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LCA 기법을 이용한 소맥분 생산 공정의 환경 영향 평가 (Environmental Impacts Assessment of the Wheat Flour Production Process Using the Life Cycle Assessment Method)

  • 추덕성;권혁구;김종규;이장훈
    • 한국환경보건학회지
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    • 제34권1호
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    • pp.62-69
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    • 2008
  • The life cycle assessment method for environmental impact assessment was used, in this study, to assess the production process of wheat flour which is the most important material in the food industry. Environmental impact assessments were compared between that of the Ministry of Environment, Republic of Korea (method I) with that of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy (method II). Life cycle inventories (LCI) was performed using internal and external databases and the production statistics database of company S. The procedure of life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) was followed in terms of classification, characterization, normalization and weighting to identify the key issues. The impact categories of method I were divided into 8 categories with consideration of : abiotic resources depletion, global warming, ozone depletion, photochemical oxidant creation, acidification and eutrophication. The impact categories of method II were divided into 10 categories with consideration of: abiotic resources depletion, global warming, ozone depletion, photochemical oxidant creation, acidification, eutrophication, human toxicity, freshwater aquatic ecotoxicity, marine aquatic ecotoxicity and terrestrial ecotoxicity.

Identification of Critical Elements in Water Distribution Networks using Resilience Index Measurement

  • Marlim, Malvin Samuel;Jeong, Gimoon;Kang, Doosun
    • 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국수자원학회 2019년도 학술발표회
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    • pp.162-162
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    • 2019
  • Water Distribution Network (WDN) is a critical infrastructure to be maintained ensuring proper water supply to wide-spread consumers. The WDN consists of pipes, valves, pumps and tanks, and these elements interact each other to provide adequate system performance. If elements fail by internal or external interruptions, it may result in adverse impact to water service with different degree depending on the failed element. To determine an appropriate maintenance priority, the critical elements need to be identified and mapped in the network. In order to identify and prioritize the critical elements in WDN, an element-based simulation approach is proposed, in which all the elements composing the WDN are reviewed one at a time. The element-based criticality is measured using several resilience indexes that are newly developed in this study. The proposed resilience indexes are used to quantify the impacts of element failure to water service degradation. Here, three resilience indexes are developed, such as User Demand Severity, Economic Value Loss and Water Age Degradation, each of which intends to measure different aspects of consequences, such as social, economic, and water quality, respectively. For demonstration, the proposed approach is applied to a benchmark water network to identify and prioritize the critical elements.

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수심과 퇴적 깊이 변화에 따른 해저배관의 하중지지능력 평가 (Load-Bearing Capacity of Subsea Pipeline with Variation of Sea Water Depth and Buried Depth)

  • 백종현;김영표;김우식
    • 대한기계학회논문집A
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    • 제36권10호
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    • pp.1131-1137
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    • 2012
  • 해저배관은 부력과 외부 충격을 방지하기 위하여 1.2~4m의 매설 깊이로 설치되어 운영된다. 해저배관은 수압과 토하중에 의한 외압으로부터 소성붕괴에 대한 저항성을 가져야한다. 해저배관에 수압과 토하중으로 발생하는 원주응력을 유한요소해석으로 파악하여 배관의 건전성에 미치는 영향을 평가하였다. 내압은 외압에 의한 소성붕괴 저항성을 향상시켜 소성붕괴 발생 깊이를 증가시켰다 동일 수심에서는 매설 깊이 증가에 따라 원주응력은 증가하나, 동일 매설 깊이에서는 수심이 증가함에 따라 배관에서 발생하는 원주응력은 감소한다.

IC 센서를 이용한 고속철도차량 구동장치의 무선 온도 모니터링 시스템 (Wireless Temperature Monitoring of Driving Gear Unit in High Speed Train Using IC Sensor)

  • 권석진;서정원;이동형;황지성
    • 한국정밀공학회지
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    • 제30권7호
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    • pp.673-678
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    • 2013
  • Driving gear units can be affected by various problems, including those associated with external or internal defects in the bearing, problems with the lubricant oil, high-loading of the railway, and frequent impacts generated by rail joints. Temperature monitoring is a basic method in diagnosing abnormal conditions in the reduction gear and other components. This paper describes a new wireless monitoring system for the temperature diagnosis of abnormal conditions of the reduction gear. Integrated circuit (IC)-type temperature sensors were installed in the reduction gear box of a high-speed railway car. The temperature data from the reduction gear were acquired and analyzed in situ during high-speed rail operation. Analysis of these data was used to alert the driver and/or maintenance personnel when problems occurred.

