The 2008 Candlelight Protests of Korea was very significant to portray the political environment among the South Korean youth. Many challenges and new advanced technologies have driven the youth community to be engaged in the political arena that has shifted them from traditional Korean youth to a very greater community. Due to historical perspective with the people of North Korea, the young ge...

Directional asymmetry is a well-documented phenomenon in research on similarity, metaphor, and analogy. In . this paper, we present an account of this phenomenon based on structural alignment . We propose that a major source of asymmetry is coherence imbalance : that is, a difference in the degree of systematicity of the relational structures being compared. These claims are tested in three exp...

1 School of Mathematics and Information Sciences, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou 450011, China 2 Department of Mathematics and the RINS, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-701, Republic of Korea 3 Department of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 32901, USA 4 Mathematics and Statistics Department, King Fahd Univer...

1Department of Human and Information Systems, Faculty of Engineering, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu 501-1193, Japan 2Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of North Florida, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA 3Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang University, Mapoku, Seoul 121-742, Republic of Korea 4 Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique, Univ...

The greater horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum, is an important model organism for studies on chiropteran phylogeographic patterns. Previous studies revealed the population history of R. ferrumequinum from Europe and most Asian regions, yet there continue to be arguments about their evolutionary process in Northeast Asia. In this study, we obtained mitochondrial DNA cyt b and D-loop data ...

1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 205 North Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801, U.S.A. 2School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, 134 Sinchon-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Korea 3Tecgraf/PUC-Rio Computer Science Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rua Marquês de São Vicente 225, Rio de Janei...

Novel reassortant swine H1N2 influenza viruses were isolated from pigs in a commercial slaughterhouse in the Republic of Korea. Genome sequence analyses revealed that these isolates contain segments from Eurasian avian-like swine (hemagglutinin [HA]), Korean swine H1N2 (neuraminidase [NA]), and North American H3N2pM-like (remaining genes) viruses. Further characterization is needed to gauge the...

This study investigated the German experience in the transition to a unified health care system and suggests the following implications for Korea. First, Germany could have made use of the unification process better if there had been a good road map. Therefore Korea must develop a well prepared road map that considers all possible situations. Second, Germany saw an opportunity for the improveme...

This paper analyzes English symmetrical predicates such as collide and match. Its point of departure is an analysis of the concept 'similar' from Tversky (1977) that appears to show that similarity is psychologically asymmetrical. One basis for this claim from Tversky is that the sentences North Korea is similar to Red China and Red China is similar to North Korea are assessed as differing in m...

Aedes japonicus japonicus (Theobald) (Diptera: Culicidae) has recently expanded beyond its native range of Japan and Korea into large parts of North America and Central Europe. Population genetic studies begun immediately after the species was detected in North America revealed genetically distinct introductions that subsequently merged, likely contributing to the successful expansion. Interact...