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Laboratory Test and Field Study of Soft Ground Improvement Effect by Using Various PVDs (실내실험과 현장실험을 통한 다양한 PVD의 연약지반개량효과)

  • Shin, Eun-Chul;Nazarova, Zhanara
    • Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.15-21
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    • 2008
  • The advantages of prefabricated vertical drains over conventional sand drains include their relatively low costs, less disturbance to the soil mass, the easinees of installation, and their flexibility which ensures the integrity of the drains during installation. This study tested the change of discharge capacities with respect to the hydraulic gradients for each lateral pressure. From the test results, as increases the overburden pressure, the clay soil is being consolidated, and also lateral pressure to the PVD specimen is increased. Therefore, the discharge capacity is decreased. The size of opening space in the core of PVDs is proportionally related to the discharge capacity. The numerical analysis was performed with utilizing computer simulation with considering field conditions. The results of numerical analysis are compared well with the field measurements.

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Comparison of Preferred Features in Spatial Composition for Shared Housing between Rural and Urban Elderly

  • Lee, Ji-Hye;Lee, Yeun-Sook
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.29-43
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    • 2015
  • Shared housing for elderly people, where several elderly people live together, gains attention as a means to prevent the lonely death of elderly people and continuously maintain their social relations. The purpose of this study is to compare the characteristics planned through rural and urban areas-residing elderly people's participation in the shared housing spatial composition by area. This study conducted a small scale workshop panel method that targeted small group, but through which extensive information can be acquired, as a qualitative method. This study targeted 16 elderly people aged 65 and over living in rented apartments in rural and urban areas by dividing them two groups by area, namely into four groups. A total of 12 workshop sessions were held with three sessions at a time through a certain time interval. As a result of the study, the elderly people showed positive responses to the shared housing, irrelevant of area. As time went on, the workshop panel method's effect was revealed through consolidated positive attitude and agreement of different opinions. The shared housing for elderly people is valuable as a residential alternative for elderly people, and differentiated supply of the shared housing for elderly people, according to residential area's characteristics, is suggested.

Optimal Strain Rate of Unloading-Reloading Cycle in Constant Rate of Strain Consoildation Test (제하-재재하 시 CRS 압밀 시험의 최적 변형률 속도)

  • Park, Ka-Hyun;Yune, Chan-Young;Chung, Choong-Ki
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2010.09a
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    • pp.1156-1167
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    • 2010
  • The constant rate of strain (CRS) consolidation test has been widely used to evaluate consolidation characteristics of soils instead of the standard Incremental Loading Test. In practical problems, after the ground improvement, the condition of the soil is over-consolidated. Therefore, it is important to determine the recompression indices and the coefficient of consolidation(or the coefficient of swelling) of unloading-reloading cycle to predict the settlement behavior. However, since standard testing procedures or studies related with strain rate are insufficient especially in unloading-reloading cycle, it is difficult to predict the settlement field behavior accurately from the CRS consolidation test results in spite of its lots of strengths. The several CRS consolidation tests were performed changing the unloading strain rate from 0.2%/hr to 20%/hr with vertical drainage condition using the reconstituted kaolinite sample. For the reconstituted kaolinite sample in CRS consolidation test, the recompression indices are insensitive to the strain rate. It is revealed that the coefficient of consolidation of reloading is affected by the developed pore pressure during unloading. Additionally, the test should be conducted in the positive pore pressure ratio range (3~15%) to obtain the reasonable coefficient of consolidation in the whole range(loading, unloading and reloading).

