• 천문학회지
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• 제51권4호
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• pp.89-110
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• 2018

Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) variability can be used to study the physics of the region in the vicinity of the central black hole. In this paper, we investigated intra-night optical variability of AGN in the COSMOS field in order to understand the AGN instability at the smallest scale. Observations were performed using the KMTNet on three separate nights for 2.5 to 5 hours at a cadence of 20 to 30 min. We find that the observation enables the detection of short-term variability as small as ~ 0.02 and 0.1 mag for R ~ 18 and 20 mag sources, respectively. Using four selection methods (X-rays, mid-infrared, radio, and matching with SDSS quasars), 394 AGN are detected in the $4deg^2$ field of view. After differential photometry and ${\chi}^2$-test, we classify intra-night variable AGN. The fraction of variable AGN (0-8%) is statistically consistent with a null result. Eight out of 394 AGN are found to be intra-night variable in two filters or two nights with a variability level of 0.1 mag, suggesting that they are strong candidates for intra-night variable AGN. Still they represent a small population (2%). There is no sub-category of AGN that shows a statistically significant intra-night variability.

• 천문학회보
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.57.2-57.2
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• 2021

Variability in Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) can be caused by time-dependent accretion rates, geometric changes in the circumstellar disks, the stochastic hydromagnetic interactions between stellar surfaces and inner disk edges, reconnections within the stellar magnetosphere, and hot/cold spots on stellar surfaces. We uncover ~1400 variables from a sample of ~5300 YSOs in nearby low-mass star-forming regions using mid-IR light curves obtained from the 5.5-years NEOWISE All Sky Survey. The mid-IR variability traces a wide range of dynamical, physical, and geometrical phenomenon. We classify six types of YSO variability based on their light curves: secular variability (Linear, Curved, Periodic) and stochastic variability (Burst, Drop, Irregular). YSOs in earlier evolutionary stages have higher fractions of variables at all types and higher amplitudes for the variability. Along with brightness variability, we also find a diverse range of secular color variations, which can be attributed to a competitive interplay between the variable accretion luminosity of the central source and the variable extinction by material associated with the accretion process. We compare the variability of known FUors/EXors and VeLLOs/LLSs, which represent two extreme ends (burst versus quiescent) of the episodic accretion process; FUors/EXors have a higher fraction of variables (65%) than VeLLOs/LLSs (41%). Short-term (few day) and long-term (decades) variability, as well as possible AGB contamination in the YSO catalogues, are also discussed.molecules become more complex by surface chemistry induced directly by high energy photons or by the thermal energy diffused over heated grain surface. Therefore, the ice composition is an

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.107-115
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• 1968

Number of aspects, not only nutritional but social as well as political involved in human starvation pose nowadays global problems. In order to help establish the minimum nutritional requirements in the daily life of a man and to free people as well from either undernourishment, malnutrition or even starvation many workers have devoted themselves so far on the research programs to know what and how number of metabolic events take place in animals in vivo. It is the purpose of the present paper to examine in effect to what extent both of the protein and nucleic acids (DNA & RNA) together with an enzyme, guanine deaminase, which converts guanine into xanthine and in turn ends up to uric acid as an end product, undergo changes, quantitatively during acute starvation, using the mouse as an experimental animal. The mouse was strictly inhibited from taking foods except drinking water ad libitum and was sacriflced 24, 48, and 72 hours following starvation thus acutely induced. The animals consisted of two experimental groups, one control and another starvation groups, each being consisted of 6-24 mice of whose body weights ranged in the vicinity of 10 g. The animals were sacriflced by a blow on the head, followed by immediate excision of their livers into ice-cold distilled water, washing adherent blood and other contaminant tissues. The liver was minced foramin, by an all-glass homogenizer immersing it in an ice-bath, followed by subsequent fractionatin of the homogenate (10% W/V in 0.25M sucrose solution made up with 0.05M phosphate buffer of pH 7.4). For the liver protein and guanine deaminase assay, the 10% homogenate was centrifuged at 600 x g for 10 minutes to eliminate the nuclear fraction; and for the estimation of DNA and RNA, the homogenate was prepared by the addition of 10% trichloroacetic acid in order to free the homogenate from the acid-soluble fraction, the remaining residue being delipidate by the addition of alcohol and dried in vacuo for later KOH (IN) hydrolysis. The changes in body and liver wegihts during acute starvation were checked gravimetrically. Protein contents in the liver were monitored by the method of Lowry et al; and guanine deaminase activities were followed by the assay of liberated ammonia from the substrate utilizing the Caraway's colorimetry. The extraction of both DNA and RNA was performed by the Schmidt-Thannhauser's method, which was followed by Marmur's method of purification for DNA and by Chargaff's method of purification for RNA. The determinations of both DNA and RNA were carried out by the diphenylamine reaction for the former and by the orcinol reaction for the latter. The following resume was the results of the present work. 1. It was observed that the body as well as liver weights fall abruptly during starvation, and that the loss of body weight showed no statistical correlation with the decreases in the content of liver protein. 2. The content of liver protein and activity of liver guanine deaminase activity as well decline dramatically, and the specific activities of the enzyme (activity/protein), however, decreased gradually as starvation proceeded. 3. Both of the nucleic acids, DNA and RNA, showed decrements in the liver of mouse during acute starvation; the latter, however, being more striking in the decline as compared to the former. 4. The decreases in the liver protein content as resulted from the acute starvation had no statistically significant correlation with the decrements of DNA in the same tissue, but had regressed with a significant statistical correlation with the fall of RNA in the tissue. 5. The decrease in the activity of guanine deaminase in the liver of mouse during acute starvation was functionally more proportional to the decrease in RNA than DNA, and moreover correlated with the changes in the content of the liver protein. 6. The possible mechanisms involved during in this acute starvation as bring the decreases in the contents of DNA, protein, and guanine deaminase were discussed briefly.

