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Use of Probiotics in Dairy Industry to Improve Productivity and as an Alternative to Antibiotics (낙농산업에서 항생제 사용의 문제점과 프로바이오틱스의 활용을 통한 생산성 향상)

  • Seo, Yeongeun;Yoo, Yoonjeong;Yoon, Yohan
    • Journal of Dairy Science and Biotechnology
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    • v.39 no.2
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    • pp.63-67
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    • 2021
  • Antibiotics are widely used to improve productivity in the dairy industry. However, the inappropriate use of antibiotics causes the deterioration in the quality of dairy products undergoing fermentation and maturation. Hence, probiotic use is emerging as an alternative to curb the increased utilization of antibiotics. Probiotics are defined as "living microorganisms that, when administered in appropriate amounts, confer health benefits on the host." They may improve host disease resistance by regulating intestinal microflora balance and promote animal growth and development. In the dairy industry, probiotics have been studied to increase milk production by improving digestion in dairy cows, enhance the content of dairy components such as milk fat and protein, reduce the risk of mastitis in cows, and increase calf weight. Thus, the use of probiotics can improve the production and safety of dairy products. However, some probiotics are still unstable during storage and have low quality and safety issues. Therefore, to reduce the use of antibiotics in the dairy industry, probiotics should be developed and produced considering the above-mentioned problems.

A Study on the design method of the intermediate-zone of the mu1ti-family housing (집합주거에 설정되는 매개영역의 계획수법에 관한 연구)

  • 김길순;이현희
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • no.23
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    • pp.124-131
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    • 2000
  • In the nowadays years our city's housing environment which progresses rapidly social-economical development is posited the role in the nowadays multi-family housing brings about the individualism of the nowadays city, and makes muddy neighborhood meaning, and the quality of the nowadays city dwelling house environment becoming worse. This study was started with the cognition of the need of intermediate-space, in the our life in the neighborhood city. Intermediate-spaces, has same meaning to come into the action of consciousness of the neighborhood. For the improvement of the quality of city housing, we should cleary recognized the individual territory after we set the proper in intermediate-zone in the multi-family housing. Therefore, this study inquires ito the meaning of intermediate-zone, and catches the formation technique of intermediate-zone and the method of plan through the investigation of the use cases of the multi-family housing which is established intermediate-territory. and then I analyze the role of the formative space by this method. By this method, I grope for the effect of the use through the alternative plan of the design method of the intermediate-zone. If the methods of play use the role in the nowadays multi-family housing, high quality will build up.

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Towards a "better" University: the Use of the EFQM Model in a UK Higher Education Institution

  • Blackmore, Jacqueline;Douglas, Alex
    • International Journal of Quality Innovation
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.1-15
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    • 2003
  • This paper examines the use of the EFQM Model in H.E. Institutions in the UK and offers a case study of how one University used the Excellence Model as a means to change the way it operated. It identifies and discusses the critical success factors for a university utilizing the Model, in particular Leadership (criteria 1), People Management, particularly with regard to performance evaluation (criteria 3), having key processes in place (criteria 5) and the identification of the correct key performance results for its various stakeholders (criteria 9).

International Trends on Patient-Reported Outcome Measures for Improving Care Quality and Its Implication for South Korea: Focus on OECD PaRIS (의료의 질 향상을 위한 환자중심 건강결과 측정의 국제 동향과 국내 시사점 - OECD PaRIS를 중심으로)

  • Choi, Ji-Suk;Park, Young-Shin;Kim, Jee-Ae;Park, Choon-Seon
    • Quality Improvement in Health Care
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.11-28
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    • 2019
  • Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to derive implication on the adoption of PROMs (Patient-Reported Outcome Measures) to improve quality of care in South Korea. With this purpose, the paper examines the status of PROMs in South Korea and other countries including OECD's PaRIS (Patient Reported Indicators Survey) initiative, and reviews policy cases that have adopted PROMs to improve performance of healthcare system. Methods: We conducted literature review on OECD reports on PaRIS, peer-reviewed journals, and information from the websites of relevant institutions such as ICHOM, NQF and OECD. Results: To identify healthcare services of best values and support patient-centered health system, OECD has initiated PaRIS which develops, collects and analyzes patient-reported indicators for cross-countries comparison. PaRIS is implemented on two work streams: 1) collect, validate and standardize PROMs in the areas where patient-reported indicators already exist such as breast cancers, hip and knee replacement, and mental conditions, 2) develop a new international survey on multiple chronic conditions. Countries like England, U.S., Sweden and Netherlands use PROMs for measuring performance of hospitals and performance evaluation at the national level, and provide the financial incentives for reporting PROMs. Conclusions: The use of PROMs can support the current policy agenda that is the patient-centered healthcare system which has been emphasized to reinforce the primary and the community-based care. For the use of PROMs, it is recommended to actively participate in PaRIS initiative by OECD, select appropriate instruments for PROMs, and continue on standardization of them. This will assure patients' involvement in improving health system performance, systemize information generated in the process of adopting PROMs, and develop a system to evaluate performance.

