• Korea Journal of Hospital Management
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.28-38
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• 2018

Purpose: To evaluate the medical expenditures for prostate cancer patients, including out-of-pocket costs, and compared the costs between androgen deprivation therapy and radical prostatectomy treatment. Methodology: This study combined clinical data from 357 prostate cancer patients from the Smart Prostate Cancer Database and the medical expenditure data from the claims and cost databases. We used the independent two-sample t-tests to compare androgen deprivation therapy and radical prostatectomy. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was conducted to identify determining factors for androgen deprivation therapy and radical prostatectomy treatments. Findings: The medical costs of androgen deprivation therapy treatment were much lower than radical prostatectomy treatment at the one year and remained lower until the fourth-year. However, after four years, the accumulated medical expenditures of androgen deprivation therapy become significantly higher than radical prostatectomy treatment. Patients with a higher cancer stage and older age had higher chances of being treated using androgen deprivation therapy treatment than radical prostatectomy treatment. Practical Implications: Our results show that early detection of cancer reduces the treatment cost for both patients and insurance payers. It also demonstrates that cost comparisons should be conducted over long periods of time in order to most accurately assess the costs.

• International Commerce and Information Review
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.389-409
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• 2012

The Switched Bill of Lading(SBL) has been in frequent use in recent years as intermediary trade increases with the growing number of companies' overseas subsidiaries. Its frequent use, though, has brought about disputes regarding its illegal issue. Although there are several legal cases regarding this, studies on this issue are hard to find. Therefore, this study tries to provide countermeasures and precautions against unlawful issues of SBL through examining the legal cases resulting from illegal issuing practices of SBL. When the Switched Bill of Lading is issued, the shipper, consignee, port of loading and unloading, and shipping date of the original bill of lading are usually changed. Statements which may put the shipper at a disadvantageous position may also be deleted and/or the bill of lading may be either divided or integrated when it is issued. However, if the carrier issues the SBL 1)without withdrawing original BL, 2)indicating the shipping date, port of loading and port of discharge falsely, or 3)deleting the statements which may give him disadvantages, it may be regarded as an illegal issue. These unlawful issues of SBL may pose a huge threat to the shipper, banks and the parties relating to the trade. That is, the shipper may take a substantial loss when the goods can be delivered to a third party by SBL without his collecting the proceeds. The issuing bank and the negotiating bank may also have their security rights to the goods hampered by the illegal and improper issue of SBL. In most cases, the carrier has no choice but to issue the SBL without collecting the original BL for fear of hurting the relationship with the intermediary traders. This practice of issuing more than two sets of BL may pose a potential risk to the carrier.

• Physical Therapy Korea
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.1-7
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• 2000

이 연구의 목적은 만성요통 여성 환자들에서 나타나는 자세 이상을 평가하고 방사선적 변수들과 임상적인 변수들과의 상관성을 알아보는 것이다. 이 연구의 대상자는 만성요통 여성 환자 38명과 대조군 32명이었다. 변수의 측정은 모든 대상자들이 이완된 자세로 기립한 상태에서 방사선 검사를 실시한 후 경추전만각, 흉추후만각, 요추전만각, 그리고 요추경사각을 측정하였다. 대상자들의 연령과 통증기간은 의무기록지를 참고하였다. 자료분석은 요통군과 대조군의 방사선적 변수들 간의 유의한 차이가 있는지를 알아보기 위해 독립된 t-검정을 시행하였고, 방사선적 변수들과 임상적 변수들과의 상관성을 알아보기 위해 피어슨 상관분석을 시행하였다. 연구결과 만성요통 환자군과 대조군사이의 경추전만각(p<.05), 요추전만각(p<.001), 그리고 천추경사각(p<.01)에서 통계학적으로 유의한 차이가 보였다. 통증기간은 요추전만각과 통계적학으로 유의한 상관관계가 있었으며(p<.05), 경추전만각은 흉추후만각과 통계학적으로 유의한 상관관계가 있었다(p<.05). 또한 흉추후만각, 요추전만각, 그리고 천추경사각은 각각 상호간에 상관관계가 있었다(p<.05). 만성요통은 요추만곡의 변화를 초래하여 흉추부 및 경추부의 자세이상을 유발할 수 있다. 그러므로 요통으로 인하여 올 수 있는 신체 전반적인 자세이상을 미리 예측하고 이를 교정하여야만 장기적으로 올 수 있는 합병증들을 예방할 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.186-191
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• 2020

