• Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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• v.47 no.2
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• pp.283-290
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• 2020

In 2018, 647 thousand tons of eggs were produced and consumed. However, the issue of pesticides used for egg in 2017 made Korean consumers worry about the food safety of eggs, and the volume of egg consumption decreased. The Korean egg industry also has another problem due to an unclear and inefficient marketing structure at the farm level. This marketing situation of eggs at the farm level in Korea needs a large-scale restructuring of the market structure, including introducing an EPC (egg processing center). Especially, the introduction of an EPC has been discussed by government officers and specialists, but the social benefit of an EPC, which will be the driving point for approving an EPC, has not been measured yet. The purpose of this study was to measure the effect of introducing an EPC in Korea. Through an analysis using EDM (equilibrium displacement model), a few findings are presented. First, the introduction of an EPC may increase the transparency of price discovery and decrease the transaction cost. And thus, it results in a higher producer price, lower consumer price, and larger quantity at market equilibrium. Second, an EPC will improve the level of food safety of eggs, which can increase the satisfaction of domestic producers and consumers. Third, the introduction of an EPC may create new consumption of eggs. Based on these three effects, the new social benefits in monetary terms from the introduction of an EPC in Korea could be 23.9 - 35.2 billion won.

• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.65 no.3
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• pp.159-166
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• 2022

Epicoccum nigrum produces epipyrone A (orevactaene), a yellow polyketide pigment. Its biosynthetic gene cluster was previously characterized in E. nigrum KACC 40642. The YES liquid culture of this strain revealed high-level production of epicoccamide (EPC), with an identity that was determined using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis and molecular mass search using the SuperNatural database V2 webserver. The production of EPC was further confirmed by compound isolation and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. EPC is a highly reduced polyketide with tetramic acid and mannosyl moieties. The EPC structure guided us to localize the hypothetical EPC biosynthetic gene cluster (BGC) in E. nigrum ICMP 19927 genome sequence. The BGC contains genes encoding highly reducing (HR)-fungal polyketide synthase (fPKS)-nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS), glycosyltransferase (GT), enoylreductase, cytochrome P450, and N-methyltrasnferase. Targeted inactivation of the HR-fPKS-NRPS and GT genes abolished EPC production, supporting the successful localization of EPC BGC. This study provides a platform to explore the hidden biological activities of EPC, a bolaamphiphilic compound.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2014.05a
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• pp.18-19
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• 2014

As issued the development of energy resources, EPC work process through the IT technology is essential for efficient business management, and systematic management of data generated in this process is needed. In domestic, the research related to system development for the collection and management of construction data detected in the field has been done continuously, but pipeline business target the long-distance in extreme cold weather, almost no cases have been studied up to now. Therefore, this research is aimed to derive the data item for efficient management in EPC Stage of pipeline business in extreme cold weather. WBS system of EPC work are classified easily at two levels, data items can be divided based on the type of document. In the future I will be expected to be the foundation of the systematic management of data generated in the EPC step-by-step of pipeline business.

• IE interfaces
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.227-234
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• 2007

The national product identifier(NPI) currently used in the national product asset management system does not accommodate ISO or EPC standards due to the limitation of tag memory. For this reason, we propose a new NPI which accommodates not only ISO item identification standards but also the memory capacity of ISO tags. First of all, memory structures of ISO/IEC 18000-6C and EPC tags are analyzed from the view point of product identifier structure. Second, ISO/IEC 15459 and EPC identification standards as item identifier structures for the product asset management are analyzed. Third, based on these analyses, the NPI used for the current RFID-based product asset management system is analyzed and its problems are presented. Finally, a new NPI structure is proposed suitable for ISO/IEC 18000-6C and ISO/IEC 15459.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.3-15
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• 2009