A Case Study on the Quality Costs in a ICT Industry (ICT 산업의 품질비용 연구 사례)

  • Hwang, Gee-Hyun
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.106-116
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    • 2012
  • This paper aims to develop the adequate quality cost model at a company which delivers ICT(information communication technology) services. One particular business unit was in the first instance selected and quality costs were then analysed at an organization level, for a department and for specific processes. Some areas were determined for quality improvement at each level and their causes were also investigated. However, the existing PAF(prevention, appraisal and failure) models reveled some limitations because the ICT services company included the different number of large and complicated business processes. The PAF model did not sufficiently highlight the detailed causes of failure costs. It did not also stimulate the relevant department's strong responsibility to improve such problems. Both micro PAF and process cost models were proposed in order to cope with this. In final, it explains the relationship between six sigma and quality costing, suggesting how to use the quality costing results as a means of promoting either continuous improvement or innovation in a case company.

The Effects of Service Qualities on Customer Satisfaction, Trust, and Behavioral Intention in Smartphone Shopping Malls (스마트폰 쇼핑몰의 서비스품질이 고객만족, 신뢰, 행동의도에 미치는 영향)

  • Yang, Seung-Kwon;Shim, Jae-Hyun
    • The Journal of Industrial Distribution & Business
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    • v.9 no.12
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    • pp.31-43
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    • 2018
  • Purpose - Smartphone shopping malls provide customers with a variety of tangible and intangible services including web sites, web design, use convenience, information for products and shopping and various after services. Accordingly, it is needed to expand and classify service qualities based on the various services provided by smartphone shopping malls, and then analyze path structures of smartphone shopping malls' qualities → customer satisfaction → behavioral intention. The purpose of this study is to categorize the qualities of smartphone shopping mall users based on the e-SERVQUAL by Lee(2002) and the SERVQUAL by Parasuraman et al.(1988, 2005), the smartphone shopping malls' service qualities based on service quality of smartphone shopping malls used in the previous use studies, and the Website quality factors of service industry and to analyze path structure of smartphone shopping mall's qualities → customer satisfaction → behavioral intention on college students in order to confirm the system of smartphone shopping malls' qualities. Research design, data, and methodology - This study's survey was carried out on the college students of university located in northeastern of Seoul. It was from December 7 - 15, 2017, and a total of 240 questionnaires were distributed, with 228 collected. Of them, effective questionnaires used in the final study were a total of 201 except 27 that couldn't be used. In this study, empirical analysis was done with factor analysis, correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, simple multiple regression analysis and moderating regression analysis by using Statistics Package SPSS18.0. Results - The study results are as follows: First, smartphone shopping malls' qualities were classified into six categories like customer system quality, Web design quality, convenience quality, information-offering quality, service quality, and product quality. Second, it showed that system quality, Web design quality, and information-offering quality had a positive impact on customer satisfaction, respectively. Third, it suggested that quality factors of smartphone shopping mall users had a positive impact on customer satisfaction in the order of quality, information-offering quality, system quality and Web design quality. Finally, it showed that customer service quality, product quality, and convenience quality did not have a positive impact on customer satisfaction. In addition, it said that customer satisfaction of smartphone shopping mall users had a positive impact on behavioral intention and thereby, the higher the customer satisfaction was, the higher the relations between reuse intention and recommendation intention were. Meanwhile, moderating regression analysis showed that trust did not have moderating effect in the relations between customer satisfaction and behavioral intention. The above study revealed that smartphone shopping malls' qualities were classified into six categories and it was possible to generalize after empirical analysis was made in the path structure. Conclusions - Smartphone shopping mall users consider usefulness of obtaining shopping information and quality on quick and abundant shopping information more important than access environment of smartphone shopping malls and kind services of smartphone shopping mall managers. Thereby, smartphone shopping mall marketers need to take service qualities like system quality and information-offering quality into more consideration.

