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광양항 컨테이너물동량의 구조적 변화추이분석 (Analysis of Structural Changes in Container Volume of Gwangyang Port)

  • 김승철;강효원
    • 한국항만경제학회지
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    • 제38권4호
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    • pp.171-185
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    • 2022
  • 본 연구는 광양항의 컨테이너 물동량의 변화구조를 분석하기 위하여 국내 컨테이너 항만과의 변이할당분석을 통해 기간별, 노선별 비교분석을 실시하였다. 광양항의 컨테이너 물동량 절대물동량 성장분석 결과 기간별, 항로별 가장 높은 성장치를 보여준 기간 및 항로는 2001-2007년 유럽, 북미주, 중동, 남미등이었다. 이어 2008-2012년 기간 동안 동남아이사, 대양주, 극동아시아, 유럽, 일본 등이었다. 2018년에서 2022년 구간 중에서는 대양주, 서남아시아 정도이다. 향후 광양항의 컨테이너 물동량 확보를 위해서는 유럽 및 미주, 아프리카 지역의 노선확보가 필수적이며 부두운영사의 경영 및 서비스 개선을 통한 항만경쟁력 확보가 필요할 것으로 판단된다.

Pre-pregnancy Diet to Maternal and Child Health Outcome: A Scoping Review of Current Evidence

  • Fadila Wirawan;Desak Gede Arie Yudhantari;Aghnaa Gayatri
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • 제56권2호
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    • pp.111-127
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    • 2023
  • Objectives: Pre-pregnancy diet has an important role in preparing for healthy generation. However, evidence on this issue has been scarce. A scoping review synthesising current evidence will support the demand to map 'what has been researched' on pre-pregnancy diet and maternal and child health. Methods: Systematic search was performed using PICOS (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcomes, and Study design) framework in electronic databases. Articles were screened for eligibility, summarized, and the quality was assessed using the National Institute of Health assessment tool. The review structure complies with Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews guide. Results: Forty-two articles were included after full-text screening. Twenty-five studies were in high-income countries (HICs), six in each upper-middle income, five in lower-middle income countries (LMICs), and one in low-income countries (LIC). Based on the regions: North America (n=16), Europe (n=5), South America (n=4), Australia (n=4), Asia (n=5), Middle East (n=2), and sub-Saharan Africa (n=1). The two-most observed diet-related exposures were dietary pattern (n=17) and dietary quality (n=12). The most assessed outcome was gestational diabetes mellitus (n=28) and fetal and newborn anthropometry (n=7). The average quality score±standard deviation was 70±18%. Conclusions: Research related to pre-pregnancy diet is still concentrated in HICs. The context of diet may vary; therefore, future research is encouraged in LMICs and LICs context, and Mediterranean, South-East Asia, Pacific, and African regions. Some maternal and child nutrition-related morbidity, such as anemia and micronutrient deficiencies, have not been discussed. Research on these aspects will benefit to fill in the gaps related to pre-pregnancy diet and maternal and child health.

Promotion of Fintech Application for the Modernization of Banking-Finance System in Vietnam

  • NGUYEN, Dat Dinh;DINH, Hoang Cong;NGUYEN, Duy Van
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • 제7권6호
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    • pp.127-131
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    • 2020
  • In today's financial industry, Fintech (financial technology) has showed its role of an innovation-driving area, which can bring outstanding changes to the traditional financial market. This article will briefly introduce Fintech as well as its development in Vietnam. Besides, the research also provided a survey on experts' opinions on the challenges to the promotion of Fintech application for the modernization of the banking-finance system in Vietnam. The survey results of 40 experts in banking with knowledge of Fintech identify five challenges faced by Fintech companies in Vietnam: (1) legal corridor; (2) infrastructure; (3) Fintech companies; (4) customers; and (5) human resources. From these five challenges/barriers, there are 14 detailed aspects. The results of the expert survey using descriptive statistics show that all five factors are assessed to be low and need to be better addressed in the future. The authors suggest several solutions for further development of Fintech to support the modernization of the banking-finance system in Vietnam: (1) quickly complete the regulatory framework; (2) introduce policies on tax exemption; (3) promote research and application of the benefits of block-chain technology; (4) utilize the abilities of the human resources; and (5) actively promote and popularize knowledge about Fintech.

