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Innovative Capability and Its Connection with Worker's Environmental Performance

  • KANG, Eungoo
    • The Journal of Industrial Distribution & Business
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    • v.13 no.7
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    • pp.17-25
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: Environmental contamination has lately been seen as a consequence of the rise in environmental challenges brought on by rapid industrial expansion. At this point, the current research asks an important question about what the factors are to motivate employees' green performance, increasing corporate sustainability. Research design, data and methodology:The current author selected total 19 items to obtain real data and achieve the purpose of this research. For measuring of the causality between the worker's innovative capability and green performance, the current author used the multiple regression statistical tool using U.S. 215 responses in four industry. Results: The statistical finding definitely indicated that there exists the causal linkage between two key factors (Innovation capability and green performance) as well as the strong direction between two constructs. As a result, the current author could accept all hypotheses, checking no existing the multicollinearity of the present constructs with 'TOL' and 'VIF' values. Conclusions: The present research concluded that literature and business management scholars and practitioners will benefit from this study's statistical results. Furthermore, rewarding staff creativity, encouraging quick answers to market movements, and incorporating technology into everyday operations are all ways that companies may cultivate an environmental stewardship culture.

Value of Indocyanine Green Videoangiography in Deciding the Completeness of Cerebrovascular Surgery

  • Moon, Hyung-Sik;Joo, Sung-Pil;Seo, Bo-Ra;Jang, Jae-Won;Kim, Jae-Hyoo;Kim, Tae-Sun
    • Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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    • v.53 no.6
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    • pp.349-355
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    • 2013
  • Objective : Recently, microscope-integrated near infrared indocyanine green videoangiography (ICG-VA) has been widely used in cerebrovascular surgery because it provides real-time high resolution images. In our study, we evaluate the efficacy of intraoperative ICG-VA during cerebrovascular surgery. Methods : Between August 2011 and April 2012, 188 patients with cerebrovascular disease were surgically treated in our institution. We used ICG-VA in that operations with half of recommended dose (0.2 to 0.3 mg/kg). Postoperative digital subtraction angiography and computed tomography angiography was used to confirm anatomical results. Results : Intraoperative ICG-VA demonstrated fully occluded aneurysm sack, no neck remnant, and without vessel compromise in 119 cases (93.7%) of 127 aneurysms. Eight clipping (6.3%) of 127 operations were identified as an incomplete aneurysm occlusion or compromising vessel after ICG-VA. In 41 (97.6%) of 42 patients after carotid endarterectomy, the results were the same as that of postoperative angiography with good patency. One case (5.9%) of 17 bypass surgeries was identified as a nonfunctioning anastomosis after ICG-VA, which could be revised successfully. In the two patients of arteriovenous malformation, ICG-VA was useful for find the superficial nature of the feeding arteries and draining veins. Conclusion : ICG-VA is simple and provides real-time information of the patency of vessels including very small perforators within the field of the microscope and has a lower rate of adverse reactions. However, ICG-VA is not a perfect method, and so a combination of monitoring tools assures the quality of cerebrovascular surgery.

Privacy-preserving and Communication-efficient Convolutional Neural Network Prediction Framework in Mobile Cloud Computing

  • Bai, Yanan;Feng, Yong;Wu, Wenyuan
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.15 no.12
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    • pp.4345-4363
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    • 2021
  • Deep Learning as a Service (DLaaS), utilizing the cloud-based deep neural network models to provide customer prediction services, has been widely deployed on mobile cloud computing (MCC). Such services raise privacy concerns since customers need to send private data to untrusted service providers. In this paper, we devote ourselves to building an efficient protocol to classify users' images using the convolutional neural network (CNN) model trained and held by the server, while keeping both parties' data secure. Most previous solutions commonly employ homomorphic encryption schemes based on Ring Learning with Errors (RLWE) hardness or two-party secure computation protocols to achieve it. However, they have limitations on large communication overheads and costs in MCC. To address this issue, we present LeHE4SCNN, a scalable privacy-preserving and communication-efficient framework for CNN-based DLaaS. Firstly, we design a novel low-expansion rate homomorphic encryption scheme with packing and unpacking methods (LeHE). It supports fast homomorphic operations such as vector-matrix multiplication and addition. Then we propose a secure prediction framework for CNN. It employs the LeHE scheme to compute linear layers while exploiting the data shuffling technique to perform non-linear operations. Finally, we implement and evaluate LeHE4SCNN with various CNN models on a real-world dataset. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the LeHE4SCNN framework in terms of response time, usage cost, and communication overhead compared to the state-of-the-art methods in the mobile cloud computing environment.

