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Optimal Conditions for the Post-Harvest Storage of Rhizoids of the Brown Seaweed Undaria pinnatifida (Phaeophyta) for Arachidonic Acid Production

  • Khan, Mohammed Nurul Absar;Kang, Ji-Young;Park, Nam-Gyu;Choi, Jae-Suk;Cho, In-Soon;Hong, Yong-Ki
    • Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.163-168
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    • 2012
  • The non-utilized biomass of the aquacultured seaweed Undaria pinnatifida, particularly the rhizoid, is an alternative source of arachidonic acid (AA). Of the five aquacultured kelps that were tested, U. pinnatifida yielded the highest amount of AA, which was isolated from the rhizoids. Its identity (C20:4 n-6) was confirmed from gas chromatography-mass spectrometry spectral data. The optimal conditions for post-harvest storage or pretreatment of the rhizoids in Provasoli's enriched seawater for AA extraction were determined to be pH 7.8, 2% $CO_2$-enriched air, 20 ${\mu}mol\;m^{-2}\;s^{-1}$ light, and $10^{\circ}C$. Under these conditions, the AA content after 1 day of storage was enhanced by up to 127%. In the absence of light under ambient aeration, the AA content after 1 day of storage diminished to 90%. Rhizoids collected late in the season (April and May) contained the highest amounts of AA (approximately 2.5 mg/g tissue).

Chemical Transformation of Individual Asian Dust Particles Estimated by the Novel Double Detector System of Micro-PIXE

  • Ma, Chang-Jin
    • Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.106-114
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    • 2010
  • By the application of novel double detector system of micro-PIXE that can detect light elements (Z<14), we made an attempt to provide a thorough discussion on the aging processes of Asian dust (hereafter called "AD") particle by reaction with sea-slat. The elemental spectra and maps obtained from the microbeam radiation of micro-PIXE to individual AD particles were useful for fractionating AD particles into both internally and externally mixed particles. A spatial distribution of elements in a minute domain of single particle obtained by scanning the microbeam irradiation enabled us not only to estimate the chemical mixing state of individual AD particles but also to presume their aging processes in both ambient air and cloud. By calculating the normalized micro-PIXE net count of elements, it was possible to classify individual AD particles into three distinct groups (i.e., (1) Aging type 1: AD particle coated by the gaseous Cl evaporated by the reaction between artificial acids and sea salt; (2) Aging type 2: AD particle mixed with sea salt but no additional reaction with artificial acids; and (3) Non-aged type) A relatively high transformation rate (63.3-75.9%) was shown in large particles (greater than $5.1\;{\mu}m$ in diameter).

A SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF VARIOUS PAPERS MADE FROM RECLAIMED FIBRES

  • Ingegerd Forsskahl;Carola Olkkonen;Henrik Tylli
    • Proceedings of the Korea Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry Conference
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    • 1999.04b
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    • pp.296-301
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    • 1999
  • Different papers such as toilet and towel tissue, newsprint and copy paper made from reclaimed fibres were characterized using UV-VIS reflectance and fluorescence spectroscopy. The emission properties of the extracts of the papers were also evaluated. Photochemical irradiation at ambient temperatures, and thermal aging of the copy papers at 105$^{\circ}C$ and 150$^{\circ}C$ were performed. Post-colour numbers (PC) were calculated from the reflectance values measured from the corresponding UV-VIS reflectance spectra. Light absorption coefficient spectra were calculated before and after irradiation, and the changes in absorption coefficient were related to the content of chromophores in the papers. Photochemical and thermal discolouration of the copy papers, similar to that of virgin fibres, was readily observed. The influence of changes in the concentrations of fluorescent brightening agents and dyes on the spectral properties was also assessed. Photostabilization studies of the copy papers were performed with the use of polymer additives polyethylene glycol (PEG) and polytetrahydrofuran (PTHF).

