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Assessment of Remote Sensing-based Hydrological Drought Indices (인공위성영상 기반의 수문기상변수를 활용한 수문학적 가뭄지수 개발 및 평가)

  • Sur, Chanyang;Park, Seo-Yeon;Kim, Tae-Woong;Lee, Joo-Heon
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2018.05a
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    • pp.22-22
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    • 2018
  • 본 연구에서는 수문학적 가뭄을 분석하기 위해 두가지 지수를 개발하여 소개하고자 한다. 첫번째는, 물수지식을 기반으로 산정된 Water Budget-based Drought Index(WBDI)로 강우와 증발산의 차이를 이용하여 산정한다. 두 번째는 에너지 수지식을 기반으로 산정된 Energy-based Water Deficit Index(EWDI)로 에너지 수지 기반의 증발산, 태양복사에너지와 토양수분 등을 이용하여 산정한다. 두가지 지수 모두 인공위성 영상 자료를 활용하였다. WBDI 산정을 위한 강수량 자료는 Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission(TRMM)과 Global Precipitation Mission(GPM)를 활용하였으며, 증발산 자료는 Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) 자료를 활용하였다. EWDI 산정에 필요한 입력자료는 모두 MODIS 자료를 활용하였다. 산정된 두 가뭄지수의 수문학적 가뭄 분석을 위해 자연유출지점인 6개 지점을 선정하여 유출량 자료와 비교하였다. 유출량 자료를 활용하여 Error matrix 기법을 적용하여 두 수문학적 가뭄지수의 우리나라에서의 적용성을 파악하였다.

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Cultural Tunneling Effect: Conceptual adoption & Application in movie industry

  • Roh, Seungkook
    • Asia Marketing Journal
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.77-100
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    • 2014
  • Many researchers have analyzed the relationship between the financial success patterns of a motion picture and many other factors, such as the production cost, marketing, stars, awards, reviews, genre, and rating. Through these studies, many researchers and investors concluded that big budgets to make a blockbuster movie can serve as an insurance policy to meet their ROI; thus the box office is dominated by blockbuster movies. High-budget blockbuster movies are more likely to receive attention because these movies are more recognizable given their high expenses for production and casting. Therefore, audiences choose blockbusters in an effort to reduce the searching cost and to mitigate the possibility of a regrettable choice. This behavior of consumers, in turn, causes distributors to allocate screens for blockbusters, resulting in "concentration of blockbuster consumption." As such, low-budget films cannot easily become popular due to the lack of distribution. Indeed, low-budget films released on a small number of screens often end up becoming dismal failures. However, there are exceptional examples which are contrary to the general idea in the movie industry that a big budget and showings on a large number of screens can guarantee the success of a movie. Although researchers have attempted to analyze the performances of movies with small budgets, such movies are likely to be regarded as outliers and then be entirely discarded, as they are far from the 'three-sigma' range, especially given that previous research methodologies could not explain the financial success of such unique examples. This study attempts to explain the financial success at the box office of low-budget movies by applying the concept of the tunnel effect in quantum mechanics, as the phenomenon found in the movie industry is similar to a particle's movement in quantum physics. The tunneling effect is a phenomenon by which a particle without enough energy to pass over a potential barrier tunnels through it. Adopting the analogy, this study draws a tunneling probability function and cultural constant to forecast other outliers using the Schrödinger equation. Moreover, the study finds that word-of-mouth creates in the movie industry this phenomenon of finding outliers.

