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A Study on the Influence of Extreme Heat on Daily Mortality (폭염이 일사망자수에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Jong-Kil;Jung, Woo-Sik;Kim, Eun-Byul
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.523-537
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    • 2008
  • In Korea, the global warming leads to more frequent high temperature region. increasing the need for research into physical damage caused by high temperature. We therefore analyzed the differences of mortality, caused by extreme heat, among gender and age. We also examined the trend of mortality from high temperature-sensitive diseases. Women are more affected by exposure to high temperature than are men; People over 65 years old have higher mortality rate (1.5 times) than under 65. As for high temperature-related diseases, cerebrovascular disease was the number one cause of death, and chronic lower respiratory disease and cardiovascular disease followed.

Distribution of Epilithic Diatom Assemblages in an Urban Stream in Busan: Effected of Urban Climatic Conditions (도시 기후 변화가 도시하천의 부착규조류 군집에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Youjung;Kim, Kyungsun;Cho, Jeonggoo
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.143-151
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    • 2017
  • This study illustrates changes in the epilithic diatom assemblages in response to urban climatic conditions. We further assess the impact of abnormal urban climate to the urban stream environment. Epilithic diatoms, water chemical and physical variables were sampled every quarter, and assessed at 3 Oncheon stream sites, for a period of two years(from 2013~2014). The variation of physiochemical properties such as BOD, COD, T-N and T-P, show that the water quality was strongly influenced with long periods of drought and flood disturbance. Epilithic diatom assemblages were separated along the stream sites; however, the physical disturbance from urban drought and stormwater changed the composition of diatom assemblages instead of decreasing the taxonomic richness. Thus, our results suggest that epilithic diatom assemblages are altered in response to urban climatic changes, resulting in variations of stream conditions. Hence, strategies of climate change adaptation are required when considering urban stream environments.

A Transformation Method of Polygon Data for Visualization of Height Map in SEDRIS (SEDRIS에서 높이맵의 가시화를 위한 폴리곤 데이터 변환 방법)

  • Son, Hyun-Seung;Kim, Young-Chul
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.135-140
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    • 2015
  • The Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) complexly perform modeling and simulation (M&S) for the various embedded systems. In this case, due to use diverse formatted models, we suggest to apply with the SEDRIS to systematically manage the different formatted data on M&S. The SEDRIS can reduce time and cost with reusing and interoperating environment data developed in the specific domain. To do this, we should input the data transformed the height map for terrain representation in a simulator into raster data of SEDRIS for which interoperate between the existed simulator and the SEDRIS. To solve the problem, we propose the transformation method to transfer the polygon data from RAW file used in terrain representation. With the proposed method, we can provide two advantages. First, it can possibly express the environment data into SEDRIS. Second, we can see the terrain like an image file through a viewer. Therefore, even non-expert easily constructs the terrain environment data.

Considerations on an Oriental Medical Doctor like Indentation System (한의사 맥진 가압력 재현에 대한 고찰)

  • Lee, Jeon;Woo, Young-Jae;Jeon, Young-Ju;Lee, Yu-Jung;Ryu, Hyun-Hee;Kim, Jong-Yeol
    • Korean Journal of Oriental Medicine
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.113-119
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    • 2008
  • In pulse diagnosis, the indentation pressure is one of the most important factors as well as the change of pulse shape and the distribution of pressure via time. But, on the oriental medical doctor's indentation pressure control, the understandings of the neurophysiological meanings and mechanisms have been lacked. So, in this paper, we considered on these issues and then proposed a proper system which can imitate the OMD's indentation pressure control mechanisms. As a result, both tactile information and kinesthetic information were found to be essential to the indentation pressure control so that a system, which can measure both the physical indent pressure and the displacement of an indentation arm, has been proposed. With this proposed system, while the indentation was being controlled through the moving step number of the step motor, the physical indentation pres sure and displacement of the indentation arm were measured. From these measured data, the relationships between the moving step number and both physical indentation pressure and displacement were revealed to have linear characteristics in early phase and to have nonlinear characteristics in latter phase. Additionally, three types of graph were generated whose X axis means the moving step number, the physical indentation pressure and the displacement respectively and Y axis means the pulse pressure. By comparing these graphs, we come to conclude that different concepts on indentation pressure control cause different diagnostic results on floating/sinking degrees for the same subject. Consequently, an indentation system for the pulse diagnosis should be able to provide both the tactile information and kinesthetic information, that is, the physical indentation pressure and the displacement of the indentation arm. In future, the proposed system should be optimized to the pulse diagnosis environment and how to combine the both information for more reliable diagnosis should be studied.

