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Comparative Efficacy of 5 Anesthetic Agents in the Glass Catfish Kryptopterus vitreolus (유리메기(Kryptopterus vitreolus)에 대한 최적 마취제 선정을 위한 연구)

  • Lee, Hyo Bin;Jung, Hyo Sun;Ko, Min Gyun;Kim, Dong Soo
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.50 no.6
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    • pp.824-828
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    • 2017
  • We investigated the anesthetic effects of MS-222 (tricaine methanesulfonate), clove oil, 2-phenoxyethanol, $NaHCO_3$, lidocaine-HCl and lidocaine-$HCl/NaHCO_3$ in the glass catfish Kryptopterus vitreolus. Based on the efficacy criteria of complete anesthetic induction from 60 s to 120 s, recovery within 300 s, the lowest effective concentrations at $24^{\circ}C$ were determined to be 60 ppm (induction $82.8{\pm}17.6s$, recovery $80.2{\pm}34.7s$) for MS-222, 40 ppm (induction $70.5{\pm}8.2s$, recovery $83.4{\pm}17.7s$) for clove oil, 250 ppm (induction $64.3{\pm}24.0s$, recovery $62.8{\pm}15.6s$) for 2-phenoxyethanol, 300 ppm (induction $127.3{\pm}13.3s$, recovery $107.5{\pm}4.8s$) for lidocaine-HCl and 200/100 ppm (induction $81.2{\pm}17.2s$, recovery $98.3{\pm}19.7s$) for lidocaine-$HCl/NaHCO_3$. Thus, 200/100 ppm of lidocaine-$HCl/NaHCO_3$ was found to be an effective anesthetic agent.

RNA-Seq Transcriptome Analysis of the Cutlass Fish Reveals Photoreceptors Gene Expression in Peripheral Tissues (RNA-Seq transcriptome 분석을 통한 갈치 광수용체 유전자 탐색 및 mRNA 조직발현)

  • Hyeon, Ji-Yeon;Kim, Mun-Kwan;Lim, Bong-Soo;Byun, Jun-Hwan;Moon, Ji-Sung;Kang, Hyeong-Cheol;Hur, Sung-Pyo;Oh, Seong-Rip
    • Ocean and Polar Research
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    • v.39 no.2
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    • pp.149-158
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    • 2017
  • The opsin family of light sensitive proteins family makes up are the universal photoreceptor molecules of all visual systems in the vertebrates including teleosts. They can change their conformation from a resting state to a signaling state upon light absorption, which activates the G-protein coupled receptor, thereby resulting in a signaling cascade that produces physiological responses. However, this species is poorly characterized at molecular level due to little sequence information available in public databases. We have investigated the opsin family of nocturnal cutlass fish using the whole transcriptome sequencing method. The opsin genes were cloned and its expression in the tissues and organs were examined by qPCR. We cloned 6 opsin genes (RRH, Opn4, Rh1, Rh2, VA-opsin, and Opn3) in retina and brain tissue. It contained the seven presumed transmembrane domains that are characteristic of the G-protein-coupled receptor family. However, short wavelength sensitive pigment (SWS) and long wavelength sensitive pigment (LWS) were not detected in this study. The mRNA expression of the 6 photoreceptor genes were detected in retina and peripheral tissue. Our studies will lead to further investigation of the photic entrainment mechanism at molecular and cellular levels in cutlass fish and can be used in comparative studies of other fishes.

Analyzing the Market Size and the Economic Effects of the Oceans and Fisheries Industry (해양수산업의 시장규모 및 경제적 파급효과 분석)

  • Kim, Joseph;Jung, Dong-Won;Yoo, Seung-Hoon
    • Ocean and Polar Research
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    • v.38 no.1
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    • pp.59-70
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    • 2016
  • Establishing the strategic plans to foster the oceans and fisheries (O&F) industry as an engine for national sustainable economic growth has become an important task for developing countries as well as developed countries. The first step to do so is to identify O&F industry and analyze its economic effects. Therefore, the prime purposes of the paper are two-fold. The first is to identify O&F industry and estimate its market size using 2012 Input-Output (I-O) table published by the Bank of Korea. The second purpose is to obtain some quantitative information on production-inducing effect, value-added creation effect, and employment-inducing effect of the O&F industry. To this end, we apply an IO analysis using exogenous specification of the O&F industry. The results show that the O&F industry covers 4.1% and 3.0% of national output and gross domestic product, respectively. Moreover, we found that 1.0 won of production or investment in the O&F industry induces 1.7363 won of production and 0.4759 won of value-added in the national economy. One billion won of production or investment in the O&F industry touches off 7.5569 persons of employment. This information can be utilized in the O&F industry-related policy-making.

