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좀목포사초, 한국에서 발견된 1신종 (Carex brevispicula (Cyperaceae), a new species from Korea)

  • 남기흠;장현도;이병윤;정규영
    • 식물분류학회지
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    • 제50권4호
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    • pp.395-402
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    • 2020
  • 사초과의 좀목포사초(Carex brevispicula G. H. Nam & G. Y. Chung)가 한국에서 처음으로 발견되었다. 좀목포사초는 수과의 중앙부가 함몰되는 점에서 큰청사초(C. chungii Z. P. Wang) 및 목포사초(C. genkaiensis Ohwi)와 유사하다. 그러나 좀목포사초는 식물체, 웅화서와 자화서가 소형이고, 자인편이 연녹색인 특징으로 큰청사초와 구분되며, 자인편과 웅인편에 까락이 있다는 점에서 목포사초와 차이를 보인다. 새로운 국명은 목포사초보다 작다는 의미로 좀목포사초로 하였고, 주요형질에 대한 기재, 도해, 사진, 분포정보 및 근연분류군과의 차이점을 검색표로 제시하였다.

섬에서 에코톤으로-경계중첩지대로서의 자연인식과 생태비평적 함의 (From Island to Ecotone: Nature Recognition as Boundary Crossed and Ecocritical Implication)

  • 신두호
    • 영어영문학
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    • 제57권2호
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    • pp.237-264
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    • 2011
  • Based on its geophysical feature, the island has long been recognized as a separate and self-sustaining space independent of neighboring continent or other islands. Literary tradition has used the island as a metaphor for a utopian alternative to mundane human society with its various kinds of wrongdoings. Recent nature writings have taken up this island metaphor to emphasize the wholeness of the ecosystem in specifically designated natural community or landscapes such as national parks or wilderness preservation areas. Human-nature relations as border-divided area is also recognized as the island. Modern island biogeography, however, has disproved such a concept of islands as autonomous, revealing the contrasting fact that the richness of species on an undisturbed island is determined largely by species immigration from and emigration to a source of colonists. This scientific finding has posited the island as the interconnected nature, but the public and metaphoric use of it still resorts to the old concept of it as isolated and autonomous nature, because this image has been ingrained deeply in our consciousness and culture. Considering the negative consequences from the recognition of nature and nature-humans as isolated space, we need a new nature metaphor that embodies interconnectedness in nature and of human-nature relations. Such feature of interconnectedness is best embedded in the concept of ecotone. Some ecotones are created and maintained through human participation in nature, and this human induced nature of ecotone denotes the possibilities of a constructive relation between them. The substitution of the island with the ecotone as the concept of nature and the image of human-nature relations is expected to correct ecocritical practices of reading of nature writing, which has been predominantly interpreted within the orientation of nature itself and nature-human relations as an isolated and self-autonomous island. Adopting the ecotone in literary study enables ecocriticism to dig out cultural elements embedded in nature writing and reveal socio-political, ideological factors hidden behind the writers' portrayal of nature as islands.

Electrochemical treatment of cefalexin with Sb-doped SnO2 anode: Anode characterization and parameter effects

  • Ayse, Kurt;Hande, Helvacıoglu;Taner, Yonar
    • Advances in nano research
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    • 제13권6호
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    • pp.513-525
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    • 2022
  • In this study, it was aimed to evaluate direct oxidation of aqueous solution containing cefalexin antibiotic with new generation Sn/Sb/Ni: 500/8/1 anode. The fact that there is no such a study on treatment of cefalexin with these new anode made this study unique. According to the operating parameters evaluation COD graphs showed clearer results compared to TOC and CLX and thus, it was it was chosen as major parameter. Furthermore, pseudo-first degree kd values were calculated from CLX results to show more accurate and specific results. Experimental results showed that after 60 min of electrochemical oxidation, complete removal of COD and TOC was accomplished with 750 mg L-1 KCl, at pH 7, 50 mA cm-2 current density and 1 cm anode-cathode distance. Also, the stability of the Sn/Sb/Ni anode was evaluated by taking SEM and AFM images and XRD analysis before and after of electrochemical oxidation processes. According to the results, it was not occurred too much change on the anode surface even after 300 h of electrolysis. Thus, it was thought that the anode material was not corroded to a large extent. Furthermore, the removal efficiencies were very high for almost all the time and conditions. According to the results of the study, electrochemical oxidation with new generation Sn/Sb/Ni anodes for the removal of cefalexin antibiotic was found very successful and applicable due to require less reaction time complete mineralization and doesn't require pH adjustment step compared to other studies in literature. In future studies, different antibiotic types should be studied with this anode and maybe with real wastewaters to test applicability of the process in treatment of pharmaceutical wastewaters containing antibiotics, in a better way.

