• International Journal of Contents
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.7-16
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• 2018

The extent and depth of the event plan determines the scope of pedagogical experience in situations and consequently the quality of immersive learning based on our simulated world. In contrast to planning in conventional narrative-based systems mainly pursuing dramatic interests, planning in virtual world-based pedagogical systems strive to provide realistic experiences in immersed situations. Instead of story plot comprising predetermined situations, our inter-event planning method aims at simulating diverse situations that each involve multiple events coupled via their associated agents' conditions and meaningful associations between events occurring in a background world. The specific techniques to realize our planning method include, two-phase planning based on inter-event search and intra-event decomposition (down to the animated action level); autonomous and independent agents to behave proactively with their own belief and planning capability; full-blown background world to be used as the comprehensive stage for all events to occur in; coupling events via realistic association types including deontic associations as well as conventional causality; separation of agents from event roles; temporal scheduling; and parallel and concurrent event progression mechanism. Combining all these techniques, diverse exogenous events can be derived and seamlessly (i.e., semantically meaningfully) integrated with the original event to form a wide scope of situations providing chances of abundant pedagogical experiences. For effective implementation of plan execution, we devise an execution scheme based on multiple priority queues, particularly to realize concurrent progression of many simultaneous events to simulate its corresponding reality. Specific execution mechanisms include modeling an action in terms of its component motions, adjustability of priority for agent across different events, and concurrent and parallel execution method for multiple actions and its expansion for multiple events.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.503-513
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• 2019

Osteoarthritis is a chronic degenerative articular disorder. Formation of bone spurs, synovial inflammation, loss of cartilage, and underlying bone restructuring have been reported to be the main pathologic characteristics of osteoarthritis symptoms. The onset and progression of osteoarthritis are attributed to various inflammatory cytokines in joint tissues and fluids that are produced by chondrocytes and/or interact with chondrocytes, as well as to low-grade inflammation in intra-articular tissues. Disruption of the equilibrium between the synthesis and degradation of the cartilage of the joint is the major cause of osteoarthritis. Hence, developing a promising pharmacological tool to restore the equilibrium between the synthesis and degradation of osteoarthritic joint cartilage can be a useful strategy for effectively managing osteoarthritis. In this review, we provide an overview of the research results pertaining to the search for a novel candidate agent for osteoarthritis management via restoration of the equilibrium between cartilage synthesis and degradation. We especially focused on investigations of medicinal plants and natural products derived from them to shed light on the potential pharmacotherapy of osteoarthritis.

• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.234-263
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• 2020

This study aims to assess the quality of the EU's public diplomacy efforts through social media. Specifically, this research explores the headquarters of European public diplomacy (European External Action Service, EEAS) and its subordinate agent (EU Delegation to South Korea, EUDK). The main research question is "how coherently and effectively does the EU execute public diplomacy strategies in the third countries?'' This study employs both quantitative and qualitative approaches―the former for the results presentation and the latter for the results interpretation. The results are summarized in two points. First, both the EEAS and the EUDK maintained an objective position by posting only neutral perspectives on their social media. Second, the narratives of the main actors were the same, but the main themes were different according to their contexts. The analysis discusses the effectiveness of the EU's strategic narratives by focusing on measuring message reception. Its limited findings were that social media postings could not induce the audiences' active discussion of the EU's diplomatic performances. The conclusion suggests that the EU should identify the expectations from its global counterparts and use these to forge the Union's strategic narratives.

• 영어영문학
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• 제57권3호
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• pp.457-472
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• 2011

The word "subject," like its apparent antonym "agent" is ambiguous. By "speaking subject" I intend both meanings: the spoken about, and the speaker, and the spoken about, in more or less that order. The paper contrasts the way women are spoken about in the 19^th Century debate over the role of women between John Ruskin and John Mill, and then in literary criticism of feminists nearer our own time, Kate Millet and Elizabeth Langland. I then move on to women as speaking subjects, first in the form of an imaginary speaking subject created by a male speaker, Charles Dickens channeling the confessional journal of Esther Summerson in Bleak House. The comparison with Elizabeth Gaskell, a genuine speaking subject, is highly instructive. I draw attention to symmetrical, in the sense of opposite, narrative strategies. Where Dickens begins in journalese, with a gritty, realistic opening that only gradually reveals a Cinderella in the ashes, Gaskell begins with a nursery rhyme, in an actual nursery, but goes on to reveal some rather sordid economic facts. Where Dickens creates a ventriloquist's doll, Gaskell succeeds in creating recognizable, if not always admirable, female voices. I conclude that just as the novel may be read as a real utterance in a real conversation, it is also possible to read the true emergence of women novelists in the 19^th Century as nothing more and nothing less than the creation of the first truly womanly words about women: women as speaking subjects in both senses of the word.

