• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.39 no.9
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• pp.527-533
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• 2017

Environmental concern about smart phone is growing because it has short product life span while having intensive production technology and cost. In this study environmental impact of the smart phone is quantified using the LCA methodology based on the ISO 14040 series standards. The assessment considers potential environmental impacts across the whole life cycle of the smart phone including; pre-manufacturing; manufacturing; distribution; product use; and end-of-life stages. The pre-manufacturing stage is the most dominant life cycle stage causing the highest environmental impacts among all 10 impact categories assessed. The global warming impacts of the smart phone in the pre-manufacturing, distribution, use, manufacturing, and end-of-life stages were 52.6% 23.9%, 15.7%, 7.0%, and 0.8%, respectively. Sensitivity of the life cycle impact assessment results to the system boundary definition and assumptions made were quite high. Three components of the smart phone, PCB, battery, and display module were identified as the key components causing majority of the potential environmental impact in the pre-manufacturing stage. As such the slim and light-weight design and the use of environmental friendly materials are important design factors for reducing the environmental impact of the smart phone.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.58-65
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• 2014

This study aims to understand the environmental impact reduction of green buildings that are certified by Green standard for energy and environmental design(G-SEED). To ensure this end, this study assessed and compared the environmental impacts(global warning, ozone layer depletion, acidification, and eutrophication) of a G-SEED-certified elementary school building(green building) and an uncertified elementary school building(traditional building) using the life cycle assessment methodology. This study considered the environmental impacts from the material manufacturing, material transportation, on-site construction, and operation during 40 years. The comparison of the environmental impact intensity of two buildings showed that the green building generated much more environmental impacts than the traditional building. For example, the global warming potential of the green building was approximately 12.5% higher than of the traditional building since the global warming potential of the green building was 3.751 $t-CO_2eq./m^2$ while that of the traditional building was 3.282 $t-CO_2eq./m^2$. It signifies that the G-SEED doesn't guarantee the reduction of the environmental impacts in terms of four impact categories. Therefore, the G-SEED should be complemented and improved to achieve the environmental impact reduction.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.13-23
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 침출수를 비롯한 매립지의 각종 오염물질 배출로 수자원이 오염되어 피폭체의 피해가 빈발하는 문제를 해결하기 위해서, 매립지의 상대적 유해성을 평가하여 한정된 환경관리 예산의 합리적 배분을 위한 우선순위를 결정할 수 있는 의사결정 지원도구로서 LHR(Landfill Site Hazard Ranking)모형을 개발했다. LHR모형은 다요소의사결정(多要素意思決) 기법에 정성적 위해성(危害性) 평가기법을 접맥시켜 주관적 가중치를 모형에 반영한 가치내재화(價値內在化) 모형이다. LHR모형은 피폭체의 주요 피폭경로를 지하수 이동경로와 지표수 이동경로로 보았으며, 각 이동경로별로 누출 가능성, 폐기물 특성 및 피폭체 특성으로 요소범주를 3종류로 구분하여 폐기물의 독성이나 매립량같은 특성이 매립지의 수리지질학적 요소 및 자연지리적 요소에 의해 결정되는 오염물질의 누출 가능성을 통해 매립지 주변의 지역주민과 취약한 수생태계 같은 피폭체에 끼치는 매립지의 유해성을 상대적으로 평가했다. 그리고 LHR모형에서는 매립지 유해성을 공기 이동경로 및 사회경제적 측면에서도 평가하기 위해 매립지 이격거리별 토지이용 형태의 유해성을 평가했다. 그리고 각 평가요소별 가중치는 위계분석과정(位階分析過程)의 쌍대비교법(雙對比較法)에 의하여 할당했으며, 민감도 분석으로 LHR모형을 검증했다.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.157-170
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• 2013

