• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권5호
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• pp.956-963
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• 2020

Dose optimization for Radioactive Occupational Personal (ROP) is an important subject in nuclear and radiation safety field. The geometric environment of a nuclear facility is complex and the work area is radioactive, so traditional navigation model and radioactive data field cannot form an effective environment model for dose assessment and dose optimization. The environment model directly affects dose assessment and indirectly affects dose optimization, this is an urgent problem needed to be solved. Therefore, this paper focuses on an environment model used for Dose Assessment and Dose Optimization (DA&DO). We designed a multi-layer radiation field coupling modeling method, and then explored the influence of the environment model to DA&DO by virtual simulation. Then, a simulation test is done, the multi-layer radiation field coupling model for nuclear facilities is demonstrated to be effective for dose assessment and dose optimization through the experiments and analysis.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.356-365
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• 2021

Background: Concerns have been raised regarding the criteria of groundwater, in particular in Gwangwon-do Province where many residents drink groundwater due to the poor supply of tap water and a high nonconformity rate with water quality criteria nationwide. Objectives: Water quality monitoring and risk assessment were conducted for groundwater in Hoengseong, Gangwon-do Province. Methods: A total of 46 items required for meeting drinking water criteria were analyzed from 258 samples collected from March 2017 through August 2018 (152 sites in 2017 and 106 sites in 2018). Risk assessment was conducted for two non-carcinogens (F^- and NO₃-N), and one carcinogen (i.e., arsenic) based on their high nonconformity to water quality criteria. Results: Water quality analysis revealed that the total proportion of nonconformities was determined to be 27.9%. The nonconformity rate for each content item is as follows: total colony counts (1.6%), total coliform (6.2%), Escherichia coli (1.2%), F^- (8.1%), arsenic (4.7%), NO₃-N (8.1%), pH (1.2%), manganese (0.4%), and turbidity (5.8%). Risk assessment indicated that fluoride induced a hazard quotient greater than 1 with the 95% UCL (Upper Confidence Limit) concentration of the total 258 sites and average, median, and 95% UCL concentrations of nonconformity sites. For NO₃-N, there was no human health risk. For arsenic, the excess cancer risk exceeded the acceptable cancer risk of 1×10^-6 with the average and 95% UCL concentrations of total 258 sites and average, median, and 95% UCL concentrations of nonconformity sites. Conclusions: This study suggests that it is necessary to expand water quality monitoring of groundwater and conduct a more detailed risk assessment in order to establish a health care plan for the residents of Hoengseong, Gangwon-do Province.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.12-18
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• 2021

This paper proposes a framework for the development of the health recommender system, designed to cater COVID-19 symptoms' self-assessment and monitoring as well as to provide recommendations for self-care and medical treatments. The aim is to provide an online platform for Patient Under Investigation (PUI) and close contacts with positive COVID-19 cases in Malaysia who are under home quarantine to perform daily self-assessment in order to monitor their own symptoms' development. To achieve this, three main phases of research methods have been conducted where interviews have been done to thirty former COVID-19 patients in order to investigate the symptoms and practices conducted by the Malaysia Ministry of Health (MOH) in assessing and monitoring COVID-19 patients who were under home quarantine. From the interviews, an algorithm using user-based collaborative filtering technique with Pearson correlation coefficient similarity measure is designed to cater the self-assessment and symptoms monitoring as well as providing recommendations for self-care treatments as well as medical interventions if the symptoms worsen during the 14-days quarantine. The proposed framework will involve the development of the health recommender system for COVID-19 self-assessment and treatments using the progressive web application method with cloud database and PHP codes.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.335-345
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• 2010

