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Lee, Hyung-Jin. "Factors Related to Grantee Perception of Service Quality in the Community Chest of Korea." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1149903609.
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Park, Jong Pil. "Creating an autonomous school community : school-based management in Korea /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Law, Wun-Sheng. "Institutional altruism, invisible hands, and Good Samaritans : an anthropological examination of Hong Kong's Community Chest charity organization." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1997. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28504/.
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The discipline of social anthropology has been remarkably inattentive to the phenomenon and organizational practices of 'charity', and, associatedly, has been non-discursive in its treatment of social welfare. In this thesis, I endeavour to indicate that this disciplinary ignorance of charity and social welfare is to be regretted. Through my case-study analysis of the role of a key charitable organization in Hong Kong I hope to convince my readers of the relatively untapped potential of 'an anthropology of charity'. Cultural practices of charity and social welfare are sociologically significant and interesting in their own right, but can also illuminate wider social and political processes and structures from an unusual perspective. Attention to 'charity' has much to offer anthropology, but the obverse also holds, understandably, not been properly mindful of anthropological - particularly ethnographic - approaches. The nucleus of my research is the Community Chest, the most influential nongovernmental charitable organization in the colony (soon to be post-colony) of Hong Kong. In my thesis I examine inter cilia: the setting in which the Community Chest operates; its organizational structures and procedures; the cultural logic of donation; issues of entitlement; and the relationship between donors and recipients of charity. Throughout I am attentive to the linkages between charity provided by fiat is often called 'the voluntary sector', and social welfare as dispensed by the Hong Kong state. A key theme is the extent to which the Community Chest, despite its epithet as a nongovernmental organization, should be viewed as having a definite brokerage role between the state and Hong Kong's people. The institutionalization of altruism, which the Community Chest represents, does not escape the reach of the Hong Kong state. In a deliberate manner I utilize the Community Chest as a prism by which to scrutinize the 'borrowed time and borrowed place' that is contemporary Hong Kong. Not only is Hong Kong a global (and arguably postmodern) city, which has changed dynamically in recent decades, but existentially and psychologically its population is affected by the ever lurking shadow of the PRC regime to which Hong Kong will be handed over in July 1997. The Community Chest was established in 1968 at a time written both the Hong Kong state and society were undergoing radical changes. From the vantage point of the Community Chest I have been able to calibrate the transformations and continuities of the last three decades, and the not insignificant role played by charity and social welfare over that period. In addition to illuminating Hong Kong' s extraordinary contemporary situation, I hope also to have contributed to on-going theoretical debates in anthropology, sinology, and the social sciences generally. There is a burgeoning literature on gift exchange, entitlement, altruism, concepts of need and poverty, the role of NGOs in alleviating hardship, clientelism, and the role of mass media representations. I feel that my fieldwork research makes a contribution to discussion of each of these issues. My work contributes a further perspective from which to understand guanxi (personal networks) and renging (moral norms and human feelings) as axiomatic Chinese cultural constructions. I am also concerned with questions of citizenship, of community, of hybridity, of identity, of belonging, and of nationalism, all of which are especially fraught issues for people in contemporary Hong Kong. Finally, but deserving special mention - one of my chief ambitions has been to appraise the claims that the New Right makes for Hong Kong as the epitome of a ' leissez-faire' policy in which the state's interventions in terms of welfare provision are based on residualist principles. The New Right profess that Hong Kong is the free market economy, and that the voluntary sector and the market provide welfare effectively in the absence of state intervention. My research indicates that the Hong Kong state, despite its laissez-faire rhetoric, has been decisively interventionist. The Community Chest, set up ostensibly to generate and dispense charity from the voluntary sector, is ambivalently entangled with the hidden hands of both big business and the state.
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Yang, Man-Jae. "Community empowerment in South Korea : towards developing a local model for practice." Thesis, Durham University, 2011. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/842/.
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This study aims to explore community empowerment practice (CEP) in South Korea (SK) and develop a Korean model of CEP. To begin, I describe key contexts of Korean society such as political, economical and cultural backgrounds alongside the history of Korean community work. To achieve the objectives of this thesis, I studied the CEP project for three years from 2003 to 2005. At the same time, I collected qualitative data from 10 participants who were involved in the CEP. I analysed the Korean CEP in terms of a modified Western model of CEP formed by reviewing Western models and ideas of CEP. The analysis revealed: i) the lack of knowledge, values, skills and organisation needed to practice community empowerment in Korea; ii) ways of overcoming some limitations of traditional Korean community work skills in the areas of developing community profiles, community organising, learning from practice, networking, and encouraging resident participation; iii) engaging with differences in practice between community welfare centres (CWCs) and the centres of NGOs that prioritise welfare activities for poor people (WNGOs), e.g., in the fields of community organising, networking and participation; and iv) the lack of positive outcomes in building rights-based and equality-oriented community work to reduce power differences between residents and agencies/ power holders. The proposals for developing a Korean model of CEP include: i) creating an independent organisation that can support knowledge and education as well as play a meditating role in assisting with the acquisition of resources and involvement in political activities; ii) setting strategic directions for the step-by-step changes needed to transfer from working within a traditional Korean model of community work to ‘emancipatory CEP’ by combining both technicist practice and transformative practice; iii) building alliances between CWCs and WNGOs alongside other organisations that are concerned with social justice and equality, while also developing capacity and skills to addresses the weaknesses of both CWCs and WNGOs; and iv) enhancing practitioners capacity and skills to engage not only with policy makers and politicians, but also in collective action together with local people to transform oppressive structures that constrain residents’ rights and equality. This study also demonstrates that community empowerment practice possible in a wide variety of controls and contexts.
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Chi, Yang-Chin David. "The community approach to problems of urban poverty, as applied in low-income area of Seoul (Bongchun Dong)." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282717.
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Na, Seonsam. "A rebellion in the Korean medicine community : an ethnography of healthcare politics in contemporary South Korea." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:526e2629-3faf-4d64-9d8d-ce5a3734be98.
