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A Study on the Sociocultural Backgrounds of the 'Baby Face Fad' and Phrenological Characteristics (동안(童顔) 열풍의 사회문화적 배경과 골상학적 특징)

  • Kim, Nam-Hee;O, In-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.33 no.10
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    • pp.1530-1540
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    • 2009
  • Life expectancy has increased and people are more concerned with keeping their 'youth'. Appearance is a competitive edge and people are caught up in a baby face fad that has expanded into a culture and beauty trend. This study examined the definitions and phrenological characteristics of a baby face and the causes of the baby face fad in a review of the baby face as a "sociocultural and beauty cultural code" based on literature, journals, previous papers, and Internet materials. Anatomically speaking, a "baby face" refers to a face that keeps the features of a child's face without aging signs. The baby face fad gained momentum due to the influences of the digital culture, the encouragement of the mass media, changes to the social structure, dietary improvements, new living styles, and an evolving aesthetic sense. The results reveal the sociocultural backgrounds behind the "baby face fad" settling down as a part of culture in addition to the phrenological characteristics of a baby face. It is also estimated that the baby face fad could affect the beauty culture and trends as a social phenomena.

AN INTEGRATED RESTAURANT MENU-PRICING SYSTEM (레스토랑 종합 메뉴 판매 가격 결정 시스템에 관한 연구)

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    • Journal of Applied Tourism Food and Beverage Management and Research
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    • v.9
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    • pp.213-242
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    • 1998
  • Even in the best of economic environments, restaurants menu pricing is a serious concern to those in the food service industry. During times of rapid inflation, closer government regulation of compensation practices, and limited gains in worker productivity, the decisions regarding the proper charge for menu items become increasingly important. In addition to many operational and managerial factors, an important ingredient in the food service enterprise's success is its ability to meet the market by providing the value expected. The contribution-margin approach to pricing described above is familiar to cost accountants, who will also recognize that it admits of much elaboration before it can become a tool for day-to-day decisions. But the system probably has the greatest promise for multi-unit companies, where the cost benefit ratio of additional refinements improves in proportion to the number of operations. For example, the analysis required to specify the demand function better becomes less expensive if the findings can be applied to the pricing structure of numerous units. In any of its many adaptations, the essence of the integrated menu pricing system remains its ability to bring together the relevant revenues and costs with the operator's sense of the market and competitive environment to suggest prices that maximize profits.

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Forecasting and Analysis of Air Meteorological Service Charge using ARIMA-Intervention Time Series Model (ARIMA-개입모델을 이용한 항공기상정보 사용료 징수액 추정 및 적정성 연구)

  • Kim, Kwang-Ok;Park, Sung-Sik
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.9-22
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    • 2018
  • Korea meteorological administration(KMA) has started to levy air meteorological service charge on both national and foreign carriers since 2005. The charge has grown on 2010 and 2014 twice. However, KMA has still kept asking airlines to agree with another increase in the charge due to the low cost of goods recovery ratio of 7%. The air meteorological charge has changed from 2,210 KRW at the beginning to 11,400 KRW as of June 2018. According to ARIMA intervention time series analysis, it was proven national carriers would make a payment of 831 million KRW 2018 and 1,024 million KRW 2019, showing 186.2% and 123.2% increase compared to last year respectively. The total amount of charge for both national LCC and foreign airlines was aggregated up to 1,952 million KRW 2019, 227% bigger than the charge paid at 2017. Considering the 50% increase of consumer price index last decade, the increased charge would impair the global competitiveness of national carriers. It could be suggested that current air meteorological charge scheme be improved to apply overseas trend and for national carriers to have a competitive advantage in global aviation market.

