• 시큐리티연구
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• 제42호
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• pp.251-276
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• 2015

본 논문의 목적은 이스라엘의 정보활동이 정체성 즉 국민들의 자의식의 형성과 변화, 그리고 국가건설 과정에서 미친 영향력을 분석하는데 있다. 19세기말 유대인들은 역사의 희생자 이미지를 공유하고 있었으며 이들에 대한 박해는 정치적, 신앙적 공동체인 독립국가 이스라엘 건설을 추동하는 요인이 되었다. 당시 이스라엘의 정보요원들은 유대인들을 팔레스타인으로 이주시키는 한편, 아랍인들과 투쟁하면서 국가건설에 매진했다. 다시 말해서, 정보활동은 유대인들의 국가건설을 위한 민족주의인 시오니즘을 구현하는 수단인 셈이다. 1948년 독립이후에도 정보기관은 아랍 국가들의 방해에도 불구하고, 미국과 소련 등 국가들과 협상을 통해 UN에서 공식적으로 국가승인을 획득하는데 큰 역할을 담당하였다. 그럼에도 이스라엘은 아랍 국가들로부터 '사라져야할 국가'로 인식되면서 국가정체성이 부인되었다. 이후 4차례에 걸친 전쟁에서 승리와 이집트와 정상회담을 통해 비로소 국가성을 인정받게 되었다. 이스라엘은 이를 성서상의 '약속의 땅'의 회복이라는 예언의 성취로 이해하며 승리자로서의 정체성을 공유하게 되었다. 결론적으로 이스라엘에서 정보활동은 국가의 독립과 건설, 그리고 국민들의 자의식의 형성과 변화를 유발한 기제였다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2021

UAE has rapidly developed into one of the leading global financial hubs, with significant transformations in its stock exchanges. In its attempt at economic diversification in the last two decades, the country has also taken a lead in the GCC region in introducing extensive reforms to attract FDI to the Emirates. However, oil price volatilities have posed a significant challenge to all oil-exporting countries. The main aim of this study is to explore the impact of economic diversification and oil price on the UAE stock market. The study applies Granger Causality and Vector Autoregressive Model on monthly Abu Dhabi stock exchange index, Dubai Fateh crude oil spot price, and FDI inflows during 2001-19. The short-term interbank rate has been included as a monetary policy variable. The results show a substantial difference between the two phases of reforms. Oil price and Abu Dhabi stock index show bidirectional relationship during 2001-09 but no causality was found during 2010-19. Furthermore, the second phase was characterized by unidirectional causation from FDI to ADX index. This study highlights FDI inflows as a key driver of stock market performance during the last decade and emphasizes the success of the intense reforms in the UAE initiated for the diversification of its economy.

• Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.327-357
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• 2023

Adopting the Tools of Liberalism and Clash of Civilizations theories of international relations, this study examines the perceptions of 25,406 Arabs in 11 Arab countries as expressed in an Arab Barometer survey exploring their perceptions of violence against the United States (US), American citizens as "good," President Donald Trump's foreign policy in the Middle East, increasing economic relations with the US, and welcoming American foreign aid. As aspects of the Clash of Civilizations theory, this study examines religiosity, religious ritual practices, and political Islam and, as aspects of liberalism, this study explores the roles of online media as well as perceptions about US foreign aid in the prediction of the criterion variables. The findings suggest that religious indicators, and aspects of the Clash of Civilizations generally, were negative predictors of the perceptions, while social media and motivations for US foreign aid as aspects of liberalism, positively predicted the perceptions. The study discusses the results in relation to implications for policy makers.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권9호
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• pp.3299-3309
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• 2022

Nuclear energy has the potential to play an influential role in energy transition efforts than is now anticipated by many countries. Realizing sustainable human development and reducing global climate crises will become more difficult without significantly increasing nuclear power. This paper aims to probe the role of nuclear energy, external debt, and financial globalization in sustaining human development and environmental conditions simultaneously in BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries. This study applied a battery of second-generation estimation approaches over the period from 1990 to 2019. These methods are useful and robust to cross-countries dependencies, slope heterogeneity, parameters endogeneity, and serial correlation that are ignored in conventional approaches to generate more comprehensive and reliable estimates. The empirical findings indicate that nuclear energy and financial globalization contribute to human development, whereas external debt inhibits it. Similarly, financial globalization accelerates ecological deterioration, but nuclear energy and external debt promote environmental sustainability. Moreover, the study reveals bidirectional feedback causalities between human development, carbon emissions and nuclear energy consumption. The study offers useful policy guidance on accomplishing sustainable and inclusive development in BRICS countries.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권7호
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• pp.11-19
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• 2021

