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Electron-Microscopic Studies on the Spermiogenesis and the Spermatozoa of the Drake and the Gander (오리와 거위의 정자완성과 정자에 관한 전자현미경적 연구)

  • 배대식;김종욱
    • Korean Journal of Animal Reproduction
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.206-217
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    • 1987
  • Testes from the drake and the gander have been examined by the electron microscopy in thin sections in order to examine the spermiogenesis and the structure of spermatozoa. The spermiogenesis can be divided into three stages: early spermatid, nuclear elongation, and matured spermatid. In the early spermatid of the drake, there are thread-like material in the nucleus, a prominent nuclear envelope around the nucleus, and big lumens in the cytoplasm. The shape of the gander's mitochondria in the early spermatid is slender compared to that of the drake, and the inner membrane of the mitochondria is thicker than the outer membrane. The distal centriole of the drake and the gander in the early spermatid is a long hollow cylinder form. In the nuclear elongation stage, elongated nucleus forms two or three cross sections in one spermatid cell and it is surrounded by the amorphous sheath. The nucleus of the matured spermatid is compact and its apical end is covered with acrosome cap and acrosome spine. The axoneme is surrounded by the amorphous material.

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An Exploration of the Direction of Development of the Integrated Curriculum for Gifted: The Applicability of the Drake Model (영재를 위한 통합교육과정 개발의 방향: Drake 모형의 적용 가능성 탐색)

  • Lee, Kyungjin;Roh, IlSoon
    • Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.217-241
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    • 2014
  • This study aimed to explore the direction and possibility of development of the integrated curriculum for the Gifted students in the discipline-centered curriculum perspective. To this end, the study analysed the Ontario interdisciplinary curriculum based on a Drake's Integration Model which is typical model of the discipline-centered curriculum and explored the applicability to Science Gifted Academy in Korea. Through showing the possibility of enrichment on the selected majors, integration with other disciplines and solving the future problems by the integrated curriculum centered on 'Big Idea', the Ontario interdisciplinary curriculum gave suggestions of curriculum integration within or through individual research and integrated curriculum for the Gifted. The application of the Ontario's "Introduction to Information studies" to "Information Science" in Science Gifted Academy in Korea could be obtained the conclusion that the Drake's Integration model is applied to the Gifted by the individualization of the navigation network, KDB(Knowledge-Do-Be) umbrella, and the final interdisciplinary task. From this result, we could suggest that the development of integrated curriculum for the Gifted should be considered the clarity of learning objectives for the Gifted, the plan of evaluation to demonstrate big understanding and big idea, the integration with other disciplines or real-world problem, as well as the need of teachers council for the integrated curriculum. This study is expected to be contribute to development of the integrated curriculum model for the gifted based on the their characteristics and to be utilized in Science Gifted Academy.

Distribution of Nutrients and Phytoplankton Biomass in the Area Around the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica (남극 남쉐틀랜드군도 주변 해역의 영양염과 식물플랑크톤 생물량 분포)

  • Kim, Dong-Seon;Kang, Sung-Ho;Kim, Dong-Yup;Lee, Youn-Ho;Kang, Young-Chul
    • Ocean and Polar Research
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.77-95
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    • 2001
  • Temperature, salinity, nutrients, chlorophyll-a, and primary production were measured within the upper 200 m water column in the area around the South Shetland Islands in January, 2000. Surface temperature was relatively high in the Drake Passage north of the South Shetland Islands and low in the northeastern area of the Antarctic Peninsula. In contrast, surface salinity was low in the Drake Passage and increased toward the Antarctic Peninsula, reaching the maximum value in the northeastern area of the Antarctic Peninsula. Surface nutrients were low in the Drake Passage and high in the area near the South Shetland Islands. Surface chlorophyll-a was also low in the Drake Passage and near the Antarctic Peninsula and high in the area of the northern King George Island. The study area could be classified as four geographical zones based on the characteristic shape of the T/S diagrams;the Drake Passage, the Bransfield Strait, the mixed zone, and the Weddell Sea. Each geographical zone showed apparently different physical, chemical, and biological characteristics. Phytoplankton biomass was relatively low in the Drake Passage and the Weddell Sea and high in the Bransfield Strait and the mixed zone. The low phytoplankton biomass in the Weddell Sea could be explained by the low water temperature and deep surface mixing down to 200 m. The high grazing pressure and low availability of iron could be responsible for the low phytoplankton biomass in the Drake Passage.

