• Current Photovoltaic Research
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.121-132
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• 2022

The need for floating photovoltaic is being emphasized to expand renewable energy but low residents' acceptance is a major obstacle to the deployment of floating photovoltaic. Using the discrete choice experiment, this study analyzed the preferences for community-based floating photovoltaic projects and proposed a method to increase the residents' acceptance of floating photovoltaic projects. The estimates of the marginal willingness to accept (MWTA) of the distance, the coverage ratio, the landscape, the project owner (public institution), and the project owner (large company) are -0.69%p/km, 0.13%p/%p, -0.57%p, -2.95%p, -1.73%p, respectively. According to the result of simulation analysis, the residents' acceptance is significantly higher when the project is operated by a public institution, with a choice probability of 58%, than when the project is operated by a private company, with a choice probability of 29%, 12% for a large and small company, respectively. In addition, as a result of the analysis of the expected returns, the results show that the closer the distance from the residence to the power plant, the higher the expected return.

• 여성건강간호학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.9-17
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• 2024

• 한국조경학회지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.59-68
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• 1995

This paper intends to identify recreation destination choice process, in particular, considering need/motive theory, recreation opportunity spectrum, information integration theory, and to review critically the status of development of the various modeling approaches. Two attempts are then made to explain consumers' choice begavior of theme park and national park, respectively, applying conjoint model and discrete choice experiment model. Three theme parks and three national parks were selected as study areas, resolution Ⅲ designs were constructed, and data was collected by in-personal interviews on the study areas. The results illustrated the part-worth utilities and the relative importance of the attributes of theme park and national park. In addition, further research directions were discussed.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권8호
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• pp.465-473
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• 2021

This study is the application of a choice experiment to assess Mekong Delta urban households' preferences and motivations for ecosystem conservation in the U Minh forest. The study applied a choice modeling approach to estimate the economic values of the proposed ecosystem conservation program in the U Minh forest by accessing urban consumer preferences and their willingness to pay for the project. Discrete choice experimental data was collected from 450 residents in the cities of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta. The multinomial logit model was employed to identify consumer's stated preferences for the environmental and sustainability attributes of the conservation project. The results showed that Mekong Delta urban residents paid much attention to the proposed project to protect and develop the U Minh forest. In addition, the results showed that higher education, income, and knowledge of the U Minh forest revealed a higher likelihood of selecting the project, while the older residents would select the status quo more than the younger ones. The study also proved that the effect of participation had a strong impact on the willingness to pay for the project. The findings could be useful for policymakers to take action to raise resident's awareness and willingness to pay for the U Minh forest project.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.98-120
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to elicit preference for drug listing decision criteria and to estimate the ICER threshold in South Korea using the discrete choice experiment (DCE) method. To collect the data, a DCE survey was administered to a subject sample either educated in the principle concepts of pharmacoeconomics or were decision makers within that field. Subjects chose between alternative drug profiles differing in four attributes: ICER, uncertainty, budget impact and severity of disease. The orthogonal and balanced designs were determined through computer algorithm to take the optimal set of drug profiles. The survey employed 15 hypothetical choice sets. A random effect probit model was used to analyze the relative importance of attributes and the probabilities of a recommendation response. Parameter estimates from the models indicated that three attributes (ICER, Impact, Severity of disease) influenced respondents' choice significantly(p${\pm}$0.001). In addition, each parameter displayed an expected sign. The Lower the ICER, the higher the probability of choosing that alternative. Respondents also preferred low levels of uncertainty and smaller impact on health service budget. They were also more likely to choose drugs for serious diseases rather than mild or moderate ones. Uncertainty however is not statistically significant. The ICER threshold, at which the probability of a recommendation was 0.5, was 29,000,000 KW/QALY in expert group and 46,500,000 KW/QALY in industry group. We also found that those in our sample were willing to accept high ICER to get medication for severe diseases. This study demonstrates that the cost-effectiveness, budget impact and severity of disease are the main reimbursement decision criteria in South Korea, and that DCE can be a useful tool in analyzing the decision making process where a variety of factors are considered and prioritized.

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.555-574
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• 2006

본고는 댐호수가 제공하는 휴양가치가 댐특성의 변화에 의해 어떻게 달라지는지를 추정하고자 하였다. 이 목적을 위해 실제로 댐방문행위를 분석할 수도 있으나 이 경우 주요 특성변수의 추정이 불가능하거나 어렵고 변수들간의 독립성도 약하여 통계적으로 의미있는 추정결과가 나타나기 어려운 경우가 있고, 따라서 본 연구는 대안으로 선택실험을 실시하여 수질과 수량 및 기타 특성변수의 경제적 가치를 도출하고자 하였다. 선택실험자료를 이용한 추정결과를 10개 주요 댐호수의 선택문제에 적용하여 다양한 시나리오별 특성변화의 경제적 가치를 도출하였다. 분석결과 수질이 특히 민감하게 휴양가치에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났고, 수질이나 환경에 부의 영향을 주도록 지나치게 큰 댐을 짓거나 유람선 운행 등을 할 경우 오히려 휴양가치가 감소할 수도 있음이 보여졌다. 모든 댐의 수질이 1등급 개선될 경우 휴양객들은 자신이 댐 1회 방문을 위해 평균적으로 지불하는 비용 이상의 편익을 추가로 얻는 것으로 나타났다. 댐과 관련된 교육홍보관 운영, 댐 인근 및 댐호수 지역의 여타 레크리에이션 기회의 증가도 통계적으로 의미있는 정도로 휴양편익증가에 기여하는 것으로 나타났다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제17권sup1호
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• pp.79-84
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• 2016

