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A Preliminary Study on the Growth and Feeding of Rockfish, Sebastes schlegeli, in Illuminated Sea Cages

  • Park, Chul-Won;Kim, Min-Suk;Park, Yong-Joo;Kim, Jong-Man
    • Ocean and Polar Research
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.279-284
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    • 2001
  • The natural high productivity of temperate coastal waters in Korea can be used in advantage to reduce the feed costs for the cage-cultured marine carnivorous fish species. By using the night-lights methods an alternative of supplementary feeding strategy can be offered to the cage farmers and maintain sound environmental conditions that could enhance maximum sustainable yields. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of night-lights which shown positive results on feeding and growth in sea cage cultured rockfish, Sebastes schlegeli. The study showed that for the water around overhead illuminated sea cage, higher zooplankton density was observed at night than during the daytime. Increased amounts of for-age, evidenced by stomach content analyses were observed in the early evening, but decreased amounts were observed in the morning and afternoon. That is, feeding activities of the fish were most intensive from midnight to dawn. In a three month feeding experiment, the results showed that night-lighted groups were superior to groups with the highest feeding efficient. This study suggested that the evidence that night-lights superimposed on only day-lights enhance growth of rockfish in sea cages during summer and winter, with timing of exposure affecting growth of juvenile fish. The capability to control the feeding behavior of marine life via manipulation and external stimuli could considerably benefit the advancement of sea cage aquaculture in coastal areas.

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Feeding Habits of Larval Clupea pallasii from the Nakdong River Estuary, Korea (낙동강 하구역에 출현하는 청어(Clupea pallasii) 자치어의 식성)

  • Choi, Hee Chan;Park, Joo Myun;Youn, Seok Hyun;Huh, Sung Hoi
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.48 no.4
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    • pp.498-506
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    • 2015
  • We examined the feeding habits of larval Clupea pallasii using 148 specimens collected from December 2010 to April 2011 in the Nakdong River estuary, Korea. We found that larval C. pallasii [8.3-26.0 mm NL (notochord length)] are carnivorous, consuming mainly copepods, rotifers, cirripeds, and free-living flatworms (Macrostomida). Their diet also include small quantities of shrimp nauplii, tintinnids, cladocerans, and larval bivalves, among other food sources. To evaluate ontogenetic changes in dietary composition, we split larvae into four size groups: 8-12 mm, 12-16 mm, 16-20 mm, and > 20 mm NL. Rotifers were the most important prey items for the smallest group, but all other groups predominantly consumed copepods. The largest group frequently preyed on rotifers, cirripeds and flatworms, in addition to copepods. Larvae also showed bi-modal feeding, with peaks in the late afternoon and at midnight, wherein the mean number of prey per individual peaked at 1,800-1,900 h.

A Comparison of Vegetative Growth of Kentucky Bluegrass and Perennial Ryegrass Cultivars in Different Levels of Shade (그늘하에서의 Kentucky Bluegrass와 Perennial Ryegrass 품종의 생육비교)

  • 구자형;김태일;원동찬;송남현;송천영
    • Asian Journal of Turfgrass Science
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.23-32
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    • 1991
  • The purpose of this study was to determine the vegetative growth of two cool season turfgrasses during summer season in Korea. Ten respective cultivars of Kentucky bluegrass [Poapratensis L.] and perennial ryegrass [Lolium perenne L.] were exposed to unshaded, 30% and 60% shade for 4odays. First mowing height was 7cm, and then clippings were harvested every ten days at the same height. Shading increased the total length of clippings of all cultivars of two turfgrasses, but fresh and dry weight were significantly decreased. The highest shoot length obtained at 30% shade in Kentucky bluegrass and at 60% shade in perennial ryegrass. 'Rugky', 'Sydsport', 'Wabash' and 'Baron' of Kentucky bluegrass and 'Repel', 'Omega II', 'Ovation', 'Linn', 'Bell' and 'Manhattan' of perennial ryegrass showed relatively high tolerance to shade. Especially, in 'Citation II' perennial ryegrass, fresh and dry weight were increased by 30% shade. The number of tillers generally decreased with increasing shade. In 30% shade, 'Midnight' Kentucky bluegrass and 'Omega II' perennial ryegrass were least reduced and 'Baron' Kentucky bluegrass and 'Pennant' perennial ryegrass were most reduced. The cultivars of lower growth habit in full sunlight showed shade tolerance compared to those of higher growth habit.

