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Analysis of Effects on SWAT Estimation of Warm-Up Period

  • Lee, Ji-Won;Moon, Jong-Pil;Woo, Won-Hee;Kum, Dong-Hyuk;Kim, Ki-Sung;Lim, Kyoung-Jae
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.260-260
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    • 2011
  • SWAT is semi-distributed and continuous-time distributed simulation watershed model, which can simulate point and nonpoint source pollutants as well as hydrology and water quality. It was developed to predict the effects of alternative management decisions on water, sediment, and chemical yields with reasonable accuracy. It is able to predict and manage hydrology, sediments, nutrients, and pesticides with Best Management Practices (BMPs) in a watershed. SWAT model also has potential for use in ungauged basins to predict streamflow and baseflow from saturated source area in watersheds. According to various cultivation practices and climate change, SWAT model is available to analyze relative change in hydrology and water quality. In order to establish optimum management of water quality, both monitering and modeling have been conducted actively using SWAT model. As SWAT model is computer program to simulate a lot of natural phenomena, it has limitation to predict and reflect them with on hundred percent accuracy. Thus, it is possible to analyze the effect of BMPs in the watershed where users want to simulate hydrology and water quality only if model accuracy and applicability are assessed first of all and the result of it is well for the study watershed. For assessment of SWAT applicability, most researchers have used $R^2$ and Nash and Sutcliffe Efficiency (NSE). $R^2$ and NSE are likely to show different results according to a warm up period and sometimes its results are very different. There have been hardly any studies of whether warm up period can affect simulation results in SWAT model. In this study, how warm up period has a effect on SWAT results was analyzed and a appropriate warm up period was suggested. Lots of SWAT results were compared after using measured data of Soyanggang-dam watershed and applying various warm up period (0 ~ 10 year(s)). As a result of this study, when there was no warm up period, $R^2$ and NSE were 0.645, 0.602 respectively, when warm up period was 2 years, $R^2$ and NSE were 0.648, 0.632, and when warm up period was 4 years, $R^2$ and NSE were 0.663, 0.652 separately. Through this study, sensitive analysis of warm up period in SWAT model was conducted, and this study could give a guideline able to simulate hydrology and water quality for more accuracy than before as users change a lot of warm up periods as well as any simulation parameters.

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An Empirical Study on the Business Performance Effect of Active Factors in Total Quality Management: Primarily on the Korean Shipping Firms (해운기업의 품질경영(TQM) 실행요인이 기업성과에 미치는 영향에 관한 실증적 분석)

  • 이호상;김동훈;신한원;김성국
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.49-65
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    • 2001
  • Total Quality Management(TQM) is the source of competitive advantage for the enterprise faced with the dynamic change of the environment as the customer satisfaction era, unlike the past marketing era. It can have an effect on the strategical choice of the enterprise and becomes a new spotlight of management strategy in business administration recently with various techniques of organizational innovation, such as business re-engineering, benchmarking and so on. The TQM which has an essential part of a Risk Response Process is recognized as strategic aspects in Risk Management. TQM means the total management system that realizes management philosophy of customer satisfaction through continuous improvement and innovational thoughts on the basis of top-management's leadership and employees' involvement, policy of quality management, customer focus, development of human resources, empowered work forces, and supplier relationships. The data investigating the business performance effect of active factors in TQM based on the shipping firms were collected from 250 shipping firms in Korea by the use of questionnaire method and personal interviews at the selected samples.

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The Effect of Addition of Mungbean Starch and Potato Starch on the Textural and Sensory Characteristics of Peach Pyun (녹두전분과 감자전분 복숭아편의 질감과 관능적 특성)

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    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.156-163
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    • 1999
  • This study was evaluate of chemical properties. textural charact6eristics and sensory properties prod-uced peach pyuns through the change of gelling agents such as mungbean starch potato starchy and pec-tin and of sugar density with 10%, 20%, and 30%. Sensory evaluation was that peach pyun added mun-gbean starch was more preferable in appearance and texture than peach pyun added potato starch. Peac-h pyun added 0% pectin was more preferable than peach pyun with 1% pectin. As a result of texture analysis the texture of peach pyun added mungbean starch was denser than that added potato starch. Adding 1% pectin to peach pyun increased mechanical properties such as hardness and chewiness. Mun-gbeaan starch pyun with pectin on lightness Potato starch pyun with pectin on redness and potato star-ch pyun with pectin on yellowness were significant(p<001). Lightness has a tendency to decrease with increasing sugar density. Adding 1% pectin has the effect to increase lightness redness and yellowness. The subject parameters that effect overall quality on sensory evaluation were found taste quality tex-ture quality hardness adhesiveness and taste by using regression analysis.

