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The Dialectical Inquiry Media and Inequality (미디어와 불평등의 변증법)

  • Kim, Seung Soo
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.80
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    • pp.7-39
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    • 2016
  • This essay deals with the bulk of problems of media raised by social inequality. I attempted to examine the relationship between inequality and media/information. In adopting the method of political economy based on dialectical viewpoint, I argue that collaboration among Chaebol, media, power result in the media capitalism. This mode of production has brought about the decline of public service and democracy. It led the Korean industrial capitalism to media capitalism. This mechanism is a dominant but unfair system with grasping of wealth, power, information. The media capitalism, based on profit, privatizations, power monopoly, remains democracy and public service in retreat. Chaebol-media-power complex plays an important role in cementing the establishment. We are reminded how much the dominant system has deteriorated the public interests of the media market and information.

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An analysis of the effect of the inequality of income to the inequality of health: Using Panel Analysis of the OECD Health data from 1980 to 2013

  • Lee, Hun-Hee;Lee, Jung-Seo
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.22 no.10
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    • pp.145-150
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    • 2017
  • This study aims to analyze panel data using OECD Health data of 34 years to examine how significant the inequality of income is to the inequality of health. The data was from OECD's pooled Health data of 32 countries from 1980 to 2013. The process of determining analysis model was as follows; First, through the descriptive statistics, we examined averages and standard deviation of variables. Second, Lagrange multiplier test has done. Third, through the F-test, we compared Least squares method and Fixed effect model. Lastly, by Hausman test, we determined proper model and examined effective factor using the model. As a result, rather than Pooled OLS Model, Fixed Effect Model was shown as effective in order to consider the characteristics of individual in the panel. The results are as follows: First, as relative poverty rate(${\beta}=-19.264$, p<.01) grows, people's life expectancy decreases. Second, as the rate of smoking(${\beta}=-.125$, p<.05) and the rate of unemployment (${\beta}=-.081$, p<.01) grows, people's life expectancy decreases. Third, as health expenditure(${\beta}=.414$, p<.01) shares more amount of GDP and as the number of hospital beds(${\beta}=-.190$, p<.05) grows, people's life expectancy increases.

Improving $L_1$ Information Bound in the Presence of a Nuisance Parameter for Median-unbiased Estimators

  • Sung, Nae-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 1993
  • An approach to make the information bound sharper in median-unbiased estimation, based on an analogue of the Cramer-Rao inequality developed by Sung et al. (1990), is introduced for continuous densities with a nuisance parameter by considering information quantities contained both in the parametric function of interest and in the nuisance parameter in a linear fashion. This approach is comparable to that of improving the information bound in mean-unbiased estimation for the case of two unknown parameters. Computation of an optimal weight corresponding to the nuisance parameter is also considered.

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VOLUME INEQUALITIES FOR THE Lp-SINE TRANSFORM OF ISOTROPIC MEASURES

  • Guo, LuJun;Leng, Gangsong
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.52 no.3
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    • pp.837-849
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    • 2015
  • For $p{\geq}1$, sharp isoperimetric inequalities for the $L_p$-sine transform of isotropic measures are established. The corresponding reverse inequalities are obtained in an asymptotically optimal form. As applications of our main results, we present volume inequalities for convex bodies which are in $L_p$ surface isotropic position.

A Study on Inequality Analysis of Academic Information Sharing in University Libraries using Gini's Coefficient and Pareto Ratio (지니계수와 파레토 비율을 활용한 학술정보공유 기여에 대한 대학도서관 격차 분석)

  • Cho, Jane
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.237-255
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    • 2020
  • Pareto principle states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. This study clarified if there is Pareto principle in Korean universities' academic information resource sharing network and calculates the Gini efficient about inequality in sharing academic resources. As a result, top 20% libraries led 80% of performance and inequality degree showed 0.8 as very serious condition. Relative Gini efficient which is recalculated considering scale of each libraries stay 0.7 that is adjusted slightly down. It means that such phenomenon is not caused by the difference of each universities scale with high contribution of big university and low contribution of small university. And in comparison of inequality between university's types, inequality between community colleges and private universities is more serious than four-year-course college and national university respectfully. Finally, as a result of visualizing the distribution of participating libraries, there were libraries with overwhelming contributions, and libraries with small but relatively high contribution levels were also distributed.

