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Water, Energy, Cooperation, and Conflict inthe Kura-Araks Basin of the South Caucasus

  • Campana, Michael E.
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.3-3
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    • 2011
  • After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Kra-Araks Basin (KAB) became an international river basin with respect to the South Caucasus states of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. However, there are no agreements regarding water allocation, water quality, or ecosystem maintenance among the aforementioned riparians. The main water problems in the basin include not only water quantity and quality, but also the lack of joint management. The aforementioned countries share many similar circumstances: location in a politically unstable but strategic region bureaucratic and structural issues; and more importantly, ongoing ethnic and related conflicts. Despite these obstacles, the countries recognize that they depend greatly on the basin, whose waters they must share. To that end, they proposed and participated in the joint NATO-OSCE South Caucasus River Monitoring (SCRMP) project between 2002 and 2009.The SCRMP sought to investigate and characterize the surface water quality in the KAB by providing equipment and training to all three countries. Several years' worth of water quality data were collected in the KAB: major ions; heavy metals; POPs (persistent organic pollutants); and radionuclides; The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (primary funder) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europesupported the SCRMP not only to build capacity but also to promote cooperation and minimize conflict over water and other resources, thus providing a measure of security for Europe and other regions. The South Caucasus is a strategically-important region, functioning as a bridge between Asia and Europe. Energy-rich Azerbaijan seeks to become a key player in trade by serving as a transportation and energy hub between the energy and mineral-rich Central Asian KUT countries (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan) and Western Asia, Europe, and other areas. The presentation will summarize the scientific results of the SCRMP, elucidate the regional water-energy-security nexus, discuss future work in the region, and explain why the world needs to be concerned about the KAB and the entire South Caucasus.

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An Empirical Study on the Logistics Service Performance by Innovation Patterns (경영혁신 패턴 분석을 활용한 물류서비스성과에 관한 실증연구)

  • Lee, Sang-Hoon;Jeon, Jae-Woan
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.402-415
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    • 2016
  • Most firms have great interest in their innovations, but they have no interest in the patterns of innovation. In particular, firms using the benchmarking method have a tendency to use the same method, which is very dangerous for management. Analyzing the innovation pattern is more important than to benchmark the leading company, because of the differences in the situation of all companies, such as an environment, competition, market, etc. This paper used the Grew & Scott's model, in which each firm has a different innovation pattern for valuable management performance. This study focused on service companies in logistics and aimed to contribute to the logistics industry

An Extensible Architecture for Constructing Open Sharing Service (오픈 공유 서비스 구축을 위한 확장 아키텍쳐)

  • Cho, Eun-Sook;Cha, Young-Bin;Kim, Chul-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.18 no.12
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    • pp.620-627
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    • 2017
  • An open sharing market is a market providing a sharing business. It provides open sharing services handling various products, unlike existing sharing services providing specific products. Sharing under an open sharing market can include all products that are difficult for customers to deal with, and provides fluidity of trade through negotiating sharing periods and costs among sharers. There are many variant elements when you provide sharing services for various products. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an extensible architecture that can reflect the variant elements in open sharing markets. We expect the proposed architecture can continuously improve the extensibility of sharing services for various products, because we design sharing services as components to efficiently manage and provide various sharing services, and provide dynamic binding of variant elements.

A MAC Parameter Optimization Scheme for IEEE 802.11e-based Multimedia Networks (IEEE 802.11e 기반 멀티미디어 네트워크를 위한 MAC 매개 변수 최적화 방법)

  • Sung, Min-Young
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.455-461
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    • 2008
  • Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) is a channel access scheme adopted by the IEEE 802.11e draft standard for QoS-enabled wireless local area networks. It classifies traffic into separate Access Categories (ACs) and achieves service differentiation by allowing each AC to have its own values of channel access parameters. This paper proposes a scheme to dynamically adapt the EDCA parameters to traffic environment so that they both maximize the throughput of non real-time traffics and meet the delay and throughput constraints of real-time traffics. For this purpose, we develop a design algorithm for efficient exploration of the EDCA parameter space. Using the algorithm, we derive a Pareto curve fur delay-throughput trade-off in each anticipated traffic environment. The Pareto database can then be used to optimally adjust the parameter according to the traffic environment and administrative policies. Simulation results show that compared with the default parameter configuration, the proposed scheme is better for delay, throughput guarantee and can improve the throughput of non real-time traffics by 12% on average.

The Analysis on the Change of Behaviors of Exchange Rate between Two Countries related to FTA and the Prospects (FTA체결 전.후의 환율행태 변화 분석과 전망)

  • Khoe, Kyung-Il;Sul, Won-Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.1043-1051
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    • 2009
  • This study intends to discuss the influence on behaviors of won/dollar exchange rate after a FTA between Korea and US come into effect. The change of behaviors of won/dollar exchange rate has been looked into concerning other countries who have signed a FTA pact with the US, and these examples were compared with that of Korea so as to find similarities and differences. As a result of analyses, behaviors of exchange rate between FTA-pact countries were showed differently. Volatility and risk premium somewhat decreased after the FTA took effect except for Chile. As for Chile, showing intense volatility, foreign exchange risk premium rather increased. It can be concluded that the relationship between volatility and risk premium of individual exchange rate is established and FTA can influence change of these behaviors of exchange rate depending on the situation of individual country. This study will contribute to offer informations to Korea trading companies related to IT that will have to prepare for the uncertainties of change of exchange rate due to FTA between Korea and US.

