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Effects of Storage Methods on the Rhizome Quality of Rehmannia glutinosa L. (저장방법이 지황 종근 품질에 미치는 영향)

  • 김인재;김민자;남상영;이철희;김홍식
    • Food Science and Preservation
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.282-285
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    • 2004
  • This experiment was carried out to investigate the cost reduction of rhizome through the stable storage of Jiwhang #1(Rehmannia glutinosa Libosch). The growth characteristics of Jiwhang #1 are different from those of local Rehmannia glutinosa L. varieties in Korea. Various storage methods was introduced and analyzed for 120 days. Among storage methods, changes in mean daily temperature in storage location were the least from 7.2 to 13.8$^{\circ}C$ in underground storage, while those were wide in styrofoam box filled with soil, and changes in mean daily relative humidity were the highest 98.2% in underground storage. As the storage period increased, the rhizome brix and the rate of rhizome loss and spoiled rhizome increased. The brix and loss rate of rhizome were higher in net sack filled with hull and styrofoam box filled with hull, but the rate of spoiled rhizome was the greatest in underground storage among storage methods. As the storage period increased, the hardness of rhizome epidermis increased, while that of rhizome endodermis decreased.

Use of Social Commerce Restaurant Products by College Students According to Demographic Characteristics and Eating Out Behavior (인구통계학적 특성 및 외식행동에 따른 대학생의 소셜커머스 외식상품 이용 현황)

  • Jo, Mi-Na;Heo, Ji-Hwan
    • Korean journal of food and cookery science
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.291-306
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the use of social commerce restaurant products by college students according to demographic characteristics and eating out behavior. The questionnaire for the survey was distributed to 450 college students, who have experiences of purchasing a restaurant product on social commerce, with 286 responses used for analysis. From the result, college students frequently use smart phones and SNS for making such purchases. While the awareness of social commerce was high, they sometimes visited the websites and purchased products. The awareness and purchase experience of Coupang and Ticket Monster turned out to be the highest. The most frequently purchased product was restaurant discount coupons, followed by fashion/accessories, movie or concert tickets, food products, and beauty shop discount coupons. The discount rate was mostly 30 to 40% on average. The most significantly considered matter in purchasing products and services was product quality, followed by discount rate and consumer review. The respondents ate out at least 3 to 5 times a week, spent $100,000{\leq}200,000$ won, and were generally satisfied with the restaurant products from social commerce sites. The main satisfaction reason was price, whereas the dissatisfaction reason was false and puffy advertising. Service quality improvement and variety of category were the most necessary factors for improvement. Among the demographic characteristics, there was a difference in purchase expenditure of social commerce restaurant products, as well as purpose, companion, time used and word-of-mouth experience according to gender. According to grade, there was a difference in purchase expenditure, companion, area of use and impulsive purchase. Among the eating out behavior, there was a difference in purpose, companion and word-of-mouth experience according to the eating out frequency. Meanwhile, there was a difference in purchase expenditure, companion, time used, word-of-mouth experience and tool according to the eating out cost.

The Implementation of Sustainable Manufacturing Practice in Textile Industry: An Indonesian Perspective

  • MUHARDI, Muhardi;CINTYAWATI, Cici;ADWIYAH, Rabiatul;HAMI, Norsiah;HASHIM, Rushanim;OMAR, Salmah;SHAFIE, Shafini Mohd
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.7 no.11
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    • pp.1041-1047
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    • 2020
  • The intention of this paper is to give a better understanding about the implementation of sustainable manufacturing practice in the textile companies in Indonesia as one of the promising sectors in the manufacturing industry. The data was collected by taking a case study approach in one of the leading textile companies in Indonesia. Questionnaire and interview techniques were used to gather in-depth information about the implementation of a sustainable concept in the company. The result reveals that the extent of the implementation of Sustainable Manufacturing Practices (SMP) in the companies are at a level of moderate to high. From the three dimensions measured which are environment, economy, and social dimensions, the evaluation result shows good performance in terms of the implementation of sustainable concepts, like low level of gas emission, high percentage of renewable energy usage, cost reduction rate, high quality of life, etc. From this result, the authors then develop a sustainable manufacturing model in the wider coverage to be implemented not only in the textile industry but is expected to be implemented in manufacturing sectors as well. This model consists of at least seven basic archetypes which are divided into three dominant areas: technological innovation, economical, and social areas which aim to bring better performance in the manufacturing industry of Indonesia.

