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Two-sample chi-square test for randomly censored data (임의로 관측중단된 두 표본 자료에 대한 카이제곱 검정방법)

  • 김주한;김정란
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.109-119
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    • 1995
  • A two sample chi-square test is introduced for testing the equality of the distributions of two populations when observations are subject to random censorship. The statistic is appropriate in testing problems where a two-sided alternative is of interest. Under the null hypothesis, the asymptotic distribution of the statistic is a chi-square distribution. We obtain two types of chi-square statistics ; one as a nonnegative definite quadratic form in difference of observed cell probabilities based on the product-limit estimators, the other one as a summation form. Data pertaining to a cancer chemotheray experiment are examined with these statistics.

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Intellectual Freedom Issues in Library Collection Development (장서개발에 있어서 지적자유의 문제)

  • Chang, D.H.
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.42 no.1
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    • pp.165-182
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    • 2011
  • This paper attempts to portray the issues of intellectual freedom that confront librarians in developing collections in libraries. It is observed that the issue has hardly been drawn attention in Korea while, from various cases, concerns about intellectual freedom have been increased in many countries. Situated in this observation, this paper surveys various aspects of endeavors to protect intellectual freedom in information service settings. It is also stressed how such issues as free access to information, freedom to know, information barriers in public sectors, and freedom of expression are addressed in library world. Emphasis was also put on the meaning of intellectual freedom as viewed through some policy documents and guidelines in other countries and its implications.

Clothing Norms & Conflict of 20·30s Women in Work Place -Focus on Types of Work Places- (한국 20·30대 여성의 직장 복식규범과 갈등 -직장의 유형에 따른 현황조사를 중심으로-)

  • Kim, Tae Eun;Ha, Jisoo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.342-352
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    • 2016
  • This study examined the fashion culture of 20-30s working women through clothing norm relationships in the workplace. A literature research was conducted along with qualitative research, in-depth interviews in order to understand the domestic working environment and fashion culture such as lifestyle and consumer culture characteristics of 20-30s working women. The results were: First, it showed that the increased number of members having various inclinations caused subcultures through an increase of women's economic activities and transition to a knowledge-information society in domestic work places that changed into a business casual that recognized employees' autonomy and diversity. Second, in the working place, clothing norms coexist as stipulated by statutes, company rules, and official documents as well as others implied by experiences of sanction against members. Workplace closing norms are classified into norms of exposure that draw attention to clothes and casual clothes. Third, it showed that factors pressuring clothing norms are classified as external pressures and by spontaneous self-censorship that cause conflict and confusion with working women's fashion according to the degree of pressure. Two kinds of pressure by others (or types of departments and members) were observed.

A Study on the Intellectual Freedom in Korean Public Libraries (우리나라 공공도서관의 지적자유에 대한 사례연구)

  • Joung, Hyun-Tae
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.243-264
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    • 2000
  • It is the aim of this study to attain general knowledge of Intellectual freedom which provides the philosophical principle of our library activities. Also, this study seeks to develop the principia of intellectual freedom as the policy and guide of public libraries in Korea. In order to research the operational circumstances of intellectual freedom In our public libraries, the researcher visited 20 public libraries in the Seoul district. The results clearly confirmed the self-censorship of the librarians in selecting materials. Also, it confirmed the reality of external interventions and restrictions as well as restrictive sources originating from internal ignorance and habitual practices in our public libraries. Ultimately, such results provided a solid basis for the aim of this study to develop intellectual freedom principle as the basic ideology for public library activities in Korea.

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Japanese Postwar Literary Trial and Pacific Constitution of Japan: Significance of 'Chatterley Trial' (패전 후 일본의 문예재판과 평화헌법 - '채털리 재판'의 의의 -)

  • Kim, Junghee
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.47
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    • pp.27-51
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    • 2017
  • This paper considers opposition between lawyers to defend human rights which the Pacific Constitution of Japan guarantees and the public power represented by the prosecution's judicial power centered on sentencing in the 'Chatterley Trial' that was a Japanese representative literary trial which occurred after World War II. The lawyers' assertion is against the public power which reminds us of the Press Act before the war defeat. Although censorship is banned in the constitution, and it can be said that it is not a dimension just to protest the check of custom but the struggle not to reenact the past Japan.

Realtime Word Filtering System against Variations of Censored Words in Korean (변형된 한글 금칙어에 대한 실시간 필터링 시스템)

  • Kim, ChanWoo;Sung, Mee Young
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.695-705
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    • 2019
  • The level of psychological damage caused by verbal abuse among cyberbully victims is very serious. It is going to introduce a system that determines the level of sanctions against chatting in real time using the automatic prohibited words filtering based on artificial neural network. In this paper, we propose a keyword filtering method that detects the modified prohibited words and determines whether the corresponding chat should be sanctioned in real time, and a real-time chatting screening system using it. The accuracy of filtering through machine learning was improved by processing data in advance through coding techniques that express consonants and vowels of similar pronunciation at close distances. After comparing and analyzing Mahalanobis-based clustering algorithms and artificial neural network-based algorithms, algorithms that utilize artificial neural networks showed high performance. If it is applied to Internet chatting, comments or online games, it is expected that it will be able to filter more effectively than the existing filtering method and that this will ease communication inconvenience due to existing indiscriminate filtering methods.

