• 한국위험물학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.6-11
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• 2014

There have been frequent chemical leaks over the past 10 years. Particularly, inorganic acids like sulfuric acid, nitric acid, and hydrogen chloride take up 37 % of the total chemical accidents which took place for the past 10 years. When an acid chemical leak happens, fume is generated, diffusing into the air, which might cause serious damage to health of local residents and the environment. However, most of the acid-based chemicals, detecting and analysis methods have not been settled considering the frequency of accidents. In this study, we investigated detection and analysis methods to quickly analyze accident sites and evaluate the impacts on environments. Reviewing local and international test analysis methods of acids suggested that nitric acid, sulfuric acid, hydrogen chloride and hydrogen fluoride can be analyzed with IC. It was also found that UV is better for the analysis of hydrogen fluoride and GC/MS for acrylic acid. The analytical methods suggested in the official test methods basically have limitations of consuming much time at stages of preparation and analysis. Considering prompt responses to chemical accidents, further studies should be done to compare the applicability of rapid monitoring methods such as FT-IR, IMR-MS and SIFT-MS.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2022

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to reveal the circumstances under which the cases of harm to health caused by humidifier disinfectant were neglected and show the points where the number of victims and the degree of damage could have been reduced. In addition, it attempts to describe how damage management proceeded immediately after the incident and actually exacerbated the damage. Finally, it explores the unfortunate aspects of the recent trial. By doing so, it attempts to take this as an opportunity to consider whether a tragic event such as the humidifier disinfectant incident could occur in the future. Methods: This study collected and analyzed data on chemical material characteristics related to humidifier disinfectants, data on health effect characteristics, data on related laws and regulations from the Ministry of Environment, data related to the damage investigation by the Korea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute, and current contents. Results: The lack of related systems and laws is the area where the greatest responsibility for the cause of the humidifier disinfectant disaster falls, so it is difficult for the government to escape this responsibility. Establishing a dedicated department to identify the prevalence of certain diseases within the functions of the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service to monitor health can greatly contribute to the prevention and management of diseases through early detection and management of group outbreaks caused by harmful factors. Humidifier disinfectant damage relief should have been expanded earlier beyond HDLI (humidifier disinfectant lung injury) to include non-specific diseases such as asthma, pneumonia, and interstitial pneumonia. The scope of relief benefits should have also been expanded earlier to include the payment of disability benefits. Fortunately, with the 2020 revision of the Special Act, the conditions for estimating causal relations were eased and individual screening systems such as health impact assessment were reorganized along with the introduction of a rapid screening system. Conclusions: The management system for chemical substances in a country is clearly of paramount importance, and the ministry in charge must have a response system in case of damage to health effects. Administration that looks at the victims' situation from their point of view is needed, and technical countermeasures are required to quickly recognize the prevalence of certain diseases.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.687-694
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• 2018

The problem of wheel tread defects has become a major challenge for the health management of high-speed rail as a wheel defect with small radius deviation may suffice to give rise to severe damage on both the train bogie components and the track structure when a train runs at high speeds. It is thus highly desirable to detect the defects soon after their occurrences and then conduct wheel turning for the defective wheelsets. Online wheel condition monitoring using wheel impact load detector (WILD) can be an effective solution, since it can assess the wheel condition and detect potential defects during train passage. This study aims to develop an FBG-based track-side wheel condition monitoring method for the detection of wheel tread defects. The track-side sensing system uses two FBG strain gauge arrays mounted on the rail foot, measuring the dynamic strains of the paired rails excited by passing wheelsets. Each FBG array has a length of about 3 m, slightly longer than the wheel circumference to ensure a full coverage for the detection of any potential defect on the tread. A defect detection algorithm is developed for using the online-monitored rail responses to identify the potential wheel tread defects. This algorithm consists of three steps: 1) strain data pre-processing by using a data smoothing technique to remove the trends; 2) diagnosis of novel responses by outlier analysis for the normalized data; and 3) local defect identification by a refined analysis on the novel responses extracted in Step 2. To verify the proposed method, a field test was conducted using a test train incorporating defective wheels. The train ran at different speeds on an instrumented track with the purpose of wheel condition monitoring. By using the proposed method to process the monitoring data, all the defects were identified and the results agreed well with those from the static inspection of the wheelsets in the depot. A comparison is also drawn for the detection accuracy under different running speeds of the test train, and the results show that the proposed method can achieve a satisfactory accuracy in wheel defect detection when the train runs at a speed higher than 30 kph. Some minor defects with a depth of 0.05 mm~0.06 mm are also successfully detected.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2020년도 학술발표회
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• pp.168-168
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• 2020