Sequence Stream Indexing Method using DFT and Bitmap in Sequence Data Warehouse (시퀀스 데이터웨어하우스에서 이산푸리에변환과 비트맵을 이용한 시퀀스 스트림 색인 기법)

  • Son, Dong-Won;Hong, Dong-Kweon
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.181-186
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    • 2012
  • Recently there has been many active researches on searching similar sequences from data generated with the passage of time. Those data are classified as time series data or sequence data and have different semantics from scalar data of traditional databases. In this paper similar sequence search retrieves sequences that have a similar trend of value changes. At first we have transformed the original sequences by applying DFT. The converted data are more suitable for trend analysis and they require less number of attributes for sequence comparisons. In addition we have developed a region-based query and we applied bitmap indexes which could show better performance in data warehouse. We have built bitmap indexes with varying number of attributes and we have found the least cost query plans for efficient similar sequence searches.

Effects of Customer Satisfaction and Switching Costs on Customer Loyalty in a Coffee Chain Context (커피 전문점 고객 만족과 전환 비용이 고객 충성도에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Byoungsoo
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.433-443
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    • 2015
  • This study aims to analyze key antecedents of customer loyalty based on dedication-based and constraint-based mechanisms. Our framework provides a theoretical lens of how two distinctive mechanisms influence customer loyalty in a coffee chain context. In this regard, this study examines the effects of customer satisfaction and switching costs on customer loyalty in a coffee shop market. In order to test the proposed model, data collected from 263 university students were empirically tested by using partial least squares regression. The analysis results reveal that customer loyalty is jointly influenced by both a dedication-based and a constraint-based mechanisms. Coffee quality service quality, price and value, and service atmosphere significantly affect user satisfaction. Habit and brand image were found to be the key factors of forming perceived switching costs.

An Evaluation of Routing Methods and the Golden Zone Effect in the Warehouses Order Picking System (창고의 복도형 오더 피킹 시스템의 'Golden Zone' 운영과 경로 최적화 알고리즘 효과 비교)

  • Li, Jin;Lee, Yong-Dae;Kim, Sheung-Kown
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.67-76
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    • 2011
  • Order picking in automotive service parts warehouses is considered to be the most labor-intensive operation. Such warehouses contain hundreds of thousands of items, but normally 20% of products contribute to about 80% of turnover according to Pareto's 80-20 principle. Therefore most fast moving items are located near an outbound area which is called the "Golden Zone". Order picking routing efficiency is related to productivity and labor cost. However, most companies use simple methods. In this paper, we describe a series of computational experiments over a set of test cases where, we compared various previously existing routing heuristics to an optimal algorithm. We focus on examining the influence of the golden zone on the performance and selection of routing methods. The results obtained show that the optimal routing method increases the productivity at least 17.2%, and all the routing methods have better performance as the pick up rate from the golden zone increases.

Effect of Latex and Mineral Additive on Durability of Remicon LMC (라텍스와 광물질 첨가제가 레미콘LMC (Remicon Latex Modified Concrete) 내구성에 미치는 영향)

  • Choi, So Yeong;Choi, Yoon Suk;Heo, Hyeong Seok;Yang, Eun Ik
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.34 no.6
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    • pp.1743-1751
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    • 2014
  • It is well known that latex modification can lead to enhancement compressive and flexural performance, tensile bond strength, chloride penetration resistance and freezing-thawing resistance for concrete. For these, many studies for LMC pavement have been widely conducted more than those for conventional pavement concrete. However, due to several problems such as noise and construction cost, new approaches for LMC have been executed to improve the performance of LMC. Recently, Remicon LMC was developed in order to solve the problems of LMC. In this study, the durability of Remcion LMC was compared with latex and mineral additive mixing ratio. From the results, when latex and mineral additive were mixed in Remicon LMC, compressive, flexural and bond strength were satisfied with Korea Highway Construction Guide Specification. And, it showed that the qualitative effect of latex and mineral additive mixing ratio on the durability of Remicon LMC was investigated experimentally. Also, the latex mixed in Remicon LMC must be at least 8%, in order to ensure the durability equivalent or higher than conventional LMC.