Recently, it has increased projects in the Oil and Gas industry as growing plant of overseas construction market. Therefore, domestic companies need to set some aggressive plans up that secure competitiveness of international plant business such as enhancing productivity, technological ability and statistical management. Specifically in the Oil and Gas industry of overseas plant business requires implying information in EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction, below EPC) more, but it has not been suggested an appropriate breakdown system for contents that manages the information each EPC phase, which lead to problems such as revision of design document, occurring duplicated work and omissions of each participant. For these problems, we find market share decreasing and competitiveness running down. Thus, for increasing practical use of contents management system and construction industry's information, this paper suggests a contents breakdown system based on BPM (Business Process Management), defines business process and systematizing knowledge needed, and finally analyzing contents information that establish information among industrial facilities in Design phase which is the weakest part of domestic companies.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.643-665
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• 2014

We study the optimal policy of the contracual arrangement in raising the debt-to-equity ratio for oil, gas and mining project finance deals. We investigate the impact of the optimal contractual relationship between counterparties on the soundness of projects, differing in output price volatility and country risk. Key findings are: first, the existence of EPC sponsors and off-takers generally raises the debt-to-equity ratio. In particular, EPC sponsors and off-taking sponsors jointly mitigate the credit risk caused by counntry risk. Seocond, off-taking and EPC contracts jointly help mitigate the credit risk caused by the country risk, rather than the price volatility. Indeed, the contractual structure raises the debt-to-equity ratio.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.2A
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• pp.174-182
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• 2008

For the UHF EPC C1 Gen2 RFID system, to overcome the performance degradation in wireless channel environments, we proposed a modified tag structure which supports channel coding and its applied methodology. The reader consistently monitors the wireless channel status and sets to use channel coding functions for tags and reader only if wireless channel is corrupted. Compared with previous tag complexity, only negligible gates are needed to implement channel coding. By simulation we showed an obvious performance improvement of the identification reliability.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.167-172
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• 2006

It follows recently in an order augmentation of overseas construction market plant field and the project of oil gas field is increasing. Consequently, the hazard which secures the competitive power of the overseas plant enterprise of the domestic building industry enterprises the technical competitiveness security which stands, productivity improvement and strategy management propulsion back positive disposal plan establishment are demanded. Even from in that oil gas field of overseas plant enterprise for an industrial competitive power improvement the application of EPC circulation information which relates with a project accomplishment is more demanded, the EPC phased star efficiently it manages the circulation information contents which occurs from the business which is various it is not presented it cannot there is a contents classification system for. If with him about lower the draft the problem point of information omission back of occurrence and business subject for of the fringe land and duplication business occurs, about lower the productivity decrease actual condition is appearing with such problem point. The research which it sees consequently in order to improve the use characteristic of the augmentation of practical application of the contents management system of oil gas field and building industry information civil official establishhes the contents management system the BPM for (Business Process Management) to present the contents classification system of base, it does to sleep. The part of Business Process materiality the knowledge which is demanded, contents information and system anger it analyzes system anger of industrial equipment circulation information it takes a triangular position and to sleep it does.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.25-40
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• 2007

As memory-extended RFID tags are recently developed, various types of item identification structures can be stored in the tags. In this paper, we propose a new national product identifier(NPI) which accepts not only ISO item identification standards but also the memory capacity of ISO tags. First of all, item identification structures of ISO/IEC 15459 and EPC, and memory structures of ISO/IEC 18000-6C and EPC tags are analyzed. Based on these analyses, the NPI currently used is analyzed and its problems are described from the viewpoint of standardization. To overcome the problems, a new NPI structure suitable for ISO/IEC 15459 is proposed. Finally, data related to the NPI is designed for encoding to tags.

• Plant Journal
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.30-38
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• 2015

This study is about whether the new Project Finance scheme called "Asset Backed Short Term Bond(ABSTB)" with Project Finance Guarantee Cover provided by Korean Exim Bank(KEXIM) is an appropriate and valid financing structure, through close examinations on domestic and overseas IPP case studies. This study clearly indicates that (i) the interest rate of ABSTB with KEXIM's Project Finance Guarantee is relatively more competitive than the interest rate of other ABSTB guaranteed by EPC Companies (ii) the lower credit rated EPC companies make higher ROE(Return on Equity) through this financing structure. Lastly, Korean EPC Companies can secure profitability through this innovative financing scheme which will also lead to winning more power plant Contracts and become globally competitive.