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Feasibility and Acceptability of Workers' Health Surveillance for Fire Fighters

  • Plat, Marie-Christine J.;Frings-Dresen, Monique H.W.;Sluiter, Judith K.
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.218-228
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    • 2011
  • Objectives: The objective of this study was to test the feasibility and acceptability of a new workers' health surveillance (WHS) for fire fighters in a Dutch pilot-implementation project. Methods: In three fire departments, between November 2007 and February 2009, feasibility was tested with respect to i) worker intent to change health and behavior; ii) the quality of instructions for testing teams; iii) the planned procedure in the field; and iv) future WHS organisation. Acceptability involved i) satisfaction with WHS and ii) verification of the job-specificity of the content of two physical tests of WHS. Fire fighters were surveyed after completing WHS, three testing teams were interviewed, and the content of the two tests was studied by experts. Results: Feasibility: nearly all of the 275 fire fighters intended to improve their health when recommended by the occupational physician. The testing teams found the instructions to be clear, and they were mostly positive about the organisation of WHS. Acceptability: the fire fighters rated WHS at eight points (out of a maximum of ten). The experts also reached a consensus about the optimal job-specific content of the future functional physical tests. Conclusion: Overall, it is feasible and acceptable to implement WHS in a definitive form in the Dutch fire-fighting sector.

A Study on the Wind rower Generation and Its Economic Feasibility at Daekwanryung (대관령 풍력단지의 풍력발전량 및 경제성 분석)

  • Ha Jeong-woo;Kim Suduk
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.14 no.2 s.42
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    • pp.123-132
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    • 2005
  • An economic feasibility study is performed for the wind power generation with the examination of the wind speed and its distribution at Daekwanryung at which a wind fm is under construction. In this analysis, the distribution of wind speed is the key issue. The wind distribution which is usually expressed in terms of Weibull distribution with shape factor and scale factor needs to be reexamined to find the proper values of them according to the empirical wind speed data. After this kind of analysis is done, annual power generation of wind is calculated. Due to the lack of cost information, we applied EWEA data instead or the actual information from the site. The result would be of use to determine the 'reference price' of wind power under the current system of 'compensating subsidy for renewable power generation'.

A Case Study on Airport Concession Contract of Korean Hotels and Arbitration Award (우리나라 호텔기업의 공항 컨세션 계약과 중재판정 사례연구)

  • Kim Ki-Hong;Byun Joon-Young
    • Journal of Arbitration Studies
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.245-272
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    • 2004
  • This study is focused on the cases that Korean hotels stepped into international airports, public facilities, and successfully solved the contract related disputes by using arbitration in accordance with arbitration law. This case study on arbitration derives the hotel management strategy points as follow: 1. It must be a good chance for a famed hotel to step into international airports that have big publication effect. The feasibility study focused on marketing feasibility rather than finance feasibility may, however, not be good. 2. Written contract is required in entering into a contract with government organizations. However, oral contract still exists. 3. If the contract is made to always pay the higher amount between annual minimal guarantee and sales rate in expenses of store using charge, such contract shall cause very hard sales environment from the initial stage of the contract. 4. The airports have made optional contracts for national service. Such optional contracts are, however, not free from public criticism. 5. This case study is the first case study on arbitration applied to hotels. This study shall be, therefore, frequently referred to in setting a management strategy of hotels that want to run restaurants in another facility outside themselves.

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Appropriate Technologies for Municipal Solid Waste Management in Bantayan Island, Philippines

  • Yu, Kwang Sun;Thriveni, Thenepalli;Jang, Changsun;Whan, Ahn Ji
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.54-61
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    • 2017
  • In general, solid waste arises from lots of human activities such as domestic, agricultural, industrial, commercial, waste water treatment, construction, and mining activities etc. If the waste is not properly disposal and treated, it will have a negative impact to the environment, and hygienic conditions in urban areas and pollute the air with greenhouse gases (GHG), ground water, as well as the soil and crops. In this paper, the Carbon Resources Recycling Appropriate Technology Center feasibility studies are reported at Bantayan Island, Philippines on the municipal solid waste management. The present objective of our study is to characterize the municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) bottom ash and case study of MSWI production status in Bantayan, Philippines. Currently, wide variety of smart technologies available for MSWI management in developed countries. Recycling is the other major alternative process for MSWI landfill issues. In this paper, the feasibility studies of applied appropriate technologies for the municipal solid waste generation in Bantayan Island, Philippines are reported.

