Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) had been considered the only major disease that is continuing to increase in prevalence. There were a few studies about the change of the prevalence of COPD, which showed the prevalence of COPD did not increase. In this review, we report on the trends in the prevalence of COPD in Korea using the data from Korea National Health and Nutrition Examinati...

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Attempts are being made to include members of excluded groups in societal institutions. Inclusion has been proposed as the solution to the injustice caused by exclusion. Yet, inclusion does not always achieve justice and might sometimes perpetuate injustice. This Article provides a framework for understanding inclusion that may fail to achieve social justice and uses this framework to assess th...

Motivation: A well known car company issued recalls in three successive years for the same design flaw. In another company, a production engineer fixed a problem in one model year, only to have the fix removed in the next year, because nobody understood why the fix had been installed. US Intelligence agencies have overlooked the signs of emerging crises because analysts in different areas didn’...

Recent religious studies and international relations scholarship has highlighted secularism as a critical element in dominant modes of identity, power, and exclusion in global politics. Yet, the implications of these insights for global justice theory and practice have rarely been considered. This article suggests that the current dominance of secularism within global justice theory and practic...

In changing and uncertain times, humanity looks toward spirituality for tranquility and peace. Historically angels have been at the forefront of bringing comfort and understanding from God. The Greek word angelos means messenger and is the origin of the modern English word angel. In monotheist–the worship of one Godreligions, angels are often mentioned in stories as being intermediaries between...

In The Art of Being Ruled Wyndham Lewis argues that modern masses are governed through media manipulation, and specifi cally through “the hypnotism of cinema, wireless, and press” (148). This argument motivates Lewis’s various criticisms of press freedom and mass cultural production, and these criticisms, in turn, are often cited as evidence of an authoritarian bias in his cultural and politica...