• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.738-744
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• 2023

Graphene-based saturable absorbers (SAs) are widely used as laser mode-lockers at various laser oscillators. In particular, transmission-type graphene-SAs with ultrabroad spectral coverage are typically manufactured on transparent substrates with low nonlinearity to minimize the effects on the oscillators. Here, we developed two types of transmitting graphene SAs based on CaF₂ and ZnSe. Using the graphene-SA based on CaF₂, a passively mode-locked mid-infrared Cr:ZnS laser delivers relatively long 540 fs pulses with a maximum output power of up to 760 mW. In the negative net cavity dispersion regime, the pulse width was not reduced further by inhomogeneous group delay dispersion (GDD) compensation. In the same laser cavity, we replaced only the graphene-SA based on CaF₂ with the SA based on ZnSe. Due to the additional self-phase modulation effect induced by the ZnSe substrate with high nonlinearity, the stably mode-locked Cr:ZnS laser produced Fourier transform-limited ~130 fs near 2,340 nm. In the stable single-pulse operation regime, average output powers up to 635 mW at 234 MHz repetition rates were achieved. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to achieve shorter pulse widths from a polycrystalline Cr:ZnS laser by utilizing the graphene deposited on the substrate with high nonlinearity.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.233-241
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• 1993

도시 하수처리장에서 발생되는 반송수의 성상과 처리계통에서의 영향을 검토하기 위해 본 연구가 수행되었다. 각 단위 공정별 반송수의 유량과 분석자료를 이용하여 물질수지를 작성한 뒤 반송수의 특성을 결정하였으며 실험실 완전혼합 활성슬럿지 반응조를 현장 운전 조건과 유사한 방법으로 운전하여 반송수의 영향을 살펴보았다. 연구 결과 반송수의 유량은 유입원수량에 대해 1.2-1.8%로 적은 양이지만 높은 농도로 인하여 유기물과 영양소 부하량은 평균 부하시 20-30% 정도로 증가되고 있었으며 충격부하시는 40-70 %까지 증가되고 있었다. 혼합하수의 침전효율은 BOD 30%, SS 45%를 나타내고 있으나, 반송수에 의한 부하증가로 인해 BOD의 제거효율은 원수 기준시 10% 미만으로 떨어져 포기조에 큰 영향을 미치고 있었다. 즉, 반송수의 평균부하가 포기조에 유입되는 경우 반송수의 유입이 없는 경우에 비해 10%의 BOD 제거효율이 저하되었고 충격부하시는 80% 이상의 BOD 제거효율을 얻을 수 없었으며 50% 이하의 질산화율에 불과하였다.

• Childhood Kidney Diseases
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2003

목적 : 국소성 분절성 사구체 경화증은 치료에 잘 반응하지 않고, 장기적 예후가 좋지 않은 것으로 알려져 있다. 저자들은 스테로이드 충격 요법 후 괄목할만한 관해율의 향상을 보였으나 다시 스테로이드 저항성을 보이거나 스테로이드 의존성을 보인 환자 4명을 대상으로 혈장반출법, 스테로이드 충격 요법 및 immunoglobulin 병행치료의 효과를 알아보고자 본 연구를 시행하였다. 대상 및 방법 : 1988년 3월부터 2002년 7월까지 국소성 분절성 사구체 경화증이 확진된 환자중 스테로이드 충격 요법을 시행 후 스테로이드 의존성 혹은 저항성을 보였던 4명의 환자를 대상으로 총 8회의 혈장 반출법을 시행하고 후향적 방법으로 치료 효과를 평가하였다. 결과 : 총 4명의 환자 중 남자는 3명, 여자는 1명이었다. 4명의 환자에서 총 8회의 혈장반출법을 시행하여 모두 관해가 왔으며 이중 두 명의 환자에서 두 번씩의 재발이 있어 각각 2회씩의 혈장 반출법을 다시 시행하여 2명 모두 관해가 왔으나 한 명에서는 이후 2회의 재발이 있어 경구 스테로이드를 투여하여 관해를 보였다. 이들 환자들은 발병 이후 현재까지 3명의 환자에서는 10년 이상, 한 명의 환자는 5개월간 추적 관찰중으로 혈중 크레아티닌과 사구체 여과율은 정상을 유지하고 있다. 결론 : 스테로이드 의존성 또는 저항성 국소성 분절성 사구체 경화증 환자를 대상으로 혈장 반출법, 스테로이드 충격 요법 및 immunoglobulin의 병행 치료는 완전 관해를 이루고, 정상 신장 기능을 유지하는데 효과가 있다고 사료된다.

