• Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• 제22권7호
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• pp.15.1-15.8
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• 2019

Corexit 9500 is a dispersant commercially available in Nigeria that is used to change the inherent chemical and physical properties of oil, thereby changing the oil's transport and fate with potential effects on the environment. The aim of this study was to assess the biochemical (enzymes and electrolyte) toxicity of Corexit 9500 dispersant on the gills, liver and kidney of juveniles of Clarias gariepinus after exposure for 21 days. One hundred sixty fish were used without gender consideration. Range-finding tests were conducted over a 96-h period after acclimatisation of the test organisms in the laboratory. The test organisms (10/treatment) were exposed to Corexit 9500 in the following concentrations-0.00, 0.0125, 0.025 and 0.05 ml/l in triplicate. Twenty-one days later, fish was dissected. 0.5 g from each of the following organs-gills, liver and kidney tissues-was removed, homogenised and tested for enzymes [superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate transaminase (AST), alkaline phosphatase (ALP)], urea, creatinine and electrolytes (sodium ($Na^+$), potassium ($K^+$), chloride ($Cl^-$), bicarbonate ($HCO_3{^-}$)) following standard methods. In the gills, SOD and ALT to AST ratio were significantly lower than in control while the creatinine was significantly higher in the toxicant. In the kidney, creatinine was significantly higher in fish exposed to the toxicant. In the liver, ALP increased in the toxicant while urea was decreased. The mean electrolyte concentrations ($Na^+$, $K^+$, $Cl^-$ and $HCO_3{^-}$) increased significantly in the concentration of the toxicant (P < 0.05). The alterations observed in the activities of these electrolytes and enzymes indicated that Corexit 9500 interfered with transamination and metabolic functions of the fish.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.1543-1567
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• 2015

In this study, a wireless crack sensor is developed for monitoring cracks propagating in two dimensions. This sensor is developed by incorporating a laser-based optical navigation sensor board (ADNS-9500) into a smart wireless platform (Imote2). To measure crack propagation, the Imote2 sends a signal to the ADNS-9500 to collect a sequence of images reflected from the concrete surface. These acquired images can be processed in the ADNS-9500 directly (the navigation mode) or sent to Imote2 for processing (the frame capture mode). The computed crack displacement can then be transmitted wirelessly to a base station. The design and the construction of this sensor are reported herein followed by some calibration tests on one prototype sensor. Test results show that the sensor can provide sub-millimeter accuracy under sinusoidal and step movement. Also, the two modes of operation offer complementary performance as the navigation mode is more accurate in tracking large amplitude and fast crack movement while the frame capture mode is more accurate for small and slow crack movement. These results illustrate the feasibility of developing such a crack sensor as well as point out directions of further research before its actual implementation.

• Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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• 제42권6호
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• pp.469-477
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• 2008

