• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권9호
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• pp.5049-5054
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• 2013

Background: To assess the treatment pattern and expenditure incurred by cancer patients undergoing treatment at government tertiary hospitals in India. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study of 508 cancer patients randomly selected from tertiary cancer hospitals funded by central/state governments located in major cities of five states in India, namely Kerala, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Mizoram, during March - May 2011 was conducted. Information related to direct costs, indirect costs and opportunity costs incurred on investigations and treatment, major source of payment and difficulties faced by patients during the course of treatment was collected. Results: About 45% of the patients used private health facilities as the first point of contact for cancer related diseases as against 32% in public hospitals. About 47% sought private health facilities for cancer investigations, 21% at district/sub-district hospitals, and about 4% contacted primary health care facilities. A majority of the patients (76%) faced financial problems while undergoing treatment. Conclusions: The results highlight the importance of involving the primary health care system in the cancer prevention activities.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제36권2A호
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• pp.139-148
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• 2011

본 논문은 멀티밴드 해양통신망에서 선적 정보를 주기적으로 전송할 때 발생하는 비용을 최소화하기 위해 가용한 네트워크의 전송 비용과 주어진 허용 가능한 최대 지연 범위 이내에서 예상되는 최소 평균 전송 비용을 비교하여 전송 시점을 결정하는 방안을 제시한다. 이때 전송 시점과 해당 네트워크의 선택 과정을 Markov Decision Process (MDP)로 모델링하며, 이에 따라 각 밴드에서의 채널 상태를 2-State Markov Chain으로 모델링하고 평균 전송 비용을 Stochastic Dynamic Programming을 통해 계산한다. 이를 통해 최소 비용의 망 선택 방식이 도출되었으며, 제안된 방식을 사용할 때 고정 주기를 사용하여 정보를 전송하는 방식에 비해 상당한 망 사용 비용을 절감할 수 있음을 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해 보인다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제28권8호
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• pp.1209-1215
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• 2015

Since lamb is a commodity, producers cannot control the price of the product they sell. Therefore, managing production costs is a necessity. We explored the study of elasticities as a tool for basing decision-making in sheep production, and aimed at investigating the composition and elasticities of lamb production costs, and their influence on the performance of the activity. A representative sheep production farm, designed in a panel meeting, was the base for calculation of lamb production cost. We then performed studies of: i) costs composition, and ii) cost elasticities for prices of inputs and for zootechnical indicators. Variable costs represented 64.15% of total cost, while 21.66% were represented by operational fixed costs, and 14.19% by the income of the factors. As for elasticities to input prices, the opportunity cost of land was the item to which production cost was more sensitive: a 1% increase in its price would cause a 0.2666% increase in lamb cost. Meanwhile, the impact of increasing any technical indicator was significantly higher than the impact of rising input prices. A 1% increase in weight at slaughter, for example, would reduce total cost in 0.91%. The greatest obstacle to economic viability of sheep production under the observed conditions is low technical efficiency. Increased production costs are more related to deficient zootechnical indexes than to high expenses.

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.107-128
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• 2021

우리나라 전력시장에서 한계비용 기반의 가격결정메커니즘에 관한 논의가 이루어질 때 마다 한계발전기의 수익 감소는 가장 큰 장애물로 인식되었다. 하지만 수익감소는 한계비용 기반의 가격결정메커니즘의 한계점이 아니라 시장개설 초기 CBP체제의 단기 운영 계획, 발전계획프로그램의 기능 부재, 성능시험의 구조적 결함이 결합된 문제이다. 다조합 복합발전기에 운전조합별 비용함수를 적용할 경우 고출력구간에서 한계비용이 평균비용을 초과할 수 있으며, 이것은 비용함수를 산정하는 방식에 따라 가격결정메커니즘 제도개선을 가로막았던 구조적인 장애물을 극복할 수 있는 기회를 제공할 수 있다. 실시간 시장, 계통운영보조서비스 시장 등 재생에너지 확대를 수용하기 위한 전력시장 개선 및 DR, ESS 등 새로운 자원들의 시장참여 확대 등 향후 전력시장의 복잡성은 더욱 증가할 것으로 전망된다. 전력시장이 복잡해질수록 합리적인 가격신호를 제공하는 것이 바로 전력시장의 가장 중요한 역할이며 한계비용 기반의 가격결정메커니즘이 바로 전력시장 선진화의 출발점이 될 것이다.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.27-40
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• 2006

