigorous-intensity acute exercise during encoding can reduce levels of episodic and false memory
The potential benefits (veridical memory) and, importantly, costs (false memory) of acute exercise on memory in conjunction with the timing and type of exercise have not been fully studied. In Experiment 1, we employed a three-condition (15-minute vigorous-intensity acute exercise Before or During memory encoding, or a Control condition of watching a video), within-subjects, counterbalanced design. The procedures included an immediate and delayed…
Association among length of residence, physical activity, and obesity in the US immigrants
OBJECTIVES: To examine the mediated relationship between objectively measured obesity, accelerometer-based moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), and length of residence among US immigrants. METHODS: A total of 885 adults (≥18 years) who were born outside the United States from the 2003 to 2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey were included in the analysis. The participants were categorized into two groups (i.e., living in…
Objectively Measured Physical Activity Is Lower in Individuals with Normal Weight Obesity in the United States
The role of physical activity in normal weight obesity (NWO), which is associated with increased cardiometabolic risk, is not clear. This study aimed to determine body composition phenotype-specific differences in objectively measured physical activity and sedentary time in adults in the United States. A total of 2055 adults with a body mass index (BMI) ≥ 18.5 m 2 were studied using 2003-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys. Phy…
Patterns of Weight Change in a Commercial Weight Loss Program
Objectives: In this study, we examined compliance and progress factors associated with weight loss and maintenance, individual patterns of weight trends following weight loss, and impact of early weight loss on longer-term weight change. Methods: We conducted secondary analysis of pre-post data. Participants were 8769 persons (mean age = 47.63 ± 13.78 years; 77.74% women; mean weight = 97.20 ± 22.82 kilograms; BMI = 34.09 ± 6.84) in a commercial …
Rasch calibration of the 25-item Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale
Rasch modeling was used to examine the 25-item Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale within adults ( n = 410) in a weight management program. Rasch analysis assessed model-data fit, item difficulty and person's resilience level, an item-person map to evaluate relative distribution items and persons, and rating scale function. Four misfit items were identified and removed. Item difficulty ranged from 1.25 to 1.19 logits (higher logit values indicate mo…
Temporal Trends in the Association between Participation in Physical Education and Physical Activity among U.S. High School Students, 2011–2017
The purpose of this study was to assess trends in physical education and physical activity among U.S. high school students from 2011 to 2017, respectively, and to evaluate temporal trends in the relationship between physical education class participation and physical activity levels. Data from a total of 51,616 high school students who participated in the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) from 2011 to 2017 were analyzed for this stu…
Sedentary behavior and metabolic syndrome in physically active adults
OBJECTIVES: The detrimental associations of sedentary behavior (SB) with metabolic syndrome have been shown to be independent of moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA). Therefore, researchers, in addition to promoting MVPA, are calling attention to the need to reduce SB. However, there has been limited research on the association of SB with metabolic syndrome among those who already meet the PA guidelines. Therefore, the purpose …
Association between objectively measured sedentary behavior and a criterion measure of obesity among adults
OBJECTIVE: Results of published studies on the association between sedentary behavior (SB) and obesity are inconsistent, possibly due to reliance on subjective measures of SB and inappropriate measures of obesity. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between objectively measured SB and criterion-measured obesity among adults. METHODS: A total of 2284 adults (≥18 years) from the 2003 to 2004 National Health and Nutrition Examinati…
Between Tradition and Modernity
When familiarising oneself with the literary tradition of any country, an essential task would be to trace the transformation of letters through different historical eras. In the case of a European
The Question of the Woman-Machine
In recent scholarly works on automata, a major topic of discussion has been the man-machine, or the idea of considering a human being in mechanical terms. But what of the woman-machine? This essay traces the origin and development what could be called the hysterical woman-machine that was born in the mid-nineteenth century when the new materialist science produced thermodynamic and electromagnetic theories that, in turn, gave rise to a neo-mechan…
The influence of physical characteristics on the resting energy expenditure of youth
The Mechanical Daughter of Rene Descartes
This article pursues the origin and mutation of a fantastic story concerning an automaton in the shape of a young girl that was supposedly built by René Descartes. In recent decades it has been retold and reimagined so many times that the tale has become an iconic narrative in the context of the reassessment of Descartes's significance in intellectual history. But a close reading of the original story, found in a 1699 work entitled Mélanges d'his…
Medieval Robots
