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Effective Control of Indoor Air Pollutant using VAV/BPFS (VAV/BPFS를 이용한 실내공기 오염물질의 효율적 제어)

  • 최성우
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.327-334
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    • 1998
  • The oil crisis of the 1970s and the rise in oil prices motivated people to implement energy conservation strategies. Buildings were fitted with additional Insulation and reduced ventilation rates. The reduction of mechanical and natural ventilation rate led to Increases In Indoor pollutant concentrations which result- ed In Increased health risks from Indoor exposure to pollutants. The variable-air-volume /bypass fitration system/VAV/BPFS) is a variation of the conventional VAV systems, The VAV/BPFS is an electronically controlled system that provides costegectlve thermal comfort and acceptable indoor air quality Under controlled conditions In a chamber, a series experiments were performed to compare the ability of a VAV/BPFS to remove Indoor aerosol concentration and to reduce energy consumption no that ability of conventional VAV system. Results show that the VAV/BPFS Increases the effective ventilation rate and removes indoor air pollutant, and maintains acceptable indoor air Quality without sacrificing energy consumption.

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The Vegetation of the Catba national Park in Vietnam (베트남 캣바국립공원의 식생)

  • ;Thin, N. N.
    • The Korean Journal of Ecology
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.139-149
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    • 1998
  • The Catba national park (20$\circ$42'-20$\circ$54'N, 106$\circ$54'-107$\circ$09'E), which is a representative protected area in northeast Vietnam, was first investigated in terms of phytosociology of the Zurich-Montpellier School. 15 plant communities were identified from the seven vegetation types: Teetaria-Amoora gigantea community, Blechmum-Pitecellobium ferrugineum community, Impatiens-Dracaena cambodiana community, Rhizophora apiculata community, Avicenia marina community, Panicum repens community, Heterosmilax-Zanthoxylum nitidum community, Stachytarphyta jamaiensis-Bidens bipinnata community, microstegium vagans community, Dicranopteris linearis community, Randina-Sapium sebiferum community, Psidium gujava community, Elephantopus scaber community, and chirita aratformis community. Traditional pasturing and shifting agrie\culture by indigenous people in Catba national park were recognized as main disturbance regies, which have been far above sustainable levels. Ecological strategies for conservation and sustainable use on national park' ecosystem were proposed: (1) development of awareness program on sustainable life style of indigenous people, (2) establishment of multiple use module system of national park, (3) ecosystem monitoring of permanent ecological sites.

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Management Strategies of Livestock Waste Minimization and Resource Conservation

  • Kim, Kyung-Sook;Won, Hyo-Joung;Chung, Jae-Chun;Choi, Deuk-Soo
    • Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.83-89
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    • 2000
  • There is no simple method to solve livestock waste problems satisfactorily. For a successful solution, various methods should be well organized orderly depending upon the situation. Even in the livestock waste management, integrated waste management principle should be applied. Minimization of livestock waste generation is the first priority. It is also important to distribute fairly livestock farms throughout the nation. Efficient management of permit system is equally important. Permit should be given only when the farmer have enough grass-land on which the farmer can apply more than two thirds of livestock waste generated or when the farm have an anaerobic digestor in which store livestock waste generated for at least 3 months. In principle, livestock waste should be treated in the farm and it is desirable to operate composting facilities in the farm site too.

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Complete Mitogenome of the Russian Sturgeon Acipenser gueldenstaedtii (Acipenseriformes; Acipenseridae)

  • Kim, Keun-Yong;Lee, Sang-Yoon;Song, Ha-Yeun;Park, Chul-Hong;Nam, Yoon-Kwon
    • Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.35-43
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    • 2009
  • Sturgeons and paddlefishes are frequently referred to as 'living fossils' among the actionpterygian lineage. They are increasingly facing threats to their existence because of various anthropogenic pressures. In this study, we present the complete mitogenome sequence of the Russian sturgeon Acipenser gueldenstaedtii (Acipenseriformes; Acipenseridae). The mitogenome showed highly homogeneous molecular features compared to previously known vertebrate mitogenomes. Phylogenetic tree inferred from concatenated protein-coding and tRNA genes unambiguously revealed the monophyly of A. gueldenstaedtii, Acipenser stellatus, and Huso huso. Genetic information of the endangered A. gueldenstaedtii will provide baseline data needed to develop molecular markers for stock identification and assessment of population diversity and also to develop future conservation strategies.

Importance of microbial diversity

  • Ahn, Tae-Seok
    • Proceedings of the Zoological Society Korea Conference
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    • 1995.10b
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    • pp.88-88
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    • 1995
  • Microorganism are centIal core to biosphere sm1ainablity and biogeochemical cycles on this earth. Most of food, medical and pabamceutical new materials through biotechnology are derived from many kinds of microorganisms. Microorganisms are important resources of biotechnology. Beside these, micorbial diversity is key to explore the frontiers of knowledge about the strategies and limits of life. Through the micorotganisms, we can monitor the environmental changes and conditions. Moreover, the microorganismsms play a role in conservation and restoration of higher plants and animals. And we can get a lot of ecological, evolutionary knowledges from microbial models. In spite of these importances, the microbial diversity is not properly evaluted because of their unculturablity. Only 0.001 - 3 % of total bacteria in natural habitats are cultumble and the rest are viable but uncultumble. Only 3,100 species are listed up in the Bergey's Manual. Considering the symbisis and estimated numbers of insect are more than 800,000, the symbiotic microorganisms are about 1,000,000 species. Recently, by using the genetic and molecular technics, the microbial diversity is now unveiled. In this symposium, the genetic, species and ecological diversity will be given. given.

