• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.69-89
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• 2006

Biological mechanisms for ionizing radiation effects are different at low doses than at high doses. Radiation hormesis involves low-dose-induced protection and high-dose-induced harm. The protective component is associated with a reduction in the incidence of cancer below the spontaneous frequency, brought about by activation of defensive and repair processes. The Linear No-Threshold (LNT) hypothesis advocated by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and the Biological Effects of ionizing Radiation (BEIR) Report VII for cancer risk estimations Ignores hormesis and the presence of a threshold. Cancer incidences significantly less than expected have been found in a large number of epidemiological studies including, airline flight personnel, inhabitants of high radiation backgrounds, shipyard workers, nuclear site workers in scores of locations throughout the world, nuclear power utility workers, plutonium workers, military nuclear test site Participants, Japanese A-bomb survivors, residents contaminated by major nuclear accidents, residents of Taiwan living in $^{60}Co$ contaminated buildings, fluoroscopy and mammography patients, radium dial painters, and those exposed to indoor radon. Significantly increased cancer was not found at doses <200 $mSv^*$. Evidence for radiation hormesis was seen in both sexes for acute or chronic exposures, low or high LET radiations, external whole- or partial body exposures, and for internal radionuclides. The ubiquitous nature of the Healthy Worker Effect (HWE)-like responses in cellular, animal and epidemiological studies negates the HWE as an explanation for radiation hormesis. The LNT hypothesis is wrong and does not represent the true nature of the dose-response relationship, since low doses or dose-rates commonly result in thresholds and reduce cancer incidences below the spontaneous rate. Radiation protection organizations should seriously consider the cost and health implications of radiation hormesis.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2000년도 토목섬유 특별세미나
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• pp.61-69
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• 2000

It is not easy to find a good soil condition due to the shortage of suitable land for construction work. The earth structure and buildings can be constructed over the soft soil. The soft soil must be treated either using the reinforcement element or dewatering. Most of land reclamation projects are being implemented along the south coast or west coast of the Korean Peninsula. The soils in these areas are covered with the soft marine clay, so soil and site improvement is the most important things to do. Pile foundation at the bottom of embankment can be constructed either in the soft ground or in the soil contaminated area. The purpose of this research is to develop "geogrid-reinforced piled embankment method" to prevent the differential settlement and increase the bearing capacity of soil. In this study, the effectiveness of the geogrid-reinforcement was studied by varying the space between piles and reinforcement conditions. Also, the geotechnical engineering properties of the embankment material and foundation soil were determined through the laboratory tests as well as the field tests. As a result, the site that the pile-spacing S = 3b with geogrid reinforcement is the most effective to reduce the differential settlement and increase load bearing capacity.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.275-282
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• 2019

산이나 건물과 같은 지형지물에 의해 발생하는 클러터는 대기 상태와 무관한 오염된 자료로 간주된다. 클러터 신호를 줄이기 위한 기본적인 방법은 윈드프로파일러 주위에 클러터 펜스를 설치하는 것이다. 클러터 펜스가 윈드프로파일러 관측 자료에 미치는 효과를 조사하기 위해 클러터 펜스 설치 전과 후의 윈드프로파일러 바람 벡터 수집률과 바람 벡터의 정확도를 고도별로 조사하였다. 윈드프로파일러의 클러터 펜스는 자료 수집률 뿐만 아니라 자료의 품질을 향상시키는데 기여하였다.

• 대한임상검사과학회지
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• 제52권3호
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• pp.214-220
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• 2020

세정제로 손을 씻는 것은 감염의 가능성이 있는 미생물을 줄이는 중요한 방법이지만 재사용하는 액체 형 세정제는 외부의 오염에 취약하다. 이 연구의 목적은 공공화장실에서 사용하고 있는 액체 세정제의 오염도를 측정하는 것이다. 저자는 6개 건물에 있는 58개의 공공 화장실에서 액체 형 손 세정제를 조사하였다. 균의 동정은 전통적인 생화학적 검사와 질량분석기를 이용하였으며 항균제 감수성 검사는 Vitek II 시스템을 이용하였다. 58개의 화장실 중 27개(46.55%)의 화장실에서 세정제를 다시 채워 재사용하고 있었으며, 이들 중 25개(92.59%) 화장실의 세정제가 세균에 오염되어 있었다. 오염된 균은 1.6×10³ to 2.7×10⁵ CFU/mL의 범위였으며, Serratia liquefaciens (12 균주), Achromobacter xylosoxidans (9 균주), Serratia marcescens (4 균주), Staphylococcus pastueri (1 균주), Achrombacter spanius (1 균주) 순으로 분리되었다. A. xylosoxidans 1 균주를 제외하고 같은 건물에서 분리된 같은 균 종은 동일한 감수성 양상이었다. 결론적으로 오염된 손 세정제로 손을 씻는 것은 공공보건 시설에서 세균의 전파가능성이 높일 수 있으므로 면역이 감소한 환자들이 이용하는 병원의 화장실은 손 세정제를 재사용하는 것을 제한할 필요가 있다.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국HCI학회 2006년도 학술대회 1부
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• pp.937-944
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• 2006

