• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.532-541
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• 2016

The National Environmental Specimen Bank (NESB) has been collecting broad leave samples to monitor environmental pollution from five different designated sampling areas. In order to ensure the reproducibility and comparability of the results, all the procedures from selecting trees and pooling leaves to make the representative sample are defined in the standard operation procedures(the SOP). The representative samples were subjected to the chemical analyses for some heavy minerals and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons(PAHs). The uncertainty levels involved in each step of the SOP, that is, the sampling and the chemical analysis, were derived using the Robust ANOVA, which enables the relative comparison among the different levels of pollutants concentrations with confidence. Furthermore, the effect of the varying degrees of precipitation on the pollutants concentration of the leaves was also examined. Overall, the biological difference estimated from the duplicate samples was found to exceed the variation across the site, implying even aerial deposition over site. Samples from Gwanak Mt. showed highest heavy metal concentrations than the other sites. Washing off effect of the pollutants adhering in the form of particles on the leaf surface was found to be affected by the cumulative precipitation.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.27 no.12
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• pp.1285-1291
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• 2005

In this study, we isolated bacteria from petroleum contaminated soil which were near to underground storage tanks(UST). Through the screen test, we selected high efficiency bacterium, KDi19, for biodegradation of diesel. KDi19 was identified as Pseudomonas sp. by 16S rDNA, fatty acid, and morphological physiological characteristics. KDi19 degraded 956.3 mg/L(95.6%) of 1,000 mg/L diesel for 48 hours(incubation condition : temperature; $30^{\circ}C$, cell concentration; 1.0 g/L, pH 7). At low temperature, $20^{\circ}C$, $15^{\circ}C$, $10^{\circ}C$, KDi19 respectively removed 63.9%, 18.5% and 17.0% of 1,000 mg/L diesel for 48 hours(cell concentration 1.0 g/L, pH 7). At low concentration of diesel, 50 mg/L and 100 mg/L, KDi19 degraded 97.9% and 96.2% of diesel for 24 hours(temperature; $30^{\circ}C$, cell concentration: 1.0 g/L, pH 7), respectively.

• Food Science and Preservation
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.293-299
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• 2008

Bacillus sp. SP-KSW3 is an auxothroph bacteria that is being used for starter in fermentation. Physico-chemical characteristics, enzyme activities, ACE inhibitor and antimutagenicity in fermented soybean (Kanjang) inoculated with Bacillus sp. SP-KSW3 starter was investigated for the ripening duration of fermentation. Tyrosinase and ACE showed 7% higher activity degree on the Kanjang maturated fermented 2 years with Bacillus sp. SP-KSW3 (Type I) than test field than Kanjang maturated 2 years (control). For antimutagenicity using S. enterica serovar Typhimurium TA100 against MNNG and NPD showed 35.17% and 28.37% (Type I). Similarly, S. enterica serovar Typhimurium TA98 was used against NPD and NQO showed 25.48% and 21.64% (Type I), respectively. Hydrogen donating ability 2 year for maturing (Type I) appeared most highly in the test eulogy 83.1% which it makes. Daidzin of isoflavone in fermented soybean showed similarly. Genistein was not detected The initial test field for daidzin and genistein contained 3.95 mg/kg and 1.25 mg/kg (Type I), respectively.

• Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.306-312
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• 2016

Gargle solution has typically been used for the prevention of oral infectious disease such as dental caries and periodontitis. However, the use of most gargle solutions is controversial in application for children because some gargle solutions have harmful side effects. Electrolyzed water is generated by passed an electric current and has antimicrobial activity. The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare the efficacy of electrolyzed water in various conditions for eliminating cariogenic bacteria. Electrolyzed water was generated by a platinum electrode in the presence of sodium chloride at various concentrations. Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus sobrinus were cultivated into a brain heart infusion broth. After harvesting planktonic bacteria, the pellets were treated with the electrolyzed water and commercial gargle solutions and plated on a mitis-salivarius agar plate. Also, the anti-biofilm activity of the electrolyzed water and commercial gargle solutions was investigated after biofilm formation of S. mutans and S. sobrinus. The bacteria in the biofilm were plated onto a mitis-salivarius agar plate. The plates were incubated, and the colony forming unit was measured. The electrolyzed water containing sodium chloride showed significant antibacterial activity against S. mutans and S. sobrinus as well as some gargle solutions. Furthermore, the electrolyzed water had more disruptive effect on the biofilm of S. mutans and S. sobrinus and killed more bacteria in the biofilm than commercial gargle solutions. The results demonstrate that electrolyzed water may be a useful gargle solution for prevention of dental caries.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.726-737
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• 2017

