• Animal Bioscience
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• 제37권4_spc호
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• pp.730-741
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• 2024

Pig production is one of the viable enterprises of the livestock sub-sector of agriculture. It contributes significantly to the economy and animal protein supply to enhance food security in Africa and globally. This article explored the present status of pig production in Africa, the challenges, prospects and potentials. The pig population of Africa represents 4.6% of the global pig population. They are widely distributed across Africa except in Northern Africa where pig production is not popular due to religio-cultural reasons. They are mostly reared in rural parts of Africa by smallholder farmers, informing why majority of the pig population in most parts of Africa are indigenous breeds and their crosses. Pig plays important roles in the sustenance of livelihood in the rural communities and have cultural and social significance. The pig production system in Africa is predominantly traditional, but rapidly growing and transforming into the modern system. The annual pork production in Africa has grown from less than a million tonnes in year 2000 to over 2 million tonnes in 2021. Incidence of disease outbreak, especially African swine fever is one of the main constraints affecting pig production in Africa. Others are lack of skills and technical know-how, high ambient temperature, limited access to high-quality breeds, high cost of feed ingredients and veterinary inputs, unfriendly government policies, religious and cultural bias, inadequate processing facilities as well as under-developed value-chain. The projected human population of 2.5 billion in Africa by 2050, increasing urbanization and decreasing farming population are pointers to the need for increased food production. The production systems of pigs in Africa requires developmental research, improvements in housing, feed production and manufacturing, animal health, processing, capacity building and pig friendly policies for improved productivity and facilitation of export.

• 인간식물환경학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.433-443
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• 2020

Background and objective: The boom in urban agriculture has also resulted in the creation of many school gardens. With the increase in various hands-on education programs, people are interested in assessing the value of school gardens. This study was conducted to derive indicators for service value assessement of educational farming experience using school gardens. Methods: Through literature review, we selected assessment items and sub-factors. The indicators for evaluating the effectiveness of school gardens are classified using the Delphi method that involve a focus group experts. In order to increase the reliability and validity of the selected and classified items, an exploratory factor analysis was conducted. In addition, the relative importance and priority of each factor in each field were assessed using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Results: We classified the indicators into 4 criteria and come up with 13 items and 33 sub-factors in educational value, health value, economic value, and ecological and environmental value. Most of the items for the 4 value criteria derived were significant for assessing the value of agricultural experience services with content validity ratio (CVR) higher than 0.59 and reliability higher than .6 . In the value criteria, the experts rated educational value as the most important, followed by health value, ecological and environmental value, and economic value. In the assessment items, the most important was improvement of social functions. In the sub-factors, the most important was strengthening of ties (friendly interactions). Conclusion: Among the derived indicators assessing the value of school gardens, 4 criteria, 12 evaluation items and 29 sub-factors showed significance. The schematic index would be useful for the assessment.

• 한국문헌정보학회지
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• 제55권1호
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• pp.107-133
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• 2021

본 연구는 정보전문직으로서 사서의 역량가치를 평가하고 분석함으로써, 사서의 역량 강화방안에 대한 시사점을 제시하고자 수행되었다. 그 결과로는 첫째, 도서관 인적자본으로서 사서의 공통 역량가치를 기량, 지식 및 행동과 태도로 구분하여 각각의 영역에 대한 A도서관 사서의 역량가치를 평가한 결과, '사서의 행동 및 태도' 영역의 평균이 가장 높았으며, '사서의 기량' 영역, '사서의 지식' 영역 순으로 분석되었다. 둘째, A도서관 사서의 '사서의 기량' 영역의 역량가치 평가에서는 '의사소통', '리더십', '기술' 평가요소 순으로, '사서의 지식' 영역의 평가에서는 '법률 및 정책', '마케팅', '학습 및 성장', '재무 및 회계' 평가요소 순으로, '사서의 행동 및 태도' 영역의 평가에서는 '윤리 및 가치', '대인관계', '고객 서비스' 평가요소 순으로 각각 평가 결과가 높게 나타났다. 셋째, A도서관 사서의 역량가치 평가 결과에 대하여 평가 대상자 특성에 따른 평균 차이가 존재하는지 분석한 결과, 전체 역량가치에 대해서는 '근무기간' 요인 만이, '사서의 지식' 영역에서는 '연령'과 '근무기간' 2가지 요인이 통계적으로 유의미한 차이가 있는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 넷째, 사서의 역량가치는 평가 대상자의 특성에 따라 어떠한 영향을 받는지 알아보기 위해 분석한 결과, '사서의 기량' 영역의 역량가치에 대해 '최종학력' 요인 만이 통계적으로 유의한 것으로 분석되었다. 다섯째, 사서의 역량가치를 높이는 데 있어 문제점 및 바람직한 개선방안에 대한 조사에서는 '사서자격제도'나 '사서 양성체계' 등 시스템적 측면에서의 문제점 및 개선방안을 제시하는 비율이 높았다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.525-537
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• 2014

