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Making Strategic Choice for Sustainable Social Enterprise: The Application of Holon Dynamics Approach (지속 가능한 사회적 기업을 위한 전략적 방향 제시: 홀론 다이내믹스의 적용)

  • Yu, Jae-Eon
    • Korean System Dynamics Review
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.133-157
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    • 2012
  • This paper aims to propose the strategy making in social enterprise for ensuring organizational sustainability and governance of social enterprise from systems thinking's perspective. Based on previous reviews on organizational sustainability and theories of governance currently advocated in the social enterprise literature, we use 'Holon Dynamics' approach, which is a synthesis of System Dynamics and Soft Systems Methodology (SSM), offers the problem-solving method for dealing with social contexts and "ill-defined" situations. To do so, a researcher carried out the interpretive action research using 'Holon Dynamics' approach from September, 2009 to August, 2010. The outcomes of research are summarized as follows. Firstly, systems methodologies are useful to offer a strategic choice that makes to achieve an organizational sustainability in the case of Korean social enterprise; 'the Rediscovery of Korea'. Secondly, systems thinking offers an alternative concept of system, which is known as an 'appreciative system' that is evolved from the mental constructs amongst participants in given situations. Lastly, the paper delineates the usefulness of systems thinking and the process of inquiry, which deal with social contexts (including cultural and political factors), are contributed to making the necessary conditions for organizational legitimacy and the appropriate strategic choice for social enterprise within combined functioning of the two roles of social and commercial activities from systemic perspectives.

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Theoretical Considerations on Fisheries Resource Management and Public Choice (어업자원 이용관리와 공공선택에 관한 이론적 고찰)

  • 박성쾌
    • The Journal of Fisheries Business Administration
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2000
  • The experience of many countries strongly suggests that bad governments and institutions have been a serious, if not the most serious, obstacle to economic growth and industry-structural adjustments. All public sectors pursue a mix of both predatory and productive activities-bad governments emphasizing the former, while good governments finding a way of promoting the later. In fishery public policy studies, much confusion exists about the roles of policy illustration and prescription. In general fishery public sectors involve collective actions by numerous individuals under conditions of uncertainty, complexity, bounded rationality, and imperfect information structure. All collective fisheries action organizations consist of a center(e.g., government), which leads fishery group actions, and peripheral participants(e.g., fishermen), which are controlled by the government. A paradigm is developed that gives both theoretical and empirical meaning to the constitutional determination of fisheries political preference function or fishery public sector governance structures. Three relevant spaces are specified: policy instrument, results, and constitutional. The collective-choice rules of the constitutional space structure the tradeoff between public and special fishery interest groups. Fishery public sectors seeking sustainable reductions in wasteful rent-seeking fishing activities should select constitutional principles and institutional structures that tend to promote resource sustainability. In particular, the effects of internal and external events on fisheries may result in a greater or lesser concentration of interest group power. Thus, the structure of the fishereis political power must be assessed in any prescriptive evaluation of alternative fishery governance weights.

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Children's Ideas about Self-Regulation by Situational Characteristics (상황의 특성에 따른 아동의 자기 규제에 대한 판단)

  • Cho, Sung Min;Yi, Soon Hyung
    • Korean Journal of Child Studies
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.147-157
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    • 1998
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate children's ideas about self-regulation in such situational variables as the presence of explicit rules and the domains of social rules. The subjects were 6-, 9-, and 12-year-old children (344). To assess children's ideas about self-regulation, a procedure was devised in which children were presented with stories portraying a protagonist in a conflict between an implicit or an explicit rule and a personal desire. The children were asked to make a choice for the protagonist and to give reasons for their choice. Major findings as follows: (1) There was significant difference in children's self-regulation depending on the presence of explicit rules. (2) There was significant difference in children's self-regulation depending on the domains of social rules. In situations that involved no explicit rules for behaviors, there were significant differences depending on the domains. In situations that involved explicit rules for behaviors, for 6- and 9-year-old children, there was no significant difference depending on the domains. (3) Children's use of justifications for their choice of action varied as a function of the characteristics of the social rules.

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Recommended seismic performance requirements for building structures in Hong Kong

  • Tsang, Hing-Ho
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.9-17
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    • 2018
  • This paper provides recommendations for setting performance requirements for the seismic design of building structures in Hong Kong. Fundamental issues relating to the required level of structural safety will be addressed, which is then followed with a recommended seismic action model for structural design purposes in Hong Kong. The choice of suitable performance criteria of structures and the return period of the design seismic actions are first discussed. The development of the seismic hazard model for Hong Kong is then reviewed. The determination of the design response spectrum and the choice of design parameters for structures of different importance classes will also be presented.

CLINICAL CONSIDERATION IN THE CHOICE OF ALIGNMENT ARCHES (치아배열을 위한 교정용 탄선의 선택에 대한 고찰)

  • Park, E. Woong;Kim, Sang Cheol
    • The korean journal of orthodontics
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.79-86
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    • 1989
  • The wires for initial alignment purposes require a combination of excellent strength, excellent springiness, and a long rang of action. The variables in selecting appropriate arches for alignment are the arch wire material, its diameter, and the distance between attachments. The principle that there should be 0.02 inch clearance for initial wires means that an .016 diameter wire is the largest that should be considered for initial alignment in the .018 slot system. The three major possibilities for alignment arches are multistranded steel wires, nickel-titanium wires, and single-stranded steel wires with loops. The excellent choice for initial alignment in .018 bracket is .014 steel wire with loops.

