• Journal of Trauma and Injury
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.343-353
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• 2023

Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic led to significant changes in the lifestyle patterns of children and affected the patterns of pediatric injuries. This study analyzed the changing patterns of pediatric injury overall and by age groups, based on the datasets before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This study is based on the data of patients who presented with injuries at 23 hospital emergency departments participating in the Emergency Department-based Injury In-depth Surveillance (EDIIS) conducted by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency. The surveillance data was categorized by injury mechanism, location, activity, and severity. We analyzed the injury patterns of pediatric patients aged 0 to 15 years. Subgroup analysis was conducted by age group in children aged 7 to 15 years, 1 to 6 years, and <1 year. Results: When comparing the COVID-19 pandemic period to the pre-COVID-19 period, the total number of pediatric patients with injuries decreased by 38.7%, while the proportions of in-home injuries (57.9% vs. 67.9%), and minor injuries (38.9% vs. 39.7%) increased. In the 7 to 15 years group, bicycle riding injuries (50.9% vs. 65.6%) and personal mobility device injuries (2.4% vs. 4.6%) increased. The 1 to 6 years group also showed an increase in bicycle accident injuries (15.8% vs. 22.4%). In the <1 year group, injuries from falls increased (44.5% vs. 49.9%). Self-harm injuries in the 7 to 15 years group also increased (1.6% vs. 2.8%). Conclusions: During the COVID-19 pandemic period, the overall number of pediatric injuries decreased, while injuries occurring at home and during indoor activities increased. Traffic accidents involving bicycles and personal mobility devices and self-harm injuries increased in the 7 to 15 years group. In the <1 year group, the incidence of falls increased. Medical and societal preparedness is needed so that we might anticipate these changes in the patterns of pediatric injuries during future infectious disease pandemics.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.125-134
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• 2017

강우는 자연과 인간에게 중요한 자원이다. 적절한 강우는 농작물의 성장과 토지의 온도를 일정하게 유지시켜줌으로써 우리 사회가 안정적으로 유지되도록 하는 매우 중요한 역할을 한다. 그러나 태풍 및 집중호우 등과 같이 특정 지역에 계획강수량보다 더 많이 발생한 집중강우는 시설물 및 인간에게 커다란 피해를 입히기도 한다. 이에 따라 미국, 일본 등 국외 선진국의 수재해 대응기관들은 시설운영자와 재난전문가, 응급대응인력들에게 가이드라인을 제공하기 위해 수재해 EAP(Emergency Action Plan)를 작성 운영하여 시설물을 보호하고 강화하는데 활용하고 있다. 대표적인 예로, 미국의 FEMA와 DHS는 시설물과 인명을 보호하기 위해 댐, 제방 등을 위한 다양한 EAP를 운영하고 있는데, 특히 FEMA는 EAP를 시설물이나 인명에 가해지는 피해나 기능적 충격과 같은 응급상황을 감소시키기 위해 작성하는 공식문서로 규정하고 있으며, 이 EAP를 통해 응급 시에 발생할 수 있는 모든 상황뿐만 아니라 평상시 발생할 수 있는 시설물관리상의 문제까지 대응이 가능하도록 규정하고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 미국, 일본 등 국외주요국과 국내에서 사용중인 EAP 관련 규정을 분석하여 국내 상황에 적합한 EAP 체계를 제안하였다. EAP는 예방, 준비, 대응, 복구의 재난단계별로 시설물과 인명을 보호하기 위해 재난전문가들과 시설운영자들이 취해야 할 업무, 응급장비 운용 등의 내용을 담고 있다. 본 연구를 통해 개발된 EAP 프레임워크는 테스트베드 적용을 통해 적정성을 평가받았으며, 국내 홍수재난 위험을 감소시키기 위한 절차와 방법 개선에 기여할 것으로 기대된다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권8호
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• pp.2534-2546
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• 2021

Nuclear emergency preparedness and response is an essential part to ensure the safety of nuclear power plant (NPP). Key support technologies of nuclear emergency decision-making usually consist of accident diagnosis, source term estimation, accident consequence assessment, and protective action recommendation. Source term estimation is almost the most difficult part among them. For example, bad communication, incomplete information, as well as complicated accident scenario make it hard to determine the reactor status and estimate the source term timely in the Fukushima accident. Subsequently, it leads to the hard decision on how to take appropriate emergency response actions. Hence, this paper aims to develop a method for rapid source term estimation to support nuclear emergency decision making in pressurized water reactor NPP. The method aims to make our knowledge on NPP provide better support nuclear emergency. Firstly, this paper studies how to build a Bayesian network model for the NPP based on professional knowledge and engineering knowledge. This paper presents a method transforming the PRA model (event trees and fault trees) into a corresponding Bayesian network model. To solve the problem that some physical phenomena which are modeled as pivotal events in level 2 PRA, cannot find sensors associated directly with their occurrence, a weighted assignment approach based on expert assessment is proposed in this paper. Secondly, the monitoring data of NPP are provided to the Bayesian network model, the real-time status of pivotal events and initiating events can be determined based on the junction tree algorithm. Thirdly, since PRA knowledge can link the accident sequences to the possible release categories, the proposed method is capable to find the most likely release category for the candidate accidents scenarios, namely the source term. The probabilities of possible accident sequences and the source term are calculated. Finally, the prototype software is checked against several sets of accident scenario data which are generated by the simulator of AP1000-NPP, including large loss of coolant accident, loss of main feedwater, main steam line break, and steam generator tube rupture. The results show that the proposed method for rapid source term estimation under nuclear emergency decision making is promising.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.109-117
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• 2014

