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Effect of Forage Feeding on Goat Meat Production: Carcass Characteristics and Composition of Creole Kids Reared Either at Pasture or Indoors in the Humid Tropics

  • Alexandre, G.;Limea, L.;Fanchonne, A.;Coppry, O.;Mandonnet, N.;Boval, M.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.22 no.8
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    • pp.1140-1150
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    • 2009
  • Forage diets provide good quality carcasses in sheep but very little is known in tropical goats. An experiment was designed with Creole male goats using grass-based systems to assess carcass yield, scores, cuts and composition. After weaning (84 d, 9.2 kg LW) two modes of forage feeding were compared with two replicates of each. Feeding groups were: PF for animals reared at pasture (n = 62) and IF when reared indoors (n = 60). Given that forage finishing will result in low ADG it appeared necessary to study different fattening lengths. The kids were equally divided into 4 groups: group A (n = 32), 4mo after weaning; group B (n = 32), 4mo after A; group C (n = 30), 3mo after B and group D (n = 28), 2mo after C. The animals grazed (in two sub-flocks) on irrigated tropical pastures managed in a rotational system (28 d of re-growth) at a mean stocking rate of 1,200 kg/ha/yr LW. The IF groups were reared in collective pens on a slatted floor (2 replicates of 7 or 8 kids each). They were fed the same stand of tropical grass (25% DM, 12% CP) as that of pasture that was cut daily and provided ad libitum. The ADG (-10%), the weights of omental fat (-60%) and fat in shoulder (-18%), the ultimate pH of carcass (-12%), the meat colour score (-24%), the ""parameter accounting for redness (12%) and the DM and lipid contents (-4%) were significantly lower (p<0.05) in PF than in IF, while the liver was heavier (+23%, p<0.05). Feeding conditions seemed to be similar, thus, differences could be related to gastrointestinal parasitism in the PF system and hypotheses are discussed. Increasing the fattening duration, resulted in significant difference (p<0.01) in many traits: the weights at slaughter and of carcass increased by 40% and 60% from groups A to D and consequently the weights of body compartments and carcass cuts (1.5 to 2.0 fold more). When the results were presented as percentage of empty body weight and carcass weight, these preliminary results (carcass weight 9kg and yield 53%, muscle proportion 70%) and qualitative parameters (low fat score 2/5, fat proportion 5%), seem to be a good incentive for the sector to develop a niche market to meet consumer lean meat expectations. The indoors system could be implemented where there was low availability of grazing areas or problems of dog attacks.

Stay Point Extraction Method that Improve Accuracy of Location and to Distinguish Between Indoors & Outdoors (실내·외 구분 및 위치의 정확성을 개선한 Stay Point 추출 기법)

  • Park, Jin-Gwan;Lee, Seong-Ro;Jung, Min-A
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.52 no.6
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    • pp.95-104
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    • 2015
  • Recently, collecting and analyzing method of users location has been studied due to the development of mobile devices. There is analyzing method using Semantic Location History in order to identify of characteristics and extract pattern and predict trajectory of users. We should extraction of Stay Point in order to use Semantic Location History. The Conventional extraction method of Stay Point is not accuracy of location of Stay Points because it does not specify the GPS log of users. Also, Conventional extraction method of Stay Point cannot distinguish indoors and outdoors. In this paper, we implement extraction method of Stay Point in which specify the GPS log of users and extraction of Stay Point at indoors only. Stay Point(nearSP) specifies the nearest GPS log of users from generated Stay Point by conventional extraction method. And, Stay Point(indoorSP) specifies the GPS log of users that user get into the building. Our experimental results, accuracy of Stay Point is improved, and capacity of output data decrease than Conventional extraction method. Also, we were able to distinguish Stay Point of indoors and outdoors.

Assessment of Exposure to and Risk of Formaldehyde and Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5) by Time Activity Applying Real-Time Indoor and Outdoor Monitoring (실내·외 실시간 모니터링을 활용한 폼알데하이드 및 미세먼지(PM10, PM2.5)의 거주시간별 노출 및 위해도 평가)

