• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제48권4호
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• pp.197-203
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• 2023

Background: The thermoluminescent dosimeter (TLD) and Monte Carlo (MC) dosimetry are carried out to determine the occupational dose for personnel in the handling of ¹²⁵I seed sources. Materials and Methods: TLDs were placed in different layers of the Alderson-Rando phantom in the thyroid, lung and also eyes and skin surface. An ¹²⁵I seed source was prepared and its activity was measured using a dose calibrator and was placed at two distances of 20 and 50 cm from the Alderson-Rando phantom. In addition, the Monte Carlo N-Particle Extended (MCNPX 2.6.0) code and a computational phantom with a lattice-based geometry were used for organ dose calculations. Results and Discussion: The comparison of TLD and MC results in the thyroid and lung is consistent. Although the relative difference of MC dosimetry to TLD for the eyes was between 4% and 13% and for the skin between 19% and 23%, because of the existence of a higher uncertainty regarding TLD positioning in the eye and skin, these inaccuracies can also be acceptable. The isodose distribution was calculated in the cross-section of the head phantom when the ¹²⁵I seed was at two distances of 20 and 50 cm and it showed that the greatest dose reduction was observed for the eyes, skin, thyroid, and lungs, respectively. The results of MC dosimetry indicated that for near the head positions (distance of 20 cm) the absorbed dose rates for the eye lens, eye and skin were 78.1±2.3, 59.0±1.8, and 10.7±0.7 µGy/mCi/hr, respectively. Furthermore, we found that a 30 cm displacement for the ¹²⁵I seed reduced the eye and skin doses by at least 3- and 2-fold, respectively. Conclusion: Using a computational phantom to monitor the dose to the sensitive organs (eye and skin) for personnel involved in the handling of ¹²⁵I seed sources can be an accurate and inexpensive method.

• 대기
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.97-107
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• 2012

To investigate variation of aerosol number concentration at each different size with three-dimensional (3D) wind components in ocean area, aerosol particles and 3D wind components were measured in the Ieodo Ocean Research Station, which is located to 419 km southwest from Marado, the southernmost island of Korea, from 25 June to 8 July 2010. The Laser Particle Counter (LPC) and ultrasonic anemometer were used to measure the size of aerosol particles and 3D wind components (zonal (u), meridional (v), and vertical (w) wind) respectively. Surface weather chart, NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data and sounding data were used to analyze the synoptic condition. The distribution of aerosol number concentration had a large variation from bigger particles more than 1.0 ${\mu}m$ in diameter by wind direction during precipitation. In the number concentration of aerosol particles with respect to the weather conditions, particles larger than 1.0 ${\mu}m$ in size were decreased and sustained to the similar concentration at smaller particles during precipitation. The increase in aerosol number concentration was due to the sea-salt particles which was suspended by southwesterly and upward winds. In addition, the aerosol number concentration with vertical wind flow could be related with the occurrence and increasing mechanism of aerosol in marine boundary layer.

• 대기
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.37-47
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• 2010

The methods measuring the precipitation drop size distribution(hereafter referred to as DSD) at Cloud Physics Observation System (CPOS) in Daegwallyeong are to use PARSIVEL (PARticle SIze and VELocity) disdrometer (hereafter referred to as PARSIVEL) and Micro Rain Radar (hereafter referred to as MRR). First of all, PARSIVEL and MRR give good correlation coefficients between their rain rates and those of rain gage: $R^2=0.93$ and 0.91, respectively. For the DSD, the rain rates are classified in 3 categories (Category 1: rr (Rain Rate) ${\leq}0.5\;mm\;h^{-1}$, Category 2: $0.5\;mm\;h^-1$ < rr < $4.0\;mm\;h^{-1}$, Category 3: rr ${\geq}4\;mm\;h^{-1}$). The shapes of PARSIVEL and MRR DSD are relatively most similar in category 2. In addition, we retrieve the vertical rain rate and liquid water content from MRR under melting layer, calculated by Cha et al's method, in Daegwallyeong ($37^{\circ}41{\prime}N$, $128^{\circ}45^{\prime}E$, 843 m ASL, mountain area) and Haenam ($34^{\circ}33^{\prime}N$, $126^{\circ}34^{\prime}E$, 4.6 m ASL, coast area). The vertical variations of rain rate and liquid water content in Daegwallyeong are smaller than those in Haenam. We think that this different vertical rain rate characteristic for both sites is due to the vertical different cloud type (convective and stratiform cloud seem dominant at Haenam and Daegwallyeong, respectively). This suggests that the statistical precipitation DSD model, for the application of weather radar and numerical simulation of precipitation processes, be considered differently for the region, which will be performed in near future.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제31권11호
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• pp.1033-1040
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• 2009