Impacts of Different Urban Surfaces on Summer Thermal Performance

  • Jo, Hyun-Kil;Wu, Qian
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.819-826
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    • 2015
  • This study measured temperatures and albedos of urban surfaces for different colors and materials during summer, and calculated the energy budget over different urban surfaces to find out the thermal performance affecting the heat built-up. The study selected six surface colors and 13 materials common in urban landscape. Their surface temperatures (Ts) and albedos were measured at a given time interval in the daytime from June to August. Average Ts over summer season for asphalt-colored brick was $4.0^{\circ}C$ higher than that for light red-colored one and $9.7^{\circ}C$ higher than that for white-colored one. The Ts for artificial surface materials of asphalt paving, brown brick wall, and green concrete wall was $6.0^{\circ}C$ higher than that for natural and semi-natural ones of grass, grassy block, and planted concrete wall. There was the greatest difference of $16.3^{\circ}C$ at midafternoon in the Ts between asphalt paving and planted concrete wall. Average albedo over summer season of surface materials ranged from 0.08 for asphalt paving to 0.67 for white concrete wall. This difference in the albedo was associated with a maximum of $15.7^{\circ}C$ difference at midafternoon in the Ts. Increasing the albedo by 0.1 (from 0.22 to 0.32) reduced the Ts by about $1.3^{\circ}C$. Average storage heat at midday by natural and semi-natural surfaces of grass and grassy block was about 10% lower than that by artificial ones of asphalt, light-red brick, and concrete. Reflected radiation, which ultimately contributes to heating the urban atmosphere, was 3.7 times greater for light-red brick and concrete surfaces than for asphalt surface. Thus, surfaces with in-between tone and color are more effective than dark- or white-colored ones, and natural or semi-natural surfaces are much greater than artificial ones in improving the urban thermal environment. This study provides new information on correlation between Ts and air temperature, relationship between albedo and Ts, and the energy budget.

A Study on Thermal Satisfaction of Domestic Heat Wave Reduction Facilities (국내 폭염 저감 시설의 온열 만족도에 대한 연구)

  • Jun, Yong-Joon;Park, Lyool;Park, Kyung-Soon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Geothermal and Hydrothermal Energy
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2022
  • As abnormal climates occur due to the increase in greenhouse gases at home and abroad, various problems such as human casualties, crop damage, energy depletion, and economic loss due to heat diseases, which are one of the extreme climate phenomena, are following one after another. In response, the government has established the 'Climate Crisis Response Special Committee' since 2018, when it recorded the greatest damage in history due to heat waves, and has been carrying out budget formation and reform of laws and systems every year to respond to heat waves. However, in relation to the heat wave damage reduction facility that is being expanded with a large budget, there is no prior research related to the degree of heat loss due to the use of the facility, the difference in effects between specific groups, and the economic effect that comes back compared to the invested budget. Therefore, from a midto long-term perspective, it is expected that it will be difficult to establish a clear direction for policy making. Therefore, in this study, representative facilities were selected according to the principle of heat reduction among the currently expanded heat damage reduction facilities, and a questionnaire survey was conducted for users of each reduction facility (waterfall, awning, pond, and elastic pavement). Accordingly, the change in the sense of heat according to the use of the heat damage reduction facility was checked, and the change in the sense of heat according to the group characteristics (gender, age, metabolic rate) was analyzed to examine the characteristics of the relationship between the facility and the users.

Estimation of material budget for Keum river estuary using a Box Model (BOX 모델을 이용한 금강 하구해역의 물질수지 산정)

  • Kim Jong-Gu;Kim Dong-Myung;Yang Jae-Sam
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.76-90
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    • 2000
  • The estimation of material cycle of pollutants is necessary for the environment management in coastal zone. Model for material budgets are useful tools to understand the phenomena of natural system and to provide an insight into the complex processes including physical, chemical and biological processes occuring in natural system. Budgets of fresh water, salt and nutrients were estimated in order to clarify the characteristics of seasonal material cycle in Keum river estuary. Inflow volumes of freshwater into system was approximately 1.014×10/sup 8/~12.565×10/sup 8/m³/month and discharge in Keum river has occupied 99.7% of total freshwater. Seasonal variations of freshwater volume in the system were found to be very high in the range of about 4 ~ 14 times due to rainfall in summer season. Existing water mass of freshwater in system calculated by salt budget was approximately 0.339×10/sup 8/~0.652×10/sup 8/m³. Mean residence time of freshwater was calculated to be about 1.6~10.0day, and exchange time was calculated to be about 2.2~11.9day. Mean residence time was short as 1.6day in summer due to precipitation, and long as 10.1day in winter due to a drought. Inflow masses of DIP and DIN were approximately 5.57~32.68ton/month and 234.93~2,373.39ton/month, respectively. Seasonal inflow mass of DIP was larger than the outflow mass except for summer season. Thus, we postulate that accumulation of DIP in the system will happen. Residence times of DIP and DIN were calculated to be 1.1~6.4day and 1.8~10.9day, respectively. The ratio of water residence time versus DIP, DIN residence time was calculated to be 0.39~2.31 times and 0.83~1.13 times, respectively.

