• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.473-493
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• 2012

Malaria infection is sensitively influenced by regional meteorological conditions along with global climate change. Remote sensing techniques have become an important tool for extraction of climatic and environmental factors, including rainfall, temperature, surface water, soil moisture, and land use, which are directly linked to the habitat qualities of malaria mosquitoes. Improvement of sensor fidelity with higher spatial and spectral resolution, new multinational sensor development, and decreased data cost have nurtured diverse remote sensing applications in malaria research. In 1984, eradication of endemic malaria was declared in Korea, but reemergence of malaria was reported in mid-1990s. Considering constant changes in malaria cases since 2000, the epidemiological management of the disease needs careful monitoring. Geographically, northmost counties neighboring North Korea have been ranked high in the number of malaria cases. High infection rates in these areas drew special attention and led to a hypothesis that malaria dispersion in these border counties might be caused by north-origin, malaria-bearing adult mosquitoes. Habitat conditions of malaria mosquitoes are important parameters for prediction of the vector abundance. However, it should be realized that malaria infection and transmission is a complex mechanism, where non-environmental factors, including human behavior, demographic structure, landscape structure, and spatial relationships between human residence and the vector habitats, are also significant considerations in the framework of medical geography.

• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.811-823
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• 2019

Slip form method is applied to many cases of a shaft these days because it is safer, more economical and faster than cast-in-place method. Slip-up height of the method is approximately 2.5 to 4.0 m/day. If the temperature of concrete is outside the range of 10 to 30℃, the effects of changes in strength or elastic characteristics are significant. Therefore, it is difficult for slip-up speed to be higher than 3 m/day during winter construction. In addition, concrete has heat caused by hydration, which causes temperature cracking of hardened concrete. Therefore, temperature control of concrete curing is necessary for the continuous slip-up of slip form. In this study, the rebound hardness, time of ultrasonic waves propagation, heat of hydration, and external temperature are measured by developing heating panels and test devices for the continuous slip-up. Based on this, heating slip form is manufactured; this was applied to "Kimpo sites" and "Sinwol sites". The compared slip-up speed samples were 1.9 m/day or 0.200 m/hr on average at Gimpo sites (08:00~17:30) and 2.0 m/day or 0.210 m/hr at Sinwol sites.

• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.249-260
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• 2014

When a train enters the tunnel at high speed, the pressure wave occurs. When this pressure wave reaches at the exit of tunnel, some are either emitted to the outside or reflected in tunnel by the form of expansion wave. The wave emitted to the outside forms the impulsive pressure wave. This wave is called 'Micro Pressure Wave'. The micro pressure wave generates noise and vibration around a exit portal of tunnel. When it becomes worse, it causes anxiety for residents and damage to windows. Thus, it requires a counterplan and prediction about the micro pressure wave for high speed railway construction. In this paper, the effects of train head nose and tunnel portal shape were investigated by model test, measurement for the micro pressure wave at the operating tunnel as well as numerical analysis for the gradient of pressure wave in the tunnel. As results, a method for predicting the intensity of the micro pressure wave is suggested and then the intensity of the micro pressure wave is analyzed by the tunnel length and the cross-sectional area.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.78-85
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• 2012

This paper takes precautions proposals against prospective disasters from the space weather maximum in 2013. The space weather maximum could wreak havoc in this world. A geomagnetic space storm sparked by a solar eruption like the one that flared toward earth is bound to strike again and could wreak havoc across the modern world. Despite of the fact that not only researches by colleges and institutions current researches have been focusing on warning systems of space communication and the earth network systems, but also management and control systems are not situated for the space weather blasters. The purpose of the study is that the damage reduces methods implementation on the ultimate space weather communication systems by above lists proposed type analysis. In result, the implementation of the communication disaster management systems deals with the smart IT converged GIS analysis on the flare, solar proton event, geomagnetic storm to the effects of the geomagneticsphere, ionosphere and troposphere from solar maximum. This research can provide affective methods for the saving lives and property protections that implementation of the disaster prediction and disaster prevention systems adapts smart IT systems and converged high tech information systems using decision making support systems of the GIS methodology.

• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.69-79
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• 2008

Prediction of ground condition ahead of tunnel face might be the most important factor to prevent collapse during tunnel excavation. In this study, a non-destructive method to evaluate the phase velocity in model rock mass using wavelet transform of surface wave was proposed aiming at ground condition assessment ahead of tunnel face. Model tests using gypsum as a rocklike material composed of two layers were performed. A Piezoelectric actuator with frequencies ranging from 150 Hz to 5 kHz was selected as a harmonic source. The acceleration history was measured with two accelerometers. Wavelet transform analysis was used to obtain the dispersion curves from the measured data. The experimental results showed that the near-field effects can be neglected if the distance between two receivers is chosen to be three times the wavelength. A simple inversion method using weighted factor based on the normal distribution was proposed. The inversion results showed that the predicted phase velocity agreed reasonably well with the measured one when the wavelength influence factor was 0.2. The depth of propagation of surface wave was from 0.42 to 0.63 times the wavelength. The range of wavelength varying with phase velocity in dispersion curve matched well with that estimated by inversion technique.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.87-93
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• 2014

