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Production of liquid fertilizer from broken eggs and evaluation of its effect on lettuce growth

  • Kim, Bo-Ra;Lee, Jae-Han;Kim, Su-Hun;Choi, Ha-Yeon;Choi, Bong-Su;Oh, Taek-Keun;Lee, Chang-Hoon
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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    • v.47 no.1
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    • pp.11-18
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    • 2020
  • Eggs are likely to be used in agriculture because they can provide enough nutrients for crop growth. Statistics show that a large number of eggs are lost due to breakage before reaching the final consumer. The purpose of this study was to make a natural liquid fertilizer as a substitute for chemical fertilizers using broken eggs as a resource and to evaluate the efficiency of the formulated fertilizer. To make the liquid fertilizer, the broken eggs and distilled water were mixed at ratios of 6 : 4 and 4 : 6. Then, effective micro-organisms (EM) and sugar were added, and the mixture was fermented. The temperature and electrical conductivity (EC) increased gradually with the fermentation while the pH decreased. When evaluated following the seed germination index method of the compost, it was found that the fertilizer matured 10 days after the beginning of the experiment. The growth experiment was conducted with lettuce in which the fermented liquid fertilizer was compared with a commercial liquid fertilizer. The 6 : 4 treatment produced plants with the densest fresh shoot and roots weighing 41.6 and 4.6 g, respectively. The number of leaves (12.3 per plant) was also the highest for the 6 : 4 treatment. Soil analysis showed that the soil pH was improved, and the soil organic matter was increased in the fermented liquid fertilizer treatment.

Improvement of a Screening System for Environmental Mutagens by Means of a Specific Locus Mutation of the Silkworm, Bombyx mori (누에를 이용한 환경 변이원 검색계 재선)

  • Yoon, Hyung-Joo;Kim, Sam-Eun;Kim, Jong-Gill;Choi, Ji-Young
    • Korean journal of applied entomology
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    • v.45 no.3 s.144
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    • pp.283-291
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    • 2006
  • The efficiency to detect mutagenicity of the system using a specific locus mutation of Bombyx mori was examined and improved. In the system, mutagenicity could be detected by the egg colour manifested by the pe and/or re genes, which is a kind of recessive visible mutation of the insect. Among tested four mutagens, MMC had specially high sensitivity in the oocytes of silkworm and EMS had in the spermatozoa. PCB and dioxin showed a positive effect in both the oocytes and spermatozoa. In a consequence of sensitivity of mutagen by mating number of male moth of B. mori, treated mutagen, there was no difference between one mating - and three mating - male moth in sensitivity of mutagen. Sun3ho, B. mori variety, which showed high sensitivity to mutagens was improved in the major characteristics by crossing of C5 and N12.

Induction of Apoptosis by Cisplatin, Heptaplatin and Sunpla in Human Melanoma (SK-MEL-28) Cell Line (인체 흑색종 세포(SK-MEL-28 Cell Line)에서 Cisplatin, Heptaplatin, 그리고 Sulpla에 의한 Apoptosis의 유도)

  • 최수라;명평근
    • YAKHAK HOEJI
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    • v.48 no.2
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    • pp.147-152
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    • 2004
  • A wide variety of cancer chemotherapeutic agents have been shown to induce programmed cell death (PCD, APOPTOSIS) in various tumor cell lines in vitro. cis-Malonato [(4R,5R)-4,5-bis(aminomethyl)-2-isoprpopyl-1,3-dioxolane] platinum(II) (heptaplatin), which is a new drug approved by KFDA in 1999, in a novel platinum-based antitumor agent with clinical potential against stomach cancer and the 3rd generation of the cisplatin. This study was performed to know how heptaplatin and cisplatin and sunpla (mixture of heptaplatin and mannitol) affect on SK-MEL-28 cell line, and how they induce the apoptosis. At EM analysis, the morphology of the cell was changed by treatment of the cisplatin, heptaplatin and sunpla. Apoptotic body formed around plasma membrane, and chromatin condensation represented in nucleus. This phenomenon is one of the characteristic of the apoptosis. The DNA of SK-MEL-28 cell line truncated by cisplatin and sunpla treatment was identified on 2% agarose gel electrophoresis. TUNEL assay was performed to know whether SK-MEL-28 cell die as apoptosis or necrosis by cisplatin, heptaplatin and sunpla. At this result, fluorescence intensity increased according to increase of time and concentration. Therefore, it was identified that cislatin, heptaplatin and sunpla induced apoptosis. Fas expressed on SK-MEL-28 cell membrane by cisplatin, heptaplatin and sunpla was identified by using flow cytometer and the expression of bcl-2(anti-apoptotic gene) decreased according to increase of concentration of the cisplatin, heptaplatin and sunpla. Cisplatin, heptaplatin and sunpla induced apoptosis against SK-MEL-28 cell line, and the apoptotic mechanism was identified as Fas-mediated apoptosis and decreased bcl-2 expression.

