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Explaining Share of Farm Loss Systemic with County Loss in the United States?

  • Kim, Sang-Hyo;Lim, Jin-Soon;Zulauf, Carl
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.15 no.11
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    • pp.21-29
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    • 2017
  • Purpose - Relationship between farm and county losses determines whether the county program provides too little, too much, or similar amount of assistance relative to the loss on an individual farm. A review of the literature finds limited analysis of the determinants of this relationship. This paper conducts such an analysis using farm-level yield data. Research design, data, and methodology - Farm-level yield data from Illinois and Kansas farm business management associations are used for to calculate the correlation between farm and county loss and the share of farm loss systemic with county loss, and also for the regression analysis. Results - Average share of farm loss systemic with the county loss lies between 42% and 68%. The correlation between farm and county yield/revenue deviation from expected value is statistically significant in all four models. The coefficient is positive, implying the higher the correlation, the larger the share of farm loss that is systemic with the county loss. Conclusions - The findings of this study are consistent with the existing literature which argues that county variability may not be closely associated with farm variability. The findings of this study thus raise questions about the efficacy of area yield and revenue insurance products in helping farmers manage their risk.

A Geographic Information System(GIS) Approach for Modeling a Soil Erosion Map from Available Data

  • Yang, Young-Kyu;Miller, Lee-D.
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.23-33
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    • 1986
  • The Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) has been applied to the microcomputer based Geographic Information System (GIS) data planes to model a soil erosion map for a county. The conventional method applied by US Soil conservation Service (SCS) has been tedious and time consuming process on a mainframe computer which yields a multisectioned, hard to interprete, line printer map of the each county's soil loss. The new approach proved to be an economical and efficient tool for the natural resource managers in their decision malting in land conservation practice. They can simulate the variety of conservation practices and assess the cost and benefit without physically implementing the conservation measures.7he new approach also can produce all the other graphical and statistical reports.

Estimation of Willlingness-to-pay of Residents for Rehabilitation of the Existing Water Pipes at Inche (인제군의 상수관로 개량을 위한 주민의 지불의사금액 추정)

  • Lee, Jae Hoon;Jeong, Dong Whan;Shin, Seung Bok;Park, Kyoo Hong
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.385-394
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    • 2007
  • The objective of this study was to estimate social cost on rehabilitation of existing water pipes by investigating the willingness-to-pay (WTP) of residents at INJE County to avoid the loss and inconvenience of transportation and business resulting from the sudden failure and leaks of old water pipes. Contingent valuation method was used through conducting survey to 180 residents in Inche County, with questions of double-bounded dichotomous choice. The resulting WTP of residents at Inche was 7,682 won/month/household. The annual social cost could be estimated as 960 million won, which might be caused by the failure of the old water pipes at INJE County.

Analysis of Soil Erosion Vulnerability at Alpine Agricultural Fields of HongCheon County (홍천군 산지농업지대의 토양침식취약성 분석)

  • Kim, Ki-Sung;Heo, Sung-Gu;Jung, Yeoug-Sang;Kim, Ji-Man;Lim, Kyoung-Jae
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.11 no.2 s.27
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    • pp.51-57
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    • 2005
  • It has been well known that soil erosion and sediments from alpine agricultural fields are causing severe water quality and turbidity problems in receiving waters. Also these result in the loss of money because farmers have to buy top soils to provide enough root zone in the following year. Thus, there have been needs to reduce soil erosion and sediment discharge into the stream networks. To accomplish this end, an effective erosion control plans should be developed based on scientific research, not by rule of thumb. The Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) has been widely used to estimate the soil erosion in many countries over the years. In this study, the USLE was used to estimate soil erosion potential under different cropping scenarios in HongCheon County, Kangwon. The soil erosion potential for continuous corn cropping was the highest compared with those from continuous potato find average cropping scenarios. This indicates the soil erosion plans need to be established considering cropping system in the field. The Unit Stream Power Erosion-Deposition (USPED) was applied for HongCheon County to estimate soil erosion and deposition areas. The USPED estimated results can be used to complement USLE results in developing effective erosion control plans.

