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S&T Collaboration in Developing Countries: Lessons from Brazilian Collaboration Activities with South Korea

  • Fink, Daniel;Hameed, Tahir;So, Minho;Kwon, Youngsun;Rho, Jae Jeung
    • STI Policy Review
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.92-110
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    • 2012
  • An active policy role is suggested for collaboration that will enhance national level Science and Technology (S&T) capabilities. In contrast, some studies see a limited role of policy support for collaborative S&T research at the individual level (including research groups or institutional levels) due to their self-organizing nature. Two views on S&T collaboration look at different levels but existing research largely ignores the context of developing countries. This paper shows how S&T collaborations between Brazil and Korea have developed over the past two decades. The paper indicates the gaps between initiation and the actual establishment of collaborative research at national and individual levels, differences in the focus areas of research, differences in resources and project planning, and the nature of collaborations. Collaborative research activities at the national level were initiated before the individual level but activated later than the individual level; in addition, the focus areas of research were laid down earlier at the national level with individual collaborations focused on different areas. Project types remained different at each level (i.e. top-down and bottom-up) or with a slightly changing mix. This study suggests appropriate policy measures (such as the timely and effective information collection of activities at different levels and proactive coordination) that could reduce the gaps in the timing and alignment of research areas. This paper also alludes to an evolutionary model to develop S&T collaboration among developing countries.

A Study on the Performance Evaluation of Research and Development (연구개발의 실적평가에 관한 연구)

  • 김성희;하정진
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.19 no.39
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    • pp.163-170
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    • 1996
  • Several formerly independent trends including the increasing rate of technological change, the demand for greater efficiency and productivity in R&D and innovation. The purpose of this study is describe performance evaluation of research and development. Performance evaluation level of R&D have three levels: individual level, research group level, laboratory level. There are development evaluation factors and evaluation routin in each levels.

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A study on field demonstration of Full Digital Substation Automation System (Process Level IED 개발 및 현장실증에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Jeong-Yeol;Lee, Nam-Ho;An, Yong-Ho;Jang, Byun-tae;Choi, Jong-Kee;Kim, Seok-Kon;Lee, You-Jin
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2015.07a
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    • pp.571-572
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    • 2015
  • 한국전력공사에서는 2013년도부터 154kV급 변전소를 IEC 61850 기반의 변전소 자동화 시스템을 구축 운영중이다. 현재 구축 운영중인 디지털 변전소는 Station Level의 자동화 시스템이며, Process Level의 Full Digital 디지털 변전소 구축은 연구과제 성과물의 신뢰도 검증과 관련 기술 신뢰성 확보 시 구축예정이다. 본 논문에서는 Full Digital 변전소 구축을 위한 Process Level의 IED 및 엔지니어링 프로그램 개발에 대한 결과와, 개발된 시작품의 현장 실증 환경 구축에 대해 논하고자 한다.

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Proposal of Agricultural Drought Re-evaluation Method using Long-term Groundwater Level Monitoring Data (장기 지하수위 관측자료를 활용한 농업가뭄 재평가 방안 제언)

  • Jeong, ChanDuck;Lee, ByungSun;Lee, GyuSang;Kim, JunKyum
    • Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.27-43
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    • 2021
  • Since climate factors, such as precipitation, temperature, etc., show repeated patterns every year, it can be said that future changes can be predicted by analyzing past climate data. As with groundwater, seasonal variations predominate. Therefore, when a drought occurs, the groundwater level is also lowered. Thus, a change in the groundwater level can represent a drought. Like precipitation, groundwater level changes also have a high correlation with drought, so many researchers use Standard Groundwater Level Index (SGI) to which the Standard Precipitation Index (SPI) method is applied to evaluate the severity of droughts and predict drought trends. However, due to the strong interferences caused by the recent increase in groundwater use, it is difficult to represent the droughts of regions or entire watersheds by only using groundwater level change data using the SPI or SGI methods, which analyze data from one representative observation station. Therefore, if the long-term groundwater level changes of all the provinces of a watershed are analyzed, the overall trend can be shown even if there is use interference. Thus, future groundwater level changes and droughts can be more accurately predicted. Therefore, in this study, it was confirmed that the groundwater level changes in the last 5 years compared with the monthly average groundwater level changes of the monitoring wells installed before 2015 appeared similar to the drought occurrence pattern. As a result of analyzing the correlation with the water storage yields of 3,423 agricultural reservoirs that do not immediately open their sluice gates in the cases of droughts or floods, it was confirmed that the correlation was higher than 56% in the natural state. Therefore, it was concluded that it is possible to re-evaluate agricultural droughts through long-term groundwater level change analyses.

Physico-chemical properties between organic and conventional kiwifruit orchards in Korea

  • Cho, Y.;Kim, B.;Cho, H.;Jeong, B.
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.19 no.spc
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    • pp.242-246
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    • 2011
  • Organic kiwifruit orchard soils were compared with conventional ones in Korea. Soil structure of organic soil had higher gaseous and liquous phase as well as soil porosity in the surface soil. Although the nutritional level of each orchards were quite different among soils, the analysis of both system revealed that organic kiwifruit orchard soil had similar or even higher nutrient level (N and organic matter content in surface soil) compared to conventional ones. The organic matter content of deep soil also had the high tendency in deep soil of organic soil. Higher level of nitrogen in organic surface soil is presumably due to the excessive application of organic compost and liquid fertilizer rather than the contribution by grasses such as green manure. Available phosphorous level of organic system was quite high but similar in surface soil of both system, compared to the recommended level. Potassium, calcium and magnesium levels were also enough in organic kiwifruit orchard soils.

