• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제17권9호
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• pp.4421-4426
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• 2016

Background: Smoking is recognized as a main leading preventable cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. It is responsible for a considerable financial burden both on the health system and in society. This study aimed to examine the effect of smoking on cost of hospitalization and length of stay (LoS) among patients with lung cancer in Iran in 2014. Materials and Methods: A total of 415 patients were included in the study. Data on age, sex, insurance status, type of hospitals, type of insurance, geographic local, length of stay and cost of hospitalization was extracted by medical records and smoking status was obtained from a telephone survey. To compare cost of hospitalization and LoS for different smoking groups, current smokers, former smokers, and never smokers, a gamma regression model and zero-truncated poisson regression were used, respectively. Results: Compared with never smokers, current and former smokers showed a 48% and 35% increase in hospitalization costs, respectively. Also, hospital LoS for current and former smokers was 72% and 31% higher than for never smokers, respectively. Conclusions: Our study indicated that cigarette smoking imposes a significant financial burden on hospitals in Iran. It is, however, recommended that more research should be done to implement and evaluate hospital based smoking cessation interventions to better increase cessation rates in these settings.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.409-417
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• 2017

본 연구는 건설 공사도중 계약상대자의 책임 없는 사유로 인하여 공사기간이 단축되는 경우 발생하는 추가비용과 관련하여 계약 당사자 사이에 발생하는 분쟁을 예방하는 방안의 연구를 목적으로 하였다. 공기단축으로 인한 추가비용에 대한 클레임 사례 및 법원의 판결 사례등을 검토한 결과 추가비용 산정에 대한 규정의 미비가 대표적인 문제점으로 나타났다. 이러한 문제점에 대한 연구의 결과로 1단계에서 추가비용을 처리하는 절차를 제시하였고, 절차 중 공기단축 계획 및 승인과정을 거치도록 하여 계약 당사자 사이의 추가비용에 대한 다툼을 예방하도록 하였다. 2단계로 추가비용 산정과 관련된 현행 규정의 미비한 문제점을 해소하는 규정의 제정 및 개정 방안을 제시하였다. 본 연구에서 제시한 절차 및 규정의 제 개정 방안을 통하여 공기단축과 관련한 현행 규정이 미비한 문제점을 해소하고 분쟁을 예방하며 이로 인한 손실 등을 방지하는 등 선진화된 계약관리의 기초가 되도록 하고자 한다.

• 한국건설관리학회논문집
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.24-33
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• 2021

사업비관리는 발주자를 위한 CM사의 주요 업무이며, 견적은 사업비관리를 위한 비용의 기준점을 설정하고 의사결정의 기초를 마련해주는 중요한 업무이다. 이를 위해 CM사는 양질의 데이터를 확보 및 활용하여 견적을 더욱 정확하고 효율적으로 수행하는 것이 필요하다. 건설산업에서 빅데이터 활용의 중요성이 증가함에 따라 관련 연구 또한 활발하게 이루어지고 있지만, CM사 견적업무를 위한 빅데이터 활용 현황을 진단한 관련 연구는 아직 미흡한 것으로 나타나고 있다. 본 연구의 목적은 CM사 견적업무의 빅데이터 활용 현황에 대한 진단을 통해 주요 특징과 시사점을 도출하는 데 있으며, 이는 견적업무를 위한 CM사의 빅데이터 활용 전략 수립에 유용하게 참고될 수 있다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제15권8호
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• pp.845-850
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• 2009

Localization which estimates a robot's position and orientation in a given environment is very important for mobile robot navigation. Although low-cost sensors are preferred for practical service robots, they suffer from the inaccurate and insufficient range information. This paper proposes a novel approach to increasing the success rate of low-cost sensor-based localization. In this paper, both the previous and the current data obtained from the IR sensors are used for localization in order to utilize as much environment information as possible without increasing the number of sensors. The sensor model used in the monte carlo localization (MCL) is modified so that the accumulated range information may be used to increase the accuracy in estimating the current robot pose. The experimental results show that the proposed method can robustly estimate the robot's pose in indoor environments with several similar places.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.119-125
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• 2017