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This thesis explores South Korean healthcare politics based on a series of inter-generational conflicts that occurred in a medical community in 2012. The conflicts broke out among 'doctors of Korean medicine', a medical profession unique to Korea practicing a form of medicine of East Asian origin that has recently undergone significant 'bio-medicalization'. Doctors of Korean medicine have the same status as doctors of Western medicine in the country's mainstream healthcare system, although the purview of their practice is legally demarcated. Government policies aimed at the industrialization of pharmaceuticals and the promotion of health among Korea's elderly population were the source of the conflicts that escalated into a group of junior doctors leading to what could be considered a 'rebellion' against the community leaders. The thesis investigates first the socioeconomic and political backgrounds of the conflict. It proposes that elements of intra- and inter-professional politics and the aftermath of the country's re-democratization, economic shock and demographic transition were all important factors. Second, it explores the nature of the rebellion itself by focusing on the emergence of a set of norms and values and on the 'ritual-like' interactions observed during the event. The analysis reveals that during the conflicts the actors referenced certain values and ideologies underpinning their everyday lives and, in doing so, were effectively engaged in the strengthening, rather than the weakening, of existing social structures. This thesis contributes to the study of Korean medicine by revealing the features of its integration into the country's healthcare system and the effects of its bio-medicalization. By describing the process by which new online-based agents of a social movement emerged, it also contributes to the study of hyper-connectivity in Korean society. Finally, the ethnography contributes to the anthropological study of East Asian medicine by illustrating the importance of institutional factors such as politics and the economy in capturing the modes of its contemporary presence.
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Kyung, Shinwon. "'Community involvement', is it the answer? : perspectives on housing renewal in Britain and Korea." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.433633.
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Yi, Sang-il. "Responsiveness, equity and decentralisation : the example of community health centres of Seoul, South Korea." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272123.
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Lim, Byungwoo. "Towards the development of care management in community care for elderly people in Korea." Thesis, Boston Spa, U.K. : British Library Document Supply Centre, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.264574.
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Smit, And́ré de Villiers. "A methodology to improve third sector investment strategies : the development and application of a Western Cape based financial resource allocation decision making model /." Link to the online version, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1075.
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Lee, Eunjoo. "The effect of an in-service workshop on the attitudes and perceptions of South Korean educator participants toward community based instruction." Virtual Press, 1995. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/958771.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of an inservice workshop on the attitudes and perceptions of South Korean educator participants toward community based instruction for students with mental retardation. Thirty South Korean educator participants from EMI, TMI, SMI, and SXI focused on classrooms were asked to respond to a questionnaire containing items that demographics, importance of community based instruction, necessity of community based activities for their students' adult lives, required instructional time for community based activities, satisfaction with their current instructional time for community based activities, and potential barriers to community based instruction. For the treatment procedure, an extensive in-service workshop on community based instruction was given to all educator participants. Results indicated that in general, educator participants expressed overall positive attitudes toward community based instruction and showed strong support for the necessity of community based activities in their students' adult lives. Interestingly, all of the 13 community based activities provided in this questionnaire received at least one rating of "never would be needed" in the adult lives for students with mental retardation. In general, these educator participants appeared to be dissatisfied with the current amount of instructional time allocated for community based activities. In addition, these educator participants perceived limited staff, transportation, scheduling, cost, and administrator reluctance factors as the major potential barriers to community based instruction. Further, differential responses between EMI educator participants and TMI, SMI, and SXI educator participants were noted for the questionnaire items related to necessity of community based activities, and satisfaction with the total amount of instructional time in community based activities. EMI educator participants indicated community based activities were more necessary and more satisfied with current amount of, time allocated in community based instruction than TMI, SMI, and SXI educators. Implication concerning the future prospects for community based instruction in South Korea for students with mental retardation were also presented.Department of Special Education
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Koh, Bog-Nam. "A study on effective evangelismin [sic] and follow-up in local community with reference of Hongkwang Presbyterian Church /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Park, Kwang-Hyung. "After the Crossroads: Neo-liberal Globalization, Democratic Transition, and Progressive Urban Community Activism in South Korea." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12988.
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The main purpose of this study is to understand the historicity of the dynamics of socio-economic changes and the characteristics of social and political mobilization in the case of progressive activists' ongoing search for new strategies of progressive urban community politics in Seoul, South Korea, after the historical conjuncture of democratization and neo-liberal globalization. This study is conducted through participant observation, interviews, and post-fieldwork historical research. By adopting the concept of "multiple-layeredness" as the underlying perspective, this study aims to capture the complexity and hybridity of past and recent socio-economic transformations. The progressive community activists are products of historically specific circumstances of state repression and radical social movements in the 1980s and the 1990s, and the influences of their past activist experiences are visible in their community activism. Historically, the state has been implicated in popular mobilizations for the national goals of economic development and democratization, which resulted in two-party domination in local politics. Under this unfavorable political condition, the community activists seek to acquire their places in public institutions through local elections and to organize grassroots resistance against local "growth machines" by mobilizing various social ties.
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Lee, Hyunsook. "Comparative study of carers of older people with dementia in Scotland and Korea." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9796.
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This study aims to explore Scottish and Korean carers‘ attitudes towards the diagnosis of dementia in their relative, family care, community care and to residential care in Scotland and Korea respectively, also under examination was the origin of different carers‘ attitudes between Scotland and Korea. The dominant argument between previous Western and Eastern comparative studies on attitudes, has been that culture made the difference. In other words, the cultural factor was recognised as a main determinant of attitudes towards a diagnosis of dementia, towards social services at home and residential care in Asian societies, including Korea. This thesis starts with the question: Does culture really explain the phenomenon of Asian people‘s attitudes towards dementia? Indeed the tradition of filial piety has been changing and now seems to be rather weak in modern Asian society. In particular, contemporary Korea is modernised and westernised, as a result, many older people live apart from their adult children and their nuclear families. This study asserts that Confucianism is a much less significant factor than differences in social policy. In other words, this thesis focuses not on Confucianism, but on the impact of institutions on carers‘ attitudes towards dementia. Finally, this thesis explores this argument through the following research question: What are the origins of different carers‘ attitudes between Scotland and Korea? In order to develop this argument, this thesis has carried out interviews with 14 Scottish carers and 28 Korean carers; and adopted a qualitative approach that would yield a rich exploration and deeper understanding of the different attitudes between carers in Scotland and Korea. Based on this data, this thesis examines carers‘ attitudes towards the diagnosis of dementia (chapter 3), family care (chapter 4), community care (chapter 5), and residential care (chapter 6). Each chapter analyses similarities and differences in attitudes in Scotland and Korea from the point of view of culture or the social welfare system. To conclude, these findings explain that the origin of carers‘ attitudes in this study is based on social policy rather than culture. In other words, the Korean carers‘ attitudes and behaviours towards diagnosis and long-term care services are rooted in the residual welfare system rather than Confucianism. Likewise, this study found that Confucianism has a less significant influence than social policy on carers‘ attitudes towards the utilisation of health care, community care and residential care. Unlike previous studies on East Asia, that argue for a cultural explanation, this study of Korean carers demonstrates that the residual welfare system is more persuasive than the cultural approach derived from Confucianism . This study contributes to the comparative study of Scotland and Korea as well as being a qualitative study in Korea. In addition, it will provide a new perspective on attitudes towards studies on East Asia. Moreover, the study will suggest political implications through the exploration of the carers‘ attitudes towards dementia diagnosis, social services at home and residential care. It also can provide lessons on dementia and dementia care from different experiences in Scotland and Korea.
