• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.567-587
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• 2018

A severe haze event occurred in October 2015 in Gwangju, Korea. In this study, the driving chemical species and the formation mechanisms of $PM_{2.5}$ pollution were investigated to better understand the haze event. Hourly concentrations of $PM_{2.5}$, organic and elemental carbon, water-soluble ions, and elemental constituents were measured at the air quality intensive monitoring station in Gwangju. The haze event occurred was attributed to a significant contribution (72.3%) of secondary inorganic species concentration to the $PM_{2.5}$, along with the contribution of organic aerosols that were strongly attributed to traffic emissions over the study site. MODIS images, weather charts, and air mass backward trajectories supported the significant impact of long-range transportation (LTP) of aerosol particles from northeastern China on haze formation over Gwangju in October 2015. The driving factor for the haze formation was stagnant atmospheric flows around the Korean peninsula, and high relative humidity (RH) promoted the haze formation at the site. Under the high RH conditions, $SO{_4}^{2-}$ and $NO_3{^-}$ were mainly produced through the heterogenous aqueous-phase reactions of $SO_2$ and $NO_2$, respectively. Moreover, hourly $O_3$ concentration during the study period was highly elevated, with hourly peaks ranging from 79 to 95ppb, suggesting that photochemical reaction was a possible formation process of secondary aerosols. Over the $PM_{2.5}$ pollution, behavior and formation of secondary ionic species varied with the difference in the impact of LTP. Prior to October 19 when the influence of LTP was low, increasing rate in $NO_3{^-}$ was greater than that in $NO_2$, but both $SO_2$ and $SO{_4}^{2-}$ had similar increasing rates. While, after October 20 when the impact of haze by LTP was significant, $SO{_4}^{2-}$ and $NO_3{^-}$ concentrations increased significantly more than their gaseous precursors, but with greater increasing rate of $NO_3{^-}$. These results suggest the enhanced secondary transformation of $SO_2$ and $NO_2$ during the haze event. Overall, the result from the study suggests that control of anthropogenic combustion sources including vehicle emissions is needed to reduce the high levels of nitrogen oxide and $NO_3{^-}$ and the high $PM_{2.5}$ pollution occurred over fall season in Gwangju.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.107-115
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• 2020

This paper introduces the first vital area identification (VAI) process for the physical protection of nuclear power plants (NPPs) during low power and shutdown (LPSD) operation. This LPSD VAI is based on the 3rd generation VAI method which very efficiently utilizes probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) event trees (ETs). This LPSD VAI process was implemented to the virtual NPP during LPSD operation in this study. Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) had developed the 2nd generation full power VAI method that utilizes whole internal and external (fire and flooding) PSA results of NPPs during full power operation. In order to minimize the huge burden of the 2nd generation full power VAI method, the 3rd generation full power VAI method was developed, which utilizes ETs and minimal PSA fault trees instead of using the whole PSA fault tree. In the 3rd generation full power VAI method, (1) PSA ETs are analyzed, (2) minimal mitigation systems for avoiding core damage are selected from ETs by calculating system-level target sets and prevention sets, (3) relatively small sabotage fault tree that has the systems in the shortest system-level prevention set is composed, (4) room-level target sets and prevention sets are calculated from this small sabotage fault tree, and (5) the rooms in the shortest prevention set are defined as vital areas that should be protected. Currently, the 3rd generation full power VAI method is being employed for the VAI of Korean NPPs. This study is the first development and application of the 3rd generation VAI method to the LPSD VAI of NPP. For the LPSD VAI, (1) many LPSD ETs are classified into a few representative LPSD ETs based on the functional similarity of accident scenarios, (2) a few representative LPSD ETs are simplified with some VAI rules, and then (3) the 3rd generation VAI is performed as mentioned in the previous paragraph. It is well known that the shortest room-level prevention sets that are calculated by the 2nd and 3rd generation VAI methods are identical.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.277-290
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• 2008