A Study on the Detecting Accuracy of EM Induction Survey Data of Buried Utility (전자유도 탐사를 이용한 지하매설물 탐지 정확도 분석)

  • Kwon, Hyoung-Seok;Choi, Joonho;Hwang, Daejin;Kim, Munjae;Yoon, Jeoungseob
    • Journal of Korean Society of societal Security
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    • v.1 no.4
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    • pp.73-81
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    • 2008
  • Electromagnetic induction surveys are one of the useful methods to detect the location and buried depth of underground utilities by measuring horizontal and vertical magnetic fields. It can effectively detects single buried utility with the accuracy of within 20 cm. However when another utility is buried near to target one, the accuracy of utility location considerably decreases due to the distortion of magnetic fields caused from adjacent utility. This study shows the ways to verify the location and buried depth of target utility when magnetic fields does not show symmetric distribution due to adjacent another utility. Using Bluetooth wireless communication tools, we developed the way to records measured magnetic fields to handheld PDA. We investigated the criteria for minimum distance of two adjacent utilities to separate the individual responses through field model test.

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The Effect of Metal Compounds em Biosynthesis of Phospholipid and the Fatty Acid Composition in Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis (Escherichia coli와 Bacillus subtilis의 인지질 생합성과 지방산 조성에 미치는 금속 화합물의 영향)

  • Park, Hye-Kyeong;Lee, Chong-Sam;Seo, Kwang-Seok
    • Journal of Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.43-70
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    • 1994
  • The effects of potassium chromate (500ppm/500ppm), potassium dichromate (500ppm/500ppm), cobalt chloride (100ppm/10ppm), methylmercuric chloride (100ppm/10ppm) on the biosynthesis of phospholipid and their composition of fatty acids in E.coli and B.subtilis were analyzed. The contents of phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylglycerol, cardiolipin and total lipids in treatment with metal compounds were lower to compare with the control. The major fatty acid utilized for biosynthesis of phospholipid was palmitic acid in control of E.coli and B.subtilis. However, in treatment with metal compounds, changes of fatty acid composition utilized for phospholipid formation were as follows. In E.coli major fatty acids were palimitic acid (ave. 26.26%) and cis-vaccenic acid (ave. 10.94%) in treatment with potassium chromate, palmitic acid (ave. 31.41%/31.42%) and stearic acid (ave. 17.92%/19.41%) in treatment with potassium dichromate and cobalt chloride. And in treatment with raethylmercuric chloride, palmitic acid (ave. 26.66%), stearic acid (ave. 15.50%) and cis-vaccenic acid (ave. 20.59%) were used in phospholipid formation. In B.subtilis, the major fatty acid was palmitoleic acid (ave. 15.29% /10.22%) in treatment with potassium chromate and cobalt chloride, and stearic acid (ave. 16.01%) in treatment with potassium dichromate. On the other hand, cis-vaccenic acid (ave. 9.09%), palmitic acid (ave. 17.23%), stearic acid (ave. 6.66%), myristic acid (ave. 6.34%) and lauric acid (ave. 4.75%) were analyzed into major fatty acids in treatment with methylmercuric chloride. As shown in results, specific fatty acid pattern was came out in treatment with metal compounds according to bacteria and treatments.