The typical design of ground improvement with prefabricated vertical drains (PVD) and surcharge preloading involves a series of deterministic analyses using averaged or mean soil properties for the various combination of the PVD spacing and surcharge preloading height that would meet the criteria for minimum consolidation time and required degree of consolidation. The optimum design combination is then selected in which the total cost of ground improvement is a minimum. Considering the variability and uncertainties of the soil consolidation parameters, as well as considering the effects of soil disturbance (smear zone) and drain resistance in the analysis, this study presents a stochastic cost optimization of ground improvement with PVD and surcharge preloading. Direct Monte Carlo (MC) simulation and importance sampling (IS) technique is used in the stochastic analysis by limiting the sampled random soil parameters within the range from a minimum to maximum value while considering their statistical distribution. The method has been verified in a case study of PVD improved ground with preloading, in which average results of the stochastic analysis showed a good agreement with field monitoring data.

• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.176-180
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• 2005

Background: Epidural steroid injections benefit certain patients with radicular pain, and often have only a limited duration. We compared the efficacy of hyaluronidase and triamcinolone and triamcinolone alone in patients with lumbar herniated disc disease treated with transforaminal epidural block. Methods: Forty patients who had undergone a transforaminal epidural injection were retrospectively reviewed. The T group received triamcinolone and local anesthetics; whereas, the HT group received hyaluronidase, triamcinolone and local anesthetics. We evaluated the improvement as being good, moderate, mild or no improvement, and in those where the improvement was good or moderate, also evaluated the duration of pain relief. Data were collected from the medical records of patients or via phone calls, which were analyzed using Student t- and chi-squared tests. A value of P < 0.05 was considered significant. Results: There were no significant differences in the degree of pain improvement or duration of pain relief between the two groups. Conclusions: A hyaluronidase and triamcinolone injection during transforaminal epidural block has on benefit with respect to the degree of pain improvement or its duration compared to a triamcinolone only injection.

• 한국응용곤충학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.15-18
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• 1982

우리나라 논 토양면적의 약 $32\%$에 해당하는 409, 901.9ha가 사질토양으로 그중 약 $74\%$인 303,683.3ha는 객토를 요하는 면적이다. 현재 정부에서는 쌀의 증산을 위하여 농토배양사업을 적극 추진하고 있는데 농토배양은 토양의 물리화학성을 개양하여 증수의 효과가 있을 뿐만 아니라 도열병의 발생억제에도 큰 효과가 있다. 본 시험에서는 농토배양을 했을 때 목도열병의 발생은 품종에 따라 객토하지 않은 논에 비하여 $6.3\~59.5\%$까지 적게 걸렸으며 목도열병의 발생경감효과는 일반계품종보다 통일계품종에서 더욱 컸다. 한편 농토 배양구에서 11개 공시품종의 토장은 평균 6.4cm 길었고 이삭수는 2.3개가 많았으며 현미중에 있어서도 평균 $24.1\%$의 증수효과가 있었다.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2010년도 학술발표회
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• pp.452-456
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• 2010

