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Analysis of Mono-, Di- and Tri-glycerides by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with evaporative light scattering detection (ELSD) (HPLC/ELSD에 의한 Mono-, Di- 및 Tri-glycerides류 분석)

  • Lee, Man-Ho;Park, Heai-Ku;Kim, In-Whan
    • Analytical Science and Technology
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.189-193
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    • 2006
  • Chromatographic separation of glycerol monostearate, glycerol distearate and glycerol tristearate (GMS, GDS, and GTS) has been performed by normal phase HPLC method utilizing a Zorbax silica ($250{\times}4.6mm$, $5{\mu}m$) column and hexane-hexane, IPA and ethyl acetate mixtures as the eluent within 20 min. The observed reproducibility was less than 5% RSD, Suggesting that ELSD was an effective tool for detection of the glycerol stearates of low volatility without chromophore. The detection limits were in the concentration range of 0.3~2 mg/L, and the calibration curves (the log-log plots) were linear in the range of 4~1000 mg/L (with the slopes of 1.06~1.32). The application of the analytical procedure without pretreatment demonstrated that the proposed chromatographic method would be practical for a routine analysis of commercial products.

An Analysis of Plant Diseases Identification Based on Deep Learning Methods

  • Xulu Gong;Shujuan Zhang
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • v.39 no.4
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    • pp.319-334
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    • 2023
  • Plant disease is an important factor affecting crop yield. With various types and complex conditions, plant diseases cause serious economic losses, as well as modern agriculture constraints. Hence, rapid, accurate, and early identification of crop diseases is of great significance. Recent developments in deep learning, especially convolutional neural network (CNN), have shown impressive performance in plant disease classification. However, most of the existing datasets for plant disease classification are a single background environment rather than a real field environment. In addition, the classification can only obtain the category of a single disease and fail to obtain the location of multiple different diseases, which limits the practical application. Therefore, the object detection method based on CNN can overcome these shortcomings and has broad application prospects. In this study, an annotated apple leaf disease dataset in a real field environment was first constructed to compensate for the lack of existing datasets. Moreover, the Faster R-CNN and YOLOv3 architectures were trained to detect apple leaf diseases in our dataset. Finally, comparative experiments were conducted and a variety of evaluation indicators were analyzed. The experimental results demonstrate that deep learning algorithms represented by YOLOv3 and Faster R-CNN are feasible for plant disease detection and have their own strong points and weaknesses.

Sleep apnea detection from a single-lead ECG signal with GAF transform feature-extraction through deep learning (GAF 변환을 사용한 딥 러닝 기반 단일 리드 ECG 신호에서의 수면 무호흡 감지)

  • Zhou, Yu;Lee, Seungeun;Kang, Kyungtae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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    • 2022.07a
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    • pp.57-58
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    • 2022
  • Sleep apnea (SA) is a common chronic sleep disorder that disrupts breathing during sleep. Clinically, the standard for diagnosing SA involves nocturnal polysomnography (PSG). However, this requires expert human intervention and considerable time, which limits the availability of SA diagnoses in public health sectors. Therefore, ECG-based methods for SA detection have been proposed to automate the PSG procedure and reduce its discomfort. We propose a preprocessing method to convert the one-dimensional time series of ECG into two-dimensional images using the Gramian Angular Field (GAF) algorithm, extract temporal features, and use a two-dimensional convolutional neural network for classification. The results of this study demonstrated that the proposed method can perform SA detection with specificity, sensitivity, accuracy, and area under the curve (AUC) of 88.89%, 81.50%, 86.11%, and 0.85, respectively. Our experimental results show that SA is successfully classified by extracting preprocessing transforms with temporal features.

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Determination of Bisphenols Migrating from Epoxy Can Coatings to Aqueous Food Simulants (통조림관 코팅제에서 식품유사용매로 이행되는 비스페놀류의 분석)

