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Functional Corrugated Board with Organic and Inorganic Materials in Food Packaging Applications: A Review

  • Gaikwad, Kirtiraj K.;Singh, Suman;Lee, Youn Suk
    • 한국포장학회지
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    • 제22권3호
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    • pp.49-58
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    • 2016
  • Corrugated board provides packaging for most diverse industries with a share of over 50%, due to the numerous advantages they offer a good protection of the products. In other hand corrugated board fails in environmental conditions, indicating that relative humidity or temperature is higher. These effects directly damage the product packaged. To overcome on this problem recently corrugated boards produced with functional material, "functional corrugated boards," have become more available in the current market. A number of commercialized forms of functional material are coated or composited products with inorganic materials, for example "Nano clay" as representative. However, although the use of functional materials is increasing in corrugated boards, the several concerns such as over cost, environmental friendly materials, recycling, and toxicity affect consumer perceptions and acceptance. In the past, number of researcher focused on process of box compression and the utility of box compression testing etc., best of our knowledge there is no review paper which focus on the functional corrugated boards used in food packaging applications. This paper aims to review the availability of functional corrugated boards in the current market, past research studies on functional material and present the current status of functional corrugated boards in leading countries.

The Nature of Risk Assessment

  • 대한예방의학회
    • 대한예방의학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한예방의학회 1994년도 교수 연수회(환경)
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    • pp.23-56
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    • 1994
  • Recent criticisms of the conduct and use of risk assessment by regulatory agencies have led to a wide range of proposed remedies, including changes in regulatory statutes and the development of new methods for assessing risk. The mandate to this Committee was more limited. Our objective was to examine whether alterations in institutional arrangements or procedures, particularly the organizational separation of risk assessment from regulatory decision-making and the use of uniform guidelines for inferring risk from available scientific information, can improve federal risk assessment activities. Before undertaking to determine whether organizational and procedural reforms could improve the performance and use of risk assessment in the federal government, the Committee examined the state of risk assessment and the regulatory environment in which it is performed. In this chapter, we define risk assessment and differentiate it from other elements in the regulatory process, analyze the types of judgments made in risk assessment, and examine its current government context. Because one chronic health hazard, cancer, was highlighted in the Committee's congressional mandate and has dominated public concern about public health risks in recent years, most of our report focuses on it. Furthermore, because activities in four agencies--the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)--have given rise to many of the proposals for changes in risk assessment practices, our review focuses on these four agencies. The conclusions of this report, although directed primarily at risk assessment of potential carcinogens as performed by these four agencies, may be applicable to other federal programs to reduce health risks.

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노인주거 복지시설 안전사고 실태조사에 의한 시설기준 제안에 관한 연구 (A Study on Proposal of Facility Standard by Research of Safety Accidents at Elderly Housing Welfare Facility)

  • 유종옥;박재승
    • 의료ㆍ복지 건축 : 한국의료복지건축학회 논문집
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    • 제17권2호
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    • pp.7-16
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    • 2011
  • The death toll of the elderly by accidents in 2007 takes 6.5% of total death toll. The lost income from this is estimated to be 17 trillion and 511 billion won. According to CISS of Korea Consumer Protection Board, the number of safety related accidents of the elderly at home in 2006 was 486 cases in 2006 and has gradually increased every year. This thesis created 115 guidelines at 14 spaces as facility evaluation index evaluating the aging friendliness of the facility and safety related accidents generated at elderly resident welfare facility, examined influence variables of safety related accidents with 191 elderly including demographic variable, physical skill variable, social psychological variable and facility environmental variables, and then verified relevance between safety accidents and each influence variable. As a result, it was verified through ANOVA test of SAS Package Program and $x^2$- test that facility environmental variable would be closely related to the accident. In this regard, this study newly proposes the facility standards of aging friendly facility by supplementing them with contents and guidelines of facility evaluation table as ways to reduce safety related facility of the elderly.