The process of wound repair involves an ordered sequence of events such as overlapping biochemical and cellular events that, in the best of circumstances, result in the restoration of both the structural and functional integrity of the damaged tissue. An important event during wound healing is the contraction of newly formed connective tissues by fibroblasts. The polypeptide growth factors, like transforming growth factor-${\beta}$(TGF-${\beta}$, insulin-like growth factor I (IGF- I) and epidermal growth factor (EGF), play very important mediator roles in the process of wound contraction. Deer antlers, as models of mammalian regeneration, are cranial appendages that develop after birth as extensions of a permanent protuberance (pedicle) on the frontal bone. Antlers contain various growth factors which stimulate dermal fibroblast growth. They are involved in digestion and respiration and are necessary for normal wound healing and skin health. In order to investigate and evaluate the effects of red deer antlers on skin wound site, the speed of full-thickness skin wound healing and the expression of IGF-I, TGF-${\beta}$ and EGF in skin wounds, three groups of skin full-thickness rat models with a high concentration of antler ointment, a low concentration of antler ointment and without antler ointment were compared. At post-injury days 0, 2, 4, 8, 16, 20, 32, 40 and 60, the skin wound area was measured, the expressions of IGF-I, TGF- ${\beta}$ and EGF mRNA were detected by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and collagen formation by sirius red dye and the localization of IGF-I, TGF-${\beta}$ and EGF peptides were inspected by histological immunohistochemical techniques. Wound healing was significantly more rapid in antler treated skins. In addition, the wound treated with a high concentration antler ointment, a low concentration antler ointment, and the control closed completely at post-injury day 40, day 44 and day 60, respectively. Via RT-PCR, the expressions of IGF-I (day 8 and day 16), TGF-${\beta}$(day 8, day 16 and day 20) and EGF (day 4, day 8, day 16, and day 32) were obviously up-regulated in high concentration antler-treated skins compared to control skins. Similar results could be seen in the histological detection of collagen dye and immunohistochemical methods using the corresponding polyclone antibodies of IGF-I, TGF-${\beta}$ and EGF. These results illustrate that antlers stimulate and accelerate the repair of cutaneous wounds.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.115-124
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• 2019

In a climate change environment where heat damage and drought occur during a rainy season such as in 2018, a vegetation-based LID system that enables disaster prevention as well as environment improvement is suggested in lieu of an installation-type LID system that is limited to the prevention of floods. However, the quantification of its performance as against construction cost is limited. This study aims to present an experiment environment and evaluation method on quantitative performance, which is required in order to disseminate the vegetation-based LID system. To this end, a 3^rd quartile huff time distribution mass curve was generated for 20-year frequency, 60-minute probable rainfall of 68mm/hr in Cheonan, and effluent was analyzed by recreating artificial rainfall. In order to assess the reliability of the rainfall event simulator, 10 repeat tests were conducted at one-minute intervals for 20 minutes with minimum rainfall intensity of 22.29mm/hr and the maximum rainfall intensity of 140.69mm/hr from the calculated probable rainfall. Effective rainfall as against influent flow was 21.83mm/hr (sd=0.17~1.36, n=20) on average at the minimum rainfall intensity and 142.27mm/hr (sd=1.02~3.25, n=20) on average at the maximum rainfall intensity. In artificial rainfall recreation experiments repeated for three times, the most frequent quartile was found to be the third quartile, which is around 40 minutes after beginning the experiment. The peak flow was observed 70 minutes after beginning the experiment in the experiment zone and after 50 minutes in the control zone. While the control zone recorded the maximum runoff intensity of 2.26mm/min(sd=0.25) 50 minutes after beginning the experiment, the experiment zone recorded the maximum runoff intensity of 0.77mm/min (sd=0.15) 70 minutes after beginning the experiment, which is 20 minutes later than the control zone. Also, the maximum runoff intensity of the experiment zone was 79.6% lower than that of the control zone, which confirmed that vegetation unit-type LID system had rainfall runoff reduction and delay effects. Based on the above findings, the reliability of a lab-level rainfall simulator for monitoring the vegetation-based LID system was reviewed, and maximum runoff intensity reduction and runoff time delay were confirmed. As a result, the study presented a performance evaluation method that can be applied to the pre-design of the vegetation-based LID system for rainfall events on a location before construction.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.411-429
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• 2015

The Korea Ministry of Environment has established an air quality standard for $PM_{2.5}$ in 2012 and it is effective from January 2015. In this study, we review various aspects of $PM_{2.5}$ in China, including its measurement, modeling, source apportionment, and health effect, and suggest future research directions for $PM_{2.5}$ studies in Korea. Measurements studies for $PM_{2.5}$ have examined organic marker compounds and $^{14}C$ as well as inorganic aerosols for distinguishing sources. Modeling results supported that the control of $PM_{2.5}$ pollution in big city needs effective cooperation between city and its surrounding regions. The major $PM_{2.5}$ sources in China have been identified to be secondary sulfur, motor vehicle emissions, coal combustion, dust, biomass burning, and industrial sources, however, they have seasonal dependency. Especially, the severe haze pollution event during January 2013 over eastern and northern China was driven to a large extent by secondary aerosol formation. Short-term exposure to $PM_{2.5}$ is strongly associated with the increased risk of morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, as well as total non-accidental mortality. Considered previous $PM_{2.5}$ studies in China, analysis of specific organic species using online measurement, chamber experiment for secondary aerosol formation mechanism, and development of parameterizing this process in the model are needed to elucidate factors governing the abundance and composition of $PM_{2.5}$ in Korea.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1992년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국제학술편); KOEX, Seoul; 19-21 Oct. 1992
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• pp.74-78
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• 1992