• 한국언론정보학보
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• 제71권
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• pp.9-32
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• 2015

미디어의 전통적인 역할 중 하나는 개인의 제한적 기억을 보조하고 사회구성원들의 사적 기억을 공적 기억으로 변환시키는 것이다. 특히 매스미디어는 사적인 기억의 조각들을 모아서 공공의 기억을 만들어 낸다. 과거를 현재로 불러오고 과거의 현재적 의미를 재구성하는 과정을 통해 매스미디어는 과거를 인식하고 이해하는 역사인식의 방향에 영향을 미친다. 오늘날 인터넷을 비롯한 각종 뉴미디어가 범람하고 있지만, 여전히 텔레비전은 소시민들의 일상에서 집단의 기억을 구성하는 가장 핵심적인 실천 기제로 존재한다. 이러한 맥락에서, 이 연구는 매개된 집합 기억을 생산하는 주체로서의 지상파 텔레비전 뉴스를 분석하여 오늘날 $5{\cdot}18$이 어떤 기억으로 재현되는가를 밝히고자 하였다. 우선 뉴스가치 분석을 통해 역사적 사건으로서의 $5{\cdot}18$에 대한 뉴스가치는 정권의 변화에 따라 다르게 평가되었고, 그마저도 대부분 정치적 이슈에 따라 가변적 뉴스 소재로 취급되었음을 알 수 있었다. 또한 담론 분석을 통해 $5{\cdot}18$ 관련 뉴스들이 관행적으로 보도되고, 연성화(softening)되고 있다는 결론을 내릴 수 있었다.

• 한국엔터테인먼트산업학회논문지
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.231-242
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• 2019

영국 태생의 이란인 2세 애나 릴리 아미푸르 감독의 뱀파이어 영화 <밤을 걷는 뱀파이어 소녀 A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night>(2014)는 이란인들이 사는 유령마을(Iranian ghost-town) '배드 시티'를 배경으로 스트라이프 티셔츠를 입고 검은 차도르를 두른 채 스케이트보드를 타는 여성 뱀파이어를 등장시켜 여러 문화의 재조합이 어떻게 문화·정치적으로 흥미로운 해석을 만들어내는지 시도하고 있다. 전통적인 호러 영화에서 흡혈귀 서사의 중심에는 주로 타자로서의 드라큘라-남성이 있었으나 포스트모더니즘 이후의 영화들은 희생자 캐릭터에 머물러 있던 여성을 뱀파이어 주체로 자리를 옮기는 시도를 한다. 본 영화의 주인공 소녀는 보수적인 가부장 사회의 여성-무슬림-뱀파이어로 여성을 향해 폭력을 행사하는 남성을 처단한다. 흑백으로 촬영한 영상은 스토리보다는 이미지를 앞세우며 이란계 배우들이 등장해 페르시아어로 대화한다. 또한, 이란의 저항적인 록음악과 영국 스타일의 테크노 팝이 어우러져 이란의 정치학과 미국-유럽의 팝 컬처를 크로스 오버한다. 본 연구는 뱀파이어 영화의 전통적인 관습을 따르지 않으면서 장르 혼성과 여러 문화적 도상을 내세우며 뱀파이어의 소재의 이야기를 동시대의 문제의식으로 전환하고 이식해내는 데 성공한 <밤을 걷는 뱀파이어 소녀>에 특징적으로 나타난 스타일에 주목해 분석해보고자 한다.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제11권8호
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• pp.21-28
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• 2022