Carotenoids are isoprenoids with a long polyene chain containing 3 to 15 conjugated double bonds, which determines their absorption spectrum. They typically consist of a $C_{40}$ hydrocarbon backbone often modified by different oxygen-containing functional groups, to yield cyclic or acyclic xanthophylls. Much work has also been focused on the identification, production, and utilization of natural sources of carotenoid (plants, microorganisms and crustacean by-products) as an alternative to the synthetic pigment which currently covers most of the world markets. Nevertheless, only a few carotenoids (${\beta}-carotene$, lycopene, astaxanthin, canthaxanthin, and lutein) can be produced commercially by fermentation or isolation from the small number of abundant natural sources. The market and demand for carotenoids is anticipated to increase dramatically with the discovery that carotenoids exhibit significant anti-carcinogenic activities and play an important role in the prevention of chronic diseases. The increasing importance of carotenoids in the feed, nutraceutical food and pharmaceutical markets has renewed by efforts to find ways of producing additional carotenoid structures in useful quantities. Because microorganisms and plants synthesize hundreds of different complex chemical carotenoid structures and a number of carotenoid biosynthetic pathways have been elucidated on a molecular level, metabolic and genetic engineering of microorganisms can provide a means towards economic production of carotenoid structures that are otherwise inaccessible. The aim of this article is to review our current understanding of carotenoid formation, to explain the perceived benefits of carotenoid in the diet and review the efforts that have been made to increase carotenoid in certain microorganisms.

• The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.69-77
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• 1997

A 12-cm long sediment core was collected from a station in Lake Shihwa where high salinity-anoxic deep water is isolated from low salinity-oxic surface water by a strong halocline barrier. Unprecedented concentrations of porewater ammonia and lead are encountered: at 9 cm sediment depth ammonia builds up to 1420 ${\mu}M$ and at 3 cm lead to 1348 nM. As they are stable in anoxic condition, high concentrations of ammonia and lead suggest a development of notorious anoxic condition in the benthic environment of the lake. The degree of pollution of the deep water is likely to be directly proportional to the magnitude of benthic flux, because the deep water is isolated from the surface water by the halocline. Apparent coincidence of the ammonia residence time in the deep water with the elapsing time after the completion of the artificial lake construction, as about three years, suggests that the deep water pollution is being progressed entirely by benthic flux at least with respect to ammonia. The residence time for lead is such a short 20 days that it suggests a rapid return of the bottom water lead, which is originated from porewater by benthic flux, back to sediments probably as metal sulfide phases. The speculation on the return of lead as sulfide phases is likely to be supported by high concentration of hydrogen sulfide in the deep water and by high sinking rate of non-organic particles in Lake Shihwa.

• Korean Journal of Plant Tissue Culture
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.29-34
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• 1994

The possibility that DNA could move out of the single cells isolated from geranium (Pelargonium zonale hybrids, 'PintoScarlet') callus was determined by the elechophoretic DNA analysis after treatment of low pH, various concentrations of KNO$_3$, 2,4-D, and GA$_3$ followed by the centrifugal force, all of which are hewn to and the physico-chemical properties of the cell wall. The centrifugal force of l,800 xg was need for DNA migration after the above treatment, but 7k300 xg was required without the treatments. In this experiment the optimum concentration (300 mg/L) of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) used as an anion detergent to collect the negatively charged DNA was very critical not to damage the cell wall It can be concluded that the centrifugal force played a key role for the DNA migration through the cell wall, and the treatments of low pH (4.0), 0.5% KNO$_3$, 1.5 mg/L GA$_3$and 1mg/L 2,4-D further increased the DNA migration.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.111-118
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• 2007

Global warming crisis due primarily to continued green house gas emission requires impending change to renewable alternative energy than continuously depending on exhausting fossil fuels. Bioenergy including biodiesel and bioethanol are considered good alternatives because of their renewable and sustainable nature. Bioethanol is currently being produced by using sucrose from sugar beet, grain starches or lignocellulosic biomass as sources of ethanol fermentation. However, grain production requires significant amount of fossil fuel inputs during agricultural practices, which means less competitive in reducing the level of green house gas emission. By contrast, cellulosic bioethanol can use naturally-growing, not-for-food biomass as a source of ethanol fermentation. In this respect, cellulosic ethanol than grain starch ethanol is considered a more appropriate as a alternative renewable energy. However, commercialization of cellulosic ethanol depends heavily on technology development. Processes such as securing enough biomass optimized for economic processing, pretreatment technology for better access of polymer-hydrolyzing enzymes, saccharification of recalcitrant lignocellulosic materials, and simultaneous fermentation of different sugars including 6-carbon glucose as well as 5-carbon xylose or arabinose waits for greater improvement in technologies. Although it seems to be a long way to go until commercialization, it should broadly benefit farmers with novel source of income, environment with greener and reduced level of global warming, and national economy with increased energy security. Mission-oriented strategies for cellulosic ethanol development participated by government funding agency and different disciplines of sciences and technologies should certainly open up a new era of renewable energy.

