• Journal of dental hygiene science
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.199-209
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• 2010

The purpose of this paper is to suggest fundamental data for finding problems and ways to improve Korean dental infection control studies through the classification of literature on dental infection control which have been conducted in Korea. The collection of literature was done via seven online database programs only for domestic literature. The date of first search was September 16-17th, 2009, and the final search was completed on December 20th, 2009. (1) From the examination of the frequency of research according to the publishing form by year, it is revealed that after 2006, dental infection control is being performed most vigorously, compared with 1980's when the studied on this area started. (2) According to the classification of research method by research design of original article among the literature, original articles were 45 studies, and the others were 20 studies. It was also found that in 45 studies of original article, there were 37 studies of survey research, and there were 8 studies which include microbiology examination. (3) On the analysis of the subject of each study, glob and mask using rate have gradually increased, and the frequency of pierced with sharp implement or needle have gradually decreased. Through this research, it can be observed roughly how the results depended on subject of each studies change. However, it may be restricted to generalize the results of this research, because there are lack of clear standard and literature evidence to assess the interrelationship between each study. Also, since there are shortage of research and studies in dental infection control, the research to examine the effects should be tried actively after the standards and precaution of dental infection control developed.

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.297-311
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• 2011

This paper deals with a strategic investment decision model for improving investment profit in shipping industry. Despite the quantitative expansion of Korean shipping business, many shipping firms have suffered financial difficulties due to financial and operating risks that result from the characteristics of capital-intensive business as well as of volatility of shipping markets. As a result, managers in charge of making an investment decision, particularly in tramper business sector, are required to take both financial and operating risk factors into consideration. Put it differently, managers are strongly recommended to avoid these risks by ship asset play; buy-low and sell-high, which results in considerable capital gain and cost reduction. In addition, managers in shipping industry are also recommended to consider the ship chartering investment alternative when the freight markets show extreme volatility as the case of 2008 triggered by sub-prime mortgage financial crisis in USA. For example, the BDI suffered plunging down from 1000 in 2008 to 100 in 2010. Consequently, the 4th largest shipping company in Korea, DAEHAN Shipping Co., has collapsed primarily due to excessive tonnage expansion during the peak time of bulk market. In sum, the strategic investment decision model, suggested in this paper, is designed to include such factors as capital gain by asset play, timely chartering for alternative shipping service, and optimization of operating profit by tonnage adjustment in accordance with change in the shipping markets concerned.

• Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.763-771
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• 2010

The rapid increase of wildlife passage installation since the late 2000s was aimed to reduce roadkill caused by habitat fragmentation and losses related to road construction, but wildlife-vehicle collisions are now still occurred even near the wildlife passage area. This is the reason that the effectiveness of wildlife passage have not been evaluated in combination with absence of monitoring data and management strategy of the wildlife passage. The AHP method are used, in this study, to identify the evaluation factors affecting the effectiveness of the present 367 wildlife passages in a mitigation measures to reduce road effects on wildlife species. Ten evaluation factors are derived from third levels in the AHP analysis. Priority setting to identify appropriate management strategies in first level is selected among four second levels on facility, environment, wildlife species and management tool. The AHP analysis suggested that neighboring environments are the most important factor at the second level, and passage structure, harmony with natural surroundings, wildlife occurrence and monitoring of the passage are also important factors at the third levels. In summary, effective measurements of wildlife passage management is based on managing the passage with neighboring topography and natural surrounding. This is useful to establish wildlife passage management strategy in order to reduce the negative effects of roads on wildlife species.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.478-501
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to understand spatial economic inequalities under the framework of the dynamics of economic spaces in relation to the four global megatrends: globalization, knowledge-based economy, information society, and the service world. The international inequalities in East Asia, as well as inter-regional inequalities within Japan, Korea, and Thailand were analyzed. The variables related to the four megatrends, as a whole, have clearly explained the variations in international inequalities in East Asia, as well as the inter-regional inequalities within a nation. The individual impacts of the variables on spatial inequalities are, however, significantly different depending on the spatial scale of analysis and national characteristics. Overall, there has been a convergence trend of international per capita GNI (Gross National Income) in East Asian nations, while both divergent and convergent trends are evident at the regional scale within a nation. Two global oil crises in the 1970s and the East Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s resulted in the discontinuity of the general convergence trend, and have led to the increase of international and inter-regional inequalities in economic activities. This suggests that although the effect of the global crisis differs in each country, in general, the economies of peripheral countries and regions are more vulnerable during a global economic crisis.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.270-279
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• 2017