디지털 추적표시(For ensic Marking) 시스템 개발 (Implementation of commercial digital Forensic Marking systems)

  • 김종안;김진한;김종흠
    • 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국정보통신설비학회 2007년도 학술대회
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    • pp.142-146
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    • 2007
  • Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology has been widely used for protecting the digital contents over the recent years. But the digital contents protected by DRM are vulnerable to various video memory capture programs when DRM packaged contents are decrypted on the consumers' multimedia devices. To make up for this kind of DRM security holes the Forensic Marking (FM) technology is being deployed into the content protection area. Most leading DRM companies as well as big electronics companies like Thomson and Philips already have commercial FM solutions. Forensic Marking technology uses the digital watermarking to insert the user information such as user id, content playing time and etc. into the decrypted and decoded content at the playback time on the consumer devices. When the content containing watermarked user information (Forensic Mark) is illegally captured and distributed over the Internet, the FM detection system takes out the inserted FM from the illegal contents and informs contents service providers of the illegal hacker's information. In this paper the requirements and test conditions are discussed for the commercial Forensic Marking systems.

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디지털 컨텐츠 저작권 관리를 위한 XrML 기반의 저작권 비즈니스 모델에 관한 연구 (A Study of XrML-based Rights Business Model for Digital Contents Copyright Administration)

  • 최지훈;유윤식;임산송;김진수;정회경
    • 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국해양정보통신학회 2003년도 춘계종합학술대회
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    • pp.289-292
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    • 2003
  • 디지털화된 멀티미디어 컨텐츠는 고속의 디지털 네트워크를 통해 제작자로부터 소비자에게 직접 전달되는 형태로 변화하고 있으며, 아울러 디지털 컨텐츠를 보호하기 위한 저작권의 보호라는 커다란 문제와 직면하여 이를 보호하고 디지털 컨텐츠를 활성화하기 위한 노력이 한창 진행 중이다. 또한, 보다 효율적인 체계로의 변화를 요구하고 있는 상황에서 디지털 컨텐츠 분야의 비즈니스에 사용 될 기본적인 매개체인 저작권 문서의 효율성이 강조되고 있는 실정이다. 따라서 컨텐츠를 제공하는 특정 시스템에 머무르지 않고 같은 목적을 가진 타 시스템과 컨텐츠를 공유하기 위한 범용적인 비즈니스 모델의 설계가 요구되고 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 범용 디지털 컨텐츠에 적용 가능한 비즈니스 모델을 설계하였으며 설계된 비즈니스 모델에 따른 저작권 문서 편집 시스템을 설계 및 구현하였다.

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실내 환경 중 알데하이드 농도 분포 및 영향 요인 평가 (Factors Related to Aldehydes Exposure and Symptoms in Residential Indoor Air)

  • 양지연;이지호;임영욱;박성은;홍천수;김창수;신동천
    • Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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    • 제22권1호
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    • pp.37-47
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    • 2007
  • Aldehydes are irritants of the upper respiratory tract with symptoms such as eye, nose, and throat. Formaldehyde classified in Group 2A by the International Agency for Research on Cancer and a probable human carcinogen by the Unite States Environmental Protection Agency due to its carcinogenicity. Aldehydes may be emitted from many other consumer products, such as permanent press fabrics, cosmetics, fiberglass insulation, paints, and coatings. The purpose of this study was to examine the does-response relationship between aldehydes levels and symptoms (eyes, nose, throat, and respiratory) for 36 dwellings and 280 households in Korea. As a result, environmental factors affecting aldehydes level were indoor smoking, ventilation, using of carpet, bed, and new furniture, painting for renovation, and indoor humidity. There wat weakly positive correlation between symptom score and aldehydes level.

헤도닉 가격모형을 이용한 개인컴퓨터의 비시장 속성에 대한 가치추정 (Applying Hedonic Price Model to Analyzing Non-market Characteristic of Personal Computer)

  • 신승식;곽승준;유승훈
    • 기술혁신학회지
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    • 제3권3호
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    • pp.85-101
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    • 2000
  • The purpose of this study is to test whether prices of personal computers reflect their varying degrees of non-marketable characteristics including after-sales service. This purpose is carried out using the hedonic price model. In this paper, we estimated 74 functional forms of hedonic price model using the quadratic Box-Cox transformation function and selected one based on the three criteria: expected signs, the statistical significance of estimated coefficients, and goodness of fit in terms of root-mean-square-percentage-error. In this study, we found hat as the after-sales service level increases the price of the personal computer increases. This result is consistent with the hypothesis that the less after-sales service offered with a personal computer, the less consumers are willing to pay for the personal computer, when all else remain constant. This finding shows that since the market works indirectly to influence pricing, the need to rely on consumer protection legislation to guarantee after-sales service is lessened. This study also found that after-sales service supported by each personal computer producer is not a free service, thus produces have a profit incentive for providing after-sales service.

