• 한국습지학회지
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• 제21권spc호
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• pp.80-89
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• 2019

본 논문의 목적은 금강유역을 대상으로 Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) 기상학적 가뭄지수, 농업용 저수지 가뭄지수(Reservoir Drought Index, RDI)간의 관계를 통해 기상학적 가뭄이 농업에 미치는 상관성을 분석하는데 있다. 2014년부터 2016년까지의 강수량, 농업용 저수율 자료를 수집하여 가뭄지수를 산정하였으며, 기상학적 가뭄과 농업가뭄간의 상관성을 평가하기 위해 Pearson 상관계수와 Receiver Operation Characteristic (ROC) 분석을 실시하였다. 상관분석결과 SPI-6와 RDI의 Pearson 및 ROC 적중룰이 각각 0.606, 0.722으로 가장 높게 분석되었고 가뭄의 공간적 발생패턴을 분석하기 위해 공간분포된 SPI-6와 RDI를 중첩한 결과 2015년 8월부터 2015년 10월의 심한 가뭄 발생 시 미호천 상류 유역과 논산천 유역에서 중복적으로 가뭄의 심도의 차이가 발생하는 것을 확인하였다. 저수지 가뭄이 발생한 지역에 대한 저수지의 제원을 이용하여 분석을 수행한 결과, RDI 가뭄이 크게 나타난 지역은 유역배율이 작은 저수지들이 많이 모여 있는 지역일수록 극심한 가뭄을 겪는 것으로 분석되어, 유역배율에 따라 저수지의 농업가뭄 대응능력에 차이가 있음을 확인하였다.

• 유기물자원화
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.15-25
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• 2020

본 연구에서는 우분뇨와 폐잔디를 이용한 혐기소화 잠재성을 단독 및 병합 조건에서 평가하였다. 두 종의 유기성 폐자원은 휘발성고형분(VS) 기준 100:0, 75:25, 50:50, 25:75, 0:100의 다섯 가지 혼합비 조건에서 회분식 BMP(biochemical methane potential) 테스트를 통해 바이오가스 생산을 측정하였다. 또한, 서로 다른 3개의 온도조건(25℃, 30℃, 35℃)을 적용하여 총 15개 실험 조건을 비교하였다. 실험 결과, 반응 온도가 높을수록, 폐잔디의 혼합비가 높을수록 더 높은 메탄 수율과 최대 메탄 생산율이 관측되었다. 실험 결과를 바탕으로 유효체적 240(농장규모) 또는 2,400(마을 규모) ㎥의 가상의 혐기소화조를 가정하여 서로 다른 조건에 따른 에너지 수지를 비교하였다. 예측된 에너지 생산량은 반응 온도가 높을수록 더 많았으나 소화조 가온 등에 따른 에너지 소모량을 고려한 에너지 순생산량은 30℃, 35℃, 25℃ 순으로 높게 예측되었다. 따라서 에너지 순생산량을 최대화하기 위한 조건 도출을 위해서는 메탄 수율 등의 실험적 측정 외에도 구체적인 소화조의 설계 인자를 고려해야 하는 것으로 평가되었다.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.90-95
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• 2009

슬러지 전처리 방법으로 상용화되어 있는 cavitation을 이용한 방법은 서로 다른 원리, 초음파발생기(sonotrode)와 수리동 역학을 이용하고 있지만 이들 방법의 효율을 비교한 연구는 없었다. 본 연구에서는 이 두 전처리 방법에서 슬러지 가용화 효율, 전처리 후 입경변화, 전처리 전후의 메탄 생성량 변화를 평가하였다. 두 방법에 있어서 단위 에너지 투입량 당 가용화 효율은 유사하였으며, 최대 가용화 효율은 0.18 kWh/L에서 302 mg ${\Delta}SCOD/g$ TS이었다. 전처리 초기에는 슬러지의 floc 해체가 주로 일어났고, 전처리가 진행됨에 따라 1 ${\mu}m$ 이하의 입자가 증가하여 셀이 파괴되는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. BMP 시험 결과 슬러지의 메탄가스 발생량은 전처리 방법별 차이는 없이 최대 24.3%까지 증가하였으나, 투입 에너지에 비례하여 증가하지는 않았다. 비록 두 방법의 에너지 효율을 유사하지만 운영 및 유지비와 향후 에너지효율 개선 잠재력 면에서 볼 때 수리동력학적 원리를 이용하는 방법이 현장 적용에 유리하다고 판단된다.

• Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.39-44
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• 2010

Purpose: Bone tissues for clinical application can be improved by studies on osteoblast differentiation. Runx2 is known to be an important transcription factor for osteoblast differentiation. However, bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)-2 treatment to stimulate Runx2 is not sufficient to acquire enough bone formation in osteoblasts. Therefore, it is necessary to find other regulatory factors which can improve the transcriptional activity of Runx2. The erythroblast transformation-specific (ETS) transcription factor family is reported to be involved in various aspects of cellular proliferation and differentiation. Methods: We have noticed that the promoters of osteoblast differentiation markers such as alkaline phosphatase (Alp), osteopontin (Opn), and osteocalcin (Oc) contain Ets binding sequences which are also close to Runx2 binding elements. Luciferase assays were performed to measure the promoter activities of these osteoblast differentiation markers after the transfection of Runx2, myeloid Elf-1-like factor (MEF), and Runxs+MEF. Reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction was also done to check the mRNA levels of Opn after Runx2 and MEF transfection into rat osteoblast (ROS) cells. Results: We have found that MEF, an Ets transcription factor, increased the transcriptional activities of Alp, Opn, and Oc. The addition of Runx2 resulted in the 2- to 6-fold increase of the activities. This means that these two transcription factors have a synergistic effect on the osteoblast differentiation markers. Furthermore, early introduction of these two Runx2 and MEF factors significantly elevated the expression of the Opn mRNA levels in ROS cells. We also showed that Runx2 and MEF proteins physically interact with each other. Conclusions: Runx2 interacts with MEF proteins and binds to the promoters of the osteoblast markers such as Opn nearby MEF to increase its transcriptional activity. Our results also imply that osteoblast differentiation and bone formation can be increased by activating MEF to elicit the synergistic effect of Runx2 and MEF.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.353-361
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• 2009

Recent in vitro and in vivo animal studies have reported that statin, a cholesterol-lowering drug, stimulate osteogenic differentiation. In the present study, we investigated the effect of simvastatin on osteogenic and adipogenic differentiation in primarily cultured human adipose-derived stem cells (hADSCs). The simvastatin treatment significantly increased the positive cell numbers in alkaline phosphatase and von Kossa staining, and enhanced the expression levels of bone morphogenic protein (BMP)-2, core binding factor alpha 1 (cbfa1), collgen type I and osteonectin mRNAs. Lastly, hADSCs were cultured in the adipogenic media with or without simvastatin to examine the effect of simvastatin on adipogenic differentiation. In the RT-PCR analysis, there were notable decreases in mRNA expression of aP1, C/EBP-$\alpha$ and PPAR-$\gamma$ in hADSCs cultivated in simvastatin-added medium, compared to those in simvastatin-free medium. It suggests that the adipogenic differentiation was significantly inhibited by simvastatin treatment. These observations indicate that simvastatin induces osteogenic differentiation and suppresses adipogenic differentiation in hADSCs.

• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.1635-1642
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• 2004

The aim of this study was to find out the effectiveness on germinated Rhynchosia Volubilis for Female Bone Morphogenesis. For this purpose, experiments using germinated Rhynchosia Volubilis(GRV) according to germinating days were conducted to measure the polyphosphate contents and to examine the effects of the transcription activity of gene related to bone morphogenesis on the formation of bone in female. The quantitative analysis of the polyphosphate contents showed that 1 day geminated Rhynchosia Volubilis(GRV) group is treble better contents of polyphosphate than non-germinated Rhynchosia Volubilis, 2 day and 3 day GRV groups. The active of the COL1, OTN, MGP, BMP genes was less than the increase of the polyphosphate contents.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.40-45
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• 2010