Reviewed by: Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art by E. R. Truitt Minsoo Kang (bio) Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art. By E. R. Truitt. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. 296. $55/$24.95. In the burgeoning historical field of automaton studies, E. R. Truitt has made a significant and insightful contribution with this volume. It provides a comprehensive look at self-moving machines that mimic l…
Convergent validity of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (Ipaq)
Objective The purpose of the present study was to use a meta-analytic approach to examine the convergent validity of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ). Design Systematic review by meta-analysis. Setting The relevant studies were surveyed from five electronic databases. Primary outcomes of interest were the product-moment correlation coefficients between IPAQ and other instruments. Five separate meta-analyses were performed …
Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History by Kara Reilly (review)
Reviewed by: Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History by Kara Reilly Minsoo Kang (bio) Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History by Kara Reilly. By Kara Reilly. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Pp. xii+200. $80. Recently published books on automata (self-moving machines designed to mimic living beings) have elucidated the significance of these fascinating objects from the perspectives of the history of science and techno…
Michael Saler. As If
In his previous works Michael Saler has questioned the simplistic characterization of modernity as an age of secularism, positivism, and scientism by exploring the subjects of medieval modernism and secular magic. In his latest book, As If, he continues the project through an insightful and entertaining analysis of modern enchantment, specifically on the topic of fictional worlds that took on lives of their own in the imagination of their consume…
Sublime Dreams of Living Machines
From the dawn of European civilization to the twentieth century, the automaton--better known today as the robot--has captured the Western imagination and provided a vital lens into the nature of humanity. Historian Minsoo Kang argues that to properly understand the human-as-machine and the human-as-fundamentally-different-from-machine, we must trace the origins of these ideas and examine how they were transformed by intellectual, cultural, and ar…
The Disconnected Values Model Improves Mental Well-Being and Fitness in an Employee Wellness Program
This study examined the effect of a 10-week wellness program on changes in physical fitness and mental well-being. The conceptual framework for this study was the Disconnected Values Model (DVM). According to the DVM, detecting the inconsistencies between negative habits and values (e.g., health, family, faith, character) and concluding that these "disconnects" are unacceptable promotes the need for health behavior change. Participants were 164 f…
An Outcome-Based Action Study on Changes in Fitness, Blood Lipids, and Exercise Adherence, Using the Disconnected Values (Intervention) Model
The authors' purpose in this action study was to examine the effect of a 10-week intervention, using the Disconnected Values Model (DVM), on changes in selected measures of fitness, blood lipids, and exercise adherence among 51 university faculty (10 men and 41 women) from a school in the southeastern United States. The DVM is an intervention model that is intended to provide incentive to replace unhealthy with healthy behavioral patterns. Multiv…
The Use of Dreaming for the Study of History
Celebrated figures in a variety of intellectual fields have profited from paying attention to their dreams. Can a historian also gain something from dreaming? In my research into the significance of the automaton in the Western imagination, I tried to explicate the reason the object has been such a potent and ambivalent symbol from ancient times to today. I felt there was a connection between its function and that of funeral effigies in the Roman…
Reading Dutch
A meditation on Dutch by Edmund Morris, the controversial memoir-biography of Ronald Reagan, that uses some of the experimental techniques that appear in the book. The first part is the description of a scene, in screenplay form, in which I have a conversation with a friend about the book; the second, a fictional 'memoir' by an invented acquaintance of Edmund Morris; and the third, a fictional interview with the author.In the last part, I find th…
Rasch calibration of the 25-item Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale
Rasch modeling was used to examine the 25-item Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale within adults ( n = 410) in a weight management program. Rasch analysis assessed model-data fit, item difficulty and person's resilience level, an item-person map to evaluate relative distribution items and persons, and rating scale function. Four misfit items were identified and removed. Item difficulty ranged from 1.25 to 1.19 logits (higher logit values indicate mo…
The Mechanical Daughter of Rene Descartes
This article pursues the origin and mutation of a fantastic story concerning an automaton in the shape of a young girl that was supposedly built by René Descartes. In recent decades it has been retold and reimagined so many times that the tale has become an iconic narrative in the context of the reassessment of Descartes's significance in intellectual history. But a close reading of the original story, found in a 1699 work entitled Mélanges d'his…
Reading Dutch
A meditation on Dutch by Edmund Morris, the controversial memoir-biography of Ronald Reagan, that uses some of the experimental techniques that appear in the book. The first part is the description of a scene, in screenplay form, in which I have a conversation with a friend about the book; the second, a fictional 'memoir' by an invented acquaintance of Edmund Morris; and the third, a fictional interview with the author.In the last part, I find th…
