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Detection of Toxoplasma gondii in experimentally infected porcine blood and tissues by polymerase chain reaction (Polymerase chain reaction을 이용한 실험적 감염 돼지의 혈액과 조직으로부터 Toxoplasma gondii 검출)

  • Suh, Myung-deuk;Shin, Gee-wook
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Research
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.89-98
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    • 2001
  • This study was conducted to detect the toxoplasma specific-DNA in circulating blood and organs collected from slaughtered pigs at slaughtering house and experimentally infected pigs with Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites by polymerase chain reaction(PCR), and also PCR was applied to diagnose for acute phase of swine toxoplasmosis as a newly developed diagnostic test. The sensitivity of oligonucleotide primer, T-1 & T-2, designed from toxoplasma B1 gene amplification method was compared with Tp parasite detection by mouse inoculation(MI). On the other hand, latex agglutination test(LAT) was conducted to detect the serum antibodies comparing with the detection of toxoplasma by PCR and MI. The results obtained were summarized as follows. PCR was able to determine at the lowest level of $10^0/ml$ T. gondii in blood samples which were blended with a serial diluted T gondii in vitro. On the other hand, $10^2/5g$ of T gondii could detect from a variety of tissues including lung, diaphragm, liver, heart, spleen and brain in vitro. The primer was proved to specifically determine T gondii in blood and tissues in vitro but it did not detect Neospora caninum used as a negative control. DNA of T. gondii was effectively extracted by freezing, thawing and grinding twice both tissues mixed with T gondii in vitro and in experimentally infected pig's tissues. PCR detected specific DNA in the blood of experimentally infected pigs at 108 hrs and 120 hrs post-infection, it was the same time that the pigs showed fever and parasitaemia. In case of tissue, specific DNA was, however, detected only lung from experimentally infected pigs. Even though the duration of acute phase was from 3 to 7 days post-infection, but the latex agglutination test (LAT) results appeared from 8 days post-infection. A comparison of sensitivity in determining T gondii in blood samples between PCR and MI, PCR positive rate ranged from 25 to 33.3%, but that of MI covered from 75 to 100%.

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A study on the saving of energy consumption load using electrical heat control system (전기적 열제어 시스템을 사용한 에너지 소비량 감소에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Kyu Il
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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    • v.49 no.1
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    • pp.58-66
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    • 2013
  • Most of steam power plant in Korea are heating the feed water system to prevent freezing water flowing in the pipe in winter time. The heating system is operated whenever the ambient temperature around the power plant area below 5 degree Centigrade. But this kind of heat supplying system cause a lot of energy consuming. If we think about the method that the temperature of the each pipe is controled by attaching the temperature measuring sensor like RTD sensor and heat is supplied only when the outer surface temperature of the pipe is under 5 degree Centigrade, then we can save a plenty of energy. In this study, the computer program package for simulation is used to compare the energy consumption load of both systems. Energy saving rate is calculated for the location of Youngweol area using the data of weather station in winter season, especially the January' severe weather data is analyzed for comparison. Various convection heat transfer coefficients for the ambient air and the flowing water inside the pipe was used for the accurate calculation. And also the various initial flowing water temperature was used for the system. Steady state analysis is done previously to approximate the result before the simulation. The result shows that the temperature control system using RTD sensor represents the high energy saving effect which is more than 90% of energy saving rate. Even in the severe January weather condition, the energy saving rate is almost 60%.

Prediction of Glaze Ice Accretion on 2D Airfoil (2차원 에어포일의 유리얼음 형상 예측 코드 개발)

  • Son, Chan-Kyu;Oh, Se-Jong;Yee, Kwan-Jung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.38 no.8
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    • pp.747-757
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    • 2010
  • The ice accreted on the airfoil is one of the critical drivers that causes the degradation of aerodynamic performance as well as aircraft accidents. Hence, an efficient numerical code to predict the accreted ice shape is crucial for the successful design of de-icing and anti-icing devices. To this end, a numerical code has been developed for the prediction of glaze ice accretion shape on 2D airfoil. Constant Source-Doublet method is used for the purpose of computational efficiency and heat transfer in the icing process is accounted for by Messinger model. The computational results are thoroughly compared against available experiments and other computation codes such as LEWICE and TRAJICE. The direction and thickness of ice horn are shown to yield similar results compared to the experiments and other codes. In addition, the effects of various parameters - temperature, free-stream velocity, liquid water contents, and droplet diameter - on the ice shape are systematically analyzed through parametric studies.