목적: 소동물용 PET은 우수한 공간분해 능과, 민감도가 요구된다. 본 연구에서는 256개의 개별적 채널을 4개로 줄여 검출위치를 추정할 수 있는 회로를 설계하고 제작하였으며, 256($16{\times}16$)개의 양극 출력 채널을 가지는 고집적도의 광전자증배관 및 $L_{0.9}GSO$ 섬광결정과 결합하여 그 성능을 검증하였다. 대상 및 방법: 설계한 회로를 제작하기에 맞서 전자회로 시뮬레이션을 통해 성능을 예상하였다. 회로의 검증과 성능분석을 위하여 위치결정회로, H9500(Hamamatsu Photorucs K.K., 일본) 광전자증배관, $1.5{\times}1.5{\times}7.0\;mm^3$ $L_{0.9}GSO$ 섬광결정으로 두 개의 검출단을 제작하고 $3.7{\times}10^5$ Bq의 $^{22}Na$ 방사선원을 사용하여 동시이벤트를 검출하였다. 첫 번째 검출단은 $L_{0.9}GSO\;29{\times}29$ 섬광결정블록을 단층으로 구성하였고, 두 번째 검출단은 $L_{0.9}GSO\;29{\times}29$와 $28{\times}28$ 섬광결정블록을 x와 y방향으로 각각 섬광결정 단면 길이의 반만큼 오프셋을 두어 접합하였다. 또한 측정된 데이터를 실제 섬광결정 영역으로 보정하기 위하여 섬광결정지도를 구했다. 결과: 평면영상을 통해 각 섬광결정들이 잘 구분되는 것을 확인할 수 있었고, 회로 개선 후 주변부의 섬광결정들이 마지막 줄까지 명백히 구분되었다. 각 섬광결정들의 에너지 분해능은 11.6%(표준편차 1.6)이었다. 결론: 본 연구에서 제안한 위치결정회로는 실험을 통해 소동물용 PET개발에 있어 만족할만한 성능을 보여주었다. 향후 더욱 정밀한 시스템을 제작하기 위해서는 다중양극 광전자증배관의 이득 불균일을 보정하기 위한 연구가 진행되어야 할 것이다.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.30-35
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• 2002

This study represents the effects of the material of the air cleaner on the performance in a 4-stroke spark-ignition engine for motorcycles. This study is mainly focused on the possibility of the adopting the STS wire mesh air cleaner of a S.I engine. For investigating the possibility of that, the engine power, the fuel consumption and the exhaust gas analysis were carried out for the synthetic fiber air cleaner and the different size of 200 mesh, 250 mesh, 300 mesh of STS wire mash air cleaner. As the results of this study, the performance of STS wire air cleaner was similar to the fiber air cleaner at 9000 rpm but 300 mesh of STS air cleaner had a high engine power and torque at 9500 rpm. In the case of the synthetic fiber air cleaner the concentration of CO was low at 6500 rpm and in the case of the 300 mesh in STS wire mesh air cleaner the concentration of HC was lowest at all experimental regions.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제33권7호
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• pp.608-617
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• 2012

분해능이 ${\Delta}{\lambda}{\sim}-0.1{\AA}$인 고분산 분광기를 사용하여 공생별 Z Andromedae (And)의 분광자료를 연구하였다. 분광 관측은 (1) 2001년 8월 30일(위상 ${\Phi}$=0.77)과 2002년 8월 12일(위상 ${\Phi}$ =0.22)에 Lick 천문대의 Hamilton Echelle Spectrograph (HES)를 사용하여, 1800초와 3600초 노출의 고분산 자료를 얻었으며, (2) 2009년 10월 21일(위상 ${\Phi}$=0.70)에는 보현산 천문대의 Bohyunsan Echelle Spectrograph (BOES)를 사용하여 1200초 노출 시간의 고분산 자료를 얻었다. 약 $3600{\AA}-9500{\AA}$파장대의 HES와 BOES 관측 자료로 부터 HI, HeI, HeII에 대한 방출선을 선택하여 분석하였다. 이 선들의 선 윤곽 분석 작업을 통해 2개 또는 3개로 분리시키고, 위상별로 각 성분이 어떤 지역에서 형성되고, 백색왜성과 적색거성의 궤도 운동과 어떠한 관련이 있는지를 조사하였다. 라만 산란(Raman scattering)된 $H{\alpha}$선 선폭 및 HI, HeI, HeII의 위상별 변화를 보이는 방출선의 특성으로부터, 방출선들은 백색왜성 주위를 감싸는 강착원반과 이 원반 안의 두 라그랑지안(Lagrangian) 포인트 $L_1$과 $L_2$지역에서 주로 생성된 것으로 결론지었다. Z And는 활동성이 2009년과 2001년에 가장 활발했고, 2002년의 선 윤곽은 매우 복잡한 양상을 보임에도 불구하고, 활동성은 비교적 조용하였음을 암시하고 있다.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.400-405
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• 2003

