• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.185-190
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• 1998

$PM_{10}$ concentrations were measured In underground stores located In 4 major cities, Chunchon, Wonju, Donghae and Sockcho, In Kangwon-Do using scattering light Integated type digital dust indicator. Per- sonal exposure to $PM_{10}$ for two women(housekeeper and gaduate students and a man(undergraduate student) were measured also. The dimensional conversion factors for mass concentrations(K) showed some difference among un- derground stores which were 2.0, 2.7, 3.4, 2.6 mg/$m^2$.CPM In chunchon, Wonju, Donghae and Sockcho, respectively. Average PMlo concentrations at underground stores were 178mg/$m^2$ in Chunchon, 141mg$m^2$ in Wonju, 125 mg/$m^2$ Donghe and 59mg/$m^2$) Sockcho. The portion of $PM_{10}$ In total suspended particles was about 50~60% as deight The exposure of graduate student, housekeeper and undergraduate to $PM_{10}$ during 12 hours were 1004. 3 (mg/$m^2$) .hr, 907.0 (mg/$m^2$) hr and 691.2 (mg/$m^2$) hr, respectively. Personal exposure to $PM_{10}$ showed very different according to heP activity pattern and they had more than 90 % of their $PM_{10}$ exposure at Indoor environment.

• 한국조경학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.137-147
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• 1995

This research is a preliminary study to improve the criteria of youth facilities which regulated in Youth Fundamental Act, with the method of Importance-Performance Analysis on youth facilities management. Evaluation inquiry had been made, and were collected from the youth facility managers who attended The Korean Youth Facility Managers' Seminar held on 24th Nov. 1994 at Pakdaljae Youth Center. The results are as follows; 1. Keep Up the Good Work : indoor facilities in community area, and outdoor facilities and accommodations in natural area are resulted in high in Importance and. Performance. They need to be operated constantly. 2. Concentrate Here : Counselling room, hobby room and outdoor meeting places in community area, and care room in natural area are perceived high in Importance but low in Performance. They need to provide proper leaders and equipment. 3. Low Priority : Care room, forest and outdoor facilities in community area, arid forest and folk playground in natural area are low in both Importance and Performance. So, it is considered that they are not necessary ones in both areas, but some outdoor facilities are so essential in natural area that they need to be provided properly. 4 Possible Overkill : Courtyard and library in community area, and outdoor facilities in natural area are low in Importance but high in Performance. They need to improve their importance through the development of applicable activity programs.

• KIEAE Journal
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.59-64
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• 2007

Using air conditioner has been increased in home or office buildings in summer. Also various problems related to air conditioning such as disease induction happened by using air conditioner excessively and operating long. Active operation control is needed for occupant's health when air conditioner operates long. We should think ahead to acquire thermal comfort of occupants which represents psychological and physiological reaction for this operation. Research has been progressed to observe activity of autonomic nervous system by trying to quantitate change of thermal comfort. In this study, questions of the subject and change of body's autonomic nervous system were chosen to evaluate thermal comfort during operation of air conditioner for a long time. Electrocardiogram and questions of the subject which is the progress of changing TSV and CSV by occupants indoor were measured when room air conditioner is operated for a long time, and an air-conditioned adaptability of human body was evaluated by acquiring the change rate of autonomic nervous system through analyzing HRV. As a result of the evaluation, change rate of body's autonomic nervous system corresponded to votes of the subject's question generally, but was distinguished from analysis result of warm-cold sensation in a low temperature area.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.125-136
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• 2012

In most child-care facilities, homeroom teachers take the responsibilities for safety education, which has been conducted in class hours on a regular basis. It was found that most homeroom teachers are lacking in teacher training opportunities, and the younger they are, the less training experience they get. Teachers with fewer teaching careers had a greater interest in safety education and training courses. In addition, homeroom teachers have been utilizing monthly toddler magazines as a method to acquire knowledges for safety education and prevention of safety accidents. The safety accidents which have most frequently occurred in care-care facilities turned out to be stumble and tear, and infants aged 3 years or younger were found to be easily exposed to the safety accidents mainly due to the frolic between peers during the free-choice activity time. The homeroom teachers recognized only traffic safety education among the range of safety training courses, which varied depending on teaching career such as traffic safety education and indoor/outdoor safety environment training, etc. In addition, it turned out that the safety training methods were limited to the utilization of discussion techniques, role-playing, description and demonstration.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.45-55
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• 2021

In this study, the odor of the parts and the odor of the surrounding environment were classified and verified. In order to increase the reliability of odor quantitative/qualitative analysis, the selection criteria for 5 sensory evaluators were established, and the n-Butanol control solution for each odor intensity was periodically trained to recognize the odor intensity before sensory evaluation. In addition, although various odor thresholds have been used through several studies, verification of whether the odor intensity value obtained through GC/MSD analysis is similar to the degree to which a person directly smells and feels it. It is important to select the odor threshold that has the best correlation with the odor intensity calculated by the person smelling the odor. Finally, sampling and measuring flowing airflow and temporary odors such as odor component analysis was experimentally difficult due to limited collection space and differences in concentration of generated components. In this study, a quantitative analysis was made possible by using the low temperature concentration (cooling) trap method. Through this, it was confirmed that the correlation with the actual odor intensity was not caused by the product itself, but by the environmental factor discharged from the product after creating the odor environment.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.104-114
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• 2021

