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Kenaf Is the Key to Go Green in the Era of Environmental Crisis: A Review

  • In-Sok Lee;Yu-Rim Choi;Ju Kim
    • Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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    • v.35 no.6
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    • pp.820-824
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    • 2022
  • Ecologically sustainable means of development is the point to support environmental homeostasis. One of our roles is to find bio-degradable resources that can be substituted for petroleum-based products to effectively abide by the natural viability. To counter the issues of deforestation and preserve biodiversity, it is necessary to produce a non-wood crop that can fulfill the requirement for raw material from which several products can be produced. Kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus), a member of the family Malvaceae, is showing sufficient potentiality along this road-map. Due to its rich fiber content, it has been used extensively in various fields for long, probably as early as 4,000 BC. At present, kenaf has been used as provider of paper, plastics, fiber glass, biofuel, activated carbon and epoxy composite. This obviously catch one's attention towards its capability to replace petroleum-based products as a whole. Moreover, the plant shows considerable relevance in decreasing pollutants by virtue of its enormous absorption capacity. These multiple applications of kenaf justify its credibility to be the best resource for the better world. The paper presents an overview on its numerous uses reported in the literature that we have investigated and its great potential as a valuable multipurpose crop.

Optimum Chain Extension and Change of the Average Particle Size of Aqueous Polyurethane Dispersion (수분산 폴리우레탄 제조시 최적 사슬연장 조건과 입도 변화에 관한 연구)

  • Kong, H.C.;Jhon, Y.K.;Cheong, I.W.;Kim, J.H.
    • Journal of Adhesion and Interface
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.9-16
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    • 2002
  • In the synthesis of water-based polyurethane using self-emulsification process, after being neutralized, polyurethane pre-polymers containing ionic pendant groups are dispersed by simple convective mixing. Preparation of dispersion is followed by chain extension reaction, which is considered as important step for growth of the molecular weight of polyurethane. In this work, pH variations in the aqueous phase were monitored during the chain extension process in the presence of water-soluble diamines. The optimum degree of chain extension and the average particle size in the polyurethane dispersions were examined with varying ionic pendent group contents, type of chain extenders, and feed rate of chain extenders, The initial pH value in the aqueous phase linearly increased and the optimum chain extension point could be obtained from the intersection of two linear lines having different slopes, All average particle sizes before chain extension reaction were almost same, however, the final average particle size increased as feed rates of chain extenders increased, In addition, as the ionic pendant group contents increased, the particle size decreased since the hydrophilicity and hydrodynamic volume increased. As carbon numbers of the chain extenders increased, the final particle size increased significantly. From the results, it was concluded that the chain extension reaction took place among the particles not only in a particle.

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Quality Characteristics of Fermentation Gastrodia elata Blume by Saccharifying Methods (당화방법에 따른 유산균 발효천마의 품질특성)

  • Song, Young-Eun;Choi, So-Ra;Song, Eun-Ju;Seo, Sang-Young;Lee, In-Sok;Han, Hyun-Ah;Lee, Ki-Kwon;Song, Young-Ju;Kim, Young-Hoi;Kim, Myung-Kon;Park, Shin-Young
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.29 no.5
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    • pp.698-705
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    • 2016
  • This study aimed to evaluate the quality characteristics of Gastrodia elata Blume fermented by lactic acid bacteria after saccharifying by 3 methods including enzyme, malt, and rice-nuruk. The lactic acid bacteria (LAB), Pediococcus inopinatus BK-3, isolated from kimchi could reduce the unpleasant taste and odor of Gastrodia elata Blume. The total acidity value of Gastrodia elata fermented by LAB on the malt and rice-nuruk extract solution for 3 days was 2.23% and 2.33%, respectively. After saccharification by malt and rice-nuruk extract solution for 3 days, the viable cell number of fermented Gastrodia elata was 9.14 log cfu/mL and 9.27 log cfu/mL, respectively. The total acidity values were increased above 3.35% by malt and rice-nuruk extract solution for 8 days. Thus, the viable cell number was the highest by malt and rice-nuruk extract solution fermentation for 3 days. The amino acid content of Gastrodia elata fermented by LAB after saccharification by malt extract solution was higher than that of other saccharifying methods. The free sugar content and p-hydroxybenzyl derivatives induced by the enzyme method were higher than those of other saccharifying methods. The overall acceptability was the highest at 4.2 point in Gastrodia elata fermented by malt extract solution.

Visit Care Workers of the Correlation between Job Satisfaction and Quality of Life: Focusing on Gyeonggi Province (방문요양보호사의 직무만족도와 삶의 질의 관계 -경기도 지역 중심으로-)

  • Lee, Hyun-Sim;Nam, Hee-Soo;Kim, Sun-An
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.381-408
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    • 2012
  • The subjects of the research were 275 aged care nurses working in Gyeonggi regions. The analysis result showed: job satisfaction in overall situation was 2.87 on a 5 point scale, indicating the level of job satisfaction was lower than average: the quality of life was 2.97, as with job satisfaction, also low. On the other hand, the research outcomes to discern if it affects the lower level of the quality of life, it was found that variables affecting psychological health include job, pay, co-workers, organization, changing an occupation/job; Social environment include job, pay, and promotion (reward), The maintenance of social relations, pay, promotion(reward) and co-workers, changing an occupation/job; variables affecting physical health include job, pay, promotion(reward), changing an occupation/job; The research outcomes confirm that the job satisfaction of aged visit care workers is an important factor affecting their quality of life.

