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Analyzing the Relationship between the Spatial Configuration of Urban Streets and Air Quality (도시가로의 형태요소와 대기질과의 관계 연구)

  • Chu, Junghyun;Oh, Kyushik;Jeong, Yeun-Woo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.73-82
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    • 2009
  • The traffic volume of Seoul is extremely high in comparison to other major cities in Korea, and the result has been harmful physical and mental exposure to pollution by Seoulites on a regular basis. The street air pollution is more important than the others, because the air pollution generated by street traffic directly impacts the health of nearby pedestrians. This problem requires urgent attention and resolution. Among the factors creating the air pollution originating from the street, is the configuration of streets, which have emerged as the most significant because it is related to air and pollutant dispersion. Therefore, this study was conducted under the assumption that street form affects the air quality. Study sites were classified by street characteristics, and air quality was analyzed in each class. Then the OSPM (Operational Street Pollution Model) was employed to simulate the relationship between street configuration and air quality of streets within the old city center and new city center in Seoul. After that this study analyzed the correlation between air pollution and the spatial configuration of urban streets (ex. street width, building height, building density, etc.) to determine their contributions to air pollution. The outcome of this study is as follows : First, the result that was derived from the correlation analysis between street configuration and air quality hewed that the air pollution of the street is influenced by the average height of building, width of the roads as well as traffic volume. On the roadside, the concentration level of $NO_2$ is mainly affected by the average height of building and the deviation of building height along the street and CO is affected by street width. The outcome of this study can be used as a basis for more sound urban design policies, and the promotion of desirable street environments for pedestrians.

Occurrence and Host Plant of Metcalfa Pruinosa (Say) (Hemiptera: Flatidae) in Korea (국내 미국선녀벌레의 분포 및 기주식물)

  • Kim, Dong-Eon;Kil, Jihyon
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.23 no.8
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    • pp.1385-1394
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    • 2014
  • Metcalfa pruinosa was considered to be a very harmful invasive species, due to its high species density in nature and wide range of its host plants. M. pruinosa was distributed in 28 sites among 143 sites. M. pruinosa has wide range and diverse host plants of 52 families 110 species including crop, fruits and forest trees. At present, the identified host plant of M. pruinosa are composed of 62 families and 145 species in total since their first appearance was reported. M. pruinosa was found in roadside 46.7%, followed by forests 33.3% and orchard 20%. Nymphs and adults cause damage to crop and orchard by sucking juice, outbreak of fungi through secretion of wax, and reduction of plant assimilation due to the nectar of nymphs. Also, it reduces the merchantable quality of fruits and thus causes economic damage. It is judged that M. pruinosa has been moved along major road via the traffic vehicles.

Damage Detection of Decrepit Tunnel Structures using the NDT (비파괴 검사법에 의한 노후터널의 건전도 평가)

  • Kim, Dong-Gyou;Jung, Ho-Seop
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2010.03a
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    • pp.1388-1391
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    • 2010
  • Recently, the construction of road, subway, railroad, and microtunnel for electricity supplement have been increased because of increasement of traffic in urban area, increasement of industrial transportation, and the network between cities in Korea. The deterioration of tunnel structure may occur by various internal and external factors and particularly, tunnel structures tend to contact with either underground water or harmful ions. Therefore, leakage sometimes occurred through the cracks and joints of concrete lining. The leakage in tunnel may affect the durability of concrete lining. In this study, to evaluate the durability and deterioration of concrete lining in tunnel structures, we were performed the various experiments for compressive strength. Compressive strength obtained from nondestructive inspection and compressive strength test varies according to the concrete lining conditions.

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A method for Real-time Detecting and Responsing Harmful Traffic in IP Network (IP 망에서 실시간 유해 트래픽 공격 탐지 및 대응 방법)

  • Kim, Eun-Joo;Lee, Soon-Seok;Kim, Young-Boo
    • 한국IT서비스학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.549-553
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    • 2009
  • 인터넷의 빠른 발전과 확산에 따라, 통신은 방송, 통신, 인터넷 등 개별 미디어 융합을 기반으로 IP 기반 융합네트워크로 발전해 나가고 있다. 네트워크의 발전과 함께 보안문제는 네트워크 관리에 있어서 매우 중요시 되고 있는데, 특히 트래픽 폭주를 일으키는 분산공격트래픽 공격에 대한 방어는 필수적이라 할 수 있으며, 분산공격트래픽 공격에서는 알려진 패턴에 대한 유해트래픽의 방어뿐만 아니라 알려지지 않은 새로운 패턴의 유해트래픽에 대한 보안관리가 모두 필요하다. 현재 인터넷에 대한 공격을 차단할 수 있는 방어 기술은 싱크홀(sinkhole) 터널링(tunneling) 기술 등이 제공되고 있으나, 싱크홀 라우터를 따로 만들지 않고 알려지지 않은 패턴의 유해트래픽에 대한 실시간 탐지 및 대응 방법은 정의되고 있지 않다. 본 논문에서는 분산공격트래픽, 바이러스 등을 모두 포함하는 유해트래픽의 실시간 탐지 및 대응 방법에 대하여 제안한다.

