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A Study on Interdisciplinary Understanding of Modern Science Culture - Focusing on Case Study of 'STS Course' (현대 과학문화의 간학문적 이해에 대한 연구 - '과학기술과 사회' 교양강좌 사례분석을 중심으로)

  • Kim Dong-Kwang
    • Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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    • v.4 no.2 s.8
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    • pp.33-66
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    • 2004
  • In these days, science is too complex and comprehensive scientific practices to be reduced to scientific knowledge. Also it's actors go beyond the limit of scientist society to the broad range of supporting system scientific journalism, education, and business. Science is very important cultural practice of our times. This Study focus on the effect of interdisciplinary approach in understanding modern science culture. First, this paper suggest the approach of public understanding of science(PUS) as a framework PUS has provided new perspectives for the relation of scientific knowledge and understanding. Traditional approach(so-called 'deficit model') regarded understanding as mere transportation of scientific knowledge. So it may be called 'knowledge-oriented approach' to understanding. But PUS consider understanding process of 'dynamic reconstructing' which is occurred in complex socio-cultural context. Second, this article analysis the Korea University STS course(2002-2003) 'Science Technology & Society' as the case study. The case study examine how interdisciplinary approach help students to understand 'sciene in the making'.

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Sex Differences in Cerebellar Structure of Healthy Adults (정상 성인에서 남녀의 소뇌 구조 차이)

  • Kim, Ji-Hyun H.;Bae, Su-Jin;Ryu, Keun-Taik;Kang, Min-Seong;Lim, Soo-Mee;Lee, Sun-Ho;Lee, So-Jin;Ko, Eun;Jeong, Do-Un
    • Korean Journal of Biological Psychiatry
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.77-83
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    • 2012
  • Objectives : Although there have been studies that examine sex differences of the brain structures using magnetic resonance imaging, studies that specifically investigate cerebellar structural differences between men and women are scarce. The purpose of current study was to examine sex differences in structures of the cerebellum using cerebellar template and cerebellum analysis methods. Methods : Sixteen men and twenty women were included in the study. A MATLAB based program (MathWorks, Natick, MA, USA), Statistical Parametric Mapping 5 (SPM5) using the spatially unbiased infra-tentorial atlas template (SUIT) as the cerebellum template, was used to analyze the brain imaging data. Results : There was no significant difference in age between men (mean age=28.1) and women (mean age=27.2). Men showed higher gray matter density than women in two left cerebellar areas including the clusters in the lobules IV and V (a cluster located across the lobules IV and V), and the lobule VIIIb (lobules IV and V, t=4.75, p<0.001 ; lobule VIIIb, t=3.08, p=0.004). Conclusions : The current study found differences in cerebellar gray matter density between men and women. The current study holds its significance for applying the template specifically developed for the analysis of cerebellum.

Analyzing the Research Fronts of Women's Studies in Korea Using Citation Image Makers Profiling (인용 이미지 구축자 프로파일링을 이용한 국내 여성학 분야 연구 전선 분석)

  • Kim, Jo-Ah;Lee, Jae Yun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.201-225
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    • 2016
  • A new technique for revealing the research fronts of a interdisciplinary discipline has been developed. Citation image makers profiling (CIMP) determines the relationships between research papers with the title words of the citing documents. We adapted this new technique to analyze the research fronts and hot topics in women's studies of Korea. By Korean Citation Index (KCI) data in 2015, we selected 148 papers cited more than 9 times as the core documents of women's studies. Analysis of intellectual structure using citation image makers profiling was performed with the 148 core documents and those citing papers. Document co-citation analysis was hindered by citation data sparsity, while CIMP method successfully revealed the structure of research fronts of Korean women's studies including 2 divisions and 6 subdivisions. The CIMP method suggested in this study has good potential to discover the characteristics of research fronts of interdisciplinary research domains.

IN SEARCH OF PEACE ON THE SILK ROAD: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE

  • TOKSOZ, ITIR
    • Acta Via Serica
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.7-30
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    • 2017
  • Looking beyond the assumptions and arguments of commercial liberalism, which sees economic interdependence and cooperation as fostering peace, this paper demonstrates that peace as an ideal can be found in various theories of international politics. The author finds the commercial liberal perspective to peace to be too narrow to explain the opportunities and challenges posed along the Silk Road and proposes to look at the peace narrative on the Silk Road through the lens of other approaches to peace, including the more interdisciplinary field of peace studies, for a more comprehensive picture.

An Attempt for Constructing a New Paradigm of Home Economics - Ecological Approach and An Integrative Model - (가정학의 새로운 패러다임 구축을 위한 시론 II-통합적 모형)

  • Yoo Young-Ju;Sohn Jung-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.37 no.12 s.142
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    • pp.179-192
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    • 1999
  • Thesedays, Home Economic in Korea is faced with the danger of a discord caused by the outer pressure of reorganization in the process educational reformation. The first purpose of this study was to examine the characteristics of the informatized society and the changes of families lived in the informatized society. The second was to assert to strengthen Home Economics in the informatized society. Ultimately we suggested an integrative and interdisciplinary model about Home Economics from the ecological and informative perspective. This model consist with three parts: Human development(Child studies, Gerontology, & Adolescent studies) and family studies division(Family relation studies, family resource management studies, & Consumer studies) Environmental division(Clothing and Textiles, Food and Nutrition, & Housing) and HEIS(Home Economics Information System). This classification is correspond with the one Human-Behavioral Environment and Human-Constructed Environment of Ecological theory.

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East Asian Seas Time-series I (EAST-I) (동해 해류 및 환경 특성 연구 (EAST-I))

  • Chang, Kyung-Il;Kang, Chang-Keun;Kang, Dong-Jin
    • Ocean and Polar Research
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.267-268
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    • 2010
  • Many countries has been interested in studying the East Sea to look ahead into the world oceans' future, since the East Sea has been known as a miniature ocean. In this respect, PICES decided the East Asian Seas Time-series (EAST) studies, and the East Sea as the first subject (EAST-I). Since 2006 Ministry of Land, Transport & Maritime Affairs, Korea has supported the Korean EAST-I program. Through the Korean EAST-I program, 44 research papers were published in various scientific journals. This special issue contains 6 research articles including results from the interdisciplinary observation in the summer, 2008. Those articles cover the entire East Sea from the Korea Strait to the Japan Basin, and also cover the studies of the euphotic layer to the bottom sediment. MLTM and KIMST have provided full support to EAST-I program. KHOA carried out the joint cruises in the Ulleung Basin. Those are deeply appreciated. Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to the editorial board of Ocean & Polar Research.