• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.29-43
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• 2016

Composite materials are rapidly gaining popularity as an alternative to metals for structural and load bearing applications in the aerospace, automotive, alternate energy and consumer industries. With the advent of thermoplastic composites and advances in recycling technologies, fully recyclable composites are gaining ground over traditional thermoset composites. Stamp forming as an alternative processing technique for sheet products has proven to be effective in allowing the fast manufacturing rates required for mass production of components. This study investigates the feasibility of using the stamp forming technique for the processing of thermoplastic, recyclable composite materials. The material system used in this study is a self-reinforced polypropylene composite material (Curv$^{(R)}$). The investigation includes a detailed experimental study based on strain measurements using a non-contact optical measurement system in conjunction with stamping equipment to record and measure the formability of the thermoplastic composites in real time. A Design of Experiments (DOE) methodology was adopted to elucidate the effect of process parameters that included blank holder force, pre heat temperature and feed rate on stamp forming. DOE analyses indicate that feed rate had negligible influence on the strain evolution during stamp forming and blank holder force and preheat temperature had significant effect on strain evolution during forming.

• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.85-102
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• 2018

Objectives: In order to cope with the quality and the substantiality issues in long-term care for the elderly, we should have a wider view of long-term system components based on the understanding of health care organizations, management services, support for care providers and beneficiaries, education of the workforce, and management of finance and resources. Methods: For resolving the issues raised and offering guidance in the area of long-term care, we reviewed 20 reports and documents of the government and government-related institutions using the Internet home pages of the Australian government and the related organizations in the health care sector. These organizations are undergoing a huge system reform to implement consumer-directed care since 2015, in the areas of service, resources, finances, organization, and management. Results and conclusions: The study outcomes can have some implications for the long-term care system in Korea based on the differences in the service components. The results can provide basic information for improving the long-term care service, and can have several other implications for long-term care in Korea.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.3-25
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• 2022

East Asia's Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) came into force in 2022 as the world's largest free trade agreement. RCEP was concluded, signed and brought into force in the face of major international uncertainty and is a significant boost to the global trading system. RCEP brings Australia, China, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand into the same agreement with the ten member ASEAN group at its centre. It keeps markets open and updates trade and investment rules in East Asia, a major centre of global economic activity, at a time of rising protectionism when the WTO itself is under threat. The agreement builds on ASEAN's free trade agreements and strengthens ASEAN centrality. One of the pillars of RCEP is an economic cooperation agenda which has its antecedents in ASEAN's approach to bringing along its least developed members and builds on the experience of capacity building in APEC and technical cooperation under the ASEAN Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement. There is an opportunity to create a framework that facilitates deeper economic cooperation that involves experience-sharing, extending RCEP's rules and membership at the same time as strengthening political cooperation. The paper suggests some areas that might be best suited to cooperation - that is confidence and trust building instead of or before negotiation - and discusses how non-members may be engaged and the membership expanded. Options such as multilateralising provisions and becoming a platform for policy convergence and coordinating unilateral reforms are canvassed.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제86권1호
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• pp.29-48
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• 2023

Pounding happens when contiguous structures with differing heights vibrate out of line caused by a seismic activity. The situation is aggravated due to the insufficient separation gap between the structures which can lead to the crashing of the buildings or total collapse of an edifice. Countries around the world have compiled building standards to address the pounding issue. One of the strategies recommended is the introduction of the separation gap between structures. AS1170.4-2007 is an Australian standard that requires 1% of the building height as a minimum separation gap between buildings to preclude pounding. This article presents experimental and numerical tests to determine the adequacy of this specification to prevent the occurrence of seismic pounding between steel frame structures under near-field and far-field earthquakes. The results indicated that the recommended minimum separation gap based on the Australian Standard is inaccurate if low-rise structure in a coupled case is utilised under both near and far field earthquakes. The standard is adequate if a tall building is involved but only when a far-field earthquake happens. The research likewise presents results derived by using the ABS and SRSS methods.

• 천문학회보
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.63.2-63.2
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• 2020

FLASH is a blind neutral hydrogen (HI) absorption line survey, eventually targeting about 100,000 background radio continuum sources in the entire southern sky using the full 36-antenna of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP). Our primary goal is to search for associated and intervening HI absorption lines in the intermediate redshift range 0.4 < z < 1.0. The survey aims to understand the evolution of HI gas in galaxies as well as various physical mechanisms in active galactic nuclei, such as accretion and feedback processes. In this poster, we give an overview of the FLASH survey and present the preliminary results from our first 100-hrs of pilot observations. The latest survey data covers 1,000 square degrees and is ideal for validating observation and data processing in the continuous 300MHz-width low frequency ASKAP band (700-1000MHz). One of the crucial objectives of the pilot survey is to establish the analysis methodology that will be applied to upcoming large absorption surveys in the future. We discuss our data quality validation and present some detections of associated/intervening HI absorption lines. These absorption lines allow us to trace the cold gas properties of active and normal galaxies at higher redshifts where the HI emission line is too weak to be detectable.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 4th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management Organized by the University of New South Wales
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• pp.117-123
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• 2011