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REACTION OF PAPER PULP AND ALKYL KETENE DIMER BY AGING TREATMENT DURING PAPERMAKIN PROCESS

  • Shin, Young-Doo;Seo, Won-Sung;Cho, Nam-Seok
    • Proceedings of the Korea Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.83-83
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    • 2000
  • Alkylketene dimer was known as a cellulose reactive or alkaline size because it does not require to fix to the fiber as do the traditional rosin sizes. A proposed sizing mechanism of AKD was the formation of P -ketoester bond between AKD and cellulose which provides the permanent attachment and the orientation of the hydrophobic alkylchains outward. However, some questions about the reaction had arisen and thus, the sizing mechanism of AKD has been a subject of controversy for several decades. The major concern of the controversy is that AKD is really reactive with cellulose or not in the papermaking conditions. In this study, reaction between AKD and pulp fiber was investigated, in order to find out whether AKD forms P-ketoester with pulp fiber during aging under no catalyzed neutral condition with obvious spectroscopic evidence. In addition, effect of aging treatment on the sizing development was studied. It has been disclosed that, in absence of water, AKD reacted with cellulose to form P -ketoester linkage under no catalyzed neutral condition, while, in presence of water, most of AKD was hydrolyzed to a dialkyl ketone or P -ketoacid. In addition, during the aging treatment of AKD-sized paper, its typical IR spectra bands gradually were reduced, completely disappeared after 6hr aging, and formed new absorption bands at 1707cm-' and shoulder peak at 1700cm-' which refer to the typical dialkylketone absorption bands. Therefore, the formation of P -ketoester between AKD and pulp fiber is impossible in the practical papermaking process. It could be suggested that the sizing development of AKD-sized paper is obtained by next two mechanism: 1) formation of a thin-layer of AKD on the fiber surface through melting and spreading of AKD emulsion particles by heat and 2) the hydrolysis of AKD to dialkyl ketone which has higher melting point, during drying and storage of AKD sized papers.

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Heat Source Identification Technique of Aircraft and Flare using 2-color Detectable Infrared Sensors (복수 대역 감지 적외선 센서를 이용한 항공기와 플레어의 열원 식별 기술)

  • Lee, Dong-Si;Lee, Kee-Keun
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.64 no.7
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    • pp.1031-1039
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    • 2015
  • Present guided missiles are equipped with infrared seeker to find the infrared sources radiating from target plane and then chase, which results in an improvement of the hitting success rate when in striking target objects. To interrupt the chases from the guided missile, the target plane spreads the flare, avoiding the missile attracts. Our research is to develop a 2-color infrared identification technique to discern the flare and real thermal source from target plane. Considering flare radiation properties and EM atmosphere transmission rates, two channels were selected, in which main channel (MC) was in a range of 3.7 μm∼4.8 μm and auxiliary channel (AC) in 1.7 μm∼2.3 μm. A 2500K heat source was used for an artificial flare source, while a 570K heat source was utilized for airplane infrared source in experimental testing. Two infrared sensors detectable only at each chanel were employed in order to measure the voltage ratio from two channels, identifying the flare and real target plane via comparison the voltage ratio. Several experimental conditions were imported in order to prove that our proposed 2-color infrared identification technique is very efficient way to discern heat sources from aircraft and flare, demonstrating that our proposed technique is very promising means for our force’s InfraRed Counter Counter Measure (IRCCM) in order to countermeasure opposite force’s InfraRed Counter Measures (IRCM).

AN INTEGRATED EMG STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID AND MASSETER MUSCLES DURING OCCLUSAL FUNCTION (교합기능시 흉쇄유돌근과 교근의 관계에 대한 근전도학적 연구)

