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The Identification of Limiting Nutrients Using Algal Bioassay Experiments (ABEs) in Boryeong Reservoir after the Construction of Water Tunnel

  • Ku, Yeonah;Lim, Byung Jin;Yoon, Jo-Hee;Lee, Sang-Jae;An, Kwang-Guk
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.558-566
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    • 2018
  • The objective of the study was to determine nutrition regime and limitation in the Boryeng Reservoir where there's a water tunnel between Geum River and the reservoir. Evaluation was conducted through in situ algal bioassay experiments (in situ ABEs) using the cubitainer setting in the reservoirs. For in situ ABEs, we compared and analyzed variations in chlorophyll-a (CHL-a) and phosphorus concentrations in Boryeong Reservoir before and after the water tunnel construction. We then analyzed the nutrient effects on the reservoir. Analysis for nitrogen and phosphorus was done in the three locations of the reservoir and two locations of the ABEs. The in situ ABEs results showed that phosphorous and Nitrogen, the primary limiting nutrient regulating the algal biomass was not limited in the system. The treatments of phosphorus or simultaneous treatments of N+P showed greater algal growth than in the control of nitrate-treatments, indicating a phosphorus deficiency on the phytoplankton growth in the system. The water from the Geum River had 5 times higher total phosphorus (TP) than the water in the reservoir. Efficient management is required as pumping of the river water from Geum River may accelerate the eutrophication of the reservoir.

A Study on Integrated Safety Management System of LNG Storage/Transport Facilities (LNG 저장/수송 시설의 통합 안전 관리 시스템 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Sang-Ho;Lim, Young-Sub;Han, Chong-Hun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2008
  • The safety management of the LNG industry which shows huge growth recently, become an essential element. So the necessity of development for the pre-existing LNG storage/transport facility has been shown up and the improvement of information technology (IT) of these days make it possible to synthesize several models for integrated LNG facilitiy safety management system. This system will contains risk analysis/assessment technology, explosion, leakage and diffusion model construction technology, real-time monitoring and fault diagnosis technology, and reliability progression technology of process information through data reconciliation. The final integrated safety management system will contribute the increase of LNG industry's safety and exportation of technique.

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Knowledge Representation and Extraction of Biological Data using RDFS + OWL (RDFS + OWL을 이용한 생물학적 데이터의 지식 표현과 추출)

  • Lee Seung Hui;Sin Mun Su;Jeong Mu Yeong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.1136-1141
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    • 2003
  • Due to the lack of digitally usable standards, it has been known to be difficult to handle the biological data. For example, the name of genes and proteins changes over time or has several synonyms indicating different entities. To cope with these problems, several communities, including the Gene Ontology Consortium and PubGene are making their efforts to move science toward the semantic web vision. Although some progress has been made, its expressivity is not sufficient for full-fledged ontological modeling and reasoning. This paper suggests a methodology for representing and extracting biological knowledge by using Web Ontology Language (OWL) as an extension of Resource Description Framework Schema (RDFS). Some benefits of our approach are: (1) to ensure extended sharing of biological meta data on the Web, and (2) to enrich additional expressivity and the semantics of RDFS+OWL.

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Unrecorded species of Korean invertebrates discovered through the project of 'Discovery of Korean Indigenous Species' III

  • Su-Jung Ji;Jongwoo Jung;Sa Heung Kim;Dong-Ha Ahn;Min-Seop Kim;Jeounghee Lee;Hee-Min Yang;Geon Hyuk Lee;Eunjung Nam;Taeseo Park;Anna B. Jost;Huyen T. M. Pham;Jina Park;Joohee Park;Seoyoung Keum;Ivana Karanovic;Tomislav Karanovic;Joong-Ki Park;Chuleui Jung;Gi-Sik Min
    • Journal of Species Research
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.341-354
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    • 2023
  • This is the third series of catalogs reporting on Korean species discovered through the 'Discovery of Korean Indigenous Species'. This catalog includes 22 species of invertebrates, excluding insects. The catalog includes the scientific name, an abridged list of synonyms, collection sites, distribution, diagnosis, and figures for each species. Additionally, we provide the newly assigned Korean name, specimen voucher, and, if available, mitochondrial CO1 or 16S gene sequences of the species listed. All species identified and documented here will be officially listed on the 'National Species List of Korea', a database maintained by the National Institute of Biological Resources(NIBR).

A bio-text mining system using keywords and patterns in a grid environment

  • Kwon, Hyuk-Ryul;Jung, Tae-Sung;Kim, Kyoung-Ran;Jahng, Hye-Kyoung;Cho, Wan-Sup;Yoo, Jae-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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    • 2007.02a
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    • pp.48-52
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    • 2007
  • As huge amount of literature including biological data is being generated after post genome era, it becomes difficult for researcher to find useful knowledge from the biological databases. Bio-text mining and related natural language processing technique are the key issues in the intelligent knowledge retrieval from the biological databases. We propose a bio-text mining technique for the biologists who find Knowledge from the huge literature. At first, web robot is used to extract and transform related literature from remote databases. To improve retrieval speed, we generate an inverted file for keywords in the literature. Then, text mining system is used for extracting given knowledge patterns and keywords. Finally, we construct a grid computing environment to guarantee processing speed in the text mining even for huge literature databases. In the real experiment for 10,000 bio-literatures, the system shows 95% precision and 98% recall.

