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Hydrolysis by Alcalase Improves Hypoallergenic Properties of Goat Milk Protein

  • Jung, Tae-Hwan;Yun, Sung-Seob;Lee, Won-Jae;Kim, Jin-Wook;Ha, Ho-Kyung;Yoo, Michelle;Hwang, Hyo-Jeong;Jeon, Woo-Min;Han, Kyoung-Sik
    • Food Science of Animal Resources
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.516-522
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    • 2016
  • Goat milk is highly nutritious and is consumed in many countries, but the development of functional foods from goat milk has been slow compared to that for other types of milk. The aim of this study was to develop a goat milk protein hydrolysate (GMPH) with enhanced digestibility and better hypoallergenic properties in comparison with other protein sources such as ovalbumin and soy protein. Goat milk protein was digested with four commercial food-grade proteases (separately) under various conditions to achieve the best hydrolysis of αs -casein and β-lactoglobulin. It was shown that treatment with alcalase (0.4%, 60℃ for 30 min) effectively degraded these two proteins, as determined by SDS-PAGE, measurement of nonprotein nitrogen content, and reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. Hydrolysis with alcalase resulted in a significant decrease in β-lactoglobulin concentration (almost to nil) and a ~40% reduction in the level of αs-casein. Quantification of histamine and TNF-α released from HMC-1 cells (human mast cell line) showed that the GMPH did not induce an allergic response when compared to the control. Hence, the GMPH may be useful for development of novel foods for infants, the elderly, and convalescent patients, to replace cow milk.

Solvent Effect on Anode Performance in Lithium Ion Batteries (리튬 이온 전지의 부극 성능에 끼치는 용매의 영향)

  • Jeong, Gwang Il;Jo, Jeong Hwan;Sim, U Jong;Choe, Yong Guk
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.46 no.6
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    • pp.528-534
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    • 2002
  • We have studied to find the optimum electrolyte that satisfied high ionic conductivity, large elec-trochemical window, etc in Li-ion battery. And also studied were the effect of a passive film on carbon anode surface,which is formed by solvent decomposition during the initial charge process. Electrochemical properties of the passive film formed on carbon anode surface investigated and explained as the volumetric ratio of the mixed solvents. The results of scanning electron microscopy, chronopotentiometry, cyclic voltammetry, impedance spectroscopy revealed that the electrochemical properties of the passive film were varied with the ionic conductivity of the electrolyte including the mixed solvents.

Linear Quadratic Controller Design of Insect-Mimicking Flapping Micro Aerial Vehicle (곤충모방 날갯짓 비행체의 LQ 제어기 설계)

  • Kim, Sungkeun;Kim, Inrae;Kim, Seungkeun;Suk, Jinyoung
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.450-458
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    • 2017
  • This paper presents dynamic modelling and simulation study on attitude/altitude control of an insect-mimicking flapping micro aerial vehicle during hovering. Mathematical modelling consists of three parts: simplified flapping kinematics, flapping-wing aerodynamics, and six degree of freedom dynamics. Attitude stabilization is accomplished through linear quadratic regulator based on the linearized model of the time-varying nonlinear system, and altitude control is designed in the outer loop using PID control. The performance of the proposed controller is verified through numerical simulation where attitude stabilization and altitude control is done for hovering. In addition, it is confirmed that the attitude channel by periodic control is marginally stable against periodic pitching moment caused by flapping.

Computer Simulation of Rubber Flow for Mold Profile in Rubber Shaping Process (고무 성형 공정에서 금형 형상에 따른 고무 흐름의 컴퓨터 모사)

  • Lee, Dan Bi;Lee, Min A;Choi, Sung Hyun;Lyu, Min-Young
    • Elastomers and Composites
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    • v.49 no.3
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    • pp.220-224
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    • 2014
  • The tire tread is contacted with road surface directly. It gives significant effect on the breaking conditions, traction, noise and so on. The tread having grooves with complex geometry is molded by shaping process. The flow behavior of tread rubber in a mold affects the quality of the tread and it leads to the running performance of automobile. In this study, the flow behavior of rubber in shaping process has been investigated by computer simulation. The objective of flow simulation is the design of tread shape based on the contact of rubber on the mold surface and flow behavior of rubber. Different sequences of contact of rubber on the mold surface and flow behavior of rubber are observed according to the shape of tread on the mold surface. It was verified that the shape of tread gives significant effect on the flow behavior of rubber. Different flow behaviors of rubber and sequential contact of rubber to the mold surface were observed according to the shape of tread on the mold surface. Therefore, we have identified that the shape of tread give a change in the flow behavior of rubber.