Historical Reality and Cultural Memory: The Image of Peter I in Russian Literature and Folklore (역사적 현실과 문화적 기억 : 기록 문학과 구술 문학에 나타난 표트르 대제의 형상)

  • Seo, Seon Jeong
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.29
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    • pp.201-232
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    • 2012
  • In the world history in the rein of totalitarianism cultural project of government had been activated, and consequently of it official culture had been organized. But at the same time on the other side of it people('narod'), who didn't have cultural means for active expression of own opinion on the reality, had expressed world-view and judgement informally in everyday language. In the literature of autocracy, subjected to censorship, had been expressed and fixed mythically idealized image of sovereign and his works. But in the folklore the image of ruler had been created by liberal fantasy of people. This article examined russian literature and folklore texts of 18 century, when russian people suffered from rapid and dramatic changes, caused by Peter I. Although russian literature of 18 century had gone over to the new literary regime, it still accepted political mechanism as dominant of age, and consequently in the literary texts of this century Peter I was represented as ideal person and great monarch. But various images in folklore texts show that people's opinion on ruler and his activities couldn't be controlled. In other worlds, diverse images of Peter I in folklore texts reflect clear and plain historical consciousness of people. This analysis reveals not only difference between mechanism of idealization of government and historical consciousness of people, but also meaning of cultural memory as indicator of historical reality.

Tests based on EDF statistics for randomly censored normal distributions when parameters are unknown

  • Kim, Namhyun
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.431-443
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    • 2019
  • Goodness-of-fit techniques are an important topic in statistical analysis. Censored data occur frequently in survival experiments; therefore, many studies are conducted when data are censored. In this paper we mainly consider test statistics based on the empirical distribution function (EDF) to test normal distributions with unknown location and scale parameters when data are randomly censored. The most famous EDF test statistic is the Kolmogorov-Smirnov; in addition, the quadratic statistics such as the $Cram{\acute{e}}r-von$ Mises and the Anderson-Darling statistic are well known. The $Cram{\acute{e}}r-von$ Mises statistic is generalized to randomly censored cases by Koziol and Green (Biometrika, 63, 465-474, 1976). In this paper, we generalize the Anderson-Darling statistic to randomly censored data using the Kaplan-Meier estimator as it was done by Koziol and Green. A simulation study is conducted under a particular censorship model proposed by Koziol and Green. Through a simulation study, the generalized Anderson-Darling statistic shows the best power against almost all alternatives considered among the three EDF statistics we take into account.

Strength in Numbers and Voice: An Assessment of the Networking Capacity of Chinese ENGOs

  • Shapiro, Matthew A.;Brunner, Elizabeth;Li, Hui
    • Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.147-175
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    • 2018
  • Under authoritarian regimes, citizen-led NGOs such as environmental NGOs (ENGOs) often operate under close scrutiny of the government. While this presents a challenge to a single ENGO, we propose here - in line with existing research on network effects - that there are opportunities for multiple ENGOs to coordinate and thus work in ways that supersede government controls, affect public opinion, and contribute to policy revision and/or creation. In this paper, we specifically examine the possibility that the gamut of citizen-based ENGOs in China are coordinating. Based on network analysis of ENGOs web pages as well as interviews with more than a dozen ENGO leaders between 2014 and 2016, we find that ENGOs have few direct and public connections to each other, but social media sites and personal connections offline provide a crucial function in creating bridges. A closer examination of these bridges reveals, however, that they can be substantive to the environmental discussion or functional to the dissemination of web page information but typically not both. In short, ENGOs in China are not directly connected but rather are connected in a way that responds to the available social media and the government's censorship practices.

The Features of Restricted Access to Information at European and East Asian Libraries

  • Makhotina, Natalya;Pshenichnaya, Evgeniya
    • Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.31-41
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    • 2021
  • The growing number of threats to society through the uncontrolled distribution of information is forcing library communities in many countries to reconsider their views on free access to collections. Based on the content of numerous documents of international importance, it can be concluded that in any democratic country access to information is one of the most important human rights, along with the right to life, liberty, and security of person. However, the state has the right to restrict citizens' access to information within the framework of existing legislation. Constantly, restrictions on access to information are established in order to protect the ethical foundations of the constitutional order, morality, health, rights, and legitimate interests of others, to ensure the country's defense and state security. It goes without saying that each country has the right to independently decide where the boundaries lie between permitted and prohibited information, including printed information, contained in library collections. This article describes three levels of access restriction: foreign, state, and regional. The authors have analyzed the legal and regulatory documents that govern libraries, as well as the reasons and methods of limitation. A comparative analysis of the restriction of access to information in the countries of Europe and Asia is presented.