The Impact of Socio-Psychological Factors on Consumer Behavior: A Case Study in Azerbaijan

Shahin AKBAROV,Nigar ISLAMLI 한국유통과학회 2021 The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Busine Vol.8 No.5

Shahin AKBAROV;Nigar ISLAMLIThe study aims to investigate the relationships among two socio-psychological concepts (self-esteem and public self-consciousness) and two marketing concepts (symbolic consumption and brand consciousness). The questionnaire method was used for data collection; 274 questionnaires were collected through convenience sampling. Exploratory factor analysis was first done with SPSS. The AMOS 23 was used to test the model applying structural equation modeling. The results show that self-esteem has a positive influence on symbolic consumption, brand consciousness, and public self-consciousness. The positive influence of public self-consciousness on symbolic consumption and the positive influence of symbolic consumption on brand consciousness were also determined. Studies on the measurement of relationships between variables discussed in this article are scarce. Revealing these relationships is important in terms of contribution to the theory and practice. The results reveal that self-esteem is positively related to symbolic consumption (both direct and indirect through public self-consciousness), and to brand consciousness (both direct and indirect through symbolic consumption and public self-consciousness). Individuals that evaluate themselves highly are more concerned about public opinion. Individuals who care about their presence in society will use products that reflect their lifestyle. Consumers who make purchasing that is congruent with their lifestyle and self are more brand-conscious.

The Captive and the Gift: Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus. Bruce Grant

( Shahin Mustafayev ) 계명대학교 실크로드중앙아시아연구원 2017 Acta Via Serica Vol.2 No.1

A Comparative Study on the Constitutionalization of Abortion in Korea, On The Busy Intersection of Morality and Law

Shahin Borhanian 조선대학교 법학연구원 2023 法學論叢 Vol.30 No.2

This study presents a comparative overview of certain parallel aspects in the legal history of the abortion debate as it transpired historically in the key judicial opinions in the United States and Germany, and recently in the Korean Republic. The object is to elucidate the extreme difficulty that the learned Justices of the Courts in the United States and Germany faced in attempting to objectively measure the moral values involved in the determination of maternal and fetal rights, and their inability to provide rational explanations for the initial prioritization or ultimate balancing of the rights. As a result, the Courts failed to direct and stabilize abortion regulation because their frameworks were neither proven to be equitable nor legally workable. The primary method of this study is to highlight the questionable nature of the legal frameworks of the original abortion opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court and the German Constitutional Court to demonstrate that they were guided more by the personal moral convictions of the Justices than by the dictates of the law. The goal is to offer a comparative context that begins to explore the question, whether the Korean Constitutional Court has indeed found a way to resolve the abortion debate once and for all, or alternatively, whether all protagonists in Korea ought to shift course to help avoid weakening the authority of the rule of law and its legitimacy in the public eye, by delaying any further attempt in the resolution of this controversial issue until a national debate on the dialectic results in a consensus in the public, scholarly, and ultimately legislative discourse that properly values and balances the mother’s right of self-determination with the natural right of the fetus to life.

Daily Life of the People of Kashgaria at the End of the 19<SUP>th</SUP> Century: Evidence of Russian Traveler M.V. Pevtsov