A Study on the Maritime and Fisheries Sector for the Implementation of an Diplomacy Strategy (우리나라 외교정책과 해양‧수산분야 협력방안에 관한 연구)

  • Seongwook Park;Jooah Lee;Jeong-Mi Cha
    • Ocean and Polar Research
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.23-31
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    • 2023
  • The core of the foreign policy of the Yoon Suk-yeol government is the promotion of active economic and security diplomacy as indicated in Policy Tasks No. 98. To this end, economic consultative bodies such as Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement(RCEP), Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), and Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) are taking the initiative to respond to the formation of supply chain, human rights, environment, and digital-related norms, and actively support Korean companies' overseas expansion. Due to the nature of the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (MOF) as an organization established centered on the space of the ocean, the MOF faces difficulties in bringing the functions of other ministries into the space of the ocean. Considering the vision, objectives, and detailed plans of the MOF, the contribution of the MOF in the field of active economic security, one of the main foreign policies of the Yoon Suk-yeol government, is perhaps too obvious. However, since the re-launch of the MOF, the ODA budget for the oceans and fisheries sector is too small compared to other ministries, so even if new policy demands are discovered, there are many difficulties in implementing these policies in practice. Recognizing these problems, this paper examines the background and contents of foreign policies that have been promoted for the efficient promotion of RCEP, CPTPP and IPEF and introduces the areas of cooperation in the oceans and fisheries sector in these foreign policies.

Development of Convergence Educational Program Using AI Platform: Focusing on Environmental Education for Grades 5-6 (인공지능 플랫폼을 활용한 융합수업안 개발 : 5-6학년 환경교육을 중심으로)

  • Choi, Heyoungyun;Shin, Seungki
    • 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2021.08a
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    • pp.213-221
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    • 2021
  • With the advent of the 4th industrial revolution, the need for artificial intelligence education has increased. The online learning environment caused by COVID-19 made it possible to use variety of artificial intelligence platforms. In this study, an aritificial intelligence class plan was developed and proposed to achieve the goal of artificial intelligence education using an AI platform. The AI platform used is AI for Oceans, With the theme of creating a program for the environment, designed a 6-hour project class using Novel Engineering-based on STEAM model. Students experience AI for Oceans enough time and learn supervised learning by experience. Based on understanding of supervised learning, students design their own programs for the environment using Entry's AI blocks. In this study, for AI convergence education, this lesson was developed and presented with the goal of acquiring the creative problem solving ability and integrated thinking ability by using the principles of artificial intelligence to solve problems.

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Rainfall Characteristics in the Tropical Oceans: Observations using TRMM TMI and PR (열대강우관측(TRMM) 위성의 TMI와 PR에서 관측된 열대해양에서의 강우 특성)

  • Seo, Eun-Kyoung
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.113-125
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    • 2012
  • The estimations of the surface rain intensity and rain-related physical variables derived from two independent Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite sensors, TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) and Precipitation Radar (PR), were compared over four different oceans. The precipitating clouds developed most frequently in the warmest sea surface temperature (SST) region of the west Pacific, which is 1.5 times more frequent than in the east Pacific and the tropical Atlantic oceans. However, the east Pacific exhibited the most intense rain intensity for the convective and mixed rain types while the tropical Atlantic showed the most intense rain intensity for all TMI rainy pixels. It was found that the deviation of TMI-derived rain rate yielded a big difference in region-to-region and rain type-to-type if the PR rain intensity value is assumed to be closer to the truth. Furthermore, the deviation by rain types showed opposite signs between convective and non-convective rain types. It was found that the region-to-region deviation differences reached more than 200% even though the selected tropical oceans have relatively similar geophysical environments. Therefore, the validation for the microwave rain estimation needs to be performed according to both rain types and climate regimes, and it also requires more sophisticated TMI algorithm which reflects the locality of rainfall characteristics.

Review on Ocean Carbon Sequestration through Direct Injection (심층 분사를 통한 해양 이산화탄소 격리 기술 소개)

  • Park, Young-Gyu;Choi, Sang-Hwa;Matsumoto, Katsumi;Lee, Jung-Suk;Gang, Seong-Gil;Hwang, Jin-Hwa
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.118-124
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    • 2007
  • The oceans could absorb almost all the anthropogenic carbon dioxide the mankind has been producing eventually, but in the nature the air-sea $CO_2$ exchange occurs very slowly and to lower the atmospheric $CO_2$ concentration substantially $CO_2$ must be injected to the interior of the ocean directly. If we inject $CO_2$ collected at the major $CO_2$ sources into the international waters in the Philippine Sea or east of Japan, we could store the $CO_2$ in the oceans effectively for a few hundred years. When $CO_2$ is dissolved into the water, PH drops. The creatures adapted to the deep oceans where environment is very stable could be affected by even a small change in pH significantly. If, therefore, we are to inject $CO_2$ into the oceans, we must assess the effect of $CO_2$ injection in the marine ecosystem beforehand. Only when the damage to the marine ecosystem is smaller than the benefit from the $CO_2$ injection, $CO_2$ injection is effective.

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