• Clinical Endoscopy
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• 제57권3호
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• pp.384-392
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• 2024

Background/Aims: Endoscopic ultrasound-guided tissue acquisition (EUS-TA) is a standard diagnostic method for biliary tract cancer (BTC), and samples obtained in this manner may be used for comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP). This study evaluated the utility of EUS-TA for CGP in a clinical setting and determined the factors associated with the adequacy of CGP in patients with BTC. Methods: CGP was attempted for 105 samples from 94 patients with BTC at the Aichi Cancer Center, Japan, from October 2019 to April 2022. Results: Overall, 77.1% (81/105) of the samples were adequate for CGP. For 22-G or 19-G fine-needle biopsy (FNB), the sample adequacy was 85.7% (36/42), which was similar to that of surgical specimens (94%, p=0.45). Univariate analysis revealed that 22-G or larger FNB needle usage (86%, p=0.003), the target primary lesions (88%, p=0.015), a target size ≥30 mm (100%, p=0.0013), and number of punctures (90%, p=0.016) were significantly positively associated with CGP sample adequacy. Conclusions: EUS-TA is useful for CGP tissue sampling in patients with BTC. In particular, the use of 22-G or larger FNB needles may allow for specimen adequacy comparable to that of surgical specimens.

• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• 제53권1호
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• pp.27-34
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• 2023

Purpose: The aim of this study was to clarify the influence of training with a different kind of lesion on the performance of a target model. Materials and Methods: A total of 310 patients(211 men, 99 women; average age, 47.9±16.1 years) were selected and their panoramic images were used in this study. We created a source model using panoramic radiographs including mandibular radiolucent cyst-like lesions (radicular cyst, dentigerous cyst, odontogenic keratocyst, and ameloblastoma). The model was simulatively transferred and trained on images of Stafne's bone cavity. A learning model was created using a customized DetectNet built in the Digits version 5.0 (NVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA). Two machines(Machines A and B) with identical specifications were used to simulate transfer learning. A source model was created from the data consisting of ameloblastoma, odontogenic keratocyst, dentigerous cyst, and radicular cyst in Machine A. Thereafter, it was transferred to Machine B and trained on additional data of Stafne's bone cavity to create target models. To investigate the effect of the number of cases, we created several target models with different numbers of Stafne's bone cavity cases. Results: When the Stafne's bone cavity data were added to the training, both the detection and classification performances for this pathology improved. Even for lesions other than Stafne's bone cavity, the detection sensitivities tended to increase with the increase in the number of Stafne's bone cavities. Conclusion: This study showed that using different lesions for transfer learning improves the performance of the model.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.43-58
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• 2017

This study aims to provide basic understanding for evaluating the quantitative and qualitative progress of national protected areas, through the theoretical review of Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 in order to comply with recommendations of international community and to conserve biodiversity. As a result of the study, Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 sets out the specific contents that the Parties should achieve for protected areas by identifying them as temporal and spatial goals. The temporal goal, the time schedule for achieving the goal, is 2020, and the spatial goal is divided into quantitative expansion goals and qualitative improvement goals. The quantitative expansion goals present the target coverage of protected areas separately terrestrial and marine. The qualitative improvement goals include the target areas for conservation and five conservation considerations. The conservation targets focus on the important areas with regard to biodiversity and ecosystem services. The five conservation considerations mean effective management, equitable management, ecological representativeness, connectivity, and integration into the landscape and seascape for protected areas. Finally, it suggests that two tracks of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures(OECMs) should be used as conservation measures to build an integrated system. The results of this study can be applied to quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods for protected areas and it can contribute to achieve quantitative expansion goals and qualitative improvement goals for them.

• 한국환경생태학회지
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.601-609
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• 2020