고효율 싸이클론의 설계는 압력강하의 최소화와 집진효율의 최대화를 이루는 것이 중요하다. 본 연구는 고온, 고압 조건하에서 신뢰성 있는 컴퓨터 프로그램을 개발하여 싸이클론의 집진효율에 영향을 주는 물리적 메카니즘을 연구하는 것이다. 수치 해석적 연구를 통한 고온, 고압 조건에서의 압력강하 계산은 실험데이터와 비교적 잘 일치하였다. 온도와 압력은 일반적으로 집진효율에 중요한 영향을 미치는데 보통 항력에서 가스의 밀도나 점도 등에 영향을 주어서로 상반되는 결과를 나타낸다. 그러므로 고온 운전에 따른 집진효율의 감소는 고압 조건으로 운전하는 것이 대안이 될 것으로 판단된다. 집진효율에 영향을 주는 인자에 대해 좀 더 세부적인 연구를 위하여 접선방향 속도나 보텍스 파인더의 직경 등과 같은 싸이클론의 설계변수나 운전변수에 따른 연구를 수행하였다. 예상한 바와 같이 접선방향의 속도가 집진효율에 가장 큰 영향을 주었다. 그리고 보텍스 파인더의 직경이 증가할수록 집진효율은 감소하였으며 보텍스 파인더의 길이는 집진효율에 큰 영향을 나타내지 않았다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.215-220
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• 2010

Aerosol observation with Raman LIDAR in NIES (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan) LIDAR network was conducted from 17 April to 12 June 2008 over Beijing, China. The aerosol optical properties derived from Raman LIDAR were compared with the retrieved data from sun photometer and sky radiometer observations in the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET). The comparison provided the complete knowledge of aerosol optical and physical properties in Beijing, especially in pollution and Asian dust events. The averaged aerosol optical depth (AOD) at 675 nm was 0.81 and the Angstrom exponent between 440 nm and 675 nm was 0.99 during experiment. The LIDAR derived AOD at 532 nm in the planetary boundary layer (PBL) was 0.48, which implied that half of the total AOD was contributed by the aerosol in PBL. The corresponding averaged LIDAR ratio and total depolarization ratio (TDR) were 48.5sr and 8.1%. The negative correlation between LIDAR ratio and TDR indicated the LIDAR ratio decreased with aerosol size because of the high TDR associated with nonspherical and large aerosols. The typical volume size distribution of the aerosol clearly demonstrated that the coarse mode radius located near 3 ${\mu}m$ in dust case, a bi-mode with fine particle centered at 0.2 ${\mu}m$ and coarse particle at 2 ${\mu}m$ was the characteristic size distribution in the pollution and clean cases. The different size distributions of aerosol resulted in its different optical properties. The retrieved LIDAR ratio and TDR were 41.1sr and 19.5% for a dust event, 53.8sr and 6.6% for a pollution event as well as 57.3sr and 7.2% for a clean event. In conjunction with the observed surface wind field near the LIDAR site, most of the pollution aerosols were produced locally or transported from the southeast of Beijing, whereas the dust aerosols associated with the clean air mass were transported by the northwesterly or southwesterly winds.

