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Cost Management for Security Applications

  • Arshi Naim;Zubairul Hasan
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • 제24권7호
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    • pp.63-72
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    • 2024
  • This is an extended paper, focusing on the cost management for the organizations dealing with the crucial issues of security systems. Information Technology (IT) is an important and irreplaceable need of society and all working sector's success depends on IT to a greater extent; therefore maintaining security features is one of the most important aspects of IT. When security in the IT sector is discussed, Patch Management (P.Mgnt) has to be taken under account. P. Mgnt includes many concerns and areas to be described for IT security such as methods and problems in updating patch, methods of reducing security risks with P.Mgnt, methods of achieving economies of scale by controlling the operational costs and taking decisions in investing as and when necessary. This paper presents a general definition of Patch management, its benefits and management of working cost through theoretical models, also the paper gives methods of feeding techniques for microstrip patch antenna MPA, showing the contracting and non contracting methods.

Progressive Design-Build: Its Functions as a Contracting Method and the Four Pillars of Project Success

  • Jeong, Euiseok;Anderson, Connor;Lin, Ken-Yu;Migliaccio, Giovanni C
    • 국제학술발표논문집
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    • The 9th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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    • pp.25-32
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    • 2022
  • As a project delivery method, Design-Build (DB) has provided owner, architect, and contractor groups with a process of early design and rapid construction for the past three decades. Although there are many benefits to using standard DB, dissatisfaction has arisen due to limitations to innovate, limited owner involvement during design, and often lengthy procurement. Progressive Design-Build (PDB) has become an appealing alternative providing benefits not seen with standard DB. This paper investigates how PDB impacts a project and how it compares against standard DB; it also presents a proposed framework for evaluating the owner's responsibility and assessment of a project, which we named the "Four Pillars of Project Success". The four pillars are defined with respect to an owner's responsibility and assessment of a project, including project predictability, project risk, project schedule, and project cost. We conducted a literature review, examined several public project case studies, analyzed PDB project information collected by the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA), and held stakeholder interviews with owners, contractors, and architects who have used both PDB and standard DB. This paper offers insight into PDB's structure and outcomes so an owner group can make an informed decision when considering PDB as their next construction contracting method.

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Spatiotemporal Visualization of Unit Price Data of Highway Projects

  • Jain, Deepanshi;Shrestha, K. Joseph;Jeong, H. David
    • 국제학술발표논문집
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    • The 6th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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    • pp.77-81
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    • 2015
  • The unit price contracting is the standard contracting method for highway projects in the U.S. As a result, state highway agencies have collected a large amount of historical bid data that they can use to determine engineer's estimates for future projects. The estimator must carefully consider various characteristics of a new project such as its location to determine an engineer's estimate as accurate as possible before bid letting. Higher cost estimates can result in the loss of the available budget and lower cost estimates may lead to deferral and delay of projects. The study uses the historical bid data obtained from Iowa Department of Transportation and develops a Geographic Information System (GIS) tool to visually show the variation of unit prices over the map using a spatial interpolation technique. The interpolation map can be used to estimate the unit price of the item at any location across Iowa. This noble method allows the estimator to effectively and fully utilize the historical bid data in a very time efficient manner and determine more accurate cost estimation.

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PACKING DIMENSIONS OF GENERALIZED RANDOM MORAN SETS

  • Tong, Xin;Yu, Yue-Li;Zhao, Xiao-Jun
    • 대한수학회지
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    • 제51권5호
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    • pp.1075-1088
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    • 2014
  • We consider random fractal sets with random recursive constructions in which the contracting vectors have different distributions at different stages. We prove that the random fractal associated with such construction has a constant packing dimension almost surely and give an explicit formula to determine it.

