A Comparative Study of Compliment Responses between Chinese and Korean EFL Learners

Zhang, In-Jun 부산외국어대학교 외국어연구소 2021 외국어연구 Vol.34 No.-

This study focused on investigating the similarities and differences between Chinese and Korean L2 learners shows that there’s no universal pattern that can be used to describe the two groups’ CRs. Both the two groups response to compliments in the following preference sequence, Accept, Evade and Reject. As for micro levels, Chinese L2 learners made more use of Accept strategies while Korean L2 learners used Evade more. Due to different second language acquisition methods, Chinese L2 learners showed to have a more direct attitude towards accepting compliments. However, there are still some limitations in this study. First, the sample of participants is a little bit small. Based on Tang and Zhang’s study (2009), there are people who prefer to use Reject. However, in this study, there were no Reject responses among all the Chinese L2 learners’ replies. This, to some degree, may influence the results and comparative analyses of the two groups. Second, before the DCT, the background survey asked the participants whether they had experiences of being in English speaking countries and why they came there. However, this variable is not analyzed in the study. Since there is no standard criterion for personal experience, it’s difficult to know how much personal experience will influence participants’ expressions. Finally, although the DCT is designed as short as possible, it’s undeniable that it still takes participants some time to finish it. Whether the participant expresses all he/she wants to or not is hard to know and this is also a possible variable that has influences on the experimental data. Further research on the CRs of Chinese L2 learners and Korean L2 learners needs a more sophisticated and accurate experiment design and I hope this study, though imperfect, can be of some help to relevant research. Key words: EFL. compliment response, speech act

객체 관계형 데이타베이스 관리 시스템을 이용한 디지털 앨범의 설계 및 구현

이준서,장염승,한기준 건국대학교 산업기술연구원 2000 건국기술연구논문지 Vol.25 No.-

As the storage capacity of a computer system is rapidly increasing and the cost of computer hardware is decreasing continuously, users can easily manage multimedia data on the personal computer. Especially, various image view programs are widely used to manage image files at the present time. However, since most of these programs do not use a database management system(DBMS), it is very difficult for users to use them efficiently. In this paper, we designed and implemented a Digital Album by using an object-relational database management system, called PARODY(Persistent, Almost, Relational Object Database sYstem) that implements a persistent object database with a relatively simple interface to its C++ class library. Since PARODY is used as a data storage manager of the Digital Album, users can manage(i.e., insert, update, and delete) an image database and search for the required image data from the image database easily. In addition, we use OWL(Object Windows Library) of Borland C++ to implement the user interface of the Digital Album efficiently.

論中國傳統企業效率問題

康 埈 荣,张守鑫 韓國外國語大學校 外國學綜合硏究센터 中國硏究所 2005 中國硏究 Vol.35 No.-

A New ent-Kaurane type Diterpenoid Glycoside from Inula japonica Thunb

Jiang Jiang Qin,Jia Xian Zhu,Wei Dong Zhang1,2,Yan Zhu,Jian Jun Fu,Xiao Hua Liu,Hui Zi Jin 대한약학회 2009 Archives of Pharmacal Research Vol.32 No.10

A new ent-kaurane type diterpenoid glycoside, 17-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl-16α-ent-kauran-19-oic acid (1), together with 17-hydroxy-16α-ent-kauran-19-oic acid (2), 16α,17-dihydroxyl-ent-kauran-19-oic acid (3), and 16α-hydroxy-17-acetoxy-ent- kauran-19-oic acid (4) were isolated from the aerial parts of Inula japonica Thunb. The structure of 1 was determined mainly by use of 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopic techniques including HSQC, 1H-1H COSY, HMBC, and NOESY. In addition, 4 exhibited significant inhibitory activity on NO production in LPS-stimulated RAW264.7 cells with IC50 value of 14.3 μg/mL.

