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Research Methodology for Korean Engineers (한국 엔지니어 연구방법론의 고찰)

  • Han, Kyonghee
    • Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.181-232
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    • 2018
  • To explore the history of Korean engineers, one must navigate the field answering to the question of who engineers are. This is not an easy task because, behind the English expression of engineer, there are various names and even histories pertaining to technology related actors in East Asian countries including South Korea, and the meaning and status of these names are different from one another. Thus, the process and method of answering to the question of who engineers are becomes the path to understanding the history of Korean engineers. This study, therefore, attempts to suggest research questions that should be raised to study Korean engineers and to find research methodology suited for addressing those questions. Until now, not enough efforts have been made to create and expand interdisciplinary discussions and contacts for this area of study. This study has some theoretical difficulties of having to combine concepts with different problematique. Nevertheless, it aims to discuss how to conduct research, what questions should be posed to analyze the construction of Korean engineers and what research methodologies are suitable for such research, based on previous researches conducted in the field of social science. Answers to the quest are sought through genealogy, conceptual history, actor-network theory, and the notion of techno-national formation.

The Relationship between Factors of Metabolic Syndrome in Korean Adult Males and the Parents' Family History of Diabetes (한국 성인 남자의 대사증후군 인자와 부모의 당뇨병 가족력 관계)

  • Park, Hyung-Su;Jeong, Jin-Gyu;Yu, Jin-Ho
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.779-784
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    • 2013
  • This study aims to look into the relationship between the parents's family history of diabetes and factors of metabolic syndrome focusing on Korean adult males with a family history of diabetes. The data used for the study was collected from the 2010 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The subjects of the study totaled 2,045. For statistical analysis, double sampling general linear regression was used and the statistical significance was p<0.05. As a result of a multi-variate analysis with general characteristics corrected, the following was discovered: when fathers had a family history of diabetes, girth increased by 2.5cm, fasting blood sugar(glu) increased by 9.6mg/dL and neutral fat increased by 41.6mg/dL When the mothers had a family history of diabetes, girth increased by 2.4cm, fasting blood sugar(glu) increased by 15.4mg/dL, and the neutral fat increased by 27.2mg/dL. In conclusion, when the fathers had a family history of diabetes, their children's girth, fasting blood sugar and neutral fat were significantly higher, and when the mothers had a family history of diabetes, their children's girth and fasting blood sugar were significantly higher.

The Minority's struggle for recognition in the life history of Korean-Chinese female leaders (재한 중국동포 여성단체장의 생애사에 나타난 소수자의 인정투쟁)

  • Huang, Haiying;Kim, Youngsoon
    • Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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    • v.7 no.9
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    • pp.509-518
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the experience of recognition struggle, which is a positive interaction with Korean society, through the life history research of the researcher ' The study was conducted as a narrative - life history analysis method. Life history data were collected through in-depth interviews. As a result of the study, the lifetime of the life history research subject, as a result of the constant challenge, considered Korea as the opportunity land and voluntarily migrated to Korea. He can analyze Korea as a fierce life to gain recognition by utilizing positive adaptation strategies. In other words, through the positive interaction of recognition struggle, he negotiated with the mainstream society and established his identity through positive experiences. In addition, through group activities, we have endeavored to protect the rights of the individual as well as the whole society and to improve the image and to integrate with the mainstream society. Through this reconstruction of life history, we can understand the life situation of Chinese leaders and know about the qualities they want to receive in Korean society. Therefore, it is suggested that this reconstruction of life history implies social welfare practice.

