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Typical Patterns of Ecological Engineering in Southern China

  • Lu, Jianbo;Zhao, Xingzheng;Ding, Lizhong
    • The Korean Journal of Ecology
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2004
  • With the emergence and development of ecological engineering in China, and also the research and demonstration of Chinese Ecological Agriculture (CEA), in recent 10 years many types of ecological engineering have been appeared in Southern China, they could be classified into 4 typical patterns. These typical patterns are; 1. Ecological Building (EB), such as ecological public toilet, ecological garden, ecological integrated building, farmers' ecological household, the combine of ecological building and CEA; 2. Ecological Engineering in Paddy Field (EEPF), like rice-fish system, water caltrop-wild ricestem-fish system, mulberry-silkworm-pig-fish system; 3. Ecological Engineering of Agroforestry Systems (EEAF), as tea-food crops intercropping system, rubber-tea-chicken system, bamboo-chicken system, fruit tree-chicken system, metasequoia-fish-duck system; 4. Ecological Engineering Linked with Biogas (EELB), such as animal (pig)-biogas-fish system, animal (pig)-biogas-fruit tree system, animal-biogas-food crops system. Some case studies were presented in the paper. It is showed that these typical patterns have better ecological, social and economic benefits, now they are deeply been extending in southern China.

Application of ecological interface design in nuclear power plant (NPP) operator support system

  • Anokhin, Alexey;Ivkin, Alexey;Dorokhovich, Sergey
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.50 no.4
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    • pp.619-626
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    • 2018
  • Most publications confirm that an ecological interface is a very efficient tool to supporting operators in recognition of complex and unusual situations and in decision-making. The present article describes the experience of implementation of an ecological interface concept for visualization of material balance in a drum separator of RBMK-type NPPs. Functional analysis of the domain area was carried out and revealed main factors and contributors to the balance. The proposed ecological display was designed to facilitate execution of the most complicated cognitive operations, such as comparison, summarizing, prediction, etc. The experimental series carried out at NPPs demonstrated considerable reduction of operators' mental load, time of reaction, and error rate.

Content Analysis of the Reading Textbooks of Chinese-Korean and Korean Children: Ecological Systems and Values (중국 조선족과 한국 아동의 읽기교과서 내용분석 생태학적 체계에 따른 가치덕목의 비교)

  • Park Choi, Hyewon;Won, YoungMee;Lee, Kwee-ok
    • Korean Journal of Child Studies
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.55-69
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    • 2003
  • This study analyzed the contents of reading textbooks of Chinese-Korean $1^{st}$, $4^{th}$, and $7^{th}$ graders in Yanji, China with reference to ecological systems and values. Results showed that the literature genre of Korean textbooks in China was predominantly novels/stories(38.5%) rather than essays(13.7%), poems/verses/rhymes(16.2%) or others(31.6%). Characters were classified into 9 categories and analyzed by Bronfenbrenner's ecological paradigm. It was found that Chinese-Korean textbooks included more characters belonging to exo- or macro-systems including school, community, and government while Korean textbooks emphasized the self or the family, both belonging to the micro-system. Values in Chinese-Korean textbooks emphasized community and government. Korean textbooks emphasized individual life. Differences were more pronounced in textbooks of the upper grades.

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The role of tools in mathematical learning: Coordinating mathematical and ecological affordances (수학 학습에서 도구의 역할에 관한 관점: 수학적 어포던스와 상황적 어포던스의 조정)

  • 방정숙
    • Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.331-351
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    • 2002
  • It is widely recommended that teachers should actively mediate students' engagement with tools such as manipulative materials. This paper is to help to parse classroom life so that both social and psychological aspects are accounted for and coordinated. Building on the theory of affordances from ecological psychology and the activity theory from sociocultural perspectives, the main strategy of this paper is to view manipulative materials as simultaneously participating in social and psychological activity systems. Within these activity systems it is charted how both mathematical affordances related to the structure of mathematical concepts and ecological affordances related to socially situated classroom practices need to be considered by teachers in effective mediation of mathematical manipulatives. This paper has three major sections. The first section develops a theoretical extension of Gibson's theory of affordances from natural to social environments. The second section introduces mathematical and ecological affordances using empirical data from a grade two elementary school classroom. The third section illustrates the need of coordinating the two affordances as embedded in different activity systems.

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Almost Periodic Processes in Ecological Systems with Impulsive Perturbations

  • Stamov, Gani Trendafilov
    • Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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    • v.49 no.2
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    • pp.299-312
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    • 2009
  • In the present paper we investigate the existence of almost periodic processes of ecological systems which are presented with nonautonomous N-dimensional impulsive Lotka Volterra competitive systems with dispersions and fixed moments of impulsive perturbations. By using the techniques of piecewise continuous Lyapunov's functions new sufficient conditions for the global exponential stability of the unique almost periodic solutions of these systems are given.

