This paper asserts that the deepest background of all depression lies in the emptiness and meaninglessness caused by ‘ultimate loss,’ and that the key to overcoming it is to restore the sense of ‘transcendence’ and ‘connection.’ The characters appearing in The Vegetarian by Kang Han are all lonely human beings. They live in their own way, but they are not truly alive. In their lives, they do not properly create what Robert J. Lifton calls a ‘formulation.’ They are not connected with each other and have no symbolic integration with ‘Ultimate Reality.’ They are living in a moribund life trapped by their own trauma or emptiness. At the same time, they all show signs of depression and suicidal impulse. Therefore, by observing the novel, this paper examines human lives in modern times where depressions are prevalent, and suggests ways to solve such problems.

뇌전위에서 개인차가 없는 일반적인 규칙을 지닌 두개의 정보 변수, 즉 ILF와 IHF를 발견하였다. 이러한 일반성을 지닌 정보 변수가 청각, 후각, 촉각 자극에 의해 유발된 쾌하거나 불쾌한 감성 상태를 구분할 수 있으며 전두엽에서 그 경향이 두드러짐을 확인하였다. 전두엽의 뇌전위에서 감성 자극이 주어지가 전과 자극이 주어지는 동안의 ILF, IHF값을 정규화함으로써 새로운 변수, Relative Quantified Emotional State(RQES)를 구현하였다. RQES는 쾌, 중립, 불쾌한 감성의 정도를 선형적으로 정량화하였다. 따라서 하나의 전극으로 측정한 전두엽부분의 뇌전위로부터 RQES값을 계산하면 인간의 쾌, 불쾌 감성을 신뢰도있게 정량화 할 수 있다.

Industrial ventilation is a crucial engineering measure to protect workers from hazardous airborne contaminants. Designing a ventilation system is not an easy task. To solve this problem, many U. S. computer programs and softwares have been developed. In Korea, asoftware, called as VPMC, was developed by Korea Industrial Safety Corporation. But VPMC could not stand alone since it can be used to design not a hood, but a ventilation system. In this research, therefore, a preprocessing software was developed. It can be used to design general ventilation system, canopy hood, open surface tank hood. The program was written in Microsoft Visual Basic. In near future, this software will be incorporated into a total package software which can be used to design a whole ventilation system.

The objectives of this study are to examine combustion characteristics of E.V.A. and rubber wastes by fixed-bed incinerator. The results are as follows. Combustion temperature with time rises rapidly, and mass of E.V.A. reduces at short time in E.V.A. combustion. In variation of air-fuel ratio (m), the ideal values of m of E.V.A. and rubber are 2.5, 1.5 respectively. Mixed-waste combustion is more economic than single E.V.A. combustion, because we can get high combustion efficiency (94.0∼99.0%) at 2.0 air-fuel ratio of mixed-waste combustion. Removal efficiencies of SO2 at cooling tower are about 20%. The combustion efficiencies of rubber are over 98.0% according to the experimental conditions.