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Geomorphological significance and role of the sand bars of major river valleys in the South Korea - case study on the Nakdong river valleys - (한국 하천 모래톱의 지형학적 의미와 효능 - 낙동강 하곡을 사례로 -)

  • OH, Kyung-Seob;YANG, Jae-Hyuk;CHO, Heon
    • Journal of The Geomorphological Association of Korea
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.1-14
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    • 2011
  • Remarkable development of sand bars is an important characteristic of fluviatile landform of Korea. Their development owes, in one part, to the supply of abundant sandy materials to river valley floor, originated from the weathering of essentially granitic rocks, distributed almost all over the country. It owes, in other part, to river valley disposition presenting many angular sinuosity guided by fracture grid, impeding regular migration of sandy materials along valley floor. Besides, high amplitude of river discharge fluctuation of the country plays is proved to be favorable hydrological factor for the development of the sand bars. The sand bars play important roles in favor of river hydro-ecological environment. They mitigate the amplitude of discharge fluctuation regime. In flood spell, sand grains in the main channel migrate so as to broden wet section. At the spell of low water level, they newly accumulate as to impede rapid stream discharge. Especially high quantity of reserved water in porous space of sand bar is preciously available both for human livelihood and for ecological environment.

A Study on the Effect of Parents' Water-Saving Mind in Adolescence on Children's Water-Saving Consciousness (청소년기 부모의 절수 마인드가 자녀의 절수 인식에 미치는 영향)

  • Yoon, Seok-Joo;Kim, Yeon-Shik
    • Industry Promotion Research
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.115-121
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    • 2016
  • This study verified the effect of parents' water-saving mind in adolescence on children's water-saving consciousness. The study results showed that parents' water-saving mind in adolescence positively affected one's water-saving consciousness(${\beta}=.627$, p<.001) and one's water-saving mind positively affected children's water-saving consciousness and intention to emphasize water saving for their children(p<.001). Also, education, occupation, type of residence, monthly water rate significantly affected the between-group differences of one's water-saving mind and women's water-saving mind were higher than men's. This study provided implications for confirming the effect of parents' water-saving education for child in home by verifying the effect of parents' water-saving mind in adolescence on children's water-saving consciousness.

The Effects of Integrated Environmental Experience Program on Environmental Attitude of Elementary Schoolers (통합 환경체험 프로그램이 초등학생의 환경태도에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Chan-Ki;Choi, Sung-Bong
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.19 no.12
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    • pp.1409-1419
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    • 2010
  • Recently, Korea's interest in environment protection is increasingly growing, and Korea realizes the seriousness of environmental pollution and national movement to minimize the effect is arising. As part of the movement, the need of environmental education in elementary schools is on the rise. This study aims to develop integrated environmental experience programs allowing students to have experience activities in forests, rivers, and seas that they can approach easily around them and to have environmental education through various plays. In addition, the study purposes to compare general educational education programs in actual education in terms of the effect of the program on students' environment attitudes. This study was conducted to 50 fourth graders in two classes of S elementary school in Busan, and the 25-student comparative group had the normal educational education program that is mostly being performed in actual education while the 25-student treatment group had the survey on environmental attitude after a class using an integrated environmental experience program. The survey content is about environmental attitudes, and it consists of six subjects such as general environment, environmental pollution, energy, water resources, recycling, and animal protection and has 7 or 8 items by each subject which is divided into eight sub-items including sensibility, belief, values, spontaneity, criticism, patience, attention and interest. The findings are as follows. First, the integrated environmental experience program has a more positive effect on environmental attitudes than the general educational program. In particular, it is really effective about the topic of animal protection among students' environmental attitudes. Second, the integrated environmental experience program has a more positive effect on values and interests than the general environmental education program.

Effects of habitat differences on the genetic diversity of Persicaria thunbergii

  • Nam, Bo Eun;Nam, Jong Min;Kim, Jae Geun
    • Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.84-88
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    • 2016
  • To understand the effects of habitat characteristics on the genetic diversity of Persicaria thunbergii, three sites of different environmental conditions in a water system were surveyed. Site A was the closest to the source of the water system, and there was a dam between sites A and B. Site C is located on the lowest downstream in the water system. Vegetation survey of four quadrats at each site was performed, and soil samples were collected for physicochemical analysis. Random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis of ten P. thunbergii individuals at each site was conducted to calculate population genetic diversity and genetic distance among populations. Soil was sterile sand at site A, whereas loamy soil at sites B and C. A pure stand of P. thunbergii appeared at site A, while other species occurred together (such as Humulus japonicus and Phragmites australis) at sites B (Shannon-Wiener index; $H_B=0.309$) and C ($H_C=0.299$). Similar to the species diversity, genetic diversity (Nei's gene diversity; h) within population of site A ($h_A=0.2381$) was relatively lower than sites B ($h_B=0.2761$) and C ($h_C=0.2618$). However, site C was separated from sites A and B in genetic distance rather than the geographical distance (Nei's genetic distance; A~B, 0.0338; B~C, 0.0685; A~C, 0.0833).

Inhibitory Effects of Super Reductive Water on Plant Pathogenic Fungi

  • Hur, Jae-Seoun;Kim, Hae-Jin;Oh, Soon-Ok;Koh, Young-Jin;Kwak, Young-Se;Lee, Choong-Il
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.284-287
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    • 2002
  • The antifungal activity of super reductive water (SRW) against plant pathogenic fungi was examined to extend its application to integrated pest management (IPM) for plant diseases. Diluted solutions ($\times$1/10, $\times$1/25, and $\times$1/50) of SRW inhibited fungal growth of kiwifruit soft rot pathogen, Diaporthe actinidiae, in a concentration dependent manner, When kiwifruits were inoculated on wounds with mycelium blocks, stock and diluted solutions successfully inhibited the disease development. In addition to the high pH of the SRW, fungistatic activity was also considered as the cause of the antifungal effect against the pathogen. Whereas conidial germination of Magnaporthe grisea was not affected by the diluted SRW solutions, appressorium formation was significantly inhibited in a concentration dependent manner, With little harmfulness to human health and environment SRW could be used to control plant pathogenic fungi, particularly appressorium-forming fungal pathogens.

