• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.269-273
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• 2004

The hybrid dead time model adopting paralyzable (or extendable) and non-paralyzable (or non-extendable) dead times has been introduced to extend the usable range of G-M counters in high counting rate environment and the relationship between true and observed counting rates is more accurately expressed in the hybrid model. GMSIM, dead time effects simulator, has been developed to analyze the counting statistics of G-M counters using Monte Carlo simulations. GMSIM accurately described the counting statistics of the paralyzable and non-paralyzable models. For G-M counters that follow the hybrid model, the counting statistics behaved in between two idealized models. In the future, GMSIM may be used in predicting counting statistics of three G-M dead time models, which are paralyzable, non-paralyzable and hybrid models.

• Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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• v.42 no.6
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• pp.435-443
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• 2008

Purpose: Gated myocardial perfusion SPECT provides not only myocardial perfusion status but also various functional parameters of left ventricle. We compared left ventricular ejection fraction, end-diastolic volume, LV mass by cardiac SPECT using Quantitative Gated SPECT (QGS), 4D-MSPECT software and standard 2D-echocardiography. Materials and Methods: One hundred fourteen patients (male 51, female 63; 29-85 years old, mean $61.3\;{\pm}\;13.3$ years old) with normal perfusion status on Tc-99m tetrofosmin gated myocardial perfusion SPECT were analyzed retrospectively. Ejection fraction (LVEF), End-diastolic volume (LVED), LV mass (LVM) were calculated using QGS, 4D-MSPECT, and LVEF, LVM using 2D-echocardiography. Statistical analysis including Bland-Altman plot was performed using $MedCalc^{(R)}$ (MedCalc software, Mariakerke, Belgium). Results: The correlation of LVEF between methods was good: 0.95/0.96 (stress/rest) between QGS and 4D-MSPECT, 0.79 between QGS and echocardiography, 0.79 between 4D-MSPECT and echocardiography (p<0.001). Using Bland-Altman plot, the 95% confidence interval of agreement between QGS and 4D-MSPECT ranged from -12.7% to 7.3% / from -12.2% to 6.5% (stress/rest). The agreement between QGS and echocardiography, 4D-MSPECT and echocardiography ranged from -17.4% to 24.0%, and -14.8% to 27.0% respectively. The correlation of LVM between methods was also good: 0.95 between QGS and 4D-MSPECT, 0.76 between QGS and echocardiography, 0.73 between 4D-MSPECT and echocardiography (p<0.001). The 95% confidence interval of agreement between QGS and 4D-MSPECT ranged from -33.8g to 14.1g (stress/rest), The 95% confidence interval of agreement between QGS and echocardiography, 4D-MSPECT and echocardiography ranged from -148.7 g to 21.8. g, and -142.8 g to 35.5 g, respectively. Conclusion: There was a good correlation for LVEF, LVEO, LVM among methods (QGS, 4D-MSPECT, echocardiography), but the variance between methods was big. Therefore, the functional parameters by each method cannot be used interchangeably.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 1971

A survey meter which is used a G-M counter sensitive to beta and gamma radiation is studied. This device is completely transistorized, operated with battery, and can be read directly the 3 full-scale meter range: 2.5, 25 and 250 MR/HR respectively. The collector-coupled monostabel multivibrator consisting of a counting-rate meter circuit, and the astable blocking oscillator consisting of a dc-de converter for power supply are analyzed and derived the design dquations. To improve the resolving time of the G-M counter the device is designed to be triggered by low pulse in the order of 0.5v.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.28 no.8 s.227
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• pp.1159-1165
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• 2004

This paper describes fabrication of a micro cell counter integrated with an oxygen micropump and counting experiment with Sephadex G-25 beads ($70{\sim}100\;{\mu}m$). The pumping part consisted of a microheater, catalyst (manganese dioxide) enveloped with paraffin, hydrogen peroxide, and microchannel, and the counting part consisted of collimated light, a microwindow, and a phototransistor including an external circuit. The micropump generated oxygen gas by decomposing hydrogen peroxide with manganese dioxide, which was initiated by melting the paraffin with the microheater, and pumped beads in the microchannel. When the beads passed the microwindow, they shaded the collimated light and changed the illumination on the phototransistor, which caused the current variation in the circuit. The signals, according to the bead size, reached up to 22 mV with noise level of 2 mV during 50 seconds and the numbers of peaks were analyzed by magnitude.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.521-528
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• 2008

