• Advances in Energy Research
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.75-90
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• 2019

Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are rising rapidly despite efforts to curb release of such gases. One long term potential solution to offset these destructive emissions is the capture and storage of carbon dioxide. Partially depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs are attractive targets for permanent carbon dioxide disposal due to proven storage capacity and seal integrity, existing infrastructure. Optimum well completion design in depleted reservoirs requires understanding of prominent geomechanics issues with regard to rock-fluid interaction effects. Geomechanics plays a crucial role in the selection, design and operation of a storage facility and can improve the engineering performance, maintain safety and minimize environmental impact. In this paper, an integrated geomechanics workflow to evaluate reservoir caprock integrity is presented. This method integrates a reservoir simulation that typically computes variation in the reservoir pressure and temperature with geomechanical simulation which calculates variation in stresses. Coupling between these simulation modules is performed iteratively which in each simulation cycle, time dependent reservoir pressure and temperature obtained from three dimensional compositional reservoir models in ECLIPSE were transferred into finite element reservoir geomechanical models in ABAQUS and new porosity and permeability are obtained using volumetric strains for the next analysis step. Finally, efficiency of this approach is demonstrated through a case study of oil production and subsequent carbon storage in an oil reservoir. The methodology and overall workflow presented in this paper are expected to assist engineers with geomechanical assessments for reservoir optimum production and gas injection design for both natural gas and carbon dioxide storage in depleted reservoirs.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.333-344
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• 2019

Various genetic and environmental factors are known to be associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We identified COPD-related differentially expressed genes (DEGs) using 189 samples accompanying either adenocarcinoma (AC) or squamous cell carcinoma (SC), comprising 91 normal and 98 COPD samples. DEGs were obtained from the intersection of two DEG sets separately identified for AC and SC to exclude the influence of different cancer backgrounds co-occurring with COPD. We also measured patient samples named group 'I', which were unable to be determined as normal or COPD based on alterations in gene expression. The Gene Ontology (GO) analysis revealed significant alterations in the expression of genes categorized with the 'cell adhesion', 'inflammatory response', and 'mitochondrial functions', i.e., well-known functions related to COPD, in samples from patients with COPD. Multi-omics data were subsequently integrated to decipher the upstream regulatory changes linked to the gene expression alterations in COPD. COPD-associated expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) were located at the upstream regulatory regions of 96 DEGs. Additionally, 45 previously identified COPD-related miRNAs were predicted to target 66 of the DEGs. The eQTLs and miRNAs might affect the expression of 'respiratory electron transport chain' genes and 'cell proliferation' genes, respectively, while both eQTLs and miRNAs might affect the expression of 'apoptosis' genes. We think that our present study will contribute to our understanding of the molecular etiology of COPD accompanying lung cancer.

• Advances in concrete construction
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.151-166
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• 2019

This paper introduces a new efficient analytical method, based on shear deformations obtained with 2D elasticity theory approach, to perform an explicit closed-form solution for calculation the interfacial shear and normal stresses in plated RC beam. The materials of plate, necessary for the reinforcement of the beam, are in general made with fiber reinforced polymers (Carbon or Glass) or steel. The experimental tests showed that at the ends of the plate, high shear and normal stresses are developed, consequently a debonding phenomenon at this position produce a sudden failure of the soffit plate. The interfacial stresses play a significant role in understanding this premature debonding failure of such repaired structures. In order to efficiently model the calculation of the interfacial stresses we have integrated the effect of shear deformations using the equilibrium equations of the elasticity. The approach of this method includes stress-strain and strain-displacement relationships for the adhesive and adherends. The use of the stresses continuity conditions at interfaces between the adhesive and adherents, results pair of second-order and fourth-order coupled ordinary differential equations. The analytical solution for this coupled differential equations give new explicit closed-form solution including shear deformations effects. This new solution is indented for applications of all plated beam. Finally, numerical results obtained with this method are in agreement of the existing solutions and the experimental results.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제21권10호
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• pp.656-667
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• 2021