Integrated Ship Cybersecurity Management as a Part of Maritime Safety and Security System

  • Melnyk, Oleksiy;Onyshchenko, Svitlana;Pavlova, Nataliia;Kravchenko, Oleksandra;Borovyk, Svitlana
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • 제22권3호
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    • pp.135-140
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    • 2022
  • Scientific and technological progress is also fundamental to the evolving merchant shipping industry, both in terms of the size and speed of modern ships and in the level of their technical capabilities. While the freight performance of ships is growing, the number of crew on board is steadily decreasing, as more work processes are being automated through the implementation of information technologies, including ship management systems. Although there have been repeated appeals from international maritime organizations to focus on building effective maritime security defenses against cyber attacks, the problems have remained unresolved. Owners of shipping companies do not disclose information about cyberattack attempts or incidents against them due to fear of commercial losses or consequences, such as loss of image, customer and insurance claims, and investigations by independent international organizations and government agencies. Issues of cybersecurity of control systems in the world today have gained importance, due to the fact that existing threats concern not only the security of technical means and devices, but also issues of environmental safety and safety of life at sea. The article examines the implementation of cyber risk management in the shipping industry, providing recommendations for the safe ship operation and its systems in order to improve vulnerability to external threats related to cyberattacks, and to ensure the safety and security of such a technical object as a seagoing ship.

The Role of Operations Research/Systems Analysis in Defence Policy and Programming Decisions

  • Trost C.A.H
    • 한국국방경영분석학회지
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    • 제5권1호
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    • pp.7-15
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    • 1979
  • The very fact that so many of us are here to participate in this conference on Operations Research is an indicator of the importance we attach to this relatively new and still expanding field. All of us recognize that Operations Research techniques are especially useful tools in problem solving in business, Government and the military. A discussion of the role of Operations Research and the related field of Systems Analysis in national defense policy and programming decision processes seems especially appropriate at the opening session of this conference, As you know, Operations Research as an organized form of research first found application in the review of individual military weapons systems and their effectiveness just over forty years ago. From that relatively narrow beginning has evolved a discipline whose future exploitation and utility you will explore over the next several days. I plan to review very briefly the historical development of Operations Research and Systems Analysis as tools in the defense decision-making process. Then, I will give you an overview of their application to today's military and defense problem solving by discussing the use of these techniques at the headquarters level by the United States Navy, Obviously, in such a brief period, I cannot cover all applications, specific techniques, or all of the groups involved in such a complex process. A review of the historical development of Operations Research/Systems Analysts reveals that the use of the basic concepts of Operations Research is not new; it originated with the first attempts to use the scientific approach to solve problems. We are still seeking, through modern analysis, to answer the three questions posed by John Dewey in his examination of the problem solving process in 1910.'1 - What is the problem? - What are the alternatives? - Which alternative is best? As I noted earlier, Operations Research, as an organized form of research, began in Great Britain in the late 1930s with the review of individual weapons systems.

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Science, Commerce, and Imperial Expansion in British Travel Literature: Hugh Clifford's and Joseph Conrad's Malay Fiction

  • Kil, Hye Ryoung
    • 영어영문학
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    • 제57권6호
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    • pp.1151-1171
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    • 2011
  • Conrad's novels, specifically the Lingard Trilogy-Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, and The Rescue-and Lord Jim, set in the Southeast Asian or Malay Archipelago can be considered travel literature that played a significant role in British imperial expansion. Conrad's Malay novels were based not only on his experience in the region during his commercial journey but also on information from earlier travel writings about the Malays and their customs, including James Brooke's journals. The English traders in Conrad's novels, namely Lingard and Jim, were partly modeled on Brooke, the White Rajah, who founded and ruled the English colony on the northwest of Borneo in the 1840s. The white traders in Conrad's novels, who act as enlightened rulers, represent the British commercial expansionism, which was obscured by the phenomenon of the civilizing mission in the late nineteenth century. On the other hand, the colonial official Clifford's tales and novels about British Malaya demonstrate the typical travel accounts of the late nineteenth century that stress the civilizing mission over commercial exploitation. The concept of the enlightening mission was rooted in evolutionary anthropological thinking, which developed as part of the natural history in the early nineteenth century. In fact, the development of natural history, stimulating British expansion in search of commercially exploitable resources and lands, enabled travel writing as the collection of natural knowledge to become a profitable business. In Conrad, the white characters are mainly traders acting as colonial rulers, while in Clifford, they are scientific rulers with their commercial interests rarely apparent. In sum, Conrad's novels reveal that the new imperialism of the civilizing mission is still a commercial one, which disturbs rather than contributes to the imperial expansion-in contrast to other travel literature such as Clifford's.

