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Forest Fragmentation Due to Roads in Chirisan National Park (지리산 국립공원 내 도로에 의한 산림조각화)

  • Paek, Kyungjin;Park, Kyung;Kang, Hyesoon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.63-72
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    • 2005
  • Chirisan National Park, the first and largest one out of 20 national parks in Korea, is divided into five zones. They are composed of nature preservation zone, natural environment zone, natural residential zone, concentrated residential zone, and collective facility zone. However, the park is not a continuous habitat: roads, trails, local residences, and various facilities created the habitat mosaics severely fragmented. We investigated the fragmentation pattern of the park due to roads and mountain trails using GIS. Based on perimeter length, area, and the ratio of perimeter to area of each patch, we obtained landscape analysis indices which reflect the regularity of the patch shape. The 1 m-wide hiking trails divided the park into 491 fragments. The legal trails with 1.5 m - 3 m width which have been heavily used by hikers generate 58 fragments. Even the nature preservation zone, corresponding to a core zone comprising 31.8% of the park area, was divided into 37 fragments because of the roads and mountain trails. With the different widths of buffer applied, the core sizes of the fragments were reduced. When the 60 m buffer was applied, the patch interior areas ranged from 0.0001 to 47.77 $km^2$ with a mean of 7.08 $km^2$. The landscape shape indices were far greater than 1 for most of the cases with a maximum value of 25. These results clearly indicate that Chirisan National Park is not a continuous habitat, but mosaics of small, irregularly shaped habitat fragments. It is necessary to take the size and shape of the fragmented habitats into consideration when nature conservation is planned, especially for large wildlife such as brown bears.

Design of Riparian Areas for the Carbon Sequestration and Diffused Pollutants Control (비점오염저감 및 탄소축적을 고려한 적정 수변지역 설계방법)

  • Kim, Bo-Ra;Sung, Ki-June
    • Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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    • v.32 no.11
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    • pp.1030-1037
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    • 2010
  • This study suggests the riparian area management measures that can control nonpoint source pollution and optimal carbon sequestration. 30~600 m ranges of riparian buffer width are estimated for controlling diffused pollutants in Nakbon K watershed in the Nakdong River. The area that can be easily restored to the riparian buffer zone considering current land use type is the 1,776.51 ha and it is the 50% of estimated buffer area. About 14,526 tC/yr, 11,826 tC/yr, 8,382 tC/yr and 3,349 tC/yr of carbon can be sequestered in the restoration of riparian buffer zone with broad leaved forest, mixed forest, coniferous forest and perennial grass, respectively. It is equivalent amount of carbon dioxide that emitted from 5,000 cars or 20,000 homes as a family of four.

Numerical Simulation of Wave Forces acting on Fixed Offshore Structures Using Hybrid Scheme (하이브리드 기법을 이용한 고정된 해양구조물에 작용하는 파랑하중에 관한 수치 시뮬레이션)

  • Nam, Bo-Woo;Hong, Sa-Young;Kim, Yong-Hwan
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.16-22
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, the diffraction problems for fixed offshore structures are solved using a hybrid scheme. In this hybrid scheme, potential-based solutions and the Navier-Stokes-based finite volume method (FVM) with a volume-of-fluid (VOF) method are combined. We introduce a buffer zone for efficient wave-making and damping. In this buffer zone, the near field solution from FVM-VOF is gradually changed to Stokes' 2nd order wave solutions. Three different models, including the truncated cylinder, sphere, and wigleyIII model, are numerically investigated in regular waves with a wave steepness of 1/30. The efficiency and accuracy of the hybrid scheme are numerically validated from results using different domain sizes and buffer zones. The wave exciting forces from the FVM-VOF simulations are compared with experiments and potential-based solutions from the higher-order boundary element method (HOBEM). This comparison shows good agreement between the hybrid scheme and potential-based solutions.

Analysis of Inorganic Acids by Capillary Zone Electrophoresis (Capillary Zone Electrophoresis를 이용한 음이온 동시분석에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Sung-Woo;Jin, Kwang-Ho;You, Jae-Hoon;Kim, Dong-Hwan;Seo, Baeseuk;Kim, Young-Sang
    • Analytical Science and Technology
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.213-221
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    • 1998
  • The determination of inorganic anions by capillary zone electrophoresis is reported. A ten component synthetic mixture of anions of bromide, chloride, fluoride, nitrite, nitrate, sulfite, sulfate, perchlorate, chlorate and chlorite was separated by the capillary column and detected by indirect UV method. The running buffer contained 5 mM ammonium dichromate, 10 mM ammonium acetate, 20 mM diethylenetriamine, 10% methanol solution at pH 9.3. A potential of 15 kV at the cathode (reversed polarity) was utilized for the separation of inorganic anions. A complete separation of anions was achieved in less then 10 min and the applicabilities of the method for the analysis of real samples was demonstrated. We compare the concentration of anions in toluene inhaled humen's urine and in postmortem bloods obtained by capillary zone electrophoresis and ion chromatograph.

