A four-year-old thoroughbred male horse (450 kg) who behaved in an aggressive manner toward people and other horses was referred to undergo castration surgery at the Equine Hospital, Jangsu Stud Farm and Training Center, Korea Racing Authority. Castration was performed by a closed technique using sedation (detomidine 10 mg IV) and regional anaesthesia (lidocaine) on a line 1 cm from the median raphe while the horse was standing. Incisions were made through the scrotal skin, tunica dartos, and scrotal fascia for each testis parallel to the median raphe, which was approximately 10 cm long. The testis, still capsulated by the parietal vaginal tunic, was grasped and the scrotal fascia was stripped upward from the parietal vaginal tunic using dry gauze. Then the parietal vaginal tunic, cremaster muscle, and spermatic cord were emasculated. The surgical area was disinfected without suturing. An anti-inflammatory drug (phenylbutazone) and antibiotics (benzylpenicillin + dihydrostreptomycin) were prescribed for seven days following surgery. Mild swelling and hemorrhage were observed around the region of surgery on the first day following the operation. Seven days later, no swelling or hemorrhage was observed, while formation of granulation tissue was observed in the scrotum, indicating a normal healing process.

지지력이 큰 하부지반에 구조물의 하중을 전달하기 위한 방안으로 말뚝기초가 대부분 적용되고 있다. 이 연구에서는 접합부에 보강되는 철근량에 따라 반복하중 하에서 프리캐스트공법과 철근 및 속채움 콘크리트로 말뚝머리부를 보강한 철근콘크리트 말뚝(HPC)과 기초접합부 거동을 실험을 통해 평가하였다. 철근량에 변화에 따라 제작된 두 종류의 접합부 실험체의 균열패턴과 파괴거동은 유사한 수준으로 평가되었다. 철근량 1.77배 증가에 기인하여 BS-H25 실험체는 BS-H19 실험체에 비해 최고하중은 약 1.47배 증가하였지만 연성비는 정가력시 76%, 부가력시 70% 수준을 나타내었다. 강성감소는 접합부 철근 항복 이후 BS-H19 실험체와 BS-H25 실험체는 정가력시 초기강성의 약 66% ~ 71% 수준으로 부가력시 54% ~ 57% 수준으로 감소되었고 BS-H25 실험체가 평균 13% 높은 강성값을 나타내었다. 극한하중 상태에서의 BS-H19와 BS-H25 실험체의 누적 에너지 소산량은 사용하중 상태에 비해 약 5.5배 및 6.6배 큰 값으로 측정되었다.

Genomic DNAs were extracted from the turtle leg (Pollicipes mitella, 1798) population of Tongyeong, Yeosu and Manjaedo located in the southern sea of Korea. The turtle leg population from Tongyeong (0.929) exhibited higher bandsharing values than did turtle leg from Manjaedo (0.852). The higher fragment sizes (>1,200 bp) are much more observed in the Yeosu population. The number of unique loci to each population and number of shared loci by the three populations, generated by PCR using 7 primers in the turtle leg (P. mitella) population of Tongyeong, Yeosu and Manjaedo. Genetic distances among different individuals of the Tongyeong population of the turtle leg (lane 1－07), Yeosu population of the turtle leg (lane 08－14) and Manjaedo population of the turtle leg (lane 15－21), respectively, were generated using the CLASSIFICATION option in Systat version 10 according to the bandsharing values and similarity matrix. The dendrogram, obtained by the seven decamer primers, indicated three genetic clusters: cluster 1 (TONGYEONG 01－TONGYEONG 07), cluster 2 (YEOSU 08－YEOSU 14), and cluster 3 (MANJEDO 15－MANJEDO 21). Tongyeong population could be evidently discriminated with the other two Yeosu and Manjaedo populations among three populations. The longest genetic distance (0.305) was found to exist between individuals’ no. 02 of the Tongyeong population and no. 13 of the Yeosu population. It seems to the authors that this is a result of a high degree of inbreeding in narrow region for a long while.