• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권9호
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• pp.455-466
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• 2020

The purpose of the paper is to explore the country-of-origin (COO) influence on the buying decisions of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) consumers. The collected data from 370 consumers were summarized and coded by using Software R Studio and Microsoft Excel. The independent variables were analyzed and tested for their significant impact on the dependent variable, final buying decision of the product/service based on its country of origin. The selected hypotheses tested by administering the Kruskal-Wallis (K-W) hypothesis testing technique. The researchers identified that UAE consumers buying decisions influenced mainly by the country of origin of the products and services. The demographic variables like age, education, country of origin influential factors, country of choice was not displaying any significant impact on the buying decisions of consumers. The survey is limited to cover the general consumers of the country who are randomly selected from Dubai and Sharjah emirates. The study is beneficial to all the types of marketers, including domestic and international companies, who have plans to know the exact influence on consumers' buying decisions. The present research paper is original and provides empirical evidence on the country of origin's impact on the buying decisions of different products/services in the UAE.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.475-498
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• 2013

FTA를 체결하는 가장 근본적인 이유는 FTA 체결국 상호간에 특혜관세를 적용받기 위해서이다. 특혜관세 적용을 받기 위해서는 협정에서 규정하고 있는 원산지결정기준을 충족해야 할 뿐만 아니라 이를 입증하는 원산지증명서가 반드시 있어야 한다. 한국 관세청에서는 전자통관시스템(UNI-PASS)과 원산지관리시스템(FTA-PASS)을, 대한상공회의소에서는 무역인증서비스를 제공하여 전자적으로 원산지증명서를 발급할 수 있는 환경이 마련되어 있다. 하지만 여전히 FTA 특혜원산지증명서 발급이 특혜 적용으로 인한 가격경쟁력 향상 보다는 주로 거래처의 요청에 의해 발급되고 있는 실정이다. FTA 체결국가가 증가함에 따라 FTA의 효과를 극대화 시킬 수 있도록 전자원산지증명서 발급의 정착 및 활성화가 시급하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 현행 우리나라에서 제공하고 있는 전자원산지증명서 발급시스템 구축현황을 검토한 후 이에 대한 문제점을 실무적 측면과 시스템적 측면으로 나누어 파악하고 이에 대한 개선방안을 제시하고자 하였다.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.19-28
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• 1999

In order to control thermal deformation of the machine origin of machine tools a empirical model and a compensation system have been developed, Prior to empirical modeling the volumetric error considering shape errors and joint errors of slides is formulated through the homogeneous transformation matrix (HTM) and kinematic chain. Simulation results of the HTM method show that the thermal error of the machine origin is more critical than position-dependent errors. In order to make a stable and effective software error compensation system the GMDH (Group Method of Data Handling) models are constructed to estimate the thermal deformation of the machine origin by measuring deformation data and temperature data. A test bar and gap sensors are used to measure the deformation data. In order to compensate the estimated error the work origin shift method is developed by implementing a digital I/O interface board between a CNC controller and an IBM PC. The method shifts the work origin as much as the amounts which are calculated by the pre-established thermal error model. The experiment results for a vertical machining center show that the thermal deformation of the machine origin is reduced within $\pm$5$mu extrm{m}$.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.677-701
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• 2023

With the rapid advancement of social media analytics and artificial intelligence, many studies have used online customer reviews as an important source to measure service quality in many industries, including the hotel industry. However, these studies have failed to identify the relative importance of different dimensions of service quality and their role in customer satisfaction. To fill this research gap, this study aims to identify the effects of service quality on hotel customer satisfaction from the multidimensional perspectives using sentiment analysis with self-training on online reviews. Additionally, the moderating role of the brand of origin for each service quality dimension is also investigated. Drawing on the SERVQUAL model and brand of origin concept, this study develops 12 hypotheses and empirically tests them using 30,070 online customer hotel reviews collected from TripAdvisor.com. The results indicated that overall service quality and each dimension of SERVQUAL significantly influenced customer satisfaction of hotels. The results also confirmed the moderating effects of brand of origin on overall service quality. However, the moderating effects of brand of origin for the tangible, reliability, and empathy dimensions of service quality were significant, whereas the effects for responsiveness and assurance were not. This study sheds new light on service quality measurement by analyzing the multidimensional features of service quality and the role of brand of origin in the hotel service context.

• Human Ecology Research
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• 제57권1호
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• pp.41-50
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• 2019

This study investigated the significant difference in the influences of pregnant couples' attachment representation for parents of origin on their psychological symptoms according to groups. One hundred and eighty two pregnant couples answered the questionnaire. Data were analyzed by means of frequency, percentages, t-test. Pearson's correlation using SPSS ver. 21.0 and multiple group structural equation modeling using AMOS ver. 20.0. The findings are as follows. First, there were significant differences in attachment representations according to parents of origin and psychological symptoms between pregnant women and spouses. Second, there were negative influences of attachment representations to parents of origin on psychological symptoms for both the pregnant women group and their spouses group, respectively. Last, the negative effects of attachment representation for parents of origin on their psychological symptoms according to groups were significantly different; consequently, the impact on the spouses group was stronger than the pregnant women group. The results imply that policies to help pregnant couples reduce psychological symptoms should be provided. In addition, the unexpected result on the weaker impact of pregnant women's attachment representation for parents of origin on their psychological symptoms suggests it is better to consider other factors simultaneously (such as a romantic attachment to spouses) that might provide a moderating role. The study results are meaningful because it is the first to apply a statistically advanced method to analyze pregnant women and spouses in relation to parents of origin on their psychological symptoms.

