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Acoustic Tracking of Fish Movements in an Artificial Reef Area Using a Split-beam Echo Sounder, Side-scan and Imaging Sonars at Suyeong Man, Busan, Korea (수영만 인공어초 해역에서 소너에 의한 어군의 유영행동 추적)

  • Lee, Dae-Jae
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.46 no.3
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    • pp.273-281
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    • 2013
  • The movement patterns of fish aggregations swimming freely near artificial reefs on August 24, 2006, at Suyeong Man, Busan, Korea, were acoustically investigated and analyzed. Acoustic surveys were conducted using a 70kHz split-beam echo sounder, 330 kHz side-scan sonar and a 310 kHz imaging sonar. Algorithms for tracking the movement of fish aggregations swimming in response to artificial reefs were developed. The travel direction and the swimming speed for two aggregations of fish were estimated from the trajectory orientations of echo responses recorded by the imaging sonar.The first group was floating just above the reef structure, while remaining in the midwater column, and the second group was swimming through and around artificial reefs near the seabed. The mean swimming speed was estimated to be 0.40 m/s for the midwater fish aggregation and 0.17 m/s for the bottom aggregation close to artificial reefs. These results suggest that the swimming behavior of fish aggregations passing close to artificial reefs near the seabed displayed a slower moving pattern than fish floating just above the reef structure in the midwater column.

A Study for Developing the Competitive Swimming Suit Design with Korean Traditional Image (II) - focused on the 5 traditional colors and Taeguk motive - (한국적 이미지의 경기용 수영복 디자인 개발에 관한 연구 (II) - 오방색과 태극문을 중심으로 -)

  • 최경희;엄준희;김민자
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.53 no.4
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    • pp.49-69
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of the study is to develop the competitive swimming suit design with Korean traditional images. which excels in dimension of functionality, aesthetics, and symbolism. To accomplish this study, first. a theoretical examination about Korean image was added, on the basis of the practical research about professional swimmers' preferences as well as the theoretical research about the history of swimming suits and the qualifications of competitive swimming suits in the prior study. Next, practical designing was performed to achieve the creative designs according to Lamb & Kallal's design process. and the superiority of the newly designed swimming suits was evaluated by using Grant's alpha-beta model. The results of this study can be summarized as follows : First. in the problem apprehension stage. the need for swimming suit designs with Korean traditional images for professional swimmers was acknowledged, and three major criteria. which are functionality, aesthetics. and symbolism has been verified. Second. in the preliminary brainstorming stage, considerable amounts of data for the design concept considering the criteria above have been gathered. The athletic one-piece for women and the brief for men in style and nylon/lycra in fabric were used in the aspect of functionality. And the S Korean traditional colors in color and Tae-guk motive and others in pattern were selected to apply Korean traditional images in the aspects of aesthetics and symbolism. Finally, the 13 series of creative designs with 4 themes( l17pieces in total) have been suggested. Third, in the design improvement stage. after the preference to each design was surveyed, reformation of the designs was arranged on the basis of the results. Fourth, in the prototyping stage. the 17 actual prototypes, including 13 pieces for women and 4 pieces for men were produced. Fifth. in the evaluation stage. the evaluation procedure using Grant's alpha-beta model was performed. As a result, the newly designed swimming suits were rated above other existing ones in all three aspects of functionality, aesthetics, and symbolism.

자성 박테리아 Magnetospirillum sp. AMB-1 의 1 차원적, 2차원적 운동성을 이용한 새로운 수질 독성 측정 방법

  • Seong, Si-Myeong;Park, Tae-Hyeon
    • 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.500-503
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    • 2000
  • In order to dovelop a novel toxicity measurement system using the persistent swimming property of magnetic bacteria along an externally applied magnetic field, certain characteristics of Magnetospirillum sp. AMB-1 cells were examined including their growth pattern, motility, magnetosensitivity, swimming speed. Plus, the effect of toxic compounds on the swimming speed was assessed relative to application as a toxicity sensor. The relative sensitivity of the proposed system was comparable to $Microtox^{circledR}$, which is commercially available. And the aerotactic behavior of AMB-1 cells was also examined with a viewpoint of another method of toxicity measurement.

