Characteristics of a Medical Tourism Industry: The Case of South Korea

This study investigates the process involved in developing a medical tourism industry in South Korea as a case country, one of the fastest growing countries with strong potential in the medical tourism industry. It analyzed 252 articles on medical tourism posted on the websites of the Korean Tourism Organization and the Korean International Medical Association. Both sources are highly representative portal websites for medical tourism in the country. The article aims to enhance understanding of medical tourism as a new growth industry while identifying its key developmental characteristics and makes valuable suggestions for the industry that can be reflected to other countries. The study contributes theoretically and practically by examining the unique and updated characteristics and process of positioning of this recently emerging field in the global tourism industry.     

玉米酒精糟液处理技术研究及展望

本文介绍了当前处理玉米酒精糟液处理工艺技术,从经济效益、环境效益、社会效益角度分析了各种工艺技术的可行性及发展潜力,重点介绍了新型的膜技术在酒精糟液处理工艺中的应用,并展望了其良好的应用前景。     

事件营销在邮政经营中的应用探讨

在日趋激烈的市场竞争中,巧妙地借助甚至制造一些能吸引媒体和社会公众注意的“新闻事件”,以提高企业知名度,促进产品或服务销售,往往能收到意想不到的效果。这种营销方式被称为“事件营销”。邮政作为社会公用性企业,其服务对象遍布社会各阶层,与公众生活联系密切,而且邮政服     

Global Versus Local Consumer Culture Positioning in a Transitional Market: Understanding the Influence of Consumer Nationalism

To shed cultural insights on the complex interplay between globalization and local ideologies, this study presents an online experiment that tested the comparative effects of global and local consumer culture positioning strategies in China. Reflecting the prevailing trend of nationalism around the globe, the study findings highlight the power of consumer nationalism on driving the effects of these culture-oriented positioning strategies. Furthermore, self-brand connection was found to be a critical mediator of the effects of consumer nationalism on brand evaluation. Based on the findings, this study provides strategic guidelines for both domestic and global brands to craft culturally relevant campaigns that capitalize on the growing trend of consumer nationalism in transitioning markets such as China.     

Do oil tariffs lower wages?

An oil tariff has potential to alter the pattern of production and income distribution across productive factors. This paper use a general equilibrium model of production and trade with inputs of capital, labor, and international energy to examine the effects of an oil tariff. Under a range of conditions, higher energy prices created by oil tariffs would lower the ratio of wages to capital rents, and production of labor intensive goods would fall. This paper concentrates on the potential of oil tariffs to alter patterns of production and income distribution.     

An Entrepreneurial Perspective of Institutional Change

Utilizing Kirzner's theory of entrepreneurial discovery, Schumpeter's two types of economic responses and the Austrian theory of institutions as building blocks, this paper constructs an entrepreneurial theory of institutional change. Focusing on the coordinating role of human institutions, this paper argues that entrepreneurial extraordinary discovery destroys the stability of institutions and creates uncertainty in the market (creative response). As a result, institutions are incapable of coordinating economic activities because market participants' stocks of knowledge are no longer adequate to solve new problems. Hence, profit gaps or mismatches of market participants' plans occur. Given new technologies, new relative prices and tastes, imitative entrepreneurs soon identify and capitalize on the opportunities created by Schumpeterian extraordinary discoveries (adaptive response). Imitators improve production methods, modify rules and alter property rights in order to improve coordination. Through learning, experimentation, trial and error, the more rewarding methods are then selected. Successful actions are imitated and repeated in the market, and gradually crystallized into new institutions which once again serve as social coordinators.     

凝析油加工处理装置经济评价

介绍了中国海洋石油总公司新建凝析油加工处理装置的总投资及资金筹措计划,重点分析了该项目的生产成本构成、盈利能力、偿债能力和财务生存能力。分析结果表明该装置的建设在经济上是可行的。     

区域科技基础条件平台构建研究

区域科技基础条件平台的构建,可以更好的发挥公共科技服务在区域自主创新和科技进步中的作用,有利于减少科技资源布局分散和重复建设等问题,将为区域主导产业的发展起到极大的促进作用,可以确保产业在全国同行业中处于领先地位。本文在解析了区域科技基础条件平台建设影响因素的基础上,分析区域科技基础条件平台构建的目标任务和重点工作内容,并探讨相关的保障措施。     

预钻式旁压试验在哈尔滨地铁一期工程中的应用

本文通过哈尔滨地铁一期工程的实例,介绍了预钻式旁压试验在工程中的现场操作,成果分析及应用。     

浅谈现代数控技术的发展趋势

数控技术是当今先进制造技术的核心技术。本文重点分析了当今数控技术发展的趋势,国内外数控技术的发展概况以及数控技术在机械制造业中的战略意义,强调了发展数控技术的重要性。