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NearSurface geophysical applications in Greece focused in archaeological prospection

  • Tsourlos, Panagiotis
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.06a
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    • pp.24-41
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    • 2007
  • In this paper several recent case studies of near surface geophysical applications in Greece are presented. The case studies are focused mostly in archeological site investigation, a field which is of high interest in Greece due to its reach historical heritage. The growing construction works in several parts of Greece as well as the increasing public interest in exploring and preserving cultural heritage lead to an increase of the application of nearsurface geophysics techniques as a preliminary investigation tool prior to engineering and archeological excavation works. Research efforts, presented in this work, are focused to extending and adapting standard nearsurface techniques in order to be made more effective for archaeological site investigation. The presented case studies involve not only standard field investigation procedures but also novel approaches such as the use of non-spike electrodes, efficient measuring and instrumentation strategies, unusual configurations and measurement environments. Overall it shown that efficient and state-of-art nearsurface geophysical techniques used for archaeological prospection purposes provide significant archaeological and structural information valuable for archeologists, engineers and conservation scientists.

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Institutional Improvement of Irrigation Management System in Korea

  • Chung, Sang-Ok
    • Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.44 no.7
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    • pp.74-82
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    • 2002
  • There are two major operation and management (O & M) systems in Korea, one by the Korea Agricultural and Rural Infrastructure Corporation (KARICO), a government corporation, and the other by non-KARICO, which includes Irrigation associations (IAs) and individual farmers under the supervision of city or county authorities. Main issues and constraints in the irrigation facility management are: (1) The dual system of the irrigation water management system; management by KARICO and that by IAs, and (2) From the commencement of KAICO in 2000, farmers were exempted from water charge. This is opposite to the international trend, which follows' user pay principle: Main specific strategies to improve irrigation management system are: (1) Introduction of water metering for water charge as well as water conservation, (2) Adoption of demand-oriented irrigation rather than supply-oriented to reduce waste of water, (3) To augment farmer's participation by forming water user associations, (4) To maintain consistency of government policy, (5) To promote roles of local governments, and (6) To reestablish the role of KARICO.

On Using the Eddy Covariance Method to Study the Interaction between Agro-Forest Ecosystems and the Atmosphere (농림생태계와 대기간의 상호 작용 연구를 위한 에디 공분산 방법의 사용에 관하여)

  • Choi Taejin;Kim Joon;Yun Jin-il
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.60-71
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    • 1999
  • The micrometeorological tower flux network is the cornerstone of the global terrestrial vegetation monitoring. The eddy covariance technique used for tower fluxes is derived from the conservation of mass and is most applicable for steady-state conditions over flat, extended, and uniform vegetation. This technique allows us to obtain surface fluxes of energy budget components, greenhouse and trace gases, and other pollutants. The quality-controlled flux data are invaluable to validate various models with temporal scales ranging from minutes to years and spatial scales ranging from a few meters to hundreds of kilometers. In this paper, we review the theoretical background of this important eddy covariance technique, examine the measurement criteria and corrections, and finally suggest some measurement strategies that may facilitate coordinated flux measurements among different disciplines and provide a strong infrastructure for the global flux network.

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A Risk Assessment Method for the Long-term Preservation of Electronic Records (전자기록의 장기보존을 위한 위험평가 방법의 제안)

  • Cha, Hyun Chul;Choi, Joo Ho
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.79-87
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    • 2019
  • Appropriate strategies are needed to ensure long-term preservation of various types of electronic records. For proper preservation of electronic records, it is necessary of decision-making processes for risk assessment, notification and implementation of conservation measures. To do this, the task of assessing various risk factors that impede the long-term preservation and utilization of electronic records should be done first. In this study, since electronic records are mostly stored in file form, risk assessment for electronic records of file type is performed. The risk factors required for the risk assessment of the file format are derived, and the algorithms are developed to devise a calculation method of the weighting factor and the risk factor index for evaluating the risk based on the proposed risk factors. In addition, the proposed methods are applied to the file formats used in Korea and risk assessment is performed and the results are analyzed.

The 20th Century High-Rise as Heritage: Notes on a Teaching Experience of the Adaptive Reuse of the Metropolo Hotel in Shanghai

  • Martinez, Placido Gonzalez
    • International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.45-54
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    • 2021
  • The adaptive reuse of 20th-century high-rise architecture poses important questions about the prevalence of authorized discourses in the heritage conservation field. Based on a two-year teaching experience at Tongji University about the adaptive reuse of the Metropolo Hotel (Palmer and Turner, 1934), an iconic historic high-rise building in the Shanghai Bund area, this paper will show the extent to which disciplinary and urban authorized heritage discourses are present in the development of design and representation strategies in adaptive reuse. Using discourse analysis as a method, this paper will make the argument that disciplinary discourses have a limited effect in the practice of adaptive reuse, which is perceived as a fundamentally creative activity. At the same time, the paper reveals how urban discourses have a much more lasting effect, confirming the intimate links between adaptive reuse and the wider phenomena of beautification and gentrification of high-rise listed areas.