• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.265-282
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• 2022

This study analyzes the impact of long-range transport of biomass burning emissions from northeastern China on the concentration of particulate matter of diameter less than 10 ㎛ (PM₁₀) in Korea using the Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled with Chemistry (WRF-Chem). Korea was impacted by anthropogenic emissions from eastern China, dust storms from northern China and Mongolia, and biomass burning emissions from northeast China between April 4-and 7, 2020. The contributions of long-range PM₁₀ transport were calculated by separating biomass burning emissions from mixed air pollutants with anthropogenic emissions and dust storms using the zeroing-out method. Further, the radiation energy budget over land and sea around the Korean Peninsula was analyzed according to the distribution of biomass burning emissions. Based on the WRF-Chem simulation during April 5-6, 2020, the contribution of long-range transport of biomass burning emissions was calculated as 60% of the daily PM₁₀ average in Korea. The net heat flux around the Korean Peninsula was in a negative phase due to the influence of the large-scale biomass burning emissions. However, the contribution of biomass burning emissions was analyzed to be <45% during April 7-8, 2020, when the anthropogenic emissions from eastern China were added to biomass burning emissions, and PM₁₀ concentration increased compared with the concentration recorded during April 5-6, 2020 in Korea. Furthermore, the net heat flux around the Korean Peninsula increased to a positive phase with the decreasing influence of biomass burning emissions.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.195-200
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• 2009

effluents to the environment. The activity of carbon-14, one of the radioactive effluents, in the environment is already high level and its effect on radiation exposure to the public and the environment is insignificant; thus, NPPs did not perform the carbon-14 monitoring in effluents in the past. By the way, effluents of noble gas and particulate radioactive materials originated from nuclear fuels has been continuously reduced due to both the advancement of manufacturing and integrity technology for nuclear fuels and the improvement of operation methods of NPPs. Futhermore, the portion of dose assessment by tritium and carbon-14 to the public has been relatively increased because the lower limit of detection for low-energy beta sources, such as tritium and carbon-14, is low due to the advancement of radiation detection technology. In this paper, the technical background for carbon-14 monitoring in nuclear facilities was investigated using United States technical reports and papers. This paper also reviews whether carbon-14 monitoring is necessary or not based on the investigated documents.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.619-625
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• 2019

It is difficult to design because of the plug-holing phenomenon in which the amount of smoke discharged from the vertical vent is smaller than the designed amount of smoke. In this study, the effect of cross-sectional area ratio of tunnel and natural ventilation and heat release rate of fire source on plug-holing phenomenon occurring in natural ventilation system was experimentally analyzed. In the experiment model reduced to 1/20 size, the aspect ratio of the tunnel and the vertical vent was fixed, and the influence on the plug-holing phenomenon was confirmed by varying the sectional area ratio of the tunnel and the vertical vent. Experimental results show that the plug-holing phenomenon is caused by the comparison of the smoke boundary layer temperature with the temperature in the vertical vents, and the flow and temperature distribution characteristics under the vertical vents are changed as the cross-sectional area ratio of the tunnel and vertical vents increases. The plug-holing phenomenon is affected by the cross-sectional area ratio between the tunnel and the vertical ventilation. The greater the cross-sectional area ratio, the greater the probability of plug-holing.

• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.89-127
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• 2009

The Korean Astronaut Project(KAP) aims to make the first Korean astronaut fly and take part in space activities in the International Space Station(ISS) in April 2008. KAP was on the purpose of studying the requirement to master manned space technologies as part of the long-term basic plan for national space development. However, people criticized that Ms. Yi was a 'space tourist' not an 'astronaut' because KAP was a program for pride, prestige in 21c's new space race, not specifically science and technology. The government emphasized that Yi carried out her 15 experiments in ISS very competently. In contrast people devaluated Yi's space experiments as below the level, though some of them are enough meaningful to be published on SCI journals. Why did the government fail to make people take Ms. Yi as an astronaut? I answer to this question using the notion of "Network Analysis" based on Actor-Network Theory(ANT).

• Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.179-183
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• 2001

Shortnecked clam, Ruditapes philippinarum, is one of the very important shellfish produced in south-western coast of Korea. But it's ready to be polluted and have sand in flesh because it mainly inhabit in silt at the inside of coastal area. This study was carried out to obtain informations about the elimination of sand in shortnecked clam harvested from western coast of Korea. During rearing shortnecked clams in water tank, the elimination rates of sand from them at 6, 13, 23, $28^{\circ}C$ were 59.0, 88.2, 97.9, $96.1^{\circ}C$ after 48 hours, respectively. The sand was eliminated above $95^{\circ}C$ from the shellfish at 32,9 to $40\%_{\circ}$ of salinity after 48 hours. But the sand elimination from them was incomplete and inconsistent at 10 to 20 of salinity. The sand was eliminated rapidly at pH 1.9 to 9.0 however, its elimination was not effective at neutral or acidity range, It was found that the sand elimination was most effective at $23^{\circ}C, 35\%_{\circ}$ salinty and pH 9.0. Reasonable flow rate for sand eliminate in shortnecked clam was above 150 L/min./shellfish $m^3$ under both 3,000 and 4,000 L/shellfish $m^3$, and above 100 L/min,/shellfish $m^3$ under both 6,000 and 8,000 L/shellfish $m^3$ in water tank.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.41-49
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• 2019

