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Evaluation of the Image of Korean·Chinese Airline Crew's Uniforms (한·중 항공사 승무원 유니폼의 이미지 평가)

  • Shao, Chiqian;Lee, Mi Suk
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.64 no.8
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    • pp.111-123
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this research is to prepare basic data necessary to develop uniform design by examining the uniforms of Korean and Chinese airline crew. Advanced research, various literature materials related to uniform, as well as a survey on the images portrayed by the different uniforms of the airlines were used as research method, and this was used to investigate its functions and components. The survey was conducted in Incheon International Airport and Gwangju airport from September 1st to 30th of 2013, - targeting 350 people consisting of Koreans, Chinese, and other nationalities who have the experience of using Korean and Chinese aircraft. The research findings are summarized as follows. First, the images of the uniforms were classified into 5 elements: attractiveness, activity, noticeability, femininity, and traditionality. The analysis showed that Korean uniforms, except for Jin Air, received high marks overall, while the Chinese uniforms received lower marks compared to their Korean counterparts. Second, the results were analyzed based on the nationality of the respondents. In regards to Korean airline crews, attractiveness, activity, noticeability, femininity, and traditionality showed statistical significance with Korean respondents, while the significance was seen in attractiveness, activity, femininity, and traditionality for the Chinese respondents. Femininity was the only feature with any significance for the third nation respondents. On the other hand, with regard to Chinese airline crew's uniform, Korean respondents showed statistical significance in the following features: attractiveness and traditionality, while the Chinese and the third nation respondents did not show any statistical significance in any of the elements.

Local Adjustment and Geographical Knowledge of Foreign Immigrants in S. Korea (외국인 이주자의 지역사회 적응과 지리적 지식)

  • Choi, Byung-Doo
    • Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.39-63
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    • 2010
  • As foreign immigrants are rapidly increasing, how they without previous knowledge and experience adjust themselves to local circumstances where they come to live becomes a major social issue. In order to analyze their adjustment process, this paper suggests a model which consists of relationships with local environment and people on the one hand, and of geographical knowledge and imagination on the other. The analysis of questionnaire survey based on the conceptual model suggests some findings. As there are considerable differences in the extent of their local adjustment and felt difficulties among immigration types, nationalities, and dwelling regions, foreign immigrants‘ policies should be devised proper for their type and characters.

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Analysis of Trend in Comparative Education Research Related to Curriculum in the 「Korean Journal of Comparative Education」 from Postcolonial Perspectives (탈식민주의 관점에서 본 국내 교육과정 관련 비교교육 연구 동향: 「비교교육연구」 학술지에 게재된 논문을 중심으로)

  • So, Kyung-Hee
    • Korean Journal of Comparative Education
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.23-44
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study is to review the trend in comparative education research related to curriculum published in the Korean Journal of Comparative Education, and to critically analyze its characteristics from the postcolonial perspectives. In this study, I analyzed 61 articles published in this journal from 1995 to 2016. The result showed that comparative studies related to curriculum were conducted mainly by benchmarking policies or contents related to curriculum and textbooks of Western countries including North America and Europe as well as Japan which colonized Korea. In addition, although Korea has been changing into multicultural society, studies on Asian countries such as China and Vietnam which are the nationalities of many foreigners living in Korea were rare. Based on the results, this study suggested that the expansion of comparative education research subjects, overcoming of coloniality in comparative education, and ontological reflection of comparative education researchers are necessary.

A Study on the Adaptation of Korean diet and Utilization of University Foodservice According to the Nationality of International Students in Busan (부산지역 외국인 유학생의 국적에 따른 한국 식생활 적응도 및 대학급식소 이용행태 조사)

