• 영어영문학
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• 제57권1호
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• pp.3-25
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• 2011

As extremes of climate such as heavy storms, rainfalls, and droughts tend to be routine in recent years, global climate change becomes a serious concern not only for natural scientists but also for scholars of the human sciences. Efforts to tackle the anthropogenic climate change certainly require not only scientific knowledge about it but also a new sociocultural paradigm for valorizing and respecting nature in its own right. The huge casualties and mass destruction caused by recent climate disasters also remind us that nature has been an important factor to bring about changes in human history-a fact largely ignored in traditional history. This again validates the ecocritical request to prioritize place, physical setting, or the relationship characters hold with the natural world in understanding literary works. In this context this paper aims to demonstrate the importance of the meteorological vision in creating as well as understanding literary and cultural texts by examining such works as Shelley's "The Cloud," Byron's "Darkness," Keats's "To Autumn," all produced during the period of dramatic climate change including "the year without summer." It also briefly discusses Roland Emmerich's 2004 movie The Day after Tomorrow as a way of understanding recent cultural responses to the crisis of global warming.

• 대한통합의학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.157-168
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• 2022

Purpose : The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of the overseas volunteer activities of university students on changes in global citizenship. Methods : This study was conducted as a one-group pre-posttest design. The study's subjects were students who participated in the 37th World Friends Korea Youth Volunteer Corps in 2018. Among them, 158 students who completed the survey were included in the analysis. The tool for measuring global citizenship was comprised of knowledge, skill, attitude, and willingness to practice. The data were analyzed using the SPSS 26.0 program, and the statistical significance was set to p<.05. Results : Among the study's participants, there were 123 females (77.85 %). By grade, there were the most juniors, with 68 (43.04 %). There were 53 (33.55 %) seniors, 28 (18.35 %) sophomores, and eight freshmen (5.06 %). Among all participants, 52.53 % had experience in global citizenship education, and 63.92 % had experience in activities related to global citizenship. Because of analyzing the changes in global citizenship before and after overseas volunteer activities, "skill" increased the most, from 3.51±.65 points to 4.34±.56 points (p< .001). Due to analyzing changes in global citizenship before and after overseas volunteerism, the knowledge and attitude of freshmen were statistically significantly positive, with 1.17± 1.23 (p=.011) and 1.41±1.22 (p=.008), respectively. Participants with global citizenship experience had a significant change in attitude (p=.018). Conclusion : It was confirmed that the overseas volunteer activities of undergraduate students in the university brought a positive change to global citizenship. Providing opportunities for global citizenship education and activities in elementary, middle, and high schools in the future will maximize the effects of overseas volunteer activities to improve global citizenship.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권7호
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• pp.624-630
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• 2007

The dynamic window approach(DWA) is a well known technique for reactive collision avoidance. It shows safe and efficient performance in real-world experiments. However, a robot can get stuck in local minima because no information about the connectivity of the free space is used to determine the motion. The global DWA can solve this problem of local minima by adding a navigation function. Even with the global DWA, it is still difficult for a robot to execute an abrupt change in its direction, for example, entering from the corridor to a doorway. This paper proposes a modified global DWA using the included angles of waypoints extracted from an optimal path. This scheme enables the robot to decelerate in advance before turning into the doorway. Therefore the robot can reach the goal position more safely and efficiently at high speeds.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.147-150
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• 2016

Global GM crops continue to grow. They have reached 181 million hectares. A total of 28 countries have approved biotech crops for planting. More than 60 countries have approved biotech crops to be imported as food and feed since 1996, meaning that biotech crops are now commonly accepted in those countries. Although biotech crops provide key solutions for the challenge of global food security in the future due to population growth and climate change, there are still some debates on whether biotech crops should be accepted in many countries including Korea. Therefore, it is very important to make people understand that GM crops will provide benefits to both farmers and consumers. In this review, current global status of GM crop development and commercialization are summarized.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.162-168
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• 2006

The variation of global coherence on propagation plane by plane is examined in the framework of coherent mode representation. It is explained through concrete examples that the global coherence may in general be enhanced, may be reduced, or may not change. When the mode functions form a complete set and the corresponding eigenvalues are in nitely degenerate, there necessarily develops a certain amount of global coherence on propagation, which is the essence of van Cittert-Zernike theorem. The propagation generates a certain pattern of the eigenvalue spectrum from the initial flat one and this is shown to be related to the non-unitarity of the propagation kernel.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.624-629
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• 2007

While single view video coding uses the temporal prediction scheme, multi-view video coding (MVC) applies both temporal and inter-view prediction schemes. Thus, the key problem of MVC is how to reduce the inter-view redundancy efficiently, because various existing video coding schemes have already provided solutions to reduce the temporal correlation. In this paper, we propose a global disparity compensation scheme which increases the inter-view correlation and a new inter-view prediction structure based on the global disparity compensation. By experiment, we demonstrate that the proposed global disparity compensation scheme is less sensitive to change of the search range. In addition, the new Inter-view prediction structure achieved about $0.1{\sim}0.3dB$ quality improvement compared to the reference software.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.16-21
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• 2010

