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Identification of the Food Sources-Metabolism of the Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas using Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotopic Ratios

  • Yang, Jin-Yong;Shin, Kyung-Hoon
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.279-284
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    • 2009
  • In order to understand food sources-metabolism for the pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas), the stable isotope ratios of carbon (${\delta}^{13}C$) and nitrogen (${\delta}^{15}N$) of its gut, gill, and muscle as well as potential food sources (particulate organic matter, sedimentary organic matter, benthic microalgae, seagrass detritus) were determined in Dongdae Bay. Average ${\delta}^{13}C$ and ${\delta}^{15}N$ values reflect that oysters primarily fed on sedimentary organic matter as opposed to suspended organic matter during summer and winter seasons. However, the relatively enriched $^{15}N$ values of particulate organic matter (>$250{\mu}m$) and sedimentary organic matter in the summer may be due to the photosynthetic incorporation of $^{15}N$-enriched nitrogen (DIN) or the spawning events of bivalves. Specific oyster tissues (gut, gill, and muscle) revealed different metabolic pathways, which were determined through analysis of ${\delta}^{13}C$ and ${\delta}^{15}N$ in each organ. The present results suggest the determination of carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes to be a useful approach in ecological research related to the food sources- metabolism of Crassostrea gigas.

Determination of Source Contribution Based on Aerosol Number and Mass Concentration in the Seoul Subway Stations (분진의 개수농도 및 질량농도에 입각한 서울시 지하철 역사 내 오염원의 기여도 결정)

  • 최형욱;황인조;김신도;김동술
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.17-31
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    • 2004
  • The subway play an important part in serious traffic problems. However, because subway system is a closed environment, many serious air pollution problems occurred in subway stations and injured passenger's health. Therefor, it is a necessary to identify sources and to estimate pollutant sources in order to protect passenger's health and to keep clean subway environment. The purpose of this study was to analyze a air quality in the subway stations and to apply a new receptor methodology for quantitatively estimate of PM10 sources. In this study, the size distributions of particulate matters has been measured by using Aerosizer LD (U.S.A., API, Inc.). It's real time measurement capability of time-of-flight technique offers a significant advantage of user convenience and air pollution management. Also, the mass concentrations of PM 10 has been measured by using mini-vol portable sampler (U.S.A., Airmetrics Co.). The sampling performed in Seoul subway stations during the period of February 2000 and April 2000. The number distribution data used in this study consisted of 26 raw data sets in the Jongno-sam-ga station. Correlation Analysis can be used in subway stations for source separation and identification. Then, number contribution from each source is determined by the particle number balance (PNB). The mass concentration data used in this study consisted of 31 raw data in the 8 different stations. The mass contributions of PM10 sources in the concourse by using PMF/CMB model.

Observational Studies with the Korean VLBI Network

  • Cho, Se-Hyung;KVN Groups
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.38 no.2
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    • pp.32-32
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    • 2013
  • The Korean VLBI Network (KVN) as a world-first multi-frequency VLBI system is operated at four bands of 22, 43, 86, and 129 GHz simultaneously. The performances of both single dish and VLBI network were already confirmed through single dish researches and VLBI evaluation test observations. The VLBI common use of the KVN at 22/43 GHz bands has been started from this autumn. The combined network of KVN and Japanese VERA (KaVA) will start the common use from the first half of next year. Here we present several observational results in the fields of star forming regions, late-type stars, and active galactic nuclei using the KVN and KaVA. The fringes of 44 GHz $CH_3OH$ (Class I) masers were detected from 26 sources for the first time using the KVN and imaging observations are under performing. Simultaneous observations of SiO and $H_2O$ masers toward about 1000 evolved stars showed the different maser properties between SiO and $H_2O$ masers according to the evolutionary stages of AGB and post-AGB stars. The catalog of correlated flux densities were established from a 43 GHz (Q-band) survey of 637 extragalactic sources. At 22 GHz (K-band), flux density measurement and fringe survey for new sources were performed toward a large number of sources. In addition, the large program of KVN and/or KaVA under planning is introduced.

