• 통합자연과학논문집
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.107-115
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• 2021

The demand for traceability of meat and livestock supply chains is growing due to the high-profile incidents of hormonal contamination. E. coli, dioxin, BSE, and antibiotics have been recorded. In this paper, we present blockchain-based poultry information management system design and implementation using Hyperledger Fabric. The proposed system offers accurate, decentralized, immutable and consensus process that promote trust and transparency between stakeholders. The main tasks of the system include the recording of the information associated with poultry rearing (from a hatchery to a farm), status report of the farm activities on a monthly basis. The system can track movement of docks through the supply chain until delivery to the final consumer through the retail outlet. The ability to trace the source of livestock product through all the stages of rearing/production, processing and distribution is essential for ensuring food safety as recall of contaminated product can easily be done thereby increasing consumer confidence.

• 분석과학
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.210-216
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• 2019

Concentrations of Cu, Zn, Fe, Mn, Ni and Cr have been estimated in sediments of the Shitalakhya River at Polash-Ghorashal area, Narsingdi, Bangladesh. 36 samples of sediments from nine sampling point at different locations of Shitalakhya River were collected to determine the concentration of Cu, Zn, Fe, Mn, Ni, Cr and the samples were analyzed by atomic absorption spectrophotometer (AAS). The obtained results were compared with national and international guidelines. The levels of heavy metal concentrations in sediments were found to decrease in the order of Fe > Mn > Zn > Ni > Cu > Cr, respectively. The heavy metal concentration in sediment of Shitalakhya was below the recommended safe limits of heavy metals by WHO, FAO and other international standards. Contamination factor (CF) of Zn and Cu at sampling point Fsd2 show higher (> 1) values due to the influence of external discrete sources like wastage catalysts of ZnO and CuO. Geo-accumulation index values of the study indicate as non-contaminated to moderately contaminate.

• Journal of Medicine and Life Science
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.20-23
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• 2021

Methemoglobin is generated by the oxidation of ferrous iron to ferric iron within a hemoglobin molecule. Methemoglobin is unable to bind and transport oxygen, resulting in methemoglobinemia, which can lead to fatal tissue hypoxia. The most common cause of methemoglobinemia is poisoning by oxidizing agents such as dapsone, benzocaine, and primaquine. However, methemoglobinemia can also be caused by normal dietary sources. We present two cases of methemoglobinemia that developed after a normal diet in two male patients. In this case report, the patients suddenly developed dyspnea and cyanosis after eating the same meal. They had no history of suspected poisoning, such as the use of drugs, exposure to chemicals, or gas inhalation. Their symptoms did not improve even after a high dose of oxygen was administered; further, an abnormal 'oxygen saturation gap' was observed. Because of CO-oximetry, the methemoglobin levels of the patients were 50.0% and 46.6%, respectively. We administered methylene blue (1 mg/kg), and the patients recovered completely without any complications. Emergency physicians should, therefore, be aware that methemoglobinemia can also be caused by normal dietary sources. In addition, if the source and route of contamination are unclear, an epidemiological investigation should be conducted.

• 한국축산식품학회지
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• 제41권5호
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• pp.883-893
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• 2021

Clostridium difficile present in feces of food animals may contaminate their meats and act as a potential source of C. difficile infection (CDI) to humans. C. difficile resistance to antibiotics, its production of toxins and spores play major roles in the pathogenesis of CDI. This is the first study to evaluate C. difficile prevalence in retail raw animal meats, its antibiotics susceptibilities and toxigenic activities in Al-Jouf, Saudi Arabia. Totally, 240 meat samples were tested. C. difficile was identified by standard microbiological and biochemical methods. Vitek-2 compact system confirmed C. difficile isolates were 15/240 (6.3%). Toxins A/B were not detected by Xpect C. difficile toxin A/B tests. Although all isolates were susceptible to vancomycin and metronidazole, variable degrees of reduced susceptibilities to moxifloxacin, clindamycin or tetracycline antibiotics were detected by Epsilon tests. C. difficile strains with reduced susceptibility to antibiotics should be investigated. Variability between the worldwide reported C. difficile contamination levels could be due to absence of a gold standard procedure for its isolation. Establishment of a unified testing algorithm for C. difficile detection in food products is definitely essential to evaluate the inter-regional variation in its prevalence on national and international levels. Proper use of antimicrobials during animal husbandry is crucial to control the selective drug pressure on C. difficile strains associated with food animals. Investigating the protective or pathogenic potential of non-toxigenic C. difficile strains and the possibility of gene transfer from certain toxigenic/ antibiotics-resistant to non-toxigenic/antibiotics-sensitive strains, respectively, should be worthy of attention.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.22-36
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• 2022