• 대기
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.171-186
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• 2013

Recently, the number of observations used in a data assimilation system is increasing due to the enormous amount of observations, including satellite data. However, it is not clear that all of these observations are always beneficial to the performance of the numerical weather prediction (NWP). Therefore, it is important to evaluate the effect of observations on these forecasts so that the observations can be used more usefully in NWP process. In this study, the adjoint-based Forecast Sensitivity to Observation (FSO) method with the KMA Unified Model (UM) is applied to two high-impact weather events which occurred in summer and winter in Korea in an effort to investigate the effects of observations on the forecasts of these events. The total dry energy norm is used as a response function to calculate the adjoint sensitivity. For the summer case, TEMP observations have the greatest total impact while BOGUS shows the greatest impact per observation for all of the 24-, 36-, and 48-hour forecasts. For the winter case, aircraft, ATOVS, and ESA have the greatest total impact for the 24-, 36-, and 48-hour forecasts respectively, while ESA has the greatest impact per observation. Most of the observation effects are horizontally located upwind or in the vicinity of the Korean peninsula. The fraction of beneficial observations is less than 50%, which is less than the results in previous studies. As an additional experiment, the total moist energy norm is used as a response function to measure the sensitivity of 24-hour forecast error to observations. The characteristics of the observation impact with the moist energy response function are generally similar to those with the dry energy response function. However, the ATOVS observations were found to be sensitive to the response function, showing a positive (a negative) effect on the forecast when using the dry (moist) norm for the summer case. For the winter case, the dry and moist energy norm experiments show very similar results because the adjoint of KMA UM does not calculate the specific humidity of ice properly such that the dry and moist energy norms are very similar except for the humidity in air that is very low in winter.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.66-74
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• 2016

Background: When developing water quality improvement strategies for eutrophic lakes, questions may arise about the relative importance of point sources and nonpoint sources of phosphorus. For example, there is some skepticism regarding the effectiveness of partial reductions in phosphorus loading; because phosphorus concentrations are too high in hypertrophic lakes, in-lake phosphorus concentrations might still remain within typical range for eutrophic lakes even after the reduction of phosphorus loading. For this study, water quality and the phytoplankton and zooplankton communities were monitored in a hypertrophic reservoir (Lake Wangsong) before and after the reduction of phosphorus loading from a point source (a sewage treatment plant) by the installation of a chemical phosphorus-removal process. Results: Before phosphorus removal, Lake Wangsong was classified as hypertrophic with a median phosphorus concentration of $0.232mg\;L^{-1}$ and a median chlorophyll-a concentration of $112mg\;L^{-1}$. The dominant phytoplankton were filamentous cyanobacteria for the most of the ice-free season. Following the installation of the advanced treatment process, phosphorus concentrations were reduced to $81mg\;L^{-1}$, and the N/P atomic ratio increased from 42 to 102. Chlorophyll-a concentrations decreased to $42{\mu}g\;L^{-1}$, and the duration of cyanobacterial dominance was confined to the summer season. Cyanobacteria in spring and autumn were replaced by diatoms and cryptomonads. Filamentous cyanobacteria in summer were replaced by colony-forming unicellular Microcystis spp. It was remarkable that zooplankton biomass increased despite the decrease in phytoplankton biomass, and especially cladoceran zooplankton which increased drastically. These responses to the reduction of point source P loading to Lake Wangsong imply that reducing the point source P loading can have a big impact even when nonpoint sources account for a large fraction of the total annual phosphorus loading. Conclusions: Our results also show that the phytoplankton community can shift to decreased cyanobacterial dominance and the zooplankton community can shift to higher cladoceran dominance, even when phosphorus concentrations remain within the typical range for eutrophic lakes following the reduction of phosphorus loading.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.161-168
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• 2011

