• Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.62-71
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• 2008

Recently, the expansion of housing developments has reduced green areas in cities. The reduction of green areas caused many negative effects on human beings. For functional improvement of ecosystem, government focuses on artificial ground greening because it gives improving microclimate and saving energy consumption. This research aims to develop the system to support decision making of greening for artificial ground greening. This system consist of rooftop greening, wall greening, and street greening system which can suggest proper type of greening and calculate the effect of the greening considering the proponents inputs. It presents social, economic, and ecological value such as cost, energy saving, and temperature reduction. As it is web-based system users can easily access with internet. This system provides automatic selection modes.As a result, with this developed web-based system, decision makers can evaluate the effect of artificial ground green easily and the support to such movement will increase.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• v.62 no.2
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• pp.239-246
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• 2020

Microorganism residing in the gut has been known to have important roles in the animal body. Microbes and host microenvironment are highly related with host's health including energy metabolism and immune system. Moreover, it reported that gut microbiome is correlated with diseases like obesity in human and dogs. There have been many studies to identify and characterize microbes and their genes in human body. However, there was little information of microbiome in companion animals. Here, we investigated microbiota communities in feaces from twenty - four Beagles (aged 2 years old) and analyzed the taxonomy profile using metagenomics to study the difference among gut microbiome based on body condition score (BCS). gDNA was isolated from feaces, sequenced and clustered. Taxonomy profiling was performed based on the NCBI database. BCS was evaluated once a week according to the description provided by World Small Animal Veterinary Association. Firmicutes phylum was the most abundant followed by Bacteroidetes, Fusobacteria, Proteobacteria and Actinobacteria. That main microbiota in gut were differently distributed based on the BCS. Fusobacteria has been known to be associated with colon cancer in human. Interestingly, Fusobacteria was in the third level from the top in healthy dog's gut microbiome. In addition, Fusobacteria was especially higher in overweight dogs which had 6 scales of BCS. Species Fusobacterium perfoetens was also more abundant when dogs were in BCS 6. It implied that F. perfoetens would be positively related with overweight in dogs. These finding would contribute to further studies of gut microbiome and their functions to improve dog's diets and health condition.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.121-132
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• 2021

Green facade has a significant impact on building's energy performance by controlling the absorption of solar radiation and improving outdoor thermal comfort through shading and evapotranspiration. In particular, since high-density building does not enough green space, green facade, and rooftop greening using artificial ground plants are highly utilized. However, the level of cooling effect according to plant traits and irrigation control is different. Therefore, in this study, the cooling effect analyzed for a total of 4 cases by controlling the irrigation condition based on hedera and spurge. Although hedera under sufficient water had the highest cooling effect(-2℃~-4℃), had the lowest cooling effect under non-irrigation(+1.1℃~+4.4℃). In addition, hedera under sufficient water had cooling effect than hedera under non-irrigation(-1℃~-8.1℃) and in the case of spurge, it had cooling effect(-0.3℃~-7.8℃) more than non-irrigation. As a result of measuring the amount of transpiration according to the light intensity (PAR) and carbon dioxide concentration conditions, transpiration of hedera was higher than the spurge (respectively 0.63204mmolm^-2s^-1, 0.674367mmolm^-2s^-1). The difference in the cooling effect of the green facade under irrigation condition was significant. But the potential cooling effect of green facade according to plants species was different. Therefore, in order to maximize and continuously provide the cooling effect of green facade in urban areas, it is necessary to consider the characteristics of plants and the control of water supply through the irrigation system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 2017.04a
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• pp.118-118
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• 2017

