• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• v.50 no.4
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• pp.350-360
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• 2017

Purpose: This study examined and compared the associations of the iron status and food intake with the blood lead, mercury, and cadmium concentrations among Korean adolescent girls, premenopausal women, and postmenopausal women. Methods: The data from the 2010~2011 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) was used. The subjects were classified into three groups: adolescent girls (n = 268), premenopausal women (n = 1,157), and postmenopausal women (n = 446). The iron status was assessed by hemoglobin, hematocrit, serum ferritin, and iron concentrations, as well as the total iron binding capacity (TIBC). The food intake was estimated by a food frequency questionnaire. Results: The blood heavy metal concentrations and poisoning rate in postmenopausal women were higher than in the other groups. The iron status in the adolescent girls and postmenopausal women was higher than that in the premenopausal women. In the adolescent girls, the iron status was inversely associated with the blood cadmium concentration. The dairy food intake was inversely related to the blood lead and cadmium concentrations. In premenopausal women, the iron status was inversely associated with the cadmium concentrations. The fish and shellfish food intakes were positively associated with the mercury concentrations. In postmenopausal women, the iron status was positively associated with the mercury and cadmium concentrations. Fast foods and fried foods were inversely associated with the lead concentration. Conclusion: The premenopausal women showed a lower iron status than the adolescent girls and postmenopausal women. The associations of the iron status with the blood heavy metal concentrations were different among the adolescent girls, premenopausal women, and postmenopausal women. In addition, the relationships of the food intakes with the blood heavy metal concentrations differed among adolescent girls, premenopausal women, and postmenopausal women. Further studies will be needed to confirm these findings.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.31 no.12
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• pp.1081-1088
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• 2009

The performance of a electrocoagulation (EC) process was examined for the removal of Rhodamine B (RhB) using iron electrode. The effects of operational parameters such as electrode material (aluminum and iron), current density, NaCl dosage, intial pH and initial dye concentration on RhB removal efficiency were investigated. The optimum range for each of these operating variables were experimentally determined. The experimental results showed that the iron is superior to aluminum as sacrificial electrode material. The optimum time of electrolysis, current density, NaCl dosage and pH were 10 min, 1630 A/$m^2$, 4 g/L and neutral pH, respectively. Under these conditions, RhB was effectively removed (> 93.4%) and also more than 80% of COD was removed (> 88.9%) when the initial concentration of RhB was 230 mg/L. The electrical energy consumption in the above conditions for the color and COD of RhB removal were 10.3 and 10.8 kWh/kg RhB, respectively. The electrocoagulation process could be a promising technology to treat dye wastewater containing RhB.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.605-613
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• 2007

In order to overcome the difficulties of quantitative risk analysis such as complexity of model, we propose a systematic methodology for risk quantification of railway system which consists of 6 steps: The identification of risk factors, the determination of major scenarios for each risk factor by using event tree, the development of supplementary fault trees for evaluating branch probabilities, the evaluation of event probabilities, the quantification of risk, and the analysis in consideration of accident situation. In this study, in order to address the feasibility of the propose methodology, this framework is applied to the prototype risk model of nation-wide railway level crossings. And the quantification result based on the data of 2005 in Korea will also be presented.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.81-84
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• 2009

We examine the effect of U term (U = 3 eV) describing the Coulomb interactions between electrons on the results of electronic band structure calculations carried out for bcc Fe bulk, monolayer, and chain. We investigated the properties of the three Fe structures by using the all-electron total-energy full-potential linearized augmented plane wave method. The U term was included in the exchange - correlation functionals constructed on the basis of local density approximation (LDA) and general gradient approximation (GGA). We found that in the case of bcc Fe bulk structure inclusion of the U term leads to the overestimated values of magnetic moment on Fe atom. The values of magnetic moment calculated for Fe in monolayer and chain are in accordance with calculations in which the U term was not included. In general, for each system the calculated values of magnetic moment on Fe sites were larger when the U term was incorporated in the energy functional. In Fe bulk, the value of magnetic moment $2.54{\mu}_B$ for LDA+U larger than $2.25{\mu}_B$ for LDA.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 1998.05a
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• pp.95-95
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• 1998