오늘날 우리 사회는 21세기에 접어들면서 사회, 문화, 경제, 과학의 수준과 관심이 급속도로 발전하고 있지만, 과학교육은 아직 어려움을 겪고 있다. 과학교육의 효율을 높이기 위해서는 무엇보다 기초과학을 바탕으로 한 초등교육에 집중하는 것이 무엇보다 중요하다. 이에 본 연구에서는 현재 우리나라의 과학관이 단순한 과학체험관, 과학테마파크 등의 체험과 흥미, 재미 위주의 박물관으로 퇴행하고 있는 주요 원인이 무엇인지 분석해 보고자 한다. 이를 위해 지난 5년간 국내에 준공되어 운영 중인 과학관의 전시공간과 전시 동선의 데이터를 토대로 행위자 기반모형의 알고리즘을 적용하여 영향요인을 파악하였으며, 전시공간에서 나타나고 있는 관람객 동선에 대한 문제점을 공간체계를 통해 분석해 내었다. 본 연구에서는 전시공간의 체계를 박물관 전시 내러티브 이론에서 말하고 있는 직선적 플롯의 동선체계와 피칼레스크 플롯을 동시에 적용하였을 때 전시환경이 가장 우수하게 나타나는 것을 확인할 수 있었고, 효과적인 전시를 방해하는 주요 요인으로 주요 전시공간의 배치, 전시공간의 폭, 전시목적을 통한 공간 분리 등이 도출되었다.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.484-495
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• 2023

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) can be defined as a progressive chronic pulmonary disease showing scarring in the lung parenchyma, thereby resulting in increase in mortality and decrease in the quality of life. The pathophysiologic mechanism of fibrosis in IPF is still unclear. Repetitive microinjuries to alveolar epithelium with genetical predisposition and an abnormal restorative reaction accompanied by excessive deposition of collagens are involved in the pathogenesis. Although the two FDA-approved drugs, pirfenidone and nintedanib, are under use for retarding the decline in lung function of patients suffered from IPF, they are not able to improve the survival rate or quality of life. Therefore, a novel therapeutic agent acting on the major steps of the pathogenesis of disease and/or, at least, managing the clinical symptoms of IPF should be developed for the effective regulation of this incurable disease. In the present review, we tried to find a potential of managing the clinical symptoms of IPF by natural products derived from medicinal plants used for controlling the pulmonary inflammatory diseases in traditional Asian medicine. A multitude of natural products have been reported to exert an antifibrotic effect in vitro and in vivo through acting on the epithelial-mesenchymal transition pathway, transforming growth factor (TGF)- β-induced intracellular signaling, and the deposition of extracellular matrix. However, clinical antifibrotic efficacy of these natural products on IPF have not been elucidated yet. Thus, those effects should be proven by further examinations including the randomized clinical trials, in order to develop the ideal and optimal candidate for the therapeutics of IPF.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제86권2호
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• pp.82-93
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• 2023

Tuberculosis (TB) is a significant public health concern. Globally, TB is among the top 10 and the leading cause of death due to a single infectious agent. Providing standard anti-TB therapy for at least 6 months is recommended as one of the crucial strategies to control the TB epidemic. However, the long duration of TB treatment raised the issue of non-adherence. Non-adherence to TB therapy could negatively affect clinical and public health outcomes. Thus, directly observed therapy (DOT) has been introduced as a standard strategy to improve anti-TB medication adherence. Nonetheless, the DOT approach has been criticized due to inconvenience, stigma, reduced economic productivity, and reduced quality of life, which ultimately could complicate adherence issues. Apart from that, its effectiveness in improving anti-TB adherence is debatable. Therefore, digital technology could be an essential tool to enhance the implementation of DOT. Incorporating the health belief model (HBM) into digital technology can further increase its effectiveness in changing behavior and improving medication adherence. This article aimed to review the latest evidence regarding TB medication non-adherence, its associated factors, DOT's efficacy and its alternatives, and the use of digital technology and HBM in improving medication adherence. This paper used the narrative review methodology to analyze related articles to address the study objectives. Conventional DOT has several disadvantages in TB management. Integrating HBM in digital technology development is potentially effective in improving medication adherence. Digital technology provides an opportunity to improve medication adherence to overcome various issues related to DOT implementation.