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An Empirical Study on Firefighters' Health Hazard Factors -Focused on Fire Fighters, Rescue Workers and Emergency Medical Technicians Perception in Busan Fire Fighters- (소방공무원 건강장해 유해인자에 대한 실증연구 -화재진압대원, 구조대원, 구급대원의 인식조사를 중심으로-)

  • Kwon, Seol A;Lee, Min-Kyu;Park, Sang Ho;Kim, Da Young;Ryu, Sang Il
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.520-529
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    • 2019
  • This study is intended to provide basic data for health management of firefighters in the future by empirically looking into health hazard factors of firefighters in Busan City. It was revealed that firstly, the danger of harmful chemicals in a fire was perceived the most by firefighters, who extinguish a fire in person on the scene of a fire, and it was followed by the danger of falling while putting out a fire. This study is intended to provide basic data for health management of firefighters in the future by empirically looking into health hazard factors of firefighters in Busan City. It was revealed that firstly, the danger of harmful chemicals in a fire was perceived the most by firefighters, who extinguish a fire in person on the scene of a fire, and it was followed by the danger of falling while putting out a fire. Moreover, the danger of shift work was perceived the most by paramedics. This corresponds to the existing studies arguing that shift work is harmful to health. Next, the overload of patient transport was recognized as the second biggest hazard factor. This demonstrates they are worried about various second accidents that may happen due to a lot of patient transport works. In addition, the possibility of causing a traffic accident was perceived as a hazard factor too, since they must drive ambulance cars quickly to transport patients. Lastly, rescue workers regarded these hazard factors to be most dangerous. This is associated with their occupational characteristics, because rescue workers are the closest to diverse risks including a fire.

An Investigation into Air Quality of Main Roads in Busan using Mobile Platform Measurement (이동 측정방법을 사용한 부산지역 주요 도로의 대기오염도 조사)

  • Do, Woo-Gon;Jung, Woo-Sik;Yoo, Eun-Chul;Kwak, Jin
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.22 no.9
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    • pp.1199-1211
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    • 2013
  • Mobile sources produce a significant fraction of total anthropogenic emissions in Korea and have harmful effects on air quality. Mobile emissions are intrinsically difficult to estimate due to complicated road networks and variations of traffic volume with location and time. To measure traffic pollutants with high temporal and spatial resolution under real conditions a mobile laboratory was designed. The mobile laboratory provide concentrations of $SO_2$, CO, NO, $NO_2$ and location coordinate value. This approach allowed for pollutant level measurements on many roads within short periods of time. In this study, on-road concentrations of $SO_2$, CO, NO and $NO_2$ were measured using mobile platform measurement along the 25 main roads in Busan to estimate the average air pollution level in short time difference. The measurements were conducted on favorable meteorological days from 2010 to 2012 and the overall concentrations of $SO_2$, CO, NO and $NO_2$ were 0.006, 0.8, 0.182 and 0.055 ppm respectively. The result showed that the concentration of CO, NO and $NO_2$ on road were twice, 18 times and 2.5 times higher than regional air quality monitoring sites mean in same period.

Harmful Traffic Control Using Sink Hole Routing (싱크홀 라우팅을 이용한 유해 트래픽 제어)

  • Chang, Moon-Soo;Lee, Jeong-Il;Oh, Chang-Suk
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.69-76
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    • 2009
  • The construction of Internet IP-based Network is composed of router and switch models in a variety of companies. The construction by various models causes the complexity of the management and control as different types of CLI is used by different company to filter out abnormal traffics like worm, virus, and DDoS. To improve this situation, IETF is working on enacting XML based configuration standards from NETCONF working group, but currently few commands processing at the level of operation layer on NETCONF are only standardized and it's hard for unified control operation process between different make of system as different company has different XML command to filter out abnormal traffics. This thesis proposes ways to prevent abnormal attacks and increase efficiency of network by re-routing the abnormal traffics coming thru unified control for different make of systems into Sinkhole router and designing a control system to efficiently prevent various attacks after checking the possibility of including abnormal traffics from unified control operation.

