• Macromolecular Research
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.343-347
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• 2007

Novel composite membranes, which delivered high separation performance for propylene/propane mixtures, were developed by coating inert poly(ethylene-co-propylene) rubber (EPR) onto a porous polyester substrate, followed by the physical distribution of $AgBF_4$. Scanning electron microscopy-wavelength dispersive spectrometer (SEM-WDS) revealed that silver salts were uniformly distributed in the EPR layer. The physical dispersion of the silver salts in the inert polymer matrix, without specific interaction, was characterized by FT-IR and FT-Raman spectroscopy. The high separation performance was presumed to stem from the in-situ dissolution of crystalline silver ionic aggregates into free silver ions, which acted as an active propylene carrier within a propylene environment, leading to facilitated propylene transport through the membranes. The membranes were functional at all silver loading levels, exhibiting an unusually low threshold carrier concentration (less than 0.06 of silver weight fraction). The separation properties of these membranes, i.e. the mixed gas selectivity of propylene/propane ${\sim}55$ and mixed gas permeance ${\sim}7$ GPU, were stable for several days.

• Proceedings of the Korea Association of Crystal Growth Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.253-269
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• 1999

The development of telecommunication and information technology requires to develop new piezoelectric materials with small size, low impedance, wide pass band width and high thermal stability of frequency. Langasite (La3Ga5SiO14) single crystal has been researched substitute of quartz and LiNbO3 for the applications of SAW filter, BAW filter and resonator. Its single crystal growth has been carried out by Czochralski Method. So, in order to get single crystal with higher quality, in this study, lnagasite (La3Ga5SiO14) single crystal was grown by using Floating Zone (FZ) method and characterized. For the growth of langasite single crystals, the langasite powder was synthesized at 135$0^{\circ}C$ for 5hrs and the feed rod was sintered at 135$0^{\circ}C$ for 5hrs. The growing rate was 1.5mm/h and the rotation speed was 15 rpm for an upper rotation and 13 rpm for a lower rotation. In order to prevent the evaporation of gallium oxide, Ar and O2 gas mixture was flowed. The growth direction was analyzed by Laue back-scattered analysis. The composition of grown crystal was analyzed suing XRD and WDS. The electrical properties of grown crystal at various frequencies and temperature were discussed.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.34 no.7
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• pp.781-789
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• 1997

Pressure sintered SiC specimens were joined using MgO-Al2O3-SiO2 (MAS) glass which has a thermal expansion coefficient similar to that of SiC. MAS melt showed excellent behavior of wetting on the SiC substrate over 148$0^{\circ}C$, and the wettability was much influenced by the joining atmosphere. The joining was conducted at 150$0^{\circ}C$ for 30 min in Ar atmosphere. The flexural strength of the joined specimen shows 342~380 MPa up to 80$0^{\circ}C$, which is almost the same as that of as-recieved SiC specimen. However, the flexural strength of the joined specimen decreased to about 80 MPa at 90$0^{\circ}C$ due to softening of the glass melt. The analyses od XRD and WDS show that the reaction between the SiC specimen and the MAS melt produces the oxycarbide glass, which had a high strength and a good stability at high temperatures.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• v.27 no.3 s.47
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• pp.403-409
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• 1994

A questionnaire survey wds conducted to assess the experience of the needle stick injury in 144 seniors of a medical school during the previous 10 months. One hundred and five of them (73%) had responded. About sixty-nine percent (72 cases) of the respondents had suffered at least one u and there had been 129 injuries in total. Seventy-eight (56.6%) of the injuries took place at the time of the venipuncture. The emergency and operating room incurred 76.7% and 23.3% of the injury, respectively. Injuries with bleeding account for 50.4%. None of the respondents was systematically educated about the prevention of injury. This survey shows that the needle-stick Injury is a great risk for the medical students' health, and that educational effort for its prevention is warranted.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.65-65
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• 2017

상수관망 시스템(Water Distribution System, WDS)은 원활한 용수 공급을 위해 구축된 사회기반시설물로써, 물 공급절차에 따라 그 구성요소를 공급원, 공급 경로, 수요지 등의 범주로 구분할 수 있다. 원활한 물 공급이란 수요지에서 요구하는 수량과 압력 수준을 충족시키는 것을 의미하며, 따라서 상수관망의 용수공급능력은 요구 수량 및 압력과 실제 공급 결과를 비교함으로써 가늠할 수 있다. 과거에는 두 가지 기준을 별도로 산정하여 이를 평가하였으나, 유량과 압력을 함께 고려할 수 있는 에너지 기반의 평가 방법이 제시되면서 시스템 내 에너지 분포를 정량화하여 시스템의 용수공급능력을 평가하는 연구가 주목받고 있다. 세계적으로 많은 연구자들은 시스템 내 에너지 흐름 상태를 정량화함으로써 다양한 형태의 상수관망의 신뢰도지수(Reliability Index)를 제안한 바 있다. 이 때, 대부분의 신뢰도 지수 연구에서는 수요지에 공급된 에너지를 기본적으로 유지해야 하는 최소요구 에너지(Required Energy)와 비상 상황에 대응하기 위한 잉여 에너지(Surplus Energy)로 구분하고 있으며, 잉여 에너지를 상수관망의 공급 안정성을 나타내는 핵심 요소로 활용하고 있다. 확보된 잉여 에너지는 비상시 최소요구 에너지를 대체하는 개념에서 복원력으로 표현되어, 잘 알려진 Resilience Index(RI)를 비롯해 많은 복원력 지수가 존재한다. 본 연구에서는 복원력 지수를 포함한 세 가지의 신뢰도 지수를 적용하여 상수관망의 용수공급 상황 변화에 따른 시스템의 안정성을 분석하였다. 특히, 절점별 복원력 지수를 산정하고 그 분포를 공간적으로 도시하여 파악함으로써, 비상시 효율적인 운영을 위한 판단기준으로써 신뢰도 지수를 폭 넓게 활용할 수 있음을 제시하였다.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.95-99
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• 2011