• 한국빅데이터학회지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2019

FTA가 확산됨에 따라 향후 급증할 것으로 예상되는 실제조사 등을 대비하여 국내거래 단계에서 원산지 정보의 정확성과 신뢰도 증진 필요성이 높아지고 있다. 그러나 현실적으로 원산지 관련 정보를 수집 및 관리하는데 있어 많은 문제점을 내포하고 있다. 이는 FTA 활용이익의 수출자 편향성과 발급유인 부족 등과 함께 국내 제조기업들의 원산지 정보유통과 관리기술에 관한 부족도 중요한 원인으로 지적되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 프라이빗 블록체인인 Hyperledger Fabric을 사용하여 원산지정보 관리시스템 프로토타입 구축을 통해 국내 기업들의 원활한 FTA원산지 (포괄) 확인서의 관리 및 유통의 효율성을 증진하고, 조작방지를 통한 신뢰성 증진을 지원하는 방안을 제시한다. 블록체인은 분산원장 혹은 신뢰 인터넷으로 불리면서 공급망 상에서 여러 관련기업들이 원산지 정보를 높은 신뢰성을 가지고 즉시 유통할 수 있는 기술적인 인프라를 제공하지만 아직 이의 실제 비즈니스 적용에 관한 연구는 시작단계에 머물러 있다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.2119-2128
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• 2015

Cancer is the leading cause of death around the world. Anticancer activities from many functional food sources have been reported in years, but correlation between cancer prevalence and types of food with anticancer activities from crop origin center in the world as well as food source with human migration are unclear. Hunger from food shortage is the cause of early human evolution from Africa to Asia and later into Eurasia. The richest functional foods are found in crop origin centers, housing about 70% in the world populations. Crop origin centers have lower cancer incidence and mortality in the world, especially Central Asia, Middle East, Southwest China, India and Ethiopia. Asia and Africa with the richest anticancer crops is not only the most important evolution base of humans and origin center of anticancer functional crop, but also is the lowest mortality and incidence of cancers in the world. Cancer prevention of early human migrations was associated with functional foods from crop origin centers, especially Asia with four centers and one subcenter of crop origin, accounting for 58% of the world population. These results reveal that coevolution between human's anticancer activities associated with functional foods for crop origin centers, especially in Asia and Africa.

• 무역학회지
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.297-318
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• 2017

본 연구는 문헌연구와 사례연구를 통하여 한·중 FTA체제에서 중국의 원산지검증제도를 고찰하고 한국 수출기업이 중국의 통관과정에서 겪은 원산지 불인정 사례를 분석하여 한국 수출기업의 대중국 수출에 있어 중국의 원산지검증에 효율적으로 대응하기 위한 방안을 모색하는데 연구목적을 두었다. 분석결과, 중국의 원산지검증에 대비하기 위해서 지원기관측면에서는 관세당국은 중국의 관세당국과 협의채널을 구축하여 문제해결을 도모하고, 원산지증명서 발급기관은 증명서 발급단계에서 원산지검증에 대한 컨설팅을 지원함으로써 수출업체의 검증 리스크를 줄이도록 지원하는 방안이, 수출업체 입장에서는 원산지증명의 형식적인 요건을 중시하여 통관단계의 검증에 대비해야 하며, 한중간의 품목분류 차이 극복을 위한 사전검사제도의 활용과 중국의 제도변화에 대한 모니터링 등의 시사점을 도출하였다.

• International Journal of Human Ecology
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.111-126
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• 2002

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of anxiety in mediating the influence of family of origin characteristics on subsequent relationship processes. Using Bowenian theory as a foundation, this study examined the causal relationships among gender, religion, family of origin-fusion, intimacy, intimidation, personal-trait-anxiety, couple open communication and relationship satisfaction. Results of the path analysis indicated that: (a) gender, religion, family of origin-fusion, and family of origin-intimidation were directly related to personal-trait-anxiety, (b) personal-trait-anxiety was directly related to couple open communication and not related to relationship satisfaction, (c) couple open communication was directly related to relationship satisfaction, and (d) family of origin factors were not directly related to couple open communication and relationship satisfaction; rather, as it was expected, indirect associations, through the mediation of anxiety, were found. The results generally support Bowen's intergenerational process theory, which asserts that anxiety is the mediator of the process. Limitations of the current study and suggestions for further research were discussed.

• 천문학회보
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.34.3-34.3
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• 2020

Faint z ~ 5 quasars with M1450 ~ -23 mag are known to be the potentially important contributors to the ultraviolet ionizing background in the post-reionization era. However, their number density has not been well determined, making it difficult to assess their role in the early ionization of the intergalactic medium (IGM). In this work, we present the updated results of our z ~ 5 quasar survey using the Infrared Medium-deep Survey (IMS), a near-infrared imaging survey covering an area of 85 square degrees. From our spectroscopic observations with the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on the Gemini-South 8 m Telescope, we discovered eight new quasars at z ~ 5 with -26.1 ≤ M1450 ≤ -23.3. Combining our IMS faint quasars with the brighter Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) quasars, we derive, for the first time, the z ~ 5 quasar luminosity function (QLF) without any fixed parameters down to the magnitude limit of M1450 = -23 mag. We find that the faint-end slope of the QLF is very flat (-1.2) with a characteristic luminosity of -25.7 mag. The number density of z ~ 5 quasars from the QLF gives lower ionizing emissivity and ionizing photon density than those in previous works. These results imply that quasars are responsible for only 10-20% of the photons required to completely ionize the IGM at z ~ 5, disfavoring the idea that quasars alone could have ionized the IGM at z ~ 5.