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Trend Analysis of Stream Qualities In Nakdong River by the LOWESS method

  • Yoon, Yong-Hwa;Um, Hee-Jung;Kim, Jong-Tae
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.1019-1026
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    • 2008
  • The goal of this paper is to analysis the trend of stream quality about the upstream, middle stream and high areas of Nakdong River measurement points from January 1998 to December 2006. and to suggest some policy alternatives in Nakdong river. It used the three different monthly time series data such as BOD (biochemical oxygen demand), TN (Total Nitrogen) and TP(Total Phosphorus), of the three of Nakdong River measurement points. BOD, TN and TP data are analyzed with the LOWESS(Locally Weighted Scatter plot Smoother) nonparametric method.

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Convergent Synthesis of PAMAM-like Dendrimers from Azide-functionalized PAMAM Dendrons

  • Lee, Jae-Wook;Kim, Jung-Hwan;Kim, Byung-Ku;Kim, Ji-Hyeon;Shin, Won-Suk;Jin, Sung-Ho;Kim, Myung-hak
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.27 no.11
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    • pp.1795-1800
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    • 2006
  • The convergent synthesis of symmetric PAMAM-like dendrimers from azide-functionalized poly(amido- amine) (PAMAM) dendrons and two different multi-alkynes was investigated. The stitching method was based on the click chemistry protocol, i.e., the copper-catalyzed cycloaddition reaction between an alkyne and an azide.

S-tree-Based Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Modeling of Biochemical Systems (생화학 시스템의 동적 모델링을 위한 S-tree 기반의 진화연산)

  • 조동연;장병탁
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2003.10b
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    • pp.823-825
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    • 2003
  • 시간이 흐름에 따라 생화학 시스템이 변화하는 것을 기록한 데이터로부터 이 시스템의 상태 전이 및 시스템을 구성하는 각 생화학 물질간의 관계를 모델링하기 위한 방법으로 S-tree 구조를 제안한다. 이것은 주로 생화학 시스템의 동적 특성을 모델링 하기 위하여 연구되어 온 S-system을 나무 구조로 표현한 것이다. 본 논문에서는 진화 연산을 통해 주어진 시계열 데이터를 잘 설명하는 S-tree의 구조 및 그 변수들을 동시에 효과적으로 탐색하는 방법을 개발하였다. 이 방법에서는 구조 탐색을 위해 유전 프로그래밍(genetic programming)에서 사용되어 온 나무 구조의 교차 및 돌연변이 연산과 더불어 다양한 형태의 구조 탐색 연산자들을 도입하였고, 또한 동시에 알맞은 변수 값들을 찾기 위하여 확률적 돌연변이 연산을 통한 언덕 오르기(hill-climbing)를 수행한다. 제안된 방법을 효모의 혐기성 발효 데이터에 적용한 결과 주어진 시스템을 성공적으로 모델링할 수 있었다.

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NMR Microimaging for Noninvasive Investigation of Polymers (고분자의 비파괴 연구를 위한 핵자기 공명 현미영상법)

  • Lee, D.H.;Ko, R.K.;Moon, C.H.;Cho, Z.H.
    • Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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    • v.1995 no.11
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    • pp.253-256
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    • 1995
  • Polymers have been one of the emerging biomedical materials in the area of biomedical research which are applicable to the human body. For human applications, noninvasive characterization of the biomedical polymers has been one of the important topics, and is valuable information. Among others, the swelling rate is one of the important measurements needed for the hydrophilic polymers. NMR imaging has been a suitable method for the noninvasive study of such a material since it is sensitive to many physical and biochemical changes of the specimens. In addition, NMR techniques possess many useful intrinsic properties such as the relaxation and diffusion effects. The present study has provided a noble and noninvasive method of measuring the process of swelling as well as volumetric changes occurred in polymers and drug delivery processes in a drug delivery system (DDS) together with changes of released drug. This gives information, relating with both water ingress process, volumetric changes of polymer specimens and the visualization of sequential drug delivery process. Also, this study provides more reliable method to ascertain the time dependent swelling process compared to the conventional method. The important aspects is that the proposed method is truly noninvasive and is able to ascertain time dependent processes.