The Use of Dreaming for the Study of History
Celebrated figures in a variety of intellectual fields have profited from paying attention to their dreams. Can a historian also gain something from dreaming? In my research into the significance of the automaton in the Western imagination, I tried to explicate the reason the object has been such a potent and ambivalent symbol from ancient times to today. I felt there was a connection between its function and that of funeral effigies in the Roman…
An Outcome-Based Action Study on Changes in Fitness, Blood Lipids, and Exercise Adherence, Using the Disconnected Values (Intervention) Model
The authors' purpose in this action study was to examine the effect of a 10-week intervention, using the Disconnected Values Model (DVM), on changes in selected measures of fitness, blood lipids, and exercise adherence among 51 university faculty (10 men and 41 women) from a school in the southeastern United States. The DVM is an intervention model that is intended to provide incentive to replace unhealthy with healthy behavioral patterns. Multiv…
The Disconnected Values Model Improves Mental Well-Being and Fitness in an Employee Wellness Program
This study examined the effect of a 10-week wellness program on changes in physical fitness and mental well-being. The conceptual framework for this study was the Disconnected Values Model (DVM). According to the DVM, detecting the inconsistencies between negative habits and values (e.g., health, family, faith, character) and concluding that these "disconnects" are unacceptable promotes the need for health behavior change. Participants were 164 f…
Sublime Dreams of Living Machines
From the dawn of European civilization to the twentieth century, the automaton--better known today as the robot--has captured the Western imagination and provided a vital lens into the nature of humanity. Historian Minsoo Kang argues that to properly understand the human-as-machine and the human-as-fundamentally-different-from-machine, we must trace the origins of these ideas and examine how they were transformed by intellectual, cultural, and ar…
Convergent validity of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (Ipaq)
Objective The purpose of the present study was to use a meta-analytic approach to examine the convergent validity of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ). Design Systematic review by meta-analysis. Setting The relevant studies were surveyed from five electronic databases. Primary outcomes of interest were the product-moment correlation coefficients between IPAQ and other instruments. Five separate meta-analyses were performed …
Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History by Kara Reilly (review)
Reviewed by: Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History by Kara Reilly Minsoo Kang (bio) Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History by Kara Reilly. By Kara Reilly. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Pp. xii+200. $80. Recently published books on automata (self-moving machines designed to mimic living beings) have elucidated the significance of these fascinating objects from the perspectives of the history of science and techno…
Michael Saler. As If
In his previous works Michael Saler has questioned the simplistic characterization of modernity as an age of secularism, positivism, and scientism by exploring the subjects of medieval modernism and secular magic. In his latest book, As If, he continues the project through an insightful and entertaining analysis of modern enchantment, specifically on the topic of fictional worlds that took on lives of their own in the imagination of their consume…
The Mechanical Daughter of Rene Descartes
This article pursues the origin and mutation of a fantastic story concerning an automaton in the shape of a young girl that was supposedly built by René Descartes. In recent decades it has been retold and reimagined so many times that the tale has become an iconic narrative in the context of the reassessment of Descartes's significance in intellectual history. But a close reading of the original story, found in a 1699 work entitled Mélanges d'his…
Medieval Robots
Reviewed by: Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art by E. R. Truitt Minsoo Kang (bio) Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art. By E. R. Truitt. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. 296. $55/$24.95. In the burgeoning historical field of automaton studies, E. R. Truitt has made a significant and insightful contribution with this volume. It provides a comprehensive look at self-moving machines that mimic l…
The influence of physical characteristics on the resting energy expenditure of youth
Association between objectively measured sedentary behavior and a criterion measure of obesity among adults
OBJECTIVE: Results of published studies on the association between sedentary behavior (SB) and obesity are inconsistent, possibly due to reliance on subjective measures of SB and inappropriate measures of obesity. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between objectively measured SB and criterion-measured obesity among adults. METHODS: A total of 2284 adults (≥18 years) from the 2003 to 2004 National Health and Nutrition Examinati…
Between Tradition and Modernity
When familiarising oneself with the literary tradition of any country, an essential task would be to trace the transformation of letters through different historical eras. In the case of a European
The Question of the Woman-Machine
In recent scholarly works on automata, a major topic of discussion has been the man-machine, or the idea of considering a human being in mechanical terms. But what of the woman-machine? This essay traces the origin and development what could be called the hysterical woman-machine that was born in the mid-nineteenth century when the new materialist science produced thermodynamic and electromagnetic theories that, in turn, gave rise to a neo-mechan…
