• Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.147-160
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• 2002

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are an important public health issue in Korea and many important questions remain to be addressed with respect to assessing exposure to these compounds. Because they are ubiquitous and highly volatile, special techniques must be applied in their analytic determination Valid Personal exposure assessment methods are needed to evaluate exposure frequency, duration and intensity, as well as their relationship to personal exposure characteristics. Biological monitoring is also important since it may contribute significantly in risk assessment by allowing the estimation of effective absorbed doses. This study was on ducted to establish the environmental measurement, personal dosimetry and biological monitoring methods for VOCs. These methods are needed to compare blood, urinary and exhalation breath VOC levels and to provide tools for risk assessment of VOC exposure. Passive monitors (badge type) and a active samplers (trap) for the VOCs collection were used for air sampling. Methods development included determining the minimum detectable amounts of VOCs in each media, as well as evaluating collection methods and developing analytical procedures. Method reliability was assessed by determining breakthrough volumes and comparing results between laboratories and with other methods. A total capacity of trap used in this study was 60ι. Although variable by compound, the average breakthrough was 20％. Also, there was no loss of compounds in trap even if keep for 45 day in -7$0^{\circ}C$. The recovery of active and passive methods was 69％ ~ 126％ and method detection limit was 0.24 $\mu\textrm{g}$/trap and 0.07 $\mu\textrm{g}$/badge. There was no statistical difference (P > 0.05) between active and passive methods.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.479-485
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• 2018

The aim of this study is to validate an integrated air monitoring approach for assessing airborne formaldehyde (FA) in the workplace. An active sampling by silica gel impregnated with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine, a passive solid phase microextraction technique using O-(2,3,4,5,6-pentafluorobenzyl)hydroxylamine as on-fiber derivatization reagent, an electrochemical direct-reading monitor, and an enzyme-based badge were evaluated and tested over a range of 0.020-5.12 ppm, using dynamically generated FA air concentrations. Simple linear regression analysis showed the four methods were suitable for evaluating airborne FA. Personal and area samplings in 12 anatomy pathology departments showed that the international occupational exposure limits in the GESTIS database were frequently exceeded. This monitoring approach would allow a fast, easy-to-use, and economical evaluation of both current work practices and eventual changes made to reduce FA vapor concentrations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.523-528
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• 2006

The management of construction materials is one of the important administration factor to perform construction projects. If it is not flexible to supply necessary materials to a workplace at a proper time, some problems such as a construction cost increase, an operation delay, a lowering of work efficiency and etc. could occur during the progress of work. Therefore, tracking the precise location of materials is important and necessary to input materials in the accurate place. Although Location sensing techniques comprise GPS, Active Badge, EasyLing and so forth, there are technical limitations to apply these techniques on construction site. Accordingly, in this paper, we propose the technically feasible method to automatically locate materials on site using recent RFID and wireless network technologies.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.575-578
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• 2005

위치기반 서비스 시스템은 유비쿼터스 환경으로의 변화와 함께 여러 응용모델과의 접목으로 가치창출에 대한 가능성이 높은 분야이다. 기존의 버스교통시스템은 Active Badge System 또는 GPS 수신정보를 이용한 일방적 push 형태로 현재위치에 대한 정보만을 사용자에게 알려주었으며 그 정보를 접할 수 있는 특정한 장소가 아니면 정보를 획득할 수 없는 시스템이다. 이 논문에서 제안하는 지능형 버스교통정보 시스템은 근거리 무선 통신이 가능하며 측위시스템을 활용할 수 있는 단말기와, 버스교통의 정보를 담고 있는 ITS(Intelligent Transport System)의 권역교통정보센터서브시스템(RTICS)에 호스트를 이동하면서 사용자 대신 업무를 수행하는 객체인 이동 에이전트를 적용한 시스템으로서, ITS API 표준을 요구하지 않으며 단말기를 소지한 사용자가 어느 곳에서든 능동적으로 버스교통에 대한 다양한 정보를 획득 할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10d
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• pp.330-333
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• 2006

사용자의 위치 기반 서비스는 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에서 중요한 역할을 하고 있다. 위치 기반 서비스는 현재 사용자나 사물의 위치를 표시 해 주는 서비스이다. 이러한 위치 인식 기반 서비스는 GPS, ActiveBadge, Sensor 등과 같은 장비를 이용하여 위치를 인식 할 수 있다. 그러나 특허나 벤더에 따라 서로 다른 기술들을 사용하기 때문에 매우 노동 집약적이며 각 장비마다 가격이 고가이기 때문에 의미 있는 ROI를 이끌어 낼 수 없다. 비록 가격이 낮아져 의미 있는 ROI를 이끌어 내더라도 대부분의 위치 인식은 Zone-level정도의 정확도를 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 최근 급속히 보급되고 있는 IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN 인프라를 활용하여 AP의 RSSI 정보를 이용하여 위치 인식을 한다. 또한, Zone-level에서 room-level로 기존의 위치 인식보다 좀 더 정밀하게 하기 위하여 삼각측량 알고리즘을 이용하여 설계하였다.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.808-815
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• 2007

