This study investigated the role of snack consumption in daily nutrient intake among Korean adults. Data from The Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) 2023 were analyzed, involving 4,918 adults, consuming 2,118 men (43.1%) and 2,800 women (56.9%). The analysis assessed daily energy intake from snacks and its percentage of total energy, categorized by sex, age, income, and BMI, using multiple regression to explore associations. On average, 18.8% of daily energy intake, with men at 17.3% and women at 20.7%. Women had higher energy contributions for major nutrients. Snack energy contributions were significantly influenced by sex and age, but not by income or BMI. Young adults (ages 19—29) had the highest contribution at 21.1%, while adults aged 50—64 had the lowest at 17.5%. Time-of-day analysis revealed that 22.7% of snack energy was consumed in the evening (18:00—20:59) and 22.6% at night (21:00 onward). The most commonly consumed snacks were coffee (23.8%) and fruit (20.3%). These findings emphasize that snacks are a significant source of energy and nutrients, highlighting the need for sexand age-specific nutritional interventions that consider snack type, timing, and quality.

This study proposes a novel methodology for quantitatively evaluating the contribution of input signals in the time domain using Mutual Information (MI). Traditional contribution analysis methods based on Pearson correlation coefficients are limited by their assumption of linearity, making them inadequate for systems with time-varying characteristics or nonlinear transfer paths. To address this, we construct simulation data comprising transient, non-stationary input signals and nonlinear transfer functions, and compute time-local mutual information by adopting the windowing approach commonly used in Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT). The results demonstrate that the proposed MI-based method outperforms conventional linear techniques in capturing the contributions of inputs under nonlinear and time-varying conditions. Notably, the MI approach provides accurate quantitative assessment even when the system's transfer path responds nonlinearly to input amplitude. This study shows that MI-based contribution analysis is a powerful and effective tool for evaluating input influence in nonlinear, non-stationary, and multi-input systems, and lays a foundation for future applications to experimental data and integration with alternative MI estimation methods.

This study analyzed the odor contribution rate using AERMOD at odor emission facilities in an urban industrial area (North-Daejeon, Korea) where residential facilities, industrial complexes, and public environmental facilities are mixed. When comparing the average odor emission concentration by prevention facility, the multistage treatment method including oxidation and combustion was about three times more effective in reducing the concentration than the commonly used biofilter and scrubber. These results suggest the importance of management aspects of prevention facilities such as biofilters and cleaning towers to improve treatment efficiency. Currently, management of odor emission facilities is being conducted in terms of instantaneous odor concentration management. Due to the limitations of this management method, research results show that some workplaces ranked 7th in terms of momentary odor concentration level, but in terms of emissions, they soared to 2nd place, indicating that management from the perspective of emissions as well as concentration is necessary for odor management. The odor impact in the study area varies by season, but public environmental facilities have an impact of 62~76% in spring, summer, and winter, and odor emission facilities in industrial complexes have an impact of 66% in autumn. It can be inferred from these results that the odor impact of public environmental facilities would be low because they are located away from residential areas, but the results confirmed through this study showed that the concentration and emission levels of prevention facilities operated in public environmental facilities were relatively higher than those of odor-emitting facilities in industrial complexes.

음식물류폐기물의 퇴비화는 경제적인 자원화 방법이지만, 염분함량이 높아 토양에 투입될 경우 염류집적으로 인한 작물 생육 피해가 우려된다. 바이오차는 양이온교환능력이 높은 물질로 염분피해가 우려되는 토양에 적용 시 Na+이온을 흡착하여 작물생육 피해를 줄여줄 것으로 생각된다. 이에 본 연구는 바이오차와 혼합하여 제조한 음식물류폐기물 혼합 펠렛 퇴비(이하, 음폐혼합펠렛퇴비) 사용 시 배추 생육과 토양에 미치는 영향을 평가하고 이에 따른 무기질비료 절감 효과를 알아보고자 하였다. 처리구는 무비구(NF), 무기질비료 반량(NPK0.5), 무기질비료(NPK), 무기질비료+ 음폐퇴비(FWC), 무기질비료+음폐혼합펠렛퇴비(FWCB)이다. 배추 생육조사 결과, FWCB처리구에서 엽장, 엽폭, 구고 및 구폭 모두 가장 높았다. 수량조사 결과 8,300 kg 10a-1로 가장 높게 나타났으며, NPK처리구에 비해 무기질비료를 50% 사용하였으나 수량은 13.6% 높게 나타났다. 토양화학 성 결과 FWCB에서 EC는 0.59 ds m-1, 교환성 Na은 0.35 cmolc kg-1으로 다른처리구보다 높게 나타났으나 적정범위 이내였다. 본 연구결과, 음폐혼합펠릿퇴비의 사용은 작물의 양분 및 유기물공급 뿐만 아니라 바이오차로 인한 양이온 고정 효과로 작물 생산성을 향상시키는 것으로 생각되며, 비료성분의 공급원으로써 배추의 생육 및 생산성을 증진할 수 있는 기술로 활용이 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