Regional assessment of crop productivity using a gridded simulation approach could aid policy making and crop management. Still, little effort has been made to develop the systems that allows gridded simulations of crop growth using ORYZA 2000 model, which has been used for predicting rice yield in Korea. The objectives of this study were to develop a series of data processing modules for creating input data files, running the crop model, and aggregating output files in a region of interest using gridded data files. These modules were implemented using C++ and R to make the best use of the features provided by these programming languages. In a case study, 13000 input files in a plain text format were prepared using daily gridded weather data that had spatial resolution of 1km and 12.5 km for the period of 2001-2010. Using the text files as inputs to ORYZA2000 model, crop yield simulations were performed for each grid cell using a scenario of crop management practices. After output files were created for grid cells that represent a paddy rice field in South Korea, each output file was aggregated into an output file in the netCDF format. It was found that the spatial pattern of crop yield was relatively similar to actual distribution of yields in Korea, although there were biases of crop yield depending on regions. It seemed that those differences resulted from uncertainties incurred in input data, e.g., transplanting date, cultivar in an area, as well as weather data. Our results indicated that a set of tools developed in this study would be useful for gridded simulation of different crop models. In the further study, it would be worthwhile to take into account compatibility to a modeling interface library for integrated simulation of an agricultural ecosystem.

• Journal of radiological science and technology
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.387-394
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• 2010

In the field of healthcare, the conventional sterilization treatments have been replaced by irradiation methods which are in accordance with internationally well established quality standards. The quality control in radiation sterilization assures that the absorbed dose of the irradiated material is in agreement with its requirements and standards. The electron beam irradiation requires technical assessments of more process parameters than gamma irradiation does. Korea has witnessed wide uses of electron accelerators since early 2000 but there hasn't been research experiences relating to quality system in accordance with international standards. The new large scale e-beam irradiation system with the specification of 10 MeV, 8 kW was installed and operated in 2008 by Seoul Radiology Services Co. It consists of the electron accelerator, product handling system, safety, documentation and control subsystems into an integrated system to meet the requirement of the Good Manufacturing Practice such as process quality assurance and management of product tracking records. To implement the international standard such as EN ISO11137, it is necessary to understand the purposes aimed in the standard and carry out the tests following the procedures required. This study presented the specification of the e-beam facility and showed what its design requirements and features are. The test results on a variety of process parameters were presented and validated it they are within the required limits.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.267-301
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to classify the research trends related to death preparation education in the social welfare field in Korea and in order to present a more systematic and developmental research direction. This study is based on the necessity of death preparation education which is a very important role in social welfare practice value, the total of 34 papers were analyzed the research trends related to death preparation education in Korea for the past 25 years. The papers used in the analysis were mainly composed of 9 papers published in 6 journals and 25 papers in master's and doctoral thesis. For this study, I examined the overall status of the study on death preparation education conducted from 1992 to 2016, research methods and research subjects, research keywords, and applied intervention characteristics. As a result of the analysis, the interest in the research related to the preparation education for death was focused on the elderly people and the trend of the study method was the most frequent with 13 researches, and the research trends of the study subjects were the 21 highest reported on the elderly. The main keyword of research was death anxiety (25), which was the most studied variable, and emotional anxiety about death (20) was the most used variable among the applied structuring classifications. In addition, emotional anxiety about death was the most effective test for the effect of intervention for death preparation education.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.469-469
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• 2017

