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First Report of Albifimbria verrucaria and Deconica coprophila (Syn: Psylocybe coprophila) from Field Soil in Korea

  • Gurung, Sun Kumar;Adhikari, Mahesh;Kim, Sang Woo;Lee, Hyun Goo;Jun, Ju Han;Gwon, Byeong Heon;Lee, Hyang Burm;Lee, Youn Su
    • The Korean Journal of Mycology
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    • v.47 no.3
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    • pp.209-218
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    • 2019
  • During a survey of fungal diversity in Korea, two fungal strains, KNU17-1 and KNU17-199, were isolated from paddy field soil in Yangpyeong and Sancheong, respectively, in Korea. These fungal isolates were analyzed based on their morphological characteristics and the molecular phylogenetic analysis of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) rDNA sequences. On the basis of their morphology and phylogeny, KNU17-1 and KNU17-199 isolates were identified as Albifimbria verrucaria and Deconica coprophila, respectively. To the best of our knowledge, A. verrucaria and D. coprophila have not yet been reported in Korea. Thus, this is the first report of these species in Korea.

Assessing the Economic Feasibility of a Marine Ranching Project in Tongyoung (통영바다목장화사업의 경제적 타당성평가)

  • Pyo, Hee-Dong
    • Ocean and Polar Research
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.305-318
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    • 2009
  • A marine ranching project in Tongyoung was established in 1998, lasting 9 years to 2006. Project activities included the deployment of artificial reefs, the release of young fishes like jacopever and rockfish, and input/output control for specific marine ranching areas in Tongyoung. This report focuses on the economic feasibility of the project in hindsight. Analysis concentrates on three aspects; (a) direct economic benefits, such as increasing effects of fisheries income and savings in harvesting costs, (b) indirect benefits, including increasing effects of recreational fishing and saving R&D costs, and (c) costs, including releasing and purchasing costs of artificial reef and juvenile fish, R&D costs, maintenance costs and harvesting costs. Results show that NPV=4.7 billion won, IRR=8.55% and B/C ratio=1.286 under Scenario 1, which considers the saving effects of R&D costs, and NPV=0.9 billion won, IRR=6.03% and B/C ratio=1.11 under Scenario 2, which does not consider the saving effects of R&D costs, based on 5.5% of the social rate of discount. According to sensitivity analysis, the economic feasibility is very sensitive to the recapture rate.

Evaluation of Irritating Potential of Newly Developed Toothpaste in the Hamster Oral Mucous Membrane

  • Kim, Bae-Hwan;Kim, Jin-Woo;Chang, Ih-Seop;Sim, Young-Chul;Lee, Yong-Soon
    • Toxicological Research
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.167-171
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    • 2001
  • Oral mucous membrane test using Syrian hamsters was performed to evaluate the reliability as a model system for the assessment of the potentially irritating substances intended for the mucous membranes, and to determine the irritating potential of a new emulsion-type formulated toothpaste. After test substances were implanted into the cheek pouches of hamsters with diluents (20 mg/kg) under pento-barbital sodium anesthesia, we made the comparison in irritation between emulsion-type and dispersion-type of triclosan (TCS) formulations in the range of 0.2% to 0.3%. The emulsion-type formulations using non-ionic surfactant showed less mucosal lesion than other commercial toothpastes with 0.3% TCS, or dispersion-type ones. However, no significant difference in irritation was detected between 0.2% and 0.3% TCS. We report that this hamster cheek pouch method could be a reliable approach for the evaluation slight difference in the irritating potentials of cosmetics and hygiene products intended for the lips or other mucous membranes, and this method showed that the new emulsion-type formulation significantly lowered the TCS-induced toxicity, compared with other commercial toothpastes.

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Genetic Variation and Phylogenetic Relationships of Indian Buffaloes of Uttar Pradesh

  • Joshi, Jyoti;Salar, R.K.;Banerjee, Priyanka;Upasna, S.;Tantia, M.S.;Vijh, R.K.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.26 no.9
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    • pp.1229-1236
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    • 2013
  • India possesses a total buffalo population of 105 million out of which 26.1% inhabit Uttar Pradesh. The buffalo of Uttar Pradesh are described as nondescript or local buffaloes. Currently, there is no report about the genetic diversity, phylogenetic relationship and matrilineal genetic structure of these buffaloes. To determine the origin and genetic diversity of UP buffaloes, we sequenced and analysed the mitochondrial DNA D-loop sequences in 259 samples from entire Uttar Pradesh. One hundred nine haplotypes were identified in UP buffaloes that were defined by 96 polymorphic sites. We implemented neutrality tests to assess signatures of recent historical demographic events like Tajima's D test and Fu's Fs test. The phylogenetic studies revealed that there was no geographic differentiation and UP buffaloes had a single maternal lineage while buffaloes of Eastern UP were distinctive from rest of the UP buffaloes.

