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Predicting Common Moving Pattern of Livestock Vehicles by Using GPS and GIS: A case study of Jeju Island, South Korea

  • Qasim, Waqas;Jo, Jae Min;Jo, Jin Seok;Moon, Byeong Eun;Ko, Han Jong;Son, Won Geun;Son, Se Seung;Kim, Hyeon Tae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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    • 2017.04a
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    • pp.31-31
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    • 2017
  • On farm evaluation for the control of airborne diseases like FMD and flu virus has been done in past but control of disease in process of transportation of livestock and manures is still needed. The objective of this study was to predict a common pattern of livestock vehicles movement. The analysis were done on GPS data, collected from drivers of livestock vehicles in Jeju Island, South Korea in year 2012 and 2013. The GPS data include the coordinates of moving vehicles according to time and dates, livestock farms and manure keeping sites. 2012 year data was added to ArcGIS and different tools were used for predicting common vehicle moving pattern. The common pattern of year 2012 were determined and considered as predicted common pattern for year 2013. To compare with actual pattern of year 2013 the same analysis was done to find the difference in 2012 and 2013 pattern. When the manure keeping sites and livestock farms were same in both years, as a result common pattern of 2012 and 2013 were similar but difference were found in patterns when the manure keeping sites and livestock farms were changed. In future for more accurate results and to predict the accurate pattern of vehicles movement, more dependent and independent variables will be required to make a suitable model for prediction.

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Estimation of TOC Concentration using BOD, COD in Runoff from Paddy Fields (영농기간동안 논 유출수 BOD, COD 자료를 이용한 TOC 농도 추정)

  • Choi, Dongho;Jung, Jaewoon;Yoon, Kwangsik;Lee, Kyoungsook;Choi, Woojung;Lim, Sangsun;Park, Hana;Yim, Byungjin;Hwang, Taehee
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.28 no.6
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    • pp.813-818
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    • 2012
  • BOD and COD are currently used for water quality indices, but adoption of TOC for TMDL (Total Maximum Daily Load) is being suggested. Estimation of TOC using existing BOD and COD data is very important to diagnosis water quality trend when TOC is used for water quality index of organic matter in the future. The relationships between BOD COD and TOC in runoff from paddy fields were investigated during 2008-2011. The observed mean concentration of EMCs (Event Mean Concentration) for BOD, COD, TOC were 3.87, 10.97, 7.26 mg/L respectively. The correlation coefficients between BOD-TOC and COD-TOC were 0.42, 0.73, respectively. The coefficient of determination of regression equation for BOD-TOC and COD-TOC were 0.18, 0.53 respectively. Even though, conversion of COD data to TOC seems to be rather reliable than that of BOD-TOC, further monitoring is recommended to ensure better interpretation of relationship among BOD, COD and TOC.

Demographic Transition in Eup/Myon-level Island Areas in Rural Korea (읍면소재지 섬지역의 인구변화)

  • Park, Jong-Ho;Choi, Soo-Myung;Cho, Eun-Jung;Kim, Young-Taek;Park, Su-Young
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.11-21
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    • 2013
  • The island areas have disadvantageous conditions compared to inland areas due to the characteristics which are separated, surrounded by seas, isolated. However, as the problems with separation that ultimately caused regional underdevelopment in island areas have been eased by the artificial works linking an island to land and the societal perspective on littoral districts has changed from productive view to consumptive view, the population trend in the island areas has been differentiated according to the regional conditions. But it is the reality that the population trend in the island areas has almost never been analyzed. In this regard, this study tried to analyze the overall demographic transition in eup/myon-level island areas and provide the basic data to establish flexibly and accurately regional development policies for island areas in rural As a result, as the regional conditions of island areas become more various, the potential and conditions of development have been differentiated and these trends will be more intensified. In response, the regional development policies for island areas in rural have to be reorganized actively.

Applications of DNA Microarray in Disease Diagnostics

  • Yoo, Seung-Min;Choi, Jong-Hyun;Lee, Sang-Yup;Yoo, Nae-Choon
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.19 no.7
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    • pp.635-646
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    • 2009
  • Rapid and accurate diagnosis of diseases is very important for appropriate treatment of patients. Recent advances in molecular-level interaction and detection technologies are upgrading the clinical diagnostics by providing new ways of diagnosis, with higher speed and accuracy. In particular, DNA microarrays can be efficiently used in clinical diagnostics which span from discovery of diseaserelevant genes to diagnosis using its biomarkers. Diagnostic DNA microarrays have been used for genotyping and determination of disease-relevant genes or agents causing diseases, mutation analysis, screening of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), detection of chromosome abnormalities, and global determination of posttranslational modification. The performance of DNA-microarray-based diagnosis is continuously improving by the integration of other tools. Thus, DNA microarrays will play a central role in clinical diagnostics and will become a gold standard method for disease diagnosis. In this paper, various applications of DNA microarrays in disease diagnosis are reviewed. Special effort was made to cover the information disclosed in the patents so that recent trends and missing applications can be revealed.