Corporate Governance Mechanisms in Saudi Arabia: The Case of Family Ownership with Audit Committee Activity

  • WAKED, Sami;ALJAAIDI, Khaled
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • 제8권5호
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    • pp.151-156
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    • 2021
  • This paper empirically examines the relationship between one of the major corporate governance attributes; family ownership and the audit committee activity across a sample of 430 publicly traded firms on the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) for the period 2012-2019. Using the Pooled OLS regression, this study finds that family ownership is negatively associated with audit committee activity. This study reported that family ownership is negatively associated with audit committee activity, giving support to the convergence-of-interest hypothesis. Therefore, the existence of family ownership as a monitoring corporate governance mechanism substitutes the audit committee activity as another monitoring mechanism. This study provides empirical evidence on the associations of two internal corporate governance mechanisms, namely; family ownership and audit committee activity in the Saudi context where there is a paucity of research in this area. The findings of this study provide a new understanding regarding the extent to which family ownership impacts the activity of audit committees in manufacturing companies. Similarly, the companies' management, external auditors, bankers, and companies would also benefit from understanding the influential factors of the audit committee activities.

Analysis of radioactivity levels and hazard assessment of black sand samples from Rashid area, Egypt

  • Abdel-Rahman, Mohamed A.E.;El-Mongy, Sayed A.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제49권8호
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    • pp.1752-1757
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    • 2017
  • The aim of this study is to evaluate the radioactivity levels and radiological impacts of representative black sand samples collected from different locations in the Rashid area, Egypt. These samples were prepared and then analyzed using the high-resolution gamma ray spectroscopy technique with a high-purity germanium detector. The activity concentration ($A_c$), minimum detectable activity, absorbed gamma dose rate, external hazard index ($H_{ex}$), annual effective dose rate equivalent, radium equivalent, as well as external and internal hazard index ($H_{ex}$ and $H_{in}$, respectively) were estimated based on the measured radionuclide concentration of the $^{238}U$($^{226}Ra$) and $^{232}Th$ decay chains and $^{40}K$. The activity concentrations of the $^{238}U$, $^{232}Th$ decay series and $^{40}K$ of these samples varied from $45.11{\pm}3.1Bq/kg$ to $252.38{\pm}34.3Bq/kg$, from $64.65{\pm}6.1Bq/kg$ to $579.84{\pm}53.1Bq/kg$, and from $403.36{\pm}20.8Bq/kg$ to $527.47{\pm}23.1Bq/kg$, respectively. The activity concentration of $^{232}Th$ in Sample 1 has the highest value compared to the other samples; this value is also higher than the worldwide mean range as reported by UNSCEAR 2000. The total absorbed gamma dose rate and the annual effective dose for these samples were found to vary from 81.19 nGy/h to 497.81 nGy/h and from $99.86{\mu}Sv/y$ to $612.31{\mu}Sv/y$, which are higher than the world average values of 59 nGy/h and $70{\mu}Sv/y$, respectively. The $H_{ex}$ values were also calculated to be 3.02, 0.47, 0.63, 0.87, 0.87, 0.51 and 0.91. It was found that the calculated value of $H_{ex}$ for Sample 1 is significantly higher than the international acceptable limit of <1. The results are tabulated, depicted, and discussed within national and international frameworks, levels, and approaches.

업무성과에 영향을 주는 업무용 모바일 어플리케이션의 주요 요인에 관한 연구 (An Empirical Study on the Influencing Factors of Perceived Job Performance in the Context of Enterprise Mobile Applications)