An Analytical Study on Research Trends of the Library Services for the Information Poor in Korea (정보불평등 계층을 위한 도서관서비스 관련 국내 연구동향 분석)

  • Noh, Younghee;Chang, Rosa
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.53 no.3
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    • pp.63-82
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    • 2019
  • Libraries are recently emerging as the core institutions designed to resolve the information equality that is forecasted to further deepen with the arrival of the fourth industry revolution era. This study thus analyzed the trends of studies on the library services offered to people suffering information inequality in Korea, and proposed measures for the activation of the research and future studies so as to strengthen the domestic library services targeting the people suffering information equality and to promote the research. As a result, proposed as measures for the activation of research were (1) Policy support and project expansion at the national level, (2) Various approaches and research environment creation at the academic level, (3) Strengthening of services for the various levels of people suffering information inequality and deployment of professional librarians at the level of libraries, and (4) Encouraging librarians to enroll with graduate schools and to conduct research. Further, proposed were the future studies that can be approached according to the various levels of people suffering information inequality, such as disabled people, multicultural family members, elderly people, children, youth, agricultural and fishing areas, low-income people, and refugees(North Korea defectors).

A Power Allocation Algorithm Based on Variational Inequality Problem for Cognitive Radio Networks

  • Zhou, Ming-Yue;Zhao, Xiao-Hui
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.417-427
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    • 2017
  • Power allocation is an important factor for cognitive radio networks to achieve higher communication capacity and faster equilibrium. This paper considers power allocation problem to each cognitive user to maximize capacity of the cognitive systems subject to the constraints on the total power of each cognitive user and the interference levels of the primary user. Since this power control problem can be formulated as a mixed-integer nonlinear programming (NP) equivalent to variational inequality (VI) problem in convex polyhedron which can be transformed into complementary problem (CP), we utilize modified projection method to solve this CP problem instead of finding NP solution and give a power control allocation algorithm with a subcarrier allocation scheme. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm performs well and effectively reduces the system power consumption with almost maximum capacity while achieve Nash equilibrium.

Delay-dependent Stabilization of Singular Systems with Multiple Internal and External Incommensurate Constant Point Delays

  • Xie, Yong-Fang;Gui, Wei-Hua;Jiang, Zhao-Hui
    • International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.515-525
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    • 2008
  • In this paper, the problem of delay-dependent stabilization for singular systems with multiple internal and external incommensurate constant point delays is investigated. The condition when a singular system subject to point delays is regular independent of time delays is given and it can be easily test with numerical or algebraic methods. Based on Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional approach and the descriptor integral-inequality lemma, a sufficient condition for delay-dependent stability is obtained. The main idea is to design multiple memoryless state feedback control laws such that the resulting closed-loop system is regular independent of time delays, impulse free, and asymptotically stable via solving a strict linear matrix inequality (LMI) problem. An explicit expression for the desired memoryless state feedback control laws is also given. Finally, a numerical example illustrates the effectiveness and the availability for the proposed method.

Comparison of National Database of Health Inequality between Korea and the UK: Focusing on Substance Misuse Related Mental Health and Respiratory Diseases (한국과 영국의 건강불평등 국가 데이터베이스 비교: 중독 물질 오남용 관련 정신건강 및 호흡기 질환을 중심으로)

  • Lee, Iyn-Hyang
    • Korean Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.216-230
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    • 2021
  • Objective: Taking action on health inequalities starts with the production of information laying out the problems of inequalities, but Korean society has no national database to view related data at a glance. This study aimed to compare Korean national database with the Public Health Profile (PHP), a health inequality database of the UK. Methods: Data were collected from the websites of government and relevant organizations in the both countries between March and August 2020, which was updated in August 2021. Two themes including Co-occurring substance misuse and mental health issues in mental health and INteractive Health Atlas of Lung conditions in England were selected for comparison in terms of data accessibility, data usability and data visualization. Results: The British PHP is being served on a web-based platform, Fingertips. The data collected at the regional level were presented on 31 health inequality themes. The data are displayed at a level that can be compared between comparable communities, and visualized into various tables and figures. Comparable Korean data were scattered in several themes and websites, and mostly provided as a 17 administrative region base, which was too vast to make a meaningful comparisons. Conclusion: The findings proposed several considerations which could be useful for establishing a database of health inequality in the Korean society.