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Case Study of Working Environment Improvement at Plastic Product Companies for Reducing the Musculoskeletal Disorders Risk Factors (근골격계 질환 유해요인 감소를 위한 플라스틱 제품 제조업체의 작업환경 개선 사례연구)

  • Kang, Young-Sig;Cho, Mun-Son;Yang, Sung-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.51-57
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    • 2009
  • The goal of this study is to propose the effective method of investigating the injurious factors and make improvement plans that prevents the workers against musculoskeletal disorders at plastic product companies and the same business field with similar working conditions and process. A questionnaire are adopted to analyze the symptoms of workers' musculoskeletal disorders, and ergonomic assessment methods such as RULA, OWAS are performed to find out harmful factors of workplace and working posture. Based on the result of the evaluation, to enhance the working environment, improvement of worktable, working space, tools, and outfit was suggested, and induction of mechanical system was also suggested. It can be concluded that the method and process described in this paper could be helpful for diagnosing the musculoskeletal disorders risk factors and making improvement plans to the plastic product companies and the same business field with similar working conditions and process.

Application of Metabolomics to Quality Control of Natural Product Derived Medicines

  • Lee, Kyung-Min;Jeon, Jun-Yeong;Lee, Byeong-Ju;Lee, Hwanhui;Choi, Hyung-Kyoon
    • Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.559-568
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    • 2017
  • Metabolomics has been used as a powerful tool for the analysis and quality assessment of the natural product (NP)-derived medicines. It is increasingly being used in the quality control and standardization of NP-derived medicines because they are composed of hundreds of natural compounds. The most common techniques that are used in metabolomics consist of NMR, GC-MS, and LC-MS in combination with multivariate statistical analyses including principal components analysis (PCA) and partial least squares-discriminant analysis (PLS-DA). Currently, the quality control of the NP-derived medicines is usually conducted using HPLC and is specified by one or two indicators. To create a superior quality control framework and avoid adulterated drugs, it is necessary to be able to determine and establish standards based on multiple ingredients using metabolic profiling and fingerprinting. Therefore, the application of various analytical tools in the quality control of NP-derived medicines forms the major part of this review. $Veregen^{(R)}$ (Medigene AG, Planegg/Martinsried, Germany), which is the first botanical prescription drug approved by US Food and Drug Administration, is reviewed as an example that will hopefully provide future directions and perspectives on metabolomics technologies available for the quality control of NP-derived medicines.

Introduction of Alternative Conformity Assessment System for New Radio, Telecommunication and Broadcasting Equipment Without Technical Requirement (융합 신기술을 채택한 방송통신기기의 대안적 적합성 평가체계 연구: 기술기준 부재의 경우를 중심으로)

  • Lee, Yong-Kyu;Han, Ju-Yeon
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.34 no.2B
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    • pp.203-211
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    • 2009
  • In the area of the telecommunication industry, a few products have been developed before related technical regulation has been made. Government agency is forced to make a final decision on whether a requested product is sellable in the market only after the structure and function of requested product is tested. The introduction of a 'SDoC', and 'privatization of technical regulation' to our legal system could be a solution for minimizing the situation mentioned above. Both 'SDoC' and 'privatization of technical regulation' are systems which are capable of minimizing the appearance of products without technical regulations. Furthermore, 'Temporary approval system' would provide a government agency with administrative procedure for new product without technical regulation.

The Concept of Clean Technology

  • Clift, Roland
    • Clean Technology
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.34-46
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    • 1995
  • Clean Technology goes beyond Clean-UP (or "End of PiPe) Technologies to include Pollution prevention, waste minimisation, and cleaner production. However, the concept of Clean Technology goes deeper than changes in technology, to ways in which human needs can be satisfied sustainably. In other words, Clean Technology, concentrates on delivering a human benefit rather than making a product. Introducing cleaner technology may therefore involve new commercial relationships as well as new technological practices. In some economic sectors, this involves leasing or providing a service rather than selling a product. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is an important tool in Clean Technology. LCA involves determining all the resources used and all the wastes and emissions produced in providing the human benefit. Use of LCA ensures that improved environmental performance in one part of the Life Cycle is not achieved merely at the expense of more environmental damage elsewhere. Going beyond LCA, the concepts of Life Cycle Design and "metabolised" use of materials are approaches to obtain maximum benefit from materials as they pass through the human economy. "Closed-loop" use can be a component of clean technology. Looking beyond simple re-use and recycling, a material may pass through a "cascade of uses". typically a series of applications with progressively lower performance specifications. Closed-loop use necessarily involves a change in commercial practice, because the material or product must be recovered after use.

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The Effect of External Attributes of Eco-Friendly Product on Perceived Values, Perceived Risk and Purchasing Intention : Focus on Organic Milk Product in China (친환경 제품의 외재적 속성이 지각된 가치, 지각된 위험 및 구매의도에 미치는 영향: 중국 유기농우유를 중심으로)

  • Piao, Xuexu;Park, Sang-Moon
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.55-72
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    • 2019
  • Natural disasters and transient resource extraction cause new environmental problems and the waste of resources has also become a big problem. Because these kinds of environmental damage and pollution are harmful to human beings, the problem of environmental protection has become a global issue. In this situation, most consumers prefer Eco-Friendly products that benefit their health and can reduce environmental pollution as well. Businesses also try to develop marketing strategies that position products focused on the environment. At this point, the study has categorized extrinsic properties of Eco-Friendly products into brand images, the reliability of Eco-marks, advertisement views, and researches how the properties have effects on the perceived values and perceived risk in the process of consuming and how the perceived values and perceived risk have implications for purchasing intention. The consumer's perceived values are classified into emotional, social and Eco-friendly values. On the research of existing Chinese consumers or organic milk products, this study explains how the Chinese consumers make an assessment of the extrinsic property of Eco-Friendly products in the Chinese market and provide strategic implications to the Chinese market entrants.

