• Water Engineering Research
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.31-44
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• 2002

The effect of diurnal cycle, intermittent visit of observation satellite, sensor installation, partial coverage of remote sensing, heterogeneity of soil properties and precipitation to the soil moisture estimation error were analyzed to present the global sampling strategy of soil moisture. Three models, the theoretical soil moisture model, WGR model proposed Waymire of at. (1984) to generate rainfall, and Turning Band Method to generate two dimensional soil porosity, active soil depth and loss coefficient field were used to construct sufficient two-dimensional soil moisture data based on different scenarios. The sampling error is dominated by sampling interval and design scheme. The effect of heterogeneity of soil properties and rainfall to sampling error is smaller than that of temporal gap and spatial gap. Selecting a small sampling interval can dramatically reduce the sampling error generated by other factors such as heterogeneity of rainfall, soil properties, topography, and climatic conditions. If the annual mean of coverage portion is about 90%, the effect of partial coverage to sampling error can be disregarded. The water retention capacity of fields is very important in the sampling error. The smaller the water retention capacity of the field (small soil porosity and thin active soil depth), the greater the sampling error. These results indicate that the sampling error is very sensitive to water retention capacity. Block random installation gets more accurate data than random installation of soil moisture gages. The Walnut Gulch soil moisture data show that the diurnal variation of soil moisture causes sampling error between 1 and 4 % in daily estimation.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.67-73
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• 2009

Soil $CO_2$ efflux can vary markedly in magnitude over both time and space, and understanding this variation is crucial for the correct measurement of $CO_2$ efflux in ecological studies. Although considerable research has quantified temporal variability in this flux, comparatively little effort has focused on its spatial variability. To account for spatial heterogeneity, we must be able to determine the number of sampling points required to adequately estimate soil $CO_2$ efflux in a target ecosystem. In this paper, we report the results of a study of the number of sampling points required for estimating soil $CO_2$ efflux using a closed-dynamic chamber in young and old Japanese cedar plantations in central Japan. The spatial heterogeneity in soil $CO_2$ efflux was significantly higher in the mature plantation than in the young stand. In the young plantation, 95% of samples of 9 randomly-chosen flux measurements from a population of 16 measurements made using 72-$cm^2$ chambers produced flux estimates within 20% of the full-population mean. In the mature plantation, 20 sampling points are required to achieve means within $\pm$ 20% of the full-population mean (15 measurements) for 95% of the sample dates. Variation in soil temperature and moisture could not explain the observed spatial variation in soil $CO_2$ efflux, even though both parameters are a good predictor of temporal variation in $CO_2$ efflux. Our results and those of previous studies suggest that, on average, approximately 46 sampling points are required to estimate the mean and variance of soil $CO_2$ flux in temperate and boreal forests to a precision of $\pm$ 10% at the 95% confidence level, and 12 points are required to achieve a precision of $\pm$ 20%.

• 대한지리학회지
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.212-228
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• 2004

본 연구는 지역간 소득분포의 수렴/발산의 주요 측면인 베타-수렴을 공간자료분석에 의거하여 비판적으로 검토하고 있다. 베타-수렴에 대한 통상적인 접근법은 두 가지 측면에서 문제점을 갖고 있다. 첫째, 회귀분석 결과 도출되는 잔차의 공간적 자기상관을 고려하지 못한다. 둘째, 베타-수렴의 국지적 변이, 즉 공간적 이질성을 탐색할 어떠한 절차도 제공하지 못한다. 이러한 비판적 검토를 바탕으로, 다양한 공간자료분석 기법들, 즉, 공간적 자기회기 모델(spatial autoregressive models), 이변량 국지통지(bivariate local statistics)를 이용한 탐색적 공간자료분석(ESDA: exploratory spatial data analysis) 기법, 그리고 지리적 가중회귀분석(GWR: geographically weighted regression)을 사용하여 1969-1999년 간의 미국 노동시장지역에 대한 소득 자료를 분석하였다. 주요 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, OSL모델을 적용한 결과 베타-수렴은 단지 부분적으로만 드러났고, 베타-수렴 계수도 시기별로 상당한 편차를 보였다. 둘째, 공간적 자기회기 모델의 분석 결과 OLS에 의해 유의한 것으로 나타난 베타-수렴 계수가 99% 신뢰수준에서 유의하지 않은 것으로 드러났다. 셋째, 탐색적 공간자료분석과 지리적 가중회귀분석의 결과는 베타-수렴의 경향에 상당한 정도의 공간적 이질성이 존재한다는 점을 보여주고 있다. 또한 이 공간적 이질성의 양상이 시기별로도 다양하게 드러남이 관찰되었다.

