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Characterization of Volatile Compounds in Donkey Meat by Gas Chromatography-Ion Mobility Spectrometry (GC-IMS) Combined with Chemometrics

  • Mengmeng Li;Mengqi Sun;Wei Ren;Limin Man;Wenqiong Chai;Guiqin Liu;Mingxia Zhu;Changfa Wang
    • Food Science of Animal Resources
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.165-177
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    • 2024
  • Volatile compounds (VOCs) are an important factor affecting meat quality. However, the characteristic VOCs in different parts of donkey meat remain unknown. Accordingly, this study represents a preliminary investigation of VOCs to differentiate between different cuts of donkey meat by using headspace-gas chromatography-ion mobility spectrometry (HS-GC-IMS) combined with chemometrics analysis. The results showed that the 31 VOCs identified in donkey meat, ketones, alcohols, aldehydes, and esters were the predominant categories. A total of 10 VOCs with relative odor activity values ≥1 were found to be characteristic of donkey meat, including pentanone, hexanal, nonanal, octanal, and 3-methylbutanal. The VOC profiles in different parts of donkey meat were well differentiated using three- and two-dimensional fingerprint maps. Nine differential VOCs that represent potential markers to discriminate different parts of donkey meat were identified by chemometrics analysis. These include 2-butanone, 2-pentanone, and 2-heptanone. Thus, the VOC profiles in donkey meat and specific VOCs in different parts of donkey meat were revealed by HS-GC-IMS combined with chemometrics, whcih provided a basis and method of investigating the characteristic VOCs and quality control of donkey meat.

An International Freshman Exchange Program: A Trial for Engineering Design Education

  • Webeck, Elizabeth;Imamura, Fumihiko;Wang, Fuming;Zhu, Hongmin;Nagasaka, Tetsuya
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.8-13
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    • 2012
  • The Engineering school of Tohoku University has been offering a Team-based Engineering Design Course to its first year students since 1996 in order to increase the level of both motivation and interest in engineering. Freshmen are required to select one of approximately 150 topics and do some research on this topic. This course also provides opportunities for students to participate in exchange programs with the University of Washington (UW) and the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB). In the Tohoku-UW exchange program, which began in 1999, between 10 and 25 students of Tohoku visit the UW annually to present the results of the subjects the school has appointed in advance in the Team-based Engineering Design Course. In the Tohoku-USTB exchange program, which began in 2007, about 15 students from each university participate in a one day meeting organized by the students themselves. They give a presentation on either the results of the subject they selected in the course, or on an engineering related topic both groups have agreed to in advance. In this paper, a detailed history, the objectives, a schedule and the budget in these unique exchange programs is introduced together with an outline of the course and its contribution to the engineering design education.

The characteristics of subgrade mud pumping under various water level conditions

  • Ding, Yu;Jia, Yu;Wang, Xuan;Zhang, Jiasheng;Luo, Hao;Zhang, Yu;Chen, Xiaobin
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.201-210
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    • 2022
  • This paper presents a study regarding the influence of various water levels on the characteristics of subgrade mud pumping through a self-developed test instrument. The characteristics of mud pumping are primarily reflected by axial strain, excess pore water pressure, and fine particle migration. The results show that the axial strain increases nonlinearly with an increase in cycles number; however, the increasing rate gradually decreases, thus, an empirical model for calculating the axial strain of the samples is presented. The excess pore water pressure increases rapidly first and then decreases slowly with an increase in cycles number. Furthermore, the dynamic stress within the soil first rapidly decreases and then eventually slows. The results indicate that the axial strain, excess pore water pressure, and the height and weight of the migrated fine particles decrease significantly with a low water level. In this study, when the water level is 50 mm lower than the subgrade soil surface, the issue of subgrade mud pumping no longer exist.

Stacked Artificial Muscle Actuator Based on Dielectric Elastomer (고분자 유전 탄성체를 이용한 적층형 인공 근육 구동기)

  • Kwon, Hyeok-Yong;Ahn, Kwang-Jun;Kim, Dae-Gyeong;Lee, Hyung-Seok;Nguyen, Canh Toan;Koo, Ja-Choon;Moon, Hyung-Pil;Nam, Jae-Do;Choi, Hyouk-Ryeol
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.28 no.11
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    • pp.1234-1241
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    • 2011
  • In this work the potential, and the perspectives of the dielectric elastomer actuator are overviewed briefly. As an exemplary work, we introduce a novel contractile artificial muscle actuator based on Synthetic Elastomer(SE). SE is the name of new dielectric elastomer material we have developed and its synthesis procedures and evaluations are described in the first. The contractile artificial muscle actuator is made by stacking the actuator unit one by one along the in thickness direction and finished up by bonding the multi-stacked actuator. Its possibility for the robotic actuator is discussed and demonstrated via experiments.

The Investigation of Ni Thin Film by Atomic Layer Deposition

  • Do K. W.;Yang C. M.;Kang I. S.;Kim K. M.;Back K. H.;Cho H. I.;Lee H. B.;Kong S. H.;Hahm S. H.;Kwon D. H.;Lee J. H.;Lee J. H.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society Of Semiconductor Equipment Technology
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    • 2005.09a
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    • pp.193-196
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    • 2005
  • Low resistance Ni thin films for using NiSi formation and metallization by atomic layer deposition (ALD) method have been studied. ALD temperature window is formed between $200^{\circ}C\;and\;250^{\circ}C$ with deposition rate of $1.25{\AA}$/cycle. The minimum resistance of deposited Ni films shows $4.333\;{\Omega}/\square$ on the $SiO_2/Si$ substrate by $H_2$ direct purging process. The reason of showing the low resistance is believed to be due to format ion of the $Ni_3C$ phase by residual carbon in Bis-Ni The deposited film exhibits excellent step coverage in the trench having 1(100 nm) : 16 (1.6 um) aspect ratio.

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Development of a Creative Robot School Program for Motivating Elementary School Students

  • Jung, Seul
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.31-37
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    • 2011
  • This article presents program development and analysis of a creative robot school for elementary school at the local university. The purpose of opening the creative robot school is to give motivation to children for having interests in science and engineering at their young ages. The creative robot school program is developed by using facilities of a local university to spread scientific knowledge to young children in their communities to draw their interests in science as well as an engineering field for future careers. Since the robot system is a popular subject to draw attention of children and has a relation with Mechatronics Engineering, a program related with robots is selected for educating children. College students are also involved in helping children to build robots within a given time. Experiences and self-evaluations from the previously held creative robot schools at Chungnam National University(CNU) are presented to share with.