Sedentary behavior and metabolic syndrome in physically active adults
OBJECTIVES: The detrimental associations of sedentary behavior (SB) with metabolic syndrome have been shown to be independent of moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA). Therefore, researchers, in addition to promoting MVPA, are calling attention to the need to reduce SB. However, there has been limited research on the association of SB with metabolic syndrome among those who already meet the PA guidelines. Therefore, the purpose …
Temporal Trends in the Association between Participation in Physical Education and Physical Activity among U.S. High School Students, 2011–2017
The purpose of this study was to assess trends in physical education and physical activity among U.S. high school students from 2011 to 2017, respectively, and to evaluate temporal trends in the relationship between physical education class participation and physical activity levels. Data from a total of 51,616 high school students who participated in the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) from 2011 to 2017 were analyzed for this stu…
Patterns of Weight Change in a Commercial Weight Loss Program
Objectives: In this study, we examined compliance and progress factors associated with weight loss and maintenance, individual patterns of weight trends following weight loss, and impact of early weight loss on longer-term weight change. Methods: We conducted secondary analysis of pre-post data. Participants were 8769 persons (mean age = 47.63 ± 13.78 years; 77.74% women; mean weight = 97.20 ± 22.82 kilograms; BMI = 34.09 ± 6.84) in a commercial …
Rasch calibration of the 25-item Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale
Rasch modeling was used to examine the 25-item Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale within adults ( n = 410) in a weight management program. Rasch analysis assessed model-data fit, item difficulty and person's resilience level, an item-person map to evaluate relative distribution items and persons, and rating scale function. Four misfit items were identified and removed. Item difficulty ranged from 1.25 to 1.19 logits (higher logit values indicate mo…
Vigorous-intensity acute exercise during encoding can reduce levels of episodic and false memory
The potential benefits (veridical memory) and, importantly, costs (false memory) of acute exercise on memory in conjunction with the timing and type of exercise have not been fully studied. In Experiment 1, we employed a three-condition (15-minute vigorous-intensity acute exercise Before or During memory encoding, or a Control condition of watching a video), within-subjects, counterbalanced design. The procedures included an immediate and delayed…
Association among length of residence, physical activity, and obesity in the US immigrants
OBJECTIVES: To examine the mediated relationship between objectively measured obesity, accelerometer-based moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), and length of residence among US immigrants. METHODS: A total of 885 adults (≥18 years) who were born outside the United States from the 2003 to 2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey were included in the analysis. The participants were categorized into two groups (i.e., living in…
Objectively Measured Physical Activity Is Lower in Individuals with Normal Weight Obesity in the United States
The role of physical activity in normal weight obesity (NWO), which is associated with increased cardiometabolic risk, is not clear. This study aimed to determine body composition phenotype-specific differences in objectively measured physical activity and sedentary time in adults in the United States. A total of 2055 adults with a body mass index (BMI) ≥ 18.5 m 2 were studied using 2003-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys. Phy…
The Importance of an Organization’s Reputation
Crises are unavoidable in the sport world, and their relationship with reputation is inextricable. Protecting its reputation is a top priority for a sport organization in a crisis; thus, developing a valid and reliable instrument should be a precedent. In this study, Rasch analysis was applied to evaluate a 10-item Organizational Reputation Scale (ORP), extensively used in general and sport communication research, but whose development was made u…
Willingness to use PrEP among PrEP naïve men who have sex with men
Online coupling of an urban canopy model with trees and a mesoscale atmospheric model to assess the cooling effects of trees under different urban configurations and varying soil dryness
Urban canopy model incorporating in-canyon trees is coupled with the WRF model. • The coupled model is evaluated and shows reasonable performance. • Trees in narrower and deeper canyons show stronger cooling. • Cooling effects of trees diminish as soil moisture decreases. • However, cooling effects persist in very dry conditions due to tree shading. Urban trees play a crucial role in mitigating heat stress. Accurately representing the physical pr…
Investigating the moderating effects of momentary leisure activities in the stress-buffering model
This study examined the momentary buffering effects of leisure activities on the relationship between perceived stress and positive affect (PA) valence in daily life. Using ecological momentary assessment, 132 Taiwanese adults completed smartphone surveys three times daily for seven days. Multilevel modeling revealed that momentary perceived stress was negatively associated with PA valence, while momentary leisure participation was positively ass…
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