• Food Science and Biotechnology
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.752-757
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• 2005

Changes in milk quality during storage of extended shelf life milk (ESL milk) and non-ESL milk were evaluated. No significant differences were observed between ESL and typical ultra high temperature-treated (UHT) milk in physicochemical properties including non-casein nitrogen (NCN) content, whey protein nitrogen index (WPNI), and L-ascorbic acid content. Low temperature and long time-treated milk (LTLT milk) had significantly higher NCN content and WPNI than those of UHT milk. In terms of microbial quality, yeast, molds, coliforms, and other bacteria were not detected in ESL milk during entire storage (21 days after expiration date) period at 4 and $25^{\circ}C$, while LTLT milk was more susceptible to microbial infection. Rats fed ESL milk resulted in significantly higher body weight, average daily gain, and feed efficiency than those given UHT milk. These results suggest ESL milk maintains better microbial quality than typical UHT milk, particularly during storage under extended refrigeration and at high temperature.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.69-76
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• 2017

The current study investigated whether Korean learners' English-learning environments, especially target English accent (General American English (GAE) vs. Southern British English (SBE)) and English-language experience affected their production of English vowels. Thirty six EFL learners, 27 ESL-US learners, and 33 ESL-UK learners produced 8 English vowels with a bVt frame (beat, bit, bet, bat, bought, bot, boat, boot). The learners' productions were acoustically analyzed in terms of F1 and F2 frequencies. The overall results revealed that the learners' target accent had an effect on their production of some English vowels. The EFL and ESL-US learners' (especially, female learners') production of bought, bot, boat, and boot, which show characteristic differences between the GAE and SBE accents, was closer to that of the native American English (AE) speakers than the native British English (BE) speakers. In contrast, the ESL-UK learners' production of bought and bot demonstrated the opposite pattern. Thus, the impact of target accent was not demonstrated across the board. The effect of the learners' different English-language experience was also rather limited. This was because the EFL learners' production was not much different from the ESL-US learners' production, in spite of the ESL-US learners' residence in the US for more than 9 years. Furthermore, the Korean learners, irrespective of their different English-language experience, tended to produce bit and bat with lower F1 than the native AE and BE speakers, thus resulting in bit and bat to be produced similarly to beat and bet, respectively. This demonstrates the learners' persistent L1 effects on their English vowel production despite the learners' residence in the English speaking countries or their high English proficiency.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.147-166
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• 2006

This study investigates the effect of misplacement in a written Computer-delivered ESL Placement Test (CEPT) context. The study aims to address the following two research questions: a) which scoring rubric features cause the misplacement of ESL learner's writing scores? and b) which scoring rubric features improve ESL learner's writing scores? Thirty-four international examinees took the test and participated in surveys at the University of Illinois. Twelve examinees of them attended the CEPT workshop test. In the workshop test, they carried out self-evaluation on their first essays using a scoring rubric and compared with expert raters' results. After the workshop, the examinees responded to a survey and interview. For the first research question, the results of the survey and interview addressed that the majority disagreed with the raters' rating results. The self-evaluation results also indicated that their misunderstanding of organization feature caused the misplacement. For the second question, the CEPT workshop scores were improved due to the score improvement in the organization feature while the contribution of other features to the total scores was little. Most of the examinees pointed out that a lesson on the scoring rubric enhanced their understanding of the writing features of the rubric so that their placement scores were generally improved.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.41-45
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• 2017

We have investigated the light extraction efficiency of large-area OLED lighting panels with a microlens array (MLA) or external scattering layer (ESL) by ray tracing simulation. The application of MLA and ESL to transparent OLEDs (TOLEDs) with an auxiliary metal electrode is also studied. It is found that MLA shows higher light extraction efficiency, compared with ESL. However, we have demonstrated that ESL is more suitable for TOLEDs having dual-sided equal light emission. Namely, equal light emission from the front and rear surfaces of TOLED can be achieved by increasing the scattering particle density of ESL. To compensate for a loss in light emission induced by auxiliary metal electrode, we come out with an OLED structure partially covered with MLA at the outer surface of glass substrate, which is aligned with metal electrode. With this scheme, it is observed that the light extraction efficiency can be boosted more than 20% from opaque OLED and 50% from transparent OLED.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제25권6_2호
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• pp.1029-1036
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• 2022

The traditional outdoor advertising market has been stagnant recently, but the digital advertising market has been steadily increasing, and the digital signage market has been expanding despite the recent corona pandemic. However, in terms of hardware, new displays are required due to excessive power consumption, lack of visibility in sunlight, and continuous operating expenses. Since the e-paper display does not require a light emitting device therein, it is advantageous to solve above problems. In addition, it has the advantage of consuming power only when converting an image due to bistability, so it is suitable as hardware that implements images rather than moving pictures. Currently, one of the most successful examples of commercializing e-paper displays is ESL devices. According to a recent market study, the market for large-sized panels larger than 10 inches has grown at an annual rate of 21.6%, and the market is expected to exceed 30% by 2026. It is judged that it will be relatively easy to apply the roll-to-roll technology, which is currently developing the technology applied to OLED, to the e-paper display. Therefore, mass production technology and market expansion for ESL panel enlargement are expected, and a new market is also expected to be formed at the same time. New markets will be traffic signs, public displays, billboards, façades, kiosks, digital signage, and so on.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.101-122
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• 2009

