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Research on the Leadership Types in Italian Restaurants (이태리 레스토랑 종사자들의 리더십 유형에 관한 연구)

  • Yim, Seoung-Bean;Kim, Pan-Jin
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.10 no.12
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    • pp.35-43
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    • 2012
  • Purpose - This study analyzes the effects of types of leadership on the employees of Italian restaurants, its efficacy, and organizational citizenship behavior, utilizing a causal assessment model. In this study, independent variables such as the type of leadership perceived in the manager or chef by an Italian restaurant's employees, and its efficacy were parameters, and the organizational citizenship behavior and organizational effectiveness were the variables representing the results in the hypothesis. The study aimed to draw implications by verifying the leadership via efficacy and the impact on organizational citizenship behavior of Italian restaurants. Research design, data, methodology - For the purpose of this analysis, specific questionnaire items were configured according to the theory and efficacy of the study. From a questionnaire used in organizational citizenship behavior comprising 22 questions, six were modified to suit the research purpose of this study. The configured questionnaire comprised 5 parts and 40 items. A Likert (Likert) 5-point scale was utilized to measure responses to the questionnaire items from the employees of an Italian restaurant in Seoul who participated in the survey. For data collection, 400 questionnaires were distributed, and 344 collected. Factor analysis and reliability verification were conducted using SPSS18.0 and AMOS18.0. A covariance structure analysis was conducted to test the research hypotheses. Results - Based on the results of the analyses, the summary and suggested implications of the research are as follows: The covariance structure analysis used to analyze the kind of effect transformational and transactional leadership styles in Italian restaurant employees had on self-efficacy, group-efficacy, and organizational citizenship behavior, indicated that among the characteristics of transformational leadership (such as, idealized influence, inspirational motivation, individual consideration, and intellectual stimulation), idealized influence and individual consideration had a positive influence on self-efficacy. Idealized influence, individual consideration, conditional reward, and management by exception also positively influenced self-efficacy and altruistic and conscientious behavior (organizational citizenship behavior). Conclusions - Results suggest that with regard to self-efficacy and group efficacy, managers in different departments and chefs should provide team members with a vision for the future, increase their confidence in their abilities, and build their trust in the organization. By evaluating employee performance and experiences, management can demonstrate leadership and encourage organizational citizenship behavior through enjoyable, voluntary participation. Transformational and transactional leadership is effective in group processes that include social-exchange relationships, self-efficacy and group efficacy, and organizational citizenship behavior. However, as this research study utilizes only self-reported data, it has several limitations, such as a vulnerability of errors caused by the various experiment types. A significant limitation of this study is the lack of potential for the duplication of results. The covariance structure analysis, however, provides complementation to limit the impact of errors from self-reporting studies. A future study can extend this research by utilizing different data collection methods.

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Secure Jini Service Architecture Providing Ubiquitous Services Having Persistent States (유비쿼터스 서비스 상태지속을 지원하는 안전한 Jini 서비스 구조)

  • Kim, Sung-Ki;Jung, Jin-Chul;Park, Kyung-No;Min, Byoung-Joon
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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    • v.15C no.3
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    • pp.157-166
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    • 2008
  • The ubiquitous service environment is poor in reliability of connection and also has a high probability that the intrusion against a system and the failure of the services may happen. Therefore, It is very important to guarantee that the legitimate users make use of trustable services from the viewpoint of security without discontinuance or obstacle of the services. In this paper, we point out the problems in the standard Jini service environment and analyze the Jgroup/ARM framework that has been developed in order to help fault tolerance of Jini services. In addition, we propose a secure Jini service architecture to satisfy the security, availability and quality of services on the basis of the analysis. The secure Jini service architecture we propose in this paper is able to protect a Jini system not only from faults such as network partition or server crash, but also from attacks exploiting flaws. It provides security mechanism for dynamic trust establishment among the service entities. Moreover, our secure Jini service architecture does not incur high computation costs to merge the user service states because of allocation of the replica based on each session of a user. Through the experiment on a test-bed, we have confirmed that proposed secure Jini service architecture is able to guarantee the persistence of the user service states at the level that the degradation of services quality is ignorable.