Effect of O2, CO, and NO on the Surface Segregation in a Rh50Pd50 Bulk Crystal and a comparison to Rh50Pd50 Nanoparticles

  • Park, Mi-Ta;Grass, Michael E.;Aksoy, Funda;Zhang, Yawen;Liu, Zhi;Mun, Bong-Jin S.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2010.08a
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    • pp.84-84
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    • 2010
  • We present an in-situ study of the interaction of a bimetallic Rh50Pd50 bulk crystal with O2, CO, and NO using ambient pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and compare it to results for 10 nm nanoparticles with the same overall composition. The surface of the bulk crystal has less Rh present under both oxidizing and reducing conditions than the nanoparticles under identical conditions. Segregation and oxidation/reduction proceeds quicker and at lower temperature for nanoparticles than for the bulk crystal. The near surface of the Rh50Pd50 bulk crystal after high temperature vacuum annealing is ca. 9% Rh measured by XPS. Heating in 0.1 Torr O2 to $350^{\circ}C$ increases the Rh surface composition to ca. 40%. The surface can then be reduced by heating in H2 at $150^{\circ}C$, leading to a reduced surface of 30% Rh. Titration of CO from this Rh-rich surface proceeds at a much lower pressure than on the Rh-deficient starting surface.

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Hybrid Passivation for a Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode (다층 구조의 Hybrid flexible 박막 기술 연구)

  • Lee, Whee-Won;Kim, Young-Hwan;Seo, Dae-Shik;Kim, Yong-Hoon;Moon, Dae-Gyu;Han, Jeong-In
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.269-270
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    • 2005
  • A hybrid passivation method using parylene and silicon dioxide combination layer for a flexible organic light emitting diode (FOLED) was applied on a polycarbonate substrate. A parylene coating by vapor polymerization method is a highly effective passivation process for the FOLED, and it applies all top surface and the edges of the FOLED device. In order to minimize the permeation of moisture and oxygen from the top surface of the device, an additional layer of silicon dioxide was deposited over the parylene coated layer. It was found that the water vapor transmittance rate (WVTR) of parylene (15 m-in-thickness) / SiO2 (0.3$\mu$m-in-thickness) combination layers deposited on polycarbonate film was decreased under the value of 10-3 g/m2day. The FOLED with the hybrid passivation showed remarkably longer lifetime characteristics in the ambient conditions than the non-passivated FOLED. The lifetime of the passivated FOLED was 400 hours and it was more than ten times over the lifetime of the convectional non-passivated FOLED.

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Performance and Emissions Characteristics of a Diesel Engine with Some Bio-Oil Fuels

  • La, Woo-Jung;Ju, Eun-Sun;Kim, Byong-Hwa;Cho, Ki-Hyun;Kim, Jong-Chun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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    • 1996.06c
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    • pp.359-368
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    • 1996
  • The performance and exhaust emissions of a diesel engine using light oil, heated, rice-bran oil , heated rice-bran oil treated with ultrasonic wave, used frying oil, use frying oil treated with ultrasonic wave, used frying oil, used frying oil treated with ultrasonic wave, methyl esters of rice-bran oil and used frying oil have been compared. All the fuels performed satisfactorily in a precombustion chamber-type diesel engine without injection pump recalibration or any engine modification at the range of engine speed from 1600 to 2800 rpm at its full load during a sort period , with the rice-bran oil and rice-bran oil treated with ultrasonic wave requiring somewhat preheating when ambient temperature was below 15$^{\circ}C$. General performance and emission characteristics of light oil and bio-oils were comparable , with the bio-oil based fuels giving very low SO$_2$ and lower smoke readings.

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Numerical Study of AGN Jet Propagation with Two Dimensional Relativistic Hydrodynamic Code

  • MIZUTA AKIRA;YAMADA SHOICHI;TAKABE HIDEAKI
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.329-331
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    • 2001
  • We investigate the morphology of Active Galactic Nuclei(AGN) jets. AGN jets propagate over kpc $\~$ Mpc and their beam velocities are close to the speed of light. The reason why many jets propagate over so long a distance and sustain a very collimated structure is not well understood. It is argued that some dimensionless parameters, the density and the pressure ratio of the jet beam and the ambient gas, the Mach number of the beam, and relative speed of the beam compared to the speed of light, are very useful to understand the morphology of jets namely, bow shocks, cocoons, nodes etc. The role of each parameters has been studied by numerical simulations. But more research is necessary to understand it systematically. We have developed 2D relativistic hydrodynamic code to analyze relativistic jets. We pay attention to the propagation velocity which is derived from 1D momentum balance in the frame of the working surface. We show some of our models and discuss the dependence of the morphology of jets on the parameter.