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A Study on the Improvement of Comfortable Living Environment by Using real-time Sensors

  • KIM, Chang-Mo;KIM, Ik-Soo;SHIN, Deok-Young;LEE, Hee-Sun;KWON, Seung-Mi;SHIN, Jin-Ho;SHIN, YongSeung
    • Journal of Wellbeing Management and Applied Psychology
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.19-31
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: This study was conducted to identify indoor air quality in various living spaces using sensors that can measure noise, vibration, fine dust, and odor in real time and to propose optimal indoor air quality maintenance management using Internet of Things(IoT). Research design, data and methodology: Using real-time sensors to monitor physical factors and environmental air pollutants that affect the comfort of the residential environment, Noise, Vibration, Atmospheric Pressure, Blue Light, Formaldehyde, Hydrogen Sulfide, Illumination, Temperature, Ozone, PM10, Aldehyde, Amine, LVOCs and TVOCs were measured. It were measured every 1 seconds from 4 offices and 4 stores on a small scale from November 2018 to January 2019. Results: The difference between illuminance and blue light for each measuring point was found to depend on lighting time, and the ratio of blue light in total illumination was 0.358 ~ 0.393. Formaldehyde and hydrogen sulphide were found to be higher than those that temporarily attract people in an indoor office space that is constantly active, requiring office air ventilation. The noise was found to be 50dB higher than the office WHO recommendation noise level of 35 ~ 40dB. The most important factors for indoor environmental quality were temperature> humidity> illumination> blue light in turn. Conclusions: Various factors that determine the comfort of indoor living space can be measured with real-time sensors. Further, it is judged that the use of IoT can help maintain indoor air quality comfortably.

The Case Study of Cut-Slope Stability in Pyroclastic-Rock Area (화산쇄설암 분포지역 내 절토사면 안정성 사례연구)

  • Lee, Jeong-Yeob;Koo, Ho-Bon;Kim, Seung-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2008.03a
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    • pp.884-893
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this case study is cut-slope stability in pyroclastic-rock area. Pyroclastic-rock is very vulerable by Chemical and physical weathering. And risk increase of Pyroclastic-rock proportional to exposure time. This case of cut-slope located in Jeollabuk-do Jinan-gun and reserch order is topography character research, geological character research, field survey, measure method presentation.

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Design and Implementation of interlocking between Physical Computing and Social Network Service for disabled people (의사표현에 제약이 있는 장애인을 위한 피지컬 컴퓨팅을 활용한 SNS 연동 시스템 구축에 대한 연구)

  • Lee, Byung-Hoon;Jang, Won-Tae;Suh, Jae-Hee
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.82-88
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    • 2012
  • In recent years, social awareness and concern about the SNS is getting a lot and many researches on the social impact of the SNS and variety strategies using SNS have emerged one after another. In this paper, we explain the method of interlocking between SNS and variety sensors in physical computing environment. Especially we propose that interlocking technology between sensors and twitter in Arduino platform(open source environment) can be used for the handicapped people. We design a way to send message via twitter for handicapped people using values from various sensors.