  • Yoon, Danki;Namgoung, Sunju;Kong, Hyekwan;Hong, Hyungjin;Lim, Huibeen;Park, Sihyun;Lee, Hyewon;Lee, Jungsub;Lee, Cheolmin
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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    • v.45 no.6
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    • pp.646-657
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    • 2019
  • Objectives: The purpose of this study was to suggest methods to investigate continuous monitoring of concentration levels and assess the exposure of individuals considering the actual time activity of residents for formaldehyde and particulate matter (PM10, PM2.5) in the indoor and outdoor air of a house, assess the health risks of children and adults based on the results of the exposure assessment, and provide basic data on studies for assessing exposure and health risks in Korea in the future. Methods: The concentration levels of formaldehyde and particulate matter were measured in a family home in Gyeonggi-do Province from April 25 to July 31, 2019, using electrochemical sensors (formaldehyde) and light scattering sensors (PM10, PM2.5). Risk assessment by the duration of exposure by time activity was performed by dividing between weekdays and weekends, and indoors and outdoors. Results: The greatest level of carcinogenic risk from inhaling formaldehyde was indoors during the weekdays for both children and adults. For children, the risk was at 7.5 per approximately 10,000 people, and for adults, the risk was at 4.1 per approximately 10,000 people. PM10 and PM2.5 also showed the greatest values indoors during the weekdays, with children at 1.7 people and 1.4 per approximately 100 people, respectively, and adults at 8.2 per approximately 1,000 and 1.8 per approximately 100 people, respectively. Conclusions: The risks of formaldehyde, PM10 and PM2.5 were shown to be high indoors. Therefore, consideration of exposure assesment for each indoor pollutant and management of indoor air quality is necessary.

A Basic Study to Reveal the Relationships between Solar Thermal Radiation and Thermographic Images (태양 복사와 열화상이미지의 관계에 대한 기초 연구)

  • Kim, Jeongbae
    • Journal of Institute of Convergence Technology
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.13-17
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    • 2020
  • Among the factors that must be taken into account when using thermal imaging cameras that are expanding their application to various fields, a basic study was conducted focusing on temperature on the effect of solar radiation on the photographed thermal image. Through all experiments, in order to use an image taken with a thermal imaging camera for an object installed or located outdoors, a separate temperature correction according to the size of solar radiation or a separate device to block the effect of solar radiation must be additionally installed. Since the temperature of the same object may vary in the thermal image taken indoors or outdoors, it is necessary to calibrate it through comparison with other temperatures as a reference point. In the case of measuring the temperature of a glossy surface such as metal indoors with a thermal imaging camera, it was confirmed that an environment that can remove the light reflection effect by the glossy surface must be constructed and photographed.

The Plastic Cracking Properties of Fly Ash Concrete with Various Curing Conditions (양생조건에 따른 플라이애쉬 콘크리트의 소성수축균열 특성)

  • Nam, Jae-Hyun;Park, Jong-Hwa
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.7 no.1 s.23
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    • pp.91-98
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    • 2007
  • In this study, the property and plastic cracking pattern of concrete were compared and analyzed with the replacement ratio of fly ash 0, 5, 10, 15, 20% by cement weight. And curing conditions of concrete were given variously such as indoors(with wind speed as 0, 300, 500m/min), outdoors and chamber. The hydration temperature had a tendency to decrease as the replacement ratio of fly ash increased, and in the case of the wind speed 0m/min, it was showed that the moment that the amount of evaporation of water from surface of reference concrete was more than the volume of bleeding was 90 min since casting concrete. The time that the crack initiated had a tendency to be more quickly as the replacement ratio of fly ash increased. The number, length, width and area of crack in the indoor curing, exposed outdoor curing, enclosed outdoor curing had a tendency to decrease as the replacement ratio of fly ash increased. The crack had a tendency to decrease in sequence of exposed outdoor, enclosed outdoor curing, indoors curing. The outbreak of cracking by the change of temperature and humidity was affected by relative humidity more than temperature and the cracking had a tendency to increase as relative humidity lowered.

Using Omnidirectional Images for Semi-Automatically Generating IndoorGML Data

  • Claridades, Alexis Richard;Lee, Jiyeong;Blanco, Ariel
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.36 no.5
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    • pp.319-333
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    • 2018
  • As human beings spend more time indoors, and with the growing complexity of indoor spaces, more focus is given to indoor spatial applications and services. 3D topological networks are used for various spatial applications that involve navigation indoors such as emergency evacuation, indoor positioning, and visualization. Manually generating indoor network data is impractical and prone to errors, yet current methods in automation need expensive sensors or datasets that are difficult and expensive to obtain and process. In this research, a methodology for semi-automatically generating a 3D indoor topological model based on IndoorGML (Indoor Geographic Markup Language) is proposed. The concept of Shooting Point is defined to accommodate the usage of omnidirectional images in generating IndoorGML data. Omnidirectional images were captured at selected Shooting Points in the building using a fisheye camera lens and rotator and indoor spaces are then identified using image processing implemented in Python. Relative positions of spaces obtained from CAD (Computer-Assisted Drawing) were used to generate 3D node-relation graphs representing adjacency, connectivity, and accessibility in the study area. Subspacing is performed to more accurately depict large indoor spaces and actual pedestrian movement. Since the images provide very realistic visualization, the topological relationships were used to link them to produce an indoor virtual tour.

