• Animal Bioscience
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• 제37권4_spc호
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• pp.755-774
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• 2024

The main objective of this study was to present data on the current situation and future trends of pig meat production in the European Union-27 (EU). Pig production has played an important social and economic role for centuries in many states of the EU. In 2022, pig meat production in the EU reached 23 M tons, which represented 21% of total production worldwide. The two key reasons that justify such amount of pork produced, are the acceptance and high consumption of the meat by the local population and the high quality of the meat produced which facilitated pork export. However, current data show a reduction in pork production for the last three years, as a consequence of a series of events that include i) problems with the chain of ingredients supply, ii) uncontrolled increase in African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreaks, iii) fast recovery of pig production in China, iv) increasing concerns by the rural population on the high cost to meet future requirements of the EU legislation on farm management, environmental sustainability and animal welfare, v) increased cost of all inputs involved in pig production and vi) limited interest of the new farmer generation to work on the pig sector. Consequently, pork production is expected to decrease in the EU for the next years, although sales will be maintained at a relative high level because pork is the meat preferred by local consumers in most EU countries. In order to maintain the favourable position of the pork industry in the near future, strategies to implement include: i) maintain the quality of the meat destinated to export markets, ii) improve the control of outbreaks of ASF and other swine diseases, iii) implementation of technological innovations to improve working conditions making more attractive to work in the pork sector of the food chain to the new generation of farmers and workers.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.161-166
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• 2007

태양광발전이란 태양에너지를 직접 전기 에너지로 변환시키는 것이다. 지난 5년 동안 태양광발전은 세계적으로 높은 성장률을 보여 왔다. 특히 2006년에는 30%, 이상의 성장을 가져왔으며 앞으로 20년 동안 평균 생산 성장률은 매년 27%-34%가 될 것으로 예상하고 있다. 현재까지는 태양광발전을 이용해 생산된 전력의 가격은 기존 전력발전의 가격보다 높지만 태양광 기술의 발전과 효율의 향상으로 점점 그 가격이 떨어지고 있다. 뿐만 아니라 태양전지용의 실리콘 기판의 대량생산은 점점 더 태양전지의 가격 저하를 가져오고 있다. 태양전지의 변화효율의 한계는 30%이다. 현재에는 결정질 실리콘 태양전지가 주를 이루고 있지만 미래에는 박막 실리콘 태양전지가 주도를 이룰 것이다. 2030년에는 박막 태양전지가 90%이상을 이루고 결정질 태양전지는 10% 이하로 떨어질 것을 예상하고 있다. 성균관대학교에서는 결정질 실리콘 태양전지의 저가화와 고효율화를 주 연구로 수행하고 있다. 현재 성균관대학교에서는 스크린 프린트를 이용해서 16% 이상의 다결정 실리콘 태양전지와 17% 이상의 단결정 실리콘 태양전지를 성공적으로 제작하였다. 제 1세대에서 다음 세대의 태양전지 발전의 과정은 새로운 접근법으로 확대되지만 여전히 실리콘이 지금까지 주된 재료로 쓰이고 있다. 2010년까지 이러한 기술들에 대한 격차는 여전히 있지만 태양광발전을 통한 전력생산의 가격은 60 cent/watt 정도로 예상하고 있다. 태양광발전은 청정에너지로서 재생불가능 하고 고갈되어가고 환경오염을 일으키는 다른 에너지와 비교하여 점점 대체에너지로서의 자리를 확립해 가고 있다.

• 한국전자거래학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.95-115
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• 2012

혁신제품의 하나인 전자책(e-Book)은 기존도서와 기술적 특성을 결합한 혁신적인 컨버전스 제품으로 매우 빠른 성장이 기대되고 있다. 그러나 향후 전자책의 지속 성장을 위해서는 사용자 저항감을 최대한 감소시키는 것이 매우 중요한 요소가 된다. 사용자 저항은 신기술에 대한 사용자들의 지속적 성장의 장애요소로서 제시되어 왔으며 다양한 제품과 관련된 사용자 저항 연구들이 제시되어 왔다. 그러나 전자책과 관련된 사용자 저항 형성 과정과 선행 요인에 대한 연구는 많지 않다. 본연구의 목적은 전자책에 대한 사용자 저항감을 혁신기술 특성과 사용자 특성의 관점으로 구분하여 사용자 저항감에 미치는 요인들을 확인하고 사용자 저항감의 형성과정을 확인하는 것이다. 본 연구에서는, 혁신특성에 대한 요인으로 시용성, 불확실성, 복잡성, 적합성을 도출하였으며 사용자 특성으로 사회적 규범과 자기효능감을 활용하였다. 연구 결과, 시용성, 불확실성, 복잡성은 각각 지각된 가치와 전환비용에 영향을 미치는 변수로 제시되었으며 사회적 규범, 지각적 가치, 자기효능감의 관계를 확인하였다. 또한 자기효능감, 지각된 가치는 사용자 저항의 감소에 영향을 주었다.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제12권8호
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• pp.123-132
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• 2014

