• Agribusiness and Information Management
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.17-26
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• 2016

India is largest producer of banana in the world producing 29.72 million tonnes from an area of 0.803 million ha with a productivity of 35.7 MT ha-1 and accounted for 15.48 and 27.01 per cent of the world's area and production respectively (www.nhb.gov.in). In India, Tamil Nadu leads other states both in terms of area and production followed by Maharashtra, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh. In Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh, Kurnool district had special reputation in the cultivation of banana in an area of 5765 hectares with an annual production of 2.01 lakh tonnes in the year 2012-13 and hence, it was purposively chosen for the study. On $23^{rd}$ November 2003, the Government of Andhra Pradesh has commenced a comprehensive project called 'Andhra Pradesh Micro Irrigation Project (APMIP)', first of its kind in the world so as to promote water use efficiency. APMIP is offering 100 per cent of subsidy in case of SC, ST and 90 per cent in case of other categories of farmers up to 5.0 acres of land. In case of acreage between 5-10 acres, 70 per cent subsidy and acreage above 10, 50 per cent of subsidy is given to the farmer beneficiaries. The sampling frame consists of Kurnool district, two mandals, four villages and 180 sample farmers comprising of 60 farmers each from Marginal (<1ha), Small (1-2ha) and Other (>2ha) categories. A well structured pre-tested schedule was employed to collect the requisite information pertaining to the performance of drip irrigation among the sample farmers and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model was employed to analyze the performance of drip irrigation in banana farms. The performance of drip irrigation was assessed based on the parameters like: Land Development Works (LDW), Fertigation costs (FC), Volume of water supplied (VWS), Annual maintenance costs of drip irrigation (AMC), Economic Status of the farmer (ES), Crop Productivity (CP) etc. The first four parameters are considered as inputs and last two as outputs for DEA modelling purposes. The findings revealed that, the number of farms operating at CRS are more in number in other farms (46.66%) followed by marginal (45%) and small farms (28.33%). Similarly, regarding the number of farmers operating at VRS, the other farms are again more in number with 61.66 per cent followed by marginal (53.33%) and small farms (35%). With reference to scale efficiency, marginal farms dominate the scenario with 57 per cent followed by others (55%) and small farms (50%). At pooled level, 26.11 per cent of the farms are being operated at CRS with an average technical efficiency score of 0.6138 i.e., 47 out of 180 farms. Nearly 40 per cent of the farmers at pooled level are being operated at VRS with an average technical efficiency score of 0.7241. As regards to scale efficiency, nearly 52 per cent of the farmers (94 out of 180 farmers) at pooled level, either performed at the optimum scale or were close to the optimum scale (farms having scale efficiency values equal to or more than 0.90). Majority of the farms (39.44%) are operating at IRS and only 29 per cent of the farmers are operating at DRS. This signifies that, more resources should be provided to these farms operating at IRS and the same should be decreased towards the farms operating at DRS. Nearly 32 per cent of the farms are operating at CRS indicating efficient utilization of resources. Log linear regression model was used to analyze the major determinants of input use efficiency in banana farms. The input variables considered under DEA model were again considered as influential factors for the CRS obtained for the three categories of farmers. Volume of water supplied ($X_1$) and fertigation cost ($X_2$) are the major determinants of banana farms across all the farmer categories and even at pooled level. In view of their positive influence on the CRS, it is essential to strengthen modern irrigation infrastructure like drip irrigation and offer more fertilizer subsidies to the farmer to enhance the crop production on cost-effective basis in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh, India. This study further suggests that, the present era of Information Technology will help the irrigation management in the context of generating new techniques, extension, adoption and information. It will also guide the farmers in irrigation scheduling and quantifying the irrigation water requirements in accordance with the water availability in a particular season. So, it is high time for the Government of India to pay adequate attention towards the applications of 'Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and its applications in irrigation water management' for facilitating the deployment of Decision Supports Systems (DSSs) at various levels of planning and management of water resources in the country.

