• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.283-290
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• 2005

Objectives : The aim of this paper was to examine the relationship between the summertime (June to August) heat index, which quantifies the bioclimatic apparent temperature in sultry weather, and the daily disease-related mortality in Seoul for the period from 1991 to 2000. Methods : The daily maximum (or minimum) summertime heat indices, which show synergetic apparent temperatures, were calculated from the six hourly temperatures and real time humidity data for Seoul from 1991 to 2000. The disease-related daily mortality was extracted with respect to types of disease, age and sex, etc. and compared with the time series of the daily heat indices. Results : The summertime mortality in 1994 exceeded the normal by 626 persons. Specifically, blood circulation-related and cancer-related mortalities increased in 1994 by 29.7% (224 persons) and 15.4% (107 persons), respectively, compared with those in 1993. Elderly persons, those above 65 years, were shown to be highly susceptible to strong heat waves, whereas the other age and sex-based groups showed no significant difference in mortality. In particular, a heat wave episode on the 22nd of July 2004 ($>45^{\circ}C$ daily heat index) resulted in double the normal number of mortalities after a lag time of 3 days. Specifically, blood circulation-related mortalities, such as cerebral infraction, were predominant causes. Overall, a critical mortality threshold was reached when the heat index exceeded approximately $37^{\circ}C$, which corresponds to human body temperature. A linear regression model based on the heat indices above $37^{\circ}C$, with a 3 day lag time, accounted for 63% of the abnormally increased mortality (${\geq}+2$ standard deviations). Conclusions : This study revealed that elderly persons, those over 65 years old, are more vulnerable to mortality due to abnormal heat waves in Seoul, Korea. When the daily maximum heat index exceeds approximately $37^{\circ}C$, blood circulation-related mortality significantly increases. A linear regression model, with respect to lag-time, showed that the heat index based on a human model is a more dependable indicator for the prediction of hot weather-related mortality than the ambient air temperature.

• Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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• 제26권
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• pp.9.1-9.9
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• 2011

Objectives: In order to evaluate which temperature index is the best predictor for the health impact assessment of heat stress in Korea, several indexes were compared. Methods: We adopted temperature, perceived temperature (PT), and apparent temperature (AT), as a heat stress index, and changes in the risk of death for Seoul and Daegu were estimated with $^1{\circ}C$ increases in those temperature indexes using generalized additive model (GAM) adjusted for the non-temperature related factors: time trends, seasonality, and air pollution. The estimated excess mortality and Akaike's Information Criterion (AIC) due to the increased temperature indexes for the $75^{th}$ percentile in the summers from 2001 to 2008 were compared and analyzed to define the best predictor. Results: For Seoul, all-cause mortality presented the highest percent increase (2.99% [95% CI, 2.43 to 3.54%]) in maximum temperature while AIC showed the lowest value when the all-cause daily death counts were fitted with the maximum PT for the $75^{th}$ percentile of summer. For Daegu, all-cause mortality presented the greatest percent increase (3.52% [95% CI, 2.23 to 4.80%]) in minimum temperature and AIC showed the lowest value in maximum temperature. No lag effect was found in the association between temperature and mortality for Seoul, whereas for Daegu one-day lag effect was noted. Conclusions: There was no one temperature measure that was superior to the others in summer. To adopt an appropriate temperature index, regional meteorological characteristics and the disease status of population should be considered.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.179-183
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• 1980

거제${\cdot}$한산만 양식굴 Crassostrea gigas의 에너지 전환 효율을 추정하기 위하여 한 양성 기간인 1979년 7월부터 1980년 4일까지 성장도, 생식 물질 방출량, 패자 형성량, 호흡량, 집단 감모율에 대한 현지 생체 실측 조사를 행하였으며, 연체부의 물질 조성 및 에너지 함량, 패각의 유기 물질 및 생식 물질의 에너지 함량을 각각 측정하고, 호흡량에서 호흡 열량 계수를 사용하여 이화 에너지양을 계산하였다. 이상의 자료에서 동화 에너지양에 대한 연체부 에너지양의 비율로 순 에너지 전환 효율을 계산하고 동화 효율을 측정하여 섭취 에너지양에 대한 연체부 에너지양의 비율로 총 에너지 전환 효율을 계산하였으며, 그 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 각고(SH) 및 연체부 건조 중량 (DW)의 반월령(t)에 따른 성장도; $$SH=6.33(1-e^{-0.2421(t+0.54)}),\;(0<\leqq10)$$ $$SH=4.44+0.14t,\;(10{\leqq}t{\leqq}20)$$ $$DW=0.608(1-e^{-0.2421(t+0.54)2.589}),\;(0 $$DW=1.53\times10^{-6}\times(4.44+0.14t)^{7.2},(10{\leqq}t{\leqq}20)$$ 2. 생식물질 방출량(G): $$G=0.0145+(3.95\times10^{-3}{\times}SH^{2.9861}$$ 3. 패각 형성량(SO); $$SO=0.000648{\times}SH^{2.527}$$ 4. 호흡량(R); $$log\;R=(0.0386T-0.5381)+(0.6409-0.0083T){\cdot}log\;DW$$ 5. 연체부 에너지 함량; 3.93(7월)-4.54(4월) Kcal/g, DW(질소 보정에 의한 계산값) 6. 생식 물질의 에너지 함량$(E_G)$: $$E_G,\;Kcal=\frac{1}{4}[0.0149SH^{2.961}+0.0547]$$ 7. 패각 유기물의 에너지 함량$(E_{so})$; $$E_{so},\;Kcal=0.00184SH^{2.527}$$ 8. 호흡 에너지 계수: 3.18(8월)-3.31(4월) cal/mg $O_2$ 9. 집단 총 감모율 : $36\%$ 10. 동화 효율 : $55.5\%(40\~70\%)$ 11. 순 에너지 전환 효율 : $28\%$ 12. 총 에너지 전환효율 : $15.28\%(11\~20\%)$.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제60권2호
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• pp.75-84
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• 2018

Thermal stress of livestock has been issued due to recent climate change trends and this causes reproductive disorders, decreased feed consumption, immunosuppression, and increased mortality of animals. Concept of THI has been widely used to quantitatively evaluate the degree of thermal stress for animals, however use of this concept is restricted for animals living in the enclosed facilities such as mechanically ventilated broiler houses. In this study, time-based internal energy flow and variation trends of temperature and humidity were analyzed based on BES technique. Local weather data, insulation characteristics of building materials, heat and moisture generation rate from broilers according to age, algorithm of ventilation operation were adopted for boundary condition of the model to accurately compute THI values inside the mechanically ventilated broiler house. From the BES computation, excess frequency of THI threshold in Jeju city was highest on the assumption that air conditioning equipments were not installed. When general raising density ($39kg\;m^{-2}$) was adopted, total 2,191 hours were exceeded. Excess hours of THI threshold were strongly related to the cumulative air temperature ($R^2=0.87$).