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A Study on Geotechnical Properties of Deep-sea Sediments in Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone of NE Pacific (북동태평양 클라리온-클리퍼톤 지역 심해저 표층 퇴적물의 지질공학적 특성 연구)

  • Chi, Sang-Bum;Oh, Jae-Kyung;Lee, Hyun-Bok;Kim, Ki-Hyun
    • Ocean and Polar Research
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.133-145
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    • 2003
  • Deep-sea surface sediments were collected using a multiple corer at 20 stations of Clarion-Clipperton fracture zone in the northeast equatorial Pacific to understand latitudinal and longitudinal variations of geotechnical properties. There was a distinct latitudinal variation of geotechnical properties in the study area. The northern sediments showed finer grain size, lower water content and porosity, higher bulk density and specific grain density, lower liquid limits and plastic limits than their southern counterparts. The northern sediments are classified into inorganic clays of low plasticity (fat clays) on plasticity charts and normal to active clay on activity chart, whereas, the southern sediments are classified into fine-grained, highly-plastic, inorganic and biogenic silt or organic clays on plasticity chart and normal to very active clay on activity chart. When shear strength are considered, the northern sediments were found to be in unconsolidated states, while the southern ones to be normal to over-consolidated states. These latitudinal variations in sediment characteristics are likely caused by differences in productivity of surface water that controls sediment compositions, sedimentation rates, and grain solubility.

OrCanome: a Comprehensive Resource for Oral Cancer

  • Bhartiya, Deeksha;Kumar, Amit;Singh, Harpreet;Sharma, Amitesh;Kaushik, Anita;Kumari, Suchitra;Mehrotra, Ravi
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.1333-1336
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    • 2016
  • Oral cancer is one of the most prevalent cancers in India but the underlying mechanisms are minimally unraveled. Cancer research has immensely benefited from genome scale high throughput studies which have contributed to expanding the volume of data. Such datasets also exist for oral cancer genes but there has been no consolidated approach to integrate the data to reveal meaningful biological information. OrCanome is one of the largest and comprehensive, user-friendly databases of oral cancer. It features a compilation of over 900 genes dysregulated in oral cancer and provides detailed annotations of the genes, transcripts and proteins along with additional information encompassing expression, inhibitors, epitopes and pathways. The resource has been envisioned as a one-stop solution for genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic annotation of these genes and the integrated approach will facilitate the identification of potential biomarkers and therapeutic targets.

Malignant Tumours of the Central Nervous System in Kazakhstan - Incidence Trends from 2004-2011

  • Igissinov, Nurbek;Akshulakov, Serik;Igissinov, Saginbek;Moore, Malcolm;Adilbekov, Yerzhan;Gaitova, Kamilla;Kissaev, Yermek;Mustafina, Meruert
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.14 no.7
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    • pp.4181-4186
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    • 2013
  • In the article were observed the epidemiological aspects of malignant tumors of the central nervous system (MT CNS) in Kazakhstan in a retrospective study for the years 2004-2011. The material of the study was consolidated accounting data of oncology centers on patients with MT CNS (C70-72) with first time established diagnosis. Calculated were crude, age, standardized (world standard), aligned and predicted incidence of MT CNS among both male and female populations. It was found that over the studied period, there were 4,604 cases of MT CNS. The average annual crude incidence rate of MT CNS in total population was $3.7{\pm}0.1^0/_{0000}$. Trends in aligned incidence rates in the whole country had a tendency to increase (T=+0.9%). Defined levels of morbidity MT CNS in the whole population in different regions of Kazakhstan: low up to $2.87^0/_{0000}$, the average from 2.87 to $4.45^0/_{0000}$ and high from $4.45^0/_{0000}$ and above on the basis of which was given the space-time estimate. Age and sex differences in MT CNS incidence were also clearly established.