Consideration on Pre-Feasibility Studies for Large-scale Offshore Wind Farms Led by Local Governments, Focusing on the Case of Shinan-gun (지자체 주도 대규모 해상풍력단지 사전 타당성 조사에 대한 고찰, 신안군 사례 중심으로)

  • Min Cheol Park;Ji Hoon Park;Gi Yun Lee;Chang Min Lee;Gwang Hyeok Yu;Hee Woong Jang;Hyun Sig Park
    • New & Renewable Energy
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.65-70
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    • 2024
  • The major challenge in promoting large-scale offshore wind power projects is securing local acceptance. Several recent studies have emphasized the crucial role of local governments in addressing this problem. However, local governments have difficulty in achieving clear results because of the lack of expertise and manpower in offshore wind power projects, making thempassive in promoting these initiatives. In this context, we briefly introduce the case of Shinan-gun, which recently successfully conducted a pre-feasibility study on a large-scale offshore wind power complex led by the local government.

Case Studies of Pre-feasibility Analysis in Public Projects (공공사업 예비타당성 분석에 대한 사례연구)

  • Park, Deuk
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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    • 2015.07a
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    • pp.119-120
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    • 2015
  • 본 논문에서는 공공사업의 예비타당성을 평가하기 위하여 한국개발연구원에서 예비타당성조사 수행을 위한 일반지침을 참고하여 H시의 공공사업에 대해 평가요인별 가중치산출 및 사업 시행여부에 대한 대안의 평가를 실시하였다. 구체적인 평가의 방법으로는 AHP를 이용하였으며, 한국개발연구원에서 제시한 평가시 고려사항을 참조하여 평자체계 및 설문지 등을 구조화 하였고, 해당 공공사업에 대해 예비타당성 분석을 실시하여 객관적인 기준에 의한 평가가 필요한 공공사업에 대해 합리적인 의사결정을 내려 보았다.

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Development of Light Rail Transit Financial Analysis System for Private Sector (경량전철 민자사업성분석을 위한 프로그램개발)

  • Min, Jae-Hong;Lee, Ho
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.300-306
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    • 2002
  • To construct ligh rail transit, many local autonomous entities investigate the feasibility of project. Especially, many studies attempt to find the probability of private inducement and the method. The purpose of this paper is to develop the light rail transit financial analysis system for private sector, based on the procedure and the method of the financial analysis. This system consistes of the income and cost module. As a result, provide the cash flow, income statement and financial profit statement for the result. We hope that it is contributed to analyze the feasibility of the finance conveniently.

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A Study for the Scaling of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development for Korean Infants (베일리의 유아발달검사의 척도화를 위한 연구)

  • Jae, Kyoung Sook
    • Korean Journal of Child Studies
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    • v.5
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    • pp.53-64
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    • 1984
  • The purpose of this research was to supplement the preceding study and to examine the feasibility of standardizing the Bayley Scales of Infant Development (BSID) for Korean infants. The subjects of this research were 93 healthy infants at 1-12 months of age living in Seoul. Seventy were the same infants as the subjects of the preceding research. Statistical analysis of the results was done by Item analysis and scalogram analysis using Green's method. The scalability of the BSID for Korean infants was .78 on the mental scale and .8l on the motor scale. Item order by counting positive responses was slightly different from the original BSID item order. On the feasibility of standardization of the BSID in Korea, the results showed that: 1) The BSID is scalable for Korean infant development, and 2) The BSID needs correction in item rank order.

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A Study of the Benefit Cost of The Railway Nosie (철도소음의 편익비용 추정)

  • Park, Byung-Eun;Jang, Bong-Hee;Han, Sung-Woo;Kim, Dong-Gi;Park, Kwang-Heyun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.1465-1468
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    • 2006
  • Railway is superior to the other land transportation systems in aspects of environmental problems. Environmental problems are not considered during a preliminary feasibility study. Investment for railway is low because of low B/C(benefit/cost)ratio in the economical efficiency analysis during the preliminary feasibility study. The body of this paper studies the railway noise which can reflect environmental problems an assessment of environmental impact. The body of this paper studies the presumption of The Benefit Cost of railroad noise arresting it will be able to reflect the evaluation environmental matter of the effect which it gives to an environment.

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Feasibility of Alternative Physical Parameters by Subjective Evaluation for Urban Environmental Sounds (도시 환경음의 쾌적성 평가를 통한 새로운 지수 적용가능성 분석)

  • Park, Hyeon-Ku;Jang, Gil-Soo
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.31-36
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    • 2008
  • For the comfortable housing life, comfortable and pleasant urban environment should be created for the people living in house and in city. There are lots of environmental conditions in city affecting house and life. Also most of all the noise pollution have been become major factor that makes people's life uncomfortable. Recently soundscape researches have been performed to create comfortable urban environment and various studies on the evaluation of urban environmental sounds are now undergoing. This study aimed to analyse the subjective characteristics through the subjective evaluation to the sounds measured with physical parameters and eventually to find out alternative evaluation method for urban environmental sounds. Adjectives applied to previous studies were used for the subjective evaluation and sound sources recorded in specific places were presented with picture at the same time. As a result, new physical parameters such as Lmax, Unbiased Annoyance, G, N and EmT have a feasibility to evaluation of urban environment sounds in terms of acoustic comfort.