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Earthquake Engineering Bedrock Based on the Shear Wave Velocities of Rock Strata in Korea (국내 암반지층의 전단파속도에 근거한 지진공학적 기반암 결정)

  • Sun, Chang-Guk
    • The Journal of Engineering Geology
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.273-281
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    • 2014
  • In most current seismic design codes, design earthquake ground motions are defined by a reference spectrum, based on bedrock and site amplification factors that quantify the geotechnical dynamic conditions. Earthquake engineering bedrock is the fundamental geotechnical formation where the seismic waves are attenuated without amplification. To better define bedrock in an earthquake engineering context, shear wave velocity ($V_S$ ) data obtained from in-situ seismic tests were examined for several rock strata in Korea; these data were categorized by borehole drilling investigations. The $V_S$ values for most soft rock data in Korea are > 750 m/s, which is the threshold $V_S$ value for identifying engineering bedrock from a strong motion station. Conversely, VS values are < 750 m/s for 60% of $V_S$ data in weathered rock in Korea. Thus, the soft (or harder) rock strata below the weathered rock layer in Korea can be regarded as earthquake engineering bedrock.

A Study on DNA Degeneration by Comet Assay & Pathological Observation for Mouse Which were Exposed HCN Gases from Fire (화재로 인한 HCN 가스에 노출된 마우스의 병리학적 관찰 및 단세포 전기영동법을 사용한 DNA 변성 추적에 관한 연구)

  • Cho, Nam-Wook;Oh, Eun-Ha;Hwang, Sung-Kwy
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.7-16
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    • 2012
  • Combustion Toxic Effects among several factors of risk encountered during fire are important in the evacuation and final survival, and they are broader and fatal than the direct damages caused by flame. Most studies on fire toxicity until the present are limited to fatality, mainly deaths by fire through pathological research. In this study, it is conducted as a fundamental experiment to address 3 principles of animal experiment and to provide an alternative test to animal testing that is regulated by national building codes and it was conducted through approval by the animal testing ethics committee. Hence, in this study average time of activity stop was measured after directly inhaling toxic gases (HCN) to laboratory animals (mice) through gas toxicity test (KS F 2271) for major asphyxiating gases(HCN) which are produced during fire combustion. effects of Combustion toxic gases on body were quantitatively analyzed through changes in internal organs and hematological analysis, and electrophoresis of a single cell of these laboratory animals. Biological conclusion of combustion toxicology is drawn through approaches (pathological examination, blood test, blood biochemical test, electrophoresis analysis of single cell) which could not confirmed in existing gas toxicity test.

A Study on the Serum Lipid Levels and Related Factors among Women in a Rural Community (일부 농촌지역 여성들의 혈청지질치와 관련요인에 대한 조사)

  • Lim, Jeong-Whan;Cho, Young-Chae;Lee, Dong-Bae
    • Journal of agricultural medicine and community health
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.27-34
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    • 1997
  • This study was performed to offer the fundamental data for preventing and controlling the cardiovascular diseases of rural community women. The number of 168 women aged 40 to 50s who live in Kumsan-gun, Chungnam were selected for analysis after medical examination by a Kumsan-gun health center during the period of November to December in 1996. Total cholesterol(TC), triglyceride(TG), high density lipoprotein cholesterol(HDL-C), blood pressure(BP), degree of obesity(BMI) and atherosclerosis index(AI) were measured and relation between these physical measurements to serum lipid levels were studied. The results were as follows; 1. Mean TC level, TG level, BP, BMI and AI were significantly increased with advancing age. 2. Mean TC level, TG level, BMI and AI of borderline BP group and hypertension group were significantly increased than those of normal BP group. 3. Mean TC level, TG level and AI of obesity group were significantly increased than those of normal BMI group. 4. Simple correlation analysis showed that the positive correlation between TC, TG, BP, BMI and AI, but the level of HDL-C was negative correlation with TG and AI. 5. In multiple regression analysis taking HDL-C level as the dependent variable and TG, TC, BP, BMI, Age AI as the independent variable, AI, TG, BMI, TC were significantly related to HDL-C.

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Development of Survey to Inquire Continuity of English Curriculum betwenn Elementary and Middle School (초, 중등 영어 교과과정 연계성 인식 조사를 위한 설문도구 개발)

  • Won, Eun-Sok;Jeon, Young-Ju
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.16 no.8
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    • pp.568-579
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    • 2016
  • This study tried to design survey questions to inquire continuity in the English curriculum between elementary and middle school by integrating English teachers' opinions. To achieve this goal, the authors designed three-step development procedure. First, to set fundamental structure of the research, the researchers elicited main keywords by adopting Keyword Extraction toward precedent studies. Next, implemented a survey to 102 English teachers and analyzed their quantitative and qualitative responses. Among them, 22 teachers were selected as interviewee. Based on the results drawn from the pilot survey and the interview, this study suggested a survey, containing 40 questions designed to examine seven factors and 3 open-ended questions, to be utilized in researching cognition of continuity of the English curriculum.

