The purpose of this study is to evaluate the application of a web-based cost management competency enhancement program (Web-CMCEP) on nursing students. Medical services are limited and essential for maintenance of human basic life. In order to improve the quality of human life, cost management competency that enable efficient allocation of medical resources are essential. This study adopts a randomized controlled pre/post repeated measure design. The sample comprised 39 nursing students in the web-group and 35 in the textbook-group. Experimental group and control group learned respectively with Web- CMCEP and textbook for 4 weeks. The research variables were measured at 4 times: pre, post, after 4 weeks of intervention, and after 8 weeks of intervention. Data were analyzed using χ2 -test, t-test, paired t-test, repeated measures ANOVA, Friedman test, and Wilcoxon signed rank test. Significant differences were found in cost management knowledge. The web-group showed higher cost management knowledge than the text-group. At different measuring points, the Web-CMCEP led to significant increases in the following: cost management knowledge, cost management attitude, cost management behavior, cost management self-efficacy, and entrepreneurship. Based on the findings, we suggested utilizing the Web-CMCEP as a prototype in developing education programs to improve nursing students’ cost management competency and to support nursing start-ups.

본 연구에서는 보급형 드론과 오픈소스 소프트웨어를 활용하여 참여형 지도를 제작하는 과정을 통해 지역 정보를 수집하고 활용하는 방안을 모색하였다. 드론의 활용 수준과 사용자 참여의 방식을 구분하여 환경조사, 토지이용변화 조사, 지형특성조사 등의 사례 연구를 수행하였다. 연구결과, 참여자의 수준에 따라 드론을 활용한 지도제작의 차이점들을 확인할 수 있었다. 보급형 드론은 저비용으로, 신속한 자료 수집이 가능하다는 장점이 있으며, 오픈 소스 소프트웨어는 자동화와 편의성이 점차 증가하고 있다. 따라서, 드론을 활용한 참여형 지도제작은 지역사회의 변화를 모니터링하는 중요한 방안으로 확산될 것으로 기대된다.

Due to global climate change, Korea is experiencing flooding and drought severely. It is hard to manage water resources because intensive precipitation during short periods and drought are commonly occurred in Korea, recently. Severe drought occurred in 2015 and 2017 in the islands, and coastal and inland areas in Korea, and the citizens experienced decreased water supply and emergency water service by using bottled water. Therefore, the Korean government provided additional governmental funds such as the grant of drought disaster. In this study, we tried to calculate the cost of water for drought response based on the cost of tap water for the regional local governments in Korea and the grant of drought disaster by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety in Korea, etc. The estimated costs of water for drought responses in coastal and inland areas which have a chance to apply alternative water sources such as brackish or seawater desalination and water reuse in Korea were higher than in other areas in Korea. Additionally, as the novel approach of drought response, the 300 m3/day-scale desalination vessel was suggested to provide desalinated water for the islands in Korea. The estimated expenses of water supply for the target island areas (Sinan-gun and Jindo-gun) by the desalination vessel was lower than those by emergency water service by using bottled water.

Spinnable mesophase pitch precursor containing more than 98% mesophase content was successfully prepared from FCC-DO (fluid catalytic cracking-decant oil) without hydrogenation or catalytic reaction. The preparation method involved thermal condensation, vacuum treatment, and annealing treatment. Petroleum mesophase pitch-based carbon fibers are produced by melt spinning of pitch precursors, followed by stabilization and carbonization. The resulting carbon fiber exhibited good mechanical performances up to tensile strength of 2.1 GPa and tensile modulus of 212 GPa, with strain-to-failure higher than 1.0%. These properties ensuring that the automotive grade carbon fibers can be successfully prepared from FCC-DO derived petroleum mesophase pitches through the cost-competitive processes.

본 연구의 목적은 악취 발생 저감을 위해 국내에서 최근 권고되는 밀폐(무창)형 돈사와 기존 개방형 돈 사의 비용 편익을 분석하여 이러한 추진 방향의 객관적 타당성을 확보하는 데 있다. 두 돈사 유형의 비용은 설치비와 운용비로 구분한 후 관련 문헌 자료와 현장 조사 결과를 근거로 추정하였고, 편익은 축산 환경 전문가들을 대상으로 한 델파이 설문 조사 기법 적용을 통해 추정하였다. 비용 편익 분석 결과, 양돈 규모에 상관없이 개방형과 밀폐형 돈사 모두 편익/비용 비율이 1 초과로 추정되어 돼지 생산에 따른 경제적 이익이 창출되는 것으로 분석되었다. 하지만 소규모, 중규모, 대규모 양돈 농가 모두 밀폐(무창)형 돈사의 편익/비용 비율(B/C ratio)이 개방형 돈사보다 상대적으로 모두 높은 것으로 추정되었다. 결론적으로 기존 양돈 농가들의 인·허가 시 경제성 우위 측면뿐만 아니라 축산 악취의 효율적 관리를 위해서도 개방형 돈사를 밀폐(무창)형 돈사로 변경하도록 권고해야 하며, 특히 편익/비용 비율이 상대적으로 가장 높은 수치를 보인 대규모 농가인 경우 이를 이행 조치하는 것이 합리적이라 판단된다.

