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In-Kwon Yeo received the PhD degree in Statistics from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997. He joined the Department of Control and Instrumentation Engineering, Kangwon National University as a visiting professor in 2000 and the Division of Mathematics and Statistical Informatics, Chonbuk National University as an assistant professor in Korea. He is currently an associate professor at the Department of Statistics, Sookmyung Women s University. His current research interests include data transformations, multivariate time series analysis and generalized additive models. 

Bowman, J.R. 1998. Stable-isotope systematics of skarn. In Lentz, D.R. (ed.) Mineralized intrusion-related skarn systems, 99-145. Mineralalogical Association of Canada Short Course 26. Choi, S. 1983. Skarn evolution and iron-tungsten mineralization and the associated polymetallic mineralization at the Ulsan mine, Republic of Korea. Unpublished PhD. Dissertation, Waseda University, 271 p. Choi, S., So, C., Youm, S. Kim, M. 1999. Stable isotopeand fluid inclusion studies of iron-tungsten mineralization at Ulsan skarn deposit (Abstract). Economic and Environmental Geology, 32, 148-9. 

Poisonings associated with eating seafood significantly impact public health worldwide. For example during 1971 to 1990, seafood was the most important vehicle in food poisoning outbreaks in Korea (32%) and Japan (22%) and was responsible for 43% and 62%, respectively, of outbreak-related fatalities (Chan, 1995 Lee, 1996). 

The dust from mollusk shells can also provoke occupational allergies. Inhalation of mollusk shell dust in a nacre button factory was associated with h)q)ersensitivity pneumonitis (Orriols et ah, 1990, 1997). A similar case was identified in Korea (Kim et ah, 1982). Several Japanese investigators have described occupational asthma occurring among workers who culture oysters (Nakashima, 1969 Wada et ah, 1967). Exposure to dust from mofher-of-pearl in a souvenir maker (Tas, 1972) and fo cuttlefish bones in a jewelry polisher (Beltrami et ah, 1989) was linked to occupational asthma. 

Douglas, M., Clark, S. B., Buck, E. C. Hanson, B. D. 2003. Neptunium association with uranium (VI) silicate solid phases. Migration OJ, Gyeongju (Kyongju), Korea, 21-26 September 2003. Abstract volume. 

Chung, H.S. et al., Demographic characteristics of zipeprol-associated deaths in Korea, A reft. Pharm. Res., 21, 286, 1998. 

Chung, H., Drug abuse trends and epidemiological aspects of drug associated deaths in Korea, J. Toxicol. Sci., 23, S197, 1998. 

Jin-Seok Kim, Ph.D Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy, Sookmyung Women s University, Seoul, South Korea (chap. 10)... 

Ginkgo. The leaves and seeds of this plant, native to China, Japan, and Korea, are used to improve age-related loss of memory, including the dementia associated with Alzheimer s disease, and to relieve ringing of the ears and a type of pain and weakness in the limbs called intermittent claudication. More than 40 studies involving more than 1,000 patients show that ginkgo has a modest effect on dementia and intermittent claudication, but does not seem to help with memory loss or ringing of the ears. 

Furthermore, urbanization means a significant increase in the surfaces without vegetation such as asphalt and building cover. Surface conditions could substantially influence the residence time and fate of POPs in a system. Agricultural activities, of which the dominant activity is rice cultivation, occur primarily in the western and southern areas of the South Korean peninsula. Thus, the water quality of the inland rivers is associated with OCP use history and agricultural products contamination in South Korea. 

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