서울에 위치한 S 초등학교 180명, D 중학교 250명, S e-비지니스고등학교 250명, 총 680명의 학생들을 대상으로 하여 3주간 대조군(무처리), 오리엔탈 백합 중 향기가 있는 식물군(시베리아), 향기가 없는 식물군(옐로윈)으로 나누에 교실에 장식하여 교실 장식에 따른 연령별 학습집중력 변화와 정서반응을 조사하였다. 연구결과 학습 집중력은 연령별로 향기가 있는 화훼식물을 3주간 장식한 교실의 학생들에게서 초등학생은 평균4.27점, 중학생은 2.9점, 고등학생은 2.94점 향상되는 경향을 보였으며 특히 초등학생들에게 가장 큰 효과를 가져왔다. 정서반응은 교실에 향기가 있는 꽃을 장식함으로서 학교생활이 즐겁다, 기분이 좋아진다, 꽃에 대한 관심이 생겼다 등 긍정적인 변화를 나타내었으며, 연령별 반응은 비슷한 경향을 보였다.

The 16 priority PAHs (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons) designated by US Environmental Protection Agency were analyzed for some digested sludges from wastewater treatment plants in Korea. PAHs are an important group of organic contaminants present in sewage sludge due to their persistence and toxic potential. PAHs were extracted from freeze-dried sludges using a methylene chloride-methanol (2:1) mixture in a soxhlet extractor. The extracts were cleaned-up by silica gel/alumina combination column and subsequently fed into gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer (GC/MS) for determining PAH contents. The sum of the 16 PAHs in the sewage sludge varied from 534.8 to 5754.5 ㎍/kg, dry wt.. In the sewage sludge, phenanthrene appears as the most abundant PAHs, followed by naphthalene, pyrene, fluoranthene. Source of the investigated sewage sludges relatively predominated pyrogenic. PAHs levels of sewage sludges in Korea appeared to be lower than those in other countries.

The number of natural products obtained from plants has now reached over 100,000 and new chemical compounds are being discovered ever year. Medicinal and Aromatic plants and their extracts have been used for centuries to relieve pain, aid healing, kill bacteria and insects are important as the antifungal and anti-herbivore agents with further compounds being involved in the symbiotic associations. Although their functions in plants have not been fully established, it is Known that some substances have growth regulatory properties while others are involved in pollination and seed dispersal. The complex nature of these chemicals are usually produced in various types of secretory structures which is an important character of a plant family and also influenced and controlled by genetic and ecological factors. Detailed anatomical description of these structures ave relevant to the market value of the plants, the verification of authenticity of a given species and for the detection of substitution or adulteration. Volatile oils are used for their therapeutic action for flavoring of lemon, in perfumery of rose or as starting materials for the synthesis of other compounds of turpentine. For therapeutic purposes they are administered as inhalations of eucalyptus oil, peppermint oil, as gargles and mouthwashes of thymol and transdermally many essential oils including those of lavender, etc. With these current trend for using volatile components in essential oil will be increasing in the future in Korea and in the world as well.

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are an important group of organic contaminants present in sewage sludge, due to their persistence, toxic, bioaccumulative and long range transfer. These characters make themselves as Persistent Organic Pollutants(POPs) in Long Range Transboundary Air Pollutions convention(LRTAP) of Europe. A method of the gas chromatographicmass spectrometric (GCMS) determination of PAHs present in sewage sludge was developed and applied to analyzed samples from five sewerage treatment plants (SWTPs), having different treatment types. PAHs were extracted from freeze-dried samples by toluene 16 hours in a soxhlet extraction system. The sludge extracts were cleaned-up by an activated silica gel column chromatography. The sum of the 16 US Environmental Protection Agency PAHs sewage sludge samples varied from 2.44 to 4.82 ㎍/ g. Concentration of emission carcinogen PAHs(PAHcarc), such as Benzo(a)anthracene, Benzo(b)fluoran- thene, Benzo(k)fluoranthene, Benzo(a)pyrene, Dibenzo(a,h)anthracene and Indeno(1,2,3-cd)pyrene ranged from 0.62 to 1.03 ㎍/g. The total amount of PAHs emission from sewage sludge in Korea was calculated as a top-down approach. PAHs and ∑PAHcarc from sewage treatment plants had emitted to environment by several pathway. The highest amount of emission to the environment was remarked in the ocean dumping(PAHs and ∑PAHcarc emissions were 1155.95 kg/year and 5040.32 kg/year, respectively).

향끽미종인 소향을 공시하여 묘상면적과 이식노동력을 절감하는 육묘방법과 적정재식밀도를 구명하기 위하여 가식의 여부, 육묘용비닐포트의 크기(3.5cm×3.5cm, 4cm×4cm and 5cm×5cm) 및 혈당주수(1, 3, 5, 7, 9주)를 달리하여 실시한 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1. 혈당건물중 및 L. A. I는 혈당주수가 많을수록 증가하였으나 1엽중, 1엽면적, 단위엽면적중, 액아발생량 및 엽면조도는 감소하였고 포트의 크기에 따른 차이는 통계적으로 유의성이 인정되지 않았다. 2. 생존율은 가식여부에 따른 차이는 없었고 3.5cm 포트가 컸으나 5cm포트에 혈당 7주까지는 재배상의 문제가 없을 것으로 생각되었다. 3. 니코틴은 혈당주수가 많을수록 감소하였으나 포트의 크기에 따른 차이는 통계적으로 유의성이 인정되지 않았다. 4. 수량, kg당 가격 및 10a당 대금은 가식여부 및 포트의 크기에 따라 통계적인 유의성이 인정되지 않았으나 혈당주수가 많을수록 증가하였다. 5. 완화성 및 팽숭성은 혈당주수가 많을수록 좋아졌고, 연소성도 혈당 5주 이상이 혈당 1-3주보다 좋았다. 6. 향끽미종잎담배인 소향의 재부는 가식을 성략하여 5cm×5cm 포트에 혈당 6주를 육묘하는 것이 바람직하다.

본 실험은 묘상용 Vinyl pot의 크기와 Vinyl pot당 육묘주수를 달리하여 향끽미종 잎담배인 소향으로 Vinyl pot당 육묘가능주수의 구명과 생육비절멸방안을 모색코자 실시한 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1. Vinyl pot가 클수록 이식묘의 주당 건물중, 변이계수 및 건물율은 증가하였으나 T/R율, 경쟁지수및 단위생산성은 감소하였다. 2. Pot당 육묘주수가 많을수록 변이계수, 경쟁지수 및 단위생산성은 증가하였으나 주당 건물중은 감소하였다. 3. 자상성약구와 가식구는 모두 4cm pot에서 3주, 5cm pot에서 5주까지 육묘가 가능하였고 자상성약육묘보다 가식육묘가 유리하였다. 4. 5cm pot당 5주씩 육묘하여 대조구(3.5cm pot에 1주 육묘)에 비하여 묘상면적 및 묘상자재를 60.9%, 이식노동력을 36.3% 절감되었다.