With the increasing indroduction and spread of invasive quarantine pests, accurate diagnosis of pests detected in quarantine sites has become crucial. DNA barcoding, a standardized method that complements morphological analysis for rapid and precise species identification, is actively researched worldwide. In this study, we established a molecular biological identification system for major pests encountered during the import and export of agricultural and forestry products. By analyzing the DNA barcode sequences of pests collected domestically and those detected in quarantine inspections, we compiled genetic information for 1,292 individuals representing 472 species, 108 families across 11 insect orders. Among these, order Lepidoptera had the highest diversity, with 251 species across 27 families. We also secured barcodes for 52 species, 24 families in order Hemiptera, and 70 species, 20 families in order Coleoptera. By constructing a comprehensive biological foundation and database for various pests detected in quarantine sites, we aim to enhance the quarantine system by enabling rapid and accurate identification of invasive pests, thereby blocking early.

Molten salts have gained significant attention as a potential medium for heat transfer or energy storage and as liquid nuclear fuel, owing to their superior thermal properties. Various fluoride- and chloride-based salts are being explored as potential liquid fuels for several types of molten salt reactors (MSRs). Among these, chloride-based salts have recently received attention in MSR development due to their high solubility in actinides, which has the potential to increase fuel burnup and reduce nuclear water production. Accurate knowledge of the thermal physical properties of molten salts, such as density, viscosity, thermal conductivity, and heat capacity, is critical for the design, licensing, and operation of MSRs. Various experimental techniques have been used to determine the thermal properties of molten salts, and more recently, computational methods such as molecular dynamics simulations have also been utilized to predict these properties. However, information on the thermal physical properties of salts containing actinides is still limited and unreliable. In this study, we analyzed the available thermal physical property database of chloride salts to develop accurate models and simulations that can predict the behavior of molten salts under various operating conditions. Furthermore, we conducted experiments to improve our understanding of the behavior of molten salts. The results of this study are expected to contribute to the development of safer and more efficient MSRs.

The decommissioning of Korea Research Reactor Units 1 and 2 (KRR-1&2), the first research reactors in South Korea, began in 1997. Approximately 5,000 tons of waste will be generated when the contaminated buildings are demolished. Various types of radioactive waste are generated in large quantities during the operation and decommissioning of nuclear facilities, and in order to dispose of them in a disposal facility, it is necessary to physico-chemically characterize the radioactive waste. The need to transparently and clearly conduct and manage radioactive waste characterization methods and results in accordance with relevant laws, regulations, acceptance standards is emerging. For radioactive waste characterization information, all information must be provided to the disposal facility by measuring and testing the physical, chemical, and radiological characteristics and inputting related documents. At this time, field workers have the inconvenience of performing computerized work after manually inputting radioactive waste characterization information, and there is always a possibility that human errors may occur during manual input. Furthermore, when disposing of radioactive waste, the production of the documents necessary for disposal is also done manually, resulting in the aforementioned human error and very low production efficiency of numerous documents. In addition, as quality control is applied to the entire process from generation to treatment and disposal of radioactive waste, it is necessary to physically protect data and investigate data quality in order to manage the history information of radioactive waste produced in computerized work. In this study, we develop a system that can directly compute the radioactive waste characterization information at the field site where the test and measurement are performed, protect the stored radioactive waste characterization data, and provide a system that can secure reliability.