The Preference about F/W Knit Wears according to the age (추동용 니트웨어 아이템의 연령별 선호도)

  • Park, Sun-Chun;Lee, Young-Ju
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.95-103
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    • 2008
  • From the research which it sees the knit which is the competitive power it will be able to be sufficient the craving of the consumers who are changing be light from the which provides the fundamental data for production the F/W season knit wear it tried to know the age unit preference moral difference of item. The conclusion of the research which it the same. From all age unit pullover possession at 5 working for living, the jacket the ratio of the person whom it does not have entirely appeared most highly. The age unit knit wear twenties meaning item preference from, thirties and forties appeared with the item which pullover prefers most, fifties selected a cardigan case, an ensemble and the jacket and it prefers with the fact that. It appeared with the style which it prefers most from case P1, P2 all twenties of pullover, the cardigan proposal case appeared with the style which it prefers most from C1, C2 all fifties. From the jacket it appeared with the style which the J1 prefers from fifties-forties. Each age especially the F/W season knit wear the result which examines the wearing objective against, twenties become popular, thirties expression of individuality, forties convenient of activity, fifties for the convenient of activity complement of activity the knit wear with the fact that it wears.

Unit Process Scheduling System Development and Calculation and Control Method of Planned Leadtime Using Multiple Linear Regression under Make to Order Manufacturing System in Transformer Winding Process (변압기 권선공정에서의 수주 제작품의 단위공정 일정관리 시스템 개발과 다중회귀분석을 이용한 계획 리드타임 산출 및 관리 방안)

  • Kang, Dae-Wan;Kang, Chang-Wook;Kang, Hae-Woon
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.117-124
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    • 2008
  • Ultra-high voltage transformer industry has characteristic of small quantity batch production system by other order processing unlike general mass production systems. In this industry, observance of time deadline is very important in market competitive power security and company continued existence. The transformer winding is a process that rolls a coil is coated with an electric insulation material in order to generate the required voltage using the voltage fluctuation. The winding process is very important production process in the extra-high voltage transformer manufacturing industry because winding process is core process that occupy weight about half of whole process and is process that decide current ratio of transformer. This paper proposes a statistical calculation and control method of planned leadtime on the basis of real data and informations for the A company in transformer winding process. Moreover, we develop unit process scheduling system.

Selective Reduction on Halides with Lithium Borohydride in the Multifunctional Compounds (수소화 붕소리튬을 이용한 다중작용기를 가진 화합물에서 할라이드의 선택환원)

  • Byung Tae Cho;Nung Min Yoon
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.46-52
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    • 1983
  • Selective reduction of halide (Br, I) with lithium borohydride in halogen compounds containing chloro, nitro, ester and nitrile groups was achieved satisfactorily. 1-Bromo-4-chlorobutane was reduced to 1-chlorobutane in 96% yield and the reduction of p-nitrobenzyl bromide gave p-nitrotoluene in 98% yield. However, the selectivity on the reduction of ethyl 3-iodopropionate and 4-bromobutyronitrile required the presence of equimolar pyridine to give good yield of ethyl propionate (93%) and n-butyronitrile (88%), respectively. In competitive reduction of 1-bromoheptane and 2-bromoheptane, lithium borohydride reduced 1-bromoheptane preferentially in the molar ratio of 93:7.

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Optimization procedure for parameter design using neural network (파라미터 설계에서 신경망을 이용한 최적화 방안)

  • Na, Myung-Whan;Kwon, Yong-Man
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.829-835
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    • 2009
  • Parameter design is an approach to reducing performance variation of quality characteristic value in products and processes. Taguchi has used the signal-to-noise ratio to achieve the appropriate set of operating conditions where variability around target is low in the Taguchi parameter design. However, there are difficulties in practical application, such as complexity and nonlinear relationships among quality characteristics and control factors (design factors), and interactions occurred among control factors. Neural networks have a learning capability and model free characteristics. There characteristics support neural networks as a competitive tool in processing multivariable input-output implementation. In this paper we propose a substantially simpler optimization procedure for parameter design using neural network. An example is illustrated to compare the difference between the Taguchi method and neural network method.