• 전산구조공학
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.48-54
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• 2006

• BMB Reports
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• 제54권10호
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• pp.505-515
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• 2021

Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) include human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) derived from blastocysts and human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) generated from somatic cell reprogramming. Due to their self-renewal ability and pluripotent differentiation potential, hPSCs serve as an excellent experimental platform for human development, disease modeling, drug screening, and cell therapy. Traditionally, hPSCs were considered to form a homogenous population. However, recent advances in single cell technologies revealed a high degree of variability between individual cells within a hPSC population. Different types of heterogeneity can arise by genetic and epigenetic abnormalities associated with long-term in vitro culture and somatic cell reprogramming. These variations initially appear in a rare population of cells. However, some cancer-related variations can confer growth advantages to the affected cells and alter cellular phenotypes, which raises significant concerns in hPSC applications. In contrast, other types of heterogeneity are related to intrinsic features of hPSCs such as asynchronous cell cycle and spatial asymmetry in cell adhesion. A growing body of evidence suggests that hPSCs exploit the intrinsic heterogeneity to produce multiple lineages during differentiation. This idea offers a new concept of pluripotency with single cell heterogeneity as an integral element. Collectively, single cell heterogeneity is Janus-faced in hPSC function and application. Harmful heterogeneity has to be minimized by improving culture conditions and screening methods. However, other heterogeneity that is integral for pluripotency can be utilized to control hPSC proliferation and differentiation.

• 한국농림기상학회지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.140-148
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• 2007

경관의 비균질성은 원격 탐사에 의한 지면 특성 관측에 필연적으로 영향을 준다. 본 연구에서는 주요 지면 모수의 경관 비균질성을 정량적으로 해석할 수 있는 지구통계기법을 소개한다. 연구지역은 두 곳의 KoFlux 연구지로서 (1) 복잡지형의 온대 혼합림으로 구성된 광릉 연구지와 (2) 비교적 평탄한 농경지인 해남 연구지이다. 복사 모수인 지면온도(LST)와 알베도의 공간적 비균질성을 특성화하기 위하여 세미베리오그램과 프랙털 분석을 수행하였다. 이 두 모수는 두 연구지의 상향 장파 및 단파 복사를 결정하는 중요한 인자들이다. 이 모수들은 2001년 9월 23일과 2002년 2월 14일의 두 지역의 고해상도 Landsat ETM+영상에서 추출하였다. 분석 결과, 광릉과 해남 연구지는 알베도의 특성 규모가 각각 1 km 이상 그리고 약 0.3 km 이었다. 지면온도의 경우, 특성 규모는 광릉이 1 km 이상 그리고 해남이 0.6-1.0 km 이상이었다. 두 지면 모수의 특성 규모는 두 지역에서 모두 계절 변화를 보이지 않았다.

• ALGAE
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.63-74
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• 2022

Perennial stipitate kelps are globally distributed and individual species can inhabit broad latitudinal ranges, expressing notably longevous persistence. Despite the foundational role kelps provide to their communities, little is known about the variability in persistence of the stipitate kelps at local spatial scales. We studied the population persistence of Eisenia arborea, a heat- and wave force-tolerant perennial stipitate kelp with a distributional range extending from British Columbia to south of the range limit of all other northeast Pacific kelps, in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Persistence characteristics for E. arborea among sites were compared and used to test the hypothesis that stand persistence varied at local spatial scales around Isla Natividad, a Pacific island off the Baja California peninsula with documented spatiotemporal environmental heterogeneity. Collected individuals around the island were "aged" using the previously validated age estimation technique of counting annual cortical dark rings. After detecting no significant differences among sites in the covariation between estimated ages for collected individuals and stipe length, we utilized in-situ population-level stipe length measurements to more rapidly predict age structures within six stands around the island. Predicted age structures, and associated stand densities, revealed persistence characteristics and density varied at local scales and a strong positive relationship existed between stand density and stand mean and maximum ages. We speculate that stands responded differently to deterministic influences (e.g., the 2014-2016 marine heatwave and / or competition with Macrocystis) resulting in heterogenous local persistence of this foundation species.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.2031-2048
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• 2021

