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Impacts of Corporate Social Responsibility and Green Marketing Strategy on Business Performance: The Moderating Role of Balanced Scorecard

  • NGUYEN, It Van;QUACH, Trinh To;NGUYEN, Tinh Thi
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.9 no.10
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    • pp.73-83
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    • 2022
  • On the underpinning theory of the Resource Based Theory, this research examines the impact of corporate social responsibility and green marketing strategy on business performance with the moderating role balanced scorecard. Corporate social responsibility concentrates on related to government, the environment, customers, and employees. Green marketing strategy concentrates on approaches in terms of green products, green prices, green places, and green promotion. Business performance is measured by groups of indicators financial, and non-financial. The moderating role balanced the scorecard at the financial, customer, process, learning, and growth level. Research results with survey data from 419 managers at different food enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City processed through the structural analysis method, showed that corporate social responsibility has the strongest positive impact on business performance, followed by the green marketing strategy as the second strong positive impact on the business performance and results also showed that the balanced scorecard moderating role increases the level of the strong positive impact of the above relationship. Besides, it also showed the difference in the demographic control variables. Based on the findings, some implications are drawn to help the managers of enterprises improve the moderating role balanced scorecard when implementing corporate social responsibility and green marketing strategies thereby contributing to increasing business performance.

Effect of groundwater level change on piled raft foundation in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam using 3D-FEM

  • Kamol Amornfa;Ha T. Quang;Tran V. Tuan
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.387-396
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    • 2023
  • Ground subsidence, which is a current concern that affects piled raft foundations, has occurred at a high rate in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, due primarily to groundwater pumping for water supply. In this study, the groundwater level (GWL) change affect on a piled raft foundation was investigated based on the three-dimensional finite element method (3D-FEM) using the PLAXIS 3D software. The GWL change due to global groundwater pumping and dewatering were simulated in PLAXIS 3D based on the GWL reduction and consolidation. Settlement and the pile axial force of the piled raft foundation in Ho Chi Minh subsoil were investigated based on the actual design and the proposed optimal case. The actual design used the piled foundation concept, while the optimal case applied a pile spacing of 6D using a piled raft concept to reduce the number of piles, with little increased settlement. The results indicated that the settlement increased with the GWL reduction, caused by groundwater pumping and dewatering. The subsidence started to affect the piled raft foundation 2.5 years after construction for the actual design and after 3.4 years for the optimal case due to global groundwater pumping. The pile's axial force, which was affected by negative skin friction, increased during that time.

Achievement of Color Constancy by Eigenvector (고유벡터에 의한 색 일관성의 달성)

  • Kim, Dal-Hyoun;Bak, Jong-Cheon;Jung, Seok-Ju;Kim, Kyung-Ah;Cha, Eun-Jong;Jun, Byoung-Min
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.972-978
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    • 2009
  • In order to achieve color constancy, this paper proposes a method that can detect an invariant direction that affects formation of an intrinsic image significantly, using eigenvector in the $\chi$-chromaticity space. Firstly, image is converted into datum in the $\chi$-chromaticity space which was suggested by Finlayson et al. Secondly, it removes datum, like noises, with low probabilities that may affect an invariant direction. Thirdly, so as to detect the invariant direction that is consistent with a principal direction, the eigenvector corresponding to the largest eigenvalue is calculated from datum extracted above. Finally, an intrinsic image is acquired by recovering datum with the detected invariant direction. Test images were used as parts of the image data presented by Barnard et al., and detection performance of invariant direction was compared with that of entropy minimization method. The results of experiment showed that our method detected constant invariant direction since the proposed method had lower standard deviation than the entropy method, and was over three times faster than the compared method in the aspect of detection speed.

Current tendency of oriental approach to the cerebral palsy (뇌성마비(腦性痲痺)의 한의학적(韓醫學的) 접근(接近)에 관한 최신(最新) 동향(動向))

