Trombiculid mites are known to be the vector of scrub typhus by transmitting rickettsial pathogen, Orientia tsutsugamushi, to human. In this study, we tried to establish a monitoring system for trombiculid mites using chigger mite collecting traps instead of the conventional rodent-capture method. For selection of collecting points, 10 environmental points were chosen from three regions (Taean, Jinan and Chungju) and two field collections were performed in spring (March-May) and autumn (October-November) seasons from 2013 to 2014. Among 10 environmental points, waterway (37.9%), grass field (28.0%), rice field and field near mountain side (11.4%) and reservoir/wet field (7.3%) showed high collecting rates and they should be included for the representative collecting points for surveillance using chigger mite collecting trap. In order to test the possibility that the dried chigger mites from collecting trap can be used for detection of O. tsutsugamushi, we pooled 30, 10 and 5 chigger mites separately and performed the nested PCR. The infection of O. tsutsugamushi was successfully detected from 5 chigger mites pooling sample. This study shows that chigger mite collecting trap could be an alternative method for monitoring system of scrub typhus vectors.

It is well known that internet shoppers are very sensitive to sale prices. They visit the various shopping malls and collect the product information including purchase conditions for goods purchase decision-making. Recently the necessity of information su

It is well known that a goods buyer who uses the internet shopping mall is sensitive to a sale price. The buyer visits the various shopping malls and collects the product information including purchase conditions for goods purchase decision-making. Recently the necessity of information support is increasing because of increase of information which is necessary and complexity of goods purchase decision-making process. The comparison shopping agent systems have provided price comparison information which is collected from various shopping malls to satisfy buyer's information craving. But the frequent price change caused by keen price competition is becoming the primary reason of information quality decline among price comparison sites. RSS which is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated is applied even in on-line shopping malls. This paper develops a product information collection system which can provide up-to-date product information of real-time using RSS. To achieve this goal RSS crawling system for searching shopping mall RSS links automatically, RSS reader to collect product information from several shopping malls and a product DB where the application characteristic is high are suggested.

오염된 퇴적물은 연안의 생태계 파괴에 근본적인 원인이 되고 있음에 따라, 선진 외국에서는 1960년대부터 이러한 문제 해결을 위한 새로울 기술개발을 진행하여 오고 있다. 본 연구에서는 유기퇴적물 수거를 위한 시스템 설계 및 개발에 있어서 오탁확산에 의한 2차 오염을 방지하거나 최소화 할 수 있는 Pilot 규모 형태의 흡입식 펌프 준설 시스템을 설계 제작하였으며, 시스템의 성능시험을 통한 적용 가능성을 제시하였다. 시스템 최적화를 위하여 수치해석기법을 통한 퇴적물 수거 시스템의 형상에 대한 성능평가를 수행하고, 제작 시스템의 성능시험에 있어서는 시스템의 정지 상태와 이동 상태에서의 퇴적물 수거 성능에 대한 실험을 수행하였다. 본 연구를 통하여 해저 유기퇴적물의 상부만을 준설할 수 있는 시스템의 개발 가능성을 확인하였다.