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Effect of Curing Temperature on the Strength Characteristics of Lightweight Air-Trapped Soil (양생온도가 경량기포토의 강도에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Min-Ah;Kim, Seong-Won;Choi, Dae-Kyung;Park, Lee-Keun;Kim, Tae-Hyung
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.43-53
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    • 2012
  • There are many factors that can cause problems in the application of the lightweight air-trapped soil in the field. Temperature is one of them. However, the effect of temperature on the characteristics of lightweight air-trapped soil has not been studied. Thus, this experimental study is conducted. This study considers three different unit weights of lightweight air-trapped soils, 6, 8, and 10 kN/$m^3$ which are mostly applied to the field. The lightweight air-trapped soil specimens are cured in the condition of different temperatures based on the characteristic of temperature of Korea. The unconfined compression tests are conducted on the prepared specimens. The settlement behavior of lightweight air-trapped soil on temperature is observed. A photograph is taken using SEM to determine the transformation of air-foams inside the lightweight air-trapped soil on curing temperature. As the results, the effect of curing temperature on the characteristics of lightweight air-trapped soil including compressive strength, settlement, and formation of air-foams is confirmed. Finally, based on this study, the allowable curing temperature of $8^{\circ}C{\sim}25^{\circ}C$ which can guarantee the quality of lightweight air-trapped soil is proposed.

DEVELOPMENT OF MECHANICS CAI PROGRAM FOR UNIVERSITY SCIENCE STUDENT (대학일반물리학(大學一般物理學) 력학단원(力學單元) CAI 프로그램의 개발(開發))

  • Kim, Chang-Sik
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 1990
  • Mechanical CAI Program was developed for university science student The program was mainly aimed for individual study. The program was written in BASIC and construct 130s flams. This project was supproted by Ministry of Education research fund. Summary of this study is as follows. 1. The program consisted of main, pretest, tutorial, final, and several other routines for program control. 2. This program written in BASIC. 3. 20 flames for pretest routine, 90 flames for tutorial routine, 20 flames for final test routine were developed. 4. The expected rate of achivement for final test was set 80%. 5. Average mark of final test was 70.2 point through the all course of program. This means that program was constructed of well.

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Efficacy of Antagonistic Bacteria for Biological Control of Rhizoctonia Blight (Large patch) on Zoysiagrass (잔디 갈색퍼짐병(Large patch)의 생물학적 방제를 위한 길항 미생물의 선발과 효력 검정)

  • Jung, Woo-Chul;Shin, Taek-Su;Kim, Bong-Su;Im, Jae-Seong;Lee, Jae-Ho;Kim, Jin-Won
    • Research in Plant Disease
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.43-50
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    • 2008
  • Rhizoctonia blight (large patch) caused by Rhizoctonia solani AG2-2 is one of the major diseases on zoysiagrass in golf courses. In this study, anatgonistic bacteria to R. solani AG2-2 were selected in vitro tests using confrontation bioassay and triple layer agar diffusion method. The most active bacteria, Bacillus subtilis CJ-9 were tested for controlling large patch in pots. Relative Performance Indies (RPI) was used as a criterion for the selection of potential biocontrol agent. B. subtilis CJ-9 showed resistance to major synthetic agrochemicals used in golf course. In field tests at golf course, B. subtilis CJ-9 was more effective in suppression of large patch severity and population development of R. solani AG2-2 in soil than chemical fungicides. B. subtilis CJ-9 could be an alternative to chemical fungicides for eco-friendly management of large patch on zoysiagrass.

Socio-Economic Differentials along the Ethnic Line among Coffee Farms in Central Highland, Vietnam (베트남 중부고원지대 커피농가의 사회경제적 격차: 민족성의 영향을 중심으로)