• 철학연구
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• 제117권
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• pp.57-84
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• 2011

본 연구는 루드빅 볼츠만의 과학 방법론 및 물리학적 인식들에 대한 인식론적 지위 문제를 역사-비판적으로 검토한다. 잘 알다시피, 그는 열역학의 확률론적 해석을 통해 통계 물리학의 발판을 마련했을 뿐만 아니라, 과학 방법론에 대한 많은 논문들을 발표했고 직접 철학을 강의하기도 했다. 그러나 물리학의 인식론에 대한 그의 입장은 실재론과 현상론, 유물론과 관념론, 절대적 진리관과 상대적 진리관 사이에서 배회했다. 이에 본 연구에서는 과학사 및 과학 철학의 관점에서 19 세기 말에서 20 세기 초에 걸쳐 전개된 물리학의 방법론 및 인식론들에 대한 다양한 논쟁들을 비판적으로 검토하면서 볼츠만의 이러한 배회의 배경을 해명하면서 동시에 그에게서 볼 수 있는 일관된 과학방법론 및 인식론을 도출하여 재구성하려고 노력할 것이다. 단정적으로 말하면, 우리는 그것을 '정신-물체 동일성 이론'으로 특성화하면서, 아울러 이러한 동일성 이론은 작금의 물리학적 인식론의 바람직한 한 형태가 될 수 있다는 것을 정당화하려고 노력할 것이다.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.451-466
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• 2009

서브스톰(substorm)은 일반적으로 IMF가 남쪽 방향(이하 southward IMF)일 때 발생하기 쉽지만 IMF가 북쪽 방향(이하 northward IMF)일 때도 발생한다. 이 연구에서는 northward IMF 상태일 때 발생하는 서브스톰의 특성을 규명하기 위해 2000년 5월부터 2002년까지의 기간에 발생한 서브스톰을 다루었다. 특히 northward IMF 기간 중 두 번 혹은 그 이상의 서브스톰이 연이어서 발생한 경우에 대한 총 53건의 서브스톰을 선정하였다. 이렇게 선정된 서브스톱에 대해 그 해당 IMF와 태양풍의 통계적 조건을 조사하였다. 또한 자기폭풍(magnetic storm)과의 연관성을 알아보고자 Sym-H의 변화를 조사하였다. 정지궤도에서 자기장의 쌍극자화(magnetic dipolarization) 정도와 고 에너지 입자 발생(energetic particle injection) 강도에 대해서도 조사 하였다. 서브스톰이 발생할 수 있는 에너지 유입의 근원을 알아보기 위해 IMF clock angle를 조사하였다. 이와 같은 조사를 통해 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. (1) northward IMF 서브스톰은 태양풍 물리량들이 보편적으로 알려진 평균 값을 가질 때 가장 높은 발생 빈도를 보였다. northward IMF로 바뀐 후 첫 번째로 발생된 서브스톰의 87%, 그 이후의 서브스톰들의 62%가 northward IMF 상태가 지속 된지 두 시간 이내에 발생 하였다. 이것은 곧 2 시간 이상 northward IMF 상태가 지속된 후에도 발생하는 서브스톰이 종종 존재한다는 것을 시사한다. (2) 대부분의 경우 자기폭풍과 독립된 서브스톰 이였으나, 자기폭풍 기간에 발생한 서브스톰의 경우에는 그렇지 않은 서브스톰들과 비교 하였을 때, 그 해당 IMF와 태양풍의 물리량들이 다소 높은 평균 값을 보였다. (3) 약 55%의 서브스톰은 낮지역의 자기장 재결합(dayside reconnection)이 가능 할 정도의 IMF clock angle을 갖는 상태이지만, 나머지 45%의 서브스톰의 경우는 그렇지 않은 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 이런 경우 낮지역 자기장 재결합 이외의 다른 방법에 의한 에너지 유입이 이루어 져야 할 것으로 본다. (4) 또한 많은 경우 정지궤도에서의 자기장의 쌍극자화 정도와 고 에너지 입자 발생 정도가 대체로 약한 것을 확인하였다. 하지만, 일부 이벤트에서는 강한 자기장 쌍극자화와 고 에너지 입자 발생이 나타났다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.1741-1747
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• 2012

