• 제목/요약/키워드: Okinawa prefecture

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일본(日本)의 해안사방(海岸砂防)에 관한 연구(II) -충승현(沖繩縣)의 해안보안림(海岸保安林)을 중심으로- (A Study on Coast Sand Dune Fixation and Stabilization in Japan(II) - On Seaside Protection Forest in Okinawa Prefecture -)

  • 전권우;이재선;박완근;고키 젠푸쿠;나카시마 유키;에자키 츠지오
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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    • 제20권1호
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    • pp.69-81
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    • 2004
  • 우리나라에 있어서 해안림(海岸林)의 다면적(多面的) 기능(機能)과 시대적(時代的) 가치관(價値觀)의 변화를 파악하고, 해안사방(海岸砂防)의 참고자료를 얻기 위해 일본의 해안림(海岸林)과 해안사방(海岸砂防)에 대한 각종 자료를 수집 분석하고 있다. 전보(전권우(全權雨) 등, 2002)에 이어 일본(日本) 충승현(沖繩縣)의 해안방재림(海岸防災林)을 중심으로 해안림(海岸林)의 개요(槪要), 해안보안림(海岸保安林)의 실태(實態)와 각 도서별(島嶼別) 주요 해안사방용(海岸砂防用) 수종(樹種) 및 대표적인 해안보안림(海岸保安林)에 대하여 분석 정리하였다.

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Actual State and Practical Use of a Factory-like Plant Production System in Japan

  • Tanaka, Isao
    • 한국생물환경조절학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국생물환경조절학회 1996년도 국제심포지움 21세기 첨단식물생산시스템의 실용화
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    • pp.63-73
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    • 1996
  • The importance of plant factory which blend agriculture and manufacture has been discussed widely. This company has researched hydroponics technique for cultivation which has been mainly developed in the sites of Okinawa and Hyougo Prefecture. In 1987, we stopped the previous research there, and started a new one far plant factory at the Agricultural Research Center of Chiba Prefecture. In 1989, we built four experimental plant factories (120㎡) at Chiba Oil Factory Refinery in Ichihara-city, developing techniques of cultivation, equipment production and environmental control for cultivation system of tomato, strawberry and leaf vegetables. (omitted)

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Maternal lineage of Okinawa indigenous Agu pig inferred from mitochondrial DNA control region

  • Touma, Shihei;Shimabukuro, Hirotoshi;Arakawa, Aisaku;Oikawa, Takuro
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • 제32권4호
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    • pp.501-507
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    • 2019
  • Objective: The Agu is the only native pig breed in Japan, which is reared in Okinawa prefecture, the southernmost region in Japan. Its origins are considered to be of Asian lineage; however, the genetic background of the Agu is still unclear. The objective of this study was to elucidate the maternal lineage of the Okinawa indigenous Agu pig with the use of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region. Methods: The mtDNA control regions of Agu pigs were sequenced and the phylogenetic relationship among Agu, East Asian and European pigs was investigated with the use of 78 Agu individuals. Results: Twenty-seven polymorphic sites and five different haplotypes (type 1 to type 5) were identified within the Agu population. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that types 1 and 2 were included in East Asian lineages; however, the remaining types 3, 4, and 5 were of European lineages, which showed a gene flow from European pigs in the 20th century. Sixty-seven out of 78 Agu individuals (85.9%) possessed mtDNA haplotypes 1 and 2 of the East Asian lineage, which were identical to two haplotypes of ancient mtDNA (7,200 to 1,700 years before the present) excavated at archaeological sites in Okinawa. Conclusion: This study confirmed that the East Asian lineage is dominant in the maternal genetic background of the Agu population, supporting the hypothesis that the ancestors of the Agu pig were introduced from the Asian continent.