Study about the Increase of Welfare, Medical Care and Education Effect in the River

  • Ito, Kazumasa;Fukunari, Kozo;Tsukamoto, Noboru;Yoshikawa, Katsuhide
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.132-139
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    • 2010
  • The river technology of Japan was highly developed and achieved much result in flood protection, water use and the environment. Nowadays, the function which is requested to the river is changes because the society changes from growth to maturity. In this study, we suggest the functions of the river in the maturity society about future welfare, medical care and education based on field research of case study. In this research, we pay attention to the functions related with culture, one) function of healing, mental stress improvement and life, two) function of landscape, education and recreation. And this paper proposed the usage of the river where adopt to the times, a function and the value of "the river as the space". We made a questionnaire to 187 river managers, and 90% of answers wear positive for use the river as the medical aspect, health and the welfare. Furthermore, based on research result of hospitals and welfare facilities which used a river for their activities, we suggest to develop and use the river walk, to design a city and rivers as one, and to use many facilities which are located on river front more active, those are improve the new river functions.

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Distribution of Vegetation and Geomorphology Characteristics of the Water Spider(Argyroneta aquatica) Habitat in the Jeongok Lava Plateau, Central Korea (전곡 용암대지 물거미 서식지의 지형특성과 식생 분포)

  • Lee, Min Boo;Lee, Sang Young
    • Journal of The Geomorphological Association of Korea
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.57-73
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    • 2017
  • The formation of the lava dam of the paleo lake blocked the entrance to the Chatancheon River on the Jeongok lava plateau and it suddenly transformed the terrestrial ecosystem into the aquatic one by the overflow. The spiders in the lava dam adapted in the wetland and evolved into water spiders that could survive by forming bubble houses. Since then, the lava dam was connected to the present Hantangang River due to the dissection and the lake became a terrestrial environment, a small area of marsh composed of primarily clay soil layer. Change in water level of the habitat and thus the extension of the terrestrial area made the species a endangered now. This study carried out frequency of occurrence, degree of wetness and plant habitats of the vascular plant in the water spider habitat. As a result of this study, total 180taxa are of 55 (30.6%) wetland plant groups and of 113 (62.8%) upland plant groups except facultative plant groups. Among the wetland plant groups, the Isachne globosa community occupied the largest area, where the water spiders were most observed. The result of this study, the classification and the types of vascular plant species, would provide useful information for the sustaining healthy wetland ecosystem and the restoration of the habitat for the water spiders.

Evaluation Model for Environmentally Friendliness of Tourism Farms by LISREL Structural Equation Model (LISREL 구조방정식 모델에 의한 농촌 관광농원의 환경친화성 평가 모형 추정)

  • Eom, Boong-Hoon
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.5 no.2 s.10
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    • pp.56-65
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    • 1999
  • Recently, new concept and paradigm of 'Environmentally-Friendliness' is taking a growing interest in environmental planning and design. This study is to establish the evaluation model for environmentally-friendliness of 'Tourism Farms' in rural areas by LISREL structural equation model. A questionnaire survey was conducted for deputy manager group and expert group. As the Result of LISREL structural equation model, the environmentally-friendliness of tourism farms is composed of three categories. First, conservation of global environment (Low Impact), second, friendliness to surrounding nature(High Contact), and third, environmental health and amenities (Health & Amenity). Five indicators, such as (1)saving of energy and water resource, (2)reduction and reuse of garbage, (3)natural purification of sewage disposal, (4)utilization of natural energy, (5)campaign and education programs of environmentally-friendliness, were affecting the first category, i.e., conservation of global environment(Low Impact). Friendliness to surrounding nature (High Contact) is affected by 3 indicators, (1)contact to nature and diverse green areas, (2)water intimate & contact areas, (3)natural ecology observation by biotope. Finally, the dimension of environmental health and amenity is affected by 3 indicators, (1)nature affinity by farming experience, (2)environmental-friendliness of soil & crops by organic farming, (3) campaign and education programs of environmentally-friendliness. Total coefficient of determination of the structural equation model by LISREL was 0.897, which showed high explanatory power.

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Impedance investigation of the surface film formed on aluminum alloy exposed to nuclear reactor emergency core coolant

  • Junlin Huang;Derek Lister;Xiaoliang Zhu;Shunsuke Uchida;Qinglan Xu
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.55 no.4
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    • pp.1518-1527
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    • 2023
  • A method was proposed for in-situ evaluating the thickness and resistivity of the oxide/hydroxide film formed on the surface of aluminum alloy exposed to sump water formed in the containment after a loss-of-coolant accident. The evaluation entailed fitting a model for the film impedance, which has film thickness and other variables describing the resistivity profile of the film along its thickness direction as fitting parameters, to the practically measured electrochemical impedance data. The obtained resistivity profiles implied that the films formed at pHs25℃ 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 all had a duplex structure; compared to the outer layer in contact with the solution, the inner layer of the film had a much higher resistivity and was inferred to be denser and provide most of the protectiveness of the film. Both the thickness and the total resistance of the film decreased with the increasing solution pH25℃, suggesting that the films formed in more alkaline solutions had less protectiveness against corrosion, consistent with the increasing aluminum alloy corrosion rates previously identified.