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The Effect of Using Massage Chair with Acupoint and Meridian Massage Program on Sleep Disorder (경혈 및 경락 안마자극 프로그램이 적용된 안마의자 사용이 수면의 질에 미치는 영향)

  • Choi, Su-Ji;Kim, Dong-Il
    • The Journal of Korean Obstetrics and Gynecology
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.80-94
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    • 2018
  • Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the massage program stimulating the acupuncture points and meridians on the improvement of sleep quality. Methods: 16 subjects suffering from sleep disorders were recruited and the massage program was conducted 3 times a week for a month. VAS (Visual Analog Scale) and KPSQI (Korean Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index) were collected through questionnaires, and salivary cortisol concentration test and HRV (Heart Rate Variability) were also used to evaluate the effect. The collected data were analyzed by independent statisticians. Results: VAS and KPSQI values decreased significantly after 4 weeks of massage chair application. There was no significant difference in salivary cortisol concentration and HRV test results. In the group with normal HRV test results and salivary cortisol concentration, the change of VAS and KPSQI values was not significant, while the group with abnormal range showed a statistically significant decrease. Conclusions: The massage chair program stimulating meridians according to Korean medicine theory was effective in improving sleep quality. Massage of acupoints and meridians through a massage chair is expected to be useful as an adjunctive therapy in addition to standard Korean medicine therapy.

A Study on an effect of Online-Word-of-Mouth and Brand Relationship Quality on Consumer's decision making to purchase (온라인 구전과 브랜드 관계의 질적 요인이 소비자 구매 의도에 미치는 영향)

  • Bae, Soon Han;Jeon, Joong Yang;Park, Jong Soon
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.175-187
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    • 2011
  • People could be effected by other's recommendations when they are in making decision to buy something. This phenomenon was called as 'word of mouth effect' and proved to be very significant to change consumer's attitude because of a lack of information about products or services what they needed. And also there are two kinds of views about Brand communication. One is that Brand communication would be weakening due to less cost to search information. the other is that Brand communication would be strengthen because of a lack of sensibility to product. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine the function of online word of month and the effect of brand communication by adopting a concept of BRQ. As The results, First, Online word of mouth have significantly effected on consumer's attitude even though those information are all texts and have been suspicious if it is true or not. Second, consumer brand relationship quality have a influence on consumer's attitude. In conclusion, This study would give implications for companies to build marketing strategies.

Review on Impacts and Possible Adaptation Strategies for Climate Change (기후변화 영향과 향후 적응대책방향에 대한 소고)

  • Choi, Kwang-Ho
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.201-211
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    • 2008
  • According to IPCC fourth assessment report in 2007, global mean temperatures have risen by 0.74 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years. Moreover, in the recent 25 years, global mean temperatures have risen by 0.45 degrees Celsius, which is 2.4-times larger than those in the past 100 years. The evidences for climate change, such as sea level rise, arctic glacier melt, and desertification in Asia, have occurred and increased over the globe. In Korea, because regional climate has been changed, types of agriculture and fishery should be replaced. And as precipitation pattern behave differently from the past decades, water management would be more difficult, furthermore, atmospheric environment, related to concentrations for ozone, sulfate, etc., could be worse. Nevertheless, we have only focused on greenhouse gas reduction duty for the Convention of Climate Change. Fortunately, in the fourth plan on climate change, we have planned to manage climate change more actively since 2007. In Korea, the emission of carbon dioxide has increased about 1.9-times more, from 311million ton in 1990 to 591million ton in 2004. And also about 2 ppm rise every year for concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. As a result, ecosystem, quality of water and atmosphere would be affected. Here, the emission of greenhouse gases over the globe is examined, and the effect of greenhouse gases for climate change is reviewed from the results of previous studies. In addition, the countermeasures of mitigation and adaptation on climate change were discussed for the understanding.