Evolutionary history of the monospecific Compsopogon genus (Compsopogonales, Rhodophyta)

  • Nan, Fangru;Feng, Jia;Lv, Junping;Liu, Qi;Xie, Shulian
    • ALGAE
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.303-315
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    • 2016
  • Compsopogon specimens collected in China were examined based on morphology and DNA sequences. Five molecular markers from different genome compartments including rbcL, COI, 18S rDNA, psbA, and UPA were identified and used to construct a phylogenetic relationship. Phylogenetic analyses indicated that two different morphological types from China clustered into an independent clade with Compsopogon specimens when compared to other global samples. The Compsopogon clade exhibited robust support values, revealing the affiliation of the samples to Compsopogon caeruleus. Although the samples were distributed in a close geographical area, unexpected sequence divergences between the Chinese samples implied that they were introduced by different dispersal events and from varied origins. It was speculated that Compsopogon originated in North America, a portion of the Laurentia landmass situated in the Rodinia supercontinent at approximately 573.89-1,701.50 million years ago during the Proterozoic era.Although Compsopogonhad evolved for a rather long time, genetic conservation had limited its variability and rate of evolution, resulting in the current monospecific global distribution. Additional global specimens and sequence information were required to increase our understanding of the evolutionary history of this ancient red algal lineage.

A study on science and mathematics articles in Hansungsunbo and Hansungjubo (한성순보와 한성주보의 과학.수학 관련 기사에 관한 고찰)

  • Lee, Kyung-Eon;Shin, Hyun-Yong
    • The Mathematical Education
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    • v.48 no.3
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    • pp.265-285
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    • 2009
  • In this study, we investigate the science and mathematics articles in Hansungsunbo and Hansungjubo which are the first modernistic newspapers in Korea. Hansungsunbo was published from October 31, 1883 to December 4, 1884 and Hansungjubo was issued from January 25, 1886 to July, 1888. While these papers were published, Korea had concluded a treaty with America(1882), England(1883), Germany(1883), Russia, and France(1884). Therefore, Korea had a lot of problems with commercial relations, the civilization and enlightenment of the Korean society. In this situation, some leaders who had the enlightenment thought published these two papers in order to inform the Korean people of the worldwide news on the politics, economy, history, science and technology, and so on. In this paper, we bring up the title and the contents on the science articles and the mathematics test problems of 'Dongmoonguan' and 'Chunjinmoobi School'.

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History and Archives : Colleagues or Strangers? (역사학과 기록학 학문의 인연, 학제의 괴리)

  • OH, Hang-Nyeong
    • The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
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    • no.54
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    • pp.179-210
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    • 2017
  • By redefining the concept of history, my colleagues and I have reformed our department in terms of curriculum and faculty members. This paper is a report of some of the conclusions that we have obtained from this procedure. Despite a long relationship, two disciplines do not seem to match or complement each other in the Korean education system. We believe that this is due to the fact that the Department of Korean History has focused on "national history (NH)." By conferring a privilege on NH, persons, families, societies, regions, and others were removed from NH. To make matters worse, a biased view that history is just an interpretation has prevailed, and the empiricism of history was weakened, which brought about an indifference in keeping records and archives. In East Asia, "history" means both modern history and archives. The concern about the authenticity of records did not come from H. Jenkinson or L. Duranti, and not even from the electronic environment or the Public Records Act of 1998. Key concepts such as records, documents-archives, manuscripts, authenticity, compilation-appraisal, arrangement, and description are different from their signifiant but are same or similar to their $signifi{\acute{e}}$. In case of "provenance" and "original order," they are used in education and practice in the traditional archives. History includes the recording, archiving, and the story or historiography of an event. In this context, the Department of Korean History should contain a more archives-oriented curriculum and select an archival-trained faculty. On the other hand, the department has accumulated long-term experience with appraisal and description of records; thus, archival science should absorb the criticism of the material. History will be shaken without the help of archives, while archives will lose their root without history. We are at the point in which we need to be reminded why we want to be a historian or an archivist, and for this, the more colleagues, the better.

