• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• v.52 no.4
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• pp.391-397
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• 2014

We evaluated the status of Clonorchis sinensis infection and potential risk factors among residents of riverside areas (Geumgang) in Muju-gun, Jeollabuk-do (Province), Korea. From January to February 2010, a total of 349 (171 males, 178 females) stool samples were collected and examined by the formalin-ether concentration technique. Also, village residents were interviewed using questionnaires to obtain information about C. sinensis infection-related risk factors. Overall egg-positive rate of C. sinensis was 13.2%. Egg-positive rates were significantly higher in males, farmers, and residents who had lived there more than 20 years, and in residents who had eaten raw freshwater fish than in opposite groups, respectively. However, there was no significant difference between age groups, education levels, cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking, health status, past history of infection, and experience of clonorchiasis medication and examination. Logistic regression analysis was performed to determine risk factors for clonorchiasis. On univariate analysis, the odds ratios for males, farmers, those who had lived there more than 20 years, and who had eaten raw freshwater fish were 2.41, 4.44, 3.16, and 4.88 times higher than those of the opposites, respectively. On multivariate analysis, the odds ratio of residents who had eaten raw freshwater fish was 3.2-fold higher than that of those who had not. These results indicate that residents living in Muju-gun, along the Geum River, Korea, have relatively high C. sinensis egg-positive rates, and the habit of eating raw freshwater fish was the major factor for the maintenance of clonorchiasis.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.59 no.5
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• pp.109-126
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• 2017

Universal soil loss equation (USLE) is used to estimate soil loss solely or employed in any hydrologic models. Since soil erosion has been an issue in South Korea for decades, the Ministry of Environment enacted a law to regulate soil erosion in 2012, which is the Notification of topsoil erosion status. The notification is composed of preliminary and field investigations, the preliminary investigation suggests to use USLE and provides USLE factors. However, the USLE factors provided in the notification was prepared at least 10 years ago, therefore it is limited to reflect recent climate changes. Moreover the current yearly USLE approach does not provide an opportunity to consider seasonal variation of soil erosion in South Korea. A GIS-based model was therefore applied to evaluate the yearly USLE approach in the notification. The GIS-based model employs USLE to estimate soil loss, providing an opportunity to estimate monthly soil loss with monthly USLE factor databases. Soil loss was compared in five watersheds, which were Geumgang, Hangang, Nakdonggang, Seomjingang, and Yeongsangang watersheds. The minimum difference was found at Seomjingang watershed, the yearly potential soil loss were 40.15 Mg/ha/yr by the notification approach and 34.42 Mg/ha/yr by the GIS-based model using monthly approach. And, the maximum difference was found at Nakdonggang watershed, the yearly potential soil loss were 27.01 Mg/ha/yr by the notification approach and 10.67 Mg/ha/yr by the GIS-based model using monthly approach. As a part of the study result, it was found that the potential soil loss can be overestimated in the notification approach.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.36 no.7
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• pp.741-755
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• 2012

This study mathematically and scientifically investigated the aesthetic consciousness of women inherent in the costume craftworks craftworks of the Chosun Dynasty through a systematical analysis of their textile pattern composition using visual language theory. The tangent value from the horizontal and vertical ratio of the costume craftworks craftworks indicated that they had an indigenous proportion system with a relatively regular form and pattern but without an exaggerated type. There was a module based on structures in the textile patterns of the costume craftworks craftworks and the patterns were constructed by the module with the syntagms of the ratio structure. Moreover, the analysis of the pattern designs indicated that the whole form of the costume craftworks craftworks was built through a repetitive structure of feature and one of pattern units; in addition, the craftworks had the extended composition and blank space of daring patterns, an important factor to make a whole design. Therefore, our study suggested that the costume craftworks craftworks of the Chosun Dynasty was characterized by the presentation of the aesthetic style with a Geumgang ratio (an indigenous proportion system used in Korea) and could be interpreted as an art style based on the beauty of space. Moreover, it is suggested that the spirit inherent in the costume craftworks of the Chosun Dynasty (which tried to understand the whole as one and equate the whole and parts) might agree with a holistic tendency as the foundation of Korea art.

• Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.87-96
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• 2004

Father, U. Faurie visited Korea (Busan, Incheon, Nampo, Pyongyang, Seoul, Wonsan, Mt. Geumgang of Gangwon-do, and Jeju-do) three times for his plant collections (1901, 1906, and 1907). During his plant explorations, Faurie collected many specimens which were investigated and studied by T. Nakai and H. L$\acute{e}$veill$\acute{e}$ later. Unfortunately all collection sites were simply described in his collection sites in Romanized character, so that it is difficult to pinpoint those sites using the current or old Korean map. From this study, many locality names were reviewed based on his own collections and literatures, and those were listed as the order of his collection dates.

• Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.247-250
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• 2010

We report Polygonum plebeium R.Br. (Polygonaceae) as an unrecorded species from the Geumgang River, Buyeo-gun; Galmae-dong, Guri-si; the Chungju Reservoir, Jecheon-si; the Daecheong Reservoir, Okcheon-gun; and the Daecheong Reservoir, Daejeon, in Korea. It is distinguished from P. aviculare by pedicels that articulate in the middle and by its smooth and shiny achenes. The new Korean name, 'Ae-Gi-Ma-Di-Pul', is given considering the small-sized plant. In this study, a description and illustrations of the species and photos of the habitat are provided.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.35-41
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• 2015

In order to solve the problems that fingerprinting technologies and image identification technologies for digital music and videos identification scanned have not yet been enough to identify scanned cartoon books, the copyright project granted from the Korea Copyright Commission(Project title: Identification and Copy Protection Technology of Scanned Text/Comic Books) secured basic solutions for scanned cartoon books. The first result of the research project in 2013 was focused on the identification technology applied to abnormally scanned cartoon books. As subsequent research for the project, studies in the year of 2014 has been to provide solutions to identify cartoon books which abnormally scanned and occurred with transformations and distortions and solutions to protect the system from trials to devitalize functions of the identification system through various attacks. This paper is to propose a model for a system for identifying abnormally scanned cartoon books as a way of enhancing the identification rates for identifying abnormal bookscans and transformation attacks.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.25-31
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• 2017

This paper aims to develope the technology for monitoring and identifying webtoon works that are being illegally distributed through the web-hard, torrent and overseas websites. The technology is to effectively prevent the illegal distribution and protect the copyrights of the webtoon works, leading to create a healthy market. This paper deals with the technology for (a) automatic collection of webtoon works from the webtoon service sites, (b) extraction of the features from the images of the collected webtoon works, and (c) registers them in the feature database. For these purposes, the required system performance and features were analyzed and the structures of webtoon service sites were examined, through which the system for automatic registration of webtoon works and features was developed. The system can work for the early stage blockage of illegal distributions of webtoon works which occur during the period from webtoon posting to feature registration.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.1307-1311
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• 2010

수자원의 효율적인 관리를 위해서는 홍수량 자료뿐만 아니라 저 평수량의 자료도 매우 중요하며, 이는 최근의 가뭄 발생으로 인하여 용수공급 및 하천수질관리 문제에서 저수위 유량자료의 파악이 중요한 관심 대상이기 때문이다. 이를 위해서는 저수위에 대해 유량측정을 실시하여 유량자료를 확보해야 하며, 이와 더불어 연속적인 유량자료를 얻기 위해서는 신뢰성 있는 수위-유량관계곡선식이 필수적이다. 일반적으로 자연하천에서 수위-유량관계는 수위의 상승 및 하강에 따라 유량변화가 일정한 경향성을 가지고 변동을 하기 때문에 단일함수 관계로 설명이 가능하다. 하지만 갑문 조작에 영향을 받는 구간에서는 수위와 유량만의 단일함수 관계가 아닌 갑문의 개 폐에 따라 수위와 유량이 변동하는 특성을 가지고 있어 일반하천에 비해 수위-유량관계를 규명하는 것이 매우 어려운 문제이다. 본 연구는 금강 하구둑의 갑문조작에 의하여 배수영향을 받는 규암 수위관측소에 대하여 수위-하강고-유량관계를 이용한 유량환산방법, 수면경사를 매개변수로 추가한 다중 회귀식 개발, 자동유량측정 장치를 이용한 유속지수법, 기존 수위-유량관계곡선식을 이용한 유량환산, ADCP(Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler)를 이용한 유량측정성과에 대하여 비교 분석을 통하여 갑문조작에 의한 배수영향을 받는 지점의 안정적인 유량자료를 제공하는데 목적이 있다. 이와 같이 각 유량환산 방법에 따라 실측 유량과 환산유량 비교의 결과 수위-하강고 유량관계의 경우 평균 26.60%, 기존 수위-유량관계곡선의 경우 130.29%, 유속지수법의 경우 36.48%, 다중회귀식의 경우 24.65%의 상대오차가 발생하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.894-899
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• 2010

