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Modeling the Growth of Neurology Literature

  • Hadagali, Gururaj S.;Anandhalli, Gavisiddappa
    • Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.45-63
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    • 2015
  • The word ‘growth’ represents an increase in actual size, implying a change of state. In science and technology, growth may imply an increase in number of institutions, scientists, or publications, etc. The present study demonstrates the growth of neurology literature for the period 1961-2010. A total of 291,702 records were extracted from the Science Direct Database for fifty years. The Relative Growth Rate (RGR) and Doubling Time (Dt.) of neurology literature have been calculated, supplementing with different growth patterns to check whether neurology literature fits exponential, linear, or logistic models. The results of the study indicate that the growth of literature in neurology does not follow the linear, or logistic growth model. However, it follows closely the exponential growth model. The study concludes that there has been a consistent trend towards increased growth of literature in the field of neurology.

Research Trend of Oxide Magnetic Films with Atomically Controlled Pulsed Laser Deposition (원자층 제어 PLD를 이용한 산화물 자성 박막 연구의 동향)

  • Kim, Bong-Ju;Kim, Bog-G.
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.147-156
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    • 2012
  • Recently, there have been considerable interests in various thin film growth techniques with atomically controllable thickness. Among them, atomically controlled pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique is quite popular. We have developed advanced thin film growth technique using PLD and Reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED). Using the technique, the growth of oxide thin films with the precisely controllable thickness has been demonstrated. In addition, our technique can be applied to high quality thin film growth with minimal defect and bulk chemical composition. In this paper, our recent progresses as well as the current research trend on oxide thin films will be summarized.

The Relationship of Obesity and Related Behaviors among 4th, and 5th Grade-Primary School Children (국민학교 고학년 아동의 비만정도 및 관련행동 연구)

  • Kim, Sa-Leum;Park, Hae-Ryun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.19-28
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    • 1995
  • The relationship of obesity and related behaviors was analyzed among 361 primary school children, 4th and 5th grade, in one of private school in Seoul in July 1994. Compared to 1985 Korean Children's Growth Standard, the surveyed children have shown remarkable growth, which is the secular trend in growth of Korean children accompanied with rapid economic growth. But the relative incremental weight was far larger than that of height and this trend was more evident among children over 50th percentile, which shows a wide prevalence of obesity of the surveyed children. By WLI index, 15% of the children was overweight and 13% was obese. The higher the WLI, the more frequent and stronger stress they had. The nutrition knowledge score of obese children was higher compared to others. They were especially sensitive to their physical fitness but many normal or underweight-children also experienced stress due to their body weight and have tried to lose weight by incorrect methods. On the other hand many obese children thought they were optimal or underweight. These results reasserts the importance of nutrition education focused on children aheading puberty. They need to know the correct degree of obesity and to get appropriate education through teachers, dietitians, parents and doctors. The findings of this study could be applied to a nutrition implementation policy to ensure better physical fitness of children aheading puberty in the future.

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Aggregate Productivity Growth in Korean Manufacturing: The Role of Young Plants

  • KIM, MINHO
    • KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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    • v.39 no.4
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    • pp.1-23
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    • 2017
  • I measure aggregate productivity growth in manufacturing between 1995 and 2013 as defined by Petrin and Levinsohn (2012). I decompose aggregate productivity growth into technical efficiency improvements, resource reallocations, and net entry effects. I find that aggregate productivity growth slows down after 2004 and that the rapid drop in technical efficiency growth contributed most to the decline. In this paper, I focus on the role of young plants with regard to productivity growth of Korean manufacturing. I show that young plants account for nearly half of APG (48%), while their value-added share is 14 percent on average between 1995 and 2013. I find that productivity growth at young plants has been declining for the last ten years. The lower growth of continuing young plants contributes to this trend. These results stress the important role of young plants in aggregate productivity growth and imply that understanding the dynamics of young plants is necessary to form effective start-up policies.