Extension of Group Interaction Modelling to predict chemorheology of curing thermosets

  • Altmann, Nara;Halley, Peter J.;Nicholson, Timothy M.
    • Korea-Australia Rheology Journal
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.91-102
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    • 2009
  • This paper describes an extension of viscoelastic Group Interaction Modelling (GIM) to predict the relaxation response of linear, branched and cross-linked structures. This model is incorporated into a Monte Carlo percolation grid simulation used to generate the topological structure during the isothermal cure of a gel, so enabling the chemorheological response to be predicted at any point during the cure. The model results are compared to experimental data for an epoxy-amine systems and good agreement is observed. The viscoelastic model predicts the same exponent power-law behaviour of the loss and storage moduli as a function of frequency and predicts the cross-over in the loss tangent at the percolation condition for gelation. The model also predicts the peak in the loss tangent which occurs when the glass transition temperature surpasses the isothermal cure temperature and the system vitrifies.

Relation between Conformational Properties and Yield Behavior of Isotactic Polypropylene under Extension by an Atomistic Modeling Approach

  • Yang, Sung-Hoon;Yang, Jae-Shick;Jo, Won-Ho
    • Macromolecular Research
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.224-230
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    • 2000
  • Molecular mechanics technique has been used for finding energy-minimized conformation to understand the mechanism of yielding of glassy polymers in atomistic level. As a model polymer, amor- phous isotactic polypropylene (iPP) was generated by molecular mechanics and molecular dynamics methods. The stress-strain cone was successfully obtained by using molecular mechanics technique. The torsional angle distribution showed no significant change during extension, although the torsional angles of certain bonds in polymer backbone changed more largely than other bonds. No significant change in the van der Waals interaction is observed at yielding point, whereas the torsional angle energy starts to decrease at yield strain.

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A Generalized Fourier Transform Based on a Periodic Window

  • Yoo, Kyung-Yul
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.15 no.4E
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    • pp.53-57
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    • 1996
  • An extension of the well-known Fourier transform is developed in this paper. It is denoted as the generalized Fourier transform(GFT), since it encompasses the Fourier transform as its special case. The first idea of this extension can be found on [1]. In the definition of the N-point discrete GFT, it first construct a passband in time which functions as a window in the time domain. An appropriate interpretation of each variables are introduced during the definition of the GFT, followed by the formal derivation of the inverse GFT. This transform pair is similar to the windowing in the frequency domain such as the subband coding technique (or filter bank approach) and could be extended to the wavelet transform.

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An Extraction Technique of Automatic Recognizing Regions on Power Distribution Facility Map by Partial Extension (부분확장에 의한 배전설비도면의 자동인식 대상영역 추출 방법)

  • Kim, Gye-Young;Lee, Bong-Jae;Cho, Seon-Ku;Woo, Hee-Gon
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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    • v.48 no.10
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    • pp.1349-1355
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    • 1999
  • A power distribution facility map is drawn on cadastral map. Besides, grid lines are added on the map for sectionalization. For automatic recognition of the map, we first extract recognizing regions. In this paper, we propose an extraction method of recognizing regions by partially extending thinned image. The proposed method is consist of three phases, binarization phase, thinning phase and partial extending phase. The first phase generate a binary image using threshold value which is obtained by histogram analysis. The binary image contains many part of recognizing regions, but not all. The second phase generate thinned image which is generated by appling thinning operator to the binary image. And the third phase extends thinned image from terminal point until satisfying termination condition. The proposed method is tested on several power distribution facility maps, and the results are presented.

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A Study on the Measurement of the Crack Length for the Real Scale Pipe Specimen (실배관 시험편의 균열 길이 측정에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Jae-Sil;Seok, Chang-Sung
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2003.04a
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    • pp.397-402
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    • 2003
  • Fracture resistance curves for concerned materials are required in order to perform elastic-plastic fracture mechanical analyses. Fracture resistance curve is built with J-integral values and crack extension values. The objective of this paper is to apply the load ratio method to the measurement of the crack length for the real scale pipe specimen. For these, the fracture test using the real scale pipe specimen and finite element analyses were performed. A 4-point bending jig was manufactured for the pipe test and the direct current potential drop method and the load ratio method was used to measure the crack extension and the length for the real scale pipe test. Finite element analyses about the compliance of the pipe specimen were executed for applying the load ratio method according to the crack length.

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Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) Technique Using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) with Naive Bayes Classification

  • J.Uma;K.Prabha
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.113-118
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    • 2024
  • Pursuance Sentiment Analysis on Twitter is difficult then performance it's used for great review. The present be for the reason to the tweet is extremely small with mostly contain slang, emoticon, and hash tag with other tweet words. A feature extraction stands every technique concerning structure and aspect point beginning particular tweets. The subdivision in a aspect vector is an integer that has a commitment on ascribing a supposition class to a tweet. The cycle of feature extraction is to eradicate the exact quality to get better the accurateness of the classifications models. In this manuscript we proposed Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) method is to secure Principal Component Analysis (PCA) with Naïve Bayes Classifiers. As the classifications process, the work proposed can produce different aspects from wildly valued feature commencing a Twitter dataset.