산과 알칼리 수리미 제조공정을 확립하기 위하여 단백질 가용화와 회수를 위한 최적 pH, 이온강도의 영향, 균질화 조건, 마쇄육에 대한 수도수의 비 및 수율을 검토하고, 산 및 알칼리 수리미 공정에 따른 폐수의 오염 저감 효과를 수세수리미와 비교하였다. 어육 단백질을 추출하기 위한 최적 pH는 2.5와 10.5부근이었으며, 가용성 단백질의 침전 회수를 위한 최적 pH는 5.0 부근이었다. 추출 용액의 이온강도 증가는 어육 단백질의 추출량을 현저히 감소시키는 것으로 나타났고, 균질화를 위한 최적 조건은 9500 rpm 이하에서 30초였다. 원심분리 부하량과 파괴강도 및 변형값을 고려한 최적수량은 어육에 대하여 6배량이었다. 산 혹은 알칼리 공정의 수리미 수율은 수세 공정에 비하여 높았으며, 폐수의 오염 부하량은 현저히 낮은 것으로 나타났다.

• 공업화학
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.617-622
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• 2011

축산폐수 혐기소화 유출수 중의 생물학적 난분해성 유기물의 분해를 위하여 오존 기반의 고도산화 기술을 적용하였다. 배출수의 COD 및 색도는 각각 9200~9500 mg/L 및 0.384 (400 nm)이고 1/10 희석하여 실험에 사용하였다. 공급 오존은 버블의 크기가 $13{\mu}m$인 마이크로버블 오존과 $105{\mu}m$인 일반 오존버블과의 차이를 고찰하였다. 마이크로버블 오존을 사용함으로써 오존의 용해도와 라디칼 생성량이 증가되었고 일반 오존버블에 비하여 COD 및 색도의 제거효율이 각각 85% 및 26% 향상되었다. 마이크로버블을 포함한 $O_3/UV$, $O_3/H_2O_2$, $O_3/UV/H_2O_2$의 조합을 비교한 결과 오존 단독 처리에 비하여 색도 제거율이 5~10% 정도 증가되었으며, 오존에 비하여 UV나 $H_2O_2$의 색도제거에 대한 기여가 크지 않음을 알 수 있었다. 반면 COD에 대해서는 $O_3/UV/H_2O_2$ 적용시 오존 단독에 비하여 2배 이상 제거율이 증가하였으며 UV보다는 $H_2O_2$의 기여도가 더 컸다. 한편 마이크로 오존의 사용시 증가된 용존오존 및 라디칼 활성으로 인하여 오존 공급을 중단한 후에도 UV 또는 $H_2O_2$를 적용함으로써 추가적인 COD 분해 효과를 지속적으로 유지할 수 있었다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제19권11호
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• pp.1519-1523
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• 2006

Through a screening and selection approach method, decamer random markers were used in a technique called random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) assay with 252 genomic DNAs isolated from four major Haimen chicken populations: Rugao (62), Jiangchun (62), Wan-Nan (63) and Cshiqishi (65). A total of 3-score decamer random primers (S241-S260, S1081-S1100 and S1341-S1360) were employed in the preliminary RAPD-polymerase chain reaction (RAPD-PCR) assay with 50 random template DNA samples from all the populations. Four (6.67%) of the primers that produced obvious polymorphic patterns, interpretable and reproducible bands were selected and used with both the individual DNAs from each population and with pooled DNA samples of the four populations in subsequent analyses. The selected primers produced a total of 131 fragments with molecular size ranging from 835 to 4,972 base pairs (bp) when used with the individual DNAs; 105 (80.15%) of these fragments were polymorphic. With the pooled DNAs, 47 stable and characteristic bands with molecular size ranging from 840 to 4,983 bp, of which 23 (48.94%) polymorphic, were also generated. The band-sharing coefficient (BSC) calculated for the individuals in the population and among populations of bulked samples was between 0.8247 (Rugao) and 0.9500 (Cshiqishi); for pairwise populations, it was between 0.7273 (Rugao vs. Wan-Nan) and 0.9367 (Jiangchun vs. Cshiqishi) chicken populations. Using the BSC for individual and pairwise populations, the Nei's standard genetic distances between the chicken populations were determined and ranged from 0.0043 (Jiangchun vs. Cshiqishi) to 0.1375 (Rugao vs. Cshiqishi). The reconstructed dendrogram linked the Jiangchun and Cshiqishi chickens as closely related populations, followed by Wan-Nan, while the Rugao was the most genetically distant among the populations.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.201-208
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• 2018

