• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.19-23
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• 2017

It is undisputable that crude oil and its price fluctuations are major components that affect most of the countries' economies. Recent studies have demonstrated that beside the impact that crude oil price fluctuations have on common macroeconomic indicators like gross domestic product (GDP), inflation rates, exchange rates, unemployment rate, etc., it also has a strong influence on stock markets and their performance. This relationship has been examined in a number of settings, but it is yet to be unraveled in the Omani context. Accordingly, the main purpose of this study is to examine the possible effect of the oil price fluctuations on stock price movements. The study applies Toda and Yamamoto's (1995) Granger non-causality test on the daily Oman stock index (Muscat Securities Market Index) and oil prices between the period of 2 January 2003 and 13 March 2016. The results indicated that the oil price fluctuations have a significant impact on stock index movements. However, the stock price movements do not have a significant impact on oil prices. These findings have significant implications not only for the Omani economy but also for the economy of similar countries, particularly in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. The latter should carefully consider their policies and strategies regarding crude oil production and the generated income allocation as it might potentially affect the financial markets performance in these countries.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권9호
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• pp.455-466
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• 2020

The purpose of the paper is to explore the country-of-origin (COO) influence on the buying decisions of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) consumers. The collected data from 370 consumers were summarized and coded by using Software R Studio and Microsoft Excel. The independent variables were analyzed and tested for their significant impact on the dependent variable, final buying decision of the product/service based on its country of origin. The selected hypotheses tested by administering the Kruskal-Wallis (K-W) hypothesis testing technique. The researchers identified that UAE consumers buying decisions influenced mainly by the country of origin of the products and services. The demographic variables like age, education, country of origin influential factors, country of choice was not displaying any significant impact on the buying decisions of consumers. The survey is limited to cover the general consumers of the country who are randomly selected from Dubai and Sharjah emirates. The study is beneficial to all the types of marketers, including domestic and international companies, who have plans to know the exact influence on consumers' buying decisions. The present research paper is original and provides empirical evidence on the country of origin's impact on the buying decisions of different products/services in the UAE.

• 한국조명전기설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국조명전기설비학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.168-171
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• 2006

After an incandescent lamp developed as a first light source using electric energy in 1879, various lamps have been developed and promoted for usual convenience. Although lots of light sources have been developed for the past centry, among them some were used widely but some were hardly used contray to the initial expectations. Incandescent, fluorescent, HID and LED lamps which are normally used these days were treated as new type of light sources and very difficult to be popularized at the initial stage. In spite of the initial difficulties, these light sources and luminaries are still so popular because all of them were improved to be used easily by reflecting human's mental and physiological state. Like this when new light sources and luminaries are developed, a careful consideration, if these are proper for the surroundings or not, must be preceded. This study finally derived development factors of PLS developed in domestic to be played an important role in future light by analyzing product trends, social and lighting development changes.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.917-929
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• 2021

This study highlights the importance of remittance, the factors which affect the percentage of income remitted, and the investment options available to reduce remittance. For the year 2019, the remittances from Oman totaled $9.1 billion. Oman was among the top remitters with remittance to gross domestic product (GDP) ratio of 11.9%. A survey was conducted on 300 resident expats in Oman. The descriptive analysis shows that the maximum remittance percentage is between 21%-40% of income. The multinomial logistic regression results show that outward remittance depends on gender, age, occupation, number of dependent in Oman, and the number of dependent in the home country. Regarding investment, the most preferred investment option is business, followed by real estate and financial services. Age and education are found to affect investment options. This paper tries to fill the literature gap, especially for the case of Oman, by exploring what determines the level of remittance and the preferred choices for retaining funds. This study adds to the existing literature, as no previous study is available regarding how personal factors can influence the level of remittance and investment in a small oil-exporting developing country like Oman. The study will be helpful to policymakers and academicians in devising policies to retain and invest the outwards remittances in Oman.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제23권9호
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• pp.17-28
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• 2023

Today Agriculture segment is a significant supporter of Indian economy as it represents 18% of India's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and it gives work to half of the nation's work power. Farming segment are required to satisfy the expanding need of food because of increasing populace. Therefore, to cater the ever-increasing needs of people of nation yield prediction is done at prior. The farmers are also benefited from yield prediction as it will assist the farmers to predict the yield of crop prior to cultivating. There are various parameters that affect the yield of crop like rainfall, temperature, fertilizers, ph level and other atmospheric conditions. Thus, considering these factors the yield of crop is thus hard to predict and becomes a challenging task. Thus, motivated this work as in this work dataset of different states producing different crops in different seasons is prepared; which was further pre-processed and there after machine learning techniques Gradient Boosting Regressor, Random Forest Regressor, Decision Tree Regressor, Ridge Regression, Polynomial Regression, Linear Regression are applied and their results are compared using python programming.

