• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.110-121
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• 1993

Pepper has been the second important income source of Korean farmer. Provided the agricultural market in Korea is opened, pepper of which price is more than three times of the world market price can not survive with current cultivation practice. Pepper harvesters have been developed in some countries but, they are not feasible in Korea due to difference of varieties, cultivation practice and climate between Korea and other countries. This is a fundamental study to develop a pepper harvester suitable to the current situation in Korea. Physical properties of a pepper plant and its fruit were investigated. Also, a pair of open helices was selected as a pepper removing mechanism and tested to determine the best operating conditions. This study revealed that a pepper harvester with more than 90% of pepper recovery is attainable. Best rotating speed of open helices with 30cm diameter and conveying velocity of pepper main stem were determined to be 180 rpm and 0.1 m/s respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.74-77
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• 2001

Recently, many kinds of air-conditioners are supplied over the world. It is very Important that our winning against many competitors from any other countries. The room airconditioners, one of main export products are also developed for many other countries, but America is unique one of our markets at the point of product types after service and marketing. So, we need our new product development procedure and duality assurance system for the north America.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.11b
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• pp.17-19
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• 2005

This paper illustrates the case studies of reliability evaluation for interconnecting power systems in the north east Asia by using the tie line constrained equivalent assisting generator model(TEAG), which has been already developed in the second project year. A reliability evaluation program, it is named, NEAREL. based on the TEAS model was made. The reliability evaluation results for the seven interconnection scenarios of the actual power systems of six countries in the north east Asia are introduced and compared. The reasonable capacity of the tie line for three countries interconnection senario is suggested from sensitivity analysis.

• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.5-10
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• 1983

Foreign direct investment is considered to be one of the important technology transfer channels from advanced countries to less developed countries. The purpose of the study is to find the answers for the problems: if there is any difference of technology absorption level between the foreign affiliate companies, and what are the major factors which explain the difference. It is shown that the technology absorption level of foreign affiliate company is negatively related to the management control level by foreigners, to the rate of exportation, but positively related to the number of competing company and to the nature of generality of the technology.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.244-247
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• 2003

Recently, construction materials have been quickly advancing. Especially, the rate of development of cement based construction materials is much quicker than steel or composite materials. In order to optimize the ductility and strength of cement based materials, Micro-Mechanics based fiber concrete called Engineered Cement Composite (ECC) has been developed and studied extensively by many researchers in the field due to ECC's remarkable flexural strain and strength capacities, many leading nation (i.e., US, Japan and European countries have reached the point of being able to use ECC in actual constructions. But, due to the belated interest in the field, Korea is lagging behind the leading countries. ECC's ability to use its short fibers to bridge micro-cracks (50-80㎛ in width) allows great ductility and strength. In this study, it is confirmed excellency of ECC through the test of tensile strength.

• YAKHAK HOEJI
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• v.59 no.4
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• pp.137-150
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• 2015

Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading cause of death in many developed countries as well as developing countries. Many evidences indicate that natural products have profound beneficial effects for cardioprotection. In addition to the crude extracts, an identified single compound may be used as a lead molecule for the therapeutic interests. In this review, we discuss promising natural products for cardiovascular diseases, their molecular targets, and their mechanisms, which may help the further direction of studies and applications of natural products for cardiovascular diseases.

• Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.478-484
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• 2009

Currently, the interests of shortage of water supply is on the rise. Even developed countries are also suffering from a drought and insufficient water supply. Likewise other countries, we do have same problem, but unfortunately we do not have any proper solution either. One of the ways suggested to settle the problem is using rain water that gets people's eyes. Rain water is evaluated such as a good way to blow the problem of water shortage out and unlimited resource. So, this study focused on the prospect of rain harvest system and possible economic effects if this system adopt in Main Stadium of Busan Asiad.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.361-366
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• 2003

Recently, construction materials have been guickly advancing. Especially, the rate of development of cement based construction materials is much quicker than steel or composite materials. In order to optimize the ductility and strength of cement based materials, Micro-Mechanics based fiber concrete called Engineered Cement Composite (ECC) has been developed and studied extensively by many researchers in the field due to ECC's remarkable flexural strain and strength capacities, many leading nation (i.e., US, Japan and European countries have reached the point of being able to use ECC in actual constructions. But, due to the belated interest in the field, Korea is lagging behind the leading countries. ECC's ability to use its short fibers to bridge micro-cracks (50-80㎛ in width) allows great ductility and strength. ,In this study, ECC with superior material capacities are manufactured using domestic materials such as cement, silica sand, metal cellulose, etc. Using only domestic products, the optimal W/C ratio and mixing procedures are determined.

• Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.173-186
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• 1999

For happy life, it is first of all essential to live healthily although wealth is important too. Korean government has enforced National Health Insurance Program and has improved it every year. However, health security still leaves something to be desired in Korea. Although Korean government also enacted National Health Promotion Law in 1995, the national health promotion policy has not been effectively carried out because of the problems of institution related to policy implementation and expenses of organizations. Also, community health services have failed to realize the anticipated results. Especially, health education services which are deeply related to national health consciousness are not well accomplished. Therefore, the average life span of Korean people is 73.5 years which display the level of the developing countries, while it is 74.7 years in the developed countries. Various health education services which Korean government and private organizations are carrying out are not activated. At this time, national health behavior and Quality of life will be greatly enhanced if "Mobile Health Education Teams" play active roles with new image, visiting vulnerable areas to health problems all over the country.e country.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.97-115
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• 2012

This paper investigates the relationship between financial markets and output growth for a panel of 27 Asian countries over 1960-2009. It utilizes the recently-developed panel cointegration techniques to test and estimate the long-run equilibrium relationship between real GDP and financial development proxies. Real GDP and financial development variables are found to have unit roots and to be cointegrated, based on various panel unit root tests and panel cointegration tests. We find that there is a statistically significant positive bi-directional cointegrating relationship between financial development and output growth by three distinct methods of panel cointegration estimation. Empirical findings suggest that financial market development promotes output growth and in turn output growth stimulates further financial development.