• 기본간호학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.131-138
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• 2005

Purpose: This study was performed to identify the effects of intraoperative music therapy on the anxiety level of adult patients undergoing local anesthesia in the operating room. Method: The research design was a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest. Data collection was done with 48 patients undergoing local anesthesia from June 2003 to September 2()03. The 24 patients in the experimental group were given music therapy through headphones from the beginning of the operation to the end of the operation with local anesthesia. The data were analyzed using SPSS/PC 10.0 for Windows. Results: Postoperative state anxiety scores were significantly different between the experimental group and the control group. Intraoperative pulse rates were significantly different between the two groups. But systolic and diastolic blood pressures and respiratory rates were not significantly different between the two groups. Conclusion: Considering these results, music therapy can be regarded as an effective nursing intervention that relieves anxiety for adult patients undergoing local anesthesia. However, to determine the best use of this therapy, further study is required for different types of anesthesia and operations such as ambulatory surgery.

• 중환자간호학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.41-51
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• 2010

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of family visits upon the stress response of patients and their families, Methods: This study was the interrupted time series design, The subjects consisted of 197 patients and 197 family members in the cardiac intensive care unit of S Hospital in Bucheon. Physiological stress responses such as blood pressure, heart rates, respiration rates, and oxygen saturation were measured using HP monitors. VAS was used to measure the emotional stress. Collected data was analyzed using repeated measure ANOVA, t-test by SPSS 17.0 statistical program. Results: The family visits did not change patients' blood pressure, pulse rate, respiration rate and oxygen saturation, However the anxiety level of patients and their family members were decreased significantly during family visits. Furthermore, 30-minute family visit reduced more effectively patient's anxiety than 15-minute family visit. Conclusion: Family visits need to be used as a means of nursing intervention to ease the emotional stress of patients and their families. In addition, increasing of visiting time should be considered.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.185-191
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• 2007

The new FMVSS 208, 213, 225 regulations include automatic suppression of airbags to prevent low-risk airbag deployment and the use of child seats with a rigid-bar anchor system. The regulations mean that children must sit in the rear seat, but do not include other specific safety measures for their protection. In the rear, restraint equipment consists of three-point shoulder/lap belts for the outside seats and a static two-point lap belt in the middle, with no additional devices such as pretensioners or load limiters; this is far from optimal for children. This study investigated injury rates using a 3-year-old-child dummy. ECE R44 sled tests used a booster, a speed of 48 km/h, and a 26- to 32-g rectangular deceleration pulse. While seated on a booster, the dummies were restrained by an adult shoulder/lap three-point belt. HIC_15 msec, Chest G and Nij were somewhat lower with an emergency locking retractor (ELR)+pretensioner+load limiter than with only an ELR or with ELR+pretensioner. However, the current seat-belt system results in injury rates that exceed the limit for OOP performance under the new FMVSS 208 regulations.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2009년도 제38회 동계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.47-47
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• 2010

Discharge under the water is very hard and demand considerable high voltage. But specially improved electrode can generate plasma discharge to salty water with relatively low voltage. A round shape ceramic electrode having many pinholes combined with metallic one can generate plasma. 400 volt, 10 kHz and 3 micro second pulse width were applied to repeatedly running synthetic seawater with 10 L/m velocity, containing cultivated E. coli and Bacillus. As a result, 18, 94, 99.97, 100, 100 % disinfection rates to E. coli and 17.1, 17.1, 82.9, 99.4, 99.9 % disinfection rates to Bacillus subtilis were achieved to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 times repetitive treatment respectively. In the plasma condition, the ions and electrons are separated and new kinds of components are re-synthesized by the intensive movement of the components. Especially chlorine ions are separated and recombined to residual free chlorine like HOCl, $OCl^-$. The residual free chlorine concentrations of discharged water were 0.25, 0.88, 1.39, 1.59, 1.66 mg $Cl_2$/L after 5 times treatment respectively. Another unconfirmed radical and oxidants for example, OH, $H_2O_2$, and $O_3$ can have an effect on microorganism of course.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.188-195
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• 2020

