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Food Preference of Atopic Children in Incheon Area (아토피 어린이의 친환경 대체식품 개발을 위한 식품선호도 조사)

  • Park Hee-Ok;Cho Woo-Kyoun
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.279-285
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study was to get adequate substitute snacks for atopic dermatitis children. For this purpose food preference was surveyed by questionnaires to atopic dermatitis children in the kindergarten of Incheon area. As a result, anthropometric measurements were not significantly different by gender Most of atopic children were severe malnutrition by Rohrer index average 1.375. $13.3\%$ of atopic dermatitis started during newborn baby. $62.3\%$ of atopic dermatitis symptom started from 7 months to 3 years old. $48.9\%$ of atopic children didn't know the causes of the symptom. Though parents didn't thought instant/retort food, fried food, egg, snacks, milk were good for atopic dermatitis, they have offered egg, milk, meat, mackerel to their atopic dermatitis children for growth. Snacks of atopic dermatitis children were positively correlated between children's eating and favorite snacks(r=0.84), children's eating and parents' wishing snacks (r=0.615) and children's favorite and parents' wishing snacks(r=0.23). Therefore $83.7\%$ of atopic dermatitis children and their parents wanted reliable processed foods, $83.3\%$ of them despite high cost.

Subbase Treatment for Farm Road Using Geo-cement (시멘트계 고화재를 이용한 농로의 보조기층 안정처리공법 연구)

  • 공길용;장병욱
    • Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.43 no.3
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    • pp.77-84
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    • 2001
  • A few study has been performed on the durability of subbase treated with geo-cement for the farm road although many papers for the road treated with soil-cement were published. The objectives of the study are to develop the stabilizing method of subbase using additives of cement groups and 2nd additives such as gypsum and MgO, etc. A series of test was performed to investigate possible mixing ratios with geo-cement A, B, C, D and 2nd additives on the various soft soils from the rice paddy. Based on test results, durability index was greatly affected by geo-cement D which was mainly composed with gypsum. Compressive strength of clayey soil such as Soil I was less than threshold strength(30kgf/$\textrm{cm}^2$) but the strength was increased as addition of gypsum and MgO. It is recommended that geo-cement for soil stabilization has to be carefully chosen because strength characteristics of subbase are varied not only with soils but also with addition of geo-cement and 2nd additives. The developed method in this study can be used subbase treatment of low-cost agricultural roads.

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Identification of fractional-derivative-model parameters of viscoelastic materials using an optimization technique (최적화 기법을 이용한 점탄성물질의 유리미분모델 물성값 추정)

  • Kim, Sun-Yong;Lee, Doo-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.1235-1242
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    • 2006
  • Viscoelastic damping materials are widely used to reduce noise and vibration because of its low cost and easy implementation, for examples, on the body structure of passenger cars, air planes, electric appliances and ships. To design the damped structures, the material property such as elastic modulus and loss factor is essential information. The four-parameter fractional derivative model well describes the nonlinear dynamic characteristics of the viscoelastic damping materials with respect to both frequency and temperature with fewer parameters than conventional spring-dashpot models. However the identification procedure of the four-parameter is very time-consuming one. An efficient identification procedure of the four-parameters is proposed by using an FE model and a gradient-based numerical search algorithm. The identification procedure goes two sequential steps to make measured FRFs coincident with simulated FRFs: the first one is a peak alignment step and the second one is an amplitude adjustment. A numerical example shows that the proposed method is efficient and robust in identifying the viscoelastic material parameters of fractional derivative model.

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The Effect of Energy Efficiency Investment on Industry's Productivity Growth (에너지효율화 투자의 산업생산성 파급효과 분석)

  • Lee, Myunghun
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.291-308
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    • 2011
  • The success of a target of 'low-carbon green growth' depends on whether installing energy-saving capital would result in an increase in industry's productivity growth. Defining total factor productivity from a dual cost function, this paper estimates the contribution of energy efficiency investment to productivity growth by analyzing the sources of growth of productivity index for the primary metal industries. Empirical results show that, on average, energy efficiency investment increased the annual rate of productivity growth by 1.16 percentage points over th period 1982~2006. In addition, The scale effect positively affected the contribution of energy efficiency investment on productivity growth.

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Spatial Planning of Climate Adaptation Zone to Promote Climate Change Adaptation for Endangered Species (생물다양성 보전을 위한 기후적응지역 설정 연구 -삵의 서식지를 중심으로-)

  • Lee, Dongkun;Baek, Gyounghye;Park, Chan;Kim, Hogul
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.111-117
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    • 2011
  • This study attempts to facilitate climate change adaptation in conservation area by spatial planning of climate adaptation zone for endangered species. Spatial area is South Korea and select leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) as a target species of this study. In order to specify the climate adaptation zone, firstly, Maximum entropy method (Maxent) was used to identify suitable habitat, and then core habitat was selected for leopard cat. Secondly, land use resistance index was evaluated and least cost distance was analyzed for target species. In this step we choose dispersal capacity of leopard cat to reflect species ecological characteristic. Finally, climate adaptation zone is described and adaptation measures are suggested. The presented approach could be generalized for application into conservation planning and restoration process. Furthermore, spatial planning of climate adaptation zone could increase heterogeneity of habitat and improve adaptive capacity of species and habitat itself.

