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Improving Feed Value of Agricultural By-Products (농산부산물(農産副産物)의 사료화(飼料化))

  • Kang, Tae-Hong
    • Applied Biological Chemistry
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    • v.27
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    • pp.18-28
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    • 1984
  • In order to improve feed values of Korean agricultural by-products, various treatments including physical, chemical, physicochemical and fermentation were suggested in th is review article. Physical treatments such as chopping, grinding and pelleting reduce partiole size of agricultural by-products, and increase passage rate from the rumen, thus may increase voluntary feed intake and weight gain. Digestibility and voluntary feed intake of straw, rice hull and sawdust, also, may be increased by chemical treatment using sodium hydroxide or ammonia. Especially, because nitrogen content of by-products increase and toxic problem is not posed by ammonia treatment, it's practical usage is recommended in Korea. Silage or fermentation treatment using principles of microbial fermentation may improve palatability of low quality by-products. As mentioned above, it is concluded that various treatments suggested are desirable and improve feed value but may raise several problems. Unfortunately, because cost for installation and products is great and processing work is complicate, farmers are not using well these processing methods until now. Therefore, in order to increase the practical usage at farm level, it is thought that many research works be achieved for efficient process which have simple operation and low installation cost.

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Hybrid Communication Network Architectures for Monitoring Large-Scale Wind Turbine

  • Ahmed, Mohamed A.;Kim, Young-Chon
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.1626-1636
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    • 2013
  • Nowadays, a rapid development in wind power technologies is occurring compared with other renewable energies. This advance in technology has facilitated a new generation of wind turbines with larger capacity and higher efficiency. As the height of the turbines and the distance between turbines increases, the monitoring and control of this new generation wind turbines presents new challenges. This paper presents the architectural design, simulation, and evaluation of hybrid communication networks for a large-scale wind turbine (WT). The communication network of WT is designed based on logical node (LN) concepts of the IEC 61400-25 standard. The proposed hybrid network architectures are modeled and evaluated by OPNET. We also investigate network performance using three different technologies: Ethernet-based, WiFi-based, and ZigBee-based. Our network model is validated by analyzing the simulation results. This work contributes to the design of a reliable communication network for monitoring and controlling a wind power farms (WPF).

Women′s Indoor and Outdoor Everyday Life of the Late Choson Period as Expressed in Paintings (조선시대 여성의 가내외에서의 일상생활 -조선후기 회화에 나타난 여성을 중심으로-)

  • 김성희
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.42 no.7
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    • pp.33-53
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate women's indoor and outdoor everyday life including their housework, labor and leisure of the late Chosen period as expressed in paintings. Women's everyday life was classified into their indoor and outdoor life according to the custom of Naeoe, which had confined women's activities in the outdoors. This study analyzed 93 Paintings depicting the Due life of People. As a result, even though the Chosen period was a conservative society dominated by Confucian custom that confined women in the home, most women spent much of their time in the outdoors carrying water, washing clothes and doing farm work. Some common women participated in marketing household product, peddling and managing a drink shop. Especially, servant women such as Kineo, Muneo and Youneo labored in Public offices or Private Places. Consequently, this study suggests that the misconception should be corrected that traditional women's sex role had been confined exclusively in the home.

Application of Recycled Gypsum on Alkali Soil for Improving Agricultural Productivity in China

  • Akio, Tokuumi;Tsureyasu, Yanagi;Sun, Yi;Gao, Yushan;Zhao, Xiezhe
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.102-105
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    • 2001
  • Gypsum has been known as a prominent material for improving alkali soil, and this material can be supplied easily in large scale by recycling waste gypsum plasterboard from construction and demolition sites in advanced countries. In April 2000, in the part of western Jilin Province in China, where alkali soil spread vastly, we conducted a cultivating experiment of corn and rice after treating with granule recycled waste gypsum at six alkali soil fields which total area were 14000$m^2$. We confirmed that pH of soil decreased in a short period and alkali soil changed soft a desirable condition for farm work, and furthermore, gypsum caused to accelerate the growth of a plant, both corn and rice.

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Massive Spontaneous Diaphragmatic Rupture Induced by a Squatting Position

  • Kim, Su Wan;Lee, Seogjae
    • Journal of Chest Surgery
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    • v.46 no.3
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    • pp.230-233
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    • 2013
  • While a diaphragmatic rupture commonly results from trauma to the abdomen and chest, a spontaneous diaphragmatic rupture is very rare. A 68-year-old male presented with chest pain that had originated while doing farm work in a squatting position. Images revealed a 5 cm defect of the left diaphragmatic dome, and the entire stomach was displaced into the thorax. The diaphragmatic defect was round and half had a well-demarcated margin. The remaining fragile tissue was completely excised and was closed primarily. The patient was uneventfully discharged and resumed with a normal diet 10 days after the operation.