현장에서 부식속도를 측정하는 방법의 하나인 전기저항 프로브(Electric Resistance Probe, ER probe)는 시편이 부식되는 양에 비례하여 저항이 증가하는 원리를 이용한 것으로 부식기구에 무관하게 직접적인 부식속도의 측정이 가능하다. 그러나, 와이어나 판형으로 기계 가공된 프로브로 제작되어 미량의 부식에는 저항변화폭이 작아 긴 측 정시간이 필요하고, 특히 국부 부식의 경우 부식이 상당히 진행되더라도 전체 저항변 화가 크지 않은 문제점이 있다. 박막형 전기저항프로브는 미량의 부식에서도 저항변화폭이 크게 나타나도록하기 위 하여 금속 박막을 스퍼터링으로 증착하여 동일 부식량에서 저항 변화율을 크게 향상 시킨 프로브이다. 이 프로브는 좁은 선폭(O.25-1mm)의 세선을 복수개 포함한 형상으로 프로브를 설계하여 핏팅이 발생하면 하나의 세선이 끊어지도록 하여 국부적인 부식이 일어날 경우에도 저항변화가 크게 나타나도록 고안되었다. 탄소강의 경우 일반적인 환경에서는 부식속도가 결정립의 크기, 가공경화의 정도등 에 민감하게 변화되지 않는 것으로 알려져 있으나, 박막으로 증착되었을 경우에는 별 크재료와는 전혀 다른 미세구조를 가지므로 벌크의 부식거동과는 다른 거동을 보일 수 있다. 이 연구에서는 증착조건을 달리하여 증착된 철 박막의 결정성, 비저항, 표면 상태, 조성등을 4 point 프로브, SEM, Auger spectroscopy등을 이용하여 조사하고 각각의 전위, 부식속도등과의 상관관계를 조사하였다. 증착된 박막의 비저항은 증착중 혼입된 산소의 양에 따라 매우 민감하게 변화하였다. 산소가 l0at%이상 함유된 철은 강의 알려진 비저항보다 수십배 높은 비저항을 보이며, 부식전위가 높아지고 실제 부식속도 또한 매우 낮게 나타났다. 박막의 부식거동은 미량 불순물에 의해서도 크게 변화하였는데 동일한 수준의 비저 항을 갖는 철 박막에서도 99.9% 순도의 철을 타켓으로 하여 증착된 막은 일반 저탄소 강을 타켓으로 하여 증착된 막보다 훨씬 낮은 부식속도를 보였다.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.6 no.8
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• pp.768-778
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• 1996

Iron oxide (hematite, $\alpha$-${Fe}_{2}{O}_{3}$) particles were prepared directly from aqueous solution using a crystal growth controller. Paticles properties and reaction mechanisum of products as a function of basicity, formation process and mechanism of needle-lkie hematite were investigated. hexagonal hermatite particles were formed in teh range below pH 9.0, ellipsoidal or rectangular hematite particles in the range of pH 10.75-11.75 respectively. In the range above pH 12.50, acicular $\alpha$-FeOOH was formed. Basicity of product solution produced in the range of pH 10.7511.75 was increased slightly as compared with basicity of reastants due to hydroxly ion(OH-) formed by dissociation crystal growth controller. Citric acid which is acted as a crystal growth controller was adsorbed in the form of itrate anion(R-COO-) on the ferric hydroxide and exerted important role on the formation to the needle-like $\alpha$-${Fe}_{2}{O}_{3}$ particles in this reaction system.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.33-41
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• 2017

Railway point machines act as actuators that provide different routes to trains by driving switchblades from the current position to the opposite one. Since point failure caused by the aging effect can significantly affect railway operations with potentially disastrous consequences, replacement detection of point machine at an appropriate time is critical. In this paper, we propose a replacement condition detection method of point machine in railway condition monitoring systems using electrical current signals, after analyzing and relabeling domestic in-field replacement data by means of OLAP(On-Line Analytical Processing) operations in the multidimensional data cube into "does-not-need-to-be replaced" and "needs-to-be-replaced" data. The system enables extracting suitable feature vectors from the incoming electrical current signals by DWT(Discrete Wavelet Transform) with reduced feature dimensions using PCA(Principal Components Analysis), and employs SVM(Support Vector Machine) for the real-time replacement detection of point machine. Experimental results with in-field replacement data including points anomalies show that the system could detect the replacement conditions of railway point machines with accuracy exceeding 98%.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.185-189
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• 2003

고성능의 질의 응답 시스템을 구현하기 위해서는 질의 유형 분류기의 성능이 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 복잡한 분류규칙이나 대용량의 사전 정보를 이용하지 않고 질의문에서 의문사에 해당하는 어휘들을 이용하여 질의 유형을 결정하고, 의문사 주변에 출현하는 명사들의 의미 정보를 이용하여 세부적인 정답유형을 결정할 수 있는 질의 유형분류기를 제안한다. 의문사에 해당하는 어휘가 생략된 경우는 질의문의 마지막 어절의 의미 정보를 이용하여 질의유형을 분류한다. 의문사 주변의 명사들이 마지막 어절에 출현하는 명사들에 대해 동의어 정보와 접미사 정보를 이용하여 질의 유형 분류의 성능을 향상시킨다. 본 논문에서 제안한 시스템은 질의 유형에 대한 분류는 97.4%의 정확도를 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.167-168
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• 2008

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.215-216
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• 2007