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Characterization of Nivalenol-Producing Fusarium asiaticum That Causes Cereal Head Blight in Korea

  • Jang, Ja Yeong;Baek, Seul Gi;Choi, Jung-Hye;Kim, Sosoo;Kim, Jeomsoon;Kim, Da-Woon;Yun, Sung-Hwan;Lee, Theresa
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • v.35 no.6
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    • pp.543-552
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    • 2019
  • Fusarium asiaticum of the F. graminearum species complex causes head blight in small-grain cereals. The nivalenol (NIV) chemotypes of F. asiaticum is more common than the deoxynivalenol (DON) chemotypes of F. asiaticum or F. graminearum in Korea. To understand the prevalence of F. asiaticum-NIV in Korean cereals, we characterized the biological traits of 80 cereal isolates of F. asiaticum producing NIV or 3-acetyl-deoxynivalenol (3-ADON), and 54 F. graminearum with 3-ADON or 15-acetyl-deoxynivalenol (15-ADON). There was no significant difference in mycelial growth between the chemotypes, but F. asiaticum isolates grew approximately 30% faster than F. graminearum isolates on potato dextrose agar. Sexual and asexual reproduction capacities differed markedly between the two species. Both chemotypes of F. graminearum (3-ADON and 15-ADON) produced significantly higher numbers of perithecia and conidia than F. asiaticum-NIV. The highest level of mycotoxins (sum of trichothecenes and zearalenone) was produced by F. graminearum-3-ADON on rice medium, followed by F. graminearum-15-ADON, F. asiaticum-3-ADON, and F. asiaticum-NIV. Zearalenone levels were correlated with DON levels in some chemotypes, but not with NIV levels. Disease assessment on barley, maize, rice, and wheat revealed that both F. asiaticum and F. graminearum isolates were virulent toward all crops tested. However, there is a tendency that virulence levels of F. asiaticum-NIV isolates on rice were higher than those of F. graminearum isolates. Taken together, the phenotypic traits found among the Korean F. asiaticum-NIV isolates suggest an association with their host adaptation to certain environments in Korea.

A Study on the Simplified Estimating Method of Off-site Consequence Analysis for Aqueous Ammonia (암모니아수의 농도별 간이 영향평가 방법 연구)

  • Jung, Yu-kyung;Heo, Hwajin;Yoo, Byungtae;Yoon, Yi;Yoon, Junheon;Ma, Byungchol
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.49-57
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    • 2016
  • Aqueous ammonia is widely used in household cleaners, fertilizers and denitrification process. It is usually treated in concentrations from 10 % to 30 %, and release accidents have occurred frequently. In this study, we developed a simplified estimating method and equation to calculate threat zone easily in case of emergency due to release accident of aqueous ammonia. We calculated the consequence distance for toxic endpoints of aqueous ammonia(concentration 10 % ~ 30 %) at different puddle areas($1m^2{\sim}500m^2$) using the ALOHA program. Based on the result, we analyzed the relationship between concentration and puddle area with the threat zone and created the equation.

Application of delphi method to the technology level assessment of food safety (델파이기법을 활용한 식품안전 기술수준 진단)

  • Gwon, So Young;Lee, Ye Seul
    • Food Science and Industry
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    • v.51 no.3
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    • pp.209-217
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    • 2018
  • Delphi technique is widely used to develop consensus on group opinion. It is important to identify the strategic technologies and evaluate technology level for the establishment of national R&D policy to upgrade technology level. The aim of this article was to reflect on Food Safety technology level by using Delphi methodology. And, competitiveness of patents and journal articles is evaluated for Korea, USA, Japan, China and EU. As a result, USA is the most competitive country for all technology categories. The average technology level of Korea was 79.5% of world-top coungry and average technological gap was 6.1 years. Korea is grouped in middle-lower class for overall food safety technology level. However, there are some variances among the level of technologies. As a result of this study, food safety research management needs to expand R&D investment and training of food safety specialist. The results of this research can be utilized to establish a road map for transportation R&D and plans.

