• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.146-153
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• 2007

The detailed chemistry with reaction mechanism of GRI 2.11, which consists of 49 species and 279 elementary reactions, have been numerically conducted to investigate the flame structure and NO emission characteristics in a non-premixed counterflow flame of blended fuel of $H_2/CO_2/Ar$. The combination of $H_2,\;CO_2$, and Ar as fuel is selected to clearly display the contribution of hydrocarbon products to flame structure and NO emission characteristics due to the breakdown of $CO_2$. Radiative heat loss term is involved to correctly describe the flame dynamics especially at low strain rates. All mechanisms including thermal, $NO_2,\;N_2O$, and Fenimore are also taken into account to separately evaluate the effects of $CO_2$ addition on NO emission characteristics. The increase of added $CO_2$ quantity causes flame temperature to fall since at high strain rates diluent effect is prevailing and at low strain rates the breakdown of $CO_2$ produces relatively populous hydrocarbon products and thus the existence of hydrocarbon products inhibits chain branching. It is also found that the ratio of the contribution by Fenimore mechanism to that by thermal mechanism in the total mole production rate becomes much larger with increase in the $CO_2$ quantity and strain rate, even though the absolute quantity of NO production is deceased. Consequently, as strain rate and $CO_2$ quantity increase, NO production by Fenimore mechanism is remarkably augmented.

• Mycobiology
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.240-254
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• 2017

Cereal grains are the most important food source for humans. As the global population continues to grow exponentially, the need for the enhanced yield and minimal loss of agricultural crops, mainly cereal grains, is increasing. In general, harvested grains are stored for specific time periods to guarantee their continuous supply throughout the year. During storage, economic losses due to reduction in quality and quantity of grains can become very significant. Grain loss is usually the result of its deterioration due to fungal contamination that can occur from preharvest to postharvest stages. The deleterious fungi can be classified based on predominance at different stages of crop growth and harvest that are affected by environmental factors such as water activity ($a_w$) and eco-physiological requirements. These fungi include species such as those belonging to the genera Aspergillus and Penicillium that can produce mycotoxins harmful to animals and humans. The grain type and condition, environment, and biological factors can also influence the occurrence and predominance of mycotoxigenic fungi in stored grains. The main environmental factors influencing grain fungi and mycotoxins are temperature and $a_w$. This review discusses the effects of temperature and $a_w$ on fungal growth and mycotoxin production in stored grains. The focus is on the occurrence and optimum and minimum growth requirements for grain fungi and mycotoxin production. The environmental influence on aflatoxin production and hypothesized mechanisms of its molecular suppression in response to environmental changes are also discussed. In addition, the use of controlled or modified atmosphere as an environmentally safe alternative to harmful agricultural chemicals is discussed and recommended future research issues are highlighted.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제32권11호
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• pp.1763-1775
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• 2019

Objective: The influence of konjac gel level on fermentation process and product qualities were assessed to evaluate the feasibility of using it as fat analog in Northeastern Thai fermented sausage (Sai Krok E-san). Methods: Five treatments of fermented sausages were formulated by replacing pork backfat with 0%, 7.5%, 22.5%, and 30% konjac gel. The changes in lactic acid bacteria (LAB) and important physicochemical properties of samples were assessed during 3 days of fermentation. After the end of fermentation at day 3, water activity ($a_w$), instrumental texture, color, microbial counts, and sensory evaluation were compared. The best product formulation using konjac for replacing pork back fat were selected and used to compare proximate composition and energy value with control sample (30% pork backfat). Results: An increase in konjac gel resulted in higher values of LAB, total acidity, and proteolysis index with lower pH and lipid oxidation during 3 days of product fermentation (p<0.05). It was noted that larger weight loss and product shrinkage during fermentation was observed with higher levels of konjac gel (p<0.05). The resulting sausage at day 3 with 15% to 30% konjac gel exhibited higher hardness, cohesiveness, gumminess, springiness, and chewiness than control (p<0.05). The external color of samples with 22.5% to 30% konjac gel were redder than others (p<0.05). Mold, Salmonella spp., Staphylococcus aureus, and Escherichia coli in all finished products were lower than detectable levels. Product with 15% konjac gel had the highest scores of sourness linking and overall acceptability (p<0.05). Conclusion: The product with 15% of konjac gel was the optimum formulation for replacing pork backfat. It had higher sensorial scores of sourness and overall acceptability than control with less negative impact on external appearance (product shrinkage) and weight loss. Moreover, it provided 46% fat reduction and 32% energy reduction than control.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.125-131
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• 2021

