• 대기
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.131-140
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• 2014

The "Barents Oscillation (BO)", first designated by Paul Skeie (2000), is an anomalous recurring atmospheric circulation pattern of high relevance for the climate of the Nordic Seas and Siberia, which is defined as the second Emperical Orthogonal Function (EOF) of monthly winter sea level pressure (SLP) anomalies, where the leading EOF is the Arctic Oscillation (AO). BO, however, did not attracted much interest. In recent two decades, variability of BO tends to increase. In this study, we analyzed the spatio-temporal structures of Atmospheric internal modes such as Arctic Oscillation (AO) and Barents Oscillation (BO) and examined how these are related with Arctic warming in recent decade. We identified various aspects of BO, not dealt in Skeie (2000), such as upper-level circulation and surface characteristics for extended period including recent decade and examined link with other surface variables such as sea-ice and sea surface temperature. From the results, it was shown that the BO showed more regionally confined spatial pattern compared to AO and has intensified during recent decade. The regional dipolelar structure centered at Barents sea and Siberia was revealed in both sea-level pressure and 500 hPa geopotential height. Also, BO showed a stronger link (correlation) with sea-ice and sea surface temperature especially over Barents-Kara seas suggesting it is playing an important role for recent Arctic amplification. BO also showed high correlation with Ural Blocking Index (UBI), which measures seasonal activity of Ural blocking. Since Ural blocking is known as a major component of Eurasian winter monsoon and can be linked to extreme weathers, we suggest deeper understanding of BO can provide a missing link between recent Arctic amplification and increase in extreme weathers in midlatitude in recent decades.

• 한국발생생물학회지:발생과생식
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.341-350
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• 2018

Chemokines is a small protein that plays a major role in inflammatory reactions and viral infections as a chemotactic factor of cytokines involved in innate immunity. Most of the chemokines belong to the chemokine groups CC and CXC. To investigate the immune system of the olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus), an expression pattern specifically induced in the early developmental stages of analysis is examined using qRT-PCR. We also examined tissue-specific expression of both CC and CXC chemokine in healthy olive flounder samples. CC and CXC chemokine shows increased expression after immune-related organs are formed compared to expression during early development. CC chemokine was more highly expressed in the fin, but CXC chemokine showed higher expression in the gills, spleen, intestines, and stomach. Spatial and temporal expression analysis of CC and CXC chemokine were performed following viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV) infection. CC chemokine showed high expression in the gills, which are respiratory organs, whereas CXC chemokine was more highly expressed in the kidneys, an immune-related organ. These results suggest that CC and CXC chemokine play an important role in the immune response of the olive flounder, and may be used as basic data for the immunological activity and gene analysis of it as well as other fish.

• 한국발생생물학회지:발생과생식
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.199-205
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• 2009

HSP70 has widely been induced in in vivo hyperthermia conditions in various organisms to study gene regulation and recently neuroprotectve roles of the induced gene expression under varying conditions. We investigated different responses among various tissues in zebrafish under heat shock to evaluate whether spatial and temporal expression pattern of zebrafish (z) hsp70 in transcriptional and translational level under heat shock stress in different brain regions. Heat shock groups were given for 1 h at $37^{\circ}C$ after recovery by transferring the treated animals back to $28^{\circ}C$ for 1, 2 and 24 h for recovery, respectively. Control (CTRL) group was kept at $28^{\circ}C$. At the end of treatments, five animals were collected and used for isolation of total RNAs and peptides from the corresponding tissues. Expression of zhsp70 mRNA showed different patterns in recovery periods in the tissues including the brain, eye, intestines, muscles, heart and testis by RT-PCR. Unlike the RT-PCR analysis, Northern blot analysis demonstrated nearly 30-fold increase in zhsp70 at 1 h heat shock, suggesting that RT-PCR may not be appropriate in unmasking regulation of the time-dependent zhsp70 expression. In the experiment involving different brain regions, the cerebellum showed gradual activation at 1 h to R1h and decreases in R2h and R24h, while the medulla oblongata and optic tectum showed gradual increase at R1h and decrease at R24h, indicating that different brain tissues respond specifically to heat shock in inducing zhsp70 and recovering from the heat shock status. Western blot analysis also demonstrated that the intracellular levels of zHSP70 in three different brain regions including the cerebellum, medulla oblongata and optic tectum are differently induced and recovered to normal state. These results clearly demonstrate that different regions of the body and the brain tissues are responding differently to heat shock in the aspects of its level of expression and speed of recovery.

