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Nanosized Calcite in the Chinese Loess (중국 뢰스의 나노 방해석)

  • Jeong, Gi-Young
    • Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.255-260
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    • 2007
  • The loess on the Chinese loess plateau is not only the accumulation of Asian dust but also the source materials of Hwangsa. The eolian carbonates of the loess were dissolved and reprecipitated to form secondary pedogenic carbonates by the post-depositional weathering during the interglacial time. Mineralogical analysis shows that the secondary calcites are composed mostly of a nanosized fibrous calcite with rather constant width ($30{\sim}50nm$) and highly variable length. The nano calcite is the major authigenic mineral, which occurs as the fine-grained matrix of the loess and paleosol. The nano calcite was recently reported in the Hwangsa, where it was originated from the source regions of Chinese loess plateau.

Extensive Reorganization of the Chloroplast Genome of Corydalis platycarpa: A Comparative Analysis of their Organization and Evolution with other Corydalis plastomes

  • Grusamy Raman;SeonJoo Park
    • Proceedings of the Plant Resources Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2023.04a
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    • pp.15-15
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    • 2023
  • The chloroplast (cp) is an autonomous plant organelle with an individual genome that codes for essential cellular functions. The architecture and gene content of the cp genome is highly conserved in angiosperms. The plastome of Corydalis belongs to the Papaveraceae family, and the genome is comprised of unusual rearrangements and gene content. Thus far, no extensive comparative studies have been carried out to understand the evolution of Corydalis chloroplast genomes. Therefore, the Corydalis platycarpa cp genome was sequenced, and wide-scale comparative studies were conducted using publicly available twenty Corydalis plastomes. Comparative analyses showed that an extensive genome rearrangement and IR expansion occurred, and these events evolved independently in the Corydalis species. In addition, the protein-coding genes accD and the ndh gene loss events occurred in the common ancestor of the Corydalis and sub-clade of the Corydalis lineage, respectively. The gene ndh lost in the Corydalis-sub clade species is distributed predominantly in the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau (QTP) region. The molecular clock analysis suggests that the divergence time of all the ndh gene lost Corydalis sub-clade species occurred in the 44.31 - 15.71 mya. These results coincide very well with the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the Oligocene and Miocene periods, and maybe during this period, it probably triggered the radiation of the Corydalis species. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first large-scale comparative study of Corydalis plastomes and their evolution. The present study may provide insights into the plastome architecture and the molecular evolution of Corydalis species.

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A Deep Neural Network Technique for Automatic Measurement of Tibial Plateau Angle from Animal X-ray Images (동물 X-ray 영상에서 경골고원각도 자동 검출을 위한 심층신경망 기법 )

  • Jimin Kim;Hyungkyu Kim;Jeonghyeon Ryu;Sunju Lee;Hojoon Kim
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2023.11a
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    • pp.579-580
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    • 2023
  • 본 논문에서는 동물의 십자인대 질환의 진단지표인 경골고원각도(TPA)를 자동으로 측정하는 딥러닝 소프트웨어 기법을 제안한다. 동물 X-ray 영상에서 나타나는 피사체의 위치와 형태에 대한 다양한 변이는 TPA(Tibial Plateau Angle) 지표 산출에 필요한 특징점 검출과정에서 학습 효율을 현저하게 저하시킨다. 이에 본 연구에서는 YOLO(You Only Look Once) 기반 모델을 사용하여 일차적으로 경골영역의 분할 단계를 수행하고, 이어서 경골 상단부의 과간융기와 복사뼈의 중심점을 찾는 과정을 Resnet 기반의 특징점 추출 모듈로서 구현함으로써 학습의 효율과 지표 검출의 정확도를 향상시켰다. 총 201 개의 실제 X-ray 영상을 사용하여 학습 속도와 영역 분할 및 특징점 추출의 정확도 측면을 고려함으로 제안된 이론의 타당성을 실험적으로 평가하였다.