Not only can air pollution reduce the overall competitiveness of tourist destinations, but also changes tourists' travel decisions, thereby affecting the tourism flows. The study presents a machine learning method to analyze how the haze pollution puts spatial effect on tourism flows in China from 2001 to 2018, and reveals the regional differences in heterogeneity among eastern, central, and western China. Our investigation reveals three interesting observations. First, the Environmental Kuznets Curve of the impact of haze pollution on tourism flows is not significant. In the eastern and western regions, the interaction between haze pollution and domestic tourism flows as well as inbound tourism flows shows an inverted U-shaped curve respectively. Second, there is an significantly positive spillover effect of tourism flows in all of the eastern, central, and western regions. As to the intensity of spillover, domestic tourism flows is higher than that of the inbound tourism flows. Both of the above figures are greatest in the eastern. Third, the Chinese haze pollution mainly reduces the inbound tourism flows, and only imposes significantly negative direct effects on the domestic tourism flows in the central region. In the central and eastern regions, significantly negative direct effects and spillover effects are exerted on inbound tourism.

• 한국농림기상학회지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.115-123
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• 2005

농림생태계에서의 물과 탄소의 순환을 연구하려면, 먼저 관측지의 공간적 특성을 정량적으로 이해해야 한다 특히, 우리나라와 같은 복잡한 경관에 관측지가 위치한 경우에는 공간 특성의 이해가 더욱 더 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 광릉 산림 소유역의 지형, 식생 및 토양과 관련된 변수들의 공간적 특성을 정량화하였다 지형의 공간 특성을 산출하기 위해 수치고도 모형 (DEM)에서 계산된 고도, 경사 및 사면 정보를 분석하였다. 식생과 토양 정보는 LANDSAT TM 영상으로부터 제작된 지표 피복 지도를 사용하였다. 계절 특성을 살펴보기 위해 1999년 6월 30일, 2000년 9월 4일, 2001년 9월 23일, 2002년 2월 14일의 네 위성 영상을 사용하였다. CO₂와 수증기의 플럭스 지수로서, 위성 영상으로부터 식생지수 NDVI를 세 격자 크기 (7km x 7km MODIS 격자, 3km x 3km 집중관측 격자, 1km x 1km 단위 격자)에 대해 각각 도출하였다. 반분산 분석에 근거해서 이 자료들을 사용하여 관측지의 비균질성의 공간 규모를 계산하였다. 예상한대로, 격자의 크기가 작아질수록 비균질성의 규모가 작아졌고, 식생의 계절 변화에 민감하였다. 40m 플럭스 타워가 위치한 두 단위 격자의 경우, 비균질성의 공간 규모는 200～1000m 이었고, 이러한 공간 규모는 모형에서 계산된 타워 플럭스 발자국의 기후도와 잘 일치하였다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.375-401
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• 2014

It is generally accepted that material heterogeneity has a great influence on the deformation, strength, damage and failure modes of rock. This paper presents numerical simulation on rock failure process based on the characterization of rock heterogeneity by using a digital image processing (DIP) technique. The actual heterogeneity of rock at mesoscopic scale (characterized as minerals) is retrieved by using a vectorization transformation method based on the digital image of rock surface, and it is imported into a well-established numerical code Rock Failure Process Analysis (RFPA), in order to examine the effect of rock heterogeneity on the rock failure process. In this regard, the numerical model of rock could be built based on the actual characterization of the heterogeneity of rock at the meso-scale. Then, the images of granite are taken as an example to illustrate the implementation of DIP technique in simulating the rock failure process. Three numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the impact of actual rock heterogeneity due to spatial distribution of constituent mineral grains (e.g., feldspar, quartz and mica) on the macro-scale mechanical response, and the associated rock failure mechanism at the meso-scale level is clarified. The numerical results indicate that the shape and distribution of constituent mineral grains have a pronounced impact on stress distribution and concentration, which may further control the failure process of granite. The proposed method provides an efficient tool for studying the mechanical behaviors of heterogeneous rock and rock-like materials whose failure processes are strongly influenced by material heterogeneity.