PURPOSES : In this study, we aimed to investigate the heat transfer characteristics of asphalt mixtures by water saturation. METHODS : On the basis of the literature review, the heat transfer characteristics of the samples were analyzed using a thermal accumulation experiment. The types of samples used were WC2 (dense asphalt mixture), ReWC2 (used 30% recycled aggregate), and PA13 (drainage asphalt mixture). The samples were compacted using a gyratory compactor. An infrared lamp simulating insolation was used to continuously heat the asphalt sample. Through this experiment, the upper and lower temperatures and heat flux of the specimen according to its thickness and condition were measured, and the change in its thermal conductivity was analyzed. RESULTS : The results of the laboratory experiment indicated that the dry sample showed lower thermal conductivity than the saturated sample. The amount of evaporation varied depending on the internal pores of the sample. Additionally, the amount of evaporation changed the heat transfer characteristics of the specimen. CONCLUSIONS : An asphalt mixture with high porosity decreased the degree of increase in thermal conductivity, compared to mixtures with low porosity, under semi-saturated conditions; this was attributed to the difference in thermal conductivity between air and water during saturation. The results of this study on the heat transfer characteristics of asphalt pavements could be used as basic data for thermal energy harvesting of asphalt pavements.

Pacific herring, Clupea pallasii, a keystone species with significant ecological and commercial importance, is declining globally throughout much of its range. While traditional fishing equipment methods remain limited, new sensitive and rapid detection methods should be developed to monitor fisheries resources. To monitor the presence and quantity of C. pallasii from environmental DNA (eDNA) extracted from seawater samples, a pair of primers and a TaqMan® probe specific to this fish based on mitochondrial cytochrome b (COB) sequences were designed for the real-time PCR (qPCR) assay. The combination of our molecular markers showed high specificity in the qPCR assay, which affirmed the success of presenting a positive signal only in the C. pallasii specimens. The markers also showed a high sensitivity for detecting C. pallasii genomic DNA in the range of 1 pg~100 ng rxn-1 and its DNA plasmid containing COB amplicon in the range of 1~100,000 copies rxn-1, which produced linear standard calibration curves (r2=0.99). We performed a qPCR assay for environmental water samples obtained from 29 sampling stations in the southeastern coastal regions of South Korea using molecular markers. The assay successfully detected the C. pallasii eDNA from 14 stations (48.2%), with the highest mean concentration in Jinhae Bay with a value of 76.09±18.39 pg L-1 (246.20±58.58 copies L-1). Our preliminary application of molecular monitoring of C. pallasii will provide essential information for efficient ecological control and management of this valuable fisheries resource.

The present study is designed to investigate the hypolipidemic effect of the hot-water extract from the leaves of Dendropanax morbifera L. (DMWE) in hyperlipidemic rats. Thirty male 5-week-old rats were grouped as follows: Normal control (NC) given distilled water; hyperlipidemic control (HC) administered with distilled water; drug treatment (DT) orally administered with atorvastatin (10 mg/kg body weight (BW)); DMWE-treated groups (DM-50, DM-100 and DM-200) treated with DMWE 50, 100 and 200 mg/kg BW, respectively. All groups (except for NC) were fed a high-fat diet during the experiment. After 4 weeks of administration, the BW of all groups treated with DMWEs significantly increased compared to that of HC (p<0.05) and showed no significant difference compared to that of NC. In addition, serum total cholesterol levels in all groups treated with DMWEs were meaningfully decreased, compared to that in HC (p<0.05). In serum triglyceride (TG) and low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol levels, both DM-100 and DM-200 considerably decreased compared to HC (p<0.05), and no significant differences in TG levels were between DM-100 and DM-200. In high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol levels, DM-200 was statistically different compared to HC, and there were no significant differences between DM-100, DM-200 and DT. Furthermore, aspartate transaminase and alanine aminotransferase concentrations of DM-100 and DM-200 were significantly decreased compared to those of HC (p<0.05). From results portrayed above, DMWE at the concentration of 100 mg/kg BW has been identified to be effective in the treatment of hyperlipidemic rats.