Halal transportations will ensure that the Halal status of the products will be preserved. Halal certification is believed to increase the operation cost for the transport providers, which reflect the price paid by customers who choose to buy products transported by Halal transportation. Hence, it is worthwhile to investigate the willingness of Muslim consumers to pay extra for the Halal transportation cost. The study aims to identify factors influencing Muslim consumers’ attitude towards their willingness to pay for Halal transportation. Using the stimulus-organism-response model, attitude which represents the organism factor will be treated as a mediator for variables representing the stimulus factors and the variable for the response. On the other hand, the study will also examine the effect of knowledge as a moderating factor. The data was collected from Muslim consumers in Kuala Lumpur. Applying the purposive sampling method with a self-administered survey, 202 respondents agreed to participate in the study. The findings revealed that awareness and perceived behavioural control are a stimulus towards attitude, and attitude is a significant organism on willingness to pay. The study also found that attitude mediates the relationship between awareness and perceived behavioural control towards the willingness to pay for Halal transportation. Additionally, the knowledge has a moderating effect of the relationship between attitude and the willingness to pay. The findings of the study are not only beneficial for the Muslim community in Malaysia, but also the Muslims around the world.

Recently, automobile manufacturing companies, which are major customers of them, are requiring IATF 16949 (ISO/TS 16949) certification as a mandatory requirement to secure product quality. In particular, IATF 16949 : 2016, revised in October 2016, was reinforced product traceability requirements for production information management by lot in the production process. Therefore, small and medium-sized precision parts processing companies in the automobile industry are very difficult to survive due to quality and price competition for customers satisfaction. MES (Manufacturing Execution System) is required to solve this problem. However, small and medium sized precision parts processing enterprises are reluctant to introduce the MES which is not suitable for the manufacturing environment of them such as high cost and low utilization. Even if the system is introduced, it is difficult to operate and maintain the system because the lack of computer manpower. In this paper, we propose a method for building a lot tracking system for small and medium precision parts processing companies by reviewing relevant literature and analyzing cases. In addition, by managing the production history for each lot of the final product in the system, we will grasp the effect of reducing the quality failure cost obtained by minimizing the range of defect selection.

As the pollution from waste marine emissions becomes serious, the government's regulations are becoming more stringent. In addition to sewage sludge, manure sludge and waste sludge were included in the prohibition of off-shore sewage treatment and the allowable standard value of pollutants for the water quality discharged by the companies was increased. The difficulties of the enterprises due to the increase of the wastewater treatment costs are increasing. In order to solve these problems, it is necessary to reduce wastewater treatment costs and the processing burden of the consigned waste processing companies by constructing wastewater pretreatment facilities of their own waste. Therefore, it is urgent to develop low cost wastewater pretreatment or treatment facilities and technologies to meet the situation of wastewater discharge companies. In this study, a low cost system has been developed for filtering sludge in the wastewater by modifying the structure of drum screen and adopting the impact separation method. Using this system, the procedure and cost for purification and subsequent retreatment of a highly concentrated wastewater can be significantly reduced.

본 연구는 대구광역시를 사례지로 선정하여 도시의 토지유형별 저항정도를 파악하고 연결성을 분석함으로써 녹지네트워크 계획의 방향성을 제시하는데 가장 큰 의의를 두었다. 이를 위해 우선 거점지역을 추출하고, 생태계서비스 중 종⋅보전을 위한 가치를 저항 값으로 계산하여 저항표면을 작성하였다. 또한 최소비용거리분석을 활용하여 녹지 간 연결성을 확인하였다. 주요결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 먼저 거점지역 추출결과 연구대상지의 10ha 이상의 거점녹지지역은 총 131개 지역이 추출되었으며 이는 대구광역시 총 녹지면적의 약 72%에 해당한다. 저항표면 작성 결과 도시 내 자연형 산림을 포함하고 있는 두류공원, 학산공원 등은 주변 도시개발로 인해 고립도가 상당히 큰 것으로 측정이 되었다. 비용표면을 적용한 거점지역 간 인접성 확인결과 총 326쌍이 인접된 것으로 확인 되었으며 이는 단순 직선거리를 적용한 것에 비해 30쌍이 줄어든 것을 확인 할 수 있었다. 최소비용 거리계산 결과 총 383개의 Link가 확인 되었으며, 이들의 평균거리는 약 3.59km로 단순 직선거리 보다 약 3배가량 증가한 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구의 결과는 차후 공원녹지 기본계획 시 중요한 기초자료를 제공 해줄 수 있을 것이며 특히, 현재 기능이 떨어진 연결지점 및 중요 거점녹지 파악에 있어 실효를 거둘 수 있을 것으로 예상된다.

