• Journal of Environmental Policy
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.1-40
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• 2008

In this paper, I examine the welfare effects of various revenue-neutral tax reforms in the case of two vertically-related oligopolies(downstream and upstream), where the upstream industry is polluting. I show analytically when and how government can improve welfare by initiating various tax reforms, regardless of either the feasibility of a lump sum transfer or the availability of a tax on pollution. The profit wedge that is the difference between the unit price and the unit cost and the marginal environmental damages(MED) becomes important to decidethe direction of a tax reform and is crucial to determine the direction of welfare-improving tax-subsidy schemes. I also show that a tax on pollution(Pigouvian tax) is superior to a tax on intermediate good even in the case of vertically-related oligopolies, because the former always brings in positive welfare effect from the upstream firms' input substitutability, which a tax on intermediate good cannot provide. Some policy implications for 'reducing environmentally-harmful subsidies' are also discussed.

• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.107-115
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• 2015

As TBM construction method is widely applied to construct underground transmission lines, increasing attention has been drawn to SFRC(steel fiber reinforced concrete) segment with respect to structural characteristics. Health hazards of electromagnetic wave which the underground transmission lines emit has emerged, and there is a concern that electromagnetic wave can be amplified because a segment characteristic such as electrical conductivity is changed by steel fibers. In order to analyze correlation between steel fiber dosage and electromagnetic wave, the specimens were fabricated on three conditions to perform experimental tests. From the measured data, it is proven that there is no correlation between the electromagnetic wave and steel fiber reinforced concrete.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.93-107
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• 2010

Performance of software development is measured by two major criteria - roductivity and quality. Although the criteria is empirically tested in software engineering research, they often present with a limited way under consideration of a few factors or contexts for developers to focus on the either productivity facets or quality facets. Analyzing data on software development performance collected over a 13-year period from 20 countries, we investigated how major software development factors - development type, development platform, development technique, language type, DBMS, methodology, methodology acquisition, CASE,, summary of work effort, resource level, max team size, affect the performance of software development. The results suggest that productivity and quality of software development are affected by different factors and context: function points, line of code, extreme defects, major defects, or minor defects. This research provides the empirical evidence that the two performance criteria require for software developer to have careful attention to find the optimal balance between the two performance criteria.

• Korean Business Review
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• v.14
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• pp.149-168
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• 2001

Service firms have always been relationship oriented. the nature of service businesses is relationship based. As service finns, like banks, insurance finns, have grown, The masses of consumers have made the establishment of true relationships more difficult. Understanding the motivations of consumers to engage in relationships with marketers is important for both practitioners and marketing scholars. To develop an effective theory of relationship marketing, It is necessary to understand what motives consumers to reduce their available market choices. This article focuses on the development of the successful relationship strategies in domestic banks. The results of this study show the four types of relationship strategies - social bonds, structural bonds, financial bonds, and other bonds. Although the effectiveness of these strategies differs as the types of performances, All four types of relationship strategies are essential for building and maintaining relationships with customers. Totally, the order of influences on the performance is as follows; financial bonds, structural bonds, and social bonds.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.252-258
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• 2014

With the vision of 'a low carbon green develop' various industrial by-products were used as replacement of cement, in order to reduce $CO_2$ emissions from the manufacturing process of cement. Blast furnace slag is one of the industrial by-products. Due to the similar chemical compositions to ordinary Portland cement, blast furnace slag have been widely used in concrete with minimum side effects. Hence, in recent years, alkali activated slag-based composites are extensively studied by many researchers. However, the alkali activator can cause a number of problems in practice. Therefore, in this study, an alternative way of activating the slag was investigated. To activate the slag without using an alkali activator, calcium sulfate dihydrate was chosen and mixed with natural recycled fine aggregate. Fundamental properties of the slag-based mortar were tested to evaluate the effect of calcium sulfate dihydrate.

• Nuclear industry
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• v.37 no.8
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• pp.24-33
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• 2017