Evaluation of the genetic structure of indigenous Okinawa Agu pigs using microsatellite markers

  • Touma, Shihei;Arakawa, Aisaku;Oikawa, Takuro
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • 제33권2호
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    • pp.212-218
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    • 2020
  • Objective: Agu pigs are indigenous to the Okinawa prefecture, which is the southernmost region of Japan. Agu pigs were exposed to a genetic bottleneck during the 20th century, due to the introduction of European pig breeds. The objective of this study was to elucidate the genetic structure of Agu pigs and to determine their relationships with those of five European breeds, two Chinese breeds and Ryukyu wild boar using microsatellite markers. Methods: A total of 203 DNA samples from 8 pig breeds were used in this study. Genotyping was performed using 21 microsatellite markers distributed across 17 chromosomes. Results: Numbers of effective alleles in Agu pigs were fewer than in European breeds and Ryukyu wild boar. Among domestic pigs, Agu pigs had the lowest heterozygosity (0.423) and highest inbreeding coefficient (FIS = 0.202), indicating a severe loss of heterozygosity in Agu pigs possibly due to inbreeding. Neighbor-joining tree analysis was performed based on Reynolds' genetic distances, which clustered Agu pigs with Duroc pigs. However, principal component analysis revealed a unique genetic position of the Agu pig, and the second principal component separated Agu pigs from all other breeds. Structure analysis with the optimal assumption of seven groups (K = 7) indicated that Agu pigs form an independent cluster from the other breeds. In addition, high and significant FST values (0.235 to 0.413) were identified between Agu pigs and the other breeds. Conclusion: This study revealed a substantial loss of genetic diversity among Agu pigs due to inbreeding. Our data also suggest that Agu pigs have a distinctive genetic structure, although gene flows from European breeds were observed.

The Verification of the Reliability and Validity of Special Needs Education Assessment Tool (SNEAT) in Miyagi, Japan

  • HAN, Changwan;KOHARA, Aiko
    • 한국콘텐츠학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국콘텐츠학회 2016년도 춘계 종합학술대회 논문집
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    • pp.383-384
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    • 2016
  • The Special Needs Education Assessment Tool (SNEAT) were verified of reliability and validity. However, the reliability and validity has been verified is only Okinawa Prefecture, the national data has not been analyzed. Therefore, this study aimed to verify the reliability and construct validity of SNEAT in Miyagi Prefecture as part of the national survey. SNEAT using 55 children collected from the classes on independent activities of daily living for children with disabilities in Miyagi Prefecture between November and December 2015. Survey data were collected in a longitudinal prospective cohort study. The reliability of SNEAT was verified via the internal consistency method; the coefficient of Cronbach's ${\alpha}$ were over 0.7. The validity of SNEAT was also verified via the latent growth curve model. SNEAT is valid based on its goodness-of-fit values obtained using the latent growth curve model, where the values of comparative fit index (0.997), tucker-lewis index (0.996) and root mean square error of approximation (0.025) were within the goodness-of-fit range. These results indicate that SNEAT has high reliability and construct validity.

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FEASIBILITY STUDIES INTO NIR TECHNIQUE FOR MEASUREMENT OF INTERNAL QUALITY OF SOME TROPICAL FRUITS

  • Kouno, Yoshihide;Mizuno, Toshihiro;Maeda, Hiromu
    • 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국농업기계학회 1993년도 Proceedings of International Conference for Agricultural Machinery and Process Engineering
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    • pp.326-333
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    • 1993
  • Okinawa Prefecture is located in the southernmost part of Japan and has a subtropical climate. A lot of tropical fruits such as pineapples, mangoes and papayas are produced. Pineapples were mainly supplied to the canning industry. Since April 1990, the Japanese Government released the foreign trade restriction of canned pineapples and pineapple juice in accordance with GATT. Okinawan Farmers have been expanding the customers from the processing industry to the fresh market. During the recent year, fully mature, high quality pineapples which have 15 Brix in sugar content are produced in green houses on Okinawa. Prices are 2 to 3 times those of the imported pineapples. At present, they are sorted manually, and this sorting might cause the pineapples to lose their reputation. NIR applied fruit sorters have been developed and operated for apples and peaches in Japan . NIR applied tests were carried out to consider the feasibility into the NIR technique for measurement of the NIR a alysis suggests adequate correlations between sugar content and NIR reflectance properties of pineapples and mangoes.