Study on establishing Green Port Policy in Korea to meet Ports' Characteristics: Development of Ulsan Green Port Policy by using AHP (우리나라 항만특성에 맞는 그린포트정책 수립에 관한 연구 - AHP를 이용한 울산항 그린포트 정책 우선순위 개발)

  • Kim, Tae-Goun;Kim, Hwan-Seong
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.38 no.5
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    • pp.549-559
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    • 2014
  • The increasing demand of maritime transportation and port development especially due to increased international trade resulted in a strengthening of regulating the greenhouse gas emissions mainly from ships by International Maritime Organization (IMO). Responding to these international environmental regulation and enforcement, the United States and the European seaports have expanded their Green Port Policy, which can promote the public welfare by reducing pollution caused by ships and ports. Accordingly, in 2010, Korean government enacted "The Framework Act on Low Carbon, Green Growth" and had pushed for all Korean ports to establish and implement their own green port policies. Therefore, the objective of this study is to establish the Green Port Policy Plan for sustainable and environmental friendly operations and developments of Ulsan port, which plans to be the oil hub port of Northeast Asia. To this end, we studied the current status of the environmental policy issues in Ulsan Port and international-&-domestic case studies on establishment of green port policy. With these studies, Ulsan green policy alternatives were identified that through the experts advice, and then were prioritized by adopting AHP survey analysis. As the result of this study, it was notified that LED lights replacement and AMP establishment as the hardware policy and the port environmental management department as the software policy were equally important policy options for the implementation of sustainable Ulsan Green Port Policy to meet port's characteristics.

Removal and Inactivation of Hepatitis A Virus during Manufacture of a High Purity Antihemophilic Factor VIII Concentrate from Human Plasma

  • Kim, In-Seop;Park, Yong-Woon;Lee, Sung-Rae;Lee, Mahl-Soon;Huh, Ki-Ho;Lee, Soungmin
    • Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.39 no.1
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    • pp.67-73
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    • 2001
  • A validation study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy and mechanism of the cryo-precipitation, monoclonal anti-FVIIIc antibody (mAb) chromatography, Q-Sepharose chromatography, and lyophilization steps involved in the manufacture of high purity factor VIII (GreenMono) from human plasma, in the removal and/or inactivation of hepatitis A virus (HAV). Samples from the relevant stages of the production process were spiked with HAV and subjected to scale-down processes mimicking the manufacture of the high purity factor VIII concentrate. Samples were collected at each step and immediately titrated using a 50% tissue culture infectious dose (TCID$\_$50/) and then the virus reduction factors were evaluated. HAV was effectively partitioned from factor VⅢ during cryo-precipitation with the log reduction factor of 3.2. The mAb chromatography was the most effective step far removal of HAV with the log reduction factor of $\geq$4.3. HAV infectivity was not detected in the fraction of factor VⅢ, while most of HAV infectivity was recovered in the fractions of flow through and wash during mAb chromatography. Q-Sepharose chromatography showed the lowest efficacy for partitioning HAV with the log reduction factor of 0.7. Lyophilization was an effective step in inactivating HAV with the log reduction factor of 2.3. The cumulative lag reduction factor, $\geq$10.5, achieved for tile entire manufacturing process was several magnitudes greater than the potential HAV load of current plasma pools.

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Development of Indocyanine Green and 5-Aminolevulinic Acid Detection System for Surgical Microscope (수술현미경용 다중형광 관측 시스템 연구)

  • Kim, Hong Rae;Lee, Hyun Min;Yoon, Woong Bae;Kim, Young Jae;Kim, Seok Ki;Yoo, Heon;Joo, Jae Young;Kim, Kwang Gi;Lee, Seung-Hoon
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.16-21
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    • 2015
  • Indocyanine green(ICG) and 5-aminolevulinic acid(5-ALA) have been widely used to mark blood vessels or tumors. However, fluorescent dye detection systems were designed to use one type of dyes only. In this study, we proposed a detection system capable of detecting Indocyanine green and 5-aminolevulinic acid. Multiple filters and light sources are integrated into a single system. In this study, we performed analysis of fluorescent dyes and configured a detection system. During the analysis, it was found that Indocyanine green and 5-aminolevulinic acid have the maximum intensity at $40{\mu}M$. We designed light source for fluorescent dyes and conducted compatibility test using a commercial surgical microscope. The fluorescent dye detection system was configured based on the experimental results. The developed system successfully detects Indocyanine green and 5-aminolevulinic acid. Therefore, more efficient surgical operations can be achieved using both fluorescent dyes at the same time. We expect that the developed system can increase the survival rate of patients.