모든 장비는 지속적인 사용에 의해 공정의 생산성과 경제성은 감소한다. 그러므로 일정 시점에서는 공정평균이동 문제라는 설비에 대한 예방보전이 필요하다. 설비의 보전시기를 결정함에 있어, 우리는 기존 연구에서 부분적으로 진행되어 온 보전모형들을 확장하고 통합함으로써 다양한 상황이 발생하는 생산 현장을 반영한 보전모형을 제시하고자 한다. 이를 구현하기 위해 제품규격은 상하한의 양쪽을 설정했으며, 적합품에 대해 품질손실함수를 도입했다. 마모수준에 대한 공정분산은 상수가 아닌 함수로 설정했으며, 특히 제품생산량과 보전비용에 있어서는 마모수준에 대한 함수를 개발하여 적용했다. 이로써 본 연구는 현장의 다양한 공정에 대부분 적용할 수 있는 보전모형이 될 것으로 생각한다. 추후 연구에서는 보전모형을 구성하는 부적합비용, 품질손실비용, 보전비용에 더하여 제품판매로 인한 수익 항목을 추가한 전체 수익 최대화 문제로 전개할 수 있을 것이며, 크게는 본 연구의 모형에 고장률을 도입한 보전모형으로의 확장도 생각해 볼 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제48권3호
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• pp.308-318
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• 2024

Background: Many plants compensate for the damage caused by herbivorous insects through tolerance responses. Besides directly causing plant tissue loss and seed production reduction, herbivory causes phenological changes in the host plant. However, little is known about the fitness costs of phenological changes caused by tolerance responses to herbivorous attacks. Results: The girdling beetle Phytoecia rufiventris caused a short-term decrease in the number of flowers of the host plant Erigeron annuus. However, accelerated growth restored the number of flowers, but after a 2-week delay. With an objective to examine whether the tolerance response with such a delay fully compensates the fitness, we experimentally reproduced a 2-week delay in germination under greenhouse and field settings. Under both conditions, intraspecific competition resulted in serious defects in the growth and reproduction of E. annuus plants which of germination was delayed. However, delayed germination (DG) resulted in better growth when competition and herbivory were eliminated from the field. Thus, we showed that the tolerance response to restore reproductive production does not fully compensate for the fitness loss caused by insect attack; rather, the delay in seed production in attacked plants leads to DG and subsequent inferiority in intraspecific competition. Conclusions: Our results imply that compensation for floral production after an herbivore attack does not fully restore offspring fitness in the presence of intraspecific competition and herbivory. Assessing the ecological consequences of defense traits in an appropriate layer of interaction is critical to interpreting adaptive values.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.231-238
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• 2016

Traditional acceptance sampling plans have focused on the proportion of nonconforming items as an attribute criterion for quality. In today's modern quality management under high quality production environments, the reduction of the deviation from a target value in a quality characteristic has become the most important purpose. In consequence, various inspection plans for the purpose of reducing the deviation from the target value in the quality characteristic have been investigated. In this case, a concept of the quality loss evaluated by the deviation from the target value has been accepted as the variable evaluation criterion of quality. Further, some quality measures based on the quality loss have been devised; e.g. the process loss and the process capability index. Then, as one of inspection plans based on the quality loss, the rigorous design procedure for the variable sampling plan having desired operating characteristics (VS-OC plan) indexed by the quality loss has been proposed by Yen and Chang in 2009. By the way, since the estimator of the quality loss obeys the non-central chi-square distribution, the rigorous design procedure for the VS-OC plan indexed by the quality loss is complicated. In particular, the rigorous design procedure for the VS-OC plan requires a large number of the repetitive and complicated numerical calculation about the non-central chi-square distribution. On the other hand, an approximate design procedure for the VS-OC plan has been proposed before the proposal of the above rigorous design procedure. The approximate design procedure for the VS-OC plan has been constructed by combining Patnaik approximation relating the non-central chi-square distribution to the central chi-square distribution and Wilson-Hilferty approximation relating the central chi-square distribution to the standard normal distribution. Then, the approximate design procedure has been devised as a convenient procedure without complicated and repetitive numerical calculations. In this study, through some comparisons between the rigorous and approximate design procedures, the applicability of the approximate design procedure has been confirmed.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.201-208
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• 1988

