• Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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• 제35권
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• pp.23.1-23.14
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• 2023

Background: Exposure to heavy metals is a public health concern worldwide. Previous studies on the association between heavy metal exposure and neurobehavioral functions in children have focused on single exposures and clinical manifestations. However, the present study evaluated the effects of heavy metal complex exposure on subclinical neurobehavioral function using a Korean Computerized Neurobehavior Test (KCNT). Methods: Urinary mercury, lead, cadmium analyses as well as symbol digit substitution (SDS) and choice reaction time (CRT) tests of the KCNT were conducted in children aged between 10 and 12 years. Reaction time and urinary heavy metal levels were analyzed using partial correlation, linear regression, Bayesian kernel machine regression (BKMR), the weighted quantile sum (WQS) regression and quantile G-computation analysis. Results: Participants of 203 SDS tests and 198 CRT tests were analyzed, excluding poor cooperation and inappropriate urine sample. Partial correlation analysis revealed no association between neurobehavioral function and exposure to individual heavy metals. The result of multiple linear regression shows significant positive association between urinary lead, mercury, and CRT. BMKR, WQS regression and quantile G-computation analysis showed a statistically significant positive association between complex urinary heavy metal concentrations, especially lead and mercury, and reaction time. Conclusions: Assuming complex exposures, urinary heavy metal concentrations showed a statistically significant positive association with CRT. These results suggest that heavy metal complex exposure during childhood should be evaluated and managed strictly.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.91-98
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• 1981

The substituent effects on the fluorescence of 2-(substituted anilino)benzoic acids and their aluminum chelate compounds were examined and satisfactory linear relationships between Hammett substitute constants, .sigma. and the lowest excited singlet energy levels were obtained. But fluorescence intensity only made a qualitative relationship with .sigma. values of substituent groups. Effects of solvents and metal ions on the native and metal chelate fluorescence of the above derivatives were also investigated.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제51권10호
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• pp.917-927
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• 2018

본 연구에서는 대전 관평천의 도시유역에서 2017~2018년에 발생한 강우 20건의 유출수를 연속적으로 채취하여 As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb 및 Zn의 중금속 및 총고형물질(TSS) 농도와 유량을 분석하고, 강우특성과 수질 변화의 강우사상별 및 시간별 상관관계를 조사하였다. 일정 강우강도에서 오염물질의 최대농도는 강우 초기에 발생하는 경향을 나타냈으나, 강우량 및 강우강도가 작은 경우에는 일정 시간 경과 후 발생하는 것이 관찰되었다. 강우지속시간은 중금속 농도 및 부하량과 큰 상관성을 보이지 않았다. Cu와 Zn을 제외한 중금속 질량은 강우강도(0.60~0.88) 및 총강우 유출량(0.74~0.89)과 상대적으로 높은 상관관계를 나타냈다. 강우 시 유량가중평균농도와 선행무강우일수 또한 양의 상관성(0.54~0.73)을 보이는 반면, 30분 강우강도로 표현된 시간별 유출량과 TSS 및 중금속 농도는 전혀 상관성을 나타내지 않았다. 무강우 기간 동안 지표면에 축적된 오염물질이 최소한의 강우 에너지에도 세척효과가 발생하여 강우특성과는 무관하기 때문인 것으로 추정된다. 중금속과 TSS 농도의 시간에 따른 변화특성은 상관계수가 0.68~0.87로 양호한 수준을 나타냈다. 이는 고형물질의 이동과 중금속 물질의 이동이 함께 발생한다는 것을 시사하며 동시에 중금속이 고형물질에 흡착되어 이동한다는 것을 의미한다. 따라서 비강우 시에 유역 표면의 고형물질을 청소 등으로 사전에 제거할 경우 하천으로 유입되는 중금속오염물질의 양을 현격하게 저감할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2001년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.497-500
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• 2001

Adsorption characteristics on the biomass of Chlorella sp. HA -1 were investigated in binary system with $Pb^2$, $Cu^2$, $Cd^2$, and $Zn^2$ ions. For the adsorption tests of single metal, Langmuir model was showed good correlation for equilibrium data compared to Freundlich model. Maximum metal uptakes increased as follows: $Pb^2$>$Cd^2$>$Zn^2$>$Cu^2$, whereas the affinity showed different trends: $Cu^2$>>$Cd^2$>$Zn^2$>$Pb^2$. In binary metal system, $Cu^2$ ions inhibited sharply the adsorption of other metal ions except $Pb^2$ ions because of the high biosorption affinity of $Cu^2$ ions. In the case of $Cu^2$ and $Pb^2$ system, there was no significant inhibition on metal uptakes. The results of metal adsorption in the binary system could be explained well on the basis of Langmuir parameters evaluated.