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Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Motor Axon Guidance in Drosophila

  • Jeong, Sangyun
    • Molecules and Cells
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    • v.44 no.8
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    • pp.549-556
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    • 2021
  • Decoding the molecular mechanisms underlying axon guidance is key to precise understanding of how complex neural circuits form during neural development. Although substantial progress has been made over the last three decades in identifying numerous axon guidance molecules and their functional roles, little is known about how these guidance molecules collaborate to steer growth cones to their correct targets. Recent studies in Drosophila point to the importance of the combinatorial action of guidance molecules, and further show that selective fasciculation and defasciculation at specific choice points serve as a fundamental strategy for motor axon guidance. Here, I discuss how attractive and repulsive guidance cues cooperate to ensure the recognition of specific choice points that are inextricably linked to selective fasciculation and defasciculation, and correct pathfinding decision-making.

Aspirin (I) Discovery, Current and Potential New Therapeutic Uses, and Mechanism of Action

  • Kim, Dong-Han
    • Archives of Pharmacal Research
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.41-54
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    • 1978
  • Aspirin is one of the oldest synthetic drugs and remains the most widely used medical agent. It is a household remedy effective in treating such common ailments as headache, minor muscular pain and fever. Aspirin is the drug choice for rheumatic fever and arthritis which some five million Americans suffer. Lately it has been established by double-blind and randomized clinical studies that regular aspirin intake reduces the incidence of mild strokes and heart attackes.

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Strategies and Directions for Developing Sustainable Agriculture in Korea (지속가능한 농업발전을 위한 전략과 추진과제)

  • Kim, Chang-Gil
    • Journal of Environmental Policy
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.17-40
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    • 2003
  • The objective of this paper is to formulate strategies and action programs for developing sustainable agriculture in Korea. There is increasing evidence that agriculture has been preoccupied with increasing productivity much to the detriment of environmental degradation. The issue of increasing agricultural productivity so as not to undermine the environment is a difficult task. In reality, there are many definitions of sustainable agriculture and sustainable agricultural development. In this paper, sustainable agriculture is defined by its ability to ensure future supplies of agricultural products at acceptable economic and environmental costs to the society. Sustainable agriculture development refers to the optimal level of interaction among the three dimensions - the environmental, the economic and the social - through dynamic and adaptive processes of trade-off. In order to formulate the strategies for developing sustainable agriculture, three stage approaches such as strategic analysis, strategic choice, and strategic implementation are employed. The basic framework for strategies of sustainable agriculture development consists of five steps such as vision, targets, principles, action plan and policy instruments. The major action plans for activating formulated strategies are suggested as integrating agricultural and environmental policy measures, establishing the system of optimal agri-environmental resources management practices, establishing safe and high quality product system and its effective marketing system, increasing the R&D investment for developing sustainable agro-technology, developing indicators for measuring sustainable agricultural development, and taking a share in related roles for all parties including farmers, consumers, policy makers, researchers and NGOs.

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Joint Toxic Action of Insecticide Mixtures to the Cupermethrin-and Pirimicarb-Selected Strains of Green Peach Aphid(Myzus pericae Sulzer) (Cypermethrin과 Pirimicarb 저항성계통 복숭아혹잔딧물에 대한 살충제문의 연합독작용)

  • 안용준;김길하;최승윤
    • Korean journal of applied entomology
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.32-36
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    • 1989
  • The joint toxic action of mixtures of cypermethrin or pirimicarb with one of other insecticides (acephate, cypermethrin, demeton-S-methyl and pirimicarb) on the cypermethrin or picimicarb-selected green peach aphid (Myzus persicae Sulzer)was investigated. The responses depended on the choice and ratios of insecticide combination. In the cypermethrin-selected strain bioas-say, mixtures of test insecticides showed no synergistic effect. On the other hand, the maxi-mum synergistic effects for the pirimicarb-selected strain were obtained at the 8 : 2 ratio of pirimicarb and demeton-S-methyl exhibited antagonistic effect.

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Outcome and Implication of Establishment and Practice of Action Plan for the Elderly Care Facility in Establishing Risk Management System (노인요양시설의 위험관리시스템 구축활동에서 액션 플랜의 수립과 실행에 따른 성과와 시사점)

  • Youn, Ki-Hyok;Park, Kyung-Il;Kwon, Jin-A
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.16 no.11
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    • pp.308-320
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    • 2016
  • This research is an empirical case study that suggests the practical practice and output of action plan, the actual performing activity of risk management system established to prevent and respond to risk of the elderly care facility. For this, this research analyzed the action plan practice process and outcome upon 2 years' practice (2014~2015) by A Elderly care facility which has conducted performance activity by establishing risk management system to prevent and respond to danger for the first time in Korea. As the research result, first, risk management system action plan was established in the choice and performance stage of risk prevention and response handling method, the 3rd among 4 staged process of risk management system establishment. Second, as the outcome along with risk management system action plan performance, as the result of comprehending the investigation on risk change for 2 years(2014~2015), risk decreased by 28% in 2015 compared to 2014, displaying effect in risk management activity along with performing action plan. Based on this result, it was determined that action plan for the effective action plan establishment and practice in the elderly care facility should be established with systematic promotion schedule to be well connected with its strategy, achievement goal, and achievement project, etc. based on vision and strategy, instead of being established individually, based on clear matter of responsibility, utilizing such technique as Gantt chart, etc., composing concretely by schematizing in order to view all contents to be practiced clearly.