Today's customer demands in supply chains tend to change quickly, variously even in a short time Interval. The uncertainties of customer demands make it difficult for supply chains to achieve efficient inventory replenishment, resulting in loosing sales opportunity or keeping excessive chain wide inventories. Un this paper, we propose an adaptive vendor managed inventory (VMI) model for a two-echelon supply chain with non-stationary customer demands using the action-reward learning method. The Purpose of this model is to decrease the inventory cost adaptively. The control Parameter, a compensation factor, is designed to adaptively change as customer demand pattern changes. A simulation-based experiment was performed to compare the performance of the adaptive VMI model.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2000년도 추계학술대회논문집B
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• pp.216-221
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• 2000

Most Ice making companies make simple efforts to make products and fail to introduce improvements into the system against huh cost of products. The work presented here is an implementation of ice making method to improve both energy efficiency and productivity. In this present investigation, several ice making cycles are designed and calculated to evaluate COP, ice making time and electric energy consumption. Results obtained shows that COP is improved with more efficient use of time for ice making and electric consumption. Therefore this can offer the opportunity for more efficient energy consumption and productivity in ice making.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.43-57
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• 1989

In the materialistic societies, individuals get money return according to the importance of their roles. But unlike wage workers who are engaged in market production , housewives engaged in home production do not get that return. It is because the result of home production is not transacted in the market and the price is not given to it, so the value of home production is not estimated. Hence this study trcognizes again the value of home production, suggests the estimation methods of it in input and output based on home production systems and attempts to actualize those methods socially. This home production develops the human attributes of family members to act as a member of a society and potentially contributes to home income and Gross National Products, so it has social and economic value. In spite of that significance, the value of home production is not estimated, so its nor recognized and housewives engaged in home production are not acknowledged their ability. Hence based on home production systems form input to output, this study suggested opportunity cost method and market cost method in input, method by saving money expenditure, hybrid method and method by comparing with market in output.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.85-95
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• 2005

The margin level in the futures market platys an important role in balancing the default probability with the investor's opportunity cost. In this paper, we investigate whether the movement of KOSPI200 futures daily prices can be modeled with the extreme value theory. Based on this investigation, we examine the validity of the margin level set by the extreme value theory. Moreover, we propose an expected profit-maximization model for securities companies. In this model, the extreme value theory is used for cost estimation, and a regression analysis is used for revenue calculation. Computational results are presented to compare the extreme value distribution with the empirical distribution of margin violation in KOSPI200 and to examine the suitability of the expected profit-maximization model.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.455-461
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• 2001

Domestic ice making companies make effort to obtain products and neglect to introduce low cost product improvements with energy savings. The work presented here is an implementation of ice making method to improve both energy efficiency and productivity. In this present investigation, several ice making cycles are proposed for higher efficiency in the system. COP(Coefficient of Performance), ice making time and electric energy consumption are evaluated and compared with the conventional system. Results shows that COP is improved with more efficient use of time for ice making and electric consumption. Therefore, this can offer an opportunity for more efficient use of energy and higher productivity in ice making.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제11권17호
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• pp.39-46
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• 1988

This Paper is concerned with a man-multi machine assignment problem to minimize idle time. Assuming different types of semi-automatic machines with deterministic service-processing time, the problem approaches by sequential dependent one operator can handle several machines, where determine optimal range the cost of idle labor and machine time is to be minimized in preparing a work schedule. The Procedure, to establish man-machine assignment model, and it's results are: (1) Objective function to minimize opportunity loss cost, which is happened by idle time, is verified recursive process through heuristic method. (2) The algorithm, is programmed by BASIC language for personal computer, and a numerical example is given to illustrate the heuristic algorithm. This study will be helpful to enhance productivity of Shopflooras a result of increasing the efficiencies of both operator and machine.