Effects of Bovine Serum Albumin and Sugars on Sperm Livability and Acrosome Morphology of Frozen-thawed Boar Semen (소혈청알부민과 당류가 돼지 동결정자의 생존성 및 두모형태에 미치는 영향)

  • 윤종택;임경순;이용빈
    • Korean Journal of Animal Reproduction
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.19-26
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    • 1986
  • This experiment was carried out to investigate the effect of bovine serum ablumin (BSA), sugars, glycerol equilibration time, straw size and thawing method on the survival index and the morphology of frozen boar spermatozoa. The results obtained were summarized as follow: 1. When the semen frozen in BF5 dilutor as pellet form was thawed in BTS at 37$^{\circ}$and 50$^{\circ}C$, BF5 dilutor with fructose showed higher sperm survival index than that with dextrose, however, when the semen was thawed on dry test tube at 37$^{\circ}C$, BF5 dilutor with sucrose showed higher sperm survival index than with other sugars. 2 When the semen forzen in BF5 dilutor with straw and thawed at 37$^{\circ}C$, BF5 dilutor with dextrose showed higher sperm survival index than those with other sugars, and there was no difference in sperm survival index between 0.5 and 1.0 ml straws. 3. The sperm survival index of frozen sperm was significantly (P<0.05) improved due to addition of BSA (0.05%) to BF5 dilutor. 4. When the extended semen with BF5 dilutor contatining 0.01 to 0.05% of BSA was frozen in the straw, the semen without glycerol equilibration showed significantly (P<0.05) higher sperm survival index than those with 2, 4 and 6 hrs glycerol equilibration time. 5. The sperm frozen in BF5 dilutor with dextrose or fructose, sucrose and raffinose showed 77 to 88% in normal acrosome rate and no difference among sugars. 6. The frozen semen showed lower normal acrosome rate than the first and second diluted semen, whereas the frozen semen showed higher swollen, damaged and missing acrosome rate than the first and second diluted semen. 7. Damaged and missing acrosome rate of sperm head due to freezing was somewhat inhibited by addition of BSA (0.01 to 0.05) to the BF5 dilutor.

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The Effect of Vitamin C on Properties of the Breads Made by Dough Frozen after 1st Fermentation (1차 발효 후 냉동생지를 이용한 빵의 특성에 미치는 비타민 C의 영향)

  • Lee, Jeong-Hoon;Choi, Doo-Ri;Lee, Si-Kyung;Min, Sang-Gi
    • Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.92-96
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    • 2003
  • Effects of vitamin C on the properties of bread including number of yeast cells, volume of bread, specific loaf volume, and hardness and sensory characteristics were evaluated. Vitamin C was added at various amounts to frozen doughs made through sponge &dough method using sweet dough formula and quickly frozen at $-40^{\circ}C$. Doughs were stored for 4 weeks at $-20^{\circ}C$. Evaluations were done after frozen dough was thawed, fermented, and baked every week. The bread with 150 ppm vitamin C revealed higher yeast cell survival rate during freezing storage, and higher specific and bread volumes than other doughs. Hardness of bread increased with increasing amount of vitamin C added. Bread with 100 ppm vitamin C revealed the highest sensory score. Consequently, addition of 100 ppm vitamin C to bread dough resulted in the highest overall evaluation.

Effects of Treatment Method and Environmental Factors on the Bacteriostatic Activity Condensed Phosphates (처리조건이나 환경요인이 중합인산염의 항균력에 미치는 영향)

  • CHANG Dong-Suck;LEE Tai-Seek
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.394-400
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    • 1990
  • In the previous paper, we reported that the bacteriostatic effect of condensed phosphate. The present study was intended to observe influence of various environmental factors on the bacteriostatic effect of condensed phosphates in the laboratory media, in order to get the information on the possibility to use the phosphate as food preservative. Bacteriostatic effect of sodium polyphosphate was not reduced by the heating at 100 for 1 hour, but it was considerably decreased by heating at $121^{\circ}C$ for 15 min and the phosphate sensitivity of bacteria was increased by freezing and heating. On the other hand, the strong bacteriostatic activity of condensed phosphate was observed below pH 6.5 in nutrient broth culture, and the activity was decreased by the addition of $CaCl_2$, KCl and $MgSO_4$.