A Comparative Analysis of User Satisfaction on Using Mobile Services between Korea and China (한중 모바일 서비스 사용자 만족요인 비교분석)

  • Yang, Yan-Lu;Lee, Ki-Dong
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.179-186
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    • 2013
  • The purposes of this paper are to identify the factors which affect the intention to use mobile services, and to compare users' satisfaction elements for customers between Korea and China. The findings of this paper are as follows: first, in Korea, information quality, system quality, design quality, mobile internet experience, perceived cost and innovation pursuit are the significant variables affecting the user satisfaction; second, in China, system quality and innovation pursuit don't affect the user satisfaction in China. And the user satisfaction affects the intention to use of the mobile service both in Korea and China.

Water quality big data analysis of the river basin with artificial intelligence ADV monitoring

  • Chen, ZY;Meng, Yahui;Wang, Ruei-yuan;Chen, Timothy
    • Membrane and Water Treatment
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.219-225
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    • 2022
  • 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Weather (AR5) predicts that recent severe hydrological events will affect the quality of water and increase water pollution. To analyze changes in water quality due to future climate change, input data (precipitation, average temperature, relative humidity, average wind speed, and solar radiation) were compiled into a representative concentration curve (RC), defined using 8.5. AR5 and future use are calculated based on land use. Semi-distributed emission model Calculate emissions for each target period. Meteorological factors affecting water quality (precipitation, temperature, and flow) were input into a multiple linear regression (MLR) model and an artificial neural network (ANN) to analyze the data. Extensive experimental studies of flow properties have been carried out. In addition, an Acoustic Doppler Velocity (ADV) device was used to monitor the flow of a large open channel connection in a wastewater treatment plant in Ho Chi Minh City. Observations were made along different streams at different locations and at different depths. Analysis of measurement data shows average speed profile, aspect ratio, vertical position Measure, and ratio the vertical to bottom distance for maximum speed and water depth. This result indicates that the transport effect of the compound was considered when preparing the hazard analysis.

A Study on Construction Quality Inspection of Field use Concrete (현장 타설용 콘크리트의 시공품질 검토를 위한 연구)

  • 김민석;강병훈;강태경;박선길;이종균;정상진
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2000.10b
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    • pp.1057-1062
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    • 2000
  • The purpose of this study is to practice the method which can estimate 28-days strength of concrete in advance. This method is made for reliant quality control. Based on existing experiment, concrete that flyash added and normal concrete are placed into wall structure, and it is examined the difference between experiment use concrete and field use concrete. The result of this study are as follows : 1) Core test specimen have 10% lower strength to standard curing specimen. 2) At 28-days accelerated strength by microwave, average 35% in normal concrete, average 23% in flyash added concrete. 3) At coefficient of determination between compressive strength and accelerated strength, 0.84 in normal concrete core, 0.86 in standard curing normal concrete, 0.86 in flyash added concrete, 0.90 in standard curing flyash added concrete.

The Outline of Han River Basin Environmental master Plan Project (한강유역 환경보전 종합계획 사업의 개요)

  • 이선환
    • Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.46-50
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    • 1982
  • Following rapid industrial development and urbanization in Korea, there is a need for the Government to implement effective control of pollution and to undertake specific schemes in areas where pollution of the environment is severe. In response to this need, Government of Korea prepare Han River Basin Environmental Master Plan Project for water, air, solid waste to cover environmental protection of the Han River Basin. The Project area is approximately 27,000 sq. Km extending over Seoul, Kyunggi, Kwangwon, Chungbuk Province. The total population of Master Plan Project area is approximately 11.6 million, or one-third of the total population of Korea. There are about 8,000 industries, including those located in 16 industrial complexes, in the project area. The scope of work and terms of reference are the following: (1) A Summary of existing land use and forecasts for changes in land use by the year 2,000. (2) Emission inventories for air, waste water, and solid wastes. (3) Forecasts of future population growth patterns and pollution loadings. (4) Identification of specific projects needs to reduce pollution levels and satisfy the environmental quality standards. (5) A Program of enforcement to include (i) self monitoring, and (ii) governmental inspections and surveillance. (6) A program for quality improvement and quality assurance of environmental measurements. (7) Reports summarizing all data collected analyzed during the study. (8) Conceptual design and feasibility studies, including cost estimates, for needed pollution control projects. (9) A financial plan for future detailed design and construction of public facilities, for financial incentives to industry, and for user charges for industrial use of public treatment of disposal works.

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