An Availability Assessment of Protection Wall Installed in LPG Filling Station (LPG 충전소 내 설치된 방호벽의 효용성 평가)

  • Lee, Jin-Han;Jo, Young-Do;Moon, Jong-Sam;Kim, Lae Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.38-45
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    • 2018
  • Jet fire, pool fire, and vapor cloud explosion are major accident scenarios in LPG filling station. The protection wall would mitigate radiation effect in a jet fire. In case of a pool fire, the protection wall would restrict expanding the pool area. The protection wall might both obstruct the dispersion of released vapor and protect blast overpressure in a vapor cloud explosion scenario. In this paper, An availability assessment method of the protection wall how much reduce damage to receptors is proposed. Additionally application cases are presented for the effectiveness of protection wall in the LPG filling station. The study shows that the protection wall can effectively reduce the death probabilities of receptors located behind the wall in cases of the jet fires and the vapor cloud explosions.

Appropriateness Assessment of Dike Height of a Chemical Plant through Development of a Hazardous Chemical Leakage Trajectory Evaluation Module (유해화학물질 누출궤적 평가모듈 개발을 통한 화학공장 방류벽 높이의 적정성 평가)

  • Yoo, Byungtae;Kim, Hyeonggi
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.121-129
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    • 2019
  • The Chemical Control Act of 2015 was enhanced to ensure the safe management of hazardous chemicals. In particular, there have been substantial changes in the standards for the installation and management of handling facilities for manufacturing and storing hazardous chemicals. However, some standards for handling facilities are difficult to implement due to a lack of physical space or because of safety accidents during facility improvements. Therefore, the Safety assessment system (SAS) has been operating for such facilities since 2018. This study developed a leakage trajectory evaluation module that can easily evaluate the outside of a dike for safety evaluation. We analyzed two case studies on a dike for hydrochloric acid and sulfuric acid storage tanks with this module and suggest a reasonable plan for the facility. We believe that it will be possible to more easily submit SAS reports at chemical plants by using this evaluation module. This study is expected to contribute to the improvement of the safety design of hazardous chemical handling facilities.

Design and Implementation of Dangerous Situation Assessment System using YOLOv4 and Data Modeling (YOLOv4와 데이터 모델링을 활용한 위험 상황 판정 시스템의 설계 및 구현)

  • Lee, Taejun;Kim, Sohyun;Yang, Seungeui;Hwang, Chulhyun;Jung, Hoekyung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2022.05a
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    • pp.488-490
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    • 2022
  • Recently, interest in industrial accidents such as the Industrial Safety and Health Act and the Serious Accident Punishment Act is increasing, and the demand for safety managers for safety management of workers in research institutes and industrial fields of various fields is increasing. For worker safety management, CCTVs are being installed in factories and workplaces, and workers are monitored to enhance safety management. In this paper, we intend to design a dangerous situation assessment system by constructing data using CCTV in such a workplace and modeling it in JSON format. The data modeling was produced by referring to the data set construction guide for artificial intelligence learning and the quality management guideline of the Korea National Information Society(NIA). Through this system, we want to check what kind of risk management exists in the workplace by risk situation scenario and use it to build a more systematic system.

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A Study on the Safety Improvement of City Gas Pressure Regulators in Apartment Housing (공동주택 등에 설치하는 도시가스 압력조정기의 안전성 향상에 관한 연구)

  • Youngman Yun;Yongchai Kwon;Kyungho Kim;Jihyun Jang
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.86-94
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    • 2023
  • This study was conducted with the purpose of preparing an alternative to improving the safety of civil pressure regulators installed instead of gas governors to supply city gas to apartment houses. First, problems were derived and solutions were presented by investigating the safety standards and installation status of domestic pressure regulators. In addition, using the DNV Phast-Safeti program, a quantitative risk assessment solution, risks such as gas leakage contained in pressure regulators installed in apartment houses and surrounding gas facilities were evaluated in terms of individual risks and societal risks, and measures were derived to reduce the risks in the installation and management of the pressure regulators.

Diagnosis of Development Projects and Water Quality Changes in the Environmental Management Sea Areas and Improvement of Impact Assessment (환경관리해역의 이용개발현황과 수질변화경향 및 영향평가 개선방안)