국가적 차원에서 물을 사용하고 통제하는 일은 국민의 생활에 큰 영향을 주고 있기 때문에 대부분의 나라들은 주어진 여건에 맞게 효율적으로 물을 사용하고 홍수와 가뭄으로부터 국민의 생명과 재산을 보호하기 위해 많은 일들을 하고 있다. 이와 같은 목적으로 우리나라에서는 국가유량측정망을 구축하여 2007년부터 국가적인 차원에서 유량측정을 수행하고 있다. 하지만 국가유량측정망의 경우 유량자료의 제공에 주 목적이 포함되어 있어 실제 유량자료만이 아닌 수위자료만의 목적으로 운영되고 있는 수위관측소에 대한 평가가 부족한 것이 현실이다. 본 연구에서는 치수, 이수, 환경 목적을 위한 유량측정 지점 뿐만아니라 재난, 댐, 유지유량 관리 등과 같은 추가적인 목적으로 수위자료를 활용하는 지점들에 대하여 하천의 최상류 지점에서 하구까지 모든 지점에 대한 신뢰성 있는 수위정보를 실시간으로 파악할 수 있는 수위관측망을 구축하는데 목적을 두었다. 이를 위하여 금강홍수통제소, 한국수자원공사, 환경부에서 운영하는 수위관측소를 대상으로 홍수예보, 홍수 통제시설, 재난관리, 수자원 관리 및 공급, 수리권 갈등, 수질 등과 같은 다중목적을 적용하여 기존 관측소를 활용 목적별로 평가 하여, 각 기관의 중복투자에 따른 손실을 최소화 하고, 최적의 장소에 수위관측망을 구축하는 것이다. 이와 같이 도시, 댐 저수지 운영, 산간 및 농촌 지역 등의 현재 운영되고 있는 수위관측소 현황을 파악 한 결과 국토해양부 91개소, 한국수자원공사 18개소, 지자체 35개소, 환경부 26개소를 운영하고 있으며, 이중 환경부와 중복으로 검토된 지점은 15개 지점으로 나타났다. 최종적으로 수위관측소 운영 목적 및 지형학적 검토를 통하여 수위관측망을 검토한 결과 금강 권역의 하천 재난, 운영, 유지를 위해서 103개소의 수위관측소가 필요한 것으로 평가 되었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.97-110
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• 2020

This study conducted observations at 72 traffic lights and road signs in Sejong-si, Korea from March to June 2019 in order to analyze nest-site, nest-site characteristics and feeding behavior in Tree sparrow (Passeer montanus) in urban. Feeding behavior during breeding season in 2019 was investigated at 10 Town representing traffic facilities installed on the road located in the center of the city and 10 Riverside Geumgang river's riverside road. We fitted both general linear model and regression model to our field data and estimated the spatial variation of initial date of the first feeding (i.e., being date of breeding) and the total number of caterpillar fed by parents per hour. Our results showed that the frequency of nest building on artificial structures, such as traffic lights, was about 26% higher and about 8 days earlier in the riverside. In particular, the first feeding was significantly faster when the nearest distance between nest to green field as foraging site was shorter whereas there was no significant effect of the number of nest within 50 meters on the first feeding. Number of caterpillars fed by parents was higher in the Riverside than in the Urban, and especially the number in the second brood was sharply decreased in the Urban. As we estimated average amount of caterpillars per hour to 446 traffic safety facilities in Sejong-si, it was estimated that Tree sparrows fed 18,742.8 caterpillars per hour during the breeding season. In this study, we showed that characteristics of nests built in artificial structures and feeding behavior in order to analyze effects of environmental condition in urban on life-history traits during the breeding season. Finally, we discussed the conservation of birds in urban and pest control effects.