It is important to measure the performance of group project but also very important to evaluate the contribution of individual members fairly. The degree of contribution of group members can be assessed by pair-wise comparison method of the Analytic Hierarchy Process. The degree of contribution of group members can be biased in a way that is advantageous to evaluator oneself during the pair-wise comparison process. In this paper, we will examine whether there is a difference in the contribution weight vectors obtained when including evaluator and excluding oneself in the pair-wise comparison. To do this, the experimental data was obtained by making pair-wise comparison in two ways for 15 5-person groups that perform term projects in university classes and 15 pairs of weight vectors for contribution were obtained. The results of the nonparametric test for these 15 pairs of weights vectors are given.

In order to predict the process window of laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) for printing metallic components, the calculation of volumetric energy density (VED) has been widely calculated for controlling process parameters. However, because it is assumed that the process parameters contribute equally to heat input, the VED still has limitation for predicting the process window of LPBF-processed materials. In this study, an explainable machine learning (xML) approach was adopted to predict and understand the contribution of each process parameter to defect evolution in Ti alloys in the LPBF process. Various ML models were trained, and the Shapley additive explanation method was adopted to quantify the importance of each process parameter. This study can offer effective guidelines for fine-tuning process parameters to fabricate high-quality products using LPBF.

본 연구는 2003년부터 2022년까지 동해 남서부 해역에서 초미소(0.2-2 ㎛) 식물플랑크톤의 군집, 표층 수온 상승, 그리고 무기 영양염 간의 복잡한 상호작용을 다루었다. 동해에서 관측된 표층 수온의 상승 추세는 전 지구규모의 수온 상승과 일치하며, 여름에는 최 대 온도가 나타나지만 봄에는 최소 온도를 보여 일반적인 온대해역의 계절적 수온 변동과는 다른 양상을 보였다. 표층 무기 영양염의 농 도는 겨울에 증가하며 봄을 거치면서 서서히 감소하는 계절적 변동성을 나타냈다. 식물플랑크톤의 생물량을 대표하는 표층 총 chlorophyll-a 농도는 온대 해역의 전형적인 쌍봉분포(bimodal distribution) 양상을 보였다. 연구 기간 동안 초미소 식물플랑크톤의 기여도는 연평균 0.5%씩 지속적으로 증가하였으나, 총 chlorophyll-a 농도는 약한 감소 추세를 보였다. 초미소 식물플랑크톤의 기여도와 영양염 간에 는 강한 상관관계가 나타났으며, 이는 이러한 변동이 식물플랑크톤의 크기별 영양염의 가용성과 밀접하게 연관되어 있음을 의미한다. 이 러한 분석 결과는 해양 생태계의 변화 조건에서 식물플랑크톤이 어떻게 반응할는지 예측 가능하게 하므로, 생태학적으로 중요한 의미를 갖는다.

경북대학교 친환경농업연구센터에서는 농업인들의 효과적인 천적 활용을 증진시키기 위하여 2016년부터 경상북도 농민사관학교의 지원을 받아서 친환경천적 교육과정을 개설하고 천적 자가생산 및 현장적용 기술의 실습교육을 실시하였다. 그동안 토양 포식성 천적인 총채가시응애(Gaeolaelaps aculeifer)와 뿌리이리응애 (Stratiolaelaps scimitus), 그리고 점박이응애의 포식성 천적인 칠레이리응애(Phytoseiulus persimilis)와 사막 이리응애(Neoseiulus californicus)의 간편하고 경제적인 대량생산기술을 개발하고 그 기술을 약 180명의 농업 인에게 전수하였다. 즉, 농업인들이 스스로 천적을 자가생산하여 시설재배지에 적용함으로서 비용절감 및 청정 농산물 생산 효과를 높히는데 기여했다. 또한, 간편한 천적생산기술을 전국적으로 농업기술원, 농업기술센터, 그리고 친환경농업인단체 등 20여개 기관에 전수하였다. 최근, 경북의 농업기술센터(안동, 고령, 경주)에서 농업 인을 대상으로 천적 대량생산 시스템 보급 시범 사업을 실시하면서 뿌리이리응애 및 칠레이리응애 등의 천적 자가생산시설을 구축하고 자체적으로 생산함으로서 지속적인 천적 활용이 가능하게 되고 해충 방제 효과를 증가시킬 수 있었다. 즉, 농업인들이 직접 천적을 생산하고 활용하게 함으로서 천적농업의 성공사례가 증가하였 을 뿐만 아니라 국내 천적 공급 시스템이 다양화되어 천적농업의 활성화에 크게 기여한다고 판단한다.