Computer simulation of buildings and solar energy systems are being used increasingly in energy assessments and design. This paper discusses the possibility of using sunshine duration data instead of global hourly solar irradiation (GHSI) data for localities with abundant data on sunshine duration. For six locations in South Korea where global radiation is currently measured, the global radiation was calculated using Sunshine Duration Radiation Model (SDRM), compared and analyzed. Results of SDRM has been compared with the measured data on the coefficients of determination (R2), root-mean-square error (RMSE) and mean bias error (MBE). This study recommends the use of sunshine duration based irradiation models if measured solar radiation data is not available.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2017

우리나라 기후변화의 양상은 전세계 평균에 비해 높은 양상으로 나타나 기후변화 대응을 위한 적응 정책이 절실한 상황이다. 특히, 기후변화에 따른 우리나라의 경제적 손실이 2,800조원에 달할 것으로 예측되는 상황으로 최소 300조원의 천문학적인 비용이 기후변화 적응에 필요할 것으로 연구되었다.(KEI, 2011) 이러한 막대한 비용의 적절한 투입시기, 분야 설정 등 효율적인 투입을 위해 정확한 기후변화 예측 및 영향이 필수적이다. 이러한 기후변화 예측 및 영향 분석을 위해서는 전구뿐만 아니라, 한반도를 비롯한 동북아시아에서 불균질하게 나타나고 있는 온실가스 농도의 정확한 파악이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 기후변화의 유발인자인 온실가스 관측을 위한 위성 개발에 대한 필요성에 대해 분석하고, 해외 온실가스 관측 위성 개발 현황에 대해 조사하여 저궤도 환경위성 개발 방안에 대해 제시하고자 한다. 온실가스 관측 위성은 우주개발중장기계획에 반영된 차세대 중형위성과 연계, 추진하여 기상, 농림, 토양 관측 위성과 함께 기후변화 이외에 수질, 토양, 생태로 환경 감시 범위를 확대할 수 있을 것으로 예상된다.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.395-404
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• 2008

태양활동프록시(proxies)와 지구연평균 기온아노말리 시계열을 이용하여 기후변화에서 태양활동신호를 찾아보았다. 이를 위해 Lomb & Scargle의 피어리드그램(Periodgram)을 이용하여 태양활동프록시와 기온아노말리 시계열을 주기분석하였다. 또한 EMD(Empirical Mode Decomposition)과 MODWR MRA(Maxial Overlap Discrete Wavelet Transform Multi Resolution Analysis)를 적용하여 두 시계열을 성분분해하고 이들 중 비슷한 주기의 특성을 보이는 성분을 비교하였다. 태양활동프록시는 짧의 주기의 파워가 긴 주기의 파워에 비해서 큰 반면 기온아노말리는 긴 주기에서 더 큰 파워를 보였다 EMD에 의한 성분분해 결과는 약40년보다 긴 주기성을 갖는 성분을 분해해 낼 수 없었지만 잔차 성분은 비교할 수 있었다. MRA에 의한 성분분해를 통해 지구연평균 기온아노말리 시계열에서 태양활동의 변화에 의한 신호를 찾아내었다. 1960년부터 2007년까지 기온상승에 대한 태양의 기여도는 39%로 계산되었다. 기후민감성은 출력신호의 진폭에만 관계하여 기후시스템이 간단한 2계미분방정식으로 근사될 수 있는 가능성에 대해 토의하였다.

• 한국해양학회지:바다
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.10-15
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• 2000

기후변동에 따른 해양생태계의 변화를 예측하기 위한 국제 연구 프로그램인 Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC)은 해양의 탄소순환을 집중적으로 연구한 Joint Global Ocean Flux Study(JGOFS)의 후속조치로서, 이 논문에서는 GLOBEC 프로그램의 목적, 방향, 실천계획, 체제를 정리하였다. 해양과학위원회(SCOR)와 정부간해양위원회(IOC)의 후원을 동시에 받고 있는 대형과학프로그램인 GLOBEC은 기후변화에 따른 생태계의 중위 및 상위포식자의 반응에 대한 연구이며, GLOBEC 과학집행위원회는 연구를 수행하기 위한 실천계획을 1999년에 수립하였다. GLOBEC 프로그램은 국제생지권프로그램(IGBP)의 핵심과제로 지정되어 향후 10년 동안 지속될 것이며, 구체적으로 4개의 연구 초점, 체제구축활동, 지역프로그램, 종합화 등으로 구성되어 있다. 가장 중요한 연구활동인 4개의 연구초점은 다음과 같다: 과거자료분석(Retrospective analyses), 과정 연구(Process studies), 예측과 모델링(Predictive and modelling capability), 되먹임(Feedbacks). 현재, 남극해 GLOBEC(SO-GLOBEC), 소형표층어류와 기후변화(SPACC), 대구와 기후변화(CCC), 기후변화와 환경수용력(CCCC)의 4개 국제적 지역프로그램이 있으며, 이들은 모두 우리나라 해양 및 수산연구와 밀접한 관련이 있다. 미국, 일본 등의 9개국은 국가프로그램을 운영하고 있으며, 이 수효는 점차 증가할 전망이다.