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미(美) Lassen 함(艦)의 남중국해(南中國海) 기동(機動)은 '투키디데스 함정'의 전조(前兆)? (Worsening Tension Between the United States and China in the South China Sea, A Sign of 'Thucydides Trap'?)

  • 양정승
    • Strategy21
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    • 통권38호
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    • pp.287-320
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    • 2015
  • On October 27, 2015, USS Lassen(DDG82), a 9,200 ton class Aegis destroyer of the United States Navy, began its operations within 12 nautical miles of Subi Reef, one of the seven artificial islands that China has built and claimed sovereignty over. The maneuver was joined by anti-submarine patrol airplanes such as P-8A and P-3. The White House press secretary mentioned that the President of the United States approved the operation. In response, China announced that it warned the US Navy ship about the 'illegal violation' by sending two destroyers(PLAN Lanzhou and Taizhou). This event represents a close call case where tension between the United States and China in the South China Sea might have been elevated to a conflict between the two navies. Moreover, considering that this happened only one month after Chinese president Xi's state visit to the United States, the event shows that the positions of the two countries have become starkly different to the extent that they are so hard to be reconciled. The United States' position is different from those of Vietnam and the Philippines. Countries like Vietnam and the Philippines have been directly involved in disputes with regard to sovereignty claims across the waters in the South China sea. As for the United States, being a third party in the disputes, it still cannot be a by-stander watching the whole waters in the region fall under the influence of China. Accordingly, the United States maintains that all countries bear the rights of innocent passage and military operations in the Exclusive Economic Zones(EEZ) as stipulated by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea(UNCLOS). In contrast, China claims that, historically, the South China sea has been part of China's territorial waters, and that foreign countries are not allowed to conduct military operations within the waters. It strongly accuses that such military operations are illegal. Against this background, this paper tracks the different positions of the United States and China on the issues regarding the South China sea. It also carefully looks at the possibility that, in the process of dealing with the issues, the two countries may get into an armed conflict as the phrase 'Thucydides Trap' predicts.

A COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF THE ESTIMATORS OF THE 2-PARAMETER GENERALIZED PARETO DISTRIBUTION

  • Singh, V.P.;Ahmad, M.;Sherif, M.M.
    • Water Engineering Research
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    • 제4권3호
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    • pp.155-173
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    • 2003
  • Parameters and quantiles of the 2-parameter generalized Pareto distribution were estimated using the methods of regular moments, modified moments, probability weighted moments, linear moments, maximum likelihood, and entropy for Monte Carlo-generated samples. The performance of these seven estimators was statistically compared, with the objective of identifying the most robust estimator. It was found that in general the methods of probability-weighted moments and L-moments performed better than the methods of maximum likelihood estimation, moments and entropy, especially for smaller values of the coefficient of variation and probability of exceedance.

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한의학에서 보는 정신과 신체의 관계 (The Relationship between Mind and Body from the Perspective of Oriental Medicine)

  • 홍원식
    • 정신신체의학
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    • 제2권1호
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    • pp.52-58
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    • 1994
  • The relationship between mind and body was reviewed from the perspecive of oriental medicine. Shin represents sout and hyung represents body. Health indicates the state in which shin and hyung are united as a whole one. On the other hand, disease means the state in which shin and hyung are spearated. And if such separation goes to extremes, death follows.

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연안국의 대륙붕에서의 권리와 의무 (The right and duties of the coastal state over the continental shelf)

  • 임채현;이윤철
    • 한국마린엔지니어링학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국마린엔지니어링학회 2006년도 전기학술대회논문집
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    • pp.137-139
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    • 2006
  • The Continental shelf is important part of the coastal states' jurisdiction at sea, because there are many natural resources in continental shelf. This paper examines the concept and legal status of the continental shelf, the limit of the continental shelf, and expecially the rights and duties of the coastal state relating to its continental shelf.

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Global Science Literacy

  • Mayer, Victor J.
    • 한국지구과학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국지구과학회 2003년도 추계학술발표회 및 정기총회
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    • pp.15-17
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    • 2003
  • Global Science Literacy is proposed as an international curriculum standard for science literacy. It is based on the science curriculum construct of Earth Systems Education, which has come out of the earth science education community in the United States. The presentation will briefly describe the nature of ESE, and include, if sufficient time, an audience participation simulation of mass extinction.