Selection of a Predictive Coverage Growth Function

  • Park, Joong-Yang;Lee, Gye-Min
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.909-916
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    • 2010
  • A trend in software reliability engineering is to take into account the coverage growth behavior during testing. A coverage growth function that represents the coverage growth behavior is an essential factor in software reliability models. When multiple competitive coverage growth functions are available, there is a need for a criterion to select the best coverage growth functions. This paper proposes a selection criterion based on the prediction error. The conditional coverage growth function is introduced for predicting future coverage growth. Then the sum of the squares of the prediction error is defined and used for selecting the best coverage growth function.

Modelling the Failure Rate Function in Coverage and Software Reliability Growth

  • Park, Joong-Yang;Kim, Young-Soon;Park, Jae-Heung
    • International Journal of Quality Innovation
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.110-121
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    • 2004
  • There is a new trend of incorporating software coverage metrics into software reliability modelling. This paper proposes a coverage-based software reliability growth model. Firstly, the failure rate function in coverage is analytically derived. Then it is shown that the number of detected faults follows a Nonhomogeneous Poisson distribution of which intensity function is the failure rate function in coverage. Practical applicability of the proposed models is examined by illustrative numerical examples.

Changes in the Business Cycle of the Korean Economy: Evidence and Explanations (한국 경기변동의 특징 및 안정성에 대한 연구)

  • Lee, Jaejoon
    • KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.47-85
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    • 2009
  • With a relatively simple quantitative method, this study comprehensively analyzes the characteristics related to business cycles represented by macroeconomic variables of Korea since 1970. This empirical analysis deals with roughly following three topics: How to identify cyclical component with respect to trend; with what characteristics and how the economic variables of each sector move with in the phases of business cycle, and; whether there are signs of a structural change in the phases of business cycle. Section 2 discusses how to identify trends and cycle components, the basis assumption for the analysis of business cycle. Like the Korean economy, where a relatively high growth rate has been maintained, it is appropriate to determine its economic recession based on the fall in the growth trend, not in the absolute level of real output. And, it is necessary to apply the concept of growth cycle against a traditional concept of business cycle. Accordingly the setting of growth trend is of preliminary importance in identifying cyclical fluctuations. The analysis of Korea's GDP data since 1970, the decomposition of trends and cycles through the Band-pass filter is found to appropriately identify the actual phases of busyness cycle. Section 3 analyzes what particular relationship various economic variables have with output fluctuations during the phases of economic cycle, using the corss-correlation coefficients and prediction contribution. Section 4 monitors the stability of the phases of Korea's business cycle and quantitatively verifies whether there is a structural break, and then reviews the characteristics of variations in each sector. And, stylized facts observed through these studies are summarized in the conclusion. The macroeconomic stability of Korea, in particular, is found to continue to improve since 1970, except for the financial crisis period. Not only that, it is found that its volatility of economic growth rate as well as inflation have been reduced gradually. Meanwhile, until recently since 2000, the volatility in domestic demand has remained stable, while that in exports and imports has been increased slightly. But, in an over all perspective, Korea's business cycle variation is on the decline due to shorter response period to shocks and the formation of complementary relationship among economic sectors.

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The Productivity Trend and the Effect of the Corporate Education & Training after Financial Crisis - A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis using the Listed Manufacturing Companies' Data - (외환위기 이후 생산성 추이와 교육훈련효과 - 상장제조기업 자료를 이용한 동적 패널 분석 -)

  • Ban, Ga Woon
    • Journal of Labour Economics
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.95-124
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    • 2009
  • In this article, I were trying to analyze the listed manufacturing companies' trend of productivity and the corporate education & training effect after the financial crisis. According to the analysis, the listed manufacturing companies have decreased their productivity since financial crisis, and from such declining trend. jobless growth and a growth without physical and human capital investment has been observed. Furthermore, there is no efficient labor force coordination within the manufacturing industry; In order to analyze the effect of education & training investment on productivity more deeply, I have practiced the dynamic panel data analysis from constructing the micro panel data which consists of company level information 1997~2008. According to the consequences, dynamic panel data analysis solved the problem of the overestimating education & training effect fairly well.

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