본 연구는 생물다양성협약(CBD)의 보호지역 관련 주요 논의 동향을 분석하고 2020 생물다양성목표(Aichi target-11)의 성취 정도에 대한 고찰을 통해, 우리나라의 보호지역 관련 Post-2020 국가 정책방향 및 목표 설정을 위한 시사점을 도출하고자 하였다. 생물다양성협약의 보호지역 관련 결정문으로는 1995년 채택된 2개의 결정문(Decision II/7, II/8)을 시작으로, 제7차 당사국총회(2004)에서 보호지역 관련 이상적인 청사진을 제시한 보호지역실행프로그램(PoWPA)을 채택(Decision VII/28)하였다. 2010년에 보호지역 관련 핵심 이슈 10가지를 제시한 Decision X/31과 함께 "생물다양성 전략계획 2011-2020" 중 하나로 보호지역 관련 목표인 Aichi Target-11이 설정되었다. Aichi Target-11 성취 현황을 살펴보면 글로벌 차원에서 육상은 지구 토지면적의 15%, 해양의 7.4%가 보호지역으로 지정되어 있으며, 우리나라는 육상 16.63%, 해양 2.12%가 보호지역으로 지정되어 있는 것으로 나타났다. 하지만 효과적이고 공정한 관리, 생물다양성 및 생태계서비스에 중요한 지역 보호, '기타 효과적인 지역기반 보전수단(OECMs)'을 밝혀내고 보호지역과 연계하는 것 등은 글로벌 목표 성취에 많이 미흡한 것으로 나타났다. Post-2020 글로벌 생물다양성프레임워크(Post-2020 GBF)의 초안을 살펴보면 1차 초안('20.1월)에서는 다단계의 목표를 제시하고 있는데, 2030년 까지 생물다양성에 있어 특별히 중요한 지역의 최소 60% 보호, 전체 육지 및 해양 지역의 최소 30% 보호, 이 중 최소 10%는 엄격한 보호(strict protection)를 목표로 제시하고 있다. 개정된 초안('20.8월)에서는 이를 간결하게 2030년 까지 전 지구의 최소 30%라는 하나의 양적 목표를 제시하고, 이들 지역이 "생물다양성 보전에 중요한 지역을 중심으로 효과적이며 잘 연결된 보호지역과 OECMs 시스템"을 통해 보호 및 보전되어야 한다는 질적 목표를 가미하였다. Post-2020 GBF의 보호지역 관련 목표와 우리나라의 현황 및 기 수립된 국가계획 내용 반영을 통한 국가 목표를 제안해 보면, 육상의 경우 국토면적의 30%, 해양의 경우 관할해역의 10% 정도로 설정하고 질적인 부분의 성취를 위한 세부 목표(sub-targets) 설정을 통해 성취 수단을 강화할 필요가 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.57-65
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• 2018

The study is conducted to establish the National Protected Areas Integrated System(NPAIS) which includes National Protected Areas(NPAs) and other conservation measures in terms of effective ways for biodiversity conservation. Additionally, it is carried out to evaluate progress toward quantitative expansion goals in Aichi biodiversity Target 11. The NPAIS consists of NPAs and other effective area-based conservation measures(OECMs). There are two different types of OECMs. OECMs type I, including water-source protection Areas(WPA), riparian zones(RZ), fishery-resource protection zones (FPZ), and urban natural park zones(UNPZ), is a potential protected area which is recommended to be incorporated into the NPAs for effective management. OECMs type II means development restriction zones(DRZ), natural recreation forests(NRF), and buffer zones for Korea national arboretum(BKNA). As a result of evaluating the quantitative expansion goals of the NPAIS, terrestrial and inland water protected areas exceed 17% of the quantitative goal in Aichi biodiversity Target 11. The larger the area of individual OECMs and the lower the degree of overlap with NPAs, the higher the contribution of them to the terrestrial and inland water protected areas. DRZ contributes to enlarge more than 3% of quantitative expansion. And RZ and NRF contribute more than 1%. The marine protected areas are expanded by $1,425km^2$ through FPZ, but the expanded area is very small as comparing with the total marine area. It adds only 0.321% to the quantitative expansion. The rest of OECMs also has very poor quantitative expansion contributions in the marine area. Consequently, the NPAIS is effective for quantitative expansion of land areas, but not for marine areas.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.83-94
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• 2018

This study presents an integrated evaluation method to assess the level of achievement of quantitative expansion goals and qualitative improvement goals based on the Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 for quantitatively expanding and qualitatively improving national protected areas. The quantitative evaluation indicators for national protected areas are the percentage of terrestrial and inland water areas protected and the percentage of marine and coastal areas protected. The quantitative evaluation indicators for national protected areas are selected as 6 indicators: 1) ecologically important areas, 2) ecological representativeness, 3) management effectiveness, 4) connectivity, 5) social equity and 6) integration. Ecologically important areas are an indicator which evaluates how many areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem services are included in national protected areas. Ecological representativeness is to assess how well national protected areas represent the ecosystem. Management effectiveness is an indicator which evaluates how effectively national protected areas are conserved and managed, and connectivity is an indicator to assess how well national protected areas are connected. Social equity is evaluating how equitably national protected areas are managed and the integration is assessing how much national protected areas are integrated into the wilder landscape and seascape. This study is significant in that it provides a perspective of qualitative improvement as well as quantitative expansion of national protected areas for biodiversity conservation through accurately understanding Aichi Biodiversity Target 11.