To obtain the gamma-ray energy spectrum of artificial radionuclides which is difficult to obtain practically, virtual gamma-ray energy spectrum simulator program was developed. It can be applied for the predetermined measurement condition for which the database was developed through computational simulation and actual measurement of background radiation. For gamma spectrometry training for KHNP HPGe detectors using this program, the database for KNPG HPGe detectors was developed. First, the geometry of the detector in the simulation was adjusted to resemble the real structure by comparing the actually measured net counts rate at the main gamma peak with the value simulated by MCNP6. The Certified Reference material (CRM) of 137Cs and 60Co were used for verification. The comparison was made with respect to the situation where CRM was attached to the top and side of the detection part of the considered detector. The geometry structures of detectors were simulated by reflecting the design drawing of the products, and the simulation was performed for several thicknesses of the Ge/Li dead layer in consideration of the change in the thickness over time. As the results, the simulation geometry was tuned so that the results for 137Cs showed a difference within 10% for all detectors. At this time, in some detectors, the result for 60Co shows a 10% higher error, which is estimated to be due to the random summing. It was not considered in tuning the simulation geometry, but it was found that improvements were needed to reflect the coincidence summing when construction the virtual spectrum in the future. The determined simulation geometry was applied to generate theoretical gamma-ray energy spectra of representative artificial radionuclides. In order to create a virtual spectrum similar to the real one, the background spectrum was measured for each detector without a source, and the simulation results were calculated in the form of having the same energy channel as the background spectrum. The background spectrum and theoretical spectra of artificial radionuclides for each detector were databased so that virtual spectra could be generated under desired conditions. The virtual spectrum was generated by adding a background spectrum and a spectrum obtained by multiplying the spectrum of the desired nuclide by the concentration of the nuclide. The validity of generated virtual spectra was verified using the pre-developed gamma spectrometry program. As a results of gamma spectrometry of virtual spectra, the virtual spectra was verified by showing a difference within 20% from the radioactivity value input when generating the virtual spectra.

The Korean Ritual Studies Series is a compilation of the works about Korean ritual studies, which makes a great contribution to scholarship in this area. Relying on a number of major national programs in China and South Korea, digital collation and research the Korean Ritual Studies Series was made to create into a “literature database of Korean ritual studies” by cooperation between the Center for the Study and Application of Chinese Characters (CSACC) of East China Normal University (ECNU) which is a key research institute of humanities and social science approved by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, and the research institutions of Kyungsung University including the Center for the Study of Chinese Characters in Korea, the Research Society of Korean Ritual Studies and the Academy of Korean Studies. The basic framework of the database contains six sub-databases, which are fully correlated with each other according to relevant attributes. The database provides search capability, with three search functions, including catalog index, full-text retrieval and a word index. It is a major achievement of an international cooperation program supported by a multilevel international platform. It provides a large sustainable development space for the “literature database of Korean ritual studies”, which is an indispensable and important part of the “public database of Chinese characters” created by the Center for the Study and Application of Chinese Characters (CSACC) of East China Normal University (ECNU). The three key breakthroughs are needed for its further development: (I) Achieving the data association, comparative research and web publishing of Chinese and Korean ritual literature, establishing an Asian big data ritual research and application platform, supporting the research of Chinese and Korean ritual cultures, the communication history of ritual culture, the development history of Chinese characters and the research of many other disciplines, and meeting the multi-functional needs of ritual research, teaching and communication while completing a comprehensive digital connection of the internal resources of the database. (II) Deeply tapping into the massive Chinese character writing and memory data to create a 21st century database for written texts in the Sinosphere on the basis of digital processing and research of Korean ritual literature. (III) Realizing the multidimensional intelligent automatic recognition and interpretation of original literature written and memorized in Chinese characters such as ancient Chinese and Korean ritual literature, family mottoes and letters of noble families and great clans as well as folk handcopied books, and opening a new era of intelligent interpretation and research of the written texts in the Sinosphere through image recognition technology.

There are a lot of problems in the existing databases of ancient characters, such as the digital processing obstacles of Gaiji (characters excluded in character sets), the defects of information technology, and a lack of completeness. The newly released “digital resource library for intelligent Internet search of ancient characters” makes the following breakthrough: it achieves full coverage of all types of ancient characters in all dynasties, and realizes the carrier conversion of character data with strict digital standards, allows the the further processing of materials and the intelligent recognition search technology, and forms the series of thematic databases. There are two major tasks for the future development of the digital resource library of Chinese characters: the development of international standards for ancient character sets, and the further processing and sorting of ancient character materials for the intelligent research of ancient characters.

