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Application of Methane Mixed Plasma for the Determination of Ge, As, and Se in Serum and Urine by ICP/MS

  • Park, Kyung-Su;Kim, Sun-Tae;Kim, Young-Man;Kim, Yun-je;Lee, Won
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.285-290
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    • 2003
  • An analytical method for the simultaneous determination of trace Ge, As and Se in biological samples by inductively coupled plasma/mass spectrometry has been investigated. The effects of added organic gas into the coolant argon gas on the analyte signal were studied to improve the detection limit, accuracy and precision. The addition of a small amount of methane (10 mL/min.) into the coolant gas channel improved the ionization of Ge, As and Se. The analytical sensitivity of the proposed Ar/CH₄system was superior by at least two-fold to that of the conventional Ar method. In the present method, the detection limits obtained for Ge, As and Se were 0.014, 0.012 and 0.064 ㎍/L, respectively. The analytical reliability of the proposed method was evaluated by analyzing the certified standard reference materials (SRM). Recoveries of 99.9% for Ge, 103% for As, 96.5% for Se were obtained for NIST SRM of freeze dried urine sample. The proposed method was also applied to the biological samples.

Multiplex PCR Detection of Waterborne Intestinal Protozoa: Microsporidia, Cyclospora, and Cryptosporidium

  • Lee, Seung-Hyun;Joung, Mi-Gyo;Yoon, Se-Joung;Choi, Kyoung-Jin;Park, Woo-Yoon;Yu, Jae-Ran
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • v.48 no.4
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    • pp.297-301
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    • 2010
  • Recently, emerging waterbome protozoa, such as microsporidia, Cyclospora, and Cryptosporidium, have become a challenge to human health worldwide. Rapid, simple, and economical detection methods for these major waterborne protozoa in environmental and clinical samples are necessary to control infection and improve public health. In the present study, we developed a multiplex PCR test that is able to detect all these 3 major waterborne protozoa at the same time. Detection limits of the multiplex PCR method ranged from $10^1$ to $10^2$ oocysts or spores. The primers for microsporidia or Cryptosporidium used in this study can detect both Enterocytozoon bieneusi and Encephalitozoon intestinalis, or both Cryptosporidium hominis and Cryptosporidium paNum, respectively. Restriction enzyme digestion of PCR products with BsaBI or BsiEI makes it possible to distinguish the 2 species of microsporidia or Cryptosporidium, respectively. This simple, rapid, and cost-effective multiplex PCR method will be useful for detecting outbreaks or sporadic cases of waterborne protozoa infections.

A Study on the Color Edge Detection (컬러 에지 검출에 관한 연구)

  • 김동현;이소행;정진용;양현호;최우진
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.8-12
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    • 1999
  • Edge detection is a key component for many modern computer vision applications. While it is certainly not the only way to identify an object, or track a feature, it can be one of the most convenient if it is done quickly and consistently. Many algorithms proposed is applied to gray level images. But. there are limits in method using only intensity information, so, many researchers has try to done research about using color information. In this paper, we propose the new edge detection method usign color information, implement the widely used algorithms and compared with them in performance. In result of experiment, we show that the proposed algorithm have better result in fine detail and shaded region of image.

Analysis of Mono-, Di- and Tri-glycerides by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with evaporative light scattering detection (ELSD) (HPLC/ELSD에 의한 Mono-, Di- 및 Tri-glycerides류 분석)

  • Lee, Man-Ho;Park, Heai-Ku;Kim, In-Whan
    • Analytical Science and Technology
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.189-193
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    • 2006
  • Chromatographic separation of glycerol monostearate, glycerol distearate and glycerol tristearate (GMS, GDS, and GTS) has been performed by normal phase HPLC method utilizing a Zorbax silica ($250{\times}4.6mm$, $5{\mu}m$) column and hexane-hexane, IPA and ethyl acetate mixtures as the eluent within 20 min. The observed reproducibility was less than 5% RSD, Suggesting that ELSD was an effective tool for detection of the glycerol stearates of low volatility without chromophore. The detection limits were in the concentration range of 0.3~2 mg/L, and the calibration curves (the log-log plots) were linear in the range of 4~1000 mg/L (with the slopes of 1.06~1.32). The application of the analytical procedure without pretreatment demonstrated that the proposed chromatographic method would be practical for a routine analysis of commercial products.

