• Animal cells and systems
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.13-18
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• 2005

Cannibalism plays important roles at the levels of both individual and population. To enhance overall rate of successful survival and reproduction, salamander larvae may have evolved to consume both conspecifics and heterospecifics. Consuming conspecifics could result in decreased inclusive fitness possibly by killing relatives. In several salamander species, discrimination of salamander larval siblings from non-siblings and heterospecifics to avoid such a risk has been reported. To determine whether the Korean salamander larvae consume non-siblings more often than siblings and to analyze prey preferences of the salamander larvae in several different experimental conditions, a series of foraging experiments was conducted in the laboratory. We found that 1) large cannibal larvae preyed on small sibling more often than small non-sibling in a mixed group of sibling and non-sibling, 2) cannibal larvae prefered to consume live, weak, and small larvae to dead, healthy, and large larvae, and 3) cannibal larvae consumed heterospecific tadpoles more often than conspecific nonsibling larvae in a mixed group. In addition, the larval density was positively correlated with the occurrence of spacing behavior, one of the agonistic predator behaviors among salamander larvae.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.97-110
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• 2020

This study conducted observations at 72 traffic lights and road signs in Sejong-si, Korea from March to June 2019 in order to analyze nest-site, nest-site characteristics and feeding behavior in Tree sparrow (Passeer montanus) in urban. Feeding behavior during breeding season in 2019 was investigated at 10 Town representing traffic facilities installed on the road located in the center of the city and 10 Riverside Geumgang river's riverside road. We fitted both general linear model and regression model to our field data and estimated the spatial variation of initial date of the first feeding (i.e., being date of breeding) and the total number of caterpillar fed by parents per hour. Our results showed that the frequency of nest building on artificial structures, such as traffic lights, was about 26% higher and about 8 days earlier in the riverside. In particular, the first feeding was significantly faster when the nearest distance between nest to green field as foraging site was shorter whereas there was no significant effect of the number of nest within 50 meters on the first feeding. Number of caterpillars fed by parents was higher in the Riverside than in the Urban, and especially the number in the second brood was sharply decreased in the Urban. As we estimated average amount of caterpillars per hour to 446 traffic safety facilities in Sejong-si, it was estimated that Tree sparrows fed 18,742.8 caterpillars per hour during the breeding season. In this study, we showed that characteristics of nests built in artificial structures and feeding behavior in order to analyze effects of environmental condition in urban on life-history traits during the breeding season. Finally, we discussed the conservation of birds in urban and pest control effects.

• 한국환경농학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.86-92
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• 2001

벼논 오리농법에 있어서 오리 방사체계를 명확히 하기 위해 각 처리구를 4 a의 동일면적으로 구분하고, 방사 오리수를 각각 6수, 9수, 12수 및 15수씩으로 하는 4처리구를 설계하여 방사밀도에 따른 오리의 행동형 및 벼 생육과 수량반응에 미치는 영향에 대하여 검토하였던 바, 그 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 오리 방사밀도에 따른 일중 12시간 동안의 행동변화에서 섭식 및 이동행동은 12수 방사구에서 가장 길었고, 노동행동에서도 다른 3처리구에 비해 12수 방사구에서 유의적으로 길게 나타났다(P<0.05). 반면 휴식행동은 12수 방사구에 비해 9수 및 15수 방사구에서 현저히 길게 나타났다(P<0.05). 방사오리가 가장 활발한 활동을 보이는 일중 6시간 동안의 이동 회수는 15수 방사구에서 가장 적었고 나머지 3처리구간에서는 거의 비슷한 수준을 보였다. 잠수회수는 9수 방사구에서 다른 3처리구에 비해 유의적으로 많았으며(P<0.01), 벼 포기 쪼는 회수도 9수 방사구에서 12수 및 15수 방사구에 비해 현저히 많았다(P<0.05). 그러나 오리가 쪼은 총 벼포기수에서는 방사밀도가 낮은 6수 및 9수 방사구에 비해 15수 방사구에서 유의적으로 많았다(P<0.01). 벼 초장은 오리 방사후 30일째부터 방사밀도가 높을 수록 짧아지는 경향을 보였고(P<0.05), 경수(莖數)는 방사밀도에 의해 대차없었다. 출수후 벼 생육변화에서 간장(稈長)은 방사밀도가 높은 12수 및 15수 방사구에서 짧았고(P<0.05), 수장(穗長)은 오리 방사밀도에 의해 대차없었다. 벼 지상부의 건물중량은 방사밀도가 높을 수록 낮은 값에 편중됨을 보인 반면, 지하부의 건물중량은 증가하는 경향을 나타냈다. 오리 방사밀도에 따른 벼 결주발생수은 15수 방사구에서 가장 많았고, 다음으로 6수, 9수 및 12수의 순으로 나타났다. 한편 수당(穗當) 영화수는 6수 및 9수 방사구에 비해 12수 및 15수 방사구에서 유의적으로 많았고(P<0.05), 등숙율은 다른 3처리구에 비해 15수 방사구에서 낮은 경향을 보였다. 10 a당 수량은 12수 방사구에서 726.5 kg으로 가장 높은 수량증가를 보였고, 다음으로 9수, 15수 및 6수 방사구의 순으로 나타났다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.779-788
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• 2017