In order to improve the ground-motion prediction equation, which is an important factor in seismic hazard assessment, it is essential to obtain good quality seismic data for a region. The Korean Peninsula has an environment in which it is difficult to obtain strong ground motion data. However, because digital seismic observation networks have become denser since the mid-2000s and moderate earthquake events such as the Odaesan earthquake (Jan. 20, 2007, ML 4.8), the 9.12 Gyeongju earthquake (Sep. 12, 2016, ML 5.8), and the Pohang earthquake (Nov. 15, 2017, ML 5.4) have occurred, some good empirical data on ground motion could have been accumulated. In this study, we tried to build a ground motion database that can be used for the development of the ground motion attenuation equation by collecting seismic data accumulated since the 2000s. The database was constructed in the form of a flat file with RotD50 peak ground acceleration, 5% damped pseudo-spectral acceleration, and meta information related to hypocenter, path, site, and data processing. The seismic data used were the velocity and accelerogram data for events over ML 3.0 observed between 2003 and 2019 by the Korean National Seismic Network administered by the Korea Meteorological Administration. The final flat file contains 10,795 ground motion data items for 141 events. Although this study focuses mainly on organizing earthquake ground-motion waveforms and their data processing, it is thought that the study will contribute to reducing uncertainty in evaluating seismic hazard in the Korean Peninsula if detailed information about epicenters and stations is supplemented in the future.

안전한 해양플랜트 운용을 위해 장비 성능평가를 실시하고 그 결과를 모니터링 할 수 있는 시스템이 필요하다. 현재는 육상으로부터 멀리 떨어진 해양플랜트의 특성상 장비 성능평가를 위해 정기적으로 계측 데이터를 저장매체에 저장한 후 육상으로 운반해야한다. 이로인해 성능평가 주기가 길어지고, 다음 성능평가가 시행되기 전까지의 장비의 성능 저하 정도를 알 수 없어 장비의 고장을 방지하기 어렵다. 따라서 육상이 아닌 해양플랜트 내에 온보드(on-board) 형태의 장비 성능 모니터링 시스템을 구축할 필요가 있다. 본 논문에서는 해양플랜트 내에서 장비 성능을 평가하고 그 결과를 가시화하는 장비 성능 모니터링 시스템을 개발하기 위한 초기 단계로, 장비 성능 모니터링 시스템의 데이터베이스를 설계 및 구축하고자 한다. 이를 위해 주요 장비의 태그 데이터를 선정하여 분석을 진행하였다. 최종적으로 장비 상태를 실시간으로 계측한 데이터를 해양플랜트 내에서 저장 및 관리하기 위해 온보드 형태의 장비 성능 모니터링 시스템을 위한 데이터베이스를 설계 및 구축 하였다.

PURPOSES : The purpose of this study is to develop a regression model to predict the International Roughness Index(IRI) and Surface Distress(SD) for the estimation of HPCI using Expressway Pavement Management System(PMS).METHODS : To develop an HPCI prediction model, prediction models of IRI and SD were developed in advance. The independent variables considered in the models were pavement age, Annual Average Daily Traffic Volume(AADT), the amount of deicing salt used, the severity of Alkali Silica Reaction(ASR), average temperature, annual temperature difference, number of days of precipitation, number of days of snowfall, number of days below zero temperature, and so on.RESULTS : The present IRI, age, AADT, annual temperature differential, number of days of precipitation and ASR severity were chosen as independent variables for the IRI prediction model. In addition, the present IRI, present SD, amount of deicing chemical used, and annual temperature differential were chosen as independent variables for the SD prediction model.CONCLUSIONS: The models for predicting IRI and SD were developed. The predicted HPCI can be calculated from the HPCI equation using the predicted IRI and SD.