  • Kim, Kyo-Chul;Choi, Boo-Byung
    • The Journal of Korean Academy of Prosthodontics
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.37-52
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    • 1989
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between sternocleidomastoid (SCM) and masseter muscles during occlusal functions by means of EMG recordings of examined muscles. For the study, eighteen normal subjects were selected and the Bio-electric Processor EM2 (Myo-tronics Research, Inc., U.S.A.) with the surface electrodes was used to record the EMG activity from the right and left middle of masseter and insertion of SCM of each subject during right and left gum-chewing and isometric contraction by changing the biting force at right eccentric position of jaw. The amount of biting force ranged from 5 to 70kg during isometric contraction were measured by use of Jaw Force Meter. (Nihon Koden Kogyo, Japan.) The results were as follows: 1. The activity onset of SCM and masseter on the same side was almost at the same time, and integrated EMG values of two muscles on the chewing side were higher than the same named muscles on the non-chewing side during gum-chewing. (p<0.01) 2. The regression correlation was not present between both masseters (p>0.05), but between both SCM muscles or muscles of two kinds on the chewing or non-chewing side. ($p{\leqq}0.05$) 3. The integrated EMG value of SCM on chewing or non-chewing side were about 10 percent of that of ipsilateral masseter. 4. Mean voltage of each examined muscles were almost proportional to biting force during isometric contraction and the slope of voltage/biting force line was steepest at the ipsilateral masseter, followed by contalateral masseter, ipsi- and contra-lateral SCM muscles. 5. Mean voltage of ipsilateral masseter was highest during isometric contraction, followed by ipsilateral masseter, contra- and ipsi-lateral SCM muscles.

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Studies on Culture and Transfer of Mouse Embryos Biseeted at Various Cell Stages (생쥐배의 발생단계별 미세분할, 배양 및 이식 관한 연구)

  • 강대진;박희성;이효종;박충생
    • Journal of Embryo Transfer
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.28-34
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    • 1989
  • These experiments were carried out to determine the effect of cell stage in embryo bisection on the sub-Sequent in vitro and in vivo development in mouse. The embryos of ICR mouse were microsurgicaily bisected at 2-cell, 4-cell, 8-cell, morula and blastocyst stage using a microsurgical blade attached a micromanipulator. These demi-embryos without zona pellucida were cultured up to blastocyst stage and transferred to pseudopregnant mice, and the development of these demi-embryos was compared with the results of intact embryos of the corresponding cell stage. The successful rate of mouse embryo bisection at 4-cell stage (59.0%) was significantly (p <0.05) lower than those at 8-cell (75.6%), 2ce11 (80.7%) or morula stage (84.8%), and highest at blastocyst stage (95.7%). When the bisected embryos without any damage from microsurgery were cultured in vitro up to blastocyst,the in vitro de'velopment of demi-embroys bisected at morula to blastocyst was 91.6 to 95.3%, which was similar to the culture result of intact embryos of corresponding stage. However, the in vitro development of demi-em-bryos bisected at 2- to 8-cell stage was signiflcantiy (p <0.05) lower.The post-transfer implantation rate of demi-embryos developed in vitro to eu-blastocyst were 19.6 and 25.4% in demi-embryos bisected at morula and blastocyst stage,respectively and not significantly (P <0.05)different from the result of intact embryos of the same stage. However, the implantation rates of demi-embryos bisected at 2- or 8-cell stage were significantly (P <0.05) lower than the result from the intact embryos of the corresponding stage.

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Development of Multiplex RT-PCR for Simultaneous Detection of Garlic Viruses and the Incidence of Garlic Viral Disease in Garlic Genetic Resources

  • Nam, Moon;Lee, Yeong-Hoon;Park, Chung Youl;Lee, Min-A;Bae, Yang-Soo;Lim, Seungmo;Lee, Joong Hwan;Moon, Jae Sun;Lee, Su-Heon
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.90-96
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    • 2015
  • Garlic generally becomes coinfected with several types of viruses belonging to the Potyvirus, Carlavirus, and Allexivirus genera. These viruses produce characteristically similar symptoms, they cannot be easily identified by electron microscopy (EM) or immunological detection methods, and they are currently widespread around the world, thereby affecting crop yields and crop quality adversely. For the early and reliable detection of garlic viruses, virus-specific sets of primers, including species-specific and genus-specific primers were designed. To effectively detect the twelve different types of garlic viruses, primer mixtures were tested and divided into two independent sets for multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The multiplex PCR assays were able to detect specific targets up to the similar dilution series with monoplex reverse transcription (RT)-PCR. Seventy-two field samples collected by the Gyeongbuk Agricultural Technology Administration were analyzed by multiplex RT-PCR. All seventy two samples were infected with at least one virus, and the coinfection rate was 78%. We conclude that the simultaneous detection system developed in this study can effectively detect and differentiate mixed viral infections in garlic.