• Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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• 2013.04a
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• pp.310-315
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• 2013

연잎성게가 몸체의 방향을 유입류에 평행하게 맞추어 포식하는 이유에 대해서는 크게 유체역학적인 설명과 생태학적인 설명이 양립하고 있다. O'Neill과 Nakamura와 같은 연구자들에 의해 연잎성게의 이러한 행태를 유체역학의 관점에서 설명할 수 있지만, 정작 셋 이상의 연잎성게 군집의 포식 효율에 대해서는 개체 수에 기반을 둔 생태학적 관점에 의존하고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 연잎성게 군집 내에서의 개체들의 배열을 모델링하고, 다양한 군집 배열에서 개체들의 포식 효율을 EDISON_전산열유체 시스템을 활용해 분석하였다. 특히 포식 효율을 결정하는 과정에서 얇은 익형 이론을 이용함으로써 포식효율을 결정하는 유체역학적 특성이 양력계수임을 확인하였다.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.167-177
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• 2020

Cooperative behavior may seem contrary to the notion of natural selection and adaptation, but is widely observed in nature, from the genetic level to the organism. The origin and persistence of cooperative behavior has long been a mystery to scientists studying evolution and ecology. One of the important research topics in the field of evolutionary ecology and behavioral ecology is to find out why cooperation is maintained over time. In this paper we take a historical overview of mathematical models representing cooperative relationships from the perspective of mathematical biology, which studies population dynamics between interacting biological groups, and analyze the mathematical characteristics and meanings of these cooperative models.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.37-43
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• 2010

In field, one can observe without difficulties that two flocks are intersected or combined with each other. For example, a fish flock in a stream separates into two part by obstacles (e.g. stone) and rejoins behind the obstacles. The dynamics of two flocks guided by their leader were studied in the situation where the flocks cross each other with a crossing angle, ${\theta}$, between their moving directions. Each leader is unaffected by its flock members whereas each member is influenced by its leader and other members. To understand the dynamics, I investigated the order parameter, ${\phi}$, defined by the absolute value of the average unit velocity of the flocks' members. When the two flocks were encountered, the first peak in ${\phi}$ was appeared due to the breaking of the flocks' momentum balance. When the flocks began to separate, the second peak in ${\phi}$ was observed. Subsequently, erratic peaks were emerged by some individuals that were delayed to rejoin their flock. The amplitude of the two peaks, $d_1$ (first) and $d_2$ (second), were measured. Interestingly, they exhibited a synchronized behavior for different ${\theta}$. This simulation model can be a useful tool to explore animal behavior and to develop multi-agent robot systems.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.47-59
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• 2011

Various mathematical models have been widely studied recently in both fields of mathematics and ecology since they help us understand the dynamical process of population changes in biological species living in a certain habitat and give useful predictions. The world population model proposed by Malthus, a British economist, in his work 'An Essay on the Principle of Population' published in the period of 1789~1826 is one of the early mathematical models on population changes. Malthus' models and the carrying capacity models of Verhulst in 1845 were based on exponential type functions. The independent research field of mathematical ecology has been started from Lotka's works in 1920's. Since then various different mathematical models has been proposed and examined. This article mainly deals with single species population change models expressed in terms of ordinary differential equations.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.197-210
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• 2014

Species like insects and fishes have, in many cases, non-overlapping time intervals of one generation and their descendant one. So the population dynamics of such species can be formulated as discrete models. In this paper various discrete population models are introduced in chronological order. The author's investigation starts with the Malthusian model suggested in 1798, and continues through Verhulst model(the discrete logistic model), Ricker model, the Beverton-Holt stock-recruitment model, Shep-herd model, Hassell model and Sigmoid type Beverton-Holt model. We discuss the mathematical and practical significance of each model and analyze its properties. Also the stability properties of stationary solutions of the models are studied analytically and illustratively using GSP, a computer software. The visual outputs generated by GSP are compared with the analytical stability results.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.27-36
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• 1995

Comparative epidemiological studies on vector reservoir animals of tsutsugamushi disease were carried out in between south coast (the highest endemic) areas and east coast flow endemicl areas in October 1993. Fauna of field rodents and their population densities were not different between two areas. Antibody positive rate of Apodemus agrarius sera was higher in east coast (43.2% in south coast and 63.6% in east coast). High correlation (r = 0.87) was shown between antibody positive rate of A. osrwiur sera and population density of the vector mites (Leptotrombidium scutellare and 1. pnllidunl). L. scutellare was predominant in south coast, showing 110.6 chigger index (74.9% of the total chiggersl , whereas L. pcllidum was predominant in east coast, showing 126.3 chigger index (60.4% of the total). As higher population density of 1. scutellare was found in south coast where the prevalence rate of tsutsugamushi disease is the highest, it is believed that L. scutellare is more important vector species than L. pallidum which may result from more frequent vector-human contact.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Veterinary Pathology Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.86-105
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• 2002