방사선비상계획은 원자력시설에 대한 사고해석을 통해 산출한 방사선원항과 기상자료에 근거한 선량평가 결과를 기초로 비상계획이 필요한 거리를 산출하고, 비상계획이 필요한 거리 내에 거주하고 있는 거주민에 대한 옥내대피, 소개, 갑상선방호 등의 보호조치 계획을 수립하는 방식으로 이루어진다. 본 연구에서는 연구용원자로 '하나로'에서 가상할 수 있는 최대사고 조건 하에서 부지내외 거주자에 대한 보호조치 전 후의 선량변화를 1년간 기상자료에 기초하여 확률론적으로 평가하고, 국제방사선방호위원회의 2007년 권고에서 제시한, 비상피폭상황에서 보호조치 이후 잔여선량으로 정의된 참조준위 개념을 사용하여, 최적의 보호조치 유형을 도출하였다. 하나로의 경우 최대 가상사고시 최적의 보호조치 유형은 반경 300 m 이내 거주자 소개, 반경 800 m 이내 거주자 옥내대피로 평가되었으며, 갑상선방호는 반경 600 m 이내 거주자에 국한하여 해당되는데 이 지역 거주자가 소개 또는 옥내대피시는 방사능방재요원 외에 필요가 없는 것으로 평가되었다.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.201-215
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• 1996

Radiation and radioactive materials serve man in many beneficial ways. Diagnostic X-ray, radiation therapy, and other nuclear medicine uses of radioactivity save thousands of lives each year. Industrial application of radiation, such as radiography, make many manufactured products more reliable and less expensive. Nuclear power plants are producing more electrical power each year and reducing our dependence on imported oil. However, radiation can and dose produce harmful effects particularly as the reault of a radiation accident in which a victim receives as the result of a radiation accident in which a victim receives a large dose. Fortunately such accidents are very rare and recently we need more electric power produced by nuclear power plants. Considering increase of use of radiation or radioactive materials, we have to establish the radiological emergency response system prepared for radiation accidents.

• 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방재학회 2008년도 정기총회 및 학술발표대회
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• pp.13-18
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• 2008

The 2005 west off Fukuoka earthquake with Mjma 7.0 occurred in the vicinity of Fukuoka city with 1.4 million populations, which had been regarded as rather seismically inactive in Japan. The strong motion records by K-net indicated PGV of 64 cm/s in Fukuoka city and some condominium buildings sustained extensive non-structural damages. In this study, we conducted a questionnaire survey for residents of 8 condominium buildings located in the downtown area of Fukuoka city after the earthquake. The results indicate that damaged nonstructural walls and distorted doors disrupted evacuation route for many occupants, and furniture and content damage on upper floors became severer resulting in higher rates of human casualty. Earthquake preparedness for indoor safety was raised after the earthquake, though further safety measures can be advised. In the phase of post-earthquake emergency and restoration period, residents' management organizations play important roles, so that neighborhood activities to promote communication networks are important in urban environment with aging population.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.126-136
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• 2013

Aircraft accidents these days, following the mega sizing trend of the aircraft, result in enormous losses of human lives apart from those of property, which cannot be replaced by any means. As most recently, in April 20, 2012, a Boeing 737 passenger plane departed Karachi on an augural flight to Islamabad, Pakistan, crashed close to an express highway on final approach, all 121 passengers and 6 crew members were killed. As such a large number of fatalities have been recorded in aircraft accidents while accident investigation results show that more than 95% of aircraft accidents are now survivable. There are three basic stages in surviving the aircraft accident: surviving the crash impact, the evacuation process and the hostile post evacuation environmental elements. These stages require the cabin crew's expeditious and appropriate actions on the basis of systematic and thorough cabin safety training in order to increase occupants' survivability, along with the passengers' preparedness. In this aspect, this paper examines the issues acting as the impediments to the passenger survival in inflight emergency situations, that are the deficiencies with cabin crew safety training, related performances and the shortcomings in passengers' knowledge on inflight safety information, leading to their inappropriate responses to emergency situations. These issues are analyzed and the root causes are identified, suggesting the resolving countermeasures.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2022년도 학술발표회
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• pp.145-145
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• 2022