Graphic health warnings (GHW) on tobacco packages have proven to be effective in increasing quit attempts among smokers and reducing initial smoking among adolescents. This research aimed to examine the relative importance of different attributes of graphic health warnings on tobacco packages in Viet Nam. A discrete choice experimental (DCE) design was applied with a conditional logit model. In addition, a ranking method was used to list from the least to the most dreadful GHW labels. With the results from DCE model, graphic type was shown to be the most important attribute, followed by cost and coverage area of GHW. The least important attribute was position of the GHW. Among 5 graphic types (internal lung cancer image, external damaged teeth, abstract image, human suffering image and text), the image of lung cancer was found to have the strongest influence on both smokers and non-smokers. With ranking method, the image of throat cancer and heart diseases were considered the most dreadful images. GHWs should be designed with these attributes in mind, to maximise influence on purchase among both smokers and non-smokers.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.127-133
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• 1999

기존의 이산 웨이브렛 변환 기반 플랙탈 영상 압축은 프랙탈 부호화시 고정된 블럭 크기를 사용하므로 낮은 비트율에서 PSNR을 감소시킨다. 본 논문에서는 플랙탈 부호화시 가변 블록 크기를 사용하여 PSNR을 개선하는 이산 웨이브렛 기반 프랙탈 영상 부호화를 제안한다. 제안된 방법에서는 먼저 이산 웨이브렛 변환 계수들의 절대값을 최하고, 같은 공간 영역에 해당하는 다른 고주파 부대역의 이산 웨이브렛 변환 계수들을 묶어서 레인지 블록과 도메인 블록을 만든다. 그리고 각각의 레인지 블록 레벨의 레인지 블록에 대한 프랙탈 코드를 지정하고, 프랙탈 부호화,\ulcorner0\ulcorner부호화와 스칼라 양자화중 하나를 선택하여 만든 집합인 결정 트리 C를 만들고 스칼라 양자화기의 집합 q를 선택한다. 웨이브렛 계수, 프랙탈 코드와 결정 트리를 적응적 산술 부호화기를 사용하여 엔트로피 nq호화 한다. 제안된 방법은 낮은 비트율에서 PSNR을 개선하고 복원 영상의 블록킹 현상을 제거한다. 실험 결과를 통해서 제안한 방법은 기존의 프랙탈 부호화 방법과 웨이브렛 변환 부호화 방법에 비해 더 좋은 PSNR과 더 높은 압축율을 얻었다.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.171-180
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• 2009

Population learning algorithm (PLA) is a population-based method that was inspired by the similarities to the phenomenon of social education process in which a diminishing number of individuals enter an increasing number of learning stages. The study aims to develop a framework that repeatedly applying the PLA to solve the discrete resource constrained project scheduling problem with two objectives: minimizing project makespan and renewable resource availability, which are two most common concerns of management when a project is being executed. The PLA looping framework will provide a number of near Pareto optimal schedules for the management to make a choice. Different improvement schemes and learning procedures are applied at different stages of the process. The process gradually becomes more and more sophisticated and time consuming as there are less and less individuals to be taught. An experiment with ProGen generated instances was conducted, and the results demonstrated that the looping framework using PLA outperforms those using genetic local search, particle swarm optimization with local search, scatter search, as well as biased sampling multi-pass algorithm, in terms of several performance measures of proximity. However, the diversity using spread metric does not reveal any significant difference between these five looping algorithms.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제17권sup1호
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• pp.85-90
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• 2016

Two years after implementation of the graphic health warning intervention in Vietnam, it is very important to evaluate the intervention's potential impact. The objective of this paper was to predict effects of graphic health warnings on cigarette packages, particularly in reducing cigarette demand and smoking-associated deaths in Vietnam. In this study, a discrete choice experiment (DCE) method was used to evaluate the potential impact of graphic tobacco health warnings on smoking demand. To predict the impact of GHWs on reducing premature deaths associated with smoking, we constructed different static models. We adapted the method developed by University of Toronto, Canada and found that GHWs had statistically significant impact on reducing cigarette demand (up to 10.1% through images of lung damage), resulting in an overall decrease of smoking prevalence in Vietnam. We also found that between 428,417- 646,098 premature deaths would be prevented as a result of the GHW intervention. The potential impact of the GHW labels on reducing premature smoking-associated deaths in Vietnam were shown to be stronger among lower socio-economic groups.