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The Utility of Function Expressed in 1990s Fashion (1990년대 패션에 나타난 기능의 효율성)

  • Ham, Youn-Ja
    • Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.371-377
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study is to consider 1990s fashion design involving the utility of function which is the essence of modernism. First, documentary studies about the aesthetic value of the utility of function throughout the 20th century sociocultural contexts has been done. Second, content analysis of articles in American "Vogue" from 1990 to 2002 has been accomplished to hold the actual proof for the utility of function in postmodernism fashion. As a result, the utility of function has been defined the utility of body activity, the utility of practical use, and the utility of mechanical product. According to contents analysis, new aspects has been introduced in use of high-tech fabrics, ornaments, and mass customization in 1990s. In conclusion, the utility of function in fashion has been improved in accordance with the change of sociocultural contexts and women's wants.

A Meta-Analysis of Utility Weights for Stroke (뇌졸중의 효용가중치에 대한 메타분석)

  • Heo, Ji-Haeng;Chung, Kyu-Hyuk;Lee, Eui-Kyung
    • YAKHAK HOEJI
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    • v.53 no.5
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    • pp.265-273
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    • 2009
  • The aims of this study are to conduct meta-analysis for obtaining pooled estimates of the utility weight for stroke and to explore the study design characteristics that determine the utility weight for stroke. Medline (Pubmed), CEA Registry (Tufts Medical Center), and KERIS (Korea Education & Research Information Service) were searched to find out the literature that reported quality of life with stroke. Patient characteristics, utility weights and standard errors were extracted and stratified by severity, study method, respondent and country. All estimates were measured on a 0 to 1 scale with 0 representing the death and 1 representing the perfect health. The pooled estimates of the utility weight were 0.627 for total stroke, 0.756 for mild stroke, 0.631 for moderate stroke, and 0.389 for severe stroke (p=0.0001). Non-patients showed significantly lower utility weights than patients for severe (p=0.0122) stroke.

A Cost-Utility Analysis of Home Care Services by using the QALY (QALY를 이용한 가정간호서비스의 비용효용분석)

  • 임지영
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.449-457
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    • 2004
  • Purpose: The aim of this study was to analyze economical efficiency of home care service by comparing a cost-utility ratio(CUR) between home care and hospitalization. Method: The analytic framework of this study was constructed in 5 stages: Identifying the analytic perspectives, measurement of costs, measurement of utility, analysis of CUR, and sensitivity test. Data was collected by reviewing medical records, home care service records, medical fee claims, and other related research. Result: The mean of the annual total cost was 23,317,636 Won in home care and 73,739,352 Won in hospital care. QALY was 0.389 in home care and 0.474 in hospital care, so CUR was 299,712,545 QALY in home care and 777,841,266 QALY in hospital care. Conclusion: The findings affirmed that home care had an economical efficiency in the aspect of utility compared to hospitalization. Therefore, the findings of this study can be used to develop a governmental health policy or to expand the home care system. In addition, the cost-utility analysis framework and process of this study will be an example model for cost-utility analysis in nursing research. Therefore, it will be used as a guideline for future research related to cost-utility analysis in nursing.

Economic Feasibility of Common Utility Tunnel based on Cost-Benefit Analysis (비용편익 분석에 기초한 공동구의 경제적 타당성 평가)

  • Kang, Yeong Ku;Choi, Ik Chang
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.29-36
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    • 2015
  • Common utility tunnel is essential to the daily lives of people underground utilities (electricity, gas and supply facilities such as water, communication facilities, sewer facilities, etc.) to improve the appearance by co-acceptance and disaster prevention, important for the conservation of the city's population was concentrated road construction the city-based facilities. There is recognition of the importance of the various supply treatment facilities in common utility tunnel as infrastructure to accommodate joint according to the city expanded, the demand for infrastructure. In this paper, a cost-benefit analysis using a one-time occurrence, without simply relying on cost or current cost, project manager for the city-dimensional feasibility study conducted, the user level of the maintenance costs and user costs, including social costs items from various angles can be investigated and proposed a mechanism of economic feasibility common utility tunnel. Evaluation of the proposed technique is cost-benefit and cost caused by installing common utility tunnel the existing pipeline area - was investigated by the benefit analysis, extended and repeated common utility tunnel installation depends much affected by the excavation, so users of reducing the number of repeat excavation convenience can be seen that this occurs.

Optimal alternative decision technique of accommodation facility in multi-utility tunnel using VE/LCC analysis (VE/LCC 분석을 통한 공동구 수용시설물의 최적 대안 결정 기법)

  • Sim, oung-Jong;Jin, Kyu-Nam;Oh, Won-Joon;Cho, Choong-Yeun
    • Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.317-329
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    • 2018
  • The study on the existing multi-utility tunnel has examined the general aspects related to the installation of multi-utility tunnel rather than the optimal design and feasibility analysis of accommodation facility in multi-utility tunnel. In the basic planning stage related to the introduction of multi-utility tunnel, it is difficult to determine accommodation facility due to lack of relevant indicators and data. In this paper, VE/LCC analysis method is suggested for the optimal alternative decision of accommodation facilities in multi-utility tunnel. The analysis of the items of individual accommodation facility and the value index for LCC costs were applied to the kind alternatives, and the priorities of each kind were analyzed. In addition, the domestic multi-utility tunnel and analysis result are compared. The result of this study will be helpful to shorten the time and convenience of the user in the process of determining accommodation facility including the first designers when introducing multi-utility tunnel.