A Preliminary Study of the Application of Prototyping Tools for Design Education Plans; Focusing on Open Source Microcontroller Boards

  • Nam, Wonsuk
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.107-116
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    • 2018
  • In the past, design has been recognized as a means to determine colors, shapes, and functions Recently, however, it has been accepted in a wider sense, namely designing the entire service, including product and user experience design. In this way, in addition to creativity and expressive power that designers have as their main competence, according to the expansion of this design object, designers are required to have comprehensive abilities in related fields and accompanying technical professional abilities. If designing as a technology application as a direction toward this situation, design education can be carried out by approaching technology as a method of expression or design subject. It can also be an effective alternative towards improving the understanding of technology. Meanwhile, many small microcontroller board products with advanced functions and multi-functional specialized programming integrated development environments (IDEs) are becoming widespread due to their open source, low cost, and scalable features. However, students in the design department who lack the basic knowledge of science and engineering have difficulties learning, which requires considerable time and is required for practical use. From this point of view, we have made advancements in the technical understanding of design education by conducting fundamental research to the effectiveness of microcontroller-based prototyping tools as means of expression. We also conducted basic education of microcontroller boards for a certain period of time on students who majored in design in conjunction with the basic survey and investigated the obstacle factors using a questionnaire. Through these surveys, we have confirmed the necessity of designing microcontroller boards of low difficulty, which simplify the coding process that can act as a barrier in difficulty for design students to apply smoothly in design education. In addition, we intend to carry out a basic study on the guideline of microcontroller design for design education and composition of education programs.

Comparison of histopathological and molecular diagnostic methods in Helicobacter suis infection in Korea (국내 도축돈의 위병변과 Helicobacter suis의 검출과의 상관관계)

  • Lee, Jae Ha;Lee, Sun Gue;Han, Jeong Hee
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Service
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    • v.41 no.3
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    • pp.197-202
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    • 2018
  • Helicobacter suis is a gram negative bacterium and colonizes in porcine stomach. It causes gastric diseases in the stomach and plays a significant role in daily weight gains in pigs. Recent studies about one of potential sources of human gastric diseases. Therefore, this study was conducted to compare histopathological lesions and molecular detection of Helicobacter suis in the pyloric mucosa of porcine stomachs transferred from slaughterhouses, based on gross and histological examinations and a PCR assay. A total 90 stomach samples were investigated to record gastric lesion scores by characteristic gastric lesions, followed by routine H & E and Warthin-Starry silver staining to detect Helicobacter-like organisms. For PCR assay, H. suis specific primers and conditions are used. Sixty-one samples (67.8%) showed gross gastric lesions, of which 38 samples (40.2%) presented grade 1, 12 samples (13.3%) presented grade 2, and 11 samples (12.2%) presented grade 3, respectively. In Warthin-Starry silver stain, Helicobacter-like organisms were detected from 11 samples (12.2%) with 4 samples (4.4%) for grade 0, 5 samples (5.6%) for grade 1, 1 sample (1.1%) for grade 2 and 1 sample (1.1%) for grade 3, respectively. The PCR resulted positive in 37 samples (41.1%) with 14 samples (15.6%) for grade 0, 14 samples (15.6%) for grade 1, 3 samples (3.3%) for grade 2 and 6 samples (6.7%) for grade 3, respectively. Positive samples for both examinations were 5 samples (5.6%). The result suggested that it should be considered as one of factors causing a gastric disease in pigs. Also, it could be acknowledged to research fundamental aspects of Helicobacter-induced gastritis in human as an animal model.

The Influence of the Presence Perceived by Learners and Participation Motivation on Satisfaction in Distance Education (원격교육에서 성인학습자의 교육참여동기와 실재감이 학습만족도에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Jae-Eun;Yu, Byeong-Min;Park, Hye-Jin
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.233-243
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    • 2015
  • This study is for understanding differences of satisfaction followed by learning and teaching presence perceived by learners and participation motivation on learning in a distance education. General characteristics of learner are classified as an entrance type, sex, age, new/transfer of distance university learners. Perceived presence is classified with learning presence and teaching presence. Participation motivation on learning is classified with the directivity of activity, goal, and study based on the reason of participating in classes in a distance university. And this research tried out to find the effects of learner's characteristics, perceived presence, and participation motivation on learning satisfaction. The results are as follows. First, there was no meaningful difference of general characteristic on satisfaction. It means sex, age, and entrance type did not have an effect on satisfaction. Second, with the level of presence perceived by learner, satisfaction has meaningful differences. It means that students who had higher learning presence perceived of distance university showed higher satisfaction, and so as in teaching presence perceived on satisfaction. Third, factors effecting satisfaction based on participation motivation on learning differ with types of motivation. There was no meaningful difference of the level of activity directivity study participant on satisfaction, but was a meaningful difference of goal directivity and of study directivity in participation motivation on learning satisfaction. It was the learning presence that had a significant effect on learning satisfaction of adult learning.

