• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.315-330
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• 2017

Halo coronal mass ejections (CMEs) originating from solar activities give rise to geomagnetic storms when they reach the Earth. Variations in the geomagnetic field during a geomagnetic storm can damage satellites, communication systems, electrical power grids, and power systems, and induce currents. Therefore, automated techniques for detecting and analyzing halo CMEs have been eliciting increasing attention for the monitoring and prediction of the space weather environment. In this study, we developed an algorithm to sense and detect halo CMEs using large angle and spectrometric coronagraph (LASCO) C3 coronagraph images from the solar and heliospheric observatory (SOHO) satellite. In addition, we developed an image processing technique to derive the morphological and dynamical characteristics of halo CMEs, namely, the source location, width, actual CME speed, and arrival time at a 21.5 solar radius. The proposed halo CME automatic analysis model was validated using a model of the past three halo CME events. As a result, a solar event that occurred at 03:38 UT on Mar. 23, 2014 was predicted to arrive at Earth at 23:00 UT on Mar. 25, whereas the actual arrival time was at 04:30 UT on Mar. 26, which is a difference of 5 hr and 30 min. In addition, a solar event that occurred at 12:55 UT on Apr. 18, 2014 was estimated to arrive at Earth at 16:00 UT on Apr. 20, which is 4 hr ahead of the actual arrival time of 20:00 UT on the same day. However, the estimation error was reduced significantly compared to the ENLIL model. As a further study, the model will be applied to many more events for validation and testing, and after such tests are completed, on-line service will be provided at the Korean Space Weather Center to detect halo CMEs and derive the model parameters.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.37 no.9
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• pp.1-6
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• 2000

Utilizing impurity free vacancy diffusion (IFVD) method, area selective intermixing of InGaAs/InGaAsP multi-quantum well (MQW) structure was done. After this, wavelength division demultiplexing waveguide type photodetectoers was integrated and measured. It showed large blue shift in bandgap due to intermixing of MQW. Photodetectors are based on typical p-i-n structure and devices having large and small bandgap areas line up linearly. Width of waveguide and length of each photodetector are 20 and 250 ${\mu}m$, respectively, TE/TM polarized light from tunable laser was butt-coupled to the photodetector and spectral response was measured. Photodetectors can demultiplexing 1480 and 1550 nm wavelength.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.39-39
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• 2013

We present a study of correlations between the elemental abundances and galaxy morphologies of 91 blue compact galaxies (BCGs) at z=0.20-0.35 with Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR7 data. We classify the morphologies of the galaxies as either 'disturbed' or 'undisturbed', by visual inspection of the SDSS images, and using the Gini coefficient and M20. We derive oxygen and nitrogen abundances using the Te method. We find that a substantial fraction of BCGs with disturbed morphologies, indicative of merger remnants, show relatively high N/O and low O/H abundance ratios. The majority of the disturbed BCGs exhibit higher N/O values at a given O/H value compared to the morphologically undisturbed galaxies, implying more efficient nitrogen enrichment in disturbed BCGs. We detect Wolf-Rayet (WR) features in only a handful of the disturbed BCGs, which appears to contradict the idea that WR stars are responsible for high nitrogen abundance. Combining these results with Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) GR6 ultraviolet (UV) data, we find that the majority of the disturbed BCGs show systematically lower values of the $H{\alpha}$ to near-UV star formation rate ratio. The equivalent width of the $H{\beta}$ emission line is also systematically lower in the disturbed BCGs. Based on these results, we infer that disturbed BCGs have undergone star formation over relatively longer time scales, resulting in a more continuous enrichment of nitrogen. We suggest that this correlation between morphology and chemical abundances in BCGs is due to a difference in their recent star formation histories.

• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.13-19
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• 1999

To investigate and compare the effects of air pollution near Seoul on soil ion, plant nutrient contents and plant growth, 14 Quercus mongolica forests were studied from Mt. Namsan in Seoul to Mt. Maebongsan in Kangwon-Do along the line transect. Soil pH values decreased as approached to Seoul. Concentrations of basic cations such as exchangeable Ca/sup 2+/, Mg/sup 2+/ and Na/sup +/ and effective cation exchange capacity(ECEC) in forest soil decreased as approached to Seoul. Ca/sup 2+/ and Mg/sup 2+/ contents in l-year-old Q. mongolica twigs decreased, but their K/sup +/ and Na/sup +/ contents increased as approached to Seoul. Ca/sup 2+/ contents in l-year-old Q. mongolica leaves decreased, but their K/sup +/ and Mg/sup 2+/ contents increased as approached to Seoul. Length of l-year-old twigs generally decreased near Seoul. Tree-ring analyses of Q. mongolica trees in Mt. Namsan and Mt. Yebongsan showed that mean tree-ring width in Mt. Namsan was narrower than that of Mt. Yebongsan from early 1970's to late 1980's.

