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Morphological variables restrict flower choice of Lycaenid butterfly species: implication for pollination and conservation

  • Mukherjee, Subha Shankar;Hossain, Asif
    • Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.45 no.4
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    • pp.305-312
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    • 2021
  • Background: Butterflies make an important part for plant-pollinator guild. These are nectar feeder or occasionally pollen feeder and thus proboscis of the butterfly species are considered as one of the most important variable in relation to the collection of food from plants. In butterfly-plant association, nectar source is principally determined by quality of nectar, corolla length, and nectar quantity. For the butterfly, nectar uptake is determined by proboscis length because flowers with long corolla restrict butterfly species containing shorter proboscis. Empirical studies proved that butterfly species with high wing loading visit clustered flowers and species with low wing loading confined their visit to solitary or less nectar rich flowers. The present study tries to investigate the flower preference of butterfly species from Lycaenidae family having very short proboscis, lower body length, lower body weight and wing span than the most species belonging from Nymphalidae, Pieridae, Papilionidae, and Hesperiidae. Results: Butterflies with shorter proboscis cannot access nectar from deeper flower. Although they mainly visit on less deeper flower to sucking nectar, butterflies with high wing loading visits clustered flowers to fulfill their energy requirements. In this study, we demonstrated flower choice of seven butterfly species belonging to Lycanidiae family. The proboscis length maintains a positive relationship with body length and body weight. Body length maintains a positive relationship with body weight and wing span. Wing span indicate a strong positive relationship with body weight. This study proved that these seven butterfly species namely Castalius rosimon (CRN), Taracus nara (TNA), Zizinia otis (ZOT), Zizula hylax (ZHY), Jamides celeno (JCE), Chilades laius (CLA), and Psuedozizeeria maha (PMA) visit frequently in Tridax procumbens (TPR), Ocimum americanum (OAM) and Syndrella nodiflora (SNO). The species do not visit Lantana camara (LCA) and Catharanthus roseus (CRO) plants. Conclusion: The present study proved that butterfly species visits frequently in Tridax procumbens (TPR), Ocimum americanum (OAM) but less frequently in Syndrella nodiflora (SNO). So, that study determined the butterfly species helps in pollination of these herbs that in turn helps the conservation of these butterfly species.

Comparative Analysis on the Green Productivity and Its Determinants among G20 Countries (G20 국가들의 녹색생산성과 그 결정요인의 비교분석)

  • Choi, Yongrok
    • International Area Studies Review
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.307-324
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    • 2011
  • The global economic crisis made most of governments to overcome the economic depression as well as the challenging tasks for global warming. It is not easy political vision to harmonize these two rabbits race, and thus it needs to be developed new paradigm for the sustainable development. Unfortunately, the traditional cost-approach based productivity could not resolve this trade-off relation. Therefore, the paper is aimed to develop new approach on the green productivity index with the DEA models in the 1st stage, and then based on these green productivity scores, the paper is analyzed the determinants of these green productivity in the 2nd stage among the G 20 countries. The empirical result shows that the effect of GDP, carbon intensity, and capital and labor intensity toward the green growth is positive on the green productivity, while the level of government efforts is not significant on the green productivity.

The Analysis of Structural Relation among Culture Marketing, Brand Image, Customer Satisfaction and Intention to Revisit in Coffee Franchises (프랜차이즈 커피전문점의 문화마케팅과 브랜드 이미지와 고객 만족 및 재방문 의도 간의 구조적 관계 분석)

  • Kim, Jong-Im
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.139-148
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    • 2019
  • Franchise coffee shops have continued to attempt to differentiate themselves using cultural arts to engage with changes in consumer awareness and lifestyle. This empirical study was conducted to analyze structural relations between cultural marketing and brand image, customer satisfaction, and intention to revisit for franchised coffee shops. 322 customers at S Coffee Shop (a franchised coffee shop in Daegu) were surveyed, and collected data were subjected to frequency, descriptive, reliability, correlation, and covariance structural analysis using SPSS software. We found that culture marketing significantly improved brand image and customer satisfaction, and thus, significantly influenced intention to revisit. The study shows culture marketing activities improve brand image and increase customer satisfaction and the likelihood of revisiting.

