• Food Science and Preservation
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.499-505
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• 2009

Quality changes in fresh-cut potatoes during storage at $4^{\circ}C$ after treatment with low-temperature blanching and antibrowning agents were studied. Fresh-cut potatoes were treated by dipping for 1.5 min in a browning inhibitor solution containing 0.5% (w/v) ascorbic acid, 0.5% (w/v) citric acid, 0.5% (w/v) sodium chloride, 0.1% (w/v) trehalose, and 0.005% (w/v) biotin, at $60^{\circ}C$, with subsequent cooling for 1.5 min and storage at $4^{\circ}C$. The browning properties of fresh-cut potatoes were examined by measurement of polyphenol oxidase (PPO) activity and total phenolic content. Changes in quality attributes over a 14-day period were assessed in terms of titratable acidity, pH, water-soluble solid level, and gas analysis at $4^{\circ}C$. During storage, PPO activity increased, with the lowest activity seen after about 7 days of storage. Treatment with antibrowning solution at $4^{\circ}C$ increased visual sensory attributes during storage. Low-temperature blanching in distilled water more effectively inhibited browning compared with exposure to browning inhibitor solution, as assessed after 7 days of storage. Fresh-cut potatoes respired aerobically after different treatments during storage at $4^{\circ}C$.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2015

In this study, an online seed potato sorting system using a visible and near infrared (40 1100 nm) transmittance spectral technique and statistical model was evaluated for the nondestructive determination of infected and sound seed potatoes. Seed potatoes that had been artificially infected with Pectobacterium atrosepticum, which is known to cause a soil borne disease infection, were prepared for the experiments. After acquiring transmittance spectra from sound and infected seed potatoes, a determination algorithm for detecting infected seed potatoes was developed using the partial least square discriminant analysis method. The coefficient of determination($R^2_p$) of the prediction model was 0.943, and the classification accuracy was above 99% (n = 80) for discriminating diseased seed potatoes from sound ones. This online sorting system has good potential for developing a technique to detect agricultural products that are infected and contaminated by pathogens.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.278-282
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• 1998

Peeled garlic, soybean sprouts, cut onion and cut green pepper were treated by dipping in solutions of different antibrowning agents, and then stored at $10^{\circ}C$. Surface color and polyphenol oxidase activity of produce were measured through the storage. Tested antibrowning agents include ascorbic acid, citric acid and allyl isothiocyanate. The commodities showed different responses to the antibrowning agent solutions; 1% citric acid for peeled garlic, 1% ascorbic acid for soybean sprouts, 2% citric acid for cut onion, and 1% ascorbic acid for cut green pepper showed better retardation in browning than the other treatments for respective product. For peeled garlic, surface browning was concomitant with increase in polyphenol oxidase activity during storage. On the other hand, there was no positive correlation between surface browning and polyphenol oxidase activity for the other stored products.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.2219-2225
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• 2016

Mobile communication systems should be able to support multimedia traffics with limited transmit power due to the frequency reuse for maximizing the channel accommodation. Real-time data is very sensitive to delay, and they need to be transmitted instantly. On the other hand, non-real time data is less sensitive to delay, and their packet loss can be handled more flexibly. Therefore an adaptive resource management scheme is essentially required which enables to keep the minimal power allocated in the base station while guaranteeing the user requirements for QoE within a permissible range. Power-saving techniques are required in order to support multimedia services in the mobile networks because the power consumption increases greatly with the transmission rate increase. This paper proposes a novel scheme which enables to keep the allocated power minimal while guaranteeing the user requirements for QoE within a permissible range.

