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Global Corporate Citizenship: Cross-cultural Comparison of Best Practices in the Global Automotive Industry

  • Lee, Jung Wan;Tan, Wie Nie
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.261-271
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    • 2019
  • The study aims to investigate corporate social responsibility (CSR) best practices of the world automotive industry - Peugeot, BMW, Ford, Hyundai and Toyota among others - and recommend that they plan their business strategies and managerial responses accordingly. Based on the comparative research and case studies, this research finds that all five automobile manufacturers have taken very similar measures and actions in order to establish and maintain a high level of CSR practices. Sustainability was a core value in all five companies and served as a guiding principle in every aspect and approach of their business. This study finds that all five companies have CSR strategies in place to increase energy efficiency as well as reduce the usage and wastage of water in their production and plants. This research also finds that all companies monitor their suppliers and their own production process to ensure that they maintain their CSR standards. More impressively, this sustainable management practice is transferred along the companies' supply chain through education and training. Their suppliers and business partners are closely monitored to make sure that their high CSR standards are respected and followed. However, we find that there also are some differences in terms of their CSR deliveries and activities.

Effects of Technology and Innovation Management and Total Factor Productivity on the Economic Growth of China

  • LEE, Jung Wan;XUAN, Ye
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.63-73
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    • 2019
  • The paper aims to investigate relationships between technology and innovation management, total factor productivity and economic growth in China. By comparing the trends in total factor productivity growth of industrialized economies (i.e. OECD), this study intends to showcase the importance of total factor productivity progress in the Chinese economy. The study employs time series data of an annual basis for the period from 1977 to 2016 retrieved from the World Development Indicator. The study employs unit root test, cointegration test, fully modified least squares estimation method, canonical cointegrating regression and dynamic least squares estimation method to test the hypotheses. The results of the cointegrating regression analysis show that manufacturing growth leads to an increase of total factor productivity in the short-run in China. The findings of the study suggest that manufacturing (i.e. technology and product innovation) is positively related to the increase of total factor productivity in the short-run and total output growth in the long-run. The findings suggest that promoting technology and innovation management and supporting R&D subsidies may reduce the marginal cost of conducting R&D and increase the rate of technology and innovation management and R&D activity and therefore, the total factor productivity growth rate.

A Study of the improvement to National Technology Qualification System activation scheme for HRD on the Ministry of National Defense (국방부 인적자원개발 활성화를 위한 국가기술자격 운영개선에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Woo-Hyun;Lee, Won-Park;Jeong, Byung-Han;Park, Jae-Hyun;Jung, Young-Deak
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.321-332
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    • 2012
  • The special organization that our military service is conscripted by the duty of national defense purposes to the period of military service. So couple of soldiers are think as the corresponds to college, or some knowledge layer from the operating management discarding period, lifetime value. But, now a day changed of the military life, it is when the individual soldiers can have some self-development and the lifelong education in terms of a period, and can changeing the footsteps of the new life that the function as a 'bridge' to activate production of barracks life. So that it can be supported themselves need to strive for human resource development. This study is being discussed on the correlation of military human resources and qualified operating and sustainable and promising future eligibility for qualified by taking advantage of the Boston Consulting Group Matrix(Boston Consulting Group Matrix).

Epileptic Seizure Detection for Multi-channel EEG with Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks (순환 합성곱 신경망를 이용한 다채널 뇌파 분석의 간질 발작 탐지)

  • Yoo, Ji-Hyun
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.1175-1179
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, we propose recurrent CNN(Convolutional Neural Networks) for detecting seizures among patients using EEG signals. In the proposed method, data were mapped by image to preserve the spectral characteristics of the EEG signal and the position of the electrode. After the spectral preprocessing, we input it into CNN and extracted the spatial and temporal features without wavelet transform. Results from the Children's Hospital of Boston Massachusetts Institute of Technology (CHB-MIT) dataset showed a sensitivity of 90% and a false positive rate (FPR) of 0.85 per hour.

Changes of pH, Drip Loss and Microbes for Vacuum Packaged Exportation Pork during Cold Storage (수출용 진공포장 돼지고기의 저장기간 중 pH, 육즙손실 및 미생물의 변화)

  • 진상근;김일석;하경희
    • Food Science of Animal Resources
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.201-205
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    • 2002
  • This study was carried out to investigate the changes of pH, drip loss, total plate counts(TPC) and 5. coli for exportation pork during storage at 0$\pm$1$\^{C}$ far 554days. 25 pigs were slaughtered at commercial slaughtering house and 6 portions such as loin, tenderloin, boston butt, knuckle, inner ham and outer ham were separated for each carcass after 24hrs and then storage at 0$\pm$1$\^{C}$ after vacuum packaged. pH were significantly decreased as the storage time increased for all portions. Drip loss of Boston butt was significantly lower than that of the other portions(p<0.05), whereas inner ham had the highest drip loss(p<0.05). TPC and 5. coli were significantly higher than that of the other treatments in Tenderloin and Boston butt(P<0.05).

Adaptor Proteins in T Cells Regulate IL-2

  • Moon, Eun-Yi
    • Proceedings of the PSK Conference
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    • 2003.04a
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    • pp.78-79
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    • 2003
  • T cell activation is initited by the interaction of T cells with antigen-presenting cells (APCs) in the context of peptide antigen. Initial conjugates are formed by binding between lymphocyte-associated antigen-l (LFA-l, also known as CD11a-CD18) and intercellular adhesion molecule-l (ICAM-1), or CD2 and LFA-3, or other pairs of interactive proteins. (omitted)

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Average propagation delay in a ripple adder

  • Vainstein, Feodor;Levitin, Lev B.
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2002.07c
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    • pp.1748-1751
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    • 2002
  • An expression for the average carry propagation delay in a ripple carry adder is obtained which is exact up to terms of the order 0(n$\^$-1/ln n). The case of several adders working in parallel is also considered.

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Printing and Paper Industry in Digital Era

  • Moon, Sang-Hyun
    • Journal of Korea Technical Association of The Pulp and Paper Industry
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    • v.32 no.5
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    • pp.80-85
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    • 2000
  • The objective of this article is to review the impact of emerging information technology on printing and paper industry. Todays developing information technology affects every corner of ones daily life and will bring dramatic changes in printing and paper industry, which should be regarded as definite trend that every participant in the industry must follow in any manner. Reviewing relevant technologies and quoting recent survey conducted by Boston Consulting Group will hopefully lead to a basic understanding of the impact of the transition of information distributing methods on printing and paper industry.

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Pediatric Cerebral Vascular Malformations : Current and Future Perspectives

  • Edward R. Smith
    • Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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    • v.67 no.3
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    • pp.326-332
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    • 2024
  • Intracranial vascular malformations typically encountered by pediatric neurosurgeons include arteriovenous malformations, vein of Galen malformations and cavernous malformations. While these remain amongst some of the most challenging lesions faced by patients and caregivers, the past decade has produced marked advances in the understanding of the pathophysiology of these conditions, with concomitant innovations in treatment. This article will highlight present and future perspectives relevant to these diseases, with a focus on an emerging approach utilizing disease-specific mutations to develop a novel taxonomy for these conditions.