A Study on the Automated Payment System for Artificial Intelligence-Based Product Recognition in the Age of Contactless Services
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- International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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- 제9권2호
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- pp.100-105
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- 2021
Contactless service is rapidly emerging as a new growth strategy due to consumers who are reluctant to the face-to-face situation in the global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and various technologies are being developed to support the fast-growing contactless service market. In particular, the restaurant industry is one of the most desperate industrial fields requiring technologies for contactless service, and the representative technical case should be a kiosk, which has the advantage of reducing labor costs for the restaurant owners and provides psychological relaxation and satisfaction to the customer. In this paper, we propose a solution to the restaurant's store operation through the unmanned kiosk using a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) technology of image recognition. Especially, for the products that do not have barcodes in bakeries, fresh foods (fruits, vegetables, etc.), and autonomous restaurants on highways, which cause increased labor costs and many hassles, our proposed system should be very useful. The proposed system recognizes products without barcodes on the ground of image-based AI algorithm technology and makes automatic payments. To test the proposed system feasibility, we established an AI vision system using a commercial camera and conducted an image recognition test by training object detection AI models using donut images. The proposed system has a self-learning system with mismatched information in operation. The self-learning AI technology allows us to upgrade the recognition performance continuously. We proposed a fully automated payment system with AI vision technology and showed system feasibility by the performance test. The system realizes contactless service for self-checkout in the restaurant business area and improves the cost-saving in managing human resources.
Due to increasing awareness on the treatment of end-of-use/life products, disassembly has been a fast-growing research area of interest for many researchers over recent decades. This paper introduces a novel lot-sizing problem that has not been studied in the literature, which is the service-parts lot-sizing with disassembly option. The disassembly option implies that the demands of service parts can be fulfilled by newly manufactured parts, but also by disassembled parts. The disassembled parts are the ones recovered after the disassembly of end-of-use/life products. The objective of the considered problem is to maximize the total profit, i.e., the revenue of selling the service parts minus the total cost of the fixed setup, production, disassembly, inventory holding, and disposal over a planning horizon. This paper proves that the single-period version of the considered problem is NP-hard and suggests a heuristic by combining a simulated annealing algorithm and a linear-programming relaxation. Computational experiment results show that the heuristic generates near-optimal solutions within reasonable computation time, which implies that the heuristic is a viable optimization tool for the service parts inventory management. In addition, sensitivity analyses indicate that deciding an appropriate price of disassembled parts and an appropriate collection amount of EOLs are very important for sustainable service parts systems.
폐유의 발생량에 비해 폐유 정제업체수가 크게 증가하여 폐유의 물량이 부족하고, 수거경쟁으로 인해 과도한 비용이 투입되고 있으며, 질이 나쁜 폐유를 함께 수거해 정제하고 있어 환경오염의 가능성이 높다. 과도한 비용으로 인한 정제유의 가격 상승은 소비자에게 부담을 주고 있다. 이러한 상황을 해결하기 위해 폐유 재활용 활성화 방안을 제시하였다. 재활용 활성화 방안 첫 번째로 부족한 폐유 물량 확보를 위한 폐유 수입은 선진국으로부터 가능하다. 수입국의 국제공인기관에서 품질검사를 실시한 후 국내에 반입 시 석유품질관리원에서 이중으로 검사를 실시하여야 하여 철저한 관리가 필요하다. 폐유 정제 비용 중 큰 비율을 차지하는 수분 및 침전물 품질기준의 완화를 고려하였으나, 이 경우 침전물의 함량이 높아져 환경적으로 문제가 될 수 있기 때문에, 영향이 적은 수분을 따로 측정하여 기준을 완화하고 침전물의 기준은 2%로 유지하였다. 마지막으로 폐유를 난방기 연료로 사용하는 경우가 있어 환경오염의 가능성이 있으며, 적절한 관리가 요구된다. 폐유난방기 사용은 품질이 우수한 자동차용 폐윤활유를 연료로 사용하고, 대기오염방지장치가 포함되어 있다면 사용가능하다. 폐기물 발생자 처리원칙에 부합되고, 품질이 우수한 폐유를 수거과정과 처리과정을 통해 투입되는 비용을 절감할 수 있다.