In this study, we analyzed the changes in concentrations of volatile fatty acids (VFA), phenols, and indoles, as well as odor contribution in pig slurry. The pig slurry was stored for approximately two months after the manure excretion of pigs which had been fed 3% level of peat moss additive. The investigation was carried out through lab-scale experiments simulating slurry pit conditions within pig house. Throughout the storage period, the concentration of VFA exhibited a tendency to be 11%-32% higher in the pig manure treated with peat moss as compared to the control group. From a concentration perspective, phenol and acetic acid accounted for the majority of the total odor compounds produced during the pig slurry storage period. However, their significance diminished when the concentration of odoros compounds are converted into odor activity value and odor contribution. Despite the odor reduction effect of the ammonia (NH3) adsorption by peat moss, if it cannot effectively reduce the high odor-contributing compounds such as indoles and p-cresol, the sole use of peat moss may not be considered an effective means of mitigating odors produced by pig slurry. According to this study, indoles, p-cresol, skatole, and valeric acid were consistently revealed as major odor-contributing substances during the two-month storage of pig slurry. Therefore, a comprehensive odor mitigation methodology should be proposed, taking into consideration the odor generation characteristics (including temporal concentration and odor contribution) of pig slurry-derived odors during storage.

This study was conducted with the aim of confirming the impact and relative contribution of extreme weather to dry matter yield (DMY) of silage corn in the central inland region of Korea. The corn data (n=1,812) were obtained from various reports on the new variety of adaptability experiments conducted by the Rural Development Administration from 1978 to 2017. As for the weather variables, mean aerial temperature, accumulated precipitation, maximum wind speed, and sunshine duration, were collected from the Korean Meteorological Administration. The extreme weather was detected by the box plot, the DMY comparison was carried out by the t-test with a 5% significance level, and the relative contribution was estimated by R2 change in multiple regression modeling. The DMY of silage corn was reduced predominantly during the monsoon in summer and autumn, with DMY damage measuring 1,500-2,500 kg/ha and 1,800 kg/ha, respectively. Moreover, the relative contribution of the damage during the monsoons in summer and autumn was 40% and 60%, respectively. Therefore, the impact of autumn monsoon season should be taken into consideration when harvesting silage corn after late August. This study evaluated the effect of extreme weather on the yield damage of silage corn in Korea and estimated the relative contribution of this damage for the first time.

Structural inversion refers to the reverse reactivation of extensional faults that influence basin shortening accommodated by contractional faults or folds. On the Korean peninsula, Miocene inversion structures have been found, but the Cretaceous rocks on Geoje Island may have undergone inversion as early as the Upper Cretaceous. To evaluate the structural inversion on Geoje Island, located on the eastern side of South Korea, and to determine the effects of preexisting weakness zones, field-based geometric and kinematic analyses of faults were performed. The lithology of Geoje Island is dominated by hornfelsified shale, siltstone, and sandstone in the Upper-Cretaceous Seongpori formation. NE and NW-oblique normal faults, conjugate strike-slip (NW-sinistral transpressional and E-W-dextral transtensional) faults, and NE-dextral transpressional faults are the most prominent structural features in Geoje Island. Structural inversion on Geoje Island was evidenced by the sinistral and dextral transpressional reactivation of the NW and NE-trending oblique normal faults respectively, under WNW-ESE/NW-SE compression, which was the orientation of the compressive stress during the Late Cretaceous to Early Cenozoic.

We used the measurement data derived from a proton transfer reaction time-offlight mass spectrometry (PTR-ToF-MS) to ascertain the source profile of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from 4 major industrial classifications which showed the highest emissions from a total of 26 industrial classifications of A industrial complex. Methanol (MOH) was indicated as the highest VOC in the industrial classification of fabricated metal manufacture, and it was followed by dichloromethane (DM), ethanol (EN) and acetaldehyde (AAE). In the industrial classification of printing and recording media, the emission of ethylacetate (EA) and toluene (TOL) were the highest, and were followed by acetone (ACT), ethanol (EN) and acetic acid (AA). TOL, MOH, 2-butanol (MEK) and AAE were measured at high concentrations in the classification of rubber and plastic manufacture. In the classification of sewage, wastewater and manure treatment, TOL was the highest, and it was followed by MOH, H2S, and ethylbenzene (EBZ). In future studies, the source profiles for various industrial classifications which can provide scientific evidence must be completed, and then specified mitigation plans of VOCs for each industrial classification should be established.