Fifty-six lactating Surti buffaloes, fed rice straw, were allocated to seven treatment groups as follows: 1. Straw supplemented with 2% urea (SS) + 1.5kg rice bran (RB) 2. Straw treated with 4% urea in an open stack (TS open) 3. TS open + 1.5 kg RB 4. TS open + 3.0 kg RB 5. TS open + 1.5 kg RB + 3.0 kg Gliricidia (Gl) 6. Straw treated with 4% urea in a closed pit (TS closed) 7. TS closed + 1.5 kg RB + 3.0 kg Gl Milk production, butterfat percentage and liveweight gain of cows and calves were measured and tested with analysis of variance. The results are: - The animals on urea treated straw (group 2) had a higher milk production (p<0.05), higher butterfat production (p<0.05) and less liveweight gain loss (p<0.05) than the animals on urea supplemented straw (group 1). Butterfat percentage also increased by treatment, although not significantly (p>0.05). - Increasing levels of rice bran (groups 3 and 4 compared to 2) increased total milk production and milked quantity of butterfat, while butterfat percentage decreased (p < 0.05). - Milk production increased (p <0.05) with extra rice bran added (group 4 compared to 3), but was not affected (p > 0.05) by Gliricidia addition (group 5 compared to 3). Butterfat percentage dropped with extra rice bran supplement (p <0.05). The lack of response to Gliricidia indicated that protein is not limiting in treated straw, or that Gliricidia protein is partly insoluble. - System of treatment had no effect on milk production (p >0.05), while supplementation with 1.5 kg RB and 3.0 kg Gliricidia increased production and caused a lower butterfat percentage (p <0.05) (groups 2, 5, 6 and 7 compared). A significant (p <0.05) interaction treatment system x supplementation was present. It was concluded, that both treatment and supplementation did affect milk production as well as milk composition. Gliricidia addition gave less effect than rice bran, indicating different requirements for starchy substances in the feed. Treatment of straw does not negatively affect butterfat production, it can increase butterfat production and even butterfat percentage.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제14권10호
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• pp.1483-1496
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• 2001

Small ruminants form an important economic and ecological niche in small farm systems and agriculture. Their current low level of contribution is dismal, and is not commensurate with the potential capacity for higher levels of production. The context for productivity enhancement and increased socio-economic contribution relates to large sizes of small ruminant populations; wide distribution across various agro-ecological zones and production systems; and diversity of breeds, where 66% of all goat and 57% of sheep breeds in Asia are found in China, India and Pakistan. The advantages and disadvantages of small ruminants over larger ruminants are enumerated with reference to adaptation and environment, small size, production systems and products and interactions with the environment. Discussion focuses especially on efficiency of meat production and niche markets for higher-priced goat meat, and inefficient marketing systems given an estimated 40-45% loss of income to farmers presently. Increasing the quantity of meat produced is related to live weight and the total number of animals at Slaughter, which in turn, depend on the total number of offsprings weaned and lifetime productivity. At the national level, priority attention is essential to build up numbers in concerted breeding programmes, selection for efficiency of reproduction and meat production, and improvements to make traditional markets and marketing systems to respond to the changing environmental and consumer preferences. Post-production systems are neglected and improvements are associated with collection, handling, marketing, slaughter facilities and consumer requirements. Potential opportunities to expand and benefit from integrating small ruminants into annual and perennial cropping systems remain largely unexplored. Important development imperatives include choice of species and better use of available breeds, appropriate production systems that match available feed resources, and linkages between production, products and by-products to markets. Affirmative action is necessary, backed by official policy support, institutional commitment and increased resource use, that can target poverty and directly benefit the poor, and shift subsistence production to a more market-oriented opportunity. These efforts together constitute the challenges for both the owners and producers of small ruminants in the immediate future, as also the will to accelerate increased productivity, improve their livelihoods and promote rural growth.