A case study on the experiential marketing of toddler and children's wear in Korea (국내 유아동복 브랜드의 체험 마케팅 사례 연구)

  • Yoon, Se Hyun;Ma, Jin Joo
    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.368-383
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    • 2019
  • Despite the declining birth rate and consequent lower children population in Korea in recent years, there has nevertheless been found to be a positive trend in relation to the purchase of toddler and children's wear. This has led toddler and children's wear to pursue sales and marketing strategies. There is especially a growing number of experiential marketing that provide an empirical element, which stimulate con- sumers' emotions, and also create a relationship with a brand. Therefore, this research aims to serve as practical data for the planning and implementation of experiential marketing strategies through the analysis of experiential marketing cases conducted by brands of toddler and children's wear. The study examines the status of the Korean toddler and children's fashion market between 2009 and 2018. The domestic brands of toddler and children's wear were analyzed with the application of Bernd H. Schmitt's five experiential modules. The analysis results first showed that of the five modules, 'feel' held the highest proportion, followed by 'think' and 'act', and lastly 'sense' and 'relate'. Second, the experiential marketing stimulated more than three of the five senses. Third, experiential marketing that provided educational experiences to children was conducted. Fourth, an experience was provided for parents and children to enjoy together. Finally, product promotion and purchase were naturally linked. The study's results have confirmed that toddler and children's wear brands implement experiential marketing strategies, which convey the emotional and cultural experiences shared by parents and children in various ways.

The Relation between the Income Smoothing and the Consumption Smoothing: the EU Case (EU 국가 소득의 고찰을 통한 소득위험분산과 소비위험분산 간 관계 분석)

  • Song, Jeongseok
    • International Area Studies Review
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.191-213
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    • 2011
  • This study empirically examines whether income smoothing effectively contributes to consumption smoothing. Since international factor movement plays an important role for income smoothing across countries, net factor income across countries deserves more attention in considering income smoothing than attention having been paid by previous studies in the literature. Most of previous studies assume that net factor income has the same degree of effects on consumption as GDP. For the case of 12 EU countries during the period from 1999 to 2010, our empirical investigation observes that the response of consumption with respect to net factor income is severely lower than the response of consumption with respect to GDP, and further net factor income has ignorable effects on the consumption. This evidence implies that the income smoothing via international factor movement is less significant in contributing to the consumption smoothing. In the sequel, our finding suggests that legal and institutional process for transferring net factor income across countries should be eased further to improve contribution of income smoothing to consumption smoothing.

Analysis of Urban Agricultural Effects by Factors According to the Urban Citizens Income Level: Socially Sustainable Effect, Negative Effect, and Economically Sustainable Effect

  • Hong, In Kyoung;Chae, Young;Jang, Yoonah;Lee, Sang-Mi;Su, Jung Nam
    • Journal of People, Plants, and Environment
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.461-471
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    • 2018
  • The role of urban agriculture should not be limited as a small-scale crop cultivation activity as it was, but it has to be considered as an entire process of a agriculture activity for the restoration of the city community. This study is based on the assumption that there has been a significant change in urban lifestyle and urban farming preference, considering the overall improvement in standard of living after implementation of five day work week system. It was conducted for urban citizens who were interested in actual urban agriculture for ages 19 and over who visited the Korea Urban Agriculture Exhibition in 2018. Only 115 valid samples were used for the empirical analysis. To analyze the demographic characteristics and effects of urban agriculture, frequency analysis and descriptive statistics were conducted. In order to analyze the reliability and validity of the measurement variables of the effect, the variables that deteriorate the validity were removed and 15 variables of the urban agricultural effect were selected. According to the result of factor analysis, three factors were extracted as follows: socially sustainable effect, negative effect and economically sustainable effect. In order to examine the effects of urban agriculture depending on income level, the one-way ANOVA, which is a statistical technique for verifying differences in the sample means, was performed. The psychological stability of people, the recovery of humanity through communion with nature, and the vitalization of agriculture linked with local agriculture had significant correlations with income level. The negative effect showed no significant correlation with income level. The improvement of the local environment was found to have an impact in relation with income level. We expect that there will be more studies on policies for the new types and models of urban agriculture in order to make it easier for urban citizens to approach it.

