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Multi-Regional Resources Management Practice using Water-Energy-Food Nexus Simulation Model

  • Wicaksono, Albert;Jeong, Gimoon;Kang, Doosun
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2019.05a
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    • pp.163-163
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    • 2019
  • The rapidly growing global population increases the awareness of water, energy, and food security worldwide. The concept of Water, Energy, and Food nexus (hereafter, WEF nexus) has been widely introduced as a new resources management concept that integrate the water, energy, and food in a single management framework. Recently, WEF nexus analyzes not only the interconnections among the resources, but also considers the external factors (such as environment, climate change, policy, finance, etc) to enhance the resources sustainability by proper understanding of their relations. A nation-level resources management is quite complex task since multiple regions (e.g., watersheds, cities, and counties) with different characteristics are spatially interconnected and transfer the resources each other. This study proposes a multiple region WEF nexus simulation and transfer model. The model is equipped with three simulation modules, such as local nexus simulation module, regional resources transfer module, and optimal investment planning module. The model intends to determine an optimal capital investment plan (CIP), such as build-up of power plants, water/waste water treatment plants, farmland development and to determine W-E-F import/export decisions among areas. The objective is to maximize overall resources sustainability while minimize financial cost. For demonstration, the proposed model is applied to a semi-hypothetical study area with three different characterized cities. It is expected the model can be used as a decision support tool for a long-term resources management planning process.

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Strategic Management of Universities for Regional Competitiveness

  • NURMUKHANOVA, Gulnara;ALIBEKOVA, Gulnaz;TAMENOVA, Saltanat;NIYETALINA, Gaukhar
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.551-562
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    • 2021
  • Strategic management of universities is crucial for the regional competitiveness due to the high impact of universities on the economic growth of regions through entrepreneurial training and support. The study aimed to investigate the HEInnovate self-assessment tool, valuable in building entrepreneurship-oriented strategy, by considering the case of Turan University. The tool can be used to study entrepreneurial capabilities of the university and make strong management decisions. The self-assessment allows getting feedback from all stakeholders, including external ones, which helps to make institutional changes to influence the regional economic growth. The framework of the research is based on the theories of strategic management and regional competitiveness, which can be deployed with the HEInnovate self-assessment recommendations and findings. The research methodology comprises objective and functional approaches to system analysis. HEInnovate self-assessment by Turan university revealed some weaknesses in the university strategy and helped make some recommendations, namely, the university's entrepreneurial ecosystem must act as part of a regional business support ecosystem to provide input into local economic development, attract more international faculty and faculty with more practical experience, create an entrepreneurial culture across staff of the university, address a lack of internal structures to support staff, and improve university-business cooperation.

UTILITY-BASED PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM (UBPMS) FOR COMPARISON OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

  • Ki-Hyun Kim;Hee-Sung Cha;Ju-Yeoun Han;Il-Han Yu
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.1509-1514
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    • 2009
  • CII BM&M(Benchmarking & Metrics) in USA and DTI(Department of Trade and Industry) in UK have built up systems that enable performance measuring and made the results of performance measurement comparable between projects to utilize them as benchmarking tools. By comparing the results of performance measurement, it is possible to grasp the success level of project management and to establish the direction of management. However, construction projects are much diversified and even those projects with the same work type have different attributes. Therefore, simply comparing the results of project performance measurement without considering the characteristics of projects is not justifiable and affects the reliability of the benchmarking results. Therefore, to solve this problem, this study presents a methodology that makes it possible to compare the individual construction projects considering various characteristics. The benefits and importance of project characteristics to overall project performance will be quantitatively expressed and they will be reflected on the results of performance management. By maximally converting multiple projects with different characteristics into the same projects through a new methodology to convert different projects into the same level utilizing such utility-bases and comparing the performances of those projects, project performance results can be utilized in project management as a tool for more accurate decision making and as a robust benchmarking tool.