Infrared Spectro-Photomeric Survey Missions: NISS & SPHEREx

  • Jeong, Woong-Seob;Yang, Yujin;Park, Sung-Joon;Pyo, Jeonghyun;Kim, Minjin;Moon, Bongkon;Lee, Dae-Hee;Park, Won-Kee;Park, Young-Sik;Jo, Youngsoo;Kim, Il-Joong;Ko, Jongwan;Seo, Hyun Jong;Ko, Kyeongyeon;Kim, Seongjae;Hwang, Hoseong;Song, Yong-Seon;Lee, Jeong-Eun;Im, Myungshin;Matsumoto, Toshio
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.57.2-57.2
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    • 2019
  • The NISS (Near-infrared Imaging Spectrometer for Star formation history) onboard NEXTSat-1 was successfully launched on last December and is now under the operation phase. The capability of both imaging and spectroscopy is a unique function of the NISS. It has realized the imaging spectroscopy (R~20) with a wide field of view of $2{\times}2deg$. in a wide near-infrared range from 0.95 to $2.5{\mu}m$. The major scientific mission is to study the cosmic star formation history in the local and distant universe. It also demonstrated the space technologies related to the infrared spectro-photometry in space. The NISS is performing the imaging spectroscopic survey for local star-forming galaxies, clusters of galaxies, star-forming regions, ecliptic deep fields and so on. As an extension of the NISS, the SPEHREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) was selected as the NASA MIDEX (Medium-class Explorer) mission (PI Institute: Caltech). As an international partner, KASI will participate in the development and the science for SPHEREx. It will perform the first all-sky infrared spectro-photometric survey to probe the origin of our Universe, to explore the origin and evolution of galaxies, and to explore whether planets around other stars could harbor life. Compared to the NISS, the SPHEREx is designed to have a much wider FoV of $3.5{\times}11.3deg$. as well as wider spectral range from 0.75 to $5.0{\mu}m$. Here, we introduce the status of the two space missions.

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Evolution of Social Life in Wood-Eating Cockroaches (Cryptocercus spp.) : Effects of the Winter Climate on the Evolution of Subsociality

  • Park, Yung-Chul;Choe, Jae-Chun
    • Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.97-105
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    • 2008
  • Subsocial behavior of the genus Cryptocercus cockroaches has been believed as primitive traits of termite eusociality. Thus, it has been believed that understanding Cryptocercus subsociality is a pre-requisite stage to infer evolutionary route of the eusociality in termites. Woodroaches of Cryptocercus are also well known because of its peculiar characteristics including adults living monogamously in pairs, semelparous reproduction, xylophagy, obligatory association between adults and their offspring, slow development, and anal trophallaxis by adults. Based on the previously accumulated data, we try to understand two major components of Cryptocercus life history, development and reproduction. We hypothesize that harsh winter and length of winter might be one of the main causes driving the appearance of the delayed development and semelparous reproduction in Cryptocercus life history.

WISET Fellow Mentoring Program from KISTI: History and Future Using Complementary Online and Offline System Based on Effective Matching Process

  • Ahn, Sul-Ah;Cho, Hyeyoung
    • Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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    • 2014.06a
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    • pp.239-240
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    • 2014
  • Researchers in KISTI have been participating in the WISET Fellow Mentoring program since 2009 [1]. We describe the history and future of WISET Fellow Mentoring program from KISTI. We have communicated with mentees more freely and effectively using complementary online and offline system. In addition, we designed a automated matching process in order to help mentors and mentees to begin mentoring with satisfaction [2-6]. In the future, we plan to use our automated matching process for matching candidate mentors and mentees in order to obtain more satisfaction in mentoring.

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A Brief Review on Mathematicians' Influence on the Initial Developments of Computers (컴퓨터 발전 초기과정에 영향을 준 수학자들에 관한 고찰)

  • Lee, Seung-Woo
    • Journal for History of Mathematics
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.299-310
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    • 2014
  • Computer is a modern day invention integrated with mathematics, engineering, and logics. The purpose of this study is to examine mathematicians' roles and influences on the invention, establishment, and developments of computers, particularly in the areas of hardware and software, and to emphasize the importance of mathematics on the computer sciences. To implement these purposes, this study firstly examines the mathematicians based on the period. Secondly from the mathematicians' roles in the development of programming, the correlation between mathematics and computers has been investigated. Finally, mathematicians who gave influence on establishing the current development of computer science are highlighted.