Clinical evaluation of root-resected teeth clinical outcome over 2 years (치아절제술이 시행된 증례의 임상적 평가 : 2년 이상 경과한 증례의 평가)

  • Lee, Chung-Ho;Park, Jin-Woo;Seo, Jo-Yeong;Lee, Jae-Mok
    • Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.809-816
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    • 2006
  • Periodontal disease accompany the inflammation around periodontal tissue and generally periodontal destruction is followed, This destruction often makes the molar teeth have furcation defect. And to treat molar furcation involvement, resective surgery such as root resection and ostectomy and regenerative procedure such as guided tissue regeneration were introduced. Also implant can be considered as one of the good treatment methods, Among these treatment alternatives, root resection can be considered as a good procedure in the point of saving one's natural teeth or amount of cost. Therefore the purpose of this article is to evaluate root-resected teeth which were done at least 2 years ago. 70 root-resected teeth in 58 patient who visited Kyungpook National University Hospital were included in this study. They were evaluated by two clinical method. One is subjective evaluation and another is objective evaluation. To evaluate subjective outcome, 58 patients answered to the questionnaire if they experienced tooth extraction, bleeding, swelling, pain, mobility and chewing problem. To evaluate objective outcome, 28 teeth was evaluated according to Langer's criteria. The subjective result showed 82% of success rate and 18% of failure rate. 13 of 70 teeth showed discomfort and were considered as failure, which include chewing problem (39%) and pain (23%). The objective outcome showed that 4 failure (14% failure rate) which were 2 cases of bone loss by periodontal problem, one endodontic problem and one untreatable caries. By these limited results, some of clinical consideration in root resective procedure can be suggested. Periodontal support and less occlusal loading on resected tooth should be evaluated before the procedure, moreover, good oral hygiene is essential. When these factors are considered carefully, the root resection may produce predictive outcomes in the treatment of furcational involvement.

Comparative Study of NIR-based Prediction Methods for Biomass Weight Loss Profiles

  • Cho, Hyun-Woo;Liu, J. Jay
    • Clean Technology
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.31-37
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    • 2012
  • Biomass has become a major feedstock for bioenergy and other bio-based products because of its renewability and environmental benefits. Various researches have been done in the prediction of crucial characteristics of biomass, including the active utilization of spectroscopy data. Near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy has been widely used because of its attractive features: it's non-destructive and cost-effective producing fast and reliable analysis results. This work developed the multivariate statistical scheme for predicting weight loss profiles based on the utilization of NIR spectra data measured for six lignocellulosic biomass types. Wavelet analysis was used as a compression tool to suppress irrelevant noise and to select features or wavelengths that better explain NIR data. The developed scheme was demonstrated using real NIR data sets, in which different prediction models were evaluated in terms of prediction performance. In addition, the benefits of using right pretreatment of NIR spectra were also given. In our case, it turned out that compression of high-dimensional NIR spectra by wavelet and then PLS modeling yielded more reliable prediction results without handling full set of noisy data. This work showed that the developed scheme can be easily applied for rapid analysis of biomass.

Method for 3D Visualization of Sound Data (사운드 데이터의 3D 시각화 방법)

  • Ko, Jae-Hyuk
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.14 no.7
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    • pp.331-337
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study is to provide a method to visualize the sound data to the three-dimensional image. The visualization of the sound data is performed according to the algorithm set after production of the text-based script that form the channel range of the sound data. The algorithm consists of a total of five levels, including setting sound channel range, setting picture frame for sound visualization, setting 3D image unit's property, extracting channel range of sound data and sound visualization, 3D visualization is performed with at least an operation signal input by the input device such as a mouse. With the sound files with the amount an animator can not finish in the normal way, 3D visualization method proposed in this study was highlighted that the low-cost, highly efficient way to produce creative artistic image by comparing the working time the animator with a study presented method and time for work. Future research will be the real-time visualization method of the sound data in a way that is going through a rendering process in the game engine.