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Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making Using Sectional Supermatrix

  • Kameya, Nagayuki;Miyagi, Hayao;Taira, Naoyuki;Yamashita, Katsumi
    • 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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    • pp.838-840
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    • 2002
  • Presently, Analytic Network Process which evaluates man's intention and offers decision-making support is capturing the spotlight. It originates in the ability of Analytic Network Process to treat various decision-making support system. However, no detailed reference is available when dealing with the group case. This paper examines the technique, which can also cope with the group decision-making support system, and describes the validity of the technique. A characteristic feature of the proposed technique is that it can detect a group's intention in a given section, and it decomposes the sectional supermatrix into a small supermatrix and a large one. A general supermatrix treats the convergence value by taking the limiting process method of the power of an evaluation value. On the other hand, when a supermatrix has nonnegative value, it can easily be solved by the eigenvector method. The decomposition of the supermatrix has been considered in this work.

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Evaluation of Photochemical Pollution during Transport of Air Pollutants in Spring over the East China Sea

  • Sadanaga, Yasuhiro;Kobashi, Tadashi;Yuba, Akie;Kato, Shungo;Kajii, Yoshizumi;Takami, Akinori;Bandow, Hiroshi
    • Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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    • 제9권4호
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    • pp.237-246
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    • 2015
  • We conducted intensive observations of ozone, CO, $NO_x$ (=NO and $NO_2$), $NO_y$ (total odd nitrogen species including particulate nitrate) and total nitrate (the sum of gaseous $HNO_3$ and particulate nitrate) at Cape Hedo, Okinawa, Japan, from 19 March to 3 April, 2009, to investigate ozone production during long-range transport from the Asian continent. Ozone production efficiency (OPE) was used to evaluate photochemical ozone production. OPE is defined as the number of molecules of ozone produced photochemically during the lifetime of a $NO_x$ molecule. OPE is calculated by the ratio of the concentration increase of ozone to that of $NO_z$ ($=NO_y-NO_x$). Average OPE during observation was estimated to be $12.6{\pm}0.5$, but concentrations of ozone increased nonlinearly with those of $NO_z$. This non-linearity suggests that OPE depends on air mass origin and $NO_z$ concentrations. There were very different values of OPE for the same air mass origin, so that only the air mass origin alone does not control OPE. OPE was low when $NO_z$ concentration was high. We examined the correlation between $NO_z$ and $CO/NO_y$ ratios, which we used instead of the ratio of non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHCs) to $NO_x$. The $CO/NO_y$ ratios decreased with increasing $NO_z$ concentrations. These results indicate that competition reactions of OH with NMHCs and $NO_2$ are the rate determining steps of photochemical ozone production during long-range transport from the Asian continent to Cape Hedo, for high concentrations of nitrogen oxides.

일본(日本) 궁고도(宮古島)의 지하수중(地下水中)의 $NO_3-N$${\delta}^{15}N$치(値) (Nitrate Concentration and ${\delta}^{15}N$ Value of the Groundwater in the Miyakojima Island, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan)

