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Suitability of Counter-current Model for Biogas Separation Processes using Cellulose Acetate Hollow Fiber Membrane (셀룰로오스 아세테이트 중공사 분리막을 이용한 바이오가스 분리에 대한 향류 흐름 모델의 적용성)

  • Jung, Sang-Chul;Kwon, Ki-Wook;Jeon, Mi-Jin;Jeon, Yong-Woo
    • Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.43-52
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    • 2020
  • As the membrane gas separation technology grows, various models were developed by numerous researchers to describe the separation process. In this work, the counter-current model was compared thoroughly with experimental data. Experimentally, hollow fiber membrane using CA module was prepared for the separation of biogas. The pure gas permeation properties of membrane module for methane, nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide were measured. The permeance of CO2 and CH4 were 25.82 GPU and 0.65 GPU, respectively. The high CO2/CH4 selectivity of 39.7 was obtained. the separation test for three different simulated mixed gases were carried out after pure gas test, and the gas concentration of the permeate at various stage-cut were measured from CA membrane module. Results showed that the experimental data agreed with the numerical simulation. A mathematical model has implemented in this study for the separation of biogas using a membrane module. The finite difference method (FDM) is applied to calculate the membrane biogas separation behaviors. Futhermore, the counter-current model can be considered as a convenient model for biogas separation process.

The Determinants of The Bank Regulation and Supervision on The Efficiency of Islamic Banks in Different Country's Income Level

  • MOHD NOOR, Nor Halida Haziaton;BAKRI, Mohammed Hariri;WAN YUSOF, Wan Yusrol Rizal;MOHD NOOR, Nor Raihana Asmar;ABDULLAH, Hasni;MOHAMED, Zulkifli
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.7 no.12
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    • pp.721-730
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    • 2020
  • This study investigates the impact of the country's governance on the revenue efficiency of 108 Islamic banks from 26 countries offering Islamic banking and finance products services. The technical efficiencies of individual Islamic banks have been analyzed using the Data Envelopment Analysis method. The data will be pooled across the selected countries and utilize the intermediation approach. The Ordinary Least Square estimation method is employed to examine the impact of country supervision and regulation on the technical efficiency of Islamic banks. As robustness check, the study examines the impact of the level of bank regulations and supervision on the efficiency of Islamic banks operating in different income-level countries. The results found that the stricter the supervisory power, the less strict capital requirement, the tighter the restrictions on non-banking activities, and the stricter the private monitoring enhance statistically significantly the level of efficiency of Islamic banks. In upgrading the regulations and supervision of the Islamic banks, the existing regulatory framework based on the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) must be complemented with the prescriptions on Islamic banking or Shariah compliance diligently, so that the Islamic banks could be regulated accurately and further improve the technical efficiency of their operations.

Primary Health Care and Desirable Policy Directions in Korea (1차보건의료와 바람직한 정책방향)

  • 박형종;김공현
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.95-108
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    • 1991
  • The World Health Organization and its member states, in 1978, declared that primary health care is a key to attain the goal of Health for All by the goal of Health for All by the yeas 2000. As a member state of WHO, the Republic of Korea has participated in the declaration of ALMA-ATA and committed to put national efforts for devedoping and implementing primary health care approach with the spirit and content of this Declaration. Since 1978, to translate the spirit of the Declaration into realization, Korean goverment has developed a new category of health manpower such as Community Health Practitioners serving people living in remote rural areas and Village Health Workers serving voluntarily their own village, strengthened the function of Health Centers and Health Subcenters through their reorientation and improved the infrastructure by their new construction or renovation. While primary health care is viewed as an essential health care in Korea, there are some circles who follow a narrow definition in referring to the health care at the periphey of a health system, which is erroneous. Considering the PHC is accepted as the best alternative approach to health care to solve problems that modern health systems are facing, we propose the followings as desirable health policy directions that modern health systems are facing, we propose the followings as desirable health policy directions which might translate the persopective into action at the national level after reviewing past and current PHC approach in Korea : 1. To improve the equity through the reduction of gaps between those who have access to health care and those who have not. 2. To reinforce multisectoral approach and intersectoral coordination through the re- establishment of the National Health Council or establishment of equivalent organization at the central level. 3. To stengthen community participation through lacal people's empowerment by leadership training, changing planning process from the top-down approach to bottom-up and giving the priority to human resources rater than technology, 4. To reinforce the Ministries of Health and Social Affairs through upgrading its role and function to Coordinate Ministries which involve human welfare policies, and creating a Division which is in charge of PHC in the Ministry.

