• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• v.64 no.3
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• pp.574-587
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• 2022

This study was performed to development the alternative farrowing pen (AFP) and to investigate performance and behavior of lactating sows and their litter. A total of 64 multiparous sows were randomly divided into two groups and were allocated to farrowing crates (FCs) and AFPs. The AFPs contained a crate and support bars that could be folded to provide the sows with extra space on day 5 postpartum. Behavior was recorded by charge-coupled device cameras and digital video recorders, and the data were scanned every 2 min to obtain an instantaneous behavioral sample. Farrowing systems did not affect feed intake, back-fat thickness, litter size and piglet weight at birth and weaning (p > 0.05). In addition, there were no differences in the number of crushed piglets between the two farrowing systems (p > 0.05). However, the weaning-to-estrus interval was shorter in the sows of the AFPs than in thous of the FCs (p < 0.05). The sows spent most of their time lying down during the lactating period, at about 80% lateral recumbency and 10%-15% ventral recumbency. The only significant differences were in the feeding and drinking behavior between sows in the two farrowing systems (p < 0.05). The FC sows displayed more feeding and drinking behavior than the AFP sows, especially in the late lactating period (p < 0.05). Piglets in the FCs tended to spend more time walking than piglets in the AFPs (p < 0.05), whereas there were no differences in suckling and lying behavior between piglets in the two farrowing systems (p > 0.05). It is concluded that the AFPs with temporary crating until day 4 postpartum did not negatively affect performance and crushed piglet compared with the FCs. It also may improve animal welfare by allowing sows to move and turn around during the lactating period. Further research is needed to find suitable housing designs to enhance productivity and animal welfare.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.57-64
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• 2010

Kriging techniques have been used to estimate the spatial distribution of soil layers and soil properties in the geotechnical engineering area. Since the selected kriging technique may provide different values of estimation, the selection of method is important in the geotechnical estimation. In this paper, the spatial distribution of the thickness of consolidation layer of Songdo International City is estimated using simple, ordinary, and universal kriging techniques, and the reliability of estimated results is analyzed. It is shown that the consolidation layer thickness estimated by the simple kriging technique is larger than those by other kriging techniques when the location of estimation is far from the locations where the measured data exist. In this case, the reliability of the simple kriging technique is observed to be lower than those of other techniques. Universal kriging gives a negative value for thickness of consolidation layer in some locations away from the data. It is concluded that the ordinary kriging is the most optimized estimation technique because the reliability of ordinary kriging technique is higher than those of other ones and the consolidation layer thickness estimated by the ordinary kriging locates within the reasonable range.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.23 no.7
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• pp.37-46
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• 2007

In the practice of preloading method for soft ground improvement, field engineers need information of ground properties, construction works and field monitoring on ground behaviors of the site. So, integrating all these informations into one database can provide more efficient way for managing and utilizing the data for construction management. In this study, integrated system for construction management of ground improvement sites under preloading is developed. The developed system consists of database (DB) and application program. The database contains all collected data in a construction site and processed data in the system with their geographic information. All informations in the database are standardized from the result of data characterization. Application program performs various functions on managing and utilizing information in the database; pre- and post- data processing with graphic visualization of output, spatial data interpolation, and prediction of ground behavior using field measuring data. And by providing integrating informations and predictions over entire project area with comprehensible visual displays, the applicability and effectiveness of the developed system for construction management were confirmed.

• Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association
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• v.54 no.2
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• pp.120-126
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• 2019

Purpose: The efficacy of periarticular multimodal drug injection and adductor canal block after a medial opening-wedge high tibial osteotomy was compared in terms of the postoperative pain level. Materials and Methods: From November 2016 to March 2017, 60 patients underwent a medial opening-wedge high tibial osteotomy under spinal anesthesia. Preemptive analgesic medication, intravenous patient controlled anesthesia were used for pain control in all patients. Thirty patients received a periarticular multimodal drug injection (group I), and 30 patients received an adductor canal block (group II). These two groups were compared regarding the postoperative pain level, frequency of additional tramadol injections, total amount of patient-controlled analgesia, and number of times that the patients pushed the patient-controlled analgesia button at each time interval. Results: The visual analogue scale scores over the two-week postoperative period showed no statistical significance. The frequency of additional tramadol hydrochloride injections was similar in the two groups over time. The mean number of times that patients pushed the patient-controlled analgesia button was similar in two groups over time. The total amount of patient-controlled analgesia was similar in the two groups over time. Conclusion: This study shows that intraoperative periarticular multimodal drug injections and adductor canal block may have a similar effect on postoperative pain control in patients who have undergone a medial opening-wedge high tibial osteotomy for unicompartmental osteoarthritis of the knee.

• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.390-401
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• 2023

The purpose of this study was to identify the propagation characteristics of Diabelia spathulata (Siebold & Zucc.) Landrein through seeding and cutting methods. The seed germination rate was meager (0.22~3.56%). In hardwood cutting, the highest rooting rate was 36.1% in sand + perlite (2:1) and 37.8% in 1000 PPM of IBA pre-treatment. Softwood cutting showed the highest rooting rate when the cutting diameter was 3 to 5 mm and the cutting length was 7 to 8 cm. In particular, the highest rooting rate of 80% was observed in the sand among the 8 cultivation media treatments. In the case of root cuttings, the rooting rate was 83.3~96.7% in all cultivation media. The highest rooting rate was observed when the diameter of the cutting was 7 to 8 mm, and the length of the cutting was about 10 to 11 cm. Among cutting methods, root cutting showed the highest rooting rate. Division showed a 100% rooting rate regardless of size or growth status. For Diabelia spathulata (Siebold & Zucc.) Landrein, propagation by cuttings was more efficient than seeding. However, Further research on the morphophysiological dormancy and dormancy break of seeds is needed for seed propagation.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.28 no.6D
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• pp.881-893
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• 2008

The major objective of this study is to investigate the fatigue damage factor evaluation of immovability crossing for railway turnout by the field test and qualitative analysis. From the field test results of the servicing turnout crossing and qualitative analysis with frictional wear which section stiffness decreased, it was evaluated fatigue life of servicing turnout crossing. Most design practices have not taken advantage of the advanced theories in the modern fracture mechanics and finite element analysis due to complexity of analysis as well as the large quantity of vaguely defined parameters in actual designs. This paper considers fatigue problems in turnout crossing using effective analytical and design tools from the field of qualitative constraint reasoning. A set of software modules was developed for fatigue analysis and evaluation, which is easily applicable in engineering practices of designers. The techniques enable the use complex analysis formulations to tackle practical problems with uncertainties, and present the design outcome in two-dimensional design space solution. Appropriate engineering assumptions and judgments in carrying out these procedures, often the most difficult part for practicing engineers, can be partially produced by using qualitative reasoning to define the trends and ranges, interval constraint analysis to derive the controlling parameters, as well as design space to account for practical experience.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.29 no.6D
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• pp.761-770
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• 2009

The energy efficiency and environment-friendly aspect of the railway system would be superior to other on-land ransportation systems. In a preliminary feasibility study stage and selection of optimal railway route, the energy efficiency and problems related to environment are usually considered. For the selection of optimal railway route, geographical features and facility of management are generally considered. Environment effect factors for the selection of environment-friendly railway router are focused and studied in this paper. In this study, various analysis of opinion of specialists (railway, environment, transport, urban planning, survey) and the guideline for construction of environment-friendly railway were accomplished. From these results of various analysis, 7 major categories (topography/geology, flora and fauna, Nature Property, air quality, water quality, noise/vibration, visual impact/cultural assets) were extracted. To select environment friendly railway route, many alternatives should be compared optimal route must be selected by a comprehensive assessment considering these 7 categories. To solve this problem, the selected method was AHP which simplifies the complex problems utilizing hierarchy, quantifying qualitative problems through 1:1 comparison, and extracting objective conclusions by maintaining consistency. As a result, a GUIbased program was developed which provides basic values of weighted parameters of each category defined by specialists, and a quantification of detailed assessment guidelines to ensures consistency.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.125-151
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• 2008

Both companies and consumers are highly interested in on-line customer reviews which enable consumers to share their experience and knowledge about products. In this study, after classifying real reviews into context units and deriving categories, we analyzed differences between categories based on channel(manufacturers' homepage/ shopping mall), product attribute(search/experience) and price(high/low). The method to derive categories is based on roughly adopting constructs of ACSI model and elaborate and repetitive classification of real reviews. We set up the classification category with 3 levels. Level 1 consists of product and service, level 2 consists of function, design, price, purchase motive, suggestion/user-tip and recommendation/repurchase in product and AS/up-grade and delivery/others in service and level 3 is composed of details of level 2 of category. We could find remarkable differences between channels in all 8 items of level 2 of category. As the number of context units in homepage is more than in shopping mall, we found reviews in homepage is more concrete. Moreover, overall satisfaction in review was higher at homepage's. Also, in product attribute dimension, we found different patterns of reviews in design, purchase motive, suggestion/user-tip, recommendation/repurchase, AS/up-grade and delivery/others and no difference in overall customer's satisfaction. In price dimension, we found differences between high and low price in design, price and AS/up-grade and no difference in overall customer's satisfaction.