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Lee, Seok Heon Built Environment Faculty of Built Environment UNSW. "Spatial order and sense of community in high-rise apartment developments in Bundang, the metropolitan area of Seoul, Korea." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Built Environment, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/22498.
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This thesis aims to investigate the relationship between the provision of spatial order and perceived sense of community in high-rise housing developments in Korea from a socio-spatial and architectural perspective. It also considers relationships between the perception of neighbourhood, provision of facilities, design aspects, and socio-economic characteristics and sense of community. The study uses a questionnaire survey as the main research instrument conducted across four case studies in Bundang new town, in metropolitan Seoul, Korea. Two of the cases were selected as having a high provision of spatial order and the other two low provision according to the concepts of Altman (1975) and Newman (1972, 1975). Quantitative analysis is carried out using the Kruskal-Wallis/Mann-Whitney test and Spearman???s rank correlation to identify differences and correlations between cases. The results indicate that there is no clear evidence that a sense of community has a direct relationship with the provision of spatial order in the selected cases. However, in the high provision cases outdoor common spaces appear to have a role in contributing to social interaction. Among Buckner???s (1988) three sub-variables of his concept of neighbourhood cohesion, ???neighbouring??? appears to be more associated with the provision of spatial order rather than ???attraction-to-neighbourhood??? or ???psychological sense of community.??? A greater number of opportunities for social interactions occur in an intermediate space located between private dwelling units and public open space in cases with a high provision of spatial order. However, this is likely to be due to the location of shared facilities and their frequency of use. In terms of the relationship between design and a sense of community, ???landscaping??? was found to be the most important variable, followed by the ???design of streets/footpath??? and ???facilities for children???, ???parking???, and ???recreational activities???. Despite the lack of a clear relationship between design and a sense of community, a strong demand was found for improved outdoor amenity and greater provision of facilities. Socio-economic status appears not to be a significant factor directly influencing the sense of community however, age and the existence of children are associated with the perception of neighbourhood.
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Han, Ik-Hee. "Health care policy, equity and the welfare state : the case of national health insurance programme in the Republic of Korea." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302096.
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Yoon, Keejoon. "Professional development and its impact on teacher and pupil learning : a community of practice case study in South Korea." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7070/.
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The aim of this study was to explore teachers’ professional learning in a community of practice (CoP) in South Korea and its impact on teachers’ and pupils’ learning. The study employed qualitative research methods within a case study framework. Data were collected in South Korea from September 2014 to June 2015. A professor who created the CoP, 8 secondary school physical education teachers (as case-study teachers) and 41 pupils from 8 different schools participated in this study. Five different data collection tools were used: individual interviews, observations, focus group, open-ended questionnaires, and document analysis. Three key findings from this research are: 1) five different activities supported in the CoP helped teachers to develop both ‘pedagogies’ and ‘teachers’ characteristics’ and they impacted together on pupils’ learning; 2) teachers’ professional learning in the CoP was influenced by: retaining a focus on developing pedagogies together, professional intimacy between members, appropriate support from the professor, and temporal and spatial issues; and 3) teachers’ professional learning and its links to pupils’ learning were influenced by factors at the micro, meso and macro levels. Insights into the value of CoP theory are discussed and implications for the effectiveness of teachers’ professional learning identified.
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Han, Jung-Min. "The consumer negotiation of brand meaning in online brand communities." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-consumer-negotiation-of-brand-meaning-in-online-brand-communities(d7db292d-1fa1-4314-a595-53a2febbab44).html.
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There has been much enthusiasm over the power of online brand communities (OBCs). Ensuring that OBCs achieve their potential, however, is a challenge. Adopting the view that an OBC is a social entity at its core, this study examines consumers’ perceptions of OBCs and how consumers manage the continuous tension between social-related and brand-related aspects of OBCs through brand-related and non-brand-related social practices. The researcher took a symbolic interactionist approach and qualitative data were collected using ethnography and in-depth interviews from OBC participants in South Korea. The study was divided into two phases: the exploratory phase and the main study. In the first stage the researcher inspected OBCs and focused on understanding the social context by investigating four OBCs in the fashion and digital camera categories. Evidence of an OBC as a virtual third place (VTP) in the consumer’s mind was revealed. A typology was developed and social practices were revealed and defined. In the main study the researcher developed the framework of brand meaning negotiation and revealed how consumers symbolically interact and negotiate brand meaning through social practices. The tension between social-related and the brand-related aspects during this process was illustrated. The key contributions of this research are as follows. Firstly, the study reveals that an OBC has a strong VTP quality, whereby consumers hate to leave. Second, the study extends our understanding of an OBC by categorising consumers’ different perceptions of OBCs according to their attachment to the brand, the OBC and other participants. Third, the study reveals underlying social practices within OBCs that show the characteristics of a collectivistic culture. The study also fills the research gap by examining the brand meaning negotiation process and suggesting a framework that shows how underlying practices link brand and social-related aspects of an OBC together, which was formerly a “black box”. Lastly, it demonstrates that social bonds, regardless of their importance for making an OBC thrive, can be a double-edged sword and should be balanced carefully with brand-related practice.
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Ark, Amanda K. "EPIK Expectations: How Experiences and Cultural Aspects Impact Female English Teachers in South Korea." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1586622243746444.
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Kim, Cora [Verfasser]. "Entering the 'community of minds' in Germany and Korea : a cross-cultural investigation of developing 'internal state language', theory of mind, and emotion concepts between 3 and 6 years / Cora Kim." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1064869599/34.
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Osmundsen, Tonje. "Becoming global : The troublesome integration proces." Doctoral thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology Management, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-580.
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Becoming global – the troublesome integration process.