The micro-porous asymmetric PVDF hollow fiber membranes for gas-liquid contactor were prepared by the dry-jet wet phase inversion process and the characteristics of hollow fiber membranes were evaluated by the gas permeation method and scanning electron microscope. The chemical absorbent for removal of $SO_2$ gas was sodium hydroxide at bench scale hollow fiber membrane contactor. The experiments were performed in a counter-current mode of operation with gas in the shell side and liquid in the fiber lumen of the module to examine the effect of various operating variables such as concentration of absorbent, gas flow rate, L/G ratio and concentration of inlet $SO_2$ gas on the $SO_2$ removal efficiency using PVDF hollow fiber membrane contactor. Membrane mass transfer coefficient($k_m$) was calculated by mathematical modeling. The volumetric overall mass transfer coefficient increased with increasing the concentration of absorbent and L/G ratio. The increase of the absorbent concentration and L/G ratio not only provides more sufficient alkalinity but also decreases liquid phase resistance. The volumetric overall mass transfer coefficient increased with increasing gas flow rate due to decreasing the gas phase resistance.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.3-7
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• 1971

A method for determining dead times of a G.M. detector as a function of the count rate has been investigated using the Mn$^{56}$ radioactive sample. The formula, (equation omitted), seems to be useful for determining a relation between the dead time and the count rate. Here (equation omitted)(N$_1$) is the dead time for the count rate N$_1$, N$_1$is the count rate at time zero, Nt is the count rate at time t, λ is the radioactive decay constant of the sample used, and t is the time between the first and second runs. When all the counting data were corrected for the dead times evaluated with this formula and then a variation of these corrected counting data with rime was observed, the results showed quite a good agreement with the published data for the radioactive decay of Mn$^{56}$ . Besides, it appears that the dead time decreases as the count rate increases in a dead time-to-count rate relation obtained by the same formula.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Applied Pharmacology
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• 1993.04a
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• pp.135-135
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• 1993

신호전달과정에 중요한 역할을 하고 있는 다기능 serinei/threonine 단백질인산화효소인 protein kinase C(PKC)의 연구를 위해 이 효소의 정제를 뇌에서 착수하였다 PKC의 활성측정을 myelin basic protein을 기질로 하여 20 mM Tris 완충용액 PH 7.5, 0.15 mM [${\gamma}$-$^{32}$P]ATP(3 $\times$ $10^{5}$ cpm), 0.1 mM $Ca^{2＋}$, 10$\mu\textrm{g}$ phosphatidylserine과 2$\mu\textrm{g}$ diolein을 넣어 반응시켰다. 반응은 TCA로 정지시킨 후 방사성 단백질을 Millipore filter paper로 걸러 섬광 계수기로 읽었다. Cytosol PKC의 정제과정은 첫 단계에서 DEAE-cellulose를 사용하였으며, phenyl sepharose CL-4B와 protamine agarose를 연속적으로 이용하여 800배의 정제에 성공했다. SDS-PACE 상에서 80 kD로 나타났으며 순도는 95 % 이상이였다. 이를 이용 PKC의 각종 기질 연구에 착수하기 시작했으며, 이중 MBP의 인산화연구를 통한 myelin의 안정성과 MBP와의 구조 관계가 일부 수행되고 있다 연차적으로 PKC와 이와 관련된 단백질의 특성을 살피기 위해 뇌의 PKC 기질 중 cold stress를 통해 환경에 민감한 것을 찾고 있으며, 현재 autoradiography를 이용해 80 kD, 54 kD, 49 kD와 35 kD의 단백질이 연구대상이 되고있다. 그 중 49 kD는 B-50(또는 GAP43, neuromodulin이라고도 함)일 가능성이 높아 이 단백질 조절과 PKC 활성화 사이의 관계 정립이 흥미로운 과제로 대두되고 있다.다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 2002.02a
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• pp.79-85
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• 2002

