Since the directly bonded interface between TiAl alloy and SCM440 includes lots of cracks and generated intermetallic compounds(IMCs) such as TiC, FeTi, and Fe2Ti, the interfacial strength can be significantly reduced. Therefore, in this study, Cu is selected as an insert metal to improve the lower tensile strength of the joint between TiAl alloy and SCM440 during friction welding. As a result, newly formed IMCs, such as Cu2TiAl, CuTiAl, and TiCu2, are found at the interface between TiAl alloy and Cu layer and the thickness of IMCs layers is found to vary with friction time. In addition, to determine the relationship between the thickness of the IMCs and the strength of the welded interfaces, a tensile test was performed using sub-size specimens obtained from the center to the peripheral region of the friction-welded interface. The results are discussed in terms of changes in the IMCs and the underlying deformation mechanism. Finally, it is found that the friction welding process needs to be idealized because IMCs generated between TiAl alloy and Cu act to not only increase the bonding strength but also form an easy path of fracture propagation.

베일의 시장 판매를 위해서는 표준화된 품질과 상품의 정량화가 선행되어야 하며, 이를 뒷받침하기 위해 베일의 정량화가 가능한 베일러 개발이 필요하다. 베일의 크기보다 중량을 기준으로 정량화할 경우 수확물의 생산 조건과 관계없이 베일의 일정한 규격화가 가능해진다. 이러한, 중량기준 정량화가 가능한 베일러의 개발을 위해 가장 중요한 요소기술들 중 하나가 바로 가변 중량 측정 시스템이다.따라서 본 연구에서는 중량 가변이 가능한 베일러의 기초 연구로써 트레일러의 3점에 로드셀을 설치하여 트레 일러에 적재되는 내용물의 하중이 3점의 로드셀에 의해 모두 지탱되도록 플로팅 타입의 하중 측정 시스템을 구성하였다. 이를 이용하여 정적 하중과 동적 하중을 측정함으로써 하중 측정 시 발생하는 문제점 들을 파악하고, 중량 감응형 베일러 개발의 기초자료로 활용하기 위하여 연구는 수행되었다.그 결과 정적 측정 신호와 동적 측정 신호의 지배적인 주파수 성분은 각각 0∼0.5Hz와 0∼0.1Hz에서 발생하였으며, 사용된 전원으로 인한 60Hz의 주파수 성분과 시스템의 이동 시 지표면의 굴곡, 엔진의 구동 등으로 인하여 진동이 발생하였다. 그래서 이러한 노이즈를 제거하기 위하여 저주파 통과 필터(3 Order, Butterworth type, Cutoff frequency 0.1Hz)를 사용하였다. 편심 하중에 따른 측정 신호의 분석 결과 편심 하중은 하중 측정에 영향을 주지 않으며, 시스템의 이동속도 3.47km/h와 6.21km/h에서 측정된 하중과 예측 하중을 비교한 결과 각각 -2.42kgf와 -1.71kgf의 평균 하중 오차를 보였다. 즉, 시스템의 이동속도는 하중 측정에 영향을 미치지 않았으며, 추후 중량 감응형 가변 베일러에 본 시스템을 적용하 기 위해서는 실제 베일러의 기계적 진동과 비 진동 요인들을 규명해야 한다.