  • Kang, Kyung-Mo;Shin, Hyo-Sun
    • Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.570-577
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    • 2000
  • A method was presented for determination of bisphenol F(BPF), bisphenol A(BPA), bisphenol F diglycidyl ether(BFDGE) and bisphenol A diglycidyl ether(BADGE) in 3 aqueous-based food simulants (water, 4% acetic acid, 20% ethanol) by reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography(RP-HPLC)with fluorescence detection and gas chromatography with mass selective detection(GC/MSD). All the calibration lines in the range of $5{\sim}800\;{\mu}g/L$ had correlation coefficients greater than 0.9998 and detection limits of less than $1.2\;{\mu}g$ bisphenols/L. Precision at $200\;{\mu}g/L$ was under 3.1%. Recoveries of bisphenols simultaneously spiked to aqueous food simulants exceeded 95% for BPF and BPA but about 80% for BFDGE and BADGE. However, recoveris of BFDGE and BPADGE respectively spiked increased upto 95%. Detection limits in recovery test were less than $0.40\;{\mu}g$ bisphenols/L. In migration test bisphenols were determined by RP-HPLC coupled with confirmation by GC/MSD. Can coatings of epoxy phenol, modified epoxy, epoxy ester phenol and thermoset vinyl were exposed to the 3 aqueous food simulants. BPF, BFDGE and BADGE were not detected in all the can coatings but BPA was detected in 4% acetic acid and 20% ethanol in all the can coatings except modified epoxy.

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Simultaneous Determination and Occurrences of Pharmaceuticals by Solid-Phase Extraction and Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) in Environmental Aqueous Samples

  • Koo, So-Hyun;Jo, Cheon-Ho;Shin, Sun-Kyoung;Myung, Seung-Woon
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.31 no.5
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    • pp.1192-1198
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    • 2010
  • Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) are emerging contaminants in the aquatic environment. Many pharmaceuticals are not completely removed during wastewater treatment, leading to their presence in wastewater treatment effluents, rivers, lakes, and ground water. Here, we developed analytical methods for monitoring ten pharmaceuticals from surface water by LC/ESI-MS/MS. For sample clean-up and extraction, MCX (mixed cation exchange) and HLB (hydrophilic-lipophilic balance) solid-phase extraction (SPE) cartridges were used. The limits of detection (LOD) in distilled water and the blank surface water were in the range of 0.006 - 0.65 and 1.66 - 45.05 pg/mL, respectively. The limits of quantitation (LOQ) for the distilled water and the blank surface water were in the range of 0.02 - 2.17 and 5.52 - 150.15 pg/mL, respectively. The absolute recoveries for fortified water samples were between 62.1% and 125.4%. Intra-day precision and accuracy for the blank surface water were 2.9% - 24.1% (R.S.D.) and -16.3% - 16.3% (bias), respectively. In surface wastewater near rivers, chlortetracycline and acetylsalicylic acid were detected frequently in the range of 0.017 - 5.404 and 0.029 - 0.269 ng/mL, respectively. Surface water near rivers had higher levels than surface water of domestic treatment plants.

Statistical Design of X Control Chart with Improved 2-of-3 Main and Supplementary Runs Rules (개선된 3 중 2 주 및 보조 런 규칙을 가진 X관리도의 통계적 설계)

  • Park, Jin-Young;Seo, Sun-Keun
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.40 no.4
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    • pp.467-480
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    • 2012
  • Purpose: This paper introduces new 2-of-3 main and supplementary runs rules to increase the performance of the classical $\bar{X}$ control chart for detecting small process shifts. Methods: The proposed runs rules are compared with other competitive runs rules by numerical experiments. Nonlinear optimization problem to minimize the out-of-control ARL at a specified shift of process mean for determining action and warning limits at a time is formulated and a procedure to find two limits is illustrated with a numerical example. Results: The proposed 2-of-3 main and supplementary runs rules demonstrate an improved performance over other runs rules in detecting a sudden shift of process mean by simultaneous changes of mean and standard deviation. Conclusion: To increase the performance in the detection of small to moderate shifts, the proposed runs rules will be used with $\bar{X}$ control charts.

Molecularly Imprinted Solid-Phase Extraction for Determination of Enrofloxacin and Ciprofloxacin in Chicken Muscle

  • Yan, Hong-Yuan;Row, Kyung-Ho
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.29 no.6
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    • pp.1173-1178
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    • 2008
  • A simple and sensitive high-performance liquid chromatographic method was developed for the simultaneous identification of enrofloxacin and its active metabolite ciprofloxacin in chicken muscle. Norflorxacin imprinted polymers synthesized in water-containing systems show high selectivity to enrofloxacin and ciprofloxacin in an aqueous environment. Using these water-compatible imprinted polymers as selective adsorbents in the solid-phase extraction of enrofloxacin and ciprofloxacin from chicken samples, the remaining biological matrix could be quickly washed out from the imprinted column while enrofloxacin and ciprofloxacin were selectively retained and enriched. Analytical separation was performed on a $C_{18}$ column using acetonitrile-water as a mobile phase and fluorescence detection. Good linearity was obtained from 0.8 to 500 ng/g (r > 0.998) with relative standard deviation of less than 3.9%. The mean recoveries of enrofloxacin and ciprofloxacin from chicken muscle were 80.6-94.5% and 77.8-91.8% at three different concentrations. The limits of determinations based on S/N=3 were 0.07 ng/g and 0.09 ng/g, which are below the maximum residue limits established in many countries.