Revealing the Spatial Distribution of Inorganic Elements in Rice Grains

  • Jeon, Ji Suk;Choi, Sung Hwa;Lee, Ji Yeon;Kim, Ji A;Yang, Young Mi;Song, Eun Ji;Kim, Jae Sung;Yang, Jung Seok;Kim, Kyong Su;Yoo, Jong Hyun;Kim, Hai Dong;Park, Kyung Su
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.35 no.11
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    • pp.3289-3293
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    • 2014
  • Femtosecond laser ablation (fs LA) was used in this study to identify pollution by heavy metals and the distribution of elemental nutrients at different rice milling ratios. Polished rice (degrees of milling of 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11) was collected from major Korean supermarkets and one sample thereof was selected. An internal quality control experiment was conducted using a rice flour certified reference material from the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS CRM) for the evaluation of the efficacy. To assess the effectiveness of the analysis method, the reliability was validated using a food analysis performance assessment scheme (FAPAS), with chili powder serving as an external quality control. The results of the analysis of the inorganic elements Ti, Ca, Al, Fe and Mn in white and brown rice with degrees of milling of 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11 using ICP-MS, ICP-OES and AAS revealed contents of 0.40, 49.2, 2.43, 5.36 and 10.3 mg/kg in white rice and 0.59, 78.0, 7.52, 11.0 and 18.5 mg/kg in brown rice, respectively. Among the elements, there were remarkable differences in the measured contents. By comparing the contents of the elements at different degrees of milling, Ti, Co, As, Ca, Al, Cu, Fe, and Mn were determined to be distributed on the surface of the rice grains, whereas the contents of Cd and Pb increased toward the center of the rice grains, and Si was evenly distributed. After the quantitative analysis of rice samples polished to different degrees of milling, Ca and Al, which were contained in large amounts, and Si were analyzed with specificity by fs LA. The results show that Ca and Al were distributed in the rice husk (protective covering of rice) and Si was distributed in all parts of the rice.

Arsenic Speciation Aanalysis in Bamboo Salts by Hydride Generation-ICP-AES (수소화물 발생-유도결합 플라즈마 원자 방출 분광법을 이용한 죽염중의 비소 종분리 분석)

  • Yu, Byung-Kyu;Lyu, Mu-Sang;Sun, Yle-Shik;Cho, Ki-Sung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.41 no.5
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    • pp.674-680
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    • 2012
  • As(III) and As(V) were analyzed in bamboo salts by hydride generation ICP-AES. In order to quantify the total amount of As in bamboo salts, $AsH_3$ was producted by reacting with 6 mol/L hydrochloric acid and $NaBH_4$, which was then analyzed by hydride generation ICP-AES. As(V) was quantified simultaneously after selectively quantifying As(III). As(III) was quantified by determining the total amount of As and then correcting for the amount of As(III). To improve the reliability of the analysis we repeated the experiment several times to check the detection limit, quantification limit, and measurements of our testing methods. According to the result of our quantification analysis of As existing in bamboo salt, the range of total As content was 0.05 mg/kg~0.2 mg/kg and As(V) was over 90% of the total As.

An Experimental Study on the Durability of Recycled Aggregate Concrete (재생골재 콘크리트의 내구특성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Seo Chi-Ho;Kim Byung-Yun
    • Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.17 no.3 s.87
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    • pp.385-392
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    • 2005
  • The object of this study is to prove the quality and reliability of recycled aggregate concrete by finding a way to improve the durability of the material through the experiment on the accelerated carbonation, freezing and thaw, and drying shrinkage, analysing the influence on the durability to Promote more active use of recycled aggregate concrete. The result of study as follows. (1) Resistibility to the freeze and thaw of the recycled aggregate concrete showed relative dynamic modulus of elasticity over $90\%$ which is very good, and all cycles show $99.2{\~}91.0\%$ dynamic modulus of elasticity which is improved compared with the $97.5{\~}90.6\%$ relative dynamic modulus of elasticity of ordinary concrete made of broken stone. (2) Carbonated thickness of the recycled aggregate concrete and the normal concrete was similar or it appeared with the tendency which it diminishes more or less. (3) Length change rate in drying contraction of the recycled aggregate concrete made of the recycled aggregate was lower than the ordinary concrete made of the broken stone by $18.5{\~}3.9\%$ in all blending.

Prediction Model of Remaining Service Life of Concrete for Irrigation Structures by Measuring Carbonation (중성화 측정을 통한 콘크리트의 잔존수명 예측 모델)

  • Lee, Joon-Gu;Park, Kwang-Soo;Kim, Han-Joung;Lee, Joung-Jae
    • Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.529-540
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    • 2003
  • Recently, the researches on the durability design of concrete structures have been studied. As the examples, models to evaluate the service life prediction of the structure have been developed. The purpose of this article is to develop the model for predicting remaining service life. The final aim is to provide the user time for repairing the concrete structures. In addition, it makes possible to maintain the concrete structure economically. 70 reservoirs out of the inland concrete structures were selected and concrete structures of their components were surveyed. Two methods were used for measuring carbonation; TG/DTA method and Phenolphtalein indicator and, the value of pH was measured by the pH meter, After deriving correlations of calcium carbonate and used year, duration from completion year to 2002, pH value, and concrete cover depth the model was developed for predicting remaining service life by measuring data as small as possible. The conventional models had been developed on the basis of experiment data obtained from the restricted lab environment like as carbon gas exposure. On the other hand this model was developed on the basis of measuring data obtained from the real field that the complex deterioration actions are occurred such as freezing and thawing, carbonation, steel corrosion, and so on. The reliability of the developed model will be evaluated high in this point and this model can help to maintain concrete structures economically by providing the manager time to repair the deteriorated concrete structures in site of facility management.