This paper assessed environmental impacts of marine sand mining on coastal areas and Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) of Korea, and diagnosed problems of the related assessment statements for suggesting key assessment items (scoping) and system improvement. To mitigate conflicts and environmental impacts caused by large-scale, concentrated sand mining, we suggest it is critical to promote sustainable and eco-friendly utilization of marine resources while listening opinions from various stakeholders and analyzing alternative plans. Especially, it should be mandatory as a scoping item to provide verifiable data on the amount of sand, potential and accumulative impacts by mining, and key assessment items (e.g. erosion and sedimentation by submarine topography, benthic change, spreading of suspended solids, water pollution, grain-size change, and impact on fisheries resources). We also suggest that postassessment and monitoring should be improved to enable tracking of environmental impacts caused by sand mining through seasonal monitoring together with intermittent short-term surveys. In addition, effective measures to mitigate the impacts is also essential. As repeated sand mining at large-scale can damage marine ecosystems by long-term accumulated impacts, we suggest that assessment systems and regulatory policies should be developed and established, especially for ensuring reliability of assessment and review on selected major sandmining projects.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권2호
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• pp.381-396
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• 2020

Investigations of the commercial aircraft impact effect on nuclear island infrastructures have been drawing extensive attention, and this paper aims to perform the safety assessment of Generation III nuclear power plant (NPP) buildings subjected to typical commercial aircrafts crash. At present Part I, finite element (FE) models establishment and validations for both the aircrafts and NPP buildings are performed. (i) Airbus A320 and A380 aircrafts are selected as the representative medium and large commercial aircrafts, and the corresponding fine FE models including the skin, beam, fuel and etc. are established. By comparing the numerically derived impact force time-histories with the existing published literatures, the rationality of aircrafts models is verified. (ii) Fine FE model of the Chinese Zhejiang Sanao NPP buildings is established, including the detailed structures and reinforcing arrangement of both the containment and auxiliary buildings. (iii) By numerically reproducing the existing 1/7.5 scaled aircraft model impact tests on steel plate reinforced concrete (SC) panels and assessing the impact process and velocity time-history of aircraft model, as well as the damage and the maximum deflection of SC panels, the applicability of the existing three concrete constitutive models (i.e., K&C, Winfrith and CSC) are evaluated and the superiority of Winfrith model for SC panels under deformable missile impact is verified. The present work can provide beneficial reference for the integral aircraft crash analyses and structural damage assessment in the following two parts of this paper.

• 방사성폐기물학회지
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.205-215
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• 2008

방사성폐기물 처분시설에 대한 운영 전, 운영 중 및 폐쇄 후 단계에서의 부지환경자료의 지속적 수집 및 관리를 목적으로 한 체계적인 데이터베이스와 전산분석 시스템 구축의 필요성에 의하여 부지환경종합관리시스템(SITES: Site Information and Total Environmental Data Management System)을 개발하였다. 본 시스템은 부지환경 자료관리 및 안전성 재평가에 활용 할 수 있는 통합적인 시스템으로서 부지환경데이터관리시스템(SECURE), 통합안전성평가시스템(SAINT), 부지환경감시시스템(SUDAL), 그리고 SITES지리정보시스템(SITES-GIS)의 4개의 모듈로 구성되어 있다. 각 모듈은 자체 데이터베이스를 통해 자료의 검색, 저장 및 보고서 작성 기능을 가지고 있으며, 부지환경자료를 통합안전성평가시스템에서 직접이용 가능토록 되어 있다. 통합안전성평가시스템은 다수의 평가자가 동시에 이용가능하며, 대상 부지별 안전성평가 결과의 품질보증 체제가 확보되어 있다. 부지환경감시시스템은 평가 예측자료와 환경감시 자료와의 비교분석 및 시각화가 가능하며, 또한 일반인을 위한 주기적 환경감시 자료를 인터넷 홈페이지와 연계하여 공개 가능토록 되어 있다. 부지환경종합관리시스템은 현재 중 저준위 방사성폐기물 처분을 위한 월성원자력환경관리센터에 적용되고 있으며, 원자력관계시설 및 기타 유해환경 산업시설에 대한 부지 및 환경 감시기능의 수준을 고도화하는 데에 기여할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 보건교육건강증진학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.1-16
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• 2004

