• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.161-166
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• 2020

The primary aim of this paper is to analyze the resultative adjunct clause, i.e., (thus/thereby/hence) ~ing participle and provide explicit syntactic, semantic and sociolinguistic explanation on the question what causes the cause-focused causal construction with resultative (thus/thereby/hence) ~ing participle in English. What comes first is either cause or effect clause. This study explores the recent style shift of causal constructions from the effect-focused pattern to the cause-focused pattern. In this study, we argue that the increasing number of the cause-focused main clause with a resultative ~ing participle clause shows the process of the style evolution improving speech/wring style in many respects including syntactic simplification, clarification of the sentence meaning with impact on the focused clauses, and improvement of the flow of speech/writing. The style shift found in the English resultative adjunct clauses, i.e., (thus/hence/thereby) ~ing participle constructions prove to be the style evolution from syntactic, semantic and sociolinguistic point of views.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.34-46
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• 2020

Unlike research focused on existing technologies and individual errors to analyze the causes of incidents, this study approached them from an organization and culture. And this study is not a one way study but cyclical study what can track cause down using causal loop diagram methodology. Four diagnostic criteria for the negative state of the safety culture : secretive, blame, failure to learning, and incremental learning, combine literature study and expert opinion to derive 41 variables. Connecting these variable make 4 causal loop diagrams and total causal loop diagram. Case accumulation in secretive, accident report in blame, knowledge accumulation in failure to learning, near miss discovery in incremental learning are the main variables. Safety incident is the objective variable by classifying them into 4 stages in total loop, leading track as the most affect is case accumulation, and Step 4 as you can see accident report and near miss discovery are the result of tracking down the cause. This study can be used as a basis for improving the management priority and the system in incident prevention.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.341-356
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• 2015

A nation has a sovereign right to develop and use its natural resources according to its policies with regard to development and the relevant environment. A nation also has an obligation not to harm other countries or damage environments of neighboring countries as consequences of such actions of developments or use of natural resources. However, international precedents induce a nation to take additional actions not to cause more damages from the specific acts causing environmental damages beyond national borders, when such acts have economic and social importance. That is to say that there is a tendency to resolve such issues in a way to promote the balance between the mutual interests by allowing such actions to continue. A solution to China's Three Gorges Dam dilemma based on a soft law approach is more credible than relying on a good faith approach of national responsibilities and international legal proceedings since the construction and operation of the dam falls within the category of exercising national sovereign rights. If a large scale construction project such as the Three Gorges Dam or operation of a nuclear power plant causes or may cause environmental damage beyond the border of a nation engaged in such an undertaking, countries affected by this undertaking should jointly monitor the environmental effects in a spirit of cooperation rather than trying to stop the construction and should seek cooperative solutions of mutual understanding to establish measures to prevent further damages. If China's Three Gorges Dam construction and operation cause or contain the possibility of causing serious damages to marine environment, China cannot set aside its national responsibility to meet international obligations if China is aware of or knows about the damage that has occurred or may occur but fail to prevent, minimize, reverse or eliminate additional chances of such damages, or fails to put in place measures in order to prevent the recurrence of such damages. However, Korea must be able to prove a causal relationship between the relevant actions and resulting damages if it is to raise objections to the construction or request certain damage-prevention actions against crucial adverse effects on the marine environment out of respect for China's right to develop resources and acts of use thereof. Therefore, it is essential to cumulate continuous monitoring and evaluations information pertaining to marine environmental changes and impacts or responses of affected waters as well as acquisition of scientific baseline data with observed changes in such baseline. As China has adopted a somewhat nonchalant attitude toward taking adequate actions to protect against marine pollution risks or adverse effects caused by the construction and operation of China's Three Gorges Dam, there is a need to persuade China to adopt a more active stance and become involved in the monitoring and co-investigation of the Yellow Sea in order to protect the marine environment. Moreover, there is a need to build a regular environmental monitoring system that includes the evaluation of environmental effects beyond borders. The Espoo Convention can serve as a mechanism to ease potential conflicts of national interest in the Northeast Asian waters where political and historical sensitivities are acute. Especially, the recent diplomatic policy advanced by Korea and China can be implemented as an important example of gentle cooperation as the policy tool of choice is based on regional cooperation or cooperation between different regions.

• 한국화재조사학회지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.103-121
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• 2006

우리나라에서 발생한 화재 원인조사 대부분은 소방관서에서 초기조사, 경찰관서에서 수사가 진행되고 있으며, 보다 난해하거나 이해관계가 복잡한 경우인 일부만이 경찰에서 심도 있게 조사하고 경찰조사 시 감정이 필요한 경우 감정기관에 감정의뢰 후 경찰관서 자체조사만으로 끝나며, 점차 전문기관에 의뢰되고 있는 건수가 증가하고 있는 실정이나 많은 문제점을 안고 있어 이에 대안을 제시한다. 국내 화재사고 발생 건수는 소방방재청 통계 연간 약 30만 건으로 추산되나, 전국 경찰화재감식 전문 요원(국립과학수사연구소 전문화 교육 이수자)은 80여명에 지나지 않으며, 국립과학수사연구소 화재감정 관련 연구원은 전국에 15명인 것에 비추어 사건화 된 화재에 대한 감식 감정 인력은 턱없이 모자라 과중한 업무를 수행하고 있는 실정이다. 가연성 액체에 의한 방 실화 시 바닥재의 연소형태를 비교 연구함으로써 연소에 사용된 연소촉매제에 대하여 추론 할 수 있는 연구를 실시하여 모델을 제시하였다. 화재사건 관련 감식 감정 업무를 담당하고 있는 경찰 및 국립과학수사연구소의 과중한 업무의 부담인 의뢰 건수의 폭주로, 경찰 화재 감식의 대상 중 범죄혐의(방화, 실화 등)가 있는 사건은 전체 조사 건수의 20% 미만이고, 나머지 80%에 달하는 사건이 범죄혐의 없는 제조물 관련 또는 이재 관계의 민사 소송 사건에 지나지 않는 것이 현실이다. 본 연구는 경찰화재조사 및 소방화재조사에 대한 검토와 문제점 대안 등을 제시하여 화재사건과 관련하여 경찰 소방 양 기관에서 합동으로 사건을 처리하는 것이 과오를 범하지 않는 효율적이고 과학적인 수사가 될 수 있다는 제도개선이 필요함이 요구된다.