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A Study on the Applicability of Water-soluble Decontaminant to the Contaminated Aircraft Using SEM/EDS analysis (SEM/EDS 분석을 통한 수용성 제독제의 오염 항공기 적용 가능성 연구)

  • Kim, Jae-Kyun;Kim, Ik-Sik;Shin, Ki-Su
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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    • v.45 no.6
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    • pp.48-54
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    • 2008
  • Biochemical weapons, called as a poor nation's nuclear-weapon, are most favorable Weapons of Mass Destruction(WMD). At the beginning of war, these biochemical weapons, which can threaten the operations of our forces and cause the anxiety and chaos of people, should be used to attack our principle facilities. And these attacks might be conducted as a long term scenario over the war. Consequentially, our military training as well as civilian-military joint training have been focused on these circumstances to improve defense capability against the invasion of biochemical weapons. Add to these efforts, there have been a lot of researches to develop advanced decontaminations that can secure our troops and equipments. In this study, applicability of the water-soluble decontaminant for the contaminated aircraft was evaluated. The water-soluble decontaminant has been applied to the military stations and ground weapon systems only. According to the theoretical analyses and published papers, the water-soluble decontaminant has been shown better decontamination capability than commercial cleaner by roughly 50%. Furthermore, as a result of experiment efforts in this study, it was showed that the water-soluble decontaminant can reduce corrosion risk which is primary concern for the aircraft structures.

Improvement of Solar Cell Efficiency according to AC Voltage Variation of Electron Relay Enhancer in High Efficient Solar Cell System using Electron Relay Enhancer (전자전달증대기를 이용한 고효율 태양전지 시스템에서 전자전달증대기 입력 교류 전압 변화에 따른 태양전지 효율 향상에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, Hak Soo;Ryu, Young Kee;Lee, Hyuk;Yun, So Young
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.168-173
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, we would like to introduce Electron Relay Enhancer (ERE), a supplementary device, which improves commercial solar cell efficiency minimizing electron-hole recombination of solar cell. The ERE in this study is mainly composed of two capacitors which are connected to AC power source and bridge diode system which controls electron flow direction. Two capacitors repeat collecting electrons from solar cell and pumping the collected electrons to load resistance or inverter through the bridge diode system. While one positively charged capacitor collect electrons, the other negatively charged one pumps electrons. A positively charged capacitor pulls the more exited electrons from the solar cell, before the exited electrons recombine the holes in solar cell. That is why the ERE system enhances solar cell efficiency. As a result, the measured power increase of the solar cell with the ERE is varied from 5.9 W to 25.6 W in each experimental condition. Maximal increase rate of the solar cell power with ERE is 30.8% of solar cell power without ERE.

A Development of SCM Model in Chemical Industry Including Batch Mode Operations (회분식 공정이 포함된 화학산업에서의 공급사슬 관리 모델 개발)

  • Park, Jeung Min;Ha, Jin-Kuk;Lee, Euy Soo
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • v.46 no.2
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    • pp.316-329
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    • 2008
  • Recently the increased attention pays on the processing of multiple, relatively low quantity, high value-added products resulted in adoption of batch process in the chemical process industry such as pharmaceuticals, polymers, bio-chemicals and foods. As there are more possibilities of the improvement of operations in batch process than continuous processes, a lot of effort has been made to enhance the productivity and operability of batch processes. But the chemical process industry faces a range of uncertainties factors such as demands for products, prices of product, lead time for the supply of raw materials and in the production, and the distribution of product. And global competition has made it imperative for the process industries to manage their supply chains optimally. Supply chain management aims to integrate plants with their supplier and customers so that they can be managed as a single entity and coordinate all input/output flows (of materials, information) so that products are produced and distributed in the right quantities, to the right locations, and at the right time.The objective of this study is to solve the purchase, distribution, production planning and scheduling problem, which minimizes the total costs of production, inventory, and transportation under uncertainty. And development of SCM model in chemical industry including batch mode operations. Through that, the enterprise can respond to uncertainty. Also integrated process optimal planning and scheduling model for manufacturing supply chain. The result shows that, the advantage of supply chain integration are quality matters seen by customers and suppliers, order schedules, flexibility, cost reduction, and increase in sales and profits. Also, an integration of supply chain (production and distribution system) generates significant savings by trading off the costs associated with the whole, rather than minimizing supply chain costs separately.