In this study, we analyzed the changes in the echolocation and prey-capture behavior of the horseshoe bat Rhinolophus ferrumequinum from search phase to capture time. The experiment was conducted in an indoor free-flight room fitted with an ultra-high-speed camera. We found that the bats searched for food while hanging from a structure, and capturing was carried out using the flight membrane. In addition, it was confirmed that the mouth and uropatagium were continuously used in tandem during the capturing process. Furthermore, using Constant Frequency (CF), we confirmed that the prey catching method reflected the wing morphology and echolocation pattern of R. ferrumequinum. The echolocation analysis revealed that the pulse duration, pulse interval, peak frequency, start-FM-bandwidth, and CF duration decreased as the search phase approached the terminal phase. Detailed analysis of echolocation pulse showed that the end-FM bandwidth, which increases as it gets nearer to the capture time of prey, was closely related to the accurate grasp of the location of an insect. At the final moment of prey capture, the passive listening that stopped the divergence of the echolocation was identified; this was determined to be the process of minimizing the interruption from the echo of the echolocation call emitted from the bat itself and sound waves emitted from the prey.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.1142-1166
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• 2020

Salp Swarm Algorithm (SSA) is a new nature-inspired swarm optimization algorithm that mimics the swarming behavior of salps navigating and foraging in the oceans. SSA has been proved to enable to avoid local optima and enhance convergence speed benefiting from the adaptive nonlinear mechanism and salp chains. In this paper, visual tracking is considered to be a process of locating the optimal position through the interaction between leaders and followers in successive images. A novel SSA-based tracking framework is proposed and the analysis and adjustment of parameters are discussed experimentally. Besides, the qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis are performed to demonstrate the tracking effect of our proposed approach by comparing with ten classical tracking algorithms. Extensive comparative experimental results show that our algorithm has good performance in visual tracking, especially for abrupt motion tracking.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권9호
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• pp.3496-3514
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• 2015

One of the challenging tasks in Mobile Ad hoc Network is to discover precise optimal routing solution due to the infrastructure-less dynamic behavior of wireless mobile nodes. Ant Colony Optimization, a swarm Intelligence technique, inspired by the foraging behaviour of ants in colonies was used in the past research works to compute the optimal path. In this paper, we propose a Recurrent Ant Colony Optimization (RECACO) that executes the actual Ant Colony Optimization iteratively based on recurrent value in order to obtain an optimal path convergence. Each iteration involves three steps: Pheromone tracking, Pheromone renewal and Node selection based on the residual energy in the mobile nodes. The novelty of our approach is the inclusion of new pheromone updating strategy in both online step-by-step pheromone renewal mode and online delayed pheromone renewal mode with the use of newly proposed metric named ELD (Energy Load Delay) based on energy, Load balancing and end-to-end delay metrics to measure the performance. RECACO is implemented using network simulator NS2.34. The implementation results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the existing algorithms like AODV, ACO, LBE-ARAMA in terms of Energy, Delay, Packet Delivery Ratio and Network life time.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.17-26
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• 2005

Ecological corridor is the facility to connect two habitats fragmented by roads, dam, housing and industrial area. Critics of faunal corridors have suggested that they are simply an untested application of unproved island biogeography theory. But, everyone agree that ecological corridor is important useful structural components that help animal movement in fragmented landscapes. There are 52 ecological corridors in Korea. We investigated 43 ecological corridors of these and recorded the size of corridor, planting species, management and growth condition. We compared planting species to nearby exiting vegetation species and structure. We found that there are no considerations for many aspects of planting, for example, planting species, structure, animal migration and behavior, surrounding vegetation etc. Expecially, It was ignored management of plants, difference of surrounding vegetation, lacks of diverse planting species and structure. We suggest planting the native species of tall tree, shrub and ground cover, edge planting for transitional space between road and natural habitat, planting for foraging and breeding of target animal, diverse layer vegetation, and open space of center for rapid animal dispersal.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권9호
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• pp.2846-2866
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• 2022

