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Magritte's drawings and Lacan's Subject theory: Gaze, Encounter with the world (마그리트 회화와 라캉의 주체론 - 응시, 세계와의 조우)

  • Baek, Jin-Hwa
    • The Journal of Art Theory & Practice
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    • no.5
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    • pp.7-24
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    • 2007
  • The subject is connected with a structure named "The Symbolic" to Lacan, but he denied that the subject is explained simply as a fruit of language and "Other". From his point of view, passing through Subject, De-formation and Crack over it is designated as foundation of generation and creation rather than our destined defect. It should not be understood that subject of "The Real" is a concept of the subject free itself from restraint of "The Symbolic". However, this does not mean he asserts "Subject" is something incapable of being controlled by the unknown power. The problem is that this autonomous existence meets inside of it with something "more than one's own self" by "circulating around itself" like a permanent star. This is the indication of a "stranger in the middle of my privacy", or "extimit$\'{e}$", a coined-word by Lacan. Perhaps "Subject" is nothing more than the name of distance of object which is "too hot" to come close, and of this circulating movement. It's because of this object that the real subject stands against generalization and the subject can't be restored to any place in symbolic order-even though it is empty. The part which is told from Lacan's structural theory, that is to say, an importance to Lacan is that his Subject theory is not suggested or denied as a manual structure. On the contrary, it is a study of the relationship between the settled symbol that included in "real subject which is a unconscious one" and the symbolic subject hold- that is a metaphysical subject in general meaning. In Lacan's enlarged concept of subject beyond symbolic reality, it is noticeable that it gives justifiability to the union of a medium of different nature in artistic expression. We can recognize that the unconscious world is a living space which enables it to be a "condition of human being", not something dark under the surface of water through Magritte's(Rene Magritte, 1898~1967) surrealistic works. In other words, Magritte's art secures a core dimension of human nature through a mysterious gap of conscious and settled space. Magritte's drawings often evokes strange and unsettling feelings in people who view his paintings. This is because routine objects are found in "unsuitable" places from which we usually find them in our everyday lives. "Reality" in Magritte's paintings makes it aware that it is a strained field of concealment and disclosure basically between truths, and we can learn that his behavior to overturn to paint in-visible things is finally an effort to restore the "real subject" to the viewer's reality. In other words, such reversion arouses a nostalgic desire for the objects existing in their original appearance as they are - natural condition that our gaze had not been distorted yet by anamorphic stains. - and the state when we are conscious of them normally. Such desire offers an opportunity for us to get out of mental depression rather than operates to us as an abnormal crack. It's a successive process of effort to search for lost subject and Paradise Lost facing up to reality of subject human that is to be a subject of world and life are ousted from their place by structure and authority of culture.

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The Application of GIS for the Prediction of Landslide-Potential Areas (산사태의 발생가능지 예측을 위한 GIS의 적용)

  • Lee, Jin-Duk;Yeon, Sang-Ho;Kim, Sung-Gil;Lee, Ho-Chan
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.38-47
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    • 2002
  • This paper demonstrates a regional analysis of landslide occurrence potential by applying geographic information system to the Kumi City selected as a pilot study area. The estimate criteria related to natural and humane environmental factors which affect landslides were first established. A slope map and a aspect map were extracted from DEM, which was generated from the contour layers of digital topographic maps, and a NDVI vegetation map and a land cover map were obtained through satellite image processing. After the spatial database was constructed, indexes of landslide occurrence potential were computed and then a few landslide-potential areas were extracted by an overlay method. It was ascertained that there are high landslide-potential at areas of about 30% incline, aspects including either south or east at least, adjacent to water areas or pointed end of the water system, in or near fault zones, covered with medium vegetable. For more synthetic and accurate analysis, soil data, forest data, underground water level data, meteorological data and so on should be added to the spatial database.

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Improvement of Immune Activities of Rhodiola sachalinensis A. Bor. by Serial Solvent Fractionization (홍경천의 면역활성이 증진된 용매별 분획 추출물)

  • Ha, Ji-Hye;Kim, Cheol-Hee;Jeong, Hyang-Suk;Jin, Ling;Oh, Sung-Ho;Kim, Seung-Seop;Jeong, Myoung-Hoon;Ma, Choong-Je;Nam, Jong-Hyun;Hwang, Baik;Choi, Geun-Pyo;Park, Uk-Yeon;Lee, Hyeon-Yong
    • Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.210-216
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    • 2009
  • This study was performed to compare the effects of immuno-modulating activities of Rhodiola sachalinensis A. Bor. fractionized by consecutive solvent separation. The Cytotoxicity of all fractionized extracts on human kidney cell (HEK293) was lower than crude extracts. Generally, the butanol and chloroform extracts showed less cytotoxicity on about 10.07% and 9.67% than the crude extracts. For human immune B and T cell growth, chloroform fraction showed the highest cell growth compared to the control. The secretion of cytokines (IL-6, $TNF-\alpha$) on human B and T cells were increased by adding chloroform extracts. Also, NK cell growth was significantly improved up to nearly 30% by adding the supernatant of B cell medium grown with the chloroform fraction. It was also found that chloroform fraction could yield higher nitric oxide production from macrophage than untreated control cells. Differentiation of HL-60 cells was increased up to 131.9% after treatment with chloroform fraction extracts, compared to the control. These results indicate that the chloroform fraction of R. sachalinensis have high immune activation activity than others fractions and the crude extracts, implying that this chloroform fractions could be used a new functional material.

