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Regulation of ANKRD9 expression by lipid metabolic perturbations

  • Wang, Xiaofei;Newkirk, Robert F.;Carre, Wilfrid;Ghose, Purnima;Igobudia, Barry;Townsel, James G.;Cogburn, Larry A.
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.42 no.9
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    • pp.568-573
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    • 2009
  • Fatty acid oxidation (FAO) defects cause abnormal lipid accumulation in various tissues, which provides an opportunity to uncover novel genes that are involved in lipid metabolism. During a gene expression study in the riboflavin deficient induced FAO disorder in the chicken, we discovered the dramatic increase in mRNA levels of an uncharacterized gene, ANKRD9. No functions have been ascribed to ANKRD9 and its orthologs, although their sequences are well conserved among vertebrates. To provide insight into the function of ANKRD9, the expression of ANKRD9 mRNA in lipidperturbed paradigms was examined. The hepatic mRNA level of ANKRD9 was repressed by thyroid hormone ($T_3$) and fasting, elevated by re-feeding upon fasting. However, ANKRD9 mRNA level is reduced in response to apoptosis. Transient transfection assay with green fluorescent protein tagged- ANKRD9 showed that this protein is localized within the cytoplasm. These findings point to the possibility that ANKRD9 is involved in intracellular lipid accumulation.

International Trend of Regulation on IUU Fishing and Countermeasures (IUU어업에 대한 국제적 규제 동향과 우리나라의 대응 방안)

  • LEE, Kwang-Nam;SEO, Byung-Kwi
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.81-100
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    • 2003
  • It is undeniable that IUU Fishing are threatening so many legal fishermen' economic livelihood, negatively impact on conservation and protection of the fishery stock and ecosystem itself. Especially, negative impact of IUU Fishing resulted from the increasing fishery activities on the high seas. The Korea case of Coastal and Off-shore Fisheries, difficulties in conserving and controlling the fishery stock was brought about. Simultaneously, it is the fact that there are so many damage such as the reduction of fish Stock management program's effect, dissatisfaction of legal fishermen, over-exploiting of fish stock. Related with this kind of problem, FAO had adopted "International Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing(2001)". From this reason, Korea also needs to make actual efforts to prevent IUU Fishing. i.e. each nation should develop Korea action plan by Feb. 2004 and impliment it, report on implementation toward FAO. This Paper will review the definition of the IUU stipulated by "International Plan of Action on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing" and study Korea cases of the IUU fishing. Finally, the analysis of Korea's implementation will be done, centering around the contents stated on the International Action Plan. The significance of this paper is to grope the political countermeasures against international movement of the IUU fishing prevention.

Variation of Crop Coefficient With Respect to the Reference Crop Evapotranspiration Estimation Methods in Ponded Direct Seeding Paddy Rice (담수직파재배 논벼의 기준작물 잠재증발산량 산정방법별 작물계수의 변화)

  • 정상옥
    • Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.39 no.4
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    • pp.114-121
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    • 1997
  • In order to provide basic information for the estimation of evapotranspiration in the ponded direct seeding paddy field, both field lysimeter experiment and model prediction were performed to estimate daily ET. Various methods were used to predict daily reference crop ET and crop coefficients. Measure4 mean daily ET during the 1995 growing season varied from 5.9 to 6.1 mm depending on the species, while it varied from 5.1 to 5.5 mm in 1996. Model predicted mean daily ET during the 1995 growing season varied from 3.9 to 4.9 mm depending on the prediction model, while it varied from 3.5 to 4.7 mm in 1996. The smaller ET values both measured and predicted in 1996 were caused by the low values of temperature, sunshine hours, and solar radiation. Crop coefficients varied from 1.20 to 1.50 in 1995 depending on the prediction model, while it varied from 1.10 to 1.47 in 1996. Comparison of the seven reference crop ET prediction methods used in this study shows that the Penman-Monteith method and the FAO-Radiation method gave the lowest ET while the corrected Penman method and the Hargreaves method gave the largest ET. Since crop coefficients vary to a large extent based on the prediction methods, reference crop ET prediction method should be carefully selected in irrigation planning.

