• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• 제51권2호
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• pp.175-185
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• 2021

Purpose: The primary objective of this study was to analyze the thickness and height of alveolar bone around the maxillary and mandibular incisors. Additionally, this study aimed to compare bone parameters between Caucasian (CC) and African American (AA) female patients. Materials and Methods: In this retrospective pilot study, 50 female subjects(25 CC and 25 AA) were included. The inclusion criteria were AA or CC women between the ages of 18 and 50 with a normo-divergent facial pattern and Angle's class I, end-on class II, or mild class III malocclusion. The distance from the cementoenamel junction (CEJ) to the buccal and lingual alveolar crest; the alveolar ridge thickness at the mid-root and apex; and the buccal and lingual bone thickness at 3, 6, and 9mm from the CEJ were measured. Results: No significant difference was found (P>0.05) in the cortical bone thickness at 3mm, 6mm, or 9mm from the alveolar crest between CC and AA populations for most measurements. A significant difference in bone thickness was found (P<0.05) for the lingual surface of the central incisor, with maxillary bone thickness found to be higher than mandibular bone thickness. The measurements of lingual thickness were larger than those of buccal thickness for both races. Conclusion: There were no differences in maxillomandibular anterior alveolar bone measurements between normo-divergent adult AA and CC women, except for a few parameters at varying locations. However, future studies can be planned based the current pilot study data, which may provide valuable information.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.241-246
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• 2021

Ladysmith Black Mambazo는 남아프리카공화국의 전통적인 줄루 아카펠라와 미국흑인음악의 영향을 받은 남성그룹이다. 미국의 주빌리 합창단이 1870년대에 남아프리카공화국에 와서 공연을 하면서 남아프리카공화국의 음악에 영향을 미쳤다. 토착적인 줄루족의 아카펠라와 미국의 주빌리 음악 스타일이 만나 탄생한 음악이 Ladysmith Black Mambazo의 음악이라고 할 수 있다. 이들은 Paul Simon의 앨범 『Graceland』에 참여하게 되면서 전세계적으로 유명해진다. 앨범은 수백만 장의 판매고를 올리게 되고 그래미 어워즈에서 수상을 하게 되었다. 그 후로도 자신들만의 앨범을 발매하여 그래미어워즈에서 총 5회의 수상을 하게 되고, 15회 노미네이트 되었다. 그들은 음악적 유산보존을 철학으로 삼아 줄루족의 음악을 계승·발전시켰다. 같은 비서구권 국가로서 법고창신의 정신을 돌아보고 우리나라의 뮤지션들에게 좋은 영향력이 되길 바라며 Ladysmith Black Mambazo의 'Black Is Beautiful'과 'Homeless'의 음악 분석을 통하여 이들의 음악이 서양의 음악에서 받아들인 점과 자신들만의 전통음악에서 계승해나가고 있는 점들을 알아보았다.

• 한국문헌정보학회지
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• 제51권3호
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• pp.45-64
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• 2017

이 연구의 목적은 1998년부터 2016년까지 미국 '한 책, 한 도시' 지역사회 독서운동에서 선정된 책들의 선호도, 분류기호, 주제표목, 발행연도, 장르 등 특성을 살펴봄으로써 지역사회 독서운동의 지향점을 이해하는 것이다. 2017년 4월 LC(Library of Congress) 도서센터 웹사이트에 등록된 '한 책, 한 도시' 독서운동의 주별 및 작가별 리스트를 기반으로 전체 선정 책 1,102권 및 단 한 개 프로그램에서 선정된 책 812권의 LC OPAC 서지레코드 735건을 분석하였다. 주요한 발견은 To Kill a Mockingbird 등 선호된 책들의 계속적 영향력과 'The Big Read'를 통한 '한 책'의 수명 연장, 발행 1-2년 된 신간에 대한 선호, LC 분류체계의 P(문학 및 어학) 주제 집중(530권, 72.1%)과 PS(미국문학)의 압도적 중요성(307권, 57.9%), 가정소설, 역사소설, 심리소설 장르의 높은 비중과 43개 장르의 분산, 고유한 주제표목 535개 중 "City and town life"와 "World War, 1939-1945"(8권) 표목의 중요성 및 개별 주제표목들의 다양성, 96개 주제표목 그룹에서 "African American..."(20권)과 "Woman..."(16권)으로 시작하는 그룹의 중요성 등을 포함한다. 이 연구는 선정 책들의 주제가 통합, 이해, 관용 등에서 인권, 환경, 평화 등으로 변화하고 다양화하는 현황과 추이를 기술하였으나, 책 선정이 지역사회에 미친 영향 및 독서운동이 가져온 실제적 변화 등은 다루지 못한 제한점을 가진다.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.481-493
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• 2005

