• Food Science and Preservation
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.314-319
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• 2003

This study was conducted to the optimize salting process of eggplant for development new product and enhancement quality for export. Three variables by five level central composite design and response surface methodology were used to determine optimum conditions for salting time, temperature and salt concentration. Optimization of the process was conducted using the combination of the moisture content, salinity and color of surface and inside of salted eggplant. The regression polynomial model was suitable (P>0.05) by Lack-of-Fit analysis with highly significant. To optimize the process, based on surface response and contour plots, the individual contour plots of the response variables were superimposed. The optimum conditions for this process were 6 days and 15$^{\circ}C$ at 30％ concentration under the optimum of restricted variables as moisture content was below 84％, salinity was below 14％, L and b value of surface were 10 to 20 and below 0, L value and b value of inside were 70 to 75 and 16 to 18.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.317-320
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• 2004

Physiological effects of curcumin, major yellow-colored pigment in tumeric (Curcuma longa L.), extracted by traditional extracting methods, ethanol and hot-water extractions, and supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) using supercritical carbon dioxide as new extracting method. Antioxidative activity of ethanol extract was higher than those of SFE and hot-water extracts. Results of Ames mutagenicity test on SFE, ethanol, and hot-water extracts revealed no mutagen in the extracts. Antimutagenicity rates of SFE, ethanol, and hot-water extracts against direct mutagen, 2-nitrofluorene (2-NF), were 20.1, 9.3, and 15.2%, respectively. Antimutagenicity rate of SFE extract against TA98 derived from indirect mutagen, 2-acetamidofluorene (2-AF), was 12.2%, whereas none was observed in ethanol and hot-water extracts. Nitrite-scavenging ability of SFE extract was higher than those of ethanol and not-water extracts.

• Korean Journal of Weed Science
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.330-339
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• 2011

This study was conducted to determine the herbicidal activity of herbicidal substances and identify them in bulbs of Lycoris flavescens. Methanol extract was purified by a series of chromatographic techniques including silica gel column chromatography, preparative TLC, and HPLC. The final HPLC gave two active fractions and two herbicidal substances were obtained. By GC/MS analysis, one was identified as galanthine (galanthan-1-ol) and the other was identified as montanine ($O^2$-methyl pancracine), an isoquinoline alkaloid. Montanine showed nearly 100% of growth inhibition on the shoot and root of barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crusgalli) seedlings at $20{\mu}g\;mL^{-1}$ as compared with the control. Meanwhile, methanol extract of L. flavescens bulbs showed only about 3.1% and 8.3% of growth inhibition on the shoot and root of rice cultivar, Hwayeongbyeo seedlings at $1,000{\mu}g\;mL^{-1}$ as compared with the control, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.13-20
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• 2017

Unreinforced masonry buildings are vulnerable to lateral forces, such as earthquakes, owing to the nature of the building materials, yet numerous masonry buildings remain in South Korea. Since the majority of the existing masonry buildings were constructed more than 20 years ago, it is necessary to develop economical reinforcement methods for disaster reduction. In this study, external reinforcement of masonry walls using adhesive stiffeners was proposed as a reinforcement method for such age-old masonry buildings. Six specimens were fabricated with different aspect ratios (L/H = 1.0, 1.3, and 2.0) and used in static load tests to verify the reinforcement effect. The experimental results showed that the masonry walls before and after reinforcement were ruptured by rigid body rotation and slip. In addition, the maximum strength, maximum displacement, and dissipated energy of the walls were shown to increase after applying the adhesive stiffeners, thereby verifying the excellent reinforcement effect. Furthermore, an adhesive stiffener design for unreinforced masonry walls was proposed based on the increased shear strength achieved by using conventional glass fibers. The proposed design can be used as a basis for the application of adhesive stiffeners for unreinforced masonry walls.

• Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.261-269
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• 2015

In this study, we applied a membrane distillation process to investigate a feasibility of treating a wastewater with high concentration of organic matters including nitrogen and phosphorus. The laboratory scale experiment was performed by using a hydrophobic PVDF membrane with the pore size of $0.22{\mu}m$ and porosity of 75%. The installation was direct contact type where the temperature difference between a feed and permeate side was controlled to have a range from 20 to $60^{\circ}C$. We observed a flux variation and a concentration changes of COD, $PO{_4}^{3-}$-P, $NH_4{^+}$-N and conductivity of feed side as well as permeate side with various temperature differences (20 to $60^{\circ}C$), cross flow velocities (0.09 to 0.27 m/s) through the module, and pH (6.6 to 12.0) of the feed that has the initial concentration of COD about 1,000 mg/L, total nitrogen 390 mg/L, total phosphorus 10 mg/L, conductivity of $7,000{\mu}s/cm$. The results showed that the average flux was ranged from 4 to $40L/m^2/hr$ which was almost similar with the flux of NaCl and deionized water used as a feed solution. The lowest flux was obtained at the operating condition with the temperature difference of $20^{\circ}C$ and cross flow velocity of 0.09 m/s while the highest one was measured with $60^{\circ}C$ and 0.27 m/s. Above 99% of COD and $PO{_4}^{3-}$-P in the feed could be rejected regardless of an operating condition. However, the removal rate of ammonium nitrogen was varied from 64 to 99% depending on the pH of feed solution.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.557-565
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• 2017