Redesign and Evaluation of a Chickpea Harvester

  • Golpira, H.
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.102-109
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    • 2015
  • Purpose: Slow manual harvesting of rain-fed chickpeas cultivated in fallow fields in developing countries have encouraged the design of a mechanical harvester. Methods: A tractor-pulled harvester was built, in which a modified stripper header detached pods from an anchored plant and a chain conveyor transferred material. The stripper harvester was redesigned to use: 1) the maneuverability of tractor-mounted frames, 2) the adaptability of floating headers, and 3) the flexibility of pneumatic conveyors. Results: A mobile vacuum conveyor, which was an innovator open system, was designed for the dilute phase transferring mode for both grain and material other than grain. A centrifugal fan transferred harvested material to a cyclone separator that settled harvested material in a grain tank 1 m high. The machine at the spot work rate of $0.42ha{\cdot}h^{-1}$ harvested chickpea pods equal to the output of 16.6 farm laborers. Conclusion: The low cost and reasonable projected purchase price are the advantages of the concept. Additionally, the shattering loss reduction confirms the feasibility of the prototype chickpea harvester for commercialization.

Outbreak of inclusion body hepatitis (IBH) and infectious bursal disease (IBD) in broilers, case (육계에서 봉입체성간염 및 전염성 F낭병 발생 증례)

  • Lee, Ji-Young;Kwon, Mee-Soon;Chu, Keum-Suk;Cho, Hyun-Ung;Lee, Jeoung-Won;Seo, Jae-Sik;Song, Hee-Jong
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Service
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.321-327
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    • 2007
  • This is a case report on the occurrence of inclusion body hepatitis (IBH) and infectious bursal disease (IBD) among the broilers in a local farm located in Wanju, Jeollabukdo. Mostly IBH could be caused by adenovirus if the bird's immune system was first weakened by exposure to immunosupressive agents such as infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) and chicken anemia virus (CIAV). However IBH primary occurred before IBD in this case. And recent work has demonstrated that virulent adenovirus alone can produce the disease.

Importance-Satisfaction Analysis for Improvement of Young Farmers Fostering Support Policy (청년 농업인 육성지원제도 개선을 위한 중요도-만족도 분석)

  • Kim, Jin Jin;Lee, So Young
    • Journal of Practical Agriculture & Fisheries Research
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.29-38
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    • 2022
  • The purpose of this study is to understand the importance-satisfaction level for the improvement of the young farmers fostering support policy. According to the analysis result, the respondents answered that the current policy to foster young farmers is important. However, the actual satisfaction level of the project was found to be lower than the importance level. In the 'Keep up the Good Work' area, which is the first quadrant, 'a project to support young succession farmers and settling in farming' and 'a project to select and support succeeding agricultural managers'. It was found that the respondents highly evaluated the importance and satisfaction of the 'Young Succession Farmers Selection and Farm Settlement Support Project' and the 'Succession Farmers Selection and Support Project'. Therefore, it is necessary to gradually expand the project in the future.

A study on The Effect of Antibiotics Usage too The Efficiency of Biological Piggery Wastewater Treatment (축산물에 사용되는 항생제가 축산폐수의 처리효율에 미치는 영향)

  • Cho, Mi Kyeong;Tran, Hung Thuan;Kim, Dae Hee;Jia, Yu Hong;Oh, Se Jin;Ann, Dae Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.123-133
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    • 2007
  • The presence of antibiotics in the wastewater from livestock farm due to its over-application should be concerned because they could change microbial ecology, increase the proliferation of antibiotic resistant pathogens, provoke toxic effect on aquatic species. In addition, these antibiotics can cause negative effect on the performance of biological wastewater treatment due to its antibacterial properties. In this study, our aim is to evaluate the effect of some common used antibiotic in Korea piggery farm such as oxytetracycline (OTC) to nitrification efficiency as well as organic compounds removal rate in biological system for treating piggery wastwater. The experiment was conducted in aeration batch reactor and lab-scale $A_2/O$(Anoxic-Anoxic-Oxic) system. From this study, it would be suggested that the piggery wastewater characterization should be examined in order to assess the fraction of common used antibiotics. The alternative treatment processes for piggery wastewater having high-strength antibiotics might be suggested in the future work.

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Development of An Integrated Information System for Dairy Cattle Breeding Management (젖소 사양관리의 통합전산화 시스템 개발)

  • Kim, Dong-Won;Heo, Eun-Young;Cho, Min-Ho;Jin, Feng-He
    • IE interfaces
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.397-406
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    • 2004
  • It is widely known that labor costs are continuously and rapidly growing in terms of the raw cost of products in Korea. The increased labor costs are degrading the competitiveness of dairy industry sector as in the other major industrial fields. Furthermore, the number of dairy farms is constantly decreasing while that of dairy cattle is increasing. Thus, mechanized and/or automated stockbreeding management systems are crucially required to support professional stockbreeding management, as well as to enhance the productivity of the sector. Hence this paper develops an IIS (Integrated Information System) for dairy cattle stockbreeding management. IIS is composed of five application modules and associated utility programs. The five modules are individual stock management, milking management, feeding management, propagation management, and disease management. The utility programs are involved in stock farm accounting, and handy unloading of individual stock data into a personal data acquisition device. Compared with existing foreign products, the developed system takes advantages of various stock body measurement data such as body weight, body temperature, milk conductivity, milking amount, and the number of walking steps. All the measured data are transmitted into a programmable logic controller that monitors and controls measurement devices. The transmitted data are finally aggregated into an integrated database located in the main personal computer. The integrated data are analyzed and reformed in the five modules of IIS, then, used for providing farmers with various farm states and information through application module scenes. Hence, IIS keeps the each module work in a systematic and compatible manner, while supervising the whole stockbreeding management system.