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A Study of Geostationary Atmospheric Environmental Monitoring Satellite Data Management Policies (정지궤도 대기환경 관측 위성 자료 관리 정책 방안 연구)

  • Choi, Won Jun;Eun, Jong Won
    • Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.10-14
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    • 2016
  • Korean satellite development projects were divided military objectives such as national security, and commercial communication satellites. The First geostationary Korean earth observation satellite, GeoKOMPSAT is a turning point to concern another way to utilizing satellite. In the past, the main concern was the sharp ground images, now days, it is more important to make high added value from satellite data. In particular, environmental payload, GEMS mounted on the satellite GeoKOMPSAT-2 will monitor air quality which is not observed by visual material, may be referred to as case by utilizing the satellite. Satellite data utilization is likely to receive a great influence on the appropriate public policy data. If the public is expected to be fully revealed that potential demand. It is time to change the management policy on the security aspects of weak satellite data. Depending on the expanding use of satellites, it is necessary to investigate the status of disclosing satellite data, and suggests policy options for the distribution of materials for the environment satellite characteristics.

Pressure restricted water supply method during drought using a computer simulation and daily water supply analysis (시뮬레이션과 1일 급수량 분석을 이용한 갈수기 감압에 의한 제한급수 방법)

  • Nam, Youngwook;Kim, Kyungsu;Hyun, Inhwan;Kim, Dooil
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.34 no.5
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    • pp.335-344
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    • 2020
  • Due to global climate change, mega-droughts have occurred frequently. Since long-term droughts make it difficult to secure the water resources, water supply needs to be restricted in a reasonable manner. In the event of limited water supply, the waterworks need to develop a restricted water supply strategy. This study showed that analyzing daily water supply could be used to respond to the first stage of a drought. According to an analysis of Korea's major water authorities, there was about 7~21% of room for daily minimum water supply in case of a drought. Restricting the water supply by lowering pressure is a good strategy for local water authorities with high water leakage rate since leakage is inversely dependent with pressure. For this method, it is necessary to quantify water deficiency and pressure at each node using a simulation. Since DDA-based software is not possible to predict changes in demand at nodes with pressure reduction, WaterGEMS, a PDA software, was used to quantitatively predict water shortages and pressures at each node. Locations where water is deficient need to install booster pumps or to be dispatched with water tank truck and bottled water. Without these support, lowering pressure could not be an option for water works. This paper suggests a method for waterworks to plan a drought by lowering pressure to restrict water supply using daily water supply analysis and PDA based simulation.

Structural characteristics of non-nucleus Abalone half pearl cultured by a new technique (새로운 방법으로 성장된 무핵 전복반형진주의 구조적 특성)

  • Kim, Hea-Yeon;Lee, Dae-Il;Park, Jong-Wan;Shim, Kwang-Bo
    • Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.57-61
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    • 2008
  • Non-nucleus Abalone half pearls were cultured by a new technique and their structural characteristics were analyzed using an electron microscopy. This technique was found to grow the pearls depending on the shape of the internal organ of an abalone because this technique induces the pearl layers without adding any nucleus on the specified damage region of a shell. The obtained pearls exhibit natural shapes with a specific luster. The SEM analysis shows that the pearl layers are about $0.34{\mu}m$ with an uniform thickness and the surface of the shell is characterized by the pyramid-shaped bulge with a regular arrangement, which is a typical feature of single-shell. These characteristics of the pearls are thought to develop in the highly-valued Korean gems.

Current Status and Development of Modeling Techniques for Forecasting and Monitoring of Air Quality over East Asia (동아시아 대기질 예보 및 감시를 위한 모델링 기술의 현황과 발전 방향)

  • Park, Rae Seol;Han, Kyung Man;Song, Chul Han;Park, Mi Eun;Lee, So Jin;Hong, Song You;Kim, Jhoon;Woo, Jung-Hun
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.407-438
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    • 2013
  • Current status and future direction of air quality modeling for monitoring and forecasting air quality in East Asia were discussed in this paper. An integrated air quality modeling system, combining (1) emission processing and modeling, (2) meteorological model simulation, (3) chemistry-transport model (CTM) simulation, (4) ground-based and satellite-retrieved observations, and (5) data assimilation, was introduced. Also, the strategies for future development of the integrated air quality modeling system in East Asia was discussed in this paper. In particular, it was emphasized that the successful use and development of the air quality modeling system should depend on the active applications of the data sets from incumbent and upcoming LEO/GEO (Low Earth Orbit/Geostationary Earth Orbit) satellites. This is particularly true, since Korea government successfully launched Geostationary Ocean Color Imager (GOCI) in June, 2010 and has another plan to launch Geostationary Environmental Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) in 2018, in order to monitor the air quality and emissions in/around the Korean peninsula as well as over East Asia.