Water-dispersible ZnS:Mn nanocrystals were synthesized by capping the surface of the nanocrystals with conventional aminoacids ligands: serine and threonine. The aminoacids capped ZnS:Mn nanocrystal powders were characterized by XRD, HR-TEM, EDXS, ICP-AES and FT-IR spectroscopy. The optical properties were also measured by UV/Vis and solution photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopies in aqueous solvents. The solution PL spectra showed broad emission peaks around 600 nm with PL efficiencies of 9.7% (ZnS:Mn-Ser) and 15.4% (ZnS:Mn-Thr) respectively. The measured particle sizes for the aminoacid capped ZnS:Mn nanocrystals by HR-TEM images were about 3.0-4.0 nm, which were also supported by Debye-Scherrer calculations. In addition, cytotoxic effects of four aminoacids capped ZnS:Mn nanocrsystals over the growth of wild type E. coli were investigated. Although toxicity in the form of growth inhibition was observed with all the aminoacids capped ZnS:Mn nanocrystals at higher dose (1 mg/mL), ZnS:Mn-Met and ZnS:Mn-Thr appeared non-toxic at doses less than 100 ${\mu}g$/mL. Low biological toxicities were seen at doses less than 10 ${\mu}g$/ mL for all nanocrystals.

• Carbon letters
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• 제22권
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• pp.48-59
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• 2017

This study synthesized pure anatase carbon doped $TiO_2$ photocatalysts supported on a stainless steel mesh using a sol-gel solution of 8% polyacrylonitrile (PAN)/dimethylformamide (DMF)/$TiCl_4$. The influence of the pyrolysis temperature and holding time on the morphological characteristics, particle sizes and surface area of the prepared catalyst was investigated. The prepared catalysts were characterized by several analytical methods: high resolution scanning electron microscopy (HRSEM), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The XRD patterns showed that the supported $TiO_2$ nanocrystals are typically anatase, polycrystalline and body-centered tetragonal in structure. The EDS and XPS results complemented one another and confirmed the presence of carbon species in or on the $TiO_2$ layer, and the XPS data suggested the substitution of titanium in $TiO_2$ by carbon. Instead of using calcination, PAN pyrolysis was used to control the carbon content, and the mesoporosity was tailored by the applied temperature. The supported $TiO_2$ nanocrystals prepared by pyrolysis at 300, 350, and $400^{\circ}C$ for 3 h on a stainless steel mesh were actual supported carbon doped $TiO_2$ nanocrystals. Thus, $PAN/DMF/TiCl_4$ offers a facile, robust sol-gel related route for preparing supported carbon doped $TiO_2$ nanocomposites.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.51-55
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• 2012

A few high-mass X-ray binaries-consisting of an OB star plus compact companion-have been observed by Fermi and ground-based Cerenkov telescopes like High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) to be sources of very high energy (VHE; up to 30 TeV) ${\gamma}$-rays. This paper focuses on the prominent ${\gamma}$-ray source, LS 5039, which consists of a massive O6.5V star in a 3.9-day-period, mildly elliptical ($e{\approx}0.24$) orbit with its companion, assumed here to be an unmagnetized compact object (e.g., black hole). Using three dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of the Bondi-Hoyle accretion of the O-star wind onto the companion, we find that the orbital phase variation of the accretion follows very closely the simple Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton (BHL) rate for the local radius and wind speed. Moreover, a simple model, wherein intrinsic emission of ${\gamma}$-rays is assumed to track this accretion rate, reproduces quite well Fermi observations of the phase variation of ${\gamma}$-rays in the energy range 0.1-10 GeV. However for the VHE (0.1-30 TeV) radiation observed by the HESS Cerenkov telescope, it is important to account also for photon-photon interactions between the ${\gamma}$-rays and the stellar optical/UV radiation, which effectively attenuates much of the strong emission near periastron. When this is included, we find that this simple BHL accretion model also quite naturally fits the HESS light curve, thus making it a strong alternative to the pulsar-wind-shock models commonly invoked to explain such VHE ${\gamma}$-ray emission in massive-star binaries.