• Plant Biotechnology Reports
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.107-120
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• 2011

The ability to feed an expanding world population poses one of the greatest challenges to mankind in the future. Accompanying the increased demand for food by the expected nine billion inhabitants of Earth in 2050 will be a continual decrease in arable land area, together with a decline in crop yield due to a variety of stresses. For these formidable challenges to be met, future crops should not only by high-yielding, but also stress-tolerant and disease-resistant. In this review, we highlight the importance of genetic engineering as an indispensable tool to generate just such future crops. We briefly discuss strategies and available tools for biotechnological crop improvement and identify selected examples of candidate genes that may be manipulated so that current biological maxima in yield may be surpassed by comfortable margins. Future prospects and the necessity for basic research aimed at identifying novel target genes are also discussed.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권12호
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• pp.1970-1980
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• 2016

The problem of food deficiency is a major discouragement to many low-income developing countries. Most of these countries experience constant danger of hunger, malnutrition and diseases as they are unable to maintain their food supplies mainly due to lack of arable lands and modern crop, livestock and fishery production technologies. In addition, the pollutants resulting from the secondary industries are becoming another serious issue in their food problems. The pollutants mixed in the sands blowing from the mainland China and the toxic waters flowing in the farm land form the industrialized zones are some of the examples. The Vertical Farm, or Plant Factory, proposed in this study could be the best alternative food production system for them. Vertical farm is an efficient food production system that yields relatively a large volume of food materials without environmental risks. The system does not require a large open space and manpower and can minimize the possibility of infiltration of pollutants. This research describes a basic model of the system focusing on determining the optimal sites for it based on the meteorological data concentrating on the atmospheric pollutants. The types and volume of pollutants are analyzed and identified through the big data obtained, followed by visualization of analysis results and their comparisons for better understanding.

• 한국마린엔지니어링학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국마린엔지니어링학회 2005년도 후기학술대회논문집
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• pp.220-221
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• 2005

Sub-bottom profiler(SBP) has been used extensively for the mapping of basement in the foundation design of offshore structure, for pre- and post-dredging operations within harbors and channels, for selection of pipeline routes, sitting of drilling platforms, and in the exploration for an aggregates such as sands and gravels. During the construction of Siwha embankment for irrigation water and the expansion of arable land, the breaking of an embankment unfortunately occurred so that a lot of riprap was swept away and widely dispersed by the tide and strong current. The feasibility study for the construction of the tidal-powered electric plant in Siwha embankment was performed quite recently. Therefore we made use of SBP survey to investigate the distribution of the lost riprap. We could successfully map out the distribution of the lost riprap from the reflection amplitude characteristics of the sediments in SBP data set. We demonstrated the variation of reflection amplitude versus the sediments with and/or without riprap by means of the numerical modeling of acoustic wave equation using finite difference method. Also we examined an amplitude anomaly of the ripraped area through the physical modeling using ultrasonic.

• 신재생에너지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.15-21
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• 2011

In recent years, many countries have been endeavoring to exploit the offshore wind energy in terms of overcoming the limitations of on-land wind energy. Considering that mountains cover 70 percent of the Korean Peninsula and arable plains for wind energy are negligibly small, Korean government aggressively drives the offshore wind development of the Korean Peninsula. As part of preliminary investigation of offshore wind resources, KEPCO-RI (Korea Electric Power Corporation-Research Institute) has been analyzing marine buoy datasets measured at 5 positions over the period of 12 years, including estimation of extreme wind speed. It can be observed that variation of yearly wind speed, monthly wind speed as well as frequency distribution of wind direction. Wind classes of buoy sites are estimated by extrapolated average wind speed using log law. In addition, wind turbine class based on IEC code is assessed for evaluation of suitable wind turbine.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.194-202
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• 2006

Using a multi-variable linear regression technique and SUR(seemingly unrelated regression) model, the demand functions of tractor, combine and rice transplanter were estimated. The demand was regarded as an annual supply of each machine and modeled as a function of 11 independent variables which reflect the actual farmer's income, actual prices of farm machines, previous supply, previous stock, actual amount of available subsidy, actual amount of available loan, arable land, import of farm machines and rice price. The actual amount of available loan affects most significantly the demand functions. The actual farmer's income, actual farmer's asset, loan coverage, and rice price affect the demand positively while prices of farm machines and import negatively. The annual demands of tractor, combine and rice transplanter estimated using the demand functions were also presented over the next 4 years.

