본 연구는 실내-외 우리가 있는 개방형 흑염소사에서 우리나라 5개월령 재래 흑염소를 대상으로 서열과 일주기 리듬이 하루 24시간 동안의 행동에 미치는 영향과 서열과 사료급여시간이 사료급여 후 30분 및 60분 동안의 행동에 미치는 영향을 조사하기 위해 수행하였다. 재래 흑염소의 행동은 CCTV를 사용해 녹화한 후 이들을 1분 단위로 측정하였고, 총 10개의 행동으로 분류하였다. 서열은 적대행동에 유의하게 영향을 미쳤으나 (p<0.05), 다른 행동에는 영향을 미치지 않았다. 일주기 리듬은 응립(p<0.05), 이동(p<0.01), 사료섭취(p<0.001), 적대행동(p<0.001), 비적대행동 (p<0.001), 사료탐색(p<0.05), 음수(p<0.001) 및 기타 행동(p<0.001)에 유의하게 영향을 미치는 반면 휴식(p>0.05)과 몸단장(p>0.05)에는 영향을 미치지 않았다. 서열과 일주기 리듬의 상호작용효과는 적대행동에만 유의하게 영향을 미쳤다(p<0.05). 서열은 사료급여 후 30분 동안 응립(p<0.05)과 사료섭취(p<0.05)에 유의하게 영향을 미쳤지만 다른 행동에는 영향을 미치지 않았다. 사료급여시간은 사료급여 후 60분 동안의 음수(p<0.05)에 유의하게 영향을 미쳤으나, 다른 행동에는 영향을 미치지 않았다. 서열과 사료급여시간의 상호작용효과는 모든 행동에 유의하게 영향을 미치지 않았다(p<0.05). 결론적으로, 서열, 일주기 리듬, 그리고 사료급여시간은 우리나라 5개월령 미성성숙한 재래 흑염소의 행동에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다.

RNA interference (RNAi)-based strategy has been developed to control various phytophagous chewing pests. However, only a few cases of RNAi-based control success have been reported for sucking pests, suggesting that sucking pests likely ingest less amount of transgenic subcellular hairpin RNA (or dsRNA). In this study, as the basic information for the establishment of ingestion RNAi against sucking pests, feeding amount and time course of plant subcellular fractions of the four sucking pest species (Frankliniella occidentalis, Frankliniella intonsa, Tetranychus urticae and Nilaparvata lugans) were determined by quantitative PCR (qPCR). Adults of the four species were starved for 24 h and then fed with kidney bean leaf (F. occidentalis, F. intonsa, T. urticae) or rice leaf (N. lugens) for 48 h. The leaf-fed adults were collected every 6-h interval and their genomic DNA was extracted. The ingested fractions of chloroplast and nuclear were quantified using rubisco and 50s rRNA as marker genes, respectively. The ingested amount of rubisco and 50s rRNA genes in F. occidentalis, F. intonsa and T. urticae showed rapid increasing pattern after feeding and then slightly reduced over time. In contrast, N. lugens neither ingest nuclear nor showed any distinct feeding pattern of chloroplast. These results demonstrate that F. occidentalis, F. intonsa and T. urticae ingest both chloroplasts and nucleus along with cytosol as cell-feeders but N. lugens, a phloem sap feeder, does not ingest nucleus during sucking. Our findings further suggest that ingestion RNAi-based control strategy would work better for cell-feeding sucking pests compared to phloem sap-feeding sucking pests.

The purposes of this study were to: a) investigate the percentage distribution and the time spent of dietetic activities and b) estimate dietitian's staffing needs in employee foodservices. In 6 employee foodservices, the dietetic activities were analyzed by work sampling methodology. The results of this study were as follows: 1. The percentage distributions of dietetic activities, delay and non-dietetic activities were 79.06, 20.39, and 1.55%, respectively; 2. The major activities of dietitians in employee foodservice were production management 21.00%, purchasing management 16.73%, record keepig 14.40%, and menu management 6.30%, 3. The total labor time per week was 3,310 min (55.16 hr) and specially the time spent on 13 dietetic activities was 2,626 min (43.77 hr). 4. The time spent per week on major activities of dietitians such as production management, purchasing management record keeping, and menu management were 693.93, 554.83, 483.99, and 205.22 min, respectively.

Circadian rhythmicity (e.g. secretory pattern of hormones) plays an important role in the control of reproductive function. We hypothesized that the alteration of feeding pattern via meal time shift/restriction might disrupt circadian rhythms in energy balance, and induce changes in reproductive activities. To test this hypothesis, we employed simple animal model that not allowing feeding but daytime only feeding. The animals of feeding group (Control) have free access to food for 4 weeks. The day feeding (=reverse feeding, RF) animals (RF group) have restricted access to food during daytime (0900-1800) for 4 weeks. After completing the feeding schedules, body weights, testis and epididymis weights of animals from both group were not significantly different. However, the weights of seminal vesicle (control : RF group = : , <0.01) and prostate (control : RF group = : , <0.001) were significantly lower in RF group animals. The mRNA levels of pituitary common alpha subunit (; control : RF group = AU : AU, <0.001) and (control : RF group = AU : AU, <0.05) were significantly decreased in RF group. The mRNA levels of ACTH were not significantly different. We were unable to find any prominent difference in the microstructures of epididymis, and there were slight alterations in those of seminal vesicles after 4 weeks of reversed feeding when compared to control samples. The present study demonstrates that the shift and/or restriction of feeding time could alter the pituitary gonadotropin expression and the weights of seminal vesicle and prostate in rats. These data suggest the lowered gonadotropin inputs may decrease androgen secretion form testis, and consequently results in poor response of androgen-dependent tissues such as seminal vesicle and prostate.