• 제목/요약/키워드: Natural and Water Resources

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Blueberry 추출물의 항산화 효과 (Antioxidative Activities of Solvent Extracts from Blueberry)

  • 김태춘;배강순;김일광;천현자
    • 동의생리병리학회지
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    • 제19권1호
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    • pp.179-183
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    • 2005
  • Recent interest in the possible protective effects of dietary antioxidant compounds against human degenerative disease has prompted investigation of foods such as blueberries, which have a high antioxidant capacity. This study was performed to determine the antioxidative activity of methanol extract and solvent fractions from blueberry. Blueberry was extracted with methanol and then fractionated with n-hexane, EtOAc, BuOH and water to get active fractions. And their antioxidant capacities in each fraction were determined by using the DPPH and FRAP assay, and tyrosinase inhibitor. Ethyl acetate fraction of blueberry exhibited antioxidant capacity.

Exploring sustainable resources utilization: Interlink between food waste generation and water resources conservation

  • Adelodun, Bashir;Choi, Kyung-Sook
    • 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국수자원학회 2019년도 학술발표회
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    • pp.408-408
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    • 2019
  • The persistence of drought periods and water scarcity is a growing public concern, as climate change projections indicate a more critical scenario in the future. The sustainability of water resources for the increasing population, and to ensuring crop production will unarguably be a daunting task for the water resources managers, with a projected 9.8 billion people by 2050 as well as the need to increase food production by 70 to 100%. Consequently, there is a need for significant irrigation water use for more crop production in the face of stiff competition among water users. However, the available natural resources are already over-constrained, and the allocation of more resources for food production is not feasible. Currently, about two-thirds of global water withdrawer is used by the agricultural sector while 48% of water resources in Korea is used for agricultural production. Despite the apparent ecological deficit and unfavorable conditions of resources utilization, a staggering amount of food waste occurs in the country. Moreover, wastage of food translates to waste of all the resources involved in the food production including water resources. Food waste can also be considered a serious potential for economic and environmental problems. Hence, exploring an alternative approach to efficient resources utilization in a more sustainable way can ensure considerable resources conservation. We hypothesized that reducing food waste will decline the demand for food production and consequently reduce the pressure on water resources. We investigated the food wastage across the food supply chain using the top-down datasets based on the FAO mass balance model. Furthermore, the water footprint of the estimated food wastage was assessed using the representative of selected food crops. The study revealed that the average annual food wastage across the food supply chain is 9.05 million tonnes, signifying 0.51 kg/capita/day and 48% of domestic food production. Similarly, an average of $6.29Gm^3$ per annum of water resources was lost to food wastage, which translates to 40% of the total allotted water resources for agriculture in the country. These considerable resources could have been conserved or efficiently used for other purposes. This study demonstrated that zero food waste generation would significantly reduce the impact on freshwater resources and ensure its conservation. There is a need for further investigation on the food waste study using the bottom-up approach, specifically at the consumer food waste, since the top-down approach is based on estimations and many assumptions were made.

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수공구조물 설치 형태에 따른 교각주변의 하상변동에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Variation of Streambeds Surrounding the Piers according to the Established Patterns of Hydraulic Structures)

  • 안승섭;문상철;이효정;송인렬
    • 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국수자원학회 2009년도 학술발표회 초록집
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    • pp.714-717
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    • 2009
  • As part of a new riverside development project, various types of bridges and covering bridges were constructed in natural river estuary; and these structures got in the way of the flow of the river, which has resulted in a topographical change in natural river estuary, decrease in the gross sectional area of flow, and rise of water level. As a result, surrounding areas are suffering from damages due to overflowing of river over the bank. This study was designed to provide basic data for efficient design of structures, by examining resistance and characteristics in the surrounding areas of bridges based on changes in the span length ratio.

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자연자원에 기반한 지역유형분류와 발전방안 (The Developmental Directions and Classification of Regional Types Based on Natural Resources)