• 한국지열·수열에너지학회논문집
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2018

A ground source heat pump system should be equipped with devices to measure the generated heating or cooling heat amount in Korea. Generally, the heat measuring devices have been developed to estimate consumed heat amount in residential or commercial buildings from a central air-conditioning system or a district heating system. In this study, two representive heat measuring devices used for buildings were selected, and the accuracy of them were experimentally estimated at the ground source heat pump operating conditions. The obtained heat amounts from the heat measuring devices were deviated within 4.3% comparing with the precise values calculated from an accredited test facility. Even though the accumulated heat amount values of the heat measuring devices had a small difference comparing with the precise values, the temperatures of heat measuring devices showed greatly different values comparing with the precise temperature. Therefore, it is highly recommended to develop the heat measuring devices which is appropriate for the ground source heat pump systems.

• 한국농공학회지
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.23-32
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• 2003

The objective of this study is assessing water management efficiency using water withdrawals from rivers and water requirements for paddies. The water management efficiency was defined by the ratio of water requirements and water withdrawals. Water withdrawals were estimated using the operating times and pumping capacity of the pumping stations from 1992 to 1999 in the Han River and Nakdong River basins. Water requirements were estimated by adding the evapotranspiration of the crops and infiltrations in the irrigated area. Evapotranspiration from the paddies was calculated by the FAO modified Penman method with observed daily weather data. The monthly water management efficiency was analyzed for each pumping stations and the district offices of KARICO (Korea Agricultural and Rural Infrastructure Corporation). The efficiencies of 59 pumping stations in the Han River basin varied from 19% to 135%, and the average was 61%. The efficiencies of 146 pumping stations in the Nakdong River basin ranged from 17% to 190%, and the average was 72%. There were no good correlations between the water management efficiency and pump capacity or irrigated area, it showed that the water management efficiency was affected by the traditional water management practices rather than the scale of irrigation district.

• International Journal of Safety
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.29-33
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• 2006

A numerical flow analysis of the case of a refrigeration warehouse where an unusual death of an operator occurred by deficiency of oxygen is performed by using STAR-CD program of the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code. The refrigeration room of the warehouse for storing the fruits maintains an atmosphere of 95% nitrogen and 5% oxygen by volume. When the operator was found dead in the refrigeration room, the room was in normal operating conditions except for the fact that the auxiliary door had been left open. For the flow analysis, unsteady 3-dimensional natural convection with mass transfer is considered. The flow analysis result is compared with the oxygen concentration level measured against time during on-site investigation. The change in oxygen concentration level in the warehouse due to the opening of the auxiliary door is found to be negligible.

• 한국지열·수열에너지학회논문집
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.10-16
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• 2019

In this study, the present regulation of heat metering for the ground source heat pump was investigated. The ground source heat pump has been adopting the heat metering system used in the district heating system for estimating the heating and cooling energy production amount. The accuracy of the present heat metering systems for a water to water ground source heat pump is low, because the system for district heating has a relatively high temperature range comparing with the ground source heat pump operating conditions. Even though the heat amount for the building side should be measured, the heat absorption and extraction amount from or to the ground was measured for the water to air ground source heat pump due to the difficulty of estimating the air side heating and cooling capacity in the present regulation. It is highly recommended to validate the heat metering system to have reliability for the ground source heat pump and develop the system to be applicable water to air ground source heat pump.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.115-122
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• 2023

This study aimed to elucidate causes of corrosion of heat transport pipes and air vents installed under a manhole of heat transport facilities and suggest effective anticorrosive measures by applying paints or adhesive tapes. It was found that air vent corrosion was attributed to corrosion under insulation caused by the inflow of water and the enrichment of chloride ions. The infiltrated water caused a hydrolysis of polyurethane foam (PUF) insulation by concentrating chloride ions at the interface between a pipe and the PUF. As insulator deteriorated, more chloride ions were eluted as confirmed by ion chromatograph (IC) analysis. As an effective method to prevent air vent corrosion, different types of paints and adhesive tapes with higher corrosion resistance on chloride ions were applied and environmental resistance tests were performed with those samples. Based on environmental test results of samples exposed to 10% HCl solution, it was revealed that a wax tape was the most adequate from a viewpoint of stability at operating condition, environmental resistance, surface treatment, and field applicability.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.550-562
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• 2016