The thesis is based on research in Kongsberg Automotive and its foreign subsidiaries in Mexico, U.S.A, Poland and South Korea. It is a study of how these foreign units were established and how the head office in Norway was able to integrate these units in the organization.
The purpose of the study is to improve understanding of the challenges involved in internationalization processes. To what extent are cultural, political and social differences factors to consider when creating the international organization? In what way do actors and structures influence the process and the practices that emerge?
In an international organization cultural, political and social differences may create barriers towards understanding the other. This may be further complicated by different languages, time and geographical distances. The local manager abroad is central to the development of relations between the head office and the local unit and his perception of what is appropriate and his ability to make others agree is central to understanding the various practices and solutions that emerge in the local organization.
The main motivation and challenge of the central management is to control and coordinate the international organization. The study emphasizes the usefulness of different control mechanisms and how these attempts for control were perceived locally. Through time there was a stronger reliance on mechanisms for socialization and enculturation, and while these are directed towards creating a larger consensus in the organization, these should also be seen as means for decentralized control and self-monitoring.
The various organizational entities in Kongsberg Automotive represent different communities-of-practice and to understand the interaction between these communities as learning processes is central to the study. This perspective also confers an understanding of power as a productive element in the interaction.
The implications of this study for theory and future research are in embracing the complex nature of internationalization process. Relevant for understanding internationalization processes are both actors and structures intertwined. Institutional environments are central to an understanding of how different actors perceive practices and structures, and what they see as viable solutions. Neither the international organization nor the learning processes these undertake can be torn loose from the local cultural, political and social context.
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Smit, Andre de Villiers. "A methodology to improve third sector investment strategies: the development and application of a Western Cape based financial resource allocation decision making model." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1075.
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Thesis (DPhill (Social Work))—University of Stellenbosch, 2005.South Africa has high levels of social need which are steadily growing. While the third sector is large and contributes substantially to social service provision, it together with government is seemingly incapable of providing adequate social services, particularly in the more poverty-stricken rural areas of the country. Among other, at the root of the third sector’s inability to adequately serve the needy, is a lack of funding caused by poor funding policies and uninformed financial resource allocation decision making. As such, this study set out to develop an automated financial resource allocation decision making model that would provide extensive organised data to better inform the allocation decision making process – the first component of the study. It was also purposed to provide a range of otherwise lacking empirical data on the third sector to determine service and staffing norms, patterns of funding and to assess financial management of this sector. In so doing the Community Chest of the Western Cape was selected to serve as the locus of the study – their existing manual allocation approach was analysed and a new more sophisticated automated model was developed. Data generated by the model pointed to a further research need, that of a better understanding of the funding and financial management practices of the third sector. This gave rise to the third component of the study, a survey of 232 beneficiary organisations of the Community Chest. An analysis of the data generated by the model and collected from the survey highlighted yet another need, the poor financial management acumen of the sector. In order to address this need and hence the efficacy of the model, a survey of 207 University of Cape Town management accounting students was conducted to determine the feasibility of using their financial management knowledge and skills to support financially and IT-illiterate organisations – the fourth component of the study. The study primarily adopted a quantitative research paradigm; the research design was exploratory-descriptive and used a primary data design with limited secondary data analysis. Data was captured in MS Access and analysed using Statistica and MS Excel. Results indicated that the country’s funding policies were wanting and that the allocation of state and state-controlled funding agency resources were not being allocated in concert with adopted policy. In almost all cases the poorer rural areas had and received fewer resources. Most organisations surveyed were not financially secured and their ability to fundraise was very limited. Their financial management ability was not good. Fortunately a substantial number of accounting students indicated a willingness to improve the financial management ability of such needy organisations. The study concludes by recommending further development of the model, utilisation of accounting students and calls for a major assessment of third sector needs, its funding and financial management. It also recommends the formulation of new funding policies.
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彦尚, 李., and Eonsang Lee. "地域福祉計画策定における福祉コミュニティ意識の変化に関する考察 : 住民参加による新たな方法を探る." Thesis, https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB12998733/?lang=0, 2016. https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB12998733/?lang=0.
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本研究はプロセス志向の地域福祉計画に焦点をおき、福祉コミュニティとエンパワメントという視点から地域福祉計画策定による効果と、その方法論を明らかにしようとするものである。地域福祉計画策定を福祉コミュニティを実現するツールとして捉え、福祉コミュニティ意識尺度を開発し、その尺度を用いて参加による住民のエンパワメントという効果を実証的に提示した。そして、その効果を最大化していく参加方法について検討し、最後に計画策定への示唆を提示した。博士(社会福祉学)
Doctor of Philosophy in Social Welfare
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Doshisha University
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Yu, Kun Young. "Análise da bioética na Coréia." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2010. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/5391.
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Previous issue date: 2010-11-05The present research aims at analyzing the Korean bioethics through the analysis of the historical, social, cultural and philosophical elements of the country to understand how such elements influenced in the constitution of bioethics in that country. The work is started through the study of scandal perpetrated by the major scientist of the country in the area, Professor Hwang Woo Suk, and by analyzing the social and political impact of such event we learnt about the values that guided the local bioethics, which are pragmatism and its strong social appeal. We will see how this science was skillfully handled for propagandistic purposes by the local government, upon attribution of a patriotic character to its development and the complicity with which an entire nation embraced this "national project" under which they placed expectations much beyond the medical benefits initially targeted. In the analysis of the factors that participated in the formation of this unique bioethics, we will analyze the association of the bioethical researches to the economic plans of the government, the influence of the several social and philosophical elements such as cultural hedonism, the local culture of pragmatic and empiric nature, the Silhak, the economic influence of the research for the community capitalism practiced in the country, and the patriotic appeal attributed thereto by the historical factors and principles such as Social Darwinism. The analysis of the aforementioned elements helps us to understand how a country so advanced in the researches on the biotechnology area, has a bioethics that is so weak in ethical content, that in last analysis it was responsible for the outbreak of the fraud in the stem cells cloning research
A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar a bioética coreana através da análise dos elementos históricos, sociais, culturais e filosóficos do país para entender como tais elementos influíram na constituição da bioética naquele país. Inicia-se o trabalho através do estudo do escândalo protagonizado pelo maior cientista do país na área, o Professor Hwang Woo Suk, e analisando a implicação social e política de tal evento, aprendemos sobre os valores que nortearam a bioética local, que são o pragmatismo e o seu forte apelo social. Veremos como esta ciência foi habilmente manuseada para fins propagandísticos pelo governo local, ao atribuir caráter patriótico ao seu desenvolvimento e a cumplicidade com que toda uma nação abraçou este projeto nacional sob o qual depositaram anseios muito além dos benefícios médicos que se propunha alcançar inicialmente. Na análise dos fatores que participaram na formação desta bioética singular analisaremos a vinculação das pesquisas bioéticas aos planos econômicos do governo, a influência de vários elementos sociais e filosóficos como o hedonismo cultural, a filosofia local de cunho pragmática e empírica, o Silhak, a influência econômica das pesquisas pelo capitalismo comunitário praticado no país, e o apelo patriótico atribuído ao mesmo pelos fatores históricos e princípios como o Darwinismo Social. A análise dos elementos mencionados acima ajuda a entender como um país tão avançado nas pesquisas na área de biotecnologia, possui uma bioética tão fraca em conteúdo ético, que em última análise foi a responsável pela eclosão da fraude nas pesquisas de clonagem de células-tronco
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Lee, Jia. "Online anti-brand communities in Korea." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-12-2583.
