• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권9호
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• pp.229-239
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• 2020

This paper examines the impact of gender on access to debt finance among Vietnamese enterprises. The paper investigates data and variables retrieved from the World Bank Enterprise Survey dataset using five Probit models. The regression results suggest that there exist more unfavourable debt financing conditions for women-led firms (WLF), measured as a lower probability of having loan applications fully approved. Firm's age, working sector, and perception of access to finance as a difficulty are found to have explanatory power on the discrimination. More importantly, the perception of debt finance as a difficulty or firms' level of confidence significantly explains the variance of the dependent variable of probability of loan approval, or gender effect would be more pronounced if the firm already has a low level of confidence. The paper also contributes in testing for the gender effect on Vietnamese enterprises from different sectors and scale, unlike other prior research papers focusing on specific sectors and/or small and medium enterprises only. The findings are highly useful for Vietnamese credit institutions to set out a specific business policy to attract more WLFs and help promoting gender equality in the working environment, especially in debt financing, which is often neglected in existing regulation and policy frameworks.

• 기술혁신연구
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.355-373
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• 2013

본 논문은 국방 분야 핵심기술 공동연구개발관점에서 국제기술협력의 필요성에 영향을 미치는 요소가 무엇인가를 파악하는 연구이다. 선행연구의 거래비용 이론, 지식기반관점과 기술성숙도 측면에서 가설을 설정하였다. 그리고 국방기술품질원의 국제기술협력 대상기술 선정을 위한 설문조사 결과 분석을 기반으로 다음과 같은 사실을 발견하였다. 첫째, 국방기술의 중요도가 클수록 그 기술에 대한 국제기술협력의 필요성도 커지는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 국방기술의 선진국대비 상대적 기술격차가 클수록 그 기술에 대한 국제기술협력 필요성도 커지는 것으로 분석되었다. 마지막으로 국방기술의 기술성숙도가 높을수록 그 기술에 대한 국제기술협력의 필요성은 작아지는 것으로 분석되었다. 이것은 핵심기술 공동연구개발 국제기술협력이 성숙된 기술을 고도화하기 위해 협력하기 보다는 명확한 목표 없이 부족한 자원을 국제기술협력을 통해 확보하려는 인식 때문인 것으로 추정된다. 이러한 분석 결과를 토대로 본 연구는 향후 무기체계의 핵심기술 공동연구개발 추진함에 있어 무기체계별 국내 기술수준 및 기술성숙도를 고려하여 추진할 필요가 있고, 선택과 집중의 중점 협력별 국내 기술수준 및 기술성숙도를 고려하여 추진할 필요가 있고, 선택과 집중의 중점 협력 분야의 선정이 필요함을 시사하고 있다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1993년도 하계학술대회 논문집 A
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• pp.504-506
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• 1993

JPEG(Joint Photographic Experts Group) 표준안은 디지털 정지 압축을 위하여 국제표준화기구(ISO/SC29/WG10)와 국제전신전화 자문회의(CCITT SG VIII)에 의해서 제안되었다. JPEG 표준안은 전자영상, 컴퓨터 그래픽, 멀티미디어 등과 관련하여 널리 응용되고 있으나, 의료 영상분야에서는 JPEG 압축의 손실 특성 때문에 사용이 매우 제한적이었다. 본 논문에서는 JPEG 표준안을 핵자기 공명 단층 영상 (256 gray levels, $256{\times}256$ size) 압축에 적용하여 그 성능을 조사하였다. 이를 위하여 JPEG 표준안 중 DCT에 기반을 둔 순차식 부호화 압축을 C-Cube Microsystems의 CL550 chip을 사용하여 구현하였고, 점진식 및 무손실 부호화 방식은 특별한 Hardware 없이 Software로 구현하여 실험하였다. 본 실험을 통하여 핵자기 공명 단층 시험 영상에 대해 거의 왜곡없이 약 10-20 정도의 압축률이 얻어짐을 확인할 수 있었다. 특히 JPEG으로 압축하였을 경우 재구성한 영상과 원영상과의 에러 신호가 random noise에 가깝게 나타남으로써 특별한 artifact가 없는 것도 JPEG의 큰 장점으로 부각된다. 한편 JPEG의 점진식 및 게층식 부호화 방식은 압축률과 신호대 잡음비에 있어서는 순차식과 동일하나, 거대한 영상 데이터 베이스 내에서의 빠른 탐색과 비교적 속도가 느린 공중망을 통한 원격 진단에 유용한 특성을 갖는다.