중전기기산업 수출시장 매력도 분석 (Export Market Attractiveness Analyses of the Heavy Electric Equipment Industry)

  • 문창권
    • 통상정보연구
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    • 제10권4호
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    • pp.277-298
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    • 2008
  • This study develops the market attractiveness assessment model and draws the strategic target markets and their corresponding exporting strategies through identifying the market positions in the dimensions of market attractiveness scores and market positional strength to achieve the innovative export promotion of Korean heavy electric industry and the resulting improvement and reversal of comparative-disadvantage position. In chapter 2, we analyze the stages of selecting target markets, the constructs and their measure variables of market attractiveness models, and the components and strategic policy implications of directional policy matrix. And in chapter 3, we identify the comparative advantage positions of Korean heavy electric industry in the global market through analyzing its trade structure, trends, balance, ratio-balance, and specialization index by the item and the region respectively. We find that the Asia/Pacific region is the most attractive export market of the Korean heavy electric equipment industry, the following important strategic target markets are the America, MENA, CIS/East Europe Regions in the order of their attractiveness and competitive position dimensions. In the mean time, the sub-Sahara Africa and West Europe region is shown to be the long-run-viewpoint target market requiring the innovation or divest strategies owing to their low attractiveness and the low market share of Korean exports.

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해수담수화 시장의 전망(정삼투-역삼투 융합기술 측면에서) (The Outlook for Forward Osmosis-Reverse Osmosis (FO-RO) Hybrid Desalination Market)

  • 김자겸;한지희;손진식;김승현
    • 상하수도학회지
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    • 제30권5호
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    • pp.521-532
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    • 2016
  • Seawater desalination market after global economic crisis has been stalled due to the market uncertainties and decreased demand in desalination. It is important to review the status of the market and to estimate the appropriate share of Forward osmosis-Reverse Osmosis (FO-RO) hybrid desalination technology by figuring out the outlook of the desalination market. Main part of the desalination market will still be MENA (Middle East and North Africa) in the near future due to the fast population increase and high dependency of fossil fuel in the region. The market for FO-RO hybrid technology, however, might be smaller than the conventional SWRO desalination market anyway because of aesthetic issues from using wastewater as raw water and higher costs associated with capex. Therefore, it is essential to improve FO membrane performance and system operation technologies in order to make the hybrid technology attractive compared to the conventional SWRO technology.

The Impact of the Bank Regulation and Supervision on the Efficiency of Islamic Banks

  • MOHD NOOR, Nor Halida Haziaton;BAKRI, Mohammed Hariri;WAN YUSOF, Wan Yusrol Rizal;MOHD NOOR, Nor Raihana Asmar;ZAINAL, Nurazilah
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • 제7권11호
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    • pp.747-757
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    • 2020
  • This study investigates the impact of bank regulation and supervision on the efficiency of banking sectors on 108 Islamic banks from 26 countries offering Islamic banking and finance products and services. The technical efficiencies of individual Islamic banks have been analyzed using the data envelopment analysis method (DEA). The ordinary least square estimation method is employed to examine the impact of country supervision and regulation on the technical efficiency of Islamic banks. The empirical findings suggest that supervisory power, activity restrictions and private monitoring positively influence the efficiency of Islamic banks. The study revealed that Islamic banks that are operating in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and middle-income countries are more technically efficient given the less stringent rules on capital requirement and we found that there is statistically significant evidence that higher capital requirements are negatively associated with the efficiency of Islamic banks. The empirical findings of this study are expected to help policy-makers and government officials to better understand how their decisions affect the performance.

Factors Affecting Employees' Organizational Commitment in Foreign Direct Investment Enterprises

  • NGUYEN, Thi Viet Nga;DO, Thanh Quang;DINH, Cong Hoang
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • 제7권10호
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    • pp.413-421
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    • 2020
  • This study aims to develop a research framework to investigate the factors affecting organizational commitment among employees who are working in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) enterprises in Vietnam. The authors designed an online survey distributed to employees in FDI enterprises, collecting the data from 312 employees. All scales in this study are adopted from previous studies; tools employed include Cronbach's Alpha, Exploratory Factor Analysis, and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) to examine the internal consistency, reliability, dimensionality, and validity of each variable. Then, the structural equation modelling (SEM) was utilized in order to estimate path correlations between variables. Results indicate that the leadership style has the strongest effect on organizational commitment, followed by job satisfaction and working performance. Moreover, working performance and job satisfaction are also influenced by leadership style. However, there is no statistical evidence to show that job satisfaction has an impact on working performance. In addition, bootstrapping method is used to show the indirect effect of variables; results reveal that leadership style, though, does not have indirect effect on working performance via job satisfaction, but it indirectly affects organizational commitment throughout working performance. In other words, the study finds that working performance mediates the link between leadership style and organizational commitment.