To meet stringent emission regulations of automotive engines, fuel injection control techniques have advanced based on reliable and fast computing prediction models. This study aims to develop a reliable lightweight prediction model of fuel injection rates using a small number of input parameters and based on simple fluid dynamic theories. The prediction model uses the geometry of the injector nozzle, needle motion data, injection conditions and the fuel properties. A commercial diesel injector and US No. 2 diesel were used as the test injector and fuel, respectively. The needle motion data were measured using X-ray phase-contrast imaging technique under various fuel injection pressures and injection pulse durations. The actual injector rate profiles were measured using an injection rate meter for the validation of the model prediction results. In the case of long injection durations with the steady-state operation, the model prediction results showed over 99 % consistency with the measurement results. However, in the case of short injection cases with the transient operation, the prediction model overestimated the injection rate that needs to be further improved.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.40-49
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• 2001

The present work presents a novel approach for the dynamic quantification of respiration rates on a small scale by using lysine-producing Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 21253. Cells sampeld from batch cultures at different times were incubated ina 12-ml scale bioreactor equipped with a membrane mass spectrometer. Under dynamic conditions, gas exchange across the gas-liquid phase, specific respiration rates, and RQ values were precisely measured. For this purpose, suitable mass balances were formulated. The transport coefficients for $O_2$ and $CO_2$, crucial for calculating the respiration activity, were determined as $k_La_{O2}=9.18h^{-1}$ and $k_La_{CO2}=5.10h^{-1}$ at 400 rpm. The application of the proposed method to batch cultures of C. glutamicum ATCC 21253 revealed the maximum specific respiration rates of $q_{O2}=8.4\;mmol\;g^{-1}h^{-1}\;and\;q_{CO2}=8.7\;mmol\;g^{-1}h^{-1}$ in the middle of the exponential growth phase after 5 h of cultivation. When the cells changed from growth to lysine production due to the depletion of the essential amino acids theonine, methionine, and leucine, $q_{O2}\;and\;q_{CO2}$ decreased significantly and RQ increased. The respiration data exhibited an excellent agreement with previous cultivations of the strain [13]. This confirms the potential of the developed approach to realistically reflect the metabolic activities of cells at their point of sampling. The short-term influence of added threonine, methionine, and leucine was highest during the shift from growth to lysine production, where $q_{O2}\;and\;q_{CO2}$ increased 50% within one minute after the pulse addition of these compounds. Non-growing, yet lysine-producing cells taken from the end of the batch cultivation revealed no metabolic stimulation with the addition of threonine, methionine, and leucine.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1999년도 하계학술대회 논문집 E
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• pp.2007-2009
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• 1999

In this paper, discharge domain of wire-cylindrical plasma reactor was separated from a gas flow duct to avoid unstable discharge by aerosol particle deposited on discharge electrode and grounded electrode. The NOx, SOx removal was experimentally investigated by a reaction induced to ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulfate using a low price of aqueous NaOH solution and a small quantity of ammonia. Volume percentage of aqueous NaOH solution used was 20% and $N_2$ flow rate was 2.5[$\ell$/min] for bubbling aqueous NaOH solution. Ammonia gas(14.82%) balanced by argon was diluted by air and was introduced to a main simulated flue gas duct through $NH_3$ injection system which was in downstream of reactor. The $NH_3$ molecular ratio[MR] was determined based on $NH_3$ to [NO+$SO_2$]. MR is 1.5. The NOx removal rates increased in the order of DC, AC and pulse, but SOx removal rates was not significantly effected by source of electricity. The NOx removal rate slightly decreased with increasing initial concentration but SOx removal rate was not significantly effect by initial concentration, and NOx, SOx removal rates decreased with increasing gas flow rate.