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An Analysis of the Efficiency of the Global Logistics Industry with Data Envelopment Analysis and a Tobit Model (세계 물류산업의 효율성에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Woo-Ram;Kwon, Oh-Kyoung;Tongzon, Jose
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.41-49
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    • 2008
  • According to the demand for services. a single point contract between a user and provider spreads over the industry, and the relationship between them is a main issue. The user wants to make a deal with the contributor which can provide the effective services to the user. This study is to estimate the efficiency of global logistics industry with Data Envelopment Analysis, by nations from 2001 to 2005. Furthermore, it tries to estimate the inefficiency affected by macro factors, and proves the association between them using Tobit model. Global logistics industry has made growth both externally and internally more than doubled for the last 5years. Technical inefficiency of global logistics industry is more influenced by pure technical inefficiency than inefficiency of scale. Therefore technical efficiency can be increased by decreasing pure technical inefficiency. Through this study, it found that the logistics industry got influenced to its efficiency by high price of oil, and courier and transportation service market is formed stably. Furthermore, it advocates policy planners to consider effectiveness and clearness of policy which influence to inefficiency of logistics industry. Also, it found that labor and financial support can give critical effect.

The Changes in Drying Efficiency and Paper Properties of Linerboard by the Application of the Fractions of Wood Powder as a Bulking Agent (목질 벌크향상제 분획별 적용에 따른 라이너지의 건조효율 및 물성변화)

  • Kim, Dong-Seop;Yoon, Do-Hyun;Sung, Yong Joo
    • Journal of Korea Technical Association of The Pulp and Paper Industry
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    • v.46 no.5
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    • pp.61-68
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    • 2014
  • The energy efficiency of papermaking process becomes more significant because of various new regulation of the energy consumption and the green house gas emission. In this study, the effects of wood powder addition on the drainage and the drying efficiency of the OCC based paper products, linerboard, were deeply investigated for improving energy efficiency. The fractionation of wood powder depending on the size were conducted. The bigger size of wood powder resulted in the higher bulk and the higher drainage efficiency, but the lower paper strength. The drying efficiency were in detail evaluated depending on the drying process level. In the first section of drying process until the 80% solid level, there were no significant changes in the drying efficiency by the addition of wood powder. However, after the 80 % solid level, the drying efficiency was greatly improved by the addition of wood powder. Those results showed the addition of wood powder could greatly affect not only the drainage in forming and wet pressing but also the drying process.

Using DEA Method to Measure and Evaluate Tourism Efficiency of Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan Provinces in the South of China - A case of the Beibu Gulf Urban Agglomeration-

  • Wang, Xiao-Chuan;Kim, Hyung-Ho
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.24-37
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    • 2021
  • China's "One Belt and One Road" initiative has brought multiple opportunities to the development of tourism in Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan provinces and the implementation of the Beibu Gulf Urban Agglomeration Development Plan hasset clear goalsforfurther accelerating the coordinated development, in-depth cooperation of the three. This study takes the Beibu Gulf Urban Agglomeration as the research object and utilized the data envelopment analysis (DEA) procedure to estimate the technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency, and scale efficiency scores for each city and Malmquist index was subsequently used to analyze dynamically, then tries to offer an adequate inclusion of sustainable factors in overall tourism development efficiency results through the detection and estimation of potential sources of efficiency. In order to complete the task, data collection was focused on Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan provinces of China over the period from 2016 to 2018. The results in the first phase show relatively high efficiency scores, particularly in the case of the Beibu Gulf Urban Agglomeration and with room for improvement in the case of other cities of Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan provinces. The second stage results present several aspects that should be carefully considered in order to analysis tourism efficiency of the Beibu Gulf Urban Agglomerations vertically according to the changes of the frontier.

