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Evaluation of Filter Media for Use in Alpha Measurement of Radon Progeny (라돈 자핵종의 알파 측정용 여과지 매질의 평가)

  • Seo, Kyung-Won;Knutson Earl O.
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.31-41
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    • 1992
  • A study for the evaluation of selected filter media that need further characterization particularily in the context of alpha measurements of radon progeny has been carried out by investigating physical characteristics and using the alpha spectroscopy. Physical characteristics was investigated by electrostatic charging and mechanical strength of filters, and then pressure drop before and after sampling was tested. Alpha spectroscopy was used to analyze the energy spectra from the deposition of radon progeny into filters. The results of the assessment showed that the newer filter types do not have a great advantage over the 'old standard' Millipore type AA. But Metricel DM-800 is recommended for those situations where electrostatic charging is a problem. Also this method will be used more effective for the evaluation of new developing filters in future.

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Strength in Numbers and Voice: An Assessment of the Networking Capacity of Chinese ENGOs

  • Shapiro, Matthew A.;Brunner, Elizabeth;Li, Hui
    • Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.147-175
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    • 2018
  • Under authoritarian regimes, citizen-led NGOs such as environmental NGOs (ENGOs) often operate under close scrutiny of the government. While this presents a challenge to a single ENGO, we propose here - in line with existing research on network effects - that there are opportunities for multiple ENGOs to coordinate and thus work in ways that supersede government controls, affect public opinion, and contribute to policy revision and/or creation. In this paper, we specifically examine the possibility that the gamut of citizen-based ENGOs in China are coordinating. Based on network analysis of ENGOs web pages as well as interviews with more than a dozen ENGO leaders between 2014 and 2016, we find that ENGOs have few direct and public connections to each other, but social media sites and personal connections offline provide a crucial function in creating bridges. A closer examination of these bridges reveals, however, that they can be substantive to the environmental discussion or functional to the dissemination of web page information but typically not both. In short, ENGOs in China are not directly connected but rather are connected in a way that responds to the available social media and the government's censorship practices.

Analysis of Media Literacy Evaluation Items in Early Childhood Animation (유아동 교육 애니메이션의 미디어 리터러시 평가항목 요구도 분석)

  • Jang, Eunyoung
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.365-373
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    • 2021
  • This work aims to derive data-based requirements by analyzing the importance and performance of media literacy in early childhood animations. For this, a survey was conducted on parents with young children after drawing questions of assessment items through expert focus group interviews (FGI). The analytical instruments, Borich Needs Formula formulation and The Locus for Focus Model were used together to improve accuracy. Based on the results, it is meaningful in that it recognized the demand of the inmates for children's education animation and prepared systematic indicators for it.

Evaluating Conversion Rate from Advertising in Social Media using Big Data Clustering

  • Alyoubi, Khaled H.;Alotaibi, Fahd S.
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.7
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    • pp.305-316
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    • 2021
  • The objective is to recognize the better opportunities from targeted reveal advertising, to show a banner ad to the consumer of online who is most expected to obtain a preferred action like signing up for a newsletter or buying a product. Discovering the most excellent commercial impression, it means the chance to exhibit an advertisement to a consumer needs the capability to calculate the probability that the consumer who perceives the advertisement on the users browser will acquire an accomplishment, that is the consumer will convert. On the other hand, conversion possibility assessment is a demanding process since there is tremendous data growth across different information dimensions and the adaptation event occurs infrequently. Retailers and manufacturers extensively employ the retail services from internet as part of a multichannel distribution and promotion strategy. The rate at which web site visitors transfer to consumers is low for online retail, out coming in high customer acquisition expenses. Approximately 96 percent of web site users concluded exclusive of no shopper purchase[1].This category of conversion rate is collected from the advertising of social media sites and pages that dataset must be estimating and assessing with the concept of big data clustering, which is used to group the particular age group of people along with their behavior. This makes to identify the proper consumer of the production which leads to improve the profitability of the concern.

Cross-media Approaches to Risk Management of Environmental Pollution in Korea (한국에서의 환경오염에 의한 위해성관리의 종합적 접근방법)

  • Chong, Yong
    • Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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    • v.4 no.1_2
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    • pp.55-65
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    • 1989
  • Nevertheless the serious environmental pollution in Korea has been discussed in concern with health effect, the significant effect are not determined easily. Toxicological method has been used to establish safe levels of exposure for environmental pollutants to have threshold health effect below which significant effects are unlikely to occur. However the conventional method cannot to establish safe levels of exposure for non-threshold pollutants have been used to express comprehensive pollution degree, not in detailed toxic effects. Acceptable exposure or risk levels are decides by policymakers who consider descriptions and estimates of risks together with social and economic benefits. This paper focuses on the concept development of risk assessment and describes some risks of environmental pollution based on the surveyed date in Korea. The current concepts of risk assessment in policy descisions can be explored and areas for possible improvement, given current scientific knowledge are identified. The experience of foreign countries can provide a realistic basis for evaluating the existing data of environmental pollutants. To improve the environmental quality, risk regulation should be managed as soon as possible in Korea.