영화 '판도라'에 투입된 정도의 돈은 막대한 예산을 갖고 있는 국제 그린피스나 매년 전 세계 TV 광고에만 수천만 달러를 쏟아 붓는 천연가스 이익단체들의 예산에 비하면 조족지혈의 수준이다. 국제 그린피스의 연간 예산이 대략 4억 달러, EDF가 1억4천만 달러, 천연자원보호협회(NRDC)와 시에라클럽이 1억 달러가 넘고, 이들 단체가 예금이나 주식에 투자한 돈만 해도 수억 달러나 된다. 시에라클럽이나 NRDC, EDF는 블로그에 원자력을 화석연료로 대체하는 것에 반대하는 글을 올리면서 다른 한편으로는 뉴욕에 있는 Indian Point, 캘리포니아에 있는 Diablo Canyon, 그리고 오하이오에 있는 여러 원전들을 천연가스로 대체해야 한다고 주장하는 기만책을 쓰고 있다. 자연과의 조화를 위해서라도 신재생에너지를 사용해야 한다는 그들 주장의 베일 뒤에는 더 큰 어두운 그림자가 깔려 있다. 가난한 나라는 계속해서 가난하도록 해야 '과잉 인구'와 '과소비'를 막을 수 있다는 반인륜적인 멜더스(Malthusian) 이론과 그들이 주장하는 반핵의 오랜 역사는 서로 그 맥을 같이하고 있기 때문이다. 탈원전이 추진되면 전기요금도 올라가고 실업률도 증가한다는 사실, 그리고 환경 오염도 더 심해지고 그로 인해 조기 사망자 수도 증가한다는 사실을 보여주는 데 반드시 어려운 경제 모델이나 환경 모델이 필요한 것은 아니다. 원자력을 천연가스로 대체하면 그에 따른 비용 상승이 연간 최소 110억 달러나 된다. 물론 신재생에너지로 대체하게 되면 그 상승폭은 더욱 커지게 된다. 그리고 한 경제 분석 전문기관의 연구에 따르면 전기요금이 상승되면 한국의 경제는 저성장에서 벗어나지 못하게 된다. 결국 지금 우리에게 가장 필요한 것은 원자력 휴머니즘, 즉 원자력 에너지가 갖고 있는 훌륭한 도덕적인 목적을 다시 한 번 상기하면서, 우리 인류가 가지고 있는 가장 중요한 환경 기술을 반인륜적인 집단으로부터 구해내기 위한 풀뿌리 시민사회의 가열찬 노력이라고 할 수 있다. 우리와 같은 원자력 휴머니스트들에게는 그린피스나 기타 여러 반인륜적 집단들이 갖고 있는 풍부한 자원이 없다. 그러나 우리에게는 그런 종류의 자원이 필요한 것이 아니다. 우리에게는 그것보다 훨씬 더 중요한 진실이라는 자원이 있다는 사실을 결코 잊어서는 안될 것이다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.129-137
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to analyze the efficiency of budget utilization of science and technology by the Chinese autonomous province and to present the direction of improvement. Data were obtained from the 2013-2017 statistical yearbook of higher education published by the Ministry of Education of China, and efficiency was analyzed using the malmquist analysis method. The analysis found that the low technological progress caused changes in the productivity MPI index, and that cities affected by technological efficiency needed to improve internal factors such as internal coordination and restructuring of universities in the region to increase efficiency. And it was found that areas affected by technological change needed proper response to external factors such as government policy, economic environment, social environment or technological development. This study is meaningful in that it presented reference data in enhancing efficiency of budget utilization of science and technology by autonomy of China, and it is necessary to establish strategies and study essential factors to increase efficiency of inefficient areas in the future.

• Magazine of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.205-212
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• 1998

Frost damage of a storage tank for chemical admixtures caused by a low temperature in winter and quality deterioration of chemical admixtures have been often reported. However, there have been few regulations and researches related to the frost damage of chemical admixtures and facilities. Therefore, this paper is intend to investigate not only, the freezing points of chemical admixtures such as AE admixtures and water-reducing AE admixtures, etc., but also the quality variation of concrete used with chemical admixtures before freezing and after freeze-thaw cycles. According to the results of experiments, most chemical admixtures except anti-freezing agent and accelerating water-reducing AE admixtures should be kept from being frozen in low winter temperatures. However, full agitation of frozen chemical admixtures dose not cause the problems of concrete related to the quality of chemical admixtures.

• Journal of the Korean Recycled Construction Resources Institute
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.171-179
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• 2015

Recently, development of substitution aggregate is urgently needed because aggregate shortage is continuing due to the exhaustion of natural aggregate and strict restrictions of environment in construction industry. Therefore, In this study, new processing method to solve the problems of processing method of existing converter slag, namely, rapid cooling slag produced by the rapid cooling and crushing process of the high temperature melten slag into the rotary drum and then using the cooling water, compressed air and steel ball was examined fundamental properties for utilize as fine aggregate for concrete. In addition, through this study, we propose the utilization method of rapid cooling slag as fine aggregate for concrete.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.7
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• pp.2406-2419
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• 2010

This study aims to elevate the usefulness of the current annual Accreditation of Hospitals. To achieve this purpose, A modeling of an efficiency analysis based on DEA and AHP to the Accreditation of Hospitals Data from 2004 to 2008. By applying to AHP and DEA_AR to the scores derived from the various domains in data, An adequate prediction model about conversion factor in fee contract is made. By summarizing information derived from DEA, factor analysis and Generalized Linear Model, The linear functions combining conversion factor and efficiency index is successfully established. The factor analysis with AHP was used to merge diverse scores from the domains of evaluation. Not only the input and output initially introduced, AHP scores, dummy variables of hospital classification, geographical location are effective variables to forecast a conversion factor. If a predicted conversion factors from efficiency is used, It will be a great contributions to the annul doctor's fee contract.