• 환경영향평가
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.259-270
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• 2010

We conducted human risk assessment for exposure to inhalation of chemical substances emitted from the storage tanks of petroleum refineries. To assess human risk, this study calculated chemical emissions from the external floating roofs on storage tank at petroleum refineries, as well as concentrations thereof in the ambient air using the K-SCREEN model, and then determined risk in accordance with the Reference Concentration (RfC) values and Inhalation Unit Risk criteria developed by the US Environmental Protection Agency. The results indicated that non-carcinogenic chemicals have a hazard quotient of less than 1, meaning they have an insignificant effect on human health for residential areas near the storage tanks. Among the known carcinogens, the hazard risk for benzene slightly exceeded $10^{-6}$, indicating the need for corrective reduction measures. The methodology for health impact assessment devised herein provides findings useful in decision making for policy makers and the general public with respect to construction of industrial complexes. However, the methodology proposed herein does have limitations, including discrepancy in results induced by use of U.S. data (due to the lack of usable domestic data). More systematic studies from related researchers will be needed to address these issues and produce more reliable outcomes.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.217-224
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 동적 데이터베이스 환경에서 발생할 수 있는 개인 정보 노출 문제를 해결할 수 있는 동적 데이터 보호 기법(Dynamic Data Protection Technique)을 제안하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 DDPT은 다중 속성 일반화 알고리즘을 이용해 MAG(Multi-Attribute Generalization) 규칙을 생성하고, 그 MAG 규칙에 따라 k-anonymity를 만족하는 EC(Equivalence Class)를 생성한다. 그리고 데이터 변경 시 MAG 규칙에 따라 EC를 재구성 하도록 하여, EC의 변경으로 인한 식별 노출을 방지할 수 있다. 또한, ${\ell}$-diversity를 만족하는 EC의 정보손실 정도를 측정하고, 임계치 이하의 EC를 선정해서 데이터의 정확성을 유지함으로써 개인 정보 보호를 향상시켰다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.1235-1242
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• 2016

Background: A school-based smoke free home (SFH) program is useful in empowering the mother and child to reduce secondhand smoke exposure but the effects of pretesting on knowledge and attitude has been largely ignored. We aimed to test whether such a program can be effective in Southern Thailand with an additional assessment of the net effect of the pretest. Materials and Methods: A Solomon four-group design was used. Twelve rural primary schools were assigned to one of the four conditions (each with 3 schools): intervention with and without a pretest, control with and without the same pretest. The intervention was performed in the classroom and home over a period of 1 month. Outcomes were assessed at baseline and 3 months after the intervention on whether the home was smoke free and related knowledge and attitude. Results: The intervention could lead to a smoke-free home without statistical significance. Attitude, knowledge and self-confidence on creating a smoke-free home, and self-confidence in avoidance of secondhand smoke exposure and persuading smokers to not smoke in their home were significantly improved. No pretest effect was observed. Conclusions: Gain in attitude, knowledge and self-confidence among family members from the brief school-based education should be enhanced by other measures.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제67권2호
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• pp.106-111
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• 2018

Recently, due to the effect of global warming, the high temperature phenomenon continues, and the time for workers exposed to high temperature, cold and infrared is increasing and then safety is threatened. Due to the nature of on-site work, the work is being carried out in an unreasonable manner due to the process, which is exposed to disasters due to high temperature and cold. Even though the injured skin may be damaged, the worker may not be aware of it and may be injured. By understanding the working environment of the worker and calculating the risk index and expressing it on the helmet, the surrounding colleagues inform the worker of the risk and take appropriate measures so that the accident can be prevented in advance. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of exposure duration on the workers' by measuring the exposure time, the risk index is displayed in the form of a traffic light to the helm, informing neighboring workers and managers, and transmitting to the workers by voice.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.24-33
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• 2013

Renewable energy industries, including sola cell plants, has been ever increasing ones for reducing fossil fuel consumption and strengthening national energy policy. In this paper we tried to identify occupational health hazards in solar cell-related industries operated in Korea. Poly silicon, silicon ingot and wafer, solar cell and module are major processes for producing solar cells. Poly silicon operations may cause hazards to workers from metal silicon, silanes, silicon, hydro fluoric acid and nitric acid. Solar cells could not be constructed without using metals such as aluminum and silver, acids such as hydrofluoric acid and nitric acid, bases such as sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide, and solvent and phosphorus chloride oxide. Workers in module assembly process may exposed to isopropanol, flux, solders that contain lead, tin and/or copper. To prevent occupational exposure to these hazards, it is essential to identify the hazards in each process and educate workers in industries with proper engineering and administrative control measures.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.375-379
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• 2011