Cadmium is a class 1 carcinogen classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and has a high potential for leaching into groundwater. Therefore, it is necessary to address cadmium contamination by employing adequate treatment methodologies. Although various methods have been suggested to reduce cadmium in groundwater, their applications often suffer from various limitation arising from heterogeneous field conditions and technical difficulties. In this work, several in-situ technologies to treat cadmium contaminated groundwater were reviewed and discussed by separately addressing physicochemical, chemical and biological methods. In particular, the optimum cadmium remediation strategies that involve physical removal of source area → physicochemical and chemical remediation → biological remediation were proposed by considering reduction efficiency, adsorption rate, economic feasibility and ease of field application in groundwater.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권1호
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• pp.378-390
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• 2023

The SPES (Selective Production of Exotic Species) facility, currently under development at Legnaro National Laboratories of INFN, aims at the production of intense RIB (Radioactive Ion Beams) employing the Isotope Separation On-Line (ISOL) technique for interdisciplinary research. The radioactive isotopes of interest are produced by the interaction of a multi-foil uranium carbide target with a 40 MeV 200 μA proton beam generated by a cyclotron proton driver. The Target Ion Source (TIS) is the core of the SPES project, here the radioactive nuclei, mainly neutron-rich isotopes, are stopped, extracted, ionized, separated, accelerated and delivered to specific experimental areas. Due to efficiency reasons, the TIS unit needs to be replaced periodically during operation. In this highly radioactive environment, the employment of autonomous systems allows the manipulation, transport, and storage of the TIS unit without the need for human intervention. A dedicated remote handling infrastructure is therefore under development to fulfill the functional and safety requirement of the project. This contribution describes the layout of the SPES target area, where all the remote handling systems operate to grant the smooth operation of the facility avoiding personnel exposure to a high dose rate or contamination issues.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2021년도 학술발표회
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• pp.146-146
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• 2021

A contamination event occurring in water distribution networks (WDNs) needs to be handled with the appropriate mitigation strategy to protect public health safety and ensure water supply service continuation. Typically the mitigation phase consists of contaminant sensing, public warning, network inspection, and recovery. After the contaminant source has been detected and treated, contaminants still exist in the network, and the contaminated water should be flushed out. The recovery period is critical to remove any lingering contaminant in a rapid and non-detrimental manner. The contaminant flushing can be done in several ways. Conventionally, the opening of hydrants is applied to drain the contaminant out of the system. Relying on advanced information and communication technology (ICT) on WDN management, warning and information can be distributed fast through electronic media. Water utilities can inform their customers to participate in the contaminant flushing by opening and closing their house faucets to drain the contaminated water. The household draining strategy consists of determining sectors and timeslots of the WDN users based on hydraulic simulation. The number of sectors should be controlled to maintain sufficient pressure for faucet draining. The draining timeslot is determined through hydraulic simulation to identify the draining time required for each sector. The effectiveness of the strategy is evaluated using three measurements, such as Wasted Water (WW), Flushing Duration (FD), and Pipe Erosion (PE). The optimal draining strategy (i.e., group and timeslot allocation) in the WDN can be determined by minimizing the measures.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2022년도 학술발표회
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• pp.184-184
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• 2022

지난 2019년 인천시, 서울시 문래동, 포항시 등에서 발생한 수질사고로 인해 국민의 상수도에 대한 신뢰도가 최악의 상황에 있으며, 이후로도 깔따구 유충이 발견되는 등 상수도 관망 내 체계적인 수질 관리 및 빠르고 정확한 수질 사고 발생 지점의 추정이 중요해 지고 있는 실정이다. 오염물 유입 추정은 수리학적 사고로 고려되는 누수와는 달리 상대적으로 그 지점 추정이 어렵다. 대게의 경우 수리해석을 진행하여 유량과 유향을 파악한 뒤 계측 지점에서부터 동일 시간대로 역으로 흐름을 거슬러 올라가며 확률상 높은 지점을 추정하는 것이 일반적인 방법이다. 본 연구에서는 범용 수리해석 프로그램인 EPANET2.2에 내장된 Trace Analysis (이후 trace 분석) 옵션을 사용한 오염물 유입 지점 추정 방법론을 소개한다. 본 연구에서는 방법론의 검증을 위해 오염물 유입지점은 한 곳으로 가정하였다. 해당 방법론은 먼저 절점별 trace 분석을 실시하여 모든 지점에서 수질 관측 지점까지 물이 도달하는데 소요되는 시간을 산정한다. 해당 시간과 오염물 관측 데이터와의 비교를 통해 유입 확률이 높은 지점을 추출한다. 이를 위해 실측 데이터가 필요하며, 결과는 지점별 확률로 나타난다. 모의 결과 1개의 수질 관측 지점으로도 개략적인 지점을 선정할 수 있는 것으로 나타났다. 다만, 수질 관측 지점의 수에 따라 분석 결과의 정확도가 향상한다. 마지막으로 유입 지점 추정 확률이 낮은 경우, 유입 지점 추정 확률을 향상시킬 수 있는 추가 수질 분석 지점을 결정하였다. 본 연구에서 소개한 방법론은 향후 수질 사고 발생 시 최초 확산 방지를 위한 격리 지점 선정에 근거를 제시할 수 있을 것으로 기대하며, 나아가 수질 관측 지점을 결정 및 대응 방안 수립 가이드라인으로 활용할 수 있을 것이다.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.631-642
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• 2024

