• ALGAE
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.333-342
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• 2011

Macroalgae are important primary producers in marine ecosystem. They don't only play an important role as bioindicators but also provide economic resources for humans. Seasonal and vertical variations in seaweed species composition and biomass were examined to determine the ecological status of seaweed beds around Udo, near Jeju Island. We obtained samples at two sites in the high-intertidal to subtidal zones using the quadrat method between June 2010 and May 2011. A total of 262 species were collected, including 31 green, 61 brown, and 170 red algae. The composition of algal species revealed a decrease in species growing in cold water in comparison with the list 20 years ago. The macroalgal mean biomass (g wet wt $m^{-2}$) was 3,476 g and 2,393 g from the two sites, respectively. Ecklonia cava had the greatest biomass at both sites. The seasonal dominant species by biomass at site 1 from the low-intertidal to 1-3 m depth of the subtidal zone was mostly comprised of thick-leathery form, such as Sargassum hemiphyllum, S. coreanum, and Ecklonia cava, whereas site 2 was comprised of the turf form, such as Chondrophycus intermedius, Chondracanthus intermedius, Dictyopteris prolifera, and Gelidium elegans. The current ecological status of the seaweed community in Udo is stable based on diversity and dominance indices.

• Journal of Information Display
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.123-127
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• 2010

Fluorescent white organic light-emitting diodes showing high color-rendering indices (CRIs) of up to 81 was demonstrated, with a silicon-cored anthracene derivative (PATSPA) doped with DPAVBi utilized as the deep-blue host and dye materials, and the commercial dyes rubrene and DCM2 utilized as the orange- and red-light-emitting dyes. The devices, consisting of three emissive layers, showed bright-white-light emission, but the ratio of the blue peak to the orange and red peaks changed with the current density and the thickness of the blue emissive layer. A high CRI was achieved with the use of a deep-blue emitter doped in a novel host and by optimizing the blue-layer thickness. The device with a blue-layer thickness of 10 nm showed the Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) color coordinate of (0.33, 0.35), a high CRI of 81, and a moderate external quantum efficiency of 2% at a current density of $2.5\;mA/cm^2$.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.319-326
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• 2007

Coastal marine ecosystems continue to suffer unrelenting pressures from human population growth, increased development, and climate change. Moreover, these systems' capacity for self-repair is declining with such increases in anthropogenic production of various pollutants. What is the present health status or condition of the coastal ecosystem? If our coastal areas are unhealthy, which conditions are considered serious? To answer such questions, the United States, Canada, and Australia are currently assessing coastal ecosystem health using systematic monitoring programs as well as identifying and implementing management plans to improve the health of degraded coastal ecosystems. To evaluate marine environments, Korea is currently using a limited number of factors to estimate water quality. In fact, we are ill-prepared for assessing coastal ecosystem health because no biologically specific criteria are in place to measure the responses to various pollutants. We should select ecosystem-specific indicators from physicochemical stressors and evaluate the subsequent biological responses within each ecosystem. Furthermore, a set of practical indicators should be generated by considering the characteristics and uses of a local coastal area and the key issues at hand. The values of indicators should be presented as indices that allow understanding by the general public as well as by practitioners, policy makers, environmental managers and other stakeholders.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.952-958
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• 2005

Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) is known to be primarily responsible for hypertension. Threedimensional quantitative structure-activity relationship (3D-QSAR) models have been constructed using the comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA) and comparative molecular similarity indices analysis (CoMSIA) for a series of 28 ACE inhibitors. The availability of ACE crystal structure (1UZF) provided the plausible biological orientation of inhibitors to ACE active site (C-domain). Alignment for CoMFA obtained by docking ligands to 1UZF protein using FlexX program showed better statistical model as compared to superposition of corresponding atoms. The statistical parameters indicate reasonable models for both CoMFA ($q^2$ = 0.530, $r^2$ = 0.998) and CoMSIA ($q^2$ = 0.518, $r^2$ = 0.990). The 3D-QSAR analyses provide valuable information for the design of ACE inhibitors with potent activity towards C-domain of ACE. The group substitutions involving the phenyl ring and carbon chain at the propionyl and sulfonyl moieties of captopril are essential for better activity against ACE.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.32-38
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• 2014