• 한국재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국재료학회 2011년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.19.1-19.1
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• 2011

We report on the metal-insulator transition that occurs as a function of film thickness in ultrathin $La_{0.75}Sr_{0.25}VO_3$ films. The metal-insulator transition displays a critical thickness of 5 unit cell. Above the critical thickness, metallic films exhibit a temperature driven metal-insulator transition with weak localization behavior. With decreasing film thickness, oxygen octahedron rotation in the films increases, causing enhanced electron-electron correlation. The electron-electron correlations in ultrathin films induce the transition from metal to insulator in addition to Anderson localization.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제30권12호
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• pp.2927-2929
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• 2009

The hydricities of d$^6$ metal hydride complexes in aqueous solution were calculated by using density functional theoretical (DFT) calculations coupled with a Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) solvent model. Hydricity describes the hydride donor ability of the metal-hydrogen bond, which assists in the study of the mechanism of many catalytic processes and chemical reactions that involve transition metal hydrides. The calculation scheme produced hydricity values that were in good agreement with experimental estimation. The inclusion of a water molecule as a weakly bound ligand to five-coordinate metal complexes gave an improved correlation result.

• 한국표면공학회지
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.347-355
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• 2003

Roughening of metal surfaces frequently enhances the adhesion strength of metals to polymers by mechanical interlocking. When a failure occurs at a roughened metal/polymer interface, the failure prone to be cohesive. In a previous work, an adhesion study on a roughened metal (oxidized copper-based leadframe)/polymer (Epoxy Molding Compound, EMC) interface was carried out, and the correlation between adhesion strength and failure path was investigated. In the present work, an attempt to interpret the failure path was made under the assumption that microvoids are formed in the EMC as well as near the roots of the CuO needles during compression-molding process. A simple adhesion model developed from the theory of fiber reinforcement of composite materials was introduced to explain the adhesion behavior of the oxidized copper-based leadframe/EMC interface and failure path. It is believed that this adhesion model can be used to explain the adhesion behavior of other similarly roughened metal/polymer interfaces.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.34-45
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• 2000

This study is concerned with the experimental test and numerical analysis of the heat transfer and solidification of the molten metal pool with overlying coolant with boiling. In the test, the metal pool is heated from the bottom surface and coolant is injected onto the molten metal pool. Experiments were performed by changing the test section bottom surface temperature of the metal layer and the coolant injection rate. The two-phase boiling coolant experimental results are compared against the dry test data without coolant or solidification of the molten metal pool, and against the crust formation experiment with subcooled coolant. Also, a numerical analysis is performed to check on the measured data. The numerical program is developed using the enthalpy method, the finite volume method and the SIMPLER algorithm. The experimental results of the heat transfer show general agreement with the calculated values. The present empirical test and numerical results of the heat transfer on the molten metal pool are apparently higher than those without coolant boiling. This is probably because this experiment was performed in concurrence of solidification in the molten metal pool and the rapid boiling of the coolant. The other experiments were performed without coolant boiling and the correlation was developed for the pure molten metal without phase change.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.175-188
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• 2015

For 63 soil series distributed in Jeju Island, natural uncultivated soils in each soil series were collected, and their physicochemical properties and their concentrations of 19 heavy metals including 8 heavy metals which are regulated by Korean Soil Environment Conservation Law, were analyzed. Moreover, the correlations between physicochemical properties and heavy metal concentrations, and between heavy metal concentrations were analyzed. The heavy metals distributed in the higher concentrations and the lower concentrations with arithmetric mean value, were Mn(730 mg/kg) and Ba(493 mg/kg), and Hg(0.146 mg/kg) and Tl(0.096 mg/kg), respectively. The correlations between pH($H_2O$) and heavy metals(Hg, Ni, Co, Se), between pH(NaF) and heavy metals(Hg, Ba, Se, Tl), and between organic matter content and heavy metals(Hg, Tl) were significant at the 0.01 level. From the correlations between heavy metal concentrations, there were 22 where there were significant at the 0.01 level and they showed positive correlation. Among those, the heavy metals showing the correlation higher than r=0.5, were Sb-V(0.878), Mo-Sn(0.867), Co-V(0.654), Co-Sb(0.648), Be-Sn(0.546), and Sn-Tl(0.528).

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.845-852
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• 2001

The characteristics of evaporation cooling of single droplet on a heated surface were studied experimentally. The two kinds of heater modules were tested to measure cooling characteristics of metal surface (high conductivity) and Teflon surface (low-energy surface, low conductivity). The results showed that time averaged heat flux during droplet evaporation increased exponentially with initial surface temperatures of brass, copper and steel. The heat flux and evaporation time did not varied with metal conductivities. However, the temperature drop after the deposition of droplet was larger on Teflon than on the metals. Thus, the correlation of interface temperature between liquid droplet and metal surface was proposed as a function of the initial surface temperature of heating materials, which could be applied to both metal and non-metal ones.