• Food Science and Preservation
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.84-90
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• 2010

We investigated methods to minimize patulin content during processing of apple juice in Korea. Ascorbic acid concentration (100, 200, 300, and 400 ppm) and activated carbon concentration (50, 100, 150, and 200 ppm) were the parameters assessed by response surface methodology. Residual patulin was lowest in the presence of 237.77 ppm ascorbic acid and 106.58 ppm activated carbon, and increased as these levels increased. Sugar content was affected more byascorbic acid concentration than by activated carbon level, and the total phenol content was revealed to be the saddle point. In addition, the expected total flavonoid content was maximized with increased levels of ascorbic acid and activated carbon. The data showed that 246-274 ppm (v/v) ascorbic acid and 93-122 ppm (v/v) activated carbon were optimal for juice extraction, and the $R^2$ quality factor for juice processing was significant and within the range of 1-10% for all tested parameters.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.1-16
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose and efficient curve reconstruction method based on the classical least-square fitting scheme. Specifically, given planar sample points equipped with normals, we reconstruct the objective curve as the zero set of a hierarchical implicit ZP(Zwart-Powell)-spline that can recover large holes of dataset without loosing the fine details. As regularizers, we adopted two: a Tikhonov regularizer to reduce the singularity of the linear system and a discrete Laplacian operator to smooth out the isocurves. Benchmark tests with quantitative measurements are done and our method shows much better quality than polynomial methods. Compared with the hierarchical bi-quadratic spline for datasets with holes, our method results in compatible quality but with less than 90% computational overhead.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.24 no.8
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• pp.40-47
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a probability method to determine minimum capacity of energy storage system(ESS) for Micro Grid(MG). Because of high capital cost of ESS, it's very important to determine optimal capacity of ESS and for stable operation of MG and we should determine minimum capacity of ESS. The proposed method has abilities to consider forced outage rate of generators and intermittent of non-dispatchable generators and minimum capacity make MG keep energy balancing by oneself.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.1B
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• pp.71-79
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• 2003

As the traffic grows rapidly in the Internet, the QoS guarantee of the flows and the traffic engineering problems have become very important issues. MPLS has more advantages to solve the problems than existing IP routing because of its use of multiple paths between the source and destination pairs Particularly, the availability of Constraint-based Shortest Path First(CSPF) algorithm and explicit route in MPLS made the problem referred above to be solved efficiently. However, the CSPF algorithm has the characteristic of selecting the shortest path of all paths which meet the traffics' QoS constraints Therefore, even though there are alternative paths to route traffic, alternate QoS paths may not be found and best-effort traffic will be dropped during congestion period In this paper, we present the network resource optimization method related to the traffic engineering by using load balancing through routing in MPLS network.

• Journal of agriculture & life science
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• v.46 no.5
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• pp.153-165
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to analyze the acceptance about new seed of Chinese cabbage and to analyze the factors affecting continuous use. Research model was derived based on the Technology Acceptance Model(TAM), the analysis was performed using Partial Least Squares(PLS). The factors significantly affecting the use of new seed of Chinese cabbage are innovativeness and seed promotion in antecedent variables and perceived usefulness in parameter variables, which have strong positive relationship among them. Therefore, efforts such as development and diffusion of high quality seed and securing a market for Chinese cabbage of new seed are necessary for improving perceived usefulness. Since these efforts including seed promotion can enhance the farmers' acceptance of new seed and reduce the risk that farmers would face in introducing new seed, these can also be very helpful in enhancing the farmers' innovativeness.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.12
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• pp.612-618
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• 2020

In recent years, the demand for external window cleaning has increased, but the process is a very dangerous manpower-dependent operation. In addition, it is difficult to clean at the desired frequency in a business that values cleanliness. Therefore, there is a need to automate this work. This paper presents the concept of a device that can be attached to a specific window and clean the window continuously. The economic feasibility of this device was analyzed. The estimated manufacturing cost of the equipment was approximately 10 million won, but the possible investment cost was at least 9.8 million won for five years of endurance and 103 million won for 10 years of endurance. Therefore, the expected savings well exceed the equipment cost, and it was evaluated as having economic feasibility. Since this study analyzed only quantitative indicators, the expected cost reduction due to a reduction in safety accidents, productivity improvement, construction time reduction, and quality improvement was not considered. Therefore, it is expected that the calculated economic feasibility will be more accurate if the cost reduction effect by the automation equipment is calculated by adding the expected values not considered in this study.