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학교에서 진화론과 함께 지적설계론도 가르쳐야 하는가 (Do We Have to Teach Intelligent Design along with Evolution in Public Schools?)

  • 송광한
    • 한국융합학회논문지
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    • 제9권8호
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    • pp.185-198
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    • 2018
  • 본 논문은 학교에서 진화론과 함께 지적 설계론도 가르쳐야 한다는 요구가 강해지고 있는 상황에서 그에 대한 판단의 이론적 기초 자료로 활용하기 위한 목적으로 쓰였다. 진화론과 달리 경험적 증거가 거의 없는 지적 설계론이 과학이론이 될 가능성을 검증하기 위해 문헌들을 통해 지능이 무엇인지 밝히고, 그 지능의 흔적이 실제 자연 속에서 발견되고 있는지를 확인해 보았다. 자연에서 지능의 흔적인 '지적 요소'가 경험적으로 발견되면 지적 설계론도 과학이론으로서 인정받게 되어 진화론과 함께 학교 교육의 대상이 될 수 있지만 그렇지 않다면 논쟁할 가치조차 없어지게 된다. 지금까지 지능에 대한 문헌들을 종합한 결과 지능의 정체와 그 흔적을 찾을 수 있었으며, 그 흔적이 사고, 지식, 문명 등 인간으로부터 비롯된 다양한 인위적 산물에서 뿐만 아니라 자연의 모든 현상에서도 발견되고 있음이 확인되었다. 이런 결과를 바탕으로 본 논문은 진화론과 지적 설계론 간의 첨예한 대립과 갈등의 문제를 해결할 방법과 함께 진화론과 지적 설계론이 학교교육의 현장에서 어떻게 다루어져야 되는지에 대한 논의를 제공하고 있다.

Molecular Characterization and Expression Analysis of Creatine Kinase Muscle (CK-M) Gene in Horse

  • Do, Kyong-Tak;Cho, Hyun-Woo;Badrinath, Narayanasamy;Park, Jeong-Woong;Choi, Jae-Young;Chung, Young-Hwa;Lee, Hak-Kyo;Song, Ki-Duk;Cho, Byung-Wook
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • 제28권12호
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    • pp.1680-1685
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    • 2015
  • Since ancient days, domestic horses have been closely associated with human civilization. Today, horse racing is an important industry. Various genes involved in energy production and muscle contraction are differentially regulated during a race. Among them, creatine kinase (CK) is well known for its regulation of energy preservation in animal cells. CK is an iso-enzyme, encoded by different genes and expressed in skeletal muscle, heart, brain and leucocytes. We confirmed that the expression of CK-M significantly increased in the blood after a 30 minute exercise period, while no considerable change was observed in skeletal muscle. Analysis of various tissues showed an ubiquitous expression of the CK-M gene in the horse; CK-M mRNA expression was predominant in the skeletal muscle and the cardiac muscle compared to other tissues. An evolutionary study by synonymous and non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphism ratio of CK-M gene revealed a positive selection that was conserved in the horse. More studies are warranted in order to develop the expression of CK-M gene as a biomarker in blood of thoroughbred horses.

제헌헌법상(制憲憲法上) 이익균점권(利益均霑權)의 현대적(現代的) 의미(意味) (A Modern Meaning of Worker's Equal Rights to Share Profits of Private Companies in the first Korean Constitution of 1948)

  • 신재명
    • 한국정보컨버전스학회논문지
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    • 제7권2호
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    • pp.41-48
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    • 2014
  • 현대사회에서 고도의 자본주의는 인류문명에 찬란한 발전을 가져왔다. 하지만 노동의 소외현상으로 인한 비인간화, 양극화의 심화 등의 자본주의의 부작용 또한 우리에게 안겨주고 있다. 이러한 자본주의의 부작용을 완화하기 위해 제헌헌법상 이익균점권을 고려해 볼 필요성이 있다. 이는 현박근혜정부에서 지향하고 있는 '경제민주화'라는 슬로건과도 일치되는 일이라고 생각된다. 이익균점권이란, 한 회사에 초과이익이 발생하였을 경우 그 회사의 자본가뿐만 아니라 그 회사의 근로자에게도 초과이익에 대한 기여분만큼 적절한 수준의 배분을 받을 수 있도록 하는 권리를 말한다. 이 이익균점권은 일반적인 생각과 달리 우익계열인 대한노총에서 주도적으로 제안된 권리이다. 이러한 이익균점권이 어떠한 이유와 과정을 거쳐 제헌헌법에 규정되었는지, 만약 재헌법화된다면 어떠한 효과가 있을 것인지를 살펴보는 것은 오늘날 자본주의부작용의 해소방안을 모색하는 데 있어 의미있는 일이라 생각된다.