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This paper attempts to explore the nature of the online anti-brand communities in
South Korea. The current state of the online anti-brand communities is discovered with
regards to different kinds of online platforms and the categories of targeted products and
services. Case analyses of three popular anti-brand communities were conducted to discover how dissatisfied consumers form a group, interact with other consumers, and generate group actions. Specific details of consumer interactions and collective actions in the online anti-brand communities provide some managerial implications of how to effectively react to the
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Mun, Sang-sŏk. "Mechanism of mass mobilization and creating state citizens during the economic development period." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/17885.
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This research deals with the discordance between the national state and the nation state in the formation of the Republic of Korea (ROK). Charles Tilly (1992) distinguishes between the concept of the national state and that of the nation state, even though many scholars use the nation state. According to Charles Tilly (1975;1985;1992), a national state is simply state that rules demarcated territories, has a differentiated administration, and centralized autonomous structures, while the nation state is a state that comprises one single nation, in other words, a nation is the basis of the nation state. Tilly defines the nation as one community in which people share a strong linguistic, ethnic, religious1and symbolic, historical identity. Based on this national state theory, national subject and identity of the new Korean nation are keys to understand this research. The ROK has been a very strong state in terms of despotic power, which means physical violent means of the state. The ROK has reemerged as a strong state after the Korean War. The regime based on this characteristic tries to mobilize people and their resources. People should answer the state’s call and participate in national development projects. But even the strongest regime cannot rely on its superiority or monopolized means of physical violence to mobilize people and their resources. Therefore, as in fascist states, the regime created a variety of Administered Mass Organization (AMOs). There are two big purposes in mobilizing people of the ROK: one is de-politicization; the other is enforced cooperation in the name of nationalism, which means “state-formed nationalism.” The Saemaul Undong (New Village Movement), the Hankooknochong (Federation of Korea Trade Unions), and the Hakdohokookdan (Student National Defense Corps) were the main AMOs under Park’s rule. De-politicization played a role in making Koreans participants in the AMOs by avoiding being labeled as Uhyong, meaning collaborator with the dictator. Under surf of various ideologies to encourage South Koreans’ participation in development projects or AMOs, South Koreans began to identify themselves with a new ideology as state citizens of the ROK. A new Korean nation emerged through the experiences that Koreans had participated in. This thesis investigates the process of the creation of the new Korean nation during the economic development period. The salvation of a struggle between the nation state vs the national state in Korea emerged as an economic development and the creation a new Korean nation within the boundary of demilitarized zone the ROK. National subject discourse becomes a key factor of the process of emergence of a new Korean nation.text
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Son, Yangsuk. "Online brand communities in Korea : a case study." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2009-12-647.
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The importance of online brand communities has received increasing attention from both academia and industry. This paper reports a case study. It explains successful online strategies developed by two leading brands, Samsung mobile and Chungjungwon, in Korea. The current study has shown that the online brand community can act as a marketing tool to develop a group of loyal consumers around the brand. This study provides marketers with insights into and some useful guidelines for the creation and maintenance of successful marketer-generated online brand communities. The findings also suggest that there are differences in community development and management strategies, according to the characteristics of product category and community members, as well as in the purpose of the community operation.text
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Kang, Jeong-Koo. "The Saemaul-New Community movement in South Korea focusing on its genesis and goal /." 1985. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/12777014.html.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1985.Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 55-60).
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Liou, Jia-Ling, and 劉家伶. "A comparison of the residents participation type mural village between Taiwan and South Korea - Based on Gamcheon Culture Village in Korea and Sishu Community in Taiwan." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67k8ct.
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Many mural villages appeared in Taiwan after the Rainbow Village in Taichung went viral in 2008. They brought tourism benefits or improved the home environment, but they also caused many problems, such as the mural theme is incompatible with the local area or the tourists affect the residents' life. This allows everyone to start thinking about whether to follow the fashion, whether the mural village can attract attention or get support from the residents, or lose its own characteristics, and even cause residents to resent. This study believes that the successful case of mural village should be the residents' full participation in community affairs, residents determine the direction and development of the mural village, voluntarily maintain the works of art, and promote the external world to better know the community, the internal should be more cohesive and proud, but still maintain a good quality of life. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to derive the “Building Mural Village Process Model” by understanding the construction process of the resident participation type mural village between Taiwan and South Korea, and then insert it into the cases to examine and compare the similarities and differences, and finally give recommendations. The “Resident Participation Type Mural Village” referred to in this study is the mural village that initiated by government project, recruits art groups or artist-in-residence, and residents' active participation. Known as South Korea's Santorini or Machu Picchu, Gamcheon Culture Village has terraced terrain and unique landscapes, as well as a variety of murals and installation arts. From a backward small village, it has become one of the representative sightseeing spots in Busan. Gamcheon-dong is in the ridge of mountain, it is impossible to carry out urban renewal under the restriction of geographical location and terrain. Therefore, with the aim of preservation and regeneration, it participated in Maeulmisul Project sponsored by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in 2009, and was led by an art group called “Art Factory in dadaepo”. In 2010, it participated in “Contents Fusion Tourism Cooperation Business”, and established a “Comprehensive Cooperative Strategic Relationship” between local governments, artists and residents, and they participate in and make decisions through agreement. The follow-up operation and maintenance are led by the Residents' Association, and formulated the relevant regulations for the establishment of the culture village and the support of the community. In 2012 and 2016, it participated in “Double the Joy Project” of Maeulmisul Project again, and successfully transformed into a cultural village, attracting domestic and foreign tourists, and also being the object of learning for urban regeneration standards around the world of governments. Sishu Community is located in the South District of Tainan City. In 2015, the South District Office received the subsidy from the Environmental Protection Administration for “Building a Friendly Urban and Rural Environmental Project” to assist the Sishu Community to be transformed into a mural village. The cultural and creative team and university stationed into the community and cultivate residents' artistic quality through community courses, co-finishing murals and works of art, arranging community environments with residents. They not only design cultural and creative goods with the characteristics of Sishu, but also regularly hold cultural and creative market, that is why Sishu Community has attracted attention from media reports. Due to the obstacles of road traffic and the change of work structure, Sishu Community has led to the population emigration and the community decline. Therefore, it hoped that the community will be re-created through the EPA's project subsidy. The external groups such as South District Office, Tainan City and the cultural and creative team, Tainan University of Technology guided internal groups including Wu Kuoyu Art Studio, Wan Hwang Palace, Sishu Elementary School, and Xinan Village, during the implementation of the mural village; all groups have dedicated their efforts to the community.