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Estimation of Future Reference Crop Evapotranspiration using Artificial Neural Networks (인공신경망 기법을 이용한 장래 잠재증발산량 산정)

  • Lee, Eun-Jeong;Kang, Moon-Seong;Park, Jeong-An;Choi, Jin-Young;Park, Seung-Woo
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.52 no.5
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2010
  • Evapotranspiration (ET) is one of the basic components of the hydrologic cycle and is essential for estimating irrigation water requirements. In this study, artificial neural network (ANN) models for reference crop evapotranspiration ($ET_0$) estimation were developed on a monthly basis (May~October). The models were trained and tested for Suwon, Korea. Four climate factors, daily maximum temperature ($T_{max}$), daily minimum temperature ($T_{min}$), rainfall (R), and solar radiation (S) were used as the input parameters of the models. The target values of the models were calculated using Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Penman-Monteith equation. Future climate data were generated using LARS-WG (Long Ashton Research Station-Weather Generator), stochastic weather generator, based on HadCM3 (Hadley Centre Coupled Model, ver.3) A1B scenario. The evapotranspirations were 549.7 mm/yr in baseline period (1973-2008), 558.1 mm/yr in 2011-2030, 593.0 mm/yr in 2046-2065, and 641.1 mm/yr in 2080-2099. The results showed that the ANN models achieved good performances in estimating future reference crop evapotranspiration.

Assessment of MODIS Leaf Area Index (LAI) Influence on the Penman-Monteith Evapotranspiration Estimation of SLURP Model (MODIS 위성영상으로부터 추출된 엽면적지수(LAI)가 SLURP 모형의 Penman-Monteith 증발산량 추정에 미치는 영향 평가)

  • Ha, Rim;Shin, Hyung-Jin;Hong, Woo-Yong;Kim, Seong-Joon
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2008.05a
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    • pp.1087-1091
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    • 2008
  • Evapotranspiration (ET) is an important factor while simulating daily streamflow in hydrological models. The LAI (Leaf Area Index) value reflecting the conditions of vegetation generally affects considerably in the estimation of ET, for example, when using FAO Penman Monteith equation. Recently in evaluating the vegetation condition as a fixed quantity, the remotely sensed LAIs from MODIS satellite data are avaliable, and the time series values of spatial LAI coupled with land use classes are utilized for ET evaluation. The 4 years (2001-2004) MODIS LAI data were prepared for the evaluation of continuous hydrological model, SLURP (Semi-distributed Land Use-based Runoff Processes). The model was applied for simulating the dam inflow of Chungjudam watershed ($6661.58\;km^2$) located in the upstream of Han river basin of South Korea. From the model results, the FAO Penman Monteith ET was affected by the MODIS LAIs. Especially for the ET of deciduous forest, the Total ET was 33.9 % lager than coniferous forest for the 3.8 % lager of LAI. The watershed average LAI caused a 7.0 % decrease in average soil moisture of the watershed and 14.3 % decrease of ground water recharge.

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Evaluation of the Evapotranspiration Models in The SLURP Hydrological Model (SLURP모형에서 증발산 모형의 평가)

  • Kim, Byung-Sik;Cho, Doo Chan;Kim, Hung-Soo;Seoh, Byung-Ha
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2004.05b
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    • pp.178-183
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    • 2004
  • Hydrological models simulate the land phase component of the water cycle and provide a mechanism for evaluating the effects of climatic variation and change on water resources. Evapotranspiration(ET) is a critical process within hydrological models. This study evaluates five different methods for estimating ET in the SLURP(Semi-distrubuted Land Use Runoff Process)model, in the Yongdam basin. The five ET methods were the FAO Penman-Monteith, Motorn CRAE(Complementary Relationship Area Evapotranspiration), the Spittlehouse-Black, the Granger, the Linarce model. We evaluated the five ET models, based on the ability of SLURP model to simulate daily streamflow. and How the five ET methods influence the sensitivity of simulated streamflow to changes in key model parameters and validation SLURP independently for each ET methods.