본 연구에서는 국내의 공시된 545종의 위험유해물질의 국제 해상운송위험물 코드를 포함한 다양한 물질 고유번호들을 수집하고 물질정보와 위험성에 대해 조사한 후, 이미 개발된 미국, 일본, 유럽형 데이터베이스를 참고하여, 해상 운송되는 국내 HNS의 물질정보와 폭발성과 부식성을 포함한 거동특성에 대한 자료를 취합한 한국형 위험유해물질 데이터베이스를 구축하였다. 또한 기존 육상 환경위주의 위험유해물질의 데이터베이스의 문제점과 혼합물 위험유해물질의 물질정보의 부재를 포함한 해결해야할 문제점을 보고하였다. 해양유출사고에 대비한 데이터베이스의 구조를 국내 해양환경에 맞는 기본모델을 구축하고 추후 확장 데이터베이스 구성에 대한 개선안을 제시하였다.

This study was conducted to develop a Han-sik database as well as to assess the effects of Han-sik on dietary quality among Koreans. The Han-sik database was developed by a focus group composed of food and nutrition specialists considering the results of Han-sik perception surveys conducted in previous studies for frequently consumed dishes. Among the 1,322 dish items identified in the 4th (2007-2009) Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES), 973 items (73.6%) were classified as Han-sik. Han-sik usage was defined as the percentage of Han-sik items of all individually consumed dish items in the dietary data of 22,113 subjects who participated in a 24-hour diet recall in the 4th (2007-2009) KNHANES. Dietary quality was evaluated based on adherence to the Korean Food Guidance System (KFGS), which was calculated as the percentage of the number of servings consumed in each food group out of recommended servings according to age and sex. Mean usage of Han-sik was 80.1% and was higher in older age groups, rural areas, as well as in households at the lowest income level. Han-sik usage was also higher on weekdays as well as for breakfast. Adherence to the KFGS was significantly higher for grains, meat · fish · egg · beans, vegetables, and fruits (p<0.001) but lower for milk · dairy products and oils · fats · sugars (p<0.001) across the quartiles of Han-sik usage. The results of this study indicate that Han-sik usage is high among Koreans. Further studies are needed to update the Han-sik database as well as investigate the association between health-related factors and Han-sik use.

방사성폐기물 처분 안전성 평가를 위하여 방사성 핵종의 수착특성에 대한 정보제공이 필요하다. 그러나 우리나라는 최근까지 핵종 수착 데이터베이스에 대한 접근성이 취약하여 이용에 제한이 있었다. 사용자들에게 효율적인 방법으로 핵종 수착관련 정보를 제공하기 위해 웹을 기반으로 하는 핵종 수착 데이터베이스(KAERI-SDB)를 개발하였다. KAERI-SDB를 개발하기 위하여 1998년에 개발된 수착 데이터베이스 프로그램인 SDB-21C을 분석하고 사용자 요구사항을 반영하였으며, 사용자가 웹브라우저를 통하여 실시간으로 수정 및 보완된 핵종 수착 자료에 실시간으로 접근이 가능하도록 구성하였다. KAERI-SDB는 로그인/회원가입, 자료 검색 및 저장 그리고 검색결과에 대한 차트 구현 등의 기능들이 포함되도록 고안되었다. KAERI-SDB는 수착 자료를 이용하고자 하는 이용자들의 접근성을 향상함으로써 방사성폐기물 처분 안전성 평가에 폭넓게 활용될 것으로 예상된다. 나아가, 핵종 수착관련 자료들을 일반인에게 공개함으로써 방사성폐기물 처분 프로그램에 대한 신뢰도와 대중수용성을 증진시킬 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

We constructed a photometric database system which is optimally designed for microlensing events from KMTNet (Korea Microlensing Telescope Network) observation. We developed a framework software for the convenience of archiving, uploading, searching, and downloading of processed photometric data. From various tests for optimal data archiving engines, we found that the MyISAM storage engine shows the best performance. For the high performance of database system, data types of each field are carefully suggested from various combinations of tests especially to correct round-off errors. The developed framework provides the convenience of access to the database server using query forms via web pages, and displays the light curve of selected target for a quick view.