• 한국환경생태학회지
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.586-594
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• 2017

본 연구는 생물다양성협약 아이치 타겟-11의 효과적인 이행을 위해 국제적인 보호지역 정의에 부합할 수 있는 우리나라의 잠재 보호지역을 전문가 인식을 토대로 도출하고자 하였다. 보호지역 전문가 13명으로 정책포럼을 구성하여 포럼 4회, 설문조사 2회, 국제적 관점에서의 사례 검증을 실시하였다. 도출된 잠재 보호지역은 총 4개 지역으로 상수원보호구역, 수변구역, 수산자원보호구역, 도시자연공원구역이다. 기존 보호지역과의 중복면적을 제외한 전체 면적을 종합해보면 총 $5,643.9km^2$(육상 $3,117.9km^2$, 해상 $2,526km^2$)이며 이는 육상은 국토면적의 3.11%, 해양은 관할해역의 0.67%에 해당하는 보호지역 면적 상승 등 국가 보호지역 시스템 확장을 기대할 수 있다. 본 연구는 잠재 보호지역 발굴을 통해 생물다양성협약 아이치 타겟-11에 대응한 국가차원의 목표 성취를 위한 기초 자료를 제공했다는 점에서 그 의의가 있으며, 향후 국가 보호지역 시스템의 강화를 위해 보호지역 양적 질적 개선 연구와 더불어 기타 효과적인 지역기반 보전수단(OECM) 발굴 연계 등 지속적인 연구가 필요할 것으로 판단된다.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.270-280
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• 2023

The creation of marine protected areas is an important aspect of marine ecosystem sustainability. However, South Korea has not achieved its Aichi Biodiversity Target to designate 10% of its sea as marine protected by 2020. Local residents have strong opposition to the designation of protected areas in South Korea; there has been little trust in the government since the 1970s, when residents felt that their property rights were being ignored in favor of creating national parks. Here, we present a case where creation of a marine protected area was led by residents of TongYeong City. The success of a participation income project to remove marine debris in the city seems to be an important factor that led to the designation of the marine protected area. The case of TongYeong City is compared with that of nearby Geoje City, where an ecologically important stream has not been designated as a wetland protection area, although a similar participation income project enrolled the city's residents. The comparison provides a tentative assessment of the conditions needed to increase trust among residents. The results suggest that, if the projects are well-designed and well-managed, participation income projects to remove marine debris can be effective in building trust among stakeholders in potential marine protected areas.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.93-105
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• 2017

This study aims to establish the integrated system of national protected areas by identifying OECMs which are not officially recognized as protected areas, but effectively and enduringly deliver the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem service to expand them up to the level recommended by the international community. In order to identify them, candidates for OECMs were listed and it was developed a three-step systematic screening tool based on preconditions, essential characteristics, and sustainable means for conservation outcome of them. As a result of using the tool that considers domestic conditions, seven areas which included Development Restriction Zones, Urban Natural Park Areas, Fishery Resources Protection Zones, Riparian Zones, Natural Recreation Forest Zones, Water Source Protection Areas, and Buffer Zones for Korea National Arboretum were selected as OECMs. And the system of national protected areas was built by integrating them with national protected areas(NPA). Compared with the NPA, the system has been expanded by them and has reached to 17.88%, exceeding the target of 17% for terrestrial and inland water protections. It was proven that they were very effective in enlarging these protections. However, it failed to contribute to the target for marine protections. The expansion of marine protected areas requires different approaches, such as discovering new types of marine protected areas or linking them to biologically important marine areas all over the world.

• 한국환경생태학회지
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.436-445
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• 2020

아이치 생물다양성 목표11을 달성하기 위하여, 국내 보호지역은 양적으로 꾸준히 증가되어왔으며, 추가 지정이 필요한 잠재 보호지역에 대한 연구도 진행되어왔다. 하지만 효과적인 생물다양성 보전을 위한 보호지역의 상보성에 대한 평가는 미흡하다. 본 연구에서는 제3차 전국자연환경조사의 식물종을 대상으로 종분포모형을 이용하여 잠재서식지역을 도출하고, 기존 보호지역과 잠재보호지역 내 잠재서식지역이 포함되는 종의 풍부도를 유사도 지수인 Jaccard, Sorenson, Bray-curtis를 이용하여 비교분석하였다. 연구결과로 기존 보호지역과 잠재보호지역 대부분이 상보성이 낮아 유사한 식물종을 보전하는 것으로 나타났다. 국립수목원 완충지역이 상보성이 높아 보호지역으로서의 가치가 높다고 할 수 있다. 잠재서식지역이 포함되는 경우가 적은 식물종을 보호하기 위해서는 기존 또는 잠재 보호지역 외 지역에 추가로 보호지역을 선정할 필요가 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구는 개별 보호지역이 보호지역으로서 고유한 생태계 또는 생물종 보전이 가능한지 각 보호지역의 생태적 대표성을 확인하고, 공간적으로 추가 보호가 필요한 지역을 탐색하는 방법을 제안했다는 점에서 의의가 있으며, 향후 동물종까지 포함한 상보성 평가를 통한 보호지역의 질적 개선과 계속적으로 조사되는 전국자연환경조사 자료를 이용한 보호지역의 효과성평가 연구 등으로 발전시킬 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.