The Australian construction industry is characterized as being a competitive and risky business environment due to lack of cooperation, insufficient trust, ineffective communication and adversarial relationships which are likely lead to poor project performance. Relational contracting (RC) is advocated by literature as an innovative approach to improve the procurement process in the construction industry. Various studies have collectively added to the current knowledge of known RC norms, but there seem to be little effort on investigating the determinants of RC and its impact on project outcomes. In such circumstances, there is lack of evidence and explanation on the manner on how these issues lead to different performance. Simultaneously, the New Engineering Contract (NEC) that embraced the concept of RC is seen as a modern way of contracting and also considered as one of the best approaches to the perennial problem of improving adversarial relationships within the industry. The reality of practice of RC in Australia is investigated through the lens of the NEC. A synthesis of literature views on the concept, processes and tools of RC is first conducted to develop the framework of RC. A case study approach is proposed for an in-depth analysis to explore the critical issues addressed by RC in relation to project performance. Understanding the realities of RC will assist stakeholders in the construction industry with their investment in RC.

• 시큐리티연구
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• 제47호
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• pp.7-36
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• 2016

흔히 '성장의 한계가 없는 고도 성장산업'으로 불리는 민간경비업은 1980년대 이래 쉼 없는 양적 팽창을 거듭해왔다. 현대에서 민간경비의 역할은 생활안전 뿐 아니라 안보에도 중요한 위치를 차지하고 있으며, 그 교량적 기능은 가속화되고 있다. 치안서비스의 한 축으로써, 민간경비산업의 건전한 육성발전을 촉진하기 위해 세계 각국은 고유의 필요에 따라 각기 독특한 자격제도와 규제수단을 마련해 운영해오고 있다. 그간 우리나라에는 민간경비산업이 고도로 활성화 된 주요국의 규제개혁 사례가 다수 소개된 바 있다. 하지만 지금까지 소개된 선진국의 제도정비연구는 전반적으로 영미와 독일, 이웃 일본 중심이었다. 그러나 경비산업의 활성화 논의와 규제해법 담론을 이끌고 있는 많은 선도국들이 있으며, 그 중 대표적으로 일찍이 경비서비스를 공공재로 인식하여 단계적 제도개선 노력을 지속해온 광대한 인구부족 국가 호주를 꼽을 수 있다. 이러한 맥락에서, 본 연구에서는 1980년대부터 민경 역할분담을 확대해온 호주의 경비산업규제 접근방식을 살펴보고 이로부터 민간경비 산업 전반의 리스크 관리와 거시건전성 감독정책 방향에 대해 국내에 주는 시사점을 도출하였다. 연구결과, 호주의 경비산업 관리 운영은 (1) 의심스런 경비업자 측근에 대한 강도 높은 모니터링과 지문을 날인하는 제도의 운영, (2) 무영장 경비업체 압수수색제도, (3) 부적격자 삼진아웃 퇴출제도 등을 특징으로 하였다. 민간경비는 사회 안전을 보장하는 공공재적 성격이 강하므로, 서비스의 균일한 신뢰성 담보를 위해서는 정부주도의 보다 전문적인 관리와 선제적 개입이 요구된다. 이에 본 연구에서는 호주의 사례를 바탕으로, (1) 규제 프로그램의 리스크 유형별 효과성 측정을 토대로 한 규제품질평가에 대한 필요성, (2) 중장기적 규제영향분석을 위한 전담기구의 설립, (3) 규제준수 유도를 위해 활용될 수 있는 규제 믹스(regulatory mix) 전략에 관한 가이드라인을 제시하여 정책적 시사점을 도출하였다.

• 한국축산식품학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.91-98
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• 2009

한우고기 채끝부위 $1^{++}$등급의 조지방 함량이 26.58%로 가장 높았으며 호주산 쇠고기의 조지방 함량은 11.87%로 한우고기 1등급과 비슷한 수준으로 분석되었다. 한우고기 $1^{++}$등급과 $1^+$등급 및 1등급의 조지방 함량은 각각 26.58%, 16.39%, 11.29% 로서 육질등급 간에 차이가 크게 나타났다. 보수력은 한우고기 $1^{++}$등급이 60.05%로 가장 높았다. 전단력은 호주산 쇠고기가 2.81 kg로 가장 낮아 호주산 쇠고기의 연도증진 효과가 있는 것으로 분석되었으며 관능 검사 요원이 평가한 맛은 전체평점에서 한우고기($1^{++}$등 급, $1^+$등급, 1등급)가 호주산 쇠고기 보다 우수하였다. 한우고기 육질등급 간 관능평가 결과 $1^{++}$등급은 가장 우수 하였으나(p<0.05) $1^+$등급과 1등급간에는 차이가 없었다. 이상의 결과에서 호주산 Wagyu 쇠고기는 한우1등급 및 $1^+$등급 쇠고기와 비교할 때 향미는 다소 나쁘지만 전체적인 관능검사 평점은 비슷하였다.