교육과정 변천에 따른 초등 과학 교과서 텍스트에 대한 체계기능언어학적 분석 (The Systemic Functional Linguistics Analysis of Texts in Elementary Science Textbooks by Curriculum Revision)

  • 맹승호;김혜리;김찬종;이정아
    • 한국과학교육학회지
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    • 제27권3호
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    • pp.242-252
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    • 2007
  • 이 연구는 교수요목기부터 7차 교육과정까지의 모든 과학(자연) 교과서에서 공통적으로 제시되는 '기압'과 '바람'을 다루는 텍스트를 체계기능언어학적으로 분석하였다. 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 관념적 메타기능 측면에서 과학적 정보를 많이 담고 있는 텍스트는 교육과정 개정에 따라 줄어든 것으로 나타났다. 대부분의 정보의 형태는 '원리'보다는 '정의'와 '사실'이었다. 상호적 메타기능 측면에서 학생과 텍스트 사이의 거리는 점점 줄어들었으며, 학생들의 사회적 지위는 교육과정 개정에 따라 점차적으로 고려되었다. 구성적 메타기능 측면에서 전문적 용어와 기호의 비율은 감소 추세에 있었으나, 과학 교과서에서 텍스트양 또한 줄어든 것으로 나타났다. 초기에는 문장에 주어가 제시되었으나, 시간이 흐르면서 주어가 생략되었다. 또한 주어와 문장 첫 구의 일치율은 7차의 교과서 텍스트에서 그 일치도가 현저히 줄어든 것으로 나타났다.

산림복원 평가지표를 활용한 산림 훼손지 우선복원대상지 발굴 - 강원도 지역을 대상으로 - (Identification of Priority Restoration Areas for Forest Damage Sites Using Forest Restoration Evaluation Indicators in Gangwon-Do)

  • 박윤선;송정은;박천희
    • 한국환경복원기술학회지
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    • 제27권1호
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    • pp.17-29
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    • 2024
  • This study was conducted to select the restoration priority of forest damage sites in Gangwon Province. We first identified the status of damaged areas. We then selected restoration evaluation indicators through a literature review. We then set weights for these indicators through expert surveys. We next acquired data that can represent these indicators and spatially mapped them. Finally, we prioritized the restoration target sites by taking the weights. The results of the study showed that disaster sensitivity and ecologicality are important criteria for selecting the restoration priority of damage sites. The analysis showed that damage sites in Doam, Jeongseon, Samcheok and Inje are in urgent need of restoration. The results of this study are significant in that they selected the restoration priority of damage sites in Gangwon Province based on the restoration priority evaluation criteria selected based on expert surveys. However, the priority restoration areas derived from the results of this study are not actually implementing restoration projects at present. Therefore, it is judged that it would be efficient in various aspects to establish the restoration priority area based on scientific analysis techniques and carry out the project for efficient implementation of the restoration project. In this study, it can be pointed out that the priority of restoration of damage sites was derived based on data from the past due to the limitation of data acquisition. However, the fact that the priority restoration area inferred based on past data has been restored over time has improved the reliability of the study by verifying the usefulness of the priority extraction technique. In the future, if the priority of damage sites is extracted by extracting the restoration target area boundary through the latest data based on the methodology applied in this study, it is considered that it will be available as a result that can be applied to the field.

