• Development and Reproduction
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.117-124
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• 2008

The efficient strategies to cope with unpredictable and/or harmful environmental changes have been developed by every organism in order to ensure its survival and continuity of it's own species. As a results, all living things on earth maintain dynamically internal stability via a process termed 'homeostasis' among physiological parameters despite of external environment changes. Stress is an emotional and physical response to threat homeostasis. Stress may have not only transient but rather permanent effect on the organism; recent evidence clearly show that prenatal stress could organize or imprint permanently physiological systems without any change in genetic codes, a process known as 'epigenetic programming'. In this review, a series of reproduction-associated events occurred in prenatally stressed male rats such as alteration in the structure of sexually dimorphic brain regions, modification of neurotransmitter metabolism, changes in reproductive endocrine status, and finally, disorders of sexual behavior will be introduced. The fetal brain is highly sensitive to prenatal programming and glucocorticoids in particular have powerful brain-programming properties. The chronic hyperactivation of fetal brain by maternal stress-induced glucocorticoid input will provide new program via increasing the neuroplasticities. This 'increased neuroplasticities' will be the basis for the 'increased phenotypic plasticities' rendering the organism's better adaptation to environmental challenges. In conclusion, organism who experienced 'harsh' environment in his fetal life seems to give up a certain portion of reproductive competence to make good chance of survival in his future life by epigenetic (re)programming.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.1264-1269
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• 2008

최근에 이르러 농촌 인구의 도시유입으로 도시의 주거공간이 절대적으로 부족해지고 있으며, 이는 대도시의 아파트 가격 상승을 유발하는 등 부수적인 사회/경제적 문제를 일으키고 있다. 정부나 지방자치단체에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 대규모의 신도시 개발계획을 추진하고 있으며, 이러한 신도시 개발은 도시화로 인하여 환경적, 수문학적으로 영향을 미치는 것으로 조사되고 있으며 도시물순환계는 강우가 지표에 도달 한 후 바로 하천으로 유출되는 것과 침투하여 서서히 유출하는 자연경로 그리고 상수도 및 하수도를 통해 하천으로 배수되는 인공적 경로에 의해서 형성된다. 일반적으로 신도시 개발 전후의 수문순환을 평가하는 방법 중의 하나는 개발예정지에 대한 장단기의 수문 관측을 통하여 개발 전과 개발 후의 유출특성과 수질부하를 정량적으로 비교하는 것이다 (한국건설기술연구원, 2004). 따라서 본 연구에서는 행정중심 복합도시 물순환 해석을 하기 위해 대상유역을 100m 크기의 정방형 격자로 구분하고 기상조건, 지표면 조건, 하천, 토양, 지하 대수층, 농업용수 등의 광범위한 입력 자료를 구축한 후 이를 물리적인 기반의 공간분포모형인 WEP 모형에 적용하여 개발 전 홍수 및 유출특성을 규명하고자 한다. 이를 위해 대상지역에 대한 장기적인 수문모니터링 자료를 바탕으로 1996년에서 2007년 까지 모의 하여 실측자료가 있는 $2006{\sim}2007$년을 대상으로 비교한 결과 일부 갈수기 자료를 제외 하고, 전반적인 높은 상관성을 나타냈다. 하지만 일부 홍수위에서 금강으로 부터의 배수위 영향으로 인한 차이가 발생해 추가적인 검토가 필요하며, 본 연구에서 도출된 결과들은 향후 도시유역에서의 수자원 분배와 물자원 관리 등의 적응전략을 수립하는데 있어 본 연구가 도움이 될 것이라고 판단한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.419-419
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• 2018