상사호에서 순천만까지 짧은 수역 특성을 나타내는 이 사천 수계 (Isa Stream systems)의 수질 환경 및 식물플랑크 톤 군집의 시ㆍ공간 분포 특성을 분석하였다. 결과, 상사호는 상대적으로 빈영양 및 중영양 조건을 나타내지만, 순천만에 이루는 담수역과 기수역은 축산폐수 등 산업폐수의 영향으로 상사호 및 해수역보다 극심한 부영양상태를 나 타내었다. 식물플랑크톤 군집은 상사호와 순천만보다 담수역 및 기수역에서 출현 종수가 높았지만, 현존량 및 엽록소 a 농도는 상사호와 해수역에서 상대적으로 높게 나타났다. 특히 봄과 여름 상사호는 중영양종인 Fragilaria crotonensis와 Asterionella formosa가 표층과 저층에서 서로 다른 우점 현상을 보이는 것으로 댐 하류의 담수역과 기수 역에서는 A. formosa에 의한 영향이 크게 나타났다. 그러나 가을과 겨울은 기수역에서 해수역까지 부영양화 지표종인 Skeletonema costatum-ls가 극우점하였다. 즉 이사천 수계의 급격한 환경변화는 순천만 연안생태계 구조를 심각하게 훼손시킬 수 있을 것으로 판단되었다. 급격한 연안생태계 변화는 한국 제1호 람사르습지인 순천만 및 순천 생물권보 전지역 및 최대 꼬막 산지인 여자만의 효율적 이용과 관리, 그리고 보전이라는 측면에서 매우 위협적인 내용이기에, 더욱 심층적인 관리방안 도출이 요구된다고 할 수 있다.

깔따구 (Diptera: Chironomidae)는 저서성 대형무척추동 물로 환경 및 수질 변화에 민감한 영향을 받는 중요한 환경 지표생물이다. 이러한 깔따구 유충이 정수장에서 본 연구에서는 제주 정수처리장에서 발견된 깔따구 유충의 종을 분류하기 위해 형태 사진 및 COI (cytochrome c oxidase subunit I) Primer로 증폭시킨 DNA의 염기서열을 계통수 분석을 통해 분석을 실시하였다. 정수장 내 수도꼭지와 소화관 등에서 채집된 17개체는 둥근깃깔따구 (O. tamarutilus) 14개체, 타마긴털깔따구 (P. tammaater) 3개체 총 2종으로 확인되었다. 각 깔따구 종의 형태적 특징은 두부, 하순기절, 대악, 안테나, 발톱의 형태적 특징의 분류기로 종 동정하였다. NCBI Genbank에 등록된 깔따구 19종 COI 염기서열을 기반으로 본 연구에서 조사된 17개체의 계통진화적 분석 결과 채집된 깔따구 COI 염기서열이 둥근깃깔따구 (O. tamarutilus)와 타 마긴털깔따구 (P. tammaater) 2종으로 각각 계통군 (clade)를 이루는 것이 확인되었다. 이러한 결과는 정수장 환경별 발견 되는 깔따구 유충의 다양성의 확인과 형태적-유전적 종 동정 분류정보를 바탕으로 수환경 관리 및 평가를 위한 기반 정보로 활용될 것이다.

