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Status, Trend and Strategy on Municipal Wastewater Management in China

  • Wang, Baozhen;Wang, Lin;Liu, Shuo;Wang, Li;Wang, Zheng
    • Journal of Wetlands Research
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.47-60
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    • 2007
  • The rapid development of economy in China at the expense of consuming huge amount of energy and resources, water resource in particular, which has resulted in the production and discharge of increasing amount of wastewater to the water environment. In order to effectively control the increasing water pollution trend, the State Council has stipulated that all the cities with population over 500,000 should reach wastewater treatment rate of 60% by 2005, and all the cities should reach the rate of 60% by 2010, of which Capital Beijing and all the province capital cities and important tourism cities should reach 70% then. By the end of 2005, of the 661 cities in China, 393 have built and operated municipal wastewater treatments with a total number of 790 sets, total treatment capacity of $80.91{\times}106m^3/d$ and total treatment rate of > 48%. Other 73 cities have started the construction of municipal wastewater treatment plants, and other 168 cities have started to prepare, planning and design of wastewater treatment plants. Most of municipal wastewater treatment plants in big cities in China operate normally and perform well with good quality of effluent in terms of wastewater treatment train, but the sewage sludge treatment is usually poor with big problems. It has been found that the small scale WWTPs using activated sludge process in the towns are usually operated and maintained abnormally because of lack of fund, skilled operators and energy. It is therefore suggested that the small scale MWWTPs in small cities and towns adopt appropriate technologies, of which the most available ones are multi-stage ponds, constructed wetlands and the combination of them for further purification and reuse of treated wastewater.

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Design and Implementation of a Metadata System for Financial Information Data Modeling (금융정보 데이터 모델링을 위한 메타데이터 시스템의 설계 및 구현)

  • Cho, Sang-Hyuk
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.81-85
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    • 2012
  • As business environment and complex work conditions are rapidly changing, large financial institutions are doing research on various fields to build a system that will efficiently and accurately process the production and modification of financial information and minimize the error in data-processing. In this paper, we have built a metadata system that, among various research areas, gives stability, accuracy and convenience in financial data modelling, analyze its effect and when adapting new models, provide mapping information from existing model to efficiently connect models and databases. If we manage modelling and standard data through this metadata system, the data standardization and database can process the model modification work in an unitary system and consistent high quality data model can be maintained and managed when data modification occurs.

A Study on Design of Diseases of Mind Ontologies for Juvenile Consultation (청소년 상담을 위한 마음의 병 온톨로지 설계에 관한 연구)

  • Baek, Hyeon-Gi
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.547-557
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    • 2012
  • Youths express their own negative experiences and feelings come from their deeply wounded mind. They seek the root cause of these wounded hearts from other people or external environment. Youths revisited the past to heal painful memories. This study designed ontology in order to provide information about the causes and symptoms of illness of the mind for youth counseling. Application ontology enables high-volume and intricate knowledge not only to get set up systematically but also to be stored as the meaningful information. It is also very useful as an integrating tool of the existing complex counseling nomenclature. And ultimately, through revitalization of the sharing and reuse of materials, it becomes possible to provide client-centered counseling services. Therefore, this study built ontology of the mind-illness as a way to analyze the causes and symptoms of the disease in the client mind for providing personalized youth counseling services.

An Efficient Wireless Sensor Network Design considering the different preamble detection capability

  • Kang, Young-myoung
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.25 no.11
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    • pp.83-88
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    • 2020
  • This paper proposes a method of applying an advanced preamble detection technology to wireless sensor nodes and analyzes the trade-off relationship between throughput and fairness that may occur when sensor nodes equipped with the MIM function compete with the legacy IEEE 802.15.4 sensors. Sensor nodes employing the MIM capability have more chances of concurrent transmissions than the legacy IEEE 802.15.4-based sensor nodes, resulting in gains in terms of throughput, whereas the transmission opportunities of 802.15.4 sensor nodes might be limited due to the additional simultaneous transmissions of the MIM sensor nodes. The extensive evaluation results performed under a test environment built using Python program with reflecting the setting value of a commercial sensor node shows MIM sensor nodes outperform up to 40% over the legacy 802.11 sensors. Meanwhile, it was confirmed that a balance can be achieved in terms of throughput and fairness by properly adjusting the concurrent transmission threshold.

Development of Emission Monitoring System Using ITS (ITS를 이용한 대기오염 로니터링 시스템 개발)

  • Park, Jun-Hwan;Lee, Jun;Lee, Young-Ihn
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.22 no.7 s.78
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    • pp.61-67
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    • 2004
  • It is needed for one to design the better models estimating emission and then with the real time data, make the monitoring system simulating emission rate because of having built the basement of accepting real-time traffic information in ITS projects. The objective of the study is to develop the monitoring system visualizing air pollution to a certain place. It is based on the estimated emission from the patterns of individual vehicles and the changes of traffic flow. For constructing simulator, we loaded referring algorithm in actuality program and simulates the traffic flow movement in a microscopic viewpoint. The simulator is able to express not only the movement of each car but also to visualize processing the emission and diffusion of the air pollutant by computer program. Not only expresses the simulation process the angle of vision but it also cutting down environment expenses and improving the traffic impact assessment and the traffic impact assessment.