  • Chung, Su-Yeul;Lee, Sung-Cheol;Joh, Young Kug
    • Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.360-377
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    • 2016
  • Since after the 1986 economic reform policy(Doi Moi), the central highland in Vietnam has transformed into one of the largest coffee producing areas. The transformation had been supported by mass migration of ethnic Kinhs from the coastal lowland. It did not take long for the Kinh migrants to be the ethnic majority in the region. Meanwhile the growth of coffee industry entailed in socio-economic disparity, specially between Kinh migrants and native ethnic minorities. The disparity has becomed obvious not only between coffee farming Kinhs and non-coffee farming ethnic minorities but also between coffee farming Kinhs and ehtnic minorities. The previous literatures highlight the lack of human and social capital and the lagging modernization in ethnic minority societies. However, they fall short in showing the explicit processes why ethnic minority coffee farmers earn less than ethnic majority counterparts. With a case study of Dak Lak province, this research attempts to show the reason why there is income gap between Kinh and ethnic minority Ede coffee farmers by comparing their ways of producing coffee and selling their products. The results show that Ede's land productivity is significantly lower than Kinh's. It is because Ede farmers use less fertilizer due to the shortage of the capital. Also they often get into debt for coffee production and should pay it back right after the harvest. It deprives them of chance to raise earning by selling the coffee beans at a higher price.

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The effects of the number of times dipped in coloring liquid and final sintering temperature on flexural strength of zirconia ceramics: Zirconia ceramics having improved transparency (착색액 침지 횟수와 최종 소결 온도가 지르코니아 세라믹의 굴곡강도에 미치는 영향)

  • Kong, Moon-Chun;Kim, Kap-Jin;Kown, Tae-Yub;Hong, Min-Ho
    • Korean Journal of Dental Materials
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    • v.44 no.2
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    • pp.171-178
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of number of times dipped in coloring liquid and sintering temperature on the flexural strength of zirconia ceramic. In this study, using a zirconia block having improved transparency, specimens with size of $25mm{\times}2mm{\times}1.5mm$ were fabricated. The zirconia ceramic specimens were divided into three groups according to the number of times dipped in coloring liquid by 0, 2 and 4 times, and dyed in the coloring liquid to give color to each specimen. Then, after sintering them at the final temperature of $1,450^{\circ}C$ and $1,600^{\circ}C$, flexural strength was measured using a universal testing machine (total 6 group, n=10 for each group). Also, a scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was performed to observe its microstructure, and the data obtained through the experiment were analyzed with two-way ANOVA. The results of the flexural strength analysis show that the highest value was measured $762.3{\pm}42.3MPa$ in EKL2 group, while the lowest value was $516.4{\pm}77.1MPa$ in EKH4 group. According to the results of the two-way ANOVAs, flexural strength was not related with interaction between sintering temperature and number of times dipped in coloring liquid ($R^2=0.737$). However, there were statistically significant differences in flexural strength depending on sintering temperature (P<0.001). The flexural strength of zirconia ceramics having improved transparency was dependent on sintering temperature. The number of times dipped in the coloring liquid did not affect flexural strength of the zirconia ceramic having improved transparency.

An Analysis of the National Suicide Rate in Korea during 2005 (2005년 전국 자살실태 분석)

  • Kim, Gi-Jeong;Kwak, Jyung-Sik
    • Journal of forensic and investigative science
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.5-22
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    • 2007
  • From the numerous social problems generated by the unbalanced social development and the social trend of belittling life overall, we found the causes of suicide getting worse in its seriousness day by day. In reality, the problem has been approached in a collateral level in contrast with other social problems. There have been an active involvement in studying the definition, causes and ways of prevention of suicide theoretically until now. However, different from other social problems, it is almost impossible to treat or fix the problem of suicide. Only ways to treat or fix the problem is when the suicide has ended in failure. Thus, this study intends to examine the suicide rate among the total accidents during the year 2005, perform the analyses on the actual causes according to the relations such as the means of suicide, occupation, age group, educational background, etc. In order to present a solution to the issue of suicide becoming serious each day. Among the total accidents in 2005, the suicide rate came out to be approximately 52.4%. Among the result, 52.4%, male with 69% resulted higher than female with 31%, which appears to be related to the social functions. While men tends to take more active(80%) means of suicide like jumping off, poison, hanging, etc., women tends to take more passive(60%) means of suicide like sleeping pills, slitting wrist, etc. In terms of the cause, pessimism, illness, denial, mental disorder, etc resulted more than 75%, and there were many cases of suicide after exhibiting the signs of depression. Also there were higher suicide rate of the unemployed engaged in direct labor with educational background lower than college level related to the pessimism regarding the family living cost. We were able to determine the recent increase in the suicidal tendency of the educated people higher than the college level and the retired people with depression caused by the sudden change in social status. Overall there are several reasons for suicide, however, in most cases the signs of depression were exhibited until the final suicide, which tells us the serious psychological problem of suicide. Assuming that the current development of suicide will continue in future, the result of this study will guide the corresponding social policies, be utilized in preparing the insurance or management at the national level dealing with the real social problems that are not just a conflict of an individual, but could spread like a fad and become much bigger than the present by the continuous support at the environmental, social and political levels, and be utilized as the basic data to establish the research plan.