HVAC(Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning) 시스템은 승객실 내부의 열환경을 제어하여 쾌적성을 향상시키거나 전면 유리창에 생성된 성에를 제거하여 운전자의 가시영역을 확보하는 등 차량의 성능과 관련된 매우 중요한 기능을 담당한다. 본 연구에서는 CFX 를 사용하여 HVAC 시스템의 기능 중 제상 덕트의 성능과 관련된 수치해석적 연구를 수행하였다. 제상덕트의 해석결과, 출구에서의 유량배분특성 및 유동구조는 일반적인 설계주안점에 부합된 양호한 결과를 얻었다. 외부온도 $-18^{\circ}C$ 하에서 물의 잠열인 $3.37{\times}10^5$[J/kg]을 고려한 상변화 과정을 수치적으로 모사하기 위하여 열용량법을 사용하였고, 시간에 따른 제상패턴 해석을 위해 얼음과 유리의 고체도메인에 대한 추가적인 격자 생성 작업이 필요하였다. 유동해석 결과, 전면유리 근처의 유동구조, 유적선, 온도장 해석결과는 본 연구에서 수행한 제상덕트 모델이 우수한 성능으로 제상기능을 수행할 수 있음을 보였으며, 수치해석적 결과는 실험적 결과와 비교하여 제상패턴이 잘 일치함을 확인하였다. 또한 전면유리 상의 4 개의 지점에서 얻어진 온도, 물분율, 엔탈피의 시간에 따른 변화를 통해 상변화 과정을 정량적으로 파악하였다.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.15-21
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• 1975

숭늉향기성분(香氣成分)중 carbonyl 화합물(化合物)과 pyrazine 화합물(化合物)에 대하여 살펴 보았다. 숭늉을 질소개스를 유입(流入)하면서 감압(減壓)증류할 때, ice-water trap에 응축된 liquid phase(low volatile flavor)의 증류액을 dichloromethane으로 추출, 농축한 다음 이를 GC, GC-MS로 pyrazine 화합물(化合物)을 분리 동정하였다. 그 결과, 잠정적으로 9개의 pyrazine 화합물(化合物)을 확인하였고 그 가운데 2-methylpyrazine, 2,3-dimethylpyrazine, 2,5-dimethylpyrazine, 2-ethyl-5-methylpyrazine, 2-ethyl-3-methylpyrazine 등 5개의 pyrazine 화합물(化合物)을 동정하였다. 이어 숭늉을 질소개스를 유입(流入), 감압(減壓)증류할 때 얻어진 고휘발성(高揮發性)성분중 carbonyl 화합물(化合物)을 2,4-DNPHs 유도체로 만든 후 이를 GC, GC-MS, TLC 등의 방법으로 carbonyl 화합물(化合物)을 분리(分離) 동정(同定)할 수 있었다. 이들에 대한 관능검사 결과, 특성 pyrazine 화합물(化合物) 특히 2,3-dimethylpyrazine 및 2,5-dimethylpyrazine의 냄새는 구수한 향기(香氣)를 지니고 있는 것으로 보아, pyrazine 화합물(化合物)은 숭늉향기를 이루는 주요한 성분으로 판단되었고 carbonyl 화합물(化合物) 역시 숭늉향기의 일부로서 큰 의의를 지니고 있는 것으로 사료(思料)되었다.

• 한국광물학회지
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.163-172
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• 2019

2015년 극지연구소의 로스해 지질탐사 동안 로스해와 남빙양이 접하는 대륙대 지역에 위치한 정점에서 롱코어(RS15-LC48)를 시추하였다. 이 코어에서 지난 홀로세와 플라이스토세 동안 퇴적된 해양 퇴적물을 구성하는 점토광물의 특성과 기원지를 규명하고자 퇴적물의 퇴적상, 입도분포, 점토광물의 종류와 함량비, 일라이트의 결정도 지수와 화학지수를 분석하였다. 퇴적학적 특성에 따라 크게 네 개의 퇴적단위들로 구분되며 이들은 플라이스토세부터 홀로세 시기에 걸친 여러 번의 빙하기/간빙기 퇴적작용에 의해 형성된 것으로 해석된다. 퇴적물은 주로 사질 점토와 실트질 점토, 빙하 쇄설물들로 구성되어 있다. 깊이에 따른 퇴적물의 입도 분포와 모래 입자의 함량 변화는 대자율의 변화와 매우 유사하게 나타났다. 또한 점토광물의 상대적 함량비는 전체적으로 일라이트(52.7 %)가 가장 우세하고 스멕타이트(27.7 %), 녹니석(11.0 %), 카올리나이트(8.6 %) 순서로 나타났으며, 석영, 사장석 등의 화산 활동 기원 초생광물도 함께 수반되어 나타났다. 일라이트와 녹니석 함량의 증가와 해당 깊이에서의 일라이트 결정도지수와 화학지수는 퇴적물이 주로 로스해 빙상 하부에 위치한 남극 종단산맥의 기반암으로부터 기인했음을 지시한다. 반면 스멕타이트의 함량은 다른 점토광물의 변화 양상과 반대로 나타나는데, 이는 간빙기 동안 로스해 서안의 빅토리아 랜드 연안에서 북동쪽으로 흐르는 해류에 의해 스멕타이트가 추가적으로 운반되어 퇴적된 것으로 사료된다.