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A Suggested Air Sampling Strategy for Bioaerosols in Daycare Center Settings (어린이활동공간에서의 바이오에어로졸 포집 전략)

  • Jo, JungHeum;Park, Jun-sik;Kim, Sung-Yeon;Kwon, Myung hee;Kim, Ki Youn;Choi, Jeong-Hak;Seo, SungChul
    • Journal of Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.324-333
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    • 2016
  • Objectives: We aimed to compare the sampling performance of different flow-based impactor samplers for collecting fungal spores and bacteria and to explore the association of the level of bioaerosols with activity patterns of occupants in daycare center settings. Methods: For comparison of sampling performance, two different flow-based samplers (greater than 100 L/min or not) were selected; a low flow-based sampler (one-stage Andersen sampler) and two high flow-based samplers (DUO SAS SUPER 360 sampler, BUCK bio-culture sampler). We collected airborne mold and bacteria in 30 daycare centers with various levels of contaminated air. Three repeat samplings per each sampler were performed. Mold and bacteria were grown for 96 hours at $25{\pm}1^{\circ}C$ and 48 hours at $35{\pm}1^{\circ}C$, respectively. The Andersen and SAS samplers were used for investigating the association between the level of bioaerosols and the activity patterns of occupants in daycares. Particular matters 10($PM_{10}$), temperature, and relative humidity were monitored as well. Samplings were carried out with one-hour interval from 9 to 5 O'clock. For statistical comparisons, Kruskal-Wallis test, Wilcoxon's signed rank test, and multiple regression analysis were carried out. Results: The airborne level of molds by the low flow-based sampler were significantly higher than that of high flow-based samplers (indoor, P=0.037; outdoor, P=0.041). However, no statistical difference was observed in the airborne level of bacteria by each sampler. Also the level of bioaerosols varied by the time, particularly with different activity patterns in daycare centers. The higher level of mold and bacteria were observed in play time in indoor. Similarly, the concentrations of $PM_{10}$ were significantly associated with the level of bioaerosols (P<0.05). Conclusions: Our findings indicate that the flow rate of sampler, rather than total air volume, could be able to affect the results of sampling. Also, the level of airborne mold and bacteria vary behavior patterns of occupants in indoor of daycare settings. Therefore, different samplers with other flow rate may be selected for mold or bacteria sampling, and activity patterns should be considered for bioaerosol sampling as well.

Effect of Relative Humidity on the Breakthrough of Charcoal Tubes during Mixed Organic Vapor Sampling (혼합 유기용제 포집시 습도가 활성탄관의 파과에 미치는 영향)

  • Yang, Hyeok Syng;Kim, Hyunwook
    • Journal of Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.125-137
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    • 1996
  • This study was designed to investigate effects of relative humidity on the breakthrough of charcoal tubes at a fixed vapor concentration and sampling time during mixed organic vapor sampling. A vapor generator was used to generate three different concentrations of mixed organic vapor and a stainless steel chamber was fabricated and utilized to maintain three different percentages of relative humidity while maintaining a constant temperature. The results were as follows; 1. At high relative humidity, breakthrough of mixed organic vapor occurred quickly at low vapor concentration than at high vapor concentration because of the reduced adsorption volume of charcoal tube due to humidity. 2. Breakthrough by competitive adsorption of vapors onto charcoal tube was observed at first from n-hexane having the lowest boiling point and highest vapor pressure among the three organic vapors investigated, followed by TCE. No breakthrough was observed from toluene under all experimental conditions. 3. For n-hexane, breakthrough was observed after 2 hours of sampling and breakthrough rates were increased as relative humidity increased. For TCE, breakthrough was found after 3 hours of sampling and breakthrough rates by sampling time were increased as vapor concentration increased. 4. The adsorbed amount of mixed organic vapor at breakthrough was shown to have statistically significant correlations with sampling time, relative humidity, and vapor concentration in descending order of correlation. Relative humidity and sampling time for n-hexane and sampling time and concentration for TCE were both statistically significantly correlated. 5. Relative humidity was found to affect the amount of breakthrough of mixed organic vapor and n-hexane. Among three percentages of relative humidity investigated, the amount of breakthrough at 85 % relative humidity was significantly larger than those of at lower percentages of relative humidity. No statistically significant difference was found between 25 % and 55 % relative humidity. 6. The results of multiple regression analysis between breakthrough and relative humidity, vapor concentrations showed that the coefficient of determination of mixed organic vapor was 0.263 and those of n-hexane and TCE were 0.275 and 0.189, respectively. 7. Flow rates of sampling pumps used were found to be affected by relative humidity present. At 25 %, 55 %, and 85 % relative humidity, the relative errors of sampling pump were 1.4 %, 13.4 %, and 18.6 %, respectively. In conclusion, the results of this study showed that high relative humidity could reduce the adsorption volume of charcoal tubes and subsequently increase breakthrough rates. Therefore, to prevent breakthrough when sampling mixed organic vapors, it is suggested that either sampling volume be reduced on the flow rate be lowered so as to minimize breakthrough of the most volatile organic vapor in the mixture. In addition, since the flow rates of a sampling pump can be adversely affected by high relative humidity, it is recommended to use a constant flow mode pump when sampling in the highly humid environment.