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Initial $^{99m}Technetium-dimercaptosuccinic$ Acid (DMSA) Renal Scan Finding and Vesicoureteral Reflux as Predicting Factor of Renal Scarring (신반흔 예측인자로서 초기 $^{99m}Technetium-dimercaptosuccinic\;Acid$ 신주사 소견과 방광요관 역류의 유무 및 정도)

  • Lee Soo-Yeon;Lim So-Hee;Lee Dae-Yeol
    • Childhood Kidney Diseases
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.44-51
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    • 2003
  • Purpose : Acute pyelonephritis in children may result in permanant renal damage which later in life may lead to hypertension and renal failure. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the factors that might be useful for predicting the development of renal scar in children with urinary tract infection(UTI). Methods : We retrospectively reviewed 442 patients with UTI who were admitted to the Department of Pediatrics of Chonbuk National University Hospital, during the period from April 1992 to March 2002. The patients were divided into two groups according to the presence of renal scar on the follow-up DMSA renal scan, and we compared the factors associated with renal scarring between the two groups. Results : There were no significant differences in sex, causative organism and acute phase reactants between the groups with and without renal scar. The age at diagnosis was significantly higher in the renal scar group compared to that without scar. Of the 60 patients with renal scar, 78% had vesicoureteral reflux(VUR), but 13% of patients without scar had VUR. Furthermore, the severity of VUR was significantly correlated with renal scar formation. 53% showed multiple cortical defects on the initial DMSA renal scan, compared to 32% in the non-scar group. In addition, 76% of patients showing multiple cortical defects on the initial DMSA renal scan with VUR had renal scar. Conclusion : The presence and grade of VUR, and findings on the initial DMSA renal scan would contribute to predict risk of renal scar formation in children with UTI.

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The Development of Evaluation Chart for the Applicability of CO2 Flooding in Oil Reservoirs and Its Applications (생산유전의 CO2 공법 적용성 평가를 위한 평가차트 개발 및 응용)

  • Kwon, Sunil;Cho, Hyunjin;Ha, Sehun;Lee, Wonkyu;Yang, Sungoh;Sung, Wonmo
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • v.45 no.6
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    • pp.638-647
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    • 2007
  • In this study, we present the evaluation chart for assessing the applicability of $CO_2$ flooding method to oil reservoirs. The evaluation chart consists of four categories as source availability, miscibility, applicability and injecting method of miscible flooding. The applicability of reservoir and oil in the chart has basic items of the properties such as oil gravity, viscosity, oil saturation, reservoir temperature and permeability, and these are quantitatively graded. Meanwhile, for additional items of $CO_2$ purity, reservoir thickness and formation dip, they are graded as "highmediumlow". In the case of evaluating the injection method of either continuous injection or WAG ($CO_2$), the qualitative decision will be made according to formation dip, vertical permeability, reservoir thickness, etc. The recommended score in the chart was assigned by utilizing 51 oil producing fields which $CO_2$ flooding is successfully being applied. The evaluation chart developed in this work has been applied to the Captain oil producing field located in Scotland as well as to the Onado oil field of Venezuela, which Korean oil companies have participated in. For the Captain field, the reservoir quality in terms of permeability and porosity is considered to be very excellent to flow the oil. The oil in captain field contains heavier component of $C_{21+}$ as 54%. Therefore, this heavy oil could be immiscibly displaced, hence the evaluating result with the basis of immiscible criteria shows that $CO_2$ immiscible flooding in this field could be properly applied. In the case of Onado oil producing field, since the estimated minimum miscibility pressure is lower than the reservoir pressure, it was assessed that the Onado field would be efficiently conducted for $CO_2$ miscible flooding.