International Flower Exhibition in Anmyon Island and Its Impacts on Regional Development (안면도 국제 꽃박람회가 지역개발에 미치는 파급효과)

  • Kwon, Yong Dae
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.63-70
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    • 2000
  • Taean county region has been economically lagged behind compared with other areas in Chungnam Province mainly due to disadvantages of the location such as traffic accessibility, social infrastructure and industrial complex. However, recently Taean region has been emerged as newly prospective area because west coastal highway will be constructed to connect Seoul urban area to famous beach sites, recreational facilities along the seaside of Taean county, where International Flower Exhibition will also be held in Anmyon Island for the year of 2002. This Paper aims to explore how International Flower Exhibition is contributing to the development of local economy of Taean County area and to suggest the strategies for the development of this area through promoting spread effects of these international events. It is estimated that although there will be loss of 32,987 thousands won during the period of international flower festival based on the cash flow analysis, long run profits would be 108 trillion won, when calculating indirect benefits derived from the sight seeing, flower sales and other incomes from various activities. In order to maximize post benefits of international flower event, it is suggested that Taean county should pursue the strategies for specializing in cultural events such as family recreational events, beach festival and traditional cultural events, improving the social infrastructure and promoting the local industry such as flower, tourism and advanced technological enterprises.

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The Analysis of Climate Change in Haiyan County

  • Yu, Wenzheng;Zhang, Hanxiaoya;Chen, Tianliang;Liu, Jing;Shen, Yanbo
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.14 no.10
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    • pp.3941-3954
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    • 2020
  • In this paper, the climate change in Haiyan County in recent decades was analyzed in detail with the methods of moving average, Mann-Kendall non-parametric mutation test and wavelet analysis. According to the variation trend of meteorological factors such as temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, pan evaporation and precipitation in recent decades, the climate of Haiyan County has a tendency of drought, which is becoming more and more serious. From the results of the analysis, the sunshine hours and the air temperature in Haiyan County have an obvious upward trend. The average surface temperature has increased by 2.75 ℃ from 1976, and its largest increase occurred in the late 1970s and 1980s. At this stage, the average surface temperature increased by 1.37 ℃. The relative humidity has a decreasing trend that has decreased by 2.75%. From 1976 to the present, there are two quasi-3a cycles and one quasi-6a cycle. The precipitation and evaporation showed the opposite change trend, in which the trend of precipitation fluctuated upward, while the trend of evaporation showed a fluctuating downward tendency, which led to the serious loss of water in the feeding area. The wind direction in Haiyan County are mainly from west to east, and its wind speed has a trend of slight increase.

Prevalence of Cystic Echinococcosis in Slaughtered Sheep as an Indicator to Assess Control Progress in Emin County, Xinjiang, China

  • Yang, Shijie;Wu, Weiping;Tian, Tian;Zhao, Jiangshan;Chen, Kang;Wang, Qinyan;Feng, Zheng
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • v.53 no.3
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    • pp.355-359
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    • 2015
  • Hydatid disease imposing serious threat on human health and great loss in live-stock pastoralism remains a major public health problem in western China. To assess and monitor the effect of control program on transmission dynamics, we used the prevalence of cystic echinococcosis in slaughtered sheep at slaughterhouse as an indicator during the period of 2007 to 2013 in Emin County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. The results showed a significant decline trend of prevalence in all age groups during the 7 years when the control program was implemented; particularly, the rate was reduced by 72% after first 3 years. Among the sheep slaughtered, the age distribution evidenced that the prevalence increased significantly as the sheep grew older. The baseline data indicated that the rate was 4.5% at the age <1, 6.7% at age 2~, and reached to the highest 17.9% at age ${\geq}4$ years. Earlier response to the intervention pressure was seen in the sheep at the younger age. Significant decline started from 2008 at the age <1, from 2009 at age of 1~, 2010 at 2~ to 3~, and the latest, in 2012 at age ${\geq}4$. This study demonstrated that the prevalence of cystic echinococcosis in slaughtered sheep may be used as an indicator to assess and monitor the transmission status during and after control program providing information for betterment of performance to sustain control strength.

