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Research on John School as a policy to prevent recidivism of online sex trafficking

  • Park, Jong-Ryeol;Noe, Sang-Ouk
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.23 no.8
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    • pp.143-149
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    • 2018
  • Recently, President Donald Trump signed FOSTA (Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act) in April 11, 2018, which makes online service no more immune from civil liability for the action of third party facilitating sex trafficking content. Although it is also important to enhance security regulations and cognition on law, but it will be economically more effective to put more energy on preventing recidivism. For John School in Korea, it should increase implementation rate by putting core manpower and budget for preventing needs of sex purchase and then, check operation method and efficacy to improve the actual program. One way is first, empirical analysis and data is required on efficacy of John School program. Second, should have clear definition in Special Sex Trade Law. Third, more strick regulation for selecting participant is required. Fourth, more manpower and budget is required. Fifth, charging the participant for educational fee shall be reviewed. Sixth, educational program should be reviewed. The most important point of education is to make those criminals feel guilty about financially purchasing the sex, basically making them to recognize that it is ethically wrong. However, the current education system contains no clear explanation about the ethical issue of such problem but focusing more on other factors such as sexual disease and structural problem of sexual business. Therefore, this failed to deliver the right psychological training to those criminals without any ethical control. Knowing why women feel hurt when having unwanted sexual relationship by being paid is required part in terms of education for preventing sex trafficking.

Biodiesel: Oil-crops and Biotechnology (바이오디젤 원료 작물 품종 개량과 생명공학기술 응용)

  • Roh, Kyung-Hee;Park, Jong-Sug
    • Applied Biological Chemistry
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    • v.50 no.3
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    • pp.137-146
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    • 2007
  • The substitution of fossil fuels with biofuels has been proposed by the European Union (EU) as part of a strategy to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from road transport, increase security of energy supply and support the development of rural communities. Vegetable oils and their derivatives (especially methyl esters), commonly referred to as 'biodiesel', are prominent candidates as alternative diesel fuels. They have advanced from being purely experimental fuels to the initial stages of commercialization. They are technically competitive with or offer technical advantages compared to conventional diesel fuel. However, several problems remain including economics, combustions, some emissions, lube oil contamination, and low-temperature properties. Therefore, quality control of fuel-related properties of biodiesel is needed to obtain consistent engine performance by fuel users. The quality of the fuel is affected by the oil composition. Rapeseed oil has been targeted for fuel use because it produces an oil with a close-to-optimum set of fuel characteristics. In this paper we have reviewed past and current efforts, both by traditional seed-breeding methods and by genetic engineering, to modify rapeseed oil quality and yield.

Case Study on the Application of Disaster Training System in Disaster Response Safety Training in Korea (에너지산업현장에서의 재난대응안전한국훈련시 재난훈련시스템 적용성 검토 사례조사)

  • Park, Namhee;Yeo, Wookhyun;Kim, Taehwan
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.211-218
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    • 2018
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study is to find a way to use the disaster drill system that can be used in the training in the required situation in the safety training situation in the safety industry to prepare for the disaster in the energy industry field by utilizing the developed system. Method: In order to accomplish the purpose of the research, I investigated the papers, reports, statistical data, and visited the site to investigate the training situation. Results: Disaster response safety Korean training is not only responding to disasters but also cooperating activities with local governments and related organizations. The contents are complex, diverse, and multifaceted. Conclusion: The disaster training system should be applied to the self training of the organization to prepare for the disaster and the safety training for disaster response in Korea.