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Urbanization Effects on Reference Evapotranspiration (도시화에 따른 수문기상변화 II (도시화가 기준 잠재증발산량에 미치는 영향))

  • Rim, Chang-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.1939-1942
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    • 2007
  • 본 연구에서는 도시화와 지형 및 지리조건에 따른 기상변화가 FAO Penman-Monteith 기준 잠재증발산량에 미치는 영향을 파악하고자 한다. 또한 기상변화가 FAO Penman-Monteith 기준 잠재증발산량공식의 에너지항 및 공기동력항에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 본 연구를 위하여 적용된 연구지역은 서울을 비롯한 56개 수문기상 관측지점으로써 도시화과정을 분석하기 위하여 반경 10 km를 중심으로 $314\;km^2$에 해당하는 면적을 연구지역으로 설정하였다. 연구 지역의 도시화정도를 판단하기 위하여 토지이용현황을 분석하였다. 분석결과에 의하면 대부분의 연구지역에서 잠재증발산의 변화정도는 도시화율의 정도에 따라서 상관관계를 보이는 것으로 나타났다. 잠재증발산량의 변화정도는 도시화율이 클수록 큰 변화를 보이고 있다. 분석결과에 의하면 잠재증발산량의 변화는 도시화가 진행됨에 따라서 도시지역 내 열섬현상에 따른 기온상승과 도시지역의 주거지면적 증가에 따른 습도의 감소영향 그리고 풍속의 감소에 따른 것으로 보이며, 특히 습도의 감소가 잠재증발산량에 가장 크게 영향을 미치고 있다. 또한 도시지역 내의 일사량 감소에 따른 순단파복사량의 감소나 기온상승에 따른 순장파복사량의 증가에 의해서 영향을 받는 것으로 보인다. 또한 연구지역의 지리 및 지형조건이 잠재증발산량에 미치는 영향을 분석한 결과 56개 연구지역의 잠재증발산량에 미치는 요인은 주로 도시화에 따른 기상변화와 해안 근접성인 것으로 판단된다.

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Estimation of Paddy Rice Evapotranspiration Considering Climate Change Using LARS-WG (LARS-WG를 이용한 기후변화에 따른 논벼 증발산량 산정)

  • Hong, Eun-Mi;Choi, Jin-Yong;Lee, Sang-Hyun;Yoo, Seung-Hwan;Kang, Moon-Seong
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.51 no.3
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    • pp.25-35
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    • 2009
  • Climate change due to global warming possibly effects the agricultural water use in terms of evapotranspiration. Thus, to estimate rice evapotranspiration under the climate change, future climate data including precipitation, minimum and maximum temperatures for 90 years ($2011{\sim}2100$), were forecasted using LARS-WG. Observed 30 years ($1971{\sim}2000$) climate data and climate change scenario based on SRES A2 were prepared to operate the LARS-WG model. Using these data and FAO Blaney-Criddle method, reference evapotranspiration and rice evapotranspiration were estimated for 9 different regions in South Korea and rice evapotranspiration of 10 year return period was estimated using frequency analysis. As the results of this study, rice evapotranspiration of 10 year return period increased 1.56%, 5.99% and 10.68% for each 30 years during $2011{\sim}2100$ (2025s; $2011{\sim}2040$, 2055s; $2041{\sim}2070$, 2085s; $2071{\sim}2100$) demonstrating that the increased temperature from the climate change increases the consumptive use of crops and agricultural water use.

Parameters Estimation in Longwave Radiation Formula (장파복사 모형의 매개변수 추정)

  • Cho, Hongyeon;Lee, Khil-Ha;Lee, Jungmi
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.239-246
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    • 2012
  • Daily net radiation is essential for heat budget analysis for environmental impact assessment in the coastal zone and longwave radiation is an important element of net radiation because there is a significant exchange of radiant energy between the earth's surface and the atmosphere in the form of radiation at longer wavelengths. However, radiation data is not commonly available, and there has been no direct measurement for most areas where coastal environmental impact assessment is usually most needed. Often an empirical equation, e.g., Penman and FAO-24 formulae is used to estimate longwave radiation using temperature, humidity, and sunshine hour data but local calibration may be needed. In this study, local recalibration was performed to have best fit from a widely used longwave equation using the measured longwave radiation data in Korea Global Atmospheric Watch Center (KGAWC). The results shows recalibration can provided better performance AE=0.23($W/m^2$) and RMSE=14.73($W/m^2$). This study will contribute to improve the accuracy of the heat budget analysis in the coastal area.