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The Blueprint of Service Encounter by Types of Restaurants (레스토랑 유형별 서비스 인카운터 청사진 설계 및 비교)

  • Jo, Mi-Na;Shin, Seo-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.35 no.8
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    • pp.1088-1096
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study was to identify the service encounter blueprint by types of restaurants in order to manage moment of truth when customers who visit a restaurant encounter services. The service encounter blueprint gives an overall picture of the service provision to visualize an entire service process and its integrated structure. The blueprint is used for service process analysis technique. The random samples of 15 customers were observed by types of restaurants and the records were collected for three-days' observation. Interviews were performed by 3 managers, 3 service encounter employees, 3 cashiers, 3 cooks and 10 customers by types of restaurants. After drawing the first service blueprint, it was revised by the interview with the 3 managers and 6 service encounter employees. In this paper, restaurant service processes are reviewed and analyzed. By use of service blueprint, the processes are analyzed to find a fail point, customer wait, employee decision. As a result of making a blueprint of service encounter by types of restaurant, blueprints of fine-dining restaurants and family restaurants were similar, while fast-food restaurants showed a little difference. In particular, difference was indicated in a point where interaction of service encounter occurred. Difference was indicated depending on types of restaurants. Therefore, the efforts to improve this problem were needed. The blueprint is a map or flowchart (called a process chart in manufacturing) of all transactions constituting the service delivery process. The results showed that service encounter blueprint can be used to improve the service process in the restaurant's encounter.

Partial Sequencing and Characterization of Porcine DNA Methyltransferase I cDNA

  • Lee, Y.Y.;Kim, M.S.;Park, J.J.;H.Y. Kang;Y.M. Chang;Yoon, J.T.;K.S. Min
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Developmental Biology Conference
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.84-84
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    • 2003
  • DNA methylation is involved in epigenetic processes such as X-chromosome inactivation, imprinting and silencing of transposons. DNA methylation is a highly plastic and critical component of mammalian development The DNA methyltransferases (Dnmts) are responsible for the generation of genomic methylation patterns, which lead to transcriptional silencing. The maintenance DNA methyltransferase enzyme, Dnmt 1, and the de novo methyltransferase, Dnmt3a and Dnmt3b, are indispensable for development because mice homozygous for the targeted disruption of any of these genes are not viable. The occurrence of DNA methylation is not random, and it can result in gene silencing The mechanisms underlying these processes are poorly understood. It is well established that DNA methylation and histone deacetylation operate along a common mechanistic pathway to repress transcription through the action of methyl-binding domain proteins (MBDs), which are components of, or recruit, histone deacetylase (HDAC) complexes to methylated DNA. As a basis for future studies on the role of the DNA-methyl-transferase in porcine development, we have isolated and characterized a partial cDNA coding for the porcine Dnmt1. Total RNA of testis, lung and ovary was isolated with TRlzol according to the manufacture's specifications. 5 ug of total RNA was reverse transcribed with Super Script II in the presence of porcine Dnmt 1 specific primers. Standard PCRs were performed in a total volume of 50 ul with cDNA as template. Two DNA fragmenets in different position were produced about 700bp, 1500bp and were cloned into pCR II-TOPO according to the manufacture's specification. Assembly of all sequences resulted in a cDNA from 158bp of 5'to 4861bp of 3'compare with the known human maintenance methyltransferase. Now, we are cloning the unknown Dnmt 1 region by 5'-RACE method and expression of Dnmt 1 in tissues from adult porcine animals.

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Applicability of the Korteweg-de Vries Equation for Description of the Statistics of Freak Waves (최극해파통계분석을 위한 Korteweg-de Vries식의 적용성 검토)

  • Anna Kokorina;Efim Pelinovsky
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.308-318
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    • 2002
  • The requirements to the numerical model of wind-generated waves in shallow water are discussed in the framework of the Korteweg-de Vries equation. The weakness of nonlinearity and dispersion required for the Korteweg-de Vries equation applicability is considered for fully developed sea, non-stationary wind waves and swell, including some experimental data. We note for sufficient evaluation of the freak wave statistics it is necessary to consider more than about 10,000 waves in the wave record, and this leads to the limitation of the numerical domain and number of realizations. The numerical modelling of irregular water waves is made to demonstrate the possibility of effective evaluation of the statistical properties of freak waves with heights equal to 2-2.3 significant wave height.

