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A Corpus-Based Longitudinal Study of Diction in Chinese and British News Reports on Chang'e Project

  • Lu, Rong;Xie, Xue;Qi, Jiashuang;Ali, Afida Mohamad;Zhao, Jie
    • Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.1-20
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    • 2022
  • As a milestone progression in China's space exploration history, Chang'e Project has attracted a lot of media attention since its first launching. This study aims to examine and compare the similarities and differences between the Chinese media and the British media in using nouns, verbs, and adjectives to report the Chang'e Project. After categorising the documents based on specific project phases, we created two diachronic corpora to explore the linguistic shifts and similarities and differences of diction employed by the Chinese and British media on the Chang'e Project ideology. This longitudinal study was performed with Lancsbox and the CLAWS web tagger through critical discourse analysis as the theoretical framework. The findings of the current study showed that the Chang'e Project coverage in both media increased on an annual basis, especially after 2019. In contrast to the objectivity and positivity in the Chinese Media, the British Media seemed to be more subjective with more appraisal adjectives in the news reports. Nonetheless, both countries were trying to be objective and formal in choosing nouns and verbs. Ideology-wise, the Chinese news media reports portrayed more positivity on domestic circumstances while the British counterpart was typically more critical. Notably, the study outcomes could catalyse future research on the Chang'e Project and facilitate diplomatic policies.

Studies on the Constituents of Impatiens textori (III) (물봉선의 성분에 관한 연구 (III))

  • Lee, Hyang-Yi;Kim, Chong-Won
    • Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.105-108
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    • 2000
  • Impatiens textori Miquel (Balsaminaceae) is an annual plant growing in most parts of Korea. The herb of this plant has been used for the external application of snake poison and the bruise. Previous investigations conducted with the herbs have demonstrated it to contain three flavones and three flavone glycosides. Continuing to previous reports, quercetin, kaempferol and acacetin $7-O-{\beta}-D-glucoside$ were isolated from the herbs of this plant.

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An experimental study on the heat transfer characteristics of a Ondol-heated space by varying pipe embedding depths and hot water supply conditions (보일러 운전조건 및 마감층 두께 변화에 따른 온돌난방공간의 열특성에 관한 실험연구)

  • 박병윤
    • Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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    • 1991.09a
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    • pp.41-47
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    • 1991
  • This study reports the results of the transient temperature response of a floor heating panel according to variation of the hot water supply temperature and the pipe embedding depth. Also, this experiment compares the temperature responses of floor heating panels under the continuous and intermittent heating system. Furtthermore, this study presents some details of the thermal response of Ondol-heated buildings to varying loads and patterns of heat input. The analysis of the thermal performance fo Ondol heating system have been presented.

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Competitive Benchmarking Using Self-Organizing Neural Networks

  • Lee, Young-Chan
    • Proceedings of the Korea Association of Information Systems Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.25-35
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    • 2000
  • A huge amount of financial information in large databases makes performance comparisons among organizations difficult or at least very time-consuming. This paper investigates whether neural networks in the form of self-organizing maps can be effectively employed to perform a competitive benchmarking in large databases. By using self-organizing maps, we expect to overcome problems associated with finding appropriate underlying distributions and functional forms of underlying data. The method also offers a way of visualizing the results. The database in this study consists of annual financial reports of 100 biggest Korean companies over the years 1998, 1999, and 2000.

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Management Efficiency Estimation of Social Enterprises with Data Envelopment Analysis (사회적 기업의 자료포락분석(DEA)을 통한 경영효율성 평가)

  • Lee, Sang-Yun;Lim, Sungmook;Chae, Myungsin
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.121-128
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    • 2017
  • This paper was to evaluate social enterprises' management efficiency with Data Envelope Analysis (DEA). The data was based on the 168 social enterprises' of annual performance reports published in 2015. The research focused on to measure both financial efficiency and social impact of the companies simultaneously. To apply DEA, the paper classified the enterprises into seven types based on types of socal impacts which each company provides before the estimation of the efficiency. The research results showed that group D, which employes disadvantaged people, provides social services and shares resources was the most efficient group and had higest net worths in Pure Technical Efficiency. In contrast, Group B, which only employs social advantage people and provides social service, was the least efficient one. The research suggests a practical and efficient framework in measuring social enterprises' management efficiency, including both the financial performance and social impacts simultaneously with their self-publishing reports. Because the Korea Social Enterprise Promotion Agency does not open business reports which social enterprises submit each year, there are basic limitations on researchers attempting to analyse with data from all social enterprises in Korea. Thus, this study dealt with only 10% of the social enterprises which self-published their performance report on the Korea Social Enterprise Promotion Agency's web site. Regardless of these limitations, this study suggested substantial methods to estimate management efficiency with the self-published reports. Because self-publishing is increasing each year, it will be the main source of information for researchers in examining and evaluating social enterprises' financial performance or social contribution. The research suggests a practical and efficient framework in measuring social enterprises' management efficiency, including both the financial performance and social impacts simultaneously with their self-publishing reports. The research results suggest not only list of efficient enterprises but also methods of improvement for less efficient enterprises.