Analytical Study on Behavior Characteristic of Shear Friction on Reinforced Concrete Shear Wall-Foundation Interface using High-Strength Reinforcing Bar (고강도 전단철근을 사용한 철근콘크리트 전단벽체-기초계면에서의 전단마찰 거동특성에 대한 해석적 연구)

  • Cheon, Ju-Hyun;Lee, Ki-Ho;Baek, Jang-Woon;Park, Hong-Gun;Shin, Hyun-Mock
    • Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.473-480
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study is to provide analytical method to reasonably evaluate the complicated failure behaviors of shear friction of reinforced concrete shear wall specimens using grade 500 MPa high-strength bars. A total of 16 test specimens with a variety of variables such as aspect ratio, friction coefficient of interface in construction joint, reinforcement details, reinforcement ratio in each direction, material properties were selected and the analysis was performed by using a non-linear finite element analysis program (RCAHEST) applying the modified shear friction constitutive equation in interface based on the concrete design code (KCI, 2012) and CEB-FIP Model code 2010. The mean and coefficient of variation for maximum load from the experiment and analysis results was predicted 1.04 and 17% respectively and properly evaluated failure mode and overall behavior characteristic until failure occur. Based on the results, the analysis program that was applied modified shear friction constitutive equation is judged as having a relatively high reliability for the analysis results.

Isolated Activation of the Upper Trapezius in Three Manual Muscle Testing Position : Convergence Study (세 가지 도수근력 검사 자세에서 상부 승모근의 독립적 수축 : 융합적 연구)

  • Ha, Sungmin
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.83-88
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the optimal position among three manual muscle tested positions for upper trapezius in which to obtain an isolated upper trapezius EMG signal for the normalization of upper trapezius muscle EMG activity. A total of 28 healthy adult men participated in the experiment. The UT (upper trapezius) and LS (levator scapulae) muscle activities were measured using the TeleMyo 2400T and analyzed using MyoResearch software. The muscle activity of the US and LS was measured by performing three manual muscle test positions for the upper trapezius. The UT/LS ratio during the S-MVIC was 80.25 and was significantly higher than that during the T-MVIC (76.50; p = 0.011) and the C-MVIC (60.95; p < 0.001). And, the UT/LS ratio during the T-MVIC and was significantly higher than that during the C-MVIC (p < 0.001). Based on the results of present study, we suggest a switch from T-MVIC to S-MVIC for the independent normalization reliability of upper trapezius EMG activity. The UT muscle strength or normalization test using S-MVIC will be able to measure muscle strength or activity of UT compared to previous measurement methods.

Characteristics of Sediment and Flow with Channel Patterns in Alluvial Rivers (충적하천(沖積河川)의 수로양상(水路樣相)에 따른 유사(流砂) 및 흐름특성(特性))

  • Lee, Jong Seok;Lee, Dae Cheol;Pai, Dong Man;Cha, Young Kee
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.1177-1189
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    • 1994
  • This paper aims to develop the numerical model for prediction of the channel migration by analyzing of sediment and flow characteristics with patterns of channel in alluvial rivers. Flow in rivers constitutes to be the meandering or the braided form and rarely straight channel through morphologically stable patterns with mutual actions between the flowing water and bed materials. In order to develop the model for simulation of the channel migration, the channels are divided into two types with positive or negative sign by the direction of curvature radius of the centerline channel ($r_c$). That is, the single bend-channel consists of only one curvature of positive or negative sign and the multi-bend channel consists of two more curvatures of positive or negative sign, respectively. The model analyzes the sediment and flow characteristics under the influence of superelevation, spiral motion, irregularity in bed topography and depth-averaged velocity of channels. For reliability of this model, the single bend-channel and the multi bend channel are compared with experiment data in other models and the measured field data in the Keum-River, respectively. As a result, the both com parisians turn out to be excellent.

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Effect of the Member Joint on Structural Performance of an Arch-type Multi-span Greenhouse: A Full-scale Experimental and Numerical Study (부재 접합부가 아치형 연동온실의 구조 성능에 미치는 영향: 실대형 실험적 및 해석적 연구)

  • Choi, Man-kwon;Ryu, Hee-ryong;Cho, Myeong-whan;Yu, In-ho
    • Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.402-410
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    • 2017
  • The effect of the steel pipe member joint on the design performance of a plastic multi-span greenhouse was analysed through the comparing full-scale experiment and numerical analysis. The design performance of the greenhouse is generally evaluated through numerical analysis, but it is rare to consider the characteristics of the connections or joints of the members. In this study, the effect of the column-gutter beam-rafter-wind break wall joint on the design performance of the whole structure of a plastic multi-span greenhouse was analysed. The numerical results with assuming that the member joint are rigid condition were compared with the full-scale load test results using member joints used in the field. The stiffness of the entire structure was compared using the load-displacement relationship and the change of the load sharing ratio that the main members such as column, rafters, and wind break wall was analysed. The results of the load test were about 40% larger than the numerical result and the member stress was more than twice as large as those of the loaded columns. In order to increase the reliability of the design performance of the greenhouse, it is necessary to develop a numerical analysis model which can consider the characteristics of various joints.