• The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.145-150
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• 1997

This study was performed to compare the changes of quality in citron(Citrus junos Sieb) juice between sampleII stored at 5$^{\circ}C$ for 1 year after extraction and sampleI made from raw citrons by the belt-pressing extraction method. Compared with sampleI, the soluble solid of sampleII was decreased more than 1$^{\circ}$brix, and the moisture increased 3%. The acidity reduced from 5.83 to 5.23 at the pH rose from 2.68 to 2.84. Although it decreased more than 50% in vitamin C and over 20~30% in amino acid, the changes of the other proximate components, amino nitrogen and free sugar content were very little at the range 0.1~1.0%. Volatile compounds in citron juices between sampleI and II were analyzed by GC and GC-MS. Sample I and II showed about 70 of volatile compounds. But only 13 compounds were identified by mass spectrometer. Major volatile compounds were aromatic compounds of limonene, terpinene, terpineol and terpinolene. Amounts of volatile compounds in citron juices depended on the storage period. The recovery of volatile compounds of citron juices, reduced 30~50% after storage for 1 year and the trace component disappeared during storage. The sensory characteristics including color, aroma, taste and overall acceptability and sugar recipe were not significantly.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2014.02a
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• pp.309.1-309.1
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• 2014

III-N계 기반의 광 반도체는 직접 천이형 넓은 밴드갭 구조를 갖고 있기 때문에 자외선에서 가시광을 포함한 적외선까지 포함한 폭 넓은 발광이 가능하여 조명 및 디스플레이 관련 차세대 광원으로 많은 관심을 받고 있다. 하지만 p형 GaN의 경우, 상온에서 도펀트로 사용되는 마그네슘(Mg)이 수소(H)와 결합하여 보상 효과를 나타내기 때문에 높은 정공농도를 갖기에 어려움이 있다고 알려져 있다. 따라서, 대부분의 연구 그룹에서는 GaN계 LED 소자를 성장 후 rapid thermal annealing 공정이 요구되고 있고, 최근에는 박막 성장 후 반응로 내에서 자체적으로 열처리를 진행하고 있는 실정이다. 하지만, 열처리 조건은 LED 소자의 발광특성에 큰 영향을 주기 때문에 본 연구에서는 반응로에서 열처리가 된 LED 샘플에 대해 추가적인 열처리 공정의 유무에 따른 GaN계 LED소자의 광학적 및 전기적 특성에 대해 알아보고자 하였다. 금속유기화학증착법을 이용하여 c-면 사파이어 기판에 저온 GaN 완충층 및 $2.0{\mu}m$두께의 GaN 박막을 성장한 후, $3.0{\mu}m$두께의 n-형 GaN에피층과 InGaN/GaN 5주기의 양자우물구조를 형성하고 $0.1{\mu}m$두께의 p형 GaN층을 성장하였다. P-형 GaN층 성장 후 온도를 내리면서 $750^{\circ}C$, N2 분위기에서 5분간 Mg 활성화를 위한 열처리를 반응로에서 in-situ로 진행하였다. 그 후 급속열처리 장비에 장입하여 $650^{\circ}C$, N2 분위기에서 5분간 추가적인 열처리를 진행하여 추가 열처리 유무에 따른 LED소자의 특성을 분석하였다. 추가적인 열처리 유무에 따른 LED소자의 레이저 여기에 의한 포토루미네선스 스펙트럼과 전계발광 스펙트럼을 조사한 바, 포토루미네선스 스펙트럼의 경우 추가적인 열처리를 진행하였을 경우, 이전보다 발광 세기가 감소함을 나타내었다. 이는 추가적인 열처리에 의해 InGaN/GaN 활성층이 손상되었기 때문이라고 추측된다. 그러나 전계발광 스펙트럼에서는 활성층이 손상되었음에도 불구하고 전계 발광세기가 3배 가량 증가한 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한, 20 mA 인가 시 4.2 V 에서 3.7 V로 전압이 감소하였다. 상기 결과로 미루어 볼 때 열처리에 의한 InGaN/GaN 활성층 손상에도 불구하고 광 세기가 크게 증가한 것은 금속유기화학증착장치의 in-situ 열처리에 의한 Mg가 충분히 활성화되지 못하였고, 추가적인 열처리에 의하여 p형 GaN에서 Mg-H 복합체의 분리로 인한 Mg 활성화가 더욱더 효과적으로 이루어졌기 때문이라고 추측된다.