본 연구의 목적은 신규간호사의 극복력에 대한 경험을 확인하고 그 의미를 심층적으로 이해하기 위함이다. 연구대상자는 상급종합병원에 근무하는 12개월 미만의 신규간호사 9명이었으며, 반구조화된 심층 인터뷰 자료를 이용한 현상학적 연구방법을 적용한 질적연구이다. 자료분석은 Colaizzi의 방법에 근거하여 이루어졌다. 신규간호사의 극복력 경험을 분석한 결과 의미 있는 진술은 총 86개이었으며, 이로부터 13개의 주제가 도출되었으며, 4개의 주제모음으로 통합되었다. 도출된 4개의 주제모음은 '부족함을 인정하고 자기개발하기', '참고견뎌보기', '주변인들의 지지', '환기하고 승화하기' 이었다. 이에 신규간호사의 극복력을 이해하고 강화하여 간호전문성을 향상시키고 업무스트레스를 감소시켜 신규간호사의 이직률을 줄이는데 기초자료로 활용될 것이다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제78권2호
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• pp.163-174
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• 2021

Track-bridge interaction has become an essential part in the design of bridges and rails in terms of modern railways. As a unique ballastless slab track, the longitudinal continuous slab track (LCST) or referred to as the China railway track system Type-II (CRTS II) slab track, demonstrates a complex force mechanism. Therefore, a comprehensive track-bridge interaction study between multi-span simply supported beam bridges and the LCST is presented in this work. In specific, we have developed an integrated finite element model to investigate the overall interaction effects of the LCST-bridge system subjected to the actions of temperature changes, traffic loads, and braking forces. In that place, the deformation patterns of the track and bridge, and the distributions of longitudinal forces and the interfacial shear stress are studied. Our results show that the additional rail stress has been reduced under various loads and the rail's deformation has become much smoother after the transition of the two continuous structural layers of the LCST. However, the influence of the temperature difference of bridges is significant and cannot be ignored as this action can bend the bridge like the traffic load. The uniform temperature change causes the tensile stress of the concrete track structure and further induce cracks in them. Additionally, the influences of the friction coefficient of the sliding layer and the interfacial bond characteristics on the LCST's performance are discussed. The systematic study presented in this work may have some potential impacts on the understanding of the overall mechanical behavior of the LCST-bridge system.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제17권11호
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• pp.183-188
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• 2019

반려동물에 대한 사회적 인식이 변화되면서 반려동물에 대한 문화적 태도가 친화적으로 바뀌고 있다. 특히, 반려견은 오래전부터 인간과 친숙하고 밀접하게 생활해오고 있다. 이러한 변화의 시대속에서, 반려견에 대한 이해도를 향상시키고 유기견 방지 및 생명 존중의 인식이 증가하면서 반려견 및 견주에 대한 동반 건강 유지를 위한 다양한 서비스가 활용되고 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 반려견의 산책용 자동 리드줄에 IoT 서비스 및 응용 기술이 연동시킨 스마트 리드줄을 구현하였다. 이를 위해, 이기종 센서들을 연계하여 통합 모듈로 설계, 구현하고 반려견 리드줄에 연동시켜 스마트 반려견 리드줄을 개발하였다. 최종적으로, 스마트 반려견 리드줄을 통해 반려견주의 생체 신호를 실시간으로 수집하고 반려견의 위치를 파악하여 알림 정보를 제공해 줄 수 있는 시스템을 구현하였다. 이를 통해, 올바르고 친숙한 애견문화를 더욱 성장시킬 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제51권1호
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• pp.68-79
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• 2021

Purpose: This study aimed to analyze the mass and social media contents and structures related to particulate matter before and after the policy enforcement of the comprehensive countermeasures for particulate matter, derive nursing implications, and provide a basis for designing health policies. Methods: After crawling online news articles and posts on social networking sites before and after policy enforcement with particulate matter as keywords, we conducted topic and semantic network analysis using TEXTOM, R, and UCINET 6. Results: In topic analysis, behavior tips was the common main topic in both media before and after the policy enforcement. After the policy enforcement, influence on health disappeared from the main topics due to increased reports about reduction measures and government in mass media, whereas influence on health appeared as the main topic in social media. However semantic network analysis confirmed that social media had much number of nodes and links and lower centrality than mass media, leaving substantial information that was not organically connected and unstructured. Conclusion: Understanding of particulate matter policy and implications influence health, as well as gaps in the needs and use of health information, should be integrated with leadership and supports in the nurses' care of vulnerable patients and public health promotion.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.387-395
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• 2021

