• Elastomers and Composites
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.110-116
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• 2014

We investigated the effect of the concentration of stannous 2-ethylhexanoate catalyst on the esterification rate between adipic acid (AA) and each of two PEG oligomers, diethylene glycol (DEG) and polyethylene glycol (PEG600). The concentration of the catalyst was varied from 0.15 to 2.0 wt.%. To attach hydroxy group to each end of the poly(oxyethylene-co-adipate) synthesized from AA and the PEGs, the esterification was performed with excessive PEG oligomers ([PEG]/[AA]=2) at $170^{\circ}C$. The degree of polymerization of the poly(oxyethylene-co-adipate)diol products were three. The apparent rate constant ($k_{app}$) of the esterification between AA and DEG shows the first order dependency on the catalyst concentration ($k_{app}=0.88[C_{cat}]$), whereas the $k_{app}$ of the esterification between AA and PEG600 has a relation of $k_{app}=0.123[C_{cat}]^{0.55}$ with the catalyst concentration. It is expected that the rate of esterification between AA and DEG has a non-linear dependency on the catalyst concentration as the catalyst concentration approaches to 0.22M.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.355-355
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• 2019

본 연구에서는 물리적 매개변수 기반의 물 순환 해석 모형인 CAT(Catchment hydrologic cycle Assessment Tool)을 이용하여 보령댐 유역 상류에 위치한 삼산저수지의 저류량을 분석하였다. 연구기간은 2012~2017년이며 2015년 발생한 가뭄 대책의 일환으로 2016년 이후 금강과 보령댐을 잇는 도수로를 설치하여 유역내로 외부유입량이 유입되었다. 이에 본 연구에서는 보다 정확한 저류량 산정을 위해 모의 기간을 2012~2015년 및 2016~2017년으로 나누어 연구를 수행하였다. 매개변수 보정에 앞서 CAT에서 제공하는 세 가지 침투해석방법인 Rainfall Excess, Green&Ampt, Horton 방법을 모두 적용하여 모의하였으며 그 결과 Rainfall Excess 침투방법을 적용했을 때의 모의 정확도가 비교적 높게 나타나는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 이에 본 연구에서는 Rainfall Excess 침투방법의 주요 토양 관련 매개변수인 토양수분율(${\theta}s$), 연직방향 투수계수(ks) 및 사면방향 투수계수(ksi)를 대상으로 전역최적화기법(SCEUA-P)을 이용한 보정을 수행하였으며 보정 전 후의 모의 저류량과 관측 저류량을 연도별로 비교 및 분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2020.06a
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• pp.363-363
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• 2020

최근 기후변화에 따른 가뭄과 홍수 등 극한사상 발생빈도가 증가하고 있으며, 환경, 생태, 사회, 경제적 측면에 영향을 미치는 심각한 재해로 인식되어 이로 인한 피해를 줄이기 위하여 다양하고 활발한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 극한 가뭄시에는 최소한의 유량만을 제외하고 사용하는 경우가 많다. 대부분 하천 주변에서는 생공·농업용수를 위하여 지하수를 양수하고 있다. 이에 대한 명확한 기준에 정해져 있지 않아, 무분별한 양수는 하천 생태계를 위협하기도 한다. 본 연구에서는 유역 물순환 해석 플랫폼(Catchment Hydrologic Cycle Assessment Tool, CAT) 모형을 이용하여 조천천 유역에 지하수 변화 등 인위적 물이용량을 고려했을 때의 하천유량 변화를 분석하였다. CAT은 기후변화나 토지이용변화에 따른 유역의 수문환경특성 변동성을 정량적으로 평가하기 위하여 개발된 모형이며, 인위적인 물이용체계 즉, 광역급수, 용수재이용, 지하수 취수, 하천수 취·배수 등을 고려하여 분석이 가능하다. CAT을 통한 인위적 물이용 시나리오를 달리하여 하천유량 변화를 분석한 결과를, 중소하천 가뭄 대책 및 효율적인 의사결정 자료로 활용이 가능할 것으로 판단되었다.

• Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.123-126
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• 2013

A 3-month-old male domestic shorthair cat was presented for evaluation of stranguria and hematuria and a 4-year-old male domestic shorthair cat was presented for evaluation of stranguria. For cat 1, a swollen prepuce, erythematous preputial orifice, and urine pooling from the preputial orifice were noted. The preputial orifice was a pinpoint opening and penis was not extruded from the prepuce. For cat 2, a necrotic skin around the preputial orifice, small preputial orifice, and severe urine pooling from the preputial orifice were noted. The round-shaped resection of the tip of the prepuce was performed to increase the diameter of the preputial orifice and remove erythematous fragile skin or a necrotic skin around the preputial orifice and the edematous, redundant preputial mucosa in these 2 cats. The preputial mucosa was then apposed to the ipsilateral incised skin edge. There was no recurrence of clinical signs over 22- and 24-month follow-up period, respectively. The round-shaped resection technique provided adequate enlargement of the preputial orifice to allow extrusion of penis in these 2 cats with a phimosis. This technique could be helpful in cases with skin and mucosa necrosis around the preputial orifice that require round-shaped resection.

• Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.322-332
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• 2012

The objectives of this paper were to investigate home range, habitat selection, and threat factors of leopard cats (Prionailurus bengalensis) living in rural area of Korea. The results based on radio tracking of three leopard cats (two males and one female) can be summarized as follows. First, the average home range of leopard cats were $2.64{\pm}1.99km^2$ (Kernel 95) and $3.69{\pm}1.34km^2$ (MCP 100), and the average size of core areas was $0.64{\pm}0.47km^2$ (Kernel 50). The home range of a male leopard cat that radio-tracked in winter was the largest ($5.19km^2$, MCP 100). Second, the Johnson's habitat selection model based on the Jacobs index showed that leopard cats preferred meadows and paddy fields avoiding forest covers at the second level, whereas they preferred meadows adjacent to streams and avoided paddy fields at the third level. Finally, roadkill could be prime threat factor for the cat population. Therefore, habitats dominated by paddy fields, stream corridors with paved roads, and human settlements with insufficient forest patches could threaten the long-term viability of leopard cat populations. Thus the habitat managements for the leopard cat conservation should focus on the prevention of road-kill and the installation of wildlife passages in rural highways adjacent to stream corridors.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.203-215
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• 2012

The objective of this study is to develop a catchment hydrologic cycle assessment model which can assess the impact of urban development and designing water cycle improvement facilities. Developed model might contribute to minimize the damage caused by urban development and to establish sustainableurban environments. The existing conceptual lumped models have a potential limitation in their capacity to simulate the hydrologic impacts of land use changes and assess diverse urban design. The distributed physics-based models under active study are data demanding; and much time is required to gather and check input data; and the cost of setting up a simulation and computational demand are required. The Catchment Hydrologic Cycle Assessment Tool (hereinafter the CAT) is a water cycle analysis model based on physical parameters and it has a link-node model structure. The CAT model can assess the characteristics of the short/long-term changes in water cycles before and after urbanization in the catchment. It supports the effective design of water cycle improvement facilities by supplementing the strengths and weaknesses of existing conceptual parameter-based lumped hydrologic models and physical parameter-based distributed hydrologic models. the model was applied to Seolma-cheon catchment, also calibrated and validated using 6 years (2002~2007) hourly streamflow data in Jeonjeokbigyo station, and the Nash-Sutcliffe model efficiencies were 0.75 (2002~2004) and 0.89 (2005~2007).

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.546-552
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• 2018

A comprehensive collection of proteins senses local changes in intracellular $Ca^{2+}$ concentrations ($[Ca^{2+}]_i$) and transduces these signals into responses to agonists. In the present study, we examined the effect of sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) on modulation of intracellular $Ca^{2+}$ concentrations in cat esophageal smooth muscle cells. To measure $[Ca^{2+}]_i$ levels in cat esophageal smooth muscle cells, we used a fluorescence microscopy with the Fura-2 loading method. S1P produced a concentration-dependent increase in $[Ca^{2+}]_i$ in the cells. Pretreatment with EGTA, an extracellular $Ca^{2+}$ chelator, decreased the S1P-induced increase in $[Ca^{2+}]_i$, and an L-type $Ca^{2+}$-channel blocker, nimodipine, decreased the effect of S1P. This indicates that $Ca^{2+}$ influx may be required for muscle contraction by S1P. When stimulated with thapsigargin, an intracellular calcium chelator, or 2-Aminoethoxydiphenyl borate (2-APB), an $InsP_3$ receptor blocker, the S1P-evoked increase in $[Ca^{2+}]_i$ was significantly decreased. Treatment with pertussis toxin (PTX), an inhibitor of $G_i$-protein, suppressed the increase in $[Ca^{2+}]_i$ evoked by S1P. These results suggest that the S1P-induced increase in $[Ca^{2+}]_i$ in cat esophageal smooth muscle cells occurs upon the activation of phospholipase C and subsequent release of $Ca^{2+}$ from the $InsP_3$-sensitive $Ca^{2+}$ pool in the sarcoplasmic reticulum. These results suggest that S1P utilized extracellular $Ca^{2+}$ via the L type $Ca^{2+}$ channel, which was dependent on activation of the $S1P_4$ receptor coupled to PTX-sensitive $G_i$ protein, via phospholipase C-mediated $Ca^{2+}$ release from the $InsP_3$-sensitive $Ca^{2+}$ pool in cat esophageal smooth muscle cells.

• Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.320-323
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• 2013

Spinal cord infarction is becoming recognized as an important cause of acute myelopathy in cats. Although the definitive diagnosis is confirmed through postmortem histopathologic examination, MR imaging features provide valuable informations for the diagnosis of spinal cord infarction. The aim of this report is to describe MR findings of acute spinal cord infarction in two cats and to evaluate usefulness of low field MRI (0.3Tesla) as a potential diagnostic tool of acute spinal cord infarction. A cat (unknown age, neutered male mixed breed cat) was referred one day after the acute onset of non-ambulatory spastic tetraparesis and the other cat (a 9-year-old, neutered female domestic short hair cat) was presented due to the acute onset of non-ambulatory paraparesis and one day later paraplegia. The lesions of the MR images were shown on the spinal cord parenchyma over C2 to C6 in case 1 and L2 to L5 in case 2. The MR images in these two cases were characterized by focal intramedullary lesions, mainly involving grey matter which were hyperintense T2 weighted and FLAIR images and hyperintense on DWI and hypointense on ADC map. The MR findings in both cases were highly suggestive of acute spinal cord infarctions, based upon previous reported small animal cases and human cases. In conclusion, based on MR features, together with the history and clinical examination findings, MRI modality can be used as an antemortem tool for the diagnosis of acute spinal cord infarction in cats.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.336-340
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• 2015

Three different types of polycarbonate (PC)/graphene oxide (GO) composites using diphenyl carbonate as a monomer were fabricated by melt polymerization. Those were the PC/GO composite (PC/GO) using a twin extruder, in-situ PC/GO composite (PC/GO-cat.) using a catalyst, and in-situ PC/GO composite (PC/GO-COCl) using a GO-COCl treated by -COCl, Chemical structures of the composites were confirmed by C-H and C=O stretching peak at $3000cm^{-1}$ and $1750cm^{-1}$, respectively. The slope for the storage (G') versus loss (G") modulus plot decreased with an increase in the heterogeneous property of polymer melts. So we can check the GO dispersion of the PC/GO composites using by the slop for G'-G" plot. According to the G'- G" slopes for three different types of PC/GO composites, GO was well dispersed within PC matrix in case of PC/GO and PC/GO-cat.. It was also confirmed by atomic force microscope (AFM) photos. One of the reasons for the poor GO dispersion of PC/GO-COCl is branching and crosslinking processes occurred during polymerization, which was further confirmed by a plot for the complex modulus versus phase difference.

• The Korean Journal of Malacology
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.41-49
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• 2014

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of cadmium (Cd) exposure on biochemical factors in the hemolymph and hepatopancreas of the abalone, Haliotis discus hannai. The abalone were exposed to 0, 5, 10, 20 and 40 ${\mu}g/L$ Cd for 4 weeks. The phenoloxidase (PO) activity was decreased in hemolymph of abalone exposed to 40 Cd ${\mu}g/L$ for 4 weeks compared to the control (P < 0.05). The hemolymph enzymes, alkaline phosphatase (ALP), aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) activities were markedly elevated in 40 Cd ${\mu}g/L$ after 4 weeks. The hemolymph calcium concentrations were significantly decreased in 20 and 40 Cd ${\mu}g/L$ for 4 weeks. Hepatopancreas superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) activities were significantly increased by Cd. SOD was increased in both 20 and 40 Cd ${\mu}g/L$ and CAT, in 40 Cd ${\mu}g/L$ after 2 weeks (P < 0.05). These results suggested that the abalone SOD and CAT including PO may serve as a protective mechanism against oxidative stress by Cd. We conclude that a Cd concentration, 40 ${\mu}g/L$ in water may curtail hemolymph homeostasis and anti-oxidative reactions in abalone hepatopancreas. From these results, these biochemical factors may represent a convenient method of monitoring heavy metal pollution in coastal areas.