For our survey of insecticidal resistance of Palm thrips (Thrips palmi Karny), we established the discriminating time (DT) and concentration (DC) of nine insecticides, and we conducted a bioassay about seven local populations via leaf-dipping methods. The discriminating times of the recommended concentration (RC) were 24 h at emamectin benzoate EC and spinetoram SC, 48 h at chlorfenapyr EC, 72 h at spinosad SC, cyantraniliprole EC, acetamiprid WP, dinotefuran WG, imidacloprid WP and thiacloprid SC after treatment. The DC estimated the concentration which showed the difference within the mortalities of these local populations. The DCs were emamectin benzoate EC $0.013mg\;L^{-1}$ (RC, $10.8mg\;L^{-1}$), spinetoram SC $0.125mg\;L^{-1}$ (RC, $25.0mg\;L^{-1}$), chlorfenapyr EC $0.25mg\;L^{-1}$ (RC, $50.0mg\;L^{-1}$), spinosad SC $0.083mg\;L^{-1}$ (RC, $50.0mg\;L^{-1}$) and cyantraniliprole EC $5.0mg\;L^{-1}$ (RC, $50.0mg\;L^{-1}$), and DCs of neonicotinoids were their RCs, that is, acetamiprid WP (RC, $40.0mg\;L^{-1}$), dinotefuran WG (RC, $20.0mg\;L^{-1}$), imidacloprid WP(RC, $50.0mg\;L^{-1}$) and thiacloprid SC (RC, $50.0mg\;L^{-1}$). From our investigation into the resistance of the local populations with DT and DC application, the neonicotinoid insecticides have shown a high resistant level for all the local populations, and the other insecticides have demonstrated low or non-resistance. In the use of neonicotinoid insecticides to control Palm thrips, one must take caution. As a result, the establishment of DT and DC in the single dose bioassay method was helpful for surveying the insecticide response dynamics and the development of an insecticide resistance management strategy.

• Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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• v.32 no.1 s.88
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• pp.67-70
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• 2006

A gas chromatography/mass spectrometric method was developed for the determination of formaldehyde in hair. 0.3mg of hair was placed in 10ml headspace vial. 1.5mM pentafluorophenylhydrazine solution (pH 2) in 0.03 M phosphoric acid and $20\;{\mu}l$ of 500 mg/l $acetone-d_6$ as internal standard were added in vial and sealed tightly with cap. The solution was heated for 30 min at $90^{\circ}C$ in heating block. The extraction, the derivatization and the evaporation were performed simultaneously. After heating of the solution, 0.5 ml of headspace was taken up and analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Low limit of detection (LaD) and Low limit of quantitation (LOQ) of formaldehyde were 0.5 and 1.5 ng/g, respectively. The method was used to analyze formaldehyde in rat hair after oral exposure. The developed method may be valuable to be used to analyze formaldehyde in human hair.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.131-137
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• 2004

This study presents the application of multi-temporal aerial photographs in detecting change in a small urban area. For the panchromatic aerial images of the scale of 1/20000 and 1/37500 photographed in 1987, 1996 and 2000, image geometric correction and registration were carried out before performing change detection in a common reference system and then image mosaicking. The image differencing technigue was employed to detect urban features and landcover change and then the results were compared to those of image ratioing techniques. Also threshold values were suggested in applying image differencing for change detection.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.91-102
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• 2000

자연점토지반에서의 중금속 흡착시 온도변화에 따른 영향은 지금까지 2차적인 것으로 간주되었다. 그러나 최근 몇몇 연구자들에 의하면 온도변화가 중금속 흡착 거동에 큰 영향을 미친다고 보고하였다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 자연점토 지반에 대한 중금속 아연(Zn) 흡착시 온도변화에 따른 흙의 각 구성성분별 흡착거동을 살펴보기 위해 혼합 흡착-연속추출법(combined absorption-sequential extraction analysis, CASA)을 사용하였다. 실험결과 중금속 아연의 농도가 저농도(50mg/L 미만)일 경우 자연지반에서의 분배양상은 주로 탄산염 형태로 존재하고, 또한 온도의 증가에 따라 탄산염 형태의 흡착량이 증가하는 것을 알 수 있다. 하지만 고농도(50mg/L 이상)의 경우 분배양상은 주로 이온교환형태로 존재한다는 것을 알 수 있다. 그러나 고농도에서의 이러한 분배형태는 온도의 증가에 따라 탄산염형태의 흡착량이 약 20%정도 증가하는 결과를 얻었다. 결론적으로 중금속 아연의 자연점토지반의 각 구성성분 별 흡착거동은 이온교환 형태를 제외하고 온도증가에 따라 증가하는 흡열반응(ΔH0>0)인 것으로 나타났고, 또한 고농도에서의 분배형태는 이온교환 형태에서 탄산염 형태로 변화되는 것을 알 수 있다. 그리고 이온교환 형태의 경우 온도변화에 따라 독립적인 거동을 보였다.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.220-225
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• 1985

An attempt was made to determine some trace metals in highly concentrated samples using micro sampling technique in flame atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Major instrumental parameters and optimun analytical conditions investigated were the measuring time of instrument (the speed of electronics), sample volume, burner height, aspiration rate, and fuel to oxidant ratio. Advantages of the present technique are not only rapid, simple, and sensitive with good precision but also capability of analyzing small volume of sample and ability to handle highly concentrated samples without serious burner clog-up problem compared to conventional flame atomic absorption.