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United States beef quality as chronicled by the National Beef Quality Audits, Beef Consumer Satisfaction Projects, and National Beef Tenderness Surveys - A review

  • Gonzalez, John Michael;Phelps, Kelsey Jean
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • 제31권7호
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    • pp.1036-1042
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    • 2018
  • Meat quality is a very difficult term to define because it means different things to different people. When purchasing beef, consumers in the United States are likely to consider color, price, marbling level, subcutaneous fat trim, or cut thickness when determining the quality of beef. Once consumers have consumed the product, meat quality becomes exponentially more difficult to define due to the subjective nature of this term. Traditionally, tenderness, juiciness, and flavor have been considered the three most important factors that determine the palatability of beef. Therefore, American meat science beef research and industry focus has turned to measuring and quantifying these 3 attributes objectively and subjectively, and to determining what influences them. In reviewing the scientific literature, attempting to meaningfully summarize the findings of the thousands of studies on beef meat quality is impossible due to the inherent differences in the objective and methodology of studies. Fortunately, the United States beef industry and their national trade association, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA), have conducted numerous surveys and audits to characterize the quality of the products being produced and marketed by their cattlemen and the palatability perceptions of their consumers. The data produced by these studies is quite large and impossible to summarize in entirety in this review. Therefore, this review concentrates on the most important attributes that determine the value of a beef carcass and objectively measured and consumer-assessed palatability characteristics of fresh meat from these carcasses from 1987 through 2010.

생전유언, 의료지시서, 자연사법(natural death act) 입법의 사회적 함의 (Social Implication of Living Wills, Advance Directives and Natural Death Act in Korea)

  • 이인영
    • 의료법학
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    • 제9권1호
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    • pp.413-459
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    • 2008
  • The Law has intervened to define rare circumstances in which a person should choose continuing life in United States. On the one hand, the law has traditionally acted to preservelife and to respect the sanctity of life. On the other hand, one's control over one's own body, and the right to determine what kind of medical care one will receive, is equally well respected and historically grounded. The competent patients have the right to forgo life-sustaining treatment, courts in United States have left many unanswered questions about the nature of that right. The right to choose to forgo life-sustaining treatment is a manifestation of a patient's autonomy interest. In United States, The Karen Quilan case gave rise to legislative activity in the host of state capitals, and several states had adopted statutes that formally recognized some forms of written directives describing some circumstances in which certain kinds of medical care could be terminated. These statues were sometimes dominated 'living will' acts, sometimes 'right to die' acts and ocasionally 'natural death' acts. Today virtually every state has produced a living will statue. In Korea, courts do not permit a terminally ill person to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment. Living wills apply in case of terminal illness owing to a defect in legislation. Now In Korea, these lively dispute of legal policy on the preconditions and concrete procedure of living will act and natural death act. Through the legislation of living will act and natural death act, we should prepare some circumstances to respect patient's autonomy on the right to die. We should frame the cultural standard to make a decision of forgoing life-sustainin1g treatment under the discreet procedure.

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합동능력 관리체계 구축 및 활용 방안 (A Proposal for Establishing and Applying of the Joint Capability Management System (JCMS))

  • 이진우;임병윤;이태공;박병진;최항준
    • 정보화연구
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    • 제11권2호
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    • pp.187-199
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    • 2014
  • 미국, 영국, 나토는 불확실한 미래 합동작전을 위한 합동 능력을 구축하기 위해 합동 개념을 발전시켜 적용하고 합동능력 관리체계를 개발하여 운영하고 있다. 그 중 미군은 능력을 기반으로 전력을 기획하여, 예산을 편성하고, 집행하여 평가는 PPBEE 체계를 운영하고 있다. 또한 미군은 합동능력영역(JCA), 합동과제목록(UJTL) 등을 중심으로 합동능력관리체계(JCAMS)를 개발하여 운영하고 있다. 최근 한국군도 이러한 능력 개념을 도입하고 관리하기 위한 시스템을 개발하기 위해 노력하고 있다. 본 논문은 미군의 합동능력관리체계를 참고하여 한국군에 적합한 능력관리 통합메커니즘을 제안한다. 제안한 통합메커니즘을 통하여 우리군은 효율적이고 효과적으로 합동능력 관리체계(JCMS)를 구축 할 수 있을 것이다.

Natural Emission of Nitric Oxide from Agricultural Soil of Corn-field in Eastern North Carolina

  • Kim, Deug-Soo;Paul Roelle;Viney P. Aneja
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • 제11권E호
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    • pp.31-43
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    • 1995
  • Natural emissions of NOx from soils were measured at an agricultural corn field during 3 weeks of growing season in summer (from May to June) 1995. This experiment was conducted in an effort to characterize the role of soil NOx on tropospheric ozone formation in rural atmosphere, and understand the natural NOx emission mechanism with respect to soil parameters. NO fluxes were ranged from 3.1 ng Nm$^{-2}s^{-1}$ to 259.0 ng Nm$^{-2}s^{-1}$, and average NO flux during experimental period was found to be 47.6 $\pm$ 50.6 ng Nm$^{-2}s^{-1}$ with 732 number of data. Diurnal variation of NO flux was shown clearly with daytime maximum and nighttime minimum. NO fluxes were correlated with soil temperature. Exponential soil temperature dependency of NO fluxes was found with 0.0160$^{circ}C^{-1} of k and r^2=0.508$, which agrees well to the value estimated at corn fields in eastern United States. The significant increases of NO fluxes from agricultural soil were detected after applying N fertilizers to soil. THe mechanisms attributed to this are enhanced biological nitrification and denitrification. In the view of rural ozone formation, the roles of natural NO emissions are very essential, especially in NOx - limited region such as southern United States.

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