Sleep apnea detection from a single-lead ECG signal with GAF transform feature-extraction through deep learning (GAF 변환을 사용한 딥 러닝 기반 단일 리드 ECG 신호에서의 수면 무호흡 감지)

  • Zhou, Yu;Lee, Seungeun;Kang, Kyungtae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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    • 2022.07a
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    • pp.57-58
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    • 2022
  • Sleep apnea (SA) is a common chronic sleep disorder that disrupts breathing during sleep. Clinically, the standard for diagnosing SA involves nocturnal polysomnography (PSG). However, this requires expert human intervention and considerable time, which limits the availability of SA diagnoses in public health sectors. Therefore, ECG-based methods for SA detection have been proposed to automate the PSG procedure and reduce its discomfort. We propose a preprocessing method to convert the one-dimensional time series of ECG into two-dimensional images using the Gramian Angular Field (GAF) algorithm, extract temporal features, and use a two-dimensional convolutional neural network for classification. The results of this study demonstrated that the proposed method can perform SA detection with specificity, sensitivity, accuracy, and area under the curve (AUC) of 88.89%, 81.50%, 86.11%, and 0.85, respectively. Our experimental results show that SA is successfully classified by extracting preprocessing transforms with temporal features.

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Detection of Methane and Ethane by Continuous-Wave Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy Near 1.67 μm

  • Oh, Myoung-Kyu;Lee, Yong-Hoon;Choi, Sung-Chul;Ko, Do-Kyeong;Lee, Jong-Min
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2008
  • We report the simple detection method of the small hydrocarbons, methane and ethane, by continuous-wave cavity ring-down spectroscopy near 1.67 ${\mu}m$ using an external cavity diode laser. The absorption lines of methane between 6002.48 $cm^{-1}$ and 6003.37 $cm^{-1}$ and ethane between 5955.65 $cm^{-1}$ and 5956.4 $cm^{-1}$ have been resolved and employed for the gas detection. The largest absorption cross sections were found to be 6.5$\times10^{-20}cm^2$ and 7.4$\times10^{-21}cm^2$ for methane and ethane, respectively, in each spectral range. The minimum detectable absorption limit of our spectrometer was 4.8${\times}10^{-9}cm^{-1}$/$\sqrt{Hz}$, which corresponds to the detection limits of 3 ppb/$\sqrt{Hz}$ and 27 ppb/$\sqrt{Hz}$ for methane and ethane, respectively. The near-IR continuous-wave cavity ring-down spectroscopic detection method of the small hydrocarbons can be applied for medical diagnosis and environmental monitoring as a fast and convenient method.

Deobfuscation Processing and Deep Learning-Based Detection Method for PowerShell-Based Malware (파워쉘 기반 악성코드에 대한 역난독화 처리와 딥러닝 기반 탐지 방법)

  • Jung, Ho-jin;Ryu, Hyo-gon;Jo, Kyu-whan;Lee, Sangkyun
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.501-511
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    • 2022
  • In 2021, ransomware attacks became popular, and the number is rapidly increasing every year. Since PowerShell is used as the primary ransomware technique, the need for PowerShell-based malware detection is ever increasing. However, the existing detection techniques have limits in that they cannot detect obfuscated scripts or require a long processing time for deobfuscation. This paper proposes a simple and fast deobfuscation method and a deep learning-based classification model that can detect PowerShell-based malware. Our technique is composed of Word2Vec and a convolutional neural network to learn the meaning of a script extracting important features. We tested the proposed model using 1400 malicious codes and 8600 normal scripts provided by the AI-based PowerShell malicious script detection track of the 2021 Cybersecurity AI/Big Data Utilization Contest. Our method achieved 5.04 times faster deobfuscation than the existing methods with a perfect success rate and high detection performance with FPR of 0.01 and TPR of 0.965.

