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Organization of Crisis Response Teams and Operating Procedures for Crisis Response Activities in the Food Industry (식품산업체의 위기관리 조직 및 위기대응 절차)

  • Kim, Jong-Gyu;Kim, Joong-Soon
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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    • v.41 no.3
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    • pp.191-202
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    • 2015
  • Objectives: Promotion of food safety/eradicating adulterated food has been listed as one of the four major issues recently identified for action by the Korean government. Due to the related seriousness, the food industry has been encouraged to take steps to restore consumer confidence. In order to set guidelines for the creation of manuals for the response to a food safety crisis by the food industry, this study provided a suggested organization for a crisis response team and operating procedures for crisis response activities. Methods: The prototypes of an organizational structure and a set of standard procedures for a crisis response system were provided. Results: The results of the study suggested that a crisis response team should be comprised of four divisions of responsibility: information analysis, site response, communication and operational support. The organization chart and the role and functions for each division of the crisis response team should be indicated. Response activities will be more effective when the team features multi-disciplined staffing, such as public relations, food safety/technology/quality, sales/marketing, purchasing, production, distribution/logistics, regulatory affairs/legal, and consumer service specialists. This study created a flow chart for the total crisis response system, which included crisis and normal situations. A crisis response team should be continuously operated for both crisis and normal conditions. This study also suggested a scenario to explain the procedures for crisis response activities. Conclusion: In order to cope more effectively with a food safety crisis, the organizational structure and its functions should be defined clearly, and a detailed set of standard procedures for response activities should be offered.

Perfusion-Weighted MRI Parameters for Prediction of Early Progressive Infarction in Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion

  • Kim, Hoon;Kim, Yerim;Kim, Young Woo;Kim, Seong Rim;Yang, Seung Ho
    • Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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    • v.59 no.4
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    • pp.346-351
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    • 2016
  • Objective : Early progressive infarction (EPI) is frequently observed and related to poor functional outcome in patients with middle cerebral artery (MCA) infarction caused by MCA occlusion. We evaluated the perfusion parameters of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as a predictor of EPI. Methods : We retrospectively analyzed patients with acute MCA territory infarction caused by MCA occlusion. EPI was defined as a National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale increment ${\geq}2$ points during 24 hours despite receiving standard treatment. Regional parameter ratios, such as cerebral blood flow and volume (rCBV) ratio (ipsilateral value/contralateral value) on perfusion MRI were analyzed to investigate the association with EPI. Results : Sixty-four patients were enrolled in total. EPI was present in 18 (28%) subjects and all EPI occurred within 3 days after hospitalization. Diabetes mellitus, rCBV ratio and regional time to peak (rTTP) ratio showed statically significant differences in both groups. Multi-variate analysis indicated that history of diabetes mellitus [odds ratio (OR), 6.13; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.55-24.24] and a low rCBV ratio (rCBV, <0.85; OR, 6.57; 95% CI, 1.4-30.27) was significantly correlated with EPI. Conclusion : The incidence of EPI is considerable in patients with acute MCA territory infarction caused by MCA occlusion. We suggest that rCBV ratio is a useful neuro-imaging parameter to predict EPI.

A Study on Minimum Number of Ship-handling Simulation Required for Evaluating Vessel's Proximity Measure

  • Jeong, Tae-Gweon;Pan, Bao-Feng
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.38 no.6
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    • pp.689-694
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    • 2014
  • The Korean government has introduced and enforced maritime traffic safety assessment to secure traffic safety since 2010. The maritime traffic safety assessment is needed by law to design a new port or modify an existing one. According to Korea Maritime Safety Act, in the assessment the propriety of marine traffic system consists of the safety of channel transit and berthing/unberthing maneuver, safety of mooring, and safety of marine traffic flow. The safety of channel transit and berthing/unberthing maneuver can be evaluated only by ship-handling simulation. The ship-handling simulation is carried out by sea pilots working with the port concerned. The vessel's proximity measure is an important factor to evaluate traffic safety. The proximity measure is composed of vessel's closest distance to channel boundary and probability of grounding/collision. What is more, the probability of grounding becomes important. According to central limit theorem, a sample has a normal distribution on condition that its size is more than 30. However, more than 30 simulation runs bring about the increase of assessment period and difficulty of employing sea pilots. Therefore this paper is to find out minimum sample size for evaluating vessel's proximity. First sample sets of size of 3, 5, 7, 9 etc. are selected randomly on the basis of normal distribution. And then KS test for goodness of fit and t-test for confidence interval are applied to each sample set. Finally this paper decides the minimum sample size. As a result this paper suggests the minimum sample size of 5, that is, the simulation of more than five times.

