국가어항은 어촌경제의 핵심 거점으로, 전통적으로 수산업 활동을 지원하는 기능을 수행해 왔다. 그러나 현대에는 관광과 레크 리에이션 기능도 요구되고 있으며, 어항의 다기능화가 필요해지고 있다. 이에 따라 국가어항의 기능을 체계적으로 분류하고, 그 기능에 영향을 미치는 요인을 분석하는 것이 중요한 과제로 부각되었다. 따라서 본 연구는 국가어항의 기능을 분류하고, 각 기능에 미치는 주요 요인들을 실증 분석한다. 이를 통해 어항 기능을 극대화하고, 어촌경제와 지역사회 발전에 기여할 수 있는 전략을 제시하고자 한다. 연구 는 2021년 기준 115개 국가어항을 대상으로 자료를 수집하여 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 국가어항은 기초어업형, 경제적 진흥형, 관광특화형, 취약형, 다목적형의 5가지 유형으로 분류되었다. 또한 다중회귀분석을 통해 수산 및 관광 기능에 미치는 주요 요인들을 도출하였다. 중도 매인 수, 관광매출액, 숙박시설 수, 항별 이용 면적 등이 관광과 수산 기능에 유의미한 영향을 미친다는 점을 확인하였다. 이 연구는 국가 어항의 다기능화를 위한 구체적인 요인들을 규명하고, 각 유형의 어항에 맞는 개발 전략을 제시할 수 있는 기초자료를 제공한다. 특히, 취 약형 어항에 대한 맞춤형 개발 전략이 필요이 중요한 과제로 제시되었다.

The walking-stick insects, Ramulus mikado, are outbreaks in several mountainous areas from 2020 to 2022. In recent, some population of the insect are showed rapidly decline in their abundance, while some of them are still maintained high population density. In worldwide, insects belonging to Phasmida are reported to outbreak in their habitats as mentioned above environments, but knowledge about outbreak pattern of the walking-stick insects is still lacking. In this study, we aimed which biological and environmental factors are related to wax and wane of the insect population. From 2022 to 2023, we studied host tree preferences in natural conditions, ecological stoichiometry in major host trees, overwintering ecology of R. mikado eggs, and infection rate by entomophathogenic fungi during growing season.

Hydrolyzed proteins have an advantage over intact proteins in terms of their rate of digestion and absorption. The high-pressure enzymatic extraction (HPE) method has been shown to improve the quality characteristics of hydrolysates from Protaetia brevitarsis seulensis (Kolbe) larvae (PBSL). This study investigated the effects of the HPE treatment period, a key candidate factor, on the quality characteristics of PBSL HPE hydrolysates. The hydrolysates were prepared by HPE for 0, 12, 18, 24, 30, and 36 h under optimized conditions—solid:solvent ratio (1:14 [w/v]), using complex proteases (Alcalase:Flavorzyme:Bromelain = 1:1:1, 4%), treatment temperature (50oC), and pressure level (100 MPa). All quality characteristics tended to be superior with longer HPE treatment periods, most of which had the highest values at 30 h, with no significant difference or a slight decrease after that. The quality characteristics of the PBSL HPE hydrolysates were improved by 1.3-1.7 times under conditions of optimal HPE treatment period.

Corporate reputation – the central antecedent of trust – bears the potential to create sustainable competitive advantage. However, far too many examples of companies’ socially irresponsible behavior over the past years led to a severe crisis of confidence. Disgraced companies suffer from the adverse effects of their misbehaviors at all levels. As a consequence, one of the top priorities for both practitioners and business scholars is the identification of opportunities to (re)build corporate reputation. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), a key driver of reputation perceptions, is a very promising one. However, as CSR is a multidimensional construct that comprises a wide range of activities, the selection of the “right” ones deems a major challenge. Based on a literature review, we advocate that news media data should be utilized to analyze which CSR dimensions are particularly likely to affect reputation perceptions. As journalists rely on companies’ press releases as a starting point for their business articles, companies need to carefully evaluate which CSR dimensions they emphasize in their communication strategy. Based on superior measures of reputation and CSR, this study utilizes reputation and news media coverage data on companies listed in the German DAX30 between 2005 and 2011. The panel data regression encompasses the multidimensional concept of CSR, presenting a six-dimensional CSR construct including environment, employee relations, community, product issues, corporate culture and corporate governance. Relevant moderating variables, namely firm and stakeholder characteristics, are investigated. In this context, the results show that the relevance of each of those six distinct dimensions differs for the formation of reputation judgements and varies across investigated stakeholder and company types: across all model specifications, negative media coverage addressing employee relations and community affects reputation perceptions. The general public primarily perceives negative news coverage as relevant for their reputation judgements. Opinion leaders seem to be less dependent on the media to learn about CSR dimensions, as only four out of twelve independent variables exert a significant impact on their reputation judgments. News coverage about product issues only constitutes a key role in the formation of reputation judgements of firms that are predominantly known from direct experiences. A particularly large amount of variation can be explained for reputation ratings of these companies as well as for reputation perceptions of opinion leaders.