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Artificial Spawning Behavior and Development of Eggs, Larvae and Juveniles of the Red Spotted Grouper, Epinephelus akaara in Korea

  • Park, Jong Youn;Cho, Jae Kwon;Son, Maeng Hyun;Kim, Kyong Min;Han, Kyeong Ho;Park, Jae Min
    • Development and Reproduction
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.31-40
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    • 2016
  • This study was conducted in order to examine the egg development in red spotted grouper, Epinephelus akaara and the morphological development of its larvae and juveniles, and to obtain data for taxonomic research. This study was conducted in June 2013, and 50 male and female fish were used for the study. One hundred ${\mu}g/kg$ of LHRHa was injected into the body of the fish for inducing spawning, and the fish were kept in a small-sized fish holder ($2{\times}2{\times}2m$). Eggs were colorless transparent free pelagic eggs, 0.71-0.77 mm large (mean $0.74{\pm}0.02mm$, n=30), and had an oil globule. Hatching started within 27 h after fertilization. Pre-larvae that emerged just after hatching were 2.02-2.17 mm in total length (mean $2.10{\pm}0.11mm$), their mouth and anus were not opened yet, and the whole body was covered with a membrane fin. Post-larvae that emerged 15 days post hatching were 3.88-4.07 mm in total length (mean $3.98{\pm}0.13mm$), and had a ventral fin with two rays and a caudal fin with eight rays. Juveniles that were formed at 55 d post hatching, were 31.9-35.2 mm in total length (mean $33.6{\pm}2.33mm$), with red color deposited over the entire body, and black chromophores deposited in a spotted pattern. The number of fin rays, body color, and shape were the same as that in the adult fish.

Analysis of Technology Value Strategy using Technology Valuation System (기술가치 평가시스템을 이용한 기술가치 전략 분석)

  • Kwon, Bang-Hyun;Whang, Kyu-Seung
    • Information Systems Review
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.129-146
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    • 2003
  • Increasing number of transactions and investments in technology has sparked a growing interest in technology valuation. However, it has not been easy to come up with an objective valuation of technology due to variance in technology value and specialty of technology valuation. The main objective of this paper lies in the development of a new system for technology valuation, Web-based Interactive Technology Valuation (WITV) system, which valuate the technology and analyze the technology value strategy. WITV system uses the Technology Valuation Attractiveness Model (TVAM). TVA is composed of the Intrinsic Value of Technology (IVT) and the Extrinsic Value of Technology (EVT). This paper experiment the feasibility of the TVA Model and WITV System by conducting an empirical study on small & medium sized manufacturing companies in IT industry, registered on KOSDAQ. In this study, the potential value is defined as the technology value. It is represents the expected profit appraised by the market under the competitiveness of technology and the growth of the market. TVA is measured as the index to forecast the Price-to-Book value Ratio (PBR), which is the proxy variable for the potential value of the technology. The results identify the feasibility of the TVAM through a high correlation between the TVA and the PBR.

Identifying the Effect of Service Quality Attributes on an Overall Customer Satisfaction by the Foodservice Type and the Contract Management Company(CMC) Scale (급식 대상 유형과 위탁급식전문업체 규모별 고객 만족도에 영향을 미치는 서비스 품질 속성의 규명)

  • Park, Mun-Gyeong
    • Journal of the Korean Dietetic Association
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.138-156
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    • 2007
  • The purposes of this study were to a) measure the service quality attributes of foodservice type such as school foodservice, hospital foodservice and business & industry(B&I) foodservice, managed by contract management company(CMC), b) compare with service quality attributes by CMC scale, c) analyze overall customer satisfaction(CS) by the foodservice type and the CMC scale, and d) identify the effect of service quality attributes on an overall CS by the foodservice type and the CMC scale. The questionnaires were handed out to 6,620 customers of 207 school, 38 hospital, and 86 B&I foodservices in 108 CMCs. The statistical data analysis was completed using SPSS Win(ver 12.0) for descriptive analysis, t-test, reliability analysis, and multiple linear regression analysis. From an analysis on service quality attributes, 'proper arrangement of table and chair at hall distribution(3.53)', 'operation of nutrition education(3.50)' were highly perceived to student, 'correctable serving(4.08)', 'serve at fixed distribution time(4.08)', 'kindness of serving employee(4.04)' were highly perceived to patient, 'employee's kindness(3.84)' were highly perceived to customer of B&I. In comparison of service quality attributes by CMC scale, most scores of large enterprise(LE) were significantly higher than small and medium sized enterprise(SME) in school foodservice, hospital foodservice and B&I foodservice. Overall CS levels were 3.53 out of a maximum 5 on B&I, 3.46 on school, and 3.44 on hospital and were evaluated differently CS score by CMC scale. Finally, regression results for the effects of service quality attributes on overall CS by each of foodservice type were identified significantly different service quality attributes by foodservice type such as school, hospital, B&I(p<.001) and by CMC scale. For considering the goal of enterprise on profit-making through CS and the needs of customer on CS at moment of truth(MOT), the findings should be applied to the CMC and the foodservice industry.