  • 박종준;윤기란;박창석
    • 한국조경학회지
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    • 제39권2호
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    • pp.10-17
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    • 2011
  • 전 세계적으로 자연자원의 이용 및 관리에 대한 패러다임이 변화하고 있다. 자연자원의 보전 가치를 높이는 동시에 지역발전의 기회요인으로 활용하겠다는 현명한 이용의 중요성이 대두되면서 자연자원을 활용한 지역발전이 주목받고 있다. 본 연구는 자연자원의 분포와 이용 잠재력 등에 따른 지역유형을 구분하고, 각 유형별 지역발전 방안을 제안하는데 목적이 있다. 먼저 자연자원을 생물종 자원, 생태계 경관자원, 무생물자원의 3가지 유형으로 구분하고, 총 27개의 세부 분석 지표를 설정하였다. 분석의 공단 단위는 165개 지자체의 행정구역으로 설정하였으며, 최종적으로 각 지자체별 자연자원 공간자료를 구축하였다. 지역 유형을 분류하기 위해 지역별 자연자원의 세부 지표를 요인분석한 후 이를 군집분석하는 방법을 사용했다. 요인분석 결과 산림자원요인, 경관자원요인, 연안생태자원요인, 내륙수자원요인, 지형자원요인, 생태탐방자원요인 등의 6개 요인이 도출되었다. 요인분석 결과를 근거로 군집분석한 결과 산림생태지역, 내륙수자원지역, 연안생태 경관지역, 지형 생태지역, 복합자연자원지역, 도시 근교 생태탐방지역, 생태경관지역, 기타지역 등 총 9개 지역유형을 도출하였고, 각 유형별로 지역발전 방안을 제시하였다. 본 연구는 자연자원을 활용한 지역발전 정책 및 계획에서 대상 지역의 선정과 지역의 발전 방향을 설정하는 기초자료로서 활용될 수 있다.

FRACTIONS, RUMINAL DISAPPEARANCE AND DIGESTION RATE OF DEER FEED NUTRIENTS ESTIMATED USING IN SITU BAG TECHNIQUE IN THE ARTIFICIAL RUMEN

  • Kwak, W.S.;Ahn, H.S.;Jeon, B.T.;Kim, O.H.;Roh, S.C.;Kim, C.W.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • 제9권2호
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    • pp.189-193
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    • 1996
  • A study was conducted to estimate nutritive value of forage sources used in deer diets. Bags containing feedstuffs were incubated four times for periods up to 72 hours in two chemostats filled with ruminal fluid from deer or cattle. Parameters estimated were water-soluble and $65{\mu}m$ filterable plus insoluble digestible fractions(No. = 4) and extent of disappearance(No. = 8) of feed neutral detergent fiber(NDF). Among tested feeds, the ranking of values of these parameters were soybean hulls > alfalfa pellets > corn cobs or rice straw > cottonseed hulls or rice hulls > sawdust, indicating that soybean hulls and alfalfa pellets were more fermentable than other agricultural residues. It is possible to utilize variability among tested feeds of fraction, disappearance rate and (or) extent of DM and NDF when these feeds are used as roughage sources in deer diets.

Silage preparation and fermentation quality of natural grasses treated with lactic acid bacteria and cellulase in meadow steppe and typical steppe

  • Hou, Meiling;Gentu, Ge;Liu, Tingyu;Jia, Yushan;Cai, Yimin
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • 제30권6호
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    • pp.788-796
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    • 2017
  • Objective: In order to improve fermentation quality of natural grasses, their silage preparation and fermentation quality in meadow steppe (MS) and typical steppe (TS) were studied. Methods: The small-scale silages and round bale silages of mixed natural grasses in both steppes were prepared using the commercial lactic acid bacteria (LAB) inoculants Chikuso-1 (CH, Lactobacillus plantarum) and cellulase enzyme (AC, Acremonium cellulase) as additives. Results: MS and TS contained 33 and 9 species of natural grasses, respectively. Stipa baicalensis in MS and Stipa grandi in TS were the dominant grasses with the highest dry matter (DM) yield. The crude protein (CP), neutral detergent fiber and water-soluble carbohydrate of the mixed natural grasses in both steppes were 8.02% to 9.03%, 66.75% to 69.47%, and 2.02% to 2.20% on a DM basis, respectively. All silages treated with LAB and cellulase were well preserved with lower pH, butyric acid and ammonia-N content, and higher lactic acid and CP content than those of control in four kinds of silages. Compared with CH- or AC-treated silages, the CH+ AC-treated silages had higher lactic acid content. Conclusion: The results confirmed that combination with LAB and cellulase may result in beneficial effects by improving the natural grass silage fermentation in both grasslands.