본 연구는 대추 수확기개발을 위한 기초연구로써 대추의 열매, 잎, 잎줄기의 물리적 역학적 특성을 조사.분석하였으며, 그 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. .대추 열매의 평균 장경, 경, 부피, 무게, 탈과력은 각각 32.02 mm, 23.9 mm, 10.0$\times$$10^{-6}$m$^3$, 5.2~12.8g, 5.7 N으로 나타났다. .대추무게가 증가하면 탈과력은 증가하고, F/W는 감소하는 경향을 나타났다. .대추나무가지의 평균 탄성계수는 7.01$\times$$10^{8}$ N/m$^2$였고, 가지의 굵기가 증가하면서 감소하였다. .대추나무가지의 평균 비틀림 강성은 5.2$\times$$10^{7}$ N/m$^2$으로 나타났으며, 가지의 굵기가 증가하면서 음의 지수 함수적으로 감소하는 경향을 나타냈으나, 데이터가 일정한 범위에 산재해 있어 가지의 굵기에 따른 강성계수변화 특성은 일정한 경향으로는 나타나지 않았다. .대추 잎줄기의 평균 무게, 잎수, 길이가 각각 0.7g, 6.6개, 12.2 cm로 나타났다. .대추 잎의 평균 잎면적, 무게, 탈리력은 각각 13 $cm^2$, 0.2g, 4.4 N으로 나타났다. .종말속도는 대추 열매의 무게가 증가하면서 증가하고, 대추잎의 무게, 면적이 증가할수록 감소하는 경향을 나타냈으며, 잎줄기의 종말속도는 잎줄기 무게 혹은 잎줄기에 매달린 잎의 수와는 거의 영향을 받지 않는 것으로 나타났으며, 잎줄기의 길이가 증가할수록 약간씩 증가하는 경향을 나타냈다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.32 no.8
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• pp.747-753
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• 2010

This study was performed to investigate the removal characteristics of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the gasphase biofilters, and to propose a stoichiometric analysis approach to characterize biological reaction through carbon mass balance. The VOCs studied were toluene, styrene, methyl ethyl ketone (MEK), and methyl isobutyl ketone (MIBK) as a single substrate for each biofilter. The critical loading rate was determined to be $46.9\;g/m^3{\cdot}hr$, $25.8\;g/m^3{\cdot}hr$, $96.3\;g/m^3{\cdot}hr$, and $66.5\;g/m^3{\cdot}hr$ for toluene, styrene, MEK, and MIBK, respectively. The obtained results indicated that the critical loading rate was well correlated the octanol-water partition coefficient. In the analysis of carbon mass balance, carbon recovery to $CO_2$ became relatively lower as substrate loadings increased, but higher for carbon recovery to biomass. Stoichiometric analysis revealed that biomass yield increased as substrate loadings increased, and its coefficient (g biomass/g substrate) varied from 0.31 to 0.57 for toluene, 0.29 to 0.57 for styrene, 0.08 to 0.56 for MEK, and 0.14 to 0.53 for MIBK.

• Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.435-441
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• 2007

Ground-based optical sensing over the crop canopy provides information on the mass of plant body which reflects the light, as well as crop nitrogen content which is closely related to the greenness of plant leaves. This method has the merits of being non-destructive real-time based, and thus can be conveniently used for decision making on application of nitrogen fertilizers for crops standing in fields. In the present study relationships among leaf nitrogen content of rice canopy, crop growth status, and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) values were investigated. We measured Green normalized difference vegetation index($gNDVI=({\rho}0.80{\mu}m-{\rho}0.55{\mu}m)/({\rho}0.80{\mu}m+{\rho}0.55{\mu}m)$) and NDVI($({\rho}0.80{\mu}m-{\rho}0.68{\mu}m)/({\rho}0.80{\mu}m+{\rho}0.68{\mu}m)$) were measured by using two different active sensors (Greenseeker, NTech Inc. USA). The study was conducted in the years 2005-06 during the rice growing season at the experimental plots of National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology located at Suwon, Korea. The experiments carried out with randomized complete block design with the application of four levels of nitrogen fertilizers (0, 70, 100, 130kg N/ha) and same amount of phosphorous and potassium content of the fertilizers. gNDVI and rNDVI increased as growth advanced and reached to maximum values at around early August, G(NDVI) were a decrease in values of observed with the crop maturation. gNDVI values and leaf nitrogen content were highly correlated at early July in 2005 and 2006. On the basis of this finding we attempted to estimate the leaf N contents using gNDVI data obtained in 2005 and 2006. The determination coefficients of the linear model by gNDVI in the years 2005 and 2006 were 0.88 and 0.94, respectively. The measured and estimated leaf N contents using gNDVI values showed good agreement ($R^2=0.86^{***}$). Results from this study show that gNDVI values represent a significant positive correlation with leaf N contents and can be used to estimate leaf N before the panicle formation stage. gNDVI appeared to be a very effective parameter to estimate leaf N content the rice canopy.