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A performance study and IC implementation of high-speed distributed-multimedia shared medium access control protocol(part I:HCR protocol structure and performance) (고속 분산 멀티미디어 서비스를 위한 공유매체 접속제어 프로토콜의 성능분석 및 집적회로 구현 (I부:HCR 프로토콜 구조 및 성능 분석))

  • 강선무;이종필;송호준;김대영
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.22 no.10
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    • pp.2272-2281
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    • 1997
  • This paepr proposes a shared medium access control protocol for hgih-speed multimedia services of distributed subscriber home and small-sized business ATM networks. This protocol offers not only global fairness for the whole network at the same time, but also local fairness for different prioritytraffics on each node. Considering that the future B-ISDN service si a mixture of real and non-real time traffic data, this protocol is designed to accommodate the real time service, by controlling the priority of the real and non-real time data. The simulation results show that the proposed protocol has better performance than the other protocols.

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Impact for Financial Performance of Small & Medium-Sized Firms by Maintenance Period of IMS Certification (IMS 인증유지기간이 경영성과에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Kyung-Ihl;Kim, Ki-Suk
    • Journal of Convergence Society for SMB
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.21-26
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    • 2012
  • This paper analyzes business performance that together influence firms to adopt IMS, which is the standard primarily concerned with an IMS. We predict that the firm's financial characteristics will also influence the IMS adoption in our analses. This study tests three hypotheses on management performance of adoption of IMS. The main findings are as follows. The first hypotheses is supported in terms of debt ratio, fixed assets to net worth and fixed liabilities, net sales groth rate respectively at the 1%, 5%, and 5% significance level. The second hypotheses is supportrf in terms of gross margin on sales and total assets turnover at the respective rates of 1% and 10% significance level. The third hypotheses is supported in terms of current ratio, debt ratiom fixed assets to net worth and fixed liabilities at the respective rates of 10% and 1% significance level.

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The Correspondence Competence of Information Accident by Firms Experienced in Confidential Information Leak (기밀정보 유출 경험을 가진 기업들의 정보사고 대응역량 강화에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Byoungho
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.73-86
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study is to examine a security investment for firms experienced in confidential information leak. Information security is an apparatus for protection of secret information. The competence of information security is a competitiveness to avoid information leakage in changing business environment. The type of information security is divided into administrative security, technical security and physical security. It is necessary to improve the incident correspondence competence through information security investment of the three types. Therefore, the investment of information security is to enhance information-asset protection of firms. To reinforce accident response competence, an organization discussed an establishment, security technology development, expand investment and legal system of the security system. I have studied empirically targeting the only information leak of firms. This data is a technical security competence and technology leakage situation of firms happened in 2010. During recovery of the DDos virus damage on countries, company and individual, the collected data signify a reality of information security. The data also identify a security competence of firms worrying information security management. According to the study, the continuous investment of information security has a high competence of accident correspondence. In addition, the most of security accidents showed a copy and stealing of paper and computer files. Firm on appropriate security investment is an accident correspondence competence higher than no security investment regardless of a large, small and medium-sized, and venture firm. Furthermore, the rational security investment should choose the three security type consideration for firm size.

A Study on the Formation of the Seoul-focused Network City for Technological Commercialization (메가 시티 서울의 기술상용화 네트워크 도시 형성에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Sung-Hoon
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.47-53
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    • 2015
  • The aim of this paper is to explore the formation of the Seoul-focused network city for technological commercialization compared with Seoul as a mega city. The growth of Seoul and subsequently, the Seoul metropolitan region as a mega city and mega region has led the uneven regional development in Korea since the 1960s. To reduce a huge gap between the Seoul metropolitan and the non-metropolitan region, the concept of network city can be suggested in terms of the functional and spatial division of labor. More specifically, such division of labour throughout the formation of the Seoul-focused network city concentrates on technological commercialization which is deeply concerned with R&BD (research and business development). For this network city, there are 4 axes such as the axis of South-North Korean cooperation (the axis of R&BD for complex technologies), that of the expansion of a mega city (that of R&BD for green growth technology), that of the linkage of small and medium-sized cites (that of R&BD for life science and technology) and that of megalopolis (that of R&BD for basic technology) with regards to the axis of urban development and technological specialization. It shall be argued that the formation of Seoul-focused network city can be an alternative to the contemporary uneven regional development between the Seoul metropolitan and non-metropolitan region in Korea.

