• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.404-411
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• 2004

The microcapsules containing triphenyl phosphate (TPP), a flame retardant, were prepared by phase-inversion emulsification technique using the epoxy resin (Novolac type) with excellent physical properties and network structure. This microencapsulation process was adopted for the protection of TPP evaporation and wetting of polymer composite during the polymer blend processing. The TPP, epoxy resin and mixed surfactants were emulsified to oil in water (O/W) by the phase inversion technology and then conducted on the crosslinking of epoxy resin by in-situ polymerization. The capsule size and size distribution of TPP capsules was controlled by mixed surfactant ratio, concentration and TPP contents, The formation and thermal property of TPP capsules were measured by differential scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetric analysis. The morphology and size of TPP capsules were also investigated by scanning and transmission electron microscopies. As the surfactant concentration increased, the TPP capsules were more spherical and mono-dispersed at the same weight ratio of mixed surfactants (F127: SDBS).

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.42 no.3
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• pp.309-317
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• 2014

Harvested wood products (HWP) are known as products from the tree such as sawn wood, plywood, particle board, structural lumber, wooden interior material, wooden furniture, and paper products. Because carbon is locked up in the HWP until eventual end-use of HWP, HWP played a role as the carbon storage which has the effect of stabilizing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. For these reasons, the suggestion that it must admit the carbon storage effect of HWP has been constantly raised. In 2011, the 17th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which was held in Durban, South Africa, assigned "Production Approach" which targets only the HWP producted by using round wood of domestic forestry as a official method for carbon accounting. Therefore, it is necessary that each country has to determine the half-life of wood in order to correspond to the discussions and negotiations between countries in the future and to develop an inventory of product-specific domestic wood. In this study, some countries' examples of the methods and conditions for determining half-life of HWP were investigated, and it was tried to derive the factor and methodology to determine half-life span of domestic HWP appropriately.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.37 no.12
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• pp.1497-1502
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• 2013

When using hydrogen gas as an ecofriendly energy sources, it is necessary to conduct a safety assessment and ensure thereliability of the hydrogen pressure vessel against hydrogen embrittlement expected in the steel materials. In this study, by applying the in-situ SP test method, the gas hydrogen embrittlement behaviors in SA372 steel, which is commonly used as a pressurized hydrogen gas storage container, were evaluated. To investigate the hydrogen embrittlement behavior, SP tests at different punch velocities were conducted for specimens with differently fabricated surfaces at atmospheric pressure and under high-pressure hydrogen gas conditions. As a result, the SA372 steel showed significant hydrogen embrittlement under pressurized hydrogen gas conditions. The effect of punch velocity on the hydrogen embrittlement appeared clearly; the lower punch velocity case indicated significant hydrogen embrittlement resulting in lower SP energy. The fractographic morphologies observed after SP test also revealed the hydrogen embrittlement behavior corresponding to the punch velocity adopted. Under this pressurized gas hydrogen test condition, the influence of specimen surface condition on the extent of hydrogen embrittlement could not be determined clearly.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.49-54
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• 2002

Development of a rapid method possessing the requisite sensitivity and specificity for virus monitoring is necessary for protection of the shellfish-consuming public. Oysters tissue usually contains virus particles in relatively small concentrations along with various other substances that can interfere with detection steps. Therefore, the critical point concerning the detection of viruses in shellfish tissues resides in the processing of samples. The current study demonstrated the possibility of purifying small amounts of virus particles at the interface of a 10/50% sucrose gradient after a single round of sucrose gradient ultracentrifugation. We could detect HAV and poliovirus simultaneously from oyster tissues by using two different sets of primer. Furthermore, the method showed a high level of virus recovery rate (>95%) as determined by plaque assays of the final samples. Taken the advantages of the simple and sensitive methods, it was possible to detect 2 pfu of HAV in 5 g of oyster digestive tissues within 24h.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.92-95
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• 2016