Assessing the Limits of Agricultural Situation for the Food Security in North Korea

  • Rhie, Ja-Hyun;Lee, Kyo-Suk;Seo, Il-Hwan;Min, Se-Won;Chung, Doug-Young
    • Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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    • v.50 no.4
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    • pp.275-284
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    • 2017
  • The food situation in North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea, DPRK) has been in difficulty situation because of a shortage of energy, and of raw materials such as fertilizer and agricultural chemicals. The international agricultural aid programs can alleviate some difficulties in the agricultural areas, but the policies and measures in North Korea can not help difficulties in the agriculture due to the institutional obstacles enforced by DPRK. The arable area of DPRK is approximately $20,000km^2$, of which $14,000km^2$ is well for cereal cultivation. Fertilizer supplies in recent years between 700,000 and 750,000 tons annually were less than 50% of the normal requirement. Also, North Korea strongly needed to inject phosphorus fertilizer and lime to increase the fertility. Soil degradation in DPRK was characterized by physical and chemical changes caused by rapid loss of clay particles and organic matter. Intensive ploughing and tilling to grow crops may lead to massive soil degradation and declining yields. Although farmers in the DPRK have faced numerous challenges, not least of which are soil erosion, scarce inputs and extreme weather like drought, flooding and cold spells. Therefore farmers should be encouraged to adopt more environmentally sound cropping practices, to access quality seeds and planting materials and to reduce losses after the harvest.

Real-time measurement management system UI development linked the Water treatment facilities Broadband Convergence Network (수처리시설용 광대역 통합망 연계형 실시간 계측 관리 시스템 UI개발)

  • Yang, Seungyoun;Kim, Jintae;Oh, Hwanjin;Lee, Minwoo
    • Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.83-86
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, we propose a real-tim measurement management system UI development linked the Water treatment facilities broadband Convergence Network. The sensor and the image data received by the server develop a program to interact with Web through water treatment facilities broadband convergence network. So, Separately develop UI capable of independently operating. Building a web server for remote monitoring of the transmission sensor and the image data. And Monitoring and control is possible the sensor data and image data through the Web-based UI. We can grasp the current state such as measurement time, concentration and depth of interface through the proposed real-time measurement management system UI development liked the water treatment facilities broadband convergence network. So, we can check in whether the normal operation of water treatment facilities and whether the casualties such as fire and security. As well as real time to see the information at a glance due to UI development can be raal-time monitoring of real-time measurement management system.

An innovative BRB with viscoelastic layers: performance evaluation and numerical simulation

  • Zhou, Ying;Gong, Shunming;Hu, Qing;Wu, Rili
    • Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.205-229
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    • 2018
  • Energy induced by minor earthquake and micro vibration cannot be dissipated by traditional buckling-restrained braces (BRBs). To solve this problem, a new type of hybrid passive control device, named as VE-BRB, which is configured by a BRB with high-damping viscoelastic (VE) layers, is developed and studied. Theoretical analysis, performance tests, numerical simulation and case analysis are conducted to study the seismic behavior of VE-BRBs. The results indicate that the combination of hysteretic and damping devices lead to a multi-phased nature and good performance. VE-BRB's working state can be divided into three phases: before yielding of the steel core, VE layers provide sufficient damping ratio to mitigate minor vibrations; after yielding of the steel core, the steel's hysteretic deformations provide supplemental dissipative capacity for structures; after rupture of the steel core, VE layers are still able to work normally and provide multiple security assurance for structures. The simulation results agreed well with the experimental results, validating the finite element analysis method, constitutive models and the identified parameters. The comparison of the time history analysis on a 6-story frame with VE-BRBs and BRBs verified the advantages of VE-BRB for seismic protection of structures compared with traditional BRB. In general, VE-BRB had the potential to provide better control effect on structural displacement and shear in all stages than BRB as expected.

Low-Frequency Normal Mode Reverberation Model (저주파수 정상모드 잔향음 모델)

  • Oh, Suntaek;Cho, Sungho;Kang, Donhyug;Park, Kyoungju
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.184-191
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, a normal mode reverberation model for a range-independent environment of shallow water is proposed to calculate the reverberation level in the low-frequency range. Normal mode is used to calculate the acoustic energy propagating from the source to the scattering area and from the scattering area to the receiver. Each mode is decomposed into up and down going waves to consider scattering strength at the scattering area. The scattering functional form combines Lambert's law with a Gaussian-like term near the specular direction based on Kirchhoff approximation considering bottom condition. For verification of the suggested model, the result is relatively compared to several solutions of the problem XI and XV in the Reverberation Modeling Workshop I sponsored by the US Office of Naval Research.

