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Neuroscience and the Social Powers of Narrative: How Stories Configure Our Brains

  • Armstrong, Paul B.
    • Journal of English Language & Literature
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    • v.64 no.1
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    • pp.3-24
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    • 2018
  • Stories are important instruments for configuring our cognitive and social worlds, but they do not necessarily make us more caring or less aggressive and self-involved. The ability to tell and follow a story requires cognitive capacities that are basic to the neurobiology of mental functioning, and so it would stand to reason that our experiences with stories would draw on and re-shape patterns of interaction that extend beyond the immediate experience of reading or listening to a narrative. Our intuitive, bodily-based ability to understand the actions of other people is fundamental to social relations, including the circuit between the representation of a configured action emplotted in a narrative and the reader's or listener's activity of following the story as we assimilate its patterns into the figures that shape our worlds. The activity of following a narrative can have a variety of beneficial or potentially noxious social consequences, either promoting the shared intentionality that neurobiologically oriented cultural anthropologists identify as a unique human capacity supporting culturally productive collaboration, or habitualizing and thereby naturalizing particular patterns of perception into rigid ideological constructs. The doubling of "me" and "not-me" in narrative acts of identification may promote the "we-intentionality" that makes socially beneficial cooperation possible, or it can set off mimetic conflict and various contagion effects. Neuroscience cannot predict what the social consequences of narrative will be, but it can identify the brain- and body-based processes through which (for better or worse) stories exercise social power.

Biochemical and molecular characterization of a strain KA/S2 of Acnnthamoebc castellanii isolated from Korean soil (카스텔란니가시아메바(Acanthamoeba castellanii) 한국 토양분리주 KA/S2의 생화학적 및 분자생물학적 특성)

  • 정동일;공현희
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.79-86
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    • 1996
  • A strain, KA/S2, isolated from Korean soil and morphologically assigned to Acanthcmoebc cQsteLlcnii, was characterized by isoenzyme analysis , and total proteins profile, End mitochondrial (Mt) DNA restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) , and compared with four reference strains assigned to the species (the authenitic Castellani, Neff, Ma, and Chang strains). It was found that four isoenzyme, total proteins, and Mt DNA RFLP patterns by eight restriction endonucleases of the strain KA/S2 were identical with those of the Neff strain, isolated from soil of California, USA. The Chang strain was unique in its morphology and total protein patterns. Interstrain polymorphisms of isoensyme profiles and Mt DNA RFLP patterns were observed among the Castellani, Neff, Ma, and Chang strains. Mt DNA RFLP was confirmed to be highly appropriate for the strain characterization and identification of Acnnthamoeba spry.

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Study for Blood Homocysteine Levels and d-dimer Levels of Cerebral Infarction Patients and Pattern Identification (뇌경색환자의 혈중 homocysteine 및 d-dimer 농도와 한의변증유형에 대한 연구)

  • Park, Sun-Young;Kong, Kyung-Hwan;Go, Ho-Yeon
    • Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.113-119
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    • 2012
  • The aim of this study was to investigate the differences in blood homocysteine levels and blood d-dimer levels of cerebral infarction patients categorized by Pattern Identification. We studied hospitalized patients within 4 weeks after the onset of stroke who were admitted to the Oriental Internal Medical Department at Semyung University Chungju Oriental Medical Hospital from May 2008 to September 2009. We analyzed risk factors and blood homocysteine levels and blood d-dimer levels accordings to Pattern Identification in Cerebral infarction patients. A total of 49 patients were included in the trial. No statistical significance was noted for any characteristics except body weight and body mass index. Body weight and body mass index were significantly higher Dampness-Phlegm pattern. On past history of patients, prevalence of DM was significantly higher in Fire-Heat pattern than that of other patterns. There was no significant difference of blood homocysteine levels and blood d-dimer levels among Pattern Identification. This study investigated the differences in blood homocysteine levels and blood d-dimer levels of cerebral infarction patients categorized by Pattern Identification. The correlation in homocysteine and d-dimer levels and Pattern Identification was not clarified.

Identification of Two-phase Flow Patterns in a Horizontal Tubular Condenser (수평 응축관내 2상유동양식의 판별에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, S.C.;Han, Y.O.;Shin, H.S.;Lee, H.D.
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.65-72
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    • 1993
  • An experiment has been carried out to identify flow patterns in a horizontal condensing flow with R-113. Characteristics of flow patterns were determined based upon a statistical analysis of differential pressure fluctuations at an orifice. The probability density function and power spectral density function of instantaneous pressure drop curves for various flow conditions were obtained. In comparison to the results of air-water flows, the flow patterns in a condensing flow such as annular, wavy, slug and plug could be identified. The experimental data determined by this technique were compared with the flow pattern maps suggested by other investigators. The result indicates that the statistical characteristics of differential pressure fluctuations at an orifice may be a useful tool for identifying flow patterns both in condensing flows and in adiabatic two-phase flows.