Purpose - Recently, Korean companies have been struggling to perform well in the larger smartphone market in China, which is regarded as a blue ocean area. First, it is very important to accurately understand the Chinese consumers, who have a different consumption culture and value system from the Korean culture and system. This would help to identify priorities for the Chinese market. Further, considering the smartphone industry, where technological change is rapid, Korean companies will need to take prompt measures about market trends in order to establish strong competitiveness. Consequently, this study focused on analyzing the relationship between the variables of consumption value, satisfaction, and loyalty in the Chinese smartphone market. The principal dimensions of consumption value, which smartphones have, was analyzed, and the influence on satisfaction was identified. Moreover, the relationship among the variables of satisfaction, attitudinal loyalty, and behavioral loyalty was empirically analyzed. Research design, data, and methodology - This study examined the relationships between various consumption values (functional value, emotional value, social value, epistemic value, and economic value), along with satisfaction and loyalty. The data were collected through a questionnaire survey that was circulated to 310 customers who were users of smartphones in Chingdao and Yeontae regions in China. The survey was conducted from June 23 to August 4, 2013. A total of 301 responses to the questionnaires were collected and used for the data analysis. Moreover, a path analysis based on Lisrel 8.54 was used for the hypothesis test. Results - The variables of functional value, emotional value, social value, and epistemic value were revealed to have positive effects on satisfaction related to smartphone usage. However, the variables of monetary cost and psychological cost were not found to have negative effects on satisfaction related to smartphone usage. Moreover, satisfaction positively influenced attitudinal loyalty related to smartphone usage, but did not have a significant influence on behavioral loyalty related to smartphone usage. Specifically, satisfaction is essential, but not a sufficient condition for building behavioral loyalty in relation to smartphone usage. In addition, attitudinal loyalty positively influenced behavioral loyalty in relation to smartphone usage. Conclusions - First, this study shows that functional value, emotional value, social value, and epistemic value in relation to smartphone usage are important for marketing in the Chinese smartphone market. Particularly, functional value and emotional value play pre-eminent roles as regards customer loyalty in the use of smartphones. Second, the results of this study reveal that the variables of monetary cost and psychological cost are not important to the Chinese consumers. Specifically, the smartphone price and cognitive effort are not perceived as value barriers. Third, satisfaction did not guarantee behavioral loyalty in relation to smartphone usage, and the strategic approach for improving the repurchase and referral action in relation to smartphones based on solid attitudinal loyalty would be desirable and should be the focus of the marketing activities of Korean smartphone companies.

• 사물인터넷융복합논문지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.83-92
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• 2023

본 연구 목적은 기업의 지식재산활동을 통한 경영성과를 제고할 수 있는 합리적인 경영전략을 제공하는 것이다. 이러한 연구를 통하여 변화하는 글로벌 환경에서 경쟁력을 강화할 수 있는 대응 방안을 모색하고자 한다. 2023년 9월 1일부터 10월 30일까지 200개 기업을 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하였다. 통계분석은 빈도분석, 탐색적 요인 분석, 신뢰도 분석, 상관관계분석, 다중회귀분석, 차이분석을 실시하였다. 결론은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 지식재산활동에서 경영성과에 미치는 영향은 창출활동과 활용활동으로 나타났다. 둘째, 경영전략에서 경영성과에 미치는 영향은 차별화 전략, 원가우위 전략, 집중화 전략으로 나타났다. 셋째, 원가우위 전략은 지식재산활동의 창출활동과 경영성과의 관계에서 부분매개효과가 확인되었다. 넷째, 차별화 전략은 지식재산활동의 창출활동과 경영성과의 관계에서 부분매개효과가 확인되었다. 또한 차별화 전략은 지식재산활동의 활용활동과 성과의 영향관계에서 완전매개효과가 확인되었다. 다섯째, 집중화 전략은 지식재산활동의 활용활동과 경영성과의 관계에서 부분매개효과가 확인되었다. 여섯째, 벤처인증 여부에 따른 창출활동, 보호활동, 활용활동, 원가우위 전략, 차별화 전략, 재무성과, 비재무성과는 차이가 나타났다. 기술패권 시대에 지식재산의 중요성은 높아지고 있기 때문에 사물인터넷 기업의 미래 경쟁력 확보를 위해서는 기업의 벤처 인증과 지식재산을 활용한 전략으로 경영성과를 상승시켜야 할 것이다. 이러한 연구를 기반으로 사물인터넷 기업이 지식재산활동을 고려한 효율적인 전략 추진으로 성과가 극대화되길 기대한다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.125-150
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• 2009