본 연구는 대학이 지역사회와의 융합을 통해 지역문화의 지속과 경제 활성화를 어떻게 이끌 것인가에 대한 사례 연구이다. 이러한 사례로 세계적 공예행사인 청주국제공예비엔날레를 주관하고 있는 청주시와 청주대학교 공예디자인학과 간의 연계 프로그램에 주목하고자 한다. 지역정체성(locality)을 담고 있는 공예를 이용해 세계적 지역행사로 발전시킨 청주국제공예비엔날레의 지역 문화행사로서의 가치는 분명하다. 또한 청주에 유일한 공예교육기관인 청주대학교와의 융합은 대학과 지역간 연계프로그램의 성공적인 모델을 제시하고 있다. 본 연구는 지역문화행사와 지역 소재 대학 간의 융합사례를 다양한 측면에서 분석하고 이를 기반으로 대학교육에서 지역사회와의 창의적 융합의 가능성을 제시하는데 연구의 목적이 있다. 이를 통해 단순 교류 차원을 넘어 지역과 대학 간의 심도 깊은 연계를 통해 새로운 지역발전 가능성을 창출하기 위한 중요한 판단의 바탕을 제공할 수 있을 것이다.

• 영어영문학
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• 제55권2호
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• pp.215-240
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• 2009

This paper focuses on how Younghill Kang internalizes whiteness ideology through interracial romance to build himself as an oriental Yankee and recover his masculinity in his autobiographical novel East Goes West. This paper also focuses on Kang's strategy of racial and cultural hybridity presented in this novel. The theoretical basis of my argument is a mixture of Fanon's psychoanalysis in his Black Skin, White Masks, Bhabha's notion of mimicry in The Location of Culture, and notions related to race and gender of some Asian critics such as Patricia Chu, Jinqi Ling, and Lisa Lowe. In East Goes West, white women appear as "ladder of success" of successful assimilation and serve as cultural mediators and instructors and sometimes adversaries who Korean male immigrants have to win to establish identities in which Americanness, ethnicity, and masculinity are integrated. However, three Korean men, Chungpa Han, To Wan Kim, George Jum, who fall in love with white women fail to win their beloveds in marriage. George Jum fails to sustain a white dancer, Jun' interest. Kim wins the affection of Helen Hancock, a New England lady, but Kim commits suicide when he knows Helen killed herself because her family doesn't approve their relationship. Han's love for Trip remains vague, but Kang implies Han will continue his quest for "the spiritual home" as the name of "Trip." In East Goes West, Kang also attempts to challenge the imagining of a pure, monolithic, and naturalized white dominant U.S. Culture by exploring the cultural and racial hybridity shown by June and the various scenes of Halem in the 1920s. June who works for a Harlem cabaret is a white woman but she wears dark makeup. Kang questions the white face of America's self-understanding and racial constitution of a unified white American culture through June's racial masquerade. Kang shows that like Asian and black Americans, the white American also has an ambivalent racial identity through June's black mimicry and there is no natural and unchanging essence behind one's gender and race identity constitution.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제10권12호
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• pp.9-14
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• 2020

현재 NTIS(National Technology Information Service)는 인공지능 기술을 기반으로 대화형 검색 서비스를 구축하고 있다. 이용자의 검색 의도를 파악하고 과제정보를 제공하기 위해 딥러닝 모델과 형태소 분석기를 기반으로 대화형 검색 서비스를 구축한다. 딥러닝 모델은 NTIS와 대화형 검색 서비스를 활용할 때 적재되는 로그 데이터를 기반으로 학습을 진행하고 이용자의 검색 의도를 파악한다. 그리고 단계별 검색을 통해 과제정보를 제공한다. 검색 의도 파악은 예외처리를 용이하게 해주며 단계별 검색은 통합검색보다 쉽고 빠르게 원하는 정보를 얻을 수 있도록 한다. 향후연구로는 인공지능 기술이 접목된 성장형 대화형 검색 서비스로써 이용자에게 제공하는 정보의 범위를 확대해야 한다.