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Development of Integrated System of Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing(TDABC) Using Balanced Scorecard(BSC) and Economic Value Added(EVA) (BSC와 EVA를 이용한 TDABC 통합시스템의 개발)

  • Choi, Sungwoon
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.451-469
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study is to implement and develop the integrated Economic Value Added (EVA) and Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) model to seek both improvement of Net Operating Profit Less Adjusted Tax (NOPLAT) and reduction of Capital Charge (CC). Net Operating Profit Less Adjusted Tax (NOPLAT) can be maximized by reducing the indirect cost of an unused resource capacity increased by Cost Capacity Ratio (CCR) of TDABC. On the other hand, Capital Charge (CC) can be minimized by improving the efficiency of Invested Capital (IC) considered by Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) of EVA. In addition, the integrated system of TDABC using Balance Scorecard (BSC) and EVA is developed by linking between the lagging indicators and the three leading indicators. The three leading indicators include customer, internal process and growth and learning perspectives whereas the lagging indicator includes NOPLAT and CC in terms of financial perspective. When the Critical Success Factor (CSF) of BSC is cascading as a cause and an effect relationship, time driver of TDABC and capital driver of EVA can be used efficiently as Key Performance Indicator (KPI) of BSC. For a better understanding of the proposed EVA/TDABC model and BSC/EVA/TDABC model, numerical examples are derived from this paper. From the proposed model, the time driver of TDABC and the capital driver of EVA are known to lessen indirect cost from comprehensive income statement when increasing the efficiency of operating IC from the statement of financial position with unified KPI cascading of aligned BSC CSFs.

The Study on matrix based high performance pattern matching by independence partial match (독립 부분 매칭에 의한 행렬 기반 고성능 패턴 매칭 방법에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Woo-Sug;Kwon, Taeck-Geun
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.34 no.9B
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    • pp.914-922
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, we propose a matrix based real-time pattern matching method, called MDPI, for real-time intrusion detection on several Gbps network traffic. Particularly, in order to minimize a kind of overhead caused by buffering, reordering, and reassembling under the circumstance where the incoming packet sequence is disrupted, MDPI adopts independent partial matching in the case dealing with pattern matching matrix. Consequently, we achieved the performance improvement of the amount of 61% and 50% with respect to TCAM method efficiency through several experiments where the average length of the Snort rule set was maintained as 9 bytes, and w=4 bytes and w=8bytes were assigned, respectively, Moreover, we observed the pattern scan speed of MDPI was 10.941Gbps and the consumption of hardware resource was 5.79LC/Char in the pattern classification of MDPI. This means that MDPI provides the optimal performance compared to hardware complexity. Therefore, by decreasing the hardware cost came from the increased TCAM memory efficiency, MDPI is proven the cost effective high performance intrusion detection technique.

Analysis of Efficiency of Major Information and Communication Infrastructure Analysis and Evaluation Methods Using DEA Model (DEA 모형을 이용한 주요정보통신기반시설 취약점 분석·평가의 효율성 분석)

  • Sun, Jong-wook;Lee, Kyung-ho
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.853-862
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    • 2021
  • Today, disturbance and paralysis of information and communication infrastructure by electronic infringement of national infrastructure is emerging as a threat. Accordingly, the government regularly implements the vulnerability analysis and evaluation system of major information and communication infrastructure to protect the information system and control system of major infrastructure, and invests increased human and material resources every year to efficiently operate it. However, despite the government's efforts, as infringement accidents and attempts targeting national infrastructure continue to occur, the government's resource input to prepare the information protection foundation has little effect on the information protection activity result calculation, making the evaluation system not efficient. The question arises that it is not. Therefore, in this study, we use the DEA model to review the efficient operation of the vulnerability analysis and evaluation system for major information and communications infrastructure, and suggest improvement measures to enhance the level of information protection based on the analyzed results.

A Study on the Effect of Carbon Tax using Second Generation Model for Korea (SGM_Korea 모형을 이용한 탄소세의 이산화탄소 배출저감 효과 분석)

  • Chung, Hyun-Sik;Lee, Sung-Wook
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.129-169
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study is to experiment and simulate the newly-updated Second Generation Model for Korea (SGM-Korea). With the updated model, we tried to simulate effect of carbon tax on $CO_2$ emissions and other macroeconomic variables for Korea. The baseline data are compared with projected profiles by various scenarios to evaluate its performance. Our contribution in this study is to having up-graded the model from its earlier version by building new hybrid input-output table based on 2000 input-output and energy balanced tables. According to our estimation, total $CO_2$ emission in Korea has already increased in 2000 to about 1.86 times the 1990 figure. The level of carbon tax required for the current level of $CO_2$ emission to be reduced to the 1995 or 2000 level seems to be too high for Korean economy to bear. It is possible to find a reasonable level of carbon tax, however, if it can combine it with improvement of energy efficiency at the rate of 0.5% to 1% per year. For Korea to meet its obligation to reduce $CO_2$ emissions, therefore, it is imperative for her to improve energy efficiency as well as to develop alternative energy source reducing its dependence on fossil fuel.