Tumor necrosis factor receptor associated factor 4 (TRAF4)는 TNF receptor associated factor 군의 하나로 암세포 전이, 활성산소 생성, 세포극성에 관여한다. 쥐 배아발생의 8.5 에서 13.5 days post-coitum 시기에 TRAF4 의 발현이 높게 관찰된다. 세포 특성의 변화를 보이는 상피간엽이행(EMT)시에 TRAF4 가 세포막의 세포밀접에 위치하는 것으로 알려져 세포분화가 시작되는 배 발생 시에도 주요한 역할을 할 것으로 여겨진다. 하지만 돼지에서는 TRAF4 의 기능과 특성에 대한 연구가 미비하다. 본 연구는 돼지 TRAF4 의 mRNA 전장서열과 조직에서의 발현을 확인함으로써 TRAF4 의 특성에 대한 정보를 제공할 것이다. TRAF4 mRNA 의 전장 서열을 밝히기 위해서 돼지 신장유래세포(pK15)에서 total RNA 를 추출하여 RACE(Rapid Amplification of cDNA ends) PCR 이 수행되었다. 이 후 클로닝을 통해 얻은 암호영역, 5`UTR, 3`UTR 의 서열로 2,030 염기쌍의 mRNA 전장서열을 확인하였다. 조직에서 TRAF4 의 발현은 qPCR 로 상대정량되었다. 돼지 TRAF4 는 470 개의 아미노산을 지정하는데 이는 사람과는 8 개, 쥐와는 12 개 차이를 보였다. TRAF4 단백질의 TRAF 도메인은 다른 TRAF 군과 다르게 GTWRGS 의 고리를 가지는데 돼지에서도 동일한 서열이 확인되었다. 돼지에서 TRAF4 는 난소와 위에서 상대적으로 높은 발현을 보였다. TRAF4 의 mRNA 서열은 돼지의 TRAF4 에 대한 기초정보가 될것으로 여겨진다.

본 연구에서 우리는 국가문화의 기술혁신활동에의 영향을 탐색해 보았다. 먼저 (국가)문화의 개념을 정리하였고, 다양한 세부 국가문화지표들에 대한 논의도 추가하였다. 다음으로 국가문화가 기술혁신 활동 및 성과에 영향을 미치는 이론적 메커니즘을 기존 문헌 을 통하여 정리하였다. 국가문화는 국가 사회를 구성하는 근저를 이루는 틀을 형성하는 다양 한 개념을 종합한 것이기 때문에 각 개념별로 기술혁신시스템에 미치는 영향은 크게 다름을 알 수 있었다. 마지막으로 국가문화가 기술의 특성, 사회제도, 정책 등과 어떻게 상호작용을 하면서 기술혁신활동에 영향을 미치는 지를 탐색해 보았다. 관련 문헌, 이론 및 실증분석을 정리하면서 동시에 이에 기반 하여 새로운 논의를 제안하고 다양한 미래연구 가능성을 제시 하였다. 이를 통한 기술혁신이론에의 시사점도 정리하였다.

In order to prevent secondary pollution of tap water, corrosion characteristics are investigated, and corrosion index are calculated using LI and LR to manage corrosiveness. As targeted water treatment plants from 2014 (July, once) to 2015 (July and October, 2 times), 70 plants are selected by making a division for each area and water system. (treated water samples, n=240, raw water samples, n=72). In result of pH analysis, treated water was lower than raw water to 7.12, and 7.29, respectively. LI were investigated in the order of Seomjin river, Nakdong river, Han river, Geum river, to -2.08, -1.24, -1.11, -1.10 (at raw water), and -2.18, -1.59, -1.51, -1.35 (at treated water), respectively. In case of water quality goal value (LI = -1) in Japan as control of corrosiveness, management object was investigated about 83.3%.

The Korean native cattle, Hanwoo, is the most popular breed of beef cattle in Korea. However, the reproductive performance data are limited although reproduction is one of the most economically and biologically important in beef production. Therefore, this study was undertaken to investigate reproductive performance parameters including calving interval, parity for life time production. Data collected from 206,827 calvings were analyzed. There were no significant differences in calving interval and gestation days as parity increased from 2nd and 13rd parity cow, from spring to winter. However, we found a dramatic increase in calving interval after year 2000. About 1 month were increased per year ( y = 30.578x + 344.45 R² = 0.9157). Interestingly, we observed that parities for life time can be affected by birth weight. Calves with 23 kg at birth showed highest parities, 3.4±2.0 times. In summary, this study provides valuable data on reproductive performance of Hanwoo and the data presented here can be used as a standard target for optimising and enhancing reproductive performance.