The present study concerns the corrosion mitigation of electrochemical chloride extraction (ECE) in concrete structure. Concrete specimen was fabricated with 5.0% chloride in cast, while the other specimen was exposed to 4.0M NaCl solution for 1 year to accelerate corrosion of steel. Then, the ECE was applied to the concrete specimen with 1000 mA/m² of the current density for 2, 4 and 8 weeks, respectively. During the ECE, the corrosion current density and corrosion potential were regularly monitored. As a result, the ECE was very effective in mitigating the degree of corrosion on the steel surface. The corrosion current density was significantly reduced from thousands to decades mA/m², while the corrosion potential was mostly shifted to positive direction. Assuming that the corrosion starts at 1.0 mA/m² of the corrosion current density or/and -275 mV vs SCE of the corrosion potential, the ECE could not fully achieve the repassivation of the steel, although its degree was lowered more or less depending on the duration of the treatment and type of chloride contamination. A visual examination confirmed that an increase in the duration of the treatment could lower the rust formation, but never fully removed all rust stains.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.405-420
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• 2014

도심환경의 인위적 오염원에 의한 토양오염과 대기오염의 특성을 파악하기 위하여 서울지역 가로수의 플라타너스 잎과 토양을 격자형으로 52개의 지역에서 시료채취 및 중금속원소 함량을 측정하였다. 비교 대조를 위하여 비교적 오염이 적을 것으로 예상되는 충청남도 예산에 전원지역에서 2개 지점의 시료를 분석하였다. 서울시 토양 내 중금속 함량을 지역별로 측정한 결과, Cd, Co, Cr, Ni은 산업지역에서, Cu, Zn, Pb는 교통량 밀집지역에서 높았고, 도심 내 전원지역은 비교 대조지역보다 높은 중금속 함량을 보였다. 플라타너스 잎의 세척 전과 후의 차이는 Cd, Cu, Pb, Zn가 교통량 밀집지역에서 높았다. 토양은 Cd-Co, Cr-Ni, Cu-Zn, Pb-Zn는 상관계수 값이 0.8이상으로 양의 상관성을 보여 이들 원소간의 배출원은 유사하고, 플라타너스 잎은 Pb-Cu, Cu-Zn 원소간 상관성이 높았다. 플라타너스 잎의 중금속 조성이 토양으로부터 기인되는지를 확인하기 위해 토양과 세척한 잎과의 관계를 분석한 결과, Cr, Cu, Pb, Zn는 양의 상관성을 보였고, 반면 Cd, Co, Fe, Mn, Ni은 이들의 상관성이 낮은 것으로 보여 이들 원소들은 대기로부터 기인된 것으로 생각된다. 서울지역의 중금속 원소 분산을 등함량도의 원소별 패턴을 분석한 결과, 토양은 산업지역에서 Ni, Cr원소와 교통량 밀집지역에서 Cd, Cu, Zn원소의 오염도가 크고, 세척하지 않은 잎에 대한 Cd-Pb, Cu-Zn의 오염양상이 유사한 것으로 나타났다. 대기 중 부유된 원소별 부화지수 값을 예측을 위해 가로수 잎의 원소별 부화지수 값을 분석한 결과, Cu, Zn, Pb, Mn, Co, Ni, Cd, Cr 순으로 높았으며, 특히 서울지역에서는 Cu, Zn, Pb, Mn 으로 인한 오염이 심각한 것으로 판단된다.