The ultimate goal of health promotion programs is to improve the quality of life through promoting community health. Since the performance of health promotion programs are greatly affected by the quality of the planning and implementation process of the programs, the proper quality assessment of the program process is very important. According to existing literature, the tool for assessing the quality of the process and implementation as well as the outcome. However, no assessment tool for the quality of the process of health promotion programs has been developed in Korea. The purpose of the study is to develop a quality assessment tool for the process of health promotion programs being conducted at public health centers in Korea. The quality assessment tool developed in the study consists of the following four domains： strategic planning (14 items), program management (11 items), monitoring and evaluation (13 items), and resources and information (15 items). The strategic planning deals with the function of the planning staff and committees, community data analysis, the feasibility of the program, and the approach methods for attaining the goal of the program. The program management includes items on the qualification and power of the program staff. Monitoring and evaluation deals with the planning and education for monitoring, reporting and communication among program units, and feedback after monitoring. Finally, the resource and information covers the planning and activities for obtaining resources and information, community networking, beneficiaries' response, and consulting activity of the staff.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제10권3호통권36호
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• pp.369-381
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• 1998

본 연구에서는 대형교량의 전산화 모니터링 및 분석평가(Monitoring and Assessment: M&A)를 위한 시스템모형과 소프트웨어의 개발에 대한 새로운 접근방법과 개념을 제안하였다. 제안된 시스템모형은 대형교량의 M&A를 위한 최적의 방법을 반영한 모형이다. 이를 위하여 교량의 확률적 분석평가를 위한 신뢰성 모형이 개발되었고, 일련의 현장재하시험으로부터 계측된 실응답에 기초한 교량의 안전성과 신뢰성의 평가를 위해 신뢰성에 기초한 내하력 평가방법을 확립하였다. 또한 제안된 모델에 기초하여 대형교량의 전산화 M&A를 위한 시범소프트웨어(prototype software)를 개발하여 실제 사장교에 적용하였다. 본 연구에서 개발된 시스템모형 및 시범소프트웨어는 향후 사장교나 현수교와 같은 장대교량의 전산화 유지관리 시스템의 개발에 활용될 수 있다.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.199-211
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• 2015

The safety and performance of bridges could be monitored and evaluated by Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems. These systems try to identify and locate the damages in a structure and estimate their severities. Current SHM systems are applied to a single bridge, and they have not been used to monitor the structural condition of a network of bridges. This paper propose a new method which will be used in Synthetic Rating Procedures (SRP) developed by the authors of this paper and utilizes SHM systems for monitoring and evaluating the condition of a network of bridges. Synthetic rating procedures are used to assess the condition of a network of bridges and identify their ratings. As an additional part of the SRP, the method proposed in this paper can continuously monitor the behaviour of a network of bridges and therefore it can assist to prevent the sudden collapses of bridges or the disruptions to their serviceability. The method could be an important part of a bridge management system (BMS) for managers and engineers who work on condition assessment of a network of bridges.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.655-662
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• 2010

최근 지구 온난화와 이상기후로 인하여 자연재해로 인한 피해가 지속적으로 발생하고 있으며, 이로 인한 피해가 점차 대형화되고 있다. 본 연구는 기존 기술에 비해 신속하고 경제적이면서, 다양한 재난 재해에 활용이 가능한 UAV(Unmanned Aircraft Vehicle)를 통해 자연재해에 의한 피해를 효과적으로 대비, 대응 및 복구할 수 있는 활용모델을 제시하기 위한 선행연구로 기존 재해관련 연구사례와 국내 재해관련 규정 분석을 바탕으로 재해모니터링을 위한 UAV의 적용성을 분석하였다. 향후, 자연재해 모니터링을 위한 UAV의 활용은 재난 재해 대응관리 및 피해조사를위한실시간공중모니터링을가능하게 함으로써 재난 재해 대응 및 관리의 효율성을 향상시킬 것이다.