Development of a Model-Based Motor Fault Detection System Using Vibration Signal (진동 신호 이용 모델 기반 모터 결함 검출 시스템 개발)

  • ;A.G. Parlos
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.9 no.11
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    • pp.874-882
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    • 2003
  • The condition assessment of engineering systems has increased in importance because the manpower needed to operate and supervise various plants has been reduced. Especially, induction motors are at the core of most engineering processes, and there is an indispensable need to monitor their health and performance. So detection and diagnosis of motor faults is a base to improve efficiency of the industrial plant. In this paper, a model-based fault detection system is developed for induction motors, using steady state vibration signals. Early various fault detection systems using vibration signals are a trivial method and those methods are prone to have missed fault or false alarms. The suggested motor fault detection system was developed using a model-based reference value. The stationary signal had been extracted from the non-stationary signal using a data segmentation method. The signal processing method applied in this research is FFT. A reference model with spectra signal is developed and then the residuals of the vibration signal are generated. The ratio of RMS values of vibration residuals is proposed as a fault indicator for detecting faults. The developed fault detection system is tested on 800 hp motor and it is shown to be effective for detecting faults in the air-gap eccentricities and broken rotor bars. The suggested system is shown to be effective for reducing missed faults and false alarms. Moreover, the suggested system has advantages in the automation of fault detection algorithms in a random signal system, and the reference model is not complicated.

Continuous Digit Recognition Using the Weight Initialization and LR Parser

  • Choi, Ki-Hoon;Lee, Seong-Kwon;Kim, Soon-Hyob
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.15 no.2E
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    • pp.14-23
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    • 1996
  • This paper is a on the neural network to recognize the phonemes, the weight initialization to reduce learning speed, and LR parser for continuous speech recognition. The neural network spots the phonemes in continuous speech and LR parser parses the output of neural network. The whole phonemes recognized in neural network are divided into several groups which are grouped by the similarity of phonemes, and then each group consists of neural network. Each group of neural network to recognize the phonemes consisits of that recognize the phonemes of their own group and VGNN(Verify Group Neural Network) which judges whether the inputs are their own group or not. The weights of neural network are not initialized with random values but initialized from learning data to reduce learning speed. The LR parsing method applied to this paper is not a method which traces a unique path, but one which traces several possible paths because the output of neural network is not accurate. The parser processes the continuous speech frame by frame as accumulating the output of neural network through several possible paths. If this accumulated path-value drops below the threshold value, this path is deleted in possible parsing paths. This paper applies the continuous speech recognition system to the threshold value, this path is deleted in possible parsing paths. This paper applies the continuous speech recognition system to the continuous Korea digits recognition. The recognition rate of isolated digits is 97% in speaker dependent, and 75% in speaker dependent. The recognition rate of continuous digits is 74% in spaker dependent.

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A Descriptive Study of Occupational Health Services in Self-employed Enterprises (Nanoscale Enterprises), Shiraz, Iran

  • Jahangiri, Mehdi;Rostamabadi, Akbar;Yekzamani, Parvaneh;Abadi, Bahare Mahmood;Behbood, Fariborz;Ahmadi, Seyyedeh Fatemeh;Momeni, Zahra
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.317-321
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    • 2016
  • Background: This study was conducted with aim of providing an overview of the current status of occupational health services and identifying the most common harmful agents at workplaces of Iranian self-employed enterprises (Nano-Scale Enterprises). Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed among a random sample including 1,758 employees engaging in self-employed enterprises with 5 and less employees. Results: Coverage of occupational health surveillance was very poor, annual health examinations were been conducted only for 64 (3.64%) of males and 31 (1.76%) of females, and occupational health trainings were not included of the services at all. Personal Protective Equipment were available in 462 (26.3%) of the enterprises. only in 0.4% of the enterprises working processes were been equipped by a local exhaust ventilation system. Difficult postures were the most common (81.5%) adverse working conditions. Conclusion: This study revealed a poor level of the implementation of occupational health services in Iranian self-employed enterprises. Based on the findings, providing basic training on the occupational health, more enforcing in conduction of health examinations and providing PPE, and taking appropriate strategies aimed at eliminating or minimizing work environment harmful agents are the major factor that should be considered to improve the level of occupational health services among the studied enterprises.