This study was purposed to discuss an educational concept of listening potential in ESL/EFL contexts as a counterpart of the reading potential concept in L1 contexts. As a preliminary condition for the concept of listening potential, this study investigated a relationship between reading and listening proficiency of ESL/EFL learners, focusing on roles of grammar knowledge in reading and listening comprehension. Reading and listening comprehension and grammar knowledge test scores of 231 Korean college students studying at a university in the U.S. were analyzed for this study. This study found that there was a positive correlation between reading proficiency and listening proficiency of Korean ESL college students. Grammar knowledge played significant roles accounting for reading and listening comprehension. Furthermore, this study found a difference between the reading proficiency and the listening proficiency across the stages of language development. However, results of this study did not empirically verify the concept of listening potential.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.59-85
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• 2007

This study examined patterns of engaging in "reading in connection to writing" (hereafter reading-writing practices) in the context of two ESL college composition classrooms. The purpose of this study was to explore whether the L2 proficiency level could be a key construct in explaining similarities and differences in reading-writing practices which students engaged in during the composing process. Multiple sources of data collected over the semester included interview protocols, written products, and observational notes. The results showed that the three proficiency groups under examination differed widely in the ways reading was connected to writing and in the types of intermediate texts produced during the composing process. The students in the high proficiency group produced more intermediate texts through an engagement in reading-writing practices connected to each other. On the contrary, the students in lower proficiency groups engaged in a limited range of reading-writing practices without support of intermediate texts. This study provides insight into the different ways ESL college students coordinate reading and writing while composing essays.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.177-200
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• 2007

The language socialization approach states that novices are socialized into cultural norms through participating in routine, repeated interactional acts and sequences (e.g., Ochs & Schieffelin, 1984; Ochs, 1988; Schieffelin & Ochs, 1986a; 1986b; Watson-Gegeo & Gegeo, 1986). One of the cultural norms or dominant epistemological orientations in American culture is the tendency to avoid the overt display of power asymmetry in novice-expert relationship (Ochs & Schieffelin, 1984). This study examines how this cultural preference is reflected and encoded in ESL teachers' use of routine discourse patterns in corrective sequences. Eight hours of ESL classes taught by three Caucasian teachers born and educated in the U.S. were analyzed for the study. The analysis showed that the cultural tendency in question is keyed and indexed in the teacher's routine corrective discourse patterns in the form of various questioning, elicitation, and mitigation practices. Findings support that teachers' routine classroom discourse practices represent their cultural ideologies and transfer these cultural predispositions to second language learners and that they possibly socialize the learners into the target language-oriented beliefs.

• 경영정보학연구
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.189-207
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• 2018

본 연구의 목적은 유통매장의 정보전달시스템 중의 하나인 가격정보시스템과 가격라벨 운영프로세스에 대한 분석을 통해서 매장운영상의 문제점들을 발견하고 그에 대한 개선사항을 도출하는 데에 활용가능한 학술적, 실무적 방법을 제시하는 데에 있다. 이를 위해서 국내 유통 소매매장의 임직원들을 대상으로 심층인터뷰와 직접관찰법, 그리고 서비스 청사진 기법을 사용하여 기존의 업무 운영프로세스 상의 문제점들을 정의하고 문제해결의 대안으로서 전자가격라벨(Electronic Shelf Labels: ESL)시스템에 기반한 운영프로세스를 제시한 후 시스템 도입 전후의 운영프로세스 변화를 비교하였다. 본 연구의 성과는 ESL 시스템이 현행 가격운영프로세스의 문제점을 해결하는 데에 유용하게 사용될 수 있다는 실무적 시사점과 아울러 각각의 연구방법들을 상호보완적으로 사용함으로써 문제의 발견과 원인 분석, 그리고 대안제시의 과정에서 복합적 연구방법을 제시했다는 점에서 학술적 시사점을 제시하고 있다.

• 한국전자거래학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.57-74
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• 2017

전자가격라벨(ESL)은 상품진열대에 부착되어 있는 종이가격라벨의 대체재로서 오프라인 소매매장의 혁신을 선도할 유통 IoT 인프라로 주목받고 있다. 일반적으로 대체재 성격의 제품도입 시 기업은 기존 제품 대비 투자비용의 효율성이나 운영비용 절감 등의 재무적 요인을 우선적으로 고려하는 경향이 있다. 그러나 의사결정과정에서 재무적 요인만 고려할 경우 기업전략과 연결된 다양한 가치와 이해관계자들의 요구사항을 제대로 반영하지 못할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 전자가격라벨과 같은 IoT 인프라의 도입 의사결정과정에서 고려해야 할 평가요인들에 관해 BSC의 4대 관점(재무, 고객, 프로세스, 성장)을 기반으로 8개 평가항목(투자비용, 운영비용, 품질수준, 고객관리, 업무효율성, 유지보수, 기능확장성, 매장이미지)을 선정하고, AHP(분석적 계층 프로세스)를 사용하여 국내 중소형 슈퍼마켓의 직원들을 대상으로 평가항목의 우선도를 측정하였다. 연구의 결과로 가격라벨의 대안 채택을 위한 평가항목 중에서 고객, 학습과 성장, 내부 비즈니스 프로세스, 재무관점 순으로 우선도가 산출되었고, 전자가격라벨이 종이가격라벨보다 높은 중요도로 지지되었다. 대부분의 선행연구에서 재무관점의 평가항목들의 우선도가 높았던 것과 달리 학습과 성장, 고객관점의 평가항목들이 상대적으로 높게 나타났고, 특히 직군별, 가격라벨 교체업무 연관 여부에 의해 구분된 응답자 그룹들 간에 8개 세부평가 항목들의 우선도가 다르게 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 ESL의 도입을 고려하는 기업(유통매장)과 ESL을 공급하는 기업(제조사 및 서비스 사업자) 모두에게 시사점을 제공해 줄 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.