기후 변화 및 환경오염으로 인하여 물부족 국가가 세계적으로 증가하고 있는 추세이며, 특히 집중형 강우의 형태가 많아짐에 따라 홍수피해 및 상수공급의 문제가 사회적으로 큰 이슈가 되고 있다. 최근 20여 년간의 급속한 경제성장과 도시화 과정에서 인도네시아는 인구와 산업의 과도한 도시집중으로 지난 1960-80년대 한국이 산업화 과정에서 겪었던 것보다 훨씬 심각한 환경문제에 직면하고 있으며, 자카르타와 반둥을 포함하는 광역 수도권 지역의 물 부족과 수질 오염, 환경문제가 이미 매우 위험한 수준에 도달하고 있는 실정이다. 특히, 찌따룸강 중상류에 위치한 인도네시아 3대 도시인 반둥시는 고질적인 용수부족 문제를 겪고 있다. 2010년 현재 약 일평균 15 CMS의 용수가 부족한 상황이며, 2030년에는 지속적인 인구증가로 약 23 CMS의 용수가 추가로 더 필요한 것으로 전망된다. 이러한 용수공급 문제 해결을 위해 반둥시 및 찌따룸강 유역관리청은 댐 및 지하수 개발, 유역 간 물이동 등의 구조적인 대책뿐만 아니라 비구조적인 대책으로써 기존 및 신규 저수지 연계운영을 통한 용수이용의 효율성을 높이는 방안을 모색하고 있다. 이에 따라 본 연구에서는 해당유역의 용수공급 부족 문제를 해소할 수 있는 비구조적인 대책의 일환으로써 다양한 댐 및 보, 소수력 발전, 취수장 등 유역 내 수리 시설물의 운영 최적화를 위한 지능형 물관리 시스템 적용 방안을 제시하고자 한다. 본 연구의 지능형 물관리 시스템은 센서 및 사물 인터넷(Internet of Things, IoT), 네트워크 기술을 바탕으로 시설물 및 운영자, 유관기관 간의 양방향 통신을 통해 유기적인 상호연계 체계를 제공 할 수 있다. 또한 유역의 수문상황과 시설물의 운영현황, 용수공급 및 수요 현황을 실시간으로 확인함으로써 수요에 따른 즉각적인 용수공급량의 조절이 가능하다. 또한, 빅데이터 분석 및 기계학습(Machine Learning)을 통해 개별 물관리 시설물에 대한 최적 운영룰을 업데이트할 수 있으며, 유역의 수문상황과 용수 수요 현황을 고려하여 최적의 용수공급 우선순위를 선정할 수 있다. 지능형 물관리 시스템 개발의 목적은 찌상쿠이 유역의 수문현황을 실시간으로 모니터링하고, 하천시설물의 운영을 분석하여 최적의 용수공급 및 배분을 통해 유역의 수자원 활용 효율성을 향상시키는 데 있다. 이를 위해 수문자료의 수집체계를 구축하고 기관간 정보공유체계를 수립함으로써 분석을 위한 기반 인프라를 구성하며, 이를 기반으로 유역 유출을 비롯한 저수지 운영, 물수지 분석을 수행하고, 분석 및 예측결과, 과거 운영 자료를 토대로 새로운 물관리 시설 운영룰 및 시설물 간 연계운영 방안, 용수공급 우선순위 의사결정 등을 지원하고자 한다. 본 연구의 지능형 물관리 시스템은 통합 DB를 기반으로 수리수문 현상의 모의 분석을 통해 하천 시설물 운영의 합리적 기준을 제시함으로써 다양한 관리주체들의 시설물운영에 대한 이견 및 분쟁을 해소하고, 한정된 수자원과 다양한 수요 간의 효율적이고 합리적인 분배 및 시설물 운영문제를 해결하기 위한 의사결정도구로써 활용할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.577-577
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• 2016