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Compensation of temperature characteristics by frequency control of an electronic ballastfor a compact fluorescent lamp (콤팩트 형광램프용 전자식 안정기의 주파수 제어에 의한 온도보상)

  • Song, Sang-Bin;Gwark, Jae-Young;Yeo, In-Seon
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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    • v.48 no.1
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    • pp.27-33
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    • 1999
  • Compact fluorescent lamps are very sensitive to the variation of ambient temperature. This paper investigates the temperature characteristics of a 15[W] compact fluorescent lamp, and compensates the variation of light output by frequency control of its electronic ballast. Circuit parameters for the inverter of the electronic ballast are obtained by analyzing the R-L-C equivalent circuit for the inverter and the lamp. The optimum ratio of the two capacitance($C_1$/$C_2$), which are connected with the lamp in series and in parallel, respectively, is determined which consideration of the temperature variation within a range of 10~35[$^{\circ}C$]. As a result a value of 10 for the ratio is obtained at an operating frequency of 57[kHz], and with this value the frequency control works well for temperature compensation. Its validity is verified by investigating light output stabilization characteristics resulting from frequency control of the lamp at various temperatures.

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Visual Cell OOK Modulation : A Case Study of MIMO CamCom (시각 셀 OOK 변조 : MIMO CamCom 연구 사례)

  • Le, Nam-Tuan;Jang, Yeong Min
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.38C no.9
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    • pp.781-786
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    • 2013
  • Multiplexing information over parallel data channels based on RF MIMO concept is possible to achieve considerable data rates over large transmission ranges with just a single transmitting element. Visual multiplexing MIMO techniques will send independent streams of bits using the multiple elements of the light transmitter array and recording over a group of camera pixels can further enhance the data rates. The proposed system is a combination of the reliance on computer vision algorithms for tracking and OOK cell frame modulation. LED array are controlled to transmit message in the form of digital information using ON-OFF signaling with ON-OFF pulses (ON = bit 1, OFF = bit 0). A camera captures image frames of the array which are then individually processed and sequentially decoded to retrieve data. To demodulated data transmission, a motion tracking algorithm is implemented in OpenCV (Open source Computer Vision library) to classify the transmission pattern. One of the most advantages of proposed architecture is Computer Vision (CV) based image analysis techniques which can be used to spatially separate signals and remove interferences from ambient light. It will be the future challenges and opportunities for mobile communication networking research.

Characteristics of amorphous IZO anode based flexible organic light emitting diodes (비정질 IZO 애노드 박막을 이용한 플렉서블 유기발광소자 특성)

  • Moon, Jong-Min;Bae, Jung-Hyeok;Jeong, Soon-Wook;Kim, Han-Ki;Kang, Jae-Wook
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.491-492
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    • 2006
  • We report on the fabrication of organic-based flexible display using an amorphous IZO anode grown at room temperature. The IZO anode films were grown by a conventional DC reactive sputtering on polycarbonate (PC) substrate at room temperature using a synthesized IZO target in a Ar/$O_2$ ambient. X-ray diffraction examination results show that the IZO anode film grown at room temperature is complete amorphous structure due to low substrate temperature. It is shown that the $Ir(ppy)_3$ doped flexible organic light emitting diode (OLED) fabricated on the IZO anode exhibit comparable current-voltage-luminance characteristics to OLED fabricated on conventional ITO/glass substrate. These findings indicate that the IZO anode film grown on PC substrate is a promising anode materials for the fabrication of organic based flexible displays.

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