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Crisis and Restructuring of the Korean Textile and Clothing Industry between 1980 and 1997: Geographical Extension of Productive Forces and Intensive Accumulation Regimes (한국 섬유 의류산업의 위기와 재구조화(1980-1997): 생산력의 지리적 확장과 내연적 축적체제)

  • Sung Cheol Lee
    • Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.53-81
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    • 2000
  • Between 1980 and 1997 the Korean textile and clothing industry (KTCI) experienced the transformation of export-led accumulation regime rooted in domestically-derived price competitiveness into the combination between foreign mass production involving the geographical extension of productive forces and quality strategy based on upgrading technology and automation involved in the domestic market for high quality and price products. This restructuring of the KTCI is rooted at the crisis in the export-led growth regime implemented unity 1980 due to the rapid increase in wage levels by the ‘great labour movement’occurred in 1987. In particular, increased wage and collective bargaining realized through labour empowerment led to the crisis in the conjoin between mass production and mass export based on long working hours and low wage structure. The aim of this paper is to explore the transformation of development modes between 1980 and 1997 that can help us in understanding the fundamental reasons for the restructuring of the KTCI. To this end, the paper identifiles the changing accumulation regimes between 1980 and 1997 mediated by wage-labour relations, inter-firm relations and state-film relations, which are insitutional forms of the modes of regulation.

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A Management Plan for Four-semester of Polytechnic Colleges (기능대학의 4학기제 운영 방안)

  • Yun Man-Soo;Chung Chan-Soo
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.16-23
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    • 2005
  • In knowledge-based information society, national competitive power is determined by human resources rather than by material resources. Therefore, training technicians with new skills has been gathering as a question Polytechnic colleges play an important role in training technicians as a 2 year courses educational institute conducting both master craftsmen and craftsmen and occupational training. At present, an electricity departments of polytechnic colleges should look at the reality of retraining which is taken more time and more budget for graduates' employment in the industries, as reorganizing in knowledge based school subject they also train the students to be the excellent poly technicians who have both theory and practice by reflecting new technology in developing curriculum needed at the jobsite to join in upgrading our country's competitiveness as a go-between technician at the jobsite. In this paper, a four-semester system was investigated to meet the condition of colleges educating the skilled technicians needed the industry by analyzing the status of polytechnic colleges.

A Study of the Performance of Virtual Education Systems (가상교육 지원 시스템 성능에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Young-Houn;Kang, Seong-Guk;Kim, Myeong-Ryeol
    • The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.77-85
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    • 2001
  • The virtual education has extended its position as a new educational mean in the whole society. A lot of cyber campuses like the virtual training institutes and the remote colleges were newly formed. With the development of the technology related to the Internet, new systems that support smooth virtual education have appeared. But the systems that had no problems at first became low speed gradually with the increase of the learners and contents and there arose a lot of problems. The problems can be solved through upgrading the hardware equipments, but it needs a lot of expenses and there always exists waste of unnecessary system resources. Accordingly, this study is to test the performance of the server through the simulation under various situations and investigate the plan for improvement in order to grope for the plan that can improve the performance of the virtual education systems. It is fragmentary simulation. But if we would like to correct the server programs and complement it on the basis of these plans for improvement, we may expect the sufficient improvement of performance. Also it may have sufficient values as data for smooth virtual education.

