• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.199-222
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• 2014

Functional Magnetic Resonance Angiography (fMRA) was a technoscientific innovation that allows scientists to directly view the changes made in the blood vessels of a brain. fMRA was first developed at Neuroscience Research Institute (NRI) in Korea. fMRA mainly utilizes 7 Tesla MRI technology, and NRI is equipped with the instrument. First article on fMRA was published in 2008, and two more papers in 2010 and 2012 consecutively had been published on the newly developed technique. However, fMRA is a competitive technology with existing fMRI. Both techniques capture microvascular changes in a brain, and by doing it, both techniques visualize the cognitive and affective changes. fMRI technology was introduced by Seiji Ogawa in the early 1990's and has been widely used since then. In contrast, fMRA was a newer technology and rather unknown. Developers of fMRA in NRI used series of signifiant-politics in order to make it better known to scientific community as well as public. By resetting the boundaries of existing concept of fMRI, they tried to lower the threshold of a new concept/technique. This case study shows how technoscientists use semiotic strategies governing new technology.

• Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.28-36
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• 2001

Objectives : This study was undertaken to identify the clinical and psychological characteristics in patients of mental disability assessment following traumatic brain injury who had the finding with or without abnormal brain imaging study. Methods : A consecutive series of 59 patients were assessed in hospital from January 1994 to December 1998. Patients were divided into 2 groups based on normal or abnormal brain imaging and the two groups were compared in demographic characteristics, psychiatric symptoms, type of head injury, clinical psychological findings. There were 27 patients with abnormal findings and 32 with normal findings in brain imaging study. Results : Abnormal finding group in brain imaging study had significantly higher incidence of psychosis, decreased memory, decreased appetite, increased nihilistic idea, and intracranial hemorrhage. Also, abnormal finding group showed significantly lower level of performance on the block design subtest of K-WAIS and had significantly lower scores on F, hypochodriasis, depression, hysteria, psychopathic deviate, psychasthenia and schizophrenia subscale of the MMPI. Conclusion : The findings suggest that the patients undergone brain surgery due to intracranial hemorrage at that time of brain injury may have higher frequency of abnormal findings in brain imaging study, complain more cognitive and affective symptoms, and have lower the abstract concept formation and perceptual organization abilities.

• 월간산업보건
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• s.179
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• pp.23-25
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• 2003

산업재해보상보험법(법률 제4826호) 4조 1항에 의하면 '업무상 재해라 함은 업무상의 사유에 의한 근로자의 부상, 질병, 신체장애 또는 사망을 말한다'로 규정되어 있습니다. 질병을 포함한 재해가 업무상 사유에 의한 것인가의 여부를 판단하는 것은 쉬운 일이 아니며 더욱이 국가의 사회적.경제적 여건에 따라 시대적으로 업무관련성의 범위나 인정기준등 개념이 변화되고 있기 때문에 산업보건분야 관련 종사자들은 관심을 갖고 항시 그 흐름을 파악하는 것이 바람직합니다. 본 란에서는 관계자 분들의 이해를 돕기 위해 근로복지공단에서 발행되는 '산재보험법판례속보'에 게재된 내용을 선별하여 업무상 재해 인정에 관한 최근의 법원 사례를 소개합니다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.249-251
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• 2006

현재 전력계통해석은 단인 주파수의 정상 및 과도상태 해석용 페이서 개념의 해석 툴을 사용하고 있다. 이는 뇌서지, 개폐서지, TRV, 병렬회선 공진 등 비선형적 계통현상분석 시 한계를 보이게 된다. 더욱이 계통이 거대화, 복잡화 됨에 따라 비선형적 과도현상 발생 빈도가 더욱 증가하여 과도현상 해석의 필요성이 점점 증가하고 있는 실정이다. 전력계통 해석 소프트웨어 중 EMTP는 비선형적 요인에 의한 고장발생 시 원인분석 해석 기술을 제공하고 있다. EMTP-RV는 EMTP를 GUI 방식으로 재구성한 툴로서 더욱 사용하기 편한 장점을 지니고 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 여러 과도현상 중 개폐서지에 대하여 EMTP-RV를 이용한 분석 기법을 나타내었다. 여러 개폐서지 발생 원인을 EMTP-RV를 이용하여 모델링 하였으며, 모의 결과를 분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.1511-1512
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• 2015

자연재해의 특징은 설계불량이나 조작실수 등과 같이 다른 고장과 달리 위험요인을 인위적으로 저감하는 것이 불가능하다. 또한 자연재해는 규모나 양상에 있어서 매우 다양하며 뇌의 경우 위치와 장소에 따라 피해강도는 1,000배 정도 다른 결과를 초래할 수도 있다. 이와 같은 특징을 가진 자연재해를 완전히 예방하는 것은 비현실적이다. 자연재해에 따라 피해는 위험도와 전력시스템의 취약성이 교차하는 영역에서 발생한다. 피해를 저감하기 위해서는 취약성을 감소시키고, 이 교차 영역을 가능한 작게 하는 것이 기본개념이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.297-300
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• 2008

