• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.102-120
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• 2021

E-learning is a planned effort towards providing interactive and experiential learning having flexibility in terms of time, place, pace, participation and accessibility. Globalization has set the stage for a social transformation of the world economy driven by technological innovation, emphasizing knowledge-based processes. While the tertiary education enrolments in wealthy nations have gone up incrementally, the same cannot be said to be right about developing economies. E-Learning can streamline enrolments to higher education, in developing nations by being a cost-effective and flexible alternative. The objective of this paper is to draw attention to the similarities in the national culture of these two countries and compare students' perception on e-learning in India and Sri Lanka along eight dimensions viz., viability, dependability, flexibility, inclusivity, power, pertinence, challenge and equitability. The results reveal that e-learning is equally popular among students from both countries, and they have a high perception score towards e-learning on each of the measured eight dimensions. Hence results are indicative of an opportunity of tapping the potential of e-learning in reaching out to a broader audience of underprivileged students and onboarding them into the knowledge economy.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.67-78
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• 2006

Six surface sediments from two offshore transects of Ulsan and Gampo, on the southeastern margin of Korea were taken for sediment and foraminiferal analyses. Sedimentary processes are dominated by reworking and resedimentation from storms in the area off Ulsan and hemipelagic suspension settling in the area off Gampo. Eighty-four foraminiferal species were identified in total assemblages, including 33species of living populations and 9 species of planktonic foraminifera. The characteristics of foraminifera showed differences of offshore environments between Ulsan and Gampo. The number of living species, species diversity and equitability in Gampo offshore area had higher values than those in Ulsan offshore area. However, planktonic/benthic(P/B) ratio showed higher in the Ulsan offshore area. The species diversity indices and P/B ratio indicated that environmental stability and surface-ocean productivity in the Gampo offshore area were relatively higher than the Ulsan offshore area. The difference of species compositions is useful for interpreting the paleoenvironments in mud deposits of the southeastern margin of Korea.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.399-414
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• 2006

Since the inauguration of WTO system has made borderless competition across the countries, many government should try to find out the harmonious policy paradigm for the check and balance between the globalization and localization. The government procurement market has been considered as one of this kinds of difficult tasks for the local small and medium companies. Many governments should lift the paradigm of the government procurement market toward the conditionally open competitive market. The paper is aimed to find out the sustainable governance of the government procurement policies to protect the local companies. Based on the many international cases, including the Chille-Korea FTA, the paper concludes the sustainable governance of the policies should be focused on the equitability and transparency.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.151-178
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• 2016

본 연구는 공정성에 관한 선행 연구를 바탕으로 화주기업과 물류기업 간 거래상 지위로 인해 발생하는 불합리한 계약 관행을 예방하고 장기적인 관점에서 상호 이익실현을 위한 관계 구축과 긍정적인 파트너쉽 구축에 도움을 주고자 물류계약의 불공정 사례의 실제 사례를 통하여 문제점을 확인하였다. 물류기업과 화주기업을 대상으로 물류계약서 조항의 구체화와 파트너쉽 그리고 성과와의 관계에 대한 인식조사를 실시하고 인식조사의 결과 분석과 함께 연구자의 선행연구 결과와 비교분석을 하였다. 인식조사의 분석결과, 물류기업은 물류계약서 조항 중 비용발생조항과 위험발생조항의 구체화는 화주기업과의 파트너쉽에 긍정적인 영향을 미칠 것이라는 인식으로 밝혀졌다. 반면에 화주기업은 비용발생 조항의 구체화는 성과에 부정적인 영향을 미칠 것이라는 인식을 가지고 있는 것을 알 수 있었다. 그리고 물류기업의 인식은 선행연구에서 실증 연구한 결과와 동일한 것으로 나타났으나 화주기업의 인식은 선행연구에서 이루어진 연구 결과와 일치 하지 않는 것을 알 수 있었다. 이러한 연구결과는 화주기업의 인식 전환이 필요한 것을 나타내는 것으로, 본 연구의 결과와 선행연구의 결과의 비교를 통하여 향후 표준계약서 배포를 위한 정책마련에서 필수적으로 구체화 되어야 하는 조항과 선택적으로 구체화 되어져야 할 조항에 대한 정책적인 시사점을 제공할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• 무역상무연구
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• 제68권
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• pp.43-63
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• 2015

The number of final appeal(the rate of final appeal: 43%) has been on the increase every year over the past ten years in Korea. The number of final appeal cases given to a justice of the Korean Supreme Court amounts to nearly one everyday, which makes it vulnerable to faulty decisions. Reversal rate of final appeal is as low as 10% with most of the cases being dismissed and hence the percentage of people having trust in the judiciary is merely 27%. In this context, the Korean judiciary has announced its plan to set up a final appellate court in the Supreme Court. The establishment of final appellate court, however, is not only against the Constitution but also hardly seen in other nations. It would only overexpand the Supreme Court. Furthermore, the final appellate court would end up deteriorating into the court of fourth instance and impose extra burden on the government as well as on the disputing parties. Therefore, it is necessary to upgrade the quality of the court by increasing the number of judges in the lower court and let them focus on the fact finding process. Facilitating the ADR(Alternative Dispute Resolution) process such as arbitration would help improve the structure of the judiciary. The incompatibility among the four values of the dispute resolution process(equitability, truth, quickness and efficiency) calls for building comprehensive judicial system in which disputes are settled by choosing either jurisprudence or utility.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈A:수학교육
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• 제56권2호
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• pp.147-160
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to examine (1) if sociocultural factors that are known to influence gender gap in mathematics achievement are gender equitable for Singaporean eighth grade students, (2) if there is a higher level of gender equitability in students' attitudes towards mathematics and (3) how sociocultural factors influence mathematics achievement for Singaporean eighth grade students. This study is based on 5,923 Singaporean eighth grade students who participated in TIMSS 2011 assessment. The study found that there were no statistically significant gender differences in 'parental involvement in education' and 'teacher efficacy.' There were no statistically significant gender differences in students' attitudes of 'like learning mathematics,' and 'value learning mathematics'. A significant gender difference was identified for the attitude of 'confident with mathematics.' The boys displayed a higher level of confidence in mathematics than the girls consistent with other study findings for Asian students. The degree of effect from 'parental involvement in education,' 'teacher efficacy,' and 'confident with mathematics' on mathematics achievement are found to be stronger for girls than boys. The finding implies that girls' mathematics achievement can benefit from having more positive encouragement and involvement of parents and teachers and strengthening confidence in mathematics.

• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.149-163
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• 1990

Two distinct spider communities were studied in the crowns and ground surfaces of pine plantations at Mt. Ungilsan, Kyonggi-do using pitfall traps and knock-down by spraying of an insecticide (D.D.V.P.) to sample spiders. There were 34 species of 11 families in the ground community and 41 species of 15 families in the crown community, with only 9 species being collected in both. Wandering spiders comprised 78.5% of the crown community and 90.8% of the ground community. Guild abundance and the most abundant families were distinctly different in the two habitats: agile hunters (Salticidae:32.4%) and nocturnal hunters (Clubionidae:19%) in the crown, runners (Lycocidae:32.8%) and nocturnal hunters (Gnaphosidae:31.2%) in the ground. Dominant species were Clubiona jucunda (Karsch) and Mymarachne japonica (Karsch) in the crown, while in the ground they were Pardosa laura Karsch and Gnaphosa silvicola. Species diversity(H ) had peaks in May, July and November in the ground community, while in the crown community peaks were in June and September. The seasonal trends of species diversity (H ) were due mainly to differences in the number of species and the numbers of individuals collected at each sample date rather than to differences in equitability among species. Spier guilds and dominant species have different seasonal patterns based on the temporal differences in prey availability in the two communities and the reduction of temporal overlap.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.233-244
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• 2007

Nine surface sediments from Masan Bay and Gadeog Channel were taken for grain size and geochemical and foraminiferal analyses in August 2002. The sediments consist of mud with 7.29-8.54 $\phi$ in mean grain size. Average concentrations of Al, Fe and Mn are higher in Gadeog Channel than those in Masan Bay. On the other hand, average concentrations of Pb, Cu, Zn, Cd, Cr, Ni and V are higher in Masan Bay than those in the channel. The latter group of elements show the highest concentration at station M4, off the outfall of treated wastewater disposal. Eighty-one foraminiferal species are identified in total assemblages, including 21 species of living populations. The number of individuals, species number, species diversity and equitability in Masan Bay have lower values than those in Gadeog Channel. The foraminiferal fauna off the outfall is relatively poor. Compared to geochemical and foraminiferal data obtained in 1996, heavy metals are more enriched, and the characteristics of foraminifera are little changed. These features indicate that the pollution of Masan Bay has not been reduced.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.1-15
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• 2011

The present study was undertaken in middle altitudinal (1500 to 2500 masl) moist temperate forest of Mandal-Chopta area in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India. The aim of the present study was to assess the variation in species composition and diversity in different vegetation layers viz. herb, shrub and tree, at different altitudes. Shannon-Wiener diversity index ($\bar{H}$), $Nha^{-1}$, total basal cover per hectare (G), Simpson concentration of dominance, Pielou Equitability, species richness (SR), Margalef index, Menheink index of species richness and ${\beta}$-diversity were calculated to understand community composition. Tree G ranged from 84.25 to 35.08 $m^2ha^{-1}$ and total stem density varied from 990 to 1470 Nha-1. Total SR (herb, shrub and trees) among different forest types ranged between 31 and 58. Maximum G of herb and shrub layers was recorded at lower altitudes between 1500 and 1650 masl. ${\beta}$-diversity was higher in herb layers as compared to tree and shrub layers. Dominance-diversity curves were also drawn to ascertain resource apportionment among various species in different forest types. Values of species diversity, $\bar{H}$, $Nha^{-1}$ and G were higher in the study area as compared to similar forests growing in other parts of Uttarakhand Himalaya.

• 한국제4기학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.91-98
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• 1999

부유성 유공충의 상대적인 양이 고기후 및 고해양환경의 해석에 미치는 영향을 1년 동안 관찰한 퇴적물 포집장치에 함유된 유공충의 연구로 행하여졌다. 본 연구는 저자들이 알고 있는 한 처음으로 행해진 것이다. 총 부유성 유공충의 수, 고기후의 지시자로 사용되는 부유성 유공충 G. bulliodes와 N. dutertrei)의 상대적인 양, 수온, 염도 등은 부유성 유공충 유생의 상대적인 양과 통계적으로 의미 있는 상관관계를 보이지 않는다. 하지만 부유성 유공충 유생의 상대적인 양은 종다양성지수(종 풍성도, 샤논-와이너 지수, 균등도)와 상관관계를 보인다. 이러한 결과는 유생의 양은 종의 상대적인 양에는 영향을 미치지 않으나 종다양성에는 영향을 미침을 의미한다. 따라서 퇴적물 포집장치에서 일년간 관찰한 결과에 의하면 부유성 유공충의 유생을 count 시 제외했을 때 종다양성 지수를 이용한 고기후/고환경해석시 주의 가 요망된다.