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Development and Evaluation of a Self-management Mobile App for Adults with Osteoarthritis (골관절염 대상자를 위한 자기관리 모바일 앱 개발 및 효과)

  • Park, Ju Young;Son, Jung Tae
    • Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.114-127
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: This study aimed to develop a self-management mobile app for adults with osteoarthritis based on a self-determination theory to use it as a nursing intervention tool, and to evaluate the effects of the developed mobile app on adults' basic psychological needs, indexes of osteoarthritis, self-management and quality of life. Methods: The 56 participants were randomly assigned to either the experimental group (n=28) or the control group (n=28). The participants of the experimental group used a self-management mobile app for 12 weeks after the pretest, and two posttests were taken at the end of every 6 weeks. The data were analyzed using IBM SPSS/WIN 25.0 for Chi-square test, Fisher's exact test, independent t-test, and repeated measures ANOVA. Results: Basic psychological needs, indexes of osteoarthritis, self-management, and quality of life score of the experimental group were significantly higher than those of the control group. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that mobile app intervention can support improvements in psychological needs, symptoms of osteoarthritis and quality of life in adults with osteoarthritis. It is recommended that the developed mobile app be used as a nursing intervention tool for adults with osteoarthritis in the community.

Development of Edutainment platform for Developmental Disability Children (발달장애 아동을 위한 에듀테인먼트 플랫폼 개발)

  • Kim, Jung-Eun;Choi, Ei-Kyu;Shin, Byeong-Seok
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.65-73
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    • 2008
  • In this paper, we designed and implemented edutainment platform that can be effectively applied to developmental disabilities for their education and treatment of sensibility and intelligence training. We developed embedded hardware and contents authoring tool to make multimedia contents operated on the hardware, a management tool to provide result of training, and a real-time monitoring tool for observing the state of study. The hardware is designed by considering the characteristics of developmental disabilities and provides visual, auditory and tactile sense to assist sensibility training for their attention. User-friendly and easy-to-use authoring tool enable teachers and non-specialist to make educational contents. Also the real-time monitoring tool make us to observe user's status even in the outside of classroom. The management tool stores result of training and make us to review the result for further steps. Using this edutainment platform, efficient repetitive training is possible without restriction of time and location. Also when it applied to practical education, we can recognize that our system is effective on improving the ability of attention and studying.

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The Development of a Performance Evaluation Tool for Health Promotion Programs of Public Health Center (보건소 건강증진사업 성과평가지표 개발 -금연, 운동, 영양, 절주, 고혈압사업을 중심으로-)

  • 서영준;이동현;손동국;정승원;정애숙;박남수;김주경;이희원;이무식
    • Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.1-16
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    • 2004
  • The ultimate goal of health promotion programs is to improve the quality of life through promoting community health. Since the performance of health promotion programs are greatly affected by the quality of the planning and implementation process of the programs, the proper quality assessment of the program process is very important. According to existing literature, the tool for assessing the quality of the process and implementation as well as the outcome. However, no assessment tool for the quality of the process of health promotion programs has been developed in Korea. The purpose of the study is to develop a quality assessment tool for the process of health promotion programs being conducted at public health centers in Korea. The quality assessment tool developed in the study consists of the following four domains: strategic planning (14 items), program management (11 items), monitoring and evaluation (13 items), and resources and information (15 items). The strategic planning deals with the function of the planning staff and committees, community data analysis, the feasibility of the program, and the approach methods for attaining the goal of the program. The program management includes items on the qualification and power of the program staff. Monitoring and evaluation deals with the planning and education for monitoring, reporting and communication among program units, and feedback after monitoring. Finally, the resource and information covers the planning and activities for obtaining resources and information, community networking, beneficiaries' response, and consulting activity of the staff.

A Method of Building an Process Model-based CASE Tool to Support Software Development and Management (소프트웨어 개발관리를 지원하기 위한 프로세스 모델 기반 CASE 도구 구축방법의 제시)

  • Jo, Byeong-Ho;Kim, Tae-Dal
    • The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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    • v.2 no.5
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    • pp.721-732
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    • 1995
  • The IPSE(Integrated Project Support Environment) tool can be seen as a result of an attempt to synthesize the key aspects of language-centered, specific methodology-based and toolkit oriented environments, which are current CASE tools into an organic whole. The IPSE approach based on a process model is regarded as an effective way to implement integrated CASE. The PM-CASE(Process Model based CASE) tool is currently a prototype which draw diagrams describing processes by using a new modeling technique. Attributes related with a task of withen the process model should be defined an saved the database. These attributed are used to retrieve the information of products, and to call the tool related which the task. In this paper, TSEE(Process centered Software Engineering Environment) tools are compared and analyzed. By describing the basic concept, architecture and design of PM-CASE tool, a method of building an process model-based CASE tool is proposed be support an effect software development and management.