Verification of SPACE Code with MSGTR-PAFS Accident Experiment (증기발생기 전열관 다중파단-피동보조급수냉각계통 사고 실험 기반 안전해석코드 SPACE 검증)

  • Nam, Kyung Ho;Kim, Tae Woo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.84-91
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    • 2020
  • The Korean nuclear industry developed the SPACE (Safety and Performance Analysis Code for nuclear power plants) code and this code adpots two-phase flows, two-fluid, three-field models which are comprised of gas, continuous liquid and droplet fields and has a capability to simulate three-dimensional model. According to the revised law by the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC) in Korea, the multiple failure accidents that must be considered for accident management plan of nuclear power plant was determined based on the lessons learned from the Fukushima accident. Generally, to improve the reliability of the calculation results of a safety analysis code, verification work for separate and integral effect experiments is required. In this reason, the goal of this work is to verify calculation capability of SPACE code for multiple failure accident. For this purpose, it was selected the experiment which was conducted to simulate a Multiple Steam Generator Tube Rupture(MSGTR) accident with Passive Auxiliary Feedwater System(PAFS) operation by Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) and focused that the comparison between the experiment results and code calculation results to verify the performance of the SPACE code. The MSGR accident has a unique feature of the penetration of the barrier between the Reactor Coolant System (RCS) and the secondary system resulting from multiple failure of steam generator U-tubes. The PAFS is one of the advanced safety features with passive cooling system to replace a conventional active auxiliary feedwater system. This system is passively capable of condensing steam generated in steam generator and feeding the condensed water to the steam generator by gravity. As the results of overall system transient response using SPACE code showed similar trends with the experimental results such as the system pressure, mass flow rate, and collapsed water level in component. In conclusion, it could be concluded that the SPACE code has sufficient capability to simulate a MSGTR accident.

PPNC: Privacy Preserving Scheme for Random Linear Network Coding in Smart Grid

  • He, Shiming;Zeng, Weini;Xie, Kun;Yang, Hongming;Lai, Mingyong;Su, Xin
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.1510-1532
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    • 2017
  • In smart grid, privacy implications to individuals and their families are an important issue because of the fine-grained usage data collection. Wireless communications are utilized by many utility companies to obtain information. Network coding is exploited in smart grids, to enhance network performance in terms of throughput, delay, robustness, and energy consumption. However, random linear network coding introduces a new challenge for privacy preserving due to the encoding of data and updating of coefficients in forwarder nodes. We propose a distributed privacy preserving scheme for random linear network coding in smart grid that considers the converged flows character of the smart grid and exploits a homomorphic encryption function to decrease the complexities in the forwarder node. It offers a data confidentiality privacy preserving feature, which can efficiently thwart traffic analysis. The data of the packet is encrypted and the tag of the packet is encrypted by a homomorphic encryption function. The forwarder node random linearly codes the encrypted data and directly processes the cryptotext tags based on the homomorphism feature. Extensive security analysis and performance evaluations demonstrate the validity and efficiency of the proposed scheme.

Development of Hybrid Power Storage System for Urban Railway with UPS Function for Emergency Power Generation (비상발전용 UPS 기능을 갖춘 도시철도용 복합형 전력저장시스템 개발)

  • Hong, Kyungjin
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.191-196
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    • 2019
  • In the case of urban railway facilities, the power supply should be maintained for the safe movement of passengers in communication facilities, disaster prevention facilities and boarding area security because of the confusion when power supply is cut off due to the nature of public transportation. In addition, considering that the number of trains is running on the urban railway line, it is necessary to operate at least 30 minutes for the bus stop and at least 1 hour for the communication and disaster prevention facilities. Therefore, it is essential to supply emergency power source to maintain stable operation of induction lamp and smoke exhaust system because main power is cut off in order to prevent further spread due to fire in case of the history of urban railway section or vehicle fires. Recently, UPS(Uninterruptible Power Supply) function to prevent power outage in emergency, emergency power generation combined with ESS function which saves electricity at nighttime price time, A hybrid power storage system with a UPS function.