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Designing the Promotion Policy of Korea ESCO Industry through the Examination of Foreign Country Exercises (해외사례 조사를 통한 국내 ESCO 산업 활성화 방안)

  • Min, Eunju;Kim, Myeongrok;Nam, Kitae;Kang, Mingoo;Kim, Suduk
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.103-121
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    • 2017
  • The domestic ESCO project was introduced in 1992 as one of the energy efficiency improvement programs. In recent energy market, the changes in the market conditions such as smart grid, renewable energy, and the importance of demand response became important issues. As the diversified business models are required, examples of overseas exercises are examined. Business areas in Europe or the US where the ESCO industry has been active include measures to improve the efficiency of energy facilities in all areas, ranging from energy supply facilities and energy services to end users. This type of ESCO overseas business model can be classified into various types such as project execution method, supplier demand management, financing method, climate change and emission rights, new and renewable energy, and other criteria. In this study, we propose to adopt IEC (Integrated Energy Contracting) contract method in domestic ESCO market for additional business models. Current convention of listing the specific individual business types being allowed by regulation turned out to be obstacles to the revitalization of the related market. In order to achieve the goal of energy conservation, it is recommended, instead, to revise the current funding guidelines to be a negative system.

An Analysis on the Effects of Demand Response in Electricity Markets (수요반응자원의 전력시장 도입효과 분석)

  • Yoo, Young-Gon;Song, Byung-Gun;Kang, Seung-Jin
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.99-127
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    • 2007
  • When the margin between available capacity and demand is thin in a liberalized electricity market, prices rise steeply and system reliability is threatened. The principal response to these circumstances is often an assumption that price spikes and electricity shortages are the result of a failure to build sufficient new supplying facilities. It is, of course, often the case that additional investments in generation and network facilities would improve reliability, and such investments are often needed. But focusing on additional generation and transmission facilities for restoring balance to the grid overlooks the essential fact that reliability is a function of the relationship between supply and demand, imposing unnecessary costs on electric system. When the relationship is out of balance, the search for solutions must consider not only investments supply-side resources but also cost-effective demand-side resources such as accelerated load management, efficiency measures, and price-responsive load programs. Integrating demand resources into electricity markets can add enormous value to the electric system, widening the capacity margin, lowering costs and enhancing system reliability at the same time. This paper studies several challenges now facing electricity markets: demand-side management-especially, economic effects of demand response, potential reliability problems, market and system operation, CBP market improvements and so on. The paper concludes with a series of policy recommendations in five areas: (i) The Effects of efficient improvement to incorporate demand responses and demand-side resources into modem electricity markets, (ii) Fosteing price based demand response and (iii) improving incentive based demand response, (iv) strengthen demand response analysis and valuation, (v) integrating demand response into resource planning and adopting enabling technologies.

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Trends in the change of household labor in the middle-aged (중년세대의 가사노동 변화 트렌드)

  • Lee, Hyun Ah
    • Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.47-61
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the trend of changes in household labor among middle-aged generations who are facing dynamic changes in the middle of their life cycle. The research method is a literature study that examines and analyzes related data. Specifically, it aims to analyze the basic characteristics of middle-aged generations and trends in household labor, which are revealed through Time Use Survey, market trend reports, newspaper articles, and books. From the perspective of family resource management, housework is an unpaid activity performed by and for family members, and is an activity that can be replaced by purchasing goods or services from the market. This study focuses on the rapid growth of the home appliance market that replaces housework with the development of technology after industrialization, and how the change of technology affected the efficiency of housework. In addition, the composition and characteristics of middle-aged generations greatly changed according to changes in family structure, form, and family value. Examining the current state of housework and changing trends of middle-aged generations, which have different characteristics from previous generations, is significant in that it can predict future market trends and suggest implications for family policies that support the improvement of the quality of life of middle-aged generations.

The effects of synbiotics-glyconutrients on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, gas emission, meat quality, and fatty acid profile of finishing pigs