Evaluation of the Effects of a Grouping Algorithm on IEEE 802.15.4 Networks with Hidden Nodes

  • Um, Jin-Yeong;Ahn, Jong-Suk;Lee, Kang-Woo
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.81-91
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    • 2014
  • This paper proposes hidden-node aware grouping (HAG) algorithm to enhance the performance of institute of electrical and electronics engineers (IEEE) 802.15.4 networks when they undergo either severe collisions or frequent interferences by hidden nodes. According to the degree of measured collisions and interferences, HAG algorithm dynamically transforms IEEE 802.15.4 protocol between a contention algorithm and a contention-limited one. As a way to reduce the degree of contentions, it organizes nodes into some number of groups and assigns each group an exclusive per-group time slot during which only its member nodes compete to grab the channel. To eliminate harmful disruptions by hidden nodes, especially, it identifies hidden nodes by analyzing the received signal powers that each node reports and then places them into distinct groups. For load balancing, finally it flexibly adapts each per-group time according to the periodic average collision rate of each group. This paper also extends a conventional Markov chain model of IEEE 802.15.4 by including the deferment technique and a traffic source to more accurately evaluate the throughput of HAG algorithm under both saturated and unsaturated environments. This mathematical model and corresponding simulations predict with 6%discrepancy that HAG algorithm can improve the performance of the legacy IEEE 802.15.4 protocol, for example, even by 95% in a network that contains two hidden nodes, resulting in creation of three groups.

Minimizing Security Hole and Improving Performance in Stateful Inspection for TCP Connections (TCP연결의 스테이트풀 인스펙션에 있어서의 보안 약점 최소화 및 성능 향상 방법)

  • Kim, Hyo-Gon;Kang, In-Hye
    • Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.443-451
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    • 2005
  • Stateful inspection devices must maintain flow information. These devices create the flow information also for network attack packets, and it can fatally inflate the dynamic memory allocation on stateful inspection devices under network attacks. The memory inflation leads to memory overflow and subsequent performance degradation. In this paper, we present a guideline to set the flow entry timeout for a stateful inspection device to remove harmful embryonic entries created by network attacks. Considering Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) if utilized by most of these attacks as well as legitimate traffic, we propose a parsimonious memory management guideline based on the design of the TCP and the analysis of real-life Internet traces. In particular, we demonstrate that for all practical purposes one should not reserve memory for an embryonic TCP connection with more than (R+T) seconds of inactivity where R=0, 3, 9 and $1\leqq{T}\leqq{2}$ depending on the load level.

A Study of Heavy Metal Pollutants in the Respirable Dust in Seoul Area (호흡성분진중의 중금속 오염도에 관한 조사연구)

  • Lim, Young-Wook;Chung, Young
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.68-78
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    • 1989
  • The heavy metal of suspended particulates with human health has long been studied in environmental interest concerned. This study was intended to identify harmful heavy metals of the ambient air borne dusts which were related with the respirable sizes in the aerodynamics. Two sampling sites were selected comparatively; one was in the Shinchon area, which is the commercial district with heavy traffic and the other site was in the Bulgwang area which is residential area. The supended particulates were sampled by high volume air sample with 6 cascade impactor stages. The heavy metals in terms of As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Hg, Mn, Ni, Pb, Se, V and Zn were determined by stomic absorption spectrometry or inductively coupled plasma emission spectrometry. The samples weretaken bimothly for seven consecutive days from May 1987 to March 1988. The annual average concentration of the respirable suspended dust of which diameter is less than 10$\mum$ was 152.59 $\mug/m^3$ of the Shinchon air samples; the respirable dust was equivalent to approximately 85% of the total suspended particulates. The annual average concentration of the respirable suspended dust of the Bulgwang air samples was 112.56 $\mug/m^3$; that was approximately 86% of the total suspended particulates. The concentration of heavy metals was investigated in relation to the particle size. The concentration of Cr, Fe, Mn and V were tended to be much more in the coarse particles than in the fine particles. Cd and Pb in the fine particles were more than in the coarse particles. In the partial correlation coefficients; in the Shinchon area, high correlations among Fe, Se and Mn were determined; it is assumed that those sources would be originated from coal, gasolineand diesel. In Bulgwang area, would be high correlation among Fe, Se, Hg and Mn considered to be originated from coal, Bunker-C and heavy oil as well. From the above results, the hazardous heavy merals in air should be measured and controlled in originally their sources.

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