A Study on the Natural Disaster Response Policy in Korea (재해방지정책의 개선방안에 관한 고찰 - 자연재해를 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Jae-Pil;Kang, Soon-Min
    • The Korean Journal of Emergency Medical Services
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.89-97
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    • 2001
  • Recently, natural disasters happened to the Korea frequently. Disaster in the present society has been changed and increased it impacts and extent of danger as the society develops. So, Korean people feel uneasy about the unpredictable disaster. Therefore the capability of administration system, and cooperation and support between related organization become more necessary. This study aims to find out better ways of disaster management system which can protect people's lives and fortune from all sort of national disasters. To research policy reform, it is necessary to analyze disaster response organization(national disaster prevention countermeasures headquarters and so on), interorganizational relationship, law system etc. Especially, in this study, role appreciation of government was analyzed to get the rational policy reform measure. Suggestion : First, it is necessary Establishing a consolidated organization for disaster managing and united response organization is necessary such as Federal Emergency Management Agency(FEMA) which controls an over all aspects of disaster management. And it is necessary to develop Integrated Administrative Control System based on comprehensive plan. When the accidents happen, it needs to be many equipments and various specialized personnel. So, to manage a large scale of disaster, it is necessary to have interorganizational network system which many specialized organization including volunteer group are integrated. Also, as soon as the natural disaster happen, many professionals and volunteers are distributed to the spots of disaster in the right man in the right place. Finally, All the citizens have to keep safety rules, and also to take a safe action in ordinary daily life.

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Settlement prediction for footings based on stress history from VS measurements

  • Cho, Hyung Ik;Kim, Han Saem;Sun, Chang-Guk;Kim, Dong Soo
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.371-384
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    • 2020
  • A settlement prediction method based on shear wave velocity measurements and soil nonlinearity was recently developed and verified by means of centrifuge tests. However, the method was only applicable to heavily overconsolidated soil deposits under enlarged yield surfaces. In this study, the settlement evaluation method was refined to consider the stress history of the sublayer, based on an overconsolidation ratio evaluation technique, and thereby incorporate irrecoverable plastic deformation in the settlement calculation. A relationship between the small-strain shear modulus and overconsolidation ratio, which can be determined from laboratory tests, was adopted to describe the stress history of the subsurface. Based on the overconsolidation ratio determined, the value of an empirical coefficient that reflects the effect of plastic deformation over the elastic region is determined by comparing the overconsolidation ratio with the stress increment transmitted by the surface design load. The refined method that incorporate this empirical coefficient was successfully validated by means of centrifuge tests, even under normally consolidated loading conditions.

A Study on Building the Global Business Service Network (종합기업서비스정보망(Inno-NET)구축에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Ki-Jeong
    • Journal of Information Management
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.1-17
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    • 1998
  • The Inno-NET, which is based on the Internet and up-to-date information technology, is a consolidated system to provide business-related information and to solve the difficulties in business activities. In particular, the Inno-NET is an information system to integrate such business information for enterprise as start-up, financing, technology development, recruiting, site acquisition, marketing, trade and investment and so on, in order to help companies solve their problems and make up for their weak points. Accordingly, the Inno-NET will systematically connect supporting agencies and innovative enterprises, thus guaranteeing the exchange of information among them and coordinating the business. The supporting agencies will be included government offices, public organizations, research institutes, universities, and industrial associations all over the ministries. In short, Inno-NET forms a real-time decision making system among government, industries, universities and research institutes. by elt:ictronic networking on the Internet.

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Experimental Evaluation of Cohesion Properties for Various Coals

  • Kim, Minsu;Lee, Yongwoon;Ryu, Changkook;Park, Ho Young;Lee, Hyun Soo
    • KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.279-284
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    • 2016
  • Assessing the handling properties of coal becomes a major issue for the operation of a fuel supply system in power plants, due to the increased types of coal imported into Korea. In this study, the cohesion strengths of 13 bituminous and sub-bituminous coals from different countries were tested by measuring the amount of force that leads to a failure of consolidated particles. The particle size was in the range of 0.1-2.8 mm, which represents the coarse particles before pulverization. While the cohesion strength was proportional to the compression force in the tested range, the effects of the surface moisture content and the weight fraction of fines were crucial for cohesive coals. At fixed conditions of surface moisture and particle size, large variations were found in the cohesion propensity between coals. For coals of 0.1-0.5 mm with the moisture added close to the critical value, cohesive coals had the density over $900kg/m^3$ after consolidation. The cohesion propensity was not correlated with the basic properties of coals with sufficient statistical significance.