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Antioxidant and Bioactive Films to Enhance Food Quality and Phytochemical Production during Ripening

  • Min Byungjin;Dawson Paul L.;Shetty Kalidas
    • Food Science of Animal Resources
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.60-65
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    • 2005
  • Antioxidant films are one active packaging technology that can extend food shelf-life through preventing lipid oxidation, stabilizing color, maintaining sensory properties and delaying microbial growth in foods. Because raw, fresh and minimal processed foods are more perishable during storage or under display conditions than further processed foods, they rapidly lose their original quality. Foods are susceptible to physical, chemical, and biochemical hazards to which packaging films can be effective barriers. Although films incorporated natural (tocopherols, flavonoids and phenolic acids) or synthetic antioxidants (BHT, BHA, TBHQ, propyl gallate) have been extensively tested to improve quality and safety of various foods, food applications require addressing issues such as physical properties, chemical action, cost, and legal approval. Increased interest in natural antioxidants as substitutes for synthetic antioxidants has triggered research on use of the new natural antioxidants in films and coatings. Use of new components (phytochemicals) as film additives can improve food quality and human health. The biosynthesis of plant phenolics can potentially be optimized by active coatings on harvested fruits and vegetables. These coatings can trigger the plants natural proline-linked pentose phosphate pathway to increase the phenolic contents and maintain overall plant tissue quality. This alternate metabolic pathway has been proposed by Dr. K. Shetty and is supported by numerous studies. A new generation of active food films will not only preserve the food, but increase food's nutritional quality by optimizing raw food biochemical production of phytochemicals.

The effective use of literary text in English education (영어능력 개발을 위한 문학텍스트 활용방안)

  • Han, Sang-Taek
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.179-208
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    • 2001
  • Using literary materials as resources for English learning rather than an object of literary study can be a genuine tool for the students to learn English in the form of oral and written communication. This case study treated the applications of a whole text to the overall course divided into pre-reading activities, while-reading activities, and post-reading activities and the applications of some partial passages extracted from various texts to teaching objectives with many levels of difficulty. This study found that literary texts could be good materials to teach the target language in EFL setting. The English-speaking students with little linguistic competence as a foreign language may be limited in learning English at first, but soon they can accelerate their linguistic competence by reinforcing the literary competence through the literary texts. To achieve effectively a desired goal through the use of literary texts as resources for language development several concrete techniques should be introduced: teacher-guided question strategies laying a central emphasis on the text itself, a problem-solving ability through student-centered activities, process-based and open-ended activities should be presented in a variety of ways using many appropriate activities according to teaching procedure with a careful selection of the texts.

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Optimized Allocation of Water for the Multi-Purpose Use in Agricultural Reservoirs (농업용 저수지의 다목적 이용을 위한 용수의 적정배분)

  • 신일선;권순국
    • Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.125-137
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    • 1987
  • The purpose of this paper is to examine some difficulties in water management of agricultural reservoirs in Korea, for there are approximately more than 15,000 reservoirs which are now being utilized for the purpose of irrigation, along with the much amount of expenses and labors to be invested against droughts and floods periodically occurred. Recently, the effective use of water resources in the agricultural reservoirs with a single purpose, is becomming multiple according to the alterable environment of water use. Therefore, the task to allocate agricultural water rationally and economically must be solved for the multiple use of agricultural reservoirs. On the basis of the above statement, this study aims at suggesting the rational method of water management by introducing an optimal technique to allocate the water in an existing agricultural reservoir rationally, for the sake of maximizing the economic effect. To achieve this objective, a reservoir, called "0-Bongje" as a sample of the case study, is selected for an agricultural water development proiect of medium scale. As a model for the optimum allocation of water in the multi-purpose use of reservoirs a linear programming model is developed and analyzed. As a result, findings of the study are as follows : First, a linear programing model is developed for the optimum allocation of water in the multi-purpose use of agricultural reservoirs. By adopting the model in the case of reservoir called "O-Bongje," the optimum solution for such various objects as irrigation area, the amount of domestic water supply, the size of power generation, and the size of reservoir storage, etc., can be obtained. Second, by comparing the net benefits in each object under the changing condition of inflow into the reservoir, the factors which can most affect the yearly total net benefit can be drawn, and they are in the order of the amount of domestic water supply, irrigation area, and power generation. Third, the sensitivity analysis for the decision variable of irrigation which may have a first priority among the objects indicate that the effective method of water management can be rapidly suggested in accordance with a condition under the decreasing area of irrigation. Fourth, in the case of decision making on the water allocation policy in an existing multi-purpose reservoir, the rapid comparison of numerous alternatives can be possible by adopting the linear programming model. Besides, as the resources can be analyed in connection with various activities, it can be concluded that the linear programing model developed in this study is more quantitative than the traditional methods of analysis. Fifth, all the possible constraint equations, in using a linear programming model for adopting a water allocation problem in the agricultural reservoirs, are presented, and the method of analysis is also suggested in this study. Finally, as the linear programming model in this study is found comprehensive, the model can be adopted in any different kind of conditions of agricultural reservoirs for the purpose of analyzing optimum water allocation, if the economic and technical coefficients are known, and the decision variable is changed in accordance with the changing condition of irrigation area.

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Implementation of Dynamic Event Analysis Tool for J2ME Programs (J2ME 프로그램의 동적 이벤트 분석기의 구현)

  • Choi Yoon-Jeong;Chang Byeong-Mo
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.33 no.9
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    • pp.802-809
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    • 2006
  • J2ME mobile programs have been widely used as mobile devices like mobile phones become popular. Efficient use of resources in mobile programs is very important because mobile programs are executed in mobile environment with insufficient resources. Moreover, most J2ME programs are event-driven, so effective event handling is important for reliability and efficient use of resource. In this research, we develop a dynamic event analysis system, which can show event handling in real-time. In this system, users can trace only interesting events by selecting some options, and can get event profile after execution.