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Green Chemistry at the present in Korea

  • Lee, Seung-Kyu;Park, Hyeon-Soo
    • Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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    • 제30권sup호
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    • pp.1.1-1.5
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    • 2015
  • Objectives Despite the great contribution made by chemical substances to the development of modern civilization, their indiscriminate use has caused various kinds of damage to the global environment and human beings. Accordingly, the major developed countries and international society have tried to ensure the safe use of chemicals and a reduction in the use of hazardous chemicals through the establishment of the United Nations Environment Programme and various international agreements. In this reason, we tried to introduce about Green Chemistry progress at the present in worldwide and Korea. Methods We checked and analyzed relative journals, reports using keyword as like Green Chemistry, alternative chemicals, eco-friendly etc. and major country's government homepage search. Results Green Chemistry theory, which argues for the reduction or removal of harmfulness in chemicals throughout their entire life-cycle, has been spreading, and major developed countries, such as the US and Denmark, have developed and operate programs to provide reliable chemical information to help replace hazardous chemicals. Korea has also been conducting studies as like eco-innovation project. Through this project the "Alternative Chemical Search program," has been developed, distributed, and operated since 2011 to provide reliable information to small and medium-sized businesses that have difficulties collecting information to ensure conformity to international regulations. The program provides information that includes the regulations of major countries and Korea, information on 340 alternative chemicals, 70 application cases, and 1:1 consulting. Conclusions The Alternative Chemical Search program is expected to contribute to the establishment of response systems for regulation of Korean small and medium-sized businesses, and it also will be used to provide basic data for Korean hazardous chemical regulation, together with the Act on the Registration and Evaluation, etc. of Chemical Substances and the Chemical Control act, making it possible to establish an infrastructure for Green Chemistry in Korea and to increase national competitiveness.

유무선통신망을 이용한 재해감지 자동송출시스템에 관한 연구 - 16bit 마이크로프로세서(Intel 80c196kc) 적용 및 응용 - (A Study on Automatic Transmission System of Disasters Alarm by Using Wire and Wireless Communication Network - Using by 16bit Microprocessor(Intel 80c196kc) Controller -)

  • 곽동걸;최신형;정도영
    • 한국화재소방학회논문지
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    • 제20권1호
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    • pp.23-27
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    • 2006
  • 최근 우리들의 삶은 첨단산업문명의 발전과 더불어 언제 어디서 일어날지 모르는 각종 재해에 대한 안전 불감증을 항상 내재하고 있으며, 나날이 증대되는 화재 및 재해피해 건수는 각종 매스컴을 통해 거의 매일 보도되고 있는 실정이다. 이에 각종 화재 및 재해에 대한 예방 대책마련이 사회적, 시대적 요구에서 무엇보다 시급한 현실이다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 대책의 일환으로 가정, 직장 또는 산업현장, 특히 인적이 없는 장소에서의 예기치 않은 불의의 화재 또는 재해발생시, 재해를 감지하고 기설치된 통신선로 및 무선통신망을 이용하여 사용자에게 긴급 경보신호를 자동으로 송출하는 시스템에 대해 제안된다. 제안된 자동송출시스템은 기존의 시스템과 비교되어 더욱 고정밀, 고속응성의 특성을 가지며 소형경량화에 따른 경제적 이점과 설치의 용이한 장점이 주어진다.