• 한국지구과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.121-121
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• 2010

행성상 성운 NGC 7009와 NGC 7027의 모델을 연구하기 위해 1998년 8월 14일부터 16일 까지 3일간의 Keck I HIRES의 분광 관측 자료를 이용하였다. 사용한 파장 영역은 $3250{\AA}{\sim}8725{\AA}$이고, H I, He I, He II, C II, C III, N II, N III, [N II], [O I], [O II], [O III], [S II], [S III], [Cl III], [Cl IV], [Ar III], [Ne III] 등의 방출선을 얻었다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 방출선의 선윤곽(line profile)을 IRAF와 StarLink/Dipso를 이용해 분석하여 성분을 구하였는데 H I, He I, He II, [O III], [C III], [N II] 등 대부분은 2개로 분리되었고, [S II], [Ar III]의 경우에는 3개로 분리되었다. 후자의 경우 구각(shell)의 단순한 팽창뿐만 아니라 다른 제3의 방향으로 팽창하고 있는 성분이 존재함을 의미한다. 비교적 S/N가 양호한 선들의 FWHM(Full Width at Half Maximum)을 측정하여 팽창속도를 구한 후 이 선들이 생성에 기여한 지역의 온도 또는 이온화 에너지 (IP)에 대한 팽창속도의 변화를 조사하였다. 또한 두 행성상 성운의 물리적 특성과 화학 원소 함량을 결정하기위해 광이온 모델 Tlusty Code와 CLOUDY를 사용하여 NGC 7009의 선행연구 Hyung & Aller(1995), Kwitter & Henry(1998)와 비교하였고, NGC 7027은 Zhang & Liu(2005), Middlemass(1990)와 비교하였다. NGC 7009과 NGC 7027의 수소 밀도($N_H$)를 $8,000cm^{-3}$으로 가정했을 때, NGC 7009의 중심별의 온도는 77,000K이고, 구각(shell)의 크기는 0.031~0.044pc이며 장축에 대해서만 결과를 나타내었다. NGC 7027의 경우, 중심별의 온도는 180,000K이고, 구각(shell)의 크기는 0.015~0.02pc으로 판단된다.

• Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.715-721
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• 2003

Dental injuries with crown fracture occur frequently, especially in young patient Reattachment of the crown fragment has been shown to yield good esthetic results in that original tooth anatomy is restored with a material that abrades at a rate indntical to that of the adjacent tooth substance and at the same time permits continual monitoring of pulpal status through the fragment. Case 1 was complicated crown fracture with pin-point bleed ing, that was treated by direct pulp capping with calcium hydroxide and fragment reattachment. Case 2 was in trusive luxation with complicated crown fracture and was treated by pulp treatment and fragment reattachment. Case 3 was uncomplicated crown fracture, and fracture line involved slightly biologic width and treated by reattachment of the crown fragment.

• International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.327-341
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• 2017

Openings in slabs are usually required for many different applications such as aeriation ducts and air conditioning. Opening in concrete slabs due to cutouts significantly decrease the member stiffness. There are different techniques to strengthen slabs with opening cutouts. This study presents experimental and numerical investigations on the use of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers (CFRP) as strengthening material to strengthen and restore the load carrying capacity of R.C. slabs after having cutout in the hogging moment region. The experimental program consisted of testing five (oneway spanning R.C. flat slabs) with overhang. All slabs were prismatic, rectangular in cross-section and nominally 2000 mm long, 1000 mm width, and 100 mm thickness with a clear span (distance between supports) of 1200 mm and the overhang length is 700 mm. All slabs were loaded up to 30 kN (45% of ultimate load for reference slab, before yielding of the longitudinal reinforcement), then the load was kept constant during cutting concrete and steel bars (producing cut out). After that operation, slabs were loaded till failure. An analytical study using finite element analysis (FEA) is performed using the commercial software ANSYS. The FEA has been validated and calibrated using the experimental results. The FE model was found to be in a good agreement with the experimental results. The investigated key parameters were slab aspect ratio for the opening ratios of [1:1, 2:1], CFRP layers and the laminates widths, positions for cutouts and the CFRP configurations around cutouts.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.797-807
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• 2008

This paper proposes a new algorithm of extracting forward vehicle areas using the acquired lanes and road area information on road images with complex background to improve the efficiency of the vehicle detection. In the first stage, lanes are detected by taking into account the connectivity among the edges which are determined from a method of chain code. Once the lanes proceeding to the same direction with the running vehicle are detected, neighborhood roadways are found from the width and vanishing point of the acquired roadway of the running vehicle. And finally, vehicle areas, where forward vehicles are located on the road area including the center and neighborhood roadways, are extracted. Therefore, the proposed scheme of extracting forward vehicle area improves the rate of vehicle detection on the road images with complex background, and is highly efficient because of detecting vehicles within the confines of the acquired vehicle area. The superiority of the proposed algorithm is verified from experiments of the vehicle detection on road images with complex background.

• Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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• 2009.09a
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• pp.524-528
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• 2009

An influence factors for soundness evaluation of river levee include resistibility and embankment for piping of ground consisting embankment in case piping, permeability coefficient of ground, height of embankment, the width of crest, material characteristics of embankment and foundation ground, shape of embankment slope, an influence for penetration of rainfall or river water in case slope stability. In this study, it was operated a feasibility investigation of existing design result, stability evaluation for permeability coefficient use and permeability coefficient change of foundation ground to investigate an influence in line with permeability coefficient change for result of river levee penetration analysis. The evaluation results of influence factors, the permeability coefficient used in design and it was evaluated influence in safety factor of piping. After the evaluation of influence factors, the permeability coefficient used in the design appears with the fact that differs in a design report about same soil, Accordingly, the stability investigation of embankment by application of literature data can affect stability evaluation results by change factors like a permeability coefficient, void ratio. It should be certainly used material properties by a test in soundness evaluation of river levee.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.613-618
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• 2012

This study was performed to optimize the basic platform of a lateral flow immunoassay. Improvement of the limit of detection (LOD) was evaluated according to the width of a nitrocellulose membrane with varying concentrations of analyte. The analyte, neutravidin was detected based on the avidin-biotin interaction. The antibody-Au nanoparticle conjugation was mostly stabled in a PBS buffer of pH 7.3. The optimal widths of a nitrocellulose membrane were 4 and 6 mm considering the sample flow rate and signal strength of the test line on the membrane. The LOD of neutravidin was 0.001 mg/ml in the optimum conditions.