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Identification and Exploration of Middle-Aged Adults' Agricultural Entrepreneurship Preparation Patterns using Latent Class Analysis (잠재계층분석을 활용한 중장년층 귀농준비 유형 및 특성 분석)

  • Jeong, Seong Ji
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.111-129
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    • 2022
  • This study aims to classify agricultural entrepreneurship preparation patterns for middle-aged adults and to explore their demographic characteristics, occupational characteristics, and agricultural entrepreneurship related variables. The result of the study follows: first, agricultural entrepreneurship preparation patterns were divided into three types of urban-born farming, rural-born farming, retirement farming. Second, these patterns showed significant differences according to the level of demographic and occupational characteristics. Third, these patterns also showed considerable differences depending on the level of agricultural entrepreneurship expectancies, agricultural entrepreneurship volition, and agricultural entrepreneurship barriers. Based on the results, diversified agricultural entrepreneurship education programs and support measures were suggested.

Chao Medicine Treatment Combining Pattern Manifestation(Constitutional Identification, Disease Identification) with Pattern Identification (조의(朝醫) 변상(辨象)(변체질(辨體質), 변병(辨病))과 변증(辨證)을 결합한 치료)

  • Cui, Zhengzhi;Cui, Xingxie
    • Korean Journal of Oriental Medicine
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.155-163
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    • 2008
  • State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People's Republic of China lead Research on Chao medicine's Constitutional Treatment project by which could involve the following principles. First, constitution can be identified, second, constitution correlates to ones susceptibility to diseases, third, constitution can be harmonized, fourth, prescription made according to ones constitution and patterns. These ideas is originated by Lee Je-ma's theory of Four Constitution Type in "DongEuiSooSeBoWon"(Longetivity and Life Preservation in Eastern Medicine). This is much similar to currents trends of personalized medicine in western medical sciences. Therefore further developing Lee's theory would have significant value on various fields of medicine.

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A critrion for identification of the mixture normal distribution (정규 분포의 혼합성 판단기준)

  • 홍종선;최병수;엄종석
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.131-140
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    • 1994
  • In order to find the identification function from data and to apply the identification function for the pattern classification, we consider the existing problem of the number of patterns in such data. In this paper, a new criteria for the identification of Gaussaian mixture distribution could be established as a charateristic of the sample variance, which is a bootstrap estimate of the sample variance. We examine the properties and fittness of the criteria through a large scale of computer simulations.

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An Identification Technique Based on Adaptive Radial Basis Function Network for an Electronic Odor Sensing System

  • Byun, Hyung-Gi
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.151-155
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    • 2011
  • A variety of pattern recognition algorithms including neural networks may be applicable to the identification of odors. In this paper, an identification technique for an electronic odor sensing system applicable to wound state monitoring is presented. The performance of the radial basis function(RBF) network is highly dependent on the choice of centers and widths in basis function. For the fine tuning of centers and widths, those parameters are initialized by an ill-conditioned genetic fuzzy c-means algorithm, and the distribution of input patterns in the very first stage, the stochastic gradient(SG), is adapted. The adaptive RBF network with singular value decomposition(SVD), which provides additional adaptation capabilities to the RBF network, is used to process data from array-based gas sensors for early detection of wound infection in burn patients. The primary results indicate that infected patients can be distinguished from uninfected patients.

Detection and Identification of Vibrio Species Using Whole-Cell Protein Pattern Analysis

  • Lee, Chae-Yoon;Hong, Yeun;Ryu, Jio;Kim, Young-Rok;Oh, Sang-Suk;Lee, Soon-Ho;Hwang, In-Gyun;Kim, Hae-Yeong
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.22 no.8
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    • pp.1107-1112
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    • 2012
  • Outbreaks of foodborne diseases associated with Vibrio species such as V. parahaemolyticus, V. vulnificus, and V. cholerae frequently occur in countries having a dietary habit of raw seafood consumption. For rapid identification of different Vibrio species involved in foodborne diseases, whole-cell protein pattern analysis for 13 type strains of 12 Vibrio species was performed using SDS-PAGE analysis. Pathogenic Vibrio species such as V. parahaemolyticus, V. vulnificus, V. cholerae, V. alginolyticus, V. fluvialis, and V. mimicus were included in the 12 Vibrio species used in this study. Each of the 12 Vibrio species showed clearly specific band patterns of its own. Two different strains of V. parahaemolyticus showed two different SDS-PAGE whole-cell protein patterns, giving the possibility of categorizing isolated strains in the same V. parahaemolyticus species into two subgroups. The 36 Vibrio isolates collected from sushi restaurants in Busan were all identified as V. parahaemolyticus by comparing their protein patterns with those of Vibrio type strains. The identified isolates were categorized into two different subgroups of V. parahaemolyticus. The whole-cell protein pattern analysis by SDS-PAGE can be used as a specific, rapid, and simple identification method for Vibrio spp. involved in foodborne diseases at the subspecies level.