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Anthocyanin - A Natural Dye for Smart Food Packaging Systems

  • Singh, Suman;Gaikwad, Kirtiraj K.;Lee, Youn Suk
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF PACKAGING SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.167-180
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    • 2018
  • Interest in the use of smart packaging systems for food products has increased in recent years. Therefore, food researchers are focusing on the development of new indicator based smart packaging technologies by using anthocyanin-based natural dye. Anthocyanins are one of the plant constituents known as flavonoids and responsible for the bright and attractive orange, red, purple, and blue colors of most fruits, vegetables, flowers, and some cereal grains. Indicators of natural dyes such as anthocyanins could express the quality and shelf life of perishable food products. However, the sensitivity and stability for their use in smart food packaging should be established to reach the market proposals. This review article focuses on recent studies related to use of natural dyes based on anthocyanin for smart food packaging applications. This study offers valuable insight that may be useful for identifying trends in the commercialization of natural dyes or for identifying new research areas. This review also provides food and packaging scientists with a thorough understanding of the benefits of anthocyanin-based natural dyes for shelf life indicator when applied to package material specific foods and hence can assist in accelerating commercial adoption.

Mathematical modeling of actively controlled piezo smart structures: a review

  • Gupta, Vivek;Sharma, Manu;Thakur, Nagesh
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.275-302
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    • 2011
  • This is a review paper on mathematical modeling of actively controlled piezo smart structures. Paper has four sections to discuss the techniques to: (i) write the equations of motion (ii) implement sensor-actuator design (iii) model real life environmental effects and, (iv) control structural vibrations. In section (i), methods of writing equations of motion using equilibrium relations, Hamilton's principle, finite element technique and modal testing are discussed. In section (ii), self-sensing actuators, extension-bending actuators, shear actuators and modal sensors/actuators are discussed. In section (iii), modeling of thermal, hygro and other non-linear effects is discussed. Finally in section (iv), various vibration control techniques and useful software are mentioned. This review has two objectives: (i) practicing engineers can pick the most suitable philosophy for their end application and, (ii) researchers can come to know how the field has evolved, how it can be extended to real life structures and what the potential gaps in the literature are.

A Study on the Impact of Work-life Balance and Smart Work Environment on Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment among Employees (워라밸과 스마트워크환경이 조직 구성원의 직무만족과 조직헌신에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Mi-yeon;Seo, Young-Wook
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.505-517
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    • 2021
  • Lots of studies have been conducted on work-life balance in various fields. In particular, while a plethora of studies on the work-life balance have focused mainly on organizational culture and work performance, research to investigate the impact of work-life balance on employees' organizational commitment is scarce. This study aims to empirically analyze how work-life balance of employees affects organizational commitment and mediation effects of job satisfaction on the relationships through a survey of 463 employees working in small and medium-sized enterprises, public institutions, and conglomerates in the COVID-19 era. Also, it examines the impact of a smart work environment as a new way of working during the COVID-19 pandemic on job satisfaction and organizational commitment. The findings of the study are summarized as follows. First, work-life balance was shown to positively affect job satisfaction, and job satisfaction had a positive influence on emotional organizational commitment of employees. Second, job satisfaction was found to be completely mediated both in the relationship between work-life balance and organizational commitment and in the relationship between work-family balance and organizational commitment, and partially mediated in the relationship between work-growth balance and organizational commitment. Third, the smart work environment had a positive effect on job satisfaction and organizational commitment. The results of the study show that work and family, work and leisure, and work and growth balance are significantly important factors to improve employees' work attitudes in the changing work environment as a result of COVID-19. The present results suggest that the introduction of work-life balance and the smart work environment is required to increase organizational productivity.

A Case Study on Strategic Shift from Smart-Work to Work-Smart of Company K

  • Kang, Yong-Sik;Kwon, Sun-Dong;Woo, Su-Han
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.55-66
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    • 2018
  • Early smart-work of company K was a technology-led way of applying ICT such as smart phones and mobile devices to business. After company K perceived the limitations of ICT-driven smart work, it propelled the work-smart, doing a work smart toward the way that human beings become central and a creative organizational culture is engendered. Company K propelled work-smart strategy in eight categories: simplification of data requirements, establishment efficient meeting culture, streamlining reporting and approval process, simplified document creation, overtime decrease, spreading flexible work system, settlement of healing leave, creating work-smart place. Company K set up an organizational culture secretariat dedicated to work-smart promotion and selected task priorities in consideration of urgency and effectiveness. Owing to such efforts, the company K's work-smart index rose sharply to 72 points this year from 56 points in the previous year. At the organizational culture survey, employees responded that organizational culture improved in all area. For a better future, company K analyzed its work-smart outcomes and planned progressively to improve its work-smart efforts based on employees opinions. This case study will serve as a guideline, for companies to make efforts to going forward to today work-smart beyond yesterday smart-work.

A Study on Development of Smart Literacy Standards of Teachers and Students in Smart Learning Environments (스마트 환경에서의 교사와 학생의 스마트 소양 척도 개발 연구)

  • Jun, Woochun;Hong, Suk-Ki
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.59-70
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    • 2013
  • With advances in information and communication technologies, many innovative technologies have been developed. Those technologies are changing every aspect of our daily life. Especially smart technologies are changing our life dramatically. Smart devices such as tablet PCs and smart phones are used in education so that new concept called "smart learning" is created and used. Currently smart learning becomes popular in accordance with wide distribution of smart devices and smart contents in schools. In order to compare and check the current status and progress of individuals in smart environment, we need smart literacy standards. However, there has been only few works for smart literacy standards for teachers and students. Also, those standards need to be improved. The purpose of this paper is to develop smart literacy standards for teachers and students in smart learning environment. The proposed literacy standards are developed based on the existing ICT literacy standards. In this work, smart literacy standards consist of four main areas, smart education, smart knowledge, smart application, and smart ethics, respectively. For development of smart literacy, wide experts from teachers, professors, and researchers are selected and surveyed. Their responses are analyzed using through statistical analysis so that final smart literacy standards are obtained.