The microstructure and Cu diffusion barrier property of Ta-Si-N films for various Si and N compositions were studied. Ta-Si-N films of a wide range of compositions (Si: 0~30 at.%, N: 0~55 at.%) were deposited by DC magnetron reactive sputtering of Ta and Si targets. Deposition rates of Ta and Si films as a function of DC target current density for various $N_2/(Ar+N_2)$ flow rate ratios were investigated. The composition of Ta-Si-N films was examined by wavelength dispersive spectroscopy (WDS). The variation of the microstructure of Ta-Si-N films with Si and N composition was examined by X-ray diffraction (XRD). The degree of crystallinity of Ta-Si-N films decreased with increasing Si and N composition. The Cu diffusion barrier property of Ta-Si-N films with more than sixty compositions was investigated. The Cu(100 nm)/Ta-Si-N(30 nm)/Si structure was used to investigate the Cu diffusion barrier property of Ta-Si-N films. The microstructure of all Cu/Ta-Si-N/Si structures after heat treatment for 1 hour at various temperatures was examined by XRD. A contour map that shows the diffusion barrier failure temperature for Cu as a function of Si and N composition was completed. At Si compositions ranging from 0 to 15 at.%, the Cu diffusion barrier property was best when the composition ratio of Ta + Si and N was almost identical.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.52 no.3
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• pp.597-609
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• 2020

Accident Tolerant Fuels have been widely studied since the Fukushima-Daiichi accident in 2011 as one of the options on how to further enhance the safety of nuclear power plants. Deposition of protective coatings on nuclear fuel claddings has been considered as a near-term concept that will reduce the high-temperature oxidation rate and enhance accidental tolerance of the cladding while providing additional benefits during normal operation and transients. This study focuses on experimental testing of Zr-based alloys coated with Cr-based coatings using Physical Vapour Deposition. The results of long-term corrosion tests, as well as tests simulating postulated accidents, are presented. Zr-1%Nb alloy used as nuclear fuel cladding serves as a substrate and Cr, CrN, Cr_xN_y layers are deposited by unbalanced magnetron sputtering and reactive magnetron sputtering. The deposition procedures are optimized in order to improve coating properties. Coated as well as reference uncoated samples were experimentally tested. The presented results include standard long-term corrosion tests at 360℃ in WWER water chemistry, burst (creep) tests and mainly single and double-sided high-temperature steam oxidation tests between 1000 and 1400℃ related to postulated Loss-of-coolant accident and Design extension conditions. Coated and reference samples were characterized pre- and post-testing using mechanical testing (microhardness, ring compression test), Thermal Evolved Gas Analysis analysis (hydrogen, oxygen concentration), optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (EDS, WDS, EBSD) and X-ray diffraction.

• Analytical Science and Technology
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.203-211
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• 2001

In this paper it was described on the intereference effect of uranium to analyze Cs in $UO_2$ by Electron Probe Micro Analysis(EPMA) and the beam stability of Cs $L_{\alpha}$ X-ray intensity for some Cs compounds. According to the experimental results, the CsI showed the highest $L_{\alpha}$ X-ray intensity among the tested Cs compounds at the experimental condition; 15~30 kV of accelerating voltage and PET, LiF crystal. When 100 nA of beam current was applied to Cs compounds, Cs $L_{\alpha}$ X-ray intensity was continuously decreased with increasing time. The decreasing rate of Cs $L_{\alpha}$ X-ray intensity was directly proportional to the applied beam current and accelerating voltage but inversely proportional to the applied beam size. It was found that uranium interference can be prevented by using Cs $L_{\alpha}$ X-ray wavelength of Lif crytal for Cs analysis in $UO_2$ by EPMA.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.2A
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• pp.165-173
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• 2010

WMN(Wireless Mesh Network) is an wireless backbone network technology that is an easily configurable network in the low cost compared to the wireless LAN(Local Area Network). Most of the previous researches have evaluated their algorithms by the simulations rather than by the implementation. There exist some implementation papers, however, they have the limitations of the flexibility on the link establishment and the link quality utilization. Consequently, the benefit of the WMN - configuration flexibility is degraded and the performance deterioration occurs in the multi-hop wireless environment. In this paper, we introduce a Linux-based link layer Wireless Mesh Routing System - WBMR. The design and implementation of WBMR provides the dynamic link establishment and the effective multi-channel usage. We have modified the ntroof the original WLAN operation for the dynamic link establishment, and the Linux bridge for the link layer routing. The result of performance evaluation verifies that our WBMR supports fast self-configuration and increases data transmission throughput compared to the other researches of the wireless multi-hop environment.

• The Journal of the Korean bone and joint tumor society
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.37-43
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• 1998

Between 1992 and 1996, 5 patients with the giant-cell tumor of the spine were treated. Four were female and one was male. The mean age was 34 years old, and the mean follow-up time was 36 months. The locations of the lesions were the cervical spine in 1, the thoracic spine in 3, and the lumbar spine in 1. Pain was the predominant presenting symptom in all cases and four had a neurological deficit. A combined anterior and posterior surgical approach wds as performed in all cases, which were also treated with AIF(anterior interbody fusion) and anterior and/or posterior instrumentation. Adjuvant radiation therapy was performed in 1 case of cervical spine. At the final follow-up, the pain and neurologic symptoms were improved. Radiologic examination showed no evidence of local recurrence and no failure of instrumentation of the spine.