Monitoring Technique of Pumpkin Fruit Flies Using Terpinyl Acetate-Protein Diet Lure and Development of Its Spraying Formulation for The Fly Control (Terpinyl acetate-단백질먹이 유인제를 이용한 호박과실파리류 연중발생 모니터링 기술 및 살포용 방제 제형 개발)

  • Kim, Yonggyun;Ahn, Jeong Joon
    • Korean journal of applied entomology
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    • v.59 no.1
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    • pp.15-22
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    • 2020
  • Two tephritid fruit flies are infesting pumpkins in Korea. Both are classified into genus of Zeugodacus. The striped fruit fly, Z. scutellata, males are attracted to a lure called Cuelure (CL), which has been used to monitor the occurrence of this fruit fly in the crop field. In contrast, no effective male lure was not developed to monitor the pumpkin fruit fly, Z. depressa. Protein diet lure has been used to attract females of most fruit flies. The addition of terpinyl acetate (TA) was effective to increase the attractiveness of Z. depressa. This study aimed to monitor the occurrence of Z. depressa in pumpkin field with TA-protein diet lure. To validate the efficiency of TA-protein diet lure, Z. scutellata was monitored in a year of 2019 using CL and TA-protein diet lures, and the yearly monitoring data were compared. The occurrence patterns derived from both lures were similar except late season after October. The extended catches of TA-protein diet lure might be explained by the adult diapause induction of Z. scutellata at late September. Monitoring Z. depressa with TA-protein diet lure gave two peaks at mid July and August-September, in which more than 80% catches were females. Based on the attractiveness of TA-protein diet lure, its wettable powder with an addition of spinosad insecticide was formulated and sprayed to pumpkin crops. After 7 days post-spray, the control efficacy recorded more than 70%. However, the control efficacies decreased as the time progressed after the spray. These results demonstrated the application of TA-protein diet lure for monitoring occurrence of Z. depressa in pumpkin-cultivating field conditions. The wettable powder containing spinosad can be applied to develop a new control agent against two pumpkin fruit flies.

Origin of the Cold Water below $10^{\circ}C$ Occurring in the Southern Coastal Region of the Korean East Sea in Summer by Ra Isotope Distribution (Ra동위체로 본 하계 동해 남부 연안해역에 출현하는 $10^{\circ}C$ 이하 냉수괴의 기원)

  • YANG Han-Soeb;KIM Pyoung-Joong;LEE Jae-Chul;MOON Chang-Ho
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.404-412
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    • 1994
  • Radium isotopes were measured together with oceanographical parameters in the southern coastal region of the Korean East Sea during the period of September $2{\sim}8$, 1991. In September, there were various water masses vertically distributed in this region due to formation of strongly seasonal thermoclines. These water masses were characterized by activity of radium isotopes as well as water temperature and dissolved oxygen. Among the water masses, Japan Sea Proper Water(JSPW) below $1^{\circ}C$ had the highest Ra-226 activities but the lowest Ra-228 concentrations. However, Tsushima Surface Water (TSW) above $20^{\circ}C$ in water temperature had the highest Ra-228 which decreased sharply with depth. In TSW, Ra-228 activities were in the range of $194{\sim}270$ dpm/kl, which were approximately 10 times higher than JSPW. Activity ratios(A.R's) of Ra-228/Ra-226 were $1.9{\sim}2.6$ for TSW, $0.7{\sim}1.1$ for Tsushima Middle Water(TMW) of $12{\sim}17^{\circ}C\;to\;0.4{\sim}0.7$ for North Korea Cold Water(NKCW) with $1{\sim}7^{\circ}C$ and below 0.2 for JSPW. The Ra-228/Ra-226 ranged from 0.6 to 0.9 in the cold waters of $2{\sim}6^{\circ}C$, which were observed at depth of $65{\sim}120\;m$ in this study area. Radium isotopes provided a useful means of identifying origins of the cold water which occurred annually at intermediate or bottom layers in the southern coastal zone of the Korean East Sea. By plotting radium isotopes against water temperature, it could be observed clearly that the cold waters between $2{\sim}6^{\circ}C$ did not originate from the mixed water of JSPW and TMW but from NKCW.

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