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Ecological Consideration for Restoration of the Degraded Urban River

  • Lee, Chang-Seok;You, Young-Han
    • 한국생태학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2002.08a
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    • pp.113-118
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    • 2002
  • Vegetation and riverine structures were compared among urban and several semi-natural rivers by applying direct gradient analysis and ordination method. Urban rivers showed different species composition from the semi-natural ones. Species composition of semi-natural rivers depended on the geographical positions, such as the upstream, midstream, and downstream and on micro-topographies, such as the waterside, flooding bed, and embankment. Semi-natural rivers showed gentle change in micro-topography, whereas urban one did not so. Our restoration plan to improve the ecological quality of the degraded urban river by imitating semi-natural river was prepared based on those data.

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A Study on Psychological Effect of Natural Element in Rest Space of Office (오피스 휴게공간에서 자연요소의 심리적 효과에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Min-Kyung;Lyu, Ho-Chang
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.84-87
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    • 2004
  • The stress from the office environment comes from the most psychological things. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to research the psychological effect of natural element for office worker's psychological stability. This study is focused on the light, sound, air, temperature, plant, and water. Perception of these natural elements through the senses of sight, auditory, smell, and touch is effect on human body and mind directly. The application of natural elements provide a health of office workers. The result will show that, with application of the natural element, the rest space will be more powerful for health of workers. And also combination of natural element and geometric pattern will be very useful to prepare healing environment on the rest space

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Study on Improvement of Thermal Environment by using Wind-driven Natural Ventilation on the Atrium (풍력환기에 의한 아트리움의 열환경 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Roh, Ji-Woong
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.40-47
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    • 2012
  • According to the advancement of computer and simulation method, it becomes possible to predict indoor climate precisely by using CFD simulation coupled with heat conduction, convection, and radiation. However, predicting the indoor climate is generally conducted by using a simplified CFD coupled simulation method since it takes quite long time to use a general CFD simulation method. In this study, a simplified CFD coupled simulation was conducted in order to find out the effect of natural ventilation by wind-driven in atrium. As a result of calculation, it was clarified that the natural ventilation driven by temperature difference was not enough to remove the accumulated heat of upper zone and the natural ventilation by wind-driven was needed. Finally, it is required to decide the window direction and size based on correct indoor climate prediction method for the effective use of natural ventilation by wind-driven.

Ecological Consideration for Restoration of the Degraded Urban River

  • Lee, Chang-Seok;Yon, Young-Han
    • The Korean Journal of Ecology
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.247-252
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    • 2002
  • Vegetation and riverine structures were compared among urban and several semi-natural rivers by applying direct gradient analysis and ordination method. Urban rivers showed different species composition from the semi-natural ones. Species composition of semi-natural rivers depended on the geographical positions, such as the upstream, midstream, and downstream and on micro-topographies, such as the waterside, flooding bed, and embankment. Semi-natural rivers showed gentle change in micro-topography, whereas urban one did not so. Our restoration plan to improve the ecological quality of the degraded urban river by imitating semi-natural river was prepared based on those data.

A Study on the Passive Principle and its Practical Application of Air-conditioning System (난방을 비롯한 공기조화의 자연조절 방식과 현대적 응용에 관한 고찰)

  • Park, Soon-Kwan
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.105-112
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    • 2004
  • The objective of this study is to observe today's situation and direction in relation with the natural air-conditioning and heating system to expand the architectural utilization of natural management for human comfort and energy conservation in architectural design. Also this study to provide the fundamental knowledge and. design-techniques on environment-friendly architecture in connection with 'natural idea in architecture'. In accordance with this intention, this thesis is composed of the following contents : 1) to understand the fundermental concepts about natural air-conditioning and heating system, 2) to review the traditional characteristics in Korean and Southeast Asian architecture related to natural air-conditioning and heating system, 3) to examine modern design-techniques in relation with natural air-conditioning and heating system in the selected area, 4) to attempt to synthesize the whole situation. Environment-friendly architecture using natural ideas and design-techniques in architecture is very important architectural aspect in a current architecture, also for the future. In spite of general considerations, it is expected that this study is use to understand the principle and practical application of natural air-conditioning and heating system in architectural design.