A Formal Guidance for Handling Different Uncertainty Sources Employed in the Level 2 PSA

  • Ahn Kwang-Il;Yang Joon-Eon;Ha Jae-Joo
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.83-103
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    • 2004
  • The methodological framework of the Level 2 PSA appears to be currently standardized in a formalized fashion, but there have been different opinions on the way the sources of uncertainty are characterized and treated. This is primarily because the Level 2 PSA deals with complex phenomenological processes that are deterministic in nature rather than random processes, and there are no probabilistic models characterizing them clearly. As a result, the probabilistic quantification of the Level 2 PSA CET / APET is often subjected to two sources of uncertainty: (a) incomplete modeling of accident pathways or different predictions for the behavior of phenomenological events and (b) expert-to-expert variation in estimating the occurrence probability of phenomenological events. While a clear definition of the two sources of uncertainty involved in the Level 2 PSA makes it possible to treat an uncertainty in a consistent manner, careless application of these different sources of uncertainty may produce different conclusions in the decision-making process. The primary purpose of this paper is to characterize typical sources of uncertainty that would often be addressed in the Level 2 PSA and to provide a formal guidance for quantifying their impacts on the PSA Level 2 risk results. An additional purpose of this paper is to give a formal approach on how to combine random uncertainties addressed in the Level 1 PSA with subjectivistic uncertainties addressed in the Level 2 PSA.

Definition and Generation of Level 0 Product for KOMPSAT-2

  • Shin, Ji-Hyeon;Kim, Moon-Gyu;Park, Sung-Og
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.810-814
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    • 2002
  • According to the image level definition for KOMPSAT-2 in KOMPSAT-2 Ground Station Specification, the level 0 is frame formatted, unprocessed data at full resolution; any and all communications artifacts (e.g., synchronization frames, communications headers) removed. The level 0 is used for two purposes: 1) exchange of imagery between image receiving & processing element (IRPE), and 2) image transfer from the Receiving & Archiving Subsystem to Search & Processing Subsystem. On-board processing of imagery data of KOMPSAT-2 includes JPEG-like compression and encryption besides conventional CCSDS packetization. The encryption is used to secure imagery data from any intervention during downlink and compression allows real-time downlink of image data reducing data rate produced from the camera. While developing ground receiving system for KOMPSAT-2, it was necessarily to define level 0 products. In this paper, we will suggest level 0 product definition for KOMPSAT-2 and explain reasons of the decisions made. The key factor used while defining the level 0 products is the efficiency of whole ground receiving system. The latter half of the paper will explain the implementation of software that generates level 0 products. The necessary steps to produce level 0 products will be explained, and the performance achieved will be presented.

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A Study on the Determinants of Organizational Level for the Advancement of Smart Factory (스마트공장 고도화 수준의 조직수준 결정요인에 대한 연구)

  • Chi-Ho Ok
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.281-294
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    • 2023
  • Purpose - The purpose of this study is to explore the determinants of the organizational level for the advancement of smart factory. We suggested three determinants of the organizational level such as CEO's entrepreneurship, high-involvement human resource management, and cooperative industrial relations. Design/methodology/approach - The population of our survey was manufacturing SMEs, and we took a sample and conducted a survey of 232 companies. Since the level of smart factory advancement, which is a dependent variable, was measured on an ordinal scale, ordinal logistic regression analysis was used to test the hypothesis. Findings - The higher the level of high-involvement human resource management, the higher the level of smart factory advancement. As the level of high-involvement human resource management increases by one unit, the probability of smart factory advancement increases by 22.8%. On the other hand, the CEO's entrepreneurship did not significantly affect the level of smart factory advancement. Interestingly, the cooperative industrial relations negatively affected to the level of smart factory advancement, contrary to the hypothesis prediction. Research implications or Originality - This study explored determinants at the organizational level that affect the advancement of smart factories. Through this, various implications are presented for related research and policy fields.

A Study on Environmental Evaluation for Land Utilization and Conservation Using GIS and Gravity Model (GIS와 중력모형을 이용한 국토의 환경적 가치기준 평가모델 연구)

  • Lee, Dong-Kun;Kim, Jae-Uk
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.78-85
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    • 2004
  • The non-planned development of the rural area surrounding the Metropolitan area has become a social problem. The land development program until now has an aspect of not combining the spacial plan and the environmental plan. The land use and city development system based on development should change into a form that combines developing the area and conserving the environment. Therefore, this research attempts to compare the results of the overlay analysis and the gravity matrix which are ways to evaluate the value land that has a high environmental conservation value. The research area is the town of Seonggeo-eup, Cheonan City, and the reason for selecting this area is because it is expected to be densely populated as a connected area to the Metropolitan and the development pressure, such as expanding the industrial area, is high due to convenient transportation. The environmental factors used in the research are the relative altitude, incline, age-class, natural degree of the ecology, classification of the land covering and the NDVI, and the research methods used are the overlay analysis of the GIS and the statistical method. The overlay analysis results showed level 1 13.2%, level 2 30.7%, level 3 47.4%, level 4 1.0%, level 5 2.4%, level 6 5.4% and so on. The gravity matrix was classified as level 1 27.0%, level 2 9.3%, level 3 58.2%, level 4 2.4%, level 5 2.3%, level 6 0.9% and so on. These results are more appropriate than current methods for plans that value the environment because the analyzed results of the gravity matrix have a tendency to highly condense the environmentally valuable area. Consequently, if the spacial and environmental plans combine and therefore expand the efficient use of the land in the current state where the nation's concern in environment is getting higher, it is thought that it will contribute highly on the development of the nation's life quality.