• Advances in Energy Research
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.127-146
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• 2013

Torrefaction technologies convert assorted biomass feedstocks into energy-concentrated, carbon neutral fuel that is economically transported and easily ground for blending with fossil coals at numerous power plants around the world without needs to retrofit. Utilization of torrefied biomass in conventional electric generating units may be an increasingly attractive alternative for electricity generation as aging power plants in the world need to be upgraded or improved. This paper examines the economic feasibility of torrefaction in different scenarios by modeling torrefaction plants producing 136,078 t/year (150,000 ton/year) biocoal from wood and corn stover. The utilization of biocoal blends in existing coal-fired power plants is modeled to determine the demand for this fuel in the context of emerging policies regulating emissions from coal in the U.S. setting. Opportunities to co-locate torrefaction facilities adjacent to corn ethanol plants and coal-fired power plants are explored as means to improve economics for collaborating businesses. Life cycle analysis was conducted in parallel to this economic study and was used to determine environmental impacts of converting biomass to biocoal for blending in coal-fired power plants as well as the use of substantial flows of off-gasses produced in the torrefaction process. Sensitivity analysis of the financial rates of return of the different businesses has been performed to measure impacts of different factors, whether input prices, output prices, or policy measures that render costs or rewards for the businesses.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.315-324
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• 2021

The study aims to investigate new theoretical approaches in an effort to resolve conceptual contradictions regarding the impact of organizational culture on developing culture for change, first by providing socio-structural frameworks supporting intrapreneurship, and second through encouraging professional culture behavior with management practices or organizational members acting as agents of change forming a deeper culture of values and behavior. The design of this research is quantitative. This study employs survey data of managers and section heads, which met the sampling requirements. Data analysis in this research used structural equation modeling (SEM) with the help of the AMOS program. The results show that all hypotheses are supported. The findings of this study suggest that the organizational culture transformation and dyadic social intrapreneurship based on professional culture (DSIBPC) have significant positive influence as antecedents of competitive advantage. This research also shows that DSIBPC is able to act as an important mediator that fills a gap in the relationship between organizational culture transformation toward competitive advantage, as well as being an alternative strategy for organizations in an effort to increase their competitive advantage. Referring to the results of this research, organizations need to focus and pay attention to the DSIBPC.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.933-941
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• 2021

This research aims to test the effect of corporate governance factors on corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure and its impact on a company's financial performance. The factors of corporate governance referred to in this research are foreign ownership, state ownership, number of board of commissioners, the proportion of independent commissioners, and educational background of commissioners' board. Based on the purposive sampling method, 194 companies were selected with a total of 582 observations. The data analysis used in this study was the Structural Equation Model (SEM) approach by using the alternative Partial Least Square (PLS) method. The results of this research indicated that state ownership, number of board of commissioners, and the proportion of independent commissioners had a significant positive effect on CSR disclosure. While the foreign ownership and the educational background of the commissioners' board have had an insignificant effect on CSR disclosure. Then, CSR disclosure had a significant positive effect on the companies' financial performance. The findings of this study suggest that the positive effect of the CSR disclosure on performance is because the disclosure is able to improve the company's reputation; the more social activities are carried out will improve the customers' loyalty as well as the support from other stakeholders which in turns will improve the company's performance.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.185-195
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• 2015

Glucoamylase is an important industrial enzyme. Glucoamylase production by industrial Aspergillus niger strain featured with two major problems: (i) empirical substrate feeding methods deteriorating the fermentation performance; and (ii) the high raw materials cost limiting the economics of the glucoamylase product with delegated specification. In this study, we first proposed a novel three-stage varied-rate substrate feeding strategy for efficient glucoamylase production in a 5 L bioreactor using the standard feeding medium, by comparing the changing patterns of the important physiological parameters such as DO, OUR, RQ, etc., when using different substrate feeding strategies. With this strategy, the glucoamylase activity and productivity reached higher levels of 11,000 U/ml and 84.6 U/ml/h, respectively. The performance enhancement in this case was beneficial from the following results: DO and OUR could be controlled at the higher levels (30%, 43.83 mmol/l/h), while RQ was maintained at a stable/lower level of 0.60 simultaneously throughout the fed-batch phase. Based on this three-stage varied-rate substrate feeding strategy, we further evaluated the economics of using alternative carbon sources, attempting to reduce the raw materials cost. The results revealed that cornstarch hydrolysate could be considered as the best carbon source to replace the standard and expensive feeding medium. In this case, the production cost of the glucoamylase with delegated specification (5,000 U/ml) could be saved by more than 61% while the product quality be ensured simultaneously. The proposed strategy showed application potential in improving the economics of industrial glucoamylase production.

• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.96-110
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• 2000

There are some considerations that must take into account in environmental education in the aspect of the difference of value clarification between ecological and economic viewpoint on environment. Although we have a tendency to think that the differences are unavoidable because we are on the economy-oriented life, we should realize that such emphasis to economics comes from the differences between ecological and economic view point on environment. We have lived and thought on the basis of Economic view point, especially, environmental policies are established on the basis of economic efficiency. But this tendency has become great obstacles to environmental ethics education because it dilutes the reason of natural preservation and removes the fundamental reasons why the nature should be preserved. Therefore it is very difficult to balance the value clarification between economic and ecological viewpoint in actual life. Furthermore, environmental problems can not be solved only through economic approach, because of their limits to belief solving from providing incentives. It is very important to make people have a way of thinking which economic activities and debates can be made on the ecological resources. Therefore we can compare this relation to CHAE-YONG founded on Buddism and Chinese philosophy. CHAE means essence of every reaction in the cosmos, and YONG means the reaction itself. CHAE is regarded to ecological resources, and YONG is thought to every-day economic activities. YONG is not able to existwithout CHAE. If economic activities can be done on the basic limit of ecological resources, we can build suitable environment to living condition. We call this appropriate environment as SANG. In other words, the connection of CHAE-YONG-SANG means ecological resources - economic activities - sustainable environment. It is realized that the relations between economics and ecology should be equalized for the balanced environmental ethics education. This study tries to get out of unbalanced relations between economics and ecology from the persepectives of CHAE-YONG-SANG and it was done to suggest an alternative environmental ethics education program

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.611-635
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• 2003

본 연구는 R&DDD(Research & Development, Demonstration, Dissemination: $R&D^3$)로 구성되는 연구개발과정의 마지막 단계인 확산단계에 관한 내용을 다루고 있다. 확산단계(Dissemination Stage)에서는 개발된 기술과 다른 대안들과의 비교 평가가 이루어지고 최종적으로 가장 바람직한 방안이 선정되게 된다. 이 단계에서 이루어지는 기술대안에 대한 평가는 단순한 과정이 아니고, 기술적 특성뿐만 아니라 경제적 효과 등 여러 가지 요소들이 고려되어야 하는 복합적인 평가과정을 거치게 된다. 이는 오늘날 산업계 각 분야에서 바람직한 기술대안의 평가, 선정, 적용이 기업의 경쟁우위에 지대한 영향을 미치며 나아가 기업의 생존 및 성장을 좌우하기 때문이다. 본 연구에서는 열공급시스템의 기술적 대안에 대한 AHP방법을 고찰하고, 이 방법의 실무적 적용가능성을 검토하기 위해 에너지기술분야에서 폐열 활용시스템 대안들에 대한 평가에 적용한 결과를 보여주고 있다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.356-364
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• 2019

최근 정부는 주파수의 효율적 이용을 위하여 이용자에게 주파수의 경제적 가치를 부과하겠다는 정책을 발표한 바있다. 이에 따라 다양한 용도의 주파수에 대한 경제적 가치를 측정하려는 시도가 있을 것으로 예상된다. 이러한 측면에서 본 연구는 주파수 공용통신 용도의 주파수의 경제적 가치를 최소비용대안 방식으로 측정하고자 하였다. 이 경우, 주파수의 가치는 해당 주파수가 주어지지 않을 경우 다른 방법으로 동 서비스를 제공하는데 들어가는 비용으로 측정할 수 있으며, 주파수 공용통신의 경우 이는 LTE 망을 통하여 제공하는데 소요되는 비용이 된다. 즉, TRS 용 주파수의 가치를 LTE 망 이용대가, 설비투자비용, 단말기 보조금, 보상금 등의 합계로 추정해 보았다. 본 연구의 결과는 향후 다른 용도의 주파수 이용대가 산정에도 시사점을 제공할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Human Ecology Research
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• 제56권3호
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• pp.233-246
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• 2018

Korean society is experiencing an increase in multicultural families and single households. The incidence of the MERS, epidemic in 2015, and the subsequent cases of child abuse have been major shocks to Korean society. In addition, there has been a steady increase in household debt, that is in danger of causing a serious crisis in the stability of our society and the family. The current demand for increased accountability in the democratic process is becoming an important topic. There is also an increased awareness of natural disaster preparation due to local earthquakes that have caused concern. At this point, the lifelong education in the home economics education field in Korea is in line with the changes and crises of various societies. Problems related to family life that have happened in the real life of learners stand in the place of the study with preventive character. It should provide the best alternative for family, home, and society, and help to overcome the problems of life. In order for lifelong education to respond to these social changes $vis-{\grave{a}}-vis$ Home Economics Education, it is necessary to develop: 'formation and improvement education of family relationship', 'crisis prevention and management coping ability training', 'safety education', 'learning communication and consensus processes', 'consumer culture education', 'ethics education on environment and resources', 'sustainability education', 'local education of family relationship', 'crisis prevention and management coping ability training', 'safety education', 'learning communication and consensus processes', 'consumer culture education', 'ethics education on environment and resources', 'sustainability education', 'local economic activation education', and other topics of lifelong education topics related to the field of Home Economics Education are required. Consequently, various related programs should be further developed and disseminated.

