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Report on the Development of WHO International Standard Terminologies and International Classification of Traditional Medicine/Western Pacific Regional Office (국제한의학표준용어(WHO IST/WPRO) 및 국제한의학질병분류(ICTM/WPRO)의 개발 현황 보고)

  • Shim, Bum-Sang
    • Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.776-780
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    • 2007

  • Recently World Health Organization Western Pacific Regional Office (WHO/WPRO) has developed the WHO International Standard Terminologies on Traditional Medicine in the Western Pacific Region (IST), and is developing WHO International Classification of Traditional Medicine/Western Pacific Regional Office (ICTM/WPRO). Regarding ICTM, WHO/WPRO hoped that it will be incorporated to International Classification of Disease (ICD) 11$^{th}$ edition, published in 2015. The author reports the proceedings of these two standardizations on terminologies and diseases of traditional medicine in East Asia.

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Temporal Variation of the Western Pacific Subtropical High Westward Ridge and its Implicationson South Korean Precipitation in Late Summer

  • Ahn, Kuk-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2019.05a
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    • pp.24-24
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    • 2019

  • This study investigates variations in the Western Pacific Subtropical High (WPSH) and its impact on South Korean precipitation in late summer during the period between 1958 and 2017. Composite analysis reveals that precipitation occurrence is directly linked to the displacement of the WPSH western ridge, a single, large-scale feature of the atmosphere in the Pacific Ocean. When WPSH ridging is located northwest (NW) of its climatological mean position, excessive precipitation is expected in late summer due to enhanced moisture transport. On the other hand, a precipitation deficit is frequently observed when the western ridge is located in the southeast (SE). Different phases of the WPSH are associated with lagged patterns of Pacific and Atlantic atmospheric and oceanic variability, introducing the potential to predict variability in the WPSH western ridge and its climate over northern East Asia by one month. Based on the identified SST patterns, a simple statistical model is developed and improvement in the ability to predict is confirmed through a cross-validation framework. Finally, the potential for further improvements in WPSH-based predictions is addressed.

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Coevolution between Human's Anticancer Activities and Functional Foods from Crop Origin Center in the World

  • Zeng, Ya-Wen;Du, Juan;Pu, Xiao-Ying;Yang, Jia-Zhen;Yang, Tao;Yang, Shu-Ming;Yang, Xiao-Meng
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.2119-2128
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    • 2015

  • Cancer is the leading cause of death around the world. Anticancer activities from many functional food sources have been reported in years, but correlation between cancer prevalence and types of food with anticancer activities from crop origin center in the world as well as food source with human migration are unclear. Hunger from food shortage is the cause of early human evolution from Africa to Asia and later into Eurasia. The richest functional foods are found in crop origin centers, housing about 70% in the world populations. Crop origin centers have lower cancer incidence and mortality in the world, especially Central Asia, Middle East, Southwest China, India and Ethiopia. Asia and Africa with the richest anticancer crops is not only the most important evolution base of humans and origin center of anticancer functional crop, but also is the lowest mortality and incidence of cancers in the world. Cancer prevention of early human migrations was associated with functional foods from crop origin centers, especially Asia with four centers and one subcenter of crop origin, accounting for 58% of the world population. These results reveal that coevolution between human's anticancer activities associated with functional foods for crop origin centers, especially in Asia and Africa.

  • https://doi.org/10.7314/APJCP.2015.16.6.2119 인용 PDF KSCI

아태지역의 석유제품 품질동향

  • Korea Petroleum Association
    • Korea Petroleum Association Journal
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    • no.2 s.180
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    • pp.76-83
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    • 1996

  • 이 자료는 최근 하와이의 동서문화 센터가 마련한 「Asia - Pacific Refinery Balance and Product Flows to 2000」중 석유제품 품질규격 부분을 발췌한 것이다. <편집자 주>

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