Control Banding (CB) strategies to prevent work-related illness and injury for 2.5 billion workers without access to health and safety professionals has grown exponentially this last decade. CB originates from the pharmaceutical industry to control active pharmaceutical ingredients without a complete toxicological basis and therefore no occupational exposure limits. CB applications have broadened into chemicals in general - including new emerging risks like nanomaterials and recently into ergonomics and injury prevention. CB is an action-oriented qualitative risk assessment strategy offering solutions and control measures to users through "toolkits". Chemical CB toolkits are user-friendly approaches used to achieve workplace controls in the absence of firm toxicological and quantitative exposure information. The model (technical) validation of these toolkits is well described, however firm operational analyses (implementation aspects) are lacking. Consequentially, it is often not known if toolkit use leads to successful interventions at individual workplaces. This might lead to virtual safe workplaces without knowing if workers are truly protected. Upcoming international strategies from the World Health Organization Collaborating Centers request assistance in developing and evaluating action-oriented procedures for workplace risk assessment and control. It is expected that to fulfill this strategy's goals, CB approaches will continue its important growth in protecting workers.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제17권sup1호
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• pp.49-53
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• 2016

Evidence shows that tobacco advertising and promotion activities may increase tobacco consumption and usage, especially in youth. Despite the regulation on prohibiting advertisement of any tobacco product, tobacco advertisement and promotion activities are still common in Vietnam. This article presents current exposure to tobacco advertising and promotion (TAP) among school children aged 13 to 15 years in Vietnam in 2014 and potential influencing factors. Data from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey 2014 in Vietnam covering 3,430 school aged children were used. Both descriptive and analytical statistics were carried out with Stata 13 statistical software. Binary logistic regression was applied to explain the exposure to TAP among youth and examine relationships with individual factors. A significance level of p<0.05 and sampling weights were used in all of the computations. In the past 30 days, 48.6% of the students experienced exposure to at least 1 type of tobacco advertising or promotion. Wearing or otherwise using products related to tobacco was the most exposure TAP type reported by students (22.3%). The internet (22.1), points of sales (19.2) and social events (11.5) were three places that students aged 13-15 frequently were exposed to TAP. Binary logistic results showed that gender (female vs male) (OR = 0.61, 95%CI: 0.52 - 0.71), susceptibility to smoking (OR = 2.12, 95%CI: 1.53 - 2.92), closest friends' smoked (OR = 1.43, 95%CI: 1.2 - 1.7) and parents smoking status (OR = 2.83, 95%CI: 1.6 - 5.01) were significantly associated with TAP exposure among school-aged children. The research findings should contribute to effective implementation of measures for preventing and controlling tobacco use among students aged 13-15 in Viet Nam.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.136-143
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• 2016

염해에 의한 철근콘크리트 구조물의 내구수명을 평가하는 방법에는 여러 가지가 있지만, 가장 확실한 방법은 염해환경에 노출된 시편에 대한 철근 부식시험을 시행하는 것이다. 그러나 이러한 방법은 장기간이 소요된다는 단점이 있으며 이를 보완한 촉진부식시험 결과는 장기시험과의 상관성이 규명되지 않아 적용에 한계가 따른다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 부식촉진시험과 장기폭로시험간의 상관성을 분석하는 것을 연구의 목표로 한다. 부식속도가 가장 빠른 간만대 환경을 모사한 최적 건습반복시험방법을 찾고 해양환경폭로시험장의 간만대에 장기간 노출된 시편의 철근부식모니터링 시험결과와의 비교를 통해 촉진부식시험과 장기폭로시험간의 상관계수를 도출하였다. 또한 재료의 배합별 특성을 파악하기 위해 물,결합재비 60%를 기준으로 플라이애시를 20% 치환한 배합과 고로슬래그 미분말을 30% 치환한 배합을 비교하였으며, 물-결합재비가 35%인 고강도 배합에 대해서도 시험을 실시하였다. 반전지전위법에 의한 부식 모니터링 결과 일정기간의 건조와 습윤의 반복 조건보다는 염수를 시편 상부에 침지시켜 염수 및 산소의 공급이 계속되는 염수 ponding 시험법이 24~36% 정도 부식을 촉진시키는 것으로 나타났다. 각 배합별로는 모든 시험법에서 OPC60, FA, BS, OPC35 순으로 부식이 발생하였다. 간만대의 장기폭로시험과의 상관성 분석 결과 건습반복 부식촉진시험의 경우 4.23~5.52의 상관계수를 가지고 있었으며, 염수 ponding 시험법의 경우 6.54~7.82의 상관계수를 나타내었다.