Sedimentary Characters of the Core Sediments and Their Stratigraphy Using $^{87}Sr/^{86}Sr$ Ratio in the Korea Plateau, East Sea (동해 한국대지 코어퇴적물의 특성과 $^{87}Sr/^{86}Sr$ 초기비를 이용한 퇴적시기 규명)

  • Kim, Jin-Kyoung;Woo, Kyung-Sik;Yoon, Seok-Hoon;Suk, Bong-Chool
    • The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.328-336
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    • 2007
  • A piston core (587 cm long) was recovered from the upper slope of a seamount in the Korea Plateau. Three episodes of sedimentation were identified based on sedimentary facies, grain size distribution, carbonate constituents and initial $^{87}Sr/^{86}Sr$ ratio of carbonates. The lower part of the core, Unit I-a (core depth $465{\sim}587cm$) is composed of shallow marine carbonate sediments the deposited by storm surges, and is about $13{\sim}15Ma$ (Middle Miocene) based on $^{87}Sr/^{86}Sr$ initial ratio. This suggests that the depositional environment was relatively shallow enough to be influenced by storm activities. Unit I-b (core depth $431{\sim}465cm$) is mostly composed of turbidites, and Sr isotope ages of bivalves and planktonic formaminifera are about $11{\sim}14\;and\;6{\sim}13Ma$, respectively. This indicates that the Korea Plateau maintained shallow water condition until 11 Ma, and began to subside since then. However, planktonic foraminifera were deposited after 11 Ma and redeposited as turbidites as a mixture of planktonic foraminifera and older shallow marine carbonates about 6 Ma ago. Unit II (core depth $0{\sim}431cm$) is composed of pelagic sediments, and the Sr isotope age is younger than 1 Ma, thus the time gap is about 5 Ma at the unconformity. About 1 Ma ago, the Korea Plateau subsided down to a water depth of about 600 m. The sampling locality was intermittently influenced by debris flows and/or turbidity currents along the slope, resulting the deposition of re-transported coarse shallow marine and volcaniclastic sediments.

Improved Arctic Ocean Oxygen Isotope Stratigraphy Results from the Yermak Plateau (ODP Leg 151 : Site 910A)

  • ;Jochen, Knies;dreas , Mackensen;Jens, Matthiessen;Christoph, Vogt
    • Proceedings of the Korean Quaternary Association Conference
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    • 2004.06a
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    • pp.51-51
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    • 2004
  • As an important contribution to the planed drilling (IODP) in the central part of the Arctic Ocean, we are currently working on a refined chronostratigraphy for Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 16 to MIS 2 on the exciting material from ODP Site 910A (Leg 151) which has been recovered from the marginal Eastern Arctic Ocean (the Yermak Plateau - the Atlantic/Arctic Ocean Gateway). Several stratigraphic age fix-points support the interpretation of the stable oxygen. isotope record of planktonic foraminifer N, pachyderma sin. that is punctuated by several short-term meltwater events. We believe that our new record will serve as 'the important correlating tool for establishing a basic stratigraphy for the Quaternary Arctic Ocean as well as for generating high-resolution paleoenvironmental reconstructions in the central Arctic Ocean. Furthermore, our study will provide reference stratigraphic data sets for interpreting the micropaleontological, sedimentological and organic / inorganic - geochemical proxies of the new boreholes that will be drilled on the Lomonosov Ridge(Central Arctic Ocean) in the frame of the "Arctic Coring Expedition' (ACEX, IODP) in summer 2004.

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Yielding behaviour of organically treated anatase $TiO_2$ suspension

  • Guo, J.;Tiu, C.;Uhlherr, P.H.T.;Fang, T.N.
    • Korea-Australia Rheology Journal
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.9-17
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    • 2003
  • The rheological behaviour of anatase $TiO_2$ with organic coating has been investigated extensively in this study. The yield stress was measured over a wide range of solids concentration and pH using stress-controlled and speed-controlled rheometers. The organic treatment leads to a shift of the isoelectric point (IEP) from around pH 5.5 to pH 2.4. A maximum yield stress occurs in the vicinity of the isoelectric point determined by electrokinetic measurements. The transition of rheological behaviour between elastic solid and viscous liquid is represented by a stress plateau in a plot of stress against strain. It is hypothesised that the slope of the stress plateau reflects the uniformity of the structure, and hence the distribution of bond strength. Altering the concentration and the surface chemistry can vary the bond strength and its distribution. therefore, resulting in different type of failure: "ductile-type" or "brittle-type". pH and volume fraction dependence of yield stress could be described quantitatively using existing models with reasonable agreement.easonable agreement.