Food consumption and conversion efficiency of eri silkworm Samia ricini Donovan were studied during $4^{th}$ and $5^{th}$ larval instars by feeding castor leaves fortified with 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 ppm concentrations of aqueous extracts of cyanobacteria Anabaena variabilis. The nutritional indices viz., ingesta, digesta, approximate digestibility (%), reference ratio and efficiency parameters like ECI and ECD were recorded which were significantly high at 400 ppm concentration treated batches of $4^{th}$ instar larvae over control batches. The decline in nutritional efficiency parameters of $5^{th}$ instar treated larvae might be due to higher utilization of the digested food for metabolic activities. Significant difference of ECI to cocoon % and non-significant difference of ECD to cocoon% and shell were observed between the treatments and control. Cyanabacteria feed supplement contains antibiotic and nutritions factors which has reflective effect on the biological parameters in eri silkworm and therefore has greater application in commercial eri silkworm rearing.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1996년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.862-864
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• 1996

This paper presents a new approach to evaluate reliability indices of electric distribution systems using genetic algorithm(GA). The use of reliability evaluation is an important aspect of distribution system planning and operation to adjust the reliability level of each area. In this paper, the reliability model is based on the optimal load transferring problem to minimize over load generated load point outage in each sub-section. This kind of the approach is one of the most difficult procedure which becomes a combination problems. A new approach using GA Was developed for this problem. We proposed a tree search algorithm which satisfied the tree constraint. GA is general purpose optimization techniques based on principles inspired from the biological evolution such as natural selection, genetic recombination and survival of the fittest Test results for the model system with 24 nodes and 29 branches are reported in the paper.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.31-41
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• 2019

In 2013, the Ministry of Environment in South Korea promulgated a new regulatory bulletin that contained revised enforcement ordinance on soil management protocols. The bulletin recommends the use of Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) for the soil erosion estimation, but USLE has limited applicability in prediction of soil erosion because it does not allow direct estimation of actual mass of soil erosion. Therefore, there is a great need of revising the protocol to allow direct comparison between the measured and estimated values of soil erosion. The Korean Soil Loss Equation (KORSLE) was developed recently and used to estimate soil loss in two fields as an alternative to existing USLE model. KORSLE was applied to estimate monthly rainfall erosivity indices as well as temporal variation in potential soil loss. The estimated potential soil loss by KORSLE was adjusted with correction factor for direct comparison with measured soil erosion. The result was reasonable since Nash-Stucliff efficiency were 0.8020 in calibration and 0.5089 in validation. The results suggest that KORSLE is an appropriate model as an alternative to USLE to predict soil erosion at field scale.

• 환경생물
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.207-218
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• 2024

Food webs have received global attention as next-generation biomonitoring tools; however, it remains challenging because revealing trophic links between species is costly and laborious. Although a link-extrapolation method utilizing published trophic link data can address this difficulty, it has limitations when applied to construct food webs in domestic streams due to the lack of information on endemic species in global literature. Therefore, this study aimed to develop a link extrapolation-based food web model adapted to Korean stream ecosystems. We considered taxonomic similarity of predation and dominance of generalists in aquatic ecosystems, designing taxonomically higher-level matching methods: family matching for all fish (Family), endemic fish (Family-E), endemic fish playing the role of consumers (Family-EC), and resources (Family-ER). By adding the commonly used genus matching method (Genus) to these four matching methods, a total of five matching methods were used to construct 103 domestic food webs. Predictive power of both individual links and food web indices were evaluated by comparing constructed food webs with corresponding empirical food webs. Results showed that, in both evaluations, proposed methods tended to perform better than Genus in a data-poor environment. In particular, Family-E and Family-EC were the most effective matching methods. Our model addressed domestic data scarcity problems when using a link-extrapolation method. It offers opportunities to understand stream ecosystem food webs and may provide novel insights into biomonitoring.