Development of Analytical Method and Monitoring of Organophosphorus Pesticides in the Raw Water and Clean Water by Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS/MS를 이용한 유기인계 농약류의 최적 분석법 정립과 원·정수에서의 모니터링)

  • Kim, Gyung-A;Song, Mi-Jeong;Yeom, Hoon-Sik;Son, Hee-Jong;Lee, Sang-Won;Choi, Jin-Tack
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.24 no.12
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    • pp.1569-1582
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    • 2015
  • The analytical method for 16 organophosphorus pesticides was developed in this study. The 16 organophosphorus pesticides were analyzed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) using on-line solid phase extraction (on-line SPE) with PLRP- S cartridge. Analysis of all analytes in the MS/MS was processed in the electrospray ioni-zation (ESI) positive mode. They are Azinphos ethyl, Chlorfenvinphos, Ethion, Famphur, Phosmet, Phosphamidon, Terbufos, Aspon, Chlorpyrifos-methyl, Crotoxyphos, Dichlofenthi-on, Dicrotophos, Fonofos, Thionazin, Dimethoate and Iprobenfos. Limits of detection (LODs) and Limits of quantification(LOQs) were obtained as 0.8~2.0 ng/L and 2.6~6.4 ng/L, respectively. All compounds were not detected at the 8 sampling points of the raw water and clean water.

Simultaneous Determination of Four Bioactive Constituents in Galgeun Tang by HPLC/DAD. (HPLC-DAD를 이용한 갈근탕 중 4종 성분의 동시분석법 확립)

  • Won, Jin-Bae;Jeon, Won-Kyung;Ma, Jin-Yeul;Ma, Choong-Je
    • Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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    • v.40 no.3
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    • pp.224-228
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    • 2009
  • For the quality control of traditional herbal medicine, Galgeun tang, simultaneous determination of glycyrrhizin, paeoniflorin, puerarin, 6-gingerol was established by using a high performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method with diode array detector. To separate five four constituents, DIONEX $C_{18}$ column ($5{\mu}m$, $120{\AA}$, $4.6\;mm{\times}150\;mm$) was used with gradient elution system of water and methanol. Validation of the chromatography method was evaluated by linearity, recovery, and precision test. Calibration curve of standard components showed excellent linearity ($R^2$>0.9906). Limits of detection (LOD) and limits of quantification (LOQ) varied from 0.15 to $0.52{\mu}g$/ml and 0.27 to $0.80{\mu}mg$/ml, respectively. The relative standard deviations (RSDs) of data of the intra-day and inter-day experiments were less than 2.88% and 1.21%, respectively. The results of recovery test were ranged from 96.71 to 106.29% with RSD values 0.01-0.80%.

Determination of Free Amino Acids in Isatidis Radix By HILIC-UPLC-MS/MS

  • Pan, Yilin;Li, Jin;Li, Xiang;Chen, Jianwei;Bai, Ganggang
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.197-203
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    • 2014
  • A rapid, accurate and precise method for the determination of 22 amino acids in Isatidis Radix by Hydrophilic Interaction Ultra-High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Coupled with Triple-Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry (HILIC-UPLC-MS/MS) was established. Chromatographic separation was carried out on a Acquity UPLC BEH Amide column ($2.1mm{\times}100mm$, $1.7{\mu}m$) with gradient elution of acetonitrile (containing 0.05% formic acid and 2 mM ammonium formate) and water (containing 0.15% formic acid and 10 mM ammonium formate) at a flow rate of 0.4 mL/min; Waters Xevo$^{TM}$ TQ worked in multiple reaction monitoring mode. All components were separated in 17 min. All calibration curves were linear ($R^2$ > 0.991) over the tested ranges. The limits of detection (LOD) and limits of quantitation (LOQ) for these compounds were 0.21-79.55 and 0.72-294.23 ng/mL, respectively. The average recoveries were in the range of 93.75-104.16% with RSD value less than 6.56%. Therefore, this method could be an alternative assay for the determination of 22 amino acids in Isatidis Radix due to its rapidness, sensitivity, less sample and solvent consumption.