질병진단에 있어서 부검의 중요성은 두 말할 필요가 없다. 왜냐하면 정확한 진단은 질병의 본질과 병원체의 병리기전(pathogenesis)을 이해함으로써 합리적인 치료와 예방대책을 수립할 수 있다. 특히 최근에는 동물질병과 환경 위해 요소 등 공중위생적인 측면이 상당히 부각되어 사람에게도 영향을 줄 수 있는 인수공통 전염병의 예방을 용이하게 한다. 특히 축산업의 발달에 따라 돼지나 닭의 경우는 개체 진료보다는 집단 단위 (herd 또는 flock)의 위생관리가 중요하기 때문에 질병에 대한 역학적 상황 분석과 부검 진단은 필수 불가결한 과정이다. (중략)

• Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.9-14
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• 1998

Air current speeds were controlled of 0.3, 0.5, 0.7 and 0.9 m.s$^{-1}$ to investigate the effects of air current speeds on the growth of eggplant plug seedlings (Solanum melongena L.) in a wind tunnel under artificial lighting. Growth of plug seedlings was influenced by the magnitude of air current speed and the traveling distance of regulated air flow. Stem length. ratio of length to diameter in stem, plant height .and number of leaves of plug seedlings decreased with the increasing air current speed and were significantly different at 5% level. Net photosynthetic rates of plug stand increased with the increasing air current speed and took a maximum value at the air current speed of 0.7~09 m.s$^{-1}$ . Stem diameter decreased and leaf area increased with the traveling distance of regulated air flow. Fresh weight and T/R ratio of dried weight were not influenced by the air current speed. Optimum control for microclimates inside the plug stand is needed to produce the uniform growth and high quality of plug seedlings in a semi-closed plant Production system under artificial lighting.

• Korean System Dynamics Review
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.95-126
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• 2011

This paper aims at developing a System Dynamics model with an augmented predator-prey interaction structure to deal with the population management of roe deer in Jeju, Korea. Although people still regard the creature as one of the important tourist attractions, there has been much debate on the issues of the appropriateness of the population size of roe deers because they have been stigmatized as crop damagers, and roadkill/poaching victims due to their natural habit to move around from the top mountain to the lowland of the island. The model is therefore to incorporate these migrating and grazing behaviors into an augmented Lotka-Volterra model coupling roe deer population in both parts of the island to that of predators and preys of the species. The authors also provide a comprehensive set of dynamic hypotheses and relevant CLD/SFD to understand the population dynamics of roe deer and co-evolving species and perform the steady-state analysis of the proposed equation system to verify the model behavior of the numerical example lastly presented in this paper.

• Journal of the korean veterinary medical association
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• v.48 no.3
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• pp.144-149
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• 2012

최근의 구제역 발생은 발생규모와 확산속도 면에서 과거에 우리가 경험했던 구제역과는 확연하게 달랐다. 수 많은 가축을 매몰하고, 그 동안의 모든 방역경험을 다 쏟아 부었지만 구제역의 확산속도는 수그러들지 않았다. 그러한 상황에서 더 이상의 가축의 희생을 줄이고, 축산업 자체의 붕괴를 막기 위하여 전국적인 긴급 예방접종은 불가피한 선택이었다고 생각한다. 다행스럽게도 전국적인 긴급 예방접종 이후 단기간에 구제역의 발생은 급격하게 감소되었고, 현재는 임상증상을 나타내는 발생은 거의 자취를 감추었다. 그러나 발생 감소와는 상관없이 앞으로도 당분간은 정기적인 예방접종이 지속될 전망이다. 첫째, 내적으로는 아직도 바이러스 전파원이 될 수 있는 잠복감염 가축(즉 캐리어)이 남아있을 수 있기 때문이며, 둘째, 외적으로는 우리나라 주변국에서 구제역의 발생이 지속되고 있는 상황에서 언제라도 새로운 구제역 바이러스가 국내에 유입될 수 있기 때문이다. 따라서 당분간은 철저한 예방접종을 통하여 구제역이 발병, 확산되지 않도록 하여야 한다. 구제역과 같은 전염병의 확산을 막기 위해서는 감수성이 있는 가축집단에 일정수준의 면역이 유지되어야 하는데, 질병 역학자들은 집단 내 80% 이상의 개체가 면역이 되어야 한다고 한다. 그런데 구제역 예방접종 이후 소는 항체 형성이 잘되는 반면에 돼지는 항체 형성률이 낮게 나타난다는 양돈농가의 호소가 이어지고 있다. 이에 따라 방역당국과 양돈협회에서는 올바른 예방접종 요령에 대한 홍보자료를 작성하여 농가에 배포하고, 전문수의사를 동원한 교육을 계획하고 있다. 본고에서는 구제역 예방접종의 효과를 높이고, 접종 부작용을 줄이기 위하여 어떻게 백신을 관리하고 접종해야 하는지 상세하게 알아보고자 한다.