공적개발원조 사업의 효율성 분석을 통한 미래 정책 방향성 : 우리나라 ODA 사업 수혜국을 중심으로 (The Korea's Future ODA Policy Direction through Efficiency Analysis : Focusing on the Beneficiary Countries of ODA Projects Provided by Korea)

  • 남현동;김대철
    • 산업경영시스템학회지
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    • 제41권3호
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study is to improve effectiveness of Korea's Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided to developing countries. To do this, we analyze the efficiency of ODA provided to 38 recipient countries by Korea through data envelope analysis method. The effects of four factors including population, GDP, economic decline and poverty, and external intervention on efficiency are also investigated by utilizing tobit regression analysis. As a result of the DEA efficiency analysis, it is found that the average efficiency score of the total is about 59%. By region, the average efficiency score of Asia, Africa, Central and South America, and the East and CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) are about 42%, 68%, 70%, and 74%, respectively. It indicates that the Asian countries are inefficient compared to countries of the other regions. It is also found that factors of population, GDP, economic decline and poverty, and external intervention have statistically significant effects on efficiency at 0.01 significance level. In the case of the population, the higher the population of the recipient country, the more negative (-) effect is on the efficiency. The other factors such as GDP, economic decline and poverty, and external intervention have positive effects on the efficiency.

Development of Chloroplast Microsatellite Markers for Invasive Carduus (Asteraceae) between East Asia and North America

  • Jung, Joonhyung;Kim, Changkyun;Do, Hoang Dang Khoa;Yoon, Changyoung;Kim, Joo-Hwan
    • 한국자원식물학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국자원식물학회 2018년도 춘계학술발표회
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    • pp.38-38
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    • 2018
  • The genus Carduus (Asteraceae), containing ca. 90 species, is mainly distributed in Eurasia and Africa. Carduus species are one of the most hazardous invasive species, which causes serious environmental threats and biodiversity damages in North America. Thus, the member of Carduus are targeted for classical biological control in this region. Here, we provide the complete cp genome of Carduus crispus using next-generation sequencing technology. The size of cp genomes of C. crispus is 152,342 bp. It shows a typical quadripartite structure, consisting of the large single copy (LSC; 83,254 bp), small single copy (SSC; 18,706 bp), separated by a pair of inverted repeats (IRs; 25,191 bp). It contains 115 unique genes of which 21 genes duplicated in the IR regions. The cpSSR regions of Carduus species were searched through the complete chloroplast genome sequence using a tandem repeat search tool in Geneious with the parameters set to ${\geq}7$ mononucleotide repeats, ${\geq}4$ di- and trinucleotide repeats, and ${\geq}3$ tetra-, penta-, and hexanucleotide repeats. A total of 22 repeat motifs were identified, which may be useful for molecular identification of Korean Carduus species (C. cripus), and providing a guideline for its conservation.

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세계 민족 헤드드레스 유형의 지역별 분류 (Geographical Classification of the World Folk Headdress Types)

  • 유태순;김지희
    • 한국의류산업학회지
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    • 제1권3호
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    • pp.246-251
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    • 1999
  • Headdress which adorns the head has been used not only as a type of dress but also as a vehicle to express the human's mentality and a tool to convey ideas. This study first examines the type of headdress observed in the world folk costumes and investigates their geographical distribution and aims to examine how the types of headdress are inter-related to the peoples' natural environments, way of life and cultural background such as religion and aesthetic, ethical standards. Headdress used as important elements of many peoples' folk costumes can be categorized into scarf-type, hat-type and adornment-type. Veil-type, the one of scarf-types, was developed in Southwestern Asia and Arabic Africa influenced by natural and religious factors. This type is more simplified in Turkey and Eastern Europe and only covers head and neck in the former and only head in the latter while also being called 'headkerchief-type'. Hat-type is observed in many different parts of the world. Adornment-type has been used to symbolized one's noble social status and authority in societies dominated by shamanistic cultural background; it was also used in Far East out of the motivation to fulfil one's aesthetic desire. Headdress though it was originally made from the idential purpose of wearing, has developed into the various types affected by each people's natural environments, emotion and ways of life.

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