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A Survey Study on the Consciousness of the School Fence Removal -focused on the consciousness of the five schools on fence removal, in Wonju city- (학교담장허물기에 관한 의식조사 연구 -원주지역 5개 학교담장에 관한 의식조사를 중심으로-)

  • Lee, Eun-Hee;Seo, Deok-Suk;Choi, Jae-Suk
    • The Journal of Sustainable Design and Educational Environment Research
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.11-22
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    • 2010
  • Recently, the necessity of open spaces is increased greatly in the city. But in many reasons, open spaces are diminishing gradually in the existing cities. It is more difficult to keep that space because of expensive land price, and the interests between the neighbors. To solve this problem, the local governments tries to change the street system more convenient to the pedestrian by adapting no vechile street system during some specific time. In this point of view, the street which include fence of school, house, and apartment can be the open space. Especially, removal of the school fence can be a useful solution providing open spaces to small cities suffering from lack of open spaces. In this researching background, several schools in Wonju were selected in this research, some has already been opened, and others yet. Opinions of students, presidents of these schools, and citizens are surveyed about removal of fence. In the basis of this result, we deduce problems followed by removing the fence, and reflect it in the plan of opening the fence to present the guidance to cross over the functional limitation of the fence and use it as a open space.

Vibration Reduction for a Railway Depot Building (I): Vibration/Noise Evaluation (철도인공대지에 건설된 아파트의 방진대책(I): 진동소음 평가)

  • Kim, Jeung Tae
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.353-357
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    • 2013
  • Property development along railway lines is a critical issue at present. Because various railway lines exist in most large cities, there are numerous properties and open spaces to be developed for communities associated with these lines. The active development of railway properties can be a means to resolve housing shortage problems in cities. In this first part of this paper, noise and vibration levels of an artificial area of land and apartment complex are measured and evaluated to derive a design strategy for vibration reduction purposes.

The Singapore Field Epidemiology Service: Insights Into Outbreak Management

  • Ooi, Peng-Lim;Seetoh, Theresa;Cutter, Jeffery
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • v.45 no.5
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    • pp.277-282
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    • 2012
  • Field epidemiology involves the implementation of quick and targeted public health interventions with the aid of epidemiological methods. In this article, we share our practical experiences in outbreak management and in safeguarding the population against novel diseases. Given that cities represent the financial nexuses of the global economy, global health security necessitates the safeguard of cities against epidemic diseases. Singapore's public health landscape has undergone a systemic and irreversible shift with global connectivity, rapid urbanization, ecological change, increased affluence, as well as shifting demographic patterns over the past two decades. Concomitantly, the threat of epidemics, ranging from severe acute respiratory syndrome and influenza A (H1N1) to the resurgence of vector-borne diseases as well as the rise of modern lifestyle-related outbreaks, have worsened difficulties in safeguarding public health amidst much elusiveness and unpredictability. One critical factor that has helped the country overcome these innate and man-made public health vulnerabilities is the development of a resilient field epidemiology service, which includes our enhancement of surveillance and response capacities for outbreak management, and investment in public health leadership. We offer herein the Singapore story as a case study in meeting the challenges of disease control in our modern built environment.

Spread of Japanese Gall-forming Thrips, Ponticulothrips diospyrosi, in Korea (감관총채벌레(Ponticuiothrips diospyrosi)의 분포확산)

  • 신원우;이규철;박정규
    • Korean journal of applied entomology
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    • v.42 no.3
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    • pp.263-267
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    • 2003
  • The distribution of Japanese gall-forming thrips, Ponticulothrips diospyrosi (Phlaeothripidae), has been spreading in persimmon orchards throughout southern part of Korea since it was first reported in 2000. Questionnaire was made up to survey from when the thrips occurred and how it spreaded out. Results showed that it occurred first in Korea at Jangsung county in Jeonnam province in 1995. It occurs at present at 26 cities and counties encompassing Ulsan metropolitan city and 6 provinces namely Chungbuk, Jeonbuk, Jeonnam, Gyeongbuk, Gyeongnam, and Jeju provinces. The most severely damaged areas are Changwon and Milyang cities. The total area of persimmon orchards which were damaged by the thrips reached up to 151 ha. It infested on astringent persimmon as well as sweet persimmom.

A Deep Learning-based Streetscapes Safety Score Prediction Model using Environmental Context from Big Data (빅데이터로부터 추출된 주변 환경 컨텍스트를 반영한 딥러닝 기반 거리 안전도 점수 예측 모델)

  • Lee, Gi-In;Kang, Hang-Bong
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.20 no.8
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    • pp.1282-1290
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    • 2017
  • Since the mitigation of fear of crime significantly enhances the consumptions in a city, studies focusing on urban safety analysis have received much attention as means of revitalizing the local economy. In addition, with the development of computer vision and machine learning technologies, efficient and automated analysis methods have been developed. Previous studies have used global features to predict the safety of cities, yet this method has limited ability in accurately predicting abstract information such as safety assessments. Therefore we used a Convolutional Context Neural Network (CCNN) that considered "context" as a decision criterion to accurately predict safety of cities. CCNN model is constructed by combining a stacked auto encoder with a fully connected network to find the context and use it in the CNN model to predict the score. We analyzed the RMSE and correlation of SVR, Alexnet, and Sharing models to compare with the performance of CCNN model. Our results indicate that our model has much better RMSE and Pearson/Spearman correlation coefficient.