Psychological and Pedagogical Principles of the Organization of Distance Learning of Primary School-Aged Children with Cognitive Development Disorder

  • Yuliia Sosnich;Kristina Torop;Tetiana Dehtiarenko;Oleksandr Kolyshkin;Yurii Kosenko;Iryna Omelchenko
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • 제24권8호
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    • pp.184-190
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    • 2024
  • The research involved children and parents of primary school-aged children with cognitive development disorder, as well as scientific and pedagogical workers who organized the psychological and pedagogical principles for organizing distance learning. The purpose of the research lies in establishing how effectively children, parents and their teachers cope with online distance learning during the pandemic, as well as investigating the extent to which such educational technology affects the emotional and behavioural state of the child. The research methodology is based on complexity. In the course of the research, the method of pedagogical experiment was used; observation and questionnaire methods were also introduced; the descriptive method, analysis and synthesis were used to review the theoretical material. The hypothesis lies in the fact that distance online education increases academic difficulties, changes the behavioural and emotional picture of a child with cognitive development disorder; consequently, the behaviour and emotional background will be limited by certain parameters, and this requires the active involvement of parents and teachers in the distance work process. The results of the research have revealed that distance education causes a number of restrictions for children with cognitive development disorder, namely: concentration of attention has decreased, anxiety has increased, and sleep has worsened. Behavioural changes predicted increased restlessness and aggression. Parents and teachers have had methodological, academic and everyday difficulties; all participants in the educational process have been more limited in the conditions of online distance learning. difficulties and improving the behaviour and emotional states of all participants in the educational process.

담배소송 중 담배회사의 과학적 근거 오용과 과학자 포섭 활동 (The Tobacco Industry's Abuse of Scientific Evidence and Activities to Recruit Scientists During Tobacco Litigation)

  • 이성규
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • 제49권1호
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    • pp.23-34
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    • 2016
  • 국민건강보험공단이 담배회사를 상대로 손해배상 청구소송을 진행 중에 있다. 담배회사는 전통적으로 소송 진행 과정에서 과학적 근거를 오용하거나 과학자를 포섭하여 소송을 유리한 방향으로 이끌어 가기 위한 노력을 해왔다. 본 연구는 전 세계적으로 주목 받고 있는 국민건강보험공단의 소송 과정 중 담배회사의 전략을 분석하였다. 선행연구를 통해 이미 밝혀진 담배회사의 담배소송 전략을 이해한다. 국민건강보험공단 소송 중 법원에 제출된 소장, 준비서면, 증거자료 등에 대한 내용분석을 통해 담배회사의 소송 전략을 파악한다. 국민건강보험공단의 소장 내용 중 첨가물 사용과 관련된 쟁점에 대해 담배회사는 세계보건기구의 "Tobacco: deadly in any form or disguise(2006)" 보고서 중 'American spirit'과 같은 천연담배로 광고하는 담배제품에 대한 의견을 마치 첨가물이 들어간 제품과 천연담뱃잎을 사용하는 담배제품 간 위험성이나 중독성에 차이가 없다는 내용으로 준비서면을 작성하였다. 하지만 원래 보고서 내용은 첨가제가 들어가지 않았다고 광고하는 천연담배의 위험성을 경고하는 내용이었다. 즉, 보고서의 작성 의도를 무시하고 정반대의 해석으로 과학적 근거를 오용하였다. 또한 준비서면 내 다른 해외자료들은 영문 그 자체로 참고문헌에 수록하였지만 세계보건기구 보고서는 한글로 번역하였고, 그 이유는 아마도 보고서 제목의 "deadly"가 부담스러웠던 것으로 해석된다. 또한 국민건강보험공단 소송 이전에 제기되었던 개인소송 중 담배회사가 법원에 제출한 증거자료의 일부를 분석한 결과 담배회사의 컨설턴트로 활동한 과학자의 연구결과를 증거자료로 제출한 것도 확인할 수 있었다. 국내 담배소송에서도 해외사례와 마찬가지로 담배회사의 소송전략은 유사했다. 담배소송 결과는 담배규제정책에 막대한 영향을 미친다. 성공적인 소송을 위해 보건의료분야 전문가들은 담배회사가 제출하는 방대한 분량의 의견서와 증거자료에 대한 적극적인 관심을 가져야 한다. 또한 담배회사의 과학자 포섭활동을 인지하고 세계보건기구 담배규제기본협약(Framework Convention on Tobacco Control) 제5조3항의 권고사항처럼 담배업계와의 협력을 거절해야 할 것이다.