Height Control of Pot Chrysanthemum according to Daminozide Applications at Different Planting Period in C-Channel mat Irrigation System (C-형강 매트 저면관수 시스템을 이용한 분화 국화 재배 시 정식시기와 Daminozide 처리에 따른 초장 조절)

  • Kang, Seung Won;Seo, Sang Gyu;Lee, Gung Pyo;Pak, Chun Ho
    • FLOWER RESEARCH JOURNAL
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.30-36
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    • 2011
  • Effect of daminozide concentration and application methods, in combination with different planting period, on the growth of chrysanthemum was investigated for small pot-plant production. Daminozide, a plant growth regulator widely used for plant height control, was applied by drench or sub-application. For pot chrysanthemums of first planting time, plant height was reduced over $4,000mg{\cdot}L^{-1}$, when daminozide was drenched directly into the pot medium. However, $5,000mg{\cdot}L^{-1}$ of daminozide drench affected plant height reduction for secondarily planted pot chrysanthemum. Analysis of variance revealed the plant height was affected by planting time. For sub-application experiment of daminozide, it showed that the daminozide affected the number of flower buds formation and fresh and dry weight. These results suggest that planting period affected growth retardation of chrysanthemum. Therefore, application of growth retardant in combination with planting time and application methods may provide more efficient growth control for pot-chrysanthemum production.

Preparation of Yeast Extract Using an Enzyme Hydrolysate of Rice Protein (쌀단백질 효소분해물을 이용한 효모추출물의 제조)

  • Lee, Hyung-Jin;Chung, Ha-Yull
    • Food Engineering Progress
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.243-249
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    • 2011
  • Optimum conditions to prepare a yeast extract with rice protein hydrolysates(rh) were investigated. The yeast extract was obtained at the level of 2.3 g/L from the yeast culture medium($30^{\circ}C$, 48 hr) composed of 5% rh and glucose( 3%, w/w). Within the extract, RNA was contained at the level of 188.1 mg/g and the levels of GMP and IMP as nucleotides were $650.33{\pm}48{\mu}g/g$, $69{\pm}21{\mu}g/g$, respectively. When Rrh(Residual rice protein hydrolysate by $Delvolase^{(R)}$) was supplemented into a yeast extract, the savory taste like umami of the mixture was found to increase noticeably based on the measurements by taste sensing system as well as sensory test. It is assumed that soluble peptides in Rrh could play an important role in improving the overall taste of yeast extract by enhancing its umami taste. Therefore, the yeast extract supplemented with Rrh could be used for manufacturing a high value-added natural seasoning ingredient.

Establishment of propagation system for in vitro calla plants(Zantedeschia spp.) by using auxin and cytokinin hormones treatments (오옥신과 사이토키닌 호르몬 처리를 이용한 칼라 기내 식물체 대량증식체계 확립)

  • Lee, Sang Hee;Kim, Young Jin;Yang, Hwan Rae;Kim, Jong Bo
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.325-329
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    • 2018
  • There are two kinds of calla belonging to the Zantedeschia spp. depending on the growing condition. Between them, various colored calla with flower shape and flower color are very popular as cut flowers. However, colored calla is very low in natural reproduction rate, and it takes a long time to obtain a flowering bulb. So it is urgent to establish a large breeding system of good varieties. In this study, various plant growth hormone treatments were carried out to improve the growth of the plants in calla. Root formation was the highest at 81.5 % in basal MS medium, and the formation of shoot and multiple shoots were the highest at 100.0 % and 36.4 % in the combined treatment of BA 2.0 mg/L and IBA 1.0 mg/L, respectively. In fresh weight, the highest growth rate was observed with 11.2 times increase in BA 2.0 mg/L single treatment. Auxin and cytokinin mixed treatment were widely used in previous studies and positive effects on the growth of calla plants will help to establish the micro-propagation system.