Investigating Utility, Attitude, Intention, and Satisfaction of Skill-Sharing Economy

  • La, Soo-Jung;Cho, Yooncheong
    • The Journal of Industrial Distribution & Business
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.39-49
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    • 2019
  • Purpose - Previous studies examined effects of sharing economy in the fields such as accommodation and automobile sector, while there are lack of researches in the field of skill-sharing economy. By classifying skill-sharing into general and special skill-sharing, this study explored effects of variables such as transaction utility, social utility, sustainability utility, emotional utility, economic utility, and trust utility, on attitudes, intention, satisfaction, and loyalty of demand (i.e., customers) and supply (i.e., providers) sides, potential, and actual customers. Research design, data, and methodology - Data were collected via both online and offline surveys. This study applied factor analysis and multiple regression analysis for findings. Results - Results show that utilities for general suppliers' skill-sharing are significant than other cases. Among utilities, this study found that trust utility shows significant for the cases of special customers', general suppliers' and special suppliers' potential skill-sharing. The results implies that trust is crucial in the transaction of the sharing economy. Conclusions - Enhanced managerial systems help resolve issues on the sharing economy. This study provides implications what are positive effects of skill-sharing economy and recommends proper establishment of the sharing economy.

A Comparative Study on the Materialism and Clothing Attitudes of Korean and Chinese University Students (한국과 중국 대학생의 물질주의성향과 의복태도에 관한 비교연구)

  • 김용숙
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.53 no.8
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    • pp.11-20
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of this study was to compare the Korean and Chinese university students' materialism and clothing attitudes. Self-administered questionnaires developed by researcher were used and the research periods were from Feb. 20 to Mar. 19, 2003. 429 Korean and 405 Chinese students's data was used for analysis. Cluster analysis, one-way ANOVA, t-test, and discriminant analysis were done. Korean students pursuited happiness more than utility and accomplishment, but Chinese students pursuited accomplishment more than happiness and practicality. The students were divided into the happiness pursuit, the utility pursuit, and the accomplishment pursuit. The group size of the utility pursuit and the happiness pursuit among Korean students and the utility pursuit and the accomplishment pursuit among Chinese students were larger. Korean students preferred fashionability, psychological dependence, sexual attraction of clothing more, but Chinese preferred conformity more. Utility and accomplishment of materialism, and fashionability and conformity of clothing were strong variables which discriminated Korean students from Chinese students, and total discriminating power was 77.1%.

A Study on the Design Method and the Effect Analysis for the Introduction of the Integrated System Model of Individual Urban Utility Plants (에너지공급시설 및 환경기초시설의 복합화 방안 및 적용효과 분석)

  • Lee, Tae-Won;Kim, Yong-Ki
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.235-240
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    • 2005
  • Recently urban utility plants in urban areas of Korea, such as energy supply systems, municipal waste incineration systems, sewage treatment systems and so on, have caused some critical troubles, for instance the insensitive response to the seasonal or daily variation of loads, the low system efficiency and inefficient use of energy because of the large-scale system located a great distance. Therefor the design method of optimal integrated system model of various urban utility plants proposed in this study suitably to the present situation of Korea. Also, the effect analysis for the introduction of compound utility plants was studied for a new town model on a 60,000 persons scale. As the results we found that the complex plant was superior to individual urban utility plant in side of the initial investment expenses, the operating cost and other reasons.

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The Problems / Analysis of Non-Utility Generation Participation (민간전력(民間電力)의 전력사업(電力事業) 참여(參與)의 문제점(問題點) 분석(分析))

  • Chung, Do-Young;Park, Kwon-Sik;Park, Jong-Bae
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1993.07a
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    • pp.73-75
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    • 1993
  • In recent years, it is widely being issued to consider the Non-Utility Generation (NUG) in the public electric utility sector. The Non-Utility Generation can be divided into two major parts, i. e., dispersed generation and privatization. In the participation of the NUGs in the public sector, the economy of scale and publiciy of the NUGs should be considered. In this paper, we with give the present status of Non-Utility Generation and. problems caused by the dispersed generation and privatization. Also, the analysis of the problems of NUGs and future policies of the electric utility will be discussed.

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Adaptive Gaussian Mechanism Based on Expected Data Utility under Conditional Filtering Noise

  • Liu, Hai;Wu, Zhenqiang;Peng, Changgen;Tian, Feng;Lu, Laifeng
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.12 no.7
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    • pp.3497-3515
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    • 2018
  • Differential privacy has broadly applied to statistical analysis, and its mainly objective is to ensure the tradeoff between the utility of noise data and the privacy preserving of individual's sensitive information. However, an individual could not achieve expected data utility under differential privacy mechanisms, since the adding noise is random. To this end, we proposed an adaptive Gaussian mechanism based on expected data utility under conditional filtering noise. Firstly, this paper made conditional filtering for Gaussian mechanism noise. Secondly, we defined the expected data utility according to the absolute value of relative error. Finally, we presented an adaptive Gaussian mechanism by combining expected data utility with conditional filtering noise. Through comparative analysis, the adaptive Gaussian mechanism satisfies differential privacy and achieves expected data utility for giving any privacy budget. Furthermore, our scheme is easy extend to engineering implementation.