국내 생태계의 환경유전자 적용도 가속화되고 있으나 생산된 데이터를 처리하고 분석하는데 한계를 느끼고 있으며, 분석 생산된 생물데이터의 신뢰성에 대한 의구심이 제기되기도 하고 시료 매체 (대상 시료, 물, 공기, 퇴적물, 위내용물, 분변 등) 간의 방법에 따른 차이와 분석 방법의 정량화와 개선 등이 필요한 상태이기도 하다. 따라서 국내 생태계의 환경 유전자를 활용한 생물다양성 연구의 신뢰성과 정확성을 확보하기 위해서는 생태분류학으로 축적된 데이터베이스를 적 극적으로 활용하여 검증 절차를 거치고, 유전자 서열 분석으로 높아진 데이터의 해상력을 전문가들이 검증하는 과정이 반드시 필요하다. 환경유전자 연구는 분자생물학적인 기술 적용으로만 해결될 수 없으며, 생산된 데이터의 신뢰성을 확보하기 위한 생태-분류-유전학-인포메틱스 등 학제 간의 연구 협력이 중요하며, 다양한 매체를 다루는 연구자들이 함께 접근할 수 있는 정보 공유 플랫폼이 절실한 분야이며, 발전의 속도도 급격하게 진행될 것이고 축적되는 데이터는 수년 내에 빅테이터로서 성장할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

The purpose of this paper is to confirm the trend of inland water fish farming in North Korea and to suggest a plan for inter-Korean cooperation. North Korea’s inland water fish farming laid the foundation for production in the 1950s and 1960s, and production facilities were expanded until 1980. In the midst of the severe economic crisis in the 1990s, North Korea paid attention to inland water fish farming as an alternative to food production. The military took the lead in expanding the aquaculture industry and catfish farming was encouraged. In the Kim Jong-un era, North Korea’s inland fish farming continues the tradition of catfish farming and promotes a policy of expanding inland cage farming. This study comprehensively reviewed recent inter-Korean relations, North Korea’s food crisis and acceptability, and UN sanctions. As a result, inland water fish farming is the most promising field for inter-Korean cooperation in the field of fisheries. In the initial stage of inter-Korean cooperation in the field of inland water fish farming, humanitarian aid projects such as feed and seed support can be promoted. In the stage of expanding inter-Korean cooperation, knowledge sharing program and materials and facilities support projects can be promoted. Development cooperation and direct private investment are possible at the full-scale stage.

Preparation of activated carbon from biomass residue with conventional steam activation was conducted to find the alternative raw materials for meeting the high demand for low-cost porous material in the desiccant application. In this study, activated carbons were produced from dead camphor leaves using two-step methods at different preparation temperatures. The characterization results revealed that the prepared activated carbons have a surface area of 700 m2/g, with 75% of microporosity. The water vapor sorption study reported that the water uptake of camphor leaf-based activated carbons was strongly affected by the pore properties of the materials. Moreover, from the water adsorption kinetics, it was observed that the rate constant of adsorption was varied at each relative pressure, which can be assumed that the water adsorption mechanism is different at each relative pressure. From these results, it was revealed that the prepared camphor leaf-based activated carbons have a promising ability to adsorb water vapor from humid air.

Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) gravimeter satellites observed the Earth gravity field with unprecedented accuracy since 2002. After the termination of GRACE mission, GRACE Follow-on (GFO) satellites successively observe global gravity field, but there is missing period between GRACE and GFO about one year. Many previous studies estimated terrestrial water storage (TWS) changes using hydrological models, vertical displacements from global navigation satellite system observations, altimetry, and satellite laser ranging for a continuity of GRACE and GFO data. Recently, in order to predict TWS changes, various machine learning methods are developed such as artificial neural network and multi-linear regression. Previous studies used hydrological and climate data simultaneously as input data of the learning process. Further, they excluded linear trends in input data and GRACE/GFO data because the trend components obtained from GRACE/GFO data were assumed to be the same for other periods. However, hydrological models include high uncertainties, and observational period of GRACE/GFO is not long enough to estimate reliable TWS trends. In this study, we used convolutional neural networks (CNN) method incorporating only climate data set (temperature, evaporation, and precipitation) to predict TWS variations in the missing period of GRACE/GFO. We also make CNN model learn the linear trend of GRACE/GFO data. In most river basins considered in this study, our CNN model successfully predicts seasonal and long-term variations of TWS change.