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Yun, Janghun. "Building up the local church through a need-oriented diaconal ministry in South Korea." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30543.
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The theme of this study is the relationship between recruiting non-Christians for the Korean church through the patterns or styles of its diaconal services, and its influence on the religious actions of the church in South Korea. Chapter 1 defines introductory matters: the theme and its motivation, the statement of the problem, the extent of the problem and its purpose, the hypothesis of this dissertation, its structure, delimitation and key concepts. In Chapter 2 a diaconal ministry effective for the local community is dealt with. It integrates the meaning or usage of diakonia from biblical, historical and theological perspectives, especially to ascertain the theoretical foundation that will meet the need of the local community and will lead them to salvation. The characteristics of the local community are studied to find how the community influences the forms of the diaconal ministry, how the diaconal service can influence changes in the community, and the interrelations between the church and the community. In Chapter 3 the theoretical backgrounds of congregational development is studied from biblical, theological and historical perspectives. Such a building up of the local church plays an important role to motivate the Korean church to realise its missional task to preach the gospel, to stimulate its spiritual dynamics, to meet the various needs of the local community, and to quicken the members to do the work expected of the body of Christ. Chapter 4 deals with the empirical perspective. There are many methods of social research. According to the applied research method the Baby School of the Choongshin church and the Pregnant Women’s Group&the Baby School of the Gwangyang Daegwang church are analysed. The theories or hypotheses derived from Chapters 2 and 3 are revisited, in relationship to the empirical perspective. With this process, an effective building up of the local church is interpreted as seen from a need-oriented diaconal ministry that complies directly and intimately with the local community and people’s actual needs. Chapter 5 deals with a strategic perspective. It looks at the main factors these two models have in common in the light of a methodological model. Through this model, the use of the diaconal ministry that intimately and lastingly satisfies the need of the local community is indicated with a view to an effective building up of the local church in the Korean society. Applicable strategies and principles to construct successful need-oriented diaconal services for Korean congregational development in different situations are synthetically presented.Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Rim, Rokwha. "Improving biodiversity and community well-being in urban parks: a comparison of Seoul Forest Park (Seoul, Korea) and Stanley Park (Vancouver, Canada)." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3366.
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This research investigates how community-based stewardship and governance of urban parks benefits both biodiversity conservation and local residents‟ quality of life. The main objective of this research is to examine successful strategies to improve biodiversity and human well-being in urban parks. In this research, two stories of renowned city parks in metropolitan areas are interpreted: Seoul Forest Park in Seoul, Korea and Stanley Park in Vancouver, Canada. These parks are compared on the basis of the history of their creation and restoration, their strategic plans, challenges to managing the parks, the role of community-based stewardship, and the relationship between city governments and community stewardship groups. By comparing two famous metropolitan city parks, this study makes recommendations for each park. To understand the beneficial programs and approaches, I further explore how the parks‟ management plans address improvement in biodiversity, and how park governance and operations encourage it, particularly how stewardship groups have improved biodiversity.
Based on the research findings, this study drew several main benefits of community-based stewardship and governance of urban parks. First, supportive legislation, policies, and plans for biodiversity conservation have a decisive effect on the implementation of biodiversity improvement. Next, regular ecosystem monitoring and linking fragmented areas are mandatory to preserve and improve urban biodiversity. Also, urban green space restoration contributes not only to biodiversity conservation, but also to citizens‟ quality of life. In addition, listening to citizens‟ opinions, ensuring the safety of park users, offering cutting-edge services, and providing various cultural and educational programs, contribute to enhanced citizens‟ well-being in urban parks. Lastly, community-based stewardship groups play an essential role for improving biodiversity as well as citizens‟ quality of life in urban parks. Therefore, a successful partnership between the Parks Division in city governments and community-based stewardship groups creates a more powerful synergy that sustains biodiversity and human well-being.Graduate
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Park, Jae Hee. "An Examination of Automobile Online Brand Communities (AOBCs) in the U.S. and South Korea: Linkages among Motivation, Experience, and Satisfaction." 2011. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/1113.
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This study explores automobile online brand communities in the different cultural contexts between South Korea and the United States. The core assumption is that members of automobile online brand communities in different cultures have different motivation orientations to visit their online communities and have different community experiences. Hofstede’s cultural dimensions were utilized as embedded cultural circumstances in examining relationships between different motivation orientations and community experiences. Two steps of qualitative and quantitative research methods were adopted to determine the relationships among community members’ motivation orientations, community experiences, and satisfaction.
The study found that Korean automobile online brand community (KAOBC) members have stronger social, business, and communication motivations than American automobile online brand community (AAOBC) members. These community members’ motivations also influenced their community experiences. Both social network motivations and communication motivations are crucial predictors for four community experiences: Community loyalty, trust, membership identity, and word of mouth (WOM). Community members who have a stronger social networking and/or communication motivation are more likely to have a higher level of community loyalty, trust, membership identity, and WOM. Finally, community experiences were the most important indicators of the satisfaction of online community members among nationality, demographic factors, and motivation orientations.
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Mahomed, Nasreen. "Diagnostic utility of chest X-rays in childhood community acquired pneumonia in the era of bacterial conjugate vaccines, antiretroviral therapy, molecular diagnostics and computer aided diagnosis." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/23155.
