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An Introduction to the Office of Naval Research and its Activities in Manufacturing and Shipbuilding

  • Koenig, Philip C.
    • Bulletin of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.38 no.3
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    • pp.76-83
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    • 2001
  • The Office of Naval Research (ONR) coordinates, executes, and promotes the science and technology programs of the United States Navy and Marine Corps through universities, govemment laboratories, and nonprofit and for-profit organizations. ONR is active in basic research, applied research, and advanced technology development in a broad range of scientific and technical disciplines. This paper provides an introduction to ONR and to the shipbuilding-related efforts in its Industrial and Corporate Programs Department and International Field Office. ONR's shipbuilding activities focus on improving technology and manufacturing processes while reducing fleet costs. Approaches to the management of technology and innovation in naval shipbuilding are discussed, and opportunities and mechanisms for international collaboration in technical areas of interest to the international shipbuilding community are highlighted.

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Difference of Customer Satisfaction Variables with the Student Characteristics (학생특성에 따른 고객만족변수의 차이)

  • Kim Yong-Ho
    • Management & Information Systems Review
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    • v.4
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    • pp.285-308
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    • 2000
  • Marketing is a topic of growing interest to nonprofit organizational managers(for example, hospitals, museums, charities and, churches, universities and colleges) as their organizations confront new, complex marketplace problems. These organization heads(specially in university and college) are laking their first, tentative steps toward marketing, often confusing it with its advertising and selling subfunctions. A genuine marketing response has been undertaken by a relatively small number of college in america. Their approach is best described as market-oriented institutional planning. In these approach, marketing is recognized as much more then mere promotion, and indeed, the issue of promotion cannot be settled in principles until more fundamental issues are resolved. According to market-oriented institutional planning customer satisfaction is one of the most important concept in university(college) marketing. Therefore, this study reviews literatures about university(college) marketing and general customer satisfaction. The literature study suggests some research hypotheses about customer satisfaction in college. Next, these hypotheses are tested empirically using ${\chi}^2-test$, multiple linear regression analysis and t-test. The research results worth explorative study on the customer satisfaction in the college.

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The Comparative Study on Price and Objective Quality of Apparel Products between Korea and United States - Focused on 1990's - (한국과 미국 패션제품의 가격와 객관적 품질에 관한 비교연구 -1990년대를 중심으로-)

  • 백수경;황선진
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.26 no.3_4
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    • pp.527-538
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    • 2002
  • Although importance of the price and objective quality relationships, very few studies have investigated the relationship related to apparel products. The purpose of this study were to examine 1990's the relationship between price and objective apparel products quality in the Korea Market and the United States market. Data sources in this study consisted of consumer magazines which were published by nonprofit organizations(1990 ∼1999) : Consumer Times(Korea), and Consumer Reports(U.S.A). The results showed that the correlations between price and objective apparel products quality were very weak positive and highly dependent upon the specific apparel product categories. Therefore, price was not a reliable measure of apparel products quality in the two countries market places. This study will help the consumer understand the relationship between price cues and apparel product objective quality and provide additional information to enhance purchase decision making.

Policymakers and stakeholders' perceptions of science-driven nuclear energy policy

  • Li, Nan;Brossard, Dominique;Scheufele, Dietram A.;Wilson, Paul P.H.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.50 no.5
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    • pp.773-779
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    • 2018
  • This study surveyed 137 policymakers and key stakeholders (e.g., employees of government agencies, academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, industry, and advocacy groups) involved in making decisions on nuclear energy policy, investigating how they differentially perceived the importance of scientific evidence in driving nuclear policy. We also identified the policy areas that each group of decision-makers are mostly concerned about and showed how such concerns might contextualize and ultimately shape their perceptions of science-driven policy.