Arsenic removal from drinking water by direct contact membrane distillation

  • Zoungrana, Ali;Zengin, Ismail H.;Elcik, Harun;Yesilirmak, Dilara;Karadag, Dogan;Cakmakci, Mehmet
    • Membrane and Water Treatment
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.241-255
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    • 2016
  • In this study, the treatability of arsenic (As) contaminated water by direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) at different delta temperatures (${\Delta}T$) 30, 40 and $50^{\circ}C$ has been investigated. Two different pore sizes ($0.22{\mu}m$ and $0.45{\mu}m$) of hydrophobic membranes made of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) were used. The membrane pore sizes, the operating temperatures, the feed solution As concentration and conductivity have been varied during the experimental tests to follow the removal efficiency and flux behavior. Both membranes tested had high removal efficiency of arsenite (As (III)) and arsenate (As (V)) and all permeates presented As concentration far lower than recommended $10{\mu}g/L$ of world health organization (WHO). As concentration was below detection limit in many permeates. Conductivity reduction efficiency was over 99% and the transmembrane flux (TMF) reached $19L/m^2.h$ at delta temperature (${\Delta}T$) of $50^{\circ}C$ with PVDF $0.45{\mu}m$ membrane. The experimental results also indicated that $0.45{\mu}m$ pore sizes PVDF membranes presented higher flux than $0.22{\mu}m$ pore sizes membranes. Regardless of all operating conditions, highest fluxes were observed at highest ${\Delta}T$ ($50^{\circ}C$).

A Study on the Efficiency of Container Ports in the Mediterranean Sea (지중해 컨테이너항만의 효율성 분석에 관한 연구)

  • Ibrahim, Ousama Ibrahim Hassan;Kim, Hyun Deok
    • Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.91-105
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    • 2021
  • The current increasing size of container vessels affects the container port's situation. The containerization has changed the inter-modal handling process, which brought more flexibility and comfortableness in the shipping industry sector. Thus, it is very crucial to analyze the efficiency of container ports in the regional sphere. Such kind of efficiency analysis provide a powerful management tool for port operators and shipping managers in the Mediterranean market, and it also helps to form an information for planning new regional and national port operations. This paper aims to analyze the ports' technical efficiency of Mediterranean major container ports. It is conducted to establish the model of port performance and efficiency through the empirical test of the various factors. Regarding to the panel data collected from the 48 DMUs (decision making units), this study attempts to provide the empirical basis of the port efficiency relative to another factors in the total port performance. Due to the complexity of the various activities carried out at container ports, the study focuses only on the technical efficiency at the level of the Mediterranean container port. Unlike the practice of cross-sectional data analysis, originally established by Charnes et al. (1985), the panel data in DEA window analysis applications are used. The main focus of this study is the relative technical efficiency of 12 container ports from 7 countries in the Mediterranean market. The selection of ports under study is based on their high handling capability and rankings in World Top 100 (Containerization International, 2018).

Strategy of Increasing the Efficiency of Job Experience Training on Junior College (전문대학의 현장실습교육 효율제고 방안연구 - 지역과 계열별 중심으로 -)

  • Oh, Sung-Keun;Lee, Song-Hee
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2003.07e
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    • pp.3-9
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    • 2003
  • The importance of Job Experience Training (JET) is increasing more and more recently to supply the specialized man powers to the industry. In this paper, the recent situation of JET in junior college was analyzed and the strategy for raising the efficiency of JET was presented according to the province and department. And some suggestions for student, college, industry and government are also presented to make more efficient JET.

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Efficiency of Design Changes by Comparing the Availability of Excel and the Cost-of-construction Program (엑셀과 적산프로그램의 가용성 비교를 통한 설계변경 업무의 효율성 방안)

  • Ryu, BoHyeun;Jeon, SangHoon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2021.05a
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    • pp.325-326
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    • 2021
  • Design changes are inevitable areas of work for construction engineers as they occur frequently in the construction site, and are becoming a technical measure of the technical person to the design change. In this study, the purpose is to analyze by comparing the availability of excel and the enscised program during design changes through the case, and to present the efficiency of the the Cost-of-construction Program.

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