지구 온난화에 따른 환경변화로 인하여 최근 10년('02~'11)간 여름의 일수는 4일, 겨울 일수는 16일 각각 증가하였다. 현재 육계사 내의 고밀도 밀집사육으로 인하여 고온스트레스로 하절기 육계의 폐사율이 증가하고 있는 실정이다. 2016년 폭염으로 닭 406.1천수, 오리 15.7천수, 메추리 70천수, 돼지 8천수가 폐사하였다. 이에 혹서기 가축이 약430만수가 폐사하였으며 피해 보상금액 128억원 소요되었다. 본 연구에서는 하절기 고온스트레스 경감과 폐사율 저감을 위해 계사 냉난방 공조와 냉온 음용수 급수를 병행할 수 있는 고효율 환경 개선 시스템을 개발하여 고온스트레스 저감 및 생산성 향상에 목적이 있다. 계사 냉난방 공조 및 냉온음용수 급수 병행 시스템 설계요인을 분석하고 냉난방 공조부하, 냉온수 생산 부하를 고려한 시스템 용량 산정하고 히트펌프, 축열조, 냉난방 및 냉온수 분배장치 등 구성요소로서 공조 및 냉온음용수 급수시스템을 설치하였다. 시스템 용량은 공기-물 히트펌프(10kW,1대), 축열조(10톤), 음용수조(2톤), 열교환기(열교환량,5만kcal/h), 물순환펌프(250W,2대) 및 팬코일유닛(1만kcal/h,4대)으로 시스템 모니터링 및 제어 시스템 개발하여 계사 내 환경, 시스템 성능에 대한 실시간 모니터링을 통하여 저장하였다. 조사항목으로 위치별 온습도, 체중, 사료섭취량, 페사율 등을 조사 분석하였다. 연구결과 계사의 내부온도는 시험구에서는 평균 $25.3^{\circ}C$를 나타내었고 대조구에서는 평균 $28.1^{\circ}C$로서 $2.8^{\circ}C$ 높게 나타났으나 상대습도는 시험구 76.2%, 대조구 75.0%로 큰 차이가 없었다. 냉수급여에 따른 계사 높이별 내부온도는 상하의 온도차가 $4.5^{\circ}C$로 크게 차이가 났다. 육계의 음수량은 혹서기 냉수를 급여한 시험구에서 일일 23.2L, 대조구에서는 21.5L를 섭취하였다. 일일 사료섭취량은 냉수를 급여한 시험구에서 937g, 대조구에서는 725g을 섭취하였다. 사료섭취량은 냉수를 급여한 시험구가 212g 많이 섭취하였으며 사료요구율은 시험구는 1.86, 대조구는 1.91로서 시험구가 낮게 나타났다. 체중은 냉수를 급여한 시험구가 359g 많았으며 증체량은 냉수를 급여한 시험구에서 495g, 대조구에서는 392g으로 나타났다. 폐사율은 냉수를 급여한 시험구에서 84%가 폐사율을 줄일 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.9-18
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to analyze the usage of eco-friendly elements in Korean traditional architecture to evaluate Hanok(Unjoru and Jinwondang) according to Green Building Certification Criteria(G-SEED). The results of this study were as follows; Unjoru and Jinwondang was not enough to obtain certification points. From Site usage and Traffic category, Jinwondang gets more points than Unjoru. It's because Jinwondang is located in downtown Seoul, so it gets more points of traffic and neighborhood facility. From Energy and Environmental Pollution category, Jinwondang gets more points of energy performance than Unjoru, too. It's because Jinwondang secured insulation performance of wall and windows using insulator and glass. From Resources category, Unjoru gets more points than Jinwondang. It shows that modern Hanok was limited using natural resources. From Ecological Environments category, Jinwondang is located urban area, it's difficult to secure the open space, so Unjoru gets more points than Jinwondang. If Modern Honok installs a system that can getting point and secure insulation performance, it will be certificated according to G-SEED.

• KIEAE Journal
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.109-114
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• 2016

Purpose: The underground air is the warm air discharged from the porous volcano bedrock 30-50m underground in Jeju, including excessive humidity. The temperature of the underground air is $15-20^{\circ}C$ throughout the year. In Jeju, the underground air was used for heating greenhouses by supplying into greenhouses directly. This heating method by supplying the underground air into greenhouses directly had several problems. The study was conducted to develop the heat pump system using underground air as heat source for resolving excessive humidity problem of the underground air, adopting the underground air as a farm supporting project by Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs(MAFRA) and saving heating cost for agricultural facilities. Method: 35kW scale(10 RT) heat pump system using underground air installed in a greenhouse of area $330m^2$ in Jeju-Special Self-Governing Province Agricultural Research & Extension Services, Seogwipo-si, Jeju. The inlet and outlet water temperature of the condenser, the evaporator and the thermal storage tank and the underground air temperature and the air temperature in the greenhouse were measured by T type thermocouples. The data were collected and saved in a data logger(MV200, Yokogawa, Japan). Flow rates of water flowing in the condenser, the evaporator and the thermal storage tank were measured by an ultrasonic flow meter(PT868, Panametrics, Norway). The total electric power that consumed by the system was measured by a wattmeter(CW240, Yokogawa, Japan). Heating COP, rejection heat of condenser, extraction heat of evaporator and heating cost were analyzed. Result: The underground air in Jeju was adopted as a farm supporting project by Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs(MAFRA) in 2010. From 2011, the heat pump systems using underground air as a heat source were installed in 12 farms(16.3ha) in Jeju.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.100-106
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• 2016