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Ultrasonic Tracking of Movements of Striped Jack ( Caranx Delicatissimus ) in the Nunoura Bay , Japan (초음파 표지를 이용한 양식어의 유영행동 추적)

  • 신현옥
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.347-359
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    • 1992
  • The movements of three striped jack (Caranx delicatissimus, 24cm of body length) were tracked by ultrasonic telemetry in the Nunoura Bay in August 1990. A school of the striped jack has been released near by the fish farming rafts by Goto branch of the Fisheries Agency and Japan Sea-Farming Association. To investigate the staying area and the swimming pattern of the fish, small size pinger($\Phi$8.5$\times$L35mm, 140dB re 1$\mu$Pa at 1m, 69kHz) was tagged on the dorsal fin without any anesthesia. The movements of three tagged fish are monitored at the same time with four omni-directional hydrophones. The locations of the fish are calculated by the hyperbolic method and tracked by a technique so called time division scheme which uses both the pulse interval and the phase. Three pingers used have the pulse interval of 1.7, 1.8 and 1.9sec, respectively, and the common pulse duration of 15ms. In results it was capable to estimate behavior right after the release, swimming speeds and approximate moving area of the fish. The movements were tracked for a week continuously, and it was found out that the staying area of the fish was around or under the farming rafts. Sometimes they swam together but most of the time they move separately. The average swimming speed of those fish was about two times of the body length.

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Gait Pattern of Hemiplegic Patients with Swimming Aqua-noodles

  • Kim, Suk-Bum;O'Sullivan, David
    • Korean Journal of Applied Biomechanics
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.15-21
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    • 2019
  • Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of aqua-noodles on the practice of underwater walking in patients with hemiplegia. Method: After an oral explanation and signing an IRB approved consent form 10 participants ($66.8{\pm}10.75yr$, $165.3{\pm}8.79cm$, $73.6{\pm}46kg$) agreed to participate in this study. Each of the participants was required to walk with the aqua noodles and without the aqua-noodles in a swimming pool. Each participant was asked to walk a distance of 5 m a total of 10 times, 5 with and 5 without the aqua-noodles. The depth of the swimming pool was at 1.3 m, approximately chest height. The following variables were calculated for analysis; height of the knee (m), knee joint ROM ($^{\circ}$), ankle joint ROM ($^{\circ}$), knee joint maximum angular velocity ($^{\circ}/sec$), and ankle joint maximum angular velocity ($^{\circ}/sec$). Results: First, there was a significant increase in time (s) for the maximum knee height to reach as well as the maximum knee height (m) increased when the participant used the aqua-noodles. Second, there was a statistically significant decrease in stride length when the aqua-noodles were used. Conclusion: This study helps to verify that the effect of underwater walking exercise can provide a suitable walking exercise environment. The results of this study provide systematic scientific information about how walking in water can be used for the rehabilitation of patients and the elderly.

Behavioral characteristics of a chondrostean sturgeon species Acipenser baerii prelarvae in response to different environmental light intensities in a diel photoperiodic cycle

  • Kim, Eun Jeong;Park, Chulhong;Nam, Yoon Kwon
    • Journal of Animal Reproduction and Biotechnology
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.245-257
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    • 2020
  • Behavioral response to a diel photoperiodicity (500 lx for 16 h, 5 lx for 4 h and < 0.5 lx for 4 h) and phototactic characteristics in dark conditions were examined with Siberian sturgeon Acipenser baerii (Chondrostei, Actinopterygii) prelarvae. Siberian sturgeon prelarvae represented both qualitative and quantitative changes in their behavioral patterns according to different light intensities in a diel photoperiodicity. Under daylight conditions (500 lx), prelarvae displayed saltatory changes of behavioral features with ages (Day 0-Day 9) in a general order of swimming-up/drifting, swimming in the upper water column, benthic swimming with rheotaxis, schooling and post-schooling behavior. Compared to daylight conditions, prelarvae tended to show more benthic performances and quantitative reductions of schooling and post-schooling behaviors under dimlight conditions (5 lx). Under dark conditions (< 0.5 lx), prelarvae exhibited a fairly uniform behavioral pattern characterized by the benthic swimming across the bottom of the tank. From phototaxis tests under dark conditions, navigational responses of prelarvae to a spotlight illumination were quantitatively changed as their ages increased. The phototactic responses reached the peak on Day 2, continued until Day 4, and then gradually decreased until Day 8. A partial recovery of positive phototaxis was observed on Day 9. Data from this study suggest that the diel light cycle as well as the light intensity of each interval in the cycle should be considered as important components of a practical guide for evaluating fitness and developmental states of artificially propagated Siberian sturgeon prelarvae.

A study on structural feature and size distribution of swimming fish using an 3 dimensional pattern laser (3차원 패턴 레이저를 이용한 유영어류의 형태 및 크기 측정)

  • YANG, Yongsu;LEE, Kyounghoon;PYEON, Yongbeom;YOON, Eun-A;LEE, Dong-Gil;JO, Hyun-Su
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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    • v.52 no.2
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    • pp.103-110
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    • 2016
  • This study aims to estimate the species, size and shape of fish using a non-contact 3 dimensional pattern laser so that this preliminary test was carried out to understand the structural feature and length of goldfish according to water turbidity and depth in the aquacultural tank. 3-D pattern laser could clearly detect its morphological shape except the caudal fin due to soft tissue. Since the sensing strength of line laser light according to depth has sufficient power, it is possible to measure its depth and structural feature in the detected range. The result showed that the measured error of individual's fork length was less than ${\pm}1%$ in the water using 3-D pattern laser, when compared with the measured value in the air.