RFID(Radio Frequency IDentification) is a wireless frequency of recognition technology that can be used to recognize, trace, and identify people, things, and animals using radio frequency(RF). RFID will bring about many changes in manufacturing and distributions, among other areas. In accordance with the increasing importance of RFID techniques, great advancement has been made in RFID studies. Initially, the RFID research started as a research literature or case study. Recently, empirical research has floated on the surface for announcement. But most of the existing researches on RFID adoption have been restricted to a dichotomous measure of 'adoption vs. non-adoption' or adoption intention. In short, RFID research is still at an initial stage, mainly focusing on the research of the RFID performance, integration, and its usage has been considered dismissive. The purpose of this study is to investigate which factors are important for the RFID adoption and implementation with organizational resources. In this study, the organizational resources are classified into either finance resources or IT knowledge resources. A research model and four hypotheses are set up to identify the relationships among these variables based on the investigations of such theories as technological innovations, adoption stage, and organizational resources. In order to conduct this study, a survey was carried out from September 27, 2008 until October 23, 2008. The questionnaire was completed by 143 managers and workers from physical distribution and manufacturing companies related to the RFID in South Korea. 37 out of 180 surveys, which turned out unfit for the study, were discarded and the remaining 143(adoption stage 89, implementation stage 54) were used for the empirical study. The statistics were analyzed using Excel 2003 and SPSS 12.0. The results of the analysis are as follows. First, the adoption stage shows that perceived benefits, standardization, perceived cost savings, environmental uncertainty, and pressures from rival firms have significant effects on the intent of the RFID adoption. Further, the implementation stage shows that perceived benefits, standardization, environmental uncertainty, pressures from rival firms, inter-organizational cooperation, and inter-organizational trust have significant effects on the extent of the RFID use. In contrast, inter-organizational cooperation and inter-organizational trust did not show much impact on the intent of RFID adoption while perceived cost savings did not significantly affect the extent of RFID use. Second, in the adoption stage, financial issues had adverse effect on both inter-organizational cooperation and the intent against the RFID adoption. IT knowledge resources also had a deterring effect on both perceived cost savings and the extent of the RFID adoption. Third, in the implementation stage, finance resources had a moderate effect on environmental uncertainty and extent of RFID use while IT knowledge resources had also a moderate effect on perceived cost savings and the extent of the RFID use. Limitations and future research issues can be summarized as follows. First, it is difficult to say that the sample is large enough to be representative of the population. Second, because the sample of this study was conducted among manufacturers only, it may be limited in analyzing fully the effect on the industry as a whole. Third, in consideration of the fact that the organizational resources in the RFID study require a great deal of researches, this research may deem insufficient to fulfill the purpose that it initially set out to achieve. Future studies using performance research are, therefore, needed to help better understand the organizational level of the RFID adoption and implementation.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.521-528
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• 1988

