Cooked rice stickiness is one of the critical quality factors. A new data processing method from a simple experiment detaching after compressing cooked rice on a platform of texture analyzer was developed to create a new instrumental parameter which represents a true stickiness from sensory evaluation. The proposed idea was that the contact area produced by compressing with a fixed magnitude of force should vary with the sample’s consistency, ending up distorting the stickiness simply measured as the detaching force. Therefore, a corrected stickiness was defined by considering the contact area and converting to a stress (force/area) from just a force. The contact area could be estimated from the volume, density and thickness of samples. Even the compression force was converted to a corrected compression force by dividing by the contact area. The new corrected parameters turned out well to show a much better agreement with the sensorial stickiness than the uncorrected stickiness.

Distribution and abundance of species are influenced by their environmental condition. Among various environmental factors, a vegetation is one of the most influential factors, because it is used as habitats as well as food resources. Arthropods including insects play a important role in forest ecosystems as grazers, scavenger, predators, etc. Deciduous and coniferous forests have different plant community composition, resulting in different environmental condition. In this study, we collected arthropod communities at two different deciduous and coniferous forest stands in the Mountain Gariwang. At each stand, three different sampling methods were used: soil core for soil macroinvertebrate, pitfall trap for wandering insects, and sweeping net for insects in the shrups. Therefore, sampling was conducted at vertical habitats in the forest. The results showed that there were no difference in the number of orders from soil at both coniferous and deciduous stands. However, the abundance was higher at coniferous stand than at deciduous stand. Collembola was the dominant taxa in soil. Meanwhile, there were no statistically significant differences of community composition between coniferous stand and deciduous stands. Multivariate analyses was conducted to characterize differences of communities at different stands as well as vertical distribution in forest.

쇠고기의 저장 중 발생되는 부패취를 특수 관능기법인 R-index를 적용하여 부패취 검지분석을 하고, Pseudomonas의 증식과 비교분석 하였다. 패널에게 사전훈련을 통하여 signal reference(37oC, 48시간 동안 저장한 쇠고기)과 noise reference(-2oC, 저장 시간이 없는 신선한 쇠고기)를 구별이 가능하도록 하였다. Stimuli samples(저장 온도 및 시간 별 쇠고기)와 noise reference를 같이 제공하여 부패취 발생 여부의 확신도에 따라 4가지 구간(signal sure(S), signal unsure(S?), noise unsure(N?), noise sure(N))으로 평가하게 하도록 하였다. 상온인 25oC 저장과 냉장 온도인 5oC의 두 가지 시료 모두 저장 시간이 증가함에 따라 R-index가 증가하였다. 25oC의 경우 저장 36시간까지 급격한 변화를 보이다가 36시간 이후 완만한 변화를 보였으며, 5oC는 전구간 매우 완만하게 점차적으로 변화하였다. 패널 개인별 Rindex가 유의수준 α=0.05 및 α=0.01에서의 경계점을 넘는 시점인 부패취 발생 검지시간을 구하였다. 부패취 발생 검지시간은 α=0.05의 경우 25oC에서 30.92±3.47시간, 5oC에서 169.80±11.27시간, α=0.01의 경우는 25oC에서 34.80±4.01시간, 5oC에서 176.41±9.89시간으로 산출되었다. 부패취가 발생되었다고 검지된 저장 시간의 Pesudomonas의 수는 저장 온도별 차이가 있었고, 부패하였다고 판단되는 6-7 log CFU/g에 근접한 수치였다. 이는 미생물이 쇠고기의 부패취 발생의 기여도는 있지만, 그 밖에 유통환경의 오염, 지방의 산패, 내인성 효소 등의 요인도 부패취 발생에 기여한다는 것을 시사한다.