• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.38-42
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• 2016

Background: Truck driving is known as one of the occupations with the highest accident rate. This study investigates the characteristics of traffic collisions according to road types (expressway and rural road). Methods: Classifying 267 accidents into expressway and rural road, we analyzed them based on driver characteristics (age, working experience, size of employment), time characteristics (day of accident, time, weather), and accident characteristics (accident causes, accident locations, accident types, driving conditions). Results: When we compared the accidents by road conditions, no differences were found between the driver characteristics. However, from the accident characteristics, the injured person distributions were different by the road conditions. In particular, driving while drowsy is shown to be highly related with the accident characteristics. Conclusion: This study can be used as a guideline and a base line to develop a plan of action to prevent traffic accidents. It can also help to prepare formal regulations about a truck driver's vehicle maintenance and driving attitude for a precaution on road accidents.

• 한국농림기상학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.44-54
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• 2001

본 연구는 천연 활엽수로 이루어진 가리왕산 지역에 대하여 활엽수림의 생장 특성을 구명하고, 지역별 미기후 조건을 지형-기후 관계식의 개발을 통한 지형기후학적 방법에 의하여 추정함으로써 환경요인으로서 지역별 기후 조건이 조사 대상지의 임목 생장에 미치는 영향을 파악하고자 한다. 입지 유형별 임분 현황을 보면 해발고도 700 m 이상의 입지 조건에서는 상대적으로 양호한 임상을 유지하고 있으나, 700m 미만에서는 비교적 불량한 것으로 파악되었다. 임분밀도를 나타내는 ha당 본수의 경우에는 입지유형별로 특징적인 차이를 찾을 수 없었으며, ha당 흉고단면적을 보면 본수분포와는 다소 다른 경향을 보이고 있다. 해발고도에 따른 평균 흉고직경은 고도가 높을수록 크지만 평균 수고의 경우에는 해발고도 700∼1,000 m의 범위가 가장 우수한 것으로 나타났다. 입지유형별 ha당 재적으로 보면 해발고도 700∼l,000 m에서 가장 양호한 분포를 나타내고 있었다. 입지 유형별 천연 활엽수림의 흉고직경의 정기평균 생장량을 해발고도별로 비교해 보면 해발고도 700 m 미만인 지역이 생장이 양호한 것으로 나타났으며, 고도가 높아짐에 따라 생장이 저조한 경향을 보이고 있다. 5년 간의 흉고직경 정기평균 생장량은 건조지수와 월 평균 상대습도, 그리고 생장기간(4∼10월)동안의 상대습도 평균값과 양의 상관관계를 가지고 있는 것으로 나타났으며, 온량지수와는 음의 상관관계가 인정되었다. 흉고직경의 정기평균 생장량의 차이가 어떤 기후 변수에 의하여 영향을 받는지를 알아보기 위하여 회귀분석을 실시한 결과는 건조지수와 생장기간동안의 월 평균 상대습도에 의하여 입지유형별 직경생장량을 추정할 수 있는 것으로 파악되었다. 하지만 생장에 영향을 미치는 환경요인은 기후인자 외에 지형 및 토양특성 등 많은 다른 요인이 복합적으로 작용한다. 또한 다양한 수종이 동일한 공간에 존재하는 천연 활엽수림은 임목의 크기와 임령이 다양하기 때문에 이에 따른 임목간의 경쟁이 생장에 영향을 미치는 것이 사실이다. 따라서 앞으로의 연구에서는 지형, 토양, 미기후 조건, 그리고 임목 간의 경쟁관계가 종합적으로 고려된 환경요인에 의한 생장특성을 파악하는 연구가 필요하다. 아울러 본 연구에서와 같이 지형기후학적 방법에 의하여 추정된 미기후를 통하여 보다 정확한 결과를 얻기 위해서는 무인자동기상관측 망의 설치를 통하여 이를 검증하는 작업이 필요하다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.443-451
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• 2013

Spring rainfall events were comprehensively analyzed based on the distribution of precipitation amount and the related synoptic weather between 2008~2012. Forty-eight cases are selected among the rain events of the entire country, and each distribution of the 24-hour accumulated precipitation amount is classified into three types: evenly distributed rain(Type 1), more rain in the southern area and south coast region (Type 2), and more rain in the central region (Type 3), respectively. Type 1 constitutes the largest part(35 cases, 72.9%) with mean precipitation amount of 19.4 mm, and the 17 cases of Type 1 are observed in March. Although Type B and C constitutes small parts (11 cases, 22.9% and 2 cases, 4.2%), respectively. The precipitation amount of these types is greater than 34.5 mm and occurred usually in April. The main synoptic weather patterns affecting precipitation distribution are classified into five patterns according to the pathway of low pressures. The most influential pattern is type 4, and this usually occurs in March, April, and May (Low pressures from the north and the ones from the west and south consecutively affect South Korea, 37.5%). The pattern 3(Low pressures from the south affect South Korea, 25%) happens mostly in April, and the average precipitation is usually greater than 30 mm. This value is relatively higher than the values in any other patterns.