Reason for contemporary ethnic-look's remarkable world popularity is viewed as due to counteraction of disordered world conditions such as war, terror, and economic depression. These conditions led people to desire the returning to primitive human society where freedom and peace are preserved. The background of ethnic look emergence is influences of post-modernism, eastern and western culture hybrid, and ecology. This study will mainly focus on the analysis of present ethnic fashion trend and, with following to this, their images will be analyzed and categorized. The result of ethnic trend, especially that of Asian's and African's, from 2000 to 2005 is like this: representative Asian ethnic fashion tendency is focusing on Japanese and Chinese. In Japanese style, oversized silhouette was derived by Kimono and wide belt was appeared by influence of Kimono's Obi. Chinese ethic style are analyzed as adapting feministic silhouette and details from Chinese traditional clothes, Chipao. Additionally, in some of the Chinese ethnic-look, there are mixtures with Japanese, North American, and African's images. Mixing with pop images and ancient ones are also emerged. In the African ethnic look, people used colorful cloth and new materials which is considered as integration of primitives and modern science. From the study, it is possible to conclude that current modern ethnic fashion can be defined as blends with one country's image to the other, mixture with new technology, and acceptance to the multi-national folk fashion. These trends are widely revealed and extended in the world fashion. In the following result of the analysis, there were four outstanding images lying underneath in the present ethnic-look. That is eclectic, traditional, natural, and mysterious images.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권19호
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• pp.8311-8317
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• 2014

Background: Evidence supporting an association between the 8q24 rs4242382-A polymorphism and prostate cancer (PCa) risk has been reported in North American and Europe populations, though data from Asian populations remain limited. We therefore investigated this association by clinical detection in China, and meta-analysis in Asian, Caucasian and African-American populations. Materials and Methods: Blood samples and clinical information were collected from ethnically Chinese men from Northern China with histologically-confirmed PCa (n=335) and from age-matched normal controls (n=347). The 8q24 (rs4242382) gene polymorphism was genotyped by polymerase chain reaction-high-resolution melting analysis. We initially analyzed the associations between the risk allele and PCa and clinical covariates. A meta-analysis was then performed using genotyping data from a total of 1,793 PCa cases and 1,864 controls from our study and previously published studies in American and European populations, to determine the association between PCa and risk genotype. Results: The incidence of the risk allele was higher in PCa cases than controls (0.222 vs 0.140, $P=7.3{\times}10^{-5}$), suggesting that the 8q24 rs4242382-A polymorphism was associated with PCa risk in Chinese men. The genotypes in subjects were in accordance with a dominant genetic model (ORadj=2.03, 95%CI: 1.42-2.91, $Padj=1.1{\times}10^{-4}$). Presence of the risk allele rs4242382-A at 8q24 was also associated with clinical covariates including age at diagnosis ${\geq}65$ years, prostate specific antigen >10 ng/ml, Gleason score <8, tumor stage and aggressive PCa, compared with the non-risk genotype ($P=4.6{\times}10^{-5}-3.0{\times}10^{-2}$). Meta-analysis confirmed the association between 8q24 rs4242382-A polymorphism and PCa risk (OR=1.62, 95%CI: 1.39-1.88, $P=1.0{\times}10^{-5}$) across Asian, Caucasian and African American populations. Conclusions: The replicated data suggest that the 8q24 rs4242382-A variation might be associated with increased PCa susceptibility in Asian, Caucasian and African American populations. These results imply that this polymorphism may be a useful risk biomarker for PCa in multi-ethnic populations.

