• 영어영문학
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• 제54권1호
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• pp.77-105
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• 2008

Even though Paule Marshall and Ishmael Reed have differences of gender, generation, and literary techniques, they share common points in dealing with cultural conflicts and racial discrimination in the United States as Afro-American Writers. As black minority writers, Marshall and Reed write out of a perspective of forced immigrant/fragmentary native consciousness. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the protagonist's reaction to racial prejudice, different cultures and their attempts to reconcile and to coexist with other races and their culture in these writers' representative works. Marshall's uniqueness as a contemporary black female artist stems from her ability to write from the three levels, that is, African American and Caribbean black. So, Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones represents an attempt to identify, analyze, and resolve the conflict between cultural loss/displacement and cultural domination/hegemony. Reed's Japanes by Spring offers a blistering attack upon the various cultural and racial factions of the academy and the bankrupt value systems in America. Reed's depiction of Jack London College's existing racial problems-later compounded by the cultural dilemmas that accompany the Japanese occupation of the institution-reveals his interest in highlighting the ways in which any monoculturalist ideology ultimately results in racist and culturally exclusive policies. Marshall's and Reed's novels provide opportunities for reader to explore various manifestations of intercultual and interethnic dynamics. They present the possibility of reconciliation and coexistence between different race and ethnic cultures through asserting a cultural hybridity and multiculturalism.

• 대한안전경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한안전경영과학회 2010년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.435-455
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• 2010

이 논문은 주식투자 결정과 도박(gamble)의 심리가 상호 연관성이 있는가와 관련된 것이다. 집계변수(aggregated level)에서 경기가 불황일 때, 개인투자가들은 직접 복권(lottery tickets)을 구입하거나 복권과 같이 일확천금을 누릴 수 있는 동시에 위험성(risk)을 수반하는 주식을 선호하는 경향이 있다. 즉 경기가 불황에 놓일 경우에는 개인투자가들은 이러한 복권형(lottery-type) 주식과 복권(lottery)의 구매 및 보유를 늘리는 경향이 있다는 것이다. 특히 이러한 경향은 저소득 계층(low-income investors)과 청년, 교육의 혜택을 덜 받은 부류의 독신자, 대도시 거주자, 미국의 경우 흑인(African-American)과 히스패닉 등의 사회적 약자 등으로 알려지고 있다. 이러한 일반적인 경우가 데이터를 통해 알아볼 수 있는 지와 관련하여 실증분석 하였다. 하지만 이 분석을 통하여 개인투자가들이 경기불황일 때 위험한(risky) 주식의 보유 경향을 늘린다는 가정을 지지할 수 있는 결과를 도출하지 못하였다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권7호
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• pp.3323-3326
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• 2014

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in Jamaican women. Locally advanced breast cancer (LABC) is associated with aggressive biology and poor prognosis, and has a predilection for African-American women. In this retrospective review, we assessed the prevalence of LABC as a breast cancer presentation in a population of mainly Afro-centric ethnicity, and determined disease characteristics and response to pre-operative chemotherapy. LABC was prevalent (20%), and had a low pathological response rate to pre-operative chemotherapy, with a high risk of disease recurrence. Increased utilization of breast cancer screening may help detect cancer at less advanced stages, and optimizing pre-operative chemotherapy is recommended to improve response rates and ultimately survival.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 1998년도 Proceedings of International Symposium on Remote Sensing
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• pp.116-121
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• 1998

Global land related datasets such as land use, land cover, vegetation cover percentage, forest cover percentage, are part of important global geospatial environmental datasets for global change studies. Since land cover varies place by place, continental production of dataset is a usual approach. Western academically developed countries have some projects to describe land cover related information in digital form using remote sensing technology in African, American continent and Oceania. In this paper, the author introduce his initiative to coordinate Asian scientists in order to develop land related dataset of Asia for our better understanding of the environment of Asia and for contribution to the development of global dataset. This paper explains activities by Land Cover Working Group (LCWG) of the Asian Association on Remote Sensing(AARS), Data and Information System(DIS) sub-committee of Japan national committee for the International Geosphere and Biosphere Program(IGBP), and the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing(ISPRS) Working Group IV/6 on Global databases supporting environmental monitoring.

• Animal Bioscience
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• 제34권11호
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• pp.1723-1726
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• 2021

• 영어영문학
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• 제60권2호
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• pp.295-314
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• 2014

Flannery O'Connor's stories have garnered critical attention for her religious views. Thus, the interpretation of violence in her fiction has been mainly associated with salvation in her characters. Nonetheless, O'Connor was aware of the historical facts surrounding white supremacist activities in the American South. In its revenge narrative, O'Connor's story "The Displaced Person" (1955) unveils subtle layers of politics from the Ku Klux Klan as well as her white characters' views of race and immigrants. O'Connor used a voice of reserve due to her minority position as woman and Catholic. Although she was a white female, she lived within repressive Southern religiosity. Racism prevailed beneath Southern chauvinism and patriotism. The conflicts in the South display the violent aspects of the "Invisible White Supreme Empire." After the World Wars, devalued whiteness elicited atrocities against socially upward mobile African Americans, foreigners and Catholics. This article explores the convoluted issues of racial hierarchy, miscegenation, and xenophobic reactions in the South.

