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The Study of Physical Properties of Fly Ash Concrete Using Activator (자극제를 사용한 플라이애쉬 콘크리트의 물리적 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Jong-Ho;Kim, Jung-Bin;Won, Eun-Mi;Park, Bong-Soon;Lee, Joung-Ah;Han, Cheon-Goo
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.565-568
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    • 2008
  • Because of low early compressive strength, the usage of fly ash is subject to restriction in comparison with blast-furnace slag powder. Therefore, high amount of fly ash is reclaimed in landfill in face of better economical efficiency and more production. In this paper, the primary aim is to determine to what the basic material characteristics of fly ash concrete is affected by activator, the second aim is to check a possibility of increase in fly ash application. This study show that compared with fly ash concrete using general admixture, fly ash concrete using activator have higher early compressive strength under similar slump, air content, loss. If additional study will inspect performance of activator in various factor, expansion of application of fly ash concrete using activator can be possible.

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Cell Ploidy and Repair Ability Determine the Radioprotective Effects of Cysteamine in Yeast Cells of Various Species and Genotypes

  • Vladislav G. Petin;Kim, Jin-Kyu
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.35-39
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    • 2002
  • The significance of cell ploidy and repair ability for the radioprotective efficiency of cysteamine was studied in DNA repair - proficient and repair - deficient yeast cells irradiated $^{60}C0\;\gamma-rays.$ Results have been obtained for the cell survival of two groups of yeasts-diplont and haplont cells, both in haploid and diploid states. For diploid Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast cells, the correlation between the radio-protective action of cysteamine and the cell repair capacity was demonstrated. Such a correlation was not clearly expressed for haploid yeast cells. In addition, evidence was obtained indicating that the degree of the radioprotective action was independent of the number of chromosome sets in haplont yeast Pichia guilliermondii cells and in some radiosensitive mutants defective in the diploid-specific recovery. It is concluded on this basis that the radioprotective action may involve the cellular recovery process, which may be mediated by a recombination-like mechanism, for which the diploid state is required. The results obtained clearly show that the radioprotective effect was dependent on DNA repair status and indicate that the mechanism of the radioprotective action may be realized on the level of primary radiation damage production as well as on the level of postradiation recovery from potentially lethal radiation damage.

A Comparison of Nitrogen Cycling among Young Pinus koraiensis Plantations of Different Ages (잣나무 유림의 수령에 따른 질소순환의 비교)

  • Cho, Kang-Hyun;Kim, Joon-Ho
    • The Korean Journal of Ecology
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.245-256
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    • 1989
  • Nitrogen cycling was in vestigated in Piuns koraiensis plantations with different ages, 1, 2, 3, 6, 9 and 11 years, which were reforested after clear-cutting. Annual N input by bulk precipitation was 10kg., and output by runoff decreased as the plantation aged, especially in-N. The standing N content of the whole vegetation increased approximately 5 times through 11 years. Understory surpassed P. koraiensis plants in the distribution of standing N content for the initial 9 years, but reversed thereafter. Annual N uptake of P. koraiensis plants increased greatly through 11 years, but that of understory increased somewhat until 9 years and decreased thereafter. The maximum N uptake of the whole vegetation was made in the 9-yr-old plantation. In the 1-yr-old one, 59% of the maximum was already absorbed by understory which mainly consisted to herbs. The recycling coefficient, ratio of annual return to rptake, of the whole vegetation decreased as the plantation aged and the value of understory was greater than that of P koraiensis plants. On the contrary, the N use efficiency, ratio of the net primary production to N uptake, of the whole vegetation increased as the plantation aged and the value of understory was less than that of P. koraiensis plants. Consequently, it is emphasized that understory played an important role in such plantation reforesred after clear-cutting for the initial 9 years.

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A Status Analysis on the Field Management of Professional Construction Firms after Abrogation of Construction Participants System (시공참여자제도 폐지 이후 전문건설업체의 현장관리 실태분석)

  • Park, Kyoung-Hun;Kim, Hwa-Joong;Son, Chang-Baek
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.199-203
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    • 2009
  • After the construction participants system is abolished, expectations are high for its consequences such as liquidating paper-companies, holding back low price contracts, and improving multi-stepwise subcontract structure. However, the professional construction firms have been took responsibilities and obligations as businessmen employing the chief workmen and construction workers. For this reason, it is expected that they will be charged a great deal of expenses such as increase in labor management services and laborers, the occurrence of an retirement grants, insurance fees, etc. Since the hold on power of field managers are getting weaker toward the construction workers, it is most likely to have loss in efficiency of production in the long term. Therefore purpose of this research is to analyze difficulties and the point at issues with which professional construction firms are undergoing after abolishing the construction participants system by investigating on the actual condition in the field management. For this research, we got a grip on the actual condition and analyzed the rise of a primary factor on reinforced concrete construction.