• 복식
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• 제61권10호
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• pp.104-118
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to examine the recent various developments of men's fashion by analyzing how exotic tastes were presented in men's modern fashion from 2001 to 2010. For this purpose, a researcher reviewed relevant studies to identify the styles of exotic tastes that were reflected in men's modern fashion specifically in Chinese, Japanese, Indian, East Asian, American, North American and South American styles. Findings of this study is summarized as follows. Main examples of men's modern fashion were found in Chinese-style apparel such as the magwae, queue, coolie hat and the Mao jacket. The Kimono and the samurai robe, both of which best represent Japanese apparel and the Japanese traditional patterns also had an influence on men's modern fashion Indian style clothing such as dhoti, veshti and lungi which cover the lower body, vajani as loose trousers, kurta of full-over tunic form and turban also had an effect as well. The men's modern fashion is also impacted by Middle Asian styles that includes the thobe, sirwaal, futah, which is sort of a skirt that is long enough to cover the calf and whose front parts overlap each other, turbans and the hempen hood which is fixed with the agal. Exotic elements such as animal skins, body painting, tattoos and head dresses found in African styles can also be found in men's modern fashion. Parts of North American style influence come from the applications of Indians' costume and head dress. The surveyed men's modern fashion of the South America style was represented by the applications of natives' costume and Andean tunic, loincloth and shawl. In all of the exotic styles found in men's modern fashion, historicity, eclecticism, aestheticism and nature-orientation are implied. They are the source of inspirations that promote changes and diversity in men's modern fashion.

• 영미문화
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.65-102
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• 2018

This paper focuses on "The Story of $Bras-Coup{\acute{e}}$" in George Washington Cable's The Grandissimes (1880), a story to and around which Cable claimed the larger work was built. It tells of an African candio sold into slavery who, to the dismay of his white purchasers, refuses to work, strikes his master, and runs away to lead a life of a fugitive in the swamps. He is finally captured, whipped, and maimed, but not before he casts a powerful voodoo curse at his master and his plantation. He dies a heroic death, with the last words that he goes "To--Africa." Cable once said that he "meant The Grandissimes as truly a political work as it ever has been called." It is a political work in that $Bras-Coup{\acute{e}}^{\prime}s$ personal rebellion is associated with much-feared slave revolts, especially the black revolution in San Domingue/Haiti. There is also $Honor{\acute{e}}$ f.m.c. (free man of color), one of the narrators of "The Story of $Bras-Coup{\acute{e}}$" and a stand-in for the Freedmen in the postbellum United States, who nurses his own insurrectionary flame. Through these figures Cable makes a "terrible suggestion" that a black revolution is on the horizon unless whites would not mend their ways soon.

• 영어영문학
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• 제60권2호
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• pp.193-209
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• 2014

Writers in England's colonies and former colonies have long struggled with the advantages and disadvantages of employing the language of the colonizer for their creative work, an issue that today reaches beyond the older imperial trade routes in the era of "global English." Creative writers in widely disparate locations are now using global English to their advantage, with what can be described as post-postcolonial strategies. This essay explores the politics of global English, beginning with a satiric dictionary of "Strine" (Australian English) from 1965, and then looking back at the mid-1960s debate at Makerere University between Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Chinua Achebe, in which Achebe famously asserted the importance of remaking English for hi own purposes. The essay then discusses early linguistic experiments by Rudyard Kipling, who became the world's first truly global writer in the 1880s and 1890s and developed a range of strategies for conveying local experience to a global audience. The essay then turns to two contemporary examples: a comic pastiche of Kipling-and of Kiplingese-by the contemporary Tibetan writer Jamyang Norbu, who deploys "Babu English" and the legacy of British rule against Chinese encroachment in Tibet; and, finally, the Korean-American internet group Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries, who interweave African-American English with North Korean political rhetoric to hilariously subversive effect.