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A Study on Self Management, Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), and Perceived Health Status for the Type II Diabetes Patients (제2형 당뇨병 환자의 자가관리, 당화혈색소 및 주관적 건강상태)

  • Park, Ju-Young
    • Journal of Korean Biological Nursing Science
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.106-113
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    • 2010
  • Purpose: This study is conducted to examine the relationship among self management, HbA1c, and perceived health status of type II diabetes patients in community health department. Methods: Data were collected from 93 type II diabetes patients who are registered at five community health center using comprehensive survey, modified self care behavior, blood glucose and HbA1c were assessed by nurses. The data was analyzed by the SPSS (14.0) computer program, and it included descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, and pearson's correlation coefficient. Results: There was significant relationship between perceived health status and HbA1c (r=-.252, p=.015). There was significant relationship between self management and HbA1c (r=-.279, p=.007). Conclusion: In order to control blood glucose in the type II diabetes patients, it is necessary to develop supportive self management programs by considering perceived health status.

Effects of perceptions of the importance of patient safety management and patient safety competency on patient safety management activities among nurses at unaccredited general hospitals (미인증 종합병원간호사의 환자안전관리 중요성 인식, 환자안전역량이 환자안전간호활동에 미치는 영향)

  • Ji-Yeong Park;Hanna Choi
    • Journal of Korean Biological Nursing Science
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.60-69
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    • 2024
  • Purpose: This descriptive research study attempted to determine how general hospital nurses' awareness of the importance of patient safety management and patient safety competency affected patient safety management activities. Methods: From September 13 to 26, 2022, a survey was administered to 230 ward nurses who provided direct care to patients at five non-accredited general hospitals being evaluated for accreditation located in metropolitan cities. The collected data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, the t-test, one-way analysis, the Scheffé test, Pearson correlation coefficients, and hierarchical regression using SPSS for Windows version 26.0. Results: In total, 221 (96.1%) respondents were female. The average age was 32.2 years, and the average clinical experience was 3.5 years; 196 participants (85.2%) were general nurses. Patient safety competency (β = .44, p < .001), awareness of the importance of safety management (β = .31, p < .001), and medication error experience (β = -.15, p = .002) all had statistically significant associations with patient safety management activities. The explanatory power of these variables for patient safety management activities was 50.7%. Conclusion: This study confirmed that patient safety competency, awareness of the importance of patient safety management, and experience with medication errors significantly influenced patient safety management activities.

Construction and Management Directions of Woodland Burial Forest -Case Study of Incheon Family Funeral Services - (수목장림의 조성 및 관리 방안 - 인천가족공원을 대상으로 -)

  • Oh, Choong-Hyeon;Kim, Yong-Hoon;Lee, Sook-Mee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2010
  • As social environment of Korea was changing, the cremation is increased instead of traditional funeral culture. Therefore woodland burial appears new funeral culture in Korea. This research had been executed to find out the problem of soil and vegetation environments of woodland burial forest. The case study was worked at woodland burial in Incheon Family funeral services which was national pilot project. The problem of soil and vegetation environments were surveyed in slope, soil compaction, actual vegetation, vegetation communities, structure of forest communities and so on. The results from this study indicate that woodland burial construction didn't consider the damage and management of vegetation environment in Incheon Family funeral Services. Problems for the Law on funeral facilities of Korea is a lack of natural friendly standards for slope, management on structure of forest communities, facilities for users in it. It had steep topography, soil compaction, reduction of species diversity and poor plant growth on woodland burial in Incheon Family funeral Services. Therefore the users of it increase in the future, vegetation environment of woodland burial will be devastated. And so we need to improve standards of woodland burial construction and management to settle down burial culture of woodland burial in Korea.

Novel Approaches to Monitoring and Remediation of Veterinary Antibiotics in Soil and Water: A Review

  • Awad, Yasser M.;Lee, Sang-Soo;Kim, Sung-Chul;Yang, Jae-E.;Ok, Yong-Sik
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.315-327
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    • 2010
  • A vast increase of antibiotics usage in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) over the last few decades has led to an environmental risk due to the presence of antibiotic residuals in different environmental compartments. Especially in Korea, the use of antibiotics in CAFOs is much greater than in other developed countries. One of the primary adverse impacts of antibiotic residuals in the environment is that they readily produce antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB), which exert detrimental effects on the ecosystem as well as human health. In this article, the impacts of veterinary antibiotic residuals with regard to their quantification and management, and desirable remediation technologies have been widely reviewed. This review article concluded that the continuous monitoring should be required to ensure the safety of antibiotic residuals in the surrounding environments. Furthermore, the management guidelines of antibiotic residuals need to be developed in the future.