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Cell-Specific Targeting of Texas Red with Anti-Ep-CAM Antibody

  • Lee, Soo-Chul;Tae, Gun-Sik
    • Journal of Photoscience
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.123-127
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    • 2005
  • The polyclonal antibody was generated against the peptide fragment of 62 amino acid residues (D 181-T242) near the COOH-terminal region of the extracellular domain of epithelial-cell adhesion molecule (Ep-CAM) and shown to be able to recognize Ep-CAM in competitive ELISA. Then, sulforhodamine 101 acid chloride (so called Texas red), a fluorescence dye, was conjugated to the affinity-purified anti-Ep-CAM antibody utilizing the reaction between the aliphatic amines of antibody and the sulfonyl chloride of Texas red. The molar ratio of Texas red to antibody was estimated to be approximately 1.86 by measuring optical densities at 280 nm and 596 nm, implying that the two molecules of Texas red at most were conjugated to antibody. The anti-Ep-CAM antibody-Texas red conjugate was then used for immunohistochemistry of CT-26 murine colon carcinoma cells. Based upon the fluorescence microscope images, anti-Ep-CAM antibody is able to deliver Texas red specifically to the surface of CT-26 cells on which Ep-CAM was actively expressed. This result indicates that anti-Ep-CAM antibody could be useful for the tissue-specific delivery of photosensitizers via antigen-antibody interaction.

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On-Film Formation of Nanowires for High-efficiency Thermoelectric Devices

  • Ham, Jin-Hee;Shim, Woo-Young;Lee, Seung-Hyun;Voorhees, Peter W.;Lee, Woo-Young
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2009.04b
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    • pp.17-17
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    • 2009
  • We report the invention of a direct growth method termed On-Film Formation of Nanowire (OFF-ON) for making high-quality single-crystal nanowires, i.e. Bi and $Bi_2Te_3$, without the use of conventional templates, catalysts, or starting materials. We have used the OFF-ON technique to grow single crystal semi-metallic Bi and compound semiconductor $Bi_2Te_3$ nanowires from sputtered Bi and BiTe films after thermal annealing, respectively. The mechanism for nanowire growth is stress-induced mass flow along grain boundaries in the polycrystalline films. OFF-ON is a simple but powerful method for growing perfect single-crystal semi-metallic and compound semiconductor nanowires of high aspect ratio with high crystallinity that distinguishes it from other competitive growth approaches that have been developed to date. Our results suggest that Bi and $Bi_2Te_3$ nanowires grown by OFF-ON can be an ideal material system for exploring their unique thermoelectric properties due to their high-quality single crystalline and high conductivity, which have consequence and relevance for high-efficiency thermoelectric devices.

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A Study on the New Management Strategies of the Trading Conglomerate in the 21st Century (21세기 종합상사의 신경영 전략에 관한 연구 -한(韓).일(日) 비교연구를 중심으로-)

  • Choi, Yong-Min
    • International Commerce and Information Review
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.261-280
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    • 2001
  • From the IMF(International Monetary fund) crisis, the management conditions of the trading company which run business in world market, has rapidly changed. In particular, the trading conglomerate's competitive power have declined. This study, addressing such changes, intend to analyze what factors are that have generated this changes in trading conglomerate's environment. The study specifically takes it into account that the differences between Korea trading company and Japan's. This research was confirmed by data and field survey in two country. The results of research are summarized as follow. The Korean trading company are inferior to the Japanese trading company in total volume(Korea: 24.1, Japan 100), the benefit volume(Korea: 8.7, Japan 100), the stability of turnover(Korea: 36.6, Japan 100), the network power in foreign country(Korea: 19.2, Japan 100), the power of e-business(Korea: 17.0, Japan 100). But the debt ratio of Korea company is significantly lower than that of Japan's(Korea: 160.4%, Japan 940.5%). In conclusion, providing that the Korean trading company want to be a world-class champion in trading field, they have to introduce the new management strategies which means the high-profit base trading, the long term investment and the internet business.

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