Water is an indispensable input to human's existence and industrial production. In these days, people are getting more concerned about their health and the interest in the safety of drinking water has increased. In this situation, this paper attempts to measure the economic benefits of the tap water quality improvement. The study area was restricted to Busan, the second largest city in Korea, where local government is planning to implement a tap water quality improvement program. We apply a one-and-one-half bounded dichotomous choice contingent valuation (CV) method to obtain at least a preliminary evaluation of the benefits. CV is developed for valuing goods or services that cannot be valued either directly or indirectly from market observations and has been applied to several environmental goods. The CV survey was rigorously designed to comply with the guidelines for best-practiced CV studies. We surveyed a randomly selected sample of 400 households in Busan and asked respondents questions in person-to-person interviews about how they would be willing to pay for the water quality improvement. Respondents overall accepted the contingent market and were willing to contribute a significant amount (US$1.66), on average, per household per month. We can also calculate the aggregate value of the program which improves the water quality in Busan. This study is expected to provide policy-makers with useful information for evaluating and planning environmental policies relating specifically to water.

• 농촌계획
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.32-39
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• 1998

In Korea, rural village improvement has mainly been led by goverment investment. This approach, however, has its own limit since there are so many village to be improved while the budgetary sources are restricted, As an alternative, inducement of private investments to these area is considered in order to promote rural village improvement. The possibility of inducing private investments to the rural village improvement depends on the location of the village. The possibility may be highest in the sub-urban area since expected benefits from land development is usually high. One desirable approach to induce private investment to these area is the cooperative development system. Residents, private investors and governments plays its own role, independently and cooperatively, But benifits from the investment to improve rural village in general plain area are so low that it is difficult to induce the private investments to these area. In that case, indirect development system will be a proper strategy which maintaining government-led development method as usual, expanding the participation of private developers such as the construction companies. In general, rate of returns from investment to the rural sectors is lower than that to the other sectors, therefore financial support such as the long- term, low loan rate and a partial value-added tax exemption should be given to the investors to the rural village improvement projects.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.155-162
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• 2017

The purpose of this paper is to study renovation plan of value chain from a user's viewpoint by making practical application of digital technology in Korea and China. And it is surely meaningful to investigate the important motivation factors of continuous using smart-phone in two countries, and to analyze the improving effect toward to the quality of life in continuous using smart-phone. By this study we can expect the value improving effect of user experience. The results of hypothesis testing can be summarized as follows: First, the hypothesis that positive affect has a plus effect on pragmatic value is accepted in Korea and China. Secondly, the hypothesis that positive affect has a plus effect on hedonic value is accepted in two countries. Thirdly, the hypothesis that negative affect has a minus effect on pragmatic value is accepted in Korea, but rejected in China. Fourthly, the hypothesis that negative affect has a minus effect on hedonic value is accepted in two countries. Fifthly, the hypothesis that pragmatic value has a plus effect on life satisfaction is rejected in two countries. Sixthly, the hypothesis that hedonic value has a plus effect on life satisfaction is accepted in Korea, but rejected in China. Seventhly, the hypothesis that there is a difference in positive affect, negative affect, pragmatic value, hedonic value and life satisfaction between Korea and China is rejected in positive affect and negative affect, but accepted in pragmatic value, hedonic value and life satisfaction. In the competition among enterprises, user experience instead of goods themselves became influential as a differential factor. And many advanced enterprises began taking a serious view of customer's happiness and user experience improvement.

• 항공우주기술
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.174-183
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• 2014

부가처리시스템(Value-Added Processing System, VAPS)은 아리랑위성 영상자료 후처리를 위하여 개발되었으며 최근 VAPS의 성능 개선을 위하여 소프트웨어 버전과 하드웨어 사양이 변경되었다. 본 연구는 기존 VAPS(ver.1.0)의 성능 개선에 대해서 설명하고 개선된 VAPS(ver.2.0)에 대한 체계적인 성능 평가에 목적이 있다. 이를 위하여, 남한과 북한에서 실험지역(test-bed)을 선정하고 이들 지역에 대한 아리랑위성 2호, 3호 영상자료를 이용하여 자료처리 실험을 수행하였다. 결론적으로 VAPS(ver.2.0)는 정사영상과 모자이크영상 등과 같은 높은 레벨의 제품을 생성할 수 있는 능력이 있으며, 특히 그래픽처리장치(Graphic Processing Unit)를 사용하는 ver.2.0의 경우 자료처리 속도가 ver.1.0에 비해 최대 10배 이상 향상된 것으로 나타났다.