Synoptic analyses of the Yellow Sand Events observed over the Korean peninsula during 22-24 April, 1993 (1993년 4월 22-24일에 관측된 황사현상에 대한 종관분석)

  • 이재규
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.161-177
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    • 1993
  • The Yellow Sand Events observed over the Korean peninsula during 22-24 April, 1993 were examined using the synoptic data and GMS visible image to identify the transport path of the Yellow Sand and the main factor governing the duration of the Yellow Sand phenomenon. The 850 hPa convergence chart and the 700 hPa trajectory analyses of the air mass laden with Yellow Sand particles suggested that the Yellow Sand particles observed over Korea were probably transported from the Gobi Desert and the Loess Plateau. The duration of the Yellow Sand Events was about 35-40 hours rather shorter than normal as the high pressure system centered near the Mongolia region moved rapidly toward the Yellow Sea, which drove away the Yellow Sand particles over the Korean peninsula toward the Japan Islands, furthermore the low-level stratification of the air mass over the Korean penishula showed the unstable atmospheric condition leading to atmospheric diffusion of the particles. The trajectory analyses and the GMS visible image indicated that the long-range transport of the air mass laden with the Yellow Sand particles of this case was more dependent on the 700 hPa air flow than on the 850 hPa air flow.

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Purification of pivalic acid : its evaluation as a temperature standard reference material (온도표준 기준 물질로의 개발을 위한 pivalic acid의 고순도 정제)

  • M. Karthikeyan;M. B. Koss;M. E. Glicksman;Kee-Kahb Koo
    • Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.151-162
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    • 1997
  • The suitability of pivalic acid was confirmed as a secondary temperature standard material. Triple-point cells of pivalic acid were obtained by using combined process of vacuum distillation with zone refining. A detailed description of the purification process was given. The melting curves were used as criteria for determination of purities of pivalic acid. Triple points of these cells with purity of 99.9997% were measured to be $35.956\pm 0.003^{\circ}C$ by using the melting plateau curves. Thus the triple point cells of pivalic acid appear to be able to use for the calibration of thermistor thermometers with moderate precision.

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A Study on the Dose Analysis of Pottery Shards by Thermoluminescence Dating Method (TL 연대측정법을 이용한 토기 시편의 선량 분석)

  • Shin, Hyun-Sang
    • Analytical Science and Technology
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.558-564
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    • 1999
  • A method for measuring archaeological dose of Packjae pottery shards using thermoluminescence dosimetry(TLD) has been studied. TL measurement has been achieved using quartz crystals in the size range of 90 to $125{\mu}m$ diameter extracted from the pottery shards. The stable temperature region of the TL glow curve which is devoid of anomalous fading components was identified by the plateau test and found to exist from 265 to $300^{\circ}C$. The archaeological dose of the pottery shards was estimated to be 7.43 Gy using the dose calibration curves obtained from sequential irradiation of $^{137}Cs$ gamma source to the samples and TL measurement of natural samples.

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Study about sacral base X-ray of Barge (Barge의 천골 기저부 X-ray에 대한 연구)

  • Min, Young-Kwang
    • The Journal of Churna Manual Medicine for Spine and Nerves
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.19-26
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    • 2011
  • Objectives : The purpose of this study is to research the necessity of sacral base X-ray that Barge insisted. Methods : I have done a comparative analysis in side of short leg and side of sacral inferior with sacral base X-ray and pelvis A-P Xray pictures of 42 patients with lower back pain from December 1, 2010 to March 31, 2011. Results : Even though most of the subjects in study were male, 36 people had plateau of sacral base and 29 people had symmetry in sacral base X-ray. There was no statistical significance in the side of short leg and side of sacral base inferior in Sacral base X-ray, but there was a statistical significance in pelvis A-P x-ray. 22 people had same side of short leg and side of sacral base inferior in sacral base X-ray and pelvis A-P X-ray and 14 people didn't. 29 people had same side of sacral base inferior in sacral base X-ray and pelvis A-P X-ray and 13 people didn't. Conclusions : According to the result of the study, sacral base X-ray is necessary for correct sacral base inferior analysis.

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