참여 지분형 계약거래를 통한 양식산업 금융지원 연구 (Research on Financing the Aquaculture Industry through Participatory Equity Contracting)

  • 이화용;한병석;강형구
    • 수산경영론집
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    • 제54권4호
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    • pp.47-64
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    • 2023
  • The development potential of the aquaculture industry is very high, but there is no financial support for investment except for the government, policy funds, fishery funds, etc. Therefore, we would like to propose a contract transaction in the aquaculture industry. This refers to a forward contract between a producer (fish farmer) and a buyer (mainly a processor or marketer) that stipulates the production and supply of fish products at a predetermined price, but it also refers to an "equity participation type" contract in which both producers and buyers can participate. In other words, it is a model in which part of the fish farm is produced in a way that meets the conditions of the buyer, and part is produced by the producer. This study aims to establish the basic contract trading process. It provides an academic approach to prevent adverse selection and moral hazard due to information asymmetry. It also provides an idea to converge the aquaculture industry with the financial industry using Pecking Order theory. By doing so, we have made it possible for venture capitalists to invest with confidence and provided a process for investors to resolve their concerns, paving the way for the aquaculture industry and the financial industry to develop together.

형상기억합금 코일 구동기와 복합재를 이용한 소형 도약 로봇 설계 및 제작 (Miniature Jumping Robot Using SMA Coil Actuators and Composite Materials)

  • 정순필;고제성;정광필;조규진
    • 로봇학회논문지
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    • 제8권2호
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    • pp.136-142
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    • 2013
  • In nature, many small insects are using jumping as a survival strategy. Among them, fleas jump in a unique method. They use an elastomer, 'Resilin', an extensor muscle and a trigger muscle. By contracting the extensor muscle, the elastic energy, that makes a flea to jump, is stored in the resilin. After storing energy, the trigger muscle begins contracting and pulling the extensor muscle. When the extensor muscle crosses the rotational joint, direction of torque generated from the extensor muscle reverses, 'torque reversal mechanism'. Simultaneously, the elastic energy stored in the resilin releases rapidly and is converted into the kinetic energy. It makes a flea to jump 150 times its body length. In this paper, miniaturized jumping robot using flea-inspired catapult mechanism is presented. This mechanism is based on the 4-bar linkage and the reversal joint and is actuated by Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) coiled springs describing the flea's muscle. The robot prototype is fabricated by SCM process using glass fiber prepregs and a sheet of polyimide film. The prototype is 20mm link length, 34mm width and 2.0g weight and can jump 103cm.

학교 급식소 위생관리에 대한 영양사와 학부모의 견해 비교 분석 (A Comparison of Opinions between Dietitians and Students' Parents on Sanitation Management in School Foodservice Operations)

  • 채미진;정현아;배현주
    • 한국식품조리과학회지
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    • 제23권3호통권99호
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    • pp.302-313
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the gap in perceived importance-performance between dietitians and parents regarding school foodservice sanitation practices, to establish a plan for improving the school foodservice monitoring that is conducted by parents. A survey was given using questionnaires and was distributed to 31 school foodservice dietitians and to parents who attended sanitation education in October 2006. All statistical analyses were conducted using the SAS package program(version 8.2 for Windows) for descriptive analysis, t-test, and importance-performance analysis(IPA). The results of the IPA showed the following areas as improvement priorities: (1) contracting with a reliable suppliers, (2) securing proper refrigerator and freezer capacity and checking temperatures, (3) adequate design and construction of foodservice facilities and equipment, and (4) ensuring trays and utensils are clean, dry, and stored in a way that prevents contamination. The results of the IPA illustrated that school foodservice dietitians performed well in 8 out of the 21 sanitation management items. The perceived importance by parents was higher than by dietitians for accurate record keeping and documentation of HACCP worksheets(p<0.01), appropriate cleaning plans and practices(p<0.05), garbage management of inner kitchens (p<0.05), and garbage management of external kitchens(p<0.05). On the other hands, the perceived importance by dietitians was higher than that of parents for contracting with a reliable suppliers(p<0.05) and adequate design and construction of foodservice facilities and equipment(p<0.01). According to the performance analysis there were significant differences between dietitians and parents in six out of the twenty-one items. For these six items, the evaluated degree of performance by parents was higher than that of dietitians. In conclusion, proper education programs should be planned and regularly performed for the student's patents who take part in school foodservice monitoring in order to improve on their monitoring.

