Rising South Korea: A Minor Player or a Regional Power?

Rising prostate cancer rates in South Korea.

BACKGROUND Prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates in South Korea are relatively low, but rising steadily. METHODS We examined age-standardized incidence and mortality trends of prostate cancer in South Korea to gain further insight into prostate cancer etiology. RESULTS Although prostate cancer incidence has been low (7.9 per 100,000 man-years), it has increased up to 28.2% between 1...

f/sla from learner perspectives: a social activity or a cognitive process

in the past couple of decades sociocultural theory of sla and its implications in efl contexts have attracted attentions of research circles worldwide and aroused some controversies. firth and wagner (1997) have questioned the principles of the cognitive view which gives importance to mental constructs in favor of sociocultural view which highlights social and contextual constructs. but if soci...

Nonlinear Asymmetric Effects of Devaluation on Trade Balance: A Case Study of Iran and South Korea

The present paper analyzes the existence of a long-run relationship between the trade balance and exchange rate of Iran and South Korea by a new approach. It proposes an asymmetric co-integrating NARDL model by two positive and negative partial sum decompositions which can use mixed I (0) and I (1) variables by bounds testing approach. The proposed tests are based on calculated F –statistics an...

Identification Of Key Sectors For Iran, South Korea And Turkey Economies: A Network Theory Approach

The Sources of Labor Productivity Growth in Norway, South Korea and Iran: A Structural Decomposition Analysis

Abstract In this paper,using a structural decomposition analysis (SDA) and the latest available input-output tables we investigate the sources of labor productivity growth in Norway, South Korea and Iran. Then, the contribution of each source in the growth of labor productivity is discussed. The results show that among six factors, value added coefficient is the most influencing factoracross al...