In the present experimental study, based on a real-scale theater, a 1/14 reduced-scale model was constructed, and the effects of natural vent and fire curtain in fire of a theater stage were investigated. The case without fire curtain under the opened natural vent showed lower temperatures in the stage, whereas the case with fire curtain under the opened natural vent showed lower temperatures in the auditorium. On the other hand, through analyzing the starting time of the temperature rise at the point near the proscenium opening in the auditorium, it was found that the opened natural vent condition can delay the starting time of smoke spread from the stage to the auditorium and suppress the temperature rise in the auditorium. Under the present experimental conditions, the fire curtain installation did not affect significantly the velocity and mass flow rate of the outflow through the natural vent of the stage, which might be due to openings in the stage. The present results can be used to examine the effects of natural vent and fire curtain in a real-scale fire of a theater and to check the accuracy of the numerical simulation code.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.424-424
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 소유역에서 발생하는 오염물질의 정량화를 위해 오염원 그룹별 발생부하와 배출부하를 분석하고자 하였다. 대상유역은 경기도 가평군 일대이며, 소유역을 8개의 세유역으로 구분하여 발생부하와 배출부하를 산정하였다. 오염원 현황자료는 2012년 전국오염원 조사자료를 기초로 하였으며, 행정구역 단위의 오염원 조사 및 행정구역과 유역의 경계가 일치 하지 않는 경우의 오염원별 점유율은 토지종합정보망(Land Management Information System, LMIS)의 연속지적도 자료를 이용하여 면적비로 산정하였다. 또한 발생원 단위는 실측자료를 우선으로 하되 실측자료가 없는 경우 수질오염총량관리기술지침에서 제시하는 발생원단위를 적용하였다. 대상유역 내에는 산업계, 양식계, 매립계의 오염원은 없었으며, 생활계와 축산계, 토지계 중 축산계의 발생부하량이 BOD, T-N, T-P 모두 가장 높은 것으로 분석되었다. 대상유역의 BOD 발생부하량은 총 891.51kg/day로 산정되었으며, 이 중 축산계가 포함되어 있는 유역의 BOD 발생부하량이 전체의 76.4%에 해당하는 680.70kg/day로 가장 높게 나타났다. 반면, 배출부하량은 생활계, 축산계, 토지계 중 BOD와 T-N은 토지계 배출부하량이 차지하는 비율이 가장 높았으며, T-P의 경우 축산계의 발생부하량이 가장 높은 것으로 나타났다. 유역의 BOD 배출부하량은 총 89.84kg/day로 산정되었으며, 이중 유역 하류에 위치하고 있는 세부 소유역의 BOD 배출부하량이 전체의 30.5%에 해당하는 27.4kg/day로 가장 높게 나타났다. 그러나 총 T-P 발생부하량은 14.12kg/day로 산정되었으며, 축산계가 포함되어 있는 소유역의 T-P 발생부하량은 전체의 64.3%에 해당하는 9.08kg/day로 가장 높았다. 이는 대상유역 내 축산농가의 분뇨가 위탁 처리됨에 따라 발생 부하량에 비해 배출부하량은 상당량 감소하는 것으로 분석되었다. 특히, BOD와 T-N의 경우 축산농가의 영향이 적었지만, T-P의 경우 자연농도가 낮기 때문에 축산농가의 배출부하량이 높은 비중을 차지하는 것으로 판단된다. 그러나 오염원의 정량적인 발생원 규명을 위해서는 오염원 그룹이 포함되어있는 지역에 대하여 장기적인 실측 모니터링 결과를 바탕으로 오염부하를 산정하여 비교?분석하는 연구가 필요할 것으로 판단된다.

• The Journal of Korea Assosiation for Disability and Oral Health
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.29-32
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• 2011

There are a lot of dental emergency situations and accidental aspiration or ingestion of a dental instrument is one of the common accidents in dental practice especially on disabied or pediatric patient with negative behavior. Most of ingested foreign bodies pass through the gastrointestinal tract spontaneously, but some of them (about 20%) need endoscopic or surgical removal. This is a case of an accident during the treatment of a 18 months male patient with caries of anterior deciduous teeth. During the treatment, the gauze was used by waterproofing instead of a rubber dam. #4 round bur (approximately 2.2cm long) which was put on the tray was cling to the gauze and the bur was fell into the patient's throat. The bur was 2.2cm long and very sharp so it could not be passed spontaneously through the pylorus, so we tried to remove the bur by esophagogastroduodenoscopy. Endoscopic removal of foreign bodies in the upper gastrointestinal tract is an effective and safe procedure.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.319-342
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• 2022

This study analyzed the effect of pay-as-you-throw bag prices on domestic waste through the natural experiment difference in difference with synthetic control method using cases of price cuts in some districts in Busan in 2019. In order to consider the endogenous problem when estimating demand and price elasticity, the price-invariant district was set as a synthetic control group and the price-cutting district was set as a treatment group. As a result of the analysis, the price elasticity of demand was 0.05~0.11, and the price of the pay-as-you-throw bag had little effect in sales. This seems to be because pay-as-you-throw bag is necessities and account for a very small proportion of household income. This suggests that a policy that can shift the demand curve will be more effective than a price policy to achieve the waste reduction goal because the demand curve is almost vertical.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.34-46
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• 2018

Climate change has become a major risk factor for the co-evolving ecological and societal systems that are interconnected through biogeochemical cycles. As the increasing emission of anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHG) has been attributed to the principal cause of climate change, more attention has been given to the exchange between terrestrial sources/sinks of GHG and the atmosphere. In this review, we abridged a brief history of the background of GHG monitoring and the development of chamber method for the GHG measurement particularly from agriculture. Based on the reviews of prior domestic studies that analyzed the emission characteristics of GHG using chamber method, we discussed the concerns and the ways to improve chamber measurement to establish better scientific database for climate change adaptation.