In this study, for the treatment efficiency of the IGF process for the treatment of produced water (PW) discharged from the oil sands plant, the bench-scale oil sands plant PWT package was designed, manufactured and evaluated to verify the efficiency of the process. The microbubble generation efficiency and microbubble size change according to the circulation pump pressure were observed, and the correlation between influent concentration and temperature, residence time and oil-water separation performance was analyzed.

Recently, various researches have been studied, such as water treatment, water reuse, and seawater desalination using CDI (Capacitive deionization) technology. Also, applications like MCDI (Membrane capacitive deionization), FCDI (Flow-capacitive deionization), and hybrid CDI have been actively studied. This study tried to investigate various factors by an experiment on the TDS (Total dissolved solids) removal characteristics using MCDI module in aqueous solution. As a result of the TDS concentration of feed water from 500 to 2,000 mg/L, the MCDI cell broke through faster when the higher TDS concentration. In the case of TDS concentration according to the various flow rate, 100 mL/min was stable. In addition, there was no significant difference in the desorption efficiency according to the TDS concentration and method of backwash water used for desorption. As a result of using concentrated water for desorption, stable adsorption efficiency was shown. In the case of the MCDI module, the ions of the bulk solution which is escaped from the MCDI cell to the spacer during the desorption process are more important than the concentration of ions during desorption. Therefore, the MCDI process can get a larger amount of treated water than the CDI process. Also, prepare a plan that can be operated insensitive to the TDS concentration of backwash water for desorption.

알칼리 수전해용 격막으로 사용가능성을 평가하기 위해 5종류의 상용 음이온교환막의 열적안정성, 이온전도도, 내구성을 평가하였다. TGA (thermo-gravimetric analysis)로 분석한 열적안정성은 FAAM-PK-75와 FAAM-40 막이 다른 3종류의 AEM, AHO, AHA 막과 비교하여 좋은 성능을 보였다. 25°C와 80°C, 7 M KOH 수용액에서의 이온전도도는 AEM막이 다른 막과 비교하여 약 4~17배 높은 값을 보였다. 25°C, 7 M KOH 수용액에서 측정한 내구성은 FAAM-PK-75막이 다른 막과 비교하여 안정하였다.

Doublesex and mab-3 related transcription factor (dmrt) play crucial roles in sex determination and sex differentiation in vertebrates and invertebrates. Although dmrt genes have been identified in vertebrates, little is known about aquatic invertebrates. In this study, two dmrt genes, namely, Dc_dmrt93B and Dc_dmrt99B, were identified from brackish water flea, Diaphanosoma celebensis. Transcriptional changes were observed in the dmrt genes when the flea was exposed to bisphenol (BP), an endocrine disruptor. Sequence and phylogenetic analyses showed that both dmrt genes contained two conserved domains, namely, DM and DMA, closely clustered with those of Daphnia spp. Additionally, a significant increase in the Dc_dmrt99B mRNA expression level was observed upon exposure to intermediate concentrations of BP (bisphenol A>bisphenol S=bisphenol F, p<0.05), while the expression of Dc_dmrt93B mRNA was slightly modulated. These findings imply that the two dmrt genes may be involved in sex differentiation of D. celebensis. Furthermore, it was found that the ability of BP to modulate dmrt genes could affect development and reproduction. This study provides a basis for understanding the function of the dmrt genes and the molecular mode of action of BP in small crustaceans.

