Ti-6Al-4V ELI (Extra Low Interstitial) alloy have been widely used as alternative to bone due to its excellent biocompatibility, although it still has many problems such as high elastic modulus and toxicity. Therefore, biomaterials with low elastic modulus and non toxic characteristics have to be developed. A novel β Ti-35wt%Nb-7wt%Zr-Calcium pyrophosphate (CPP) composite that is a biocompatible alloy without elemental Al or V was fabricated by spark plasma sintering (SPS) at 1000˚C under 70 MPa using high energy mechanical milled (HEMM) powder. The microstructure and phases of the milled powders and the sintered specimens were studied using SEM, TEM, and XRD. Ti-35wt%Nb-7wt%Zr alloy was transformed from α phase to β phase in the 4h-milled powder by sintering. The sintered specimen using the 4h-milled powder showed that all the elements were distributed very homogeneously and had higher density and hardness. β Ti alloy-CPP composite, which has nanometer particles, was fabricated by SPS using HEMMed powder. During the sintering process, CaTiO3, TixOy, and CaO were formed because of the reaction between Ti and CPP. The Vickers hardness of the composites increases with the increase of the milling time and the addition of CPP. The biocompatibility of the Ti-Nb-Zr alloys was improved by addition of CPP.

To investigate the technology trends in organic farming using journal article analysis, total 2,378 published articles in organic farming between 1974 and 2014 were analyzed. The number of the articles published in organic farming has been steadily increased since 2006. As for category, articles in the field of producing the safe organic products and management (A) were published relatively dominantly, especially division of nutrient and soil management (AA). In the foreign countries, lots of articles in environmental assessment and safety field (B) were published than Korea. the main institutes published the articles in organic farming were Swedish University, Sweden and US department of Agriculture, USA. In case of Korea, the articles in the field of environmental assessment and safety (B) were relatively merely published, especially division of environment in organic farming (BA). With this study, more research based on the environment and safety fields in organic farming should be focused on.

기상레이더의 관측 특성상, 지형클러터 등의 관측영역 한계로 인한 관측공백 지역이 발생한다. 이러한 레이더 빔의 차폐는 강우량의 과소추정 원인이 된다. 이를 해결하기 위해 본 연구에서는 Hybrid Scan Reflectivity(HSR) 기법을 개발하고 기존 방법 결과와 비교하였다. 결과에 의하면, 기존 레이더 관측방법으로 지형에 의해 반사도 정보를 얻지 못하는 영역에 대하여 HSR 기법이 레이더 강우량을 추정할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 반사도 스캔기법과 빔차폐/비 빔차폐영역에서 모두 HSR 기법을 적용한 결과가 정확성이 가장 뛰어났다. 다음으로 각 방법별 레이더 추정 강우량을 HEC-HMS에 적용하여 홍수 유출량 추정 정확성을 평가하였다. HSR 기법에 의한 유출량은 RAR 산출 시스템과 M-P 관계식 대비 상관계수는 평균 7%와 10%, Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency는 평균 18%와 34% 향상되었다. 따라서 정확한 홍수량 추정을 위해 수문분야에 HSR 기법에 의해 추정된 강우량을 활용할 필요성이 있는 것으로 사료된다.