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Determinants of Price in Specialty Coffee by Consumers

  • Kim, Hyojin;Jung, Oh-Hyun
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.151-159
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    • 2016
  • With the targeted coffee consumers in Kwangju city, South Korea, this paper investigates a few determinants such as taste, aroma, mouth-feel, and satisfaction to influence coffee price, based upon self-evaluations by those who enjoy specialty coffee. Using both simple regression and standard multiple regression analyses, it turned out that tastes, smell, mouth-feel, and satisfaction of specialty coffee had effects on coffee price. This study implies that when coffee consumers decide coffee price, they consider multiple factors to influence their overall satisfaction in multiple aspects than a single facet like taste, aroma, and mouth-feel. Practical and theoretical discussion and implications are suggested for the following studies.

A Study on the Effects for the Job Satisfaction in the Special Duty of the Private Security (특수경비원의 직무만족 영향요인에 관한 연구)

  • Ahn, Hwang-Kwon
    • Korean Security Journal
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    • no.7
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    • pp.213-231
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    • 2004
  • This paper is concerned with the influence in the job satisfaction by the organization, the job specialty and the self-devotion in the special duty of private security. Today's society is required more intensive security in the diversity, the complexity and the uncertainty, but the public security service could not supply enough for what the society requires. In this circumstance more specialized and special trained security services are demanded from private security industry. With the concerns, this study is based on actual survey. The study is telling us that there is much relationship in job satisfaction between each element. Which means that 1) there is some different from personality, 2) there is much influence in self-devotion by job specialty, 3) there some effectiveness in job satisfaction by job specialty, 4) there is some influence in job satisfaction by self-devotion, and 5) job satisfaction is affected by job specialty and self-devotion.

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Telioform System A New Multi Component Organic/Inorganic System From Ciba Specialty Chemicals

  • Min, Byung-Jin;Lim, Kyung-Bin;Ford, Phil
    • Proceedings of the Korea Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry Conference
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.57-70
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    • 2006
  • Microparticle and micropolymer retention and drainage aid systems are powerful tools for paper and board making on a variety of machines. Drawbacks attributed to the current systems sometimes include; apparent high cost, production and quality problems and in some cases a negative effect on formation. The next generation multi-component organic/inorganic systems have demonstrated their ability to decouple the effects of retention and drainage and to improve the formation and print quality for the same retention and in some cases higher retention levels. It is now possible to optimize independently retention, drainage and formation effects with the same high return on investment of current microparticle systems.

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Interaction Analysis between Construction Business Indicators and Business Performance Indicators of Civil Specialty Contractors (토목 전문건설업체의 건설경기지표와 경영성과지표의 상관성 분석)

  • Kim, Nam-Sik;Lee, Dong Wook
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.34 no.5
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    • pp.1599-1608
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    • 2014
  • This study is to suggest specialty contractors with countermeasures to construction orders falling off, one of the construction business indicators for the construction industry, by analyzing the impact of dwindling construction orders to business performance indicators of specialty contractors as well as identifying inter-relationships between those performance indicators. For specialty contractors of civil construction, it is analyzed that their current ratio is significantly affecting obtention of construction orders, which in turn greatly affecting the ratio of owner's equity. It seems that the amount of construction orders has a direct relationship with the corporate stability. Therefore, this type of specialty contractors are determined to be able to obtain more orders for construction by improving current ratio.

Interaction Analysis between Construction Business Indicators and Business Performance Indicators of Specialty Contractors Depending on Operation Types (경영형태에 따른 전문건설업체의 건설경기지표와 경영성과지표의 상관성 분석)

  • Kim, Nam-Sik;Lee, Dong Wook
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.193-202
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    • 2015
  • This study suggests strategies business strategies of specialty contractors by interaction analysis between business performance indicators and construction business indicators depending on operation types. To analyzing this research, a database was analyze for construction orders and business performance indicators for specialty contractors with KRW 7 billion from 1997 to 2010 yr. For organized management oriented specialty contractors, the amount of construction orders is directly affecting the corporate stability and therefore decreasing orders can negatively affect the owner's equity ratio. However, considering that the turnover ratio of total liabilities and net worth is affecting the owner's equity, an asset management plan needs to be established in a way to increase sales to the owner's equity secured with increase in construction orders. For a single leader oriented specialty contractors, the owner's equity ratio is also significantly affected by change in the amount of construction orders and some countermeasure is required. But, as liability ratio is affecting the amount of construction orders, some sort of countermeasures to decrease liability ratio is required.