Caenorhabditis elegans exhibits sophisticated chemotaxis behavior through two parallel strategies, klinokinesis and klinotaxis, executed entirely by a small nervous circuit. It is therefore suitable for inspiring fast and energy-efficient solutions for autonomous navigation. As a random search strategy, the Lévy walk is optimal for diverse animals when foraging without external chemical cues. In this study, by combining these biological strategies for the first time, we propose a spiking neural network model for search and contour tracking of specific concentrations of environmental variables. Specifically, we first design a klinotaxis module using spiking neurons. This module works in conjunction with a klinokinesis module, allowing rapid searches for the concentration setpoint and subsequent contour tracking with small deviations. Second, we build a random exploration module. It generates a Lévy walk in the absence of concentration gradients, increasing the chance of encountering gradients. Third, considering local extrema traps, we develop a termination module combined with an escape module to initiate or terminate the escape in a timely manner. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model integrating these modules can switch strategies autonomously according to the information from a single sensor and control steering through output spikes, enabling the model worm to efficiently navigate across various scenarios.

• 환경생물
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.223-227
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• 2007

산악형 국립공원지역 내에서 일부 야생동물종이 빠르게 증식하고 있다. 규모가 작고 공원 내 1/3이상의 면적이 사유지인 우리나라 국립공원의 특성상 서식동물수의 증가와 함께 이로 인한 농작물 피해도 함께 급증하고 있다. 농작물에 가장 많은 피해를 주는 위해조수종은 멧돼지 (Sus scrofa)인 것으로 조사되었으며 농작물 채식, 농경지 밟음 등이 대표적인 피해유형으로 나타났다. 이외 고라니 (Hydropotes inermis), 너구리 (Nyctereutes procyonoides), 오소리 (Meles meles)등에 의한 피해도 조사되었다. 대부분의 피해작물은 옥수수, 고구마, 배추 등의 밭작물로서 전체 피해작물의 76.9%에 이르고 있다. 야생동물에 의한 피해는 매년 6월경부터 시작되어 11월까지 계속되었으며 이는 산림 내에서 구할 수 있는 먹이원의 수급현황 및 기후조건과 밀접한 관련이 있다. 피해방제에 대한 자구책으로는 경작지 곳곳에 기피제를 설치하는 방법을 많이 사용하고 있으며 (n=54) 발성체 및 허수아비 등을 설치하는 경우가 있었으나 실제 효과는 극히 미미한 것으로 나타났다. 전체 조사가구의 92.4% (n=187)가 경작면적 1ha이하의 텃밭 수준의 소규모 영농을 하고 있으며 일부 농민들을 제외하고는 피해발생에 대한 민원은 거의 없었다. 이는 야생동물 피해에 대한 법적 제도적 보상체계가 미비되어 있음에 기인하며 객관적인 피해현황 분석기법의 확립과 이를 통한 보상대책과 관리방안이 시급히 마련되어야 할 것으로 사료된다.

• 정보관리학회지
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.73-99
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• 2021

본 연구의 목적은 인터넷 건강정보검색에서 4-50대 중년층의 건강정보 이용경험을 분석하고 건강관심도와 건강정보추구도가 정보향기를 감지하는 데 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 파악하는 것이다. 이를 위해 정보채집이론을 바탕으로 설문조사, 실험관찰, 면담조사를 진행하여 이용자의 건강정보 이용경험과 정보검색행동을 분석하였다. 연구결과, 이용자가 오프라인을 통한 정보획득에 익숙할수록 인터넷 건강정보 검색주기가 길었으며 가장 많이 검색하는 정보는 질병진단 및 관리를 위한 건강지식으로 나타났다. 중년층의 건강관심도와 건강정보추구도는 건강정보검색에서 정보향기를 감지하는데 영향을 미치고 있음을 확인하였고 건강관심도나 건강정보추구도가 높은 참가자는 텍스트 유형의 비영리, 공공기관의 정보원과 텍스트와 맥락이 맞는 다양한 이미지를 중요한 정보단서로 판단하였다. 또한, 건강관심도나 건강정보추구도에 상관없이 정보게시날짜는 중요 정보단서인 것으로 파악되었다. 본 연구결과는 건강정보 활용교육을 시행하는 도서관이나 평생교육원에서 단순한 지식전달보다 이용자의 건강관심도와 건강정보추구도를 증대시킬 수 있는 프로그램을 구성하는데 기여할 수 있다. 또한 포털사이트나 건강관련 기관 웹사이트 담당자들은 중년층 이용자들의 건강관심도와 건강정보추구도에 따라 건강정보에 쉽게 접근할 수 있는 전략을 구축하는데 기초자료로 활용될 수 있다.