Colony Developmental Characteristics of the Bumblebee Queen, Bombus ignitus by the First Oviposition Day

  • Yoon, Hyung-Joo;Kim, Sam-Eun;Kim, Young-Soo;Lee, Sang-Beom
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.139-143
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    • 2004
  • It was investigated whether developmental characteristics of foundation queens of Bombus ignitus collected in the 4 localities in Korea would be affected by the first oviposition days of them. The first ovipostion day was classified as 1-4 days (immediate early), 5-6days (early), 7-10 days (delayed early), 11-20 days{medium), 21- 40 days (late), and above 41 days (very late). The queen that had the early first oviposition day, i.e., laid eggs so early after starting to be raised indoors, showed much higher rate of colony foundation and progeny-queen production and much shorter period of colony foundation and worker emergence. Besides, the numbers of worker and progeny-queen emerged from the queen that had the early first oviposition day were higher than those of the queen that had the late first oviposition. In results, the queen that had the early first oviposition day could make colony stronger and could make colony formation period shorter, therefore, the first oviposition day of foundation queen was proved to be a criterion for the selection of super colonies when B. ignitus is raised indoors.

Effect of Pasture Finishing on Beef Quality of Japanese Shorthorn Steers

  • Muramoto, T.;Higashiyama, M.;Kondo, T.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.420-426
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    • 2005
  • Effect of pasture finishing on $\alpha$-tocopherol and $\beta$-carotene concentrations, drip loss, cooking loss, Warner-Bratzler shear force, fatty acid composition, meat color and metmyoglobin percentage of m. longissimus thoracis of Japanese Shorthorn steers was studied. Japanese Shorthorn steers (n=8), fattened indoors with a concentrate-based diet until they were 19 months of age were divided into two groups of four steers. Steers of the concentrate-fed group were fattened indoors with a concentrate-based diet until they were slaughtered. Steers of the pasture-fed group were fattened on pasture until they were slaughtered. The $\alpha$-tocopherol and $\beta$-carotene concentrations in the muscle of the pasture-fed group were higher (p<0.05) than those of the concentrate-fed group. The drip loss of the muscle of the pasture-fed group was lower (p<0.05) than that of the concentrate-fed group. Compared with the concentrate-fed group, the concentration of peroxidisable lipids (fatty acids with three or more unsaturated bonds) in the muscle of the pasture-fed group was high (p<0.05). The metmyoglobin percentage during display of the muscle of the pasture-fed group was higher (p<0.05) than that of the concentrate-fed group. These results suggested that pasture finishing decreased drip loss of the beef but lowered meat color stability.

A Study on the Housing Renovation to Provide Comfortable and Independent Living Environment for Disabled People (재가 장애인의 자립 생활환경 조성을 위한 주택개조에 관한 연구)

  • Chung, Tae-Seung;Chung, Gwang-Ho
    • Journal of The Korean Digital Architecture Interior Association
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.33-39
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    • 2006
  • Along with the increasing number of disabled people, number of handicapped people who spends most of their time indoors increase. Their disabilities constrain them in social activities and bind them to indoors. But living environment built for normal people are many cases inevitably inconvenient for disabled people. People realizes that housing renovation is necessary, however problems such as financial difficulties must be solved in advance. House renovations, to create comfortable and independent living conditions for disabled people, various thesis and documents were analyzed, along with survey through questionnaire. Results are as following. (1) House renovation is necessary, due to the increasing number of disabled people and inconvenience of former house form. (2) Integrated or specialized house renovation manual is required to satisfy the different need derived from extent and type of disabilities. (3) Central and local government's policy for continued support is necessary. (4) House renovation plan for homeless disabled people is necessary. (5) Separate research on the size of space, type of space, efficiency is necessary. (6) Separate house renovation plan considering the people who lives with disabled people is required. (7) Disabilities are not personal but societal problem. This paper is to uncover all the problems in the house renovation for disabled people. It will be used to develop house renovation manual in the future. Therefore, this paper does not deal with the actual house renovation plans.

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RESEARCH OF PROMOTION JUDGE SYSTEM USING AN IMAGE IN AGRICULTURE

  • Aoki, Kousuke;Kawajiri, Hiroshi;Nishihara, Isao;Nakano, Shizuo;Sugimori, Fumio
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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    • 2009.01a
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    • pp.504-507
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    • 2009
  • Color chart area is automatically extracted in image that captured a crop such as fruits with the color chart, and an approximation formula is obtained for the change in feature value of the color indexes. Comparison is made with the color value of the crop area, and the growing degree is assessed according to the correlation. Using a compact PC equipped with the program, image of fruits is captured, and the output value obtained by the system is compared to the rating by expert. In the automatic recognition of the color chart out of doors, the complete color indexes is correctly acquired in 22 of 29 images. And indoors, they are correctly acquired in all of 34 images. In the color value judgment of the Japanese pear, indoors, 32 of 34 images is within 1.0 of the judgment error (compared the value read off by experts), the average error is about 0.5. These results indicate a practicable value.

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