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A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the branch of Medicine: Diagnostic Radiology
Johannesburg, 2017.Introduction: Pneumonia is among the leading infectious causes of morbidity and mortality in children under 5 years globally. The chest X-ray remains the most readily available and most common imaging modality for the assessment of childhood pneumonia. Chest X-ray quality assurance is important to maintain high image quality, allowing for more accurate diagnosis. Chest X-ray patterns in a high HIV prevalence setting in children hospitalized with pneumonia in the era of bacterial conjugate vaccines has not been described. Furthermore the association between chest X-ray findings and microbiological etiology using novel models is important. Standardization of chest X-ray interpretation is important to allow comparison of research findings between studies and has been proposed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a measure of bacterial vaccine efficacy (VE). The role of Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) for chest X-ray interpretation is important, especially in countries with limited radiologists. Objectives: In this thesis we investigated the quality of chest X-rays and the impact of quality assurance activities in the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) study, from 9 sites in 7 countries (Bangladesh, the Gambia, Kenya, Mali, South Africa, Thailand and Zambia), by quantifying radiographic errors through use of a customized quality assessment form. Within the context of the PERCH South African site, we compared chest X-ray patterns in HIV-unexposed, HIV- exposed-uninfected (HEU) and HIV-infected children hospitalized with WHO-defined severe or very severe community acquired pneumonia. Further, we evaluated the association of chest X-ray patterns with clinical parameters and its association with the PERCH Quantitative Analysis (PQA) model predicted probability of infection by a class or specific pathogens. Lastly, we evaluated the utility of CAD for identifying chest X-ray primary end-point pneumonia (CXR-PEP) versus non CXR-PEP compared to a consensus human interpretation as a reference standard. Results: A total of 747 chest X-rays in 9 PERCH sites had chest X-ray quality assessment. Collimation performed the worse of the 6 parameters, with 5 out of the 9 sites being graded sub-optimally for this. Three of the 9 sites showed a significant improvement in chest X-ray quality using a test for trend analysis. At the South African PERCH site, 920 cases were enrolled over two years, including 858 children with interpretable chest X-rays. The commonest finding was CXR-PEP, prevalent among 38% HIV-unexposed children, 33% HEU children and 60% of HIV-infected children, which was consistent between different age categories. CXR-PEP was twice as common in HIV-infected (OR 2.5; 95% CI 1.6-3.8) compared with these HIV-unexposed children. Clinical and laboratory features independently associated with CXR-PEP included the presence of severe malnutrition, fever and CRP > 40mg/dL. CXR-PEP was associated with the composite outcome of mechanical ventilation or death. However there was no single clinical or laboratory parameter that had both high sensitivity and specificity to discriminate between CXR-PEP from non CXR-PEP cases. HIV-unexposed children with a PQA model probability index > 0.5 for bacterial etiology had 2-fold greater odds (95% CI 1.1-4.1) for CXR-PEP compared to non CXR-PEP, and similarly HIV-unexposed children with microbiologically confirmed pneumococcal pneumonia (MCPP) had 3-fold greater odds (95% CI 1.3-6.7) of CXR-PEP. HIV-infected children with a PQA model probability index > 0.5 for respiratory viral etiology and PQA model probability index > 0.5 for Pneumocystis jiroveci etiology trended to have a greater odds for CXR-PEP vs non CXR-PEP. Using CAD4WHOKids for the 858 interpretable chest X-rays, for CXR-PEP versus non CXR-PEP, CAD4WHOKids had a sensitivity of 76%, specificity of 80% and area under the ROC curve of 0.850 (95% CI 0.823-0.876) compared to the radiologist consensus reading. Conclusion: Chest X-ray quality, in particular collimation was suboptimal in 7 resource limited countries, in children hospitalized for WHO defined severe or very severe pneumonia. CXR-PEP remains the most common chest X-ray abnormality in HIV-unexposed, HEU and HIV-infected children under 5 years of age hospitalized for WHO-defined severe or very severe pneumonia, even in the era of routine HiB and PCV immunization. Our findings support the literature that CXR-PEP is of limited use in HIV-infected children as an outcome measure in bacterial VE studies, due to opportunistic infections like Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia and respiratory viral infections contributing to CXR-PEP. CAD is promising as a diagnostic tool for identifying WHO defined CXR-PEP in bacterial VE trials and pneumonia epidemiological studies.
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No, Won active 2013. "Health care co-operatives in South Korea : an effective alternative to the health care system in the future?" 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22635.
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South Korea has been evaluated as having the weakest primary care system. In South Korea, the health care delivery system is concentrated too heavily in the private sector. Increased concern on keeping one’s health and reducing the burden of health care costs led community members to gather and form health care co-operatives. Currently, 19 health care co-operatives have been established through residents’ participation and even more are preparing to be incorporated.
As a nonprofit organization, a health care co-operative is a voluntarily established co-operative organization that tries to solve health, medical, and life problems in communities. This report examines how these health care co-operatives work in the health care system, whether they can be effective alternatives to a future health care system in South Korea, and finally the report provides recommendations.
Given the fact that the nation already has national health insurance, health care co-operatives in South Korea mainly operate several clinics by focusing more on managing chronic diseases and increasing access to care, rather than developing affordable health care insurance or lobbying in policy sectors as they do in other countries.
Health care co-operatives’ motivation is to keep people healthy; hence, they put a great deal of effort into delivering primary care and helping patients deal with chronic diseases. Health care co-operatives are encouraging because of their democratic structure. Health care co-operatives emphasize the idea that the owners of the health care co-operatives are in fact the members. The overall satisfaction of users in the current health care cooperatives is moderately high. Taking the lessons from the examples of health co-operatives in other countries, health care co-operatives should be able to function as a good complementary to the health care system.text
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Hába, Tomáš. "Vyhodnocení účinnosti ekonomických sankcí: Případy Íránu a Severní Koreje." Master's thesis, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-448253.
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This thesis examines the apparent discrepancy in success between Iran and North Korea when it comes to developing nuclear weapons. Both states at one time sought to acquire nuclear weapons for internal political and external security reasons. But whereas North Korea successfully detonated its first atomic bomb in 2006, Iran was pressured into an agreement in 2015 which put significant restraints on its nuclear programme. This thesis finds that there were multiple contributory factors that lay behind these differing outcomes. Specifically, it finds that while both nations had similar motivations to acquire nuclear weapons, their economic/military capabilities and the external pressure against their ambition differed in one case from the other. The ability of North Korea to deter a potential military attack from the United States together with the regime's ability to rely on its Chinese and South Korean partners for diplomatic protection as well as its own brutality towards its own population played the key role.
