• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.439-448
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• 2003

An image processing algorithm was developed for a robot system which was used in gene study. The robot system achieved a job of colony picking. The colony included DNA of an organism. The robot picked up the colony in petri-dish, which included the cultivated colony in medium, by a picking pin, and moved the colony to wellplates. The vision system consisted of an image acquisition system which acquired the image information of colony, an illumination device which irradiated the object once when it got the image of it, a computer and so on. The image processing algorithm distinguished the colony and detected colony positions. Performance test of the developed algorithm showed that the distinguishing success rate of colony and detecting success rate of colony positions were over 96%.

• 한국제4기학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.129-133
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• 2003

Water is critically important for Tricholoma matsutake(Tm) growth because it is the major component of the mushroom by over 90%. The mushroom absorbs water through the below ground hyphal colony. Therefore, the objectives of our study were to investigate spatio-temporal water changes in Tm colonies. This study was carried out at Tm fruiting sites in Sogni Mt National Park, where the below-ground mushroom colonies have been irrigated. To identify spatial water status within the Tm soil colony soil moisture and ergosterol content were measured at six positions including a mushroom fruiting position on the line of the colony radius. To investigate temporal soil moisture changes in the soil colony, Time Domain Reflectometry(TDR) sensors were established at the non-colony and colony front edge, and water data were recorded with CR10X data logger from late August to late October. Before irrigation, whereas it was 12.8% at non-colony, the soil water content within Tm colony was 8.0% at 0-5cm from the colony front edge, 6.2% at 10-15cm and 6.5-7.5% at 20-40cm. And the content was 12.1% at 80cm distance from the colony edge, which is similar to that at the non-colony. In contrast, ergosterol content which is proportional to the live hyphal biomass was only 0.4${\mu}g$/g fresh soil at the uncolonized soil, while 4.9 $\mu\textrm{g}$/g fresh soil at the front edge where the hyphae actively grow, and 3.8 ${\mu}g$/g fresh soil at the fruiting position, l.1${\mu}g$/g at 20cm distance and 0.4${\mu}g$/g in the 40cm rear area. Generally, in the Tm fungal colony the water content changes were reversed to the ergosterol content changes. While the site was watered during August to October, the soil water contents were 13.5∼23.0% within the fungal colony, whereas it was 14.5∼26.0% at the non-colony. That is, soil water content in the colony was lower by 1.0∼3.0% than that in the non-colonized soil. Our results show that Tm colony consumes more soil water than other parts. Especially the front 30cm within the hyphal colony parts is more critical for soil water absorption.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.227-232
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• 1982

삶은 콩을 이용한 고체 배지상에서 Aspergillus oryzae의 성장 속도를 측정하는 방법에 대하여 연구하고 이들 방법을 대두와 루우핀콩 배지에서의 균 성장 특성을 비교하는데 적용하였다. 여러가지 배지 조건에서 배양 기간에 따른 균체 colony의 형성시간 크기변화, $\alpha$-아미노 질소함량의 변화, 포자형성 시간 및 균사길이의 변화등을 측정 비교하였다. 배지의 종류에 따라 Aspergillus oryzae는 특정한 균체 colony 형성시간을 나타내었으며 colony 형성후 부터는 colony 직경의 크기는 배양시간에 따라 직선적으로 증가하였다. 균체colony 직경은 배지중의 $\alpha$-아미노 질소함량과 높은 직접적인 상관관계를 나타내었으나 배지의 수분함량이 변하면 이러한 상관관계가 성립되지 않았다. 오히려 배지의 수분함량이 증가하면(60%-85%) $\alpha$-아미노 질소함량은 증가하나 colony 직경은 감소하는 역 관계를 나타내었다. 일반적으로 Aspergillus oryzae는 삶은 루우핀콩 페이스트에서 최초 성장 속도가 대두보다 발랐으며. 루우핀콩 배지에서의 colony 형성시간이 24시간인데 반해 대두에서는 44.4 시간이 걸렸다. 그러나 colony 형성이후의 성장 속도는 대두에서 더 빠르게 나타나 대두의 경우 8.83mm/day 인데 반하여 루우핀 콩에서는 7.05mm/day이었다. spore 형성 시간은 colony 형성 시간과 깊은 상관관계를 나타내었으며 일반적으로 루우핀콩에서 spore 형성 시간이 짧았다. 콩의 표면에서 균사길이를 측정하는 방법은 간단하고 빨리 균체의 성장 속도를 비교할수 있 었으며 특히 콩의 구조와 형태가 균체 성장에 미치는 영향을 조사하는데 편리하였다. 본 실 험에서는 이 방법으로 루우핀콩의 두꺼운 외피가 균체 성장을 저해하고 있음을 발견하였다.

