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A Geo-statistical Assessment of Heavy Metal Pollution in the Soil Around a Ship Building Yard in Busan, Korea (통계지표를 활용한 부산지역 조선소 주변 토양 내 중금속 오염조사 연구)

  • Choi, Jung-Sik;Jeon, Soo kyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.24 no.7
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    • pp.907-915
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    • 2018
  • With the increase of metal usage in various industries, metal pollution and ecological toxicity in the environmental system have become a significant concern. A geo-statistical index has been widely used to determine contamination level with normalization through a background value. In this study, geo-statistical indexes such as an enrichment factor, accumulation index, and potential ecological risk index were used to assess metal pollution in soil at locations associated with shipbuilding manufacturing industries. Metal contamination, especially of Cu and Pb, was observed in some samples located closer to manufacturing sites. Enrichment factor and accumulation (IGEO) values were indicative of concerning levels of soil contamination in specific samples, and the soil contamination could be induced by anthropogenic sources. In further study, after more detailed sampling for soil and potential pollution sources, high interpretation techniques such as Pb isotope analysis and X-ray analysis will be needed to investigate source identification.

Effect of Cr/Ti/Al Elements on High Temperature Oxidation Behavior of a Ni-Based Superalloy with Thermal Exposure (고온 노출 니켈기 초내열합금 터빈 블레이드의 Cr/Ti/Al 성분이 고온 산화에 미치는 영향)

  • Byung Hak Choe;Sung Hee Han;Dae Hyun Kim;Jong Kee Ahn;Jae Hyun Lee;Kwang Soo Choi
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.77-86
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    • 2023
  • High-temperature oxidation of a Ni-based superalloy was analyzed with samples taken from gas turbine blades, where the samples were heat-treated and thermally exposed. The effect of Cr/Ti/Al elements in the alloy on high temperature oxidation was investigated using an optical microscope, SEM/EDS, and TEM. A high-Cr/high-Ti oxide layer was formed on the blade surface under the heat-treated state considered to be the initial stage of high-temperature oxidation. In addition, a PFZ (γ' precipitate free zone) accompanied by Cr carbide of Cr23C6 and high Cr-Co phase as a kind of TCP precipitation was formed under the surface layer. Pits of several ㎛ depth containing high-Al content oxide was observed at the boundary between the oxide layer and PFZ. However, high temperature oxidation formed on the thermally exposed blade surface consisted of the following steps: ① Ti-oxide formation in the center of the oxide layer, ② Cr-oxide formation surrounding the inner oxide layer, and ③ Al-oxide formation in the pits directly under the Cr oxide layer. It is estimated that the Cr content of Ni-based superalloys improves the oxidation resistance of the alloy by forming dense oxide layer, but produced the σ or µ phase of TCP precipitation with the high-Cr component resulting in material brittleness.

Forensic analysis of toxic substances in fatalities with suspected companion animal cruelty (반려동물 학대 의심 폐사축에 대한 중독물질검사 연구)

  • JeongWoo Kang;Ah-Young Kim;Hyun Young Chae;Hanae Lim;Suncheun Kim;Bok-Kyung Ku;Kyunghyun Lee
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Research
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    • v.63 no.3
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    • pp.21.1-21.6
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    • 2023
  • The increasing prevalence of toxic substance-exposure in pets in South Korea endangers the health and safety of numerous companion animals, and has become a cause for concern. Notably, the annual incidence of forensic analysis in pets has increased by more than 150% in South Korea, mainly in populous regions such as Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi. In response to this growing issue, veterinary forensic examinations were conducted on 549 dogs and cats from 2019 to 2022. This study revealed the presence of various toxic substances, including pesticides, insecticides, and drugs such as analgesics, anesthetics, antidepressants, and muscle relaxants, in pets. Among the 38 different toxins identified in pets, coumatetralyl, methomyl, terbufos, and buprofezin were the most frequently detected. In this study, toxic substances for pets were identified based on the "toxic agent list for humans," developed by the National Forensic Services, because no list of toxic agents for animals currently exists and data regarding potentially toxic substances for dogs and cats is limited. This is one of the limitations of this study, and necessitates the establishment of a toxic agent list for animals. Continued monitoring and research is also recommended to reveal the incidence, causes, and solutions of toxicity in animals.