Shahin MUSTAFAYEV 계명대학교 실크로드중앙아시아연구원 2022 Acta Via Serica Vol.7 No.1

Responsible Behavior after Hobby Lobby, An Open Sermon to Corporate Persons

Shahin Borhanian 조선대학교 법학연구원 2014 法學論叢 Vol.21 No.3

미국연방대법원은 2014년 6월 Burwell v. Hobby Lobby 사건에서 특정한 이윤추구 기업을 포함하여 기업체는 종교적 신념을 표명할 수 있다고 판결했다. 이 판결로 기업체들이 자신의 신념과 상치되는 연방법의 적용을 회피하는 것이 가능하게 되었다. 다수의 관찰자들과 학자들은 기업체가 자연인과 균등한 권리를 얻게 되었다는 사실에 놀랐다. 그리고 그들은 기업체의 인격화가 선량한 기업체로 하여금 선량한 시민으로서의 의무를 회피하는 것을 가능하게 하였고, 궁극적으로 권리주체는 사람이어야 한다는 사실로부터의 독립선언을 주장하게 되리라는 점에 대하여 경고하였다. 정부의 기업에 대한 규제는 명백히 실패하였으며, 이제 필요 한 것은 그 가치가 분명치 않은 기업체에 대한 규제를 제거하는 것이고, 사람과 같은 조건에서 비난할 것을 비난하는 것이다. 아마도 기업체는 선을 행함에 있어서 인간보다 더 이성적이고 더 능력이 있을 수 있다. 기업체의 손이 묶이는 추가적인 제재를 당하기보다, 기업체의 운영자들에게 기업의 재정자원을 선한 용도에 사용할 수 있는 권한이 부여되어야 한다. 이제 기업의사결정에서 순수한 경제적 재량 모델과 기업경영에 주주를 최우선으로 하는 모델은 버려야 할 때이다. 그리고 피고용인과 소비자와 지역사회를 포함하는 현대 기업체의 다수 이해관계자들의 이해를 더 많이 포용하는 모델을 채택해야 할 때이다. 이 논문은 Hobby Lobby사건이, 기업체의 해방과 함께 기업체가 새로이 그리고 과거에 획득했던 권리를 선량한 시민의식과 기업책임이라는 형태의 윤리적 행위로 조절할 힘을 갖는다면, 인간의 독창성에 대한 증거이며 오랫동안 기대되었던 기업법의 선구적인 목표의 성취에 있어서 특별한 이정표가 될 것이라고 본다. In Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, decided June of 2014, the Supreme Court of the United States announced that business entities, including certain for-profit corporations, are capable of expressing religious beliefs, potentially allowing them to avoid the operation of federal laws of general applicably that they sincerely find inconsistent with such beliefs. A host of observers and scholars are appalled that corporations have garnered parity of rights with natural persons, and they warn that personalization has made possible for corporations to avoid the responsibilities of good citizenship and ultimately to assert their "Declaration of Independence" from the authority of the people. Government regulation of corporations have manifestly failed, and what is needed now is to move away from the restraint of the corporate entity, which is of dubious value, and place the blame squarely where it lies, within the human condition. The dualistic nature of humans is deterministic of the output of human invention, and it may be that corporations are more rational and more capable than persons in doing good. Rather than being subject to additional prohibitions to further tie their hands, corporate managers must be empowered to put corporate financial resources into good use. It is time to abandon the purely economic discretionary model of corporate decision making and the shareholder primacy model of corporate management and to adopt models which are more inclusive of the interests of the many stakeholders of the modern corporation, including employees, consumers and communities. This paper suggests that Hobby Lobby may be a testament to human ingenuity and an outstanding milestone in the long-anticipated fulfillment of the prophetic goal of corporation law, provided that along with its emancipation, the corporation is empowered to moderate its new and erstwhile acquired rights with the dictates of good citizenship and ethical behavior in the form of corporate responsibility.

Color Fastness and Tensile Properties of Cotton Fabric Dyed with Extract from Albizia Procera Sawdust

Shahin Sultana,Khaleda Akter,Md. Khabir Uddin Sarker,Riyadh Hossen Bhuiyan,Mohammad Majedul Haque,Md. Rafiqul Islam 한국섬유공학회 2022 Fibers and polymers Vol.23 No.10