  • 정성훈;김기민
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • 제24권1호
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    • pp.31-50
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    • 2014
  • The ubiquitous accessibility of information through mobile devices has led to an increased mobility of workers from their fixed workplaces. Market researchers estimate that by 2016, 350 million workers will be using their smartphones for business purposes, and the use of smartphones will offer new business benefits. Enterprises are now adopting mobile technologies for numerous applications to increase their operational efficiency, improve their responsiveness and competitiveness, and cultivate their innovativeness. For these reasons, various organizational aspects concerning "mobile work" have received a great deal of recent attention. Moreover, many CIOs plan to allocate a considerable amount of their budgets mobile work environments. In particular, with the consumerization of information technology, enterprise mobile applications (EMA) have played a significant role in the explosive growth of mobile computing in the workplace, and even in improving sales for firms in this field. EMA can be defined as mobile technologies and role-based applications, as companies design them for specific roles and functions in organizations. Technically, EMA can be defined as business enterprise systems, including critical business functions that enable users to access enterprise systems via wireless mobile devices, such as smartphones or tablets. Specifically, EMA enables employees to have greater access to real-time information, and provides them with simple features and functionalities that are easy for them to complete specific tasks. While the impact of EMA on organizational workers' productivity has been given considerable attention in various literatures, relatively little research effort has been made to examine how EMA actually lead to users' job performance. In particular, we have a limited understanding of what the key antecedents are of such an EMA usage outcome. In this paper, we focus on employees' perceived job performance as the outcome of EMA use, which indicates the successful role of EMA with regard to employees' tasks. Thus, to develop a deeper understanding of the relationship among EMA, its environment, and employees' perceived job performance, we develop a comprehensive model that considers the perceived-fit between EMA and employees' tasks, satisfaction on EMA, and the organizational environment. With this model, we try to examine EMA to explain how job performance through EMA is revealed from both the task-technology fit for EMA and satisfaction on EMA, while also considering the antecedent factors for these constructs. The objectives of this study are to address the following research questions: (1) How can employees successfully manage EMA in order to enhance their perceived job performance? (2) What internal and/or external factors are important antecedents in increasing EMA users' satisfaction on MES and task-technology fit for EMA? (3) What are the impacts of organizational (e.g. organizational agility), and task-related antecedents (e.g., task mobility) on task-technology fit for EMA? (4) What are the impacts of internal (e.g., self-efficacy) and external antecedents (e.g., system reputation) for the habitual use of EMA? Based on a survey from 254 actual employees who use EMA in their workplace across industries, our results indicate that task-technology fit for EMA and satisfaction on EMA are positively associated with job performance. We also identify task mobility, organizational agility, and system accessibility that are found to be positively associated with task-technology fit for EMA. Further, we find that external factor, such as the reputation of EMA, and internal factor, such as self-efficacy for EMA that are found to be positively associated with the satisfaction of EMA. The present findings enable researchers and practitioners to understand the role of EMA, which facilitates organizational workers' efficient work processes, as well as the importance of task-technology fit for EMA. Our model provides a new set of antecedents and consequence variables for a TAM involving mobile applications. The research model also provides empirical evidence that EMA are important mobile services that positively influence individuals' performance. Our findings suggest that perceived organizational agility and task mobility do have a significant influence on task-technology fit for EMA usage through positive beliefs about EMA, that self-efficacy and system reputation can also influence individuals' satisfaction on EMA, and that these factors are important contingent factors for the impact of system satisfaction and perceived job performance. Our findings can help managers gauge the impact of EMA in terms of its contribution to job performance. Our results provide an explanation as to why many firms have recently adopted EMA for efficient business processes and productivity support. Our findings additionally suggest that the cognitive fit between task and technology can be an important requirement for the productivity support of EMA. Further, our study findings can help managers in formulating their strategies and building organizational culture that can affect employees perceived job performance. Managers, thus, can tailor their dependence on EMA as high or low, depending on their task's characteristics, to maximize the job performance in the workplace. Overall, this study strengthens our knowledge regarding the impact of mobile applications in organizational contexts, technology acceptance and the role of task characteristics. To conclude, we hope that our research inspires future studies exploring digital productivity in the workplace and/or taking the role of EMA into account for employee job performance.