A Field Study to Investigate Moisture Loss from Early-Age Concrete Pavements

  • Jeong Jin-Hoon;Choi Koil
    • Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.16 no.5 s.83
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    • pp.725-731
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    • 2004
  • A field test program was conducted for the newly placed concrete pavement of US Interstate Highway 10 between March 26th and 28th, 2003. The test section was located between Van Horn and Sierra Blanca in Hudspeth County approximately 130 km east of El Paso, Texas. The main objective of the test was collecting moisture-related data to validate the models of effective curing thickness, evaporation rate, and moisture-based maturity. Effect of moisture loss on drying shrinkage strain was studied using additional test instrumentation.

Sudden Hearing Loss Treated by Chuna Manual Therepy; A Case Report (돌발성 난청 환자의 경추부 추나요법 증례보고)

  • Kim, Seong-Tae;Lee, Eun-Ji;Han, Se-Hyuk;Shin, Jun-Hyuk;Shin, Hyun-Gwon;Sul, Jae-Uk;Na, Jae-Il;Eun, Sun-Hye;Sung, In-Hyung;Jo, Hee-Guen;Choi, Jin-Bong
    • Journal of Korean Medicine Rehabilitation
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.181-186
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study is to report a clinical progress of sudden hearing loss through korean medicine. Between 26th Mar. 2014 and 19th Apr. 2014, she was treated with Chuna manual therapy every day and observed by Pure Tone Audiometry (before and after) and visual analogue pain scale (VAS). A patient was diagnosed with sudden hearing loss on 23th Dec. 2013 in Severance Hospital, she had sudden hearing loss on left side. She had 19 times treatments. At the first of treatment, her audibility was 20 dB on right side, 74 dB on left side and she had tinitus and ear fullness (VAS 8 / VAS 9). At the middle of treatment (2nd Apr. 2014), symptoms of tinitus and ear fullness started improving. State was tinitus VAS 6, ear fullness VAS 6. At the end of treatment (21th Apr. 2014), state was tinitus VAS 4, ear fullness VAS 4, and recorded 35 dB on right side, 80 dB on left side in pure tone audiometry. Chuna manual therapy is estimated to be good for sudden hearing loss especially on tinitus and ear fullness. More cases are required to develop treatment of sudden hearing loss.

Soil Erosion and Sediment Yield Reduction Analysis with Land Use Conversion from Illegal Agricultural Farming to Forest in Jawoon-ri, Kangwon using the SATEEC ArcView GIS System (SATEEC ArcView GIS 시스템을 이용한 홍천군 자운리 유역 무허가경작지의 산림 환원에 따른 토양유실 및 유사저감 분석)

  • Jang, Won-Seok;Park, Youn-Shik;Kim, Jong-Gun;Choi, Joong-Dae;Lim, Kyoung-Jae
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2008.05a
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    • pp.1300-1304
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    • 2008
  • The fact that soil loss causing to increase muddy water and devastate an ecosystem has been appearing upon a hot social and environmental issues which should be solved. Soil losses are occurring in most agricultural areas with rainfall-induced runoff. It makes hydraulic structure unstable, causing environmental and economical problems because muddy water destroys ecosystem and causes intake water deterioration. One of three severe muddy water source areas in Soyanggang-dam watershed is Jawoon-ri region, located in Hongcheon county. In this area, many cash-crops are planted at illegally cultivated agricultural fields, which were virgin forest areas. The purpose of this study is to estimate soil loss with current land uses (including illegal cash-crop cultivation) and soil loss reduction with land use conversion from illegal cultivation back to forest. In this study, the Sediment Assessment Tool for Effective Erosion Control (SATEEC) ArcView GIS system was utilized to assess soil erosion. If the illegally cultivated agricultural areas are converted back to forest, it is expected to 17.42% reduction in soil loss. At the Jawoon-ri region, illegally cultivated agricultural areas located at over 30% and 15% slopes take 47.48 ha (30.83%) and 103.64 ha (67.29%) of illegally cultivated agricultural fields respectively. If all illegally cultivated agricultural fields are converted back to forest, it is expected that 17.41% of soil erosion and sediment reduction, 10.86% reduction with forest conversion from 30% sloping illegally agricultural fields, and 16.15% reduction with forest conversion from 15% sloping illegally agricultural fields. Therefore, illegally cultivated agricultural fields located at these sloping areas need to be first converted back to forest to maximize reductions in soil loss reduction and muddy water outflow from the Jawoon-ri regions.

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