• 한국응용곤충학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.21-31
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• 1977

1975년 수원 잠업시험장 상전에서 뽕나무 세균성위축병균 Psendomonas mori(Boyer et Lambert) Stevens의 형태적으로 다른 Rough colony형(R형) 균주를 분리하였다. 이를 전국 5개 지역에서 채집, 분리한 wild type인 Smooth colony형 (S형) 균주와 병원성 및 세균의 일반적 성질을 비교하고 유전적인 안전성을 검토한 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. R형균주는 S형균주에 비하여 강한 병원성을 보였으나 병징에는 아무런 차이가 없었다. 2. R형균주는 그 길이가 200u 이상에 달하는 사상하며 편모가 없는 비운동성 세균으로, 단간상이고 운동성이 있는 S형균주와 형태적으로 달랐다. 3. 육즙한천배지에서 S형균주와 colony는 백색, 원형, 전록으로 평골한데 비하여, R형균주의 colony는 주변이 불규칙한 파상으로 그 중앙부위에 많은 주름무늬가 있다. 4. 46종의 생리적 성질 및 혈청학적 성질에서는 R형과 S형균주 사이에 아무런 차이가 없었다. 5. R형과 S형균주 모두 100회 이상의 계대배양이나 $1-3\%$의 NaCl 및 유기산의 Sodium 염 5종, 항생물질 4종에 의한 처리에서 유전적인 안정성을 보였다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.449-456
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• 2003

A robot system was developed to pick desired colony. This robot system consisted of an image acquisition process which acquires the image information of colony, an illumination device which irradiates the object once when it gets the image of it, a picking head, a replicating head, a bed for fixing well-plates, and a sterilization device of sterilizing pin stained with colony. Picking pins were washed in an ultrasonic wave washing for takes ten seconds. Picking pins were dipped for sterilizing in alcohol for ten seconds. The time for resterilizing picking pins in a heater was five seconds. This performance test resulted 100% success rate for both the colony picking and the colony replication process. Considering the procedure in which 8 pins were smeared by colony, picked on a well plate, and sterilized as one cycle, the system could carry out one cycle in 110 seconds. It took about 138 minutes to pick around 600 colonies.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2019

It is one of the known methods to obtain the optimal solution using the Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), which is a combination optimization problem. In this paper, we solve the TSP problem by proposing an improved new ant colony optimization algorithm that combines genetic algorithm mutations in existing ant colony optimization algorithms to solve TSP problems in many cities. The new ant colony optimization algorithm provides the opportunity to move easily fall on the issue of developing local optimum values of the existing ant colony optimization algorithm to global optimum value through a new path through mutation. The new path will update the pheromone through an ant colony optimization algorithm. The renewed new pheromone serves to derive the global optimal value from what could have fallen to the local optimal value. Experimental results show that the existing algorithms and the new algorithms are superior to those of existing algorithms in the search for optimum values of newly improved algorithms.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.23-31
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• 2017

