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Development of Environmentally Sound Herbicides and Their Formulations (환경친화적(環境親和的) 제초제(除草劑) 및 제형(製型) 개발(開發))

  • Oh, Byung-Youl
    • Korean Journal of Weed Science
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.94-111
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    • 1997
  • A relatively wide range of weed technology concerning sound herbicide development, its formulation exploitation, and application techniques was extensively reviewed in accordance with least inputted sustainable agriculture. Herbicide plays an integral part of farmers' cultural practices in Korean agriculture like rest of world over. Weeds are more obstacle to the adaptation of more sustainable agriculture system. Because weeds dictate most of the crop production practices, weed scientists must become the leaders of collaborative integrated approaches to agriculture systems research. Feasible ways to minimize herbicide input involve the positive introduction of low-rate selective chemistries, innovative formulations, biological herbicides and newly developed application technology. Since herbicide will remain to be a core position in weed management for the foreseeable future, research is needed to optimize herbicide application technology and to minimize their impact on the environment. Public concerns and regulatory pressures on agricultural chemicals are likely to strengthen throughout this decade and coming. Researchers, pesticide manufacturing industries and regulatory authorities have to work together more closely, leading to understand each other better, as well as the needs of our customers and those of society. To be taken extensively, weed control management practices in the future have to be accepted such a way the respective demands of environment, society and economics are entirely matched.

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Archival Description and Records from Historically Marginalized Cultures: A View from a Postmodern Window

  • Sinn, Dong-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.44 no.4
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    • pp.115-130
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    • 2010
  • In the archival field, the last decade has witnessed much discussion on archives' broad responsibilities for social memory. Considering that the social role of archives has stemmed from postmodern thinking suggests a paradigm shift from viewing archives as static recorded objects to viewing them as dynamic evidence of human memory. The modern archives and archivists are products of nineteenth-century positivism, limiting their function to archiving written documents within stable organizations. The new thoughts on the social role of archives provide a chance to realize that traditional archival practices have preserved only a sliver of organizational memory, thus ignoring fluid records of human activities and memory. Archival description is the primary method for users to access materials in archives. Thus, it can determine how archival materials will be used (or not used). The traditional archival description works as the representation of archival materials and is directly projected from the hierarchy of organizational documents. This paper argues that archivists will need to redefine archival description to be more sensitive to atypical types of archival materials from various cultural contexts. This paper surveys the postmodern approaches to archival concepts in relation to descriptive practices. It also examines some issues related to representing historically marginalized groups in archival description who were previously neglected in traditional archival practices.

A Study on the Cultural Concept and Methodology of the Place Marketing Strategy (장소마케팅 전략의 문화적 개념과 방법론에 관한 고찰)

  • Lee Mu-Yong
    • Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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    • v.41 no.1 s.112
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    • pp.39-57
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    • 2006
  • Place marketing strategy is an research or policy field of cultural politics on which various meanings, discourses and practices are deployed, contested and negotiated surrounding the development or destruction of urban cultures. So it is needed to correct and concrete understanding about the cultural significations of place marketing strategy. In that sense, this study aims to establish the concept and methodology of place marketing strategy as urban culture development strategy. At first, the theory of cultural politics of space and cultural political approach to the place marketing strategy are reviewed. And then, basic concept of place marketing strategy and the process of place marketing strategy are established. Finally, with drawing the cultual political factors(named SAUNE factors), the methodology of place marketing strategy is systematized.

Exploring Culture Dimensions and Enablers in Quality Management Practices : Some Findings

  • Pun, Kit Fai;Jaggernath-Furlonge, Surujdaye
    • International Journal of Quality Innovation
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.57-76
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    • 2009
  • Although many adherents openly praise the importance of quality management practices (QMP) in organisations, others have identified significant costs and implementation obstacles. Some recent studies showed that QMP have failed due to the ignorance of quality cultures. How to improve the success rate of QMP in organisations has become a critical issue both in the academy and in practice. This paper discusses the common enablers of and cultural impacts on QMP. It explores the dimensions of national versus organisational culture, and identifies the main features of four quality culture models as advocated in the literature in relation to facilitating QMP in organisations. It was found that flat structures, decentralised functions, empowerment, flexibility, innovation, limited rules and regulations and teamwork favor the QMP implementation. For facilitating culture changes for QMP, values associated with low power distance, low uncertainty avoidance and collectivism would have to be nurtured. Further research is needed to incorporate the findings and develop a practical quality culture approach for real applications in industry.

The Study of Childhood in The Period of the Three States (삼국사기.삼국유사에 나타난 아동기고찰)

  • 신양재
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.32 no.5
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    • pp.125-134
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    • 1994
  • The Purpose of this study is to explore the conceptions of childhood and the practices about childrearing in the period of the Three States. The method used for this study is the historical method and the literatures of analysis are The Chronicles of the Three States and The Heritage of the Three States. According to the results the conceptions of childhood in its boundary were that the point at which childhood in its boundary were that the point at which childhood ended was the age of 15. And the conceptions of childhood in its demension were that the age of 10 was important demension epitemologically and the age of 15 was important in political dimension. Also there were several practices of childrearing in the Three States. First the sweddling clothes were in use. Second a child was carried on adult's back. Third parents paryed for giving birth to their child and had a dream of conception. finally there were th child welfare works. Through this study we can have access to the understanding about cultural transmission process of childrearing in Korea.