형사조정제도에 대해 우리나라에서는 2006년 4월 대전지검 등 3개청에서 범죄피해자지원센터 주관 시범 운영되다가 2007년부터는 전국57개 지방검찰청 및 지청에서 범죄피해자센터와 형사조정제도를 본격 실시한 이래 2016년 현재는 모든 검찰청에서 형사조정제도를 운영하고 있다. 한편 검찰에서는 2009년 10월 '형사조정 실무운영 지침'을 제정하고 2010년 9월에 "범죄피해자보호법"에 그 법률적 근거를 마련하였다. 이는 형사조정이 범죄피해자 피해 회복을 지원하는 방향으로 운영되어야 한다는 것을 담고 있다고 본다. 그러나 형사조정제도의 전반적인 인프라는 어느 정도 구축되어 있다고 볼 수 있으나, 본 필자가 2007년부터 2016년 현재까지 G검찰청 형사조정위원 활동을 통하여 경험한 바로는 아직도 형사조정실 신변안전에 대한 취약 등 몇 가지 문제점이 대두된바, 본 논문에서 그에 대한 문제점을 검토하고 형사조정 실무에 알맞은 형사조정제도의 개선방안을 제시하고자 한다.

• 한국건설관리학회논문집
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.105-113
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• 2015

건축물의 에너지성능을 평가하기 위해서는 운영단계의 신뢰도 높은 에너지 사용량 정보를 파악하는 것이 중요하며, 이를 위해서는 객관적 분류체계에 따라 도출된 일정규모이상의 모집단을 갖는 database의 구축이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 지역난방 공동주택의 에너지 성능을 종합적으로 평가할 수 있는 에너지원을 반영하고, 서울 및 수도권 도시에 대한 폭넓은 조사로 충분한 수의 모집단을 확보하며, 다양한 Data source를 이용한 상호검증과 통계적 기법을 통해 1차 에너지사용량과 $CO_2$ 배출량을 포함한 325개 단지의 database를 구축하였다. 추가적으로 향후 관련 연구의 발전을 위해 국토교통부에서 구축한 공동주택정보관리시스템의 개선 필요사항을 제안하였다.

• 의료ㆍ복지 건축 : 한국의료복지건축학회 논문집
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.47-61
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• 2017

Purpose: This study aims to suggest the spatial composition and area of the intensive care units through analysis of current situation for the standards establishment of the intensive care units in public district hospitals in the future. Methods: Three Methods have been used in this paper. 1) Literature reviews about composition, location, foreign standards on intensive care units. 2) Comparative analysis on the architectural drawing for the space program and the area. 3) Field survey in order to confirm differences between architectural drawing and current situation. Results: 1) The intensive care units is required to be linked by the operating department, the emergency department and the sterile supply department upon considerations of accessibility of emergency patients and the infection control. 2) The intensive care unit consists of five areas such as the patient area, the medical staff area, the material and equipment area, the patient family area, and the public area. 3) The location of spaces in the intensive care unit is classified by three methods such as connection by view, circulation and connection to corridor. The [table 20] summarizes the type of space and the average size of the space in intensive care unit. Implications: This study is a basic research for guideline of intensive care units, and need to be followed by further study using various perspectives and methods in the future.

• 대한공간정보학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.91-99
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• 2012

진주시는 과거 발생한 태풍 및 집중호우 등으로 피해를 입은 지역을 대상으로 홍수침수위험지구를 8곳 선정하고 이 지역에 대한 대피소를 지정하여 운영하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 침수위험지구 중 시가지에 위치하고 인구밀도가 높은 나불지구와 상평지구를 연구 대상지역으로 선정하였다. 침수재해가 발생할 경우 대피조건을 고려하여 아동, 일반성인, 노약자로 구분하고 이동속도와 도달시간을 계산하여 대피소의 위치에 대한 적합성 평가를 GIS의 네트워크분석을 적용하였다. 그 결과 아동과 노약자의 경우 대피시간이 많이 소요되어 대피소로 대피하는데 적정대피 계획시간을 초과하고 있으며 일부지역은 일반성인도 규정된 대피시간을 초과하는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 나불, 상평지구에 현재 지정된 대피소의 문제점을 보완할 수 있는 대피소를 1-2개 추가 지정하여 대피시간에 따른 문제점을 개선하였으며, 향후 대피경보발령과 연령별 대피계획을 보다 구체적으로 구축하여 재해발생 시 인적 물적 피해를 줄일 수 있는 대책 마련이 요구된다.