Petroleum-contaminated soil is considered among the most important potential anthropogenic atmospheric methane sources. Additionally, various rhizoremediation factors can affect methane emissions by altering soil ecosystem carbon cycles. Nonetheless, greenhouse gas emissions from soil have not been given due importance as a potentially relevant parameter in rhizoremediation techniques. Therefore, in this study we sought to investigate the effects of different plant and soil amendments on both remediation efficiencies and methane emission characteristics in diesel-contaminated soil. An indoor pot experiment consisting of three plant treatments (control, maize, tall fescue) and two soil amendments (chemical nutrient, compost) was performed for 95 days. Total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) removal efficiency, dehydrogenase activity, and alkB (i.e., an alkane compound-degrading enzyme) gene abundance were the highest in the tall fescue and maize soil system amended with compost. Compost addition enhanced both the overall remediation efficiencies, as well as pmoA (i.e., a methane-oxidizing enzyme) gene abundance in soils. Moreover, the potential methane emission of diesel-contaminated soil was relatively low when maize was introduced to the soil system. After microbial community analysis, various TPH-degrading microorganisms (Nocardioides, Marinobacter, Immitisolibacter, Acinetobacter, Kocuria, Mycobacterium, Pseudomonas, Alcanivorax) and methane-oxidizing microorganisms (Methylocapsa, Methylosarcina) were observed in the rhizosphere soil. The effects of major rhizoremediation factors on soil remediation efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions discussed herein are expected to contribute to the development of sustainable biological remediation technologies in response to global climate change.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.440-456
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• 2019

본 연구는 미세먼지에 대한 야외활동의 위험인식의 논란에 따른 미세먼지 우려의 본질을 파악해보고자 미세먼지의 노출로 건강에 영향을 많이 받는 자전거 커뮤니티를 대상으로 카페글과 댓글을 수집하여 분석하였다. 그 결과 첫째, 정부에서 주도한 미세먼지 정책은 매 시기별로 견고해지고, 세분화되고 있었지만 자전거 커뮤니티 내에서의 미세먼지 위험인식은 시간흐름에 따라 논의가 활성화되고, 심각해지고 있었다. 둘째, 미세먼지 우려로 인한 야외활동 인식변화를 분석한 결과 자전거 커뮤니티 회원들은 날씨 변수보다 미세먼지 등급에 따라 야외활동 여부가 달라지는 양상을 보였다. 또한 국내 미세먼지 수치나 마스크 성능에 대한 불신과 맞물리면서 일상생활과 건강에 심각한 위협을 주는 공포의 대상으로 변화되고 있었다. 궁극적으로 이러한 미세먼지 위험인식은 주로 야외에서 즐겼던 자전거활동 일부를 실내공간으로 이동하게 하였다. 하지만 경관, 사람, 날씨 등 야외에서 다양한 요소들을 누리며 즐겼던 자전거활동에 비해 단조로운 실내 자전거운동은 헬스, 요가 등의 다른 실내운동 유형으로 전환되고 있었다. 종합적으로 살펴보면 미세먼지에 대한 자전거 이용객의 위험인식이나 야외 자전거활동의 인식변화는 정부나 지자체 등에서 제공하는 미세먼지 농도수치의 정확성, 중국영향, 국내 어플리케이션 신뢰성, 마스크 성능, 미세먼지 농도 제시방법(숫자제시형, 점적 데이터 제공) 등 정책 불신과 검증되지 않는 과도한 정보 오류로 인한 논란이 가장 큰 역할을 하고 있는 것으로 도출되었다. 따라서 모든 계층을 아우르는 종합적 사회방안이나 정부주도형 미세먼지 정책을 제시하기보다 자전거 이용객들의 눈높이에서 미세먼지로 인한 건강상의 위험을 인지하는 것이 필요하다. 또한 총체적 유기적으로 미세먼지를 인식하도록 돕는 체감형 위험 커뮤니케이션이나 교육 및 홍보과정이 선행되어야 하고, 단계별 토의를 통한 사회적 합의와 함께 향후 야외활동 유형별로 세분화된 체계적 연구가 추진되어야할 것으로 판단된다. 이에 따라 본 연구는 정부와 지자체, 언론, 국민들의 효과적인 커뮤니케이션 방향 모색을 위한 학술적 근거로 제공될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.115-125
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• 2000