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Trophic Role of Heterotrophic Nano- and Microplankton in the Pelagic Microbial Food Web of Drake Passage in the Southern Ocean during Austral Summer (남극 하계 드레이크 해협의 미세생물 먹이망에서 종속영양 미소형 및 소형플랑크톤의 역할)

  • Yang, Eun-Jin;Choi, Joong-Ki;Hyun, Jung-Ho
    • Ocean and Polar Research
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.457-472
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    • 2011
  • To elucidate the trophic role of heterotrophic nano- and microplankton (HNMP), we investigated their biomass, community structure, and herbivory in three different water masses, namely, south of Polar Front (SPF), Polar Front Zone (PFZ), the Sub-Antarcitc Front (SAF) in the Drake Passage in the Southern Ocean, during the austral summer in 2002. We observed a spatial difference in the relative importance of the dominant HNMP community in these water masses. Ciliates accounted for 34.7% of the total biomass on an average in the SPF where the concentration of chlorophyll-a was low with the dominance of pico- and nanophytoplankton. Moreover, the importance of ciliates declined from the SPF to the SAF. In contrast, heterotrophic dinoflagellates (HDFs) were the most dominant grazers in the PFZ where the concentration of chlorophyll-a was high with the dominance of net phytoplankton. HNMP biomass ranged from 321.9 to 751.4 $mgCm^{-2}$ and was highest in the PFZ and lowest in the SPF. This result implies that the spatial dynamic of HNMP biomass and community was significantly influenced by the composition and concentration of phytoplankton as a food source. On an average, 75.6%, 94.5%, and 78.9% of the phytoplankton production were consumed by HNMP in the SPF, PFZ, and SAF, respectively. The proportion of phytoplankton grazed by HNMP was largely determined by the composition and biomass of HNMP, as well as the composition of phytoplankton. However, the herbivory of HNMP was one of the most important loss processes affecting the biomass and composition of phytoplankton particularly in the PFZ. Our results suggest that the bulk of the photosynthetically fixed carbon was likely reprocessed by HNMP rather than contributing to the vertical flux in Drake Passage during the austral summer in 2002.

An Estimation of Congestion Pricing Using Speed-Flow Relationship (Gangbyeon Expressway) (속도-밀도 모형을 적용한 흔잡통행료 산정 (강변북로를 중심으로))

  • Gang, Gyeong-U;Guk, U-Gak
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.24 no.2 s.88
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    • pp.31-41
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    • 2006
  • The main purpose of this paper is to develop the practical method to estimate the congestion price in odor to overcome the difficulty of traditional microeconomics approach for demand and cost function concepts. In this paper, we estimate the theoretical congestion toll which reflecting the real traffic conditions such as a speed-density functions using a traffic engineering methods We calculates the optimal congestion toll based on the real traffic conditions assuming that the electronic road pricing (ERP) systems ave installed for the study road. After evaluating the various speed-density relationship methods. we found that the Drake model is best suited for the Gangbyeon Expressway Using the Drake model, the optimal congestion toll will be 94 to 3,255 Won for the traffic speed between 44km/h to 68 km/h based on wage rate method and 107 to 6,381 Won for the marginal substitution method for the Gangbyeon Expressway in city of Seoul, Korea.

Variation of Nitrate Concentrations and δ15N Values of Seawater in the Drake Passage, Antarctic Ocean (남극해 드레이크해협 해수의 질산염 농도와 질소동위원소 값의 변화)