  • Kim, Jang-Hyun;Han, Yun-Jeong
    • The Journal of Pediatrics of Korean Medicine
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.173-198
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    • 2003
  • Back ground : Cerebral palsy(CP) is a static encephalopathy caused by an insult to the brain during the prenatal, perinatal, or postnatal period (ie, up to 2 years). CP can lead to global dysfunction but always includes motor problems Objective : The purpose of this study is to investigate the current tendency of oriental approach to the CP and promote oriental treatment of CP in Korea Method : Investigation of current literature and clinical paper in Korea and Chinese Result and Conclusion : 1) CP fall under the category of wu-chi(five kinds of retardations : 五遲), wu-ruan(five kinds of flaccidity : 五軟), wu-ying(five kinds of Stiffness : 五硬) in oriental medicine and correspond to naoxing-tanhuan in current chinese medicine. 2) CP is mainly caused by weakness of the liver and kidney(肝腎不足), weakness of the spleen and stomach(脾胃虛弱), and the method of treatment is tonify the liver and kidney(補益肝腎), tonify the spleen and replenish qi(補脾益氣), but yu-chi(the faculty of speech : 語遲) is caused by deficiency of the heart(心虛) so that treated with method of invigorating the heart and nourishing blood(補心養血). Recently blood stagnancy the stagnation of qi(氣滯血瘀) is considered as the cause of CP, promoting qi circulation to invigorate blood(行氣活血) is mentioned the treatment of method. 3) In addtion to a herbal medication and acupuncture, the various treatments of scalp acupuncture(頭鍼), acupoint injection(穴位注射), catgut embedding therapy(埋鍼) etc. had been applicated to CP and for the objective evaluation of remedial value, TCD, EEG, BMD have been used.

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Video Segmentation using the Automated Threshold Decision Algorithm (비디오 분할을 위한 자동 임계치 결정 알고리즘)

  • Ko Kyong-Cheol;Lee Yang-Won
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.10 no.6 s.38
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    • pp.65-74
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    • 2005
  • This Paper Propose a robust scene change detection technique that use the weighted chi-square test and the automated threshold-decision algorithm. The weighted chi-test can subdivide the difference values of individual color channels by calculating the color intensities according to mSC standard, and it can detect the scene change by joining the weighted color intensities to the predefined chi-test which emphasize the comparative color difference values. The automated decision algorithm uses the difference values of frame-to-frame that was obtained by the weighted chi-test. In the first step, The average of total difference value and standard deviation value is calculated and then, subtract the mean value from the each difference values. In the next step, the same process is performed on the remained difference value. The propose method is tested on various sources and in the experimental results, it is shown that the Proposed method is efficiently estimates the thresholds and reliably detects scene changes.

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Evaluation on Corrosion Behaviour and Adhensivity of Oxide Coated Materials (산화물 피복강재의 부식거동 및 밀착성 평가)

  • Lee Jong-Rark
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.34-41
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    • 1998
  • To oxide film, $A1_2O_3,\;Ta_2O_5$ and $ZrO_2$, coated on stainless steel (SUS410, SUS304) and pure Fe using RF magnetron sputtering method, the corrosion resistance on oxide coatings was studied using electrochemical measurement. Also, the adherence between film and substarte was studied. The adherence index ( $\chi$ ) was determined by the measure of micro hardness test. In this paper, we know that oxide film coated on SUS304 have better corrosion resistance than that coated on SUS410. In oxide film, the difference of corrosion resistance due to crystal structure have not been showed. In evaluating defect area rate of ceramic coated materials, CPCD method can be used effectively. In the micro-hardness test, with $1{\mu}m$ thickness film, it has only one the value of $\chi$. Above $2{\mu}m$ thickness film, however, get another value of $\chi$ as the cracks in film. The oxide film adhere well on the mild materials such as pure steel than high intensity materials like stainless.

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Competency Gap in the Labor Market: Evidence from Vietnam

  • LE, Quan Thai Thuong;DOAN, Tam Ho Dan;NGUYEN, Quyen Le Hoang Thuy To;NGUYEN, Doang Thi Phuc
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.7 no.9
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    • pp.697-706
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    • 2020
  • The relationship between education and work is of the greatest concern to individuals and society because they are the key drivers of growth and development. In the context of Industry 4.0, labor and educators are facing the challenges of big changes in the workplace. How to prepare undergraduate students for the world of employment has become the most important mission of higher education providers. This paper explored the competency gap in the labor market in Vietnam from the perspective of employees who have been dissatisfied with the current status. First, a qualitative method with the Delphi technique was applied to confirm this consensus in an employees' competency model. Then, the satisfaction level for each competency criterion was explored by applying the advance quantitative method, namely, best non-fuzzy performance approach. Lifelong learning was ranked first, followed by creativity and innovation, foreign languages, expertise and digitalization, adaptability, and finally, organizing and managing ability. Critical thinking and problem-solving were perceived to have the biggest gap. The order of competency satisfaction is useful in explaining the mismatch between education quality and labor market demand. The findings provide valuable guidelines for education managers who seek to bridge the competency gap and improve education quality.