A Comparative Study of Internet Services Providing Information on China : Focusing on the Formation of the China Specialist Forum (인터넷을 활용한 중국정보제공 서비스에 관한 비교연구 : 중국전문가포럼 구축현황을 중심으로)

  • Chong, Da-Song
    • Journal of Information Management
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.87-104
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    • 2002
  • With China Market and strengthening of an international and political position of China, we need to promote exchange and cooperation with China for the supplement of economic vitality and for contriving the contribution of the flow of growth. The necessity of salient traits is needed such as sharing information, training a specialist, network between China Specialists, system establishment of China information DB and sharing China information. Accordingly, KIEP makes the most of limited special manpower and information, and developed China Specialist Forum Website : CSF which will make a stepping stone of systematic, synthetic exchange and cooperation with China. KIEP presented a development direction, comparing and analyzing promptly easy to get the information China Specialists want here, CSF made for mutual exchange of science, trade and the other issue, Taiwan website "a commercial business intelligence network of China and Taiwan", and Singapore "IE Singapore".

Improvement of International Cooperation with the Neighbouring Countries for Securing Transit Transport of Mongolia (몽골의 통과운송 안정화를 위한 주변국과 국제협력 개선방안)

  • Park, Yong-An
    • Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.271-289
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    • 2011
  • Mongolia as a land-locked country, has tried to diversify its foreign trade with European and Asian countries. Recently continual price rise of mineral resources also helps Mongolia have chances to gain her trading partners. Nevertheless, regulations and barriers to exports of Mongolian mineral resources in China and Russia, which are transit countries, are complex and complicated in border crossing and transshipment procedures for transit transport. This paper discusses problems and barriers to economic and efficient logistics systems and transit transport of Mongolian mineral resources, and addresses a proposal of international intermodal transport corridors for improving transit transport, and suggests international cooperation, by applying transit rights of land-locked country. Specifically, it is necessary for Mongolia to search for other international intermodal corridors besides the corridor through the port of Tianjin. It is needed to build an international organization for discussion of affirmation of logistics equipments and improvement of transit procedure in border crossing, and to raise financial feasibility in building a new intermodal corridor.

Deduction of Attributes' Weight for Companies' Job Creation by Applying Fuzzy Decision Making Analysis (퍼지 다기준 의사결정법을 이용한 기업의 일자리 창출 평가지표의 가중치 도출)

  • Kwak, Seung-Jun;Lee, Joo-Suk
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.16 no.11
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    • pp.7971-7977
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    • 2015
  • This paper attempts to select the attributes of job creation and to rank them for evaluation of companies' job creation. And the results of this paper are expected to provide the information for the polices of job creation. In doing so, this paper applies fuzzy decision making analysis that reflects ambiguity and uncertainty in decision-making process. According to the results, the weight of quality of employment is similar with that of quantity of employment. In addition, annual employment growth rate, annual net employment are ranked as first and the percentage of irregular employment, the average length of employment of all workers, average monthly wages of all workers, and employment growth over sales growth rate are next ranked.

Governments' Realestate Policies and Effectiveness after '90s (90년대 이후 주요 부동산(不動産) 정책과 실효성(實效性))

  • Kim, Jinsu
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.1073-1080
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    • 2013
  • Owing to 88 Olympic, social atmosphere changed to more freely and abundant liquidity, which caused by trade surplus, had led to the surge in real estate prices. Accordingly, The Roh Taewoo government announced the construction of five new towns, Bun-dang, Il-san etc. The Kim Youngsam government had dramatically enhanced the transparency of transactions on real estate field by introducing real-name transaction system. Whereas the Kim Daejung government carried out real estate stimulus package to early recovery from Asian financial cirsis. But, the Roh Muhyeon government conducted strongly suppressing polices. This report want to testify governments' real estate polices and their effectiveness on the real estate market after '90s using VAR model.

A Study on the Status of Chinese Fishing in the East Sea off North Korea and Directions for Countermeasures (중국 어선의 북한 동해수역 입어동향과 대응방향)

  • Lee, Jung-Sam;Ryu, Jeong-Gon;Kee, Hae-Kyung
    • The Journal of Fisheries Business Administration
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    • v.48 no.3
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    • pp.61-74
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    • 2017
  • This study is aimed to analyze the change of chinese fishing vessels' entry into the East Sea off North Korea and suggest directions for countermeasures. Based on the real landing data in China, Chinese fishing vessels' squid catch volume and value in the East Sea off North Korea are estimated. Results show that at least 205 thousand tons of squid was caught by Chinese fishing vessels in 2014. If the catch amount is calculated by the unit price per kilogram at the same year in Korea, it would be 556.3 billion KRW. As the UN sanctions become stricter with the recent resolution 2371 passed, Chinese fishing vessels' entry may increase in the future to compensate decreased seafood supply from North Korea. Even though there are not many options left for Korea to decrease the impact of Chinese depletive fishing, the study suggests countermeasures such as strengthening cooperative crack down on the Chinese illegal fishing vessels in Korean waters; increasing cooperation with UN member countries to incorporate banning the trade of fishing rights in the next UN sanctions; establishing regional fisheries management organization and managing migratory species with China and Japan cooperatively in the long term.