Macrophages Promote Coal Tar Pitch Extract-induced Tumorigenesis of BEAS-2B Cells and Tumor Metastasis in Nude Mice Mediated by AP-1

Zhang, Peng,Jin, Yue-Fei,Zhang, Qiao,Wu, Yi-Ming,Wu, Wei-Dong,Yao, Wu,Wu, Yong-Jun,Li, Zhi-Tao,Zhao, Yong,Liu, Yu,Feng, Fei-Fei Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2014 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.15 No.12

Background: We sought to evaluate the role of tumor associated macrophages (TAMs) on the promotion of coal tar pitch extract (CTPE)-induced tumorigenesis of human bronchial epithelial cells (BEAS-2B) and tumor metastasis in nude mice, and related mechanisms. Materials and Methods: BEAS-2B cells were first treated with 2.4 mg/mL CTPE for 72 hours. After removal of CTPE, the cells were continuously cultured and passaged using trypsin-EDTA. THP-1 cells were used as macrophage-like cells. BEAS-2B cells under different conditions (n=6/group) were injected into the back necks of nude mice, and alterations of tumor xenograft growth, indicative of tumorigenicity, and tumor metastasis were determined. Pathological changes (tumor nests and microvascular lesions) of HE-stained tumor tissues were also evaluated. The expression of AP-1(c-Jun) in xenografts and metastatic tumors was determined using immunohistochemistry. Results: Tumor size and weight in nude mice transplanted with the mixture of CTPE-induced passage 30 BEAS-2B and THP-1 cells (2:1) were increased compared to those from the CTPE-treated BEAS-2B cells at passage 30 alone at different observation time points. Tumor metastasis to lymph nodes and liver was only detected after transplantation of a mixture the two kinds of cells. The numbers of tumor nests and microvascular lesions, and the expression levels of AP-1 (c-Jun) in tumors from the mixture of two kinds of cells were increased apparently in contrast to those in tumor from the CTPE-treated BEAS-2B cells of passage 30 alone. In addition, there was positive correlation between AP-1 (c-Jun) expression level and the number of microvascular lesions, or between AP-1 (c-Jun) expression level and tumor metastasis in these two groups. Conclusions: TAMs not only facilitate tumorigenesis transformation of CTPE-induced BEAS-2B cells, but also promote tumor growth, angiogenesis and metastasis in nude mice in vivo, which may be mediated by AP-1.

Formation of Magnetic Graphene Nanosheets for Rapid Enrichment and Separation of Methyl Orange from Water

Zhang, Feng-Jun,Zhang, Zhuo,Xie, Fa-Zhi,Xuan, Han,Xia, Hong-Chen,Zhu, Lei,Oh, Won-Chun The Korean Ceramic Society 2014 한국세라믹학회지 Vol.51 No.6

Magnetic-graphene nanosheets have been synthesized via a simple effective chemical precipitation method followed by heat treatment. The composite nanosheets are super paramagnetic at room temperature and can be separated by an external magnetic field. The prepared magnetic-graphene nanosheets were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Raman spectroscopy, and BET surface area analysis. The results demonstrated the successful attachment of iron oxide nanoparticles to graphene nanosheets. It was found that the attached nanoparticles were mainly $Fe_3O_4$. The magnetic-graphene nanosheets showed near complete methyl orange removal within 10 mintues and would be practically usable for methyl orange separation from water.

Study on the Mechanical Properties and Microstructure of Geogrid Under Different Materials and Temperatures

Junli Gao,Haibing Zhang,Xuelei Xie,Yapo Zhang 한국섬유공학회 2022 Fibers and polymers Vol.23 No.6

In response to the environmental problems caused by the difficulty of direct degradation of the raw materials usedin traditional geogrids and the impact of different temperatures on the mechanical properties of geogrids in practicalengineering applications, based on 3D printing technology, polylactic acid (PLA), carbon fiber reinforced polylactic acid(PLA/CF), and thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) geogrids were fabricated. The 3D printed geogrids and the fiberglassgeogrids used in the actual project were tested in indoor tensile tests under different temperature conditions. The mechanicalproperties of the geogrids of the four kinds of materials and six kinds of temperature were analyzed. The microstructure of thegeogrids after tensile tests was investigated based on scanning electron microscopy technology to further analyze the effectsof different materials and temperatures on the mechanical properties of the geogrids. The results showed that the tensilestrength of PLA/CF geogrids and PLA geogrids decreased with increasing temperature. The tensile strength of fiberglassgeogrids increased with rising temperatures. The tensile strength of PLA/CF geogrids was significantly better than PLAgeogrids. Due to the addition of carbon fiber in PLA, PLA/CF can bear more tensile force at high temperatures. With theincrease of temperature, the elongation at break of PLA/CF geogrids and fiberglass geogrids increased, but the elongation atbreak of PLA geogrids decreased. The elongation at break of PLA/CF geogrids was significantly lower than that of PLAgeogrids. TPU geogrids had high tensile capacity in a high-temperature environment, and they also had high elasticity andmore significant elongation at break, which was not suitable to be used as geogrid material.