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Annett, Sandra. "Animating transcultural communities: animation fandom in North America and East Asia from 1906-2010." 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4733.
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This dissertation examines the role that animation plays in the formation of transcultural fan communities. A “transcultural fan community” is defined as a group in which members from many national, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds find a sense of connection across difference, engaging with each other through a mutual interest in animation while negotiating the frictions that result from their differing social and historical contexts. The transcultural model acts as an intervention into polarized academic discourses on media globalization which frame animation as either structural neo-imperial domination or as a wellspring of active, resistant readings. Rather than focusing on top-down oppression or bottom-up resistance, this dissertation demonstrates that it is in the intersections and conflicts between different uses of texts that transcultural fan communities are born.
The methodologies of this dissertations are drawn from film/media studies, cultural studies, and ethnography. The first two parts employ textual close reading and historical research to show how film animation in the early twentieth century (mainly works by the Fleischer Brothers, Ōfuji Noburō, Walt Disney, and Seo Mitsuyo) and television animation in the late twentieth century (such as The Jetsons, Astro Boy and Cowboy Bebop) depicted and generated nationally and ethnically diverse audiences. Exactly how such diversity was handled varied according to the specific animation producers, distributors, and consumers involved. And yet, all of these cases exemplify models of textual engagement and modes of globalization that have a continuing influence today.
Building on the basis of twentieth-century animation, the third part of the dissertation illustrates the risks and potentials that attend media globalization in the Internet era of the early twenty-first century. The web media texts There She Is!! (2003) and Hetalia: Axis Powers (2006) are analyzed alongside results from a survey of animation fans conducted online and at fan events in Canada, the United States, and Japan between July 2009 and September 2010. This dissertation thus demonstrates the different ways of living together in the world generated by the global crossings and clashes of social life and mediated imaginaries today.
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Kim, Ho Yun. "Transforming missions : mission strategy and cyber space. Research on the use of cyber space in transforming the mission of the South Korean church in 21st century." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25515.
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The present generation lives in the new information age as a result of rapid computer developments and the accessibility of the internet. Therefore, in the 21st century the world has to come to grips with the cyber space culture. Internet connections in South Korea, as in many countries in the world, make access to the world available in every house. Therefore, it is a necessity to understand the internet culture and internet is becoming part of everyday life. However, at the beginning of the 21st century, the most important attribute of the mission is missio Dei: the mission is God’s mission. God is a missionary God and mission has its origin in God. And finally, God also calls people as missionaries to share his love with the world. According to Bosch (1991:368-372), our daily life has become so fast and constantly changing that we cannot use past methods to be effective today. Therefore we need a paradigm shift in our thinking towards missions today, to become more relevant. There is a need for the church to understand this paradigm shift, and implement it into its thinking and practice of mission. Cyber mission is becoming important in the information age, and there are many advantages and disadvantages to it. These advantages are to be managed carefully. It is the church's responsibility to use cyber space to the advantage of God's Kingdom. The opening up of cyber space may prove to be a gift from God to his church today. Many Christians began to share their faith with others in cyber space through the internet and internet evangelism and cyber missions were born. Today, the internet has become one of the available means of sharing and proclaiming the Gospel. It offers us incredible power to share the Good News. The Christian has the great responsibility to the great commission to deliver the gospel to the end of the earth through the cyber Mission. The South Korean church became a strong Christian church, ranking as the second missionary sending country in the world of today. The South Korean church developed the cyber mission, as they realized the power of the internet. Most of the churches have their own web site and they have already started to use the cyber space for church ministry.Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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"慈善廣告中的助人故事: 東華三院、香港公益金、香港樂施會慈善文本研究." 2008. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5893512.
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陳偉超."2008年5月".
"2008 nian 5 yue".
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 69-76).
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Chen Weichao.
Chapter 第一章 --- 引言 --- p.1
Chapter 第二章 --- 成效、標簽、資源分配：慈善文本的硏究進路和結果及硏究設定 --- p.5
Chapter 第三章 --- 文獻回顧：慈善理念在不同場域中的形態 --- p.16
Chapter 第四章 --- 三個慈善機構的慈善論述 --- p.31
Chapter 第五章 --- 總結：慈善文本深度閱讀 --- p.62
附件一 --- p.68
參考書目 --- p.69
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Brown, Rachel Christine. "Limitations and liabilities: Flanner House, Planned Parenthood, and African American birth control in 1950s Indianapolis." Thesis, 2017. https://doi.org/10.7912/C2SM0S.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)This thesis analyzes the relationship between Flanner House, an African American settlement house, and Planned Parenthood of Central Indiana to determine why Flanner House director Cleo Blackburn would not allow a birth control clinic to be established at the Herman G. Morgan Health Center in 1951. Juxtaposing the scholarship of African Americans and birth control with the historiography of black settlement houses leads to the conclusion that Blackburn’s refusal to add birth control to the health center’s services had little to do with the black Indianapolis community’s opinions on birth control; instead, Flanner House was confined by conservative limitations imposed on it by white funders and organizations. The thesis examines the success of Blackburn and Freeman B. Ransom, Indianapolis’s powerful black leaders, in working within the system of limitations to establish the Morgan Health Center in 1947. Ransom and Blackburn received monetary support from the United Fund, the Indianapolis Foundation, and the U.S. Children’s Bureau, which stationed one of its physicians, Walter H. Maddux, in Indianapolis. The Center also worked as a part of the Indianapolis City Board of Health’s public health program. These organizations and individuals did not support birth control at this time and would greatly influence Blackburn’s decision about providing contraceptives. In 1951, Planned Parenthood approached Blackburn about adding birth control to the services at Morgan Health Center. Blackburn refused, citing the Catholic influence on the Flanner House board. While acknowledging the anti-birth control stance of Indianapolis Catholics, the thesis focuses on other factors that contributed to Blackburn’s decision and argues that the position of Flanner House as a black organization funded by conservative white organizations had more impact than any religious sentiment; birth control would have been a liability for the Morgan Health Center as adding contraceptives could have threatened the funding the Center needed in order to serve the African American community. Finally, the position of Planned Parenthood and Flanner House as subordinate organizations operating within the limitations of Indianapolis society are compared and found to be similar.