기후변화로 인한 홍수피해의 빈도와 규모가 증가함에 따라 미래 홍수취약성은 갈수록 증가할 것으로 전망된다. 이를 대비하기 위해서는 지역별 기후변화를 고려한 홍수취약성 평가를 통해 적절한 적응 정책을 수립하여야 한다. 본 연구에서는 지역별 홍수취약성을 평가하기 위해 홍수취약성지수(Flood Vulnerability Index, FVI)를 새롭게 선정하였다. FVI는 3가지 구성요소의 결합으로 산정되며, 피해의 원인이 되는 압력지수(Pressure Index), 물리적 피해 현황을 나타내는 현상지수(State Index), 대응할 수 있는 능력인 대책지수(Response Index)의 함수로 나타낸다. 압력지수는 기후, 유역, 사회특성에 따라 세부지표를 구분하였고, 현상지수는 홍수피해 비율, 대책지수는 기술 및 사회적 특성을 기준으로 하였다. 따라서, 압력지수 및 현상지수가 클수록 홍수피해에 취약함을 나타내고, 대책지수가 클수록 취약성이 저감되게 된다. 연구 대상 지역은 최근 집중호우로 인해 많은 홍수피해가 발생한 금강유역을 선정하였고, 과거 홍수 피해액 자료를 사용하여 선정된 지수의 적용성을 검토하였다. 또한, 기후변화를 고려하기 위해 27개의 GCMs (Global Climate Models) 중 홍수를 가장 잘 설명하는 5개의 대표시나리오와 2개의 배출시나리오(RCP4.5, RCP8.5)를 사용하였으며, 과거(2010년대) 및 2030년대, 2050년대, 2080년대의 홍수취약성지수를 산정하여 결과를 분석하였다. Spearmans's rank correlation coefficient를 사용하여 과거 10년간 실제 홍수 피해액의 평균값과 FVI를 비교한 결과 선정된 지수가 홍수피해를 적절히 설명하는 것으로 나타났다. 대표시나리오를 사용한 미래 홍수취약성 분석 결과, 용담댐 유역에서 홍수취약성이 증가하는 것으로 나타났으며 지역별 상대적 취약성전망 결과는 대부분 과거와 비슷하였다.

• Journal of radiological science and technology
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.131-140
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• 2011

This study is to investigate the satisfaction rate and relative factors from the students majored in Radiology, Clinical Pathology and Physical Therapy, which can provide basic knowledge of satisfaction and guide the university life and further careers. The survey was performed with respect to 107 students of Radiology, 97 of Clinical Pathology and 89 of Physical Therapy at three-year or four-year colleges(universities) located in Busan and Gyeongsangnam-do. The results show that the satisfaction rate through whole majors was $3.40{\pm}0.57$ point. The scores of each major are: $3.38{\pm}0.62$ for Radiology, $3.37{\pm}0.56$ for Clinical Pathology, and $3.45{\pm}0.50$ for Physical Therapy. The score of social status was highest and the environment of major was the lowest. The satisfaction of three-year colleges was higher than that of four-year universities. Academic system, social status and adaptation to major affected satisfaction on major. In addition job outlook affected on all majors. Thus, we propose that every major must be equipped with specialized environment different from general colleges (universities), and provide environment where students can cause self-motivation. In addition, we found the special way to improve social status and satisfaction by using career guidance, offering career information and performing university-industry collaborations. Especially, it is important to improve the satisfaction on major of students at four-year universities.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.409-418
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• 2009

This paper proposes a method to estimate the flow speed of pedestrians in surveillance videos. In the proposed method, the average moving speed of pedestrians is measured by estimating the size of real-world motion from the observed motion vectors. For this purpose, a pixel-to-meter conversion factor is introduced which is calculated from camera parameters. Also, the height information, which is missing because of camera projection, is predicted statistically from simulation experiments. Compared to the previous works for flow speed estimation, our method can be applied to various camera views because it separates scene parameters explicitly. Experiments are performed on both simulation image sequences and real video. In the experiments on simulation videos, the proposed method estimated the flow speed with average error of about 0.08m/s. The proposed method also showed promising results for the real video.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.69-74
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• 2009

In Korea, large amounts of chestnut shell as by-products are produced from food industries. However, most of the by-products exist with no disposal options. Biosorption uses biomass that are either abundant or wastes from industrial operations to remove toxic metals from water. Objective of this research was to evaluate the feasibility of using chestnut shell as by-products for removal of metal ions(Pb, Cu and Cd) from aqueous solution. The chestnut shell was tested for its efficiency for metal removal by adopting batch-type adsorption experiments. The adsorption selectivity of chestnut shell for metals was Pb > Cu > Cd at solution pH 5.5. The Langmuir isotherm adequately described the adsorption of chestnut shell for each metal. Using The maximum adsorption capacity predicted using Langmuir equation was 31.25 mg $g^{-1}$ 7.87 mg $g^{-1}$ and 6.85 mg $g^{-1}$ for Pb, Cu and Cd, respectively. Surface morphology, functional group and existence of metals on chestnut shell surface was confirmed by FT-IR, SEM and EDX analysis. The chestnut shell showed an outstanding removal capability for Pb compared to various adsorbents reported in the literatures. The overall results suggested that chestnut shell might can be used for biosorption of Pb from industrial wastewater.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.123-131
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• 2015