Modeling of Stochastic Process Noises for Kinematic GPS Positioning (GPS 이동측위를 위한 프로세스 잡음 모델링)

  • Chang-Ki, Hong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.123-129
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    • 2015
  • The Kalman filter has been widely used in the kinematic GPS positioning due to its flexibility and efficiency in computational points of view. At the same time, the relative positioning technique also provided the high precision positioning results by removing the systematic errors in the measurements significantly. However, the positioning quality may be degraded following to longer in baseline length. For this case, it is required that the remaining atmospheric effects, such as double-difference ionospheric delay and zenith wet delay, should be properly modeled by examining the characteristics of the stochastic processes. In general, atmospheric effects are estimated with the assumption of random walk, or the first-order Gauss-Markov stochastic process, which requires the precise modeling on the corresponding process noises. Therefore, we determined and provided the parameters for modelling the process noises for atmospheric effects. The auto-correlation functions are empirically determined at first, and then the parameters are extracted from the empirical auto-correlation function. In fact, the test results can be either applied directly, or used as guidance values for the modeling of process noises in the kinematic GPS positioning.

An Authority-Based Efficient Key Management Protocol for Cloud Environment (클라우드 환경을 위한 효율적인 권한 기반 키 설립 프로토콜)

  • Choi, Jeong-hee;Lee, Sang-ho
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.1035-1045
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    • 2018
  • Recently, with the development of IT technology, authentication methods of users using cloud services have been diversified. However, research on providing authentication information of a user using a cloud service securely according to authority has not been make until now. In this paper, we propose a key establishment protocol which can perform split authentication using secret key and access control key according to the role authority of user in Intra cloud environment. The proposed protocol generates the access control key and secret key of the user by using the attributes of the user and the generated random number($t_1$, $t_2$), and classifies the roles according to the user's authority after generating the key. Unnecessary operation processes can be reduced. As a result of the performance evaluation, the proposed protocol guarantees the security against various type of attacks that may occur in the cloud environment because the user is authenticated by dividing the access control key and secret key. The size of the ciphertext used to establish the key could be reduced by ${\sum}+1$ more than the existing protocol.

Algorithm of Adaptive Noise Reduction with Modified Sigma Filter for Reduction of Edge Blurring and Minute Noises (윤곽선 훼손 방지 및 미세잡음 제거를 위한 Modified Sigma Filter를 이용한 적응적 잡음 제거장치 알고리즘)

  • Yang, Jeong-Ju;Han, Hag-Yong;Yang, Hoon-Gee;Kang, Bong-Soon;Lee, Gi-Dong
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.14 no.10
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    • pp.2261-2268
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    • 2010
  • The information captured by imaging devices such as CCD or CIS may contain external noises through the processes of passing signals or storing images. In this paper, we propose a Modified Sigma Filter (MSF) algorithm to reduce such noises. In experiment, we verified that our MSF algorithm showed better performance in PSNR and 1D plot of simulation results compared with Gaussian Filter (GF), Local Sigma Filter (LSF). Tested images include random Gaussian Noises.

Perceptions on Hazards and Washing Behavior of Vegetables at Home (가정에서의 채소류 세척 실태 및 위해요인에 대한 인식)

  • Choe Jeong-Sook;Chun Hye-Kyung;Moon Eun-Hye
    • The Korean Journal of Community Living Science
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.87-96
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    • 2005
  • This survey was conducted to assess the perception of hazards and washing behavior of vegetables of 500 housewives in Korea. The subjects were selected by the stratified random sampling method. The survey was performed using a structured questionnaire through telephone interviews by skilled interviewers. Most people have bought vegetables and fruits in the supermarket or (traditional) markets rather than stores, department stores, or direct transactions. Eighteen percent of the subjects felt vegetables were secure and were not concerned about safety. But $42.8{\%}$ were concerned about vegetable safety. The perceptions of vegetable-related hazards differed significantly by the respondent's socioeconomic characteristics. Higher concern about vegetable safety was reported by subjects with higher income, children, and who usually buy vegetables in supermarkets or department stores. Most subjects ($88.6{\%}$) perceived that residues of chemical substances such as pesticides were the most significant potential vegetable risk factor, followed by heavy metal, and pathogens. Housewives mainly rinsed vegetables in flowing-water ($85.2{\%}$ of subjects), 3${\~}$4 times ($63.8{\%}$ of subjects), and without detergent ($90.6{\%}$). Subjects believed that hazards decreased by blanching or boiling vegetables rather than washing. Subjects realized more or less correctly the removal rate of pesticide and pathogen through the washing and cooking processes. However, the removal rate of heavy metals was less than subjects thought it would be. Therefore, the scientifically assessed results on safety in the washing and cooking process should be opened to the public to provide the right-to-know and assure confidence in consumers.

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