Availability of abundant water resources data in developing countries is a great concern that has hindered the adoption of deep learning techniques (DL) for disaster prevention and mitigation. On the contrary, over the last two decades, a sizeable amount of DL publication in disaster management emanated from developed countries with efficient data management systems. To understand the current state of DL adoption for solving water-related disaster management in developing countries, an extensive bibliometric review coupled with a theory-based analysis of related research documents is conducted from 2003 - 2022 using Web of Science, Scopus, VOSviewer software and PRISMA model. Results show that four major disasters - pluvial / fluvial flooding, land subsidence, drought and snow avalanche are the most prevalent. Also, recurrent flash floods and landslides caused by irregular rainfall pattern, abundant freshwater and mountainous terrains made India the only developing country with an impressive DL adoption rate of 50% publication count, thereby setting the pace for other developing countries. Further analysis indicates that economically-disadvantaged countries will experience a delay in DL implementation based on their Human Development Index (HDI) because DL implementation is capital-intensive. COVID-19 among other factors is identified as a driver of DL. Although, the Long Short Term Model (LSTM) model is the most frequently used, but optimal model performance is not limited to a certain model. Each DL model performs based on defined modelling objectives. Furthermore, effect of input data size shows no clear relationship with model performance while final model deployment in solving disaster problems in real-life scenarios is lacking. Therefore, data augmentation and transfer learning are recommended to solve data management problems. Intensive research, training, innovation, deployment using cheap web-based servers, APIs and nature-based solutions are encouraged to enhance disaster preparedness.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.132-137
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• 2018

2015년 화학물질관리법 시행 이후 화학 사고 발생 수는 감소 추세에 있으나, 최근 인쇄회로기판(PCB) 제조시설에서 유사한 유형의 사고가 반복적으로 발생함에 따라 실험을 통해 사고 원인을 조사 분석하였다. 해당 사고는 인쇄회로기판 제조공정 내 에칭용액으로 사용한 유해화학물질인 염산과 과산화수소가 월류하여 발생한 사고로 작업자 부주의와 시설 관리 미흡이 주된 사고 원인으로 조사되었다. 사고 원인을 규명하기 위해 실시한 $Cl^-$의 함량 분석 결과 과산화수소 시료에서 66.85 ppm로 측정되어 사고 물질인 염산과 과산화수소의 혼합경로를 확인할 수 있었으며, 반응실험을 통해 반응열이 $50.5^{\circ}C$까지 발생함에 따라 PVC 저장탱크의 변형과 유독가스인 염소가스 발생을 확인하였다. 본 연구를 통해 인쇄회로기판 제조시설의 에칭공정에서의 과충전, 역류방지, 누출감지장치와 혼합방지를 위한 저장탱크 분리 설계 등 시설 안전 관리 방안과 해당 장치의 장외영향평가 검토 필요성을 제시하고자 하였다. 또한 동일 유형의 사고 재발 방지를 위하여 주기적인 시설 안전점검과 작업자의 안전교육 강화의 필요성에 대하여 논의하였다.

• 재활복지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.63-88
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• 2017

본 연구는 재난취약계층인 청각장애인의 재난관리 및 지원체계에 관한 연구가 상당부문 공백으로 남아있다는 문제의식 하에, 청각장애인을 대상으로 재난대응 욕구 전반에 대한 실태를 조사해 양적으로 분석하고, 재난 구조과정 최일선에 있는 소방공무원들과의 심층인터뷰를 통한 질적 분석을 함께 제시함으로써 청각장애인의 재난대응 욕구에 대한 이해를 높이고 정책방안을 모색해 보고자 했다. 분석결과, 위험상황에서의 도움을 요청하는 수단 확보 및 구조 과정에서의 정보전달과 관련된 의사소통 욕구, 재난 발생 시 효과적인 대피능력 및 훈련정도를 의미하는 이동(이송) 욕구, 신체적 정신적 응급조치에 대한 사전준비 정도 및 구조 구급과정에서의 건강정보의 전달과 관련된 의료적 돌봄 욕구, 재난 발생 시 발생되는 피해를 스스로 최소화하기 위해 준비된 정도를 의미하는 자립성 유지 욕구, 재난취약계층에게 제공되는 공식화된 맞춤형 지원체계에 해당하는 슈퍼비전 욕구 등 5대 재난대응욕구 전반에서 청각장애인의 재난대응 욕구충족 수준은 상당히 미흡한 것으로 분석되었다. 청각장애인의 재난관리 보장을 강화하기 위해 시각경보장치의 확대설치 지원 확충 및 화상수화통역서비스 활용 강화, 재난대응 교육 훈련 프로그램의 내실화, 건강정보카드 보유 장려 및 장애인지정병원제도 신설, 맞춤형 재난지원체계와 재난관리 거버넌스 활성화를 위한 예산 및 정책 확대 등을 제안했다.