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A Study on Water Quality Standard for the Protection of Human Health and Aquatic Life (인체의 위해성과 수생태계를 고려한 수질환경기준 설정에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jae-Hyun;Kim, Yoon-Shin
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.985-992
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    • 2007
  • There are about 40,000 chemicals used in Korea and 300 new types of chemicals are added to the list every year, influencing quality of air, soil and water. Water quality standards that serve as the basis for water quality management have been proved inefficient and insufficient compared to those of advanced countries. This study aims to improve the existing water quality standards. Most importantly, the water quality standards need to take into account not only protection of human health but also aquatic resources. To that end, water quality criteria need to be set by monitoring each watershed every year and conducting risk assessment. Criteria for human health are set at $10^{-6}$ cancer risk level, and for aquatic life at conservative level, adopting the methodology of the U.S. and Australia, respectively. After carrying out technical and economic feasibility studies, more conservative criteria will be used to decide final water quality standards. The development of this system to establish integrated water quality standards for both human health and aquatic resources protection is urgently needed.

The Standardization Modeling concerning Organizational Composition and a Management System for the Protection of Personal Information (개인정보 보호를 위한 조직구성과 관리체계에 관한 표준화 모델링)

  • Seo, Woo Seok;Jun, Moon Seog
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.33-39
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    • 2012
  • Since the passing of the Personal Information Act in March 2011 and its initial introduction in September, over the one year to date diverse security devices and solutions have been flowing into the market to enable observance of the relevant laws. Beginning with security consulting, corporations and institutions have focused on technology-based business in order to enable observance of those laws competitively in accordance with 6-step key procedures including proposal, materialization, introduction, construction, implementation, and execution. However there has not been any investment in human resources in the field of education such as technology education and policy education relative to the most important human resources field nor investment in professionals in the organization for the protection of personal information or in human resources for operating and managing IT infrastructure for actual entire personal information such as special sub-organizations. In this situation, as one process of attracting change from the nature of the technology-based security market toward a professional human resource-based security infrastructure market, it is necessary to conduct research into standardization modeling concerning special organizational composition and a management system for the protection of personal information.

NOTE - Determination of UVA Protection Factor with SPEX SkinSkan

  • Kawada, Akira;Kameyam, Hiroko;Sangen, Yoshiko;Aragane, Yoshinori;Tezuka, Tadashi;Hamagami, Ikuko
    • Journal of Photoscience
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.215-216
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    • 2003
  • SPEX SkinSkan is a newly developed spectrofluorometer that can calculate transmission of UVA on the surface of human skin as a non-invasive method. We have investigated UVA protection factors of Japanese over-the-counter sunscreens using SPEX SkinSkan. This non-invasive method is useful to know UVA protection of sunscreens in vivo.

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Circuit Improvement of 345kV Bus bar protection panel for Human Error Prevention in the event of Field Test (전력설비 시험시 인적실수 방지를 위한 345kV 모선보호 배전반 회로개선)

  • Kim, In-Sup;Lee, Jong-Seok;Jung, Si-Hwan;Kang, Dae-Eon;Seung, Jae-Hyeun
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2007.07a
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    • pp.675-676
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    • 2007
  • This Paper presents circuit improvement of 345kV Bus bar protection panel by using VDD (Voltage disturbance detection) relay with distinctive ability between human error in the field test and real facility faults. Therefore, We expect that this improvement of circuit helps decrease of blackout coming from human error. In order to guarantee electric power system reliability, consistent study of human error prevention in the event of field test is necessarily required

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N-Acetylphytosphingosine Enhances the Radiosensitivity of Lung Cancer Cell Line NCI-H460

  • Han, Youngsoo;Kim, Kisung;Shim, Ji-Young;Park, Changsoe;Song, Jie-Young;Yun, Yeon-Sook
    • Molecules and Cells
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.224-230
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    • 2008
  • Ceramides are well-known second messengers that induce apoptosis in various kinds of cancer cells, and their effects are closely related to radiation sensitivity. Phytoceramides, the yeast counterparts of the mammalian ceramides, are also reported to induce apoptosis. We investigated the effect of a novel ceramide derivative, N-acetylphytosphingosine (NAPS), on the radiosensitivity of NCI-H460 human lung carcinoma cells and its differential cytotoxicity in tumor and normal cells. The combination of NAPS with radiation significantly increased clonogenic cell death and caspase-dependent apoptosis. The combined treatment greatly increased Bax expression and Bid cleavage, but not Bcl-2 expression. However, there was no effect on radiosensitivity and apoptosis in BEAS2B cells, which derive from normal human bronchial epithelium. Cell proliferation and DNA synthesis were significantly inhibited by NAPS in both NCI-H460 and BEAS2B cells, but only the BEAS2B cells recovered by 48h after removal of the NAPS. Furthermore, the NCI-H460 cells underwent more DNA fragmentation than the BEAS2B cells in response to NAPS. Our results indicate that NAPS may be a potential radiosensitizing agent with differential effects on tumor vs. normal cells.