Although people's anxiety about the environmental problem has been getting higher, they are not provided good quality of knowledge about the environment. Based on this situation, Ecoblog can be a new type of online community to educate the public in ecological knowledge. Especially, Ecoblog can be utilized as a method of "preventive education", and it will contribute to reduce great amounts of environmental budget to restore contaminated environment to previous condition. Ecoblog also utilizes the concept of blog which user can create and append their site with chosen themes. A weblog or a blog is a non-commercial webpage regularly updated through the use of a blogging software which allows the user to "publish" kinds of amalgamations of text and graphics to the page as posts. The technology offered in Ecoblog is utilizing the concept of 4D place and game metaphor in order to provide users the sense of participation, interaction and immersion among them and the growing community. Thus, it requires applying the CAAD technology by implementing semantically well-defined building data model as a core database to create a 4D virtual community. This research focuses on defining a 4d spatial framework suitable for developing an online ecological community. Through our study, the state-of-the-art of online community has been studied at the first step. Second, the scenario of using EcoBlog described with content, visualization and navigation are defined based on the critical features derived at the first step. Finally, a 4d spatial framework composed of semantic building data model, content and rule database is constructed to propose factors that are necessary to establish an ecological virtual community. In conclusion, our framework could enhance the comprehension and interaction between users and virtual buildings in the ecological community by integrating the concept of game design, 4D CAD and semantic data model. Such framework can be applied to any online community for an educational purpose.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.51-65
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• 2015

Indoor inhalation of vapors intruded into buildings is an important exposure pathway in volatile organic compoundscontaminated sites. Site-specifically measured indoor air concentration is preferentially used for risk assessment. However, when indoor air concentration of VOC is not measured, the indoor air concentration needs to be estimated from soil concentration or measured soil gas concentration of the VOC. Some risk assessment guidance (e.g., Korea Ministry of Environment (KMOE) and American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) International guidance) estimate the indoor air concentration from soil concentration while other guidances (e.g., United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and Dutch National Institute for Public Health (RIVM)) estimate it from measured soil gas concentration. This study derived indoor inhalation risks of intruded benzene in two benzene-contaminated residential areas with four different risk assessment guidances (i.e., KMOE, USEPA, ASTM, and Dutch RIVM) and compared the derived risks. The risk assessment results revealed that indoor air estimation approach from soil concentration could either underestimate (when the contaminant is not detected in soil) or overestimate (when the contaminant is detected in soil even at negligible concentration) the indoor air inhalation risk. Hence, this paper recommends to estimate indoor air concentration from soil gas concentration, rather than soil concentration. Discussions about the various indoor air concentration estimation approaches are provided.

• 생물환경조절학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.352-356
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• 2011

산업의 발달로 인하여 인구의 도시 집중화 현상 때문에 건물의 고층화 및 생활공간의 밀집화가 되고 있는 실정이다. 또한 휴식을 취할 수 있는 공간이 점차 축소되고 있으며 이러한 원인 때문에 보다 많은 녹지면적이 필요한 실정이다. 그러나 건물의 고층화로 인한 광부족과 환경오염으로 인한 대기의 조건 등이 식물생육에 아주 부적합하다. 특히 건물의 고층화 및 밀집화로 식물 생육에 지장을 주는 음지로 인하여 식물생육에 문제가 되기 때문에 음지에 강한 새로운 조경용 지피식물의 개발이 절실하다. 따라서 쌈채식물로 알려져 있는 곤달비를 30%, 50%, 80%의 차광에 재배를 하여 차광에 따른 토양환경의 변화, 식물생장, 엽록소 함량 등을 조사한 결과 다음과 같았다. 엽수는 50% 차광이 10.8개, 30% 차광이 8.4개로 무차광재배의 7.7개에 비하여 많았으며 엽폭도 50% 차광 재배에서 가장 우수 하여 음지성 지피식물로 식재가능 하였다. 생체중은 무처리구 90.43g에 비하여 모든 차광재배가 각각 31.63g, 43.39g, 19.40g로 증가 하였으며 특히 뿌리의 생육이 줄기의 생육에 비하여 30% 차광재배의 12.33g에 비하여 48.48g으로 많이 증가 하였다. 엽록소 합성은 50% 차광의 경우 46.2로 무차광재배의 41.9에 비하여 증가하였으며 기타 차광재배의 경우는 오히려 줄어드는 경향이었다. 곤달비의 차광재배의 결과 50% 차광처리가 지피식물로서 생육이 가장 양호하였다.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.298-310
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• 2007

