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SUSTAINABLE AND ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE DESIGN USING BIM: A CASE STUDY OF A RESIDENTIAL PROJECT

  • Hyunjoo Kim;Kwok K. Tam
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2011.02a
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    • pp.84-87
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    • 2011
  • This paper describes the application of the three sustainable design elements for a residential project in the county of Los Angeles, USA. The first design element is the green building design in which a base model will be created using the Autodesk REVIT MEP program for the analysis by Building Information Modeling (BIM) for the energy analysis modeling process to determine the energy savings for each of the recommended design features. The second element is the Low Impact Development design for the site design using specialty material and structural devices for infiltration and recycling of storm water for reuse. The third element is the application of drought tolerant plant species in the site's landscaping design as a means to conserve water. The construction cost associated with the application of these three elements will be reviewed to determine the practicality and effectiveness of this sustainable design approach.

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A Development of Exercise Program on Obese patients with Osteoarthritis (퇴행성 관절질환을 동반한 비만환자의 운동프로그램 개발에 대한 연구)

  • Lim, Hyung-Ho;Song, Yun-Kyung
    • Journal of Korean Medicine for Obesity Research
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.17-24
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    • 2003
  • Obesity increases the risk of knee and to a lesser extent hip OA, which combined affect a large percentage of middle-aged and elderly adults and which are major source of disability, and factor of drop a lowering in the physical exercise ability. Energy expenditure from physical activity accounts for up to 30% of total energy expenditure, it can have a significant impact on energy balance. We studied a exercise therapy that improved long-term weight management and produced additional benefits - loss of joint pain, improved joint mobility, and this exercise program will enhance the weight loss and health benefits from physical activity in the treatment of obese patients with osteoarthritis.

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The Effect of Nutrition Education and Excercise Program on Body Composition and Dietary Intakes, Blood Lipid and Physical Fitness in Obese Women (영양교육과 운동중재 프로그램이 성인비만여성의 신체성분과 식이섭취, 혈중지질 및 기초체력에 미치는 효과)

  • Lee, Hee-Seung;Lee, Ji-Won;Chang, Nam-Soo;Kim, Ji-Myung
    • Journal of Nutrition and Health
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    • v.42 no.8
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    • pp.759-769
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    • 2009
  • This study investigated the effects of the nutrition education and exercise program on body composition, dietary intakes and physical fitness in obese women. The subjects were 44 obese women (BMI${\geq}$ 25 kg/$m^2$) who had been participating in nutrition education (1 time/week) and exercise program (3 time/week) for 12 weeks. Nutrition education was focused on low energy, high protein and low carbohydrate diet to reduce the body weight and improve the diet quality. To evaluate the effectiveness of the program, daily nutrient intakes were assessed by 24-hour recall method. Body composition, blood lipid profiles and physical fitness test were assessed before and after the intervention. After the intervention, body weight, BMI, percent body fat, soft lean mass and waist/hip ratio were significantly decreased (p < 0.001). Fasting blood sucrose, total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol and atherogenic index (AI) were significantly decreased (p < 0.001), while HDLcholesterol was significantly increased (p < 0.001). Energy adjusted protein, fiber, vitamin A, vitamin $B_2$, vitamin $B_6$, vitamin C, vitamin E, niacin and folate were significantly increased. After the intervention, the muscle endurance, muscle strength, agility, balance were significantly increased. The changes in obesity indices (body weight, BMI, percent body fat, waist-hip ratio) were correlated with the changes of the nutrient intakes, serum lipid profiles, physical fitness. These results show that nutrition education and exercise program was effective not only for weight reduction but also for the improvement of physical strength and cardiovascular disease risk factors in obese women.

Managing and Minimizing Cost of Energy in Virtual Power Plants in the Presence of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles Considering Demand Response Program

  • Barati, Hassan;Ashir, Farshid
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.568-579
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    • 2018
  • Virtual power plants can be regarded as systems that have entered the network after restructure of power systems. In fact, these plants are a set of consumers capable of consuming and generating power. In response to widespread implementation of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, further investigation of energy management in this type of power plants seems to be of great value. In effect, these vehicles are able to receive and inject power from/into the network. Hence, study of the effects of these vehicles on management of virtual power plants seems to be illuminative. In this paper, management of power consumption/generation in virtual power plants has been investigated in the presence of hybrid electric vehicles. The objective function of virtual power plants problem management is to minimize the overall costs including not only the costs of energy production in power generation units, fuels, and degradation of batteries of vehicles, but also the costs of purchasing electricity from the network. Furthermore, the constraints on the operational of plants, loads and hybrid vehicles, level of penalty for greenhouse gas emissions ($CO_2$ and $NO_x$) produced by power plants and vehicles, and demand response to the immediate price of market have all been attended to in the present study. GAMS/Cplex software system and sample power system have been employed to pursue computer implementation and simulation.

A study on the disinfection performance of indoor microorganism using energy consumption analysis for indoor bio-safety (건물 재실자의 미생물 안전을 위한 면역건물 기술의 에너지 사용 연구)

  • Choi, Sang-Gon
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.111-118
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    • 2009
  • In this study the real situation of apartment house in seoul is reproduced with multi-zone modeling program CONTAM2.4. This model include disinfection system which is consist of dilution, filtration, UVGI(ultra violet germicidal irradiation). It's energy consumption was also analyzed through the linked model of CONTAM and TRNSYS according to the combination of components. The comparison of total energy consumption through energy analysis revealed that adjusting the air change rate of the UVGI air sterilizer to maintain the same indoor microbe removal capability was more advantageous in terms of energy consumption.