A Study of Green Supply Chain Management - Theory and Practice (환경 친화적인 공급 사슬 관리에 관한 연구)

  • 최정욱
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.225-228
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    • 2003
  • 환경 친화적인 공급 사슬 관리에 관한 주제는 최근 기업들이 보다 적극적으로 생산성과 기업 이미지를 높이고 총비용을 절감하기 위한 목적으로 적극적인 관심을 가지게 되었다. 적극적이란 공급 사슬 전체에 걸쳐 환경 친화적인 제품을 개발하고, 효율적인 리사이클링 활동을 기업의 중요한 전략으로 하고자 하는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 환경 친화적 공급 사슬 관리의 배경, 논리적 근거, 전략 그리고 공급 사슬을 구성하고 있는 여러 요소들의 친 환경적인 대응 방법 및 시스템을 전체적인 공급 사슬 관점에서 조명하고 분석해 보고자 한다.

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On the Efficiency of Imbalance in a Class of Manufacturing Systems (제조시스템에 있어서 불균형의 효율성)

  • 김성철
    • Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 1996
  • In this paper, the problem of simultaneously allocating servers and loadings of stations in a class of manufacturing systems modelled as network of queues is considered. The throughput function of the closed network of queues is demonstrated as a Schur convex function of server allocation, that is, increasing the server allocation vector under majorization increases the performance in the ship in terms of the throughput. It also reduces the congestion in the open network of queues in terms of reducing the total number of jobs in the sense of likelihood ratio ordering. These are the extentions of the numerical results of Green and Guha (1995) in the service system with independent M/M/c systems to the network of queues. The results can be used to support production planning in certain manufacturing systems.

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Integrated Product Design Development

  • Cho, Moon-Soo;Song, Joon-Yeob
    • Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.81-92
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    • 1997
  • The terminology such as ecology, environment problems, ecosystems, ecofactory, and others related to environmental problems have been recently used in manufacturing systems, since the modern industries have to consider a global ecological crisis. The indifference of recent environmental problems which may be faced now has been paid attention to all engineering areas. In this paper, manufacturing functional requirements such as disassembly, disposal, disposal, or recycling are considered in the integrated product design development, which have not been considered well in the preliminary design stage. Those functions will contribute to reduce the waste and to long the product life cycle, which also satisfies the business benefits and customer requirements. The concurrent design concepts should be applied to integrate all possible factors. Therefore, few practical concurrent engineering tools are presented in here. The objective of this paper is to develop a called green manufacturing systems for integrated product design development by concurrent design concept which can give the desirable result in product design.

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MASW FOR QUANTIFYING CHANGE IN SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY AFTER DEEP DYNAMIC COMPACTION AT A SOIL SITE

  • ChoonB.Park;RichardD.Miller
    • Journal of the Korean Geophysical Society
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.245-259
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    • 2003
  • Two multichannel analysis of surface wave (MASW) surveys were conducted over a soil site in Tacoma Water's Green River Facility, Washington, where construction of a chemical treatment facility had been planned. The purpose of the surveys was to compare soil stiffness characterized by shear-velocity (Vs) distribution before and after Deep Dynamic Compaction (DDC) operation that was designed to improve the soil stiffness. Site soil consisted of very heterogeneous gravel and cobbles in a sand-and-silt matrix. Results from each survey are represented by two 2-D Vs maps delineating Vs variation of soil below the surveyed lines. One map was constructed from those dispersion curves that were analyzed with a significant amount of subjective judgment involved, whereas the other map was constructed from those dispersion curves analyzed with as much objective information as possible. Comparison of 2-D Vs maps indicates that Vs actually decreased after the DDC operations, possibly due to the loss (or reduction) of cohesive bonding between soil particles caused by the compaction operations.

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