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Environmental Mutagens-Detection, and Modulation of Their Activities

  • Hayatsu, Hikoya
    • Archives of Pharmacal Research
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 1988
  • The use of blue cotton for detecting polycyclic aromatic mutagens in environmental samples (foods, human excretions, river water, etc) is reviewed. Since the invention of blue cotton has its origin in studies of mutagen modulators, these studies are also briefly reviewed.

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A Survey of Applications of Artificial Intelligence Algorithms in Eco-environmental Modelling

  • Kim, Kang-Suk;Park, Joon-Hong
    • Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.102-110
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    • 2009
  • Application of artificial intelligence (AI) approaches in eco-environmental modeling has gradually increased for the last decade. Comprehensive understanding and evaluation on the applicability of this approach to eco-environmental modeling are needed. In this study, we reviewed the previous studies that used AI-techniques in eco-environmental modeling. Decision Tree (DT) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) were found to be major AI algorithms preferred by researchers in ecological and environmental modeling areas. When the effect of the size of training data on model prediction accuracy was explored using the data from the previous studies, the prediction accuracy and the size of training data showed nonlinear correlation, which was best-described by hyperbolic saturation function among the tested nonlinear functions including power and logarithmic functions. The hyperbolic saturation equations were proposed to be used as a guideline for optimizing the size of training data set, which is critically important in designing the field experiments required for training AI-based eco-environmental modeling.

Trends Analysis of Environmental Design Studies in School - Focused on studies since 2010 - (학교 환경 디자인 연구 동향 분석 - 2010년 이후 연구를 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Ye-Jin;Yang, Hye-Jin;Lee, Kyung-Hwa
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.69-78
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    • 2020
  • Interest in the school environment design is increasing as the project to restructure school space and to become common in school through smart devices. However, no research has been presented on the current status of studies on school environmental design, and the need for analysis of recent research trends in school environmental design is required. In response, this study aims to provide basic data on school environmental design by analysing the trends of domestic studies of school environmental design since 2010 and to present the direction of research on future school environmental design. A total of 312 papers related to school architecture and spatial design are set for study in the results of academic information search on school environmental design. Based on this, frequency analysis and cross-sectional analysis are conducted based on the classification table according to the year of issue, research subject, research purpose, and research method. The statistical significance of the research subjects was secured in accordance with the year of issue and subject to study, and accordingly the key research key words were derived. It is meaningful that through this study, the current status of school environmental design research over the last 10 years can be analyzed and the direction for the future school environmental design research has been suggested.

Monitoring the presence of wild boar and land mammals using environmental DNA metabarcoding - Case study in Yangpyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do - (환경 DNA 메타바코딩을 활용한 멧돼지 및 육상 포유류 출현 모니터링 - 경기도 양평군 일대를 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Yong-Hwan;Han, Youn-Ha;Park, Ji-Yun;Kim, Ho Gul;Cho, Soo-Hyun;Song, Young-Keun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.133-144
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    • 2021
  • This study aims to estimate location of land mammals habitat by analyzing spatial data and investigate how to apply environmental DNA monitoring methodology to lotic system in Yangpyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do. Environmental DNA sampling points are selected through spatial analysis with QGIS open source program by overlaying Kernel density of wild boar(Sus scrofa), elevation, slope and land-cover map, and 81 samples are collected. After 240 mL of water was filtered in each sample, metabarcoding technique using MiMammal universal primer was applied in order to get a whole list of mammal species whose DNA particles contained in filtered water. 8 and 22 samples showed DNA of wild boar and water deer, respectively. DNA of raccoon dog, Eurasian otter, and Siberian weasel are also detected through metabarcoding analysis. This study is valuable that conducted in outdoor lotic system. The study suggests a new wildlife monitoring methodology integrating overlayed geographic data and environmental DNA.

An Analysis of the Concepts in Child Health Nursing Studies in Korea (2) : The Practice, The Client-Nurse, The Environmental Domain (국내 아동간호학 분야의 연구개념 고찰 Ⅱ- 간호실무, 대상자 간호사, 환경 영역을 중심으로)

  • Han Kyung-Ja;Kim Hyun-Ah;Kim Jeong-Soo;Kim Sook-Young;Cho Kyung-Mi
    • Child Health Nursing Research
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.165-172
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    • 2004
  • The main purpose of this study is to examine the concepts appeared on research and provide future research directions in field of child health nursing. 205 studies of the total 318 studies had been analyzed first for the concepts of the client domain and this time 113 studies were analyzed for the practice, the client-nurse and the environmental domain in nursing. The practice domain includes mentalistitic, enactment, knowledge utilization, role related phenomenon, the client-nurse domain includes touch, communication, interaction phenomenon, and the environmental domain includes physical, social, symbolic environment. All were originally published between 1990 and 2000 in Korea. An analysis of concepts for this study was used the metaparadigm framework for nursing proposed by H. S. Kim(2000). 1. 103 studies belonged to the practice domain. Among them, 56(54%) studies used concepts related to enactment phenomenon like education(21.4%), giving information(7.1%), breast feeding(5.4%), caring(5.4%), airway suction(5.4%), nonnutritive sucking(5.4%). 44(43%) studies used concepts related to knowledge utilization like program development and evaluation of smoking, mother-infant interaction, home health nursing, obesity management. And only 3(3%) studies used role related concepts like quality of nursing, direction of health education, contents of child health nursing education. 2. Only 2(0.006%) studies belonged to the client-nurse domain. One concept is empathy in communication phenomenon and the other concept is role conflict in interaction phenomenon. 3. 8(0.02%) studies belonged to the environmental domain. Among them, 3 studies related to physical environment like space, noise and 5 studies related to social environment like social support, home environment. But the concept of symbolic environment was not used. The findings of this study provide the evidence that research related to the client-nurse domain and the environmental domain should be conducted actively to improve the practice of child health nursing. So that the research in field of child health nursing should be dealt with the concepts of four domains to develop knowledge systematically.

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