A Study on the Symbolic Features and Wearing Types of Pearl Necklaces (진주목걸이의 상징적 특성과 착용유형에 대한 연구)

  • Cho, Jungmee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.37 no.8
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    • pp.1029-1043
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    • 2013
  • The pearl is a highly valuable gem that has historically represented wealth and power. Pearl necklaces have developed intro various types and represent an essential status item for modern women. This study first examines the symbolic and various meanings of pearls. Second, this study examines wearing types and pearl necklace patterns based on historical figures and modern fashion icons famous for personal displays of pearls. This study examines and analyzes various specialty publications about jewels, history of costumes, fashion magazines, academic research data, and internet search results. The conclusion of this study is as follows. Pearls have various symbolic meanings that are unlike other gems. Pearls represent purity, innocence, marital fidelity, an intimate relationship with the moon, frozen tears of God, solitude, triumph over adversity, wisdom, and sensual attraction. The societies and people traditionally famous for pearls were the Roman Empire, Queen Cleopatra of Egypt, Queen Theodora of the Byzantine Empire, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Marie Antoinette, Empress of Eugenie Napoleon III, and Queen Alexandra. They showed a special affection for pearl necklaces and various wearing patterns unique to the time. Their pearl necklaces became a historic and symbolic legacy. Reestablished through the costume jewelry of cultivated pearls designed by Coco Chanel in the $20^{th}$ century, the pearl necklace has showed a variety of fashion trends in addition to a traditional symbolism of wealth and power. Josephine Baker, Louise Brooks, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Jacqueline Kennedy, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Diana, Michelle Obama and Sarah Jessica Parker have worn notable pearl necklaces and established an individual style that utilizes the adornment of fashionable and stylish pearl necklaces. They have worn pearl necklaces while applying various fashion trend motifs to symbolic pearl features of that have changed the perception of the pearl and themselves.

Mineralogical and Geochemical Characteristics of the Gemstone-bearing Pegmatite of Mogok Metamorphic Belt, Myanmar (미얀마 모곡변성대 함보석 페그마타이트의 광물학적 및 지화학적 특징)

  • Heo, Chul-Ho;Oh, Il-Hwan;Cho, Seong-Jun
    • Korean Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.129-141
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    • 2020
  • The Mogok metamorphic belt is a highland area mainly consisting of Archean crystalline rocks, where many ruby mines were distributed in the past, and jewelry has been identified in its alluvium as placer deposit. Minerals that are usually identified with ruby include spinel, garnet, and rubellite. The conglomerates that form the alluvium in which jewelry is found mainly consist of gneiss and clastic pegmatites. In Singu, Mogok, and Momeik areas, a number of pegmatites containing jewelry are distributed in the intrusions of Mogok metamorphic rocks, diorites, and granites. In Singu pegmatites, rubellite, goshenite, and blue and violet apatite occur as gems. In Momeik pegmatites, mushroom-type rubellite, petalite, hambergite, pollucite, and aquamarine can be found. In Mogok pegmatites, topaz, aquamarine, goshenite, and herderite occur are present.

Spatial Gap-Filling of Hourly AOD Data from Himawari-8 Satellite Using DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) and FMM (Fast Marching Method)

  • Youn, Youjeong;Kim, Seoyeon;Jeong, Yemin;Cho, Subin;Kang, Jonggu;Kim, Geunah;Lee, Yangwon
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.777-788
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    • 2021
  • Since aerosol has a relatively short duration and significant spatial variation, satellite observations become more important for the spatially and temporally continuous quantification of aerosol. However, optical remote sensing has the disadvantage that it cannot detect AOD (Aerosol Optical Depth) for the regions covered by clouds or the regions with extremely high concentrations. Such missing values can increase the data uncertainty in the analyses of the Earth's environment. This paper presents a spatial gap-filling framework using a univariate statistical method such as DCT-PLS (Discrete Cosine Transform-based Penalized Least Square Regression) and FMM (Fast Matching Method) inpainting. We conducted a feasibility test for the hourly AOD product from AHI (Advanced Himawari Imager) between January 1 and December 31, 2019, and compared the accuracy statistics of the two spatial gap-filling methods. When the null-pixel area is not very large (null-pixel ratio < 0.6), the validation statistics of DCT-PLS and FMM techniques showed high accuracy of CC=0.988 (MAE=0.020) and CC=0.980 (MAE=0.028), respectively. Together with the AI-based gap-filling method using extra explanatory variables, the DCT-PLS and FMM techniques can be tested for the low-resolution images from the AMI (Advanced Meteorological Imager) of GK2A (Geostationary Korea Multi-purpose Satellite 2A), GEMS (Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer) and GOCI2 (Geostationary Ocean Color Imager) of GK2B (Geostationary Korea Multi-purpose Satellite 2B) and the high-resolution images from the CAS500 (Compact Advanced Satellite) series soon.