In this paper, we proposed an optimization technique for efficiently placing vehicles on decks in a vehicle-carrying ship to efficiently handle loading and unloading. For this purpose, we utilized the transformation method of the XML data representing the ship's spatial information, merging and branching algorithm and genetic algorithm, and implemented the function to visualize the optimized vehicle placement results. The techniques of selection, crossover, mutation, and elite preservation, which are used in the conventional genetic algorithms, are used. In particular, the vehicle placement optimization method is proposed by merging and branching the ship space for the vehicle loading. The experimental results show that the proposed merging and branching method is effective for the optimization process that is difficult to optimize with the existing genetic algorithm alone. In addition, visualization results show vehicle layout results in the form of drawings so that experts can easily determine the efficiency of the layout results.

• Journal of Korean Port Research
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.255-266
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• 1999

The purpose of this paper is to describe the design of the decision support system for container terminal ship planning and to introduce the implemented system. The ship planning in container terminals consists of three major decision processes -the working schedule of gantry cranes the discharging sequence of inbound containers the loading position and sequence of outbound containers. For making these decision the proposed system can provide two ship planning modes the interactive planning mode with user-friendly GUI and the automated planning made. To implement the automated planning routine we acquired the planning rules from the expert planner in container terminals and developed an expert system based on the rules. Finally we evaluated the system developed and the potential for commercialization by using container terminal data.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.1015-1017
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• 2012

본 논문은 컨테이너 터미널의 컨테이너 정보를 RFID를 통하여 획득하고 이 정보를 바탕으로 효율적인 선적 하역작업을 스케줄링하는 시스템에 관한 연구이다. 유비쿼터스의 핵심기술인 RFID(Radio Frequency ID)전자태그 시스템을 이용하여 컨테이너를 효율적으로 선적 할 수 있게 돕고, 운송 과정에서 컨테이너의 실시간 관리가 가능한 시스템으로, 컨테이너 선적의 신속성과 정확성을 강화하여 컨테이너를 효율적으로 관리하는 것을 목적으로 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.279-280
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• 2022

In the case of domestic coastal ships, an information system for the purpose of managing cargo loading, securing, and inspection processes is not in operation. It presents functional elements that meet the service requirements for information systems for more efficient execution of ship loading and unloading services at port. This is a study on the information system that manages the process of reservation, onboard arrangement, securing and inspection of sea freight.

• Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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• 2004.06a
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• pp.212-218
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• 2004

저준위 방사성폐기물 안전성 평가를 위해 대상 부지를 선정하고 경계 조건을 도입하였다. 연안에 처분장이 위치할 경우를 가상하여 처분장 심도 및 단열까지의 거리등에 대한 지하수 유동 민감도를 분석하였다. 또한 처분장 진입 터널이 지하수 유동에 미치는 영향을 평가하였다. 이를 통하여 각 암반별 이동 거리 및 시간을 CONNECTFLOW를 이용해 산정하고, 그 결과들이 방사선적 안전성 종합 평가 코드인 MASCOT의 입력 자료로 활용되도록 하였다.

• Bulletin of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.40-42
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• 1994

LNG의 선적 및 하역용으로 양현 중앙부에 각각 설치되는 LNG의 MANIFOLD 구조에 있어 LNG의 선적 또는 양하시 Manifold Deck 상에 있는 연결관내의 LNG가 밸브를 통해 누설되어 코밍(coaming)내에서 자영증발 되는 동안, 누설된 저온 LNG가 Deck부재에 큰 영향을 미치게 된다. 따라서 누설된 LNG의 최대 증발시간 및 Manifold Platform 각 부분에 미치는 온도, 영향 등을 종합적으로 검토하여 부재재질의 효과적인 선정을 기해야 항 것이다. 여기서는 당사가 국내 최초로 건조한 바 있는 Single Loading System LNG선의 Manifold platform에 있어 현업 실적용을 중심으로 고찰해 보고자 한다.

• Cement Symposium
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• no.29
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• pp.292-296
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• 2002