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Foraging behaviour and preference of pollen sources by honey bee (Apis mellifera) relative to protein contents

  • Ghosh, Sampat;Jeon, Hyejin;Jung, Chuleui
    • Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.26-32
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    • 2020
  • Background: Pollen is an important source of protein and lipids for many animals including honey bees. In order to understand the foraging behaviour of honey bee colonies and preference among the available floral resources, pollen collections from three experimental healthy colonies of honey bees were analysed in the month of June. Results: The amount of pollen collections were related to the colony's need which was indicated by the number of larval and adult bees present in the hive. Interesting was the sequence of pollen collection from different floral sources. All honey bee colonies collected pollens from Trifolium repens first, then Erigeron annus and the third choice was Coreopsis drummondii and Oenothera biennis flowers. Total protein content of Trifolium pollen was the highest (20.0 g/100 g DM), and the others were in the range of 8.9-11.4 g/100 g DM. Conclusion: The results indicated that the first criteria for honey bee foraging preference of pollens would be the nutritional contents of protein and the resource availability of the lesser nutritious floral sources. This information can help pollinator protection programmes of habitat manipulation using flowering plants for nectar and pollen sources.

Optimal Algorithms for Voltage Management in Distribution Systems Interconnected with New Dispersed Sources

  • Rho, Dae-Seok;Kook, Kyung-Soo;Wang, Yong-Peel
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.192-201
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    • 2011
  • The optimal evaluation algorithms for voltage regulation in the case where new dispersed sources are operated in distribution systems are studied. Handling the interconnection issues for proper voltage managements are often difficult and complicated because professional skills and enormous amounts of data during evaluations are needed. Typical evaluation algorithms mainly depend on human ability and quality of data acquired, which inevitably cause the different results for the same issue. Thus, unfair and subjective evaluations are unavoidable. In order to overcome these problems, we propose reasonable and general algorithms based on the standard model system and proper criterion, which offers fair and objective evaluation in any case. The proposed algorithms are divided into two main themes. One is an optimal algorithm for the voltage control of multiple voltage regulators in order to deliver suitable voltage to as many customers as possible, and the other is a proper evaluation algorithm for the voltage management at normal and emergency conditions. Results from a case study show that proposed methods can be a practical tool for the voltage management in distribution systems including dispersed sources.

A Study on Purchasing Patterns of Cosmetics According to Impulse Shopping, Benefits Sought and Information Source of Female Consumers (연령대로 본 충동구매, 추구혜택, 정보원 선택에 따른 화장품 구매 행동에 관한 연구)

  • Lee Jin-A;Hwang Sun-Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.55 no.4 s.94
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    • pp.16-28
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    • 2005
  • The purposes of this study were to understand the buying patterns of adult women according to impulse shopping, benefits sought, and selecting information sources. This subjects of this study were 509 adult women from the age 20's to the age of 40's. This data were analyzed by using factor analysis multi regression analysis, analysis of variance, Scheffe' test. The results of this study were outlined as follow: 1. Differences among ages (the 20's, the 30's, and the 40's) in impulse shopping were as follow: The 30's bought more cosmetics to change their mood compared to the 20's or the 40's, and the 20's and the 30's bought more cosmetics matching to their images compared to the 40's. 2. From the aspects of benefits sought, the 20's and the 30's were more seriously consider the fame of brands compared to the 40's, showing they were different from the 40's. 3. From the aspects of selecting information sources about cosmetics, the 20's were more actively utilizing both human information sources and non-human information sources compared to the 30's and the 40's.

Experimental Investigation of Noise Generation from the Inter-coach Spacing of a High-speed Train (고속열차의 차간 공간에서 발생하는 소음 특성의 시험적 규명)

  • Choi, Sung-Hoon;Park, Choon-Soo;Park, Jun-Hong;Kim, Sang-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.786-791
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    • 2007
  • Aerodynamically generated noise is dominant when the train speed approaches 300km/h. This noise sources is caused by the turbulent flow separations or vortex shedding from the train structure. Experiments were performed to investigate the characteristics of aerodynamic noise sources generated from exterior of the KTX trains and HSR-350x, especially from the inter-coach spacing. Measurements of both the inside and outside of the cabin are carried out to investigate the characteristics of the noise. Effect of the size of the mud-flap has been investigated through an wind tunnel test and it has been found that the low frequency noise is strongly dependent on the size of the gap. Also performed is an array measurement to locate different noise sources from the high-speed train. spectral characteristics of exterior noise sources are examined.