Ultra-high pressure (UHP) was applied to glutinous rice (Dongjin) and brown rice (Shindongjin) to determine its effects on the textural characteristics of cooked rice and bacterial reduction in uncooked rice. Hardness and stickiness of the cooked glutinous and brown rice pretreated with 500 MPa for 5 min were significantly attenuated compared to that of the control rice (p<0.05). After the UHP treatment, particles of the glutinous and brown rice were observed to be finer when cross sections of the rice were analyzed using field emission scanning electron microscope. The total bacterial count in the brown rice treated with 600 MPa for 5 min was reduced from $10^7CFU/g$ to $10^4CFU/g$, while the number of thermoduric bacteria in the brown rice was not significantly different after the UHP treatment. These results suggest that UHP may be an effective method for improving texture of dried rice and to reduce bacterial count in raw rice.

• Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.289-294
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• 2015

The aim of this study was to develop rapid screening method for the identification of Chinese herbal medicine species with similar appearance, Polygonum multiflorum, Cynanchum wilfordii and C. auriculatum, by using genetic markers. As a genetic marker, psbA-trnH gene in chloroplast was selected due to differences in sequence among the three species. Species-specific primers were designed based on the sequences of the marker gene of P. multiflorum, C. wilfordii, and C. auriculatum, and the expected size of PCR products was 160, 147, and 119 bp, respectively. Under the developed conditions, cross-reaction was not detected among these three plant species. To confirm the efficiency of our species-specific primers, the optimized method was applied to a variety of processed products composed of mostly P. multiflorum and C. wilfordii, demonstrating that our method was a rapid and easy screening assay. Our findings suggest this screening method can be utilized to prevent the distribution of economically motivated adulteration food and to improve consumer's right.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.706-714
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• 2012

The Korea Meteorological Administration provided the recent four-years records of weather dataset for our very short-term heavy rainfall prediction. We divided the dataset into three parts: train, validation and test set. Through feature selection, we select only important features among 72 features to avoid significant increase of solution space that arises when growing exponentially with the dimensionality. We used a differential evolution algorithm and two classifiers as the fitness function of evolutionary computation to select more accurate feature subset. One of the classifiers is Support Vector Machine (SVM) that shows high performance, and the other is k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) that is fast in general. The test results of SVM were more prominent than those of k-NN in our experiments. Also we processed the weather data using undersampling and normalization techniques. The test results of our differential evolution algorithm performed about five times better than those using all features and about 1.36 times better than those using a genetic algorithm, which is the best known. Running times when using a genetic algorithm were about twenty times longer than those when using a differential evolution algorithm.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.959-963
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• 2001

To investigate the antimicrobial effects of Scutellariae Radix extract against L.monocytogenes from foods, L. monocytogenes strains isolated from livestock, processed food from meat and milk, and frozen foods, were examined for their sensitivity to Scutellariae Radix extract. 30 L. monocytogenes strains were isolated from total 178 samples(16.9%); 13(14.0%) strains from beef 6(20.7%) strains from pork, 9(39.2%) strains from chicken and 2 (16.7%) strains from frozen foods but was not found from processed products, The serotypes of isolated L.monocytogenes were serotype O-1 strains (23, 76.7%) and serotype O-4 strains(7, 23.3%) on antisera agglutination test. The growth curves of isolates were shown lag phase, logarithmic phase, stationary phase and death phase as typical sigmoid curve on the preservative-free hams. After 6 hours. Scutellariae Radix extract contain group differ from control group on preservative-free ham samples, and the isolates were inhibited in more than 1000 ppm Scutellariae Radix extract on the inhibitory growth curve of L.monocytogenes. The mor-phological changes were observed by transmission electron microscope and the microbial cells membrane was destroyed by Scutellariae Radix extract.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.36 no.9
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• pp.1198-1204
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• 2007

