• 제목/요약/키워드: Global Environmental Problems

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A New Way in Deciding NOAEL Based on the Findings from GLP-Toxicity Test

  • Park, Yeong-Chul;Cho, Myung-Haing
    • Toxicological Research
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    • 제27권3호
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    • pp.133-135
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    • 2011
  • The FDA guidance focuses on the use of the NOAEL to establish the maximum recommended starting dose. The majority of NOAEL has been described inaccurately or incompletely in final reports for 90-days repeated dose toxicity test based on GLP (good laboratory practice) regulation. This is the most serious one of reasons for why most pharmaceutical companies targeting global markets have disregarded the final report produced from GLP facilities in Korea. The problems in deciding NOAEL reflected in the final reports are mainly due to the followings; 1) Inaccurate description or use of NOEL, NOAEL and LOAEL, 2) Insufficient and inappropriate interpretations in findings from toxicity test. This paper is intended to provide the insight into distinguishing NOAEL from NOEL and LOAEL, and into classifying findings from toxicity test. Here, the three step method is newly suggested by applying the weight-based classification to the NOEL, NOAEL and LOAEL based on the findings.

Novel Tools and Techniques of Today and Tomorrow: For Studying Catalysis and Energy Problems

  • Hussain, Zahid
    • 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국진공학회 2013년도 제44회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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    • pp.127-127
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    • 2013
  • The quest for renewable energy requires us to understand, predict, and ultimately control matter and energy at the electronic, atomic, and molecular levels. The ever-increasing demand to diversify the energy portfolio and to minimize environmental impact while supplying global energy needs, has intensified the urgency for developing alternative energy sources and carriers. Significant research efforts are under way and will continue in a broad range of materials synthesis, use-inspired and fundamental science with the use of light sources such as synchrotron and free electron lasers. Energy-related materials research faces urgent challenges today. We need to go beyond the Edisonian hit and trial approach to more systematic research with the use of advanced tools applicable under realistic in-situ and in-operando conditions capable of exploring electronic and atomic structure of catalysts and energy relevant materials. Through various scientific examples, I will explain the current state-of-the art and future directions in the aforementioned areas of research.

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납기를 갖는 job shop 일정계획의 효율적인 발견적기법 (An Efficient Heuristic Technique for Job Shop Scheduling with Due Dates)

  • 배상윤;김여근
    • 한국경영과학회지
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    • 제21권3호
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    • pp.75-88
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    • 1996
  • This paper presents an efficient heuristic technique for minimizing the objectives related to tardiness such as total tardiness, maximum tardiness and root mean of tardiness in the job shop scheduling. The heuristic technique iteratively improves an active schedule through exploring the schedule's neighborrhood, using operation move methods. The move operatio is defined on an active chain of tardy jobs in the active schedule. To find the move operations which have a high probability of reducing tardiness, we develop move methods by exploiting the properties of active chains. Our technique is compared with the two existing heuristic techniques, that is, MEHA(Modified Exchange Heuristic Algorithm) and GSP(Global Scheduling Procedure) under the various environmental with the three levels of due date tightness and several sized problems. The experimental results show that the proposed technique outperforms the two exissting techiques in terms of solution quality and computation time.

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알루미나 반응기에서의 이산화탄소의 무성방전 특성 (Silent Discharge Characteristics of $CO_2$ for Alumina Imbedded-Discharge Reacted)

  • 조문수;곽동주
    • 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국전기전자재료학회 2001년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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    • pp.1061-1064
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    • 2001
  • Deep Interests have been paid on the application of non-thermal plasma technique to solve the environmental pollution problems. $CO_2$, is one of the severe pollutants which cause the acid rain and global warming. In this study, in order to improve the conversion efficiency of $CO_2$, the streamer corona discharge plasma and barrier discharge plasma reactors were made, and the conversion characteristics of $CO_2$by the corona discharge plasma and some discharge characteristics of these discharge chambers are studied experimentally.

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循環型 經濟社會의 構築을 위한 政策動向 (Policy for the Establishment of Recycling Society)

  • 오재현
    • 자원리싸이클링
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    • 제10권2호
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    • pp.3-12
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    • 2001
  • Nowadays, countries all over the world are deeply concerned about pollution in the global environment, so they are seeking various ways to adequately disposal of waste. Still, the environmental situation seems to be getting worse and worse. It is evident that such wastes and pollution have been endangering human life nestled in this globe up to the end of the 20th century. We should not, however, tolerate such human misconduct and mal-management of resources any more in the new millenium. For realizing a society that is sustainable for generations to come, it is important to establish a social system for minimizing wastes, promote re-use and recycling, and develop technology for improving recycling efficiencies, including product designs that facil-itate re-use and recycling and innovative technologies for processing wastes. In this paper, reviewing the current status of Korean waste problems, the governmental policy and specific approach for the establishment for recycling society is considered.