  • Jang, Yang-Hee;Khim, Boo-Keun;Shin, Hyoung-Chul;Sigman, Daniel M.;Wang, Yi;Hong, Chang-Su
    • Ocean and Polar Research
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.407-418
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    • 2008
  • Seawater samples were collected at discrete depths from five stations across the polar front in the Drake Passage (Antarctic Ocean) by the $20^{th}$ Korea Antarctic Research Program in December, 2006. Nitrate concentrations of seawater increase with depth within the photic zone above the depth of Upper Circumpolar Deep Water (UCDW). In contrast, ${\delta}^{15}N$ values of seawater nitrate decrease with depth, showing a mirror image to the nitrate variation. Such a distinct vertical variation is mainly attributed to the degree of nitrate assimilation by phytoplankton as well as organic matter degradation of sinking particles within the surface layer. The preferential $^{14}{NO_3}^-$ assimilation by the phytoplankton causes $^{15}{NO_3}^-$ concentration to become high in a closedsystem surface-water environment during the primary production, whereas more $^{14}{NO_3}^-$ is added to the seawater during the degradation of sinking organic particles. The water-mass mixing seems to play an important role in the alteration of ${\delta}^{15}N$ values in the deep layer below the UCDW. Across the polar front, nitrate concentrations of surface seawater decrease and corresponding ${\delta}^{15}N$ values increase northward, which is likely due to the degree of nitrate utilization during the primary production. Based on the Rayleigh model, the calculated ${\varepsilon}$ (isotope effect of nitrate uptake) values between 4.0%o and 5.8%o were validated by the previously reported data, although the preformed ${\delta}^{15}{{NO_3}^-}_{initial}$ value of UCDW is important in the calculation of ${\varepsilon}$ values.

Transoceanic Propagation of 2011 East Japan Earthquake Tsunami

  • Choi, Byung Ho;Kim, Kyeong Ok;Min, Byung Il;Pelinovsky, Efim
    • Ocean and Polar Research
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.225-234
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    • 2014
  • The 2011 Tohoku earthquake triggered extremely destructive tsunami waves which propagated over the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean through Drake Passage and Indian Ocean respectively. A total of 10 tide-gauge records collected from the UNESCO/IOC site were analyzed through a band-pass digital filtering device to examine the observed tsunami characteristics. The ray tracing method and finite-difference model with GEBCO 30 arc second bathymetry were also applied to compare the travel times of the Tohoku-originated tsunami, particularly at Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean and King Edward Point in the Atlantic Ocean with observation-based estimates. At both locations the finite-difference model produced the shortest arrival times, while the ray method produced the longest arrival times. Values of the travel time difference however appear to be within tolerable ranges, considering the propagation distance of the tsunami waves. The observed tsunami at Rodrigues, Mauritius in the west of the Madagascar was found to take a clockwise travel path around Australia and New Zealand, while the observed tsunami at King Edward Point in the southern Atlantic Ocean was found to traverse the Pacific Ocean and then passed into the Atlantic Ocean through the Drake Strait. The formation of icebergs captured by satellite images in Sulzberger in the Antarctica also supports the long-range propagation of the Tohoku-originated tsunami.

Quaternary Diatom Assemblages from Sediment Core GC 98-06 in the Southern Drake Passage, Antarctica (드레이크 해협 남부 코어퇴적물에서 산출된 제 4기 규조 화석 연구)

  • Lee, Jong-Deock;Yoon, Ho-Il;Yun, Hye-su;Kim, Hyo-Jeong;Bak, Young-Suk
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.442-453
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    • 2002
  • A total of 64 species belonging to 23 genera of diatom fossils are identified from the Core GC 98-06 in the southern Drake Passage, Antarctica. The diatom assemblages are dominated by Actinocyclus actinochilus, Coscinodiscus asteromphalus, Eucampia antarctica, Fragilariopsis kerguelensis, Thalassiosira lentiginosa, T. ritscheri and T. anguste-lineata, which are about 73% of the assemblage. Open water species are more abundant than sea ice species in the diatom assemblages of the core. Fragilariopsis. kerguelensis and Thalassiosira lentiginosa are valuable indicators of the habitats. Especially, F. kerguelensis represent the influence of waters from the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Sea ice taxa represents the influence of cold waters from Bransfield Strait Water and melt water from the sea-ice at during warm periods. The reworked diatoms such as Denticulopsis dimopha (Miocene) and D. hustedtii (Pliocene) are occurred with Quaternary species (Actinocyclus actinochilus, Fragilariopsis kerguelensis, Thalassiosira lentiginosa, and T. glacilis). The presence of reworked diatoms indicates the transportation of the older diatoms into the Drake passage from the circumference sediments, due to strong bottom current activity of Antarctic circumpolar deep water.