High Efficiency Video Coding range extensions (HEVC RExt) is a kind of extension model of HEVC. HEVC RExt was specially designed for dealing the high quality images. HEVC RExt is very essential for studio editing which handle the very high quality and various type of images. There are some problems to dealing these massive data in studio editing. One of the most important procedure is re-encoding and decoding procedure during the editing. Various codecs are widely used for studio data editing. But most of the codecs have common problems to dealing the massive data in studio editing. First, the re-encoding and decoding processes are frequently occurred during the studio data editing and it brings enormous time-consuming and video quality loss. This paper, we suggest new video coding structure for the efficient studio video editing. The coding structure which is called "ultra-low delay (ULD)". It has the very simple and low-delayed referencing structure. To simplify the referencing structure, we can minimize the number of the frames which need decoding and re-encoding process. It also prevents the quality degradation caused by the frequent re-encoding. Various fast coding algorithms are also proposed for efficient editing such as tool-level optimization, multi-serve based distributed coding and SIMD (Single instruction, multiple data) based parallel processing. It can reduce the enormous computational complexity during the editing procedure. The proposed method shows 9500 times faster coding speed with negligible loss of quality. The proposed method also shows better coding gain compare to "intra only" structure. We can confirm that the proposed method can solve the existing problems of the studio video editing efficiently.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.43-49
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• 2012

Stimulation of mast cells through the high affinity IgE receptor (Fc${\varepsilon}$RI) induces degranulation, lipid mediator release, and cytokine secretion leading to allergic reactions. Although various signaling pathways have been characterized to be involved in the Fc${\varepsilon}$RI-mediated responses, little is known about the precious mechanism for the expression of tumor necrosis factor-${\alpha}$ (TNF-${\alpha}$) in mast cells. Here, we report that rapamycin, a specific inhibitor of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), reduces the expression of TNF-${\alpha}$ in rat basophilic leukemia (RBL-2H3) cells. IgE or specific antigen stimulation of RBL-2H3 cells increases the expression of TNF-${\alpha}$ and activates various signaling molecules including S6K1, Akt and p38 MAPK. Rapamycin specifically inhibits antigeninduced TNF-${\alpha}$ mRNA level, while other kinase inhibitors have no effect on TNF-${\alpha}$ mRNA level. These data indicate that mTOR signaling pathway is the main regulation mechanism for antigen-induced TNF-${\alpha}$ expression. TNF-${\alpha}$ mRNA stability analysis using reporter construct containing TNF-${\alpha}$ adenylate/uridylate-rich elements (AREs) shows that rapamycin destabilizes TNF-${\alpha}$ mRNA via regulating the AU-rich element of TNF-${\alpha}$ mRNA. The antigen-induced activation of S6K1 is inhibited by specific kinase inhibitors including mTOR, PI3K, PKC and $Ca^{2+}$chelator inhibitor, while TNF-${\alpha}$ mRNA level is reduced only by rapamycin treatment. These data suggest that the effects of rapamycin on the expression of TNF-${\alpha}$ mRNA are not mediated by S6K1 but regulated by mTOR. Taken together, our results reveal that mTOR signaling pathway is a novel regulation mechanism for antigen-induced TNF-${\alpha}$ expression in RBL-2H3 cells.