• 한국해양환경ㆍ에너지학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.17-24
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• 2013

해양레저 산업의 후발주자인 국내 해양레저 산업이 국내 시장 및 세계시장에 경쟁력을 가지기 위해서는 기획, 설계, 계획과 준비 등 제품 개발 및 제조의 각종 업무에 소요되는 시간과 비용을 단축시켜 높은 수준의 시장 적응력을 확보해야 한다. 위 사항들을 만족하기 위해서는 해양레저 산업 전반을 관리 할 수 있는 통합 시스템 구축이 절대 적으로 필요한 상황이다. 유관 산업 시스템간의 유기적 연결고리를 찾아서 요구되는 통합 정보를 확보하고 이를 단순 순차적 정보의 흐름이 아닌 통합적 정보 흐름과 객체 지향적 정보 분류체계를 확보하는 것이 주요 연구 핵심 사안이다. 이를 위하여 다른 유사 산업에서 실재 정보 체계를 활용한 사례 및 산업생산에 적용된 제품수명주기관리(PLM), 제품 데이터 관리(PDM), 가상 생산(DM)과 같은 방법론을 검토 하고 이를 구성 및 적용하여 실질적으로 활용되고 있는 정보 체계 및 작업분류체계(WBS)의 사례를 연구하여 비교 한다. 이를 통하여 해양레저산업을 위한 기본적인 작업분류체계 구성을 추진하며 실재 업체에서 현재 활용중인 정보를 입력, 대입을 통하여 실증적으로 검증하고 해양 레저 산업의 고유한 영역을 추가하여 해양레저 작업 분류 체계(MLWBS)를 완성한다. 본 해양레저 작업 분류 체계를 바탕으로 여러 가지 정보체계 및 제품, 설계, 엔지니어링, 생산, 구매, 영업, 마케팅, AS, 고객지원 등에 다양한 형태의 활용이 가능 하도록 할 수 있을 것이다.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.265-286
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• 2009

Dumping describes the practice of international price discrimination whereby a producer or exporter sells merchandise in an export market at less than fair value. The U.S. antidumping statutory framework is embodied in the Tariff Act of 1930. The Act states that "dumping" refers to the sale or likely sale of goods at less than fair value. 19 U.S.C. $\S$ 1677(34). The Commerce Department and the Commission are jointly responsible for administering the antidumping law. Commerce determines whether foreign merchandise is being sold in the United States at less than fair value, and the Commission determines whether a domestic industry producing a product like the imported merchandise has been materially injured or threatened with material injury by reason of imports of that product. Recently, in U.S. v. Eurodif, the Supreme Court held the question whether the Commerce can reasonably determin that foreign merchandise has been sold within the meaning of the antidumping law in U.S.. Should 19 U.S.C. Section 1673, which calls for "antidumping" duties on foreign goods, but not services, that sell at less than fair value in the U.S., apply to imported low enriched uranium? Yes. In a unanimous opinion written by Justice David H. Souter, the Supreme Court held that the Commerce Department's view of imported low enriched uranium, as the sale of goods rather than services, was permissible. It reasoned that, since 19 U.S.C. Section 1673 did not specify whether it applied to the production of low enriched uranium, it was left to the reasonable interpretation of the Commerce Department to determine. Accordingly, the Court found the Commerce Department interpreted the statute reasonably.

• 한국식품저장유통학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식품저장유통학회 2002년도 창립 10주년 기념 국제학술심포지움
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• pp.99-108
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• 2002