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Case study: Grigon Entertainment's success and failure

  • Yoo, Byung-Joon;Kim, Kwan-Soo;Lee, Joon-Hwan
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.71-88
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    • 2009
  • The Korean online gaming industry has seen rapid growth since the boom of information technology (IT) related industries, especially Internet and PC-bang or local area network (LAN) use, throughout the country. Online games are real-time games in which two or more players meet, compete, and cooperate in the same game space using the same communication network. Even though the growth rates of IT-related industries have recently slowed, the growth of the online gaming industry has increased, and Korean firms are expanding their businesses to countries all over the world. However, the online gaming industry is becoming an oligopoly, in which 4-5 leading companies occupy most online gaming markets. This situation presents a disadvantage to the Korean online gaming industry, since online players usually seek a diversity of online gaming contents and high quality online game services. Therefore, small- and medium-sized game developers must survive in this market by upgrading the quality of their online gaming services in an effort to provide differentiated goods and services in monopolistic competition markets. However, most venture companies in the online game industry, whether new or previously existing, are not able to obtain adequate financing. The objective of this paper is to examine the management environment for medium- and small-sized game developers in the Korean online gaming industry. By introducing the case of Grigon Entertainment, we try to identify the source of difficulty obtaining external financing for Korean venture firms in the online gaming industry.

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Development of a Inspection System for Automotive Part (자동차 부품 누락 방지를 위한 자동 선별 시스템)

  • Shin, Seok-Woo;Lee, Jong-Hun;Park, Sang-Heup
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.18 no.10
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    • pp.756-760
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    • 2017
  • Meeting the growing demand deadlines, reducing the production cost and upgrading the quality control measurements are the reasons why the automotive part manufacturers are venturing into automation. Attaining these objectives is impossible with human inspection for many reasons. Accordingly, the introduction of inspection system purposely for door hinge bracket inspection is presented in this study as an alternative for human inspection. This proposal is designed to meet the demands, features and specifications of door hinge bracket manufacturing companies in striving for increased throughput of better quality. To improve demerits of this manual operation, inspection system is introduced. As the inspection algorithm, template matching algorithm is applied to distinguish the articles of good quality and the poorly made articles. Through the verification test of the inspection process algorithm and the similarity metric matching algorithm, the detection accuracy was 98%, and it was applied to the production site to contribute to the improvement of the productivity due to the decrease of the defective product.

A Study on the Changing Roles of Cadastral Organizations to Comply with Environmental Changes (환경변화에 따른 지적기관의 역할 변화에 대한 고찰)

  • Oh, Yi-Kyun;Park, Jong-Cheul
    • Journal of Cadastre & Land InformatiX
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    • v.44 no.2
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    • pp.59-72
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    • 2014
  • In this paper the key drivers change for cadastral organizations have been presented according to the following aspects; Geo-ICT development including positioning technology, government's public organization innovation policy, cadastral market opening pressure and decreasing of cadastral survey work. It was confirmed that the role of cadastral organization has to be changed from the conducting cadastral survey organization to the spatial information provision organization. Eventually it should take a role to realize Spatially Enabled Society(SES) which is fundamental for national development and upgrading quality of life in the society. From the case study of international cadastral organization, cadastral organization should take core responsibility for the Nation Spatial Data Infrastructure(NSDI) and meeting the future costumers requirements through technical developments and organization's innovation efforts.

An Exploratory Study on the Development Progress and the Strategies of the Major Ports and the Busan New Port (주요항만과 부산 신항의 개발현황과 운영전략에 대한 탐사적 연구)

  • Park, Chan-Hi;Kim, In-Kyung
    • Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.234-258
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    • 2010
  • This research attempts to explore the competitive advantage of the Busan New Port based on the comparative analysis against the major ports. The competitive environment of the global shipping business poses a variety of challenges for the port authorities. Pursuing the hub position in the Northeast Asia, Busan new port needs an in-depth competitive analysis against the major ports in Singapore and China. This research proposes the strategies to exploit the locational advantage of the port while upgrading the operational efficiency. The recent development of the information technology suggests a viable solution for the Busan port.