• 한국잡초학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.308-321
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• 2010

우리나라 농경지에서 발생하는 잡초 68과 433종에 대한 공통적인 약어(가칭 KSWS code, the Korean Society Weed Science code)를 만들어 잡초연구자의 연구효율성을 증진시키고자 한다. 이들 약어는 이미 미국잡초학회에서 널리 사용되고 있는 Bayer code를 인용하여 한국 잡초 현황에 맞게 재구성하였다. KSWS code는 알파펫 5자로 구성되며, 속명에서 3자, 종소명에서 2자를 떼어내어 조합을 만들었다. 그리고 변이종이 있을 경우에는 속명의 1자, 변이종명의 1자로 KSWS code를 조합하였다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제29권11호
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• pp.1099-1108
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• 2020

In this study, the capacity of supplying agricultural water to 13 districts was analyzed by calculating the necessary water supply for the arable land of Gunwi-gun and examining the capacity of supplying water to reservoirs, streams, pumping stations, collection sites, and groundwater wells in Gunwi-gun. As a result, among the 13 districts the second district was found to be short of water by 1.2×10⁶ tons/year. In general, local governments establish drought measures by selecting drought disaster risk zones. While selecting drought-risk areas, some water-poor areas that do not have water sources should be selected, even if the entire area has a sufficient water supply. The water-supply evaluation at the regional level was insufficient for locating areas without water sources, but most areas with water sources, such as streams, reservoirs, and pumping stations, were found to have no shortage of water. To locate water shortage areas without water sources, GIS analysis conducted a field survey of areas with a distance of 4 or less than that of water sources analyzed by GIS analysis. Sixty-nine sites in 13 districts were selected for the on-site survey and six areas of water shortage were identified in areas other than the second district.

• 고문화
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• 62호
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• pp.3-28
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• 2003

1990년대 이후 경작유구의 조사로 인하여 농경연구는 새로운 전환점을 맞이하게 되었는데, 아직 도작과 관련된 연구가 주류를 이루고 있다. 1990년대 후반 진주 대평리에서 무문토기시대의 대규모 밭터가 조사되고 나서야 밭에 대한 관심이 증가되었다. 본고에서는 지금까지 우리나라에서 조사된 밭 유구를 집성하여 향후 밭관련 연구에 도움이 되고자 한다. 지금까지 밭 유구가 조사된 유적은 25개소인데, 대부분이 낙동강유역과 금강유역에서 조사되었다. 고대에는 경영에 많은 노동력이 소요되는 논보다는 밭의 비율이 높았을 것으로 추정되는데, 앞으로 낙동강${\cdot}$금강유역 뿐만 아니라 다른 지역에서도 밭의 조사 예가 증가할 것으로 생각된다. 밭은 밭 구획, 고랑과 두둑의 존재 여부, 고랑의 조성형태에서 유형분류가 가능하다. 밭의 형태 차이는 시기나 지형여건보다는 밭을 경영하는 방식의 차이에 의한 것으로 생각된다. 그 이유는 받을 경영할 경우 지속적인 지력유지가 필요한데, 시비법이 보급되기 전에는 휴경, 심경, 경작방향의 이동, 두둑과 고랑의 전환 이용 등 지력회복을 위한 행위가 있었으므로 밭의 형태는 경영형태에 의해 자주 바뀌었을 가능성이 높기 때문이다. 밭유구의 조사는 논과 마찬가지로 용이하지 않기 때문에, 발굴조사에서 밭유구의 판정을 위한 밭유구 인정 기준이 필요하다. 밭을 구성하는 요소는 두둑${\cdot}$고랑${\cdot}$다양한 경작흔${\cdot}$구획시설등이다. 이 모든 것이 발굴조사에서 확인되지는 않지만 밭유구 인정에 있어 가장 중요한 지표로 되는 것은 경작면과 경작흔이다.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2019년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.34-37
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• 2019

유해조수 퇴치 드론의 시스템은 10.525GHz에서 동작하는 Microwave Doppler Radar Sensor를 이용해 경작지에 침입한 조수를 인식한다. 그리고 사용자에게 위험요소에 대한 알림 서비스를 제공한다. 이후 사용자는 드론의 카메라와 카메라 전용 애플리케이션을 이용해 경작지를 실시간으로 보며 드론을 직접 조종하고 Speaker와 Neo Pixel LED Ring를 이용해 유해조수의 시각과 청각을 자극해 도망을 유도하며 퇴치한다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제32권11호
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• pp.1357-1372
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• 2022

Heavy reliance on fossil fuels has been associated with increased climate disasters. As an alternative, microalgae have been proposed as an effective agent for biomass production. Several advantages of microalgae include faster growth, usage of non-arable land, recovery of nutrients from wastewater, efficient CO₂ capture, and high amount of biomolecules that are valuable for humans. Microalgae Chlorella spp. are a large group of eukaryotic, photosynthetic, unicellular microorganisms with high adaptability to environmental variations. Over the past decades, Chlorella has been used for the large-scale production of biomass. In addition, Chlorella has been actively used in various food industries for improving human health because of its antioxidant, antidiabetic, and immunomodulatory functions. However, the major restrictions in microalgal biofuel technology are the cost-consuming cultivation, processing, and lipid extraction processes. Therefore, various trials have been performed to enhance the biomass productivity and the lipid contents of Chlorella cells. This study provides a comprehensive review of lipid enhancement strategies mainly published in the last five years and aimed at regulating carbon sources, nutrients, stresses, and expression of exogenous genes to improve biomass production and lipid synthesis.