• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.41-48
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• 1989

In order to provide a basic information for the government policy in the future, rice milling costs of Small Capacity Farm-house Rice Whiteners (SCFRW) were estimated by surveying and analyzing the major factors to affect their costs. Two types of SCFRW having one stage and two stage milling process and two rice varieties, Tong-il and Akibare, were considered for their cost estimation, respectively. Also, their costs were compared with those of Private Custom-work Mill in order to determine its economical feasibility. The results were concluded as follows; 1. Major factors to affect the costs were annual milling quantity, purchase price of SCFRW and grain milling loss. 2. Total milling costs of SCFRW were a function of annual milling quantity. These costs decreased rapidly as annual milling quantity increased. 3. In comparison of milling costs between single pass type and double pass type SCFRW, the former was more economical than the latter. 4. Also, in comparison of milling costs between two varieties by using SCFRW, Akibare was less expensive than Tong-il. 5. In comparison with private Custom-work Mill, both single pass and double pass type SCFRW were less economical than private Custom-work Mill. 6. In order to have an economical feasibility, SCFRW should be designed and developed to reduce its milling loss and purchase price.

• 한국농촌간호학회지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.111-119
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• 2007

Purpose: In this study consumers' preference for housing for elderly people was analyzed as well as the recognition by elders of silver town facilities, and their preference for service provided by silver town. The study was done to provide basic data for the development of silver town facilities that are low in cost and high in efficiency. Methods: A sample research was used in this study to analyze the understanding of old age, silver town, and service preference. Results: First, interest and intention to live in silver town was very positive, however low cost was also preferred and that is quite different to current silver towns of Korea. Second, women have more understanding of, requests for, and intention to move into silver town facilities than men. Women's demands for silver town facilities must be reflected in the development strategy of silver towns. Third, the most important part of activating silver town facilities is price strategy. Government political support is required in order to keep silver town move-in costs affordable. Fourth, silver towns must function as total service complex towns. Conclusion: This study is meaningful as efficient operation of silver town is suggested rather than facility degradation to achieve price reduction. This result is important to the development of silver towns based on consumer preference, as it suggests a development direction that is focused on securing differentiated services and programs.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.68-77
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• 2018

Regarding demand response (DR) by residential users (R-users), the users try to reduce electricity costs by adjusting their power consumption in response to the time-varying price. However, their power consumption may be affected not only by the price, but also by user convenience for using appliances. This paper proposes a methodology for appliance scheduling (AS) that considers the user convenience based on historical data. The usage pattern for appliances is first modeled applying the copula function or clustering method to evaluate user convenience. As the modeling results, the comfort distribution or representative scenarios are obtained, and then used to formulate a discomfort index (DI) to assess the degree of the user convenience. An AS optimization problem is formulated in terms of cost and DI. In the case study, various AS tasks are performed depending on the weights for cost and DI. The results show that user convenience has significant impacts on AS. The proposed methodology can contribute to induce more DR participation from R-users by reflecting properly user convenience to AS problem.

• 벤처창업연구
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.143-148
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• 2012

기업들이 제품을 개발하는데 가치공학을 적용하여 실시할 때 느끼는 공통적인 어려움은 기능을 어떻게 정확하게 정의하느냐가 관건인 것으로 나타났다. 기능이라는 추상적인 개념을 어떻게 수치화하느냐에 따라 가치공학의 효과가 차이가 나기 때문이다. 더 나아가 가치공학의 성과를 향상시키기 위해서는 가치의 향상이 요구되어지는데 가치공학을 실시하고 있는 대부분의 기업들은 원가절감에 목적을 두고 이 방법을 추진하고 있다. 제품 개발의 연구결과 기능은 충족하면서 본체, 노트북, 부루투스 프로브가 제품에 대부분을 차지하는 것을 확인할 수 있으며, 원가절감을 위해서는 안정된 품질이 요구되는 것과 맞추어 구매에서의 원가 절감노력이 필요하다고 사료되며 구매업체의 다변화를 통한 가격다운 절감노력이 필요한 것으로 분석, 연구되었다.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.54-61
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• 2018

In this study, two aspects were analyzed about the robot for removal of explosive devices. First, the cost analyses were performed to provide a reasonable solution for the acquirement of the system. It is processed by an engineering estimate method and the process was consisted of two ways : a system development expense and a mass production unit price. In additions, the resultant cost analyses were compared between the cases excluding and including a mines detection system. As results, in the case of the acquirement of the robot system for removal of explosive devices, it is recommended that the performance by improving the mines detection ability should be considered preferentially rather than the cost because the material cost for the mines detection system is negligible compared to the whole system cost. Second, as a way for improving the system performance by the mine detection function, the carbon nanotube (CNT) based sensor technology was studied in terms of sensitivity and simple productivity with presenting its preliminary experimental results. The detection electrodes were formed by a photolithography method using a photosensitive CNT paste. As results, this method was shown as a scalable and expandable technology for the excellent mines detection sensors.