  • Hong, Kyung Hee;Lee, Hyun Sook
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.34 no.5
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    • pp.553-566
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    • 2019
  • This study was undertaken to examine the dietary adaptation in Korea, and utilization of university foodservice (UF), according to the nationality of foreign students. The survey was conducted from April to June in 2017, and included 604 subjects studying in a university in Busan. The questionnaire was designed to examine the adaptability to Korean food and the consumption of UF. The nationalities included students from China (63.4%), Vietnam (13.2%), Central Asia (8.9%), Southeast Asia (5.0%), and others (9.4%). Vietnamese and Southeast Asians showed higher adaptation to Korean food than Chinese or Central Asians. The degree of contribution of UF to diet was highest amongst the Chinese, followed by Vietnamese. The main reason for not consuming UF for the Chinese and Southeast Asians was 'lack of menu variety', and for Central Asians was 'no menu that can be eaten, including due to religious reasons'. In order to improve UF, all groups asked for increased 'variety of menu', and Vietnamese and Southeast Asians also asked for 'decrease in price'. In meat, fish, and vegetable menus, there were significant differences in the types and recipes of foods preferred, as per the nationality. These results indicate that different approaches by considering the national characteristics are required, to help international students adapt to Korean food, and to increase their consumption of UF.

ACOX1 destabilizes p73 to suppress intrinsic apoptosis pathway and regulates sensitivity to doxorubicin in lymphoma cells

  • Zheng, Fei-Meng;Chen, Wang-Bing;Qin, Tao;Lv, Li-Na;Feng, Bi;Lu, Yan-Ling;Li, Zuo-Quan;Wang, Xiao-Chao;Tao, Li-Ju;Li, Hong-Wen;Li, Shu-You
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.52 no.9
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    • pp.566-571
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    • 2019
  • Lymphoma is one of the most curable types of cancer. However, drug resistance is the main challenge faced in lymphoma treatment. Peroxisomal acyl-CoA oxidase 1 (ACOX1) is the rate-limiting enzyme in fatty acid ${\beta}$-oxidation. Deregulation of ACOX1 has been linked to peroxisomal disorders and carcinogenesis in the liver. Currently, there is no information about the function of ACOX1 in lymphoma. In this study, we found that upregulation of ACOX1 promoted proliferation in lymphoma cells, while downregulation of ACOX1 inhibited proliferation and induced apoptosis. Additionally, overexpression of ACOX1 increased resistance to doxorubicin, while suppression of ACOX1 expression markedly potentiated doxorubicin-induced apoptosis. Interestingly, downregulation of ACOX1 promoted mitochondrial location of Bad, reduced mitochondrial membrane potential and provoked apoptosis by activating caspase-9 and caspase-3 related apoptotic pathway. Overexpression of ACOX1 alleviated doxorubicin-induced activation of caspase-9 and caspase-3 and decrease of mitochondrial membrane potential. Importantly, downregulation of ACOX1 increased p73, but not p53, expression. p73 expression was critical for apoptosis induction induced by ACOX1 downregulation. Also, overexpression of ACOX1 significantly reduced stability of p73 protein thereby reducing p73 expression. Thus, our study indicated that suppression of ACOX1 could be a novel and effective approach for treatment of lymphoma.

A Recommendation Model based on Character-level Deep Convolution Neural Network (문자 수준 딥 컨볼루션 신경망 기반 추천 모델)

  • Ji, JiaQi;Chung, Yeongjee
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.237-246
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    • 2019
  • In order to improve the accuracy of the rating prediction of the recommendation model, not only user-item rating data are used but also consider auxiliary information of item such as comments, tags, or descriptions. The traditional approaches use a word-level model of the bag-of-words for the auxiliary information. This model, however, cannot utilize the auxiliary information effectively, which leads to shallow understanding of auxiliary information. Convolution neural network (CNN) can capture and extract feature vector from auxiliary information effectively. Thus, this paper proposes character-level deep-Convolution Neural Network based matrix factorization (Char-DCNN-MF) that integrates deep CNN into matrix factorization for a novel recommendation model. Char-DCNN-MF can deeper understand auxiliary information and further enhance recommendation performance. Experiments are performed on three different real data sets, and the results show that Char-DCNN-MF performs significantly better than other comparative models.

Sexism in Moetic Game Azur Lane - Female Character Exposure and Nationality Stereotype in Character's Attire (모에화 게임 벽람항로에 나타난 섹시즘 - 여성 캐릭터 노출도 및 의상에 나타난 국가별 고정관념)

  • Song, Doo Heon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2019.05a
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    • pp.232-235
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    • 2019
  • In recent years, Japanese style Chinese Moe-tic Ship personification games have enjoyed success in Korean game market - starting from 'Girl's Frontier' in 2017 to recent 'Azur Lane' in 2018. Their 'all female' characters have overly sexual appearance thus young male adults/adolescents are main consumers of the genre. In this paper, we investigate all 300+ character skins of the game 'Azur Lane' on how much their character illustrates have sexual exposure of the female body for the sexism and how their standard attire have different patterns with respect to the affiliated nationalities. We report that the sexual exposure is highly related to the payable skins including swim suits and there exists some sexual stereotype in characters' attire. Japanese and Chinese characters emphasize their traditional Chipao and Kimono. Japanese also wore school uniforms. German characters wore uniforms the most and many British characters wore maiden uniform. Although this game is classified as adult game, its overly sexualized female characters are harmful for young adults to cause sexual objectification of females.