The creation of marine protected areas is an important aspect of marine ecosystem sustainability. However, South Korea has not achieved its Aichi Biodiversity Target to designate 10% of its sea as marine protected by 2020. Local residents have strong opposition to the designation of protected areas in South Korea; there has been little trust in the government since the 1970s, when residents felt that their property rights were being ignored in favor of creating national parks. Here, we present a case where creation of a marine protected area was led by residents of TongYeong City. The success of a participation income project to remove marine debris in the city seems to be an important factor that led to the designation of the marine protected area. The case of TongYeong City is compared with that of nearby Geoje City, where an ecologically important stream has not been designated as a wetland protection area, although a similar participation income project enrolled the city's residents. The comparison provides a tentative assessment of the conditions needed to increase trust among residents. The results suggest that, if the projects are well-designed and well-managed, participation income projects to remove marine debris can be effective in building trust among stakeholders in potential marine protected areas.

This study aimed to confirm the importance ratio of climate and management variables on production of orchardgrass in Korea (1982―2014). For the climate, the mean temperature in January (MTJ, ℃), lowest temperature in January (LTJ, ℃), growing days 0 to 5 (GD 1, day), growing days 5 to 25 (GD 2, day), Summer depression days (SSD, day), rainfall days (RD, day), accumulated rainfall (AR, mm), and sunshine duration (SD, hr) were considered. For the management, the establishment period (EP, 0―6 years) and number of cutting (NC, 2nd―5th) were measured. The importance ratio on production of orchardgrass was estimated using the neural network model with the perceptron method. It was performed by SPSS 26.0 (IBM Corp., Chicago). As a result, EP was the most important variable (100%), followed by RD (82.0%), AR (79.1%), NC (69.2%), LTJ (66.2%), GD 2 (63.3%), GD 1 (61.6%), SD (58.1%), SSD (50.8%) and MTJ (41.8%). It implies that EP, RD, AR, and NC were more important than others. Since the annual rainfall in Korea is exceed the required amount for the growth and development of orchardgrass, the damage caused by heavy rainfall exceeding the appropriate level could be reduced through drainage management. It means that, when cultivating orchardgrass, factors that can be controlled were relatively important. Although it is difficult to interpret the specific effect of climates on production due to neural networking modeling, in the future, this study is expected to be useful in production prediction and damage estimation by climate change by selecting major factors.

Zhang Yan-Yuan’s Fa Shu Yao Lu(法书要录) written in the Tang dynasty, is an important compilation of calligraphic theory from the Tang dynasty and before. With his own insight and vision in the art of calligraphy, as well as his rich family collection and other unique natural conditions, the editor, with a heart to pass on traditional culture and art, took the essence from the vast literature, extracted the essence of it, and worked tirelessly to compile it into a huge volume. The editor does not say a word in the book, but through the selection and abandonment of the content, the order in which the content is presented, the book is logically clear, right and wrong, regardless of its own position and viewpoint. From the overall viewpoint of the book, the content emphasises art over technique; highlights its heritage and historicity from a cultural perspective; establishes the authentic status of Two wangs by declaring the banner; collates, catalogues, examines, discerns forgeries, criticises, authenticates, legends, and narrates different perspectives and aspects of the art of calligraphy by adopting different styles of writing at large; while focusing on a comprehensive system of information from eight dimensions, with clear priorities, prominent views, and The book also focuses on a comprehensive and systematic approach to the material in eight dimensions, with a clear distinction between major and minor points of view, either narrating or discussing, or writing or editing, showing in three dimensions the profoundness of ancient Chinese calligraphic theory and the orthodox calligraphic thought of respecting Two wangs. Secondly, the book also has a positive historical value in terms of preserving valuable documents, deconstructing historical documents to preserve their authenticity, promoting the orthodox status of Two wangs calligraphy, and establishing a paradigm of compilation style for future generations. Of course, Zhang Yan-Yuan could not have done it all on his own, and there are regrets in the choice of titles and unsatisfactory classification of documents in Fa Shu Yao Lu(法书要录), but the flaws do not obscure the merits, and his theoretical contributions to calligraphy are indelible.