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Objective Quality Assessment for Stitched Image and Video (스티칭 영상의 객관적 영상화질의 평가 방법)

  • Billah, Meer Sadeq;Tuan, Thai Thanh;Ahn, Heejune
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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    • 2017.11a
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    • pp.218-220
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    • 2017
  • Recently, stitching techniques are used for obtaining wide FOV, e.g., panorama contents, from normal cameras. Despite many proposed algorithms, the no objective quality evaluation method is developed, so the comparison of algorithms are performed only in subjective way. The paper proposes a 'Delaunay-triangulation based objective assessment method' for evaluating the geometric and photometric distortions of stitched or warped images. The reference and target images are segmented by Delaunay-triangulation based on matched points between two images, the average Euclidian distance is used for geometric distortion measure, and the average or histogram of PSNR for photometric measure. We shows preliminary results with several test images and stitching methods for demonstrate the benefits and application.

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Total human exposure assessment for environmental pollutants using multimedia and multiroute scenarios in Korea

  • Yang, J-Y;Lim, Y-W;Kim, Y-S;Ho, M-K;Kim, Y-S;Shin, D-C
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society of Environmental Toocicology Conference
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.145-145
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    • 2003
  • In the case of POPs (persistence organic. compounds) that have been release into environment, the goal of exposure assessment is to estimate the individual's total intake through various contact media and exposure pathways. The objective of this study was to estimate human exposure to environmental pollutants using a multimedia/multiroute scenario in an urban area of Korea.

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The Analysis of Temporal and Spatial Variation on the Vegetation Area of the Siwha Tidat Flat (시화 갯벌식생범위의 시-공간적 변이 분석)

  • Jeong, Jong-Chul
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.349-356
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    • 2011
  • This research is aim to analyze of changing landscape and according to phenological cycle from image information of coastal environment obtained by multi-media were analyzed by camera and satellite image. The digital camera and satellite image were used for tidal flat vegetation monitoring during the construction of Sihwa lake. The vegetation type and phenological cycle of Sihwa tidal flat have been changed with the Sihwa lake ecosystem. The environment changes of Sihwa tidal flat area and ecological change were analyzed by field work digital camera images and satellite images. The airborne, UAV and satellite images were classified with the changed elements of coastal ecological environment and tidal flat vegetation monitoring carried out the changed area and shape of vegetation distribution with time series images.

Dose assessment according to Differences in the Content of Iodine in Contrast Media used in Interventional Procedure (중재적 시술에 사용하는 조영제의 요오드(53I) 함유량 차이에 따른 피폭선량 평가)

  • Bak, Hyeok;Jeon, Ju-Seob;Kim, Yong-Wan;Jang, Seong-Joo
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.337-345
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study is to evaluate exposure dose and absorbability according to differences in the content of iodine in contrast media used in interventional procedure and angiography. There were 7 levels of iodine content as 240, 270, 300, 320, 350, 370, and 400 I $mg/m{\ell}$. The higher iodine content was, the more elevated exposure dose and absorbability were. The output dose was about 8.5% from iodine content with 350I $mg/m{\ell}$ higher than that with 270 I $mg/m{\ell}$ in TACE. These results mean that contrast media can have an effect on patient's exposure dose and high iodine content contrast media results in elevation of patient's exposure dose.

Comparison of media for a human peripheral blood mononuclear cell-based in vitro vaccine evaluation system

  • Shuran Gong;Putri Fajar;Jacqueline De Vries-Idema;Anke Huckriede
    • Clinical and Experimental Vaccine Research
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.328-336
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    • 2023
  • Purpose: Human peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC)-based in vitro systems can be of great value in the development and assessment of vaccines but require the right medium for optimal performance of the different cell types present. Here, we compare three commonly used media for their capacity to support innate and adaptive immune responses evoked in PBMCs by Toll-like receptor (TLR) ligands and whole inactivated virus (WIV) influenza vaccine. Materials and Methods: Human PBMCs were cultured for different periods of time in Roswell Park Memorial Institute (RPMI), Dulbecco's minimal essential medium (DMEM), or Iscove's modified DMEM (IMDM) supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum. The viability of the cells was monitored and their responses to TLR ligands and WIV were assessed. Results: With increasing days of incubation, the viability of PBMCs cultured in RPMI or IMDM was slightly higher than that of cells cultured in DMEM. Upon exposure of the PBMCs to TLR ligands and WIV, RPMI was superior to the other two media in terms of supporting the expression of genes related to innate immunity, such as the TLR adaptor protein gene MyD88 (myeloid differentiation factor 88), the interferon (IFN)-stimulated genes MxA (myxovirus resistance protein 1) and ISG56 (interferon-stimulated gene 56), and the leukocyte recruitment chemokine gene MCP1 (monocyte chemoattractant protein-1). RPMI also performed best with regard to the activation of antigen-presenting cells. As for adaptive immunity, when stimulated with WIV, PBMCs cultured in RPMI or IMDM contained higher numbers of IFNγ-producing T cells and secreted more immunoglobulin G than PBMCs cultured in DMEM. Conclusion: Taken together, among the different media assessed, RPMI was identified as the optimal medium for a human PBMC-based in vitro vaccine evaluation system.