• 한국농림기상학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.43-53
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 태풍에 의해 낙과피해가 큰 과수인 배에 대해서 연간 태풍횟수가 당해년도 배 생산효율성에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 배는 과실이 비대해지는 성숙기와 수확기가 태풍 내습 시기와 겹치면서 다른 과수에 비해 낙과피해에 의한 생산효율성이 크게 감소하는 과수이다. 이러한 낙과피해에 의한 생산효율성의 감소를 확률적 프런티어 분석을 실시하여 계측하고자 하였다. 또한 자연재해인 태풍에 대해 배 생산이 특화된 지역과 그렇지 않은 지역에 있어 생산효율성의 감소가 어떻게 다른 양상으로 나타나는지 살펴보기 위하여 배 생산 농가가 위치한 지역의 지역특화계수 값을 구하였고, 이를 통해 배 생산이 전국에 비해 특화된 지역과 그렇지 않은 지역으로 구분하였다. 최종적으로 태풍 횟수 변수와 특화여부 변수의 상호작용변수(interaction variable)를 분석에 포함하여 태풍에 의한 생산효율성의 감소와, 특화지역 여부에 따른 지역별 상이한 태풍 피해를 계측하고자 하였다. 분석결과 Cobb-Douglas 함수 형태를 가정한 확률적 프런티어 분석에서 토지, 노동, 자본 세 가지 투입요소는 생산량에 양(+)의 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 또 기술적 비효율성을 결정하는 요인으로 국내 영향을 미친 유효태풍 횟수, 지역특화여부, 상호작용변수, 도시여부, 시간 흐름에 따른 트렌드 변수를 분석에 포함하였다. 그 결과 유효태풍 횟수의 추정계수는 통계적으로 양(+)의 유의한 값을 가지는 것으로 나타났고, 지역특화여부와 곱의 형태로 나타낸 상호작용변수의 추정계수는 통계적으로 음(-)의 유의한 값을 가지는 것으로 나타났다. 즉, 유효태풍에 의해 배 농가의 생산효율성이 감소하지만, 배 생산이 특화된 지역의 경우 그렇지 않은 지역보다 생산효율성이 적게 감소하는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 이러한 결과는 태풍과 같은 자연재해에 대해 특화된 지역일수록 피해를 저감시키는 기술의 파급효과(spillover effect)가 존재하는 것으로 볼 수 있다. 실제로 파풍망의 설치나 파풍수의 식재 등이 태풍에 의한 낙과 피해를 효과적으로 감소시키는 방법으로 알려져 있고, 품종에 대해서도 과실크기가 상대적으로 작은 황금배 품종에 있어 낙과 피해가 적다는 것이 주지의 사실이다. 태풍 피해를 경감시키는 기술 및 품종의 보급과 적용이 배 생산이 특화된 지역과 그렇지 않은 지역 사이에 차이가 있는지는 향후 연구를 통해 살펴봐야 할 것으로 판단된다. 반면 지역특화여부 자체의 추정계수 값은 통계적으로 유의한 값을 갖지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 도시여부의 추정계수는 통계적으로 양(+)의 유의한 값을 가지므로 광역시 이상의 도시지역에 위치한 배 농가의 경우 생산효율성이 떨어지는 것으로 나타났다. 끝으로 연도별 트렌드 변수의 추정계수 값은 통계적으로 음(-)의 유의한 값을 가지는 것으로 나타나, 시간이 지남에 따라 배 농가들의 생산효율성은 조금씩 제고되어왔음을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구의 한계로는 농가소득 자료가 연도별 지역별 특정 농가를 대상으로 조사된 패널자료의 형태임에도 이를 고려하지 않은 분석방법에 있다. 추후 패널자료를 활용한 확률 프런티어 분석(panel stochastic frontier analysis)을 통해 보다 정교한 분석이 이루어질 필요가 있다. 또한 태풍의 크기나 강도 및 경로를 고려하지 않아 그로 인한 지역별 상이한 태풍의 영향을 계측하지 못했다. 향후 연구에서는 유효태풍 횟수에서 한 발 나아가 지역별 최대풍속자료 등을 활용하여 특화지역 여부에 의한 지역별 태풍피해의 차이뿐만 아니라 태풍의 이동경로나 태풍의 규모까지 고려한 분석이 이루어질 필요가 있다. 또한 시공간적으로 고해상도를 갖는 격자화된 모델 기상자료(가령, Lee et al., 2016)와 연계될 경우, 최근 대두되고 있는 태풍이 농업에 미치는 영향예보를 정량적으로 수행하는 데에도 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Management Science and Financial Engineering
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.1-4
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• 2016

We consider a two-tier supply chain with multiplicative random yield. We focus on the supply chain performance with respect to the control scheme of determining the production lot size. The profit loss due to distributed control is analyzed to give an insight for devising efficient supply contracts.