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A Study on Weeding of the Literature in the Field of Science and Technology (과학기술분야 자료의 폐기기준에 관한 연구 - 원자력분야 자료를 중심으로-)

  • Chun, Young-Choon;Lee, Sung-Ho
    • Journal of Information Management
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.62-89
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    • 1997
  • The purpose of this study is to propose the efficient and reasonable weeding model of the scientific literature by measuring a life-span of literatures in the field of nuclear engineering through citation analysis, the average life of actually discarded literatures in the KAERI (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute), and the life of use through the circulation data analysis from 1992 to 1994 of KAERI.

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Cytoprotective Activity of Carpinus tschonoskii against H$_2$O$_2$ Induced Oxidative Stress

  • Zhang, Rui;Kang, Kyoung-Ah;Piao, Mei-Jing;Park, Jae-Woo;Shin, Taek-Yun;Yoo, Byoung-Sam;Yang, Young-Taek;Hyun, Jin-Won
    • Natural Product Sciences
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.118-122
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    • 2007
  • We have studied the cytoprotective effect on H$_2$O$_2$ induced oxidative stress from leaves of Carpinus tschonoskii. The methanol extract of Carpinus tschonoskii was found to scavenge intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) using flow cytometry and confocal microscope. This extract prevented lipid peroxidation and thus reduced cell death of Chinese hamster lung fibroblast (V79-4) induced by H$_2$O$_2$ treatment. The extract increased catalase activity and phosphorylation of extracellular signal regulated kinase (ERK). Taken together, the results suggest that Carpinus tschonoskii protects V79-4 cells against oxidative damage by H$_2$O$_2$ through scavenging ROS.

An Evaluation of Failure Behavior of Pipe with Local Wall Thinning by Pipe Experiment (배관실험을 통한 국부감육 배관의 손상거동 평가)

  • Kim, Jin-Won;Park, Chi-Yong
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.731-738
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    • 2002
  • To understand failure behavior of pipe thinned by flow accelerated corrosion, in this study, the pipe failure tests were performed on 102mm-Sch.80 carbon steel pipe with various local wall thinning shapes, and the failure mode, load carrying capacity, and deformability were investigated. The tests were conducted under loading conditions of 4-points bending and internal pressure. The experimental results showed that the failure mode of thinned pipe depended on magnitude of internal pressure and thinning length as well as loading direction and thinning depth and angle. The variation in load carrying capacity and deformability of thinned pipe with thinning length was determined by stress type appled to the thinning area and circumferential thinning angle. Also, the effect of internal pressure on failure behavior was dependent on failure mode of thinned pipe, and it promoted crack occurrence and mitigated local buckling at thinned area.

A Study on Threat Containment through VDI for Security Management of Partner Companies Operating at Industrial Control System Facility

  • Lee, Sangdo;Huh, Jun-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2019.10a
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    • pp.491-494
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    • 2019
  • The results from the analysis of recent security breach cases of industrial control systems revealed that most of them were caused by the employees of a partner company who had been managing the control system. For this reason, the majority of the current company security management systems have been developed focusing on their performances. Despite such effort, many hacking attempts against a major company, public institution or financial institution are still attempted by the partner company or outsourced employees. Thus, the institutions or organizations that manage Industrial Control Systems (ICSs) associated with major national infrastructures involving traffic, water resources, energy, etc. are putting emphasis on their security management as the role of those partners is increasingly becoming important as outsourcing security task has become a common practice. However, in reality, it is also a fact that this is the point where security is most vulnerable and various security management plans have been continuously studied and proposed. A system that enhances the security level of a partner company with a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) has been developed in this study through research on the past performances of partner companies stationed at various types of industrial control infrastructures and its performance outcomes were statistically compiled to propose an appropriate model for the current ICSs by comparing vulnerabilities, measures taken and their results before and after adopting the VDI.

Shielding Thickness Calculations for Line Gamma-ray Sources in Regular Geometrical Array (일반적(一般的) 배열(配列)인 선형(線型) 감마선원(線源)의 차폐계산(遮蔽計算))

  • Lee, Chong-Chul
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.29-32
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    • 1978
  • A shielding calculation has been carried out for a storage vault of $5292(42{\times}42{\times}3)$ waste drums in which the mixed radioactive gamma-emitters are contained. The required ordinary concrete shielding thickness seems to be approximately 50cm. The results in terms of dose rate for polyenergy gammas appear to be considerably higher than those of the averaged energy gamma.

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High Temperature Oxidation Behavior and Mechanical Characteristic of Recrystallized Alloy 617 (재결정에 따른 Alloy 617의 고온 산화 거동 및 기계적 특성)

  • Lim, Jeong Hun;Jo, Tae Sun;Park, Ji Yeon;Kim, Young Do
    • Korean Journal of Metals and Materials
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    • v.48 no.12
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    • pp.1078-1083
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    • 2010
  • In this study, high temperature oxidation behavior of Alloy 617 was investigated to evaluate the effect of grain size for Alloy 617. The grain size of grain-refined Alloy 617 (GR617) was reduced to $5{\mu}m$ from $71{\mu}m$ for as-received Alloy 617 (AR617) by recrystallization after cold rolling. After high temperature aging, the oxide layers of AR617 and GR617 consisted of $Cr_2O_3$ external oxide scale and $Al_2O_3$ internal oxide. The external oxide scale resulted in a Cr-depleted zone and a carbide free zone below the scale. The depth of the carbide free zone was deeply formed in GR617. On the other hand, the depth of the internal oxide layer in GR617 was shorter than that in AR617. After a 3-point bending test, crack propagation of GR617 was more restricted than that of AR617 because of the different microstructure of the internal oxide.