Clinical Significance of SH2B1 Adaptor Protein Expression in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Zhang, Hang,Duan, Chao-Jun,Chen, Wei,Wang, Shao-Qiang,Zhang, Sheng-Kang,Dong, Shuo,Cheng, Yuan-Da,Zhang, Chun-Fang Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2012 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.13 No.5

The SH2B1 adaptor protein is recruited to multiple ligand-activated receptor tyrosine kinases that play important role in the physiologic and pathologic features of many cancers. The purpose of this study was to assess SH2B1 expression and to explore its contribution to the non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods: SH2B1 expression in 114 primary NSCLC tissue specimens was analyzed by immunohistochemistry and correlated with clinicopathological parameters and patients' outcome. Additionally, 15 paired NSCLC background tissues, 5 NSCLC cell lines and a normal HBE cell line were evaluated for SH2B1 expression by RT-PCR and immunoblotting, immunofluorescence being applied for the cell lines. Results: SH2B1 was found to be overexpressed in NSCLC tissues and NSCLC cell lines. More importantly, high SH2B1 expression was significantly associated with tumor grade, tumor size, clinical stage, lymph node metastasis, and recurrence respectively. Survival analysis demonstrated that patients with high SH2B1 expression had both poorer disease-free survival and overall survival than other patients. Multivariate Cox regression analysis revealed that SH2B1 overexpression was an independent prognostic factor for patients with NSCLC. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that the SH2B1 protein may contribute to the malignant progression of NSCLC and could offer a novel prognostic indicator for patients with NSCLC.

Efficient and Cost-effective Production of D-p-hydroxyphenylglycine by Whole-cell Bioconversion

Junli Zhang,Zhen Cai 한국생물공학회 2014 Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering Vol.19 No.1

D-p-hydroxyphenylglycine (D-HPG) is a widelyused intermediate for the synthesis of semi-synthetic antibiotics. It can be produced from DL-5-p-hydroxyphenylhydantointhrough two sequential enzymatic reactions catalyzed byD-hydantoinase and N-carbamoylase. However, the lowproductivity and high production cost of the currentprocess significantly limit its industrial application. To setup an efficient and cost-effective whole-cell bioconversionprocess for D-HPG production, a recombinant E. coli strainwas constructed by co-expressing D-hydantoinase and Ncarbamoylasefrom Agrobacterium sp. Then a cheapmedium formulation, which uses glycerol and corn steepliquor (CSL) as carbon and nitrogen sources and withoutaddition of any foreign inducer, was developed for highlevel of enzyme expression. Galactose, melibiose, andraffinose in CSL were found to be capable of inducing T7promoter. Moreover, this CSL-containing cheap mediumexhibited higher expression levels than the traditionalLB+IPTG medium for several different enzymes tested,indicating that this medium might be a better alternativeto the commonly used LB+IPTG medium for enzymeexpression under the control of a T7 promoter. Furtheroptimization revealed that low expression temperature notonly increased enzyme expression, but also stabilized theenzyme-expressing cells and the plasmids therein. Wholecellbioconversion was carried out in 55 t water containing1.8 t substrate and the resting cells expressed in 40 tmedium. The specific D-HPG productivity reached 1.68 g/h/gdry cell weight, with a molar yield of 97.8%. To the bestof our knowledge, this is the highest productivity reportedto date and the first description of this process using largescale production.

A New Unsymmetrical Zinc Phthalocyanine as Photosensitizers for Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

Zhang, Dan,Zhang, Xue-Jun,Zhang, Lei,Mao, Li-Jun Korean Chemical Society 2012 Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society Vol.33 No.4

A new unsymmetrical zinc phthalocyanine has been designed and synthesized based on the 'push-pull' and extended ${\pi}$-conjugation concept for the dye-sensitized solar cells. Three tert-butoxy groups, which act as electron releasing ('push'), enhance the solubility of phthalocyanine in common organic solvents and reduce the aggregation. Hydroxy substituted 9,10-anthraquinones act as electron acceptors ('pull') for the study of photoinduced electron transfer processes as well as grafting onto nanocrystalline $TiO_2$. The new unsymmetrical zinc phthalocyanine was fully characterized by FTIR, UV-vis, $^1H$ NMR, cyclic voltammetry and differential pulse voltammetry. The new sensitizer was tested in dye-sensitized solar cells, and gave a better performance.