BMT Derivation of Evaluation Item about Anti-DDoS SW (Anti-DDoS SW BMT 평가항목 도출)

  • Shin, Suk-Jo;Lee, Jae-Guen;Jo, In-June;Shin, Seok Kyoo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2009.10a
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    • pp.375-378
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    • 2009
  • DDoS attacks make people can't using normal internet service, because DDoS attacks cause exhaustion of network bandwidth or exhaustion of computer system resources by using many personal computers or servers which already infected computer virus from hackers. Recent DDoS attacks attack government brach, financial institution, even IT security company. IT security companies make Anti-DDoS product for defense from DDoS attack. But, There is no standard for BMT of Anti-DDoS product. In this dissertation, Anti-DDoS product quality characteristics of the survey analysis to evaluate them by comparing the assessment items were derived.

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Research on features of eco-friendly fashion products for the development of typology of eco-friendly fashion products (친환경 패션제품 유형분류체계 개발을 위한 친환경 패션제품 특성 연구)

  • Eunah Yoh
    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.86-107
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    • 2024
  • Although interest in eco-friendly fashion products is increasing among scholars and industry leaders, the concept of eco-friendly products remains unclear, preventing consistent assessment of which fashion products are eco-friendly. This study conducted a content analysis of eco-friendly product information from 87 domestic and 102 foreign brands to reveal key standards for categorizing eco-friendly fashion products. Product characteristic information was coded according to the four material-based standards (i.e., organic material, regenerative material, alternative material, and sustainably produced/upcycled material). Consistency between coders was confirmed by Cohen's kappa. In results, eco-friendly fashion products are categorized by four material-based standards and two certification standards (i.e., certified, not certified). Among the four material-based categories, the greatest number of domestic and foreign companies produced eco-friendly products that were classified as the regenerative material group. In addition, companies acquired eco-friendly certifications related to the use of organic, regenerative, and alternative materials. The greatest number of eco-friendly material brands used for eco-friendly fashion products belonged to the regenerative material group. Based on the study results, a typology of eco-friendly products was suggested. This typology can benefit practitioners and academics by highlighting a need for classification system for the eco-friendly fashion products, as well as by providing insight into the categorization of eco-friendly fashion products.

The Concepts of Nanotoxicology and Risk Assessment of the Nanoparticles (나노 독성의 개념 및 나노입자에 대한 위해성 평가의 필요성)

  • Maeng, Seung-Hee;Yu, Il-Je
    • Toxicological Research
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.87-98
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    • 2005
  • Human exposure to nano-sized particles (NSP) has increased over the last century with anthropogenic sources, and the rapid development of nanotechnology becomes an another source of such exposure. Information regarding the safety of nanotechnology and its product, nanoparticles, is urgently needed when assuming exposure through inhalation, oral intake, and penetration across skin is ever increasing as growing nanotechnology rapidly. The recent advancement of biokinetic studies with NSP and newer epidemiologic and toxicologic studies with ultrafine particles can be the basis for the nanotoxicology. Some concepts of nanotoxicology can be known from the results of these results. Specific small size of NSP, when inhaled, facilitates deposition by difusional mechanism in all regions of the respiratory tract and uptake into cells, ranscytosis across epithelial and endothelial cells into the blood and lymph circulation to reach target sites. Translocation along axons and dendrites of neuron makes an access to CNS and ganglia. These biokinetics are dependent on NSP surface chemistry. Risk assessments of NSP include appropriate and relevant doses/concentration selections, the increase effects in the organism and the benefits of possible desirable effects. An interdisciplinary team approach is desirable for nanotoxicology research and an appropriate risk assessment.

An Improved Interval AHP Method for Assessment of Cloud Platform-based Electrical Safety Monitoring System

  • Wang, Shou-Xiang;Ge, Lei-Jiao;Cai, Sheng-Xia;Zhang, Dong
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.959-968
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    • 2017
  • Electrical safety monitoring System (ESMS) is a critical component in modern power systems, which is characterized by large-scale access points, massive users and versatile requirements. For convenience of the information integration and analysis, the software development, maintenance, and application in the system, the cloud platform based ESMS is established and assessed in this paper. Firstly the framework of the system is proposed, and then the assessment scheme with a set of evaluation indices are presented, by which the appropriate cloud product can be chosen to meet the requirements of a specific application. Moreover, to calculate the weights of the evaluation indices under uncertainty, an improved interval AHP method is adopted to take into consideration of the fuzziness of expert scoring, the qualitative consistency test, and the two normalizations in the process of eigenvectors. Case studies have been made to verify the feasibility of the assessment approach for ESMS.

Seismic Performance Assessment of Hollow Reinforced Concrete and Prestressed Concrete Bridge Columns

  • Kim, Tae-Hoon;Seong, Dai-Jeong;Shin, Hyun Mock
    • International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.165-176
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    • 2012
  • The aim of this study is to assess the seismic performance of hollow reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete bridge columns, and to provide data for developing improved seismic design criteria. By using a sophisticated nonlinear finite element analysis program, the accuracy and objectivity of the assessment process can be enhanced. A computer program, RCAHEST (Reinforced Concrete Analysis in Higher Evaluation System Technology), is used to analyze reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete structures. Tensile, compressive and shear models of cracked concrete and models of reinforcing and prestressing steel were used to account for the material nonlinearity of reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete. The smeared crack approach was incorporated. The proposed numerical method for the seismic performance assessment of hollow reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete bridge columns is verified by comparing it with the reliable experimental results. Additionally, the studies and discussions presented in this investigation provide an insight into the key behavioral aspects of hollow reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete bridge columns.