• 한국인구학
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.89-113
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• 2006

본 연구는 개발도상국의 지역별 인구변천 유형과 특징을 검토하는데 그 목적이 있다. 이를 위해 본 연구는 개발도상국의 인구변천 유형을 인구변천 단계와 관련시키고 있다. 그 다음으로 출산력과 사망력이 지난 40년간 어떻게 변화되어 왔는지를 다양한 지표를 활용하여 검토하고 있다. 분석결과 출산력의 경우 아프리카 지역은 최근까지도 비교적 높은 출산율을 보여 인구변천의 제2단계에 돌입한 것으로 보인다. 이 지역은 또한 알제리, 리비아, 모로코 등 아프리카 북부지역의 국가와 나머지 국가들이 인구변천 과정에서 뚜렷한 차이를 보인다. 서남아시아의 국가들 역시 인구변천의 제2단계에 있다고 볼 수 있다. 서남아시아 국가 증 아프카니스탄과 예맨은 지난 40년 간 출산력 수준의 변화는 거의 없고 사망력 수준만 약간 감소하는 전형적인 아프리카 형태를 보이고 있다. 이에 반해 동아시아 지역은 출산력의 감소 속도가 사망률의 감소 속도보다 훨씬 빠르게 나타나서 인구의 증가폭이 둔화되는 양상을 보이는 인구변천의 제3단계에 속한다고 볼 수 있다. 중남미 지역 국가들도 동남아시아 국가들의 경우와 비슷하게 출산력의 감소 속도가 사망력의 감소 속도보다 빠르게 나타나 인구의 증가 폭이 둔화되는 인구변천의 제3단계에 속한다. 특히 동남아시아의 한국과 싱가포르는 매우 빠른 속도로 출산력 감소를 보였으며 최근에는 오히려 저출산이 문제가 될 정도로 낮은 출산력 수준을 보이고 있다. 사망력의 경우 특히 평균수명은 지역별로 큰 차이를 보인다. 평균수명이 가장 높은 국가 중의 하나인 싱가포르가 78.0세인데 반해 르완다는 39.9세에 머무르고 있다. 아프리카의 평균수명이 낮은 것은 여러 가지 설명이 가능하나 최근에 크게 확산되고 있는 에이즈의 영향이 가장 클 것으로 판단된다.

• 복식
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• 제63권6호
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• pp.14-28
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• 2013

This study aims to identify the elements of black culture and use it to analyze the formative characteristics of casual fashion items as well as the symbolic meanings presented in the graphic designs of the items. First of all, in order to distinguish the identity of black culture, this study made a division into racial, social, and artistic aspects based on cultural specificities of Stuart Hall, a culture theorist. This was for a theoretical review and based on this review, a theoretical framework was developed to analyze the characteristics of American casual fashion design of black people. The case study selected 1719 fashion images of 137 male brands and 33 female brands from websites of companies manufacturing casual wear of black people in America. The following is a summary of the study results. The conceptual characteristics based on specificities of black culture can be categorized into ten attributes: playfulness in order to digest human grief and emotion positively, satire of the mainstream society, spontaneity through emotional expression from the heart, abstractness of various emotions elating suffering, humor trying to express negative aspects as the meaning of light and innocent laughter, dependence with passive attitudes toward discrimination and master-slave relationships in history, resistance against discrimination and disadvantages, African orientation and primitiveness pursuing natural conditions, aggressiveness against violence and unfair treatment, and confidence and defiance against social deprivation and corruption. Based on the results of an analysis through formative classification system founded on racial, social, and artistic aspects of black people, specificities of black culture are of formative characteristics of their casual fashion design. These elements are presented on graphic t-shirts through strong colors, loose silhouette, and details with many pockets. These characteristics were reflected in symbolic meanings presented in the graphic.