Base Location Prediction Algorithm of Serial Crimes based on the Spatio-Temporal Analysis (시공간 분석 기반 연쇄 범죄 거점 위치 예측 알고리즘)

  • Hong, Dong-Suk;Kim, Joung-Joon;Kang, Hong-Koo;Lee, Ki-Young;Seo, Jong-Soo;Han, Ki-Joon
    • Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.63-79
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    • 2008
  • With the recent development of advanced GIS and complex spatial analysis technologies, the more sophisticated technologies are being required to support the advanced knowledge for solving geographical or spatial problems in various decision support systems. In addition, necessity for research on scientific crime investigation and forensic science is increasing particularly at law enforcement agencies and investigation institutions for efficient investigation and the prevention of crimes. There are active researches on geographic profiling to predict the base location such as criminals' residence by analyzing the spatial patterns of serial crimes. However, as previous researches on geographic profiling use simply statistical methods for spatial pattern analysis and do not apply a variety of spatial and temporal analysis technologies on serial crimes, they have the low prediction accuracy. Therefore, this paper identifies the typology the spatio-temporal patterns of serial crimes according to spatial distribution of crime sites and temporal distribution on occurrence of crimes and proposes STA-BLP(Spatio-Temporal Analysis based Base Location Prediction) algorithm which predicts the base location of serial crimes more accurately based on the patterns. STA-BLP improves the prediction accuracy by considering of the anisotropic pattern of serial crimes committed by criminals who prefer specific directions on a crime trip and the learning effect of criminals through repeated movement along the same route. In addition, it can predict base location more accurately in the serial crimes from multiple bases with the local prediction for some crime sites included in a cluster and the global prediction for all crime sites. Through a variety of experiments, we proved the superiority of the STA-BLP by comparing it with previous algorithms in terms of prediction accuracy.

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Confidence Measure of Forensic Speaker Identification System According to Pitch Variances (과학수사용 화자 식별 시스템의 피치 차이에 따른 신뢰성 척도)

  • Kim, Min-Seok;Kim, Kyung-Wha;Yang, IL-Ho;Yu, Ha-Jin
    • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.135-139
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    • 2010
  • Forensic speaker identification needs high accuracy and reliability. However, the current level of speaker identification does not reach its demand. Therefore, the confidence evaluation of results is one of the issues in forensic speaker identification. In this paper, we propose a new confidence measure of forensic speaker identification system. This is based on pitch differences between the registered utterances of the identified speaker and the test utterance. In the experiments, we evaluate this confidence measure by speech identification tasks on various environments. As the results, the proposed measure can be a good measure indicating if the result is reliable or not.

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Trends of Fingerprint Classification Technology (지문분류 기술의 국내외 연구동향)

  • Jung, Hye-Wuk;Lee, Seung
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2017.04a
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    • pp.2-3
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    • 2017
  • 지문분류 기술은 대용량 데이터베이스 기반 1:N 지문인식 시스템에서 지문의 형상에 따라 4개 또는 5개 이상의 클래스로 1차분류를 하여 지문인식의 속도 및 정확도를 개선하기 위해 필수로 사용되는 주요 기술이다. 과학수사, 범죄예방, 전자여권 시스템 등에 활용되고 있는 대규모 지문인식 시스템에서 지문분류 작업을 수행하면 데이터베이스 전체를 탐색하는데 필요한 시간을 "1/클래스의 수"로 줄일 수 있기 때문에, 지문분류 기술은 대용량 데이터베이스 시스템에서는 필수 요소이다. 본 논문에서는 지문분류와 관련된 국내외 기술을 분석하고 지문분류 기술의 발전 동향을 살펴본다.

The System Design and Implementation for Knowledge-based Image Retrieval System of an Automobile Head Lamp (자동차 전조등 영상의 지식기반 영상 검색을 위한 시스템 설계 및 구현)

  • 이병일;손병환;최흥국;홍성욱
    • Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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    • 2001.06a
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    • pp.165-168
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    • 2001
  • 자동차 전조등에서 얻을 수 있는 자료는 차량마다 가지는 각각의 다양한 패턴과 문자 숫자 및 특수문자이탈 문자나 숫자 그리고 특수문자의 경우는 저장된 데이터베이스의 활용으로 그 차량에 대한 정보를 검색할 수 있다. 하지만 전조등의 경우에는 부분적인 패턴만이 있다면 숫자나 문자들의 정보에 의존할 수 없게 된다. 본 논문에서는 무늬가 가지는 특징의 추출을 이용하여 발생하고 있는 교통사고나 기타 사건의 발생시 부분적인 영상만이 획득되더라도 정색을 통한 후보 차량의 정색이 가능하도록 영상의 특성 값들을 구성하러 조합하였다. 본 시스템은 사고차량의 추적 및 교통사고에서보다 효율그인 과학수사에 일조할 것으로 기대한다.

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A Preliminary Study on the Signifiant-Politics in the Case of 'Personalized Medicine' Discourse ('맞춤의학' 담론에서 발견되는 기표-정치(signifiant-politics)에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, June-Seok;Hyun, Jaehwan
    • Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.139-175
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    • 2014
  • For the past 20 years, expert groups and citizens in Korea have debated on the usefulness of personalized medicine. These debates were mainly focussed on the possibility of the promise - people mainly discussed whether it was a probable future or if it was just a hype. Following Hedgecoe and Tutton(2002) who argue that it is only a 'rhetorial device', we will analyze about 9,000 news media coverages that deal with personalized medicine. With these data, we will show that the same terminology of personalized medicine have been used very differently according to the time and people who use it. Our research will show that this term has both diachronic heterogeneity and synchronic equivocality. This has happened because of the innate lack that exists in our symbolic system. Policy and governance regarding new technology is important because they provide quilting point to those slippery term/signifiant. Also we would like to carefully suggest that we might be able to call this phenomena as signifiant-politics.