Traditional Korean Medicine Doctors' Awareness and Utilization of the Case Report (한의사의 증례연구에 대한 인식 및 활용)

  • Baek, Seung-Min;Park, Jeong-Hwan;Lee, Sang-Hun;Kim, Sul-Gi;Lee, Jeong-Hwa;Kim, Bo-Young;Choi, Sun-Mi
    • Korean Journal of Acupuncture
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.57-70
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    • 2012
  • Objectives : The purpose of this study is to assess Traditional Korean Medicine (TKM) doctors' awareness and utilization of the case report, based on the opinion that careful observation on the case sometimes provides us with the important information as clinical trial especially in the traditional medicine research field. Methods : A questionnaire study was conducted among TKM doctors who participated in the annual continuous maintenance education (CME) held at 5 regions of the Republic of Korea. Results : Almost 60% of the respondents had read case reports published in medical journals and 67% had openly shared their clinical cases with their colleagues. Of the respondents, 18.6% had been educated on reporting cases, and only 16% had the experience of reporting cases on one's own. However, 32.6% of the respondents had the intention to report cases in the future. These results show significant differences between general physicians who holds a license but no hospital training experience and board certified TKM doctors who have training experience. Conclusions : A majority of TKM doctors have read case reports but holds little experience of having been properly trained. Through this research, it has been found that awareness of case reports is rising in hospital training. Thus, the objective of case report education for TKM doctors who have hospital training experience should be set on encouraging them to do more whereas for doctors without hospital training experience, the objective should be set on making them more exposed to case reports to heighten one's awareness.

Prediction of Annual Energy Production of Wind Farms in Complex Terrain using MERRA Reanalysis Data (MERRA 재해석 자료를 이용한 복잡지형 내 풍력발전단지 연간에너지발전량 예측)

  • Kim, Jin-Han;Kwon, Il-Han;Park, Ung-Sik;Yoo, Neungsoo;Paek, Insu
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.82-90
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    • 2014
  • The MERRA reanalysis data provided online by NASA was applied to predict the annual energy productions of two largest wind farms in Korea. The two wind farms, Gangwon wind farm and Yeongyang wind farm, are located on complex terrain. For the prediction, a commercial CFD program, WindSim, was used. The annual energy productions of the two wind farms were obtained for three separate years of MERRA data from June 2007 to May 2012, and the results were compared with the measured values listed in the CDM reports of the two wind farms. As the result, the prediction errors of six comparisons were within 9 percent when the availabilities of the wind farms were assumed to be 100 percent. Although further investigations are necessary, the MERRA reanalysis data seem useful tentatively to predict adjacent wind resources when measurement data are not available.

A study on diving safety procedures based on the reports of diving casualties (잠수사고 사례 고찰을 통한 안전대책에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Chang-Woo;Jung, Chang-Ho;Kang, Sin-Young
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.125-129
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    • 2005
  • This study aims to provide divers with improved safe diving practices by analyzing reports on scuba diving casualties that recently(from 1997-2003)occurred in Korea, Japan and USA. The result of this study can contribute toward preventing the diving accident. All the data were collected through the diving accident reports of various sourse, which include KUA(Korea Underwater Association) technical committee, the accident statistical data of National Maritime Police Agency, articles of domestic and foreign scuba diving magazine, accident reports of various newspaper, annual report on decompression illness and diving fatalities by DAN(Diver Alert Network), various type of data on diving accident from local as well as national seminars, and medical treatment data of diving accident.

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Integrated Reporting: A New Paradigm of Corporate Reporting

  • Bhasin, Madan Lal
    • The Journal of Economics, Marketing and Management
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.10-32
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    • 2017
  • The landscape of corporate reporting is changing quickly. The concepts, elements and principles that characterize the way organizations plan, manage and report their annual performances are currently being questioned, debated, and redesigned throughout the world. However, widening the scope of corporate performance and reporting is a major issue. Research needs to bridge the gap between social and financial performance by considering corporate performance in a wider perspective. At base, IR is a relatively new but powerful idea: enhancing the way organizations think, plan and report the story of their business. Organizations are using IR to communicate a clear, concise, integrated story that explains how all of their resources are creating value. This paper examines the rise of what has been widely claimed to represent a new and striking future for corporate reporting, namely the notion of "Integrated Reporting" (IR). Unfortunately, there is poor empirical research work undertaken which has focused on published integrated reports. This research study provides initial analysis of the content and structure of the corporate integrated reports published in 2013 and available on the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) Emerging Examples Database. As part of this study, Integrated Reports were analyzed for company information, report information and report content. Moreover, they were also evaluated as to the extent these adhered to the integrated reporting (IR) Guiding Principles, Content Elements, and the multiple capitals model. Findings of this study indicate that "early integrated reports were mostly lengthy, fail to adhere to all the guiding principles, and covered four of the six capitals suggested." At present, no universally accepted global framework for IR exists and it is still largely a voluntary practice. We believe that IR of both financial and non-financial performance should be made mandatory, and it should become a universal practice for all the global listed companies within the next 5-10 years.

The Effect of Corporate Governance Disclosure on Banking Performance: Empirical Evidence from Iran, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia

  • KHANIFAH, Khanifah;HARDININGSIH, Pancawati;DARMARYANTIKO, Asri;IRYANTIK, Iryantika;UDIN, Udin
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.41-51
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    • 2020
  • A series of corporate failures and financial crises have raised attention to organizational governance issues, especially for financial institutions. In the banking system, corporate governance further plays a unique role because of the uniqueness of the banking organizations. Therefore, this study aims to examine the effect of corporate governance disclosure on bank performance by building a corporate governance disclosure index (CGDI) for 10 Islamic banks operating in Iran, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia. The data used in this study are secondary data taken from annual reports and sourced from the official websites of each banks include Iran Exchange, Stock Market Quotes and Financial News, and Bursa Malaysia. This study uses content analysis of the annual bank report within five years (2014-2018). The results show that Islamic banks comply with 72.4% of the attributes discussed in the CGDI. The most frequently reported and disclosed elements are board structure and audit committee. The regression results provide evidence that Islamic banks with a higher level of corporate governance disclosure reported high operating performance measured by ROA. In contrast to the expectation, the financial performance of ROE and Tobins'q are not significantly related to the disclosure of sharia bank governance.