Sciaphila secundiflora Thwaites ex Benth. (Triuridaceae): An unrecorded species from Korean flora

  • Yim, Eun-Young;Hyun, Hwa-Ja;Kim, Chang-Uk;Kim, Chan-Soo
    • Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy
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    • v.47 no.3
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    • pp.196-198
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    • 2017
  • Sciaphila secundiflora occurs on Jeju Island as a second species of the genus Sciaphila in Korea. This is an important finding in relation to the flora of Korea, as species of the genus Sciaphila are concentrated mainly in Indonesia and Malaysia. Few species are found on the mainland of Asia, in Japan, Taiwan, China (Hainan), tropical Africa, Australia, and on the Pacific islands. In this paper, the species S. secundiflora is described and illustrated as a new record from Korea. In addition, we suggest that the species of the genus Sciaphila should be protected with regard to its habitat characteristics and for its phytogeographic and climatic significance.

A Loan System of funding Research Projects for Starting Up Venture Business(A Research fund Management System Incorporating Business Concept) (벤처기업 육성을 위한 대여 연구비 관리제도(Business형 연구관리제도))

  • 강박광;황희융
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.73-82
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    • 2000
  • Conventional funding system for the university research projects is limited to a grant or subsidy type funding method which does not require an obligation of refund. Such a funding system is known as ideal one for the university research activities which in general is not a profit oriented activities. It is considered ideal in a sense that nonprofit oriented research activities gives more emphasis on creativity than on efficiency or practical value. A venture- business-start-up research activity can not be considered as a pure nonprofit oriented activities. It clearly gives more emphasis on efficiency and practical value than on creativity Recently a large portion of the venture-business-start-up research activities are carried out in the universities. When a conventional research funding system is applied to such a new type of research activities, it turned out that the success rate is much lower than expectancy. This is why a new and differentiated funding system is sought for such a new type of research activities. A funding system of loan type for a venture-business-start-up research activities is proposed herewith. A loan system naturally requires a pay back after the successful start up of the venture business. This loan system nay be considered that a business concept is grafted on a conventional funding system for the university research activities. This means that a rather loose or generous terms and conditions of the money loan case is introduced into this funding system to remedy the short comings of the intrinsic nonprofit nature of the university research activities. The point is how to improve the success rate and how to reduce the undesirable aspect of the conventional university research activities when it is practiced with the new type of research activities. After one and half year of practicing with the new funding system. it can not be asserted that a definitely positive results could be obtained. but a trend of desirable aspects could be observed such as low drop out rate. project selection efficiency, higher sense of responsibility. etc.

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Relational Continuancr Intention of Donators to Nonprofit Organization (비영리기관 후원자의 관계지속의도)

  • Kim, Jun-Whai
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.9 no.8
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    • pp.324-332
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    • 2009
  • It a very important part to keep a good relationship with supporters to promote the activities smoothly in non-profit-making organizations. The donation, a financial source of non-profit-making organizations, and the volunteer activities of supporters are also born from the identity with the supportive organizations. This research is a study about the relationship sustainability with supporters and supportive organizations, which is practiced with the variables of image, service quality, ethics, activity, satisfaction, trust, and intent of sustaining their support of supportive organizations. This research aims at making the model of relationship-sustaining intent of supporters and supportive organizations on the bass of the relationship between the conceptual definition about supportive activities and the variables influencing the supportive activities, and at suggesting the marketing points of non-profit-making organizations on the base of the model. This is because the concept of service quality about non-profit-making organizations has not been formed yet, and so it does not influence the trust or the satisfaction. Other assumptions seemed to have some relationship. As a result, in order to increase the intent of sustaining support and the trust in organizations, they need to inform supporters of the image or the results of activities by means of active marketing activities.