In this study, methane production by reuse of screened soil of landfill was estimated and the effect of application of landfarming for the reduction of methane was investigated. The study soil sampled from S closed landfill contains VS 9.8~12.8% and its BOD/COD is 0.31~0.33 which is more than three times over 0.1, the BOD/COD stabilization criteria of Ministry of Environment. The effective remediation technology for the reduction of organics of soil, landfarming was applied to the screened soil for 60 days. VS and TPH removal showed 5.2~8.3% and 67~74% respectively, and the reduction of VS until 30 day charged 70% of the total reduction. BMP test showed 27.77~30.46 mL $CH_4$/g VS and total methane production from total screened soil for remediation is expected about 260.4 $CH_4$ ton. Expected amount of methane production of the screened soil by landfarming application is 12.9 $CH_4$ ton, which shows 95% gas reduction effect and landfarming is effective for the reduction of methane production from screened soil of landfill.

• 신재생에너지
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.60-72
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• 2005

The effect of alkaline pre-treatment on the solubilization of waste activated sludge(WAS) was investigated, and the biodegradability of WAS, pretreated WAS, [PWAS], food waste and two types of mixture were estimated by biochemical methane potential [BMP] test at $35^{\circ}C$. The biodegradability of PWAS and mixture waste were significantly improved due to the effect of alkaline hydrolysis of WAS. An alkaline pre-treatment was identified to be one of the useful pre-treatment for improving biodegradability of WAS and mixture waste. In high-rate anaerobic co-digestion system coordinate with an alkaline pre-treatment in process, the digesters were operated at the HRT of 5, 7, 10 and 13 days with a mixture of FW $50\%\;and\;PWAS\;50\%,\;$In term of $CH_4$ content, VS removal and specific methane production [SMP] which are the parameters in the performance of digester, the optimum operating condition was found to be a HRT of 7 days and a OLR of 4.20g/L-day with the highest SMP of 0.340 L $CH_4/g$ VS.

• Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.185-193
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• 2009

A complete cDNA, which encodes for a myostatin-like protein (Es-MSTN), was isolated from the Chinese mitten crab, Eriocheir sinensis. Es-MSTN was composed of 2,397 nucleotides and the open reading frame (ORF) specified a protein containing 468 amino acids. Es-MSTN exhibited 32% amino acid sequence identity and 52% similarity to human myostatin. Multiple sequence alignment analysis indicated that Es-MSTN possessed the conserved proteolytic cleavage site (RXXR) for maturation of the protein and nine cysteine residues for disulfide bridges. Besides the conserved structural features, Es-MSTN also exhibits its unique characters; a longer N-terminal domain which is involved in protein folding and latent form of myostatin and absence of the cleavage site for BMP-1/tolloid family of metalloproteinase to activate mature myostatin. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that Es-MSTN showed the closely related to both vertebrate myostatin and GDF11. Es-MSTN is expressed highly in the claw muscle, leg muscle, thoracic muscle and heart, and moderately in the hindgut suggesting that Es-MSTN may play important roles in the muscle tissues. As homolog of mammalian myostatin and GDF11, Es-MSTN may be involved in development of muscular tissue and further study will help to produce high-quality seafood.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제54권1호
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• pp.99-108
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• 2012

Soil erosion and sediment from agricultural farmland has caused various negative impacts on environment in recent years. The effect of rice straw mat on soil erosion has been investigated by many researchers these days. In this study, the SWAT model was applied to Hongcheon watershed to evaluate SWAT flow and sediment, and the effect of rice straw mat on sediment yield at watershed outlet was evaluated. The Nash-Sutcliffe model efficiency (NSE) and coefficient of determination ($R^2$) values for flow simulation (calibration period) were 0.66 and 0.67, and the NSE values for sediment was 0.90. The calibrated parameters were used to analyze the reduction of sediment yield in the farmland with rice straw mat. Average daily sediment yield without rice straw mat was 49.8 ton/day and sediment yield with rice straw mat was 25.5 ton/day, and the reduction rate was 38.7 %. Also, average daily sediment yield with/without rice straw mat were 97.5 ton/day and 190.7 ton/day during the rainy season (Jun. 2008 - Aug. 2009), with the reduction rate 46.3 %.