I Jornadas Rebiun de Préstamo Interbibliotecario, 27 de marzo de 2009

Sección: Noticias externasConvocada y organizada por el Grupo de Trabajo de Préstamo Interbibliotecario de REBIUN, del que formamos parte en representación de las bibliotecas de nuestra red, celebramos en Toledo una jornada dedicada a este servicio que es posiblemente el que interrelaciona más a los bibliotecarios de distintos centros.N

The Challenge of Corruption Control in a Post-Unification Korea: Lessons from Germany and the former Soviet Bloc

Although the current corruption in North Korea is keeping potential resistance and social disruptions under control, it may not be beneficial for North Korea’s economic development in the long-term. The most important reason is that the bribery, which is part of a daily life in North Korea, is rampant and is not functionally helpful to the economy as it does not contribute to formal sector in raising the supply of goods and services but rather remains within informal markets. Moreover, because bribery itself is highly common aspect of lives in North Korea, it takes a significant portion of household spending, which could be spent elsewhere for more productive uses if it could be avoided. Nevertheless, there is a fine equilibrium among dictators, authorities, and market participants that maintains the balance of the corruption system in place. In this backdrop, the present study examines whether this social change in North Korea is expected to break in the long-term as the corrupt relationship between authorities and market participants can no longer be contained by the dictator, resulting in destruction of the system and making transition to market economy

Migratory songbirds in the East Asian-Australasian flyway: a review from a conservation perspective

The East Asian-Australasian Flyway supports the greatest diversity and populations of migratory birds globally, as well as the highest number of threatened migratory species of any flyway, including passerines (15 species). However it is also one of the most poorly understood migration systems, and little is known about the populations and ecology of the passerine migrants that breed, stop over and winter in the habitats along this flyway. We provide the first flyway-wide review of diversity, ecology, and conservation issues relating to 170 species of long-distance and over 80 short-distance migrants from 32 families. Recent studies of songbird migration movements and ecology is limited, and is skewed towards East Asia, particularly Mainland China, Taiwan, Russia, Japan and South Korea. Strong evidence of declines exists for some species, e.g. Yellow-breasted Bunting Emberiza aureola , but tends to be fragmentary, localised or anecdotal for many others. More species have small breeding ranges (< 250,000 km 2 ) and/or are dependent on tropical forests as wintering habitat than those in any other Eurasian migratory system, and are thus more vulnerable to habitat loss and degradation throughout their ranges. Poorly regulated hunting for food and the pet trade, invasive species and collisions with man-made structures further threaten migratory songbirds at a number of stop-over or wintering sites, while climate change and habitat loss may be of increasing concern in the breeding ranges. A key conservation priority is to carry out intensive field surveys across the region while simultaneously tapping into citizen science datasets, to identify important stop-over and wintering sites, particularly for poorly-known or globally threatened species across South-East Asia and southern China for targeted conservation actions. Additionally, the advent of miniaturised tracking technology, molecular and isotopic techniques can provide novel insights into migration connectivity, paths and ecology for species in this migration system, complementing data from banding exercises and observation-based surveys, and could prove useful in informing conservation priorities. However, until most states along the East Asian-Australasian flyway ratify the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) and other cross-boundary treaties, the relative lack of crossboundary cooperation, coordination and information sharing in the region will continue to present a stumbling block for effective conservation of migratory passerines

Reinventing the Government to Nourish Innovation Ecosystem

Since the late 1990s, instead of encouraging first-movers to challenge and take risks, innovation related policies of Korean government, such as science and technology policies, industrial policies, and university policies, induced the first-movers to avoid risks. Likewise, these same policies also blocked out active interactions between each level of technology. For these reasons, we criticize here that the Korean government has failed to nourish first-mover innovation ecosystem despite the enormous expansion in the government budget for innovation. Based on such critical assessments, this research suggests that Korean government should focus on reducing its bureaucratic control, which revolves around regulations and interferences, and also on establishing the innovation ecosystem. To these ends, we suggest a government reform transforming Korean government into cooperative government, strategic government, and innovative government

A Comparative Study of ODA Strategies of South Korea and China: A Case of Knowledge Sharing Program (KSP)

The Knowledge Sharing Program (KSP) gained global attention in the late 1990s when knowledge was increasingly recognized as an important element for successful, sustainable development. Accordingly, South Korea has utilized the KSP to further promote its development cooperation efforts by sharing the strategies from its development experience through the country’s Official Development Assistance (ODA). Given that the KSP has become the representative of South Korea’s ODA strategy, this paper first examines the theoretical basis for the KSP through the three different frameworks of international, development, and cooperation. After overviewing the suggested method of evaluation and assessment for the KSP, this paper compares and contrasts the South Korea’s ODA strategies with that of China. By surveying the case studies of African countries, this paper explores whether the traditional development ingredient of capital (K) may be replaced with the new element of knowledge (K) in the arena of international development cooperation. Results reveal that these two endowments are not substitutes but rather complementary and further cooperation between South Korea and China is recommended to have synergy in promoting sustainable development in developing countries

N-(2,5-Dimeth­oxy­phen­yl)-N′-(4-hy­droxy­pheneth­yl)urea

In the title compound, C17H20N2O4, the 2,5-dimeth­oxy­phenyl unit is almost planar, with an r.m.s. deviation of 0.015 Å. The dihedral angle between the 2,5-dimeth­oxy­phenyl ring and the urea plane is 20.95 (8)°. The H atoms of the urea NH groups are positioned syn to each other. The mol­ecular structure is stabilized by a short intra­molecular N—H⋯O hydrogen bond. In the crystal, inter­molecular N—H⋯O and O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the mol­ecules into a three-dimensional network

1-[3-(Hy­droxy­meth­yl)phen­yl]-3-phenyl­urea

In the title compound, C14H14N2O2, the dihedral angle between the benzene rings is 23.6 (1)°. The H atoms of the urea NH groups are positioned syn to each other. In the crystal, inter­molecular N—H⋯O and O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the mol­ecules into a three-dimensional network