본 연구는 동판 건물 주변의 구리 오염 토양과 지렁이를 이용해 microcosm soil test를 실시함으로써 지렁이 체내에 농축된 구리 농도와 몇 가지의 토양 내 중금속 침출 방법으로 측정한 토양 내 구리 농도간의 상관관계를 비교하기 위하여 수행하였다. 조사 지역의 토양 시료를 이용해 control, 1C(Contamination level, 최저 처리 농도), 2C, 4C, 8C, 16C(최고 처리 농도)의 여섯 가지 처리구를 통해 microcosm soil test를 실시한 결과, 토양 내 구리의 농도와 실험 기간이 경과함에 따라 지렁이의 생장량과 지렁이 체내 농축 구리 농도가 함께 증가하는 것으로 조사되었으며, 그 정도는 microcosm 내 토양의 구리 처리 농도와 같은 순서였다. 토양 내 구리 농도를 조사하기 위해 공정시험법을 사용하였고 토양 내 구리 총함량을 조사하기 위해 EPA 3051 방법을 사용하였다. 공정시험법으로 침출한 토양 내 구리 농도와 토양 내 구리 총함량간의 상관계수(r)는 0.9875~0.9993로 고도의 정의 상관관계가 존재하였다. 위의 두 결과와 지렁이 체내에 농축된 구리 농도와의 상관관계를 비교해 본 결과, 공정시험법으로 침출한 토양 내 구리 농도와 지렁이 체내 농축 구리 농도간의 상관계수와 토양 내 구리 총함량과 지렁이 체내 농축 구리 농도간의 상관계수는 각각 0.9193~0.9728과 0.9282~0.9844로 고도의 정의 상관관계를 나타내었다. 토양 내 구리 농도와 지렁이 체내 농축 구리 농도 간에 상당히 높은 수준의 상관관계를 보임에 따라 지렁이는 토양 내 구리 오염에 대한 유용한 생물지표종(biological indicator species) 또는 생물모니터링(biomonitoring)에 적합한 종의 역할을 할 수 있을 것이라 판단하였다.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지하수토양환경학회 2004년도 임시총회 및 추계학술발표회
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• pp.119-120
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• 2004

Urban groundwater has a unique hydrologic system because of the complex surface and subsurface infrastructures such as deep foundation of many high buildings, subway systems, and sewers and public water supply systems. It generally has been considered that increased surface impermeability reduces the amount of groundwater recharge. On the other hand, leaks from sewers and public water supply systems may generate the large amounts of recharges. All of these urban facilities also may change the groundwater quality by the recharge of a myriad of contaminants. This study was performed to determine the factors controlling the recharge of deep groundwater in an urban area, based on the hydrogeochemical characteristics. The term ‘contamination’ in this study means any kind of inflow of shallow groundwater regardless of clean or contaminated. For this study, urban groundwater samples were collected from a total of 310 preexisting wells with the depth over 100 m. Random sampling method was used to select the wells for this study. Major cations together with Si, Al, Fe, Pb, Hg and Mn were analyzed by ICP-AES, and Cl, N $O_3$, N $H_4$, F, Br, S $O_4$and P $O_4$ were analyzed by IC. There are two groups of groundwater, based on hydrochemical characteristics. The first group is distributed broadly from Ca-HC $O_3$ type to Ca-C1+N $O_3$ type; the other group is the Na+K-HC $O_3$ type. The latter group is considered to represent the baseline quality of deep groundwater in the study area. Using the major ions data for the Na+K-HC $O_3$ type water, we evaluated the extent of groundwater contamination, assuming that if subtract the baseline composition from acquired data for a specific water, the remaining concentrations may indicate the degree of contamination. The remainder of each solute for each sample was simply averaged. The results showed that both Ca and HC $O_3$ represent the typical solutes which are quite enriched in urban groundwater. In particular, the P$CO_2$ values calculated using PHREEQC (version 2.8) showed a correlation with the concentrations of maior inorganic components (Na, Mg, Ca, N $O_3$, S $O_4$, etc.). The p$CO_2$ values for the first group waters widely ranged between about 10$^{-3.0}$ atm to 10$^{-1.0}$ atm and differed from those of the background water samples belonging to the Na+K-HC $O_3$ type (<10$^{-3.5}$ atm). Considering that the p$CO_2$ of soil water (near 10$^{-1.5}$ atm), this indicates that inflow of shallow water is very significant in deep groundwaters in the study area. Furthermore, the P$CO_2$ values can be used as an effective parameter to estimate the relative recharge of shallow water and thus the contamination susceptibility. The results of our present study suggest that down to considerable depth, urban groundwater in crystalline aquifer may be considerably affected by the recharge of shallow water (and pollutants) from an adjacent area. We also suggest that for such evaluation, careful examination of systematically collected hydrochemical data is requisite as an effective tool, in addition to hydrologic and hydrogeologic interpretation.ion.ion.