Consumer Protection in E-commerce: Synthesis Review of Related Books

  • Alharthi, Saud Hamoud
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • 제22권8호
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    • pp.413-419
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    • 2022
  • To have a complete and comprehensive understanding of the research subject and to form an integrated legal framework for it, I have sought comprehensively to cover the major written literature on the issue under consideration. I also benefitted from a wide range of research and academic studies pertaining to the same topic, although that literature did not specifically address the issue of consumer rights in electronic contracting in the Saudi e-commerce system. Rather, it addressed only the civil and criminal protection of the consumer in e-commerce.

아시아 지역 영연방국가의 지정하도급(NSC)제도에 관한 비교 연구 - 표준계약약관의 지정하도급자 항목분석을 중심으로 - (A Comparative Study on the Nominated Subcontractor (NSC) System of Building Construction Project in Asian Commonwealth of Nations - Focused on the NSC Clause Analysis of Standard Contract Forms -)

  • 조재용;김정곤;박형근
    • 한국건설관리학회논문집
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    • 제15권3호
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    • pp.12-22
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    • 2014
  • 최근 국내 건설시장의 축소와 수주경쟁의 심화로 인하여 많은 건설기업들이 이에 대한 대안으로써 해외건설 시장에 진출하고 있다. 그러나 해외건설 프로젝트에서는 국내 건설 프로젝트와 책임과 권한의 범위가 다른 다양한 프로젝트 주체가 참여하고 있으며, 프로젝트를 둘러싼 수행환경 및 계약관행이 국내 건설 프로젝트와 다르기 때문에 다양한 리스크 요인이 존재하고 있다. 특히 해외건설 프로젝트의 문제가운데 하나가 Nominated Sub-Contracting (NSC)로 알려진 영국과 영국연방국가에서 사용되어지고 있는 하도급계약이다. 본 논문은 영국과 아시아지역 영연방 국가의 JCT약관, SIA약관, HKIA약관, PAM약관의 비교를 통해 NSC제도와 차이점을 소개한다. 또한 NSC계약의 채용 거부와 계약 해지와 관련된 약관항목분석을 통해 NSC제도의 유형을 분류한다.

Early-age thermal analysis and strain monitoring of massive concrete structures

  • Geng, Yan;Li, Xiongyan;Xue, Suduo;Li, Jinguang;Song, Yanjie
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • 제21권3호
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    • pp.279-289
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    • 2018
  • Hydration heat and thermal induced cracking have always been a fatal problem for massive concrete structures. In order to study a massive reinforced concrete wall of a storage tank for liquefied natural gas (LNG) during its construction, two mock-ups of $0.8m{\times}0.8m{\times}0.8m$ without and with metal corrugated pipes were designed based on the actual wall construction plan. Temperature distribution and strain development of both mock-ups were measured and compared inside and on the surface of them. Meanwhile, time-dependent thermal and mechanical properties of the concrete were tested standardly and introduced into the finite-element (FE) software with a proposed hydration degree model. According to the comparison results, the FE simulation of temperature field agreed well with the measured data. Besides, the maximum temperature rise was slightly higher and the shrinkage was generally larger in the mock-up without pipes, indicating that corrugated pipes could reduce concrete temperature and decrease shrinkage of surrounding concrete. In addition, the cooling rate decreased approximately linearly with the reduction of heat transfer coefficient h, implying that a target cooling curve can be achieved by calculating a desired coefficient h. Moreover, the maximum cooling rate did not necessarily decrease with the extension of demoulding time. It is better to remove the formwork at least after 116 hours after concrete casting, which promises lower risk of thermal cracking of early-age concrete.