Numerical modelling of internal blast loading on a rock tunnel

  • Zaid, Mohammad;Sadique, Md. Rehan
    • Advances in Computational Design
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    • 제5권4호
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    • pp.417-443
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    • 2020
  • Tunnels have been an integral part of human civilization. Due to complexity in its design and structure, the stability of underground structures under extreme loading conditions has utmost importance. Increased terrorism and geo-political conflicts have forced the engineers and researchers to study the response of underground structures, especially tunnels under blast loading. The present study has been carried out to seek the response of tunnel structures under blast load using the finite element technique. The tunnel has been considered in quartzite rock of northern India. The Mohr-Coulomb constitutive model has been adopted for the elastoplastic behaviour of rock. The rock model surrounding the tunnel has dimensions of 30 m x 30 m x 35 m. Both unlined and lined (concrete) tunnel has been studied. Concrete Damage Plasticity model has been considered for the concrete lining. Four different parameters (i.e., tunnel diameter, liners thickness, overburden depth and mass of explosive) have been varied to observe the behaviour under different condition. To carry out blast analysis, Coupled-Eulerian-Lagrangian (CEL) modelling has been adopted for modelling of TNT (Trinitrotoluene) and enclosed air. JWL (Jones-Wilkins-Lee) model has been considered for TNT explosive modelling. The paper concludes that deformations in lined tunnels follow a logarithmic pattern while in unlined tunnels an exponential pattern has been observed. The stability of the tunnel has increased with an increase in overburden depth in both lined and unlined tunnels. Furthermore, the tunnel lining thickness also has a significant effect on the stability of the tunnel, but in smaller diameter tunnel, the increase in tunnel lining thickness has not much significance. The deformations in the rock tunnel have been decreased with an increase in the diameter of the tunnel.

Himalayan Medicinal Resources: Present and Future. A Case Study: Andidiabetic Activity of Shilajit

  • Basnet, Purusotam
    • Plant Resources
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    • 제4권3호
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    • pp.161-170
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    • 2001
  • A major portion of drugs used in Ayurvedic system of medicine which has been practiced since the early human civilization in Indian subcontinent were of plant origin. It should be noted that 70% of the population in this region depends on Ayurveda for their medical treatment and 60% of the drug resources are obtained from the Himalayan region. Therefore, Nepal becomes a potential source of plant drug resource since it occupies a major portion of the Himalaya. In the present paper, in general a current status of medicinal plant resources of Himalayan region especially Nepal will be discussed. In addition to this, a typical example of antidiabetic activity of Shilajit will be taken for the discussion. Shilajit is one of the crucial elements in several formulations including those of Rasayana, a therapy in Ayurveda, which has been practiced in the prevention of ageing and mental disorder. Although, Shilajit is widely used for the treatment of diabetes, no satisfactory scientific reports are available up to now. The crude Shilajit in the market is a dark brown or black rock-like substance collected from the Himalayan region with a strong smell of cow's stale urine. In our studies, Shilajit (collected in the central Himalayan region) prevented the diabetes in nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice model. Shilajit also prevented the diabetes in the rats against the action of multiple low-dose (10 mg/kg, i.v., 5 times) of streptozotocin. On the other hand, Shilajit did not show antioxidative activity. The preventive action of Shilajit on diabetes is mainly focused on the Thl and Th2 cell activities, since Th2 cells activity was found to be significantly upregulated. Shilajit, however, showed a mild action in controlling the blood sugar level in young, old, and mild diabetic rats, but not in the severe diabetic rats. It also stimulated the nitric oxide production in macrophages. Based on these evidences, the antidiabetic activities of Shilajit appear to be immunomodulative probably by protecting or strengthening insulin-producing b-cells in the pancreas. Further systematic research on constituents of Shilajit and its quality evaluation is necessary to enable the use of natural medicines in the treatment of diabetes.

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Map based cloning of resistance to bacterial leaf blight gene using QTL analysis in rice