• 한국가정과교육학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.41-57
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• 2016

본 연구는 탈북청소년들의 가족기능과 생활역량의 강화를 통하여 남한사회에의 적응을 돕는 가정생활교육프로그램의 개발을 목적으로 하였다. 이를 위하여 탈북청소년들과 탈북청소년을 위한 학교 교사들과의 인터뷰를 통하여 그들의 필요를 파악하였으며, 이를 근거로 교육 내용을 선정하였다. 교육은 2015년 4월부터 7월 사이에 탈북청소년을 위한 대안학교인 여명학교에서 시행되었다. 청소년들이 실생활의 여러 측면에서 적용할 수 있는 프로젝트를 중심으로 식생활, 의생활, 주생활, 가족생활 및 대인관계, 소비생활 등의 주제로 10차시 분량으로 준비되었다. 사전-사후 평가에서 의생활 및 가족생활을 제외한 모든 분야에서 학생들의 지식 및 역량 면에서 유의한 효과가 있었으며, 학생들의 구술 응답에서도 프로그램의 내용이 실생활에 도움이 될 것이라 하였으며 다른 학생들에게 추천할 의향이 있다고 답하였다. 이 프로그램은 북한의 청소년들에게 가족기능 및 생활역량 강화를 위한 정보를 제공함으로써 앞으로 다가올 미래의 통일한국을 대비하는 프로그램으로서도 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국가정과교육학회지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.131-144
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• 1998

The lack of characteristical understanding of the Home Economics Education will have difficulty in achieving the goal of the Home Economics Education. To allow the Home Economics Education class in school contribute toward the enhancement of the quality of life, it is inevitable to reinforce the recognition of the importance and necessity of the Home Economics Education and to newly propose a directional guidance forward the coming 21st century. The purpose of this study was to provide basic data for planners of the future Home Economics Education by surveying research administrators in charge of programming the overall school curriculum. This study was conducted under the following procedure to have the outcome as follows ; 1. Answers from respondents of age over 50 or careers over 16 years tended to grasp the goal of Home Economics Education in relation to the enhancement of quality of life rather than to the accumulation of knowledge, skill or capacity. 2. Of all the surveyed, 9.64% regarded Home Economics Education as an essential part of school education and the positive ratio was higher with younger respondents. 3. To the question asking if the high school Home Economics Education could have influence on one's capacity, 97.2% of the answerers said yes. The respondents with career under 15 year showed 100% of positive agreement in this matter and of age under 40 marked much higher ratio of 98.84% than the elders. 4. The overall recognition of the necessity for separate sections in Home Economics Education programmed in accordance with the 6th Revision of High School Curriculum displayed a considerably high ratio, with a little differences among age and job groups. The purpose of this study is to analyze and understand adolescents'culture, thereby to provide fundamental information for Preventive Education for Adolescents'Problems in Home Economic Education. 745 articles collected in computer communication service were used for the analysis. The data were analyzed by frequency and percentage using the SPSS/PC+computer program. The most important results of this study were as follows ; 1) Concerning 'Adolescent's Problems's, problems such as violence, homicide and robbery were treated with the greatest frequency. It was also analyzed that the older generations are highly inclined to understand adolescents'culture as a negative one, for example, 'delinquency'or 'immaturity'. 2) Although the area of 'Adolescents'Education'was treated most frequently reflecting the high educational concern in our society, the significant part of those articles were on wrongful educational administration. As much as 70.6% of the articles analyzed were on 'Education'and 'Problems'. Thereby it may be concluded that the other areas such as health, activities, worries, values and harmful environments ere treated respectively as only a 'subculture'or'fragmentary culture'. The articles containing correlations and interactions among them and certain alternative proposals were very rare. 3) The areas such as 'Worries and Counselling'and 'Health'were occupying only a small portion of the articles. The articles which were treating the practical worries and their resolutions were even rarer. 4) 'Values'of the adolescents tended to be viewed by the older generations very negatively. It was also found that the older generations gave the tendency to see the 'consumption culture'of the adolescents as a kind of 'counter culture'or'subculture'.