Consumer Responses to Stockouts in Online Fashion Stores: Indicating Effects of Psychological Reactance and Emotion (온라인 패션점포의 품절에 대한 소비자 반응: 심리적 반발심과 감정의 매개효과를 중심으로)

  • Shin, Hyesun;Hur, Hee Jin;Choo, Ho Jung
    • Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.770-780
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    • 2015
  • This study intended to explore fundamental causes affecting consumers' response actions from psychological factors in the situation of sellout occurring during shopping in online fashion stores. In addition, this study devised a virtual online shop in order to measure consumers' cognitive and emotional psychological responses they experienced when goods were sold out. The subjects involved women in 20s~30s, major customers of online shopping, and the subjects were randomly allocated to one of eight questionnaire forms (2(stockout size: high vs low)${\times}2$(product assortment similarity: similar vs. dissimilar)${\times}2$(restocking cue: included vs excluded)). The number of final data used for the analysis was 336 and through SPSS 21.0 program, two-way ANOVA and bootstrap were utilized. The analysis result was that consumers' psychological responses (emotions, psychological reactance) of online shops differed by means of varying stockout situations. The stockout size had positive effect on psychological reactance and negative emotions. On the other hand, there was no difference in positive emotions (arousal) according to stockout size. In stockout situation of online fashion store, the moderating effect of product assortment similarity and restocking cues were verified. According to the analysis result, interaction effects between stockout size and restocking cues, product stockout size and product assortment for psychological reactance were significant. Lastly, the mediation effect of psychological reactance and emotion between stockout size and behavioral response was tested. As a result, the moderated mediation effects of psychological reactance for substitute were significant when product assortment was dissimilar and restocking cue was exclude.

the Applying Differences of Excepted Perils in the Rotterdam Rules (로테르담 규칙하에서의 면책사유의 적용상 특징)

  • JO, Jong-Ju
    • THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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    • v.71
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    • pp.147-170
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    • 2016
  • International maritime law conventions concerned with cargo liabilities have sought to achieve solutions which will be acceptable to a wide range of states. The Rotterdam Rules was approved by the UN Assembly on 11 December 2008. The Rotterdam Rules are intended to replace The Hague and Hamburg Rules. This paper is comparing The Rotterdam Rules with The Hague and Hamburg Rules for the carrier' liabilities and exceptions in order to find carrier' liability System, the burden of proof and exceptions in the International maritime Rules. The purpose of this paper is considering the carrier's principal recourse for defending himself inmost cargo claims. The first area analyze the transfer of carrier's fundamental Liability system in the International Rules. The second is the matter on the appointment of proof in order to establish liability or to be relieve of liability. And the third is the change of the carrier's possible exclusions from liability in the International maritime Rules. From the result of the said analysis, my paper suggests differences of the exclusions in the Rotterdam Rules comparing with the Hague and Hamburg Rules, and features of the Rotterdam Rules appling exceptions on the basis of the Hague and Hamburg Rules with regard to carrier's liability and burden of proof. The former is the inclusion of three exclusions, the deleted natural fault, and The provision making the carrier responsible for the acts of its servants or agents in the 'fire on the ship' of the Rotterdam Rules. The latter is deleting the principle of overriding obligation related to carrier's obligation of seaworthiness in the Rotterdam Rules, the burden of proof being diverted from the carrier to the carrier and the shipper in the cargo damage caused by two factors(one for which the carrier was liable and the other for which it was excusable) in the new rules.

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Physical and Mechanical Properties of Quercus glauca Thunberg according to Forest Stand Characteristics (임분 특성에 따른 종가시나무의 물리·역학적 특성)

  • Hong, Nam-Euy;Won, Kyung-Rok;Yoo, Byung-Oh;Jung, Su-Young;Kim, Byung-Ro;Byeon, Hee-Seop
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • v.44 no.5
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    • pp.767-775
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    • 2016
  • Wood properties are affected by environmental factors such as soil, topography, rainfall, and climate change. The physical and mechanical properties of Quercus glauca were analyzed in order to investigate the relationship between wood properties and forest stand characteristics related to regions and forest origins. Physical and mechanical properties of wood were influenced by region. And no significant difference was observed between natural and artificial forests with respect to wood quality properties. Therefore, these findings are expected to be useful as fundamental data for silviculture practices of these species for wood quality.