• 한국생물환경조절학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물환경조절학회 1996년도 국제심포지움 21세기 첨단식물생산시스템의 실용화
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• pp.1-10
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• 1996

Factory-style plant production systems of various kinds are the final goal of greenhouse production systems. These systems facilitate planning for constant productivity per unit area and labor under various outside weather conditions, although energy consumption is intensive. Physical environmental control in combination with biological control can replace the use of agricultural chemicals such as insecticides, herbicides and hormones to regulate plants. In this way, closed systems which do not use such agricultural chemicals are ideal for environmental conservation for the future. Nutrient components in plants can be regulafied by physical environmental control including nutrient solution control in hydroponics. Therefore, specific contents of nutrients for particular plants can be listed on the container and be used as the basis of customer choice in the future. Plant production systems can be classified into three types based on the type of lighting: natural lighting, supplemental lighting and completely artificial lighting (Plant Factory). The amount of energy consumption increases in this order, although the degree of weather effects is in the reverse order. In the addition to lighting, factory-style plant production systems consist of mechanized and automated systems for transplanting, environmental control, hydroponics, transporting within the facility, and harvesting. Space farming and development of pharmaceutical in bio-reactors are other applications of these types of plant production systems. Various kinds of state-of-art factory-style plant production systems are discussed in the present paper. These systems are, in general, rather sophisticated and mechaized, and energy consumption is intensive. Factory-style plant production is the final goal of greenhouse production systems and the possibilities for the future are infinte but not clear.

• KIEAE Journal
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.203-210
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• 2004

This dissertation identifies and investigates the possible control modes of hybrid ventilation system in applying to general apartments. It evaluates range of hybrid ventilation control modes in terms of indoor air quality, thermal comfort, and energy consumption in a living room and a kitchen of the $1000m^2$ apartment. The TRNSYS simulation program was used for evaluating the following four ventilation types : A ventilation mode relying on only infiltration for supplying air, A natural ventilation mode considering with weather condition, A hybrid ventilation (natural + mechanical ventilation) mode allowing minimum ventilation with no heat exchange, and a hybrid ventilation mode with heat exchange. This study shows the following results. As temperature being controlled by heating cooling equipments, there is without significant difference in thermal performance among ventilation types. Regarding Indoor Air quality, Indoor air contamination level of the hybrid ventilation case consistently keep the lower levels. The hybrid ventilation modes consume more energy by a 49% as compared to the A ventilation mode relying on only infiltration for supplying air. It is caused by the continuous ventilation for keeping good indoor air quality; the increase of energy consumption can be attributable to the increase of the heating energy. Therefore, the heat exchange between indoor and outdoor air is required during heating season in severe weather conditions. During the cooling seasons, Introducing natural ventilation can achieve energy saving by 40 ~ 45%. Thus, it can be an effective strategies for energy saving. Based on these results, a hybrid ventilation system can be suggested as an effective ventilation strategy for archiving high level of indoor air quality, thermal comfort, and energy consumption.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.107-125
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• 2016

Long-term variations of $PM_{10}$ and the characteristics of local meteorology related to its concentration changes were analyzed at 4 air quality sites (Ido-dong, Yeon-dong, Donghong-dong, and Gosan) in Jeju during two different periods, such as PI (2001-2006) and PII (2007-2013), over a 13-year period. Overall, the long-term trend of $PM_{10}$ was very slightly downward during the whole study period, while the high $PM_{10}$ concentrations in PII were observed more frequently than those in PI. The concentration variations of $PM_{10}$ during the study period was clarified in correlation between $PM_{10}$ and meteorological variables, e.g. the low (high) $PM_{10}$ concentration with large (small) precipitation or high (low) radiation and in part high $PM_{10}$ concentrations (especially, Donghong-dong and Gosan) with strong wind speed and the westerly/northwesterly winds. This was likely to be caused by the transport effect (from the polluted regions of China) rather than the contribution of local emission sources. The $PM_{10}$ concentrations in "Asian dust" and "Haze" weather types were higher, whereas those in "Precipitation", "Fog", and "Thunder and Lighting" weather types were lower. The contribution of long-range transport to the observed $PM_{10}$ levels in the urban center (Ido-dong, Yeon-dong, and Donghong-dong), if estimated by comparison to the data of the background site (Gosan), was found to explain about 80% (on average) of its input.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.33-38
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 국내 가스사고의 발생 환경을 분석하여 가스사고의 재발을 방지하고자 가스 사고를 유형별로 분석하였다. 가스사고는 지속적으로 발생하고 있고, 사고의 내용에서도 시기별, 날씨 등에 따라 가스사용 형태가 변하고 있어서 가스의 사용환경과 가스사고는 밀접한 관계가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 가스사고를 평균기온, 최고기온, 최저기온, 상대습도, 운량, 강수량 및 풍속의 7가지 기상요소별로 분석해 본 결과, 기온과 상대습도 등에 따라 영향을 받고 있은 것으로 나타났으며, 맑은 날, 풍속은 낮을 때 가스사고 발생빈도가 많았다. 가스사고 예측을 위하여 제시된 모델식을 활용하여 기상청의 일기예보 시스템과 연계하여 가스사고 발생 가능성을 실시간으로 제공하고, 회사의 업무시스템과 연계시켜 실시간으로 확인이 가능하도록 하여 가스사고 예방활동에 적극 활용할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제27권10호
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• pp.1436-1442
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• 2014