The Influence of Luminous Source Affecting on the Perception of Textile Color (직물색의 지각에 미치는 광원의 영향)

  • Choi, Na-Young;Yang, Lee-Na;Lee, Jong-Sook
    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.15 no.2 s.67
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    • pp.214-220
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study is to derive the use of the luminous source corresponding to the intention and contribute to product display by visually evaluating the relations between luminous source and colors, analyzing and reviewing the subjective perceptions depending on the luminous source, and clarifying the colors of artificial luminous source that look close to natural lights by each color. Hence, the researcher objectified the subjective evaluation for which they used sensory evaluation method with four colors of luminous sources(natural colors, 2800K, 4200K, and 6500K) and five colors of textiles(purple, blue, green, yellow, and red) by quantifying the evaluation. As a result, we could obtain the conclusion as follows. As for the temperature of textile colors under artificial luminous sources that appeared most close to the colors of textiles under natural luminous sources, 6500K was most frequent, and the temperature of the luminous sources that appeared most different was 2800K. However, as there were also 4200K colors that looked most close to the textile colors under natural light source, it was observed that the temperature differs depending on the textile colors. In addition, less glossy textiles exhibited more visual changes by luminous source colors than comparatively more glossy textiles, and it was observed that the most influenced color was purple, as purple has shown the largest difference among colors.

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Applications of Rotating Noise Source Positioning Using TDOA Algorithm (회전하는 소음원의 위치추적에 대한 TDOA기법의 적용)

  • Lee, Jong-Hyun;Lee, Ja-Hyung;Rhee, Wook;Choi, Jong-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2009.04a
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    • pp.483-489
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    • 2009
  • The Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) algorithm is being used widely for identifying the location of a source emanating either electrical or acoustic signal. It's application areas will not be limited to identifying the source at a fixed location, for example the origin of an earthquake, but will also include the trajectory monitoring for a moving source equipped with a GPS sensor. Most of the TDOA algorithm uses time correlation technique to find the time delay between received signals, and therefore difficult to be used for identifying the location of multiple sources. In this paper a TDOA algorithm based on cross-spectrum is developed to find the trajectory of two sound sources with different frequencies. Although its application is limited to for the sources on a disk plane, but it can be applied for identifying the locations of more than two sources simultaneously.

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The Origin of Food Sources for Nuttallia olivacea and Nereidae by Fatty Acid Analysis (지방산을 이용한 Nuttallia olivacea 및 Nereidae의 먹이원에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Woo-Seok;Kim, Boo-Gil
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.19 no.9
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    • pp.1083-1092
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    • 2010
  • The spatial variability in the food chain structure of an estuary environment (Nanakita estuary, Japan) was investigated using fatty acid. Potential organic matter sources (terrestiral plants, macroalgae, benthic microalgae, dinflagellates and bacteria), sedimentary organic matters and benthic invertebrates (Nuttallia olivacea and Nereidae) were sampled in four locations with different tidal flat type. The main objective of the present study was to determine the origin of sediment and the food sources of N. olivacea and Nereidae along with small-scale spatial variability. The origin of sedimentary organic matters were mainly the fatty acid of bacteria and benthic microalgae. Especially, The organic matter of terrestrial plant origin was found the highest in station C. The diets of N. olivacea and Nereidae were found to be dominated by diatoms and terrestrial plants. Whereas, macroalgae and dinoflagellates showed little influence to benthic invertebrates. Moreover, according to principal component analysis, it is showed that benthic invertebrates in the same region are using the same food without relation with species. On the other hand, the N. olivacea and Nereidae of station D clearly contrasts with station B in terms of main food sources. From these results, it is suggested that food competition of benthic invertebrates revealed high a connection between small-scale spatial variability and food source in estuary.