This study is to evaluate the drought-related bigdata characteristics published from South Korean by developing crawler. The 5 years (2013 ~ 2017) drought-related posted articles were collected from Korean internet search engine 'NAVER' which contains 13 main and 81 local daily newspapers. During the 5 years period, total 40,219 news articles including 'drought' word were found using crawler. To filter the homonyms liken drought to soccer goal drought in sports, money drought economics, and policy drought in politics often used in South Korea, the quality control was processed and 47.8 % articles were filtered. After, the 20,999 (52.2 %) drought news articles of this study were classified into four categories of water deficit (WD), water security and support (WSS), economic damage and impact (EDI), and environmental and sanitation impact (ESI) with 27, 15, 13, and 18 drought-related keywords in each category. The WD, WSS, EDI, and ESI occupied 41.4 %, 34.5 %, 14.8 %, and 9.3 % respectively. The drought articles were mostly posted in June 2015 and June 2017 with 22.7 % (15,097) and 15.9 % (10,619) respectively. The drought news articles were spatiotemporally compared with SPI (Standardized Precipitation Index) and RDI (Reservoir Drought Index) were calculated. They were classified into administration boundaries of 8 main cities and 9 provinces in South Korea because the drought response works based on local government unit. The space-time clustering between news articles (WD, WSS, EDI, and ESI) and indices (SPI and RDI) were tried how much they have correlation each other. The spatiotemporal clusters detection was applied using SaTScan software (Kulldorff, 2015). The retrospective and prospective cluster analyses were conducted for past and present time to understand how much they are intensive in clusters. The news articles of WD, WSS and EDI had strong clusters in provinces, and ESI in cities.

• 대한소아치과학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.146-150
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• 1999

치아발육시기의 항암치료는 치아에 영향을 줄 수 있으며 이에 대한 예상 및 적절한 치료계획수립이 필요하다. 본 증례에서 환자의 왜소치는 항암 화학요법과 관련되어 발생한 것으로 추정되며, 이에 대한 장기적 관찰 및 치료가 필요할 것으로 사료된다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.429-436
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• 2010

최근에는 T-ray(terahertz ray)를 이용한 비파괴기술이 새로운 분야로 주목을 받고 있다. 본 연구에서는 FRP 복합재료의 내재결함이나 레이업(lay-up) 특성을 검사 및 평가하기 위한 T-ray 시간영역 분광기(time-domain spectroscopy)를 활용하였으며 또한 이 T-ray 분광기의 일반적인 반사 및 투과모드를 이용하여 T-ray 이미지를 구현하였다. 특히, 2개의 톱날 인공결함이 내재한 GFRP 복합재의 평가방법을 제시하였다. CFRP 복합재료에 대해서는 T-ray 전파는 탄소섬유로 인해 진행 장해를 받는다. 이에 따라 T-ray의 전기장(E-field)의 방향과 탄소섬유 방향의 의존성을 분석하였다. 한편 인공결함인 알루미늄 테이프, 박리, 충격손상, 이물혼입 등을 T-ray를 이용하여 비파괴 검사 및 평가하였다. 이를 통해 FRP 복합재료의 T-ray비파괴평가의 적용 가능성 및 한계 등을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제50권2호
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• pp.283-292
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• 2022

Colibactins (clb) and Cytotoxic Necrotizing Factors (cnf) are virulence factors that impact cell cycle through cellular differentiation, proliferation, and apoptosis. Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are the most common among type of infection among outpatients, with a lifetime incidence of about 60-65% in adult females. Here, we sought to isolate uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPCE) from urine specimens and investigates the prevalence of clb A, B and cnf 1, 2 genes among these isolates. A total of 110 E. coli isolates were collected from patients with UTIs. All the isolates were examined for their hemolytic activity and only 46 isolates showed a halo zone of hemolysis on blood agar. The collected UPEC isolates were screened for the existence of clb A, B and cnf genes. The results revealed that out of 110 isolates, 28 harbored the clbA gene, 40 harbored clb B, and 24 isolates harboured cnf1. 13 isolates harbored clbA, clbB, and cnf1 genes, while no cnf2 gene was detected among isolates. The molecular detection revealed that 8 out of 28 hemolytic isolates carrying the clbA, 11 out of 40 were carrying clbB, 1 out of 24 were carrying cnf 1, and 5 out of 9 carrying clbA+clbB. Furthermore, 7 out of 13 isolates were hemolytic and carrying clbA, clbB, and cnf1 genes. Finally, we investigated the cytotoxicity of E. coli harboring clb and cnf genes, eukaryotic REF cells were exposed to E. coli producing colibactin, which induces DNA damage and leads to cell cycle arrest, senescence and death.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제40권6호
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• pp.537-545
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• 2021