Dyeing Characteristics and UV Protection Property of Green Tea Dyed Cotton Fabrics - Focusing on the Effect of Chitosan Mordanting Condition-

  • Kim Sin-Hee
    • Fibers and Polymers
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.255-261
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    • 2006
  • There is increasing interest in the many beneficial aspects of green tea to human such as anti-carcinogenic, anti-aggregant, anti-allergic, anti-bacterial, anti-mutagenic, and anti-oxidant activities. Besides these beneficial aspects, it has been reported that green tea ingredients, especially polyphenolic families (i.e., catechin), have some UV protection property both in vivo and in topical applications. In this study, green tea extract was used as a dyeing stock for cotton and the UV protection property of the dyed cotton fabric was examined. To increase the affinity of cotton fiber to the polyphenolic components in the green tea extract, a natural biopolymer, chitosan, was used as mordanting agent. The effects of chitosan concentration in mordanting on the dyeing characteristics and the UV protection property were examined. Chitosan mordanted green tea dyed cotton showed better dyeing characteristic and higher UV protection property compared with the unmordanted green tea dyed cotton. As the chitosan concentration in mordanting increased, the dyeing efficiency and the UV protection property also increased. Therefore, adapting chitosan mordanting in green tea dyeing can increase the UV protection property of cotton fabrics to some extent.

A Study on Recognition of Dangerous Behaviors using Privacy Protection Video in Single-person Household Environments

  • Lim, ChaeHyun;Kim, Myung Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.27 no.5
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    • pp.47-54
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    • 2022
  • Recently, with the development of deep learning technology, research on recognizing human behavior is in progress. In this paper, a study was conducted to recognize risky behaviors that may occur in a single-person household environment using deep learning technology. Due to the nature of single-person households, personal privacy protection is necessary. In this paper, we recognize human dangerous behavior in privacy protection video with Gaussian blur filters for privacy protection of individuals. The dangerous behavior recognition method uses the YOLOv5 model to detect and preprocess human object from video, and then uses it as an input value for the behavior recognition model to recognize dangerous behavior. The experiments used ResNet3D, I3D, and SlowFast models, and the experimental results show that the SlowFast model achieved the highest accuracy of 95.7% in privacy-protected video. Through this, it is possible to recognize human dangerous behavior in a single-person household environment while protecting individual privacy.

Assessment of Potential Radiation Dose Rates to Marine Organisms Around the Korean Peninsula

  • Lee, Dong-Myung;Lee, Jun-ho
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2016
  • Background: It is very difficult to set a regulatory guidance or criteria for the protection of non-human species from the ionizing radiation, because there are no generally or internationally accepted methods for demonstrating the compliance with such criteria. It is needed that Korea develop the primary dose rate standards for the protection of both aquatic and terrestrial biota in the near future. Materials and Methods: The potential dose rates due to both external and internal radiation exposures to marine organisms such as plaice/flounder, gray mullet, and brown seaweed collected within territorial seas around the Korean Peninsula were estimated. Results and Discussion: The total dose rates to plaice/flounder, gray mullet and brown seaweed due to $^{40}K$, a primordial radionuclide in marine environment, were found to be 0.2%, 0.08% and 0.3% of approximately the values of the Derived Consideration Reference Levels (DCRLs, i.e. $1-10mGy{\cdot}d^{-1}$), respectively, as suggested by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) publication 124. The total dose rates to marine fishes and brown seaweed due to anthropogenic radionuclides such as $^{90}Sr$, $^{137}Cs$ and $^{239+240}Pu$ were considered to be negligible compared to the total dose rate due to $^{40}K$. The external exposure to benthic fish due to all radionuclides was much higher than that of pelagic fish. Conclusion: From this study, it is recommended that the further study is required to develop a national regulatory guidance for the evaluation of doses to non-human species.

A Study on the Linkage and Gap in Personal Information Policy in Cloud Services between Multinational Companies' Human Resource Management and Domestic Companies' Human Resource Management (제조 전문 국제기업 인사관리와 국내 인사관리 클라우드 서비스 운영 개인정보정책과의 연계 및 괴리에 대한 연구)

  • Seo, Woo-Seok
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.639-643
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    • 2018
  • Laws concerning the protection of personal information have been enacted and revised as the legislation on personal information protection on the basis of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information Maintained by Public Institutions. Nevertheless, there have been continuing threats resulting from the fact that restrictions on security subject to laws remain unclear. By proposing protected access utilizing a unique identification key of enterprises, regarding the personal information of various internal and external clients held by international manufacturing companies and attempting to make policy aspect and management access at the same time, there is a change of gradual decline in cloud personnel information management service, which is the domestic ISP service for personnel management as the technology facilitated to reduce the burden on personnel and cost for the protection of personal information and the market is also changing to the direction for companies to directly operate. Therefore, this study intends to examine the convenience of integrated management for ensuring security, while confirming the gap on flexibility and safety on management point regarding the human resources of international manufacturing companies arising from its interactions.

An Exploratory Study on the Human Resource Management Strategy of Non-Standard Workers in the Korean Companies (한국기업에서 비정규직의 인적자원관리전략에 관한 탐색적 연구)

  • Park, Min-Saeng
    • Management & Information Systems Review
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    • v.24
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    • pp.73-75
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this study is to propose the human resource management strategies of non-standard workers that can contribute to accomplishing both corporate social responsibility and business purpose in efficient and effective ways. For the purpose, this researcher investigated circumstances under which Korean companies are using non-standard workers and systems related to those workers. In Korea, the Non-Standard Workers Protection Act was enacted and revised, and became effective on July 1, 2007. The main provisions of the act are as follows. First, the systems of discriminatory treatment prohibition was legally stipulated, Second, restrictions on overwork for fixed-term and part-time employees and the written statement of working conditions were compelled. Third, only 26 kinds of jobs were permitted for worker dispatch in accordance with positive list system. To achieve their business purpose, companies often use standard workers, but sometimes non-standard workers unavoidably in accordance with their business strategy. This study propose main human resource management strategies of non-standard workers such as determining the scope of jobs, strengthening legal and systematic human resource management, improving human relations, extending the grievance procedure and converting non-standard workers into standard ones.

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