Optimal TCP Segment Size for Mobile Contents Server Access over Wireless Links of Cellular Networks (이동통신망에서의 모바일 컨텐츠 서버 통신을 위한 최적의 TCP 세그먼트 길이)

  • Lee, Goo-Yeon;Jeong, Choong-Kyo;Kim, Hwa-Jong;Lee, Yong
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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    • v.43 no.12 s.354
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    • pp.31-41
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    • 2006
  • Internet access from mobile phones over cellular networks suffer from severe bandwidth limitations and high bit error rates over wireless access links. Tailoring TCP connections to best fit the characteristics of this bottleneck link is thus very important for overall performance improvement. In this work, we propose a simple algorithm in deciding the optimal TCP segment size to maximize the utilization of the bottleneck wireless TCP connection for mobile contents server access, taking the dynamic TCP window variation into account. The proposed algorithm can be used when the product of the access rate and the propagation time is not large. With some numerical examples, it is shown that the optimal TCP segment size becomes a constant value when the TCP window size exceeds a threshold. One can set the maximum segment size of a wireless TCP connection to this optimal segment size for mobile contents server access for maximum efficiency on the expensive wireless link.

Effects of agricultural byproducts, DDG and MSG, on the larval development of mealworms

  • Kim, Sun Young;Kim, Hong Geun;Lee, Kyeong Yong;Yoon, Hyung Joo;Kim, Nam Jung
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.69-79
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    • 2016
  • Distillers dried grain (DDG) and makgeolli spent grain (MSG) are agricultural byproducts to produce alcoholic beverage. However, they are known to contain enough nutrients. Mealworm is a promising insect resource for an animal feed ingredient as well as alternative human food. With low cost, DDG and MSG were investigated as a feed ingredient for rearing high quality mealworms. DDG and MSG were mixed with wheat bran and compared to control feed (only wheat bran) for its effects on larval survivorship, larval weight, duration for developmental period, pupation rate, and pupal weight. When DDG added, larval survivorship was reduced to 50~70% compared to the control group. Larvae fed on DDG were heavier from third to sixth week. Especially, larvae with 50% DDG were 28% heavier than the control group at the third week. For the larval period, the 50% DDG group was 11% less than that for the control. The pupal weight for the 30% DDG group was 7% heavier than that for the control group. Pupation rates for all the DDG groups were higher than 90%. When compared to the control, larval survivorship for the 70% MSG group was low, but the 50% and 70% MSG groups were high during the seventh and eighth weeks because of delayed development. After the eighth week, larvae with 70% MSG showed the highest larval weight increase as 9~18% compared to the control group. Except 70% MSG group, all of MSG groups showed more than 90% pupation rates. We confirmed that adding 30~50% of DDG or MSG to conventional wheat bran have a strong potential to replace the conventional wheat bran insect feed for quality insect production.

Application Study of Design Fire Curves for Liquid Pool Fires in a Compartment (구획실 내 액체 풀화재에 대한 디자인 화재곡선 적용 연구)

  • Baek, Bitna;Oh, Chang Bo;Lee, Eui Ju;Nam, Dong-Gun
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.43-51
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    • 2017
  • In this study, new design fire curves were suggested for the utilization in fire simulations. Numerical simulations with the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) were performed for the n-octane and n-heptane pool fires in the ISO 9705 compartment to evaluate the prediction performance of the previous quadratic, exponential design fire curves and newly suggested ones. The numerical results were compared with the experimental temperature and concentrations of $O_2$ and $CO_2$. The numerical results with the previous quadratic and exponential curves showed slow increase and decrease trend than experiments. However, the numerical results with the newly suggested 2 design fire curves showed more similar variation trend in temperature, $O_2$ and $CO_2$ concentrations than the quadratic and exponential curves. It was found that the newly suggested design fire curves can be possibly used in the numerical simulation of fires in a practical respect.