Extracting the Risk Factor of Ground Excavation Construction and Confidence Analysis using Statistical Test Procedure (지반굴착공사 위험요소 도출 및 통계적 검정 방법을 통한 신뢰성 분석)

  • Kim, Dong-Min;Kim, Woo-Seok;Baek, Yong
    • Journal of Korean Society of Disaster and Security
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.11-17
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    • 2017
  • The case study on ground subsidence was conducted and the cause of ground subsidence was evaluated, main cause were insufficient site exploration, inaccurate strength parameters, defective temporary wall, insufficient reaction for boiling and heaving, excessive excavation and so on. Risk factors during excavation were identified from the cause of ground subsidence and risk factors were site exploration, selecting excavation method, structure analysis, measurement plan, excavation method construction, underground water level change, natural disaster and construction management. The survey of the experts on risk factors identified was conducted to evaluate the importance of risk factors, and confidence analysis was performed to evaluate the significance level between survey result and survey respondent using Chi-square Test.

The Effect of $Sa-Am$ Lung Sedating Acupuncture on Wrist Pulse in Healthy Human Subjects (폐승격(肺勝格) 자침이 촌관척(寸關尺) 맥파변화에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Seok-Joo;Lee, Hyun
    • Journal of Acupuncture Research
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.43-57
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    • 2012
  • Objectives : The purpose of this study is to observe the effects of $Sa-Am$ lung sedating acupuncture (LS) on wrist pulse changes in healthy participants. Method : Forty healthy subjects participated in this study, and were divided into an acupuncture group and controlled group. Using a three-dimensional pulse imaging system (DMP-3000), wrist pulse was measured before, immediately after, 30 minutes after and 60 minutes after acupuncture in the acupuncture group, with the rest in controlled group. Sixteen parameters between the acupuncture group and the controlled group were analyzed at Cun, Guan and Chi in each time. Result : After LS acupuncture, wrist pulse sixteen parameters were changed significantly according to the time at each measuring region. 1. Heart rate significantly decreased in immediately after, 30 minutes after and 60 minutes after, Pulse period significantly increased in 30 minutes after and 60 minutes after. 2. T4 didn't significantly changed, T-T4 significantly increased in immediately after, 30 minutes after and 60 minutes after. T4/T, T4/(T-T4), T1/T, T5/T significantly decreased in immediately after, 30 minutes after and 60 minutes after. (T-T4)/T significantly decreased in immediately after, 30 minutes after and 60 minutes after. T5 significantly increased in 30 minutes after and 60 minutes after. 3. Modulus of elasticity significantly decreased in left Cun 60 minutes after, significantly increased in left Chi 30 minutes after. 4. Variance of Amplitude significantly increased in right Guan 60 minutes after. 5. Area of pulse significantly increased in left Cun 60 minutes after, left Chi 30 minutes after and right Cun 60 minutes after. Systolic pulse area significantly decreased left Chi 30 minutes after, right Cun immediately after, 30 minutes after and 60 minutes after, right Guan in immediately after. 6. Energy/min significantly decreased in left Chi 60 minutes after and right Cun immediately after. EIx significantly decreased in right Cun immediately after. 7. In both sides Cun, Guan, Chi wrist pulse, a lot of significant changes in right Cun and left Chi appeared, and then followed by the left Cun, right Guan. Conclusion : This study analyzed that the correlation between LS acupuncture and radial pulse(cun, guan, chi) is considered to be meaningful, hereafter clinical studies on this are needed.

Decomposition of category mixture in a pixel and its application for supervised image classification

  • Matsumoto, Masao;Arai, Kohei;Ishimatsu, Takakazu
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1992.10b
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    • pp.514-519
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    • 1992
  • To make an accurate retrieval of the proportion of each category among mixed pixels (Mixel's) of a remotely sensed imagery, a maximum likelihood estimation method of category proportion is proposed. In this method, the observed multispectral vector is considered as probability variables along with the approximation that the supervised data of each category can be characterized by normal distribution. The results show that this method can retrieve accurate proportion of each category among Mixel's. And a index that can estimate the degree of error in each category is proposed. AS one of the application of the proportion estimation, a method for image classification based on category proportion estimation is proposed. In this method all pixel in a remotely sensed imagery are assumed to be Mixel's, and are classified to most dominant category. Among the Mixel's, there exists unconfidential pixels which should be categorized as unclassified pixels. In order to discriminate them, two types of criteria, Chi square and AIC, are proposed for fitness test on pure pixel hypothesis. Experimental result with a simulated dataset show an usefulness of proposed classification criterion compared to the conventional maximum likelihood criterion and applicability of the fitness tests based on Chi square and AIC,

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