• 한국중재학회지:중재연구
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.121-145
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• 2008

Northeast Asia is increasingly making a transition to distinctive and crucial region in the 21st Century and growing into one of world's top three economic spheres along with the EU and NAFTA. In 2003, Korean government announced the Northeast Asian economic hub country plan as an important agenda. As a means of coping with the changing global environment, Korean government designated Incheon in 2003 as the country's first Free Economic Zone ahead of Busan and Gwangyang Bay in the south of the country because Incheon has a geographical advantage linking North America and Europe with Incheon International Airport and Incheon Seaport. The purpose of this paper is to make research on establishment and operation of an arbitral body entitled ${\ulcorner}International Arbitration Center{\lrcorner}$ (IAC) within Incheon Free Economic Zone(IFEZ). For the purpose of this, the writer in this paper, reviewed the necessity of the IAC's establishment and its legal basis as well as the role and function of the Center. Also, the writer presented plans for how to operate the IAC and how to cooperate with the key arbitral organizations of foreign countries for the settlement promotion of commercial disputes including trade and investment. With development of the IFEZ, world-renowned enterprises will invest in the Incheon economic bloc and conduct economic activities, business operation, marketing, logistics, financing, etc. In this connection, diverse types of commercial disputes are expected to occur between foreign companies entering the IFEZ and Korean firms. In this connection, the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board(KCAB) has been operating its liaison office in the IFEZ since 2004. However, in view of the increasing arbitration demand, the IAC should be set up in the IFEZ in the near future by the positive support of the government in the respect of both administration and finance because the free economic zone-related law provides for the installation of arbitration organization. For the success of the IAC, the Center will have to provide not only good quality of arbitral services that can satisfy arbitration parties but also need to conduct researches and make efforts so that arbitration can be utilized well in the IFEZ. If the IFEZ can provide advantageous business environments to those multinational enterprises intending to the Incheon economic bloc, the IAC will also contribute to the settlement of commercial disputes arising from the Gaeseong Industrial Complex in North Korea in view of the geographical advantage and logistic benefit of the IFEZ. Finally, this paper also suggests a new model for a joint dispute resolution system by the initiative of Korean government and Korean arbitral organizations for the settlement of commercial disputes within Northeast Asia, for which the CAMCA(Commercial Arbitration and Mediation Center for the Americas) of NAFTA can be a good example.

• 무역상무연구
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• 제14권
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• pp.177-218
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• 2000

Global Electronic Trading means that trading partners trade each other via Global Electronic Trading Network, that is, global business to business electronic commerce. Recently, where the cargo arrives ahead of the B/L, the importer cannot take delivery of the cargo without the B/L. This situation is referred to as the B/L dilemma. But the BOLERO system will resolve this B/L dilemma. Bolero Project is developing a cross industry utility platform for the secure, electronic transfer of commercial trade information world wide. After the successful testing of an original pilot project, The Bolero Association was formed in 1995 by a group of interested cross industry companies. As a joint venture between SWIFT and TT Club, bolero.net is changing the way the world trades by providing a web-based, paperless mode of commerce that is designed to become a global standard. Bolero International Limited published the first edition of Bolero Rulebook in 1999. The Bolero Rulebook as amended from time to time, governing the relationship between Users and their rights and obligations arising from the Bolero system. The Bolero service will be governed by a multilateral contract called the Bolero Rule Book which specifies the rights and responsibilities of Bolero and its users. The Title Registry and Bolero Bill of Lading provide a fully functional equivalent to the paper bill of lading. The Bolero Bill of Lading can be created, transferred, amended, and surrendered by way of designating to order party, blank endorsement, refusal by the transferee etc. Thus, this study deals with the functions of Bolero Bill of Lading and the problems and solutions in the Bolero Bill of Lading in point of definitions and operation under the Bolero Rulebook.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.536-551
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• 2017

With the advancement and deployment of leading-edge telecommunication technologies for sensing and collecting, computing related information, Cloud of Things (CoTs) has emerged as a typical application platform that is envisioned to revolutionize the daily activities of human society, such as intelligent transportation, modern logistics, food safety, environmental monitoring, etc. To avoid any possible malicious attack and resource abuse, employing hash functions is widely recognized as one of the most effective approaches for CoTs to achieve message integrity and data authentication. The Whirlpool hash function has served as part of the joint ISO/IEC 10118-3 International Standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). In this paper, we propose an effective differential fault analysis on Whirlpool in the byte-oriented random fault model. The mathematical analysis and experimental results show that 8 random faults on average are required to obtain the current 512-bit message input of whirlpool and the secret key of HMAC-Whirlpool. Our work demonstrates that Whirlpool and HMAC-Whirlpool are both vulnerable to the single byte differential fault analysis. It provides a new reference for the security analysis of the same structure of the hash functions in the CoTs.

