PURPOSES: Using recycled asphalt materials (called Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement: RAP) from existing asphalt pavement layers in newly constructed asphalt pavement is an essential option not only for lowering the construction budget but also for mitigating environmental pollution for society. For this reason, many pavement agencies in South Korea, the USA, and Canada have observed the effect of RAP on conventional asphalt pavement to evaluate and set proper material specifications and addable amounts. In this paper, effect of recyclable material on low-temperature performance of asphalt materials was investigated with two different mechanical tests. Among the recyclable material sources, RAP and Taconite Aggregate (TA), which is mainly produced in northern Minnesota (USA), were considered. METHODS : To evaluate the low-temperature mechanical performance of a RAP mixture, two different experimental tests (In-Direct Tensile (IDT) low temperature creep test and Semi-Circular Bending (SCB) test) were considered. The mechanical parameters creep-stiffness, relaxation modulus, fracture energy, and fracture toughness were computed then compared. RESULTS: More brittle characteristics were observed with RAP-added asphalt mixtures compared to the conventional asphalt mixtures, as expected. However, the differences of computed mechanical performances were not significantly distinct for RAP mixtures compared to conventional mixtures when the RAP proportion was around 20%, and with the addition of TA up to 20%. CONCLUSIONS : It can be concluded that up to 20% of RAP addition (along with TA up to 20%) in a virgin asphalt mixture does not provide significant performance reduction. This addable proportion can be viewed as a successful minimum level when considering the addition of RAP to hot-mix asphalt (HMA). Moreover, applying TA with RAP could offer a successful alternative for asphalt recycling and the materials industry.

The purpose of this study is to examine the changes on lumbar muscle strength in relation to 12-week pilates mat exercise of elderly women. The participants are chosen for 17 people who is an experimental group and 14 people who is an comparison group who except wastage and pilates mat exercise program was gradually intensify applied three times a week, during 12 weeks. The peak torque of flexion was increased(p<.01) and the difference of ratio of agonist to antagonist was decreased(p<.001). The total work of flexion and extension had significant increased(p<.001) at 120°/sec. As a result of all these, it was judged as positive effect for body composition, basal physical fitness and lumbar muscle strength after pilates mat exercise in 12 weeks. These positive effects showed that pilates mat exercise could got conclusions that mitigated the musculoskelctal disorders, slow down the progress of disorders, helped as a functions of physical.

Gregarine parasite (Apicomplexa: Protozoa) was observed in the population of daikon leaf beetle, Phaedon brassicae Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in Daegwallyeong. Morphological features of the gregarine in gut of P. brassicae have been studied by light microscope and scanning electron microscope with particular attention to the relationship between the epimerite and the host epithelium. On the average of mature trophozoite length and width are 100 and 40㎛, respectively. Based on 1.727kb of 18S rDNA sequence, this gregarine grouped in eugregarine.

방사선을 투사한 이화명나방의 교미능력 및 경쟁력 조사를 5-7령 번데기에 gamma선을 투사하여 조사하였다. 얻어진 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 방사선 처리웅충과, 정상적인 수컷에 매일 새로운 미교미자충을 넣어 주었을 때 그들간에 교미 최고회수에는 유의차가 없었다. 2. 교미초일은 정상웅충의 경우 평소 1.5일이며 25.30Krad 처리웅충은 2.4일이었다. 교미 일 간격은 정상웅충이 1.3일인데 대하여 처리웅충은 3.0일이었으며 방사선 투사는 교미력에 영향이 있었다. 3. 정상웅충 1두에 정상자충 5두와 10두씩을 넣어서 정상웅충의 평균교미회수를 조사한 겨로가 1.2회와 2.5회이었다. 4. 교미경쟁력 실험에서 미교미자충 5두에 대하여 방사선 투사 웅충과 정상웅충의 비율을 1:0, 1:1, 2:1, 1:2, 5:1, 1:5, 0:1로 하였을 때 난부화 감소율은 5:1(30Krad)에서 최대의 감소를 보였으며 이때의 난부화율은 이었다. 5. 방사선 투사는 교미능력에 다소의 영향을 미치나 처리웅충에 의한 산란수 감소의 영향을 고려한다면 이화명충에서 웅성불임 기술의 이용은 가능할 것으로 생각된다.

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) involving two simultaneous vascular territories of acute transmural ischemia is known as a double or combined myocardial infarction. This well described but extremely rare phenomenon may be related to the fact that AMI with multiple vessel obstruction often causes extensive myocardial injury and death before hospitalization. We reported the first case of 45-year-old man with AMI occluded left anterior descending artery and right coronary artery simultaneously in Korea.

“Hoanbyeo” is a new japonica rice cultivar developed from a cross between Kanto149 and Milyang95 by the rice breeding team of National Honam Agricultural Experiment Station (NHAES), RDA, during 1990 to 1998. This cultivar requires about 121days of growth