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Rapid Screening of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Nuclides (238U, 232Th) in Raw Materials and By-Products Samples Using XRF

  • Park, Ji-Young;Lim, Jong-Myoung;Ji, Young-Yong;Lim, Chung-Sup;Jang, Byung-Uck;Chung, Kun Ho;Lee, Wanno;Kang, Mun-Ja
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.41 no.4
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    • pp.359-367
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    • 2016
  • Background: As new legislation has come into force implementing radiation safety management for the use of naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM), it is necessary to establish a rapid and accurate measurement technique. Measurement of $^{238}U$ and $^{232}Th$ using conventional methods encounter the most significant difficulties for pretreatment (e.g., purification, speciation, and dilution/enrichment) or require time-consuming processes. Therefore, in this study, the applicability of ED-XRF as a non-destructive and rapid screening method was validated for raw materials and by-product samples. Materials and Methods: A series of experiments was conducted to test the applicability for rapid screening of XRF measurement to determine activity of $^{238}U$ and $^{232}Th$ based on certified reference materials (e.g., soil, rock, phosphorus rock, bauxite, zircon, and coal ash) and NORM samples commercially used in Korea. Statistical methods were used to compare the analytical results of ED-XRF to those of certified values of certified reference materials (CRM) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Results and Discussion: Results of the XRF measurement for $^{238}U$ and $^{232}Th$ showed under 20% relative error and standard deviation. The results of the U-test were statistically significant except for the case of U in coal fly ash samples. In addition, analytical results of $^{238}U$ and $^{232}Th$ in the raw material and by-product samples using XRF and the analytical results of those using ICP-MS ($R^2{\geq}0.95$) were consistent with each other. Thus, the analytical results rapidly derived using ED-XRF were fairly reliable. Conclusion: Based on the validation results, it can be concluded that the ED-XRF analysis may be applied to rapid screening of radioactivities ($^{238}U$ and $^{232}Th$) in NORM samples.

Inter-divisional Domain Overlap and Product Differentiation

  • Jeong, Eui Kyo
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.102-112
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    • 2013
  • Using data on the U.S. automobile industry between 1979 and 1999, we have investigated the impact of inter-divisional domain overlap on a division's product differentiation vis-$\grave{a}$-vis sister divisions. The results show that the higher the level of inter-divisional domain overlap, relative to the focal division's own domain, the higher the chances of locating a new product closer to the existing products of a sister division, thereby decreasing product differentiation vis-$\grave{a}$-vis this sister division. We argue that this is due to a high level of similar capabilities between the two divisions and the division with less distinctive capabilities may have little choice but to launch a new product that is close to the products of the other division.

The 3rd National Conference Of Professional engineers - Outline of U-City (제3회 전국기술사대회 특집(3차분) - U-City 개요 - 건축전기설비 -)

  • Youn, Gill-Jae
    • Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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    • v.42 no.6
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    • pp.28-30
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    • 2009
  • There is a proverb in Korea "Don't chase after another." It can be a right proverb in sometimes. However, usually it doesn't fit in these various society, information knowledge society. Modern society requires convergence technology. IBS (Intelligent Building System) requires knowledge of architecture field, electric field, communication field, and computation field. ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) which is constructing in many cities requires various knowledge as engineering works, electricity, computation, communication and transportation. In the case of u-City, it requires technology of many fields as architecture, electricity, communication, engineering works, transportation, and computation. Anyone who wants to participate in u-City should study and acquire knowledge in various field. Otherwise, it must be failed because of lack of communication like as the Tower of Babel. U-City is not a portion of one field. Therefore, engineers in many fields should cooperate with each other to make u-city as the best product in the world.

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A Study on Key Success Factors for the Concept-driven Product Innovation Strategy: a Case of the Slim-Phone development process (컨셉 주도형 제품혁신전략의 성공요인에 관한 연구: (주)VK 슬림폰 개발사례를 중심으로)

  • Son, Seok-Ho;Kim, Yong-Won;Yun, Ji-Eun;Yang, Seung-Hwa;Kim, Jin-U
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.21-35
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    • 2006
  • This paper examines critical successful elements related to the management of new product development process. For this, we have selected a VK-X100, slim bar type cellular phone, produced by VK mobile co., which was thought as a successful product development case and then analysed the case from a concept driven strategic product development's point of view. We have performed in-depth interviews with project managers, engineers and designers to get information on the product development process and analysed huge amount of data obtained from web-sites, global market indicators, and related firms' materials to find a changing trend of market conditions. The findings suggest that the successful new Product development and management is shaped by a number of different factors, such as the business environments, firm's technological level, firm's deep market insight capabilities, nature of the product development activities, and so on. Finally, we suggested the limitation of our research and further research subjects that would be required to support our findings.

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Design of the Identifier Structure for Ubiquitous National Product Asset Management (U-국가물품자산관리를 위한 식별코드체계 설계)

  • Kim, Sun-Ho;Yun, Ji-Ho;Kim, Jin-Yong;Ann, Chong-Hwan
    • IE interfaces
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.227-234
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    • 2007
  • The national product identifier(NPI) currently used in the national product asset management system does not accommodate ISO or EPC standards due to the limitation of tag memory. For this reason, we propose a new NPI which accommodates not only ISO item identification standards but also the memory capacity of ISO tags. First of all, memory structures of ISO/IEC 18000-6C and EPC tags are analyzed from the view point of product identifier structure. Second, ISO/IEC 15459 and EPC identification standards as item identifier structures for the product asset management are analyzed. Third, based on these analyses, the NPI used for the current RFID-based product asset management system is analyzed and its problems are presented. Finally, a new NPI structure is proposed suitable for ISO/IEC 18000-6C and ISO/IEC 15459.

A Study on Moderating Effect of Unity on Typicality Effect In Product Form (제품 형태에 있어서 전형성 효과에 대한 통일성의 조절효과에 관한 연구)

  • 김진아;양종열;홍정표
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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    • 1999.03a
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    • pp.97-102
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    • 1999
  • The purpose of this study is to find out the moderating influences of unity on typicality effect of prototype theory in new product development process. It is said in the classical point of view of categorization that the higher level of typicality, the more preference a consumer have on a specific product. According to, however, the prototype theory's view on the relationship between product preference and typicality, there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between those two factors. But the prototype theory is needed to be verified with various design variables such as harmony, proportion, balance etc as well as unity. Therefore this study verified moderating effect of unity on typicality effect of new product.

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