Design and Implementation of a Novel Frequency Modulation Circuit using Phase Locked Loop Synthesizer (PLL 주파수 합성기를 이용한 새로운 주파수 변조 회로 설계 및 제작)

  • 양승식;이종환;염경환
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.599-607
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    • 2004
  • In this paper, using phase locked loop(PLL) synthesizer, we introduce a novel but simple and low cost frequency modulation(FM) circuit of a flat peak frequency deviation fur modulation signal whose frequency covers from outside to inside of the loop-bandwidth of PLL. The FM circuit was basically designed to compensate an amount of feedback of the loop filter in PLL. The circuit also includes the capability of the adjustment of peak frequency deviation and of blocking the intereference with the loop filter. The designed circuit was successfully implemented and showed the flat frequency deviation as expected in the design. In addition, the novel measurement method of the wideband FM modulation index is suggested verified With the suggest measurement, it can be successfully shown the designed circuit has the expected frequency deviation.

Solution-Processed Anti Reflective Transparent Conducting Electrode for Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Thin Film Solar Cells (CIGS 박막태양전지를 위한 반사방지특성을 가진 용액공정 투명전극)

  • Park, Sewoong;Park, Taejun;Lee, Sangyeob;Chung, Choong-Heui
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.131-135
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    • 2020
  • Silver nanowire (AgNW) networks have been adopted as a front electrode in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) thin film solar cells due to their low cost and compatibility with the solution process. When an AgNW network is applied to a CIGS thin film solar cell, reflection loss can increase because the CdS layer, with a relatively high refractive index (n ~ 2.5 at 550 nm), is exposed to air. To resolve the issue, we apply solution-processed ZnO nanorods to the AgNW network as an anti-reflective coating. To obtain high performance of the optical and electrical properties of the ZnO nanorod and AgNW network composite, we optimize the process parameters - the spin coating of AgNWs and the concentration of zinc nitrate and hexamethylene tetramine (HMT - to fabricate ZnO nanorods. We verify that 10 mM of zinc nitrate and HMT show the lowest reflectance and 10% cell efficiency increase when applied to CIGS thin film solar cells.

Multi-Objective Modular Design Method Using Similarity Concept (유사도 개념을 이용한 다목적 모듈화 설계법)

  • Nahm, Yoon-Eui;Ishikawa, Haruo
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.16-23
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    • 2012
  • At present, the significance of a new manufacturing system that can shift from 'mass production' and consider life cycles of a product is pointed out and extremely expected. In such a situation, it is recognized that the modular design, often called 'unit design,' is the important design methodology which realizes the new production system enabling 'cost reduction,' 'flexible production of a multi-functional artifact,' 'settlement of an environmental issue,' and so on. A module (unit) of a product is generally defined as 'the parts group made into the sub-system from a certain specific viewpoint.' So far, there have been many researches related to the modular design. However, they are often limited to a certain viewpoint (objective). This paper proposes a simple but effective method for multi-objective modular design. In the proposed method, a new design metric, called similarity index, is proposed to evaluate the modular design candidates from the multiple viewpoints.

Case Study on Improvement of Hospital Foodservice by Introduction of FMEA Techniques - Focus on Food Delivery Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction - (FMEA 기법 도입을 통한 병원 급식 품질 개선 사례 연구 - 배선서비스 품질 개선 및 환자만족도 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Hye-Jin;Hong, Jeong-Im;Heo, Gyu-Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Dietetic Association
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.25-36
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    • 2015
  • In this study, we attempted to improve hospital food delivery service quality and customer satisfaction by using FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis), which is applied to the quality control of products in manufacturing plants. Subjective food delivery service quality improvement was judged based on a 5-point likert scale. Traditional FMEA uses an RPN (Risk priority number) to evaluate the risk level of a component or process. The RPN index was determined by calculating the product of severity, occurrence, and detection indexes. In our results, total RPN value (P<0.01) significantly decreased after FMEA introduction, whereas customer satisfaction (P<0.001) and food delivery service quality (P<0.001) significantly increased. Specifically, foodservice errors (P<0.01) and loss cost (P<0.01) were significantly improved by FMEA introduction. Taken together, we suggest that FMEA reduces critical activities and errors in foodservice delivery caused by simple priority selection.

Design on Fixed Quantity Analytical Model for Information System Audit based on Requirements (요구사항 기반 정보시스템 감리의 정량화 분석 모델 설계)

  • Kim, Hee-Wan;Kim, Hun-Kyeom;Koh, Chan;Kim, Dong-Soo
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.141-156
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    • 2011
  • Auditors' subjective opinions m audit activities weaken reliability in audit judgments. This paper suggests fixed quantity models through requirement priority for improving objective evaluation and priorities of requirements in information system audit. The value of requirements was evaluated based on customers' requirements with a premise that they are not in the same level. Furthermore, the audit objective judgments were enhanced to enable fixed quantity of subjective audit by subdividing detailed evaluation index of requirement priority standards into importance of service and function on orderers' perspective, and sectioning cost and schedule on contractors' perspective.