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Changes in microbial population and chemical composition of corn stover during field exposure and effects on silage fermentation and in vitro digestibility

  • Sun, Lin;Wang, Zhijun;Gentu, Ge;Jia, Yushan;Hou, Meiling;Cai, Yimin
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.32 no.6
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    • pp.815-825
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    • 2019
  • Objective: To effectively use corn stover resources as animal feed, the changes in microbial population and chemical composition of corn stover during field exposure, and their silage fermentation and in vitro digestibility were studied. Methods: Corn cultivars (Jintian, Jinnuo, and Xianyu) stovers from 4 random sections of the field were harvested at the preliminary dough stage of maturity on September 2, 2015. The corn stover exposed in the field for 0, 7, 15, 30, 60, 90, and 180 d, and their silages at 60 d of ensiling were used for the analysis of microbial population, chemical composition, fermentation quality, and in vitro digestibility. Data were analyzed with a completely randomized $3{\times}6$ [corn stover cultivar $(C){\times}exposure$ d (D)] factorial treatment design. Analysis of variance was performed using SAS ver. 9.0 software (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA). Results: Aerobic bacteria were dominant population in fresh corn stover. After ensiling, the lactic acid bacteria (LAB) became the dominant bacteria, while other microbes decreased or dropped below the detection level. The crude protein (CP) and water-soluble carbohydrate (WSC) for fresh stover were 6.74% to 9.51% and 11.75% to 13.21% on a dry matter basis, respectively. After exposure, the CP and WSC contents decreased greatly. Fresh stover had a relatively low dry matter while high WSC content and LAB counts, producing silage of good quality, but the dry stover did not. Silage fermentation inhibited nutrient loss and improved the fermentation quality and in vitro digestibility. Conclusion: The results confirm that fresh corn stover has good ensiling characteristics and that it can produce silage of good quality.

Missing Data Modeling based on Matrix Factorization of Implicit Feedback Dataset (암시적 피드백 데이터의 행렬 분해 기반 누락 데이터 모델링)

  • Ji, JiaQi;Chung, Yeongjee
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.495-507
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    • 2019
  • Data sparsity is one of the main challenges for the recommender system. The recommender system contains massive data in which only a small part is the observed data and the others are missing data. Most studies assume that missing data is randomly missing from the dataset. Therefore, they only use observed data to train recommendation model, then recommend items to users. In actual case, however, missing data do not lost randomly. In our research, treat these missing data as negative examples of users' interest. Three sample methods are seamlessly integrated into SVD++ algorithm and then propose SVD++_W, SVD++_R and SVD++_KNN algorithm. Experimental results show that proposed sample methods effectively improve the precision in Top-N recommendation over the baseline algorithms. Among the three improved algorithms, SVD++_KNN has the best performance, which shows that the KNN sample method is a more effective way to extract the negative examples of the users' interest.

Foreign Students' Use of Dental Treatment and Dental Institutions Study on Selection Criteria (외국인 유학생의 치과진료 이용실태와 치과의료기관 선택기준에 관한 연구)

  • Shim, Youn-Soo;An, So-Youn;Park, So-Young
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.11 no.7
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    • pp.172-180
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    • 2021
  • This study was carried out to provide basic data for improving oral health management plans by identifying the actual conditions of dental treatment use and criteria for selecting dental medical institutions for foreign students. The survey method was a survey of 145 foreign students at S University, and the collected data was conducted with the SPSS 24.0 program. As a result of the analysis, dental caries treatment was the most common among all nationalities in the dental experience. When the oral health education program was important, the will to use dental treatment in the future was positive. Therefore, in the future, it is required to revitalize oral health education programs and provide health care information for foreign students.