Natural dye was extracted from Albizia procera sawdust by an aqueous extraction process. The extracted dye wasapplied to cotton fabric, and the dyeing techniques were evaluated. The metallic mordants FeSO4 and CuSO4 were used asdye fixing agents in this dyeing process. Different parameters, such as dye concentration, dyeing temperature, dyeing time,type of mordant, mordant concentration, and dyeing method, were evaluated. It was observed that the dye exhaustion oncotton fabric significantly increased with FeSO4 mordant over that with CuSO4. The shades of the dyed fabric were found tobe dark olive when the FeSO4 mordant was used and brown when the CuSO4 mordant was used. Pre-, meta-, and postmordantingdyeing methods were used to dye the fabric, but the meta-mordanting method was the most suitable for dyeingfabric with sawdust extract. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy was performed on the extracted dyes and thedyed cotton fabric. The color fastness and tensile properties of all the dyed fabrics were evaluated and compared. The fabrictreated with FeSO4 as a mordant showed better color fastness and color strength (K/S) than the fabric treated with CuSO4mordant. However, the fabric treated with CuSO4 showed better tensile properties than the FeSO4 treated fabric and theundyed fabric.

DO CROSS-FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES MATTER FOR THE EXPORT MARKETING STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION OF EMERGING MARKET FIRMS? THE MODERATING ROLE OF PSYCHIC DISTANCE AND COMPETITIVE INTENSITY

Shahin Assadinia,Vita Kadile,Matthew Robson 글로벌지식마케팅경영학회 2018 Global Marketing Conference Vol.2018 No.07

Building on insights from institutional theory and dynamic capabilities, this study investigates the relationships of cross-functional capabilities with export marketing strategy implementation and, ultimately, its influence on export performance. This study utilizes multiple-informant and time-lagged primary data from 218 exporting firms in Nigeria to contribute to an understanding of how export marketing capabilities can be implemented to drive export performance. The results suggest contrasting moderating effects of psychic distance and competitive intensity on the cross-functional capabilities to export marketing strategy implementation relationship. This research contributes to the international business and marketing literature by advancing the knowledge on marketing capabilities and strategy implementation, and highlights managerial implications for international business.

An Incidentally Found Inflamed Uterine Myoma Causing Low Abdominal Pain, Using Tc-99m-Tektrotyd Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography-CT Hybrid Imaging

Shahin Zandieh,Matthias Schütz,Reinhard Bernt,Jochen Zwerina,Joerg Haller 대한영상의학회 2013 Korean Journal of Radiology Vol.14 No.5

We report the case of a 50-year-old woman presented with a history of right hemicolectomy due to an ileocecal neuroendocrine tumor and left breast metastasis. Owing to a slightly elevated chromogranin A-level and lower abdominal pain, single photon emission computed tomography-computer tomography (SPECT-CT) was performed. There were no signs of recurrence on the SPECT-CT scan, but the patient was incidentally found to have an inflamed intramural myoma. We believe that the slightly elevated chromogranin A-level was caused by the hypertension that the patient presented. In the clinical context, this is a report of an inflamed uterine myoma seen as a false positive result detected by TC-99m-Tc-EDDA/ HYNIC-Tyr3-Octreotide (Tektrotyd) SPECT-CT hybrid imaging.

Intrafamily Child Sexual Abuse in Korea, Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Shahin Borhanian 조선대학교 법학연구원 2014 法學論叢 Vol.21 No.1

