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Environmental Studies
Justin Hastings, Annie Young Song
Summary: North Korea's fisheries policy has created maritime security challenges in Northeast Asia, resulting in issues such as fisheries exploitation and maritime boundary disputes. This has implications for fisheries management and engagement with North Korea on maritime issues.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Min-hyung Kim
Summary: Despite its economic and technological backwardness, North Korea possesses formidable cyber offensive capabilities in the cyber-physical space (CPS). This article aims to examine the motivations behind North Korea's efforts to strengthen its cyber capabilities and analyze the implications for stability and peace on the Korean peninsula and beyond.
Editorial Material
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Brett F. F. Thornton, Christian Stranne
Summary: Methane hydrate, a confounding cage compound, is causing pipeline clogging, profitability challenges, and potential climate disturbances.
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Area Studies
Soon-Ok Shin
Summary: North Korea is a de facto nuclear weapon state that emphasizes its sovereign right to explore nuclear options while also highlighting its commitment to denuclearization. This seemingly contradictory nuclear posture challenges rationalist IR theories. This article argues that North Korea's anti-nuclear stance has roots in the Cold War and is aimed at protecting its security against nuclear-armed enemies.
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Geochemistry & Geophysics
Jiang-Gu Lu, William L. Griffin, Jin-Xiang Huang, Hong-Kun Dai, Montgarri Castillo-Oliver, Suzanne Y. O'Reilly
Summary: By studying mantle-derived xenoliths and xenocrysts in volcanic rocks from Mount Carmel, North Israel, the regional paleo-geotherm can be established and the evolution of the lower crust and lithospheric mantle can be constrained. Different types of xenoliths provide important information about the structure and history of the lithosphere.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
Mohammed Djemel Merabtene, Fatiha Faraoun, Rawan Mlih, Riad Djellouli, Ali Latreche, Roland Bol
Summary: Mountainous forests in Algeria are severely impacted by climate change and human activities, leading to a negative influence on soil organic carbon storage. The study reveals that the average organic carbon stored in Tessala Mount forest soils is 77.4 t ha(-1), with different plant formations and geographical characteristics affecting the amount of carbon stored in the soil.
FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2021)
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Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Yingnan Zhang, Likun Xue, Hongyong Li, Tianshu Chen, Jiangshan Mu, Can Dong, Lei Sun, Hengde Liu, Yong Zhao, Di Wu, Xinfeng Wang, Wenxing Wang
Summary: The study found that the North China Plain is the major source region of regional O3, with reductions in emissions from transportation and industry significantly decreasing O3 concentrations. O3 formation in the southern region is highly NOx-sensitive, while in the northern region it is limited by anthropogenic hydrocarbons like alkenes. Biomass burning also influences regional O3 concentrations under certain circumstances.
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
(2021)
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Area Studies
Kyungok Do, Yejoon Rim
Summary: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea adopted the Emergency Communicable Disease Control Act during the COVID-19 pandemic, which is notable for its effectiveness in controlling communicable diseases, predictability of the authority's response, response to emerging security challenges, development of legal techniques, and the role of law in society. However, certain provisions in the Act raise questions about its compliance with international human rights norms.
JOURNAL OF ASIAN PUBLIC POLICY
(2022)
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Political Science
Seok Joon Kim
Summary: Despite the positive North Korea-U.S. relations, both sides failed to reach a deal because Pyongyang hesitated to show stronger signs of denuclearization, while Washington underestimated the risks and vulnerability North Korea would face during the process. This article explains the failure through a theoretical framework of the perceptual gap between a signaler and a receiver, introducing the concept of a signaler's dilemma of costly signals and a receiver's tendency of discounting a signaler's insecurity.
POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Mariangela Sciotto, Leighton M. Watson, Andrea Cannata, Massimo Cantarero, Emanuela De Beni, Jeffrey B. Johnson
Summary: This study investigates the changes in monotonic infrasound signals before a volcanic eruption, and shows that these changes can be used to track the position of the magma free surface, providing information on the processes within the plumbing system prior to volcanic activity.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
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Construction & Building Technology
Jingwen Liu, ChungYeon Won
Summary: This study evaluates the effectiveness of the Diagonal Plane Restriction policy in South Korea's General Residential Districts in Seoul and identifies factors influencing its success. The results reveal that nearly 50% of the selected buildings with cores on the south side have limited daylight infiltration to habitable spaces. Moreover, the year of construction and primary use significantly predict the effective applicability of the restriction. Policy changes have directly contributed to the growth of low-performing types and commercial uses in residential districts.
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International Relations
Stephan Haggard, Tai Ming Cheung
Summary: North Korea's strategic weapons innovation system serves as an exemplary authoritarian mobilization model. The program is prioritized and mobilizes the country's resources around key projects. Investments in defense industrial infrastructure, ranging from basic research to product development, are crucial to its success.
JOURNAL OF STRATEGIC STUDIES
(2021)
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Environmental Sciences
Xingyu Li, Yixuan Lyu, Yuepeng Pan, Qian Sun, Xiaying Zhu, Jiabao Hu, Jin Liu, Jing Cao, Mengna Gu, Mengshen Zhang, Ronald E. Stewart
Summary: Freezing rain is a precipitation phenomenon that occurs when snow melts into supercooled water drops before reaching the sub-freezing surface. This study collected winter precipitation samples from Mt. Heng in southern China for 7 years and found that freezing rain had acidic properties with major ions including NH4+, Ca2+, SO42-, and NO3-. The concentrations of these ions in freezing rain can lower the freezing point of supercooled drops and increase the likelihood of freezing, but the presence of ice nuclei can counteract this effect. More model simulations and laboratory experiments are needed to further understand the relationship between air pollution and freezing rain.
ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
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Economics
Elizabeth Thurbon, Linda Weiss
Summary: This study examines the role of government-business collaboration in the contemporary economy through a case study of robotics in South Korea. Policymakers in South Korea face challenges in delivering cutting-edge technologies, creating new industries, and establishing relationships of governed interdependence with the private sector. The paper calls for a reevaluation of the concept of geo-economic statecraft to explore new research agendas.
REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
G. J. Hill, P. E. Wannamaker, V. Maris, J. A. Stodt, M. Kordy, M. J. Unsworth, P. A. Bedrosian, E. L. Wallin, D. F. Uhlmann, Y. Ogawa, P. Kyle
Summary: Erebus volcano in Antarctica is an evolved volcano with a continuous magma structure that is controlled by a structural fault-valve, which controls the flow of magma and CO2 vapor.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