If one identifies the detailed distribution of pressure and axial velocity at a source plane, the position and strength of major noise sources can be known, and the propagation characteristics in axial direction can be well understood to be used for the low noise design. Conventional techniques are usually limited in considering the constant source characteristics specified on the whole source surface; then, the source activity cannot be known in detail. In this work, a method to estimate the pressure and velocity field distribution on the source surface with high spatial resolution is studied. The matrix formulation including the evanescent modes is given, and the nearfield measurement method is proposed. Validation experiment is conducted on a wide duct system, at which a part of the source plane is excited by an acoustic driver in the absence of airflow. Increasing the number of evanescent modes, the prediction of pressure spectrum becomes further precise, and it has less than -25 dB error with 26 converged evanescent modes within the Helmholtz number range of interest. By using the converged modal amplitudes, the source parameter distribution is restored, and the position of the driver is clearly identified at kR = 1. By applying the regularization technique to the restored result, the unphysical minor peaks at the source plane can be effectively suppressed with the filtering of the over-estimated pure radial modes.

• Archives of design research
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.182-190
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• 1999

There has been the rapid change of paradigm with the overflow of terms related to computers such as information, digital, cyber, virtual world and the change of time concept on the ground that it is common to change the world into virtual time. This study is about cybercharacters working in air-broadcasting with rapidly-developing internet, The cybercharacters including 3D animation developed from 2D animation are know to be manufactured with use of electronic mediun and computers and to exist in electronics. Though the emergence of the cybercharacters has a lot of gflnetic roots according to their objectives, they have in common that they are made by 3D graphics and they work in the virtual space, The great traits of the cybercharaters lie in the extension of interfacial function and ecological growth. In the cyberspace the interface, the meeting point between a computer and its users is the most important, The cybercharacters as medium providing new ruman interface become effective with growing interest in virtual reality, The cybercharacters also keep the ecological traits, They can also bring about added value with infusion of image and development of the network, These cybercharacters can also play the important parts in the continually developing cyberspace, The successful birth of the cybercharacter are based on, the technological power. assistance of fund and the ctrltural background, The information-entertainment of the cybercharacters functions well with the accompinimene of these three things, The cybercharacters can make a subject which keeps single issue as a central point of the virtual realty, The cybercharacters can also be connected with equity of "Korean knowledge information society" in the cultural rule of the internet and sociocul tural identity, identity.

• The Magazine of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea
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• v.39 no.9
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• pp.41-51
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• 2010

건물의 배수 및 통기시스템에서 나타나는 현상중에 확실한 내용이 아직 밝혀지지 않은 부분이 몇 가지 남아 있다. 이것은 19세기 말엽의 근대 위생공학의 시작 단계에서부터 잘 알려진 사실이다. 건물의 배수 및 통기시스템 운용에 대한 내용은 일반 공학과 특정 유체역학의 범위 내에서 가장 잘 이해할 수 있다. 건물의 배수 및 통기시스템의 운영에 종사했던 초기의 기술진들은 이러한 점을 잘 알고 있었으며 유체역학에 적합하게 응용한 많은 사례를 확인할 수 있었다. 제2차 세계대전이 끝나고 이에 대한 많은 연구가 진행되어 왔으며 특히 유럽에서 시작된 전후 재건 붐을 통해 배수 및 통기시스템의 설계에 좀 더 효율적인 접근이 진척되게 되었다. 이러한 배수시스템의 중심에는 배수관 내부의 오염된 공기가 배수구 또는 위생기구를 통하여 주거 공간으로 유입되는 것을 방지하는 트랩(Water Trap)이 있다. 배수트랩의 주요 기능인 봉수는 일반적으로 깊이가 40 mm에서 50 mm 정도로 위생기구의 종류에 따라 봉수의 깊이는 다소 차이가 있다. 배수관내 공기의 흐름이 중요한 것처럼 트랩의 봉수 메커니즘이 중요하기 때문에 이 메커니즘을 소홀히 여긴다면 안전한 배수시스템의 운영을 기대하기는 어렵다. 배수관 내의 공기의 흐름은 배수에 의해 유입되거나 또는 배출된다. 배수관에서 내부 압력의 불규칙한 변화로 인하여 야기되는 불안정한 배수의 흐름은 트랩의 봉수를 파괴하고 나아가 주거공간으로 오염된 공기가 새어 나갈 수 있는 통로를 제공하게 된다. 관내압력의 천이는 이로 인한 문제가 발생할 가능성이 있는 위치에 그 압력을 완화할 수 있는 장치를 설계단계에 반영하여 적용함으로써 제어할 수 있다. 건물 내부에 상당한 길이의 통기배관을 설치하는 것은 배관의 마찰손실로 인하여 천이 현상을 효과적으로 제어할 수 있는 확실한 방법이 되지는 못한다. 그렇지만 통기밸브를 설치하는 것과 같이 배수관 내로 공기를 공급해주는 유입구를 건물 내부에 분산 설치하는 것이 효율적인 통기방식이 될 수 있고, 정압 천이로 인한 위험을 줄여줄 수 있다. 통기밸브는 정압 발생의 원인이 되지 않으며 단지 정압에 반응하여 더욱 기밀하게 닫히며, 약화된 압력파를 반사할 뿐이다. 고층 건물에서 배수입상관과 평행하게 설치된 통기입상관(Parallel Vent Pipe)의 경우 극히 일부분의 정압 천이 현상을 완화할 수 있다. (통기 배관의 직경이 배수 입상배관과 동일한 경우 대략 1/3 정도임), 그러므로 정압의 천이로 인한 압력 파동은 배수 시스템의 나머지 부분을 통해 전파되어 배수 트랩에 영향을 미치게 된다. 정압의 천이가 예상되는 위치에 정압천이 완화 장치(Positive Air Pressure Transient Alleviation Device)를 사용하면 배관 내부압력의 급격한 상승을 방지하여 연결된 트랩의 봉수를 보호할 수 있다. 이렇게 되면 순간적으로 발생하는 배관내 압력의 급등 현상을 90% 정도까지 완화 시킬 수 있다. 경험적으로 배수시스템에서 배관이 완전하게 막혀 과도한 정압이 발생하는 경우는 거의 없다. 이러한 경우에는 가장 낮은 위치에 있는 배수 트랩의 봉수가 깨지면서 자연스럽게 배수시스템의 압력이 해소되게 된다. 이러한 사례는 통기 방식과 상관없이 발생할 수 있다. 실제와 유사한 시뮬레이션을 통하여 통기 밸브(Air Admittance Valves)는 전면 통기 시스템 (Fully Vented System)에서 최소한 트랩의 봉수 보호용으로 적합한 것이 확인 되었다. 어떤 경우 에는 고층 건물에 더욱 적합하다는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 부압 해소용으로 통기밸브를 이용하고 정압완화용으로 정압 완화장치(PAPAs: Positive Air Pressure Transient Attenuators)를 사용하는 전면적 능동 제어시스템(Fully Engineered Designed Active Control System)이 사용자에게 육안으로는 확인하지 못하는 기능을 보장하면서 배수 시스템의 안전과 효율성에 대한 효과적인 방법을 제공하고 있다.

• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.295-306
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• 2010

Contrary to an intact rock, the jointed rock mass shows strain-dependent deformation characteristics (elastic modulus and damping ratio). The maximum elastic modulus of a rock mass can be obtained from an elastic wave-based exploration in a small strain level and applied to seismic analyses. However, the assessment and application of the non-linear characteristics of rock masses in a small to medium strain level ($10^{-4}{\sim}0.5%$) have not been carried out yet. A non-linear dynamic analysis module is newly developed for FLAC3D to simulate strain-dependent shear modulus degradation and damping ratio amplification characteristics. The developed module is verified by analyzing the change of the Ricker wave propagation. Strain-dependent non-linear characteristics are obtained from disks of cored samples using a rock mass dynamic testing apparatus which can evaluate wave propagation characteristics in a jointed rock column. Using the experimental results and the developed non-linear dynamic module, seismic analyses are performed for the intersection of a shaft and an inclined tunnel. The numerical results show that vertical and horizontal displacements of non-linear analyses are larger than those of linear analyses. Also, non-linear analyses induce bigger bending compressive stresses acting on the lining. The bending compressive stress concentrates at the intersection part. The fundamental understanding of a strain-dependent jointed rock mass behavior is achieved in this study and the analytical procedure suggested can be effectively applied to field designs and analyses.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.455-468
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• 1998

For the objective interpretation of cerebral metabolic patterns in epilepsy patients, we developed computer-aided classifier using artificial neural network. We studied interictal brain FDG PET scans of 257 epilepsy patients who were diagnosed as normal(n=64), L TLE (n=112), or R TLE (n=81) by visual interpretation. Automatically segmented volume of interest (VOI) was used to reliably extract the features representing patterns of cerebral metabolism. All images were spatially normalized to MNI standard PET template and smoothed with 16mm FWHM Gaussian kernel using SPM96. Mean count in cerebral region was normalized. The VOls for 34 cerebral regions were previously defined on the standard template and 17 different counts of mirrored regions to hemispheric midline were extracted from spatially normalized images. A three-layer feed-forward error back-propagation neural network classifier with 7 input nodes and 3 output nodes was used. The network was trained to interpret metabolic patterns and produce identical diagnoses with those of expert viewers. The performance of the neural network was optimized by testing with 5~40 nodes in hidden layer. Randomly selected 40 images from each group were used to train the network and the remainders were used to test the learned network. The optimized neural network gave a maximum agreement rate of 80.3% with expert viewers. It used 20 hidden nodes and was trained for 1508 epochs. Also, neural network gave agreement rates of 75~80% with 10 or 30 nodes in hidden layer. We conclude that artificial neural network performed as well as human experts and could be potentially useful as clinical decision support tool for the localization of epileptogenic zones.