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A Study on Simulation of Chip Recycling System for the Management of Cutting Chip in 5-Axis FMS Line (5축 FMS라인의 절삭 칩 처리를 위한 칩 회수처리장치 시뮬레이션에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, In-Su;Kim, Hae-Ji;Kim, Deok-Hyun;Kim, Nam-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.175-181
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    • 2013
  • The primary element of machining automation is to maximize the utilization of machine tools, which determines the output and lead-time. In particular, 95% of raw materials for wing ribs are cut into chips and 0.6 ton of chips are generated every hour from each machine tool. In order to verify the chip recycling system that controls the chips from the machines in five-axis FMS line, a simulation of the virtual model is constructed using the QUEST simulation program. The optimum speed of the chip conveyor and its operating conditions that directly affect the efficiency of the FMS line are presented including the chip conveyor speed, the maximum capacity of the hopper, and the number of chip compressors.

Expression of Human Interleukin-ll and Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor in Transgenic Plants

  • LEE BO-YE;LEE JEONG-HYUN;YOON HOON-SEOK;KANG KYUNG HO;KIM KYUNG-NAM;KIM JAE-HONG;KIM JU-KON;KIM JEONG-KOOK
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.1304-1309
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    • 2005
  • The production of therapeutic proteins for human diseases in plants results in many economic benefits, including reduced risk of animal virus contamination, high yields, and reduced production and storage costs. Human cytokines, interleukin-11 (hlL-11) and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (hGM-CSF), cDNAs were introduced into rice or tobacco, using either the maize ubiquitin promoter or the 35S promoter. The primary hIL-11 transgenic rice plants exhibited stunted growth and a sterile phenotype, whereas the hIL-11 transgenic tobacco plants did not. This suggests that hIL-11 expression in rice disrupts the normal growth and development of the plant. The regeneration efficiency of rice calli transformed with hGM-CSF was found to be approximately a quarter of that seen with the hIL-11, suggesting that hGM-CSF expression is more deleterious to the regeneration of rice calli than is hIL-11. However, the surviving hGM-CSF transgenic rice plants exhibited a normal phenotype of growth. Therefore, it appears that only those transgenic rice lines that expressed the human cytokines in small quantities were able to survive the selection process.

Tumor Surpressor Gene Therany, and Natural Product with Vectors[Aoenouirus, Aoenn associated virus] in Human Papilloma virus (HPV[Human papilloma virus]유래 바이러스 벡터[Adenovirus, Adeno associated virus]를 이용한 암 억제유전자치료법과 자연산물에서의 암 억제 효과)

  • 천병수;노민석;유종수;김준명
    • KSBB Journal
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.579-591
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    • 2001
  • The cell growth inhibitor effect of cervical cancer cells was investigated by liposome mediated transfection (pRcCMVp53/lipofectin) and by transfection using adenovirus (AdCMVp57). The papilloma virus cancer cell lines we used in this study were HPV16 positive, having inhibiter gene, wild p53 gene, CaSki, SiHa, HPV18 positive HeLa, HeLaS3 and HPV negative C33A, HT3. LacZ gene of E.coli was used as the marker gene for the transfection efficiency. The effect on the inhibition of tumor cell growth was measured by cell count and cell viability though ELISA analysis and MTT assay. The inhibition of tumor cell growth was confirmed by measuring each assay for six days, comparing with the normal control cell growth. The cell growth of cervical cancer calls by transfection was significantly reduced and showed tittle differences among the cell lines. To eliminate the potential problem of Ad(adenovirus) contamination during rAAV production, rAAV can be produced by a triple transfection of vector plasmic, packaging plasmid, and adenovirus helper plasmid. To examine the helper functions of Ad plasmids on the production of rAAV vector, we carried out cotransfection of three plasmids, AAV vector, packaging construct, and Ad helper plasmids. The optimized transfection condition for calcium phosphate method is 25ug of total DNA per 10-cm-diameter plate of 293 cell. We found that rAAV yields peaked at 48hr after Ad infection. The titer of rAAV was measured by the dot blot analysis to measure the number of particles/ml based on the quantification of viral DNA. Recent1y, Kombucha(fungi) was identified as a very potent antileukefic agent. In the present study, effect of natural toxin(plankton) and Kombucha is PSP(GTXI-3, neoSTX), on various MTT assay cervical cancer cell line. Toxin(GTX 1-3, neoSTX) also inhibited the proliferation in primary cervical cancer calls in a dose-dependent toxin concentration. These results showed that toxin was very potent in inhibiting the proliferation of cervical cancer calls in vitro. Toxins and Kombuoha exhibited a dose dependent inhibition of cellular proliferation in cancer cell line.