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A Study on the Improvement Plans of Police Fire Investigation (경찰화재조사의 개선방안에 관한 연구)

  • SeoMoon, Su-Cheol
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Fire Investigation
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.103-121
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    • 2006
  • We are living in more comfortable circumstances with the social developments and the improvement of the standard of living, but, on the other hand, we are exposed to an increase of the occurrences of tires on account of large-sized, higher stories, deeper underground building and the use of various energy resources. The materials of the floor in a residence modern society have been going through various alterations in accordance with the uses of a residence and are now used as final goods in interioring the bottom of apartments, houses and shops. There are so many kinds of materials you usually come in contact with, but in the first place, we need to make an experiment on the spread of the fire with the hypocaust used as the floors of apartments, etc. and the floor covers you usually can get easily. We, scientific investigators, can get in contact with the accidents caused by incendiarism or an accidental fire closely connected with petroleum stuffs on the floor materials that give rise to lots of problems. on this account, I'd like to propose that we conduct an experiment on fire shapes by each petroleum stuff and that discriminate an accidental tire from incendiarism. In an investigation, it seems that finding a live coal could be an essential part of clearing up the cause of a tire but it could not be the cause of a fire itself. And besides, all sorts of tire cases or fire accidents have some kind of legislation and standard to minimize and at an early stage cope with the damage by tires. That is to say, we are supposed to install each kind of electric apparatus, automatic alarm equipment, automatic fire extinguisher in order to protect ourselves from the danger of fires and check them at any time and also escape urgently in case of fire-outbreaking or build a tire-proof construction to prevent flames from proliferating to the neighboring areas. Namely, you should take several factors into consideration to investigate a cause of a case or an accident related to fire. That means it's not in reason for one investigator or one investigative team to make clear of the starting part and the cause of a tire. accordingly, in this thesis, explanations would be given set limits to the judgement and verification on the cause of a fire and the concrete tire-spreading part through investigation on the very spot that a fire broke out. The fire-discernment would also be focused on the early stage fire-spreading part fire-outbreaking resources, and I think the realities of police tire investigations and the problems are still a matter of debate. The cause of a fire must be examined into by logical judgement on the basis of abundant scientific knowledge and experience covering the whole of fire phenomena. The judgement of the cause should be made with fire-spreading situation at the spot as the central figure and in case of verifying, you are supposed to prove by the situational proof from the traces of the tire-spreading to the fire-outbreaking sources. The causal relation on a fire-outbreak should not be proved by arbitrary opinion far from concrete facts, and also there is much chance of making mistakes if you draw deduction from a coincidence. It is absolutely necessary you observe in an objective attitude and grasp the situation of a tire in the investigation of the cause. Having a look at the spot with a prejudice is not allowed. The source of tire-outbreak itself is likely to be considered as the cause of a tire and that makes us doubt about the results according to interests of the independent investigators. So to speak, they set about investigations, the police investigation in the hope of it not being incendiarism, the fire department in the hope of it not being problems in installments or equipments, insurance companies in the hope of it being any incendiarism, electric fields in the hope of it not being electric defects, the gas-related in the hope of it not being gas problems. You could not look forward to more fair investigation and break off their misgivings. It is because the firing source itself is known as the cause of a fire and civil or criminal responsibilities are respected to the firing source itself. On this occasion, investigating the cause of a fire should be conducted with research, investigation, emotion independent, and finally you should clear up the cause with the results put together.

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The Educational Need of Forensic Medicine for Emergency Medical Technicians in 119 Rescue Service (119구급대 응급구조사에 대한 법의학교육의 필요성)

  • Kim, Byung-Yong;Lee, Sang-Han
    • Journal of forensic and investigative science
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.50-66
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    • 2007
  • An Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) is a well-trained emergency responder to provide emergency medical services to the critically ill and injured patient. In various situations, EMT may destroy potential physical evidences associated with the crime scene or determination of real cause of death. This study was aimed to evaluate the educational need of forensic medicine in Korean EMT. Questionnaires were administered to 592 EMTs during March 2007. The response rate was 60.3%(357 EMTs). In questionnaires there were 13 questions regarding the general characteristics, 16 questions about roles of EMTs related with forensic circumstances, 9 questions about the education related to forensic medicine. Questionnaires rated on a 4-point Likert scale or 5-point Likert scale. Most of 119 rescue EMTs had experienced with situations related to crime or unexpected sudden death. EMTs had arrived to the scenes earlier than police and complained of some difficulties related with deficit of forensic knowledge. EMTs wanted to receive continuous educations about forensic medicine. In order to reduce dissatisfaction with EMTs roles and to improve crime scene preservations, Emergency Medical Services policies should provide regular educational curriculum by forensic pathologists and promote legal responsibilities for 119 rescue EMTs.

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