• Journal of Smart Tourism
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.31-38
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• 2022

Understanding demand for travel websites can help hoteliers better evaluate their own multi-channel distribution and reputation management strategies. In this study, we estimated demand for eight major travel websites based on the user percentage in 3,120 U.S. counties. Results highlighted the importance of four types of factors: sociodemographic, economic, Internet use-related, and travel-related. Differences between websites were also compared based on estimated coefficients. For example, the demand for Expedia.com appeared to be driven by age, education background, income, and foreign travel history, whereas the demand for Hotels.com was driven by the proportion of the African American population and domestic travel history. Lastly, implications are provided.

• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.36-42
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• 2010

A cross-sectional survey was used to investigate the rates of overweight and obesity (BMI$\geq$25), and eating attitudes among college students. Data were collected at a large southeastern university. Adolescents (ages 18-25) self-reported weight and height (to calculate BMI), and, in addition to demographic information, completed the eating attitudes (EAT 26) scale to assess dieting tendencies. Significance of the mean BMI differences between gender and ethnic background were assessed by one-way analysis of variance (one-way ANOVA). Chi-square was used to determine whether the rate of those with BMI$\geq$25 between gender and ethnic background was statistically significant. While 52.7% of the students' BMI were within the normal weight category, 15.2% were underweight, 21.3% were overweight, and 10.8% were obese. The rate of BMI$\geq$25 differed by gender and ethnicity, with males and African Americans having higher rates. About 12 % of the participants reported disturbed eating behavior, which is lower than previously reported. Even so, results support the generally held belief that disturbed eating attitudes and unhealthy dieting are common among college students, especially among females. At the same time, disturbed eating attitudes are not just the domain of young female students; about 10% of college males reported disturbed eating attitudes. Findings of this study call for obesity prevention/intervention and lifestyle modification outreach programs among college students. Weight status and unhealthy eating behaviors of college. students should be a concern to health care professionals. While obese young adults will likely remain obese throughout their adult life, excessive dieting among students, which is linked to eating disorders and other health hazards, does not provide healthy and adequate alternatives for maintaining a normal BMI. Implications for obesity prevention programs are discussed.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.433-440
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• 2020

아프로 퓨쳐리즘은 아프리카의 문화와 예술, SF소설, 역사, 판타지, '흑인 중심주의'와 환상적 리얼리즘 등의 요소를 접목한 미래적 문화기류이다. 본 연구의 목적은 《블랙 팬서》에 나타난 문화적 배경을 통해 아프로 퓨쳐리즘의 개념과 아프리카 문화의 특징을 정리하고, 영화 캐릭터의 코스튬 특성을 분석하여 아프로 퓨쳐리즘이 내포한 특성을 분석하는 것이다. 연구 방법은 이론적 고찰과 영화 코스튬 사례 분석을 통한 결과 도출로 이루어졌다. 이론적 고찰은 아프로 퓨처리즘과 슈퍼히어로에 관한 선행연구를 통한 문헌 조사를 실시하였고, 주요 사례는 《블랙 팬서》에 나온 주인공의 코스튬과 주요 캐릭터의 복식을 중심으로 수집하였다. 분석 결과에 따른 아프로 퓨처리즘의 예술적 특성은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 사회적 소수자를 위한 예술의 저항성, 둘째, 문화의 반동효과를 통한 흑인 예술의 정체성 확립, 셋째, SF 환타지를 통한 예술적 치유성이다.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.19-27
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• 2023

본 논문은 다인종, 다민족, 다문화적 미국사회에서, 한인, 백인, 흑인의 관계로 형성된 인종 삼각구도의 양상과 의미를 1992년 로스앤젤레스 인종 폭동을 중심으로 분석한다. 한국계 미국 이민 2세대 작가 스텝 차(Steph Cha)의 『너의 집이 대가를 치를 것이다』 (Your House Will Pay, 2019)를 그 분석의 대상으로 하여, 인종 삼각구도와 연관된 인종서열 관념, 인종적 상투형, 인종간 분리, 역사적 주변화, 문화적 편견의 쟁점을 살펴본다. 대도시 공간에서의 인종폭력에 얽힌 한인가족과 흑인가족의 좌절과 분노, 갈등과 증오, 트라우마와 죄의식을 통해 백인주도 사회의 다인종 간 상호관계를 탐색한다. 특히 LA 인종 폭동의 도화선이 된 한인 이민 상점주와 흑인 토착시민 소비자 배후에 자리잡은 이민자와 토착시민의 갈등 구조, 이민 소자본 자영업 공간의 특성, 이민경제적 양상을 중심으로, 대도시 폭력의 쟁점을 탐색한다. 흑백관계, 한백관계, 한흑관계로 이어지는 인종 삼각구도를 읽어내는 과정을 통해, 미국의 국가적 자원이자 역사적 갈등의 원천이 되는 인종 쟁점의 사회경제적 매트릭스에 대한 문화적 문식성을 강화하고, 초인종적, 초민족적, 초문화적 공감과 생명 공동체로서의 미래지향적 시민의식의 확장을 모색한다.