Desorption-Resistance of Hydrophobic Organic Compounds in Natural Soils

  • Shin, Won-Sik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment Conference
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    • 2001.04a
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    • pp.26-29
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    • 2001
  • Sorption/desorption Study was conducted to determine desorption-resistance hydrophobic organic compounds in natural soils with low organic carbon content. Sorption/desorption characteristics of chlorobenzene and phenanthrene for both PPI (Petro Processors, Inc. Superfund site) and BM (Bayou Manchac), soils were investigated. Desorption was biphasic including reversible and desorption-resistant compartments. The biphasic sorption parameters indicated the presence of appreciable size of desorption-resistant phase in these soils. A finite maximum capacity of desorption-resistant fraction (equation omitted) was observed after several desorption steps. The apparent organic carbon based Partition coefficient, K(equation omitted) was 10$^{4.92{\pm}0.27}$ for PPI soil and 10$^{4.92{\pm}0.27}$ for BM soil, respectively. The difference in K(equation omitted) was attributed to different characteristics in soil organic matter. The results suggest that desorption-resistance should be considered in remediation and risk assessments in natural soils and sediments.

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Electro-optic Properties of a Guest-Host System Containing a Phenothiazine-based Chromophore: Effect of the Chromophore Density on the Macroscopic Optical Nonlinearity

  • Lee, Sang-Kyu;Cho, Min-Ju;Yoon, Hyuk;Lee, Seung-Hwan;Kim, Jae-Hong;Qing Zhang;Choi, Dong-Hoon
    • Macromolecular Research
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.484-489
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    • 2004
  • We have prepared a phenothiazine-based nonlinear optical (NLO) chromophore that displays a fairly high microscopic nonlinearity through intramolecular charge transfer. The phenothiazine unit plays important roles of contributing its high electron donating ability and connecting the resonance pathway through a conjugative effect in the cyclized ring adjacent to the aromatic ring. Theoretical calculations and an absorption spectroscopic study provided useful information concerning the microscopic nonlinearity of the chromophores. We investigated the electro-optic (EO) properties of the guest-host systems in amorphous polycarbonate containing the synthesized chromophores at different concentrations under different poling temperatures. A real-time pole and probe method provided a much greater amount of information regarding how the EO properties can arise and how they can be optimized.

A Study on the Commercial Customs and Practices in Indonesia (인도네시아의 통상환경과 상관습에 대한 소고)

  • Kim, Hee-Jun
    • International Commerce and Information Review
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.87-105
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    • 1999
  • A objective of this study is to examine a commercial practices and analyze a trade environment for a successful launch of Indonesian market. In general, Indonesian trade environment is composed of a natural environment, religious peculiarity, history and politic, an economic prospect. In order to understand a commercial practice exactly and then be possible a favorable business achievement, a natural character, a mode of living, custom of a meal and invitation, custom of gift, religious taboo, a human relationship, commercial power, a tendency of product preference should be recognized. The results of the study indicate mostly that even though an excellent brand image, a good Quality and an efficient sales network are a basic factor for making of a successful business. However practically it is more important to understand a business custom and a natural character of Indonesian. Because business is made up of through relation between human being eventually.

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Infrastructure of Grid-based Distributed Remotely Sensed Images Processing Environment and its Parallel Intelligence Algorithms

  • ZHENG, Jiang;LUO, Jian-Cheng;Hu, Cheng;CHEN, Qiu-Xiao
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.1284-1286
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    • 2003
  • There is a growing demand on remotely sensed and GIS data services in modern society. However, conventional WEB applications based on client/server pattern can not meet the criteria in the future . Grid computing provides a promising resolution for establishing spatial information system toward future applications. Here, a new architecture of the distributed environment for remotely sensed data processing based on the middleware technology was proposed. In addition, in order to utilize the new environment, a problem had to be algorithmically expressed as comprising a set of concurrently executing sub-problems or tasks. Experiment of the algorithm was implemented, and the results show that the new environmental can achieve high speedups for applications compared with conventional implementation.

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Latest Research Trends on Space Environments in Korea

  • Eojin Kim;Seongsuk Lee;Bogyeong Kim
    • Journal of Space Technology and Applications
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.301-321
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    • 2023
  • The Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences (JASS) has published research papers on a range of topics since its initial publication in 1984, giving space science researchers a platform. In this paper, we reviewed recent publications (2019-2023) that deal with the space environment. In the space environment field, we reviewed 37 papers published in JASS during this time, covering research topics such as the sun, magnetosphere, ionosphere, atmosphere, and space radiation. We hope that researchers in the field will make use of this in the future as it will allow us to share the most recent trends in the field of space environment research that is currently underway.