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Design of Inlet Manifold for PEM Fuel Cells and Numerical Analysis (고분자 전해질 연료전지를 위한 연료주입구 설계 및 수치해석)

  • Uhm, Seung-Bae;Na, Tae-Kyung;Kim, Hong-Suk;Baek, Jung-Sik;Sung, Dong-Mug;Kim, Tae-Min
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.06a
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    • pp.172-175
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    • 2007
  • The Performance of a PEMFC stack is strongly dependent on the uniform reactants distribution on MEA. The uniform distribution can be achieved by flow-field pattern and manifold design optimized to satisfy operating conditions. This paper investigates uniform reactants distribution in channels by changing manifold shape and inlet mass flow rate. Typical U and Z shape and modified U and Z shape manifolds with buffer zone were designed. To check the uniform reactants distribution, standard deviation of mass flow rate was compared. The numerical results show that the inlet mass flow rate, inlet shape, and manifolds shape are critical factor for uniform distribution.

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Sloshing Flows in Ship Tanks

  • Kim, Yonghwan;Shin, Yung-Sup
    • Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.21-32
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    • 2000
  • In the present paper, the sloshing flow in the liquid holds of a large tanker is simulated using a numerical method. In the fluid domain, the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation with free surface is solved using a finite difference method, and the realistic shapes of multi holds are modeled including the internal members. The time-history of the tank motion is obtained using a time-domain program for ship motion. In order to computer the impulsive pressures on internal structures, a concept of buffer zone is adopted near the tank ceiling during impact occurrence. This study demonstrates that the global fluid motion in the multi liquid holds of ships and FPSO's can be simulated using the numerical method and the corresponding local pressure can be predicted with reasonable accuracy.

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A Study on the Floor-Specific Characteristics of Road Traffic Noise in Apartment Buildings (공동주택의 층별 도로교통 소음의 전달 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Ham, Jin-Sik
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2008
  • This study is an attempt to understand the floor-specific characteristics of facade road traffic noise in apartment buildings. For this purpose, it sampled a total of seven roadside apartment building complexes: three with no soundproof bar barrier installed at roadside, one with a forest buffer zone, one with a sound-absorbing hill, and two with soundproof barriers. The measured noise level was highest on the 5th floor of apartment buildings with no soundproof barrier, and the upper stories from the 5th floor showed lower-noise measurements in order. For apartment buildings with soundproof barriers, however, the noise level was lower on the 10th floor than the 5th floor. Two apartment building groups--one with a sound-absorbing hill and the other with no soundproof barrier--showed similar measurement results in the floor-specific characteristics of facade road traffic noise. This suggests that such installations have little sound insulation effect. In the apartment building complex with a forest buffer zone around it, a slight sound insulation effect was measured on the lower floors of the buildings.

An Analysis on Design Strategies for Building Conversion - Case Study on the G-Office Building in Japan - (용도전환 시설의 계획 특성에 관한 연구 - 일본 동경 G-오피스 빌딩의 사례를 중심으로 -)

  • Lee, Seung-Mi;Kang, In-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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    • 2008.05a
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    • pp.290-294
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    • 2008
  • Conversion of the building can be a core strategy to activate the urban regeneration. Especially in the decayed district, the conversion or retrofit of old building can be a core catalyst to stimulate the urban regeneration. Throughout the case study, a conversion from office to dwelling, there were figured out the design strategies to respond to spatial, functional requirements. The results are as follows ; 1) The main design strategy is to articulate the space by embedding the wall, mass in the rectangular space. 2) to respond to the small size of space, the flexible, movable wall system Is adopted. This gives the selectiveness to the use of space. 3) to secure the livability of interior space, the buffer zone, a terrace space, is fully utilized. This space acts as thermal buffer zone as well as a semi-interior space.

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Heterogeneity of Mammalian Plasma Albumin (포유류 혈장알부민의 이질성)

  • Kim, Sang-Yeop;Park, Sang-Yoon
    • The Korean Journal of Zoology
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.115-122
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    • 1982
  • Plasma albumin was purified from the fresh bovine blood using a minor modification of the polyethyleneglycol and ethanol procedure. The resulting protein solution was tested for its purity by both electrophoretic and immunochemical methods and found to contain only the albumin molecules. Each of the four thiol reagents, maleate, iodoacetate, iodoacetamide and glutathione, was incubated with the purified plasma albumin. The electrophoresis on cellulose acetate of those complexes in various buffers with different component and pH demonstrated that the albumin-glutathione complex was separated into two zones in all buffers used except the barbital and sodium acetate buffers, that the complexes of albumin-iodoacetate and albumin-iosoacetamide also into two zones only in pH 4.8 citrate buffer and in pH 4.8 succinate buffer and that the new zone had more positive net charge compared to the native protein in any case. These results might suggest a possibility that the electrophoretic albumin fraction is composed of at least two molecular species with different conformation.

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