A Framework Development for BIM-based Object-Oriented Physical Modeling for Building Thermal Simulation (객체지향 물리적 모델링 기법을 활용한 BIM기반 통합 건물에너지 성능분석 모델 구축 및 활용을 위한 프레임워크 개발 - 건물 열부하 시뮬레이션 중심으로 -)

  • Jeong, WoonSeong
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.95-105
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    • 2015
  • Purpose: This paper presents a framework development for BIM (Building Information Modeling)-based OOPM (Object-Oriented Physical Modeling) for Building Thermal Simulation. The framework facilitates decision-making in the design process by integrating two object-oriented modeling approaches (BIM and OOPM) and efficiently providing object-based thermal simulation results into the BIM environment. Method: The framework consists of a system interface between BIM and OOPM-based building energy modeling (BEM) and the visualization of simulation results for building designers. The interface enables a BIM models to be translated into OOPM-based BEM automatically and the thermal simulation from the created BEM model immediately. The visualization module enables the simulation results to be presented in BIM for building designers to comprehend the relationships between design decisions and the building performances. For the framework implementation, we utilized the Modelica Buildings Library developed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a thermal simulation solver. We also conducted an experiment to validate the framework simulation results and demonstrate our framework. Result: This paper demonstrates a new methodology to integrate BIM and OOPM-based BEM for building thermal simulation, which enables an automatic translation BIM into OOPM-based BEM with high efficiency and accuracy.

Changes in the Chemical Structure and the Thermal/Physical Properties of Fluoropolymer Films Induced by Gamma Irradiation under Various Environments (다양한 환경에서 감마선으로 조사된 불소고분자 필름들의 구조 및 열적/물성 변화)

  • Choi, Ji Sun;Sohn, Joon-Yong;Shin, Junhwa
    • Polymer(Korea)
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    • v.38 no.4
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    • pp.457-463
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    • 2014
  • In this study, the changes in the chemical structure and the physical property of fluoropolymer films (PTFE, FEP, PFA, PVDF, and ETFE) induced by $Co^{60}$ gamma ray in air, $N_2$, and vacuum environments were investigated. FTIR spectra of the irradiated fluoropolymers indicate that the oxidation proceeded by the reaction of radicals generated by irradiation with oxygen in air. The changes in the heat of fusion and the degree of crystallinity of the irradiated fluoropolymers were investigated using DSC and the results indicate that the scission and crosslinking reactions of the irradiated fluoropolymers were largely influenced by the chemical structure. It was also found that the mechanical property of the irradiated fluoropolymer films under an air atmosphere was significantly decreased.

Assessing Average Residence Time as a Physical Descriptor for Shellfish Farming Areas in Jaran Bay, Korea (자란만 패류양식해역의 물리환경 설명을 위한 평균체류시간 산정)

  • Kim, Jin Ho;Park, Sung-Eun;Kim, Youngmin;Kim, Chung Sook;Kang, Sungchan;Jung, Woo-Sung;Sim, Bo-Ram;Eom, Ki-Hyuk
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.273-282
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    • 2020
  • Residence time is defined as the time taken for a material in a system to leave the system. The residence time characteristics in shellfish aquaculture determine the dispersion of excretion from aquaculture farms, along with the supply of food by seawater exchange. In this study, we estimated the spatial distribution of average residence time in the shellfish farming area using a particle tracking model. As a result, a relatively short average residence time of about 20 days or less was calculated in most areas, but an average residence time of more than 40 days was calculated in the inner areas. Relatively long average residence times were calculated along the west coast compared to the east coast, with the longest average residence time of more than 50 days in the northwestern areas. It can be inferred that the disturbance of the benthic ecosystem caused by shellfish farms is likely to be large because of the relatively weak dispersion of excrement from shellfish farms located on the west coast, especially in the northwest region. This distribution of average residence time is important for understanding the potential effects of seawater exchange on the environmental sustainability of shellfish farms, along with the seawater circulation characteristics of Jaran Bay.