Parameter Identification of 3R-C Equivalent Circuit Model Based on Full Life Cycle Database

  • Che, Yanbo;Jia, Jingjing;Yang, Yuexin;Wang, Shaohui;He, Wei
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.1759-1768
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    • 2018
  • The energy density, power density and ohm resistance of battery change significantly as results of battery aging, which lead to decrease in the accuracy of the equivalent model. A parameter identification method of the equivale6nt circuit model with 3 R-C branches based on the test database of battery life cycle is proposed in this paper. This database is built on the basis of experiments such as updating of available capacity, charging and discharging tests at different rates and relaxation characteristics tests. It can realize regular update and calibration of key parameters like SOH, so as to ensure the reliability of parameters identified. Taking SOH, SOC and T as independent variables, lookup table method is adopted to set initial value for the parameter matrix. Meanwhile, in order to ensure the validity of the model, the least square method based on variable forgetting factor is adopted for optimizing to complete the identification of equivalent model parameters. By comparing the simulation data with measured data for charging and discharging experiments of Li-ion battery, the effectiveness of the full life cycle database and the model are verified.

A Survey on Role of Block Chain in Smart Cities

  • Chokkanathan, K;Shanmugaraja, P;Ramasamy, Siva Shankar;Ouncharoen, Rujira;Chakpitak, Nopasit
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.7
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2021
  • An amazing growth in the field of Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain based smart cities from both industry and academia has been witnessed in the recent years. There are many smart applications such as intelligent transportation, smart banking, improving the life style of citizen, energy consumption and managing the waste in the city, handling home needs are supporting the Smart city concept. These applications are profoundly supported by the advanced technologies like Blockchain as well as IoT in the recent past. Smart cities can be supported by the Blockchain core concepts such as secure, transparent, decentralized and immutable nature. Still, Blockchain and IoT technologies implementation in smart cities are in their early stages and significant research efforts are desirable to integrate them. This review article explores the roles and responsibilities of Blockchain and IoT in building smart cities.

Design and Implementation of Smart-Mirror Supporting Recommendation Service based on Personal Usage Data (사용 정보 기반 추천 서비스를 제공하는 스마트미러 설계 및 구현)

  • Ko, Hyemin;Kim, Serim;Kang, Namhi
    • KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.65-73
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    • 2017
  • Advances in Internet of Things Technology lead to the increasing number of daily-life things that are interconnected over the Internet. Also, several smart services are being developed by utilizing the connected things. Among the daily-life things surrounding user, the mirror can supports broad range of functionality and expandable service as it plays various roles in daily-life. Recently, various smart mirrors have been launched in certain places where people with specific goals and interests meet. However, most mirrors give the user limited information. Therefore, we designed and implemented a smart mirror that can support customized service. The proposed smart mirror utilizes information provided by other existing internet services to give user dynamic information as real_time traffic information, news, schedule, weather, etc. It also supports recommendation service based on user usage information.

A System for Marking the Absence using a Smart-Phone (스마트폰을 이용한 전자 출석 인증 시스템)

  • Choi, Jun-Il;Yoon, Dal-Suk;Chang, Joong-Hyuk
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.12 no.9
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    • pp.4160-4168
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    • 2011
  • The development of computing technology and the increase of using mobile smart devices have brought about changes in our daily life. It makes accessing the internet more easy, and also increases the convenience of our daily life and the variety of information. In this paper, a system for marking the absence using a smart-phone is developed, which is one of the means to increase the convenience of our daily life. Usually the conventional system for the same purpose uses a smart card, so that there are some drawbacks in the system such as attendance by proxy. To compensate the drawbacks, the system proposed in this paper uses a smart-phone belonging to an individual and an instant authentication key to mark the absence that is generated at the time when it is required. It makes the proposed system being more effectively used in marking the absence.

Trends and Issues of Adolescent's Smart Phone Addiction Research in Korea (청소년 스마트폰 중독관련 국내 연구 동향)

  • Kim, Young Sook
    • The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.17-29
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    • 2015
  • Objectives: The purpose of this study is to examine the trend of adolescent's smart phone addiction researches from 2012 to 2014 in Korea, and to propose further study for prevention of adolescent's smart phone addiction. Methods: Subjects were 169 researches about adolescent's smart phone addiction from 2012 to 2014 in Korea, and the theme was summarized as following: variables associated with adolescent's smart phone addiction, prevention and intervention strategies of it, the status and development of adolescent's smart phone addiction scale, awareness and prevention of smart phone addiction. Results: As a result of this study, 63.3% were as the most source of researches in 2014, and master's thesis was 74.6 percent. According to the theme of research, the most effects on smart phone addition is self-control and parenting and the most relational variables with smart phone addition are anxiety and parenting. The most affected by smart phone addiction is adaption of school life and conversational breakdown. The studies about prevention of smart phone addiction and intervention examine the effect of therapy program and group consultation. Conclusions: The educational program for using smart phone should be made and applied for preventing adolescent's smart phone addiction.