인간에 의한 연안 지역 개발 및 변형의 가속화로 인해 해양포유류에 대한 피해가 우려되고 있다. 연안 개발이 해양포유류에 어떤 영향을 미칠 수 있는지 이해하려면 이들의 분포를 파악하는 것이 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 서남해 해상풍력 실증단지에서 수동 음향 관측을 통해 상괭이의 출현을 확인하였다. 실험지역에서의 상괭이에 대한 목시관측 결과가 없으므로, 풍력단지에서 탐지된 클릭은 상괭이 발견율이 높은 지역에서 측정한 클릭과 음향특성을 비교하여 검증하였다. 음향 측정 결과에 의하면 상괭이는 매일 출몰하였으며, 평균 클릭수는 40.7회, 상괭이의 출현 비율은 9.7 %, 출현 시간은 18.2 min이며, 대기 시간은 94.9 min으로 나타났다. 이 연구를 통해 서남해 해상풍력 실증단지에서 알려지지 않은 상괭이 출현에 대한 정보를 제공하였으며, 이러한 결과는 풍력단지 운영으로 인한 해양포유류의 영향을 모니터링하는데 도움을 줄 수 있다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제21권12호
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• pp.603-611
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• 2020

도로에 발생하는 포트홀은 운전자들의 안전과 만족도, 차량파손에 직접적으로 영향을 미치는 요소로 실시간에 준하는 검지와 대응이 요구된다. 순찰 빈도를 높이면 포트홀의 조속한 검지와 대응이 가능하나, 많은 인력과 비용, 시간이 소요된다. 또한 포트홀은 우천에 따라 발생특성이 달라지기 때문에 순찰의 효율성을 제고하기 위해서는 경제적 관점과 서비스 제공의 관점에서 최적빈도에 대해 고민해야 할 필요가 있다. 이에 본 연구는 장기간에 걸쳐 수집된 포트홀 발생이력과 기상정보를 활용하여 우천이 포트홀 발생에 미치는 영향과, 지속성, 강우강도의 영향에 대해 정량적 분석을 시도하였다. 그리고 이 결과를 근거로 리스크 기반의 최적화·가변화 순찰 전략을 제시하였다. 분석 결과 우천 시에는 포트홀 발생확률은 2.4배 증가하고, 비가 그친 후에도 그 영향은 3일간 지속됨을 알 수 있었다. 또한 강우강도 1mm 당 포트홀 발생확률은 0.46% 증가하며, 1mm 수준의 적은 비에도 발생특성이 민감하게 반응함도 확인하였다. 이러한 특성에 근거한 포트홀 관리 최적 빈도는 신뢰수준 95% 수준에서 우천 비영향권일 경우 3일에 1회, 영향권에서는 1일 2회 이상의 순찰이 필요하다는 결론이 도출되었다.

• 해양안보
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.241-271
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• 2020

극초음속 미사일은 전 세계에서 가장 많은 관심을 받는 군사기술이다. 러시아, 중국, 미국이 주도하고 있고 다른 나라 역시 경쟁적으로 동참하고 있다. 극초음속 미사일은 탄도미사일과 순항미사일의 장점을 모두 혼합한 미사일로 기존 방어체계로는 요격이 쉽지 않다. 해군은 기술군으로 과학기술 발전은 해양전략에 많은 영향을 미쳐왔다. 해양전략의 핵심은 해양통제다. 이는 점령보다 해양의 사용권리에 대한 문제이며 확보는 수단이고 행사하는 것이 그 목적이다. 극초음속 미사일은 해양통제의 확보 면에서 제한요인으로 작용한다. 극초음속 미사일의 빠른 속력과 강력한 파괴력은 요격이 어려울 뿐만 아니라 단 한발에도 손상통제가 의미없는 수준의 피해가 발생한다. 이로 인해 해양거부능력이 지리적, 질적으로 향상됨에 따라 해양통제 달성이 어려워 질 것이다. 극초음속 미사일은 해양력투사/방어, 해상교통로 공격/방어라는 해양통제 행사면에서는 각각 기회요인과 제한요인으로 동시에 작용한다.