Biochemical Characterization of Agaricus bisporus Dikaryon Strains (양송이 이핵균주의 생화학적 특성 검정)

  • Kwon, Hyuk Woo;Kim, Jun Young;Min, Sung Hwan;Choi, Min Ah;Oh, Youn-Lee;Kong, Won-Sik;Kim, Seong Hwan
    • The Korean Journal of Mycology
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    • v.42 no.1
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    • pp.86-90
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    • 2014
  • Button mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) strains from diverse origins were compared in this study to obtain basic information on their growth and biochemical properties that are helpful for breeding. Among 31 dikaryotic strains tested, most strains showed better mycelial growth on oatmeal agar than on MEA and PDA. Mycelia of the mushroom strains revealed ${\beta}$-glucosidase activity the most clearly among the seven extracellular enzymes tested. All the strains showed protease activity, but ${\beta}$-glucosidase activity was found in 27 strains and xylanase activity was found in 30 strains. The activity of avicelase, CM-cellulase, amylase, and pectinase was detected in less than 20 strains. These results implied that enzymatic characteristics could be used as a criterion of strain selection for breeding study.

Changes of Chemical Composition in Blood Serum during the Antler Growth Period in Spotted Deer (Cervus nippon)

  • Jeon, B.T.;Kim, M.H.;Lee, S.M.;Thomas, David G.;Moon, S.H.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.19 no.9
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    • pp.1298-1304
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    • 2006
  • The aim of this study was to provide basic haematological information to allow improved nutritional management for velvet production in spotted deer (Cervus nippon) by investigating biochemical changes in blood values during the antler growth period. Blood samples, obtained from the jugular vein of twenty-five deer, were taken every 10 days from casting (day 0) to harvesting (day 50) of velvet antler. Negligible changes were found in the concentrations of total protein, albumin, and creatinine during the antler growth period, but there were significant changes in the concentrations of urea (p<0.05) and uric acid (p<0.01). The concentration of triglyceride was significantly higher (p<0.05) during the antler growth period compared to casting time, while serum high-density lipoprotein concentrations were low and remained unchanged during the antler growth period. Serum glucose concentration increased (p<0.05) significantly and was slightly changeable during antler growth. The serum concentrations of Ca and P did not fluctuate during antler growth, while those of Na, K and Cl showed slight differences between the time of casting and the rest of the antler growth period. No significant changes in concentrations of AST, ALT, amylase, CK, GGT and LDH were detected during the antler growth period. However, the concentration of ALK-P increased during antler growth reaching its peak on day 50 after casting. We found a significant difference in the concentration of ALK-P between the time of casting and the rest of the antler growth period (p<0.01). Consequently, antler growth was associated with mild changes in measured serum biochemical values with the exception of ALK-P activity in spotted deer.

Microbial Diversity during Fermentation of Sweet Paste, a Chinese Traditional Seasoning, Using PCR-Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis

  • Mao, Ping;Hu, Yuanliang;Liao, Tingting;Wang, Zhaoting;Zhao, Shumiao;Liang, Yunxiang;Hu, Yongmei
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.678-684
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    • 2017
  • The aim of this study was to elucidate the changes in the microbial community and biochemical properties of a traditional sweet paste during fermentation. PCR-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) analysis showed that Aspergillus oryzae was the predominant species in the koji (the fungal mixture), and the majority of the fungi isolated belonged to two Zygosaccharomyces species in the mash. The bacterial DGGE profiles revealed the presence of Bacillus subtilis during fermentation, and Lactobacillus acidipiscis, Lactobacillus pubuzihii, Lactobacillus sp., Staphylococcus kloosi, and several uncultured bacteria were also detected in the mash after 14 days of main fermentation. Additionally, during main fermentation, amino-type nitrogen and total acid increased gradually to a maximum of $6.77{\pm}0.25g/kg$ and $19.10{\pm}0.58g/kg$ (30 days) respectively, and the concentration of reducing sugar increased to $337.41{\pm}3.99g/kg$ (7 days). The 180-day fermented sweet paste contained $261.46{\pm}19.49g/kg$ reducing sugar and its pH value remained at around 4.65. This study has used the PCR-DGGE technique to demonstrate the microbial community (including bacteria and fungi) in sweet paste and provides useful information (biochemical properties) about the assessment of the quality of sweet paste throughout fermentation.