수질오염총량관리제 시행 하천에 대해서는 객관적이고 과학적 방법으로 유역내 각 지역의 오염부하량을 할당할 필요가 있다. 본 연구에서는 대도시에서 배출되는 오염부하의 영향을 크게 받는 영산강수계의 중상류부를 대상으로 오염부하량 할당 방법에 대해 검토하였다. 오염부하량 할당을 위한 수질모델링은, 수질관리에 흔히 적용되어온 QUAL2E의 최근 판인, QUAL2Kw를 이용해서 수행하였다. 모델 적용 대상 지역의 각 reach의 수질매개변수는 QUAL2Kw의 자동보정 기능을 이용해서 추정하였다. 오염부하량 할당의 최적화는 유전알고리즘(genetic algorithm)을 이용하였고, 최소부하량 삭감법(least waste load removal allocation), 일정 부하량 이상 최소부하량 삭감법(least waste load removal over a certain value), 동일삭감률 할당법(equal removal rate)의 세가지 방법을 적용하고 비교 검토하였다. 동일삭감률 할당법은 다른 방법보다 유역 전체 부하량 삭감량이 훨씬 크기 때문에 효과적이지 않았고, 이 방법을 쓰기 위해서는 부하량 삭감대상인 각 소유역과 하수처리장을 그 규모와 특성에 따라 세분화할 필요가 있다. 동일삭감률 할당법의 적용시 세가지 범주로 나누어서 삭감률을 적용하였다. 오염부하량 삭감의 효율성을 감안할 때 최소 부하량 삭감법보다 일정 부하량 이상 최소부하량 삭감법이 더 적절한 것으로 검토되었다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.52-59
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• 2015

Recently the dairy cow industry have faced environmental issues such as eutrophication, global warming, etc. An LCA was used to quantify the environmental impact of a dairy cow system and to identify key issues contributing to the impact. The system boundary crop cultivation for feeding dairy cow, feed production, rearing and manure management (cradle-to-gate). The functional unit was 1 kg of milk (fat protein corrected milk, FPCM) produced. Rearing and cultivation of feed crops stages in system boundary to the environmental impact of the domestic dairy cow system were dominant issues. Techniques such as suppression of enteric fermentation, improvement of the energy efficiency of farm equipment and apparatuses, management of leachate generated during the crop cultivation, and development of controling the loss of fertilizer during crop production would be necessary for the improvement of the environmental key issues of the dairy cow system.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.65 no.1
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• pp.5-31
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• 2013

The principle objective of this study is to determine factors affecting social participation for physically disabled people with musculoskeletal conditions (spinal cord injury, muscular dystrophy, osteogenesis imperfecta, rheumatoid arthritis) in South Korea using ICF relevant categories of the international classification index by WHO. The subjects of this study 352 people with physical disabilities, the data were collected using ICF component(body functions, body structures, activities and participation and environmental factors) and the relevant categories deprived from ICF core sets. The collected data were evaluated with descriptive analysis, ANOVA, correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis. The results of this study can be summarized as follow. The mental function, Neuromusculoskeletal and movement-related functions, Genitourinary and reproductive functions, Skin and related structures, Learning and applying knowledge, General tasks and demands, and Mobility positively influenced social participation in people with musculoskeletal conditions. However individual factors and environmental factors didn't statistically significant affect on social participation. The implications of the study is to examine by ICF components of universal approach on disability study and utilized the relevant ICF categories as measurement tools.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.69-90
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• 2022

As basic data that can systematically support and evaluate R&D activities as well as set current and future research directions by grasping specific trends in domestic academic research, I sought efficient ways to assign standardized subject categories (control keywords) to individual journal papers. To this end, I conducted various experiments on major factors affecting the performance of automatic classification, focusing on feature selection techniques, for the purpose of automatically allocating the classification categories on the National Research Foundation of Korea's Academic Research Classification Scheme to domestic journal papers. As a result, the automatic classification of domestic journal papers, which are imbalanced datasets of the real environment, showed that a fairly good level of performance can be expected using more simple classifiers, feature selection techniques, and relatively small training sets.

• Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.43-49
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• 1999

Objectives：One of the most common developmental problems is communication disorder in which a child appears normal in every way but who has failed to begin speaking or speaks very little. A few studies have examined the temperamental characteristics of children with communication disorders. This study was to investigate the temperamental characteristics of Korean children with communication disorders. Methods：The parents of 20 Korean children with communication disorders and the parents of 50 normal control children, the age of both groups ranges from 3 to 7, completed Korean version of Parental Temperamental Questionnaire developed by Thomas and Chess. Children with a pervasive developmental disorder, mental retardation, or speech-motor or sensory deficit were excluded. The scores of each temperamental scale of two groups and the diagnostic clusters of two groups were compared. Results：The children with communication disorders were characterized by lower mood scores and higher intensity of reaction scores than normal controls. The two groups showed no significant correlation in terms of the temperamental diagnostic clusters. Conclusion：This findings suggest the existence of a distinct temperamental profile of the children with communication disorders. Early detection of the profile may be of great value for parents in understanding the developmental characteristics of the children with communication disorders and in providing appropriate parenting approaches.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.13-21
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• 2014

To quantitatively evaluate the influence of ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) as a supplementary cementitious material on the life-cycle environmental impact of concrete, a comprehensive database including 3395 laboratory mixes and 1263 plant mixes was analyzed. The life-cycle assesment studied for the environmental impact of concrete can be summarized as follows: 1) the system boundary considered was from cradle to pre-construction; 2) Korea life-cycle inventories were primarily used to assess the environmental loads in each phase of materials, transportation and production of concrete; and 3) the environmental loads were quantitatively converted into environmental impact indicators through categorization, characterization, normalization and weighting process. The life-cycle environmental impacts of concrete could be classified into three categories including global warming, photochemical oxidant creation and abiotic resource depletion. Furthermore, these environmental impacts of concrete was significantly governed by the unit content of ordinary portland cement (OPC) and decreased with the increase of the replacement level of GGBS. As a result, simple equations to assess the environmental impact indicators could be formulated as a function of the unit content of binder and replacement level of GGBS.

• Bulletin of Food Technology
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.214-219
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• 2010

Saccharomyces cerevisiae는 전통적으로 알코올 음료와 bioethanol 생산에 이용되지만, 발효가 진행되는 동안 효모의 에탄올 생성은 에탄올의 축적에 의한 충격으로 세포활성에 손상을 초래한다. 본 연구는 S. cerevisiae의 에탄올 스트레스 반응과 에탄올 내성의 분자적 기초에 관해 수행되었으며, 에탄올 스트레스가 진행되는 동안 효모의 에탄올 생성 향상을 위한 유전 공학 전략의 수립에 활용될 수 있다. 이전의 연구들은 유전자 발현에 대한 에탄올 스트레스의 충격이 환경적 영향을 받기 때문에 다양한 균주와 조건들에 관해 이루어졌다. 그러나 에탄올 공격에 의해 영향을 받은 gene ontology 범주에서의 일부 공통점은 S. cerevisiae의 에탄올 스트레스 반응이 해당과정 및 미토콘드리아 기능과 관련된 유전자 발현의 증가와 에너지가 요구되는 성장과정과 관련된 유전자의 발현 감소에 따라 에너지 생산에 제약 받음을 의미한다. Genomewide screens를 이용한 연구는 vacuole function의 유지가 에탄올 내성에 대해 중요함을 암시한다. 아마도 단백질 turnover와 이온 항상성 유지에 이 세포기관의 역할이 중요하기 때문인 것으로 사료된다. 특히 에탄올 스트레스가 일어날 때 핵 내 Asr1과 Rat8의 축적은 비록 이 가설이 논란이 많은 주제로 남아있지만 S. cerevisiae가 에탄올 스트레스에 대한 특별한 반응을 가지고 있음을 의미한다.