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Sample size using response rate on repeated surveys (계속조사에서 응답률을 반영한 표본크기)

  • Park, Hyeonah;Na, Seongryong
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.31 no.5
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    • pp.587-597
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    • 2018
  • Procedures, such as sampling technique, survey method, and questionnaire preparation, are required in order to obtain sample data in accordance with the purpose of a survey. An important procedure is the decision of the sample size formula. The sample size formula is determined by setting the target error and total cost according to the sampling method. In this paper, we propose a sample size formula using population changes over time, estimation error of the previous time and response rate of past data when the target error and the expected response rate are given in the simple random sampling. In actual research, we use estimators that apply complex weights in addition to design-based weights. Therefore, we induce a sample size formula for estimators using design-based weights and nonresponse adjustment coefficients, that can be a formula that reflects differences in response rates when survey methods are changed over time. In addition, we use simulations to compare the proposed formula with the existing sample size formula.

On a Multiband Nonuniform Samping Technique with a Gaussian Noise Codebook for Speech Coding (가우시안 코드북을 갖는 다중대역 비균일 음성 표본화법)

  • Chung, Hyung-Goue;Bae, Myung-Jin
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.110-114
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    • 1997
  • When applying the nonuniform sampling to noisy speech signal, the required data rate increases to be comparable to or more than that by uniform sampling such as PCM. To solve this problem, we have proposed the waveform coding method, multiband nonuniform waveform coding(MNWC), applying the nonuniform sampling to band-separated speech signal[7]. However, the speech quality is deteriorated when it is compared to the uniform sampling method, since the high band is simply modeled as a Gaussian noise with average level. In this paper, as a good method to overcome this drawback, the high band is modeled as one of 16 codewords having different center frequencies. By doing this, with maintaining high speech quality as MOS score of average 3.16, the proposed method achieves 1.5 times higher compression ratio than that of the conventional nonuniform sampling method(CNSM).

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8bit 100MHz DAC design for high speed sampling (고속 샘플링 8bit 100MHz DAC 설계)

  • Lee, Hun-Ki;Choi, Kyu-Hoon
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.1241-1246
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    • 2005
  • This paper described an 8bit, 100Msample/s CMOS D/A converter using a glich-time minimization technique for the high-speed sampling rate of 100MHz level. The proposed DAC was implemented in 0,35um Hynix CMOS technology and adopts a current mode architecture to optimize sampling rate, resolution, chip area. The DAC linear characteristics was similar to the proposed specification the prototype error between DNL and INL is less than ${\pm}0.09LSB$ respectively. Also, fab-out chip was tested, analysed the cause of error operation, and proposed the field considerations for chip test.

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A Critical Review of the Use of Inferential Statistics in Library and Information Science Research in Korea (추론통계를 사용한 문헌정보학 연구에서 데이터 수집과 분석에 관한 비평적 고찰)

  • Ro Jung-Soon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.217-242
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    • 2006
  • This Study reviewed 86 research articles using inferential statistics published in 2001-2004 in 4 korean core journals in the field of library and information science. Sampling methods, response rates and nonresponse bias, reliability test, and inferential statistic techniques used in the articles were critically reviewed and analyzed. Nonprobability sampling was mostly used. Average response rate was 74.47%. Parametric statistics were mostly used. Some misunderstandings in using each inferential statistics, especially Reliability Test, Multiple Regression, Factor Analysis, MDS, etc. were reported in this study.

Study on the simulation of contamination route and estimation of the pollution sources of DNOC using a numerical model (수치모형을 이용한 DNOC의 물질 거동 모의와 오염원 추정 연구)

  • Park, Kyeong-Deok;Kim, Il-Kyu
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.29-37
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    • 2017
  • To estimate pollution sources in the watershed with various industries, the simulation of contamination route and distribution of 2-methyl-4,6-dinitriophenol(DNOC) were performed with a numerical model Hydro Geo Sphere. This study was performed calculations of the load using the measured concentration and simulated flow rate. And, the river was divided by the sampling sites at the mainstream, and the contribution rate at downstream sampling sites was calculated for each section. The results showed the concentration of the downstream sampling sites were decided by the concentration of upstream sites, and the contribution rates of the tributaries were calculated below 10%. The results also showed that the impact of the potential sources in Section 1(Geumho1 ~ Geumho2) and Section 5(Geumho5 ~ Geumho6) was larger than in the other area. In Section1 and Section5, It seemed to require detailed investigation.