본(本) 논문(論文)에서는 기업결합(企業結合)에 의한 경쟁력향상(競爭力向上)이 어떤 특정 조건하에서 자국(自國)의 총후생(總厚生)을 향상시킬수 있음을 보여주고 있는데 이러한 분석결과(分析結果)는 두가지 측면에서 유용(有用)하다 하겠다. 첫째로는 정책(政策)을 수립하는데 입장(立場)에서는 국제경쟁력(國際競爭力) 향상(向上)을 위한 독과점규제의 완화가 어떤 조건하(條件下)에서 유리(有利)한 정책이 될 것인지를 검토(檢討)하는 것이 중요하며, 둘째로 국내총후생수준(國內總厚生水準)의 증가에 필요한 임계비용절감수준(臨界費用節減水準)의 명시적(明示的)인 도출(導出)은 독과점법(獨寡占法)의 면제(免除)가 사회적으로 유익하기 위한 필수조건(必須條件)들을 충족(充足)시키지 못하는 산업(産業)들을 사전적으로 가려내는 경제적(經濟的)인 규칙을 제공해 줄 수 있기 때문이다. 시장개방(市場開放) 및 국제화(國際化)의 진전에 따라 최근 우리나라에서도 각 산업(産業)에 대한 규제(規制)가 완화되는 추세에 있고 경쟁력(競爭力)을 향상시키는 한 방편으로서 국내기업의 대형화(大型化)가 장려되는 경향도 보인다. 경제력 집중현상에 대한 우려보다는 경쟁력제고(競爭力提高)에 우위를 두고 기업결합규제정책(企業結合規制政策)을 보다 신축적으로 운용하려는 입장은 1986년 제정된 '공업발전법(工業發展法)'과 최근의 '금융기관(金融機關)의 합병(合倂) 및 전환(轉換)에 관한 법률(法律)(안(案))'에 잘 반영되어 있다. 본고(本稿)에서의 분석(分析)에 따르면 국제화시대에 부응한 이러한 정책변화(政策變化)의 필요성은 인정되지만, 경쟁력(競爭力) 배양(培養)이라는 애초의 목표가 좌절되지 않기 위해서는 합병(合倂)에서 기인하는 효율성향상(效率性向上)의 잠재력에 대한 실증적인 뒷받침과 더불어 대형화가 초래할 수 있는 비효율성(非效率性)을 최대한 줄이기 위한 노력도 병행해야 할 것이다.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the attitudes toward complementary and alternative medicine among 1,490 residents(339 households) in Suwon city. Methods: All respondents were asked about types, frequency, effects, side-effects, views, and cost of complementary or alternative medicine through a questionnaire from July 24th to 27th. Six therapies were investigated: diet; acupuncture/ massage/ chiropractic etc., mind control such as Ki/ Yoga/ spiritual therapy/ relaxation therapy etc.; nutritional supplements, cultural remedies; and Herb medications Results: The results of this survey were as follows: 35.6% of respondents had experiences with at least one or more types of complementary and alternative medicine. The average number of different types of therapies used was 3.4. More experience with various types of therapies were found among those respondents of higher education, older age group, higher income, married group, religious group than among the opposite groups of respondents. Herb medications were used most frequently(39.8%), followed by minor grains(37.9%), Ginseng(23.8%), Boshintang(21.5%), acupuncture(20.3%), Gaesojou(15.3%) Gingko nut(12.0%), mushroom(11.5%), Cupping therapy(10.2%), and black goat(0.0%). Acupuncture and Herb medications were used for treatment of hypertension the most frequently; minor grains or silkworm for treatment of diabetic mellitus; vegetables for treatment of obesity; acupuncture, Cupping Therapy, Herb medications for treatment of rheumatism; and acupuncture, Herb medications, or exercises for treatment of Cerebro Vascular Accident(CVA). The average costs of treatment were 108,000 Won for hypertension, 87,200 Won for diabetic mellitus, 16,800 Won for obesity, 68,800 Won for rheumatism, and 87,500 Won for CVA. Among 10.9% of respondents, there were 13 cases of side-effects with acupuncture, Herb medications, and Gaesojou. Among the cases of side-effects, majority was due to Herb medications. Respondents reported that Cupping Therapy was the most effective, followed by acupuncture, Ginseng, Gingko nut, Boshintang, black goat, minor grains, Gaesojou, Herb medications, vegetables, and mushroom. In response to the views of complementary and alternative medicine which they had used, they recommended minor grains first, followed by Ginseng, acupuncture, Gingko nut, Cupping Therapy, vegetables, Boshintang, black goat, mushroom and Herb medications. In contrast, they did not recommend Herb medications, acupuncture, nor Gaesojou. Conclusions: These findings indicate that many people use various complementary and alternative medicine without any guidelines for treatment of serious chronic diseases not even to invigorate themselves. It is, therefore, suggested that medical doctors or scientists verify the true effects or side-effects from the most common complementary or alternative therapies through experiments. Also medical doctors should provide a comfortable atmosphere for discussion among doctors and patients who would like to try these therapies.