The study aims to investigate the impact of seasonality in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries' share market during the month of Ramadan. It helps in finding the opportunities for stock market investors to earn abnormal (returns) gain by investing during Ramadan in GCC stock markets. This study uses stock returns data of GCC countries (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Dubai, and UAE) from January 2004 to November 2019. Stock prices indexes of GCC stock markets have been obtained from Datastream. The ARCH-GARCH model is used to study the impact of the Ramadan month on the return and volatility of the stock market in GCC countries. The results showed that the Ramadan month has a significant impact on share market prices in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. However, Ramadan has an insignificant impact on share market prices in Bahrain and Oman. The study found no evidence of serial correlational between residuals in Kuwait; meaning that stock return was not dependent on the prior stock returns in Kuwait, therefore, we cannot go for forecasting. The ARCH-LM test statistic for Qatar does not fulfill the requirement of a good regression model; therefore, we cannot go for forecasting or testing the hypothesis of Qatar.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권9호
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• pp.11-22
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• 2021

This study investigates the long-run relationship between the de jure economic, political, and social globalization and foreign direct investments in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to establish whether policies that foster trade and investment relations among geographical entities can help revive the GCC countries from the prevailing economic debacles of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study is driven by the GCC's quest to fully overcome the economic challenges occasioned by the outbreak of the global pandemic and position itself as the most potent regional economic bloc in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The study employs the panel data of the six GCC countries of Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Saudi Arabia from 1971 to 2017. The findings of the panel fully modified ordinary least square regression estimation show that the de jure economic and social globalization have a significant positive impact on the region's foreign direct investment inflows. The impact of the de jure political globalization on foreign direct investment is statistically significant but negatively signed. Based on the preceding findings, we offer some holistic policy recommendations to the GCC region as recipes for timely recovery from the economic impact of COVID-19 and beyond.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 8th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.50-59
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• 2020

The 21st century is witnessing a rapid growth of tall buildings in urban centers globally to create more urban space for an anticipated urban population. Tall buildings, however suffer from incessant delays and sometimes total abandonment. Consequently, this study investigated and ranked the causes of delay in tall building projects, while focusing on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Initially, 36 common delay causes investigated globally were categorized into 9 groups, and then further ranked utilizing the Relative Importance Index (RII) through a questionnaire survey. Tall building professionals in the GCC countries (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar) were contacted. The respondents' categories include Consultants, Contractors, and Clients' Representatives/Facility Managers. The results reveal that the top three causes include "client's cash flow problems/delays in contractor's payment", "contractor's financial difficulties", and "poor site organization and coordination between various parties". The findings from this study could help construction professionals develop guidelines and controls for delay mitigation, as well as support them in risk-based decision making in the planning of tall building projects.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제17권9호
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• pp.4251-4257
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• 2016

Background: Testicular cancer is one of the most common cancers among young men between ages 20-34 in countries with high or very high levels of the Human Development Index (HDI). This study investigated the incidence and mortality of prostate cancer and the relationship with the HDI and its dimensions in Asia in 2012. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted based on data from the world data of cancer and the World Bank (including the HDI and its components). Standardized incidence and mortality rates of testicular cancer were calculated for Asian countries. Correlations between incidence and/ormortality rates, and the HDI and its components were assessed with the use of the correlation test, using SPSS software. Results: There was a total of 14902 incidences and 5832 death were recorded in Asian countries in 2012. Among the Asian countries, the five countries with the highest standardized incidence rates of testicular cancer were Israel, Georgia, Turkey, Lebanon and Kazakhstan and the five countries with the highest standardized mortality rates were Turkey, Georgia, Jordan, Cambodia and the Syrian Arab Republic. A positive correlation of 0.382 was observed between the standardized incidence rates of testicular cancer and the HDI (p=0.009). Also a negative correlation of 0.298 between the standardized mortality rate of testicular cancer and the Human Development Index was noted although this relation was statistically non-significant (p=0.052). Conclusions: There is a positive correlation between HDI and the standardized incidence rate of testicular cancer and negative correlation with standardized mortality rate.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제25권
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• pp.107-129
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• 2011

This article aims to observe the role of Arabic and analyze the future of Arabic in France under the base of the Al-Sabhan Rabina Baldhawe's article, published in mettre l'importance sur University Paris 8 in 2007. In the first part, we have focus into the historical analysis: in France, with a few Arabic and French policy has been settled for what were examined. Also enable the use of Arabic in France with regard to trends of Maghreb countries and other Arab countries, is being led by noted. In the second part, we put on the importance about the situation of Arabic in the France's educational institution. And we have analysed the reasons why Arabic became the most important reason for learning the target language: - in order to faciliate the children of immigrants living in Maghreb able to speak French - Due to differences in culture and language experience to relieve the psychological insecurity above sea - By using the Arabic language at home among family members, strengthen solidarity and resolve heterogeneity In the third part, we have recognized that the French education system was looked at in the Journal of Arabic teaching elementary, middle and high school courses, separated by a learning Arabic as the target language. Finally, we have tried to find a way to revitalize Arabic in France in connection with Sabhan Rabina Al-Baldhawe concrete example of the paper were based on a survey. France and the Arab countries' relationship has been long enough to prove the historic aspects and economic cooperation have maintained a relationship even tighter. Arabic, many of the French people also need education and children to learn Arabic in the French educational institution that has shown a positive stance. French students learning Arabic as a future career in choosing the width of the wider benefits it helps to have. Learning Arabic in the course need to be addressed is also true that a lot of points. But the Arabic and various aspects of internal organization is considered a minority in the popular Arabic language training in France has become more competitive in research and analysis to be active stance is required externally, such as the increase of trade agreements and economic systems side at the level of cultural exchange and international co-operation system, strengthening its position as the Arabic language in France.