  • 박광래;태택희구웅
    • 한국환경농학회지
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    • 제14권1호
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    • pp.97-108
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    • 1995
  • 일본 오끼나와현 궁고도(宮古島)의 지하수에 대해서 질산태질소($NO_3-N$) 농도의 현상을 지역별로 조사하고, 질소안정동위체 자연존재비(${\delta}^{15}N$)의 측정을 병용하여 그 오염원을 추정하였다. 궁고도(宮古島)의 지형, 농업형태, 취락의 존재 등 몇종의 요인을 고려하여, 대표적인 10지점을 선정한후, 매월 1회 지하수를 채취하여, 양이온, 음이온 농도를 측정한 후, 정밀동위체비질량분석계(Finnigan MAT 252)를 이용하여 $NO_3-N$${\delta}^{15}N$ 치(値)를 측정하였다. 질산태질소($NO_3-N$) 농도는 측정 기간 중 평균 $1.4{\sim}11.5mgL^{-1}$의 범위였으며, 월간변동이 큰 것과 적은 것이 있었다. ${\delta}^{15}N$치(値)는 측정기간 중의 평균 +4.3${\sim}$+9.7$%_o$의 범위에 있었으며, 비교적 변동이 적었다. $NO_3-N$ 농도와 ${\delta}^{15}N$치(値)의 분포로부터, 조사 지하수는 Tuga-ga를 포함시켜 4군(群)으로 분류되었다. 각 $NO_3-N$의 기원을 추정하여, 퇴구비 등 축산 폐기물, 분뇨(糞尿) 등 생활하수(生活下水), 화학비료, 토양유기물 등으로부터 유래하는 $NO_3-N$의 복합적 기여에 대하여 고찰하였다. 또한 이 지역에서 사용되어지고 있는 화학비료 중의 질소의 ${\delta}^{15}N$치(値)는 -3.9${\sim}$-1.4$%_o$의 치를 나타냈기 때문에 시비된 비료의 질산화 과정에 있어서 일부가 암모니아로서 휘산되는 것으로 추정되며, 그 결과 지하수 중의 ${\delta}^{15}N$치(値)가 증가되는 것으로 추정하였다.

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SUPPLY-DEMAND, COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTION AND TRANSACTION OF THE CULTURED TUNA IN JAPAN - EMPHASIZING ON THE GLOBAL EXPANSION OF THE TUNA-FARMING BUSINESS -

  • Yamamoto, Naotoshi;Kameda, Kazuhiko;Nishida, Akari;Kitano, Shinichi
    • 수산경영론집
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    • 제39권1호
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    • pp.87-114
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    • 2008
  • The cultured tuna production which has suddenly expanded at the short time and the demand for it attract attention. Farming mode, distribution transactions, change of the market (domestic and international) and the price trend are reviewed from the Japan's position which is the biggest consuming country. This paper tries to describe the current status of the food system related to the cultured tuna. Japanese government began the development of the tuna culture technology in 1970. It was by the Fisheries Agency's project. Kinki University which is the large scale private university in Japan participated in the project. After that, 32 years have passed. Kinki University established the full farming of the bluefin tuna in August, 2002. On the other hand, in 1974, one Japanese private enterprise began its tuna farming business in Canada. Kinki University gave this company technical cooperation. Also, in the early stages of the 90s, as for the policy of the overseas fishery cooperation foundation, it supported the tuna farming business in Australia. It is very clear to understand that the long-term technological-development has supported the take-off scene of the tuna culture business not only in foreign countries but also in Japan. The total shipment scale of the cultured tuna expanded very much within about 10 recent years. However, the decrease of the wild tuna catch, the reinforcement of the fisheries regulation and the tuna body to dwarf are remarkable now. Under the condition as the mentioned above, Japan's tuna consumption, especially, in the market at the fatty meat of tuna of the cultured tuna is building up firm status. At present, the Mediterranean Sea coastal countries, Australia, Mexico and Japan have the tuna farming sites. Australia farms the southern bluefin tuna. The others do the bluefin tuna. About for 3 years, Japan farms the juvenile of the tuna. The global production areas are as follows. 8 coastal countries of the Mediterranean Sea; 18,000 tons (61 % of the cultured tuna quantity in foreign countries), Mexico; 4,500 ton (15%), Australia; 7,000 tons (24%). In 2003, Japan has 32 managements and 39 offices for tuna farming. In Japan, Kyushu and Okinawa district, the share shows itself as 80 % of the domestic production quantity. Especially, the share of Amami-oshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture exceeds 60 %. Therefore, this island has the maximum production scale of Japan. The amount of supply of BT and SBT was 56,000 tons in 2004. In Abroad, the tuna farming business forms a fixed connection between the importer and the wholesaler which have their office in Japan. In the field of the capital composition, the payment in advance, transaction and the way of settlement, each maintains their fixed relation. The market conditions of the cultured tuna are supported by "the decline of price level" and "the expansion of the general public consumption segment". These lead a team merchandising, and it is supported by the fixed business connection of each. This makes the profit of each business which are on the cultured tuna distribution. However, they have competition on the power balance among them.

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