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Evidence of Spin Reorientation by Mössbauer Analysis

  • Myoung, Bo Ra;Kim, Sam Jin;Kim, Chul Sung
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.126-129
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    • 2014
  • We report the crystallographic and magnetic properties of $Ni_{0.3}Fe_{0.7}Ga_2S_4$ by means of X-ray diffractometer (XRD), a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometer, and a M$\ddot{o}$ssbauer spectroscopy. In particular, $Ni_{0.3}Fe_{0.7}Ga_2S_4$ was studied by M$\ddot{o}$ssbauer analysis for evidence of spin reorientation. The chalcogenide material $Ni_{0.3}Fe_{0.7}Ga_2S_4$ was fabricated by a direct reaction method. XRD analysis confirmed that $Ni_{0.3}Fe_{0.7}Ga_2S_4$ has a 2-dimension (2-D) triangular lattice structure, with space group P-3m1. The M$\ddot{o}$ssbauer spectra of $Ni_{0.3}Fe_{0.7}Ga_2S_4$ at spectra at various temperatures from 4.2 to 300 K showed that the spectrum at 4.2 K has a severely distorted 8-line shape, as spin liquid. Electric quadrupole splitting, $E_Q$ has anomalous two-points of temperature dependence of $E_Q$ curve as freezing temperature, $T_f=11K$, and N$\acute{e}$el temperature, $T_N=26K$. This suggests that there appears to be a slowly-fluctuating "spin gel" state between $T_f$ and $T_N$, caused by non-paramagnetic spin state below $T_N$. This comes from charge re-distribution due to spin-orientation above $T_f$, and $T_N$, due to the changing $E_Q$ at various temperatures. Isomer shift value ($0.7mm/s{\leq}{\delta}{\leq}0.9mm/s$) shows that the charge states are ferrous ($Fe^{2+}$), for all temperature range. The Debye temperature for the octahedral site was found to be ${\Theta}_D=260K$.

Synthesis and Microstructure of Porous Al2O3 with Nano-Sized Cu Dispersions (나노크기 Cu 분산입자를 갖는 Al2O3 다공체의 제조 및 미세조직 특성)

  • Yoo, Ho-Suk;Kim, An-Gi;Hyun, Chang-Yong
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.67-71
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    • 2013
  • Porous $Al_2O_3$ dispersed with nano-sized Cu was fabricated by freeze-drying process and solution chemistry method using Cu-nitrate. To prepare porous $Al_2O_3$, camphene was used as the sublimable vehicle. Camphene slurries with $Al_2O_3$ content of 10 vol% were prepared by milling at $50^{\circ}C$ with a small amount of oligomeric polyester dispersant. Freezing of the slurry was done in a Teflon cylinder attached to a copper bottom plate cooled to $-25^{\circ}C$ while unidirectionally controlling the growth direction of the camphene. Pores were subsequently generated by sublimation of the camphene during drying in air for 48 h. The green body was sintered in a furnace at $1400^{\circ}C$ for 1 h. Cu particles were dispersed in porous $Al_2O_3$ by calcination and hydrogen reduction of Cu-nitrate. The sintered samples showed large pores with sizes of about $150{\mu}m$; these pores were aligned parallel to the camphene growth direction. Also, the internal walls of the large pores had relatively small pores due to the traces of camphene left between the concentrated $Al_2O_3$ particles on the internal wall. EDS analysis revealed that the Cu particles were mainly dispersed on the surfaces of the large pores. These results strongly suggest that porous $Al_2O_3$ with Cu dispersion can be successfully fabricated by freeze-drying and solution chemistry routes.

Development of the Maintenance System for Gate Bridge (배수갑문 노후도 감시시스템 구축연구)

  • Kim, Kwan-Ho;Cho, Young-Kweon;Kim, Myeong-Won
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2008.04a
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    • pp.1025-1028
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    • 2008
  • Using of maintenance system for gate bridge algorism, We made out algorism and engine for prediction of life cycle by neutralization, freezing-thawing and damage from sea wind. To objective of this system, user can use easily with maintenance system for gate bridge. Also, to improve of maintenance efficiency, web-program made out by superannuated evaluation and analysis of field exposure data. To develope web-program, we framing structure design of database, which is adapted to method of maintenance, repair, and reinforcing

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Information Transfer Method of Dangerous Road Condition (도로 위험 상황의 전송 방법)

  • An, Soo-Jin;Kim, Young-Wook;Han, Min-Hong
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.12 no.1 s.45
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    • pp.189-197
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    • 2007
  • Developed safety system which transfers danger information to rear cars for accident prevention when drivers detect a accident, a dropping or a freezing during driving on the high way. To prevent an accident, each vehicles mount OBU which is made up of a GPS unit and a transmitter-receiver and the trace of road is always renewed and saved in OBU per a regular past distance. When the driver see dangerous situation, transfer a danger pattern and a trace information by pressing button. All cars which receive information compare the received data with the original data. And then, only cars which are located at the rear in a regular distance respond and occur a warning. Performed a road test at the rate of $30{\sim}50$ kilometer a hour using two test cars which saved about 120meter's space between them were mounted OBU which had 447Mhz transceiver. As a result of the experiment, communication between test cars had no problem. Accordingly, it can use a safety driving device because driver can notice a danger situation and set themselves ready for it using this system in advance.

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