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A Study on the Housing Energy's Consumption and Saving Consciousness on the Housing Tenure (주택점유형태별 주택에너지의 소비 및 절약의식에 관한 연구)

  • Kwon, Chi-Hung;Yoo, Jung-Hyun
    • Land and Housing Review
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.395-406
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of this paper is to analyze of the home energy consumption and conservation awareness, usage patterns and policy directions for housing energy-saving house by three types of houses tenure. The results of analysis is : First, there is existed to the difference in average by each housing tenure types. Second, the residents of sales apartment and tenants of private and public rental apartment are practices in the energy consumption and conservation Third, the behavior between residents of sale-housing and the tenants of private and rental housing on the energy-saving behavior items is existed with behavioral differences. Finally, the consumer-oriented incentives method in the future housing energy' policy direction might be used more efficient and effective than others

Sustainable energy action plans of medium-sized municipalities in north Greece

  • Lymperopoulos, Konstantinos A.;Botsaris, Pantelis N.;Angelakoglou, Komninos;Gaidajis, Georgios
    • Advances in Energy Research
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.11-30
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    • 2015
  • The covenant of Mayors initiative includes the commitment of the municipalities-signatories to reduce voluntarily the greenhouse gas emissions over 20--- by 2020 within their boundaries and obligates them to develop and submit an energy consumption analysis and a sustainable energy action plan within a year from the adhesion. The present paper discusses the energy profile of three medium-sized north-eastern Greek Municipalities (Kavala-MoK, Alexandroupolis-MoA, Drama-MoD) through the analysis of their municipal energy balance. The results of the total final energy consumption per capita include 14.10MWh/capita, 14.24MWh/capita and 12.91MWh/capita for MoK, MoA and MoD respectively. The analysis highlighted the increased energy consumption of the private sectors, namely residential and tertiary building sand private transport. The assessment of the municipalities' energy profiles along with examination of national regulations and action plans and investigation of best available practices within the Covenant of Mayors shaped the development of the sustainable energy action plans of the examined municipalities that is presented in this paper. The proposed pathway towards low-carbon municipalities can be considered a representative case study and a starting point for other municipalities with similar characteristics.

The Analysis on Social Happiness and Macroeconomics Variables (행복과 거시경제변수 관련성에 관한 연구 - 행복 : 소비자심리지수를 대용변수로 활용 -)

  • Kim, Jong-Kwon
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2009.04a
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    • pp.109-121
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    • 2009
  • In these OECD countries, left-wingers Government focus on unemployment, but right -wingers Government cares more about inflation. It is that inflation and unemployment don't have differential effects across rich and poor and the happiness levels of these two groups are unaffected by identity of the Government in power. The poor people choose to left-wingers Government, but rich people prefer to right -wingers Government. I estimate whether above opinion is correct or not. Especially I check how my results change when I control for aggregate economy activity and government consumption, two variables that could be correlated with inflation and unemployment and affect each Government's happiness differentially. This paper, and I believe much of the happiness literature, can be understood as an application of experienced utility, a conception that emphasis the pleasures derived from private consumption and sentiment of it. In Granger Causality test, private consumption sentiment index related with industrial production interactively in Korea. The business cycles affect on private consumption sentiment index.

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A Study o Environmentally Conscious Behavior of Private Households -Focused on Energy, Money and Time Resources- (가계의 환경의식적 소비특성에 관한 연구 -에너지, 금전 및 시간자원 사용을 중심으로-)

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    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.401-413
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    • 1997
  • The objectives of this study were to measure the characteristics of environmentally conscious behavior in the private household focused on energy consumption, money expenditure and time usage, and to determine the socioeconomic variables, environmental consciousness and environmental education which are associated with the environmentally conscious behavior of private households. The data for this study were collected in a personal interview and the final sample consisted of 178 respondents and the statistics employed to analyze the data are discriminant analysis $\chi$2-test. As a result of the discriminant analysis, it was shown that environmentally conscious private households consumed less energy, had lower transportation costs, but spent more time in purchasing behavior in the market compared with those who did not exhibit environmentally conscious behavior. Environmentally conscious behavior of private households differed significantly according to the education of housewives, and also to the level of environmental consciousness and environmental education of the respondents.

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A Survey on Anthropometric and Nutritional Status of children in Three Different Kinds of Kindergartens in Cheonan (천안 지역의 3 종류의 유아원 유아들의 신체 발육과 영양 실태)

  • Park, Seon-Min;Choe, Hyeon-Sun;O, Eun-Ju
    • Journal of the Korean Dietetic Association
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.112-122
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    • 1997
  • According to economical status, malnutrition and overnutrition coexist among preschool children in Korea. Malnutrition have been a serious problem for children in some of rural. Many children have deficiencies of some nutrients such as riboflavin A, and simultaneously they have overcaloric intakes with empty calorie foods. Preschool children have nutritional problems which can affect the growth and development. To investigate whether nutritional intakes can influence on the growth or not, nutritional intakes and anthropometric measurements were determined for infants aged 4~6 years old in three different kinds of preschools. Daily nutrient intakes were calculated by the combination of a direct measurement and 24 hour recall, and the diet consumption patterns were determined by diet quality index. Overall growth of infants in Cheonan area was under the normal growth in Korea. Preschool children in orphanage consumed almost all nutrients much less than the recommended daily allowances, on the other hands, children in private preschool had over-intakes of nutrients when it is compared with the daily requirements. However, the scores of the diet quality index were similar in three preschools since children in private preschool consumed more fat and junk food than those in orphanage. The weight and height of preschool children in orphanage was lower than those in private preschools. This was due to the lower consumption of the important nutrients in infants in orphanage. The consumption of all nutrients except fat did not show any correlation with height or weight. The quality index of fat, cholesterol, grains and protein intakes was higher in children in private preschool than in orphanage. In conclusions, 1)the private preschool children had worse nutrient intake patterns. Better consumption of vitamin $B_2$, calcium and grains were, bigger height and chest circumferences children obtained. 2)Since most of energy intake of preschool children came from junk foods, they needed to consume more supplementation of vitamins and minerals, which is necessary for normal growth. 3)It is desirable for the children to cut down junk foods and empty calorie foods.