A Study on Diffusion Model of High-Efficient Appliance Considering DSM Rebate Program's Conditions (전력수요관리 보조금 지원조건을 고려한 고효율기기의 확산모형 연구)

  • 김회철;이정규;신중린;박종배
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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    • v.51 no.12
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    • pp.630-637
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    • 2002
  • This paper proposed a new diffusion model considering DSM rebate program's support conditions. The proposed method used some aspects of the rebate program such as support qualifications, annual support volume, and support level per appliance as following : The support qualifications were limited as the consumer which can get the rebate program's benefit, the annual support volume was constrained as the fixing budget and the support level per appliance was considered by high-efficient appliance actuality price. This paper also proposed a new method that used neural network as its parameter estimation moth[,4 for the diffusion model. The diffusion model and its parameter estimation method are expected to be able to analyze the diffusion characteristics of high-efficient appliance through the rebate program and the effects of rebate program's support conditions. Also, these will be able to evaluate the impacts and to analyze the cost-effectiveness of Energy Efficiency Demand-Side Management(EEDSM) resources. The case study is performed on the high-efficient lighting appliance rebate program of Korea by using the suggested diffusion model and estimation method and thus verified its validity.

Development and Effects' Analysis of Nutrition Education Program for Diabetes Mellitus at Community Health Center - Focused on Individual Daily Energy Requirements and Food Exchange Units - (당뇨병 성인 대상 보건소 영양교육 프로그램 개발 및 효과 분석 - 개인별 맞춤 하루 필요 에너지 및 식품군 단위수 교육을 중심으로 -)

  • Oh, Ji-Yoon;Kim, Sook-Bae
    • Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.485-497
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate effects of the developed nutrition education program focused on individual daily energy requirements and food exchange units using Food Exchange System for diabetes mellitus at a community health center. Developed the nutrition education program, four weeks' nutrition education including provided twice individual meal as diet therapy (2 hour/lesson/week, 4 week), was provided to 20 diabetic elderly (12 male, 8 female, 50-75 yrs): 1st lesson "Introduction: management of diabetes mellitus", 2nd lesson "6 Food groups and sources of 6 food groups", 3rd lesson "Individual daily energy requirements and food exchange units", and 4th lesson "Food choice for diabetes mellitus". For effects' analysis of the developed program, we assessed the changes in anthropometric characteristics; biochemical characteristics and nutrient intakes using 24 hr recall method. Effects of the developed nutrition education program were as follows: weight was significantly decreased, blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) were significantly decreased, and distribution of subjects in BUN and HbA1c was significantly changed. In protein : fat : carbohydrate (PFC) ratio, it was significantly changed from 15.98 : 16.30 : 66.69 to 17.51 : 18.94 : 64.10. In evaluation of nutrient intakes by Dietary Reference Intakes for Koreans (KDRI), protein, fiber, fat, vitamin E, niacin, folic acid, calcium and zinc were shown significantly positive changes in distribution of subjects according to intake level. The index of nutrition quality (INQ), nutrition adequacy ratio (NAR) and mean nutrition adequacy ratio (MAR) were significantly increased. In conclusion, the developed 4 weeks' nutrition education program focused on individual daily energy requirements and food exchange units using Food Exchange System for diabetes mellitus at community health center may improve the symptom of diabetes mellitus.

Development of a Measurement and Verification Scheme for Efficient Lighting Program (고효율조명기기 프로그램 성과의 계량 및 검증 기법의 개발)

  • Cho, Ki-Seon;Park, Jong-Jin;Rhee, Chang-Ho;Kim, Hoi-Cheol
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2005.07a
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    • pp.795-797
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    • 2005
  • This paper describes a measurement & verification scheme for the high efferent lighting program in Demand Side Management (DSM), which was Introduced in the beginning of the 1980's in Korea With the dramatic changes in the circumstance of power industry in Korea. It is required the reviewing for the existing process of DSM programs and the development of the new process methods/standards on the evaluation of DSM programs. To design an accurate evaluation scheme for the high efficient lighting program. In this paper, we develop an evaluation prototype for the high efficient lighting program using measurements and stipulated factors. The proposed scheme is tested by practical measurements and modified stipulated factors Results from the case studios show the proposed scheme could provide the practical performance evaluation results with promising accuracy.

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An Approach to Improve Romanian Geological Repository Planning

  • Andrei, Veronica;Prisecaru, Ilie
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.48 no.2
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    • pp.495-504
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    • 2016
  • International standards recommend typical phases to be included within any national program for the development of a geological repository dedicated to disposal of the high level radioactive wastes generated in countries using nuclear power. However, these are not universally applicable and the content of each of these phases may need to be adapted for each national situation and regulatory and institutional framework. Several national geological repository programs have faced failures in schedules and have revised their programs to consider an adapted phased management approach. The authors have observed that in the case of those countries in the early phases of a geological repository program where boundary conditions have not been fully defined, international recommendations for handling delays/failures in the national program might not immediately help. This paper considers a case study of the influences of the national context risks on the current planning schedule of the Romanian national geological repository. It proposes an optimum solution for an integrated response to any significant adverse impact arising from these risks, enabling sustainable program planning.

A Computerized Study for Nutritional Management of Korean (한국인의 영양관리를 위한 전산화 연구)

  • 김세림
    • Journal of Nutrition and Health
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.367-382
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    • 1987
  • The purpose of this study was to achieve a desriable nutritional condition and eating habit of Korean through nutritional counseling. For this purpose, the survey of actual nutritional condition of young woman was carried out and the results were being applied to the nutritional status assessment program and the menu planning program which were being developed on this study. Computerized programs developed for this study were as follows ; 1) Program for the assessment of nutrition status was made by the analysis of general status, obesity measure, eating habits, athletic status, activity expenditure energy, distribution and nutrients of food intake.

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