Naturally Derived Probiotic Supplementation Effects on Physiological Properties and Manure Gas Emission of Broiler Chickens

  • Hassan, Md R.;Ryu, Kyeong-Sun
    • Journal of agriculture & life science
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    • v.46 no.4
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    • pp.119-127
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    • 2012
  • To investigate the influence of multi-probiotic, fermented ginseng byproduct and fermented sulfone on the performance, intestinal microflora and immunity of broiler, a five weeks trial was conducted with 340, 1-d-old $Ross{\times}Ross$ broiler. All broilers were divided into five different groups having 68 birds in each treatment, and they were assigned as control, antibiotic avilamycin (AB), multi-probiotic (MP), fermented sulfone (FS) and fermented ginseng byproduct (FGB). Each artificial or naturally derived probiotic was inoculated 0.1% level with the basal diet, and all diets were provided to birds for five weeks. Weight gain and feed intake were measured weekly basis, and blood, spleen and feces were collectedand used for the physiological properties of broiler chickens. All performances and cholesterol profiles were not significantly differed but numerically lower level of neutral fat and LDL was found in multi-probiotics and FGB treatments respectively. The salmonella spp and E. coli numbers in the ileum were high in control in relation to those of other treatments and were significantly decreased in antibiotics treatments (p<0.05). In addition, Lactobacillus spp. showed significantly higher proliferation in MP as compared to that of others (p<0.05). Fecal ammonia and $CO_2$ gas emission was significantly decreased in MP, FGB and FS, respectively (p<0.05), but significantly increased proliferation of spleen was determined in MP group in comparison of other treatments (p<0.05). Therefore, the results indicates that multi-probiotics would be valuable feed additives to improve the salmonella, E. coli and Lactobacillus proliferation, and manure gas emission of broiler chickens, but further study related to the production of manure gas emission of MP is necessary.

Distance Estimation Using Convolutional Neural Network in UWB Systems (UWB 시스템에서 합성곱 신경망을 이용한 거리 추정)

  • Nam, Gyeong-Mo;Jung, Tae-Yun;Jung, Sunghun;Jeong, Eui-Rim
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.23 no.10
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    • pp.1290-1297
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    • 2019
  • The paper proposes a distance estimation technique for ultra-wideband (UWB) systems using convolutional neural network (CNN). To estimate the distance from the transmitter and the receiver in the proposed method, 1 dimensional vector consisted of the magnitudes of the received samples is reshaped into a 2 dimensional matrix, and by using this matrix, the distance is estimated through the CNN regressor. The received signal for CNN training is generated by the UWB channel model in the IEEE 802.15.4a, and the CNN model is trained. Next, the received signal for CNN test is generated by filed experiments in indoor environments, and the distance estimation performance is verified. The proposed technique is also compared with the existing threshold based method. According to the results, the proposed CNN based technique is superior to the conventional method and specifically, the proposed method shows 0.6 m root mean square error (RMSE) at distance 10 m while the conventional technique shows much worse 1.6 m RMSE.

Measurement and Validation of Infrared Signature from Exhaust Plume of a Micro-Turbo Engine (마이크로 터보 엔진 배기 플룸에서의 적외선 신호 측정 및 검증)

  • Gu, Bonchan;Baek, Seung Wook;Jegal, Hyunwook;Choi, Seongman;Kim, Won Cheol
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.44 no.12
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    • pp.1054-1061
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    • 2016
  • Development of an accurate infrared signature (IR) measurement system is expected to contribute in the development of low observable technology and the spectroscopic analysis of electromagnetic radiation. Application of a spectroradiometer (SR) allows for the measurement of detailed infrared signature from the exhaust plume due to its own heat source. Establishment of a measurement system using a micro-turbo engine is intended to simulate the modelling of the aircraft plume. The engine was installed on a test stand to measure the engine performance. The IR signature was measured by placing the SR perpendicular to the axis line of the exhaust plume. Reference data from the blackbody were also measured to calibrate the raw data, and the infrared signature of the background was also measured for comparison with that of the plume. The calibrated spectral radiance was obtained through the data reduction process and the results were analyzed in specific bands. The experiments revealed that the measurement system established here showed sufficient performance for further comprehensive analysis.