The study was undertaken to see the effect of elevated feeding during pre-partum or pre- as well as post-partum period on the productive and reproductive performance of crossbred cows. The experiment lasted for 60 d pre-partum to 120 d post-partum. Eighteen dry pregnant crossbred cows divided into three equal groups were fed either as per NRC feeding standard (C) or 20% above NRC during 60 d pre-partum (
하수처리시설, 군부대 등의 산업이전적지의 공원화 계획이 늘어나면서 브라운필드 재개발은 조경계획 및 디자인에서 하나의 분야로 자리 잡았다. 특히, 주변 커뮤니티 활성화, 지가 상승 등 동반이익에 대한 기대가 높아지면서 선별된 부지들의 종합적 계획 및 관리에 대한 필요성이 인식되고 있다. 본 연구는 미국 브라운 필드 관리 정책의 변화양상을 살펴 본 기초적인 사례연구로서, 1980년 수퍼펀드 프로그램 도입 이후, 약 30 여 년간 확장하여 온 브라운필드 프로그램과 정책의 시기별 특성을 파악하는 것을 주 목적으로 한다. 연구 방법으로 서술적, 해석적 방법에 기반한 미국 환경부 산하 기관들의 웹문서 및 관련 문헌 분석을 통해 정책의 특성을 시계열적으로 분석하였다. 본 연구의 결과, 주요한 변화를 기점으로 하여, 환경규제시기, 오염정화 및 재개발 촉진시기, 종합적 계획시기의 세 가지 시기로 구분되었고, 주요 특성은 규제 완화 및 재조정, 지원 프로그램의 다양화, 하향식과 상향식 방식의 조화, 데이터베이스 구축의 네 가지 측면으로 요약되었다. 본 연구는 대상지 선별기준, 이해 당사자 파악 및 책임분쟁 조정, 오염도 평가비용 및 처리 등 브라운필드만이 가진 공통 문제들이 어떻게 다뤄져 왔는지 선례를 살펴봄으로써, 향후 한국의 체계적 브라운 필드 관리 및 계획에 시사점을 제공하는 것에 의의를 두고 있다.
The purpose of this study was to develop a parenting intervention program and determine the efficacy of the program with low-birth weight infants and their mothers. Nine dyads for the experimental group and twelve dyads for the control group discharged from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of a University Hospital in Seoul were recruited for the study. For the intervention group, programmed education and support which focused on the maternal sensitivity of the infant's behavior. rearing environment. motherinfant interaction and infant care were given to each subject. Individual counseling and home visits were provided at discharge, one week after discharge. and one and three months of corrected age in every infant. Structured questionaires were administered and feeding interactions were videotaped and coded by a blinded certified observer. A Quasi-experimental design was conducted for this study. Postpartum depression, maternal self esteem. infant care burden, HOME. mother-infant interaction, and infant development were measured. Results were in favor of the intervention versus the control group. On the Beck depression inventory, intervention mothers showed decreasing trends in depressive symptom vs control mothers although, there were statistically no significant differences between the two groups at each time. The mean score of experimental group was 11.55(mild depression state) at discharge and became 8,6(normal state) at 1 month of corrected age. On the other hand, the mean score of the control group was 13.92(mild depression state) at discharge and became 14.0. Maternal self esteem in both groups improved over time. Infant care burden in both groups was also shown to increase over time. There was a significant difference between the two groups in HOME(p=.0340) at 3 months of corrected age. HOME scores of the experimental group and the control's were 31.10 and 25.58, respectively. Mothers' emotional and language responses were significantly high in the intervention group compared with the control group(p=.0155). Intervention group (53.33) showed a significantly high quality of motherinfant interaction compared with the in control group (42.80)(p =.0340). Intervention group mothers appeared have a better quality of mother-infant interaction behaviors. On the other hand, there was no statistical difference in the infant part between groups. Intervention group infants had higher trends in a general developmental quotient: although, there was no statistical difference between groups. The general developmental quotient of intervention infants was 102.56 and control's was 91.28. However, the developmental quotient of the domain of 'individuality-sociality' was higher in the intervention group infants compared with the control's(p=.0155). The concerns identified by parents revealed two domains of an infants' health management -knowledge and skills in caregiving of lowbirthweight-infants, characteristics of lowbirthweight infants, identifying a developmental milestone, coping with emergency situations and relaxation strategies of mothers