A Study on the Korea Database Industry Promotion Act Legislation

  • Bae, Seoung-Hun;Lim, Jung-Sun;Lee, Jae-Jin;Park, Cheon-Woong;Shin, Kwang-Min;Kang, Sang-Kyu;Yoon, Jin-Sun;Shin, Minsoo
    • Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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    • v.1 no.3
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    • pp.60-73
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    • 2013
  • The Database Industry Promotion Act was proposed at the National Assembly plenary session on July 26, 2012 and since then it has been in the process of enactment in consultation with all the governmental departments concerned. The recent trend of economic globalization and smart device innovation suggests a new opportunity and challenges for all industries. The database industry is also facing a new phase in an era of smart innovation. Korea is in a moment of opportunity to take an innovative approach to promoting the database industry. Korea should set up a national policy to promote the database industry for citizens, government, and research institutions, as well as enterprises. Above all, the Database Industry Promotion Act could play a great role in promoting the social infrastructure to enhance the capacity of small and medium-sized enterprises. This article discusses the background of the development of the Database Industry Promotion Act and its legislative processes in order to clarify its legal characteristics, including the meaning of the act. In addition, this article explains individual items related to the overall structure of the Database Industry Promotion Act. Finally, this article reviews the economic effects of the database industry for now and the future.

SMEs' External Technology Collaboration Network Diversity and Productivity Improvement : The Moderating Effect of the Chief Technology Officer-Driven Technology Development (중소기업의 외부 기술협력 네트워크의 다양성과 생산성 향상 : 최고기술경영자가 주도하는 기술 개발의 조절효과)

  • Hau, Yong Sauk
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.99-103
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    • 2017
  • Productivity improvement is one of the important goals which firms' technology developments aim at. Firms' improved productivity from technology development means that their inputs can produce more outputs through technology development, which makes firms' productivity improvement from technology development more and more important in the age of technology advance and convergence like today. This research empirically analyzes the influence of the external technology collaboration network diversity on the productivity improvement of the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from technology development and the moderating effect of the chief technology officer (CTO)-driven technology development on this influence. This study constructs the research model reflecting the moderating impact of the CTO-driven technology development and tests it with the ordinary least squares regression through the IBM SPSS version 23 by using the 2,000 data about South Korean SMEs. This research empirically reveals two points. One is that SMEs' external technology collaboration network diversity has a positive influence on their productivity improvement from technology development. The other is that the positive effect of SMEs' external technology collaboration network diversity on their productivity improvement from technology development is moderated by the CTO-driven technology development. The two points revealed in this study present two meaningful implications in not only the practical but also academic point of view. The practical implication is that it is effective for SMEs to use CTOs in increasing their productivity improvement from technology development. The academic implication is that making technology collaboration with more diverse external partners can increase SMEs' productivity improvement from technology development.

SMEs' External Technological Information Network Diversity and Sales Growth : The Mediating Impact of the Productivity Improvement and the Moderating Effect of the Technology Development Driven by CEO (중소기업의 외부 기술 정보 네트워크의 다양성과 매출 성장 : 생산성 향상의 매개 효과와 최고경영자가 주도하는 기술 개발의 조절 효과)

  • Hau, Yong Sauk
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.15 no.9
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    • pp.147-153
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    • 2017
  • This research empirically analyzes not only the direct impact of the external technological information network diversity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on the sales growth from their technology development but also the mediating impact of their productivity improvement and the moderating effect of the technology development driven by CEO on this direct impact in order to deepen the research stream on SMEs' external technological information network. Based on the ordinary least squares regression by using 2,200 data of South Korean SMEs, this study reveals the three findings. First, SMEs' external technological information network diversity positively influences their sales growth from technology development. Second, SMEs' productivity improvement partially mediates this positive influence of the external technological information network diversity. Third, SMEs' technology development driven by CEO moderates the positive influence.