A Study on Applying the Human Scale for Physical Therapy Room Plan in Mid-sized Medical Clinic (인체척도 적용에 의한 중소규모 의원의 물리치료실 계획에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Sung-Ah;Kim, Moonduck
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.35-42
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    • 2011
  • Efficient space plans are built upon relations of both human and physical compositions, and the standard of the interaction is basically the human scale. Especially in medical areas, the character of the users within human scale design environment is quite significant. Unlike large hospitals with great plans and scalability performed by experts, mid-sized clinics tend to have limited space, designed by non-specialists who highlight aesthetics over functionality in floor plans which leads to poor quality in medical service. For this reason, this study will include the application of human scale based therapy rooms within the clinic from a physical standpoint and will further analyze and pinpoint any room for improvement to further enable more efficient ergonomic space planning. In this study, theoretically will contemplate over human scale, mid-sized clinic, therapies, and therapists, while the case study will include status of the recent human scale based mid-sized clinic from a physical viewpoint, classification and analysis amongst human and physical compositions chosen by discretion from either a newly opened or a newly re-modeled clinic within the last 2 years, which has 15 beds or more, minimum 3 physical therapists, with more than 5 different therapy facilities in the metropolitan area in order to measure the human scale of therapy rooms in a mid-sized clinic. As a result, the area where improvement can practically be applied is the physical composition, which does not include human scale like human composition factors as therapists and patients, and hence, I suggest the human scale applied efficient medical space plan become the base of this study and look forward to subsequent improvement in the quality of medical services.

The Improvement for Performance of White LED chip using Improved Fabrication Process (제조 공정의 개선을 통한 백색 LED 칩의 성능 개선)

  • Ryu, Jang-Ryeol
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.329-332
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    • 2012
  • LEDs are using widely in a field of illumination, LCD LED backlight, mobile signals because they have several merits, such as low power consumption, long lifetime, high brightness, fast response, environment friendly. To achieve high performance LEDs, one needs to enhance output power, reduce operation voltage, and improve device reliability. In this paper, we have proposed that the optimum design and specialized process could improve the performance of LED chip. It was showed an output power of 7cd and input supplied voltage of 3.2V by the insertion technique of current blocking layer. In this paper, GaN-based LED chip which is built on the sapphire epi-wafer by selective MOCVD were designed and developed. After that, their performances were measured. It showed the output power of 7cd more than conventional GaN-based chip. It will be used the lighting source of a medical equipment and LCD LED TV with GaN-based LED chip.

Design of a Coordination Framework for Personalized Advertisement Support Systems on the Web (개인화된 웹 광고를 지원하기 위한 요구 통합조정 체계의 설계)

  • Kim, Hyeong-Do
    • The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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    • v.6 no.6
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    • pp.1590-1597
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    • 1999
  • Advertisements on the Web, rising as a major profit source of Web services, have a distinctive characteristic of detailed classification of potential customers, compared with those of other conventional media such as TV and newspaper. It is therefore possible to advertise selectively according to personal characteristics and to record precise advertisement effects. Web-based advertisement management systems of nowadays have the capability to select ones compatible with personal environment characteristics and registered information, and to provide processed information and knowledge about advertisement effects based on usage recordings. However, they have severe problems in modeling diverse requirements or characteristics of users : customers, advertisers and ISP, and in matching and coordinating of them. In order to solve these problems, we propose a frame work for coordinating the needs of users, advertisers, and ISPs, which is built on top of tree-style classification of advertisements. Other schemes are supported around the framework as follows : (1) characteristics management of pages within themselves, (2) rule-based modeling of advertisement target, and (3) user modeling and case-based analysis. We propose a prototype system within the framework.

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Filtration-induced pressure evolution in permeation grouting

  • Zhou, Zilong;Zang, Haizhi;Wang, Shanyong;Cai, Xin;Du, Xueming
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.75 no.5
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    • pp.571-583
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    • 2020
  • Permeation grouting is of great significance for consolidating geo-materials without disturbing the original geo-structure. To dip into the filtration-induced pressure increment that dominates the grout penetration in permeation grouting, nonlinear filtration coefficients embedded in a convection-filtration model were proposed, in which the volume of cement particles in grout and the deposited particles of skeleton were considered. An experiment was designed to determine the filtration coefficients and verify the model. The filtration coefficients deduced from experimental data were used in simulation, and the modelling results matched well with the experimental ones. The pressure drop revealed in experiments and captured in modelling demonstrated that the surge of inflow pressure lagged behind the stoppage of flow channels. In addition, both the consideration of the particles loss in liquid grout and the number of filtrated particles on pore walls presented an ideal trend in filtration rate, in which the filtration rate first rose rapidly and then reached to a steady plateau. Finally, this observed pressure drop was extended to the grouting design which alters the water to cement (W/C) ratio so as to alleviate the filtration effect. This study offers a novel insight into the filtration behaviour and has a practical meaning to extend penetration distance.

Forecasted Weather based Weather Data File Generation Techniques for Real-time Building Simulation (실시간 빌딩 시뮬레이션을 위한 예측 기상 기반의 기상 데이터 파일 작성 기법)

  • Kwak, Young-Hoon;Jeong, Yong-Woo;Han, Hey-Sim;Jang, Cheol-Yong;Huh, Jung-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.8-18
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    • 2014
  • Building simulation is used in a variety of sectors. In its early years, building simulation was mainly used in the design phase of a building for basic functions. Recently, however, it has become increasingly important during the operating phase, for commissioning and facility management. Most building simulation tools are used to estimate the thermal environment and energy consumption performance, and hence, they require the inputting of hourly weather data. A building simulation used for prediction should take into account the use of standard weather data. Weather data, which is used as input for a building simulation, plays a crucial role in the prediction performance, and hence, the selection of appropriate weather data is considered highly important. The present study proposed a technique for generating real-time weather data files, as opposed to the standard weather data files, which are required for running the building simulation. The forecasted weather elements provided by the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), the elements produced by the calculations, those utilizing the built-in functions of Energy Plus, and those that use standard values are combined for hourly input. The real-time weather data files generated using the technique proposed in the present study have been validated to compare with measured data and simulated data via EnergyPlus. The results of the present study are expected to increase the prediction accuracy of building control simulation results in the future.