• 대한공간정보학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.3-9
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• 2015

도시공간에서 토지이용변화는 교통량을 유발하고 이에 따른 교통사고발생이 상호 밀접한 관계를 갖고 있으므로 토지이용변화에 따른 교통사고발생원인 분석은 교통사고저감대책 수립에 중요한 요소로 판단된다. 이에 지방 중소도시인 진주시를 대상으로 5년간(2009년~2013년)의 교통사고 데이터를 주거지역과 상업지역의 사고 발생빈도와 최근린 분석기법에 의한 군집도를 분석한 결과 다음과 같은 결론을 얻었다. 교통사고의 발생빈도는 봄에 가장 많았고 겨울이 가장 작게 발생하였다. 또한 주간과 야간의 교통사고 발생빈도는 주간이 야간에 비해 조금 더 많이 발생하였으나 교통사고발생 군집도는 야간이 주간에 비해 강하게 나타났다. 그리고 토지용도에 따른 교통사고 군집도 분석에서 상업지역은 계절에 따른 변화가 크지 않았으나 주거지역은 겨울철에 군집밀도가 크게 낮아지는 경향을 보였다. 교통사고 유형에 따른 분석 결과 차 대 차의 측면직각추돌사고가 가장 높은 발생빈도를 보였으며 상업지역과 주거지역에 모두 광범위하게 발생되는 것으로 나타났다. 이상의 결과는 도시공간구조에서 교통사고 발생패턴을 파악하는데 중요한 정보가 될 수 있으며, 향후 교통사고저감대책을 수립하는데 유용하게 활용될 것으로 예상된다.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.55-65
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• 2024

This study aimed to figure out diel activity patterns of water deer and wild boar, whose habitat is disturbed by human activity in a suburban area. Photographic data of water deer and wild boar collected by 18 camera traps from January 2021 to November 2022 was categorized into four diel periods (dawn, day, dusk, and night), and converted into frequencies per 100 CTD (Camera Trap-Days) for seasonal and spatial diel activity pattern analysis. Water deer exhibited intense nocturnality in fall, and wild boar did in fall and winter. During the fall, water deer's night-time capture rate was the highest (61.9%), and day-time photographic rate was the lowest (13.9%) among other seasons. During the fall and winter, wild boar's night-time photographic rate was relatively high (77.6%, 78.0%, respectively), and day-time photographic rate was relatively low (0.7%, 1.8%) in comparison with other seasons. In spatial diel activity analysis, both water deer and wild boar showed a tendency to avoid humans, especially near trails during day-time hours. The day-time photographic rate of water deer in trail-near group was 12.1% and trail-far group was 24.6%. The day-time photographic rate of wild boar was 3.4%, 5.7%, respectively. Because the diel activity patterns of wildlife reflect human disturbance, this study provides useful ecological information for developing appropriate management plans for the coexistence of water deer and wild boar in suburban areas.

• Advances in environmental research
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.19-39
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• 2020

Urban heat island (UHI) is one of the most important climatic implications of urbanization and thus a matter of key concern for environmentalists of the world in the twenty-first century. The relationship between climate and urbanization has been better understood with the introduction of thermal remote sensing. So, this study is an attempt to understand the influence of urbanization on local temperature for a small developing city. The study focuses on the investigation of intensity of atmospheric and surface urban heat island for a small urbanizing district of Punjab, India. Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS satellite data and field observations were used to examine the spatial pattern of surface and atmospheric UHI effect respectively, for the month of April, 2018. The satellite data has been used to cover the larger geographical area while field observations were taken for simultaneous and daily temperature measurements for different land use types. The significant influence of land use/land cover (LULC) patterns on UHI effect was analyzed using normalized built-up and vegetation indices (NDBI, NDVI) that were derived from remote sensing satellite data. The statistical analysis carried out for land surface temperature (LST) and LULC indicators displayed negative correlation for LST and NDVI while NDBI and LST exhibited positive correlation depicting attenuation in UHI effect by abundant vegetation. The comparison of remote sensing and in-situ observations were also carried out in the study. The research concluded in finding both nocturnal and daytime UHI effect based on diurnal air temperature observations. The study recommends the urgent need to explore and impose effective UHI mitigation measures for the sustainable urban growth.

• Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.183-193
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• 2015

Several transgenic marine medaka Oryzias dancena strains harboring a green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter construct regulated by an endogenous ${\beta}$-actin promoter were established and their expression characteristics in relation to transgene copy numbers were examined in 21 transgene genotypes. Most of the transgenic strains displayed transgene insertion patterns typical of microinjection-mediated introduction of foreign DNA into fish embryos, characterized by the random integration of multiple transgene copies (ranging from 1 - 282 copies per cell), often accompanied by the formation of concatemer(s), as assessed by genomic Southern blot hybridization analysis and qPCR. Transgenic strains showed ubiquitous and continued temporal and spatial expression patterns of the transgenic GFP during most of their life cycle, from the embryonic stage to adulthood, enabling assessment of the expression pattern of the endogenous ${\beta}$-actin gene. However, a comparative evaluation of transgene copy numbers and expression levels showed that copy number-dependent expression, the stability of the ubiquitous distribution and expression efficiency per transgene copy varied among the transgenic strains. Fluorescence expression levels were positively correlated with absolute transgene copy numbers, whereas the expression efficiency per transgene copy was inversely related to the number of transgene integrant copies. Data from this study will guide the selection of potentially desirable transgenic strains with ubiquitous expression of a fluorescent transgene, not only in this marine medaka species but also in other related model fish species.

• 한국해양학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.193-202
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• 1986

황해 동남해역에서 해면과 30m층 수온의 시. 공간 변동성을 1967-1982 장기 수온자료의 variance 와 cmpirical orthogonal function(EOF)분석으로 연구하였다. 월평균 해면수온의 공간분포는, 남에서 북으로 감소하는 장기 년평균과 유사한 형태를 갖고 있다. 반면에 년평균 해면수온으로부터 계산한 분산은 남에서 북으로 증가한다. 해면 수온의 variance 가 경기만 남부해역을 제외한 연구해역에서 30m층 보다 2배이상 크다. EOF의 첫째와 둘째 모드가 계절변화를 갖고 있으며 해면과 30M층 variance의 97.6%와 85.2%를 각각설명하기 때문에 수온의 큰 variance 는 계절변화와 밀접한 관계가 있다. 겨울철 조사 해역 북부와 남부사이 수온의 차이가 크나 여름철에는 작아진다. 이것은 여름철 복사에 의한 해면의 열흡수가 열손실이 나 해양열이류보다 훨씬 크다는 것을 반영해준다. 여름철에 경기만 남부와 목포 주변 연안수가 조석혼합에 의해 외해수보다 수온이 낮게 나타난다.

• 지적과 국토정보
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• 제47권1호
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• pp.37-51
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• 2017

호우 예측 정확도의 향상에도 불구하고 호우재해로 인한 사회경제적 비용이 지속적으로 증가하고 있는 것은 기상이 미치는 영향에 대한 이해의 부족 때문이다. 본 연구에서는 WMO에서 제시한 영향예보 핵심개념인 재해, 취약성, 노출 개념을 활용하여 지역별 호우잠재영향을 평가하고 호우발생과 연계하여 호우재해의 위험도를 분석하였다. 노출과 취약성 변수로 호우잠재영향을 구성하였고, 호우재해지수는 호우특보 기준에 따라 선정한 3개의 변수를 선정하여 산정하였다. 호우잠재영향 지수의 가중치는 주성분분석을 이용하여 산정하였으며, 호우재해지수는 동일한 가중치를 부여하여 산정하였다. 호우잠재영향지수와 실제 호우피해액과의 상관분석 결과 높은 상관관계가 증명되어 호우잠재영향지수는 실제의 피해양상을 적절히 반영하고 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. 호우재해위험도는 호우잠재영향지수와 호우재해지수로 구성된 위험도 매트릭스를 이용하여 산정하였다. 본 연구는 시공간적으로 변화하는 호우예특보를 위한 호우영향분석 연구의 토대를 제공하고 지역별 호우방재대책을 수립하는데 유용한 자료로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제48권4호
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• pp.489-497
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• 2015

To reveal the spatial and temporal variability in the distribution, growth, and maturation of skipjack tuna Katsuwonus pelamis in the western tropical Pacific, we compared two El $Ni{\tilde{n}}o$-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) signals and the sea surface temperature (SST) in the main fishing area with fishery and biological data. An index of skipjack tuna distribution was calculated using Korean purse seine fishery data from 1985 to 2003. Biological data for skipjack tuna were collected monthly from Korean catches during the 1994-2003 period. The catch was more closely related to the SST in the main fishing area than to the ENSO signals. However, cross-correlated function analysis showed delayed interactions between abiotic and biotic factors. The El $Ni{\tilde{n}}o$ events preceded the eastward movement of the fishing center by 2-3 months. El $Ni{\tilde{n}}o$ had a positive effect on the skipjack tuna catch, and the change in the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) preceded the catch fluctuation by ca. 5-7 months. In addition, negative El $Ni{\tilde{n}}o$ effects on gonad maturation and the mean length of skipjack tuna were detected with time lags of 12 and 7 months, respectively. The length frequency indicated that the regime-specific growth pattern at each discrete period seemed to be related to the ENSO.