Small Turbojet Engine Test and Uncertainty Analysis (소형 터보제트 엔진 시험 및 불확도 분석)

  • Jun, Yong-Min;Yang, In-Young;Nam, Sam-Sik;Kim, Chun-Taek;Yang, Soo-Seok;Lee, Dae-Sung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.118-126
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    • 2002
  • The Altitude Engine Test Facility(AETF) was built at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute and has been being operated for the gas turbine engines in the class of 3,000 lbf thrust. To enhance the confidence level of AETF to the international level, a series of studies and facility modification have been conducted to improve the measurement uncertainty and reliability. In this paper, some part of the facility evaluation tests performed with a single spool turbojet engine are introduced. Tests were performed simulating the flight conditions as steady state, sea level for various flight speeds (i.e., Mn=0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 0.9). The obtained test results are compared with the predicted values of the engine DECK. The measurement uncertainties of airflow, net thrust, fuel flow and SFC showed 0.791~0.914%, 0.851~1.706%, 1.372~7.348% and 1.642~5.205%, respectively. Thus, from this research, the improvement methods of uncertainties on AETF has been confirmed.

Conceptual Exploratory on Security Martial Arts' Spirit (경호무도 정신특성의 개념 탐색)

  • Kim, Dong-Hyun
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.213-222
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study was to extract the spiritual characteristic factors of the security martial arts qualitatively which are emphasized in guard situation. To get the purpose of this study, 216 people who are students majored in security service, security service professionals, specialists of practical and theoretical security martial arts were selected as participants for this study. The results of this study were as follows. There were divided 4 sub-factors and 20 detailed factors. The spiritual characteristics of the security martial arts were named psychological spirit which was consisted of concentration, self-confidence, self-management, flow, and self-esteem, ethical spirit which was consisted of sacrifice, justice, royalty, peace, and sense of duty, martial arts' spirit which was consisted of courtesy, toughness, defense, balance of mind and body, and bravery, and practical spirit which was consisted of responsibility, cooperation, modesty, determination, and professionalism.

A Occupant Load Density and Computer Modelling of Evacuation time in Office Buildings (사무소 건물의 거주밀도 분포와 피난시간 예측)

  • Kim, Un-Hyeong;Rui, Hu;Kim, Hong
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.35-42
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    • 1999
  • A occupant load density of contemporary office buildings were surveyed by a building w walk through procedure in Korea. The survey results of ten office buildings are range from 1 2 2 2 213.14 m !person 041.4 ft !person) to 22.69 m /person (244.34 ft !person) with 95% confidence l level and the mean occupant load density is 17.92 m2/person 092.87 ft2/야rson). The impacts of occupant load on evacuation flow time was analyzed by applying time-based egress m model, SIMULEX with various occupant load densities from previous studies. I In order to demonstrate the validation of egress modeling method, fire evacuation exercise a and computer simulation were used to simulate the actual evacuation plan for a high-rise office building. An analysis and comparison of the results of these approaches was made to i illustrate the influence of model limitations on the result of prediction The result of the study shows that the introduction of occupant load concept in building c code of Korea is essential to achieving resonable building life safety design in future.

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Characteristics of Washed-off Pollutants from Railway Station During Storms (강우시 철로 역사에서 발생하는 비점오염물질의 유출 경향 및 특성)