Preservation of forage crops as silage offers opportunity to avoid the high risk of rain-damaged hay in the humid south-central USA. Recent developments with baled silage or baleage make silage a less expensive option than typical chopped silage. Silage has been important in the region primarily for dairy production, but baleage has become an option for the more extensive beef cattle industry in the region. Silage samples submitted to the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center Forage Quality Lab from 2006 through 2013 were assessed for dry matter (DM) and forage nutritive characteristics of chopped silage and baleage of the different forage types from commercial farms primarily in Louisiana and Mississippi. Of the 1,308 silage samples submitted, 1,065 were annual ryegrass (AR) with small grains (SG), the warm-season annual (WA) grasses, sorghums and pearl millet, and the warm-season perennial (WP) grasses, bermudagrass and bahiagrass, providing the remaining samples. Concentration of DM was used to indicate an effective ensiling opportunity, and AR silage was more frequently within the target DM range than was the WA forage group. The AR samples also indicated a high-quality forage with average crude protein (CP) of 130 g/kg and total digestible nutrient (TDN) near 600 g/kg. The cooler winter weather at harvest apparently complicated harvest of SG silage with chopped SG silage lower in both CP and TDN (104 and 553 g/kg, respectively) than either AR silage or baleage of SG (137 and 624 g/kg for CP and TDN, respectively). The hot, humid summer weather along with large stems and large forage quantities of the WA grasses and the inherently higher fiber concentration of WP grasses at harvest stage indicate that preservation of these forage types as silage will be challenging, although successful commercial silage samples of each forage type and preservation approach were included among samples of silages produced in the region.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.73-86
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• 2003

In this study, we performed 8 times of water quality sampling and continuous measurement of flow to identify wastewater flow characteristics for wastewater treatment basins of Namyangju city. The field survey has been conducted 6 times in dry weather period and 2 times in wet weather period. Each survey conducted 24-hr water quality sampling in the interval of 2-hr. From the analysis of flow data and water quality data, the following conclusions can be drawn. For Namyangju-1 station, which represents residential and commercial mixed area, flow rises early in the morning before office-going hour and moves up and down within narrow range, and lasted after office-leaving hour, resulting from continuous commercial activity. In case of Namyangju-5 station representing community and Namyangju- 6 station representing residential area, the flow immediately falls down after rising early in the morning and later rises again at the office-leaving hour, and arrives at peak flows around late evening. In the analysis of wastewater characteristics for weekdays and weekends, without landuse types the flow rate of weekends is higher than that of weekdays because it reflects population, being not contributed to generate wastewater during the working hours of weekdays, stay home and produce wastewater for weekends period.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2022년도 학술발표회
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• pp.334-334
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• 2022

Improvement of old-fashioned rain gauge systems for automatic, timely, continuous, and accurate precipitation observation is highly essential for weather/climate prediction and natural hazards early warning, since the occurrence frequency and intensity of heavy and extreme precipitation events (especially floods) are recently getting more increase and severe worldwide due to climate change. Although rain gauge accuracy of 0.1 mm is recommended by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the traditional rain gauges in both weighting and tipping bucket types are often unable to meet that demand due to several existing technical limitations together with higher production and maintenance costs. Therefore, we aim to introduce a newly developed and cost-effective hybrid rain gauge system at 0.1 mm accuracy that combines advantages of weighting and tipping bucket types for continuous, automatic, and accurate precipitation observation, where the errors from long-term load cells and external environmental sources (e.g., winds) can be removed via an automatic drainage system and artificial intelligence-based data quality control procedure. Our rain gauge system consists of an instrument unit for measuring precipitation, a communication unit for transmitting and receiving measured precipitation signals, and a database unit for storing, processing, and analyzing precipitation data. This newly developed rain gauge was designed according to the weather instrument criteria, where precipitation amounts filled into the tipping bucket are measured considering the receiver's diameter, the maximum measurement of precipitation, drainage time, and the conductivity marking. Moreover, it is also designed to transmit the measured precipitation data stored in the PCB through RS232, RS485, and TCP/IP, together with connecting to the data logger to enable data collection and analysis based on user needs. Preliminary results from a comparison with an existing 1.0-mm tipping bucket rain gauge indicated that our developed rain gauge has an excellent performance in continuous precipitation observation with higher measurement accuracy, more correct precipitation days observed (120 days), and a lower error of roughly 27 mm occurred during the measurement period.