This paper describes an intelligent system to automatic evaluation of eddy current(EC) signal for Inspection of steam generator(SG) tubes in nuclear power plant. Some features of the intelligent system design in the proposed system are : (1) separation of representation scheme ,or event capturing knowledge in EC signal and for structural inspection knowledge in SG tubes inspection; (2) each representation scheme is implemented in different methods, one is syntactic pattern grammar and the other is rule based production. This intelligent system also includes an data base system and an user interface system to support integration of the hybrid knowledge processing methods. The intelligent system based on the proposed concept is useful in simplifying the knowledge elicitation process of the rule based production system, and in increasing the performance in real time signal inspection application.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.19-24
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 상업용 아임센서터치 전자칠판(Interactive Whiteboard System, IWB)을 소개한다. 이 시스템은 손가락이나 펜을 이용하여 접촉식 상호작용이 가능한 화이트보드 스크린을 통해 개인용 컴퓨터를 운용할 수 있도록 도와주는 인터페이스(Interface)이다. 제안된 인터페이스는 윈도우즈 운영체제와 상호작용하며, 온도와 조명의 변화에 적응적으로 동작한다. 제안된 시스템은 카메라에서 입력된 수광부(Optical Receptive Field)의 영상을 참조영상과 비교하여 차이를 계산하고, 그 차이를 이용하여 터치스크린의 좌표값을 계산한다. 계산된 좌표값을 기반으로 윈도우즈 마우스 이벤트를 생성하여 윈도우즈시스템으로 전달한다. 우리는 참조영상을 갱신하기 위해 두 개의 스레드(Thread)을 이용한 임계영역을 구현하고, 차이계산의 신뢰성을 위해 적응적 임계값을 이용한 참조영상의 갱신을 구현한다. 제안된 터치스크린 인터페이스를 장착한 전자칠판 시스템은 향후 국내외 시장의 성장률이 높아 전도유망한 상품이며, 시장성이 밝을 것으로 기대한다.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제10권11호
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• pp.195-201
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• 2020

빠르게 발전하고 있는 정보화 시대에 맞춰 교육환경에서도 많은 발전과 영향이 있다. 이에 대표적으로 이러닝(E-Learning)이 있다. 그러나 이러닝은 직접적인 교류와 참여율이 낮아 집중을 유지하기가 어렵고, 교수자 또한 학습자의 집중 여부를 파악하는데 한계가 있다. 본 논문은 이러닝을 사용하는 학습자의 집중도를 사용자 눈 개폐와 정수리 인식을 통하여 집중도 측정할 수 있는 시스템을 개발하였다. 본 시스템은 눈과 정수리를 인식하여 집중도를 측정하고 지표화하여 교수자에게 제공한다. 눈과 정수리를 인식한 경우 이벤트가 발생하고 사용자의 반응 결과에 따라 집중도가 지표화된다. 시스템 검증을위해 실험집단과 통제집단으로 실험하였고 집중도 지표가 90% 이상의 정확도를 보였다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2015년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.1013-1014
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• 2015

현재 교육시설은 학교시설관리기준에 의거한 엄격한 적용과 예방교육을 함에도 불구하고 학교 안전사고는 책임의식이 매우 낮은 미성년학생들에 의한 우발적 사고와 화재 및 시설물에 관한 안전 불감증으로 인해 인적 물적 피해가 발생하고 있다. 교육시설 안전을 위해서는 신속한 업무 처리와 현장에서 손쉽게 교육시설물에 관한 전자도면 및 관련문서들을 스마트 디바이스를 통하여 다양한 방법으로 확인 할 수 있도록 하는 기술이 요구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 안전사고 발생시 전자도면, 문서관리, 다양한 교육시설물 문서 등을 다양한 스마트 디바이를 통한 교육시설물 자원관리 시스템(EFRMS)으로 교육시설의 점검과 통제를 할 수 있도록 문서변환 기능과 해상도 고효율화, 사물인터넷(IoT) 기술를 활용하여 교육업무시스템(NEIS)과 연계한 시스템 설계를 제안하였다.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.208-218
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• 2017

본 연구는 기존에 정의된 LDM(Local Dynamic Map)에 동적지도 정보 제공 기능을 확장한 차량LDM(V-LDM) 기술의 설계 및 개발, 성능 검증을 목적으로 한다. 이를 위해 LDM과 동적지도 정보 제공 관련 국제표준 및 관련 기술을 참고하여 차량LDM 시스템 구성을 설계하였다. 또한 자율주행을 위한 차로 수준의 정보를 갖는 정밀전자지도의 기본 구성을 제안하였고, 차량 전방의 주행 환경 정보(정적+동적 정보) 전달을 위한 메시지인 Dynamic Map (DM) 프로토콜의 기본 구조를 정의하였다. 경부고속도로의 기본구간을 대상으로 제안된 정밀전자지도와 DM프로토콜 전달 기능의 성능을 검증한 결과, 데이터 크기와 처리 수행 시간 모두 전방거리에 선형적으로 비례함을 확인하였고, 10Hz의 갱신 주기를 갖기 위해 전방 최대 250m에 해당하는 정보를 제공하는 것을 적절한 대안으로 제시하였다.