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Heat balance analysis for process heat and hydrogen generation in VHTR (공정열 및 수소생산을 위한 초고온가스로 열평형 분석)

  • Park, Soyoung;Heo, Gyunyoung;Yoo, YeonJae;Lee, SangIL
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.85-92
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    • 2016
  • Since the power density of the VHTR(Very High Temperature Reactor) is lower, there is less possibility of core melt. VHTR has no risk of explosion caused by hydrogen generation when the loss of coolant accident occurs, which is another advantage. Along with safety benefit, it can be used as a process heat supplier near demand facilities because coolant temperature is very high enough to be used for industrial purpose. In this paper, we designed the primary system using VHTR and the secondary system providing electricity and process heat. Based on that 350 MW thermal reactor proposed by NGNP(Next Generation Nuclear Part), we developed conceptual model that the IHX(Intermediate Heat Exchanger) loop transports 300 MW thermal energy to the secondary system. In addition, we analyzed thermodynamic behavior and performed the efficiency analysis and optimization study depending on major parameters.

Parametric Shape Design and CNC Tool Path Generation of a Propeller Blade (프로펠러 블레이드의 형상설계 및 CNC 공구경로 생성)

  • 정종윤
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.15 no.8
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    • pp.46-59
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    • 1998
  • This paper presents shape design, surface construction, and cutting path generation for the surface of marine ship propeller blades. A propeller blade should be designed to satisfy performance constraints that include operational speed which impacts rotations per minutes, stresses related to deliverable horst power, and the major length of the marine ship which impacts the blade size and shape characteristics. Primary decision variables that affect efficiency in the design of a marine ship propeller blade are the blade diameter and the expanded area ratio. The blade design resulting from these performance constraints typically consists of sculptured surfaces requiring four or five axis contoured machining. In this approach a standard blade geometry description consisting of blade sections with offset nominal points recorded in an offset table is used. From this table the composite Bezier surface geometry of the blade is created. The control vertices of the Hazier surface patches are determined using a chord length fitting procedure from tile offset table data. Cutter contact points and path intervals are calculated to minimize travel distance and production time while maintaining a cusp height within tolerance limits. Long path intervals typically generate short tool paths at the expense of increased however cusp height. Likewise, a minimal tool path results in a shorter production time. Cutting errors including gouging and under-cut, which are common errors in machining sculptured surfaces, are also identified for both convex and concave surfaces. Propeller blade geometry is conducive to gouging. The result is a minimal error free cutting path for machining propeller blades for marine ships.

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Flow Characteristics of the Artificial Upwelling Structure by Porosity Change (공극률 변화에 따른 인공용승류 특성)

  • Lee, Hwang Ki;Kim, Young Min;Kim, Jong Kyu
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.100-106
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    • 2017
  • Artificial upwelling structure has been set up in sea mount. Bottom water can upwelling euphotic zone. Plentiful nutrient included in bottom water could not only enhance primary production but also expect food chain reaction and gathering fish. This study explain flowing features subject to porosity changes according to the material and shape of artificial upwelling structure. As a result, the upward flux is getting decreased while the porosity is increasing. And it figured out when the upward flux was decreased, the downward flux was also decreased. Futhermore, it was confirmed that the best efficiency of upwelling flux was shown up when the porosity was 10% according to the volume of artificial upwelling structure in case of 20% of porosity, it also has a good efficiency in comparison with impermeable artificial upwelling structure. Therefore, to build the artificial upwelling structure, It is encouraged to design it less than 20% of porosity for the best performance.