  • Kim Lee-Hyung;Oa Sunguk;Lee Seonha
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.15-20
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    • 2005
  • The ministry of Environment, Korea, are designing the TMDL(Total Maximum daily Load) program far 4 major large rivers to improve water quality from possible pollutants. It can be successfully performed as controling of nonpoint pollutants from watershed area. Railway stations are stormwater intensive land use because of high imperviousness and high pollutant mass emissions from various activities. Especially the metal pollutants from the railway station were recognized as an important pollutants because of its toxicities. In order to characterize the washed-off pollutants. the monitoring were performed on a railway station during storms. Pollutant concentrations are exponentially decreasing during the storm duration. The 95% confidence interval of pollutant concentrations in an hour storm duration ranges from 61.6 to 115.4mg/L for TSS(mean=88.50mg/L),103.8-244.1mg/L for COD(mean=174 mg/L) and 7.68-17.32mg/L for Oil & Grease(mean=12.5mg/L). The ranges of metals were 39.2-84.0 $\mu\textrm{g}$/L for total Cu(mean=61.6$\mu\textrm{g}$/L), 14.0-25.8$\mu\textrm{g}$/L for total Pb(mean=19.9$\mu\textrm{g}$/L) and 182.2-376.l $\mu\textrm{g}$/L for total Zn(mean=279.2$\mu\textrm{g}$/L). The first flush criteria for best management practices can be suggested to 50% pollutant mass emissions during 30% of the total flow.

An Experimental Study on Performance of the Fixed-type OWC Chamber for Wave-Energy Conversion (고정식 파력발전용 OWC챔버의 성능파악을 위한 실험적 연구)

  • B.S. Hyun;P.M. Lee;D.S. Gong
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.318-328
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    • 1991
  • The present paper describes the experimental study on the fixed-type wave-energy conversion system, consisting of the OWC-type wave-energy absorbing chamber and the duct for the air turbine. For simplicity, a screen of wire mesh was employed in place of an air turbine in order to simulate its effects on OWC chamber. Experiments were performed at the towing tank in regular waves with the frequency range of 0.22-0.75Hz. Comparison wish the numerical prediction using a potential flow-based method [4] was made to validate the capability of numerical code. It was shown that the agreements between measured and calculated results are quite good, giving a confidence in prediction method. Simulation of air turbine using a wire-mesh screen was successful, at least in a qualitative sense, to investigate the inter action between the OWC chamber and an air turbine. Results also showed that the effects of a wire-mesh screen on chamber efficiency are negligible, and the present model can be effectively utilized for the practical use in ocean waves with the frequency range under 0.3Hz.

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An Analysis on Service Usage of Traffic Information on the Expressway (고속도로 교통정보 서비스에 대한 이용실태 분석)

  • Oh, Dong-Seob;Oh, Young-Tae;Jo, Soon-Gee;Hong, Eun-Joo
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.12-25
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze drivers' attitude related to usage of traffic information and traffic management service. A sample survey on Seohaeanseon Expressway(15), Gyeongbu Experssway(1), Youngdong Expressway(50) was conducted to analyze drivers' attitude ; sample size is 304 with 95% of confidence level and ${\pm}3.6%$ of sampling error. The analysis lists of drivers' attitude are usage of traffic information, awareness about information dissemination devices, and awareness about traffic control information related to LCS or RWIS. The results of this study is that drivers want pre-trip information, voice-based Hi-pass OBU, and fast incident management. According to the IPA, KEC's main consideration is a traffic flow improvement.

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A Study on the Transaction Security of Electronic Payment (전자결제의 보안성에 관한 연구)

  • 홍선의
    • The Journal of Information Technology
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.173-188
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    • 1998
  • In this paper we discussed various types of electronic payment schemes that are emerging. Threats vary from malicious hackers attempting to crash a system, to threats to data or transaction integrity. An understanding of the various types of threats can assist a security manager in selecting appropriate cost-effective controls to protect valuable information resources. An overview of many of today's common threats presented in this paper will be useful to mangers studying their own threat environments with a view toward developing solutions specific to their organization. To ensure security on the Internet, several methods have been developed and deployed. They include authentication of users and servers, encryption, and data integrity. Transaction security is critical : without it, information transmitted over the Internet is susceptible to fraud and other misuse. So computer systems represents an Intermediary with the potential to access the flow of information between a user. Security is needed to ensure that intermediaries cannot eavesdrop on transactions, or copy/modify data. Online firms must take additional precautions to prevent security breaches. To protect consumer information, they must maintain physical security of their servers and control access to software passwords and private keys. Techniques such as secret and public-key encryption and digital signatures play a crucial role in developing consumer confidence in electronic commerce.

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