Three major hospitals with over 500 beds located in and near Seoul were surveyed for airbone microorganisms from February 1, 1998 to February 18, 1998. The purpose of the study was to identify and quantify microbiological organisms circulating in the air of three different areas in the hospitals. For the study, a RCS air sampler was utilized equipped with two different collection media, the agar strip GK-A for bacteria and the agar strip HS for fungi. The areas investigated were the intensive care unit (ICU) in the Department of internal medicine, the Newborns room in the Department of Obstetrics, and the microbiology laboratory. The results were as follows; 1. The average numbers of general microbiological particles collected on the agar strip GK-A media were $205CFU/m^3$, $232CFU/m^3$, and $128CFU/m^3$ in each hospitals. The highest concentration of $387CFU/m^3$ was found in the ICU of A hospital at 15:00 during the day. Further analysis of the collected bioaerosols by gram staining, revealed that there were gram positive cocci (89.5%), gram positive bacilli (7.2%), gram negative bacilli (2.8%), and fungi (0.5%), in descending order of frequency. 2. Ten different genes were identified from the agar strip GK-A. The most frequently identified organisms were: the Coagulase negative staphylococcus (55.0%), Micrococcus (21.4%), Enterococcus species(10.4%), and Bacillus species (7.2%). A series of antibiotics susceptibility test were conducted against the aforementioned four(4) organisms. Ninety percent of coagulase negative stapylococcus were sensitive to Penicillins. Pathogenic microbes isolated include: Staphylococcus aureus, Acinetobacter species, Klebsiella pneumonia, Klebsiella oxytoca, and Pseudomonas aeroginosa. 3 Although 56.8% of the microorganisms grown on the strip HS media for fungi could not be identified, some of them were successfully identified. The most frequently found fungi were Aspergillus (35.3%), Yeast or Molds (6.2%), and Penicillium (0.7%). Based on the results obtained from the study, it was concluded that some areas in the hospitals had abnormally high bioaerosol concentrations which could be attributed to human activity. Therefore, it is recommended that periodic assessments of indoor bioaerosols aiming to identify the possible sources should be conducted in order to maintain clean indoor environment in the hospitals.

• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.147-158
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• 2016

Objectives: The objective of this study was to evaluate the assessment of exposure to welding fume and heavy metals among construction welders. Methods: Activity-specific personal air samplings(n=206) were carried out at construction sites of three apartment, two office buildings, and two plant buildings using PVC(poly vinyl chloride) filters with personal air samplers. The concentration of fumes and heavy metals were evaluated for five different types of construction welding jobs: general building pipefitter, chemical plant pipefitter, boiler maker, ironworker, metal finishing welder. Results: The concentration of welding fumes was highest among general building pipefitters($4.753mg/m^3$) followed by ironworkers($3.765mg/m^3$), boilermakers($1.384mg/m^3$), metal finishing welders($0.783mg/m^3$), chemical pipefitters($0.710mg/m^3$). Among the different types of welding methods, the concentration of welding fumes was highest with the $CO_2$ welding method($2.08mg/m^3$) followed by SMAW(shield metal arc welding, $1.54mg/m^3$) and TIG(tungsten inert gas, $0.70mg/m^3$). Among the different types of workplace, the concentration of welding fumes was highest in underground workplaces($1.97mg/m^3$) followed by outdoor($0.93mg/m^3$) and indoor(wall opening as $0.87mg/m^3$). Specifically comparing the workplaces of general building welders, the concentration of welding fumes was highest in underground workplaces($7.75mg/m^3$) followed by indoor(wall opening as $2.15mg/m^3$). Conclusions: It was found that construction welders experience a risk of expose to welding hazards at a level exceeding the exposure limits. In particular, for high-risk welding jobs such as general building pipefitters and ironworkers, underground welding work and $CO_2$ welding operations require special occupational health management regarding the use of air supply and exhaust equipment and special safety and health education and fume mask are necessary. In addition, there is a need to establish construction work monitoring systems, health planning and management practices.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.19-26
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• 1995

1991년 1월부터 12월까지 여수의 돌산도 및 속초 지역을 중심으로 말레이사상충증 매개종인 토고숲모기의 발생밀도 및 흡혈, 휴식습성을 조사하였다. 여수지역에서 조사한 성충의 계절적 발생 소장을 보면 4월 첫주부터 출현하기 시작하여 11월말까지 계속 발생하였으며 7월에 171개체가 채집되어 발생 밀도가 가장 높았다. 유충의 발생 밀도를 보면 속초는 3월부터 12월까지 발생하였으며 7월(1068.0개체)과 8월(1093.2개체)에 가장 많이 발생하였다. 여수지역은 1월부터 12 월까지 계속 발생하였으며 6월에는 932개체가 채집되어 발생밀도가 가장 높았고 동절기(12월, 1월, 2월)에는 번데기가 발견되지 않아 번데기로는 월동을 하지 않는 것으로 관찰되었다. 두 지역에서 각각 전체 유충수의 45.7%와 51.7%가 0.5% 이하의 낮은 열도에서 서식하였다. 성충의 흡혈 활동이 활발한 시간은 01.00-03.00시였으며 장소는 옥내 대 옥외 비가 1:0.8로 옥내 흡혈비율이 약간 높았다. $CO_2$에 유인 효과는 중국얼룩날개모기가 117개체가 유인된 것에 비해 토고숲모기는 8.5개체가 유인되어 $CO_2$에 유인성이 적은 것으로 관찰되었다. 주간에 옥내 휴식하는 모기는 침실이 가장 많은 54.5%로 주휴식처였으며 헛간이 18 2% 마루와 부엌이 각각 9.1%가 채집되었다.