By measuring the buoyant force of common water hyacinths for common water hyacinth cultivation facilities, the mean buoyant force per common water hyacinths weight was calculated to be 11.67N/㎏ in the measurement performed based on manpower and 18.28N/㎏ in the measurement performed based on a motor. An experiment on dragging force per dragging speed according to the dragging weight was also conducted, and the experimental result verified that the dragging force increased as the dragging weight and speed increased. Moreover, the dragging force per the dragging weight according to the dragging speed was measured. Through an experiment on dragging common water hyacinths in a reservoir, it was confirmed that common water hyacinths cannot be dragged at a dragging speed of 0.036㎧ or higher owing to increased water resistance. Under the condition of the dragging weight set as 50㎏, a dragging force per unit weight of the common water hyacinth was calculated to be 2.62N/㎏ when the dragging bar was 3m in length and 2.94N/㎏ when the dragging bar was 6m in length. Under the condition when the dragging weight was set as 100㎏, the dragging force per unit weight of the common water hyacinth was calculated to be 1.50N/㎏ when the dragging bar was 3m in length and 2.13N/㎏ when the dragging bar was 6m in length. Under the condition when the dragging weight was set as 400㎏, the dragging force per unit weight of the common water hyacinth was calculated to be 0.8N/㎏ when the dragging bar was 3m in length and 5.43N/㎏ when the dragging bar was 6m in length. It was evaluated that the dragging force per unit weight of the common water hyacinth calculated in this study can be effectively applied as data for designing dragging equipment used to drag common water hyacinths in a reservoir.

본 연구는 Acacia baileyana와 A. dealbata 종자의 휴면타 파와 수분흡수를 토대로 발아특성을 구명하여 대량으로 번식 시킬 수 있는 체계를 확립하고자 수행하였다. 휴면을 타파시키기 위하여 nicking 처리 및 열탕 처리를 하였다.또한 각 처리 별로 염료추적을 통하여 수분흡수 부위의 양상을 알아보았다. A. baileyana의 경우, nicking 처리는 무처리구(20.0%)에 비해 85.3%의 가장 높은 발아율을 보였으며, 80℃의 60분 열 탕 처리도 무처리구(18.0%)에 비해 76.0%의 높은 발아율을 보였다. Nicking 처리 후 절단면에만 vaseline 을 도포한 처리 와절단면을 포함한 종피 전체에 vaseline 을 도포한 처리 모두에서는 전혀 발아가 이루어지지 않았으며 열탕 처리 전이나 후에 종피 전체에 vaseline 을 도포한 처리에서도 전혀 발아하지 않았다. 높은 발아율을 보인 nicking 처리와 80℃의 60분 열탕 처리에서 수분흡수율이 높게 나타났고 흡수 초기에 급격하게 수분이 흡수되는 경향을 보였다. A. dealbata에 있어서 가장 높은 발아율은 80℃의 5분 열탕 처리에서 100%로 나타났으며 nicking 처리에서도 96.5%의 높은 발아율을 보였다. 대조구, nicking 처리 후 절단면과 종피 전체에 vaseline 을 도포한 처리 등의 종자는 발아하지 않았다.

Lead (Pb) is a major heavy metal that augments environmental pollution and is a health risk to living organisms. This study was performed to investigate the effect of lead on characteristics of planarian, Dugesia japonica. Briefly, planarians were cultivated in water containing different concentrations (0–400 mg/L) of Pb, and incubated for varying durations (1, 3, and 5 hr). After termination of the incubation time, motility and seizure-like behaviors (c-like, head-bop, snake-like, and screw-like) of the planarians were counted in fresh water. Results showed that increasing Pb concentration and time resulted in decreased motility of the planarians (p<0.05). Increasing concentrations of Pb also resulted in significant increase in the seizure-like behavioral patterns, in particular the c-like and head-bop behaviors. In order to examine eye regeneration, the head region was cut, and rest of the body was incubated in water in the absence or presence of Pb, until emergence of the eye extrusion. Formation of eye spots was initiated in amputated fragments of the control group (without Pb) on day 4 after incubation, whereas appearance of the eye spots was delayed in planarian exposed to 200 mg/L Pb. Moreover, immunohistochemistry revealed that formation of the optic nerve was delayed in planarians exposed to Pb. Thus, our studies determined that planarians exposed to high concentrations of Pb resulted in decreasing motility and induction of seizure-like behaviors, as well as delayed eye regeneration. Results of the current study therefore validate that exposure to lead has a negative effect on the lifespan of aquatic organisms and can cause disturbance of the nervous system in animals, thereby implying the possibility of threatening health.