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Problems and Prospects for Overseas Agricultural Investment (해외농업개발의 문제점과 전망)

  • Kim Byung Chul
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Crop Science Conference
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    • 1998.10a
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    • pp.24-40
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    • 1998
  • This study attempts to make an observation on the problems and prospects for overseas agricultural investment(OAI) through the insights of farming and farmed companies abroad and through secondary data. OAI mainly aims at the securing steady supplies of crops, which could be anticipated to have increased foreign dependence, and to prepare for crop price fluctuations in the international markets. These functions of OAT are classified with the public and private sector. The public sector needs are largely crops supply for national food consumption and bilateral collaboration between nations. The private sector needs are to gain maximum profits from agricultural investments and to produce raw material for self-consumption in overseas farming companies. The problems in OAI are legal and institutional restrictions in the project area or nation; generally economical unfeasibility in the farm projects, and technical limitations of the farming companies. The prospects of OAI are not very promising. The reason why those many companies which previously planned on OAI changed their investment plans after what is called IMF system with financing difficulties.

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Domestic air demand forecast using cross-validation (교차검증을 이용한 국내선 항공수요예측)

  • Lim, Jae-Hwan;Kim, Young-Rok;Choi, Yun-Chul;Kim, Kwang-Il
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.43-50
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    • 2019
  • The aviation demand forecast field has been actively studied along with the recent growth of the aviation market. In this study, the demand for domestic passenger demand and freight demand was estimated through cross-validation method. As a result, passenger demand is influenced by private consumption growth rate, oil price, and exchange rate. Freight demand is affected by GDP per capita, private consumption growth rate, and oil price. In particular, passenger demand is characterized by temporary external shocks, and freight demand is more affected by economic variables than temporary shocks.

A Study on Occupancy Estimation Method of a Private Room Using IoT Sensor Data Based Decision Tree Algorithm (IoT 센서 데이터를 이용한 단위실의 재실추정을 위한 Decision Tree 알고리즘 성능분석)

  • Kim, Seok-Ho;Seo, Dong-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.23-33
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    • 2017
  • Accurate prediction of stochastic behavior of occupants is a well known problem for improving prediction performance of building energy use. Many researchers have been tried various sensors that have information on the status of occupant such as $CO_2$ sensor, infrared motion detector, RFID etc. to predict occupants, while others have been developed some algorithm to find occupancy probability with those sensors or some indirect monitoring data such as energy consumption in spaces. In this research, various sensor data and energy consumption data are utilized for decision tree algorithms (C4.5 & CART) for estimation of sub-hourly occupancy status. Although the experiment is limited by space (private room) and period (cooling season), the prediction result shows good agreement of above 95% accuracy when energy consumption data are used instead of measured $CO_2$ value. This result indicates potential of IoT data for awareness of indoor environmental status.

Household Debt and Consumer Spending in Korea: Evidence from Household Data

  • KIM, YOUNG IL;HWANG, MIN
    • KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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    • v.38 no.4
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    • pp.23-44
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    • 2016
  • Household debt in Korea raises concerns about the resilience of the economy due to its size and quality. Against this backdrop, we investigate if household leverage matters for private consumption in adverse economic environments even without severe financial disruptions. We find that the balance sheet positions in terms of the leverage ratio may weaken consumption growth. We also find that the depressive effect of debt on consumption may differ across types of consumer spending and household characteristics. In particular, the effects of indebtedness have been much stronger in relation to durable goods expenditures than in other areas. In addition, debtors in high-income (wealth) groups have also shown downward adjustments in consumption even more so than low-income (wealth) groups. These findings imply that debtors' precautionary behavior may serve as an important channel from leverage to consumer spending.

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Changes in Urban Scene Elements in the Pandemic (팬데믹 시대의 도시 씬 요소 변화)

  • Gu, Suna;Jang, Wonho
    • Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.262-275
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    • 2020
  • Due to the pandemic caused by Corona 19, cities around the world have faced a change. As the global economic system weakens, localization is increasing in the product production and distribution system. In addition, consumption patterns have changed in urban where localization has been strengthened. As a result, the way physical places are consumed is also changing. Consumption of large multi-use facilities has drastically decreased, the speed of the collapse of the online and offline boundaries has been accelerated, and the consumption of amenities for sharing tastes has become more subdivided, specialized, and private. A big change also appeared in the urban scene, which is perceived as the concentration of urban amenities. Local scale and locality became important in the urban scene, and a new urban scene element called empathy emerged. Empathy aims to connect socially and emotionally to individuals consuming urban amenities. The pursuit of connectivity, taste consumption, and nostalgia. In this study, the space for cultural consumption based on empathy was named as empathetic space and the concept was explained. The importance of empathic space in the urban scene in the future post-corona situation was presented.