Ecological Systems Factors Associated with Childhood Depression (아동기 우울에 영향을 미치는 생태체계 요인)

  • Kang, Hee Kyung
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.15 no.12
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    • pp.326-335
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this study aimed to examine the effects of ecological systems factors on childhood depression. A total of 2,119 children data from 2013 Korean Children & Youth Panel Survey(the fourth wave)were used in this study. The results of hierarchical regression showed the most ecological systems factors; organisms(child's gender, aggressiveness, attention problems), microsystems(parental neglect, parental abuse, good relationships with friends), exosystem(supportive community environment); had effects on depression. The most influential factors were child's aggressiveness, parental abuse, good relationships with friends, supportive community environment. Finally, this study suggested some implications for practical intervention and further research in childhood depression.

Environmental Information Systems in Russian Federation (러시아의 환경정보체계)

  • Tikunov, Vladimir S.
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.3-7
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    • 1994
  • The paper discusses the status of development of the geographic information systems (GIS) in Russia. A brief descriptions of GIS activities in governmental organizations, universities, Academy of Sciences and private sector of economy are included. The principal trends of the ecological GIS development are outlined.

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A Study on Planning Aspects & Detailed Techniques in terms of Main Concept of Ecological Industrial Parks (생태산업단지 개념에서 본 계획측면과 세부수업에 관한 연구)

  • Jeong, Sook-Young;Oh, Deog-Seong
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.11-19
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    • 2002
  • This Study aims to find out the planning aspects and detailed techniques in terms of concept of the Ecological Industrial Parks. It consists of the three parts : Firstly, according to theoretical review, this study gives a definition of the concept of ecological industrial parks. Secondly, it institutes planning aspects of ecological industrial parks based on the main concept. Thirdly, 8 case studies show us analysis of detailed techniques used each planning aspects. Ecological industrial parks mean industrial systems which make energy and substance circulated in order to reduce environmental pollutions inside and outside of park like natural ecosystem. To actualize ecological industrial parks, we have to adopt 3 planning aspects which are energy and substance recycling system, environmentally-friendly site planning based on ecology concept, constructing of ecological production and management. In case study, detailed techniques from each planning aspects are shown in table 8. As a result of case study, detailed techniques about planning of energy and substance recycling system is accommodated most. On the other hand, environmentally-friendly site planning techniques based on ecological concept is used passively. And detailed techniques about constructing of ecological production and management are very various as each cases. Finally, in terms of analysis, this study shows us appliable planning when we develop domestic Ecological industrial parks.

A case study of ECN data conversion for Korean and foreign ecological data integration

  • Lee, Hyeonjeong;Shin, Miyoung;Kwon, Ohseok
    • Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.41 no.5
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    • pp.142-144
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    • 2017
  • In recent decades, as it becomes increasingly important to monitor and research long-term ecological changes, worldwide attempts are being conducted to integrate and manage ecological data in a unified framework. Especially domestic ecological data in South Korea should be first standardized based on predefined common protocols for data integration, since they are often scattered over many different systems in various forms. Additionally, foreign ecological data should be converted into a proper unified format to be used along with domestic data for association studies. In this study, our interest is to integrate ECN data with Korean domestic ecological data under our unified framework. For this purpose, we employed our semi-automatic data conversion tool to standardize foreign data and utilized ground beetle (Carabidae) datasets collected from 12 different observatory sites of ECN. We believe that our attempt to convert domestic and foreign ecological data into a standardized format in a systematic way will be quite useful for data integration and association analysis in many ecological and environmental studies.

Ecological diagnosis and Development of Ecological Management System of Urban Forest : On Mt. Hwangryung in Pusan, Korea (도시림의 생태학적 진단과 생태적 관리시스템 개발 : 부산시 황령산을 중심으로)

  • 조현제;이창석
    • The Korean Journal of Ecology
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.779-789
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    • 1998
  • The forest vegetation established on Mt. Hwangryung located in Pusan, southern Korea was analyzed through phytosociological procedure. Vegetation of the study area was categorized into 14 communities, 16 groups, and 13 subgroups. Vegetation units obtained from such an analysis were shown in a detailed vegetation map (scale 1:5,000). Ecological characteristics of each vegetation unit were discussed on the basis of the principle of restoration ecology. From those results, it was confirmed that some introduced vegetation under excessive artificial interference was in unstable state and then ecological restoration was needed. On the other hand, ecological information and management systems to maintain the urban forest as ecologically healthy state were developed using GIS.

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