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Space Weather and Relativistic Electron Enhancement

  • Lee, J.J.;Parks, G.K.;McCarthy, M.P.;Min, K.W.;Lee, E.S.;Kim, H.J.;Park, J.H.;Hwang, J.A.
    • Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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    • 2006.10a
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    • pp.52-52
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    • 2006
  • Many spacecraft failures and anomalies have been attributed to energetic electrons in the Earth's magnetosphere. While the dynamics of these electrons have been studied extensively for several decades, the fundamental question of how they are accelerated is not fully resolved. Proposed theories have not been successful in explaining fast high energy increase such as REE (Relativistic electron enhancement). In this presentation, we show observations of energetic electron precipitation measured by the Korean satellite, STSAT-1 which simultaneously detect (100ev - 20 keV) and (170 - 360 keV) energy electrons at the 680 km orbit, when the RES event observed at the geosynchronous orbit on October 13, 2004. STSAT-1 observed intense electron precipitation in both energy ranges occurred in the midnight sector clearly demonstrating that electrons having wide energy band are injected from the plasma sheet. To make the balance between loss and injection, the injected electron flux should be also large. In this situation, the injected electrons can be trapped into the magnetosphere and produce REE, though they have low e-folding energies. We propose this plasma sheet injection might be the primary source of relativistic electron (1 MeV) flux increases.

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Feeding Habits of Larval Konosirus punctatus from the Nakdong River Estuary, Korea (낙동강 하구역에 출현하는 전어(Konosirus punctatus) 자치어의 식성)

  • Choi, Hee Chan;Han, In Seong;Suh, Young Sang;Huh, Sung Hoi
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.48 no.5
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    • pp.752-759
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    • 2015
  • We examined the feeding habits of larval Konosirus punctatus using 165 specimens collected from May to August 2011 in the Nakdong River estuary, Korea. We found that larval K. punctatus [3.9-8.4 mm notochord length (NL)] are carnivorous, consuming mainly rotifers. Their diet also included small numbers of rhizopods, tintinnids, euglenoids, copepods, larval bivalves, dinoflagellates, diatoms, and unidentified materials. To evaluate ontogenetic changes in dietary composition, we split the larvae into three size groups: < 5 mm, 5-6 mm, and > 6 mm NL. The smallest size group frequently preyed on rhizopods. As NL increased, the number of rotifers increased relative to those of rhizopods. Larvae also showed bimodal feeding for feeding incidence, with peaks in the midafternoon and at midnight, while the mean number of prey per individual peaked at 18:00-19:00 h.

A Development of Monitoring System for Automatic Environmental Control (자동 환경 제어 모니터링 시스템 개발)

  • 김대업;엄현서;정광하;박흥복
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.503-516
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    • 2001
  • At present, environmental control system of greenhouses related with industrial automation in the korea is composed of on/off-type control machine using a timer in facilities requiring intensive labor. This system, however, makes it difficult for us to find out any status of environmental control system in greenhouses when we are situated in a remote area or at midnight. In this paper we improved a system to monitor status for manual and automatic control by means of PC by replacing an existing on/off-type controller with a display panel, It also attempts to implement DB for information on corps and to provide a user with the efficiency of getting information for plants.