Spectrum sensing is an integral part of cognitive radio, which seeks to address the perceived spectrum scarcity that is caused by inefficient utilization of the available spectrum. In this paper, a spectrum sensing system using energy detection for analog TV and FM broadcast transmitters as well as modified Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting Terrestrial (ISDB-T) signals is implemented on a software-defined radio platform using GNU' Not Unix (GNU) radio and the N200 Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP). Real-time implementation and experimental tests were conducted in Metro Cebu, a highly urbanized area in the southern part of the Philippines. Extensive tests and measurements were necessary to determine spectrum availability, particularly in the TV band. This is in support of the Philippine government' efforts to provide internet connectivity to rural areas. Experimental results have so far met IEEE 802.22 requirements for energy detection spectrum sensing. The designed system detected signals at -114 dBm within a sensing time of 100 ms. Furthermore, the required $P_d({\geq}90)$ and $P_{fa}({\leq}10)$ of the standard were also achieved with different thresholds for various signal sources representing primary users.

• Journal of Appropriate Technology
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.8-17
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• 2019

Solar pumps, for water lift systems, is becoming popular in rural areas for supplying drinking water in dry seasons when its need is elevated. The development in technology has also made solar pumps readily available and cheap which has increased its demands. So, for scattered settlements having a limited budget for operation and maintenance costs, solar pump is preferred over grid connected electrical pumping systems. This primary objective of the study was to design a solar photovoltaic pumping drinking water supply system for a small health post which is about 45 km east from Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal. The study also compared and verified the final design with the system's existing design prepared by a development agency. The water source for this study was a confined aquifer 115m below the surface. The water demand was calculated to be 11m³ per day. A 1500 kPa submersible pump attached to a motor was selected and installed. Along with that twelve solar panels, reservoir, transmission main and distribution main was designed. The outcomes conclude solar photovoltaic pumping water supply systems to be cost-effective with an estimated cost of only USD 0.84 million per MLD. Solar pumps require low maintenance and operation costs and its repairs can quickly be done by the local people. The study also shows that solar technology produces no sound, needs no fuel making it environmentally friendly.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.75-88
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• 2000

This study is based on the Ecological Design Theories related with the Urban space planning. The purpose of this study is to propose the Urban Space Design Method in consideration of Ecological Environment. To achieve this purpose, Normative Theory Study which means Logical Analysis of Ecological Theories in the new field of Ecological Urban Design, is done in accordance with the object of this study. This results derived of this study are as follows: 1. Six(6)-Ecological Urban Planning Elements related with the purpose of this study, are clarified these are Land-use planning, Transformation planning, Plants and Living-thing Ecological System planning, A Culture planning related with water, Energy and resource planning, and Urban-amenity planning. 2. Urban Space Design Method in consideration of Ecological Environment is porposed by means of the Normative theroy study analysis and contents analysis related with Ecological Urban planning which contain Ecological Planning Elements.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.23-30
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• 1986

A waste heat recovery system for an internal combustion engine for agriculture was developed. The system is for recovering both of exhaust heat and cooling heat of an engine and is so simple in its structure that can be used in rural area easily. A series of experiment was carried out to the experiment which will be discussed later on, collect data for the performance of the system at various operating conditions of the system and an engine and to determine a range of coolant temperature in which performance of an engine is not affected by the heat recovery system incorporated. The obtained experimental data is not only useful to materialize performance of the system at the experimental conditions but also to construct a mathematical model of the system to predict the system variables beyond the scope of