This paper described a New-Concept lightning warning system (LWS) which can measure electric field intensity on the ground level by an electric field mill (EFM) and calculate the lighting location by radiated electro-magnetic waveform. The EFM measures electric field up to 20[kV/m] with the sensitivity of 0.15[V/kV/m] and frequency bandwidth of the loop antenna was ranges from 5.2[kHz] to 1.71[MHz]. The LWS provides data on the movements of thunderclouds and the possibility of lightning return stroke.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.836-848
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• 2019

This paper aims at providing a critical view over the cybernetics theory especially of first generation on which the artificial intelligence heavily depends nowadays. There has been a commonly accepted thought that the conception of artificial intelligence could not has been possible without being influenced by N. Wiener's cybernetic feedback based information system. Despite the founder of contemporary cybernetics' ethical concerns in order to avoid an increasing entropy phenomena(social violence, economic misery, wars) produced through a negative dynamics of the western modernity regarded as the most advanced form of humanism. In this civilizationally changing atmosphere, the newly born cybernetic technology was thus firmly believed as an antidote to these vices deeply rooted in humanism itself. But cybernetics has been turned out to be a self-organizing, self-controlling mechanical system that entails the possibility of telegraphing human brain (which are transformed into patterns) through the uploading of human brain neurons digitalized by the artificial intelligence embedded into computing technology. On this background emerges posthuman (or posthumanism) movement of which concepts have been theorized mainly by its ardent apostles like N. K. Hayles, Neil Bedington, Laurent Alexandre, Donna J. Haraway. The converging of NBIC Technologies leading to the opening of a much more digitalizing society has served as a catalyst to promote the posthuman representations and different narratives especially in the contemporary visual arts as well as in the study of humanities including philosophy and fictional literature. Once Bruno Latour wrote "Modernity is often defined in terms of humanism, either as a way of saluting the birth of 'man' or as a way of announcing his death. But this habit is itself modern, because it remains asymmetrical. It overlooks the simultaneous birth of 'nonhumaniy' - things, or objects, or beasts, - and the equally strange beginning of a crossed-out God, relegated to the sidelines."4) These highly suggestive ideas enable us to better understand what kind of human beings would emerge following the dazzlingly accelerating advancement of artificial intelligence technology. We wonder whether or not this newly born humankind would become essentially Homo Artificialis as a neuronal man stripping off his biological apparatus. However due to this unprecedented situation humans should deal with enormous challenges involving ethical, metaphysical, existential implications on their life.

• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.117-157
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• 2012

This paper investigated the biomedical medicalization of "depression"which is growing fast in Korea in terms of the treatment mechanism. Depression has been regarded as a mental disease that occurs with mixing various causations because what was the cause of this disease was not clarified until a recent date. Thus, as depression treatment, the medicine and the psycho-socio therapy have been used. However, from 1990s, as the brain science was introduced in the western society, and the high-tech diagnostic equipment of the brain disease and new drugs for the mental disease were developed, depression was rapidly redefined as 'the brain nerve system illness'that is easy to be taken and is able to obtain the permanent relief with the regular care. Under the influence of the redefinition of depression and the new treatment of it, recently, 8% of depression patients per year emerge as the aggressive cure subjects in the Korean psychiatric circle. However, according to the Korean psychiatric circle's unofficial calculation, it is estimated that only 10% of depression patients are receiving the accurate treatment but over 80% of the patients are not. If so, what does this estimation mean? Based on this question, this paper critically investigated the biomedical medicalization of depression.

• Journal of Science Education
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.255-265
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to analyze and compare brain activation that appears in the self-regulation process of biology major and non-major college students in life science learning. The self-regulation task implemented a life science learning situation with the concept of biological classification. The brain activation of college students was measured and analyzed by fNIRS. In the assimilation process, bilateral FP and left DLPFC show significant activation, and the two groups show a difference in the left OFC activation related to motivation and reward. In the conflict process, the left DLPFC shows significantly lower activation in common, and the two groups show a difference in activation between BA 46, which is related to recent memory, and BA 47, which is related to long-term memory. In the accommodation process, a significantly high activation was found in right DLPFC in common, and the two groups show a difference in activation between right DLPFC and right FP. These areas are in the right frontal lobe area and are related to the understanding of life science knowledge. As a result of this study, it can be seen that the brain activation patterns of biology major and non-major college students are different in the self-regulation process. In addition, we will propose additional neurological studies on self-regulation and present systems and learning strategies that can be constructed in school settings.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.354-367
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• 2020

This study is on the consideration of the scope of application of art therapy and fractal through the review of literature at home and abroad. The complex system is the opposite of the Euclidean system, a concept suitable for understanding the contemporaries with ambiguous boundaries and decentralized phenomena. The self-similarity and inventiveness of fractal, the geometry of nature, is used as fractal art in art as well as tree trunk, cloud and plant, especially in art therapy, fractal is considered to be available in the field of mandala and neuroscience. From brain-based research to mandala, exposure to natural patterns, clinical diagnosis through fractal analysis and software development, fractal has potential elements that can be developed in art therapy. Fractal, which is easy to link with computers due to its nature, is a necessary study at this point when non-face-to-face contact with the Corona virus is recommended. Currently, research on fractal art therapy is insufficient in Korea. Therefore, this research is intended to present as a basis for scientific and objective diagnostic tools and treatment at clinical sites using art therapy using fractal.