Changes in c-Fos Expression in the Forced Swimming Test: Common and Distinct Modulation in Rat Brain by Desipramine and Citalopram

  • Choi, Sun Hye;Chung, Sung;Cho, Jin Hee;Cho, Yun Ha;Kim, Jin Wook;Kim, Jeong Min;Kim, Hee Jeong;Kim, Hyun Ju;Shin, Kyung Ho
    • The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.321-329
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    • 2013
  • Rodents exposed to a 15-min pretest swim in the forced swimming test (FST) exhibit prolonged immobility in a subsequent 5-min test swim, and antidepressant treatment before the test swim reduces immobility. At present, neuronal circuits recruited by antidepressant before the test swim remain unclear, and also less is known about whether antidepressants with different mechanisms of action could influence neural circuits differentially. To reveal the neural circuits associated with antidepressant effect in the FST, we injected desipramine or citalopram 0.5 h, 19 h, and 23 h after the pretest swim and observed changes in c-Fos expression in rats before the test swim, namely 24 h after the pretest swim. Desipramine treatment alone in the absence of pretest swim was without effect, whereas citalopram treatment alone significantly increased the number of c-Fos-like immunoreactive cells in the central nucleus of the amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, where this pattern of increase appears to be maintained after the pretest swim. Both desipramine and citalopram treatment after the pretest swim significantly increased the number of c-Fos-like immunoreactive cells in the ventral lateral septum and ventrolateral periaqueductal gray before the test swim. These results suggest that citalopram may affect c-Fos expression in the central nucleus of the amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis distinctively and raise the possibility that upregulation of c-Fos in the ventral lateral septum and ventrolateral periaqueductal gray before the test swim may be one of the probable common mechanisms underlying antidepressant effect in the FST.

Studies on the overinflation of the Cardiac Stomach in Sterlet Sturgeon Acipenser ruthenus, fingerlings (양식 스털렛 철갑상어, Acipenser ruthenus 치어의 위 팽창 증후군에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Sung-Woo;Yu, Jin-Ha;Han, Jung-Jo
    • Journal of fish pathology
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.59-65
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    • 2012
  • Overinflation of cardiac stomach occurred in farmed sterlet sturgeon (Acipenser ruthenus) fingerlings. Affected fish congregated and swam upside-down near the edges of the tanks with abdominal distension. When pressed the dilated abdomen, the fish often exhibited a normal swimming pattern for some time, then resumed their characteristic upside-down swimming patterns. Internally, the fish showed abdominal dropsy and dilated stomach filled with yellowish granular contents. When the contents in the stomach, fish feed, water and excrement in the farm inoculated on Sabouraud destrose agar (SDA) at $25^{\circ}C$ for 48 hr. Candida sp. were isolated except from the feed. Candida sp. in excrement or water in the farm may enter into the stomach with feed and then produce gases in the metabolic process, which in turn may cause the stomach overinflation.

A new cyclopoid copepod from Korean subterranean waters reveals an interesting connection with the Central Asian fauna (Crustacea: Copepoda: Cyclopoida)

  • Karanovic, Tomislav;Yoo, Hyunsu;Lee, Wonchoel
    • Journal of Species Research
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.156-174
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    • 2012
  • Monchenkocyclops gen. nov. was erected to accommodate M. changi sp. nov. from South Korea (type species), M. mirabdullayevi sp. nov. from Kazakhstan, M. biarticulatus (Monchenko, 1972) comb. nov. from Uzbekistan, and M. biwensis (Ishida, 2005) comb. nov. from Japan. The latter species was originally described from surface-water habitats of the ancient Lake Biwa in the genus Diacyclops Kiefer, 1927, while two Central Asian species were previously collected from groundwater habitats and assigned to the genus Acanthocyclops Kiefer, 1927. Monchenkocyclops changi is also found in subterranean waters, and described here in detail. It is morphologically most similar to its Uzbek congener (not to the Japanese one), which rises some interesting zoogeographical questions about the disjunct distribution of this genus. Range fragmentation is a more plausible explanation for this distribution pattern than range expansion, and we emphasize four lines of evidence that support this hypothesis. Four species of Monchenkocyclops share not only the same segmentation of the swimming legs, but also the exact same armature formula of all swimming legs, in addition to many other morphological characters, such as the caudal rami shape and armature, absence of exopod on the antenna, similar shape of the seminal receptacle, fifth leg, etc. They can be distinguished mostly by the relative length of different armature elements, such as the innermost terminal caudal setae, and inner setae and apical spines on the third endopodal segment of the fourth leg. A dichotomous key to species is provided.