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Estimation of Energy Budget from Food Consumption and Growth of Hexagrammos agrammus (노래미, Hexagrammos agrammus의 섭식양과 성장양으로부터 에너지 대사의 추정)

  • KIM Chong-Kwan;ZHANG Chang-Ik
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.121-126
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    • 1998
  • This study is to examine the energy budget of Hexagrammos agrammus in the natural habitat, based on the von Bertalanffy's growth model using food consumption and growth data of the fish. The fish were collected at the coasts of Tongbaek Island in Pusan and Shinsu Island in Samchonpo, Korea. The standard energy budget model was adopted for this study and the model has the components of toed consumption (C), production (G), assimilation (A), absorption ($A_b$), catabolism (R), excreta (U) and feces (F). These components were expressed as mass unit, not as calorie unit as usual. Both the mass and the proportion of each component varied with age of the fish, The mass of annual excreta declined as the fish became older, while those of the other components increased with the age. The relationship between mean weight (W) and annual absorption ($A_b$) was a non-linear one with the equation of $A_b=4.592W^{0.666}$, while that between mean weight (W) and annual catabolism (R) was linear as R=0.007+0.567W. On the other hand, the annual food consumption (C) showed linear relations both with annual assimilation (A) and annual catabolism (R) as A= -7.026+0.061C and R=-20.749+0.048C, respectively.

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Flow Characteristics of Axi-symmetric Swirl Jet in the Initial Regions (축대칭 회전분사류의 초기 유동특성)

  • Han, Yong-Un;An, Yeong-Hui;Kim, Dong-Sik
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.531-538
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    • 2002
  • Flow characteristics of a round jet with swirl number of 0.17 have been investigated using a hot -wire anemometry in the initial region within 10D(exit diameter). Swirl effects were observed by comparing centerline flow characteristics, similarities and turbulent budgets of a swirl jet and a free jet, respectively. To obtain similarity of the radial profiles mean velocity and higher moments were measured at the vertical pl anes, located at 2.5, 5.0, 7.5D, 10D, respectively. The centerline velocity characteristics were also measured. It is turned out that similarities of mean and Reynolds stress are established. The jet boundary has wider width than that of a free jet and the shear stress also becomes stronger. In addition the centerline decay becomes faster than that of the free jet, indicating that the swirl induces more entrainment in the initial region of the swirl Jet by transferring the axial mean kinetic energy into the swirl energy and, therefore, has wider boundary, compared with that of free jet.

Static Worst-Case Energy and Lifetime Estimation of Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Liu, Yu;Zhang, Wei;Akkaya, Kemal
    • Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.128-152
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    • 2010
  • With the advance of computer and communication technologies, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are increasingly used in many aspects of our daily life. However, since the battery lifetime of WSN nodes is restricted, the WSN lifetime is also limited. Therefore, it is crucial to determine this limited lifetime in advance for preventing service interruptions in critical applications. This paper proposes a feasible static analysis approach to estimating the worstcase lifetime of a WSN. Assuming known routes with a given sensor network topology and SMAC as the underlying MAC protocol, we statically estimate the lifetime of each sensor node with a fixed initial energy budget. These estimations are then compared with the results obtained through simulation which run with the same energy budget on each node. Experimental results of our research on TinyOS applications indicate that our approach can safely and accurately estimate worst-case lifetime of the WSN. To the best of our knowledge, our work is the first one to estimate the worst-case lifetime of WSNs through a static analysis method.

The Increased Use of Radiation Requires Enhanced Activities Regarding Radiation Safety Control (방사성 물질 등의 이용 증가에 따른 안전 관리 문제점 고찰)

  • Lee, Yunjong;Lee, Jinwoo;Jeong, Gyo-Seong
    • Journal of Radiation Industry
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.103-109
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    • 2015
  • More recently, companies that have obtained permission to use radioactive materials or radiation device and registered radiation workers have increased by 10% and 4% respectively. The increased use of radiation could have an effect on radiation safety control. However, there is not nearly enough manpower and budget compared to the number of workers and facilities. This paper will suggest a counteroffer thought analyzing pending issues. The results of this paper indicate that there are 47 and 31.3 workers per radiation protection officer in educational and research institutes, respectively. There are 20.1 persons per RPO in hospitals, even though there are 2 RPOs appointed. Those with a special license as a radioisotope handler were ruled out as possible managers because medical doctors who have a special license for radioisotope handling normally have no experience with radiation safety. The number of staff members and budget have been insufficient for safety control at most educational and research institutes. It is necessary to build an optimized safety control system for effective Radiation Safety Control. This will reduce the risk factor of safety, and a few RPOs can be supplied for efficiency and convenience.