  • Jun, Eun Ju;Yi, Yong Min;Lee, Dae In;Kim, Gui Young
    • Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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    • 2018.06a
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    • pp.143-143
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    • 2018
  • 최근 3년간 환경관리해역(환경보전해역 및 특별관리해역)에서 이루어진 해역이용협의 검토 건수는 총 60건으로 조사되었다. 환경보전해역에서는 2015년 9건, 2016년 7건, 2017년 3건으로 지속적으로 감소하였고, 특별관리해역에서는 2015년 12건, 2016년 13건, 2017년 16건으로 증가하는 양상을 나타내었다. 환경관리해역의 개별사업 유형을 분석한 결과, 인공구조물 설치사업이 가장 높은 비율을 차지하였으며, 그 다음으로 항만 어항개발, 연안정비 및 해수 인 배수 사업유형이 많이 이루어진 것으로 분석되었다. 환경관리해역에서 국가해양환경정보통합시스템(MEIS) 자료를 참고하여 생태기반 해수수질 평가지수(WQI)와 경년별 수질변화경향을 비교한 결과, COD는 뚜렷한 증감의 변화는 보이지 않았으나 TN과 TP의 농도는 다소 감소하는 경향을 보였다. 특별관리해역인 광양만과 마산만 및 환경보전해역인 가막만에서는 빈산소수괴가 출현하였다. 이러한 환경관리해역에서의 이용 개발행위가 지속적으로 이루어지고, 이에 따른 해역이용협의서 등 해양환경부문 환경영향평가시에는 충분한 수질변화에 대한 실태분석 및 사업추진에 따른 수질영향을 철저히 진단해서 오염원관리에 대한 대책이 중점적으로 평가되어야 할 것으로 판단된다. 특히, 각 환경관리해역의 지정 목적에 따른 유지 수질목표를 명확히 설정할 필요가 있다. 또한, 개발사업에 따른 협의 평가과정에서의 검증을 위하여 환경관리해역에서의 수질 및 퇴적물에 대한 모니터링 및 분석결과에 대한 정도관리가 더욱 강화되어야 할 것이다.

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Policy assessment of Agricultural Infrastructure Improvement Project for Preliminary Feasibility Study - Multipurpose Rural Water Development Project in Pangyo District - (농업생산기반정비사업의 예비타당성조사 정책효과 분석 - 판교지구 다목적 농촌용수개발사업을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Soo-Jin;Bae, Seung-Jong;Yoo, Seunghwan;Kim, Yoonhyung;Yoon, Sungeun;Kim, Jeonghoon
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.21-28
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    • 2021
  • Since 2001, the Pangyo district multipurpose rural water development project has been promoted as a new target project for stable supply of agricultural water and improvement of the living environment of rural areas in Seocheon-gun. Detailed data analysis and logic must be reinforced, focusing on the items reorganized by the reorganization of the preliminary feasibility study. The purpose of this study is to promote the smooth promotion of projects by conducting a policy effect assessment following the reorganization of the preliminary feasibility study system. This study conducted a policy assessment of agricultural infrastructure improvement project for preliminary feasibility study. The policy assessment is divided into three parts: project implementation conditions, policy effects and special assessments. The newly established policy effect is to assess the job effects, living conditions impact, environmental evaluation, and safety evaluation that contribute to the quality of life. Sixteen policy assessment items were selected and evaluated quantitatively and qualitatively. The results of the study are expected to provide basic data for the comprehensive judgment of the preliminary feasibility study of agricultural infrastructure improvement project in the future.

The Water Deer on a Road: Road-Kill Characteristics of a Nationally Abundant but Internationally Threatened Species

  • Kim, Kyungmin;Seo, Hyunjin;Woo, Donggul;Park, Taejin;Song, Euigeun
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.62-68
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    • 2021
  • Despite numerous efforts on reducing road-kill worldwide, the collisions have been occurring continuously. Many factors are affecting road-kill occurrences and the effect is various by species. We investigated Hydropotes inermis argyropus road-kill characteristics on the national highway. We examined 9,099 H. i. argyropus road-kill points with distance to the gaps on road (interchange and intersection) and distance to six natural land-cover types as explanatory variables. We also examined the number of road-kill occurrences according to temporal variation using chi-square test with 9,658 events. In general, H. i. argyropus road-kill location tended to occur close to the gaps on road, agricultural lands and forests. The average distance from road-kill to the gap was 694.7 m and 78.6% of the collisions were occurred within 1 km from the gaps. In addition, Kruskal-Wallis test showed the distance between road-kill points and each land cover and the gaps was significantly different. The temporal analyses showed that the differences of the H. i. argyropus road-kill frequency are significant in both month and season. Our results implies H. i. argyropus road-kill location tended to occur close to the gaps on road, agricultural lands and forests in general, especially during May and June, according to their seasonal behavior. Thus, we suggest there is a need of concentrated management on the roads with specific characteristics for both wildlife and human safety.