This paper aims to identify and clarify the cyber security risks and their interaction with the power system in Smart Grid. The EMS and other communication networks interact with the power system on a real time basis, so it is important to understand the interaction between two layers to protect the power system from potential cyber threats. In this study, the optimal power flow(OPF) and Power Flow Tracing are used to assess the interaction between the EMS and the power system. Through OPF and Power Flow Tracing based analysis, the physical and economic impacts from potential cyber threats are assessed, and thereby the quantitative risks are measured in a monetary unit.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.86-101
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• 2006

The bandwidth of channel and the power of the mobile devices are limited on a wireless environment. In this case, data broadcast has become an excellent technique for efficient data dissemination. A significant amount of researches have been done on generating an efficient broadcast program of a set of data items with different access frequencies over multiple wireless broadcast channels as well as single wireless broadcast channel. In this paper, an efficient data allocation method over multiple wireless broadcasting channels is explored. In the traditional approaches, a set of data items are partitioned into a number of channel based on their access probabilities. However, these approaches ignore a variation of access probabilities of data items allocated in each channel. In practice, it is difficult to have many broadcast channels and thus each channel need to broadcast many data items. Therefore, if a set of data items broadcast in each channel have different repetition frequencies based on their access frequencies, it will give much better performance than the traditional approaches. In this paper, we propose an adaptive data allocation technique based on data access probabilities over multiple broadcast channels. Our proposed technique allows the adaptation of repetition frequency of each data item within each channel by taking its access probabilities into at count.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.26 no.9
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• pp.27-35
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• 2021

Artificial life is used in various fields of applied science by evaluating natural life-related systems, their processes, and evolution. Research has been actively conducted to evolve physical body design and behavioral control strategies for the dynamic activities of these artificial life forms. However, since co-evolution of shapes and neural networks is difficult, artificial life with optimized movements has only one movement in one form and most do not consider the environmental conditions around it. In this paper, artificial life that co-evolve bodies and neural networks using predator-prey models have environmental adaptive movements. The predator-prey hierarchy is then extended to the top-level predator, medium predator, prey three stages to determine the stability of the simulation according to initial population density and correlate between body evolution and population dynamics.

• Korean Journal of Microbiology
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• v.51 no.2
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• pp.97-107
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• 2015

Wetlands constitute a transitional zone between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and have unique characteristics such as frequent inundation, inflow of nutrients from terrestrial ecosystems, presence of plants adapted to grow in water, and soil that is occasionally oxygen deficient due to saturation. These characteristics and the presence of vegetation determine physical and chemical properties that affect decomposition rates of organic matter (OM). Decomposition of OM is associated with activities of various extracellular enzymes (EE) produced by bacteria and fungi. Extracellular enzymes convert macromolecules to simple compounds such as labile organic carbon (C), nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and sulfur (S) that can be easily taken up by microbes and plants. Therefore, the enzymatic approach is helpful to understand the decomposition rates of OM and nutrient cycling in wetland soils. This paper reviews the physical and biogeochemical factors that regulate extracellular enzyme activities (EEa) in wetland soils, including those of ${\beta}$-glucosidase, ${\beta}$-N-acetylglucosaminidase, phosphatase, arylsulfatase, and phenol oxidase that decompose organic matter and release C, N, P, and S nutrients for microbial and plant growths. Effects of pH, water table, and particle size of OM on EEa were not significantly different among sites, whereas the influence of temperature on EEa varied depending on microbial acclimation to extreme temperatures. Addition of C, N, or P affected EEa differently depending on the nutrient state, C:N ratio, limiting factors, and types of enzymes of wetland soils. Substrate quality influenced EEa more significantly than did other factors. Also, drainage of wetland and increased temperature due to global climate change can stimulate phenol oxidase activity, and anthropogenic N deposition can enhance the hydrolytic EEa; these effects increase OM decomposition rates and emissions of $CO_2$ and $CH_4$ from wetland systems. The researches on the relationship between microbial structures and EE functions, and environmental factors controlling EEa can be helpful to manipulate wetland ecosystems for treating pollutants and to monitor wetland ecosystem services.