An Experimental Study on the Performance of a Minimum Bandwidth Line Code VMDB5 (최소 대역폭 선로 부호 VMDB5의 성능 측정에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Chang Goo;Kim, Dae Young
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.419-428
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    • 1986
  • While three most important aspects of line codes are the de-free, the minimum-bandwidth, and the self-clocking properties, the only TIBr, VMDBr, RMD3r, RMD4r codes possess all of these properties. This paper is to report the results of an experimental performance study of VMDB5. The encoder and decoder of VMDB5 and the pulse shaper have been inplemented. Power spectra, eye patterns, and error probabilities are experimentally measured, confirming the theoreticla performance predictions. It has been observed that the NRZ pulse shaping reliable transmission is possible with no extra equalization even in teh case when the -3dB channel bandwith is only half the Nyquist bandwidth.

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Implementation of a Weather Hazard Warning System at a Catchment Scale (집수역 규모 기상위험 경보체계 구축)

  • Park, Ju Hyun;Kim, Seong Kee;Shin, Yong Soon;Ahn, Mun Il;Han, Yong Kyu
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.389-395
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    • 2014
  • This technical note describes about the base stages of technology implementation for establishing "Early Warning System for Weather Hazard Management in Climate-smart Agriculture" to national onsite service. First of all, a special weather report service at catchment was represented sequential risk of 810 units of catchment by spatial statistical methods to existing 150 counties units special weather report released in KMA. The second, chronic hazard alarm service based on daily data of 76 Synoptic stations was monitor about 810 Catchment of mid-long term lapse weather and represented as a relative risk index chronic hazard risk of this time in preparation for the climatological normal conditions in the same period. Finally, we establish the foundation for delivering individually calculated field specific in hazard risk about volunteer farmer of early warning service demonstration area in seomjin downstream watershed. These three types of information were built a near real-time map service on the VWORLD background map of Ministry of Land as superposed layers nationwide catchment and demonstration areas within the farm unit weather hazard.

Measurements of Greenhouse Gas from the Manure in the Piggery (축산 돈사에서 온실가스 측정 방법에 대한 연구)

  • Kam, D.H.;Park, K.H.;Choi, D.Y.;Jung, M.S.;Min, B.R.;Lee, D.W.;Kim, J.K.
    • Journal of Animal Environmental Science
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.155-162
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    • 2011
  • This study was conducted to suggest the measurement procedure and to build up national greenhouse gas inventory database of animal agricultural sector by assessing methane and nitrous oxide emissions according to IPCC guidelines for national greenhouse gas inventory report in order to correspond to the Climate Change Convention. Ten house-made steady-state Half dome floating chambers were used to collect air samples emitted from slurry stored in the pit under the slat. Those chambers were spread out in order that air samples might represent the whole area of slurry under the slat. Fresh air was pumped into the chambers by $5{\sim}9{\ell}/min$ and air inside the chambers was sampled by $1{\ell}/min$. Surplus air by the higher flow rate of fresh air than sampling flow rate was passed through a hole on the top of chambers. Nitrous oxide fluxes measured from 10 locations would be negligible as concentrations between background air and sampled air from the chambers were within the error range. However, mean $CH_4$ fluxes were $0.15{\sim}1.02mg/m^2{\cdot}s$. The application of continuous greenhouse gas measurement techniques would be preferred if the patterns of greenhouse gas emissions are considered.

First Report of Leaf Spot of Datura metel Caused by Alternaria tenuissima in Korea

  • Aktaruzzaman, Md.;Kim, Joon-Young;Afroz, Tania;Kim, Byung-Sup
    • Research in Plant Disease
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.330-333
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    • 2015
  • In June 2013, we collected leaf spot disease samples of Datura metel from Gangneung, Gangwon Province, Korea. The symptoms observed were small circular to oval dark brown spots with irregular in shape or remained circular with concentric rings. We isolated the pathogen from infected leaves and cultured the fungus on potato dextrose agar. We examined the fungus morphologically and confirmed its pathogenicity according to Koch's postulates. The results of morphological examinations, pathogenicity tests, and the rDNA sequences of the internal transcribed spacer regions (ITS1 and ITS4), glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (G3PDH) and the RNA polymerase II second largest subunit (RPB2) gene sequence revealed that the causal agent was Alternaria tenuissima. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of leaf spot of D. metel caused by A. tenuissima in Korea as well as worldwide.