• Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.19-26
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• 2010

Discharged materials from the point or non-point source are released into the sea, and as the results, marine environment is directly affected. We must estimate the impacts of contaminants to marine pollution rapidly and accurately. Therefore, it is needed on early warning system for appreciating marine environmental impacts, and required a bioassay to evaluate abnormal changes. A bioassay test was developed to examine the effects of heavy metal contaminants on the early life stages of the marine annimals. We have studied the effects of metals on early development of a sea urchin species, Strongylocentrotus intermedius. S. intermedius embryos were tested with six metals (Cu, Ag, Zn, Cd, Cr, Ni) and showed the highest sensitivity to Cu as well as the lowest sensitivity to Cd. The order of biological impact for metals was Cu>Ag>Ni>Zn>Cr>Cd. In accordance with the results, sea urchins embryos can provide biological criteria for seawater quality assessment. The sensitivity of developmental bioassay whith S. intermedius is at intermediate level among marine organisms commonly used in aquatic bioassays. And this sea urchin can be routinely employed as a test organism for ecotoxicity assays.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.149-162
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• 2012

Habitat loss and fragmentation are ongoing major anthropogenic impacts on landscapes, which can strongly affect ecosystems, populations and species. The studies on forest fragmentation have been progressed, but the studies on definition of forest fragmentation and their synthetic trend in South Korea still leaves much to be desired. Therefore we set the definition of forest fragmentation and reviewed the related papers. We can give a definition that forest fragmentation is not only a process of spatial landscape transformation, but also a process of ecosystem change by it. The trend of studies on forest fragmentation divided into two fields, landscape and ecosystem changes. Forest fragmentation caused by land change altered the composition and configuration of forest patches. Most studies related on that analyzed the change using landscape index. The effects of forest fragmentation on ecosystem subdivided into three fields : biodiversity, edge effects, and invasive species, but the studies in South Korea is short. The study on relations between forest fragmentation and ecosystem change is necessary to face the Convention on Biological Diversity in South Korea. In addition, the fundamental studies on biodiversity is important to mitigate against forest fragmentation.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.109-118
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• 2015

연안에서 발생하는 부유물질에 의한 해양생물영향을 평가하기 위한 기초자료를 제공하기 위하여, 유용 해양생물(패류, 어류, 해조류 등)에 대한 부유물질의 영향에 관한 문헌을 수집하고 분석하였다. 1) 부유물질에 의한 해양생물들의 영향에 관한 논문은 주로 패류에 대해서 이루어져 있다. 2) 해양생물에 대한 부유물질의 영향은 주로 급성독성에 대해서 조사가 이루어져 있다. 3)부유물질에 의한 영향 실험은 성패와 치패기의 패류, 난 및 치어기의 어류에 집중되어 있으며, 해조류는 포자를 이용한 연구가 주로 이루어졌다. 부유물질에 의한 생물학적 영향은 부유물질의 농도, 노출기간, 생물의 성장단계에 따라 다양하게 나타날 것이며, 이에 대한 검토는 부유물질의 영향에 대한 이해를 향상시킬 것이다.

• 아시안잔디학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.93-105
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• 2006

최근 많은 수의 골프장 건설로 인하여 국토의 상당면적이 원지형의 변화 또는 파괴되고 있으며 주변 생태계가 급속한 변이를 겪고 있다. 골프코스 건설을 위해서는 정밀하고 효율적인 설계를 요하지만 기존의 통상적 설계방식으로는 사업의 방대성으로 인한 설계자료의 처리에 한계를 가지고 있었다. 특히 공사 후의 경관 변화에 대한 예측이나 환경영향 저감대책에 대하여 적절한 대안을 제시할 적절한 수단이 없었다. 따라서 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 지형정보시스템(GIS)을 골프코스 설계에 적용하여 건설에 따른 물리적 영향을 최소화시킬 수 있는 친환경적인 골프코스 설계 기법개발에 대하여 연구하였다. 연구된 내용은 지형정보시스템을 기초자료입력 단계에서부터 최종 성과물 단계까지 적용시켜 전 설계과정을 전산화하며, 부수적으로 골프 경기의 기능적 효과 증대 토지이용의 적정성, 코스유지 관리의 용이성 등을 사전 검토할 수 있는 친환경적 전산설계기법을 개발 연구하였다.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제43권spc1호
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• pp.101-109
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• 2005

To gain maximal benefit in a competitive environment, single-celled bacteria have adopted a community genetic regulatory mechanism, known as quorum sensing (QS). Many bacteria use QS signaling systems to synchronize target gene expression and coordinate biological activities among a local population. N-acylhomoserine lactones (AHLs) are one family of the well-characterized QS signals in Gram-negative bacteria, which regulate a range of important biological functions, including virulence and biofilm formation. Several groups of AHL-degradation enzymes have recently been identified in a range of living organisms, including bacteria and eukaryotes. Expression of these enzymes in AHL-dependent pathogens and transgenic plants efficiently quenches the microbial QS signaling and blocks pathogenic infections. Discovery of these novel quorum quenching enzymes has not only provided a promising means to control bacterial infections, but also presents new challenges to investigate their roles in host organisms and their potential impacts on ecosystems.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.179-183
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• 2006