from the infant care burden. Interview data with the mothers of low-birth weight infants can be used to develop intervention program contents. Limited intervention time and frequency due to time and cost limitations of this study should be modified. The intervention should be continuously implemented when low-birth weight infants become three years old. An NNNS demonstration appeared to be a very effective intervention for the mothers to improve the quality of mother-infant interactions. Therefore intervening in the mothers of low-birth weight infants as early after delivery as possible is desirable. This study has shown that home visit interventions are worthwhile for mothers only beyond the approach as an essential factor in ability of facilitating a growth fostering environment. In conclusion. the intervention program of this study was very effective in enhancing the parenting for the mothers of low-birth weight infants, resulting in health promotion of low-birth weight infants. The home-visit outreach intervention program of this study will contribute to the health delivery system in this country where there is a lack of continuous follow-up programs for low-birth weight infants after discharge from NICU, if it is activated as part of the home visit programs in community health systems.
The wall shear stress in the vicinity of end-to end anastomoses under steady flow conditions was measured using a flush-mounted hot-film anemometer(FMHFA) probe. The experimental measurements were in good agreement with numerical results except in flow with low Reynolds numbers. The wall shear stress increased proximal to the anastomosis in flow from the Penrose tubing (simulating an artery) to the PTFE: graft. In flow from the PTFE graft to the Penrose tubing, low wall shear stress was observed distal to the anastomosis. Abnormal distributions of wall shear stress in the vicinity of the anastomosis, resulting from the compliance mismatch between the graft and the host artery, might be an important factor of ANFH formation and the graft failure. The present study suggests a correlation between regions of the low wall shear stress and the development of anastomotic neointimal fibrous hyperplasia(ANPH) in end-to-end anastomoses. 30523 T00401030523 ^x Air pressure decay(APD) rate and ultrafiltration rate(UFR) tests were performed on new and saline rinsed dialyzers as well as those roused in patients several times. C-DAK 4000 (Cordis Dow) and CF IS-11 (Baxter Travenol) reused dialyzers obtained from the dialysis clinic were used in the present study. The new dialyzers exhibited a relatively flat APD, whereas saline rinsed and reused dialyzers showed considerable amount of decay. C-DAH dialyzers had a larger APD(11.70
The wall shear stress in the vicinity of end-to end anastomoses under steady flow conditions was measured using a flush-mounted hot-film anemometer(FMHFA) probe. The experimental measurements were in good agreement with numerical results except in flow with low Reynolds numbers. The wall shear stress increased proximal to the anastomosis in flow from the Penrose tubing (simulating an artery) to the PTFE: graft. In flow from the PTFE graft to the Penrose tubing, low wall shear stress was observed distal to the anastomosis. Abnormal distributions of wall shear stress in the vicinity of the anastomosis, resulting from the compliance mismatch between the graft and the host artery, might be an important factor of ANFH formation and the graft failure. The present study suggests a correlation between regions of the low wall shear stress and the development of anastomotic neointimal fibrous hyperplasia(ANPH) in end-to-end anastomoses. 30523 T00401030523 ^x Air pressure decay(APD) rate and ultrafiltration rate(UFR) tests were performed on new and saline rinsed dialyzers as well as those roused in patients several times. C-DAK 4000 (Cordis Dow) and CF IS-11 (Baxter Travenol) reused dialyzers obtained from the dialysis clinic were used in the present study. The new dialyzers exhibited a relatively flat APD, whereas saline rinsed and reused dialyzers showed considerable amount of decay. C-DAH dialyzers had a larger APD(11.70