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.633-657
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• 2002

This study presents a demand modelling for landfill gas, which is used as alternative energy source for district cooling business. By analyzing the cost minimizing behavior of producer facing with three alternative energy sources such as electricity, cooling heat water, and gas, a demand function for landfill gas is derived from the optimal operating time of gas fired production facility, and estimated using unpublished data, which are associated with Seoul city's development plan for Sang-am area. The estimation results repeals that Seoul City could supply the land-fill gas of 13.76 million cubic meters each year at the price of about 16 won per cubic meters. However, if the investment costs associated with installation of gas collecting facilities are treated as sunk costs, annual amount of gas supplied is expected to increase to 14.22 million cubic meters at a lower unit price of 14.76 won.

• 한국유통학회지:유통연구
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.29-53
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• 2012

제조업체와 유통업체의 판매촉진 구사가 증가하면서 이들 사이의 바람직한 판매촉진 비용 분담 방식에 대한 관심도 증가하고 있다. 특히 유통업체 점포를 방문하는 소비자의 비계획구매 요소는 유통업체에게 명시적 잉여를 제공하지만 제조업체에게는 그렇지 않다는 점에서 이를 고려한 판매촉진 비용 분담의 방향 제시가 필요한 것이 현실이다. 문제는 유통업체 방문 소비자의 점포내 비계획구매 요소가 있을 때 제조업체가 어떻게 대응해야 하는지에 대해서는 충분한 설명이 이루어지지 못하고 있다는 점이다. 이러한 문제의식에서 본 연구에서는 유통업체 점포내 비계획구매 요소가 있을 때 제조업체가 구체적으로 공동 판매촉진 행동을 어떻게 전개해야 하는지 조명하고 있다. 본 연구의 주요결과는 다음과 같다: (1) 유통업체 점포 방문 소비자의 비계획구매 수준이 증가할수록 채널 전체의 판매촉진 수준은 높아지고, 제조업체의 비용 분담액도 커진다. (2) 유통업체 점포 방문 소비자의 비계획구매 수준이 증가할수록 채널 전체 판매촉진 비용 중에서 제조업체의 판매촉진 비용 분담 비중은 낮아지고, 유통업체의 판매촉진 비용 분담 비중은 높아진다. (3) 제조업체 이익은 유통업체 점포 방문 소비자의 비계획구매 수준인 b의 증가함수이다. (4) 유통업체가 소비자의 비계획구매 대상 제품을 조달하는데 소요되는 비용 수준이 증가할수록 유통업체 점포 방문 소비자의 비계획구매 수준 증가에 따른 채널 전체의 판매촉진 수준 증가 정도, 제조업체의 판매촉진 비용 분담액 증가 정도, 유통업체의 판매촉진 비용 분담 비중 증가 정도, 제조업체 이윤 증가 정도가 낮아진다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.436-445
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• 2013

The use of a demand response controller is necessary for electric devices to effectively respond to time varying price signals and to achieve the benefits of cost reduction. This paper describes a new formulation with the form of constrained optimization for designing an optimal demand response controller. It is demonstrated that constrained optimization is a better approach for the demand response controller, in terms of the ambiguity of device operation and the practicality of implementation of the optimal control law. This paper also proposes a design scheme to construct a demand response controller that is useful when a system controller is already adapted or optimized for the system. The design separates the demand response function from the original system control function while leaving the system control law unchanged. The proposed formulation is simulated and compared to the system with simple dynamics. The effects of the constraints, the system characteristics and the electricity price are examined further.

• 한국유기농업학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.25-37
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• 2024

This study is to apply behavioral economics-an economics that studies actual human behavior based on cognitive psychology-to the farming decision-making process of onion and garlic farmers. Of behavioral economic theories, dual system theory and prospect theory (value function), heuristic and bias were surveyed and examined in the field. The reference point of farmers was farming experience of the previous year, and so they showed reference dependence and anchoring heuristic, not rational thinking on production cost plan. And they showed status quo bias that cultivated continuously the previous year or the present crop. This status quo bias is related to loss aversion propensity. Farmers did not usually change cultivating crops, in other words, they showed diminishing sensitivity-insensitive to those that the more revenue or loss was increased. This diminishing sensitivity is related to loss aversion propensity and status quo bias. Also, farmers had representativeness heuristic because they regarded auction price of Garakdong wholesale market as the standard price level despite various prices by production region. And farmers had the affect heuristic that they depended on producers' organization data more than the state-run research institute ones about cultivation intentions and actual situations.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2004년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.102-104
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• 2004

Finger language is a typical tool for deaf persons. But learning the finger language for non-handicapped persons is very difficult. To overcome these difficulties, a new communication method using visual function is developed recently. Even though the developed system uses the visual function, it needs expensive equipments such as camera and computer. To be used in the real environments, the cost of equipments is a critical factor. If the recognition system for the finger language can be developed with low price equipments, the system can be used in the notebook or cellular phone. The image captured by PC camera was processed by preprocessing algorithm. To recognize the finger language, the resulting image was divide into $5{\times}5$ sections. The recognition system uses a similarity method and position information. The simulation results shows the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.