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The Effectiveness of Roof Planting for Reducing Urban Heat Island Phenomenon

  • Kobayashi Takahiro;Gotoh Keinosuke;Yoshioka Ryouhei;Tanaka Yoshiki
    • 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한원격탐사학회 2004년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2004
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    • pp.533-536
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    • 2004
  • Presently, heat island phenomenon, leading towards global warming, is one of the major environmental problems. As a solution of this problem, roof and surface wall planting is considered to be effective. Accordingly, the objective of this study is to examine the effectiveness of roof planting in reducing the heat island phenomenon. The results of the study show that, planted area of the observed house roof had lower average temperature, in between $l5-20^{\circ}C,$ in comparison with that of the unplanted area of the roof.

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Comparative Analysis of a Competitive Technology for a Major Electrical Power System

  • Koo, Young-Duk;Kim, Eun-Sun;Park, Young-Seo
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • 제2권4호
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    • pp.243-246
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    • 2004
  • Currently, advanced countries invest lots of efforts to develop improvement of electric power production and supply, confronting environmental problems and new energy development. They set up long term plan focusing on electric power transmission infrastructure construction technology, establishment of the customer care service network using electric technologies, improvement of economic productivity by innovative electric technology, prevention of global warming gas and clean and efficient energy use etc. Comparing to those countries, the level of technologies that we have are in behind and moreover, technological resources are limited. Therefore, Korea is required to reconsider efficient distribution of R&D investment by concentrating on limited R&D resources to important technologies which could be stepping stone to gain competitive advantage. It can be done through comparative analysis of electric technologies among advanced countries and analysis of electric technology development policy.

이산화탄소의 무성방전특성에 미치는 방전관의 구조 (The Effect of Discharge Chamber Structure on the Barrier Discharge of $CO_2$)

  • 박명하;곽동주
    • 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국전기전자재료학회 2000년도 영호남학술대회 논문집
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    • pp.207-211
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    • 2000
  • Deep Interests have been paid on the application of non-thermal plasma technique to solve the environmental pollution problems. $CO_2$ is one of the severe pollutants which cause the acid rain and global warming. In this study, in order to improve the conversion efficiency of $CO_2$, the streamer corona discharge plasma and barrier discharge plasma reactors were made, and the conversion characteristics of $CO_2$ by the corona discharge plasma and some discharge characteristics of these discharge chambers are studied experimentally.

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태양광 기술을 적용한 공중 화장실 디자인 제안 (Proposal of a New Public Toilet Design using Solar Energy)

  • 박진희;구은희
    • 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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    • 제10권2호
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    • pp.215-223
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    • 2010
  • 산업혁명 이후 인류의 화석연료 사용 증가에 따른 이산화탄소($CO_2$) 배출 확대로 온실가스가 지구 온난화의 주된 원인으로 밝혀지면서 선진국을 중심으로 세계 각국들은 온실가스 감축을 위해 경제 개발 도시 환경 정책 등 다양한 분야와 적극적으로 결합하여 신재생 에너지 - 태양광 기술을 이용한 디자인 요구가 급증되고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위한 대안의 하나로 태양광 기술을 적용한 공중화장실을 제시하고자 한다.

광전기화학 셀 적용을 목적으로 하는 화학적 박리법을 통한 그래핀의 제조 (Preparation of graphene by chemical exfoliation for application to the photoelectrochemical cell)

  • 윤상혁;이대원;김교선
    • 산업기술연구
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    • 제35권
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    • pp.59-65
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    • 2015
  • As the fossil fuels are depleted nowadays, development of alternative energies is absolutely required in the world. Efficient production of hydrogen by water-splitting using solar energy can be one of the methods to solve the global energy and environmental problems. But this method has a problem of low conversion efficiency. The application of graphene can be one method to help increase the conversion efficiency. For this reason, mass production of high quality graphene is required. In this study, we prepared graphene using the chemical exfoliation method. We applied the Hummer's method and Tour's method to oxidize the graphite and could get the different Graphene Oxide(GO) from different process conditions. We also tried to convert the GO to graphene by thermal reduction and could remove functional group of GO effectively. The control of oxidation conditions was quite important to obtain the high quality graphene.

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