전통적으로 국가 또는 기업의 독점으로 운영되어 오던 전기통신산업에는 70년대와 80년대를 거치면서 주요선진국에서 경쟁체제가 도입되었으며, 이러한 경쟁도입 및 사유화는 전세계적으로 확산되고 있다. 이러한 전기통신산업에의 경쟁도입은 주로 시내부문을 제외한 장거리, 국제 및 고도통신시장에서 이루어지고 있으며, 이는 동시장의 비용함수의 변화에 기인하고 있다. 원가는 회선 및 교환 등 설비부문의 비용과 이 설비를 운용하여 서비스를 생산하는 관리부문의 비용으로 구분할 수 있고, 일반적으로 설비부문에서 규모의 경제가 존재한다고 볼 수 있다. 과거 독점시대의 논리는 바로 설비부문에서의 규모의 경제에 따른 자연독점성이었다. 그러나 기술의 급속한 발전은 설비부문의 비용을 큰 폭으로 감소시켰으며, 이에 따라 전체비용에서 차지하는 설비부문의 원가비중은 크게 하락하였다. 이러한 원가비중의 변화는 비용함수의 변화를 초래하였다. 즉 일정규모까지는 평균비용이 하락하는 규모의 경제성이 존재하지만, 그 이상의 규모에서는 평균비용이 오히려 증가하는 현상이 나타나게 되었다. 이것은 평균비용곡선이 계속적으로 우하향하는 전통적인 자연독점성의 붕괴를 의미하는 것이며, 또한 경쟁이 보다 효율적이라는 것을 의미한다. 그러나 일정규모까지는 규모의 경제성이 존재하기 때문에, 효율성의 유지를 위한 바람직한 사업자의 수는, 일정한 기술 수준의 전제하에, 시장규모에 따라 달라지게 된다. 이와 같은 기술수준 및 시장규모외 규제수준(즉 시장의 효율성을 유지할 수 있는 사업자의 수 등)의 상관관계는 이미 경쟁이 도입된 미국, 일본, 영국의 시장상황 및 규제현상에서도 찾아볼 수 있다. 3개국 중 시장규모와 기술수준이 가장 높은 미국은 규제수준이 가장 낮으며, 일본과 영국의 순서로 규제가 강화되고 있다. 또한 일본과 영국은 시장규모의 확대와 기술수준의 향상에 따라 보다 자유화된 시장체제로의 전환을 추진하고 있다. 본고의 가설은 보다 상세한 연구를 요구하고 있으며, 우리나라 전기동전산업에의 경쟁도입정책과 관련하여 중요한 의미를 가지고 있다.

• 펄프종이기술
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2004

Linerboards and corrugating mediums are being produced using recycled old corrugated containers (OCC) as major raw materials. The utilization rate of recycled fibers is ex­pected to increase further in the future to reduce raw material cost. Use of recycled fibers as raw materials for linerboard, however, causes many problems for papermakers. As the utilization rate of recycled fiber and number of recycling of fibers increases, quality and process problems including strength reduction and deterioration of machine runn­ability will increase. To overcome the problem of strength reduction associated with the use of recycled fibrous materials for producing quality linerboards, diverse extensive research efforts and new technological approaches have been taken. In this study, disintegration characteristics of aee was evaluated by determining the unslushed contents. The amount of unslushed content of KOCC was lower than AOCC. But contaminants content of KOCC was higher than AOCC. As the consistency in disintegration increased, the amount of unslushed fiber content decreased.

• 한국분말재료학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.294-300
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• 2014

The connecting rod is one of the most important parts in automotive engines, transforming the reciprocal motion of a piston generated by internal combustion into the rotational motion of a crankshaft. Recent advances in high performance automobile engines demand corresponding technological breakthroughs in the materials for engine parts. In the present research, the powder metallurgy (P/M) process was used to replace conventional quenching and/or tempering processes for mass production and ultimately for more cost-efficient manufacturing of high strength connecting rods. The development of P/M alloy powder was undertaken not only to achieve the improvement in mechanical properties, but also to enhance the machinability of the P/M processed connecting rods. Specifically $MoS_2$ powders were added as lubricants to non-normalizing Fe-Cr-Mn-V-C alloy powder to improve the post-sintering machinability. The effects of $MoS_2$ addition on the microstructure, mechanical properties, and machining characteristics were investigated.

• Advances in environmental research
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.245-260
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• 2013

Biosorption represents a technological innovation as well as a cost effective excellent remediation technology for cleaning up radionuclides from aqueous environment. In the present study, a bacteria strain FB12 with high adsorption rate of uranium ion was isolated from the vicinity of the nuclear power plant. It was tentatively identified as Bacillus sp.FB12 according to the 16S rDNA sequencing. Efforts were made to further improve the adsorption rate and genetic stability by UV irradiation and UV-LiCl cooperative mutagenesis. The improved strain named Bacillus sp.UV32 obtains excellent genetic stability and a high adsorption rate of 95.9%. The adsorption of uranium U (VI) by Bacillus sp.UV32 from aqueous solution was examined as a function of metal ion concentration, cell concentration, adsorption time, pH, temperature, and the presence of some foreign ions. The adsorption process of U (VI) was found to follow the pseudo-second-order kinetic equation. The adsorption isotherm study indicated that it preferably followed the Langmuir adsorption isotherm. The thermodynamic parameters values calculated clearly indicated that the adsorption process was feasible, spontaneous and endothermic in nature. These properties show that Bacillus sp.UV32 has potential application in the removal of uranium (VI) from the radioactive wastewater.