• 한국아동복지학
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• 제56호
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• pp.221-251
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• 2016

본 연구의 목적은 한부모가정여부가 아동의 자기보호와 미디어 노출을 통해 학교적응에 영향을 미치는지를 분석하고 자기보호와 미디어노출의 이중매개효과를 검증하는 것이다. 이를 위해 한국청소년정책연구원의 한국아동 청소년패널조사데이터의 초4학년패널 4차년도 자료를 활용하였으며 이에 따라 총 1,916명의 아동 자료를 분석에 포함하였다. 주요한 통계방법으로는 인과관계 검증을 위해 구조방정식모형 분석과 다중매개모형 특정간접효과(specific indirect effect)를 확인하기 위해 팬텀모형(phantom model)에 의한 Bootstrapping 방법을 적용하였다. 분석 결과, 한부모가정여부는 아동의 학교적응에 직접적인 영향력을 미칠 뿐 아니라, 아동의 자기보호를 통해서도 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 또한, 아동의 자기보호와 미디어 노출은 한부모가정여부가 학교적응에 영향을 미치는 경로에 이중매개효과가 있는 것으로 검증되었다. 즉, 한부모 가정은 일반가정에 비해 아동 자기보호 수준이 높으며, 이는 미디어 노출을 증가시키고 학교적응에 부정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이 결과는 아동 자기보호와 미디어노출에 관련한 정책이 한부모가정 아동의 학교 적응을 도울 수 있음을 시사한다. 이러한 결과를 바탕으로 본 연구는 한부모가정이라는 구조적 특성과 그에 따른 특수한 욕구에 맞는 방과후 돌봄과 아동 미디어노출 관련 정책적, 실천적 제언을 하였다.

• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.317-330
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• 2021

Objectives: By law, companies in Korea must periodically measure workers' exposure to harmful chemicals (the system is called the Work Environment Monitoring Program (WMP)[a]) and report the results to the government. The government also measures exposure to monitor the WMP's reliability (called Reliability Assessment (RA) for WMP[b]). The issue is that measured data from these two sources are so different that the objectivity of WMP needs to be confirmed by comparing the results using the European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals' Targeted Risk Assessment (ECETOC TRA). Methods: Step 1: Data collection from WMP reports submitted by companies (n=586) and RA for WMP written by the government (n=33). Step 2: Data Standardization by key information included. Step 3: Data conversion to input-variables required to run the ECETOC TRA model, and run the model with specific data (n=514) which meet the predetermined exposure scenario. Step 4: Statistical data analysis by process category (PROC) and ventilation type from each source ([A] and [B]). Step 5: Additional analysis of any unexpected results. Results: The process categories of the production and handling of Dichloromethane were classified into 12 PROCs, and ten of them were selected to run ECETOC TRA. Modeled values tended to be higher than measured values from both sources. For the measured values from WMP, RCR distribution by PROC was narrow (0.197-0.267, 95% CI) and did not have a relationship with ventilation type, which differs from the tendency of the modeling result. Meanwhile, the measured values from RA for WMP were relatively widely distributed (0.301-1.177, 95% CI) by PROC. In particular PROCs (13,19) were high enough to exceed 1. Also, they become low with better ventilation types and appear differently depending on the ventilation type, similar to the model result. Conclusions: This study revealed that ECETOC TRA might have the potential to serve as a screening tool for exposure assessment and to be used as assistive method for WMP to estimate exposure. Further empirical study is required to confirm its availability as a screening tool.