충돌 피항 동작은 선박 간 끊임없이 영향을 주고받는다. 특히 다수의 선박이 조우하는 경우, 상대 선박의 피항 의도를 파악하고 서로에게 얼마나 영향을 미치는 지를 파악하는 것은 어려운 일이다. 이를 위해 분산 확률 탐색 알고리즘이 제안되었다. 분산 확률 탐색 알고리즘은 이웃 선박과 반복적인 메시지 교환을 통해 비용을 가장 크게 낮출 수 있는 코스를 탐색 후 확률과 제한 조건에 따라 기존의 코스를 유지할지 아니면 새로운 코스를 선택할지를 결정한다. 그러나 분산 확률 탐색 알고리즘에 사용된 파라미터가 충돌 피항에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 증명되지 않았다. 본 논문에서는 분산 확률 탐색 알고리즘의 파라미터와 가중치가 충돌 피항에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 분석하였다. 또한 타선과의 피항 거리를 조절하기 위한 충격 흡수 영역을 소개한다. 실험 방법은 두 선박이 조우할 수 있는 세 가지 상황, 즉 정면에서 조우하는 상황, 횡단하는 상황, 추월하는 상황에 파라미터와 가중치의 변수들을 조합하여 실험을 진행하였다. 각 상황 당 8,000회, 총 24,000회의 실험이 진행되었다. 실험 결과 모든 실험에서 한 건의 충돌도 발생하지 않았다. 선박이 목적지에 큰 가중치를 줄 경우, 즉 이기적인 행동을 할 경우, 비용은 증가함을 보였다. 타선의 움직임을 더 길게 예측할수록 항행 거리, 메시지 교환 횟수는 작아지는 경향을 보였다.

북베트남의 컨테이너 터미널을 주제로 한 연구는 다수 있지만, 선박의 대기시간이나 화물처리에 관련한 비용 측면에서의 경쟁을 다룬 연구는 거의 없다. 이 논문은 북 베트남에 입지한 컨테이너 터미널의 TEU당 평균대기비용을 추산해 본 연구다. 우선 대기 행렬이론을 적용하여 평균대기시간을 추산한 뒤, 불확실성 이론을 적용하여 선박의 일당 비용을 추산할 것이다. 그리고 각 터미널의 하역능력 내지 물동량 처리율과 관련하여 TEU당 일련의 대기시간을 산정하기 위해 시뮬레이션을 실시하였다. 추산된 일련의 대기시간을 근거로 하여 각 항만의 평균대기시간과 물동량 처리율 / 하역률 간의 관계를 제시하기 위한 함수를 추정하기 위해 비선형회귀법을 적용하였다. 연구 결과는 북베트남의 컨테이너 터미널간의 경쟁상황에 관한 후속 연구에서 게임이론을 적용하는 데 이용될 수 있을 것 이다.

The cooperative game theory consists of a set of players and utility function that has positive values for a subset of players, called coalition, in the game. The purpose of cost allocation method is to allocate the relevant cost among game players in a fair and rational way. Therefore, cost allocation method based on cooperative game theory has been applied in many areas for fair and reasonable cost allocation. On the other hand, the desirable characteristics of the cost allocation method are Pareto optimality, rationality, and marginality. Pareto optimality means that costs are entirely paid by participating players. Rationality means that by joining the grand coalition, players do not pay more than they would if they chose to be part of any smaller coalition of players. Marginality means that players are charged at least enough to cover their marginal costs. If these characteristics are all met, the solution of cost allocation method exists in the core. In this study, proportional method is applied to EOQ inventory game and EPQ inventory game with shortage. Proportional method is a method that allocates costs proportionally to a certain allocator. This method has been applied to a variety of problems because of its convenience and simple calculations. However, depending on what the allocator is used for, the proportional method has a weakness that its solution may not exist in the core. Three allocators such as demand, marginal cost, and cost are considered. We prove that the solution of the proportional method to demand and the proportional method to marginal cost for EOQ game and EPQ game with shortage is in the core. The counterexample also shows that the solution of the proportional method to cost does not exist in the core.

The cost-effectiveness of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) control strategies was evaluated using a simulation model fitted to the 2010/11 FMD epidemic in the city of Andong, Republic of Korea. Seven FMD-control strategies were evaluated with respect to the direct cost of a FMD-control strategy, such as slaughtering, movement restriction, and vaccination. All the strategies included pre-emptive slaughtering, movement restriction, and vaccination, but the levels of each control option were different. The simulated median cost of the baseline FMD-control strategy (three kilometers of pre-emptive slaughtering area, 100 days of movement restriction and vaccination of all FMD-susceptible animals in the study area) was estimated to be USD 99.7 million. When a five kilometer vaccination area was applied (with the other control measures being the same as the baseline strategy), the simulated median cost was reduced to USD 81.1 million from USD 99.7. The simulated median costs were USD 107.6 million for a five kilometer radius slaughtering area and USD 168.8 million for 60 days of movement restriction. The FMD-control strategy cost decreased with increasing number of farms depopulated per day. The probability of passive surveillance being effective or the probability of the successful implementation of movement restrictions were increased. Cost-effectiveness analysis is a suitable tool for evaluating the financial consequences of FMD-control strategies by comparing the cost of control strategies for a specific area.