Extraction and characterization of pepsin-soluble collagen from different mantis shrimp species

  • Hiransuchalert, Rachanimuk;Oonwiset, Nakaweerada;Imarom, Yolrawee;Chindudsadeegul, Parinya;Laongmanee, Penchan;Arnupapboon, Sukchai
    • Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.24 no.12
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    • pp.406-414
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    • 2021
  • The objective of this study was to investigate the yield and characteristics of collagen protein extracted from the muscle of four different species of mantis shrimp: Miyakella nepa, Harpiosquilla harpax, Erugosquilla woodmasoni, and Odontodactylus cultrifer. Mantis shrimp muscle was extracted by using a pepsin-solubilization technique, with 0.5 M acetic acid and 5% pepsin enzyme. The highest collagen yield was from M. nepa muscle (0.478 ± 0.06%), which was significantly greater (p < 0.05) than that from H. harpax, O. cultrifer, and E. woodmasoni (0.313 ± 0.03%, 0.123 ± 0.02%, and 0.015 ± 0.00%, respectively). The freeze-dried collagen appeared as thin fibers, and formed an opaque film. The pepsin-soluble collagen (PSC) from four mantis shrimp species was analyzed by gel electrophoresis. The results showed that all species of mantis shrimp contained type I collagen, consisting of β, α1, and α2 subunits with average molecular weights of 250, 145, and 118 kDa, respectively. The study of the solubility of collagen showed that, for NaCl, collagen had the highest relative solubility in 2% NaCl (80.20 ± 4.95%). In contrast, the solubility decreased at higher NaCl concentrations. However, in terms of pH, collagen had the highest relative solubility at pH 3 (91.32 ± 5.14%), and its solubility decreased at higher pH. FT-IR spectroscopy was used to compare the collagen with a model compound. Five wavenumbers in the spectrum for model collagen were identified: Amide A (3,406-3,421 cm-1), amide B (2,916-2,940 cm-1), amide I (1,639-1,640 cm-1), amide II (1,539-1,570 cm-1), and amide III (1,234-1,250 cm-1).

60-Year Research History and Future Prospects in Environment Field in Korean Meteorological Society (기상학회 60년간 환경분야 연구 역사와 전망)

  • Cheol-Hee Kim;Rokjin Park;Sang-Woo Kim;Young-Hee Lee;Sang-Hyun Lee;Chang-Keun Song
    • Atmosphere
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.173-195
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    • 2023
  • Research papers in the field of atmospheric environment published in three Journals: Journal of Korean Meteorological Society, Atmosphere, and Asia-Pacific Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, are all summarized over period of 60 years since the establishment of Korea Meteorological Society (KMS) in 1963. In addition, current research trends and future outlook in the atmospheric environment field has been also highlighted. The results of historical records published in three KMS journals indicated that the activities, contents, and scope of researches carried out by KMS members in the field of atmospheric environment have yielded the enormous and rapid progress in each of the all four areas over 60 years. In particular, as the chronological progress of observational instruments and availability of satellite data such as from GEMS can be a great asset to deepen the observational and modeling researches in the current and future studies, it is highly anticipated that the more progressive and in-depth studies can be achievable to abate the air pollutants over the Korea as well as northeast Asia.

Qualitative Assessment and Development of Level of Evidence and Strength of Recommendation Models in the Field of Physical Therapy in Korea (국내 물리치료분야에 대한 질적 평가와 근거 수준 및 권고 등급 모형 개발 방안)

  • Sung-Hyoun Cho;Jeong-Woo Lee
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Integrative Medicine
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.231-242
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    • 2023
  • Purpose : This study aimed to identify ways to improve the quality of physical therapy research and ultimately review the current situation to improve evidence-based decision-making in physical therapy. Methods : For better evidence-based decision-making in physical therapy, researchers should review the quality assessment of articles in more detail and report their findings for valid and appropriate level of evidence and strength of recommendations. The level of evidence affects how well the findings are derived from well-designed literature. The evaluation of the evidence focuses primarily on the study design and the degree of bias that may compromise the validity of the findings. The final recommendation is based on a combination of the study design and literature quality. To uncover gems of information in each paper, a risk of bias assessment should be performed after the literature has been initially selected. Results : Researchers should consider the complexity of the intervention, appropriate grouping, and calculation of effect sizes for the intervention. Researchers conducting systematic reviews should provide a detailed description of the quality assessment performed and present a detailed analysis of their interpretation of the results. The results of systematic reviews and meta-analyses should be interpreted with caution and include a risk of bias assessment. Guidelines for the level of evidence and strength of recommendations should be developed and utilized more broadly to improve reporting practices in physical therapy. Conclusion : Researchers should be knowledgeable about the strengths and limitations of each study design and methodology. In the future, researchers will also need to improve their ability to critically evaluate their findings, given the potential for their results to influence clinical practice.