The Influence of Smart-phone Dependence of University Students on Career Attitude Maturity in the Convergence Era: Mediating Effect of Interpersonal Problem (융복합시대에 대학생의 스마트폰 의존도가 진로태도성숙에 미치는 영향: 대인관계 문제의 매개효과)

  • Baek, Seon-Mi;Son, Kwi-Ok;Park, Yu-Mi
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.100-108
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of university students' dependence on smart-phone on career attitude maturity and the mediating effect of interpersonal problem in the analysis path. For this purpose, the study implemented a survey on students of universities in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do area and carry out a structural equation for empirical verification with a total of 218 copies. As a result, first, high level of daily life disturbance and virtual world orientation of university students, have a positive effect on interpersonal problems. Second, high level of daily life disturbance and virtual world orientation of university students, have a negative effect on career attitude maturity. Third, interpersonal problems of college students had a negative effect on career attitude maturity, and they were found to be fully mediated in relation to smart-phone dependence and career attitude maturity. Therefore, this study suggests that it can be used as a basic data for the development and application of various programs promoting the career attitude maturity of university students.

The Direction and Implication of Urban Development in the Age of Response Climate Change (기후변화 대응시대의 도시개발방향과 시사점)

  • Oh, Eun-Yeol
    • Journal of Industrial Convergence
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.33-39
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study was to present the direction and implications of urban development in relation to climate risk factors and environment for practical implementation of urban development in response to climate change. The research method was carried out through a qualitative data survey and analysis. As a result of the study, the direction of urban development according to the climate risk factors emphasized the importance of preparing conditions for urban development by establishing a damage prevention system for natural disasters and analyzing the risk of natural disasters by conducting analysis of the impact and vulnerability of climate change in urban planning. The direction of urban development on the environmental side suggested the need for the promotion of public transport oriented development (TOD) in the form of urban planning to realize sustainable and practical urban development. Future research directions will need to be supplemented with more quantitative and empirical findings.

A Study on the Effectiveness of Secure Responses to Malicious E-mail (악성 이메일에 대한 안전한 대응의 효과성 연구)

  • Lee, Taewoo;Chang, Hangbae
    • Journal of Platform Technology
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.26-37
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    • 2021
  • E-mail is one of the important tools for communicating with people in everyday life. With COVID-19 (Coronavirus) increasing non-face-to-face activity, security incidents through e-mail such as spam, phishing, and ransomware are increasing. E-mail security incidents are increasing as social engineering attack using human psychology rather than arising from technological weaknesses that e-mails have. Security incidents using human psychology can be prevented and defended by improving security awareness. This study empirically studies the analysis of changes in response to malicious e-mail due to improved security awareness through malicious e-mail simulations on executives and employees of domestic and foreign company. In this study, the factors of security training, top-down security management, and security issue sharing are found to be effective in safely responding to malicious e-mail. This study presents a new study by conducting empirical analysis of theoretical research on security awareness in relation to malicious e-mail responses, and results obtained from simulations in a practical setting may help security work.

Direct and Diffuse Radiation Data in Naju During May 2019 to November 2020 (농업적 활용을 위한 산란일사와 직달일사 관측 자료: 나주에서 2019년 5월부터 2020년 11월까지)

  • Kim, Hyunki;Moon, Hyun-Dong;Cho, Yuna;Sin, Seo-Ho;Kim, Jong-Hyeon;Lee, Yang-Won;Cho, Jaeil
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.134-140
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    • 2021
  • Global solar radiation consists of direct and diffuse radiations. Both components are necessary for not only atmospheric science and solar energy domains but also agricultural applications. In this study, the data of direct and diffuse radiations are uploaded to Github. It was observed in Naju during May 2019 to November 2020. Using this data, the previous empirical equations using the relation between clearness index and diffuse ratio were validated. All coefficients of determination (R2) and RMSE were similar as 0.79~0.80 and 0.13~0.15. However, to get the lower RMSE, other non-linear approaches will be required with more observation data.