• Proceedings of the Plant Resources Society of Korea Conference
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• 2021.04a
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• pp.19-19
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• 2021

경남 양산의 천성산에서만 생육하는 산림청·국립수목원 지정 희귀식물(Critically Endangered, CR) 주걱댕강나무 개체군을 대상으로 20개소의 방형구(10×10m, 100m²) 내 개체의 특성(개체수, 개화, 결실 등), 종자의 활력검정, 차광처리에 따른 생육 특성 및 우리나라 전역의 생육가능성에 대해 알아보았다. 20개소의 대상지에서 확인한 개체수는 총 3,270개체이며, 평균 개체밀도는 1.635/m²이다. 평균 수고는 1.1m 정도이며, 평균개화율은 27.37%이고 개화는 1.0~1.8m(평균수고 1.39m) 수고에서 집중되었다. 한편, 결실률은 평균 1.67%로 매우 낮았다. 종자의 크기는 평균 너비 0.27mm, 높이 0.18mm 정도로 너무 작아 X-ray 촬영을 통한 충실검정은 확인할 수 없었다. 종자를 1% Agar배지에 종자를 치상한 후 온도조건(15, 20, 25℃)에 따른 실험 및 온도(15, 20, 25℃)와 GA3 농도(100, 250, 500PPM)처리 실험 모두 발아율은 0%였다. 결실률이 매우 낮고, 종자 발아율 또한 낮으며 지하경을 뻗는 특성으로 보아 종자는 휴면종자이며 영양생장을 취하는 것으로 판단된다. 차광처리에 따른 생육 특성 실험 결과, 신초는 평균 30.6mm 성장, 엽록소 평균 함량 25.30, 잎의 수 평균 8.32개, 잎 길이 평균 35.93mm, 잎 폭 평균 20.37mm정도 성장하여 엽면적은 평균 761.10mm로 나타났다. 생육은 조도계를 활용한 실 차광률로 볼 때, 67.8% > 82.8% > 88.2% > 43.2% > 91.9%의 순서로 나타났다. 주걱댕강나무 자생지 내 수관열림도가 21.86%로 이를 차광률로 환산할 경우 70%내외의 차광률에서 생육이 효율적인 것을 확인하였다. 기후대별로 5개소에 이식한 주걱댕강나무는 이듬해까지 모두 생육이 원활하였다. A. spathulata를 Diabelia ionostachya종들과 가까운 유연관계를 가진다는 연구에서 D. ionostachya 샘플은 위도상 강원도 고성군에 속하고 있어 우리나라 대부분 지역에서 식재가 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

• Proceedings of the Plant Resources Society of Korea Conference
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• 2021.04a
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• pp.21-21
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• 2021

주걱댕강나무는 경남 양산의 천성산에서만 생육하는 산림청·국립수목원 지정 희귀식물(Critically Endangered, CR)로 현지외 보전 및 대체 서식지 조성을 위해 번식 특성에 대해 알아보았다. 종자번식의 경우 450립의 종자를 저장방법에 따라 파종한 결과 노천매장 3.56%, 저온건조저장 0.67%, 습사저온저장 0.22%로 발아율이 매우 저조하였으며, 배양토 조건에 따라 직파 실험한 결과 모래 2.44%, 원예용 상토 2.22%, 현지내 산림토 1.11%, 현지외 산림토 0%로 이 또한 발아율이 매우 저조하였다. 삽목번식의 경우 숙지삽은 모래+펄라이트 36.1%, 모래 31.1%, 원예용 상토 20.0%로 나타났으며, 휴면지 삽수의 발근촉진제 처리 효과는 IBA 1,000PPM에서 37.8%, IBA 7,000PPM 30.0%, 무처리 28.9%, IBA 5,000PPM 27.8%의 발근율을 보였고 신초길이, 뿌리의 수, 뿌리 길이는 전반적으로 발근촉진제 처리와 함께 농도가 높아질수록 뿌리 성장이 왕성한 것으로 나타났다. 녹지삽은 모래 80%, 모래+펄라이트 76.7%, 피트모스+마사토 73.3%, 피트모스+펄라이트+버미큘라이트 70.0% 순이며, 왕모래와 왕모래+마사토는 26.7%와 36.7%로 다소 저조하였다. 녹지삽수의 굵기는 4mm이상 구간에서 발근율이 73.3%로 가장 높았으며, 녹지삽수의 길이는 7~8cm 구간에서 80.0%로 가장 높게 나타나 삽수의 굵기가 굵고 8cm내외의 길이가 효율적인 것으로 나타났다. 근삽은 발아율이 88.3~96.7%로 모든 배양토에서 높게 나타났다. 근삽수 직경 7~8mm에서 100%이며 3~4mm 또한 91%로 나타났다. 근삽수 길이는 4~5cm와 10~11cm에서 100%, 6~7cm 88.1%, 8~9cm 94.4%로 나타나 4~5cm를 제외하고는 삽수 길이가 길수록 신초 생장과 발근이 비례하는 것을 확인하였다. 주걱댕강나무는 실생보다 삽목번식이 더 효율적이며, 그 중 근삽이 가장 발근율이 높다. 배양토는 모래 단용구를 제외하고는 평균 95%이상으로 나타났으며, 근삽수는 직경이 굵고 길수록 신초 생장과 발근이 왕성하다. 따라서, 현지외 보전을 위해 향후 휴면성의 종자 발아 연구가 필요하며, 영양번식을 할 경우 근삽이 가장 효율적인 것을 확인하였다.