Wholesale beef price is the critical factor for determining Korean native cattle, Hanwoo, farm’s income in short-term. Wholesale beef price has seasonality due to high demand in Korean traditional holidays such as Korean thanksgiving day and lunar new year’s day. Therefore, it is important to make reproduction and marketing plans for Korean Hanwoo farmers, in order to increase their farm income. However, there is no study available on changes in the expected farm income depending on reproduction and marketing schedules. This study analyzed the expected farm income per head depending on the monthly-based marketing schedules. The analysis was conducted based on the seasonality of wholesale beef price, reproduction efficiency, operating costs, relationship between carcass grade and slaughter age. The result shows that slaughter Hanwoo at the age of 29 months-old in August and January generating the highest expected farm income per head.

The aim of the present study was to evaluate and estimate timing of artificial insemination (AI) in Hanwoo heifer (Korean native cattle) that is the most popular breed of beef cattle in Korea. To determine changes in body weight of heifers around AI, body weight were measured at different stages either before or after AI. We found that daily body weight gain was higher in the pregnant cows after AI. We also investigate correlation between body mass measured by shoulder height and body length, and conception rates, used (body length+ height)2 instead of height2 for body mass index (BMI), and found that relatively more BMI heifers (>55) showed higher conception rates. Finally, we estimated body weight by measuring should height (SH), heart girth (HG), and body length (BL); BW=3.93372*HG-2.90985*SH-0.021*BL. In addition, we observed that HG is most closely correlated with BW; y(BW) = 1.77355*x(HG), R² = 0.98881. In summary, we can determine the best timing of AI using body measurement and its application including BMI.

Various kinds of processes are used in the Public Sewage Treatment Works(PSTWs) in order to achieve water quality criteria and TMDL in the watershed. The performance of the existing processes at PSTWs depends on influent characteristics, effluent quality target, amount of sludge production, power cost and other factors. In present, the Selection Guideline for the Available Treatment Process of PSTWs is used for a process decision in the country. But there are some problems regarding redundancy of assessment factors and complexity of assessment procedure in the guideline. In this study, we did a test application of AHP for process selection of PSTWs, which propose is to simplify assessment factors such as pollutant removal amount, sludge generation, electricity consumption, stability of operation, convenience of maintenance, easiness of existing process application, installation cost, and operating cost concerning of environmental factors, technical factors and economical factors. According to the study, the PSTWs selection procedure guideline can be improved using application of AHP method.

Calculating break-even price of calf production is closely associated with reproductive efficiency. To determine the price, we need data from reproduction records including number of claves weaned, number of cows exposed for breeding, and annual cash coast per cow, and average weaning or market weight of claves sold and retained. Unfortunately, the data were not available in Korea native cow (Hanwoo). To evaluate the performance and the price, we collected calving interval from about 60,000 cows for last 10 years and estimated reproductive performance. Calving interval was increased 4.3% and pregnancy rate was decreased about 1.4∼2.8% year-on-year. Increases in growth rates of number of cow and semen per calf supported the low reproductive performance. Finally, break-even price was calculated using estimated percent calf crop and demonstrated that growth rate of break-even price is larger than that of annual cash per cow, suggesting cow-calf profitability and financial efficiency in Korea native cow (Hanwoo) is getting worse.