Influences on Concrete Quality of Residue Content Change of Chemical Admixtures (화학혼화제 고형분량 변동이 콘크리트 품질에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Jin-Cheol;Yoo, Hyeok-Jin;Kim, Hong-Sam;Jeong, Ho-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.457-463
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    • 2014
  • The permitted limit, ${\pm}12%$, of the change in solid contents based on ASTM C 494 as an interim standard in Korea Expressway Corporation, can not reflect the kind of chemical admixture and the characteristics of solid content so that it differed depending on the admixture types. In this study, effect of cement concrete quality was investigated by solid changes which can be used chemical admixtures acceptance criteria. As a result of an evaluation of a change in the quality of concrete due to solid content, since Ligno-sulfonate based (LG) had a low water reducing ratio, the range of the change in solid content was great while Naphthalene sulfonated based (PNS) and Poly-carboxylate based (PC) High Range Water-reducing Admixtures (HRWR) had a high water reducing ratio, the permitted limit of the difference in solid content currently used as the acceptance criterion should be readjusted. As a result, it is found that the acceptable range must be managed within 10% and 5% when the solid contents less than 25% and more than 25%, respectively.

A Study on Concrete Material Quality Management Based on Various Test of Construction Condition under Hot Weather Circumstance (서중(暑中) 환경에서 현장 콘크리트 시험을 통한 재료 품질관리 방안)

  • Park, Shin
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.5 no.3 s.17
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    • pp.91-99
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    • 2005
  • It is required to study systematical on the concrete quality management to extend structure life because rebuilding effect is reducing under present condition of large sized and high stories structure. Concrete, which shows its intensity by hydrating action and a big change in quality according to hot weather and temperature, produces a lot of qualify problem under hot and cold weather Because of each specification and construction plan which does not have basic standard on site, concrete's quality is irregular and makes some defect. As a result, Daegu is turned out to be the longest area after investigating application period and days focused on 8 cities weather information about relationship between hot weather circumstance and construction environment. Therefore, we first surveyed the concrete material in the region and found out the problem of quality nanagement. Then figure out the way of solution. Moreover, we integrated concrete material quality management, which is applied differently to each site, to have equal quality and to reduce defect from construction site. And then, based on various test of construction condition and analysis of quality management item, we suggest effective concrete quality management to make concrete material construction standard guide and plan under hot weather.

A Study on Factors Influencing on Continuous Usage Intention of Open Course Ware (오픈코스웨어의 지속적 사용의도에 영향을 미치는 요인에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jaemo;Gim, Gwangyong
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.93-106
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    • 2016
  • Recently, Open Course Ware service area which offers free lecture materials has been steadily growing. This change comes from a paradigm shift of education service caused by the progress of ICT and a role change of consumers. Knowledge creation from higher educational institutions is slow compared to change of society. Therefore, consumers escape from one-sided education, and perform a new role of knowledge generation. Nevertheless, there is not much of academic research of Open Course Ware. Consequently, the paper is dedicated to empirical study on effect of perceived value, information system quality and brand trust on intention to continuous use. As implications for the research, as a practical point of view, the results-an economic side that offers contents for free of charge, a contents side that is fresh, various and substantial, a systematic side that makes customers to use the system easily, a service side which takes charge of customers support and brand trust affect satisfaction and intention to continuous use - can be used for establishment of executive strategies.

Characteristic Change of Fiber Depending on the Refining Conditions of Reconstituted Tobacco Process (판상엽 고해조건에 따른 섬유특성 변화 평가)

  • Han young-Rim;Sung Yong-Joo;Kim Sam-Kon;Kim Kun-Soo;Han In-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Tobacco Science
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.195-200
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    • 2005
  • The goal of refining is to treat fibers so they meet the requirements of the papermaking process. The refining process in papermaking has great influence on the quality of the final product by changing the fiber properties, such as fiber length, shape, fine contents and so on. In this study, the effect on the morphological change of fibers by the refining conditions were investigated using the fiber morphology analyzer. Fiber morphology analyzer used to determine which pulps are suitable for producing particular products. Furthermore it is widely used in paper mills to monitor paper quality. The morphological change of fibers according to refining conditions were evaluated out by measuring fiber, shive and fine. In the fiber morphology, the domestic reconstituted tobacco fiber has the bigger average fiber length value than that of the foreign reconstituted tobacco.