  • Du, Xiao-Xuan;Kim, Kyung-Min
    • 한국작물학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국작물학회 2017년도 9th Asian Crop Science Association conference
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    • pp.138-138
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    • 2017
  • Agriculture is the most primitive civilized Activities of mankind but also the propellant of civilization development. Because it is the most basic material goods source of mankind. Among these materials rice is one of the most important part of these, we call them the substance of survival. From the beginning of the agricultural activities to the present we have experienced three industrial revolutions and are experiencing the Fourth Industrial Revolution. With the development of science and technology makes the efficiency of agricultural production is higher and higher, but compared with the original we are facing the same problem: natural disasters; pests and diseases; now also face the depletion of resources, environmental degradation and other issues. Therefore, improve and cultivate new crop varieties to make it better resistance and more production for better develop modern agriculture. It's very helpful for human social development. And also it is the responsibility and task of modern molecular breeding. In this study, I used bacterial leaf blight to find a better resistance gene to improve the resistance of rice. Frist Cultivate k3 of bacterial leaf blight, than inoculation by leaf clipping method (Kauffman,1973) in CNDH and SNDH population at 40days after rice transplanting. Check the lesion length by inoculation plants at 14days after inoculation, and record data for QTL analysis program. Than I get 4 intervals in 3 different chromosomal regions. I found these defense genes in the 4 intervals. So I used NCBI Justbio, Rapdb, etc. to finding these genes in physical map, than design primer for map base cloning. At last these defense genes will be employed in further research for introduction of the gene to the parental plant and rice breeding for solving food crisis.

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패션과 Arte Povera에 표현된 물질성 - 1960년대와 이후 이탈리아 패션을 중심으로 - (A Study about Materialism in Fashion and Arte Povera - Focusing on Italian Fashion in the 1960s and beyond -)

  • 이윤경;김민자
    • 복식
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    • 제59권4호
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    • pp.126-142
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    • 2009
  • Arte Povera, which was started centering around of Italy in 1960, made a great sensation using by base materials in the works that were totally different from other artists' work. Beginning of Arte Povera was just starting of Base Materialism and it was a reconsideration about the life's authenticity in material civilization. Arte Povera carried worthless materials, which were overlook or ignored in the life, into the gallery. In this study, records and Arte Povera Group's works was studied. The outcome of Arte Povera's materialism was used to an analysis of fashion designers' works. It shows how to explain Arte povera's materialism in fashion designers' works in 1960s and since 1990. Materialism in fashion is expanding from constructed materials of the clothing to the body. The expression method is getting various and complex. As if 1960s' art was, modern fashion is getting one of the testing places for the Ideology. It is getting out of the boundary of the utility as fashion art by using materials. So a function of the clothing is expending including wareing. The same expression methods of the materialism between fashion and art are as follow: First, revealing silhouette or materialism of the body or material as formless material. Second, an expression method as Base Materialism from a raw material. Third, the mobility and the transformation, which are a changeable characteristic according to a place, a space and an audience.

"주역참동계"에 나타난 의학사상 연구 (Study on Medical Thought of "Zhouyi Cantongxie(周易參同契)")

  • 임명진;김병수;강정수
    • 대한한의학원전학회지
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    • 제24권5호
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2011
  • According to "Dongeuibogam(東醫寶鑑)", "the Shinnong Herb Bible(神農本草經)", "Chamdonggo(參同攷)", come to the conclusion about medical thought of "the Zhouyi Cantongxie(周易參同契)". Alchemy is a common field both on the eastern and western civilization, but a process of development is different. Ancient chinese alchemist made a study on external alchemy, but harmful consequences of external alchemy was consecutive, many scholars had turned their interest on internal alchemy which is related in human meridian biology and spirit. In the western alchemy has developed to make a study on analytic psychology and science of religion. Most importantly, the eastern and western alchemy have something in common what at the point of the perfection of self is similar, but the name is different, for example in the eastern alchemy we can be immortals and take a spiritual enlightenment with the elixir of life, in the western we can take a cure of souls as a christian. As for internal alchemy, "Cantongxie(參同契)" gives influence to the theories such as the theory of danjeon(lower part of the abdomen), evolution, aging, and life nurturing. Especially, the theory of danjeon shows such merit for studying since it is similar to triple energizers(三焦) and the theory of qi street(氣街) of oriental medicine. The study on "Cantongxie(參同契)" was achieved in Korea too, especially Chosun dynasty. "Candongkao (參同攷)" by Seo Myung-eung(徐命膺, 1716~1787) are representative. According to "Candongkao(參同攷)", Geon(乾), Gon(坤), Gam(坎), and Ri(離), the four trigrams for divination, each are affiliated with lungs, spleen, kidneys, and heart. Nowadays the study on alchemy correspond with modern trends, which are anti-aging and living without any disease. If processed mineral drugs is assured for stability, it can be used for incurable diseases such as cancer.