A Study about BIM Execution Plan for Specialty Contractors at Construction Phase - focused on Specialty Contractors in Reinforced Concrete Works - (시공단계에 참여하는 전문건설업체를 위한 시공 BIM 수행계획 구축 - 철근콘크리트 업체를 중심으로 -)

  • Lee, Joo-Sung;Ham, Nam-Hyuk;Kim, Jae-Jun
    • Journal of KIBIM
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.19-32
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    • 2015
  • For decades, the productivity issue has been a primary concern for the all stake-holders who participate in domestic construction industry. Especially, between a whole life cycle of building, the construction phase's productivity problem makes or break the entire project. In this respect, the general construction company, who accept the order and construct the building(so called General Contractor), should consider various strategies, such as schedule management, cost management, quality management, inner-crew management, etc., for the productivity improvement., and almost of these management methods have been studied for a long time. But, the researches and studies about the specialty contractor, who construct the building directly in construction site were not sufficiently complete yet. This research begins as an idea which tries to apply the BIM(Building Information Modeling) into the tasks of Specialty contractors for their productivity improvement. And for the effective application of construction BIM to specialty contractors, establish of the BIM project execution plan for them, not the fragmentary adoption of BIM. Therefore, in this paper, we develop the BIM project execution plan for the reinforced concrete companies who conduct the framework construction which located on CP(Critical Path) Especially, we model the "Construction BIM Use List for the RC Work", "BIM Application Master Process" and "BIM Application Detailed Process", and general contractor who use these BIM uses list and process models can manage various specialty contractors about schedule, cost, earned value, quality, safety and environment management systematically.

Growth Rate and Biomass Productivity of Chlorella as Affected by Culture Depth and Cell Density in an Open Circular Photobioreactor

  • Liang, Fang;Wen, Xiaobin;Geng, Yahong;Ouyang, Zhengrong;Luo, Liming;Li, Yeguang
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.539-544
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    • 2013
  • The effects of culture depth (2-10 cm) and cell density on the growth rate and biomass productivity of Chlorella sp. XQ-200419 were investigated through the use of a self-designed open circular pond photobioreactor-imitation system. With increases in culture depths from 2 to 10 cm, the growth rate decreased significantly from 1.08 /d to 0.39 /d. However, the biomass productivity only increased slightly from 8.41 to 11.22 $g/m^2/d$. The biomass productivity (11.08 $g/m^2/d$) achieved in 4 cm culture with an initial $OD_{540}$ of 0.95 was similar to that achieved in 10 cm culture with an initial $OD_{540}$ of 0.5. In addition, the duration of maximal areal productivity at a 4 cm depth was prolonged from 1 to 4 days, a finding that was also similar to that of the culture at a 10 cm depth. In both cases, the initial areal biomass densities were identical. Based on these results and previous studies, it can be concluded that the influence of culture depth and cell density on areal biomass productivity is actually due to different areal biomass densities. Under suitable conditions, there are a range of optimal biomass densities, and areal biomass productivity reaches its maximum when the biomass density is within these optimal ranges. Otherwise, biomass productivity will decrease. Therefore, a key factor for high biomass productivity is to maintain an optimal biomass density.

Quantitative Evaluation on Geographical Indication of Agricultural Specialty Products using Location Quotient (LQ) Index (입지계수를 이용한 지역 농특산물 지리적표시제의 정량적 평가기준 연구)

  • Kim, Solhee;Suh, Kyo;Kim, Yooan;Kim, Chanwoo;Jung, Chanhoon
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.61 no.2
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    • pp.75-83
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    • 2019
  • Using geographical indication, a type of source identification, can effectively promote local specialty agricultural products of superior quality, by identifying the specific geographic location or origin of the produce. Agricultural products can be registered using the geographical indication by describing the product's relation to its geographical origin including the reputation and quality. However, this indication has no objective standards to qualify goods as agricultural specialty products. The purpose of this study is to suggest basic criteria to define the characteristics and criteria of agricultural specialties based on a quantitative evaluation method. To propose this basic standard, we used the proportion of arable land to denote the major production areas and the location quotient (LQ) index to grasp the extent of the specialty of a product. The results show that the average LQ values of registered agricultural products, particularly apples, pears, and garlic, are 3.26, 8.01, and 2.82, respectively. This indicates that they are more specialized than produce from other areas that have not registered for a geographical indication. Low LQ values were found in some areas with registered rice geographical indications, which are also more focused on their historical reputation as the main rice producing areas. Considering the agricultural specialty of products, the recommendation is that the producing proportion should be over 1% of the national scale and over 10% of the province scale, and the LQ value should be over 2.0. This recommendation is not a requirement, but the criteria can prove to be useful in identifying a higher range of specialized agricultural products.