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A Study on Childrearing in Koryo Dynasty (고려시대 아동양육 연구)

  • 신양재
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.149-162
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    • 1994
  • The Purpose of this study is to explore the conceptions and the practices about childreariong in the Koryo Dynasty(918-1392 A, D). The method used for this study is the historical method and the literatures of analysis are the Koryo Dynasty History. According to the results the conceptions of childhood in its boundary were that the point at which childhood ended was the age of 15, which was sud-devided into three of different periods. And the conceptions of childhood in its nature and its ideal traits were that child's ability was determinated innately and intellectual features and mutual understanding of others were emphasized as its ideal traits. Also the practices of childrearing in Koryo Dynasty were that a child was carried on adult's back, and that parents prayed for giving birth to their child and finally that the role expectation toward childrearing was affectionate caring. Moreover there were the child welfare work and the educational system in Koryo Dynasty. Through this study, we can have access to the understanding about cultural transmission process of childrearing in Korea.

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Mathematics Classroom and Postmodernism (수학교실과 포스트모더니즘)

  • Kim, Boo-Yoon;Lee, Ji-Sung
    • The Mathematical Education
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    • v.48 no.2
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    • pp.169-182
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    • 2009
  • This study deals with the postmodern perspectives in mathematics classroom. Today, mathematics and mathematics education can be explored through postmodernism because they have very different practices, pluralism, and anti-authoritarianism. Thus practices and researches of mathematics classroom are coherent to postmodern perspectives such as situated theory, anthropological approach, and interactionism. In these socio-cultural views, learners' milieu and participation, language of classroom activities, and culture of mathematics classroom are considered very important. Therefore, it is required that both mathematics educators and researchers make a change toward postmodernism in attitude and subject of mathematics classroom research.

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Effect of Cultural Practices on the Occurrence of Pod and Stem Blight and Purple Blotch, and on Soybean Growth (콩 재배방법이 미이라병과 자주무늬병의 발생 및 식물생육에 미치는 영향)

  • 오정행;김동윤
    • Research in Plant Disease
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.107-111
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    • 2001
  • Deterioration of pod and seed quality by pod and stem blight and purple blotch is a serious problem in the production of vegetable soybean. Major inoculum sources for the causal pathogens, Phomopsis spp. and Cercospora kikuchii, are soybean straw and debris. Phomopsis spp. have been known to be either limited for hyphal growth or latent in immature soybean tissues. In this experiment, cultural practices using these ecological traits of the pathogens were applied as a control measure. In plastic mulching, seed infection was remark ably reduced by drip irrigation as compared to overhead sprinkling, but not reduced in no mulching cultivation. Control value of plastic mulching was 28.0% for pod and stem blight and 29.3% for purple blotch, which was lower than that of benomyl application. By the first week in June, 78% of overwintered soybean straw examined contained matured alpha spores in pycnidia, acting as primary inoculum. Secondary inoculum of phomopsix spp. was observed abundantly throughout from mid June to September on fallen cotyledons from current crops and subsequently was found on petiole debris. Consequently, both plastic mulching and drip irrigation were effective to some extent for controlling pod and stem blight and purple blotch without significant reduction in soybean yield, and the cultural practices in combination with field sanitation resulted in removing more the secondary inoculum.

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New Social Movement in the Form of Cultural Practices: A Case Study of Dooriban Movement (문화적 실천으로서 사회운동의 변화: 두리반 운동을 중심으로)

  • Ok, Eun-Sil;Kim, Young-Chan
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.63
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    • pp.53-75
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    • 2013
  • This study looks into Dooriban movement, which problematizes the ways in which social movements are carried out in everyday settings in modern Korea. Contrary to traditional social movements, Dooriban movement led by active/independent participants -who are locally situated and culturally sensitized- showed a new way of engaging with political power. Making use of qualitative methodology such as in-depth interviews and participant observation, this research examines the implications of emergent cultural practices that redefine and reconfigure the working mechanisms of social movements in Korea today.

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Adolescent culture, socialization practices, and educational achievement in Korea: Indigenous, psychological, and cultural analysis (한국의 청소년 문화, 사회화 과정과 교육적 성취: 토착적, 심리적, 문화적 맥락에서의 분석)

  • Uichol Kim;Young-Shin Park;Jaisun Koo
    • Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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    • v.10 no.spc
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    • pp.177-209
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    • 2004
  • This paper provides a theoretical and conceptual framework for understanding adolescent culture and educational achievement in Korea. In the first part of the paper, the authors outline a research paradigm in cultural psychology and adolescent culture. In the second section, the traditional family structure, the role of parents, and how they have been changed by modernization are outlined. In the third section, socialization practices and parent-child relationship are reviewed. In the fourth section, Western theories that have been developed to explain educational achievement and their limitations are examined. In the fifth section, factors that contribute to educational success of Korean students are presented. In the final section, the impact of centralized, standardized, and rigid educational system that is imposed on adolescents is discussed. The highly regulated and centralized bureaucracy restricts educational and career opportunities for adolescents and it is responsible for the high rate of violence, delinquency, and bullying in Korea. The need for encouraging civil society that allows for diversity of ideas and skills and at the same time maintaining strong relational bonds are discussed.

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