• Interdisciplinary Bio Central
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.4.1-4.7
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• 2011

Forty-seven wild accessions of Lotus japonicus Regal (Japanese trefoil) indigenous to Japan were investigated for nine morphological characters. Average temperature and annual precipitation were negatively correlated with stem color and seed weight. On the other hand, latitude was positively correlated with these traits. Consequently, accessions from sites at higher latitudes with low temperatures and precipitation tend to have dark red stems and heavy seeds. Cluster analysis based on nine morphological characters classified 47 wild accessions into six major groups. Cluster I included four accessions of tall and erect plants. These plants are phenotypically similar to commercial variety 'Empire'. Cluster II consisted of three accessions of creep plants with pale red stems. Cluster III contained 24 accessions that had average values for all morphological characters evaluated. Cluster IV included two accessions of erect plants with rounded leaflets and dark red stems. Cluster V included four accessions of small, creep plants with pale red stems. Cluster VI included seven accessions of small and erect plants, a phenotype that also applies to ?Gifu B-129?, which is used as experimental strain worldwide. These data were deposited into LegumeBase, an online database (http://www.legumebase.brc.miyazaki-u.ac.jp/) supported by the National BioResource Project (NBRP) in Japan.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.111-121
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• 2020

The study measures the resource use efficiency of diesel based power generation in the Maldives and analyses factors which influence efficiency levels. Stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) technique is applied to data on 30 plants over two year period from 2016 to 2017. The study finds that technical efficiency scores varies from 0.44 to 0.98 across power plants. About 33 percent of the plants have scores below the mean technical efficiency score of 0.87. Empirical results indicate ownership and use of solar photovoltaic (PV) have an influence on improving efficiency levels. Privately owned power plants in resort islands obtained higher technical efficiency scores compared to public and community owned power plants. This is a significant finding as the first study that used power plants in tourist sector in a comparative study. Size of the power plants was not found significant, but relatively small installed capacities can also be efficient. This finding is important because in many inhabited islands installed capacities remain oversized compared to the load. The benchmarking exercise offers model power plants that are relatively efficient, for other power plants and policy makers in small islands to learn from.

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.279-285
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• 2003

Lidocaine and galactose loading tests were performed on a bioartificial liver (BAL), an extracorporeal medical device incorporating living hepatocytes in a cartridge without a transport barrier across the membranes. The concentration changes were analyzed using pharmacokinetic equations to evaluate the efficacy and limitation of the proposed method. Lidocaine and galactose were found to be suitable drugs for a quantitative evaluation of the BAL functions, as they did not interact with the plasma proteins or blood vessels, making their concentrations easy to determine. The drug concentration changes after drug loading were easily analyzed using pharmacokinetic equations, and the BAL functions quantitatively expressed by pharmacokinetic parameters, such as the clearance (CL) and galactose elimination capacity (GEC). In addition, these two drugs have already been used in clinical tests to evaluate human liver functions over long periods, and lidocaine CL values and GEC values reported for a normal human liver. Thus, a comparison of the CL and GEC values for the BAL and a natural liver revealed what proportion of normal liver functions could be replaced by the BAL.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권11호
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• pp.1033-1039
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• 2020

Vietnam is conducting an export-led growth model and labour-intensive industries contributing majorly to the total export value. In the context of Industry 4.0, the labour-based industries are significantly affected; hence, enhancing productivity is the key measure to maintain these industries. The garment industry contributes significantly to the total export value of Vietnam. Based on meta-frontier framework, the approach of data envelopment analysis is used to measure technical efficiency of Vietnamese garment firms and the global Malmquist TFP index is utilised to identify productivity change and its components including efficiency, technology and technical gaps between different groups of firms. The data of Vietnamese garment firms from 2013 to 2018 collected from the Vietnam General Statistic Office is used in this study. The results show that: (i) The total factor productivity of Vietnamese garment firms growth, technical progress is the main contributor; (ii) The private garment sector is the leading group; (iii) There is a large technological gap among Vietnamese garment sectors. The private and FDI garment firms have experienced a growth in all components of total factor productivity change. Meanwhile, technological progress change is the main reason to constrain the productivity growth of state-owned garment firms.

• Journal of Photoscience
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.95-98
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• 1995

The photodimers with cyclobutane rings and C$_2$ symmetry, derived from coumarin (syn, head to tail and anti, head to head) have been calculated by PM3-UHF-CI and Molecular Mechanics force field. The photocycloaddition to coumarin and 5,7-dimethoxycoumarin(DMC) dimers were deduced to be formed by their preferable frontier orbital interactions and via more stable cycloaddition by the C$_3$, C$_4$ bond. These results are consistent with the coumarin dimer model that the theoretical C$_4$-photocyclodimer of coumarin is predicted much more than the experimental C$_4$-photocyclodimer.

• Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.449-458
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• 2004

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) estimators have been widely used in productivity analysis. The asymptotic distribution of DEA estimator derived by Kneip et al. (2003) is too complicated and abstract for analysts to use in practice, though it should be appreciated in its own right. This paper provides another way to express the limit distribution of the DEA estimator in a tractable way.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2008년 영문 학술대회
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• pp.881-885
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• 2008

Wireless energy transmission system to a Micro Aerial Vehicle is now under development. A 5.8 GHz microwave phased array antenna and rectenna array receiver have been developed. An electric motor on a circling MAV model was driven by the transmitted power. In addition, 140GHz millimeter-waves of up to 1MW was beamed to a "Microwave Rocket" and its thrusting has been successfully demonstrated.

• 한국건설관리학회논문집
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.90-101
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• 2013

일반적인 건설프로젝트는 성공적인 공사완료를 위하여 발주처, 건설사, 설계사, 엔지니어링사와 같이 다양한 참여자들이 참여하지만, 그 프로젝트의 수행기간 동안에 참여자들 간 이해의 본질적인 차이를 가진다. 건설관리사업의 역할은 프로젝트 수행기간 동안에 참여자들 간의 이러한 이해의 차이를 해결하고, 발주처의 요구와 이해을 대변하면서 프로젝트를 성공적으로 이끄는 것이다. 최근 BIM의 사용은 건설프로젝트 사이에서 증가하고 있고, 그러한 CM사는 BIM을 적용하는데 어려움을 겪고 있다. 이것은 건설프로젝트에서 BIM의 사용이 매우 새로운 운용 패러다임을 제시하기 때문이다. 이 연구의 목적은 최근 BIM이 사용된 프로젝트 사례를 검토하고, 이러한 프로젝트의 프로세스를 분석, 최근 BIM 적용사례로부터의 교훈을 바탕으로 설계단계 프로세스를 재구성하여, BIM의 사용으로 향상 될 수 있는 수정된 설계단계 모델 프로세스와 그와 관련된 협업운용을 제안하고자 한다.

• 한국건설관리학회논문집
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.103-112
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• 2014

최근 건설 프로젝트 규모의 대형화, 복잡화로 인해 관리기술의 난이도가 상승하고 있으며, 이에 따른 리스크도 함께 증가하고 있어 프로젝트 관리기술 향상에 대한 필요성이 증가하고 있다. 이 같은 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 건설공사에서 우선적으로 건설사업관리(Construction Management)제도를 도입하였으나 국내 건설 산업의 경우 업역별 분리발주가 이루어지고 있어 프로젝트 전반에 걸쳐 건설사업관리제도의 기능이 제대로 작동되지 않고 있는 실정이다. 이 같은 부분적 사업관리제도의 운영은 향후 스마트그리드, 인텔리전트 빌딩 등과 같은 융 복합화 사업에 있어 많은 제약을 받을 수 있다. 국내 건설 프로젝트 관리기술의 향상을 위해서는 현 사업관리제도의 이질성을 극복할 수 있는 업역별 사업관리기술 역량을 확보하고, 협업 능력 저해 요소를 발견하여 이를 해결해야 한다. 이에 본 연구에서는 IPA모델을 활용하여 건설 전기공사의 사업관리제도 업무역량 차이를 분석하고, 프로젝트의 효율적인 운영을 위한 전기공사 사업관리제도 도입 방안을 모색하고자 한다.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.179-193
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• 2006

Technical efficiency of semiforcing watermelon growers is 0.8248 on average, and distributed between 0.6744 and 0.9268. The result showed that semiforcing watermelon growers had by 18% of technical inefficiency and could be assumed that increasing technical efficiency could induce watermelon production more increase. Consequently, if growers' technical efficiency were improved while other environments were constant, watermelon production could be increased. Following the results from the inefficiency effect model, all assumption coefficient such as growers age etc, are significant at 10% level. Estimate of dispersion parameter ${\gamma}$ is 0.89, which confirms those differences between practical output and frontier output were derived from the technical efficiencies among growers. Differences of production system between high and low level growers in production efficiency were showed at side altitude, ventilation and heat-retaining in section of facilities and automation, soil test and calcium application in section of environment management, transplant preparation and duration of pollination in section of crop management and shipment place, sorting degree and management record analysis in section of business management respectively. As a result of analyzing consulting data by using standard diagnosis table of watermelon cultivation under structure which cultivated on semi-forced watermelon growers, gap between high and low level growers was 7.0 points in facility automation section, 7.1 points in environment section, 8.8 points in crop management section and 13.6 points in business management section, respectively, which were the biggest one among them. In case of excluding information-related items from the evaluation index of business management section, changes of business achievement are to occur. Therefore, it is recommended for us to review the standard diagnostic table of watermelon cultivation under structure by dividing evaluation index of management section into management and information.