The Evaluation of Location Competitiveness for International Logistics Center: Case of Northeast Asia

  • Kang, Dal-Won;Kim, Si-Hyun
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.39 no.5
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    • pp.423-429
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    • 2015
  • The expansion on the scale of international trade and rapid economic growth in Northeast Asia have caused intense competition among global companies for securing international logistics center in Northeast Asia. Analyzing location competitiveness for international logistics center in Northeast Asia, this paper aims to extract implications for enhancing locational competitiveness. Employing the relative importance among location selection factors extracted from AHP analysis in prior study, we evaluated the major five port-cities in Northeast Asia including Busan, Gwangyang, Shanghai, Qingdao and Tokyo. In the evaluations, Shanghai (3.926) ranked as the first, followed by Busan (3.859), Qingdao (3.555), Tokyo (3.013) and Gwangyang (2.915). Furthermore, the causal relationships between determinants for location choice decision (logistics factor, cost factor, market factor, service factor and environmental factor) and dependent variables (competitiveness of international logistics center, potentiality to growth, present intention to move into and future plan to move into) were analyzed to provide implications. Results provide useful insights for further improvements, and helps strategic agenda for future development of port-cities.

A study on Restructuring the Street Network for the Improvement of Traffic Problems in Metropolitan Central Area (대도시 도심교통문제의 개선을 위한 가로망체계의 개편방안에 관한 연구)

  • 임강원;임강원
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.81-95
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    • 1987
  • In line with the continued growth of car ownership, the traffic problems in central area of metropoles such as Seoul would become increasingly degraded. comparing with most western cities, the problems in Seoul are characterized by the improportionately high rates of intersection delay, station congestion, traffic accidents caused by weaving conflicts and pedestrian congestion. It is caused by the lack of flexibility I street network, which is prerequisite for upholding the efficacy of traffic management and control, resulted from the simplicity of network graph in terms of connectivity, street density and distribution by width. This pattern has been resulted from the prolonged policy pursuing the street-widening of the nagging bottleneck in such a short period since the 1950s, comparing that most western cities had undergone over several centuries an age of horse-and-vehicle transportation. In order to improve the expected traffic problems in central area over the coming periods of motorization, it is imperative to restructure the street network in Central Seoul so that the efficacy of traffic management and control may be operative. Based upon the long-range planning the street network should be restructured by stages so that cenral traffic may be controled by one-way operation and most through-traffic be detoured around fringe area.

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Water-Quality Analysis for Gokgyo Stream in Chonan Asan Region and Pollution Source Control Strategy Using GIS (천안/아산권역내 곡교천의 수질분석 및 지리정보체계를 이용한 유역 오염원 관리방안에 관한 연구)

  • 황병기;이상호
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.443-447
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    • 2000
  • Chonan and Asan city have been a focal point due to rapid development as the first station for Express Railroad and key cities West Coast Development Region. Gokgyo stream adjacent to the cities plays an important role as a drainage channel for an agriculture and a discharger of urban storm water. Waster quality of the stream has been deteriorating caused by pollution sources such as a untreated wastewater discharge and runoff from the watershed. In the study, we conducted 4 surveys in April, May, July, and September to understand the current state of water quality for the stream and to make it possibe to predict future water-quality variation for future development. The system runs on a personal computer under the windows enviroment and provides extensive graphic user interface(GUI) for user-friendly assessment. Using the pull-down menus provided by the GUI panel, the user is able to operate the system by pointing and clicking the icon to identify the state of water-quality at locations concerned. Furthermore, we developed an integrated watershed management system. The constructed system could be a useful tool as a decesion maker for pollution source control strategy.

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On the Seasonal Variation of Urban Heat Island Intensity According to Meteorological Condition in Daegu (대구지역의 기상조건에 따른 도시열섬강도의 계절별 변화특성)

  • Ahn Ji-Suk;Kim Hae-Dong
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.527-532
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study is to clarify the characteristic of urban heat island intensity in urban area formed at a basin. Thermal environments for basin-type cities are influenced by significant topographic relief winds. In this study, we analyzed the diurnal variations of the heat island intensity according to meteorological condition and season using AWS(Automatic Weather observation System) data in Daegu Metropolitan area for 1 year(3/April, 2003 $\sim$ 2/April, 2004). In this study, we defined the urban heat island intensity as the air temperature difference between two points, the downtown and the suburban area. The suburban area is located at valley mouth around the western tip of Daegu. The results are summarized as follows; 1. The maximum heat island intensity was recorded at early morning under the meteorological conditions, calm and clear 2. The heat island intensity was strong in the order of winter, fall, spring and summer. 3. The heat island intensity came out minus values in the afternoon. This phenomenon is known as a com mon for basin-type cities. 4. The heat island intensity was twice or more in clear and calm than not so.

A study on the Characteristics of Urban Dryness in Daegu (대구의 도시건조화 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Myung-Hee;Kim, Hae-Dong
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.171-178
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    • 2007
  • It is well known that urban relative humidity has continuous decreasing trend owing to the influence of urbanization. The change of relative humidity is directly influenced by two factors, namely, temperature effect and water vapor effect in various urban effects. In this study, the temperature and tile water vapor effects on the relative humidity change were analyzed by using monthly mean relative humidities for a long period($1961{\sim}2005$) in Daegu and Chupungnung. The major results obtained in this study can be summarized as follows. Firstly, the urban dryness was caused mainly by water vapor effect in summer. But, for the other seasons, the urban dryness is mainly due to the temperature effect. Secondly, the relative humidity in Daegu is on the decrease until now. This phenomenon is similar to another Korean huge cities such as Seoul, Daejeon and Incheon. But, it is different compared with Japanese huge cities such as Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, indicating a standstill in relative humidity change after 1980s.