A Sensitive Determination of Plasma Free Fatty Acids Following Tert-butyldimethylsilyl Derivatization using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry for Screening of Fatty Acid Oxidation Disorders (지방산대사이상질환 스크리닝을 위한 TBDMS 유도체화 후 GC-MS를 이용한 혈장 중 유리지방산의 분석)

  • Yoon, Hye-Ran;Thapa, Maheshwor
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Inherited Metabolic disease
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.39-47
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    • 2017
  • Purpose: A sensitive gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) method was developed for screening of fatty acid oxidation disorders. Methods: The assay utilized a simple protein precipitation with sulfosalicylic acid followed by tert-butyl dimethylsilyl (TBDMS) derivatization of hydroxyl functional group by N-tert-butyldimethylsilyl-N-methyltrifluoroacetamide (MTBSTFA). Results: Calibration curves of spiked pooled plasma showed a linear relationship in the range of 0.01 ng -2 mg with correlation coefficient value greater than 0.98. Limits of detection (LOD) and limits of quantification (LOQ) were found in the range of 0.9-8.8 ng and 9-88 ng, respectively. Conclusion: The new developed method might be useful for a rapid, sensitive screening of inherited fatty acid oxidation disorders. In addition, the method expected to be one of the alternative method for screening newborns of metabolic disorders in the laboratories where expensive MS/MS is unavailable.

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Development of Analytical Method and Monitoring of Organophosphorus Pesticides in the Raw Water and Clean Water by Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS/MS를 이용한 유기인계 농약류의 최적 분석법 정립과 원·정수에서의 모니터링)

  • Kim, Gyung-A;Song, Mi-Jeong;Yeom, Hoon-Sik;Son, Hee-Jong;Lee, Sang-Won;Choi, Jin-Tack
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.24 no.12
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    • pp.1569-1582
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    • 2015
  • The analytical method for 16 organophosphorus pesticides was developed in this study. The 16 organophosphorus pesticides were analyzed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) using on-line solid phase extraction (on-line SPE) with PLRP- S cartridge. Analysis of all analytes in the MS/MS was processed in the electrospray ioni-zation (ESI) positive mode. They are Azinphos ethyl, Chlorfenvinphos, Ethion, Famphur, Phosmet, Phosphamidon, Terbufos, Aspon, Chlorpyrifos-methyl, Crotoxyphos, Dichlofenthi-on, Dicrotophos, Fonofos, Thionazin, Dimethoate and Iprobenfos. Limits of detection (LODs) and Limits of quantification(LOQs) were obtained as 0.8~2.0 ng/L and 2.6~6.4 ng/L, respectively. All compounds were not detected at the 8 sampling points of the raw water and clean water.

Simultaneous Determination of Four Bioactive Constituents in Galgeun Tang by HPLC/DAD. (HPLC-DAD를 이용한 갈근탕 중 4종 성분의 동시분석법 확립)

  • Won, Jin-Bae;Jeon, Won-Kyung;Ma, Jin-Yeul;Ma, Choong-Je
    • Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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    • v.40 no.3
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    • pp.224-228
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    • 2009
  • For the quality control of traditional herbal medicine, Galgeun tang, simultaneous determination of glycyrrhizin, paeoniflorin, puerarin, 6-gingerol was established by using a high performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method with diode array detector. To separate five four constituents, DIONEX $C_{18}$ column ($5{\mu}m$, $120{\AA}$, $4.6\;mm{\times}150\;mm$) was used with gradient elution system of water and methanol. Validation of the chromatography method was evaluated by linearity, recovery, and precision test. Calibration curve of standard components showed excellent linearity ($R^2$>0.9906). Limits of detection (LOD) and limits of quantification (LOQ) varied from 0.15 to $0.52{\mu}g$/ml and 0.27 to $0.80{\mu}mg$/ml, respectively. The relative standard deviations (RSDs) of data of the intra-day and inter-day experiments were less than 2.88% and 1.21%, respectively. The results of recovery test were ranged from 96.71 to 106.29% with RSD values 0.01-0.80%.