농촌지역의 정보화와 지역발전: 원주 정보화시범마을 사례 (Rural Telematics and the Possibilities for Regional Development: The Case of Information Model Village in Weonju, Korea)

  • sungjae Choo
    • 대한지리학회지
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    • 제36권5호
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    • pp.516-526
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    • 2001
  • 이 연구는 농촌지역에 있어 컴퓨터의 보급, 또는 보다 광범위하게 정보화의 확산이 지역발전에 미치는 영향을 밝히는 데에 목적이 있다. 이를 위하여 강원도 원주시의 정보화시범마을로 지정된 황둔 송계마을을 사례지역으로 하여 컴퓨터의 보급 활용의 특성으로부터 지역발전의 시사점을 도출하였다. 마을주민들의 컴퓨터사용은 인터넷, 이메일, 마을홈페이지 활용 등의 측면에서 초보적인 수준이지만, 라이프스타일과 마을공동체의 형성에 있어 긍정적인 변화를 가져올 잠재력이 높고 따라서 지역발전의 도구로 사용될 수 있음이 발견된다. 이러한 긍정적인 변화는 주민들이 컴퓨터사용으로부터 얻는 경제적, 사회적, 문화적 혜택을 증대시킴으로써 가능하다고 보인다. 무엇보다도 필요한 것은 컴퓨터의 보급은 외적 동기에 의하여 이루어졌지만 이를 내적 동기로 전환시키고 보다 활발하게 컴퓨터를 사용할 수 있도록 유도하는 일이다.

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기업의 지식경영활동이 재무적 성과에 미치는 영향: 기업 회복역량의 매개효과를 중심으로 (Effects of Knowledge Management Activities on Financial Performance: Focusing on the Mediating Effects of Enterprise-level Resilience)

  • 강연실;조부연
    • 지식경영연구
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    • 제22권1호
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    • pp.139-154
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    • 2021
  • 기업 경영에 있어 환경적 위험이 증대되면서, 외부 충격 이후에 빠르게 일상 운영수준으로 복귀하는 능력인 회복역량에 대한 관심이 증대되고 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 기업의 회복역량에 대한 개념적 모형을 제시하고, 이를 실증적으로 검증하고자 한다. 기존 연구를 기반으로 회복역량의 하위 구성개념을 강건성, 대체성, 자원동원성 및 신속성으로 구분하였으며, 선행요인으로 기업의 지식경영활동을 제시하였다. 회복역량을 매개변인으로 고려하면서, 기업의 성과에 영향을 미칠 것으로 가정하였다. 지식경영활동, 회복역량 및 성과로 이어지는 구조모형을 검증하기 위하여, 체계적으로 기업 대상 설문을 설계하여 조사를 시행하였다. 지식경영활동 외에 개별 기업의 회복역량을 높일 수 있는 독립변수들에 대한 탐색적 연구가 필요함과 성과에 대한 세분화된 검증이 필요함을 향후 연구방향으로 제시하였다.

공공 R&D의 기술이전이 기업의 성장에 미치는 효과 연구 (A Research on the Impacts of Technology Rransfer in Government-sponsored Research to the Growth of Technology Licensees)

  • 김준혁
    • 기술혁신학회지
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    • 제20권4호
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    • pp.1159-1191
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    • 2017
  • 본 연구에서는 개방형 혁신 개념을 활용하여 공공기술이전을 기업의 외부 R&D의 일환으로 간주한 뒤 기술수요기업의 관점에서 공공기술이전의 산업별 특성과 내부 R&D와의 상호작용에 대해 탐구하였다. NTIS 기술료 데이터와 한국기업정보 데이터를 매칭한 뒤 2008년부터 2011년까지 일어난 1,980개 기업의 7,645개 기술이전 자료를 추출, 회귀분석과 분위회귀분석을 실시하였다. 그 동안 기업이 공공기술이전으로부터 얻는 효과가 정성적으로 다루어져 왔으나, 본 연구에서는 산업과 기업의 특성에 따른 효과의 편차를 연구하기 위하여 정량적인 DB를 구축하고 통계적 분석을 시행하였다. 분석 결과 기술이전이 매출성장에 가하는 효과는 중고위기술과 고위기술 분야의 일부 기업들에게 편중되는 경향이 있었다. 또한 기간별(1 2 3년 후) 매출의 경우 기술이전은 기술이전 다음해의 매출에 주로 영향을 주지만, 내부 R&D의 효과는 주로 2년 후의 매출에 집중되어 있는 것으로 분석되었다. 또한 OECD 기술집약도 기준 산업분류와 4개 지정 산업군(자동차, 전자, 반도체, 화학)별로 공공기술이전의 효과에 편차가 있는 것으로 나타났으나, 기업 크기별로는 효과에 유의한 차이가 없었다.