$CO_2$를 해양에 격리 처리하기 위해서는 $CO_2$가 해양생태계에 어떠한 영향을 미치는가에 대한 연구가 선행되어야 한다. 이 연구에서는 $CO_2$의 해양생물영향실험에 있어 연체동물의 이용가능성을 모색하기 위한 연구로, 먼저 문어에 적합한 마취농도를 확립하고, 혈액을 채취하기 위한 케뉴레이션 방법 및 문어가 케뉴라를 탈착시키는 것을 방지하기 위한 구속 방법에 대해서 검토하였다. 그 결과 1) 문어에 적합한 마취제는 5.25% $MgCl_2\;6H_2O$인 것으로 나타났다. 2) 문어로부터 혈액채취를 위한 케뉴라 삽입 부위는 배대동맥이 적합한 것으로 나타났다. 3) 케뉴라 보호를 위하여 플라스틱 넷트로 만든 구속 쳄버를 이용하는 것이 유용한 것으로 나타났다

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.307-318
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• 2015

The objectives of this study were to identify multi-level stressors from blood biomarkers to community-level bioindicators and diagnose the stream ecosystem health in polluted streams. Blood chemistry such as total protein ($T_{Pro}$), blood urea nitrogen ($B_{UN}$), total cholesterol ($T_{Cho}$) and $A_{lb}$umin ($A_{lb}$) were analyzed from sentinel fish tissues; the functions of kidney, gill and liver were significantly decreased in the impacted zone ($I_z$), compared to the control zone ($C_z$). Histopathological analysis showed that fish liver tissues were normal in the $C_z$. Fish liver tissues in the $I_z$, however, showed large cell necrosis and degeneration and also had moderate lobular inflammation and inflammatory cell infiltration of lymphocytic histocytes. Species biotic index (SBI) at species level and stream health assessment (SHA) at community level indicated that chemical impacts were evident in the $I_z$ (ecological health; poor - very poor), and this was matched with the blood tissue analysis and histopathological analysis. The impairments of the streams were supported by water chemistry analysis (nitrogen, phosphorus). Tolerance guild analysis and trophic guild analysis of fish were showed significant differences (P < 0.01) between $C_z$ and $I_z$. Overall, multiple parameter analysis from biomarker level (blood tissues) to bioindicator level (community health) showed significantly greater impacts in the $I_z$ than $C_z$. This approach may be effective as a monitoring tool in identifying the multilateral and forthcoming problems related to chemical pollution and habitat degradation of stream ecosystems.

• Mycobiology
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.114-119
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• 2014

The wood decay fungi Antrodia P. Karst. play important ecological roles and have significant industrial and economic impacts as both wood degraders and sources of pharmaceutical and biotechnological products. Although each Antrodia species has distinct morphological characteristics, the misidentification rate is especially high due to their simple morphological characters. A combination of morphological and internal transcribed spacer region sequence analyses revealed that 27 of 89 specimens previously identified by morphology alone were correct, whereas 35 of these specimens were misidentified as other Antrodia species. We report here that seven Antrodia species exist in Korea (A. albida, A. heteromorpha, A. malicola, A. serialis, A. sinuosa, A. sitchensis, and A. xantha) and based on these specimens, we provide taxonomic descriptions of these species, except for A. serialis, which was only confirmed by isolate.

• 환경위생공학
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.56-66
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• 1995

To investigate environmental impacts of inland fish- farms on the water quality of a stream, environmental parameters including physical, chemical and biological factorswere estimated at trount- farm in 1994. Influences( F-1) were polluted as passing through fish tank( F-2) and settle pond( F-3), so organic and inorganic nutrient concentrations became very high in effluents( F-4). BOD$_{5}$, Chl. a, Nitrite and heterotrophic bacterial numbers in the junction site(5-2) of F-4 and S-1( upstream) were highest among the stream sites. BOD$_{5}$ was proved to a good parameter of organic pollution, and nitrite of Inorganic nutrients in the fishery and it's affected stream, The high concentration of BOD$_{5}$ and Chl. a in S-2 were decreased in downstream(5-3, 5-4). It seems that this results are due to dilution or sedimentation effect. This supposition requires further testing about the sediment of stream. The results of this paper demonstrate that fish farming can deteriorate water quality of a stream by changing environmental factors.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.365-369
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• 2006

According to the IIHS (Insurance Institute fur Highway Safety), side impacts are made up 30% of all accidents (reported 1998). In the case of auto accidents, head and neck injuries were most common as 58%, injuries to the body's trunk equaled 32%, and injuries to the abdomen were 21%. Therefore in this study, injury of wheelchair occupant in frontal and side impact of wheelchair loaded vehicle was analyzed using computer simulation method. The occupant was restrained at the rear of wheelchair by the lap belt. The detailed fixation and restrain conditions of the wheelchair occupant are referred to SAR J2249's recommendation. We estimated HIC(Head Injury Criteria) and HNIC (Head and Neck Injury Criteria) based on measured data.