지난 10년 동안 한국에서 아동상대 성폭력은 대중적인 관심사가 된 여자아동을 상대로 하는 끔찍한 성범죄에 관한 보도가 머리기사에 등장하면서 이목을 끈 미성년자를 상대로 하는 다수의 성범죄 사건에 대한 미디어의 관심을 통해 드러나기 시작했다. 아동상대 납치와 성폭력 사건들은 대중의 분노를 야기하였고 한국의 국회의원들은 더 강력한 법적 조치를 취하게 되었으며, 이에 따라 더 중한 형을 선고하기 위해 법정형의 하한을 올리고 유죄판결을 받은 아동상대 성범죄자에게 전자발찌를 부착하도록 하며, 특정 성범죄자들의 이름과 부분적인 주소를 공개하도록 하는 것 및 재범을 막기 위해 높은 위험성이 있는 성범죄자들에게 화학적 거세를 명할 수 있도록 허용하는 법률이 입법되었다. 정부의 이러한 정책들은 피해자들에게 낯선 성범죄자들에 의한 반복적 성범죄를 예방하는데 주로 주안점을 두고 있지만, 상담센터들의 데이터에 기초한 경험적 연구에 따르면 한국의 아동성범죄 피해자들의 대다수는 가정 내 성폭력의 피해자들이었다. 필자는 미국에서 발전하고 있는 입법 추세를 반영한 한국의 관련 형사법의 개정 방향을 다음과 같이 제안하고 있다. ① 부모나 보호자 또는 아동을 통제하거나 관리하는 지위에 있는 성인인 가족에 의한 아동이나 청소년 상대의 가정 내 성폭력을 특히 금지할 것, ② 아동을 관리하며 아동이 신뢰하는 지위에 있는 부모나 기타의 사람들이 성범죄자인 경우를 특히 대상으로 하여 아동 상대 성폭력에 대해 가중된 형벌을 부과하도록 할 것, ③ 부모나 후견인 또는 법적으로 아동을 돌볼 의무가 있는 사람이 아동을 방치하거나, 아동이 성폭력의 위험에 처할 것을 알면서 또는 아동의 보호를 위탁받은 사람이 그 아동에 대해 이전에 성적 접촉을 한 전력이 있다는 것을 알면서 당해 아동을 타인에게 위탁하는 행위를 특히 범죄화하도록 할 것, ④ 아동성범죄 피해자인 성인이 정신과적 치료를 통해서 성범죄를 통한 억압된 기억으로부터 회복된 후 법적구제수단을 취할 수 있도록 공소시효기간을 조정할 것, ⑤ 성범죄자를 아동의 가정에서 격리하는 문제와 관련하여 온전한 경험적 증거와 전문가의 조언에 기초한 더 나은 지침을 판사와 검사에게 제공할 것. In the last decade, child sexual abuse in Korea has begun to emerge from hiding via media attention to a number of high profile cases of violence against minors, with headlines focusing public attention on horrific sexual crimes committed by strangers against female children. Incidents of kidnapping and sexual violence against children outrage the public and dramatize the challenge that this intransigent problem presents to the diligent members of the Korea National Assembly who continue to toughen up legal measures to increase maximum sentencing limits, to increase the period that a convicted pedophile may be required to wear an ankle bracelet tracking device, to require the public disclosure of the names and partial addresses of certain sex offenders, and to enact a law allowing judges to order chemical castration of high risk offenders to help prevent recidivism. Although these governmental policies are primarily focused on preventing repeat crimes by sex offenders who are strangers to their victims, empirical studies of data from counseling centers suggests that the greater majority of child victims in Korea may be subjects of intrafamily sexual abuse. The author recommends that Korea's criminal statutes be amended in line with the developing American trend to (1) specifically prohibit intrafamily sexual abuse of children and juveniles by a parent, caretaker or adult household member in a position of authority or control over the child (2) specifically target offenders that are parents and other persons in position of trust and authority over the child to receive enhanced punishment for sexually assaulting the child; (3) specifically criminalize the act of a parent, or guardian or other person legally charged with the care of a child who deserts a child or otherwise entrusts the child to someone knowing that the child is in danger of sexual abuse or knowing that the person the child is entrusted to had previous sexual contact with the child; (4) adjust the statute of limitations for these crimes in a manner necessary to provide recourse for adults whose repressed memories of experiences of child abuse are restored by psychiatric treatment; and (5) provide greater guidance to prosecutors and judges, based on sound empirical evidence and the advice of experts, concerning whether to recommend separation of the offender from the child's home.

Shamanism: Soviet Studies of Traditional Religion in Siberia and Central Asia

( Shahin Mustafayev ) 계명대학교 실크로드중앙아시아연구원 2018 Acta Via Serica Vol.3 No.1