Integrated Water Resources Management in the Era of nGreat Transition

  • Ashkan Noori;Seyed Hossein Mohajeri;Milad Niroumand Jadidi;Amir Samadi
    • 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국수자원학회 2023년도 학술발표회
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    • pp.34-34
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    • 2023
  • The Chah-Nimeh reservoirs, which are a sort of natural lakes located in the border of Iran and Afghanistan, are the main drinking and agricultural water resources of Sistan arid region. Considering the occurrence of intense seasonal wind, locally known as levar wind, this study aims to explore the possibility to provide a TSM (Total Suspended Matter) monitoring model of Chah-Nimeh reservoirs using multi-temporal satellite images and in-situ wind speed data. The results show that a strong correlation between TSM concentration and wind speed are present. The developed empirical model indicated high performance in retrieving spatiotemporal distribution of the TSM concentration with R2=0.98 and RMSE=0.92g/m3. Following this observation, we also consider a machine learning-based model to predicts the average TSM using only wind speed. We connect our in-situ wind speed data to the TSM data generated from the inversion of multi-temporal satellite imagery to train a neural network based mode l(Wind2TSM-Net). Examining Wind2TSM-Net model indicates this model can retrieve the TSM accurately utilizing only wind speed (R2=0.88 and RMSE=1.97g/m3). Moreover, this results of this study show tha the TSM concentration can be estimated using only in situ wind speed data independent of the satellite images. Specifically, such model can supply a temporally persistent means of monitoring TSM that is not limited by the temporal resolution of imagery or the cloud cover problem in the optical remote sensing.

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A Study of Seven Unrecorded Species of Benthic and Subaerophytic Cyanobacteria (Cyanophyceae, Cyanophyta) in Korea

  • Yim, Byoung Cheol;Kim, Jee Hwan;Yoon, Sung Ro;Lee, Nam Ju;Lee, Ok Min
    • 환경생물
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    • 제36권3호
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    • pp.291-298
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    • 2018
  • Samples were collected from benthic and subaerophytic habitats of fresh and brackish water in Korea from April 2017 to April 2018. Accordingly, three genera and seven species were newly recorded in Korea. Three unrecorded genera were Cephalothrix, Cyanophanon and Toxifilum, and seven species were Anagnostidinema pseudacutissimum, Calothrix elenkinii, Cephalothrix komarekiana, Cyanophanon mirabile, Cyanosarcina chroococcoides, Leptolyngbya ectocarpi and Toxifilum mysidocida. Anagnostidinema pseudacutissimum and Cephalothrix komarekiana had been previously reported to inhabit freshwater, but these were found to be present in brackish water during the period of the present study. Also, Cyanosarcina chroococcoides previously reported to inhabit moorland waters and swamps, were found to be present in subaerophytic habitat.

전천후농업용수원 개발을 위한 중요하천 수계별 기본조사의 실시 (Basic Investigation on the Water Resource Development of the Principal Riever Basins for All Weather Farming)

  • 임은진
    • 한국농공학회지
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    • 제9권2호
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    • pp.1291-1295
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    • 1967
  • This paper is a brief description on the task of the basic investigation of the water resource development of the principal river basins in this country for all- weather farming. In order to show how the people in the nation can best be benefited by further development of the water resources of the basins, this paper includes a description of the in individual basin's resource, its needs and problems, and its present and future development of the water resources within the natural drainage basin of the rivers are listed and their over-all results are summarised in the investigation report and separately filled. It is hoped that the government should continue and expand its detailed investigations of potential projects within the each principal river basin to obtain adequate information by which the Union of Land improvement Association can formulate a comprehensive plan for use of all the water resources of the basin's and select and recommend projects for successive stages of development.

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Migration of fine granular materials into overlying layers using a modified large-scale triaxial system

  • Tan Manh Do;Jan Laue;Hans Mattsson;Qi Jia
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • 제37권4호
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    • pp.359-370
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    • 2024
  • The primary goal of this study is to evaluate the migration of fine granular materials into overlying layers under cyclic loading using a modified large-scale triaxial system as a physical model test. Samples prepared for the modified large-scale triaxial system comprised a 60 mm thick gravel layer overlying a 120 mm thick subgrade layer, which could be either tailings or railway sand. A quantitative analysis of the migration of fine granular materials was based on the mass percentage and grain size of migrated materials collected in the gravel. In addition, the cyclic characteristics, i.e., accumulated axial strain and excess pore water pressure, were evaluated. As a result, the total migration rate of the railway sand sample was found to be small. However, the total migration rate of the sample containing tailings in the subgrade layer was much higher than that of the railway sand sample. In addition, the migration analysis revealed that finer tailings particles tended to be migrated into the upper gravel layer easier than coarser tailings particles under cyclic loading. This could be involved in significant increases in excess pore water pressure at the last cycles of the physical model test.