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A Method to Compare Images for Managing Tools to Repair Ships (선박 수리장비 관리를 위한 이미지 비교기법)

  • Park, Sung-Hoon;Kim, Jin-Deog
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.18 no.10
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    • pp.2489-2496
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    • 2014
  • The existing ship repair tool management system based on hand writing has many problems such as frequent loss of tool and overdue. To solve this problem, same systems have adopted the bar-code system. However, the systems can't cope with a problem to substitute spurious tool for genuine one on bar-code damage. Therefore, additional validation steps are necessary in order to manage expensive ship repair tool. In this paper, we propose an image comparison method for ship repair tool management. To be more concrete, we propose a normalization method and determination conditions for image comparison to use characteristics of mobile device. The normalization method makes use of the characteristics of mobile device that provides functions of real time recording, overlapping and cropping images. The proposed method applies three conditions(sum of inner angles, size of angle, position of corner coordinates) into the comparison module. The implemented system shows good performance on change direction, lighting, size and etc. The accuracy is more than 95%.

Development of an Nursing Assessment Tool for Emergency Patients (응급환자 간호사정 도구개발)

  • Ahn, Mi-Hyun
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.419-437
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    • 1998
  • Nurses use a nursing process. that is a scientific approach method. in order to understand the clients' condition and to solve their problems. Professional nurses have accepted the nursing process as a standard framework for nursing activities, and the first step of the nursing process is nursing assessment. The purpose of this study was to develop a nursing assessment tool for emergency patients. Assessment is a first step in the nursing process, and scientific assessment helps to better understand the patients. Thus the development of an assessment tool for emergency patients will improve of nursing quality and advance to efficacy of emergency room(ER) management. The study involved the development of a conceptual framework, preliminary tool, content validity verification process. and reliability verification process. The conceptual framework was developed through a review of the literature. and preliminary tool was developed from the conceptual framework that based on care flow sheet' developed James A. Haley. The preliminary tool was evaluated for validity and reliability by seven experts, one ER nurse manager, two ER head nurses, two emergency medicine doctors. and two ER charge nurses and by ten nurses with one to five year careers in ER nursing. The results of this study was as follows 1. The conceptual framework which was developed was composed of three parts. They were triage criteria, first assessment and secondary assessment. 2. The preliminary tool which was developed had 31 items based on the conceptual framework. 3. To test expert validity a 4-point scale was used. items which had gained 3-4 points from six persons of the seven experts were selected. All 31 items from the preliminary tool were selected. 4. The reliability test was done by ten nurses educated in the use of the assessment tool. Two pairs of nurses simultaneously assessed the same patients. A total agreement percentile was calculated and result was 87.3% agreement. 5. After the validity and reliability testing. the final emergency patient nursing assessment tool was finalized with 31 items. and a check-list for the responses. This study concludes that the tool which was developed is both valid and reliable will advance quality care for emergency patients. This emergency nursing assessment tool was also found to be an adequate tool for assessment of emergency patients.

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The Position of TQM among Management Innovation Tools (경영혁신 기법에서의 TQM의 위상)

  • 정규석
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.132-150
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    • 2000
  • TQM is considered as a kind management innovation tools. Managers are apt to be embarrassed in face of too many emerging and diminishing faddish management innovation tools. In spite of their expected usefulness, the result of implementation used to be depressing. One of the most important things for successful implementation is to understand their correct usefulness and characteristics. This paper analyzes the characteristics of TQM as innovation tool by comparing TQM with other management innovation tools in terms of criteria derived in view of competitive strategy formulation.

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