  • Olivier Munezero;Sungbo Cho;In Ho Kim
    • Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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    • v.66 no.2
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    • pp.310-325
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    • 2024
  • Glyconutrients help in the body's cell communication. Glyconutrients and synbiotics are promising options for improving immune function. Therefore, we hypothesized that combining synbiotics and glyconutrients will enhance pig nutrient utilization. 150 pigs (Landrace × Yorkshire × Duroc), initially weighing 58.85 ± 3.30 kg of live body weight (BW) were utilized to determine the effects of synbiotics-glyconutrients (SGN) on the pigs' performance, feed efficiency, gas emission, pork traits, and composition of fatty acids. The pigs were matched by BW and sex and chosen at random to 1 of 3 diet treatments: control = Basal diet; TRT1 = Basal diet + SGN 0.15%; TRT2 = Basal diet + SGN 0.30%%. The trials were conducted in two phases (weeks 1-5 and weeks 5-10). The average daily gain was increased in pigs fed a basal diet with SGN (p = 0.036) in weeks 5-10. However, the apparent total tract digestibility of dry matter, nitrogen, and gross energy did not differ among the treatments (p > 0.05). Dietary treatments had no effect on NH3, H2S, methyl mercaptans, acetic acids, and CO2 emissions (p > 0.05). Improvement in drip loss on day 7 (p = 0.053) and tendency in the cooking loss were observed (p = 0.070) in a group fed basal diets and SGN at 0.30% inclusion level. The group supplemented with 0.30% of SGN had higher levels of palmitoleic acid (C16:1), margaric acid (C17:0), omega-3 fatty acid, omega-6 fatty acid, and ω-6: ω-3 ratio (p = 0.034, 0.020, 0.025, 0.007, and 0.003, respectively) in the fat of finishing pigs. Furthermore, group supplemented with 0.30% of SGN improved margaric acid (C17:0), linoleic acid (C18:2n6c), arachidic acid (C20:0), omega 6 fatty acid, omega-6 to omega-3 ratio, unsaturated fatty acid, and monounsaturated fatty acid (p = 0.037, 0.05, 0.0142, 0.036, 0.033, 0.020, and 0.045, respectively) in the lean tissues of finishing pigs compared to pigs fed with the control diets. In conclusion, the combination of probiotics, prebiotics, and glyconutrients led to higher average daily gain, improved the quality of pork, and more favorable fatty acid composition. Therefore, these results contributed to a better understanding of the potential of SGN combinations as a feed additive for pigs.

Effect of Wet Milling on Scum Generation and Solubilization in Batch Ozone Reaction Using Digested Sludge (소화슬러지를 이용한 회분식 오존반응 시 습식분쇄가 스컴 생성과 가용화에 미치는 영향)

  • Hong, Seong-Min;Lee, Dong-Hoon;Kim, Choong-Gon;Shin, Hyun-Gon
    • Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.13-18
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    • 2019
  • Sewage sludge treatment is increasing every year due to improvement of living and urbanization. However, interest in anaerobic digestion which is one of the recycling technology. There is anaerobic digestion of increasing due to limitations of ocean dumping and final disposal. But, the limit of anaerobic digestion efficiency due to the advanced treatment of sewage has been limited, and studies for solubilization technology have been actively conducted. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to investigate the variation of generation of scum and the solubilization efficiency in the application of pre-treatment of ozone reaction and the change of properties of digested sludge with wet milling. There are results of VS/TS increased by 4.4% and $SCOD_{cr}/TCOD_{cr}$ increased by 9.4% by wet milling alone. In addition, the increase of the specific surface area due to which the reduction of the particle size of the solid content of the sludge in the ozone reaction caused by wet milling decreased the generation rate of scum at 14.3% and increased VS/TS at 2.1%, compared with the ozone reaction alone. From these results, it is expected that the application of wet milling can be increased the contact efficiency with solids in the sludge during ozone reaction with suppress scum and increase the efficiency of the subsequent process in anaerobic digestion.

Development of Heating Technology for Greenhouse by Use of Ground Filtration Water Source Heat Pump (여과수열원 히트펌프를 이용한 온실난방기술 개발)

  • Moon, J.P.;Lee, S.H.;Kang, Y.K.;Lee, S.J.;Kim, K.W.
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.172.2-172.2
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    • 2010
  • This study was carried out in order to reduce the installation expense of heating system for greenhouse comparing to geothermal heat pump and develope the coefficient of performance (COP) for a heat pump. For getting plenty of heat flux from geothermal energy. Surface water in river channel was used for getting a lots of geothermal heat by penetrating water through underground soil layer of the river bank that make heat transmission to passing water. The range of water temperature after the process of Ground filtration is 13~18 degrees celsius which is very similar to low heat source of geothermal heat pump system and the plenty amount of heat source from that make the number of geothermal heat exchanging hole and the expense for geothermal heat exchanger construction reduced. Drainage well is also used for returning filtration water to the aquifer that keep the water good recirculation from losing geothermal heat and water resource. For the COP improvement of Heat pump, thermal storage tank with separating insulation plate according to the temperature difference make the COP of Heat pump that is similar to thermal storage tank with diffuser. Developed thermal storage tank make construction expense cheaper than customarily used one's. and that sand filter and oxidation sand (FELOX) are going to be used for improving ground filtration water quality that make heat exchanger efficiency better. All above developed component skill are going to be set on the Ground filtration water source heat pump system and applied for medium, large scale for protected greenhouse in riverside area and on-site experiment is going to do for optimizing the heating system function and overcome the problem happening in the process of on-site application afterward.

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