Bumblebees, more efficient than honeybees, provide important services for pollination especially in tomato, pepper, cucumber, strawberries and other crops grown under tunnel farming or glasshouse conditions to yield maximization. These bees require pollen and nectar to meet their dietary needs and maintain their colony structure, development and reproduction. Keeping in view their economic importance, the effect of five concentrations of sugar and honey solutions (1:1, 1:1.5, 1:2, 2:1,1.5:1) each as alternative to nectar were used to observe their effect on life history parameters of Bombus terrestris. The 1:1 ratio of sugar solution was found most effective followed by 1.5:1, 1:1.5, 1:2 and 2:1 and also more effective of all five concentrations of honey solutions on all three stages of colony development i.e., at colony initiation, colony development and colony maturation stages. At colony initiation stage, early pre-oviposition period ($6.40{\pm}0.97$ days), early emergence of first worker in the first batch ($25.40{\pm}1.21$ days) and maximum numbers of workers ($6.20{\pm}0.24$) emergence in the first batch were observed at 1:1 ratio of sugar solution. Colonies reared on 1:1 ratio of sugar solution reached earlier ($52.13{\pm}1.28$ days) at colony foundation stage with minimum mortality ($3.27{\pm}0.54$ workers). At colony maturation stage, maximum numbers of workers, sexual (males, queens) and maximum mother queen longevity was observed at the same 1:1 ratio of sugar solution. It can be suggested from present study that sugar solution as alternative of nectar at 1:1 ratio was better than other sugar concentration levels and also from those of honey solution.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.109-116
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• 2018

We investigated the effects of honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) colony size on the pollination of greenhouse-cultivated watermelon grown under the forcing cultivation system. The highest pollination activity of bees was observed ($14.3{\pm}5.0$ honey bees/day) when the bee colony size was 10,000 followed by 7,500 and 5,000 honey bees. There was a positive correlation between the bee colony size and pollination activity (R = 0.262) but insignificant difference in fruit set with different honey bee colony sizes (88%-91%). Evaluation of physical properties revealed that the weight and shape of watermelon were also not significantly different among different colony sizes. However, larger the bee colony size, higher the number of seeds were fertilized and rate of seed fertilization (p > 0.05). Number of seeds and content of sugar were negatively correlated (R = -0.714). Fertilized seeds showed a significant increase in mealy flesh, which has a negative effect on fruit quality, compared with that of the unfertilized seeds. Overall, we found that a colony size of 5,000 honey bees was the most effective for the pollination of watermelon grown under forcing cultivation. A comparison of the effects of bee pollination with those of artificial pollination suggested that artificial pollination can be effectively replaced by bee pollination in the forcing cultivation of watermelon, because fruit set, weight, and shape by bee pollination were similar to those achieved by artificial pollination.

• 보존과학연구
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• 통권23호
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• pp.77-93
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• 2002

There are several methods of pest control for the prevention of wooden cultural properties from damages caused by insects, especially termites. Those are as follows; physical control, chemical control, biological control, and integrated pest management. In Korea, we primarily use mvestigation of monitoring, fumigation, treatment of insecticidal and antiseptic chemicals, soil termiticide treatment, and termite colony elimination system. As damages by termites were detected at Eunghyanggak and Saundang of Haeinsa temple in June, 1998, we carried out monitoring with wooden device, in order to investigate damages of wooden building by termite and paths of termite invasion. According to the result of investigation of monitoring from1999 to 2002, we found that termites were inhabiting continually at forests around Haeinsa and that wooden buildings such as Saundang, Cheonghwadang were damaged by termites. So we thought that control methods such as soil termiticide treatment and termite colony elimination system would be effective. Especially, to investigate efficacy of termite colony elimination system, we carried out efficacy test of termite colony elimination system in Jongmyo during 17 months(2000.7.~2001.11.). The result of efficacy test showed that termite colony elimination system eliminated termite colonies gradually(over 12 months from installation of colony elimination system to elimination of termite colony).

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.241-247
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• 2004

It was investigated whether or not flight has any effects on oviposition and colony development of the artificially hibernated Bombus terrestris queen and ,$CO_2$-treated queen. Flight periods were defined as 0 days (control), 1 day, 3 days and 6 days. The weights of queens after flight were 1.5-8.9% lower than those before flight depending on the flight periods. The oviposition and colony development of artificially hibernated and $CO_2$-treated B. terrestris queen were affected by the flight. Among flight periods tested, in particular, the queens start to flight for 3 days showed better flight effect than those other flight periods in the colony development, rate of colony foundation, rate of progeny-queen production, the number of worker and queen produced. But, the longer the flight periods is, the worse the oviposition and colony development of the queens hibernated artificially and $CO_2$-treated are (i.e., the 6 days-flight queen).