• 동아시아식생활학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.497-505
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• 2012

냉장한 제주흑우육, 한우육 및 호주산 수입우육의 품질 특성을 비교하였다. 영양적 특성에서, 제주흑우육의 수분은 65.91%, 조단백질은 17.39%로 가장 낮고 조지방은 15.89%, 조회분은 0.79%로 가장 높게 나타났으며, 조회분은 유의적 차이를 보이고 나머지는 모두 시료 간에 유의적 차이가 없었다. 제주흑우육은 철과 아연 함량이 각각 29.85 및 48.13 ppm으로 한우육보다 낮았으나 유의적 차이가 아니고 호주산 우육보다 많게 나타났으며(p<0.05), 칼슘, 인, 나트륨 및 구리의 함량은 시료 간 유의적 차이가 없는 것으로 분석되었다. 제주흑우육은 아미노산 총량과 필수 아미노산 함량이 각각 16.81 및 9.08%로 다른 시료에 비해 가장 낮았으나 시료 간에 유의적 차이가 나타나지 않았으며, 총아미노산에 대한 필수아미노산의 비율은 54.01%로 가장 높게 나타났다. 제주흑우육은 포화지방산 총량(43.25%), stearic acid(13.51%), linoleic acid(2.39%) 및 필수지방산(2.47%) 함량이 가장 낮은 반면 불포화지방산 총량(56.69%), 단가불포화지방산인 oleic acid 함량(47.80%) 및 MUFA/SFA 비율이 높게 나타나서 호주산 우육에 비해 유의적 차이가 있었다. PUFA/SFA 비율은 시료 간에 유의적 차이가 없었다. 물리화학적 특성에서, 제주흑우육은 적색도($a^*$)가 높고 융점이 가장 낮게 나타났으며(p<0.05), 명도($L^*$)와 황색도($b^*$), pH, 보수력, 가열 감량 및 전단력은 시료 간에 유의적 차이가 없었다. 관능평가 결과에서, 제주흑우육은 생육의 향, 가열육 향 및 기호도가 가장 우수하여 호주산 우육에 비교하면 유의성이 인정되었다(p<0.05). 그러나 가열육의 맛, 다즙성 및 연도는 시료 간에 유의적 차이가 나타나지 않았다.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제57권3호
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• pp.8.1-8.8
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• 2015

Background: The demand for healthy, lean and consistent meat products containing low saturated fatty acid content and high quality polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), especially long-chain (${\geq}C_{20}$) omega-3 PUFA, has increased in recent times. Fat deposition is altered by both the genetic background and dietary supplements, and this study aimed to assess the effect of dietary Spirulina supplementation levels on the mRNA expression patterns of genes controlling lipid metabolism in the subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) and Longissimus dorsi (ld) muscle of Australian crossbred sheep. Methods: Twenty-four weaned lambs belonging to four breeds under the same management conditions were maintained on ryegrass pasture and fed three levels of Spirulina supplement (control, low and high). In terms of nutrient composition, Spirulina is a nutrient-rich supplement that contains all essential amino acids, vitamins and minerals. It also is a rich source of carotenoids and fatty acids, especially gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) that infer health benefits. After slaughter, subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) and ld samples were subjected to mRNA extraction and reverse transcription using quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) to assess the mRNA expression levels of the Aralkylamine N-acetyltransferase (AANAT), Adrenergic beta-3 receptor (ADRB3), B-cell translocation gene 2 (BTG2) and Fatty acid synthase (FASN) genes, which are associated with lipid metabolism. Results: Both low and high Spirulina supplementation levels strongly up-regulated the transcription of all the selected genes in both SAT and ld tissues (mostly in the subcutaneous adipose), but sheep breed and sex did not influence the gene expression patterns in these tissues. Conclusions: The evidence indicates that high Spirulina supplementation level resulted in a decrease in intramuscular fat content in Australian purebred and crossbred sheep due to the enhanced production of melatonin in sheep muscle tissues and strong up-regulation of mRNA expression of BTG2 in SAT which negatively affected fat deposition. In contrast, low Spirulina supplementation level strongly up-regulated the ADRB3 and FASN genes responsible for fat production. These findings are consistent with the observed phenotypic data suggesting that low Spirulina supplementation level can increase lamb production, with higher long-chain PUFA content.