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제어전극을 갖는 방전소자의 방전개시전압 설계에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Design of Discharge Voltage of Discharge Element with Control Electrode)

  • 박근석;최준웅;이대동
    • 전기학회논문지
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    • 제67권11호
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    • pp.1512-1516
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    • 2018
  • The power system and control system constantly reveals surge voltage such as switching surge of lighting devices and power conversion devices, operating and stops surge of rotating devices, charge & discharge surge, opening & closing surge of circuit breakers and the like. Such a surge voltages can cause damage or malfunction of the element such as CPU, Memory, semiconductor etc. In the industry, in order to protect the system from the surge voltage, a surge protector with low discharge starting voltage, fast response time, and low capacitance is required, and technical development research for that is ongoing. In this paper, in order to solve the problem of the existing GDT discharge tube not discharging from the transient voltage which is higher than the commercial voltage and lower than the discharge voltage of the discharge element, we have developed a discharge element having the control electrode & control circuit. The discharge element having the control electrode and the control circuit can control the discharge voltage according to the needs of the consumer and can satisfy the requirement of the discharge element and the technology of the surge protector downsizing technology and the surge protection technology. It is judged to be effective for development.

전자서명(電子署名)과 전자인증(電子認證)의 제문제(諸問題) (Some problems of the Electronic Signature and the Electronic Certification)

  • 최준선
    • 무역상무연구
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    • 제15권
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    • pp.211-238
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    • 2001
  • This article discusses and analyses several issues regarding to the Electronic Signature and the Electronic Certification. The objects of the analyse are the each paragraphs of the Korean Electronic Signature Act of 1999 and that of the Korean Electronic Transaction Basic Act of 1999 in comparing to the paragraphs of the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act' (E-Sign) of 2000, U.S.A. and that of the Draft UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Signature of 2000. The main issues discussed herein are the scope of the electronic signature, the definition of the electronic signature, permission of services to the non-authorized certification service providers, the effect of the electronic signature, the liability of the concerning parties of the electronic signature including liability of the certification service providers, that of the subscribers and that of the relying parties. This paper also discusses the problems of the possibility of issuing the electronic negotiable commercial papers, the validity of the electronic signatures done by electronic agents, the authority certificate, mutual certification of the foreign certification service providers, the permission of the electronic notary service, the problems of the consumer protection and the possibility of issuing electronic insurance policy, etc. The writer concludes by suggesting some measures that will activate the use of electronic signatures under the korean circumstances.

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대전지역 성인 남.녀의 건강보조제 및 건강식품 섭취실태 (Consumption Aspects of Health Supplements or Health Foods by Adult Male and Female in Daejon)

  • 구난숙;박지연
    • 한국생활과학회지
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    • 제10권2호
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    • pp.205-213
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    • 2001
  • A survey was conducted to investigate the intake pattern of health supplements and health foods by using questionnaire. The data were collected from 395 adults over middle age and analyzed with SAS program. The natural foods were most frequently taken among health supplements and health foods for health. There was no difference in pattern of health supplements or health foods intake between male and female. The item taken over 20% of subjects was health drinks, green tea, ginseng product, dietary fiber drink, honey, general tea, tonic medicine from natural foods, vitamin B, vitamin C from nutrition supplements, and Lactobacillus product from health supplements. As the main reason for taking health supplements or health foods, the male indicated recovery of fatigue and improvement of health, but the female indicated recovery of fatigue and protection or treatment on disease(p<0.001). The frequency of taking health supplements or health foods was once a day. About the effect of health foods 70.1%, of subjects answered not bad and 25% responded very helpful for their health. Twenty percent of subjects experienced side effects such as diarrhea. The results showed that the proper education program should be developed for consumer to choose suitable health supplements or health foods according to their dietary life and health condition.

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