Under Korea’s Enforcement Decree of the Framework Act on Environmental Policy amended in 2013, total organic carbon (TOC) is newly added as water quality parameter to assess organic pollution in the aquatic ecosystem. To meet the TOC requirement and improve quality of effluent discharged into public watershed, it is also necessary to develop standards for TOC in effluent from public sewage treatment works (PSTWs).In this study, we reviewed the characteristics and removal efficiency of TOC in influent and effluent of PSTWs. The study found that phosphorus treatment process removed not only soluble phosphorus but also a portion of TOC remaining after the secondary treatment process. TOC concentration in effluent from PSTWs operated in tandem with industrial wastewater treatment work was higher due to influx of insoluble substances from the industrial wastewater treatment work.In order to lay a foundation for the management of TOC from PSTWs, it is necessary to carry out research on TOC from different perspectives. For example, studies on the generation mechanism of TOC and the impact of TOC on drinking water resources, assessment of effluent qualities through monitoring, and development of measures to control TOC for the preservation of aquatic ecosystem are needed.

The deficiency of competent native English speaker raters and the inherent problem with intra-rater and inter-rater reliability of the oral proficiency interview (OPI) has precluded the full-fledged implementation of English performance testing, inevitably ushering in the computer- based oral proficiency interview (COPI) as its viable alternative with the help of automatic speech recognition (ASR). The plausibility and feasibility of implementing ASR-based COPI has recently been investigated with favorable results, which warrants more sophisticated research focusing on development of desirable test methods that will meet the rigorous criteria required by high-stakes language tests. In this respect, employing varied statistical methods as correlational, regression analyses, and ANOVA, the present study attempts to explore strengths and limitations of test method facets and to identify valid test methods to maximize the validity and reliability of ASR-based COPⅠ. Within the theoretical framework of communicative language components to be measured, the statistical findings reveal that some test methods prove to be more effective than others in producing COPI test results with better discriminability and reliability. The survey of students and teachers also suggest their favorable attitudes toward utilizing the COPI for in-class evaluation. Both findings strongly corroborates potential of the COPI in question as a valid performance testing tool to measure overall communicative competence. The current research is expected not only to shed light on advancement of performance testing, but also to serve the purpose of enhancing communicative English teaching.

Serious inherent problems with practicality, intra-rater and inter-rater reliability overshadow the known positive washback effects of performance assessment in language education. In particular, it has been welldocumented that inter-rater reliability poses a serious threat to overall test validity, since individual raters necessarily measure performance according to their own subjective severity criteria in language proficiency. However, language testing has witnessed a remarkable series of breakthroughs in performance assessment during the recent advent of the information era. One such breakthrough utilizes state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology for oral proficiency interviews(OPI). Granting that current forms of ASR technologies may not produce results with the reliability needed to accommodate highstakes standardized test administration, they do offer aid in approaching the thorny issues of practicality and inherent human inter-rater subjectivity. Accordingly, this paper is intended to investigate the degree to which ASR-based OPI ratings match similar human-conducted OPI ratings by employing correlational analyses on the basis of degrees of rater severity. Furthermore, this paper attempts to explore a method of enhancing the robustness of ASR-based OPI ratings which capitalizes on suprasegmental information by measuring fluency based principally on the test-takers’ response time length.

The Korean double nominative construction shows many characteristics distinguished not only from subjectobject clauses but also from nominative complement constructions. Specifically, the initial NP of the construction exhibits properties that are attributed to a subject in terms of object to subject raising and caki binding. Embracing the traditional ideas such as Major Subject and the sentential predicate (Park 1981, Yoon 2004), the initial NP of the construction is suggested to be predicated by a sentential predicate. Therefore, in this approach, the NP is considered a grammatical relation that exists in addition to the subject, i.e., sentential specifier. This paper also shows how the proposal is neatly dealt with by Sign-Based Construction Grammar (Boas and Sag 2012).

Korean psych verb constructions are divided into two different types: agentive psych verb constructions and stative psych verb constructions. A considerable amount of literature has been devoted to explaining the different case-marking patterns of the two constructions. Building on the HPSG feature regime, I propose two types of semantic relations, i.e. the act-relation for agentive psych verbs and the psych-relation for stative psych verbs. Such different semantic relations explain the different cases that the verbs’ objects are marked with. In addition, I show that the proposed analysis well explains scope interpretation, polysemy relations, and verb alternation of the two constructions.