기후변화는 전 지구적 현상으로 이로 인한 홍수피해는 심화되고 있다. 기후변화 정부간 협의체 5차 보고서(IPCC, 2014)에 의하면 1980년대 이전 세계 평균 홍수피해액은 70억 달러 수준이었으나 2011년에는 240억 달러로 크게 증가한 것으로 나타났다. 2013년 필리핀에 태풍 '하이옌' 내습으로 인해 6,200여명이 사망하고, 2천여명이 실종되는 피해가 발생하였다. 국내의 경우 2014년 8월 경남 부산지역에는 시간당 130mm가 넘는 국지성 호우에 따라 차량 4,000여대가 침수, 5명 사망 등 약 125억원의 재산피해가 발생한 바 있다. 국회예산정책처(2012)와 소방방재청(2014)에 따르면, 자연재해 중 집중호우 및 태풍에 의한 호우피해가 85%를 차지하였으며, 전국 하천 피해액의 98.7%가 지방 및 소하천에서 발생하고 있다. 이에 따라 중소하천과 같이 소외된 지역의 물복지 향상을 위해서는 홍수재해 상황에 대하여 선제적 효과적 대응을 위한 과학적 체계적인 홍수통합관리 체계의 구축이 요구되고 있다. 특히 홍수관련 유관기관 자료를 연계한 실시간 상 하류 수문상황 모니터링, 홍수분석 및 하천수위별 대응기준 수립, 배수펌프장 등 수리시설원격 제어 등을 포함하는 홍수 통합관리체계 구축과 같은 비구조적 대책의 수립이 제방정비, 저류조 등 구조적 대책과 병행하여 반드시 추진되어야 한다. 이에 K-water는 ICT기반의 물관리기술력과 경험을 활용하여, 인력 기술력 예산 부족 등 열악한 재난관리 여건으로 어려움을 겪고 있는 지자체와 협업을 통해 홍수통합관리체계 구축을 지원하고 있다. 홍수통합관리체계 구축은 지자체 상 하류의 다양한 재난정보를 수집 통합하고, 수집된 정보를 활용한 홍수분석 및 홍수 대응기준 수립을 통해 예방적 재난대응 체계를 마련하는 것으로, K-water는 지난 2010년 남원시를 시작으로 무주군, 군산시, 진안군 등 21개 지자체의 홍수재해 통합관리체계 구축을 지원하고 있다. 특히 남원시의 경우 본 사업을 통한 시스템 구축후 홍수피해액이 50% 감소한 것으로 확인되는 등 재난관련 골든타임을 확보하고 홍수피해 최소화를 위한 홍수재해 통합관리 체계 구축은 이제 선택이 아닌 필수라 할 수 있다. K-water는 물관리 전문 공기업으로써의 역할을 다하고, 예방 중심의 재난관리 체계 마련을 위해 '지자체 맞춤형 홍수통합관리체계' 구축 지원을 지속적으로 확대해나갈 예정이다.

• Korean journal of applied entomology
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• v.57 no.4
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• pp.323-328
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• 2018

Despite rising global concerns over the potential impacts of invasive alien species on indigenous species, the consequences of such introductions are lacking. The cabbage seedpod weevil (CSPW, Ceutorhynchus obstrictus) was found invaded into Korea in the early of 1990s. A large-scale survey in Korea reveals that, in about 20 years post-arrival, the invasive CSPW has become the most abundant on rape flowers and spread almost parts of South Korea including Is. Jeju and Is. Ulleung. Its spread is concurrent with the habitat retraction to cruciferous weeds of the native rapseed weevil (RSW, C. albosuturalis). However, Is. Yeoseo located between the mainland and Is. Jeju, showed their ratio with about 1:1. It suggests that the population of CSPW recently entered this island. Although underlying mechanisms of the decline of native species and increase of invaded species remain unknown, the potential roles of exploitative competition cannot be ruled out. Given that invasive weevil can rapidly replace native congeners, increased level of surveillances is demanding to discourage further invasion of othe alien pests.