• 한국해양학회지:바다
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.8-34
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• 2014

국외의 대형 무척추동물과 해조류 군집을 대상으로 해역의 생태학적 상태를 평가하는 모델을 이용하여 인공어초와 인접한 자연초의 상태를 비교함으로써 우리나라 연안역에 설치된 인공어초의 기능도(FI, Functional Index; 군집구조의 안정성과 생산성의 추정)와 성숙도(MI, Maturity Index; 자연초 생물학적 패러미터와의 비교)를 평가할 수 있는, 복수의 생태학적 지수(ecological index)로 구성된 시스템을 개발하였다. 이 생태평가 모델을 서해안 연안바다목장 5개 지역(백령-대청, 연평, 태안, 서천 그리고 부안)의 자연초와 인공어초 또는 어초시설예정지(자연초)에 적용한 결과, 기능도(FI)는 지역별로 평균 31.6%(백령-대청)부터 72.5%(부안), 성숙도(MI)는 53.1%(서천)부터 76.9%(태안)의 범위를 나타내었다. 인공어초의 기능도와 성숙도는 태안에서 가장 양호하였으며, 인접한 인공어초와 자연초 간의 FI는 유의한 선형 관계를 갖는 것으로 나타났다($r^2=0.83$, p=0.01). 이 같은 결과는 그 해역의 생물 군집의 상태가 어초의 기능도를 결정하는 데에 중요한 요인으로 작용할 수 있음을 의미한다. 생태학적 상태에 대한 평가 결과는 효율적인 재원의 활용과 의사 결정에 책임이 있는 환경 및 자원 관리자에게 중요한 정보로 활용될 수 있을 것이다. 평가 결과의 정확도를 개선하고 강화하기 위해 다음과 같은 세 가지가 필요하다: (1)평가 결과의 타당성 검증과 이에 기초한 지시자 기준의 보정(rescaling)을 지속하고, (2) 시스템의 적용 및 자료의 축적을 통해 획득된 관찰과 경험을 적극적으로 활용하며, (3) 새로운 지수들을 지속적으로 개발, 검증하고 추가해 나가는 노력이 요구된다.

• 한국환경생태학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.302-313
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• 2014

모래형 하천과 자갈형 하천의 어류군집 특성을 비교하기 위해 4개의 하천을 선정하여 계절별 조사를 실시하였으며, 출현한 어종 중 한국고유종은 Acheilognathus gracilis 외 24종으로 확인되었다. 홍천강과 무주남대천의 우점종은 Zacco koreanus로 각각 39.9%, 28.4%를 차지하였으며, 양화천은 Rhodeus notatus가 13.6%, 갑천은 Z. platypus가 26.0%로 우점하였다. 군집분석 결과 우점도지수는 0.27~0.63, 다양도지수는 1.92~2.67, 균등도지수는 0.6~0.79, 풍부도지수는 3.09~3.53의 범위로 나타났으며, 우점도지수는 홍천강에서 가장 높고, 다양도, 균등도, 풍부도지수는 양화천에서 가장 높게 나타났다. 내성도 길드 분석 결과 하상구조물이 다양한 홍천강과 무주남대천은 민감종이 각각 50.1%와 46.4%로 비교적 높은 비율을 차지하였고, 모래 하상이 높은 양화천과 갑천은 민감종이 각각 0.5%와 5.3%의 희소한 비율을 차지하였다. 하천별 출현한 어류의 종별 개체수와 하상구조를 이용하여 유사도를 분석한 결과 자갈형 하천인 홍천강과 무주남대천이 종과 개체수는 50.4%, 하상구조는 95.2%로 가장 유사하였다. IBI 분석결과 홍천강과 무주남대천이 'A등급', 양화천과 갑천이 'B등급'으로 나타났고, 주성분 분석결과 자갈형 하천과 모래형 하천의 2개의 그룹으로 구분되었다.