• 시큐리티연구
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• 제12호
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• pp.149-175
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• 2006

이슬람 원리주의를 표방하는 무장테러 단체들의 테러가 전 세계적으로 자행되고 있는 가운데 이슬람 문화를 바라보는 우리의 시각은 서구의 시각에서 바라보아 온 것이 사실이다. 이젠 올바른 우리의 입장에서 그들을 이해하고 객관적으로 연구하는 풍토와 시각의 대전환이 필요하다는 것이다. 우리 자신이 갖고 있는 종교적 편견과 이데올로기로부터도 벗어나야 한다. 이러한 측면에서 거대한 지구촌 문화권을 형성하고 있는 이슬람 사회와 그들의 문화에 관심을 기울이고, 편견 없는 시각을 갖는 태도는 매우 중요한 일일 것이다. 이슬람원리주의에 따른 중동테러리즘에 대한 최선의 방지책은 테러의 원인들이 되고 있는 상황들을 개선하는 것이다. 미국과 서방세계에 의한 신 세계질서차원에서의 이분법적인 기준으로 이슬람국가들을 차별해서는 안 된다. 더구나 그들의 종교나 문화에 대한 간섭이나 무조건적인 배척은 또 다른 이데올로기를 만들 뿐이며, 세계평화에 역행하는 일이 될 것이다. 한국 내에서도 많은 이슬람 관련 국가에서의 외국인 노동자들이 들어오고 있는 시점에서 정부 차원에서도 대테러 차원뿐만이 아닌 많은 관심과 배려가 필요하고 이제부터라도 제대로 된 시각과 사고를 통해 이슬람 문화를 새롭게 재조명할 필요가 있다. 이를 바탕으로 한 중동지역 국가들과의 관계 개선의 외교적 노력을 다함으로써 경제적, 정치적, 전략적인 차원에서의 국가적인 이익을 위해 위기를 또 다른 기회의 발판으로 삼는 노력이 요구된다. 더 나아가 전 세계 타 문화에 대한 다양성을 인정하고 올바른 세계화에 대한 인식이 필요한 때이다. 우리나라 역시 테러로부터 안전지대가 아니기에 더더욱 이슬람 문화에 대한 올바른 이해를 통해 국익을 위한 세계화 전략에 더욱 관심을 갖고 노력해 나가야 할 것이다. 대변해 줄 수 있는 좋은 척도이다. 학력이 낮을수록 임금의 수준과 격차에 관심도가 높지만, 학력이 높을수록 임금제도 및 복지후생에 관심이 더 높았다. 임금에 대한 만족감은 학력과 직위, 근무경력에 영향을 미침으로 오랜 시간을 근무한 경력자들은 임금에 대한 만족과 함께 조직에 대한 몰입 또한 높았다. 따라서 민간경비 산업의 발전과 민간경비원의 조직몰입을 높이기 위하여, 민간경비원의 임금수준 체계화 및 복지후생 처 후의 질을 개선하는 한편, 산${\cdot}$학 협력을 통한 하나의 직업군으로써 자리매김 하기위해서는 임금과 복지후생에 대한 많은 요인들이 지속적으로 연구 분석이 되어야 할 것이다.호 부분에 있어서는 21.2%가 민간 경호, 경비업체를 선호하는 것으로 나타났다.로 분석하여 특정시기(월)에 국한되어 폐각근과 내장낭의 생화학적 함량변화가 역상관관계를 나타내는 현상을 보였다. 특히, 폐각근과 내장낭내 총 RNA 함량 변화 양상은 총단백질 함량 변화 양상과 유사한 경향을 보여 RNA 함량 증가시 단백질 함량의 증가가 일어나고 있음을 알 수 있었다.순응이 초기에 높을 때 약물 순응률이 보다 높았다. 결국 약물치료 효과에 대한 만족도가 순응률 결정에 가장 중요한 요인이라고 생각되며, 약물치료효과를 높이기 위한 다양한 전략을 사용하여, 약물 순응도를 향상 시킬 필요가 있다고 생각된다.으나, 주의력에서는 전두엽의 실행능력(executive function)과 관련되는 검사들에서 산소흡입이 특이한 효과를 보여준다는 것이 확인되었고, 기억능력에서는 단기기억능력 평가에서 산소흡입군이 대조군보다 유의한 효과를 보여주는 것으로 평가되었다. 이러한 연구결과는 산소흡입이 전두엽과 관련된 수행능력, 작동기억능력 향상에 도움이 될