This study was carried out to find the optimal conditions for the extraction of the effective ingredients based on central composite by monitoring the extraction characteristics of each ingredient with a response surface methodology. The optimal condition for the effective component alliin was extract temperature of $60.86^{\circ}C$, extract time of 3.77 hr, and ethanol concentration of 50.68%, and that for allicin was $65.11^{\circ}C$, 2.79 hr, and 13.62%, respectively, with the maximum extraction of 16.72 mg%. The maximum value of extracted total phenolics was 16.72 mg%, the optimal condition for electron donating ability was $93.35^{\circ}C$, 3.22 hr and 10.38%. The optimal conditions for pH 1.2 and 3.0 nitrite-scavenging ability was extract temperature of $79.77^{\circ}C$ and $76.46^{\circ}C$, extract time of 3.22 hr and 3.31 hr, and the ethanol concentration of 10.38% and 1.12%, respectively. With this optimal condition, the obtained maximum values for nitrite-scavenging activities at pH 1.2 and 3.0 were 94.85% and 63.22%, respectively.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.119-119
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• 2009

인버터 DC 저항용접의 적용성 증대 : 인버터 DC 저항용접 공법이 SPOT, PROJECTON, SEAM, BUTT 등의 공정에 다양하게 적용되어 저항용접 현장에서 고효율, 친환경적 용접 환경을 만드는데 일조 하고 있다. 특히 자동차의 경량화, 충돌내성 증대, 진동 및 내구성 증대, 공간활용 극대화, 새로운 Design 개념 적용 등의 산업전반에 걸쳐 나타나는 신 Trends로 고 장력 철재의 적용 범위가 확대되고 HSS(High Strength Steel), EHSS(Extra High Strength Steel), UHSS (Ultra High strength Steel ; Hot - Formed Steel )등 다양한 철판의 SPOT 저항용접이 필요하게 되었다. 기존의 AC 단상용접의 전력 특성 상 통전 중 무 통전 시간 과 높은 PEAK 전력, 단상 대 전력 소모로 인한 전력 DROP 등의 문제로 인하여 신소재의 용접 시 매우 많은 Spatter가 발생하고, 높은 용접품질의 확보가 어려워 지므로 이를 대체하기 위한 공법으로 MFDC ( 인버터 DC 저항용접공법 )이 적용되고 있다. 인버터 DC 저항용접의 적응제어 : MFDC라는 높은 효율의 용접 전력원이 확보 됨에도 불구하고 용접현장에서는 원 자재, 도금 등의 품질 산포, 프레스 물의 가공산포, 공기압 산포, 전극 과열 및 마모 등의 요인에 의하여 저항용접 산포가 발생하고 있다. 이는 인위적인 조작이 어렵고 불규칙적이며, 어디서나 산재하고 있는 문제이다. 이를 용접전력 제어 법으로 개선하여 일정한 용접성을 확보하기 위한 노력이 적응제어 기법이다. 정 전류, 정 전력 제어는 정량 제어로 용접 물을 비롯한 용접부의 변화와는 관계없이 설정된 일정량의 전력을 공급하기만 하는데 반하여 적응제어는 적절한 용접 작업 시의 용접 물의 상태, 전극의 가압, 표면 상태 등에 따른 변화 페턴을 기억하고 이후 진행되는 용접에 대하여 정상 페턴과의 차이를 감지 이를 보상하므로 고품질의 용접성을 보장하는 제어기법이다. 따라서 다양한 용접 산포 유발 요인에 의해 용접부의 변화가 발생한다 하여도 그 변화를 감지 하고 적절한 용접전력을 공급한다면 고품질의 용접성을 확보하는데 유용한 공법이 될 수 있다. 인버터 DC 저항용접의 SPC 관리 : SPOT 용접 시 획득할 수 있는 다양한 파라메터에 대하여 모니터링 하고 이 자료를 data 화 하여 품질 관리에 응용하게 되면 양산라인에서 반복적으로 발생되는 문제점을 확인 할 수 있고 이를 통계적 방법으로 추적 개선해 나간다면 용접 불량 감소 및 생산성 향상에 도움이 되며 작업자의 공정 능력 향상 및 기업의 기술축적에도 높은 기여를 할 수 있을 것이다. 용접 적응제어와 다양한 파라메터 모니터링이 한 system에서 이루어 질 때 높은 용접성 확보와 불량률 감소, 원가절감, 생산성 향상 등의 효과가 극대화 될 것이다.