Since the introduction of carbonated drinks in the 1950s, 'cola' and 'cider'along with orange juice, the dominator of the juice market, have been two main streams of the Korean beverage market. This market pattern has caused the following effects; a. Economical loss due to the import of foreign brands - royalty payments to x company. b. Loss of opportunity to develop a domestic beverage market. c. Inflow of an unfiltered foreign culture. This study shows a change in the Korean beverage market. In the 1980s. consumers' tastes started to change as a trend of developing beverages using traditional Korean ingredients started to begin. On the basis of this change, I would like to discuss the desirable path in developing beverages using traditional ingredients. 'Traditional ingredients'refers to the ingredients that the Korean people have enjoyed within the course of their life, whether it be via food or beverage. These ingredients have been chosen by our people as first rate for centuries. How to modernize and develop these work-in-progress products is the desirable direction for the development of drinks using traditional Korean ingredients. This study also shows various examples of how Korean traditional ingredients and the Western scientific civilization can fuse together to develop a modern and value-added product. One project in particular, created a method of producing a beverage using rice a simple traditional ingredient, marking it a hit product. Through this example, I present the desirable direction of how to develop a modernized drink using traditional ingredients that can change both the consumers' current value on the Korean beverage market as well as create a new pattern of consumer tastes.

• 패션비즈니스
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.29-45
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is for providing not only the latest design technique trend for zero waste fashion, but information about creative fashion design education through eco-fashion industry trend in globally and domestic which is focusing on eco-fashion labelling. The research were processed with literature related eco, sustainable, green fashion books, former articles, newspapers, and web sites. The results as follows; The certification about eco-fashion product is moving to 'Life Cycle Assessment' from focused on primary process like material, finishing, dyeing. Especially simplicity of process means reducing the wastes. And fabric wastage for adult outwear was estimated 15% percent of total fabric used in general design studios. Three cases for Zero waste fashion were as follows; First, Jigsaw puzzle by Timo Rissane and Mark Liu were different zero waste methods, but the result was same. Rissene's method was based on traditional cutting like 'cut and sew' but traditional cutting can lead to design that have an abundance of fabric and drape. Jigsaw of Rissene was approached with description a pattern-cutting technique in which all piece interlock with each other generating no waste from design production. Another Jigsaw by Liu was related with innovative textile design. DTP makes the possibilities for zero waste garment production almost endless. The dress intricately cut from 10 pieces, wastes none of the fabric required to make it. Second, Subtraction Cutting by Julian Roberts provides unexpected fluid, organic forms and zero waste fabric. Utilizing Roberts plug(tunnel) technique enables any part of the garment that is removed for fit or aesthetics to be reincorporated into the design of garment. Third was 'Bio Couture' by Suzanne Lee. She has created garments from cellulose bacteria which grow in a bathtub using only green methods addressing in such as way ecological issues and exploring the future of fashion design in conjunction with technology.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.39-70
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• 2017

최근 여론조사 분야에서 데이터에 기반을 둔 분석 기법이 널리 활용되고 있다. 기업에서는 최근 출시된 제품에 대한 선호도를 조사하기 위해 기존의 설문조사나 전문가의 의견을 단순 취합하는 것이 아니라, 온라인상에 존재하는 다양한 종류의 데이터를 수집하고 분석하여 제품에 대한 대중의 기호를 정확히 파악할 수 있는 방안을 필요로 한다. 기존의 주요 방안에서는 먼저 해당 분야에 대한 감성사전을 구축한다. 전문가들은 수집된 텍스트 문서들로부터 빈도가 높은 단어들을 정리하여 긍정, 부정, 중립을 판단한다. 특정 제품의 선호를 판별하기 위해, 제품에 대한 사용 후기 글을 수집하여 문장을 추출하고, 감성사전을 이용하여 문장들의 긍정, 부정, 중립을 판단하여 최종적으로 긍정과 부정인 문장의 개수를 통해 제품에 대한 선호도를 측정한다. 그리고 제품에 대한 긍 부정 내용을 자동으로 요약하여 제공한다. 이것은 문장들의 감성점수를 산출하여, 긍정과 부정점수가 높은 문장들을 추출한다. 본 연구에서는 일반 대중이 생산한 문서 속에 숨겨져 있는 토픽을 추출하여 주어진 제품의 선호도를 조사하고, 토픽의 긍 부정 내용을 요약하여 보여주는 제품 평판 마이닝 알고리즘을 제안한다. 기존 방식과 다르게, 토픽을 활용하여 쉽고 빠르게 감성사전을 구축할 수 있으며 추출된 토픽을 정제하여 제품의 선호도와 요약 결과의 정확도를 높인다. 실험을 통해, K5, SM5, 아반떼 등의 국내에서 생산된 자동차의 수많은 후기 글들을 수집하였고, 실험 자동차의 긍 부정 비율, 긍 부정 내용 요약, 통계 검정을 실시하여 제안방안의 효용성을 입증하였다.