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Empirical Results and Operational Cost Analysis of Geothermal Heat Pump System using Thermal Energy Storage in Cooling Season (축열식 지열원 히트펌프 시스템의 냉방기간 실증운전 결과 및 운영비용 분석)

  • Kim, Deukwon;Lee, Dongwon;Heo, Jaehyeok;Kim, Minhwi
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.167-174
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    • 2018
  • The geothermal heat pump systems were installed for heating and cooling of public buildings in Jincheon Eco-friendly Energy town. The heat pump system was operated at night to save on operational costs, and the cold heat was stored in thermal energy storage (TES). In this study, the performance of geothermal heat pump systems with the TES during the summer season was analyzed, and the operational costs with and without the TES were compared. The electric chiller model was used to simulate a heat pump applied without the TES system. Electric rates of each system were measured to calculate operational costs. When the TES is used in the air conditioning system, the electric load (30.4 MWh) calculated in the daytime can move to off-peak load time, and the operational cost is reduced by 36~54%.

A Study on the Performance Valuation of Small Size Water Storage Electric Boiler (소형 수축열식 전기 보일러의 성능 평가에 대한 연구)

  • Mo, Jong-Gun;Shin, Jae-Ho;Bae, Chul-Whan;Suh, Jeong-Se;Chung, Han-Sik;Jeong, Hyo-Min
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2003.04a
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    • pp.1524-1529
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    • 2003
  • We was made 150L an water storage electric boiler and obtained various performances of the storage, radiant and keeping by experimentation, The storage performance is that the heat were off about 50 minutes after heating start, Then the temperature of outlet was arrived the stead state at $91^{\circ}C$ and the storage performances was appeared 93.64%, In the radiant performance, the water temperature was decreased from $90^{\circ}C$ to $44.8^{\circ}C$ after 960 minutes, Then the calorific value changed from 675kcal/h to 72kcal/h and the temperature decreased about 50%, The keeping performance showed mean temperature, $67.06^{\circ}C$ according to progress 800 minutes and the maximum temperature drop were $0.2^{\circ}C$, By the results of the performance valuation, the water storage electric boiler was verified fitted quality on the test prescription of KERI(Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute).

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Diel Feeding Activity in Summer of Juvenile Pacific Herring, Clupea pallasii in the Southeastern Coast of Korea (여름철 동해 남부에 출현하는 청어(Clupea pallasii) 유어의 일섭식 변동)

  • Park, Joo Myun;Huh, Sung-Hoi
    • Korean Journal of Ichthyology
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.267-271
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    • 2017
  • Diel changes in feeding activity of juvenile Pacific herring, Clupea pallasii were investigated throughout the analysis of stomach contents of 301 fishes collected from the southeastern coast of Korea. Fish samples were collected every 3 hour over a 24 h period in summer using small bottom trawl. The ratio of empty stomach, stomach fullness, stomach contents index (SCI) and stomach fullness index (IF) of juvenile C. pallasii were varied markedly with day/night changes. The ratio of empty stomach tended be higher during nighttime, while the other values were higher at daytime, with showing peak before sunset. During daytime, the stomach contents mainly were made up of copepods and euphausiids, while the diets at midnight were composed of nearly digested and unidentifiable items.

Characteristics about Patients using the Emergency Room of a General Hospital of a partial area Residents (일부 지역 주민의 종합병원 응급실 이용 환자에 관한 특성)

  • Jo, Hyeon Tae
    • The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.61-70
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    • 2016
  • Objectives: The purpose of this study was to verify about characteristics about patients using the emergency room of a general hospital of a partial area residents. Methods: The analysis of the data was used by SAS program(ver. 9.2). Chi-square test was used in analyzing degree of emergency of patients visiting the emergency room of a general hospital. Using cluster analysis, subjects were classified into 3groups. Results: Urgent and emergent patients at the age of 40 or greater were significantly higher than in under 10 years. the rates of urgent and emergent patients in male(3.2% and 3.3%) were significantly higher than in female(2.5% and 2.2%)(p<0.001). Urgent patients were the highest at 11 p.m.-3 a.m. and on Thursday and in winter. Emergent patients were the highest at 4 a.m.-8 a.m. and on wednesday and in winter. Patients as cause of disease was the highest in illness. Conclusion: Policy establishment and measures of government and public health authority were needed for emergent diseases at the age of 40 or greater of male and at midnight time and on thursday and wednesday and in winter.