An Ethanol Extract of the Brown Seaweed Hizikia fusiformis and Its Active Constituent, Fucosterol, Extend the Lifespan of the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (갈조류 톳(Hizikia fusiformis)의 에탄올추출물 및 이의 활성성분 fucosterol에 의한 예쁜꼬마 선충의 수명 연장)

  • Oktaviani, Diyah Fatimah;Bae, Young-Seuk;Meinita, Maria Dyah Nur;Moon, Il Soo;Hong, Yong-Ki
    • Journal of Life Science
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    • v.29 no.10
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    • pp.1120-1125
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    • 2019
  • The short-lived nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has been used as a model organism for many studies, including lifespan extension. To screen common seaweeds for natural anti-aging agents, the lifespan of C. elegans (N2 wild-type strain) was measured by its hatch rate, growth rate, survival rate, chemotaxis, brood size, and egg-laying time after exposure to nematode growth medium (NGM) containing seaweed extracts. Approximately 30 animals synchronized at the first larval stage were incubated until they reached their adult stages before laying their eggs and were transferred to fresh NGM every 3 days. We also identified the major active compound from the seaweed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and tested its optimal dose for longevity. Of 13 common seaweed species, an ethanol extract of the brown seaweed Hizikia fusiformis showed the greatest effect on hatching, growth, and survival rates. The lifespan of C. elegans was significantly expanded 1.54-fold and 1.23-fold in the presence of the ethanol extract (0.05 mg/ml) and the main active component, fucosterol (0.05 mg/ml), respectively. Exposure to the ethanol extract also increased chemotaxis 1.13-fold, decreased brood size 0.74-fold, and shortened egg-laying time 0.96-fold. These results suggest that the aquaculturable H. fusiformis may be a promising source of a diet supplement to support health care.

Dynamic Analysis on Electricity Demands for the Steel Industry in Korea: Comparison between SMEs and Large Firms (우리나라 철강산업의 전력수요에 대한 동태 분석: 중소기업과 대기업 간 비교)

  • Li, Dmitriy;Bae, Jeong Hwan
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.499-520
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    • 2020
  • Input ratio of electricity to other production inputs in the Korean manufacturing sector has been higher than for the other OECD countries. In addition, electricity prices in Korea has been relatively lower than the average of OECD countries. Moreover, electricity sector is responsible for most CO2 emissions in Korea as coal and natural gas account 41.9% and 26.8% of electricity production as of 2018. Therefore, it looks inevitable to raise the electricity tariff for the manufacturing sector in Korea, but there is a concern that increase in the electricity tariff might affect small and medium enterprises (SMEs) more than large firms. This study estimates electricity demand's price and output elasticities for large firms and SMEs in steel industry by employing a time varying parameter model (Kalman filter). The analysis shows that changes in output levels regardless of firms' size affect electricity demands more significantly than do changes in electricity prices. Second, large firms have higher variances for both price and output elasticities of electricity demand. Third, large firms have higher price elasticity but lower output elasticity of electricity demand relative to SMEs. Policy implications are suggested in association with how to reduce electricity demands in the energy-intensive industry.

Consistent Boundary Condition for Horizontally-Polarized Shear (SH) Waves Propagated in Layered Waveguides (층상 waveguide에서의 SH파 전파 해석을 위한 경계조건)

  • Lee, Jin Ho
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.113-120
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    • 2021
  • The wave-propagation phenomenon in an infinite medium has been used to describe the physics in many fields of engineering and natural science. Analytical or numerical methods have been developed to obtain solutions to problems related to the wave-propagation phenomenon. Energy radiation into infinite regions must be accurately considered for accurate solutions to these problems; hence, various numerical and mechanical models as well as boundary conditions have been developed. This paper proposes a new boundary condition that can be applied to scalar-wave or horizontally-polarized shear-wave (or SH-wave) propagation problems in layered waveguides. A governing equation is obtained for the SH waves by applying finite-element discretization in the vertical direction of the waveguide and subsequently modified to derive the boundary condition for the infinite region of the waveguide. Using the orthogonality of the eigenmodes for the SH waves in a layered waveguide, the new boundary condition is shown to be equivalent to the existing root-finding absorbing boundary condition; further, the accuracy is shown to increase with the degree of the new boundary condition, and its stability can be proven. The accuracy and stability are then demonstrated by applying the proposed boundary condition to wave-propagation problems in layered waveguides.

An Analysis of Influences of Education Satisfaction of Beauty Salon Franchises on Turnover factors Mediated by Education need (프랜차이즈 직영점 미용실의 교육만족도가 교육요구도를 매개로 이직요인에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Min-seok;Ko, Kyoung-sook
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.232-241
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    • 2021
  • This study was conducted to prepare a countermeasure for turnover due to the effect of education satisfaction at franchise stores on turnover factors through the medium of education requirements. In the method of collecting data, 237 copies of the questionnaire method were used as the final data. The results are first, the analysis of educational requirements in general characteristics shows that academic background (F=5.655, p<).01), Analysis of the factors for turnover shows that position (t=-2.809, p<).Significant differences were shown in 01. Second, educational satisfaction is the educational requirement (r=-.16, p<).The correlation between 05) and turnover factors (r=-.18) is significant, and the educational requirement is turnover factors (r=.53, p<).It is shown to be a significant static correlation with 01. Third, designers (B=.25), t=2.332, p<.05) and educational requirements (B=.88, t=9.313, p<).001) has been shown to have significant static effects. Fourth, the educational requirements for educational satisfaction and turnover factors are significant (β=.52, p<).We can see that it is fully mediated by 001.Therefore, it is believed that it will be possible to investigate quarterly satisfaction and demand after communication and training with workers at direct stores, and reduce turnover through various curriculum education.