A Resource Clustering Method Considering Weight of Application Characteristic in Hybrid Cloud Environment (하이브리드 클라우드 환경에서의 응용 특성 가중치를 고려한 자원 군집화 기법)

  • Oh, Yoori;Kim, Yoonhee
    • KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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    • v.23 no.8
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    • pp.481-486
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    • 2017
  • There are many scientists who want to perform experiments in a cloud environment, and pay-per-use services allow scientists to pay only for cloud services that they need. However, it is difficult for scientists to select a suitable set of resources since those resources are comprised of various characteristics. Therefore, classification is needed to support the effective utilization of cloud resources. Thus, a dynamic resource clustering method is needed to reflect the characteristics of the application that scientists want to execute. This paper proposes a resource clustering analysis method that takes into account the characteristics of an application in a hybrid cloud environment. The resource clustering analysis applies a Self-Organizing Map and K-means algorithm to dynamically cluster similar resources. The results of the experiment indicate that the proposed method can classify a similar resource cluster by reflecting the application characteristics.

Detection of Individuals Restoring Fertility by DNA Fragment Converted into STS (sequence tagged site) in Red pepper

  • Lee, Jang-Soo;Lee, Keun-Hyang;Kim, Yeo-Song;Kang, Kwon-Kyoo;Nou, Ill-Sup;Hirata, Yutaka
    • Plant Resources
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.136-140
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    • 2004
  • Co-segregation of male fertility with DNA markers selected by RAPD analysis as being potentially linked to the restorer gene (Rf) for Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) was analyzed using segregating F2 population. One RAPD marker directly linked to the Rf locus was identified. Amplification of OPT-02/570 using the STS primers generated a monomorphic band of each fertile plants randomly selected F2 progenies. From these results, this specific marker would be strongly linked to be restoring gene. The use of STS marker is effective in overcoming the reliability of the RAPD phenotype and improving their utility for MAS, co-dominant STS markers are especially very useful.

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Determine the return period of flash floods by combining flash flood guidance and best fit distribution

  • Duong, Ngoc Tien;Kim, Jeong-Bae;Bae, Deg-Hyo
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2020.06a
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    • pp.362-362
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    • 2020
  • Flash flood is a dangerous weather phenomenon, affecting humans and the economy. The identification, forecast of the changing trend and its characteristics are increasingly concerned. In the world, there have many methods for determining the characteristics of flash floods, in which flash flood guidance (FFG) is a fast, effective and widely used method. The main source of flash floods is short-term rainfall. In this study, we used the data of cross-sectional measurement at the tributaries and the hourly rain data from the automatic rainfall measurement stations in the Geum river basin. Besides, we use a combination of the flash flood guidance and the best fit distribution function to estimate the repeatability of flash floods for head-water catchments in Geum river basin. In which, FFG determines the threshold of rainfall for flash floods. The study has determined the best hourly rainfall distribution function for the Geum river basin and estimated the maximum rainfall of 1hr according to the return periods.

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A Study on the housework management strategies and the housework management satisfaction of career women (전문.사무직 취업주부의 가사노동 관리방안 및 가사노동 관리만족도)

  • 이미선
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.201-216
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    • 1997
  • The purpose of this study was to empirically verify the influence of socio-demograghic and psychological variables and the way of housework management on the satisfaction of housework management and to provide the information of enhancing the quality of life. In conclusion, the employed wives had tried to select and perform the way of household work management reducing the overload by multiple role performance. And then, it was influenced by housewives' individual resources and family resources. In order to accomplish the higher level of satisfaction of household work management, they must be selected and performed the effective ways of household work management that they are able to use.

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Biosorption of methylene blue from aqueous solution by agricultural bioadsorbent corncob

  • Choi, Hee-Jeong;Yu, Sung-Whan
    • Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.99-106
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    • 2019
  • Using the abandoned agricultural by-product corncobs, the most commonly used methylene blue (MB) dyestuffs were removed. This experiment is very meaningful because it is the recycling of resources and the use of environmentally friendly adsorbents. According to the Hauser ratio and porosity analysis, the corncob has a good flow ability of the adsorbent material and many pores, which is very advantageous for MB adsorption. As a result of the experiment, MB concentration of less than 0.005 g/L was very efficiently removed with 10 g/L of bioadsorbent corncob and the maximum adsorption capacity of corncob for MB dyes was obtained at 417.1 mg/g. In addition, adsorption process of MB onto corncob was a physical process according to adsorption energy analysis. Corncob can efficiently and environmentally remove MB in aqueous solution, and is very cost effective and can recycle the abandoned resources.

Resource-efficient load-balancing framework for cloud data center networks

  • Kumar, Jitendra;Singh, Ashutosh Kumar;Mohan, Anand
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.43 no.1
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    • pp.53-63
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    • 2021
  • Cloud computing has drastically reduced the price of computing resources through the use of virtualized resources that are shared among users. However, the established large cloud data centers have a large carbon footprint owing to their excessive power consumption. Inefficiency in resource utilization and power consumption results in the low fiscal gain of service providers. Therefore, data centers should adopt an effective resource-management approach. In this paper, we present a novel load-balancing framework with the objective of minimizing the operational cost of data centers through improved resource utilization. The framework utilizes a modified genetic algorithm for realizing the optimal allocation of virtual machines (VMs) over physical machines. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed framework improves the resource utilization by up to 45.21%, 84.49%, 119.93%, and 113.96% over a recent and three other standard heuristics-based VM placement approaches.