The Effect of Entrepreneurship and authentic leadership on the Performance of Nonprofit Organizations (기업가 정신과 진정성 리더십이 비영리 조직의 성과에 미치는 영향)

  • Park, Eun-Mi;Seo, Joung-Hae
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.231-240
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    • 2020
  • In this study, the case of OO corporation was based on to examine the business performance and method of OO corporation and the competitive advantage and success factors were considered. For the progress of this study, references and advanced researches related to entrepreneurship, authentic leadership, and organizational effectiveness, which were suggested as the core competence of non-profit organizations, were examined and textual information was secured through the homepage of the targeted organization and news articles. Lastly, data needed for the research was collected through an interview with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the organization. Through the process and analysis, the following findings were identified. First, the entrepreneurship of the CEO can apply as a core competence for the operation of the non-profit organization. Second, the proposition was derived that the roles of the CEO and leadership can apply as a key competence in the operation of the non-profit organization. This study implies that the many theories and strategies which were only targeted on companies can also be applied for the research of non-profit organizations. Moreover, concerning modern corporate management, strategic approach of non-profit organization characteristics like a sense of mission, fairness, and ethics can promote the creation of sustainable competitive advantage.

A Study of Predicting the Degree of Donors' Philanthropic Effort in Nonprofit Social Welfare Arena (후원 활동에 참여하는 사람들의 일반적 특징과 그들의 후원 노력에 영향을 미치는 요인들에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Chul-Hee
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.35
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    • pp.1-30
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    • 1998
  • The primary objectives of this research is to identify (1) demographic and behavioral characteristics of donors for social welfare organizations in Korea and (2) factors that predicts the degrees of donors' philanthropic effort measured by the fraction of personal income given to these organizations. This study uses the data based on the responses of 191 participants among 500 donors selected randomly from the donor population of 5 major social welfare organizations. In the demographic aspect, this study showed that donors have higher frequencies in college education, Christianity, married status, age of 30s & 40s, and middle class. In the behavioral aspect, this study showed that donors have higher frequencies in inner motivation for philanthropic participation ("joy of giving"), satisfaction about the activities of social welfare organizations, trust toward funds administration of social welfare organizations, and active participation ("solicitation to others") about donation. This study also showed that donor's duration is distributed around 3 years (median) and donors' donation amount is distributed around 20,000 Won (median). This study found that the median value of donors' philanthropic effort is 1.2 percent and the distribution of philanthropic effort by income has the U shape. Finally, using polynomial regression analysis, this study found that the first power and second power of donor's income, age, continuation motivation of donation, and degree of active participation are statistically significant in predicting the degree of donors' philanthropic effort. This study will contribute to expanding knowledge about donors' characteristics and provide a practical implication for financial resource mobilization strategies in nonprofit nongovernmental sector.

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An Analysis of Open Source GIS Software Ecosystem in Korea (국내 오픈소스 공간정보 소프트웨어 생태계 분석)

  • Kang, Youngok;Kang, AeTti;Kwon, HoeYoon
    • Spatial Information Research
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.67-79
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    • 2014
  • These days open source softwares are being introduced and applied in many countries in the world. Especially, both government and private companies tend to become an spearhead in vitalizing the open source software. In this paper we try to check the degree of vitalizations in open source GIS software and to draw implications in vitalizing ecosystem of open source GIS software. Key players of open source GIS software ecosystem are government, private companies, academic and research institutes, and nonprofit foundations. Government does not have very little policies related to the investment and the support of open source GIS software. Private companies related to the open source GIS software are very few in the number and do not have any clear business model to make a profit. Academic and research institutes are weak in using the open source GIS software, which can be an major obstacle to cultivate software developers. OSGeo Korean branch, established in 2009, is the only nonprofit foundation in Korea which makes an effort to vitalize the open source GIS software, but its results are not very strong up to now in view of both quality and invigoration. In order to vitalize the open source GIS software ecosystem, lots of efforts of key players are needed. Especially, government efforts are very important because it can provide a trigger in vitalizing the open source GIS software ecosystem. The tasks that government should propel are R&D investment, test bed projects in the area of public sector, professional manpower training, and international cooperation and marketing.