Regarding the implementation of ROMM project (Rehabilitation, Operation, Maintenance & Management), which is one of overseas development projects, it is very important to diagnose the exact current status of aged thermal power plant. However, when people visit the power plant for the purpose of prediagnosis to implement the ROMM project, most target power plants for diagnosis, in general, are under operation. This can be a big interference factor to diagnose the exact current status of power plants. Therefore, in order to solve such interference factor, based on the 30 years of know-how in the field, the present study has developed a regression curve for a simple life time assessment and the calculation of rehabilitation cost that may be used as a reference relatively for the quantitative diagnosis on the status of a relevant power plant even during the operation of the power plant.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2002년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.451-454
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• 2002

In this paper, studied on the one-chip design of low cost for the micro-stepping drive having 5-phase Pentagon Type winding. Micro-stepping method in order to eliminate effectively the resonant phenomena and to Increase the positional resolution. This paper proposed trapezoidal current wave- form for current control and provided design- method by using only one-chip of low cost. Therefore the drive will be simple and small size. Also the drive will have a lot of advantage at commercial business. Finally the above study has been implemented on the VHDL. Simulation has been performed to verify the PWM for micro-stepping drive.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2005년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.248-250
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• 2005

This paper suggests a new type of 4-switch inverter for switched reluctance motor drives. 4-switch Inverter topology is studied to provide possibility for the realization of cost of 3-phase SRM drive system. We used Y-connection and two-phase exciting method. For effective utilization of the developed system, a direct current controlled PWM scheme is designed and implemented to produce the desired dynamic. We solve to balance the neutral point of Y-connection by the direct current controlled PWM and examine the performance of proposed system. With the algorithm and developed control scheme, is expected that the proposed system can be widely used in commercial applications with a reduced system cost.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.267-273
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• 2011

Since 'The Act on Private Investment of The Infrastructure' was established in 1994, private investment as well as government's investment in transport infrastructure has been active. However investment in transport infrastructure has more risks than others' due to uncertainty both in traffic volume and in construction cost. In the current appraisal procedure of deciding transportation infrastructure investment, instead of risk management, the sensitivity analysis considering only the changes of benefit, cost and social discount rate which are main factor affecting economic feasibility is carried out. Therefore the uncertainty of various factors affecting demand, cost and benefit are not considered in feasibility study. In this study the problems in current investment appraisal system were reviewed. Using Delphi technique the major factors which have high uncertainty in feasibility study were surveyed and then improvement plan was suggested in the respective of classic 4 step demand forecasting method. The range estimation technique was also mentioned to deal with the uncertainty of the future.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.173-179
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• 2004

This paper describes a low-cost single-phase active power filter, which consists of a half-bridge PWM inverter with a simple control circuit. In order to verify the performance of proposed active power filter, many computer simulations with EMTP codes and experimental works with a hardware prototype were done. Both results confirm that the proposed active power filter shows excellent performance to eliminate the harmonics generated in the single-phase non-linear load. The active power filter has advantage of low implementation cost and compact size, using a half-bridge inverter and a simple control circuit with only one current sensor. So, it can be fabricated as a plug-in type. This paper shows the necessity and a good possibility to apply such advantage to the electric railway system.

• 소성∙가공
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.181-186
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• 2015

Many in the industrial world that consume high amounts of energy are trying to reduce energy when manufacturing their products. Energy saving during manufacturing is a cost reduction. Reduced cost is necessary for profit improvement. The Piston Under Drive Brake used in the current study is an automotive transmission part. The original machining after hot forging was changed to machining after cold forging of a plate in order to save energy and cost. Two extrusion shapes along the outer diameter caused decreased tool life because of the interrupted cut during turning. Therefore, a thickness reduction of two extrusion areas in the outer diameter was needed. The current study suggests an effective way to reduce the thickness of interrupted cut by using progressive blanking.