유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅에 대한 관심이 높아지면서, 위치인식기술의 중요성이 대두 되고 있다. 기존에 많이 이용되어 왔던 위치인식기술에는 인공위성을 이용한 GPS, 초음파를 이용한 Cricket, 적외선을 이용한 Active Badge, RF를 이용한 RFDAR등이 있다. 하지만 이러한 기술들은 시스템을 위해 기반 시설을 전제 조건으로 하기 때문에 이용에 어려움이 따른다. 기존의 위치인식기술의 단점을 보안하기 위한 방법으로 제시된 것이 GSM과 무선 LAN을 이용한 위치인식기술들이다. 현재는 차량용 네비게이션, 물류시스템의 상품 운반 현황 추적 등 위치인식기술을 바탕으로 한 다양한 서비스들이 상용화되어 가고 있다. 상용화된 서비스들의 특성에 따라 개인화된 위치 정보를 필요로 하는 것들이 많아 지고 있으며, 개인화된 정보를 획득하고 이를 서비스에 적용하려는 시도가 여러 곳에서 진행 중이다. 개인화된 정보를 얻기 위해서는 사람이 이해하고 사용할 수 있는 장소라는 개념을 확보해야 하며, 인공지능적인 기술들을 필요로 하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 기반시설(AP: Access Point)이 충분한 무선 LAN을 이용하여 위치인식 기술애 대해 연구하였다. 기존의 무선 LAN 장비를 통하여 얻어진 위치 데이터를 가공하여 검색 기술의 고전적인 방법인 벡터 유사도와 확률 기반 유사도를 적용하여 인식률의 추이를 실험해 보고, 인식률 증가를 위한 방법들을 모색해 보겠다. 또 위치기반 알리미를 통하여 개인화 정보에 대한 적용 방향에 대해 연구해 보고자 한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.12B
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• pp.1491-1497
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• 2009

Existing methods to measure are based on ToA (Timer of Arrival), RSS (Received Signal Strength), AoA(Angle of Arrival) and other methods. In this paper, we propose a compensation of ToA and RSS methods to measure more precisely the distance of nodes. The comparison experiments with the traditional ToA method show that the average error value of proposed method is reduced 30%. We believe that this proposal can improve location estimation of sensor nodes in wireless sensor networks.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.261-266
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• 2015

As performance of electronic personal dosimeter (EPD) used for auxiliary personal dosimeter in nuclear power plants (NPPs) has been being continuously improved, we investigated application cases in Korea and other countries and also tested it in NPPs to assess the performance of EPD for external radiation dosimetry. Result of performance tests done in domestic NPPs was similar to those obtained by IAEA in cooperation with EURADOS (IAEA-TECDOC-1564). In addition, EPD/TLD dose ratio has shown similar tendency of EPD/Film-badge dose ratio from the research by the Japan Atomic Power Company (JAPC) and EPD provided more conservative value than TLD or Film-badge. Although some EPD's failures have been discussed, EPD has shown continuous improvement according to the report of Institute of Nuclear Power Operation (INPO) and data from domestic NPPs. In conclusion, It is considered that the general performance of EPD is adequate for external radiation dosimetry compared with that of TLD, providing appropriate performance checking procedure and alternative measures for functional failure.

• Journal of Practical Engineering Education
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.169-181
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• 2023

This study was conducted to examine the remuneration curriculum of vocational ability development training teachers and instructors and to examine ways to apply micro credentials. To this end, the current status of the remuneration curriculum of vocational ability development training instructors and instructors at K University's Competency Education Development Institute, the characteristics of micro credentials, and the possibility of linking the remuneration curriculum to micro credentials are as follows. First, most of the recognition of digital certificates was positive for digital certificates such as digital credit, digital badge issuance, and recognition of the recognized qualification process of maintenance education when completing the training course. In addition, as a method of applying micro credentials to conservative education, various cases were proposed to benefit from conservative education, systematization and grading of the qualification process, and credit of the qualification process. Second, as an institutional supplement to enhance the utilization of conservative education using micro credentials, the need to expand NCS-based major conservative education, provide efficient learning contents and learning methods, and set minimum completion time. In addition, the most common response as a way to improve the understanding of teachers and instructors in vocational ability development training was the micro credential promotion plan. Third, in the role of conservative education institutions and vocational ability development training instructors and instructors, conservative education institutions mention maintaining educational quality the most, and active participation was the role of vocational ability development training instructors. Through this study, it is expected to establish a vocational training environment that can enhance expertise and provide a practical portfolio of practical competency history by linking the remuneration curriculum of vocational competency development training instructors and micro credentials.