Air Handling Unit Utilizing Water/Air Direct Contact Heat Exchanger with Mesh (공기조화기내 메쉬삽입 물-공기 직접접촉의 열전달 특성 연구)

  • Jeon, Yong-Han;Kim, Jong-Yoon;Kim, Nam-Jin;Seo, Tae-Boem;Kim, Chong-Bo
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.75-80
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    • 2008
  • The objective of this research was to investigate the enhancement of heat transfer by mesh in water/air direct contact air conditioning system. Mesh is inserted as a turbulent promoter in front of the water injection nozzle. The heat transfer characteristics with and without mesh and the effect of the number of inserted mesh and mesh porosity size have been studied experimentally. Inserted mesh improves heat transfer efficiency compared to non~inserted mesh system and heat transfer efficiency increased as the number of mesh is increased. Meanwhile, heat transfer efficiency decreased as the porosity of the mesh is increased. With inserted mesh, inlet and outlet temperature difference of air increased more than 50%. Heat exchange time of water/air to reach the 100% humidity decreased less than 30%. This result shows inserted mesh can enhance the performance of the water/air direct contact air conditioning system.

Decomposition Analysis of CO2 Emissions of the Electricity Generation Sector in Korea using a Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index Method (전력산업의 온실가스 배출요인 분석 및 감축 방안 연구)

  • Cho, Yongsung
    • Journal of Climate Change Research
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.357-367
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    • 2017
  • Electricity generation in Korea mainly depends on thermal power and nuclear power. Especially the coal power has led to the increase in $CO_2$ emissions. This paper intends to analyze the current status of $CO_2$ emissions from electricity generation in Korea during the period 1990~2016, and apply the logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) technique to find the nature of the factors influencing the changes in $CO_2$ emissions. The main results as follows: first, $CO_2$ emission from electricity generation has increased by $165.9MtCO_2$ during the period of analysis. Coal products is the main fuel type for thermal power generation, which accounts about 73% $CO_2$ emissions from electricity generation. Secondly, the increase of real GDP is the most important contributor to increase $CO_2$ emissions from electricity generation. The carbon intensity and the electricity intensity also affected the increase in $CO_2$ emission, but the energy intensity effect and the dependency of thermal power effect play the dominant role in decreasing $CO_2$ emissions.

Molecular dynamics simulation of short peptide in DPC micelle using explicit water solvent parameters

  • Kim, Ji-Hun;Yi, Jong-Jae;Won, Hyung-Sik;Son, Woo Sung
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetic Resonance Society
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.139-143
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    • 2018
  • Short antimicrobial peptide, A4W, have been studied by molecular dynamics (MD) simulation in an explicit dodecylphosphocholine (DPC) micelle. Peptide was aligned with DPC micelle and transferred new peptide-micelle coordinates within the same solvent box using specific micelle topology parameters. After initial energy minimization and equilibration, the conformation and orientation of the peptide were analyzed from trajectories obtained from the RMD (restrained molecular dynamics) or the subsequent free MD. Also, the information of solvation in the backbone and the side chain of the peptide, hydrogen bonding, and the properties of the dynamics were obtained. The results showed that the backbone residues of peptide are either solvated using water or in other case, they relate to hydrogen bonding. These properties could be a critical factor against the insertion mode of interaction. Most of the peptide-micelle interactions come from the hydrophobic interaction between the side chains of peptide and the structural interior of micelle system. The interaction of peptide-micelle, electrostatic potential and hydrogen bonding, between the terminal residues of peptide and the headgroups in micelle were observed. These interactions could be effect on the structure and flexibility of the peptide terminus.

Performance evaluation and hysteretic modeling of low rise reinforced concrete shear walls

  • Nagender, T.;Parulekar, Y.M.;Rao, G. Appa
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.41-54
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    • 2019
  • Reinforced Concrete (RC) shear walls are widely used in Nuclear power plants as effective lateral force resisting elements of the structure and these may experience nonlinear behavior for higher earthquake demand. Short shear walls of aspect ratio less than 1.5 generally experience combined shear flexure interaction. This paper presents the results of the displacement-controlled experiments performed on six RC short shear walls with varying aspect ratios (1, 1.25 and 1.5) for monotonic and reversed quasi-static cyclic loading. Simulation of the shear walls is then carried out by Finite element modeling and also by macro modeling considering the coupled shear and flexure behaviour. The shear response is estimated by softened truss theory using the concrete model given by Vecchio and Collins (1994) with a modification in softening part of the model and flexure response is estimated using moment curvature relationship. The accuracy of modeling is validated by comparing the simulated response with experimental one. Moreover, based on the experimental work a multi-linear hysteretic model is proposed for short shear walls. Finally ultimate load, drift, ductility, stiffness reduction and failure pattern of the shear walls are studied in details and hysteretic energy dissipation along with damage index are evaluated.