• 한국건설관리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국건설관리학회 2008년도 정기학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.382-387
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• 2008

우리나라 건설기업은 지난 1965년 처음 해외건설시장에 진출하여 2008년 8월 현재까지 6천4백여 건의 프로젝트를 수주하였으며, 해외건설 수주누계는 올해 안에 3천억불을 달성할 수 있을 것으로 예상된다. 지속적인 국내건설시장의 정체와 부동산시장의 침체, 그리고 플랜트 사업을 중심으로 하는 해외건설시장 규모의 확대로 대기업뿐만 아니라 해외시장에 새로이 진출하는 중소기업도 지속적으로 증가하고 있으며, 대기업과 중소기업이 수주균형과 수익률 안정, 기술력 및 가격경쟁력의 확보 등 상호 미흡한 점의 보완을 위해 공동수급체를 구성하여 진출하는 비중도 증가하고 있다. 본 연구는 1990년부터 2006년까지 국내건설기업이 수주한 해외건설프로젝트 3천여 건 중 국내 건설기업간의 공동진출을 통해 수행된 613건의 프로젝트를 대상으로 사회연결망분석 (social network analysis)을 실시하여 각 공동진출 유형의 구조적인 특성을 탐색적으로 분석하였다. 본 연구는 해외건설시장에 진출한 건설기업들의 양상에 대한 후속 연구를 통해 신규 시장진출 및 사업 수주의 전략수립에 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.279-309
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• 2016

The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a free trade agreement among 12 Pacific Rim countries whose joint gross domestic products (GDPs) account for 36 percent of world GDP and whose mutual trade accounts for approximately 24 percent of world trade. As for most proposed free trade agreements (FTAs), trade economists have provided ex ante computable general equilibrium (CGE) estimates to predict the trade, employment, and real per capita income effects of this agreement, such as ITC (2016). This paper-intended to complement these studies-examines the potential impacts of TPP beyond such traditional CGE estimates, taking a broader economic, governance, and historical perspective. First, we contrast these traditional CGE trade and welfare estimates that treat all firms within an industry as homogeneous with more recent CGE analyses that allow firms' productivities to be heterogeneous. We show that the latter models' trade predictions are much more consistent with ex post empirical evidence of average trade effects of FTAs. Second, empirical evidence now strongly confirms the existence of FTA "contagion." We review this evidence and show that predictive models of the evolution of FTAs indicate that the TPP should be formed. With China now having formed 12 FTAs and negotiating five new ones (including a sixteen member Asia-Pacific FTA), the United States would likely face considerable trade diversion without the TPP. Third, we examine empirical evidence on the likely further economic growth implications of FTAs by reducing firms' uncertainty over trade relations and trade policies. Fourth, we examine empirical evidence on the additional impact of FTAs on consolidating democratic institutions in countries. The TPP would likely help consolidate some of the less mature democracies. Fifth, we examine empirical evidence on the reductions of conflicts (and enhanced peace) between countries owing to the formations of FTAs. We conclude the paper noting that the potential net benefits to member countries of the proposed TPP extend well beyond the real income gains to households based upon traditional CGE models.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.427-438
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• 2013

In this paper we discuss spent fuel management options in the Republic of Korea (ROK) from two interrelated perspectives: Centralized dry cask storage and spent fuel pyroprocessing and burning in sodium fast reactors (SFRs). We argue that the ROK will run out of space for at-reactors spent fuel storage by about the year 2030 and will thus need to transition centralized dry cask storage. Pyroprocessing plant capacity, even if approved and successfully licensed and constructed by that time, will not suffice to handle all the spent fuel discharged annually. Hence centralized dry cask storage will be required even if the pyroprocessing option is successfully developed by 2030. Pyroprocessing is but an enabling technology on the path leading to fissile material recycling and burning in future SFRs. In this regard we discuss two SFR options under development in the U.S.: the Super Prism and the Travelling Wave Reactor (TWR). We note that the U.S. is further along in reactor development than the ROK. The ROK though has acquired more experience, recently in investigating fuel recycling options for SFRs. We thus call for two complementary joint R&D project to be conducted by U.S. and ROK scientists. One leading to the development of a demonstration centralized away-fromreactors spent fuel storage facility. The other involve further R&D on a combined SFR-fuel cycle complex based on the reactor and fuel cycle options discussed in the paper.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.207-215
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• 2024

Cloud computing is now used by most companies, business centres and academic institutions to embrace new computer technology. Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) are limited to certain services, missing some of the assets requested by their customers, it means that different clouds need to interconnect to share resources and interoperate between them. The clouds may be interconnected in different characteristics and systems, and the network may be vulnerable to volatility or interference. While information technology and cloud computing are also advancing to accommodate the growing worldwide application, criminals use cyberspace to perform cybercrimes. Cloud services deployment is becoming highly prone to threats and intrusions. The unauthorised access or destruction of records yields significant catastrophic losses to organisations or agencies. Human intervention and Physical devices are not enough for protection and monitoring of cloud services; therefore, there is a need for more efficient design for cyber defence that is adaptable, flexible, robust and able to detect dangerous cybercrime such as a Denial of Service (DOS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) in heterogeneous cloud computing platforms and make essential real-time decisions for forensic investigation. This paper aims to develop a framework for digital forensic for the detection of cybercrime in a joined heterogeneous cloud setup. We developed a Digital Forensics model in this paper that can function in heterogeneous joint clouds. We used Unified Modeling Language (UML) specifically activity diagram in designing the proposed framework, then for deployment, we used an architectural modelling system in developing a framework. We developed an activity diagram that can accommodate the variability and complexities of the clouds when handling inter-cloud resources.